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Matt and Gloria Get Married

• Adam Moore and PJ McNerney • Season 1 • Episode 24

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What would you give Matt Trakker and Gloria Baker for a wedding gift? She-Ra's belt? The Eye of Sauron? Maybe dinner at a revolving restaurant or a ride in Thunderhawk? Here's what Miles Mayhem got them -- the worst V.E.N.O.M. plot in the show so far. (Hint: it involves vacuuming money.) That, plus Scott and T-Bob are abandoned once again! Time for another Mobile Armored Podcast Show!

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squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

welcome to the mobile armored podcast show. The podcast that transforms into a slot machine. My name is Matt McClure, alongside my co host and best friend and recent visitor of Las Vegas. PJ McNerdy. How's it going, buddy?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I'm doing well. I thought it was really important to get some on the scene on location research done. I also had a metaphysical conference there at the same time, so that worked out well. I will have comments about some of Matt's decisions. Some of which will be leavened by what I actually saw at Vegas, in terms of families being there. And some of which won't be, in terms of other stuff I saw there, so But there's other topics we'll be getting into here, which are gonna be a lot of fun, and I'm very excited about.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

It's a great episode. Everyone PJ and I were talking about this episode and I told him that this is the episode. We've been waiting for in terms of the Matt and Gloria relationship. If we want to go back to the submarine episode where marriage is mentioned to the Mardi Gras episode where there's perhaps a bachelor party. This episode pays it all off. And so I'm very excited to dive in.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

to be sure all the venom stuff's garbage. Like ve venom is actually the very worst part of this episode and really, gets in the way of the main event, which is the Matt Glory relationship. In fact, I'm gonna argue later on that Venom's only job is to help showcase how bad a father Matt is

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Yeah, look, I think all we have to really say about Venom is they have a device that makes things go haywire and then they vacuum up money from casinos and eventually threaten the Hoover Dam. That's really About it. We're going to spend 99 percent of the podcast talking about everything else. So it's episode 24 of mask counter clockwise caper venom conducts heists of Las Vegas casinos. So we open on Las Vegas or at least the mask animators version of Las Vegas, but there's rock and roll music and traffic and footsteps. And uh, we find Matt. Scott, T Bob, and Gloria, looking very much the perfect family as they walk down the Vegas strip. Scott's never seen so many lights before. And Gloria is wearing a really nice dress. And if you look closely, The belt she's wearing belongs to She Ra from the Masters of the Universe franchise.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

100 percent Gloria's dress is, it's a really nice dress. We should really call this out. It's not what you see a lot of folks wear in Vegas. Like it's just a nice dress. It's actually pretty formal for the occasion in many ways. Unless there is an occasion that calls for formality. Adam, what are the activities one does in Las Vegas?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

three. I can think of gambling, drinking those. Big, huge, like yard sized cocktails that you can buy and walk on the strip. Seeing shows?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I mean, They couldn't, it was the eighties. So Celine Dion wouldn't be playing, but maybe like an Elton John show or something like

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

it'd be like, it'd be like Wayne Newton

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Wayne Newton. Wayne Newton. Yeah. Mel Torme maybe as

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Yeah, there you go. That's

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

what else can you think about?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

well, I

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

a drive thru?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

I have heard of people getting married in Vegas. At a drive thru chapel.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Performed by whom?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

An Elvis impersonator?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yes. Okay, so we should baseline this. Do you think getting married in Vegas by an Elvis impersonator is what Matt would have wanted?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Absolutely not. A billionaire does not want to get married by an Elvis impersonator.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

But is getting married in Vegas the kind of thing that Gloria would have wanted?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

I think so. What do you think?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I think she's in it for the thrill, she's said as much. Like 100 percent like, driving up in Teahawk, she would be driving and to be sure she's the one that said, yes. Okay. Like now we take it back. She's the one that finally said yes. that's been asking forever. And now she's like, okay. Under these conditions.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

It has to be Vegas. It has to be by an Elvis impersonator. And I get to drive T Hawk.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Exactly. Now, I understand that this is pretty flimsy evidence just that she's wearing a nice dress, and that he's wearing his standard blue suit, and that they're looking at each other lovingly. I will present other, albeit Circumstantial, but conclusive evidence later in the episode that they in fact got married.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

My question before we go on, is this post marriage, pre marriage?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I think this is all post marriage. I think they just got married cause like Scott and T Bob are there. And now they're just going off to have some fun.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

I'm sure glad Scott dressed up for the wedding.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

look, man he, he's lucky he has clothes. Okay. I

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Well, Okay, so we're going to continue to track this throughout the episode. But uh, it's really been what you've all been waiting for, folks, so buckle up. So we go inside the casino and there's all sorts of gambling going on. Somehow, Scott and T Bob are allowed to just walk the casino floor.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Kids can walk in the casinos, as long as they're not playing one of them. And they're kind of like as long as they're continuing to walk forward.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

As long as they continue to walk forward. I love that. Hey, daddy's going to put some cash in the slots here. I want you to walk forward, but really slowly so that you're always in my line of sight.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Scott, I want you to count cards for me, and I want you to give a signal like this if someone's got a better hand at blackjack than me. Now uh, Dewars and water.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Gloria says to her newly betrothed I can't believe it, Matt Tracker, actually on vacation. He brings Gloria on vacation with him, was my initial question, but we can dive deeper.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah, I'm sure that Matt's bringing Gloria the woman he's had like, clear romantic feelings for as a strictly platonic friend, and not because he, you know, is in a relationship with her and just got married to her on this trip. So no, yeah, of course,

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

With his child, and

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

with this. Child and robot, um, Also if we're to believe all of that, are we also to believe that Matt vacations regularly in Las Vegas? it's his choice, is this the destination he picked and it's not because Gloria wanted to get married in Las Vegas?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

No, No, he goes to like the Maldives or something like that.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah, he'd go to Monte Carlo or something like that if he wants to gamble.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

so this is what I feel that Matt is a billionaire We don't well, we know where the money comes from We don't know if he's a self made billionaire or he somehow inherited it or whatever, but he's a billionaire but Gloria She's clearly the small town girl. she grew up Around stock car races and monster truck rallies and when she was, 14, she hopped into her first stock car. And did some dirt road racing and that sort of thing. And, if you look at the two of them, that's clearly what's going on here. And I think it's great. I'm glad they found each other. But that's definitely shows different, we'll say, origin stories of these characters. Like for her, a vacation in Vegas, getting married in Vegas. That's cool because half of her friends probably did it when they were 16 and pregnant. I'm sorry, did I just get,

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

We just got canceled. It's okay. Let's roll with it, man.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

did I get a Buddy Hawks nomination?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Well, Certainly for the misogyny one. So congratulations,

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

uh, Maybe I'll cut it out.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

But Gloria lives. I think that's the thing is like, you know, Matt, we keep seeing in his suits. We keep seeing he's, you know, really buttoned up and he has had to hold himself back his entire life with Gloria. Like she's like, Hey, look, I'm going to live on the edge here. Like she's, She's been blown up when Condor crashed into her and her comment afterwards. I'm fucking sorry. I missed all the fun. That was literally the quote from the episode, she's excited by this stuff. She's excited to fight

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

No, she is. Gloria's the woman who, she and Matt would sit at a bar and she'd start lining up shots and say, the first one who passes out pays. That's her. And she drinks Matt under the table.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I mean, She's Marion from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

a hundred percent.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

she lives on the edge, and she's her own. She's a self possessed woman who's very like, confident in herself, and, she challenges Matt, frankly, because Matt is used to like, things being very like, Stayed.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Ah, I love these two. I'm happy they found each other. Well, Back to the episode uh, T Bob asks, so what are we supposed to do here? They don't let kids or robots gamble. And Matt says, that's why we're at the carnival, carnival casino. They have a section for kids upstairs. And that's when. A drunk comes stumbling up to T Bob and he says, Hot dog, never seen one like this before. And he shoves money into T Bob's face for the second episode in a row. T Bob's getting coins shoved into him.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Which is like, what is this like joke that they're trying to continue? And T Bubs fucking pissed this time. Like last time he couldn't get pissed. Cause it was a little girl. And this time it's like, who the fuck do you think you are? Like he was right. This is his Roy Batty moment for me in the episode.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Yeah. And this, I just love the portrayal of this. Guy, he's drunk and it's not something that you see in kids shows these days. And, my theory is that this is a projection of the writer of the episode, because I just want to point out that in the eighties movies were still where you want it to be a writer. writing for TV now is at the. The same level as being a feature writer. It is held in high regard back in the eighties. It really wasn't, you can still make a ton of money in TV. Don't get me wrong, but there wasn't a lot of crossover between film and TV writing for cartoons in the eighties was far below being a TV writer, which wasn't well regarded anyways. So I feel that Mr. Drunkie here is a. Projection of how the writer feels, writing episode 24 of Mask.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

The writer traveled from LA to Vegas to do research And instead of like T Bob, it was like a garbage can because he like was so like sauced up it off his rocker. It's like, Oh, I'll write this as a gag for T Bob,

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

well It turns out that Carnival, Carnival Casino does have a section for kids. It has an indoor rollercoaster and everything. But T Bob's like, real down on the, Roller coaster. He's like, looks more like a worm on wheels. And the whole time they're playing this gag that he just thinks it's so lame.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

he really shits on this thing when he's on it. Like, It's like, I do everything to ruin this for Scott.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

know. And then suddenly. The rollercoaster starts going backwards, and like, everyone is freaking out. Including T Bob, who goes haywire and starts speaking either backwards or in tongues. I wasn't sure what was going on.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I'm pretty sure it was tongues, man.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

As it turns out, all over the casino, things are going haywire. Slot machines start emptying coins. Matt has to save Gloria from a spinning wheel of chance. Which becomes a wheel of death and Scott is stuck on T Bob who's like driving out of control. Matt throws this huge stuffed panda toy in front of them and rescues Scott. And then uh, everything goes back to normal. And Matt says, Maybe I ought to look into this. And Gloria says, There goes the vacation.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

likes this stuff. Wouldn't this have been a real high point for her? Like, Not only did they get married by Elvis, but she almost got crushed by a spinning wheel of death.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I mean, it's exciting. but she was trying to dictate the terms of this vacation, right? And now it's being taken out of her control. So I said, all right, fine. Let's go do this other thing.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

We cut to Venom, and Vanessa walks in wearing her finest Vegas wear, which is actually more appropriate for a funeral. it's like a black cocktail dress, but she's got like the sleeve length gloves. She's got the pearls, but it's, what do you think? Is it a funeral? Is it for party time? What is it?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

this is definitely much more formal. Like you'd expect this at like an almost an award show.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Yes, that's the way to put it. She was dressed like she was going to an award show. she comes in and says, this reverser machine worked just like you said. And Miles says, perfect. This will be the greatest robbery of all time. The counter clockwise caper. I love it when they say the episode title in dialogue. It's just the best. And then he laughs, and he looks up at this big, scary looking machine,

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

the machine looked like a robot with the eye of Sauron

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

I'm gonna have you say that again because any geek worth their salt knows it's Sauron.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Oh, I'm so sorry.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

The Eye of Sauron.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

looks like a robot with the eye of and a gold necklace. Is that enough rolling of the Rs for you?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Indeed.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I was trying to appeal to the people, but I guess we should know. We should know who our people are. Uh,

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Please continue.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Miles really never fails to disappoint with the flare for the dramatic by like needing to name it. And I have to ask you a question, Adam, and this is in universe. Did Miles come up with the name first and then have his scientists figure out the machine?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

I honestly don't know because I struggled for a long time to really figure out what the point of reversing everything was. Until later on I realized like, Oh, the slot machines are spitting out coins and they vacuum up the coins. It just seems there's easier ways to steal from a Vegas casino. So I kind of wonder if it's just his R& D team said, Hey, we've developed a way to make all non organic things go in reverse. It's like, cool. I'll use it.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Let's do a sinus science corner check on this though. So they have a sheet that takes things in reverse. All right. I'll take what I know of as the simplest example, which is an electric car, right? And so if I run the current in one direction, it goes forward. Okay. If I reverse it, it goes in reverse. Okay, fine. And, but that's actually not how most things like you can't actually do that at the electrical source. It's not like I can just like reverse everything because input electricity into a device typically has what's known as like a rectifier circuit so that way, you know, you'll have plugs that are. You have one side that's big and one side that's small. I mean, You have other plugs that are basically the same size. So you can flip them. And when that you can flip them, it means that there's a rectifier circuit. So it just can handle either direction. This is just bizarre in terms of just straight up. I mean, The lights aren't affected and maybe that's fine because you're just running the current reverse, but let's say that it does work, man.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Mm hmm.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

In Las Vegas? Did anyone consider this? It's where it's like, they just lost like all of their patients that are on critical care.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Oh Completely All the ventilators started sucking

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

it started sucking oxygen out. so inadvertently or maybe on purpose and it's never spoken of venom, just murdered a whole slew of

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Tens of thousands are dead. But meanwhile, Madden Gloria, that's what we're

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Okay. Hmm.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

We cut to Lake Mead, where Matt is abandoning his son while he goes off to solve the mystery. They're like on a houseboat that I guess Matt owns on Lake Mead, and Matt takes off in Thunderhawk, and Scott runs into the road and screams, Wait, Dad! As if his father is gonna listen. But he's long stopped paying attention to his son's cries.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

This shot of him like, like, it's clearly like, why are you abandoning me, dad? Like I came out for your wedding and now you're just going to ditch me.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Scott got brought out for the wedding. Now he's being shoved on a houseboat with his robot.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

So let me ask you this. So Adam, it was okay last episode for Matt to abandon Scott and what might've been a Potemkin village. But now it's like, no, I don't want you inside of Vegas at a hotel. Even I'm going to put you in the middle of a lake alone with your robot.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

It's not okay. It's, again, a clear nominee for Father of the Year.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah. hundred percent.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

This is not okay. Call children's services. well, Off Matt goes back at the hotel, Matt is in the revolving restaurant, looking through the binoculars and Gloria comes in and says, you really don't have to look that far to find a good looking woman. And Matt. Yeah, Matt kind of gives a quiet chuckle and then moves on. Did you find out anything? It turns out every casino suffered the same issues last night.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Okay. Here's a question that just occurred to me. So we don't have the internet 85,

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

right? Yeah.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

So how would Gloria know that every casino suffered unless she went to every casino,

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

that's exactly she took a shot at every bar and every casino.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Notably, she doesn't ask about Scott at all.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Where's Scott and T Bob? Who? Come on, baby. This is about me and you. Here's an interesting beat. Matt tells her to take Thunderhawk and go search the streets while he stays at the restaurant. So first of all, Gloria's response to that is, Oh, separate vacations now? Marvelous. And Matt gives the weirdest look. He he looks at her and then smiles smugly while closing his eyes. How would you describe his reaction?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I was weirded out by this reaction. Cause like okay, let's assume for a second it's platonic. It's a shitty thing to do. I was wondering, is this some sort of code they have between them? I don't know. That, and he like smiles this way, just like they're playing their game. Now notably Gloria's line firmly indicates they were having a vacation together. So that's indisputable, but I'm going to lay down my trump card for how I know that Matt married Gloria.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Okay. Let's hear it.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Adam, what does Matt love more than anything in the world? More than his own son? What does he never abandon anywhere? What does he always take with him?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

No matter where he goes,

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

No matter where he goes, no matter what country, what can be assured will be shipped or flown there?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

it is. A Chevy Camaro IROC C with gullwing doors that somehow impossibly allow it to fly. It is Thunderhawk.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

he loves more than anything. Again, more than his own son. He will take off in the desert with Thunderhawk and leave his son there. So he, Has now said, Gloria, I want you to drive Thunderhawk. That is it, man. That's all you need to know that Matt and Gloria are hitched.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

It's true love.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

It's true love. Gloria is also a much better driver than him.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Way better driver. Cause she drives it a thing backwards. Like A pro through, like cars all over the place. Like it's like a wasteland. It's like a walking dead time. And she's just swerving between cars and things like that backwards. Yeah. It's a real delight to see her drive Thunderhawk

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah,

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

probably is for Matt too, to see her drive Thunderhawk. Let's be honest.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

it is. He's checking her out in the binoculars. That's what he's going to be doing. He's like, Oh yeah, drive Thunderhawk hard, Gloria. I have taken this podcast to new disturbing levels, sir.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

We're going to get a, some sort of a message from Apple. I'm sure. Um, well Back at Lake Mead, Scott is equipping T Bob with water skis and a paddle for a tire to kind of like, you know, make his own makeshift jet ski. And amazingly turns out it works.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I'm just really glad that Scott's learning how to entertain himself alone in the water by rigging up water skis on his robot that has questionable flotation ability.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Yeah

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I'm sure nothing will come out of this of just like, a kid in the middle of a lake and doing all of this

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

well But anyways, that's what Scott and T Bob are up to. Back at the hotel Matt checks in with Gloria over the radio And she says, are you as bored as I am? And he says, let's get back to vacationing. Come pick me up.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

What does that mean when he says, come pick me up? Like what's, on?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

he'll be sitting at the bar with a pink rose on his lapel. She'll walk in, in a silver dress.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

So they're about to play a little game of pick me up. But now we're finally with Venom. They exit their hideout and they enter the city, but while Gloria is driving around she spots them and she says mask on and somehow her mask aura is attached to Thunderhawk. It's so that's really interesting. Not only is she Is her mask attached to the invisible hands that deliver masks while in Thunderhawk, it's on the driver's side.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Know, yes, Gloria loaded her mask into Thunderhawk so what, again, folks, what more proof do you need? We know how much Matt likes using Spectrum this is like him saying, you know what, yes. Let's do this.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Yeah it's beautiful, everyone. It really is. It is what we've been waiting for. Matt spots Switchblade in the air and it's on. Glory is driving around in Thunderhawk and Matt is gonna do something, I would assume, eventually, when she gets there.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Maybe. I Really want to focus in on like, Gloria is driving around like a boss. driving backwards at those speeds, her head's like out the window. She is fucking gunning it.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

with a mask on by the way

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

With a mascot, with Aura on, so I mean, she should be doing this all the time and clearly Matt wants her to be doing this all the time, that's why they got married, eh?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

You don't need shark anymore, baby you got the Well, look sly activates the reverser at full power and now the whole entire city starts moving backwards and I would Presume all the life support systems at the hospital, as you pointed out. So everyone's dead but now it starts moving like really fast. And remember that Matt is in the rotating restaurant. So that thing starts rotating like crazy. And the centripetal force is starting to throw people out the windows of this restaurant. As you pointed out, Thunderhawk also going backwards, but Gloria is, is crushing it. Now Matt has to save an old man. Like you do when a rotating restaurant goes at full speed and threatens to throw people out. So he saves them, but then Matt crashes through the window and it's holding onto a curtain for dear life. And I will say they did good with ratcheting up the tension. Cause not only is Matt hanging for dear life, but he's got no mask on, he's got no Thunderhawk. And then of course, the curtain starts ripping, which is exactly what you should do. So it rips off. He goes flying to his death. Matt's dead. Gloria's a widow. It's awful.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

She inherits all the billions.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

That's right, and she becomes the leader of masks. We'll see you next week. Just kidding. Gloria shows up at the last minute, uses Aura to great effect to save his life by kind of cushioning his fall. Which is a very nice use. of a mask power. So one point to you, Masked Writer.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah, Gloria like, you know, not only hauls ass getting back to the restaurant, but saves Matt. What's Gloria gonna ask for?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

I don't think I'm allowed to say on this

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

We complained about like, I think it was last episode where for want of a bobby pin, she said, we have to go to the beauty shop. So there's clearly this magnification that happens for Gloria. It's like, Hey, you owe me like, Big time now.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

what does Matt give Gloria? What does a billionaire give Gloria?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

we'll see. Also I did think it was fun how when Gloria is saving Matt, she actually puts him into the fountain as opposed to like, letting him be on the ground, like just throws him into the drink, which I think it wasn't necessary, but it was her having a little bit of fun.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

No, living on the edge. Well, Look, as we know, everything's gone haywire, and now Venom rolls out its plan. They are literally, people, vacuuming up all the spilled change from the casinos, but like, in front of everybody. And uh, like, the entire town's police force is paralyzed. And it's just like Wait, what?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah. we have, We have shit on Venom in the past for becoming contractors where they're like, you know, a million or 2 million a pop to like destroy buildings. And we're like, we thought that was slumming it. They have reached a new low here because they even comment on the vacuum's power for how powerful the vacuum is it's like, guys, you stole the statue of Liberty. Maybe. Maybe. Can you have some self respect?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Yeah It's sad. That's why we said at the beginning of the episode, you could just really not even talk about Venom in this episode and it would be just fine.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

But, looks like Venom's won this time. this is the midpoint break in the episode. So what's gonna happen PJ?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Matt and Gloria are gonna go off and Matt's gonna pay back whatever he owes Gloria for saving his life. Scott's going to drown, and uh, Venom has a lot to think about in terms of their life choices. So, I, I don't know. How about that? I don't know what's going to happen!

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

We'll find out after these messages.

Mask will be right back, and so will Venom. Now back to math.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

We are back, when we left you, Venom, the most dangerous and cunning international terrorist organization of all time. Was,

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

You can't even say it!

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

was vacuuming change from The floor of a casino?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

only way worse Venom could go, and I could see Miles in his full suit, at the beach with a metal detector, looking for spare change, cause it's really how far they've fallen.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

It's true. It's it, I'm crying. It's so incredibly true. I have felt bad for Venom in the past, but this is just pathetic. Why is everyone in the casino like passed out?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I had no idea! unless Vanessa whipped all of them and just smashed them against like, or they were hit with all the chains and then passed out. I don't know did they gas each casino?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

That doesn't make any

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

In which case, why do you need the reverser machine? Just gas the casinos like one at a time and just take all the

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Well, the first time we saw it back at the beginning of the episode, people were very conscious because they were scraping up the change off the

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah,

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Anyways. Venom leaves the casino, and Matt and Gloria catch up to them. Vanessa fires Whip, but Spectrum beats it with one of those kind of Harry Potter Voldemort things of their two powers meeting in the middle, which Matt actually does quite a bit. Especially with Vanessa. Something to dig into in another episode. So instead, Vanessa tries to run them over in Manta, which is great. I think it's just fantastic. She tries a couple times too, but doesn't quite stick.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah, okay, I do want to, I want to pause on this because this is the first time we've confirmed. Because Matt's in full uniform at this point in time. Okay, and we knew Gloria had aura because it was stuffed into T So now we know that Matt and Gloria both brought their masks and uniforms on vacation. Now, if they're on vacation, and they, Matt wants to avoid mysteries and capers, then what other uses would they have for their masks and uniforms? Ha

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Well, We're going to take this opportunity to introduce our new podcast, Mobile Armored Strike Command After Hours, where we'll explore all the things Matt and Gloria do with their masks.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Dow bow, wow,

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Um, Matt says it's no use. Got to call the team. Okay. I'll just say that the episode would have been just fine. If it was Matt and Gloria against the world,

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah, it really would have been. Actually, it would have been a lot of fun.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

It's also really late in the episode. So we're past the midpoint. It's the first time that Matt's calling on the team.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah, let's point out a couple things it is late night in Vegas.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

It is. And that will come up in a moment. So he actually used the spectrum helmet to contact the mass computer for the first time. He doesn't need the laptop. He doesn't need Thunderhawk. He just uses his mask. And so the team members are Bruce Sato. It's the middle of the night, mind you, in Boulder. He's just in his robe, drinking tea and reading. And he gets the call, and he just gets up. And I was wondering, is he going to change

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

He's free balling this one.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

our second agent is Dusty. And now when the call comes in, he is fast asleep. So Does he go to sleep really early? Cause he has to wake up early to make the pizzas.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Even pizza folks need to sleep, especially the ones that run out on their jobs on a regular basis. But since Las Vegas is on Pacific time and Denver's on mountain time, like I figure it's what 10, 11 PM like, you know, in Vegas. So it's going to be like 11 or 12. Most people are asleep by then. Not Bruce. Bruce likes to read.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Bruce doesn't sleep.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

We know from earlier episodes that Matt provides lots of caffeine and uppers so that people can work through the night. So

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

True. If you all remember, it was Alex Sector, and Buddy Hawks who stayed up all night Fixing the colonic disruptors.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

that's right. That is right. The whole team, they stay up late.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Fighting crime. Notably Gloria is not uh, is not selected.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah, I thought that was bizarre of the computer. I mean, it's, It's fine. I mean, No sort of like thumbs up or like, you know, anything fun, a wink there, that would have been nice. But I mean, she just saved that twice. So she's like, I'm fucking doing this, Matt. You're going to die without me.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Or the computer is like, didn't even bother. yeah, Baker, blah, blah, blah, blah. Your new wife. computer's super jealous.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Like totally jealous.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Matt's like, I'm sorry, computer. And what about Gloria? Oh, Gloria? What about Gloria? meh. You figured out Matt. Connection disabled.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I was second fiddle behind T Hawk before I knew I was ahead of Scott cause most people are, but now I got to contend with Gloria. Did you, okay, here's what I noted about the team. It's a small team, but did you notice this is like Matt's vacation crew?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

that's right. Yeah.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

We've had Gloria, Dusty, and Matt together in Panama. And now we have Gloria and Matt here. It's almost like the computer's like, who are the agents best suited for Matt's vacationing? And it's, Dusty will be able to make pizzas for them afterwards. So like, that'll be fun.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Well, Look back to Scott and T Bob, it's the morning. So they have spent a full day and a night. And are still alone. And for some reason, T Bob's waking Scott up early. And Scott's really, like, dragging ass. Almost like he got into his dad's liquor cabinet last night. He's not in a good mood at all.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Whatever alarm Alex has put into T Bob, like it's fucked up. Like most things we've seen.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Well, Suddenly, Manta buzzes the boat. And it turns out there's no strategic purpose whatsoever. She was just being mean.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I'll say that Vanessa may be the most capable, no, she is the most capable Venom agent, but she can sure be a dick sometimes like, that was just like, she's just sadistic and she enjoys it,

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

does she know it's Scott and T Bob on the boat or is it just a rando boat?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I think it's a random, but I think she buzzed every boat. I think she might've been late to the party because she was just buzzing every boat early in the morning

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Um, well It is the morning and Matt and Gloria meet up with Bruce and Dusty. So we do have to remember that many hours have passed since the initial call and when they're showing up. I mean it's not, That far flight, right? What is it? Hour and a half from

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

two hour flight. So roughly, yeah, about, about that. So I thought about this. it's either they took the jet. And got some shut eye and it took them a while to get there. Or Matt made them drive through the night because it's only about 11 hours away.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

makes sense.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I don't want to uh, waste the fuel in the jet. So can you guys just drive down here?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Well, Unfortunately the jets in Vegas, cause that's how he got there. Cause they had to bring Thunderhawk. They're like, Hey, can you send the jet? He's like, nah, there's some stuff on there that I can't exactly. Uh, Nevermind. I can't talk about it, but just, just

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

just drive down. Just drive down.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

the team is meeting and Matt he has a computer estimate of Venom's escape route. He says, looks like they're headed South. How in the world did the computer estimate that?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

maybe they were like picking up on satellites like that, a large amount of coinage because they, they picked up a lot of coins which maybe it was like actual money back in the eighties, but like a lot of times, like you'd have like. tokens or chips, which are only redeemable at that casino. So it's what are you detecting here? Like, I just like detecting any random gas tanker.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

yeah, and again, I want to point out Venom's plan is to drive away With basically what you said, a gas tanker filled with coins they're driving around in Scrooge McDuck's money bin Is basically what's going on here.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

All right. Let's let us pretend for a moment. That Venom gets away with it. And because Matt and Gloria truly wanted to go back to their vacation. Can you imagine the shitty job for a Venom henchman? Who has to go through and put all these coins into rolls? Like we can't just show up a bank with this random amount. It's like, Miles is like, go ahead and put them all into these, these coin rolls now.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

There's a whole portion of our audience that loves we reference that and another portion who has no idea what we're talking about

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

It's true.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

But all in how much could they have actually stolen half a mil?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Maybe.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Maybe a million maybe I mean they can't possibly have stolen that much. It's just a waste of

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Let's, let,

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

So Matt and Bruce they're going to switch up vehicles. Bruce is going to take a shotgun with Matt in Thunderhawk. Gloria is probably a little peeved by that, but. Nonetheless, they uh, they take off. They're getting very good at the Thunderhawk takeoff animations.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

It's a beautiful shot. It's a great shot of it taken off.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Yeah, actually it reminds me yet again of a Veritech taking off or doing a quick turn. It's really got that kind of explosiveness so, they're, they're getting better. Meanwhile, Venom shows up at Hoover Dam. And Vanessa picks up a guy with a whip says, I want you to tell everyone who works here to get off the dam. It's going to get very dangerous in a few minutes.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

has this guy up in the air. Like pretty significantly and my thought was either there's an anti grav unit on whip like most of these things or her neck muscles are amazing.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

it's got the lifter problem, right? That if she actually has to carry the weight of the whole thing, it's got to be anti grav. And I would back that up with the fact that Rhino has anti grav cannon. So that technology is around the mask Venom world. So

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yep.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Well, Scott And T Bob hop in a little dinghy and decide to head out and see what's going on at the dam. Because, why not? They got nothing else to do.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I really don't have anything else to do. This is before the internet he probably has everything. He's probably got Coleco vision. He's probably got Atari. He's probably got, it's 85. He might, he probably has a Nintendo. He probably has a Famicom at that point in time, but he's played every single one of those games and now he's bored. he's going to risk his life going into the water

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Anyways, back to Venom. They turn on the reverser And we found out the plan is that the turbines will go haywire, like they'll go in reverse and they'll cause the entire dam to like tear itself apart. And Miles explains that it will be the biggest disaster in history, arguable. and that Mass will have to try to stop this disaster, which will allow Venom to escape. Which makes me wonder, why aren't they just escaping now?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

This is why I like, like venom is so disposable. This whole episode, like bottom basement, like plan bottom basement thinking like miles. What's up, man. Are you okay? Do you need to rest for a little bit? Because what is happening? And then. You notice how fucking huge that robot

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

It's gigantic.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

like, why are they just abandoning it? Let's say it costs like 10 million to make. if they've only made a way with a million bucks, Then they've abandoned this like incredible piece of technology.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

I mean, Look, Miles has got a lot of capers to come up with. He's got to come up with at least 65 for season one. That's a lot. They're not

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Mm.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

The machine is doing its thing. Cliff uses torch to seal the door shut so no one can get into the uh, the turbine room where the reverser is. And as soon as that thing is activated, Scott and T Bob are in trouble because now there's water pumping towards them from the dam. And even the engine of the boat is going haywire. And T Bob is speaking in tongues. Once again, and I personally think that Scott has no one to blame but himself And I guess his father also for abandoning him

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah. I was like firmly in the camp of just blaming Matt for this cause he's so fucking bored. He doesn't know what else to do. and we've seen him have, more agency than a 10 or 11 year old should have. And this is like, well beyond like, you know, even sort of eighties to nineties latchkey kids like this is like clearly go be left to your own devices and figure stuff out. Like I, Matt is like, come on, this is, this is a repeated pattern.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

I mean he's father of the year for a reason well, the boat tips over Scott and T Bob are gonna drown but fortunately Matt spots them from Thunderhawk and Bruce uses lifter to get them into the car. And Scott says, I stayed at the lake dad. Like you said, and Matt's responses. That's my boy. Matt, that is not the Matt. I know. Meanwhile, Gloria and Dusty are just sitting around like on Rhino. Just looking bored and like there's nothing else you could have asked these highly competent and well trained agents to do.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

It's ridiculous. It's such a ridiculous move.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Yeah. Matt and Bruce return and Bruce thinks that only the electric ouch on Gator would stop the reverser. Can you explain why the electric ouch is the only thing that would stop the reverser?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I guess Bruce is connecting the dots between electricity and, this device, I mean, it's, it is okay, maybe you disrupt it with electricity. I don't know.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Well, It's a giant robot thing. How many lasers do masks have between their vehicles and their masks themselves? And the electric ouch is all you got to that'll work, but okay. After Bruce says that Matt says, Bruce, you just volunteered. So what's the lesson there, PJ?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Don't speak up around Matt. He's gonna be like, okay Mr. Smart Mouth, huh? You think you're so smart? You fucking do it. Mm

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Matt and dusty go after venom in Thunderhawk. And Gloria is gonna be driving Gator with Bruce in the passenger seat.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah this set of vehicle swaps we've got going on is just straight up odd. And when I saw this scene, it's gonna, It's going to change in a second, but Gloria is clearly the better driver. So yeah, I have, her driving Gator makes all the sense in the world. She's also been shown to be the better shot. She's been able to blow missiles out of the air, like with ease. And I was like, maybe Bruce just knows exactly where to hit. I didn't get it. There's a line that Matt's got in there. He says we're pretty badly outnumbered, Dusty. Which, A, isn't true, but if it is, whose fucking fault is that, Matt? You approved the roster like you always do.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Yeah, and they're not badly outnumbered. It's four to three right? Four to, they have Thunderhawk, Rhino, and Gator.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

What's fascinating is this, is that I don't think I saw Piranha or Jackhammer this episode.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

That's true. Yeah, I think you're right. It's

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Cliff and Sly are both in the tanker, and it's really they're actually not outnumbered

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

at all. Yeah, at all. And they have the same number of agents as well. So why does Matt even say that is a

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Uh, so Gloria's driving backwards and she's got a great line, which is like, oh, if there was a race to drive backwards, I would be a champ. I like how like she likes to assert and kind of like make sure people know like Fuck you. I'm the best

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Like, yeah, Yeah, we get it, Gloria. You're a great driver. Okay. Now she's Matt's wife, and they all know it. So

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yes. Uh Huh.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

well, Switchblade and Manta, they take to the air to go after Thunderhawk. Bruce and Gloria finally get to the doors, and she uses Aura to bust the doors down. And then for some reason, Bruce uses Lifter to lift Gator into the room where the Reverser bot is. Gloria uses the electric ouch to destroy the Reverser machine. Why did he have to use Lifter?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah, I was thinking a lot about this and I'm going to throw out a theory. that occurred to me just now. I think, okay you're at Hoover Dam. What would be an obvious use of gator? Put gator's boat in the water. So I could imagine a different scenario where they initially had plotted it out to be gator in the water. And then they needed to get onto land and that motivated the use of Bruce then lifting it up. then they would have realized, oh shit, but the electric couch isn't on the boat. The boat's got the freeze cannon.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

But that would've been actually awesome because they're realizing, oh, the lasers have no effect on this Reverser device. And they're like, well, if we can't destroy it, let's freeze it. Which they've done, which they've done in the past to great success.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah, they did that to the, the robot who was controlling the

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

The ai, yeah. Another connection to Matt and Gloria's relationship.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Back in Panama. So Gloria is taking the shot. So even though Bruce was voluntold to do it. I think Gloria was like, fuck this. Like I'm the better shot. I'm going to do

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Oh, yeah. A hundred percent

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

And the explosion that comes out of it. It seems like it would take out all of the damn machinery. There's a huge explosion in there.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

that's why again, freezing would've been the right call.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yes.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

no no no don't fire the laser will blow up the dam itself but no just go ahead And then Matt causes the biggest disaster of all time well Dusty catches up to venom in Rhino And he rams the money truck which puts a hole in it And it causes all the money to come out and then venom just gives up like the money's gone. Let's get out of here and that's it for Venom. Thanks for your participation in this episode. I guess you get a participation medal.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

It's weird because they basically abandoned the truck there, I think. And I guess Manta picks up Cliff and Sly because they, all they would have done was then start running and he could have been easily run over by Rhino at that point in

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

we've seen that before, that we have seen them just run off to escape. Matt arrives back, the whole team gets back together, and Dusty is collecting money in his helmet. But some of the uh, the bills, which are actually multicolored. I'm not sure if you noticed that. So I don't even know if it's real money. It's monopoly money, but ends up sticking onto a cactus plant. And Dusty says, and they say money don't grow on trees. laughs. episode. That's it.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Again It's hard, folks, because the back half of this episode, whenever Venom is really involved beyond actually the Vegas stuff, I thought actually it was kind of fun with Gloria and Matt fighting solo these guys in Vegas, like basically by the next morning, like the wind goes out of this episode completely.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Totally. And I think a lot of it is that the one thing that was keeping us in it was Matt and Gloria. And when we get to the second act of the episode, all that flirtation, all that, it's just gone. But we are folks. We're now into the more, you know, segment. So Scott T. Bob. Matt and Gloria are all Hanging out poolside. Matt and Gloria sitting on lounge chairs. Gloria's reading a book with a blank cover. So, Who knows what she's reading. And uh, Scott gets out of the pool and he puts on sunscreen and both Matt and Gloria think that Scott made a great decision. And T Bob says, this is really a burning issue. And I want to talk about the reaction here a bit because Scott bows his head and shakes his head so sadly as if his friend had one last shot to survive and he blew it. And then Gloria. Leans her head back in disgust and says not again and Matt moans And rolls over on the lounge chair so that his back is facing T Bob. What in the world is going on here?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

What is your theory, Adam? I'm really curious about this.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

I did have a thought. That Matt had gotten so tired. Or Gloria, and she told Matt. But one of them got so tired of T Bob being such an idiot. That they told Scott, you need to reprogram him. Cause if he says something again, I'm going to tell him. Destroy him. And so when he says something stupid, Scott gets very sad. Gloria says not again. And Matt rolls over and grunts, just thinking about how much effort and pain he's going to have to go through to tell Buddy to destroy T Boff. But okay, we can leave that one aside and just talk about Matt and Gloria. In their bathing suits poolside. Very comfortable.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Very comfortable, aren't they? Very familiar. There's just a, there's an ease there, and I also, I did a double take on this. I think they're at the Tracker mansion. Okay.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

are, they're at tracker mansion for sure.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

So

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

moved in.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

she's moved in and, you

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

There goes his library

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Well, Remember, Gloria has brought someone for the library before, hasn't she?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

That's true.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

that's for the after hours podcast.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

about that episode. Well, Look, they're newlyweds and the honeymoon continues. That's all I can say.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I think it's great. I think it's like, Hey, look, like this is the episode that they got together. Finally, they got together. They're married and now we have to be on the lookout if any Melinda's come back into the picture. Or Amanda Stevens.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Oh, Gloria does not like dr. Stephens at all.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

What about that one, there's like the one reporter.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

there's a reporter There's also the redhead and like the Amazon. There's the doctor in Alaska.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

So Matt, you're a married man now. We're going to be keeping a close eye on you.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Yeah, 100 percent well awards How about father of the year?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

first I had this instinct, it was the entire episode. But I think it's that shining moment where Matt abandons his child in the middle of a lake.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

percent Yeah, that's 100 percent Buddy Hawks award

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I didn't have a nominee.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

I do.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

All right. What do you got?

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Me.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Oh,

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

at the beginning of the episode, saying that Gloria's friends got knocked up when they were 16 and all went to Vegas to get married. I think that was very classist of me. I think it was very rude. I think it was very insensitive. But I've I've done training now and I feel more prepared to handle the complex world we live in now. So my sincere apologies to all our listeners for that.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

We had sent Adam to training during the recording of this podcast to uh, to HR. So that, that That commercial break, you know, it was a lot longer for us than it was for you. But wait, wait, wait to call yourself out, Adam, really proud of you.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

You know what? We all have to be part of the solution. The Sly Rax Ragdoll Award.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Surprisingly, this was a hard one for me. now, okay, I was just gonna say the dude that Vanessa picked up and twerked around, but I guess also Matt's a pretty good nominee for flying out that window.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Yeah, it had a, definitely. He crashed through the window. And fell, though she did cushion him with aura. I'll say an almost ragdoll.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Yeah

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Um, Yeah, no, he was

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

think it's just that dude who put money into T Bob and he nearly fucking killed him.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

to fight. And let's be honest, T Bob would win in a battle against a human being cause he's got like extendo arms and stuff like that. So,

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Oh, especially a drunk human being, because that guy was sauced.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

he sure was. We'll see if he comes back in another episode. That's it for episode 24. Episode 25, the big two, five, it's called the plant show. Venom threatens to cover Los Angeles with mutated kudzu vines. Unless California plays a hefty ransom.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Well, Look, at least we can say we're getting back to form where Venom is not slumming it anymore.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

I mean, Don't know much about the California economy in the eighties. I know plenty about it now as a resident of this fine and troubled state. But I don't think things were awesome. In the 80s. So, Good luck ransoming the state of California. And also, I think in Sacramento they'd probably say, Go ahead. It's Los Angeles. Cover it in vines. Who cares?

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

It certainly would be good because it's hard to grow shit in Los Angeles.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

it is. It really is. Without a lot of water. Maybe Venom will solve the water crisis. My friend, it's been a good one.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

this has been great. Hey, congrats to Matt and Gloria for tying

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Yes, Mazel Tov. Let's raise a glass to Matt and Gloria Tracker.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

actually I think you mean Matt and Gloria Baker. Gloria did not take Matt's last name. She made Matt take her last name.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Very true. Very true. We'll see. We'll see what the computer says.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

It would have worked in the theme song if Matt had died and Gloria was the leader, cause it would have been, Baker's gonna lead the mission.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

Yep.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

I PJ McNerney.

squadcaster-0780_1_09-27-2024_135847:

but we'll have to get into that another time because this podcast has to transform And head back to hq. I am at Moore. Bye-Bye bye.

pj_1_09-27-2024_145847:

Bye bye.

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