Static Shock: A Certified Hood Superhero

As we swing through the streets of Dakota City, we discover the electric tales of Static Shock and the relatable hero, Virgil Hawkins. This episode is charged with discussions about his life, the Big Bang that altered his destiny, and the show's remarkable handling of diversity and representation. But we don't just stop at superhero exploits; we connect Virgil's challenges with today's issues, such as the housing market crisis, remote work tribulations, and the complexities of parenthood—drawing powerful parallels that ground these narratives in the realities many of us face.

Have you ever pondered the moral labyrinth superheroes navigate? Get ready to unravel the intricate webs of ethical dilemmas, from the question of whether to kill villains to the emotional scars left by childhood bullying. We also wade into the darker waters of cyberbullying, sharing personal stories and discussing its pervasive impact. This episode doesn’t tread lightly, as we dissect key "Static Shock" episodes that tackle heavy themes and celebrate the cultural significance that superhero shows contribute to our societal discourse.

Finally, wrap up your headphones and prepare for an insightful reminiscence, as we analyze standout episodes of "Static Shock," highlighting the rich diversity of characters and the sheer power of media in shaping our understanding of complex issues. We explore the nuances of Static’s world, from the dangers of mind control to the emotional gravity of a homeless girl with ice powers. By the end of this journey, you'll have traversed a spectrum of superhero drama, societal reflections, and the fierce battles waged both on the streets and within the characters themselves.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

What's good, nerds? It's JetBlackestream and Kokugatsu, and the Zone podcast is back at again with another review. Today's topic is Static Shock and, without further ado, let's go ahead and zone in on that. So, with Static Shock, personally I would say and this is going to be the title of the review, by the way Static Shock, a certified hood superhero, because when you watch this show, immediately you're like here's this, um ortonio, black teenage boy, you know, with the exaggerated swagger of a black teen. You remember that one article they did on Miles Morales.

Speaker 1: 0:49

But anyways, the series is centered around Berger Hawkins and his older sister Sharon, his widow, father Robert, and Dakota City, and it's like a fictional city. By the way, he attends high school with his best friend, richie, and funny thing about Richie is like his name is Richie Foley. And if you're thinking of Danny Phans, it's funny how Richie Foley and Tucker Foley and they both into Tekken shit. I thought it was a funny coincidence. Also another funny coincidence while I'm at it, because I might forget later Later on in the series they go up against um Professor Brainiac and they team up with this older black superhero called Soul Power.

Speaker 1: 1:36

And funny enough, um, the first name of Professor Maniac is Dennis, I mean not Maniac, um, professor Menace, and his first name is Dennis. So you get the reference, dennis the Menace. So I like how they get a little few with some of the references, but without further ado, let's go ahead and get into it for real. So, essentially, virgil, oldest sister, sharon, father Robert, who's widowed uh Richie Foley, the uh techie best friend, and he has his crush on this girl named Frida. And Virgil also got this thing going on with this bully named Francis Stone, aka also known as F stop. I don't know why that name, I don't know. And then you know Francis.

Speaker 1: 2:32

I'm not going to call him that Francis was given um Virgil some shit, until a game leader named Wade helped in and tried to recruit him, but Virgil was hesitant, especially, you know, with guns and all that, knowing that his mother died in the exchange of gunfire between gangs we'll get to that in a later um on in review.

Speaker 1: 2:57

And essentially they were in like the docks and whatnot. Um sit, went down, um Francis's crew showed up and you know there was this whole gang war between Wade's crew and Francis's crew and police helicopters swooping in Um and all that shit releasing uh all this tear gas and whatnot. But then eventually, uh, during all this dispute, the chemical containers explode, this gas come out and it caused mutations among the people that's in the vicinity and this is known as the Big Bang and the Dakota city. And Virgil tried to get out there, you know, trying to climb over that fence, but he didn't really make it Like he still got exposed to the Big Bang gas and the next day he started having it like his Spider-Man moment. He was developing his powers and whatnot. And I like how, with no hesitation, he had to tell his best friend Richie like normally they don't do that, like they don't really tip on, like some heroes, don't really tell anybody their secret identity.

Speaker 1: 4:07

But Virgil was one of those rare ones where I'm a man, I got to tell my best friend, you know, like Miles Morales with gang key, where it's like, hey, I got my, my homie got to know you know, that's my homie though, but um, essentially, richie was down for, you know, being like the sidekick, and eventually he's going to rise up and become gear and Virgil essentially become static shock and he going around being a superhero with his ability to create, generate, absorb and control electricity and magnetism and the gas also created, you know, villains that's going to be known as bang babies. That's pretty much the general plot and we're going to get into the episodes individually. But before I get into that, how you feeling about static shock?

Speaker 2: 4:59

I really like static shock. Now, I know you said we're going to wait a little bit, it's just static shock. For me was very interesting because for one it took it we finally had a chance of having a superhero cartoon that was able to actually touch on black teen issues and there's not even preteen and young kid issues Like a shit that like was always brushed under, rubbed by a lot of white culture during the time Cause, keep in mind, on this First off, static shock aired not quite two weeks after 9 11.

Speaker 1: 5:35

Yes, so from 2030.

Speaker 2: 5:38

So, literally, the world is not. The United States is already taking a shot on to everything. A bunch of stuff. Why is it getting postponed? A lot of stuff is like this is kind of a big, major focus, of course. So it's like yo, terrorism is a big issue, this is kind of a big thing. And then we have static shock winds up dropping on the WB, and so it's like by this point, kids have not really had a chance to really recover, so they're looking for escapisms, of course. So we go to our normal TV shows showdown and you know Jackie Chan adventures and shit and so it's like, well, something that's going to kind of help us escape. You know what?

Speaker 1: 6:20

You got to be brought up on something that reminds me how I like, how there was this one post where essentially this encapsulate the whole point where, between static shock and Jackie Chan adventures, I loved it when these movie makers, these TV shows, show runners were doing diversity and whatnot, when they were really trying. It was like it just worked. It was like it's almost like you know how nowadays, to where it's like you know, like, yeah, that kind of do on the whole progressive thing with the MCU, the DCU and all these other movies and TV shows. But this was back when they did diversity, representation and all that, and it was like you didn't see it coming, but you liked that. This was the thing, you know.

Speaker 2: 7:24

I could see that and it was nice being able to have something like that. That was a you could see, like I said, diversity of different things being able to expose into stuff, but it winds up also being one that brings up a lot of issues, but put it in a platform that young black kids could like but also young kids of other races could see. Hey, this is something that's going on. Keeping my own to the status shock actually ran into some issues for a minute because keep in mind that switch from the WB over to like part two network and there was some issues that kind of came into that because it brought forth black issues. The very first episode talks about gang violence and we're going to go, of course you're about to go into that, but it talks about real shit that happens. When you keep in mind onto it is the fact that Virgil did not want to get into this shit. He went in because he was trying to protect his family. He realized he was like I got to step up. This is not a safe neighborhood. Shit is going down. I got to figure this out. So when he went there, he was already nervous. So when old boy tried to give him a gun. He was like yo wait, this is not what I signed up for, this ain't what I'm about to do. And he's like no, you need to understand. If you want our protection, you got to be in it. It was like his training day, yeah, but like for real. And that's how it is with a lot.

Speaker 2: 8:45

Now people don't realize that that's how it is with a lot of gang neighborhoods and the thing about it is it's like why can't you just move to a different neighborhood? Make it because we broke. Now people can think about it because the housing market nowadays sucks Like. I shared a video not that long ago about how the housing market in 2023, it's like the cost of rent is significantly more, is like 30, like more than 30% of what the average income is. So if you make below average which is most people you make below average that's more than half of your income goes towards rent. You can't afford no other bills. Literally, you can't afford a car to get to work, or even a damn bus pass, if you're, if your city has a bus, has a bus system, because a lot of cities had to cut that because of funding, because the city ain't got no damn money, so you got to get like Uber or something Exactly so you ain't even available in your area.

Speaker 2: 9:41

That's who. So it's like you ain't got no way to get to work, bro. Like what are you going to do? Like what's the thing into it? You're trying to make money, but your money goes into rent. So you can't afford the transportation to get to work and you lose your job. You got to afford and try to see if you can find something closer in places that are closer, pay you less, so then you no longer have enough to afford to even afford rent anymore. You can't afford food, you can't afford normal basic needs and go re-insist you do it the.

Speaker 2: 10:06

MDP don't Exactly, do it literally. So right now, like I'm still staying home, dad. I wound up, unfortunately, had lost my job recently because of the fact that, like, my kids can get sick, so I couldn't make it into work. So I'm trying to find an at home job, like a remote job that they'll be able to let me do from home, and most companies want people back on site and I'm like it's not that I don't want to, but I'll get there and I'm going to be there for like a month or two and I'm going to get fired from missing days because my kids get sick. I got little kids. That's just what happens. I can't fix that. That's just literally what happens. And I can't send them to school sick because then I get a phone call hey, you got to come pick up your kid because they sick, we can't have him here. Well, guess what? I got to leave work. That's what the fuck I'm at.

Speaker 1: 10:47

You know what One thing I need to talk to you about after the podcast.

Speaker 2: 10:51

I got you but yeah, so it's like it touched base on real black issues that happen, like real low income issues that happen I'm not just black, because obviously we're talking about Richie too Low income, middle class income, issues that actually happened on a day to day basis that we deal with.

Speaker 1: 11:08

Yeah, I throw in the fact that all I'm you might talk about it I don't know about, just in case we forget. We're talking about black issues and how his father does not like the fact that Virgil's black. Yes, here's the thing.

Speaker 2: 11:25

Initially initially Richie went through a lot in the whole series. Yes, his dad was racist, like absolutely racist. It took a minute before that finally changed. But then there was another issue that static shot that the animated TV show didn't get a chance to touch as much base into. They didn't mention it, there was a thing about it, but it didn't get a chance to go as much into a development before the series got on one of them being pulled before they just went ahead and gave a season finale because it was kind of cut short. Is that? Richie's also gay? Literally he is the absolute thing that his father hated. He's homosexual in his friends with a black man.

Speaker 1: 12:04

Well, what about his thing, Rita?

Speaker 2: 12:08

No, no, I thought it was you. I can't let you crush on her. It was kind of an experimental thing. So keep in mind this you and I, we have a gay friend. Okay, I understand onto this because we've had conversations with well, I've had a lot of conversations.

Speaker 2: 12:23

So I put in this aspect here is the fact that even though he's into men, he still very much appreciates a lot of female features and not some I'm not going to say female comfort, because that usually goes a different way type of thing, but like hanging out with the girls type of thing. So it's still something that's always into that. But is it something that is like oh, I'm sexually attracted, this is actually my main attraction. To know that it's not the main attraction into it. And but Richie is also not like he's not flamboyant gay, he's just literally just a gay man and that's it. So that's another thing about too. A lot of times when they put gay men inside of like especially in comic books too is like a big thing into it, they always make them kind of like flamboyant. But not everybody that's gay is flamboyant, just real talk.

Speaker 1: 13:13

Is it safe to say queer coded?

Speaker 2: 13:15

Like I would say I would say probably say queer, yeah, so even kind of like that. So, yeah, it's kind of like in that aspect. So that's something as well into it, but that's something that Richie would have a lot to deal with with his dad is the fact that he's like everything that his dad would not have wanted in the sun per se, like there's just a big thing into that. So, yeah, there was a lot of development. This show was a very much needed show. It touched base on a lot of issues and it caused parents to have to talk to their kids, which some parents were very upset about. They're like man, I don't feel like I have to talk to my kid about this. I don't think because it was a lot of mostly white, just being honest, that sheltered their kids. Feel like when my kids don't have to deal with that, I don't want to talk to them about that type of thing, but you should, because it's important that they know what's going on into the world. How one, how can we fix the world if we don't know the issues? If you don't know history, history will repeat itself. That's a proven fact. Plus, on top of that, your children will become friends with these kids and will not understand the struggles that they go through. So they will not understand how to help them out emotionally. But that was the thing into it.

Speaker 2: 14:28

I had a lot of white friends growing up. Most of my white friends did not understand the problems that I dealt with and most of my white friends always had that main thing that they had this idea of. They're like oh okay, your dad's not there. Oh okay, and that's usually a big thing into that. Yeah, like most black families, the father is the president. It's not always the case. I grew up right I literally in my neighborhood, damn near every kid in my block the dad was there. My situation was different, it's just what it was. And then I go to the school, kids in different neighborhoods All they know is, oh yeah, most black fathers ain't inside that black family's life, congratulations. I'm a black friend Whose father is not in their life. Who is now? I want y'all to know he is now the closing's up like like two years back. It's just the fact that like that, the time that was, that's a thing. So it's like that's a big issue to touch base on too.

Speaker 2: 15:26

But this one, so this is something to really talk about Virgil. He was lucky in the fact that he did have his father, but unfortunately he didn't have his mother. He and Sharon, like Sharon had to step up to like really kind of take care of things, to kind of fulfill the role as mother, not all of that. That's one thing I was keeping in mind. Like you know, black not, was it? Uh, eve's by you? There was not. No Eve's by you nonsense. There was no daughter trying to come on to daddy.

Speaker 1: 15:57

I'm like bro, like I was not going to even go there to you, I had to put some type of.

Speaker 2: 16:04

I had to put some type of crazy enough for it all.

Speaker 1: 16:07

I was thinking more like um the kind of relationship um we were on nonny had except the dad is in the picture.

Speaker 2: 16:16

Yeah, but well, because in that one both parents wind up. But yeah, like, definitely just like that. Like usually, the sister, like the elder sister, has to take on the role of light mother when mom isn't able to be there, and it's a big thing to that. And the half is also for the older son has to take on role when the father's not there. That's usually what winds up happening. It forces kids to have to grow up early, and we get a chance to see that as well in the show also. So that's again, that's what made this show so fantastic and successful. If you struggle trying to get a chance to talk with your kids and not sure how to bring it up or explain it, this show had an animated form, so it captured kids attention. It still had really good musical numbers as well. Also because it's a black show, you could show it, you could watch the app, you could watch it with your kids.

Speaker 1: 17:05

And then talks to them about it and say you know this is important and I just throw in that I really liked how in the they had like three versions of the intro, and with the third one it had like a little Romeo rapping and then of course he's going to have his cameo Well, not really cameo a special guest appearance on one of the episodes to you can say, and then uh man, to be yeah, and also like the fact that static also stuck around with such an important character.

Speaker 2: 17:40

That static is still shown in current DC show today. But it's also the timeline static, keep in mind, for the animated series is vastly different and multi-verse theory kind of helps out instead, um, because this is different, there's multiple different versions. So there's some versions where static winds up being kind of an old head hero and when we see him he's an old man. Oh wow, everyone else is kind of younger. Then you had the the Justice League animated series that tied into Batman and beyond, where static is an old head, and that one because he was young and was still a kid during the Justice League franchise. So there's a there's multiple different versions into it and if you watch some of the newer shows now, like the newer 50, um 52 versions into it, it kind of it jumps back and forth from that too. So it's like but the thing about it is they keep static in all the time.

Speaker 2: 18:39

Static was even in the injustice um as well. It wasn't in the injustice video game, but he's he's present in the comics and was in the injustice movie also. So literally they VC understood how important static was and they kept him. And I'm curious I have not had a chance to check out the new comics but, um, I was excited about his new version, that his uh re reinvention, because of the fact that I actually followed the artist that did it. So I follow a lot of his art and I got was reposting shares a lot of his art, so I was excited to find out that he was the one that actually came, was chosen to have the best design for step for the new static shock, so it was a pretty interesting thing into that. So obviously, overall, this is a show that I absolutely love and appreciate.

Speaker 1: 19:25

Man.

Speaker 2: 19:26

And I go back and watch again. It's on max right now. You can still go back and watch it.

Speaker 1: 19:30

Yeah, and can I tell you that? You know with the um design that we're used to. You know with the dress and whatnot. Bro, I get so many people telling me hey, you should cosplay a static. I'm like I'm getting through it, leave me alone.

Speaker 2: 19:49

I mean, if it's there, is there for you, bro? I'm just saying oh, also, apparently a couple of years ago. There's actually a thing that people have been recently starting to compare Richie and Tuck. So look at that, You're not too far. There's actually people that's like yo, there are some similarities, but apparently that's just it. There's just similarities, there's nothing else.

Speaker 1: 20:12

It's a coincidence that I'd notice.

Speaker 2: 20:15

Yeah, but I wouldn't be surprised if David Hartman actually, you know, liked watching static shock and probably might have subconsciously came up with the best friend who's the tech key that you had to know about being a superhero to the same. Like there's a lot of writers, you pull up stuff Me and you think about it.

Speaker 1: 20:36

Static and Danny both got their powers by accident.

Speaker 2: 20:40

This is true, but two vastly different ways. One experiments in with his parents stuff that he was not one being a naughty damn kid. Now don't do what the fuck he was not supposed to be doing with some real shit. There's just nowadays that that's literally what a lot of these, a lot of younger kids, do nowadays, just to be honest. But the other one, unfortunately having to deal with a hard life at a hard time and a hard place, but no, okay, but that's. But yeah, that's. Obviously I respect and enjoy the show. So, for time's sake, let's go ahead.

Speaker 1: 21:13

If you want to go ahead and move forward, all right, I pretty much talked about episode one with the plot, well, the premise, of Static Shop. So, essentially, with episode two, that's when Francis recovers from the incident with the Big Bang and becomes high street, he in static finally gets his chance to beat him once overall, but he lose the first fight. But Virgil also excuse me, I'm been drinking on my collar but Virgil learns that Alba and the mayor were responsible for the gas that caused the metahuman mutation and tried to prove it by sneaking into Alba's office to find proof. But he winds up finding up this army of Alba's henchmen and Virgil ultimately defeat the henchmen, takes the disc that contains proof, but later that static fights high streak again, the disc with all of Alba's information on it gets destroyed. However, Static's powers up and finally defeats high street. So you know getting the dub from high streak. In the end, However, he had perfect evidence that Alba and mayor was responsible for the Big Bangs. Well, even though they didn't expect the whole Big Bang to happen, but they were responsible for the gas that could mutate people into medic units. That was episode two.

Speaker 1: 22:41

Episode three this is where essentially the meta breed comes in, with the leader, Yvonne. Now, I like Yvonne honestly. All you know like it's like that one dude in the hood to where it's like you know he's up to no good and kind of like the whole gang thing all over again. But with him it was like he kind of pretty much became that centerpiece when it came to like gang related violence and whatnot, with Shib and Talon and whatnot. So it kind of kept that black culture energy going on, with him going forward. And to be honest with you, I keep forgetting that him and rubber band man are brothers. I was like what Really?

Speaker 2: 23:27

It's the rubber band man, and I was not talking about that, I just that song popped in my head. Honestly, it's very easy to forget into that because keep in mind that they feel like forever band man. He was a tragic villain per se, like he's the villain that never really really wanted to be, one kind of thing. He kind of had to, if I'm correct I don't try to remember If I'm correct, I'm correct. I don't think he really wanted to. It was like a thing about it. Yeah, no, no, no, he didn't, because I remember he actually was into um, he was into sharing. I remember that.

Speaker 1: 23:56

Right.

Speaker 2: 23:57

Yeah, so you know he didn't want to. He was one of those things that's like my brother's, like my brother's in it. I kind of had not much of a choice. I kind of had to join in because he was in it, type of thing. Like it wasn't one of those big brothers that I joined so you don't have to to give you a better life. He was like I joined your ass better joined to, type of thing, like it belongs.

Speaker 2: 24:17

It was a whole nother character on itself, like do have the power of darkness. And he was the villain. Like I'm just like the only other person I think in DC that has his same, has same abilities. Um, it's like from cloaking dagger, if you guys even know about the show, um, if, but like cloaking dagger is you wanted to have him. Go figure, a white girl in a white outfit named dagger she has like, like abilities and shit and a black kid in a hoodie she was about to close. I don't know. I don't know what those things are just like, but his power is like literally power over darkness. He can teleport and shit and do all types of stand like and trap you in darkness. Like pretty much imagine Raven, but without having like the Raven esque abilities just nothing but actual pure darkness itself. But he absolutely cannot be in light versus a bond doesn't like the light, it incapacitates him, but he can still be in the light. He just prefers to do shit in the dark all the time, type of thing.

Speaker 2: 25:28

I like my weakness pretty much, but like eventually he even got stronger. I think I'm correct. I think he like got stronger in the series too. So even like before it was like oh, petty flashlights. You could like he'd get aggravated about it, but then eventually he was able to like walk in daylight and it didn't mean, it's like I don't give a fuck, and then like encapsulate darkness around him and like he actually came stronger, which is become present because static became stronger later on in the series too.

Speaker 1: 25:55

It can feel like the. I mean I know you're not really into my hero academia that much, but it kind of reminds me of the mindvilling academia arts where essentially all the villains and the villains side youngest power up.

Speaker 2: 26:10

Again is not that I don't want to like. I really do is just the fact that it was the one series that I got my wife into and I fucked up in doing that because once I got her into it, this you was like you cannot watch this without me, don't you dare betray me. We are watching this together and I'm like, but you ain't here to watch it, and when I am available to watch it, then you can't watch it and it's like, so like I read it here in the market, but I have seen, I have read some of my villain, my villain, academia, but I've also read and what was the other one where it's the not class A, class B, but like the other, like the other little superheroes one because they have a spin off series for those heroes to the people that didn't make it into class A and class B, but they're still helpers and stuff. There's another little longer series for them.

Speaker 1: 27:03

Is your line.

Speaker 2: 27:04

Yeah, so I read that one. I read some of that too, but yeah, so it's not how I want to, but I get it.

Speaker 1: 27:13

So it's not like all right to be honest with you, some episodes and that deep so you can like what cook guys was saying, just use HBO Max and watch the episode yourself. But we're just trying to get to like the main ones where I'm like, okay, I remembered this episode. So jumping to episode six, to where Virgil gives acceptance to the Vanmour Institute to find out that the students named Specs and Trapper were at Edwin Alba and manipulating him into the, helping build a robot to capture static. But after defeating them, virgil gets this new friend and ally, daisy Watkins, and she transferred over to Dakota High and all that. Now, funnily enough, I knew from right out the gate these dudes are kind of sketch, but at the same time I did like their names, like especially when I'm like, yeah, that's all cool, that's not gonna lie, and then you know we get to see them later on. But I'll get to that episode specifically.

Speaker 1: 28:28

But that was episode six for the most part. You know episode four and five and take it as you will. I mean episode five introduced River Band man, but basically just him getting revenge on the Ice Pack. But well, not the Ice Pack. Ice Pack, who is a rapper who stole a song that he wrote in. Episode four was about this amoeba mutated by the Big Bang and meanwhile they get locked in school late at night protesting journalism with freedom. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm gonna be honest with you. The show was good overall, but it's more like some episode, not a whole lot going on, you know, like the problem of the week or the villain of the week.

Speaker 2: 29:25

You know that's what I mean, because it's still a kid show, so it's one of those things that we still have moments like. So there are certain episodes that got nominated for Academy Awards and like all types of awards and Grammys and shit, so like they were not Grammys I wish, but there was some episodes that got nominated for awards and shit because of how good they were. And there's those specific episodes that kind of doing today yeah, there was some episodes, like you said, villain of the week just kind of moving forward onto different things, into that. Some episodes like lead into or give like a start of something like was that we had? Like the one about when Virgil had got sent to the school for being gifted?

Speaker 1: 30:07

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 30:09

And that winds up playing along. Actually later on, I think, like season three is when that kind of really kind of comes back as a thing. So it's just kind of like a start off instead. So I get what you mean on to that.

Speaker 1: 30:19

Yeah, that's why I had to say I had to mention this one, because it's going to lead to an episode that's like oh, you remember these guys?

Speaker 2: 30:26

Yeah, all right, keeping it going.

Speaker 1: 30:32

Episode seven basically, bang, baby that can manifest, it's starting to reality and his stepbrothers trying to exploit them for it. Episode eight this is the one where, okay, richie invites Virgil to spend a night at his house, but his father arrives home early, very racist, and Richie runs away out of anger and shame in the cashier by E bond. It takes the combined episode of static on Richie's dad and static that what Virgil's dad to say. Richie, and then Mr Foley was like all right, I'm sorry, y'all are y'all and y'all not so bad you know, and you know what I'm going to change my ways.

Speaker 1: 31:17

I'm going to yeah, it was, that was a good episode.

Speaker 2: 31:22

Honestly, if he could say the n word. We probably would have heard that at least like 11 million times in that whole episode. Bro, I promise you, like the hard, y'all near you brought a nigga to my house.

Speaker 1: 31:38

No, they have to be like real slick. We're like they guys say like, oh, like some shit. To where you did you ever heard this in a while? Like those ports, monkeys, oh, whoa, whoa. Hey hey, yeah, just straight up.

Speaker 2: 31:53

And I think it was also crazy too, because, like wasn't my Mr Foley, like where he worked at, also had some black people there too, no-transcript, just hated them as well and just like bro the fuck man, like get over yourself, there's no job. You know, that has it only right when you get over it, like bro. It just felt like that I will say they put it to a tee that there was no question of his racism you felt that watching that episode and it wasn't even that long, it wasn't even like it's not a long episode also, but I'm talking about like even the moment that you see him in the episode, when he's like having those those fits and moments and stuff. It just it was that damn intense. Like you felt that energy and it made sense when, um, richie ran away.

Speaker 2: 32:39

It sucks that he wanted to be captured by e-bomb, but you know it had to rescue him back, but still it's just the fact that, like you felt that, like you felt like Rich, like you felt embarrassed he's like I'm so embarrassed that I brought my friend here and you are up to this absolute fucking nonsense. Like what the hell type of thing? Like I felt that I was like, damn. Yeah, he ain't even my daddy, and I'm embarrassed as hell for you. Like what I mean, like I don't know if you knew this, though, why did you bring me here that's? If you knew your daddy was like this, why did you bring like on some realness there's one thing.

Speaker 2: 33:15

I gotta say that I kind of have you know, yeah, so that was episode eight.

Speaker 1: 33:27

Uh, episode nine wins a change. Okay, this is the one where Richie was like getting a little clingy, touristic which you know, no pun intended and that's getting on Virgil's nerves and Virgil was like, hey, man, you need to give me some space. Uh, meantime, I'm like gonna hang out with um Daisy a little bit. And then, um, richie feels some type of way. Meanwhile, um, this bully begins exhibiting like wind based powers and he creates a costume and becomes a villainous slipstream. So static and slipstream fight at this water park. Richie tries to um bring down slipstream, ends up causing this whole war slide to collapse on the static.

Speaker 1: 34:14

Um, virgil and Richie fight part ways afterwards. Uh, however, after realizing the pointlessness of their arguing, they get back together and take down slipstream. So, um, yeah, it's like one of many times where um Virgil and Richie gonna fuss and fight and they're gonna like this band, but you know, they just get back together. Like it's funny now that you've mentioned the whole thing about Richie uh, was settled to be gay, and it's like one of those things where you, you know how it is with these relationships. You know they're gonna fuss and fight, they're gonna break up, but you know they're gonna get back together. Like I just can't quit you, bitch Is it true.

Speaker 2: 34:56

Now I will say that usually one thing about I know, there's something that, as a little straight man, is always nervous about being friends with a gay person, and there's something that let's just be, let's go ahead y'all can talk about. Let's be honest, it's okay. Just be honest with your friend about it yeah, your mic is low, low sorry, give me a second, forgive me.

Speaker 2: 35:21

What we use now for recording has the option to switch between phone and speaker, and I was on phone by bad, which means that I put it out of the way up to my ear. Um, so no, it's like it's one of those things that you get a chance to like talk about it. It's okay. I understand. Everybody has their own nervousness about having a gay friend. It's like, well, I don't know, I just don't want him to be interested in me or nothing like that, and talk to your friend about it, just like real talk, just just talk to me. It's a big thing into it. Because, keep in mind, there's also a lot of gay guys who are afraid to mention that maybe they are into their friend. If they know that their friend is not into them, they're like, well, I don't want to push it because it's like I'm not, I'm, I like you, but I know you're not into it and I'm not gonna push you, push you for it. But then there's a lot of people because you're so nervous about something, you become afraid and you like I don't know, wait, are you like I don't know? And it becomes a big issue. It's okay to talk to your friend. Okay, it is okay to talk about it. That's how you get through friendship issues, that's how you get through fights. Talk, it's okay.

Speaker 2: 36:30

Communication is key. They were your homie before you before they came out the closet. They stood your homie afterwards. They can have it just chill. I just I just feel like I had to mention that because literally I I swear I have had some people I've actually had quite a few people that told me they were nervous about it and I was like just talk to them and see, and they told me they didn't want to go. Like no, I don't feel like it, I'm nervous, I'm scared, I don't want to. But I'm like well what, you don't have to be scared, just talk right, all right, keep it in movement.

Speaker 1: 37:05

But that was a good point. But, yeah, trying to keep it in movement. Uh, episode 10 this is the one where you were talking about where rubber band man comes back from jail and becomes stringer, a rapper who that's the um? Where, uh, he's now dating Sharon but one static realized that stringer is rubber band man. Um, rubber band man tries to run away, bling static for ruin his life. Um, static, try, uh, he attacks static and mask him, but before he can look and see who static is, these two men are humans puffing on eggs on interbeam and they were like so I become bounty on this wrong cast. So, yeah, that was the one you were talking about. But then here's one that's going on kind of like matter and like at least two more episodes on, spread out throughout the rest of this series. Episode 11 is when Edwin Alba Jr shows up and he's kind of like this Harry Osborn type character when you think about it between Alba and um Alba Jr, to where it seemed like that.

Speaker 2: 38:15

Um, Norman and Harry.

Speaker 1: 38:17

Osborn kind of relationship and even going as far as to discover a method to control the effects of the big bang fluid, so, but, um, you know, senior completely dismisses son, causing him to become angry and harness the gas power to become the villain um Omni-Ferrius, and he's targeting everything his father holds dear to him.

Speaker 1: 38:40

Um, with this extremely dangerous and catastrophic results, static confronts Omni-Ferrius, who recognizes him as Alba's son, and static uh, he, using like one of his abilities, um junior was able to discover a status, to build uh, secret identity using x-ray vision and threats to reveal it. But when he sees static working with his father against him, omni-ferrius becomes angry and overdoses on the gas, and then that ends up making him turn into stone. So, funny enough, it's like, yeah, I can kind of see that Harry Osborn energy going on, but also it kind of reminds me of um Tara, where she kind of had like two powers going on. She just turned herself into stone, but it's, it was a different sort of sense, of course, but just weird, because, um, we were talking about team times, not to wonder, though, but yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2: 39:37

I like how this development went into it first off. You already know it's gonna be a thing you're like oh my gosh, oh my gosh.

Speaker 2: 39:42

I'm able to identify your secret identity and stuff like that. I know who you are. But then it wasn't becoming like a whole nother thing in itself. As far as, like his reasoning for it, like what happens if you push someone to the floor, like this person feels like they have nothing left to lose, they're going to do some shit and eventually they might wind up actually hurting and possibly killing themselves, and this is scary thing to realize, but it it does actually yeah, yeah and um, oh man, it's not exactly suicide.

Speaker 1: 40:18

But there's one episode I really want to talk about when we get there it's in season two, but we'll get there. That was episode 11, episode 12, visibility with the one with replays, the one where he can like duplicate himself, kind of like, oh, what was that? One character? I know it's like Naruto and whatnot, but I'm thinking like that one character from team fights all Billy numerous yeah, that annoying asshole yeah, so basically, but here's what made replays dangerous.

Speaker 1: 40:53

He can duplicate himself, but he also make a copy of other people. So he can make a copy of static and that's what he did. So the doppelganger ends up trying to ruin static name and the entire city mistakes doppelganger for the real static and it clear it's gonna be public enemy number one with the real static trying to fight to restore his own name. So that was the whole situation. Episode 12. Episode 13 was when this purple Hulk, like monster um, who's actually on this Asian kid, um Thomas Kim, who gets upset that he got a gray point. He, he got. I'm sorry, cook, you guys, I'm sorry, but I know how you feel about the whole overachieving thing, but this dude straight up got mad that he made a 99 instead of 100.

Speaker 1: 41:52

I don't like come on, dog, really that's really something to be mad about. Like you took a 99 but it's not 100. And then another thing is he? Every time he's gotta prove somebody wrong? He did turn to this monster and was like you know they're wrong? Yeah, you know, I'm standing here like bro. See, I don't know how you feel about episode 13 on cook.

Speaker 2: 42:24

Yeah, the fear of perfection, your perfectionism, that's what in this aspect here I'm, so I can come by this episode in the previous episode and one quick thing it's this so fear of perfectionism becomes is a real thing, where you have to strive to be perfect for everything. You have to strive to make sure that it's the absolute best. Get upset when you fall short. Everybody gets upset when they fall short. Everybody has different levels of where they're at. It wanders, of course, being the Asian kid, because of the fact that it's also playing onto the fact that Asian kids are always like the highest, always get the highest grades, always as smart as always do this, always do that. And so what happens when that doesn't happen? So here's the thing into this, what we're putting to the over chief. I'm gonna give you a quick story about what happens to me when I was in middle school and why people are just shit. Let's just be honest on that, okay. So in middle school, so, uh, what was it? My sixth grade year. So, first off, keep in mind this is important, this is very important to know. In fifth grade, I wound up getting the achievement for having a perfect hundred in math, math, for both semesters, all quarters. I got an award, I got a trophy for it, stuff like that, okay. So this was something that carried on for me going into middle school. So everyone's like, oh yeah, you know he's really good at math. He got a perfect hundred back in elementary school because he knew all of his stuff. He knew how to do this and this and better better, die, right. So when I started getting 98, 97, best believe, other little motherfuckers was on my ass about. Oh what happened? Man thought you was the smartest. I thought you got perfect hundreds and shit like that. Mind you, I was not upset about my grades because I was still top in the motherfucking class. I didn't give a fuck because I was still smarter than people, but they still was right trying to ride my ass about that shit, right, and then keep in mind on this a mutual friend of ours.

Speaker 2: 44:34

This was the first time I ever met this guy. Okay, it's the first time they ever met this guy. He transferred in from another school because he had his family had recently moved. They had moved from an um, from an apartment, to a house and so but where they're at they hit uh zone differently for different schools. So he moved to this school. So keep in mind almost the entire first semester I was still the smartest class. I was ignoring all these people about this shit. He comes in and he is better at math than I am. I don't give a fuck. But do you think those other kids will leave me the fuck alone about that shit?

Speaker 1: 45:17

bro. This is why I had to like, set myself like to a point where, okay, they can believe that I'm like a, a, b on a roll, kid, you see, that's the thing is like um, that's why I was like, for the most part, just get like a's and b's, or maybe like b's and c's, so that way it's like they know I'm smart, but don't pressure me, okay, right but, but this is where it got real bad, into this aspect.

Speaker 2: 45:45

Okay. So for him he was just upset about oh you know, I got a 99 done, became a monster and stuff for me. Obviously because of peer pressure, people kept messing with me so much about it it wound up affecting me and um, our mutual friend as well. First off, to keep in mind to this you probably made, or Ritchie Rookway.

Speaker 2: 46:06

You probably may not know that he is actually that good at math. You may not know that he's actually better at math than me because he now purposefully fully hides it, because he was scarred by what we went through in middle school, from that situation that caused a permanent damage to him mentally. It's really messed up, but it really happens and is one is like people chill, it's simple, but what were you trying to say?

Speaker 1: 46:38

I just wanted to say that, um, with my experience to where see, that's why I didn't like it. Man, it sounds weird, but I didn't like how a lot of people uh could say that, oh, I'm so smart even though, uh, for the most part I just try to keep quiet and, you know, try to stay low-key about it but it just something about me to where they just tell I was one of the smart kids. But ironically, it's like because I was known for being a smart kid, since I was like really little, like even back when I was like a fucking baby, just seemed like, okay, I can. They. They're like, oh, we can tell that he's gonna be one of the smart kids, but not like, um, genius level. But, you know, smart enough to where it's like he's like you know he's gonna have a good head on the shoulder, right?

Speaker 1: 47:30

So my main thing is what kind of fucked me up was? Because I was being praised by my potential instead of my achievements. It just made me feel like I had nothing to prove by the time I got to high school, to where I'm like, what's the point of trying hard when everybody knows that I'm smart enough to, you know, do something like something good, you know that's something to work like, because you were never like pressured to succeed based on achievement, but instead it was more like everybody knows that, oh, you're smart enough to figure shit out. It's more like, um, I just didn't feel motivated to actually, you know, to do, yeah, to be, to be the AP. Um, all a honor, old kid, you know that kid. That's like prepping for all this and see, I'm like I didn't feel like I needed it at that point because I'm like I felt like I need to find whether I go to college or not yeah, and that's it.

Speaker 2: 48:38

There's things like you have to know how to help build that person, how to help build them up, and if you can't do that, yeah, they're not gonna want to push themselves and that's it. That is a big issue into that. That's why I was like it's like biggest thing is into. It's like paying attention to your kids, paying attention to how people are and treating them with respect is always going to be the biggest thing that helps out into it. So but then here's the other thing about it too this is why I say I'm gonna tie it into the previous episode really quick so we can go forward is the fact that every hero you can deal with some praises when you do good, but people will always, always judge you for the single mistake that you make. You could do 10 good things, make one mistake. They will always hold that mistake over your head always. That's what people do and it sucks because that's something into that.

Speaker 2: 49:32

The mistake doesn't even have to be yours and in this case, that's what happened. The mistake that happened to our mutual friend that scarred him was not his mistake. It was my mistake. I caused that scar and I beat myself up for it a lot over the years. I go to therapy because I've dealt with a lot in my life. That's. One of the things that I still frustrate myself with is the fact that he no longer pushes himself to achieve because of what I did to him, because I allowed myself to be beaten up by peer pressure with these other kids and it sucks yeah.

Speaker 1: 50:09

I see this one where I would say like, oh and they, and they'd be wondering why? Oh, because you don't want to have kids, because kids are fucking assholes man they are, but it's going to be based on how you treat them.

Speaker 2: 50:22

Like we as parents, gotta, we have to treat them in a specific way. We have to actually help them. But and I hate saying this I'm part of this app but, like neighborhood, is able to keep in touch with different things because everybody hates HOAs. So instead of doing HOAs, we actually just keep each other in the loop of what's going on in different neighborhoods around the city, which I like. It's pretty cool.

Speaker 2: 50:45

Some stuff is to be aggravating, but it's okay for the most part. But literally one person was she said the most honest thing. Just the saddest thing about it is that most parents don't love their kids, they don't care about their kids, and it's a real. So sorry y'all, I'm out shopping I didn't think I was gonna be that loud but most parents don't care for their kids like at all and it's a scary thing. They look at their kids as burdens and it is sad, but it's the absolute truth.

Speaker 2: 51:19

It's the fact that you know, I accidentally got knocked up, or I got knocked up and the father doesn't want to be in the life. So now I have to deal with this myself. I have to take care of all this by myself and that starts to happen and it starts causing problems. The kid feels that energy and then you start dealing with the kids that we dealt with in school, because I can tell you a number of them. Unfortunately they didn't have their dads in their life or if they did, he was always hearing about some type of family drama or, even worse, these kids would come to school with scars on their faces. You should never have to see that, but that's what we do and I love that this show got a chance to touch base into that, because I know there's another episode you want to talk about where we actually dealt with a kid who dealt with that?

Speaker 1: 52:22

oh yeah, it's a big thing.

Speaker 2: 52:24

It's one of the most famous episodes of this whole series oh yeah, we'll get to that now.

Speaker 1: 52:31

All right, let's get into season two now. So episode one basically Static teams up with Batman and Robin after Joker comes to Dakota to recruit Fang babies. There's this whole episode, you know, static and Batman and Robin for Joker's Planet, whatnot. And this was the episode where, as of this episode, static shock is integrated into the DC animatic universe. So, like you were saying earlier, originally it wasn't part of the DC universe until this episode. So where it now is officially crossing over to DC, and then we're gonna see Batman showing up in the first episode of season two, season three and season four, I believe, and then we might have some comparisons by Superman Greenland turning. But we'll get there. Uh, episode two okay.

Speaker 1: 53:21

So this one I like to call, even though it doesn't feel like it, doesn't really feel like it. But this is why I like to call the drug abuse episode, because Richie bumps into this old man named Ragsat, who can give him the ability of energy manipulation do you know, power-broken and then excuse me, that's not my problem he uses his power to become this superhero named Hush and he panics when they begin, his powers begin to fade, but then he goes back to the old man and he also me. Um, these other two, um people, um run and jump, by the way, weird names. I don't know why they seem like they gave a push, run jump.

Speaker 2: 54:17

I'm like what's up with these no effort names it was the writers some of the writers for different episodes at some point. We're just trying to push out episodes. You can tell what episodes were really thought out and what episodes was like. We just trying to push episodes to keep it moving meat quota type of thing.

Speaker 1: 54:34

Unfortunately, every show has a feelers gotcha, and essentially the whole deal was Richie had to do favors for Ragtag and he changed to you know, get more hits of power, and Richie was so, uh, power hungry. It was now he won't, he might be in a superhero that it just became an addiction to a degree. So that's why I like to call it the drug abuse episode, even though actual drugs weren't being used. But you know, power can be a powerful drug in itself. Um, yeah, anything to add on to that cuckoo got you. Uh, oh, it remember. It's just a more like a.

Speaker 2: 55:29

I got a metaphor, you know yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2: 55:31

I get what you mean. I'm trying. That's what I'm trying to think about in the aspect. I mean not much more than what you said, because it's not, there's not much more to push into that, you know, without being pushed himself. And I'm not trying to do all that because that was a lame name, um, but no, for real is this, uh, is is just.

Speaker 2: 55:49

Yeah, power is a drug. Power makes you more of yourself, and then you become afraid when you lose it. That is a real thing. That actually happens to a lot of people all the time before uh, all the time, unfortunately where it's just like you have the power, not just to make a difference but to make the reality of what you want it to be, and then you lose it and you become scared when you lose it, because having that power meant something. It made you feel like there was something work, it was worth doing something, it was worth having it. And then you kind of lose it and you're like am I worthless now? And you're never worthless from losing power. You just keep pushing and doing the best that you can. It's a hard thing to realize, but it's the truth. You're never worthless just because you want to lose us in power, it's okay, that's it. Go ahead and move on. There's not. There's not much I can say on to this one that's it that it was one of those.

Speaker 1: 56:55

Now episode three this is one where saren at at the combs and at it patterns behave.

Speaker 2: 57:17

You know what sometimes that is not sure if it's just me, but you're going in and out right now oh, I'm sorry oh shit.

Speaker 1: 57:32

I uh had my mic in the wrong position, my bad, I thought I was all speaking into it.

Speaker 1: 57:39

But, um, essentially that saren is trying to piece together that um burglary is static. But just when she gets close to deducing the secret identity, uh, two more bang bang. These shows up. Uh, boom, who's just like this living loud speaker of a person? Um, and it's just.

Speaker 1: 58:03

And his younger sister, um mirage, who has the ability to manipulate light to create illusions. Now, when at first boom and mirage, it was just causing trouble, but mirage didn't pretty much like rubber bad man. Mirage didn't really want to do all this. Uh, basically he's being uh manipulated by boom and then, as soon as halfway into it, mirage uh decided to. You know, I don't want to get involved with anymore, but boom just kept at it, uh, but uh, while deduc was trying to stop boom from um uh causing trouble, um, mirage helped out static by creating this illusion so that way a sharon can be thrown off. The case of who static is, so that pretty much covered his ass on that one. That was episode three of season two. Episode four, that's the Shaq episode, where basically Shaq shows up, helps out and fights some of the villains and Shaq finds out who Shaq's secret identity is. But he's like, don't worry, I'm not gonna tell anybody. So that was episode four.

Speaker 2: 59:26

You know, I didn't realize the fact how many damn times Virgil got his fucking secret identity revealed, like what the hell, it's a lot, it's a lot. How Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm just like I swear. It's like every other episode you're saying and they find out his secret identity. Nick, it's not a secret identity. This is from the tell everybody.

Speaker 1: 59:54

Yeah, it's like it doesn't get old anytime soon, by the way. Yes, I'm sorry but it doesn't get old. Episode five Okay, I like this one. This is the one where it's the holiday season. Virgil's trying to balance out his going to parties of his friends and whatnot of different faiths, because, you know, something might be due with some my own credits, Other shit, you know, I'm sorry, I'm kind of.

Speaker 2: 1:00:31

Religious.

Speaker 1: 1:00:32

I understand, but you know a little bit you good, but essentially this is the one where the bang baby permafrost shows up. And she's this homeless girl named Maureen Connor, who suffered from mental problems stemming from her mother's death and her stepfather's neglect and unable to control her powers. And basically she just gets so tired of being ignored that she just have these uncontrollable ice powers and static eventually finds Maureen some help and rather than fighting with her, he just offered to help her out and Maureen calms down and accepts the help from a local pastor, which in turn teaches the birds of the true meaning of the holidays. So good Christmas episode, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:01:22

Can I just talk about really quick Go ahead. I'm talking about the first part of this episode. So, yeah, it's a big episode to talk about and it's a good reason they want to go on it for Christmas and the fact that during holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving, it's one of the only times that most homeless people get bed because, as far as like big community events like there'll be occasional community events throughout, but sometimes they get canceled. Sometimes things happen, but when it comes to like Thanksgiving and Christmas, they're always able to get inside of it and so they don't get postponed or canceled Homeless people still get fed and it's a really important episode to keep in mind about how people feel are cold and lonely during these times, like there's still homelessness and something we still deal with and permafrost.

Speaker 2: 1:02:19

Unfortunately, she was also a girl who had the ability to get out of the house and get out of the house and she was a little bit of a person who was a little bit of a person who did not help out. This episode kind of got to me because, as a kid growing up, the story of the little match girl wound up being a story that always broke my heart, no matter how many times. I watched it In a quick short of it, or even like watched it or read the story. What wound up happening is is the fact that she has to sell these matches in order to make money, and it's the only way that she can survive, because the problem is is the fact that it's cold outside and her parents depending on which one you read her parents either died or they abandoned her. They don't know which one it is. It's two very different ones, but that's usually the wound that happened. But either way, regardless, she's alone has to sell matches in order to survive. But the issue is is the fact that the world that she lives in matches are obsolete because everyone has lighters now, but so she can't survive, and so she winds up lighting these matches to keep herself warm and try to keep herself alive, and then then she winds up dying in the cold alone.

Speaker 2: 1:03:45

Nobody pays her attention or anything, until she died and they found a little girl dead. Then she wanted to get attention, and it's something that is a harsh reality that this episode did kind of touch base on a little bit. It was like what would have happened if she never had these powers. She would have just been another person, another kid, who had just been found dead. It still happens in the US today. It hasn't been fixed, a lot of people ignore it and it's a real issue that still needs to be addressed, and I'm happy that, like this show, again, it talks about these things, it brings this shit to attention. It's something that needs to be fixed.

Speaker 1: 1:04:33

But, that being said, one of the great episodes to where, if anything is between this one and the season finale, is the highlight of season two, honestly. But while we get to try to get to season finale, let's go ahead and blaze through the rest of this season right here and I'll ask you, koki guys, how you feel about them in general, if you have anything to say. So, episode six this is the one where, with the sunspots and static start losing its powers Kind of remind me of all Spider-Man 2s where Peter Parker was losing his powers, kind of like that, but in this case it was like, while he was losing his powers, hot Street was getting buffed, like by the sunspots. Another way, he was getting stronger because of it. But you know, even if we worked out, he'd get his powers back. Blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 1: 1:05:32

Episode seven this is the one where we find out that Pops is. I'm sorry, but I know his name is Robert. But oh shit, I'm sorry, but for some reason I keep thinking of Granddad from fucking Boondahs when I take Robert from this show, Because I don't know why. It's just a weird coincidence, but anyways, virgil's dad is dating this cop who happened to come into contact with Virgil under the suspicion that he might have stolen some vial of what's known as Quantum Vapor. And when Virgil meets with the officer who is an officer between a dress-up and finds out that, oh, his dad is dating this cop, and after hearing about the incident, virgil gets outgrounded for him. But come to find out, these two teenagers named Royce and what was that? Frankie? Yeah, these two teenage delinquents who were responsible for the theft and they accidentally had some incense mutated and Virgil had to pretty much take care of that. I'm not sure if he's still dating the cop, but I don't remember her showing up after that episode. I mean, it would have been cool, you know, it would be interesting to hear.

Speaker 1: 1:07:10

Okay, it was kind of like reminds me of Amazing Spider-Man, the first movie to where essentially, yeah, you're kind of like in reverse, but not like the hero is dating the daughter of a cop, but more like your dad is dating a cop and you pretty much have to keep your identities secret from a cop who is really close to your family. So I thought that would be more interesting if they fleshed out a little bit more. But whatever, oh, okay, episode eight this is the one where rubber band man come back, but this time as a hero. And everybody doubts that because it's criminal past. But he proves himself to have been redeemed when E-Bon, you know, this is where I was like dun dun dun, e-bon is his older brother and come to invite him to the menabrine and frame them for his own crimes.

Speaker 1: 1:08:10

But you know, brothers, what can you say? But good thing, I have a good relationship with my brother. But I'm just saying like sometimes he's just fucked up about some family tree, other family. You know what I mean, unfortunately. Yeah, I know, I know your story.

Speaker 2: 1:08:33

I mean, I don't have much to trouble with my brothers. To be honest with you.

Speaker 1: 1:08:37

So like, oh no, no, okay, my bad, it's not you, it was our mutual friend. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I was thinking. Yeah, episode nine, this one where, okay, in an effort to win class president election, oh, this bitch, okay. So this bitch, madeline Spaulding. She used her mind control powers to turn almost everyone into code and zombies and once again, it was one of those episodes to where Madeline found out static identity. But static kind of overloaded her mind, I guess, to a point to where not only did he fix everybody from becoming mind control zombies, but he also kind of made her forget that she even had powers. So I was like how the fuck? But okay, whatever. But yeah, cool guys, like I said before, people finding out who static is, that's not getting old.

Speaker 1: 1:09:43

Episode 10 is where rubber band man enlisted to help Agent McClain and the back street from the back street war, excuse me, to get a record deal, however, this jealous competitor, replicon, who was voiced by a coolio RIP to him, because I was still bumped to fucking get to paradise any time. Replicon wanted to wreak the fame on winnings for himself and use his shape shifting ability to disguise himself as Agent McClain. And then there's the season finale simply titled Jimmy. So, after being mercilessly tormented and pranked by a group of bullies and, by the way, these bullies look like they came straight from a fucking 80s movie, like fucking grief type bullies. You know, especially that one kid Like I forgot his name already, but it was like he had like black hair and he had the white teacher with the sleeves rolled up and shit he especially was something straight from the 80s. But Anyways, this troubled team, jimmy Ozgood, got tired of the bullies. So he finds his father gun in terms of taking revenge on the bullies or accidentally shoot Richie in the leg and with the help of psychologists.

Speaker 1: 1:11:10

Here's how it went down. Essentially, jimmy's gonna get a therapy, but he's also gotta go into Julie. Meanwhile the bullies only got community service. It doesn't shit. But Virgil decides he gotta deal with the shock and the guilt from not preventing the accident by making sure that the big kid that was also getting bullied was like okay, I'm gonna step in this time. I step, I stayed out of it last time with Jimmy and I'm like we can't have a repeated Jimmy, we can't have no more Jimmy's. So when I see something going down with these bullies I'm like, okay, we don't need no more Jimmy's Like. You good Like, just talk to me. You know you got a friend in me. You got a friend in me. But that's pretty much what I gotta say with these six episodes. Hope you guys see what you got.

Speaker 2: 1:12:11

All right. So, like I told you before, you can be a hero like, honestly so I like. So Robert Bandman winds up being one that they directly copied from DC. As far as Plastic man and keep in mind, there's also another superhero called Elongated man as well, too, and nobody remembers him, even though he's apparently. He's a detective that supposedly is just as good as Batman, but he had superpowers, but because he's not Batman, nobody remembers him. Plastic man, a lot of people don't remember, was actually a supervillain who changed his ways after fighting Batman multiple times.

Speaker 1: 1:12:50

You really call him the supervillain, though A supervillain.

Speaker 2: 1:12:56

He's got superpowers, so you kinda count that. But look, let's be real, talk onto this. Okay, Plastic man is nobody to fuck with in some real shit. Okay, Robert Bandman does not have the same abilities. Plastic man is able to morph into another person.

Speaker 1: 1:13:13

Almost perfect.

Speaker 2: 1:13:14

He can do that. He can stretch higher than not just higher, higher and wider than an immense amount of buildings, and I'm talking skyscrapers. He can stretch extremely far and wide and high he can also. He's also very durable. He has been seen to encapsulate a bunch of not doom, not doomsday, but parademons. He was able to trap a bunch of parademons as well and inside like not so much to sign himself, but encapsulate them into like a giant ball, and still they did not burn through him. He also can regenerate. If you do happen to damage him, he gets torn or whatever the case may be, he can heal himself. He can regenerate as well. He can hide as any object. He could be a chair and you could be sitting on him and not realize and he actually did that with Zatanna one time and Batman immediately called him out on Zoom. But Plastic man is nobody to fuck with. When he really wants to use his abilities, he is dangerous. He can be sliced in half with Superman's lasers and then regenerate. He's a dangerous person, but this is the size to point into that.

Speaker 2: 1:14:40

River Bandman, they wound up copying the same story. He was a supervillain who wound up changing to being a hero and people did not want to trust him. The DC, the Justice League, still, every night again, looks down on Plastic man all the time. Only Batman is the one that gives him that respect, that gives him that high regard. It's like you can do this, you can still be a hero, and every night again he'll still steal some shit, but you know, whatever. So they kind of kept that same thing with River Bandman as far as kind of getting into that. And it's a hard thing, that entire episode he was given so much slack Like they kept hammering in we don't trust you, dude. Literally rescued people and they're like you rescued us, aren't you a villain? And he's like damn, am I not allowed to try to be better? This one touches the base of me. No, but here's the thing. This one touches the base of me because my kids right now watch Moon Girl and Dinosaur in a Devil Dinosaur, and so this is a new series that's on Disney Plus, it's Marvel and it's a really good show. And literally the episode my kids was just watching Go Figure yesterday was the fact that there was a villain that was on there and Moon Girl was asking why has he choose to be a villain? They're like well, first off, she's like first off, I understand it's.

Speaker 2: 1:15:53

I didn't choose to be a villain, I wanted to not have much of a choice. I had to make some money and I couldn't do anything. I had these powers. So I decided I had to try and make some money real quick, to try to get ends meet. I did what I had to do. I did it. I got caught. I went to jail.

Speaker 2: 1:16:08

But what you don't understand is there's no rehabilitation for a villain. Once you become a villain, you're forever branded like that. You come out of jail. There's no job that wants to hire you. I'm not gonna hire a villain, it's not gonna happen. Well, I'm reformed, I'm trying to do better. I don't believe you, I don't care, I'm not gonna hire you. But what's a villain supposed to do then? Be a villain. They no longer have that choice. You make that one mistake. You can't recover from that, it doesn't matter how hard you try. And that's a real thing and that happened with rubber band man. They talked about in this show and they still are talking about. Like I said, in Moon Girl and Devil, dinosaur and the shows today. They still address that, that some villains are trying to be better, but can we give them that chance? Is there such a thing as second chance, Is there such a thing as rehabilitation?

Speaker 1: 1:17:02

But then also, you know, I'm honestly thinking about that and I don't actually feel that. But here's my thing. First of all, I'm sorry I'm kinda kinda remembered, but essentially you already know how I feel about certain folks where it's like, yeah, there's like so, oh, I've brought nigs out there in the world. And, to be honest with you, I'll be like even to this day. I'm like okay with some people who I just think that's total pieces of shit. I kinda hope that they kinda turn their life around to where, okay, maybe they can bounce back from all this somehow, and to an extent I get disappointed.

Speaker 1: 1:17:50

So I'm like, okay, my main thing is it's for folks that actually want to redeem themselves genuinely and not like, oh, I'm gonna act like I'm redeeming myself, but in reality it's just more like a front to where, okay, I'm just trying to get people to like forgive me, but I'm really just gonna go back to my ways Once people get more comfortable with the idea of me being like a quote, unquote good guy now and blah, blah. So it's more like it really depends on if they really want to dedicate to doing better, kind of like what Robert Batman was trying to do. So you're gonna have that label on you and it's gonna be tough, but that's just kinda thing. As long as you dedicate yourself to actually being better, eventually it'll be like okay, yeah, you had like this checker pass, but you have been doing better recently, so I will give you another chance. But I'm on to you though.

Speaker 2: 1:18:50

And I get that. And then there's also one thing to keep in mind on to it. And then Justice was some. In Justice movie there was something that was brought up specifically by Plastic man that he wanted to say when Superman said that they were just gonna straight up kill the villains, like either you wise up and do better or we're gonna kill you, type of thing, plastic man literally had said himself he's like I was a supervillain and I took several times that man gave me several chances before I finally turned my life around. And you give them one chance, say no and then kill them. And I'm not saying, obviously we're not saying kill them straight off, the bad end to it. But there are some cases you're gonna have to give them more than one chance and sometimes that first chance they are gonna completely screw up because they're just as skeptical as you might be. Like you said, I'm on to you.

Speaker 2: 1:19:41

But how does that feel? How does that feel if you made a mistake? You're trying to better yourself, but you're being micromanaged into it To where it's like it feels like they're just looking for you to fail. It doesn't feel like they're looking for you to actually win or be successful. They're looking for a reason to say I knew it, I knew you wasn't gonna reform back in jail. How would that make you feel You're liable to make another mistake again Because you feel like you're being pressured to make another mistake. You see what I mean.

Speaker 1: 1:20:14

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:20:15

And so that's a hard thing to keep in mind. On to that, because it's like, unless you're in those shoes, you don't quite know. I've unfortunately been in those shoes where, like, and obviously I'm gonna jump into the Jimmy situation because I'm gonna jump into the other ones. Okay, like little things into it. The whole mind control girl was pretty interesting, into that again.

Speaker 2: 1:20:37

Static loses identity, finds his his, his secret identity is being found out again. Like, okay, whatever you could, but no, no, as far as like how he made her forget that she loses her power, that she could use her powers. That's a key thing. Keep in mind on this Mind control, if professor, if professor X, decided to be a villain, the whole world is fucked. Keep in mind, remember what Cerebro can do. He and Magneto built Cerebro and he's constantly stopping Magneto from getting Cerebro. He has a set up to where Cerebro only links to the mutants. However, he can tweak it to link to the minds of every single person on the earth. Okay, I'm just saying A person who has mind control abilities is extremely dangerous. Another prime example, if we do wind up moving forward. Moving to that case in Nernie Court, lelouche v Britannia.

Speaker 1: 1:21:40

Oh man, you know what I was thinking about that and I was like you know what, ever since the Aaron Yeager case, well, I'm like, all right, talk, you gonna stop fucking around. I'm like I'm gonna really hurt you feeling. I'm like I'm gonna start building a case against LeLouche.

Speaker 2: 1:21:55

But for reals though, like on this. Is that person not proof of how dangerous someone with mind control abilities can be? Let that person play chess. Let that person be playing chess with people's lives. I promise you, and keep in mind LeLouche, for people who don't know if you wanna go watch Code Geass, you can go watch the show if you haven't seen it. If you have seen it, you know what I mean. There is a limitation to his mind control ability as well, too. This girl does not have that same limitation, but with his limitation he brought an entire continent to his knees with his limitation. It's a pretty big limitation for mind control. She does not have that. The best thing you could do is make her forget that she could use her powers, cause if she could remember, she's gonna break out of jail every time that she's gonna be a pro. She is going to be an absolute monster to deal with on a day-to-day basis. Hell of a fun. I can't believe this. So you can see like that's kind of weird. It does seem kind of weird, but it's the only plausible solution. It's just being honest there. However, but going back into things as far as like, you make a mistake and it harbors onto you keep in mind for how and I'm just I'm gonna make this a very quick story Going back to what I mentioned before about our mutual friend I said you probably may not realize that he's been so good at math, that he actually is so good at math because of the fact of what it is that I had did to him.

Speaker 2: 1:23:29

I was bullied. I was bullied by this guy Go figure, his name is Virgil Just funny, um, very different from static. But I was bullied by this kid. When I say I was bullied, I mean, unfortunately we live in the same neighborhood. So he bullied me at the bus stop, he bullied me on the bus and he bullied me in school and I had to keep dealing with that and he was also one of the primary people who will always keep picking on me as well about being super smart. So I had to keep dealing with this bully. He stole stuff from me all the time. I'm still missing and I'm gonna keep this in my brain forever. I'm sorry, I can't let this go.

Speaker 2: 1:24:10

He stole my sketchbook. I drew only three pictures in his sketchbook and I'm so mad. I have a bunch of different sketchbooks, but this one was a special sketchbook for me, because this was a sketchbook that my mom bought for me. It was a congratulatory sketchbook because of how good my grades were, so this was a special sketchbook to me. Keep that in mind. Plus, I only drew three pictures in this damn sketchbook, but I'm so mad. It was 200 pages and only used three. Like I'm mad as hell about that, but anyway, but still, I kept dealing with all of that. Add on to the fact that I'm always being harped on about the fact and like, oh, I'm not making perfect hundreds like I did in elementary school, I'm still in a straight A student and stuff. Like I kept dealing with this. It wound up getting to the point that the principal of the school had to get involved. That's how bad it wound up getting with this bully, literally. So I wound up when our mutual friend, when he when this again first time I'm meeting him, everyone is coming big into the fact that, oh, he's so much smarter than you. Oh, he's doing this, he's doing this, and again, I didn't care.

Speaker 2: 1:25:23

I was working on, like I was working on making my comic book with a guy that I knew at the time. I still kind of know him. We was working on making our own comic book. We was very big into Dragon Ball Z at the time and we was making. We had our own story that we was written, we had our own characters and we was like this whole storyline. We was deep into this. That's what my focus was on. I would do my work and I was making this comic book with my friend. That's just how it was.

Speaker 2: 1:25:49

But it would not leave me alone, and this bully would not leave me alone Ever, always kept having to deal with that. She knew to the point where I lashed out. I didn't get a gun the on bright news. Even though my mom was ex military, she did not keep a gun in the house. She was very much against it, for a good reason, because I probably would have been that kid. Unfortunately, I'm going to be honest.

Speaker 2: 1:26:12

So I wound up lashing out and I lashed out onto our mutual friend and at that time literally left him in the bathroom bleeding, unconscious. I traumatized him. I beat myself up for it every day, and so it was one of those things like I understand what Jimmy went through. It sucks when you're dealing with that and nobody's there to stop you. You have to handle it yourself, but then you wind up taking it out on the wrong person. Our mutual friend became Richie. Because Richie was traumatized after that gunshot and we'll talk about him more in season three Because it lasts for a couple of episodes. He was very upset about it. Like Constance was like I've been shot, I can't do it. Like he was so upset about it. It was obvious and that's how, fortunately, how badly I traumatized this kid. Well, our friend. But you know he was a kid, I was a kid and it sucks. I did that. I allowed myself to become the thing that I hated because of how much I was bullied, because of how much that hit me.

Speaker 2: 1:27:24

So I am. I'm a person who's a very big advocate for the end of bullying. I heavily stand up against it. I have been bullied and have been a bully. I've done both and both suck fucking horribly and even worse than that.

Speaker 2: 1:27:42

And let's be real, like how you said, jimmy had wound up having to go to Julie. The issue was because he pulled the trigger. Regardless, that's how they have to frame into it. It doesn't matter as far as what led into it. He pulled the trigger. Now they still take it to account what led up to it and they're supposed to punish those kids, but those kids should have been in Julie full time as well, but the most that they could get them for was the fact that they just kept harboring him.

Speaker 2: 1:28:14

Cyber bullying was still new at that time, but they were cyber bullying him too also, and it was still a thing. It was still something that most adults weren't heavily into it, and so it's like they did not get what they deserved and, at realistic, I did not get what I deserved either. I got pulled out the classroom, spoken to by the principal and the teacher, and they were like well, we understand that you had been bullied and that's what kind of led you into it. And literally I just walked up to the kid, walked up to our guy in front of the classroom and just apologized and then went home and I got whooping. So I got whooped by my mom and that was it. I went back to school the next day.

Speaker 2: 1:29:02

I still don't feel I should have gotten way more than that. I still feel that way, but it's that thing of like the kid that bullied me. He got suspended for two days and then was came back and then, instead of bullying me, he went and bullied somebody else. It didn't fix that shit. Nothing got fixed, nothing made better. I had to make that decision to be like I'm going to do better. I wanted to make sure that I looked out for him. I was like I am so. I feel so horrible what I did to you. I allowed myself to lash out and that should have never happened and I can never apologize enough. Even to this day, he would still tell me like you don't have to keep apologizing for it. That was back when we were kids. I'm like, either way, still, you dealt with so much in your life and I became one of those and I hate myself for that. So it wanted to like I had mentioned this.

Speaker 2: 1:30:07

This episode got a Grammy award Not a Grammy, but this episode got an award. It got a nomination for a bunch of awards because it touched based on something that most parents ignore Everyone during that time, like you mentioned, as far as like there's, like they were dressed up like 80s kids. That was on purpose because, keep in mind, this came out in 2000. Well, this episode was like 2000, 2001. Yeah, 2000, 2002.

Speaker 2: 1:30:35

During that time, kids were online at that point, so cyberbullying people. Most parents didn't look into that they were like oh, you can just ignore it, it was whatever. But it's like no cyberbullying gets affected. You get bullied in school and what a lot of older parents felt because they didn't have to deal with the internet at that time. You get on the bus, you get off the bus, you get back home, you don't have to worry about your bullying anymore. But cyberbullying it never stops. Because now you get online and that person is still harassing you. It's social. It's not only that person harassing you, they're telling other people to harass you as well and then they start harassing you. You go back to school. People you don't even know find out about you and then start harassing you because this person was harassing you. That is where cyberbullying has gotten. That is how dangerous it is and how it was horrible that a lot of our parents did not take it seriously until kids started killing themselves.

Speaker 2: 1:31:37

Jimmy, keep in mind to this Jimmy, that episode could have been but obviously not going to do it because it's the episode of kids, but it could have been. He put the gun to himself. It's a real thing, and so it's like there's a lot of things that really touch base into it and after that episode aired. That was one of the episodes that a lot of parents were upset about, but they also understood. I need to check in with my kids Apparently. I am missing something and it was real and my storytime is over. But you get the gist of some of the most important things in my life and why this show was so important and special to me, why it touched me, because it's like yo, this is real shit I'm dealing with right there. All right, like I said, storytime.

Speaker 1: 1:32:43

Gotcha. Alrighty, then Season three. Ladies and gentlemen, let's get into it. So season three starts with another pretty much Batman episode, but this time it was with boys and I being Harley Quinn teaming up with this young babe, baby nails. Nails is trying to get a cure for her powers. But, you know, static and Batman team up, trying to resolve the case and help get nails at the help that she needed at the same time. That was pretty much episode one.

Speaker 1: 1:33:20

Episode two is when Richie finally becomes geared, where, because of the delayed effect that happened with the Big Bang, richie was also exposed to Quantum Vapor that's what they call it, instead of Bang Baby Gas or whatever. He has superhuman intelligence and he disappointed because he's barely or hardly as flash as Dags. But when the men of Brute decided to hit that Virgil, richie is forced to become gear and uses technology to help static out the jam. So you know, now static in gear.

Speaker 1: 1:34:07

Episode three I like this one because this is the one where the Hawkins family go to Ghana on a vacation and he teams up with this legendary African hero, anansi, and stopping this group of bandits, led by this leopard guy, osobo, from stealing an ancient African treasure. Now, first of all this kind of is to remind me of Anansi from American Gods, and if you haven't seen American Gods, please watch it. It's kind of a shame that it got canceled, especially with Paul Lerendo Jones losing his role as Anansi, because he would be too effective inspiring black people apparently Look, remember, hold on, there's something real talking to it.

Speaker 2: 1:34:49

Yes, so all Anansis are all based on who Anansi really is, and it's hilarious because, yes, in American Gods, his speech that you can go and look up online right now, his speech that he gave, was not part of the script. Keep that in mind.

Speaker 1: 1:35:09

You talked about the one with the American Gods. Yeah, no, no.

Speaker 2: 1:35:12

I'm talking about the one with every 30 seconds.

Speaker 1: 1:35:13

you know when he was on the boat with the slaves and oh yeah that whole thing was not part of the script.

Speaker 2: 1:35:22

That was just him.

Speaker 1: 1:35:23

Every no, no, it wasn't every 30 seconds that was like a different speech, but it's a different speech. Yeah, it wasn't every 30 seconds, that was like a different speech, but essentially the point what he was trying to make at that instance was anger is good, anger gets it done.

Speaker 2: 1:35:44

And the thing about it is that he thought it was just going to be a great speech to kind of help out and entice things and stuff because they gave him a little bit of freelance and they regretted that immediately. But no, anansi. Anansi in this episode, I guess, just really quick. Anansi in this episode is based on how the real Anansi is A lot of people because there's a lot of different African folk tales for it. Anansi grows. He does start off as the trickster he's like for what most anime fans know as the trickster fox and even in like a lot of European tales as well too. So here in America also is that the fox is the trickster In most African folk tales. It's Anansi the spider that's the trickster and that's an important thing to keep in mind. But he winds up growing, he no longer stays a trickster, he actually becomes someone who protects and actually becomes a hero, a guide and stuff like that. And that's what this hero is more based on as the more mature Anansi. But go ahead and continue.

Speaker 1: 1:36:41

Yeah, and that was essentially episode three. Episode four is Shabang. She shows up now and basically her deal is she had like superhuman strength and enhanced agility and she's also classmates with Virgil and Reti. Going by Shanice Vale, static and gear learn that she's the genetically engineered superhuman Basically um, her parents pretty much. It was kind of the whole. Yeah, I'm sorry, but it's like she got the compound B treatment and then the company that created her now wants her back and now it's a whole episode there. But eventually they realized okay, the veils gotta like go away for a while. Well, they figured shit out. But as soon as she banged, come back. She can always join team static if she wants to. She'll be back. She'll be back.

Speaker 1: 1:37:47

Episode 5 static and gear fight this destructive monsters, medicum, who's taking revenge on individual who angered this well-known bully, marcus Reed, at school. Yeah, static shock definitely handles on the whole bullying aspect of school very well in the series. Episode 6 and 7 is when the Justice League another Justice League on crossover episode where this time static is going up against Brainiac and honestly I kind of wish there would be like a live action DC movie. It could be either like Superman or Justice League in general to where just have Brainiac at the main villain. Or like if you're gonna build them up to, you know, like if you're gonna rebuild, make the DCU not DC EU, but you know, dcu the new one. You're like, okay, kind of like slow cook Brainiac maybe be careful.

Speaker 2: 1:38:48

What you wish for me no, it's like a lot is live action, like live action writers ain't doing what they need to do, don't it's? Don't, man, it's done. Right now we still mad about the Avatar. Last airbender announcement national supposed to be here by the end, by towards end of this month, and, like I'm not excited, no one very frustrated by this. Be careful, what you wish for about this? Live action? That's all about it episode 8.

Speaker 1: 1:39:17

Okay, this is one where this Blee B TV producer, bernie Rath, trying to make a TV show about static and gear, on driving the web between static, who acts as a show for the camera, and gear, who is jealous of the attention that he's getting, so once again, static and gear to having like down there little spad was like how come you getting all the spotlight? Because I'm like you know, I'm static. And then the new metahuman with much stronger and more powerfully electric magnetic ability shows up.

Speaker 1: 1:39:54

Oh, you wanna know what they call this dude Starburst and it doesn't even help that he looked like a fucking Starburst, yeah, like the fucking candy, like red and yellow, like they look like a fucking rocker. And then static is seen on online TV multiple times. Static gear have to put aside. They're arguing to come up with a solution to stop this new guy and come to find out that uh, bernie Rath, kind of like I don't know, it was more like the dude worked for Bernie Rath and uh, starburst got fucked over by the producer so that's why he was trying to fuck things up for everybody.

Speaker 1: 1:40:41

Um, episode 9, this is where Daisy gets to, gets her from a fight between Puff on this in static and she falls to a coma and static flames us up because he tried to show off instead of focusing on her safety. No surprise there, with him being a show off, uh, he hunts down the two villains, destroying everything in his path. Rubber band man succeeds in cooling him down, puffing on it, soon learned that static has gone on a destructive rampage to hunt them down and decided to use this as an advantage to ruin his reputation, and to do that by going on a rampage on their own to drive static anger to the top. Now, this was supposed to be part of the second season but it was just later aired into the third season and, as a result, uh, the animators um, failed to amend the design of the characters reflect the new appearances, creating continuity. Or, in other words, if you're kind of like expecting stat to have, like, a black shirt and whatnot and you're like what, hold on, why is he wearing the white shirt now? And I'm like, uh, this episode wasn't supposed to be coming on episode season three of the season two.

Speaker 1: 1:41:51

So there's that, uh, episode 10. This did a little Romeo special guest appearance episode where, basically, bernie rats convinced little Romeo to make a music video in Dakota. Promises the favorite superhero stat will be there, but when Romeo dressed in a static costume, um, he was mistaken, um, by this one better human banging baby called leech, who absorbs power and kidnaps on little Romeo under his pressing. That little Romeo was static and try to catch him before he won and all that's in that whole thing. There, uh, three, four, oh god, um, season three was actually bigger than pretty much all of them.

Speaker 2: 1:42:45

Like, I think, yeah, yeah, 15 episodes yeah, 15 episodes all again over season three.

Speaker 1: 1:42:50

So okay, but now we're almost on season three. So, uh, episode 11 is where, uh, edwin Alba senior is hiring Spets and Trapper yep, remember those guys absolutely. So these two guys come back and do some grunt work, to do some research, but, uh, they develop these combat power exoskeletons to catch static and they never succeed. But in battle, a lot of the research equipment got destroyed and, as a result, spets and Trapper got fired and kidnapped. Um Alba Jr, who was still in stone, turned to stone, remember, and try to blackmail Alba senior into. Uh, give him the money so you can get your son back. But static helps get Alba Jr back. And um, once again, because this episode was supposed to come out in the second season. That's why it felt like the continuity was, excuse me, sorry. So no, now don't think about it. It would have made it so. That way, uh, season two would have been 13 episodes and season three is also be 13 episodes. All right.

Speaker 1: 1:44:14

Episode 12 this is where Superman comes in and he fights old nemesis, toy man, and he got this um android doll named Darcy um and decoded to after she escaped from him and soon become clear that Darcy intends to take over Daisy's life by assuming a new body based on her and that getting Superman must work together to rescue her. By the way, I like the new design change for Daisy at this point because nothing wrong with the old one, because you know it was kind of like the cute nerdy girl, but it's almost like with the new design is almost okay. I see Daisy kind of growing into it. Like you know, she drew her hair out and wasn't up wearing like all I mean sometimes, sometimes supposed to have passed.

Speaker 2: 1:45:03

You know, like, keep in mind, like during the age time it's supposed to be. Once people kind of like progress through the years, they strange a little bit. It's supposed to be like what they like a year and a half, almost two years since the beginning. So, yeah, yeah, sometimes it goes yeah, I like the uh.

Speaker 1: 1:45:20

Episode 13. That's when she bang comes back to Dakota and learns that can give a secret identity. I don't like god damn all these people finding out their secret, demi, but to be prepared, she bang it. It makes sense for she bang to know, um, but basically she learns their secret identities after following them to the gas station of solid to I can't believe they really called it the gas station of solid to and she and lived there helping locate her parents who have been mysteriously gone missing in the wake of the large building capable of absorbing mass that mattered appearing in Dakota.

Speaker 1: 1:46:06

Episode 14 was the flashback. So, okay, this is the one where static and gear meets this one girl, nina Crocker, who uh, also known as time zone and she had time manipulating powers and by accident, um, and also with uh Ebon pursuing her, she accidentally sends static and gear back in Ebon, back to like five years ago, to where the Dakota riots was happening, and come to find out that the Dakota riots is based on a real event, the Los Angeles riots back in 92, yeah, in case you didn't know. So it's like almost like a just petition of it, and essentially it was the same night that um, virgil's mom, jean um, got killed during this all gang related um incident, um, with the whole riots going down, and static revealed his identity to his mom, but even though he thought that, um, basically, you know, like um the flash and flashpoint, and basically static had his flashpoint moment, but in the end it didn't, uh, last I checked, it didn't really made a whole lot of difference, um, because, you know, she still died because, uh, even though um static was trying to prevent it, she still had to do what she had to do and eventually, um, she ended up um losing her life. I think that cold that caused a time paradox, because I think his static involvement with um, his mother, created a time paradox where that kind of uh, of course even further towards, you know, that kind of encouraged her to do what she had to do in order to get into that situation. Well, uh, two more, well, actually one more episode. Okay, uh, but yeah, that was pretty much what was going on.

Speaker 1: 1:48:07

Uh, episode 15, the last one, the season three finale, so this is the one where he teams up with soul power, like I said earlier, and he goes against soul power's old enemy, uh, professor, menace, and static doesn't see eye to eye with soul powers, methods and outdated style, but eventually they work something out, and that was season three.

Speaker 2: 1:48:39

Uh, after he also discovered his secret identity yeah well, I was.

Speaker 2: 1:48:49

That's what I'm just like at this point, dude. Just let the whole town just need no, virgil is static there. We go, like bruh, how everybody know who you with. I thought Batman was bad with. Like for reals, though, like because you think about it, there's so many people that know who Batman is. Okay as far as, like some of his villains, joker don't care, he don't really want to know. When he does really find out, he just keeps going crazy about.

Speaker 2: 1:49:17

Again, let's talk about party points, though, which is not a can soon back on. Count that for real, though, sweat. Everybody fucking knows his identity. Like what the hell anyway, okay, so real quick, going through onto this. So this is the one where we finally get officially, get gear, because, um, he, you know, richie, was always just helping out and stuff and now he, he realized he winds up that he, he did get some exposure to the toxins, but he had a late effect and then gave him his power. So I was like, oh, okay, cool, um, I like the first one, first episode of the season because, especially right now, it's trending and I'm I'll be honest with you, I'm probably gonna wind up making a video. This is just. Maybe another time we'll see what happens.

Speaker 2: 1:50:05

It's trending right now about slavery and Christianity, about how is weird that most Christian, most like Christians, are still Christian, considering the fact that it was only introduced during slave time. It was like what was? Where was God at when y'all would be enslaved? He sat back and just watched y'all do this, just deal with all this shit and y'all just want to continue this shit, and there's so much more into that. But I understand you have to really think about it.

Speaker 2: 1:50:33

Now I can go into that, but getting a chance about an ordained minister who just causes controversy by doing some crazy shit, that's still a very interesting point into things. But I liked how we get gear, where we finally get rich and get becoming gear because he was going through his thing. And then we also have, like you mentioned, a couple episodes where he, instead of going back and forth about the friendship and stuff, because it's difficult being a superhero and being a sidekick and that's something that a lot of people don't want and we're gonna go to merman man, a barnacle boy on this shit, when, uh, literally barnacle boy, it's like I'm not a sidekick, no more, I'm a full girl superhero. I am well.

Speaker 1: 1:51:13

Just I think he was like 80 something yeah, what was it called like his name, you know sparky or something yeah, and it was like I'm a barnacle man.

Speaker 2: 1:51:22

But no, no, and I want a girl size of gravity. And he's like, okay, he's a girl size of cherry-carrot-pattery. Oh, my god, it's so much I can't actually finish it.

Speaker 2: 1:51:32

I'm like everybody laughs yeah, but no, um, this it's a big thing into that when you understand the gears. Like I don't want to be a sidekick, like I'm working with you, we are partners, type of thing. But that's just how most of the world sees. You have a main hero, you have a sidekick. That's just how it works. That's why Robin had to leave him become Nightwing. You know, like, the one Robin that was able to leave him become Nightwing most the other ones died talk about that. But still this is. But still for as like it's a difficult thing into that. His static has been a hero for the longest time. You just popped up and you're being a hero alongside with him. Unless one takes over one part of city, one takes over another part of city, y'all. Just that's just how it worked.

Speaker 2: 1:52:20

Um, and I already mentioned about the Anansi thing, anansi was a pretty great episode. I like um the villain, osibyl the leopard, was actually um, voiced by Michael Jai White. So and crazy enough, it was a being a big. It wound up actually kind of being a big thing into that that they actually um had him be able to voice into it because people was like very much about the fact that um the show was praised for his diverse roster characters and cast members, and people love the fact that they got Michael Jai White to be in the show. They're like, oh my god, is Michael Jai White it's shaft?

Speaker 1: 1:52:53

no, no, I'm just kidding you know what, now that um you brought this up, I like how in season four I know we're gonna talk about it anyways, but I'm not supposed to say it's where essentially he shows up again, when Anansi shows up in episode three of season four. But another thing is the following episode which, when John Stewart's Green Lanterns show up, and people were saying like well, even though it's not official yet, but there was like this one um post on facebook where, uh, michael Jai White might be um John Stewart, green Lantern and the DCU, and I was like I can see it.

Speaker 2: 1:53:38

I can't be so dope life for real. I would love that. To be honest with you, I would absolutely love that. Yeah, we need more John Stewart. Ryan Reynolds already said that he absolutely hated how he was it. I still find that funny that it wasn't until like what? Last year. It was that last year, year before that he finally decided to watch the Green Lanterns movie. That literally he portrayed the movie. He was in it the whole time recording, never went to the premiere, never watched it on dvd, cared absolutely nothing. And it wasn't until a couple years ago that he wanted to watch it and said, oh my god, that was absolute garbage. Why was I in that?

Speaker 1: 1:54:16

that's just funny, but that was. That's a weird thing if that happened last year, but he made Deadpool 2 and made that joke about him um being in Green Lantern, um I don't know, it's like a weird timeline of things that's what made it even funnier is because in fact he made that joke but he didn't even watch it.

Speaker 2: 1:54:38

He only made that joke based on what other people were saying.

Speaker 2: 1:54:41

Then he watched it and was like oh, it's worth it, I thought keep in mind, those are the bunch of people that actually wanted Green Lantern to be in the um this night to cut the Justice League. But Ryan Reynolds said, fuck, no, I'll never be Green Lantern again. Keep in mind on this. I want you to understand just how much he hated Green Lantern. If you have not seen the movie free guy, because we still have a review to get and I'm telling you, jp, watch this motherfucking movie, you are going to fucking love it. I'm telling you, um, I've watched it like twice, but I keep forgetting.

Speaker 1: 1:55:19

I keep forgetting that worth it now.

Speaker 2: 1:55:22

So look, remember, does that one scene towards end the movie that he mimics all of these different superpowers. He gets Captain America's shield fucking lights.

Speaker 1: 1:55:31

Yeah, I remember that part, but I'm like, for the most part I'm like, uh, I know I watched this movie, but I just don't.

Speaker 2: 1:55:38

I don't. I don't know why you don't remember. I love the movie from beginning to end. It was a fantastic ass fucking movie from beginning to end to me. But I'll give you another chance, I'll watch it.

Speaker 2: 1:55:47

But, um, keep in mind, out of all these abilities, he's specifically he's scrolling through all these different abilities that have been like programmed into the game that he could use, and he specifically says no to the Green Lantern powering. He's cracked on this shit a lot he has. It is hilarious when you realize that he only just recently watched it. So he's been cracking on this shit forever. But no, it's just, absolutely just hilarious.

Speaker 2: 1:56:17

But yeah, um, it'll be nice to have a black Green Lantern actually in a live action, because we had another animated one and it's still. You know it wanted being another origin story for him and it wound up making how Jordan Green Lantern the villain, which was very interesting. If you haven't seen um Green Lantern be where my power is on max right now and, yes, very, very interesting, take on things onto that. But but yeah, so having Anansi being able to show up was a very interesting thing. Um, getting that opportunity to be able to be like, oh, you could be a superhero in a different country, still travel the world and still kind of keep things on. I'm kind of upset that Anansi is not really brought up as much in uh DC as far as the justice league, because we will get oh my gosh, I forgot her name. I feel bad in saying this. I definitely fucking forgot her name, but it's the girl who was able to mimic abilities of all the different animals with her talisman that she has uh Vixen.

Speaker 2: 1:57:21

Vixen. Yes, I don't know why I couldn't. I couldn't remember her name. I feel horrible for that, but we wound up getting Vixen. But Vixen Anansi has actually worked together quite a few times, but you won't know that unless you really read the comics. And it sucks because Anansi is a DC hero but they don't bring him up. I don't know why he just really gets let out.

Speaker 2: 1:57:41

Um, kind of skipping through is great that we had like the justice league um being able to like oh, they're captured by a brainiac and they have to be rescued, so we have to get some city heroes to kind of help them out. People who brainiac is like oh, you're not important enough because you're not part of the justice league. That was still hilarious. I was like I really just look down on me right now. You really look down on me and say it's like all right, I'm approved of shit to you, I'm approved of you, so watch, you know they take down brainiac. Don't underestimate me, but I will say I liked it how they um kept you on the cliffhanger. I put in that aspect. It's shown up when that first part went off, like when leave your own part one. When it ended we was like oh my god, what's supposed to happen. And like the next episode come out like with three, like a week or so later. So it was hilarious in that little aspect in that regard. And then you know, we finally got a really good second part episode onto that um, consequences. I guess I don't have too much to say in that, considering, like you've already cleared up the continuity issues and the fact that it was supposed to be in the previous season. So yeah, I can kind of um, kind of clear that one up onto it. Trouble squared. We finally get those those call back to the heroes back up. Like I said, I already mentioned that episode in season one is really just a startup into it. So it's um, I don't know, it didn't feel like a good closing. Toys in the hood wind up being very interesting and I don't know. I guess it was interesting because Superman showed up. This season one kind of just had like really good cameos that kind of helped, carried it. Each episode was still entertaining to watch, but I can't say there's anything memorable except for flashback, like the parent trap was good too, of course. You know she's one is up trying to help him out and it's funny why you made the joke about the gas station of solitude. That's funny. Let's be honest here.

Speaker 2: 1:59:48

One of my favorite scenes in injustice um, if you haven't seen it, I'm sorry, but none of my favorite scenes in injustice is when what is it? The, the justice heroes, the rebellion winds up capturing Harley Quinn in order to protect her from Superman. The Superman is going crazy, killing everybody, and so what happens is it? Take her to the arrow caves and she literally is like the arrow cave. You really call it after Batman's bat cave. And then he's like it's a great name. She's like no, it's fucking not. She's like it makes sense, bats live in caves. So, of course, you call it the bat cave. It makes sense, arrows don't live in caves. He's like okay, well, what do you? What would you call it the quiver?

Speaker 1: 2:00:32

and he was yeah, I was gonna give the quiver he was like, damn wait, that's actually good.

Speaker 2: 2:00:39

He's like, yeah, I am still a licensed therapist, like a licensed psychologist, yeah, so like this is pretty easy to me yeah, it's like y'all easily forget that just because Harley's kind of crazy doesn't mean she's not she.

Speaker 2: 2:00:54

She's kind of crazy, but she's not stupid like she actually knows shit most definitely, but flashback winds up being one, because that one was a very touching, so I put in this aspect here. I'm gonna make two, two specific points so we can move forward. First thing is this JB, I'm gonna take you back. I'm gonna take you back to us being in middle school, my friend Martin, and tell me that these two motherfucking main characters do not look exactly the same as Virgil Enrichie said Martin my friend Martin, the one with the two characters, the black boy and the white boy go into Martin Luther King's house.

Speaker 1: 2:01:48

Discover his magic watch in rewind time yeah yeah, I remember watching that shit and oh fuck. And it got crazy too. They went back and back into the future and now like, oh, white people were like um on the bottom and blah blah, and then it was like back to like um segregation times again. And then they had to go fix it again and like shit.

Speaker 2: 2:02:19

He had to go fix it because his white friend was racist. Then yeah yeah.

Speaker 2: 2:02:24

So like yeah, tell me, those characters don't care, does not remind you of versions yeah that's why flashbacks stuck in my mind, because I'm sitting here like so my friend Martin, again, except the Malcolm X version. No, we go back to the riots. Then his mom got killed and I'm sitting here like so, the Malcolm X version of this movie, that that's what this episode was to me. I was like so it was the same premise, but Malcolm X, that's what happened. It was the same in superheroes, of course.

Speaker 1: 2:02:59

I'm like it's the same premise, bro, don't get it through a bad one now I'm like hey, yo, that was it it was like new memory unlocked. I'm like, hey, I'm rude, I said dude this was great as well I was.

Speaker 2: 2:03:16

They used to play man when I was in middle school, six, seventh and eighth grade. Every fucking year they played that movie on Martin Luther King day. I was sitting here like so this is the only time to watch this movie. You can't watch it maybe during February. You can't switch it up every night again, only during Martin Luther King Juicy. I'm lucky now all these kids now they like they get Martin King june day off. We had to be in school during them in every single year we watched this movie.

Speaker 2: 2:03:44

It's a great movie, but at the point you just kind of like go ahead and put the movie on. Like I already know, just put the damn movie on something in history. Play that'd be the whole, the whole damn hour was watching this motherfucker I already know didn't make you write an essay on to it. I'm like I already know what happened, damn.

Speaker 2: 2:04:07

First I watched the movie. I enjoyed it. Second time I watched the movie okay, this is pretty good. Third time I was like it was like you gotta answer the questions onto it. I answered the questions and put my head down before the opening sequence finished. I didn't much. I was like I've seen this shit, oh my god. But for real, though, and back into um flashback, it winds up being interesting because it also hits that point. Like Virgil hits that same thing that spider man dealt with, and funny, we kept making these comparisons like spider man as well.

Speaker 2: 2:04:41

The spider man dealt with in the ps4 version not spider man 2, but the first one right before Miles Morales where unmayed dying. This can't be a spoiler. No more. This game is old. Now you already know about this ball of blue. It's not a spoiler, but it's still one of those things one means about dying. He had to make a choice whether not to save her or save everybody else, and it's kind of that same thing that happened for virgin.

Speaker 2: 2:05:04

Regardless of anything, um, his mom being alive would not have stopped the accident that caused these superheroes and super villains to to come. The only difference that would have came was that virgin would not have been there and he would not have become static. But that means that those villains would have ran rampant because the accident, because all that happened during the gang war. These are unfortunately, these are criminals that all got turned into super villains. There would have been nobody there that became a superhero. All of them would have been super villains. That's just what it was. So it completely fucked up the future. So it's like that's just kind of what they had to deal with. It was like I have to let my mom die for the future to be what it is, that I can make the best choices into it. Otherwise I'm not there to prevent a bunch of this shit from happening. I'm that I'm not there to stop this, and it's a hard thing to have to deal with.

Speaker 2: 2:05:57

In that aspect, when you go back and change the past because people always ask like, if you could go back and change the past, would you? And there are some cases you're like, yeah, I would, but you don't know what that would have influxed, like you don't know what differences that would make um, I think of things very differently. I think of things like in multiverse theory. I thought about that for a long time, even since I was younger, where it's like everything is based on infinite possibilities and every possibility creates a new, different path into it. And I know we had talked about this before in a previous episode and I'm not going to go into my tangent only again, but it's still the question that I've said I brought up because you talked about it, jb. What if we was in the dark timeline or some shit like that?

Speaker 2: 2:06:40

and it's like somebody already went back in time, fudged up the past and we're in that timeline right now why they went back to their fucking timeline trunks. You fucked it up. What the hell, man, what the proof is like. But what if? Scenario, like a what if possibility? That's something that's in our timeline because we are so fixated on time travel of, like what if we could go back in the past? Or we're working on the way of trying to travel back into the past. It feels like there had to be something there. It was more than just an idea of we're thinking about oh, what could have happened. It feels like that did happen. It influenced us and now people are harboring on it so damn much like that's what it feels like.

Speaker 2: 2:07:19

To me that's a whole new scenario, but still it's just one of those things of like it would have created a whole different possibility, a whole different reality, but isn't something that you're prepared to handle. Are you prepared to be the cause of that other reality or are you the prepared to live in that other reality, depending on how multiverse theory works, because in multiverse theory you could still hop in, hop back, change the past and hop into that timeline of your changed past and leave your timeline behind. That is also a possibility of multiverse theory that's not usually talked about. It's mostly in the fact that, like, oh, you're gonna just go to what timeline you're supposed to go to. That. If you want a prime example, keeping my spider-man across the multiverse, even though Miles's code, at his code, is made for this particular universe, the spider he was bit by was from a different universe, so he wound up getting sent to that alternate timeline universe. So that still fudges up that whole multiverse theory in the fact of, like, oh, you only stuck to your timeline. Not necessarily you can still hop to a different timeline. It's a possibility.

Speaker 2: 2:08:32

America Chavez does that all the time. There you go, but yeah, that's that's in. On to that flashback, um, blast from the past. Yeah, that that was it for me. I'm just like oh, you know, hey, we're just gonna go ahead and track down the code and help out. And again, my secret identity has been revealed.

Speaker 1: 2:08:49

Version you gotta do better, bro I wish they could have switched around those last two episodes where I honestly thought flashback would have been a better scene than the analog.

Speaker 2: 2:08:58

Most definitely, most definitely, I think. I think blast from the past was something. I think flashback was supposed to be a season finale. There might have been some type of change up into it. I'm not entirely sure, but yeah, that flashback was definitely a season finale, especially because, in fact, that was the last thing I wanted to mention, because we had Michael dry white earlier on.

Speaker 2: 2:09:18

We wanted him getting out for woodard actually voicing, uh, virgil's mom in flashback, and that was an amazing thing too, because, like, yeah, you recognize her voice. You're like I recognize that voice, like I feel like I've seen this, I feel like I might I know who this person is, and absolutely you would. It's alfred woodard. She has done so many great things into that, um, so many great movies, so many fantastic roles, um. But yeah, like, most definitely you, you're gonna recognize that aspect. But I do agree, flashback feels more like a season finale than and then we we reviewed some other shows that done I think even team titans did that same thing too where it was like we had something that felt like a season finale, but then they just added another episode to that season instead of making it a beginning of the decade.

Speaker 2: 2:10:06

I think it was like in season six yeah, I don't remember exactly what which season it was, but it was. If I can remember correctly, it was the one with um. Is his name iman the the European, the British villain that kidnapped, oh Mademois.

Speaker 2: 2:10:22

Mademois, that's what Remember. It's like his episode. He had an episode. His second episode wound up being the season finale, but like the episode before, that was like an actual finale and it was like, wow, he got this as an extra episode. I don't understand why you did that. That could have been a middle of the season episode. It felt like a filler type thing, and so it's kind of the same thing here. Yeah, oh, I did forget to mention the previous season, so we can move forward. I love the Batman episode because people still reference that all the time, because, funny enough, there's a lot of people who don't remember that that actually happened, with the whole Joker trying to buzz Batman, where they took down Joker and he tried to shake Batman's hand and then Static was like and then Static wound up grabbing Joker's hand. So when he took all the electricity, it was like, huh, that was pretty fun, that was my turn. And then, like, electrocuted on Joker and knocked him out. And then Batman smiled and was like hey, Jokes on you, huh Joker.

Speaker 2: 2:11:26

All right, I'm ready for season four. We can go ahead and wrap this up. We'll be late for meeting.

Speaker 1: 2:11:30

All right, speaking of Batman, like I said before, pretty much every season premiere after season one is going to be a Batman episode. But this time we get Batman beyond when Static goes in 40 years into the future where he meets a grizzled version of Terry McGinnis as he saves those life of Static's future self from Cobra. Oh man, it was great to see Terry McGinnis as like being like serious and shit.

Speaker 1: 2:12:02

Like I mean, at least Terry is now, like he's no longer green to the shit, so it was great to see that Episode two opening episode, great opening episode for the season.

Speaker 1: 2:12:14

Yes, Episode two Shabane comes back and this time she for some reason, is very loud and expressive this time around. So we're really busting up Static and Giz group, if you know what I mean. So meanwhile, madeline comes back, and this time she's experiencing a change in her metahuman condition, replacing her former mind control abilities with new telekinetic ones, and she then brings some breaks on several other metahumans out of jail in the test to get revenge on Static. Episode three Anasi comes back with Osobo, and this time with new allies, onini and Membrore, trying to obtain this golden spider which is the source of Anasi's powers. And blah, blah, blah. Episode four, because, honestly, guys, I'm trying to speed it up because we got to. I'm getting sleepy, we got other reviews to get to, so I'm trying to go ahead and wrap this one up. Episode four this is with John Stuart Green. Lancer shows up and this is Static's idol, and fair enough, you know, black superhero on part of Justice League makes sense, makes sense. He seemingly began to commit robberies all over Dakota. I was like, no, not my idol. But only find out that another co-praise responsible for that. Was it like the same dude? Like on the guy there. I'm trying to figure out who it was. Oh, it was Sinestro. Shit, that's right, it was Sinestro. This guy is that John Stuart.

Speaker 1: 2:13:57

Episode five this is where Static and Gear do battle with the Nightbreeze, which is a group of Bay babes who have a lethal reaction to sunlight. So basically, vampires Heard him was vampires, you know, not so much like the oh my God, I gotta get quiet. Oh my God, oh my God. Oh my God, oh my God, oh yeah, basically with these guys, like they had this whole situation but they were going to, under Ebon's leadership, they're gonna try to blanket Dakota City in dirt. But eventually it was like, okay, ebon gets thwarted and the Nightbreeze decide you know what, we just gotta figure it out on our own. So, static Gear, you're free to go. You know all right, what was about me and do everything.

Speaker 1: 2:14:51

Episode six is where this is about. Alba Jr and Senior is trying to kidnap Static, hot Street, talon Gear, rubber Bandman in order to try to save his son, to revive him, and Static and Hot Street, handcuffed together, cooperate to escape and rescue the other captains. Episode seven is when NBA player Steve Nash, yalming, carl Malone and Tracy McGrady shows up, and they are not only this team of basketball players, but also they're moonlighting as superheroes known as the Hoop Squad to where they have like these, like Iron man, like suits going on, and then they team up with Static and to rescue Gear, who's been kidnapped by the evil scientist Dr Odeon. Episode eight this is where a teenager named Eddie Belson steals a time manipulative device, grants him super speed and uses it in attempt to win Daisy's romantic affection, and he learns Static and Gear's identities and blackmails him to leave him alone so he can win Daisy over. God damn it, y'all. Y'all getting your secret identities, jesus.

Speaker 2: 2:16:16

This is number 10. I want you to understand. I'm now keeping track. I am now keeping track. This is number 10. 10 motherfucking times. Your identity has been revealed. Do better, y'all.

Speaker 1: 2:16:32

Jesus Christ. Episode nine rubber band man overcomes his dyslexia. Damn, I forgot he had dyslexia. Dude, this aren't my powerful fusion. We have to despectant trappers. Stole from alpha industry and these guys shows up again.

Speaker 1: 2:16:48

Episode 10, successful football player, dulay Jones. He keeps his bang baby sad largely a secret and the only one who knows is former gang member Troy, who attempts to expose him out of jealousy. Astatic and gear caught up in the middle of it. So take that one as you will. Episode 11, after being captured by static and gear, awkward Maria agrees to be given an experimental cure for mutagenic gas that tracks former into a bang baby in the first place. However, high streaks sabotage the process, call her to become more like a slime creature and, in an angry rage she threatens to do all of Dakota. Episode 12 is where Alba senior fires employee, karen Roberts, who was charged of the task of discovering status identity, since he no longer wants to know it, with his son now being revived. However, karen goes against orders and uncovered status identity herself did, napping his father and black male him into stealing parts from Alba industries as part of her plan to take over all technology on earth. That's number 11, right, cocoa, I see.

Speaker 2: 2:18:11

I'm frustrated. Keep going, yes, yeah.

Speaker 1: 2:18:15

And then the final episode power outage, with all the bang babies in Dakota, including static gear, find the subverting normal, having unknowingly been exposed to the cure for the mutagenic gas. However, many of the bang babies, including E Monahasri, seek to reverse this and break into the lab that created the gas Static gear, find themselves forced to prevent a new disaster, especially when E Monahasri inadvertently create a new problem onto where they just combined to become E Monahasri or, it would have been better if they just called themselves Shadowstrika. I'm like, okay, that makes a little bit more sense. And by the way, before I forget, the dad knows too. The dad knows the secret now too. So that makes 12, 12 people, 12 times yeah, your own, yeah.

Speaker 2: 2:19:03

But nothing, it's just 12 times. I'm counting episodes, counting times and episodes. That's fucking mechanic, like just y'all are horrible, y'all are horrible. So we'll keep in mind onto this one too, this also because it was another previous. We're gonna probably just say 13, because Hot Street did also find out too before this. So they just this is not one of the ones that was, like, specifically mentioned in synopsis, but yeah, so we're gonna say 13, 13 times 13. And literally out of those 13, 12, yeah, no, sorry, 11 of them were your supervillains. What are you doing? That exists.

Speaker 1: 2:19:49

I'm lying. Those supervillains could have came to your house at any moment and fucked up your shit.

Speaker 2: 2:19:56

Just absolute dumb shit, and that's why-.

Speaker 1: 2:20:01

And oh yeah, there was this one crossover which was where it was like the ones in future thing, where it was like a two part 2005 crossover episode with it, just to be eliminated. We all sat at being involved, but yeah, it was my shoulder.

Speaker 2: 2:20:14

yeah, okay, so literally just run down real quick. First episode was fantastic, excellent start of the series. Unfortunately, statshot did not continue on, mostly because of how this season wound up performing. Every other season had something major and memorable that we wound up talking about. Hit on Like first three seasons were primarily the ones that hit on real topics and it was stuff that made you really think, made you really think about and understand what shit was going on. By the time we got into the fourth season, that wasn't happening as much. We kind of just flowed into it.

Speaker 1: 2:20:53

It felt like they were hinting on the cam, especially with guest appearances.

Speaker 2: 2:20:59

Yep, and it wasn't enough because there was no more topics that was majorly talked about. Like she banged when she comes back as far as her being loud and stuff like that, that was supposed to probably be something I'm saying, probably supposed to be more about the fact that like that's a big topic. It was always like angry black woman up, always loud, always out and stuff, and it's like that's a big topic. Still, that's heavily addressed by our black community today, but it's specifically targeting our black women. That's like you're always like oh, they're always so loud and they're always so dis and stuff like that and it's like always gets on my nerves. But that's the thing is like she banged throughout the episode. She really wasn't trying to be like bad, she was not trying to be obnoxious. She's exciting. She's like excited to do something.

Speaker 1: 2:21:50

I'm not trying to be me, but you just reminded me of how one stereotype is how and you can kind of tell. But it's like you, it's like careful with this. It comes up kind of wild to me how sometimes you hang around enough black girls to be like why does it seem like they always like sound like they're complaining about you, like you know that kind of tone on they have is like whenever they say something, it's like man.

Speaker 2: 2:22:23

I don't know.

Speaker 1: 2:22:24

Yeah, it's like. It's not like they're always complaining about stuff like God damn.

Speaker 2: 2:22:30

See, I know that I can't fully, I know that that's a big stereotype, that kind of comes into play.

Speaker 1: 2:22:37

It's like man, I'm bored. You know that kind of tone, that shit.

Speaker 2: 2:22:42

What do you expect? Are you expecting me to side alongside what you?

Speaker 1: 2:22:45

Yeah, it's like when they, it's like they be saying it out loud out of nowhere, just just out of the blue.

Speaker 2: 2:22:52

I'm like I wanna say that's the type of people that you have maybe been around. That ain't all of them.

Speaker 1: 2:22:59

Look, yeah, that's what I'm saying. I know it's not all of them, but it's like that's just don't.

Speaker 2: 2:23:06

I refuse. We will not judge all by the actions of few. That's not what we do. Everybody has their own right to be able to do things, but that's it is a big stereotype that winds up happening into it. And another thing that even like play onto that is the fact that girls that like a woman's attitude as a literally I've known. I mentioned this before. How is it, every single time I see some type of post on Instagram or Facebook, it winds up portraying is it a podcast? I'm gonna do? I don't understand. You know what. I'm gonna just take it as God saying I'm doing some good with this podcast. Obviously, that's what I'm gonna say. This is obviously gonna be said for somebody. Literally, if a black woman is angry, it is looked down upon, but if an Hispanic or Latino woman is angry, it is considered sexy. That is a very big stereotype and that was a question that was specifically asked on social media. On my feed that I've seen was actually specifically asked today.

Speaker 1: 2:24:04

Now that's the part where I'm like okay, that's not the case all the time, because sometimes when they get angry, it's more scary than sexy. It's like you're kind of expecting some fucking mob style. Fucking, you're gonna get hurt, kid, you're gonna hurt you.

Speaker 2: 2:24:29

I'm like just don't put her up please.

Speaker 2: 2:24:34

This is what I'm talking about, this whole stereotype. And so it's like she back, like the episode was. So this episode was she bang when she comes back, is the fact that, like it was, it could have touched base into that topic. Like, obviously it was a big thing. The whole episode was driven on the fact that she was loud and it hadn't expressed a personality, but it was aggravating and it was like why would that be aggravating, what? Why does she have to tone down, like what is it that's going on? Touch base specifically into it, because it wasn't some specific thing that she was doing. She would be loud at the wrong time. See that there was. That could have been a touch to this topic on some, but it was like it feels as if the writing kind of failed in that aspect it didn't really hit.

Speaker 1: 2:25:19

I can't understand if it was annoying, if it's more like, okay, they're trying to, they're trying to exercise still, and then she bang is like look out, I was like going up our whole spot, damn.

Speaker 2: 2:25:33

So that's what I mean, like there would be kind of things, that. But no, it was just like oh, it was just aggravating and I'm like the episode did not, it did not portray well like it should have. Like all the other episodes, like all these other seasons had really great topics and it's like this season failed into that one. Like the first one just felt like a great superhero show but it kind of started falling off onto it Out of Africa. We finally started getting back into something good again and honestly, as far as the golden spider, every superhero verse, literally and you look at it in the comment books and things like that, every single spider power comes from the golden spider. There's even an actual comment book where what was happening is in Marvel universe is the fact that with Madam Webb, when Spider-Man meets with Madam Webb, it finds out not just another multiverse but in the past history that there were other Spider-Men as well that also were able to help out and do things and stuff which we kind of chance to talk about more in the multiverse theory. But the thing about it is that all of the Spider-Men get their powers from a nonce Like, even though it's like oh, it's a genetic modification and they want to change that because it was like, oh, it's a radioactive spider. No, they had to make it to where it was a genetic modification In the genetic modifications. They were studying something that they had found in Africa that was supposed to be like a super soldier, that was part of the super super serum, not syndrome, and they put that inside the spider, which pretty much the spider wound up building a connection to the golden spider, who is a nonce, which was like the real nonce, and that's where the spider, that's where the powers come from. So this happens like in every single comic, in superhero comic and superhero show, where it's like, in actuality, every single spider hero, their powers, actually come from a nonce and that's just apparently how it always is.

Speaker 2: 2:27:33

So they wanted to be pretty cool that we got a chance. We got our famous actors back, but we also got a chance to get back into Africa and again seeing some other superheroes and it's like, okay, it feels like we could kind of expand out a little bit more there. I would have loved to have a whole nonce show In Africa. There actually was, they did try to have a show, kind of like. It just didn't take off very well, unfortunately, but it would be nice to actually kind of have one here where we can kind of see Fallen Hero wanna be interesting. This one was probably the most interesting topic into it of careful when you meet your heroes but then you find out that it wasn't really him. The thing for me is the fact that when this all just happened, why did it take the real John Stuart so long?

Speaker 2: 2:28:18

It's really hard to get the shit out. It was like it's just the drive on episode. That was really all it was. It was like, oh, it's a Neshtro. How does the Neshtro, these guys I think we should please stand up.

Speaker 2: 2:28:29

That part. It is like just how Army of Darkness was very interesting in the fact that we got introduced to vampires, but I feel like they could have done more with it. I think they probably wanted to. Maybe it would have brought them back for like another season if they had continued. It just didn't really happen.

Speaker 2: 2:28:47

No Man's Island winds up being the most entertaining episode, at least to me on this whole season, in the fact that literally Virgil is having a hot streak and static are having to really work together, and it's a very big thing, and then Gear and Talon having to work together and it's like these heroes are having to work with these villains and it was like they don't get along. They're constantly battling back and forth. It's always causing a problem and they have to work together and it was in order for things to work out and it portrayed what we would expect, whatever we used to do, so it was most entertaining. So that wound up being great as far as, like in the middle of the season, whose squad was a straight up filler.

Speaker 2: 2:29:34

There was no reason to introduce these basketball players and be like oh, we're also superheroes. There was no reason. Let's just be real. It served no purpose. These heroes don't even come back. Not, they'll come back in DC and not like. The closest you want of getting as far as basketball players being superheroes is when the the gloat fathers met Batman in an animated series like Not even the, not even Batman, the animated series I'm talking about way back, like the 80s animated cartoon Holy smokes, batman like that one, that that one's, there was no point. This episode right, this was a straight up filler.

Speaker 1: 2:30:19

It felt like it was like they were trying to piggyback off the whole thing with Actual one up and all these different Cameo. So once again it's like they're just trying to keep up with the whole special guest appearances Exactly.

Speaker 2: 2:30:35

Super speed episode. Y'all fucked up and got your identity found out again. That's this really.

Speaker 2: 2:30:40

First off you do his a time manipulator and Wines of gaining super speed. That, honestly, was not the best writing into that. Because, keep in mind on to this is this is DC, so the speed force exists. Like we've now put static in the DC universe because we that man, superman, all the Justice League have come over Brainiac. You've got a bit, you got two big dealers Joker, brainiac that has come over into the show now. So this is officially DC, the speed force exists. So it's not just like, oh, he gained super speed, if you put it as maybe he didn't understand it, like he didn't know really what was going on, but this was a chance to get the flashing. If you really could, you could have got flashed, because or a kid, yeah.

Speaker 2: 2:31:28

Even kid flash, yeah. So it's like you had a chance in this one to kind of do something more into it first. Oh, he just got super speed Because of a time manipulator thing. That time manipulate device means that he got into contact with the speed force. That's really what it was. You know, drop the ball into that one, just go ahead, break, make another. Dc came it, bring it over. We could have done that. One Did. We didn't really do that. Now I like episode 9 because it finally gave something to talk about. In the black community there are a lot of I'm not gonna say mental illnesses, but there is. But there's a lot of situations that a lot of our kids deal with and they're not touched base upon because Literally that's a white people illness.

Speaker 2: 2:32:20

That's a white people.

Speaker 1: 2:32:21

No, we'll say that we got a lot of people on the spectrum.

Speaker 2: 2:32:25

Yeah, that's who. But then again it's like, oh, that's a white people thing, that doesn't exist black people. And it's like, no, it exists for fucking everybody. And a lot of our people do not get the help that they need more than that.

Speaker 1: 2:32:40

How these, they say this and at the same time I'm like, oh, that's the white people. Shit, that sounds great. So I'm like black people can't be pieces. I'm like, excuse you.

Speaker 2: 2:32:50

Yeah, no, you can, no I, but yeah. So it's a wand of gang of chance to like. You know, rubber band man, he, he has dyslexia but it's never been addressed. It's it was, a consider the white people problem and it's something that was like he has not been able to get the help that he needed to help him and could just do this a full grown-in, as adult.

Speaker 1: 2:33:16

Yeah, but he's the thing. That's why I was like I remember like wait, yes, let's go. I mean Not to say like okay, um, kind of surprising that oh, black man has to, let's you. But more like I just didn't remember we're berband man specifically have just like you know what. Wait really, huh yeah.

Speaker 2: 2:33:33

And those one of the things that e-bomb most got frustrated with, because he always kept considering his little brother. Stupid, like literally, was always like brain. You said oh my god, just so damn stupid. How do you not get this, how do you not understanding this?

Speaker 1: 2:33:46

and sit like that and it's like because I wasn't born with a normal brain.

Speaker 2: 2:33:51

Yeah, and it's like that's that wasn't his fault, but again it's a thing that gets brushed under the rug and it shouldn't. Like this is a real topic that we deal with. Like it's not just a white people issue, it's not just a black people issue, like these things exist and there's issues in the black community that need to be addressed, that need to be fixed and and unfortunately, a lot of white doctors will also refuse to properly treat and diagnose our black children in order to help them. They refuse to do so and Unfortunately, a lot of black parents Will not get their kids to help that they need. It's an unfortunate thing it's. It still goes on today, and so we finally have an episode that has a topic that we can talk about. You know, he doesn't understand what is going on and then, even when it explains him, he still doesn't quite understand it, because he didn't believe that's a real thing, that he would be suffering. It is. He has to come to terms with the fact that he is dyslexic and he has to be able to adjust his lifestyle with that, because it also started affecting him being a hero, like he was not able to really help out as much because of this issue. It needed to be Discussed. So it's like that we finally got something to really talk about into this Linked wound up being interesting only because the fact is like it details more in the black, literally just helping this football star he wants to be.

Speaker 2: 2:35:25

He's being blackmailed and that that's pretty much the main thing about it. It's the fact that if he doesn't do what he does, the blackmail comes against him because he was like with a chains would wrap him up. It could stop his heart or something like that, like it actually could kill him. So it was like you have to follow through or else you really will die. It's literally a bond chain. That was pretty interesting itself, but other than that there wasn't much into it. They could have done more with this villain. He only just blackmailed one person.

Speaker 2: 2:35:56

You could. It could have felt like a little bit more into that Wet and wild, most Wild, when, while with aqua Maria, it's still funny aqua marine and I understand her view point into this when she, her powers aside from turning into water, controlling water, it affects her, is one of those things that she, her ability, makes her water. It turns her into it, and so she has to keep a mental Sanity of herself, like she has to constantly be thinking of the fact that I am a real girl. I am a real girl, I am a real girl. She has to manually make herself think this in order to be tangible. And If she loses her focus, she's, she melts into water.

Speaker 2: 2:36:45

You know how difficult that would be, that literally she can't even put this in the subconscious of her mind. Imagine you have to tell yourself all the time breathe blink, breathe blink. Oh, I kept breathing in, I forgot to breathe out, breathe out. And then, like you have to manually tell yourself this for gamers, if you have played octodad, you under fucking stand the issues of having to manually do shit. That's your sub. You appreciate your subconscious mind so much, so much Like right now, if you're probably listening to this and you want to grab a glass of water, you just instinctively pick up a cup, put some water in it and drink it.

Speaker 2: 2:37:32

You're not thinking Move my arm, bend my elbow, move my wrist, keep my wrist straight and keep it this way. And can it go forward? Aim towards have my fingers open, close my fingers around the cup. Keep the grip on the cup, because if you don't think about gripping your cup. Your fingers loosen up and you drop the cup. You don't think about it as a damn subconscious.

Speaker 2: 2:37:56

This is the shit she had to deal with. She has to manually keep herself tangible. That's some harsh it deal with. I Understand why she wanted to turn back to normal and hot streak was like no fuck that, because you go turn back normal, they're gonna turn us back normal. I don't want this. I like my shit. You may have gotten the bad end of the flip point, but I got the positive end of who the fuck cares? I get her piss back. I get the fact that she was pissed off having to take it out an entire town. That's different. But like I understand her frustration, you think about aspect, you definitely keep it. That kidnapped Kidnap was was an entertaining episode to watch. You know kind of kept your feet, kind of kept your edges you see that's a kid because he's like oh my god, what would I do if I'm a superhero Like that's? That's something every superhero Faces in is always scared of, except Batman.

Speaker 2: 2:38:59

Um why you have your Superhero has to deal with this iron man. There I'm talking about.

Speaker 1: 2:39:15

I mean, you said superheroes, all right.

Speaker 2: 2:39:18

I mean but I'm talking about bc right now Like, if you're gonna say iron man, hell, his kid pepper pots. It's not parents that love, I'm just saying specific parents. Yes, batman, iron man, I like them too, the only ones that don't have to deal with it. Nothing worry about that. But yeah, so like, what would you do if that happened? That happened a superman a lot. Superman's parents got kidnapped by his villains a lot, not all his villains.

Speaker 2: 2:39:41

Oh yeah, could have said Robin, I feel like that was a little bit lower than his bestie Batman's. Like crying alley versus Some comic sales an accident for Robin, some comic sales purposely set up. There's jealousy and shit like I don't know. And plus, at least put it this way, gunshots are quick. Being falling to your death and burning, and burning to death is too completely. It was a long, it was a horrible. Little bit more work, I'm just being honest on that. But anyway, that's why I won't mention that one. But otherwise it's like If you're so fearful of your club, people close to you or your parents getting kidnapped, do a better fucking job of keeping your identity the secret. What the hell, virgin Motherfucker. But we're still entertaining episode. And then we got power outage. Power outage should have been a two-part, it should have been longer, you can tell. Unfortunately I want to be in rush because they already knew they would not get renewed for another season, so they just went ahead and kind of ended it off.

Speaker 2: 2:41:02

There was no build-up into this season, but it was some. We did have like occasional moments that we was the ebon doing something in the background like little Snippets right before the credit sequence or something on some of these episodes or something else was kind of going on, but it didn't feel like it really built up, so that it didn't really feel that was much of a build-up to this episode, like there was in the previous seasons. Like we saw occasional things that made us, hey, hey, something else is going on, something's happening other than that we're just like okay, ebon's up some shit again. Like you know, I just didn't, it didn't feel like it was really leading anywhere. So then we finally get this final episode where, in order to make a big bad, we wound up mixing two villains together. I mean, we've, I don't know. I guess by this point it didn't feel as climactic as we wanted to, but I know that's awesome. Again, like it feels like they knew they were not going to get another season, they just want to go ahead.

Speaker 1: 2:41:59

Really shoehorned in.

Speaker 2: 2:42:01

It did like it could have been longer, could have been more dragged out if you got these two powerhouses to absolute control of fire and darkness, um, and you can create portals to just teleport fucking anywhere and you can see, keep mind them to this one, ebon was the one that was mostly in control as well. So that's another thing. Inside that's dangerous as shit. Um, it could have been more, like it could have, like he definitely could have done some shit the whole town. I just hold down. This could have been like Little bit more climactic. This dude could have been absolutely dangerous because they've already showcased that his power over darkness is very strong and again only got stronger as the series was going on. So it's like it could have been more, but it wasn't as much. It wasn't as much, didn't feel as as climactic as it could have been. But you know that that wound up being it or static shop.

Speaker 2: 2:42:56

The first two seasons and three. Third season was still really good, but primarily the first two seasons absolute bankers, absolutely fantastic beginnings and, um, being able to really kind of hook you on third season, you know they started getting those, those cameos, they started getting those famous people really starting to get in and that, like I said, feel more like that there was relying on that when it came down to season four. Um, I still feel like that she bang episode season four really kind of dropped the ball and not being able to address that topic. Um, and we could have gotten more topics to address, like we did in season nine.

Speaker 2: 2:43:37

Let me see, sorry season four, um, where we could have gotten more topics, like we have we did in season one and season two with episode nine. I feel like we could have had more of that, more that was still addressing issues that's going on, because that was the main focus. That got people into static shock was. The fact is, like we got a superhero that's addressing real black issues and eventually it just kind of progressed to us just a regular superhero show. Was it progressed there? Most people aren't into it anymore. This is kind of what happened and that's all I got.

Speaker 1: 2:44:17

Yeah, that's all I got too. What, that being said, is time for rating. As a certified hood classic, five out of five stars, but on a critical analysis, I would say three, three point five. It had great potential, but it kept dropping the ball in some areas.

Speaker 2: 2:44:45

Okay. So this one actually was getting rated and, uh, I am in a movie database gave it a seven point three out of ten. It's got a 95 percent rating in um google 93 percent for rotten tomatoes. So, um, as far as my particular rating, yeah, like that's a classic obviously, like five out of five. But I guess even for my critic I would still say a four. Um, mostly because that one season did kind of drop, like season four did kind of drop, but it didn't and it didn't push forward after that. And then like, oh, we had this drop season and we had another drop season, it just wound up. Hey, we thought we felt the balance in this one. We've already addressed the issues we're going to address and we'll go ahead and move on to the next thing now. And that's kind of the day they, they moved on. We still see static shock and other stuff. So it's like we still get reminded all the time and so that's that's pretty much kind of what we had.

Speaker 1: 2:45:39

So I could still give it a good four for me on that aspect of they recognize the problem and was able to like yeah, honestly, aside from dropping the ball with season four a little bit, but I would also say once again, if they had switched around on flashback with on the whole soul power episode, season three, that would have put it up to like Four become okay. At least you in this season three would have banger. And then the one thing that Reduced the score was the many times that static identity got uncovered. And and I'm like bro, it would be one thing if it was like a select few people like oh, obviously ricky had to know all right about, obviously, but when it seemed like even like the villains that you're probably not going to even remember after all, this knows your secret identity, it's like bro, like you're like bad at keeping it a secret.

Speaker 2: 2:46:46

Yes, bro, y'all, they was so horrible at it. I'm sitting here like, once richard became the superhero, I'm like, okay, they're gonna do a much better job at keeping the secret. I did two episodes later. Yes, you got an idea. There was a reveal. Never fucking Fuck, is it what? Honestly, I'm surprised that's not a running gag, that that really should be a running gag for the whole show. Hey, I'm the time stack sucker. That's a good idea to reveal. Yeah, but every other every two, three episodes. I think it was a lot, all right, but that is all the time that I have, so.

Speaker 1: 2:47:28

All right, wrapping it up. With that being said, you already know the drill. Listen, gentlemen. We got links attached to the episodes where you can follow us on social media. We got some things going on to where we're gonna be reviewing twilight, fairy tale, norbit's coming up on time, or something. Science fell in love so I had to prove it has been until, obviously, yes, yes, we're gonna be doing that one and a bunch of other ones. Like, oh yeah, I'm gonna be doing all Little giants, like I'm gonna do like a little lightning review on little giant sense. You know, super bowl is to um Coming up. So, with that being said, I'm gonna go ahead and close, as I remember to stay nerdy and remember that, um, great things are coming. With that being said, I am, we are zoning out. I'm sorry, I'm kind of sleepy, I'm.

Speaker 2: 2:48:32

I'm good. All right, y'all take it easy yeah.