The View Crew - Donkey Kong Country: "A Fine Line Between Love & Ape"

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Yeah, so this is from the Donkey Kong Country TV series, which is very bad CGI.

This episode, we thought it was appropriate because it's

coming.

has just passed.

Valentine's Day has just passed already.

We're watching

this before Valentine's Day.

So this will be just kind of inappropriate because it will be like, this is going to come out like February 21st,

romantic.

We can all say that like holidays at this point in time, they last the whole month, right?

There you go.

I think you leave your Christmas lights up after Christmas.

Also, if you forget Valentine's Day and you're like in the doghouse, you could show your significant other this episode and all will be forgotten.

And be like, babe, remember what day it was on friday babe yeah

you're the candy to my bluster

okay yeah so this episode was uh from the donkey kong country uh tv series it was called a thin line between love and ape and that's right now you know you know you're in for a good time so so right off the bat yeah emily and i i think are gonna have it out here we had a conversation after we watched the second episode yeah so we watched two because we're gonna do one for the patreon and one for here we watched this for the main feed and we watched for Patreon.

We watched Mario and Joliet for from the Super Mario Brothers Super Show from Patreon.

So we watched both.

After we watched the second one, Murph says something to me and I, in the nature of a normal conversation, how you kind of finish each other's sentences as a way to say, yes, I agree with you.

Love is in the air.

Yes.

Murph said, wow, Mario really made Donkey Kong look and then took a pause and I was like, good, right?

Or something like that.

Is that not word for word?

It was exactly what happened.

I'm just shaking my head because I can't believe you liked Donkey Kong.

Apparently you liked Donkey Kong more than Mario.

You're in Donkey Kong.

I'm joined DK.

No, you don't.

I also liked, I mean, I thought they were both bad, but I liked DK more.

Are you, guys, something?

No, no, no.

Something about that animation.

Wait, it's so bad.

No, it's so bad.

It's like a cave-handed cheese.

Oh, my God.

It's just gotten really funky and nice.

It's not funky and nice.

It's so boring and bad.

There are no characters ever in the background.

They're always dancing on the background.

Chaos dancing.

It's so stupid.

But I can give you a very specific reason.

This can't be real.

I can give you a very specific reason.

I loved Bluster.

No.

Yeah, Bluster was great.

He was tragic.

No, he wasn't.

You guys are fucking lying that you like this.

No.

You're fucking

lying that you like this.

Caldwell, you are a fucking animator.

You can't hike this show.

This show definitely, like,

set back animation decades.

No, people saw this shit and were like, you know what?

We don't have to pay cartoonists anymore.

It was on the frontier, man.

3D animation.

3D animation would not exist without Donkey Kong.

I know.

This came out after Toy Story.

Yeah, yeah, but Toy Story.

It already looks so much worse.

On a Canadian TV budget, man?

You are kidding me?

Yeah, they worked miracles.

They worked nothing.

These look like pre-rendered when like you go through a wall in a video game and you see just Donkey Kong's eyes or something.

Get off each other, guys.

Get off each other.

Let go.

Jesus.

I'm going to put you in a barrel.

Okay,

we're going to get into this on the Patreon.

The Super Mario Brothers Super Show is corny as fuck, but it is competently like drawn.

It is competently animated.

The voice acting is not just terrible and purposely annoying.

I have an issue with Bluster's voice acting.

I have an issue with everything about this show.

Bluster was incredible.

Finally, I love the potion, and it's mine.

Oh, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine.

Bluster, you don't think

that

you hate too much about Bluster.

I do, Murph, and here's how I'll prove it to you.

First off, you can't tell me what I like.

What I like is Bluster.

And this morning...

I just don't believe it.

I don't believe that all of these guys like this.

I don't fucking believe in in this.

This morning, I listened to three other Bluster songs.

Okay, well, first off, you guys have to say

that.

You guys tell the audience who Bluster is?

Because Bluster Kong is not real.

He owns a Barrel Factory.

He owns a Barrel Factory.

Technically, Jake, I actually did a little research.

Technically, his mom, who's never seen on camera, owns the Barrel Factory.

Which is why then when he's singing about making a love potion for candy, he says, a girl I could bring home to mom.

We understand the gravitas of that because mom because mom is coming for the pharaoh.

So it's like a family company.

I just got the chills.

That really just gave me a chance.

We don't know what Bluster's share is.

So many Donkey Kong characters, and with all of them being silly,

why the fuck do we need to invent a new comic relief character?

Because obviously, at one point, Diddy Kong spoke and I was like, thank God we haven't had to listen to this guy.

I just was saying how bad the voice acting was.

Why do you

need a slick foil?

It's kind of like how there's that.

Slick?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know how, like, Donald Duck, there was that like fancy ass duck that was always trying to steal Daisy from him.

Sure.

He had like a weird kind of perm in his hair just made up feathers.

Certainly it must tap into some primal desire to have someone going after your woman.

Because it's a recurring theme and it comes up in Donkey Kong because the premise of this episode is that Bluster Kong is trying to steal Candy Kong from Donkey Kong.

Who I guess.

Okay, so Bluster Kong, first first off his animation is insane all the animation is atrocious the throat hole can we talk about the throat hole did you guys notice that's deep crazy no when they open their mouths you see oh yeah they open their mouths you can see their tongue kind of like the pink inside of their mouth and there's this gaping black hole in all of their throat yeah it's like dry silly putty it's no good it's so they can no choo eat bananas yes that has to be it's for deep throating food there's no other way throat muscles are so strong and you can push him up down there.

So, yeah, it opens with Bluster.

Bluster is giving Candy a ride in his helicopter or maybe his mom's helicopter.

Yeah, because Bluster flies a fucking hook.

Yeah, because he's rich.

He owns a barrel factory.

He owns part of a barrel company.

We don't know what the breakdown of the shares are.

He also, Bluster looks so nude.

He really does.

He looks like Bluster.

He has just the cuffs.

Just French cuffs.

He just wears French cuffs.

He's got a peaky blinders haircut, which does not look good on a movie.

I don't hate the haircut.

He somehow shaved the hair inside of his eyes.

He has like a Gomez Adams mustache.

Yeah.

Yeah, he has a mustache, which is hot.

Yeah, I think that, I mean, this is like why the show is so imaginative is because you're not allowed to do that to a monkey in real life.

It would be cruel.

But via the magic of computers, we can see what it would look like.

I just want to look shaved.

So just for my own sanity, just to make sure, because some, because you guys destroy me, right?

Like, you guys, I feel nothing.

I'm being serious.

And I'm going to look at Metacritic right now just because I feel insane that I'm the only person that I'm like

clearly one was competently made and clearly one was way worse.

Murph, I'm telling you that oftentimes I exaggerate things.

There was something just about Bluster that tickled me.

I think it's because he sounds like Maggie Smith.

He's very prim and proper.

And he was almost like Niles Crane, adjacent.

Yes.

Yeah.

And so I just really got a kick out of it.

Also, the guy who sings his song had a beautiful voice.

Oh, yeah, there were two songs in this episode.

Songs are so bad.

No.

What do you mean?

I disagree.

There's so many.

Well, I actually, so having watched Bluster's, at least four of his songs, actually, the best one is Creepin, and the second best one, it was called, like,

I'm just, he has an alter ego, like Stefan Urkel, that's like Leo Bluster.

Oh, he's not.

Oh, I can't wait to watch.

Wait, wait, so they just stole that from Family Matters.

Or Family Matters.

We don't know which one came out first, Brian.

Yeah, true.

there's no way to find out.

We know that there's no way to find out.

We don't know because this could have been from the original Donkey Kong.

This had been the scrap.

This could have been like, you know, Shigari Nimoto's Bible from Donkey Kong could have mentioned Bluff.

Also, we don't know.

We don't know if the writers from Family Matters got it, the scripts.

We don't know if the Family Matters writers were going out to drinks with the Donkey Kong writers.

The Donkey Kong writers are being like, yeah, we're trying to break this story.

We're getting into IP and it's really murky waters.

I don't think we can really, really

think of it.

Okay.

Donkey Kong Country has a 5.4 out of 10 on IMDb.

Okay.

Super Mario Brothers Super Show.

Let's see.

6.3.

I mean, I will agree with Murph that the animation quality is better on Mario, but that's because it was established.

They've been doing this for decades at this point.

So it was an established routine to make a cartoon show on that budget with that time frame.

Oh, yes.

And Donkey Kong, they were blazing a new trail.

Exactly.

They were just rubbing.

Like five or six years post-toy TV,

not having any characters in the background, just sort of a soulless cave is what the whole show takes place.

Before we keep going, we should give just a proper synopsis of what happened.

So basically, Bluster is dropping off Candy in his copter.

Right.

Not a helicopter, because we know from the song where he's making a love potion that he calls it a copter.

So he's dropping her off.

He's saying, why don't you be with me?

She's saying, you silly man, I love Donkey Kong.

You know, I'm Donkey Kong's girl.

He does say you love Donkey Kong's girl, which is really funny.

I mean, which is kind of like a dream we all have.

And then says the crystal coconut also says that Donkey Kong is going to be the king of Congo Island, which is like, sure.

But it's like, there's no king now.

I know.

They don't replace.

It's not cranky.

It's not the king.

It's a classic story of like a businessman versus someone who comes from old money.

It's new money versus old money.

Yeah, this is a Hallmark Christmas movie, really.

And then Bluster Kong decides, okay, well, he says, just just because the crystal coconut says that Donkey Kong is going to be king doesn't mean that Candy's going to be queen.

True.

So he actually doesn't take issue with Donkey Kong being king.

Yeah, he's like, he's going to be the king.

So he's like, I guess Kandy rule is the king and they just don't listen to him.

They're like, king of the czars.

It's different.

Okay.

And then Bluster Kong, I'm guessing he's also a Kong.

Yeah, his name is Bluster Kong.

I'm just up for this fucking show.

Candy and Donkey are dating, but they have the same last name.

Yeah, right.

Well, I think the Kong is more like that's their clan, I guess.

I know it's like for like the whole geography, they're all cast.

Yeah, I don't know.

So then Bluster Kong is like, I'm going to get the crystal coconut to find out how to make Candy fall in love with it.

Right, right.

Well, yeah, meanwhile, Candy and DK and the little baby monkey go.

Did he Kong?

I don't know.

Yes, that's what I said.

A famous candy.

So I didn't know Bluster was made up.

I thought he was just as established as the

apparently

39 episodes of Donkey Kong Country.

Yeah, they just put him in the.

Yes, they were excited about Bluster.

He has a whole alter ego.

What I'm trying to say is, they have a picnic.

They go on a picnic.

They go on a picnic.

Diddy Kong of Diddy Kong Racing and Donkey Kong gameplay.

The little baby.

The little baby infant eight.

The little baby infant eight.

He's not a baby.

So, yeah, he goes on a date with Candy and Donkey Kong.

Yeah, the tag along.

So they go on a banana picnic.

And then Bluster comes up and tells Cranky that they went on a picnic in Orchid Valley.

Right.

And Cranky Kong freaks out because, quote, the orchids are poison this time of year.

Yeah.

Sure.

Yeah.

Right.

I mean, yeah,

I think it's kind of fun to think that, like, Congo Bongo Island has this whole ecology that is operating in the background.

Yeah.

Don't you think, though, that just from a purely writing perspective, there would have been a better lie or something where they wouldn't have had to good world building.

Good world.

I think the lie is actually the lie is perfect because it has that kernel of truth.

Couldn't he have just actually happened?

Okay, couldn't he have just said that they were attacked while they're having a picnic?

Well, that's not unbelievable because Donkey Kong would obviously defend Candy and Diddy from any attackers.

Right, but he wouldn't defend them from poisoned flowers.

Well, we all know that Donkey is lovable, but not the smartest banana.

Yeah, okay.

All right, so this so yeah, so Bluster says this to Cranky Kong.

And of course, we don't know that this is a lie because this writing is terrible and just doesn't make any fucking sense.

So he goes up and he's like, they're going for a picnic at the Orchid Valley.

And you watch this, and in your head, you're like, yeah, that is what they're doing.

And then he responds, and Cranky's freaking out because the orchids are poison this time of year.

Right.

Yes, world building.

And then you're in your head, you're like, wait, orchids are poison?

Yeah.

World building.

How do you ever heard that?

Yeah, so unreliable narrator.

You're completely, you're completely taken out of the pot.

Buster's tricking you as well.

Yeah.

I think that's cool.

Shit.

What came first?

This or Memento?

Okay.

Were the writers of Memento getting a drink with the writers of Donkey Kong?

Everybody is hobnobbing in Hollywood.

We find out like four lines after we're supposed to that Bluster Kong has lied to Cranky Kong to get him to run up.

That was a shattering reverse.

And he says, I'm terribly allergic to orchids.

I sneeze till it hurts.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

And again, this is what I...

I sneeze till it hurts.

This is what I love about the show is like the acting is so over the top that when he does that, he like does a little dance.

Every time they deliver a line, they do a little dance.

They all, but they're all like weird CGI uncanny.

Yeah, one might argue

this soulless computer-generated show probably just had like code for their little dances and just reused it over and over and over again.

Do you critique the cave bear painted by cavemen?

No, you agree.

No, I don't.

But that would be better.

That was drawn by people.

That was not, those dances were all copy-pasted.

Because we saw them a billion times.

Every time those eyes squished and squashed and did a weird little dance that looked like a worm on top of a monkey's head, it just tickled me.

It delighted me.

Go on.

Okay, so then Blester goes in, talks to the crystal coconut because Cranky runs out.

Right.

Crystal Coconut gives him the ingredients for a love potion.

Which I have to ask, what does the crystal coconut represent in Donkey Kong?

I may have asked this.

It's just like at the Ultimate Computer.

Yeah, it's just ultimate power.

The ring of power slash a computer.

So what is because King Krule wants it?

Wants it.

Yeah.

What is he going to do?

Just Google something?

Well,

great question because he does get it later and he does nothing with it.

He just dances and sings about how he has it.

So he's happy to have it.

He doesn't wish.

He's going to figure out how to use it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So he, spoiler alert, he gets it.

And your answer, what will he do with it?

Uh-huh.

The answer is nothing because he got it in this episode.

So he didn't do anything, right?

Well, he got distracted.

If you gave a crocodile access to unlimited information, eventually it would like use that to its benefit.

And we'd be eventually

not in this show or in this episode.

I mean, he'd probably make AI that was sympathetic to alligators' needs.

Well, we saw

what he would do with it, right?

And it would sing a bad song.

Or if it'd be alligator intelligence, it'd be alligator intelligence.

Well, there are extenuating circumstances.

There were other things happening that made that prevented him from using it.

Okay, so then we see Bluster.

Bluster gets the ingredients for a love potion.

Then it cuts to Cranky running through the forest.

Cranky runs directly in front of the picnic.

And no joke.

And that's the moment when we find out it was a line.

As he runs by, he literally runs through their picnic.

Yeah, doesn't notice them, keeps running.

And they literally go, That sounded like Cranky.

Sounded.

We saw them see him.

We saw this happen.

Cranky is an old man.

He's always passing a little bit of gas at a high pitch.

So then

Cranky turns around.

Banana flavored.

Finds, has the same conversation that we just had i thought you were having a picnic we are having a picnic no i thought you were having a picnic with the poison flowers no everybody knows those are poison these are like this time of year world building this time of year world year world building

so then they now we're all caught up yeah so they rush back the viewer is caught up to to bluster's insidious plot yeah yeah yeah this is where we really realize oh Bluster is being evil, unlike that episode where he's saying Bluster the benevolent and he decided to become good.

Wow, there's so many shades of blood.

Can we take a pause real quick?

I just want to point out, this is another one of Caldwell's little praises of animation here.

Just the way that they run, the way that it looks just kind of like their butts look like two tennis balls trying to escape.

Yeah, I mean,

it really tickled me.

I took small issue with the picnic where there was a big blanket laid out, but everyone was sitting on the grass outside of the blanket.

You know why?

Hey,

do you know why?

Yeah.

Because it would have taken effort to

draw in between them and stuff like that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And they needed to spend more time world building.

I get that.

Exactly.

Well, maybe that was, have we considered, have we considered that that was delicate world building?

It was saying, in this world, a picnic is gather round the picnic blanket and show it respect by giving it space.

That is beautiful world building.

That's cool.

I like Emily's answer more than Murph's because that's in line with what I was thinking already.

Right.

Because there's so little we know about Congo Bongo Island.

It's kind of a sanctuary outside of human existence.

So like any one of these clues really gives us a lot of information.

I really want to learn more about the ecology.

I would love if maybe Bluster Kong would do sort of like a introduce us to the ecology of Congo Bongo Island.

That's true.

We know that the orchids are poisonous this time of year.

This time of year.

We don't know what time of year.

Yeah, they're not allergic to it.

Well, actually, later Bluster says that he's allergic to it, which right further confuses what's happening he was lying that was part of his master yeah yeah no i know

but it's kind of like because they're poisonous and he's allergic i just feel like severance could learn a thing or two from this show about like how to put together a really compelling mystery box well i agree i think severance is doing too much but we can talk about that on another show

okay mr stealer i've got some donkey kong episodes you should really check out yeah okay so then they go back and then there's a scene where they chase Bluster out of the house.

Didn't need to be.

Bluster already got what he needed.

And then they just go, well, he didn't take the crystal coconut.

I guess everything's fine.

And then it cuts to Bluster making the potion.

He makes the potion, but it cuts to King K.

Rule and his goons outside.

Wait, did you just absolutely blow past the song?

He breathed.

The song happens now while he's making it.

Yeah, but you said he makes the potion and then King K.

Rule.

Well, King K.

Rule overhears the song, right?

King K Roll gets to watch the whole song, that lucky bastard.

Yeah, goddamn.

Yeah, so yeah, Bluster starts to be a little bit more.

That's what being the king gets to be.

Emily, would you like you were singing before we started?

You were singing Bluster's song.

Would you like to sing Buster's song?

I don't know if I remember how it sounds, but he's like, I've mixed up a potion, and soon Candy will realize

that all she ever wanted was to be dear Buster's bride.

Find me together is a dream that will come true.

Flying off into the sunset in a copter built for two.

Some say I'm dishonest.

Something like that.

But it is important.

In the song, that was beautiful.

He's like a total crew nurture.

Yeah.

Yeah.

In the song, he reveals what the ingredients are to the potion.

Oh, yeah.

I can say that too.

Because I think actually, I haven't

imagined that people are going to enjoy that world building.

Yeah, it's one banana peel.

One banana?

Is it a billion?

It's one pinch of banana roots sent straight from my heart.

Two drops of berry juice, and we will never part.

Wow, right.

Three flower petals.

Oh, candy, if only you knew.

Being together forever.

Shooby-dooby-doo.

Now, Jake, see, that's cool.

That's really cool.

Yeah, I actually really like that.

They could have come up with other words.

They wouldn't stand by.

No, love is a

love is a pillant.

Okay, I'm a challenge.

Should be doobie-doo.

This script was written.

10 minutes, I'm joking, but I'm not joking when I say someone sat in a room for an hour and a half, had two cups of coffee, and pounded this.

Okay, I just got, I just got.

They went home to their kids.

I got

the kids love them.

They definitely have a great family life.

There is no problem with work-life balance.

Another easy day at the Donkey Kong Factory.

Although, let's be honest, this was definitely probably the network's fault where it was like, you need to make 40 episodes in two weeks, and they're just like,

and just did the whole thing.

Because I think we've looked at the timeline before.

I feel like Donkey Kong Country came out, and then they're like, oh shit, we got to capitalize on this.

People are going to bunch.

They're like, we need to do 80 episodes in two years.

Yeah.

And they need to come out yesterday.

Stayed awake the whole time.

Yeah.

So I guess, yeah, I'll dunk less hard on the animators themselves and just on the work that was put out by the people that I'm sure demanded it at an unrealistic timeline.

While I cannot stand by those lyrics, I will say that the performance was fantastic.

The man was crooning his heart out.

He was crooning his heart out.

Can you imagine being at like a smoky bar and you like, you get there, you're just there for a drink and you don't realize that there's going to be a singer and then Bluster Kong steps on stage and you're like, oh, great.

Let me get the check, I guess.

But then he just starts belting and you change your mind.

You change your life because you've gotten to see Bluster Kong perform.

And that's really the tragedy here is like he doesn't even know that this is his calling.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He should be singing and he's trying to run his mother's barrel factory and be with his friend's girlfriend.

Plus, you gotta get it together, man.

Like, you could.

Like, do you want candy because you like her, or do you want to take something from Donkey Kong?

Great question.

Yeah, because Donkey Kong lives like such a free and easy lifestyle.

Does Donkey Kong have a mom?

A mom, please.

I know.

Doesn't he have like a grandma who's a ghost or something?

He does.

Okay, so here's what's happening.

I think I actually can, I can psychoanalyze it now.

Bluster is seeing Donkey Kong unfettered by this like maternal relationship, which Bluster loves his mother, but he also feels beholden to her.

He feels like obsessed with her and wanting to be free from her at the same time.

And that's confusing, conflicting.

Donkey Kong doesn't have to go through that.

Yeah, he's so carefree.

And that's what Candy's attracted to.

And he's following his passion as well.

And Bluster is actually ignoring ignoring his passion for to try to make his mom proud to try to make barrels yeah yeah

you guys have such insight so all we know is that donkey kong jr is donkey kong's father um his mother is not mentioned at least in the timeline i'm looking at she might be a war casualty oh my god right because we know that there's several wars that have ravaged uh has it canon because i've also heard that donkey kong is donkey kong jr you know what this is just the first result on reddit so it could be false who knows could be wrong yeah I could be wrong, Ekong.

So Bluster should really consider that he's projecting all this onto Donkey Kong because his mom might be widowed by the war or made

or lost to the war.

Yeah,

okay, so Bluster singing this.

Talk about world building.

Again, it's just rhyming shooby-dooby-doo.

It's like the most, everything is the most first thought stuff, especially down to King K.

Rule in.

King K.

Rule's the barrier.

King K.

Rule looks the best with the animation and his voice acting is not annoying.

What was going on in the 90s that everyone was like turtles

and alligators are villains?

We hate them.

We hate them.

I mean, we were just a closed-minded society back then.

We hadn't opened our hearts to turts.

The reptile super show wasn't making

teenage beaten ninja turtles were like the most famous thing in the world.

All right, I take it all right.

They were outcasts.

That's true.

They were outcasts.

So King K.

overhears this, and he's got two dumb guys with him.

Crusher and General Klump.

Crusher and General Klump.

General Klump.

I think we've talked about their titty pecs before, but my God.

Clump has the ideal body.

I think that's for sure.

Absolutely yoked.

And that's where they register as villains is because, like, you, you've never seen a lizard with pecs before.

Yeah.

Like, a lizard with biceps is just, we know in our heart, in our primate heart, that that is wrong to see.

Yeah.

And you want to destroy them.

You want to stomp on their heads when you see that.

So he overhears him singing about the love potion.

So then King K.

Roll busts in and they shove Bluster in a barrel and steal his love potion.

And then King K Roll tries it out.

His henchmen fall in love with him.

So he's like, great, this works.

They go back to their cave.

And we get edged because they don't kiss.

And we get edged because they do not kiss, even though it seemed like they might.

All of the dialogue for everyone who was under the effect of the love potion was so carefully like non-sexual.

Yeah.

It was all like, I adore you.

I adore you, you're Emily.

Yeah.

Candy's got pretty sexual.

She said, Your place or mine.

Yeah, she did that.

But that was like so jarring compared to everything else.

Yeah, they were really careful.

And then every once in a while, one would slip in.

Yeah.

Whenever it was straight, they'd let it go a little further.

A little further, for sure.

Do you think that they use bananas as condoms?

Stop.

How?

Hey, mama.

Banana peels?

Yeah, Yeah, banana peel specifically.

Do not use it.

It is about to be Valentine's Day.

People are having post-Valentine's Day makeup effects.

Do not use a banana.

Do not use a banana.

Right.

Unless you're a Kong, unless you're a greater ape.

Don't do it.

Even then.

Okay.

It doesn't seem like it would work.

So then they run into

Candy in the woods.

She's just by herself in the woods.

Sure.

And he sprays her with the love potion.

Candy, I don't like how they design her.

Yeah.

Right.

She was the only one that didn't really look like a gorilla at all.

Yeah.

They make her really skinny and then they give her like a pixie cut that doesn't work on her.

I'm just gonna say all of the animation is strange.

He sprays Candy with the

love potion.

She says your place or mine.

Yeah, it was.

And he says mine.

And they go back to King K.

Rules Cave, which again, just the lack of imagination with set design in these places.

At least

it's called just a big cave.

At least the Kong village, right?

The Kong village has like it's like a treetop city.

There's no one in the background.

There's nothing going on.

There's no movement.

So it is kind of dead and devoid of life.

But at least like you can look at it and be like, oh, that'd be cool.

I'd like to live in a tree house.

When you see King Rule's evil cave, it is literally a completely huge just cave that has nothing in it.

It's just dark so that somebody could like copy and paste a computer wallpaper and use that as the background

thing.

You know what it reminds me of?

yes it is like everquest i think it's intentional from the animators the designers the writers to show

everything that that king k rule is missing in his life his walls are stark as is his heart he is an empty pit of need yeah that's why he's searching sure i would say that the show is operatic in nature where like they use a minimal set to really highlight the performances of right the characters

yeah the characters they didn't finish animating the characters but yeah yeah.

It feels like more of a Greek tragedy to me.

Yes, it does.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So

King K.

Rule says,

go get me the crystal coconut now that you're in love with me.

And Katie says, okay.

And goes and gets it and then brings it back.

She shoves Cranky Kong in a chest.

She throws Cranky Kong in a treasure chest.

Right.

And then she reveals that she loves King K.

Rule to DK, I think, as she runs away.

No, no, she says it to Cranky Kong.

Oh, she just says it to Cranky Kong.

All right.

I only watched it three times, so I wasn't hoping.

Do you guys think?

I actually thought that this was, this may be my only complaint.

Oh, yeah.

They didn't use a banana condom.

She wished Candy had taken out a banana peel and said, your place are mad.

For your protection.

I just, it's, it's like, what message are we telling your kids if they don't use a banana condom?

True.

Yeah.

I think that like the idea that a love potion, yes, my imagination will stretch that Candy will now

want to be with King K.

Rule, but why is she willing to now turn on people for him?

Love makes you do crazy things.

That must be what they're trying to say.

Yeah, she's so blinded by her devotion.

I think it's an all-encompassing love.

I'll do whatever you need at any cost.

If you love King K.

Rule, you hate his enemies.

Yeah,

which, if we've learned anything, there's a thin line between love and ape.

True true.

Exactly.

So that makes sense.

That as her love grows, so does her ape.

Yeah, exactly.

So then Candy Kong takes the crystal coconut, brings it back to King K.

Roll.

King K.

Roll gets it.

Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong come back.

They find out that Cranky Kong has been captured in a chest.

They free him.

They realize that Candy Kong has been brainwashed.

So they run off to go find King K.

Roll's cave.

They find it.

King K.

Roll sprays Donkey Kong with the love potion.

So

that's where things get really interesting.

Really interesting.

That's where things got very interesting.

So then King K.

Roll gets the crystal coconut.

You'd think truly it's something to wish for.

Well, he gets distracted.

He doesn't.

We don't get to see him interface

because Donkey Kong came in.

He now has everything he wants and more.

Exactly right.

What does he want?

What does he want, though?

He wants to be clear.

Because he wants to be a kid.

He doesn't know.

But now

his foe is at his mercy.

And that's kind of a distracting thing for him.

Why did he want to do that?

And also,

we know from the set design that he doesn't know what he wants because he can't even buy furniture.

True.

Precisely.

Right?

Yeah.

Precise.

Exactly.

Too true.

Even when he has what he wants, he's just dancing in hollow victory.

It's as hollow as the crystal coconut itself.

Wow.

Is this when he sings and dances or is that?

So he sings and dances now.

He sings and dances and everyone does their Warcraft slash dance animation.

He just does the same thing over and over again while King K.

Rule sings his song about having the crystal coconut.

And then as, so Donkey Kong got ahead, Cranky and Diddy are going.

And this is just another plot point that that is just like the orchids thrown in there for no fucking reason.

You didn't need it.

Cranky Kong goes, like, the thing about the potion is that it runs out after a while.

Also, if you spray somebody with it twice, they hate the person.

Yeah.

Well, because there's a thin thing.

They aprid between the person.

There's a thin line between love and love and hate.

So that area.

So a very wacky montage ensues in which everyone is double spraying each other to make the, like, turn into love, then hate.

I was cackling, laughing here by myself.

No, you were

no.

Yeah, I woke up my baby for sure

so that she would watch it.

Yeah, exactly.

You gotta see this, Tolly.

So they're going back and forth between loving and hating each other and all running around in circles.

It sounds like it might be a little funny.

Trust me, it is not.

I would say this was less effective than any time that Bluster was off screen for me personally.

That's true.

Yeah, we were asking, where's Bluster?

Yeah.

Bluster was missed, I think.

I think that's kind of the secret sauce of the show.

Sure.

He is.

So then, after spraying people a whole bunch and everything, they eventually just steal the crystal coconut back because Donkey Kong gets angry because he gets sprayed twice.

So they beat up KK Rule.

They get the crystal coconut back.

And then while they're fumbling for the potion, it sprays on Bluster, who sees himself in a mirror that is there for some reason.

Yes.

Which was a great ending for Bluster.

He learns.

So he loves himself.

Yes, exactly.

Not just self-acceptance, but self-love.

The journey is beginning.

Radical self-love.

Yeah.

When are we going to get the Bluster Kong game?

That's what I'm asking.

The Switch 2 is coming out.

And I feel like I can't think of a better launch title than Bluster Kong Company.

I just feel like there were so many

mansion.

Why can't they?

Oh, it's you like trying to not trip your

fancy tablecloth.

I must fulfill an order of 44,000 barrels by sundown.

Come on!

Ever!

My God.

So, yeah, and then he's in love with himself, and then they cut to the tree house, and Candy and Donkey Hong are about to kiss, and Cranky goes, there's already enough love in the air.

Come check this out.

And then there's like a quasi-laborious shot of all of them walking out.

That, like, why you needed a lot of shoe leather.

Yeah, it's like for some reason them walking out.

And then you see down in the forest the exact same joke from before, which is Bluster.

Well, this time he has more mirrors.

He has more mirrors.

He's surrounded by mirrors, yeah.

Which is actually pretty good world building because it's just like, okay, so the apes are capable of creating mirrors, which means that they must have like some sort of like smelting materials around.

Yeah.

So like there must be like a fountain.

Take us to the forge.

Exactly.

Yeah.

They've got like rare minerals on Congo Bongo Island.

Oh, that's interesting.

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How did this change your guys?

So you guys have played Donkey Kong before.

I haven't.

I know nothing about it other than what I've had to say.

No, Bluster's not there.

So it's kind of a miss.

Yeah, so you guys are not.

Bluster Kong isn't in the video games.

No.

He really should be.

He really should be.

He was a star.

Why?

He was awesome.

Why?

The haircuts.

So this type of

Niles Crane.

Not Nihilus Crane.

This type of character I really beef with because who is Bluster 4?

Right?

It's for me.

It's the first character I've liked in Donkey Kong Country.

I can say that emphatically.

It's not, but like, okay, so.

It's for people, it's for the cross-section of people who like Doctor Evil and Niles Crane.

But theory, so this show is, this whole show is not funny, right?

But theoretic, like, everyone is lighthearted and making jokes.

So why do you need a like comic relief character?

The whole show is comic relief.

Well, it's kind of interesting to have an antagonist within the Kong community.

Like, within the Kong community.

I don't disagree with that, but it's just why do it's I think it's someone, it's like another antagonist to bounce off.

Perfect, looks like you're getting a migraine.

Are you okay?

No, I haven't.

Yeah, I think also, why do they put it in if the fantasy is to be Donkey Kong?

Because you get the girl, you have a tiny best friend.

Yeah, you're gonna be grandma as a ghost, you're gonna be king of a place.

You're gonna be king of a place that has a lot of natural resources that we've learned.

Um, and no people

who the fuck, what are they king?

What is he the king of?

There's no one there, he's the king of

the coconut.

There's five people in this world.

There's a point.

What do they need all the barrels for?

Yeah.

Candy says that she has on her lunch break, and that's why she can go on the picnic at the beginning.

What are they working at?

World building would dictate there that all the other apes are at their jobs.

Okay, world building.

That's actually

really cool.

There's so many

people who are in the city.

Google it out of crystal coconut.

Oh, man.

Ask the crystal coconut, man.

Yeah.

What would you guys ask the crystal coconut?

Well,

what I wanted to ask you guys about the show before it came out.

It can't do time travel, Murph.

Yeah.

I wanted to ask you guys.

Yeah.

So the crystal coconut, it's like something that you fought for in the games, right?

No.

Really?

All of this is not

Tonke Kong.

Wow.

This is all just made up shit for no reason.

I assumed that the Crystal Coconut had deep, meaningful.

Literally, for some reason, until like 2010, everyone decided, like, oh, we're making this video game thing.

We got to change everything.

Everything's got to be different.

They would just make up characters like Bluster.

Like, that's just...

Well, sometimes they do necessary additions like Bluster.

Sometimes they do unnecessary additions like the crystal coconut.

What did K-Rule want in the video game?

He steals the banana hoard.

The banana hoard, yeah.

All of their bananas.

That's just all of the bananas?

All of the bananas.

He's a meat eater.

Why does he like the bananas?

I don't know.

I mean, because in the games, the bananas are currency as well, right?

Yeah, the bananas are currency.

So you need that, you you need those so that you can buy flights with funky.

So like, maybe King K.

Rule is using the bananas because he needs them to feed his troops.

I don't know.

Oh, okay.

He needs them to feed his two troops.

Well,

now he's the king, and so now he is on the human quest of like, how did I get here?

Why am I here?

These are the philosophical questions that are plaguing him, and that's why he needs the crystal coconut.

You know what?

I'm going to give Murph a win here.

Murph needs a little W.

Do I?

Yeah.

Which is that, you know, and this is a huge gaffe on the show's part.

And I noticed this, and I was like holding my tongue, but I think, you know what, you deserve a win here.

Yeah.

So King K.

Rule is described as a crocodile.

And that is fucking absurd because crocodiles have narrow mouths.

And he clearly has shape of an owl.

I don't want you to call it.

I don't want you.

Murph, this is a W.

I don't want you on it.

Except it gracefully.

Look at that.

Look at that.

Oh, man.

They really goofed on that one, huh?

I'm agreeing with you.

I'll give you that.

Don't give him anything.

That is the one thing.

Don't give them anything.

You're totally right.

So, Murphy has

like to stand on.

But I think overwhelmingly, the evidence is in favor of the show being kind of awesome.

Although, could you argue that wide-mouthed crocodiles is just more Congo Bongo Island world building?

Oh, shit, because it's a diversionary path.

It's a Galapagos Island situation.

Sorry, Murphy.

That's a really good counterpoint to you.

One valid

can.

Charles Darwin was actually trying to go to Congo Bongo Island and he got lost.

And he got to the Galapagos Island.

I know that I'm not nuts for thinking that the Mario Brothers show was better than this because they literally just made a Mario movie that broke all kinds of boxes.

With Donkey Kong in it.

Right.

With no references to this show, but a ton of references to the original Super Mario Brothers Super Show, which has stood the test of time.

Is that true?

I didn't know that.

Yes, they make them plumbers from Brooklyn.

It's from the show.

They do the rap.

They do the Mario.

They do the Mario.

I tried to do the Mario.

we'll get to that on the we'll get to that i tried to do it it's the truly the most horrendous dance of the world

well first off how dare you but yeah the i feel the need to defend the super mario brothers super show even though that also was very bad that was really bad not as bad as this was the worst this

is more fun i love

i have no ape in my heart for either of these shows i love them both why

for different reasons no this one there's not even a nostalgia reason to like this one

I think that some of the stupid animation does feel nostalgic to me.

Yeah.

It is like, I mean, this really was like a nascent art form at the time.

It came around at the same time as like Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius.

There's a lot of like very early CGI TV shows that were like trying to replicate Pixar's success, but on a much smaller budget.

And it was, there were stumbling blocks, clearly, but it was fun to kind of like see them try to figure out how to make something exist on that scale, but then have to like duplicate it 40 times over to fill like an entire season of television.

Yeah.

So I thought, I thought the animation, though bad, was funny.

And I

yeah, it was endearingly bad.

I have a nostalgia for bad CGI, I think.

Yeah.

And also, I thought it was really sweet how much Donkey Kong loved Candy.

He was always talking.

They don't have in common.

Yeah, see, that's the thing is they don't, but like, I think that it is kind of one note, but like Donkey Kong does deeply care for her.

He's always talking about his girl.

I agree with that.

I do agree with that.

But do you, I don't think they're in-game, though.

Yeah.

Do you think Bluster is?

I don't think Blister.

I think think bluster needs like he has exactly what how he ended this episode is what he needs he needs to fall in love with himself it felt like bluster already did love himself yeah yeah no for sure he did i could say i could see how you were saying that but i also disagree

Because if he loved himself, why is he so insecure about his position at the barrel factory underneath his mother?

And why is he trying to steal someone else's girl?

You know what?

Maybe he was like fixated or obsessed with himself, but he didn't love himself.

You only learn to do that at the end of the episode.

Sometimes self-hate can be very myopic, and I think that Bluster is a

there's a thin line between self-love and self-ape.

Yeah, yeah, right.

So do you think that the Bluster game is going to be like barrel management sim, but then also the platforming element?

I think it's a dating system.

Yeah.

For sure.

That makes sense.

Yeah, that checks out.

All right.

Why don't we take, so the view crew, we'll take the Ape at Book Club rating thing of what is, A bad or good?

I don't remember.

A is very bad.

A is really bad.

Not for me.

And J has just gotta happen.

All right, I'm gonna say, okay, so J is good, A is bad.

I'm gonna say Bluster sucks.

I'm gonna give it a B.

Wow.

It's not the worst thing we've ever watched, but it's pretty goddamn close.

Wow.

I'm gonna give it a I for I didn't realize how much bluster was gonna tickle me

insane.

I'm going to go beyond J to K for creature comfort.

Whoa.

Because I loved watching these songs on screen.

Something really tickled me about the ways that their pupils danced and squished like weird black grapes.

It is very Uncanny Valley in a fun way.

Yeah, it's a relic.

It's a beautiful relic.

For anyone who's like curious, but they're like, I don't want to watch this whole thing.

Yeah.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

You guys are saying it's good.

Tell them to watch the whole thing.

No, I'm going to tell them to Google Bluster song, specifically the Bluster song Creepin'.

is really good

here i go creeping don't make a sound get the crystal coconut and candy come around

donkey call me good enough anyone can see that the only ape

plungo is me

creepin' creepin' he's like putting a creepin' on i was gonna give it a g for google the songs so you can so you can see what we saw.

I think that makes it stand out.

Yeah.

There's also like a nice trippy part where Buster is making his love potion and then at first for no reason, he just is transported to a world of pink clouds.

Oh, do you want to know the reason though?

So they didn't have to animate anything.

So they could just copy and paste it.

It was a tough background.

It was a creative workaround.

It was a creative workaround.

Yeah.

The budget was, it was tighter than Kong's ass.

I definitely agree that most of this is on the budget, and I'm sure the animators are actually very talented and were just given two days to do it.

I bet you every episode was made in a day.

And you're just saying you can really tell.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Can I say my golden banana episode?

Just like a really fun little tidbit I want to highlight, which is that, so you learn at the very beginning that Donkey Kong has recently defeated K-Rule by bunching him up into a ball and rolling him across.

all of the rest of his minions

bowling ball style and then the next time you see king k rule he's wearing wearing a cast, and the cast has been signed by everyone.

And I thought,

I also clocked that.

Right.

And I was like, he must be like a pretty nice leader.

Yeah.

Can I

bring up a beef?

I'm just going to reach my hand right here.

So it was signed by like a million people.

How come there's only two guys in the cage?

They were all at work, Murph.

But they work for King K.

Rule.

They're on a sign there.

They're on a sideway day.

There are like six Kongs and like three bad guys.

Why don't they say that?

They might all be in the infirmary.

They might all be on on the men because they were bowled into like a bowling ball.

There is.

That was the implication.

Did you ever think about the fact that maybe Donkey Kong killed most of his men?

Yeah, and he's wallowing in greed.

And their last act was signing his task before they passed.

Okay.

It's actually really tragic.

I can do it.

That's actually fucking sad.

That's actually really fucking sad.

On your last breath.

Yes.

Strength leaving your body.

You are signing your name.

One final touch.

I'm your king, who you died for.

That's why I was crying gently at the the show.

Yeah, I don't know.

Yeah.

Wow.

I can't, I literally can't believe I'm on a show with you guys.

And that's why when you're saying,

what purpose does Bluster serve?

He is a little laugh after you bear the weight of that story.

Cuts the dramatic tension.

When I see the Mario Brothers show, right?

Yeah.

I'm like, I know this is corny, but this is like a cartoon that was on TV.

When I see this, I'm like, what the fuck is this?

So I'm just so confused that I'm on such a different page from you guys.

I think much like the crystal coconut, finding this show feels like cracking open something and finding a secret that was meant for you.

It should not exist, and yet it does, and we must rejoice for that.

I think for me, it was really just the guy who did the voice for Bluster really tickled me.

You were for it, yeah.

So I think I just was on board because of Bluster.

I do.

I mean, shout out to the crew that was undoubtedly made to make this show in two weeks.

You got it done.

They definitely got it done.

I'm sure if they told me how little time they had to do this, I'd be like, it's actually pretty good.

Yeah.

That's why I got a B and not an A.

All right.

With that.

They were crunching with a K.

Yeah, let's go ahead and wrap this one up.

Thank you all so much for listening.

We'll be talking about Super Mario Brothers Super Show, and I'll be having a classic Mer freak out because apparently it was worse than I thought it was, which I didn't think was that good compared to this one.

Wild.

Wild.

I got lots to say, too.

I just, everybody, if you want to, and you don't have to because both shows are not very good, watch an episode of each and just comment if you think that my co-hosts are correct.

You could also just watch either Creepin' or Bluster the Benevolent.

Or

Leo Luster, I think his song was like, I'm Back, Baby, or I'm Just Me.

Oh, Leo Luster was my wedding song.

That was my first wedding.

That's really good.

All right.

That's really good.

Thank you all.

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Does anyone have anything they'd like to plug?

Oh, yeah.

Murph and I just saw in theaters this weekend Hard Eyes.

Oh, it fucking.

Josh Rubin.

What do you think?

From College Humor and many other things directed a really funny, like,

Valentine's Day slasher.

It's so

good.

I was smiling.

Whoa.

It's so funny.

Hell yeah.

And there's, yeah, it's just like a great slasher movie, great character, great design for the bad guy.

And Josh has like one little cameo at the end.

It was great.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

It's really, really good.

I love Josh.

Josh rocks, friend of the show.

Please record that movie.

And it's a good movie.

Is Donkey Kong level good?

Much goddamn better than that guy.

Anyway, goddamn.

I love Donkey Kong, and I want to shout out the movie more.

It was fun to see hard eyes in theaters, too, because there's like some gross out horror that's like fun and campy, and it was like fun to be in a theater of people reacting to it.

It rocks nice, yeah.

Go see hard eyes, yeah.

I'll second that.

Um, but also, uh, if you haven't yet, go listen to the three black halflings arc that is airing now.

It's called uh City of the Black Rose Herald of Shadow.

I play a character called Osrick Johnson on it.

He is like an infernal residue service investigator who gets transported to that world to help out the cast of characters solve the mystery going on in the world of the Black Rose.

It was super fun.

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Cece Lulu.

Old Cobb's Duncle Older Burn.

Hercule Prau, Zerabbit Folk Detective.

Timmy R.

Rayco, Calder Cum's Cold.

Shout out to the Cold Come Companions.

Frosty facial.

Taylor B, maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way.

Wow.

Cass, Strong Grinch.

Stephen, the virtuous pagan guide of Bear Hell C.

Mike K, Nick W.

William W.

Big Bad Beardo the Mad.

Ananarama.

Percival Fredrikstein von Musil Klasowski Derolo III.

Jay Dragonborn, Guardian of the Vibe, Honoring the Cock,

Mayonnaise, hegemony, Ben A, Dave H, Dustin S.

Not that, Nick, Danny F., Hawkeye Pierce, Book Vars Assistant, Izzy F, Big Bad John, DPC is awesome, hashtag honor the cock, Shone, the Shade Tree Mechanic of Zebledar, Summer Rose, aka Grand Terre, Mark, the Dark Lord's Taint, Kat C, Misa of House in Zunza.

Ariel, the occasional mermaid.

Selena N, aka Velaciraptor.

B.

Perky Always.

Pat L, Maxwell J.

Lauren H, Serve 16.

Annie, the Faywild Therapist.

Connor S.

Salil.

BioQuirt 7.

Amber Dextrous.

Bean Rat was innocent.

Trub Hopdropper.

Jack Hubert, King of the Mole People under Iron Deep, dressed in blue and fighting his way through a bracket-style tournament, Valen, Paj, the bitch and bunny bard, Carlin C.

Noah the Bullywog Boy, hashtag honor the cock, James G, Everything Bago, the Eladron, who just wants to hang out with his pet badger, Stripey, Reverend Cheddarbones, Han, Eric B, Marcos, Learns, the Balanced Druid, Frida M., Maggie, Holly the Green, Laughing hyena.

Cal misses the D5s with all her heart.

Aaron B.

Russell H.

A monk named Dilgo.

Yes, the whole thing.

Yes, every time.

Cody C.

Lorelei the Succubi, and Kira the succulent snack.

McKinna Stout, your friendly neighborhood yaunt and yunkle, Andrew and Sid.

John Adams, we can be done with presidential puns.

Yes, I would agree.

Meg, the mail carrier of Bahumia.

James F, Austin S.

Wayfarer now has to do something with the trolls.

Get rid of them?

Turn to page 42.

Keep them?

Turn to page says

69.

Shane C.

Barpo Good Barrel Bard Barian.

Garrett G, aka one big curd.

Renee, the monster captain.

Olivia, the enchanting bard, and Jared, the soap opera cleric, who will be auditioning for Callie's acting troop.

Can't wait to see your debut.

Winter Slade, Fico, Garrett, the artificer.

Damon, son of that one merchant named John.

Valkyrie, the Gert Sea Brother.

Anthony, the rattest of dudes.

Jay, the fairies have all amended their ways and are volunteering at their local petting zoo.

Yeet!

Cantrip Dumbledore, the bare onesie-wearing barbarian.

Lexi loves the two crew.

Thank you, Lexi.

Love you back.

Roger L.

Nodrog, the pacifist barbarian.

Gino T, John Luca,

Tristan, the talentless honk.

Leon Kumori, legendary hero of Bahumia from a future campaign.

Shenanigans O'Connor, Mios the Great, Josh S.

Alexander, Lins W.

Johnny Dude K.

Pavu Eskanor, the Goliath Paladin providing service with a smile.

TM Im T-R.

M-L-G-Cheeto.

Shell B.

Kenna's first favorite sprite girl.

Excited to see Caldwell in Smarty Pants this season.

Hoping Emily and Murph return to Anarch Era.

Snailess, who's infecting Worcester for within.

Sir Welly's Sultry Secret Sacred Sapphic Sonnet.

Wow.

Pawpaw Sky Days.

Mima Skada's.

Megan N.

Anthony B.

Savannah H.

Balmor's best friend Steve.

Stephanie of House in Zunza.

Benjamin A.

Kimley the Corgi, Pawpawn Foster's canine friend, Mikel A.

Josh Hole, pilot of the Nightmare-verse flight, Yikes.

Frokey, the two crew blew through,

Jennery,

Ethan the Mailman, Maple the Shy Bookworm, Ashasaurus, Billy Batson, Tori the tungsten dracuse,

Michael L.

S.

II, Carl B., Plumber of the Realm, Dex Riddlewell, Hannah A., Ra, Ace Dregs, High Lord of Tritzburg, Darius D, that guy from that one thing.

Thin Diagram, Codmilius the Consumed.

A gun, Banjo Boy of the Flatlands with two working kidneys.

Bard of Holding, Clinton P.

Grinch Volcam, the Grinch Frogman.

Dean, Jake W., Hi Mom.

Tuesday Cross, Cross, the choose your own adventure writer, not the porn star.

Steve L.

Tyler M.

Alex G, Zibitibacceri, Katarina C, Lady Jacqueline P of Castle Whitestone.

Greg W.

Wants Those D20 truck nuts that Jake thought up.

Baruch Thunderhelm, fifth generation Minotaur working as an abandoned labyrinth tour guide.

Ooh, educational.

Literally Satan.

Chupacabri, Boney is dead, Cohen P, the Duke of Silk's missing son,

the Waterworth, Nick, and of course, Amy.

Wow, that is all of our elders.

Thank you all so, so much for your unending support.

We thank you, we praise you, we bend the knee.

If you would like to join this illustrious council, you can do so by going to patreon.com/slash nadpod.

That's going to do it for us today, but we will see you here again next week.

Bye-bye.

That was a hit gun gum podcast.