Hey, I'm letting it go, but don't say it doesn't matter.

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

Shut up.

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is...

Morning Somewhere!

For October 7th, 2020.

My name is Bernie Burns sitting right over there. She's happy to see me. It's Ashley Burns. Hi, that's everybody. I am happy to see. I'm always happy to see you. I'm happy to see you. You know, it's like, you know you're in like the right relationship when you walk into a room and I just go, yeah. It's just nice to see you. Immediate tangent right out of the game. Didn't even get to a topic. I don't even know. Can you tangent without a topic? What? Or is you're just starting a topic? There's like a whole, I stopped reading comics and I never really was much of a fantastic four reader, but there's this whole thing where Sue Storm, I don't know if she is married to read Richards. I guess I always thought they were married. Are they living in sin? I thought they were married. But there's this whole like sub thing where she's like got kind of, she has feelings for the submariner. I thought the sub-mariner. I thought the sub-Tamor. Namor. Namor. Oh, really? Namor? Nerudo. Namor, he's just guys, feelings for him. And it's like, it's very out in the open. Like, they discuss it all the time in the comic. Which is actually really progressive, I think, for a comic. I just, like, I just can't stop thinking of this guy and the way he rules what Atllantis is this the atlantis guy it's actually

it's probably a bunch of male comic writers writing uh the way a woman talked about when i when i

as a guy who uh navigates female feelings all the time it seems pretty well written to me

like she can't explain why she likes him he's like some kind of like independent guy and she

feels kind of bad for him but he's also kind of a rebel uh and also mix him with the fact that

he's really really good looking so he's a hot bad boy but also kind of a mess but like it has he's

got like a sad trajectory too like he needs to be fixed as well, yeah.

Yeah, okay.

I can fix him.

Yeah, no, no, that's that, you're right.

That's actually, that's a, that's a fairly common trope.

And not just with male writers, but with women writers writing about women as well.

Before the comic book nerds come after me and say, how did you not know about the subplot?

I knew that that existed. I didn't know how, like, in the foreground it was. Like, there's entire scenes about it where you read, like, four or five pages. And for some reason, I'm being served these on a regular basis, which makes me worry about the algorithm that's serving me this content. What else is going on in my house? that like, hey, we should feed him the, the Namor subplot like, you know,

for fantastic that's serving me this content. What else is going on in my house?

Hey, we should feed him the Namor subplot for Fantastic Four. He needs to know about the hot Atlantic bad boys. Let's get him ready. Because somebody's over there scrolling something

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