This week on Retronauts. I'm your host, Nadia Oxford, aka the gambler too, because I couldn't come up with a better codename. So sorry about that. I have a couple of rebels joining me, though, some real motorcycle, revving turbo, rebin young punks. Let's see, we have Kevin Bunch. Say hi. We all know Kevin. Hi, it's Kevin. I didn't come up with a clever nickname because I didn't realize that was part of our homework.

No, that's okay. I just thought of it the last second. Cops are going to get us anyway, so why even bother?

The cop robots. Yeah, okay. Robot cops.

Lucas White, also a good friend of mine and also a triple Revin, young punk, etc. Say hi. Hello. Most likely also

among the dead in this scenario. Yeah, I think all three of us are dead here. So this should be a

really good, really cool podcast because all three of us are proto-man weirdos, as in the

protomand, the rock opera band. And when Act 3 was announced last month, I was like, oh, my God. All right, everyone, emergency protomat episode. Let's get this happening. So here we are. Thank you too very much for joining me. But I guess by the sounds of it, you're fans as well. So it's no real chore to have you here, I think.

Yeah.

You know, as soon as you mentioned, you want to do a Protoman episode, I was just like, say less.

I'm in.

I was here yesterday.

Hell yeah.

So we'll talk a little bit about how we, like, got into the Protomen, but let's just briefly say, who are the Proto Men? And they are a band out of Nashville,

best known for Acts 2 through 3, which are Megamon rock operas with an Orwellian twist.

They've also done covers for Queen. They have an album of assorted covers. That's also part of the

ongoing protomen lore. That's the cover-up. We'll probably talk a little bit about that.

And yes, there is lore. It's a rock opera fam. There's always lore. I mean, I am a fan of, I grew up

with like Jesus Christ Superstar and Tommy. So there's no hope for me. There was never any hope for me.

The main singer of the protoman, his co-name, his codename is Rawl Panther the third.

There are about a billion band members in the protoban, and several billion others have

cycled in and out of the lineup. Currently, the lineup is, Kazoon Haidt to my husband, is

Rawl Panther. Murphy Weller, who's the bass synthesizer, bass drum. Oh, God, he's like, so I'll just say there's a lot of prodom.

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