Oh, I love that intro.

So I love that intro.

Mm, so smooth, getting us right back right back and ready for attack. That's right this is see a space pod boys.

We're glad to see you guys back listening to the second episode of our series where we cover

cowboy bebop the animated or I guess we got to call it anime the anime series from

1998 I am one of your hosts Adam Ganser and with me is my smooth

compadre Abe Epperson. I'm Abe Epperson. I'm a different energy than him.

See two energies for the price of one.

Welcome. You're real Edward archetype I don't want to spoil it but you're a real

Edward type I love it I am.

You are. So ambiguous and I love that about you. Today we're going to cover the second episode of Cowboy Bee Bob called strayray Dog Strut. So let's get ready that the franchise started off with in the first episode.

This time we meet our case of the week who is a, according to fan theories, a serial pet thief, I don't know how anybody got that information, but okay.

Serial pet thief Abdul Hakim.

Abdul Hakim has, what we really know is he's stolen a briefcase of some kind that's very like

Ronan or something, right?

Where you know what's in the case is going to be a thing that we discover and I think it's safe to say that this

episode is not as melodramatic or as epic as the first one is that a fair summary Abe?

Yeah, it's more playful because it's just like a dog caper as opposed to,

you know, Starcrossed levers blasting into atmosphere and getting shot down by the police

it's a little different stakes I think that's right I would say this is a good example

of when cowboy bebop does a silly episode. What is it like? This is a pretty clear template for that.

Yeah, we're going to get another one pretty soon here with the terrorists that's kind of like a mix of the two but it's that playfulness that you're

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