788: He's Just Bob

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Leisure, Arts

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

We’re back on the Marvel movies with “Thunderbolts*”, a film that (to our surprise?) is not a nihilistic story about villains pretending to be heroes (see: Suicide Squad), but instead a story about some troubled not-quite-heroes learning that they can be better if they connect to other people and work on their own issues. But also with explosions and fights and stuff....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 78, October 2025.
0:09.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:12.0	I am your host, Jason Snell.
0:13.5	In this episode, we're going to talk about a Marvel movie.
0:15.5	We haven't done that in a little while.
0:17.0	This one just appeared as we were recording this on streaming on Disney Plus. It's called Thunderbolts with an asterisk.
0:25.2	And it is, upon watching it, I've realized it's kind of a sequel to the Black Widow movie from 2021.
0:32.6	But, you know, it's Marvel.
0:33.8	So it's also a sequel to like eight other things sort of kind of.
0:36.6	Anyway, let me introduce my panel. This rag tag group of people who have all been sent to this location to kill one another, but something else is going to intervene. First off, I would like to introduce our friend with the cybernetic arm. He's our own winter soldier. Don't ask him where he got the arm. He got it from his cousin's mailman.
0:55.5	It's Glenn Fleischman.
0:55.7	Hello.
0:56.7	Hello.
0:57.4	No,
0:58.6	is a guy named Waldo, I think.
0:59.7	Oh, interesting.
1:00.6	Deep cut.
1:01.0	Deep cut.
1:01.6	Interesting.
1:05.1	Lisa Schmeiser is here. She is our,
1:05.8	she's going to be our very own, let's say, a ghost. She disappeared. I couldn't see her for a minute and I got
1:16.5	confused. But now she's back. It's Lisa Schmeiser. Hi. Well, I was going to say cucumber,
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