Welcome to Critical Hitomater's Boilers Podcast.

Thank you so much for checking us out this week.

Oh man.

Last week's episode was so cool, where I should say the last episode was so cool because

I know we had a couple holidays in there.

Kevin, what's going on with you?

What's going on with me is I've been ready for this episode for a while and I'm super excited.

And you guys, being the crew of the squeaky clean, the drifters, are on your first drift race,

specifically on the planet of Akaton, the red mining planet that burnt out a husk of

what it once was primed to be used as the cinematic backdrop for a high stakes, high violence

group of desperate racers, yourselfs included.

Hey, I'm all for it.

Yeah.

And you had encountered several other ships, or rather crews of other ships, who you are

competing against, a group of formians, a group that seems to have an enmity with Vanguie

and Hekubino, Sam and Rodrigo's characters from their past, the new team rust dragon.

And what seems to be a team of audition rejects from you guys, team brain power.

Team pair the spares.

Knock off.

They only wish they were as cool as us.

So you had just finished the introduction to the race, you'd basically driven down the

straightaway in your buggy, the sand skink.

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