Episode 021: Mortimer Toynbee (feat. Tim Platt)
CEREBRO
Connor Goldsmith
4.8 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 21 of CEREBRO, Connor and comedian Tim Platt (Rude Tales of Magic) salute a classic 60s X-Men villain: Mortimer Toynbee, the sniveling Toad! Their analysis of the misfit superhenchman... somehow becomes an expansive dialogue on masculinity. Who knew!
The CEREBRO character file on the Toad begins at 46:27.
(Content Advisory: Mortimer's story includes abuse, a suicide attempt, sexually predatory behavior, and alcoholism.)
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| 0:00.0 | Please, ma'am. I just want you to love me. I just need it, ma'am. I'm such, I'm just a tiny little toad. |
| 0:06.1 | X-Men, X-Men. |
| 0:09.6 | In the 21st century, people mutants led by Magneto aim to destroy the world. |
| 0:18.2 | Only hope is X-Men. |
| 0:24.4 | Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, |
| 0:26.8 | where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, |
| 0:32.4 | and with me today is comedian Tim Platte, |
| 0:34.7 | currently a cast member on the popular D&D podcast, Rude Tales of Magic. |
| 0:39.2 | He is here to speak with me today about a classic 60s villain created by Stanley and Jack Kirby, |
| 0:45.3 | Mortimer Twainby, the snibbling Toad. Tim, how are you today? I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay, |
| 0:52.2 | but thank you for having me, Connor. How are you doing? I'm doing all right. I've wanted to, oh, that sounds weird. I've wanted to have you for some time. |
| 1:00.0 | Because for those of you who are not up on the ever-expanding Connor Goldsmith Cinematic Universe, Tim and I went to college together. |
| 1:10.5 | So I've known Tim for, oh God, 15 years almost. |
| 1:16.5 | Yeah. That's extremely distressing to think about. But that is, that is the case. Tim and I were in the same |
| 1:25.0 | freshman dorm at Oberlin back in the day. |
| 1:27.9 | So we go pretty far back. |
| 1:30.9 | And one of the first things we ever talked about was the X-Men. |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah, I do think you were one of the first people. |
| 1:36.5 | As someone who was like into the X-Men for most of his life, but more specifically |
| 1:40.4 | reading the comics in high school, you were the first person who I talked to with like, |
| 1:45.8 | I remember being blown away because you had takes on the X-Men |
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