Episode 024: Alex Summers (feat. Allison Senecal)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2021

⏱️ 170 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 24 of CEREBRO, Connor and bookseller Allison Senecal try to explain why you should like Havok! Alex Summers, Cyclops's volatile younger brother, has never quite managed to escape his elder's long shadow. Conflicted and insecure, he's a troubled man with an uncertain future.

The CEREBRO character file on Havok begins at 29:12.

(Content Advisory: Alex's story includes brainwashing, slavery, and parents grieving the loss of a child. This episode also discusses another character's suicidal ideation.)

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0:00.0	it's almost always terrible online.
0:02.5	Like you're just like the whipping person for Twitter.
0:04.4	Oh yeah, because they're just like, you like have it?
0:06.2	Yeah, and then they're like, wait, do you mean it ironically?
0:08.2	Is this like a joke?
0:09.1	And I'm like, no.
0:09.8	I'm like, no, like I actually really love him and wants the best for him.
0:13.1	X-Men, X-Men.
0:16.5	In the 21st century, people mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.
0:25.1	The only hope is X-Men.
0:31.2	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior.
0:38.6	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, And with me today is Alison Seneca, a bookseller at Old Firehouse Books in Fort Collins,
0:44.3	Colorado, perhaps best known to X Twitter as malicious glee, hymbo taxonomist, extraordinary, fan of many beautiful, dumb men, and the person who was perhaps
0:59.5	most anticipating the announcement of X-Corp, which has finally been announced. So I can't think
1:07.5	of a better time for us to be recording together. Alison, how are you doing today? I'm doing really well, not as well as I wasn't think of a better time for us to be recording together.
1:11.4	Alison, how are you doing today?
1:12.5	I am doing really well.
1:14.1	Not as well as I was on Thursday when X-Corp was announced, but extremely well.
1:19.8	I've probably downed two bottles of wine since then in celebration.
1:23.8	I am so happy, you're happy.
1:26.1	I'm so excited for that book.
1:27.4	Obviously, I love teenie because I represent
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