the idea that we're going to have this high-end prestige adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,

except Mr. Hyde is a pterodactyl. I think it was just hard to sell that.

X-Men, X-Men.

In the 21st century, evil mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.

Only hope is X-Men.

Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast.

We're a Homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior.

I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith.

And with me today is my father, James Goldsmith,

Jim, if you're nasty. Dear old dad, it is the night before Thanksgiving and we are here recording

my X-Men podcast, which I'm pretty jazzed about. Dad, how are you doing since we spoke last about

five minutes ago? You know, nothing's changed much, son. Everything's pretty much the same.

Little bit nervous, but I feel pretty good about this because, you know, I have copious notes.

Yes, over the last week and a half or so, my dad has read almost every appearance of the character we are here

to talk about today. Dr. Carl Lycos, hypnototherapist to the stars, best known as the high-flying

sauron, waradactyl vampire, sartorial star, sometime ruler of the savage land when he's up to it.

I did tell him he could skip the TRI weapon X, so we're mostly just not going to talk about that

because here's the thing. None of it matters, and you don't actually have to read it.

And I haven't read a word of it. Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you what happens when we get there, but it's fine. Yesterday,

dad, when mom got me at the airport, which was very kind of her, because I got him very late,

she was like, your father has been studying for this podcast. He's doing homework for your show.

And I was like, well, he is retired. She's like, thank God, because he's been reading the comics nonstop. And I was

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