Episode 066: Callisto (feat. Spencer Ackerman)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 66 of CEREBRO, Connor and returning guest Spencer Ackerman (Reign of Terror) sharpen their knives with the cunning Callisto! Leader of the Morlocks, a society of non-passing mutants living in poverty in the maintenance tunnels beneath Manhattan, Callisto debuts as an eager rival to Storm. In time she becomes one of the X-Men's staunchest allies, and in the Krakoan Age, she serves as White Knight of the Hellfire Trading Company.

The CEREBRO character file on Callisto begins at 1:06:30.

(Content Advisory: Callisto's story includes genocide, the murder of children, sexual violence, attempted suicide, brainwashing, and non-consensual body modification.)

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0:00.0	I'm usually pretty agnostic about pairings in this franchise.
0:03.8	Like, I, you know, I'm good with whatever, as long as it's fun.
0:06.9	Storm and Callisto to me are soulmates and I want them to be married.
0:11.1	Like, that is how I feel about these characters.
0:13.2	In-game status.
0:14.2	X-Men, X-Men.
0:15.5	In the 21st century, people mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.
0:26.5	Only hope is X-Men.
0:32.6	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of
0:38.3	Homo Superior. I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, and with me today is returning guest,
0:43.7	Spencer Ackerman, here for the fourth time on Cerebro. Spencer, that puts you in Rarified
0:51.0	Company with only Sarah Century at the moment. So that is an exciting accomplishment.
0:56.8	How are you today? I'm thrilled to be on one of Entertainment Weekly's best podcasts of 2021.
1:06.1	Can't believe I have as many appearances as the esteemed Sarah Century, who might be more qualified
1:14.0	to have much of this discussion today than I am. Certainly, yeah, Colisto, the character we're
1:21.8	here to talk about today, is an interesting one because, yes, my instinct would probably have been to have a lesbian on for
1:29.1	this episode, but your enthusiasm for this character from a political perspective has been
1:34.8	something you reiterate like every time you are on this show. And I did want to get into the
1:41.1	political underpinnings of Colisto with you because you have such a distinct
1:44.4	vision of it. Spencer, for people who are just joining us now, is a Pulitzer Prize winning national
1:52.1	security and foreign policy reporter. He is the writer of Forever Wars, a newsletter on Substack,
1:58.1	and the author of the recent book, Rain of Terror, which tracks the
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