Episode 072: Sophie, Phoebe, Irma, Celeste, & Esme (feat. Charles Pulliam-Moore)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 255 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 72 of CEREBRO, Connor and writer Charles Pulliam-Moore merge their minds with Sophie, Phoebe, Irma, Celeste, and Esme: the startling Stepford Cuckoos! Created by Grant Morrison, the crème de la crème of Emma Frost's telepathy class is a psychic gestalt of five identical girls with a terrible secret.

The CEREBRO character file on the Five-In-One begins at 1:40:12.

(Content Advisory: The Cuckoos' story includes brainwashing, violation of reproductive autonomy, grooming by a teacher, substance abuse, genocide, and suicide. Reference is made to child sex abuse of another character.)

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0:00.0	It's just very eerie that no one says anything about these girls who have never appeared before suddenly just being a fixture at the Xavier's school.
0:09.4	Mm-hmm.
0:09.9	Mm-hmm.
0:10.2	Mm-hmm.
0:10.8	And so every time something new and creepy is revealed about them, you're like, yeah, that makes sense.
0:16.4	Like something not good is happening here.
0:20.2	X-Men, X-Men.
0:23.2	In the 21st century, evil mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.
0:32.1	Only hope is X-Men.
0:38.3	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, who are a homo and his friends, dig deep into the history of homo superior.
0:45.2	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, and with me today is Charles Pulliam Moore, film and TV writer at The Verge, formerly at I-09, where he did a lot of general pop culture
0:55.8	criticism, but specifically did a lot of comics criticism, which is how I'm sure many listeners
1:00.0	of this show are familiar with his work. Charles, how are you today? I'm good, I'm good. I'm
1:05.4	dealing with this cold snap that's hit the eastern seaboard. We were all like very much
1:10.2	living our spring fantasies last
1:12.1	week. And this weekend was like, no, no, no, no, it's March. Chill out, chill out, chill out,
1:16.0	chill out, go home, be cold. I was super annoyed because, so I'm in L.A. most of the time now, but it's
1:21.7	my birthday tomorrow, actually, as we're recording this. Thank you. So I am out in New York with my family for the weekend.
1:29.1	Yeah. And it's really fucking cold, which I was hoping it wouldn't be when I came back to New York.
1:35.9	I thought I was going to miss it, you know, but I did not.
1:38.9	No, it's not to not to talk about the weather. But like it really is like it has been devastating it's
1:44.5	unfortunate it's yeah it's not great it's simply not great and i made the critical mistake of
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