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X-Men: The Audio Drama

Episode 11: Rick Pipito 1978-2023

X-Men: The Audio Drama

Karl Dutton

Grey, X-men, Jean, Beast, Cyclops, Fiction, Iceman

4.8814 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Oscar and I share some words for in tribute to our writer Rick Pipito, who we lost this past weekend. You can support the family with the medical costs here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/lets-come-together-for-rick-and-roberta?fbclid=IwAR0MyT8QsKb4FbIXBVQZdjHVXRhRnGJ9oiL92EC29r6GNoyyHPHbAd_yoW8

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0:00.0

Hello everybody. We're just coming to you with a little bit of news for those you haven't heard.

0:06.2

I am Carl, the writer, producer, editor of X-Men, the audio drama, for the most part.

0:12.2

I am joined by Oscar Stadmaier, who is my co-host of the Patreon reviews, the X-Men animated series

0:20.4

reviews, things like that. Say hello, Oscar.

0:22.4

Hello, everyone. Yeah, we wish we were coming to your better circumstances, but I just wanted

0:27.6

to put the word out there. In several episodes, you'll have heard a name, who was the writer for

0:34.6

season three for Days Future Past, The Wolverine, both the New Mutants

0:39.0

episodes, and Stormbreaker, Rick Pepito, who was my contributor and collaborator with season

0:47.8

three. He came on board for Days Future Past to write that script, and then pretty much planned

0:51.8

the whole season with me. And I have the invoogant news of letting you all know that he passed away on Saturday.

0:58.4

Those of you who follow us on the social media will already know about it.

1:01.5

I already posted about it and posted it on the YouTube channel and things like that.

1:05.6

But I know a lot of you listen to this on Spotify and things like that and you won't follow along.

1:11.3

But those who don't know, he was diagnosed with cancer last year and unfortunately lost

1:18.8

the battle just took up a day's ago.

1:21.6

And the sad part of it is, is, you know, he was on all of the X-Men after shows for the

1:26.5

Patreon, all the extra stuff. We did the X-Men after shows for the Patreon, all the extra stuff.

1:28.5

We did the X-Men movie reviews together.

1:30.4

Just a couple of months ago, we did the X-Men 3 review for the Patreon.

1:34.5

And he was on there.

1:35.4

He was fine.

1:36.0

He was saying he was going to, you know, he stopped planning on going anywhere.

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