Hey everybody, welcome back.

This is Friends from Work, a podcast about all things in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Kyle Schoenwell and Robbie Earle.

Robbie, how are you today?

I'm doing great, Kyle.

How are you?

Good.

I'm excellent.

You know, Robbie and I have had a couple phone conversations since our Ironman one and two podcasts have released.

Super busy.

Where, yes, super busy. But we've just had some extra thoughts that we wanted to fill in if that's okay. And this podcast has taken a little bit more of an interactive approach because you listeners have been reaching

out to us on social media, which we love. We love. If you ever want to do that, we are at the

FFW podcast on all social platforms. But we want to start addressing some questions or thoughts or

comments that you had. So we thought we'd put all these random thoughts, comments, feedback into one episode that

we're going to call the leftovers specifically regarding Iron Man 1 and 2.

So one of the things that I wanted to get into that I totally forgot to bring up in the Iron

Man episode is this parallel that we see between Tony Stark's story

and Robert Downey Jr.'s story. And here's what I mean by that. In Iron Man, we have Tony Stark,

who's kind of lived this sort of crazy, volatile life of kind of narcissism mixed with substance abuse and all of this stuff

that's that's kind of explosive up until he hits this point where he kind of has a life-changing

experience that then sets the rest of his life on a totally different trajectory.

And what's interesting about that is Robert Downey Jr.'s career kind of followed a similar trajectory.

He was in show business for virtually, has been in show business for virtually his entire life.

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