Warning, this podcast contains spoilers, folks, for ShiHulk Episode 8, for House of the Dragon Episode 7, and for Rings of Power, also Episode 7, so be warned. Watch that stuff before you come here.

Hello, my name is Jason Cepci and welcome to X-Ray Vision, the Crooked Podcast, where we're diving deep. It's your favorite shows, movies, comics, and pop culture in this episode.

We're going to be talking about ShiHulk Episode 8, with that episode's writer, the wonderful Cody Zieg Ziegler. In the airlock, we're going to be talking about Lord of the Rings, Rings of Power Episode 7, Big Bad Balrog this year.

In the hive mind, we're going to be talking about House of the Dragon Episode 7, with my good friend Aziz from the History of Westeros Podcast, one of the best to ever do it.

And of course, he's going to be helping us with Ask the Maester this episode. If you want to jump around, check out the show notes for Timestamps and joining me today from New York City Comic Con, The Big City. I'm walking here. It's the great comics expert, the number one Godzilla writer. It's Rosie Knight. Rosie, how are you? How's New York?

I'm very good. I also just realized I'm not wearing headphones.

So I'm going to put headphones on there. I'm recording here. Now that I got my headphones from Matt Murdock in House Kitchen, he was holding onto them. He doesn't need him. He doesn't need him. He's got extra good hearing as we live today. No, I'm good. I'm so happy to be here. It's going to be so fun.

Well, let's dive into it. There's so much. First up, ShiHulk Episode 8.

I've been joining us now to discuss ShiHulk Episode 8. Ribbit and Ribbit is the writer of that very episode. The wonderful, the all-knowing Cody's Exitler. Cody, how are you, man? Great episode.

Thank you, brother. I'm good. As you have both seen, I just wolfed down half of a chopped cheese because I literally walked over here to this recording from Comic Con.

I have indeed been walking here and I got like a nice little chopped cheese. I'm like, I'm really leading into my Hills Kitchen stay.

I love that. Well, lots to unpack in this episode. But first, let me set the stage by reading this tweet by Televisor that was tweeted on September 29th.

That was a later quote tweeted by a head writer of ShiHulk Jessica out. Here is the tweet. Kevin Feige, please. I will literally suck your dick if it means Daredevil will finally show up in Hashtag ShiHulk.

There are only two episodes left and I've seen zero Charlie Cox reiterate. I will perform oral sex on you, Kevin, in order to see more Daredevil. This is not a joke.

And the tweet by Jessica out time to collect.

So Matt Murdock makes his triumphant MCU debut as Daredevil. Talk to us about writing this episode, man.

Dude, it's, it's, I mean, I've been saying this all day, but the word is surreal. Like it's so crazy.

You know, three years ago has been like, we wrote this stuff, but I'm sure Gao can attest to it.

But I think the reason I was given this episode is because one day we were discussing, you know, like, hey, who can we use?

They're like, well, you know, contractually we can use dead devil because like some Netflix thing or whatever.

Yeah. So like we were talking about like, how, how does that, how does Daredevil's powers work within the confines of the MCU?

You're like, the TV shows like a little bit more grounded. Like, can we, how can we comic book it?

...