The "Count_Zero Is Super Late To The Party" Post

I'm coming in to the podcast super late, and been listening from the first episode. I've been at a good pace (currently I'm on episode 72) - and I figured rather than jumping into the comments super late on the site (which is often the sign of a spammer), I'd start a thread here, in the grand tradition of the LTTP (Late To The Party) threads on another site I post on (the RPG.net forums).

So, Episode 72: First off - about the smoke. I had the "joy" of being in Spokane during the fires for Worldcon last year. Thankfully, I had the pleasure of being in a hotel that had a sky-bridge linking it to the convention center (and which didn't have the hospitality suite), so I didn't have to go out into the smoke that much. Anyhoo, as bad as the smoke was in the Valley, it was worse in Spokane - and it got worse as the convention went on and the fires approached the city. Here's the view out of my hotel room on the day I arrived: Day One Image

Here's how it looked on Day 3 of the con: Day Three Image

Filk Guest of Honor Tom Smith wrote a parody of Eric Clapton's "Cocaine" about the convention titled "Smoke-ane" which was pretty funny.

Moving on with the episode itself. The quip about flying cars somewhat amused me because I've been reading some old Silver Age issues of Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD (pre-Sterenko). In there, one of the common place SHIELD gadgets is a flying car - technology that I don't think appeared in Marvel very much after the dawn of the Bronze Age (though they kept the Helicarriers, because why wouldn't you), and which I think stayed forgotten until the debut of Lola in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD.

The other thing that came to mind - the Juggernaut serving as the distraction to Black Tom Cassiday's heist got me of Die Hard 3 - and now my head-canon casting for Black Tom Cassiday is 1980s-early 90s Jeremy Irons.

Anyway, I'm enjoying the show and I'll probably pop into this thread and post additional observations as I make my way through the show. I know that once you reach X-cutioners Song, there's a particular line in there that didn't stick out in my mind when I first read it in late Middle School, early High School, but which now feels like a clunker, solely to another piece of fiction I'd viewed between the first reading and now.