I want to remind everyone that we record these shows all in a batch and in fact recorded this show at the beginning of November, which makes the fact that the American News Media is all talking about an Italian dude named Luigi another one of those weird serendipitous things that sometimes happen with this show, like how our episode about the Halloween episode actually went up around Halloween. Sometimes these things just happen!

Anyway, this episode is all about how many references to other films the show-runners could fit into a 22 minute runtime, and I, your faithful editor, took up the challenge and met them reference for reference (not really (maybe)). There's also a counterfeiting plot (our second of the series!) and Yuri getting married on a fabulous resort island. These two plots are inextricable from one another!

There's also a special bonus announcement from me, the editor, to say that we're taking the holidays off and will be back on January 9th. See you then!

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Side-tracked conversations and Dragon Kung Fu abounds on this, our latest offering to the devoted listeners who are hungry for more tales of the Dirty Pair! We dive into the fifth episode of the Dirty Pair OVA series and answer the important questions of: what the hell is Mughi wearing? Is his code name Kung Fu Dragon or Dragon Kung Fu? What's that hat Kei's got on called, anyway? I promise that we answer all of these questions and a few more that you've forgotten you wanted to know. It's all happening on this, our Thanksgiving (USA) episode of Dirty Pair: Project P.O.D.!

Our next episode will be ready and waiting for you on December 12th, just in time for.... something, probably. Not quite Christmas. It'll be great! See you then!

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Weird audio issues abound on this episode (not really, I cleaned a lot of it up) but we soldier on anyway to discuss yet another episode where Kei and Yuri have to deal with some troublesome kids. These kids, however, have a childish obsession with war and access to a weapon that could potentially rip the fabric of space-time asunder! Does this show have something to say about our cultural obsession with violence and the gamification of war affecting our children? You'll have to listen to find out, I guess! I already forget what we said about it, but I'm sure it was tres insightful.

We're onto a new, hopefully less aurally problematic recording session with the next episode, so this is hopefully the last time you'll hear my incredibly out-of-place voice reading over a couple of parts that were crunched beyond all salvation for whatever reason. I don't know what the hell's going on with that! Hopefully it didn't show up in this next batch of recordings! We'll all find out together on November 28th!

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On this, the spookiest day of the year (it's gonna be 80 degrees here on October 31, that's the scariest thing going), we discuss the spookiest of topics: the true cost of Utopia OOOOOOH BOOOOOOOOO SCAAAAAAAAAARY! We also discuss the lesser known works of Shinchiro Watanabe, as well as everything else that comes up in this particularly stylish episode of Dirty Pair 2. It's full of twists (heads and limbs), turns (missed ones), and not to wrap back to the whole 80 degrees Fahrenheit at the end of October in the goddamn Northeast United States thing, climate disaster!

Our next episode will release, assuming that we don't experience a catastrophic collapse of infrastructure in the meantime, on November 14th. Before then, we'll have recorded a whole other batch of episodes for you all to enjoy in the coming months (again, assuming we survive The Election). Damn, shit's gotten kind of a bummer here at the end. We'll push through it though, and keep making this little podcast because we enjoy it and because we are too committed to the bit at this point to turn back now. See you then!

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It's a Halloween full of capers as Kei and Yuri, y'know, fight crime or whatever. I don't know if they even really mean to fight crime, they're too busy chasing a killer robot, but crime is fought nonetheless! We spend a lot of time talking about Kei and Yuri chasing a killer robot, and make sure to discuss the various threads that are teased from this episode as one would unravel a particularly garish sweater. Did you know there was a show called Bodacious Space Pirates or something like that? I didn't, and you can hear me learn about it in real time! Also something called Cute High Earth Defense Force Club, that's in here too. But it's mostly about Kei and Yuri and spreading their wings all the way on Halloween. What's that mean? I'll leave it to your interpretation.

There are a few moments here where the audio gets real crunchy, probably because the slapdash filter I run to get rid of the A/C noise that permeated this episode got a little carried away. I'm sorry about those crunchy parts, but I promise you it's probably better than hearing the drone of my A/C unit every time I talked. I'll see if I can dial it in a little better next time.

Next time? Oh you're damn right there's a next time! It's all the way on October 31st, and it's all spooky and shit! More podcasting synergy, courtesy of... fortuitous timing, really. Until then, you can follow us and message us on our Wretched Bluesky Account, or rate and review us on your podcasting apps, or what-have-you.

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Well, we've finally come to the end of the road for Kei and Yuri, or at least the Kei and Yuri who don't wear matching uniforms. Flight 005 Conspiracy marks the longest episode we've ever done as well as the final foray into the world of feature-length animations, assuming you only need to be an hour long to be counted as a 'feature.' It's some of the best writing to date and probably the worst ending we've ever seen (or will see with this Pair), and you can hear all about it here, right now, on this very podcast!

As a scheduling note, due to the fact that my work schedule is gonna prevent us from being able to record in time, our next episode which both marks the beginning of Dirty Pair 2 and me not breaking the Season field by putting 1.5 in there, will publish on October 3rd! We'll be going back to our every-other-week cadence as well, since we're leaving the longer features behind. Dirty Pair 2 runs for 10 episodes, and after that? After that? Well, I suppose Dirty Pair: Flash exists too.

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It's our lowest bitrate yet as we once again go long on Dirty Pair: The Movie or Dirty Pair: Project E.D.E.N as it was known in the United States (also where we got the name of our podcast from). It's also our most musical episode yet, because all of the music in this film is incredible and I just HAD to include it. So, y'know, this'll never get monetized but I will put the tracks I played most of below (also I guess the OST is on Spotify but the OST does not have the Wattsman song so... it'll be a mystery).

You'll notice that I've mostly talked about the music and haven't mentioned the plot, and that's because... there's not much of a plot. Sorry. There's some monsters, there's a mad scientist, and there's Yuri shamelessly flirting with Kei. There you go. Enjoy! This movie is gorgeous both visually and sonically and is an all around fun time.

We'll be back August 1st with our final Special Presentation, where we examine the Flight Five Conspiracy. See you then!

Ah, and here's the link to the Dirty Pair soundtrack, as promised.

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