Anime Binge Club: FLCL Episodes 1 & 2

Spencer opens with a string of expletives so dense it demonetized the video version on contact. Kevin, meanwhile, had to leave his own house and drive to a third location just to record an episode about cartoons. Anyway: FLCL, episodes one and two. The setup, as Spencer explains it to a bewildered Kevin: a 12-year-old kid named Naota gets run over by a pink-haired woman on a Vespa. Her name's Haruko. She gives him CPR, whacks him with a guitar, and then just sort of moves into his house. Later a robot bursts out of his head. Then a second robot also bursts out of his head. Spencer reads all of this as being about puberty, Naota's older brother being gone, and Mamimi, the girl who prays to a video game god while doing little fire rituals with lighters taped to her face. Kevin's contribution is that it all felt like a dream, which Spencer declares the correct take. Elsewhere: Spencer's latest Magic loss (great deck, politically knifed out of the game almost immediately), a bit on "Classroom of the Elite" and its protagonist who is apparently just the smartest student alive and fixes everything quietly forever, and a listener question about CPTSD and protective anger. Spencer gets unexpectedly real on that last one before concluding that, no, he mostly just accepts injustice rather than getting angry about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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