Lost and Found

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of Stark Industries. You know, it's funny, we

last episode said that this intro hits every

time. I wonder if we're going to be saying that

in like a thousand episodes. Oh, I'm going to

say it. China, 1400 AD. China. I believe we just

spent a little bit of time here. Just with a

different cast. Did we? Well, I guess, yeah.

Because we were in Greece last time. No, well,

our last episode, if you recall, was what if?

Oh, you're absolutely right. Apologies. It's

good. I remember my first time recording a podcast.

Yeah. Oh, sadly leaving. Yeah. Could you look

any more suspicious? Yeah, that guy definitely

didn't think you were doing anything weird. Right?

Like, what is this fool doing? Who is he hiding

from? Oh, man. That's a big no -no there. Everyone's

like, who is this guy? The wind gave away your

theft. That's one of those things that like,

that's just not how clothes work. There's a big

stone dragon strapped to your back. Everyone's

going to see a big stone dragon shape in your

cloak. Yeah. Yeah. Although the fur and the cloaks

and these, these temperates might be a little,

Perhaps. Not to that level, though, I think.

I feel like that crate would have done, well,

just exactly what it did. Smashed apart when

it tried to go through that door. That's some

expert maneuvering in the snow. You should try

it for the Olympics. Seriously. Wakanda would

kick our asses in the Olympics, man. Trek and

field, especially. Probably. Maybe everything.

I don't know, though. They have such a reliance

on technology. That's true. That's true. Although

we just saw what this dude did. Well, yeah. Wardog

9999. We assumed you were dead, bro. Yeah, one

could say that. Yeah. Well, you got an actual

dragon in your back pocket. That tongue is real

shiny. It is. So I'm loving, now that we're three

episodes in, well, I realized it last time, but

that we show in the first episode with the ships

and everything, and then the second episode with

Troy, and then we've got the Iron Fist, and fourth

episode looks like it's going to have some sort

of vehicle. That's all I can... ascertained from

this room yes there's a lot of uh foreshadowing

in the shadows yeah yeah yeah we got iron fist

here right here yeah basha there's episode four

yeah that's a that's a motorized wheelbarrow

You know, I kind of believe you because it's

well before cars were invented. I see. I've seen

the dates here. Ice of Wakanda. In China. Lost

and found. Dude, I want to fly one of those.

That looks fun. I'm pretty sure that's how you

end up dead somewhere. You don't know. Could

have been an ace pilot. That's fair. Lots of

times. I like that guy's molestash. Oh, Jesus.

I mean, it's a choice. Not one idea. It is a

choice. A choice, nonetheless. I stole it all.

I also left my girlfriend in bed before I stole

it. Right. It's kind of rude. Hell hath no fury,

man. We haven't seen the last of her. Oh, there's

the motorized wheelbarrow. Oh, you know what?

That does look just like it, does it not? We

figured it out. Mystery solved. Let's go on to

the next one. I do what I must. Yeah, they're

really setting this guy up to be kind of someone

you don't want to like. Gifts, just this one,

but gifts. Sadly, he looks very broken up about

it. He really does. Well, apparently we do. That

mask right there. That was the alliance mask

from episode one. Yeah. Callback. Easter egg.

And he closed the door. There's about to be a

stern talking to in that room, I bet. Mm hmm.

You got somebody aboard? You got an iron fist

aboard? Iron fist right up the sparrow's butthole.

Let's see. Is that necklace right there? Is that

the one from Troy? Could be. Retro. That's awkward.

He is not impressed. That guy's back. Reminds

me of Carlton from Fresh Prince. Yeah. Did a

little dance. Oh, snap. Oh. His wheelbarrow crashed.

Oh, so his lady was the iron fist. That's not

going to go well for him. That is not going to

go well for him at all. You did say something

about hell having no fury. Yeah, I didn't expect

it to be her. I mean, it should have, but there

it is. I like what they did with the mask here.

Yeah, that's pretty sick. Iron Fist is always

one of those ones that's outfit looks kind of

dumb. So this doesn't look kind of dumb. Certain

iterations have been, yeah. Yeah. Dirty words.

Right. No honor. Language. Well. That's good

for Wakanda to get humbled a little bit. Right.

Well, we're here acting like they're better than

everybody. Winning all the Olympics. The nerve.

A curse. Right. What? That's a whole person.

That's a whole. Yeah. A curse. Questionable.

She punched me in my arm and it hurts. Dead arm.

She did that thing with the knuckles sticking

out. One -inch punch. Ruh -roh. The look he gave

him was great. I mean, he's got a point. I mean,

they were eating lunch too. That's double checked

up. Someone broke in and beat me up while I was

eating my square pizza. I'd be upset. Kick that

incrustable right out of your hand. Yeah. Rude.

Let me drink my pint of milk and have peace.

He's getting squinty. Mm -hmm. Yeah. How do you

know? Yeah, right? The air doesn't smell so foul

down here. I have no memory of this place. That's

the vibe. love it of course immediately ripped

the face mask off so you can see who it is oh

he went down the hill and knocked himself out

that's the best part wait so he Pretended to

be. Okay. Okay. I gotcha. Didn't even realize.

Oh, no, that must've been when he first got there.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And she nursed him back to

health and he just, you know, did all that. The

worst. Nursed him back to health. He's not actually

hurt though. I'll bet. Now they're kissing. Ew.

I bet they touch each other's butts too. Probably.

Oh, she's just awake. It's like, all right, time

to bid the iron fist. Climbing the butthole.

Well, you took my things. Yeah. Luckily, they

color -coded everything. Mm -hmm. Oh, that's

just not how physics works. No, not at all. You're

going to be splattered like a bug on a windshield.

There was a lot of seducing. That's what they

call butt touching in Wakanda. You called it.

I have a keen eye for when butts have been touched.

Is that so? Yeah, it's a gift. Something absurd

is about to happen. Yep. Oh, she's going to step

on you, fool. Splat. Nope, he's fine. It turns

out that the same cloak that covered the dragon's

head without leaving a lump protects him from

falls. I believe it's from the plot armor collection.

Ah, that's a good collection. Why did they just

awkwardly zoom in on her belt? It was weird.

She's a yellow belt. That's not even very good.

I got higher than that when I was 10. Somehow

he's already there as well. Right? Wakanda has

worked out that teleportation tech pretty well.

Well, he jumped from the blue train to the purple

train and crossed over to the G -Biv. Why would

you look at the door, Dingus? Well, he's not

proving himself to be very intelligent. No, man,

they should have put Baku on this. Although Baku's

probably dead. This is much later. A little while

later. Oh, that was a fun move. Yeah. Lucky she

did that instead of just punching him in the

head because that would have made a crater in

the floor. Wow. I guess let's just use our vibranium.

Dumbass. Oh, shit. A kukri. That's cool. Yeah,

the choreography continues to be top notch. That

has been consistent through all the episodes

of this show. Yeah, as long as you can forgive

the yeah, you'd be dead moments. The plot armor.

Yeah. Oh, that is a that's a cool weapon. Why

haven't he been using this this whole time? Right.

There it is. But the floor is just fine. Well,

that's Wakandan floor. Yeah, must be vibranium.

Yeah, I mean, I'd put a little vibranium everywhere

in the toilet paper, on the floor, in my refrigerator.

You never know when things will happen. That's

true. That's true. Oh, Carlton. Yeah, you're

down. Go trim your upper lip. They haven't invented

razors yet. Oh, they have to get it that pencil

thin. That's true. That's true. Well, that's

awkward. Now she's the vibranium fist. That'd

be much, much more powerful. Yeah. But you still

touched her butt. Part of the mission. Yeah.

No, we're all good now. Or had you just, you

know, taken the tongue out? Oh, they didn't want

to take the tongue. Oh, you're talking about

the dragon. Jesus. We was wrestling. Me and Carlton

here. Yeah. Clearly. That's what I would use

to describe him. Right. Web of lies. Right. Not

quite as good as he. Yeah. He's just going to

go get killed immediately. First mission. Yeah.

What are you talking about? He took on the whole

war dogs cafeteria. Yeah. Send him on our hardest

mission. Finger guns. Built on a mountain of

deceit. Right. Oh, they're going to touch butts

again. Well, yeah. Well, the other guy, Carlton's

down there, too. Maybe with Ebo. I mean, you

know, triple. Oh, well, might be open to the

imagination. So they're there. I say we will

continue this in the deep dive. but touch it

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Hello and welcome, fellow Marvel fans, to the

Snark Industries podcast. I'm John. And I'm Remy.

And we invite you to join us as we work our way

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and enjoy this episode of Stark Industries. Hello

and welcome to the Deep Dive for Snark Industries.

We just got done watching Lost and Found, Eyes

of Wakanda, Season 1, Episode 3. John, you want

to tell us what it was about? Yeah, so we continue

the Eyes of Wakanda's central theme of going

and recovering Wakandan artifacts from different

cultures and different times and then bringing

them back to Wakanda. So, you know, we've seen

a couple of things already in the past. And now

ultimately here, we are set in China as things

start off in the 1400 CE or AD era. And we immediately

see that we do not know who just yet. We come

out to find out later the main character, Basha,

is laying in bed with a woman there in China.

He gets up and sneaks out, sort of creepily going

about nonchalantly speaking to everybody and

ultimately finds the piece of vibranium he's

been looking for. And it's stuck in a dragon's

head that he can't get it out of. And so he decides

the best course of action is to just steal it

and take it back to Wakanda, which he gets a

stern talking to from our favorite Carlton impersonator,

Captain Ebo, who talks about how taking back

the Wakandan artifacts is important, but taking

others' cultures is just as bad as what was done

to them. to lead them to have the need to go

after these artifacts to start with, which I

think is a good way to sort of reach out and

touch base on the different cultures and how

they can exist but coexist at the same time.

But turns out there was a stowaway on the airship

that Basha used to fly back to Wakanda, and it

becomes evident to anyone who's got any sort

of knowledge of these things that it's the Iron

Fist, though we don't know the identity of the

Iron Fist. It's obviously not. the one that most

people are familiar with. But still, it does

not take long where Basha runs into this secret

person who ends up being the woman that was in

bed with him to start with. Jerani, who apparently

found him when he sort of crashed, whether it

be by accident or design, in China, nursed him

back to health, and shared clearly some intimate,

butt -touching moments, as we discussed. in the

watch party just to have him turn around and

ultimately steal a sacred relic of her people.

So she came back to get that. And what ensued

was them sort of trying to have this sort of

moral dilemma of who's right and who's wrong.

This is my artifact. This is my artifact. These

are my things. This is my things. I was there

first, et cetera, et cetera. I think it was clear

that the moral high ground lied with with Gerani,

the Iron Fist. But I think that they were trying

to get a little bit more balance to that. with

how they were presenting everything. But ultimately,

they go, they fight. She wins and ultimately

pulls the vibranium tongue from the dragon's

head, gives it to him. Very easily, by the way.

Yeah, very easily. Keeping the dragon herself

and returning the vibranium artifact that he

was looking for, in which case everyone wins.

And then as we all get a nice happy bow on it

as the High Councilman comes in. Clearly ready

to break all this down. And they just say, oh,

no, this was just a training exercise, which

we'll see later is a theme in Marvel, an unfortunate

training exercise. And they all kind of just

go off about their way, happy with what they

have procured. So that's the breakdown of the

show. And now we kind of go into the how does

it fit in with the MCU as a whole? We're slowly

starting to build a little bit of this foundation.

And this carries the same sort of weight in that

as the previous eyes on Wakanda do. Not a lot

is the short answer, other than just showing

some history of Wakanda that ultimately doesn't

have a lot of effects on how the MCU forms as

it goes. But still an interesting story to be

told and expanding on that lore, I think is never

a bad thing. So no, completely agree. But yeah,

so that's that. And why don't you tell us how

it ties in with comics and all that fun stuff?

Yeah. So as you mentioned, it is in the main

MCU. So it is in the proper. universe and the

tie -ins for the comics obviously we have the

iron fist coming into play here and this specific

episode kind of expanded upon the 2006 run of

iron fist by matt fraction ed brubaker and david

aha they created the iron fist mythos to stretch

back to where danny rand was i believe it was

the 66th iron fist This kind of builds in to

the mythos and actually gives you yet another

one of those 66 characters that we don't know,

which is kind of cool. That is cool. Beyond that,

of course, we have the war dogs. We have everything

that was built into the two previous episodes.

And there was I actually noticed that Bast was

mentioned, which is a fun callback to when we

learned about him in the first Black Panther

movie. So but yeah, as far as comics go, and

I think we did call out a couple of Easter eggs

as well. Definitely saw the lion's mask from

episode one. And I think I think there was a

necklace on the table in the background that

was the necklace that was retrieved by Bakai

in episode two. Kind of cool. That is very cool.

So what were your thoughts on the episode altogether?

So, and I told you before we even started this,

and I'll say it again proudly, this is actually

my favorite of the Eyes on Wakanda series. It

sort of deters a little bit, I think, from the

standard MO where you have this Wakandan hero

that's going and doing this great thing for Wakanda

and taking something back. And it kind of pushes

it sort of the other way. And shows, you know,

that these things can have meaning and can have

a good, healthy place elsewhere. And so you kind

of see that juxtaposition with Basha and Jurani.

And ultimately, in the end, each of them still

keeping that sort of sacred piece of their own

heritage. But it's not just this very cut and

dry, I am Wakanda, this is my thing, I'm taking

it back for my people, it was stolen from us.

It's more of a gray area, and I find that to

be very interesting. And I also think Iron Fist

is very cool. And to see those sort of martial

arts, and we mentioned at the watch party that

the choreography throughout all of the episodes

has been wonderful. But to really see a lot of

focus here on the next level of martial arts

that you get, I mean, you have pretty much all

of these comic book heroes that we all know and

love has some capacity for the martial art. of

some kind or another, but to really see that

sort of what I, what I kind of said, the upper

echelon of capabilities in the iron fist I put

in here, I thought that said it's refreshing

and good. Not that this, this show drags or anything.

It's, it's only a few or, you know, I think four

episodes long total, but still it is, it is a,

just a nice, nice change of pace in that sense.

And to be able to see that and have that gray

area for me. I thought it was really well done.

I really liked it. Like I said, it's my favorite

of the series so far. Yeah, I'd have to agree

so far of the three that I've seen because I

have not seen the series before now. This has

been my favorite. I really enjoyed the last one

with Troy. I thought that was a lot of fun. But

this one felt more grounded. This one felt more

like it was trying to teach us something. Yeah.

You know, the good old school. And that's part

of the fun of what these stories are. It's not

just entertainment, which, of course, they are

entertaining. It's not just cool action sequences,

which they. Do have cool action sequences, but

certainly, you know, I think that there's a deeper

level and a deeper thing to all of it that that

really can bring another another level to what

these are about. And I think this episode does

a good job of that. Yeah, yeah, I completely

agree. And I really enjoyed that the the character

of Basha himself kind of came around in the end.

He's like, oh, well, maybe I should actually

think about the fact that these relics that used

to be ours have gained significance over time

in the time that they have not been here for

the thousand years that they have not been in

our custodial ship. I felt of the of the growths

that we see of the different characters to the

episodes that we've seen so far in this series,

I find Bosh's to be the most compelling. And

that's part of the reason I like the episode

so much is because it does seem almost more realistic

what he does and how he is like this sort of

hot shot. Like, I'm going to get these artifacts.

I'm a war dog, whatever. I'm awesome. He's the

will to our Carlton. Yeah, I mean, really, that

really was the vibe. Yeah. And, you know, and

then to see him kind of grow into something more

than that and have that realization, just like

you said, I think is is very well done. So, yeah,

completely agree. But yeah, that wraps up Lost

and Found episode four. That's the deep dive.

Lots of butt touching. See you next time, folks.

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Snark Industries podcast. To join the conversation

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Yeah, we going, we going.