825. See You Space Podboys - Session #6: Sympathy for the Devil
Added 2025-02-03 14:00:12 +0000 UTC
Adam Ganser and Abe Epperson discuss the 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop. This time, we talk about session #6, Sympathy for the Devil. The immortal kid one. 3, 2, 1. Let’s jam.
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Comments
Great pod, boys! Once you complete your full bounty of episodes, I'd LOVE to hear y'all cover Samurai Champloo or Space Dandy 🙂
Hazen Roller-Olson
2025-04-20 19:54:37 +0000 UTCSome insights on the gun Spike uses in the episode: It's loosely designed based on the Thompson Center Contender, a single shot gun that was popular because of its modular design. The Contender can be set up with pistol grips or a rifle butt stock and can interchange barrels of different cartridge/caliber types as well as firing mechanism, those being either centerfire or rimfire. A very popular configuration for the Contender is a 10" barrel chambered in 30-30 Winchester with a pistol grip. This set up was used extensively by shooters participating in Handgun Silhouette competitions. The 30-30 Winchester is a rimmed bottleneck centerfire cartridge that shoots a .308" diameter 30 caliber bullet with weight ranges between 125gr on the low end and 150-170gr on the average end. It was one of the first cartridge designed to use smokeless gun powder (as opposed to black powder) and was introduced by Winchester in their 1894 lever action rifle in the year 1895. The cartridge shown that Jet and Spike load the jewel bullet into proportionally is off but is very similar to a 30-30 cartridge case in that it shows a rim at the base of the cartridge and has a bottleneck to the case mouth which appears to be around 30 caliber. So the final confrontation of the episode goes down with a magic bullet, made to fit a cartridge designed in the 1890's, loaded into a gun designed in the 1960's, fired in the 2070's, in a configuration popular for accuracy shooting, and shot by one of the best shooters in the solar system.
Philip Reinhardt
2025-02-04 01:39:30 +0000 UTCLoved a lot of points in this episode. The Bebop crew don’t ever digest their experiences because they’re perpetual tourists. They only view wherever they go through their own lens, about what they lost or gained. Another “American culture being seen through an eastern lens” is Big Trouble in Little China. Jack Burton is like an American Folkhero that came from nowhere, is exceptional, rolled in and played a central role in someone else’s story, then disappeared into the night…much like Spike. The fact that the beginning story starts with a Chinese immigrant telling the movie as a tale in the intro really drives it home. But my theory for that one is that Jack Burton doesn’t exist and Egg Shen is a murderous crime boss trying to sell a lie in a way his American cultural listeners would be amenable to
James Crosslin
2025-02-04 00:33:52 +0000 UTCPlease grab Papa Mike and do a Deadwood pod.
drunkencoyote
2025-02-03 18:56:00 +0000 UTCAt about 26:00 minutes, you guys talk about spike tossing the harmonica and pretending to shoot it. Seems worth while to point out this is the first of two times he points his finger and says “bang” I personally interpreted it as spike believing everyone’s story needs an ending. Thanks for introducing me to the show! It’s easily in my top 5 now!
Brandon Coburn
2025-02-03 18:15:14 +0000 UTC
