Plumbing the Death Star - Ethical Concerns of Meta Human Prisons (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
Episode Date: April 6, 2015In which our heroes get caught in a particle accelerator explosion, gain the power of speed and start putting other powered people in windowless boxes underground with the blessing of our cop dad and ...never once question any ethical dilemmas that might arise. We attempt to sue the Hulk, suggest meta humans should have their own system of law, and explore the bitchiness of the Justice League. Jackson points out that Flash's MO is the same as a Batman villain, Zammit could not deal with a solid 20 minutes in a box, and James proposes a virtual reality prison for meta humans. So ask your policeman daddy to give you carte blanche to kidnap people, tap into the speedforce, and decide who's box-worthy. The answer is usually anything that isn’t you.Want to help us find an ethical way to treat these superpowered criminals? Head to http://www.patreon.com/sanspantsradio and for as little as $1 a month, you can help make a difference in helping this evil meta humans reform.And don’t forget to get your free audible book download and a 30 day free trial at http://www.audibletrial.com/SanspantsRadio there’s probably at least seventeen books explaining the Geneva Conventions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hey guys, welcome to this week's episode of Plumbing the Death Star,
where we ask the important questions like,
what are the ethical dilemmas of Central City's metahuman prison?
If you don't watch The Flash, that made no sense.
I don't watch The Flash.
So basically, to get everybody up to speed, including you two guys, right?
The Flash, which is a series that is currently running at the moment.
People running like The Flash.
Oh my god, yes!
There's already so much comedy in this episode.
Basically, for those who don't watch it,
a particle accelerator explodes at the start of the season.
Oh, no.
I know, right?
And as a result, the Flash gets his superpowers.
Oh, that's good.
That's great.
Yeah.
But then pretty much every single other person
who gets a superpower is a lunatic.
Oh, that's a shame.
That's bad.
Exactly.
So every week he usually fights a different supervillain.
And then what they do at the end of that fight or whatever,
the Flash and his crew take whoever that is,
even if they're not that particularly bad,
and they store them under the particle accelerator room
and they just put them in a windowless box
with no toilet or food or door, it seems.
And it's like, have you ever seen Cabin in the Woods?
Yeah.
It's like all those elevators that just go around forever.
So how do they, why are they not full of shit?
That's a very good question.
Do they feed them?
They must, but they don't really address it.
Well, before we get into that, my question is,
why isn't Flash in a box?
Okay, sure.
I mean, who's deciding who's good and bad?
Yeah, that's a very good point, yeah.
Like, I have watched Flash, whatever.
But, hey, I'm going with this.
Like, who is, like, all right, Flash.
Billy West?
No, it's...
Is that a voice act?
Yeah, that is.
Wally West was the original Flash.
This is Barry Allen.
Oh, Barry Allen.
You're like, Barry Allen, all right.
Sorry, he wasn't the original Flash.
It doesn't matter. It's Barry Allen. I Allen. You're like, Barry Allen. Sorry, it wasn't the original Flash. It doesn't matter.
It's Barry Allen.
I don't want to get into it.
Cool.
Comics.
Barry Allen, you're like, hey, you're the Flash.
Is the Flash?
Yeah, he's the Flash.
You're the Flash.
He's the Flash.
He's all the other people who are superpowered and stuff.
We need you to grab them and put them in the box.
And he's like, got it.
I'm on this.
What?
I'm your man.
I'm your man for putting people in boxes
doesn't he have any sort of empathy there or he's like but hey they are a victim of science like i
am why hunt well what okay well hang on what what powers are they getting sure okay well the very
first guy that turns up is a weatherman who can control the weather okay okay useful yeah
absolutely and he's got a brother who can also control the weather i don't know what happens
because the time of recording that hasn't resolved itself yeah he's got a brother who can also control the weather. I don't know what happens because at the time of recording,
that hasn't resolved itself.
He's probably going to end up in a box.
Chances are.
He's destined for the box.
Oh, actually, no.
I think the flood.
No, he was shot.
He didn't end up in a box.
So if anything, that's a mercy.
Yeah, yeah.
Good for him.
So he's free in a way.
Okay.
There's other villains that turned up.
There's a guy.
There's a woman, actually. This one's really. No, sorry. There's a guy there's a woman actually
this one's really
no sorry
there's a guy who can control
technology or something
or he can
no he's got
something like that
no he's the Pied Piper
he can manipulate people
and make them do things
or whatever
yeah alright
so they put him in a box
he actually got out of the box
to his credit
good
good
this isn't a good example
the first two examples
I brought up
they're not in a box
one got shot.
One got out of the box.
Yeah.
Okay, there is a woman who can teleport, right?
Yeah.
Anywhere she can see, she can teleport to.
Did you see out of the box?
Yeah.
No, well, that's the thing.
But she's not really a bad person.
Her boyfriend is a criminal.
It's like, we'll just do this one last score and then nobody's ending up in a box.
Don't worry about it.
Anyway, he buggers off.
The flash shuts down the power so she can't see where she's going. Yeah. And then's ending up in a box. Don't worry about it. Anyway, he buggers off.
The Flash shuts down the power so she can't see where she's going.
Yeah.
And then they put her in a box.
And she's screaming in this box, teleporting.
But because it's a mirrored box, they made one special for her.
She just can't, trapped, and she can't do anything. That's awful.
Yeah.
Flash, no.
What was Flash before he became the Flash?
He was a
Forensics expert
And he still is
So he wasn't an upstanding citizen
So he doesn't have a shady past
Where it's like, you piece of shit
Who do you think you are
Judging me
Because my boyfriend
It's the Ghostbusters issue, isn't it?
Who gives the Flash the power to put these people in boxes?
Yeah.
I didn't vote for him.
I feel like it's...
Because he's got a crew,
and they're all kind of, like, encouraging each other.
They're like, yeah, no, we should.
I mean, look, they are dangerous, most of these guys.
Yeah, sure.
But there's a better way.
Yeah.
Okay, all right, let's just go teleporting lady. Okay, so she's not inherently evil. Yeah. Okay, alright. Let's just go teleporting lady.
Yeah.
Okay, so she's not
inherently evil.
No.
She wasn't like
I'm going to use my plans
for nefarious ways.
Look, I just got
victim of circumstance.
Yeah, I just need some cash
and then I'm going to leave.
That was pretty much
her theory, yeah.
Couldn't like
what company does he work for?
Who?
The Flash.
Well, yeah.
I don't know what they're called.
Flash Inc.
Flash Inc.
Flash Inc.
Flash Incorporated, yeah. Flash Incorporated what they're called. Flash Inc. Flash Inc. Flash Inc. Flash Incorporated, yeah.
Flash Incorporated.
Flash and Son.
It works for a guy who...
Flash and Son are like, hey, teleporting girl, work for us.
Help us with these crimes.
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
There's this option one.
Yeah, that would be my first thing.
That would be my first.
Like, rehab, guys.
Teleporting is almost like running real fast.
Yeah, it is. So, like, join me instead of fight me. That would be my first, like, rehab, guys. Teleporting is almost like running real fast. Yeah, it is, yeah.
So, like, join me instead of fight me.
We could be Flash son and daughter.
It would be great.
And I feel like that would be a really short conversation
where they'd be like, your boyfriend left.
Yeah.
Sorry.
He's like a piece of shit.
Yeah, do you want to, like, you know.
I'll bust out.
Or just be on your merry way.
Just don't commit crimes.
And she'd be like, yeah.
Because we know where you are.
I didn't want to.
And just fight him.
So long. It's like a threat. Like, there's a box. Yeah. You know. just don't commit crimes and she'd be like yeah because we know where you are I didn't want to and I'd be like
so long
it's like a threat
like there's a box
you know
you mess again
we'll put you in a box
but let's just do
good things together
reform
reform
if I'd gotten powers
from the particle accelerator
and like say
I don't know
I could like fly
with my feet
or whatever
good
I don't even know
what that means
am I like upside down
in the sky
your feet would just independently oh my god here we go dragging you along in the sky yeah i could say that's happening
and the flash is like hey he zips up to me stop it or i'll put you in a box i'll be like holy
shit i will never again that is like i can't help this i can't help this flash help me in the box
you go you piece of shit that's pretty much how it goes though like if they can't help this I can't help this Flash help me in the box you go you piece of shit that's pretty much
how it goes though
like if they can't
control it either
they're in the box
what?
holy shit
Flash not on
there's another one
called the mist
which is a guy
who can turn into mist
he's in a box
it's just a box of mist
how'd they put him
in a box?
box of mist?
I don't know
a funnel I guess
I don't know how they did it
you know when he's
like sucking gas
like just
put him
blow that mist in
yeah there's a bunch some get away Captain Boomerang got away good I'm glad You know when he's sucking gas? Yeah, exactly. Put it in, blow that mist in.
Yeah, there's a bunch.
Some get away.
Captain Boomerang got away.
Good, I'm glad.
Did Captain Boomerang get powers?
Because in the comics, can't he just throw boomerangs real good? Yeah, that's what he does.
Yeah, he just throws boomerangs.
So he was like, what's your power?
Boomerangs?
He's like, nah, mate.
I can just throw boomerangs pretty good.
He's like, I guess you don't go in the box.
Yeah, whatever then.
Is that box worthy?
Do we waste a box?
Box worthy, guys? Is the box worthy? Do we waste a box? Box worthy, guys?
Is the box worthy?
Could some of the, because the boomerang,
you could theoretically just put him in jail, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, you could.
Regular jail.
That's an option, Flash.
Is the Flash a policeman?
Have they been deputised?
In a way, because one of the police,
one of the high-ranking police officers he
knows and he raised him knows he's the flash yeah and whenever he's like there's a bank robber he's
like get down there man yeah so that that's all well and good but is that the same as being like
you're a deputy definitely not to be like your dad who's a cop says you can fight crime no that is
not that does not count you got this i don't think that's gonna hold up in a court of law because like imagine it without
powers imagine that there's some guy who is a dangerous psychopath and he's like i need to
collect other dangerous psychopaths yeah and put them in boxes underground yeah that's a national
tragedy is what that is that's on the news for months you're right what if the mist had been
had like what if the Mist dad was
the cop, right? And he's like,
there's this guy, he's zipping around like a piece of shit.
Mist, get him. Get him.
And then, like, the Mist has then grabbed
Flash and put him in a box. Yeah.
But I think the only reason the Flash is doing it is because the Flash
can. Like, the Mist can't grab him.
Teleporting lady probably could.
Yeah, she probably could. Yeah, so teleporting lady
is like, my dad's the
You know
Captain of the police guard
Or whatever they call them
Yeah police guys I think
Yeah
It's like hey
Daughter of mine
Teleporting son
Yeah
We've got this box
There's this guy zipping about
Grab him
Put him in this box
He can't get out
I mean what
Where's the line
Where's the line
Who designed the boxes
Harrison Wells
Who runs the institute But he's not who I don designed the boxes? Harrison Wells, who runs the Institute.
But he's not who...
I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it.
Nah, spoil away.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay, well, he is the reverse Flash from 200 years in the future.
Oh, okay.
And he's a bad guy.
So he's built this.
So I guess that makes some sense where he's not a good...
He's, like, collecting them?
Yeah, I guess so.
Or he's just...
It seems like he's... they haven't resolved that yet.
So whenever this comes out, I don't know.
But basically.
Put him out tomorrow.
Okay, tomorrow.
Yeah, it seems like that he is only doing everything he does to make Barry faster so he can get back to the future.
Oh, okay.
Like the movie Back to the Future.
Yeah, with Doc Brown and Marty McFly.
Exactly.
So he's got to get his parents back or whatever.
Exactly.
and Marty McFly.
Exactly.
Going to get flashed and make his parents bang or whatever.
Exactly.
And I think by getting these guys out of the way
to stop the flash being killed
is to his benefit.
But surely the flash should at some point be like,
I feel like putting these guys in boxes.
You are correct.
On a moral sense.
Yeah.
It's not okay.
Does he ever bring it up?
Like, what are we doing wrong?
Apparently it's going to be addressed
and I feel like it's going to be one of those
Really?
Shoot.
Yeah. It's going to be one of those Ghostbusters moments
where the machine breaks and everyone gets out at once.
I feel like that's where it's going.
I mean, that's probably good.
It makes sense.
It's pretty much a crime he's committing.
Yeah, it is.
I mean, it's unlawful imprisonment.
There's no trial.
There's nothing.
Yeah, I was going to say, is there any trial?
No.
Because there's a Batman villain, right, called the Keymaster master or lock and key or something and his whole deal is the
same he builds these prisons underground and in these places and he puts all these super villains
in there there's like whole storylines where the key or whatever his name is just like locks up
gotham's villains and batman frees them because batman has a complicated relationship with
the world yeah but like that's not okay.
In the comics, everyone's like, oh, don't,
unlawful imprisonment.
Flash is like, look, let's put them away.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Yeah, that's exactly it.
The argument is that they're so dangerous
they can't be in a regular prison.
But I feel like they should go through
some kind of judicial process.
Because they're like, you killed 50 guys.
You should go to prison.
Yeah, then you can go.
But yeah, there needs to be some steps there.
Well, give them to someone like Xavier, you know?
It's like, hey, this guy can control the weather.
I've got one of those.
I know what to do.
I'm aware of what to do with this situation.
It's a shame there's no Xavier in the DC universe.
You've got no analog there.
I'm sure there's
someone with
exactly those
powers
what's the
powers there
but also
there's kind of
be like
let's gather
them all
together
the closest
you have is
the Justice
League and
they're super
bitchy about
who they're
letting
they are
aren't they
someone to
help these
young
metahumans
just be
if I was
struck by
this particle
accelerator
bullshit
and suddenly I can summon a volcano
I'm just going to be like
that's not me guys, oh shit there's another one
oh fuck and then the flash is going to punch me in the face
using the flash and put me in a box
and I'm going to be like
I don't know what I'm doing, I don't know why I'm here
help me
when I come out I'm going to make so many volcanoes
I'm so mad at the flash
yeah
if anything
you're making me more angry
yeah
like that's a good way
for the flash to get
a rogues gallery
because when they come out
they're going to be like
you son of a bitch
you put me in a box
what's wrong with you
even if it was for a week
I'm like that's a week too long
that's a week in a box
oh I wouldn't last
like 24 hours
I would be
actually I'd be mad
for even three
three hours in a box
I would be very yeah I'd be I'd be steamed half an hour be mad for even three. Three hours in a box, I would be very...
Yeah, I'd be steamed.
Half an hour.
I'd come out pretty salty.
If I had 20 minutes in a box, I might just fall asleep.
I reckon 20...
I'm just thinking, like, my fuse is short.
Like, I'm thinking, no, 20 minutes in a box, that piece of shit.
I feel like it'd be, like, 20 minutes in a box is panic.
Half an hour in a box is, like, you're proper, like, stressing, freaking out, yelling.
An hour in a box, I might have accepted my fate. Okay, yeah like this is it forever i'll be like look this is me and bear in mind
there's no clock there's no chair there's no television there's nothing so you would have
no concept of time no sunlight no entertainment no chair can i see the other guys no i'd be like
you know like a bed no there's nothing Can't even sleep
Just a box
Is it long enough
That they can lie down?
Yeah you can lie down
That's alright
Small blessings you know
Do we have clothes?
Well the ones you went in
Yeah
The ones you arrived in
Jesus
There'd be
Just like
I'm sure there's
Things in place
I guess I'd
Bundle my clothes up
As a pillow
Yeah
Sleepin' naked
Yeah yeah yeah
And they're watching you though On the camera Whatever man Watching me sleep naked I'd bundle my clothes up as a pillow. Yeah. Sleep in naked. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're watching you, though, on the camera.
Whatever, man.
Watching you sleep naked.
Watching you sleep naked.
I'd be staring at the camera 24-7.
Fuck you guys.
I'd be one of those creepy guys that just starts meditating,
and they just don't move for 24 hours,
and it's like, just stare and just wait.
Because eventually it's going to get broken out.
Eventually, yeah.
And they'll be like, oh, oh, look, look, here's a volcano.
Woo, volcano, volcano, volcano.
Oh, look at that volcano. Wait, hey, hey, oh, oh, look, look, here's a volcano. Woo, volcano, volcano, volcano.
Wait, hey, hey,
oh, oh, look at that.
Oh, four volcanoes.
What's she going to do now,
Flash?
Volcano.
Well, what do you think is a better way
to trap metahumans then
or like imprison them?
If they're bad,
just kill them.
I'm not for the death penalty,
but in a situation
where a guy is a literal psychopath
and will never stop
killing people,
then I think it's okay
for the Flash,
maybe not the Flash,
maybe someone of authority to kill them.
Flash can just kill who he wants.
Maybe a group of peers.
Yeah.
Like a jury.
Yeah, a jury of 12 guys.
I feel like superheroes and metahumans should have their own law systems.
Okay, sure, yeah.
Where they can sort stuff out internally.
Maybe I was a little harsh on the killing.
No. No, no.
That's something I love about Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman always just seems like,
look, you're too much of a hassle.
I'm going to stab you.
There you go.
Sorted.
Batman, the reason that Gotham is a shithole
is because Batman won't follow through.
Like maybe they should, like Gotham's villains,
maybe they need to be put in boxes.
That's very true.
Maybe I'm pro-box there guys i'll say it and also look at what they were like before the particle
accelerator yeah because what's to say that the particle accelerator made me insane yeah you're
right i mean like look at like you know uh again crossing the you know the marvel path um like
gamma radiation right so like the leader I think it's the leader
the big head guy
you know it depends
it's iteration
but let's go with the one
where he isn't just
a complete cunt
from the beginning
like the beginning
like you know
he's fine
he's a scientist
something happens
gamma radiation
evil son of a bitch
you know
it's like look
clearly
the gamma radiation
did something
he can't really be
blamed or held
responsible for his actions because it wasn't there.
Should the Hulk be in a box?
Yeah, well, that's a thing.
If the Hulk hulks out
and kills my kid,
who's to blame?
Can I take Bruce Banner? Can I sue Banner?
Or is Banner going to be like,
well, I don't think I'd sue him. I'd try and get him arrested.
Or it'd be like destruction of property.
We've gone down. You know what would be super super fucking weird yeah get she hulk as the lawyer
represent you i don't think she'd be okay with that i think she'd probably defend bruce banner
because like who goes to jail there law in superheroes is a very complicated issue
like for where these weather people if they were like completely normal people then like i can Who goes to jail there? Law in superheroes is a very complicated issue.
Like for this weather people,
if they were like completely normal people,
then they're like, I can control the weather and oh my God, I'm going insane with power.
In the TV version, there's two of them.
Yeah.
Like I said, the first one gets shot, they're brothers.
The first one gets shot by the cop, Barry Allen's dad.
Yeah.
And that's the reason he goes to kill people,
which I think is quite reasonable.
Yeah, I think that's a fine origin.
Like, hey, dad shot my brother.
Understanding that.
But they were criminals, but they, yeah, that's,
I can understand where he's coming from.
I think if they can put them in a box,
I'm pro-depowering or finding, like, you know,
the mutants with the collars and, like,
they shut down their powers of that,
and just in general pop, you know, just chuck them in jail.
Just mutants in general population with collars around their necks?
Yeah.
And now you're hitting the human rights issues,
but that's the issue there.
What's the issue there?
You don't want to make people wear collars.
Well, there's power dampeners.
So they're not restrictive?
Yeah, it doesn't have to be a collar.
How big's this collar?
I'm imagining like you've broken your neck.
Can I propose something?
A virtual reality world.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm down.
So we get all of the matter humans,
we put them in like at SeaWorld where they have all of those cows.
No, like Minority Report,
like that pod thing you go to strangle
your boss in
that
so just loads of pods
like that
and you don't know
you're in it
that would be super weird
to be like
born with powers
and they're like
hey
you got powers
and you're like sick
they're like
we're taking you away
to a secret training camp
and you're like
alright
no pods
oh yeah
is that a
I think you go in the pod
if you do something
that is deemed
by a jury of peers unacceptable.
I think that's fine.
Like you're just controlling the weather,
and people don't like that.
Sorry, mate, you're in the pod.
Or have we just made better boxes?
You get the judge who plays golf,
and he's like, you rule by nature.
Yeah, exactly.
You're out, mate.
Get in the bloody pod.
Yeah.
So really, it's physically restraining,
but mentally freeing. Freeing, in a way. Which is good, because that's physically restraining but mentally free.
Free in a way.
Which is good because that's the issue.
If they weren't controlling the weather or making volcanoes,
we wouldn't care.
This has gotten way too deep.
It's gotten to this level where I'm just like,
it's a human rights issue now.
I feel like we need a lawyer in here to talk about it.
Are we the bad guys?
Should we be in a box?
Should we?
Oh, no.
Oh, God.
But if you can't control your power,
then clearly the best thing is for you to be taken away from society
for the greater good, right?
Yes.
Like you can't help it.
You are just, you blink and there's a volcano.
Jesus.
Like Jesus Christ, stop it.
We need to do something.
Don't blink.
Don't blink.
Don't blink.
Oh, my God. Every time you blink now, I Christ, stop it. We need to do something. Don't blink. Don't blink. Oh, my God.
Every time you blink now, I'm imagining a volcano,
and I'm like, that's the world's done.
That's four, that's ten.
Oh, no.
So, yeah, you'd want to try and,
first off, stopping volcano blinkers is going to be hard to begin with.
Yeah.
But if you do, yeah, if you put him in a box,
he's still going to be blinking volcanoes.
Then you take his eyes.
You have to.
Oh, my God.
Or his lids. Yeah, his lids. Maybe not his eyes. Either way, it's not great. No, he's still going to be blinking volcanoes. Then you take his eyes. Or his lids.
Yeah, his lids. Maybe not his eyes.
Either way, it's not great.
You'd have to research how his power was
and maybe get a metal thing
and staple his eye shadow.
Maybe I'm pro-boxes, guys.
Now I'm...
The more I think about it...
There's a degree of power here.
Okay, teleport.
Controlling the weather?
Yeah.
In the box?
In the box?
Depends what you use it for, I think.
Depends on the circumstance.
If you can control it, but you're not a dick about it.
Like Storm does that.
Yeah.
Should Storm be in a box?
No, that's a good point.
Maybe, but she does have claustrophobia and she would freak out.
So, yes.
Yes, she should.
But then would she get claustrophobia
if that box was also a VR
making her think she wasn't in a box?
But then you'd have that always
in the back of your mind as a
powered person. Am I in a box?
Yeah. If you knew it existed, you'd be like
is this real? What if your virtual reality
is that you're in a box?
Oh no! And then when Wolverine figures out you'd be like is this real what if your virtual reality is that you're in a box yeah oh no
and then like
when Wolverine figures out
like
it's gonna be like
Wolverine
or Batman
or someone
figures out
he's like
they've been just putting
metahumans in
in these
bloody tubs
and then
he'd break it all
and then they'd be
fucking pissed at us
yeah
could you imagine
being say
the weather dude
yeah
and being like
I'm living in this great place.
I am worshipped as like a weather god.
Yeah.
I'm having the time of my life.
Yeah.
And then suddenly Batman is you like, you wake up,
you're covered in like slime and poop and you're shaved
with like plugs in the back of your head.
Matrix style.
Like the Matrix style.
You're like, what?
And there's Batman.
He's like, are you okay, weatherman?
You're in a box.
I'm free.
I'm freeing you.
What do you mean you're freeing me?
What happened?
About ten years ago, you got these powers.
You killed everybody.
What?
You just summoned a tornado.
It was crazy.
But don't worry.
I'm here to free you.
I had a wife and kids.
What happened to them?
We'll be back in the box.
Yeah, you would have major box withdrawals.
You would have such box withdrawals.
And then you suddenly, like, it's ten years have passed.
Your wife and kids were just made up.
Oh, God.
Send them to space.
That would be my solution.
I would then become a...
A villain.
A bigger villain.
A bigger villain.
That's the danger of boxes.
Batman.
If you went into space, unless you went directly into the sun,
you'd eventually cross something that would give you powers.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
If it was a comic book universe.
Yeah, like it just would happen.
Yeah.
What if we just sent all of the matter humans into space?
Oh, yeah.
No, but then they're going to be like, space is a problem,
and then the Green Lanterns are going to come.
Space is a problem, exactly.
And the Green Lanterns are going to come,
and then they're like, what happened here?
And they're going to be like, we got sent from Earth.
And we're like, we got sent from where?
Earth, we just were sick of them.
And then they're coming down and beating the shit out of us.
And then the fucking Green Lanterns are going to come
and then we're going to be like, hey.
And then they're going to be like,
what did you do to these people?
Like, oh, they were our hassles.
And we sent them to space.
And like, you can't do that.
Humanites of sentient people. we're like oh man now you're
in our dick fuck and then we're gonna be in like a green lantern box now we're the ones in the boxes
because we're the jerks jesus christ this is far more complicated i mean like okay at the end of
the day flash shouldn't be putting people in boxes. Agreed, we can all agree on that. Think of another solution, Flash.
That one is like a shit one.
It's going to cause problems down the track.
But as for what to do with the meta-human villain problem,
I honestly don't know.
What about a nice cell?
Like a nice cell.
But then you've got the Arkham issue.
You're putting them all together.
One of them gets free, they all get free.
Yeah.
I think you've just got to cold ice them.
You've just got to... Because, like the teleportation girl,
she's in a cell and she's like, I can see outside, I can free you,
but hang on, I'm just gonna poof into the Joker's room here,
grab you, poof, okay, we're outside.
Just gonna keep doing this back and forth.
Sick, now we're all out.
Now we're all out.
You know?
Okay, she gets a box.
She gets a box.
But she was the one I didn't want a box in the first place.
Yeah, you're right.
She was the middle situation.
I think killing, killing.
I'm so anti-death penalty, but Jesus.
I don't like it, but like I eat meat, but I won't shoot a cow.
Yeah.
Because it's the same scenario.
I wouldn't eat a metahuman, but I would shoot one.. Yeah. It's the same scenario. I wouldn't eat a metahuman,
but I would shoot one.
I guess.
And?
Is the takeaway message here.
Because I don't know what else you could do with them.
No.
Are you supposed to be sad at the end of these episodes?
No, but I am this time.
Or we could make them superheroes.
Yeah, but then you get a Suicide Squad situation
where the only way you can make them superheroes is with
like, explodey collars.
I think I'm okay with that. I think that's a good song.
In the head. Yeah. In the head. Not a collar.
A bomb in the head. Yeah, how about a microchip?
Not a bomb. A microchip that shuts out their power.
Bomb in the head. No!
Bomb in the head. A microchip
that controls their power. Aye?
Okay. Right? Get like
Dr. Fate or whatever to make you one?
So rather than the collar that's restrictive,
we can be like,
okay, you...
An elective surgery.
An elective surgery?
No, it'd be forced.
It would be forced, yeah.
It would be forced.
Now we're entering like lobotomy territory.
But why aren't we forcing the Flash then?
How do we get into medical ethics?
Oh my God, guys.
Where have we ended up?
Because if we're putting a chip in
teleportation girl's head to stop her teleporting
We gotta put one in Flash. I gotta put one in the Flash
to stop her running around real fast. It's gotta either get all
matter humans or no matter humans. I can't be
picking and choosing. No, you can't be picking and choosing because who the
hell are you? Yeah. I'm just a guy.
Yeah, who are you? I'm just a guy.
What the fuck do you think you are? I'm just a guy trying to fix a problem of
matter humans. Just fucking up our city.
Chips for everyone.
Oh, then would you be like just preemptively chipsing everyone?
No, because then what if somebody figures out how to fucking work the chips
in the opposite direction?
Which would happen.
Which would happen.
Because if you...
Because the thing is, there's going to be heaps of potential villains
or potential heroes that are going to keep popping up.
You've got to deal with them.
You need something in the water to be poisoning the water supply.
What do they do in other cities?
Well, in Gotham.
What's the most effective method?
It's not Gotham, right?
It's not Gotham.
Superman has a pretty sweet prison.
What does he do?
What's his prison?
He's got, like, the Fortress of Solitude has, like, a sweet prison, doesn't he?
Doesn't he, like...
He's got the negative zone
that's not great either
no that's just putting
someone in a bigger box
the phantom zone
yeah the phantom zone
is just like a bigger box
it's just a bigger version
of the box
um
then there's like
you know the
again
Marvel
they put him in the prison
in the negative zone
that's true
and that's just
that's just terrible
Aquaman will just drown you.
Yeah, exactly.
Aquaman drowns his problems.
Which, yeah, not great.
Not great, but it's the best,
better one so far.
I think you have a better chance
in like Marvel
because you've got like
the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
You've got places to go
where they'll look after you.
Like organisations.
Yeah, there's no organisations
like that in...
No, they've got the League of Evil or whatever.
Oh, yeah, the League of...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The criminal something.
Yeah.
They've got that.
That's pretty good.
Like with Marvel,
you were blinking volcanoes into existence.
Xavier or at least the Jean Grey
or Scott Sommers group will come and be like,
you're a mutant, we'll take care of you.
You're a mutant, it's fine.
We'll take care of you.
Come here, Blinky.
Wait, you got your...
Forget it.
Because I got your powers from a particle accelerator.
You're not a mutant.
Get out!
You're not my problem.
Unclean!
Unclean!
Mind wipe for you!
My mind was like, they were in the doorway
and they just shut the door on him.
Just don't worry about it.
That's Reed's problem.
Unclean, unclean.
Wheeling around in circles.
But in DC,
I mean, you could join the justice,
the evil one,
but
you know, you're just going to get the shit.
I mean, it's the whole metahuman problem.
You just, either they get locked up in boxes
or they spend the days beating the shit out of each other.
What do we do?
Just be like, fuck it.
Let's be pro-metahuman.
Kill the human race.
Hey.
Okay.
Hey, there's an idea.
Just go the other way.
Magneto tried to do that, didn't he, in X-Men 2?
Yeah.
He flipped the machine or whatever.
Did it work out for him?
I mean.
No.
Not particularly well. I mean, look, and he should have done it to be fair
I'm not condoning that
But like you know we've proven
Like we can't you know
Homo sapiens can't live with homo superior
So one of us has to go
It'll be like Neanderthals and early man
Yeah
We'll eat the Neanderthals
Just like the metahumans will eat us should it be a situation
where you get people to tweet in maybe and be like you guys decide i don't know you guys got
a solution do you guys do that here i guess we could start just now seems like the perfect
opportunity if you've got a good solution i don't want to give a definitive answer that's
like one that we'll all be happy with, please.
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Because I'm at a loss
what to do
with these metahumans.
Unless we're doing
lobotomy,
and that's not good
either.
I think I'm happy
to bow down
as part of the human race.
I think that's
where I'll stand.
At the end of this episode, that's where
I'm going to stand. Don't worry.
If there was an uprising, I would be the first
to sort of like, no, no, no, I'll be inside.
I'll turn in the human race. Don't you worry.
Okay, I was just going to
be like, Superman, I'm done. You win.
MetaHuman, just through my head.
Just laser through my head.
End my life. Sick.
It's yours now
Yeah
We did a pretty rough job
Yeah
See what you can do
Go on
It's yours now
Because then if the whole world
Is metahumans
Then it's like
Everyone's on a level playing field
It's also their problem
Like so
So whatever
Yeah
I'm dead in this
It's kind of like
Magneto's plan
In the first X-Men film
Yeah
To turn everyone into a mutant
So he was
He went
He went first Turn everyone into a mutant,
then, like, kill everyone that's not a mutant.
Should have just stuck with one of those plans.
Yeah, maybe try it twice.
Try it twice, Magneto.
But I reckon, yeah, make everyone.
Just blow up a lot of particle accelerators.
Yeah.
Turn us all into metahumans.
Get rid of those boxes.
We've all got something going on.
So it becomes the norm and you're relatively safe.
Like the way you're relatively safe now that we're all humans.
Like, yeah, somebody could put me in a box.
Yeah.
But they're probably not going to.
Like, if I'm a metahuman, it could happen.
Yeah.
You know.
Like, look, you might be able to teleport,
but I can shoot you with my laser eye.
So we're not going to tassel.
All right.
You might be super fast, but I can blink Volcano at you.
Yeah, so I guess...
So everybody gets powers.
That's the solution.
I think it's got to be that everyone has powers.
Even the playing field.
Or no one has powers.
And let's be honest, listeners, neither one is great.
No, it's not.
Like, this is not a good solution.
This is a terrible extreme.
So, Flash, don't put anybody in boxes. Please.
Like, that's a definite
answer we can say is bad.
But everything else...
Flash, I've got nothing. Tweet in.
Yeah, just let us know.
Use Twitter.
And on that note, I've been Jackson
Bailey. I've been Joel Zabit.
I've been Mr. Sunday Movies.
So help.
I don't know what to do.
Everyone's in a box.
Put them all in boxes.
Someone else's problem.
Space's problem.
Boxes, shoot them into space.
Into the sun?
Into the sun.
Into the sun.
Into the sun. But then if it's Superman, he's going to become Into the sun? Into the sun. Into the sun. Into the sun.
Oh, but then if it's Superman, he's going to become superpowered.
Oh, fucking hell.
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