In this lengthy episode, we talk about the first half of Pluto, a covert Astro-Boy cartoon on Netflix that is all about robo-racism, the trauma of war, homelessness, indefinite detention of alleged terrorists, the search for WMDs in foreign desert lands, and whether robot cops could have enough autonomy to be bastards. How will Astro-Boy get out of this wacky adventure? ...By dying. He gets out of it by dying. After we dissect that, we talk about Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Marvel's Echo, and a sitcom that ended half a decade ago.

Time stamps:

0:00:00 Intro: Not My Monkeys

0:03:58 THIS WEEK'S GIANT HEAP: PLUTO, EPS. 1-4

2:02:49 New Girl

2:08:08 Echo

2:34:08 Monarch

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