Episode Notes I have feelings about things. They are bad feelings:

• Shows I didn’t like this winter
• Shows I liked
• I (unfortunately) talk more about Trigun Stampede
• Heavenly Delusion
• Hell’s Paradise
• My Home Hero
• Magical Destroyers
• Other new anime
• Continuing shows
• Find out what I choose for the podcast next week, I guess!

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Episode Notes

• It’s spelled J-U-L-Y
• Knives wanted to be a cowboy : (
• I feel weird about this impregnation thing…
• Meryl’s foot was totally stuck, remember?
• Meryl finally uses the derringer!
• It’s not very effective
• That’s totally not an egg, no
• Zazie and Wolfwood watch the world end
• Vash sings a song
• Meryl’s voice crosses the void
• Knives gets forced out of the egg and the higher dimension
• Vash gets a cool purple cube
• VASH’S HAIR!
• Knives wants that cube
• No, that’s not how windows work
• Lots of fighting
• Wolfwood steps on the military police chief’s face
• Vash gets a cool black wing
• Vash is so goth
• Knives kills the military police
• ANGEL ARM!
• HE’S VASH THE STAMPEDE!!
• Don’t use Knives’ dead name
• Knives gets real dramatic 
• Vash destroys the city.
• Finally.
• TIMESKIP
• MILLY THOMPSON!
• ERIKS!!
• CHRONICA!?!
• Closing thoughts

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Episode Notes I might be losing faith in this adaptation, but that’s ok! Right?

• Meryl kicks Wolfwood in the shins
• Knives sticks knives into Vash, probably
• Meryl does absolutely nothing with that derringer
• Vash has roots, I guess
• Priest William knows way more than he should
• Something about plants needing souls
• Vash has a special “window”
• Knives and Vash hang out in a memory hellscape
• Wolfwood hangs out with dead Roberto
• Red geraniums
• Vash’s roots can grow through glass maybe
• Vash fights back
• Vash’s roots go outside
• Let him eat the geraniums!
• Tesla
• Who the hell gave Knives a bible?!
• Knives does some emotional manipulation
• It’s super effective
• Happy birthday Vash
• The plants get impregnated?
• The battle of Har Megiddo commences
• Knives goes to touch the core
• Closing thoughts

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Episode Notes This one feels particularly embarrassing for me for some reason, but here:

• Vash has an earbud when he could have had a cool bluetooth earring 
• Zazie never gets his question answered
• Pause at 3:50 to see Kuroneko-sama
• Uh oh, the military police does almost nothing again
• You need to disinfect surfaces after you experiment on people!
• Vash has cool scars 
• I’m angry about bullets and that I can’t see Vash’s scars better
• Wolfwood did a really bad job at hiding his identity
• Priest William tries to justify kidnapping orphans
• Priest William is creating elves or something
• Roberto burps
• Elendira tries to kill Meryl and Roberto
• Please spell July correctly
• Wolfwood saves the day!
• Also there’s Vash
• Wolfwood vs. Elendira, sort of
• Meryl Stryfe, you’re in charge now
• Knifes keeps mummified plants 
• Wolfwood is free
• Priest William is Bill Conrad (the plant specialist from ship 5)!
• Knives has a cool piano activated trap door
• Closing notes and embarrassments
• My comic is here: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/at-the-end-of-everything/list?title_no=527008

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Episode Notes It’s that time again for me to pretend like I know things! Here’s what’s going on this episode:

• Maybe watch the Nier Automata anime?
• Vash messes up Knives’ music
• Knives witnesses a plant’s last run
• He must have heard them, right?
• Knives uses his knives!
• They said the episode name!
• Comfortable chains are still chains
• Knives is so cool
• Origins of Vash’s gun
• Vash can’t kill Luida
• Vash’s left arm is a black hole
• Yes, literally
• The many expressions of Knives
• Rushed time skip explanation
• Meryl learns what flowers are
• Roberto gets a death flag (finally)
• Meryl and Roberto get kidnapped, I guess
• Zazie wants an answer
• Closing thoughts

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Episode Notes Well, it turns out I didn’t actually fix that light fixture, but who cares! Here’s what we talk about this time:

• All anime cakes are the same
• Knives doesn’t need to eat?
• Why did Vash have the access codes?
• Vash is too scared to help dying people
• I say “gomenasai” a lot
• Shocker: Vash is a plant
• We learn about Independents
• Brad tries to protect himself with a wrench
• Vash can’t even produce amino acids : (
• Rem’s dead, I guess
• Vash needs to eat, but isn’t
• Vash is not grotesque!!
• Vash helps a new plant friend
• Teenage Vash!
• The origin of the red jacket
• Vash has very nice handwriting
• I’m very confused by the random adult Vash scene
• Knives!
• Closing thoughts

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Episode Notes I’m in a good mood because I fixed a light fixture so I yell Wolfwood a couple times, also this happens:

• Wolfwood shoots cross machine gun one handed style
• Vash never listens
• Meryl does a photo shoot for the Bad Lads
• Lots of fighting between Wolfwood and Livio
• Zazie regurgitates a bug
• Livio snaps out of it and into terror
• Legato adds an ion cannon to the mix
• There should not be a cannon, sorry
• Vash kicks down a door!
• I can’t figure out how to describe what’s happening  
• Wolfwood says “Yoshi!” 
• Wolfwood is so cool
• Meryl has survivor’s guilt (already)
• Vash wants to save everyone
• Vash and Wolfwood do something stupid together
• So stupid that it works?
• Vash communes with a plant
• Wolfwood burns himself
• Vash is??
• Closing thoughts

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Episode Notes How sad is this episode of Stampede? Let’s find out:

• Wolfwood kills someone
• They’re gonna take the sandsteamer!!!
• Roberto is too scared
• Vash and Wolfwood are attacked
• 2D hopeland orphanage!
• Wolfwood makes a sad new friend
• The police get involved
• Meryl is reckless
• Bad Lad Gang appears!
• Congratulations, child of blessing
• Upsetting psychedelic scene
• Wolfwood tries to escape
• Legato attempts coercion
• It’s not very effective
• Light can’t come from inside your head, probably
• Vash pistol whips Livio
• Zazie and Legato have a nice time in their road trip
• Sandsteamer gets knocked off course
• Bad Lads join the fun
• Closing thoughts

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Episode Notes I did it! I finished just in time! Here’s what’s going on:

• Coughing means death
• Roberto gets really into telling a ghost story
• Don’t sleep in cars!
• Meryl shouldn’t be allowed to drive
• Vash needs to use his words
• IT'S A WIND TURBINE
• A wild “Monev The Gale” appears!
• Vash forgets how to climb
• Rollo doesn’t want to be sacrificed
• Vash tries to save Monev
• Vash sends Rollo to his death : )
• Rollo gets real strong
• I think I hear a theremin and get excited
• Rollo baby picture!
• Weird set design/Good color design
• Vash’s apology
• Wolfwood’s act of mercy
• The Punisher

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Episode Notes How are you liking these show notes? Here’s what goes on this time:

• Some sweaty guy is walking through the desert with a big cross
• Meryl and Roberto are wanted people
• Vash won’t eat
• Meryl’s not afraid of children : (
• Meryl needs to pay attention to the road
• Rest stop murders and the kid in the locker
• Wolfwood imparts sage words of advice to a kid
• The gang gets eaten by a sandworm
• Detached electron network?
• Kid runs off to play in the organs
• YOU CAN’T SURVIVE BEING EATEN, I’m sorry
• The gang splits up?
• I learn how long it takes to smoke a cigarette on the internet
• Roberto is suspicious of Wolfwood
• No, you shouldn’t go back inside the sandworm, Vash
• It was the kid!
• Wolfwood uses his big cross gun!
• Wolfwood tries to force feed Meryl
• Meeting between Wolfwood and Zazie the Beast
• Vash has gate issues
• Closing thoughts

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