1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, and I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Welcome to Red Panda Report Episode 14, Nasty Woman. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Red Panda Adventures Number 14 originally aired October 21st, 2006. 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,000 It was written and directed by Greg Taylor. 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,000 And here's the copy. 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 What could be finer than a peaceful Sunday morning? 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Just about anything if your name happens to be Kit Baxter. 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,000 And your hobbies include fighting injustice, protecting the innocent, and gliding over the city 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,000 as the Flying Squirrel. 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:36,000 But getting the city's mighty champion out of the garden and away from the newspaper is another matter entirely. 11 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:41,000 If there is to be any excitement, the Red Panda will have to find it in the Sunday supplement. 12 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000 So first I want to talk about suspicious butlers. 13 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Apparently the Red Panda had to dismiss by hypnotizing a butler who had figured out that 14 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Kit and Red Panda were the Flying Squirrel and the Red Panda three times. 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,000 And he was hypnotized three times, and then he was finally sent away. 16 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Because you can only apparently manipulate the same part of the brain, 17 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:16,000 the same memories, the same ideas and notions in a single person before you risk doing any damage to them. 18 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:22,000 And because Red Panda is a vigilante but a hero and a good man, 19 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,000 he didn't want to ruin this guy's brain, so he sent him away to another household. 20 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:31,000 And now the current butler, who I can't remember the name of, 21 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:36,000 but I believe he's the one who sticks around, he is a decent chap, 22 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:42,000 and he's concerned that there might be some sort of impropriety between a billionaire playboy 23 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,000 and his very attractive female driver who he spends lots of alone time with. 24 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000 So that's kind of funny. 25 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:55,000 As the copy mentioned, Kit Baxter has squirrel problems 26 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,000 in that she has been so affected by being the Flying Squirrel, 27 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 which I think we're at probably about a year now that she's been the Flying Squirrel, 28 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,000 that she's been working with the Red Panda, 29 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,000 or probably a little more than that, that she's been working with him, 30 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,000 because I would imagine she trained for a while, maybe a month, maybe two or three, 31 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,000 before actually donning the cowl and the steel gray catsuit. 32 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:25,000 And she can't handle it anymore, just being an ordinary woman having an ordinary Sunday. 33 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:30,000 And I think it's interesting to see the contrast between the two of them. 34 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,000 She grew up, and again I don't know if this has to do with, 35 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 well I'm just saying their background in general, 36 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,000 she and he grew up very differently from each other. 37 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:45,000 So being that he's been Red Panda for some time before she joined him as the Flying Squirrel, 38 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,000 they've come to cope with the world of super heroics differently, 39 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 and she's not done yet. 40 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 She's still a zealot and an extremist, 41 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 and she's still at the point where she wants to be doing that. 42 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,000 She wants that to be her life. 43 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,000 She wants the Flying Squirrel to be who she is, 44 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:05,000 and for Kit Baxter just to be a convenient cover when time necessitates it, 45 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,000 or when the circumstances necessitate. 46 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Whereas the Red Panda has become the mask, 47 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,000 and his alter ego is just the thin character sketch like he talked about 48 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,000 in I think it was episode 12 of season one, Duality. 49 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:23,000 And yet, because of that, he's found a balance where as the Red Panda even, 50 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 and not as his former self, 51 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:31,000 he still needs that time to unwind and to relax and to enjoy the little things in life, 52 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:37,000 aside from the servants and the mansion and all that money that he has. 53 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:42,000 I find it interesting that in their conversation in the garden, 54 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Kit mentions that Chief O'Malley has withdrawn his APB 55 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,000 or whatever his call for the arrest of the Red Panda, and that's good. 56 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,000 I believe I already missed my opportunity to read one of the books, 57 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 which relates to this specifically, 58 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 but I kind of want to hold off because the books contain so many spoilers. 59 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:08,000 I think I'll wait until a certain point in the future of the Red Panda books, 60 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 or the Red Panda series rather, to go ahead and delve into that. 61 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,000 And if you're just so excited you can't stop yourself from reading The Android Assassins, 62 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 then go ahead and do it. I think that's the first book. 63 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,000 So I want to talk about Kit's jealousy as well. 64 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:30,000 They encounter this damsel in distress, Margaret, not Margaret Lane. 65 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Margaret something or other, I believe is her name. 66 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:38,000 And she's a young, fresh-faced woman. We don't know if she's a society type or not, 67 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:46,000 but she definitely is the type of woman who needs help and who shrinks back at things. 68 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,000 And Kit can't really stand that. 69 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,000 She seems to be jealous of the attention that Red Panda is giving to her, 70 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:59,000 even though she appears to be a simple victim of the week, victim of the episode. 71 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:04,000 And it seems a little strange, if not for something that's going to come up later. 72 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:14,000 But I just find it interesting that she's jealous of this young woman who was likely unable to hold the interest of Red Panda 73 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:23,000 like the other society women that he goes on dates with just as a matter of keeping up his identity as the billionaire playboy. 74 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 And yeah, I just find her jealousy interesting. 75 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Although it definitely betrays the idea that she has feelings for her boss, if that hasn't been indicated yet. 76 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:38,000 And again, there are, you know, by working by radio principles, there are always new people coming in, 77 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:45,000 and you always need to be able to introduce them to core concepts of the show, the format, the program that you're doing. 78 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:52,000 So me talking about Kit as the anti-woman woman will have more of a payoff later in the episode, but I'll just bring it up now. 79 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:59,000 She says she doesn't say she hates. She says she doesn't trust women who faint because she's never fainted in her life. 80 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:04,000 This is strange. I talked about, what was I talking about? I was talking about something like comic books or common writer, 81 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,000 which is karate bugman, tokusatsu television, stuff from Japan for kids. 82 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:14,000 And I brought up this and I'll bring it up again. Jane Austen and specifically Pride and Prejudice. 83 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Elizabeth is talking to her sister Jane and Jane says, Elizabeth or Lizzie, not everyone is like you. 84 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:27,000 You need to stop imagining that everyone is just so much like you because Elizabeth has a hard time understanding other people 85 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:35,000 and seeing things from their perspective and therefore tolerating, allowing, or liking, allowing slash minimum tolerating 86 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,000 other people having different types of perspectives than she herself would have. 87 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:49,000 And Kit kind of fits that mold and it's interesting because that's a literary heroine and I guess Kit would be an audio something heroine. 88 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,000 So I guess it all makes sense. 89 00:06:53,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Okay, and now I'm going to start getting to it. So this young woman who they're trying to help out turns out to be a, 90 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:08,000 well, she turns out to be not who she says she is. She is in fact a black market woman. 91 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:13,000 And that means if you haven't listened the full episode, then why not? 92 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:18,000 But it turns out she is none other than the criminal mastermind, the Golden Claw. 93 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:28,000 And that's interesting for a few reasons. One, it proves and it shows, it demonstrates just how clever and devious this woman is 94 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:35,000 because she had picked up the pieces of the criminal underworld that Red Panda had smashed and destroyed, 95 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,000 I believe all by himself before he and Kit got to working together. 96 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:44,000 And he, or and then she was able to become the mastermind of the criminal world. 97 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,000 And she was orchestrating it in a very profound way, very functional way. 98 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,000 And she had a lot of moxie and was able to do a lot with that. 99 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,000 But Red Panda and Flying Squirrel got her thrown in jail. She was arrested. 100 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000 And now she's made a comeback, except a couple things. 101 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:04,000 One, she is in a different woman's body. This isn't plastic surgery. 102 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:10,000 She's somehow transferred her mind, her heart, her soul, whatever, into that of another woman. 103 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:15,000 So she's become a murderer. But more important than the murder is that means that in the world of the Red Panda, 104 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:20,000 in this 1920s, you know, Canada, Toronto, whatever, there is enough science. 105 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,000 This is implied. It's not stated specifically, but I believe it. 106 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:31,000 I'm a hundred, I'm almost, I'm 95% sure that this comes up later, like in the 80s or hundreds of the run of the show, 107 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:38,000 maybe like the 60s or 70s. But anyway, there is technology in this world to transfer somebody's essence into another body 108 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,000 and make them into another person. And she says that this isn't just a new face. 109 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:49,000 This isn't just plastic surgery. I've got new fingerprints. I'm 20 years younger. And that's incredible. 110 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:54,000 So yeah, I'll be really curious to see when that comes back up. And if it's with Golden Claw, if it's with somebody else, 111 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:59,000 because I almost feel like it's her again, which is a spoiler, but I don't mind sharing it because it's speculative. 112 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:04,000 And I don't think it's that big of a deal. So yeah, she's the black market woman. 113 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:10,000 And I say that because she must have done that. She's run black markets before and she must have found that type of doctor 114 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:15,000 or science on the black market because she said, you know, it's amazing what can be done for money these days. 115 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Basically, she says that to a red panda when he discovers who she is, which he less discovers who she is and more 116 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:33,000 defines it or puts it together. Was it dynamic deduction? It's a deduction that he does because he is a ace detective. 117 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:39,000 And I find that to be interesting that he put together. I listened to the episode a second time and it made sense 118 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:46,000 because her defense attorney was the one was Bryce. He was the one that Margaret, whoever, you know, some lady, 119 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:55,000 she mentioned who he was or that he was her father's attorney. Yes, some lady. I just made an inside joke in front of one of my kids. 120 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:05,000 So anyway, yeah. So I thought that was, you know, it is a good detective skill. I mean, the guy was uncuffing himself 121 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:11,000 while chained in a dangerous situation with his life in danger. And he still figured out he still was able to put all the pieces together, 122 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:18,000 which is more than I could do. I don't think I could even pick locks like that or I can't currently. But, you know, how can I practice, I guess. 123 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:28,000 So that was interesting. Next then, when Kit comes back and before she's realized, I don't know if she's realized this is the golden claw or not, 124 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:37,000 but she helps Red Panda because he tricked the doctor who is making this device I'll mention in a minute or two or a couple of minutes. 125 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:43,000 He tricked him into activating the radio ring and sending a distress signal out to Kit basically to come and save him. 126 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:54,000 And she kind of mocks Red Panda for having a judo hold on Golden Claw and enjoying it too much, you know, because he's so close to her. 127 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:04,000 And she was jealous of the young woman earlier, yada yada. I got to imagine Kit's no older than 25, so maybe this new body that Golden Claw has is like a 20 year old woman. 128 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:16,000 And, you know, therefore jealousy might seep in. But anyway, she comes over and she slaps Golden Claw so hard that she passes out and then they're able to tie her up. 129 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Being that she's a murderous villainous, you can understand why she would do something like that. But Red Panda says afterwards, nasty. 130 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Like, oh man, that was bad. Harjit hit her and knocked her out and she's like, you know, you enjoyed it. And he feigns innocence. 131 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:44,000 No, I would never enjoy something like that. How could you say that? And then Kit also mentions that she might be late getting into work the next day because she left her alarm clock at the house of one of the tufts that was working for Golden Claw. 132 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:54,000 And it turns out that she left that clock there. It's just her alarm clock and was pretending it was a bomb. So in her own way, Kit isn't a nasty woman herself. 133 00:11:54,000 --> 00:12:07,000 And it's just kind of interesting how that dynamic works out and how that quality of that severity and that harshness and that grit to go as far as you need to go can take a person in different places. 134 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Whether that's the heights of heroism or the depths of villainy. 135 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:24,000 So, speaking of the different qualities of women, I thought it was interesting that Kit exercised or showed women's intuition because she was suspicious of Golden Claw all along. 136 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:35,000 And she had many reasons, but perhaps one reason is that she sensed that someone was off with her and that she was, you know, going to turn out to be somebody big and bad, which she did. 137 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:43,000 And that's okay with me. It's just ironic that she had such a hard time with women's fainting and their softness and their delicacy. 138 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:52,000 And yet here she is utilizing even unconsciously women's intuition. And like I said, I find that curious. Curious and kind of fun. 139 00:12:52,000 --> 00:13:09,000 All right. So we have some first appearances here. Well, sort of. No, no first appearances. I guess just the first appearance of technology that can turn somebody into, that can transfer somebody into another body, which is weird. 140 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:19,000 No real gadgets mentioned, except I don't know if they have mentioned the use of boomerangs before in their activities of super heroics. 141 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:27,000 But here Kit mentions, you know, your last episode was funny. Last episode it was, you're the one who, you know, like who's going to keep me in grapple guns and gas grenades if not for you. 142 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:37,000 And then today it's you taught me how to use boomerangs and grapple guns. And now you expect me to just sit around and wait for lunch to be ready on a Sunday, Sunday morning or whatever. 143 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:46,000 That's kind of interesting. But a actual new thing that I know is actually unique to this episode is this electrical field disruptor, which it's funny. 144 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Red Panda is talking to the doctor who developed it. And there's this paradox that this electronic device disrupts electronic devices. 145 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,000 So how can it operate itself in order to disrupt those electronic devices? 146 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Although we have EMP. Well, you can get an EMP right now electromagnetic pulse by detonating a nuclear bomb or by other means. 147 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:21,000 I'm not exactly sure what all the other means are. I know there's a company out there called EMP Shield and EMP Shield will protect your stuff from getting destroyed by an electromagnetic pulse or lightning strike. 148 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:26,000 And anyway, that's interesting. But yeah, I don't quite know how that would work. 149 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:37,000 And there's something interesting about the fact that I've mentioned this before, but I don't know if you remember it, but Red Panda and Flying Squirrel. 150 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:50,000 They have masks that cannot be removed because when you or a bad guy tries to remove the mask of the Red Panda or the cow of the Flying Squirrel, they receive a dramatic electrical shock, which stops them from proceeding. 151 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:54,000 However, Red Panda and Flying Squirrel do not receive the electric shock. 152 00:14:54,000 --> 00:15:02,000 And the I don't know if that's a paradox or not, but it's mentioned to the doctor to say to the good doctor. 153 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:15,000 He's the bad doctor that perhaps the way that Red Panda and Flying Squirrel are unaffected by his disruptor field is whatever shielding that Red Panda has put into the masks to stop them themselves from getting electrocuted. 154 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:21,000 So that's kind of interesting. And I want to say that comes back later, but I don't think it does. 155 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:29,000 And I think every time I've listened to it, even including the first time, I thought, oh, I'll be curious to see how that's utilized in the future because Red Panda sees the plans for it. 156 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:35,000 And I guess if he sees the plans for it, he's enough of a genius to be able to figure out how to make it work for himself. 157 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,000 Maybe he can see the key factor, the paradox, the what do they call it? 158 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:46,000 It's like a bypass circuit or something like that that allows that makes time travel possible. 159 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:51,000 And yeah, I just think that's interesting. But like I said, I don't think it comes back again. 160 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:57,000 So I'm going to go ahead and wrap up. It's time for me to get out of here. 161 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,000 Thank you for your time and attention. Thank you for listening. 162 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:09,000 And I hope you look forward to more good, exciting, interesting episodes of Red Panda Adventures from Dakota Ring Theatre. 163 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:16,000 And remember, you can always go to dakotaringtheatre.com to find more of this good audio stuff. 164 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:26,000 And you can also check out Blackjack Justice, which is Martin Bracknell's immortal detective who has great adventures with Trixie Dixon, the girl detective. 165 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:31,000 They're his and hers detective team, and they have a really fun and interesting dynamic. 166 00:16:31,000 --> 00:17:00,000 So anyway, without further ado, I thank you for listening. This is MJ signing out.