This top-secret podcats was intercepted by our top-secret robots on Top Secret Mountain in Topsecretistan. We share here and include a partial transcript below, even as we bolt and leap off a cliff onto a fast-moving train into a rocket, in time to save the world from a nefarious arch-villain’s giant lazer-dragon. All before lunch.
Here is what we managed to glean from the audio using our highly sophisticated top-secret spy equipment:
And so it came to pass on September the Seventeenth, Two Thousand and Twenty Two years anno Domini, Bond Meets The Godfather went live in the streaming services and Bandcamp. Whole sectors of the economy crumbled. Even the Statue of Liberty began to skank. All debts were forgiven, all grudges forgotten, the Pope himself abandoned his robes and put on a badass little suit and a fetching pork pie hat. Nothing would ever be the same again.
Though the details are disputed, historians agree that Eric Din absconded to The Island Of Dr. Ska, where he resides with a small army of cats. Berkeley Cat Records continues on as a virtual entity, sending despatches abroad as new bits of fun are discovered, imagined, created and realized. “Why do we make records?” he asked, “Oh because we want to.” “Why make a podcats?” “Oh, because we must!” “Why must we?” “Ah, because we must do that which we want to, or we wont have done it.” Aaaaah! The mysteries of life, explained, at last.
To learn the rest of it, you will have to listen for yourself. Find out what you can, try not to damage the vehicle, and mind the ejector seat.