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Sam Today 11:08 AM
Sam: did you ever get around to reading the interview our favorite reporter did with Walker?

Bucky: Rebecca?

Sam: no, the other reporter you actually manage to do decent interviews with

Bucky: no

Bucky: I haven't gotten to the library yet

Sam: you haven't gotten to the library yet.

Bucky: I know there's one right down the block but the hours are kind of limited

Sam: it's online, let me send you the link

Bucky: oh

Bucky: I didn't think of that

Sam: seriously, 21st century.

Sam: please join it.

Sam: navyyardgazette.com/us/2024/04/12/us/new-captain-america-interview.html

Rebecca the Reporter Today 12:02 PM
Bucky: hi

Bucky: Sam sent me your old interview with Walker, I hadn't seen it

Rebecca: oh god, my boss put me on probation for that interview 😂

Rebecca: said that I was unnecessarily antagonistic and corrected him too much

Rebecca: no regrets, obviously, fuck that guy

Bucky: he's fucking terrible

Bucky: I'm glad you refused to call him Captain America

Rebecca: that also came up when I got chewed out for it 😂

Rebecca: not my fault he was just some dick cosplaying with a shield the U.S. government stole out of a museum

Rebecca: I'm from Brooklyn, we don't fuck with that

Bucky: I'm not sure what some of that means but I think I agree

Rebecca: cosplaying is dressing up to pretend to be a character

Bucky: so Halloween

Rebecca: sort of, but year round and not in exchange for candy

Rebecca: (usually)

Rebecca: I actually used to cover conventions where people dressed up as captain america and his good friend, bucky barnes

Bucky: sometimes I hate this century

Rebecca: you sound like a boomer

Bucky: that's what Sam said

Bucky: when I told him I was actually part of the greatest generation, I think he almost fired me

Rebecca: I can see why

Rebecca: whoever named their generation that was kind of a dick

Bucky: well, it wasn't me

Bucky: and he can do better with nicknames anyway

Rebecca: yeah, I think he called you the bionic man in my last interview with him

Rebecca: that one was fun

Bucky: he probably did

Bucky: please tell me it didn't end up in the final version, though

Rebecca: nope, that part got cut

Rebecca: give me some credit

Bucky: okay good

Rebecca: does he actually call you that??

Bucky: sometimes

Bucky: I think that's still how I'm in his phone

Rebecca: you are not

Bucky: yes, I am

Rebecca: 😂

Bucky: yeah

Bucky: I mean it's just not a nickname I want everyone using

Bucky: I don't really mind when he does it

Bucky: if I did he'd change it

Rebecca: I'm sure he would 😛

Bucky: did you have any other interviews with Walker after that?

Rebecca: nope. he requested another reporter, he said he felt like there was some veiled hostility from me

Rebecca: which is obviously incorrect, it wasn't veiled

Rebecca: that's why I got written up

Bucky: can't take a few questions from a reporter and he thought he could call himself captain america

Bucky: my ass

Bucky: Sam isn't scared of some reporters

Rebecca: well, Captain Wilson is good at his job

Bucky: I mean, I obviously agree, but why do you hate Walker so much?

Rebecca: oh. well, he's just got a punchable face, so there's that. but also - you know what 9/11 is, right?

Bucky: yeah.

Rebecca: just checking. anyway, yeah, there was a lot of teen activism in new york about how that all went down. like, I cut school to go to demonstrations.

Rebecca: and I read a lot about the war, and I just don't believe the official stories behind Walker's medals of honor, and maybe it's just the idealist 15 year old in me or whatever, but I'm not interested in how "war is more complicated now" if you're fucking killing innocent civilians because they're in the way and calling it acceptable collateral damage

Bucky: Sam served in that war, too

Rebecca: Captain Wilson was a pararescue

Rebecca: that's different than what Walker did

Rebecca: oh - no offense, I know you were in the army, too

Bucky: none taken, I was assuming you weren't judging me for being drafted to fight Nazis

Rebecca: oh, I'd meant to ask you about that a few times but never got around to it - the official story is that you voluntarily enlisted after Pearl Harbor, but your serial number says you were drafted?

Bucky: how the fuck do you know what serial numbers mean what?

Rebecca: the internet

Bucky: I hate this century

Rebecca: okay boomer

Bucky: yeah, I was drafted. it was my idiot best friend who kept trying to volunteer.

Rebecca: did he do that before you were drafted, too?

Rebecca: (off the record, obviously, I'm just curious)

Bucky: he talked about it before that, but he got more intense about it after I got drafted.

Bucky: and you can use that if it comes up, it's not a secret

Bucky: just maybe not me calling Steve an idiot, I don't really mean that

Rebecca: sure

Rebecca: I'm sorry. you didn't get a lot of choices, did you?

Bucky: no, I didn't.

Sam Today 1:07 PM
Bucky: I think I missed some stuff while I was the winter soldier

Sam: yes, Buck, you missed a lot

Bucky: I was texting Rebecca and she started talking about 9/11 and teen demonstrations???

Sam: ohh yeah she's in that age range, isn't she

Sam: that's not shocking then

Bucky: I read wikipedia, that stuff isn't mentioned on there

Sam: it's wouldn't be

Bucky: she likes you

Sam: I had noticed that, yes

Bucky: I think she likes me, too

Sam: if she was texting you about 9/11 on a Saturday afternoon, yes, I'd say that's accurate

Sam: tell her to come over for dinner, it's good for you to have friends

Sam: even if they're reporters

Rebecca the Reporter Today 1:23 PM
Bucky: Sam said to invite you to dinner because it's good for me to talk to people

Bucky: it's not in a date way

Rebecca: thanks for clarifying, but yes, I figured you weren't looking for a date, haha

Bucky: oh

Bucky: good

Rebecca: yeah, I'd love to, just don't mention it to my editor

Rebecca: tell me when, I'll make my schedule work around team Captain America

Sam Today 1:52 PM
Bucky: she said yes

Bucky: I told her I didn't mean it in a date way and she said she'd figured that

Bucky: I mean it wasn't but I'm not sure how she knew??

Sam: oh, Bucky.

Bucky: what???

Sam: just figure out a day, bionic man

Sam: I'll make sure I'm up there

Bucky: what????