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1:06

Welcome to the Greatest Generation! It's

1:08

a Star Trek podcast by couple

1:10

guys Little bit embarrassed about having

1:12

a Star Trek back guest and

1:14

that impractical Ben Harrison. I.

1:19

Have you recovered from last night

1:22

we had a mountain of beef?

1:24

You remain impulsive carnivores. Yeah

1:27

we did a thing we have been done and a

1:29

long time which is go to Korean barbecue together which

1:31

is one of the. Main. Forms

1:33

of Sustenance in Los Angeles. Just.

1:36

By like volume of calories I

1:38

think it is like probably sixty

1:40

percent of all the so sentence.

1:42

If you know what, what are

1:44

the kinds? There's tacos. There's.

1:46

Burritos. There's. Korean barbecue.

1:49

Who. Is barely burritos here. Steakhouse.

1:54

Those are all the kind. Yeah, In

1:56

and Out. Burgers, Probably

1:58

count accounts. But here we

2:01

did are we did one of our

2:03

classic a Bbq Hangs Sort of a

2:05

belated birthday celebration for you. Had a

2:07

great time. Yeah, was it

2:09

a special when the server put

2:11

a little candle into the final.

2:16

That was being cooked on the grill

2:18

envoy than the exhaust fan just burned

2:20

that thing right out area with sister.

2:22

It accelerates the amount of time you

2:25

have with that candle read: just. Causes.

2:28

So much oxygen to blow in at

2:30

that work it it earns extra hot

2:33

next for quickly. Add to

2:35

answer original question. I woke up feeling

2:37

bad. I think I'm affected far more

2:39

buy food that I am by drink

2:41

these days. Wow. Didn't. Feel good?

2:43

That's interesting. Now. Oh

2:46

man, where you you like a tank

2:48

that drives the restaurants that? yeah, I

2:50

don't imagine you are affected in any

2:52

way at all. Did not affect me

2:54

very badly. I was not effective as

2:57

badly as I was by our recent

2:59

outing to the Cheesecake Factory. Where.

3:01

It is. I won't be hitting the

3:03

the bonus food for little while but

3:05

I with another episode of factors that

3:07

have said i it's it's long and

3:09

I think of partly long because I

3:11

was lying on the floor for a

3:13

lot of the record. Our

3:16

guest for that show may still

3:18

be recovering system and a. Family

3:24

for Effort is defined as a that

3:26

was. Very

3:28

exciting! I can't wait to find

3:31

out what kind of. Not.

3:33

Premiere Episode: Enterprises Gonna throw

3:35

away Been let's see what

3:37

that's about. What's Do it.

3:40

It's Season One Episode: Three

3:42

Months Fight or Flight. We.

3:52

Get a first shot in the cold

3:55

open, that is. An. Extreme

3:57

close up. Of.

4:00

A house? He looking at a

4:02

slug. And. She's in there.

4:04

with that, their flocks and the stories. they

4:06

picked up. the slugs. During. In

4:08

a way Mason and for some reason hosts he thought

4:10

it would be a good as either take it with.

4:13

I don't think there was enough scrutiny. Of

4:16

bow, it's just taking life

4:18

from a planet. Access to

4:20

the zip whenever you want.

4:23

I. Wanted like slightly better understanding

4:25

of what the decontamination chamber can

4:27

and can't do dub useless arse.

4:30

last he detecting pathogens. I mean,

4:32

people are rubbing down there slugs

4:34

inside the decontamination saber. but not

4:37

like this nonsense. wait, maybe that's

4:39

why the slug you say baby

4:41

and had a bad reaction to

4:44

the gel. As as

4:46

you much moves. With. The

4:48

Slug Yeah so the Saw Giza is

4:50

not well and has been brought to

4:52

Six Bay so the Doctor Phlox can

4:55

see if he can help. That.

4:57

Mean, I think the slug is just sad. You know

4:59

it's been taken out of it's environment and the. Jar

5:02

with the leaf in the sticks

5:04

his and adequately reproducing the environment

5:06

to it's it has become accustomed.

5:09

The. Slugs like I can't but that's.

5:13

What are you sick me to do

5:15

with that's I an of this is

5:18

like internet hyperbole or a real thing

5:20

but I saw some video at some

5:22

point. Where. A spider. scientists were

5:25

saying that if you take as a spider

5:27

and catch it under a glass and then

5:29

go put it outside. That. Spiders Gonna

5:31

Die Because that's an inside spider, not

5:33

an outside spider. So. You're doomed

5:35

the spider to him for like a slow

5:37

death rather than a quick death of just

5:39

like hitting it with the back of issue

5:41

or whatever. And. I kind of feel like

5:43

maybe that's what hoses done here. You'd.

5:46

I think quite clearly advocating for the fact

5:49

that how he should have slapped this thing

5:51

with her shoe fear and ended it before

5:53

bringing it to this if. You

5:56

telling me how she doesn't have like

5:58

as a strong flip flop. Arm

6:00

that she got a just squished this the

6:02

slug west. You. Know. You're. Not

6:04

helping the slug Oshie. With.

6:07

How in her head hosts

6:09

he is this entire episode?

6:11

I would have expected that

6:13

to completely derail her. And.

6:15

Every possible way worse he

6:18

to destroy the slug physicists.

6:22

Inbox trip and begins a

6:24

thing I'm gonna start touting

6:26

which is. Scenes.

6:28

In which trip Tucker puts

6:30

his face and extremely close

6:32

proximity to someone elses and

6:34

that happened several times. This

6:36

episode beginning here assisted. Ah

6:40

yeah Trip. but that know like

6:42

it's cultural. some cultures that like

6:45

distance that people feel comfortable standing

6:47

from each other's very different from

6:49

our own and Trip as from

6:51

Florida so who who knows. Man

6:54

trip just assumes Florida face rules

6:56

are in play here as a

6:58

fad. Almost seek to seek. He

7:01

steps into frame. Now. And

7:03

laments while looking at this leg. For

7:05

all of their exploration, this sick

7:08

goal slug. Represents. Their

7:10

only first contact. This kind of felt

7:12

like the beginning of the third Jj

7:15

Abrams Star Trek film. Like we're bored

7:17

out here, Were sick and tired of

7:19

how boring this is it's episode three

7:22

and were already bored. Or

7:25

mean so board is Captain Archer

7:27

that he is now freaking out

7:29

because there's something squeaking under the

7:32

floorboards in his apartment? And

7:34

he can't locate it. Making.

7:36

Him look like a bit of a fool

7:38

and front of to fall driving him mental.

7:41

Sas of the sexes. Said

7:45

as. She. Says there to do

7:47

work. Then. Like.

7:50

Says Another thing I'm starting to

7:52

to really picked up on is

7:54

that most seems involves Depaul just

7:56

doing the work that she's assigned

7:58

to do and Patsy. Absolute.

8:01

Strays. From everyone else on the ship

8:03

for it. Would

8:05

also see supposed to do there's

8:07

Archer and they're going nuts about

8:09

his floorboards. Do. You think that's

8:11

really important right now? It's

8:14

very important him because they're so

8:16

goddamn board. Interesting statistic we learn

8:18

in the Seen one out of

8:21

forty three. Thousand. Planets

8:23

supports intelligent life. So.

8:25

What are they were? did the chances as you're

8:27

cruising around there and at work for. That.

8:30

You gonna hit a good one? Yeah. There's

8:32

a bit of a debate here

8:34

because says humans have said they're

8:36

saying you starship out to explore

8:38

and like you know, pick up

8:40

the rocks and then collect the

8:42

slugs. And deposit. I don't know why

8:45

you want to do that as we're not into that

8:47

As vulcans, I guess that our bags at all. The.

8:50

Boring emptiness of space is something that the

8:52

Vulcans are just fine with. My. People

8:54

are saying your enthusiasm for exploration

8:56

do you think to paul. Sounds

8:59

weird. I talked about this

9:01

in the first episode. It. Feels like

9:03

to Paul. Sodas, Begins.

9:06

Talking herself into sounding more

9:08

vulcan as that first episode

9:10

goes on. I. Think

9:12

I figured out what it is. seizes

9:14

a lot of contractions, In.

9:16

A way that the Vulcans we would get

9:19

to know later on. In Star

9:21

Trek history. Would. Not.

9:23

As interesting I wonder if that's like

9:25

a reaction to more and more contact

9:28

with humans are like we're going to

9:30

like differentiate even more. See: can a

9:32

code switching a little bit ha ha.

9:34

So. Whole she comes in

9:37

replacing to Paul. Oh she

9:39

hates her quarters and wants to move to the

9:41

other side of the ship. I should note that

9:43

we do see the back of to Paul said

9:45

when she loses room. It's.

9:47

Good am I going through mental

9:49

breakdown like and the I just

9:51

can't help counting these repetitive things

9:54

that are happening on this year.

9:56

We're three episodes in Assess Assess.

9:58

As. I

10:00

think I'm having a breakdown Your

10:02

specific a little low studious with

10:05

your viewing of track? yes. So.

10:07

We have like. As to

10:10

why but. We're. Getting a scene

10:12

about how she wanting to move quarters. Wrong

10:18

way. that's granted. I guess the Seen

10:21

as just about establishing that Archer considers

10:23

having a translator aboard very important. Yeah,

10:25

and he's willing to do whatever it

10:28

takes to keep are comfortable. But.

10:30

See seems very uncomfortable. As

10:33

see seemed throughout. The

10:36

entire. Two. And one.

10:39

Eighth episode that we've spent with her. There's

10:41

a moment at the end of this scene.

10:44

That's. I. Think. Would.

10:46

Suggest to most Tv viewers that

10:49

something bad is happening to host.

10:51

perhaps even evil or possessed or

10:53

whatever because a gray area and

10:55

seat to stares at Archer in

10:57

the in this weird ass ways

10:59

and artist like. Everything.

11:01

I write is there something else

11:03

has his or her of them

11:05

said yeah, fine and then she

11:07

leaves and that's not the only

11:10

time. Got there I go accounting

11:12

again. Assess, assess, assess. Ah, I'm

11:14

gonna lose my mind. Or

11:17

gimmick gets you through this buddy. Yeah,

11:19

you shouldn't just stare at your boss.

11:21

That way though is when I'm sad

11:24

news. And yeah, it feels. Almost.

11:26

Like as much foreshadowing as somebody coughing

11:28

a little bit of blood and to

11:31

have a weight hankies? Yeah, Oh

11:33

she is that is having a day. We

11:36

sat down to the torpedo bay. Where.

11:39

Reed working on attempting

11:41

to get the guidance

11:43

system of the torpedoes

11:45

going with or and

11:47

some Travis enter. This.

11:52

I couldn't help but notice that they

11:54

were doing simulation j six. I

11:57

don't even like simulated day six. I

12:00

didn't want to forget it but of mine that. I

12:07

like see and torpedoes on the wall.

12:09

That's. Been here. where do you keep? I'm

12:11

may be a question you have now you

12:13

just put him on the wall and then

12:15

I guess. Your. Hand carry them

12:17

over to the launcher. What? Exactly

12:20

is going on there? Yeah. What

12:22

is this? Is that like? Oh, is

12:24

that a magazine or rita? Imagine that

12:26

that goes like far back into the

12:29

bay. There's like hundreds of torpedoes in.

12:31

There are thirty eight or whatever. I

12:33

love how. Eighties Cabinet

12:36

video game. The.

12:38

The targeting system is on this ship

12:40

you'd expect like you don't see it.

12:42

But. You'd expect the ball on the cabinet

12:45

desk part right? Like that's how you

12:47

aim whatever the summers are using the

12:49

ball and your hand and the like.

12:51

Although like printing on mode on the

12:53

desk, a red ball is all worn

12:55

down had is exactly what this looks

12:57

like and it should surprise no one

12:59

that this thing is not accurate. When

13:01

you use the ball, you're not going

13:03

be accurate. Her. Is

13:05

something that like? I feel like

13:07

they've done an interesting job with

13:09

some strange new worlds and discovery.

13:12

The. Budgets and Technology

13:14

and everything available to

13:16

the set design departments.

13:18

on. This. Show that a set

13:21

before T O S or so much further

13:23

along than they were in the sixties when

13:25

they made the original Star Trek and it's

13:27

like how do you make this ship look

13:30

like it is from one hundred years before

13:32

that ship it's ball but also not city

13:34

to look area you know for a modern

13:37

off. And as ball. Ball.

13:40

Archer. Tennis styles himself as Chief

13:42

Morale Officer in the seen as Heroes

13:44

In and. He. Has a very

13:46

beverly crusher kind of question like well

13:49

maybe it's not. Be. Targeting

13:51

sensors, That's. Wrong.

13:53

Maybe it's your your simulation that's wrong

13:55

Would you say we. Do. Some

13:57

live fire stuff for that if I

13:59

miss to read something. The blow up

14:01

simulation j six is bad. says.

14:04

It make you think said like this

14:06

is purely for morale. Say he doesn't

14:08

actually believe there's anything wrong with the

14:10

simulation right? Astronauts.

14:12

I'd I do like the idea of he

14:14

is taking it serious that they. Can't

14:17

fire torpedoes reliably. I love that

14:19

this is not the most important

14:21

thing to Archer in this moment.

14:23

He's more concerned about the squeaky

14:25

four plates than he is about

14:27

a photon torpedo hitting it's target.

14:30

We have to remember like the people

14:32

that are telling them what to do

14:34

and what not to do when they

14:36

got into space don't really want them

14:38

to god into space or when the

14:40

falcons are like I would not leave

14:42

without an extremely good offense and defense

14:44

situation figured out on your ship. Still

14:46

yeah yeah yeah you say that everybody

14:48

that you're trying to keep on earth

14:50

so we could directly to that target

14:52

practice. And. They can't hit Sit.

14:54

They can't hit any of the asteroids

14:57

on the fence posts here and one

14:59

of the Sats even turns around and

15:01

head back to them. You would suspect

15:03

that a seen like this get played

15:05

for axe him. This torpedo would get

15:08

closer and closer. Things to get: Scary.

15:11

Now. Now.

15:13

It's not scary at all. It turns back around

15:15

and and they. Destroy it. At.

15:18

A safe distance. And. Read

15:20

as gonna need the entire episode recalibrate

15:22

the system. It does mildly

15:24

bang the ship though, like there's a

15:27

there's a light banger and I kind

15:29

of feel like it's a scene that

15:31

is therefore hosts. He reacts more than

15:34

it is a scene. About.

15:37

Establishing anything. How

15:39

exciting to you think the moment is going

15:41

to be when these things started glowing? Like.

15:44

Right now, it just looks like a

15:46

cruise missile with a fire behind it,

15:48

you know, propelling. At Forward man, the

15:50

first ten issued a glowing photon torpedo.

15:53

The. Blow Some minds. Oh man. skill.

15:55

A great center way amidst in

15:57

sounds right, you know member. Ido

16:00

having the live has that Star

16:03

Trek torpedo sounds who as I

16:05

love how starting here like the.

16:09

There is no. Way

16:11

suiting a torpedo is ever gonna

16:14

be cool on this show. Up

16:16

to and including the time when they need to

16:18

defend themselves with it. Will

16:22

get to that a little later.

16:24

They're so I we cut down

16:27

to the lunch room. Flocks is

16:29

enjoying his said baked potatoes with

16:32

Trip Tucker and damn expressing his

16:34

desire to. Watch. Some humans

16:36

fuck and what's going on

16:38

here seems pretty poor of

16:40

he doesn't get to see

16:42

are enjoying yourself is a

16:44

real greats difference of philosophy

16:46

here in this seems like.

16:49

Trip. Is antsy. He wants

16:51

to find something interesting. On

16:54

this mission, while Flux is satisfied

16:56

finding the interesting and the everyday

16:58

moments right including be raw red

17:01

potato. He. Is enjoying in

17:03

the her. Trip. Should

17:05

be delighted to be sitting next to a

17:07

weird alien that wants to was people fuck

17:10

you know like that's an adventure right there.

17:12

Air. Flights. Is great.

17:14

Yet another seen. That

17:16

makes they're very clear. Slices. Down

17:19

for whatever. They're. Also misreading

17:21

the signals because when it cuts to

17:23

the people that he like suspects of

17:25

being on the verge of nail each

17:27

other the they're just two people. Like

17:30

staring off into space had not interacting

17:32

at all. So yes of in. It.

17:34

Seems like they've been married for a

17:37

number of years. Assess Assess. As

17:41

it is one of those quiet couples that you see

17:43

editors at a restaurant you like, I hope we never

17:45

get like that. To back on

17:47

the bridge to Paul has found something

17:49

weird and the said sewers and mystery

17:51

vessel. And when

17:54

they roll up on it they do

17:56

some scans but can't really. Determined.

17:58

Anything about it. And cat. and

18:00

Archer's first communication. Couldn't

18:02

help but laugh at this. This

18:05

is a great bit. It's basically

18:07

like this. Hey,

18:09

I'm new here. Here's

18:11

how you find out where we live. And

18:14

communication. Yeah. It's

18:18

like, if you like joined a social network and

18:21

the first thing you posted was your address. Like,

18:23

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's not what we do. He's

18:27

like aging relative on a social

18:29

network and the first post. If

18:33

you'd like to call me on my

18:35

landline telephone, here is that number. I'm

18:39

just here to make friends. Yeah,

18:43

the like baby's first hail energy

18:45

to this seat I thought was

18:47

really well done. Hey, maybe

18:50

finish scanning the shit before you blow

18:52

in a hail though. Because like right

18:54

after they get no response to this

18:56

thing, they're like, oh, are those scorch

18:58

sparks? Yeah, this thing

19:00

is looking pretty shot up and

19:03

maybe the people on board are sick or

19:05

dying. There's some like debate about how deep

19:07

of a scan to do. And

19:10

to Paul's like, well, it might violate

19:12

their feeling of privacy if you scan

19:14

inside their ship. But they

19:17

go ahead and decide since nobody's picking up the

19:19

phone to like peek in the window, I guess.

19:22

And this is just too

19:24

enticing a mystery

19:26

for the humans to resist.

19:29

Like to Paul is like, I do not want

19:31

to fuck with these people. Like, can we just

19:34

like leave this weird ship alone and go somewhere

19:36

else? And Archer's like, no

19:38

fucking way. We're sending a shuttle. This is

19:40

great. I'm super excited about that. Not only

19:42

can't he let it go, he can't resist

19:45

skipping the line on all of

19:47

the things you should do in a

19:49

moment like this. He does skip directly to

19:51

board that ship. Yeah, Trip

19:54

really wants to come on the

19:57

mission, but we can't afford

19:59

another. horny decon gel

20:01

scene just yet. Yeah,

20:04

give it a few more episodes, I'm sure. Part

20:14

of these couple of interstitial scenes has to

20:17

do with the fact that it takes

20:19

a half an hour to prepare a shuttle to

20:21

leave for a mission like this. So

20:24

you get a lot of luxuriating and like,

20:26

not even prep for the mission, it's just

20:28

like wandering around chatting with folks while I

20:30

guess someone gasses that thing up. Jeez.

20:34

No, thank you. Just like

20:36

the fact that we are reviewing episodes of

20:38

Discovery alongside this where they're like, we're going

20:40

to go on an away mission? And they

20:42

like tap their chest and have appeared on

20:44

the planet's surface? Like

20:46

before they've even completed the thought of maybe we

20:48

should go down there and check things out? It's

20:53

outrageous. It's amazing. It's amazing

20:55

how far they come in a thousand years. Yeah,

20:59

that's how long the road is. A

21:02

thousand years long. Archer's

21:06

got to feed his dog before they leave for

21:08

this mission. And it is deeply

21:11

unsettling that he's chosen a food that

21:13

he knows will make Porto sick. So

21:15

let me get this straight. He's

21:18

going to leave for a mission of an

21:20

undetermined amount of time and he's feeding his

21:22

dog cheese before he goes. So

21:24

if he has a floorboard situation in his

21:26

quarters, what do you think is going to happen

21:29

in there, Archer? It's just going

21:31

to be an absolute... You

21:34

know like that scene in Blade when he

21:36

goes into the nightclub? It's going to be

21:38

like that but for liquid beagle shit. Can't

21:43

wait to see what you do with that one, Rob. Now

21:49

we're just openly challenging Rob to do video

21:52

for us. We're

21:54

just openly challenging the sensors of the social networks

21:56

to ban our accounts. It

22:00

is time for another. Log In this

22:02

scene during and is the weirdness of

22:04

these logs? Does that have to do

22:06

with. We're. Finally seeing them again

22:09

I feel like for. Not.

22:11

Just Many Seasons mini series of

22:13

Trek Television. Or. Not see and

22:15

them being recorded. We're seeing them

22:18

in an exterior shots of a

22:20

space station or a ship. It's

22:22

unsettling to watch them be recorded

22:24

during. I. Think he he. He.

22:27

Either something. Very. Intimate about

22:29

watching somebody tried to collect their

22:31

thoughts for the computer. Yeah, And

22:34

the captain. As being. Pretty.

22:36

Brutally honest with as log about

22:38

how how is force feeding a

22:40

beagle pieces It seems like he's

22:42

making some fucking weird as flog

22:45

wrath and out of it as

22:47

successful as. You

22:50

know like people say it's cruel but

22:52

like poor those like the geese is

22:55

begging for more cheese yet look at

22:57

of i spread poor those parts on

22:59

a on a toasted bag at you're

23:01

going to be a believer. Let's.

23:06

Fuck you the state of

23:08

California. I was beagle liver

23:10

ssssss. Yeah,

23:15

me and me and Kristi Noem are actually

23:17

getting into business during that pretty soon. So

23:23

yeah he's is complaining about how. Divorce.

23:25

Rate is really cramping a

23:27

style and second guessing of

23:29

his ideas and also she's

23:31

probably. Smarter. Than he

23:34

is ends. Is. Probably.

23:37

Giving. Them good advice about what

23:39

sleeping bears not to poke math.

23:42

I mean, I wonder at what point we

23:44

will be proven wrong about that suspicion. Like

23:46

when Archer where I will actually do something.

23:49

That. Is smarter than to fall? That

23:53

yet? As haven't yet. So

23:56

as they're getting ready how she

23:58

doesn't wanna go because. He

24:01

v a suit is not her

24:03

saying and because. She's. Slightly

24:05

claustrophobic to be like you live on

24:07

a starship. Whoa! She's

24:10

main character traits are being scared

24:12

to them comfortable at this point.

24:15

And. Archers like you're still a

24:17

great communicator and that's why you're here.

24:20

So. I'm gonna say no to a request

24:22

you come in with. Should. Come in

24:24

with a trip. Cannot take your place

24:26

because we might need somebody to translate

24:28

a weird alien language. When we get

24:31

over there there is a mud room.

24:33

Where. The Dust: Best your club prepares to board

24:36

the shuttle. I think it's great. And. It

24:38

makes a lot of sense to. It's. As

24:40

a practical thing to build into

24:42

a remodel design and as they

24:44

are preparing for war in their

24:47

lists, the distribution of Does first

24:49

years has been authorized. Phased Plasma

24:52

Rifle in forty Watt range. Is

24:54

it's. Just.

24:56

A precaution hosts he is getting nervous. Or

24:58

and nervous. Or. I think, especially

25:01

when those weapons get passed around. Will

25:03

wouldn't wouldn't welcome readers like polishing his

25:05

rifle in front of her. She's like

25:07

Jesus Christ, what are we talking about

25:09

here and and then everybody like mountain

25:11

and enough responsive. We don't need to

25:13

go in that strapped. Seen too many

25:15

science fiction movies, we just need a

25:17

three phase. just as put the rifles

25:19

back. this I'm in this scene and

25:21

like. Don't. You polish the rifle

25:23

before you put it away after the

25:25

last mission, What are we

25:27

doing here? This is not Six Sigma at

25:29

all. It's like the your barbeque grill right?

25:32

You clear your son cooking and then you

25:34

clean it again when you start cooking. No

25:36

one fucking knows this fan except you and

25:39

me. I feel like we're the only ones.

25:41

He opened up the friends grill and it's

25:43

an atrocity in there. I subscribe

25:45

to the America's Test Kitchen Rule.

25:49

I do to flee put the. Ram.

25:51

A can of oil with the. Folded.

25:53

Up paper towel next to my grill. Every

25:55

time I do the grilling. i sat

25:57

the america's test kitchen role was to do with

26:00

every time Bridget makes a sound when

26:02

something is delicious. Mmm, mmm. That

26:07

too. Where is that Julia? Mmm, that

26:09

is really good. It's both of

26:11

them. Yeah. I love that show.

26:14

Ah, God, that show rules. If you do

26:17

a shot every time Dan Sousa says gorgeous,

26:19

you will fucking die of alcohol poisoning before

26:21

the episode is over. Gorgeous.

26:24

That looks very elegant. So

26:26

the shuttle docks at the mystery ship and

26:28

with just a couple of turns and some

26:31

switches, they open up that

26:33

exterior door. I love that Malcolm

26:35

wants to use shape charges on

26:37

the door and he's like, why don't we

26:39

just use the handle? Yeah, that's

26:42

sort of why we docked here. Reads

26:46

the sort of guy that wants to go straight through

26:49

the pants without unzipping. Yeah, he's

26:51

my kind of guy. So

26:55

yeah, they walk around. I love that they

26:57

are observing like, oh, these people must be

26:59

bipeds because they have ladders. They

27:02

must have blood because there's blood everywhere and

27:05

kind of a splatter configuration. Yeah,

27:07

and there's like these weird

27:10

machines pumping. It's a

27:12

great haunted house scene like when

27:14

Hoshi freaks out and their

27:16

flashlight beams fall across all of these

27:18

bodies hanging from the ceiling with like

27:20

tubes coming out of them and

27:23

going into these pumping devices. So

27:25

gross. I gotta

27:27

say I have been done

27:30

with Hoshi being

27:32

scared until she pays it off

27:34

with the scream. This

27:39

is a scream queen scream right

27:41

here. Linda Park fucking annihilates

27:43

it. She does great. Yeah, she

27:45

does a great job. So

27:48

we smash cut back to the decontamination

27:50

chamber and Dr. Flock's giving them double

27:52

thumbs up like you guys are good

27:54

to go. Come on in. And the

27:57

door flies open and to Paul is like,

27:59

okay, so like said, fucking

28:01

with this ship is bad and we should get

28:03

out of here. Because whoever

28:06

strung all those guys up and started

28:08

draining them, probably coming back,

28:11

right? Yeah, if you just look at

28:13

the facts on paper, all

28:15

they can do is wait and be attacked

28:17

by whoever attacked that ship, who are

28:20

clearly coming back for whatever

28:22

they're pumping out of those folks. I

28:25

guess that's convincing enough. Archer orders the

28:27

ship back on course. Like, great, okay,

28:30

makes sense to him. Faces of

28:32

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28:42

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28:44

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28:46

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28:48

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28:50

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Phlox gets in a bit of a panic

32:44

measuring contest with Hoshi when

32:47

she's talking to him about how much

32:49

she hated seeing 15 bodies hanging

32:51

from the ceiling on hooks. And he's like, I

32:54

should tell you about the time I saw 17

32:56

dead bodies. We say this

32:58

all the time on our show. Like

33:01

the way to be a friend to someone is

33:04

not to hear their

33:06

pain and get into a

33:08

measuring contest by volunteering

33:10

your own. It's just hearing them out, being

33:13

a good friend and listening. Maybe

33:16

in Phlox's culture, what he's

33:18

doing is the right thing. But in our culture,

33:20

it's the wrong thing. 16

33:22

bodies strung up, connected to a

33:24

pump. You think that's bad? Something

33:30

completely unrelated. I

33:34

like Phlox in this scene, obviously, because

33:36

I like Phlox. But he's

33:39

not just a doctor. He's also a therapist.

33:41

And he's really good at listening and

33:44

offering judgment-free advice. If you set aside the

33:46

whole idea of like, I've seen way more

33:48

bodies than that. I'm a medical professional. The

33:51

other stuff he's saying, I think, makes a lot of sense. Yeah,

33:54

but they're trying to

33:56

feed Sluggo the slug and talking through

33:58

this stuff. Is this what you make?

34:00

Slug-O-Cola out of. The

34:05

fact that it's called Slug-O was

34:07

distracting to me. Yeah. And

34:10

the color of it? Like you

34:12

know the Ferengue you're grinding up these slugs, aren't

34:14

they? These are the ones. Yeah.

34:17

It is a I didn't sign up for this

34:19

shit kind of conversation. I am

34:21

an academic and I want to study alien languages

34:23

at a university. I don't want

34:26

to be on a starship like wandering into

34:28

rooms where a bunch of people have been

34:30

murdered and hung from chains. And

34:32

Fluck is like that

34:34

slug is experiencing something identical. You think he

34:36

wants to be in a box with a

34:38

leaf and a stick right now? And

34:41

yet look at him. Look at

34:43

him. He's adjusting. Right. Look

34:45

at him as I drop this

34:47

thick white liquid inside of

34:50

unspecified origin. Are you

34:52

sure that's what you eat? It's close enough. And

34:54

she's like, it smells

34:56

like pineapple all of a sudden. It

34:59

smells like uncooked red potato in here

35:01

all of a sudden. Why

35:06

is that? Speaking

35:10

of dinner, it's dinner time

35:12

at the world's smallest card

35:14

table inside Archer's quarters. Yeah.

35:17

It's to Paul and Trip Tucker who were seated on

35:19

either side and Archer is not

35:22

being very sociable or talkative. Archer,

35:24

if you didn't want to have dinner guests,

35:26

it's probably within your power not to have

35:28

them. Captain's prerogative,

35:30

right? Yeah. He's grizzled

35:33

like an old ship captain, an old

35:35

fisherman, right? He doesn't want

35:37

to much talk about that mission on that ship

35:39

with the dead birdies, does he? Yeah.

35:42

I like that to Paul is like, I

35:44

don't really understand your human emotions, but it

35:46

seems like everybody's on a real bummer. So

35:48

maybe we should go like look at a

35:50

cool stellar phenomenon to like brighten

35:52

everybody's spirits a little bit. What's the matter?

35:56

The tension bothering you? Not

35:59

in the least. I love to Paul.

36:01

Here, Treating a child like a child.

36:03

Because Archers is like a kid wanting

36:05

to give a funeral to a dead

36:07

gold. This. He doesn't know their culture

36:09

for their customs, he just wants to

36:11

projects his own values on to them.

36:13

Maybe they want be strung up and

36:15

connected? move to Pump. Maybe that's what

36:18

they're into. Maybe they're like the guy

36:20

from Germany, the wanted to be consumed

36:22

by a cannibal and posted about about

36:24

drugs. Worst. I love the function of

36:26

the scene, which is to remind Archers

36:28

that he is the captain and he

36:30

can. Order the ship to do whatever

36:32

he was and he said He basically

36:34

flips over the table at ease. I find

36:37

I want to take the sit back there.

36:40

And start poking around some pumps.

36:43

He. Flips out. He orders the zip.

36:46

Back. To the rec

36:48

that they sound and we get a

36:50

Mclaughlin Group is your one where he.

36:53

Is. Not really soliciting suggestions from

36:55

his crew, but just barking orders

36:57

and. Discussing. What the

37:00

way? Out of the. Away.

37:02

Team is gonna be. He. Once hosted

37:04

trip to work on the technology

37:06

side of this computer figure out.

37:09

Like. How to communicate with the

37:12

people whose ship it is and

37:14

meanwhile everybody else is gonna go

37:16

into the abbott who are add

37:18

do an autopsy basically. Where.

37:20

Were you in the episode right now?

37:23

Debbie. A slasher slashed T. These.

37:26

Folks and whether or not this was

37:28

like their special thing that they wanted

37:30

to do or if it was an

37:32

attack, I felt like this was very

37:35

ambiguous. Still, Yeah. I liked

37:37

that about it vs like I thought

37:39

they were bat people like the sips

37:41

darts and maybe that's how they want

37:43

it. Yeah, we're maybe this is like

37:45

Reagan A. when they die they go,

37:48

they go be drains somewhere thing. Last,

37:50

I think that the episode does it

37:52

really good job of leaving that ambiguous

37:54

but also giving you some clues like

37:56

the fact that the machine that the

37:58

tubes are plugged in. Looks.

38:01

Really different from the design of the rest

38:03

of the ship. That's a key piece of

38:05

this whole thing. Yeah, and it's just a

38:07

great prop. Like an all time great prop

38:09

with that like water sloshing around and that

38:12

and stuff. and it was awesome. Fair. How

38:14

See is not psyched about having

38:16

to go back. But. At

38:18

least she doesn't have to work in the

38:21

bodies room. So they board the ship again

38:23

and. Flux. Is great. He.

38:25

Is there observing and calling out all

38:27

the different ways the crew people died

38:30

male heir day he chooses to do

38:32

an autopsy right there in the room.

38:34

Of. One of these dudes. Cut

38:37

some open and he spots in

38:39

Oregon that he can like figure

38:41

out what it does and is

38:44

talking about how see machines that

38:46

are pumping these corpses out. Or

38:49

gathering a substance called try

38:51

globulin. And the killers

38:53

were clearly trying to gather it.

38:56

And they're like a bunch of

38:58

potential medical uses for cry globulin.

39:01

Or. You can just use it to you know

39:03

like trick women and did wanting to. Have.

39:05

Sex with You appear. Like

39:08

Severed the descriptions are like the sounds like

39:11

a pill that you would see advertised in

39:13

the back of a penthouse magazine. Enough it's

39:15

the name of a thing that know pharmaceutical

39:17

company would use in a commercial either a

39:19

desperate that role as to turn it does

39:21

that sound. Positive. Side.

39:26

Gabi Elon today. Ask your

39:28

doctor about try goblin strike

39:30

often no one's gonna do

39:32

that. can be very unpopular.

39:36

How badly do you want and

39:38

direction are you willing to check

39:40

out? Villain? Fast Track Populace Cr

39:42

added in this month's issue of

39:44

The Amazing Spider Man, in which

39:46

he is coincidentally fighting the Green

39:48

Goblin. sector

39:56

gets the power turned back on in another part

39:58

of the ship and he and host are

40:00

hearing a pre-recorded message playing

40:02

that they can't quite understand and They're

40:06

trying at the same time to get a

40:08

translation process going in order to send a

40:10

distress call That's their part of the mission

40:12

They want to send something out from these

40:14

people to get some help from maybe some

40:16

living versions of what's on this ship Some

40:19

pre pumps if you will I'm

40:22

amazed at what a genius

40:24

hoshi is because she can have a

40:26

conversation with trip Tucker about How

40:30

she doesn't feel like she is cut

40:32

out for the demands of Starfleet and

40:34

wants to go home while

40:36

also like actively Translating

40:38

an alien language that she's never heard

40:41

like she's doing both at the same

40:43

time Well, I mean

40:46

we don't get much of a sample size here

40:48

But I do feel like you can do a

40:50

lot of other tasks while also having a conversation

40:52

with trip Tucker and feel like you're not gonna

40:55

miss much She

40:59

starts to get her arms around translating

41:02

this language she gets I Thought

41:05

she kept yelling the word shit. Hmm. She was

41:07

yelling the word ship sure she was trying to

41:09

find a the cognate for ship I

41:11

guess and Yeah, she

41:13

she starts to get it and they

41:16

send basically a distress signal

41:18

out from this ship's radio Back

41:27

On Enterprise to Paul has blown in a

41:29

call to Archer to say that the pumpers

41:32

have come back which is a term I'm

41:34

using for the aliens that Got

41:36

those pumpers going on this ship Everyone

41:39

needs to get the hell out of there and

41:41

before they leave Archer shoots the pump. I

41:44

thought this is a great detail That's

41:46

it good it fuck you guys you're

41:48

not getting the triglobulin now You

41:52

could scrape it off the floor with me How

41:58

Far in the past Am I now? I'm

42:00

oh. You

42:06

didn't maybe notice about each of was

42:08

he was a. Perverse. That

42:12

I be the same species do

42:14

the same. Say there isn't as

42:17

since who question here. Which.

42:19

Is if they're outgunned by this other

42:21

ship. Can. Read hit a moving

42:23

target. The. Answer for that read

42:25

gives to Paul is no not at

42:27

a fast as privacy and even had

42:29

a stationary target. You want me to

42:32

hit a shit moving through space? No

42:34

Way. So it's

42:36

kind of a race because the settles

42:39

gotta make it back to Enterprise before

42:41

the poppers. Get. All the way

42:43

there and god the publisher taking their sweet ass timer.

42:45

They. They. Are being very

42:47

slow and steady but you can tell that

42:49

they're bad just based on the design of

42:51

their ship, in the fact that the raise

42:53

that it suits or green. There.

42:56

Are bangers? get dropped on the and

42:58

exo one? Wow! The shuttle is trying

43:00

to. Come. Back aboard and

43:02

and like, knock them off of

43:05

the candid arm that is mounted

43:07

in the shuttle bay. And

43:09

one point and slaps the pipe read

43:11

other hand. So

43:15

they reattach and they go board

43:18

ads. Couple. Torpedoes get fired

43:20

at the pump ers. Boy.

43:22

This is disappointing. This

43:25

is less. This

43:29

is effective. I think this is

43:31

what the sale wants us to

43:33

think because like the music swells,

43:35

we're ready to hit the button.

43:37

So fired torpedoes and it's like

43:39

that moment in Independence Day, right?

43:41

Like were lots of nukes. Yeah,

43:43

and we're expecting things to blow

43:45

big. And it is. it's

43:48

so disappointing less than nothing

43:50

happens the size of a

43:52

little explosions relative yeah thumpers

43:54

ship this is like ah

43:57

fuck is this is where

43:59

no man for these guys. There's

44:01

a game that Pete Holmes plays

44:04

on his show. His

44:06

show is famously on video where

44:08

with the guest, he plays a

44:10

game called Smallest Smile. And it's

44:13

great because it always makes them both laugh

44:15

because whenever someone tries to make

44:17

a very small smile, it's very fun to do,

44:19

fun and funny to do. Let's

44:21

play a game called World's Smallest

44:24

Space Explosion where let's go

44:26

back and forth a couple of times doing

44:29

the sound of this incredibly feeble

44:31

torpedo. Are you ready? Okay. Do

44:33

you want me to go first? Yeah. That's

44:37

good. That's good. Okay. That's

44:47

really good. See,

44:54

that's a fun game. That was a

44:57

good game. So they're getting their asses

44:59

absolutely handed to them. They get bio-proved

45:01

by this ship. Oh yeah. And it's

45:03

like, yeah, they were probably like looking

45:05

to see if you've got dragobulin or

45:09

something else that they might want in

45:11

your birdies that they could pump out

45:13

of you. Yeah. Start deciding where you

45:15

want that hose to go. It's

45:17

basically the vibe. Meanwhile. Where

45:20

y'all want that hose to go? And

45:25

they get like tracker beams by the

45:27

pumper ship. And meanwhile, another ship shows

45:29

up. Would you have expected more

45:31

pumping from the pumper ship in terms of

45:34

technology? Oh, like everything

45:36

that they shoot feels like it's pumping something

45:38

back. Yeah. There's a lot of beam face

45:40

stuff. And also like later on when they

45:42

drop those grapplers on and there's a drill,

45:45

like I would have expected some pumping going

45:47

on there, right? Right. Right.

45:49

Well, maybe like once the drill penetrates

45:51

is when the pumping starts, but they

45:53

didn't get that far. That is frequently

45:56

when it begins. Yeah. Yeah. The other

45:58

ship that shows up. it

46:00

looks like the original ship and

46:03

they get on FaceTime. And this is a

46:06

scene of great tension because initially Hoshi

46:08

is trying to like type in her

46:10

responses to this guy because they don't

46:13

have a universal translator. And

46:15

she is trying to like convey

46:18

relatively complex sentiments that the captain

46:20

is yelling at this guy in

46:24

a language that she is just starting

46:26

to get a sense of. And

46:29

this guy is not understanding. She

46:32

is struggling. Ben, do you think

46:34

in October of 2001, texting

46:38

people like important

46:40

information was a

46:43

thing? Like, I don't think

46:45

they had any idea at this moment

46:47

in time how true a moment like

46:49

this would become. Like, you don't text

46:52

something important to people that you're trying

46:54

to convey, especially if there's a language barrier

46:56

there. You're going to screw it up. You're

46:58

going to do bad. Early

47:00

in my relationship where I had like a

47:02

text argument with the woman who is now

47:05

my wife and I was like, we

47:07

shouldn't probably have talked about that over text. That

47:09

was kind of bad. We

47:12

looked down at the screen of the things

47:14

Hoshi is texting and she's like, we need

47:16

to talk. It's serious. I'm

47:19

late. What

47:23

are you going to do about it? And

47:25

this alien is on the face. I'm going. Yeah.

47:32

So they're getting their whole drilled

47:34

and Hoshi has to stand up

47:36

and start speaking out loud to

47:38

this guy. And the

47:40

concept that she finally succeeds

47:43

in getting across is scan the pumps, scan the

47:45

pumps on the other ship. You'll see that they

47:47

are the same kind of

47:49

power signature as this ship that is

47:51

currently drilling us. And

47:53

This works. This Guy realizes who the bad

47:55

guys are and who the good guys are.

47:57

And He. Fires

48:00

on the pumper ship and.

48:03

That. Breaks the connection so the Annex

48:05

our one can get away. And it

48:07

is right then that Malka reads like

48:09

a i think I can nail him

48:11

with one torpedo. You

48:14

know, just for our pride. Yeah,

48:17

like it's a little bit better than

48:19

then. this other guys like destroys the

48:21

pump or said I was kinda surprised

48:24

by this. yeah. Yeah. But

48:26

also like the pumper ship killed all of

48:28

that guy's buddies over and the other said.

48:31

I understand why he did it, but

48:33

light. Archers. Why did so?

48:35

We made a friend out here like we

48:37

met the axe and are there androgynous

48:39

of they live for four hundred years and

48:42

now there are buddies and now slugs lives

48:44

with them. Fit at and I was like

48:46

yet but you also definitely made an enemy

48:48

Like the pumper guys are gonna be mad

48:51

if they ever find out that you were

48:53

part of that whole scene. Ah yes, but

48:55

without a pump and without a trace they

48:58

were blown into smithereens. Been. I

49:00

don't think that's on them at all. and with

49:03

so she's great translation skills. I think she could

49:05

explain their way out of their problem, right? Now

49:08

so as Button on the episode

49:10

is her and flocks stopping on

49:12

a planet that has a similar

49:15

biome to the one that they

49:17

picked up. Slug Go On! And.

49:21

Say goodbye. To.

49:23

Her little pet. It's. Like a

49:25

metaphor for like thirty, you know the slug

49:28

couldn't adapt to the starship of maybe how

49:30

she can. We cut

49:32

back up to archers quarters and death.

49:35

He is rolling up and throwing away. The

49:38

carpet in his room hasn't been. Completely

49:40

soiled with dog diarrhea. The

49:44

I agree with you that there was a metaphor. Did.

49:47

You like this episode? I

49:56

did like this ever said. I like how. it

49:59

is Scary and weird

50:01

and they don't know what's going on

50:03

for most of it and

50:06

i like that the episode didn't tell

50:08

the tan at all about what was

50:10

going on until pretty late. In

50:13

the app and i thought hoshi's.

50:16

Arc was also very relatable like that that

50:18

feeling of maybe i've bitten off more than

50:21

i can chew maybe this wasn't a good

50:23

life choice by me to like come on

50:25

the ship felt really

50:27

well explored and.

50:31

I like that character a lot like she's she's

50:33

already gotten a more interesting

50:36

storyline than like troy or beverly

50:39

got it like the first half of.

50:43

All of tng yeah i'd agree with that i

50:46

am i'm very glad that

50:49

the hoshi is scared storyline might have

50:52

ended here or maybe at

50:54

least the the lack of hoshi

50:56

confidence storyline might be done i'm

50:59

here with that yeah. I

51:01

also think i want to start a

51:03

thing this episode which is the captain

51:05

archer like ability scale. Where

51:09

three episodes in i'm just

51:11

gonna say it i don't like that guy. I

51:14

don't like him as a captain i

51:16

like him fine as a person. I'm

51:19

gonna put him in a three on a scale of

51:21

ten right now and i think we're gonna we're gonna

51:23

come back to that from time to time. He

51:26

doesn't seem like the guy to be

51:28

sent out on this mission he

51:31

seems too impulsive like i

51:33

shouldn't be siding with to paul. On

51:36

all of the arguments between them but i

51:38

am because he's not doing this right he's

51:40

gonna you're gonna get your

51:42

crew killed. I

51:47

carefully kept in the first long

51:50

rates exploration mission to be a

51:52

little more careful just launching into

51:54

alien cultures without. Doing

51:57

a little more. Yeah,

52:00

I really agree. Like there's something

52:02

about him where I think

52:05

that like they are trying to draw

52:07

a bright line under this is a ship that has

52:09

do is doing things that have never been done before.

52:13

And these aren't just their first time

52:15

meeting these aliens. It's their first time meeting aliens

52:17

of any kind. Like they've never heard of Klingons.

52:19

They've never heard of Romulans. All of this stuff

52:21

is going to be new to them. But

52:24

he doesn't feel like the guy

52:26

that has the right like disposition

52:29

to be the first to

52:31

do all these things. In a space program, Parlance,

52:34

I think the word you're looking for is stuff.

52:36

Yeah, he doesn't have the right stuff. And

52:39

that feels intentional, right? Like it doesn't feel

52:42

like they're like miss drawing

52:44

the character. No, yeah, I

52:46

think we're reading him correctly. I just wonder

52:48

if he's on a track towards stuff, you

52:50

know? Yeah, will he get the

52:52

right stuff? Maybe even double stuff. Yeah.

52:56

Well, we will find out and we will

52:58

also find out what's in the priority one

53:01

inbox if we head over there. What do

53:03

you say, Adam? Oh, I'm hoping

53:05

for double stuff today. Wow. Priority

53:08

one message from Starfleet coming in

53:10

on secure channel. Need

53:13

a supplemental. supplemental. supplemental.

53:16

supplemental. Yes, actually. By

53:18

the interest alone, could be enough to buy this

53:20

ship. Ben,

53:23

we got a promotional priority one message here.

53:27

That message goes like this. Dear Ben

53:29

and Adam, it's been a long road,

53:31

but I've caught up with TGG mid

53:33

seven season Voyager and T.G.D. Wow. Hods

53:37

have meant a lot to me and I wanted to

53:39

chip in. I only made it through the first few

53:41

episodes of Enterprise when it was on.

53:44

I heard it gets better later, but

53:46

I love your goofs and I'm looking forward to hearing

53:49

them. And they will

53:51

get me through these first few rough

53:53

episodes and seasons as they've gotten me

53:55

through hard times in life before. I'll

53:57

end by shoving some scarves into the

53:59

drop jukebox. calling up some

54:02

DS9 and David Simon's

54:05

request is for the O'Brien trap

54:07

and the Odo interstitial. Wow. I

54:11

am Chief Miles Edward O'Brien. This

54:13

is fucking spectacular. I'm

54:17

going to be going through this about it. And

54:20

I'm here, taking a hail of the

54:22

old version of the new one. It's

54:24

all, all I know to recipe anymore.

54:27

David Simon made sure to mention that

54:29

he was not the wire guy. And

54:33

I'm glad that he said so because I

54:35

would have just assumed. Yeah. Yeah.

54:37

I mean, I'm sure that that David

54:39

Simon is also a huge fan of

54:41

our work. Yeah. Likewise.

54:44

Yeah. So we have a couple of

54:46

David Simons in the audience. That's great.

54:49

Our next priority one message is of

54:51

a personal nature. It's from Jared's three

54:53

daughters, Olivia, Rose, and Luna, and his

54:55

wife, Molly. And it's to Jared slash

54:58

daddy goes like

55:00

this. Happy birthday to our

55:02

hero, Jared slash daddy. Thank

55:04

you for dealing with a house full of

55:07

silly gooses and for getting us ice cream

55:09

more often than is reasonable. We

55:11

hope you enjoy hearing your fav podcast

55:13

hosts read this message to you while

55:15

you are either in the shower or

55:17

at work with Jerome with

55:19

love from Molly, Olivia, Rose, Luna, and

55:22

the cats. Amazing. Looks

55:24

like this is a little bit

55:26

of a belated birthday for Jared,

55:29

but happy birthday, Jared. And say

55:31

what's up to Jerome, I guess. I

55:34

don't know. Jared's got a

55:36

great sounding family there. Happy

55:39

birthday. Happy birthday,

55:41

daddy. Finally, we

55:43

have a priority one message here. Ben,

55:45

it is to you and me. It's from Jacob

55:48

Vandenberg. All

55:51

right. Message goes like this. Hi, Ben and

55:53

Adam. I listen to GGG often while on

55:55

the go or doing chores. Last

55:58

week, I Had to stop half. Way

56:00

making the bed because I laughed so

56:02

hard about a discussion between you two

56:04

for that second fingers. A

56:07

reminded me again why I listen to the

56:09

So and I wanted to send some scarves

56:11

to help you. Keep up the great were

56:13

tears from the Netherlands. Wow! I mean I'm

56:16

having a hard time thinking of which episode

56:18

that was. There are just so many. Having

56:21

to do with finger second fingers acting

56:23

as bin. Laden

56:25

theme a my Workload her death

56:28

of a been trying to convince.

56:30

Adam to go of your wife has gone

56:32

on a work trip to the Netherlands. You

56:34

should go man. I

56:37

was really curious about how you

56:39

doing a pivot, the subject of

56:41

finger sagging into something my wife

56:43

was doing. You gotta? You gotta

56:45

go. It's the best trigger second

56:47

country has. I've been to the

56:49

Netherlands, right? It's that. Wow.

56:53

I think that's great. For this

56:55

is the only non English speaking country

56:57

I've ever visited where people thought I

57:00

was a local like people came up

57:02

to me and started speaking to me

57:04

and the in the local tongue. Let

57:06

me ask you a serious question is

57:09

the Netherlands. So

57:11

great that it is better than

57:13

staying at home alone for an

57:16

entire week ssssss as if if

57:18

it is, I kind of have

57:20

my decision made. You

57:23

know, chime in on the Priority

57:25

One messages. A Let us know

57:27

what you think they go to

57:29

Maximum Fun Died or it's less

57:31

Jumbotron Where are all manner of

57:33

messages or communicated to Sally members

57:35

and to us? and maybe one

57:37

day they will have the opinion.

57:40

Of whether or not it's best to do foreign

57:42

travelers. they a homeowner so. Indeed,

57:44

Well that was a lot of fun. But.

57:47

I guess I just have one question for you.

57:49

Adam: Their bed. Did. You find yourself a

57:51

drunk from Oda. Gonna

57:55

be Dr. Phlox until it's not. A

57:58

foul. he is in

58:00

his own show, doing his own

58:03

things. You just

58:05

go to Six Bay and you're on the

58:07

Dr. Flocks show. Sometimes he's

58:09

out of Six Bay, going on

58:11

a wave missions and stuff, but he takes the show

58:13

with him. When he's

58:15

wearing the suit, that's the Dr. Flocks show. When

58:18

he's wearing his robes or whatever on the

58:21

bridge, also the Dr. Flocks show.

58:24

Yeah, make mine Dr. Flocks, make it

58:26

a double. How about you? Hoshi

58:29

is my drunk shmoto. You killed

58:32

Sluggo, Hoshi. Like Sluggo

58:34

dead. Like you took

58:36

Sluggo out of Sluggo's habitat. You may

58:38

have also done something terrible to the

58:41

biome on the planet you dropped Sluggo

58:43

off on. Who knows how long lived

58:45

Sluggo is. Maybe

58:47

Sluggo can reproduce asexually and maybe

58:50

you just introduced an invasive species

58:52

that's gonna destroy everything. What a

58:54

mess. I don't think anyone cares

58:56

about that on this show yet. Yeah,

58:59

it's like early days, and then it's

59:01

all gonna come back and bite them

59:03

in the ass later. They're really doing

59:05

butterfly effect pretty often on

59:08

this show, I think. Yeah, they're getting it

59:10

started early. So Hoshi

59:12

is my drunk shmoto. Good one.

59:15

Faces of fart. Adam, we gotta

59:17

turn to the game of buttholes.

59:20

Shh. Well, of

59:23

the Riker colon quantum leap.

59:25

That's right. Is that what we're calling

59:27

it? Yep. I'm gonna

59:29

tell you about season one, episode

59:32

four of Star Trek Enterprise. It's

59:34

called Strange New World. Crew

59:37

members go on a survey mission

59:39

to a seemingly uninhabited Earth-like planet

59:42

where a mysterious alien presence sends

59:45

them into a state of

59:47

paranoid overdrive. Well, that

59:49

sounds exciting. Wonder how

59:51

we're gonna experience it. Well, to find out,

59:54

you're going to have to roll our D100

59:57

on this new edition of the game. You're

59:59

required. to learn as you play roll

1:00:02

we're just gonna go to whatever square

1:00:04

the d100 tells us to go and

1:00:07

all around on this board are brand new tiles

1:00:09

let's see if we hit one then

1:00:14

I rolled an 87 it is an

1:00:16

open space it's a regular old episode

1:00:21

for us coming up next awesome we

1:00:24

almost hit the temporal Cold War square

1:00:26

which would have made

1:00:28

us react to

1:00:30

three old bad reviews of the

1:00:32

greatest generation on the next Maron

1:00:36

what a fucker of a square Wow

1:00:42

of course the vetoes are back but if

1:00:44

we if we use a veto on a

1:00:46

modifier like that and maybe we have to

1:00:48

record a bonus episode about a quantum leap

1:00:50

you want to send us into a tailspin

1:00:52

for like a period of weeks that temporal

1:00:54

cold war square would do it you

1:00:57

know what I think would happen though is that people would hear

1:00:59

the dunks and then maybe they would

1:01:02

finally be convinced

1:01:04

to leave a five-star review wherever they listen

1:01:06

to a podcast that'd be great that would

1:01:08

be really nice yeah if you if you're

1:01:10

hearing this and you haven't yet leave a

1:01:12

five-star review it doesn't take that long it's

1:01:15

easy it's easy and then it's

1:01:17

over okay item well I'm

1:01:19

really looking forward to next week I'm

1:01:21

so glad that we didn't hit that

1:01:23

temporal Cold War square yeah you do

1:01:26

but you know what is it hit that

1:01:28

theme music the music's a hit

1:01:30

can't get it out of my head Adam Ragusea

1:01:33

helped us make that as he helps us make

1:01:35

all the music on this show you know the

1:01:38

music that plays underneath our credits is made

1:01:40

by dark material though that's not going anywhere

1:01:43

we love that we sure do

1:01:45

we love windy pretty our

1:01:47

producer and editor who makes

1:01:50

us sound good and coherent

1:01:52

mm-hmm gotta thank Rob Adler

1:01:54

our social media director and

1:01:57

Bill Tilly our Zindy war

1:01:59

consigliet I have it on

1:02:01

good authority that Bill Telly is getting back into

1:02:03

the card game and is going

1:02:06

to once again become the Card Daddy.

1:02:08

I'm so excited about the return

1:02:11

of Card Daddy. And relatedly, Rob

1:02:13

Adler will soon be making a

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video filled with Beagle diarrhea. Yeah.

1:02:20

So they are both very talented in their own

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1:03:07

we are joined by a mysterious presence

1:03:09

as well. There's like a third mic

1:03:12

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