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1:03

Welcome to the greatest generation enterprise. It's a

1:06

Star Trek podcast by a couple of guys

1:08

who are a little bit embarrassed to have

1:10

a Star Trek podcast. I'm Ben Harrison. I'm

1:13

Adam Pranika. Adam. What?

1:18

We've talked about it for years that this

1:20

show has ruined us

1:22

for the real world and

1:24

for other jobs. And

1:27

it may have come the closest

1:29

home that it ever has for me

1:31

recently. And you were there for it. I

1:34

had a bad bit moment, my friend. Bits,

1:43

bits, bits. No matter what. You're

1:45

always doing bits. Bits. I

1:48

was doing bits. Bad bit moment. Bad

1:50

bit moment. The part that hurts the most is you're telling

1:52

me I was there for it. At this point I've been

1:54

there for it. no

2:00

recollection of what you're talking about. I

2:03

must have been drunk. I

2:08

don't think you were drunk. You came

2:10

over to visit, I think it was

2:12

for the streaming cyboc-tacular actually. We were,

2:15

we watched the stream together and then

2:17

we did one of our meet and

2:19

greet sessions here in my office. And

2:21

then I walked you out to your

2:24

car and we are getting ready to

2:26

do a little bit of a home

2:28

renovation project over here. And

2:30

this is a home renovation project that

2:33

will involve pulling permits.

2:35

And some guy

2:37

that we have working with us on

2:40

this told us that if we're pulling

2:42

permits, the city is going to require

2:44

that we show a survey of our

2:46

lot to, to get

2:49

the permits to do the thing we want to do.

2:52

And it's really not a big

2:54

deal. Like we're not like building a new structure. I

2:56

don't really know why we have to pull this permit,

2:58

but um, I mean, but if some guy tells you

3:00

to, yeah, some guy said we had to do it.

3:03

A new homeowner is encouraged

3:05

to consult that guy. Yeah.

3:08

For advice on doing any

3:10

sort of home renovations. So

3:13

just to like get the scope

3:16

of this, this is a guy

3:18

with a laser beam that shoots

3:21

to a post that, that sprays

3:23

some paint down and gives you

3:25

the geometry of your lot, like

3:28

specifically. This is all we're talking

3:30

about. Yeah. And I mean, it

3:32

is, there is a dark art to it. That's

3:34

what they'll have you believe. I don't know all the

3:36

ins and outs of it, but one of the things

3:39

that they do. When

3:41

they do the survey is I guess they don't

3:43

always do this, but they can mark

3:45

your lot corners. And when

3:47

they marked the front corners

3:49

of our house, the way they did it

3:52

was they like, could chunked

3:54

a little brass washer and

3:56

nail or something into the

3:59

sidewall. out front and in

4:02

the record it's like the lot

4:04

starts you know two feet this way you

4:06

know because we don't know the sidewalk but

4:08

it does show exactly where the lot is

4:11

orthogonal to that so you and

4:13

I walked out of my house after

4:15

the streaming sidewalk tackle and I was

4:17

like hey look I got a new

4:19

brass like lot corner marker and

4:21

look at that it's to the other

4:23

side of the retaining wall between my

4:26

neighbor's house and my house so I

4:28

can knock all this shit down I'm

4:30

bracing because you had some

4:32

confidence there in that hypothesis

4:34

you walked to your

4:36

car said your farewells and then

4:38

I got out of there pretty

4:41

fast and then I heard

4:43

a huh cuz a Benjamin with that

4:45

kind of confidence is a very dangerous

4:47

man no good friend I heard I

4:49

heard my neighbor let a little cough

4:52

go they are gardeners par

4:54

excellence and they have lots and lots

4:56

of plants at the yard and so

4:58

this was not just a a

5:00

like yard decoration of like a

5:03

bent over ass that you

5:05

see sometimes this was

5:07

ass actual this was as

5:09

actual I don't know for

5:11

sure that my old

5:14

sweet neighbor who has been

5:16

nothing but kind heard everything

5:19

but she and her husband have I've

5:22

waved at them several times since that

5:24

moment and just gotten stony

5:26

scowly faces I've oh they heard bands

5:29

they heard they heard they heard it

5:31

all I've been like lying in bed

5:33

at night looking at the

5:35

ceiling like why like what a stupid

5:37

bit like so useless like it wasn't

5:40

even that funny to Adam who is

5:42

like the only person that really thinks

5:44

I'm funny in the world and

5:47

even then I mean it'd be hard to tell

5:49

by listening to the show you probably scared the

5:51

shit out of a band yes exactly like English

5:57

isn't their first language there's no way I'm gonna

5:59

be able to explain I was

6:01

doing a bit to my comedy

6:03

partner for jokes about knocking your

6:05

property down. All they know is

6:07

that recently a survey

6:09

team discharged a weapon

6:12

into the sidewalk that

6:15

fired an official looking washer

6:17

into it. And they got

6:19

a neighbor laughing about how

6:21

he's gonna drive an excavator

6:23

through the side of their property. I

6:26

am sick. I'm sick. I've been sick

6:28

for weeks about this. Why haven't

6:30

you talked to them, Ben? They

6:33

won't talk to me. Ben, it's time to...

6:35

You're gonna think this is a confrontation, but

6:37

it's not. It's just a

6:39

conversation. You just gotta... You know what?

6:41

Here's what you do. Maybe you take one of those

6:43

pies that your parents send you. You

6:47

bring it next door as a

6:49

peace offering and you say, hey, neighbor,

6:52

just wanted to say hi. I think

6:54

you're great and I'm not going

6:56

to knock over your fence and

6:59

destroy all of your property. What

7:02

you've done is you've left... Like, there's an

7:04

information vacuum here, Ben, that's just being filled

7:07

and you gotta stop that

7:09

vacuum from exploding. Yeah,

7:11

like, I'm sure that they're sick too, right?

7:13

They're worried that the guy that they used

7:15

to think was a nice guy that lived

7:17

next door to them is scheming

7:20

on knocking their shit over. I'm sure as

7:22

soon as you pulled up in the U-Haul,

7:24

it was There Goes the Neighborhood for those

7:26

folks. Is that a... Is

7:29

that a podcast mic? Oh

7:33

my god, that's two SM7Bs.

7:35

Oh, that means he's got

7:37

guests. Oh, oh god. You

7:39

know that Paul F. Tompkins is going to

7:42

show up at some point if he's got

7:44

two SM7Bs. It's

7:46

time to go permit-only on all the

7:48

street parking. And

7:51

it's time to raise the fences. Ben,

7:56

you know what you have to do. I do. I

7:58

know, I know. So, it's

8:01

hard, they don't speak tons

8:03

of English and the interactions

8:05

that we have had up

8:07

until this point, extremely pleasant

8:09

but extremely surface level, slash

8:11

them giving us culturally

8:14

decontextualized tips about how to raise

8:17

a young child. I'm

8:19

sure that's welcome. Oh, okay. We'll

8:21

give some consideration to that. You

8:24

put potato in... You

8:29

put potato in crib. Yeah, so... Boy,

8:33

grow up strong. We

8:35

are very worried about our reputation with Mr.

8:37

and Mrs. Putin. I

8:40

can do a fucking Polish accent. I'm Polish,

8:42

okay? Yeah,

8:46

I'm worried. Because they were

8:48

like our preferred neighbors of

8:50

the, you know, we've got neighbors on either

8:53

side. Not anymore. Not anymore.

8:56

I think... Now it's the other

8:58

neighbors, huh? The other neighbors. Yeah. You

9:00

blew it! You blew it! I'm so

9:02

fucked. What does your very

9:04

nice wife think of the situation that you've

9:07

ruined? She's basically taken the same position you

9:09

have. It's just that I am too much

9:11

of a coward to actually take this very

9:13

good advice for action or so far have

9:15

been too much of a coward for that.

9:17

You know what? Just the information

9:19

vacuum has been filled by your neighbors.

9:22

You're filling your own vacuum with

9:24

dark thoughts, man. It's not as

9:26

bad as you think. That thing

9:29

where you have the conversation in your head a

9:31

million times... Oh, you got to get out of

9:33

that, businessman. Yeah, that's no good. Those

9:36

are the psychic wars. You got to

9:38

lay down your psychic firearm.

9:41

Turn it into psychic plowshare. Beat

9:45

my psychic sword. Yeah, that's what you got

9:47

to do. Yeah, yeah.

9:49

You first. I

9:52

mean, work in progress. Well,

9:57

as much as I want to just move to...

10:00

entirely different planet. I do not have that

10:02

option, Adam, and I'm not sure it would

10:04

be a great option even if I

10:06

had it. Do you want to get into the episode that

10:08

we came to talk about today? Yeah, I guess who else

10:11

isn't very interested in talking to their neighbors? The

10:14

Novans of Star Trek Enterprise Season

10:16

1 Episode 6, Terranova.

10:27

So we start looking through like a

10:29

photo album of old

10:31

photos of an Earth-like planet,

10:35

and this is Travis Mayweather

10:37

and Hoshi Sato like doing

10:39

some archival research on this

10:41

lost colony. You got

10:43

to have good tab management, I think, when

10:45

you got an open office

10:47

workplace like this. Can't be sure

10:50

when Archer walks on that

10:52

there aren't a lot of alt-tab

10:54

keystrokes happening here. That's got to

10:57

be a trip if you're a

10:59

manager, right? You know when you're

11:01

walking around the cubicles, you're hearing

11:03

a lot of click-click, you

11:05

know? Yeah, yeah. Oh, there's a

11:07

spreadsheet in this cubicle as well. Wow,

11:10

just look at how productive everyone is.

11:16

Nobody's listening to the Greatest Generation

11:18

on the YouTube page in

11:20

their headphones. Nobody. Travis has been digging

11:22

through the archives. There's tons of data

11:25

here. We learn a little bit about

11:27

what they're looking at. This

11:29

is a lost colony. Whatever happened

11:31

to Terranova, is anyone still there?

11:33

That's what this mission's all about, and Enterprise

11:36

is going to arrive in three hours.

11:39

Unfortunately, dinner time is in between

11:41

now and then. So the captain

11:43

convenes his captain's table. It has

11:46

a little conversation with Trip

11:48

Tucker and to Paul. I

11:51

love, love, love this moment

11:54

for Trip Tucker when he's

11:56

like, oh yeah, I mean, I'm surprised

11:58

Vulcans don't know about early... space

12:00

colonization efforts by humans because we learn

12:02

about that stuff in elementary school and

12:05

she's like name one Vulcan

12:07

survey mission you learned about

12:09

in elementary school History

12:12

was never my best subject This is

12:15

what happens when to Paul drinks a

12:17

little too much lemon infused ice water,

12:19

right? She just starts talking shit Yeah,

12:22

it's very rude I mean There's like a

12:24

whole genre of this on the internet like

12:26

the video of somebody going to a political

12:29

event and asking Someone who

12:31

showed up there and is very excited

12:33

for politician about some

12:37

Reason that they're voting for politician and then

12:39

they like can't go any deeper than the

12:41

talking point Yeah, and

12:43

that's sort of where trip Tucker is shallower

12:45

than the talking point. That's trip Tucker

12:50

Archer gives the assembled Dining

12:52

companions. Oh, what's up? What's

12:55

up with Terranova? This is the first

12:58

Manned expedition outside the solar system. So it was

13:00

a pretty big deal 70 years ago At

13:03

least up until the moment when communications broke

13:05

down Turns out as

13:08

soon as this colony set up shop They

13:11

didn't much like the idea of more colonists

13:14

ever arriving the colonizers do

13:16

not want to be colonized I

13:19

love the idea of this many people you

13:21

only find this out later. This is

13:23

an enormous planet and by colony Boy,

13:26

are we using that word liberally?

13:28

there's like a couple hundred people

13:30

on this little dot in the

13:33

northern hemisphere a Great

13:35

big planet. Yeah remains

13:38

they felt like You

13:40

know, this was their their land

13:42

their birthright Yeah, and anybody else

13:44

that earth wanted to send out

13:46

was not welcome and

13:49

they just stopped picking up the phone at some

13:51

point I love that the mystery was permitted to

13:54

Remain like the conversation goes from

13:57

that to Archer being like yeah,

13:59

and then And, you know,

14:01

I mean, it's seven years back and forth. No

14:03

one's just going to do that for nothing. What

14:05

if they're not home? And

14:07

Paul's like, you could have asked us. Like

14:10

we're in the neighborhood. And

14:14

Trip Tucker and Archer kind of agree that that

14:16

would have been too much of a

14:19

pain in the ass. You don't want to

14:21

ask favors of the Vulcans. So they didn't. And

14:23

so here they are. They pull into

14:25

orbit. The planet looks great.

14:28

Really does. Looks just like Earth, but

14:31

with different shape of continents. And

14:33

classic Archer hailing frequency message here.

14:35

He's like, hey, we're from Earth.

14:37

Here's what we're all about. And

14:39

the code to our weapons systems

14:41

and anything else you'd

14:43

like to know. He

14:47

just starts taking books off the shelves and

14:49

like opening them at the view screen and

14:52

throwing them behind. My

14:54

social security number is 642-5. You

15:02

know that something bad has

15:04

happened on the surface when they don't respond

15:06

to this message. Yeah,

15:09

there's no bio signs downstairs

15:11

and they're also picking up

15:14

low levels of radiation. And

15:16

they're like, uh, radiation seems

15:19

bad, but it's not bad enough that we

15:21

can't go down and like knock on the

15:23

front door of their colony. So

15:25

the shuttle heads down and lands

15:28

in a classic

15:30

like firefly by

15:33

Joss Whedon level Old

15:36

West town. Like right

15:38

on down to a wagon wheel or

15:40

something. Yeah, yeah. I know it's a

15:42

bike wheel. Shut the fuck up. That

15:47

wasn't for you, Ben. That was just

15:49

like to the person in their car. Like

15:51

what? Yeah,

15:53

we heard you. A

15:56

lot of people don't think podcasting is a two way

15:58

medium, but it is. Yeah. goes

16:00

both ways now. Surprise motherfucker! Kind

16:02

of a great shot composition. I like this,

16:05

Reed, spinning that wheel. That

16:08

wheel just spins around. It's

16:13

dusty. Yeah, but there's nobody home

16:15

in this town. We learned that the

16:17

radiation 70 years ago, which is

16:19

a number we've heard before, would have been

16:21

lethal. Yeah. How

16:24

much at this point were you

16:26

looking forward to the idea of

16:29

yet another classic Old

16:32

West Star Trek episode? Because this

16:34

kind of had all of the

16:36

trappings of an Old

16:38

West town, just

16:41

full shootout situation.

16:44

Right. I wanted to find out if Malcolm

16:46

Reed is as comfortable with a shooting iron

16:48

as he is with a woman's heart. I

16:51

don't think we'll ever know anything about Malcolm Reed

16:53

at this rate. They

16:57

kind of split up and he sees

16:59

someone or something running

17:01

through the forest and

17:03

makes chase and radios

17:06

up to everybody that he may be

17:08

onto something. He

17:10

finds the opening to a cave. I

17:14

really love the moment here that

17:16

goes like, we're at a cave.

17:19

We can't go in until we get flashlights

17:22

and Archer radios for their flashlights to be

17:24

brought for them. This is not

17:26

a scene we get to watch, but it is a

17:28

scene I really wanted to see. Like

17:31

just the chilling outside the cave.

17:34

Yeah. Waiting. We're

17:36

just waiting for Mayweather. Get

17:38

back with those flashlights before we go in. I

17:41

hope there's not another way out of this cave

17:43

or that guy's probably long gone. Yeah. Once

17:46

they're inside the cave, the music really

17:48

says fight, right? But

17:50

the action inside says mystery. Yeah.

17:53

We get a little description from Malcolm about the

17:55

guy he saw, but he was scaly. And

17:58

the cave is a lot. tighter quarters than

18:00

your average Star Trek cave, at least

18:03

at the beginning. They have to kind

18:05

of like belly shuffle through their initial

18:07

passageway. Did you get the idea that

18:09

Reed wanted to go first because he

18:11

was the weest of all of them

18:13

or because he was the security guy?

18:16

I think he was, uh, protecting his

18:18

captain as a security officer

18:20

should, but he's, he's rather we,

18:22

isn't he? Yeah. Would

18:24

you also say he's Juan? I mean, he gets

18:26

one later. I think later in the episode, he's

18:29

both Juan and we. Yeah. When is that though?

18:35

Um, later when he's Juan and

18:37

we? Yeah, he wins when he's

18:40

Juan and we. Finally, they

18:42

arrive at, at someone's underground

18:44

home base. Yeah. We see

18:46

like an armadillo puppet shimmying

18:48

around. There's writing on the

18:50

walls. It really seems like

18:52

an exhibit in a museum that's like, this

18:55

is how ancient people used to live. And

18:57

it's like skin drying and

18:59

wicker baskets and hand tools and

19:01

stuff. Yeah. And the shells of those

19:03

dillars. Yeah. Lots of those.

19:06

There's nothing more alien looking than

19:08

a cauldron of purple soup. Am

19:11

I right? What

19:13

do you think was the most shocking

19:15

soup you've ever seen in movies or

19:17

TV? Cause I bet you

19:19

got an answer for this. This might

19:22

be it. I mean, there's definitely some

19:24

ones in like your Indiana Jones's of

19:26

the world that are like, went straight

19:29

to hand soup from Conan the barbarian.

19:31

Sure. Who could forget

19:33

hand soup? I mean, there's so much collagen

19:35

in hand, so it's got a great like

19:37

velvety mouth feel. You know what? You put

19:40

the hand soup leftovers in the fridge. Uh,

19:42

you can skim off that hard piece of

19:45

collagen from the top. Leaves

19:47

yourself a nice clarified broth. Yeah.

19:50

Down below. I, uh, went to a

19:52

Hungarian restaurant once and had a cold

19:54

pig foot soup that was jello texture.

19:57

It was just like a clear. Gelated

20:00

that tasted like pig foot, you know on

20:02

a hot day. I mean

20:04

put that in a fucking sports bottle, man Just

20:10

get finished doing an absolutely rim-rocking

20:12

slam dunk go back

20:15

to the bench like spray your face

20:17

and chest with that Cold

20:19

pig hoof soup pig hoof

20:21

soup is it in you? That's

20:24

what makes the Hungarian rec league

20:26

basketball So amazing. Yeah,

20:28

and so fragrant. I think Are

20:33

the Hungarians gonna hate us after

20:35

that like that's not an anti-hungry

20:37

position I liked the soup I

20:40

know I was eating it and I was like

20:42

surprised when I found out what it was Cuz

20:44

you know, oh you

20:46

didn't know before they're like his hand

20:50

Hand of pig. Here's what it was.

20:52

It was in Pennsylvania So we'd left

20:54

the bag that we brought all all

20:56

our wine in because most restaurants in

20:59

Pennsylvania, I don't know if this is still true,

21:01

but they used to be like by Oh For

21:03

the booze and we brought a bunch of wine and left

21:06

a bag that we brought it in and then

21:08

when we went back The next day to get

21:10

the bag the chef was there and he's like,

21:12

oh you need to And

21:15

I was like eating it out of a bowl and I was like,

21:17

yeah, this is really good I like it's not

21:19

a flavor I would ever associate with this jello texture

21:21

and he's like it's pig hoof and I was like,

21:24

oh cool Maybe tell

21:26

people that first Amazing

21:30

and that is how you developed a taste

21:32

for a very special kind of soup that

21:34

your wife can never know about Yeah,

21:38

FODs That's

21:43

our little Zeke They

21:52

Are an alone been they're inspecting all

21:55

at these skins and shells and wicker

21:57

baskets and so forth but up above

22:00

the residents have gathered and they don't

22:02

seem happy about their visitors. Archer steps

22:04

out to do that whole like, I'm

22:06

the captain and I mean you no

22:08

harm thing. Here's my address.

22:10

Those are feelings that are not shared by

22:12

these villagers who come out weapons

22:15

hot. Yeah. It seems like a variety

22:18

of guns. Some

22:20

of them are machine gun with

22:23

bullets and bang, bang, bang noises

22:25

and others seem to have either

22:27

like a ray gun like property, there's

22:31

some kind of pew pew in a less

22:33

bullet-y way. Weren't you surprised that

22:36

in an environment that looks like

22:38

these folks would be using melee

22:41

weapons of like sharpened

22:45

turtle shells or whatever, like throwing them

22:48

like frisbees, that they

22:50

have firearms? Yeah. Surprising.

22:53

Archer gets winged and

22:55

he and Reed are running away and

22:58

they get lost in the cave and

23:01

T'Paul has to be the

23:04

ops person on the computer telling them which

23:06

way to turn left and right. Archer

23:09

gets out and Reed

23:11

does not. Reed gets

23:13

got. You think he's going to make it. He's

23:16

just hobbled a little bit, but then when

23:19

Archer just sees a flashlight and

23:21

nothing else, that's it. Bad news

23:23

bears. He's gone. The shit is

23:25

getting really real really fast because

23:27

everyone's in full retreat mode. Everyone

23:30

besides Reed makes it back to

23:32

the shuttle and Archer orders

23:34

them to take off. And

23:36

while they do, T'Paul drops a

23:38

knowledge bomb on the group. Those

23:41

weren't aliens. They're humans.

23:44

And Archer's like, what? Their

23:47

soup was purple. How

23:49

could they be human? And why were they

23:51

shooting at us? We

23:54

gotta go back for

23:56

seconds. T'Paul's

23:59

like, Yes, but also Reed

24:01

is down there as prisoner are just

24:03

like I know! But

24:06

also I can't get that

24:08

soup out of my mind. You didn't try

24:10

the soup DePaul. It's amazing.

24:12

You wouldn't think something that color

24:15

would be that delicious. It

24:17

looks like reduced grape soda. But

24:22

it tastes like armadillo feet. Do

24:24

you remember those old Sunny Delight

24:26

commercials? Yeah. This is

24:29

purple stuff. I

24:33

didn't mean to 300 that line reading. Kind

24:36

of works for this episode. Yeah.

24:38

So Reed is alive underground. Oh, you're drinking

24:41

purple stuff too. What are you out there?

24:43

I've been kind of hooked. This is

24:46

not branded content. I've been hooked

24:48

on prebiotic soda. Oh. So

24:50

I'm drinking one of those that's supposed to

24:52

taste like a Dr. Pepper. Interesting. I

24:55

tried one of those the other day at

24:57

a children's birthday party and found it revolting,

24:59

but it might have just been the wrong

25:01

flavor. They have a million

25:03

different flavors and I've never had the same

25:06

flavor twice. I'm just trying them all. I

25:09

cracked it open expecting it to be

25:11

that type of seltzer that has a hint

25:14

of fruit juice in it. No,

25:16

this is not that. This is like

25:19

melted popsicle. This is strong stuff. So

25:21

I think part of my bad reaction

25:23

was that I went in expecting Jello

25:26

and I got pig hoof. Yeah. That'll

25:31

happen to anyone. Yeah. So

25:33

Reed is alive underground. They can tell that

25:35

much and they start to

25:38

speculate about what's going on. Why are

25:40

these humans so weird and hostile to

25:42

us? Why aren't they living

25:44

in these caves? What exactly

25:46

was in that cauldron that was

25:49

purple? What gave it that amazing

25:51

color? It seems

25:53

like they went underground to escape the

25:56

radiation. And

25:58

we go back up to the ship. They're

26:00

working in that kind of area at

26:02

the back of the bridge where they

26:04

seem to be having more and more

26:07

McLaughlin groups If you want they've got

26:09

a screen that's on the table and

26:11

they're looking at kind of a cross

26:13

section of the underground colony And I

26:15

loved this image They don't show it

26:17

very much, but it's kind of like

26:19

the ant colony view. Yeah of where

26:21

these underground novins live This

26:24

made me miss sim ant the game

26:27

Sim ant was awesome. I loved that

26:29

game. Here's a hot take sim ant

26:31

the best sim game Wow

26:36

So exciting when when you get

26:38

to move from the backyard to

26:40

inside the kitchen Incredible

26:43

what a reward and it's like you're

26:45

always fighting the red ants and they're a

26:48

little bit opie Like you're in your black

26:50

ants are nerf. No Oh Fucking

26:54

Reds anyways over

26:57

and over again the time frame 70

26:59

years is dropped and We

27:02

learned that that the folks who live

27:04

on the planet are like many generations

27:06

have risen up in that time I

27:08

think three generations is what's mentioned. Yeah,

27:11

and that oh, yeah That's the reason

27:13

why they're looking at us modern humans

27:15

all ask ants and not really getting

27:18

on our level But like do

27:20

you think if someone from the the

27:22

50s or the 60s were to see us today?

27:25

They would try to attack and kill us

27:29

For our differences like it just seemed

27:31

to me like that Like

27:34

they're trying to use the time as a

27:36

reason Right like

27:39

what what could explain why they

27:41

are so hostile and so primitive

27:44

Yeah by comparison and have no

27:46

living knowledge of the other humans

27:48

that are in the universe and

27:50

I think that that is a Wonderful

27:53

tension that runs through the script and has

27:56

paid off later. And if I had one

27:58

wish it was that they had talked about

28:00

this more in this McLaughlin group, like how

28:02

upsetting it would be. Because it sort of

28:04

just becomes about Archer saying like, I need

28:06

to be able to make first contact with

28:09

humans at the very minimum. Like, I know

28:11

I'm blowing it left and right with all

28:13

the other species that we found out here,

28:15

but with humans, this should

28:17

be a layup. I think

28:19

we're now six episodes into a supercut

28:22

that goes like me saying some version

28:24

of, not a great Captain Archer episode.

28:27

Because he makes this about him

28:30

personally. Yeah. Yeah. This revelation

28:32

that these folks are human and

28:34

he can't get it

28:36

together with the negotiations. Yeah, T'Paul is

28:39

like pitching them on a like, here's

28:41

where we need to beam in to

28:43

just like shoot these three

28:45

guys and then we'll grab Reed and get out

28:47

of there. Classic cave rescue episode is what you

28:49

think you're going to get here. And Archer does

28:52

not want to go in hot. He wants to

28:54

do it the diplomatic way. So we smash

28:57

cut to him and Flox back down

28:59

on the planet. And I love the

29:01

detail of Archer's uniform still being super

29:03

dirty. Like this is all happening so

29:05

fast that they did not have time

29:08

to like shower and change. There's

29:11

kind of a resting wisdom

29:13

face that Flox has in

29:15

most situations. And it's

29:18

definitely apparent here in this scene. I

29:20

don't get the sense that Flox agrees with

29:22

what Archer is doing, but is more than

29:24

happy to just kind of be his second

29:26

tier in this situation. Like at

29:29

the moment that Archer raises his hands and

29:31

starts yelling into the woods, like

29:34

there's kind of a reluctance of Flox to

29:36

be like, all right, I guess my

29:38

captain's a dope, but he's still the captain.

29:41

Not without considerable personal

29:43

risk to Flox. Yes. Yeah.

29:45

Which is the thing that is most amazing

29:48

about how nonchalant he is with like, you

29:50

know, I'm here to observe, you know, tell

29:52

me what we're doing and I'll do it.

29:54

This Strategy works as

29:57

advertised.. The Arms go up

29:59

and then they... immediately captured.

30:01

By. A couple of forest folk and taken

30:04

into the caves. and a fine malcolm.

30:06

They're. Pretty. Quickly and

30:08

also and Eric a very.

30:11

Day. Guess who

30:13

I found in the case? Everyone

30:15

is Erica Vari human. This

30:17

room. Is characters name Jammin.

30:20

He assumes that they are here to

30:22

finish the job and they're like, what

30:25

do you mean finish the job as

30:27

a teammate? I mean like still all

30:29

of us and I love that. Kind

30:32

of like Barone Zone level linguistics specifics,

30:34

these people have very vore A half

30:36

an hour. They. Are very, very

30:38

suspicious of Captain Archer and have

30:41

never met an alien, so they're

30:43

also really tripped out by flocks.

30:45

But. Archers gets to were like

30:47

trying to convince them to let flocks

30:49

treat read. And we

30:51

learn about the poison rain that the

30:54

human sense to kill the No funds

30:56

the know Vince. Hate humans

30:58

and don't consider themselves humans because

31:01

human sent poison rain. This is

31:03

when. The. Truth bombs that

31:05

to Paul Dropped on Archer earlier

31:07

now gets transferred over and draft

31:09

on the know. Vince. Bad.

31:12

News for you human haters.

31:14

You. Are humans? All

31:17

star character actor team here between

31:19

Eric a very merry carver here.

31:22

And just character. At

31:24

simply puts his actors whose

31:26

faces you can remember but

31:29

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31:31

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31:33

seems like it's gotten let

31:36

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31:38

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31:41

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31:44

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also lets the debt know that

36:00

She's got a case of

36:02

lung cancer. No big deal. Yeah,

36:05

easily curable. I

36:08

love that they try to negotiate bringing her back

36:10

to the ship to cure her. And

36:12

Jamon's like, cool, yeah, you can have

36:14

her, but we're keeping Reed as collateral

36:17

as if Reed has any value to

36:20

anyone at this point in the show. I

36:23

don't know this guy. I love how Archer is

36:25

about to speak up on Reed's behalf and Flux

36:27

is like, no, no, no, no, this is fine.

36:30

We can afford to leave Reed. Don't worry

36:32

about me. I'm just

36:34

getting used to the place. You know

36:37

what? I may be more interested in doing that if

36:39

you give me a thermos to some of that soup

36:41

I saw in the corner. Smelled

36:43

great. Still warm, huh? Is that some of

36:45

that Diller Hoof in there that I smelled?

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been dead for a long time, but

37:03

towards the end, I preferred soft

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37:07

of moderate temperature. That's

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why I prefer Diller Hoof

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even technically feasible,

37:16

I sold my likeness

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me endorsing Diller Hoof

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Soup. Advertising revenue

37:25

has been so poor for

37:28

podcasts lately that

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my likeness has been purchased by The

37:34

Greatest Generation Podcast. What

37:38

a slap in the face to me, Phyllis

37:41

Diller, a member of The

37:43

Greatest Generation. So

37:46

on the shuttle toward Enterprise, we get

37:49

kind of a version of a

37:51

gazing window scene here. Nadette has shown

37:53

the ship as they

37:55

get close to it and

37:58

just for the briefest moment. She

38:01

looks kind of impressed. They all are,

38:03

aren't they? All past

38:05

people are impressed looking out the

38:07

window. If a past person has

38:09

a gazing window to look out of, a past

38:11

person is going to be impressed. They

38:14

put her in that MRI tube and

38:17

Flox gets to synthesizing some

38:20

drugs to treat her ailment

38:23

and Archer chose

38:25

her and her son, Gammon,

38:28

some old pictures from the

38:30

USS Conestoga and its crew

38:32

and the colony. They

38:35

keep using the term shale every time

38:38

they think the humans are fibbing. Shale

38:41

equals fib in this context. Sure

38:43

does. And they're

38:45

admonished to bury their drawings, but

38:48

these are starting to persuade them

38:50

that maybe some of what the

38:52

humans are saying could be true.

38:55

These novents have a real I've done my

38:57

own research kind of quality to them. Like

39:00

sure, they'll accept the help for

39:02

some things, but

39:04

they're not ready to believe the other

39:06

things, even though the source of

39:08

both is the same. Right. It's

39:11

a, they're kind of cafeteria novents. Yeah.

39:14

Yeah. They think Archer's trying to trick them.

39:18

It's another in a long series of

39:20

scenes where Archer is deeply

39:22

frustrated by his inability to get

39:24

through to them. So to Paul

39:26

figures out that the radiation, the

39:28

poison rain came from

39:30

a radioactive asteroid and

39:34

it is just a weird coincidence that

39:36

this asteroid happened to hit this planet

39:38

at the time that all of these

39:40

communications were going back and forth between

39:42

them and earth about

39:44

whether or not earth was going to send more colonists.

39:48

Are the little armadillos in

39:50

the cave the remaining dinosaurs?

39:55

That's what that made me wonder. Interesting.

39:58

Yeah. It's easy

40:00

to get paranoid when you don't know exactly

40:03

what caused your problems, right? Like

40:05

if you're on the surface of this planet

40:07

just trying to figure out your your

40:10

Deconstruction of your ship into the construction

40:12

of a town square and all of

40:14

a sudden the Sun gets

40:16

blotted out by an explosion Right,

40:19

you know right as you're in the middle of

40:21

an argument with Earth air ago You can kind

40:23

of figure it out. You can speak to us.

40:26

Normally. We head down to the Star Trek caves

40:28

where a Now

40:30

rather one Malcolm Reed. There it

40:32

is. He's trying to talk shop

40:34

with a noven Heavy

40:37

his you know, they're guarding him

40:39

like oh like I recognize

40:41

some of your old like antique guns that

40:43

you guys use Ben when

40:46

you look at Reed eating Diggerguts,

40:49

which is what this meal is called

40:51

that the guard gives Reed What

40:54

do you make of his expression when he eats

40:56

it? What is it safe to say that that

40:58

is a? Ben eating

41:00

cold pork foot soup expression.

41:03

Do you recognize this look?

41:06

This is the look that I

41:08

have when I'm told that we're

41:10

breaking for lunch and lunches sandwiches.

41:12

Yeah. Yeah Reed

41:15

looks like a guy who's eating Chapelina's

41:17

in front of his friends and everyone's

41:19

like oh, they're amazing and inside his

41:21

mind He's like this just tastes like

41:23

seasoning seasoning and bugs back

41:27

I Don't get it It's

41:30

weird because the meat is so

41:32

disgusting But the music that you can

41:34

make by blowing into the digger skull

41:36

is so plaintiff and haunting That

41:38

really is you get the sense that

41:40

Shikote would have loved this moment Sounds

41:43

great were he to be a past person

41:45

which he is not I like this moment

41:47

too Cuz it was like it

41:49

felt like a unique and specific Music

41:52

to these people like it didn't feel like

41:54

it was the pan flute that they

41:57

used to play for Shikote I feel

41:59

like whoever like was tasked with

42:01

making up whatever the noven music was gonna sound

42:03

like actually like went and came up with something

42:05

pretty Unique and

42:07

interesting and beautiful to me it sounded

42:09

a little unfinished Ben I think you

42:12

need some percussion in here Especially

42:15

if we're looking around at these little armadillos

42:17

and we we see their their hollow

42:19

bodies Let's start hitting them like

42:22

drums. You wanted to yub nub. That's what

42:24

you wanted. God. I did want yub nub

42:26

so bad That's what this

42:28

scene was missing for me. Well, we

42:31

didn't get it I often want yub

42:33

nub and am unable to to get

42:35

it That's just a problem with life

42:37

in general these days. Yub nub is

42:39

gone. They took yub nub away never

42:41

to return Yeah so

42:44

one thing that has been kind of a

42:46

project since they first put down on this

42:48

planet is getting something out of the comms

42:51

buffer from the old colony because there's still

42:53

a broadcast tower and finally

42:56

the last transmissions from the

42:58

comms buffer are Uncovered

43:01

and we do learn that the

43:03

Nova colony interpreted this asteroid impact

43:07

as an attack by Earth and

43:10

This was a broadcast by the

43:12

captain of the USS Conestoga going

43:14

like what the fuck guys Like

43:17

I know that like some of these

43:19

people are nuts and I've threatened to

43:21

kill anybody knew that you send But

43:24

this was like a total overreaction It

43:27

kind of seemed like like we get some names

43:29

here We get that Captain Mitchell name But we

43:31

also get the mark Logan reference and he is

43:34

Identified as the rabble rouser of

43:36

the bunch that was opposed mostly

43:38

to the idea of more Colonists

43:41

arriving and it seems like Logan kind

43:43

of got to Mitchell Got

43:45

in his ear and made Mitchell the paranoid

43:48

that he is in this scene Yeah,

43:50

it's really interesting. How much did

43:52

you want to see face? I

43:54

did like audio is interesting But I

43:56

want to see my captain's, you know,

43:58

yeah like that episode of TNG

44:01

where they finally dried out old body

44:03

of the ship's captain, but then they

44:05

get to watch his last captain's log.

44:07

Yeah, I like those scenes. Would have

44:09

been nice. Yeah, we learned that the

44:11

young children were the only ones that

44:13

were like enough okay with

44:15

the radiation that they were able to

44:17

survive, and they survived by going

44:19

down in the caves. And I love

44:22

this revelation. This is why the Novans

44:24

are such dum-dums. Yeah. It

44:26

was all little children. You got kids

44:28

teaching kids, like the worst. It's a

44:30

Lord of the Flies situation down there.

44:33

You don't have it, Conch. Doesn't matter

44:35

what you say. Yeah. So Archer gets

44:37

summoned to Six Bay, and

44:39

Nadette has been cured of her

44:41

cancer, but Flox has some bad

44:44

news, W slash R slash T,

44:46

her health and the health of

44:48

Jammin. And that is

44:51

that the water supply on

44:53

Terranova has become contaminated, and they

44:55

are starting to break

44:58

down on the molecular level, and there's

45:00

nothing Flox can do at day. Like

45:02

you've got to start drinking water that

45:04

isn't this. Not even purple

45:06

stuff will help them at this point.

45:09

Yeah. Archer tries to tell Jammin

45:12

and Nadette all of this about

45:14

their immunity to the radiation running

45:16

out, and they're not really

45:18

trying to hear that. And then

45:21

Archer decides to

45:23

show Nadette more

45:25

pictures of what their society looked like

45:28

before the acid rains, and

45:30

specifically a picture of her

45:32

and her mom. Her mom,

45:34

Vera Fuller, whose daughter was

45:36

named Bernadette. So

45:40

Bernadette shortened to Nadette.

45:43

Yeah, and Nadette is like, I mean,

45:45

that's so weird because it's just like, it's like

45:47

one of those like old lady names. You don't

45:49

expect somebody to name like a young child Bernadette.

45:52

Jammin is like

45:54

ready to fly off the hook here. He's getting more

45:56

and more agitated, and finally he's like, take us back

45:59

to the planet. Not trying to look at

46:01

any more of these pictures. Is he supposed

46:03

to be Benjamin to the same

46:05

way that she's Bernadette? Wow.

46:08

You know, my first college roommate was

46:10

named Jamin, and it was not short

46:12

for anything. Whoa. That's why I

46:14

keep calling this guy Jamin. Yeah. As

46:17

a way to honor my first college

46:19

roommate who famously tried to piss

46:21

on me in the middle of the night.

46:24

After an evening of terrific

46:26

partying. Well, speaking of

46:28

that, Jamin is pissed

46:31

about their continued pressure campaign

46:33

to change everything about

46:36

his society. And

46:38

we get a McLaughlin group.

46:40

Yes, you do. Where Topol

46:43

suggests taking them by

46:45

force and just like knocking everybody in

46:47

the caves out. There's gotta be

46:49

a plan that Reed would approve of, right? Seems

46:52

like it, but Archer is

46:54

like horrified. Topol's like, have you

46:56

seen Francois Truffaut's The

46:58

Wild Child? You

47:01

can't bring these folks into polite society.

47:04

They'll hate it. And

47:06

we'll end up hating them. It'll be like

47:08

a real like, you know, thing you have

47:10

to watch in film school and maybe even

47:12

write a paper about, and nobody wants that.

47:14

Everyone I know had to. I

47:17

sort of interpreted this moment as

47:19

Topol sort of using reverse psychology

47:21

almost on Archer to convince him

47:23

of a specific course of action.

47:26

Like she advocates for a take

47:29

them by force in

47:31

reacting against that. He comes up with the thing

47:33

that she was actually writing for which is a

47:36

like, get better at your

47:39

first contact skills and persuade

47:41

them to move

47:43

to a non-poisonous part of their planet.

47:46

I mean, I sure do love the idea of Topol's forearm

47:49

right up Archer's ass and him

47:52

just being puppeted around by her. I

47:55

mean, we might get better mission outcomes if

47:57

that happens more often. Good.

48:00

It seems good for the health of the

48:02

ship. Yeah. In the next scene, Archer meets

48:04

up with TripTucker and together they look at

48:06

a map of the settlement. And

48:09

this time the map has an overlay to

48:11

it. One of those like clear

48:14

plastic encyclopedia pages that has

48:16

the debris cloud superimposed

48:19

on top. And this is

48:21

the scene where you get the idea of how

48:24

we, their settlement is

48:26

and how large the planet is. There's

48:28

a southern hemisphere. There's a polar region

48:30

that's completely untouched. That's how you want

48:32

it, right? Oh yeah. Like pristine

48:35

untouched polar region. Ooh! Could

48:37

there be caves down there?

48:39

Could there be little armadillos

48:41

that live in those caves?

48:44

Let's find out! So they pitch

48:46

them on it. They're like, gonna take them back

48:48

to their colony and they're like, just like, talk

48:50

it over with your people. Give it some thought.

48:53

And they land and

48:55

twist. They land on

48:57

a sinkhole and

48:59

the shuttle plunges into the

49:01

cave system. What a twist!

49:04

Did not see this coming. It was really

49:06

fun that a new dilemma popped up this

49:09

late in the episode. And

49:11

I think kind of necessary

49:13

for the trust bonding that

49:16

happens between Archer and Jamon

49:18

because he's now the only one

49:20

that can save them. And

49:22

he like leads them out through the

49:24

tunnel system and then they hear somebody

49:26

yelling. There's a guy down in a

49:28

pit that fell under a tree. My

49:31

god, it's Acory down there. I'm

49:33

lag broke! Yeah, they have to

49:36

do like a fully like corporate

49:38

trust building exercise style cooperation

49:40

to get down there and

49:43

free this dude. How sure were you that

49:45

we wouldn't have a 127 hours situation down

49:48

there? Because

49:51

when Jamon doesn't want to trust Archer

49:53

with the phasers that just moments ago

49:55

Archer trusted him with, I was like,

49:58

oh, shit, shoot the- leg

50:00

Archer let's get this guy

50:02

out of there shoot leg but

50:04

that's not what he shoots he

50:06

shoots the log and

50:08

slices it up and that allows

50:11

them Archer and Jamin I mean

50:13

to free Acory before the water rises

50:15

above his face yeah I

50:17

did not like those scenes where you see the

50:19

water rise right next to Acory's face yeah

50:22

this is a fear for me it was

50:25

it was well done so they

50:27

free this guy he's okay Reed

50:29

is okay it seems like

50:31

there's a trade right Acory for Reed

50:34

right even and then the

50:36

debt is like jamming you you made a

50:38

promise to Archer you got to say the

50:40

thing and Jamon's like okay thing about the

50:42

southern hemisphere and the polar

50:44

region don't leave the polar region out Jamon's

50:47

like mom ah don't

50:52

talk to me about the polar region so he

50:54

tells everybody

50:56

about the islands to the

50:58

south and we cut

51:00

back to the captain's table

51:03

and Mayweather has

51:05

been admitted to the

51:07

captain's mess for this this

51:09

final hang of the episode

51:12

feels like a special treat for him and he's like

51:15

revealing that he's a bit of a lost

51:17

aviator enthusiast like he's talking about like oh

51:20

like there's all these other like missing things

51:22

and we never thought that we'd find the

51:24

answers to any of these mysteries but we

51:26

found the answer to the mystery of Terranova

51:28

us in this scene

51:30

Archer becomes the bad

51:32

manager at every workplace because Mayweather

51:35

shows an interest in

51:37

a task and an archer

51:40

is like cool why don't you write up the

51:42

whole report about it that'll

51:44

be great you're stuck with the

51:47

paperwork I

51:49

think that sucks fuck you

51:54

I wish they held on Mayweather's face a

51:56

little longer as he goes through the stages

51:58

of realization of Of what. This is

52:00

a waiter. I only get invited

52:02

to these these dinners if I

52:05

leave. Having. Taken some

52:07

new bit of business to

52:09

do. Earth assessed. Ah, and

52:11

there's a credits like this

52:13

episode. Been. Did.

52:22

Like this episode. I like this episode all

52:24

lot. Of the no

52:26

funds were interesting characters. I thought the mystery

52:28

of the know Vince. And why

52:31

they were so dumb and had like not. Retained.

52:33

Any cultural memory of what

52:35

they were, where they came

52:38

from was good and interesting.

52:40

Fun! Guess performances all around. Yeah,

52:42

I I love a Star Trek

52:45

episode with not just one, but

52:47

multiple great character actors or. Yeah.

52:49

And I said that. I'm so.

52:51

Paul, in particular, had some great

52:53

and interesting subtext to her. I'm

52:56

sort of in the command structure

52:58

under Archer, but I'm also sort

53:00

of the hall monitor. For.

53:02

The shifts, yeah, energy like care.

53:04

you could have just called us.

53:06

We can solve this problem for

53:08

you decades ago and and then

53:10

sees kind of steering him in

53:12

the right direction whenever he's. You

53:15

know, in the in the grips of a dilemma.

53:18

I thought her character was very interesting

53:20

in this and dare you know. Loved

53:22

revisiting some like actual Star Trek as

53:24

by which I mean fakes. Caves matters.

53:26

Real caves which are not actual Star

53:29

Trek games that they went to before.

53:31

Get him outta here and fuck that

53:33

shit. I like the original. Now.

53:36

Been. I'm with you to Paul A keeps

53:38

getting better and better. It feels like Captain

53:41

Archer keeps getting worse. In

53:45

a revisit, the heat check scale for Captain Archer,

53:47

I think we're down like a for. This.

53:49

Point. Not. Really feeling

53:51

his behavior this episode. It's

53:53

funny, like how ultra emotional

53:56

he. Becomes. in seen

53:58

specifically with to paul I

54:00

think that only makes him seem worse

54:02

if she's around to be the witness. This

54:04

episode reminded me of that movie Room with Brie

54:07

Larson. Do you remember that movie where it was

54:09

Brie Larson and her kid and they were like

54:11

a prisoner in this dude's shed? I

54:13

did not see that movie. I did

54:15

not. All this kid

54:17

is ever known as that room. The

54:21

Brie Larson character is great for a

54:23

lot of reasons, but one of them

54:25

is that she's created a great life

54:28

for her kid and all he's ever known

54:30

is this place. These

54:32

novins made me think of that. All

54:35

these folks have ever known is the inside of

54:37

that cave and so that's why they hold onto

54:39

it so tight. It made

54:41

me understand them a little bit better and in a

54:43

good way. They're

54:45

dumb as hell because they're kids teaching kids.

54:48

I already said that. I

54:51

guess the part that makes me laugh about

54:53

it is that it's somehow treated as a

54:55

revelation that this is a great big planet

54:57

and resettlement is possible. This

55:00

was as asteroids go, not

55:02

a planet killer. Could

55:04

have said that early on I

55:07

think. I

55:09

think that was an example of the

55:11

facts of the story

55:14

being intentionally obscured for the

55:16

sake of expediting a

55:18

very specific type of flat. I've

55:21

got those minor quibbles with it, but a fun

55:24

app. You want to

55:26

see if there's anything fun in the Priority One inbox? Oh

55:28

God Ben, an asteroid is heading toward

55:31

the Priority One messages. We

55:33

got to get them underground. Priority

55:35

One message from Starfleet coming in on

55:38

secured channel. Need

55:40

a supplement or something?

55:42

Supplement. Supplement. Yeah,

55:44

extra. By the interest alone, could be

55:46

enough to buy this ship. The

55:50

first P1 Adam is from

55:52

Rachel Kazez and it's

55:55

of a promotional nature. Goes

55:57

like this. Do you want help finding

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things? Their A B: Have you

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Adam is there a Troy

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I think honestly like the insurance

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companies should just be providing it,

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but they aren't. I've quite good

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health insurance because I'm lucky enough

57:08

to be married to somebody with

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good health insurance and my insurance

57:12

company's website that lists a whole

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bunch of therapists that don't take

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my insurance or aren't accepting new

57:18

clients or whatever and it's very

57:20

frustrating and hard to wade through.

57:23

so all along.org sounds like a

57:25

terrific resource. And definitely a I sing.

57:27

I would recommend if you are as

57:29

they're looking to get into therapy. make

57:31

it easier for yourself. Don't give yourself

57:33

any excuses not to get into that

57:36

chair and talking to that person. will

57:38

rachel said about said the hardest time

57:40

to find one is being when you're

57:43

like in the middle of some shit

57:45

is a symptom the makes a lotta

57:47

sense don't differ your mental maintenance for

57:49

the moment you have a break down

57:51

to the situation gun and rachel can

57:53

help oh yes and we got a

57:55

priority one message here from darkest time

57:58

bread a from the discord mr and

58:00

Adam. Her message goes

58:02

like this, Dear Ben and Adam, we met

58:04

at Sketchfest. I was the 46 year old

58:07

lady who was a little bit embarrassed to

58:09

ask you to sign her lunchbox. You

58:12

were both so kind and generous. And one

58:14

of you said something that meant so much to me

58:16

that I still think about it daily. I'm going to

58:18

stop reading the message here and just say, why

58:21

didn't you say which one of us

58:23

said that great thing? What

58:26

are you doing? Ben

58:28

and Adam are fighting over which one of us said

58:31

that great thing. Broke a compliment

58:33

pull cue over her knee and dropped half of

58:35

it in the floor between us. Wow.

58:39

For my 47th birthday, can I please

58:41

have a birthday message from Egypt's brother? Live

58:44

long and prosper. Hey Egypt,

58:46

I don't know which one of these

58:48

greatest gen hosts gave that compliment. I

58:52

think these guys are going to

58:54

fight. Hey Egypt, circus time.

58:56

Frida really lived up to her

58:58

name of being from the darkest

59:00

timeline because she just doomed this

59:03

podcast to ending bitterly because Ben

59:05

and Adam can't agree who is

59:07

the nice one of the two

59:09

of them. Hey Ben, I've got

59:11

plenty of fluid on the floor

59:14

to hold Adam's face into until

59:16

the bubbles stop. Why

59:19

don't you drag his scrawny ass over here?

59:21

Our final

59:23

P1 today is from Matt and it's to

59:25

Ben and Adam. It goes like this, just

59:28

discovered this podcast and wanted to send a

59:30

few bucks as I work through the back

59:32

catalog. I'm on season one of TNG and

59:34

I can't wait to listen to every episode

59:36

and see which episodes you veto along the

59:39

way. I'll try to drop a P1 at

59:41

the end of each season as I

59:43

listen through. Keep up the great work.

59:45

Wow. That is a lot of P1s.

59:48

How about Matt? In the

59:51

deep, deep back stacks. We should see

59:53

if we can get a bank loan for

59:55

$2,100 based on this promise that Matt

59:57

has just... Amazing.

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Yeah, collateral right there sure

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is see you when you catch up

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to get them Hey,

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Ben, what's that Adam? Did you find

1:00:30

yourself a drunk shimoda this episode? Oh,

1:00:35

it's got to be Mayweather for catching a face

1:00:38

full of paperwork right at the end

1:00:40

of the episode just for expressing enthusiasm

1:00:43

He was so sweet all through this episode

1:00:45

Like he was like really curious and interested

1:00:47

at the beginning and like I

1:00:50

felt like he just had a couple of moments in The

1:00:52

app to do anything like go get the

1:00:55

flashlights fly the shuttle down for the third

1:00:57

time Kind of missions for

1:00:59

him and he like, you know work the line

1:01:01

in here Edgewise once

1:01:03

or twice, but just for all of

1:01:05

his trouble Get stuck

1:01:07

with all the paperwork. I mean, that's what you get

1:01:10

for being a tryhard, right? Yeah,

1:01:12

you get punished. That's why Mayweather's

1:01:15

my drunk shimoda also different thing

1:01:18

That moment when they're in the shuttle and

1:01:20

they're going back to the surface together Archer

1:01:22

tries again to make the case

1:01:24

that You know, we can

1:01:26

we can make this right humans aren't so bad.

1:01:28

We could be good for you The

1:01:31

composition of this is just a little

1:01:33

loose Like we cut over to the

1:01:35

captain's chair of the shuttle and

1:01:38

Mayweather wheels around and

1:01:40

it's like cowboy shot in the chair

1:01:43

Like it's almost full body and he's

1:01:45

like, yeah We only want

1:01:47

to make you feel good and then he

1:01:49

wheels back around like that's all

1:01:51

he says He's

1:01:54

so sweet. Like I can't

1:01:56

help but really like Mayweather and I can't

1:01:58

help but feel like It's

1:02:00

Star Trek malpractice, the

1:02:03

way they're taking an enthusiastic

1:02:06

crewperson and using him in

1:02:08

this way. Yeah. Where's our

1:02:10

Mayweather episode? There better be one.

1:02:12

Gotta get a Mayweather episode. Face

1:02:14

of the fart. Well, speaking of

1:02:16

that, let's take a look at

1:02:18

what our next episode shall be.

1:02:21

It'll be season one, episode seven,

1:02:23

the Andorian incident, when Archer and

1:02:25

his crew pay a friendly visit

1:02:27

to an ancient Vulcan monastery. They

1:02:29

stumble into an interstellar conflict between

1:02:31

the Vulcans and their militaristic rivals

1:02:33

the Andorians. Oh,

1:02:37

the Andorians. The

1:02:39

Andorians. Hmm. Excited about

1:02:41

this one. And

1:02:43

to find out how that

1:02:45

episode is gonna go, I'm

1:02:48

gonna go over here to the

1:02:50

game of buttholes, the

1:02:53

will of the Riker, Quantum

1:02:55

Leap. And we could go anywhere

1:02:57

on this game board. That's part of the fun when

1:02:59

you roll that 100-sided die. You're

1:03:02

required to learn as you play. Roll.

1:03:05

You know, we just had a regular old episode

1:03:08

this time, and this roll

1:03:10

will determine if we do a thing next

1:03:12

time. Oh

1:03:15

boy, and we are doing a thing, Adam. I

1:03:18

rolled a 69. Nice. Which

1:03:22

took us up to square 88. That

1:03:25

is a temporal Cold War square. We

1:03:27

must react to three old, bad

1:03:30

reviews of the Greatest Generation in

1:03:33

the next merit. Amazing.

1:03:36

Wow. I've

1:03:39

never been more grateful to

1:03:41

have a great producer on this show,

1:03:43

because I know that's not gonna be my job. He's

1:03:49

gonna have a lot to dig through, because

1:03:52

we just got over 5,000 total

1:03:55

reviews for Greatest Gen on

1:03:58

Apple Podcasts. A

1:04:00

monumental achievement in my mind, and

1:04:02

I'm positive only a couple thousands

1:04:04

are negative. Well, Adam,

1:04:06

Wendy is not going to have to do

1:04:09

any of that, because I'm going

1:04:11

to invoke the first

1:04:13

veto... Shut up! ...of

1:04:16

this series. I

1:04:19

really wanted to do this! Oh,

1:04:22

are you just not in a mental headspace

1:04:24

to read a negative review, Ben? Come

1:04:26

on! I'm going to admit it, I'm not. I'm on an

1:04:29

emotional knife edge right now, and I don't want

1:04:31

to read mean things people have

1:04:33

said about me. Ben, I would be

1:04:36

both a hilarious and the worst kind

1:04:38

of asshole to make you endure three

1:04:40

old bad reviews of The Greatest Generation.

1:04:42

And here's the thing, we've gotten very

1:04:44

few bad reviews of this show. One

1:04:46

of the things I'm most proud of

1:04:49

is that we've gotten 5,000 mostly great

1:04:51

reviews of this show. And thanks to

1:04:53

all the FODs who have made it

1:04:56

the most and best reviewed Star Trek

1:04:58

podcast on Apple Podcasts. It still blows

1:05:00

my mind that that is a thing

1:05:02

we can say. Maybe we'll get to

1:05:05

those bad ones in a moment you're

1:05:07

feeling a little better. Because

1:05:10

I'm curious. Yeah, that sounds nice. I

1:05:12

want to roast those people. Yeah, you

1:05:14

know, one day. Maybe

1:05:18

we can marshal the FOD support to

1:05:20

flag some negative reviews as offensive. That'd

1:05:23

be nice. Yeah. I'm offended. I

1:05:25

know that they offend me. My

1:05:28

delicate sensibilities. We got a bunch of

1:05:31

bullshit bullshit a couple years ago from

1:05:33

some people who would regret their review

1:05:35

if they knew the truth. So get

1:05:38

those out of there. I really appreciate all

1:05:40

the folks leaving the nice ones. And appreciate

1:05:42

all the folks that support us who

1:05:45

are going to get a cool bonus

1:05:47

episode out of this. Let's get this done.

1:05:50

Alright. Let's read some credits. That

1:05:52

bonus feed is getting absolutely stuffed.

1:05:54

It really is. We got to

1:05:57

thank Wendy Priddy who produces.

1:06:00

All of that stuff and edits most of it.

1:06:02

She got anti-mayweather done this one for a moment

1:06:04

It looked like she was gonna get some more

1:06:06

work No work We

1:06:13

got to thank the great Adam of

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