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see star. Trek actors back to

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the Plane of the Living in

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to consume the brains of the.

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going to want to miss it. Airs

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to refine. His crew m stop

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right and I. Am

1:15

Captain. My

1:19

captain. Janeway. Arguably

1:25

the greatest generation at a Star

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Trek podcast by a couple of

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guys. Just a little bit embarrassed

1:31

that haven't a Star Trek podcast.

1:34

I'm Adam Frantic A Ban Harrison

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Adam It's a code Forty seven

1:38

were open in things that have

1:40

been sent in by friends of

1:42

Desoto as screened by our mail

1:44

time consigliere. Bill. Tilly. Not.

1:47

Doing a you tube of this one.

1:50

Today. Just because of the

1:52

recording set up we have. but

1:54

we will be posting everything we

1:56

open up on Instagram. What? do

1:58

you say we get into some packages I

2:01

cannot wait. Captain, I'm

2:03

sorry to disturb you. I'm receiving a code 47. Verify?

2:07

It is code 47, sir. Stark

2:10

lead emergency frequency. Captain's eyes

2:12

only. Okay, well,

2:14

this first one is a postcard.

2:17

It says, Toch-tlee,

2:19

con-ay-ho. Feels

2:21

like it might be like hand-painted. It's a nice texture

2:23

on this card. It

2:25

says, Dear Bennett Adam, Thank you for

2:27

all you do for the pods, especially

2:30

factory seconds, as it is both completely

2:32

hilarious and wholesome, reflecting the effort of

2:34

having a Star Trek podcast perfectly. I

2:38

got back into your pods during my

2:40

divorce and EMDR therapy. It

2:42

really helped me see that the pleasures

2:44

of life could be found in David Fart jokes.

2:47

Ben, thank you for sharing about your own struggles with

2:49

mental health, as it made me less lonely to know

2:51

about it. I really did benefit from the sharing. Adam,

2:54

thank you for twaining. It always

2:57

makes me laugh out loud, never stop. The

2:59

community you formed around the pod is the best.

3:02

Always a good hang with them. Hart,

3:05

Fanny. Fanny, we hear

3:07

all the time about how our show is

3:09

both the cause of and the

3:12

medicine for a divorce or

3:16

a traumatic event. Yeah. Glad

3:19

things are looking up for you. I think

3:21

this card came from the city of

3:23

Mexico. And

3:25

there's an invite to the

3:28

anthropology museum there. So,

3:30

hey, Fanny, I did EMDR

3:33

therapy myself after a very

3:36

traumatic series of events in my life. And

3:38

that has happened since we started the pod.

3:41

So I've been doing the pod all the

3:43

way through that experience. And

3:45

it's no fun to go face

3:48

those things. But I

3:50

am glad when I hear about people taking

3:52

good care of themselves. How

3:54

Would you say the pod has

3:56

helped or hurt in those times,

3:59

Ben? This pod generally... the helpful

4:01

certain other pods not so much

4:03

sky survey The success that. We

4:07

got one more or postcards before we

4:09

get into packages. This one I think

4:11

it's the back of or is it

4:13

the Enterprise said I'm looking out there.

4:16

Yes, I mean it's

4:18

a great drawing of just kind

4:20

of. A six as

4:22

ships, gas and of beauty department

4:24

a big. Fan

4:27

of Adam! Just heard Peace Deal on

4:29

Greatest Ten. Congrats on Five Hundred! I

4:31

first learned about your pods u S

4:33

Y S K but wish I tuned

4:36

in sooner. The live show you did

4:38

in Somerville, the just blocks from my

4:40

house and gradually cincy on windy and

4:42

Bill and Robs everyone at Oxbridge Motor

4:45

sees. We've Red Sea

4:47

before. Sir. Have it's really

4:49

nice. Thanks T Banks for the

4:51

postcard. Somerville. Some

4:54

of it was that a

4:56

third as the once once.

4:59

As that's funny that place is named

5:02

for how often anyone should do is

5:04

share their ssssss of a C should

5:06

call the Bell House multiple times. yeah

5:09

that's how often I like to do

5:11

a show their i gotta think the

5:13

vesicle The ones know. So

5:17

many times I wish we'd done a So

5:19

they're ah. A know if

5:21

you thought the tears from once. I

5:24

think I mention this a long time

5:26

ago, back when we used to tape

5:28

natural jaegers underneath random seats at our

5:30

live shows. That

5:32

so it once was one of those

5:35

shows where things got so rowdy that

5:37

we forgot to do that. The natural

5:39

Yeager giveaway if you bought those surplus

5:41

tears for your place that stores tears

5:44

were events on her vet rental company

5:46

For her, you may be the owner

5:48

of a natural Yeager and deserving of.

5:51

Compensation Your part of why the bubble

5:53

still exists. You know that that's a

5:55

rare jaeger. the ones tear Yeager. To

5:58

them san sitting there. Once

6:00

share Yeager the most rare

6:02

Yeager like that love and

6:05

were get. I'm not a

6:07

packages as this one is

6:09

from how dates in Sandpoint

6:11

Idaho. We've. Got a letter.

6:16

Hey guys, I saw this in one of

6:18

my local bookstores and did an honest to

6:20

goodness natural double take when I saw it.

6:22

Seeks. To is this a novel

6:25

is a sin of the sequel.

6:27

Was there a sequel? Wait, this

6:29

is the sequel and Michael Mann

6:31

coauthored is I had to get

6:33

it on and started reading immediately.

6:35

I'll let you come to your

6:37

own conclusions about whether it's a

6:39

great book, but I will say

6:41

that I found myself up to

6:43

wait a few nights in a

6:45

row with my head on the

6:47

way up with Enjoy! Also, thanks

6:49

so much for the pot I've

6:51

been an effort Jesus. Twenty sixteen

6:53

and wow, Oh gee, I'm.

6:56

Deeply appreciated the weekly infusion of embarrassing

6:58

joy into my life through the years,

7:00

and the incredible community of like minded

7:02

nerds you've brought together. I've also loved

7:05

the technical insights on each episode your

7:07

view. I find that I can always

7:09

appreciate art a little bit more mans

7:11

of understanding of how much work goes

7:13

into it. And I've learned

7:15

a lot about the art and science

7:17

of filmmaking and acting in between Dick

7:20

jokes. despite your best efforts he made

7:22

me smile at more thoughtful through the

7:24

pod was impossible. Hope the shows continue

7:26

to be as fun and fulfilling for

7:28

you as it is for viewers like

7:30

me for a long time to gum

7:32

thanks again How Wow! So

7:35

how has included a copy

7:37

of Heat to. By.

7:40

Michael Mann and. And. Them

7:42

mags. Gardner. And

7:44

them added. I have recently finished

7:46

he to and moved on to

7:49

Above. You'd recently gifted me the

7:51

wager which yeah I am also

7:53

really enjoying. As I know go

7:55

with a lot of fun and

7:58

really captured a lot. What I

8:00

liked about he and it's like an interesting story

8:02

has a lot of it takes place before heat

8:04

and a lot of it takes place after he.

8:06

I know you and I really watch he fairly

8:08

regularly but I haven't maybe and and close to

8:11

a year do I need to re watch it

8:13

before I get into that book. Can I get

8:15

right into that The you can get right into

8:17

the book because the first as after two are

8:19

just recounting the of has. A

8:22

Very oh cool. If

8:25

you forgot who meal Mccauley a

8:27

Christian, her lists are no worth.

8:31

Of meals like you're probably wondering how

8:33

I ended up out on this L

8:35

A X Runway? Yeah, holding hands with

8:37

a guy to shut? Yeah. You're

8:40

probably wondering how I ended up with his

8:42

accent when I come from the Bay Area.

8:45

Did you. See that interview that

8:47

he did he was handling.

8:50

Of wow it's the heat universe.

8:53

And no one said it specifically.

8:55

but and I want to use

8:57

the word allegedly very liberally and

8:59

telling the story. But

9:02

I think the idea was. Al

9:05

Pacino was doing a lot of cocaine.

9:08

That during the production of

9:10

that movie. getting into the

9:12

character of a cop who

9:14

also does a lot of

9:16

cocaine. I allegedly. I

9:18

think that in reading the novel

9:21

I started to understand the two

9:23

sides of the same coin. this

9:25

of Vincent Hannah and Meal Mccauley

9:28

more and more and how. Bird.

9:31

Val. Kilmer Chris to her was

9:33

characters also very much of the

9:36

type of man that this movie

9:38

was exploring the life of and

9:40

it is the like thrilled junkie

9:42

like when that like there's a

9:44

chapter this book were like Chris

9:47

to her lists finishes a heist

9:49

job that they've just done and

9:51

goes to Vegas just to like

9:53

wow his way through as many.

9:56

Sex. workers and drugs and gamble

9:58

says he had possible do until the

10:00

next heist starts. And it's like, oh,

10:03

because like when he's on the heist,

10:05

he's like clean and focused and you

10:07

know, tight as a drum. And then

10:10

he just explodes in like total self-destructive

10:12

madness when he's not doing a heist.

10:16

Imagine when in between heist

10:18

and Vegas, he goes to

10:20

visit a hairstylist and

10:23

he like points to the picture with

10:25

the ponytail. And the stylist is like,

10:28

oh, no

10:31

one ever points to the ponytail. You

10:33

really do like living on the edge. Well,

10:37

this copy of Heat 2 has

10:39

got your name on it, Adam, since

10:41

I've already enjoyed my copy. Oh,

10:43

thanks for that. I look forward to

10:45

it. Thanks to Hal for sending it in. Thanks,

10:48

Hal. Michael Mann didn't try to

10:50

write a great book. He just wrote a book

10:53

and let history and producers

10:56

with money decide it should be a

10:58

movie. Recorical nonsense. This next

11:00

one is heavy and it says fragile

11:02

handle with care and it's from Clayton

11:04

out of Rochester, New York. It

11:08

seems like too small to be booze, though. So

11:10

I don't know what's what's heavy in here. It's

11:14

not sloshy like booze, is it? Hmm.

11:19

No, it's not sloshy. All right.

11:21

But it might just be totally full booze. Mm.

11:26

No verbal booze. Oh, that was actually a course. Dear

11:28

Adam and Ben, I've been a regular listener since mid

11:30

2016, another 2016 year old. What

11:34

about that? When the legend of Jim

11:36

Shimoda was still in its infancy. I

11:38

work as a graphic designer for comic

11:40

books, mainly as a letterer. And

11:43

your shows have kept me company for many

11:45

an early morning shift. Next

11:47

to you, not only do I know more

11:49

about screencraft and the inherent magic

11:52

of descriptive nicknames, for example, khaki

11:54

pants guy. I

11:57

Now add everything bagel seasoning to

11:59

my Sachin. it brussel sprouts which

12:02

has been a real game changer

12:04

in my kitchen. Oh hell yeah!

12:06

Go if if you get one

12:08

thing out of this. So I

12:10

guess that as a token of

12:12

my thanks for the many years

12:14

of Pod I've sent you signed

12:16

hardcover collections of my favorite current

12:18

jobs: Star Trek and Star Trek

12:21

Cohen, Defiant, Star Trek foes, The

12:23

Mary, Adventures of the Uss Previous

12:25

and her Crew headed by Captain

12:27

Benjamin Cisco and his first officer,

12:29

lieutenant Commander. Data: Whoa, It's

12:31

Defiance naturally features the

12:33

Oh Us as Little

12:35

D and it's Captain

12:37

Wars. Who? and

12:40

it's First Officer Spot.

12:43

Words. And helmsman

12:45

head row lousy. Road.

12:53

Alone in. These

12:56

books have been of last for me to

12:58

work on and I have heard they're even

13:00

more fun to read said you have the

13:03

chance to ever read them. I hope you

13:05

enjoy them. Thanks for everything Clayton Ps. Star

13:07

Trek God Shock is meant to be read

13:09

before Star Trek The Fire and we get

13:11

us had those in order. So.

13:17

Clinton has saluted copies for

13:19

both of us have Look

13:21

At Us Hardcover: oh yes,

13:23

Start sick God Shock. Oh

13:25

and Star Trek Defiant against

13:27

That. Look how thrilled Data

13:30

looks on the cover of

13:32

Star Trek Defiant with so

13:34

happy to be away from

13:36

his cat brother with Wow

13:38

And they're even inscribed to

13:40

us. Needs. This

13:43

one's to me Darwin and

13:45

around excellence. See who is

13:47

my wife? Hands off not

13:49

invited. These

13:52

are really gorgeous graphic novels.

13:54

How how and their. Full.

13:58

color with this Look

14:00

at this stuff. Really gorgeous. Look at Roe

14:02

Lalland! She's all over this book.

14:05

Love it. You know, she survives this

14:07

book, too, because of Star Trek Colin

14:09

Picard. Sure do. Oh, man.

14:12

Some surprise faces that I shan't reveal

14:14

as I page through this. I don't

14:16

want to... No spoilers, right? I

14:19

read an interview with Terry Metallis where he's

14:21

like, You can't prove that I

14:23

killed Roe Lalland. We never found a

14:25

body afterward. Maybe she

14:27

got beamed away before her

14:30

shuttle crashed. That's

14:32

what I believe. Damn. I mean,

14:34

that's canonical Trek, is that almost

14:36

every shuttle explosion features

14:40

somebody materializing on a transporter pad after

14:42

we saw the shuttle explode, right? I'm

14:45

a Roe Lalland truther. I

14:48

think Roe Lalland is alive. That's

14:50

why you're the registered owner

14:52

of roelarentruth.org? I

14:55

am, yeah. Wow. These

14:57

are so exciting. Thank you, Clayton. I'm really

14:59

looking forward to cracking into those. Me, too.

15:02

Thanks. All right.

15:04

Next package is from

15:07

Captain Liz Soto out of

15:09

Winter Garden, Florida.

15:12

And we've had a few P1s from

15:14

Captain Liz Soto, if memory serves.

15:17

Sure have, yeah. Got

15:20

a letter to Ben and

15:22

Adam slash Adam and Ben. You

15:24

be the judge. Hmm. Got

15:30

some macaws on a card.

15:34

I walked ripply past a house

15:36

with a macaw just hanging out

15:38

on a parrot tee that you

15:40

get at a pet shop just

15:42

right outside the front door of

15:44

this house. Outside? No cage, no

15:47

nothing, no net. Wow. No

15:49

steps, no seeds, no stems, no

15:51

sticks. Just chilling. Like

15:54

a villain? Absolutely,

15:57

yeah. Strange

15:59

to see. While in this

16:01

neighborhood, I'm surprised nobody has.

16:04

Come and jack that

16:06

birds And now off

16:09

stance. Here's

16:11

our letter. Hi. Out of

16:13

and Ben Captain Lose soto here

16:15

sending my first code Forty Seven

16:18

episode on greatest track Reviewing Sciquest.

16:21

Might. Be the funniest part yet the

16:23

next day he was, my husband was

16:25

at a flea market and saw this

16:27

lovely gift in close and demanded he

16:30

secure it so that it might end

16:32

up in your hands. I decided to

16:34

also and close to beers for my

16:37

former place of residence in the Chicago

16:39

suburbs as beers from Skeleton Key Brewery

16:41

which not only Bruce fantastic beers. That.

16:44

Is also a haven for nerds

16:47

of all kinds. Movie: I cannot

16:49

tell you how many times I

16:51

discussed Star Trek with it's workers

16:53

and patrons. Spears a good porch

16:55

drinker. The name is a nod

16:58

to Monty Python and the Holy

17:00

Grail. Hope you enjoy happened list

17:02

so she'll me those cans. Stealth

17:04

amount. We can

17:06

to get censored. Oh

17:09

look at those who is this a

17:11

migratory swallow? The

17:13

Toasted Coconut Golden Ale. My eyes

17:16

do not deceive me. look at

17:18

those beautiful illustrations. Oh that drink

17:21

he bird. Little.

17:24

Slice of pineapple in the top of that.

17:26

Maybe instead of that of an orange? That.

17:29

Sounds great to me. Make

17:31

a Rogue States great. What

17:34

we have received in addition

17:36

to those cans is. Oh

17:42

Darwin. Happy to be here in

17:44

this plastic containers. I for sanford.

17:46

Really? they need a Darwin action

17:49

figure. Yeah, is only the tub

17:51

toy can you find him up?

17:53

And as my flip. Around.

17:56

In the burbles see. Press.

17:59

done Darwin's fins together, opening

18:01

his mouth and emitting dolphin

18:03

speech. Oh,

18:05

please do. Please

18:08

touch him in just the right way, Ben. Open

18:11

Darwin's mouth and insert rather

18:13

than listen for sound. How

18:18

about Darwin make you make sound

18:21

with his giant dolphin pack? He's

18:25

not making a sound, is he? He's not making a sound. Oh, he is

18:27

making a sound. Oh, he is making a

18:29

sound. Oh. It's

18:33

an analog sound. It's not

18:35

like a battery operated thing. Faster.

18:42

Darwin likes it fast, but

18:44

not that fast. When

18:47

Darwin likes something, you should keep going

18:49

at the same speed and not faster

18:51

or slower. Darwin

18:55

is just saying what you're doing is working. I'm

19:00

done stroking my dolphin. And

19:02

we just have one package left to get into,

19:04

Adam. Okay. Of course, we

19:07

started with postcards, miniature,

19:09

and then we moved on to regular

19:11

size. And now this next

19:13

package is what I would describe as, whoa.

19:19

I'm so glad you put it that way. Whoa.

19:24

Any guesses? So this is from

19:26

Isaac Jones out of

19:28

West Lafayette, Indiana. I'm

19:31

going to guess a couple of Indiana

19:33

slugger baseball bats. Oh, yeah. I

19:36

was thinking maybe big phaser

19:38

that's not something that we have

19:41

to glue together. Does

19:43

this box slosh? Not

19:45

hearing a slosh. Okay. Is it cake?

19:47

Could be cake. It could be

19:49

like a party sub. Yeah. It's

19:52

been sitting in the PO

19:54

box for a really long time. You

19:56

remember when you could get a party sub? Yeah.

19:59

Does anyone do that anymore? Does Mike do that?

20:01

Is that Mike's way? I wouldn't know,

20:03

Adam. I

20:05

have more questions than answers. Yeah.

20:07

Um, again, my

20:09

reputation at the post office is

20:12

just in the toilet. When I walked in and

20:14

they were like, yeah, you do

20:16

have some packages to pick up. Oh,

20:19

no. And this is what one of them was.

20:21

I felt really bad. But

20:23

we pay like, we pay for the big

20:25

box. It's, you know. I

20:28

mean, whoever sent it paid for the big box. That's

20:30

a lot in shipping. $8,675.

20:33

Just in shipping. Oh,

20:38

my God. So this is a party sub

20:40

that's just been moldering in here. Maggot

20:43

filled party sub. Is

20:47

kind of a great review for our show. Okay.

20:53

I'm ready. We have a note. It's

20:55

very short. Okay. Very surprisingly tiny note,

20:57

given how big this box is. Ben

21:00

and Adam, viewing your pod has been

21:02

a fantastic accompaniment to my complete Star

21:04

Trek re slash first watch, which has

21:07

taken me through finishing a PhD, moving

21:09

across the continent, moving to a different

21:11

continent, and more television hours than I

21:14

care to think about. Because

21:16

of a bad pre-order bit moment, this

21:18

Star Trek paraphernalia needs a new home,

21:20

and I couldn't think of a better

21:23

pair for that to be. Yours

21:25

in pod, Isaac last name was

21:27

held. P.S. Thank

21:30

you also to my mother who helped

21:32

coordinate shipping these and has also tolerated

21:34

my and my two brothers nerdy bullshit

21:37

for more than 30 years. Mother

21:40

note, honestly, I like Star Trek as

21:42

well. Where does my son think

21:44

he got this from? I'm a

21:46

fellow Trekkie and proud of it. I wonder

21:48

if the mother works for the post office.

21:50

Yeah, maybe. Okay. So

21:53

this interior box, somewhat

21:56

less enormous than the exterior box.

21:59

Okay. What's. In the

22:01

back, in the banks. Would

22:05

have. The end of seven

22:07

was just like many many

22:09

boxes getting slightly smaller around

22:11

gonna thousand head. Like

22:15

hold on there's another but he said

22:17

like though he did look ahead shrink

22:19

are saying this. Kevin

22:23

Spacey has become frustrated

22:25

ssssss are either ago.

22:28

Or I. Were

22:32

a moon.

22:37

You guess looks pretty close

22:39

as as a nurse. Limited

22:42

edition Star Trek Universe

22:44

fazer set. Ah, amazing

22:46

bombs. Probably ruining the

22:48

value of something that's

22:50

highly sought after by

22:53

actually opening this rate.

22:56

It's a Nerf gun that

22:58

suits those little nurse. Things

23:02

and lamb fan as

23:04

as. Switches

23:06

on it mean it's electronically.

23:10

Like a boards that the fact that boxers

23:12

of boards on the back of it. For

23:16

the great. Do. I look

23:18

cool that looks like to see

23:20

a weapon that's been born defied

23:22

like a half of it in

23:24

the bath. Yeah yeah. scab scab

23:26

some boards. It's the Borgias creeping

23:28

up the up the side of

23:30

in. it looks like how does

23:32

it take batteries? What will ten

23:34

of stuff? Does it suit. Boy

23:38

these are great questions. I wish

23:40

I had immediate answer or that

23:42

looks like an ammo by here's

23:44

a box. Whoa! Has Little Caesar

23:46

darts. And so

23:49

cool. And a dust buster

23:51

hand dark shooter was selected

23:53

as it's a single shot.

23:56

Hell yeah! that thing is

23:58

great. Suit subsidize, Big one.

24:02

I'm. Worried that I need them. Batteries

24:05

have to make the big one and go.

24:08

Wow, This is. I mean this

24:10

is the drunken impulse purchase to

24:13

all drunken impulse purchases, right? Absolutely

24:15

Alec This: you like to

24:18

open up the bottom flaps

24:20

a load. The darts? amazing.

24:22

Pretty good stuff here. Don't

24:24

lead Darwin, eat those Bullets

24:26

could sink and seem like

24:29

any dog would love to

24:31

help. and on those true

24:33

true Wow wow. Thanks to

24:35

everyone who sent something in

24:38

day. Really cool. good haul.

24:40

Rape. Amazingly generous

24:42

by the friend to Desoto today.

24:44

Holy cow or two priests well

24:46

out of the wanna get into

24:48

today's episode. Oh yes, it is

24:50

there. A lot less fun than

24:53

the code Forty Seven segment because

24:55

it's so sirius. Star.

24:58

Trek Voyager Season Seven Episode

25:00

Twenty Three. Homestead.

25:03

Resources. And in a little bit

25:05

of a. Happy

25:10

first contact de San Jose for

25:12

okay party second always had down

25:15

with that disperse contact. they hit

25:17

a little different when you're in

25:19

the Delta Quadrant an everyday are

25:22

making first contact with folks like

25:24

this. gotta be like ten a

25:26

lame citizens that array of. Yeah,

25:30

we do this twice a day.

25:32

Sometimes the we celebrate like second

25:34

contact day or something like this

25:36

is a bit much. Is

25:39

this a holographic jukebox?

25:42

Or. Did someone who build a jukebox

25:44

the way that Tom Paris has

25:46

built? Like. C. R

25:48

T Televisions that He that he puts in

25:50

this quarter's. Like the. Mystery

25:52

of the jukebox as a thing, I think.

25:55

I think that yeah, must be built

25:57

a replicated parts or something like that.

25:59

You know there's someone on the crew

26:01

the likes monopolizing the jukebox the way

26:03

I like to at a bar with

26:05

one of those a. At

26:08

based. Two. Bucks Danger?

26:10

Yeah! You. Want to keep

26:13

all the more runs out of

26:15

the playlist by dominating it yourself?

26:17

I've seen you spend like stupid

26:19

money. Keeping the moron

26:21

away from the jukebox. It's

26:24

worth it to me. tear it has to

26:26

be in a dive bar that's play and

26:28

my music. I

26:30

get a question we've always talked

26:33

to lovingly about how adorable Star

26:35

Trek can be in where it

26:37

chooses to. Spend. And save

26:39

it's money. And desist the fault

26:41

of Roy Orbison, the estate of Roy Orbison

26:43

that they couldn't do be Do be the

26:45

scene. I. Was wondering if

26:47

this was like hey, watching Baywatch

26:49

on Amazon Prime situation where maybe

26:51

it was who be do be

26:54

when they broadcast it but they

26:56

didn't cover the rates for other

26:58

media. There's. No movie do

27:00

be in the reruns. Is there no

27:02

Be defeated The First Time Playwrights and

27:04

that's it. You know

27:06

ones paying for poop. Know.

27:08

And pamper perpetuity around here.

27:13

Hey Neil, It's when somebody doesn't want

27:15

to take the floor. When somebody doesn't

27:18

want to give a speech, Don't make

27:20

them give a speech. Those

27:22

nothing worse than a person given the

27:24

floor under duress race. I. Think

27:27

Neil X is wrong if he

27:29

thinks that the length of this

27:31

presentation has anything to do with

27:33

how willing to back should be

27:35

to do it. Because once you

27:37

see it, Yeah, yeah, I got.

27:39

That's all it is. Live long

27:41

and prosper. Not

27:43

a big deal to assist their.

27:46

He also says to pimp to

27:48

back into dancing and he. Will.

27:50

Not sort of. Various

27:54

know tradition stimulus seems pretty close

27:56

to being a situation where the

27:58

cat then is gonna order to

28:00

back to dance like nobody's watching

28:03

but to cote de Marches in.

28:05

And. Has some interesting news about something

28:08

that they've picked up on Centaurs. Am.

28:10

I remembering this correctly from the

28:12

end of Star Trek First Contact.

28:14

or is this Mandela effect? Does

28:17

the Vulcan dance at the very

28:19

end. Up like

28:21

when do when drunk Sf from Talk

28:23

written. Starts. That will be do

28:25

be sound again. It's just like staggering

28:27

around. Yeah for those I think the

28:29

Vulcan as just standing there. but is

28:31

he drinking? I know he's doing. Since

28:33

then he I think they do give

28:36

him some some booze. Okay. Oh

28:38

right yeah and I guess in this in this

28:40

seem to that doing the same is not doing

28:42

the dancing but he is doing the drinking. So

28:45

we learn that there's some to lack scenes

28:47

whose life signs been picked up nearby. And.

28:50

They're not pick up the phone Sam's

28:52

on the view screen. we see that

28:54

there's an asteroid field ahead and it's

28:56

to dance to take the whole ship

28:58

in. So. They're gonna

29:01

go in in the Delta Flyer

29:03

to investigate. And it turns

29:05

out these to axioms live inside a rock. Ross.

29:13

Sea to. See.

29:20

Ah, As

29:22

much as we talked about it not

29:25

being cool to pimp people into doing

29:27

things as really hoping you do that

29:29

with assists have a nice elixir like

29:31

as soon as they pick up these

29:33

folks we cut over the bridge after

29:35

the same. And slake. The.

29:38

Bridge folks are doing bridge work. They.

29:41

Got this handled and there's Neil. It's.

29:43

All. Up in their business, Like

29:46

asking questions repeatedly. About

29:48

stealth folks are already doing or

29:51

with is it no response from

29:53

house to remove any closer. And

29:55

is this a new knee length. Coogee sweater

29:57

he's wearing like for Easter. Seems

30:00

like the jacket the of mom

30:02

would wear a nice are there

30:05

like a special Easter jacket read

30:07

your likes. That.

30:09

Must have been expensive. We have it looks

30:11

like really introduce and we're never gonna see

30:14

it again. So what's the deal? It's

30:17

worded. mom find seven hundred

30:19

dollars secured a Macys. That

30:24

did, She have a Macys credit card and

30:26

she would get me new shoes for school.

30:28

What the hell. With.

30:32

My shoes or duct taped certs.

30:35

I haven't taken them off my feet

30:37

and weeks since. What a real bonds!

30:40

All the kids are making fun of

30:42

me! Paris

30:44

stares at at this asteroid field. Nice like.

30:46

You know he can't take the ship and

30:48

their birds. We. Do have the

30:50

Delta Flyer New Smash Cut, the Delta

30:52

Flyer A and sir you know it's

30:55

it's me he likes. On and away

30:57

mission with do I Can Paris and

30:59

it sort of seems like they're getting

31:01

shot act as there's like explosions going

31:03

off all around them. And.

31:06

To. Like damn like this to axioms are

31:09

not picking up the phone and are

31:11

may be shooting at us but the

31:13

emergency landing that they are forced to

31:15

make. Happens. To be on the

31:17

rock as he selects is is it.

31:25

Assists the class living. We get

31:27

this like cool over the top

31:29

side of them skidding. But.

31:31

Then I was like okay, disappointed that didn't

31:33

have any like landing skids like nothing to

31:35

get deployed to like protect the whole of

31:38

the ship when they. Do. One of

31:40

these. Voyager. Herself

31:42

has landing skids. Harm

31:46

Paris building your hot rod and

31:48

the shuttle bay Area as informed

31:50

by that somehow as an inspiration.

31:52

Now so. In the ass

31:55

lab. Janeway gets the bad news

31:57

about see. explosions that

32:00

detected inside this asteroid field

32:02

and orders a rescue

32:04

team, but they gotta modify

32:06

the shields on a brat

32:08

first. Just tell him it

32:10

saves your money, buster. Oh,

32:13

you think we should modify the shields to

32:15

do better against an asteroid field? You

32:18

think so, doctor? Maybe we should have done

32:20

that before launching the flyer. I guess

32:24

they want the shields to hold up

32:26

against whatever mining equipment this is, right?

32:28

Yeah, well, we don't know that it's

32:30

mining equipment yet. Is this ever clear?

32:32

Like, transport yourself to the very end

32:34

of this episode. After you've seen weapons

32:36

fire from these aliens, it all looks

32:39

like mining equipment. Is this

32:41

ever clear? I

32:43

will buy you an asteroid

32:45

where your flowers can bloom.

32:48

Or does

32:50

it go a little bit differently? There's

32:54

so many great ever clear songs. I don't know what

32:56

direction to take it. So,

32:59

Neelix wakes up, and

33:02

this is maybe the most

33:04

shocking sci-fi image we've

33:06

gotten in Star Trek, period, because

33:09

Star Trek has been at such

33:11

great pains to establish what a

33:13

pillow might look like in

33:15

the future. And Neelix wakes up

33:18

on a completely normal pillow.

33:21

Like a regular, you could go to Target right

33:24

now and buy the pillow that Neelix wakes up

33:26

with his head on. The prop

33:28

master's working through the list of things

33:30

needed for season seven, episode 23,

33:33

and they're like going through the warehouse like,

33:36

where the fuck are

33:41

all of our weird Star Trek pillows?

33:43

Do people think they could just walk

33:45

off set with all the shit now

33:47

that we're at the end of the

33:49

series? God fucking, where is Gary Wong?

33:53

Gary, get your ass down here

33:56

and bring the pillows. So

34:07

they sent a PA to Target

34:09

to get a pillow and Neelix

34:12

wakes up and there is a

34:14

lady Talaxian ministering to him. Her

34:17

name is Dexa and

34:20

it's a feeling right off the bat. She

34:22

does not care for the fact that he showed

34:24

up with non-Talaxian

34:26

aliens on her doorstep.

34:29

There's kind of two energies here

34:31

at once, right? There's as you

34:34

say the anti whoever those other

34:36

guys are energy. But

34:38

there's also a very real I don't

34:41

care that you're a Talaxian like me kind

34:43

of vibe coming from her. That

34:45

is only coming from Neelix. Did

34:48

you think that this was going to

34:50

become space misery? Yes.

34:53

Yes because not only

34:55

is she like not really able to

34:57

deal with any of Neelix's guff, but

35:00

like there is kind of a dark energy

35:02

with her. Yeah. Like

35:04

a lot of people probably treat Neelix the first

35:06

way, right? Just in the God, can

35:09

you just give me my bowl of whatever so

35:11

I can go sit down and take my lunch

35:13

break? Yeah, she seems to

35:15

be kind of withholding a lot of information, not

35:19

answering any of his questions, not

35:21

asking him any questions. It becomes

35:23

clear that these people are pretty

35:25

much isolationists and

35:27

that the explosions that the

35:29

Delta Flyer experienced were mining

35:32

explosives. But she

35:34

doesn't offer whether those were Talaxian miners

35:36

or someone else. Like we don't get

35:38

much information at all, but we

35:41

do meet Brax, her son. Speaking

35:43

of miners. He

35:48

is in big trouble for being there. I

35:50

told you not to come in here. He

35:53

doesn't look dangerous to me. Does she have

35:55

like kind of a brig area inside her quarters?

35:57

Could you ever quite figure out what's in there?

36:00

was. Like, if you don't want your

36:02

kid playing with the prisoner, maybe you

36:04

shouldn't have a prison cell inside your

36:06

room. Yeah, don't take the

36:08

kid to work. If

36:11

you work as like a corrections officer. Yeah.

36:15

Kind of a surprise to Neelix that he's not

36:17

allowed to leave, and he's been in a brig

36:20

the whole time. Don't even think about anybody

36:22

coming for you. Another surprise

36:24

had to have been when he thought

36:26

he was being fed a communion wafer

36:29

and instead she just puts it on his head. It

36:36

looks soggy. Oh, the host? I'm familiar

36:38

with this. Not

36:40

familiar with this. I

36:43

mean, I have seen a pile of wet communion

36:45

wafers, but that was a very

36:47

long time ago and a very different

36:50

situation. Are

36:55

you suggesting some type of

36:57

Talaxian Catholic oaky cookie scenario?

37:00

I am. That's the

37:02

picture I painted. Wow. You're

37:05

welcome. There's no show in the history of

37:07

podcasting that could come up with an image

37:09

like that. And yet we did.

37:12

We cut over to the Voyager Bridge

37:15

and Janeway is kind

37:17

of explosive in her impatience, right? Can

37:20

we please start the rescue mission now? Not

37:23

pleased with this situation. She

37:25

gets word that the shuttle

37:27

that they're modifying is about ready. Chikote

37:30

is going to lead the away mission

37:33

and he is like kind of on

37:35

his way off the bridge when

37:37

they hear from Commander Nokana, who

37:40

is, I don't know, is this like a

37:42

military mining operation? He seems to be the

37:44

head of the mining ship. We

37:47

got to describe what this guy looks

37:49

like. He has very unique loaf. He

37:51

kind of looks like if you

37:54

took a picture of a disco ball from

37:56

far away and then you zoomed in. until

38:00

the photograph started to kind

38:02

of fall apart. That's what his

38:04

face looks like. Yeah. Blurry

38:07

disco ball loaf in

38:09

a dark room, not reflecting a ton of

38:11

light back at the camera. No. Old

38:14

dirty disco ball. Which

38:19

is probably on the working names

38:21

that old dirty bastard was writing,

38:23

right? They're

38:25

like, so what do you do here? And he's like,

38:27

well, I'm here mining. Oh

38:30

baby, I like it. Or, oh baby,

38:33

I like it. Or. You

38:36

know what's great? Here's a little behind the pod.

38:39

Ben needed no time to do

38:41

that. That was straight pimping by

38:43

me. Shimmy,

38:47

shimmy, y'all. Yeah, shimmy, yay. Give

38:49

me an or so I can take it away. So

38:54

pretty contentious conversation where Janeway is like, we're

38:56

sending people in there to get our

38:58

people out. Can you please stop blowing

39:01

everything up while they do that? And he's like,

39:03

no can do. We're on a timeline. Good

39:05

luck. We don't stop mining

39:07

for you or anybody. And like, stay

39:10

out. If we come across him, we'll

39:12

call you. Was kind of

39:14

the deal. Even though Jamie wanted to go in herself. Yeah.

39:17

Janeway's not listening to this guy.

39:19

We cut back to the asteroid

39:22

where Neelix gets another

39:24

visit from Brax, a

39:27

little kid who is

39:30

very curious about this outsider. Neelix

39:32

is doing that the nicest prisoner

39:34

routine the way you have to

39:37

if you don't want to be executed or tortured. Right.

39:39

Which doesn't seem to be on the table at this

39:41

point. But maybe Brax is kind of a part of

39:43

it in a dark way. I

39:45

feel like you get the kid on your

39:48

side early and often if you're in jail

39:50

and there's a kid around because that kid

39:52

might be persuaded to grab the jailer's keys

39:54

or something. You

39:57

just cultivate that as an option. And

40:00

Neelix is like, hey, hey, Brax, I'm pretty

40:02

hungry in here. You have any more of

40:04

those communion wafers? And Brax goes under his

40:06

bed and takes out a shoebox full of

40:08

them. You

40:14

wouldn't believe how popular this was on Reddit

40:16

once. In

40:19

walks his mom, uh-oh, and

40:21

a guy named Oxilon, who

40:24

is described as a council regent. So

40:26

he's got some political power here. And

40:29

he tells Neelix, hey, you're free to

40:31

go. And so are Paris

40:33

and Tuvok. And they're

40:35

over in the Delta Flyer, kind of digging

40:38

it out from the rocks, getting it

40:40

ready for departure. There's something so weird

40:42

about the energy of this scene, too.

40:44

Like, really? Yeah. It's gonna

40:46

be that easy? They, like, we have

40:49

determined that they came in peace, but we

40:51

don't really like talking to Outsider. So the

40:53

sooner you guys all get out of here,

40:55

the better. You're free to

40:57

go. And Neelix is like, okay,

40:59

well, I'm already 5,000. If

41:01

you guys don't want to hang with my, it's

41:03

like, you know, if you want to be my

41:06

Tlaxian, you got to get with my friends. And

41:10

if you're not going to, then I'm leaving. Yeah.

41:13

If you don't like me at my this,

41:15

and he points to himself with a wet

41:17

communion wafer on his forehead. Then

41:22

you don't deserve me at my this, and he points

41:24

to the shoebox. We

41:30

learn a little bit more about the asteroid on

41:32

the walk. We get like a

41:34

view of the inside of this cavern,

41:37

and we learned that about 500 Tlaxians live here.

41:41

I'm just like immediately thinking about like, this

41:43

is going to get like real inbred real

41:46

quick. Like, if

41:48

people in Iceland have to have an app to

41:50

tell them whether they're fucking their cousin or not,

41:54

a totally isolated community of 500 Tlaxians

41:57

is in rough shape. How

42:00

many fucking Oomlouts are in the

42:02

name of that application? So

42:08

many. This

42:10

is one of those situations that you hear about

42:12

like when the wagon trains went west, you know,

42:15

you disassemble the wagons when you get there and

42:17

you start building your helms out of them, right?

42:20

Like this is that like they had a

42:22

bunch of ships, they tore apart the

42:24

ships that they landed and that's what they built

42:26

their base from. I thought it

42:28

was surprising how incurious they were about

42:30

news from far away. Like they weren't

42:33

like, hey, like what's going on with

42:35

Talax? Like can you tell us anything

42:38

about your adventures? Like nobody wants

42:40

to know anything from Neelix. I

42:43

was really confused about that myself.

42:46

And if you're a group of 500, like

42:48

you know when there's a new kid, no

42:51

one cares. They walk

42:53

past him without glancing. No

42:56

one's treated Neelix this coldly since

42:58

he started telling people his

43:00

girlfriend was three years old or something. Those

43:10

were very dark times for Neelix. Personal

43:26

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43:28

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43:30

though there are Miriam reasons for that. And

43:33

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43:35

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43:37

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43:40

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46:49

mentions that her

46:51

husband is dead,

46:54

so she's available. And

46:57

he gets back to the flyer and they get

46:59

to work. And Neelix is really

47:02

bummed out about the way that all

47:04

went. I guess my expectations were a

47:06

little high. He was really excited to

47:08

see some of his peeps. And

47:11

that was not quite the warm

47:13

welcome one would hope for. And

47:18

this is like the first time you bring

47:21

a girlfriend to hang out with your guy

47:23

friends and they just nope

47:25

out immediately. This

47:28

moment when Neelix introduces Paris and Tuvok

47:30

to her, and I don't even think

47:33

she says anything. I think she

47:35

just leaves. Yeah. Oh, that's

47:37

rough. And he talks about like, this is

47:40

probably the last time I'll see anybody else

47:42

that's the same species as me. Yeah.

47:46

Later on, the car alarm goes off on the

47:48

Delta Flyer. And who could it be but Brax

47:51

hanging in the closet area?

47:53

I won a lot

47:55

of money on this bed. Yeah. Brax

47:58

is just so fucking curious. Yeah, yeah.

48:02

He wants to see Voyager. He doesn't

48:04

want to be narc'd out to his mom. So

48:07

when Neelix walks him home, he

48:09

doesn't really get that opportunity because he

48:11

interrupts a scene where Nakona is having

48:13

an interaction with Dexa and

48:15

the rest of the folks about like, he's

48:18

basically slapped a notice of

48:20

demolition on their

48:22

base. And he's like, y'all gotta get

48:24

out of here because we're going to

48:26

start mining this one. You are being

48:29

given three days to evacuate and

48:32

it gets pretty heated. Like there's like

48:34

a moment where some shoving and pushing

48:36

gets done and Neelix like grabs a

48:38

gun from a guy and

48:40

is like, you've said what you've come to say.

48:42

No, I suggest you get

48:44

the fuck out. How does

48:47

this not get way worse than

48:49

it gets? Like Neelix holds

48:51

a gun on these folks and

48:53

he's not in trouble for it. Yeah, that

48:55

he took from one of them. Yeah. Nobody

48:57

ever brings this up after like, Hey, Neelix,

48:59

maybe not a great idea to grab the

49:01

strap from the cop and like wave it

49:03

around in the subway station. This

49:06

has got to absolutely flood Dexa's

49:08

basement and foot basement here, right?

49:11

To watch this guy start kicking

49:13

some ass because Dexa in the argument

49:16

scene was the one riding for how

49:18

unjust this was. Like she was the most

49:20

aggressive in that scene. He

49:23

wants to fight

49:25

back against Nokana and his

49:27

people and Oxilon

49:30

and the sort of

49:32

consensus among the rest of the Talaxians

49:35

is that fighting back is bad and

49:37

is going to lead to bad outcomes

49:39

for them. And

49:41

Neelix is like, well, I'm

49:43

also anti, you know,

49:45

shoot first, but I wish you would

49:47

come visit Voyager with me because my

49:50

captain is solid in the diplomacy department

49:52

and is like a sort of disinterested

49:55

third party and maybe she can help

49:57

you guys get a deal with these guys. And

50:00

it seems like the Talaxians are

50:02

like open to this suddenly. We

50:05

cut back to Voyager where it's take

50:07

your new Talaxian kid

50:09

to work day. Neelix

50:13

is kind of doing the tour. The tour

50:15

you feel like he's good at giving. And

50:19

this whole introduction to the

50:21

crew people and their stations concludes

50:24

with a, so what station is yours?

50:28

Question being floated to Neelix in a totally

50:31

heartbreaking way. This

50:34

scene was written so well because the

50:36

way Kim and Shikote jump in and

50:38

are total bros for him, like

50:40

just gassing him up completely. It

50:43

actually makes him misty. It's

50:45

amazing. They wingman him so

50:48

hard here. He's far too versatile to

50:50

have just one station. Max

50:52

is like, well he does a lot of things,

50:54

but, and then he points to behind Neelix. What

50:56

does that guy do? I

50:59

mop up some messes. That's

51:02

my one and only job. You

51:04

might wonder why these guys have sewage

51:06

running out of a pipe into this

51:08

section of the bridge over here. And

51:11

I've wondered that myself many times, but

51:14

I don't ask questions. I keep those

51:16

questions inside. Just do

51:19

my job. No one

51:21

asks, but I'm going to tell you, my

51:24

favorite way to pee at a baseball game

51:26

is giant shared drop

51:29

urinals. That means one pipe going

51:31

in, one pipe going out. That's

51:36

the kind of poetic about being a big

51:38

fan of the team and having your

51:40

piss mixed with the piss of all the

51:42

other friends, it's sort of a feeling

51:46

of piss solidarity. Anyways,

51:49

what kind of sewage situation you guys got over

51:51

there on that rock? What

51:55

kind of yerdo you all got? Got

52:02

a little Spike Jones at the end. This

52:04

tour doesn't end on the bridge, which kind of

52:07

seems like the place it wouldn't. No, yeah. Maybe

52:09

it begins there. They take it over to the

52:11

ass lab next, where Seven

52:13

shows them a picture of Talax.

52:16

I also remembered this

52:18

incorrectly. I thought Talax was like

52:21

gassed and bombed by

52:23

their enemies. Was it like a moon

52:25

or another planet that

52:27

they also had that got

52:30

Metrion cascaded? That's what I

52:32

thought. Maybe it wasn't the homeworld. It was just

52:34

maybe Talaxians at another place

52:37

got done like that. But it's

52:39

still occupied by some despotic

52:42

other kind of alien, so they can't

52:44

go back. But they get to see

52:46

a picture of Talax, which is kind

52:48

of an interesting moment because this was

52:52

also played for an important

52:55

thing to the Voyager crew recently

52:57

where they got live footage of

52:59

Earth. But wouldn't these people have

53:01

pictures of Talax? They

53:03

don't even see an image of it, right? And

53:05

I think they left like five years ago. So

53:08

yeah, I remember. We

53:10

all remember. We were there. Brax

53:13

wants to go to there very

53:16

specifically, but it's

53:18

clear that's just in the other

53:21

direction, related to the

53:24

most awkward situation

53:27

ever happens in the next scene in

53:29

the corridor, because you

53:32

do not want your new kid friend

53:34

to meet your old kid friend. That's

53:38

what happens here when they run into Naomi

53:40

Wildman. Oh, I forgot about

53:42

our Kaddiskot game. Naomi,

53:45

you said we were on a

53:48

break, right? Some

53:50

Kaddiskot? Yeah. Why

53:53

are you acting so weird, Naomi? You

53:55

wanted this, remember? Naomi

53:58

invites Brax on... What

54:00

sort of sounds like a holodeck date? Yeah.

54:04

Kind of seems that way. Yeah. That

54:07

sort of gets them out of the

54:09

episode for quite a while. That frees

54:11

Neelix and Dexa up for

54:13

some one-on-one hangs, which they have

54:17

in some very dark quarters. Yeah.

54:20

Neelix is pouring from a bottle of

54:22

the good stuff while they eat what

54:24

look like hotel desserts. You

54:26

know the kind I'm talking about, right? Like

54:29

perfectly round and layered and

54:31

dusted with powdered sugar? Yeah.

54:35

I was also just stressed seeing the liquid

54:37

go into this glass because the glass is

54:39

at such a severe angle. Yeah. That

54:41

thing is going to tip over, man. Hey,

54:44

careful, man. There's a beverage here, huh? Neelix

54:46

really puts the moves on Dexa here. Does

54:48

he? I felt like he was trying to

54:51

wine and dine her a little bit. Then what do

54:53

you make of this scene at the very end where

54:55

he's like, oh, I got to go early

54:57

morning or whatever. Think

55:00

he lost the nerve, man. I

55:04

think maybe the conversation having dipped into

55:06

the story of her husband dying made

55:08

him think maybe tonight is not the

55:10

night. Yeah. I

55:13

mean, here's a little advice for

55:15

Dexa too. Be

55:18

a little less thirsty than my

55:21

son hasn't been this happy since his father

55:23

was still alive. He's like,

55:26

dial it down a bit. Yeah.

55:29

Neelix's excuse to get out of

55:31

doing it is big day tomorrow,

55:33

W slash R slash T diplomacy.

55:36

I got to rest up. We

55:39

get this diplomatic conference where

55:42

we learn that Nocona

55:45

just wants the ore. That's all he cares about. Neelix

55:48

offers like, hey, what about all of

55:51

this energy that the Talaxians are making using

55:54

geothermal's? They could share that with

55:56

you. And he's like, what mean

55:58

share, Rambo? Oxilon

56:01

sitting next to me looks like, did I

56:03

give you power to negotiate

56:05

here? What the fuck are you talking

56:07

about? You gonna give away our energy?

56:10

I don't have that much. What

56:13

are you talking about? Objection

56:16

noted. We'll do this

56:18

without you. Objection noted.

56:21

We'll do this without you. We'll do

56:23

it. In the

56:25

mess hall, Naomi tells Brax and

56:28

Deska about the Tuvix episode in

56:31

a way that I

56:33

think two Dexa would

56:36

make Neelix completely

56:38

unattractive forever and always.

56:41

And once, there was a transporter accident.

56:43

Neelix and Commander Tuvok got combined to

56:46

make a completely different person. It

56:48

is really weird to hear that like it's

56:50

an amusing anecdote. Yeah.

56:52

So did anyone see that this is

56:54

wrong? It truly is. And

56:56

of all the moments for Neelix to walk

56:58

in. Yeah. How

57:00

many conversations do you think Neelix walks

57:03

in on that are about Tuvix? Far

57:08

more than Tuvok walks in on, I

57:10

think. Maybe that explains the

57:13

cold treatment that he experienced over on

57:15

the asteroid, like somehow even they knew.

57:18

It doesn't seem all right.

57:20

It sort of seems like he Tuvixed at some point. So

57:24

he takes Dexa off to the side

57:26

and he's like, hey, so negotiation went

57:29

fine, I suppose.

57:32

Look, here's the news. They

57:35

did not agree to any

57:38

of the terms. What they did agree to

57:40

is maybe extending the deadline a little bit.

57:43

And also Janeway said she'd be happy

57:45

to ferry y'all and all of your

57:47

gear to the nearest M-Class planet. So

57:49

that's a good deal, right? But

57:52

Brax is fucking pissed at this. What's

57:55

Brax upset about? You get a whole planet now instead

57:57

of a cave. Instead of a

57:59

fucking rock. You can't play stickball

58:01

in a cave, Brax. We

58:03

saw where you live, Brax. You live in

58:06

a prison. Was

58:09

Neelix staying in your room, Brax? Maybe

58:13

that's why he wanted

58:16

to go with Neelix, because he's like, my

58:18

bed smells. Yeah. Weird

58:21

energy to that scene, too. Yeah.

58:24

In the ass lab, Neelix is

58:26

having a conversation with Tuvok, and

58:28

Tuvok starts to gas him up

58:30

about, you know, you've

58:32

got a lot of potential,

58:35

and I really think it's being squandered

58:37

here on this ship. And maybe

58:39

if you moved on

58:42

and weren't on this ship anymore, you

58:44

could really blossom into the man that

58:46

you were always destined to become. Have

58:48

you ever given that much thought, Neelix,

58:50

like not being here all the time?

58:52

I thought for a moment that this

58:55

behavior was unusual until I thought back

58:57

to the other moments that Tuvok has

58:59

been really encouraging of Neelix to go

59:01

do something, like board the

59:03

Borg's ship first. And

59:08

maybe give that weird Borg's guy that they

59:10

created in the test tube a tour. Or

59:17

maybe be the test pilot for the

59:20

Delta Flyer. Or... I

59:23

feel like the energy between Neelix and

59:25

Tuvok for the entire series has been

59:27

Neelix wanting

59:29

to be friends with Tuvok, but also like

59:31

never getting too close to like the edge

59:34

of a cliff when Tuvok is in shoving

59:36

distance. You know? Like,

59:39

if Tuvok could bump him off,

59:43

you kind of feel like he might. You

59:45

do have some annoying habits. How

59:47

badly does Tuvok never

59:50

want to dance? That...

59:54

This is like, have you ever been to

59:56

a wedding that you didn't want to dance

59:59

at So bad that you suggested that the

1:00:01

the wedding pick up and move to another

1:00:03

place successor that they left him alone. About

1:00:05

the dancing thing, that's it's happening here in

1:00:07

this scene. Hey

1:00:11

can you put like some nineties rock as

1:00:13

the. As the

1:00:15

boilers so that I don't have any

1:00:17

pressure on me to get up and

1:00:19

move. Yeah, What? A

1:00:21

thing. So Neil X goes back

1:00:23

to the asteroid and kind of

1:00:25

pitches the gang. On

1:00:28

this idea he said about

1:00:30

building. Sealed. So

1:00:32

that would protect their asteroid

1:00:34

from. These. Aliens that are trying to

1:00:36

get rid of them. And their

1:00:38

initially like kind of resistance to

1:00:41

the idea of fighting but he

1:00:43

ten of persuade them hey it's

1:00:45

time like. He. Has been kicked

1:00:47

around across the entire quadrant. Standard.

1:00:50

Draw Lion The Regolith. He's.

1:00:52

Stolen some items from Dr.

1:00:54

Mark. And. He like points to

1:00:57

the screen like this is how we assemble a

1:00:59

nerve agents. Assess. Assess

1:01:01

Assess Assess. Assess A meal.

1:01:03

It's goes completely dark. Here's.

1:01:07

A of says really, get these

1:01:10

guys. They're breaking their own backs

1:01:12

and vomiting out their internal organs.

1:01:14

Yeah, in two seconds flat. With.

1:01:16

The release this out of their mining shifts.

1:01:18

The deaths ask. Your skin melts off. Guard

1:01:22

Nudes gets to make out

1:01:24

with decks, and then they

1:01:26

start the run. Where'd the

1:01:28

plan? As they're they're shooting

1:01:30

sealed emitters down at the

1:01:32

surface of. The. Asteroid and

1:01:34

new it's is like flying cover. With.

1:01:37

His ship. I love this plan right?

1:01:39

School Like you think of this, potato

1:01:41

shaped asteroids doesn't have sealed that needs

1:01:44

emitters. You notice gonna walk out there

1:01:46

and your space boots and Rothys emitters

1:01:48

rendered in a suit. The emitters. From.

1:01:51

A sip. To get coverage.

1:01:53

Great. and so the mining ship

1:01:56

comes in and start shooting at them

1:01:58

and they're shooting at the ships like

1:02:00

dropping bombs on the surface of the

1:02:02

asteroid, and there's like bangers going off

1:02:04

inside the asteroid. And

1:02:06

they've got two emitters left, and

1:02:09

Neelix gets his weapons offline,

1:02:13

and it kind of looks like he's ready

1:02:15

to like jump in the path of

1:02:17

a bullet to save the ship that is

1:02:20

depositing the field emitters when, oh yeah,

1:02:23

the Delta Flyer comes in,

1:02:25

gets involved, even though technically

1:02:28

it's a prime directive violation. They're just

1:02:30

coming to the aid of a friend.

1:02:32

For some reason, Janeway's on the Flyer.

1:02:35

Yeah. There's coffee in helping a

1:02:37

friend in distress. Pretty great moment.

1:02:39

They get the shield up around the

1:02:42

asteroid, and Neelix

1:02:44

says his goodbyes to the

1:02:46

last Talaxians he'll ever meet.

1:02:50

How surprised were you at

1:02:52

how abrupt this goodbye was? Dexa,

1:02:54

who kissed him goodbye before he

1:02:56

went on the mission, doesn't

1:02:59

even get anything when

1:03:01

Neelix turns and walks away out of this scene.

1:03:04

What the hell kind of exit was that, Neelix?

1:03:06

At least rubber feet or something. We

1:03:09

cut over to Voyager, where Naomi

1:03:12

Wildman is doing her homework,

1:03:14

gets a visit from Neelix.

1:03:16

And Neelix, she's too cool for

1:03:19

your childish games or

1:03:21

your childish stories. She's

1:03:24

an adult now. Your job is over. She

1:03:27

basically tells him to fuck off. Not a

1:03:29

little girl anymore. It's rough. Maybe

1:03:31

the coolest Naomi Wildman scene we've ever gotten.

1:03:35

Wow. So he goes to

1:03:37

the mess hall to have a sad

1:03:39

by himself, and guess

1:03:41

who's there? Captain Janeway. He's

1:03:44

like, I used to have two

1:03:46

kid friends, and now I have none. And

1:03:53

Captain Janeway has a

1:03:56

similar pitch to 2-fuck. Like, maybe it'd

1:03:58

be best if he had a... I

1:04:00

got off here. Do

1:04:02

you know why this is the best coffee I've ever

1:04:04

had in the mess hall, Neelix? Because

1:04:06

I made it myself. Make

1:04:09

it yourself. You've never gotten

1:04:11

the grounds ratio right. I

1:04:14

know that this is the last time I'll

1:04:16

ever have coffee with you. But

1:04:18

that might be a sacrifice I'd be willing to

1:04:20

make. I really like how

1:04:22

this scene is written because Neelix can't

1:04:25

put the words together to tell her

1:04:27

what he wants to do. And so

1:04:29

it's sort of career suicide by Captain that

1:04:31

happens here. Because she's like, here's

1:04:34

an idea. D-Quad diplomat.

1:04:38

It's an assignment that he takes. He

1:04:40

said, yes. And

1:04:44

we find this out by an edit

1:04:46

where he pops out of a turbo

1:04:49

lift and starts walking down a hallway

1:04:51

with a surprisingly small

1:04:53

bag. Maybe all

1:04:55

of his other stuff got moved over to

1:04:57

his ship and flown over to the asteroid

1:04:59

or something. Is the reason

1:05:01

why I've never left a

1:05:04

place of long-term employment and

1:05:07

received a completely silent

1:05:09

standard attention ceremony where

1:05:11

every coworker lines the halls

1:05:13

on my way out the door? Is

1:05:16

it because I've left on bad terms? Yeah.

1:05:19

My last time leaving a place of work,

1:05:21

it was kind of the opposite. It was

1:05:23

like a security guy with a roll

1:05:25

in his neck watching my

1:05:28

every move as I emptied out my

1:05:30

desk. What

1:05:33

a moment. They empty out every

1:05:35

uniform they've got, every extra, every

1:05:37

crew person I read dressed up

1:05:39

for this scene. It was

1:05:41

good. Yeah. It was really sweet. I

1:05:44

genuinely got goosebumps watching this. Tuvok

1:05:47

even cuts the tiniest

1:05:49

bit of rug by way of farewell.

1:05:52

Neelix is like, I left my recipe

1:05:54

book in the mess hall for you

1:05:56

to keep using. like,

1:06:00

oh, thanks. And when Neelix leaves, they shoot

1:06:02

it out the back of

1:06:04

the ship, destroy

1:06:07

it with torpedoes. The

1:06:12

honey I'm home moment. Yeah. When

1:06:14

Neelix shows up, like, is

1:06:17

he like the father of this family now?

1:06:22

That moved so fast. It

1:06:25

moved especially fast for a Neelix that

1:06:27

did not seem willing or able to

1:06:29

kiss Dexa when

1:06:32

he left her earlier. When

1:06:34

are they going to kiss again, do you think? How

1:06:36

long is that going to take? This shit is

1:06:38

awkward. I don't know. I kind

1:06:40

of feel like Dex died in this relationship. You

1:06:50

broke something that can't be fixed when

1:06:53

you left in that last scene without saying goodbye,

1:06:56

Neelix. Did

1:07:02

you like this episode, Adam? I'm

1:07:06

going to answer your question

1:07:08

with a question. And that question is going

1:07:10

to be one that I've

1:07:18

asked in so many episodes

1:07:20

that we've watched together of Star Trek Voyager.

1:07:22

Do you wish Neelix died this

1:07:24

episode? Because I think

1:07:27

it would have been better than the weird

1:07:30

final scene that we got with

1:07:32

a maybe family,

1:07:34

maybe not family that he gets.

1:07:36

Like, he could have died a

1:07:38

hero here. And instead

1:07:41

of the wordless standard

1:07:43

attention ceremony, like which is a

1:07:45

great scene in Star Trek. Like

1:07:47

I love that moment. Instead,

1:07:51

you get a fucking torpedo

1:07:53

scene and a funeral. Give

1:07:55

me funeral of Neelix. I

1:07:58

think I'd feel a little more there for them. I

1:08:01

kind of wish he was dead

1:08:03

Wow that's my review

1:08:07

I'd like to see that on

1:08:10

the memory alpha website under reception

1:08:12

I kind

1:08:16

of like writing a character out

1:08:18

of a show not killing them all right

1:08:21

I feel like that's the rarer

1:08:24

choice for a TV writers

1:08:27

room so I'm I

1:08:29

guess I'm into it from that perspective I

1:08:32

did feel like it moved really fast

1:08:34

and like that last scene did clang

1:08:36

for me just in the context of

1:08:38

how cold these people had been up

1:08:40

until then if he kissed

1:08:42

her before he left

1:08:44

her in the scene before I think the

1:08:47

last scene is so much better yeah but

1:08:49

the turn and walk away kind

1:08:52

of destroyed the final scene yeah yeah

1:08:54

or if the turn of why

1:08:56

and walk away was a I can't

1:08:58

even look at you I'm so sad right now

1:09:01

like that kind of turn and walk away like

1:09:03

I get it right but you don't get that

1:09:06

yeah I think they kind of missed the mark with

1:09:08

that so yeah I mean

1:09:10

I'm also just like honestly a little

1:09:13

sad that Neelix doesn't get all the

1:09:15

way with them like I

1:09:17

sort of wonder where the thinking

1:09:20

was like did they have

1:09:22

some plan for this character or do they like

1:09:25

why did the writers room confront

1:09:27

the idea of like is

1:09:29

everybody going to make it home

1:09:31

and decide like Lieutenant Carrie and

1:09:33

Neelix are the characters that we're

1:09:36

gonna get off the show

1:09:38

before the end of the series like

1:09:41

what was behind that decision and I don't

1:09:44

feel like there's like a satisfying

1:09:46

like arc to that answer

1:09:49

something doesn't hang together with the

1:09:52

whole preferring the inside

1:09:54

of an asteroid to an

1:09:56

entire m-class planet situation either

1:09:58

like The briefest of. Lip service is

1:10:00

paid to the whole like. Well, if you're

1:10:03

around any sort of warped, capable species, you

1:10:05

may be in danger. Who the fuck wants

1:10:07

to live inside of an asteroid the rest

1:10:09

of their life versus like. Under

1:10:11

the sky of an M class planet. The.

1:10:13

Seems like a step backwards for Neil.

1:10:16

It's nearly see guys who rarely if

1:10:18

ever talked about how much he missed

1:10:20

the company of his own people. And.

1:10:23

All the time talked about how happy

1:10:25

it made him feel to be around

1:10:27

the voyage crew had to be exploring

1:10:29

things and and providing for them like.

1:10:34

So. Know it seems like it's a change in

1:10:36

direction for him to the doesn't feel. True.

1:10:39

To his his interests or

1:10:41

sensibilities. The. I feel sad

1:10:43

for him. it feels like a step back.

1:10:45

that does though they didn't understand, like the

1:10:47

idea of like this is a community that

1:10:49

I feel at home and but I just

1:10:51

don't feel like they did enough to establish

1:10:54

that for the character. So they're me nice

1:10:56

as there's a lot like about this episode.

1:10:58

But. Saddest The big

1:11:00

question. But. Hangs over it

1:11:02

for me if it's death or asteroids.

1:11:06

Death. Every time. I. Pick

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p one every time at and we only

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go check the and bus or ben or

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our first priority one message is

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too. It's a big ask. The

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could you read it during this

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p one. Maybe it's cheating the

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live shows. it on it's own

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piece of paper to remember that

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and are with or live stream

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people can actually see what's this

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they get. Tickets to that? Then it's

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not that long. I'm gonna get hadn't

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read it. Wow. I'm

1:12:36

eight or nine years old, bullied, nerdy,

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different longing to fit in to big

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reason why starts with appeal to me.

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distance or count window voters. One

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day I sell my tits. I'm

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distracted from us not tally when

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I hear a few older kids

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talking about that episode with the

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boy and a giant computers. The

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controlled everything. Oh yes, it was

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cool someone said. They.

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set. A record scratch. abrupt

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silence and stairs. Maybe.

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to treat them to a

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brief episode Synopsis: When the

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biggest kid points directly at

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me and yells his name

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is custodian Custodian. All

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think it's one of the reasons I years with the way

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box block. F

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to I feel your pain and

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I hope you feel like you've

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grown stronger for the sharing since

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it about kids were like if

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a kid that you think is

1:15:12

less cool the new says something

1:15:14

like it doesn't seem like there's

1:15:16

any kids can resists just like

1:15:19

abandoning liking something if a less

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cool also likes. It asked i'll

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that's not true anymore Like is

1:15:25

it's like that, like our era

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of kid or is that I

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like universal kid experience. I

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really hope to wrote a school. Life

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is not easy for the uncool. Mean

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seems pretty cool the me where

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I'm biased or next p one

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is from begins to romulan crimea

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i am betting you two

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thousand dollars then and adam

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will utter the phrase shoplifting

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the peu de in the

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review of season seven episode

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twenty two homestead I

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can't believe you've never seen Jerry Maguire.

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This seems to me like a

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losing bet. Did either of us

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say that this episode? I didn't

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shoplift the Pootie. No, but didn't

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I just say it? I

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guess the question is, does this still count

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as the review? Or

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are the P1s outside of the

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review? You know? Then

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Crimeulos might have an

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appeal if Boogens is trying

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to enforce that having

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read the P1, I

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satisfied the terms of their bet. But

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I'm not prepared to rule on that.

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I don't know. I don't want to get

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involved in a bet of

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this magnitude. I'm

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content to call it a push. Yeah. That's

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big money. It is. All

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right, we're going to let you work that out for yourself. And

1:16:55

our final priority one message is from Michael.

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It's to you and me. That message goes

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like this. I just wanted to get this

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message to celebrate the end of a year-long

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effort to come current on the Greatest Gen

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before the end of Voyager. Wow.

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My wife was starting to get concerned

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that I was doing myself harm by

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listening to many episodes per week. But

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see, honey, I survived. Ben

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and Adam, thanks for the great part. He's

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cut to a shot of Michael dead on the side of

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a ditch. Having

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boxed his own ears to death. It

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was literally like the last 15 seconds

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do it. No, I can't

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Well, we hope our priority one message is never

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certainly do. They

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adam. Seven. Did

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you find yourself but road from us? Just

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gonna give the Swindon he likes on his way out the

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door. To scan our. Honor.

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Him. With. The Simona

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for making a decision that we

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talked about we don't quite understand.

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Seems. Very unmotivated here. Real

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cast choice? yeah of.

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I. Was really tempted to give it the

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to Vog for like very nakedly advocating

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for guy he hates the most so

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he is the ship but I'm. A

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cigarette? I think? we've gotta give

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it to me. He restores making

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choices that just. Feel

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so. And. Most it's.

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Do. You think there was

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any consideration given to.

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Having a sort of like to

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that takes me he likes around

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the corner where the procession can't

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see. And. Like opens

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up a Holodeck door and

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length of cardboard and he

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starts the most complicated amazing

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path and lot break dance

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sequence like you've ever seen.

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like and like in full

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uniform. Legs

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and arms and legs. and

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like this thing like a

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deal and all of this.

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Oh how much would you love that? And

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would it have worth? because no one else

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can see. And. It's I could

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estate cut them for like that out out

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of an amazing. Rsvp

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viewers. Who

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in the last seen isn't dead but

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I think you can assume is gonna

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be pretty fast after. He

1:19:51

comes to terms with the circumstances

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there wouldn't liquid guarantee you there

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that these shields are going to

1:19:57

be the thing that permanently. Her.

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This faster I'd from these miners.

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Are we heard? this asteroid has a

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very high dollar value? That's what they

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can fill me personally to real exits.

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There's a chance that they left him

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to his certain death. As

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no question about. Ben

1:20:18

was we find certain death. During.

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Our next episode. Remains. To

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be seen. One. Or two tell

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us about what that episode is while I

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go over to the game about holes to

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see if we somehow land on the desk

1:20:31

where. Our

1:20:34

next Episode of Season Seven:

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Episode Twenty Four. Renaissance.

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Man. Janeway is

1:20:41

held hostage by aliens who

1:20:43

forced the doctor. To. Help

1:20:45

them Steel Voyagers. Warp.

1:20:48

Core. Wow.

1:20:50

They're gonna need that to get home. And

1:20:53

is surprising twist for

1:20:55

the penultimate episode of

1:20:57

Michelle. Phan. Over at

1:21:00

the game of Potholes will

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the caretakers were on the

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first row square for to

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be precise. A role

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of a six would take us to the caretaker

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that would. At. Did send us

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anywhere that be fucking wild. You're required

1:21:15

to learn as you play a role

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that would be whilst see where we

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go next. Been

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emerald a three six. Hundred

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which has landed Son Square Seven.

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It's a regular old episodes. The

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Caretaker Square remains. Just.

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A Heads dan What would be

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an amazing coincidence if we somehow

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landed on it For the finale,

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Steaks is high? Yeah, Wow. Well,

1:21:43

we spent a little bit of

1:21:45

time at the end of the

1:21:47

last episode talking about see ways

1:21:49

the the game of potholes will

1:21:52

be modified. When we

1:21:54

move on to start covering Star

1:21:56

Trek cohen Enterprise and you'd pitch

1:21:58

something called the. Back you'll a

1:22:01

modifier in which. If. We went

1:22:03

on a square that one or the other of us

1:22:05

does not want to do. One. Can

1:22:07

invoke the bachelor modifier and

1:22:09

we why has a episode

1:22:11

of Quantum Leap instead. I.

1:22:14

Have a slight tweaks this premise that I

1:22:16

wanted to run by you as can I

1:22:18

know the name of this before you tell

1:22:21

me about the tweaks. Sure, Because.

1:22:23

This thing sort. Of Fire.

1:22:26

Takes. Over maybe steals the energy of

1:22:28

the show the life force as he

1:22:30

will. We could tell it. the Bachelor

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Dracula. Updates

1:22:35

So it's my pitch for

1:22:37

the new name is The

1:22:39

Game of But Holes The

1:22:41

Quantum of Solace. I.

1:22:44

Love it! And. Is.

1:22:48

If we had a square that one or the

1:22:50

other was doesn't want to do, we can not

1:22:52

do the thing that the square would otherwise forces

1:22:54

to do. and I think that as a thing

1:22:56

that we still need to figure out is there

1:22:58

should be more swears that have more bad things

1:23:00

on them. Oh yeah. But. The

1:23:02

Quantum of Solace square forces us to

1:23:05

record an episode about Quantum Leap for

1:23:07

the bonus feed. as they

1:23:09

the payment for not doing the bad

1:23:11

say. Okay, Works.

1:23:13

For me to leave be extra bonus episodes that

1:23:15

we would have to do on top of our

1:23:17

regular workload. And on top

1:23:20

of the already scheduled bonus episodes

1:23:22

the we do every month Exactly.

1:23:24

But damn it. But

1:23:26

I think it's kind of works the

1:23:28

way quantum Leap, or even hundreds yourself.

1:23:30

So much. That's what's fun about this.

1:23:35

You dirty dirty punishment boy are to a

1:23:37

fear you like a duty of a system

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lives this. Is

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that something that you would like to

1:23:45

add? Get into? Our socials were all

1:23:48

over the place. They'll let us know,

1:23:50

make a tick tock about and I'm

1:23:52

sure that website still exists. s

1:23:56

or eight adam said we

1:23:58

should probably leave it looking

1:24:01

forward to next week

1:24:04

but we just got a couple of things to do before we get

1:24:06

out of here. Gotta thank Windy

1:24:08

Pretty, Rob Adler, and Bill Tilly, staff

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over at Uxbridge-Shimoda. Gotta thank our buddy

1:24:13

Adam Ragusea who we will have just

1:24:15

seen by the

1:24:17

time this comes out, right? Yeah,

1:24:19

if he hasn't buried us under

1:24:22

his koi pond. Hey

1:24:25

listen, if our deaths are

1:24:28

suspicious... Ben

1:24:31

and Adam sleep with the fishes.

1:24:34

Yeah, Ragusea's

1:24:37

new quote.

1:24:39

Uh-huh. We're

1:24:42

indebted to Adam for all

1:24:44

of the music that

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he's made for our show over the years and

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