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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Deep THOTs vs The Petunias · Fandomonium! A Fandom Comedy Game Show

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  Hello, and welcome to Gates Leapers, the pop culture game show that shines
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  a spotlight onto everyone's favorite fandoms. I'm your games master and planet destroying bureaucrat
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  who does a little poetry on the side, Matt Watson. But a games
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  master needs games and games need players. And do we have a great cast
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  or should I say crewe lineup for you today? Please welcome. First,
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  he is a podcaster and voice artist who you can hear on the Supernatural podcast
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  Carrying Wayward. It's Drew Shulman. That's a metro. You shut up for
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  the wrong. This is the Merrio one right, this is I got my
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  suspenders, my my little like my iHeart Chris Pratt. Sorry. And he's
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  a comic book writer and podcaster who you can hear on the Geek Exploration podcast.
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  It's Ben Robinson. Hey, welcome, Hey, Hey, hey,
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  was that like, Nope, I shouldn't make that joke, never mind,
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  I just sorry, I might cut that. It was Yep, that's exactly
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  what it was. I was trying to riff off of Drew doing the Mario
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  thing, and I was gonna be like, oh, that's a different property
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  as well. Never doing a Cosby show episode never Happening. All right,
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  I'll just do a clean one in case I decided to cut all of that.
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  I've had one beer for the first time in a few weeks. Clearly
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  it's affecting you. So welcome Drew, Welcome Ben. How are you both
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  doing good on this side over here? I've also got myself a nice sour
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  beer thematic hor show. Hell, Yes, very good, very good Drew.
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  We'll start with you, see is how you made the first reference?
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  Are you a Hitchhiker's Guide fan? Such a big fan? I I was
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  never a big reader. Like I feel like there's so many, like major
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  nerdy books I've just missed out all and like I know I've said it before
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  and I'll repeat it. I've only read The Hobbit, never The Lord of
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  the Rings. I'm in the middle of doing the first book now. So
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  nice for me to find a book that has drawn me in so much that
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  I've read it through multiple times, including the entire series and his other works.
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  Really says like this book connected with me, and this series has always
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  been like my favorite. Like I quote him often, I quote the series
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  too frequently. Yeah, it's so quotable. Good stuff, good stuff And
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  to your teammate, Ben, are you a big hitchhike his Guide fan?
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  I consider myself a bit of a hoopy frud Okay, okay, deep come,
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  but yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been Uh. I've discovered this
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  book when I was probably in late elementary school, junior high maybe somewhere around
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  in there. I instantly fell in love with it, and I've read it
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  through many times. I think I've purchased that combined hardcover volume with little things
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  in it like three or four times, and then like lent it out to
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  people be like you need to read this, and never got it back.
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  I currently don't even own one, but I've bought many. That's a that's
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  a good sign that people like the recommendation and the Hitchhiker's Guide. Love was
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  spread throughout this small planet. I was gonna say, the universe. I
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  don't think you sent it off this planet. I'm gonna I feel safe making
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  that bad. I mean, you never know where where it ended up.
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  True, that's true, that's true. Not impossible, just highly improbable.
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  This is when, like the Simpson's Little montage shows the book making it all
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  the way to like the furthest reach of the galaxy, but then eventually back
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  to a dump on Earth. Yes, it's gonna start an intergalactic war.
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  Oh fantastic. Okay, Well, as a team, you'll need some opponents,
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  and it says here this is the part where I introduce them. So
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  leap frogs please welcome. He is a podcaster and comic book artist. Head
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  on over to Space oddityscomic dot com to find out more. It's John Williams.
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  Oh hi, and she's a podcast and the Depressed Marvin to my anxious
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  Arthur, It's Audra Stevenson. Hello. Hello. I thought about saying hello
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  in my best Zoey Deschanel impression, but then it wasn't good, and so
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  I was like, this is bad in a way that's not funny. I
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  think I think even Zoey Deschanelle was doing a bad zoe Deschanell impression in that
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  movie. Yeah, just just say after hello, I'm a singer, and
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  then you're you're doing You're doing her job for well, she wants you to
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  know that she makes music. Just just a random shot of someone coming to
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  talk to me while I'm in the shower for no reason. That happens in
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  so many of her movies. Yeah, and a new girl in every other
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  episode. That's yeah, that's something for Hollywood to figure out. That's not
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  what we're here for. We are. He had to play a game about
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  Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and John, let's start with you. Have you
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  always been a fan of Hitchhiker's Guide. I can't say always, you know,
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  and I heard about it when we were kids from Ben, And like
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  I've known the name Zaffot or Zephot. I don't know if if there's a
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  standard way to say it, you know, a different different versions say ze
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  fold. But that's all I said in like the BBC radio plays, Oh
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  do that? When I was a kid, I always thought, for some
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  reason, I read the entire book series as zafoid. Yeah at all.
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  No, but that does happen with characters sometimes, especially he's got some wacky
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  ass characters. Oh yeah, oh yeah fold And it's pronounced like that people
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  books for example. But no, I I came to it in my twenties.
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  I was, I was in college and I bought that that big volume,
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  that combined volume and started reading it and devoured it and loved it.
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  Similar to Ben, I've had multiple copies that I've lent out and uh and
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  they disappear. I do currently have one that that I need to read.
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  Hey, what was that? That's probably fine? Oh you know one of
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  the people Ben's name in big letters and the cover just crossed out. No,
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  but yeah, and similar to Drew too, you know, I just
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  I fell in love with that. I've read the first one several times.
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  I've only consumed the whole series once, but I've read the first two books
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  many times. Getting up there and having a family and stuff, you just
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  don't have time to read books the same way animal slow reader, So even
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  though they're not big books, it still takes me a while. Oh,
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  we're building up a good, good cast of fans, Hea Ordrick, can
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  you complete the set? Are you a fan of Hitchhiker's Guide? I am.
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  I haven't reread it recently, but I did read all of them also
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  in college, just going through and being like, have you how did everybody
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  else know about this, my quirky ass? And no one fucking told me?
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  And your parents probably would have let you read it too, Yeah,
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  they genuinely would have. We probably have me. Well, I don't know
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  if they read the first couple of pages and they're talking about that dude and
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  his books against God. I don't know who is this god guy? Any
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  Yeah, what is the whole thing about? Like, uh, God created
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  the universe? Most people agree it was a pretty bad idea. Yeah,
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  yeah, that's part. You might have had to have kept secret. No
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  weird thing. My dad probably would have loved it, the weirdest dichotomy.
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  But we probably even owned it. But it just took me a while to
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  get there. I have not reread it since. So we'll see what stored.
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  We'll see, I'll see, we'll see what's stored. No, I'm
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  just I'm just glad that we got full fans here of a thing. It's
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  kind of a gate leapers Riorty. I think I think we normally. Yeah,
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  there's there's no uh, there's no. Every person dumb. I was
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  about to say, there's no. Jason, just say much. Jason's sitting
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  down to listen to today this stop of his book. Like three seconds ago,
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  just said, Discord, I'm going to go record. I can't wait
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  you to listen to it. The most horrible trailer ever committed to him and
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  I love him. Eight minutes in come on now. I was hoping to
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  pay tribute to Jason for by dressing up that was I was massively appreciate that
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  John, and I know Jason will as well the effort of Yeah for our
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  audio listeners. John is wearing the full I'll call it the classic Arthur or
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  the classic Dent with the robe and the towel combination, perfect for hitchhiking across
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  the galaxy. I will say I am not wearing it today, but the
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  last time I did wear it was in public and I met Adam West wearing
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  it. Well, there you go. So John, just take a step
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  out onto the streets and you'll meet a batman. That's how it works.
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  I would love to probably gonna be George Clooney, though. Now my sister
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  has met two batman's. I need to know which too, Ye, Val
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  Kilmer and Michael Keaton. Oh god, damn those are good. Yeah.
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  She met Michael Keaton and when he when he introduced himself, put his hand
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  out, she said, and you are on that chick. Wow? Yeah
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  he apparently so. I mean, I mean, if you're that famous,
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  it's probably refreshingly that he doesn't. Yeah, you probably get she was just
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  being a ship. Wow, maybe we'll get your sister on this podcast,
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  I'll he up the competition. Okay, teams, don't panic. You've just
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  been informed that Earth has twelve minutes left before it's destroyed, so let's use
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  that time wisely. I'd like each the pet to come up with a Hitchhiker's
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  theme team name. Please, that's wise, time well spent. Let's start
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  with Drew and Ben. What have you got? Let's see. I don't
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  know if I want to whittle this list down, I'll just blast for them
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  and you can shoot down any ones you don't want. So the first one
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  I had was the deep Thoughts, as in T O th h O T
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  S. Okay, yeah, I like that, and that feels a team
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  name, I'll be honest. It was Andre. That was definitely. If
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  I was still on Twitter, my new name would be deep Thought currently thought
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  topic but thought related. Yeah. Then I had the pan geeklactic gargle blasters
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  if it was going to be John and I. That's good, it's very
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  good. I like that one. Then I've got Agrijag's luck. Oh that's
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  why, don't I don't think I know that reference. Agrijag is the entity
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  that Arthur Dent kills over and over and over on accident. I remember his
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  name. I'll be honest, I didn't know the name, and you said
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  it clicked. I was like, oh wait, it has a name,
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  that thing. Yeah. And then for the for the potty humor, because
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  you got to have that, I got the part of gold, of course.
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  And then just finally and simply mostly harmless, classic classic. I only
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  got three floating around, but the vogue on poets m H and classy.
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  One of my weirdly favorite reference is what he's on that. I think it's
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  in the fourth book, where he's living on a weird planet making sandwiches,
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  hunting the perfectly normal beasts. I think we should be the perfectly normal team.
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  Okay, yeah, and then I'm actually blaming. I had another pangalactic
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  one, but it wasn't as good as yours. I can't what it was
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  now though, probably probably going down the pot Huma route and saying pangalactic ass
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  blaster or something with something like that. Yeah, it's not a bad choice.
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  What do you think we're going with here? There's a lot of good
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  choices there. I think whichever one takes the longest to say and can't be
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  shortened easily trying to think of something with slarty bart fast in Itlight ground was
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  a really rough one, slotty butt fast, slutty butt fest, but I
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  do have slurty bart slow, so good I was. I also really want
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  to hear you try and shout that during the lightning. It's going to be
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  just as difficult as anything else. That's all your secret. It doesn't matter
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  how easy your heart it is. It's hard. Yeah, suddenly, suddenly
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  I buzz in no problems. That's the use every route perfectly enunciated. We're
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  all just amazing. I just needed a challenge. So what do we think?
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  I kind of want to go with deep thoughts If you're cool that one,
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  I like, hell, yes, twenty twenty four men can be thoughts
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  to exactly break those gender stereotypes. Yeah, deep thoughts, I love it
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  so much. Okay, and let's find out who they're going to be facing
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  Auldra John I had like my standard one in deep thoughts, but like normal
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  uh, I also had had deep thought or thinkers. Yeah, like Magrathion's
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  normal pangalactic gargle blasters. I also looked up the name of the mice mm
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  hmm lunk Will and fuk are very funny. They did have different names.
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  Trillion called them Frankie and Benjie, but lunk Will and fuk Is that's a
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  much better name, very much better names for mice my opinion. All Right,
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  some good choices that John, What what have you got? Well,
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  Like I said, I had deep thoughts, I also had mostly harmless on
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  there, but I have some smother standards like paranoid androids that also scratch scratched
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  my my radio head itch Hearts of Gold. But but the my favorite on
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  here maybe is the petunias. Nice. That is good, but I also
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  like food. Yes, I honestly I do like the petunias. It's a
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  good reference and it's nice to have a clean reference. Yeah, its exactly,
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  and I feel like it's enough of a tongue twistles will be fun for
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  uh for Adro in the speed round, just straight up the petunias. The
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  petunias. Yeah, you have to say it like that though petunias. Okay,
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  I can do that. It's it's thematic to do my BBC radio voice
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  throughout this episode. So yeah, we'll see how it goes, all right,
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  So we have deep thoughts versus the petunias. I love it, I
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  forget I'd also consider doing the doing the the ravenous bug bladder beasts of troll
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  just to make Matt say it over yeah, and you know immediately I'd write
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  it down wrong and then not be able to say it properly. Was it
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  too late to pick the deeper thoughts? You know what? We like the
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  for names so that it doesn't get too confusing for me. But that is
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  very cool. We would just become the deepest thoughts at that point, can
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  we actually change our the most deepest, the most the most deepest thoughts deeper
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  deep, the deeper than the other team plus one thoughts deepest, the deepest
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  thoughters. And none of these are going to be used, all right?
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  And if you're listening to this and thinking, well, you'll seem lovely.
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  But I don't know anything about hitch hiking two left thumbs, don't worry his
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  order with a little segment we like to call passing knowledge. The Hitchhiker's Guide
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  to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by the writer Douglas Adams.
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  Originally broadcast as a radio comedy on the BBC from nineteen seventy nine,
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  onwards. If you don't know what radio is, it was just podcasting,
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  but with more sound effects. Over the decades, it has been adapted into
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  other formats as well, including novels, stage shows, comic books, a
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  TV series, a text adventure game, and a two thousand and five feature
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  film, which stars Martin Freeman playing Tim from the office, but in a
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  dressing gown this time. I don't know what happy ending is. Life isn't
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  about endings is. It's a series of moments. The franchise centers on Arthur
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  Dent, a surviving Earthling, as he hitchhikes around the galaxy with his best
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  friend and alien Ford Prefect, his crush Trillion, his president Zeyfod Beebelbrox,
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  and his paranoid android Marvin. The paranoid android Life start to talk to me
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  about life. Together. They have pulp style sci fi misadventures, but along
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  the way search for deep philosophical answers to many of the musings of existence.
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  It's like if Star Wars was written by Jean Paul Sartre. What how can
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  you do this? This is outrageous, It's unfair. Hitchhiker's legacy is perhaps
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  the number of memes it managed to produce in a pre mass meme culture.
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  That's a real phrase. There's don't panic. Forty two cowls, mostly harmless
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  and so long and thanks for all the fish. And with that, I
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  say, so long and thanks for listening to this. Let's play gayly?
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  Yes, thank you, Adre. That was brilliant, Thank you. Okay,
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  just before we get to today's games, I've asked each player to bring
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  in a muse, something that inspires them or something they love from this particular
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  fandom. Hitchhikers is inspiring to me because it essentially predicted Wikipedia, and without
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  Wikipedia research, this podcast would be nothing. So Drew, we'll start with
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  you. What's inspired you from the world of HG TTG. It would actually
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  have to be just how bizarre the life of the author, Douglas Adams truly
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  was, and the weird shit that happened to him that like basically could have
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  been in the book. In fact, there are things that happen in the
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  book that are based off true events, and some that have then been written
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  to other books. What there is, in fact an entire book out called
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  The Salmon of Doubt, my favorite piece of his literature, that was found
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  on a discarded hard drive bought at a state sale that some fan happened to
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  stumble across and like reached out to his like estates to get it like reinstated
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  and brought back to him and then eventually published. Wow. I did not
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  know that that was the I'm rereading that right now. Yeah. It is
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  one of the like weird and then that is full of like his personal essays,
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  bits of things that were made. It's the book and just like you
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  start to sort of see like this man was Arthur dead. He was the
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  everyday boring man who just had the miraculous happen around and just lived to accept
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  it. So this is happening him and that book are very much my inspiration
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  and I just absolute muse. Yeah, that's that's incredible. I didn't know
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  that as the origin story for the for the Salmon of Doubt being published.
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  That's great. What What are some of the things that happened to him in
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  real life that happened to him within Hitchhikers Guide? Sorry to put you on
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  the smoke. I can remember the exact ones, but I know there's at
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  least one or two like weird interactions that Arthur has, like usually things that
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  are like a little more mundane. Like there's something that happens to him in
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  a weird coffee shop with like another customer, and like it's this like really
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  weird scene in like one of the later books, and it like turns out
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  it actually happened to him in real life Arthur Dent nice as as if he
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  were Arthur Dent. Yes, yeah, yeah, there's the Yeah, I
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  think that's somebody to do with. Like cookies in a train station is another
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  one. That's another part. Like he tells the full version in the Salmon
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  of Doubt where he like sat down to the train station with a complete stranger
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  and the stranger starts like stealing his biscuits, and like he does know how
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  to approach it, and then find the guy leaves, and then he gets
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  up and finds under his bag his package of business. He'd been feeling the
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  other guy's biscuits actually, And just like that is that doesn't happen to normal
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  people. Yeah, yeah, that's that's fantastic, definite, definitely a man
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  worth being inspired by. And yeah, what a what a wild life?
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  Okay, Ben, let's let's move on on to you the other half of
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  deep Thoughts, Uh, what is inspiring you from Hitchings Guide. Interestingly enough,
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  it is Deep Thought, uh, not one from the book. When
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  I was a youth back in you know, nineteen digity two or whenever it
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  was, we had, we had the good old dial up internet in the
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  pre or in the pre real Internet era, and I used to go all
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  the time and I'd get this thing called California Computer News and it would just
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  have like nerd shit in it and in the back and had a listing of
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  like local BBS's, which for all the children out there were bulletin board systems
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  where you would dial up with your modem and connect directly to them, and
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  it was all text based stuff and you could tell okay images and there was
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  games and kind of like forums and stuff specific to like someone had set it
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  up. It'd be in their garage and you'd call their phone number and connect
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  to it. Yeah. Yeah, And one of them was one called Deep
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  Thought, and it was like a Hitchhiker's Guide themed fandom bb bbs in the
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  Sacramento area because everything was low I mean, I call it from New York
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  if you wanted, but you'd be charged long distance fees, yes, And
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  it was probably like the first online fandom community I was ever really involved in,
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  and it wasn't all Hitchhiker's Guide stuff, like they had some other stuff
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  on there, Like I remember playing this game called the Legend of the Red
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  Dragon on there. It was like a pseudo m m O RPG for to
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  all tech space for that time. Very tongue in cheek, fit the tone
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  very well, and I whittled away many hours of my uh my young life
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  on on that BBS, just dialing up that Sacramento number, hearing the modems
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  scream at you, and then it pop up and there's like a like an
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  asch graphic of deep thought and then like you type in where you wanted to
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  go. Yeah, very primitive. Look, very very primitive, but also
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  a great great to hear an example of like early internet fandom. I love
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  these stories so much. Yeah, that's that's I can see why that's inspiring.
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  Yeah, it was nearly as impressive as my digital watch at the time.
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  Oh, you've just you've just helped us figure out what the dignity was
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  then copy copy too early, copy too early, decoding the diggity. Yeah,
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  also a calculator, good question. Who, well, I wasn't I
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  wasn't loaded. We're a family of bigger means. Okay, let's move on
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  over to the patunas and find the petunias and find out what's inspiring them.
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  John will start with you. What's inspiring you from the Hitchhiker's Guide. I'm
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  going to go with a bit more broad with this. The concept of the
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  absurd and its acceptability in creation. I love it. That's the essay title.
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  You've got five minutes to read words. I just love Douglas Adams's ability
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  to spin a yarn that tells a story but also tells you everything else that
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  you don't even need to know, and in joke form, like he'll he'll
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  just have these sentences that get to a point in such a roundabout way and
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  always make me laugh. And it's it's damn near every paragraph, you know.
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  So it like that. That's what caught me when I started reading this.
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  I wasn't a big reader back then, you know, Like I think
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  I had only read like murder Mysteries. I didn't read books in school.
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  I just I just bullshat my way through it. But Hitchhiker's Guy just really
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  really grabbed me, and uh and I fell in love with it, and
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  it's it worked its way into my life also, and I think I think
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  I can speak for Ben too that that, you know, like our sense
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  of humor a lot comes from that. And like, you know, this
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  isn't a plug, but like the comic book that we work on wouldn't exist
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  without Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Like it's it's oh, it can be
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  a want to do, it can be a bad We get enough plugs on
• 24:30
  this show. But but yeah, I mean we always say that it's a
• 24:33
  that it's the love child of hit of a Hitchhiker's Guide in Indiana Jones.
• 24:37
  You know, it's an adventurous space comedy and and like you know, just
• 24:41
  science fiction comedy just really hits a certain spot for me, whether it's this
• 24:47
  or Futurama, you know, just like the the space funny absurd, you
• 24:52
  know, and absurd for absurd steak or absurd for absurd's sake. I didn't
• 24:59
  even drink any stunch. You're naturally drug inside. I'm on water. A
• 25:07
  plus on that essay, though, that was a very good case made for
• 25:11
  the absurd and the acceptability of the absurd. And yeah, sci fi comedy
• 25:15
  the origins of right here with the Hitchhiker's Guide, So yeah, good stuff.
• 25:19
  I still remember the line that hooked me early on. I think it's
• 25:22
  it's in the first chapter on in Hitchhiker's Guide, was that the Vogon ship
• 25:26
  hung in the sky exactly the way a brick doesn't. And I was like,
• 25:30
  yes, right here. I have a very bad habit of like coming
• 25:33
  up with really punny names for my magic the gathering decks, and I have
• 25:37
  a deck that has all walls that attack and it is called exactly the way
• 25:41
  bricks don't. And Odra the other half of the petunias. Yes, what's
• 25:48
  inspiring you from Hitchhikers? My muse is trillion. I found Hitchhiker's Guide to
• 25:55
  the Galaxy while I was at university, so me reading the book with a
• 26:00
  female astrophysicist me there like taking breaks between like CALC three and diffy Q,
• 26:06
  and I'm like, I'm going to take a break out. I'm going to
• 26:08
  read a chapter and it's gonna be fine. SHELI is going to be in
• 26:14
  the stars, and then I'm going to find out how to program my graphic
• 26:17
  calculator on your digital watch on my digital watch, but just it's the type
• 26:25
  of thing of like representation being important in the sense of I was studying all
• 26:30
  kinds of math and seeing a character, even in an absurd story, as
• 26:36
  like, no, no, she's the reasonable one here being it was just
• 26:41
  great for me when times were tough. Nicely the smartest person on the crew.
• 26:49
  Oh yeah, a long she would be fucked without her, and so
• 26:57
  it was just like, no, if she can do it in the face
• 27:00
  of all of this insanity, I could probably figure this out. Yeah,
• 27:06
  I imagine you've had some bosses reminiscent of beeble Brox. Yeah, two heads,
• 27:14
  two heads, Yeah, both equally up the ass between them. No,
• 27:21
  we love our women in stem and our women in space. We do,
• 27:23
  Yes, we absolutely in Stemino women in space. That's a it's a
• 27:29
  great inspiration. God, no one packed her one hundred tampons for a week
• 27:33
  and ask a thousand enough. No one did that, and honestly that was
• 27:37
  an inspiration as well. Honestly that makes a fod bieble Brocks actually a hero.
• 27:42
  He's a feminist icon. He didn't pack trillion a thousand tampas right,
• 27:52
  seems with that with a thousand tampons are very out of context. Douglas Adams
• 27:56
  thing. I think it's real. That's a real Sorry, they sent a
• 28:00
  woman to a space for a week, and they yeah, either one hundred
• 28:04
  or a thousand. I can't, I don't. I don't think they didn't
• 28:10
  actually send it. They asked her, is one hundred enough for a week
• 28:12
  in space? Yeah? Well, this is what happens when you spend your
• 28:15
  time designing rockets instead of talking to women. Yeah, more chat than NESSA
• 28:21
  that's what we're learning. Enough, all right, I'm still gonna say with
• 28:29
  that. With that, let's stick out our thumbs and hope we're beamed up
• 28:33
  into the Vogun constructor fleet. That is Round one. Round one is called
• 28:42
  Stowaways Manual to the Universe. Perhaps the most iconic aspect of Hitchhikers is Douglas
• 28:48
  adams wonderful way of writing encyclopedia style entries on various things within the universe.
• 28:56
  But when presented with an entry extract, will our teams be able to identif
• 29:00
  by it as a genuine Adams or if I had a I write it for
• 29:03
  the Stowaways Manual to the Universe. And before you get too excited by a
• 29:10
  I, I mean AI as in an individual, and that individual was made
• 29:17
  so it was going to the first ethical use of a I've ever heard of.
• 29:22
  That's the season five thing. We'll stop playing with it. Then the
• 29:26
  entries. Are they written by Adams or are they official from official books?
• 29:32
  They are official from official books, so I guess I've probably a couple a
• 29:37
  couple of them might but their official Hitchhiker's Guide cannon yeah, by the other
• 29:45
  guy. Yes, And technically some of the radio plays were actually written by
• 29:49
  Pratchett. Yes, yeah, the later ones. Yeah, but yeah,
• 29:55
  you guys know a lot about I just want to make sure because like,
• 30:00
  is this atoms or not? Or is this that's true? I believe they're
• 30:03
  from the trilogy of five. I believe, Okay, but we'll find out
• 30:08
  as we go. I think you guys will know enough. I don't think
• 30:11
  I'll trick any of you here. I'll say that up top. Challenge accepted,
• 30:15
  So we will begin with deep thoughts. Here is your first Hitchhiker's entry.
• 30:22
  Space is big, really big. You just won't believe how vastly,
• 30:26
  hugely, mind bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's
• 30:30
  a long way down the road to the Chemist. But that's just peanuts to
• 30:33
  space. Ben. Do you remember this one? Yeah, no, this
• 30:36
  is one hundred percent. I mean it's it's it's yeah, it's from the
• 30:38
  first book. Like I still quote the space is big a lot. Actually,
• 30:44
  we spoofed it in the first issue of Space Oddities. I have to
• 30:48
  read it. I'm so bad. I don't order for you guys in the
• 30:51
  little blurb we had in there, unless Matt's changed one word just to fuck
• 30:56
  with us. Look it is, it is like me, but question one,
• 31:00
  come on, guys, question one later. The tricks come later.
• 31:04
  Exactly. That is a point to deep thoughts. Very good. That is
• 31:07
  that is genuine Hitchhiker's guide. Okay, now moving on over to the petunias.
• 31:12
  Here is your extract, and I should say, actually, what these
• 31:17
  extracts are on That was the part that I was going to say to help
• 31:19
  potentially try and throw you off with these. So now let me just double
• 31:22
  bluff this by saying I could have remembered this for for the previous one for
• 31:26
  a different reason. So their entry was on space. Your entry is on
• 31:30
  time. Here is your entry on time. Time is a universal concept observed
• 31:37
  by most of the galaxy in a linear way. It's recommended that you try
• 31:41
  not to think about time too much, as it can lead to migrains and
• 31:45
  death. Ooh, I don't necessarily remember this one. I think it goes
• 31:52
  without saying that it fits the right energy. But that's the game. Yeah,
• 31:59
  and it almost seems like it's too short for such a large concept concept
• 32:05
  as time. I will say each extract is around about the same number of
• 32:10
  words I've I've shortened the extracts in places that just an extract of the extract
• 32:17
  shit you have you chopped him up, or that you've just ended it at
• 32:22
  the end of a sentence, ended it at the end of a sentence.
• 32:23
  I don't believe I've broken up any sentences in any of these. I'm gonna
• 32:28
  go wild. Maybe this is game. In the game, theirs was real.
• 32:31
  I think ours is fake. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna go with
• 32:35
  you with that. You're saying fake fake, it is fake. There was
• 32:39
  no entry on time in The Hitchhiker's Guy. The ending on death was very
• 32:44
  good that it was very Douglas Adams of like the Something Innocuous and Death.
• 32:47
  Yeah, Migrain's and Death. There you go yeah, throw two things together.
• 32:52
  Mm hmm. Okay, well, thank you for the compliments. I
• 32:54
  again, I don't think I'm gonna trick you with any of these, but
• 32:57
  let's see how things go with deep thoughts. Here is your next one,
• 33:02
  and your entry is on toast. Toast is bread that has been browned by
• 33:07
  short term exposure to radiant heat. It's thought that the perfect slice of toast
• 33:13
  has been produced only once, in nineteen sixty seven by Timothy Dillinger of Saint
• 33:17
  Louis, Missouri. And for what it's worth, he chose marmalade. It
• 33:22
  sounds very familiar, Yeah, it does, and it sounds very appropriate.
• 33:28
  It's something about that like it happened one time at a very niche specific moment
• 33:32
  that is like very Douglas Adams. So I can tell of vis is again
• 33:37
  Matt being really good at knowing this game, or if it is actually one,
• 33:42
  and I'd say, like you know, I'd lean towards it, because
• 33:45
  no American would choose marmalade. But Matt's is the weird thing. Yes,
• 33:52
  of course, a Lord and savior, I'd follow him. My gut says
• 34:00
  real. Yeah, Sam, I'm gonna go with real with you on this
• 34:01
  one. You're going with real, This one's fake, This one I made
• 34:06
  up on. Well done? Yeah good. My brain was a little suspicious
• 34:13
  about Saint Louis. Hmm, it should have been was the one that stuck
• 34:16
  out to me a little bit. It felt like that was like it sounded
• 34:19
  like a city I've heard in the book. I should be like upped in
• 34:22
  on time or some stupid I thought about that so much, and then I
• 34:25
  was like, then would there be I I don't want to Actually, I
• 34:28
  don't admit how long I spent thinking about what town in this question. It
• 34:32
  was longer than anyone should spend on it. I'm picturing now the map of
• 34:36
  the entirety of the world in your office, with like little note in every
• 34:38
  city and country, like you have red lines trying to like triangulate. Yeah,
• 34:44
  you can't see what's on the other side of the camera. Hebe Sylvia.
• 34:46
  Okay, we will move back on over to the petunias, and here
• 34:51
  is your extract, and it is about alcohol. The best drink in existence
• 34:54
  is the pangalactic goggle blaster. It says that the effect of a pangalactic gargle
• 35:00
  blaster is like having your brain smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around
• 35:04
  a large gold brick. Yeah that's real. Yeah, even finishing the line.
• 35:12
  There no no debate over this one, just simple as we don't change,
• 35:20
  I say, don't complicate a perfect cocktail. No chance I've just changed
• 35:24
  some changed some words there or anything, just a I. If you did,
• 35:30
  I'm not going to know. You've got it. It's it's correct that
• 35:36
  that one is real. That one absolutely is real. There's a petunias there,
• 35:39
  and that's fair. We got the space one. Yeah, there you
• 35:43
  go. That was our gimme. Yeah. Yeah, let's let's get a
• 35:46
  little bit, a little bit tougher now we lost the last one. I
• 35:52
  love the toughness. Deep thoughts. There is your next extract. We're getting
• 35:57
  a bit more universe specific now. Your extract is on the planet of Vogsphea,
• 36:01
  considered to be the second worst holiday destination in the universe. Volkspia is
• 36:07
  also home to the deliciously scintillating jeweled scuttling crabs. The worst holiday destination is
• 36:15
  Clacton on Sea. I mean, I do I remember something about the Vogons,
• 36:21
  like being a shitty, poorly evolved species and something about you know,
• 36:24
  like the rest of the species are really nice. Like there's these really great
• 36:28
  crabs that they eat, and there's these antelopes that they sit on, but
• 36:30
  they're too fat to ride. It kills the antelopes. Yeah, like how
• 36:36
  they're just the fucking worst. And so there are crabs on vog space.
• 36:38
  See the crabs was the only part throwing me, because everything else has that're
• 36:42
  familiar with the crabs didn't. Well, there are I can confirm there are
• 36:45
  crabs on vogsphere. However, Matt might also know that. I mean,
• 36:49
  everything else works for me, even like the idea. I even remember Claxton
• 36:52
  Sea being like the worst place and I can't remember why, but it must
• 36:54
  be this entry. I don't know where Claxton on Sea is, but that
• 36:58
  sounds super British. So I'm down for real if you are. Yeah,
• 37:02
  you didn't say Saint Louis. It's not Saint Louis. But it's also not
• 37:07
  real. Yeah I made this one up. This fake. Wow, I'm
• 37:15
  wondering if it's just a British and reading these it's like scuing me. Yeah,
• 37:23
  I just went with a fairly generic and also, for what it's worth,
• 37:27
  terrible holiday destination in the UK. But the dual scuttling crabs are real.
• 37:34
  I just like pulled that from not being in a guide thing to make
• 37:37
  it a guide thing. Damn bit all right, moving back on over to
• 37:45
  the Betunias. Here is your extract, also on a planet, this time
• 37:50
  for Magarethea. So successful was this venture that Magarethia itself soon became the richest
• 37:55
  planet of all time, and the rest of the galaxy was reduced to abject
• 38:00
  poverty. And so the system broke down and the empire collapsed. Okay,
• 38:06
  so here's here's my issue. Yes, that seems accurate to the story,
• 38:10
  but I'm not sure if that is an actual quote or a pull from the
• 38:16
  book. While it was, Yeah, when they were making planets and stuff,
• 38:22
  they did become like just turbo rich to the point where they had to
• 38:25
  like shut down. Yeah, but I don't know if it was the rest
• 38:30
  of everyone else that had to shut down. Geez, I don't know.
• 38:37
  I'm really torn on this. Yeah, I'm kind of I'm fifty to fifty.
• 38:43
  I feel like if it was a actual quote, I would want more
• 38:47
  of like a I want a little something something punchy at the end, other
• 38:52
  than an empire collapsing. I guess that was quite punchy for the citizens of
• 38:58
  that empire. Well, it's it's possible that in the actually, like if
• 39:01
  this is from the book, that there is something punchy that comes after and
• 39:06
  Matt just cut it off and if we're if we're trying to game the game,
• 39:09
  He's also, oh no, let's see how it would just be back
• 39:14
  and forth at this point. Oh, I don't know, I want to
• 39:16
  go fake. Let's go fake, all right, fake, Yeah, it's
• 39:22
  real. Sorry, no point there. Yeah, the trick I was going
• 39:27
  for there. It was just the least Douglas Adams sounding entry. I thought
• 39:30
  it was just quite bleak without the humor. Yeah, yep, yeah,
• 39:35
  and that's what got us. You can't all the time, Yeah, exactly
• 39:40
  right. Some of it's just going to be he kind of did. I
• 39:45
  mean, so there's there's gonna be something between, like, you know,
• 39:47
  someone picked the thing up. Not every sentence can be they walked to this
• 39:53
  place. Yeah, well you can make that funny sentence funny though, by
• 39:57
  filling in the blanks of being like the dog picked the poop up unexpected the
• 40:02
  sun. There is he doing there picking up the dog poop story. I'm
• 40:10
  so sorry. I'm so sorry. I follow along better Next time, I've
• 40:15
  got one more extract for each team. We're gonna we're gonna deal with some
• 40:19
  pretty big concepts to finish off. Back on over to deep thoughts. Your
• 40:22
  extract is on Infinity, bigger than the biggest thing ever, and then some
• 40:29
  much bigger than that, in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning
• 40:35
  size. Wow, that's big time. Infinity is just so big that by
• 40:39
  comparison, Bigness itself looks really titchy. I mean, combine this with a
• 40:44
  Space entry we got. I really don't remember this one, do you,
• 40:47
  Ben? I don't remember it specifically, but it sounds right. But that
• 40:52
  could just be met being clever. It's like it's both levels of comedy.
• 40:57
  The idea of repeating the same joke as the Space one is very Douglas Adams.
• 41:01
  But then it also just feels like the perfect way to like dup us
• 41:05
  is to do that. I'm trying to think of when it would have had
• 41:08
  an entry on infinite. I feel like it's the intibility drive, so it
• 41:15
  could have, oh yeah, had something in there, but there there's already
• 41:20
  entries on it. Specifically, there's also when he encounters the five dimensional new
• 41:25
  edition of the Guide. It exists in all of time and space at once.
• 41:30
  I feel like that one has an interesting content, but that one's like
• 41:31
  a really like it's really intelligent sounding, so the entries wouldn't be a silly
• 41:36
  I love making people feel like this. It's my favorite thing in the world.
• 41:39
  Yeah, success, right, It's the entire reason he does this podcast.
• 41:44
  It's a very vogue one if you met. Of course, I can't
• 41:52
  wait for the poetry round. Are you leaning any direction? Drew? There's
• 41:58
  almost the meta game part of me now where it's like my brain wants to
• 42:00
  say it's fake, so I have to say it's real. I'm with you
• 42:04
  on that. Let's go real, real, going with real. That's good
• 42:08
  meta gaming. It is real. This one is real. I was like
• 42:13
  so so bad. I was like staring at you. You wouldn't you would
• 42:17
  look and then you were covering your mouth with your hands. You know that
• 42:21
  one, John, No, no, no, I was thinking the same
• 42:27
  thing, but but no, I had's okay. On the last one,
• 42:29
  I was trying to casually smile to make you think I knew the answer.
• 42:32
  But I would have each other. I mean, I mean, we're we're
• 42:39
  all looking at cameras, but but Ben is directly in front of my face.
• 42:43
  So that's true. I badly want to win, and I'm I I
• 42:47
  play the game badly because I because you badly want to win. Yeah,
• 42:52
  okay, final extract for the Petunias, It is about dreams. Your extract
• 42:59
  is about dream sweet dreams. Very little is known about the complex immensity of
• 43:04
  our passive subconscious. The wise Hula Vou of Gelstick three once conducted a study
• 43:10
  into the concept of dreams, and their thesis produced a one word answer to
• 43:15
  their quandary, don't oh my goodness, if this isn't real, this is
• 43:22
  the best one yet. I want this to be. Although if it's not
• 43:27
  real, it means that I can make that right. All the hitchhikers got
• 43:34
  I want you want to eight? Yeah you do. It's just oh yeah,
• 43:45
  or we've got it cast us right now. We can have better sound
• 43:49
  effects than the BBC one too, because it's tough. It's it's very in
• 43:54
  your fit ears, not your face. It was very nineteen seventy. Yeah,
• 44:01
  my instinct is that I want this to be. This is very good,
• 44:06
  and so I'm like, this has gotta be real. This's gotta be
• 44:07
  real, not a photo confidence for your husband. Like, also, if
• 44:15
  it's not real, I also win. So yeah, I think it feels
• 44:21
  so real that I don't actually have any reason beyond like like paranoid thoughts and
• 44:29
  trying to overthink the game to say it's fake. So I I mean,
• 44:32
  I I guess I would lean towards real, or I would I wouldn't call
• 44:37
  anybody absurd for answering real. If it's fake, I'm gonna be so mad.
• 44:42
  Well, I'll be exactly I'll be exactly pleased. Let's go, you
• 44:52
  go, you're going with real. Let's do it. A pat on the
• 44:55
  back for this, right because it's fake. Yeah, that one's not real.
• 45:00
  Although I will say, who lavou are real? That that is a
• 45:05
  real race from Hitchhiker's Guide. So I threw some reality in that. I
• 45:10
  think that might be what I was. I was like, oh, yeah,
• 45:13
  I know, I know those guys, everyone knows them. Love me
• 45:20
  a day on gel Nick three gelstick. But that's okay. Dreams don't just
• 45:28
  sounded so Adams. I mean, Matt, you can reveal obviously you read
• 45:31
  a bunch of these. There is one that does end with like a one
• 45:35
  word like, oh for sure. Actually the one it's very similar to the
• 45:40
  one in the movie that isn't in the the original book or series that's about
• 45:45
  the concept of falling in love. It's it's advised that you don't love.
• 45:51
  I knew off of that from the from the movies. I knew there was
• 45:54
  one of those, like doned Things was one of them. That's why.
• 45:57
  And he was heavily involved in the movies too, like even it's it's a
• 46:00
  bit of a departure from the book, so you you can feel his hand.
• 46:04
  Oh yeah, for sure, for sure. I wish they did my
• 46:07
  Holy Grail collectible. Is I want the movie prop plushies they use with the
• 46:13
  yarn. Oh yes, ever find those on sale somewhere like an auction.
• 46:17
  I will go bankrupt getting those. I was gonna say that this podcast happens
• 46:24
  to know a craft. The Yper artists in October. I'm just saying that
• 46:36
  is the end of round one. Let's consult the guide to see what it
• 46:39
  says about the scores. It says the scores are deep. Thoughts are on
• 46:44
  two. The petunias are also on two. It's all tied up up.
• 46:47
  Next is round two after these campaign commercials to re elect presidents zey Ford,
• 46:52
  Beebel Brocks two heads better than one. See you after this. Round two
• 47:02
  is a twist on our classic fan fiction improv game flash Fiction, except this
• 47:07
  time, instead of composing original fan fiction one word at a time about Hitchhiker's
• 47:13
  characters, our teams will be attempting to create vogue on poetry, one word
• 47:19
  at a time, back and forth between teammates. And I've got to shout
• 47:22
  out Ben for coming up with this idea, because this is just a great
• 47:24
  idea for a game. It's obligatory, it's assumed. Yeah yeah, But
• 47:31
  what will the subjects of your poems be? Well, we have the dice
• 47:36
  of destiny to decide that. On each side of the dice is a word.
• 47:40
  Score maximum points by making your poem about this word. But then you'll
• 47:45
  also score lots of points for using either made up vogue on words and for
• 47:50
  following the vogon style, which is generally bad. So the worse this is,
• 47:54
  the more points you'll get. My time to shine stressed. Honestly,
• 48:04
  I'm feeling pretty good because i think I've got the losing this record here,
• 48:10
  I'm I think a lot of people on this this episode are on losing streaks.
• 48:20
  That's bad luck. Recently. Five of the words on here are very
• 48:22
  normal, are very like. This is what poems are about. We've got
• 48:27
  like flowers, we've got love, we've got war, we've got the ocean.
• 48:30
  But I couldn't think of a sixth, so I just put bees on
• 48:34
  there. So good luck if you get bees. Yeah, let's I've handed
• 48:37
  it to Ordro. But let's begin with deep thoughts. We're going to begin
• 48:40
  with deep thoughts. Order if you would like to roll the dice of destiny,
• 48:44
  we're supposed to roll that roll on a shitty one. Oh that's loud
• 48:50
  and heavy, genuine panic in our eyes. You're not supposed to do that,
• 48:57
  JOm panic. Clouds. Subject is clouds, Okay, So one word
• 49:02
  at a time. I would like to hear a vogue on poem about clouds,
• 49:07
  and whoever would like to start, Oh grum pumpless clouds, how they
• 49:17
  distractedly dangle on our frum bumpless when we flagulate skyword our thrummings, bgun should
• 49:42
  dick. I'm gonna stop you there, partly because I've run out of words
• 49:46
  to be able to write here. It was it was realizing you were writing
• 49:52
  this, and I'm like, oh my god, this is amazing. It's
• 49:54
  hard to write words never heard before. Let me let me see how any
• 50:00
  of these words I managed to write down correctly. Here is your vogue on
• 50:02
  poem Oh grumpumpulus clouds. How does disdanctedly dangle on our frombumpulous when we flagulate
• 50:12
  skyward our thrummings? But gunchit take that last one was rough. That was
• 50:20
  fantastic. I feel like you guys, you've had a word that like makes
• 50:23
  up one of my fake words. It was it was wild so close to
• 50:29
  one of mine. Do you have fake words? Yeah? I knew I'm
• 50:35
  close because I did not. It's also just a matter of like knowing when
• 50:38
  to use a real word or a fake word like you don't want to.
• 50:42
  It's a really fun balance agact. Yeah, you guys do well with that,
• 50:45
  as far as I can tell, you did that masterfully. I don't
• 50:49
  want to sort of like set the bar really high and maybe we'll go above
• 50:52
  five for the first time in this round ever, but we're going to go
• 50:54
  five full five points for that because that was fantastic. I wasn't aired before.
• 51:04
  I mean, yeah, I'll keep my bad case like Grumpus is all
• 51:09
  right. So we're gonna move on over to the petunias. Old just gonna
• 51:13
  get a twisted grill spin. Watch out for the drink that's right there.
• 51:16
  Do you hold onto this for christ I'm becoming my father. Watch out for
• 51:21
  the drink that's right now. No, you're know you're correct. That means
• 51:24
  it's correct. Oh it's be I will that sound? Oh it's bees.
• 51:37
  I do hate bees? You really? I am? Yeah? I actually
• 51:44
  run when they're around, like right, or walk quickly. I just they
• 51:47
  love me. I've got honey in my veins, and I guess they go
• 51:52
  to they go after honey as well. That tricksy, but bears always chase
• 51:55
  me. Can the idiot? I get it? Okay, Well, we're
• 52:05
  about to hear a poem, a vogue on poem on bees from the petunias.
• 52:08
  John, would you like to start this one off? Oh? Yes,
• 52:13
  I would love to. Oh boy, as the leak lid b postigilated
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  a lungst the duciferous flower thy, I'm just going for it. Yeah th
• 52:37
  h y okay, flask Antennae twitched amusedly in Harmophonious last word gash turtledom Jesus,
• 52:59
  I stand buy this, yeah, and so you should. Are you
• 53:02
  need to compliment A longst my new favorite word. I might start using a
• 53:08
  lungst good word. Okay, we have your vogue on poem as the leak
• 53:15
  lid b prestigated alongst the deciferous flower. Thy Phlasic Antennae twitched a music in
• 53:29
  harmphonious gaster Do you look, gum. It's really hard to write these down
• 53:35
  as you're saying them for the first time ever. I think I see magb
• 53:39
  like I'm regretting this hurd hell. I also love a game that's tough on
• 53:46
  matt look. Okay, from a from a poetry perspective, the first poem
• 53:54
  made me feel more, but from a word invention perspective, I loved what
• 53:59
  was going on with that second one. So I've got to keep this bar
• 54:01
  high. And I'm going to say five points as well because I love that.
• 54:06
  And yeah, a lungs and that final word from you, John,
• 54:10
  Harmphonious is also just great, like it means exactly what you know it means.
• 54:15
  I love the postization of actual words, because that's what bad poetry should
• 54:21
  do. Like you're you're taking words that do exist and just fucking them up.
• 54:27
  Yes, it's about the vibe that it brings to you. All right?
• 54:32
  Should we go for one more poem each? Can I ask another poem
• 54:36
  of each team? Oh? Yeah, let's do it. Twist that dice,
• 54:39
  let's give that fright. I got poetry in my soul? Well,
• 54:44
  have we got oldra Yes, I've ruled it. Love love. If there's
• 54:52
  anything Bogans know about, it's love first in love and drew. If you
• 54:59
  would like to take the lead on this vogon poem about love scramberly we love
• 55:08
  our lines four fifittedly. Yeah, go on, then, everyone, come
• 55:32
  spratulate. I beg your Pardson. You heard him specially? Oh I hold
• 55:42
  you linely in skid somehow that's the grossest words. Pleasure, Oh no,
• 55:57
  and frumpd hate. All right, I think that's it. I think I've
• 56:04
  followed the structure of that poem. Okay, here is your volgone poem about
• 56:12
  love scrambly we love our lines for tharum if BELI no to everyone, come
• 56:22
  spatulate limely in skitch pleasure and frunket hate. It's almost too good. They're
• 56:30
  almost too good doing the comparison of what I was like, what is the
• 56:37
  one that we know that vogons love and it's bureaucracy and lighting up for shit
• 56:43
  and you know, come spatulating everywhere. Apparently that might be my new favorite
• 56:49
  word. It is fantastic. And you know what it's This is Volguan poetry.
• 56:54
  And it's almost too good because you you've made a comparison there between I
• 56:58
  believe love and pleasure and hate. But I suppose the poem was about love.
• 57:02
  So I'm gonna say four points for that one. I'm gonna I'm gonna
• 57:06
  knock a point off there for it being too damn good. It's outside of
• 57:10
  the mode. If it has demonstrable skill is made. Yeah, it's that's
• 57:20
  That's how bad Vogue on poetry is. It makes you doubt reality. This
• 57:23
  all round is making me doubt real. It's only the third worst poetry in
• 57:28
  the universe, mind you, Yes, so we don't want to be the
• 57:31
  worst. Yeah, that's what we're going for here. If nothing else,
• 57:36
  I think you got the T shirt with comes spatulate. Let's uh, let's
• 57:42
  not do the artwork for that one. I'm picturing it in the like phoenix
• 57:45
  right objection font. Okay, let's let's have one more crack at some vogue
• 57:53
  on poetry, this time back on over to the petunias. We got one
• 57:58
  more topic left to do, Audre keipro until it until it produces a new
• 58:00
  topic. War please, it's war war war existence is useless. Very good
• 58:14
  voice that there's so much delicious paperwork involved in war, Audre. When,
• 58:20
  if you're ready, take away yours. John's vogue on poem on war Boom
• 58:30
  the booms A lord did ah God, Well, I want to come up
• 58:38
  with a god any words, any word is good? Said uh smashing smashing
• 58:52
  worth the weight, it wasn't don't mock me exploded the ram shorkle m shack
• 59:04
  period got it. There's no punctuation in vogan poetry. Gallant Lee volgantrious stormed
• 59:21
  up for two grumple fromp his Oh man, mm hm take us on foot.
• 59:39
  Now we're gonna have to leave the whole silence in your vogue on poem
• 59:49
  about war is boom the booms a large it smashing exploded the ramshackle shack gallantly
• 59:58
  volgun storm up for to grumple fromp his foot. I think I felt ready
• 1:00:06
  for war with that. That was a rousing speech, and for that,
• 1:00:10
  for that exact same reason, I'm gonna have to give you four points,
• 1:00:13
  because it was too good at what it did. It was the line the
• 1:00:17
  ramshackle shack, the ramshackle shack, very doctor SEUs. I like it it.
• 1:00:23
  I think it was ram shorkle. That's it's so hard to write down
• 1:00:30
  fakes real fast. It's one of those things where I see it as you
• 1:00:34
  were, like, oh shit, I gotta write these down. I also
• 1:00:37
  couldn't remember what I used either. That's why I don't make notes ahead of
• 1:00:44
  time out of your brain. Whereas I weirdly prepared for this round slightly by
• 1:00:51
  the fact that on the ferry ride home today I just read the run poetry
• 1:00:57
  can I read? I was like, you know what we're talking about?
• 1:00:58
  The show later, let me get it fresh one. I think you all
• 1:01:01
  nailed that. I think there was some fantastic vogue on poetry there from all
• 1:01:06
  four of you. But that is the end of the round. Let's ask
• 1:01:08
  Marvin to calculate the latest scores. Oh, he's too depressed for maths.
• 1:01:15
  And those scores are you are each eleven points. It's all tied up,
• 1:01:19
  as though I can do that by design the size of a planet. The
• 1:01:28
  storms Round three next, But first, these messages from the serious Cybernetics corporation,
• 1:01:36
  known for their catchy jingles and elite level marketing, but also faulty products
• 1:01:39
  designed to break. Sound familiar in any company back soon stick your head in
• 1:01:46
  a big. Round three is called a galaxy of pop culture. I have
• 1:01:57
  before me a list of twelve clues to other aspects of pop culture that have
• 1:02:01
  been influenced by, or have referenced Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Those twelve
• 1:02:07
  clues are split into three categories, the Tricky trillions, which are worth three
• 1:02:12
  points, the Arthur Averages, which are worth two points, and worth a
• 1:02:16
  lowly one point. We have the simple slatly bart fasts. Oh Billy,
• 1:02:24
  So just a nice, nice simple Do you want easy, medium or hard?
• 1:02:29
  Simple? As so we will begin. I was gonna say with the
• 1:02:30
  team in last place, but it is tied, so let's just begin with
• 1:02:34
  deep thoughts. Deep thoughts, what kind of clue would you like? I
• 1:02:37
  mean tricky trillions for sure? Right? Oh yeah, I was gonna say,
• 1:02:39
  we're going ham right, you know, not to not to expose my
• 1:02:43
  logic, but if we get it wrong, we steal them being able to
• 1:02:46
  get it later. Exactly, there's no reason to go low at all.
• 1:02:51
  All right, good strategy there, good stuff, And thank you for keeping
• 1:02:53
  the illusion of choice there as well. That's that's your clude. Were three
• 1:03:00
  points, if you can get this. This pop punk band had an album
• 1:03:06
  titled Don't Panic and a song titled so long and thanks for all the booze.
• 1:03:12
  So wrong. It's right, but nothing personal. I know I've heard
• 1:03:15
  the fucking song too. Is the bad part. I know I've heard them
• 1:03:19
  pop punk band. Huh, there's a lot of those. Well right after
• 1:03:23
  our time. You have no idea, man, No, I did not,
• 1:03:30
  you know, Just to defend myself a little bit. This is a
• 1:03:31
  time when I wasn't into music, so I would just find like that one
• 1:03:35
  song from a band, and like, I still have that one song somewhere
• 1:03:38
  in my iTunes library. But I could never tell you a name of the
• 1:03:40
  band. I feel like they were a band that, like the name itself,
• 1:03:43
  was a reference to something in the content. The Marvins. Going with
• 1:03:47
  the Marvins, I mean that does no, I do not have a better
• 1:03:52
  idea is the answer to that? All right? Going with the Marvins.
• 1:03:54
  It's not the Marvins. This is tricky of course, hence the name Tricky
• 1:03:59
  Trillions. The band was All Time Low, All Time Low. I was
• 1:04:04
  gonna say, I know that name. That's about as far as I could
• 1:04:08
  go, So I was question right. I could probably sing it if you
• 1:04:13
  played their top hit. Yeah, I think I think Weightless was was a
• 1:04:17
  big one of those yea from from All Time Low, and that their names
• 1:04:21
  of their albums are so wrong it's right and nothing personal as well. There
• 1:04:26
  was extra extra little clues in there. Hopefully one listener got that one.
• 1:04:29
  There's a there's an All Time Low fan out there. I can tell that
• 1:04:31
  they like the way you were saying that. I was like, that's got
• 1:04:34
  to mean something such albums or tours or every word is carefully placed here.
• 1:04:43
  So we will throw things over to the petunias. What category would you like?
• 1:04:47
  What are you thinking? I was gonna say Tricky Trillion just to follow
• 1:04:49
  the exact same logic and copy them. Terrible or average average and guarantee of
• 1:04:58
  point. Yeah, the average we get, we get two points right,
• 1:05:01
  and then and then it's you. They can keep get going after three and
• 1:05:06
  not getting it, and we don't have to worry about it because I wouldn't
• 1:05:10
  have gotten that one anyway. I probably would have guessed. I would have
• 1:05:13
  guessed a band, but it would have been wrong. Yeah, so you're
• 1:05:17
  going for author averages Arthur average. I think I think that's a safer bet.
• 1:05:21
  Yeah, score a couple of points, that'd be cool. Here is
• 1:05:24
  your author average for two points. An Arthur Dent caricature was referenced in this
• 1:05:29
  twenty twenty two animated comedy, A movie filled with references and caricatures. You
• 1:05:36
  say animated? Mm hmm. What was the big animated one? Was there
• 1:05:41
  a big animated one? Oh? H space Jam? Was that twenty twenty
• 1:05:45
  two? When did the Last Space gam come out? I would believe if
• 1:05:47
  somebody said definitively that or they felt definitively that it was twenty twenty two,
• 1:05:51
  I wouldn't disagree with them because it was full of caricatures, so we could
• 1:05:59
  Oh, was that virus and threat protection? Did you say, Matt,
• 1:06:06
  that it was a film? Yes, yes, twenty twenty two animated comedy
• 1:06:11
  movie. Yeah, I don't have anything else coming to me right now,
• 1:06:14
  which I've got a kid, so I should know a bit more. But
• 1:06:16
  yeah, let's you're going with space Jam. Yeah, let's do it.
• 1:06:24
  You're on the right lines with space Jam. But it's not space Jam.
• 1:06:27
  This is Chippendale Rescue Rangers, the twenty twenty two film that was filled with
• 1:06:32
  pop culture references. That was the whole gimmick and the plot of the Now
• 1:06:38
  I even watched that still stuff I didn't see. I also watched it,
• 1:06:43
  and yeah, do you what the reference was? Yeahur Arthur Denti is in
• 1:06:47
  it. There's a there's a guy walking around dressed pretty much like John is
• 1:06:51
  now in the in the scene where it's a lot of the intellectual property characters
• 1:06:58
  gathering. Still. I wonder if they had to pay for that, or
• 1:07:01
  they're just like, let's we're Disney, we can steal this from this dead
• 1:07:05
  Yeah. Probably probably that question didn't seem so average. This Yeah, okay,
• 1:07:12
  there you go for a that was probably an average move. That's better
• 1:07:19
  than I thought it would be. That's what I heard about it. Yeah,
• 1:07:21
  yeah, I enjoyed it. That's how we felt. Let's move on
• 1:07:24
  to another clue. Honestly then, given how tough that level two question was,
• 1:07:29
  I think we stick to wear guns and go with three because if we're
• 1:07:30
  gonna get stumped, at least we have a chance of stumbling into more points
• 1:07:34
  balls to the wall. Let's do it. And also, I feel like
• 1:07:36
  the music's out of the way now, I know I know other media.
• 1:07:40
  Okay, okay, maybe let's go for all the media. That's why roman
• 1:07:45
  Stone Tablet's damage. We're not going to get too far from that. But
• 1:07:49
  here is your other media. This m M O r p G features an
• 1:07:55
  island called Moss Harmless, but you'll need some Java if you're going to XP
• 1:08:00
  grind all night. It's definitely a world of Warcraft. I don't play it
• 1:08:04
  enough, but I know most of the islands and lands names. I feel
• 1:08:08
  like if that was the thing, I would have heard it by now.
• 1:08:10
  I want to say RuneScape because I think the general Oh yeah, it wasn't
• 1:08:15
  the whole thing with the RuneScape. It was all Java based back in the
• 1:08:17
  day. Yeah, it has to be RuneScape. No, you're right,
• 1:08:19
  yeah, RuneScape is my kid. I think I'm I mean, it might
• 1:08:23
  not be right, but I'm gonna confident. I'm confident you're going for RuneScape?
• 1:08:28
  It is RuneScape? Yes, three points. It's a tricky question.
• 1:08:31
  God, wow, you good stuff with the Java knowledge there hit the hit
• 1:08:36
  the right old man there. As soon as you said RuneScape, I just
• 1:08:40
  I literally saw the Java splash screen. I've been transported. All right,
• 1:08:49
  let's let's have another clue the petunias what you're going with? I mean the
• 1:08:54
  three pointer scares me? Yeah, that's all you do. That's that's the
• 1:09:00
  thing is it? Does it does frighten me that they have acquired a three
• 1:09:04
  pointer? Does it frighten me enough to also attempt the last three point?
• 1:09:11
  This two more three point is left one of the two of the three.
• 1:09:15
  Stick with the average. I personally think we're safer with average. I think
• 1:09:18
  we're more likely to get it, and if we're one point behind them,
• 1:09:23
  that's better than than that means jack shit. When it comes to quick fire,
• 1:09:26
  Yep, let's go for another average. You're going for another Arthur Average.
• 1:09:30
  Here we go. This band's third album and its lead single A both
• 1:09:33
  Hitchhiker's references. No surprises if you're lucky on this, but if you're wrong,
• 1:09:39
  you'll be let down. Oh it's h it's Radiohead yeah, andid Android
• 1:09:45
  Yeah, yeah, it absolutely is Radiohead for two points. Then yeah,
• 1:09:47
  I was like thinking this, I was, I was like lucky let down.
• 1:09:53
  Yeah okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I was.
• 1:09:56
  I was kind of thinking like old band roughly the same as twenty twenty two
• 1:10:00
  movie in terms of remembering. Yeah, oh yeah, I mean there are
• 1:10:06
  a great old Hey. Look, twenty sixteen was their last album release.
• 1:10:11
  I've been eagerly awaiting another one. But until they release another one, they
• 1:10:14
  are an old band. Yeah. Sweet, Okay, back on over to
• 1:10:17
  deep thoughts your choice of the board. Do we continue with our trend of
• 1:10:21
  three pointers? Yeah, hundred percent. Well, I mean it's not much
• 1:10:25
  of a trend because we missed one and got one, but uh we're at
• 1:10:30
  now. Yes, yeah, yeah, Okay, let's see if that streak
• 1:10:33
  can continue for three points. This knitting pattern, often used for shoals,
• 1:10:41
  has forty two teeth and was designed by Martina Bem. I'm subtly establishing fiber
• 1:10:47
  arts as a known fandom on this podcast. I love that there's at least
• 1:10:55
  one person yelling at their phone right now. I don't even know what the
• 1:10:59
  term means in this context. Perfect let's go ahead and assume it's a Hitchhiker's
• 1:11:04
  reference. Maybe it's not. Let's assume it is what would be a good
• 1:11:11
  knitting stitch name from the Hitchhikers. I mean I could see it being called
• 1:11:16
  the Douglas stitch. Like that actually sounds like a thing I could hear someone
• 1:11:19
  doing, like just doing it. Douglas stitch here, Douglas. I don't
• 1:11:24
  know why I sound like guys just say you don't know. I don't even
• 1:11:30
  guess what this happened. Douglas dish. I like that, Yeah, Douglas.
• 1:11:36
  If it's Adams stitch, I'm gonna be bummed because there's only two names
• 1:11:41
  there. But I think I think that's a solid it's his middle name,
• 1:11:45
  Noel. It's for the real hard fans. Yeah, they were bigger nerds
• 1:11:50
  than us. Yeah, let's go with the Douglas. You're going with the
• 1:11:54
  Douglas. That is a very good stitch name, and I think it's even
• 1:11:57
  better than the one that they've got. This This is a stitch known as
• 1:12:00
  the hitch Hiker. Oh, I should have the right come on starting a
• 1:12:13
  beef with them now. If I like the Douglas, I think it should
• 1:12:16
  be called the Douglas stitch. I'm going to change the Wikipedia and then we
• 1:12:19
  get up three points. I hate how I heard that, and I was
• 1:12:24
  like, oh, yeah, that makes sense if it's common for shawls.
• 1:12:27
  Then it was like, dang, it really is a fandom. Biber arts.
• 1:12:31
  Yeah, I believe it. Okay, the petunias. What are you
• 1:12:34
  going with? There's one three points left, a couple of two pointers,
• 1:12:41
  all the singers, I'm okay, I'm okay, sticking with average, all
• 1:12:45
  the questions, all the single questions. Sorry, let's go for John's motto,
• 1:12:53
  sticking with the yeah in my choice of friends podcasting partners. Okay,
• 1:13:00
  here is your two point clue. One of the protagonists of this TV series
• 1:13:04
  lives at an apartment forty two, and this Fox shouldn't be too surprised by
• 1:13:11
  extraterrestrials. I can't say for sure, but I think it's Futurama. Oh,
• 1:13:17
  I mean, wait, no, Fox? No, what's Fox?
• 1:13:20
  I think of? Mister Fox is the only one that I can think of.
• 1:13:25
  But is it a TV series, you said? Or TV series?
• 1:13:30
  Where is there a Fox? Where's a Fox? The only other Fox I'm
• 1:13:34
  thinking of is the Mighty Boosh that's the only one I can think of.
• 1:13:40
  Robin Hood. Yeah. Well, and the reason why why Fox made sense
• 1:13:45
  to me at first was Futurama originally aired on Fox. Even though Extra Terrestrials
• 1:13:50
  Extra, what's an alien show? I don't know anything about it. I
• 1:13:55
  know I choose to believe X files choose to Fox Molder, Fox Molder,
• 1:14:02
  X files. I didn't think you were going to get that, but you
• 1:14:05
  did. X files figured that out. Wow, Like go with you,
• 1:14:11
  drama. It was fool, John Odra, thank you so much. We
• 1:14:20
  binging it as we speak. Every time we see his apartment, I think
• 1:14:24
  of this. Oh wow, I was just watching Ben Andy's faces. That
• 1:14:29
  that was. That was to watch the video. Okay, back on over
• 1:14:35
  to deep thoughts. You have control of the board. It's the pointer.
• 1:14:41
  Is the last three pointer up there? Absolutely? You want to take it?
• 1:14:44
  Yeah, I'm stupid. What what weird fan throw this time? Let's
• 1:14:51
  find out because extreme sports will be so mad. In the two thousand and
• 1:14:57
  five film The Rebuilding of Earth uses Coynist Katzi photographic editing techniques, a film
• 1:15:03
  that features time laps footage set to the music of this composer. You're not
• 1:15:09
  even using rewards anymore. I like that face made. Then did you say
• 1:15:13
  that again? Because I think at least two of those words used weren't real.
• 1:15:16
  Absolutely. In the two thousand and five film The Rebuilding of Earth uses
• 1:15:23
  coynist Katsi photographic editing techniques. This is a film that features time lapse footage
• 1:15:30
  set to the music of this composer. It's gate Leapers is high brow.
• 1:15:33
  We are a high brow podcast. I did not think classical music would be
• 1:15:39
  the fourth fandom. I thought the outlier here may have clarified something, but
• 1:15:47
  it declarified at least three of them. Okay, so my understanding is at
• 1:15:53
  the at the end, you know, when they rebuild the Earth. Yeah,
• 1:15:55
  and it's like all the time laps. There is a separate film.
• 1:16:00
  So there is a separate film called I'm gonna have to say it again coin
• 1:16:02
  Iskatsy, which is what the two thousand and five Hitchhiker's Guide film was inspired
• 1:16:09
  by when doing the these kind of shots at the end, and you're looking
• 1:16:14
  for the music from the coats. But yes, yes, that is correct.
• 1:16:20
  Holy so let's just pick a classical composer whose name we both know.
• 1:16:26
  Okay, So, so who's like, what classical composer would you Well,
• 1:16:30
  it doesn't need to be a classical composer. It could be contemporary if we're
• 1:16:33
  not going I mean like, if I was going to rebuild a planet,
• 1:16:36
  I'd probably pick like Hans Zimmer, but he's expensive, and I don't know
• 1:16:41
  what Capatsy is. But if it comes Batchelor or something like that, my
• 1:16:48
  favorite. So my guess is they would have had to have gone with,
• 1:16:56
  Uh, something that was was public domain at that point, is whatever this
• 1:17:03
  come Dragle fu Stick movie was they needed? Uh, they didn't have the
• 1:17:10
  budget to hire a modern composer, So what would you rebuild a planet to?
• 1:17:16
  I feel like chop is a good answer for this. For some reason,
• 1:17:19
  I don't know why. I want to say, yeah, yeah,
• 1:17:21
  Chopin might not be bad. I could see that's why not. I don't
• 1:17:28
  know a better answer than that, Yeah, why not? Why not chopin?
• 1:17:30
  But we'll go with we'll go We'll go with, Okay, chopping you
• 1:17:36
  two, I'm gonna kill myself. You chop you chomp into. No,
• 1:17:43
  it's not it's not Chopin. It's a good guess. It's Philip Glass to
• 1:17:46
  the Music of composed of Philip Glass. Uh I think that's yeah, that's
• 1:17:53
  why it's a tricky trillion and they out there are no more tricky trillion questions
• 1:17:57
  left, So back on over to the petunias. You've got two Arthur averages
• 1:18:01
  and then the simple slatty bartfasts are untouched. You want to stick with average.
• 1:18:05
  Yeah, this has been working out for us, all right, sticking
• 1:18:09
  with the average. Here you go for two points. This classic video game
• 1:18:13
  shooter would offer the rank of mostly harmless in multiplayer. Playing this with friends
• 1:18:18
  meant forming a special bond. Oh, it's got to be. It's got
• 1:18:23
  to be Golden KNIGHTE special bond. I'll get that one. That one you
• 1:18:27
  didn't need a few minutes to work out. Sorry, sorry, now that's
• 1:18:30
  okay. It is. It's Golden Eye, specifically Golden Eye double O seven.
• 1:18:33
  You can have the rank of mostly harmless in that but two points we
• 1:18:39
  were the right age for that. Slappers only, golden slab slabers only.
• 1:18:44
  No odd load. You can be Civilian number two and get away with the
• 1:18:48
  same the same advantage as odd job because everyone knows that you can't play as
• 1:18:53
  odd job, no matter how bad it was. I always wanted to kill
• 1:18:58
  some with a laser watch worked useless fucking weapon. I went back and started
• 1:19:03
  to play that game. It's not good like that, Like it's so poorly.
• 1:19:10
  Oh yeah, that's the ability to like jump like you're on a balcony
• 1:19:13
  and you can't or aim your crosshairs without pressing another button. It's rough,
• 1:19:17
  but it was good for the time. Yeah, okay, deep thoughts.
• 1:19:21
  Uh, the control of the board is yours. We got one author average
• 1:19:26
  left and the right. Regardless of how poorly our strategy has worked thus far,
• 1:19:30
  I don't see any reason to deviate from Nope, Arthur Average, you're
• 1:19:34
  going for the author average. Okay, you can get them, we can
• 1:19:36
  get them. Oh my bad, we've actually did run out of author averages.
• 1:19:42
  I I was gonna say. My math was like, how is it
• 1:19:46
  right? You just have to give us two points if we get this one
• 1:19:51
  for the for the simple one. No, I'm gonna I'm gonna set it
• 1:19:55
  up again in case I decided to cut that for time. I can best
• 1:20:01
  joke now now on every take, Ben's just going to say like, oh,
• 1:20:05
  after you fucked up a second ago. Yeah, so I'm gonna leave
• 1:20:09
  this whole bit in. That's your prerogative. Ben, in the next round
• 1:20:13
  and start with just a recording of Ben. I think we should move on.
• 1:20:18
  Yeah, we'll just make an ai Ben, he's done that before.
• 1:20:21
  Yeah, that's true, it's true. I got one think so deep thoughts.
• 1:20:27
  There are only simple, slatty bart fast questions left. So what do
• 1:20:31
  you think, Ben? What should we go for? Ah? It's a
• 1:20:33
  tough decision. I mean, if there were still some two pointers out,
• 1:20:36
  I would love to go for one, but I guess we can, so
• 1:20:40
  one pointer it is. Yeah, let's go for the slightly bars. Okay,
• 1:20:44
  okay, it's all stay it in. Well done, guys. Here
• 1:20:47
  is your question. Here is your clue for one point, with four,
• 1:20:51
  eight, fifteen, sixteen, and twenty three being the other numbers. A
• 1:20:56
  producer of this TV show confirmed forty two as a hitchhike his reference. Hurly,
• 1:21:00
  you'll get this one. I don't know, Ben, I'm pretty lost
• 1:21:04
  on this one. All right, Yeah, you got this for one point.
• 1:21:06
  Let's not take any more time over it. There's there's a point,
• 1:21:11
  thank it? Shall I just quick fire these because we've only got the left.
• 1:21:15
  Yeah, thet'll preview. Okay, the petunias. Here you go.
• 1:21:18
  This X rated billionaire claims that The Hitchhiker's Guide is his favorite book series,
• 1:21:24
  but I find him boring when it comes to taxes. You better pay Pal.
• 1:21:30
  Yes, it is indeed, Elon Musk, good stuff. The biggest
• 1:21:33
  shame, sad fucking man. You could tell he just doesn't understand the buck.
• 1:21:40
  Three different references and not a single pejorative. Pretty good, Pretty good
• 1:21:44
  for me. It's actually I respect your restraint. I was enjoying the PayPal
• 1:21:49
  and the boring pun too much. They were great. They were well more
• 1:21:56
  creative and innovative than anything that he has done. Yes, exactly, there
• 1:21:59
  we Oh, there we go, there's the burn. Yeah, okay,
• 1:22:02
  deep thoughts, Here is your clue. A two thousand and seven episode of
• 1:22:06
  this sci fi TV series was titled forty two and featured multiple generated references.
• 1:22:14
  To the number regenerated references, you could say, one of my favorite Doctor
• 1:22:18
  Who episodes. Yeah, there we go. It is indeed Doctor Who.
• 1:22:21
  There's a point for the deep thoughts and the final clue for the petunias.
• 1:22:26
  Here it is. This sitcom featured several Hitchhikers references across its twelve season run.
• 1:22:31
  They say this show made geeks chic, but at Gate leapers with each
• 1:22:35
  and every episode. We're desperate to prove them wrong. I mean, I'm
• 1:22:41
  assuming it's those assholes on Big Bang Theory, but I never never watched it.
• 1:22:45
  Yeah, it felt like the first couple episodes they were laughing with me,
• 1:22:48
  and then it just didn't feel like they were laughing with me anymore.
• 1:22:51
  But yes, probably Big Bang. It is indeed the Big Bang Theory.
• 1:22:55
  There's a few Hitchhikers references throughout the twelve years, because what else are you
• 1:22:59
  going to talk about across I bet there is a shit ton of references.
• 1:23:01
  They love that shit, and I bet they wish I would laugh at them.
• 1:23:05
  And I bet you have the references. The fact that someone said the
• 1:23:09
  name of one of the characters with no reason long yeah, yeah, Sheldon
• 1:23:14
  says, oh, don't panic, and then ever and then the laugh track,
• 1:23:16
  laugh track happen. So that's how you make successful billion dollar comedy.
• 1:23:19
  Yeah, Okay, that is the end of round three. Let's ask Trillian
• 1:23:25
  to calculate the latest scores. She's a mathematician and astrophysicist in the books,
• 1:23:30
  but a manic pixie dream girl in the movie. So two thousand and five,
• 1:23:34
  it's just what happened. Yeah, why you both? That's true.
• 1:23:39
  In twenty twenty four we would say why not both? She probably made music
• 1:23:43
  too. You don't know where she keeps the ukulelea. That's a big ship.
• 1:23:49
  It's a big ship. Yes, those scores are deep. Thoughts are
• 1:23:55
  on sixteen points, but the Petunias have taken a lead with their strategy have
• 1:24:00
  nineteen points. Okay, before we get to the quick fire around, let's
• 1:24:03
  talk prizes. This episode. Star prize is the concept of hitch hiking,
• 1:24:08
  So stick out your thumb and see where the road takes you, probably to
• 1:24:11
  some guy's basement, but our winning team will also receive the real answer to
• 1:24:16
  life, the universe, and everything. Yes, you guessed it. It's
• 1:24:21
  Jesus that so I get Jesus? Yeah? Why not? This section written
• 1:24:30
  by address parents. Yes we can all have Jesus. I think I could
• 1:24:32
  do a lot with Jesus under my belt. Hell yeah, rock on,
• 1:24:38
  Sexy Christ? What's happening? I should stop now, I should stop saying
• 1:24:41
  words. I don't think he's like me very much. We the last time
• 1:24:45
  he hung out with Juice, did in? Well? I think rock on
• 1:24:49
  Sexy Christ might be the new motto of this shit. My next team name
• 1:24:54
  rock on Sexy Christ. Up. Next is our crucial quickfire around, But
• 1:24:59
  first we must play one final set of ads. You don't need to buy
• 1:25:02
  any of the products or services they're offering, unless it's towels. You should
• 1:25:06
  always buy a towel. A final quick fire around will test your broader pop
• 1:25:17
  culture knowledge, and it's called so long. This game's a list of fish.
• 1:25:27
  The Hitchhiker's Guide is full of references to marine animals, including the highly
• 1:25:32
  intelligent species of dolphin, who we all know will do anything for fish.
• 1:25:38
  No one reference in the hand jobs, no one at all. No,
• 1:25:42
  I mean, that's what a scientist would do for ability to get published.
• 1:25:46
  Oh yeah, I mean, and then there's a deeper story there. Yeah,
• 1:25:51
  I need no more scientists. So in this game, I will give
• 1:25:57
  our players clues to a marine animal from pop culture history. We're talking fish,
• 1:26:01
  dolphins, sharks, whales, the big the big fish looking ones.
• 1:26:04
  There's gonna be no crabs. I don't believe you. Those clues will be
• 1:26:09
  in this Those clues will be in the style of a Hitchhiker's Guide entry on
• 1:26:15
  this particular character. Oh and there's of course a classic gate Leapers twist.
• 1:26:19
  You need to say so long and thanks for all the fish after after your
• 1:26:24
  answer, simple as that, or I can't give you the point. It's
• 1:26:27
  quick fire, so buzz in by yelling out your team name. Let's practice
• 1:26:30
  that now. I love it. Thoughts and petunias, it's a good weekend.
• 1:26:39
  Which way you go with that? I don't know. I think here's
• 1:26:42
  the thing. I've had two beers for the first time. That sounds like
• 1:26:45
  a pretty pleasant week Yeah, sitting around thinking about punias. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:26:50
  surrounded by beautiful flowers and that hole over there exactly thereas how do you
• 1:27:00
  think we planted the petunias? So, for example, if I said this
• 1:27:09
  mammal was the target of a maniacal quest and the origin of the phrase white
• 1:27:14
  whale, it's also how you might describe yes, true, moby dick,
• 1:27:19
  so long and thanks for all the fish, exactly that. That's exactly how
• 1:27:23
  you would answer the questions in this round. You can interrupt me at any
• 1:27:27
  point. Are we ready? Let's do it all right, I will start
• 1:27:31
  the timer. Now, this fish is the result of excess pollution from the
• 1:27:36
  nearby nuclear power plant. Deep. I think I heard petunias first there from
• 1:27:42
  John three eyed fish and thanks for all the fish. Yeah, I take
• 1:27:46
  it, I'll take it. We know the name, We know the name
• 1:27:49
  of the dam fish it you do know the name of the fish. It
• 1:27:53
  is also officially on wikipedias known as three eyed fish slash blinky blink. I
• 1:28:01
  would have gone specific if if the rest of the world had but three eyed
• 1:28:05
  fish is apparently valid. This is why I lose this game. Not fast
• 1:28:13
  enough correct. This predator is known for his time on land, perhaps more
• 1:28:19
  so than the ocean. He's thought to be the fourth best member of the
• 1:28:24
  suicide squad. And this is yes, John, King Sharks, so long
• 1:28:28
  and thanks for all the fish. It is King Shark. That's who we're
• 1:28:30
  looking for here, good stuff, fun we're getting This small bluefish is thought
• 1:28:36
  to be one of the most forgetful creatures. Indeed, yes, drewe it
• 1:28:45
  is indeed Dory from finding Nemo. Good stuff. It's one of those Pixar
• 1:28:48
  fish I just have. Yeah, And then we learned that the forgetfulness is
• 1:28:53
  actually trauma informed in the sequel. That's like, that's just picks. It's
• 1:28:57
  amazing. Often referred to as the Lassie of the sea. This, yes,
• 1:29:03
  Ben Flipper, so long, and thanks for all the fish. It
• 1:29:06
  is indeed flipper. Yes, I'm old as fuck. I'm having I have
• 1:29:14
  that. I have another one sitting here, just ready to go. I
• 1:29:16
  know it's not going to come up, but I'm ready for it. All
• 1:29:17
  right, there's only so many fish. Okay. This fish is known to
• 1:29:23
  have two forms, one considerably more fish like than the other. When she's
• 1:29:29
  not a five year old girl, she's a goldfish or no, yes,
• 1:29:33
  drue for all the fish, it is pono. Yes the studio Gibbli fan.
• 1:29:39
  Okay, next clue. This proud escapologist Orca desires only to be on
• 1:29:44
  the other side of that row. Yeah, yeah, I definitely heard petunias
• 1:29:55
  over the sound of someone vomiting. Willy or free Willy, so long,
• 1:30:01
  Thanks for all the fish. Yeah, I actually have here. Willie brackets
• 1:30:04
  free because I don't know. Yeah, free Jeffrey, Willie, free William,
• 1:30:16
  thank you, his mother calls him. Okay, your next clue.
• 1:30:23
  This intelligent, anthropomorphic mud skipper has developed enough dextrous abilities to be able to
• 1:30:29
  fire a gun. He is an underwater secret agent after all, but yes,
• 1:30:34
  Ben Muddy mud Skipper, so long and thanks for all the fish.
• 1:30:41
  Is that a real thing? Sorry, it's that's that's interesting. Okay,
• 1:30:47
  No, that's not what I've got here, because I don't unless you can
• 1:30:50
  prove that muddy mud Skipper once held a gun. I mean, is that
• 1:30:59
  would not hold on? Let me google it. The clue does also say
• 1:31:01
  secret agent as well. I didn't see a gun. Yeah, it doesn't
• 1:31:05
  fully match the clue. Otherwise I give you this. This is James Pondus.
• 1:31:12
  James pond a frog. I thought it was a frog, a cod.
• 1:31:17
  He's a mud skipper. Okay, your next clue. This yellow and
• 1:31:21
  blue tropical fish can often be found. Yes, John Flounder, so long
• 1:31:28
  and thanks for all the fish. It is indeed flounder flounder from The Little
• 1:31:30
  Mermaid. Yes, this Irish fish is a creature from the Fennian cycle of
• 1:31:35
  mythology, believed to be a wise man who was transformed into a stream dwelling
• 1:31:41
  creature. Yes, I I know this one. Is it whiskey fish.
• 1:31:51
  It's a it's some kind of koy or a carp. It's some kind of
• 1:31:55
  carb. It's a fucking magic carp. It's a magic. It's not magic,
• 1:32:00
  but they locked it in. I'm afraid it's not that. It's a
• 1:32:04
  good guess, but it's it's not that Petunias. I feel like there's one
• 1:32:10
  that was a type of fish like this that had a name that started with
• 1:32:13
  an N, Nimrod. It's not Nimrod, but I appreciate it as a
• 1:32:16
  guess. It's not. This is the salmon of knowledge, which is where
• 1:32:24
  the name from. No. I will read another clue or that that works
• 1:32:33
  too. It's still unknown whether this character is actually a fish, at least
• 1:32:38
  to me. On the movie poster, it appears she's a fish, but
• 1:32:41
  the cast list says it's Jamie Lee Curtis. We'll have to ask John Clees.
• 1:32:45
  I suppose that was That was thoughts just before Petunia there, Yeah,
• 1:32:51
  wander so long as thanks, just in time, Just in time? Yes
• 1:32:58
  it is. Do youone know if that film actually has a fish in it?
• 1:33:01
  Has anyone seen that film? I have no idea. I know that
• 1:33:04
  now that you say it. I know the name, but that's what all
• 1:33:05
  I know. She's like, I mean she's a mermaid. I mean,
• 1:33:09
  is that a fish? I don't know. She's got boobs. I've never
• 1:33:11
  met a fish with boobs. Yeah, a lot more fish in the sea,
• 1:33:17
  that's what they mean by that. Yeah, some of them have boobs.
• 1:33:20
  The name of this vicious shark is still unknown, despite his many attacks
• 1:33:26
  on unsuspecting beach goers. Yeah, Drew Drew for deep there, it's the
• 1:33:30
  shark from Jaws, who I think canonically is named Bruce. So long and
• 1:33:34
  thanks for all the fish Yep, that'll do. I accept Bruce or Jaws
• 1:33:38
  the shark as no one really knows that it's one of the greatest villains in
• 1:33:43
  movie history. He doesn't have a name. I'm pretty sure his name is
• 1:33:45
  Bruce. That's what they called the model the animatronic, but it was named
• 1:33:54
  after Spielberg's lawyer commentary, Okay, quick before the buzzer, small yellow and
• 1:34:04
  leech like and probably be honest battle fish, so long and thanks for all
• 1:34:14
  the fish. I'm gonna give it to you. I'm gonna There was a
• 1:34:16
  huge blast of noise there where I heard every single person say the same thing,
• 1:34:20
  But I'm going to give it to deep thoughts there, there's there's the
• 1:34:23
  point I definitely did not call out our name of busy listening to is the
• 1:34:30
  sound of babelfish. Okay, that is the buzzer, and I'll edit that
• 1:34:39
  sentence in before we get to the final scores. And it was. It
• 1:34:45
  couldn't have been closer. I'd like to thank our players. You've saved Earth
• 1:34:49
  from a corporate, bureaucratic demise, once again proving that this is indeed a
• 1:34:55
  work of fiction. True. Let's talk. Let's talk Carrying Waywards, the
• 1:35:00
  Supernatural podcast. You co host. You've just wrapped up season seven. Yeah,
• 1:35:05
  we just wrapped season seven. We are by the time this comes out,
• 1:35:09
  eight should just be starting. It has been an amazing shift in direction
• 1:35:14
  for the show because it's been a lot more fun season six to seven or
• 1:35:16
  a slog and we're doing much better. And I am looking forward to everyone
• 1:35:20
  coming to join as we have some fun new stuff happening. Nice, amazing,
• 1:35:25
  nice links to everything Carrying Wayward in the show notes, Drew, do
• 1:35:28
  you want to also shout out any voice voice work, voice acting work.
• 1:35:32
  Nothing new on the docket, but if you need a voice actor for anything,
• 1:35:35
  audiobook or otherwise, you let me know and I'm down to work on
• 1:35:39
  it. Hell yes, I will put links to that also in the show
• 1:35:42
  notes. Thank you, Ben John. Let's talk Exploration first, because you
• 1:35:45
  just put a new episode out about Mad Magazine. We're not dead, yes,
• 1:35:57
  well, yeah, yeah we are. We're a little more sporadic with
• 1:36:00
  our releases these days with the Exploration the podcast. But there's almost two hundred
• 1:36:06
  episodes to uh to listen to on a on a backlog there, so go
• 1:36:12
  check it out. You'll probably find something you think is pretty neat. Yeah,
• 1:36:15
  and we're going to record a debrief right after this that. Uh,
• 1:36:19
  are you sure it's not just gonna be going no guarantee understand it. We've
• 1:36:29
  got one that I haven't edited. Yeah. We're still releasing things. Yeah,
• 1:36:32
  work, We are alive, and Space Oddities will hopefully be having a
• 1:36:38
  Kickstarter this like early summer, ye summer summertime. Uh, Space Oudities number
• 1:36:44
  three is coming to Kickstarter. You can find numbers one and two either online
• 1:36:49
  at Drive through Comics or on our website space odescomic dot com. They're nice.
• 1:36:55
  Got a link Big Cartel if you want to get like a paper copy
• 1:36:58
  in your hands, Yeah, you can get it, smell and lick.
• 1:37:00
  Yeah, read it first and then lick it. You do it your copy.
• 1:37:04
  You can do it, yes, exactly to put no restrictions on my
• 1:37:10
  liquor copy and the and the reader. Yeah, you don't even need to
• 1:37:14
  read it. I don't care. Just lick it. Copy for licking and
• 1:37:16
  a copy for reading. Yeah, I'd appreciate it if you read it.
• 1:37:19
  I put a lot of work into that thing. But oh yeah, it's
• 1:37:24
  it's fantastic stuff. And look, if you if you are listening to this,
• 1:37:26
  if you've found us here, you probably love Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
• 1:37:30
  So you will probably love Space Oddities links to why you can pick up
• 1:37:34
  a physical or digital copy in the show notes of this podcast. Yeah,
• 1:37:39
  and episode forty two that we did was Hitchhiker's Guide, and it's probably good.
• 1:37:43
  I don't have any you know, I'll link that specific episode good.
• 1:37:47
  Yeah, yeah, I'll take your word for it. Yeah. I went
• 1:37:53
  back to listen to it as prep let's find out if it helped. Not.
• 1:37:58
  Really, we're as ignorant then as we are now. Yeah, I'm
• 1:38:01
  a narcissist, so I like listening to us. I'm anist. And a
• 1:38:09
  huge thank you to Ash and Adam, Justin Dodberg, Aaron Randolph, and
• 1:38:13
  Derek and Taylor for their continued support at the highest tier over at patreon dot
• 1:38:16
  com forward slash Kate Leapers. You are our executive producers, so you have
• 1:38:21
  the power to adapt this audio format into a visual medium, replacing me with
• 1:38:27
  Martin Freeman. Okay, let's get to the final scores. Here we go.
• 1:38:31
  There was one point in it, guys, one point in it.
• 1:38:35
  Unfortunately, no one made it up to forty two, so you know,
• 1:38:41
  be more lightning round. I don't think Ben will be able to speak after
• 1:38:47
  that. It's probably deep thoughts. You finish on twenty two points, that's
• 1:38:56
  like forty two close. It's pretty close to forty two. There is a
• 1:39:00
  too. If it was a tie at twenty one, that would have been
• 1:39:01
  great. That would have been perfect. But that's not what's happened, because
• 1:39:04
  it would also be perfect if you got twenty I'm just saying that hasn't happened
• 1:39:12
  either, because this episode's winners are the Petunias, who finished with twenty three
• 1:39:18
  points. Not again. Yeah, someone someone had to win in this episode,
• 1:39:32
  so yeah, someone's John. Your losing streak has ended. Ah,
• 1:39:38
  but we had a good time here. This was fantastic. I loved this
• 1:39:40
  episode. Yeah, yeah, to quote the petunias. Not again. We
• 1:39:48
  have been gate leapers. Thank you so much for listening. Subscribe to this
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• 1:39:56
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• 1:40:00
  star review if you had a good time, and ignore this sentence. If
• 1:40:02
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• 1:40:06
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• 1:40:12
  when we'll grab our friends and go to very distant lands. But until then,
• 1:40:17
  I leave you with this inspiring quote from Douglas Adams. I may not
• 1:40:21
  have gone where I intended to go, but I think I've ended up where
• 1:40:25
  I needed to be. Goodbye.