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So Gentry is singing the intrum today, right, the Galaxy's Most Unpredictable Star
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trick podcast. That is still a good looking sandwich, man it is.
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Man looks tasty. It does look tasty. Yeah, very much so dreck
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Cast, I'm bad. That's Daniel, that's Dan. That's right, good
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morning. Yes, I've never seen I never I've never seen you wear glasses.
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Uh that always wars classes. Yeah, okay, we can't actually see
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what the hell he's doing, so okay, all right. I was like,
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whoa Drew carry is filling in for Chad? Yeah? Man me some
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of that price is right money baby. Oh yeah. Welcome to truck Cast,
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the Galaxy's Most Unpredictable Star trek Podcast. I am one of your hosts,
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Dan You, Lloyd, Dan, Drew, Lloyd Webber with me as
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always Daniel. Yes, and from the upper right square we've got bad Waldo.
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We got Gentry here fill in for Chad. What's up, Gentry?
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I'll take Gentry for the block, please, yes, exactly, Hopefully hopefully
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at the end, hopefully at the end, you pick the right key and
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you win the Oldsmobile Cutlass Sierra Cutlass. You didn't just have the car.
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You have the golden reel cutlets Sierra. You you like you totally went there
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with that. That is commitment. I feel like Dan has watched a lot
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of game shows in his life. Yeah, I got to feel about that.
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Yeah, I know. Yeah, I don't know. Did I I
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heard that that Dan, you might not actually be with us today because of
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a space injury. Yeah, my zero gmc barrow training. We had an
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accident. Yeah I got Yeah, I got a spin kick to the chin
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last week, and uh it did not It did not feel good. Uh,
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my jaw is not aligning the way it's supposed to ump. So I
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have I have a little case of the tmj um, which is if it
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doesn't feel good, does not feel good, especially since it'll go it'll go
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back. And what's that? Oh I was gonna say, yeah, tmj
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It'd been battling that for like twenty years. Believe me, I get it.
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Yeah, you gotta read it right. Put them in a body bag.
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Yeah, I was gonna ask for those I did not win the LD
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Valley Sorry, well maybe sorry. I got I got, I got second
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place, and and then my teacher broke my trophy in the parking lot.
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But but yeah, no, I'm okay. It's just it's more uncomfortable than
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painful. Yeah, right now, because it'll go, it'll go back where
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it's supposed to be. And I'm like, all right, cool, this
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is all over. And like an hour later, I'll close I'll close my
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mouth. I'm like, nope, that's not how you're supposed to go.
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Yeah. Yeah, my my job will pop so loud that it can be
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heard across the room. Oh geez, yeah see, and mine doesn't pop.
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See at least when if it pops, I'll know it happened. This
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is just like a surprise. Some mornings that wake up, everything's good.
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Some mornings I wake up, I'm like, oh, nope, can't shoot
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today. You have but showing makes it better. You got the little dental
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guard thing. Yeah, I was wearing that when I got kicked in the
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face. No no, no, I mean when you wear when you sleep.
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You got kicks so hard. Chad got knocked off the podcast. That's
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pretty good. And Chad is in his basement, you know, in Kansas
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City, and he's just like right now, he's like Scott Bowders his home
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right now, going. So if it gets just a little bit worse,
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he won't be able to talk. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
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He's thinking about he's thinking about the Gentry Daniel Scott show right going forward.
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He's got like a there I can eliminate them. Oh man, boy,
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have we got a lot to talk about today? Yeah, there's a lot.
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Okay, let's get to the news, all right. So there's a
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there's a little bit of a convention going on right now in Vegas, and
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so that's where the majority of the news coming out of. Yeah. Uh,
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there's not a lot of news coming out of it, because I would
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imagine because of the strikes. So they're not announcing new things or anything like
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that. But but we are getting some stuff. So our first news story
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comes to us from trekmovie dot com and the headline is Terry Farrell joints to
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Boldly Go road trip documentary documenting and visiting Star Trek locations. So right now
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there's a go fund me for this project. They are trying to just go
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to different Star Trek places like the Vascus Rocks and a few others and just
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kind of talk about the history of the show there and in those locations and
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what they mean. They're trying to raise looks like one hundred thousand dollars.
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So far they have raised about twenty six thousand on their Kickstarter, So and
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they've still got some time. And yeah, I imagine that we cover the
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costs and Terry's fees and all that. I gotta tell you, this sounds
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like a way for someone to get a free paid vacation. Yeah, yeah,
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I mean there is that aspect of it. Scott says he's biding his
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time waiting chat is knocked out. Is he's still wrong? Yeah? So,
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um, this was announced at the convention. It's just since they're there,
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they're kind of talking about it a little bit, and it is a
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project they can talk about. So and they probably somebody's probably got a booth
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with info on it for the Kickstarter and that guy I'm sure, I'm sure.
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Yeah. So I imagine after this weekend that that a kickstarter money will
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go up or maybe that is how it much has gone up. I don't,
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you know. We'll keep an eye on it. But yeah, so
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the plan is to make this, um you know, it doesn't say win,
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so I guess as soon as the campaign ramps up, which is September
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fifth, so that'll be coming up soon and then um, and then they'll
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try to do their show. Yeah. So here's a question. Okay,
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So, um, if you're shooting a documentary, uh, I mean,
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are there writers for a documentary and if so, are they part of the
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Screenwriters Guild or is it something different for like news writers and and on the
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same on the same note, Um, you know, if you appear in
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a documentary as yourself, are you acting and if so, does that fall
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under the guidelines of the screen Actors Guild. So I actually know the answers
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of these because I've done documentaries. Guess there are writers to documentaries because even
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though it's an event that you're covering, you have to select what clips you're
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showing and how to present that story. So it's not writing in a traditional
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screenwriting sense. It's more like producing and laying it all out together and all
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that. As far as if you're on there and you're you know, talking,
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they consider that presenting if you're the host, because you'll probably do have
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lines that you need to read because you're setting up the next clips and all
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that. There are fees for that. You can be in SAGGED as a
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presenter. Right. That's like how game show hosts can be on there and
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award hosts and all that. But, um, it depends on the documentary.
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It depends on who's funding it, how they're going about it. Most
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documentaries are independently funded, so they don't really fall under any of these.
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But if like Warner Brothers was going to do one, like they do one
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for the next Batman movie, they're doing their little mini doc, Yeah,
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then there's all the fees and all that union stuff attaches to that. I
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also was listening to NPR and they were talking about the strike and they actually
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said that they are they are part of SAG, but they are not the
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news folks or a different division or a different part of SAgs, so they
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don't fall under the strike. So yeah, so news is considered different from
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documentaries. So yeah, that's a whole Yeah, that's a whole other thing.
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Yeah, it's pretty pretty specific. But yeah, so they're trying to
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make this documentary. We'll see what happens. Cool our next news story.
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Probably the biggest thing to come out of the convention STLV this weekend, there
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was a clip from season two of Prodigy. It was a click clip where
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the characters finally get to meet the real Janeway and they actually get to meet
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the hologram doctor. So Robert Ricardo is back, and it's like a thirty
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second clip. They have not posted it online yet. This does not mean
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that it's coming back to Paramount. Plus they were very adamant about that.
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They're still going to try to find a new home and but they released But
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yeah, they finally get to meet Janeway and she kills all of them,
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yes, yeah this time, but she shoves them all the transporter first,
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yes, makes makes them into one person, so she could do it with
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a single blow. Yeah, got mine, Scott, that's funny. Check
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cast deep Space Mine, Oh my Lord in tarn and save Prodigy. Yeah,
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you know, next time I see Scott, I'm I'm gonna make sure
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I sit with my back against the wall, you know, Yeah, no
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kidding, know where all the exits are? Yeah? Yeah, awareness here,
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Dan, I got your drink. Now that that's okay, I already
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got one. Thank you, though, appreciate it. And our last news
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story um comes to us from Twitter or X. I don't know what the
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hell I'd call this thing anymore. But Terry Mattalis released an alternate clip of
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Shaw's death scene in Picard. So it's pretty much the same thing except for
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one extra line. So I'm gonna play it for you guys. You guys
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can check it out. I missed all that. I didn't get most of
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it, Okay. Um, so he just says more, you know,
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like like he said before, and then he the only thing that's different is
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he says, don't touch my stuff seven of nine. Uh yeah stuff.
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Yeah, okay, so that's that's the big difference. But that's all the
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news stories. Cool, okay, Cool. Well let's say we're going to
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main topic. Yeah. Fine, Well, now I always want that song
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to go on for longer. That's that's the goal with them. Yeah,
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it's a reoccurring theme here, that's right. Imagine people listening wanted to go
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on longer when I'm mostly do so this this was an interesting, uh episode
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of Star Trek. I honestly, I would love to hear, just like
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each one of us, give two minutes on your thoughts on this episode.
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They we'll get into well we talk about the plot, what happened, all
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that stuff, but just just give me like a minute or two of what
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your reaction was. Well, let me give the let me give the long
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line kind of what how Paramount has described this episode. Subspace Rhapsody is the
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name of the episode, episode two zero nine. An accident with an experimental
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quantum probability field causes everyone on the USS Enterprise to break out uncontrollably into song.
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But the real danger is that the field is expanding and beginning to impact
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other ships, allies and enemies alike. So pretty fair summation of what was
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happening. Um, who wants to go first? Talk about their Okay,
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I'll go first, Okay, go first. So I got done with the
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episode, huh and thought, Okay, that was cute, that was unique.
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Don't ever do it again. And I kind of I've kind of really
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had to marinate on this because I don't think I have ever ever had a
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Star Trek episode that I had such mixed emotions about. Okay, because it
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was extremely well done for what they were doing, for doing a musical.
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I mean, they had an Oscar winning choreographer, they had actual they had
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two folks who are part of a music group. They came in, they
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wrote the song, they wrote the lyrics. They did an incredibly good job
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doing what they did. It did not feel like Trek because we don't do
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musicals in track right now we do I'm hoping we don't ever again. I
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mean, I don't know. I, like I said, I have really
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mixed feelings about it. One hand, super clever, brilliantly done. These
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people can sing, they can dance, who knew? There were lots of
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little funny parts in it. But then there were also parts that were just
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dragging. Um when they did um, when Spot did his solo song,
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his solve for X or solve for Y and I'm the X Yeah, and
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then Hurra does a song immediately after that, I was like, Okay,
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this is now. Now it's dragging. This is going on too long.
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Of course, the whole premise for why this was happening in the first place
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was kind of yeah, they found a reason that yeah, shaky at best.
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The actors clearly had a good time doing this. They you know,
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nobody held back anything. Um, I don't know. There were, like
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I said, there were parts that were clever. There were parts that were
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really just oh my word, okay, next, let's go, let's go.
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Um. But like I said, I just I have such mixed feelings
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about it. So what did you guys think? Um? So I'm not
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a musical fan, right right. I think for what it is, I
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think it went really well. The first song of all the songs was my
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favorite. Yeah, yes, I like that too. Yeah, I think
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that was the best song. Um. But yeah, man, there was
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maybe two three too many songs for me. Yeah. I think it needed
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to be more like a Disney musical where there's a there is four more talking.
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Yes, that's a that's a good analogy, yeah, than than what
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this was, which was a Broadway musical where yes, every ten seconds is
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another song. Absolutely could see this being performed on a stage. Yeah yeah,
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and I wonder if that's the goal, you know, that that could
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be a thing that then they could take to conventions or travel around the country
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or whatever. So, um, I know that soundtrack is on Spotify right
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now. Yeah yeah yeah, and people are loving it so that's great.
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Uh. The reaction I've seen online has been mostly positive. There have been
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some people who vehemently hate it. Um, but it seems to be those
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that are negative have been like, yeah, it's not for me, but
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whatever, like it. It's fine? Um yeah, Dan, what would
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you think? Um? So I watched it twice, which if you if
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you've listened to this show before. You know that. Um, I only
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watch them twice when I when I enjoy them. Oh, I did enjoy
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it, okay, Um, I did not expect that I was. It
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was exciting to watch because it's different. It was fun to watch because it's
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different. It's funny because it's different, and we're seeing these characters. We're
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seeing these characters that we that we know and love in a new and interesting
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and humorous situation. Um. When I watched the show at home and there's
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other people in the house, I wear headphones, I don't you know.
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I like to turn it up. I like to hear everything and not have
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to not have to compete with what else is going on in the house.
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And I could see my wife. We live in a split level house,
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so if I'm laying on the couch watching the show, I could see up
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the up the stairwell into the kitchen. And I caught her looking at me
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a couple of times like what is he laughing at? And and you know,
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I brought her down and and played some of it for her so that
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she could, uh, she could laugh about it. Um. That being
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said, there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours of Star Trek,
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and I'm glad only one hour of it is a musical. That, um
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exactly, it's exactly the right amount of ratio of musical to non musical for
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for Star Trek, it was it was new, it's something they've never done
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before. Now they've done it, we've experienced it. We can appreciate it
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for what it is. But I don't want to. I don't want this
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to be a thing where, you know, every season, now halfway through
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the season, it's it's the musical episode, you know. I don't I
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don't want that. Yeah, um, yeah, I'm I'm glad that they
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made and I think I talked about this last week that I hope they do
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it this way. They made the fact that they're singing and they're in a
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musical. They made it part of the story, not not just hey,
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we're gonna shot an episode of It would have been very easy to say,
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we're gonna shoot an episode of Star Trek, but it's a musical, and
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they just never talk about the fact that these people are singing on the bridge.
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I like that they that they made it part of the part of the
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show. If they were going to do another one of these. I would
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like it to be uh lower decks. I don't want to see Yeah,
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I just said that. He's absolutely absolutely okay. I'm not reading. Yeah,
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I'm not reading as as I'm talking. I can't walk and shoot gum
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um. And it would be very easy they were you know, the portal
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thing from two weeks before could have still been open and part of that energy
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followed them through or whatever they could. They could, they could, they
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could figure it out. Um. My favorite song again is probably the first
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one, okay, And the reason I like it is because it was still
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Star Trek. They were still doing and saying Star Trek things. They were
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just they were just doing it to music. Yeah, you know, the
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intermix chamber and containment field are stable. I'll get to the warp corps and
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assess it state when I'm able. And they put that to me, and
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that's exactly what they would stay, what they would say in that in that
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situation, and everyone's apologizing to each other back and forth, and that is
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so Star Trek. Give me a reading on such and such. I apologize,
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Captain, But you know, the blahblity blah blah blah blah blah is
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out of whack, I'll get back to you check with tactical and yeah,
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so you know when Lan comes in and gives her tactical assessment of the ship,
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and the rhyming and the cadence was just perfect. But she wasn't saying
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anything differently than what she would normally say or might normally say. And I
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it was just it was amusing to me to think about, Okay, you've
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got your star Trek right at this table, and you've got the um musical
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consultants that they brought in for the episode, right, And I imagine them
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sitting there and putting their heads together and say, okay, we have to
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talk about the intermix chamber and the shield polarity and the warp corep matter antimatter
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ratio and here make it rhyme, and they have to write a song about
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it. And I find the process that they must have gone through. I
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found that interesting. I also enjoyed how they when they threw to Ortegas,
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she musically said I'm Ortegas and I fly the ship. Yeah. Yeah,
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she didn't use those words, but they kept with that theme right of her
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saying that episode after episode. So I enjoyed that. Yeah, I think
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you're right, because that status report song did focus on bringing Star Trek into
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the musical. Yes, it's opposed to the character emotions that made it the
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more entertaining song, because I'm here for Star Trek, right, So yeah,
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Ortegas, Ortegas is at the helm, the pilot's seat is my realm.
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I'm Ortegas and I fly the ship. Yeah, and Uhura who said
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I keep us connected? So yes, yes, we're we're We're just defining
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everybody's roles here, I guess. So I'm curious if folks um will will
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tell us what they think that their favorite song was, now what we had?
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By the way, did you notice if you did not skip the credits
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at the beginning or the opening, if you didn't skip it, they sang
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that too at the very very beginning, and then of course they did it
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at the end as well. Yeah, that was That was like a barbershop
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quartet version of the incoming of the of the opening credits. And while and
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while I liked it, what I would have preferred, you know, the
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original TS theme song has lyrics that were never used on the show. I
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would have loved for them to use it actually actually perform that that song and
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sing those sing those lyrics. So I think it was kind of a missed
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opportunity there. And I did stay for the credits at the end to see
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if maybe they did it at the end, and they didn't. Yeah.
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But so the song status Report, Connect to Your Truth? How would that
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feel? Private conversation, which was kind of funny. Ye, keeping secrets,
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I'm ready, I'm the X, keep us connected and then we are
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one. So of all of those, I'm curious as to folks as to
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which one they think was was the best of all of the songs. And
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Dan obviously likes the Connected. I guess it was Status Report. That's Status
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Report. Yep. Yeah, mine was I'm Ready. I really like that
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one. Okay, Okay, Yeah, when when Standards of Purpose came on,
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I was like, oh, okay, maybe this won't be so bad.
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And then ye others happened. Like I didn't hate them, but I
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was just like, Okay, this is just not for me and it's fine.
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But but I also liked how they were still they were still their own
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characters. Y Yeah, so that was yeah. Lan was singing. Lan
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was singing, Uh, security detects, No threats will do a personal overhaul,
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no decks unchecked. All tactical functions are steady, phaser banks, deflect,
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the shields all at the ready. But as she was saying it,
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she was saying it like like she was yelling it to the captain as if
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they're they're in a firefight the same way, you know, like if consoles
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were exploding around them. That's how she would be yelling it across the bridge,
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and that's how she sang it too. I also I also liked how
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um again they made it part of the story and and this pocket universe that
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they're in had its own set of rules, um or, this pocket reality
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had its own set of rules. So when Bettel hails the ship and she
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starts singing and the music, the music is coming from the other ship,
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and this thing that's happening is originating on the other ship, uh Ln knows
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enough to walk across the bridge and terminate the transmission and that and that stops
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the that stops the musical number. Just as Pike is doing the double the
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double pull down fist dropped to his knees. Yeah, and then it stands
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up like what was they doing this? So I liked how okay the song
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is happening over there. She's not part of the song. It's a it's
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a it's a private conversation, was the name of it. Was the name
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of the song. It's a private conversation between um Pike and Patel Patel.
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And so because of that, she's not affected by the phenomenon, and she's
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outside of it and can just walk across the room and shut it off.
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Yeah. So I like I like how they you know, it had its
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own rules. Well, and I like that they made this singing a threat
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right because they were, Yes, they were expelling information that they shouldn't have
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been. Yes, and so that gave it at least context and a reason
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why we need to stop this, you know. Yeah, so that was
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cool. What was your Daniel, What was your favorite song? Oh?
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The first one? Status Report, Status Report. Although I did like when
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the Klingons like, yeah, the auto tune rap with the yeah and then
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I've heard that the that the Klingon captain was Hartack. Yeah, yeah,
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I did not know that. That's great. I like how if you I'm
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sorry, go ahead, No, I was just saying he's not good.
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I like how their uniforms seemed to be a blend between the TS movie slash
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uh tng cling on uniforms and the uniforms we saw in TS, The Golden,
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the Golden and Brown. They also kind of resembled the Discovery. We
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actually no, it was Mirror Universe, wasn't it. Who wasn't it u
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Georgoe's folks who were always wearing the black and the gold. Yeah, yeah,
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I was gonna say it was very reminiscent of that. Yeah, yeah,
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yeah. I also like at the end, you know, the spot
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is monitoring the the whatever they had to they had to get the get the
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equalizer up to up to eleven. Yeah. Yeah, they had to turn
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it up to eleven, and he's, you know, he's at his station
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and he's monitoring it, and it's, oh, it's only ten. It's
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got to go to eleven. I'm gonna have to dance to save the Enterprise.
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And he just runs over and yeah, gets his sass up and joins
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the congoline and saves the ship. I also enjoyed how you know, the
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ships were dancing at the end, the ships were dancing and then pyrotechnics,
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which is how a musical ends. Everyone all the props, everything from the
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whole show is back on the stage. It's all moving around of that boom.
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There's pyrotechnics and everyone bows. Sounds like you've been to a few musicals
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in your life. I've been to a fu I don't know. Yeah,
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handful. I mean you're in the region for that, So just say Hamilton
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you'll be safe. Yeah, I've never seen Hamiltons. I have and I've
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seen it live and I saw it on the movie on Disney or whatever.
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You have to see it live. Yeah, it's just it is spectacular live.
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But that's a different thing. So ty Tice is the anomaly explained the
30:14
singing, but you know, it doesn't explain the dancing. Um. When
30:19
you sing, you just you dance. That just happens. That's a thing
30:22
that happens. Helping, that's right. You know, you start tapping your
30:26
toe and you know, if you're at a concert and it's a it's a
30:33
standing concert, you dance. It just happens. It's not something you decide
30:37
to do. Yeah, just watch the clips from the Taylor Swift concert.
30:40
Everywhere right now, you're under dancing. If you're at a concert and you're
30:45
you're standing the entire time, you're under fifty okay, yeah, I just
30:49
tell you, yeah, that's true. I'm wondering though, if the Klingons
30:53
all committed uh, if they all killed themselves after that, just to prevent
30:59
dishonor to their house, so it's never spoken of again. Yes, yeah,
31:06
yeah, that is not something we discussed with outsiders. Here says Dan
31:14
was now dancing. He has face of the heart. It's been a long
31:19
road mm hm oh boy. Yeah, we'll check. Looking a little gentry
31:32
today. He is, he's got he's got a case of the gentries.
31:36
Hold on, I'll hold on. Let we h. I'll get to uh,
31:40
I'll get to feedback as he does. I get the chord right here,
31:42
right, Yeah, So I do want to thank I do want to
31:48
thank them for something's um unless I missed it, I don't think we saw
31:53
um my least favorite engineer lady singing right one or two? She she just
32:00
had one or two lines. Yeah. I don't think I could handle.
32:04
I don't think I could handle like a two minute ballot of her singing about
32:08
antiques or something. You should have seen it in my time. Oh God,
32:15
I can't stand her. I just can't. I just can't. I
32:21
think for her with character development. They have got to get her out of
32:29
the airlock, right. You know, I like her, I just we
32:32
need to see her expertise. All every time I see her, she's walking
32:37
around and I'm like, can we get her to you know, show that
32:40
you've got some incredible expertise. And that's why you're in this position, not
32:44
just because you know, you wanted to get off the star base. Um,
32:47
but I feel like she's a placeholder and that there's something that is definitely
32:53
coming in terms of who's going to be, you know, the new mister
32:57
Scott or something like that. Yeah, maybe mister Scott will be the new
33:00
mister Scott. Hopefully down with that. Yeah, it's prett Scott Bowders will
33:07
be the new mister Scott. There you go, t Scott, can you
33:10
can? That's right? Um. So they gave us a little clue as
33:17
to where we are in the timeline now too. I caught that too.
33:23
Carol Marcus is is in the picture and pregnant with David and uh that's the
33:31
thing. May he rest in peace? Oh my favorite line, my favorite
33:37
line? What's that? So they have the first musical number they go to
33:40
commercial that come back. They're in the ready room, and Pike says,
33:45
well, that happened, Yeah, yes happened. I love that. I
33:53
love that. I'm surprised we did not get a a cooking song with him.
34:02
I bet there was a giant board with all right, what songs can
34:06
we do? Yeah, and that was probably on there. Yeah, the
34:10
paprika and only a table spoon, just the helm, so we don't collide
34:17
with that moon. Nice Daniel, take it, No, I got I'm
34:27
not part of this. Hard stop were done. We crashed into the moon.
34:38
Remember that time that Dan and Gentry were freestyle singing? Yeah, that's
34:45
right, that was funny. H Yeah. By way, one of my
34:51
least favorite characters of all on from from the Original Trek is David Um.
34:59
You remember from Cohn Start two now, actually it was start check three is
35:05
where he was killed, wasn't it. Yeah? Yeah yeah, I couldn't
35:08
stand that guy. I don't know why. I was just like, you're
35:12
such a whiner, you're not a You're not Kirk in any way, shape
35:15
or form. Yeah, bat left, I'll take care of this problem for
35:20
you. Geez. Anyway, it's like we got to kill someone gonna be
35:28
Kirk's son. Okay, Wow, that was pretty good. Can you can
35:35
you scream? Run for it, Marty, It's the Libyans, Run Marty,
35:40
It's the Libyans. Pretty good. You never know what you're gonna get
35:50
on this show. Now. We did also get a preview for next week's
35:54
episode. I didn't say that. Yeah, it was on the Will Wheaton
36:00
Show. Um, well that's why. Yeah, that's why. The preview
36:04
is pretty intense. Definitely the Gorner coming back and yeah, so it's gonna
36:10
be intense. Sounds like, uh yeah, I don't know who predicted it,
36:14
but it sounds like Captain our Pike's girlfriend is in danger and so they're
36:17
gonna need to save her. So yeah, yeah, and then he'll swear
36:22
off of Romance forever probably I don't know, or she'll die like some people
36:29
predicting. You know, they've they've done a good job at making the Gorn
36:35
dark. Yeah. Yeah, so we've only seen um like baby Gorn,
36:43
right, we haven't seen a full grown correct correct Kirk? Okay, tie,
36:51
I agree. It was answer Mount's voice on his singing was a little
36:54
a little weird. I think they had other people singing and these guys were
37:00
some of them. Yeah, that that could not sing well, ln,
37:06
we know she has her own singing career, so correct. Yeah, and
37:09
then um chapel if that was her voice, Holy cow. Yeah I like
37:17
that a lot. But yeah, because stage left to perform their own musical
37:24
number. So one of my favorite, one of my favorite Star Trek cosplays.
37:30
I think I've I've mentioned this before, but about ten or fifteen years
37:34
ago, I was at STLV and there was a dude wearing the white sequin
37:39
bell bottom, high collar Elvis jumpsuit, but he was also wearing the Gordon
37:45
mask and it was perfect. It was the most vegasy Star Trek thing you've
37:54
ever seen. I love it. I love it. I'm gonna try and
37:59
find a picture and I'll put it up. What about this guy? They're
38:02
coming on Elvis colling on with with the dazzled bath. Yes, rid Stones
38:12
all over it. That's nice. Yes, nice. Well, let's let's
38:19
get to feedback. I think that's pretty much all we've got to say about
38:21
the the show. So hey, so yeah, we've got some feedback.
38:37
Um, I do have a packed lid review, so really, yes,
38:46
and we actually have a visual component to it. So let's let's play it,
38:53
ladies and gentlemen, it is my sincere pleasure to present to you Star
39:00
season two, episode nine, Subspace Rhapsody, a peck led review. But
39:07
why live long and prosper and we'll see you out there. Yeah, the
39:21
back list did not enjoy that. Oh that that caught me off guard.
39:28
Yeah. Yeah, I was trying to get the pictured animate, but all
39:32
I can do is the baseball. So there we go. That was that
39:37
was God. Yeah, I'm gonna be saying that for next week. Good
39:45
job, Scott Mercy. So I sent you that picture of the corn as
39:50
the Elvis. Oh okay, Elvis or whatever. Yeah, let me put
39:54
that up. I'll look at that. Yeah, wow, that's very good.
40:06
Yeah, I like that that the lady Gordon is wearing shoes and he's
40:09
not. Yeah, he's got green feet. That's right. Yeah, that's
40:14
that's a choice. You know, Tie just brought up Tye and Wolf just
40:20
made a comment that I think is a pretty good, um, a pretty
40:24
good point that even if this wasn't your cup of tea, and you know,
40:29
and this this, you know, you're like, Okay, they did
40:30
it. I'm glad they did it. Don't do it again. That's how
40:32
I felt. Um it was ten percent of the season. Yeah, And
40:39
someone else had mentioned earlier that if this had been like one, you know,
40:43
we had another eight to go, you'd be like, okay, you
40:46
move on. We got one left. Yeah, and that's it. And
40:52
I didn't even when I realized that the other day that there was only one
40:55
episode left, I was just like, oh crap. Now, thankfully Lower
40:59
Dex is coming in. But yeah, and you know, just stop filming,
41:04
by the way, because of the strike for season three on Stranger World.
41:08
Yeah, yeah, I don't think they were filming yet. Um,
41:12
but yeah, it's everything is halted. Something I think I read actually said
41:16
that they had started filming three and that they had stopped because of the strike.
41:22
So oh yeah, it could be. Could be. I mean they
41:25
stopped midway through the Deadpool movie. So I'm sorry Daniel Dan and I interrupted
41:30
you. Yeah. No, I was just gonna say, um, talking
41:34
about this is this is ten percent of the season and we only have,
41:37
you know, we have a finite number of episodes. It just reminds me
41:39
of back in the day when you watch your you tune in to watch your
41:44
favorite sitcom and quickly realize that it's there's only one character from the show on
41:51
it and he goes to visit a different family and it's a backdoor, backdoor
41:54
pilot for a different show, you know, and you're like, oh,
42:00
we wasted an episode, wasted an episode on this backdoor pilot that's not gonna
42:04
get picked up. And every time you rewatch the series going forward, it's
42:08
that awkward episode midway between season seven where Arnold Arnold goes and visits another family
42:15
and he's in the first five minutes, in the last five minutes, and
42:17
it's not an episode of different strokes, it's something else. Yeah, yeah,
42:23
Alejandra, I think you're right, But I think we're gonna They're gonna
42:27
do a cliffhanger for sure. Oh yeah. If the Gorn attackles resolve within
42:31
forty five minutes of the show, yeah, the cliffhanger could be you know,
42:37
Patel, is she dead or not? M Yeah yeah, Um,
42:42
all right, we got some people on the line, so let's bring in
42:45
Bathlet boy be there. Let's back, all right, nice, I'll knew
42:59
it. Oh that was awesome, I think, yeah, I mean I
43:05
would watch I watched I admit I watched Lee, I watched Pitch Perfect,
43:07
all those but this was truly a Broadway Stole musical, even the music,
43:13
because all those other songs, they're just doing covers of you know, rock
43:15
songs and classic songs and stuff like that. But when the Clingops came one,
43:21
I was expecting like a cling On opera and really deep low voice and
43:28
yeah, and they just broke out into the K pop and I just I
43:30
just lost it. I would just I think that was part of part of
43:37
the anomaly, is that the people are doing things that they wouldn't normally do
43:42
because they're in this pocket universe and Clingon's probably walk around the ship all day
43:45
singing cling on opera. They don't do auto tune boy band rape, right,
43:52
And that was their dishonor is that what are we doing here? Ka
43:55
pop now has a new meeting in my head? That was all over the
44:00
week. Yeah, Ywood that they explained it though, I mean it was
44:07
part of the anomaly, right. I was like, Oh, we're in
44:10
a musical thing. We had to follow the musical rules. And I thought
44:15
it was actually interesting when I thought about Chapel and when you go back to
44:21
watch the old series now and you see how Chapel looked at Spot and he
44:27
had no emotion, he had nothing to return, and after seeing the way
44:30
they explained this episode, how much how I guess hurt he was from that.
44:35
Yeah, I can see it now and it's like, Wow, added
44:37
way more depth to characters back then, and if anything, I think that's
44:43
probably the best thing they've done with the series, is adding to stuff.
44:47
I mean, I know they changed a bunch of things and redid things,
44:51
but to add to that depth, yeah, I think that was probably my
44:54
favorite part. So yeah, yeah, I think they did definitely did a
45:00
good job with Spock with that relationship specifically. Now, the song was the
45:06
song. It was interesting for x Um or Salve for y and I'm the
45:12
x Um. It was nice to see that level of depth, but you
45:15
almost Ethan Peck. You could almost see him physically change from that. You
45:23
know, I might smile every once in a while to Nope, it's it's
45:28
logic. From this point forward, he almost like this drawing end of himself.
45:34
Hm um. There was a lot of people online talking about how technically
45:40
this wasn't the first musical in Star Trek because they were saying all the past
45:46
musical performances in other episodes, right whenever Riker would play or Vic would play.
45:52
I don't agree with that. Yeah, yeah, that's that's not the
45:58
same thing. Yeah, I think those are perform is not a musical.
46:00
So yeah, yeah, this was a true musical. I mean yeah.
46:04
The style of song they used, Yeah, well written songs, I mean
46:07
I was impressed. Very well written. Yeah, the songs are very well
46:10
written, clever, and they kept them, and they kept them star Trek
46:15
e Yeah, you know if they kept introducing elements that we immediately would recognize.
46:21
There's a part in one of the songs excuse me where they say to
46:24
protect the mission our prime directive and you hear Spock overlaying the lyrics and say,
46:32
not exactly, because that's not our prime directive. Our prime directive is
46:37
not to interfere with lesser species, and YadA, YadA, YadA. So
46:43
they kept interjecting bits of Star Trek that we would recognize. So this season
46:49
we've had two very silly episodes, right, We've had the crossover and we've
46:52
had this. Should they have spaced that out and maybe one of them have
46:57
been in season three and only have like one big silly episode per season.
47:02
Yeah, I think folks would have tolerated it. Better. Yeah if they,
47:08
But um, it's a previous episode, the War one that was so
47:14
that was such a War one. Yeah, you kind of almost forgot about
47:20
the crossover. Which which one was that remind me last week last week where
47:23
everybody had PTSD from the War with Chapel. Oh yes, yeah, yeah,
47:29
yeah. No. I think they did that on purpose to break it
47:31
up a bit. Otherwise you'd have people saying, you know, what are
47:36
they doing to this show? It's it's it's not serious anymore. So I
47:39
think they definitely did that on purpose. But if that was smart, they
47:45
would they would take the show on the road and have a tour of this
47:49
episode for like a Broadway tour, all the plays and have the music,
47:53
the actor, a bunch of different actors playing the part. And I would
47:59
I'd probably go to just because it's the Star Trek thing. I'll watch anything
48:05
Star Trek except the animated series. I wouldn't be surprised, Terry if that
48:10
happens. I would not be surprised. Uh Wolf says, do you guys
48:15
originally think this was meant for Discovery? I do not. I do not.
48:21
Um, I don't think people care about those characters enough to sit through
48:28
uh them singing about stuff Avengers the musical. There you go. Yeah,
48:35
I could do this all day. They said they only sing when they have
48:38
their emotions, so every single line and disco would have been singing. Yeah.
48:44
Have been minutes of Michael Burnham sing yeah the whole time crying. Yeah,
48:51
exactly, all right? Anything else you want to bring up? Taron
48:55
before we out next year? STLV next year because I oh yeah, yeah,
49:02
yeah, I fear you guys. So next year, for sure,
49:07
Yeah, it'll be nice because the strike will be over and everything will be
49:12
no strike, no COVID, you know. Yeah, I'm sure there'll be
49:15
an earthquake or something that will prevent us from getting out California. Right,
49:22
Yeah, we'll finally get those aliens. We'll finally get you know, Godzilla,
49:24
something something, all right, the aliens are. The aliens are here.
49:30
Did I watched I watched c SPAN last week? Right, that's right.
49:37
I can't tell you about them, yeah, all right. And then
49:40
we also got Chaz Biz well, damn, and he's got he's got a
49:50
dog run around in the back ground. Yep, he's barky today. I
49:53
don't know why. Yeah, gotta give him. What do you think is
49:59
he sing? Is that what it is? Yeah, he's tried to east
50:00
try to contribute to the musical nature of it. The other Hold on mutiny
50:06
real quick. I'm gonna give him some bones. Okay, hold on,
50:12
hold on, Yeah, he's not turned on. I turned on the Universal
50:15
Translator. What he was saying is my name is Fido. I'm at the
50:19
Helm. I chased the house. It's our guys talent, right yeah,
50:34
wo man. So Scott Scott put something up about um Chicago twenty twenty four.
50:40
There is there is there a thing? Or is it that his house?
50:45
I think it says I actually I would actually prefer to go to Chicago
50:53
over Vegas. Yeah actually, yeah, it's atually. I don't know if
51:01
you know. But so they did the convention at the Rio. Yeah,
51:06
huh have you ever been to the Rio? Yeah? I was there.
51:10
I was there for a convention about well they've been doing it there about ten
51:15
years. So yeah, not not not the not the best on the strip.
51:19
Yeah, from the images I've seen it, it's yeah, I don't
51:22
think it's even on the strip if I remember correct, that's that's that's off
51:24
the strip. It's off the strip. Yeah, I say Penn and Teller
51:29
there so that it was walking by. I'm sorry, no, I saw
51:35
the shot was funny, man, it was funny that just one know,
51:38
Chaz, it's your dog, Okay, is it still a live I have
51:42
family here and they're walking around and disturbing them. So it's my fam my
51:47
dogs are Maybe we pick a different city than it would, just do our
51:51
thing where we just go to like to a comic book convention, like something
51:55
that's got a little bit of everything. Sure, I'm fine, just find
52:00
something preferably but before May, because I have a delta credit. Yeah all
52:07
right, well let so seriously, seriously, if we find something, you
52:12
know, I wouldn't mind that. Yeah, I wouldn't either. Yeah,
52:15
okay, cool, Jamine. Would you think of the episode? Uh?
52:22
Yeah, that's what I thought of it. It happened, It happened.
52:29
It took me to watchings, so I stayed up like to watch it,
52:31
and then I was like, I think I'll go to bed now. So
52:36
get a fever dream, which was your favorite song, the one where they
52:42
turned the song off on Pike starts sing grand and then the lin just walks
52:50
over and shuts the communication off. So that was great and then auto tune
52:55
clingons. Never thought I would see that in my life. I never thought
53:02
auto team. Why did you let him in? You know what's funny?
53:10
So I was taking notes during I knew I was gonna be a guest hosting,
53:15
So I was taking notes during the show while I was watching it.
53:17
Yeah, and I wrote a thing and here towards the beginning of the show
53:22
it said, oh, my word, the last thing anything anyone wants is
53:25
singing Klingons. And then we get to the end and what do we have?
53:29
Singing clings? Right all right? Right by the way. How many
53:32
times did they slip Heisenberg compensator in there? I don't know. I'll I
53:38
gonna say, is the worst engineer in Star Trek history suggested to sing into
53:43
the stinking thing? So it's all her fault. So if you didn't like
53:46
the episode, ke Bears got the comment of the day, yea a Chasma's
53:52
house to save the dog? Love it, Dan's resistingly urge you put it.
54:06
Let's get to the dog. Now, let's save the dog. I
54:10
gave him a bone and then they're like, starts sparking, don't get so
54:15
that's another Yeah, that's funny, But now, now, Dan, remember
54:22
next time wax off and you would have saved you, like, yeah,
54:32
if you okay, yeah off. So what you said the first time means
54:38
another thing. Yeah that was yeah. Well I like kars. I've learned
54:45
it's from Karate Kids. So remember Dan, wax off? Thanks, PG
54:57
thir. Let's keep it, PG thir. It's like it's PEG. You
55:00
watched the movie. There's nothing dirty on those movies. What are the other
55:09
Dan's gonna bring the hand drums next time, he's gonna go. You didn't
55:17
watch Karate Kit two, Karate Kit three, and then all of Cooper Kai
55:22
and the next Karate made and the next yeah yeah, and then the Jackie
55:28
Chan that knows kung fu not karate. So, by the way, I
55:34
saw the I saw the Ninja Turtle movie this weekend with my Jackie. Jackie
55:38
Chan was the voice of Splinter, which was pretty interesting. Was it?
55:44
Is it worth saying? I had fun with it? My son and his
55:49
friend loved it. Yeah, okay, what about you? I Um,
55:52
I enjoyed it. I uh, you know, I'm on the hustle relaxeres
56:00
for my for my job, and it makes it makes me so tired.
56:06
And I did I did. I nodded off for just just just just a
56:14
microsecond. It was it was one, you know, it was one of
56:15
these when your snork wakes you up right. Yeah, that's my wife.
56:24
Every movie I'd be like, you're snoring. I'm always nudging her, you
56:30
know. I So about twenty years ago, I was on a date and
56:37
I was dating this girl and we went to the movies and she fell asleep
56:43
during the movie. But she fell asleep like this, her head, her
56:50
head was back tilted to the side, mouth wide open. I could see
56:53
her tonsils and I looked at her and I and I thought to myself,
56:59
I can't do it. Do I want to do? I want to see
57:01
that every morning for the rest of her So he starts with popcorn over on
57:07
the side to see how many he can get in there. So, uh,
57:12
you know, we stayed for the rest of the movie and I told
57:15
her it's not you, it's me. And that was the seats like set
57:20
in the front road or something diver there. Could you imagine she wakes up
57:24
after the movie, she's only one in the theater. I'm gone and I
57:29
just gotta find a ride hole And you were her ride anyway, real quick.
57:40
Dangit? Didsee didse Barbie? Oh? Yeah? With my daughter?
57:46
Okay, it was okay, Yeah, I'll preach you some some part my
57:52
son I have not yet. My son saw Oppenheimer. My son is eighteen,
57:58
and he thought it was fantasic, pastic. Yeah. Yeah. So
58:02
I just don't know if I can sit for three hours in a movie theater,
58:06
I go to a movie theater that serves alcohol, and you can do
58:07
it, you know, but I'll definitely fall asleep. I know. My
58:19
wife fell asleep through that one. And then she's like it's too long.
58:22
I was like, yeah, I know, it's too long, but it's
58:23
good. It's really good. So definitely check it out. But all I
58:28
gotta say is no more musical episodes for Star Trek. Yeah, I agree
58:34
they did, because I don't know. I just I like musicals, but
58:40
I don't like this to be a musical. And I think what did worked
58:45
better is the Lower Deck It's episode. Then that would have been more like
58:50
South Park when they do their musicals. Yes, it could have been really
58:52
really funny that way, because that could have been a little dirty year and
58:58
yeah, it would have worked. Yeah, and goof here, it would
59:00
have made more sense for that show than this than some pattern that I don't
59:06
know how to communicate with. And then all of a sudden they start singing
59:08
to it and it goes off the rails. I'll tell you this, those
59:13
Spotify numbers jump really high. Lower deck will have a musical episode as well.
59:16
Yes, yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, and supposedly it's
59:22
doing really well on Spotify, so yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll see
59:24
if people like their musicals except to me. So all right, ja,
59:30
well thanks for being on. Okay, well, thank you guys. Bye,
59:36
all right? Um anything else? Uh t Bear says. So if
59:45
Scott, Gentry and Chaz are the next next gin Bridge crew, does that
59:50
make the rest of his lower deckers? Yes, yes, I like it.
59:53
I like it all right, as opposed to upper deckers, which is
59:59
a completely different, different thing. Oh no, god, sorry, Well
1:00:07
on that note. On that note, yeah, everybody can go google what
1:00:14
that means very quickly. Um. If anyone has suggestions on what might be
1:00:20
a good event for folks to meet up at, oh yes, I would
1:00:24
love to hear it in like the discord group Facebook, especially the Facebook group,
1:00:30
um something like that, because I'd love to start looking to see if
1:00:34
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