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Track us the Galaxy's Most Unpredictable Star Trek Podcast. Hello, welcome to Checkcasts
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the Galaxy's Most Unpredictable I am one of Scott's sidekicks with me is one of
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Scott's other sidekicks, Daniel. We're just I can only hope to be one.
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I know. We're just trying to hold things together until the big until
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our American hero returns. That's right, real American here ros. That's right.
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Oh man, it's almost like he's getting an ego. Almost. I
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mean, I don't see it, that's true, very subtle. Maybe yeah,
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maybe I don't. I don't see it. I don't see it.
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I know Desiree had to order all new hats for him because his head just
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got so big. Nothing nothing fit anymore. But you know, it's that's
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what happens when you're the host of the Galaxy's Most Unpredictable Star Trek podcast.
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Yeah. Absolutely, How have you been, man? How was your your
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fourth of July? Uh? Yeah, so we we we've had a we've
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had a rough couple of years. Yeah, sons with my son's school,
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we were we don't like the school. Yeah, and and we've been exploring
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ways to get him into a different school, and you know, there's limited
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options. You either move somewhere else, which is you know, a huge
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thing, selling your house, it's a gigantic undertaking. You either move home
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school. You home school, which is a lot of work. I have
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second property in another school district, which is also expensive, and uh things
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things came to a head recently where you know, school is out. My
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wife doesn't want him to go back to that school again. So I had
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this nice four day weekend and it was just all stress, you know,
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just looking through realtor and Zillo and and checking out school districts and yeah,
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I thought I was going to have this nice, relaxing four day weekend and
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it just it just didn't happen. So and then and then to find out
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that Scott's not joining us this morning was just one more letdown. It was.
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It was just it was like a rotten, moldy cherry on top of
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a ship Sunday. So the disappointment never ends. It doesn't it doesn't end.
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It doesn't end. And Jasmins does make the point the houses are sober
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priced right now. Well here's and that's there's two sides to every coin.
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I looked at what we can get for our house, and it's like,
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holy cow, it's you know, a lot more than we pay for it
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eight years ago, right, But everything else is more expensive too, so
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and then you know, you try, you get these ideas to try and
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game the system. It's like, well, you know, things are overpriced,
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but we're on the downslope now. The bubble is gonna burst. So
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how about I sell my house and then we go into a rental for a
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little while, let the bubble burst, and then and then buy something.
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And you know, so, okay, well I have a son and I
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have a daughter, so that means I need a three bedroom place, which
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is either a three bedroom apartment or a house. So let's see what it
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would cost to rent one of those. Oh my god, twice right what
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my morgan, three times what my more is right now right now to rent
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a place. So I don't know, we might just we might just buy
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a camper and just parking in the in the parking lot of whatever school my
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wife picks out for the kids. I don't know, well, I don't
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know, yeah, man, just home prices in general, and then and
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then the interest rates right now too, so like yes, yes. So
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you know, the interest rate on my mortgage right now is is, uh,
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you know, three point five percent. I look at what I would
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get into if I took out a mortgage right now, and it's twice that.
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Yeah, it's it's nuts. Yeah. But well my fourth was significantly
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less stressful. Well that's good. Yeah, glad to hear it. What
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do you guys do? We had a barbecue at uncle's house. Nice gardner.
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I mean, we did, we did all we did all that too,
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but I was, I was, I was at the background school.
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Yeah, no, we just we hung out. We had a good time.
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He went down to the Indian reservation and bought a bunch of illegal fireworks
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there you go. Yeah, yeah, everybody's still got ten little so far
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yeah so far right, that's good. Yeah yeah, but like the whole
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street, that's what everyone does around here. So like the whole street was
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their own private show. Yep. Yeah, and each one trying to out
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to you the next so nice. Yeah, it was a little nice.
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I don't know how it is there, but New York is strange. About
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ten years ago they changed the laws so you could buy fireworks yeah at like
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Walmart. Oh yeah, yeah, you can buy him here, but only
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it's only like thirty days leading up to July fourth and thirty days leading up
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to January first. The rest of the year. The rest of the year
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you can't buy them. And they're not the ones that go up in the
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air, the ones you light on the ground, like the candles the fountains
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or yeah, they have I don't know. Yeah. I thought it was
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funny being, you know, being online at Target and you look at the
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impulse rack and it's like, oh, you know what, I should get
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some Roman candles. Well right here, Yeah they have they have that type
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at the Walmart here, and then they have like the little huts they set
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out in the parking lot. Yes, yep, we have those two.
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Yeah, but the reservation is maybe half an hour away. Yeah, and
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they don't have those restrictions. Yeah, yeah, you can get I don't
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know what that. I don't know what they have on the reservations. Uh.
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In New York, I know, everybody goes to Pennsylvania. You hop
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over the border into Pennsylvania and you can buy mortar shells or whatever. Nobody
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cares. Yeah, it was funny because my my cousin, she had like
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a just giant arm of fireworks. Right, She was all excited and she's
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like, yeah, he told me that that was the last of it.
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I'm like, okay, so he shut down the minute we're done buying because
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you bought the last of it. She just looks at me like, oh,
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yeah, he got you, he got you. Nice. Yeah,
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Well we should probably get into Star Trek News. Sure, Star Trek News.
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All right, So our first headline comes to us from Variety and the
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ongoing will they won't they saga. We now have a new update on Paramount
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and what is going on, And apparently sky Dance Media and Paramount have reached
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an a tentative agreement, but for the time being, there is a forty
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five day window for Paramount shop for other offers. So this is a field.
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Yeah, so great, what have they been doing this last It's like,
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hey, do you want to go to prom with me? Yeah?
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If Steven doesn't ask me, I'll go to prom with you. That's right,
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that's what's right happening here. That is exactly what's happening. So so
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that's where we're at. So, yeah, there's a tentative agreement. It's
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a proposed six billion dollar transaction. So it's a lot of money, man,
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a lot of money for someone else to own the whole thing. Yeah,
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so you know what, you know what kind of school district that could
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get into for six billion dollars? Good one, whichever one I want.
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That's true. That's true. So but wasn't there another story? Wasn't there
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another guy who was you know, he was the president of Paramount like thirty
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years ago or whatever, and he wants to buy it. Yeah, like
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everyone's coming out of the woodwork staying they're interested. But you know, there
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there's that guy, there's the uh, the son of the guy who owned
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Oracle, the software company. Because we millionaire kids going after it. So
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yeah, well we'll see. But like that guy and the Oracles, and
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they probably have a shot at it, but not not like sky Dance.
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Sky Dancer is a giant conglomerate there. You know, it's all getting whittled
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down to one company apparently. You know, Elon Musk should buy it and
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then all of his rockets and and stuff. He could brand it. Yeah,
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he could. He could have Star Trek branded space travel. Come on,
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Elon, you could have the pep up Pig rocket. You know,
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I mean, I was thinking more like Star Trek. Oh yeah, yeah,
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that too. I was thinking all the franchises, you know, you
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know, he could what's the name of is, What's what's the name of
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his space SpaceX he could rename he could literally renamed SpaceX Starfleet and there's not
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than anybody, nothing, anybody could do about it. It's his. I
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mean, he could do that now. I mean Starfleet is registered for TV,
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not for real life. Yeah, I don't know. I think,
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yeah, it would be challenges, but yeah, whatever. And then our
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next story comes to us from trekmovie dot com. And now that Star Trek
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Prodigy is out, we're getting some hits up the ratings and apparently it's doing
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really well internationally. It is in the top ten for Netflix internationally. And
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meanwhile Star Trek Discovery is in the top five or top ten as well for
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Nielsen ratings, so both shows are doing pretty good. As you can see
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in the in the little graphic there, Prodigy is number ten in the top
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ten. So it's there, but you know, it's it's just under Cocoa
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Melon, I see, yeah, yeah, and Little Lunch and jab A
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Finn. Yeah, I don't know. But if you look at the breakdown
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per country, you know, it's it's number eight or nine in Austria,
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it's number seven in Belgium. They really love it in Belgium. Germany really
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loves it. It's been either seven, three, five or six. So
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yeah, it's moving. New Zealand's in the top ten. But not in
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the US. Huh. Not in the US? No, no, no.
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If we look at the Nielsen, which is these are the US numbers,
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Bridgerton is number one, but Star Trek Discovery is all the way down
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at number ten. You can see the vast difference in minutes viewed. This
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is minutes viewed in millions. So the other funny thing about it is,
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even though Discovery is in the top ten, it has the most episodes,
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so yeah for people watching it and the amount of bail someone yeah, yeah,
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if someone's tuning in for the whole thing, you know, yeah,
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it's a lot longer than than any of the other shows world. What is
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are these all shows or some of these movies whatever? Streaming content? So
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uh, okay, all right, yeah, so that those are the top
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ten shows original top ten so yeah, and then also just quick gits.
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Uh. Mike Mahon, the creator of Lower Decks, gave an interview recently
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to a podcast Extended Universe podcast, and he hinted at possible spinoffs for Lower
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Decks. He says in the upcoming season he's bringing in some characters, and
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he says, it's very obvious that you can tell which characters I would love
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to do more with. So I guess we'll see. I would love some
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Lower Deck spinoffs. What about you, Dan, Yeah, I mean I've
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enjoyed Lower Decks. It depends on what he's talking about, you know,
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I'd have to see. Yeah, I mean they're new characters. We have
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no idea, you know. Yeah. And then our last news story,
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let me bring this back up from a trekmovie dot com and we are getting
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a look at some exclusive merch that will be at the upcoming San Diego Comic
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Con. Comic Con is this July the twenty fifth through the twenty eighth,
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and they are unveiling some Starfleet style jackets. If you look at the screen
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for those of you watching, there's one that's kind of like inspired by the
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ship. It looks like it's got the NC seventeen oh one. It's kind
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of gray, kind of like a bomber jacket style. It looks like and
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then we also have based off the TNG uniforms that looks like that looks like
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Picard's jacket that he will yeah, kind of later episodes, they've got inside
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the jacket and the lining. They've got the Enterprise logo and it says,
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you know, property of USS Enterprise looks like a D. Everyone loves that
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D. Everybody loves that D. Baby. They are the pre order prices
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ninety nine dollars, so kind of not too bad, I think, price
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wise for something like this, you know, but you can pre order them
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at San Diego Comet Con. Then they're also going to be available at STLV,
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and then after that, whatever remaining stock, they're going to have a
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website where you can buy them in August, So yeah, cool, what
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do you think, Jen? Would you rock on? All? Right?
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So I'm looking at the patch. It says, you know, it's partially
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cut off, but USS Enterprise seventeen oh one, I think it says D
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and then it says Development Team Utopia Plantia Fleet Yards. So I think it's
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supposed to be like what the engineering crew wore, oh when they were built,
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yeah, when they were building this thing. So that's kind of cool.
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That is kind of cool. I like the design of the gray one
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way better than i'd like the uniform one. Yeah, yeah, I think
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it just it was cooler. But let's yeah, I like it. I
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like it too, So that's that is all the news stories. Cool.
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Well, let's get to our main topic. Fun will now come out.
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So Star Trek, part of these two is out. We watched a couple
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of episodes, at least how many episodes did you watch? Dan? I
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watched the first two episodes of the second season. Okay, I watched the
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first three, but okay, all right, and I did not watch the
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complete either, did I? And I went and I looked and I tried
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to I couldn't pick up where I left off because when I watched it the
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first time was on Paramount Plus and now it's Netflix, so it doesn't remember
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my my progress because it was service. So it's going through reading the different
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descriptions, trying to see where about I was and see, you know,
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should I finish off season one before starting season two? And I couldn't quite
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remember exactly where I was. And then I saw, well, there's like
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a lot that i'd have to watch to get a show that I'm not really
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that interested in so I just skipped ahead and I watched. Yeah, I
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watched the first two episodes of season two, tried to figure out the best
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I could what was going on, and it was fine. I figured it's
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a kids show. They've got to probably give a lot of context for everything
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they do because they never know any kids watching. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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I mean I did think there would be a recap and there was not,
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no, which that surprised me. Yeah, no, there was no
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recap. But would you think of the episodes? I mean, I didn't
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finish a show the first time, so more of that. I only watched
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two. Yeah I could. I could have watched those two and then gone
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back and watched the others do that. I could have watched those two and
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finished out the season. I didn't do that. I could have watched one
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more. I didn't do that. I don't know. It's a kids show.
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It's absolutely geared towards kids. Yeah, I don't know. I mean
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I love from when I follow on online, people seem to love it.
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Right there. It's got it's got a pretty high rating from what I've read
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too. The longer it goes, the more the lower is there and it
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and it touches on things and so like it rewards you for watching it as
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as you go along. Yeah, yeah, well here's here, here's the
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thing. Yeah, uh, I never watched Clone Wars for Star Wars still
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to this day, and I have the I have the movie that started it.
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Well, I have the cartoons that started it, the MTV shorts that
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they did. Yes, yes, the two D animated ones. I have
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those on DVD. I watched half of those. I never finished that.
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I have the movie that started the three D animated one. I think I
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watched the whole thing with my son. I can't be I can't remember for
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sure. And then I think I have like the first two seasons on DVD.
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Still never opened them, so I've never watched that. I've never watched
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Bad Badge, Rebels, all these all, all of that stuff. I
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never watched it. And I don't know that's a good that's a good analogy,
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because yeah, same, So maybe it's not it's not this show.
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It's that I'm not into animation for kids. Yeah, as much as I
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thought, yeah, I love Lower Decks. I watched the Netflix he Man
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series that came out. I liked that. I used to buy all those
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uh DC Universe animated films that came out, but a lot of those were
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but a lot of those were geared towards adults. They were, right,
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you know, which is strange. Yeah, which is strange that I'm saying
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this because I'm usually dumping on stuff for not being something I can watch with
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my kid. But you know, a lot of the a lot of those
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I bought before it had kids. So I don't know. I think part
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of it is that. I think part of it is I don't have to
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be in a rush to watch it. It's always going to be there,
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and there's a little bit of comfort in knowing that there's a little bit more
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Star Trek out there that I've never seen, like I have some like like
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it's behind the glass case of Emergency break glass, right, And to be
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honest, I think Discovery and Strange New Worlds are the first Star Trek series
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that I've watched from beginning to end as they were happening. When TG came
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out in nineteen eighty seven, I was ten years old. Season one was
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rough, and I watched a few episodes and then I checked out. I
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was like, this is boring A couple of years later, I came back
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watched it straight through. Deep Space nine started while TG was on the air.
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I watched the pilot episode. I watched the first few episodes. I
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was like, this is rough and I and I bailed out for a little
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bit. Then TG went off the air, and uh, you know,
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I started watching Deep Space nine. Had to go back and watch those those
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old episodes. Uh, Voyager, same thing I didn't watch. I didn't
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watch religiously the first few seasons because Deep Space nine was still on the air,
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and then I went back and rewatched them all. I was I wasn't
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a kid anymore. I was a young adult when Enterprise came out, and
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I had adult responsibilities and didn't I didn't watch them all as they were as
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they were coming out. So yeah, it'll always be there. I can
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always go back if I decide to. Then again the over two seasons,
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then again. At the same time, I'm probably lying to myself because I've
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been saying that to myself about Clone Wars for twenty two years. At this
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point, if I wanted to watch it, I would have watched it by
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now. Yeah. Yeah, it's nice to have the the the illusion of
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it though, yeah, yeah, and some of it was weird. The
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doctor was weird. Yeah, every time I looked at him, Like,
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if I close my eyes, he's the doctor. I hear the doctor.
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It's it's Robert Ricardo. Three D animation doesn't always look exactly when they're three
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D animating an actual live person and you know what that character should look like.
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It doesn't always look right. Woody and Buzz look exactly the way they're
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supposed to look, because you know, it's it's Tom Hanks is the voice
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of Woody. He's not Woody. He's the voice of Woody. Robert Paccardo
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is the voice of the doctor. But he also is the doctor. And
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when I look at him, I'm looking at the picture you put up right
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now. Yeah, I don't. I don't see the e mh. I
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see Johnny. I see Johnny Cab from U from Total Recall. For whatever
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reason, to me, that texturing on the skin reads as like, wouldn't
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like like the Marionette, Yes, like the Johnny Cab from do you know
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what I'm talking about? The Johnny Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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all right, Yeah, It's just it's not a good design. I feel
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like they could have done better. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, it's
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you know, I watched the first three episodes. To me, it felt
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a little more Star trek ish than what i'd seen before. Only saw a
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handful of episodes before, and that's probably because they were at Starfleet Academy,
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they were on ship, they were reporting for duty. You know, it
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had those aesthetics to it, right. It is, of course a kids
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show where they're all scrambling and talking about, Oh, we're gonna get in
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trouble if we do this, and yeah, you know, I did think
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it was funny that they mentioned that the Jeffery seos will take you anywhere,
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and that was just their magic portal to go anywhere they wanted on that.
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That was fun. I do like that in Dorian, I guess first officers
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kind of an asshole, you know, had that smug look about him,
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very very shrand like in that way. The oh you didn't get to episode
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three with the bird guy, so I saw I saw the flashback he was
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Chapote's first officer. I saw him dying or something. Yeah, yeah,
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getting or getting shot. Yeah, you see a lot more of him in
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episode three. That character seems interesting to me, yes, yeah, yeah,
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they do a lot of bird puns with him and he gets mad about
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it. It's pretty funny. Yeah, they gotta they gotta tie him to
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the the uh psychologist on the counselor on lower decks. See if they know
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each other? Oh yeah, yeah, like no, not all bird people
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know each other, you know, or the cats try and eat him.
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Yeah, yeah, but I did think, Oh, I'm sorry, goh
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no, good, go ahead. I was just gonna say there was a
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lot of timey me talk. Yes, And you know, the girl is
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on the planet and her mission doesn't go as planned and she flees and she
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has no one to flee to except her father, who is younger because of
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time travel and and and whatnot, and he's not evil yet. And you
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know, she meets him and and he's like a good dude. And m
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hmm. I don't know. I don't know. Are little kids gonna are
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they gonna get all that? Or is that gonna be too much? See?
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I think it's too much because they've even tried to explain time travel in
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this universe. How like it's kind of basically the Avengers model. Your past
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is always the past and it doesn't change. Yeah, And I get what
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they were trying to do and really dumb it down for kids, but that's
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still a difficult concept period, you know. Yeah, So like I don't
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think little kids are gonna go with it, But I also think little kids
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are just more prone to be like, yeah, whatever and just let go.
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Like I can remember being I was probably seventeen years old, uh huh,
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and trying to explain the grandfather paradox to my buddy's girlfriend, who was
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the same age at the time, and she just couldn't get it right.
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She just couldn't understand it. Yeah, And you know, and that was
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the seventeen year old almost woman at that point. So I don't know,
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because he's the kid that would let that go just like whatever. Yeah,
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I suppose. Yeah, it's weird because it's drawn and acted like a show
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for like, I don't know, kids between like five and ten, I
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would imagine, yeah, but really, like I think kids like ten to
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fifteen are more of the target audience, you know, m hmm. It's
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too I don't know. I don't think they know who their target audience is.
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Because this show's been out two years at this point, I have never
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seen a single piece of merchandise for this show. Yeah, they made that
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video game, right, but that's about it, Okay, and all the
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reviews set ups trash right. I think it was a reskinned It was a
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recenting, a different, a different video game. But like, h you
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know, we saw we saw pre production photos of toys and whatnot, and
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those never those never came out. I've never seen a I've never seen a
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Star Trek Prodigy lunchbox or water bottle or you know, backpack t shirt.
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I've never seen any of this. I mean, I'm sure this stuff exists
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somewhere, but you have to go find it. Yeah, you get a
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dig real deep in the internet for that one. Yeah. I think when
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when Netflix made the decision to purchase this from Paramount, I think they were
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thinking that forty year old people will watch this because it's a Star Trek.
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I don't think they were. They're not dumb people over there at Netflix.
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They know they're not. They've been doing it right for longer than anybody.
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H Yeah. Yeah, what else about the show? I don't know.
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Did you like the characters? Any of the characters did they stick out to
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you? No? Yeah? No, The main kid, Doll is that
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his name? I think so Doll Dell whatever, dal Dal Yeah, he
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is everything I usually hate about Star Trek, right, he he is the
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person the personification of I broke the rules, but it worked out, so
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I'm not gonna get punished for it, right, And that's usually what I
29:52
hate about about Star Trek. The most the most realistic scene in all of
29:59
Star Trek, I I think, is when Wharf goes back to save Judsya.
30:03
It says f the mission goes back to save Judgsya, and later on
30:07
Cisco tells him, your career will suffer because of this. You made the
30:15
wrong you made the wrong decision. I think that's the most realistic scene in
30:19
Star Trek. Yeah, granted years later it didn't matter and the enterprise at
30:26
some point, but the whole you did the wrong thing, but it worked
30:32
out, so we're going to keep you around. Yeah. That always bothers
30:36
me. But did you ever watch that show fall Out? The follow up
30:41
show? Okay, well, it was pretty popular and I know a lot
30:45
of our listeners watched it. For those of you who didn't know, the
30:48
voice actress for for Gwynn is actually from Fallout, Ella Parnell, So,
30:56
okay, Gwinn, which one is gwyn that's the one whose dad is evil.
31:00
That's the one whose dad is Yeah, but not in the past,
31:04
right, right, So like are they like brother and sister at this point?
31:08
What was going on there? Yeah? Yeah, so yeah, yeah,
31:18
I I thought that rock type creature thing good, good comedic foil.
31:25
You know, it's just there to be goofy. The one that looks like
31:30
a big giant rock monster but it's a little girl. Yeah. I mean
31:36
that's fun for kids, you know, just be scary looking thing. That's
31:38
just sweet. Yeah. The thing that looks like a washer with arms and
31:42
legs. What is that thing? Yeah, Micaporeal and it's stuck in a
31:48
washer. It's non corporeal. Mike Wazowski, Yeah, exactly, exactly.
31:56
Yeah, but yeah, yeah, I probably will go back to it.
32:01
I know Terran has said multiple times that he loves it, watches it with
32:05
his kids. Great. I'm glad that they have that. You know.
32:12
I tried to watch this with with my son and he he wasn't that interested.
32:16
Really, Okay, I was gonna ask Yeah, we uh. When
32:20
it first came out a few years ago, we sat down, we watched
32:22
it. We watched a few episodes and while it was on, he watched
32:27
it. Yeah, when we turned it off. Every time I brought up
32:34
going back to it, he wasn't he wasn't interested. Yeah, So so
32:38
if I put it on, he would probably watch it. But he's never
32:43
going to ask for it, right, So yeah, my my nephews and
32:49
niece just didn't seem that interested. Yeah yeah, all right, well,
32:54
I mean at this point, at this point, it depends on has he
33:00
done something bad and I took the iPad and switch away for the weekend,
33:05
because when because when that happens, suddenly sure his good old friend the TV
33:12
mm hmmm, fills in that gap that was this weekend. So okay,
33:20
he probably Yeah, he got in trouble, but if I put it on
33:24
this weekend, he'd probably watch it. Okay, Okay, anyway, well
33:30
yeah that's pretty much our review. Let's let's uh, let's get into listener
33:35
feedback. Jazz was waiting, so listener feedback. All right, So we've
33:45
got Chasmis on the line ready to go, so let's bring him in there.
33:50
He is the captain, Captain Chas Bis Just so you know, I
33:55
hope, I hope you're okay with this. Scot's not here, Yeah,
34:00
so if you wanted to be if you want to, if you want to
34:04
bail it out and call back next week, make it worth it. You
34:08
can. Nobody's going to take it personally. You're free to stick Scott ain't
34:14
here. Did you watch Prodigy or not? Or well? I found out
34:22
you could watch it at one and a half time speed on your phone.
34:27
Oh yeah, if you want to get through it really quick. The episode's
34:31
like thirteen minutes long at that. Yes, yeah, so while you have
34:36
talking, I could listen to it, so I might do that. Yeah,
34:43
you got through the whole show really quick. The whole season's about thirty
34:47
five minutes. Yes, yes, Well. One thing I was thinking of
34:52
is when they showed Starfleet Academy at the beginning of the show. Yeah.
34:57
Yeah, I'm sitting there. I'm like, I am so not excited for
35:00
the Starfleet Academy right right, because it's going to be the hogwarts of Starfleet
35:08
Academy, right. I think the sorting Badge is gonna put them in the
35:14
house. They're going to be in so they're going to be like a red
35:17
shirt or blue shirt or gold shirt. So you know, one thing I
35:22
will say about Prodigy that I thought was interesting is they did mention the romulent
35:27
evacuation that was going on during Picard. Okay, that was kind of cool.
35:31
They tied it in that way. That is cool. But I just
35:36
kind of wish, I don't know, like I want to see a new
35:42
Star Trek show that actually shows different aliens. Yeah, like strange new worlds
35:49
that didn't show any new aliens or something going so well. I mean they
35:54
had andorians, they had bird people, they had yeah, but I mean
35:58
a new species, new foreheads, new new nose ridges, they've got the
36:04
talking washers, sideburns, whatever. Yeah, something weird, all right,
36:12
all right, I mean to be fair, we don't know. We haven't
36:15
watched it all. Like there might be he wants he wants to reverse he
36:22
he wants a reverse trill. He wants a humanoids up inside some other yeah
36:27
oh no, even annoyed in a worm. Oh no, oh no,
36:37
I don't want any of those things. That'd be pretty cool. No,
36:42
it would not be cool, oh man. But you know, I like
36:53
I might have to reset. Okay, all right, Oh I like this
36:58
time period to start Trek. But yeah, me too. You know,
37:01
it's like they had the perfect show set up and then they messed up,
37:07
they let go of Terry Metallis. Yeah, and he's going to Disney right
37:13
now. He's gonna Marvel, yeah show which I'm excited he's doing, you
37:20
know, yeah, more Power because I'm excited. I'm definitely gonna watch that
37:24
show because I think he could. He's a good showrunner. Yeah, he
37:29
seems very good. I watched a few episodes of Twelve Monkeys, Yeah,
37:34
and that's really good too. Yeah. And then Captain was at Shaw's on
37:37
there right, yeah, somewhere in there. I haven't gotten to him yet,
37:42
but yeah, so you know he's gonna have to play a part and
37:45
vision so maybe they're like good buddies. Yeah, yeah, he'll throw them
37:52
in there somehow. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure he'll be in there.
37:55
I'll either be the bad guy or he'll do something right, right for
38:00
sure. What are you gonna ask? I was gonna ask you, uh,
38:06
what would you want in a Star Trek show for kids? Like?
38:08
How would you what would you do with it? I think this will go
38:14
over my head as a kid, Yeah, because you know, you're different
38:17
aliens and you almost need a humanoid or a human because you have the adults.
38:24
They are the humans, but you almost need somebody to represent the kids
38:29
because the kids don't see themselves as maybe the aliens. Yeah, I feel
38:36
like you could do something, you know, like uh, in TG,
38:39
they always had like kids around on the ship. Mm hmm, well yeah,
38:44
like a Westley Crusher type. Yeah, I think you could that,
38:51
Like they're surrounded by the by the originals, but they're they're the kids on
38:54
the ship. You know what it's like watching TG When I was a kid,
39:00
I like the Westley Crusher episodes, right right, you grew up as
39:04
an adult those episodes aren't as good as you remember, but you kind of
39:08
related to him because you're a kid. Yeah, that's true. I was
39:13
neat to see a kid on the starship and you're like, oh, that's
39:15
cool, and there's this kid and he's doing all this stuff. I mean,
39:17
that's that's the theory behind Robin. Right when they introduced him in Batman,
39:22
the idea was like kids could never be Batman, but they could be
39:24
Robin. Oh there he is, he's back. Yeah, I know what
39:29
happened there. Reconnect pair of the iPads my ret power through the secondary did
39:37
you go into some Jeffrey tubes and figure it all out. I did Doc
39:44
Brown on the clock Tower trying to plug it in, gets struck by lightning,
39:51
got it. But that's right, that's that's Alwa's wearing the hat.
39:54
His hair is all the mess right now. Yes, my hair is terrible.
39:59
Yes, so that's awesome. Well is there any upcoming sci fi shows
40:07
or movies that you're interested in? Well, Deadpool, of course. I
40:12
wouldn't say sci fi, but Deadpool. Just just to see a good superhero
40:17
movie. Yeah, just a bunch of timey why, Yeah, it's sci
40:22
fi ish. Yeah, yeah, because you you have a Loki connected to
40:27
it, and that's gonna oh what do they call it in that universe where
40:32
they can go into different time synergy? Yeah. Yeah, so yeah,
40:42
I might go see the new Quiet Place movie. I watched it last week.
40:45
Always it good, that's good. And just one thing about a quiet
40:50
place is every time you try to eat popcorn or take a drink out of
40:54
your drink, it's too quiet. It's it's gonna be super hot over here.
41:00
And so I want to go sit in your conditioning for a while.
41:01
So yeah, we're not about the movie. Yeah, And I was like,
41:06
yeah, the theater would be dead now, So I shouldn't be watching
41:09
tiktoks while the movie's gone. Yeah. Yeah, speaking speaking of that,
41:14
I went to the movies yesterday. Oh would you see? Yeah, my
41:16
wife and I took the kids to see Despicable Me for how many Oh?
41:21
Wow? So how much did that cost you? Oh? God? Man?
41:29
It was like eighty five bucks? Good lord? Yeah? Yeah.
41:34
Do you sneak in drinks or popcorn? You know? I don't. And
41:39
the reason is, when you go to the movies, you're not paying for
41:43
the movie, You're you're paying for the experience. Yeah, And I don't
41:46
want to cheapen the experience for my kids, So I suck it up every
41:51
time, and I and every time I tell them pick a drink, pick
41:55
some popcorn, pick some candy. And I suck it up because you know
42:00
what the chances are when when they have kids, movie theaters aren't going to
42:05
be a thing. So yeah, I want to give them the experience.
42:08
So and I and I have the experience of tapping my credit card and and
42:15
cringing. And then I saw that, and then I saw that this theater
42:21
serves beer. Now, and I thought to myself, I don't know if
42:25
I want to pay nine dollars for a beer. So, yeah, let's
42:30
just go watch this shitty movie and be done with it. So have you
42:34
seen the other Dispicable movies where you caught up? I think, I think
42:38
so. I don't know if you've seen one Despicable Minion me. I don't
42:45
know, because they're you know, they overlap. There's movies, there's Minion
42:49
movies. They all kind of exist in the same cinematic universe. Yeah,
42:55
yeah, the new m c U. Yes, loved it, Okay,
43:00
good kids loved it. I was checking out interest rates on my phone,
43:05
of course, yes, but I was good. I made sure there was
43:10
no one sitting behind me before I took my phone out. I turned that,
43:15
turned the brightness all the way down. I made sure all the sound
43:17
was off, and I made sure no one was behind me. You know
43:21
what, I'm surprised you didn't use the time to take a nap. Yeah
43:25
I do, man, I had to look at interest rates. That happened
43:28
right, right right, and all that. That's what my wife does,
43:30
like halfway through, maybe she'll just be snoring. I had to fill her
43:35
in, Like what happened at that part? Well, yeah, it was
43:38
like a quiet place last week she did that. I'm like, don't sleep
43:42
through the quiet place you snored. So funny story. I broke up with
43:45
a girl after we went to the movies okay, and she fell asleep in
43:52
the theater. Oh God, because I looked over at her and what she
43:59
looked like sleeping. Yeah, I remember thinking of myself. I got waking
44:07
up everyone when I wake up to that every day for the rest of my
44:10
life. And the answer was no, did you tell her you come up
44:21
with something else? No, No, I came up with something else.
44:23
But but the thought did cross my mind that she's out. I could get
44:30
up and leave. Yeah, she wouldn't know, you know, until the
44:34
until the credits are rolling and people are walking by the dude sweeping the floor,
44:37
and she'd be like and she'd have to you know, this is before
44:43
uber was a thing, so she'd taxi or somebody she knew. Yeah,
44:47
but no, I took her home. That's funny. I never called her
44:52
back. I woke her. I woke her up and took her home.
44:57
Yeah. Oh, Daniel, Daniel. I got an email from La Quinta
45:05
yesterday. Oh yes, and I had half of my bill refunded because I
45:13
sent them all the all the pictures of how yeah terrible my room was.
45:17
Yeah, well, I I talked with the manager. I emailed with the
45:21
manager like a month ago, and because I told him I used the government
45:29
rate to book the room. Yeah, and you used the regular rate and
45:34
your room was fine and mine was a ship hole. And he replied that,
45:37
you know, we don't we don't. We don't do that. We
45:39
don't choose bookings like that. And I said, oh yeah, And I
45:43
sent them all the pictures and I said, my buddy was in this room
45:45
and I was in this room, go look at the new self. And
45:49
he didn't reply. So I emailed corporate and said the same thing and told
45:53
him, you know, I emailed this guy and I sent him all the
45:55
pictures. He just didn't respond. So I got another email from him the
46:00
other day saying, oh, I didn't get the email with all of your
46:02
pictures, but here's half of your bill refunded to your car and you should
46:07
see it tomorrow. So I was like, okay, all right, good
46:09
nice. Oh and then that's why you were like, let's go to the
46:12
movies kids. Yeah, exactly. In the movie Packing Up, Daddy's got
46:17
money to burn that's right, Come on, minions, let's go. Yeah
46:23
all right, So do you have a cheap movie theater in your town or
46:25
do you have like because there's different levels of movie theater, it's like you
46:30
got the expensive one, now you got the cheap one. The old town
46:34
I lived in, Poughkeepsie used to have a used to have a cheap theater
46:38
that had like two dollars movies. Yeah, and they went out about ten
46:43
or fifteen years ago. But even ten or fifteen years ago, two dollars
46:46
movies was was a deal. Yeah, yeah, so they weren't. They
46:51
weren't first run. It was stuff that had been out for forty five days
46:53
or ninety days or whatever at that point. But on Tuesdays, So buck
47:00
right one on Tuesdays? Can we have a theater like that? I can
47:05
remember not even looking to see what was playing, just going to the theater
47:10
and and just looking up the thing and be like, I don't know,
47:14
let's go see that. If it sucks, we'll get up and leave its
47:15
dollars. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we we have a theater like that.
47:20
It was it was a two dollar theater up until COVID and then because
47:24
all the chains shut down during COVID, this one was still open, so
47:29
it started getting first run movies. Oh so so they went from two dollars
47:34
to six overnight. Yeah, because of the first run. So they are
47:37
still six dollar theater, but they get the first like it's it's cheaper.
47:43
It's a crappier theater. Yeah, but yeah, and the they don't do
47:47
the you can't select your seats. It's it's old style. You gotta just
47:52
walk in. Yeah. Yeah, so I mean across the river. So
47:57
it's about a fifteen minute drive. There's one. There's one like that where
48:02
it's I think it's six or seven dollars a ticket instead of twelve or whatever.
48:07
This you know, I don't even look. I don't even look.
48:10
That's that's the thing. You know. We're going there for the experience.
48:14
I don't even right. You know, my son sometimes he's like, we
48:17
can get the reclining seats. Sure, sure, because someday he'll be sitting
48:22
there telling his grandkids. You know, it used to be this thing called
48:27
the movie theater and Pop Pop took it to me right time and it was
48:30
great, and that's that's why we're there. So see, I've got the
48:37
they have the regal movie Pass because we have out here, so it's like
48:40
twenty bucks a month. You can go anytime you want, as many times
48:44
as you want. So I thought that failed. Didn't you buy that?
48:47
Three years ago there was one of those movie past. Yeah, movie past,
48:52
the whole the whole system imploded. Yeah, movie pass because if you
48:57
you went right theater seven times a week. Yeah yeah, No. Now
49:01
now that the actual chains have their own, so like AMC has their own,
49:07
Regal has their own, I think cinemas has their own. Yeah,
49:13
so like it worked, like when I was out in New York, it
49:15
worked there. I went to a movie so yeah, yeah, I think
49:22
I saw it was four movies last week, and then I saw one last
49:25
night. Oh well it was over one hundred degrees. So my wife,
49:31
yeah, you know, it's hot, that's air condition. That's That's what
49:37
I'm gonna do today. Yeah yeah, all right. I was like,
49:40
we'll just do movie weeks, We'll see everything. Yeah, that's kind of
49:45
what I'm planning. So yeah, So I saw Bad Boys, The Quiet
49:49
Place, Blazing Saddles, which was hilarious. So that was the cheap movie
49:54
theater. So I saw that for like five bucks and then you have like
50:00
refillable cups, but oh cool, you can bring so you get three dollars
50:04
drinks. It used to be two dollars, but they're going up right right,
50:09
But that's what's the cheapest state. Our theater does refillable drinks and refillable
50:16
popcorn. Yeah, the same visit, so I taught my son. Now
50:22
he tells his friend, on your way out of the theater, dump it
50:27
all in the garbage, fill it up again, take it out the doors.
50:31
Yeah. You know, there's a there is slushy in the fridge in
50:37
my house. There's a there's a a two gallon ziploc bag full of movie
50:43
theater popcorn, which stays. It stays pretty good. Yeah yeah, if
50:47
you put it in the ziploc bag, it stays pretty good. You ever
50:51
put tabasco on popcorn? Oh yeah, that's good, that's good. I
50:55
had her friend one time. He bought a a trash bag full of popcorn
51:00
from the movie because it was the last showing. We were walking out,
51:05
they were closing down. They're just like whatever, sure, and they just
51:07
filled up a whole trash can. Yeah, trash bag, yeah, like
51:12
the big, the big black bag. Yeah yeah. Yeah. Security guard.
51:17
At the end of the night, Dunkin Donuts would would drag a black
51:22
plastic garbage bag full of donuts out to the dumpster and if you were in
51:27
the right place at the right time, whoa yeah, each in there first,
51:31
Yeah, yeah, yeah, full of donuts. There you go there.
51:36
I used to do that when I worked at Papa John's. Walmart had
51:38
a half priced chicken after eight you know, that's been sitting on the rack
51:43
all day, so it was kind of fifty to fifty. Would it taste
51:45
like beef jerky or would it taste like chicken? Is that like like Dale
51:52
chicken? Yeah? Yeah, it's like how long has it been on the
51:54
warmer? About eight hours? So that's who all right. But I was
52:01
cheap. I had no money. This is before the wife, so yeah,
52:06
it's like when you're broke, you gotta do anything to eat. So
52:09
you're tired of pizza and it's like, I want something else, well not
52:14
not not, not anything. So he was he was also hanging out by
52:21
the Dumbstayah, that's right, that's right, Oh my god, that's right.
52:25
Yeah. Well, I worked at Papa John's. I saw a guy,
52:29
a homeless guy, and I was taking out the garbage. Yeah,
52:32
and about throw it over and he pops up and he has like a piece
52:37
of pizza in his mouth, and I'm like, oh, disgusting because that
52:42
you know, that pizza is sitting there for days. So just come inside
52:46
and we'll give you one. Yeah, you know, we'll give you a
52:50
fresh one. He's like, all right, but that guy was a mess
52:55
because he always came by and harrasses so that sucks. Yeah, all right,
53:01
well I guess on that note, Yeah, that's the weirdest ending in
53:05
treck Cast history. I mean we stopped talking stop talking about Star Trek a
53:10
while ago. So, oh, I had a Star Trek question, you
53:15
know, yeah, random, I have random Star Trek thoughts. Random,
53:20
I've random, I have random Star Trek thoughts. And it occurred to me
53:25
in the Star Trek universe. Does science fiction exist? Oh we Captain Proton.
53:38
No no, no, no, no, no, that's science of
53:42
the past. I'm talking about to people who live in the twenty fifth century.
53:45
Oh right, science write science fiction about what life is going to be
53:51
like in one hundred years. That's an interesting question. Or or have they
53:58
just come to the realization that, you know, we're we are the pinnacle
54:00
of human development there, and you know, well, that'd be a cool
54:06
episode because you could have like a writer go on the ship and wants to
54:12
do kind of a ride along or whatever, just get experience, and that'd
54:16
be a cool episode. And then something happens or does it totally exist but
54:22
we can't even conceive of it, yeah, because it would be so far
54:28
advanced past, Like I don't know, I just think, try and explain
54:37
programmable matter to someone, to a sci fi writer from the forties, yeah,
54:42
maybe, like that doesn't even make sense, right, Yeah, yeah,
54:52
huh, that's an interesting thought. I'd never thought about that or even
54:54
or even is it a thing where science progresses so quickly rapidly, Yeah,
55:00
so rapidly in the twentieth century that science fiction isn't practical. It doesn't make
55:08
sense to write it. So they just don't. Hmm, oh, look
55:14
at this long enough to wake the captain. Wow, the captain Scott says,
55:20
good morning morning. Yeah, who oh, holiness, his holiness,
55:27
yes, holiness, let me take my hat off a wall bow. That's
55:34
right. I hope he didn't see the slouch. Oh, yes, all
55:40
right, help, Yeah, I think so, I'm not certain He is
55:45
always home, sir. He's always home and always in our hearts and our
55:51
hearts. That's right, he's working on that beard. He's like, yes,
55:55
yes, he's lessened for the hair to grow. He's like yes,
56:00
now he's just laughing. Now he's just laughing. Yeah, he's got to
56:04
be just for me. He's got to be careful growing that beard because it
56:08
would make his gigantic head look even bigger, like a bobblehead. Just dropping,
56:15
I felt like like a funk co pop. Oh god, alright,
56:22
well I think on that note. All right. Yeah, we'll call it
56:27
and we'll see you guys. I guess next week, okay, next week.
56:30
Sure, what do you guys talk about next week? It's the big
56:34
four hundred episode. We're trying to do something special. Okay, so we're
56:37
gonna talk about the size of Scott's head. That's right, thanks, right,
56:40
for fifty seven minutes straight. His head, His head is so big.
56:46
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56:52
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