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Law. Excuse me, it's my mic gun track the Galaxy's Most Unpredictable Star
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Trek Podcast. Well that was embarrassing. Do you think I ate that sounded?
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Welcome to track cast the Galaxy's Most Unpredictable Star Trek Podcast. I am
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Dan, son of Pascual House of Lombardo. I'm one of you. I'm
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one of your hosts with me as always Daniel. Yes, up, Daniel.
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What's going on? Man? How are you I? I'm alright,
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I'm alright. I woke up really late, but other than that, I'm
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alright. I will opposite. Then I woke up really early and started the
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ceiling, started at the ceiling for a while and then realized, you know,
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hey, this is not happening, and just got up. I never
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sleep in so I was pleasantly surprised. Yeah, good, good, good
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good. So it's raining here. It's raining man. Yeah, it's not
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raining men, it's not There's only two of us, so it's not raining
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men. We should probably segue into that right away. Yeah, and just
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talk about that real quick. So I got a little bit of bad news.
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Chad's not going to be joining us today. And he's not going to
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be joining us for the foreseeable future. We spoke with him quite a bit
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this week. He's having some family issues at home. Then he needs to
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take some time to step away from some of his other obligations, one of
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which is this show, one of which is his other his other podcast,
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and he's just had to, you know, reprioritize some things in his life.
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You know, we don't know how long it's gonna be. He needs,
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he needs some time where you know, we're going to give him that
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time. You know, the door is is always open. Truck Cass is
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a family nobody ever truly leaves, and you know, we're we're disappointed and
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sad that, uh, he's not going to be with us. But at
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the same time, you know, family first, whether it's your family,
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my family, his family, I love you guys, but if it's between
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you guys and my family, it's my family every time, every single time.
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So so we're sending good thoughts to Chad, We're sending good thoughts to
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his his family, and hopefully they can get through with what they're dealing with.
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So here comes here comes the awkward part though this show. Anyone who's
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ever listened to this show, no recently. Yeah, it works best as
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a trio when there's just two of us on here. There's just something missing,
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so naturally out without Chad, you know, we're looking for the third
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person. You're you're roboting out, man, I'm rooting out. Yeah,
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yeah, like horrifically a little bit. Come on, this is like the
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worst time for this to happen. Well yeah, so, as as Dan
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was trying to say, maybe you want to reconnect or whatever. Sure,
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yeah, well, as Dan was trying to say, so, because of
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all that, we have to bring someone else in to to help us out.
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We need that third leg of the stool. And yes we have made
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a ton of jokes, but at last his plans have come to fruition and
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strong Beard is joining us. Everybody. Yeah, I know, Hey,
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I like that picture in the back. Oh thank you, thank you.
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The first thing I want to say is I did speak to Chad good good,
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well, I I we texted a little bit and basically on a serious
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note, you know, I told him I wished him and his family the
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best, and I stated more than once. You know, when he's ready
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to come back, I'm just keeping the seat warm for him. But I'm
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healthy happy to help out the show. And I know we've, like you
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said, I know, we've made a lot of jokes about me, you
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know, yeah, kind of take it over the podcast. And I just
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wanted to assure everybody that Chad is not in my trunk. Okay, so
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and that would be impossible because we own an suv and a pickup truck,
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so no trunks. But you know, nope, nope, this is this
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is a legit. And uh but I spoke to him, you know,
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I have his blessing and uh and uh, I wished it well and and
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like I said, I'm just keeping the seat warm for him. He's uh,
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you know, he's welcome back anytime. So absolutely so we're still waiting
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for Dan to come back. But uh, I guess Bob was so strong.
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Don't get too comfy, right, Uh yeah, well we should probably
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get to the news and we'll wait for Dan to come back, but we'll
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just judge along. Sounds good. This is probably why Also we like a
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three person show, just stuff like this. This is true. Yeah,
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yeah, all right, our first news story. It's kind of a big
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update of what's going on right now. Yeah. I don't know if you
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guys have been tracking this weekend, but the writers straight, not the actors
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strike, but the writers Strake might be drawing to a close there. There
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has been announced that there will be another meeting between the studios and the day
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on Sunday, and they are saying they're putting the best and final offers towards
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each other. Right now, that really doesn't mean final offers, That doesn't
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really mean it's their best necessarily, it's a legal term, I guess,
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and that's what you're calling it. Yeah, it could we went to an
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end, which would be great because then you can get started on scripts.
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Just focus on actors drake and get that finished and and get back to working.
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Yeah, this is their first final offer and their first best. That's
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right. I'm sure. I'm sure I heard that. If if this doesn't
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pan out this weekend, then it's not gonna happen until the beginning of the
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year. Who knows. They say that, and then like it could be
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you know, that's true. It could be one side, you know,
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saying hey, if you don't agree to this, and sometime you're telling the
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public we're out. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm any union. So I
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I I've I've played the game before, I've been a union steward before,
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so yeah, that's kind of how the game works. Yeah. Yeah,
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you kind of give each other's shots in the press and then you see what
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happens. But you know they did have was it? The head of of
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WB David zaslof And and the head of Disney also joined the talks this last
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weekend. So yeah, Dan, I don't think you heard, but it
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sounds like the writers strike might be coming to an end. Yeah, they're
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having another meeting just today. Best in final offers. I, you know,
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I get disconnected for like a minute. Who's that guy in the bottom
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right? We almost replaced you with gentry, so you better be careful.
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Did you address the weirdness of like the joke? Yeah? Oh yes,
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yeah we did. We did because I was worried. Yeah, it was
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about that. I was worried about the op. Yeah. A lot of
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people are requesting proof of life. A lot of people are asking what what
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county I live in so they can contact the sheriff. Very Scottish Blaski for
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a reason for a season. Oh no, that's right, nice scott Blaky.
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I like it. I like it. So we'd be seeing data instead
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of data that's right. Data. Our next new story comes to us from
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fans Sighted and it says Jonathan Freakes, didn't they go out. Strange New
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Worlds was praised, So in an interview, he was talking a little bit
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about Strange New Worlds and how well received it was, and you know,
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just it was great and everybody loved it, especially season one. But he
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did say that it was a little bit of a slap in the face.
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And what he means by that is he says, like, you know,
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before Stranger Worlds, we were doing Discovery and Picard and then when Stranger the
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World comes out, people are like, oh, this is a star Trek
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we've been waiting for. And he's like, that was a backhanded compliment to
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the other teams because they've been doing it for years and people apparently didn't like
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it as much. I mean, was it a surprise though, I mean
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people had had their opinions throughout all along. I know it was the Internet
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knew from the beginning like this it's not good. So well, when you're
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you know, when you're the parent of like you know, Peyton and Eli
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Manning and the press is all like, oh great, you know Peyton Manny's
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doing so well, and you're like, I got this other kid over here
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that's also a quarterback, right, who are who are who are those people?
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What's showing right trek cast? Sorry, yeah, the quarterback is his
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money. Yeah, so they're accountants, right, exactly, exactly, their
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famous accountants. Right. Yeah. For those of you who don't know,
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R. Peyton Manning was a famous quarterback for the Colds and Eli Manning was
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a not quite as famous quarterback for the insurance commercials. Yes, exactly,
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Stationwide. Yes, they are American football players, that's right, not football,
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not football, something else, sports football Americano. Yes, all right.
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Card was mediocre? What is that? Picard was mediocre? Yeah,
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mediocre? Who said that? Band? Didn't even I didn't even know he
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played football. Our last news comes comes to us from Slash Film and a
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couple of Star Trick movies are about to leave Netflix. So they will be
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leaving in October. So just in a few days, and we will They're
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going to get ridden start two thousand and nine and start Trick into Darkness.
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We'll be leaving Netflix. This is so exhausting just figuring out what it is
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where. It's to the point where sometimes if I want to watch something.
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Before I even turn the rokup on, I google the thing and see where
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to watch it. Yep, same, same, yep, and you know
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it's and sometimes like sometimes there's no rhyme or reason whatsoever as to what is
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streaming and where. So I got a hankering. I got a hankering last
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week to watch you remember V with the you know, the Reptilian Oh yeah,
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yeah, yeah, okay, okay. So I got a hankering to
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watch the original, the original V. So I found it with streaming free.
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The the original mini series was streaming for free on you know, some
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some streamer that I never heard of, one of the free you know,
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like to be Light or whatever. It wasn't to be it was something something
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similar. So I watched the original. Yeah yeah, I watched the original
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mini series. And then I want to watch the second mini series, which
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kind of concludes the story from the first mini series, and it's it's I
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think it's three episodes, like the first one's not there, the second and
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third ones are there, but the first one, so who's who ever who?
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And who has ever said? You know what? I want to watch
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parts two and three of that trilogy, but I have zero interest in watching
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part one. Yeah, that's the lawyers that are making these mistakes and making
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these streaming contracts and things, you know, like letting other we've we're dealing
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with this with like Prodigy, where they're you know, the Paramount is who
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made it, but now they're trying to get another streamer to maybe pick it
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up, because you know, we've talked about this before I was watching eight
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I watched eighteen ninety three just because I was done watching like a Discovery episode,
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and it started playing after the Discovery episode and I was hooked and I
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was watching on Paramount I think back then it was Paramount Plus and I got
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done with the series. It was a fantastic series. And I found out
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it was a prequel to Yellowstone, and I'm like, oh, Yellowstone.
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I looked up Yellowstone. It's a Paramount you know y thing, and I'm
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like, sweet, I'm gonna check it out on Paramount Plus. I'm like,
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I can't. It's not I mean, I googled it six ways from
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Sunday and it's like, where is it? Oh, It's on Peacock Yeah
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yeah, I mean it was the show airs on the Paramount Network on TV.
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Yes, right, and I don't have the Paramount network because I don't
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have cable, right, yeah, yeah, this, this is exactly why
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I haven't seen that show. I went through the exact same thing where I
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wanted to watch that show, got excited when I realiz there was a Paramount
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shelf. It's a Paramount Plus and nothing I've I have since seen all of
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Yellowstone. And I will not say how I've been able to see all of
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Yellowstone. You borrowed it from the internet something like that, Yeah, the
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International Library or something like that. I will neither confirm nor to die again.
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And then our last news story, Strange in the World Season two is
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coming to Blu Ray DVD and four k UHD. It will be coming in
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December five, so just in time for Christmas, so you can get Pike
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in your stocking. Nice. My question is how has streaming affected Blu Ray
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sales, Like, if you already have if you can watch Paramount Plus anytime
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you want, how many people are buying the Blue Rays? I'd be curious
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to know in the in the chat or in the Facebook group, how many
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people are buying the Blue rays of anything Start trek. I'm ready to start
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with all this streaming issues. I'm ready to start going back to physical media.
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It's a lot cheaper now for each season than it was. You know,
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I remember two thousand, nineteen ninety nine, two thousand or whatever when
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TNG first started coming out on DVD, like a hundred bunch of season.
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I remember paying one hundred dollars a season, and I did all of TNNG.
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Then I did all of Deep Space nine, then I did all of
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Voyager. We have all of Enterprise all. I mean, I spent one
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hundred bucks a season on all that stuff and I still have it. I
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still have all that stuff. But you know, nothing new do I have.
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I don't have any of the cards. I don't have any of the
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Strange New Worlds I you know I have. I have a bunch of the
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Marvel movies up to about five or six years ago. Yeah, but I'm
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ready to just I'm ready to just go back to that. I'm hesitant to
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mention this because I was trying to think of the legal ramifications. But we
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were told at the time that it was legal. I have quote unquote bootleg
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copies of Next Gen Enterprise, Voyager and Deep Space nine. But the reason
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why it was at least I was told at the time it was legal is
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because the country that I bought it in had no copyright laws, so I
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bought bootleg copies in Iraq and you could buy them. I think I paid
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They told you what you wanted to hear, a buddy, I think you're
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ready. They were looking to close the deal. I think I think I
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paid maybe forty dollars a series. Yeah, and it's I mean, it's
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not the best quality, and it's some of the episodes are out of order.
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And can you see the guy get up and go get his popcorn some
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of times. Yeah, here's here's the thing. Here's the thing. As
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long as you're not as long as you're not duplicating those things and spread no
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one, no one's ever gonna care. Yeah, no, one's not at
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all. I live in a weird I live in a weird area for physical
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media because we still do. You have the last Blockbuster up there, don't
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you. No? For real, we do still have video stores here,
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I know. And and part of that is because you drive maybe ten minutes
17:33
out of the city, you are in the woods and you are in the
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mountains. There are a lot of people who live up there who literally come
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into town one day a month to get their supplies and go back to their
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to their homesteads in Washington State, Idaho. Oh you're in Idaho. Okay,
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so physical media. So what you're saying is there's a lot of people
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around you who are living my dream. Yes, yes, right, yeah,
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quite a bit actually, so yeah, so there you go. All
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right, Well, should we get to the main topic? Sure? All
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right, So our main topic is a review of Lower Deck season four.
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Something borrowed, something green. I don't have the mine because I forgot to
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get it slipped in. Oh well yeah, indeed going to her sister's wedding
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via she needed to save her sister as part of an Orion bridal kidnapping.
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M Yeah, so it was kind of neat. We got to see more
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about the Orion's Yeah, we don't have a lot of backgrounds, No,
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we don't, and they and they brought it up on the show. Yeah.
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We got a little bit on Enterprise, a little bit which which Enterprise,
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which was interesting because it was Enterprise that established that the females run everything,
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even though we thought they were the females for the slaves, but it's
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actually the other way around. So it's nice that they carried that over.
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Yeah, we got to see a little bit of the lower decks of an
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Orion ship and we're starting to their plunder. I thought it was great.
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I thought it was interesting that, you know, like humans, there are
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many shades of green, which is you know, Scott, you were in
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the army, right, sure, Yeah, so you know there's no there's
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no black, there's no white, no white, everybody's sad. Yeah,
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that's what I thought of immediately. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, the
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lower decks was great. Like when when they were making fun of that one
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guy who was like copying everybody else's idea, it's like you're more like an
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Orian plagiarist. Yes, we also discovered that Tindi is quite the big deal
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on her planet. Yeah yeah. Her family is like one of the boss's
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families or yeah, and then her family's the fifth largest like crime syndicate family
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in the yeah, all of our Ryan. So it's like it's like John
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Gotti's granddaughter joining starfleet yep, yep, yep. And she's a prime an
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assassin. Yeah, yeah, she she is a badass. Do not mess
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m No Dan likes that Une no no I do not. I feel dirty
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enough with that picture from the Facebook group A couple, that's right, Mariner,
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Yeah, mariner with ants on. Oh my lord. Uh so this
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thing the Samuel clements, Oh yes, yes, yes, I didn't get
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that. It felt a little uncomfortable to me. Yeah, it was.
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These guys are weird. Yeah, I was okay with this weirdness, the
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very Short trecks weirdness. I'm I'm getting over really quick. I just watched
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all three very Short Trecks last night. If anybody hasn't seen them, you're
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not missing anything. Yeah. I like the latest one. I thought that
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was funny, maybe maybe because it was gross. It was gross. It
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was it was eating at the time, but like, oh yeah, I
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didn't know nobody was. But I mean, I'm a huge fan. I
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think I think forty four minutes of them just sitting around playing cards, I'd
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be like, that was great, that was wonderful. I love DG yep.
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But but I could listen to Jonathan Fakes talk all days Command Breaker.
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Yes, that's true, that's true. But it's also you know, not
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to get away from strange lower decks, but to talk about the short trek.
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It is realistic, though, if we make first contact with with an
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alien species, they're they're going to do things that are disgusting by our standards.
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And we know that because even here on Earth, you know, the
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customs of other cultures are disgusting by the you know, by the standards of
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your own you know, in the in the United States and North America,
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we don't generally eat bugs, and there are cultures where they just eat bugs,
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we underwater bugs, wat shrimp. Yes, that's true, that's true.
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But there's so much variation just within people on my own block, let
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alone people in my continent or people in my hemisphere or people on my planet
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that you know, there's conflict with people that live on your own block that
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have the same upbringing that kind of looked the same to go to the same
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church, and there's certain people in that group that don't get along for you
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know, very to them important reasons. And then you go to a different
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culture that's a different culture, a different species. Yeah, and you find
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out that they put ranch dressing on pizza. You're like, yeah, animals,
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Yeah, no, I'm thinking about like you know, even like in
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the Mexican cultures, some people eat octopus, right, it's in a soup,
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and I remember the first time I saw that, I was like,
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no, yeah, but that's you know and and and Okay, so that's
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odd to you, right, but in Italian cuisine, yeah, that's not
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that's not uncommon at all. No, I had it. It was great,
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but yeah, at first I was like, no, yeah, oh
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j running like today it looks like Scott, it's takeovers in full effects.
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You want to go back to earlier than Yeah, you're gonna want to rewind,
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you know, going back to that. I thought about, you know,
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we were talking about I even talked about this to Chad and he endorsed
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it. But ultimately I decided not to about the like continuing on the joke
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that you know, I'm trying to take over and that I might have done
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something nefarious, And so I thought about like having like a rake and a
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shovel and some duct tape in the background, or or my face covered in
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dirt, you know, But I'm like, no, I I didn't seriously
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tell people, Yeah, he's okay, and he's fine with this. Yeah,
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we love you, Chad like a human skull right right? How that
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gets there? And I just you know what, it took me a minute
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but I just realized that you're wearing a chat taupe of card shirt. You're
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big nerd. Yes, I am. I'm sorry I fell it. No,
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I'm not sorry. I don't apologize. Nerd alert, Nerd alert.
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I'm gonna wear something different next week too. There you go. Yeah,
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and then I just realized the irony. I'm calling you a big nerd.
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I'm wearing a ghostbuster's hat, right, how as long as a prime took
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him out? Hey, I put not on just taking over Chad spot,
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but I'm taking over the show man. Don't mean Oh no, I expect.
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Well, what are some of my demands? I was thinking about this
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earlier. I'm like, uh, yeah, I want I want my equal
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cut from the coffee account. Okay, so I figured out I got about
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between six and twelve dollars coming my way every six months. I want I
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want Facebook passwords, I want admin access. Wow, he's coming for it.
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Off he is? He is? He told me he wants the top
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box. Yeah, I'm gunning for it. I'm gutting for it. I
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get the top box. It's only a matter of time. But yeah,
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so this episode is a little bit goofy. We did see that ship again,
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that mystery ship. Yeah, what other episode was that in? Because
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my wife was asking me, She's like, did you see that ship in
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another episode? And I'm trying to think of them. Okay, it's been
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like like all season long, I think, in at least once per episode
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roughly somemzy theories about what that is. Didn't somebody say it was? It
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was from some other episode, some other truck episode. Somebody said it was
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the Alice ship from from Voyager. Okay, but I don't remember that ship
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well enough to be like, yeah, that's what it is. It kind
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of reminded me of Slave one a little bit, because we don't call we
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don't call at that anymore. Oh that's right, ship bub ship, have
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a little class, have a little class. Scott. My apologies, I'm
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new. Have you seen that Robot Chicken where it's Lando talking to Boba Fett
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and he goes, yeah, it's a fine ship, but I don't really
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like that name. And they got Billy Deed a voice it, which is
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even better. Oh great, I'm on the internet now looking up this Alice
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ship. Okay, okay, from Voyager. Right, Yeah, I don't
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think it's that. I think it's gonna be Badgie whatever it is, yeah,
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or maybe a team up between Badgie and any other AI we've run into.
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Well, yeah, they had that whole room full of ais that were
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right. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't think it's
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this when that happens, but so cool theory not Yeah, what else happened?
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We learned that Mark Twain is a great way for a client Fickler's resolution
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just talking to each other and dresses Samuel Clemens. Yea, yeah, I
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thought that was fun. Yeah, and I get it. It was a
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nice call back to oh what episode was that in the Next Generation Are Yeah,
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Yeah, that was a great Episode's good. I love I love that
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one, really good with lasting, lasting ramifications for the for the rest of
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the series. Yeah, Data's head is two hundred years older than the rest
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of his body. That's right, that's right. That's crazy to think about.
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I'm watching your eyes, You're like, that's crazy. Yeah, Well
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that also reminds me, like, you know, there's a couple of people
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in the series who are tons old, older than they really appear to be.
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O'Brien is like eighty years older than in his mind. Picard is quite
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a bit older in his mind because of their experiences, although of course,
29:11
in natural truck fashion, O'Brien got the short end of that stick where he
29:17
spent you know, fifty years in his mind in a prison and Picard like
29:21
in this you know, fairly nice you know planet, and then we have
29:26
data who doesn't remember all those two hundred years. But yeah, yeah,
29:34
oh and I love the bit where Mariner kept getting stabbed over again, over
29:41
and over again in the shoulder. Yeah, that was great. You know
29:48
what's her name to Lynn was doing her report about the orion culture. It
29:52
just eventually just threw away and she justses it back to mystery. Yeah.
29:56
Yeah, you can see that she's she's softening up, she's coming around.
30:02
Yeah. Yeah. I liked the episode a lot. That was a lot
30:06
of fun. Yeah, it's good. A little conflict between Boimler and Rutherford.
30:15
Rutherford, yeah, oh yeah over the bonds eye tree. Yeah,
30:18
that was a fun bit, like urn that in that apartment or the guy
30:23
just eats Yeah, oh yeah, that was funny. All right, anything
30:32
else we want to bring upbout the episode? Yeah? Really, I only
30:40
I only watched it once again, you know, I watched it one and
30:42
a half times. I started to watch it. I was a little under
30:47
the weather this weekend, so I kind of fell asleep halfway through the second
30:49
time. But I enjoyed it. Yeah, are you guys watching Ahsoka?
30:56
Yes, I am. I finally caught up. Okay, I finally caught
31:02
up. I'm enjoying it. Yeah, I don't know. I mean,
31:08
it's what can we say about it without spoiling it? It's different. I
31:14
think I would love it more if I knew Rebels and the Clone Wars.
31:18
But being that I didn't really watch those series, it's good. I like
31:22
it. But from what I understand, if you were into those shows,
31:26
this thing is amazing. It is it really is. I watched both Rebels
31:30
in Clone Wars. Without spoiling anything. I think if you watched the last
31:36
season of both shows, you'd be ninety percent caught up. There's obviously there's
31:41
a lot of backstory of Ahsoka and the rest of the Clone Wars. But
31:44
if you watch the last season of Clone Wars, there's these ten episodes and
31:48
you'll get there are But if you if you look up ten of those lists,
31:52
all ten of them are different. K So I lost their long episode
31:57
long series, I mean long seasons right. I have to go back and
32:02
watch it because I can just tell that there's there's a lot of member berries.
32:09
Yeah, they're they're thrown in there, some of which you know,
32:15
I notice, some of which means something to me. You know. Last
32:20
week, you know, Hayden Christensen was back as Annekin, so that that
32:24
was good. We saw some flashback scenes, so you know, you don't
32:30
see him, but you hear Tomorrow Morrison's voice as a Clone trooper. So
32:34
yep, yep, it was a bit underwhelming. Yeah, yeah, you
32:38
actually saw a live action younger Ahsoka and it was actually played by the same
32:44
girl that played a younger go Mora in so and she did a fantastic job.
32:52
They've done a lot of really great callbacks. They're they're live action versions
32:58
of Clone War and Rebels characters have been they're not supposed to be, pardon
33:05
the pun, clones of their animated counterparts. Having said that, they've done
33:09
a fantastic job in their casting, and then they're like design, aesthetic and
33:14
style. They've got such a great, great team over there. Dave Dave,
33:21
I think Dave Filoni has done a fantastic wife is calling you out on
33:23
the show. Oh wow, we didn't make anymore. Sorry, honey,
33:34
this is an interesting new dynamic. Oh yeah, yeah, I have in
33:37
trouble. We don't have to end the show. We instant feedback. Let's
33:45
not tehow back, Let's save you from trouble the longer on the show.
33:50
The let's trouble, you're in over It's good coffee. I'm enjoying Ahsoka.
33:54
Yea. The problem is the problem is we know where it's headed, and
34:06
we don't like where it's headed. You know, this all takes place between
34:13
the original trilogy and the sequel trilogy, which, you know, not to
34:19
put too fine a point on it is trash. Yeah. So you know,
34:23
as excited as I am about seeing the big villain, who who shows
34:30
up? Okay? But great? You know where is he in the next
34:35
trilogy? Right? You know? And I'm wondering if that's why they created
34:38
the other galaxies so that they can keep it all over there. It's a
34:43
completely different story. It's their own thing. Ye wait, are we talking
34:47
about strange new worlds? Are we talking about Asoka? Right? Right?
34:53
Yeah? I don't know. And just when you think that, you know,
34:57
all right, you know, maybe they're going to disavow the the sequel
35:04
trilogy. Now they're talking about more movies with those people. Yeah, and
35:08
it's like, what are you doing? What are you doing? The world
35:12
has told you we don't want this, and they just double down and they're
35:15
gonna do more. Right, I don't get it. I don't get it.
35:20
Yeah, you just spent you just spent a brazilion dollars on a on
35:28
a hotel theme park thing and then you closed it in less than a year.
35:31
Yeah, but you're gonna do more. You're gonna create more content based
35:37
on that. What is what is going on? Well, I mean it's
35:40
the same thing that's going on with Stir Trick, right, Like they're they're
35:44
coming out or they want to do Section thirty one, they want to do
35:46
Academy, but the fan base is crying out for legacy. Right. So
35:52
it's like, okay, well, Dave Filoni seems to he's he's a showrunner
35:58
over it. We were at Disney doing a lot of the Star Wars stuff.
36:01
He seems to have his finger on the pulse of Star Wars fans.
36:06
Yeah, and we've we've got people like that in Star Trek. Yeah.
36:12
And do they need they need to give them more authority. You know,
36:15
you've got your Jonathan Frakes type people, and people love him and they love
36:22
what he's done, and you need to make him a charge his right hand
36:27
man for quite a while, to the point that Lucas has even said,
36:30
like he'll pitch ideas to Dave, and Dave's like, oh yeah, and
36:34
we can connect it this way, and like he knows the lower down hat
36:37
like he just he's got it down. So yeah. But the bottom line
36:42
is, I hate to bring it back to one specific point. The bottom
36:45
line is they took the hero of the original trilogy and threw him in the
36:52
trash. Yeah, yeah, they did. And you can't other than saying,
36:58
forget these movies. We're doing him over. There's no way to undo
37:02
that. I've heard whispers of that. Actually it sounds drastic, but really
37:08
that's what they need to do. They need to recast a younger actor as
37:13
Luke Skywalker and and make a Sebastian let him. Yes, yes, if
37:20
it's gonna be Sebastian stand that's fine. I'd be fine with that. But
37:23
you know, I I started rewatching the sequels trilogy recently. I said to
37:30
myself, it's been a few years. Maybe it's not as bad as I
37:34
thought. And I'm like, this is this is awful. Yeah. Not
37:38
only does Sebastian Yan look like him, but he also knows what it's like
37:42
to have a robot hand. So that's true. Ye yeah, yep,
37:47
yeah. All right, Well let's get to feedback. So if you guys
37:54
want a chat, except in the in the chat. But hey, I'm
38:07
wondering if Desiree batters, uh, it's going to x up in the chat.
38:10
Oh I would love she won't have coffee, But no, she won't
38:17
have coffee. I don't think she's going to All right, well, we
38:23
do have some feedback. Our friend Tim from across the pond. Hey,
38:30
Sandy voicemail okay, and I was able to animate it to let me let's
38:36
do that. I see. I apologize because I haven't been keeping up with
38:43
lower decks because the app on my TV doesn't work. I've got all these
38:47
apps on my Skybox, Paramount Blast, Disney Blast, Amazon, and a
38:55
couple of the others, and it's only Paramount that gives me grief. So
38:59
I'll be I think it's one of those must watch it tonight. I must
39:04
watch it tonight, so I had to start watching it on my phone last
39:07
night. So look, i haven't got a review for you this week because
39:09
I'm still catching up from the last couple of episodes from the last season.
39:14
So but I just wanted to check in and say, hi, boys,
39:16
I'm aware it's been a while, and not only that I haven't been able
39:21
to listen to your fine show because I haven't been watching Lower Decks. And
39:25
that's the whole point of it, isn't it. So I'm going to catch
39:29
up over the next few days, and I'm going to endeavor to get a
39:32
review to you for next week's Lower Decks. By the time I've caught up,
39:37
it'll probably be finished. And then and then what's next after that?
39:42
I don't know what's next after Discovery Lower Decks. I don't know. Probably
39:47
not very good though, So yeah, which on Lower Decks did I watched
39:52
last night? It was the one with Peanut butter a Hamper, I mean,
40:01
season three. Anyway, you didn't know. I don't know if anything
40:06
exciting has happened, because, as I say, I'm gonna able to listen
40:07
to any of your shows. But yeah, I shall do that over the
40:12
next few days and just let you know, I love you very much a
40:17
little bit, homo, and I'll speak to take care so I will forever
40:27
picture him yep, as as Ron Swanson as a twinkie. That's great,
40:34
Yellow Jelly been talking, Oh that's great. The baseball was fun. But
40:42
yeah, oh, speaking of which, the baseball the so I'm on,
40:47
I'm on the show full time now, uh, And the pack Lid review,
40:52
the pack Lid review is gonna go on hatus on hiatus for a little
40:55
while. This is why the team of writers, the pack Lad team of
41:02
writers, there's so many of them. It actually takes up seven percent of
41:07
the pack Led Homeworld GDP. It's a very high percentage. There are thousands
41:15
and thousands of writers that have to come together, uh to make that one,
41:20
two or even three sentence review. That they need to back off of
41:24
that for a little bit soon. I don't think they're in the union.
41:30
No, no, I don't think they're in the union. That that would
41:32
require contracts, which would take right and they're burnt out. So the Paclad
41:37
reviews on on a little bit of a hiatus. But don't worry, it's
41:39
going to be back sometimes. So can the pack lads say hiatus I mean,
41:44
can they spell hiatus? Well, well, they they have, they
41:46
have. I'm sort of their agent for stuff like that. So anything right,
41:53
anything that's three syllables or more sentences that are you know, things like
42:00
that. So, but that's what's going on with that. He ate us
42:09
I do. Got a quick email from ghost Stock forty five and it says,
42:15
hey, guys, when the mystery ship flipped around to fire on the
42:19
ORIONCE at the beginning of this week's lower Decks, that ship clearly looks like
42:23
a koala. What the hell? Oh? Okay, why is he smiling?
42:30
It's murder, That's why he's smiling. Yeah, all right. We
42:35
also have more people calling in whatever jazz biz is a jazz biz? What's
42:45
going on? Hell? I was taking congratulations, but it's kind of what
42:52
are you saying this? Say high Scott? Yeah, yeah, I'm not
43:01
gonna live that one down. I'm afraid to walk out of this office.
43:07
Backewer chat. Oh what do you think of the episode? It's all right,
43:16
you know, wasn't my favorite. The last two episodes have been kind
43:22
of I haven't like chuckled out loud. Really okay, they're just kind of
43:25
there. I liked the Boimler in the Mark Twain park probably the most of
43:30
this episode. Yeah, because that was the only way they can talk to
43:35
each other as both dressed like Mark Twain. And then they got the idea
43:39
to get the captain on the other ship. But captain's dress is Mark Twain,
43:45
and he's like, what is this all right? It's funny. It's
43:49
funnier when you talk about Yeah, yeah, I don't know I was thinking
43:52
about when she agreed to that, but yeah, and then he eats the
43:55
Bond's eye, just destroys Bond's eye. I want to know how high they
44:01
get before they start writing these episodes. I'm just thinking they're getting a little
44:06
too high. Yeah, I think they're dabbing So that is just just smoky
44:12
room in there. Do you think they just binge watch old episodes of Star
44:15
Trek and just smoke a lot of pot and and then like start writing.
44:19
I don't think they've binge watching. I think they've done that their whole lives,
44:22
right, Yeah, or they got the super nerd in there that yeah,
44:25
everything like the computer, like he just knows every episode, every detail,
44:30
And what would that even sound like, Daniel? What the super nerd.
44:36
Oh, I don't know, and the writer I imagine that, do
44:42
that, and the Mark Twain voice, Oh I think no, it's just
44:50
some Yeah, we're venturing into dangerous territory. Very just talk like foghorn leghorn
45:02
and you're all right, can you get him in julip in an energy drink?
45:09
You probably could, yeah, get probably. Yeah, you can make
45:13
anything with the red bull. So there you go, there you go,
45:15
and then you know everybody got r well. Mary Near kept on getting stabbed.
45:20
Yeah. I love that part was funny. I love that. That's
45:22
the part where I laughed out loud. Happen the same spot. It seems
45:30
like everybody's comes from royalty on this show or something. Yeah, yeah,
45:38
you come from something. It was like, where's the just the mundane family.
45:43
That's just like there's mom and dad even there some extent. I mean
45:46
her mom's a captain. Yeah yeah, but that's an admiral. Yeah that's
45:52
true. Yeah, and uh uh. You know, Bomler's family owns a
45:55
vineyard, so they're all well to they're all well to do people. It'd
46:00
be nice to find out that, you know, some moms the hoarder and
46:04
has thirty cats. Most like mainline of them all, like he's just he
46:09
just went to school and yeah, yeah, you go to the planet,
46:15
it's just all hoarded and it's just got cats everywhere and it's like, oh
46:19
my bedrooms around here somewhere, gonna move these boxes. So that's good.
46:27
That's the backstory. I want to see. I want to see the messy
46:31
uh star Trek citizen or whatever you call them. What are they called,
46:37
brain went Blank Federation Citizens Federation? Yeah, you know, well Raffi lived
46:43
in a trailer and drank alcohol, So that's true, yep, honest from
46:47
the cat order. Probably, yes, yes, they'd be funny. Our
46:52
whole world's like scratching post everywhere. Yeah, they can like need So what
46:59
do they have for pets? People? Little dogs, still dogs. Cats.
47:05
We haven't seen a lot of really well yeah, that's the other thing
47:08
this season. You haven't really seen the upper decks, Like yeah, well
47:13
we have in the Facebook group, but yeah, that's true. You haven't
47:17
seen Shacks. You haven't seen Yeah, you even't seen Shacks either. No,
47:25
it just barely saw him this episode. Even Jerry O'Connell's character has been
47:30
kind of sideline this year. He first episode he got his new grill.
47:35
Yeah, yeah, he gots a new grill. That's right. Yeah.
47:38
I would like to see some of the other characters too, like them interacting
47:43
with them too. You have to see that. But this episode is it
47:47
was good. I like the Martoin parks, the Ryan parks. It's like,
47:51
okay, she used everything, blah blah blah blah. Oh rap,
47:55
my good man, oh Rain, all right, I will bid you adu
48:04
did they go did they address something about the pheromones that Tindee doesn't do the
48:08
pheromone thing? Yeah, not every o Ryan has them? Okay, okay,
48:13
because they kind of that that, they kind of went by that real
48:15
quick. Yeah, it was their cop out for yeah right, okay,
48:22
all right. We also got another caller, as it would be uh t
48:25
Bear is joining in the gear nice in the gear represent Oh there you go.
48:31
Yeah, they just went to you know, wish Chad and his family
48:36
all the best. So we'll see him back soon. Don't get too don't
48:42
get too comfortable, plastic. Yeah, and I think he made a mistake
48:52
earlier. You said data. You're supposed to say data data, Scott Polaski.
49:00
I corrected him, which is my job on this show. Correct,
49:04
Chad, And since you're the new Chad, just buckle up. Is he
49:08
like last years? Oh? I don't know. Is Chad inside of you,
49:19
Scott? Because of Chad is its own? No, I don't need
49:22
to hear about this Chad inside of me. He's right here, he's right
49:28
here. Yeah, but where did he enter from? Well, we can't
49:31
discuss that on this type of podcast. What happens in the pool stays in
49:37
the pool. The chat. I'm sure you're listening to this. I'm sorry,
49:46
Oh, I forgot. While watching the club scene, I was thinking,
49:57
Man, this is gonna be Dan's favorite episode. Yeah, just you
50:00
know, club outfits everything in the scenery. So I was just cracking up
50:06
the whole time watching them and then love and Love and how they did it.
50:10
It's going back to what they did with like enter present. He just
50:14
mentioned it as the whole Pheromones things and yeah, it makes they're actually fixing
50:21
or filling in backstory, which I think I don't know now because it's cannon
50:25
and cannon out so I don't know if it's if it's considered cannon. So
50:30
it's one of those where are we considering lower deck cannon now or not I
50:37
don't think technically, but man, they have answered some Cannon questions in the
50:40
past. Yeah, and they're still doing it. That's the great part.
50:46
I mean, here's here. I mean it crossed over with Strange New Worlds
50:52
and then they referenced those events on this show, so maybe it is Cannon.
51:01
Well, and there's that there's that famous quote from Leonard Nimoy, who's
51:06
just like, Cannon is whatever you want it to be. So yeah,
51:09
that's nonsense. I love. Look he wasn't spock and then he was sucked
51:15
later, so I don't know. Yeah, it's true. I'm not I'm
51:19
not stocked, Yes i am, yeah, yeah, all right, yeah,
51:23
anything else you want to bring up about the episode? Now, it's
51:29
way better than those Very Short Trucks. In fact, I haven't watched it
51:32
ever since that first episode. I can't bring myself to watch the rest.
51:36
So maybe one day, but yeah, I'm okay, I'll just wait for
51:42
the Pacold review on the Very Short Trucks, so that could come out,
51:45
yeah, after after the writer's trick and everything, and yeah, I know
51:50
it takes a lot of paclad brain power to those together, so right right,
51:53
yeah, yeah, I can waiting game is going on about how the
52:01
ladies were very much lusting after some of those Orian men. Yeah, they're
52:07
into it, all right, Well thanks to you. Bart'll be good guys.
52:15
Hey, I wonder if we're going to get a pack lead very short
52:19
track. That would be interesting. I wouldn't mind seeing that. Yeah,
52:24
yeah, I'll, i'll, i'll, I'll check my h check my contacts
52:29
on the pac led world and see if they're talking. If a filming cruis
52:30
been around, talk talk to your people, yeah, talk to my know.
52:35
We're getting a newlix one like they're supposed to be. Oh boy,
52:38
and I think they're supposed to be a Trip one as well. But yeah,
52:43
okay, yeah I could dig that. I could dig that. Yeah,
52:47
all right. Trip was a great character. And I did ask around
52:53
on social media whether or not people watch Star Trick with the captions on.
53:00
Overwhelmingly the answer was yes, and a lot of people were saying that they
53:05
have found fun little lines that they did not catch before because of the captions.
53:08
Yeah, so that was kind of cool. I have a setting on
53:13
on the Roku where it's it's the captions on review, So if you back
53:17
something up, if you're watching something and you and you back it up a
53:21
few seconds. It'll put the captions on until you catch up to the point
53:24
where you were, and then it turns them off. So I like I
53:28
like that. Okay, I like that because if I miss something, I
53:30
back it up and I can I can read it. But watching something for
53:34
the first time with the captions on is distracting for me. I find I
53:38
find I miss things visually, right, shell right, Okay, all right.
53:45
I'm also still watching the original series. I just watched the episode right
53:50
after the Menagerie two parter, and it was I couldn't even tell you what
53:57
it was about. I mean, I'm gonna I'm gonna keep watching. Desrae
54:04
and I are are committed to you know, we also are going to suffer
54:07
for the people, indeed. But I'm just curious about backstories from things in
54:14
yeah strangy worlds that connect directly to the original series. I just watched that
54:22
that new movie on Hulu, No One Will Save You But the the girl
54:27
who her home gets invaded by aliens. What. Yeah, it's it's a
54:32
Hulu only movie. It's like ninety minutes. Good. Yeah, it's it's
54:38
a thriller. You know, she lives out in the middle of nowhere all
54:43
of a sudden aliens attack and really, yeah, it's it's pretty neat,
54:46
pretty well done. No one's got one of my favorite troops. Characters really
54:50
don't talk, so that was kind of cool. No one will save you.
54:55
It's really good. Smoothe out there. But it's fun. Well,
55:01
you brought it up, so now it better be. That's right. Yeah,
55:05
And if I watch it and don't like it, that's right, you
55:07
better check your inbox. My house turned to the ground. I'm gonna send
55:12
you a nasty voice. Hey, uh, what about voicemails? So people
55:16
will have to voicemail me, send me their their their MP three's. Keep
55:22
it under two minutes, because then I can animate you and make it more
55:27
visual for the podcast. So so we don't if people don't know. The
55:31
easiest way I found it do it was to do a voice recording on your
55:36
phone and send that file as an attachment to an email at track castn at
55:43
gmail dot com. Yeah, and use the track cast email for now and
55:46
uh yeah, keep it under two minutes, and then that way I can
55:49
turn you into a little character and we can have fun. And that way
55:52
we have talking jelly beans that looked like Ron Swanson and all sorts of other
55:58
characters. So so can you animate uh? Can you animate anything like any
56:06
any any? I don't know if I can upload pictures that I put into
56:10
it. Okay, but because I know we have those lower decks style cartoon
56:17
yeah of ourselves. If you can animate that, I'll leave you a message.
56:22
We'll make some we can make very short track casts. Oh there you
56:29
go, you go be trouble. Yeah, oh boy, but I will
56:37
I will check into that. But for sure, there's hundreds of characters on
56:42
the software, so I can all, right, should we commission should we
56:45
commission a cartoon version of Scott? Or do we not know if we're going
56:50
to keep them yet? Oh, we'll see. There's still a trial run.
56:53
Yeah, so I gotta make myself worthwhile. I've got a couple of
56:59
ideas for segments I could do. I'll get with you offline about a couple
57:02
of those. Good yeah, good, yeah, very short. Then we'll
57:09
decide if we're keeping it because you're still you're still under warrant. We got
57:13
about ninety days. Yeah, this trial run here at will employment. Maybe
57:19
maybe i'll animate the quicker reviews that I do, so there you go.
57:22
Yeah, all right, right, all right, Scott has a provisional rank.
57:28
That's right. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I think you like
57:32
my key character. Yeah, I checked the rotation. I'm pretty sure you
57:37
have hold that clean up waste extraction. Good, perfect, Thanks a lot,
57:44
looking forward to that. Now. Is this a holid deck that you
57:46
two have been using for crying out loud? It's the one with what the
57:53
jil h so good luck for those who don't remember, that's the Jennifer love
58:02
Hewitt who Daniel is fatuated with. I believe that's right, the nineties.
58:14
That's funny. All right, Well, thanks everybody for watching. We'll see
58:20
you next week. All right, all right, bye, bye, guys.
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