The Greatest Generation - Captain's Knuck (S3E19)

Episode Date: September 12, 2016

When Captain Picard needs a backrub, Doctor Crusher prescribes a vacation. Trouble is, the all-inclusive resort Commander Riker recommends appears to be "full service," and the pages in his book aren't spill proof. Can Picard go "chest to chest" with Riker? Is there any job on the Enterprise dangerous enough for red pants? What is "low knuck"? It's the episode where we prescribe to "The Maron Rule."

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How's it going, Ben? It's going pretty good. Yeah. Do you have anything thought up for the beginning of the show? We don't really need this part on the show, but we always do something. And we never plan it, which I think is great. Yeah. I was talking to our friend Chris Bannon of the Wolfden podcast. Friend of the show, Chris Bannon he was he hadn't heard our show yet this was kind of early early days and he's like well what happens on it I was like well we start with like two or five minutes of banter and he's like okay it sounds like a podcast so far yeah I'm pretty sure

you're contractually and legally obligated to begin any podcast with between three and five minutes of bullshit. Well, at the risk of, I believe that's the Marin rule, right? Right. At the risk of making it to formalized, I think that we do have a few categories of things. Like, we'll either talk about an embarrassing thing that happened to us with regards to the show,

or we'll talk about opening some cards. We have a couple of almost segments at this point that we can slide into this space. Do you want to open some cards? It's nothing stoppin' us. Our duty is to open them until they're gone, and then we're really fucked. Yeah. Alright, let's do it. The game is five cards stuffed, the game is exceeding, they're simple.

What are these just the cards there? Time to pluck a pendulum. Are you gonna open something, or should I, or should we go? Yeah, let's open together in case one of us gets a clunker. Ben, I was reading recently that all of this card opening might be for not in our quest for a natural yager. Why do you say that? Because there is no Biffyager card in these packs. I don't think that's true.

I thought I read the Biffyager was a special thing that they stuck in cases like for collector card sellers. I don't know about that. I think that- Did I misread that? The fact that the signature cards we do have look like the exact same series as the Biffie-Ager ones that we've seen pictures of. Uh-huh. Makes me think that we may find a natural-yager yet.

We may find like some total other character. Holy shit, man. I got another special card. God damn it. This one is Baytor of Lursa and Baytor. It's just a painting of her and her cleavage and and her name and that's all it says. It is card U17 so it must be a special card. Yeah, there definitely some cards in here that aren't like the ones that they commissioned for the Series

About that. I'm gonna stick that in the pile next to Commander Sunad The Charles Dennis card as you remember him and my sterling mace or junior my my two most prized cards My first card is the naked now. Excellent. Yeah, finally got one. I also have elementary tier data, and I have one that's just Wurf.

So you got a Wurf version of the Bator card I have? I guess so. That's great. Yeah, it's got a little silver inlay on the on his name That's what I got. Yeah cool Nice I'm glad we both got special cards. Yeah Rounding out my pack I've got Deja Q the survivors skin of evil and homework the survivors, skin of evil and homework. Homeward is the one that I don't believe we have seen before. Looks like the outline of someone wearing a hazmat suit. And then a picture of the enterprise going toward a bullseye.

I'm always down for a hazmat suit. Always down. That's why you keep one in your night's den. Mm-hmm. Just in case I ever have to outrun Worf when they put gas into the atmosphere. I know this about you, Ben. It's Glasses Off, Hasmat Zudon. I also have remember me, which I believe you've opened recently. It's the one where people are disappearing on the ship and Beverly's the only one that's aware of it.

Boy, you got to love a Beverly Crusher-centered episode. And then I've got Gambit Part Two. The sequel to the original Gambit. Yeah. I think this is that one where Card and Riker get like abducted or something. Oh really, this time they go together in the last episode? Yeah, I don't remember it.

Fun cards. Yeah. I'm excited I got a Warf card. I feel like this is like the first really truly good one I've gotten since I got backstored. Yeah, I've started to feel guilty that I'm really kicking your ass in the cool card department. Yeah, well, I think Worf is as cool as anyone I've opened aside from George Baxter. As cool as they get, I completely agree. Alright, well, with that bit of bit behind us, how'd you like to turn the page to season 3 episode 19, Captain's Holiday?

This is becoming a speech. You're the captain, sir. Very entitled. Hmm. I'm going to type it a ram-along about something everyone knows. Let's turn the page, as Picard does so many times in this episode. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Yeah, so the cold open is some weird lobster face aliens beaming down to a tropical planet and like going

to the hotel directory and asking where Captain Picard is staying and the directory has no record of Picard being there. And they're like, could we have miscalculated? These two aliens look like glittery chocolate cupcakes. Yeah, they're real, they're real weird. It's like, every time if you're gonna portray someone that is quote unquote of the future on a show that's already in the future,

you get to get pretty fucking weird. Yeah. And that's what these people are. They definitely also feel like they came from the same imagination that gave us the J. Leno aliens in the last episode. Yeah. Like whoever they have doing creature effects right now in the show's history is like, this type of stuff. Well, we can't do those garbage bags again. That's out. bitch bags again, that's out. So, yeah.

So, Captain is back on the ship after negotiating a trade agreement. He's just a ball of stress. He's given clipped answers to people's questions and just like, like, if anybody needs me, I'll be in my ready room drinking tea or I'll gray hot. Yeah, his posture is all kind of slouchy. He's looking a little dour. He's looking a little yesterday's enterprise,

basically, you know? Yeah, that's true. And this is one of the weirdest throw to opening credits sequence that they've done yet, which is Troy goes, I know what the captain needs. Our captain needs a vacation. Bo-oh! And then they just play that song,

that vacation all day of the way. Okay. Yeah, sort of like weird tonally, right? It is really weird. It's like a... They don't care about Picard's well-being at any other point. Right. It's almost as if they need to create a show around this. Yeah. Right? It's funny, and it's also just an app that spends a lot of time kind of redefining what it's gonna be.

You know? Like the plot, it's so plotty because they kind of reset the plot a bunch of times. Yeah. Like we're fairly deep into it before Picard has even been convinced to go on this vacation. There's a lot of goofing around where like, Ryker, I'll hop on the elevator with him and be like,

hey, what do you think about doing that vacation? The doctor almost ordered you to do. And Picard eventually just gives in because they threaten him with taking walks on a Troi board. Yeah. The doctor is a fun scene with Picard where she basically reads the list of symptoms that Leslie Neelson's character reads to the cockpit in Airplane.

The card clearly had the Until finally the poor bastard is reduced to a Povering waste of peace of jelly. Yet he insists on ignoring it. Picard clearly had the fish for dinner. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. They kind of wear him down, right? Yeah, and the last straw is that they're saying like, oh yeah, we're gonna pick up Troy's mom on the way to whatever our next thing is.

And Picard essentially vetoes the lawox on it. Yeah, which is great. So at that exact moment, nobody overrides his veto. Troy's like, yeah, my mom's coming. It's gonna be great. And Picard throws to Riker. He's like, we need to talk in my radio room right now. And on the walk by in the mid background,

Marina Circus is like, yes! Got him! Yeah, exactly. That was fun. I missed that, that's awesome. Yeah. So, Riker and Troy are walking Picard to the transporter room.

Yeah. And Picard is wearing wearing the standard like holiday apparel of like the half pirate v-neck. Very poofy sleeves. Yeah, he's got the sleeves have like have like skirts that go all the way down. And and this is something that you see only in the corridor on the walk to the transport room. He's wearing pleated pants and somehow rocking tremendously low-knuck. Yeah. The coach packing, you know. Like real saggy-knuck. Which you wouldn't think were possible in some pleated pants. Yeah, that's like it's meant to be more modest than that. Yeah.

But there's mad-knuck. Oh. Yeah. But there's Mad Knuck. Oh, super mad. Captain's Knuck, you can see all the Pips. Yeah, they really went to town on how much Knuck there is in this program. You know, I don't think I ever really thought about it as a kid, but this show makes an effort to show us some man package on a fairly regular basis. Gladys Knight and the Pips. That's what he calls it. And this isn't the first time you see Captain's Nuck. Captain's Nuck is basically third billing in this episode. Yeah, yeah.

Gladys Knight is, she's the first name that fades up after the credits role. You know, all the featured players. And introducing Glad is night as Captain Snuck. Yeah. As he's preparing to beam down, Riker says, hey, by the way, grab me one of these things that they got down there, it's called a Horgon.

It's like a souvenir that you can get on Rysa. But, cards like, all right, I guess you got it. Riker's the guy right now who's been to Vegas every year for the last 20 years and is telling a newcomer like how to do it. Right. It's like, all right, you want to stay in this casino. You want to eat at this restaurant. Don't go to this casino. That place is a dump. Yeah. This is a class joint. Yeah. Yeah, but he's not smart about it. Like everyone knows that guy who has the vacation recommendations, but Riker's not pushy.

He knows who he's talking to. He's not going to be, Picard's not going to be into the same good time that Riker's into. Right. But Riker wants him to be. This Hordegon that he asked him to get is a bit of a prank, because Picard obtains one and then is like chilling on the planet's surface,

trying to read a book and women are just throwing themselves at him and like offering him sexual favors. And he's like, he's eventually just like cheesed off enough with one of them. And he's like, can you please fucking knock it off with trying to fuck me? And he's like, can you please fucking knock it off with trying to fuck me? And he's like, well, why do you have the Horgon out? The Horgon is the rising symbol of sexuality.

And he's like, ooh. So not only does Picard have the Horgon out, he is wearing like a bandana around his captain's knuck. Yeah. He is wearing very short shorts, and he's got the Horgon, a combination that is like Catnip to these women on Rysa. And this is quintessentially Picard, right?

The first thing he does is go run his errand for Riker. Like, yeah, it gets all the business out of the way first. Yeah, yeah. And then he's got his like, you know, 2000 year old book that he's reading. Yeah. He doesn't even blast one out in the hotel room before going down to the pool like a gentleman. So the first that actually the first first thing that happens when he beams down is he's like he's like literally just materialized and he's walking walking toward hotel check-in or whatever and this beautiful

woman comes running around the corner and just basically throws herself into his arms and starts kissing him and it's because she's trying to distract a forangi or make this forangi not want to come up and talk to her and he goes like oh I guess you've mistaken me for someone else and she's like oh, oh yeah, that must be it. So we'll reconnect with her later. But when Picard is out here trying to read his book, that Farenki comes and steps into the light that Picard is bathing in and starts threatening Picard, he says he wants this

disc. This Ferengi Sovac is wearing a true blue Cosby sweater, isn't it? Like this is not standard pool attire. Yeah. Picard squintes up at him and is like, that's a nice sweater you're wearing, Theo! Ha ha ha ha! Where did you buy that? Is there a gift shop on the Planet Surface Rudy? And waitress, two more pudding pop drinks! Yes, Lee!

Yeah, good times. And this fucking Farenki is the most annoying Firingi we've met so far. Yeah, and this is the same guy that plays Quartz brother in deep space 9. Yeah, I'm not familiar. Same actor. He's got a real under bite. Yeah, he's got some, he's got some gnarled teeth for sure. So, so yeah, so there's a bunch of shit that happens here and it's a

little hard to remember like exactly what order it happens in. I think we can do this, Ben. Suffice it to say there are several players in this game that is about to be a foot. There is the franghi who funded Vlash, the woman who kissed Picard early on, in stealing the treasure map to this maguffin thing called the Tox utat. Now, there are also these aliens that look like the chocolate cupcakes who claim to be security officer.

You knew Cosby that description, didn't you? You got the job lit! Shut up! They claim to be security officers from the 27th century who are tracking down this object, the Tox U-Tot, because it was like stolen from the future and hidden in the past. And it's, I guess, a super powerful weapon of some kind.

And so Picard, upon coming across all these people, agrees with Lash to team up with her to go find this thing. And so they are trying to leave the resort area when the Ferengi catches up with them and like puts a gun and Picard's back and he's like, you're gonna take me to it now. And Picard manages to like, to like disarm the Ferengi and punch his lights out.

And so they head off and they go spill And so, I guess it's like a long enough trip that they have to camp inside the cave. And this is where. They bring along a Ghostbusters-style proton pack, backpack with them. I just wanted to say that. Yeah. It was worth saying. It's got some cups, it's got some barware,

which I thought was nice. Yeah, and it's got a couple of shovels in the back. Yeah, they make camp and Picard and Vash totally bang. Yeah. It's like the, I think, as far as I can remember, the first time the captain not under the deras of some alien influence has had like a healthy relationship with somebody more similar to his own age. Well, even Picard's Indiana Jones get up has that deep V. Yeah.

He's working the deep V into a lot of his costuming. Yeah. Which, you know, you wouldn't be able to tell in any other circumstance, but I think Picard can go chest with chest with riker in the chest hair department. Yeah, definitely great looking chest hair if it's not quite as prodigious as rikers. Yeah, very noble.

Yeah. Very commanding. Yeah. Real square to weigh, Ben. Yeah, he gives good chest. And they get down in this cave, and then like the next morning, they find where the Tox utat is supposed to be buried, and they start digging for it,

and the vorgons appear, and that's the chocolate cupcake aliens. I'm just realizing that they're called the vorgons, and there's also an object in this episode called the Horgon. Yeah. We fuck writes this shit called the Horgon. Yeah. Who fuck writes this shit? It's very confusing. Give me a break.

You could call them anything. Yeah, the object is called a temporary name. TK, TK. Yeah. Come on, guys. Yeah. You get to fix it before shoot. Or at least like loop something in after you shoot.

I don't know. Yeah. Confusing. It's really hard to do a show like this when both the aliens and the object are so similarly named. Mm-hmm. Like I said, it is based on a true story. So we're stuck with it. So the foregons are going to stand there and just watch them dig until they get the Tox utat and Vasha is like, fuck you, like you're going to give it to these assholes because she wanted to give it to the Dastram Institute or a social claims Picard's perspective that you really just wanted to sell it and then the Ferangue shows up and everybody knows he just wants to sell it to the

highest bidder. So. And, and so about packing again. Yeah. And this time he's upgraded from extremely weak looking pistol to pretty threatening looking like two handed assault rifle. Yeah. It's like a dust buster with some handlebars. Yeah, how skulls strapped to the front of it. Little streamers on the side. So they dig and dig and dig and they do not find this, uh, there's McGuffin. Hey, Ben, yeah, Patrick Stewart, so can pretty ripped in this scene. Yeah, just that. Oh, yeah, well, probably, you probably, uh, prepped for it by digging a bunch of holes, you know.

Captain's kind of jacked. He might be more jack than Jordy. Who knows? I mean, we haven't seen Jordy take his top off. No, we sure haven't. And I hope we never do. Are you kidding? That's so spankable.

I can't imagine anything greater. Oh, no. How dare you ruin a noble character like Jordy for me. So they all just like leave in disgust. And the next day, Fosh is like trying to, trying to check out of the resort and Picard comes to her room and he's like, nice try asshole. I know that you already have the Tox uta. That was the only way to get the forangi off your back. She's like yeah it turns out I actually do and I hit it in this Horgon and so she opens it up and shows it to Picard. I don't really know why she admitted this to him. Yeah. I guess she just didn't have a good way of like

ensuring it would be where she had hidden it if she left with him or whatever. Nothing makes sense in this episode. Yeah, but not a lot of logic is brought to bear on any of the plot points. So the vorgons show up and they're like, great, thanks. Can you give that to us now? We're going to go. And watchers like, you're going to give it to these assholes. You didn't trust me.

What makes you think you could trust them? These are the assholes that have been trying to steal at the entire time. They're not security officers. And Picard's like, whoa, I should have totally made sure that they were who they claimed to be. Damn. They just told me they were from the future and I took it for face value the entire time.

Like, I'm Captain Picard. I love loyering everyone, but these guys forget it. Yeah, I believed him. I'm super credulous around these cupcake around these cupcake guys. That just looks so tasty. Yeah, and so vassious like, you can't let these people have it. And that's when card unleashes this plan B. Yeah, which is moments before he had

radioed up to Riker and it's like, look, I need you to institute, transport, record number 14. And it's like, look, I need you to institute Transporter Code number 14 and you're like, wait for my signal, get it ready to go. And right before we cut back to the card, Riker turns around a wharf and it's like, what the fuck is that? Like, for a moment, I think you were meant to believe that there is no such thing as code 14. Yeah. So what it is revealed to be is locking on to Picard's communicator and blowing it up. Yeah. So he snatches the tox uta, puts his communicator on it and like does a shoulder roll out of the way

and then it de-materializes and explodes at the same time. Yeah. And the voregons are like, you have done an amazing thing here today. You have fulfilled your destiny. Like, they make the case that that's what they were expecting them to do the whole time. We were really from the future, we swear.

This is how it was all supposed to go. It's like someone totally biffing a skateboard stunt and being like, yeah, I meant to do that. That was the trick the whole time. Like, dust himself off him and skates away. That was awesome. That was awesome. Good job, guard. We're out of here. Yeah, and then Fash is like, hey, you need like a hot lure craft type on your ship.

And the fish. Fash basically asks to occupy the archeologist job posting that we know is available on that ship. Yeah, and he's like, your- Cause Slickback's mom died. Right, and he's like, you know, like, people definitely die from having that job, so he's probably, because slick back's mom died. Right. And he's like, you know, like people definitely die from having that job. So probably not for you. It is literally the most dangerous job on our ship.

It's the reddest of shirts that you can possibly get. We give you red pants. The job is so red. And so they have a little smooch and that's the end of the episode. I like Vash. Yeah, she's a great foil for Picard. Yeah. They have real cool energy, like cool flirting. Like she's definitely a great, a great like,

she's well written and she's, she's like totally her own person. She's not just like a flat, idiotic, sex object kind of character, which the writers of this show seem so tempted to write, even for characters that we've already established or not. She is already so much more of a character than Diana Troy, that's sad. Yeah, I mean, Troy was a character for a while, but they've definitely taken some steps back with her. She does a great service to the character of Picard, too.

She's dangerous in a way that is not, like, lethal or anything to him. Like, she shakes him up and gets him out of his comfort zone. And, hey, guess what, Ben, that's how you grow as a character. Dang. You get out of your comfort zone, don't you? So you're saying I should not just go through the routine of my life and never do anything

that scares me a little bit. You could try. I don't know. I don't know about that, Adam. You could try displaying a Horgon like in the form of a colored bandana, which is out of your back pocket, which is basically what a Horgon is, right?

Yeah, I don't think my wife would take too kindly to that. We don't really know what a Horgon is supposed to communicate, right? Is it basically a Dix open for business? Yeah, yeah, come get this sweet D. So Picard beams back up to the enterprise and Riker is like, you got my Horgon and Picard gives him that look like,

I know what you were trying to do. Yeah, we're gonna have to have a little chitchat about that bug. And Riker, like, unzips his uniform and shows, like the Danny Treyo-sized Horgon chest tattoo that he has, like, Horgon life in Old English lettering. Like, God, this is Philly. Yeah, what does that stand for?

I feel like, Rysisa was Riker's little secret for a long time and he saw this moment as a way to, you know, become friendly with Picard in not just a, you know, official capacity, like, take their relationships to the next level. That's cool. This is a fun episode. It was fun. It was very stupid, but didn't kneecap itself. Yeah, let's not mince words. This was a terrible episode, but it was also fun.

Yeah, well, like, I mean, it shows the potential for not having to be awful while being stupid. Yeah. You know, like, it's fine to have a dumb episode from time to time. It's like light and just fun to watch. Yeah. Yeah, that's what this was And it's great because I think this really sets the table for a season and maybe even a series That's maybe just all about Captain Picard having fun. Nothing bad's gonna happen to him especially in season three I don't get that feeling. No, I think he's going to remain untouched. Hey, Ben. What's that, Adam? Did you find any deep-v-style drunk Shimoda? I did. It's going to be Picard, a very short little scene that I just thought was really funny and proved to me that he was the character

having the most fun in this episode. In the like brief moment in between Captain Picard beaming down and bumping into Vash, a bathing suit clad woman walks past him and they actually just have a shot of him turning around to look at her but... It's like I cannot believe that we are seeing a character on this show check a butt out like that they edited that clip in. Holy shit. I really want to know whether that was on the page or that was a direction. Yeah. I want to know the answer that's so bad.

I know. This seemed like a really fun episode to direct. Yeah, totally. Like, man, I don't know. It's a nice little field trip. It's definitely not outside. They do that thing where they do the fake outside scene. Yeah, inside for outside.

Yeah, and they're not doing a great job with that Especially because they do such a good job on like the Malibu planet, you know, right? Like you can you know the difference for sure My Shimoda is definitely there's the choice between giving it to the character of Picard or giving it to Patrick Stewart But I think this is the second episode in a room and he give it to Patrick Stewart. Wow Who like he's so game for all of this, right? Like he's putting on the headband swim shorts. He's looking at asses. Yeah.

Like he's a... He's confident in his ability to portray this character in a very different scenario. Yeah, he sees this coming. He knows the stakes, what the stakes are for his character. It's a total right turn that sort of illuminates the character in a totally different light. And he's totally game.

I thought it was super fun. And sort of like the last episode we watched, if he played it a little too broad, or a little too tight, it doesn't work. But he found the sweet spot where it's credible and good. And like this could be a character ruining episode for the cards. So easily, couldn't it? Yeah. Like if he's cartoonish with the ass look, if he like turns into Riker with Vash, and suddenly becomes something he's not like, like,

Rice could have turned Picard into Riker, and it didn't, and everyone knew better than to make it like that. Like, it's a fish out of water story in sort of reverse. Totally. So, I don't know, I thought, I thought practically the episode did a great job, and Patrick Stewart himself just kind of threaded the needle again as he does. A Greatest Gen Live Show is something you don't want to miss. Why? Well, it's a great opportunity to see me and Ben in person, but that's not all.

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in a remote star system. Do you remember the same episode, Adam? No, not at all. But the Tin Man would be another name for Armas. This is an Armas again? This is that one where they find like a, it's like a living creature that's the size of a starship and it's like supposed to serve as a starship.

Like, so they like beam aboard and it's like, it's all like gooey, but if they want there to be a chair, it'll like make a chair up here out of the floor. A gooey chair. Yeah. That sounds fun. I think it's a fun one. Is that starship a little bit like an aliens set?

Yeah, it's a little gaggery. It's like, it's a little like more, it's a little less intricate than a gagger set. It's like, it's like if you board a starship hallway out of a pile of poo. Kind of a look. That sounds great. I'm really excited about it. I remember liking this episode.

It looks like they're ready to spend some money again. We've had a couple of episodes that... They've saved up a little bit. Yeah, so that sounds great. Let's go ahead and watch that. We have to, don't we? We have to. We're required by law.

How many episodes are left in this season? They're all like 30 episode seasons, aren't they? I think this is a 26 episode season. All right. Yeah, so not too many left. Not too many shopping days before best of both worlds. Yeah, it's funny how those episodes overshadow everything in season three. That's why so many of these episodes are hard to remember, at least for me.

Yeah, well, and also we haven't had a Loaxana episode yet, and that's been really nice. Yeah. One thing that is easy to remember is our gratitude for all of our viewers who have helped make the production of this show possible. If anyone would like to contribute to the production of this show, they can go to maximumfund.org slash donate. We also really appreciate any reviews that our viewers write or do either in the form of stars or maybe they have a web blog where they like writing about things that they like.

Well, maybe they write for a major publication and want to include us in their pages. It would be awesome. Yeah, yeah. We love reading our clippings. That's me, there. Except when they're angry and mean, we don't like that kind.

So don't do it. If you'd like to talk to us about the show, we're all over the internet. We're on Twitter. Adam is at Cup for Time. I'm at Benjamin A.H.R. Use the hashtag GreatestGen to find all of the fun stuff from this show and all the past shows.

That's where you're going to see your bill tilly trading cards, for example. Right. We're also on Facebook. The Facebook group is the greatest generation, and there's also a Facebook page that you can like. And then Reddit is also super active. There's like more than 600 people on the Reddit now. It's going really.

Yeah. Lots of fun conversations happen there all week. Whether or not there's a new episode. So give that a give that a gander. Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to see some more co-mingling though between the official maximum fun Reddit and our filthy viewers over on our page. Yeah totally. Yeah so flip over a table over on the maximum fun reddit. Yeah turn a chair around sit on it AC Slater Style. Sit on a lounger rock some knuck over there.

Yeah display your hordegon. Yeah nice group of people. Yeah, and so we should thank Dark Materia for our theme music and Adam Reducia for our Jumbo Tron music and with that we will be back at you next week with another great episode of Star Trek the Next Generation and a 10 episode of the greatest generation. In a poop tunnel episode of the great generation. A gooey gooey chair episode. You don't want to sit in that gooey chair, but... No, steer clear. You definitely want to put down some newspapers or something.

Yeah. Yeah, arts at leisure section, I recommend. That's what that's good for. Yeah. Make it sound. Make it sound. I just want to do something real quick. Okay. Forget it.

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