The Greatest Generation - Full of Nipple Pickles (VOY S6E4)

Episode Date: June 12, 2023

When Doc Holoday lets his imagination run wild, it’s all horny colleagues and superman shit until he can’t wake up from his daydreams. But when a peeping Grimace gets in trouble with his middle manager, the ECH has to figure out how to actually sit in the big chair. What is the manifesto writer’s fallacy? Is the same thing always missing in the uncanny valley? Why is Janeway so forgiving of the Doc’s fantasies? It’s the episode that confirms Barclays are everywhere!Support the production of The Greatest Generation.Friends of DeSoto for Democracy.Friends of DeSoto for Justice. Follow The Game of Buttholes: The Will of the Caretaker!Music by Adam Ragusea & Dark MateriaFollow The Greatest Generation on Twitter, and discuss the show using the hashtag #GreatestGen!The Greatest Generation is on YouTube.Facebook group | Subreddit | Discord | WikiSign up for our mailing list!Get a thing at podshop.biz!

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I'm Ben Harrison. I'm Adam Pranica. How are you doing, Adam? I'm home alone. Whoa! Have been for a couple days. Will be for a couple of days. I was wondering why you were slapping the sides of your cheeks like that.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's been that kind of time when I teach myself how to shave. Do you remember the first time you ever shaved? I wasn't that young. I wasn't McCulley Culkin in Home Alone, young.

No. I think I was in high school, sadly. Wasn't that young? I wasn't McCulley Culkin and Home Alone young. No. I think I was in high school, sadly. Yeah, I remember it felt really intense, like, after, you know, like the feeling of freshly shaved skin was, there was a lot. My face looked like a Terry cloth towel before, like I was ready. I had all the peach fuzz. And I really needed it.

I had to go get my fucking own shaver. Like, my parents didn't tell me or show me anything. Wow. I had to figure it out. So I went to the drugstore and I bought a razor and I took it home like the cheapest Norelko razor I could find like the three heads thing. Yeah, yeah.

And the triangle of circles. Yeah. And like what do you do? Those things don't even come with instructions. It's like charge and use on face. And so I did. I probably shaved my entire face with that thing, like an idiot. This is before the availability of a YouTube video that you could consult

if you had a home activity that you didn't know how to do. The kids of today are watching all manner of shaving videos to know the tips. I didn't have that. Do you think that the kids of today are watching YouTube videos for that and also all the other things our parents neglected to teach us, like how to pay your taxes, what insurance you should get, what you should do with money? We really do have it a lot better now.

Today's kids, right? Yeah, yeah, when I was your age. I used to go to school wearing shoe boxes on my feet, and then I'd come home and nut in the shoe box and hide it under the desk. Your parents seemed pretty hands on it. Wouldn't surprise me if your dad actually taught you out of shape, like a father and son moment,

is that what you got? I don't think I got that. There's a story about when I was like a little, little kid and I wasn't being that carefully looked after and got my hands on my dad's razor and attempted to mimic what I'd seen him doing in the morning and just cut my face into ribbons. Oh no.

Yeah. With an electric or with a razor razor? No, with a razor razor. Yeah. Like a big. Yeah, I think probably exactly a big. Oh god. Yeah, it was just a bloody mess. I looked like a like the Joker for a little while. That's rough. Yeah. You'd better should have kept that thing locked up. Yeah. It's dangerous. Yeah, but having a baby that is now moving around a lot, I'm starting to realize like what a futile thing it is going to be trying to make a house that doesn't offer, you know, what did they call

the tract of nooses to the baby? Like, are you gonna switch to electric razors now? Now that Daron is ambulatory? Yeah, I mean, most of the time I only use electric razors because I, you know, not much of a beard, but I have a little stubble and I just kind of keep it in place with a razor with like a one-half blade guard on it, you know. Wow. Yeah, I had such a bad experience with my first razor, baby's first norelko, that as soon as I could get out of it possibly I did.

I've been a safety razor for years and years. Yeah, I do have a safety razor. It's on a high shelf. It'll be a good decade before it's around. We'll be tall enough to get up to that. God, can you imagine? It's so weird to think about future to round. Yeah.

And future you. It's a trip. Anytime I see something about like a teen on a TV show or something, I'm like, man, he's gonna be a teen. I don't have kids and I'm not going to have them, but like even I- You add them.

When are you two gonna have a kid? But even I think about how I would do it differently. Are you just overwhelmed with those thoughts all the time? Like, here's another week with DeRone. How do I make it better for him than I got it? Is that something you think about or do you just go through the days as like doing

the best dad job you can? I anticipate having that right now. He's too little for me to know really how I got it when I was his age. So I don't feel like I know how to do a better or worse version than how I got it. Yeah. So we're just doing the best we can right now. That sounds like a really healthy attitude to have. I would have a terrible attitude about parenthood. I'd just be in competition with myself and my own upbringing and everyone else, it'd be awful. Well, you've made a decision that is the right decision for you in that case. I sure have.

Do you want to make the right decision for you. Yeah. In that case. I sure have. Do you want to make the right decision for our listeners today, Adam? Finally getting out of whatever this is. And into something more comfortable, I could do that. Yeah. It's season six episode four of Star Trek Voyager, Tinker and Tenor, Doctor Spy. Reaver course. Unless you've got something a little bigger

in your torpedo toots, I'm not turning around. Ah! Do you like a Jean-Laurene novel or movie adaptation? I mean, I get the reference, and that is as far as it goes for me. Oh, did you not see the Taylor of Panama you've seen the Gary Oldman Tinker Taylor? I have not. No.

I kind of think you would like those movies. Are they good? I think Tinker Taylor's older spy is better than Taylor of Panama, but they're both pretty fun. Yeah. Is there a bunch of sewing happening? No, it's mostly spy craft. It's just a bunch of spies doing spy shit mostly.

There's no tailoring at all. No. I don't know why he brings tailors into his title. So I guess there might be some sewing and tailor Panama. I can't remember it as well. Anyways, very sad cold open in my mind. As we witness the doctor going full data, just making his interests someone else's entertainment in kind of a hostile way. Yeah.

And I like this. Even the fish begin to weep. No one wants to be there. You look around in the audience and like we know what these faces look like. We see these faces every time we do a live show. Yeah, one guy sleeping conspicuously in the front row. The uncontrollable horniness that one and only one person

experiences in the crowd, that's two Voc. Because the doctor's singing, singing the loony tunes opera song that everyone's familiar with. Yeah, a lot of people thought that the Beatles were remarkable for having that effect on the young ladies in their audience. Every performer has this.

There's one person that cries and completely flips out and gets ultra-ultra-horny. It's just that they had a very high ratio of that to other types of fans in the audience. But we get that. You wouldn't expect two-vac's basement to be flooded the way that it is here, but it is full gush. He feels. It takes Paris throwing the doctor a hyposprae to take Tuvac down, and the doctor hasn't stopped singing.

No, he's switched into like parody lyrics at a greatest gen level of competency. Sure. And they're writing, which doesn't help the audience, I don't think. Yeah. I mean, before the reveal, this seems more insane than what data did when he read poetry to everybody. Yeah. After the reveal, like retrospectively, you're like, no, data is worse and crazier than the doctor.

Because this, this is just a fantasy. But data is so powerful that I would never want to insult him with my absence of a performance, right? Right, it wouldn't be hard for data to subdue two-vac. Yeah. But I mean, even two-vac has that Vulcan Strympf. He does have that type of strremf, but that doesn't, I mean, data can bend a pipe in half, you know?

Yeah, yeah. Unclear whether Tuvac could bend his pipe in half, given that he's experiencing pond fire. Yeah. And inside the Doc's hyposprae is what exactly? Savage fingers? They just, they just come out of the tip and then come, go back in. Yeah.

I hope she made a product after Star Trek III. Yeah. A product useful for the Falcon use. Probably a beverage or a pill. I wonder what Genesis, Spock andiq's love child is named. And does that kid get it as bad as Spock did as a kid for being one quarter human? Or through Vulcan logic, does that kid get it half as bad as Spock did? I've been watching an HBO show called Hundred Foot Wave

and it's just about like big waves. Oh yeah, Season 2 is out, right? Yeah. And the main character on the show has a kid with a vanity name. His name is Barrel. Wow. And so it got me thinking as an answer to your question, like what's the vanity name that Savak

and Spock would name their kid? It would be finger, wouldn't it? You would have to be. It would have to be. So the doctor has been daydreaming, he's like leaning back in his chair. This was all just a fantasy. Not even the holodic could make and experience this wild. BLT suggests to the doctor in real life that if he has time to daydream, he's got time to day clean. And the DACA's upset because he's wanted to go on this away team that they're planning for and they just don't have the slot for him or whatever.

All the positions are filled and the DACS feel in real sore about it. This is the rare away mission that gets like a ton, a ton of pre-planning. And yeah, he's bummed there's like a canyon that he was very interested in taking a picture of with his hollow imager. He's real miffed. BLT offers to take pictures. And, you know, the doctor knows better than to send her

on a mission where she's just supposed to take pictures. Yeah. Photographs, just photographs. BLT and really everyone on the crew are put in that position of not really giving the doctor everything he wants. See, he kind of reads as a child, you know? Right.

He's kind of chanting, isn't he? He's chanting a little bit. Kenan, I wanted to go on the away team. So up on the bridge, they're going past a T-class nebula. No word on whether that's just the letter T or the beverage. But anyways, it's a bit of an anomaly. It wasn't showing up on sensors before, but now it is. And while they're remarking on this unremarkable nebula,

There's nothing to dramatic in that nebula. A pad has passed to the captain with an angry letter from the doctor. And this is the full-blown tantrum. Never fun to receive a surprise manifesto from a coworker. This is really unwelcome for everyone. And what's tough is that the doctor has bottled up all of these feelings about being held back

and explodes that on the page. And I love Chikote and Tuvaak here who are like, look, Cap, this is kind of what we're here for, right? Yeah, yeah. We're the human shields. If you could only hear yourselves. I shouldn't have said that. We're the human and Vulcan shields

for this sort of administrative work. And Janeway to her credit is like, I have nothing else to do. I'll go respond personally. Yeah, so she heads off into her ready room to pen a response. This is what happens when you write a manifesto it invites a response manifesto Right, and I think that like the fallacy of the manifesto writer is thinking that Getting yourself to the manifesto stage of your anger is

Going to be a productive way of getting what you want. Oh yeah. It's great. You got to address your complaints early and often so that you don't boil over into manifesto. At that point, it's too late. It's just tedious for everyone else involved at that point. Inside the nebula, we find a ship, a grimace ship, crewed by Harconan looking people. And all of these people have comic book guy voices

and attitudes I found. Yeah, yeah, they're kind of egg head. Like the backs of their heads look like LV426 eggs, you know. Yeah, they really do. As far as loaf goes, this looks like the hottest in temperature. They sure are wearing a lot. They are. I hope the air conditioning was cranked up to max on the sound stage that day. They may be doing that thing that news broadcasters do, or they just wear like a suit on top

and shorts on the bottom. Because you don't see these guys legs ever, I don't think. Yeah, yeah, hopefully they gave them that at the very least. I mean, just trying to get out of this to go pee looks like it would be a real pain in the ass, right? It's got to be hard to get in the character as a grimace when above the waist you're grimace but below the waist you're in permutea shorts and flip flops. Yeah, yeah, but otherwise it's diaper on set, you know. Right. Right. You're like right in between takes still under the lights and you're like distracted.

They're like we're rolling. What are you doing? And you're like, oh, I'm sorry, I'm 10-1. I'm 10-1, I'm sorry. I should have told somebody. Usefully this culture refers to a hierarchy as the hierarchy, and it is something about which they are very obsessed. Their entire way of doing things is about the hierarchy, whether or not it's on the ship,

or the hierarchy they communicate with to get their orders. And when our main character here, which I would describe as like the lesser of the crew people that we know, goes above their manager's head to communicate with the hierarchy directly, it's an end around that riker would jerk so hard at, right? I'll snap you back so hard you'll think

you're a first year cadet again. Yeah, these guys actually do have character names. Our main guy is actually named Flox, which is a character name that Star Trek reused later on the Doctor on Enterprise. I didn't get it from the episode, so maybe that's why they felt confident enough to reuse it, because I sure don't hear it a bunch.

Yeah. Of course, it's long day. What? This one to me very careful, because I'm only going to see this once. Who? The actor that plays the Overlooker has one of the great character actor names I've ever seen. Did you see this whiz buy in the credits?

What you're talking about? Googie? Googie Gras. Wow. Googie Gras. Googie Gras, junior. Oh, wow. Yeah.

You, you got to honor the original googie. Motherfucking. Oh, gee. With a junior, right? Yeah. He's been a whole bunch of stuff. He's been a palo 13, Adam. He's in Wayne's World 2.

No shit. He's in Frazier. That's how that's pronounced for sure. Ha, ha, ha. So, uh, Flock's has kind of gone over the overlookers head, gotten sign off from the hierarchy to do a very specific scanning thing on the Voyager. They're surveilling the Voyager, the type of scanning that he wants to do is like a very like focused scan at the microscopic level.

He thinks you might be able to tap into their computer system and get some information about Voyager. No word on what they want to do with this information yet, but they don't seem like they're up to anything good. I think it's pretty critical that these people don't look threatening. Yeah. You know? Like the idea of being completely alone and far from home and being spied on, that's creepy. No one likes that. It is creepy. But when you see who's doing the spying and it's this

ship of dopes, it doesn't feel scary the way it might otherwise, right? They do sort of seem packlet of Jason, don't they? Yeah, it seems like a clump ship. So why did they get different actors to play the parts then? Yeah, exactly. I don't know. And Eddie Murphy as the overlooking. Back on Voyager. If you want.

They're pre-gaming the Dustbuster Club that everyone's so excited about that the doctor doesn't get to go on. Yeah. It's so cruel that they make him sit in on the meeting when he's not even going to get to go on the mission, right? He's got to be a part of every meeting, right? He should. There's always a medical angle. Right. This meeting, he's getting a little distracted from, though, because some some feet are rubbing him under the desk. He thinks maybe it's Neelix at first. Then he realizes that it's seven. Oh God.

Could you imagine seeing Neelix's feet again after the one episode we saw them? What a comeback. Yeah. And they're like rubbing the doctor's crotch under the table. I thought we threw those feet in the furnace. Yeah, actually after season three, they auctioned those feet off at them. Oh, really?

They don't even do this. Yeah, we have that list of prop actions here. And it turns out Garrett Wong won the left foot. Just the lefty, huh? Got out bit on the right, unfortunately. Any idea who bit on the right? Beatdowns. Oh, shit.

Yeah. I think that's cool. Probably the only time they've had an argument in their entire friendship. I mean, that's gonna have to happen for us. The shared custody of props and gifts and stuff. Yeah, I mean, we've got those nubbin bugs. I know.

What are we gonna do about that? I don't know. I still maintain brownie pan frame is how I want mine up in the law. Etyrty brother. Browlish, you're new brownies. So yeah, all the ladies in this McLaughlin group were really throwing themselves at the doctor. The captain pulls this move where she's like talking about an old injury and she wants a massage and she puts his hand right on her butt to massage it right there in the middle

of the meeting. I was shocked by this. Yeah. We've got the single saxophone jazz solo of a bunch of women fighting over a lover. Dr. It's this hot and heavy. Dr. This is a complicated fantasy, I have to say.

It really is. It's so absurd that it couldn't be anything but another daydream. And gladly it is. Yeah, so it is. The doctor snaps out of it and it's not clear that there was ever a Muglofflin group. Yeah, so it is. The doctor snaps out of it and it, not clear that there was ever a McLaughlin group. Yeah. It's just him and the captain in the conference room

meeting about his angry letter. He sent her. Yeah. So I don't think this was like a see me after class moment. Right. Per se. This often happens to a manifesto writer. Rightfully, the recipients of the manifesto

pivot into real life conversation like a mature person. Like, hey, why don't we talk about whatever this is? Like adults. And the doctor's like, I'm a no limit soldier. Right. I can do anything. And Jane was like, shut up. You should also know you're a minute.

What did you think of the framing in this scene? Because like, they start seated and then they get up and they're talking to each other and the doctor, I don't know if there's like a step down to get out of the conference room. Like it's a non-ADA compliant conference room or something. But he's like significantly shorter in both framings. Like, he's looking up at her, making this request,

and then when the camera flips around, she's looking down at him, she really towers over him. That is interesting. Doesn't seem like how they're usually blocked. No, but I think it sort of makes sense for the emotion of the scene, because he's asking her for something that she is denying him,

which is more freedom and more like upward mobility, more opportunities to show other ways he can be an asset to the crew. He wants to be made into the emergency command hologram just in case. I do really like the specifics of what the doctor's asking. It isn't just like, you know, treat me with respect. And I should be back up captain. Yeah. It's like I want specific steps about how I can be a more fully realized member of this crew. Like I actually have a development plan here to pitch you.

Yeah. Oh, fuck, I'm looking at the episode now. And what I'm realizing is that this scene starts in the conference room and he snaps out of it and he's sitting at the conference room table, but the camera cuts a couple of times and suddenly they're in her ready room. And she's standing up on that platform where the couches are. Well, that would account for the height disparity, wouldn't you say? Yeah. It does, but they don't ever walk from one room to the other. It's hidden in the edit. That's really interesting. That's one aspect to this entire episode that really

keeps you on your toes as if you were, is the constantly changing settings. Yeah. Yeah. It should have kept flocks on his toes. Yeah. But he doesn't realize that until later. This entire pitch seems like a great deal for the doctor. And Janeway gives him the big city letdown, which everyone knows is I'll pass along your request to management. Who are still decades away. Yeah. This is rough. Like, that's maybe the most withering thing Janeway could say. Let me get back to the Alpha Quadrant Alpha Pass at long. Right.

Because it's not passing the buck. It's like shooting the buck out a torpedo to toward the Alpha Quadrant, and it won't reach the Alpha Quadrant for 70 years. Right, after her death, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. He walks down the hallway and into the cargo bay where it turns out he's being congratulated for his great achievement in becoming the emergency command hologram. There's champagne, there are balloons.

Seven's giving him sexy kisses on the cheek as his BLT. I mean, that's the greatest reward for a promotion, right? Two chicks at the same time. You got that right. We cut over to the alien ship and the nebula and they're watching this on their monitors. So they could see what the doxies, they're using this as a strategy

to surveil the voyager. Yeah, so it turns out fantasy is what is being fed into the egghead ship. Yeah. And so they don't know what they're watching, but they're like, wow, so this doctor is very capable. And he seems to be an expert on everything. Flox has a lot of feelings about this. He's like, man, so these guys can do more than one thing. All I get to do is scan. I really like this aspect to the episode.

It's not just a strategic thing. It's a subordinate in a dead end job seeing the doctor's situation as an inspiration. Yeah, and it's something to aspire to. Yeah. He really comes to admire the doctor over the course of this episode. Yeah, I mean, something to aspire to. Yeah. He like really comes to admire the doctor over the course of this episode. Yeah, I mean, unclear if this guy's ever been kissed,

let alone simultaneously by two co-workers. It gives him a lot to think about. Yeah, and like, honestly, like, which of his co-workers would he even want to be kissed by? They really look kind of lurian in a way. Yeah, they're like a midpoint between a lurian and a pack lead, I would say. Lurian, pack lead, grimace, choose two.

There are three instruments on the about the instantiochic cat. Get your shirt tucked in, your gal with the ship and get your shirt tucked in, get your shirt tucked in. They're talking about the, you know, like how good of a lead is this from a surveillance standpoint, because we need to like learn about the ship

and this guy's a doctor and he's going like, no, like this guy has access to everything. Like, while cover the whole Shabang just by following this guy around and seeing things from his standpoint, turns out the connection goes in and out a little bit. So yeah, it seems like when the doctor is daydreaming, as when they can watch what he's quote unquote seeing.

But when he's not, they're not. Right. Yeah. He's given the go ahead to continue his surveillance, and we cut back over to Six Bay, where the doc is preparing Nelix to be the one that's only supposed to take pictures on this away mission. This is the ultimate indignity for the doctor.

That he has to prep Nelix for this. I prefer wide shots, Mr. Nelix. We'll do. I mean, what you didn't see is the part of the visit to the doctor that Nelix had before where he just got a foot rub for his sore feet. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. So, I mean, it's indignity on top of indignity, really. that Neelix had before where he just got a foot rub for his sore feet.

So I mean, it's in dignity on top of in dignity, really. If you've got a fantasy scenario where everyone wants to kiss you or whatever, why wouldn't Neelix be party to this? Like why wouldn't everyone love the doctor? It's just the women. Yeah. Dr. does not crave Nielix's approval or anything. Now. Now. I wish the show interrogated more, like what it is about the doctor's program that makes him horny. Yeah. Because like, why would a program be horny? It's kind of an interesting question. Like is it based too much on Dr. Zimmerman? Is Zimmerman particularly horny? That's got to be it. I mean at least with data you understood that there was

an aspiration, right? Right. But it's unclear besides the professional what the doctors really after in terms of his growth, right? The doctor almost seems like he would not be horny if he could not be horny. If I could possibly not be horny, I would choose that. It's just... It's such a distraction. It gets in the way of everything. What am I going to do being horny? What's the... What were the upsides? Exactly, and that's what I'm feeling for the doctor here. What am I going to do being horny? What's the, where were the upsides? Exactly. And that's what I'm feeling for the doctor here.

Like what's all this about? Yeah. He's not just horny for the ladies. He's also horny for action. Yeah. And he's up on the bridge when they're sending the Delta flyer down to this planet. And suddenly the Delta flyer connection drops and a Borg sphere pulls up on them. Before you know it, bangers get and dropped all over the bridge,

people get in hurt, people get assimilated. Yeah, implants popping out all over the place. It's like the Borg must have implanted some DNA in everyone years ago, and are finally sending a signal that causes them to sort of spontaneously assimilate into the collective. Pretty scary thought. Yeah. These Borg spheres can be anywhere. They can. Why do the scientists keep making them? I don't know. They really need to knock it off. We get a great sequence where the EMH activates the emergency command hologram. His yolk turns red. A bunch of pips appear on his neck.

Transparing all systems to your command. You have the bridge. Very confidently, he takes over commanding the ship as they try to repel the board. It's a real Clark Kent turns in the Superman moment, isn't it? Because they return to this sequence again later on in the board. It's a real Clark Kent turns into Superman moment, isn't it? Because they return to this sequence again later on in the episode. Yeah. He's like really doing that like three quarter stance. Yeah. With his arms a Kimbo like he's definitely doing Superman shit. Yeah. Yeah. He's got some smart, aliki lines for the Borgs on the FaceTime call. He subdues Chicoote and Tuvac simultaneously

before he fires this giant cannon at the sphere and it gets destroyed. I like that he's dual wielding the hypospor. Yeah, where did he have those things? Oh no. So he's got this photonic cannon that they shoot at the cube, vaporizing the cube. And this is very impressive to Flux who's been watching this whole situation that they shoot at the cube, vaporizing the cube.

And this is very impressive to Flux who's been watching this whole situation on his little screen, this little desk. It's an awkward moment on the Voyager Bridge too, because this is a moment that you actually see through the rest of the bridge crew's eyes. Like, where'd you go, Doc? Kind of staring off into space?

I mean, we all do that when we look at the view screen, but you're doing it all weird. You're looking off over there. You're doing it figuratively. We're trying to do it literally right now. Yeah. My space is down here. Dr.

Harry Kim goes and like snaps his fingers in front of the Doc's eyes, and he's like, oh, yeah,, yeah, medically everything's looking good. Yeah. The nebular ship watches all this and are confronted with the idea that maybe the Voyager is just a little bit more than they can take on directly. This might be a mismatch with them and a stealth assault is what's recommended. And it's what's approved. They're going to go through with this plan.

Yeah, the hierarchy likes this idea of a type three stealth assault and looks like they're about to start sneaking up on the Voyager crew. I don't think there's anything stealthy about these aliens. I think it's what the ships are going to be doing. There will be no need for stealth once these guys beam over. No. Yeah, the boarding party is not the stealthy part of this. No.

Yeah. Oh boy, much in McDonald's. Back on Voyager in a corridor, the doctor walks and is interrupted by Chicoete, who is so enthusiastic with his congratulations for the doctor. Great job out there. At a boy, Doc. Shootin' your big weapon at the sphere, makin' it blow real big.

Yeah. Everybody's really impressed by the size of your weapon. And then Chicoete, like takes off his boot and rubs his foot on the inside of the doctor's leg, which is hard to do when you're standing. Right. He's got great balance. Yeah.

I love the way they shot this, too, or the camera goes in close on the foot on the crotch and then pans up and the doctor just shakes his head no. And then the camera pans back down to the pencil and Chico Te's fist snapping. It's not tree pose, Chico Te, when you put your foot on the inside of someone else's leg. Yeah. One is yoga, the other is sexual harassment. That's what she says.

The doctor in this moment actually recognizes that Chico Te's being a little suspiciously nice and asks the computer in front of Chico Tei's face where Chico Tei is. And when Chico Tei says that he's in his quarters, who the hell is this guy? Yeah, what's this foot rub in my dick? This is a moment in the episode where I'm like, they can't hear the doctor in this weird way. Like these day dreams don't function the way real people would.

Right. I mean, for a variety of reasons, but this one specifically, like does John Arbuckle hear the thoughts that Garfield is having? Exactly. Yeah. Sort of an open question. He asked the computer, like, where is the nearest broken pencil?

And it says also Chico Tez Corters. And he's like, Jesus, I'm losing it here. And so the next scene, he's got Seven and BLT and Kim. And he's told them about his daydreams having turned into delusions. And this is kind of an emergency, right? Like their only doctor is really losing his mind. And in classic start-check fashion, they've taken the danger of the episode and placed it right next to the warp core for examination.

Yeah. They have a pattock for a patient and he slips into his delusion during and you know, believes that the warp core is melting down and that he's been selected as the only person that can withstand the radiation inside to fix it. Yeah, BLT and seven recognize that they need to order him to a submarine style death. And the doctors all too happy to do this. He like snaps into action and starts climbing over the railing. Yeah. Wants to go out like Zan so fucking bad and great edit here. Yeah.

And then it takes all three of them to haul him out of here. He doesn't have super strength. It doesn't seem like. Yeah. I wonder if they could turn that up. Like, is there a slider in the settings menu of his program where you could turn him up to data strength? Yeah, but the problem is it takes away from some other qualities. Like he becomes dumber or, oh, yeah. Like, you only have a hundred hit points. It's just where you spread them. How you allocate them?

Yeah. Oh man, but that would reduce his skills of lock picking. Exactly. Can't do that. I've got to get that. Not now put your laptop where you're mouth. I've got to get that. Not not now.

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the captain are talking about his situation. He's just kind of talking to himself, you know, thinks he's surrounded by diplomats and women that want to do sex with him. And this is good Robert Piccardo stuff right here. Yeah. This seems hard to do. I like the moment when he runs into the force field

and just like rubs his nose and gets back to glad handing with the people he imagines. Think he's great. They should really shut this off, but they don't. Yeah. They need to study him. They need to study him and it seems like part of how they're doing this is running visuals of what he's fantasizing about in the holodeck.

Yeah. So like the Captain and BLT get called away by Harry Kim. They leave him in Six Bay and go down to the holodeck and he's down there like painting seven, like one of his French girls and stuff. Yeah, what a scene. Yeah. He left the nipples off of all of the drawings, which was tasteful, I thought.

I mean, a lesser Star Trek podcast would begin a conversation about whether or not seven has nipples. Yeah. That's not this show. This is a classy show. No, come on. What do you take us for? Yeah.

The nipples are the private part of the boob. That's the part you can't show. There's something deep, I mean, besides what it represents to their co-working relationship, there's something deeply uncomfortable about the pictures themselves. Like, there's something about the expression on the face of seven in these pictures that is really off-putting. Yeah. Like, her eyes follow you around the room and you're like, face of seven in these pictures, that is really off-putting. Yeah, like her eyes follow you around the room

and you're like, I kind of wish her nipples would follow me around the room, but they're not there, man. I think it may be something about the angle of her head as it relates to the angle of her body. Like a person sort of okay at sketching a person versus someone who really has a good grasp of shape and form in an artistic sense. Somewhere between is where the doctor exists. That uncanny valley. Yeah. The uncanny valley where there are no nipples.

He does the hands very well. Yeah, it's a very intense scene also because like the three women that seem to be the primary foci of his horny fantasies are all present to watch His various fantasies take place. Yeah, and like we cut from him doing nudes of seven to taking over for Janeway on the bridge in a Borgatex scene. What's weird is the Borg's queen is on screen? No nipples. Yeah. What does it mean?

When they assimilate them, do they do something with them? I don't know. Like is there just a tank full of nipples somewhere on a Borg's chip? Yeah. What are they doing with them? If they assimilate a dude, do they do something with the nipples?

Yes, all nipples. Maybe they're like pickling them, you know. Keep it unpreserved. You know those tanks of jet fuel outside of major airports? There's like a tank that big, just stuffed with nipples. Just full of nipple pickles.

Ugh. Dill. No dill, Adam. We dissolved in the mess hall where the doctor is seen letting BLT down romantically. While Paris waves from across the room, Paris is made to watch. Mm-hmm. That's an even more intense version of the cuckold fantasy, right?

Like, not even watching your partner have sex with another, but watching your partner hit on and be turned down by another. God, that is a disturbing subculture. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See, they seem to have the loudest megaphone and contemporary politics,

and yet it's a very small group at the end of the day. Wow. Oh, could you imagine there's a car in your driveway? Yeah. It's a co-worker of our wives. Yeah. Oh, no. They're just sitting at the coffee table,

and that person is just letting them down. Gently. Yeah, oh no. They're just sitting at the coffee table. And that person is just letting them down. Gently. Yeah. And you're like outside looking into a window from the bushes jerking it. Oh, yeah, not me. Am I making any sense here? So over on the invisible ship in the nebula, Flux has seen all of this and is now realizing he has really fucked up. And even Flux knows this can't be real. Yeah. The overlooker is like, cool, we're getting ready for this big assault. You know, the more accurate information you can give us the better. Flux is like, hey, what if we don't attack Voyager?

What about that? How's that strike you as an idea? It doesn't strike him as a good idea at all. They want to get that antimatter, and that dilithium. When the manager fucks off, Flax admits to a coworker that he's made a terrible mistake. This is no good. And he doesn't know what to do about it.

He's really worried about how pissed off the hierarchy is gonna be not to mention the overlooker. know what to do about it. He's really worried about how pissed off the hierarchy is going to be not to mention the overlooker. Yeah. Fox has really got to trust the hell out of this co-worker, though. I know, right? Man. I'd love to be this co-worker, though. Everything's fine for that guy. Yeah, he gets to kind of watch all the tea spill from the cheap seats. Yeah. You talk about looking through the window and jacking it. That's what that guy gets to do. It's watching flocks get career cucked. Yeah.

Flocks is in a bit of a dilemma, but back on Voyager, we find out that the matrix of the doctor has been stabilized and he's a little humiliated about what's happened, but he's talking to the captain and he's like, yeah, so that's what I fantasize about, you know. This is no having a Star Trek podcast, but it's pretty embarrassing. Janeway shows him a lot of grace in this moment. We all date him, doctor.

And I have to believe the only reason for that is that she did not watch a fantasy where her butt gets touched by him, right? Because if she had, there is no way she would be this kind. I mean, yes, but she does have children with Tom Paris. And she is like, you know, being compassionate about the fact that we all have little flights of fancy in our minds that are our own private business. That's part of being a starship captain, right? What is it? It's going down with the ship.

It's always wearing a crisp uniform and it's forgiving the many sexual fantasies of your crew people. Yeah, just knowing that you're gonna have some barklies on board, you know? No matter what, even on the D, they had a barkly on board. There's no avoiding the barklies in your life and in your career, is there?

Oh, they're around, you know? I think at the core, we all have a little bit of barkly in us. Yeah, so more than others. You know, there's nothing wrong with a healthy fantasy life as long as you don't let it take over. You call this healthy? So she has a conversation with Chicoote about, you know, next steps. And Chicoote is really against this empowering the doctor

to be an ECH or, you know, do anything beyond his current status. And the character makes a really interesting point. Like, his potential is totally unknown. Yeah. He could be working around the clock doing all kinds of great shit. They just don't know. Yeah. Would it be a good idea to tap that potential? Unclear.

Would it be a good idea to tap that booty? Also unclear. Yeah. Well, I don't know if I take it that far. He probably won't settle for less. Feels like a making time kind of scene here before we cut back over to Six Bay, where the doc is hearing voices and seeing visions again.

And he's aware at least this time that this is a vision, that's a difference between now and the previous ones, right? Yeah. The matrix is not as stabilized as we had been led to believe. And this is confirmed when he notices a flute of champagne on his sample table. And suddenly we're in the cargo bay and flocks is there. And flocks has endeavored to do this because he was trying to communicate via this daydream.

So the doctor is like in real time finding out that another character saw all of his horneous fantasies and, you know, trying to determine whether this character actually exists or is just part of the daydream. Like, as the daydream got in like one step more clever and it's tactics for tricking him? I love that the subtext is that he's in big trouble with the boss, you know? The headline is, you're about to be attacked, but the subhead is, help me out, dude. Can you do me a solid? You're about to be attacked. It's pretty much my fault. And

my career is at risk if it goes down. So it would be awesome if you could hook me up. Right. I know you don't want to do it. Perfect, black. Make it yourself. I'm trying to help you see this as an opportunity to grow. Make it yourself. He tells the doc the whole thing about the the long range sensor thing and the inbound ships that are going to snatch voyagers Dailithium and whatnot and he also Expresses the the admiration we were talking about in the scene is like man like you have a cool imagination, dude I never would have thought a half of this shit. I mean, I'm such a dope. I would have drawn nipples right on those pictures. You kept it safe for TV, and I admire that. Part of having a good imagination is having restraint,

and that's something I learned from you. Imagine the nipple. That way, you don't have to draw them. Leave some imagination to your imagination. So the doc takes this morning for action and good luck. That way, you don't have to draw them. Leave some imagination to your imagination. So the doc takes this morning for action and goes straight to the bridge, where Janeway, rightfully, isn't immediately persuaded by this. Yeah, a lot of eye rolls in the scene.

He spoke to me in a daydream. I don't want to hear it. But the doctor has brought receipts. He has some sensor alterations that they can make to reveal these ships. And he passes an iPad with that stuff to Harry Kim, who punches it in and sure enough, there are ships. So they believe him. And this kind of explains why the daydreams were getting so fucked up,

is that the sensor was triggering the thing where he couldn't tell the difference between the dayd day dreams and reality. That's right. It seems like Flock's plan is going to come to fruition. Like, they found the guys. They know about, what is it, the stealth plan three? Stealth plan three. It sounds like it's going to kick ass.

Yeah. With a name like that. Oh, type three stealth assault. Ah. Probably what we're grasping for. Oh, type three stealth assault. Ah, probably what we're uh, grasping for. I actually did write that down. The hard codons would be so confused. If I asked about that, yeah, stealth playing three. What do you mean? The hierarchy would fucking curb stomp you for that. Yeah. So part of the plan that the EMH and Fox have worked out is the MH has to sell

himself as the emergency command hologram. The superiors on Fox's ship need to see the emergency command hologram that they've been warned about. And so he's gonna have to ask Janeway to step aside for this mission. She is headed about up to here with the doctor, but you know, it seems like this is the only way to play it. So. This literally makes no sense, but it's fun. It makes for a weird episode. Let's do it. I'll head down to the ass lab with my ass. Yeah, I think it may be a self-defense plan for Janeway to stay as far away from the doctor as she can. Right.

Me and no nipples will be in the ass lab doing the real work of the ship. Our feet will be there with us. Sounds great. So at the last minute, the overlooker in preparing for this type three stealth assault notices that there is no dino damage on the Voyager from there running with the Borgs, which leads him to believe that maybe the Voyager is a tougher nut to crack than they previously thought. So, he decides to escalate the plan to a type four stealth assault

at him. Oh my god. Oh my god. You don't just do a type four band. Yeah, that's fucked up. Do you really think that's necessary? But if you could get the hierarchy approval, you can do a type four. And so they do. And Fox is back to absolutely shitting himself. I mean, the doctor's shitting himself too. He's prepped for command. And he does that thing where he doesn't know how to sit down. Yeah. You know, like when you're on stage,

you sometimes forget how to walk. I do this all the time. I do not know how to walk if I'm being watched. I don't work the body. It's one of the reasons people buy tickets for our live shows. I know. How's Adam going to walk out on stage? It looks like you forgot.

Who walks like that? It's so fucking weird. Is he injured? Is he doing that on purpose? Is this a bit, is that like a sciatic thing? I feel bad. Is there like a chiropractor that we can send up there to see if like an adjustment would help? Yeah, he finally figures it out.

He sits that ass down and from the ass lab, Janeway and seven kind of puppet master his commands. That's gonna be the plan going forward. Yeah. So he has to play Captain while this type for assault happens. And he gets a message audio only from Fox warning him that the thing that they had planned for, the thing they've been drilling on for weeks is not happening. Yeah.

He's going to have to think on his feet. Yeah. And this is an awful moment for the doctor. I feel like this is more embarrassing than the doctor touching the ass of every crew member on Voyager. He totally falls apart here on the bridge. He doesn't know how to talk, he doesn't know how to sit. I'm really crossed up. Yeah. and in another weird Berkeley riff, he's sort of like being serenote to Berger Act by the captain. Yeah.

But like whenever he riffs or goes off script, he does a bad job. But it's funny because this is Robert Picardo doing act bad. Like this is a mobious strip of performance here, right? It is. How do you like that, huh? A taste of your own medicine. Tonit down, doctor. Sorry.

The mobius strip is funny, but does not go well. Now, an interesting thing happened here is the photonic cannon gives the doctor confidence. Yeah. And this is his big bluff. Right. He's really fumbling the bag here until he remembers that that ship over there is gonna know about the photonic canon.

If only he refers to it. And on the grimace ship, the hierarchy suggests retreat in the face of it. We've talked about the doctor's inability to give confidence to his performance. I thought that the overlookers, captaining skills had like a very similar energy. Like, neither of them really seems capable

of making a decision without approval from their own hierarchy as it were. It's gotta be easy as hell to be a captain of a grimace ship. You just take an order. You're not making any decisions. You never have to worry about, you know making a a snap decision as a commander. It's Captain Middle Management. Yeah Big win for the doc the grimaces Turn tail

Get the fuck out of there and it seems like this is like scary enough for them that they are not going to be a problem going forward And you learn earlier that these guys are everywhere. So maybe the skirmish will prevent a future interaction, which would be useful. The hierarchy disseminates this information and the voyagers gonna be home free in hierarchy space. Right. Finally in six bay, the doc is called into the mess hall

by seven and in that mess hall, there's an all-team celebration of the doctor's Starfleet Medal of Commendation, complete with dress uniforms. Yeah, feel like we haven't seen these in a while. I know. They look good. I also just liked the way the doctor looked in red. I agree. Great color on him. Yeah. They're pinning him his metal and talking about,

like we're not gonna forward a recommendation that Starfleet research making you into an emergency command hologram, we're gonna do that research here. Yeah, that metal was so tiny though. We're gonna grab the buck I had passed by shooting that torpedo to the Alpha Quadrant. We're gonna return the book. Yeah, we're going to put this book right here

for safekeeping in this piggy bank. Yeah. Maybe we'll hear about this book again, but probably not. Finally, it's a very last part of this episode. It's rule of three is on rewards for the doctor, right? Metal accommodation, research project into the possibilities of the DAC being command material,

and then finally, chase kiss on the cheek. From seven. Plotonic. Right. Specifically. Yeah. Very platonic kiss there, and that's the end of the episode, Ben.

Did you like it? You know, I'm really easy to get along with, close to the time. But I don't like bullets, I don't like bread, and I don't like you. I'm just joking. I did like this episode. I thought it was a lot of fun. I like the design of the aliens both physically and in there like, what makes them tick. I feel like Voyager is uniquely good at this, like making an alien race that has kind of an interesting

dynamic and you see them very briefly, but it implies a whole culture. Like, these are simpletons that really need, like they're not unbork like, right? They need like a very like intense collective agreement to do anything. They scour the quadrant for raw materials. Yeah, they're not unbend-like.

Yeah, so I thought as an episode that's like pretty light and silly, it actually like had genuinely funny moments and good performances and was kind of an interesting story. So yeah, I did like this episode. How about you? I will agree that it was performance strong, specifically from Robert Picardo. I'm kind of tiring of Dr. Centric stories, though, and it feels like we've gotten a lot of them. Yeah. Over the last 20 episodes or so, you know? That is true. Especially when considering what and after that

Chico Tees become and to an extent, Nelix too. This has really become a the Doctor BLT7 show. I mean, Janeway herself has also, I think, been sidelined by comparison. Right. Yeah, they're giving them a lot to do. So hopefully we'll take a little break in the coming episodes from the doc. Yeah, I need a break from the doctor, I'd say. And that's not

due to anything that doctors done. The doctor didn't draw me without nipples. Hey, if you want a break from the doctor, how about eating an apple every day, Adam? Yeah, that's what I should be doing. Don't keep him at bay. Hey, if you want to break from the doctor, how about eating an apple every day, Adam? Yeah, that's what I should be doing. Don't keep him at bay. Maybe we're dead. Unblock this congestion that just occurs on me the past two weeks.

Poor guy. Well, do you want to see if we have any priority one messages in the inbox, Adam? Oh, yeah, they're hidden in that nebula. Priority one message from Starfleet coming in on Secured Channel. Need a supplement on it. supplement on it? supplement.

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I thought it was Canadian. Canadian? Oh. Yeah. Probably not for me then Yeah yeah How'd you like to be other Andrew? I mean

The brother Andrew can't be other Andrew? No He's the brother It's brother or other, you can't be both Yeah Maybe he should be both, you can't spell brother without other Sure can't Hey Chris I spilled brother without other. I'm sorry, I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other. I already spilled brother without other.

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Ben our second priority in is from Sam from Australia. It is to Adam and Ben and all the expert Shimoda. That message goes like this. I've been a long time viewer and FOD and have finally caught up. So I thought I should send some scarves to celebrate and say thanks. Emma Bitt said there will be only one episode a week. Hey Sam, it sounds like you're not listening to Greatest Trek. If only there was some other Great Trek podcast to make up the difference. Hey Sam! Try Greatest Trek! Anyway, love all that you do, especially Chris Brenner.

Thanks. I'm Chris Brenner. Brenner information systems. You know, interface, operations, net access, channel 90. That Chris Brenner. Nice message from Sam from Australia. Yeah. Unclear weather and not the RSS feed for greatest trek makes it around the world and down over

the equator and reaches Australia. Seems like it might. We might be having a problem with the feed. Yeah. Well, I don't know. Wack the side of your cell phone and see if that fixes it. We'll just have to bring Greatest Trek to Sam directly and in person. Yeah. Oh, you know, Sam could tune into our live stream of the re-encounter at Far Point in a week

or two, right? Oh, that's right. That would be special for Sam. That's what Sam's got to do. Very much so. Yeah. All right. Well, if you'd like to get a priority one message,

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Hmm. Yeah, I think I'm'm gonna give it to the doctor for not putting nipples on his joints. But if the doctor had drawn nipples on that picture, he'd definitely be Shimoda. That would be worse. I think it would have been much more fun if they had not shown what he was painting, you know?

Yeah, I agree. And what's going on here seems pretty pervy, doesn't it? I don't think you can show the paintings. The paintings are bad. Like show the reaction to the paintings. That's much better. It's so much better, you know? Like, I want to imagine that there's a horse

playing a saxophone in his painting. I do too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And instead, it's just, what is it? Four or five versions of a, of a nipples list seven? Yeah. And it's just outlines.

He hasn't even like filled in with color. Yeah. What are you doing? Yeah. Very disturbing. I don't like it. I don't like it. How about you Adam?

Ben Mishimoto is Paris waving from across the mess hall. It's not just that he's made to witness the let down that the doctor's giving his girlfriend. It's the wave. There's something about this take that's so funny to me. Yeah, the wave, very meek. B.Dunk's doesn't have a big role in this episode, but he is very funny all the way through it, I thought.

He really is. My body is ready for a B-Dunks episode. Yeah. Yeah. Give us a B-Dunks. Yeah. Need one of those. Well, let me see what we've got coming up next.

All right. Season six episode five, Alice, and the cap starts with the name Tom. Wait, it's just called Alice? It's just called Alice. What? Tom's latest shuttle acquisition blurs the line between man and machine. Oh shit, so this is a Tom Paris episode.

It sounds like it's a Tom Paris episode. And it's called Alice. Uh huh. And it sounds like he's gonna... fuck the exhaust pipe of a car. That just worked. What is he a dragon? Wow.

Okay. I had him to find out how we are going to be watching that episode. I have gone over to Guck, that biz-slash game, where we keep the game of buttholes. The will of the caretaker. Where our runabout is currently on Square 40, and it looks like we have a couple things we could hit. We could hit a bronze zone, and we could hit a cocoa no-no, potentially. You're required to learn as you play, roll.

Not that. Huh. Huh. Gonna go ahead and roll this bone. Wow, I rolled a three. Oh, I love her! Landing us on Square 43, the Bronze Zone Square. At the game of Buttholes. I'll take you to your in charge here.

Team leader, Bone, Fourth Mori Defense Concentration. I gotta get a pump. That's it, get it. Awesome. So we will be glimpsing this episode in a very specific way, Adam. Ways that will sound like Vory Tellings. Yeah. You'll really get a sense of how we feel about the Nemesis, I imagine. Oh yeah. Yeah, it sounds like this hot rod is gonna be town paris's Nemesis Maybe so or lover Wow, well that'll be next week here on the greatest generation Thank you so much for listening and thank you to the folks who support us at MaximumFun.org slash Join. We're always dropping fun new bonus content and based on when this episode is coming out

I think we will have some coming real soon. Yeah. Is it Teen Wolf? Are we doing Teen Wolf this month? Oh yeah. Yeah, watch out for our bonus episode about Teen Wolf. Yeah. An episode inspired by season three of Star Trek Picard.

Yeah. I've never seen all of Teen Wolf. I've seen little bits and pieces when it was like on TV for a minute. You used the thing about Teen Wolf. It is an extremely horny movie. Oh, okay. Yeah. Do they omit nipples or, uh...

Pretty sure that the movie is almost entirely nipple free. Okay, otherwise I wouldn't be permitted to watch it as often as I did when I was a kid but okay, yeah also very sweaty as as movies go so it's chased in exactly the same way that a fantasy had by the EMHs Sure is, yeah. Well, you can get that in your bonus feed if you support us, and if you don't yet, consider this as an inducement to head to MaximumFund.org slash show.

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I couldn't have done it without you. No, yeah. I'd love to hear that as an experiment, but... Don't think it would be good. Now. How about new? We gotta thank Wendy Pretty, our producer, who makes the show sound great,

edits out all of Adam's sneezes and coughs. God. What kind of work has she been doing lately? Just the fucking worst, just editing out mucus. That's Wendy. Yeah. They need to automate the find and replace for flam, you know. Yeah.

She's pitch correcting me back up into my alto. I'm a bull. I'm a bull. I'm a bull. I'm a bull. We gotta think the Card Daddy Bill Tilly runs our social media. Gotta think Adam Ragusia, who made our original theme music and has a great food podcast and food YouTube channel that you should check out.

Adam Ragusia is what you search for. I've got to thank Dark Materia for the original Picard song. With all that said, we will be back at you next time with another great episode of Star Trek Voyager, an episode of the greatest generation in Voyager, where I mean we can't even fuck the tailpipes of our cars because we drive electric baby! Yeah, gotta fuck something else! Yeah, good fucking luck to us. My car has nipples. Make it sound. Make it sound. You'll know it's gotta be you. Make it sound. You'll know it's gotta be you.

Make it sound. Make it sound. You'll know it's gotta be you. Make it sound. You'll know it's gotta be you. Maximumfund.org. Comedy and culture. Artist-owned?

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