The Greatest Generation - Pre-Enlightenment French Nobility-Type Poison Fears (S3E9)

Episode Date: August 8, 2016

When the Enterprise is dispatched to the scene of a tossed outpost, the crew must moderate a dispute between a group of rowdy professional wrestlers and their elderly grandparents. Captain Picard's diplomatic strategy is to pour brandy and chill, but an alien seductress has more on her mind than meets the eye. Can rank be determined by the depth of a deep V? Is the podcast gaining our hosts membership into "the lifestyle"? It's the episode with 50 phaser blasts!

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Yeah, thanks guys. Well with that. Why don't we get back to what we do best? Which is tell the jokes of Dick and fart? specifically Specifically today about season three episode nine Specifically today about season three episode nine, the vengeance factor. This is becoming a speech. You're the captain, so very entitled. Hmm. I'm not going to type it.

I ran along about something everyone knows. This is sort of the season of cold opens, isn't it? Seriously. I love this shit. We are on the Green Gel Planet. Yeah. Right away. We're looking out a window.

We're beaming down to Green Town. And they're, they beam down to this outpost. It's like all beat to shit. It's like in way worse shape than the duck blind on the men talkin' planet. And they're like, they're lookin' around and they realize that the power generator has been ganked and they find some shanks that have blood

all over them and they're like, well, this isn't human blood. Some other kind, we're going to have to figure it out. And at some point, they put wharf on the task of getting through a door and, you know, we know that wharf, if you're new to the show, go back and listen to old episodes. You will discover that there is a long track record of Warf not being a friend of doors. So... Ben is the best rivalry on next generation, the Warf versus door rivalry. It's jammed.

I don't know that there is a bigger one than that. I like how sweet data is about it, because he never lords the fact over a dwarf that when dwarf is defeated by a door, it always data's job to go fix the situation. But data prize them open. And there's a couple scientists passed out, asked out, and this is some shit. Yeah, they're pretty fucked up.

And their whole station's been tumbled. Like in the police parlance, they tossed it, didn't they? Yeah, this was not a sneak and peak. This was a full toss warrant. Right. The doctor's hair has changed again, by the way. Sure. Yeah, it's like a whole different haircut now. I'm really wondering if the uniforms are $3,000.

How much are the three wigs that she's got? Because really good Hollywood wigs are very expensive. Yeah, no joke. And Beverly Crusher has as many haircuts as episodes in this season, it seems like. Yeah. She's looking good. I feel like there was a there was a previous one though

that looked better. She has not brought back the Dilbert haircut though. Yeah. From her triumphant return to the series. Yeah. Well, I feel like that was a special edition, right? That was the hollow card of Wigs for barely pressure. Yeah. Yeah. She wore it once and then she put it under a Lexan glass case and and it's in the prop hall of fame now. You know how in like modern baseball cards, sometimes there will be the baseball card that has like a little one inch cut out of a baseball uniform?

God, I feel like these Star Trek cards, we open up all the time. How great would it be if there was a little lock of wig hair on a special dish and card? When you go, when you go crazy for that. Nothing would make me happier. Nothing would be cooler than your night stand table having a George Baxter nude card along with a lock of Beverly Crusher hair on it.

Your life would be cool with that, right? She'd be super chill with that, yeah. Yeah. So the scientists that they found have been phasered up quite a bit. Yeah, multiple blasts. Multiple blasts, they're gonna recover, but they're pretty fucked up. And they discover that the blood on this, on this shank that they found is... You need to want humanoid species, the acha-marians. There's a stable government on acha-mar-three, which is the planet that they come from, but there are kind of drifter acha-marry who are members of these clans, and they are...

The gatherers. They're just troublemakers in this part of the galaxy like they go around and hijack things and steal equipment and they're they're basically the alien scum of the galaxy to borrow a term from a undiscovered country they never come out this far before in the wrestling parlance the yakimari are the wcw and the gatherers are the NWO faction.

That is just there to fuck you up. You're gonna have to, if you want to take that metaphor and run with it, I give you my blessing, but I'm not gonna understand anything. I'm speaking for a very specific subset of our viewership. Uh-huh. Booming up in the dark, baby. Booming up in the dark, baby. Booming up in the dark, baby. Not big, not big, not big, not big, not big, not big, not big.

They beam up the sovereign of Ackermar III, who's like for all intents and purposes, the queen of the planet. And... She's got real Angela Landbury vibes, doesn't she? Yeah, I don't know who this actress was, but she, I thought she was really terrific. Her name is Sovereign Marouque. They take her into the conference room for Little Powwow, where she gives us the backstory of this conflict between her people and the splinter group.

So here's the deal. They have a pretty good thing going on Ackham R3, and they're pretty happy not to have the scumbags that have left them not hanging around and she says like listen we've tried a couple of times to reintegrate them into our society they're just they're party animals they don't they don't know what's good for them and frankly at this point we're like pretty happy to just let them at this point, we're pretty happy to just let them go fuck themselves. And Picard talks her into the fact that it's making the whole area of space around Akamar more dangerous for everybody, and she doesn't really have a lot to lose by trying to reintegrate

them into the society. This area has a hobo problem. Yes. That's sort of what it feels like. So she says like, okay, we're cool. I'll help you out. I'll try to extend an all branch to these guys, but you're gonna have to beam a couple more of my serfins on board because I couldn't possibly travel with anything fewer than four. And so they beam up a lovely young woman named Yuta. And Riker is hitting on her basically immediately. She is in his crosshairs from the second she sets foot on the ship. I cook for and feed this oven and I taste her food to make sure

it's not poisoned. And he's like, well, why don't you cook something for me? What's your specialty? I have not. Don't be modest. Yes, what her specialty is. And she described something with fleshy roots. And Rikers like, oh, I could be into that. I look forward to tasting it. Yeah. He's also looking at that crack in her forehead, wondering what happens if he like, licks or kisses it. Maybe he can slip a finger in there.

So I stroke it, I cut it, and then the thighs yet. Yeah, her forehead really looks like a canoe. And then I take my naughty fat and I don't. Yeah, all these aliens have camel toe head. Yeah, she's got a slight comb over on top of this thing, but it's definitely there. Yeah, she's got a bang to try and hide it, but she's not doing a great job. Right, or when he meets Utah, it gives her a good five-second boob stare. It's really savage.

He's a single-minded character. That's just the energy he brings on the show. Yeah, he shows her how the food thing works and he orders her a cup of water, right? Yeah, and she has to test it before she gives it to the sovereign. So she's like expecting there to be a kitchen and he's like, oh, you can just replicate all of the food that you need on this ship, but she's still gonna make sure that the saverin isn't being poisoned.

So how stable can their society really be if that's enough of a concern that somebody has to risk their life routinely every single day to make sure that the food is okay? Yeah, she's got that old school, like what era is this? Like a Renaissance period of being poisoned. Pre-wise.

Pre-enlightenment, French nobility type poison fears. That's gonna be a long episode title, but I think we can make that play. It is a tiny, small, soft, reading space. Are you going to find it within yourself? Just stand up, tell the truth. You don't deserve to wear that beautiful. So the sovereign lady has an idea of where they can start to look for this missing federation equipment.

And if they find that, they can start to figure out where all the acha-mari gatherers are at. And so they head to this place and this is a really awesome set piece. It's like this, a lot of scaffolding and truss work and caged clamp lights from a construction site and various scrap metal is dropped around and there's like 55 gallon drums with fires in them Frank's the loan is off. Should be doing in the corner It looks great and this is the second complex set that we've had in this episode

Yeah, absolutely the the sets in this episode are 10 out of 10. Yeah. Consistently across the board. They're really good. And there's a bunch of them. And this is. So we get a, so we get a dustbester club of who do we got? We got Wharf and Riker and data. Yeah, Wharf Riker data. I think Jordy might be in there? Maybe not. Might just be worth right here, Data. And they're kind of skulking around looking for the stolen items, right?

Yeah, and they do a great job of establishing a huge scale for this. Like they'll show somebody, you know, like a shot from above, somebody walking on a catwalk and then somebody like two levels below them walking around. They find the generator that's missing, they find some scrap metal that's not worse than anything.

And they're like, man, these guys will just jack anybody for anything. They weren't the sort of pirates that are always looking for gold, right? They're just taking anything, but they can find that isn't bolted to the floor. gold, right? They're just taking anything that they can find that isn't bolted to the floor. They get pinned down under, under phaser fire and Riker uses the, uses his knowledge of metallurgy to get them to... No, Jordy is there. It's Jordy that's got the knowledge of metallurgy.

They shoot their phasers at the scrap metal, causing it to vaporize, and then they make a ploy at beaming out of there while the smoke is thick in the air, and then they kind of reposition themselves to surround these gatherers. And real spy hunter smoke screen set up. I mean, it's more like fun, tactical, maneuvering than you usually get.

This is pretty inventive writing, I think. So they convinced these guys, this is like a hair metal band that would have been opening for Wayne Campbell's girlfriend's band, kind of group of guys. These guys look, I mean, I'm gonna keep bringing back the wrestling stuff, but they look like wrestling characters. They look like people who have rolled around in a scrap yard and are wearing magnetic

jackets. They've just got a bunch of metal stuck to them. My theory is that they're the shitty Beatles, but you do you. All right. Yeah, the leader guy, you can tell he's the leader because his V is much deeper than everybody else's. And he can go chest to chest with Riker on chest hair, though. He has a real carpet sample under his shirt.

That chest hair game is strong. And he's persuaded to sit down with sovereign Marouque and talk this idea out of potentially reintegrating into society. But not before he's kind of established what a ruffian he is, how little he thinks of her status and all that. Go home, old woman. You people haven't changed in a hundred years.

You should know, you were there. And he has to have that conversation in private because he is his kind of woofy is based on what an ass wife everybody admire for being. Sure. Yeah, he's got to keep up his ears. Yeah. For the good of the troops.

So while they're having this conversation, Yutta sneaks off and like, ice is this old man. He's like, old man right out of, like, this old man, he's like old man right out of like beyond Thunderdome, shuffling around and she puts a hand on his on his cheek while explaining that she's from the clan Trolesta and I am the last of my line but my clan will outlive yours. Dude dies very quickly. And so while they're formulating the plan to have everybody board the enterprise

and go off to look for more gathers, it's revealed that there's been a death. And like the gathers don't really give a shit, right? They're like, yeah, he's dead, nobody cares. He was old. They give a shit and so far is like one of the dudes wants his shit, like they want his stuff. Yeah, he wants the take his clothes.

Can I take these boots though? And they're still warm. Yeah, and that really grosses Marook out, but. You ever put on a pair of warm bowling shoes? That always creeps me out yeah and and he didn't even spray any of that stuff inside yeah yeah I was gonna put him right on yeah that's how you get foot fungus yeah Beverly beams down and it's like well he's been dead too long for me to do anything about it which makes me wonder like what's the time limit you think

Which makes me wonder like, what's the time limit you think? No, does it vary species to species? It has to. It must. So yeah, and I think that this death has... provides interesting insight to the two sides of the Akamari fight and also into the way the enterprise operates. Because they're like, we don't care that you don't care that this guy died,

we're gonna look into it, you know? Yeah, this is what we do whenever anyone dies. This is sort of policy, a matter of federation policy. So they are doing this research as they head to meet the other gatherers, the leader of the gathers, this guy, is this guy Chorgan. Chorgan sounds like a Greek yogurt.

Haha. Yeah. Yeah, fruit at the bottom. Chorgan, uh, looks and Ribblet from SNL. Yeah, it's Ribblet baby, more takes. Let's get that vibe from him. I don't know, Ribblet. I was gonna say he was a wrestler type.

Like he was more wrestler type than any of them, I feel like he's got the build for it. He's definitely got that vibe, but he lives in a van down by the river. He's got those crazy Bobby Moynihan eyes. Yeah, he does. So he's the kind of guy who sees the enterprise pulling up on his vastly inferior ship and starts like lighting them up with purple laser beams. Yeah, I love that. Hey, purple lasers are back. And they got another paycheck.

And Warf is just like, he's laughing his ass off at how puny this guy's weapon systems are. And what they wind up doing is shooting him with a phaser that's capable of dropping his shields and Not harming his ship which is very merciful of them their forward shields are inoperative well down the tenant and I mean like I feel like rules of engagement like they could have just Taken this guy out of this guy right then and there right? Yeah, that's a bully move, though.

Yeah, not Picard's Steelo. No, no, no. So with this accomplished, they just beam right over. It's just pretty balsy on Picard's part. Like he's like, they're not going to do shit. The Enterprise has favors locked on them and they don't have any shields. I'm beaming over there myself. Shields down, don't care, in- situation.

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And it's like a real, you know, like it's like a diplomatic summit, basically. There's people sitting around a big table. There's a long table. A big table. There's a mediator in the middle. Yeah. Unfortunately, ginger Jesus couldn't make it, but Picard is going to sit in. So while they're working these terms of reintegration out, they're back on the enterprise, they're looking through the records because the doctor has discovered that this old man died from

a virus that is very specifically engineered to kill members of the Lornaq clan. And they discovered this because the only other person that's ever died of it was also Lornaq. And he was killed like 50 years ago. And you know, he was killed while he was standing trial for something, and they find a picture of this guy being taken like perp walked to trial. And Yuta is chilling in the background of this picture and she looks the same age.

And Reiker really freaks out at this moment because he realizes how close he came to fucking an old. And with what we know from Yuta's killing of the old man, she's got that, that rogue from X-Men power. Like, like, she could have killed him. Yeah. I mean, he's made some skin-to-skin contact with her. There's a scene where, where he's basically trying to get her to bang and she gets real submissive with him and in that moment he finds that to be a big turnoff. Don't you want me to give you pleasure? That is a servant. I told you I prefer equals.

Yeah, right? Right or once her to get hers first. He's giving lover. Well, I think that I think that make like there's To give before he takes and takes and takes and takes yeah, but that first give is on her I think that I my gut with Riker is that There are women that he would trust with a submissive role in some underpants play. Uh-huh. But that's a bond of trust and he doesn't want to inflict dominance on somebody that's not really a fully enthusiastic consentor. Not on the first bang at least.

Yeah, you got to get to know each other. Yeah. Establish some safe words. So I mean, she seems very willing to taste things that could be potentially dangerous. You gotta get to know each other. Yeah. Establish some safe words. So. I mean, she seems very willing to taste things that could be potentially dangerous. So I think in that way, I think, I think, Riker's laundry list of VD is not going to be

a deterrent for her. Yeah. She's put far dirtier things in her mouth. Right. Then Will Riker. But she's, she really like turns this into... Oh I'm sorry Ben, was that too dirty for you? Might be too dirty for our scads and scads of new listeners that came through the

previously respected publication of Slate.com. Yeah, well I think they've all turned us off by now. Yeah. She turns this scene into like a real bummerfest because he is not gonna bang her under the pretext that she is his actual submissive. Like, that's only fun for him if it's part of a game. Right.

And it winds up being kind of her feeling trapped in this in this mission that she's had has. And what we have to find out is that her she her body has been changed to essentially be a weapon against members of this Lornaq clan where she ages much slower than normal and her cells are full of this virus that will kill any Lornaq that she comes in contact with. And it's all a big vengeance play because the Lornaq's wiped out the trulests in a clan battle way back in the day. And she's like one of the few survivors and got tasked with this horrible mission.

She's a human weapon. I'm not a human weapon. She's a human weapon. Not a human weapon, she's a trulestro weapon. Yeah, and guess who happens to be the last Lornaq after that old man died? Yeah, it's Rumbly, baby! So, at the negotiation table, shit is going...it's a little tense, and Picard is like, maybe we should have some brandy and chill out. And, and, and so, brandy and chill. Yeah. And so, and so Yutta is like pouring it and getting ready to walk, walk a glass of it over, over to riblet when Riker beams onto the bridge of, of the ship and,

and he's got a dustbuster on him. Yeah. Like one of the, one of the gatherers like tries to, tries to take him out the second he beams on. He's like, this is a trap and, and Riker stuns the guy and then starts telling you to, to like back the fuck up and that, riblet is in grave and, and impending danger. And Riker has to vaporize her. Yeah, she sort of suicide by cops a little bit. Yeah. Ryger over and over again is like,

do not take another step toward Riblit. And she's like, you don't understand, man. Like, this is the last one. I complete the bingo card if I can get to him. And she's like, don't do it. And she's like, seriously, this is what I've been born for and trained for. I got to do this. I've been playing this game of bingo for 53 years, dude. And Riker finally, like, he hits her with a phaser blast

to stun her. The stunner doesn't do much. And then it cuts to him, turning up the juice. Yeah, was she like beefed up with this genetic upgrade? She's like, she's, because the one guy when Riker stuns him flies across the room. And then when he hits her, she stumbles a bit, but she just keeps going. And he cranks the dustbuster up to full suck and it's, it is, like, it's like past the gore setting because she vaporizes. We don't even see her skeleton.

Yeah, yeah, and she did. And so with her out of the way, that's really the only barrier between a truce between the two sides, right? Yeah, I think that it was a good act of good will to save that dude's life. Yeah. Probably, probably him getting assassinated by the handmaiden of the sovereign would have really put a cramp in the peace negotiations. Rikers really bowman though, like we cut back to the ship. He's having the purple lemonade of grieving.

Yeah, I called it the purple drink of justice. Because he did what he had to do, right? Yeah. because he did what he had to do, right? Yeah. It's different from the pink lemonade of grief, because at that moment, he was just sad, but this time, justice was involved, and he had to deploy that justice. A little blue gutter in the pink.

A barrel of a phaser, yeah. So yeah, and Picard tries to cheer him up by saying, maybe you can get some extra short leave when we stop at the next starbase and that's pretty cold comfort because every time they go to a starbase the ship gets stolen. Yeah, it's like how how much am I really gonna relax over there? Yeah, I have my wits about me at star bases. Yeah, yeah, and that's our close. That's our episode. Riker had to kill someone. This is one of the episodes where Riker kills someone

but does not fuck someone in that episode. Yeah, I mean, we kind of an existential imbalance for Will Riker. We don't know for sure if he didn't fuck Marook or one of her male assistants, but. Sure, yeah. They didn't depict that part. That was in a cutscene.

Ben, did you like this episode? I did like this episode. I think I had some fun set pieces. An interesting premise, I think that the character of Marouque was very well portrayed. the character of Marouque was very well portrayed. She's like, she really feels like a politician in a way that's more authentic than a lot of the politicians that we see on this show. And I thought that the idea of these, just them kind of hitting the hornets nest accidentally

and stirring up all these entrenched hatreds that go back generations is really interesting. I thought this was an episode that that sort of was a good example of one of two things either either the effects have gotten less costly for the show to pay for or they've gotten a lot more money to spend because it wasn't too long ago then that like each phaser blast was like 10,000 bucks to wait, right? Like, and they would use them very judiciously. This episode had like 50 phaser blasts in it.

They had two complex sets, and that doesn't count. Re-complex sets. Re-complex sets. Yeah, I thought it was a great episode in terms of production value, and that doesn't even to mention that the story was real strong. It was good. Yeah man.

Especially because I didn't remember this episode at all before seeing it. Like this was a total dead zone for me. And it felt like watching a new one, which is always fun for me. That's cool. Yeah, I like this episode a lot. Yeah. Hey Ben. What's that Adam? Did you find a truck Shimoda? I did find a drunk Shimoda. You could have just banged

raker. Sure. I mean, I guess she's a slave to her own worldview and couldn't couldn't conceive of a way to bang him where they were on equal footing. She's been through some shit. But if she had just to, if you'll pardon the expression, sucked it up and banged him and not made it all about her feeling trapped in her mission, he would never have been onto her. He, I don't think he would have suspected that she had something to do with it.

I don't think that. Yeah. I just, he could have defended her. Yeah. Do you think he could have fixed her though too, like with his love? I think that, I think that getting deep dicked by William Raker can write a lot of wrongs. Yeah. I think so too. Sometimes, there's, there's an alternate reality where that dicking happens. Mm-hmm. Yeah, man think so too. Sometimes there's an alternate reality where that dicking happens. Yeah, man, sometimes in my life when I feel like I've got problems that are insurmountable, I just wish Riker was inside me and everything was okay again. Is this your idea of sex? I mean a deep dicking could have really saved Riplett's life. Is a description that I never thought we'd say on the show.

No, but I also just think it's crazy to me that she spent 53 years pursuing this. And then it seems like she kind of lost her nerve right at the end. She kind of wanted to confess to Riker in that moment. And yeah, she was clearly conflicted at that moment because if she was really hell bent on completing her mission, she would have lunged over the banquet table and got him, right? Right.

Poor Riker. Poor dude. Hope that purple drank fixed him up. Ha, ha, ha. Uh, my drunk Shimoda happens during a scene that we didn't talk about. So Riker is in 10 forward with Deanna Troy and they're enjoying a dinner that Utah makes of the Fleshy Roots. They're enjoying the Fleshy Root dinner.

Yeah, it looks like collard greens. Yeah. And Utah's like, how is that flesh taste? How are those roots? And Rikers like, this is fucking great. And even Troy, like they're both being, initially they're both being polite. And then Troy puts them in her mouth

and she's like, holy shit, this is actually awesome. This is really good. This is real tasty. Yeah. And so there's like a pregnant pause where Utah's standing at their table, Troy and Riker are enjoying their meal. And Riker's like, why don't you join us? Come on and sit down and get down on this route. And there is a moment where Riker looks at Troy, Troy looks at Riker, Troy looks at Utah, and then goes,

oh, right, okay, I better go. Like I better leave. But I think in that moment, Deanna Troy momentarily considered a three way. And she's like, am I invited to this or not? Maybe I would rather just enjoy a night in with a good book. Yeah, well she's frequently now wingmaned for Riker. Yeah.

Which I, you know, I think partly is just to give herself a little bit of a break. Yeah, yeah, I thought that was super cool of her. Like, what could be more Shimoda-E than being a great wingman? Yeah. And just like, seeing a situation like the roots on the table, right? Like, she sees it for what it is. Yeah. She's like, all right, I'll write you two kids. Why don't you go, why don't you go bang that forehead, Will?

So, uh, that was my Shimoda. I guess I'm giving my Shimoda to Diana. Yeah. For being a good wingman. Solid one. Yeah, well selected. I am a cute is a ball. You. Well selected. I am a cute is a ball. You will assist us. I am a cute is a ball. You are a ball. Hey Ben, let's talk about something real fast before getting to what our next episode is. I think you and I have kicked around an idea

for the last few weeks that maybe we want to share with our viewers. And that is the idea of some messaging. A number of the shows on the podcast network have what are called jumbo tron ads that their listeners sign up for that get read on these shows. It's $100 for a personal message or $200 for a spot. And so you'll hear ads on on Jordan Jesse Goe or my brother and my brother and me or the flop house for like somebody's graphic novel or a birthday

message for somebody's friend or whatever and yeah these aren't like those audible.com ads or like, or like Casper mattress ads. These are like messages from real people who have something cool that they want to share. Yeah, and so I think what we're going to do is open our show up to those. I would love to wish you happy birthday in the character of Do you do this little dinner prize in honor of maybe a new home purchase? Yeah, yeah. So, if you've got any inclination to send someone a message or promote your thing, you know, we have thousands of eager and enthusiastic listeners. Maybe you have a thing you want them to know about. So go to Maximumfund.org slash jumbobo Tron and you can sign up for that.

And it would be hugely appreciated by us because we're just trying to find ways to, you know, make this show generate enough money to justify the vast amounts of time we go about to it. Right. And do it in a fun way that isn't like a blatant cash grab. Or mattress grab, if you will. We are still not sponsored by Casper, and this is a thing that really grinds my gears, Ben, because I really need a new mattress.

If anybody from Casper is listening, Adam is desperate right now. I'm dying right now. I am La Qtas of Bored. You will respond to my questions. I am La Qute is a board. You are a board. Hey Ben, what do we have coming up on the next episode?

The next episode is season three episode 10, The Defector. A Romulan defector leads the crew into a showdown that could erupt into a full-scale war. The full-scale war. Now one of those H.O. scale wars or an end scale war. Yeah, my dad used to have one of those wars in his basement. Sure, yeah. I love an end scale war place. Yeah, he'd put on his conductor cap and go down there and just keep his attention for hours. Oh yeah, anything to anything to stay in the basement.

I thought I might have remembered this one, but I think I confused this with another episode where like a Starfleet captain goes rogue and and Chief O'Brien has to like talk him down. That's not this episode. That's much later. So yeah, I'm not sure I remember this one at all. I remember thinking this one was pretty good. It's like, I think it's the guy in the Romulan Shuttle and he like... Did the Romulans have the bunk bed shuttles? No, they got kind of cool ones. God, it seems like every other race has a better shuttle pad than the Federation.

Well, the Federation is like two ends of the bell curve and I feel like every other race is kind of shuttle pod than the Federation. Well, the Federation is like two ends of the bell curve, and I feel like every other race is kind of grouped up around the middle. Like the Federation has a terrible one and an awesome one, and nothing average or in between. Yeah, they wish they could have a Previa. Well we got to see it. We're out of videos. Ben, the show is made possible by the generous contributions of our listeners.

If any of them would like to help support the show, they can go to MaximumFund.org slash donate. We hugely appreciate those donations. We would love to goof around with you and talk about the show. We're on Twitter as At Cut for Time and Adam's Case and at Benjamin R. A. H. R. in my case. We use the hashtag GreatestGen and it's a lot of fun to see that blended in with crazy constitutional conservatives that are talking about dead world war two soldiers in the context of the election. We're seeing a lot fewer open casket,

open casket funeral pictures than we used to see. No, it's more about making America great again now. Yeah. It's weird. Yeah. That's what we're doing. Yeah. We are making it great again, aren't we?

Yeah, we sure are. What do we say after our Twitter handle? We say... Oh yeah, we are making it great again, aren't we? Yeah, we sure are. What do we say after our Twitter handle? We say oh, yeah, we've got we've got we've got a couple Facebook pages You can comment on and like and follow we got a couple of Reddit pages One of them is is our slash greatest gen that's the filthier of the two the class year of the two is our slash maximum fun. But I would highly encourage all of our viewers to go over to that maximum fun page. Yeah, so what's up. And say what's up to those people.

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