The Greatest Generation - The Inbred Q (S2E2)
Episode Date: April 27, 2016When the Enterprise finds a hole in space, nobody is more excited to explore it than Commander Riker, but after it envelops the ship, he (and everyone else) learns a powerful lesson about consent. Onc...e inside, they're faced with an adversary acting like a six-year-old holding a magnifying glass over an ant colony. Will Captain Picard finally get his opportunity to go down with the ship? Will Ensign Haskell get another line of dialogue? Is Worf's holodeck routine even raunchier than the First Officer's? It's the episode where almost half of the jokes die (which is within acceptable limits)!
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Yeah, so up on the pod today we have season two episode two
Where silence has lease
So this uh this episode starts with the card kind of pacing around the bridge, really nervous,
and just looking super awkward.
He's acting nervous because Riker is doing holodeck with Worf.
And if you weren't seeing what was happening inside, you might expect that this is Riker
doing sex practice again.
But no, he's a tourist in one of Worf's programs, which is basically a fucking deathmatch
scene, right?
Yeah, I have to say the exterior sets have really gotten kicked up a notch in this second
season.
I mean, if this was season one, we would be looking at a very small sound stage with like
some gray dirt and some gray Styrofoam rocks strewn around it and a psych with like a way
to intense color lit up against it.
Yeah, something that a laser tag warehouse would put to shame.
Yeah.
And this is like a pretty plausible jungle with like a rusted out ruins in it.
And it's like a video game, you know, like they find a weapon under a,
and it's like a video game, you know? Like they find a weapon under a stair
and then like these terrifying death beasts come out
and start fighting them.
One of them is like skull face monster
and the other's like an axe wielding turtle kind of guy.
Yeah, and they are giant.
They're like a superhero giant
and they're real strong
and they're like wing and shit at him. It's great
Yeah, it's like a pretty kick-ass fight scene
Yeah, and they're like doing real choreographed fight moves like compound fight sequences
There's a great moment where Riker like
Sees that Warf is about to have somebody come up behind him and he jumps onto a pipe and like swings down and kicks the guy in the face.
And they like barely make it through. And then and Rikers like, well that was a that was
pretty tough. And Worf is like, that was nothing. Like I wouldn't show you what what I do
when I'm in here alone. And I feel like Rikers like, yeah, I feel the same way.
Yeah, that was a that was a moment where I feel like they both picked up where they were
put in down. Like, yeah, like where, where fighting is involved, no one can ever know my secret,
where sex holiday deck is involved. No one can ever know Rikers. So, so see me think like,
like in the way that you hear about some people dying by auto-erotic expixiation, like, like in the way that you hear about some people dying by auto erotic
expixiation, like that happens, that happens and that'll make the news. How many
people do you think are dying on the holiday due to sex related deaths? That's
gonna be the number one cause of death on a holiday, I think. At one point,
Worf turns to a Theriker and that the the maximum settings that he likes to go for
Those sessions are too personal to be shared
Feel like Riker might as well have just said I feel like you took the words right out of my mouth, or
I'm not used to being in here with clothes
Yeah, so that constitutes the cold open and I And I think the way that a bottle episode is like a self-contained storyline in and of
itself, I think this is one of the rare, if only times up until now, that this is like
a bottle cold open.
Like nothing about this has anything to do with the episode to come.
I mean, it plays in a little bit when Warf
expresses some feelings about the adventure
that they get into, but not really.
Like, you could really have put almost anything in here,
and the episode would have felt about the same.
But it was a fun little sequence.
Yeah, I like the idea of Warf having a karate dojo,
where he just goes and kicks him ass every day.
Yeah.
They show up on the bridge and there's some scanning going on.
And the enterprise is detected an area of space
where nothing is detectable.
And somebody describes it as like a hole in space.
And you can see Rikers ears perk up a little bit.
Riker's interested in any kind of hole
that they might discover.
He wants to explore all the holes.
That's why he's there.
He just wants to get up into some warm nebula.
Yeah, oh yeah.
Rockin' that nib.
They do a lot of like... I just can never find the neutron star though.
They do a lot of zoom in and hands, zoom in and hands on this area of nothingness.
It just keeps being nothing.
They get a little closer.
They start shooting probes at it and the probes just disappear.
And um,
Wesley.
Wesley, the boy.
The boy.
Young Wesley Crusher.
My son.
Suggest that because they know where the probes disappear,
they can start to kind of chart the edges of this phenomenon.
But it's really confounding them because it seems to be nothing.
Like they can't detect any energy patterns or gravity or any matter of any kind, but
also it occludes whatever is behind it.
So it's just a stone cold mystery.
Yeah, they can see it.
That's the only reason they know it's there.
It's not measurable.
Right.
And eventually they get up real close to it and it kind of goes like, and they are suddenly
inside of this phenomenon.
Yeah, it's kind of a ten-scene because they weren't expecting that.
So they stick around a little bit.
They sort of do their sensor scan
from inside the void.
They're sweeping away on those sensors.
It was unexpected, but they're not freaked out by it
at this point.
So they finish their scan and they're like,
all right, well, let's get on our way.
So they turn around and head back to where they're going.
And they aren't going anywhere. No, yeah, they go a bunch of rs
The engines read that they're they're working they their instruments are telling them that they're traveling a certain distance
But they have not left this cloud
So they I think they try dropping like a buoy that just
Pings essentially.
Yeah, this is a great idea, I think.
Yeah, and so they like, the gun it,
heading directly away from this buoy, and...
It gives you the ice cream truck effect too, like you can hear it.
And then you hear its Doppler effect as it goes away,
like it gets quiet and quiet and warped.
The beacon is in place, sir.
Dead ahead, emboze palm.
The beacon is falling a stern captain.
Engineering, report.
All systems functioning normally, sir.
Which doesn't make any sense in the void of space,
but I thought it was a great sound design.
Like, I guess, I think the computer is probably providing that for them because it's
designed. It's something that the human ear can quickly extrapolate what's going on.
But no sooner has it dropped out of audible range than it's dopplering up in front of
them. And they put a scan on it and they realized that they are literally going in circles, but they have
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So they do that thing where they detect a cloaked ship
and then immediately they jump to the conclusion
that it's Romulans.
They never jump to the conclusion
that it might be Klingons.
No, no they don't.
So this, this, uh, this bird of prey unclocks,
this bird of prey declocks,
and it just lights them up,
like it starts shooting right at him immediately.
Yeah.
And the Enterprise returns fire and blows it up, like, really easily.
Yeah.
Wouldn't it be nice if the Romulans were that easy to take down?
And immediately this, like, raises Picard suspicions,
he's up out of his chair and he's like, well that was too easy.
What the hell?
Doesn't make any goddamn sense.
Oh, no.
So they recover from that strange situation and a moment later, another ship appears and
it's a ship that looks just like the Enterprise.
And CC1305-E is the Yamato, a sister ship. You familiar with the name Yamato?
I know a guy named Andrew Yamato, but that's my only association with it other than the
sister ship of the Enterprise. Well, I have this down cold, like I didn't even do research on this,
but the Yamato was a battleship built by the Japanese Navy
during World War II.
And at the largest guns of any warship of its time,
like it was stacked.
And it was so stacked that it made such a tasty target
for the allies that they just concentrated all of their fire onto it.
And the captain of the Yamato ended up grounding the ship
into an island to keep it afloat
and to use it as a platform for these giant guns.
So rather than sinking the ship,
he's like, nah, like we're keeping these guns up out
of the water and we're gonna keep using them.
So that's a pretty bad ass move.
Yeah, great name for a ship with that kind of history, I think.
Yeah.
Well, so the Yamato is just sitting there,
not replying to hails.
And Riker and Warf go beam over to Poker-Round
and it's a ghost ship.
There's nobody on board.
It's a mini dust buster club too, right?
The dust buster auxiliary.
Yeah.
The dust buster cocktail kit.
Yeah, they start like a tricordering
and they realize that it's like not quite made out
of the same stuff that the federation makes ships out of.
And they think it's like a little bit more advanced even, maybe.
Well, they hit up O'Brien before beaming over
and they're like, hey, put us on the bridge.
We don't know what's over there.
Yeah, oh yeah, I should be.
And the idea is like, you know,
they aren't getting any life signs over there, but...
There could be.
So let's get the jump on them by beaming up to the bridge.
Let's be careful.
And O'Brien's like, yeah, I got that.
It's not a big deal at all.
So he beams them over and sure enough,
they end up in different parts of the ship
way away from the bridge.
Yeah.
And it's creepy as fuck.
Like, there's great sound design here,
where I feel like this is like the kind of sound design
where like, is this a sound that they are hearing or is it like creepy music
or kind of a combination of the two?
Yeah, yeah.
And it's really effective.
It's lit all strange.
It's got that haunted house vibe of a place that looks sort
of familiar, but things are off about it.
Yeah, I think they changed the color of the carpet
or something.
So there's just like lots of little things.
I'm like, it feels a little wrong.
Yeah.
And eventually there's a scream and raker comes running and
Worf comes running the other way and, you know,
briefly they think that they're going to accidentally shoot each other.
But I guess Worf heard raker and raker heard Worf.
So they set off to kind of explore around this ship
and it just doesn't make any sense.
Like they'll get off the Turbo Lift
where they think one thing is gonna be and it's another.
It's a corn maze inside a corn maze.
And eventually they're on the bridge
and they open one of the doors and they're like looking
in at another bridge, which is
a really well done effect.
Because I like, I don't think that they built two bridges just for this one scene.
So I don't quite know how they even achieved this, but it looks great.
Yeah, it definitely looks real.
And it's not like the two bridges or our parallel side by side,
like you'll open up the bridge to,
you'll open up the turbo lift door to the,
to like the battle bridge, for instance,
and it'll open up the conference room door.
Like things aren't lining up.
Like even if you were trying to put two bridges together,
they wouldn't line up like this.
Yeah, and so Warfoot Riker are like getting confused.
They're like, wait, if you go in there,
and I stay here, then you'll be on the bridge,
but I'll be on the bridge.
And what does that mean, man?
Yeah, and they, like, Warfoot will be in one bridge
looking into the other and he'll see himself,
like they're seeing each other.
Like, it's a real mind-fuck, I think.
Yeah. And Warfoot is getting pissed. Like, he's not handling this well at all. each other, like it's a real mind fuck, I think.
And Wurf is getting pissed.
Like he's not handling this well at all.
No, this is mad at his.
He's kind of falling apart here.
Yeah.
You know, he likes an enemy that he can see and act to death.
Right.
So part of the problem is they've lost communication
with the enterprise and meanwhile back on the enterprise, Picard is becoming flustered because he can't beam him back.
Oh, Brian can't get a transport unlock.
Picard wants to get him home because there's, it looks like there's an opportunity to
escape this thing.
Like there's a rift opens in the side of the nothing and that there's stars visible on
the other side. Yeah. I mean, we're back on the Enterprise Bridge and something is out of place, something
strange, and that person is, as a man will know, as Haskell who's sitting at the con, who
is a big red shirt.
This is becoming a speech.
So the captain's there.
Very entitled.
I'm typing a ramble on about something everyone knows. So the tees is like these holes are opening up, but Picard's not going to leave Warfan
Riker on the Yamato.
He's got a chance to leave the cloud, and he's not taking it.
So they just barely get their transporters back in time because the Yamato starts to fade out of existence
and they manage to bring Riker and Orback aboard just before it blinks out entirely.
They start heading for one of these exits, then it closes, and then another one reopens,
so they point the ship at that and try and go for that. And they keep like increasing the amount of warps we they're going to use to get to this
exit.
And you know, it's just it's a shell game.
It's a there's no actual escape available to them.
And they're starting to articulate that they're being fucked with at this point.
Yeah.
Like what the hell?
Yeah.
Picard realizes that there is there is a misgevious intelligence
behind this shit.
And I feel like I would have assumed that it was Q
if I was in Picard's shoes.
Oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
This seems very Q-ish.
Yeah, this is Q-ish.
This is Q-ish, I don't know.
This is Q-ish.
Except Q would want to take the credit.
Like he's got the vanity aspect.
I think he'd reveal himself for now. So I think it is maybe Polesky that suggests that they are like rats and amazes.
And that sort of triggers the appearance of this entity called the Nagilaum, which is,
looks like a, they've like cut holes for eyes and nose and a mouth
in a swim cap and stretched it against the guy's face.
Yeah, it looks like if someone went Texas Chainsaw Massacre
with the chaotic bro guy and just pulled his face
over a regular face,
it looks like it looks real warped and weird,
like a circus mirror depiction of a person.
Yeah.
Of a person's face.
But it's just a giant face that's like floating in the void that's visible on their
few screen.
Yeah.
And I think Jordy's got it right when he says, that guy's super ugly.
The sensor's showing nothing out there.
Absolutely nothing.
Sure, that damn ugly nothing.
Yeah, the blind guy says that. Absolutely nothing. Sure is a damn ugly nothing.
Yeah, the blind guy says that.
Yeah, taking a card out of the micro-blurrain playbook,
surety, in making first contact with an alien intelligence,
goes, ugly motherfucker!
Yeah, real tasteful explorers, this crew.
But, yeah, so the Gilaum is definitely just running some experiments on them.
He's got some questions like what's that? And he's sort of looking at Polasky. You're different.
You're not like the rest of this bridge crew. So he basically, he basically openly questions the
gender bias of the bridge crew appointment because he says
one of these things is not like the other.
And then Polasky explains that she is a female, the gender counterpoint to the male crew
people.
And she goes on to explain that, well, that's how we procreate.
You get one of me and you get one of them and we make babies. And the gillums are like, cool, let's how we procreate. You get one of me and you get one of them, and we make babies.
Yeah.
And to give them, it's like, cool, let's see.
What a rip.
And Fulaski's like, for a lot of reasons,
that's not gonna happen.
And Picard's like, we don't do shit like that, man.
We're in a classy operation here.
I mean, I don't know what Riker does in his spare time,
but this is a...
Yeah. Picard's like, we don't do that in public. Rikers like, speak for
yourself.
So it's a little contentious.
Yeah.
But Nagila basically announces that the thing that he's most
curious about is the fact that the people aboard this ship are
limited in that they will eventually
cease to exist.
Because he wants to explore this idea further, he is going to cease to exist anywhere from
a third to a half of the crew over the next little bit.
Picard's not having it.
He's like, well, if that's what you're going to try and
do, we're going to blow the ship up.
Right. And we know Niggilum is serious about this because he looks at Haskell at the
con and Haskell gets into convulsions and spazes out in the middle of the bridge.
It's a real intense performance. Yeah, the gilam's like, well, there's basically
a couple hundred ways to die.
I'd like to see what all of those are like.
Yeah.
He said, starting with poor Haskell.
He doesn't break into his fake rasta petroix
and go, there's six million ways to die. We're in demand, ma-ma-ma-no, da-da-da-da-da.
Rakers like, I volunteer to die by six.
Ha-ha-ha-ha.
Can I just volunteer for that?
Yeah.
I got dips.
Rakers like, you know, I'm very familiar with the little death, but what's up with that
big death?
Just kept talking one long.
Incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic.
So that no one had the chance to interrupt.
It was really quiet.
If not, it not.
Picard decides to blow up the ship again.
For the second time in two seasons,
he goes to engineering with Riker
and is like, this ship will not stand.
This will not stand, man.
Let's blow up the ship rather than watch half of the crew die.
And it seems like they've made it slightly more complicated to set the ship to blow up,
but not much.
Like they basically go blow up the ship.
Yeah, I agree.
How much time do we want to set?
20 minutes? sounds good.
That is such, like that scene and the scene before it
are just outrageous to me.
So they have a meeting in the conference room
to discuss what their plan of action is.
And Wurf is like, this guy promised us
like between 30 and 50% casualties. And he's like, that's well within the acceptable limits.
I have so many questions.
What are the acceptable limits?
Where is that in the manual?
Yeah, like are those warfs personal limits for casualties?
Like that's an amount he can live with because I have a really hard time believing that a federation ship is pretty okay
with half of their crew dying on a given mission.
Yeah.
In a circumstance like this,
I thought that was unbelievable to me.
That's not even how many people died in D-Day, right?
I mean, that's an insanely high margin.
And of all people, like,
Warf is the one that goes like, yeah,
let's not fight this, like, let's let him kill half of them.
Let's let him kill half of the people in the ship.
I think that'll work for me.
Well, you know, Warf's got a, he's like,
he's looking at his odds.
He's like, hey, this might be a real honorable death for me.
So how can I, how can I look at scants at this opportunity?
So Picard is like, yeah, we're gonna blow up the ship.
He grabs Riker, they go to engineering,
and they're trying to work out the length of time.
That's a, that's a, an amount of time that, you know,
efficiently blows up the ship without too much time
going by.
Like, we don't want to set the destruction sequence
for a couple of days from now because this experiment is
going to begin in any moment and it's
going to get ugly and stinky around here
real fast.
Yeah, you want to be able to record your
Tasha Yarr hollow eulogy.
Yeah, and they're like, they're like, well
we need to give some people a respectful
amount of time to sort of take care of
their affairs.
Greg was like 20 minutes. how's 20 minutes done?
Because like sure, done.
And that is literally the only conversation about it.
Like how much time, how about 20?
All right.
Good enough for me.
Wow.
That's a nice round number.
I thought that was pretty cold.
20 minutes.
What do you think the line for the holiday
because like after that word gets out? Yeah. You've got 20 minutes to What do you think the line for the holiday is like after that word gets out?
You've got 20 minutes to burn, man.
Probably gonna do it in there, right?
Mm-hmm.
So Picard retires to his quarters
and is having a nice hang session.
Listen to some classical music and try and data come in
and basically get real cash with the captain
and start questioning his wisdom in setting this self-destruct order.
And it's like a pretty intense conversation until Picard realizes that something's up
with them. And he realizes that they are in fact also illusions
presented by a negulum to kind of toy with him and experiment with his
with his reasoning. So yeah, there he knows something's up because they're
calling him by his first name. Right. And they're being very
emphatic. They're like, don't do it. Our lives have worth. You're making the
bad choice here.
And that's something that's pretty out of character for both of them. Right. And it's not like they
don't ever disagree with him, but the way they're disagreeing with him is weird. Yeah. So Picard gets
on the horn with the computer and he's like, hey, where's data? And he's looking right at data.
The computer is like, data's on the bridge. And then he gives data and Troy the fuck yeah, look, like,
uh-huh.
I'm on to U-assholes.
Yeah, try again.
And so they just sort of turn into a cloud and disappear.
Yeah, and you wonder why Nagelim didn't rig up the computer
to perpetuate his illusion.
But I guess it's just, it's's part of it's all part of that
experiment that this all-powerful being is is doing. I wonder if Q knows about
Nagilum. I mean he must, right? I wonder if they're related. Boy I think Q
really lucked out in the looks department. Yeah. That's the case. Nagilum is like the
inbred Q that they keep out in the barn of continuum.
So Picard goes back to the bridge
and the void is just like suddenly gone
and they're looking at stars on the view screen
and the ship is still counting down
and it gets damn close to going off
when Picard tells the computer to stand down
the self-destruct order.
The computer asks if Raker agrees. and Picard tells the computer to stand down the self-destruct order.
The computer asks if Riker agrees.
Riker kind of overdoes it in a agree.
How will you take, do you concur?
Yes, absolutely.
I do indeed concur wholeheartedly.
Off-destruct, cancel.
Simple yes, but it suffice no more.
It's just a really weird.
It's very emphatic.
Yeah, weird moment to like drop in like a kind of a comedic take. simple yes would have surprised them more. This is really like weird. It's very emphatic.
Yeah, weird moment to like drop in like a kind of a comedic take.
It's like seconds away from certain death.
Yeah, but I guess Picard was kind of waiting and out to see if the void just randomly reappeared
because it's sort of like all you can expect at this point from Negulum.
And it seems too easy, right?
Like the thing that gets Negulum to give up is Picard kicking fake Troy and fake data out of his quarters.
Like at that point, they're out of the cloud.
That does it.
Yeah, and so they head off and continue whatever it was
they were doing and Picard goes into his ready room
and on the laptop screen, Negeum appears and does a kind of classic,
super condescending, advanced alien assessment
of human culture, which they should be used to this by now.
Strangely echoes some of the things
that Q said in episode one.
Right.
Picard points out to Negeum that it is curious
about the universe and the races in it.
And that's why it was running that experiment. And that's sort of the enterprises raised on
detre. So they are not so disilleged, him and he. Clearly. And that's it. Yeah. The whole thing was one big charade. Make it sound. Make it sound.
Make it sound. Make it sound. Make it sound. Make it sound.
It's a really simple episode. There's not really a B storyline of any kind.
It's just this happens, then this happens, then this happens. They try this.
It works, and they're done.
Yeah, I feel like if you're writing an episode like this,
this is like the whole, the ship is stuck in quicksand episode.
There's about, I mean, there's dozens of different versions of this story.
But the ship gets stuck and they got to get out.
And it's like, it's the second episode in a row that's a,
we encountered a weird object in space that's making shit crazy
on the enterprise.
Yeah, it's less, less character development and more conflict with exterior motivations.
External threat thing.
External threats is a more grammatically correct way to say what I said. That it is, Adam.
That it is.
I'm the in-bred host outside in the Continuum's barn.
Ben, did you come across a drunk Shimoda in this episode?
I was going to say it was Dr. Polasky, but I think it's actually data because when Polesky comes up on the bridge when their first
scanning at this thing before they get enveloped
Polesky is just being like
brazenly
brazenly
Bigoted about data. I mean like I think this is the episode where she calls him data a couple of times and he's like, that's not my name.
Data is my name.
Data is something else.
And she's a real stone called mean spirit of jerk.
What is that?
She's got racist gramophibes.
Yeah, seriously.
She's real set in her ways.
As they say.
And there's just a scene on the bridge where she's like
slinging insult at him. And they just keep cutting to Brent Spiner kind of like tilting his head like here, like
clearly hearing it, but choosing not to say anything back. I just thought it was so funny.
It was like, it was a great little performance. And I felt like, I feel like, you know, Jim
Shemot is a fun, loving dude.
He's not gonna engage people by stooping to their level.
He's just gonna let them bury them,
dig their own grave.
Yeah, it's just about rising above it,
having a good time.
Yeah, making a jenga set out of the isolinear chips.
Drunk Shimoda's named after our favorite character
from episode two.
We assign Drunk Shemota as an award for someone
in the episode who is having the most fun
or doing something really strange or weird.
My Drunk Shemota nomination is for Haskell,
our red-shirted bridge crewman who we meet
for the first time and then say goodbye to moments later.
I feel like if you're the actor playing Haskell and I mean you're a bit actor, like he's got his
one line, like it's got to be so exciting. You read that you're part in the script. You see,
oh shit, like it's just one line, but then you see that you have a really awesome death scene
where you just get to overact the shit out of it.
Yeah.
I feel like, oh, what a great day on the set for him.
Like he gets to fake his own death a lot of time.
He gets to like strongly disagree with something
that the captain says and then buy the farm.
Yeah.
A big way.
Yeah, great day for him.
Like I feel like you're watching a man die on screen.
But I feel like he's having a lot of fun in the process
So yeah for that reason Mr. Haskell. It's my drunk Shimoda
Nice one
What do we have coming up on our next episode? Our next episode is another real iconic one.
It's elementary dear data.
Pretending to be Sherlock Holmes.
Vito, Vito, Vito.
Haha, Tata uses the holodeck to solve a mystery
that threatens Dr. Polesky's life.
How can you veto this one, Adam?
Oh god, I... Do you seriously want a veto right now? He's life. How can you veto this one Adam?
I... Do you seriously want a veto right now?
The fucking pipe really?
The Sherlock Holmes thing?
But it's like, I mean, Moriarty.
He's got the like lever in the holodeck simulation of old London that somehow like makes the ship rock back and forth.
Look, I don't remember any of this, okay?
All I have to go on is this pipe and Sherlock Holmes.
Look, I'm not gonna veto, but...
I mean, it's only because the seasons are so long.
I feel like I should keep that in the back pocket.
So, close to doing it is ever.
But I'm glad I was able to talk you out of it,
because I would never veto this episode. it as ever. But I'm glad I was able to talk you out of it,
because I would never veto this episode.
Never ever.
It's an episode that gets called back
much later in the series in a way
that I think is really interesting.
So it would be a real shame to just walk past this one.
All right, let's do it.
You know, I think that one of my favorite things
about doing this podcast at home is getting
to interact with all of our listeners on Twitter.
They're using the hashtag greatest gen
to send us mockups of t-shirt ideas
that we come up with from episodes and continue jokes,
point out jokes that we missed,
which is, I always feel like there's so much comedy
that we pass over in each episode that people are like,
hey, why didn't you guys talk about this?
And like, oh my god, we're insane for not having talked about that.
So that's really fun.
Go on Twitter, use the hashtag GreatestGen and joke around with us.
You could follow Adam at Cut for Time and you can follow me at BenjaminRAHR.
And you can also go to gach.biz and send us an email from there. I think it's
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creator of our theme music and our interstitial music. Now you can find them a card song just
about everywhere online. Yeah, just Google it. All right. I think that's going to do it for us.
Good pod bin. Good pod Adam. We will be back at you next time
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