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Welcome to the Track Wars podcast, the one podcast that
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dares to answer the most important question in fandom, which
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is better Star Wars or Star Trek by going through
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both franchises in chronological release order. I am Kenny Madison,
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the Star Trek contingent with me, Asper always.
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Is Aspen Webster the Star and if he's contingent.
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If you think that I'm rushing through this intro, you
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might not necessarily be alone as we talk about the
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really fast episode Wink of an Eye from Star Trek
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the Original series season three versus Good captured from Star
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Wars the Clone Wars season one.
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Kenny, Yeah, Hi, Hi, you're back.
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I forgot to I forgot to sit down and write
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my list of a whole bunch of implausible physics questions
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in regarding to Wink of an Eye. I don't not
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there ca, Yeah, I don't care either.
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Yeah, okay. I was like reading some we'll get into it,
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but I was reading I was reading some reviews of
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this episode. Every review is preoccupied by the quote block
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holes and the science of the thing, and I'm like, hey,
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I gotta tell you a secret. I don't give a fuck.
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When when does the science ever actually worked.
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It just happened.
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Get over it.
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It was why do things happen? They just they just happened.
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Already attacking the logic within wink of an eye, and
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we haven't even told people that are playing the home game.
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No I'm not. I'm not even attacking the logic. I'm
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attacking other.
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People becking the lot.
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I'm I'm I'm attacking the logic of people preoccupied by
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the logic. My my, My argument to them is what
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who's to say? Who cares? I've watched a lot of
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Weird Ship. I watched an episode where they went through
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a portal into the past multiple times, and I gotta
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tell you, was anyone ever like, wow, I got the
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science of this portal? You know what I mean? Like,
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calm down, it's fine, everything's fine. It wasn't It wasn't
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a bad episode. It wasn't bad. It wasn't bad.
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Yeah. No, I like to I like both.
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Of these episodes because it's because I like emotionality in things,
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and I like people wanting things, and I like a
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I like a plot that chugs along with some feelings involved.
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So just took a chu youling.
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So, speaking of chugging along, Aswen, would you be so
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kind as to give us the synopsis for this week's
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episode of the.
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Clone Wars Star Wars Clone Wars. Duke Get Captured. January two,
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two thousand and nine was when this was released. Uh,
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and it was directed by Jesse Yeah's.
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Name, I really hope so, Aspen, you are the Star
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Wars contingent.
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Would bet there are a lot of directors kenn of
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Jesse Yeah. And then the writers of course, Henry Gilroy
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Scott Murphy's supervising writer Julie See is the writer Sue
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Beautiful Grouping of the People and the what Is It About?
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Written by the TV archaeologist on IMDb Obi Wan and
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Anakin infiltrate Count Dooku's frigate in an attempt to capture him,
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but all three end up crash landing on the planet
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bank or instead. While the Jedi are busy fighting a
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mother gun dark Hahahaduku falls into the hands of a
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pirate gang led by hondo Onaka, the pirate chief, and
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offers Duku up for ransom to their public or to
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the sup participantver We'll give them more in exchange for
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a million credits worth of spice.
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Rat episodes. I gotta say yeah, I gotta say yeah,
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the spice must blow.
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Sure, sure should it? Sure does. I like any time
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that there are talks of spice moving spice in Star
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Wars universe because I like anything that gets outside of
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kind of your classic bad days. So I like it
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when there are like syndicate leaders, this is drug running.
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I think that's like kind of got some fascinating implications
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you get into, like I know, because it's like a
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weird way that kind of the economics of these sort
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of like black market economy, like how this works within
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the galaxy. And of course when you have any of these,
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it's funny to see, like even like under the Republic
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and then later under the Empire, these systems exist. You
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have you have these like the huts, and you have
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these other kind of heads of power in these unofficial ways.
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What does that look like? I always like it. I
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was like it, and I like that there are pirates
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and I love Hondo. This, by the way, is the
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first appearance of Hondo.
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First appearance of Honda.
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We love Hondo. He's a little stinker, he's an ass,
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but we love that.
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That's not all we love. We also love Star Trek.
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We also do, including wink of a nine if my
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spreadsheet is to be believed. The sixty sixth episode of
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Star Trek the original series, first aired November twenty ninth,
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nineteen sixty eight. Directed by Judd Taylor. Story by Lee
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cronin Who's that? Who's that?
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Who is that?
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And tell? A play by Arthur.
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Who's but Who's that?
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Lee Cronan also known as gene Kun And this is
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this is There's some interesting stuff that happens behind the scenes,
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like slightly interesting this week from TV Guide first November
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twenty third, nineteen sixty eight. Ish you the synopsis. The
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Enterprise is invaded by invisible beings living at a fantastic tempo.
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The invaders are using the crew to continue their species,
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but their method renders human susceptible to sell damage, rapid
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aging and quick death. Okay, cool, I guess like poetry
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so that they rhyme. If you're thinking that the Star
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Trek synopsis seems a little anemic, spoilers, No, that's pretty
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much it.
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I don't think so.
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I'm sure there's some thematic stuff if you dig into it,
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and there's some I mean, I outdore this episode. This
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is this is a fun run? I wasn't. I had
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no idea what I was going to feel regarding this
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episode because I've watched the first season a whole bunch
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of times, because I started to rewatch, but very rarely
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finish that rewatch because I get distracted, and so I
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life sunrises, O sunsets, puppies, No, No, never sunsets, only sunrises.
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The metaphorical implications are best.
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Don't think about it too hard. Yeah, So anyways, it's
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easier to approach these episodes. And also, like the reputation
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of season three is, these are all going to be
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lackluster episodes. So whenever, we just kind of have a campy,
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fun like plot driven fun episode with campy elements, silly elements,
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and but strong characterization. I mean, I just had a
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good time into it.
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I did wonder about.
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Oh sorry I didn't play the first impressions, oh sound effect?
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I did?
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I did think about that, or I was like, am
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I having a good time? Because I am, like, it's
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it's just I'm I'm a beggar in the desert, Like.
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Is that what's good? It certainly doesn't feel like Ewok's Droid's.
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Territory, No, no, no, no, like it is. I often
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find myself sometimes being just like delighted by actors too
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and when and also if something just feels interesting and
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engaging throughout. So maybe that is like a little bar,
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but I do just genuinely think it was interesting. I'm
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not caught up. I don't care about any of the
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plotholes of the thing or like analyzing the motivations of people.
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Or it's not plotholes. It's a complete disregard for physics
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and also the internal rules that it established whatever.
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Once again portal back in time.
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Sure, but at the same time, there are just like
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there are elements that just kind of get thrown by
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the wayside because we need the episode to move on.
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and so he inputs some stuff into the computer, and
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you know, it does. However, that input we don't know
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how fast the enterprise computers operate, and ostensibly it would
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take a very long time for that information to assimilate.
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Turning on the computer could take a very long time. Additionally,
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as it was said in These Are the Voyages Season
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three by Mark Cushman and Susan Osborne, the folks at
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the researching facility. Oh boy, I gotta go all the
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way forward. Here we go.
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Oh my god.
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Pete Slowman, the science authority at de Forest Research, said,
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in wink of an eye, you've got an untenable scientific
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proposition for any object to move so fast that you
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can't see it, which means we're talking about moving at
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relative speeds. How do you keep from burning up? How
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do you keep the turbulence caused by your passage from
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knocking people over? It's just silly idea. That's the sort
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of thing that was happening.
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I don't care.
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That's when I'm with you. It's just silly. It's fun
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to think about.
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I guess, I guess like I, I don't know none
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of these.
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For instance, for instance, they should be able to like
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go through like doors because the enterprise operates with automatic doors,
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and so every single type that they want to leave,
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they're going to have to stand there and just wait
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for the door to open. Because a thing that would
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help a lot of Star Trek plots is if these
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doors had knobs, and additionally, if they were able to
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somehow apply pressure onto those doors, it would rip the
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doors off of the hinges. Because they would the forces
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they would be applying are moving so quickly that suddenly
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every single interaction with anything goes fast. Whenever Kirk and
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deal a bone, I was thinking about them getting on
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the bed and being like, does the bed the bed
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must be hard whenever they get on the bed. Does
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the bed thing gradually get softer because it's finally reacting,
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or does the bed explode because the interpreted the force
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of Kirk and Dila hitting the bed to be so
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rapid that the bed just explodes but slowly.
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I gotta stop you right there. I can't believe that
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you watched Kirk suggestively putting his boost back on and
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instead of thinking yourself, oh my god, it they just fuck?
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Like sorry, can you say that louder and like right
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into the microphones so the levels are peaking.
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Oh my god, did they just fuck? Instead of saying that,
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you were like, I wonder if they're a love making
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any kind of affect on the bid fuck off.
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I did raise my eyebrows, and I did I did
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get excited because I think this is the first time
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that unless Kirk was just like, I'm going to get comfy.
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Yeah, he took off his choose because he was like,
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you can't put your shoes into bed, and we're just
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gonna lie in bed with God.
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George Kios we've talked about Kirk drift ad nauseum over
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this podcast. This might be the first time where there
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has been well, outside of the Paradise syndrome. No, he's Mirramany.
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He is constantly in this season kissing ladies.
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Hold on, but it's hold on, hold on now. You're
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absolutely correct, but sexing though sexing having.
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Sex, yeah, right, right, right right. This is the first
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time it feels explicitly like he has had the sex.
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Well that and you put a baby and Mirramani you
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remember that whenever he's I forgot about that. Yeah, I'm
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pretty depressing, id't I don't like.
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The I don't like the wh he just said that.
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Oh I don't like that.
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Oh dear, oh cut that out.
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Oh it's okay, okay, I don't like me. I hate
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that phrasing. Oh my gosh, sorry.
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The way that mirror came together to make.
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Love and represent Oh my god, I hate you. I
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hate I hate this whole thing. I hate all of this.
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I forgot about that, But it's because he forgot he
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was him and that one he did, and I was like, okay, well,
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it's not like Kirk being like I recognize that this
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is a situation that is temporary. I have full plans
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to get out of this. But while I'm here.
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Don't mind if I do. Don't mind if I do.
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And I got a little kiss and I get a
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little tap deep. You know, it was wild. It was
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wild putting those boots back on.
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I was like, you joking me, you have you literally
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are like, this is the anime. Yeah, but she's so hot,
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But I guess I on a certain level she is.
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She was so enchanting to me by the way. I
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was like, I thought she was so pretty and yeah,
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and I thought she was such a good actor, and
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I was I liked her very much, and so I
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think I was like a lot of my attention the
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episode was driven by being like wow, So I don't
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blame them too much.
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I guess, Yeah, this episode was fun. Yeah I enjoyed it.
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Yeah, okay, right, okay. I always tell you a story
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about how I went to go see Iron Man two,
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