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Jonathan.Freaking.Frakes.Happy First Contact Day! LLAP! We got the Man, the Myth, the Legend himself, Jonathan Frakes sat down with Open Pike Night to talk Trek, Directing Trek, and how good The Pitt is. He also got to hear from our awesome callers about the huge impact he's had on all of our lives.Send your voice hail to OPNSign up for the OPN NewsletterVisit our new website OpenPike.comPlease Check out our MerchSupport us on PatreonFollow @openpike on TwitterFollow OpenPike on InstagramFollow Openpike on Youtube
It's All Been Trekked Before #408 Season 13, Episode 10 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #3.09 "Defiant" Stephen laments Paramount Plus's crappy interface. Keith managed to avoid spoilers. Jimmy-Jerome raves about many elements. Edited by Jerome Wetzel, with assistance from Resound.fm It's All Been Trekked Before is produced by IABD Presents entertainment network. http://iabdpresents.com Please support us at http://pateron.com/iabd Follow us on social media @IABDPresents and https://www.facebook.com/ItsAllBeenTrekkedBefore
It's the 200th episode of All Access Star Trek, so Anthony and Laurie asked Star Trek: The Next Generation legend Jonathan Frakes to come by and talk about Next Gen, Picard, directing Trek films and TV past and present, his early career, and a whole lot more. The chat spans his career from auditioning for Welcome Back Kotter through to his latest directing gigs, including for upcoming Star Trek shows and more. We also asked him if he thinks he will ever play William Riker again.
It's the 200th episode of All Access Star Trek, so Anthony and Laurie asked Star Trek: The Next Generation legend Jonathan Frakes to come by and talk about Next Gen, Picard, directing Trek films and TV past and present, his early career, and a whole lot more. The chat spans his career from auditioning for Welcome Back Kotter through to his latest directing gigs, including for upcoming Star Trek shows and more. We also asked him if he thinks he will ever play William Riker again.
Daron Acemoglu is an esteemed economist and author, currently serving as the Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His main areas of research include political economy, economic development and growth, network economics, human capital and technological innovation. Much of his work studies the political, economic and social origins of the differences in economic development across societies. He has also explored the institutional and political evolution of nations and the role that technology plays in shaping economic growth. Acemoglu's track-record of addressing conventional economic principles in a highly original and astute fashion makes him one of the best regarded thought leaders in the field. Acemoglu is probably best known for his book - Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (co-authored with James Robinson), which made the New York Times Bestseller List in 2012. His other books include: Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (also with James Robinson), which was awarded the Woodrow Wilson and the William Riker prizes, Introduction to Modern Economic Growth and Principles of Economics (co-authored with David Laibson and John List) and The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (with James Robinson).
We explore the rules of one of the greatest innovations in sci-fi history, Star Trek's transporter! We also ask the big question: could this iconic science fiction technology become a science reality in our lifetimes? EPISODE SUMMARY One of the most iconic pieces of Star Trek technology! By converting matter into energy, objects and living beings can be “beamed” across great distances, where they are then re-converted back into physical matter. Not just a clever way to not require Starfleet away teams to have to jump in an expensive shuttlecraft every time they need to get back and forth from a starship, but a concept instantly recognizable as uniquely Star Trek, one which has the power to make or break a mission and that has been the focus of multiple stories in the franchise's history. Noted astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi and pop culture expert Tamara Krinsky break it all down to see what it takes to, well, break down a living person and reassemble them at another location.From a science perspective, Hakeem tackles both the scientific feasibility of converting matter into energy and (perhaps infinitely trickier) then converting the energy back into solid matter. Is there any existing technology analogous to this? Is it possible to even consider that this could be done to a living being without killing them? What about real world parallels with concepts such as quantum teleportation? And just how much data storage do you need in order to make this happen?Meanwhile, Tamara looks at this incredibly reliable piece of fictional Star Trek technology from a story standpoint. What happens to someone's soul (or, at least their consciousness) when their atoms are disassembled and reassembled elsewhere? What about Dr. McCoy's well noted objections every time he steps on a transporter pad? Are McCoy's fears as commonplace to a 23rd century citizen as a fear of flying is for people of today? All this and more in our first episode! Don't forget you can also join the conversation in the comments on our YouTube page, so be sure to like and subscribe!FURTHER READINGWant to dive a little deeper into the scientific concepts Hakeem touched on in today's episode?Quantum Teleportation “There is something that works in the real universe, and it's called quantum teleportation, but it's not [the transporter].”Avogadro's Number“If you want to take a guess at how many atoms are in this cup or in this microphone, you start with Avogadro's number.” Moore's Law“Here on Earth, we have this thing called Moore's Law, and that has to do with the growth of processor speed, but I think there might be something similar for the growth of data storage.”The Hebbian Learning Rule“That's the big one for me. How do you handle memory? Because as the saying goes, ‘neurons that fire together, wire together.'”Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle“There's this thing called Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, so [with the transporter] you can't get both their motion and their location to arbitrary-precision…”And for those of you who want to learn more about the early days of Star Trek and the behind-the-scenes stories surrounding the creation of the transporter…The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene RoddenberryOne of the foundational Star Trek texts, and one that Tamara referred to when researching today's episode. “Movie and TV-making technology at that time, making models and miniatures was pretty much how that was accomplished on screen, and it was really expensive. So if you were going to have a show every week where you had to bring a crew down in a shuttle or some kind of spaceship, that was going to be really expensive for the budget of the show. But it's a basic premise, so you're gonna have to figure out how to do it every week…you've only got a certain amount of time to tell your story and you want to use those most efficiently and most powerfully.” These Are The Voyages, TOS Season One by Marc Cushman and Susan OsborneThe Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek - The First 25 Years by Ed Gross and Mark A. AltmanSUGGESTED VIEWINGAs the transporter factors into virtually every single episode of Star Trek, it's tough to narrow it down, but here's a selection of episodes that helped inform the discussion of today's episode.Star Trek: The Original Series S1E5 “The Enemy Within”The original “uh-oh, the transporter is being weird” episode, as Captain Kirk finds himself split into two selves after a transporter malfunction. Star Trek: The Original Series S2E4 “Mirror, Mirror”A transporter malfunction causes Spock to grow a goatee! Well, really, it swaps the Enterprise crew with their malevolent doppelgangers from the soon-to-be-infamous Mirror Universe.Star Trek: The Next Generation S2E7 “Unnatural Selection”Ever wonder if the transporter could be used as a medical tool? This is the episode for you!Star Trek: The Next Generation S5E15 “Power Play”Ever wonder if the transporter could be used as a way to hold non-corporeal beings captive? Of course you have! Who hasn't?Star Trek: The Next Generation S6E2 “Realm of Fear”A fine example of the basis for transporter-phobia, and perhaps the only depiction of the process of transporting through the eyes of the person being transported.Star Trek: The Next Generation S6E4 “Relics”The transporter is used to hold a familiar character from Trek history in stasis for many years.Star Trek: The Next Generation S6E24 “Second Chances”As shown in our episode, a transporter accident creates a clone of William Riker. Awkwardness ensues!Star Trek: Enterprise S2E10 “Vanishing Point”A crewmember thinks she is starting to dematerialize after going through the transporter for the first time. Maybe Dr. McCoy heard about this one…Star Trek: Enterprise S4E10 “Daedalus”Want more detail on how the transporter was invented in the Star Trek universe? Check this episode out!FOLLOW US!Stay in the loop! Follow DoesItFly? on YouTube and TikTok and let us know what you think! And don't forget to follow Roddenberry Entertainment:Instagram: @RoddenberryOfficial Facebook: RoddenberryTwitter: @Roddenberry *Roddenberry Entertainment participates in affiliate programs and may receive a small commission for links on this page*For Advertising Inquiries: doesitfly@roddenberry.com
Support the show! Today, we're talking to Quintin Smith aka Quinns, who has been reviewing boardgames for more than a decade with the iconic show, Shut Up and Sit Down. Then about 3 years ago, Quintin joined People Make Games to cover everything from Roblox's relationship to child labour to the battle for ownership and control of Disco Elysium, from the revival of kabaddi in India to phenomenon that is jubensha in china. Now, he's gone and started Quinns Quest, a new youtube channel to review tabletop roleplaying games that feels like a lot like that one weird show where William Riker from Star Trek looked at the camera and asked us if we believed in ghosts. Don't worry, listeners, we're going to ask the question on everyone's mind: why? Show Notes: [00:02:00] What makes a good review? [00:08:02] Horror versus Tension: one of the challenges of reviewing RPGs [00:16:12] Would you ever do a bad review? [00:23:22] Why playing games are vital for reviews [00:40:44] Infectious Enthusiasm: World Wide Wrestling by Nathan Paoletta [00:43:26] Tyranny of Numbers: Youtube drop-off [00:45:12] Replay [00:50:31] All Advice is Advice For Myself: Use your hands? Other references: I mentioned an article by Quinn Murphy which talks about promises, consistency and economy, you can find that here If you liked this podcast, you'll probably love the Indie RPG Newsletter
On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Kodiak Police Department says reports of a firearm at Kodiak High School this morning were found to be not credible. Though he won't be born for another 300 years — and he's a fictitious character — William Riker just might be the most famous person born in Valdez. And Northern Right Whales are set to get expanded critical habitat. Photo: North Pacific Right Whales seen in Barnabas Trough, 25 miles south of Kodiak Island, in 2021 (NOAA Fisheries)
William Riker shows up at DS9 but it's... not Riker?? Join the Nerds as we reveal THE TWIST! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thenerdtrekpodcast/support
William Riker shows up at DS9 but it's... not Riker?? Join the Nerds as we reveal THE TWIST! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thenerdtrekpodcast/support
Patrick Stewart returns as Picard for one final season! With Terry Matalas serving as showrunner, the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard features Jean-Luc Picard in the year 2401 as he reunites with the former command crew of the USS Enterprise (Geordi La Forge, Worf, William Riker, Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi, and Data). Luke and Jae check out all ten episodes of the concluding episodes of the Paramount+ series. Picard learns that he has a son who is being hunted by mysterious enemies.
David Wright and Mark Radulich present their Star Trek Picard 2023 Season 3 Review! The third and final season of the American television series Star Trek: Picard features the character Jean-Luc Picard in the year 2401 as he reunites with the former command crew of the USS Enterprise (Geordi La Forge, Worf, William Riker, Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi, and Data) while facing a mysterious new enemy who is hunting Picard's son. The season is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout, Weed Road Pictures, and Roddenberry Entertainment, with Terry Matalas serving as showrunner.The season premiered on the streaming service Paramount+ on February 16, 2023, and ran for 10 episodes until April 20.Disclaimer: The following may contain offensive language, adult humor, and/or content that some viewers may find offensive – The views and opinions expressed by any one speaker does not explicitly or necessarily reflect or represent those of Mark Radulich or W2M Network.Mark Radulich and his wacky podcast on all the things:https://linktr.ee/markkind76alsosnapchat: markkind76FB Messenger: Mark Radulich LCSWTiktok: @markradulichtwitter: @MarkRadulich
The Riker walk. The Riker sit. They all had an origin that took the character from "a little smarmy" to a "Gary Cooper" type to being fully inhabited by our special guest: Jonathan Frakes. The Trek Files goes back to the origins with a special reading of the very audition sides that landed Frakes the role of the iconic William Riker. See the documents: facebook.com/thetrekfiles Visit the Trekland site for behind-the-scenes access and exclusive merchandise.
The Riker walk. The Riker sit. They all had an origin that took the character from "a little smarmy" to a "Gary Cooper" type to being fully inhabited by our special guest: Jonathan Frakes. The Trek Files goes back to the origins with a special reading of the very audition sides that landed Frakes the role of the iconic William Riker. See the documents: facebook.com/thetrekfiles Visit the Trekland site for behind-the-scenes access and exclusive merchandise.
The Riker walk. The Riker sit. They all had an origin that took the character from "a little smarmy" to a "Gary Cooper" type to being fully inhabited by our special guest: Jonathan Frakes. The Trek Files goes back to the origins with a special reading of the very audition sides that landed Frakes the role of the iconic William Riker. See the documents: facebook.com/thetrekfiles Visit the Trekland site for behind-the-scenes access and exclusive merchandise.
Star Trek: Picard Season 3 rolls on as Jean-Luc Picard, Beverly Crusher, William Riker, Geordi LaForge, Worf, Seven of Nine, and more team up to tackle the ongoing thread of the Changelings. Who is an Imposter? How will they deal with The Bounty on their head? Listen in to find out! Be sure to check out our website, social media, and join our Discord! Links for all are listed below: Website | Discord | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | TikTok | YouTube Drop us an email at YetAnotherSTPod@gmail.com! “Warp Speed” and "To the Stars" was written and performed by William Grobbelaar Music: https://soundcloud.com/williamgrobbelaarmusic Additional artwork by George Rateau: https://www.fiverr.com/georgerateau
The Trek Files returns for season 10 with special guest Jonathan Frakes! We look at two call sheets, one from TNG "The Offspring" and the other from "Star Trek: Picard," to kick off a conversation about Jonathan's directing career and how it stacks up against playing William Riker. Sponsored by - TOYNK.com - take 15% off your order with code "RODDENBERRY" at checkout! See the documents - Facebook.com/TheTrekFiles Visit Dr. Trek - larrynemecek.com
The Trek Files returns for season 10 with special guest Jonathan Frakes! We look at two call sheets, one from TNG "The Offspring" and the other from "Star Trek: Picard," to kick off a conversation about Jonathan's directing career and how it stacks up against playing William Riker. Sponsored by - TOYNK.com - take 15% off your order with code "RODDENBERRY" at checkout! See the documents - Facebook.com/TheTrekFiles Visit Dr. Trek - larrynemecek.com
The Trek Files returns for season 10 with special guest Jonathan Frakes! We look at two call sheets, one from TNG "The Offspring" and the other from "Star Trek: Picard," to kick off a conversation about Jonathan's directing career and how it stacks up against playing William Riker. Sponsored by - TOYNK.com - take 15% off your order with code "RODDENBERRY" at checkout! See the documents - Facebook.com/TheTrekFiles Visit Dr. Trek - larrynemecek.com
Welcome to OPP as we discuss Picard Episode 4, "No Win Scenario"! On today's episode we go over several of the intense emotional moments that are set up all across the Titan! We see Seven go back to an unofficial role and kick butt, deep dive into the psych of William Riker, and discover what exactly makes Shaw a jerk! Join us as we embark on another excursion into podcasting excellence! Please check out www.jasontalksmovies.wordpress.com for all of your entertainment needs!
Worf: Master of self-care, Adrienne has thoughts with a capital T on that Picard/Crusher scene, Sophia cries over medical accuracy, who's the undercover metal man, and at the end of the day, we'll always have William Riker. Join us as we discuss all things Picard season 3 episode 3!
Kelley from the amazing Spinal Frontier Podcast joins Sophia to discuss all things Picard S3E2: Disengage. Space Cruella Deville, Ferengi genetics, solutions focused William Riker, Kelley has a secret baby theory and Sophia yells about medical inaccuracies.
We're back at it with the Picard Season 3 premiere! British accents are not hereditary, where can we get Starfleet dinnerware, this is William Riker's world and we're all just living in it, and guys, we found Beverly!
Commander Riker is beside himself with envy. Join your transporter-averse hosts as they discuss Jonathan Frakes' skillful differentiation between Rikers, the restraint shown by the writers to not have Riker and Riker engage sexually, and the proper occupational name for someone who trades in clones and clone accessories. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven't had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We discuss some sort of thing related to Star Trek! Note that this and all episodes of the It's Got Star Trek podcast contain explicit language and, frankly, an unnecessary amount of offensive content, so the show is intended only for adults and really really cool kids. Please utilize one of the following options if you have an interest in contacting your hosts: Email us at feedback@itsgotstartrek.com Twitter us @ItsGotStarTrek Mastodon us @ItsGotStarTrek@tenforward.social Instagramaphone us @ItsGotStarTrek Facebookify us @ItsGotStarTrek Watch a static image while listening to the podcast on YouTube Telephone us at 202-456-1414 You can also visit www.itsgotstartrek.com and leave a comment or head on over to the It's Got Everything subreddit to join the discussion. Don't say we didn't give you options here!
William Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago, where he holds appointments in the Harris School, Department of Political Science, and College. Currently, he is the chair of the Department of Political Science, director of the Center for Effective Government, and co-host of Not Another Politics Podcast. William has written widely on separation-of-powers issues and American political institutions, especially the presidency. He currently is working on research projects on separation of powers issues, the origins of political authority, and the normative foundations of executive power.William's most recent book (with Terry Moe) is Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy. He also is the author or co-author of numerous other books, including: Relic: How the Constitution Undermines Effective Government–And Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency (Basic Books, 2016); The Wartime President: Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat (University of Chicago Press, 2013); Thinking about the Presidency: The Primacy of Power (Princeton University Press, 2013); While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers (Princeton University Press, 2007); Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action (Princeton University Press, 2003); The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (Brookings Institution Press, 2002); and textbooks on the American presidency and American Politics. His research also has appeared in numerous professional journals and edited volumes.William is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is the recipient, among other academic awards, of the Legacy Award for enduring research on executive politics, the William Riker award for the best book in political economy, the D.B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress, the Richard Neustadt award for the best book on the American presidency, and the E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in American Politics. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Democracy Fund, and the Bradley Foundation. He also has written for a wide variety of media outlets.Before coming to the University of Chicago, William taught in the government department at Harvard University and the political science department at the University of Wisconsin. In 2000, he received a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University.William, welcome to the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast, it's great to have you on the podcast, how are you doing?What do you make of the hearing today?
In this week's episode of Displaced in Space, Angelina and Sam discuss "Non Sequitur," Season 2 episode 5 of Star Trek: Voyager. In this episode Harry Kim wakes up on Earth with a beautiful fiancée and a great job, and somehow the episode keeps going. Also, Angelina and Sam discuss time travel theory, compare the Delta Quadrant to the Alpha Quadrant, and objectify Kim and William Riker.
"No you can't! Don't even try!" Ellie Littlechild presents 10 Things You Didn't Know About William Riker... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this week's episode - we talk about the snow that CNY received last week. Adam has some stuff planned for both of his cars still, maybe he did them this past weekend? AJ plans to get his brakes looked at. And Bruce sees Godzilla. Our movie this week, Club Dread. We then talk about an interesting price increase in the new Subaru BRZ. It's transmission-related, can you guess what's going on? The dumbest thing we realized about our car later than we should have. All of us get confused about how we start our cars and how remote starters factor into that. Etiquette when sharing a car with coworkers, Bruce fills us in. Adam learns some interesting history behind his B7 RS4, and AJ has a stroke in the middle of it. In the second half, a twofer - cars that are flawless except for one thing, and cars that are absolute trash except for one thing. William Riker's sittings habits. And this episode's primary segment, movies that depict a future of cars that didn't quite turn out as expected. Think Blade Runner or Back to the Future. And then a mild taste of trivia. As a reminder, we'll be at the Wegmans on Route 31 in Clay this Saturday for the year's first Cars n' Coffee. Following that, we'll be hitting up SUNY Morrisville for their car show. Links below: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1061823367544364 https://www.facebook.com/mscautoclub And a link to VINwiki: https://vinwiki.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brokecarsnobs/message
Lieutenant Barclay causes a ruckus. Join your mentally-stimulated hosts as they discuss the highs, lows, and oddities of this memorable installment of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Spoiler warning! We dive right into a detail-rich discussion of this episode, so if you haven't had a chance to see it yet – beware! Next week: We return to our weekly coverage of Star Trek: Discovery's fourth season! Note that this and all episodes of the It's Got Star Trek podcast contain explicit language and, frankly, an unnecessary amount of offensive content, so the show is intended only for adults and really really cool kids. Please utilize one of the following options if you have an interest in contacting your hosts: Email us at feedback@itsgotstartrek.com Twitter us @ItsGotStarTrek Instagramaphone us @ItsGotStarTrek Facebookify us @ItsGotStarTrek Watch a static image while listening to the podcast on YouTube Telephone us at 202-456-1414 You can also visit www.itsgotstartrek.com and leave a comment or head on over to the It's Got Everything subreddit to join the discussion. Don't say we didn't give you options here!
Why Nations Fail is one of the best books I have read all year. Authors Acemoglu and Robinson insist that "development differences across countries are exclusively due to differences in political and economic institutions, and reject other theories that attribute some of the differences to culture, weather, geography or lack of knowledge about the best policies and practices. For example, "Soviet Russia generated rapid growth as it caught up rapidly with some of the advanced technologies in the world [but] was running out of steam by the 1970s" because of a lack of creative destruction. Daron Acemoglu is the Institute Professor in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has received a BA in economics at the University of York, 1989, M.Sc. in mathematical economics and econometrics at the London School of Economics, 1990, and Ph.D. in economics at the London School of Economics in 1992. He was the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, awarded every two years to the best economist in the United States under the age of 40 by the American Economic Association, and the Erwin Plein Nemmers prize awarded every two years for work of lasting significance in economics. Professor Acemoglu’s areas of research include political economy, economic development and growth, human capital theory, growth theory, innovation, search theory, network economics and learning. His recent research focuses on the political, economic and social causes of differences in economic development across societies; the factors affecting the institutional and political evolution of nations; and how technology impacts growth and distribution of resources and is itself determined by economic and social incentives. In addition to scholarly articles, Daron Acemoglu has published four books: Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (joint with James A. Robinson), which was awarded the Woodrow Wilson and the William Riker prizes, Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (joint with James A. Robinson), which was a New York Times bestseller in 2012; and Principles of Economics (joint with David Laibson and John List). HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.com to join the crowdfunding campaign and pre-order To The Moon: The GameStop Saga! If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don’t forget, my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, is now out, you’ll find the links in the description below. Dash - https://www.dash.org Watch Us On Odysee.com - https://odysee.com/$/invite/@TheJist:4 Sign up and watch videos to earn crypto-currency! Buy Brexit: The Establishment Civil War - https://amzn.to/39XXVjq Mailing List - https://www.getrevue.co/profile/thejist Twitter - https://twitter.com/Give_Me_TheJist Website - https://thejist.co.uk/ Music from Just Jim –
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Pastor Newms: [0:10] Countdown 5 minutes dada. Pastor Bill: [0:15] Here we are. Pastor Newms: [0:18] No Pastor Bill: [0:19] We're not singing oh okay, and plus that wouldn't clash with the music that's on the countdown because I can't hear the count down from where I am but I know there's music on it because I made the kind of video. Pastor Newms: [0:39] And I don't a hundred percent know how much the countdown behaves how close how clear it is when we're talking over it I don't know. Pastor Bill: [0:53] I checked it that first time and it was the the music was a little low and I told you that but then I didn't follow up and check it again after that so I should probably do that after this episode. Pastor Newms: [1:07] Because I was just wondering just now was like wait a second what if it's actually coming across considering. We are breaking out the stream the the voices I thought about it after that. Pastor Newms: [1:58] I can we can completely here. Pastor Newms: [2:08] We're live. [2:12] So people are talking and then hearing what we're talking about after we're talking about it no I don't mean in our live going out because I can see those levels. I mean in the actual podcast that goes out. I like the two we take the two tracks and we merged the two tracks together but the two tracks are just your voice in my voice I don't know about the that's what I'm wondering about but we can check it out. [2:59] I mean yeah but that's not very riveting television it's even worse trip. Pastor Bill: [3:14] The intro video hello there's music on it. I pulled up the actual podcast podcast of last week. Pastor Newms: [3:27] Last time ah okay I thought you pulled up the one right now because I sent the same thing in the beginning I didn't realize intro video right as I was starting it. Pastor Bill: [3:37] Use an intro video at the beginning of last one yeah. But yeah it is I pulled up the actual podcast podcast of last week not not the video not the live video from YouTube but the actual podcast. Pastor Newms: [3:52] Because I don't ever listen to our actual podcast now I used. Pastor Bill: [3:59] Reactions then you had to talk about it but you born actually. So this is our 336th episode for the Berean Manifesto be me and. [4:20] Is 336 episodes that's a lot of episodes, Zaidie on Twitch goes y'all do know we can hear you right tell me you haven't been on time to the live recording of a podcast for the last three weeks without telling me you haven't been on time to the live recording of the podcast for the last three weeks. [4:51] There is something makes you feel old what makes you feel old lady on Twitch they don't reach. [5:01] For what it's already been five minutes. Pastor Newms: [5:04] Yes because you were playing with things five seconds. Pastor Bill: [5:15] Hello and welcome to season 3 episode 36 of The Berean Manifesto: Faith, Hope, and Love for the Modern Christian I'm Pastor Bill, and I am joined as always by the ever magnanimous first Clerk of the FCA, I mean Pastor Newms, all the way from Tennessee. Pastor Newms: [5:38] I'm going to bed I'm going to bed. Pastor Bill: [5:39] Why you shaking your head you got somebody hats to wear. Pastor Newms: [5:43] I'm going to bed I'm going to bed. Pastor Bill: [5:45] Yeah so we were talking in the intro this is our 336 episode for the brand Manifesto, which is a lot of episode that's a lot of content that's a lot of time I mean magnanimous yes magnanimous, um that's a lot of content it really is and most of those are 10 minute episodes and then when we switch to this format they became one-hour episodes so, as we progress it's going to be even more content, an insane amount of content so how was your week Pastor Newms. Pastor Newms: [6:30] It's pretty good. Pastor Bill: [6:33] Yeah week two of the Ferengi Commerce Authority in Star Trek. Pastor Newms: [6:39] Yeah. Pastor Bill: [6:42] Week one of a new installment of the current story arc in our Star Trek game. Pastor Newms: [6:48] Another week with another story arc without Worf and, I have words to say that aren't appropriate for the podcast on it so that's I don't care about Riker he's a cool dude but, don't care. Pastor Bill: [7:10] I really hope you know they dropped that William Riker character I really hope halfway through the month they're going to drop another update and change him to Thomas Riker, and be like how we tricked you guys since the character they dropped its anti Federation, that makes no sense for Will Riker to be anti Federation ability But it does make sense for Thomas wrecker to have an anti Federation ability. So we got HPuffPhoenix joining us on Twitch and Phoenix Zaidie don't know if Biggs will be with us didn't he just get back from his trip he's probably. Pastor Newms: [7:50] No he he I don't know I was at his house earlier today he got back on like Thursday, Wednesday I don't remember but no I was over there today and yesterday, so how was your week. Pastor Bill: [8:22] How was my week unfortunately, one day I went to Walmart and they didn't have those motorized carts, and I said you know what I don't have to get very many items I'll walk it, and then I couldn't walk the rest of the day could barely walk the next day could hobble along with a cane, and and now today I'm I can walk but I got to take it slow so that was a big mistake, thinking that I could walk the breadth and length of Walmart for 20 minutes and not have any repercussions. Pastor Newms: [9:09] And it's your hips and knees isn't it. Pastor Bill: [9:11] It's yeah it's my hips and knees but then it also ends up causing my back to hurt as well because my back tries to, compensate and then I try to hold myself up on the shopping cart so my shoulders get all you know tense, so it ends up causing a lot of problems but yeah it's mainly starts in my knees and my hips and then just kind of spreads up from there so. [9:37] So yeah the knee thing I was I was born with a condition that it's a rare knee condition, called loose kneecap so basically my kneecaps kind of float instead of being solid and keeping the, solid my kneecap kind of floats so then when I bend my knees instead of being solid the two bones have the freedom to go like this on each other, this floating rubbing thing motion around in circles instead of just being a solid Bend and that has, that caught up with me when I was working at Gateway Church, and I was going up and down the stairs every day over and over and over again to clean the auditorium floors that's when it caught up with me, the doctors Rex's surprised I didn't show up in high school, and I was like well I didn't play any sports I mean I was on marching band but that's basically just walking and they were like oh well yeah if you weren't if you didn't do any sports at all and I guess it makes sense that you don't know that you have this condition. [10:47] And then the insurance company tried not to pay for it because they were like, everyone who's ever been diagnosed with this gets diagnosed in high school it's so this is a pre-existing condition and I was like nope never seen a doctor for it they were like oh okay our apologies will go ahead and pay for that then, which was weird I expected a lot more pushback on that but they were just like okay, Biggs is here he got onto the wrong broadcast somehow on Twitch, did you get on one of ours at least but that was old. Pastor Newms: [11:24] Or now he was watching he was watching some other two fat dudes talking about stuff. Pastor Bill: [11:35] It was it was an older one but I was wearing this shirt so like two or three weeks ago. Pastor Newms: [11:37] Yeah you did wear that shirt like three weeks ago Father's Day you wore that shirt because you didn't want to be formal that day so you were just like, yeah. Pastor Bill: [11:54] Pride Biggs says Pride. Pastor Newms: [11:57] What about pride? Pastor Bill: [12:00] Haha same shirt my wife says. Pastor Newms: [12:03] Yeah so she's watching. Pastor Bill: [12:06] I don't know what Biggs is saying about Pride but. Pastor Newms: [12:12] I don't either all right. Pastor Bill: [12:17] Okay so now it's time for get to know the pastor. And you had something you wanted to do during this segment is that right. Pastor Newms: [12:32] No no I wanted you to get your cards out and to start. Pastor Bill: [12:36] Okay I'm getting my card out he was like Joey to tell you now or do you just want me to Blindside you when it's time and I was like. I don't know he's like it'll be it'll be better if I Blindside you and I was like okay we'll go that way then all right the card for today is. Pastor Newms: [12:54] No it's not so this little card right here is the card for today and it says if you could invent a pair of glasses that would allow you to see abstract things the motives behind someone's actions, what would you want to see most of all. Pastor Bill: [13:13] That is so in-depth read that again. Pastor Newms: [13:15] If you could invent a pair of glasses that would allow you to see abstract things and example, like the motives behind someone's actions or what they're thinking or you know something like that what would you want to see most of all. Pastor Bill: [13:35] Like like, what abstract thing would I want it to focus on or what would I hope or what would I hope. Pastor Newms: [13:48] Yeah what would you want to be able to see. Pastor Bill: [13:53] I saw most people was were driven by. Pastor Newms: [13:57] No what would you want it to focus on I know it's a weird one I don't like it too much. [14:10] I think I would want to see. [14:17] The person's greatest motivator. But you know every person has a this is my main motivation in life I would want to see that. Pastor Bill: [14:32] I would want to see trauma. Pastor Newms: [14:36] Their greatest trauma. Pastor Bill: [14:38] No I would want to see when they do something, was that inspired by some trauma how were they hurt what hurt you that made you respond that way. Pastor Newms: [14:51] Mmm. Pastor Bill: [14:52] Because then I could come around with compassion and actually put myself in their shoes. Pastor Newms: [14:58] I was going to say if you wanted to see their greatest trauma that's messed up like. Pastor Bill: [15:02] Not see it but see what when they do something see if that was trauma inspired trauma-based you know, was that because they really are, you know a total jerk or was that because I did something that triggered a trauma memory and they're reacting out of self-defense. Pastor Newms: [15:25] Nice that's the smart one so this is what happened yesterday we were out and about and, Tina and HPuffPhoenix saw these these it's this little chat pack thing. Pastor Bill: [15:46] Okay. Pastor Newms: [15:47] And they were like we got them for you and I was. Pastor Bill: [15:50] I love it. Pastor Newms: [15:51] Why, why did you get them for me and they were like for the for the stuff that for the for the you know, the segment where you guys questions now you guys have multiple things to pull from and I was like all right and I pulled the first one and it was pretty good and then that one was good but complex like it was. Pastor Bill: [16:16] Complex so they didn't get those for you they got those for me. Pastor Newms: [16:20] Yeah. Pretty much so what I thought we would do is trade off weeks. Pastor Bill: [16:29] All right so you get the even number episodes and I get the odd number of episodes. Is this 336 so you pull the card and then 337 I'll pull the card and so on and so forth. Pastor Newms: [16:42] Sure that is accurate yes. Pastor Bill: [16:47] Okay. Pastor Newms: [16:48] I was thinking we would just trade off weeks. Pastor Bill: [16:51] But this way we can actually keep track like whose leak was the last week well was I speaking even number so we're going on number episode. Pastor Newms: [17:00] I see your I see your meaning. Pastor Bill: [17:02] See because I can't even with you and you're at odds with most of the stuff that I tried. Pastor Newms: [17:08] I'm at odds with most of the world, but I can't even with you that is a. Pastor Bill: [17:25] What mr. groggy you're late but how could you have raided me. Pastor Newms: [17:32] So what he means. Pastor Bill: [17:33] In your in my alliance. Pastor Newms: [17:36] No what he means is Mister groggy actually streams. Pastor Bill: [17:41] How old is he. Pastor Newms: [17:42] And so what he means is he should have rated us by basically sending everyone who was watching him before he wrapped up his stream so he could come join us. Pastor Bill: [17:52] Oh is that what that means I've never heard that term. Pastor Newms: [17:56] I want you guys to all go here. Pastor Bill: [17:58] I see okay okay that. Pastor Newms: [18:01] And do it so yeah we're ending the stream but go see this person you know that kind of thing I don't know the. Pastor Bill: [18:11] Totally should have done that. Pastor Newms: [18:14] And I'm not sure why Zaidie said for the horde but okay, nope not today this is this is my whole mood right now no. Pastor Bill: [18:27] That's your home is enough nothing did you get that shirt yesterday. Pastor Newms: [18:30] I didn't I got it at some point in the last week's at Walmart because I've just been trying to. [18:44] What are the news is still playing I'm not I'm not playing well right now no it's not for The Horde. Pastor Bill: [18:53] Newms doesn't like the horde. Pastor Newms: [18:55] I'm an Alliance player. Pastor Bill: [18:56] He doesn't like the Horde he likes the Alliance. Pastor Newms: [18:59] Sylvanas is a word person. Pastor Bill: [19:00] Hey it wasn't always Sylvanas though he's getting out here because you're still in the Star Trek game what. Pastor Newms: [19:09] Oh no oh yeah I'm still playing Star Trek don't get me wrong on that that's right here it's actually it's funny because so if I look over here, I'm actually looking at the broadcast information so I'm looking at the chat client I'm looking at what you guys see to make sure, all those types of things right all the things that are going on so over here is the actual, teams and the reason so I put the game actually directly over bills face so when I when I when in the in this it looks like I'm looking to talk to Bill, I'm not I'm talking to like hit the bottom of his elbow, I like some other stuff but I try to make sure I do it because then it looks like I'm looking at him because of how the stream works. Pastor Bill: [20:07] And my setup I put, you know I'm on my phone and so I put it to where you what I see of Newms is to the right of my camera and then I put our Discord chat to the left of my camera, and then down here I've got my laptop which just you know then streaming to my, monitor my second Monitor and I've got e-Sword up down here and I use it to type into the Discord and so that's. [20:53] And then you got your camera an actual camera camera there in the. Pastor Newms: [20:55] Yeah it's dead center between the two monitors. Pastor Bill: [20:59] And then my I've got my microphone I got this pulled down for looks but I've got my actual microphone over here my my blue Mike. Pastor Newms: [21:08] So this right here is then my work computer this this set up with my work board up here so and that's Tina's desk over there. Pastor Bill: [21:23] Alright so this week we're talking about friendship, Phoenix you liked that did ya this is microphones just for looks so it doesn't look like I'm just wearing headphones this microphone works I just it's not connected to anything right now it's just pulled down hey it's not for anything special. It's not as awesome as the Blue mic. Pastor Newms: [21:52] Somehow the mic that I'm wearing right now is better than my Blue mic because my blue bike is actually the lower version of Blue also. Pastor Bill: [22:00] Yeah you gotta USB Blue mic, I got a studio-grade XLR that had needed to that I had to get a compressor to power which they didn't tell me when I ordered it, and I would need a separate compressor so then I had to order compressor. Pastor Newms: [22:20] In case in case everything everyone just saw because it got broadcast it out teams can't hear me when I mute to take a drink and so I muted myself a teams went I can't hear you thanks go away. Pastor Bill: [22:34] Thanks teams. Pastor Newms: [22:36] It's going to happen again. Pastor Bill: [22:37] Burping Roxanne on YouTube says she's sitting in front of her TV playing Fortnight with us, on her right hand side but she we can't see her so it doesn't matter although I could take my phone in there cuz she's just in the living room here in the same house as I am and then he would be able to see her what do you think about that sweetheart would you like me to bring this phone in there and show everybody, our kitchen in our living room and he's sitting there playing for it. [23:07] So now my Phoenix has to be they do see. Pastor Newms: [23:14] I know, I know it's because we had to adjust slightly because of the jerking thing unfold screened you hoping that would work and, technically didn't but that change the ratio slightly so it makes it to where they can actually see that so every time I take a drink from that drink that that now is going to go out so. Pastor Bill: [23:38] So I was going to tell you now my team's is doing to your incoming video what your team's was doing to my incoming video earlier. So teams is doing some weird stuff with aspect ratios this evening changing the aspect just just like this ever so often just take Tink Tink Tink Tink Tink the and it's like why what oh big is if you're in firing you stop drop and roll bro you know what I agree with the statements I've heard online, as much as we heard stop drop and roll growing up I assumed, catching on fire would be a lot bigger of a deal than it is like I've never caught on fire. Pastor Newms: [24:25] I have twice. Pastor Bill: [24:29] Yeah but twice out of how many years. [24:36] Out of a long time right I'm 39 I've never caught on fire and I'm like I thought that I thought having this information would. Would go a long way. Pastor Newms: [24:49] So so I've caught on fire twice both times. Pastor Bill: [24:55] I said what's up you stop drop and roll. Pastor Newms: [24:58] While cooking no I I padded because it wasn't a full fire it was just like, it so I was in a Dallas Cowboys t-shirt is a great t-shirt and I was cooking Italian bake for someone and I leaned over to stir the sauce and leaned back, and kept cooking the meat and I guess it was a gas stove in an. [25:30] And when I leaned over there must have been a little bit of flame coming out of the pan like from the side of the pan and it caught, the bottom of my shirt right here when I was skinnier so it wasn't a fat thing it was it was during the internship the skinniest I've ever been and and and was like and so I leaned back, and I smelled burning, and I kind of did like this and then realized it was my torso of my shirt was rapidly you know whooshing, and so I just hit myself a bunch and then spent the rest of the night, in a crop top because the girls cut it for me so that way I could keep my one of my favorite shirts but it didn't it it sits right here now, and so I have I have a crop top Dallas Cowboys shirt in my drawer that I will only wear as a joke because. Pastor Bill: [26:33] That's hilarious. Pastor Newms: [26:34] Nobody wants to see that. Pastor Bill: [26:37] Yeah I've never been on fire I've melted part of my belly before with bacon grease while trying to cook French toast using bacon grease and splashed it up onto my stomach and, but never caught on fire. Pastor Newms: [26:54] The other time was much more minor it was just like yeah and it was done. Pastor Bill: [27:01] Everybody wants to see your crop top Cowboys stir everybody onto a hunch on chat Roxanne on YouTube groggy on Twitter. Pastor Newms: [27:04] It's not happening it's not happening it is not it is in it is in if Tina brings it to me I will I will change shirts off camera. Pastor Bill: [27:15] Phoenix Phoenix says you need to wear to Pride. Pastor Newms: [27:19] I will know I got to wear my Free Hug shirt to the actual Franklin Pride on the 31st and then the Murfreesboro pride in September. Pastor Bill: [27:29] I might design a different shirt by then but if not then yeah you'll have to wear the Free Hug sure I don't have a free hug shirt anymore I made money into a canvas. Pastor Newms: [27:40] I thought you made one of the kids or something into a canvas that was yours. Pastor Bill: [27:45] No I retired mine that's mine. Pastor Newms: [27:48] Wow I did not sign up for the borough one yet I need to look into it and I know I'm supposed to. Pastor Bill: [27:55] I requested to get put on the waitlist for the occasion house. Pastor Newms: [28:02] For the net that's the Nashville one. Pastor Bill: [28:04] For the Nashville yeah that's right yes. Pastor Newms: [28:08] I think we'll just attend the Murfreesboro one. [28:20] That's a tank top that's not a crop top. Pastor Bill: [28:22] All right. Pastor Newms: [28:25] Yeah I agree it looks a lot smaller than I thought it was the child's to I'm gonna say I didn't say it I'm glad he did. Pastor Bill: [28:39] Actually. [28:46] See the artwork doesn't change size for the different size shirts yep the same size there as it is on all the other shirt. Pastor Newms: [28:55] Oh so just a lot of fabric behind it. Pastor Bill: [29:00] No I cut all that fabric off and there was a lot to cut off I'll give you that I will I'll give you that one yeah, all right so tonight we're talking about something that Newms doesn't know how to does know anything about we're talking about friendship, and friends really get each other's backs and defend them and they don't call them fat and talk about having to cut extra I'm playing, I'm playing friends. Pastor Newms: [29:30] I say this. Pastor Bill: [29:31] are there all the time. Pastor Newms: [29:33] I say this as the largest I have ever been let's be honest and I had a bowl of chips for dinner so I mean I can't really. Pastor Bill: [29:43] So I ran a little experiment recently okay all right so I'm not going to give you the actual numbers numbers but I'm going to tell you the results so, I weighed myself at my mother's house on a Wednesday and I took note of what my weight was and then I spent a week where I drank almost no dr. pepper whatsoever, okay almost no dr. pepper and I gained six pounds. So then I spent a week where I drank at least a liter of dr. pepper everyday a liter do you know how big a liter is. Pastor Newms: [30:22] Yes I see you drink them all day. Pastor Bill: [30:25] Let me show you this is a liter of dr. pepper. This I drink at least one of these a day for a week you want to guess what happened. Pastor Newms: [30:35] You lost weight. Pastor Bill: [30:37] I lost 8 pounds. Pastor Newms: [30:40] Do you want to know why I can tell you why it's. Pastor Bill: [30:43] Everybody's got an explanation. Pastor Newms: [30:45] No it's the it's the sugar content they did a they did a study in the 90s with rats right and if you give rats unlimited food, right and then diet sodas and regular sodas the rats on the diet sodas, eight more because they felt like they were not getting their bodies felt they were not getting enough sugar, so they because they were already addicted to the sugar because sugar is in the food so they would continue to eat more the rats on the doctor on the they use Coke but whatever on the coax ate less food, because they were getting their sugar elsewhere. Pastor Bill: [31:45] I see. Pastor Newms: [31:46] Me I need to cut out sugars for different reason than just weight loss though my sugars need to be cut out because when I don't I then sound like this. Pastor Bill: [32:13] My Knuckles can do that too but for a different reason and not not as intense as yours but the same the same thing about my kneecaps it is true about my fingers so. Pastor Newms: [32:27] Yeah that's a different pop definitely that's a that's a why are you playing with the dog in my office right now. Go on. [32:42] The child drug the dog into the office playing with her with the Rope it's like. Pastor Bill: [32:48] You do know I'm live right there's like millions of people watching right now. Pastor Newms: [32:50] No but there's not Millions there's for but. Pastor Bill: [32:55] Excuse me sir excuse me I had to be on there I said balloons of people not millions of people. Don't roll your way out of the shot, you said your desk behind you was a mess they don't look like it is a mess. Pastor Newms: [33:15] That is yeah it is look I got I got I got chains on there from where I didn't put them away last night I've got I've got gloves I've got. Pastor Bill: [33:30] Wear gloves last night. Pastor Newms: [33:32] I got no I've got the stuff to hang my axe I've. Pastor Bill: [33:37] That's been there for two weeks. Pastor Newms: [33:38] I've got it's still a mess. And with my chairs in front of it you can't see I've got my to be read books that just keeps getting taller because I keep not doing it. Pastor Bill: [33:56] I've got to to read books up there, from the Time Lord Victorious series that came out last year, Biggs says he got new knees no more pain when my knee problems started and I went to see the Osteo orthopedist, whatever he whatever have you use that whatever the term is, um he told me that there was no knee surgery that could fix what I was going through that they could do knee replacements. Pastor Newms: [34:35] That's what he's talking about is new. Pastor Bill: [34:38] But that he didn't think at my age that that was a good idea so. Pastor Newms: [34:48] It's cuz I keep moving around so my camera keeps zooming in and out I know. Pastor Bill: [34:54] My chiropractor has really helped me lately building up the strength in my calves and my thighs so that my knees won't causes much problems. Yeah so I've been doing some leg stretches and I'm working on my knees more to strengthen all that up but. Pastor Newms: [35:13] I have I have not. Pastor Bill: [35:14] Man that walked around Walmart for 20 minutes and then I can't walk for two days so. Pastor Newms: [35:19] Yeah I am, it not now your screens do in the auto adjusting thing on my side it just did it three times but maybe not so the aspect of, I just ever since I work from home and sit here it's just we went out yesterday to a block party for. [35:47] It's artsplace I don't know what the Arts place is I don't even what city I was in but somewhere here it was their first Pride, event lady to block party and we went and, standing for the majority of the day, was non conducive I came home took a bath and went to bed Columbia was Columbia Tennessee yes thank you Mr.Groggy cuz, I don't remember where we were Mr.Groggy went with us so but we have Franklin Pride on the 31st of this month, and it's kind of interesting the differences of cities, the the groups are much different from, Dallas Pride to the things that are starting here because like this was the first year for Columbia it was the first year for one of the other cities it's the you know only the such-and-such year for and it's like, Dallas Prides been going since the 80s so it's like it's like it's a much different community of friends. [37:12] See what I did there guys I went back to the topic it's crazy. Pastor Bill: [37:13] Did that yeah nice Segway man. [37:36] You could just stop shaving it. Pastor Newms: [37:39] Then you could still see the cabinet behind me just as easily, my hair is not as pretty and full as yours still is I don't have floppy curly hair no more I've got a look the walls behind me hair. [38:15] Something stinging behind me. Pastor Bill: [38:19] Golden Girls theme song what is the Golden Girls theme song I don't remember this course we can't play it because. Pastor Newms: [38:32] It's fine we can look it up afterwards sir because if you start it on your computer it might pick up the sound and then we'll get a boot. Pastor Bill: [38:41] Thank you for being a friend traveled down the road and back again your heart is true you're a pal and a confidant and if you threw a party invited everyone you knew, you would see the biggest gift would be from me that's the words to The Golden Girls theme song Alright, this week we're talking about friendship, and it's interesting when you're talking about friendship I was doing you know it's a little bit of looking into, the ideas of when we talk about friendship and some of the concepts philosophically about friendship and Newms what are you doing on your phone. Pastor Newms: [39:29] You started reading you started reading Golden Girls so I went away. Pastor Bill: [39:37] Have you just been sitting there with your phone glowing at your face waiting for me to say something. Pastor Newms: [39:41] No Pastor Bill: [39:42] You could deliver that line. Pastor Newms: [39:44] I was I actually was wondering what the notification was that I got and then you gave me a reason to pick it up and check and then I started reading something so, and then I forgot we were live for a second and then you said something yeah. Pastor Bill: [40:02] As lookup in your home your phone your whole face is lit up. Pastor Newms: [40:05] Because I was like oh that's interesting to me go ahead and just get that real close and be able to read it right and she's just to finish it first. Pastor Bill: [40:12] All right so I was looking to Proverbs chapter 18 verse 24, um and I found this verse in and of itself has some interest interesting details I, in the csb it says one with many friends may be harmed but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother, but then in some other manuscripts some of the younger manuscripts it says. One with many friends see where does it say. [40:57] But friends must be friendly I believe is what it says instead of may be harmed, but friends must be friendly. [41:10] So it's an interesting interesting that it changed in, friends must be friendly and so this particular proverb Proverbs chapter 18 I was trying to figure out well who wrote, Proverbs chapter 18 and it's kind of like flipping a coin, I found some results that said that it was in fact David I've had another results that said it was in fact Solomon, either way we're talking about a scripture that was probably written sometime between 715 to 686 BC, now wrap your head around that the the, younger number there are the lower number there is actually closer to us than the higher number because we're talking about BC, and then there's this kind of popular phrase that people use where. [42:29] He who has many friends has none or a Twist on that is a friend to all is a friend to none, and I was trying to figure out where that phrase came from because for heard that a lot, a lot enough that I thought maybe it was in the Bible which it's not and so I was trying to figure out well where does that phrase come from and that's actually attributed to the teachings of Aristotle, and. Pastor Newms: [43:01] Mmm. Pastor Bill: [43:02] This is this is one of those things where this is why I'm interested in and like you know that we you and I had talked about that circular chronological timeline thing you know, and then we looked at it and we were like this is way more expensive than either one of us wants to invest in a. Pastor Newms: [43:17] Oh yes no I know what you're talking about now yes yeah bill you might want to you might want to tap your phone or something for a second, you've been frozen for a. Pastor Bill: [43:32] Now am I good now. Pastor Newms: [43:35] No now you're catching up. Pastor Bill: [43:38] You've Got a Friend in Me. Pastor Newms: [43:40] There now we're caught up yep. Pastor Bill: [43:42] Okay my phone caught up so Aristotle and Aristotle actually lived, I have a pull up here somewhere Aristotle lived between 384 BC, and 322 BC which means by the time Aristotle was teaching. The, concept had already been written by King David or King Solomon three to four maybe five hundred years previously. And then Jesus wouldn't be born for another 300 years after that. And then Jesus gives us the ever-popular what is it John 15:13, no one has greater love than this to lay down his life for his. Pastor Newms: [45:10] Yes. Pastor Bill: [45:14] So we're talking about, friendship and that means a lot of different things to a lot of different people you know what is a friend and to me I've always been, um I've always been stingy with that title you know people will be like oh we're friends right and I'm like well, we're acquaintances what do you mean by that well, if you and I stopped working at the same place would we still be what you call friends, no I guess not Bolton we're not friends we're work we're work acquaintances we, this is a situational acquaintanceship, can you put these references in Facebook in the Facebook post so we can go back and reference yeah I'll put some links to Aristotle and to. [46:22] To an article here that I'm doing some cording from and what verses we talked about I'll put those on in the Facebook post that is this video, as a comment so people would ask me you know we're friends right and I'm like well I have we ever done anything outside of work if we stop working together would we still be friends, yeah h / Phoenix says no I mean the Bible verses and yeah I'll put the bubble versus two, um big sissy who help you move and that's, always a great indicator because some people physically can't help other people moves and other people will just show up for the free pizza. [47:12] But yeah there is a matters one of the concepts that. Matthew Henry was talking about in his assessment of, Proverbs 18:24 is it's not necessarily friendship as in, your relationship to your neighbor where you are a friendly but when you need something are they there to help are they there to support are they there to follow through, and you and I Newms we talk about friendship evangelism right, and you build a relationship with someone you build it to the point where they are a friend, and you open up those doors to where you can then impart the gospel to them you can then, you know take the next step of leading them towards Christ and I've seen you play this out in your industry. Excuse me you had that one friend from India and that was you know, that was friendship evangelism playing out you know right in front of her eyes. [48:35] And HPuffPhoenix says like big life events are they still there or not or you know when you go through a, mind altering event where your perspective has changed and you need the support of a friend, do they support you I know, best Something Phoenix can relate to with what's been going on in her life who can she count on to support her, when she gets going through all these things about her perspective on life and that's her deal to give him more information on if she wants I wouldn't want to get in for more information on that, just because I'm a personal kind of person but and things like, if you move across the country. [49:37] Are we still friends are we still going talk, are we still gonna you know what I mean and sometimes you can't I get that and with technology though nowadays it's a lot easier to maintain friendships from a distance, and I personally so let's get it let's put on our alternative Bible thinking hats on I personally believe, that David wrote Proverbs 18. And the reason I believe this is because I believe he is referencing here his Covenant relationship with, the son of Saul whom the Bible says that David love Jonathan more than any woman he'd ever loved and Jonathan loved David more than any woman he'd ever loved and that they were, more than friends to each other it doesn't say what that is but there is that One Moment In the bible where, I swear if it was in a movie you would be like that's where these characters are about to kiss I swear they're about to kiss and then they don't or at least it doesn't record that they did and you're like oh I could have swore that was getting all romantic. [51:04] You can do what you want to do with that but yeah I believe that's what he's talking about, there are relationships that you can have that you can choose these people who will be closer than blood family and that's awesome. Pastor Newms: [51:28] Yeah and it's definitely you have some you know it's kind of like there's always there's lots of statements about it, but it's like that whole you can't, you pick your friends you don't pick your family you know and then things like you know the, water friendship is stronger the water of the Covenant is stronger than the blood of, family where we get the blood is thicker than water statement from which is completely opposite of what the statement actually means but that's beside the point, but yeah. Pastor Bill: [52:14] I think blood is thicker than water is actually half of that statement. [52:23] Aren't they the same statement just people cut off 1/2 H Plus Phoenix asks me what weapon I'm wielding right now because she's watching the live video, which goes out live every Sunday evening at 6:30 Central Standard Time and then also on Sundays at, seven the audio version come on Wednesdays at 7:00 the audio version comes out but what I'm wielding is a back scratcher, it has a scratcher itself is a skeleton claw, but yeah it's great it's nice little back scratcher it's just a back scratcher. Hi Mr.Groggy says you should always love your family no matter what and I think. Pastor Newms: [53:10] Oh sorry. Pastor Bill: [53:11] Define family in different ways. Blood doesn't necessarily mean they're family to me Newms is my family I have much I instruct my kids to call him their uncle and I instruct my kids to call his kids cousins. Pastor Newms: [53:29] So yeah it starts. Pastor Bill: [53:30] I mean you should love everybody Groggy. Pastor Newms: [53:32] The blood of the Covenant is thicker than the water of the womb that's what. Pastor Bill: [53:36] Water of the womb. Pastor Newms: [53:45] Cuz it's supposed to be the blood of the Covenant meaning that covenants you make are thicker than, relational kind of like the the Frankie you know you can profit off of your family at any time me and me. Pastor Bill: [54:03] Deal is a deal the deal. Pastor Newms: [54:04] Yeah so, yes you always should love your family I agree and we should always be supportive of family. [54:22] But like Phoenix it said above you know sometimes we build our own Ohana but yeah you should always, love and support your family and you would hope that some of your closest friends come from your family even if they wait, even if it's you know 30 something years before you actually fully connect with them because you remember when they were 12 and annoying as opposed to, see ya cool individual they ended up growing up into you know not any real life examples for using right now. Pastor Bill: [54:59] So all on that same know we've talked not your note but what they're talking about on the chat we've talked about this in the past. Pastor Newms: [55:27] Oh yo Kelly on sorry. Pastor Bill: [55:35] All right Matthew 10:34 Jesus says, don't assume that I came to bring peace on Earth I did not come to bring peace but a sword for I came to turn a man against his father a daughter against her mother a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law and a Man's enemies, will be the members of his household, so you know we can be raised your family is more important than anybody and you should love your neighbor as yourself you know all these things but biblically, your family your blood family takes a back seat and what's in front of you is love and God, loving your neighbor and loving yourself and I guess some pushback sometimes on loving yourself but if you go read it how can you love your neighbor, as yourself if you don't love yourself it's just common sense that you have to love yourself in order to fulfill loving your neighbor, because if you hate yourself and then you go to love your neighbor as you love yourself when you get to the judgement Jesus is going to be like now you know that's not what I meant. [56:52] Newms would go well you know you're the one who made me a wise ass so we're even. Pastor Newms: [56:55] Maybe you should have beaten the scholars to have them actually write it correctly and we would have been fine, but he doesn't Force his will upon. Pastor Bill: [57:08] Of Phoenix's because of the whole all Christians are brothers and sisters or is that religious bull hockey, um so the teaching about brothers and sisters in the faith, most likely comes from a combining of the teachings to the ancient Israelites, that they were all brothers and sisters and then, the scriptures in the New Testament that talk about us being Heirs of Christ and if airs than co-heirs with Christ and combining those two concepts to go well if we're all heirs with Christ, that means that we're all brothers and sisters right and in Legally speaking no, you can designate anyone in your will to be your heir and there are. [58:08] Usually it's normal for there to be stipulations on that are Hood, um they must do this or because they did this or you know it's just not you don't just open a phone book and go there's a night that that person I'm going to make that person my are in my wheel, and so this is more of a, conglomerate of ideas that isn't necessarily wrong it's not necessarily bull but it's not point blank something that is taught in the scripture. Pastor Newms: [58:44] Go to Matthew 12 48 through 50 that might be part of the thought process also, as you were saying it's not going against what you said just that is a reference. Pastor Bill: [59:02] Yeah when Jesus family was waiting outside to speak to him and there were like you need to come out and speak to your family and he was like, who is my mother and who are my brothers, here are my mother and my brothers for whoever does the will of my Father in Heaven is my brother and sister and mother and that's more of a, familial otherwise we'd be calling her by mothers. Pastor Newms: [59:32] I call a lot of people mothers. Pastor Bill: [59:32] Lady says she never understood yeah never said how that worked for someone with types of depression and low self-esteem but have a servant's heart, do what you can't even in small ways to care for yourself the care for others more I don't matter what I don't matter what they need who they are matter more so the idea is. [59:56] Jesus wouldn't condone you remaining in an unhealthy state, for the sake of caring for someone else does that make sense like. [1:00:13] We talked about it well we've talked about in the past tithing is awesome you know I believe you should tie, I'm not going to say it's a law that you have to type well I believe you should tie but we've also had the discussion if you are on a fixed income and you were literally living off of your Social Security and it's not. [1:00:36] You know over and above what you need, you shouldn't be tithing you should be taking care of yourself right should be taken care of yourself so that you're healthy because you can't serve the Lord, if you're not healthy now that doesn't mean you have to be perfect like you talked about depression and low self-esteem and all these things, you don't have to be perfect to serve but at the same time you shouldn't be, starving yourself in order to feed your neighbor you need to make just make sure that you're fed and then feed your neighbor with your Surplus James says if you have one coat, that's good if you have two coats give the extra you don't give up the one coat that you have to take care of your neighbor, um John when John was baptizing he starts talking to the people this it's in the Book of John I know it is hold on I'm all ready to work for the from June. Pastor Newms: [1:01:47] And I think, part of what date he's talking about also is the struggle me and you have always you know when you say I get a lot of slack for saying, love your I think that's partially what she's talking about also you can't those of us that have a hard time loving ourselves but we have no problem loving, others because I struggle like the worst part about my week is actually this, because I have to look at myself and I hate looking at myself but I have to because the video feed comes from my computer so I've got to make sure it looks okay I hate looking at myself, so because of that you know but that you know that's neither here nor there and we've had that conversation as you said before about, we still have to try to continue to love ourselves because God said so. Pastor Bill: [1:02:53] Yes that's it's a commandment just as sacred as the Commandments to love your neighbor and the Commandment to love God. Pastor Newms: [1:03:10] And I do agree with what Zaidie just said there are some people that are extremely hard to love I was actually discussing yesterday with someone you know protesters that are protesting, inaccuracies are very hard to love and but, I'm supposed to show them love and not beat them for not agreeing with me, mr. groggy is not difficult to love that's that self-hatred that we were just talking about. Pastor Bill: [1:03:47] Yeah they were just talking about. Pastor Newms: [1:03:48] So Pastor Bill: [1:03:51] Yeah I had somebody on, Tick-Tock responded to one of my posts one of my comments about you say I have to love my neighbor, as myself but do I have to love them on a Saturday morning, when they're mowing their lawn at seven a.m. and I had a late night, and I replied and I said that sounds like one of those it's a good thing Jesus loves you because I'm having a hard time right now situations where you just need to roll over and try to go back to sleep. Pastor Newms: [1:04:25] Yeah. Pastor Bill: [1:04:31] Sorry I had this specific thing popped into my head and I was like yes we should I should read that and then I couldn't find where it is so now I've got to go find where it is and I don't want dead space But Here We Are. Pastor Newms: [1:04:45] That's why I'm just talking about random things while we await that. Pastor Bill: [1:04:52] Random our city Zoroastrians. Pastor Newms: [1:05:00] We're not that's not we're not talking about Zoroastrians today. Pastor Bill: [1:05:02] No but it I'm looking through you know certain things and try to find where I am. Pastor Newms: [1:05:10] I know just messing with you do do do do do do, do do do do so I got to say a funny thing did I tell you or did I tell the stream the story about the Dragonite and the Charmander behind me or did I just tell you. [1:05:33] So right here my Builders of that passage there's a there's. Pastor Bill: [1:05:37] He's like I did I told you. Pastor Newms: [1:05:38] Charmander and a charmeleon and their Build-A-Bears because I love Build-A-Bear and these two are two of the ones that are actually mine well my wife you need to use that printer that's under them, and so she put them on the floor so they were on the floor for a couple days and then I was fixing to do something and, I wanted them back here so I I said Dragonite. [1:06:06] Dragonite and Charmander why are you correcting me Phoenix anyway so I put them on the floor. [1:06:17] And I picked up the Charmander it was fine the Dragon Knight had its Hood up, because it's got this little cute hood that came with it because it's supposed to be like a Christmas Version or something so it's sitting on the corner sitting down there on the floor and Kaiju the 55-pound black lab, decided that for some reason the Dragonite was actually going to attack me, and so as I got close to it oh, sorry I did not mean to say that thank you for correcting me that it is not a term million because it is not as Dragonite so I reach for the, she starts growling like cause she thinks as I'm reaching towards it it's going to bite me, and I'm like no baby look they're stuffed and and she still just stared at it like, no daddy that think that one's alive and you're like no baby and and then she realized, it was stuffed and and then asked if she could play with them which she was told of course no because she's a lab and, can't are straight through a stuffed animal like that um so did you find your verse yay. Pastor Bill: [1:07:40] Okay so we're in Luke chapter 3 starting in verse 7 it's John the Baptist, speaking it says he then said to the crowds who came out to be baptized by him brood of vipers who warned you to flee from the coming Wrath, therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance and don't start saying to yourselves we have Abraham as our father, for I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these Stones the ax is already at the root of the trees therefore every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire, what then should we do the crowds were asking him he replied to them the one who has two shirts must share with someone who has none and the one who has food must do the same, and then he goes on to talk about tax collector should only collect what they've been authorized to collect which was a big problem at the time, soldiers shouldn't bribe and. Frame people in order to take money from them they should be satisfied with their wages for their work. Right there you know even John. [1:09:09] Has a different kind of ministry than Jesus does obviously Jesus would give you the shirt off his back he gave the skin off of it too soon too soon for those kind of jokes, it's been 2000 years it's it's not time yet but John's like if you've got two shirts you know and you only need one give you a shirt somebody who doesn't have any, if you've got more food than you can eat and it's gonna go bad give the fruit of this going to go bad to those who don't have any. Pastor Newms: [1:09:45] Yep. Pastor Bill: [1:09:47] It's the same concept if you're struggling with depression like I do Newms as so many people do. You can't give up working on yourself working on loving yourself, only focus on loving others and continue to stay hurting I'm not saying that, depression is curable, because obviously it's not I'm not saying that something's wrong with you cuz you're not trying hard enough you're not doing it right nothing else things I'm saying that everyone deserves to be loved, and chief amongst those people who should be trying to love you is you. [1:10:39] And then you should love your neighbor if you are self sacrificing and then hurting and hating yourself, in order to love your neighbor better than yourself, then you're hurting yourself not loving yourself and then you're still not following the Commandment that Jesus made we have to be healthy not perfect, healthy is it Direction not on arrival. And that's what I have to say about that you have anything you want to add on Newms. Pastor Newms: [1:11:25] No Pastor Bill: [1:11:32] Chat Groggy, Phoenix, Zaidie, Biggs, Roxanne you guys have anything you want to add. Give it a couple seconds for them to even hear me ask the question, do do do do can't tell if anybody's type. Pastor Newms: [1:11:52] Now you. Pastor Bill: [1:11:54] Because they type on another platform and then they hit you know enter. [1:12:02] HPuffPhoenix says peace be with you and I guess in my reply is and with you and May the odds be ever in your favor. [1:12:15] Why are you doing the Vulcan greeting and then saying nanu nanu. [1:12:27] All right so that's all we have for tonight, be sure to join us on Sunday evenings at 6:30 Central Standard Time piss at that's in the p.m. prime meridian, and live long and prosper and if you listen to our podcast the audio version obviously with a transcription that comes out on Wednesday nights at 7:00 p.m. And so you can you can listen that anywhere that you listen to podcasts, you can see us live as we record these episodes on Sunday nights on Facebook YouTube and twitch, and you can also be a part of the conversation via the chat interface like you've heard of this reference multiple times to this episode people who were joining the conversation through those platforms. [1:13:15] So if you live in, India or Portugal or one of the other places where they passed a law for mandatory vaccinations, I recommend capitulation with the direction that your leaders have made law, also I recommend that when those people come to your door with those vaccinations to vaccinate you that you remember that those are people, going door to door and those countries not evil monsters I don't want to see any more of these videos of you guys taking swings and, having to be held down by groups of people in order for civil servants to carry out the law of the land, personally if they mandated the vaccine in the United States I would take the vaccine because they mandated it because, I believe the Bible tells me to follow the laws of the land and I'd rather die upholding my morals, um not saying you will die if you get a vaccine Newms has had the vaccine his wife instead the vaccine either perfectly healthy my mother's had that scene she's perfectly healthy well you know what I mean in the terms of. Pastor Newms: [1:14:43] The vaccine didn't cause any new issues. Pastor Bill: [1:14:47] Yes that's what I'm talking about I'm not trying to cause Zach scene hesitancy in any way just you know make a wise decision do what's right for you do what's right for your family if they mandate it, I'll get it I would rather die upholding my principles of yes I followed Romans 13 to my best understanding of it, then to live knowing that I had bought what I thought the Bible taught me was the right thing to do so all right, huh Mr.Groggy says he got a third arm when he got his vaccination so I'm gonna go ahead and put that in the category of misinformation, and we'll do it. Pastor Newms: [1:15:31] Funny thing is is Mister groggy actually works in the pharmaceutical industry, so it's even funnier with you know that cuz it's like oh dude mmm anyway. Pastor Bill: [1:15:47] So now we move on to our 30-second buffer because some of these platforms require it and actually last week, you said my catchphrase at the very end, and I was like dude why did you say my catchphrase why'd you say until next time after I said until next time and you said so it will be on there except then you didn't wait long enough to cut the stream and it dropped. Pastor Newms: [1:16:14] Just me being a butt. Pastor Bill: [1:16:18] 30 second buffer 30 second buffer 30 second buffer has it been 30 seconds yet of course not it's hot out I'm Works 30 second bomb, 30 second buffer 30 second buffer you guys have a great week. Pastor Newms: [1:16:33] Stay safe love you. Pastor Bill: [1:16:35] And until next time.
This week TV addicts Schmee and Riker review the pilot episode of the TV series Star Trek - Enterprise, “Broken Bow” (Netflix/Paramount+). This is the fourth Star Trek series pilot we have reviewed, preceded by Lower Decks, Discovery, and Picard. We discuss how well it did in defining the genre/conventions of the show, introducing its characters, how well it informed the series plot, and how well it hooked us to watch more. Follow us and let us know what you think! Twitter: @PilotsThePod | Facebook: www.facebook.com/PilotsThePodcast | Instagram: www.instagram.com/pilotsthepodcast/ Check out our website at www.PilotsThePodcast.com.
Trek Untold is celebrating their 50th episode and nearly a full year of shows, a big milestone for this podcast! What better way to celebrate this first anniversary than by talking with another Number One. This week, Jonathan Frakes joins the show to tell some stories about playing William Riker in all seven seasons of “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, as well as the four TNG movies, and appearances in “Star Trek: Picard” and “Lower Decks.” Frakes also directed many episodes of Trek shows and two of the movies, along with a huge list of other television shows. Frakes tells some stories about specific TNG episodes like “The Outcast”, “Sub Rosa” and “The Offspring” (his directorial debut), tales about his action figures, and the secret origins behind a major part of Riker’s character. Plus, his philosophies on directing, working with Patrick Stewart in “Picard”, his on-screen relationship with Marina Sirtis, and which “Star Trek: Discovery” performer has been shadowing Frakes and will sit in the director’s chair in future episodes of the franchise. All this and more on the big 50th episode of Trek Untold! Support Trek Untold by checking out our merchandise at https://teespring.com/stores/trekuntold or become a Patreon at Patreon.com/TrekUntold. Pick up Armin Shimerman's new book "Illyria: Betrayal of Angels" from Amazon.com- https://buff.ly/35OYAAp Trek Untold is sponsored by Triple-Fiction Productions, a US-based company that 3-D prints Trek-inspired prop replicas for fan films and cosplayers, as well as accessories and playsets for all iterations of Trek figures through the years. Visit them at Triple-Fictionproductions.net. Don't forget to subscribe to the show and leave a rating if you like us! The views expressed on air during Trek Untold do not represent the views of the RAGE Works staff, partners, or affiliates. Follow Trek Untold on Social Media Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/trekuntoldTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/trekuntoldFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/trekuntold Trek Untold is sponsored by Treksphere.com, powered by the RAGE Works Podcast Network, and affiliated with Nerd News Today.
Trek Untold: The Star Trek Podcast That Goes Beyond The Stars!
Trek Untold is celebrating their 50th episode and nearly a full year of shows, a big milestone for this podcast! What better way to celebrate this first anniversary than by talking with another Number One. This week, Jonathan Frakes joins the show to tell some stories about playing William Riker in all seven seasons of “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, as well as the four TNG movies, and appearances in “Star Trek: Picard” and “Lower Decks.” Frakes also directed many episodes of Trek shows and two of the movies, along with a huge list of other television shows. Frakes tells some stories about specific TNG episodes like “The Outcast”, “Sub Rosa” and “The Offspring” (his directorial debut), tales about his action figures, and the secret origins behind a major part of Riker’s character. Plus, his philosophies on directing, working with Patrick Stewart in “Picard”, his on-screen relationship with Marina Sirtis, and which “Star Trek: Discovery” performer has been shadowing Frakes and will sit in the director’s chair in future episodes of the franchise. All this and more on the big 50th episode of Trek Untold! Support Trek Untold by checking out our merchandise at https://teespring.com/stores/trekuntold or become a Patreon at Patreon.com/TrekUntold. Pick up Armin Shimerman's new book "Illyria: Betrayal of Angels" from Amazon.com- https://buff.ly/35OYAAp Learn more about the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network on their official website - https://www.pancan.org/ Trek Untold is sponsored by Triple-Fiction Productions, a US-based company that 3-D prints Trek-inspired prop replicas for fan films and cosplayers, as well as accessories and playsets for all iterations of Trek figures through the years. Visit them at Triple-Fictionproductions.net. Don't forget to subscribe to the show and leave a rating if you like us! The views expressed on air during Trek Untold do not represent the views of the RAGE Works staff, partners, or affiliates. Follow Trek Untold on Social Media Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/trekuntoldTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/trekuntoldFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/trekuntold Trek Untold is sponsored by Treksphere.com, powered by the RAGE Works Podcast Network, and affiliated with Nerd News Today.
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On the first day of GalaxyCon's Star Trek: The Next Generation weekend, Jonathan Frakes "Cmdr. William Riker", Gates McFadden "Dr. Beverly Crusher", and John De Lancie "Q" answer fan questions.Originally aired live on September 19, 2020.
Throughout Star Trek’s history, human and alien competitive games have featured parrises squares, strategema, tri-dimensional chess, and poker, to name a few. One thing we didn’t see on screen was a good old fashioned quiz night, so we’re giving you one on Galaxy Class. Amy Nelson, Ria Papageorgiou, and Kevin Scharf are joined by guest and quizmaster Jim McMahon to test their Star Trek trivia knowledge. Categories include: Riker’s Angels: The Romances of William Riker, To Betazed or Not to Betazed, Lower Decks: TNG Edition, The Badmirals, Honorable Mentions: The Klingons of TNG, and Subcommander Hitchcocks: The Warbirds.United Federation of Podcasts is brought to you by listeners like you. Special thanks to these patrons on Patreon whose generous contributions help produce the podcast! Tim CooperPluto’s OrbitKevin ParlagrecoSimon De LucaChrissie De Clerck-SzilagyiMahendran RadhakrishnanTom ElliotVera BibleJustin OserVictor GamboaGreg MolumbyChristopher LutzJim McMahonKevin ScharfAlexander GatesChris TribuzioC. Roger McCubbinsThad HaitAnn Marie You can become a patron here: https://www.patreon.com/ufpearth
รายการ Maximum Warp จะชวนทุกคนไปสำรวจจักรวาล Star Trek กันที่ Star Trek: The Next Generation ตอน A Matter of Perspective (ตอนที่ 14 ของซีซัน 3) ในระหว่างบีมกลับจากสถานีอวกาศ จู่ๆ ก็เกิดเหตุการณ์ระเบิดขึ้นและมีผู้เสียชีวิตหนึ่งราย และคนสุดท้ายที่อยู่ในที่เกิดเหตุก็คือ William Riker นี่คือเรื่องราวราโชมอนสุดแสนซับซ้อนกับหนึ่งเหตุการณ์ที่แต่ละฝ่ายต่างเชื่อมั่นในสิ่งที่ตัวเองเห็น เรื่องราวจะเป็นยังไง ติดตามกันได้เลย ร่วมพูดคุยผ่าน Twitter @COTBpod หรือแฮชแท็ก #MaxW #MaximumWarp
Engage! Join the crew of the Starship Enterprise, it's continuing mission to bring Cmdr. William Riker, Lt. Tasha Yar, and Q for a one-of-a-kind Live Streamed Q&A with GalaxyCon Live. Join Jonathan Frakes, Denise Crosby, and John de Lancie to boldly go where no one has gone before!
รายการ Maximum Warp จะชวนทุกคนไปสำรวจจักรวาล Star Trek กันที่ Star Trek: The Next Generation ตอน The Outcast (ตอนที่ 17 ของซีซัน 5) เมื่อ William Riker ต้องร่วมงานกับ Soren นักวิทยาศาสตร์ชาว J'Naii หนึ่งในสปีชีส์ที่ไม่ระบุเพศ เป็นการพบแลกเปลี่ยนวัฒนธรรมแก่กัน จนเกิดเป็นความรักลึกซึ้งระหว่าง Riker และ Soren แต่การ come out เลือกเพศของ Soren นั้นกลับผิดกฏหมายร้ายแรง เรื่องราวจะเป็นยังไง ติดตามกันได้เลย ร่วมพูดคุยผ่าน Twitter @COTBpod หรือแฮชแท็ก #MaxW #MaximumWarp
Commander Riker has a particularly bad week. Join your totally-not-insane hosts as they consider the ramifications of not trusting your own brain, the positives and negatives of episodic storytelling, and the inherent contradiction of spiny lobefish. Next week: We fast-forward through cultural evolution in 'Blink of an Eye' - episode 12 of Star Trek: Voyager's sixth season. Note that this and all episodes of the It's Got Star Trek podcast contain explicit language and, frankly, an unnecessary amount of offensive content, so the show is intended only for adults and really really cool kids. Check out the Feedspot list of Top 60 Star Trek Podcasts for 2020. Please utilize one of the following options if you have an interest in contacting your hosts: Email us at feedback@itsgotstartrek.com Twitter us @ItsGotStarTrek Instagramaphone us @ItsGotStarTrek Facebookify us @ItsGotStarTrek Watch a static image while listening to the podcast on YouTube Telephone us at 202-456-1414 You can also visit www.itsgotstartrek.com and leave a comment or head on over to the It's Got Everything subreddit to join the discussion. Don't say we didn't give you options here!
Dr. Crusher saves the day using poker, deduction, and fragile stemware. Join your thrupling hosts as they discuss the curious mechanics of looping through time, the value of unwavering trust in your senior staff, and exactly how long a way it is to the bottom of the warp core. Next week: We root for Commander Riker as he tries to maneuver himself out of a mental prison in 'Frame of Mind' - episode 21 of Star Trek: The Next Generation's sixth season. Note that this and all episodes of the It's Got Star Trek podcast contain explicit language and, frankly, an unnecessary amount of offensive content, so the show is intended only for adults and really really cool kids. Check out the Feedspot list of Top 60 Star Trek Podcasts for 2020. Please utilize one of the following options if you have an interest in contacting your hosts: Email us at feedback@itsgotstartrek.com Twitter us @ItsGotStarTrek Instagramaphone us @ItsGotStarTrek Facebookify us @ItsGotStarTrek Watch a static image while listening to the podcast on YouTube Telephone us at 202-456-1414 You can also visit www.itsgotstartrek.com and leave a comment or head on over to the It's Got Everything subreddit to join the discussion. Don't say we didn't give you options here!
Welcome to a special series of Trekking Through Compliance, the podcast series inspired by my review of Star Trek, the Original Series. In this special series I am joined by another uber Star Trek maven, Megan Dougherty, co-founder of One Stone Creative. In this series we will review the new television show Picardwhich is currently streaming on CBS. SPOILER ALERT-Although we will review each episode after it appears, we will discuss each episode in depth. Episode 7, Nepenthe. A flashback reveals that Commodore Oh mind-melded with Jurati to convince her of the danger of synthetic life, and had her ingest a tracking device. Picard takes Soji to William Riker and Deanna Troi's home on the planet Nepenthe. They offer Picard sanctuary, and their daughter Kestra tries to befriend Soji. Soji learns that she's an android, and has trouble trusting anyone after Narek's betrayal; but she tells them about her dream, and Kestra is able to learn the planet's location from a family friend. Kestra convinces Soji to trust Picard. Meanwhile, Narissa kills Hugh and the other ex-Borg; before dying, Hugh tells Elnor that he needs a former Borg to activate the Queen's cell and retake control of the Artifact. Elnor uses an SOS beacon Seven left Picard to call for help. La Sirena's crew tries to get to Nepenthe but are being chased by Narek, who is following the tracker in Jurati. Feeling guilty, Jurati uses a neurotoxin to put herself in a coma and disable the tracker. La Sirena eventually reaches Nepenthe and picks up Picard and Soji. Highlights, speculations and questions include: 1. Did Hugh have to die? 2. What did you feel during the reunion of Riker, Troi and Picard? 3. What are some of the cookies in this show? 4. Does Kestra instruct us on how to deal with grief? 5. Is Oh a Vulcan?
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This week your increasingly sloppy hosts raid Raffi's snakeleaf stash and delve into the most nostalgic episode of Star Trek: Picard thus far. Special guest Jimmy joins Patrick, Dan, and Jesse as they discuss android mucus, puny pizza portions, and the most tactful way to get someone to stop talking about your dead son. Welcome to the 15th episode of It's Got Star Trek! Subscribe to the It's Got Star Trek Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, YouTube, or whichever clever podcast app you are most fond of. Note that this and all episodes of the It's Got Star Trek podcast contain explicit language and, frankly, an unnecessary amount of offensive content, so the show is intended only for adults and really really cool kids. Please utilize one of the following options if you have an interest in contacting your hosts: Email us at feedback@itsgotstartrek.com Twitter us @ItsGotStarTrek Instagramaphone us @ItsGotStarTrek Facebookify us @ItsGotStarTrek Telephone us at 202-456-1414 You can also visit www.itsgotstartrek.com and leave a comment or head on over to the It's Got Everything subreddit to join the discussion. Don't say we didn't give you options here!
Welcome back Star trek fans, if you are a TNG fan than wow was this the episode for you as old favorites return in William Riker, Deanna Troy-Riker, and their daughter Kestra. Picard and Soji escape to Nepenthe to regroup and come up with a new plan but Soji has to deal with the reality that she is an android and Data's daughter and she trusts no one. We finally see what Dr. Jurati sees that caused her to go mad and she takes desperate action stop the tracking signal coming form her body. All this and much more on tonight's episode. We would be honored if you make it so and engage with us.
Jean Luc Picard’s quest takes another step in the “Nepenthe” episode of “Picard.” “JL” and Soji visit the home of William Riker and Deonna Troi. There, Soji continues to grapple with the reality of being a synthetic life form. Meanwhile Dr. Jurati continues to grapple with the fallout of her killing Bruce Maddox. Captain Rios believes there is a tracker on his starship, and has his eyes set on Raffi being the mole. Today's After Show Was Hosted By: Rachel Goodman, Flobo Boyce, Christian Bladt, Nikki Bailey Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV "Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTV For more After Shows for your favorite TV shows and the latest news in TV, Film, and exclusive celebrity interviews, visit http://www.AfterBuzzTV.com --- This episode is sponsored by · The Colin and Samir Podcast: The Colin and Samir Podcast hosted by LA - based friends and filmmakers Colin and Samir takes a look into what it’s like to make creativity your career. https://open.spotify.com/show/5QaSbbv2eD4SFrlFR6IyY7?si=Dj3roVoJTZmOime94xhjng · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
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In this installment of the It's Got Star Trek podcast, Patrick, Dan, and Jesse continue their quest to discuss all the Star Trek pilots with 'Encounter at Farpoint,' the episode that introduced the world to the gentle wisdom of Jean-Luc Picard, the aggressive charm of William Riker, and the understated sensuality that is a brace of space-faring jellyfish. Your hosts are joined by one of the world's foremost experts on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Daniel H. Johnson, and cover topics including Riker's anti-android racism, Geordi's condescending gesticulation, and John de Lancie's oboist parents. Also, what exactly was Groppler Zorn's plan - did he honestly think this was all going to work out in his favor? Anyway, this is a good one - go get it! Subscribe to the It's Got Star Trek Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, or whichever clever podcast app you are most fond of. Note that this and all episodes of the It's Got Star Trek podcast contain explicit language and, frankly, an unnecessary amount of offensive content, so the show is intended only for adults and really really cool kids. Please utilize one of the following options if you have an interest in contacting your hosts: Email us at feedback@itsgotstartrek.com Twitter us @ItsGotStarTrek Instagramaphone us @ItsGotStarTrek Facebookify us @ItsGotStarTrek Telephone us at 202-456-1414 Finally, you can visit www.itsgotstartrek.com and leave a comment (or indeed a series of comments – really, what have you got to lose?)
Orion's Hounds. The Starship Titan under the command of William Riker begins its mission of exploration far beyond the boundaries of Federation space! In the largely-uncharted Gum Nebula, Riker and the crew of Titan encounter giant, space-dwelling lifeforms that have been seen only once before: during the mission to Farpoint Station that began the voyages of the Enterprise-D. But these majestic lifeforms are being hunted, and Riker feels the need to intervene. However, all may not be as it seems. In this episode of Literary Treks, hosts Dan Gunther and Bruce Gibson discuss the Orion's Hounds. We talk about the beginning of Titan's true mission, the mysterious "star-jellies," Riker's decision to get involved, the other cozmozoans that make up the Gum Nebula ecosystem, the difficulty in changing one's way of life and adapting to new circumstances, some stand-out characters in the novel, and wrap up with our final thoughts and ratings. In the news segment, we talk about the recently-announced reprinting of the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in honor of the film's 40th anniversary. We also review the fifth issue in IDW's Star Trek: The Q Conflict miniseries and respond to Babel Conference feedback for Literary Treks 271: To Thine Own Self Be True. News ST:TMP Novelization Re-release (00:03:13) Q-Conflict #5 Comic Review (00:07:55) Listener Feedback (00:17:56) Feature: Orion's Hounds Titan's Mission of Exploration (00:22:53) The "Star-Jellies" (00:29:41) Making Snap Judgments (00:34:16) The Pa'haquel (00:45:24) A Matter of Perspective (00:50:23) Adapting to Change (01:03:04) Character Relationships (01:11:32) Orilly Malar (01:22:37) Ratings (01:27:03) Final Thoughts (01:30:12) Hosts Dan Gunther and Bruce Gibson Production Bruce Gibson (Editor and Producer) Dan Gunther (Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Brandon-Shea Mutala (Patreon Manager) Ken Tripp (Associate Producer) Brandon-Shea Mutala (Associate Producer) Justin Oser (Associate Producer) Norman C. Lao (Associate Producer) Greg Rozier (Associate Producer) Jeffery Harlan (Associate Producer)
This week we warp into Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2 with another Mek’ba! In our Best Riker of TNG Season 2 episode, Jeremy and Derreck go head-to-head with the episodes they think are the best of Riker for the season. Jeremy brings “The Icarus Factor”, an episode that showcases double the Riker. Meanwhile,...
We're so drunk we're seeing double, but that's ok, because we've got two phasers... one for each Riker! This week, Poey and Vince break down DS9 season 3 episode 9, "The Defiant" which sees William Riker's most popular duplicate ripping off his beard and raising some Maquis heck! Also, Gul Dukat and Sisko talk about fatherhood on a very special episode of Full House.
Earl Grey 162: Grr... Yeah Recast TNG. James T. Kirk and Spock are arguably the most beloved and well-known characters in Star Trek. With the newest movies released, does one prefer William Shatner over Chris Pine or Leonard Nimoy over Zachary Quinto? What will happen if we reboot The Next Generation? As it stands now, Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner are the names associated with Jean-Luc Picard and Data, respectively. But, who would play these characters now? In this episode of Earl Grey, hosts Lee Hutchison, Richard Marquez, and Amy Nelson look at a recast of The Next Generation. We decide if our interpretation of a reboot series would be in the Prime or Kelvin timeline, or if this reboot takes place now versus the 1980's. Each host prepares and defends their choice of actors that would play the main characters of TNG. Chapters 00:00:39 - Introduction (00:00:39) Prime or Kelvin Timeline (00:02:39) Wesley Crusher (00:03:52) Geordi LaForge (00:06:23) Beverly Crusher (00:10:05) William Riker (00:12:23) Worf (00:17:07) Data (00:23:01) Deanna Troi (00:27:15) Jean-Luc Picard (00:30:57) Full List Review (00:35:52) Closing (00:40:40) Hosts Lee Hutchison, Richard Marquez, and Amy Nelson Production Richard Marquez (Editor) Lee Hutchison (Producer) Amy Nelson (Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) Norman C. Lao (Associate Producer) Michael E. Hueter (Associate Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Brandon-Shea Mutala (Patreon Manager)
In this episode, I discuss the process of writing and being successful with Mike Munger. What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation. Petersen: My guest today is Mike Munger of Duke University. Mike, welcome to Economics Detective Radio! Munger: It's a pleasure to be on your show! Petersen: So first I stole EconTalk's format and now I have stolen Mike Munger as well, so if Russ Roberts sends me a cease and desist letter, I'll completely understand why. Munger: Russ and I have an open relationship. We both date other people. Petersen: Oh good, good. I have many jokes I could make about that, but I won't! Munger: Thank you for not. Petersen: So, our topic today is going to be writing and thinking. Let's say that because, as we'll go through, the two are intimately related. So Mike wrote a piece titled "Ten Tips on How to Write Less Badly." Now you may be thinking to yourself, "Hey I thought this was an economics podcast! What does writing have to do with economics?" Well, writing is what economists do and if you write either for your career, or your hobbies, I'm sure you'll find something in this discussion that will be helpful to you. So Mike, you start your piece by saying that you've seen many talented people fail because they couldn't or didn't write. I think the impression a lot of people get while growing up is that writing is the easy subject and that math and science are hard, so how is it that these talented people get tripped up by writing of all things? Munger: Well, writing at all is not that difficult, I suppose like running at all is not that difficult. Most of us can at least run 10 meters. The point is that, if you want to be a professional economist, you are one of those people who actually found math pretty easy and you may not have practiced writing very much. So, I said, I've seen a lot of talented people fail because I was Department Chair here at Duke for 10 years and it's hard to get tenure at Duke, it's not a reward for past behavior, it's a hire. We are trying to guess if you're going to continue to produce interesting and important research after all material incentive to do that has been removed. Because once you have tenure you basically can't be fired. It's not quite true, but it's pretty close to true. So you get six years, I've watched 8 people doing this while I was Chair. You get six years to develop your research agenda and to show that you are going to continue to publish after you no longer have any incentive to do that. Now, what a lot of people do is, for four years they'll work on a few things but not very assiduously and the last two years they will work furiously and they'll have two or three things forthcoming and say, well, like it's a video game, I've done enough to get tenure. What they're saying is, if you ever give me tenure I will never publish anything ever again, which not surprisingly doesn't work out well. So six of the eight people who came up were fired. And when I, as Chair, had to tell them this, they cried, they were surprised, which probably means that I am a bad Chair, but I had tried to communicate over and over again that they needed to develop a research agenda and the way to do that is to write about it, and to write about it every day. That doesn't mean that everything that you'll write will eventually be used, but again, I would go back to the running analogy. Or let's say a soccer game. Suppose you knew those six months from now, you'll have a very important soccer game. You wouldn't wait until the night before the soccer game and practice all night. You would practice for an hour or two every day, recover, think about it, try to get better, but that's not how we do writing. All of us, who are at the level of thinking about graduate school and economics, are clever monkeys. We have always been good enough, that we can wait until the night before and write some bunch of crap and have it be good enough, because we're smarter than the other people. Well, now you're in with a group of people all of whom have always been able to do that and some of them are going to figure out that if you actually starts six months in advance, and work on the thing every day, and throw away most of it, time after time, and start over, your paper is going to be a lot better. And if you look at the books and articles that you think are important, the very things that got you excited about being in economics in the first place, none of those, not one, did the author stay up the night before it was due and write it. Adam Smith worked for years on 'The Wealth of Nations.' He showed it to people, he talked to people, he went for walks and muttered to himself. At one point he was so obsessed with what he was thinking about, he walked right into a noisome sump, that is the chemicals leftover after you have tanned leather. He didn't even notice where he was going! It smelled terrible, he didn't even notice by sight or smell because he was so busy thinking about this stuff, that he had been working on for years and would continue to work on for years. So part of this is my own cri de coeur, my own cry from the heart saying, it's so hard to watch talented people fail when they could have succeeded, because they didn't get this simple message---you have to teach other people. Sometimes you do it in the classroom, most of the time you do it through your writing. If you don't get good at that, you're going to fail. So don't start. If you don't think you want to write, don't become an academic in the first place. Petersen: Yeah, I guess another analogy is, you can be very naturally adept at swimming and that can make you an above average swimmer, but not one of those people swimming at the Olympics isn't both an above average swimmer naturally, and someone who has trained day after day, after day to be there. Munger: Not just at the Olympics. This is if you want to enter a swimming contest at the local YMCA, those other people are on the top one half of one percent. They're not near the Olympics, but they're going to kick your butt unless you've been practicing and practicing and practicing. Petersen: Yeah, and I guess undergraduate education is less like the YMCA; it's sort of the kiddie pool. You really can get by without practice, but you won't necessarily get much out of it. Munger: You won't learn much about writing, and what you write won't be very good, it will just be good enough, that because you're clever and good at this you can produce something that the professor is going to read and say "Ok, I sort of see what the argument is, that's better than the others: A." So that's not a 'good enough' it's just a 'better that the other losers' who aren't going to get to graduate school in the first place. And by losers I mean, people who are going to have successful lives. Petersen: Yeah, we have a funny definition of winning in academia. Munger: It's not clear you're really want to win. Although, to be fair getting tenure someplace and having the ability to write every day about the stuff you are interested in, there really is no better life. The problem is with the six or eight and in my case ten years, because I had a hard time finding a job, that went before that. Petersen: Yeah, so that's covered your first tip in that essay, which was, "writing is an exercise." The second tip was to set goals based on an output, not input. Can you explain that? Munger: One of the things that junior people do and that graduate students also do is to define how hard they're working by how long they spend outside of their apartment and in their office and they might even be at their desk, they might be in a coffee shop. What they're not doing, is facing the terrors of that blinking cursor. So the difficulty with any metric based on inputs is that you're not thinking, "am I actually doing something?" A metric that's based on output focuses more on writing. Now, that can be misleading because you can write badly but the same thing would be true of running or swimming. Sometimes when you have a workout it doesn't go that well but at least you're doing it so you wouldn't define how hard you work out by how much time you spent in the gym. You would say what exercises you actually did. It makes no more sense than that to define how hard you work by how much time you spent in the office, going to other offices, drinking coffee, talking to people, checking Facebook. None of that actually counts. So you have to set very high goal, five hundred, seven hundred fifty words per day, every day, five days a week and you will be a famous and successful academic. That again is the sort of dirty secret since no one does this. A lot of economics articles are only ten or twelve thousand words. So if you write five hundred words a day and you end up throwing away three hundred of those words you're still every ten days going to have two thousand usable words. So twice or three times a year you're going to have enough to have a journal article even if you're throwing away 60% of what you write. And here's the other thing: you learn by writing. What I find frustrating is a lot of people will count reading as work and it's not. Reading is an important input to work just like sleep and having a good breakfast. But in order to be an academic you have to write and the nice thing about writing is, you're writing along and you think, "oh right I understand this." You're trying to summarize the argument of some thinker and you realize "I don't understand it!" Now you go back and you read it, but you read it in a way that allows you to engage in a conversation with that writer. The nice thing about writing is that it allows you to communicate over time and space. I can look at something that was written 300 years ago and try to divine what was in the mind of that writer, what is he or she trying to communicate. And good writing creates in my mind an image or a logic similar to what was in that person's mind even though they're distant in time and space. So when I'm writing I read things differently. I've seen people count as reading, they go through a book, they go through an article they have three different colors of highlighting and they always think they're going to come back. None of that actually went through their brain. But if you're writing then you go to read something, you're looking for a specific question. You read better. So I actually ask my graduate students when they're working on their dissertation, on their third or fourth year, to put up a three by five card in their workspace that says: "Don't read, write! If you're writing you'll become a better reader." Petersen: Yeah, there's an irony in someone who has gone through years of economics education, who could explain to you exactly why the labor theory of value is not correct, applying it to their own work implicitly. Munger: Absolutely, it's "My day was valuable, I spent 11 hours at the office. Holy cow!" Petersen: Yeah, my own version of that was at the end of my first year of my PhD, I spent a lot of time in the office and I realized that I spent so little time at home that I actually only went through I think one full roll of toilet paper. So it's sort of the metric being what I didn't do which was spend time at home and therefore in my own bathroom. Munger: We get it. We get it Garrett. But it is interesting, that's necessary but not sufficient for success. Jim Buchanan always said, "The key to success is apply the behind." He didn't say "behind," he used a different word, but apply your behind to the chair. So you're actually in the chair at your desk and you are writing. Now for him that meant moving a pen across a piece of paper, for us it means typing on a keyboard. Either way, if you apply your behind to the chair---the actual chair at your desk, not the one in front of the desk of one of your friends so you can drink coffee and talk---you'll get a lot done. You'll learn a lot and you'll notice after just a couple of years that there's a divergence, not only in your ability to write but in your understanding of a lot of key issues because you've thought of these things pretty deeply. And the thing that's interesting about that is other people who haven't been writing may at one point have been ahead of you. Maybe they were better at classes but you have to learn to make the transition between being good at taking classes---which is why many of us want to go to graduate school---to being good at expressing our thoughts on paper in a way that other people find interesting. So the emphasis on classes is misleading, your first year in class, second year in class---you get A's but you haven't really developed your own research agenda. That's not as good as the person that actually practices, works on writing and after a year or two has developed a talent. Adam Smith has an interesting story about this with the Street Porter and the Philosopher. So the Street Porter and the Philosopher are not as different as the Philosopher wants to think. The difference was the Street Porter spent a lot of time carrying bags and the Philosopher spent a lot of time reading and writing. Well after just a few years they seem like different people but it's because, hour by hour, the philosopher spent time writing. You can be the Philosopher. If you don't write, you're going to stay the Street Porter. Petersen: Another tip you give is to find a voice. Don't just get published. But isn't getting published the point? What's wrong with making that your end goal? Munger: Let's think about entrepreneurs. Suppose you have two people who fancy themselves to be entrepreneurs. One of them says, "I want to make profits, I don't care how." The other one says "I have a vision of this great product that's going to transform this industry." Who's more likely to make profit? The second, paradoxically the second. Well if I say "I don't care about what I write I just want to get published," my work is going to suck. It's going to lack any kind of imagination or motivation or the reader is going to look at it and say "I don't even understand why this guy is writing." But the person that's found something that he or she is passionate about is actually more likely to get stuff published. So paradoxically the way to be published is to be passionate about what you're writing. If all you're trying to do is get published, that's going to come through. It will just seem instrumental and not very interesting. Petersen: Yes. So Scott Alexander writing at Slate Star Codex had an article recently where he made the distinction between what he called pushing and pulling goals, where a pull goal is when you want to achieve something so you come up with a plan and a structure. Whereas a push goal is where you have a plan and a structure so you'd scramble to try to find something to achieve. This strikes me as another version of the same thing where to just "get published," you know you want thirty pages double spaced with some graphs in there and you don't really care what your message is. That's just not a good way to write is what I'm hearing. Munger: Right. It's not a good way to write good things and again Jim Buchanan, who is one of my heroes, when he would interview perspective job candidates, particularly people who were young, he would pose them a question. I'm not quoting him exactly but it was something close to this: Supposed you have three choices. A) You could be for or five years the most famous economist writing for The New York Times and be on talk shows. B) You can win a Nobel Prize. C) You can write something that people are still going to read one hundred years from now. Which one would you pick? And Jim was---he actually achieved B obviously, he won the Nobel Prize---but he was interested in people who at least had some aspiration to write something that someone's going to want to read a hundred years from now. Now you may fail in that, but if there's not something that you're working on that at least has that aspiration, then it's going to come across that your work is just shallow, superficial, not very important and honestly not really worth doing. Petersen: That has got to be the hardest interview question I've ever heard. Munger: Well he was pretty scary, I actually interviewed at George Mason and talked to him and I was desperate for this job. I really wanted the position at George Mason and it turns out Jim Buchanan found me wanting, so I went through this and ended up on the wrong side of that line and it has stuck with me. So, now I do try to have some answers to that question at least to myself. So I try to work on things that are of some importance, but it was terrifying to be interviewed by him anyway. And when he asked that question, you're really just trying to get a job, you haven't published anything, you're trying to finish your thesis, that sort of seems far away. But he was absolutely right to want people who have that kind of mindset. Petersen: One of your tips is that everyone's unwritten work is brilliant. How is it brilliant? Munger: Well in my mind I have an argument and the premises make sense. The logic by which those premises are developed and integrated makes good sense and the conclusion is important. Now the problem is when I write it down. It turns out there's some holes in it, and when I examine those holes and sort of work at them---it's like you're thinking about moving into an apartment and you touch the wall, the wall gives way and a bunch of cockroaches come out. Ahhh it's pretty scary! Most of us, these are the arguments that we have in mind, particularly if you haven't really been writing, and by writing I would count a model. So I have an intuition about how something's going to work. I work out the steps in the model and it turns out step four is "a miracle occurs here." Well you can't actually use a miracle as a step in an argument and that means the argument is not very good but you don't know that until you write it out. But that's why many people don't write it out. And one of the things that I talk about in the article is "don't be that guy," and the guy that I have in mind, I actually knew a person like this. Most graduate students when I talk to them say, "oh yeah, I know that guy." The guy is a third or fourth or eighth year graduate student and you meet him in a bar or somebody's house and he's got a cigarette and in the other hand he has a drink. He takes a long hole in the cigarette and then for two or three minutes he tells you what his dissertation is about. And you say, "Holy smokes that's amazing! What you're going to do is so important!" And you tell somebody else that the next day at the office and they just laugh and say, "Yeah he's been working on that two-hundred-word speech for five years. He's never written anything." So you know, the young people are all terrified of this guy. The older people realize he's a loser because the older people all realize they have trouble summarizing their argument because they're in the middle of writing it and there are several places, where it says "a miracle occurs here." He hasn't thought about it enough to know where the impossible miracles will be required in his argument, he's just smoothed this over and he's practiced this pat little pathetic speech. So if you're working as hard as you need to be you're going to be confused and miserable and not sure that it's right because only unwritten work is brilliant. If you're actually working on it you know better than anyone else where all the holes are and where all the places where if you touch the wall the cockroaches come pouring out. So don't be that guy. It's easy to be the hero. And notice that this 8th year grade student only hangs out with the first and second year grad student because these are the only people that still believe his crap. Petersen: Yeah one of the most frustrating things about being human is how little connection there is between the way our brains seem to work, from when we're sort of observing ourselves from the inside, and the way they actually work. So when psychology really came into its own as a field, the psychologists quickly discovered that introspection really wouldn't get them very far because it's so misleading trying to study a brain from the inside and part of this is your brain can come up with some really half-baked ideas that seem so brilliant. Munger: There's a lot of plausible things. It just turns out that a lot of those possible things seem to be false. And if what you do is practice making them sound more plausible, you can fool people but that's why we have con artists. So you're exactly right. Human beings are basically set up to accept confidence for authority but they're not the same thing. Authority is someone who's really thought about it has developed an argument. Confidence is someone who has refused to develop the argument and just believes out of faith that they're correct and they practice their little thought. So another way to put it, and you're right to bring up psychology because we can be fooled by confidence into thinking that it's authority. Petersen: Yeah. If you've ever had a dream where you had a great idea in the dream and then you wake up and think, "Oh my God, that idea is so brilliant I've got to write it down!" And it's always just total nonsense because your sleepy monkey brain just made you think it was great. Munger: That actually happened to me. I went to college in the 70's and there were substances involved and so under the influence of some substance I would have an idea which I was convinced was brilliant and would write it down and of course the next morning I thought, "Wow, that's really stupid." Petersen: Oh no. At least you wrote it down. You didn't spend years pursuing it. Munger: Even then I wrote it, yes. Petersen: So one of the tips you have is to pick a puzzle. What do you mean by that? Munger: Well it's often hard to get started. So there are two reasons to pick a puzzle, one is that it's actually interesting, and the other is that it's rhetorically useful to be able to engage the attention of the reader. So I give examples of different puzzles in economics. One of the most common is "Theory says this, empirical results say this, they are contradictory. What's missing from the theory or how has the empirical test been conducted badly?" Another would be "Person A and Person B have the same set of assumptions but they come to a different conclusion. What is it about their models that causes this divergence?" So if you have a puzzle like that, and the most important one. The third one, the most important one is "Suppose that there's this phenomenon and we don't really understand it and then there's this other apparently unrelated phenomenon, we don't really understand that. What turns out when you think of it correctly, both of them are the result of this economic principle and no one has recognized the fact that we can tie all this together." So as theories become stronger, they generally become simpler and more general. So an increase in simplicity and generality means that you can bring more apparently different phenomenon under a single explanatory umbrella and that's interesting to say, you think this is different but it's the same. So it's both a good research technique if you can do it, and it's engaging to the reader. So if you're not sure how to start thinking in those terms then the easiest one here is "Theory says this thing, empirical results say this. Do we need a better theory or better testing?" Anybody can do that because the journals are just full of those kinds of contradictions. I'm not saying that's perfect but it's a good way to get started. Petersen: Yeah, and economics has a lot of theories and a lot of empirical work and a lot of them point in different directions. So you don't have to look far to find those kind of contradictions. So another tip you give is to write and then to squeeze other things in. This is a scheduling thing. What would be the wrong way to schedule your writing? Munger: Well there's the sort of macro or general approach and the micro part of it. The macro approach is to think, "I need big blocks of time to write. And since I have to teach a class and go to a class, I have to teach a section of a class, or I have a meeting that I have to go to, or there's a talk this afternoon, I can't write because I don't have time." Actually you can only write for about 20 minutes at a time. The problem is it takes you ten minutes of thinking to get to the point where you're thinking clearly enough to write so it takes you 30 minutes to write for 20 minutes and if you get interrupted you can't start again. It usually takes another 10 minutes to get started. So it is true that you do need some blocks of time. But if you can just find an hour somewhere, that's enough for two of those 30 minute blocks, you can get quite a bit done. After you've been writing for 20 minutes you have probably have to stop get up and get a cup of tea, walk around because you can't concentrate for that long. So all you need is an hour or so to be able to write. So the macro consideration is---don't think, "Well since I have two meetings this day I can't write anything." The micro consideration is when to find the particular hour or two that you're going to write. And what many people do is they schedule their meetings or classes they have to teach at times when they're the sharpest mentally and that's a mistake. What you need to do is find the time that you're sharpest mentally, for me it's first thing in the morning, for many people it might be late at night. I'm a little skeptical of the late night because they waste all the time between 9 PM and 1 AM and then they write for one hour and say, "Man I really worked 'till 2 o'clock. That was great!" Yeah but what about the four hours between 9 PM and 1 AM? So I'm not so sure about the late night people, but OK fair enough. Let's suppose they actually are using their time wisely. Pick the time that you're the most mentally sharp and schedule your time to the extent that you can control it to make sure that is reserved for writing and schedule everything else around it and what I found is that I can take the time when I am least mentally sharp which is between about 3 and 7 PM and I try to schedule my teaching then. Now that seems cynical, but I like teaching so much. And there's the energy that you get back from students that are interested and interesting, it's like super caffeine. So you can actually get up for teaching or leading discussion sections or maybe even go in for a talk---at times that you otherwise would have wasted or would be down time because those are social. Those are things where you're getting feedback. Writing there is no feedback. There's no one saying, "yes that's interesting." It's just you thinking, "Lord, I can't finish this paragraph. I'm an idiot." So you need to be at your mental best to be able to get through that. Petersen: I think for me it probably would be the morning. I've got to jot down all these tips. Of course, I'm a graduate student so this is especially relevant to me. When should I be writing, how should I be writing. Munger: You're still forming habits and learning about yourself, but thinking in these terms means that you'll get a head start. Petersen: You mentioned that taking 10 minutes to get into writing and then doing 20 minutes of good writing. I think that lines up with the research people have done on flow. The idea that people self-hypnotize into a very productive, very focused state. And then if you break your flow then it actually takes a while to get back into it. You're self-aware for a while you're not as focused, as productive. Munger: So a two-minute interruption doesn't cost you two minutes it costs you 12. Petersen: Yeah, you need to find a place and a time where those two minute interruptions don't happen. Munger: Yes and it doesn't take long. If you can get an hour and a half or two hours 4-5 days a week, you will be a famous and successful academic. Petersen: Yay! That's what we want to hear. Munger: The good news is anybody can do this. I find it so frustrating that they don't. By that I mean anyone smart enough to get into graduate school has plenty of good ideas, they just don't write them. Petersen: That is sad, because there's such a high payoff to getting the writing done. But I guess it's sort of a delayed reward where you need a lot of self-control to be able to seize that payoff. Munger: Garrett, you're going to graduate school! Clearly you are interested in delayed reward because you could have a job at a Donut Shop and have your own apartment and have money be able to go to bars not worry at weekends. Graduate school by its nature is one of the most, the strongest ways of putting off any sort of satisfaction into the distant future. So yes, it's a later payoff. But why would you go to graduate school and then not do the thing that actually will result in the payoff that you've apparently planned for. Here's the thing, a journal article---when you're in graduate, when you're starting your career---a refereed journal article will inflect upward your career trajectory and earnings by at least ten thousand dollars, one article. If it's in a pretty top journal, it's twenty-five thousand dollars. So, if you write an article and publish it, that's twenty-five thousand dollars. There's nothing else you're doing that has a higher payoff. Yes, it's delayed but it's not delayed that much and you're already in graduate school; you're already living a miserable existence. Petersen: I'm lucky because my wife actually works in the real world. So I'm covered but (chuckles). Munger: All right. Yes, you can remind her that you married better than she did. Petersen: Yeah, I mean I'm sure she doesn't need much reminding. Munger: As long as she doesn't remind you of that. Petersen: Oh yeah. Try to avoid that. Munger: Well I see graduate students who will teach during the summer and get paid $4000. You can write an article in the summer. That's at least $10,000. It makes no sense, your discount rate would be have to be awful high. If your discount rate is that high, why are you spending six years in graduate school in the first place? Petersen: Yeah, that is the question. But yeah, I suppose you could be credit constrained, but that's a whole other issue. Munger: You'd have to be really constrained for that to make sense because you can probably eat just beans and oatmeal for a couple of months. And the payoffs to writing an article really are huge because the way that it works out is, the first job that you get is a 2-2 teaching load at a research school and smart colleagues and the ability to go to conferences because they'll pay for it, or a 4-4 teaching load with colleagues that hate you and their own existence and give no support, no outside talk. So even if the same person, a clone of the same person, starts in those two jobs, the difference in their career trajectory is going to be enormous! Plus you already have a journal article published, so you'll start with a higher salary. So that first job makes a big difference to where you'll be in ten years. So you have to be pretty credit constrained not to take that into consideration Petersen: The way it works with the ten thousand, it's not that you get a ten thousand dollars payment it's that you get a bigger raise or a bigger starting salary. Munger: With better colleagues, more articles, you have the ten thousand as the present value. Well, but again, an economist should understand present value and they're in graduate school so they must have a low discount rate. So those are the ones I would expect to say I'm not going to teach. I'm going to borrow against my own future earnings. I'm going to loan myself this money and live really cheaply and write an article instead of teaching. Petersen: Oh man, I'm just jotting all this down. OK, "don't teach in the summer." Of course some teaching is important, you do need to become a good teacher. Munger: Yes, the kind of teaching that we tend to do, in the summer is pretty different, but you should. There's no question, you should be able to point to one class that you have yourself designed the syllabus for and have primary responsibility for teaching and grading when you go on the market. So I'll give you one---over five years, yes you should have taught one class yourself. Petersen: But TA'ing is not good. It pays but it doesn't pay as well as writing. Munger: Right, and when you go on the market and they say what teaching experience do you have and you say well I TA'd four times, they're going to stare at you like you're an idiot because you are. Petersen: OK so one tip you give in the article is to edit your work over and over. So what is the editing process like for you? Munger: Well it's terrible. I've written a number of books, I just was yesterday working on an analytical book review that's about 15 pages long and I looked at it this morning and said, "half of this is unusable." So I crossed it out and started over, I was thinking it was almost done and then I thought, oh no this is stupid. So even just one day later, I looked at it with much more critical eyes. So I would say it takes me at least ten complete rewrites to get to the point where I think my article is worth showing to someone else and then they usually have comments that require me to rewrite it at least two more times. So the difficulty is everybody's first drafts are bad. Now I do have a talent. I write extremely fast but badly. If you had to pick that would be a pretty good way to be an academic because I also edit fast so I can go through, I can do a rewrite pretty quickly and every time I rewrite it becomes dramatically better. So there are people who write very slowly but well, they are going to have more trouble because a lot of times you don't know enough about your subject. It's well written but the subject is not very good because you need to learn more about it. So I have to admit I learned this in some ways from a master. Douglas North was one of my dissertation advisors and Douglas North won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1993. And Doug was famous for going and giving a talk, and it would be twelve pages long and have four citations, two to Douglas North, one to Adam Smith and one to more a recent economics paper. And the people in the audience would say, "Doug, this is terrible. If you were going to do this, here's what you have to do. You need to go read these five papers, all of them have written on your subject and they're better than yours." And he would write it down. He would write down their names he would make sure he got the citations. And next time he presented the paper, now it would have nine citations, before he started out with a five that had been suggested to him and he had added all of the suggestions and the paper actually wasn't terrible now but still people would see it and say, "Oh no, no, no, here's what you need to do." So he would go around---and it was almost as if he was outsourcing the references because he didn't read anything unless somebody said it was relevant---and he was outsourcing a lot of the ideas. And he would thank everyone, I'm not saying he was plagiarizing. He would gratefully acknowledge the suggestions of so and so in a footnote he might say this was suggested by so and so. But you write it, you go present it, you get comments, you think about it, you write it again, that is the way to be successful. And when it comes to editing, one of the things that you can avail yourself of---and this actually has become kind of a meme---people argue about whether they're "Munger compliant." Munger compliant means that you have three articles in journals, and if you don't have three articles in journals all the time, you're not Munger compliant. Well the reason that that's important is, think in comparison to computer programming. So if I'm going to write a program or a job and send it to a computer, I don't stare at the code and try to make sure that the logic and syntax are correct. I submit the job and then it will come back with error message: here at this step you've left out a semi colon. So it won't run. You can't compile the code that you've written and it won't run. Nobody stares at the code to figure it out. They submit it to the computer and get back the error message. That's how journals work; you get this off your desk. You don't stare at the paper over and over again to make sure the code works, you send it to a journal. Now yes it takes a few months, that's why you have to have three papers out at all times, you have to diversify your portfolio of risk because there's a random element to this. Some good papers get turned down but some not very good papers get accepted because you get a lucky draw on the referee. So you send it out, it comes back, the referee says, "no no here's what you should do, add these five references." It's sort of like what Doug North did. And you do it, it becomes a much better paper. I've had some of my better papers turned down at five journals before they were finally published. And when they were published, they were pretty good, but that was because I had outsourced a lot of the research to smart referees. So you should think of that as machine-intensive debugging. Machine-intensive debugging means I don't debug my own program. I submit it to the computer and it comes back with an error message. Well I submit my articles to journals, they come back with three really smart people working unpaid as my research assistants. Now yes, they do say that "you're an idiot and your mother should never have been born," they make comments you want to ignore but by and large their suggestions improve your paper dramatically. So you should always try to be Munger compliant. I told some of my graduate students, there will come a day when you will be upset when one of your papers is accepted because you will no longer be compliant. And a good friend of mine who is now a tenured full professor in England just wrote me and said, "Darn it, that finally happened. I got a paper accepted and I woke up in the middle of the night and I said, 'I only have two papers at journals! I have to go write something!'" That's a sign you're a success. Petersen: Yeah, when you think about, I like what you said about the research assistants. If you wanted to hire twenty tenured faculty as research assistants you'd have to pay them thousands upon thousands of dollars. But you walk into a seminar room and give a bad talk and suddenly they're all throwing out suggestions and comments and they're being your research assistants for free. Munger: And very helpful and they're grateful if you take their comment seriously. So that's actually---there's nothing wrong with doing that. The research enterprise is more collaborative than most people are willing to admit even to themselves, and the reason is because those useful comments come wrapped in, "you're an idiot." But if you can unwrap that and just take the kernel, the content of the message---because a lot of times when you give a seminar one of the problems with giving a seminar is you learn all the problems with the paper. And economists are pretty harsh and aggressive about making their criticism. Think of them as research assistants and it makes you much more receptive. I was surprised, Doug North---this was after he won the Nobel Prize---people would just viciously say, "This is completely worthless. I would be embarrassed to write this and I don't have a Nobel Prize. I don't see how you can do this." And Doug would just nod and then they would say, "Here's what you should do." He'd write it down and thank them it didn't make him mad at all, he didn't care. Petersen: OK, so developing a thick skin seems to be an asset here. Munger: No what you said is right. Think of them as research assistants. What do you care what your research assistant thinks of you as long as they help. Petersen: Yeah, they do a good job they give you your suggestions, you sift through them and make your work better. Munger: Often when I get back referee reports and they're harsh, it'll take me a day to get over them. Oh man, I thought this was a good paper and they didn't like it. But then I will literally take a printout and take a black magic marker and redact the parts that are just ad hominem attacks. I don't care about those. And then if you look at what's left, it's usually a pretty good structure for revising your paper. Petersen: OK, yeah I'll have to do that. Munger: It sounds simple and hokey, but you don't care about the things that are just saying this is terrible. I had one referee report that said I would rather hack my way through the jungle with a penknife than have to read this paper again and I thought "Ow!" And then I took a black magic marker and marked it out and the rest of the report was pretty useful. The question is why you would put someone else in charge of how you feel? So don't do that, you're going to be in charge of how you feel and you're going to use, to your own benefit, the fact that smart people made good comments on your paper. Petersen: We have this sort of mythology of the solitary genius. Are you saying that that is not a way to live your life? Munger: Oh no that's exactly how you should live your life, if you're a genius. Petersen: But most of us aren't. Munger: For the rest of us who are not, no, that's not the way to live your life. So absolutely, I know I have friends, in fact one of my colleagues, Melvin Hinich, with whom I had three books, was unbelievably smart. He was able to do things with very little effort and he would often just throw out ideas and let someone else write them up because he was bored with writing them. So if you're smart enough, yes you can totally do that. My message is, all you have to be is basically average intelligence for a graduate student and if you spend a lot of time learning how to write you will also be a success. Maybe more successful than that solitary genius. It's not fair but it's true. Petersen: A part of it is humility. To realize when you are not a solitary genius and when you need help. But couldn't the genius also do better if he used other people as his research assistants and did all the things that a non-genius would do? Munger: Sure. Yes, but they're not willing to spend the effort for the most part because they've never had to. There are people that are just so good at sprinting or so good at swimming, that as long as they practice pretty hard, they don't need to worry about learning other techniques. So, one of the reasons that I am a coach about writing is that I was such a terrible writer. Most people who are really, really good at something are terrible coaches because they have a knack for it. It's the people who had to scrap at the margin, and who weren't really all that good but managed to be at least somewhat of a success because they thought about technique and they focused on getting better. Those are the best coaches. In almost every sport that I know of, the best coaches were the marginal players and I was a marginal player. So the reason that I talk about writing is that I was terrible at it Petersen: But you are now a success and we can all learn from your example. Munger: I am now a Philosopher and not a Street Porter. Petersen: Yes. So do you have any closing thoughts about writing? What's the core message you want people to take away from this. Munger: Well, William Riker, who was one of the founders of the rational choice school of public choice in political science, said that most of the people who get into academics do it because they're interested in teaching. And a lot of times they're confused and they think that teaching involves work in a classroom with students. And that's important, but the real teaching is the one that takes place through writing because once you've learned something, if you actually understand it, you can explain it to someone else and the advantage of writing it is that you can communicate this teaching to someone distant in time or someone distant in space. So the most important teaching is writing and if you think of yourself as a teacher, it's really important that you work on your writing because that's how you're going to be able to communicate this understanding that you have. Understanding is ephemeral. A lot of times when you work on something for a long time, you think "Oh now I see it! That's actually simple." Well if you don't write that down it's going to be hard for someone else to replicate that moment of understanding. But if you do write it down and you explain it clearly, you've added something to the human capital of the world: what we're able to hand down, the things that we no longer have to think about because we understand them. The more you understand, the simpler things become. Petersen: My guest today has been Mike Munger. Mike, thanks for being on Economics Detective Radio. Munger: It was a pleasure Garrett, thank you.
We continue to celebrate 50 years of Star Trek by talking about The Next Generation films. We are join by filmmaker Alex Brunning to discuss the movie adventures of Picard, Data, Riker, Worf, Geordie, Deanna and Beverly on the Enterprise D and E as they face the Borg, The Nexus, Shinzon and Puberty. The films under discussion are GENERATIONS, FIRST CONTACT, INSURRECTION and NEMESIS. Movie Heaven Movie Hell is a show where filmmakers Simon Aitken (BLOOD + ROSES, POST-ITS, MODERN LOVE) and Keith Eyles (FEAR VIEW, DRIVEN INSANE, CROSSED LINES) go through the A-Z of directors. Simon and Keith talk about their favourite and least favourite film from that director's body of work. Like our Facebook Fanpage at https://www.facebook.com/MovieHeavenMovieHell You can follow Movie Heaven Movie Hell on Twitter at @MovieHeavenHell You can find Simon Aitken's work at http://www.independentrunnings.com You can find Keith Eyles' work at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ4up3c883irE6oA2Vk0T7w
Defiant Commentary. What happens when William Riker drops by to check out Sisko's new toy? We don't know, because that didn't happen. But when his transporter-created twin Tom drops by, that toy goes missing. In this episode of The Orb, hosts C Bryan Jones and Matthew Rushing bring you a commentary for the third-season episode “Defiant,” which provides a sequel or sorts for TNG's “Second Chances.” Airing just 18 months after we first met Thomas Riker and just three days after Generations premiered in theaters, this DS9 episode effectively pulled the wool over the eyes of fans in first run. Join us with or without your TV as we discuss Riker's motives, Kira's needs, and Dukat's self-absorption. Chapters Intro (00:00:00) Commentary Start (00:03:30) Final Thoughts/Closing (00:50:22) Hosts C Bryan Jones and Matthew Rushing Production C Bryan Jones (Editor and Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Norman C. Lao (Executive Producer) Charlynn Schmiedt (Executive Producer) Ruth Ward (Associate Producer) Will Nguyen (Associate Producer) Ken Tripp (Associate Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Will Nguyen (Content Manager)
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Will there ever be another Q? Yes. And for at least a little while, his name is William Riker. Riker is given the powers of the Q so the Q he knows can better study humanity. Or maybe he is just doing it for fun. Everything is a game to him. This week, the game is Hide and Q. What would you do if you were a Q: Tell us on Facebook: On Twitter: On Skype: MissionLogPod On the phone: (323) 522-5641 Online: We may use your comments on a future episode of Mission Log
Will there ever be another Q? Yes. And for at least a little while, his name is William Riker. Riker is given the powers of the Q so the Q he knows can better study humanity. Or maybe he is just doing it for fun. Everything is a game to him. This week, the game is Hide and Q. What would you do if you were a Q: Tell us on Facebook: On Twitter: On Skype: MissionLogPod On the phone: (323) 522-5641 Online: We may use your comments on a future episode of Mission Log
Will there ever be another Q? Yes. And for at least a little while, his name is William Riker. Riker is given the powers of the Q so the Q he knows can better study humanity. Or maybe he is just doing it for fun. Everything is a game to him. This week, the game is Hide and Q. What would you do if you were a Q: Tell us on Facebook: On Twitter: On Skype: MissionLogPod On the phone: (323) 522-5641 Online: We may use your comments on a future episode of Mission Log
Second Chances. What could possibly be better than Riker? Two Rikers, of course! Regardless of the scientifically questionable accident that created two copies of the nautical-bearded one, the discovery of a William Riker from eight years in the past set up a surprisingly deep story that challenged Troi's faith in her decisions. In this episode of The Ready Room we're joined by our Managing Editor Charlynn Schmiedt, Literary Treks host Matthew Rushing, and Riker-disciple Michael Fisher to discuss “Second Chances,” how the passage of time changes people and their paths, romanticising the past, and why nothing can stack up to Riker's vibe. In news we discuss possible Blu-ray plans for The Animated Series, a new book about the story of Filmation, Creation's TNG reunion and grand slam, new toys from Diamond Select, and we share our thoughts on the surprising story found in the first issue of Countdown to Darkness.
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