Episode 175

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Published on:

11th Jun 2025

BSG S2E9 - Big Man Scrap

Laura and Xhafer explore the world of novelty targets. Laura is delighted to have a ship named after her. Xhafer doesn't trust moonshine not served in a Mason jar. This episode covers Battlestar Galactica Season 2, Episode 9: Flight of the Phoenix.

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Laura:

Hello and welcome to Who Are You?

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We're a reasonably well done sci-fi

watch cast by a couple of former

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strangers who are now friends and

watching:

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I'm Laura

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Xhafer: And I'm fair.

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Laura: and I almost said I was to Fairy

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'cause I've like memorized you saying it.

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Xhafer: That would've

been very confusing for

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Laura: Yeah.

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Xhafer: So we're, uh, yeah,

we're doing Battlestar.

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We're on season two, episode nine.

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Flight of the Phoenix.

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uh, flight of the Laura just

didn't have the same ring to it.

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Uh, agree to disagree.

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Ron Moore.

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Laura: That was a really nice

touch at the end, I must say

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that I personally loved it.

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Big fan.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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No, it's uh, it's

Battlestar own Delta flyer.

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Xhafer: this is fun.

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I mean, it's, it's a very different kind

of uh, kinda ship than the Delta flyer,

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Laura: Oh, for sure.

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Yeah.

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Xhafer: It's a lot of fun

to see this storyline.

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Laura: do you, have you

recently watched Voyager?

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Can you remind me of the

origin of Delta Flyer?

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Xhafer: I think it came about

because they were bored.

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I don't remember there being a

necessity or there being like a,

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we're out of shuttle craft plot.

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Lord knows they never

ran outta shuttle craft.

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Laura: Right.

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That's never gonna come up.

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It's the it's the ammunition.

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Yeah,

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Xhafer: yeah, for sure.

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They're 47 torpedoes that they

fired 4,000 times or something.

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Laura: exactly.

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Yeah.

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Xhafer: It's just like, I don't, I what?

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I finished my Voyager rewatch maybe

eight months, six, eight months ago now,

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I wanna

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Laura: Mine was a couple of years ago,

and I remember very clearly the like, big

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race episode, but I can't remember if they

had started the Delta flyer before that.

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Xhafer: Yeah, it was done at that point.

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They, they like ran into Delta Flyer and

they're like, Hey, fast looking ship.

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Maybe you should do the race thing.

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Laura: And Jane weighs down for anything.

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So we, we get to do that episode.

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Yeah.

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Xhafer: yeah, for sure.

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Fuck it.

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Anything for morale?

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Laura: Yeah.

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Jane Way's.

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Great.

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Love her.

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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I mean, I feel like after your ship gets

half taken over and they turn it into a

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giant holodeck to recreate World War II

after brainwashing half of your crew.

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You just kinda let whatever happens,

happens with terms of r and r,

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just like you've earned this.

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Laura: Uhhuh,

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you had to sit through

the World War II arc.

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You all are entitled to some enjoyment.

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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The best thing we had going

was a persistent Irish

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seaside town for three months.

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So you know what have at

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Laura: I did love Fair Fairview.

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Xhafer: Fairview?

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Yeah.

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Laura: it Fairview?

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Xhafer: I believe it's Fairview.

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Laura: See now I'm, I'm

confused because I'm like, am I

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conflating that with Fairview?

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There's a town, Fairview, Oklahoma

that some of my family is from,

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so I'm like, it's fair something,

but I don't think it's Fairview.

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Xhafer: Um, Fairhaven.

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Laura: Fairhaven.

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That's it.

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I was like, that doesn't feel right.

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Xhafer: Okay.

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We got there.

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Thanks Google.

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Laura: Thank you Google.

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No, I liked Fairhaven.

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It was fun too.

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I think that we're probably

going to be discussing Star Trek,

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Voyager a little more again soon.

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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Quite possibly.

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Laura: There's

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Xhafer: How far ahead have

you watched Right now?

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Laura: No, I've, so a listener.

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I will admit that I have

watched the episode after this

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one, the infamous number 10.

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And, uh, there's some

parallels is all I'm saying.

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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I, that's why, um, you, when you had

texted me and I knew you had watched it,

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Laura: Yeah,

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Xhafer: I was talking to Ben at

the time and that's why he sent a

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message in one of the group chats

that was about you watching it, but

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didn't call you out specifically.

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So, yeah,

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Laura: yeah, yeah.

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No, um, I've had some discussions with

Erin about a few things that I need

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to, to bring up in the next episode.

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So like, stay tuned guys

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Xhafer: yeah.

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I've, I

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Laura: be continued.

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Xhafer: yet.

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I mean, I've seen it before, but I

haven't watched it this go around, so, you

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know, I'm looking forward to my rewatch.

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I'm probably gonna do that tomorrow,

but uh, we should probably start

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talking about this episode.

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Laura: I guess this one is, uh,

not quite as intense as the next,

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but I did find it rather intense.

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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We open on a big old silo fleet just

flying around as the chief checks a

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raptor helo goes to the mess only for

all the rookies to cold shoulder him.

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And we cut back to the

chief and the raptor here.

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The chief is performing a haptic

inspection, which is compared via crosscut

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to some sensual touching with boomer.

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This is flashback.

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You, we get the little flashback you thing

to let us know that this is flashback.

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Uh, do you think this is because

he's currently emotionally confused

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or is he mentally equating the

feeling of touching machines?

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Laura: I, well, that's beautiful.

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I love that.

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I think that Teel is the kind of man who.

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Is very in touch with the

mechanical in general.

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Right.

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Not just the fact that he had

a turned out to be robit lover.

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Uh, And he cares deeply about the

machines that he takes care of

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those vipers, the Galactica, like,

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Xhafer: Boomer.

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Laura: eh, that's true.

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And I think that it's showing

his consistency as a person,

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like this work that he does.

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He takes these machines so very seriously.

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He touches them very carefully.

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He knows how important they are,

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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Laura: is rather like the care that

people put into their relationships with,

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with other humans and oopsie doodle.

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It also turns out that he put

all that care into a relationship

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with a much more complex machine.

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Mm-hmm.

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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Now he's very attentive in his inspection.

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But I have to ask what's

going on with him.

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Noticing the leak on the ship and then

immediately cutting over to Boomer.

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What's that implying?

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Ron Moore, you cheeky dog.

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Laura: yeah.

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Ultimately, he, uh, is not

satisfied with this Viper and

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slaps a scrap sticker on it.

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Xhafer: Yeah, this won't do.

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Speaking of won't do.

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Callie's out of the Bri

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Laura: Oh

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Xhafer: crew is celebrating.

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Uh, we learn her actual charge is,

inappropriate Discharge of a weapon

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Laura: Yeah.

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Xhafer: is what she was charged with.

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Laura: Well as we've talked

about before, nobody should

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be shooting guns inside tube.

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Xhafer: Right.

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Tight tube, no gun.

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Bad idea.

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Laura: Yep.

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Yep.

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We're not a fan of that.

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Um, gosh, this is awkward.

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Especially because like we're all having

hooch with Callie and then Callie tries

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to be like, Tyre, I appreciate so much.

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I heard you tried to stand up for me.

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And he just kind of blows her off

'cause he's mad at machines, I guess.

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Xhafer: yeah.

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He's still mad.

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He's mad at a couple things.

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He's got very complicated

feelings at the moment.

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He grabs, uh, some shine and I

guess a bag of space Doritos.

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We see him take something off

the table that was snack esque,

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but we don't know what it was.

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I hope it's space Doritos.

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He's not holding it in the next scene

though, when he goes to Hilo and Sharon's

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old Raptor where Hilo is also drinking.

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Laura: Yes.

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always a good sign when the

entire crew of Eish people is

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just sitting around drinking

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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Laura: and uh, helos like reminiscing

about Sharon's flight skills

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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Laura: talking to Tiro about how she

could never like land the damn thing.

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Right?

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Xhafer: Mm-hmm.

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Always scraping up that landing gear.

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Laura: Yeah.

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Xhafer: Starbuck beats up

racetrack after she's more than

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a little racist and slut shaming.

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Laura: Racetrack is

running her mouth real bad.

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Earlier in the, the poker scene, you

know, Starbuck does try to stick up for

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Helo a little bit and she's like, man,

these bastards just fuck with your head.

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Like, it can happen to anybody, like step

off, but racetrack will not let it go.

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Xhafer: You know, racetrack, how

they like found this actress.

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She was one of the finalists

for the sixth role.

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Laura: Wow, okay.

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Yeah.

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'cause they've made her such a

brunette, I can't picture it.

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You know, six is so, so very blonde.

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Xhafer: I don't know anything

about the audition uh, other

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than that she was there.

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Laura: I mean, you can

dye hair, you can do wigs.

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I mean, they're all probably using

wigs anyway 'cause they're more

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reliable than like real hair.

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But

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Xhafer: Well, six famously you could,

she talks about it on her podcast.

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Tricia Helfer had her hair dyed

for the first season, and it just

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constantly bleaching her hair.

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Laura: Oh, I'm sure that

was so bad for it too.

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Xhafer: It was, it, it got to the

point where she like purposefully

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sabotaged so that they had to give

her a wig going forward because they

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were refusing the, the production

was refusing for some reason.

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Yeah,

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Laura: Chief skates.

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How dare How very dare.

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Xhafer: yeah,

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Laura: Well, I'm glad she got to

have healthy hair again after that.

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Xhafer: yeah.

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Laura: So we see Starbuck like, try

to play it cool here for a moment

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and I was really proud of her.

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But she can't, she just can man.

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Xhafer: Not her way.

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Laura: Yeah, I, I feel you specs.

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And so Hilo also tries to

like apologize to Tyrell.

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but Tyrell is in a bad place, very bad

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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Not really having it.

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They end up fighting as well as,

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Laura: Yes.

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Tyrell tries to like tell him

about the plans that he and

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Boomer had before everything.

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And, uh, then thanks Hilo

for being a bigger sucker.

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Xhafer: Right.

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Oh God.

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Laura: Oh yeah.

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It's like you took the attention

away from me being a sucker.

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'cause you were a bigger sucker.

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Hilo actually tries like not

to fight him a couple times.

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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Laura: but Tyrel just can't

let it go and keeps coming.

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He is bulldog in this moment,

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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This is not the boxing episode.

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Laura: I know, but there's a lot of like

fighting for not the boxing episode.

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I can't wait for the boxing episode.

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Xhafer: I think it's season four.

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It's in a while.

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Laura: Yeah, yeah.

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You know, it'd be fun if like, when we get

to the boxing episode and everybody boxes

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out their feelings that like, we just

don't have any more fights after that.

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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Laura: 'cause we boxed it out.

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All the feelings are out.

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They, we left them in the ring.

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Xhafer: It else would be fun if

we just surprise, just re-reviewed

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TKO from Babylon five instead

of watching the boxing episode.

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Laura: Oh.

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Maybe this falls around April Fools.

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'cause that would be fun.

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Xhafer: That would be fun.

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We'll see.

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We'll

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Laura: We'll have to look forward to that.

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Yeah.

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But at the end of all this, in

the fighting Tyrel admits that he

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doesn't know why he's mad at Hilo

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Xhafer: yeah.

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Laura: and he's not really like,

we know who he's really mad at.

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Xhafer: he's confused.

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It's confusing times.

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Laura: Mm-hmm.

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I mean, me too, Tyrel.

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It's fine.

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Xhafer: after this, Dee gets that

static feedback from when you held

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two phones next to each other,

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Laura: Oh yeah.

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Or like you got your phone too

close to like a microphone.

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Xhafer: Yeah, exactly.

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Ty wonders if this is a silent trap

and then d gets fucked up to theme.

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Laura: Yeah.

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We got Exploding console,

the old Star Trek trope.

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Love it.

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So it seemed to me like it

took everybody a little bit.

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Even past this to be

like, yes, silent virus.

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But at this moment, to me

it should have been obvious.

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Likes problem with computer

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like like Ty is not wrong.

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Xhafer: of course there's a virus.

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Laura: Yeah, of course.

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Xhafer: we go to theme

survivor count 47 8 53.

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It has unchanged from last episode.

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Laura: Yep.

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Still hanging in there.

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Doing good.

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Good job, guys.

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So we come back from theme

with a Cylon Raider incoming.

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Xhafer: yeah.

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Laura: Uh, Adama goes and checks on Dee,

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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Laura: And Gada says The system

has been glitchy since the

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Cylons hacked the network.

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Xhafer: Yes.

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Laura: Gada my guy.

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Xhafer: Weeks-ish.

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Laura: What?

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Xhafer: Just neglect to mention that.

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Laura: It ain't glitchy.

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It ain't just glitches, man.

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Like, is this one of those situations

have you've, you've managed people,

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you've had this happen where something

happens and your, employee sees it

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and they think they are part of the

cause to the thing that happened, and

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so they're just like quietly trying to

fix it in the background for a while,

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and then you come in and you see it.

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And it has gotten way worse.

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And now it's your problem to fix.

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Xhafer: I have been really fortunate

to have a really solid foundation

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with just about every single

person who's ever reported to me.

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I mean, I've spent probably about 15

years in management managing first

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layer and in middle management over

the years, probably over 250 people

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if I were to add them all together.

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Laura: Mm-hmm.

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Xhafer: It's just snowball.

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It's probably right.

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And I can name three people who

ever reported to me who would

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have done this, and one did.

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Laura: Yeah.

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Xhafer: and most, I, I like, I very

fortunate, uh, just about everyone

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I've worked with, um, has been able

to be comfortable enough with me to

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ask for help when they needed it.

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Laura: Yeah.

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Yeah

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Xhafer: because not everyone feels

that way with their boss sometimes, and

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there's a number of reasons for that.

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Sometimes that's.

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On the person.

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Sometimes that's on the boss, sometimes

it's both but it's definitely,

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definitely been a thing once in my

life where you're just like, oh God,

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if you had just said something an hour

ago, this would've been fixed already.

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We would've called the person who can

actually do the thing, especially in

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it because so much of access is siloed,

that it's just, it's not like you got

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lost in an Excel formula for an hour.

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Like, we need someone else to fix this.

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Like, you can, you

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Laura: Right.

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Xhafer: well digitally do

not have the ability to fix

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Laura: You, you are internal

controlled for reasons and so we need

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the other person to do the thing.

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Yeah,

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yeah.

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A feature of the system of public

accounting is that like when you get to

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one of those more supervisory roles, like

teams are constantly switching, right?

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You, you go come in on an audit

team that has been existing for a

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little bit, or you know, your team

suddenly has changed whatever.

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You're working with new

people all the time.

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And so it's harder to build some of that.

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Like of course you can come to

me, you know, you don't know

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what manager they've had before.

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And so there's a lot, there can be

a lot of trust barriers real quick.

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So that's, that's fun in

that particular setting.

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And then another time I dealt with this

I had been recently hired and the person

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I was managing had thought because he

worked at the, uh, position and the

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institution longer, even though he had no

accounting degree or certification, that

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he should have had the job that I got

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Xhafer: Mm.

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Mm-hmm.

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Laura: and did not want me

to know when he messed up.

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Xhafer: Ugh.

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Laura: I found something months later

that should have been a problem.

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So, uh, Mr.

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Gada not a good look

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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I will say though, when, when G'S

like, oh, well, you know, he's

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just like, well just go through

every line of code and fix it.

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And when G's just little, like, you have

no idea what you just asked me to do.

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Laura: right.

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Xhafer: Uh, Yeah.

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I feel that just like, just

like the marketing department,

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just, uh, just update every

report with the new logo, guys.

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How hard can it be?

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It's all like, okay, well

how many reports are there?

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Uh, you, you don't know.

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No, because, uh, two thirds of them

only exist on someone's desktop and

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aren't updated from a repository.

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Laura: for

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Xhafer: get fucked.

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You've asked the impossible.

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Laura: That is so annoying.

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Yeah.

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I am really grateful to be studying in

the field that I am at the time that

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I am because when I'm having trouble

with code, I can now pop it into a,

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you know, tool, a machine learning

tool, and be like, what did I do so I

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can have the machine find the missing

semicolon instead of me incompetent me?

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Who wrote it with the missing semicolon?

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Xhafer: That doesn't make you incompetent.

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It makes you human.

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And believe me, having written code

for years at this point, uh, without

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those tools, you just called over

someone else to look at it, to find it

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like that.

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That's how you used to solve that problem

before some of these tools existed.

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Laura: Yeah,

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I'm glad I have someone else.

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I can just pop up on the internet

and not have to bother a real

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person with my stupidity.

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Xhafer: It's, well, that's the

thing, is it, it only feels like it's

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stupidity you because no one is asking

you, because you all have this tool.

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That's what I'm saying is I, I come

from the days where not only did I

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have to ask, but was asked many times,

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you know,

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like everyone does this.

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Laura: Yeah.

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So, uh, Ty wants him to just move

his ass and figure it all out.

427

:

Go, go, you know, paired program

this with Gais or whatever.

428

:

Xhafer: yeah.

429

:

Ty's just like load up VSC use

comparing your GI versioning

430

:

and it'll be done in 20 minutes.

431

:

What are you fucking talking about?

432

:

Oh God.

433

:

Laura: And,

434

:

Xhafer: these days.

435

:

Laura: GAA gets a little snappy.

436

:

Xhafer: He does.

437

:

Laura: had a little bit of an edge last

episode when he was trying to smoke

438

:

and probably like Laura Canton Hale

439

:

and, uh, he's, he's.

440

:

Got told to pull himself together by Adam

441

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

442

:

Yeah.

443

:

RSVP Gator's will to work.

444

:

Laura: I'm a little worried about Gado.

445

:

Xhafer: Yeah, you should be.

446

:

Laura: Yeah.

447

:

Xhafer: Um, the chief tells Lee that that

Viper is down, and when he is told that

448

:

miracles aren't expected, he's all like,

fuck it, I'm making a miracle happen.

449

:

He's.

450

:

Laura: I love it.

451

:

It's, I, I have this contrarian streak

in me too, where like somebody's

452

:

like, oh, well, you know, it's fine.

453

:

And I'm like, you know what?

454

:

Xhafer: Fuck you,

455

:

Laura: Yeah.

456

:

I'm going to be the best thing

instead of just that thing.

457

:

Xhafer: right?

458

:

Yeah.

459

:

So, uh, he starts construction.

460

:

Most of the deck crew come in noticing

that he hasn't slept in his welding

461

:

Laura: Mm-hmm.

462

:

Normal, normal.

463

:

Xhafer: yeah, they're not excited

about their new after work job at work.

464

:

Have you, have you had this happen to you?

465

:

Have you volunteered for a thing

where you end up taking a second job

466

:

at your job that you don't get paid

467

:

Laura: Oh yeah.

468

:

I've, I've definitely had that happen.

469

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

470

:

This always ends up being me.

471

:

Someone tries to do something

and I'm like, oh, that'd be nice.

472

:

And then I end up fucking, they,

they leave three weeks in and I

473

:

end up running the fucking thing,

and it always goes this way.

474

:

Laura: yeah, yeah, yeah.

475

:

Yeah.

476

:

No, I've, I've been this person too.

477

:

Yeah.

478

:

Xhafer: yeah,

479

:

Laura: as we sit here with

our, you know, after work, work

480

:

Xhafer: Or hobby job.

481

:

Laura: our hobby job.

482

:

Yes.

483

:

I

484

:

Xhafer: doesn't feel like work.

485

:

Laura: No, it really doesn't.

486

:

Xhafer: If, if any part of it

feels like work, it's Aaron's job.

487

:

So thanks Aaron for editing this podcast.

488

:

We appreciate the hell outta you.

489

:

Laura: We sure do.

490

:

He's got the real work.

491

:

Xhafer: He does, and he does it so well.

492

:

Laura: Mm-hmm.

493

:

He's very kind about it.

494

:

Xhafer: yeah.

495

:

Laura: Yeah.

496

:

So, uh, teal tells him, you know,

this is off duty project only.

497

:

And if none of you people wanna be

part of it, then it's my fucking thing.

498

:

Get the fuck out.

499

:

Go away,

500

:

Xhafer: Right boo.

501

:

Laura: get lost.

502

:

Losers.

503

:

Xhafer: I'm gonna build my own ship

504

:

. After this, we, uh, see

Rosalyn with dot coddle.

505

:

There's not a lot of words here.

506

:

She's just reading her own chart,

507

:

Laura: Yep.

508

:

Xhafer: which, if it's that, that bad,

she's just like walking around reading it.

509

:

She's like, how long?

510

:

And dot Coddle says weeks, maybe a month.

511

:

Laura: Wow.

512

:

I'm so confused by this because,

okay, it's this episode where we have

513

:

jumped forward a few weeks, right?

514

:

Xhafer: Mm-hmm.

515

:

Laura: Or is it next episode?

516

:

Xhafer: There is an

517

:

Laura: There's a little time jump.

518

:

I wanna say it was between eight

and nine in my head, but it

519

:

could be between nine and 10.

520

:

I'm not sure.

521

:

He does tell her that she can

work as long as the cancer

522

:

doesn't make it to her brain.

523

:

Xhafer: Mm-hmm.

524

:

Laura: But yes, that, that timeline

of maybe a month, I was like, wow, we

525

:

could potentially be losing Rosalyn

a lot sooner than I had anticipated.

526

:

Xhafer: Okay.

527

:

So the farm was the last

time we had a concrete day,

528

:

Laura: Mm-hmm.

529

:

Xhafer: and that was day 60.

530

:

Laura: Okay.

531

:

Xhafer: and then we don't know

the days exactly for home part

532

:

one, home part two or final cut.

533

:

But this episode is day 86.

534

:

Laura: Okay.

535

:

Xhafer: I don't know how they

know that exactly, but day

536

:

86, that's where we're at.

537

:

Laura: Okay.

538

:

So potentially by day 116, we could be.

539

:

Sands, Laura Rosalyn is

what Dot Coddle thinks here,

540

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

541

:

Laura: is not that far.

542

:

Xhafer: it's, it's not that far.

543

:

No.

544

:

Laura: Yeah.

545

:

So either this show is going to cram like

30 days over two and a half more seasons.

546

:

Is that correct?

547

:

I don't know exactly how

many episodes there are.

548

:

That would be a very compressed timeframe.

549

:

I'm not sure that I buy that.

550

:

We're gonna lose Rosalyn in a month.

551

:

Something.

552

:

Xhafer: what day, season.

553

:

Two ends on

554

:

Laura: Oh, but don't,

555

:

Xhafer: I'm not going to.

556

:

Laura: yeah, I'm just

confused by this timeline.

557

:

So I look forward to

seeing how it plays out.

558

:

Xhafer: Mm-hmm.

559

:

Laura: in the next scene though,

560

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

561

:

At the range, they've got those novelty

targets with Osama bin Ladens and

562

:

Zombies Ho and Deers holding rifles.

563

:

Have you seen these?

564

:

Laura: I have seen those.

565

:

Yeah.

566

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

567

:

Laura: Not in person, but I've

seen like the idea of them.

568

:

Yes.

569

:

Xhafer: I, I worked at a shooting

range when I was in high school,

570

:

Laura: Yeah.

571

:

So you've seen them.

572

:

Seen

573

:

Xhafer: I've, I've seen all kinds

of weird, weird fucking targets.

574

:

People have

575

:

Laura: I mean, deer holding

rifles is kind of funny.

576

:

Xhafer: deer holding

rifles is pretty good.

577

:

Yeah.

578

:

Laura: Zombies also

579

:

Xhafer: There's a lot of

zombie ones on the market.

580

:

I uh, I was, I was curious what

they looked like these days,

581

:

because I haven't seen them in.

582

:

20 years.

583

:

Laura: Yeah.

584

:

Xhafer: And I was honestly

kind of afraid to Google it,

585

:

Laura: Yeah, me too.

586

:

Xhafer: But it was way less political

than I thought it was gonna be there.

587

:

I it's probably because if you put certain

people on them, it probably is a felony.

588

:

Laura: It puts you on a list.

589

:

Xhafer: It puts you well,

more than puts you on a list.

590

:

It could be taken as a statement of

591

:

Laura: Incitement.

592

:

Yeah.

593

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

594

:

Incitement.

595

:

Uh, and there are certain people

that it is illegal to threat like

596

:

that at certain levels because

of, you know, the secret service.

597

:

Um, and so I, some of the people that I

was kind of expecting to see nowhere to

598

:

be found, but I did find some, I actually

sent one to Ben and a couple other friends

599

:

that is the shootout from the OK Corral.

600

:

Laura: Oh, that's cute.

601

:

Ben.

602

:

Ben loves that.

603

:

Yes.

604

:

Xhafer: for sure.

605

:

I'm, I'm going shooting

with Ben tomorrow morning,

606

:

and I know that if it had

been another week, those are

607

:

the targets he'd be bringing.

608

:

Laura: Right.

609

:

Yeah.

610

:

Yeah.

611

:

Xhafer: Those are on the

way right now, I'm sure.

612

:

Laura: Uh, what's not fun is that

these novelty targets are Sharon.

613

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

614

:

It's fucking terrible.

615

:

Laura: That is not cool guys.

616

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

617

:

And Lee is going ham.

618

:

He loses his shit here.

619

:

Laura: Yeah.

620

:

And Starbucks calls him out.

621

:

She says you're being a little aggressive.

622

:

And then they talk about the

Delta flyer a little bit.

623

:

Uh, Lee is not impressed.

624

:

Tyrell needs to be putting

his time to better pursuits.

625

:

But Star BES says, well, fuck you.

626

:

I will fly the thing.

627

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

628

:

Laura: I love our contrarians.

629

:

But, but as they're having

this fun, like back and forth,

630

:

we see hot dog just pass out

631

:

in the background.

632

:

Xhafer: Hot dog has a rough go.

633

:

He's out.

634

:

He's out.

635

:

Cold and Uck and Lee both get really weird

and woozy Starbucks constantly laughing.

636

:

Lee finally manages to

figure out what's going on.

637

:

He tries to open the door and he can't,

Starbuck tries to shoot the glass and

638

:

can't break it, and Lee ends up using one

of the silent centurion busting rounds

639

:

to break the door open in the glass.

640

:

Laura: I didn't realize that's,

that's what he had to do to do it.

641

:

Okay.

642

:

Xhafer: that's the, the little

under barrel one shot thing.

643

:

Yeah.

644

:

Laura: All right.

645

:

I thought they were just like steadying

themselves and that's how their, their

646

:

teamwork was gonna get the door open.

647

:

Xhafer: He was loading

the, the under barrel.

648

:

It's a little like undercarriage thing.

649

:

Like, modern guns have a thing where you

could put a little grenade launcher down

650

:

there that can shoot like a grenade.

651

:

Laura: Oh, okay.

652

:

Yeah.

653

:

Xhafer: so it's like one of

654

:

Laura: to that.

655

:

Yeah.

656

:

The whole time, like.

657

:

They were going back and forth

to, like, the oxygen gauge has

658

:

been dropping in this room.

659

:

And honestly, ADA like, man, you

should have seen this coming.

660

:

The second thing started glitching,

661

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

662

:

Laura: And we cut to gata who says,

yeah, the environmental system thought

663

:

that this room was over pressurized.

664

:

And so it started venting the oxygen.

665

:

Xhafer: Mm-hmm.

666

:

Laura: And Mr.

667

:

Gaas shows up and says that

they've got a silent logic bomb.

668

:

Xhafer: Yeah, this is a,

this is a neural network.

669

:

This is, this is our ai.

670

:

This is a, this is a GPT here

671

:

Laura: It's a, it's a machine learning.

672

:

Mm-hmm.

673

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

674

:

Laura: Oh,

675

:

Xhafer: Hope indeed.

676

:

Laura: been in the system, like

running through code, learning things,

677

:

getting smarter, learning how to

turn things off or on depending.

678

:

Xhafer: to fucking kill everyone.

679

:

Laura: Yep.

680

:

Gaia blames ty for this,

and I'm like, come on man.

681

:

I mean, I know Ty was in charge,

but wasn't smart enough to like

682

:

really evaluate what was happening.

683

:

I think

684

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

685

:

I mean, no one asked Gais for his

opinion on the networked computers.

686

:

And he might have been able to bring

over his silent detecting computers

687

:

and not exposed all the ship systems.

688

:

He's notably absent from that

whole chunk of that episode.

689

:

Laura: I'm trying to remember,

was that when he was on cobol?

690

:

Xhafer: He was on cobal.

691

:

That's why he wasn't there.

692

:

Laura: Yeah.

693

:

Okay.

694

:

But we, I think we joked about

it of like, you should go get

695

:

the silent detecting computer.

696

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

697

:

Laura: But yeah, he, he was indisposed.

698

:

and so he feels very free

to throw some blame around.

699

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

700

:

Laura: Don't ask me what I

was up to on cobol, just think

701

:

about how Ty made this bad call.

702

:

Xhafer: Right.

703

:

Distract.

704

:

Distract.

705

:

Laura: Mm-hmm.

706

:

Deflect and Adama notes for

us that this was weeks ago.

707

:

So we're definitely like

removed from the happenings.

708

:

and he wants Hilo to run

this past the prisoner.

709

:

Xhafer: Yeah, leverage that

pressure where you can heal.

710

:

Go, go.

711

:

Talk to her about this, please.

712

:

Laura: Dangle Hilo in front of her.

713

:

'cause maybe she'll remember that

if the ship like vents everyone into

714

:

space, Hilo is one of those people.

715

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

716

:

Let, let's remember that.

717

:

after this, uh, we see, uh,

Tyrell continuing construction.

718

:

His lights are flickering

all over the ship.

719

:

Adama and Ty briefly talk about the

ship building effort, and Adama says

720

:

it's great for morale and he won't shut

it down unless he absolutely has to.

721

:

Laura: Yeah, and this is the beautiful

part of this whole B plot, if

722

:

you will, is we start seeing here

other people deciding to partake.

723

:

You know, Tiro is leading on this effort

and he doesn't expect anyone's help.

724

:

He's written that off, but as

he's trying, he's like struggling

725

:

to get the wing up there.

726

:

One of his guys comes over

and is like, look, you're not.

727

:

Gonna get it up by yourself.

728

:

Like, let's get this on there.

729

:

You know?

730

:

And this is the beginning of like,

that cracks of, okay, well maybe we

731

:

don't, we could, we could do more

than just like, keep ourselves alive.

732

:

Maybe we could also like create

733

:

Xhafer: yeah.

734

:

Do a thing.

735

:

I like building stuff.

736

:

I get it.

737

:

Laura: Yeah.

738

:

It's, it's a beautiful little progression.

739

:

And I don't remember exactly how

the Delta flyer progressed, but I

740

:

feel like this is a little, yeah.

741

:

I feel like this is a little

more meaningful though to me,

742

:

Xhafer: I would agree.

743

:

The, the Delta flyer was lots of like

Tom and Harry and sometimes Vola.

744

:

Laura: Yeah.

745

:

And I just don't have like, the

same feelings about Tom as Tyre.

746

:

Like I don't think Tom Paris

is a character I can identify

747

:

with much, to be honest.

748

:

Xhafer: Also the Delta

Flyers fucking huge.

749

:

Laura: yeah.

750

:

Xhafer: Like you see it and you think

it's, oh, it's this little ship, right?

751

:

Because you, like, they built it in

the room and we, you think you know how

752

:

big the room is, but then you see the

inside of that thing and the cockpit

753

:

comfortably seats like eight and there's

an entire like, lab in the back and

754

:

shit.

755

:

Laura: of course.

756

:

'cause it's Star Trek,

everything needs a lab.

757

:

Xhafer: Like the Delta flyer is

the size of like half of my house.

758

:

Laura: Yeah.

759

:

Xhafer: It's, it's gotta be bare minimum

like 500 square feet inside of that thing.

760

:

If not like, upwards of 800 to a thousand.

761

:

Like that thing is huge.

762

:

Laura: And there's something

more rustic about the, the

763

:

Blackbird as we're calling it.

764

:

Xhafer: they're welding and stuff.

765

:

I mean the technology, there's

a big technology gap between

766

:

Battlestar and Voyager.

767

:

Laura: Much more accessible like picture

in our minds than like, oh, I'm going

768

:

to do the thing with the spanner.

769

:

Like, no, I've got the

blowtorch, you know?

770

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

771

:

It's like watching them build

the Delta Flyers, all like, cool,

772

:

they're super gluing panels together

that then self fuse or something.

773

:

Watching them build the Blackbird

is like watching my, uh, Samson

774

:

Boat building company YouTube

videos where they build wooden boat.

775

:

You know,

776

:

Laura: I love the

777

:

Xhafer: like five years to build one

wooden boat and then go sailing in it.

778

:

It's awesome.

779

:

Oh, but they, you can watch

the whole thing on YouTube.

780

:

It's great.

781

:

I love that shit.

782

:

Um, but yeah, it, it

feels a lot more human,

783

:

Laura: Mm-hmm.

784

:

Adama is very into this.

785

:

Uh, but of course Ty is only right

twice a day and this is not the moment.

786

:

And he thinks this is a waste of time.

787

:

Xhafer: for sure.

788

:

Laura: should just fix what we have left.

789

:

Why are they wasting their time

trying to build something new?

790

:

Xhafer: Because you've got a

ton of fucking spare parts, bro.

791

:

This should be Avi.

792

:

You should be every, if you're lucky,

every two scrapped fighters is one.

793

:

Fighter

794

:

Laura: Yeah.

795

:

we

796

:

cut to Lee is gonna show

Dee some self-defense moves.

797

:

I think this is coming from Dee's

traumatizing experience when the,

798

:

the centurions were on board and

she's starting to be like, oh

799

:

yeah, maybe I should dust off some

of that basic training bullshit

800

:

and like, take it seriously.

801

:

But it gets a little tense.

802

:

Xhafer: It gets a little tense and

then it gets a little romantic.

803

:

There's a moment there where it

looks like they might kiss and

804

:

then fucking Billy shows up.

805

:

Laura: I the love triangle

I did not see coming.

806

:

Oh my gosh.

807

:

Lee d Billy.

808

:

Oh my gosh.

809

:

Xhafer: yeah.

810

:

Laura: I'm worried.

811

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

812

:

You should be,

813

:

Laura: Uh

814

:

Xhafer: hint, hint.

815

:

It doesn't end well.

816

:

Laura: oh,

817

:

no,

818

:

Xhafer: What would, make you believe that?

819

:

Laura: I know.

820

:

Yeah.

821

:

I kind of already had a hint of

uhoh anytime anything happens

822

:

that I'm like, it's, it's just

a little like hint of a thing.

823

:

I'm like, uhoh.

824

:

Xhafer: Is that happiness

and Battlestar Galactica

825

:

Laura: Oh

826

:

Xhafer: marches into your house

and kick your TV over, just to make

827

:

sure you didn't feel a thing of joy.

828

:

Laura: Yeah, yeah.

829

:

People talk about George R.

830

:

Martin, but they did not

meet Ron D Moore, I guess.

831

:

Xhafer: I wonder if

Outlander's a happy show.

832

:

Laura: Oh, I don't know.

833

:

Xhafer: I don't know.

834

:

Laura: I'll have to watch.

835

:

Hilo goes to do daddy adama's bidding.

836

:

Uh, But.

837

:

First he's gonna pester Sharon

about Tyrell and like, what

838

:

do you remember about Tyrell?

839

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

840

:

Laura: What do you know about him?

841

:

How do you feel about him?

842

:

Xhafer: yeah, just like you

don't still love him, do you?

843

:

Because we got into a big manly scrap

about it and it was big man scrap,

844

:

and I threw punches and I threw him

around and he seemed very upset.

845

:

So I just wanna know, you know,

I wish, I wish listener, you

846

:

could see me shaking my shoulders

847

:

as part of this, because I

feel like it really sells

848

:

The, dumb.

849

:

the,

850

:

Laura: the way you're

doing the face to the

851

:

face.

852

:

And obviously Hilo won that fight, right?

853

:

Like,

854

:

Xhafer: Oh yeah, of course.

855

:

Laura: yeah.

856

:

Um,

857

:

Xhafer: helo.

858

:

Laura: she like placates him

in a not very satisfying way.

859

:

And, uh, then they actually talk, work.

860

:

You know, the logic bomb.

861

:

I love this.

862

:

Xhafer: I, I have questions.

863

:

Laura: I love it.

864

:

Go ahead.

865

:

Xhafer: so they printed out

866

:

the code that has the

logic bomb in it maybe.

867

:

And it's just a ream of paper.

868

:

It's the old school like dot matrix

printer with like the stuff on the sides,

869

:

Laura: but we got the corners.

870

:

Mm-hmm.

871

:

Xhafer: Right.

872

:

And it's just like one, what is the

printer in ink situation on Galactica?

873

:

We're on Dane 90 or whatever.

874

:

How much shit are they printing and how

do they still have ink two, the way she

875

:

reads this and like stops for a second.

876

:

Did you just give her the virus, bro?

877

:

Laura: Oh, great question.

878

:

Like is this a thing that if

I read it suddenly I am evil?

879

:

I am given the thing like.

880

:

Xhafer: You have to wonder that

before you expose her to this.

881

:

Laura: Uh, She is machine

882

:

Xhafer: she, he, he literally like

puts it in her face before he,

883

:

she, he says what it is, and so she

just starts reading it because it's

884

:

something you threw in her face and

it's words and she's gonna read it.

885

:

It's like, you can't do that.

886

:

Laura: Yeah.

887

:

It's like when you just go and open

the, the poisoned PDF, you know,

888

:

like computer can't stop itself.

889

:

It's gonna, it's gonna read the file.

890

:

Xhafer: yeah.

891

:

Laura: yeah.

892

:

This is a great question.

893

:

A great question.

894

:

Uh, it doesn't seem to be really

answered by the end of this,

895

:

Xhafer: No, and we know

that it takes time.

896

:

Laura: Ah, it does take

some weeks, doesn't it?

897

:

Xhafer: They tell us that.

898

:

Laura: Oh man.

899

:

Oh.

900

:

This could be interesting.

901

:

Uh, Yeah, she does flip out.

902

:

And this virus is gonna destroy them

in hours at this point, she says,

903

:

and we need to talk to Papa Pajama.

904

:

Now,

905

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

906

:

Papa Dama goes down and talks to

Sharon as we check in on the fighter.

907

:

Starbuck and Dee are now joined in

and helping as Lee complains, and

908

:

Ty talks a little bit of shit, but

more importantly, finally finds

909

:

the still Tyrell's been running.

910

:

Laura: I don't know how he, okay.

911

:

I have a plausible reason for him

not knowing that this still was here.

912

:

Xhafer: Oh, he's, he's

just never been down here.

913

:

Laura: Well, also he is generally

unpleasant, and so no one talks to him.

914

:

Yes,

915

:

Xhafer: yeah.

916

:

Oh yeah.

917

:

Laura: yes, yes, yes, yes.

918

:

He, uh, he finally like comes to

Jesus about this project, but it's

919

:

mostly because of booze, right?

920

:

Xhafer: Well, I, I mean, he would've

secured those engines before he knew

921

:

there was booze down here, or the

very least if he knew there was booze,

922

:

he really slow played taking it.

923

:

I think he genuinely was all like, we're

going to, you know, this is something

924

:

where we're not spending any resources.

925

:

This ship does have this shit.

926

:

It does need to get moved.

927

:

Maybe this will two birds,

one stone, something.

928

:

Laura: Yeah.

929

:

I don't think he'd come to that

decision before he went to see Tyrell.

930

:

I think somebody had p put in, in

the mini piles of paper on his desk.

931

:

He had seen like, oh, this place

wants to get rid of some shit.

932

:

And then as he's having the

conversation with Tyrell, I.

933

:

He is convinced by Terl.

934

:

And also there's a giant thing

of booze sitting over there

935

:

that's also very convincing.

936

:

and then he goes, you

know what, what the fuck?

937

:

Why not?

938

:

Xhafer: He takes a mason jar for

his troubles, and I will say having

939

:

gotten some authentic West Virginia

Mountain shine a couple of times

940

:

in my life, if it doesn't show up

in a mason jar, I don't believe it.

941

:

Laura: Don't trust it.

942

:

Yeah.

943

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

944

:

No packaging allowed.

945

:

Laura: Yep.

946

:

Yep.

947

:

Xhafer: Look at it.

948

:

You old Smokey.

949

:

Laura: Rosalyn comes to visit Adama.

950

:

Yes.

951

:

And she gives this book back.

952

:

Xhafer: Yep.

953

:

This is from season one.

954

:

Episode Two's Water.

955

:

This is Edward Prima's.

956

:

Dark Day.

957

:

We know it's a mystery.

958

:

Laura: Mm-hmm.

959

:

It's just so like.

960

:

She's wrapping up her affairs, like

961

:

Xhafer: sure.

962

:

He knows what

963

:

Laura: back.

964

:

Xhafer: Like he, he's like, it was a gift.

965

:

And she's all like,

yeah, well here you go.

966

:

And it's like you can tell from the

weight of it that he knows she's dying.

967

:

And at this point he's all like,

well, may as well fucking tell

968

:

her that we got maybe 20 minutes.

969

:

Laura: You think you are

dying, but what if we all die?

970

:

Xhafer: Surprise.

971

:

Laura: Oh man.

972

:

I, I really do like the two of them

and the way they work together.

973

:

'cause he's like, Hey Rosalyn,

can you, uh, gimme some advice?

974

:

Xhafer: They're one of my

favorite arcs on the show.

975

:

A hundred percent.

976

:

Laura: Yeah.

977

:

I want mom and dad to be okay.

978

:

That's all I want.

979

:

G is telling Ty that we've

gotta do the hard reset

980

:

Xhafer: We, we gotta open up

the settings and restore to

981

:

factory defaults the whole ship.

982

:

I'm gonna lose my

bookmarks if you do that.

983

:

Laura: yeah.

984

:

Xhafer: okay.

985

:

I can't lose my bookmarks.

986

:

Laura: I have so many of them.

987

:

Yeah.

988

:

Xhafer: I've got 80 chrome

tabs open right now.

989

:

Right?

990

:

I guess they probably wouldn't use Chrome.

991

:

They'd probably use anything but Chrome.

992

:

So I've got 80 Firefox

tabs open right now,

993

:

Laura: Mm-hmm.

994

:

Xhafer: and you can't close them.

995

:

Laura: You know, I've been so bad about

that since becoming a student again.

996

:

Like at work, I had this thing of like, at

the end of the day, I'm closing it down.

997

:

I'm, I'm not leaving anything open.

998

:

You know, if there's something I need

to come back to, I'll make a note,

999

:

but I'm not leaving any tabs open.

:

00:43:38,758 --> 00:43:39,928

It's all going away.

:

00:43:40,498 --> 00:43:42,538

Like it was my mental reset and.

:

00:43:45,208 --> 00:43:48,868

As a student, it's more like, well,

you know, I might not be done reading

:

00:43:48,868 --> 00:43:50,428

the thing or researching the thing.

:

00:43:50,938 --> 00:43:52,768

And so I'm like, okay, I'm

just gonna leave them open.

:

00:43:53,518 --> 00:43:56,368

And then I come back and then I

feel overwhelmed 'cause I have so

:

00:43:56,368 --> 00:44:01,828

many things open, or my computer

has decided to fucking restart

:

00:44:01,828 --> 00:44:03,298

on me and now they're all gone.

:

00:44:04,393 --> 00:44:04,753

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

00:44:04,753 --> 00:44:07,003

I can't, can't, trust not the restart.

:

00:44:07,258 --> 00:44:09,478

Laura: gotta be better than

this, but I don't know how.

:

00:44:11,953 --> 00:44:12,643

Xhafer: It's tough.

:

00:44:12,967 --> 00:44:13,237

Laura: Yeah.

:

00:44:13,867 --> 00:44:19,537

So Ty thinks that Adama will never

allow this hard reset, but surprise

:

00:44:19,537 --> 00:44:21,937

adama's, like all options are open.

:

00:44:22,732 --> 00:44:23,062

Xhafer: Mm-hmm.

:

00:44:24,497 --> 00:44:27,647

Laura: The guy says that this is the

only way to kill all of the logic bomb.

:

00:44:28,352 --> 00:44:29,012

Xhafer: Yep.

:

00:44:29,792 --> 00:44:33,032

Adam and Rosalyn talk real quick too

before he gets out of there about,

:

00:44:33,062 --> 00:44:38,522

uh, Sharon's proposed solution and

she forces him to recognize that his

:

00:44:38,522 --> 00:44:43,562

judgment has been compromised, but also

that he encourages him to go for it.

:

00:44:43,772 --> 00:44:44,062

Laura: Yeah.

:

00:44:44,387 --> 00:44:49,217

Like your judgment is clouded when

regards to Sharon because of how much

:

00:44:49,217 --> 00:44:51,782

experience you had with her before.

:

00:44:52,667 --> 00:44:59,897

But there could still be a common

ground between us and the silo, like,

:

00:45:01,157 --> 00:45:02,657

Xhafer: you have to

find that common ground.

:

00:45:03,857 --> 00:45:09,107

And after this we see Sharon

taken to CIC for the first time,

:

00:45:10,397 --> 00:45:15,167

uh, returning to the spot where

Boomer shot Adama and the crew

:

00:45:15,167 --> 00:45:18,917

is uh, let's say apprehensive.

:

00:45:19,292 --> 00:45:25,232

Laura: Yeah, we've got this lady

on a stick and collar situation.

:

00:45:25,547 --> 00:45:26,507

Xhafer: it's not pleasant.

:

00:45:26,777 --> 00:45:28,037

Also, she's like super strong.

:

00:45:28,037 --> 00:45:30,497

Can't she just bust open,

bust through all that shit?

:

00:45:31,037 --> 00:45:31,457

Laura: Mm-hmm.

:

00:45:31,697 --> 00:45:33,797

Xhafer: We see Leo open,

just break them cuffs, right?

:

00:45:33,887 --> 00:45:38,462

Laura: Is it maybe like electrified,

like I could think that a computer

:

00:45:38,462 --> 00:45:41,432

would still have problems with

electricity if we went zeppy.

:

00:45:41,522 --> 00:45:41,702

Zep?

:

00:45:42,872 --> 00:45:43,712

Xhafer: Quite possibly.

:

00:45:44,072 --> 00:45:44,462

Laura: Yeah.

:

00:45:44,522 --> 00:45:47,702

I don't know, but she

immediately makes it weird.

:

00:45:48,302 --> 00:45:48,902

Xhafer: yeah.

:

00:45:50,342 --> 00:45:55,862

Uh, she asked Dee for her dad's pocket

knife and Adama gives the, okay.

:

00:45:56,372 --> 00:45:57,722

She gives this look.

:

00:45:58,142 --> 00:46:02,582

I just, uh, Jackie and Lori

Jew, the picture I took of

:

00:46:02,582 --> 00:46:04,052

the look, she gives Adama.

:

00:46:07,442 --> 00:46:09,452

She is indignant.

:

00:46:09,632 --> 00:46:12,752

She's all like, I'll give her this

pocket knife, but when she kills

:

00:46:12,752 --> 00:46:16,352

us all, I am going to stab you

to death with that pocket knife.

:

00:46:16,637 --> 00:46:18,227

Laura: It is your fucking fault.

:

00:46:18,227 --> 00:46:18,737

You dumbass.

:

00:46:24,287 --> 00:46:29,447

Uh, but she, she starts like tearing shit

apart and we're gonna access the mainframe

:

00:46:30,332 --> 00:46:30,722

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

00:46:30,902 --> 00:46:35,222

Gada gives her a fiber optic

line to the mainframe, which.

:

00:46:35,792 --> 00:46:39,212

You don't have a mainframe, you

don't have networked computers.

:

00:46:39,212 --> 00:46:39,752

Whatever.

:

00:46:40,067 --> 00:46:40,697

Laura: uhhuh.

:

00:46:41,507 --> 00:46:41,897

Yeah.

:

00:46:41,897 --> 00:46:43,727

No, I, I wondered the same thing.

:

00:46:43,727 --> 00:46:46,037

I was like, what are we doing here?

:

00:46:46,037 --> 00:46:47,567

Like, okay.

:

00:46:47,837 --> 00:46:50,807

But it's too dramatic right

now to ask these questions to

:

00:46:50,807 --> 00:46:52,157

fair, because we've got Drees.

:

00:46:52,577 --> 00:46:53,927

We've got Vipers.

:

00:46:54,632 --> 00:46:55,412

Xhafer: Oh man.

:

00:46:55,982 --> 00:46:59,042

These silent raiders get

caught up to the ship finally.

:

00:46:59,432 --> 00:47:02,762

And there's just so fucking

many of these things.

:

00:47:03,212 --> 00:47:08,282

Uh, Sharon cuts her hand open and shoves

the fiber optic into her palm while

:

00:47:08,282 --> 00:47:11,222

telling GAA to prepare for the system.

:

00:47:11,222 --> 00:47:17,459

Wipe, GAA starts it on Sharon's mark after

Adama confirms, and we see like 25 vipers

:

00:47:17,699 --> 00:47:21,239

and wind up against hundreds of Raiders.

:

00:47:21,734 --> 00:47:22,214

Laura: Yeah.

:

00:47:22,904 --> 00:47:24,284

Talk about outgunned.

:

00:47:25,259 --> 00:47:25,709

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

00:47:25,769 --> 00:47:29,159

Tensions increase as

trust in Sharon decreases

:

00:47:29,324 --> 00:47:31,364

Laura: Oh, Ty is flipping his shit.

:

00:47:31,709 --> 00:47:33,269

Xhafer: Ty's all like, we're fucking dead.

:

00:47:33,269 --> 00:47:34,139

Kill that bitch.

:

00:47:34,139 --> 00:47:35,999

Fucking, fucking, fucking fuck.

:

00:47:35,999 --> 00:47:36,929

Like, ah.

:

00:47:37,349 --> 00:47:39,419

It's all like, okay, dude, maybe breathe.

:

00:47:40,304 --> 00:47:41,054

Laura: yeah, yeah.

:

00:47:41,234 --> 00:47:47,104

No Adama even is starting to lose a little

bit 'cause he wants the sidearm, I don't

:

00:47:47,104 --> 00:47:50,704

know if this is Ty's sidearm or something,

but he, he demands somebody's sidearm

:

00:47:50,704 --> 00:47:53,464

and sticks it right to Sharon's temple.

:

00:47:53,464 --> 00:47:53,494

I.

:

00:47:54,109 --> 00:47:54,529

Xhafer: yeah.

:

00:47:55,579 --> 00:47:59,319

But she manages to turn the virus

against the Cy Raider fleet.

:

00:47:59,319 --> 00:48:01,119

She disables the whole fleet at once.

:

00:48:01,792 --> 00:48:06,292

And, uh, that's when Adama reali

like, explains that was the

:

00:48:06,292 --> 00:48:08,962

plan the whole time for drama.

:

00:48:09,592 --> 00:48:13,672

Instead of being like, she's gonna take

the virus and send it over there, like,

:

00:48:13,672 --> 00:48:16,912

we're gonna wipe the computers, then she's

gonna send the virus over real quick.

:

00:48:16,912 --> 00:48:17,362

Right.

:

00:48:17,512 --> 00:48:17,992

Laura: yeah.

:

00:48:18,502 --> 00:48:23,962

Well, I guess I can see a little secrecy

here because you still don't know, like if

:

00:48:23,962 --> 00:48:29,812

anybody else in the room is a silent and

if that might like compromise something,

:

00:48:29,872 --> 00:48:33,622

like they can also send a signal or

they can disrupt Sharon in some way.

:

00:48:34,252 --> 00:48:36,082

Yeah, I can, I can buy this.

:

00:48:36,367 --> 00:48:36,577

Xhafer: yeah.

:

00:48:36,577 --> 00:48:39,877

Like if Gada is a silent and he knows

what's about to happen, he can cut that

:

00:48:39,877 --> 00:48:41,827

little fiber optic cord somewhere else.

:

00:48:42,517 --> 00:48:42,877

Yeah.

:

00:48:42,937 --> 00:48:42,967

Okay.

:

00:48:43,612 --> 00:48:45,652

Laura: So that, that makes sense to me.

:

00:48:45,652 --> 00:48:46,672

I'm fine with that.

:

00:48:46,672 --> 00:48:51,452

But he does order the thing

back to her cell and I was like,

:

00:48:51,917 --> 00:48:52,697

Xhafer: Yikes.

:

00:48:52,957 --> 00:48:53,137

Laura: a little.

:

00:48:54,482 --> 00:48:55,652

I, I don't know man.

:

00:48:55,652 --> 00:48:56,762

I'm not okay with that.

:

00:48:57,527 --> 00:48:58,157

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

00:48:58,562 --> 00:49:01,742

Laura: Like I still don't know

how to feel about Sharon having

:

00:49:01,742 --> 00:49:03,812

seen this and the next episode.

:

00:49:03,812 --> 00:49:06,812

And I'm not gonna spoil any of my thoughts

for the next episode 'cause there's

:

00:49:06,812 --> 00:49:08,612

a lot that I'm working through there.

:

00:49:09,302 --> 00:49:15,318

But no matter how I feel about that,

like there's still like a baseline I

:

00:49:15,318 --> 00:49:23,838

wanna be at of like my own human decency

and thing kind of didn't work for that.

:

00:49:24,918 --> 00:49:25,578

Xhafer: For sure.

:

00:49:25,818 --> 00:49:28,218

It's, it's definitely a line.

:

00:49:28,728 --> 00:49:28,968

Laura: Yeah.

:

00:49:29,928 --> 00:49:33,198

Xhafer: so anyways, the, the Viper

pilots just wipe out this Raider

:

00:49:33,198 --> 00:49:34,518

fleet that's all disabled now.

:

00:49:34,518 --> 00:49:35,838

They just blow up a bunch of stuff.

:

00:49:35,838 --> 00:49:39,438

We see lots of gratuitous shots of

silent raiders getting split in half.

:

00:49:39,923 --> 00:49:40,343

Laura: Mm-hmm.

:

00:49:40,998 --> 00:49:43,368

Oh, and Sharon's gotta listen to this too.

:

00:49:43,518 --> 00:49:47,688

Like the celebrating, like we've, we can

hear it over the, the radio that like,

:

00:49:48,348 --> 00:49:49,758

woo, I'm getting all these bastards.

:

00:49:49,758 --> 00:49:51,081

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

:

00:49:52,623 --> 00:49:52,913

Xhafer: yeah,

:

00:49:53,598 --> 00:49:57,678

Laura: Just, just disgusting.

:

00:49:57,708 --> 00:50:01,968

Like, if you think about it for

more than half a second, right?

:

00:50:02,058 --> 00:50:02,178

Like,

:

00:50:03,323 --> 00:50:06,183

Xhafer: Uh, over on the

deck construction continues.

:

00:50:06,873 --> 00:50:12,841

Hilo suggests carbon fiber for the hole

over metal, and then the ship's completed.

:

00:50:12,841 --> 00:50:15,901

Starbucks takes the Blackbird

out for a test flight.

:

00:50:16,831 --> 00:50:21,241

Where she initially has some trouble,

just enough to give you one last little

:

00:50:21,241 --> 00:50:23,131

fucking heart attack this episode.

:

00:50:24,541 --> 00:50:28,291

And then she vanishes off of

the radar long enough just to

:

00:50:28,291 --> 00:50:31,081

really drive home that drama.

:

00:50:31,366 --> 00:50:31,756

Laura: Yeah.

:

00:50:31,756 --> 00:50:32,056

Just to

:

00:50:32,131 --> 00:50:35,911

Xhafer: did to, like, did the

show just kill Starbuck on on

:

00:50:35,911 --> 00:50:38,371

season two episode Fucking nine.

:

00:50:39,211 --> 00:50:39,301

Oh,

:

00:50:40,096 --> 00:50:41,056

Laura: no, no, no, no, no.

:

00:50:41,056 --> 00:50:43,336

We are just fucking with Lee really hard.

:

00:50:43,336 --> 00:50:45,256

That's, that's what's happening here.

:

00:50:45,961 --> 00:50:46,231

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

00:50:46,231 --> 00:50:49,381

Starbucks's not just gonna die

on some random fucking episode.

:

00:50:49,921 --> 00:50:51,841

Like, no, that's not how this works.

:

00:50:51,841 --> 00:50:53,401

This is a television show.

:

00:50:53,821 --> 00:50:55,291

We know there are rules.

:

00:50:55,711 --> 00:50:59,791

So fucking she shows up revealing

that she was just fucking with Lee.

:

00:50:59,791 --> 00:51:01,981

It's all like, it's a stealth ship dummy.

:

00:51:03,001 --> 00:51:03,391

Laura: Yep.

:

00:51:03,571 --> 00:51:07,051

I love that she had turned off

the light in her own helmet.

:

00:51:08,011 --> 00:51:08,431

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

00:51:08,491 --> 00:51:09,991

Just to hide a little bit more.

:

00:51:10,111 --> 00:51:14,641

Laura: We don't have anything of like,

you know, I've got a croaking device

:

00:51:14,671 --> 00:51:17,191

or some stealth shields or whatever.

:

00:51:17,191 --> 00:51:20,761

It's like I, if I have a window,

you could still see my light,

:

00:51:20,761 --> 00:51:22,321

so I need to turn off my light.

:

00:51:22,381 --> 00:51:23,971

Like, love that.

:

00:51:24,741 --> 00:51:25,161

Xhafer: Mm-hmm.

:

00:51:25,246 --> 00:51:29,386

That it hearkens back to, uh,

the, the, not the pilot, but the

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00:51:29,386 --> 00:51:33,046

first episode 33 too, where they

were trying to look in the, the

:

00:51:33,046 --> 00:51:35,746

windows of the, uh, the, the liner.

:

00:51:35,971 --> 00:51:36,481

Laura: Yeah.

:

00:51:36,931 --> 00:51:38,041

Yeah, it's great.

:

00:51:38,531 --> 00:51:43,601

So we are gonna bring the ship back

and, uh, show it to the president.

:

00:51:44,606 --> 00:51:45,026

Xhafer: Yep.

:

00:51:45,296 --> 00:51:51,356

They, uh, they're celebrating, they reveal

the ship is named after her, and then

:

00:51:51,356 --> 00:51:57,819

they pop some champagne and, uh, racetrack

shakes, kilo's hand commenting on what a

:

00:51:57,819 --> 00:51:59,769

good idea it was for the carbon panels.

:

00:52:00,939 --> 00:52:07,459

And then Adama reveals the common

ground that he found with Sharon.

:

00:52:08,389 --> 00:52:09,829

They both want to live.

:

00:52:10,954 --> 00:52:11,464

Laura: Yeah.

:

00:52:12,394 --> 00:52:13,174

Weird, huh?

:

00:52:15,529 --> 00:52:18,379

Xhafer: And, uh, Tyro goes

to see Sharon to theme.

:

00:52:18,799 --> 00:52:19,279

That's it.

:

00:52:19,984 --> 00:52:22,384

Laura: Oh, this is so worrisome.

:

00:52:22,744 --> 00:52:23,824

So worrisome.

:

00:52:23,824 --> 00:52:28,714

Tyrell has gone to talk to Sharon,

but like, I think we see her pick

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00:52:28,714 --> 00:52:31,804

up the phone first and then he

picks up the phone and that is it.

:

00:52:31,834 --> 00:52:33,784

We have no idea what

they're talking about.

:

00:52:34,069 --> 00:52:35,029

Xhafer: Don't know what happens.

:

00:52:35,314 --> 00:52:35,914

Laura: Nothing.

:

00:52:36,034 --> 00:52:37,414

No idea what's said.

:

00:52:37,984 --> 00:52:39,664

Very concerning.

:

00:52:43,384 --> 00:52:44,374

Oh boy.

:

00:52:44,944 --> 00:52:45,604

Yeah.

:

00:52:45,904 --> 00:52:48,634

So was this one a little more

dramatic than you had remembered?

:

00:52:49,219 --> 00:52:49,759

Xhafer: Yes.

:

00:52:50,764 --> 00:52:54,934

Laura: Yeah, I felt pretty tense at the

end of this one and I was like, well,

:

00:52:54,934 --> 00:52:58,684

you know, not, not at the very end,

but like in, in the climactic moments.

:

00:52:58,958 --> 00:52:59,288

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

00:52:59,873 --> 00:53:02,993

Laura: and I was sitting there

thinking, oh God, everyone keeps

:

00:53:02,993 --> 00:53:06,503

saying 10 is the dramatic one,

and this felt pretty dramatic.

:

00:53:06,533 --> 00:53:08,003

So what the fuck is up?

:

00:53:09,503 --> 00:53:09,893

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

00:53:09,923 --> 00:53:13,463

Well, you know, now, um, and

we'll talk about that in a second.

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00:53:13,803 --> 00:53:15,903

But before we do, we should

probably rate this one

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00:53:16,173 --> 00:53:16,773

Laura: Yeah.

:

00:53:17,493 --> 00:53:19,533

Xhafer: where you're sitting on

a scale of one to 12 colonies.

:

00:53:19,923 --> 00:53:21,783

Laura: Well, I love the Blackbird.

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00:53:22,053 --> 00:53:25,353

I love when we name a ship after a bird.

:

00:53:25,713 --> 00:53:26,823

Big fan of that.

:

00:53:26,883 --> 00:53:29,313

I also love when we name a ship after me.

:

00:53:30,213 --> 00:53:35,981

So I don't, I I really did like the

Blackbird story, that little b story.

:

00:53:36,041 --> 00:53:37,301

Gosh, it was beautiful.

:

00:53:37,936 --> 00:53:38,226

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

00:53:38,841 --> 00:53:42,531

Laura: You know, 'cause we, we have, we,

it starts with just some, some guy, we

:

00:53:42,531 --> 00:53:44,631

don't have a name for that character.

:

00:53:44,631 --> 00:53:44,691

I.

:

00:53:45,426 --> 00:53:47,406

Saying, here, let me

help you with that wing.

:

00:53:48,276 --> 00:53:51,906

And then suddenly we've also got

Dee like working on communications

:

00:53:51,906 --> 00:53:53,436

and Starbuck working on a thing.

:

00:53:53,546 --> 00:53:53,966

Xhafer: Mm-hmm.

:

00:53:54,456 --> 00:53:56,886

Laura: And more and more

people just pile up around this

:

00:53:56,886 --> 00:53:58,536

blackbird throughout the episode.

:

00:53:58,851 --> 00:54:00,501

Xhafer: Everyone lends their expertise.

:

00:54:00,501 --> 00:54:00,831

Yeah.

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00:54:01,026 --> 00:54:05,676

Laura: yeah, everyone's lending their

expertise, what they have, they are

:

00:54:05,766 --> 00:54:11,906

sharing it with the group in a way

that's not forced, you know, because

:

00:54:11,906 --> 00:54:13,916

this is not an official assignment.

:

00:54:14,006 --> 00:54:17,876

Like we are forced to get along and

do things with each other all the time

:

00:54:17,936 --> 00:54:22,436

because we are a military, but we are

electing to do this thing together.

:

00:54:23,426 --> 00:54:26,816

Rosalyn gets a really nice

hopeful speech there at the

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00:54:26,816 --> 00:54:27,296

end.

:

00:54:27,301 --> 00:54:27,501

Xhafer: does.

:

00:54:28,586 --> 00:54:31,681

Laura: It, it is just a little

beautiful piece of stuff.

:

00:54:31,711 --> 00:54:33,661

Um, still dunno how to feel about Sharon.

:

00:54:33,661 --> 00:54:36,181

Probably am not gonna ever

know how to feel about Sharon.

:

00:54:36,211 --> 00:54:39,331

I think I'm coming to peace with that and.

:

00:54:40,376 --> 00:54:40,856

Yeah.

:

00:54:40,916 --> 00:54:45,176

I don't know why, but I found

this one really beautiful

:

00:54:46,136 --> 00:54:46,646

in a way.

:

00:54:46,856 --> 00:54:49,856

So I would give this like a 10.

:

00:54:50,126 --> 00:54:52,676

I don't know that I can

bump into 11 or 12 yet, but

:

00:54:53,141 --> 00:54:53,381

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

00:54:53,696 --> 00:54:55,856

Laura: it, I think we've been

down in the, the like eight or

:

00:54:55,856 --> 00:54:57,956

nines for the last few episodes.

:

00:54:58,511 --> 00:55:02,801

Xhafer: I feel like the, the B

plot of this is the highlight for

:

00:55:02,801 --> 00:55:03,251

sure.

:

00:55:04,061 --> 00:55:10,061

The A plot feels rushed

and also languishing.

:

00:55:10,421 --> 00:55:12,491

Like it's the pacing of it's very off.

:

00:55:12,491 --> 00:55:15,161

It's all like, this is an immediate

emergency, we have to do these things,

:

00:55:15,461 --> 00:55:21,551

but also we're just gonna spend like

45 seconds on a shot of like letting

:

00:55:21,551 --> 00:55:23,951

it just float in the air for a while.

:

00:55:24,791 --> 00:55:28,511

And I just wonder if there's

a lot of drama in the sake for

:

00:55:28,511 --> 00:55:30,431

the sa for the sake of drama.

:

00:55:30,741 --> 00:55:31,161

Laura: Mm-hmm.

:

00:55:32,051 --> 00:55:34,931

Xhafer: And it's just

kind like, I get it guys.

:

00:55:35,921 --> 00:55:36,731

Shit sucks.

:

00:55:37,571 --> 00:55:39,761

I understand, I understand

the base problems.

:

00:55:40,271 --> 00:55:45,611

So I found myself not bored with

this episode, but just kind of

:

00:55:45,611 --> 00:55:47,771

like waiting for it to finish.

:

00:55:47,891 --> 00:55:49,571

Like it felt like return to the king.

:

00:55:49,571 --> 00:55:51,641

Like I thought this episode

was done like three times.

:

00:55:51,821 --> 00:55:53,321

Laura: Uh, yeah,

:

00:55:53,336 --> 00:55:54,566

Xhafer: it's just like, okay.

:

00:55:54,956 --> 00:55:55,526

Okay.

:

00:55:56,096 --> 00:55:56,636

Okay.

:

00:55:57,176 --> 00:56:02,186

And I think if this had been, its,

if a plot had been its own episode

:

00:56:02,186 --> 00:56:05,876

and b plot had been its own episode,

they would be stronger for it.

:

00:56:07,151 --> 00:56:10,691

Laura: I just feel like this B plot's

gotta be buried in something else.

:

00:56:11,156 --> 00:56:11,576

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

00:56:11,711 --> 00:56:12,161

Laura: I, I

:

00:56:12,386 --> 00:56:14,336

Xhafer: have just a a happy episode.

:

00:56:14,576 --> 00:56:14,936

Okay.

:

00:56:15,251 --> 00:56:15,791

Laura: Yeah.

:

00:56:15,791 --> 00:56:18,281

I, I don't know why I feel that way.

:

00:56:18,281 --> 00:56:24,611

I just felt, I loved the juxtaposition

of like, shit sucks and is crazy,

:

00:56:24,671 --> 00:56:29,081

but also, here's the thing I can

control and I'm making it happen.

:

00:56:29,081 --> 00:56:31,811

And then other people are joining

me 'cause they're like, well,

:

00:56:31,871 --> 00:56:33,431

yeah, okay, this seems neat.

:

00:56:35,246 --> 00:56:35,486

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

00:56:35,486 --> 00:56:37,226

So I I, guess a nine,

:

00:56:38,066 --> 00:56:38,276

Laura: Okay.

:

00:56:38,606 --> 00:56:39,746

Xhafer: um, yeah,

:

00:56:40,352 --> 00:56:43,562

10 B plot, nine overall May,

maybe an eight and a half.

:

00:56:43,562 --> 00:56:43,952

I don't know.

:

00:56:44,102 --> 00:56:44,462

Whatever.

:

00:56:45,302 --> 00:56:50,042

Laura: So one of the reasons I watched

episode 10 before we recorded this episode

:

00:56:50,507 --> 00:56:51,977

Xhafer: I mean life.

:

00:56:52,412 --> 00:56:55,052

Laura: well, life, life

is a big part of it, but

:

00:56:55,067 --> 00:56:55,307

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

00:56:55,307 --> 00:56:55,997

You had time.

:

00:56:56,147 --> 00:56:59,057

It was the holiday weekend,

it was over Memorial Day.

:

00:56:59,057 --> 00:57:01,697

You watched a bunch to

get ahead, like Yeah.

:

00:57:02,342 --> 00:57:08,269

Laura: And then another reason was A, the

hype and, and B, I heard that it was going

:

00:57:08,269 --> 00:57:10,939

to be very hard to describe this episode.

:

00:57:11,725 --> 00:57:15,985

Like, because the big thing

happens before the cold.

:

00:57:15,985 --> 00:57:17,125

Like in the cold open.

:

00:57:18,070 --> 00:57:25,000

Xhafer: so I originally, 'cause I've

been like censoring the, the, the notes.

:

00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:25,360

Right.

:

00:57:25,690 --> 00:57:29,080

My initial description of this

episode was not telling you anything.

:

00:57:30,100 --> 00:57:31,840

Laura: You were just gonna be like, sorry,

:

00:57:32,110 --> 00:57:32,440

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,300

I'm just not gonna, I'm no description.

:

00:57:34,300 --> 00:57:35,350

I'm just not gonna say anything.

:

00:57:35,380 --> 00:57:36,400

You just go into this one.

:

00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,313

Uh, because saying anything about.

:

00:57:39,643 --> 00:57:44,353

What happens in this episode because

it, I mean, even just describing the

:

00:57:44,353 --> 00:57:49,903

first moments of this episode are so

monumental for what it means to the story

:

00:57:50,713 --> 00:57:55,003

that just saying it, uh, is too much.

:

00:57:55,513 --> 00:57:57,913

So, but I knew that you

watched it beforehand, so I

:

00:57:57,913 --> 00:57:59,024

actually prepared some, some,

:

00:57:59,353 --> 00:57:59,593

Laura: Okay.

:

00:58:00,290 --> 00:58:05,551

Xhafer: and I am gonna note Ben from

last time on is joining us to Gush about

:

00:58:05,551 --> 00:58:07,561

his giant crush on Michelle Forbes.

:

00:58:09,421 --> 00:58:09,931

Laura: Okay.

:

00:58:10,921 --> 00:58:16,054

Xhafer: So we've got that coming uh,

and then I'm going to read you the exact

:

00:58:16,054 --> 00:58:19,984

description that was on the episode

as I went to preview and see what it

:

00:58:20,279 --> 00:58:20,569

Laura: Okay.

:

00:58:21,514 --> 00:58:24,484

Xhafer: The Battlestar Galactica

was not the only Battlestar

:

00:58:24,514 --> 00:58:26,344

to survive the silent attack.

:

00:58:26,734 --> 00:58:29,674

The Battlestar Pegasus also survived.

:

00:58:30,500 --> 00:58:34,280

Laura: That's about as much as

you can say about that episode

:

00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:37,190

without like, fucking shit up.

:

00:58:37,430 --> 00:58:37,880

Yeah.

:

00:58:38,705 --> 00:58:43,865

Xhafer: I don't even like, I don't

know how you watch just that one

:

00:58:44,645 --> 00:58:46,715

because it's really a, a three parter.

:

00:58:47,180 --> 00:58:48,260

Laura: Oh, it's a three parter.

:

00:58:48,260 --> 00:58:48,680

Okay.

:

00:58:48,710 --> 00:58:54,650

Yeah, no, the, I, I got stuck on not

being able to watch further because

:

00:58:54,650 --> 00:58:58,520

Aaron had to take some work out of

town and we are watching this together.

:

00:58:59,015 --> 00:59:00,410

So, and you know what?

:

00:59:00,410 --> 00:59:03,140

Honestly, I needed some

time to fucking sit with it.

:

00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:10,610

Like I, I am very, very interested in

what happens next, but I'm also extremely

:

00:59:10,610 --> 00:59:13,010

apprehensive about what happens next.

:

00:59:13,310 --> 00:59:14,000

So.

:

00:59:14,934 --> 00:59:16,134

Three parts.

:

00:59:16,164 --> 00:59:17,064

Oh my God.

:

00:59:17,094 --> 00:59:20,124

We just wanna one up Star Trek

a little bit, don't we, Ronnie?

:

00:59:21,084 --> 00:59:24,684

Xhafer: Well, I mean, it's Pegasus

is, is its episode and then the

:

00:59:24,684 --> 00:59:26,994

next two are an actual two-parter,

:

00:59:27,384 --> 00:59:27,774

Laura: Okay.

:

00:59:28,254 --> 00:59:31,074

Xhafer: like named two-parter,

part one, part two.

:

00:59:31,404 --> 00:59:31,974

Laura: Okay.

:

00:59:32,916 --> 00:59:35,016

I'm, I'm stealing myself, listener.

:

00:59:35,436 --> 00:59:40,866

And I, I imagine we're going

to have a very fruitful, very

:

00:59:40,866 --> 00:59:42,456

trigger warning filled discussion

:

00:59:43,491 --> 00:59:44,741

over the next episode.

:

00:59:45,831 --> 00:59:47,136

Xhafer: yeah, some shit happens.

:

00:59:48,276 --> 00:59:50,556

So shit happens over the next

couple episodes and I don't

:

00:59:50,556 --> 00:59:51,726

remember where it all lands.

:

00:59:51,756 --> 00:59:52,206

So

:

00:59:52,476 --> 00:59:52,716

Laura: Yeah.

:

00:59:53,496 --> 00:59:53,976

Xhafer: we'll see.

:

00:59:54,816 --> 00:59:56,916

But before we get there,

:

00:59:57,846 --> 00:59:58,326

Laura: Yes,

:

00:59:58,656 --> 00:59:59,916

Xhafer: we have to say some thank yous

:

00:59:59,961 --> 01:00:00,301

Laura: we do.

:

01:00:01,086 --> 01:00:08,115

Xhafer: and as is tradition on all

this is episode one hundred and

:

01:00:08,361 --> 01:00:09,051

Laura: No,

:

01:00:09,641 --> 01:00:10,403

Xhafer: one

:

01:00:10,461 --> 01:00:11,271

Laura: can't be right.

:

01:00:13,011 --> 01:00:14,091

Xhafer: It's something like that.

:

01:00:14,091 --> 01:00:14,421

Yeah.

:

01:00:14,451 --> 01:00:15,651

We're coming up on two hundo.

:

01:00:16,411 --> 01:00:18,961

We won't hit, we'll hit, we'll hit

200 before the end of the year.

:

01:00:20,176 --> 01:00:20,466

Laura: Nice.

:

01:00:20,701 --> 01:00:25,291

Xhafer: Um, 1 75 is what my notes say.

:

01:00:25,951 --> 01:00:26,641

Is that right?

:

01:00:27,414 --> 01:00:27,984

It must be.

:

01:00:28,104 --> 01:00:28,944

Okay, cool.

:

01:00:28,949 --> 01:00:29,979

Laura: Trust the spreadsheet.

:

01:00:30,984 --> 01:00:32,454

Xhafer: Trust a spreadsheet.

:

01:00:32,484 --> 01:00:34,525

Let me, 1 75.

:

01:00:34,525 --> 01:00:35,665

This is 1 75.

:

01:00:35,995 --> 01:00:36,535

That's cool.

:

01:00:36,830 --> 01:00:37,120

Laura: Nice.

:

01:00:38,275 --> 01:00:40,210

Look at us nailing one

of those cool numbers.

:

01:00:41,220 --> 01:00:41,740

Multiple five.

:

01:00:43,045 --> 01:00:43,735

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

01:00:44,575 --> 01:00:45,355

Big round numbers.

:

01:00:45,685 --> 01:00:49,555

Anyways, as we've done for

175 episodes, we begin by

:

01:00:49,555 --> 01:00:51,265

thanking Jeremy Siegel, Jeremy.

:

01:00:52,435 --> 01:00:53,965

Thank you so much for

composing our theme music.

:

01:00:53,965 --> 01:00:57,385

Appreciate the hell out of it and

appreciate the hell out of you.

:

01:00:57,535 --> 01:00:58,165

Thank you so

:

01:00:58,240 --> 01:00:58,630

Laura: do.

:

01:00:59,500 --> 01:00:59,950

Yeah.

:

01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:03,700

And we also appreciate the hell out of

angry duck time machine who Great gave

:

01:01:03,700 --> 01:01:05,350

us our great little podcast artwork.

:

01:01:05,845 --> 01:01:07,225

Xhafer: Aaron and I said

it once this episode.

:

01:01:07,225 --> 01:01:07,915

I'll say it again.

:

01:01:08,455 --> 01:01:14,875

Best damn editor in the Babylon five

Battlestar Galactica podcast editor space.

:

01:01:15,790 --> 01:01:17,320

Laura: Truly, truly,

:

01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:18,400

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

01:01:19,870 --> 01:01:24,010

Laura: and thanks listener for

being here with us on this crazy

:

01:01:24,010 --> 01:01:26,740

journey that is Battlestar Galactica.

:

01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:27,790

Oh my gosh.

:

01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:31,690

If you need more crazy pop

on over to the Discord.

:

01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:35,140

If you have that, that

good, spoiler crazy.

:

01:01:35,500 --> 01:01:38,290

Go to Spoiler town, ask an admin.

:

01:01:39,010 --> 01:01:39,765

They will get you there.

:

01:01:40,810 --> 01:01:42,730

Then just come hang out with us.

:

01:01:42,760 --> 01:01:46,210

'cause it is actually really

a cool space, a chill space.

:

01:01:46,690 --> 01:01:52,545

We're all great friends and I,

I happen to eavesdrop on some

:

01:01:52,545 --> 01:01:56,835

conversations today about maybe some

real life hangs for some of our folks

:

01:01:57,285 --> 01:01:57,885

coming up.

:

01:01:57,885 --> 01:01:59,385

So that's exciting.

:

01:02:00,585 --> 01:02:00,975

Xhafer: Yeah.

:

01:02:00,975 --> 01:02:02,115

I'm, I'm looking forward to that.

:

01:02:02,655 --> 01:02:02,955

Laura: Yeah.

:

01:02:02,955 --> 01:02:09,105

We, we love when like, this community

internet spills over into real life.

:

01:02:09,435 --> 01:02:10,485

It's so exciting.

:

01:02:11,025 --> 01:02:11,865

Xhafer: It's been a boon

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in my

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Laura: Mm-hmm.

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Truly.

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Xhafer: We'll see you next week.

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Internet.

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Laura: Bye.

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Who Are You?
A Babylon 5 Watchcast
Join Laura and Xhafer, two internet strangers as they get to know each other while making jokes about one of their favorite TV shows from their childhood, Babylon 5.