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Two cronies do a sponsorship for the ICC, come up with acronyms then conspiracy theories, compare themselves to the Star Trek podcast big leagues, and debate the merits of learning to ride a bike during war time.

Reuploaded with better audio on 10/3/25. Geez, who the hell was in charge of editing the original, am I right?

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Two mates talk about baseball generally and catchers especially, Grabadbullah the Blue Wizard, who's gonna sacrifice themsleves, pull off a poetic outro, recap the monomyth of Albert watching YouTube, Jesper creates some drama. Hey, hasn't Jesper talked about the Aeneid and old operas for ages and ages in previous episodes? Eh, never mind, that can't possibly be an indication of his megalomaniac hypocricy. I guess my thing was much stupider after all.

[Explanatory notes]

Brent Spiner fact from "THAT'S NOT ENTIRELY ACCURATE | PRETTY GOOD, EPISODE 15", by Jon Bois for Secret Base.

Our starting new seasons all the time might be messing up the UI on your podcatching app. I just listen on Spotify so it's not a problem there. But if it is for you, just let me know and I'll turn off the season thing on our side of the fence. And the seasons can just be in our hearts.

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Two hermanos talk about time travel again and theorize on first contact again again again, debate the fine points of terraforming, give an exclusive insight into the pod's production, run through the story of Tiffany the psycho killer/charming scientist, and look at the USS Enterprise from an intersectional point of view. Albert loses an inhuman amount of money.

[Notes]

It took me about 30 days more than I was planning to edit this episode. Wish I could say I was swamped down in work, but really I was just enjoying the not-working-on-anything. At this pace it would take us one too many decades to get through this movie, so I can basically promise that we won't take this long of a break again. We're hoping to get to a weekly or almost-weekly schedule for the foreseeable future, but that's a hope and not a promise. Also, Jesper still hasn't made a bluesky account, so who's really the slow one? ~ Albert

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Two hombres talk about David Data, analyze military strategy again, reminisce over Picard's lost love, discover the chemical makeup of the borg cube, review some modern art, bungle a bit about discrimination of indigenous people, when a Trojan War (see what I did there) cuts the episode short.

[Explanatory notes]

Here's the art project we discuss: https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/seizure/.

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One iconic duo talks about the Kennedy Assassination, the Dodgy Dossier, Epcobbles, space war strategy, Klingon catchphrases, inter-species marriage, Albert accidentally alliterates, and for a very brief moment, they talk about minute 12 of Star Trek: First Contact.

[Explanatory notes]

For the best listening experience, please read up on the build up to the Iraq War before listening to this episode.

Kull et al. *Misperceptions, the the media, and the Iraq War*. Pol. Sci. Quarterly. 2023(118).

Casey [ed.]. *The Blair Legacy: Politics, Policy, Governance, and Foreign Affars*. 2009.

Isikoff and Corn. *Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War*. 2006.

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Two pals initiate season 2, criticise bad ship design, identify a gap in the literature, list 20 potential alarms, provide the definitive ranking of the ten first minutes (this is the biggest chunk), dunk on a battle scene, try to figure out who the guys on the destroyed ship are with absolutely no information to guide them, and complain about Mister Data. Jesper is really into boats.

Jesper's Star Trek fact is from a video from Semi-Ramblomatic: "The Rise of the Dad Game".

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