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==Introductions==
|'''Title'''
<br><Br>[RD_Blade] What's up Internet you're listening to the sixteenth episode of the Series 6 Podcast where we review each and every episode of Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers.  We are your hosts, I'm RD
|'''Episode #'''
<br><Br>[Jay] and I'm Jay and
|'''Writer(s)'''
<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] Dan Fiorella as the beaver
|'''Original Airdate'''
<br><Br>[RD_Blade] get ready to engage your hyperdrives.
|'''Review'''
This time around we'll be reviewing Episode 16 titled the axe but before getting into that I have to show some reverence to our guest co-host Mr. Dan Fiorella as I'm sure our one listener is aware was part of the Galaxy Rangers elite team of writers they were like the SEAL Team 6 of you know the alphabet.
|'''Reviewer'''
<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] Man, I'm just waiting for you to go somewhere with this.  Wait a second, if I'm the listener and now I'm on the show's I mean I'm listening to myself now?
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<br><Br>[Jay] That's about right
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] so Dan how do you feel about being on the podcast?
|'''Phoenix'''
<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] I am a little nervous a little nervous I feel like I'm gonna be found out I lack of sci-fi cred is going to be exposed. I am NOT a big sci-fi guy, frankly my favorite sci-fi movie is Abbot and Costello Go to Mars and then they don't really go to Mars they go to Venus oh yeah so you know I'm distraught and can I ever trust a science fiction movie again?
|Robert Mandell
<br><Br>[Jay] so it was all about you know was all about girls right?
|September 14, 1986
<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] oh yeah
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<br><Br>[Jay] this is what it was completely about
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<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] Always 1950's Bates and yeah but I mean truthfully I was not, I am NOT a sci-fi person. The fact that I wound up writing on the show is very odd to me still.
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] That ok.  You know what we've done 15 episodes of pure sci-fi we could use a little break.
|colspan="6"|The Queen has put a price on the heads of the new race, humans. Captain Kidd sets a trap, snares the Phoenix spaceship with the Foxx family and the Ambassadors Waldo & Zozo aboard. Jessica and Little Zach get away. Zach and Eliza end up captured, Eliza gets turned over to the Crown, the ambassadors bust Zach out, and he gets shot in the process.<br><br>Kidd then helps them get away, as the Queen has double crossed him on payment. Zach gets back to Earth, gets a bionic arm and leg, and the S5 implant. Commander Walsh creates the Series 5 team to help Zach recover his wife and the other humans captured by the Queen. '''
<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] Frankly half the time you guys are talking I'm sitting there going "What is that? What are they talking about?"
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] You know, we're doing like eighties pop-culture references most of the time.
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<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] I'm like I think I heard of that one okay that one sounds familiar yeah GI Joe that was a thing right
|'''New Frontier'''
<br><Br>[RD_Blade] prepare for some more cuz I have some in this episode too
|Robert Mandell
<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] Oh dear...
|October 29, 1986
==Questions Prelude ==
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] I put the word out on Twitter requesting that people direct message me with questions for you and boy did I get results.  I wanted to leave some level of surprise so I didn't name you specifically I vaguely said the questions were for a Galaxy Rangers writer
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<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] so no ad hominem attacks on me
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] as a result no no but nobody's attacking you but as a result I didn't get any Dan Fiorella specific questions... but a metric crap ton of questions came in. Now as a bonus at the end of this episode you told me and Jay the story of how you became a writer on our favorite space western
|colspan="6"|The Rangers go to Tortuna, looking for Captain Kidd, to find out what happened to Eliza. After escaping the Queens trap on Tortuna, Kidd leads them to the Queen's asteroid. They are captured by the Queen, but they can escape with Eliza's comatose body and rescue all the humans intact, but the other half of her psychocrystal is still in the hands of the Queen.
<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] Yes, yes.
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] So with that in mind and in the interest of keeping the podcast from being overly long I'll skip the questions that asked about that. Before we start the interview proper there's a the small matter of the bribe, I mean prize, that I offered listeners in in order to entice them into sending in questions.
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<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] Oh dear..wait WHAT?!
|'''Tortuna'''
<br><Br>[RD_Blade] You are under no obligation.  I however offered them a chance to win an original piece of RD Blade artwork. So here's a list of people that sent in questions and as a result have a chance to win that stick figure I drew.
|Christopher Rowley
<br><Br>[Jay] Excellent!
|September 15, 1986
<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] in number one pencil not even number two
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] <FIX> It's five people got on you from Team Espana, Nocturna Books who gave us our first feedback, Rabbi Bob Series 6 Podcast's biggest enabler
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<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] Enabler, okay...
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] Maria, Rangers superfan also from Team Espana and Dual Mirrored Grid Work
|colspan="6"|Geezi is a snitch, and he has one of the Queen's memory birds (so she doesn't use disks for data storage and retrieval, okay?). The Rangers go back to Tortuna (this time undercover as Zanguils) to buy the bird from Geezi, and they learn about how the Queen has decimated the Gherkin race along the way. Doc almost gets turned into a slaver lord, but you gotta watch it to see how everyone gets away.
<br><Br>[Jay] what?
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] also known as DMG
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<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] okay
|'''Chained'''
<br><Br>[RD_Blade] Now he and I know each other because we both been listeners of the Transmissions podcast for many years and he recently got into the Galaxy Rangers and just discovered our podcast by accident
|Robert Mandell
<br><Br>[Jay] Get out really
|September 18, 1986
<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] The best way.  Wait.  This is your friend who didn't know you're doing a podcast and then stumbles across it?
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] yeah weird coincidence
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<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] That is yeah
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] So anyways I used a certain website to randomize their names okay in no particular order and Dan, as our guest of honor, I'd like you to choose a number from one to five. The person you choose will win a special prize that consists of original artwork by yours truly.  It's honestly like no other work I've done before and I hope they enjoy it.
|colspan="6"|Goose has to transport MaCross to Earth for trial. Lucky, lucky guy. The Black Hole Gang has other ideas, as MaCross apparently hid a stash of Starstones before he was captured, and they want the stones and MaCross back. They attack Goose's interceptor while in hyperspace, and they come out WAY off course, and crash on the frontier planet Ozark. Annie O. finds them, and so do the gang. Goose promises to come back someday, Annie gives him a peck on the cheek, MaCross goes to prison.
<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] Okay, I'll say number five.
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] I gotta look at the picture I just took
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<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] Technology...
|'''Smuggler's Gauntlet'''
<br><Br>[Jay] I know it's me it's me it's me it's me let it be me let it be me let it be me let it be me let it be me
|Brian Daley
<br><Br>[RD_Blade] You didn't even send any in. You can ask him now though...
|October 7, 1986
<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] Employee employees of the podcast are not eligible to enter
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<br><Br>[Jay] What?!
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] That's bull because Rabbi Bob wouldn't be eligible
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<br><Br>[Jay] That's not cool.  
|colspan="6"|Someone has stolen the Supertrooper Juice formula, and it's up to the Rangers to find out who the mysterious "Overboss" is, before the Board of Leaders puts them out of commission.
<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] Well it better not be him man.
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<br><Br>[Jay] It better not be
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<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] No offense Rabbi Bob, but come on..
|'''Mistwalker'''
<br><Br>[RD_Blade] It actually is...
|Lucia Robson
<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] Oh come on! My bad, we love you Rabbi Bob
|October 22, 1986
<br><Br>[RD_Blade] You know I actually owed him a disk because because he damaged one of his uh his vol.1 discs
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<br><Br>[Jay] Oh did he?
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] yeah and I and I promised him I'd make a copy of one in mail it to him and I never did so like the other day on Twitter he posted a picture that he just got it on eBay and stuff I'm like whoops
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<br><Br>[Dan Fiorella] Congratulations rabbi roberts
|colspan="6"|Zach and Zozo are sent to Biste-Fenokee to check up on Audra Miles, an anthropologist studying a aboriginal species on a world where nature is in complete control, and doesn't much like technology. Zach can't deal with the tribe's Shaman, Mistwalker, and is peeved because none of his devices work (bugs in 'em, literally), while the Black Hole Gang are looking for starstones, and aren't going to let any natives get in their way. This one has a great ending.  
<br><Br>[Jay] why did he? You know it's cheaper to buy the whole set
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<br><Br>[RD_Blade] Actually, I think he might have done that you might have gotten the whole set and now he has like a set that's short one disc and he's looking to pawn it off on some fool.
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|'''Wildfire'''
|Henry Beck
|September 23, 1986
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|colspan="6"|On a transport-ship carrying explosives, the Rangers get a distress call from Cody Wildfire Carson, who remembers Zach from when he was just a kid. He's being chased by a Bad Guy called Garret who wants him dead for some crime or another, and asks for sanctuary, which Zach is forced to give. Cody tries to steal Shane's ship operated by Elma in one of the show's most memorable moments, where Elma zaps him and calmly replies "You, sir, are a boob.".  
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|'''Ghost Station'''
|Lance Strate
|October 8, 1986
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|colspan="6"|An artificial planetoid is heading straight for Earth on a collision course, so the Rangers and the ambassadors got try to stop it. A highly sophisticated computer is running the show, and its a horror picture. Using holography, Spek (the computer) is trying to drive them off with one ghost story after another. Everybody splits into teams (horror movie mentality) to see who can get to the control room first. It seems Spek was programmed by some long dead alien race, and can't get out of him programming. He doesn't want to hit earth, but has no choice. Doc "helps" him to self destruct before he can do any damage, and they sadly say good-bye. This episode highly resembles Scooby Doo in a warped way....  
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|'''One Million Emotions'''
|Tom De Haven
|September 19, 1986
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|colspan="6"|The Rangers are in charge of security at an intergalactic art show where a Poe mutant Sensation doll is stolen. The doll is dangerous to humans, indeed to everyone but a Poe, as it holds the emotions of the artist.
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|'''Traash'''
|Christopher Rowley
|October 2, 1986
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|colspan="6"|An extremely aggressive, insectoid new race, the Traash, is blowing up everything in its path (including the Crown destroyers) and Captain Kidd is the only one who knows anything about them. All he has to do is give a little whistle.
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|'''Mindnet'''
|Brian Daley
|September 16, 1986
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|colspan="6"|Killbane breaks into Longshot and steals one of the components of Mindnet, a device that induces psi abilities, for the Queen of the Crown
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|'''Tune-Up'''
|John Rawlins
|October 20, 1986
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|colspan="6"|Q-ball's lab is studying a slew of alien devices, where Buzzwang and little Zach are assigned to do an inventory - except one of the devices isn't quite as inert as it was supposed to be.
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|'''Space Sorcerer'''
|Robert Mandell
|September 22, 1986
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|colspan="6"|Niko gets a distress call from Ictar, a Basuti. The last Space Sorcerer has taken over their planet and is forcing them to dig for Starstones. The Rangers confront him and he disappears in a cloud of smoke, vowing revenge.
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|'''Progress'''
|John Rawlins
|October 23, 1986
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|colspan="6"|The Rangers receive a distress call from a planet with more water than land, so they, and the dolphins, Icarus and Winter, are sent to investigate. Three aliens have restarted an abandoned factory that was polluting the one major land mass, which is making the planet's aquatic natives sick.
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|'''Queen's Lair'''
|Christopher Rowley
|September 17, 1986
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|colspan="6"|The Queen has built a cannon that can destroy a planet, and is trying to hold the League hostage with it. The Rangers are sent in to work with the resistance group on the planet and destroy the weapon. The resistance group is led by Wirwar, whose family is held hostage by the Queen and who tries to free them by handing the Rangers to the Queen. Despite that, they succeed in destroying the Queen's weapon but have to escape in a ship which they discover only has five minutes worth of oxygen.
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|'''The Ax'''
|Dan Fiorella
|October 1, 1986
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|colspan="6"|Old Roy the prospector uncovers an ancient civilization, so Niko and Doc are called in and wind up battling an ancient android programmed to protect the city.
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|'''Shaky'''
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|September 25, 1986
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|colspan="6"|Roy and Burro are back, this time on Shaky, a planet with lots of seismic activity, but possibly a big starstone deposit, and the Black Hole Gang wants the claim.
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|'''Space Moby'''
|Dan Fiorella
|September 24, 1986
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|The Rangers are sent to rid an asteroid belt of giant space whales. But they end up in the middle of a fight between '''SpacePeace''' and a madman, consumed with a vengeful desire to destroy the whales forever.
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|'''Scarecrow'''
|Christopher Rowley
|October 31, 1986
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|colspan="6"|A malevolent spirit is harvested along with the crops on the planet of Grana, and it's up to the Galaxy Rangers Niko and Goose to stop the '''Scarecrow''' before he sows the community's destruction.
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|'''The Power Within'''
|James Luceno
|September 26, 1986
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|colspan="6"|Nimrod grabs the Rangers out of hyperspace, and makes them play his version of the most dangerous game, without their badges. They have to make do as normal, human Rangers.
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|'''Games'''
|Robert Mandell
|October 9, 1986
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|colspan="6"|Lazarus Slade is supplying the General with warriors for his games by kidnapping. He grabbed Doc off an automated space station, and Goose is sent undercover to find out what's going on. Maya has survived the games thus far, and switches sides to help Goose and Doc put Slade and the General out of commission. The General becomes fascinated with Gooseman, believing him to be a metamorph, and the perfect candidate for his cloned army.
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|'''Showtime'''
|John Rawlins
|October 14, 1986
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|colspan="6"|The Kiwis and Andorians, on their way back from a Federation Conference, discover The Orion Flying Circus and Rodeo Show, led by Wild Bill Krebb, and have no idea they are meant to be part of the act.
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|'''Psychocrypt'''
|Robert Mandell & Christopher Rowley
|September 30, 1986
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|The Queen of the Crown uses her half of the Eliza Foxx psychocrystal to lure Zachary Foxx to her Psychocrypt, a facility in a remote area of space. Zachary is captured and used to create the most power psychocrystal ever. Against orders from Commander Walsh, the rest of the Series 5 team must track down Zach with the help of Geezi the Pedulant and rescue him from the clutches of the Queen.
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|'''Renegade Rangers'''
|Cy Voris
|September 29, 1986
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|The Rangers pretend to go bad in order to infiltrate the Black Hole Gang, who are going to try to attack the Longshot research facility. Goose is charged with keeping Daisy O'Mega, the leader of the group of outlaws, distracted after she makes it plain she is attracted to him. They are planning a trap at Longshot, but MaCross, who wanted Daisy for himself, and hates Goose anyway, finds out the plot and mucks up that plan.
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|'''Edge of Darkness'''
|Robert Mandell
|October 3, 1986
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|The Rangers are leading a strike team against the Black Hole Gang at Entropy's Edge, a black hole or wormhole of some sort. During the battle Goose, after knocking out the power source of the Black Hole hideout, is dragged into the black hole. His charge goes nuts and finally he gets spit out at the other end of the wormhole into the Empty Zone. He crashes on Ozark and wakes, unable to control his morphing. Drawn by Annie Oh's cries for help as she is attacked by a Dinosaur and Goose morphs into a monster in order to save her. Annie tries to shield him from the people of Ozark, who have no tolerance for off-worlders, until the other Rangers track him down.
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|'''The Magnificent Kiwi'''
|Robert Mandell
|October 21, 1986
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|The Queen hires Killbane to destroy the Kiwi defense shield because she has learned the remaining members of the Gherkin race are hiding there.
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|'''Armada'''
|Brian Daley
|October 6, 1986
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|Lazarus Slade has outfitted the Queen's armada with hyperdrives, and they are advancing on Earth. Using her powers, Niko is able to find out that the Starstones powering the drives were manufactured by Captain Kidd. Goose and Niko track down Kidd at the old homestead, while Zach and the BETA fleet try to find a weakness in the Crown Armada.
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|'''Birds of a Feather'''
|James Luceno
|October 13, 1986
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|Miller and Moxy, who has apparently gotten over touching the Poe Mutant sensation doll, sneak into Longshot, after the Supertrooper Juice. This episode has the entire rogue's gallery chasing after Bubblehead the Memory Bird, who has accidentally been downloaded with the Supertrooper Juice formula. The Queen wants it; Jackie Subtract wants it; Daisy O'Mega wants it; the Black Hole Gang wants it; and especially, the Rangers want it back.
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|'''Stargate'''
|Chris Rowley
|October 10, 1986
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|BETA gets a message from the rebels on Wollcam. It seems the Queen is back, and is looking for a legendary Stargate, a wormhole leading to a parallel universe. The only person who seems to know anything about it is a Captain Weege, who is the sole crew of a submarine. Weege wants nothing to do with the Rangers, though he does take an interest in Niko. It's an uneasy partnership, as Captain Foxx and Captain Weege can't seem to decide at first who is in charge.
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|'''Buzzwang's Folly'''
|Dan Fiorella & John Rawlins
|November 18, 1986
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|Lazarus Slade has once again teamed up with the Queen of the Crown, and once again they plan an assault on Earth. This time, however, the Queen gives him 500 Plagos for the attack. Plagos lack the good sense God gave sheep. But they might have been successful if they hadn't come up against BETA's brilliant defensive minds. Yes, thanks to an android double of Premier Dutch dispensing knockout gas, Buzzwang, his food dispensing android buddies, the Ambassadors and the Kiwi kids are minding the store, and it's up to them to save the world.
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|'''Heart of Tarkon'''
|Robert Mandell
|October 15, 1986
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|Doc and Niko are sent to Maya's homeworld Tarkon, to prevent a treaty between King Spartos, Maya's father and the Queen of the Crown. In the midst of all this, the mystery of the Heart, a giant computer hidden away in a mountain, is introduced. While Niko investigates the computer with the help of an ancient Shaman, Doc gets to play dress up and even use those fencing lessons he took at Miss Abercrombie's charm school.
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|'''Murder on the Andorian Express'''
|Dan Fiorella & John Rawlins
|October 16, 1986
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|Niko and Doc are on board the luxury liner The Christie trying to track down an assassin hired by the Crown without the use of their implants, because their charges were depleted through foul play.
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|'''Lady of Light'''
|Laurel Davis
|October 17, 1986
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|Mogul the Space Sorcerer summons a powerful entity from a pneumonic universe in order to provide him a power source that would make him the most powerful sorcerer in the galaxy. However, he loses control of the entity, and the Lady of Light crash-lands on a planet in the frontier. She loses her crown of power and begins to lose molecular cohesion. If she doesn't return home soon, the resulting explosion could destroy two universes. Goose, Niko, and Waldo try to avert disaster. Naturally, Mogul and Larry follow to stake their claim on a pneumonic power source.
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|'''Mothmoose'''
|John Rawlins
|October 27, 1986
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|Wild Bill Krebb and his gang are at it again, this time on Kirwin, where they trick a guide into showing them the home of the legendary Mothmoose. Yes, it is in fact a flying moose. According to legend, the harvest depends on the appearance of this creature, and the Kiwi want it back. So, when BETA deems the recovery of the Mothmoose too far down on their emergency list to merit help from the S5's, it's up to Zozo, Waldo, and the Kiwi kids to get it back.
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|'''Natural Balance'''
|Robert Mandell
|October 24, 1986
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|Niko, Doc and Buzz take Zozo, Zach Jr. and the Kiwi kids on a field trip to Mistwalker's home world, and find out the supposedly perfect natural balance has been tipped by Slade.
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|'''Scarecrow's Revenge'''
|Mick Farren
|November 10, 1986
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|Niko and Goose travel to Tarkon after being summoned by Maya when entire villages of frozen, lifeless people are discovered. The Scarecrow is behind it and he is seeking immortality once again. The Scarecrow takes over Maya's mind which gives Niko the perfect excuse to have a good old scrap with her.
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|'''In Sheep's Clothing'''
|James Luceno
|November 3, 1986
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|Lykans, a highly intelligent wolf-like species, are being blamed for the deaths of Bovo 6 cattle on Prairie. Audra Miles, who has been living with the Lykans, calls on Niko to help her prove the Bovo corporation is at fault, and she and Doc are sent to investigate.
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|'''Marshmallow Trees'''
|Robert Mandell & Christopher Rowley
|November 20, 1986
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|While introducing Kiwi marshmallow trees to the planet Grana, the planet's two suns have an adverse effect on the trees, making them complete their entire cycle of growth in one night, not to mention being 100 times their normal size. The planet will be overrun by the trees if a special breed of locusts aren't used to destroy the crop. Unfortunately, the residents of Grana don't think the locusts are a good idea at all. It turns into a free for all, as everyone commandeers everyone else's vehicle trying to stop the Rangers from releasing the locusts.
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|'''Shoot-Out'''
|Robert Mandell
|October 30, 1986
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|The Queen of the Crown holds a gunslinging contest, with Eliza's crystal as the prize.
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|'''Bronto Bear'''
|Christopher Rowley
|October 28, 1986
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|MaCross wants to own the Texacota valley, because it has oil fields, and decides the best way to go about this is to re-enact a Godzilla movie, using the giant sleeping Bronto Bear, and substituting Texacota for Tokyo. The bear, decidedly unhappy about having its winter hibernation disturbed is on a direct course to the city, and it's up to the rangers to give the big lug a sedative and get it back to the Arctic where it belongs while the law enforcement in Texacota handle crowd control.
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|'''Invasion'''
|John Rawlins
|November 4, 1986
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|Zach can't make it in time to '''The Albert Einstein School for Gifted Youngsters Science Fair,''' and his daughter Jessie is upset when big brother Zach Jr. comes in his stead, sure that Dad will be there was soon as he can. However, the fair is suddenly overrun by tiny cowboys and indians armed with mini-blasters, and it's up to the kids to save the day from this toy invasion.
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|'''Rogue Arm'''
|Mick Farren
|November 5, 1986
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|The Queen launches a special psychocrystal through hyperspace. It manages to get on board a new ship of the navy that the Rangers happen to be taking on its maiden voyage tour of the solar system. The crystal takes over Zach's arm, and uses his lifeforce to power itself as it constructs a body out of servo droids. The Rangers have to stop it before it kills Zach.
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|'''Round-Up'''
|James Luceno
|November 6, 1986
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|An investigation leads to a Round Up.
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|'''Aces and Apes'''
|Robert Mandell
|November 7, 1986
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|The Rangers stop on Mesa to repair Space Tug 4, which was pulling a ship outfitted with an experimental Andorian engine that would render current drives obsolete. A space time distortion opens up, and through it comes a mysterious object, which hits the experimental vessel, and both crash on Mesa. The UFO turns out to be Scarecrow. He takes over a riverboat casino gambler, and teams up with Lazarus Slade. Slade is only interested in getting the new drive, while Scarecrow is after immortality.
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|'''Badge of Power'''
|Robert Mandell
|November 11, 1986
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|Lazarus Slade and Mogul combine their forces to create a badge that will duplicate all of the Rangers' unique gifts, stealing the data needed from the BETA computers.
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|'''Boomtown'''
|Dan Fiorella
|November 12, 1986
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|Old Roy McIntyre's at it again! The prospector and Burr-O 5000 are on C-40, yet another planet in his never-ending search for the mother lode. Using his high-tech divining rod and his space-pick, he strikes it rich, uncovering a huge deposit of Starstones. But it isn't long before word spans the galaxy and the '''gold rush''' is on. Beings from all over the universe come to the planet to stake a claim and get rich. Unfortunately, the rush attracts the wrong element as well, like the Black Hole gang, who jump claims and rob the miners of their valuable Starstones. And Capt. Kidd and Squeege, sensing a chance to make a space-buck, naturally show up as well. He's selling blasters and weapons to the bandits who are running roughshod over the planet. This '''boomtown''', a rapidly grown city which sprang up around the mines is on the verge of being a lawless hell-hole. Which is why they request the Galaxy Rangers to come to town.
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|'''Supertroopers'''
|Brian Daley
|November 13, 1986
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|The rogue Supertroopers kidnap Senator Weiner and force him to steal Batch 22, a virus that can destroy all organic life on any planet. They want Gooseman, Dr. Negata and Commander Walsh to meet them at Wolf Den, their old Supertrooper training ground. Long flashback to when Captain Walsh ran the program, how Weiner messed it up and how Gooseman became the man he is today.
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|'''Galaxy Stranger'''
|Tom De Haven
|November 14, 1986
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|A blond, stubbled man in black appears in Frontier looking for Jacob Laramie, who has hired Stingray as muscle to push ranchers and farmers off their land to use as grazing land for his Bovo 9 cattle. Goose, the man with no name, confronts Stingray and Darkstar.
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|'''Lord of the Sands'''
|Mick Farren
|November 17, 1986
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|Zach, Goose and Zozo are stranded on a desert planet in the Empty Zone.
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|'''Changeling'''
|Robert Mandell
|November 25, 1986
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|The Deltoid Rock Prison colony in the Greater Asteroid Field has been taken over by the inmates. The General and his army are holding the command bridge but McCross is leading the Black Hole Gang in an attempt to control the station. The General fires the mighty engines and Deltoid is on the move, headed for a peaceful planet where escape vessels await. Commander Walsh decides to send a Ranger inside to take back control of the station. Q-Ball rigs the charging chamber to amplify Goose's Series Five implant giving Goose the ability to hold the disguise of an alien for three hours. Goose infiltrates the prison and makes his way to the command bridge that is held by the General. Time is running out as Goose must first get through the Black Hole Gang and prove himself against the other outlaws who have taken over the base.
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|'''Promised Land'''
|Robert Mandell
|November 19, 1986
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|Daisy O'Mega and Maya of Tarkon team up to buy weapons on Mesa to outfit the Tarkonian rebels, and discover someone is arming the natives, and it will turn into an all-out range war if the Rangers can't stop them.
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|'''Westride'''
|Lucia Robson
|November 21, 1986
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|The planet Ozark is joining the League, and a land rush is organized for the territory for settlement. Daisy and the Black Hole gang are trying to rig the race. Also in the race are Annie Oh, Roy and Burro, and Cody '''Wildfire''' Carson, who have teamed up to try for the three best claims according to the survey map Roy managed to get hold of.
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|'''Rainmaker'''
|Tom De Haven
|November 24, 1986
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|About an inventor who creates a machine that can create rain.
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|'''Battle of the Bandits'''
|James Luceno
|November 26, 1986
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|Nimrod's back, this time as a Rock singer in a group called the Slaver Lords. But the Queen catches him, and gives him real Slavers for backup singers. She wants to snare all the humans attending the Battle of the Bands, an interstellar rock contest. Larry steals some of Mogul's henchman to form a band, and the Rangers go: moussed, blow dried, and teased within an inch of their lives.
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|'''Rusty and the Boys'''
|Cy Voris
|December 2, 1986
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|Q-ball's new android, Rusty, is quite a sight. Doc is sent to accompany her on her first mission on Basut. There Larry sees Rusty. Larry wants her, but due to a spell go wrong, she only has eyes for Doc. Rusty is eventually destroyed saving Doc's life. He repairs her, but her love is gone.
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|'''Trouble at Texton'''
|Christopher Rowley
|December 3, 1986
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|Dr. Albert Obgrabco is experimenting with particle collisions on Texton moon, trying to prove his theory on parallel universes. Sam the super accelerator computer tries to take over as Obgrabco is clearly nuts, and Obgrabco takes control of the project, introducing a virus to control Sam, who manages to get an SOS off to BETA first. The Rangers get sent, and Obgrabco tries to get rid of them by stranding them in the accelerator chamber. Goose gets trapped inside Sam, a whole is punched through to another universe, and Sam is merged with an extra-dimensional being.
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|'''Horsepower'''
|Robert Mandell
|November 27, 1986
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|Doc and Niko are drawn to a planet in the Empty Zone by a mysterious psychic force. The natives of the world believe Voyager to be a god called Hopi who will help them survive the radical weather changes. It turns out the Queen has a weather control device station on the planet.
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|'''Ariel'''
|Brian Daley
|December 2, 1986
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|Niko's mentor Ariel needs her help, back in Xanadu where Niko was raised as an orphan. The Megamind is loose, and takes Zach. When Niko and Ariel arrive, The Megamind puts them in a surreal landscape made up of Sphinxes and rabbit holes, and they must find their way to the center of the maze and the Megamind.
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|'''Don Quixote Cody'''
|Henry Beck
|November 28, 1986
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|Wildfire has '''Don Quixote Syndrome''' and thinks he's Wyatt Earpp, Phis Morris and his gang are the Clanton brothers, Doc's Doc Holiday, and Niko is a dancehall girl named Louise. Meanwhile, Phis Morris wants Cody's bluefire generator, a shield that can disable any ship that tries to lock on tractors. Note: Name of Cody's ship is the Buchanan and the AI is Roberta (RB).
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|'''Tortuna Rock'''
|Robert Mandell
|December 4, 1986
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|Video queen, Eve Whiner, takes her crew to shoot a music video on the outlaw planet of Tortuna. Promising to make Geezi the Pedulont a video king, Geezi shows the humans the best locations inside Tortuna City. But trouble awaits as Brappo and his gang of alien outlaws kidnap Eve and her crew in an attempt to sell them to the Queen of The Crown. The Galaxy Rangers ride into town to rescue the trapped humans. While the Rangers shoot -it out with the outlaws, Eve shoots the wildest music video this side of the galaxy.
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|'''Fire and Iron'''
|James Luceno
|December 5, 1986
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|Rancit and his gang are threatening farmers to stop the monorail going through. The Rangers are sent to help a woman whose husband was put in hospital. Doc is doing some espionage then gets tied to the monorail with dinky music playing in the background.
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|'''Tower of Combat'''
|Mick Farren
|December 8, 1986
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|The General, an evil alien warlord, is back. He has perfected a matter transportation device to collect an army of lifeforms to serve him. The General tests his device by stealing Doc, Zachery, Zozo and Waldo from the bridge of the BETA battle cruiser, The Laredo. The General sends his challenge to BETA. BETA must send two champions to a specific destination. There the champions will battle their way to the top of a tower. At each level of the tower the champions will face a tougher adversary. If they survive, The General's prisoners will be set free. If the BETA champions fail, they will serve The General in his army. Goose and Niko take up the challenge and arrive at the tower to face The General's most dangerous games.
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|'''Gift of Life'''
|Robert Mandell
|December 9, 1986
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|The Rangers investigate a mysterious call from the man who raised Goose.
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|'''Sundancer'''
|Robert Mandell
|December 10, 1986
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|'''Heartbeat'''
|Robert Mandell
|December 11, 1986
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|'''Back on Tarkon, where the Tarkonians live under a strict belief that technology is ill-fated and its use forbidden among its people, Ranger Walter ''''''Doc'''''' Hartford is trying to convince King Spartos to heed his warnings. Doc has brought information stating that the Queen of the Crown is mounting an attack on Tarkon and that the only thing that can save them is to awaken ''''''the Heart of Tarkon.''''''
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Latest revision as of 20:54, 17 November 2018

Introductions



[RD_Blade] What's up Internet you're listening to the sixteenth episode of the Series 6 Podcast where we review each and every episode of Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers. We are your hosts, I'm RD

[Jay] and I'm Jay and

[Dan Fiorella] Dan Fiorella as the beaver

[RD_Blade] get ready to engage your hyperdrives. This time around we'll be reviewing Episode 16 titled the axe but before getting into that I have to show some reverence to our guest co-host Mr. Dan Fiorella as I'm sure our one listener is aware was part of the Galaxy Rangers elite team of writers they were like the SEAL Team 6 of you know the alphabet.

[Dan Fiorella] Man, I'm just waiting for you to go somewhere with this. Wait a second, if I'm the listener and now I'm on the show's I mean I'm listening to myself now?

[Jay] That's about right

[RD_Blade] so Dan how do you feel about being on the podcast?

[Dan Fiorella] I am a little nervous a little nervous I feel like I'm gonna be found out I lack of sci-fi cred is going to be exposed. I am NOT a big sci-fi guy, frankly my favorite sci-fi movie is Abbot and Costello Go to Mars and then they don't really go to Mars they go to Venus oh yeah so you know I'm distraught and can I ever trust a science fiction movie again?

[Jay] so it was all about you know was all about girls right?

[Dan Fiorella] oh yeah

[Jay] this is what it was completely about

[Dan Fiorella] Always 1950's Bates and yeah but I mean truthfully I was not, I am NOT a sci-fi person. The fact that I wound up writing on the show is very odd to me still.

[RD_Blade] That ok. You know what we've done 15 episodes of pure sci-fi we could use a little break.

[Dan Fiorella] Frankly half the time you guys are talking I'm sitting there going "What is that? What are they talking about?"

[RD_Blade] You know, we're doing like eighties pop-culture references most of the time.

[Dan Fiorella] I'm like I think I heard of that one okay that one sounds familiar yeah GI Joe that was a thing right

[RD_Blade] prepare for some more cuz I have some in this episode too

[Dan Fiorella] Oh dear...

Questions Prelude



[RD_Blade] I put the word out on Twitter requesting that people direct message me with questions for you and boy did I get results. I wanted to leave some level of surprise so I didn't name you specifically I vaguely said the questions were for a Galaxy Rangers writer

[Dan Fiorella] so no ad hominem attacks on me

[RD_Blade] as a result no no but nobody's attacking you but as a result I didn't get any Dan Fiorella specific questions... but a metric crap ton of questions came in. Now as a bonus at the end of this episode you told me and Jay the story of how you became a writer on our favorite space western

[Dan Fiorella] Yes, yes.

[RD_Blade] So with that in mind and in the interest of keeping the podcast from being overly long I'll skip the questions that asked about that. Before we start the interview proper there's a the small matter of the bribe, I mean prize, that I offered listeners in in order to entice them into sending in questions.

[Dan Fiorella] Oh dear..wait WHAT?!

[RD_Blade] You are under no obligation. I however offered them a chance to win an original piece of RD Blade artwork. So here's a list of people that sent in questions and as a result have a chance to win that stick figure I drew.

[Jay] Excellent!

[Dan Fiorella] in number one pencil not even number two

[RD_Blade] <FIX> It's five people got on you from Team Espana, Nocturna Books who gave us our first feedback, Rabbi Bob Series 6 Podcast's biggest enabler

[Dan Fiorella] Enabler, okay...

[RD_Blade] Maria, Rangers superfan also from Team Espana and Dual Mirrored Grid Work

[Jay] what?

[RD_Blade] also known as DMG

[Dan Fiorella] okay

[RD_Blade] Now he and I know each other because we both been listeners of the Transmissions podcast for many years and he recently got into the Galaxy Rangers and just discovered our podcast by accident

[Jay] Get out really

[Dan Fiorella] The best way. Wait. This is your friend who didn't know you're doing a podcast and then stumbles across it?

[RD_Blade] yeah weird coincidence

[Dan Fiorella] That is yeah

[RD_Blade] So anyways I used a certain website to randomize their names okay in no particular order and Dan, as our guest of honor, I'd like you to choose a number from one to five. The person you choose will win a special prize that consists of original artwork by yours truly. It's honestly like no other work I've done before and I hope they enjoy it.

[Dan Fiorella] Okay, I'll say number five.

[RD_Blade] I gotta look at the picture I just took

[Dan Fiorella] Technology...

[Jay] I know it's me it's me it's me it's me let it be me let it be me let it be me let it be me let it be me

[RD_Blade] You didn't even send any in. You can ask him now though...

[Dan Fiorella] Employee employees of the podcast are not eligible to enter

[Jay] What?!

[RD_Blade] That's bull because Rabbi Bob wouldn't be eligible

[Jay] That's not cool.

[Dan Fiorella] Well it better not be him man.

[Jay] It better not be

[Dan Fiorella] No offense Rabbi Bob, but come on..

[RD_Blade] It actually is...

[Dan Fiorella] Oh come on! My bad, we love you Rabbi Bob

[RD_Blade] You know I actually owed him a disk because because he damaged one of his uh his vol.1 discs

[Jay] Oh did he?

[RD_Blade] yeah and I and I promised him I'd make a copy of one in mail it to him and I never did so like the other day on Twitter he posted a picture that he just got it on eBay and stuff I'm like whoops

[Dan Fiorella] Congratulations rabbi roberts

[Jay] why did he? You know it's cheaper to buy the whole set

[RD_Blade] Actually, I think he might have done that you might have gotten the whole set and now he has like a set that's short one disc and he's looking to pawn it off on some fool.

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