nice find, hope the channel keeps uploading more, especially like that there are new ones (as far as youtube goes) in there about ancient history

I tried to listed to RWN a few times about a year ago but just didn’t quite click. They seemed informed but their judgement about the big picture was lacking. It sounded like they were avoiding takes they knew would be controversial among their listeners.

He’s following a similar path as Elon, trying to convince the public he’s this tech visionary, TMK podcast did a little riff on his history, according to them he hasn’t actually done that much himself, it’s more about being in the right place at the right time and then doing self-marketing

yeah… the tech’s not really cutting edge… they also said Google didn’t want to go ‘public beta’ with it like OpenAI did because they were worried about bad press and potential damage to their brand name if someone made the bot say something controversial

Found the episode where they talked about it.

cool didn’t know he plays disco sets, need to check them out, modern disco type stuff is my fav sub-genre for an upbeat kind of vibe ( and psy-ambient for downbeat one )

I’m a bit surprised they went easy on the last episodes. I agree that S3 wasn’t bad like season 1 and 2, but I still thought it was weighted down by an obligation to do nostalgia and fan service. I thought eps 1-4 of season 3 were a really good modern TNG movie (they even had a plot excuse for the dark set lighting), and then eps 9 and 10 tried to be another movie but it felt too unreal, too many fantastic shortcuts. The cast still has their old chemistry though and it was nice to see them handle those nostalgic scenes.

They could have done this reunion when the cast was younger but also I think it was needed right now because the trek universe is being used to drive interest to their streaming service, so the streaming wars made the bigger spend on a reunion season worth it for the company.

Also were trek fans always so obsessed with little details like ship designs/ship names/officer ranks?

One positive outcome of all this is it got me re-watching some good old DS9 again.

so… where will Jimmy Dore get new viewers from now?

It’s been nice to finally do a re-watch of DS9 to wipe away the mediocrity of recent nu-trek. Sisko, Kira, and Quark are so on point right from the first episodes.

btw I heard a podcast about that episode where Nana Visitor said at the time (ealry 90s?) people from production were complaining to her that she’s taking the character too seriously and that she wasn’t traditionally feminine enough in the portrayal, and that Avery Brooks was one of the few encouraging her to keep doing her version of the character