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pipe than containers. But here's the only question that I ask, is this: Could you create a situation with a heat chimney on a hill—because it's easier to build it on a hill because you don't need to support it. You know, laying something down on the ground is easier than building a structure a mile high, right? You just lay it there. Now would you be able to get enough airflow to power a CO2 scru…
← Previous segment →tell you just a little that actor's story. So the reason I was invited to be on the show as sort of a guest character was because I'd said it was my favorite show at the time. So they liked it. I said that in public, so they invited me to be on as a character.
Yeah, Jerry Doyle was the name of the actor. And I did my lines a few times and blew them even though it was like two lines. You know, if you're not an actor it's a lot of pressure to get that right. And I finally got the line right, but it happened to be exactly when the entire cast decided to prank me. So it ruined the scene. So I forget the details. I think they all—the rest of the cast, of which there were just lots of them, you know, because it was in a cafe scene where there'd be lots of extras and stuff—so they were waiting till some part of the scene, and then everybody just rushed us. Like it was just like this big crowd just rushed. And it was just a prank to play on the new guy.
But I think that was the first time I got the line right. They ruined the scene, but I eventually got it.
Yes, and they did not hand me a hot gun. These pretzels are making me thirsty. What's that from? Oh yeah. The Minbari were the best aliens ever. If you haven't—by the way, I'll tell you my favorite scene. I'm blanking on the name of the showrunner who wrote—I think he wrote every episode, this one guy. And there was one bit of the writing that I just thought was brilliant.
There was a scene in this TV show in which the Minbari—you know, the head Minbari person—was almost killed in an attack. But it turned out it was Minbari who was trying to kill their own Minbari leader. And the person who stopped it decided not to tell the leader who it was that was behind the attack. And the reason was he didn't want the leader to think less of the people she was leading and therefore kept that information from her because he didn't want to ruin his leader by turning her against her own people. And I really—I just love that part of the scene.
I'm watching Dune right now. I'm three quarters through it. I can't watch a whole movie at once, but the original Dune was maybe one of the worst films ever made. I tried to watch that so many times, and you get—it's just so slow. But the new one, it looks like they fixed the bad parts. It's good. I'm enjoying it.
All right. Looks like it's time for us to say goodbye. And it's kind of a slow-ish news day. How was this episode? I can never tell. All right, some people liked it on Locals. Good. Just looking at your comments. Oh, okay. Well, on Locals people liked it. How about YouTube? Sophistry hour. You know, the sophistry people. I don't know. There's something wrong with everybody who uses that insult. I don't know if anybody has ever accused anybody of sophistry without themselves being defective in some way. Maybe. I don't know. I think usually it's a cognitive dissonance when people use that word because there's something that they didn't agree with that they have t
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o imagine there's something wrong with the speaker. And sophistry is one of those words you could just throw in there because you don't have to defend it. Well, I don't have to defend it. It's just sophistry. Soporific is the word. Oh, I lost you on the heat chimney stuff. I remember the heat chimney stuff wasn't serious, but I thought it would be interesting to learn a couple of concepts. If you…
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