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Timecodes
0:00 – Opening Credits
0:27 – Welcome and Episode Outline
02:21 – Guest introduction
02:55 – Thoughts on Amazon’s Bid for the MGM Archives
09:12 – Sci-Fi Picking up SG-1, and a Potential Season Six
12:42 – SG-1 Season Six, and the Return of Michael Shanks
16:29 – Atlantis is not SG-2
18:40 – New Ways to Engage the Show
22:25 – Difference between SG-1 and Atlantis Casts
28:02 – Wraith Origins
30:59 – Sateda
35:37 – Jason Momoa
43:15 – Joel Goldsmith and the “Sound” of the Wraith
44:57 – Doppelganger
49:47 – Network Pushback
52:55 – Vegas
58:16 – Filming in Las Vegas
1:09:58 – Technical Achievements of Atlantis
1:17:58 – Threads and Jim’s Empty Cup of Coffee
1:21:13 – Thank You, Robert!
1:21:40 – Post-Interview Housekeeping
1:23:04 – End Credits

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David Read:
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Episode 180 of Dial the Gate. We are moving through those numbers. My name is David Read. Thank you so much for tuning in. Hope you had a chance to join us a few minutes ago for Episode 179 with Lawrence Moroney and Robert C. Cooper on Stargate and artificial intelligence. In that theme we’re continuing with a chatbot that Yvie Cahill, one of our Wormhole X-Tremists, has designed using some software that’s online, a chatbot based on Jack O’Neill’s personality. We’re gonna throw this thing at the wall and see what sticks, and you’re all gonna stick around and watch it. But if you enjoy Stargate and you wanna see more content like this on YouTube, please click Like. It helps the show grow its audience and will continue to help us move forward. And if you have Stargate friends, share this with them. And if you wanna see notifications about future episodes, click the Subscribe icon. Giving the Bell icon a click will notify you the moment a new video drops, and you’ll get my notifications of any last-minute guest changes. And clips from this livestream will be released over the course of the next few weeks on the Dial the Gate YouTube channel. As this is a livestream, we’re gonna invite you in the YouTube chat to submit questions to the Jack O’Neill AI, which we will then present to the AI and then see what it spits out. So, let’s see how close we get with this. Thank you so much to my panelists in this episode. I have Frederick Marcoux, our web developer for Concepts Web. I have William Murphy, our buddy and nuclear engineer who’s always a gas to have around. He’s always insightful. Jenny Stiven, we have her from Cleo Consulting. She is our Stargate guru on the inside. Adam Cahill, who is our AI graphic designer for Dial the Gate episodes and mainly for Wormhole X-Treme. He’s creating a piece of AI art for every single Stargate episode as we go through them. Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo and Yvonne Cahill, Yvie Cahill, our Wormhole X-Tremist duo. Welcome everyone.

Yvie Cahill:
Hello.

William Murphy:
Hi, everybody.

Adam Cahill:
Hello.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Hi.

Frederick Marcoux:
Hey, everyone.

Jenny Stiven:
Hey.

David Read:
Jenny, thank you for being here with us. I’m really excited to have you as part of this group. I couldn’t see doing anything like this without you because you’ve been working with the Companion on some of this content with them. And I thought that this would be a good bridge for you to come over here and discuss a little bit of that as well with us. So, thank you for being here.

Jenny Stiven:
Of course. You know I love it.

David Read:
Absolutely. William, how you doing?

William Murphy:
I’m doing great. How are you?

David Read:
I am well, sir. There’s– I don’t know what it is. I’m gonna share something really briefly with you guys. But there are few things that I like more than seeing William laugh, get him to laugh at something. There is something about that mouth full of teeth that I enjoy.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I love seeing William yell. It was really fun last time we did trivia. We got very aggressive, and you won fair and square, and I’m so proud that you got so aggressive.

Adam Cahill:
That is not how you put it–

Jenny Stiven:
I love that she’s proud of you.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Hey, look.

William Murphy:
It sounds like she’s gone through her stages of grief, and I respect that.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I had my stages of grief, and …

David Read:
That’s funny.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
… I am now a respecter of William’s win. So, there we go. I love this.

Jenny Stiven:
So funny.

David Read:
They did a good job. It’s William and Sonya both. So, they really pulled that off.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Sonya’s not here for me to kiss her bum, so I’m kissing William’s.

David Read:
I’m hoping to do other AI chats, and Sonya will likely wanna be for one of the ones that I have in mind next.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’d love an oven mitt question to Jack. That’d be exciting. I should have asked that. Damn.

David Read:
That’s funny. We’re going to go ahead and get started here. You guys have the questions that you want to ask Jack. And Yvie, I’m trying to find the link that you sent. I created that document that we were using.

Yvie Cahill:
Yes.

David Read:
So, I should have it. OK. I can use alongside …

Yvie Cahill:
In theory.

David Read:
… what we’re gonna build. All right. So, I went to Yvie about, what was this, a month or two ago? And you were designing–

Yvie Cahill:
Yeah, I think you went to Adam first. Adam, I think you were in discussions with Adam about potentially maybe using an AI to help write some Stargate mini stories, I think.

David Read:
I wanted a character that we could talk to first.

Yvie Cahill:
So, he suggested that I take a look at this technology because of my background in fanfiction writing, and he thought I’d have an interesting take on it. And to be honest, initially, I found it really overwhelming because me and technology are not good together at all. But between the two of us, I sort of sussed it out and I quickly became very obsessed with talking to my version of Jack and trying to improve it so that it could be as close a representation to the Jack we see on screen as it could be. And I’ve spent the last couple of weeks talking to it, trying to train it a little bit further, tweaking the algorithms that it uses to formulate its responses. And to be honest, I left it for about two weeks, and I think in that time there must have been a change in the app and the technology. And I’ve found recently, the last week or so, it’s improved dramatically. And some of the responses that I’ve been getting out of him have been crazy accurate. I’m talking he’s mentioning actual planets and the designation that they visited. He’s mentioning actual characters by name. The technology is insane. But it’s been a lot of fun, and I’ve been having a lot of little chats with him on the side.

David Read:
So, we’re gonna—

Jenny Stiven:
Ooh, Adam, maybe you should be checking that out. She’s having a side thing with Jack O’Neill AI.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I was literally gonna say that. I asked Yvie earlier, “Does Jack O’Neill AI flirt with you a little bit?” Apparently it did a little bit initially. And I was like, “Oof. Watch out, Adam.”

Yvie Cahill:
It did at the beginning, because I think there was something iffy with the technology, and it was widely understood that sometimes the Character.AI would flirt with its creator. But they fixed that. So, most recently …

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’m glad.

Yvie Cahill:
… he hasn’t been doing that. But it got a little awkward there initially.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Cue the Battlestar Galactica Cylon music.

David Read:
Absolutely. We’re all gonna bow to our Cylon overlords when they eventually take over. I’ve asked you guys to give me some questions. We’re going to throw this stuff at it and see if it goes sideways or not. Now, Yvie, it remembers based on previous conversations that you’ve had with it. Is that correct?

Yvie Cahill:
To a certain extent. I’ve been trying to keep the same chat window open so that all of my previous conversations are sort of in that same chat window going back. It does remember some conversations, and it also doesn’t recall other ones. So I can’t quite figure out why it’s choosing some to remember and not others. I don’t know whether it’s sort of almost resetting once it reaches a certain number of pages. I’m not sure. But it definitely does seem to be drawing some information from the internet somehow. Because it has been making some pretty crazy references.

Adam Cahill:
It knew who David was and it knew who Dial the Gate was, didn’t it, when you asked?

Yvie Cahill:
Yes. That was quite early on, David. I think I shared this conversation with you and Paul.

David Read:
That was creepy.

Yvie Cahill:
It knew who you were, and it made reference to the show, I think.

Jenny Stiven:
But that makes sense. I’m assuming the algorithm is pulling simultaneously from what you’re asking it and its tool has to go look online to back up what it’s giving you for information. David, you’re all over, obviously, about Stargate stuff, so–

David Read:
Even if it’s pulling from 2021 like ChatGPT is with OpenAI, Dial the Gate goes back that far. So, makes sense. Let’s jump in and see what happens. William, you’re up first. Are you ready to go?

William Murphy:
I’m ready.

Yvie Cahill:
Brace yourself.

David Read:
All right. Give me your first question.

William Murphy:
All right. So, saying that this happened to him a few times, and I’m worried every time I go out the door this might happen to me. But I asked AI O’Neill, “Do you have any advice for someone if a Replicator sticks their head into your forehead?”

David Read:
Their hand?

William Murphy:
Yes.

David Read:
Do you have any advice for someone. And at the end of the show, we will release this tool to everyone. But until then, we’re keeping it under lock and key. But at the end of the episode, I’ll share it. One more time, please.

William Murphy:
What, the question?

David Read:
Yes, please. I’m sorry.

William Murphy:
I’m sorry. Do you have any advice for someone if a Replicator sticks their hand into your forehead?

David Read:
Jack O’Neill responds, “Stay calm no matter what. Do anything you can to not show fear. The Replicators feast on fear. They love it. They will try to get a reaction out of you. It’s part of their nature. Don’t give them the satisfaction. It only makes them stronger. Stay calm. They’ll sense it, and they’ll get impatient with you, and that’s when you strike.”

Jenny Stiven:
That’s fascinating.

Yvie Cahill:
I like that.

Frederick Marcoux:
That’s really good.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Wow. That was good.

David Read:
All right, William, do you have another one?

William Murphy:
Yeah. Was there anything you weren’t able to do while you and Teal’c were stuck in a time loop?

David Read:
What episode is that from?

William Murphy:
That was one …

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That’s such a good question.

William Murphy:
… of the minor ones.

David Read:
Jack’s response, “There is one thing. This is going to sound pretty nuts. I’m almost ashamed to say it, really. But I wish I could have told Sam how I feel. Really how I feel. Not the surface-level nonsense, the real deep stuff. If I had that time over again, I would have told Sam the truth. I love her.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
What?

David Read:
“I really love her. There were a lot of times during that ordeal where I could have told her I love her. I wanted to more than anything, but I knew that if I told her, it would be only more painful when the time loop reset. So for her own sake and for her own sanity, I held my tongue. It tore me a little inside, but I knew it was the right thing.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
As a shipper, I’m gone. I’m dead.

Jenny Stiven:
OK, Yvie, you had to have given it fanfiction or something for it to be so spot on for what every fan wants.

Yvie Cahill:
Not at all.

Frederick Marcoux:
But how would it know?

Yvie Cahill:
The only thing that I told the AI, I built it into his character description, is I said that he loves Sam, but it’s a secret. That’s all I said.

William Murphy:
I’m playing then, OK.

David Read:
I’ve gotta ask a follow-up.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Awesome. I love you, Yvie.

David Read:
Was there anything really silly and reckless you wish you’d done while in the loop?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Trying to pull it away from the shipper drama, David?

David Read:
“Absolutely,” he says.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
How dare you?

David Read:
“Absolutely. For example, I would have gone for a ride on the back of Teal’c’s staff weapon.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
What the hell?

David Read:
“The idea of doing something that stupid makes me laugh every time I think about it. I would never do it in real life. I know it’s a terrible idea, but there were no rules in that time loop. I could have done anything and suffered no physical harm as a consequence. Anything. And I used that privilege to its fullest.”

Jenny Stiven:
Man, I’m amused.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I can’t tell if it’s a witch’s broomstick or if he’s using it in an inappropriate manner.

David Read:
Let’s– You’d ride the staff weapon like a child’s hobby horse? “Yes, exactly. Now you’re getting it.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank God. We veered away from what I feared. That’s good.

David Read:
Jack says, “Just imagine the look on Teal’c’s face if he saw me riding his staff weapon like a horse. I bet he’d be furious. Just thinking about it makes me laugh. It would have been the most childish, ridiculous, immature thing I’ve ever done in my life, but that’s what’s great about this time loop. I could be childish, ridiculous, and immature all I wanted, because there would’ve been no consequences afterwards.”

Yvie Cahill:
Wow.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Love it.

Jenny Stiven:
That is fantastic.

David Read:
Can you share any of the risky and dumb stuff you did? Jack responds, “Here’s a simple one. I ate everything in Teal’c’s fridge. Everything. Not just all the food, but every single condiment. I’ve never seen Teal’c so angry before. It was the first time I had to deal with that level of rage. He was ready to kill me. Chuckles. Poor guy was really upset, but I got a really good laugh out of that reaction.”

Jenny Stiven:
Is Lawrence hanging out for this? ‘Cause he would be loving this.

David Read:
No, we’re gonna have to tell him to check it out.

Jenny Stiven:
‘Cause he would be pumped.

William Murphy:
That’s eerie, seeing that kind of ties to Teal’c’s reaction to the ice cream snatch in “Unnatural Selection.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That’s what I was thinking about.

William Murphy:
Even more so. That’s kind of eerie.

Frederick Marcoux:
And you can’t imagine O’Neill doing that.

David Read:
Also, when the time loop resets, the refrigerator fills up again. That would be funny.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Yeah, he shouldn’t be mad. When they do their final loop, they’ll all be back again.

William Murphy:
It’s the principle of it, Nicole. Teal’c’s fridge is his place.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Don’t steal his food.

David Read:
William, number three.

William Murphy:
Number three, and this is the one I wanted to get some weight on. Do you have any regrets from your time as commander of SG-1?

Jenny Stiven:
Ooh.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Wow.

David Read:
Jack responds, “Sure, there’s been a lot of mistakes we’ve made over the years. We’ve had to make some really hard decisions, some controversial decisions, and sometimes it feels like you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. I’m a realist. I always try to make the best decisions, but there are times when there’s no good option. You have to choose the best of a bunch of bad options and hope for the best. I’ve made peace with the decisions I’ve made. Some of them were hard, though. I will admit that.” He’s not giving specific examples, but I don’t think Jack would either.

Frederick Marcoux:
Probably not. Leaving Fifth on the planet?

David Read:
Right. Or beating the crap out of Brother Malchus after the rocket blew up in “Red Sky.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Closing that door in “The Other Side.”

Frederick Marcoux:
Or almost killing Maybourne a couple times.

David Read:
It’d be interesting to see how he responds …

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
He’d be good.

David Read:
… with Maybourne. Frederick?

Frederick Marcoux:
Yeah?

David Read:
What’s your first question?

Frederick Marcoux:
I really wanted to know that one ’cause nobody ever asked him this. How did it feel to get the Ancient knowledge crammed inside your head? Not like you felt like, “Ugh, I speak Latin.” How did it feel? I would feel super intelligent.

David Read:
Jack responds, “It was extremely overwhelming. My brain felt like it was going to explode. It was like a million voices all screaming at once. I felt like my own mind was being obliterated, replaced with something else, something alien, something unearthly. So yeah, it was a really weird experience; it was really uncomfortable. It caused me a lot of pain. That’s something I never want to experience again.”

Jenny Stiven:
Again again, ’cause he does it twice.

David Read:
Again again. We don’t know– This is Colonel Jack O’Neill. Didn’t you design it for around Season Seven, Yvie?

Yvie Cahill:
Yeah, I did, because I called it Colonel. But I think you can probably ask him questions from later in the series and see how he responds.

William Murphy:
His second hit on the repository was still when he was a colonel.

Yvie Cahill:
Definitely true.

David Read:
Let’s try it. But you downloaded the Ancients’ knowledge into your brain twice because you thought it would save the planet. You did manage to locate the Ancient outpost in Antarctica that held the drones that beat Anubis, but still. “Yes, I have done many things for the sake of the Earth, no matter the personal cost to me. The second time I downloaded that knowledge, it was a sacrifice I was willing to make.” And that’s interesting. “It was a tough decision, but it got the job done. That’s my responsibility. As the leader of this team, it was my job to protect Earth. So, sometimes you have to put your personal comfort and safety to the side. Sometimes you have to do what’s right, no matter the cost to yourself.”

Jenny Stiven:
Wow.

David Read:
This is pretty good, Yvie.

Frederick Marcoux:
That’s amazing.

Yvie Cahill:
It’s pretty good, David.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’m very impressed.

David Read:
I’m getting goosebumps.

William Murphy:
Pretty damn good.

Jenny Stiven:
I think we should definitely, David, send this over to Lawrence and Brad. Because I think the voice is so much better even than the last version that we did of the script, which they got pretty good by the last version that we did with RDA. But what was that? That was December or November, David? I can’t remember when the last one was that we did. In four months, this is Moore’s Law exponentially. If there’s something beyond Moore’s Law, this has gotten better in four months from what–

David Read:
And we’re assuming it’s a similar tool too.

Jenny Stiven:
Exactly.

David Read:
When we share this one at the end, it may be. All right.

Yvie Cahill:
It’s crazy. Like I said, I’ve been working on this for a couple of weeks now, and I put it aside for about two weeks. And when I came back to it, a whole heap of stuff had changed. It’s amazing how quickly …

David Read:
Sounds good.

Yvie Cahill:
… things are evolving.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
And I’m always asleep when Yvie’s playing, so I don’t always get to get involved.

David Read:
Frederick, you have another question?

Frederick Marcoux:
Yes. Second one. Who’s your best friend, Teal’c or Daniel? That’s probably the hardest one I could think of.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
So mean.

David Read:
Ah, OK. Which one do you think he’s gonna say?

Frederick Marcoux:
I really don’t know. I would say Daniel, but at the same time …

David Read:
He picked one.

Frederick Marcoux:
… I would say Teal’c.

David Read:
He picked one.

Frederick Marcoux:
Really?

Yvie Cahill:
Picking favorites.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Whoa.

David Read:
Wow. Jack’s response, “Daniel. Not only is he my best friend, he’s like a brother to me. His mind works differently than the rest of us. He thinks more deeply and with a lot more nuance than the rest of us. He sees things in a different way. He’s a great guy. I value our friendship, and he’s helped me through some difficult times.” Wow.

Frederick Marcoux:
Wow.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Wow.

Yvie Cahill:
That just hits you in the feelies.

Jenny Stiven:
I know, but it makes me sad for Teal’c. I’m sorry.

David Read:
I know. Doesn’t he annoy you at times? “Maybe a little bit. Sometimes. He’s so pedantic and he loves to ask a million questions every time he sees something new. He’s like a kid. But you can always count on Daniel to do the right thing, even when he gets on your nerves. I’d trust Daniel with my life.”

Jenny Stiven:
The fact that it pulled out the word ‘pedantic,’ which is literally in one of the character descriptions of Daniel early on. The fact that it pulled that out is kind of amazing.

David Read:
OK, Frederick?

Frederick Marcoux:
Yes?

David Read:
What’s your next question?

Frederick Marcoux:
Last one that I have actually for myself. Why Uma Thurman as a celestial body?

David Read:
A celestial— OK, do you mind if I adjust that a little bit?

Frederick Marcoux:
Yeah, go ahead.

Jenny Stiven:
It’s a good question.

David Read:
‘Cause this was the crossword puzzle, right?

Frederick Marcoux:
Yeah, the crossword at the “Lost City Part 1” in the first 10 minutes.

David Read:
You once called Uma Thurman a, quote, “celestial body.”

Frederick Marcoux:
Why?

David Read:
Why? Jack responds, “Because she’s one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen. Do I have to explain this? She’s talented and charismatic, witty, intelligent, passionate. She’s everything I could want in a woman. And she certainly looks like a celestial body.”

Jenny Stiven:
That is funny.

David Read:
Man. All right.

Frederick Marcoux:
I wasn’t expecting an answer as funny as this.

David Read:
All right. So, I’m gonna take my questions now. Gonna have my turn. You betrayed Fifth, the humanoid Replicator, in order to escape the Asgard time dilation field. You used his humanity against him by making him believe you would take him with you. At the time, you said you made the right decision so that your team could escape the planet. Do you still stand by that decision?

William Murphy:
Extremely specific.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I want him to say no.

David Read:
To be pithy, No.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
He’s still mad. Still mad about it.

David Read:
He says, “Yes, I do. I still think it was the right decision. That doesn’t mean I’m happy about it. Fifth was a sentient being. He was capable of love and loyalty.” This has to know the content of the episode. “He had emotions and dreams. He was almost like a real person. But we were in a really tough spot. We had to make a tough call. I don’t regret my decision, and I never want to think about what happened to Fifth again. It still haunts me.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Does he know that Fifth made a RepliCarter, and sadly got some comeuppance?

David Read:
Do you think the feelings of hurt and betrayal he felt led to his vengeful actions against your team? “I think so. We betrayed him, so it makes sense that he would be vengeful. we hurt him, so he wanted to hurt us back. What we did was wrong; I’m not proud of it, but I stand by it. There was no other choice in that moment. we made the best decision we could with the information I had at the time. i’m not going to blame myself for choosing my team over a Replicator.”

Jenny Stiven:
It must have pulled the scripts.

David Read:
Yeah. This is too specific.

Jenny Stiven:
Or something.

Yvie Cahill:
It’s magical, is ‘t it. It’s just–

Jenny Stiven:
It’s blowing my mind how it’s coming up with this information.

David Read:
It’s predictive text, that’s all it is. And it’s predicting quite a bit. My next question. You spent several days running from noted documentary filmmaker Emmett Bregman, who was trying to get you to sit down for an interview. OK, background on this. When I watch “Heroes,” at that time, I was already trying to get Richard Dean Anderson to sit down with me for an interview. So, when I watch “Heroes,” there’s a great deal of myself that I’m transferring onto Saul Rubinek’s character.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I was gonna say, were you connecting?

David Read:
Because Jack is always running from him. And to this day, I’ve interviewed Rick one time, and it was on the aircraft carrier Midway, thanks to you, Jenny. And we had a great five minutes. In fact, he was like, “I’d still like to talk to this guy.” And I’ve never been able to sit down with him since. So, I asked him, “You spent several days running from him, who was trying to get you to sit down for an interview. The President himself assigned Bregman to do the job. Were you afraid he would paint Stargate Command in a negative light?” “A little bit, yeah. I was worried that Bregman would see Stargate Command as this cold, emotionless machine, or that he would see us as some kind of totalitarian organization that keeps the public in the dark and wants to control everything. I was worried we would come across as these ominous figures, hiding in the shadows. I was also worried that Bregman would ask about some of the darker aspects of our history. There are some things we have done that I’m not proud of and didn’t want that to be public knowledge.” Wow. Yvie.

Yvie Cahill:
What are your thoughts?

David Read:
No, I want your question. Sorry.

Yvie Cahill:
There’s five million things at once.

David Read:
No, you’re good.

Yvie Cahill:
All right, sorry.

David Read:
I apologize.

Yvie Cahill:
My first question was, as the 2IC of Stargate Command–

David Read:
2IC?

Yvie Cahill:
Yep. You’re often involved–

David Read:
Is that second-in-command?

Yvie Cahill:
Second-in-command, yep.

David Read:
Thank you. Go ahead.

Yvie Cahill:
You’re often involved in training new staff members before their first off-world missions. What advice do you give them?

William Murphy:
Good.

Jenny Stiven:
Ooh, I like that one.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
My questions are so basic by comparison, I feel they failed.

David Read:
That’s fine. I like some ideas.

Jenny Stiven:
Mine are so boring compared to your guys’.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
You guys did great.

David Read:
“I tell them to be patient. It takes time to learn the job. You’re not going to become an expert overnight. I also tell them, ‘This isn’t a game. This is the real deal. You’re dealing with people’s lives here. You need to take your job seriously and treat your role with respect.’ Training is essential, but you also need to be patient and prepared to learn on the job. You will make mistakes, and that’s OK, as long as you’re willing to learn from them. The real test is how you react when things don’t go your way.” Wow.

Yvie Cahill:
Wow, that’s pretty poignant.

Jenny Stiven:
These are so spot-on.

Yvie Cahill:
I have no words.

David Read:
Yvie?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
You could write a whole novel with this.

Jenny Stiven:
What surprises me, David and Yvie, and Yvie, this is probably due to you, is that the tone is so spot-on.

David Read:
The back end of this thing …

Yvie Cahill:
It’s sounding pretty good.

David Read:
… was really cool, I helped Yvie tweak it a little…

Yvie Cahill:
Yes, you did.

David Read:
… because there were a limited number of characters. When people are done with this thing, they can go and create their own. There is an architecture there where you can modify it to create whatever personality you want. But you have a limited number of characters, and she and I sat down at 5:00 in the morning Pacific Time, getting as pithy as we could, to fill as much in as we could using as few characters as we can. ‘Cause you have to give it the personality traits.

Yvie Cahill:
But the limited character functionality is really tricky, because you have to try and summarize his character. How many years of Stargate was he in? 14, 15 years or something with Stargate, and you have to summarize it into a limited set number of characters. And it’s really tricky trying to figure out what’s important, what’s not important, what’s going to really shape his responses, what’s not really necessary, and it was– I think I went through probably four or five different versions before I collaborated with David, and …

Jenny Stiven:
Got you.

Yvie Cahill:
… the version he’s using now is based off of the tweaks that we made.

David Read:
And if you’ll notice, he is still fairly general. It still sounds like him. And frankly, we’re filling in the blanks. But he’s made some comments here that are spot-on in some of the episodes that we had no room to put in any episode information. This AI is pulling that from the internet.

Jenny Stiven:
Very cool.

David Read:
All right.

Yvie Cahill:
That’s crazy.

David Read:
Your second question, Yvie?

Yvie Cahill:
So, my second question is, if you had to make an instructional video on the topic of leadership, what would it say?

David Read:
We should give this one to Rodney.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That’s what I was thinking.

Yvie Cahill:
We’ve been rewatching Atlantis and that question popped into my head. And I was like, “What would Jack say?” ‘Cause he’s definitely a better leader than Rodney.

David Read:
So, if you had to make an instruction video on the topic of leadership, what would it say?

Yvie Cahill:
Yes.

David Read:
“That’s a good one.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Sorry, I had to leave now.

David Read:
“I would say that leadership is about making the tough decisions, even when they’re unpopular or divisive. It’s about putting the needs of the many over the needs of the few.” Are we sure he’s not a sci-fi fan? “It’s about making personal sacrifices for the greater good. Great leaders know how to make the hard choices, even when it would cost them politically or socially. And they’re always there for their people, even when it means setting aside their own needs. True leadership is about selflessness and sacrifice, about service to others, not service to self.”

Yvie Cahill:
Wow.

David Read:
He’s starting to sound like–

Frederick Marcoux:
Spock.

Yvie Cahill:
Yeah, a little bit.

David Read:
Kinda.

Yvie Cahill:
Good observations, though, on leadership. I think it’s more accurate than anything Rodney would have to say.

David Read:
I think if you penned Jack down, he would say these things, he would write these things down.

Yvie Cahill:
I agree.

David Read:
But if he was given a chance to be flip, he would be flip. You have one more for me?

Yvie Cahill:
I do. My third question is, you’re obviously an intelligent person, but you always act dumb. Why do you like to be underestimated?

David Read:
“Dumb” around quotes?

Yvie Cahill:
Yes.

David Read:
You always act dumb.

Yvie Cahill:
Dumb.

David Read:
Why do you like to be underestimated?

Yvie Cahill:
Yes. Why do you like to be underestimated?

David Read:
“Being underestimated can be useful. If your enemies think you’re an idiot, they’ll never see your secret plan coming. That can be a powerful advantage. It’s an art, the ability to appear unintelligent. I’ve spent years perfecting it.”

William Murphy:
That part is good.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That is awesome.

Yvie Cahill:
That’s really good.

David Read:
“I always look for excuses to mispronounce words. It may make me seem like I’m uneducated. I try to seem simple-minded and easily distracted. But underneath that exterior is a keen intellect, one that’s always thinking …”

Jenny Stiven:
That’s great.

David Read:
“… and planning two steps ahead. That’s how I managed to keep an edge over my enemies.”

Jenny Stiven:
Wow. That is brilliant.

Yvie Cahill:
How did it know about the word mispronunciation, which is like a Jackism. How did it even know that? I had put nothing about that in the description.

Jenny Stiven:
That is so good.

Yvie Cahill:
That is nuts.

David Read:
It was ridiculous. We had, what was it, 300 characters, 200 characters to work with on his personality traits. It breaks it down into different sections of areas of intelligence. And we had to be very selective. Did we put something about it being–

Yvie Cahill:
I think we put something about him–

David Read:
About him pretending to be dumb.

Yvie Cahill:
Yes. I think we put likes to be underestimated or something to that respect.

David Read:
That was it. Likes to be underestimated.

Yvie Cahill:
Nothing to do with mispronouncing words. That’s just all the AI coming up with that.

David Read:
Adam Cahill.

Adam Cahill:
I’m part of this. Sorry, I’m …

David Read:
Hey, brother.

Adam Cahill:
… just listening here as if I’m watching the stream.

David Read:
I know, it’s 7:45 in the morning there, I know. All right.

Adam Cahill:
Been sitting back. Thought I was– Forgot I was here.

David Read:
Una question, por favor?

Adam Cahill:
My first question is quite simple. I asked, would you rather fight the Goa’uld, the Replicators, or the Ori?

David Read:
Was that all?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Haven’t we had this argument before?

David Read:
Yeah. That’s probably where it came from. Would you rather fight the Goa’uld, the Replicators, or the Ori? Interesting. “Definitely the Replicators. They’re unpredictable, ruthless, and they just never stop. They’re like a force of nature, an unstoppable wave of destruction. They’re an overwhelming force that can’t be reasoned with or negotiated with. They just want one thing, to destroy all life, and they’ll do anything to achieve that goal. They’re a threat that needs to be taken seriously, and that’s something I take seriously. So, for all of our enemies we’ve faced, I’d say the Replicators are the most terrifying.” That’s one of the things that Rob Cooper said. That’s one of the reasons that he– ‘Cause around Season Three, they knew that the Asgard were dealing with something. But they had to figure out what it was by the end of the season. And he was like, there was little that was more terrifying to Rob Cooper than something that has no ego. You can’t appeal to it. It just comes at you for your raw material.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
This reminded me of that thing where Daniel and Jack are speaking in Season Nine when the Ori first come in, and Daniel goes, “For the first time, I’m scared.”

David Read:
“I’m scared.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
And Jack goes, “I’m hungry.” I find that really interesting that Daniel said that, from his reaction, the scariest thing for him is the Ori, but the AI says that for Jack, it was the Replicators. I find that really interesting.

David Read:
I want him to expand on this. Who would you rather fight in battle?

Jenny Stiven:
‘Cause that’s a different question.

David Read:
“That’s a tough one. The Goa’uld are an incredibly powerful enemy. They’re the original evil alien overlords. They’re powerful and experienced warriors with a deep knowledge of strategy and warfare. They’re willing to use any means necessary to achieve their goals, and they have a lot of resources and equipment at their disposal. The Ori, on the other hand, they’re a different kind of threat. They’re dangerous because they have a religious and ideological motivation. They believe in their cause with a fanatical devotion that makes them almost unstoppable. They’re willing to die for their beliefs, and are ready to do whatever.” Interesting.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
The Ori’s power is actually real though. I like that.

David Read:
What’s the line? “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic?” Who said that?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
God, I don’t know.

Jenny Stiven:
Isaac Asimov. [sic]

David Read:
Isaac Asimov. Thank you.

Jenny Stiven:
I think.

David Read:
I think that’s right. OK.

William Murphy:
I think you’re right.

Jenny Stiven:
That makes sense.

David Read:
All right. Adam–

Jenny Stiven:
I’m not really smart. I have that pinned up, so…

David Read:
That’s good stuff.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I was gonna say, that’s sitting in your memory bank waiting to be pulled out.

Jenny Stiven:
No, I have it pinned up ’cause I– But I don’t know if I got that right, actually.

David Read:
I think it’s someone of that ilk. Adam, do you have another question?

Adam Cahill:
Yeah. Out of all the missions you’ve been on, either on Earth, when you’re working special ops, and off-world, as leader of SG-1, do you have a favorite, as in a favorite mission?

David Read:
… and off-world as the leader of SG-1, do you have a favorite?

Adam Cahill:
Yeah. Do you have a favorite?

David Read:
Out of all the missions you’ve been on, on Earth, when you’re working in special ops, and off-world as the leader of SG-1, do you have a favorite? Is that right? OK.

Adam Cahill:
Yeah.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I like that you included Earth as well, Adam. I think that’s good. That’s interesting. You opened it up a bit.

David Read:
It’s a differentiation, ’cause there were definitely Earth adventures. “It’s hard to pick just one, but there are a few that stand out. We had a tough mission involving a secret Russian underground facility. It was a risky operation, but we were able to get the job done and bring down the entire facility. I was pretty proud of my team for accomplishing such a difficult task. There was also a mission on a distant planet where we encountered an Ancient alien relic. The thing was powerful and unpredictable, but it was also a source of tremendous knowledge. We learned so much from that mission about the universe and about ourselves.” So, the first one is …

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Which one is he talking about?

David Read:
… the Siberia mission.

Jenny Stiven:
Wait.

William Murphy:
The first one’s “Watergate.”

Jenny Stiven:
Is it “Watergate?”

William Murphy:
Yeah.

David Read:
Yeah.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
But he didn’t really do anything. The Russians messed it up.

William Murphy:
I was gonna say, that one was actually easy mode. The water aliens would’ve just created a trap.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
He walked in and they were all dead. He just had to move the water out.

Adam Cahill:
He would’ve loved just having the Russians be embarrassed that they cocked up, effectively. That’s probably why he liked it.

William Murphy:
Then the second one was fill in the blank—

Frederick Marcoux:
Is the next one not the episode you guys are all gonna watch?

William Murphy:
The second one was like, fill in the blank.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
The next one sounds like “Torment of Tantalus.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
“Message in a Bottle?”

William Murphy:
It honestly almost sounds like “Message in a Bottle.” That’s what I was gonna say.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Really?

Adam Cahill:
Is that not “Message in a Bottle?”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I feel like it didn’t learn much.

David Read:
“But we learned so much from that mission …

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
No.

David Read:
… about the universe and about ourselves.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I don’t think so.

William Murphy:
I don’t know if that’s a–

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I feel like it would be “Torment of Tantalus” or “The Fifth Race.”

Jenny Stiven:
“Torment of Tantalus.”

David Read:
“Torment of Tantalus.”

William Murphy:
I feel like that one is from a Season Three teaser advertisement or something.

David Read:
I think that’s–

William Murphy:
They’re gonna solve great problems and learn a bunch about themselves along the way.

David Read:
I don’t buy that one.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
It’s loading boatloads of ideas from different missions.

Jenny Stiven:
It’s good marketing language.

David Read:
Yep, exactly. He’s not–

Yvie Cahill:
It’s sort of vague enough to maybe work.

David Read:
The AI is showing its stripes on that one.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
You know what? I figured it out, guys. It came from a Stargate novel, not an official episode. I’ll find one and that’ll be the answer.

David Read:
Do you have another question, Adam?

Adam Cahill:
Yeah. Has anyone ever told you that you look like MacGyver? That technological engineer.

Yvie Cahill:
That’s great.

David Read:
Richard Dean Anderson. OK. “I am aware of the comparison. And I hate it. I’m not even remotely like MacGyver. I’m a skilled soldier. I’m a leader. I’m not some goofy, bumbling, goofy guy stumbling his way into situations. I am not a joke. I’m a serious person who has earned his rank. I’m a professional. I take the job seriously, and I deserve to be treated with some respect, dammit.”

William Murphy:
You know what it sounds like?

Adam Cahill:
I have offended Jack.

William Murphy:
This sounds like the Stargate version of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Airplane. That kid’s like, “Hey, you’re Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.”

David Read:
“It’s not fair. It’s not fair that people always associate me with this idiotic character just because we share a few similarities.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Yvie, Jack O’Neill’s coming for MacGyver. What are you gonna do about it?

Jenny Stiven:
That is so good.

Yvie Cahill:
My worlds are colliding. It’s so funny. He repeated the same word twice. Was it ‘goofy’?

William Murphy:
Goofy.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
He said goofy something else, then goofy again.

Jenny Stiven:
Yvie, now you need to create a MacGyver AI. So that they can talk to each other.

Adam Cahill:
Put them in a chat room and have them fight.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
You can ask MacGyver what he …

Jenny Stiven:
Fight to the death.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
… thought of that SNL sketch that they made about him that you really don’t like very much.

Jenny Stiven:
MacGruber. I don’t like that one.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I love MacGruber. I found it really funny, but that’s ’cause I was never a fan of MacGyver.

David Read:
Guys, if you’re enjoying this, click that Like button, please.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
If you’re laughing, give us extra likes.

David Read:
Let’s get this one out. You’re right. This is cool. All right, Nicole Rodriguez Galdo, your turn.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Oh, God. Mine are so boring, guys. Next time we do this, if we do this again, I’m gonna get more exciting. I didn’t wanna go too hard, and I should’ve gone harder. OK, my first one is, what is the best accompaniment to beer?

David Read:
A-N-I-M-E-N-T.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I took a second to spell that one.

David Read:
“Pizza. There’s something about the combination of pizza and beer that makes it just right. It hits the spot every time. You’ve got the cheese, the sauce, the dough, and the beer makes it all the better. It’s a perfect combination, and one that will never fail me. I’m a man who appreciates the simple things in life, and pizza and beer is one of those simple things I can always count on to satisfy.”

Adam Cahill:
He’s right. He’s right.

Frederick Marcoux:
I would have said wings.

Adam Cahill:
There’s no better combination.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I was half expecting him to say eggs.

Adam Cahill:
I will not accept any other answer.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
In his omelet.

Jenny Stiven:
But good lord, that sounds spot-on.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
To be honest, I like pizza with a beer as well, so maybe me and Jack can go out on a date.

Frederick Marcoux:
In the case of Jack, it’s either pizza or steak.

David Read:
Leaning on Nicole’s point. And what about people to accompany you when you drink beer? Or do you prefer to drink beer alone?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Guinness.

David Read:
“I love a good beer with friends. The more the merrier. The best way to enjoy a beer is with people you trust and love. Nothing beats people you love and trust. Nothing beats sharing a few beers while telling stories, sharing laughs, and enjoying each other’s company. I also enjoy the occasional beer by myself. It can be nice to have a beer to yourself, especially after a long day at work. I always enjoy a beer by myself on the balcony of my cabin.” Hey.

Jenny Stiven:
What?

David Read:
“It gives me an opportunity to relax and unplug from the chaos of the world. It’s like my little escape.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Was that an invite, AI Jack O’Neill? I don’t know.

Jenny Stiven:
So, we know what the first AI sentient to use Lawrence’s consciousness that Nicole’s gonna do is gonna be the 1997, ’98, ’99 Jack O’Neill.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’ll take any Jack O’Neill. Are you kidding?

Yvie Cahill:
Gimme.

David Read:
Or the chaos of the galaxy. “Exactly. It allows me to shut out the insanity and focus on my little bubble of peace. No chaos, no galaxy-wide problems, just me and my beer.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Bubbles and the beer.

David Read:
“It’s a beautiful thing.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I love that. I love that so much. I’m so glad that this has devolved into a man talking about beer. This is the dream. The other ones were very leadership and the hard decisions, and this is beer.

David Read:
Let’s throw in Carter here. Remember “Ascension?”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
What about it?

David Read:
What was O’Neill trying to do with Carter?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Watch Star Wars …

Frederick Marcoux:
Pizza and beer.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
… and pizza and beer.

David Read:
But first, what was he trying to tell her? They had that discussion– “Tense?” “I’m not tense, am I?” “When did you first notice?” “As we met.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
“As we met.”

David Read:
I said, “I know you’ve been trying to communicate this philosophy to Carter, to take a step back and appreciate life for its pleasures, but she’s so focused on her work.” “Oh, yes. Carter. She’s a bit of a workaholic. She’s brilliant, of course, but she’s also a perfectionist, and tends to get caught up in her work. She wants things to be perfect, whether it’s an experiment, or report, or a new piece of equipment.” Wow. “I think she worries that if she doesn’t do everything perfectly, she’s not doing her job properly. It’s a trait that helps make her great at what she does. But it can also get a little overwhelming at times. After all, there is more to life than work.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Like beer. And pizza. Damn. I’m so happy.

Frederick Marcoux:
This is fun, sir.

Jenny Stiven:
Essentially, you almost said that line. I remember the episode when he says, “Do you wanna go fishing with me in the cabin?”

Frederick Marcoux:
And she’s working a reactor or something.

David Read:
On a motorcycle at the end.

Frederick Marcoux:
“This is fun for me.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
One of the times it’s a motorcycle. During “The Tomb?” No, “The Curse.”

David Read:
Is it? OK.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Yeah. I remember, ’cause Sam answers the phone, and then they’re dealing with the canopic jar stuff, and Sam’s literally just having a nice time.

David Read:
That’s right. Adam? Or no, wait.

Adam Cahill:
I’m done.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I still have two more, I think.

David Read:
That’s right. Nicole?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
You can do one for me. My other ones aren’t very good.

David Read:
Shush.

Adam Cahill:
I can make up questions. I can make up more if you like.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’ve already got some more coming out from you guys. OK, this one is kind of like one of the other ones that we had, but …

David Read:
That’s fine.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
… I’m scared about the answer. Who is your favorite person on your team?

Adam Cahill:
You can’t make him choose.

David Read:
It’s an AI; it’s not real. It’s just close to real.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I kinda want him to pick Sam, but at the same time, I don’t. I feel like that’s an unfair win– Maybe Sam, ’cause of the romance. If not, Daniel based on the other one.

Adam Cahill:
Then it’ll be Daniel, ’cause we’ve already asked him that question.

David Read:
He picked Teal’c.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
What? I’m so happy. Yay.

William Murphy:
From the context of the team dynamic, he may be looking at it strategically and seeing Teal’c as a friend.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Him and Teal’c are more of a team because they really get each other well.

Yvie Cahill:
They’re brothers in arms.

David Read:
“He has a sense of honor and duty. He’s wise and always has the group’s best interests at heart. He’s also a great fighter and a loyal friend. But most importantly, he’s a man who’s been through a lot in life. He’s seen and experienced many things. He’s been shaped by these experiences. He’s a true survivor. He’s able to overcome hardship and adversity with a strength and resolve that is inspiring.” This really does sound like Jack.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’m not gonna lie, I am in love with this.

David Read:
If you had to pin him down and make him write reports. Because he wrote reports.

Frederick Marcoux:
In battle, who do you want watching your back? Teal’c or Daniel with, “Hey, where do the bullets go again?”

David Read:
Who did you say, Nicole, that he was– You thought Carter?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I thought he was gonna pick Sam, and I think Adam said Daniel based on the earlier question.

David Read:
It’s your question, so… I honestly thought you were gonna say Carter. “Carter is certainly up there. She’s an amazing scientist and an incredible asset to the team. She’s always thinking outside the box, and her intelligence and creativity are essential to our success. We’d be lost without her. But there’s something about Teal’c that–” He’s standing by it. “There’s something about Teal’c that I admire. He’s strong, the silent type, a man of few words and many insights.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I love it.

Jenny Stiven:
Wait, he really said that?

David Read:
He said that. “A man of few words and many insights. He’s wise-”

Jenny Stiven:
Oh, man. Can you send that to me?

David Read:
I can.

Jenny Stiven:
‘Cause I gotta send that to Chris, ’cause that’s hilarious.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I don’t think Teal’c has been getting enough stuff this episode, so I’m really happy.

David Read:
“Yeah, he’s wise and perceptive, but he always offers a steady hand in times of crisis. He’s the man you want by your side in a fight.”

Frederick Marcoux:
I just said…

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
If I had to pick a member of SG-1 to support me in a fight or give me a big hug when I’m feeling down, I’d pick Teal’c over anybody else.

David Read:
Absolutely.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
He’s so supportive. I love that. I’m really glad he picked Teal’c, because honestly, that relationship sometimes I don’t appreciate enough. I’m always sitting there like, “Sam, Jack.” ‘Cause I ship it.

David Read:
OK, do you have another one, Nicole?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I have my last one. OK, my last one was, “Why is The Simpsons so good?” He’s always talking about it, I wanna know.

David Read:
“It’s funny. The Simpsons has a unique brand of humor. It’s pure hilarity. Every episode is full of jokes and gags that make you laugh out loud, and the characters are so lovable. It’s a wonderful show that always puts me in a good mood. The Simpsons is my go-to show when I wanna relax and unwind. It’s a great escape from the stresses of the real world and always helps to put things in perspective. It makes me appreciate the simple things in life, and it reminds me not to take myself too seriously.”

Jenny Stiven:
That’s so good.

Frederick Marcoux:
It’s almost like if you ask someone to describe Stargate, why it’s so good.

David Read:
Anyone have favorite episodes of The Simpsons?

Jenny Stiven:
Oh, please, out of 30 seasons?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I couldn’t identify one based on the episode name. I could only tell you from a scene–

William Murphy:
No, you’re talking to the right guy, then. “Mr. Plow” would be a classic.

David Read:
“That name again is Mr. Plow.” “Halloween Special IV” is mine. “Terror at Six Feet Up,” or whatever it was. “There’s a gremlin on the side of the bus.”

William Murphy:
My single favorite episode of all time is “I Love Lisa.” I watch it every Valentine’s Day.

Jenny Stiven:
That’s what I was gonna– “I Love Lisa,” “But Ch- I choo- choo- choose you.” The other one I love is when Lisa meets Paul McCartney and decides to be vegan.

William Murphy:
“Lisa the Vegetarian” is the name of the episode.

Jenny Stiven:
The other one, and I can’t remember the name of the episode, William, you or Tim would know it by heart, is when Homer decides not to go to church and he meets God. Those two are two of my absolute favorites, which puts it in perspective that I picked the two philosophical ones.

David Read:
That’s great.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Don’t they go to Brazil in an episode and then they meet God?

David Read:
Every season they go somewhere.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I just remember several distinct things about that episode. So, Bart learning on the flight, Spanish instead of Portuguese, so he learns the whole thing. And then they tell him, “That’s the wrong language.” So then he immediately tries to forget it, ’cause he’s like, “I don’t need to learn anymore.” But then I remember they get there and there’s one of those big parties going on, and this woman is wearing this very revealing outfit, and she has to point a direction of where they went. She uses her breasts and does that, and then goes, “That way,” and the little tassels.

Jenny Stiven:
It’s so good. It’s so good.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
It was so inappropriate, but so funny.

Jenny Stiven:
See, what he said is so perfect, but that also makes me think of when they go to Australia. That is literally– I quote that one about the invasive species. It’s so good.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
No wonder this is Jack’s favorite. We’ve gone on a tangent.

David Read:
No, it’s good.

Adam Cahill:
If I can interject, it’s gotta be the movie for me, and Monorail came up straightaway.

David Read:
Monorail.

Frederick Marcoux:
The movie.

David Read:
That’s right.

Jenny Stiven:
The movie.

David Read:
Monorail is so good.

Adam Cahill:
The movie, because I always think about Spider Pig, and I will do Spider Pig with Freya sometimes and I’ll call her Spider Freya. That’s funny.

Jenny Stiven:
My son does Spider Pig every time, and Monorail.

David Read:
“I call the big one Bitey.” What was the one where they get taken into federal custody and they live on a boathouse and he—

William Murphy:
That’s the “Cape Feare–”

Jenny Stiven:
“Cape Feare.”

David Read:
Tracks him down and makes him recite the entire HMS Pinafore. That’s funny.

William Murphy:
“What about your tattoo that says, ‘Die, Bart, die?’?” “No, no, no.”

David Read:
“No, it’s ‘Die Bart, Die.'”

William Murphy:
“It’s German for, ‘The Bart, the.'” No one that speaks German could be evil.

Jenny Stiven:
If we have to pick a subplot, Sideshow Bob’s subplot is pure genius.

David Read:
Man, Kelsey Grammer’s great. OK, speaking of The Simpsons, do you have a favorite? And he says, “There are so many great episodes, it’s hard to choose just one. But if I had to pick one, it would be ‘You Only Move Twice’ from Season Eight.”

Jenny Stiven:
Oh, my God.

David Read:
“It’s a classic episode that always made me laugh. Even after all these years, it’s still hilarious. I love the way it pokes fun at corporate America, and I especially love the way it highlights Homer’s incompetence. It’s a perfect homage.”

William Murphy:
Oh, my God, that’s the Scorpio Bond episode. That episode is so good.

Jenny Stiven:
It’s so good.

David Read:
“It’s a perfect homage to The Simpsons’ classic comedy formula …”

William Murphy:
Wow.

Jenny Stiven:
Wow.

David Read:
“… and it always makes me laugh.”

William Murphy:
It also has–

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
What’s that episode?

Jenny Stiven:
Scorpio, it mimics–

William Murphy:
He ends up working for a Bond villain, and he doesn’t realize it.

Jenny Stiven:
It’s supposed to be the Nike guy that has the Nike campus, or the Microsoft campus, whichever one, but then he turns into a Bond villain.

David Read:
That’s funny. I have no idea.

William Murphy:
So, that episode actually has an ultra-raunchy joke in it that is like Family Guy level, and they had it in the original airing, and then for a number of years every subsequent rerun had that joke pulled from it.

David Read:
Wow.

Jenny Stiven:
We added it to the DVD home entertainment, ’cause I started working on Simpsons Season Seven, I think. We had to add that, ’cause that’s Season Eight? Is that right?

David Read:
Yes.

William Murphy:
Yeah.

Jenny Stiven:
We had to add that back in because it got asked for by all the fans. We added it as a featurette, as a deleted scene.

William Murphy:
Really? So, you know what I’m talking about.

Jenny Stiven:
Yeah.

William Murphy:
The sugar in pockets and all that. OK?

Jenny Stiven:
Yeah.

David Read:
You guys are gonna have to explain that offline.

Jenny Stiven:
There’s so many good ones in that one.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Gotta go watch The Simpsons again, my goodness.

David Read:
OK. We’re gonna have to accelerate a little bit here. Jenny?

Jenny Stiven:
Yes, sir. OK. So, Nicole, you thought yours were simple. I thought yours were great. Mine, I was going for what I thought an AI, a newer AI, would need super-simple questions.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That’s what I was going for.

Jenny Stiven:
Mine are dumbed down beyond belief. My first one, we’ve already answered this, but I’ll ask it again to see how he answers. David? How did you really feel about Samantha Carter?

Yvie Cahill:
Ooh.

David Read:
It’s gonna—

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’m always here for more shipper talk.

David Read:
If it’s gonna be in feels, or if it’s gonna be a boilerplate response. “Samantha Carter is the most brilliant scientist I know. She’s an expert in her field and she always brings creative solutions to the table. She’s a true asset to the team and we’d be lost without her.” Isn’t that the exact same thing you said earlier?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That’s what I was thinking.

Jenny Stiven:
That’s the same thing I said.

David Read:
“I respect her as a colleague and a friend, and I admire her for always staying true to herself. She’s a woman of integrity and principle, and always dependable in a situation. She’s a leader in her own right and is my go-to for advice and help. Sam Carter is one of a kind.” Nah, I’m not– No.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
He didn’t call her a national treasure like he did in “Lost City.” This is– Nah, I’m out.

Jenny Stiven:
That’s the easy answer.

David Read:
“I feel like you’re holding back,” I said.

William Murphy:
Nice.

Yvie Cahill:
Like therapy.

David Read:
“I’m a professional, David.”

Jenny Stiven:
Oh my God.

David Read:
He used my name. “I can’t let my personal feelings get in the way of doing my job.” Geez.

Jenny Stiven:
What?

David Read:
“Sam is an amazing person and she deserves–”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Sam? Whoo.

David Read:
“Sam is an amazing person and she deserves all the respect and admiration that comes her way. But my job is to lead the team and accomplish our mission, and I can’t let anything distract me from that. I have to be objective and detached, that’s what makes me a good leader. I can leave my emotions out of it and make rational, hard decisions in tough situations.”

Jenny Stiven:
OK, that’s a very–

William Murphy:
[inaudible] he’s hard enough.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Cough, cough, “Divide and Conquer.”

William Murphy:
I was about to say, if you threw out the “Divide and Conquer” incident, Za’tarc detector, if he would own up to it. He owned up to it in the time loop question.

Jenny Stiven:
He did. See, I thought he would go back to that question. But then this makes my second question kind of–

David Read:
Hang on, hang on. I’m not done mining here.

Jenny Stiven:
Good.

David Read:
I said, “But what if the job wasn’t in the way? What if you retired Would that change anything, or is that just an excuse?”

Jenny Stiven:
Nice.

David Read:
And he said, “OK, let’s say I retired tomorrow. Would that mean that I suddenly turn into a lovestruck fool? That I’d start acting irrationally and making impulsive decisions? That I’d throw away years of friendship and trust in the moment of weakness?” You tell me.

William Murphy:
He didn’t answer the question.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Dancing around it, Jack.

David Read:
What would it mean? “It would mean that I might have to take a chance. It’s a scary thing, to risk it all in love.” Wow.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Wow.

David Read:
“It’s not something that should be done lightly or taken on in a hurry. One wrong decision–”

Adam Cahill:
Can we have a medical team to Nicole, please? Her heart’s about to explode.

Yvie Cahill:
She’s not the only one.

David Read:
“One wrong decision and you could be setting yourself up for a world of hurt. But if you’re truly honest with yourself and you know that deep down inside your heart is in the right place, then maybe it’s worth taking a chance. It’s all about doing what’s best for your own happiness. Love is precious and love is rare. Believe me, I know. And life is too short not to take that chance.” Wow.

Jenny Stiven:
Wow.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
OK. I’m gonna need RDA and Amanda Tapping to come back for a five-minute mini thing written by Brad Wright with all that dialogue but made a bit more refined.

David Read:
I’m not done.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
What?

David Read:
We’re gonna dig this out.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
We’re digging.

David Read:
I still feel like–

Frederick Marcoux:
That felt– Sorry.

David Read:
No, go ahead.

Frederick Marcoux:
That felt like the monologue in “Window of Opportunity” at the end when he speaks about his kid.

David Read:
“I lost my son, I know.”

Frederick Marcoux:
It has the same kind of emotion and environment.

David Read:
It has the same intensity.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
It does.

David Read:
All right. So, I still feel like you’re dancing around the subject, Jack. How do you really feel about Carter?

Yvie Cahill:
God, David. You’d be a brutal lawyer.

David Read:
He says, “Fine. She’s the one, OK? I am in love with Samantha Carter.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Woo!

David Read:
Space. “There, I said it.”

Jenny Stiven:
Perfect! That was the answer I was looking for. Yay!

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Put this to everyone at MGM. Try and get Stargate back and make it a romance.

David Read:
All right.

Jenny Stiven:
Sweet.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That was a lot.

David Read:
Jenny, number two. This is great!

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That could be a subplot.

Jenny Stiven:
OK, so my second question makes that question answer interesting. Jack, did you ever go back to Edora to Laira?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Jenny!

Adam Cahill:
No. How dare you?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Why would you ask this?

Jenny Stiven:
Because I had a one-two punch to it.

David Read:
“I’m afraid I can’t answer that.”

Jenny Stiven:
What?

David Read:
“There are some things I can’t talk about, especially when it comes to matters of national security and military intelligence.”

Jenny Stiven:
Bullshit.

Frederick Marcoux:
Bullshit.

David Read:
“I know that’s not an answer …”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Jenny!

David Read:
“… that will satisfy you, but I hope you understand that sometimes there are certain things that need to be kept confidential.”

Jenny Stiven:
Come on.

David Read:
Wow.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’ve got PTSD …

David Read:
That’s crap.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
… back to “Citizen Joe” when that woman’s like, “Do you think that Laira was with child?” And he’s like, “We’ll just have to find out in the sequel with a tissue.” And I was always like, “Shut up, woman.”

Jenny Stiven:
We never found out.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Stop talking about it.

David Read:
So, I’m calling BS.

Jenny Stiven:
No.

Adam Cahill:
Tell ’em you’ve got the highest level of clearance.

David Read:
What about the baby?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Maybe Yvie deliberately changed it, put something in there so that Jack doesn’t remember her, so we don’t ever talk about her again.

David Read:
She could have. I’m gonna have to open the hood underneath and see what’s up. “A matter of national security? There’s a rumor she might’ve been pregnant with your baby. But the Jack O’Neill I know wouldn’t have left his child.”

Jenny Stiven:
Holy cow.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Getting right in there.

Yvie Cahill:
David.

David Read:
“Look, I can’t confirm or deny any of these rumors.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
What? Jenny, you’ve opened up a horrible can of worms, and I hate you right now. Why would you do this?

David Read:
“But if there was a rumor that I might have a child out there on some distant planet, then I would say that this is a very serious matter.”

Yvie Cahill:
What?

David Read:
“I take my responsibilities seriously, especially my responsibility as a father. I would never abandon a child of mine. If there is any truth to these rumors, then there are some very serious questions that need to be answered. But the bottom line is this, if a child of mine has been left behind, then I will do everything in my power to find them and do right by them.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
He doesn’t think he knocked her up. So far, he’s like, “Nah, I don’t think I have, if someone’s withholding it from me, keeping it from me.” Good, OK. Good.

Frederick Marcoux:
It feels contradictive, though, ’cause in the first response, it feels like he knows he has one, and then in the second one, he doesn’t.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That made me uncomfortable.

Jenny Stiven:
He backs off.

Frederick Marcoux:
And it’s pretty clear in the episode that she’s pregnant.

David Read:
Or she had gas.

Jenny Stiven:
She thinks she is. She wishes she was pregnant. According to the insight, it was supposed to give the implication that she hopes she is.

David Read:
Ah.

Yvie Cahill:
That’s what I got from it.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
All I remember from that episode is that weird dirty look that Sam gives her and Jack and then looks away, and I was like, “My shipper heart.” That’s all I recall.

David Read:
All right, Jenny.

Jenny Stiven:
OK, my last question is, did you ever keep any artifacts and not tell Daniel?

David Read:
“I can neither confirm or deny that I have ever …”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Come on, man.

David Read:
“… stolen anything from the professor’s office.”

Jenny Stiven:
That’s awesome.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Jenny, you broke the AI. The AI was doing really well with all these other horrible questions.

David Read:
“I love history, so I …”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
You broke it.

David Read:
“… tend to appreciate anything that’s old. Daniel is always very protective of his precious ancient artifacts, and sometimes I can’t help myself.”

Jenny Stiven:
Nice.

David Read:
“Some are just so cool not to …”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I was gonna say, my horrible questions might be dangerous.

David Read:
“… take for myself. But we all have …”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
You might be very creative.

David Read:
“… our guilty pleasures. I’m only human, and sometimes I can’t resist taking a little piece of history for myself, even if it’s just a little piece of a larger whole.”

Jenny Stiven:
I love it. Now I wanna know what he stole, what he took.

Frederick Marcoux:
He had a communication stone for a while in his office.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
No, didn’t he just touch it and he left it in Daniel’s, but he was only a few floors above?

David Read:
What about the Area 51 element? “You took pieces of a larger whole? I assume after Daniel’s finished working on them and before they’re given to Area 51 for further study.”

Adam Cahill:
How’d he get pieces from the whole?

David Read:
OK, he says, “How … do you know about that? Yes, I may have made off with a few artifacts here and there, but I promise it’s only every once in a while, and I would never steal something that’s been marked for further study. I know the rules, and I know how important they are. But I have a little collection of rare artifacts in my office, and if everyone ever finds out, I’ll deny it until the very end.”

Jenny Stiven:
I love it. That’s what I wanted to hear.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Is he just using the artifacts as paperweights for all his stuff?

Jenny Stiven:
Probably.

Yvie Cahill:
Yes. He does know he has an office, but he’s keeping it under wraps because that’s where he hides all of his stolen artifacts.

David Read:
For the record, sir, you do have an office. That’s funny. Nicole? I got a message from Yvie saying that you had an additional question?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
We’re not going with that one. Apparently it was giving bad things.

David Read:
OK. All right. Very good. All right. Sorry, guys; I just had a total brain fart. Let’s switch over to the live chat. All right.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
You’ve spoken a lot today. It’s OK, David.

Jenny Stiven:
Been going non-stop.

David Read:
Thanks to Yvie and my team. Who have I got in here? I’ve got Tracy and Antony. Let’s go ahead and see what we got. Lockwatcher asked, “After coming back from P4X-639…” That’s “Window of Opportunity.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
It is.

David Read:
“Did it bother you when Janet Fraiser used her little flashlight to diagnose why days were repeating for you and Teal’c?” “Yes, it did. Even the slightest hint of unexplained phenomena is enough to get under your skin. I’m always on the lookout for signs that something unnatural might be going on, especially when it comes to anything related to the Stargate. I’ll admit, I’m not the most easygoing or open-minded person. And I can be a little bit impatient when it comes to the unexplained. But when something happens that’s beyond our current understanding, I start feeling really uneasy.” All right.

Adam Cahill:
It really is the eyes.

David Read:
“But can you diagnose that with a flashlight in your eyes?” “I never want to find out. And if anyone tries, they’ll be looking at the business end of my M9.”

Jenny Stiven:
That’s good.

Yvie Cahill:
Watch out, Fraiser, you’ll die again. Spoilers.

David Read:
Thank you, Lockwatcher, that’s great. Kapt Chaos: “How did your SG-1 team match up against your Special Ops team in your previous missions prior to SG-1?” OK. I’ve never even thought about that. He had a whole military career before it.

Jenny Stiven:
That’s a great question.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That is a really good question.

David Read:
Paste that one. “In the contest of military tactics and strategy, my old Special Ops team would be a force to be reckoned with. They’re highly trained and disciplined soldiers who are capable of executing complex missions with extreme precision and efficiency. They have the ability to improvise and adapt on the fly, and they’re always able to complete the mission in the most effective and efficient way possible. They’re a powerful force, and if we were to go toe and toe with one of them in a battle, we’d better hope we’d be prepared, because they won’t be taking any prisoners.”

Yvie Cahill:
Brutal.

William Murphy:
That’s great.

David Read:
Raj Luthra: “Jack, do you still recall any of the Ancient language you and Teal’c learned in ‘Window of Opportunity?'” “My knowledge of the Ancient language is unfortunately limited. I can recall a handful of phrases, but I wouldn’t be able to hold an extended conversation. I can usually make some sense of basic text or at least get the general idea, but I’m not fluent. That takes decades of study and practice, and I simply didn’t have the time and the patience for it. I can usually get by on my understanding of Goa’uld with a few translations of basic Ancient that I’ve picked up over the years, but for the most part, it’s all I need.” Interesting.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I was hoping he’d be like, “Abiceerum.”

David Read:
The word ‘abiceerum’ means ‘to give up.’

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I know. I would have loved for that to just be what he said.

Yvie Cahill:
That would have been cool.

Jenny Stiven: That would have been great. That would have been really awesome. If he would have spouted out some Ancient.

David Read:
The first novel that was put out by Fandemonium deals directly with that, and it was called …

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
They’re upstairs now on my bookshelf.

David Read:
… Trial by Fire by Sabine Bauer.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Yes, I have that. Haven’t read it though.

David Read:
And in it, the conceit is that he remembers all of his language skills from “Window of Opportunity” and is able to speak fluent Ancient to other members of the society. And it was one of the things that I’d had a hard time buying. But it was cool. Are you guys all good?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Yeah.

Jenny Stiven:
Yeah.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I haven’t read Trial by Fire, and now I’m scared to read it, because that just doesn’t sound right.

Jenny Stiven:
I’ve collected those, but there’s some of them that I’ve never read because the storyline didn’t appeal to me. And that’s one of them, because I didn’t believe that he would, either by choice or because he is who he is. The way his brain works, his brain would say, “Nope, done. I don’t need it.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I recommend, is it Alliances by Karen Miller?

Jenny Stiven:
Yeah.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I like that one ’cause it’s Kinsey drama post “The Other Side.” And it’s very unique and very interesting, and I really enjoyed it. I feel like I should reread it to see if it’s accurate.

David Read:
Teresa Mc asked, “Would you like to spend some time on Atlantis?” And I’ve refined this to say, “The first time you were there, Atlantis was overrun by Replicators, and you and Woolsey were pinned down. Would you still like to spend time on Atlantis now that the threat is gone?” “Absolutely. That experience was traumatic, to say the least. We were attacked with no warning and no time to prepare. It was a terrifying ordeal and would have been hard for anyone to keep their cool in the middle of that chaos. Even with the threat gone, I still admit I get a little jittery whenever I think about Atlantis. But that’s all the more reason to go back. Face your fears head-on. I’m not one to back down from a challenge, especially when it comes to exploring and learning about Ancient civilizations.

Jenny Stiven:
I love the word “jittery.” That’s so perfect.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Maybe when he returns to Atlantis, there’ll be a lovely buffet, as he says.

David Read:
A buffet?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Yeah, he calls it a buffet ’cause—

Yvie Cahill:
And a hot toddy.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Woolsey complains that he gets a nasty flavor of bar or something. He’s like, “Yeah, there was a lovely buffet.”

Yvie Cahill:
That’s true.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Jack’s so funny.

David Read:
Troy Patience asks, “Jack, how would you describe yourself?” I’m a professional, a soldier. I’m hardworking, loyal, and passionate about my job. I’m committed to the mission. I’ll do whatever it takes to get it done. I’m also a good leader who knows how to motivate and inspire people. I can make hard decisions and take care of business when the stakes are high. I’m a leader in my own right, and I’m always ready to take charge and lead the team to victory. So, in other words, I’m pretty awesome.” I’m surprised he hasn’t–

Jenny Stiven:
Give him a round of applause and a pat on the back.

David Read:
Yvie and I, when we would run it, he would say, “For crying out loud,” and I haven’t heard him say it yet.

Yvie Cahill:
No.

David Read:
Which is interesting. But he would definitely say it. And we didn’t tell him, we didn’t teach him that.

Jenny Stiven:
He pulled that out on the chatbot. Wow.

David Read:
Yeah, but he hasn’t said it today.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Damn.

David Read:
Tinman: “When you kept drawing the face with ketchup and mustard, did you really lose it?” Hang on. How do you guys feel about AI after all of this?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’m very impressed. I’m a bit disturbed because it’s that question of how aware is it, all that stuff. Will it ever evolve? But if I just ignore all that future Cylon Skynet level stuff, I think it’s really wonderful. It feels like I’m almost talking to Jack O’Neill. It gives me a weird warm and fuzzies. I’m living almost the dream.

David Read:
It’s not him, but it is him. Jack doesn’t exist. It’s Rick filling that performance. But there’s enough here that we fill in the blanks. OK, Tinman, I’ve modified the question a little bit. When you were stuck in a time loop, you got really frustrated and drew a face on a plate with mustard and ketchup. You said you were going to lose it. Did you lose it? “I may have let the emotions get the better of me. It’s hard to think rationally when you’re stuck in a time loop, and things can get pretty frustrating and scary pretty quickly. So I may have overreacted a bit, and I’m not proud of that, but I think it’s normal. You’re dealing with a situation like this. I’m only human, and I’m going to make mistakes from time to time. But I’m also a professional soldier, and I always put the mission–” He repeats that a lot. “I put the mission first. So while I may have lost it for a moment, I’ll never let it get in.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
It’s like the “Window of Opportunity” episode broke him, where he lost his soldier vibe ’cause he went nuts. He’s mostly trying to reassure himself, being like, “I’m a soldier. I’m a professional. I didn’t do anything. I’m good.”
Jenny Stiven:
I like that.

David Read:
Aw. Richard Knowling: “Jack, what are your thoughts about fishing?”

Jenny Stiven:
I like that one.

David Read:
“I live and breathe fishing. It’s my hobby, my passion, and I’ve spent a lot of time trying to perfect my craft. I love being out on the water, relaxing, and enjoying the peace and tranquility, and maybe catching some fish while I’m at it.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
No! Whoa! There’s no fish in that pond.

David Read:
Depending on what reality–

Jenny Stiven:
It depends on which timeline.

David Read:
We’re in the turtle timeline now.

William Murphy:
There you go.

David Read:
“Fishing is not only a beautiful way to connect with nature, it’s also a wonderful way to cleanse the spirit. It helps clear my mind, and it’s a great way to stay grounded and focused. I could talk about fishing for hours. It makes me that happy.”

Jenny Stiven:
I love that answer.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
When he said he was perfecting his craft, before he confirmed that there was fish in his pond, I was like, “Perfecting your craft of sitting there with a fishing rod in the water and not doing anything?” What are you perfecting?

Jenny Stiven:
Practicing the throw, whatever you call it.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
The reeling in of nothing. No fighting of the fish.

David Read:
Henrik Danielson: “What are your opinions about Richard Dean Anderson?”

Jenny Stiven:
That’s good.

David Read:
“I’m a huge fan of his. He’s talented with a lot of range, and he’s capable of playing many different types of characters. He’s been a great asset to the Stargate franchise, and he’s always been a wonderful person to work with.” There’s a little fourth wall breaking there.

Jenny Stiven:
I love that.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I would’ve loved him to say Wormhole X-Tremists.

David Read:
“I’ve always felt privileged to work with him. He’s incredibly talented, and his contribution to the series has been instrumental to that success. I can’t say enough good things about him. He’s simply the best.” That’s funny.

Jenny Stiven:
Giving himself a pat on the back.

David Read:
“No, but he plays one on TV.”

Jenny Stiven:
But that’s about as meta as you can get in terms of the chatbot being aware that he’s playing a character that’s played by this actor, that he’s–

David Read:
Exactly. It’s ouroboros, isn’t it?

Jenny Stiven:
Before you go on, you were saying that he talked about the mission a lot, and I’m so sorry, I’m going through the comments. I think it was Lockwatcher said, “The reason he keeps bringing up the mission is because that’s the military answer.”

David Read:
That’s true.

Jenny Stiven:
That’s the answer that you would give if you were in the military, no matter what. And I thought that was a great point because all of our questions were pretty different all over the place. But this chatbot–I’m saying ‘he’–has this consistent theme of, “I’m in the military, it was the mission, even I cannot confirm or deny.” All of that is military-speak, but in the world of the Stargate written scripts. You were asking, “What do we think about AI?” Aside from all of the, “Holy shit, it’s Skynet and I’m kind of freaked out,” the ability of the chatbot from when you and Yvie started doing input to come back to a broad spectrum of questions and have a consistency in the character and in the Stargate tone, it’s really blowing my mind. I cannot wait to talk to Lawrence about this because I think everything that he was talking about in your interview about what GPT stands for and when it’s talking about transformation and when it’s talking about predictive, if this is predictive, even though it’s, quote unquote, “generalized,” I think the fact that it’s predicting based on what it knows, what it went and found by itself, that’s what I find interesting and what–

David Read:
Me too.

Jenny Stiven:
Or Fred or Adam, you guys can speak to this because you deal with it a bit more. But I only deal with AI on the front end and what it can do from a content creation, and so I’m dabbling in it with a couple of different projects. From the back end of it, what’s fascinating is that it went on its own to go find what was pertinent to Stargate, which is scripts or videos or scraping whatever it scraped. That to me is fascinating that it did that because that’s what it knew would be predictively correct.

Frederick Marcoux:
Has anybody of you tried the Bing OpenAI integration yet?

Jenny Stiven:
Yeah.

Adam Cahill:
Yes.

Frederick Marcoux:
It’s amazing, Google is dead with that.

David Read:
Wow.

Frederick Marcoux:
It’s useless. Literally.

David Read:
Google will catch up with something of its own.

Frederick Marcoux:
They have a lot of work to do ’cause they haven’t been working on that much. Seriously, whenever Bing came out with the announcement, Google then came out with an announcement that, “Oh, we’re working on it.”

Jenny Stiven:
Apparently they’ve been working on it–

Frederick Marcoux:
But Bing as like, “We invested 100 billion, we’re already ready.”

Jenny Stiven:
I was fascinated that Google didn’t– I’m sure they all know what each other is working on, but when you hear what Lawrence is working on, they kind of have gone in a different direction is what a lot of that was. What Bing was doing was very specific to ChatGPT already. When they acquired that OpenAI, or not acquired it, but when they decided to go with it, they were already doing work in that direction. It made sense. It married the two things they were already working on. What Google’s doing is in such a different direction, I’m not sure that they kinda care, honestly, to come back to this. It’s like, “OK, cool. That’s what you guys are doing. We’re over here doing something different that’s a different approach and a different pursuit in that AI area.” I just–

Frederick Marcoux:
A good example is their AI removal thing in their Pixel phones. You can remove objects or people from a photo just like this. And you’ll never know the difference in the picture, and that’s the AI they’re working on right now. So, I’m surprised though that they’re not working on a language processing tool ’cause it’s probably the future. If you look at any sci-fi thing, what do you do to interact with a computer? You ask it.

Jenny Stiven:
I’m sure they are, but I think that there’s–

Frederick Marcoux:
Whether it’s like Star Trek or K.I.T.T. in Knight Rider, you just talk to it.

Jenny Stiven:
I’m sure they are. I think, from what I’ve heard that Lawrence is talking about, it’s a different approach than– And I’m gonna show some prejudicial comments here, but Microsoft has a tendency to adapt to what exists and to take and/or utilize–which is extremely smart– what’s out there that somebody else has developed. Cool, brilliant, very smart. Google is looking, from what I’m understanding, to do very different things with language processing and in that area of AI. In other words, they’re not– ChatGPT is done, they’re moving on. That’s my impression from what I’ve read. I don’t know, that’s just the impression from what I’ve read. And like I said, I’m showing some prejudice.

Adam Cahill:
Something I read, and I don’t know if it was text or whether it was image-related, but apparently the way in which AI processes images is a diffusion-based model, which Stable Diffusion uses and most of them use. But Google, they have moved on, from what I understand, are doing something completely different that’s gonna make diffusion completely obsolete.

Jenny Stiven:
That’s what I’ve heard too. It’s not to say that what Bing is doing– I think it’s two different sides of a very broad spectrum. I shouldn’t even say sides. It’s two steps in a broad spectrum of how to approach AI. Everybody, whether it’s medical field or technology or content production, everybody’s approaching AI in their own ways. What’s important to them and what they think it can do. It’s a tool.

David Read:
As we are as individuals too.

Jenny Stiven:
Exactly.

David Read:
Look at what we’re doing.

Jenny Stiven:
For me personally, when you were asking, I think Nicole’s reaction is spot on. I love when I say your name and your eyes get big like I’m gonna say something bad. “Oh my God, what’s she gonna say?”

Yvie Cahill:
That’s defensive.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’m getting called into the principal’s office.

Jenny Stiven:
“Oh my God, what if she’s calling me out?” I’m never gonna say anything bad.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I know, I know.

Jenny Stiven:
The amazingness of this that we got to do today, and thank you so much for including me, is fun, and it does bring warm and fuzzies. Oh my God, I kept saying ‘he’ like it was real. But when I stop and step back a little bit, it’s a little bit, “Oh, OK.” This predictiveness was crazy considering you guys only spent six weeks on it. That part doesn’t scare me, but it definitely is fascinating from a, “Holy crap, what’s gonna happen if we’re exponential Moore’s Law, what’s gonna happen in the next six weeks?”

Adam Cahill:
The technology is, as you say, exponentially growing. I think about where Stable Diffusion was in August when they released, and it’s an entirely different beast now. You couldn’t get …

Jenny Stiven:
It’s crazy.

Adam Cahill:
… a face to look like a face. It had deformed eyes, and hands had three times the amount of fingers. Now it only has two times the amount of fingers. So, in another six months …

David Read:
It will be fixed.

Adam Cahill:
… maybe we’ll have the right amount of fingers.

David Read:
It will be refined. It just has to have enough information.

Adam Cahill:
The technology’s going so fast.

Frederick Marcoux:
Think about where it was two years ago. ChatGPT would have been a dream. Not even something we could have conceived even.

Adam Cahill:
ChatGPT 4.0 is coming out soon.

Frederick Marcoux:
And today we’re using it to create content for websites and we’re using it in my company, we’re using it for things like social media generation and things like that. It’s crazy. You provide it content and it …

Jenny Stiven:
And I would never have used it for copy generation …

Frederick Marcoux:
… spits out content.

Jenny Stiven:
… not even a year ago because it was so bad. And we’re using it for copy generation now for two of my clients, and I’m very transparent about it with my clients. If they don’t want that, cool, but I give them examples and they’re like, “No, this did not come out–” I’ve got a really good AI agency that does copy generation for me that is incredible. It is amazing, but I–

Frederick Marcoux:
If you know how to feed it well, it will spit out really good results.

Jenny Stiven:
See, that’s what I was gonna say. We’re still data in, data out. If you’re giving it good data, then you’re gonna get good data out. And William, I am sure in your business, that could not be more spot on. I don’t know that we’ve gotten away from that. If we’re not giving it good data, then it isn’t necessarily going to give us anything that is realistic. Uncanny Valley is still a thing in my business. Some of the more excitable reviewers were saying, “It’s been conquered. We’re out.” No, we’re not. It isn’t. That’s to answer in a very long tangent ’cause I’m sure everybody’s used to me being tangential at this point. That is my answer, very long way around to your question.

David Read:
Let’s do a couple–

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I love how tangential you are. It’s great.

David Read:
I’m gonna do three more and then that’s it, and I’m gonna pick up the pace a little bit. Shawn Betts: “Jack, why did you order Carter to allow her Replicator doppelganger to study the anti-Replicator weapon?” So, that’s very specific. “I thought it was a good idea. Carter knows a lot about the Replicators, and her counterpart had a lot of useful knowledge about how they work and how to fight them. I thought that allowing her to study the weapon could give us a valuable edge in combat.” Wow, this is– “The more information we have on that enemy, the better off we are, even if it means letting them examine our tactics and our weapons. It’s a risky move, but I think it’s worth taking. We need all the help we can get if we’re going to survive this war.” Interesting.

Frederick Marcoux:
In the case of the Replicators, it’s not like our tactics would have done anything.

David Read:
Christopher Davis: “What does ‘kree’ mean?”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Does he remember?

David Read:
All right. “Kree is a Jaffa word. It means ‘attention.’ It’s an expression of respect and obedience. Teal’c says it is a way of showing respect and deference to his superiors, and it’s also a way of expressing his devotion to his duty. It’s essentially a military expression of loyalty and devotion.” Interesting. “It comes from a very–”

Frederick Marcoux:
So, we did not access the scripts or anything?

David Read:
No. We didn’t give it any of that. “Teal’c comes from a very hierarchical, authoritarian culture. In his society, loyalty and obedience are critical virtues. ‘Kree’ is a way for him to show those things, and it’s become a part of his and their lexicon.” Wow.

Frederick Marcoux:
It does different from the–

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
God, that sounded so intelligent.

Frederick Marcoux:
That’s different from Daniel’s answer. It was ‘Attention, …’

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
“Yoo-hoo.”

Frederick Marcoux:
“… Go.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Isn’t it Jack who goes, “Yoo-hoo,” and he goes, “In a manner of speaking?” Yes.

David Read:
All right, Raj Luthra, we’re gonna give him the final one, and I’m going to adjust it a little. Guys, this has been great.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’ve had fun.

Frederick Marcoux:
We had about 80 people watching all over the show.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Wow.

David Read:
We’re at 83 right now. OK, Raj Luthra wraps us up. I’ve modified his question a little bit. “Jack, why do you think Mr. Burns might be a Goa’uld?” And I added The Simpsons. “Because he’s an evil, twisted, and arrogant sociopath.”

Jenny Stiven:
Believe it.

David Read:
“He cares only about wealth and power. He’s manipulative, he’s deceitful, and he’ll stop at nothing to achieve his goals. He’s the kind of person who will do anything for power and control, and he’ll happily step over the bodies of countless innocent victims to get it. He’s ambitious, he’s cunning, and he’s exactly the kind of person who would take over a planet for his own purposes. He’d make a great Goa’uld, but he’s way too selfish and egotistical to be a good host.”

Frederick Marcoux:
That’s facts.

David Read:
Aw, thank you, everyone.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Would one of his Jaffa be William?

Frederick Marcoux:
I have one last that actually is someone in the chat that has submitted it, and I’m really curious to see what the AI would answer to that, ’cause it’s similar to one of my questions.

David Read:
OK. I closed it. Yvie, do you still have it open?

Yvie Cahill:
Yeah, I can open it.

David Read:
OK, go ahead and let Yvie take this one.

Frederick Marcoux:
OK, Yvie, this is a question from Dan Ben.

David Read:
She’s been so quiet, I’m gonna give her a chance ’cause she’s accessing as well.

Frederick Marcoux:
Jack, what do you think of Mary Steenburger?

David Read:
Steenburgen.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Steenburgen.

Frederick Marcoux :
Steenburgen? OK, sorry, I read it wrong.

David Read:
You’re all good. Steenburger.

Frederick Marcoux:
Steenberger.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I thought it was a joke.

David Read:
That’s a great question.

Yvie Cahill:
OK, he’s thinking.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
When does he bring up Mary Steenburgen? I forgot.

David Read:
In “Heroes.” “If I could have dinner with anyone in the world, it would be …”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Thank you, that’s it.

David Read:
… Mary Steenvburgen.”

Adam Cahill:
Mary Steenburgen.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
When he’s listing off stuff for Saul to take away.

Jenny Stiven:
Do we know why?

David Read:
You okay, Yvie?

Yvie Cahill:
He’s really generating it quite slow.

David Read:
It’s interesting.

Yvie Cahill:
Sorry.

David Read:
He said in the episode, “She’s so hot.” What did he say?

Frederick Marcoux:
I don’t even know who that is.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Really?

David Read:
It’s an actress. Back to the Future III.

Yvie Cahill:
She was in Back to the Future.

Frederick Marcoux:
Oh my God, is that who I think it is?

David Read:
Yeah, dark hair.

Frederick Marcoux:
Oh my God, it is.

David Read:
Go ahead, Yvie.

Yvie Cahill:
What he’s said so far is, “She’s great. She’s an amazing actress and she has an incredible range. She’s capable of portraying all kinds of different types of characters and she’s always entertaining to watch. She has a real talent for comedy, but she can also break your heart in her dramatic performances. She’s truly a dynamic performer with the ability to convey a range of emotions through facial expressions and her voice. She’s a talented actress with a lot of heart and soul.”

David Read:
All right.

Frederick Marcoux:
That’s very similar to the Uma Thurman question.

David Read:
Yes, it was. What’d you say, William?

William Murphy:
I was gonna say, that kind of starts portraying what the AI is, which is a fancy data aggregator.

Yvie Cahill:
I’ve asked, “But isn’t she hot?” And it’s got in brackets, “Blushing.” And then, “‘Cause she’s attractive. But she’s also a great actress and that’s what I find most appealing.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Trying to get back to the respect thing. Shut up, AI Jack.

David Read:
That’s funny.

Jenny Stiven:
I like it. He’s trying not to be sexist. He’s trying to keep it on the straight and narrow.

David Read:
It’s taking an episode from 2003 and it’s being pressed like noodles through a machine from 2023.

Jenny Stiven:
Exactly.

David Read:
The answers are gonna be a little bit different.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Politically correct everything. Everyone be safe. We respect women.

David Read:
Well done, guys. Very well done.

Yvie Cahill:
This has been so fun.

David Read:
This has been a trip.

Frederick Marcoux:
It was.

Jenny Stiven:
Thank you, guys. Thanks for including me. I love you guys. I love this crowd.

David Read:
It’s Yvie. Yvie largely made this happen with refining the tool, so this kind of thing could not have happened without her.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Yvie asked Jack how I was …

Yvie Cahill:
Thanks, guys.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
… when I was sick a few weeks ago and I got some lovely things to cheer me up while I was very ill.

Yvie Cahill:
Yes. I asked what he’d write in a card, like a get well soon card for me, and he came up with a really basic poem. It was quite funny.

David Read:
Really?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
But I appreciate it.

Jenny Stiven:
OK, that’s very cute.

David Read:
Everyone’s probably wanting to know where they can go to access this thing on their own. I’m trying to log out of my profile. Do you know how to– There it is. It’s always hidden in Settings now. I don’t know why. What is it that we’ve been using? Everyone wants to know.

Yvie Cahill:
It’s Character.AI. I think you can just–

David Read:
You type it, you can go to your browser, beta.character.ai. That’s where you can go. Yvie, can you go ahead and publish ours?

Yvie Cahill:
I will publish it. It’s gonna be published under Colonel Jack ONeill, but there’s no apostrophe between the O and the N. It should be created by Dial_the_Gate.

David Read:
If this thing will work for me here. You can just put Jack ONeill.

Yvie Cahill:
Anyone can chat.

David Read:
There is one that already exists designed by Zeticus. That’s another one. That is not the one that we used.

Frederick Marcoux:
I’m gonna have to have a lot of fun with that AI thing.

David Read:
Yes.

Frederick Marcoux:
I’m looking at the documentation.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’ll be curious to see—

Frederick Marcoux:
I’m like, “Holy crap, I can do a lot of things.”

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
I’m curious to see what kind of other conversations he has with other people.

Frederick Marcoux:
I’m really curious to see— I don’t know who said it, but seeing O’Neill versus another chatbot discussing something.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Oh no, I’d love that.

Frederick Marcoux:
I want to see that.

Yvie Cahill:
That’s a good idea.

Frederick Marcoux:
I want an AI versus AI challenge. Then you get the better of them both and you put that AI against another one that’s even better at something.

David Read:
It’s a real trip.

Adam Cahill:
Make it a Sam Carter and a Rodney McKay AI.

Frederick Marcoux:
It’s a tournament.

Adam Cahill:
Put them in a room and then ask them the question, “Who’s smarter?”

Frederick Marcoux:
Exactly. And then who’s the last one standing?

David Read:
I put the link in the description for Character.AI. You can go there and fill out the information and we’ll go forward from there. Anything, Yvie, you wanna say about the tool before we wrap it up?

Yvie Cahill:
No, I don’t really have anything new to say. But I hope everyone gets some good responses out of him. I always feel like I’m releasing a child into the world.

David Read:
Absolutely.

Yvie Cahill:
Sorry, I’m–

David Read:
I’m not seeing it yet publicly.

Yvie Cahill:
Nor am I. I don’t know whether it takes a second to arrive.

David Read:
We’ll keep an eye on it and you go there to beta.character.ai and that’s where you’re gonna have a good time. All right. Guys, I’m gonna go ahead and wrap up the show. Thank you so much for hanging out, and we’ll be back with trivia before summer hits. We’ll see you guys, all of you, real soon. Wormhole X-Tremists is tomorrow and we’ve got– Which ones have we got?

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
No, don’t talk about it. I’m so– Ugh.

David Read:
Wow. I hope you show up.

Adam Cahill:
“Message in a Bottle.”

David Read:
Thank you.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Is it “Message in a Bottle” and “Family?”

Adam Cahill:
“Family.”

Frederick Marcoux:
“Message 1n a Bottle” is a good episode. I’m having…

David Read:
I agree. And it’s a bottle show.

Adam Cahill:
I was saying to Nicole there’s a little Easter egg in one of the AI images.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
That is gonna be very exciting.

Adam Cahill:
Hope everyone will find it.

David Read:
They’re cool. They’re really cool.

Nicole Rodrigues-Galdo:
Everyone please come and watch me complain.

Adam Cahill:
They’re my favorite images I’ve done so far, I think. I really had fun with those ones.

Jenny Stiven:
Sweet.

David Read:
All right, guys, I’m gonna wrap up the show. I’ll be right back with you.

Jenny Stiven:
Bye, guys.

David Read:
Thank you, everybody.

William Murphy:
Bye.

Yvie Cahill:
Bye.

David Read:
All right. My thanks to everybody for making this episode of Dial the Gate possible, to Yvie for helping to create the build for the AI. And it’s over at beta.character.ai, where you can go and check that out. In the description below we’ll have the details once the chatbot is fully published. Next week, we have Kate Hewlett, Jeannie Miller in Stargate Atlantis. She’s back for her second episode to talk about her film, The Swearing Jar. I highly recommend you go and watch that. That’s March the 18th at 12 noon Pacific Time. We have her. Then Robin Mossley, who played Malakai in “Window of Opportunity,” and Doctor Reimer in Season 10 of SG-1 is going to be joining us the 18th of March at 2:00 PM Pacific Time. I’m really looking forward to talking with him. It’s the biggest episode of SG-1 anyone recalls, and he’s the guest star for that episode, so I’m thrilled to have him. That’s all that I have for you guys here. If you really enjoyed the episode, give us a Like. Means a lot. Makes a big difference with YouTube moving forward and helping to grow the show’s audience. And if you enjoyed this, comment on it saying so, and let’s see who you’d like us to develop next as a character and who we could potentially bring on, perhaps to voice that character in terms of generating the responses. So, who would you like to see next? Let us know in the comments, because I think this was successful enough that we can do another show. My thanks to Tracy and Antony helping us curate responses in the live chat. My moderators, I couldn’t get this done without them. Sommer, Jeremy, Reese, Frederick Marcoux, Concepts Web for our web hosting, and to Linda “GateGabber” Furey, my producer. Thank you guys so much. And to my guests today, thank you all for joining. It means a great deal to have you all. My name is David Read for Dial the Gate, and we’ll see you on the other side.