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David Read:
Unscheduled off-world activation. Boys, how you doing?

William Murphy:
Hey, how are you? I’m doing good.

David Read:
I’m good. Kevin, you moved on me. Center thyself. Other way. You also can move your device too. That, you can turn.

Kevin Weaver:
But that’s the easy way.

David Read:
Will, how you doing?

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

David Read:
Greetings from Earth. I’m good. I’m very good. Kevin, what did your shirt say again?

Kevin Weaver:
“Don’t say Ka till you’ve tried it.”

David Read:
There you go.

William Murphy:
That’s awesome.

David Read:
Always keeping the podcasters in mind. The podcast listeners. I’m seeing the delay in the feed and seeing Kevin’s shirt come up again. This was an unscheduled episode because — and my moderators love that — because I didn’t know that I was gonna be doing this until recently and I’ll explain why in just a minute here. You guys know that trivia has been a part of Dial the Gate from the first episode with me and Darren. You guys were both reigning champions on our trivia games in the past, and it’s been something that’s very important to fandom. When Kieran and Jenny and I were running Stargate Command back in the day, we would regularly ask people, “What is it that you want more from the account?” Because they paid 20 bucks to be there. And Kieran said the thing that they heard again and again was, “More quizzes, more quizzes, more quizzes,” which is one of the reasons why trivia has always been a big portion of the project. I wanted to bring you guys here, because I have something to unveil tonight that I’m very proud of, and a number of people helped me do it very quickly. A few weeks ago, I created a Patreon and I was overwhelmed by the response, humbled by it immensely. Still am. But I wanted to give–

William Murphy:
Well deserved.

David Read:
Thank you. But I wanted to create something as a thank you. And it was always my intent to do this but this accelerated the process and gave me the excuse. And also, I’m getting ready to leave for three and a half weeks, and because I like pain, I was like, “Well, let’s just do this now.” So, what I have is not just for us, but it is for everyone. And it’s still early days, but it is on its feet. We have launched a trivia machine. An endless trivia machine that is going to stand alongside Dial the Gate. And as we are Dial the Gate, it was naturally the direction that we would go with the dialing computer. You can actually get to Dial the Gate by pressing this button right here. Of course. I am so proud of this thing, and I’ll give you guys a little bit of background on it in just a second here. I wanted to create something that is mobile-friendly, and we created something that is so slick that it’s taken my breath away. I have taken design elements that have been brought to us from Matt “Eagle SG” Wilson and Brice Ors, and then I along with Ian Bernardo, who is building Heliopolis, and who built the original dialing computer program that they have been using over at EMG, The Children of MacGyver, we shunted this thing into a mobile-friendly and desktop-friendly– It’s not an app, it’s not something that you can buy in the Play Store, although I may have conversations with someone at some point in order to pull that off. But it is something that you can play. So, as a thank you for the people who helped me get Patreon off the ground and everything else, I went and spent 10 of those dollars on stargatetrivia.com, which, to my shock and awe, was available. So now you can go to stargatetrivia.com and there are 1,250 questions out of thousands planned, ready to go. So, more quizzes, there you go. And my hands and my humor, such as it is, have touched every one of these. I do wanna make a quick note here. I apologize for the text. This is not the font that it’s supposed to be. So that’s one of only a couple of problems that we have with it. So it will be different on different devices, but it is the dialing computer font on the devices where it’s working. So keep that in mind. It doesn’t always look like that. But you guys are gonna help me with the test run with it here. And Kevin, what do you think?

Kevin Weaver:
It looks amazing, and I’m happy to get to help you test it out.

David Read:
You’ve already played with it on mobile, haven’t you?

Kevin Weaver:
Yes, a little bit.

David Read:
Is it fun?

Kevin Weaver:
Umm…

David Read:
I don’t like that.

Kevin Weaver:
It’s more engaging than any of the online quizzes I’ve done.

David Read:
OK, that’s fair.

Kevin Weaver:
It looks better. I feel it’s better worded than any of them. I have fun playing it.

David Read:
OK. Will, thoughts? I sent it to you a day or two ago.

William Murphy:
I’m still wrapping my head around 1,250 questions and your implication that that’s just for the beginning.

David Read:
I wanted to launch with more than a thousand, and I’ve been doing this for about three weeks and I didn’t want to launch with fewer than that ’cause I really wanted people to be able to get as addicted to it as I have. And I have sleep problems as it is, and I’ve been laying in bed playing it. But you’re also throwing stuff at it to see if it’ll break. A lot of QA and taking screenshots and emailing to myself, “I gotta change the wording on this. This is too vague. This is whatever.” ‘Cause each question needs that because it’s up against 300 and almost 60 hours of programming. So, Will, I have to give a huge thank you to you because you helped me under the hood with the process that it took me to get this thing off the ground because I wanted to make sure — and I’ll pop open the hood to show it to you guys — that I had everything that I needed and all the tools. So where this comes from is a website called Ausgate, created by Allan Gowen of Gatecon. And on Ausgate, he has a mass of 27,000 trivia questions created by a guy who has the handle of Quizard. He made this over the course of years and what it turns out to be is an average of 80 questions per hour of television. And I have gone through [it]. I have taken the trivia questions from Dial the Gate and that’s what I started with. Yvie Cahill adapted them into a spreadsheet for me months ago and that was what we started off with. And so those questions, about 80% of them, are inside this program, reworded and recontextualized a little bit to make it work, along with three incorrect answers for each question. That was a bit of a bear, let me tell you, getting all that straight. But it’s in there now. A lot of the questions that Quizard’s, lovely as he is– The one at the very top that I killed was, “What was Professor Langford’s license plate in Egypt in 1928?” This is an endurance game. The idea behind it is you start playing and you go until you can’t go any further. The whole idea is see how long you can go. And if I am gonna get knocked out because I wasn’t able to answer what the license plate number of Professor Langford’s car was, that would really piss me off. So I’ve gone in and we are gonna be using a number of Quizard’s questions, the base of 27,000, but we’re also gonna chiefly be making new ones. So the base is for me to start with. And I’ll say more about this in a minute here, but I will start off by saying it already has French

William Murphy:
Awesome. That’s great. That’s gonna help. A lot of fans are gonna be very happy to hear that.

David Read:
So we wanted to create something that was the world over for Fandom. Martin Gero has promised a show that’s gonna be released internationally at once and I wanted to create something that could bring us together. And so that’s what we’ve done here. So, we’ve created this thing so that it’s modular and we can offshoot different languages. And if this is something that you’re interested in, you can become part of that and I’ll be bringing that up to you guys in a second. But do you wanna play real quick? Kick the tires and light the fires, as it were?

William Murphy:
I’m all about–

David Read:
We’re not gonna shoot down aliens, but yeah. All righty. William, you ready?

William Murphy:
Sure.

David Read:
All right.

William Murphy:
I’m gonna call out answers as you…

David Read:
That’s it. In this episode, the city of Atlantis is nearly destroyed by an ocean wave.

William Murphy:
That’d be “The Eye.”

David Read:
Kevin. In “Gauntlet,” TJ describes ALS as?

Kevin Weaver:
A death sentence.

David Read:
Wow. William, what is the call sign of the X-301?

William Murphy:
I wanna say it’s Digger One.

David Read:
Kevin, what other name was given to Pelops by the people of Argos?

Kevin Weaver:
The Giver of Days.

David Read:
William, what is Jack’s iris code prior to “Unnatural Selection?”

William Murphy:
903-224-637.

David Read:
I knew you would know it.

William Murphy:
[inaudible] I know it.

David Read:
I have that in there because it is a part of the dialogue. Otherwise, you will not find that question in there. Kevin, in “2001,” what was the name of the Ashen ambassador?

Kevin Weaver:
Mollum.

David Read:
William, which Asgard is voiced by Teryl Rothery?

William Murphy:
That would be Freyr. No. It was Heimdall.

David Read:
Heimdall. That’s right. Very good, guys.

William Murphy:
Oh, man.

David Read:
That’s pretty good, though. I wanna introduce everyone to one of the people who helped me bring this thing together, and in that brief conversation, we’re gonna explain the tiered system and how it works so that when you screenshot this and share this with your friends, you will be able to share how far you’ve moved in progress.

William Murphy:
That’s great.

David Read:
Let’s bring in Sarah. Hi, Sarah.

Sarah:
Hi, David.

David Read:
How are you?

Sarah:
I am well. How are you, sir?

David Read:
I’m good. What have you been up to? What have you been doing?

Sarah:
I’ve got this little project going on called stargatetrivia.com. It starts with a really big database, lots of questions that we’re rewriting and getting answers for to create this wonderful game.

David Read:
I couldn’t have gotten this far without you.

Sarah:
Thank you.

David Read:
I only started this three weeks ago, and then with Ian and Brice and Matt, and Allan Gowen, and his guy who designed the questions to begin with, we turned this thing around very quickly, and you …

Sarah:
That’s impressive.

David Read:
… poured the midnight oil to bring us to where we are. ‘Cause picking the questions and sorting them is 50% of the battle. So you did that on the last third. Thank you.

Sarah:
Wow. I didn’t realize it was that much. It didn’t feel like it.

David Read:
It was around 800 when you came in. We’re at 1200 now.

Sarah:
1249.

David Read:
That’s it. At the moment. It won’t be that when we go live. The real question is, is it fun?

Sarah:
Yes.

David Read:
Do you think it’s fun?

Sarah:
I’m having a lot of fun with this, not just because of the actual work that’s involved, but there’s a lot of information that you take for granted, like, “Oh, I forgot that,” or you have to do a little research to check on something, and you find something out. For me, I am really enjoying it. I’m learning, remembering a lot, reliving the stories, which is fun, the little adventures.

David Read:
It puts you back into it, makes you wanna go and–

Sarah:
Absolutely.

David Read:
I cannot count the number of times now where I have stopped to go and research an episode to verify the question per dialogue, ’cause I’ve got the transcript. We’ve got the transcripts as well to make sure of things. And I sit there, and I go ahead and finish the episode. And it’s really slowed me down. It’s like, “No, you have to get back to this thing.”

Sarah:
Now, David.

David Read:
Drinking a little too much of my own Kool-Aid here.

Sarah:
I don’t know if this is something that we can find out, but I would be really interested in learning how many people are playing the game and how long, if that’s something that we can determine. Are they just five minutes and done? Are they really getting into it? Are they challenging themselves?

David Read:
So, what we are doing with this is when you go and you click on the trivia, it starts you off as a basic airman. So, it ranks based on Air Force military rank from basic airman at zero to full-blown general, four star, at 100 questions.

Sarah:
I was Tok’ra Rascal. I don’t know where that came from, but I was a Tok’ra Rascal.

David Read:
So, those have phased out. So, we had them in there for a little while, and now people can capture a screenshot and upload it to social media to show …

Sarah:
That’s awesome.

David Read:
… what their rank has gotten to because the Air Force rank is vertically recognizable. So, every five questions you break through a new tier.

Sarah:
I didn’t realize it was… Gotcha.

David Read:
We changed that. So, when this goes live, that’s how that’s gonna be. So, you can screenshot your phone, and you can put that on the web and share how far you’ve gotten.

Sarah:
Is it still 20 seconds per question?

David Read:
It is.

Sarah:
It is. OK. Whew. Good. It makes me a little nervous sometimes. I’m like, “Oh, no, no, no.”

David Read:
We couldn’t have people go and search the question. But we had to make it tight.

Sarah:
Fair.

David Read:
I wanted your heart rate to come up a little bit.

Sarah:
Yes. It did.

David Read:
So, that’s what it is. Especially when it goes red in that last five seconds.

Sarah:
But some of those hard questions are really stumpers, let me tell you.

David Read:
I know. It’s gonna be striking a balance. One of the things that I’ve asked Ian to do is create a little module on the backend to identify which questions are stumping people the most and kicking them out …

Sarah:
That’s a good idea.

David Read:
… finishing their streak. So that I can either adjust the wording or dial down the difficulty. But I don’t even move the difficulty around. I push go and let fate decide. The reason we wanted … For the easy ones, I really wanted to make them easy. Because I want kids to be able to play. 9-year-olds, 10-year-olds too. ‘Cause they’re the ones who are up and coming and gonna watch this thing. So, kids should be able to jump on and be able to play just like anyone else. So, that’s what’s really cool about it.

Sarah:
They may not know all the character names and the places, and most of us don’t know the planetary designations. M7G-677. I will always remember the planet of the kids.

David Read:
There’s a lot of kids on that one. That’s right. Martin Gero and I share that birthday. Martin July Gero 6th, 1977. That should be a trivia question. I’m gonna put that in there. Production questions are hidden as Easter eggs. Go ahead.

Sarah:
I was gonna say, that’s the other thing I like about this project is we’re not just restricted to the questions that we already have. We can come up with other questions, too. “You know what? This was a really cool tidbit that I think should be in one of the questions.” And I throw them in there, and Bob’s your uncle.

David Read:
That’s exactly right. There’s so many in there, and we’re gonna talk about that a little bit further in the other section of this. I wanted to thank you for your work so far, and I’m thrilled to have you onboard.

Sarah:
Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to work on this. I’m really enjoying it.

David Read:
It might be a good idea if I actually turn my volume back on. Big thanks to Sarah for helping me pull this thing off. It was absolutely a challenge that she has risen up to meet. It took me over the top. It’s not easy to be able to get all of these questions out. So to have someone else to do a first pass on them and then I go in and tighten the screws on everything has been great. So again, Allan Gowen of Ausgate making this possible, Quizard for his 27,000 base questions, Ian Bernardo of EMG helping me build the website, Brice with design elements, William Murphy with the Google Sheet, EagleSG Wilson for some of the dial-in computer elements. We have brought a team together to pull this off. You guys wanna go again?

Kevin Weaver:
Yeah.

David Read:
All right.

Kevin Weaver:
Yeah, let’s roll the dice and spice it up this time.

David Read:
By default, it automatically sets difficulty to all and source to all. You can toggle different ones. I’m gonna reiterate something that past David said in the piece. There were no really easy questions. Put yourself in the mind of the next Stargate viewer. You wanna design this thing for kids. You can toggle easy on, and your 10-year-old who just watched the Stargate movie can play. So, that’s what I’m looking for help with, is getting around that idea of making some easy questions. The other thing … The bear of it is the 27,000 questions that exist — and I’ve used this example a lot — we’re missing contextual questions, which I think are far more interesting in many cases. The one that I always go back to is, why is Daniel smiling at Cam in the men’s locker in “Crusade?” You have to know the show in order to know what’s going on there. And it makes a great medium or hard question. We’re looking for a lot of those. The person/place/thing questions has been covered. Please do not press the contact us button and send me any kind of person, place, or thing questions. I will bust your ass. I’m overflowing with questions. Sitting there and thinking about a question and answer is like, “Oh, I would like to add this question. Ctrl+F, Quizard’s already got it.” That happened again and again and again. He has done his homework. That was huge. OK. Let’s go and play. All righty. Kevin, you ready?

Kevin Weaver:
Yes.

David Read:
Why does Rush hide the discovery of the Destiny Bridge?

Kevin Weaver:
To keep control of the ship.

David Read:
William, by “Lost City,” what additional country was confirmed aware of the Stargate program?

William Murphy:
Was it Japan? No, it’s Canada.

David Read:
It’s Canada.

William Murphy:
I suck.

David Read:
That’s true. That’s right. Kevin, what aids in Baal’s escape after planting his explosives in Stargate: Continuum?

Kevin Weaver:
Ring transporter?

David Read:
Stargate: Continuum, there’s a ring transporter on the Achilles?

Kevin Weaver:
Portable dialer.

David Read:
Portable dialer. That’s right.

Kevin Weaver:
It’s been a while since I watched that one.

David Read:
For sure. William, in “Flesh and Blood,” how long until the Ori warship reaches Earth?

William Murphy:
Man, these are hard. Let’s go three weeks. There you go.

David Read:
Wow. Kevin, as a precaution, what did Dr. Keffler implant within Anna? And I need to update that to include the episode title, although they both only appear in one episode.

Kevin Weaver:
Biotoxin.

David Read:
William, what technology attracted extra-dimensional parasites in “Uninvited?”

William Murphy:
Sodan Cloaking Device.

David Read:
Kevin, what message is tied to the champagne bottle O’Neill sends through the gate in “Rising?”

Kevin Weaver:
“Bon voyage?”

David Read:
William, how long was there to raise the shield before kamikaze darts struck Atlantis?

William Murphy:
I’ll do my best Radek impersonation. 45 seconds.

David Read:
That’s good. Kevin, what was Jack doing at the beginning of “Children of the Gods?”

Kevin Weaver:
Stargazing.

David Read:
William, what film does Nicholas Rush reference in the kino footage in “Time?”

William Murphy:
“For a while there, I thought we were in trouble,” Butch Cassidy.

David Read:
Kevin, in “The Hive,” who died as a result of enzyme withdrawal?

Kevin Weaver:
Jace?

David Read:
Jace fell of a– Kanayo died as a result of withdrawal from the enzyme.

William Murphy:
It was gonna be one of those two names.

David Read:
Jace fell– Sheppard missed the landing.

William Murphy:
He rematerialized–

David Read:
He fell to his death. It was brilliant. “Jace! You murdered my man!” God. This is great.

William Murphy:
These are good questions. You’ve done a great job taking this existing trivia database and really find this balanced mix of tone. And like you said, the person, place, thing, but also some nice, broader contextual questions. The difficulty level seem to be very well-balanced.

David Read:
I’m thrilled that you guys like it. I would have had a thousand on my own. It would’ve been hard, though. But now, the thing was, Ausgate, Allan Gowans’ website, it’s behind a login wall. I highly recommend that you guys sign up over there. It’s at ausgate.net, A-U-S-G-A-T-E.net. I wanted something to be a little bit more accessible to a kid who didn’t wanna have to log in, who could, say, type in Stargate Trivia and go for it. That’s what we’ve done. And I think that it’s gonna give those trivia questions a larger life.

William Murphy:
You know what this feels like? This is a wonderful throwback to 2000s internet where it wasn’t this huge burden to download an app or whatever. When I was working the midnight shift at the architecture library at university and I was bored, I’d pull up a random trivia website and go. And this is what it feels like, except really, really, really smooth.

David Read:
It reminds me of Flash Player.

William Murphy:
Absolutely.

David Read:
Absolutely. It reminds me so much …

William Murphy:
It’s slick.

David Read:
… of that. It just goes on and on. We’re at 1,250 right now. My hope is to add, on average, maybe 10 a day. But I wanted you guys to have, everyone listening, to have enough of a swig when we start that you can really enjoy it. Now, this is where the fun begins, as they would say in Star Wars. What I’m doing now is looking for people who would not mind pairing up with someone else in their language to grow out the website. In the spirit of building SG4 camaraderie, I want fans from other Stargate languages to be able to come together here and adapt the existing questions from the English version into their language. I won’t consider branching off. I know the next one’s gonna be Polish because Jakub, my lead archivist, has already said he’s gonna set up the Polish one. So we need someone else helping him with Polish. But the next one behind that will probably be German. And I’m not gonna move forward with it until I can get two from each language so that you have a buddy to be accountable for, because I can’t translate. And the other bear of it is, you can give this to an LLM and it will adapt the questions for you, but it will not necessarily, even if you tell it to go and fetch them, get the episode titles for that language, which were made very deliberately correct.

William Murphy:
Good call. Grateful.

David Read:
You can’t just copy and paste. You have to get that right. That’s where we’re coming from with that. The other thing that I wanna say is, I’ve already showed you guys on mine. I just went to Safari and made a link from my homepage. You can go and open up your phone and all you have to do is create a link to your home screen, and then it will load up there. Ian has already configured it, so it doesn’t have anything blocking the top or the bottom when you go to your Google app and go to stargatetrivia.com. So it’s completely clean.

William Murphy:
It does look so good on the phone, even through the camera. It just pops.

David Read:
It’s smooth as glass. And to be honest, I had a bit of an ASMR experience with it for a little bit here when I first turned it on. I don’t know if you can tell, but we’ve added some quotes from the show as well, and a couple of them are really–

William Murphy:
I caught “Spank me rosy” earlier from “Full Circle.”

David Read:
There’s that. We did that. That’s a thing. I’m really, really pleased with it here. You wanna go one more time?

William Murphy:
Yes. Before we do though, you mentioned something towards the top of this announcement. Some way to show off your progress to your friends?

Kevin Weaver:
Yeah, I would screenshot them.

William Murphy:
Screenshot? OK.

David Read:
One of the things that we covered in the little bit with Sarah is that it’s a tiered system from Airman Basic to General, four-star General. That’s 20 branches of rank, and every five questions, you get promoted. If you make that tier, the cookie will remember it. But also, I managed a few days ago to get up to 120 questions. That’s not happening now. I’ve added too many questions. I can’t keep track of all of them now. When it was 500, I could do it, and now I can’t get to that. With my mods, I’m in the Dial the Gate live page, if any of you guys are in and anyone’s asking questions. Marcia, I’ll get to your question in a second here. The live chat, go ahead and submit those if you guys want to get any questions over to me for the next few minutes of this. But where was I going with this? If you wanna screenshot that and share that with your buddies, you can. I can’t promise how long the cookie will remain because we’re updating the website, and it may be wiping that. I already noticed that it reset me to Airman Basic even though I was up to some kind of sergeant. Screenshot it while it lasts, because screenshots make memories forever. Marcia Middleton, “Any questions about Stargate Infinity included?” No, and I’ve not included questions about Stargate Origins. I wanted people, the majority of dedicated Stargate fans who are gonna find this thing right away, to be able to log into the portal and press go, and keep on going around and around and around, and keep on going with it. I want it to be addictive, just like Steve Jobs wanted his iPhone to be. So useful that he wasn’t even willing to give it to read. He wasn’t even gonna let his kids touch it. I’m like, “Yeah, that’s what I want for a website.” But let me tell you something, when that thing goes red, your heart gets pumping a little bit there because it’s like, “Ooh, I wanna answer the question.” All the more reason to not take your phone with you to bed. But as they say, this is just the beginning. The infrastructure’s in place, and the backend is so easy. If you wanna help me build this thing, you don’t have to have any kind of HTML experience. All you have to do is know how to navigate to a Google Sheet. And we can easily create a question here, and the trigger we built is giving it a difficulty level. And then every 15 or so seconds, it pushes to the published version of the website. Although I’m the one to assign the difficulty level. No one’s gonna do that but me. One more?

William Murphy:
Sure. Let’s do it.

David Read:
All right. OK, William, In “Earth,” how does Telford describe the conditions on Destiny?

William Murphy:
Let’s go with dire.

David Read:
That’s correct. Kevin, Which family member joined Chloe Armstrong on Icarus Base?

Kevin Weaver:
Her father.

David Read:
That’s correct. William, What is the name of the desert world from the Stargate film?

William Murphy:
Abydos.

David Read:
William, What’s the name of the hotel where Daniel Jackson gives his presentation in the feature?

William Murphy:
You said me. It’s Kevin’s turn, and thank God it is.

David Read:
Kevin.

Kevin Weaver:
The Park Central?

David Read:
Park Plaza. Sheppard referred to — William — a time travel mechanism from which franchise?

William Murphy:
Wish I’d had the episode in here. Let’s try Back to the Future.

David Read:
That’s correct. It’s time. Kevin, In “Rising,” what did Sheppard say the team members were when they went to Athos? I need to add more context.

Kevin Weaver:
Traitors?

David Read:
That’s correct. William, Who commanded the USS George Hammond?

William Murphy:
Colonel Carter.

David Read:
Kevin, How many glyphs are on a Pegasus Stargate?

Kevin Weaver:
32?

William Murphy:
36.

David Read:
Ooh, 36. Yes. William, When Young releases Greer from the brig in “Air,” he orders him to…?

William Murphy:
Take his anger out on the enemy.

David Read:
That’s right. William, When talking to Catherine, what does Jack call General Hammond?

Kevin Weaver:
A teddy bear.

David Read:
That’s right. William, What personal item had Captain Hanson carried on his person for years?

William Murphy:
A Bible.

David Read:
That’s right. Kevin, Tick-like creatures force the crew to deal with suppressed trauma in this episode.

William Murphy:
“Visitation?”

David Read:
No, that’s “Pain.” One of the other things is I’m looking for questions that have episode names as their answers. That’s not something that Quizard created. I slowly created a few for that. William, what is Carter’s excuse when she doesn’t want to talk to Jonas in “Nightwalkers?”

William Murphy:
I’m out of time.

David Read:
Yeah. “Let’s get some lunch.”

William Murphy:
Anyways.

David Read:
Sorry. That’s my bad. William, who seared the mark of the serpent from Rak’nor’s forehead?

William Murphy:
That was off camera. Let’s go with Bra’tac.

David Read:
His father.

Kevin Weaver:
His father.

William Murphy:
Father? OK.

David Read:
Whose question was that?

William Murphy:
It was technically mine.

David Read:
OK. Kevin, when Daniel returns nude in “Threads,” what does Jack provide to cover himself?

Kevin Weaver:
The SGC flag.

William Murphy:
Good job.

David Read:
William, what race built Atlantis?

William Murphy:
That’s a tough one. I’m gonna go with the Ancients.

David Read:
Kevin, according to John Sheppard, people who don’t fly are?

Kevin Weaver:
Crazy.

David Read:
William, in “Earth,” O’Neill admits Carter often saved him with what type of science?

William Murphy:
Wacky?

David Read:
Wacky. Kevin, O’Neill must return to duty to answer a new threat from the gate in this episode. Wow, I need to fix that.

William Murphy:
“Children of the Gods.”

David Read:
All right. Are you sure? William, if Hathor succeeds in taking over SG-1, Teal’c says it will become her…?

William Murphy:
Breeding ground?

David Read:
Nest.

William Murphy:
Nest. OK.

David Read:
Kevin, the coordinates for Ernest’s planet are similar to those for which other planet?

Kevin Weaver:
Abydos.

David Read:
Abydos. William, who trained Teal’c as a warrior?

William Murphy:
Bra’tac.

David Read:
Kevin, what is the name of Senator Kinsey’s dog?

Kevin Weaver:
Oscar.

David Read:
William, in search for Aiden Ford, Sheppard’s team gets themselves captured by a soldier in…?

William Murphy:
Goodness.

David Read:
Episode title.

William Murphy:
“Lost Boys?”

David Read:
This is Ronon’s first episode.

William Murphy:
“Runner” then.

David Read:
That’s right.

Kevin, in “Before I Sleep,” who mentions the possibility of other Ancients in stasis in Atlantis?

Kevin Weaver:
Teyla?

David Read:
Sheppard. Kevin, or William, how long before “Bloodlines” had Rya’c been ill?

William Murphy:
For several weeks.

David Read:
Since being driven from his home.

William Murphy:
Since being driven from his home, it was one of those two.

David Read:
Kevin, what was the estimated death toll in “There But for the Grace of God,” when it was reported?

Kevin Weaver:
Two billion?

David Read:
1.5.

David Read:
William, Rak’nor feared that by fighting Apophis Jaffa, rebels would have to?

William Murphy:
Fight their own kind.

David Read:
That’s correct. Kevin, Daniel questions the use of what in “Hathor?”

Kevin Weaver:
Guards.

David Read:
Handcuffs.

David Read:
William, what British flag does Beckett wear?

William Murphy:
Scotland.

David Read:
Kevin, according to Jessica Steen, this festival factored into losing the role of Elizabeth Weir?

Kevin Weaver:
Burning Man.

David Read:
Burning Man, that’s correct. I’m glad that that came up. Every 30 or 40 questions, you will find a production question. And unless you’re familiar with the stories that have been told on Dial the Gate or in a couple of other niche places you’re not going to come across those. I debated putting them in there at all, but I wanted this to also be an educational experience for Stargate fans who are seasoned. And also, as this is an oral history project, things people remember are often wrong. So, what we did was put in, “According to so-and-so,” and, “According to such-and-such.” So, it’s their story that we’re leveraging. So, that’s what we’ve got here.

William Murphy:
That’s really cool.

David Read:
And Jessica Steen, for my 98th, 99th episode, she said that Burning Man was a contributing factor. And I can speak from personal communication with folks involved that that is the case. So, we’re leveraging all of that. I did not plan that. I’m really, really glad that that came up. So, you guys get the gist of it. So, let’s see if there are any more questions from the crowd. I think that we’re good. They’re probably all– William, you’re already in the chat. So, French is available now. If you want a new language and you’re bilingual and can speak English and know your way around English, there’s a Contact Us button at the bottom, and it will generate an email to Wormhole X-Tremists, and our operators are standing by. No. Right now I’ve got Sarah looking at it. So, if we can get two folks for a language, then we’ll start to build that out. And once we have a base of 500 questions minimum, stretching across all the shows and easy, medium, and hard, I will activate that language and set it free. But you have to be willing to sit down and start punching out some questions to pull that off, because once that’s on there, it’s on there. I don’t want any kind of founder-esque situation where Ray Kroc gives McDonald’s license to these guys and they start making fried chicken. No, the questions need to come from the English base. And if you wanna add one, get it to me first, I’ll approve it, I’ll add it to the English, and you can add it to your language and we will go from there. Guys, any other thoughts before I wrap this?

Kevin Weaver:
This is absolutely amazing.

David Read:
Thank you.

William Murphy:
I can’t figure words out of my mouth. All of my respect to you and the entire team who put it together. The GUI looks great. It’s very well thought out. It’s very accessible, and that’s the biggest thing is Stargate’s for everybody.

David Read:
That’s right.

William Murphy:
And this continues that philosophy, so well done.

David Read:
Thank you. No, I was so overwhelmed by the support that I got on Patreon. I was like, “I’ve gotta get off my butt and light a fire under myself and pull this thing off.” I’ve been so fortunate to be surrounded by just the right people to create just the right tools, with people who have the right skill sets. And this is a talented fandom. And when imagery for the new show starts coming out, I can’t wait to see what people start creating for it, for themselves, and for fandom, in terms of costumes and art, and all kinds of other things. I’ve already shared it with Martin Gero. He’s enjoyed it. And I think this is going to be something cool.

William Murphy:
On that point, this could become a continuity training tool for the new crew.

David Read:
Or at the very least, over a drinking game. “OK, see who’s gonna–”

William Murphy:
Something you do in between takes.

David Read:
xactly. That’s right.

William Murphy:
Brush up on your Stargate lore.

David Read:
Or pick one. Start it easy for SG-1 and work your way forward. That’s the thing that I really like about it. Ian originally had it designed so that you could select more than one series. But that feature isn’t in there anymore. I’m wondering if it’s gonna come back. And I have a promise from him that at a certain point somewhere, I won’t necessarily say when, you will be able to tap the Stargate and make the iris open and close. Just little cute things like that. I didn’t want to make it intrusive. I wanted to make it a smooth-as-glass experience, because it is. On these OLED screens, it looks good.

William Murphy:
I’m looking forward to playing with my friend later.

David Read:
Absolutely. I think that’s pretty much it. Aaron Starke-Linux, thank you. Thank you very much. “Awesome job.” Small Duck, “I hope someone translates into Klingon for some cross-franchise enjoyment.” [David speaking Klingon] There will be some interesting ones for sure. All right, guys. I appreciate you making this happen with me on short notice. But I’m gonna go and update the title of this. This was a little bit of a sleeper, so I’m gonna go and update the image to be stargatetrivia.com. Guys, go play. If you come across any issues, screenshot them and send them to me. Jakub Olejarz has already been mad at that, “This is not right. This is not right.” There’s going to be a certain amount of endurance on my own, keeping up with this until I’m confident that I can hand it off to someone who’s going to have the dexterity with English that I expect. And that’s just for the one language. So we got a bunch of others, so I’m not gonna keep you guys around any longer on a Thursday night. Thank you so much for hanging with me, folks. And we will see you soon. Bye, everybody.

William Murphy:
Take care, everybody.

Kevin Weaver:
Bye.