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David Read:
I don’t know why it does that, but it likes to do that to me. Welcome, everyone, to Dial the Gate: The Stargate Oral History Project. My name is David Read. Martin Taichl, who is a Czech-based modeler and Stargate fan, is joining us for this episode. Sir, I am thrilled to have you. How you doing?

Martin Taichl:
Hello. I am thrilled as well, and I’m very honored to be here. Thank you for the invitation.

David Read:
I appreciate you taking the time. I rarely see such a groundswell of folks online in fandom say, “He’s got Martin. He’s got Martin. He’s got Martin.” Part of me is like, “If Martin’s this big, why haven’t y’all said something?” Because I was like, “Are there other people that I have to get on that are as big a deal as you?” ‘Cause there is apparently a huge appreciation and respect for you in the Stargate fan community, especially with all of your modding designs, and I really appreciate you being here to explore some of your stuff. How long have you been a Stargate fan?

Martin Taichl:
I have seen the movie when it came out. It was ’94 or ’95. But bear in mind, back then I was just a kid, and I was stupid kid, and I wasn’t that impressed by it. But fortunately, I grew up little bit, and in just one year, I started to watch the TV series, and I immediately fell in love with it, even with the movie. I don’t think I have seen any movie so many times as Stargate. There was actually a time that I watched it twice a day.

David Read:
Wow. That’s commitment, man.

Martin Taichl:
I had all the seasons on VHS back then. I know it from the top of my head, basically.

David Read:
What is it that grips you?

Martin Taichl:
I actually received this question already, but I don’t know how to answer it. I don’t know. Everything. One thing that really hooked me was Goa’uld because from very early childhood, I loved mythologies. I also very much loved the, I call it retractable technology, and when you remember Horus and Anubis and Ra in the movie, that immediately I loved, and this was, I would say, a hook for me.

David Read:
OK. So things that fold away into nothing. It’s like, “OK, how did that work?”

Martin Taichl:
Yes.

David Read:
Like the iris behind you there.

Martin Taichl:
A little bit of cheating.

David Read:
A little bit of cheating. I found someone online had done a physical iris, and had made it fold over into itself and then undo. It doesn’t move as fast as the iris in the show does, but it does work, and that always surprised me because I was convinced that that could not happen. Now, I don’t know if it folds inside of the Stargate. It might fold behind his version of the Stargate, but it did work. And I was like, “But this is not possible.”

Martin Taichl:
I guess you are talking about me, to be honest.

David Read:
Was this you?

Martin Taichl:
I did a working Stargate iris.

David Read:
Why haven’t you been on before, man? Where have you been? All right. So, is that on your YouTube channel? Where is that from?

Martin Taichl:
I will try to find the video very quickly for you. But in the meantime, let me tell you a funny story. My friend and colleague, who also loves Stargate, told me that iris as shown in Stargate is impossible. And sure, that’s true, but I told him that I will do it anyway even though it’s impossible, and I managed it only because the thickness of individual blade is just 0.2 millimeters. That’s why it’s bendy, and that’s why it is possible to be closed. But you should have seen the look on my friend’s face when I showed him. He thought that, I don’t know, it’s like a miracle or something, and it was really fun.

David Read:
I’m looking at this thing right now…

Martin Taichl:
That’s it. That’s me. That’s my bedroom.

David Read:
God. It’s faster than the one in the show.

Martin Taichl:
But it’s cheating because that’s the bending.

David Read:
So what?

Martin Taichl:
It goes outwards. It’s true.

David Read:
Fine. So what? It probably doesn’t stop incoming wormholes either.

Martin Taichl:
No.

David Read:
So what? Look at this thing. OK. So you were gonna come on the show today and not show me this?

Martin Taichl:
I did so many models, so I didn’t really think about this one. Sorry.

David Read:
I’m doing the Jack O’Neill wormhole of opportunity, gone through this timeline five times now. Look. Martin, that is cool.

Martin Taichl:
Thank you.

David Read:
That is really, really cool. Do you have any other rabbits up that hat of yours that you would like to pull out before they suffocate themselves down there? Geez. Man.

Martin Taichl:
There were two things which I wanted to achieve. One was the iris, and this test rig proved that it is possible to be done. The second one is the retractable helmet because let’s be honest, what we have in the show is nowhere near as cool as what we have in the movie. It was show budget, and they couldn’t afford CGI for every episode. But I thought that, because I am engineer in real life, I thought that I could design better helmet that retracts better than what we had in the show. And that’s what I’m currently working on. And that’s, I would say, the second big achievement I wish to achieve. And hopefully I will succeed. We’ll see.

David Read:
So, it’s not done yet? The one that we’ve seen is a prototype?

Martin Taichl:
It’s a prototype. On the mechanical part, it’s done. The mechanism is designed. It’s printed, it’s assembled, and it works. The next step is to actually purchase motors and to make it movable on its own. This is the next phase.

David Read:
So, what you’re doing right now is you have to physically help it do it, and you have a system in place that in theory will actually do it by itself with a flip of a switch.

Martin Taichl:
Exactly. That’s the idea, that I just push a button and then the entire helmet will dju, dju, dju, dju, dju, dju.

David Read:
How is it gonna do that? What’s it gonna do?

Martin Taichl:
Dju, dju, dju.

David Read:
One more time.

Martin Taichl:
Dju, dju, dju.

David Read:
You are a sport. Awesome, brother. We used to do that to each other in high school. It’s an old joke, sorry.

Martin Taichl:
No problem.

David Read:
That’s just exceptional. Do you have it? Can you demonstrate its do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, doing with us?

Martin Taichl:
Yeah, I–

David Read:
Did you bring the physical copy?

Martin Taichl:
I have the physical model here. I can theoretically somehow– I’m not really sure how to show it. I would rather show the CG model because that’s more convenient, to be honest.

David Read:
You’re not talking about the one from the movie, are you? Or do you have a link for me? Or is it in the video that you sent me?

Martin Taichl:
Now you kinda lost me, to be honest.

David Read:
Please show me a link to the CG model. Or did you send it to me …

Martin Taichl:
No, no, no.

David Read:
… already in the video that you made?

Martin Taichl:
I wanted to share the screen and show the 3D model in the actual program.

David Read:
You’re gonna break my software on this side if you do that.

Martin Taichl:
OK. Then sorry. In that case, I will send you link.

David Read:
You know what? Let me try this. Just a second here. Go ahead and request sharing. I’ll just pick up the pieces on this side.

Martin Taichl:
So, I’m sharing. Is it visible?

David Read:
It is. Just a second here. OK. All right, everybody, this is how the sausage is made. Oh my golly. Wow.

Martin Taichl:
So, a short introduction. This is just a testing rig. This is not something that will be there. This is just for now for assembling, for testing. And in the end, it won’t be there, and instead, there will be this collar made of several pieces, and it will be one big assembly. But for now, I have it in this test rig.

David Read:
So, to properly set the stage, your intent is to create a serpent helmet that completely puts itself away?

Martin Taichl:
Not completely, but better than in the show, because one thing that kinda bothered me in the show was that even when the helmet was open, then the face was basically half obscured anyway. And there were some shots where, for example, Apophis was barely even visible.

David Read:
This is true.

Martin Taichl:
So, my idea was–

David Read:
He’s in a turtle helmet.

Martin Taichl:
Exactly. So, my idea was that the head would be fully revealed, and yes, that would be back on the collar. You will see it here. So, basically the idea is that first those side panels will open. They hold these two pieces together, and then the entire part will slide down like this. And this is one mechanism, and just one movement will do everything.

David Read:
You have to do that again, please.

Martin Taichl:
Yeah. I will. Don’t worry. And it does something like this, and then close. So, probably this will be better for imagination, and I have our little Jaffa. So, first this open, and then this entire thing will retract like this.

David Read:
Wow. I’m silenced, not by choice. I’m mesmerized …

Martin Taichl:
Thank you.

David Read:
… with what you’ve done.

Martin Taichl:
Thank you.

David Read:
How long has this taken to design?

Martin Taichl:
I started with it at the end of November last year. At the end of the year, I actually took one more week of vacation …

David Read:
Three months.

Martin Taichl:
… to work on it in peace. This is a true R&D project, so I already printed so many stuff which I already threw away. Not because it was faulty, but because it’s iterations, iterations, and iterations.

David Read:
You go through a process to arrive at this.

Martin Taichl:
Exactly.

David Read:
Gosh.

Martin Taichl:
The idea is that the serpent helmet is in the front so that the mask is better centered. Because in the show everything was in the back. As you can see, the head, I would say, is fully visible.

David Read:
So, can you take us directly over the top of him? Looking down at him?

Martin Taichl:
Like this?

David Read:
Is that a thing you can do with this? It hasn’t moved.

Martin Taichl:
What exactly would you like me to do?

David Read:
I’d like to see over the top of his head, directly above him, if you could move that. Move it to there.

Martin Taichl:
I did.

David Read:
That’s frozen then. Can you unshare and then share again, please? Thank you.

Martin Taichl:
OK.

David Read:
I’d like to see the animation from a couple of different angles.

Martin Taichl:
Do you already see it?

David Read:
Now I see a big green box, like a green screen.

Martin Taichl:
OK. Then I have no idea what went wrong.

David Read:
Technology went wrong, my friend, technology. OK. You can stop sharing. That’s exceptionally cool. Did you stop sharing?

Martin Taichl:
Yeah. Now I stopped sharing.

David Read:
OK, there we go. Do me a favor and share it again now.

Martin Taichl:
OK. I don’t see anything even in my own preview, so I guess it’s screwed.

David Read:
There we go. Chinese technology in its glory. Appreciate you, brother. Go ahead and cancel that. That’s awesome. Dude, this is exceptionally cool. And I can’t wait to see its final product fully …

Martin Taichl:
Me as well.

David Read:
… unveiled here, because I can’t believe you pulled that off. That is so ridiculously cool.

Martin Taichl:
Thank you.

David Read:
My mind… OK, so what kind of an engineer are you?

Martin Taichl:
I work at Siemens Mobility. We design rail vehicles, mainly trains. I currently work on a high-speed train for America, believe it or not.

David Read:
We certainly need more of them over here. Man, dude, that is exceptional. I am reconfiguring to take us back to where we were. I apologize here. But you have provided us a video of your collection, which I would like to go through here in just a moment. Your collection is not on the premises with you, is that correct?

Martin Taichl:
Yeah.

David Read:
It’s offsite?

Martin Taichl:
I had so much stuff that I had no place for it, so I had to basically rent a room, and I made it my showroom.

David Read:
OK. I’m gonna go ahead and share your showroom with fans, and they can have a look at some of your other stuff You’re not gonna be able to hear this, but we in the audience will. I may stop and start at beats to comment on stuff and ask you to provide greater context. Is that okay?

Martin Taichl:
Yeah, sure.

David Read:
OK. Here we go. Be patient with us there, in …

Martin Taichl:
I am.

David Read:
… silence while we go through this. This is eight minutes on my end, folks. But we’re probably gonna spend a lot more time than that as we go through this and watch this unfold.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
Welcome, everybody. I am Martin, and this is my showroom. As you can see, I have quite a lot of stuff here, but the focus for today will be only Stargate stuff. So, without further ado, let’s start with Stargate. And we start right here, which is, let’s say, a Goa’uld corner. And here, as you can see, we have small models of Cheops- and Ha‘tak-class pyramid ships. Then here we have the Apophis mothership, or Sokar mothership–

David Read:
Dude, this mothership design, you say it’s Sokar’s. Are you saying that Apophis stole the technology from Sokar? Is that your excuse behind that?

Martin Taichl:
He stole his entire army.

David Read:
That’s certainly true. But we didn’t see this design until after O’Neill and company accidentally destroyed it in “Upgrades.” That’s my issue with “Upgrades,” …

Martin Taichl:
No, no, no.

David Read:
… is that they shouldn’t have just–

Martin Taichl:
In “Upgrades” it was a different ship.

David Read:
It was under construction; …

Martin Taichl:
Different class, different class.

David Read:
… who’s to say what it would’ve looked like? But we’re just a few episodes before, though. It’s one of my issues with “Upgrades.” They shouldn’t have succeeded. They should’ve failed, because when we see him in this thing not a season later, it makes sense that he would’ve completed it. I assume that that ring around the one that we saw in “Upgrades” was some kind of construction scaffold to get all the pieces down to the lower one. But back to the model, dude, this thing is so exceptionally cool. How big is that across? What is the diameter of something like that?

Martin Taichl:
This is not as big, I would say, I don’t know. If you imagine a circle, I would say maybe 50 centimeters. I’m not sure. Maybe 40. It’s not that big. There are certainly bigger.

David Read:
And we only see it unfolding and folding in one scene. And that’s in “Serpent’s Venom.”

Martin Taichl:
Indeed. And that’s why it is possible here as well. This model can do that.

David Read:
It can?

Martin Taichl:
Yeah. I didn’t show it in the video, but it can fold those pylons or whatever to make that. I don’t even know what it did in the show, but the model can do it–

David Read:
It’s probably an attack position of some sort, like Anubis had.

Martin Taichl:
I guess.

David Read:
It looks cool. You don’t need a reason. It just does what it does, whatever it does, it’s doing it right now. It’s very nicely doing it. Really cool. I love this design. I loved it from the show. I was so disappointed that we only saw it in one season. It’s a great piece of work. Let’s move on.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
Other ship, here I have a Stargate chess. Here I have a Stargate …

David Read:
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
… Apophis mothership, or Sokar mothership–

David Read:
You can’t blow by it like that. Let’s go back.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
Here I have a Stargate chess.

David Read:
It’s like, “Here I have a Stargate chess, now onto this Stargate–” No, stop. Do you realize–

Martin Taichl:
I actually spoke a little bit about that, but in the end the video was way too long, so I had to cut it down.

David Read:
Who cares? I don’t care. Do you have the original cut sitting around somewhere?

Martin Taichl:
I have to admit, this chess, this is very big surprise for me, because I took my models for various expos, Comic-Cons and stuff like that. And I have been very, very surprised how much the chess is popular with kids.

David Read:
Dude, it’s not just a big surprise to you, it’s a great surprise to me, because this past–I don’t know how familiar you are with this show–but this past December we had our annual Stargate Fan Creations, and there was a TikToker who posted a video of a Stargate chess set, and it was this chess set. I didn’t realize that you made this. So, I gave someone else credit for something that you did. So, now I feel like a boob. That is so freaking cool.

Martin Taichl:
That’s not necessary.

David Read:
Necessary or not, it’s how I feel. What is this, I’m trying to– This little brown critter here.

Martin Taichl:
It’s Aurora.

David Read:
It’s Aurora.

Martin Taichl:
It’s so small that it doesn’t look that great.

David Read:
Regardless, it’s still friggin’ awesome. This thing, I was mesmerized when I saw it. I was going through Facebook and seeing various TikTok videos that somehow made their way to Facebook, and I don’t have TikTok. I couldn’t believe it. It’s so cool. What gave you the idea to do a chess set with the Stargate spaceships?

Martin Taichl:
I love chess. Most of those models I already had, so it wasn’t really a brain teaser. To be honest, I have a friend who actually told me to upgrade for it, or next edition, let’s say, that would replace the Goa’ulds with Wraiths. First I didn’t want to do it, because there are basically no units for Wraiths. But one of the things which I do is I am one of the authors of the Stargate Pegasus Chronicles, the game. And there I make models. And we have quite a big fleet of custom ships for Wraiths from the game playing reason. So, I was actually thinking to utilize them, and who knows, maybe I will do it.

David Read:
Stargate Chronicles? Explain, please.

Martin Taichl:
Stargate – Empire at War: Pegasus Chronicles.

David Read:
OK, so it’s a mod from Star Wars: Empire at War.

Martin Taichl:
Yes. It’s a total conversion, and we are active for many years already. And I’m one of the authors.

David Read:
Oh my gosh. I am just making all kinds of discoveries right here, because this is–

Martin Taichl:
Those are Asurans. Or Ancients. Those were Ancients. That’s one of the things. We also added Ancients as a faction because we have their story. We’ve got, I think, something like that.

David Read:
So, this is set during the hundred-year war?

Martin Taichl:
Yeah, it’s set during the Pegasus Wraith and Ancient war. So, even if you win, you lose. You always have to lose the campaign.

David Read:
The Ancients have to fold. For sure. OK, I’m adding that episode to the list. So, thank you. I’m gonna have to pick your brain as to who is best to come on. I’ve seen that online, I didn’t know its name though. That’s really cool there. I’ve reached out to someone at one point who was playing it and asked them to come on and never heard back from them, which is their purview. But now I’m on the inside with you, so extremely cool. Let’s go ahead and take more of a look around here. I’m sorry I’m completely butchering your narration in this video.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
Here I have a Stargate in the off-world pedestal with DHD. Here, the death glider, this is one of the oldest models I have here, so the wings can go down just like in the series, the cockpit can open, the staff cannons can be detached, and the whole bottom can retract just like in the series, but the model is actually quite old, and most of that stuff no longer really works. The same goes with the Tel’tak. This is actually a version which has the wings completely retractable, just like the wall. But unfortunately, as you can see, this model is after all those years barely holding together.

David Read:
OK, so one of the now you see it, now you don’t trickery sleight-of-hand things with SG-1, particularly in Season Three, was they had this cargo ship introduced. And when it’s in the landed and docked position, the wings fold away. Are you saying that you contrived a way to have the cargo ship unfolded in its flight position?

Martin Taichl:
Certainly.

David Read:
Certainly. It’s a Sunday drive, as casual as that? You figured out the architecture to that. That is so wild.

Martin Taichl:
You cannot imagine it like it was in the show. Basically the entire back of the ship is filled with those contracted wings. But it was possible to do it. But unfortunately, the model is quite old and it shows.

David Read:
So, you think you could build another one that could?

Martin Taichl:
Yeah, sure.

David Read:
Wow. I may have to ask you for one. ‘Cause you can display it in either configuration. That’s really awesome, man.

Martin Taichl:
Yeah, sure.

David Read:
That’s amazing. All right. And the piece de resistance.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
Here was my serpent helmet in 1/3 scale, which I did back then. It can open but I have only one hand, so I will not show it to you right now. It looks very, very small compared to the helmet I have now in my apartment. Anyway, here we have smaller models, let’s say dioramas. This is basically Heru’ur’s Stargate. So, he has here the DHD, the Gate itself, and then his Horus statues, let’s say. Here we have the statues bigger and with a tea candle. This one is electric but you can use a normal one. Then I made this small diorama which I called Attack on Delmak. It is non-canon. It is basically an attack on the planet as we have seen it in several episodes, but with Tau’ri ships. This is basically my invention.

David Read:
What is this flat surface to the right over here in front of the two—

Martin Taichl:
That one and the white one on the right side, those are parts of the Apophis mothership. That’s the pylon that can actually rotate, the one on the right side. And on the left side, that’s part of the superstructure.

David Read:
And why are they there?

Martin Taichl:
Because the idea is that all those gray pieces are things under construction. So, you can see that there are two Ha’taks under construction. And that there on Delmak, he actually built that big mothership.

David Read:
I see. That makes a lot of sense then. So, it’s a shipyard as well as a docking area.

Martin Taichl:
Exactly.

David Read:
Very cool. I knew there was logic to it, I knew it wasn’t random, that’s why I asked. You were gonna give an answer. I wasn’t gonna catch you in something. There is clearly a design rationale to everything you’ve done.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
Here in the top, this is, as you can see, an Anubis mothership with few small Ha’taks attached to it. Only two. Originally I had a Ha’tak attached to every single port, but over the years I gave a few of them up or I sold them. Now I can only have those two.

David Read:
That was so cool. How big is that thing? That’s bigger than this.

Martin Taichl:
Too big.

David Read:
Too big?

Martin Taichl:
Yeah. Too big, so I no longer even take it with me to some expos because it’s pain in the ass to actually transport it because of how big it is. I already …

David Read:
It’s a monolith.

Martin Taichl:
… twice, almost gouged my eyes by those pylons, and I decided to keep it there. I don’t know, in diameter I would say around meter. It could open just like in the show. There is a mechanism that the entire ship could vrooop, extend and open.

David Read:
How was it? How did that happen? Vroop. Like that?

Martin Taichl:
Yes, like that.

David Read:
Lockwatcher wanted to know, and I asked this at this junction, what was the longest 3D print for you of the Stargate items? And how long did it take?

Martin Taichl:
Last year I took a custom order, and the customer wanted to have a Gate like you see behind me, but this one would be two meters in diameter so that you can actually go through it. And with DHD in one-in-one scale. So, basically working as a real-life prop, and that was without a doubt the longest print I’ve ever done. I did it in a row. I did first the Gate and then the DHD right after each other, and it took me more than half a year before I finished it, and I was quite drained by that.

David Read:
How many kilos of filament did you go through to pull that thing off?

Martin Taichl:
I don’t even want to know that. Too many.

David Read:
I want to know.

Martin Taichl:
Many kilos. When we moved it, when the customer came for it, I tried to help him move it, to disassemble it and move it, and my back was destroyed because of that. So, it was quite heavy.

David Read:
Do you have any photos of this DHD?

Martin Taichl:
I do, and I can send it to you. I can send you an article I have made about it, with pictures, and could it be on Messenger?

David Read:
It could be. It will be.

Martin Taichl:
Here is a chat. OK, I will send it here.

David Read:
All right, very good.

Martin Taichl:
Sorry, I am not that well-versed with Zoom.

David Read:
All right, hang on just a second here. I have seen this.

Martin Taichl:
You are almost like a stalker.

David Read:
A reporter must keep himself in the know.

Martin Taichl:
That’s true.

David Read:
This was yours.

Martin Taichl:
Yes, that was me.

David Read:
Very good. I think Lockwatcher shared something about this. I’m trying to remember, maybe that wasn’t Lockwatcher, maybe it was someone else, I’m trying to remember who. My gosh. This lights up.

Martin Taichl:
Every button will lit, the activation button will lit, and then here, after the next picture, there will be crystals. Those will also be lit. There will be a sound, and it will serve to open the Gate.

David Read:
To where? Geez, dude, this is nice.

Martin Taichl:
Depends on what address you put there.

David Read:
Touché. Very cool, man. All right.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
Here I have another diorama, something I came up with myself, and this is not the Jaffa joke because this is Anubis and not Set, and this is representing a small council a few thousand years ago when Ra still ruled over the System Lords, and those three are Apophis, Heru’ur, and Anubis. And this is–

David Read:
So, I’m trying to see what that statue is in the center there because it doesn’t look like the helmet that Heru’ur had in “Thor’s Chariot.” What is that helmet of?

Martin Taichl:
Yeah, it is …

David Read:
It is? It’s just the angle?

Martin Taichl:
… Heru’ur’s helmet, but from that angle, it looks exactly the same as on that candle holder, which you’ve seen before. But I agree. From that angle, it doesn’t look like that.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
This is my original Stargate diorama, I call it Apophis’ Summer Palace, and this is basically my original model, which I based on as a hybrid sort of the design from the movie and from the series. Lots of the ornaments and details that you can see here are taken from the movie, plus there is also a Stargate with DHD and rings, we have Tel’tak which is parked there, and inside the hangar bay we have two gliders. The entire model is actually lit but unfortunately all the lights are now without charge, I’m sorry, I forgot to charge them and the–

David Read:
Look at the little serpent heads coming out of the sides of it. This is so thought through.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
There is also Apophis’ private room, you cannot see inside but inside is also a sarcophagus. Here is a throne room, but I don’t suppose you will see very well inside. Sorry for that, it was–

David Read:
Peter Williams would go nuts right now with this. He would actually be going crazy.

Martin Taichl:
Funny that you mention it because last year he actually was here in Brno Comic-Con, together with Chris Judge and Tony Amendola, the big three. If you remember that diorama before this one with those three statues, I lent the Apophis statue to my friend and she brought it with her because I didn’t attend the Comic-Con, and when she went for photos with Peter Williams, she took it. And he fell in love with it, and he wanted to do all the pictures with that golden statue …

David Read:
That’s cool.

Martin Taichl:
… because he loved it. Too bad she told me that only after the fact. If she told me when it was going on, I would say to her that he could keep it. I would be honored to give it to him, but I didn’t know that.

David Read:
Wow, this is exceptionally cool, dude.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
I forgot to charge the light. Here I have bigger Stargate Universe Gate, which I did because why not? Here I have a new version of Ha’tak because I wanted to make a bigger one with more details. This is actually Ha’tak of Ra, as you can see. Here I create a Cheops class. I didn’t do hieroglyphics as they were done on the prop, but I basically used the symbols of the System Lords and some Stargate stuff to–

David Read:
And yourself on the right over here. That’s your symbol, isn’t it?

Martin Taichl:
Yes, exactly.

David Read:
There we go. I see what you’re doing there. I get what you’re putting down.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
… to create some kind of story, so it is there. This model has one unique feature. It opens secret area, which includes a bottle. Here I have my Jaffa. Temporary, as you can see we did the space helmet, but that’s only temporary. Here we have a Replicator Rudla. This is movable Replicator. This is the main Stargate …

David Read:
OK, wow, wow, wow, wow, stop, stop, stop.

Martin Taichl:
… Replicator.

David Read:
OK, how long did it take to unspool the engineering of building this… That is just crazy.

Martin Taichl:
I actually designed my first Replicator as the very first model when I got my printer. But it was not good. I had to glue everything, and I hate gluing, so I gave it away, I gave it to my friend in Germany. I decided I will make a Mark II, and the Mark II would be like a LEGO, like a kit that you will put together. Because, as a child, I didn’t have almost any toys, I had only LEGO. When I saw something on TV which I wanted, I built it from LEGO. So, I took that knowledge, that experience, and applied it to 3D printing and I designed this Replicator Rudla.

David Read:
You sure did. Geez, man, that’s just wild. I have two of them, I had the Mark I from “Nemesis,” and then I have the Mark II that was introduced in Season Five in “Enemies,” and they’re exceptionally cool. A guy by the name of Kevin Szabo out of Hungary made them. And I’m waiting for a third one to come along at some point here. Man, this is just rockin’ cool. Very, very cool.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
This is the main Stargate area. As you can see, …

David Read:
And we’re just getting started.

Martin Taichl:
… there is quite a lot of it. This is the original Daedalus, back when it was still BC-303 before they switched to 304. Then we have Tau’ri starting Daedalus back when–

David Read:
OK. So, this here, I think, wasn’t this–I’m trying to remember–wasn’t this a conceptual design of Daedalus?

Martin Taichl:
Exactly.

David Read:
If I’m not mistaken? So, is this the three-quarter view of the one that’s actually seen in “Moebius” on the monitor?

Martin Taichl:
Yes, exactly. There was the concept art, which I used to make this model and then, based on that concept art, they made this top view, which we saw in “Moebius” and in “Unending.” I don’t know why it is in “Unending,” but it is there. In the top view from “Moebius,” they made it a little bit sleeker. It looked more like Prometheus, which made sense. It was basically a production version of Prometheus. But I like the bulkier version from the concept art, so I went with it because it’s more like a battleship or, I don’t know, I simply like the design. Don’t get me wrong; the Daedalus class 304 is the best design in all of sci-fi.

David Read:
Art is purely subjective. I’ve said that before. I’m sure I will say it again. It’s hard to tell why one thing appeals to us over another. I don’t know, I liked this one, and I completely get it, for sure.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
304. Then we have Tau’ri Stargate and SGU Stargate. We have Atlantis, which is probably my most successful model. And with it, a fleet more or less in scale. We see a space Gate–

David Read:
Man. You’re just flying through these here. OK, so, I gotta ask, is this a headcrab from Half-Life?

Martin Taichl:
Yes, exactly. It’s a headcrab.

David Read:
That’s what I thought. So, what is Lamarr doing on Atlantis, and why is she so big?

Martin Taichl:
I actually received it as a gift when I was on Maker Faire Olomouc. One of the fans came and said that he was very glad to meet me, and as a present, gave me that headcrab.

David Read:
I’m sure the citizens of Atlantis really appreciate you.

Martin Taichl:
And ever since I go to some expo or whatever, I always bring it and always show it as appreciation. You can imagine it’s an overgrown Replicator.

David Read:
It’s very Replicator-like, I will give you that. For sure. “Lamarr!” Ugh. Man, this is so cool, dude. How long did it take to design this?

Martin Taichl:
The Atlantis?

David Read:
Yeah.

Martin Taichl:
I believe the model itself took me one or two months to design, and then around a month to print and to paint, because this is one of the models which I had to paint. That took me quite a lot of time.

David Read:
What are these gold domes?

Martin Taichl:
I don’t know. They are part of the model, so I–

David Read:
They’re on the actual ship?

Martin Taichl:
Yeah.

David Read:
Interesting. Must be some kind of shield or beam system or something.

Martin Taichl:
You can consider them greebles.

David Read:
OK. I shall do that. Let’s continue.

Martin Taichl [clip]:
A fleet, more or less in scale. We see a space Gate, and then the Ancient fleet. Plus Prometheus. Now, the Wraith fleet, Ori fleet with Ori Gate, which I invented, and the X-302. And here, we have the BC-304, my own, which is called Ares, as you can see here. Then, O’Neill class, Vanir ship.

David Read:
Vanir?

Martin Taichl [clip]:
Beliskner, and here we have a Puddle Jumper, and F-302. This is my showroom when it comes to Stargate. All the models that you can see here are free. They are designed by me, and everybody can download them. I guess that’s all. I hope you liked it, and now we can move on. Bye-bye.

Martin Taichl:
So, that was my showroom.

David Read:
There are no words. And that’s just the Stargate stuff.

Martin Taichl:
True.

David Read:
That’s absolutely wild, man. Thousands and thousands of hours of development and printing and everything. Raj_Luthra wanted to know, what is the easiest thing that came together out of the Stargate collection? Is that something that you could narrow down if you think back?

Martin Taichl:
I don’t know. I really don’t know how to answer that.

David Read:
OK. Easy is probably not an accurate descriptor for something in this collection, because it all goes through its own process, and there are things about it that are gonna come together faster than others, but fast does not necessarily mean easy. Raj wants to know, “Can we ask you and pay to make something, e.g. Daedalus class?” So, you take commissions.

Martin Taichl:
Yes and no. I take commissions when I don’t do anything for myself and I’m free to print on demand, but that’s usually not the case. So, quite often when anybody asks me to print something for them, I basically refer them to my two friends, who do the prints of my stuff on demand. But printing something for somebody is not the worst part. The worst part is actually the shipping, to ship it to the customer. And if the customer is overseas, it’s a very, very big problem because then–

David Read:
It eclipses the amount of money it costs to make it.

Martin Taichl:
Exactly. The shipping is more expensive, and you have no guarantee that what you receive is the model of the ship or just a bunch of broken plastic. Because my models are free, anybody can print them. So, when I’m contacted by, let’s say, people from Australia or from America, then I tell them to reach to the printing community in their area. It will be way easier and way cheaper for them than for me from Central Europe to send it to them.

David Read:
That’s a perfectly fair point. Finding a competent printer is one thing. Finding a good painter is something else. The trick is to find them both in one person, and that’s rare.

Martin Taichl:
Yes, you are correct. But most of the stuff which I design, I try to design so that I don’t have to paint it. So, yes, Atlantis is one of the early models, so there I still have to paint quite a lot. But in the later models, because I personally hate to paint, I designed them in such a way that you don’t have to take the brush into hand at all.

David Read:
Wow. Renee Lorraine asked, “Does it light up?” Renee, can you please be specific and submit again, specifying which piece you were referring to?

Martin Taichl:
I guess it was for the Atlantis. Mine doesn’t, but there is cable management, so it could be lit. All the buildings in the center are hollow. I’ve seen many people who build it with the lights inside, and it looks really, really nice.

David Read:
Wow. That’s exceptional. Hannah K. wanted to know, how do you pull off the different textures? How does that work in something like this?

Martin Taichl:
Not sure what is meant by that.

David Read:
Do you know what textures are?

Martin Taichl:
Yes, but not in this case.

David Read:
Are you saying it’s all the same texture? Everything comes out looking exactly the same? There’s nothing that has a rough surface? There’s nothing that has a smoother surface or a metallic surface? Or is that all paint?

Martin Taichl:
Our ships, Tau’ri, they are all metallic. 303 is more like silver, and 304 is darker, but metallic nonetheless. So, basically when I printed the Daedalus, I didn’t even have to paint. Or did I? Maybe. I’m not sure about that. For example, the Prometheus, when it was done and printed, I sprayed it with silver spray to give it that shine that it had in the show. When it comes to the Goa’uld, the same. Their stuff is quite a lot of gold and dark gray or black. But those are just colors. I’m not sure about textures, to be honest.

David Read:
We fill in the details in our heads with videos when we see things that are a little bit more obscured. Emma Bentley wants to know, do you plan on producing an 80-centimeter Atlantis Stargate? And for us Imperials, that’s two and a half feet in diameter. That’s bigger than a centerpiece for a table.

Martin Taichl:
Because I recently released the SG-1, and she actually just made it, I received that question already. I don’t know, maybe, because I have the one behind me, and basically I can use it and exchange the inner ring for the display one, and change the color of the inner chevrons, and basically that’s done. So the problem is I never publish anything which I don’t print myself. And I have to be sure that everything works. And the problem is that even with my showroom, I don’t really have a place for another 80-centimeter Stargate. So that’s one thing because of which I am hesitant to do the Atlantis one.

David Read:
Understood. What’s the diameter of the one behind you?

Martin Taichl:
80 centimeters.

David Read:
That’s an 80-centimeter gate. Got it. That’s the one that they’re talking about. Very good. Wow. Raj_Luthra, “You mentioned that you’ve built things with LEGO, but have you played games such as Minecraft, Kerbal Space Program, Space Engineers, et cetera?”

Martin Taichl:
Nope. I once tried Kerbal Space Engineers, but the game didn’t really agree with me, or I with it. And after several minutes, I gave up. But no.

David Read:
Wow. Man, it’s impressive.

Martin Taichl:
Thank you.

David Read:
The content that we’ve seen, how many years of work does that represent? That first death glider that you built, how long ago was that?

Martin Taichl:
That was one of the first models I did. I would say it was done in the first year of my model designing, so I would say some six or seven years ago, something like that. That was basically the first one where I tried to make a model with some features. The folding wings, the cockpit, and so on. And back then, when it was created, when it was brand new, it worked perfectly. But after the years, unfortunately, the PLA from which I print gets old. Let’s put it like that.

David Read:
That mothership that you built that hid the wine bottle, that is an excellent way to hide something. No one would have ever thought, “If I twist this thing and the whole thing unfolds,” it’s like, “Wow. OK, then.” Man.

Martin Taichl:
I actually won a contest with it. There was a contest for a hidden area or hidden compartment, and I said, “Well, what the hell, I will try. Maybe somebody will like it.” And I won first place with it.

David Read:
It’s not just that it’s a hidden compartment, it unfolds so gracefully. There’s no other word for it. It just fell back into place. I’m sitting here mesmerized looking at it. Lockwatcher: “How many printers do you currently have and what type do you use?”

Martin Taichl:
Currently I have four printers. Only Prusa printers. What’s the word in English for it? Prusa is Czech brand, I’m Czech, so not nationalist, that’s not so good. It doesn’t matter.

David Read:
You’re patriotic.

Martin Taichl:
Patriot.

David Read:
P-R-U-S-A?

Martin Taichl:
Yeah, exactly.

David Read:
I like three out of the five letters. No, I’m kidding. Now that’s… Look at this.

Martin Taichl:
I have four. Three MK4S and one Core One.

David Read:
Man, oh, man. 3D printers.

Martin Taichl:
But I owned many, many, many, many, many, many, many more printers over the years.

David Read:
It makes sense. You have this one? Beautiful.

Martin Taichl:
This is Core One+. I have normal Core One without the plus. But there is minimal difference.

David Read:
I was gonna say, what’s the plus? This is amazing. Look at this. Just extra features.

Martin Taichl:
Some automation. Nothing serious.

David Read:
So, can you combine colors at this stage? Is that a thing?

Martin Taichl:
That’s exactly what I do.

David Read:
Or is that not possible yet?

Martin Taichl:
Not to mix them, but to make a model which is, let’s say, partly blue, partly black. That’s what I do. For example, that Cheops class that you just mentioned. There isn’t a single paint. It’s everything printed in color. There is a bronze and there is a gold, or golden. First it prints bronze, then gold. In the middle of printing, I change the filament and then it is done and I don’t have to paint anything.

David Read:
Don’t have to mess with it. They’re so close together that our eye tricks us into seeing it’s a color that it isn’t individually. Is the color exchanging with the other color so fast that when you stand back …

Martin Taichl:
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

David Read:
… and look at it, it looks like it’s something different?

Martin Taichl:
No, no. Just imagine it that half of the model is bronze, and other half is gold, for example.

David Read:
There’s sections of the model that is bronze and sections that is gold.

Martin Taichl:
Like this. It was first black, and then the rest is printed in the silver, or gray.

David Read:
I see.

Martin Taichl:
It will then create this shape.

David Read:
Got it. Understood. That’s legit, man. Very cool. What’s next? Is there anything that you are developing that you haven’t mentioned? Or are you focused on the full-sized helmet?

Martin Taichl:
After the helmet, I would like to still continue with 3D printing, but I would like to make a little bit of a break with Stargate because basically I spent with Stargate the entire last year, and this is also quite time-consuming. I have this idea about a kind of set for a space shuttle. I plan to make a new version of space shuttle with retractable landing gear and cargo bay and everything, which could be also attached to the Boeing, which could be attached to the booster pack, which had the launch tower and some satellite, for example. And basically, I am in talk with our local planetarium that I would basically donate those models to them as a showcase how the actual space shuttle worked. This is something I would like to do.

David Read:
Is that part of the reason why you had posted originally on Facebook about the space shuttle and the death glider?

Martin Taichl:
No. It’s completely …

David Read:
Completely different?

Martin Taichl:
… unrelated. We were in the talk with somebody online, I don’t remember who, and there was this question, how those gliders came down and I started thinking, “I have the model. I have both of them. I could have them in proper scale, so why don’t I test it?”

David Read:
Man. Folks, go down our clips page a little bit and you will find two conversations, one about how the gliders from Apophis’ mothership or …

Martin Taichl:
Klorel.

David Read:
… Klorel’s mothership would have fit in the bay inside of the space shuttle. And then we got into a little bit exploring what else? Oh, the size of the F-302. How much larger it is compared to a death glider, which makes sense because it’s a version 1.0 of our technology. Things are gonna be bigger. Very cool, man. This has been a treat to have you to explore all this stuff. Is there anything else that I’m missing that you would like to educate me on? I am all ears.

Martin Taichl:
Educate you?

David Read:
Yeah. That’s possible. It’s like I didn’t even know that this could be a thing. This is radical and wild. I guess it comes down to your engineering prowess and your determination and an indomitable spirit to keep on trying things until you get it exactly how you want it.

Martin Taichl:
That’s one of the beauties of 3D printing because I personally, since I was kid, I always want to create. That’s why I played so much with LEGO. But I couldn’t really create something from nothing, when we say it like that, because I have my both hands left. So, I was very not skilled with any crafting, and 3D printing is something that will completely took this out of the equation and I design something and it will create it for me. I always describe it like this, it’s extremely satisfying emotion when you are lying in bed in the middle of the night and you have idea and let’s say a week later, you hold that idea in your hand and it works exactly like you imagined it. That’s very satisfying for me. And that’s why I do what I do.

David Read:
I am putting Martin’s link to printables right now into the livestream’s description. Let’s take a look before we let you go here. Wow, the Valkyrie shuttle from Avatar, that’s really cool. There is, ah, gold candle holder. There we go. I like it. And Dead Space, the Normandy. Asuran Light Corvette. Is that what we call it?

Martin Taichl:
I call it like that or we call it like that in Pegasus Chronicles. sBecause we already have cruiser, which was mine. Some people don’t like that there is my logo on my models, but that’s a problem.

David Read:
Dude, they don’t like it, they can make their own.

Martin Taichl:
Because I put them for free, there are unfortunately some people who try to take advantage from it and try to sell them as their own, even though they are for free. At least one thing to make it more difficult for them is to put the logo on it.

David Read:
That’s it. Wow. I did not know that this was a thing on this website. I’m mesmerized right now. Look at that. That is so cool. So, this is my favorite spaceship in all of Star Trek canon, the Prometheus class.

Martin Taichl:
And it could also detach to vector assault mode.

David Read:
Multi-vector. Very cool.

Martin Taichl:
My model can detach too, to three. I design it in such a way that it is possible.

David Read:
Dude, you could probably make this thing sing and dance. Wow, OK. We didn’t spend enough time with the Wraith ships. So, is this a Hive ship that actually comes with the cruisers?

Martin Taichl:
Yes, exactly. Because I always loved it.

David Read:
We only saw it once.

Martin Taichl:
We only saw it in the first season.

David Read:
I assumed that the cruisers didn’t have hyperspace, but they do. But they’re not very strong.

Martin Taichl:
Because I would really love to have here somebody who worked on those models for the first season because I figured from watching the show that the Hives from the first season, the three ones, are not full size. They are very small. We can see clearly because they have the cruisers attached and the cruisers are only 600 meters long.

David Read:
The Hives that come later are bigger.

Martin Taichl:
Right in the first episode of the second season, “The Siege Part 3,” then those next Hives are way, way, way, way bigger, and thus, I called this Hive a juvenile Hive, that it is still not fully grown. It was a bad idea. Let’s say that fandom didn’t like it at all that I dare to call it a juvenile, that I say that it is small, because it was small. It was way smaller than the Hives later. This is something I didn’t really want to do, those Wraith ships. I really suck with organic stuff.

David Read:
I see what you’re saying. They don’t lend themselves to what these printers tend to print out, which is something that’s far more typically metallic and inorganic.

Martin Taichl:
Not at all. No. You can print …

David Read:
No?

Martin Taichl:
… some figures, and stuff like that. That’s not a problem for me. The problem was to actually make the models from it. The Hive, that wasn’t fun for me. That was really a chore, and I really, really wanted to be done with it and never, ever come to it ever again. And it was very different type of modeling than what I’m used to, and I didn’t really enjoy that. But for the sake of completion, I did it. I have the Wraith fleet. Sure, there is also the Wraith shuttle, but who cares?

David Read:
One of the things that I did attribute to someone else, I believe, at least, in the fan creations last year was an Ori Stargate. And you created that, and I am happy to set the record straight here, because we don’t ever get to see an Ori Stargate in the Ori galaxy. We get to see a hint of what one might look like with the rings, because it’s the same basic design, same basic type of technology. But you went ahead and you made this thing. This is absolutely wild.

Martin Taichl:
But now I’m a little bit dissatisfied with that pedestal, because those steps, I certainly wouldn’t like to go down from them, because they are kinda steep.

David Read:
It’s not something you would wanna come running back from another planet on. You’d be running into a huge problem. It’s a beautiful piece of work.

Martin Taichl:
Thank you.

David Read:
Very, very cool.

Martin Taichl:
I actually already designed this same concept for our game, for the Pegasus Chronicle. We never used it, but I have it there. And once again, I took the symbols from the Ori rings. And instead of normal chevron, I put the symbol because I really like that idea, because they put it everywhere. And that’s how I came with this type of Gate.

David Read:
One of the things that we didn’t really see so far in your collection that you’ve done is full-scale, wearable pieces, and you’ve created one that I’ve had, and I’ve got right here. Is this based on the one from the film, or is this …

Martin Taichl:
Yes.

David Read:
… a combination?

Martin Taichl:
We could have seen it in the video on the mannequin. The idea was to create a fully wearable armor, let’s say, which is basically a hybrid between what we have seen in the movie and what we have seen in the series. So my internal idea is that I call it a royal Serpent Guard. And the idea is that it will have this gauntlet, then the second one, those legs, that chest plate, and that retractable helmet. That’s the idea. I hope that I will be able to do it.

David Read:
So cool, man. Predator pieces, that’s cool. ED-209, my boy. I love this model. I’ve always loved it. Now, how did you get the texture for the dome?

Martin Taichl:
That’s just a print. That’s rough 3D printing. There’s no post-processing. That’s just a print. I chose this–

David Read:
That’s the thing that confuses me, because are you saying it’s just a matte black? Because that looks like a speckled–

Martin Taichl:
No, no, no, that’s not just a normal black. It’s, what’s it called?

David Read:
It looks like salt and pepper.

Martin Taichl:
It’s black, but it has this stuff in it. I don’t remember what it is called. You can see it even when you look at other black pieces, like those machine guns and stuff, that it has the same texture. Same specs or whatever.

David Read:
For sure. This is all painted. This is all …

Martin Taichl:
Yes.

David Read:
… just filament in the machine?

Martin Taichl:
No, no, no. Those yellow stripes and those red dots, those are …

David Read:
The missiles?

Martin Taichl:
… actually painted with brush.

David Read:
OK. Wow, that is so cool. So, when I print this, does it come with recommended filaments that I plug in to get the–

Martin Taichl:
No, it’s up to you.

David Read:
Nothing like that at all? It’s up to you.

Martin Taichl:
It’s up to you.

David Read:
So, if I want guidance for that, I’m just hosed?

Martin Taichl:
I will tell it to you like this. My models are not simple. They are kinda complex, yeah?

David Read:
Yeah.

Martin Taichl:
So, when I assume that somebody would like to print them, then I’m assuming that they know what they’re doing. That they know how to orient it, what type of support, if needed, to use and where, and stuff like that. I cannot really recommend you a material because maybe you want to do it from a different material. And in that case, then everything goes out of the window and you have to do it everything on your own.

David Read:
That makes a lot of sense. OK. I appreciate the clarification. Good ole Ori.

Martin Taichl:
Toilet seat.

David Read:
The toilet seats. Absolutely. One got flushed away in the Pegasus Project, so it kind of fits. This was a departure from design. I think it was a bold one. There are things about the design that I do like. I appreciate that they wanted to try something so very different. Whether a fan thinks that they’ve achieved it is up to them. Again, art is purely subjective. Problem is you can’t create the energy ball or whatever you want to call it.

Martin Taichl:
Actually you can. I’ve seen many people who made a ball from acrylic and inside put quite a strong LED. It really, really look nice.

David Read:
It diffuses though, I mean, you’re gonna have more of a solid surface, but you can imitate it. Absolutely. Very cool, man. That’s exceptional. Thank you for spending so much time with us today to go through your collection. It means a lot to have you on. It means a lot to know that folks like you are out there sharing your content for free, that you’re giving back to your community.

Martin Taichl:
That I try. I try to be quite active, at least in our Czech Stargate fandom. For example, in a month we have a Comic-Con in Prague, and I already know that I will go there and have presentations, let’s say.

David Read:
Present.

Martin Taichl:
I will. I try to be active and engaged with the fans because Stargate is quite a big thing here still because it’s still on. It finishes and then go straight to the beginning and so on and so on.

David Read:
Is Atlantis more popular because of Zelenka? I’m curious.

Martin Taichl:
No, no, no, no, no, don’t even mention Zelenka. That’s completely butchered here and I hate our Czech dubbing for it because in Czech dubbing, everybody speak Czech. They completely butchered Zelenka and whenever …

David Read:
Why–

Martin Taichl:
… he speaks Czech—

David Read:
I’m sure. He’s cursing. There’s things that he’s saying that he couldn’t get away with in Czech. That makes sense, doesn’t it?

Martin Taichl:
I will give you example how it is done. When they are in the Jumper in “Grace Under Pressure,” he says, “[Speaking Czech][1.1].” Sheppard says something like, “I think my Czech is getting better because I know what you mean.” But in our dubbing, what they did is that Zelenka curses, like normally, but Sheppard says, “I don’t know what you said from back then, but I think I understand you.” He doesn’t speak a different language in Czech. So, the magic is lost for us. But to be completely honest with you, I didn’t watch Atlantis with Czech dubbing. I refuse to. To answer your question, no, SG-1 is way more popular here, because that is going on and on and on all the time since it ended. It’s still on. Actually, three years ago, when Richard Dean Anderson was here in Prague for Comic-Con, he spoke with the guy who was his chauffeur, who drove him around Prague. And he told him that he was very surprised that he’s so famous here, that so many people recognize him, and that he is such a celebrity. And that’s because Stargate is so popular here. And it’s on and we have very big fandom here.

David Read:
More than MacGyver?

Martin Taichl:
Way more than MacGyver. I guess you wouldn’t find many people here who even know what MacGyver is, but everybody knows O’Neill.

David Read:
Wow. So, this is just over-the-air domestic television you can find Stargate on how often?

Martin Taichl:
Every day.

David Read:
Seven days a week?

Martin Taichl:
Five days. Five… no, no, no, sorry, seven days. I think it’s also on weekends.

David Read:
Is it prime time? Is it like 7:00 at night?

Martin Taichl:
No, no, no, it’s in afternoon.

David Read:
OK, after the kids get home from school.

Martin Taichl:
I actually think it is one or two episodes a day, so they very quickly go from Episode One to “Unending,” and then they go back from– Always go round, round, round. So it’s still on.

David Read:
Exactly. In order, OK. Wow, 2 episodes a day, so 14 episodes a week. You would move through the show pretty quickly, for sure. Two and a half times, three times a year. That’s wild, man. Martin, thank you for sharing. Thank you for being so open. I would really love to have you and a group of Czech fans to come on and share more about your culture’s love for this franchise, like I’ve already done with the French and with the German audiences. Would you be willing to do that?

Martin Taichl:
Certainly. OK. It would be my honor.

David Read:
OK. Let’s talk about dates, then, because I definitely do want to make that happen. This has been tremendous fun. This has been an educational process for me. I’ve learned a lot, and that alone was worth it. So, thank you so much for taking time.

Martin Taichl:
You are most welcome.

David Read:
Thank you, sir. I’m gonna go ahead and wrap up the show on this side, but I’ll be in touch with you soon, OK?

Martin Taichl:
OK.

David Read:
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