Grant Davis

Oh no, fuck this.

That might be putting a hat on a hat.

I'm yeah, no, this is, uh, yeah, I can't really.

All right.

And then, um,

While you figure out this hat.

It came apart.

We got a couple of emails and messages.

First off, we got one from Mert, who this email came in, and I actually passed it along to you guys to read as well.

And I thought it was just kind of interesting.

They had a long thing about talking about Carl's superpower being a Kobayashi Maru, which I thought was an interesting perspective on it.

The idea that when presented with an impossible scenario, rather than accepting defeat, which was the intent of Kobayashi Maru, that a leader must know defeat and be able to accept it, you Captain Kirk that thing, and you pivot, and you throw a curveball.

I think in his case, in the later movies, they showed that he just straight-up cheated the system.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, just cheat.

So, yeah, I thought that was interesting.

They also talked about a little bit of a philosophical commentary on Carl's morality in dire conditions and that maybe we've been a little too hard on Carl.

And, you know, that in these crazy conditions, the end justifies the means when you're just desperate.

Right.

I mean, in our defense, though, we explore this and posit the question because Carl is doing so.