From Relay, this is Upgrade episode 577 for August 18th, 2025. This episode is brought to you by Steam Clock, Squarespace, P the Hydration App, and Delete Me.

My name is Mike Hurley, and I'm joined by Jason Snell. Hi, Jason Snell. Hi, Mike Hurley. Good to hear

your voice. How you doing? I'm good. I'm very excited for today's episode. Having some,

you know, it's just nice to have these summer days in the summer of fun.

Summer of fun! I realize we've got like two more of these maybe. Max. I know. We're running out.

We're running that quick. Incredible. I have a cell talk question for you. Comes from Dan who asks,

Jason, have you ever approached a celebrity and introduced yourself or asked for an

autograph or a selfie? If so, what was the result?

Not as an adult, because I think I have a policy. I mean, I, okay. At Comic-Con,

they have people who sign things for money. That's different. But that's not approach out in the world.

Because I do have a signed 8 by 10 on my, it's actually, I'm looking at it right now from

Morgan Shepard, the character actor who is in like every sci-fi series ever.

I've got his Max Headroom headshot.

It's great.

He was Blank Reg in Max Headroom.

Also great interaction there because he was like, which one do you want? He's like, you want the Klingon? You want the Soul Hunter from Babylon 5? And I'm like, I want Blank Reg from Max Headroom. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's passed away since then. And so I extra treasured that, that I got to meet that guy.

But anyway, when I was a kid, they, I lived so far out in the countryside in rural California that that's where, at the time, that is where TV shows went to shoot the old frontier. Because we had like rolling hills with nothing on them that you could shoot so little house on the prairie i don't know if you ever heard a little house on the prairie it's a tv show based on

a popular series of books they shot that there uh and my dad so so the the the girl in that playing Laura,

whose name was, oh, God, what was her name?

She was married to, it's a celebrity.

They're divorced now, but there's a celebrity couple.

It was Bruce Boxlightner and his wife was, God, it'll come to me. Anyway, she was there, and she had braces, it'll come to me.

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