Folks, we're returning to you this Saturday with a classic episode that is near and dear to our hearts,

both as native sons of Atlanta or people who reside in Atlanta now and as longtime fans of a little franchise called

Star Trek.

A. K. A giant nerds.

Max? Oh, he's just giving, he's throwing up a, throwing up the Spock Peace sign.

I love in the, uh, the newer show Lower Decks. They, uh, a sarcastic thing you can start, like some

characters be sarcastic, and they're like, hey, stop doing that sarcastic folk and sign.

Also, that is an ancient blessing from Judaism.

Yeah, because Letter Neevoy got it.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. They kind of just told him to do something.

Do something. And he did the call and even blessing. Yeah. He did that and you know there's

some great stories about that. Isn't it funny though how sometimes the most arbitrary of choices or ad libs or whatever become just the biggest sticking kind of cultural moments.

I love that about history.

Similar to Popeye, right?

The sailor man, which is still fresh on our minds.

Folks, today's story is about Star Trek,

but it's also about how history can hinge on such tiny moments.

In our classic episode now, we are exploring how a single conversation with a perhaps surprising fan of Star Trek shaped the course of the

show that is a global phenomenon today.

We've always talked about, you know, whenever possible, whenever Max has his way. Talk about Star Trek on the show and it's such an interesting,

almost like model UN kind of situation, the way it depicts this sort of utopian world where people can get along and people of different races and creeds and species even can coexist and even the battles are largely around diplomacy more so than

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