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This is the podcast for May 12, 2006.

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Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where we're in countdown mode now.

Because this is the 991st episode of the Professional Left podcast with Drift Class and Blue Gal.

And you couldn't see it because this is an audio podcast.

But that was the countdown introduction from season three of Lost in Space, which premiered on September 6, 1967, with Condemned of Space.

The Robinsons leave their planet to escape a collision with a comet and find a ship full of frozen convicts.

I'm not saying that it's a rip off of space seat at Star Trek.

I'm just saying, you know, leave that to your imagination.

It was pretty good, but we ranked the second episode of that year a little bit higher.

That was Visit to a Hostile Planet in which the Robinson's pass through a time warp. A lot of time warp going on back then. And finally get back to Earth. Yay. Except they arrive in the year 19 and 47. And I'm mistaken for invaders and kick off the UFOs scare of the 1940s.

And we know what you're thinking.

First of all, you're thinking UFOs, yeah, there's a humongous cover-up and Barack Obama's part of it.

It's all him, yeah.

No, we think you're wondering, what was the birth rate in the United States in 1947?

Because we know you guys.

The year the Robinson's return to Earth, what was the birth rate?

And we think that's a great question.

And we also think we know why you're asking it, because of what Dr.

Mehmet Oz said in the Oval Office this very week.

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