Welcome to Hi Bob, the officially unofficial for all mankind podcast on Apple TV plus. I'm Jim. I'm Aron. And today we're talking about season 3 episode 8 titled The Sands of Aries.

Aron, what do you think of this episode?

I thought this was a great episode.

I thought, you know, I don't like disasters obviously, but I do think that this show excels at showing

very smart driven capable and equipped people responding to them and it's always

thrilling I like the human side of what was going on, you know, the poor Amber and

Jimmy and Karen on the ground. I like Ed and Danny being locked up and I'm I'm feeling I'm feeling a little bit different

about Danny not that I and I never thought that he was I always thought he was kind of the victim

obviously of Karen's Cougarish predations but boy this this episode here framed him as just a really tragic figure that has been bearing guilt and shame for something he did as a child and never as talked about or acknowledged and I felt like I was right there with

Ed man like he just wanted to comfort the poor boy but I mean, it's one of those things are doesn't exactly swipe the wipe the slate clean, but it does it does contextualize them.

Yeah, I thought this episode was another incredible one.

What'd you think?

Yeah, no, I think the Danny and Ed stuff is borderline brilliant.

Emotionally, it takes me to a place Danny. I honestly didn't think I could get.

And they do it all with stuff that we could have or should have seen and understood

in the past, uh, Like his relationship with Shane was very important

in shaping who he was, especially,

you know, now that we know exactly the nature of that relationship,

but I think we had we had inclinations

or indications rather earlier on. Yeah him explaining to Ed just like how he

did all these terrible things to Shane and the guilty must have felt it.

It did a remarkable job of connecting Ed and Danny emotionally because Ed felt the same way right like the I love this stuff with the the suits in the

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