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Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, Supplemental Number 64, the one with Armand Shimmerman. Welcome into a supplemental edition of Mission Log that really needs no introduction.

Norman and I were thrilled to talk to Armand Shimmerman about everything from, well, of course,

Quark to Shakespeare and many stops in between,

Armin couldn't have been nicer or had better insights.

Enjoy the show. I have to ask it as Norman brought it up I have to ask you as Norman brought it up. I have to ask you on your

Twitter bio first thing is Luddite. Please how do you define that for yourself?

Because here we are having this remote conversation over the internet,

we can see each other. This is the miracle of the 21st century. It is that. For me, a Luddite is a person who knows nothing about technology and I think I pretty much define that.

When you go to the dictionary and look up Luddite, my picture is there.

And yet here we are making this happen remotely. So well done for a Luddite.

Yeah. You know just enough technology to be dangerous, right? And then everything else.

I hope so.

I want to bookend this whole conversation with you today about Shakespeare, because we will

certainly get around to the book that you've written but I want to start back with your origins as an actor and that was one of the most interesting things following your career and learning about your

background. Working as an actor in Shakespeare teaching Shakespeare and

being a scholar for productions, I noticed that you were doing some monologue workshops for Theatricum, Botanicum, here.

Can you talk to us, maybe people in our audience are not as tuned into Shakespeare's work or the impact and

importance for actors but especially today and I'm just curious what that

conveyance is like for you now talking to young up and coming actors or actors polishing their skills about the relevance and importance of what Shakespeare did.

Well, trying to wrap this all together,

let me approach that question through the my,

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