Jeff and Bryan discuss, compare, and contrast the two versions of the same basic story represented in the first four episodes of Primary Phase (Fit the First through Fit the Fourth) and on the double LP, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Part One. Is one better than the other? Or, is there a nonexistent, perfect version somewhere in the middle?
This has been a Froods for Thought production.
Jeff and Bryan discuss, compare, and contrast the two versions of the same basic story represented in the first four episodes of Primary Phase (Fit the First through Fit the Fourth) and on the double LP, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Part One. Is one better than the other? Or, is there a nonexistent, perfect version somewhere in the middle?
This has been a Froods for Thought production.
Hey Bryan how are you doing today hey Jeff I'm doing great how about yourself not doing bad I know when the last episode we said that we were going to talk about the first six episodes of the radio series but I've decided to break that up into Parts 1 and part 2 of primary phase because the first four episodes match up with the book Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where 5 and 6 are included in restaurant at the end of the universe so our next episode will be episodes 5 and 6 of the radio series and we're also going to be doing the lp the first LP which is a double LP also matches up perfectly with the first four episodes of the radio series rate right before we even get started right that's right that was owed to and we're already going off script we'll be talking about primary face part 1 the first four episodes of the primary phase radio series same basic story represented in the double LP I want to do the simultaneous rather than doing the LP's on the road since the content isn't substantially different and I also liked hearing the changes that were made from one to the other a little history I guess about the lp due to the music in the radio series they didn't have the rights to put out an LP version so they had to re-record the whole thing rather than just taking the radio series and releasing it and they made some changes and to me with rare exception in those first four episodes every change they made made the story better do you feel that way oh yes definitely there was a few stumbles up there we're going to focus on every detail of the radio show but in the radio show there's a couple of little fumbles over the script and they missed a few of the little needle jobs are in there but I agree that LP gave him the opportunity to probably record and rerecord and come up with the more final version or the more intended version I could say I have a script so I agree with that it's worth finding out there's something about a a live performance that has its issues know we would never find that out but the other thing I keep thinking about the top of my head when I start to think about this particular broadcast were working on at the moment it's hard to imagine an audience for one but for two I don't know where our audience is going to be in terms of their familiar header Garrity with the entire story you know can we assume that they read the first book and we assume that they at least have an idea of what the story lines about or is there a sumption said we need to start all the way back in the beginning and fill them all in well I guess we are starting all the way at the beginning and I definitely hope that whoever has found this in his listening to it is familiar with at least the first book there you go that helps and I hope if they haven't listened to or read any of the additional if they read it and follow right along with us cuz I certainly could not review any of the books at this point without rereading them it's going to be fun actually I'll piss you know we'll be doing audiobook so help me listening at work all of the things so absolutely don't let start talking about The Hitchhiker's Guide radio series before I even knew there was a radio series I was listening to the lp that I got I heard the lp long before the radio series but after I read the book and that is where I learned that Ford's name is prefect not perfect well you know it's an English thing you know the prefix are in a lot of English stories of course that's what they call I don't know a perfect kid in a student or whatever over in England in some of the school system so it's a common word in the English language but certainly not in the American Sign Language it don't actually not and then I also look this up I didn't do very much research but between 1938 and 1961 in the UK there was a car the Ford prefect now that I didn't know yeah so that's kind of makes it even funnier if we would have had a Ford prefect in the United States then nobody would have everSend any nobody would have ever confuse that name yep that's true just to start us off again the primary phase radio show according to what I found out was originally aired in 1978 of course the book didn't come out until 1979 that's when it started okay and that's what gets me is a radio series I can't believe how long they lasted in the UK because in the United States I can't say I've ever listened to a first run live radio series broadcast of any subject the only one that I can think of is like what was that one the Robot Chicken or did you ever hear that like in the start Robot Chicken that's a cartoon on Cartoon super chicken or something like that at that. I remember that one that was pretty funny this show there's so much coming at you all at once it's hard to process and appreciate everything in a single listening everything seems to be a joke one way or another so I've really enjoyed listening to it over and over and over because you catch new things every time that's true every line seems like a punchline and that's one of the things that create the open laughter when you're reading his book you know it's it's always available so that's what I really like about it in this first episode ever when Ford wants Arthur to go to the pub with him Arthur talks to Prosser into lying in front of the bulldozer in his place and that is all well and good for the introduction but it really does not fit Arthur's personality no it in the lp they did away with that whole scene and they just went straight to the pub in the book that's when they had forward talk to Prosser into line down the front of the bulldozer which really fit Ford's personality much better writing as you were talking about I feel like it's funny we were talking about the first scene and Arthur's there arguing with the supervisor Prosser as you said I'm trying to keep this house from being knocked over it's an interesting seeing but you're right it doesn't fit his personality to be the one who convinces the dome in Prosser to actually delay while they walk off to the bar for drinks if you take the two versions of the radio series and the lp and you merge all together you actually get the perfect version neither one of them did it right on their own but together it's perfect has a part with a woman making a speech before tearing Arthur's house down in it there are a couple of cheap jokes where she says cruddy Little Village instead of Little Country Village what she does is great she mentions that she is christening the yellow bulldozer that is the first time the word yellow has been mentioned and yellow is very important normally one would just say bulldozer but she specifically said yellow bulldozer there had to be a reason but we never learn it in the radio series they cut that seemed totally out of the lp and in a scene that describes the vogon ships is yellow there's another parallel the bulldozers knocking down the house or yellow and the bow gun ships destroying the Earth are yellow but neither of the Audio Drama versions have both also had the brilliant line about the ships going unnoticed by all these different government agencies in observatories when it was exactly the sort of thing they've been looking for all these years perfect and then the other thing that I wanted to mention is that you were talking about some gaps in the live recording where Arthur drops the word green when he is talking with Ford trying to figure out how we got on a Vulcan ship he only says so we just stuck out our thumb and some bug-eyed monster could take you as far as the Basingstoke Runabout or some weird goofy thing like that when he gets to the point where are 4 goes is green yes it's like he didn't say green Is green yes it's like he didn't say green bug-eyed monster but in the lp he got the line correct right so that was my comparing and contrasting the two versions and I really like that they have that one part where if you put them together it's perfect couldn't either one by itself correct I will go back to you for just a little bit and jokes are gags that you wanted to discuss more in-depth because they're kind of brilliant right there's a couple things that I think you're outstanding and of course you were talking about one of the parallels was of the yellow ships and the yellow bulldozer if there's another parallel when Arthur is discussing with Prosser the information and where the information can be found I know we talked about this in the past where it's in the display Department which turns out to be in the basement of a building that has no stairs in a dark area without any light in a closet locked in a locked in the closet with inside of a desk I believe it's at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory and of course there's the other parallel that happens when the vogon captain is basically telling everyone on Earth was about to happen and he goes about explaining that all this information was available at Alpha Centauri and they could have certainly read it and reviewed it and they wanted to be brilliant go when they get onto the ship I think it's neat that they refer to the the people that allow them on the ship or actually the Kooks and people providing the food for the Vogue on the den Tri-C of course it's just a subtle thing but I think that's amazing that they talk about the squalid nature of the area that they're in the course didn't Rossi has to be a version of detritus which is basically things thrown about which I think is brilliant you know it's just one of those words selection such you really appreciate from a good author the other thing that I wondered at first cuz and this is a variation from the book and from I think even the lp cuz in the radio show he mentions the third worst poet in all of existence is a man named Paul oatmeal Mi Johnson from Red Bridge that this guy is a friend of his
friend of atoms they went to school together and I think he was a poet and they were on a literary group but that the published a literary paper the two of them did go to college together or at the same location so I thought it was pretty funny I guess in the later addition I believe that he is actually the worst folk on is the third but the Paul with the right you're the worst and perished with his plan call Myles Johnson that's right the worst poet in history that's correct but I thought it was funny because I wondered when I heard the radio version I thought this is the first version I wonder whether or not this is a real person and it is a real person but of course in the LP version I believe they've changed the name and in the book the name is also been scrambled more than changed yes it is scrambled that's exactly a couple of jokes that I think most people are familiar with even if they haven't read the book one of my favorites is the joke about safe where Arthur when he finds out he's on this ship says are we safe for it says yes we're in the galley cabin of a v on one of the folk on Constructor and he's like well this must be some strange usage of the word safe I wasn't previously aware of so was one of my absolute favorite jokes and I'm going to have a lot of these it's like I'm going to say this was my favorite joke and then oh no no no this was my favorite oh no no no this was absolutely cracked me up when I read it the first time we didn't mention the Babel Fish is a fish that feeds off of brainwaves and so if you have one in your ear you can understand any form of language spoken because of some kind of alluded reason that he has come up with but it doesn't But it doesn't explain why he can read signs the other thing is in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the Earth was originally listed simply as harmless but because forward is a field agent who's doing research for future additions he said it's been edited and changed and then Arthur asks what the change was and he said it is now mostly harmless which really did make Arthur feel any better but I love the fact that he actually says that my editor had to trim it down a bit been on the planet for 7 years and obviously written a lot about the planets and then he said my editor had to trim it down a bit and now it's mostly harmless or we can smoke on poetry I'll put you were talking about before with the Palm deals Millstone Johnson or whatever his name was the poetry reading chairs which is basically a torture device that the Vogons strap you to to read poetry at you again and then listening to the The vogon Poetry is like a bunch of gurgles and wretches and it's just a nightmare now we can go on 2 episode 2 we do get to start out hearing the far out in the Uncharted backwaters passage where they have the digital watch joke so that's how they open episode 2 right right so I assumed that that particular joke in episode 2 is one of the episode starts off with them being drug through the ship by Mindless Vogue on guard and he's constantly repeating resume resistance is useless and obviously I had to laugh because there's no chance that they would have been referencing a Star Trek reference there but certainly makes you one of the other way around correct Star Trek steal it from them it did indeed it did indeed so this would have been like in 78 and it would have proceeded even the next gen the next gen didn't come out until later but then I also like I don't know if we're going to get him some of your other the other favorites here but one of the other things that I thought as delightful as when Arthur is complaining that he says to 4 dime and I wish I'd listened to what my mother used to say to me when I was a kid and then for simple what did she say and he said I don't know I didn't miss them Arthur are doing a back-and-forth review of the Vulcan poetry trying to Bluff their way out of being thrown off the ship and after it doesn't work and they're taken away by the guy that says resistance is useless the captain is kind of having a conversation with himself and he's thinking one of the last things that they said he's like Counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor deaths too good for them their placating him was so bad that death is even too good for them when Ford was showing Arthur the entry about the Vulcans in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy it said that you could forget about getting a lift he also said that the book was out of date and he was updating it cuz he mentioned the bit about the den Tracy helping hitchhikers and how he's going to have to include it in the revised Edition do you think he's also going to include you immediately or after reading poetry to you I would assume you would but you never know what the editors going to do I'd still 4 from the bowl game all right so they are now they've been thrown into the airlock they're sitting in the airlock they're waiting for the doors open and then to get spaced out into space Arthur talked about not wanting to go to heaven with a headache because he the all cross and he wouldn't enjoy it takes the opportunity to make a joke about rescuing them with the button that doesn't actually exist they have to go through the countdown of improbability in this episodeThere's just levels of improbability being red over some kind of an intercom where they're basically having all kinds of hallucinations they are told not to panic because they've been rescued from certain death by the heart of gold and pretty soon everything will be okay and just to kind of hang in there and then of course it all comes down we get introduced to 5 trillion and Marvin and Eddie the shipboard computer on the Heart of Gold Marvin is the Paranoid Android or an extremely depressed robot however you would like to describe him he was a prototype of the Sirius cybernetics General people personality and didn't work out so well no it's an amazing concept that they have with Marvin and Marvin provides a good deal of of humor throughout the book and certainly even in the movies there's a lot there that do absolutely be going over here in the rain radio show he's just pretty much just manic-depressive individual that has a brain the size of a planet that is being told to do menial tasks but I did want to point out and I don't know whether you had something that you wanted to talk about what's in your going through the improbability drive in the improbability as those factors were dropping different things were happening near the end of that process this is just incredible to me cuz it's really funny Arthur turns to forward and said oh by the way I 4 there's an infinite number of monkeys I want to talk to you about the script they rig a hamlet but they worked out what's absolutely amazing about that particular line is a course in reference to What's called the infinite monkey theorem which has existed for a long time but I was looking up the information about the infinite monkey theorem which basically states that if you have an infinite number of monkeys on working on an infinite number of typewriters eventually they would write out every piece of literature every piece of important story that's ever been written it's a logical exercise in what's the infinite improbability Drive is supposed to be or how it was created because even though an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters in an infinite number of time would eventually write out all these great pieces of literature that meant that even though it was highly unlikely or highly improbable there was a probability that function or that that absolute situation would occur and then looking that up I came up with my my new favorite word and that's back to the graphic this is what they referred to as dactylography and looking this up I also found that some people decided it would be a good idea to test out the theory without would be a tall order I actually put a bunch of monkeys into a room with some computer keyboards and in the end they got five pages of written material that were mostly asses until one of the Monkees crapped her frock yeah it all of the things that you were talking about that was happening to them the monkeys in the Shakespeare is the only thing that's probable for turning into a penguin not probable Arthur's arm floating away not probable the seashore the building's washing up and down why the improbable totally impossible but then finally they came up with the actual thing that is improbable there was a really nice addition to the lp that wasn't in the radio series and it's only two words so they 5 is looking at the Monitor and he recognizes Ford and he knows that the ship just picked him up and he's trying to figure out how this could have possibly happened that the ship picked them up when they were at infinite improbability so he wanted to do the account so that's when we meet we meet Eddie the computer he's immediately annoying and see if I was like no no I'll just use the sheet of paper so he's talking 2 trillion and they've already stated the probability of being rescued from spacing the 30 seconds without spacesuits lots of a Cut ability but nowhere near infinite but that same probability was the telephone number of a flat at a party that Arthur went to and he discovered a girl who he didn't ever have anything happened with and then it so happens that zaphod was at that same party and the girl that Arthur was with was trillion and and when it all comes together Eddie says on the lp improbability complete even though they 5 was using a piece of paper and he was still doing all of the calculations in as soon as they hit the infinite improbability he's like probability Factor complete that's all I wanted to mention about that and how sick they listen to the radio Series this little insert and they put all those on the lp
so I found that to be very fun to listen to okay. So now we can go on 2 episode 3 right before we separate episode 3 I know we're going to get into this later because it really isn't going to be in in effect I think until we talk about the book they don't talk about either in the book or or I'm sorry in the lp or in the radios about how they 5 steals the ship or what you know however the reason he stole it happens it's like so the next episode is the reason he stole the ship however we don't know that's the reason nor do we ever find out exactly exactly since we know more about the concept of what happened and how this this ship got created and it's the first of its kind the activation of the improbability drive has this ripple effect and I think ripple effect is part of what goes on throughout the story all the way through to the end of what we recall our the 4th episode here I still think that Ripple like it's still Rippling mean still adding up all the factors and everything that happens as a result of the fact that this improbability field if you will is rotating around the four main characters and how they're all right a bundle together so it's like a string theory if you will of the of the ripple effect of this particular yes ship we can talk about episode 3 okay so the episode 3 of course starts where they are orbiting the mythical welcome to the right so they're orbiting around magrathea and so the first thing I want to say is I did not catch any script which is between the radio series and the lp like they changed very little if anything in this episode they start out with the monologue like they did but this time they do the part where they have the men were real men and women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri right after that there was a joke that stings because there is too much I do not want to call it truth but I will call it an accurate assessment of the way the world really is it mentions that many men became extremely rich but it was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor at least no one were speaking up that wouldn't play the turkey good in today's world and I remember that you're being funny to me for 2 years ago now now it's just it's like the news well and of course you you happen to slip and slide right past the thing that makes that opening monologue important and that is after he says men were real men women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri he says and all dare to Brave unknown Terrors to do Mighty Deeds To Boldly split infinitives that no man had split before and of course that is a direct reference to start wrecked not only the part about men were men and women were women I mean after the episodes aired for Star Trek there was a great controversy of You know sexualized the women characters were and how overly I don't even know how you would call you probably column Predator now Captain Kirk is when it comes to the on emails on the show and of course the one thing that everybody jumped on right away 1 Star Trek first came out was they split the infinitive it should be to go boldly go where no man has gone before not to boldly go so price has a direct reference right Star Trek and in that it is a direct reference to Star Trek I like to believe that the small furry creatures that are referred to are dribbles and the trouble is a fascinating creature by the way you know that took me down the rabbit hole that really have had me going for quite some time I was quite entertained with that particular rabbit hole but you mentioned that Captain Kirk could have been considered a predator zaphod had a third arm attached specifically for trillion Cut Above any kind of Predator type of Sony wait there now orbiting this mythical planet of magrathea but nobody actually believes it in and then all the sudden there's this Fanfare and this announcement saying it was magrathea but they keep going even though they were told to go back and they get farther and there's another warning and they get farther and then they shoot the missiles so another joke that everybody knows is about the whale in the petunias their guidance system is jammed nobody can fly the ship Arthur's like there's an improbability button right here what happens if I press it nobody is doing anything so at the last moment he just hits the button cuz they have got nothing to lose and then you get a bowl of Petunias and a surprise looking sperm whale surprise slogan that has always okay yes he would be surprised looking but I wouldn't expect that to be put in there but it's it's absolutely perfect before we get too much about the whale there's the only thing that went through the mind of the petunias is oh no not again one of my favorite line if we knew why they said this we might understand the world a whole lot better the universal whole lot better it will be a long time before you find out why the petunia said oh no not again but he will answer you got to wait awhile amazing pieces now of course you want to talk about the table in the room so not only does the petunias appear but this whale appears he has to kind of suddenly come to kind of figure out that he is a whale come to grips with being a whale before he comes to grips with being a whale no more I did write down all of the the things that he said but it's basically he's plummeting to the ground and he's coming up with names for his his tail and his stomach and wind and wind must be very important because there's a hell of a lot of it and then you see this thing that has to have a big name like ground and then it's like the saddest thing in all of the books is the whale going I wonder if it'll be friends with me before he just splattered against the background in person to a bunch of whale meat that they end up coming across as that's one of the funny lines to course when they're in the heart of gold in their landed on the planet they asked the computer you know what the environmental conditions are Empire mental condition spacing far everything everything's fine but it smells a bit I'm like oh my gosh technology is really Advanced isn't it they can actually smell the air and I find an entrance or a cave in to the planet and even though it's a deserted Planet see if I tells Arthur to stay out here with the robot and guard the entrance and he's like well guarded from what and you know who knows so forward and trillion and say fight all go into the planet leaving Arthur and Marvin See where we are introduced to slartibartfast the coastline designer correct who then was basically sent there to get Arthur and he brings Arthur into the planet to go down to the factory floor you don't forget what I said about that safe thing in the digital watches joke this was one of my favorite jokes 20 flavors or you will be late and are just like late for what what what's your name my name is Dent Arthur Dent the late Arthur dead it's kind of a threat like I'm not very good at all but I can hardly very effective ever since I'll say 1981 or whenever I read that I have wanted to use that as a threat and have never had the opportunity I can't even imagine okay so Arthur goes with slartibartfast down to the factory floor through some hyperspace thing because they need to go into a different dimension where the planet building happens so sorry if our face is telling him that it might be a little bit of disturbing it it scares the Willies out of me this hyperspace track they have to go through it so they go through it and then somewhere around this point they do the monologue about man being the third most intelligent creature on the planet Earth as opposed to the second which most independent observers have thought the second most intelligent was the Dolphins and the single first most intelligent was the mice so they have determined that man was the third but what I liked was about the Dolphins man has always thought that he was smarter than the Dolphins because he created the wheel and new end Wars and the Dolphins felt that they were more intelligent than man for all the same reason it's exactly and the Dolphins had actually known about the impending doom of the earth and we're trying to warn man about it but it was always just confused as you know just whistling for tidbits and punching footballs in that kind of it but their final message was so long and thanks for all the fish which was like a triple backflip through a hoop while whistling The Star Spangled Banner and that has always confused me and I've never researched enough to find out why it was The Star-Spangled Banner but this is clearly a British production that was never really intended for the United States but they're mentioning The Star Spangled Banner sung voice is this a crack against the United States or is this a jab or a joke I've never been able to figure out if it was a joke what the joke was so that is always something that has confused me why I wonder if they even have Animal Park theme parks in England and maybe that's why the references for the United States cuz course we we have them I'm not even sure I don't I don't even know do they have that kind of aquarium of SeaWorld in London I don't know I actually still that's what I'm wondering maybe that's why that's why they don't have a reference to the English version we have an answer that I like I like that answer regardless if it's true will work will work with that we like that that works they described The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when they're describing the book as being apocryphal or at least wildly inaccurate I'll save it will be the same thing about our podcast 100% because this is where they actually discuss some of the core processes that the that the books are all
revolved around right here in this part of the story and you're about to go into that I assume are you sick I am so we get to the fourth episode where Arthur Goes to the factory floor and he is giving a history Lesson by slartibartfast who is telling them and this is something that cracks me up they get to learn the history of the learning of the ultimate answer to the ultimate question to life the universe and everything and he says we have a tape recording of the event well you actually says that while orbiting this planet they also say they have a tape recording cut that out to go pee I guess they realized it doesn't sound right so start ebart fast wakes up Arthur Start fast wakes up Arthur and tells him that he's been in a deep trance absorbing the data from a Magothy and computer Matrix archive cells they're just beaming it right into his head instead of watching a tape recording he gets to learn that they wanted to find out what the ultimate answer to the ultimate question was and they built a computer and the computer gave him the answer 42 and nobody liked that answer they wanted to question and he's like why can't tell you the question but I know who can the computer I'm going to build next and then he builds that computer which is called the Earth and in the reviewing of the historical tapes or the beginning of the information into Arthur's brain we get to meet broom fondle and Magic thigh and they have to be the greatest names in the book from my perspective magic thighs keeps the whole concept of everyone trying to say he keeps saying that I may or may not be magic the highs and what we demand is the absence of solid facts actually what they demand is rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty will finally says work. I also like if you don't stop this machine the Philosopher's will go on strike whose record inconvenience anybody it'll hurt oh gosh it's so funny cells the philosophers are all upset because like you said they're going to go on strike they believe they're going to be out of a job when he gives this answer and so deep thought the computer keeps trying to stop them but they won't listen and he's like it's going to take me a little while to 2 to get this all figured out so if you were smart you'd get yourself agents and you'd get on the chat shows and you'd argue and they're like you be on the gravy train for life and they're looking shows and come up with ideas and then I guess our minds are two highly trained oh yeah that's another great line cuz the deep thought uses a seven and a half million years to come up with the answer and then builds the Earth which yeah supposed to take 10 million years before it provides the spits out its answer yes and the question of course is what the mice who are actually what the pan galactic individuals are trying 10 dimensional dimensional letter trying to understand this so that they can get back Personal pan dimensional individuals right that are trying to understand this so that they can get back to their favorite sport of alter cricket do you run up and hit people for no reason what Deep Thoughts finally is going to divulge the answer of 42 he can't just spit it out he just keeps dragging it on and dragging it on it's like which cracks me up because nothing has changed if you watch any reality show contest America's Got Talent or whatever where they're going to reveal a result it's always after the break yep that's the way they do it it was another thing that just absolutely cracked me up as into why did he decide to put this in here I mean it's hysterical but it's just so out of the blue Arthur is talking to slartibartfast and he says I'm having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle and that sets off a whole Wormhole chain-reaction where his words go back in time millions and billions of miles away and emerge during peace time in one of the languages it's the absolute worst possible insult you could give in that language in the description they're talking about one of the generals sitting there in his black jeweled battle shorts and like black why is this foot in here so anyway there's this tremendous war that started because of that and then they finally realize what happened and they decide to join forces and go to the place that it started which is really a deserted Planet because he was on McCarthy at the time so I don't know where the small dog was but eventually determined that it was from Arthur from the planet Earth okay so they decided it was English so Arthur said it they determined that Earth was the language that this happened and that caused the War so they're going to do something about it and fly it this Armada but due to a gross miscalculation of scale the entire fleet was swallowed by a small dog another one of those things that makes me laugh and laugh and laugh because it's just absurd it's absolutely absurd yep the absolutely when it comes to the the conversation floating through that Wormhole that's to me is a part of the spinning out of the improbability drive the vortices if you will love the improbability drive to still spinning off and spinning off and the course Arthur as well as the other the other folks in the story all have different Berry defects but they all spin like the vortices of the drive this is one of those little spin-offs that gets played into the story oh absolutely LP they changed the part with the mice okay the mice on the lp and not in the the radio series they say we've been in this answer business for some 17 and a Half Men We've been in this answer business for some 17 1/2 million years right the other mouse goes all longer Shirley and he's like no just seems long and then in the radio series they had something that was just hysterical because of the The Voice modulation that they use for the actor or one of the mice is talking about if we have to run this program again just the thought of that gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies zaphod was going to be the the agent for Arthur's brain so he was doing the negotiation of getting the question out of Arthur's brain and he's like well we don't want to be reasonably Rich were we're holding out for extremely rich and he's like you drive a hard bargain beeblebrox those lines are delivered it away that are just absolutely hysterical especially with the high-pitched chipmunk type voice that they use for the for the mice that's right so they could have that on the lp it would have been better and then also on the lp they go a little farther real early in the discussion on the radio series the cops come and they run out but they start asking Arthur well we just want an answer that sounds good if it's between running the program again or taking the money and running that I for one could use the extra size so they just want something that sounds good and one of them is like that Bob Dylan songs like how many roads must a man walk down that's got some legs they decided they need to buy his brain to dissect it they can't just read his brain they've got a whole process it slice it and dice it but they give them an electronic brain that he wouldn't even know the difference just like you be programmed to say I don't understand where's the tea as we've mentioned the police arrived and then there's another joke that does not play so well in 2021 as it may have in 1978 come now because then they're back and forth with the cops so I think it's pretty relevant all around gratuitously shooting people and then bragging about it afterward and CD Space Ranger bars I go around gratuitously shooting people and then agonize about it afterwards to my girlfriend 40 years ago it was hysterical now now it hurts a little yes they're hiding behind a computer Bank the cops are shooting the computer bank there's an explosion and the episode ends hoof what a lot that it's it's amazing to this point absolutely next episode we will talk about episodes 5 and 6 and the single LP that matches up with that which we will find out the fate of our heroes and we're hoping that we are going to be able to put out episodes on the first Thursday of every month because Thursday is very important because I believe so far this whole thing has happened on Thursday yep coincidentally but true I don't think they can accept a second day this is all a single day in a strike at least we'll never know right we will always we will never know all right Brian it was great talking with you about this again I can't wait for our next episode goodbye