[video]

[majorlyugh]

[As the video comes on, Major's leaning in a bit close, trying to get his comm to stand on its end, but the thing keeps sliding over at varying speeds. He sighs, eventually picking the thing up and holding it out with his arm extended.

He offers a shrug as an explanation.]

I'm - never sure if I'm supposed to like, greet people when I start one of these? Well, to be on the safe side ... hey! How are you? I'm doing all right, thanks.

Okay, now that's out of the way, I have two questions for the folks here. .. They are completely unrelated, but of sort of equal importance. [He's walking under some trees that are out-of-shot, but the sunlight pouring through the canopies are sun-dappling Major's face as he moves.]

One: I'm a millenial so I'm pretty good with technology, but - these things sort of elude me a little bit. Is there a way for me to like .. go anon on this thing? Or change my name? Or just use a different one entirely? Or do I have to use my actual name on the network?

Two: Does anyone know if there's a copy of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark lying around? Could be a VHS, for all I care, so long as there's a VCR, too. But I'm not picky; could be anything, just as long as it's watchable!

If you're still listening, thanks! And if you have answers to my questions, I owe you a drink or something!

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[voice]

[majorlyugh]

... All right ... Let me see what I can do ... Cause now I'm curious. I won't do Harrison Ford any justice - he's the guy who plays Indiana Jones - but I'd give it my best shot.

And my mom thought I'd never do anything for the Greater Good, pfft.

[He laughs.] It's okay. It's friggin' weird. You can say it. Nothing like that where you're from?

[voice]

[onlydoubts]

I would say you're definitely doing something for the greater good, here. Introducing me to something that's important to you and is apparently something of a classic.

No, we didn't really have anything like that where I'm from. It's just... where you're from, or who's side you're on.

[voice]

[majorlyugh]

I mean, the movie's entertaining in its own right, you know? Some of it is silly and non-sensical, but its entertainment value is super high. Like, there's this one scene where he's trying to take a statue from a temple, and the thing is rigged so that if the weight changes, all these booby traps will come out. So he tries to trick the pressure plate or whatever with a bag of sand, and you think it works for a couple of seconds, but then this giant boulder comes rolling down and chases him through the temple. It's a really iconic scene.

There's also a lot of .. uh, controversy, I guess, about the fact that he's just going into all these ancient temples and stuff and taking things to put into museums. Kinda messed up, cause he's taking them from the native people who live near the temples, but .. uh. Most people just focus on the fun of it.

Right. Sides. Seattle - the city where I'm from - is .. sorta going through something like that too. Or .. will be, very soon.