Pheaturing Sonequa Martin-Green from "Star Trek: Discovery"

Hey, kiddies, welcome to the Phile for a Wednesday. How are you? What happens to a baseball pitcher when he loses a big game? He goes into the throes of depression. Haha. Even a global pandemic can't stop Twitter from digging around in the history of famous people who've made bad choices. This weekend's "cancellation" saga involves "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon facing the wrath of Twitter after a video resurfaced of him wearing blackface in a "Saturday Night Live" sketch from 2000. The deeply-uncomfortable sketch features Fallon, who was a cast member on the show at the time, dressed up as Chris Rock. Someone edited the caption of the video to reference NBC firing Megyn Kelly from her job at NBC in 2018 after she claimed white people should be allowed to wear blackface in the context of a Halloween costume. Faster than you can say "CANCELED!" the hashtag #jimmyfallonisoverparty started trending on Twitter over the weekend. Some people are defending Fallon, including Marlon Wayans, who described the controversy as "dumb as hell." But others think that the passage of time is no excuse for this kind of behavior. This person pointed out that Fallon is not the only culprit: "SNL" has a "long history" of cast-members in blackface, most recently Bill Hader in 2013. And unfortunately Fallon is not the only high-profile entertainer who's been guilty of this in the past. One person makes a valid point that Jimmy Fallon was involved but the criticism should be directed at "SNL," for creating and airing this sketch and having their damn makeup team do this. This also isn't the first time Jimmy Fallon has faced backlash for portraying Chris Rock specifically. In 2017 he did it at the Golden Globes, but at least he didn't wear blackface that time. Whether or not Jimmy Fallon or "SNL" or Robert Downey Jr. are deserving of our outrage, this guy pointed out that someone else might be a lot MORE deserving...

Great point. #COVID19isoverparty just doesn't have the same ring to it though! Jimmy Fallon has responded to the controversy on Twitter with a sincere apology.

JimmyFallonIsBackParty!
If you’ve ever watched any of the Spider-Man movies, you can’t tell me that the thought of a spider bite possibly giving you superpowers didn’t cross your mind at least a couple times. But of course, how silly would that be to simply forcibly get a spider to bite you, especially a poisonous one. Well, that debate definitely didn’t stop these three Bolivian brothers from testing it out... and it’s safe to say that none of them are slinging webs around now. The three young Bolivian boys were out grazing goats in Chayanta, a small Bolivian village in the Andean region of Potosí. They found a venomous black widow spider, and it reminded them of the comic book superhero Spider-Man. They each poked it with a stick to trigger the black widow spider so that it would bite them, in hopes of becoming like the famous Peter Parker. Within a few minutes, the first symptoms appeared, and their mother immediately took them to Chayanta Health Centre. When their conditions got worse, they were transferred to a hospital in the town of Llallagua. As their conditions worsened, they were finally transferred to the Children’s Hospital in La Paz. They were suffering from muscular pain, sweating, fever and general tremors. After applying a serum to the bites, their conditions improved, and they were discharged almost a week later. Epidemiology chief of the Bolivian Ministry of Health, Virgilio Pietro, told Telemundo that this story is important in educating parents on making sure their children understand the difference between comic books and reality. Although the black widow spider is not usually aggressive, if bitten by one, it needs to be treated within fifteen minutes or else it could cause death. Luckily, there are antidotes for its poison. If that doesn’t scare you enough from trying out the whole “Peter Parker” thing, I’ll leave you with this fact: black widow spiders get their names from when the females eat the males after they mate. So just… just don’t touch them, okay?
Talk about pure dumb and amazing luck. A family in Virginia were shocked after they found nearly one million dollars in cash in the middle of the road! According to the family, they were just trying to get out of the COVID-19 blues by talking an afternoon drive, when they found what appeared to be a big bag of trash laying on the street. According to the Schantz family, the car in front of them had time to swerve out of the way, but the family didn’t have time to do the same. According to Maj. Scott Moser of the Caroline County Sheriff’s Department, the family ran over the bag and instead of just leaving the trash on the road, they picked it up and put it in the back of the truck. Like we all should do whenever we see trash on the street. That’s when the Virginia family saw another bag in the ditch nearby and picked that bag as well. After they got home that evening, they were about to throw the trash from both bags, but when they opened them, it appeared to be mail. After investigating further inside the bag, the family found it to be cash money. The Schantz family went to church with one of the county’s sheriffs, who told the family to call the office. According to Moser, “We went out there and determined it was, in fact, cash. It was in two bags and the total was close to one million dollars.” Within the two larger bags were two smaller ones, each containing letters as to where the money would be deposited. The plastic baggies we’re all addressed with something that said, “Cash vault.” The Sheriff’s department quickly conducted its own investigation before turning it over to the United States Postal Service. They are now looking into the matter on their own and are working to get the cash back to its rightful owner. Moser did applaud the family for turning in the cash, noting it was a credit to the charger and fiber of the family. Is this family an example of how good samaritans should act? Sure! But boy, boy. What would you do if you found one million dollars on the road? Me? Welllll.... let's just say "good-bye, Disney." Hahaha.
If I recall correctly, and maybe I don’t because of all the times I smashed my head into the hard concrete and metal on the playgrounds I played on as a child, but didn’t every child born before 1990 have to deal with torture facilities masquerading as playgrounds? Why does this kid get a pass for, of all things, a slide that was too steep? Not to be a, “I walked uphill both ways to the lead mine that my school was in” type of old guy here but the playgrounds I grew up playing on were less regulated than the cocaine industry. If something was sharp and rusty you just tried to avoid it. If you fell, you probably bled. And when someone else got hurt it was hilarious. But not for this New Jersey kindergartner. The kid went down a slide that at Griebling School in Howell Township, New Jersey in October 2014 that was “too steep,” got a little bit hurt, and won nearly two hundred grand in damages. All this because, apparently, the slide was five degrees steeper than federal rules permit. This slide was 35 degrees instead of the permitted 30 degrees. That sentence wasn’t a lie. Not even satire. There are federal rules about slide angles. And this slide barely violated it. Granted, the girl’s family and legal team are adamant that the injuries she suffered were fairly significant. No, she didn’t lose an arm or anything, but she did indisputably suffer significant scarring. It should also be said that it is, of course, good for people who have been wrongfully harmed, whether that injury is small or large, to be compensated for their injuries. Mostly I’m just mad that this kid got paid for getting hurt on a dangerous playground while me and my generation were forced to play on decommissioned World War II prison camp materials and got nothing for it. Where’s Bernie Sanders when you need him?
Marvel’s The Eternals was set to be one of the studio’s biggest franchises in Phase Four but thanks to COVID-19, the movie has been delayed. We still haven’t seen any promotional material from the upcoming MCU film but we’re all hoping this installment does well since its set to introduce completely new characters to the mix. Kit Harington, who most people know of due to 'Game of Thrones" gave a minor update on the movie. Well, “update” might be stretching it a bit since the actor knows nothing about what’s going to happen to the movie. Harington, who will be playing Black Knight, does reveal that shooting has finished but in terms of editing, reshoots, and promotional appearances, he doesn’t have a clue. As usual, COVID-19 has to ruin everything for everyone but at least he’s doing okay. Since the movie is already slated for a 2021 release, all we can do is hope that things calm down and the world becomes normal sooner, rather than later. Considering how U.S. theaters are already slated to open in a few months, people are going to have to be extra careful in this new normal. Hopefully, movies like The Eternals will make the trip to a movie theater worth it. Or, you know, things could just be safer. Man, 2020 sucks.
Here is another creative measure that is taking to maintain social distancing out in the world...

It's a foot-operated hand sanitizer. I have to tell you those protestor signs really bother...

Ugh! So, when I saw this pic of Trump is reminded me of something...

Then it hit me...

I'm just saying. Now from the home office in Port Jefferson, here is...

Top Phive Lightbulb Jokes
5. How many light bulbs does it take to change a light bulb? One, if it knows its own Goedel number. Note: I thought this was something to do with the maths/logic theories of Kurt Goedel, about it being impossible to prove things, and finally a more complete explanation arrived in my email. A Goedel Number is one of several ways to encode a Turing Machine, the classical abstraction of a computer, or for that matter of any algorithm. The idea (as best I see it) is that if the machine knows its own Goedel Number it can simulate itself... It does come from the mathematician Goedel... partly because he used TMs in his famous theorem, I believe.
4. How many spies does it take to change a lightbulb? Why bother?
3. How many Russians does it take to change a lightbulb? Two: One to screw it in and the other to check it for microphones.
2. How many Trimarians does it take to change a lightbulb? Leave it out, it was only attracting mosquitos anyway.
And the number one lightbulb joke is...
1. How many Caidans does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Nobody knows. They can't figure out what to wear to change one.

If you spot the Mindphuck let me know. Okay, you know I live in Florida, right? Well, stuff happens here that happens no where else in this galaxy...

A Florida man called 911 dispatch after he alleged that his gas pedal became stuck while he was going 100 mph. Joseph Cooper, 28, of Palm Coast, Florida was going 100 mph in his BMW while driving down I-95, reports CBS 12. Cooper called dispatch in a frenzy, saying that his gas pedal was stuck. No matter what he tried, he said, he couldn’t slow down. Cooper could be heard cursing and shouting at people to get out of the way while the dispatcher informed him that authorities were on their way to help. Law enforcement officers with the Florida Highway Patrol and the Fellsmere Police Department helped manage the situation by blocking off entrance ramps and controlling traffic. They deployed stop sticks to help slow Cooper down. A dash camera captured the moment his tires were blown out. Cooper was taken to Indian River Medical Center for evaluation after saying that he felt pain in his chest. The chase affected three counties. BMW has since called the scenario impossible in a statement, "Based on the articles we have seen, the scenario described is implausible to BMW and we would be happy to work with the Florida State Police to investigate the cause of this incident. BMW drivers have long been able to rely on integrated safety systems that help ensure safe operation of every BMW vehicle. All BMW vehicles, including the 2003 X5 described in this incident, employ an electronic accelerator pedal which uses software logic to override the accelerator whenever the brake pedal is pressed while driving. This fail-safe software means that if the vehicle detects that both pedals are depressed, the on-board electronics will reduce engine power so that the driver may stop safely. Furthermore, the accelerator pedal in BMW vehicles is hinged at the bottom, and mounts to the floor. Therefore an object or floor mat cannot slide under the accelerator pedal and jam it. Original BMW floor mats are custom-fitted for each vehicle, and are installed with anchors to keep them properly located in the front footwells of each vehicle. The vehicle could also have been stopped by two additional means: By placing the transmission in neutral and coasting to a stop and/or by shutting off the ignition without removing the key. This is accomplished by turning the key counterclockwise. The engine would have shut off and the driver could have safely coasted the vehicle to a stop." Maybe his was faulty, who knows?

This person who thinks lies become true if you use CAPS-LOCK.

Haha. Okay, let's take a  live look at Port Jeff. I hope they are having better weather than what we are having here in Orlando...

It doesn't look like it.

“A Trump enemy statement,” he said of one study. “A political hit job,” he said of another. As President Donald Trump pushes to reopen the country despite warnings from doctors about the consequences of moving too quickly during the coronavirus crisis, he has been lashing out at scientists whose conclusions he doesn’t like. Twice this week, Trump has not only dismissed the findings of studies but suggested... without evidence... that their authors were motivated by politics and out to undermine his efforts to roll back coronavirus restrictions. First it was a study funded in part by his own government’s National Institutes of Health that raised alarms about the use of hydroxychloroquine, finding higher overall mortality in coronavirus patients who took the drug while in Veterans Administration hospitals. Trump and many of his allies had been touting the drug as a miracle cure, and Trump this week revealed that he has been taking it to try to ward off the virus...  despite an FDA warning last month that it should only be used in hospital settings or clinical trials because of the risk of serious side effects, including life-threatening heart problems. The Lancet, one of the world’s oldest and most well respected medical journals, published a new study Friday that echoed those findings. “If you look at the one survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old, almost dead,” Trump told reporters Tuesday. “It was a Trump enemy statement.” He offered similar pushback Thursday to a new study from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. It found that more than 61% of COVID-19 infections and 55% of reported deaths... nearly 36,000 people... could have been prevented had social distancing measures been put in place one week sooner. Trump has repeatedly defended his administration’s handling of the virus in the face of persistent criticism that he acted too slowly. “Columbia’s an institution that’s very liberal,” Trump told reporters Thursday. “I think it’s just a political hit job, you want to know the truth.” Trump has long been skeptical of mainstream science ... dismissing human-made climate change as a “hoax,” suggesting that noise from wind turbines causes cancer and claiming that exercise can deplete a body’s finite amount of energy. Its part of a larger skepticism of expertise and backlash against “elites” that has become increasingly popular among Trump’s conservative base. But undermining Americans’ trust in the integrity and objectivity of scientists is especially dangerous during a pandemic when the public is relying on its leaders to develop policies based on the best available information, said Larry Gostin, a Georgetown University law professor who is an expert in public health. “We have every right to expect that our leaders will use the best science to keep us safe and protect us,” Gostin said. “And so the idea that you reject objective scientific information that could inform policies that have life or death consequences is unfathomable.” The White House rejected that thinking, noting that Trump has followed his administration’s public health officials’ recommendations through much of the crisis. “Any suggestion that the president does not value scientific data or the important work of scientists is patently false as evidenced by the many data-driven decision he has made to address the COVID-19 pandemic, including cutting off travel early from highly-infected populations, expediting vaccine development, issuing the 15-day and later 30-day guidance to ‘slow the spread,’ and providing governors with a clear, safe road map to opening up America again,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said. Yet Trump has made clear that, at least when it comes to hydroxychloroquine, he has prioritized anecdotal evidence, including a letter he told reporters he’d received from a doctor in Westchester, a county in New York, claiming success with the drug. Asked this week what evidence he had that the drug was effective in preventing COVID-19... contrary to FDA guidance... Trump responded, “Are you ready? Here’s my evidence: I get a lot of positive calls about it.” “The only negative I’ve heard,” he added, “was the study where they gave it... was it the VA?... with, you know, people that aren’t big Trump fans.” There is no evidence that the study, funded by grants from the NIH and the University of Virginia, was influenced by anyone’s opinions about Trump. The retrospective analysis was conducted by researchers at several universities and looked at the impact of hydroxychloroquine in patients at veterans’ hospitals across the nation. It found no benefit and more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care alone. That work was posted online for researchers and has not been reviewed by other scientists, but a larger observational study that looked at the outcomes of nearly 100,000 patients in 671 hospitals on six continents published Friday sounded similar alarms. The Columbia study, in draft form, also hasn’t yet been published or reviewed by other experts. The researchers ran numbers through a mathematical model, making assumptions about how quickly the coronavirus spreads and how people behave in hypothetical circumstances. Trump’s criticism of the studies also comes as his allies have been eager to counter messaging from public health experts who say Trump is putting lives at risk by pushing states to quickly reopen in an election year. Republican political operatives have been recruiting pro-Trump doctors to go on television to advocate for reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible, without waiting to meet federal safety benchmarks. Gostin said Trump should leave it to his public health agencies to assess emerging data and the value of various studies. “I think there are real dangers,” he said, “for the president to play scientist and doctor on TV.”

The 126th book to be pheatured in the Phile's Book Club is...

Sir Ringo Starr will be on the Phile on Monday. I never thought in a million years I'd interview one Beatle... let alone two.

Phact 1. The Hollywood Walk of Fame star for Muhammad Ali is the only one that’s placed on a wall and not the ground, because Ali “did not want the name of Muhammad to be stepped on.”

Phact 2. There is a Lake Disappointment in Australia. It was named by an explorer who followed creeks to it hoping for a freshwater source, but found a saltwater lake instead.

Phact 3. S5 0014+81, the biggest supermassive black hole known, is so bright due to its huge event horizon that if it were 100 light years away from Earth (6.31 billion times more distant than the sun), it would appear just as bright as our host star.

Phact 4. Vin Diesel has played the game of "Dungeons and Dragons" for 20 plus years and had a fake tattoo of his character’s name during the filming of xXx.

Phact 5. New Jersey lifeguards can retire when they’re 45 years old with a lifelong pension of up to $61,000 per year. When they die, the payments continue on to their dependents.

Today's guest is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her television roles as Michael Burnham, the main character in the web television series "Star Trek: Discovery," and as Sasha Williams on "The Walking Dead." Please welcome to the Phile... Sonequa Martin-Green.

Me: Hey, Sonequa. Welcome to the Phile. Congrats on your pregnancy. How are you?

Sonequa: I am doing great, Jason. How are you?

Me: I'm good as well. I loved you as Sasha on "The Walking Dead," which we will talk about in a bit. You are now on the show "Star Trek: Discovery." I don't know much about this show, when does it take place?

Sonequa: It's set roughly ten years before we first meet Captain Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise crew. 

Me: Are you a "Star Trek" fan?

Sonequa: Yeah, I started on TOS.

Me: TOS? What's that?

Sonequa: The original series.

Me: Ahhh. That's good you started at the beginning, right?

Sonequa: Yeah, I needed to become familiar as I could with Spock.

Me: Why is that?

Sonequa: It was so important, the corner stone of Michael Burnham of the character is that Spock is my surrogate brother and raised by Surek and Amanda as a human, So I was excited to see Leonard Nemoy to see what he did and how he brought Spock to life and see what I could see. I actually watched a lot of "Enterprise" actually which a lot of people find interesting but there's a huge Vulcan presence in "Enterprise." So I watched a lot of that and of course I watched a lot of episodes of "Next Generation."

Me: So, you watched every show they came out with "Star Trek"?

Sonequa: I watched every iteration and came as far as I could. I was playing he reruns in my sleep and everything because I wanted to see every single thing there was. There just wasn't time.

Me: You had to go and be in it quickly?

Sonequa: I did. I had to go be it. I only had about two or three weeks to prepare before we got started.

Me: Watching all those other shoes what did you take away that is useful to you?

Sonequa: I took a lot of culture away.

Me: The Vulcan culture?

Sonequa: Exactly. And also just the feel and spirit and tone of "Trek" I took away as well. I also could clearly see how much things have changed and how far the show has come. I was able to see what a statement it made and how boundary pushing it was in 1966. And then how boundary pushing "Next Generation" was when it came out. And of course that's what we're trying to do today in 2020, and 2018 when it first premiered.

Me: What's the name of the character you play? I said "Michael Burnham" in the into to this interview, but is that right?

Sonequa: Yes. Michael Burnham.

Me: Michael? Why is that? Michael is generally a boys name.

Sonequa: In this land there is no such thing as genderized names. To put it simply I like to think that's the statement we're trying to make. A lot went into my name, the show was co-created by Brian Fuller and Alex Kurtzman. Alex Kurtzman has taken it on and has been doing such a bold and brilliant job and Fuller often gives his female leads male names so they wanted to stay true to that. 

Me: Why Michael though?

Sonequa: There was a brief mention of Michael the archangel when they were creating the role. Once I took hold of it, I decided and it was put into the canon which I really loved. I loved it that they listened and took that in and made it a part of it. There's a lot of love and collaboration there. I decided I was named after my biological father and so it very much says that in the future a daughter could be named after her father and maybe a son could be named after his mother.

Me: So, your character is Spock's adopted sister. Are you are human?

Sonequa: Michael is culturally Vulcan but genetically human.

Me: Do you see her more Vulcan than human?

Sonequa: That's a great question. I think a lot of this series is going to be out of course discovery. It was named that for reason. But self discovery, you come, you come to me as Michael Burnham I'm very Vulcan at the time the viewers meet me at the beginning of Season 1 in the first two episodes, that sort of prequel. Then life happens and the worst thing happens and I lose everything and sentenced to life in prison after I mutiny. There's all this stuff and I lose every single thing and I fall to the deepest depths and I have to claw back to life which inevitably causes me to dig into my humanity a little bit more. I love Season 2 because we explore a lot that we didn't have time to explore because we were at war during Season 1.

Me: So, "Star Trek" has always been socially aggressive. Is the new show the same and if so is continuing that tradition important to you?

Sonequa: Oh goodness yes. It's important to all of us, it really is. We understand what it can do, we understand what its already done, we can only hope to push the needle forward to do our part, to fulfill our kind of responsibility now that we have this endowment. Being able to touch peoples hearts in this way is no small thing. It's a calling and has to be taken seriously and we definitely do.

Me: You are the first black lead in "Star Trek." What is the captain like in this show?

Sonequa: The first Asian captain and openly gay characters.

Me: That's cool, but what do the Trekkies think of this?

Sonequa: There has been some push back from fans about diversity.

Me: People are so fucking ridiculous. Did you get that personally?

Sonequa: I did. I did actually. Well, personally no so much but digitally.

Me: It must of felt personal though, am I right?

Sonequa: It sure did! It sure did. I've spoken about this before but I appreciate anytime I get to speak on it because it definitely bears repeating. It was surprising to me, it was at once surprising and not surprising. I'm a black woman from the south so I've seen a lot as far as that is concerned. I have come against a lot of racism and sexism in my life. But if they say this is what they support, if they say they're a die hard fan and they appreciate what "Trek" represents then this is what "Trek" represents which is diversity and equality so I don't understand what they mean when their upset that a black woman is at the helm now. When an Asian woman is a captain, when there's a female captain and a female officer for the first time and an angrily gay couple, I don't know what they mean when their upset about that. With the way we're doing it I wanted to make sure I what I communicated was I just want to invite people. I don't want to be hostile and I don't want to vilify. If I'm telling a story hoping that it encourages empathy I have to empathize. And I have to not be angry and I have too invite instead. I have to say okay, if that's how they feel that's because how they were raised, it's because of negative beliefs that they have and it's because of close mindedness. How about they watch it and see what happens and maybe it'll open them up.

Me: What did you admire about "Star Trek" the most? 

Sonequa: The philosophy of true acceptance.

Me: What does that mean to you? True acceptance?

Sonequa: I think it's a lot of things at once. I think it's seeing someone for what they really are, accepting them who they really are, not inspite of differences from someone else but because of them being able to say, "Wow, you're different from me. That's awesome." With that also seeing themselves in them. It's really beautiful, the Klingon leader in the first two episodes of the show T'Kuvma says to the character Voq played by ash Tyler, he says, "A lot of people would look at you negatively because of your skin." And he says. "But see you as a mirror because I see myself in you." I could almost be completely incapsulated in that.

Me: So, Spock is in this show?

Sonequa: Yes, he's played by Ethan Peck and he has a full beard so some people are calling him hipster Spock.

Me: Hahaha. Pardon the pun but what's the logic behind the facial hair?

Sonequa: Well, we're going to see Spock in a new way. I know that with other things that we explored on the show some people have been resistant to the expiration because to them we are veering to far away. But what we always want to remind people of we do have ten years, a lot happens in ten years. So that's what we're saying, in between 2256 and 2266 when TOS begins a lot happen and we are taking advantage of that. We're trying to explore all new and exciting things in that ten year span and we have to be brand new on "Star Trek: Discovery" but we also have to be familiar and we understand that. So with the beard there's going to be a lot of exploration, Spock is going to be exploring a lot about himself. I wish I could say more but he has time to shave when it's all said and done.

Me: Spock had a beard in the original series and that turned out to be not the real Spock. Hahaha. Is that a coincidence?

Sonequa: I don't know if that's a coincidence. That would actually be funny if it was a coincidence, that's really interesting. I heard that a couple of times... hmmm, is he from the mirror universe?

Me: What is it like going from one hit show like "The Walking Dead" to another show that has a huge franchise?

Sonequa: Oh my goodness. I love being able to represent where we need to go. And being able to be a vision of where we can go so people can then, including me, actualize it in our own lives. It has been a challenge for me in that way. That's my favorite thing about it, and I thank God for it so much. Me personally, Sonequa, I'm a follower of Christ and to me that means the follower of real love and so getting to play this story to betray someone, a woman of science obviously being a black woman there's all being surrounded by that but then telling this story about universality and indivisibility and equality I have to see that reflected in my own life. So when I get to have these conversations, right now in the Trump era especially I find it so invigorating and I also find it innovating for me as a human being. Now I want to rise up and I want to see these things reflected in my own life. I feel that I have a responsibility. We all, of course, have a responsibility to see it but now I'm telling this story so now I better be living it. My husband is on the show too, praise God for that, we both agree that wow, we can bring these things into our own lives because now we can pass it on and it can be a heirloom in our family. That's why I really love it, being a part of change and then being able to change myself it means everything.

Me: Sonequa, thanks so much for being on the Phile, I hope it was fun.

Sonequa: Thank you.

Me: Come back again and we'll talk about "The Walking Dead." Take care.

That about does it for this entry of the Phile. Thanks to Sonequa Martin-Green for a cool interview. Wish we had time to talk about "The Walking Dead" though, even though I was told to focus the interview on the "Star Trek" show, and that's what I did. You're welcome, Trekkies, or Trekkers. The Phile will be back tomorrow with actor and musician Kiefer Sutherland. Spread the word, not the turd... or the virus. Don't let snakes and alligators bite you. Bye, love you, bye.

I don't want you, cook my bread, I don't want you, make my bed, I don't want your money too, I just want to make love to you. - Willie Dixon