303 "The Beginning Is Also the End" (Sweet Tooth S3E1)

[00:00:00] Hey everybody and this is Strange Indeed, a podcast dedicated to the Netflix show Sweet Tooth. This week we're back baby! It's been so long and I'm so excited but before we jump into talking about that and nerding out for too much.

[00:00:33] Yes this week we are covering Sweet Tooth season 3 the final season episode 1 titled The Beginning is Also The End. Hello is anyone out there does anyone remember who we are? Or at least me Pake you haven't really went away you were still podcasting on Run For

[00:00:52] Your Lives and still present out there but yeah I wonder if anyone even cares if we're back. I hope so. I hope so. No we I've had people reaching out and stuff throughout our little break so yeah I know

[00:01:10] there's at least a good handful of people who are really excited that we're back to cover this season and this show so we got a few listeners still hanging on I know for sure.

[00:01:20] I'm grateful for every one of you that are still out there listening and if you do care thank you. Had a little bit of a hiatus because it's been kind of slow.

[00:01:34] Yeah that's just not to get into the weeds of it too much I guess but yeah that's kind of where we've been at is deciding when to come back and this is one of our shows that

[00:01:43] we love a lot so obviously we're coming back for this but in the downtime it really has been we've talked a few times and just been like there's nothing really going on right

[00:01:51] now that catches our eye too much to really take the time to dive into something because it takes a lot. I'm doing you know other podcasts and Rima's been busy with all kinds of life stuff as

[00:02:03] well as I am everybody is and yeah it's just one of those things where it's just like you know I think it's okay to just kind of sit back and take a break for a minute and then

[00:02:11] when we do get to come back with something we really really love we'll have a great time with it. Absolutely. It you know as much as I've missed it it's been good to have a bit of a break and kind

[00:02:21] of just get caught up with things in life. So yeah but I'm so thrilled I know we were just talking before we started recording you know about how excited we both were and I know I'm excited to be talking to you again

[00:02:36] and doing this again and really excited for Sweet Tooth season three. I knew we were going to be getting it this year but it happened I feel a little sooner than what I thought they'd put it out.

[00:02:48] I thought they'd make us wait a little while but it's here and I'm excited to talk about it so well let's go ahead and kick things off for this episode. But I know that we wanted to because we are coming back with season three kind of recap

[00:03:07] a little bit about where we left off with season two. So I think you have a couple of notes on that. Do you want to start us off with that? Yeah I've got a bit of a recap.

[00:03:18] Not going to be it's thorough but not too long which a lot of this I'm going to give a shout out to it's the YouTube channel Recap and Chill. I really really like his work and every time I start a new season of a show I watch his

[00:03:32] recaps of the previous seasons to like right before just to get into that because he's again he's brief but thorough. And so I took that video and then kind of even summed it down a little bit more here.

[00:03:44] So I'm just going to run through it so here's a quick recap of everything that happened in season two at least the main kind of bullet points. So if you if somebody hasn't rewatched trying to remember what's going on.

[00:03:56] Season two starts so Gus and Wendy are rallying the hybrid kids in the zoo so they can make a plan for escape. The doomsday strain of the sick is introduced and that is causing Abbott to pressure Sing

[00:04:06] to find a cure with a very tight window at the expense of the hybrids. Gus starts working with Sing in order to protect the other kids but Sing breaks that promise and so Gus decides to try to escape but Abbott catches him ends up cutting off

[00:04:20] one of his antlers. Abbott then reveals his plan for a sanctuary he calls Evergreen in which he needs help from this the three this trio of like warlords and Zhang one of those kills the others so that she can have sole access to Evergreen for her people.

[00:04:38] Meanwhile Bear Becky has joined the last men in order in a way to kind of infiltrate and get to Gus. Also Ronnie Sing's wife and Johnny Abbott's brother have kind of been becoming a little bit closer friends as both of them are questioning Abbott's methods.

[00:04:54] We have Amy and Jep putting together a rescue plan to go get the kids where they team up with the Air Lords to put together an attack on the zoo. During that attack the kids are able to escape and so does Ronnie both separately with the

[00:05:07] help of Johnny. He's a good guy. Sing decides to stay behind because he's still obsessed with finding the cure so Ronnie leaves his ass and then Amy goes in and torches the lab where she likely does contract the sick

[00:05:22] so Sing without a lab and without a wife is distraught turns to the flowers so to speak but instead of killing him they end up giving him a vision of him carrying Gus through the Alaskan wilderness.

[00:05:35] Johnny reunites after the attack and they go to Gus and Bubba's cabin where Becky reunites with her sister Wendy officially and is able to reveal that truth to her. Bear also gives Gus the cassette that she found from Birdie that explains his origin

[00:05:50] and Gus vows to go and find his mom. Abbott manages to track down the kids to the cabin and goes back to them on a final battle attack. Johnny stands up to his brother and meets a grisly end for his efforts.

[00:06:05] Gus Jep and Amy are able to fight off the last men and Gus is even able to finish off Abbott himself by somehow summoning a stampede of bison. A mystery we still are trying to unfold here.

[00:06:16] Though Gus does get shot in that effort but he recovers however Amy does tragically pass away from the sick. When Gus recovers they head to Alaska in order to find Birdie and then we see that Zhang,

[00:06:28] that leftover member of the three, learns that Abbott and the last men are all gone and so she takes it upon herself to make sure she finds Gus and get that cure on her own ambition. So that's where we leave off with season two.

[00:06:42] That was a great recap. I'll need the link of that YouTuber that you mentioned. Yeah, so good. Yeah. Yeah, always looking for a good recap after some of my favorite shows. Yeah, and so here we are after all of that, very action-packed, a lot of stuff happened

[00:07:06] in season two, we get to season three. So of course if anyone doesn't remember we do typically just talk about some of our top points. I know mine are never in any particular order and then usually a few notes as well.

[00:07:22] So with that being said, Peik, start us off. All right. Your first point. I decided for the first point to just kind of go easy in a way that like, again, this episode was very like, here's the story points that we're following and so you don't have

[00:07:41] like the five points in like last season I was like even like realized like I don't need a full five points every time I'm just going to throw in some stuff when I have them.

[00:07:49] So we'll start with something that's always fun that I think I did for season two, I know I did for season one is a music section. Let's talk about the music again because we'll just start with it because as always the music

[00:07:59] in this show is just top notch. So I agree. It's like I'm going to do the music section maybe as a point if I don't have enough, which is exactly what happened. Depends on the variance. Yeah, so not a whole lot but very good.

[00:08:14] So in this first episode, of course, we get the Bee Gees Road to Alaska, which is right there kind of off the top of the episode where our intrepid adventurers are on the road to Alaska. Very fitting. Yes.

[00:08:27] Then after the casino bit when they're back in the Jeep headed back on you know the journey is continuing we get Wolf Alice's song Turn to Dust which is such a good song and I just the show really loves using Wolf Alice songs.

[00:08:43] This is not the first time they use like three or four or five of them last season. I think like they really like that artist whoever's in charge of the music on this show.

[00:08:50] I thought when I saw that pop up, I was like I feel like we've seen them pop up in another season but I didn't go back to look so yeah someone's a fan but and good reason also really great music. Yes, great.

[00:09:05] Of course, we get a return to Grateful Dead's truckin which we know Birdie and Pubba had you know bonded over a lot of Grateful Dead stuff and that we get that in the jukebox

[00:09:15] in the diner in Alaska where I believe her name is Nuka, her friend's daughter puts that on to the jukebox so there's like that connection there. And then of course as Birdie's getting ready to leave Alaska and she's on her snowmobile

[00:09:28] and goes back to the little building there we have Father John Misty's Trouble which great one as well. Really great music. They always come out on top with their music choices so I'm excited to see what else they have the rest of the season.

[00:09:46] That is a great way to start it off because as everyone knows we are big music fans here at Strange Indeed. Definitely plays a part in the story. Yes. Well, I thought I would just start off.

[00:10:01] These feel like they're kind of in at least order from the episode but again not in any particular importance for me. But wanted to start off with the flashback that we got. We're getting the ship that we keep hearing about with the people like live still alive

[00:10:24] on board at least for now and there's discussion about this cave and that's kind of where it the whole episode starts. You know the cameras painting across you know snow and then up onto a cave and it's like

[00:10:39] okay so we keep hearing about this cave and there's a dead... is it an elk? The dead looks like a dead elk. It's like they're at the entrance of the cave. I'm like okay what's that about?

[00:10:51] It's I feel like I have a lot more questions than anything because we're just we're kind of just setting the stage for the season and so they're they're putting information in front of us to get it started.

[00:11:00] So I think I have probably more questions than I have any kind of analysis at this point with it being the first episode but I'm like okay what does that mean? And you know there's footprints leading to the cave.

[00:11:13] There's the dead I think an elk anyway some deer type animal and there was something off to the side like some kind of stick staff looking thing. I don't know what that was. It had like a symbol on the end of it.

[00:11:28] I don't know if that means anything or not or what it was if it was some kind of weapon or if somebody was using that to you know like when you're skiing or snowshoeing and you've

[00:11:38] got those like sticks to like help you with your traction and that kind of thing. There's probably a word for it. You can clearly tell I'm not an outdoorsman y'all. I don't do those things especially in the cold weather. Alaska is safe from me trust me.

[00:11:58] But anyway it I don't know if it was one of those things or if it was something else and then we get the cave and we get our awesome narrator as usual you know talking about how

[00:12:11] all stories ends and ours ends here which is at the beginning right? This is where everything it seems comes down to something in the cave something that happened inside the cave but this is where the story they're saying anyway is ending but also where it began.

[00:12:31] So it feels like we're coming like a full circle kind of moment and that's what they're setting us up for and we have this flashback to the people on the ship and we've got this Captain

[00:12:43] Thacker and we keep seeing this journal pop up over and over again which we know Birdie has in her possession right now or at least for a little bit in this episode. So what's in that what information is in there there's lots of drawings and information in

[00:13:02] this journal entry here. We see this is it his first mate and I don't recall his name and he's talking. Birk. Okay thank you yes. After it's been yelled a couple of times you think that would be said in my memory but he's

[00:13:18] talking to a woman and she's pregnant and according to what Birdie said there's like she's never seen again. So it's like who is she she seems to be pregnant and she just kind of disappears so like you

[00:13:32] know what what's going on here and how does this all kind of tie in to where we are today in the story. Yeah I mean I feel like I have a hopefully pretty solid theory of what's going on with

[00:13:46] that is because it ties into the last image we get of Birdie is you talk about this walking stick and stuff and we get this large looming figure with a cloak with this walking stick dragging her away from the snowmobile.

[00:14:00] And if you look closely at the this figures feet those are hooves so we have the hoof prints. That's right. So I feel like it's supposed to be like a big mystery but I feel pretty confident. I don't know we'll see. We'll go again.

[00:14:17] I think I know where you're going. I feel like this is a hybrid but it also might be we thought Gus was the first hybrid but no I think this is the first hybrid or at least a very early hybrid.

[00:14:32] If this theory is correct it would mean hybrids have a much much longer lifespan than the usual human being because my theory here is this I think a Ikiak or something but this

[00:14:44] Burke's wife who was pregnant I mean we see that Thacker's men are all sick and if she was if she was around them with the sick being an issue while she was pregnant the baby she's

[00:14:56] gonna have is gonna be a hybrid which means that I think that then that hybrid that was born has now grown up and lived out here in the wilderness this whole time and I think that's who that was or what that was.

[00:15:09] I like that theory and it I think that holds some weight. Very interesting because we did catch a brief glimpse of that if it was if it is a hybrid when Birdie was exploring she was down into like a cavern and I think we saw a glimpse

[00:15:31] then right. I did not go back full transparency I do not do like a rewatch or anything for our listeners there so there's definitely gonna be some things for me that are probably gonna be a

[00:15:42] little hazy might need to do some more background whenever I'm talking about season three to kind of go back and yeah you know what happened in season two or what was that again.

[00:15:52] I didn't rewatch the whole season but again the recaps and looking at you know some point things that I went back and looked at but yeah because I think it's whenever she went

[00:16:00] down to investigate the ship and like got trapped down there in the cavern for a little bit and then we saw that like where she had gone in we saw like those like hoofs walk up to like that opening or something.

[00:16:12] Yeah yeah so that definitely holds some weight there with what you're saying and I like that I can't wait to see like what happens next from that so anyway I just I wanted to kind

[00:16:25] of revisit that flashback a little bit and I love how everything's getting like I said kind of coming back full circle here with and getting a little bit more insight as to what happened there with the ship and you know I'm ready for some answers that's for

[00:16:40] sure ready to keep it moving. What's your next point? I'll go ahead and kind of tie into what we're talking about there a little bit with Birdie and talking about Birdie's story in this episode we I think other than flashbacks I think this

[00:16:54] is the first time we're really getting a Birdie story that's happening in current real time. I think you're right. I think most scenes we've all got of her have been kind of flashbacks other than like

[00:17:04] when she was investigating the ship and stuff I think maybe that was but this is the most like current storyline stuff that we've gotten in a single episode of her so she's definitely

[00:17:14] a main character in this season which I like yeah you're talking about you know she's still looking through all those like the journal Thacker's journal and all of this paperwork and everything and trying to figure out what is that cave what's its significance what

[00:17:26] happened there what kind of secrets could it hold however we do learn then that kind of in the back of her head as much as she's been focused on that after that conversation

[00:17:36] she had with Becky over the phone her immediate like mission has kind of changed to where she's kind of having this maternal instinct in a way if she was like I've done all of this and

[00:17:49] I still haven't you know things come of it all the while Gus has been out there without me looking for me I needed to reunite with him and spent like that's more important

[00:17:59] to her at this moment now is finding Gus versus like this mission all these years it's really not come up with anything I mean she's been out there for 10 plus years and it's you know

[00:18:09] nothing so right then we kind of meet her friend I think it's like Sienna and then her daughter which again I mentioned that that hybrid girl that is just so adorable but I

[00:18:23] was just adorable I was trying to figure out what animal she's supposed to be and I couldn't because I was like it's like a cat like cat burglar cuz she's stealing things

[00:18:32] a lot stealing but then I was like but those like piercing blue eyes and the way her ears looked I was like she gave me like husky sled dog kind of eyes well but then her mother's

[00:18:42] like calls her a sneaky little fox at one point so I'm like Arctic Fox is like I don't know what she's supposed to be but she's cute regardless of what it is yeah I wondered if

[00:18:52] she was like a little wolf with her gray ears that she had but they weren't real clear on it and that's really all that we see of her that or her visible hybrid care feature

[00:19:07] so but whatever she is just absolutely adorable and so precocious yeah yes I like seeing a lot of different like hybrid kids cuz I don't know if we're gonna get a whole lot of that

[00:19:18] in this final season because I know all the kids that were at the zoo they kind of just wrote them off out of the show it's like oh we just threw all of them at the the family

[00:19:26] that lives in you know in the National Park there they're just yep they get to take care of all them now we're gonna we don't have time to have all these extra kids with all

[00:19:34] their prosthetics and makeup and stuff on we don't get time for that but we got one here with this episode I don't know if we'll see her again either it kind of seems the

[00:19:41] stories are very streamlining into very significant important things but it's good to see we see I can't believe her name was Nuka I have written down she gives birdie this like trinket

[00:19:55] with a deer head on it that at first I was thinking was like oh it's like Gus with his hat because it was a nice little gift that you got and then it's gone immediately actually

[00:20:05] doesn't have it anymore it doesn't mean anything it was just right but I don't know I didn't see her like drop it after she used it as a weapon so maybe she still has it I don't

[00:20:14] know but she did use it to at least temporarily escape from this bounty hunter this attacker but yeah you mentioned you know the journal that she had that at least she had she doesn't

[00:20:24] now because she gives this journal and all this kind of research and stuff over to to the kid which I like there's like what is she supposed to save the world now she's like

[00:20:32] someone has to and I was thinking and I believe the children are our future teach them well let them lead the way show them all the beauty they possess inside give them a sense of I

[00:20:40] get carried away but you know but yeah I'm sure birdie was not expecting a bounty hunter to find her up there I guess it's one of james men it doesn't say specifically but says you

[00:20:56] know my boss you know hired me to come find you I don't know if there's anybody else left that's really digging into stuff other than than shang but I don't know it's not clear like where was this bounty hunter because birdie mentions I mean if we're talking like

[00:21:12] timeline she's telling her friend I got a call what like a couple of days ago isn't that what she says and then all of a sudden there's a bounty hunter there that they've

[00:21:23] been able to like pick up or trace this call somehow yeah and he's made it all the way to Alaska already yeah it was like is he working for jane or is like is he actually one of

[00:21:36] Abbott's last men that he doesn't know what's happened to Abbott and everybody back then he's been on this mission I don't know yeah so I mean I'm only assuming that well I mean

[00:21:48] I guess we can't say that this bounty hunter works for zang so yeah I mean I'm not really sure exactly where or who who sent him or who he's working for but I'm like how even

[00:22:02] in just a few days you know there's I don't know it just seems like wherever he came from he he got there in like lightning speed yeah so yeah it gets up to there and she she

[00:22:13] almost gets away if it wasn't that pesky drink dart and the snowmobile getting shot but you know then it is weird because like where did where did the guy go like she kind of passes

[00:22:23] out and it's like after realizing he disappeared maybe that other figure hybrid whatever it was stopped him I don't know maybe he didn't see that we did get a cool little like action

[00:22:35] chase sequence and that's always nice to have sometimes so that was him ramping over you know snow and stuff with the snowmobile give a high action sequence for a little bit but yeah it

[00:22:47] was interesting and then the thought more I thought about it I was like you know I mean stay with me here this sounds bad but I was like but maybe birdie getting shranked and dragged

[00:22:55] away is actually really good in the long run or else she was heading out of Alaska what she was gonna go back down to Colorado to try to find Gus while he's trekking into Alaska to find her

[00:23:06] it's like the chances of them actually crossing paths would be minimal I mean it's in a TV show like this you'd be like of course they would cross paths because that's how storylines work

[00:23:15] in here but in like reality be like they would just like swap locations without ever seeing each other and then it would just make it even harder for them to find each other because now

[00:23:22] they're in places they don't think each other and so it's like maybe it's good that she gets like we kept in Alaska for Gus to find her I agree I was thinking the same thing I was like

[00:23:32] the chances and again logistically in real world thinking anyway the chances of them actually running into each other you know as he's making his way up and she's heading back down south of

[00:23:45] them running into each other is not very likely you know because it seemed like that they got off of the path a little bit and they're not like on the main road it didn't look like when

[00:23:56] they were picking up you know in their journey so the likelihood of them actually running into each other but of course it's TV and you know if that's the way they wanted it to go I'm sure

[00:24:05] they would have but yeah I agree it's probably best she's where she is so that way Gus can't actually hopefully find her and you know this this I don't want to call it a thing but I'm not

[00:24:20] really sure what it is assuming it is like a hybrid then maybe this will be now that maybe now that like birdie has given up on this the search for a cure and trying to get information

[00:24:33] and and you know save the world this is when it you know an opportunity falls in her lap because I feel like if this is a if this is like a hybrid of one of the first hybrids ever then that can

[00:24:46] help her yeah in her research somehow yeah I feel there's some weird supernatural something I don't know but like you get like these visions that people have been having Gus and even sing

[00:24:57] it's like it all seems like it could line up to this place because I'm assuming that this hybrid if that's what it is is taking birdie probably back to that cave and Gus has had visions and

[00:25:07] images of that cave and sing had that vision of him carrying Gus to that cave where it's like you know saying is with them now do they get up there something happens Gus is injured and it's

[00:25:18] up to sing then to get Gus to his mom and this other hybrid like all of these things that can play out that we're getting little visions and ideas of things planted early yep that's a good

[00:25:29] point okay sorry I kind of interrupted your point did you have that was that was it okay well while we're on the subject of Alaska and this is kind of a small point for me because I

[00:25:46] think we covered that part pretty well but because I guess because we didn't get like you said any like present day okay now we're all in the same timeline now with birdie I think when we've seen

[00:25:59] her before like we only saw her alone we didn't know there was a like a little town or yeah unity or outpost right so this was all new because I was like wait did I miss this in season two like

[00:26:11] I know I didn't go back but was there a like a little bit of a flash or a mention that I missed we didn't know about this right no I don't think so I mean was she just like yeah in her own little

[00:26:22] like place all alone like I guess it makes sense and how she's surviving up there for all that time is she's got her own work that she's doing separately but then there is a nearby town or

[00:26:32] outpost or area where there's other people up there that she does have communication where they can get food and supplies and sustenance which yeah yeah okay so that makes sense I was like oh

[00:26:44] gosh what did I miss because like I said no I didn't go but I don't think we had seen it before yeah okay I was like I know I you know I do remember season two but I remember all the details

[00:26:54] but I'm like maybe that it was a detail that was somehow mentioned or something with with birdie and one of the scenes with her last season and I just missed it but I was like okay so we've got

[00:27:03] this community which makes sense I mean Alaska's pretty far north it's not easy to get to at least probably like with the method of travel that were or that is available in this post-apocalyptic

[00:27:15] world right that you know it's not just you know eat so easy to get there so that that seems to make sense you know that there are people there and that they are surviving and at first I thought

[00:27:31] okay so have they been untouched by the sick and only locals know about this outpost and what they're doing but I totally misunderstood because on my second watch her friend mentioned you know

[00:27:46] well it's because people who are sick like can't make the journey here like they don't I guess live long enough to actually reach that far north so they're usually pretty protected if anybody does

[00:27:59] make it up that far then they're probably healthy so I thought that was good to know because I was like wait a minute it does because I was thinking oh does the sick not exist or can it not thrive in

[00:28:14] a really cold climate so does is Alaska like a safe haven because it's really cold and but I was like oh well that's not what she was saying so I totally misunderstood yeah I wonder if that could

[00:28:26] still be the case I don't know it could be both but yeah I'm not sure because that could be an interesting way of you know whoever's left you kind of rebuild civilization up in the great north

[00:28:36] but yeah I don't know uh yeah I think that's what she was saying was just it's kind of secluded where people aren't aren't getting up there because then she does seem worried like make sure they don't

[00:28:47] know about us up here right and I don't know if she's talking about for her daughter's sake because she's a hybrid or just more also in general of like it's best if we don't let a bunch of outsiders

[00:28:57] know that there's something going on up here to where then we do have an influx of people that could be a danger in one way or another no kidding and I'm curious too and we're probably or maybe we

[00:29:07] will I'm not sure I don't know if we'll get to see any of these folks yeah I would hope that they wouldn't introduce a few of these new characters and then just that's all that we get in the right

[00:29:15] episode but I'm super curious and we may not get to see it because again we're in the final season we've got a story to tell and this is a detail that doesn't matter but it's just for my own

[00:29:26] curiosity because I'm wondering like well how are they thriving how are they getting their supplies you know I feel like it's hard to get supplies today to Alaska like everything's kind of I think

[00:29:39] more expensive because it is harder to get things up there because they have so far to go and you know it's it's it's a it's a real effort so I'm like so how are they thriving are they able to

[00:29:50] somehow in this outpost are they growing their own food how you know how are they able to support this community I don't know how large it is or anything like that how many people that they have

[00:30:01] to take care of but I'm super curious like how have they been able to maintain their supply yeah chain for this long without like help from the outside world shipping things in right so super

[00:30:15] curious about that not important at all to the story but these like details and questions intrigue me and then he's like post-apocalyptic stories like how are you guys surviving up there and if that

[00:30:30] was a true safe haven for the sick that's I would definitely I'll just end up like I'll perish because there's no way I'm going to Alaska not gonna subject myself to that anyway so I just I like

[00:30:47] seeing Alaska like seeing present-day really like this introduction to this outpost in a couple of new characters as well and I hope we get to see more of them yeah so what is your next point all

[00:31:03] right I'm gonna talk about the Grand Teton Casino and the bingo bandits who have taken up housing there man it was very interesting section of the episode that like I don't know I have mixed feelings

[00:31:22] about cuz I'm like they're really fun characters but also they are terrible people and they really suck but it was an interesting whole point you know our crew are intrepid adventurers ah yeah

[00:31:37] they find this Grand Teton Casino and it seems like it'd be a great place to stock up if it wasn't already taken over by these greedy old gamblers and which they kind of find out because

[00:31:47] it seems empty at first cuz like it seems like the bingo bandits as they call themselves just kind of have their little space that they like to sit in and stay in we get these a bunch of

[00:31:57] hanging little mannequins I was like that's not horrifying at all but yeah they were using those to guard the vault that has all the food and goods including lasagna yeah she cracked me up

[00:32:14] I just loved hearing that little voice just endless sag yeah the bingo bandits this interesting group of characters and I get with them I doubt we'll ever see them again after this episode but

[00:32:28] maybe maybe but but they were fun even if they do mostly suck just completely refusing to help like they're not even gonna spare winter clothes it doesn't seem like they plan on going outside

[00:32:42] in the snow anytime soon so I don't know why they won't part with those but okay yeah just don't want to part with anything don't want to help at all we get Bridget who is like the nicest of them

[00:32:56] she at least gives Gus this magician's hat it's like I can't give you any food I can't really give you much anything but here's an adorable accessory to add to you that's what you get right

[00:33:05] which he doesn't like I mentioned earlier doesn't even keep that long just long enough to put his scent on it and then drop it in the snow so you know that's how we're getting out of that thing

[00:33:14] maybe he gets that's a does Gus get reunited with his magician's hat that'll be it it'll be like Rick's sheriff's high in the water yes some big stinger kind of moment for him he was just like

[00:33:31] I've learned right now that the only the thing best for survival is friendship and he grabs friendship is magic we'll see yeah we get them you know hanging out there Wendy's having a really

[00:33:46] hard time about like these casino dwellers talking about death and stuff the way they are I mean yeah we're right off the heels of her losing her mother Amy and Gus is able to have this really sweet and

[00:33:58] honest conversation with her that just my heart with that I loved it I happen to be in a little bit more of a emotionally heightened place right now with stuff going on in my own life that it

[00:34:11] hit me a little deeper where I was just like huh yeah Gus I need you to give me that talk sometime buddy it was but yeah it was it was a really great scene and then I love that even and Gus and and

[00:34:25] Wendy later have this like thing where they're walking after and just like yeah they really sucked didn't they it's like let's like make a pact that when we're adults we're not gonna be

[00:34:34] terrible people like they are let's let's be good people and be good adults which I love that there yeah just communication and friendship in this episode was really great but back to the casino

[00:34:47] uh you see Gus stepping up and putting that last bottle of pub of syrup on the line as a bet for their supplies and then goes with roulette although I have one qualm with this scene it was

[00:35:03] like those old people just screwed Gus and Jep and Bear stood there and let it happen it was like where's the fairness in this at all like for me I would've been like okay we're setting this

[00:35:14] up the challenge has to go both ways both groups are picking a number and winner takes all but why put it all just on Gus like why is it such a one-sided bet that he's doomed to lose from the

[00:35:27] beginning like there was no stakes for the the old people in that instance no absolutely not man I would have made that a more fair bet like no you put your you something that resembles or

[00:35:41] you know something that will stand for you give us supplies on another number and then we roll until one of us wins or something but yeah letting Gus just take all the heat on the game

[00:35:52] it's like that's very unfair but I as much as I love Gus's confidence I'll talk about that I'm sure even more in this episode that just this charisma and confidence that that kid has he shot

[00:36:04] himself down real bad with that one we're Jep being like this is literally the hardest game in the casino and he goes well you said that this journey would be hard and I said we got this so we got

[00:36:14] this and then he immediately loses and it's just like well I guess nothing like a dose of reality and a kick in the pants to get this trick started right no kidding and it's like I hope this doesn't

[00:36:26] like foreshadow the rest of the season or something right this like string of like bad luck or something you know man but you know so they walk out with nothing less than they went in there with

[00:36:39] aside from the hat like I said that mentioned that doesn't hold on too long but aside from that also Bridget the lady that gave him the hat also does at least give them a little bit of a

[00:36:50] tip about this rumored boat to Canada if they're able to reach the coast so maybe they'll head off in that direction maybe that's something we'll see play out yeah that that was a lot of good

[00:37:04] stuff there and I'll add to that because the casino was also one of my points and I agree with you I'm thinking roulette that that's what we choose you know it couldn't be like something like poker

[00:37:19] where there's maybe even a little bit more strategy or better odds or even if you're gonna stick to roulette why wouldn't you like pick a color go with black or red so you at least have

[00:37:28] like a 50-50 shot yeah so I'm like why why so specific and why roulette I'm like and then why didn't Jeff or Becky jump in a little bit more be like okay wait you know this is not this is not

[00:37:45] the right thing should have maybe it's setting up some kind of theme later in the season of betting on yourself against all odds or something but like maybe I mean I again I it I'm like it feels

[00:37:59] like they're just trying to like put us in this certain or put the Gus and the others in a certain position but it just felt like really you just felt like a really bad decision just did not make a lot

[00:38:13] of sense to me why why they went that way I mean they even admitted like he knows I mean what would Gus know anything he didn't even know what gambling was I'm not gonna know anything about

[00:38:24] roulette or any of the the games in the casino or anything like that and then he you know he's not only the one that chooses it and then decides on like this specific number and I'm like oh but this

[00:38:38] just did not really ring well with me and then I thought why couldn't they just trade the syrup for some supplies you know if it was something that these you know old folks wanted I'm so calm

[00:38:55] old folks because they were just like I don't deserve the respect I was so mad at them yeah but I was like why didn't they trade why didn't they if they wanted the syrup so bad I mean they

[00:39:08] seem to want it really bad they were practically salivating you know yeah you know they could have used it to trade I don't know how much they would have gotten but it seemed like it was pretty

[00:39:19] valuable to them and you know I think if I were in that situation and this is again in the TV show in a post-apocalyptic world you know they're not saying I would do this in real life we're not

[00:39:31] talking about that kind of situation but if I were in that situation and I was as desperate as Jeff was I think I might have just taken over that casino for just a minute and like wait a minute

[00:39:43] I think I can handle these people if I need to yeah and I would have just taken the supplies I needed and you know not taking everything I'm not saying you know wipe them out but I'd be like

[00:39:56] look I have kids you know we've got kids here and we are on a journey we we need help and I'm gonna take enough clothes for us to like make it you know through the cold weather I'm gonna take enough

[00:40:10] food to get us to like the next point in our journey to where we can you know before we can you know resupply again and and just take it and again this is obviously not real-world situation

[00:40:24] I'm talking about here but Jeff was really desperate and I don't know I think when you have you know children who you know I know he thinks of or at least it seems like anyway he

[00:40:35] really looks at guests almost like his own son you know he's kind of taking him in and really cares for him and in that type of way so you know and Becky and Wendy too you know it's like how

[00:40:50] can you be so cruel as to not give a few of your supplies you know they seem to have plenty and I don't know just made me so angry at these old people that I'm like I think Jeff being the big

[00:41:02] he was he'd be like okay everybody just sit down we're taking some things you know just you're just gonna have to get over it if you have a problem with it you can write me a strongly worded

[00:41:14] email about it if you need to but that's not how things went down again I think this just needed to emphasize the desperation of the journey and and you know how dire and bleak things are at

[00:41:31] least in this episode I don't know I hope things would improve for them but I mean the journey doesn't seem to be off I mean it seemed like it was okay there for a bit you know they're writing

[00:41:40] in this big like Hummer or whatever mm-hmm and they're having a good time you know down on their little road trip but then things got bad during this episode so it doesn't you know leave all the

[00:41:54] warm and fuzzy so I feel like that all of this was just to kind of set up how how hard and bad this journey was going to be so maybe maybe we just needed all that but I'm just thinking no way

[00:42:06] they should have taken what they needed just strap those old people some duct tape to a chair and just say I'll just chill out we're gonna stock up and then we'll be on our merry way so yeah I didn't

[00:42:23] didn't really love some of that because I just I don't know and again maybe just an emphasis on how awful people are in in or I guess could be in a post-apocalyptic world you know not caring you

[00:42:36] know for others and just being kind of selfish with supplies so anyway that was just kind of my thoughts on the casino what's your next thought really it's my last major point and then I've got

[00:42:53] but but aside from the casino is just really the rest of you know before and after this the trek the adventure they're going on here in our our adventures here figuring out like we've still got

[00:43:06] quite a journey ahead of us they're looking at the map and like Alaska's a long way away we are starting something major something big are we ready for it and that's kind of the big theme is

[00:43:17] you know Gus has this just undying charisma and confidence which is great but couldn't be detrimental in some ways like we saw with at the casino and Jep kind of on the opposite end of that

[00:43:32] extreme where he's following along he's going with it but like he's losing more and more confidence in himself especially as things go and it's still early which maybe that's what the casino seems really serve is just more wounding to Jep's ego and confidence in himself is going through

[00:43:54] them like we haven't even crossed the mountains yet and this is what we're dealing with yeah like yeah is this really something we want to do this is you know with the last man gone there's still

[00:44:04] plenty of bad dudes out there and the doomsday straight they're getting more desperate it was not to mention winters coming the White Walkers are gonna be a major threat on their own you know

[00:44:13] the night is dark and full of terrors he was and gosh I can't remember his name because it's been it feels like forever ago but right big man Jep was actually in Game of Thrones yes for a good

[00:44:32] handful of episodes so that had to be intentional so yeah sorry anyway but yeah no it's like oh I've switched to a whole different universe never know what Walker is no full of terrors but the

[00:44:44] Rocky Mountains that's the threat that's it we're doing still the cold yeah yeah and we see Jep's definitely hesitant nervous about the journey it's gonna be long it's arduous could be deadly but

[00:44:57] again like Gus has that magnetic confidence and optimism it's hard to argue with it you know he's got charisma for days and anytime Jep starts kind of questioning things Gus is just like let me just

[00:45:11] show you you know shine this adorable little smile at you and tell you it's gonna be okay and it's like you're right okay I can't argue with that let's just let's go I do like the when they get

[00:45:24] into the casino and there's like the the hotel in Idaho that's like spud motel kind of thing and it's an appealing place is oh great they're learning puns now it's like just embrace the

[00:45:37] magic Jep's soon they will be unstoppable and then I thought about it and I was like I hope that this bit continues I want to see Wendy and or Gus becoming like Ellie from The Last of Us

[00:45:48] and they're just thriving on puns on their journey I was like let's do it I'm here for that yeah they run out of gas and they got a hoof it from here and I was like almost could have been literal if

[00:46:02] Gus's deer parts of his body would have been differently aligned see I wanted to see if nags reef was a real place no no it's not but that's okay it's like is there an actual place

[00:46:22] no which makes I was like there wouldn't be like reefs in like the Pacific right there and like that because I mean they're you know they're in like Colorado Montana Idaho area they're heading

[00:46:39] towards I was like the coast they'd be heading to is like yeah Pacific Northwest like they'd be going like Oregon Washington kind of stuff it's like it's not very it's a it's a coast it's the

[00:46:49] ocean but it's not like a tropical kind of ocean he vibe very true you would think I'm so yeah again I was wondering if something else was going on with Jep other than him just being

[00:47:04] mentally in a bad place with this trap you know or this trip I mean he's feeling his age he's feeling a lot of things I was like man he better not get sick like there is like these little

[00:47:13] teases where I was like watching his fingers I was like don't you dare do that to me because I'll just turn this show off right now and be done don't need that right now uh but yeah then

[00:47:25] I don't know what we'll learn I guess more kind of where he's at mentally he's just taxed we get the avalanche situation with them which everyone manages to survive luckily Wendy's using her

[00:47:38] sense of smells we get Becky and Jep I don't know why they wanted to tease us with another oh no is Jep dead moment because we've had enough of that it's not cool luckily it's not stretched

[00:47:48] out too long so he's okay folks he's mostly mostly okay mentally yeah I don't know he's struggling yeah it's in a bad place because that's kind of where we leave them is it's like he's done he's

[00:48:00] giving up he's ready to go back and he has that he's yelling at Gus basically he's getting older he's weaker less confident in himself and his abilities and he's just he's done but then again

[00:48:11] Gus who's just not having it he's he please he's got like those two modes that are both gonna work equally well either this like super high confidence like trust me we can do it you're like yes we can

[00:48:23] or he's gonna have this other mode where he's like he puts on the droopy ears and the sad face and he pleads with him you know please stay on this journey I need you because if we stay here things

[00:48:36] are only getting worse here and I don't want to lose you and I don't want to lose Becky and we need you and it's the other side of that coin it works just the same I'm like yeah come on you

[00:48:45] can't you can't say no to that kid I I know I'm just watching I'm like just listen to him Jeff like I'd have no chance in hell arguing or going against him like I think that boy could get me on

[00:48:56] board for literally anything he is a strong force in that way that I'm like yes whatever you say I'm on board let's do it you're right yeah so that's kind of where we leave off his Jeff is

[00:49:10] in this bad place where he was ready to hang it up and it's it's because that I mean it's almost like a superpower that Gus has is he's got such strong he said it's either that confidence or

[00:49:20] just like I don't want to just like open it all I'm like oh he's just so cute it's like but he really does have that personality where he's like and it's a good thing because he's able to rally

[00:49:30] people together he's got strong leadership qualities I think we talked about that a lot in season two is seeing his arc from being this scared little boy alone like him lost in the world

[00:49:40] just depending on other people to like really finding the leader and the strong capable person that's like within him and it's really coming out more and more this season I'm sure I agree we're definitely seeing glimpses of it already in episode one yep agreed their their journey was

[00:49:59] also one of my points too and you said a lot there that I agree with it was hard to see how Jep was kind of distancing himself a little or at least from like he's in a different kind

[00:50:16] of place than the others where they're like yep we're moving forward this is what we're doing and they're just gung-ho this is this is our mission and he doesn't seem to be quite as into

[00:50:28] it and I was kind of surprised honestly because Jep was the one if I recall correctly that he was kind of cheerleader for Gus to be like let's go to Alaska let's go find your mom and yeah we're

[00:50:44] gonna do this and then we get here to episode one and now he's like that I you know said this journey was gonna be really hard look at everything that's happened to us so far and we're not even like

[00:50:56] through the mountains yet you know and it's just gonna get worse and and he's like you said he's feeling his age he's I think losing confidence in himself like you said to you know it can't

[00:51:10] I really protect these kids can I really get them you know you know to Alaska and you know complete complete this mission and you know he's got a bum knee you know we know that they've been

[00:51:23] walking a lot the journey is not easy by any means and he's probably really feeling all of that way on him because Becky's pretty capable you know she's a pretty capable person but I don't know

[00:51:34] if she's enough to be able to get Wendy into the day she's still a kid yeah she's still a kid too yeah and doesn't have quite the life experience that Jep has had he was one of the last men he's

[00:51:46] got lots of training and he was a professional athlete before everything and you know so he's got a I think a lot more behind him that he's he's I think where everything is really hanging

[00:51:58] on him to get them there that they're all really dependent on him and I don't know if he's you know where all of that's coming from but I was really just surprised to see it at least so early in the

[00:52:09] season like episode one we're getting this strain between them and you know so that that was that was hard but like you said it was good to see you know Gus you know like you said really rallying

[00:52:25] but he was Jep was kind of like okay you know fine but he didn't really seem to like feel like okay yeah let's go he was just kind of phoning it phoning it in a little it seems so just felt a

[00:52:40] little like I wasn't expecting that from from Jep really so yeah I don't know bit of a bummer but you know I guess we have to have some of our challenges along the way so that's okay but yeah I'm glad glad

[00:52:57] we didn't lose Jep so early I thought yeah don't don't do this because poor Gus you know that poor kid has lost so much in his life and I hate to see him lose any others because you know it's probably

[00:53:12] not so much concern for Jep more than it is just concerned for Gus protect his precious little heart but you know I kid you know Jep's a great character and I obviously don't want to see

[00:53:28] anything happen to him but it would just absolutely break my heart to see Gus go through and I cannot see that little boy upset it just breaks me so so yeah I'm interested to see where we go from here

[00:53:41] as they continue their journey in their little spud motel what if that really exists I have to look that one up I'm sure there's got to be if not this exact one but I mean the entire state

[00:53:56] of Idaho somebody's doing a potato themed hotel it's gotta if not total missed missed opportunity there all right you mentioned that was all of your major points did you have yeah notes that

[00:54:12] you wanted to cover yeah which I guess are like too many points so I don't do you have any other points or nope I have just a couple small notes okay yeah cuz there's there's two other I guess

[00:54:26] storylines or characters that we didn't really talk about too much that I wanted to touch on first is is Zang you see that her her men find Gus's trail with with the Humvee and then the

[00:54:39] hat where the avalanche happened and the boys that find the scent the the dogs in quotations that are being used to track them if you remember the end of last season with that little sting I

[00:54:53] said I mentioned something it was like oh I think there's something pretty dark from the comics that they're gonna be going towards or doing and this is it maybe it's not gonna be as dark in the show

[00:55:02] but but yeah in the comics I haven't read all of them but I read far enough to kind of get because they introduced it early is I don't know if it was Zang it was more Abbott that was using them

[00:55:11] but but the idea of using hybrid wolf dog kids as like bloodhounds they track and they're they're working for the enemy in a way and then I think in the comics it was darker that they're more

[00:55:26] trained and abused and made to be very aggressive and they actually attack more like attack dogs versus just like bloodhounds and trackers but again I don't know if they'll go all the way with

[00:55:38] that in the show but we'll see but at least still using hybrid kids as like a tool to track down other hybrids is it's kind of dark when you think about it and I was like yep they're going for it

[00:55:50] with this season we're seeing the the wolf kids well you know they is as many like light-hearted moments that they have because I always wonder I'm like how many kids I wonder watch this show

[00:56:02] or like teen young teens yeah watch this show but this so I feel like in some ways they keep it kind of light ish but I do feel this story so far has gotten very dark I mean they did yeah like chop a

[00:56:17] hybrid and use them for like experiments and like the secret sauce so I mean that's pretty frickin dark so yeah they could very well be doing that that's crazy then also was saying we see that I

[00:56:34] get you know her daughter for sure I think she's got two dollars I think Rosie is also her daughter I assume I think so but then the one that we know is also like her daughter is pregnant which is why

[00:56:44] I guess we get revealed there that's why Zang is so personally invested in tracking down Gus and using him for a cure like as soon as possible she's really gung-ho on that and that's she can't

[00:56:57] fathom having a hybrid grandchild so she's kind of in this like nine month window in a way that like we have to find a cure we have to do this I promise it's not gonna happen to you we're gonna

[00:57:09] take care of this so that's her reasoning for why she's so after Gus because I was wondering you know it's like well that mean evergreen is dead because Abbott's gone so like that sanctuary is

[00:57:21] not happening as far as unless she can you know scrounge up those plans and do it herself but it's like why is she still so after Gus why is she Thanos saying this you know fine I'll do it

[00:57:32] myself it's like well that's why she has a personal investment in the issue with her daughter and then grandchild coming and then the other thing was was saying we'd get a little bit of of Addy saying

[00:57:46] haven't seen doctor sing yeah a little bit so seeing him we see he's tracking Gus we don't see it's him the first time we don't get a face reveal but it was him in the casino picking up the

[00:57:56] pamphlet which it's kind of a stretch to assume that like he's gonna like find this little pamphlet on the floor and go oh like spud motel that's where they're going they'd be right but but it paid off

[00:58:08] and so yeah so they get to the motel there in Idaho and so does the person trailing them which I like the way they structured the episode as we're getting all the Zhang stuff and the bounty

[00:58:19] hunter going after birdie and all that where that's what's in your mind is like oh the bad people who are chasing people down and then somebody shows up at the motel and you're like

[00:58:27] oh no did the trackers just find them already we already having that showdown and it's like no it's it's just doctor saying he's hopefully he's a good guy now well we'll see yeah very excited to

[00:58:51] see what happens next yeah it was weird being back in in like the space of like not being able to continue on with the show like oh back in podcast mode I can't I can't keep going I have

[00:59:05] to stop right but is it back in that headspace now where I'm like all right we're talking about this and we're done recording this I'm gonna go watch the next episode yeah I did you sorry did you

[00:59:22] have any more notes oh that's it okay well I mean I only had a few and I think we already talked about when you mentioned the you know the people and then being awful and Wendy and Gus you know

[00:59:34] talking about how you know they're not going to be that way and I really loved this moment of maturity between them they're they're still very young kids and you know the fact that they knew

[00:59:47] better and they knew that behavior was I think wrong anyway it's my opinion and you know when they were talking about the people at the casino and they're like you know when we're old let's do

[01:00:03] better and I think it's like yeah yeah we will you know no one's gonna be cold or go hungry and we'll tell them stories and I just loved that seeing that from like this next generation you

[01:00:16] know that they have more compassion and empathy than people that are generations older than them and should know better so I just feel like you know that rings a little true even in today's real

[01:00:29] world and I'll leave that there I believe the kids are our future I'm not gonna go on but it's true it's very true yeah somebody who like works with elementary kids like based off of like my memories

[01:00:45] of even just when I was that age and how kids behaved and treated each other the kids are today are just so much kinder for the most part like there's there's moments they're still bullying

[01:00:55] that exists there's things but like yeah being in schools and interacting with with younger kids like they seem to have better heads on their shoulders for the most part like I think the gen alphas got

[01:01:07] a good thing going some of the stuff is there I'm getting to that age now where I'm like I don't know what they're talking about but what is I have to I have to say on the know a little bit if I'm

[01:01:21] interacting and working with them I've got to know what's going on but it's a lot yeah I'm totally lost I'm an old I'm just like you guys are great but I have no idea what you're saying right now

[01:01:35] and then just not related to the episode but you know you were talking about you know guests in this episode and how charismatic he is and I really think that that just rings true because

[01:01:47] of Christian Convery you know in his his abilities and his talent and charisma that he has and I think that comes through so strongly in his portrayal of Gus I really love you know just seeing it was just

[01:02:04] such a bright spot seeing him in this episode because I really love Gus and I think he does such a fantastic job playing him and he and we talked about season two but he is really matured

[01:02:14] and grown as an actor and I I have to look him up and see what other projects that he has going because I really want to see him and other things I think he's just fantastic yeah he's great I know

[01:02:27] like yeah it's weird now cuz I'm like sure he's already gotten like he's at that age it's like he's just gonna grow and grow and grow where they I like that they filmed seasons two and three back

[01:02:36] to back to where we still get little Gus cuz yeah he's already it's already getting older and more mature I'm sure but even I haven't seen him in anything else really I don't know how much he's

[01:02:46] done other than a movie from last year that I was just obsessed with for a time and still really love cocaine bear he is one of the stars in that and he is I mean he's still sweet and adorable but

[01:03:00] he is not exactly Gus he's got a much more foul mouth and dirty sense of humor which is weird cuz you get so used to Gus and sweet tooth and then you're like what is he doing no that would

[01:03:14] be such a change because he's so like sweet and innocent in so that would be very interesting but yeah I still have yet to check that out so I'll know it's great I love it but yeah I think he's

[01:03:28] you know such a joy to watch and I just sit and think to myself you know from season one not that he was like bad or anything but just like you can just see that maturity come through in his growth

[01:03:40] as an actor and you know getting that knowledge and in his craft and yeah just continuing to grow and I just I love it I think he's a great talent and so much of that I think comes through in his

[01:03:54] portrayal of the character so just really thrilled for him and I hope just all the great things for him after this I hope sweet tooth is a huge launching point for for incredible career for

[01:04:06] him if that's what he wants yeah yeah yeah a lot of kids don't it's interesting to see how many you know really great talented kids who you know you see them in a show or movie or something and

[01:04:18] then they never do anything ever again and that's totally fine it's rough out there yeah you know the Hollywood is rough on child actors so don't blame them if they never return I have okay with

[01:04:35] the ones that are able to get out unscathed and live a normal life good for them too absolutely okay well I think that wraps all of our points and notes then really great to revisit this again

[01:04:50] so alright so we've got to that point in the show where we did get some listener feedback and I've got to get the other posts up I usually try when it's a Netflix show and all the episodes drop at

[01:05:03] once try to get all the posts for feedback because I know folks are sometimes jumping ahead and that's totally fine and I want to give everyone a space to drop their feedback so I will try to get on

[01:05:15] that this week I'm still trying to get back in there like podcast mode like you know I said we were a little bit of a hiatus it was kind of like what do I do again it's like when you take a

[01:05:25] vacation from your job and you come back and you're like what do I do again and how do I do these things kind of the same mode so I'm getting back in the swing but we did get some listener

[01:05:34] feedback I'm so grateful again that people remembered who we were and cared enough to leave some feedback so Peck will you take this first one for me please all right the first one

[01:05:45] coming from Maureen Favo who says are we ready for season 3 the end it'll be so sad for this series to end love this journey are we ready for Gus and Wendy using puns I'm very ready for that

[01:05:58] goes on to say not sure I'm ready for tears to come but after this episode I'm sure tears are coming loved loved loved the casino great cronies how funny is Gus leveraging his syrup numb nuts

[01:06:11] what is Jeps problem he sure is taking a physical beating in the avalanche lots of fear of failure we don't talk about what a great soundtrack then the musical choices BG's Grateful Dead and how

[01:06:24] great are Sienna and Luca which I think so see Sienna Sienna Luca Luca I don't know we'll have to look about if we see those characters again but yeah they were they were great I know you're

[01:06:34] referring to for sure the pack are scary especially their howls yes lots of moms in this episode have we switched from daddy issues to mommy issues and dr. Singh is bad news so glad you're back

[01:06:48] I've missed you but agree it hasn't been much content in your wheelhouse for the last few months I'm so happy you're taking this journey yes thank you all right next one is from Don

[01:07:00] Elizabeth she says I did and I enjoyed it I think that was to my question have you watched the episode for the post she goes on I'm so glad they are back the kids don't seem to have aged up in

[01:07:14] the new season do you know if they shot it right after the last one in order to avoid that I think we just talked about that they I think from if I remember correctly they did shoot season 2 and

[01:07:24] season 3 consecutively to avoid some of the issues that other shows tend to have stranger things I'll do it for you don't worry thank you Don goes on I didn't take notes so

[01:07:43] we'll do my best to recall some things I like that we got some backstory about Alaska do you think we will find out what happened to the woman who disappeared I think we will I'm feeling

[01:07:52] concerned about big man who I've always thought of as a big strong man if he is if he is feeling his age that's alarming the old people in the casino remind me of Walking Dead's first season

[01:08:02] although these people are in much better shape at least at this point I surely hope that they are left alone is the hat that Gus was given really a magic hat I sort of hope so I did

[01:08:14] think it a bit ridiculous that they got over the mountains on foot in the winter in a day but I get it we have to move things along I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton of stuff but knowing this podcast

[01:08:25] and its followers followers you all will fill in my blanks it's so good that you are back thanks Don yeah thank you good to hear from you again you back in is that was the feedback is also really

[01:08:38] putting me back in this place like oh yeah we are officially back we got that yeah listening and writing in giving those thoughts yeah yeah feels good the next one comes from Penny who

[01:08:49] says I am blazing through this season I really needed the odd sweetness plus darkness this show delivers looking forward to the podcast thank you Penny we got an email from our good friend Daphne

[01:09:03] she's so loyal with her emails she says hi Rima and Peg finally I'm so excited to return to the world of Gus big man Wendy Becky and the gang I'm looking forward to seeing where this adventure

[01:09:16] takes them and us in this final season if this first episode is any indication we could be in for an avalanche of humor terror and everything in between I'm glad that Wendy has Gus she hasn't

[01:09:29] seen all the things that Gus and the others have seen out in the world especially death she's also still mourning the loss of Amy watching them together made me hopeful that things will be okay

[01:09:39] for them in the end when they were making promises to each other of how to help others it made me realize we need more Wendy's and Gus's in the real world they're such kind sweet kids yep yep

[01:09:51] um I hope we get to see more of Sienna and Nuka who was adorable my other hopes for this season are that we get a few long-awaited reunions confirmation on a few lingering questions I have

[01:10:03] and that Mrs. Zang goes the way of General Abbott personally I want big man to be the one to take her out and who has Birdie I hope it's a friend I'm glad they seemingly rescued her from one of Zang's

[01:10:17] henchmen I'm planning to go week to week with you guys as I have with the past two seasons I'm glad to have more strange indeed in my ears welcome back Daphne oh that was nice thanks Daphne

[01:10:32] that was so great and as always thanks everyone for your feedback I'm so glad you haven't forgotten about us yeah and that again you cared and took the time to leave the feedback because I know I'm

[01:10:45] terrible like when I'm listening to podcasts and you know everybody's like oh give your feedback and I'm like sure I will and then I don't um I know how much effort that takes so thank you we

[01:10:56] appreciate you and we hope you come back for um you know next week and speaking of that next on strange indeed um we will be covering um season three episode two titled thank god I'm a country

[01:11:10] boy all right I'm not sure where they're going with that one yet but I'm intrigued yeah yeah title of a song right or at least it's a it's a phrase in a song I know um so yeah and I didn't take the

[01:11:25] description trying to you know stay spoiler free it's again uh you got to be careful where you're creeping out there um for a Netflix show everything is out there so yeah I always try to just keep my

[01:11:36] distance so did not provide um a description there so I don't have to go some people are so fast too like I mentioned that uh that recap and chill youtube channel that I watch which I'll

[01:11:45] send you that again yeah but yeah because like a couple days before the season dropped they put up that recap for seasons one and two which I got a lot of that information for the recap there

[01:11:54] and then literally the day that it dropped that like Thursday or whatever later that night like eight nine ten o'clock at night they dropped their like recap and explanation of all three

[01:12:04] seasons and the finale and what it all meant and all that and I was like how did he get through like he binge watched the whole thing in one day and made the videos like holy cow you know I don't

[01:12:15] know I always wonder um when I see some people put out their podcasts so fat I mean we have flexibility because it's Netflix and we um you know all the episodes drop at once we don't have

[01:12:27] to wait for a particular night for you know like a week-to-week show but I'm always fascinated at how you know anyone who podcasts on a show week to week that evening or the next morning they

[01:12:37] already have their podcast out I'm like y'all must have like screeners or something because you know I don't know how in the world anyone's getting their content out so fast but that's fascinating I cannot work that fast but good on you if you can yeah

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[01:13:09] I know one show that premieres this Sunday as we as we are recording this Sunday um House of the Dragon season two comes back I am so freaking excited I cannot wait I am and our good friends

[01:13:24] Wendy and Veronica and Rennie oh so excited they're going to be covering that on Dragoncast on podcastica.com so if you are a House of the Dragon fan if you watch season one and listen to

[01:13:38] the coverage from season one which I did take a part in I'm taking a step back from that this season however um so I can enjoy as a fan but cannot wait for their coverage so highly recommend

[01:13:52] checking them out when that they've already dropped an episode for the trailers kind of like their their thoughts their feelings you know for what's to come in season two and then they talked

[01:14:02] about the trailers that were released they had a trailer for the blacks and a trailer for the greens and all the fun things in between gearing us up for season two so definitely go check them

[01:14:13] out and throw them some love while you're there yeah I'm excited to to get back to watching that because man that first season was incredible 100 super excited and yeah while you're checking

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