Episode 7

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Published on:

30th Mar 2026

LTO - Downtown Abby - S6E2 - Let Me Boo

This week on LTO: Ben and Xhafer don't have a calendar. There's a Sophie B Hawkins drop, what else do you need to know?

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Xhafer:

Hello and welcome to last time on This the podcast for the people who

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wanna watch all this prestige television.

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But who's got time for it?

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Benjamin: Apparently I do.

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I had so much, like I've watched

three different things this week.

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Uh,

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Xhafer: Oh, you mean a normal week for me?

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Benjamin: fair.

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I

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Xhafer: I,

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Benjamin: forgot we.

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Xhafer: I.

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Benjamin: I forgot we were doing this,

and so I've watched the other episode

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of what we'll be doing next week now.

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Uh

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Xhafer: Oh, I wasn't going

to acknowledge it at all.

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Benjamin: oh.

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Fair enough.

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Xhafer: just gonna get into

it and people pretend like we

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had watched the wrong thing.

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like we forgot what April Fools

was on this podcast network.

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I

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the like.

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Third of our audience that also

listens to Who are You, you

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are in for a treat tomorrow.

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Don't tell anyone in the discord,

just let it be a surprise.

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Benjamin: Oh, that's exciting.

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Xhafer: unacknowledged this year.

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Um, or even I think we're

putting up the title like it's

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Razor and everything as well.

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Like we're just gonna completely not say

anything this time and just let it be and

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Benjamin: nice.

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Xhafer: the episode it takes for

you to realize what's going on.

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Uh,

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Benjamin: Yeah.

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So this week, uh, we are reviewing

the Detroit Bridgeton experience.

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Xhafer: No,

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that, that went viral, right?

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Benjamin: Yes, it did.

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It was on the front page of the BBC.

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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you went right?

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Benjamin: No, no.

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Xhafer: We know people who went

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Benjamin: We did know people who went.

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Xhafer: Okay.

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Benjamin: Uh, no.

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Uh, so th uh, this week

we do not have Victor.

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It is just me, Ben,

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Xhafer: Me.

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Benjamin: and we are talking

Bridgeton, season three, episode four,

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Xhafer: Mm-hmm.

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Benjamin: episode four.

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I dunno.

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This one probably actually

has an episode title.

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Xhafer: is the name of this episode.

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Um.

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gonna call it now, uh, Beth put in a

prediction for something you'd say.

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So if that happens, I'll call it out.

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Benjamin: All right.

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Was it making a joke about the

Detroit Bridgeton experience?

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Xhafer: It was not, otherwise I would've

already had to have sounded the horns.

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So, uh, I have not

watched Eddie Bridgeton.

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Benjamin: I have not either.

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Xhafer: Um.

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I kept waiting to find out it

was a death stranding prequel.

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Very disappointed that the Bridger

tins are not related to Sam Bridges.

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Uh, but you know, it's fine.

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Uh, I have no experience with

this show except knowing that

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it is horny and on Netflix.

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That's, that's all.

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I got

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Benjamin: Didn't even

seem particularly horny.

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I don't know.

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Uh.

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Xhafer: I mean.

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I felt like I, I know 'cause I've walked

in on scenes before, as Beth was watching,

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that there are definitely hor episodes.

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Uh, this one was chosen as a good

baseline because it, it felt like I

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could mostly know what was going on

without having seen the other seasons.

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And also, this is an

iconic episode, apparently.

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Um, one of the big ones, it's

your Ozzy, Manus or whatever.

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It's the worst one.

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This is a big one.

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Benjamin: Feel like, oh, this

is a culmination of some stuff.

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But it also, I, I, uh, I was watching

this with Glo who has watched the show

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and, uh, I think you really need some

of the setup for some of this payoff.

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'cause I'm just like, I

think everyone in this sucks

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Xhafer: There's

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Benjamin: I haven't been in.

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Xhafer: that I enjoyed in this show.

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Benjamin: Yeah, I haven't been endeared

to you over three seasons to see that

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you have now hit the pit, you know, of,

of you know, oh, this is a, a cathartic

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climax, and now we're returning to a, a

new future that we've been longing for.

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I'm just like seeing the people at

their worst before the turn, and I'm

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just like, I don't like any of you.

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Xhafer: Oh

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Um, so we open on the

feather tins, feathering

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Benjamin: Yes.

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Xhafer: checking in

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Benjamin: Uh,

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Xhafer: pen,

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Benjamin: penal.

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Yep.

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Xhafer: who has a dude dropping

off a plant because the bridger

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tins have done some matchmaking.

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Now, I

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Benjamin: so.

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Xhafer: next to me at this she tried

to explain a couple of things and I had

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to stop her, I did get character names.

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Thank fuck.

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Benjamin: I, I, I, I did what I

usually do, which is I'm very careful.

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I open up IMDB, then immediately click

episode guide and go to this episode.

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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Benjamin: really matter for this one,

but like, I never want to see like,

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you know, Ben Curley three episodes and

then I know like, oh, he going to die.

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Uh, and then I try and

like match up, okay.

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Does this person's I-M-D-V-B photo look

anything like their, uh, their character?

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Xhafer: Yeah, it's tough to say sometimes.

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Benjamin: but, uh, this, this

guy is, is trying to put the

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moves on on uh, Pinal Lo.

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And everybody's kinda like, really?

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She's even to her.

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Yeah.

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Xhafer: I, I, I don't know.

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Benjamin: Yeah.

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Xhafer: Um, I don't know if there have

been, like, if it's a a, a status thing.

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If the feathering tins are like

beneath the Britons or something, um,

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Benjamin: Well, and this is Lord Debling.

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I don't know.

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Xhafer: well, yeah, it's just,

I don't know, like the general

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standing of everyone except for

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Benjamin: Right.

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Xhafer: is obviously the

queen and also a badass.

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We'll talk about that wig

at the end of the episode.

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Uh, yeah.

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Benjamin: Also making a great, uh.

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Argument for why queens

are bad or just monarchs.

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It's just like you have a country to rent.

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It's like, yeah, but I want

to play with my dollies.

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Those, those are people,

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Xhafer: that way.

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Benjamin: no, they're not.

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Uh,

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Xhafer: Right.

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Does she have a country to run?

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I don't know.

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Maybe she's just a figurehead.

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I

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Benjamin: that doesn't seem like it.

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Xhafer: They say they're in London

and everyone's got these titles,

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but also like you could tell me

that this is just like a fantasy

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place where only these people exist

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Benjamin: It does seem like that there

are, if you do not have a title and a

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huge amount of money, you do not exist

in this world unless you are a toot.

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Um,

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Xhafer: yeah.

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Benjamin: there are swe and that's it.

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Uh.

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Xhafer: Ugh.

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Uh, yeah.

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So, Lord darling, I actually

did not write his name down.

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Uh, I call him Dudley.

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I just called him.

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Lord gonna freeze to death the

entire time as we find out, he is

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obsessed with the Northwest passage

and this is like:

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He is not gonna have a good time.

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He's very dead,

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uh, over it.

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Bridgeton Manor.

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Francesca is expecting a

marquee to come calling.

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Benjamin: Oh yeah.

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Xhafer: Uh, Colin gets asked by

mom about new oven stuff and we get

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some voiceover from our narrator.

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Lady.

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Whistle down refers to

us as Dear Gentle Reader.

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Benjamin: Yep.

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Xhafer: Uh,

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hey.

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Benjamin: I kept hoping.

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Xhafer: that makes

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Benjamin: Yeah,

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Xhafer: somehow.

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Benjamin: kept hoping at some point

our, uh, narrator would have quasi,

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uh, omnipotent powers, like the

narrator from George of the Jungle.

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Uh, but she never engages with the story.

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There's always a reso a uh,

uh, a level of remove, uh.

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That was, it's Julie Andrews, right?

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Xhafer: I have no idea.

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Benjamin: Okay.

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It is Julie Andrews.

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Okay.

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I'm not crazy.

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Uh, I was just like,

I recognize the voice.

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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Um,

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Benjamin: I want her to

try and teach, uh uh oh.

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Dang it.

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Why am I blanking on her name?

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Uh, princess Diaries.

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Uh.

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Xhafer: haven't seen it,

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Benjamin: Oh, okay.

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Dang it.

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Xhafer: I was a question about it on, um,

actually last week, but that's about as

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far as my princess diary's knowledge goes.

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Benjamin: I'm mad because I

watched it with Glow four.

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Cool.

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Boys don't cry at rom-coms.

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Uh, Anne Hathaway, uh, 'cause she teaches

Anne Hathaway how to be a princess.

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Xhafer: Ah, um, we get an out of

context hookup that meant nothing to me.

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Benjamin: Nope.

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Means absolutely nothing.

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Now, later when they're being coy with

each other, or the third time we see these

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characters and they're banging again.

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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Uh, Lord Anderson is in town with

visiting his sister's estate she

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feels he's in town for a good time.

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Not a long time.

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Benjamin: Yep.

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Xhafer: Uh, I think Lord Anderson

would've something to say about that

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different, but not in this scene.

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Uh, and then we're waiting

for the marqui to show up.

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Lord Kil Martin comes a

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Benjamin: Yes,

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Xhafer: Uh, we learned that they

met at a Hawkins Ball, and if that

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wasn't a Sadie Hawkins dance, I

hope it was a Sophie b Hawkins dance

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Damn.

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Benjamin: I mean, if, uh, if they

did not do a harpsichord cover

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of that during the Hawkins Ball,

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Xhafer: Yeah,

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Benjamin: the point?

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Why are we here?

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Xhafer: right.

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I want to go watch that, just

that scene to know if they did it.

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And that might be enough to go, okay,

maybe I can give this show a little bit

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of a chance, but if it's not that level of

self-aware, I'm probably not interested.

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Benjamin: Yeah.

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I.

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Xhafer: Uh, let

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Benjamin: Uh,

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Xhafer: in the Discord listeners.

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Benjamin: yeah.

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Uh, I do appreciate that Francesca

and, uh, our, uh, Lord, uh, Earl

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Kilmartin, they're just like

chilling, sitting silently like,

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this is kind of nice, and everybody

else is just like, what going on?

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Xhafer: Yeah, they, uh, they

sit in silence for like a minute

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when Lord's Samani shows up.

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And then, uh, we get a, uh,

the ridges are having a B plot

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Benjamin: Yes.

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Xhafer: confused by this.

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Benjamin: Yeah.

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So apparently this guy, it seems

like he is a, a poor who has

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risen above his station through

owning a, a, a gentleman's club.

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But then he doesn't want to give

up on the thing that got him.

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Elevated.

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He's like, but I still

wanna run the book, the bar.

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And it's like, no, you're, you're gentry.

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Now you don't work.

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And something else has gone wrong.

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And I think, I'm gonna say last time

on, they discovered that when we end

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into club, we all fam and then two

people died and it caused a massive

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inheritance issue because we're all fam

and now we have to smash the end tail.

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Xhafer: I thought Netflix shows were

supposed to tell you the character's

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names and what they were doing at all

times, so that way you could not pay

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attention and still watch the show.

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And I'm very disappointed that

this one time that's not true.

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Benjamin: I, I don't think

this was designed for.

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All right.

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What writers?

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New.

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New, new directive.

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Everyone needs to be able to follow

every episode, assuming they've

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never watched any of it before.

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Xhafer: Uh, after this we

go to some guy's library.

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Uh, Penelope's mom tells her to be dumb,

so the Lord she's courting feels smart.

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Benjamin: Yeah.

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Xhafer: have one note here.

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I.

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Benjamin: I can't hear what, that's

not picking up what you're doing.

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Xhafer: not picking up me booing.

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Benjamin: No.

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Xhafer: fucking, oh my God.

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Fucking, I'm booing so hard.

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Boo.

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No, it cuts out immediately.

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It must think that it's white noise.

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Fucking, I don't even have like

cancellation or anything on, let me boo

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Benjamin: Yep.

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Xhafer: Yeah, no.

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Immediately cut.

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I had a whole bit planned with like

timed breathing and everything.

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God damnit.

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Fucking, okay, this is like, to,

to open up the curtain a little.

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This is our second time

using just script rooms.

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my sec or Ben, your first time.

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My second time.

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Dear to script, I know you're capturing

this audio to improve your algorithms.

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This sucks compared to squad.

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Squad cast.

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Give a squad, cast back.

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Fuck.

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You

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Benjamin: Yeah.

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But here as.

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Like,

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uh, ES Jair was alluding to She, uh, she

was like, why are you reading a book?

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No man will want to come and

talk to a girl who's reading.

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And it's like,

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Xhafer: what

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Benjamin: shut up.

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Uh, but also she's like, it's a

book about the Northwest passage

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and that's where he's going.

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And I'm just like, oh man, he's going

western from the Bearing Strait.

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'cause that's was there, it was

said to lie the sea root to the

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Orient for which so many died.

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Xhafer: He's so fucked.

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He's so

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Benjamin: yeah, he's going to die.

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Xhafer: He's

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Benjamin: He's going to freeze

to death, and maybe there will

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be polar bear smoke monsters.

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If you've watched the terror, uh.

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Xhafer: Anyways, Penelope and one of the

bridge boys are always looking at each

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other while having other conversations.

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Uh, my notes here say just bang already.

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Benjamin: See, I dis, I,

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Xhafer: there.

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Benjamin: I felt so bad for, uh,

for Debling, where it's just like,

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Hey, I'm really like trying to suss

out, like, Hey, you wanna marry me?

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And this girl is just like.

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Only looking at some other

guy and it was like, oh man.

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Like, you deserve better, dude.

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Uh,

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Xhafer: like not freezing to death.

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Benjamin: yeah.

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Well, I mean, don't steal a man's dreams.

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Uh, but he wants to be married

before he freezes to death, uh,

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after eating bad canned food.

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Xhafer: Uh, after this we see Colin, and

what I'm guessing is this show's version

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of litter, little Finger's, brothel.

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Benjamin: Yeah, he sits on the cut couch.

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Xhafer: he sits on the cut couch.

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Beth looked at me just like she looked

up from the thing that she was doing,

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looked at me and goes, welcome to Bridger.

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There are titties.

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Benjamin: Okay.

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Um.

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Xhafer: Yeah, it's just, I, I,

I don't, I was, I don't know

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what I was expecting, I guess.

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I mean, there's Netflix, there's

no reason they can't, I, I never

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think of Netflix as an HBO.

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I always think of it as more of like a TNT

in terms of what they can get away with.

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Uh, yeah, I, I guess it's a, if they

could be skin ax if they wanted.

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Uh, let's see here.

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Francesca runs into Lord Kill Martin

in the streets, and it's hella awkward.

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Benjamin: We find out he has

about as much game as I do.

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Uh, they, they are, they are.

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Uh, she's like, oh, hey, so,

uh, what, what, uh, lets you

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stop, uh, and talk to me today.

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And he's like, you stopped me.

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Uh

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uh, and she's clearly like.

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Give me a sign you're interested, dude.

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And he's like, so music, that's a thing.

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And she makes a comment about how, oh,

I don't like how he's playing the song.

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He's playing it too fast.

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It should be slowed down.

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And he immediately like runs away like

the Paladin in Dungeons and Dragons

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among Thieves, just like straight line g.

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Xhafer: Do you know that that

scene was 95% improvised?

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No, no.

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In Dungeons and Dragons, when he walks

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Benjamin: Oh no.

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Xhafer: they told him to just

keep walking and they'll call

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cut when they've got enough.

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And he was only expecting to walk for

like four or five steps and they just kept

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filming and everyone else is ad-libbing.

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All of that stuff, all improvised,

like all the lines as he's walking

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away about the rock and stuff and they

just had no idea what he was gonna do

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and he just went right over the rock.

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It was, fuck that.

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That's one of the funniest

scenes of that fucking movie.

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Benjamin: It absolutely is.

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It's great.

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That movie is so good.

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I'm sad it didn't do better.

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Xhafer: Yeah.

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should watch it again.

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It's been a minute.

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let's see here.

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Eloise checks in on Sidia

and her dad is a dick.

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Benjamin: Yeah.

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Xhafer: And then

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Benjamin: Uh.

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Xhafer: in what I wrote

down the men's locker room.

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Uh, I know that it's not a men's

locker room, but everyone here

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is all like, yeah, I've had sex.

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I'm so cool.

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I boned my girlfriend in

Canada, she's totes reel.

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You'll just never meet her anyways.

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My girlfriend who lives in

Canada, her name is Alberta.

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She lives in Vancouver.

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Benjamin: Yeah.

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Oh yeah.

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Bang to this girl, LA Cross Greece.

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And it's like,

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uh, and this is, uh.

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I've, I've blanked on their names.

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This is the, the club owned by

the guy who's having problems.

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I, I hate all of these people.

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Uh, they're being gross and I'm just like,

you all should meet my friend Madam Laine.

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Uh, it made me very sad.

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England's never had a a

French style revolution.

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Xhafer: Oh man.

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They just are ending the hereditary

nature in the House of Lords.

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Like this year they passed a law about it.

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Benjamin: which then, what is it now?

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Xhafer: Well, it's already, there's

already a handful of elected

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seats in the House of Lords.

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Um, but they're saying, I, they, I,

I think it was all, but like 90 seats

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in the House of Lords are elected the,

it's just like there's a handful of like

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Dukes and Earls that are passing it on.

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Barons and stuff, now they're

all the last generation when they

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die or doesn't pass on to their

kids, it moves over to, elections.

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Benjamin: So it'll be just

a different elected body.

427

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

428

:

Benjamin: But what about the Duke of Earl?

429

:

Xhafer: I, I don't know the Duke of Earl.

430

:

Benjamin: No, you don't know

your, your fifties bebop.

431

:

Xhafer: No, not,

432

:

Benjamin: Okay.

433

:

Xhafer: that one.

434

:

Benjamin: Alright.

435

:

Xhafer: Sorry.

436

:

Benjamin: Uh, so we have, uh, debling

has come to talk to, uh, Polly Walker.

437

:

That's, uh.

438

:

Penelope's mom and, uh, ask

for her permission to ask

439

:

for Penelope to marry him.

440

:

And he's real weird when he leaves.

441

:

Uh, it's just like, what's going on?

442

:

Xhafer: It's like there's

nothing hidden here.

443

:

He had told her as much.

444

:

She was all like, well, you gotta

ask my mom like two scenes ago.

445

:

Like

446

:

regardless, uh, she goes

and talks to her mom.

447

:

She's like, of course.

448

:

I said, yes, you.

449

:

It's not like you're holding out for love.

450

:

You fool.

451

:

Benjamin: Yeah.

452

:

Xhafer: is like, love is

a many splendor thing.

453

:

Love lifts us up where we belong.

454

:

All you need is love.

455

:

Benjamin: Uh, but also we get this

like, Hey, stop reading books.

456

:

Love is Not, or life

is not a Romance novel.

457

:

Uh, which this is one of those things

where it's like, this show is a romance

458

:

novel, so it's gonna work out different

459

:

Xhafer: It's got a narrator in everything.

460

:

Benjamin: It, but it is one of

those things where it's like.

461

:

The mom is a jerk, but it's also like not

terrible advice for a real human being,

462

:

but it's just like, Hey, uh, how about

you talk to the guy who's like nice to

463

:

you all of the time and don't wait for the

asshole to make a grand romantic gesture.

464

:

Uh,

465

:

Xhafer: You're just waiting

to get love bombed right now.

466

:

Benjamin: yeah.

467

:

Xhafer: Yikes.

468

:

Benjamin: This is going to lead

into a, uh, toxic feedback loop.

469

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

470

:

Let's

471

:

Benjamin: Uh, Colin now

has too many feelings.

472

:

Xhafer: Yes, the weight of a tub.

473

:

Uh.

474

:

Benjamin: couldn't sleep

with the prostitutes mama.

475

:

Xhafer: Fuck.

476

:

the fucking worst.

477

:

Benjamin: I know.

478

:

And then his mom is like, you've been

living your life to please others.

479

:

I'm like, he didn't

please those s workers.

480

:

Uh, he.

481

:

Xhafer: No, no, he didn't.

482

:

Benjamin: It's also like I haven't seen

him be nice to anybody this whole episode.

483

:

Xhafer: It's kind of a shit.

484

:

Yeah.

485

:

Benjamin: Yeah.

486

:

I, I even wrote in my, my, uh,

notes, like, he seems like a p.

487

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

488

:

But, uh, he hears Penelope might

be getting proposed to, and

489

:

he just, he can't handle that.

490

:

He might have to go to

the ballet or whatever.

491

:

Benjamin: Then we go to the Queen's

party where uh, everybody is sitting and

492

:

watching a Live Little Boots Music video.

493

:

Xhafer: Ha.

494

:

Yeah.

495

:

Queen Charlotte has a music

box in her fucking wig.

496

:

Benjamin: Yes.

497

:

Xhafer: This thing is absurd.

498

:

I love it.

499

:

Benjamin: Regency Hairstyles man, like

they had live birds in people's wigs.

500

:

Xhafer: I mean, as the guy

who had birds on his hat, I

501

:

appreciate game, recognized game.

502

:

Benjamin: Yeah.

503

:

Xhafer: uh, let's see.

504

:

Uh.

505

:

Lady Bridger tin and Lord

Anderson talk about matchmaking.

506

:

Benjamin: Mm-hmm.

507

:

Xhafer: They gonna bone?

508

:

Benjamin: It seems like it,

509

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

510

:

Benjamin: talking about, oh,

we both have dead spouses.

511

:

I had a love match.

512

:

I didn't, but we grew to love each other.

513

:

Uh, well maybe in my second act.

514

:

Uh, and then we watch fancy people

dance among what our clearly

515

:

looted columns from Greece.

516

:

'cause this is 18th century London.

517

:

All this shit is stolen.

518

:

Um.

519

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

520

:

Uh, let's see.

521

:

Eloise and Sidia hang out

despite her dad's wishes.

522

:

Benjamin: Uh, that reminds me, I want

to ask, why do you think he doesn't want

523

:

his daughter hanging out with Eloise?

524

:

Let's get weird with it.

525

:

Xhafer: the, oh, okay.

526

:

I was gonna, the bridger's seem

to have like a reputation of like,

527

:

like they, they are, besides a

focal point of the story, they seem

528

:

to be like a well-regarded family.

529

:

Right?

530

:

So part of me is all like, it

has to be something with just

531

:

Eloise and not like family drama.

532

:

'cause if it was family drama, they

probably wouldn't have let her in,

533

:

Benjamin: Mm-hmm.

534

:

Xhafer: you know.

535

:

But when she comes to

visit the first time.

536

:

So, I don't know.

537

:

Um,

538

:

uh, she spilled something

on the mom at a big dinner.

539

:

Ruined a

540

:

Benjamin: See, I was gonna

say, there's a rumor that she

541

:

once spoke to a Welshman and.

542

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

543

:

Bringing back that old,

uh, that old rivalry, Ben.

544

:

the people of the bucket hats.

545

:

I don't understand.

546

:

This seems conflicting.

547

:

Benjamin: It is not my prejudices.

548

:

This is Regency London.

549

:

Xhafer: Of

550

:

Benjamin: You cannot be seen with her.

551

:

She knows a Welshman.

552

:

Xhafer: uh, Lord Kil Martin makes a

gesture to Francesca that causes her

553

:

to just be all like, I'm going home.

554

:

Bye.

555

:

Benjamin: Yeah.

556

:

Xhafer: And the queen is super pissed

'cause she just likes to watch.

557

:

Benjamin: Yeah, she's, she's up

on her, her, her cuck platform,

558

:

uh, being like, dance dollies.

559

:

He brought her lemonade, but

she's not drinking the lemonade.

560

:

Why is she not drinking the lemonade?

561

:

Uh, it's because Kill Martin has

arrived and he's like, Hey, I ran

562

:

off, but I was getting this for you.

563

:

And it was like, oh, okay.

564

:

I, I can see exactly what happened here.

565

:

He went and rearranged that

music they were talking about,

566

:

Xhafer: course.

567

:

Benjamin: uh, and she's just like,

oh, hey, this guy actually seems

568

:

interested in me instead of interested

in fancy queen machinations.

569

:

Xhafer: Uh, let's see here.

570

:

Um,

571

:

Benjamin: We have some stuff where

572

:

Xhafer: hella

573

:

Benjamin: Penelope's sisters,

other girls who live in the house,

574

:

they are arguing about being pres.

575

:

Xhafer: Uh, Colin shows up late.

576

:

His boys are like, Hey, after party?

577

:

And he's all like, no,

I'm gonna go to the thing.

578

:

And he jumps in the middle of

a dance, uh, with Penelope.

579

:

Uh.

580

:

And, uh, Chris said, uh, dances

with Lord gonna freeze to death

581

:

Benjamin: Yep.

582

:

Xhafer: Colin and Penelope talk.

583

:

Colin tries to dissuade Penelope.

584

:

she chases down.

585

:

Lord gonna freeze to death.

586

:

he's all like, look, you're, I'm not

doing this because you clearly love Colin.

587

:

Benjamin: He was looking for like,

Hey, I'm going to be like off

588

:

doing my own thing, and I'm looking

for a wife who is also happy,

589

:

chilling and doing her own thing.

590

:

I do not want wife.

591

:

Pining after the boy next door

going to bang him while I'm gone.

592

:

Uh,

593

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

594

:

Benjamin: I thought you were

a self-actualized human being.

595

:

Uh, you still have some stuff you

need on the Maslow's hierarchy that

596

:

I'm not going to give you, and so

you're going to be hunting elsewhere.

597

:

Uh, and like, I get it.

598

:

Um, he's just like, Hey, I,

she, I thought you'd just be

599

:

like chilling the library wife.

600

:

Not, uh, you know.

601

:

Longing for romantic tris wife.

602

:

This ain't gonna work out.

603

:

Xhafer: Let's see.

604

:

Francesca plays kil Martin's

gift as we aforementioned.

605

:

It's that musical number

rearranged to her preferences.

606

:

Uh, Colin chases down Penelope

and jumps in her carriage.

607

:

Benjamin: We also get a voiceover

here where, uh, Julie Andrews is

608

:

like, sometimes the haw must, you

know, overrides the head, but the hawk

609

:

knows what's, uh, what the body needs.

610

:

And I'm just like, have you ever seen

the seven, how 17 year olds date?

611

:

Uh.

612

:

Xhafer: Yeah, so they, they talk in this

carriage and they start to get down.

613

:

Benjamin: Yeah,

614

:

Xhafer: This carriage is a rocking,

so don't come and knocking.

615

:

Benjamin: he gives her the

old Northumbrian surprise.

616

:

And as much as I haven't liked Penelope

this episode, I'm just like Penelope.

617

:

No.

618

:

He's going to give you the syphilis

he's gotten from all the sex workers.

619

:

This is the 18 hundreds in London.

620

:

He's riddled with it.

621

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

622

:

So, uh, they, uh, they get

freaky in this carriage

623

:

Benjamin: It also seems that,

uh, so I'm gonna say last time

624

:

on this has been a three season

long or four, like in the, uh,

625

:

Xhafer: We're on three.

626

:

Yeah.

627

:

Benjamin: uh, four season long.

628

:

Uh, she's all that scenario

629

:

where he like.

630

:

Xhafer: she come down the stairs, Ben?

631

:

Benjamin: And it's like, wait,

oh no, she's actually beautiful.

632

:

And, but this was all a, a, a bet,

you know, sort of thing where it's,

633

:

except she knew, she was like, Hey,

can you help me find a husband?

634

:

And like, didn't know

it was going to be him.

635

:

Um, but like, he's just like,

oh no, I put in all the work and

636

:

made her now the, the talk of the

London season, but I want her now.

637

:

Uh, it's just like.

638

:

Okay, man, you're weird and gross

and I don't like either of you.

639

:

Uh.

640

:

Uh, but, uh, then he asks like,

Hey, uh, can we, uh, have the

641

:

carriage ride us around again?

642

:

And, and then, uh, invites her inside.

643

:

Uh.

644

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

645

:

And that's the episode.

646

:

Alright, well, uh, we

don't have dice to roll.

647

:

going back to, uh, Abbey next week.

648

:

Uh, we don't have

predictions to make, I guess.

649

:

Uh,

650

:

Benjamin: mean,

651

:

Xhafer: I'm not gonna watch

any more Bridgeton, uh,

652

:

Benjamin: yeah.

653

:

Give me, give me one storyline

prediction for where you like.

654

:

Xhafer: prediction, um, Anderson and Lady

Bridger Tin start to date, but she finds

655

:

the grief of her dead husband be too much.

656

:

uh, and as Beth go over my shoulder

right now, it's just like, Nope,

657

:

Benjamin: No, it ain't

that kind of show, man.

658

:

They bang.

659

:

Yeah.

660

:

Xhafer: They bang in.

661

:

Okay.

662

:

They bang in.

663

:

Okay.

664

:

Confirmation.

665

:

They bang in.

666

:

How about you, Ben?

667

:

What's your one story prediction?

668

:

So Beth can make awkward sex phases

over my shoulder while you say it.

669

:

Benjamin: Uh, my prediction is that the,

the one girl who, I forget her name,

670

:

but was Eloise's friend, she marries

debling and that he absolutely dies.

671

:

Searching for the Northw

Northwest passage.

672

:

He freezes to death eaten by a

bear, hooped out by an Eskimo.

673

:

Or no shit.

674

:

Eskimo.

675

:

We don't say that anymore.

676

:

Xhafer: No, we don't

677

:

Benjamin: Yeah.

678

:

Xhafer: cool.

679

:

Benjamin: Uh, eaten by a polar bear.

680

:

Polar bear gets eaten

by, by, uh, an Inuit.

681

:

Xhafer: Mm-hmm.

682

:

Benjamin: poop twice

683

:

Xhafer: Okay.

684

:

Twice.

685

:

Twice.

686

:

Benjamin: 'cause a seal eats the poop.

687

:

Xhafer: Oh, yeah.

688

:

Yeah.

689

:

That's th th poopy twice.

690

:

Poopy.

691

:

Th poopy.

692

:

Doesn't matter.

693

:

Anyways, gonna freeze to death.

694

:

Th rice poopy.

695

:

That's your prediction.

696

:

Benjamin: Absolutely.

697

:

Xhafer: All right.

698

:

We have a confirmation from Beth.

699

:

Benjamin: But he, they

definitely bang before he dies.

700

:

Xhafer: oh yeah, for sure.

701

:

They bang.

702

:

Oh yeah.

703

:

Um, Well.

704

:

That's that listener.

705

:

Um, don't know.

706

:

You got anything else

you wanna talk about?

707

:

Ben,

708

:

Benjamin: I don't know.

709

:

I,

710

:

Xhafer: you wanna vamp

711

:

Benjamin: this is, this is interesting

just because it's an in I, I, I.

712

:

In my head, I am enjoying the

juxtaposition between this and Downton.

713

:

There is no downstairs

714

:

Xhafer: Right.

715

:

Yeah.

716

:

Benjamin: None of our servants or

characters, like if this was Downton,

717

:

whoever our carriage driver was, would

have two whole scenes where they almost

718

:

have a conversation about they were

banging in the back of my carriage.

719

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

720

:

Benjamin: Like they wouldn't

have a conversation, but they'd

721

:

almost have a conversation

because this is Downton Abbey.

722

:

Xhafer: Yeah.

723

:

Benjamin: Uh, and

724

:

Xhafer: I, I did feel like we were

missing the, the down below perspective,

725

:

uh, in this servants are potted plants

or at, at most your potted plant.

726

:

worst, you are dressed completely

in black and moving props

727

:

around as the scene changes.

728

:

Benjamin: yeah.

729

:

Xhafer: is your, that is your role here.

730

:

Uh.

731

:

Benjamin: In fact, at one point

Anderson makes his, makes the

732

:

servants laugh, and his sister is

like, don't treat them like people.

733

:

Xhafer: Yeah, it's fucking weird.

734

:

Well, I guess that's that.

735

:

Uh, we'll see you next week for Briton.

736

:

Season six, episode two,

I think Downton, sorry.

737

:

Yeah.

738

:

Bridgeton doesn't have six seasons.

739

:

We're Downton.

740

:

I think it was season six, episode

two, whatever we said two weeks ago.

741

:

I don't have it fucking

in front of me right now.

742

:

But before we get there, we should

of course say thank you to Ripe for

743

:

providing our lovely theme music.

744

:

Thank you so much.

745

:

Hey, play the game.

746

:

Deluxe edition.

747

:

Just dropped four new tracks.

748

:

Go check 'em out.

749

:

Benjamin: They're really cool.

750

:

Xhafer: They are,

751

:

uh.

752

:

Benjamin: uh, feel free, please

leave us a review wherever you,

753

:

uh, collect your podcasts, whatever

they, whatever catches them.

754

:

Uh, and, uh, please share the

show, share the, uh, share the,

755

:

uh, who are you share, uh, cool

girls, you know, grow the community

756

:

Xhafer: Get on that

757

:

Benjamin: and will.

758

:

Xhafer: We fucking love the discord.

759

:

Just don't talk about how the

April Fools prank still happened.

760

:

If they don't listen to this

show and let that be a surprise

761

:

for everyone who's watching.

762

:

Who are you tomorrow?

763

:

Benjamin: Yeah.

764

:

Xhafer: yeah.

765

:

And, uh, I guess we'll

see you next time on.

766

:

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Who's Got Time For All This Prestige TV?
Who has time for all this prestige television these days? Not us! That's why Ben, Victor, and Xhafer are going through "must watch" TV by skipping a random number of episodes in-between each viewing and connecting the dots on what happened. What happened Last Time On? What happen hurr?

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