Speaker 1: Welcome to Seen Girl Talking, Girl Talk.
Speaker 2: I'm seuzy Coda, I'm praving Coda.
Speaker 1: And this week we're talking about Stranger Things season three,
Speaker 1: episodes four kind of but five Thrade.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I have to say, this is my favorite season
Speaker 2: of the show so far.
Speaker 1: I knew I had watched this season previously, but it
Speaker 1: was like three or four years ago, and I mostly
Speaker 1: remembered them all.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I did not remember the secret room or the secret elevator.
Speaker 1: I did not. I remembered a lot of the newsroom
Speaker 1: stuff because I was like frustrated.
Speaker 2: I hate all these dudes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean that sort of side plot is
Speaker 1: gone by episode four because spoiler alert, everyone has died.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna be heavy spoilers for season three of
Speaker 2: Stranger Things, and uh, weirdly heavy spoilers for the movie
Speaker 2: The Apartment. Just kidding, We're not gonna talk about that.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: Also, Frank. When Frank got here, I was finishing the
Speaker 1: season because you know, I wanted to be fresh. And
Speaker 1: we see a demo.
Speaker 2: Dog demo gorgan.
Speaker 1: Is it am gorgan or.
Speaker 2: The demo dog has become Demagorgans?
Speaker 1: Okay, and Frank was like, damn, she's dummy thick, and
Speaker 1: I was like, Frank, go on, she's a murderer.
Speaker 2: It's not her fault. She's basically an animal.
Speaker 1: Frank said, the sweetest fruit is forbidden.
Speaker 2: Carl.
Speaker 3: I'm trying, gird on, I'm trying to to sneak, but
Speaker 3: I'm dummy thick and the slap of my ass's a
Speaker 3: learner in the cards, probably the second best fan uh
Speaker 3: fan quote to come out of a series, next to
Speaker 3: Commander Shepherd going report to the ship immediately, We'll bang okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, Frank, you need to give any context because a
Speaker 1: that references wild old and be so specific to video games.
Speaker 2: Sorry, So one of them is the first one is
Speaker 2: Meddle your solid, solid snake saying he's dummy thick and
Speaker 2: it's hard to sneak because of it. The other one
Speaker 2: is for Mass Effect, where Commander Shepherd says, report to
Speaker 2: the ship immediately, will bang okay, which is from this
Speaker 2: old web series, which what.
Speaker 1: Frank's saying is all of these references are roughly fifteen
Speaker 1: years old.
Speaker 2: Basically, yes, but you know, I still think that one's funny.
Speaker 2: The rest of that series did not age.
Speaker 1: Well, what series is it. I'm not even gonna say, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: is it that one with.
Speaker 2: No that's control all delete? That one really didn't age well.
Speaker 1: I think even at the time, it wasn't like good right.
Speaker 2: There's a whole plot line where one of the characters
Speaker 2: goes on a date and it turns out his date
Speaker 2: is overweight, and he's just like, oh, okay, I guess
Speaker 2: I'll just ride this out. Then they go back to
Speaker 2: her place and she takes off like a fat suit
Speaker 2: and she's just like, I just wanted to see if
Speaker 2: you are into me, and it's just like, ha ha,
Speaker 2: this is awful. And it's like it.
Speaker 1: Became in that scenario everyone's associopath.
Speaker 2: It became the like the thing of just like the
Speaker 2: author's self insert character is the most annoying person in
Speaker 2: the world. Like as Yazzi put it, like from zero
Speaker 2: punctuation and now fully ramblematic. I'm really dating myself with
Speaker 2: these I've been crying. But like as Yancey put it
Speaker 2: in his video about video game web comics, if this
Speaker 2: was your roommate, you'd be slamming his face in an addresser
Speaker 2: drawer of one hand while you search for a new
Speaker 2: apartment with the other like, that's how annoying he is.
Speaker 2: And then of course there's the girl who will become
Speaker 2: the self in certain main Cariagter's girlfriend, and that's exactly
Speaker 2: what happened control Delete, which then led to the miscarriage storyline,
Speaker 2: which led to loss dot.
Speaker 1: Jpeg, which led to a million Tumblr memes.
Speaker 2: Yes, so okay, but let's talk about stranger things where
Speaker 2: we're gonna actually be dealing with the faminal loss there too. Nice, Frank,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: Do you want to throw any other old references out?
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: Do you want to talk about No Country for Old Men?
Speaker 1: That's having a research? I mean, I think I mentioned
Speaker 1: this on like way too many episodes for how kind
Speaker 1: of irrelevant it is, But I've abandoned no.
Speaker 2: That there will be Blaye would be.
Speaker 1: No one's talking about No Country for Old Man except
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's I think it's a superior movie till
Speaker 2: they will be blood. Just throwing that out there, but.
Speaker 1: I just think it's funny that I'm like, everyone's talking
Speaker 1: about it and You're like, wait, what really, And I
Speaker 1: was like, no, no, not really.
Speaker 2: What was talking about? Daniel Dale Louis is like, hey, guys,
Speaker 2: till you're retiring. Then he came back and we're like
Speaker 2: for a movie that didn't seem like it was worth
Speaker 2: coming back for.
Speaker 1: Wait which movie?
Speaker 2: I see? That's the thing. Well I find out, But
Speaker 2: like if you spend like Daniel Dandy, Lewis is also
Speaker 2: one of those people who is just like, I'm a
Speaker 2: method actor, which means I'm an asshole, an anemone. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: what about who cares? Oh, his son's in it.
Speaker 1: That tells me everything.
Speaker 2: The son directed it, so I guess he's like, Dad,
Speaker 2: my movie's not gonna be good while you already He's
Speaker 2: like all right.
Speaker 1: I mean like, look, if you're trying to get something
Speaker 1: made and you have an insanely talented and famous parent,
Speaker 1: why not use them? Although can you imagine trying to
Speaker 1: direct your own parent in something that sounds like a
Speaker 1: nightmare to me? Like, how are you going to get
Speaker 1: around the conversations of like, yeah, that's he was like good,
Speaker 1: but could you try it a different way? You're never
Speaker 1: going to say.
Speaker 2: That I raised you, I brought you into this woman,
Speaker 2: I could take you have it, Dad, come on.
Speaker 1: And then he'll be like I abandon my boy.
Speaker 2: My boy When I said that I sup wishing I
Speaker 2: could aband you. Thanks Dad, all right, rolling He's like,
Speaker 2: I am method speed action.
Speaker 1: I don't. I think it's the DP of photography that
Speaker 1: calls those things. But okay, moving on.
Speaker 2: Okay, So where we left off was Erica was going
Speaker 2: into the vents after she was bribed with a swashbuckler
Speaker 2: scoops a hoy, Frank put.
Speaker 1: Some respect on the SS butterscotch Sissy.
Speaker 2: I said last week, I wanted to eat, like eat
Speaker 2: the SS butter Scotch because it looked delicious.
Speaker 1: I have to say, I feel like those waffle chips
Speaker 1: are innovative that make up the sales.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean yeah, like what a balance. I
Speaker 2: mean because you can just like snap them off and
Speaker 2: like dip your It's like basically like ice cream nachos exactly.
Speaker 2: So like this is what I was saying last week,
Speaker 2: where Erica's just like, really, you want me to put
Speaker 2: my leg on line for Reagan's America, But she eventually.
Speaker 1: Gets she does love capitalism.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's weird.
Speaker 1: Well Worshiper too that like different, uh sort of channels
Speaker 1: of information were limited the country was under Reaganomics. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at how much makeup everyone's wearing to the pool
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair. So we had so they are party
Speaker 2: that's going into the elevator and to find out the
Speaker 2: Russians is Robin, Steve, Dustin and Erica. They'll end up
Speaker 2: on an elevator that's just shotguns them all the way down,
Speaker 2: like so they don't know.
Speaker 1: That it's a room that moves. There's like a very
Speaker 1: uh sort of I feel like this happens in movies
Speaker 1: like Escape Room where they're like, what's the puzzle here
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, it's an elevator room. But I'm
Speaker 1: was a little bit shocked when that happened.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, Sissy, it also just very recently happened
Speaker 2: and now you see me, Now you don't Rosamond Pike's character,
Speaker 2: who's supposed to be very intelligence, does not realize she's
Speaker 2: in a truck instead of an elevator.
Speaker 1: I feel like she's the type of person that would
Speaker 1: get uh like truly hypnotized on a magic.
Speaker 2: Show, but like you just gotta juggle your keys and
Speaker 2: she's like, oh where am I? Yeah? So anyway, do
Speaker 2: you think.
Speaker 1: They would have done that to her? Even if she
Speaker 1: didn't do crime.
Speaker 2: What like hypnotized her.
Speaker 1: Noake tricked her into thinking that she had gone into
Speaker 1: the desert.
Speaker 2: I mean, if if I was a magician like the
Speaker 2: The Full Horsemen and then the Eight Horsemen in this movie,
Speaker 2: I would be doing that shit all the time. To ever,
Speaker 2: when I knew, I think I would just.
Speaker 1: Be doing the thing where i'd fake limbs pop off.
Speaker 2: So you're that guy from Rosa Development. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 2: why you don't yell. That's why J Peterson, Yeah, J P. Peterson,
Speaker 2: And that's why you always leave a note. Oh no,
Speaker 2: Buster's good hand just flew off. So anyway, I had
Speaker 2: the thought, do you think that Ben Affleck is like
Speaker 2: a big dog where he has health complications due to
Speaker 2: being a big man. I mean he said being batman
Speaker 2: nearly killed him.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that answers that question. Moving forward, So Frank,
Speaker 1: I need to ask you what did you think of
Speaker 1: this Steve slash Robin almost but not really romance?
Speaker 2: I mean it made sense like, well, okay, so here's
Speaker 2: the thing. I'm ready hippie, like a good himbo like
Speaker 2: Steve needs an intelligent woman to keep him in line.
Speaker 1: Yes, Like it's really putting the burden on the woman
Speaker 1: in the relationship for sure.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, here's the thing though.
Speaker 1: In the way Robin describes Stephen Klass, he sounds wild annoying.
Speaker 2: But yeah he was, but then he mature when he
Speaker 2: became mister Mom, as everybody in the fandom calls him,
Speaker 2: like the baby sitter, mister mom, you know. But the
Speaker 2: thing is, like, I don't like there's there's a difference
Speaker 2: between alte an oath, like in like a sitcom, like
Speaker 2: You're King of You're what's.
Speaker 1: His name, King of Queens, Kevin James.
Speaker 2: Thank you Kevin James, and King Queen's is an oath.
Speaker 2: He's unhelpful, he's annoying, sim yes, but he was better
Speaker 2: back in the day. Yeah, but like a himbo is
Speaker 2: is like better because he's trying his best, like is
Speaker 2: not very good, yeah, but like he'll like he at
Speaker 2: least can understand certain things. Yeah, he's somewhat competent, but
Speaker 2: then of course you have the like. Then the peak though,
Speaker 2: is the Clark Kent. The Clark Kent is everything a
Speaker 2: himbo is. He's hot, he's muscular, trump charming, I guess,
Speaker 2: Steve Kennedy charming, and he is also very respectful of women,
Speaker 2: but he's intelligent. Yeah, so that's the Clark Kent. That
Speaker 2: Clark Kent's the ultimate package. So I was like, but
Speaker 2: like I felt like they were on an even playing field.
Speaker 2: Like She's just like, look, I know you're like all
Speaker 2: these women are falling all over themselves for you. Your
Speaker 2: charms don't work on me, but I can understand you're
Speaker 2: just a pretty good guy. So just to get us
Speaker 2: to the point I really want to talk about regarding
Speaker 2: the relationship, they get end up trapped in the elevator
Speaker 2: for like eight hours. Eric's like, I need to go
Speaker 2: to Uncle Jack's party tomorrow. Well, I swear to God
Speaker 2: you people like and then like they figure out a
Speaker 2: way to like they start hearing people coming in, they
Speaker 2: sneak out by putting this.
Speaker 1: Well, first they hid on top of the elevator. The
Speaker 1: men come in unpack the shipment. Then as the men
Speaker 1: are driving away in those little golf carts, they're like
Speaker 1: almost miniature vans, but golf cart size. I love them.
Speaker 1: They're I would say, the width is smaller than a
Speaker 1: golf cart. But there is a lot of these little
Speaker 1: red van trams in this tunnel city that is within
Speaker 1: the Star Court Mall, and I feel like season three
Speaker 1: is where you really see that Netflix was all in
Speaker 1: on this series because there are so many more modes
Speaker 1: of transportation, so many more set pieces. The Star Court
Speaker 1: Mall looks amazing. Everything is in Neon. There is the
Speaker 1: Scoops Ahoy, which is where Steven Robin work. Then there's
Speaker 1: this inner sort of tron lit type tunnel village behind
Speaker 1: all that, as well as where they've opened the rift
Speaker 1: in the mall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they're trying to figure out what's going on.
Speaker 2: They like find the communications place.
Speaker 1: I also like that they didn't try to explain how
Speaker 1: the ooze, like the turtles secret of the ooze canisters
Speaker 1: work into opening the rift. They're just part of the
Speaker 1: ray gun thing.
Speaker 2: It's just like we just have seemingly cans of acid everywhere.
Speaker 2: Like Zill does not like.
Speaker 1: The David Pumpkins skip from SNL, He just does not
Speaker 1: think it's funny. But I think it's so funny to
Speaker 1: say we're not can explain the internal logic. It's just
Speaker 1: part of it, and that's what they're doing here basically.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, uh, they are trying to find out what's
Speaker 2: going on. They they like Robin sees what's happening, and
Speaker 2: she's like, hey, guys, shave this out, and like it
Speaker 2: clicks for Steve and Dustin like, oh shit, the rift
Speaker 2: is opening up again, like things are about to get
Speaker 2: walk walk, Thing's about to get wild.
Speaker 1: And the other part is Dustin explains to Erica when
Speaker 1: they're trying to open the air events later, everything that's happened,
Speaker 1: and Erica's one question is my brother was there? And Dustin,
Speaker 1: I would say, logically, says is that I told you
Speaker 1: all of this stuff, so much of it based in
Speaker 1: like almost sci fi fantasy, and your only point of
Speaker 1: disbelief is that your brother was involved.
Speaker 2: And she's like, yes, I mean, sissy, if you found
Speaker 2: out that I had saved the.
Speaker 1: World, Like, I don't know, Frank, we both know that
Speaker 1: he secrets. Mister secret online girlfriend.
Speaker 2: My secret one, My secret digitimon online girlfriend is the
Speaker 2: you ate my tunament sandwich up like.
Speaker 1: I did that in front of you.
Speaker 2: I did not have to use some diffuse to steal
Speaker 2: your sandwich. And I did not lie.
Speaker 1: I didn't wait a decade to tell you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't argue with that.
Speaker 1: I did right in front of your face. No apologies,
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: I keep bringing out that you never bought.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and guess one I never will because you kept
Speaker 1: your digitmon girlfriend the secret. Oh god, if your friend's
Speaker 1: digitmon girlfriend and you're listening, right, is it real? Teen
Speaker 1: girls talking at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2: I was bringing up the fact that, like, there's a
Speaker 2: clip from they remade some new digitmon movies. Gotta catch them,
Speaker 2: moll di no digitmon, you get one.
Speaker 1: Gotta catch one digitmon.
Speaker 2: And I like, there it's Gobaman saying to his friend Matt, like, look,
Speaker 2: you don't know what any of these words mean. Okay,
Speaker 2: Well he's just saying, when you get married and have kids,
Speaker 2: I'll take care of your kids when you become a
Speaker 2: middle aged man, and I'll go to the sauna with you,
Speaker 2: like I'll be there through your entire life, and like
Speaker 2: that's that's if you ever want to know what the
Speaker 2: difference between Pokemon and digitmon is. Pokemon, I have two
Speaker 2: hundred pets Digitmon. I have one bff. So that's it. Anyway,
Speaker 2: So Steve and Robin get captured, Dustin and Erica are
Speaker 2: running around. Dustin points out that Erica is a giant nerd.
Speaker 2: She has a my little pony backpack, and she's like,
Speaker 2: I'm not nerved like you guys are.
Speaker 1: He does make the case for her possibly being a nerd,
Speaker 1: and I am so sorry. I know you just told
Speaker 1: me facts about digitmon, but my brain shut off and
Speaker 1: I didn't observe any of them. Hopefully there's not a
Speaker 1: quiz at the end of the podcast, because I feel like,
Speaker 1: I know you get one digitmal On and with pokemons,
Speaker 1: you have a lot of Pokemons. The more successful you are,
Speaker 1: the more pokemons. I did listen. Yeah, with my back brain,
Speaker 1: I'll give it.
Speaker 2: Like my brother and my brother and me brought up
Speaker 2: a good point that it's like hard to feed that
Speaker 2: many pokemones, especially because a lot of them just looked
Speaker 2: like dudes. Now, yeah, like okay, what like men look
Speaker 2: up mister mime on your phone? Is it? No, okay,
Speaker 2: I've seen him.
Speaker 1: I don't want that in my search history anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just amed be like, here you go, buddy,
Speaker 2: You're just a dude.
Speaker 1: Frank, You'll be so excited to know. And now I'm
Speaker 1: putting my phone down that the walk Card Dewey Cock
Speaker 1: story that I put on hold just came in. Frank
Speaker 1: did not believe me when I called him to be like, hey,
Speaker 1: do you know if it's streaming anywhere? And he was like,
Speaker 1: buy it. I'll buy it for you. And I was like,
Speaker 1: or I could get it for free from the library
Speaker 1: and then return it and no one has spent any money.
Speaker 1: And Frank was like, but my Cole just came in.
Speaker 2: What is it? We later, I'm feeling two weeks later,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, two weeks See the movie was made
Speaker 2: like two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: I thought you were saying that was a long time.
Speaker 1: I was like, nobody has evds anymore, but no.
Speaker 2: It just reminds me of back in finding that movie
Speaker 2: Finding Forrester, where.
Speaker 1: Like another timely reference.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Yeah, I feel good that I'm referencing things
Speaker 2: that aren't the normal bullshit I constantly reference.
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna say, I'm happy I'm referencing
Speaker 1: things that are heated rivalry, which we're going to watch
Speaker 1: next week. And literally I would say that seventy eight
Speaker 1: percent of my feet is heated rivalry.
Speaker 2: But like, like Jamal, it's like, oh me, how popular
Speaker 2: could you? But books still be and like he goes
Speaker 2: a little library to try and to get it and
Speaker 2: he gets put on the wait list for like four weeks,
Speaker 2: like four months or something. It's just like, so, how
Speaker 2: long you wait? He's like, yeah, yeah, old.
Speaker 1: Man, I got a recommendation for Dungeon Walker Steve or something.
Speaker 2: Oh, Dungeon Crawler Carr.
Speaker 1: Yes, And because it's like a self published that got
Speaker 1: picked up, there is like two copies and I have
Speaker 1: a twenty five week wait on it. But I'm excited
Speaker 1: because I'm like, I think it's really fun when things
Speaker 1: happen organically like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's why I love the Martian.
Speaker 1: You know the other thing that came in that I
Speaker 1: am not excited about. And this is a teaser for
Speaker 1: stuff we're doing this spring Reminders of him. I am
Speaker 1: so embarrassed that I have to pick that up in
Speaker 1: front of my coworkers. Like, I love trash, but I
Speaker 1: also try to keep my love of trash a little
Speaker 1: bit separate from work, and it bleeds out all the time.
Speaker 2: I can't understand that. So so Robin and uh, Steve's
Speaker 2: getting the shit kicked out of him by the Russians.
Speaker 1: Oh, one more recommendation for a book that is embarrassing
Speaker 1: to pick up in front of your coworkers. But totally
Speaker 1: worth it. I read in Shitification by Cory doctor Ow
Speaker 1: about how like technology products, general marketing continues to get worse,
Speaker 1: the product gets worse while taking more data and things
Speaker 1: from us. But the front of that book is a
Speaker 1: poop emoji, and I was like, I have a little
Speaker 1: bit embarrassed to pick this up. But it was a
Speaker 1: really interesting read. So, Okay, Steve is getting beaten up.
Speaker 1: I didn't like this. I didn't like all of the
Speaker 1: insinuated possible torture.
Speaker 2: Hated that.
Speaker 1: Not a fan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they get injected with truth zerum.
Speaker 1: That was funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it just makes like Robin and Steve turbo
Speaker 2: high and the Russians start realizing these people are just
Speaker 2: like they just seem to be teenagers.
Speaker 1: Yes, so, which is like kind of on right, Like
Speaker 1: they at this point they look like teens, so for
Speaker 1: them to keep saying who do you work for? And
Speaker 1: they're like, because this is the thing. So we'll find
Speaker 1: out in this episode of the next episode that the
Speaker 1: way that all of this happened was the mayor got approached.
Speaker 1: The mayor is shady and they were like, hey, lean
Speaker 1: on some of these Like the whole thing with the
Speaker 1: farms and the land like never comes up again. And
Speaker 1: so the mayor has cleared out an area around the
Speaker 1: mall by the different transformers of the power company. But
Speaker 1: the people who built the mall, presumably the people who
Speaker 1: built them all, are the same people trying to open
Speaker 1: the rift because they had to build this tunnel city
Speaker 1: under the mall. But they are really not being covert.
Speaker 1: Like Hawkins is a small town, there are going to
Speaker 1: be other busybodies, myself included, who are going to say,
Speaker 1: I wonder why there are men guarding the back of
Speaker 1: the mall with machine guns.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with Russian made guns.
Speaker 1: Well I can't like clock a gun, especially at a distance,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I would be like, what are they guarding
Speaker 1: a delivery of? Like we don't even see brand names
Speaker 1: in the mall. It's not like they have a high
Speaker 1: end shoe store or like a fancy purse store. They
Speaker 1: have old timey small town shoes store. The cap Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have a food court, so nobody noticed, no one
Speaker 1: who worked at Let me tell you, as a teen
Speaker 1: that has had when I had all those part time jobs,
Speaker 1: I knew exactly the places that I could go to
Speaker 1: hide to smoke cigarettes. So you're telling me none of
Speaker 1: the teams in that mall figured out smoking off of
Speaker 1: a loading dock.
Speaker 2: I called bullshit. So the mayor of Carrie el was
Speaker 2: the mayor and Hawkins does remind me a lot of
Speaker 2: Mayor Wilkins from season three of Buffy. Okay, but instead
Speaker 2: of him just getting rich off of the Russians, the
Speaker 2: Buffy mayor is just trying to turn to a giant
Speaker 2: monster to eat people.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess everybody has a dream.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so eventually Dustin Erica, is.
Speaker 1: He at least trying to become like a hot monster,
Speaker 1: like a demo dog. No, he becomes All of the
Speaker 1: Buffy monsters are kind of busted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, I mean, see the thing is it that
Speaker 2: people say now chopped, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Freg's like, let me trot out of reference from twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: Frank's like ugly.
Speaker 2: So they do escape, they go they hide in Back
Speaker 2: to the Future.
Speaker 1: Okay again, I'm so sorry I keep interrupting you, but
Speaker 1: I like the thing I think is so funny about
Speaker 1: this show is they like will dip their toe into realism,
Speaker 1: but then they're like, Nope, can't do that for the plot.
Speaker 1: So Initially they are having full volume conversations in the
Speaker 1: movies and people were like and then people just stop
Speaker 1: shushing that, and they're like talking about nerd stuff and
Speaker 1: sneaking out and where did Steve and uh Robin go?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so like.
Speaker 1: Tangentially, there is a video going around the Broadway subredit
Speaker 1: right now where a man was at Mama Mea. He
Speaker 1: brought his niece to see Mama Mia. It's now being
Speaker 1: referred to as the Uncle video. And I know this
Speaker 1: is such inside baseball because like, unless you're into Broadway,
Speaker 1: this is probably not going to cross your dashboard. But
Speaker 1: the women behind him were singing along the entire time.
Speaker 1: So during the intermission he stood up and he's like,
Speaker 1: are you joking? You cannot sing during a Broadway show?
Speaker 1: And they were like, we were just singing along, and
Speaker 1: he was like, ah.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of that John mulaney thing where his
Speaker 2: father turned around with the kids during Lion King. He goes,
Speaker 2: are you going to talk the entire time? Yeah? He's like,
Speaker 2: you know the way you talk to children?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, like it is wild because like, no matter
Speaker 1: how many times they tell us, turn your phone off,
Speaker 1: turn literally anything that makes noise off. Every single show
Speaker 1: I have been in, with the exception of Great Gatsby recently,
Speaker 1: it will be the most climactic moment. People will be
Speaker 1: professing their love to each other and someone's dang phone
Speaker 1: goes off, full volume, full ring tone. Then you get
Speaker 1: the pause where they think, can I get away with
Speaker 1: pretending it's not me? Nope, it's still going and it's
Speaker 1: so loud, and people a shouting to look at me.
Speaker 1: Now you get the rustling, the rustling, and the digging,
Speaker 1: the rustling and the digging, and by now people are
Speaker 1: starting to look, they're starting to disk. The best part
Speaker 1: is when that happens and then fucking happens again. It's like,
Speaker 1: have you learned nothing? Okay, so we're moving out of
Speaker 1: the movies. Steven Robin spent so much time sitting on
Speaker 1: the bathroom floor, like so much time, And at one
Speaker 1: point Robin goes the floor is discussing and I was like, Robin,
Speaker 1: you've been all up on that floor. You were lying
Speaker 1: on your back, your head.
Speaker 2: Touched the bottom floor. Yeah, and like that that is
Speaker 2: a very good point. But I do I love that
Speaker 2: scene so much.
Speaker 1: It's very huge. I just wish they were like in
Speaker 1: a dressing room or something. And I know the reason
Speaker 1: they had to get there was because they were looking
Speaker 1: at the twinkly lights and they sort of had an
Speaker 1: equilibrium issue and then they had to go through up.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So like the scene, like they start playing not
Speaker 2: true for dare never, I never have I ever thank you,
Speaker 2: and they're like somebody should turns to Netflix show and
Speaker 2: they're like Steve starts talking that he's like no longer
Speaker 2: in love with Nancy Wheeler, He's in love with somebody else.
Speaker 2: I did like Robin goes Nancy Wheeler, she's such a
Speaker 2: press and he's just like remembering all the time. Nancy
Speaker 2: has just stone cold shot things over the last like
Speaker 2: year and a half.
Speaker 1: And like the other part is the Nancy that Robin
Speaker 1: knows is not going to have any resemblance to the
Speaker 1: Nancy that Steve knows because like a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: happened to them, Yeah, and character growth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then he's like, no, I'm in love with somebody else,
Speaker 2: and he of course starts describing describing Robin. And I
Speaker 2: love my Hawk's face through all of this because it's
Speaker 2: like it's like two conflicting emotions, Like she has to
Speaker 2: one break his heart and do something horrendously scary in
Speaker 2: small town America in the eighties.
Speaker 1: It reminds me so much of There's this point in
Speaker 1: My so called life where Delia dances with Ricky Vesquez
Speaker 1: at the dance Delia being the new girl, and she
Speaker 1: says to him like, Hey, I realize you know, I
Speaker 1: have a crush on you, and nothing's ever gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But Brian krackout of all people, like really hurt me
Speaker 1: of all people with me editorializing, And Ricky says, Delia,
Speaker 1: do you know how much easier my life would be
Speaker 1: if I could just like you too? And so like
Speaker 1: Ricky Vesquez by far the most redeemable character on the
Speaker 1: show is having this struggle with you know, being queer
Speaker 1: in the nineties in I believe they're in Connecticut, but like,
Speaker 1: it reminded me a lot of Maya well A Robin
Speaker 1: where she's like, I was obsessed with you, not because
Speaker 1: I wanted to be with you, I wanted to have
Speaker 1: what you had, and like that makes perfect sense, Like
Speaker 1: Steve Harrington.
Speaker 2: Lives a charmed light, yeah, and then like yeah, and
Speaker 2: I had to give it, you know, give it to
Speaker 2: Steve he handles it very well because he's just like
Speaker 2: they start talking about the girl she had a crush on,
Speaker 2: and he's like, you could do like her, Like she
Speaker 2: wanted to be a singer, and he's like, like she
Speaker 2: was always so pitchy, like in every talent show. And
Speaker 2: they start singing together, and like the relief that watches
Speaker 2: over Mayahawk's face is Robins. Yeah, yeah, well yeah, and
Speaker 2: it's just it's I love that scene, like I that.
Speaker 1: I remembered from my first watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just like such a good scene, and you know,
Speaker 2: and then like Dustin and Erica show up and they
Speaker 2: like just start giggling and like, I know, we spent
Speaker 2: thirty minutes on just like the plot lane of these four.
Speaker 2: But honestly, like everybody else is just starting to kind
Speaker 2: of coalesque and not like a whole lot is happening.
Speaker 2: That differentiates the two well, because.
Speaker 1: The other thing is the demic Gorgon is back. It
Speaker 1: looks similar to the spidery demigorgan.
Speaker 2: This is the mind Flare.
Speaker 1: But it's like made of human bush. Yeah, how would
Speaker 1: you describe the makeup of the mind Flare?
Speaker 2: Okay, well we're gonna get into that I don't take
Speaker 2: quick trip to the bake sale. So the mind Flare
Speaker 2: is just a.
Speaker 1: Everyone I think also called the mind Flare dummy, thick, disrespectful.
Speaker 2: Susie, What is the point of me texting you individually
Speaker 2: away from our group chat if you're just gonna share
Speaker 2: my business on the podcast, I'm like, Mom and Susy
Speaker 2: are Mom and Dale don't need to know that I'm
Speaker 2: calling these monsters dummy thick. I'm gonna share this with
Speaker 2: my sister privately.
Speaker 1: But no, that is that in the world for our listeners. Frank,
Speaker 1: if you think the mind Flayer is dummy thick, right,
Speaker 1: it's a real team girl talk and Gmail the cop actually.
Speaker 2: You know if you have Broadway complaints, also right into
Speaker 2: real tea girl talk at gmail dot com. Yes, like,
Speaker 2: because I would say I would not. I would say
Speaker 2: audience is probably very musically inclined and I'm here for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we love we love a theater nerd. Yeah. Can
Speaker 1: the mind Flayer also look like a Cuthulhu?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I showed you last week that the
Speaker 2: the mind flayors I love Cuthulhus are the original mind
Speaker 2: flayers from uh Dungeons and Dragons.
Speaker 1: Gotcha.
Speaker 2: So Nancy and Nancy and Jonathan find the rest of
Speaker 2: the kids. They're hunting them down because they think they're
Speaker 2: in danger. They all meet up at Hopper's cabin and
Speaker 2: they're like, they have Eleven trying to do her sensory
Speaker 2: deprivation thing to find the to find the to find Billy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and she does, and we get treated to bits and
Speaker 2: pieces of Billy's past. This one day he spent with
Speaker 2: his mom on the on the beach, and then we
Speaker 2: see his horrendously abusive father and him standing up to
Speaker 2: him and also learning from him to become the monster
Speaker 2: he is now meeting Max and then moving to Hawkins.
Speaker 2: But this exposes where Eleven is to Billy, and he
Speaker 2: sends the mind Flayer to attack them. Well, I really.
Speaker 1: Feel like the mind flare was like ineffective atass Yeah.
Speaker 2: You're not wrong, Okay, Well, actually before that, we got
Speaker 2: a scene where people are like, well, if we can't
Speaker 2: find out where Billy is, and like Missus Driscoll is
Speaker 2: trying to get back, why don't we just release Missus
Speaker 2: Driscoll into the wild? Essentially, Yeah, So they go to
Speaker 2: the hospital, they get attacked by Nancy and Jonathan's co workers.
Speaker 2: The two of them fight them off and managed to
Speaker 2: kill them. But then they become goo and become a
Speaker 2: larger or smaller version of what the mind flaw will become.
Speaker 2: Elch like shows up and like just dices this thing
Speaker 2: throwing against the walls with her telekinesis.
Speaker 1: I love that they had the woman on the phone
Speaker 1: just like be so unawares of what was going on.
Speaker 1: But really and truly, at some point she must have
Speaker 1: when she was talking about that woman's cake and has
Speaker 1: she didn't want that woman over her house, she must
Speaker 1: have heard the something around.
Speaker 2: No, I mean it was on like the floor with
Speaker 2: the constructions on.
Speaker 1: It's the middle of the night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, once again we should we should do account of
Speaker 2: like every time, like every time we see a dank
Speaker 2: ass hospital like versus how many times we see like
Speaker 2: a hospital that looks like it should be. Yeah, where
Speaker 2: things are well lit, it's well staffed, like you can't
Speaker 2: move like for doctors and nurses and personnel.
Speaker 1: So anyway, so many dark hospitals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the people the the goo disappears into the sewer.
Speaker 2: They retreat to Hopper's cabin.
Speaker 1: There's so much of it at that point. Don't you
Speaker 1: think that it would like clog the sewers.
Speaker 2: I guess so, but I'm sure it can probably like
Speaker 2: mold itself compressed. Yeah, there's actually this really fun game
Speaker 2: called Carrion.
Speaker 1: You to post. Okay, this is story quality, not not grit.
Speaker 1: There's there's no nuts share is me.
Speaker 2: This is this really fun game called Carrion where you
Speaker 2: play as basically this goo monster. Okay, and like the
Speaker 2: whole you're just running around eating scientists and other people,
Speaker 2: and like it's it's super good. Like it's very short,
Speaker 2: but it's very good.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So anyway, they the rest of the people turn into
Speaker 2: goo and add to the mind flare. As I said eleven,
Speaker 2: I did love.
Speaker 1: The visual of when they're at the steel works and
Speaker 1: everyone's lined up and they're reminded me of is it
Speaker 1: like a Simpsons visual where people are taking an escalator
Speaker 1: to nowhere? Yes, and this is someone would step forward
Speaker 1: and be like, splat, now I'm goo splat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like it's on the episode with the monoail. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and Mark just like that's the last time in Springfield
Speaker 2: ever wasted money on a useless project. Well except for
Speaker 2: that escalator that went nowhere and the giant skyscraper made
Speaker 2: of obstacles, and also the giant magnifying glass which you
Speaker 2: see is igniting the skyscraper made of obstacles.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Springfield is not good with money, but
Speaker 1: that's probably because Mayor Quinny is on the take.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like one day I wanted to just take,
Speaker 2: like on a vacation or something. I want to sit down.
Speaker 2: I should somebody figured out how often like Springfield riots
Speaker 2: because it feels like the drama had their way to riot.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, they seem pretty pretty easy to ignite.
Speaker 2: So we get these are actual riots that I don't
Speaker 2: want to find out about the AI over here since
Speaker 2: the since in the Springfield have a propensity performing every
Speaker 2: mom's and rioting so much as considered running gag in
Speaker 2: the series. Yes, accurate, but there's no definitive official account
Speaker 2: on the number of riots.
Speaker 1: The one time AI was right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So they figure out the monsters coming to them,
Speaker 2: They prepare, which means giving Nancy a shotgun and letting
Speaker 2: her do her business like she is just blowing the
Speaker 2: hell out of this thing, but doesn't seem to be
Speaker 2: doing much. Yeah, L's powers are starting to malfunction essentially,
Speaker 2: and like she they blow off a piece of the
Speaker 2: mind flayer and it ends up biting l and they
Speaker 2: take her to a supermarket to fix her up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they're like, her powers are really starting to like
Speaker 2: not work.
Speaker 1: But do you think it's because of like mind flare venom?
Speaker 2: Honestly, I think it might be, right, Like I don't
Speaker 2: know any other explanation for it, but that well, Like
Speaker 2: so they clean her up, and I really like Max
Speaker 2: coming in here and being like, this is how you
Speaker 2: fix this up. I know this. I'm a skateboarder.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And there was also a really cute scene where Mike
Speaker 2: is trying to get some like a kit kat and
Speaker 2: he like the machine eats his money. He's like, come on,
Speaker 2: you suck machine. And you just see l like like
Speaker 2: nod her head and like shakes the machine and all
Speaker 2: this stuff comes loose. Yeah, and Lucas like this is
Speaker 2: like that's your Olive branch man. You're back in. Like
Speaker 2: Mike is like what, Yeah. So well, speaking of Lucas,
Speaker 2: Lucas sees all the fireworks at the supermarket decides to
Speaker 2: take them and use them as as weapons against the
Speaker 2: mind floor.
Speaker 1: Almost like dynamite. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So they get back. They they get back to the mall.
Speaker 2: We get every like Elle starts freaking out because there's
Speaker 2: a piece of the mind flame in her leg. They
Speaker 2: have to be in a completely reasonable reason. Yeah, Like
Speaker 2: it's horrible, it's moving under her skin. Like, Yeah, Jonathan
Speaker 2: tries to cut out. She's like, I'll take care of
Speaker 2: it myself and uses her powers to rip it out extracted. Yeah,
Speaker 2: cut that uses her power to extracted. It goes crawling away.
Speaker 2: All a sudden, a big old boot comes in Hopp
Speaker 2: Hopper joys.
Speaker 1: The first time I saw that, I cried. I was
Speaker 1: very stressed out for these children.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like we.
Speaker 1: Totally forgot about the whole Alexi side plot. So the
Speaker 1: thing is, Hopper and Joe have gone to a farm.
Speaker 1: They check all of the farms that were pressured into
Speaker 1: selling by the mayor. At hess farm, they find two
Speaker 1: different scientists working on a generator. I believe this like
Speaker 1: Arrange schwartzen a or wannabee guy shows up and.
Speaker 2: Is I was gonna say opposite, like the T one
Speaker 2: thousand dude.
Speaker 1: Right Patrick John Patrick, John Patrick, And so they kidnap Alexi.
Speaker 1: Robert Patrick, Robert Patrick they're surviving scientists and he the
Speaker 1: T one thousand, is hunting them in the woods. They
Speaker 1: end up going to a seven to eleven. Alexi acquires
Speaker 1: a taste for slurfees, and Hopper steals a car from
Speaker 1: a citizen. I'm gonna say this, I don't think Hopper
Speaker 1: should be police chief. I'm just gonna say this.
Speaker 2: It don't worry, not a problem.
Speaker 1: So, uh, they bring him Alexi to a friend of Hopper's.
Speaker 1: How they're friends.
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Who speaks Russian and lives in like a bunker in
Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2: Well he was in season two or season one. He's
Speaker 2: the like he's the guy that Jonathan and Nancy meet
Speaker 2: up with. Yes, and like he's just like you guys
Speaker 2: can take that room. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Yes, So he translates with the Alexi Alexi.
Speaker 1: It was going to escape, but Hopper says, like, if
Speaker 1: he comes back with no wounds on him, they will
Speaker 1: suspect him of having given away secrets.
Speaker 2: So they there's a whole scene where Alexi has a
Speaker 2: breakdown over our strawberry slushy and.
Speaker 4: And Hopper's is like, like, you just get out of here,
Speaker 4: very much like a like a horse. Then I didn't
Speaker 4: you get out of here?
Speaker 1: He basically Harry and Henderson's Alexi. So when Alexi explains
Speaker 1: that they are trying to open up the gate again,
Speaker 1: Hopper and Joyce make the connection that it's happening and
Speaker 1: in all likelihood their children are involved. So Alexi keeps
Speaker 1: talking about the keys.
Speaker 2: And there's a point where Hopper's friend is like, they
Speaker 2: said children, They don't know if you can't say it's
Speaker 2: your children, and Joyce is arcists. It's always arcists, and
Speaker 2: it truly is.
Speaker 1: So they start driving back. Hopper calls like whatever secret
Speaker 1: government entity dealt with like the meltdown of the gate
Speaker 1: last time. Joyce calls them back and he's like, no,
Speaker 1: for real, get your asses here. What's going on? So
Speaker 1: when they get to the fair, Joyce see Mike's mom
Speaker 1: and who's like, oh, hey, how are you because she
Speaker 1: and her husband are completely oblivious to everything happening.
Speaker 2: Again when they're going to the fair with their daughter, Holly.
Speaker 1: Sure, Frank, but like their kids have been vincing for
Speaker 1: a while, people.
Speaker 2: Are just wandering away from town, and like I think
Speaker 2: Holly sees the mind flare in the distance.
Speaker 1: Yes, because the mind flare is moving towards Joyce's house
Speaker 1: and points out to her mom, like the trees are moving,
Speaker 1: and she's like, don't look at the trees down, you
Speaker 1: look at the fireworks. And so then the t one
Speaker 1: thousand shows up at the fair. There is like a
Speaker 1: protracted chase scene between he and Hopper. Alexi wins a
Speaker 1: woody woodpecker, big Stuffy and is shot. And this is
Speaker 1: when they realize that they have to start moving towards
Speaker 1: the mall where they shut down the gate. All of
Speaker 1: the kids are moving towards the mall because they all
Speaker 1: met up. Dustin apologized for not being around the other crew,
Speaker 1: apologizes for not knowing where Dustin, Steve, and Robin were.
Speaker 1: And now they're making a plan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so.
Speaker 2: Hopper, Joyce and the nameless friend, I'm going to look
Speaker 2: up his name who. Dustin gives the code sign of
Speaker 2: bald eagle too over the walkie talkies. So Dustin and Robin, Dustin,
Speaker 2: Robin and Steve take the convertible out to where they
Speaker 2: were talking to Susie before because that gives them the
Speaker 2: best range to speak to them. Yeah, and like they
Speaker 2: need to get down there, turn these two keys like
Speaker 2: it's a nuclear code, and then they'll be able to
Speaker 2: turn off the key. Meanwhile, everybody's like, we're just gonna
Speaker 2: take lle get her far away from all here. But
Speaker 2: they head outside. Their car is not starting because the
Speaker 2: nission cable is gone, and then they just hear a
Speaker 2: car revving and Billy's just sitting in his souped up
Speaker 2: car and it's just like ready to like just destroy
Speaker 2: them in a moment's notice.
Speaker 1: It's funny because everyone else has gotten sucked into human
Speaker 1: goo to make up the mind Flare, but he is
Speaker 1: sort of like the human liaison.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just like, I'm in the face of all this,
Speaker 2: So when the.
Speaker 1: Mind Flaer kills him later, it really feels petty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he was turning against the mind Flare.
Speaker 2: So the the mind Flare breaks into the mall. They
Speaker 2: can't escape because Steve's are because Billy's out there and
Speaker 2: like he's about to kind of run into like he's
Speaker 2: about to drive his car into the car fall the
Speaker 2: heroes and it all of a sudden, here comes Steve
Speaker 2: and Robin in the convertible. They take Billy's car out
Speaker 2: and then everybody's in the mall and becomes this big
Speaker 2: old fight against the mind Flare where everybody's just whipping
Speaker 2: fireworks at it and just whatever, they can't L his
Speaker 2: powers are not working at all anymore. She can't even
Speaker 2: move a can. Billy comes in and starts shrankling L,
Speaker 2: which is horrible. Yeah, and then she starts reminding him
Speaker 2: of his mother, and those memories snap him out of
Speaker 2: what's going on. And the mind like the mind Flare
Speaker 2: is going after L and he grabs its like mall
Speaker 2: basically and stops it. But then like other tentacles just
Speaker 2: start stabbing into him and it's just like he gets
Speaker 2: wrecked by this thing. So he hits the ground. He's dying.
Speaker 1: And like Max runs over. Yeah, he apologizes to her.
Speaker 1: Frank was like, see, it was all worth it, Billy apologists.
Speaker 2: I said the opposite. I want that to be known.
Speaker 1: It's true he did. Frank was like, whatever not regiemed
Speaker 1: burning hell.
Speaker 2: Steve's like, I'll make sure nobody runs at the pool. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But meanwhile, Hopper and Joyce have to do some subterfuge
Speaker 2: to get to the you know place to shut down
Speaker 2: the key the t one thousand guys shows up again.
Speaker 2: Hopper and him have a big old fight. Hopper ends
Speaker 2: up on the wrong side of the glass and he
Speaker 2: just gives Joyce the nod of like, close the gate.
Speaker 2: I know I'm gonna probably be out of here, but
Speaker 2: it's it's time. Writer is such a good actress. There
Speaker 2: is like there, okay, there is another moment I want
Speaker 2: to bring up. They're driving back and Hoppers like if
Speaker 2: you're still playing the move, like I get it, and
Speaker 2: She's just like, well, maybe we can discuss it over
Speaker 2: dinner on Friday, you know, wake me up at eight
Speaker 2: and he's like, a see the thing is like Elle,
Speaker 2: like's watching Miami Vice at ten, So I can't really
Speaker 2: say that. I just like that is so goddamn cute,
Speaker 2: Like Hopper, you're somewhat winning me back. Yeah, so they
Speaker 2: like she shuts down the gate and Hopper like this,
Speaker 2: you know, an explosion, Hopper's gone the the you know,
Speaker 2: American soldiers come in the conspiracy. Theorist name is Murray.
Speaker 2: He's like Americans where Americans I know where wearing uniforms.
Speaker 2: We're Americans. Can I just say when Ryan it was
Speaker 2: really cute and her Russian uniform okay. Ozzle reminded me
Speaker 2: of Tina Fey in the Muppet Movie with the Muppets
Speaker 2: in Crime or something Muppets Most Wanted, where she plays
Speaker 2: I think she also plays like a Russian like Gulog,
Speaker 2: like god and it's like the one of the evil
Speaker 2: Kermit the Frog. Oh my god, No, I have not
Speaker 2: seen that Muppet Movie's rule just throwing that out there.
Speaker 2: So they h like everybody is meeting up in the
Speaker 2: parking lot and you know, loved ones are hugging one another,
Speaker 2: and it's equally heartbreaking because l just shows up and
Speaker 2: she looks at Joyce and Joyce is like yeah, shakes
Speaker 2: her head and L starts crying and I'm like and
Speaker 2: then we get our outro. Everyone is like there's a
Speaker 2: new support. That Hawkins is a hell.
Speaker 1: It's like really sensationalized. It reminds me a lot of
Speaker 1: like sixty Minutes, Yeah, where they're like D and D
Speaker 1: is evil and makes all of the kids worship the devil.
Speaker 2: So and then like the Hawking the not the Hawkins
Speaker 2: the buyers are moving, which there's a brief mention of.
Speaker 2: But I was just like, what, yeah, well, I mean
Speaker 2: like we were just talking about.
Speaker 1: It, but even on like sixty sixty minutes, it's.
Speaker 6: Like, Also the buyers are leaving, people are like, what's
Speaker 6: the point of living here? If Joyce doesn't live in
Speaker 6: this town anymore? It's like, I mean, relatable, honestly fair.
Speaker 2: It's the only thing keeping the buyer's family has been
Speaker 2: keeping this town safe for the buyer's a Wheeler family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are they gonna do? I mean barely, the
Speaker 1: Wheeler family, the Wheeler kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you really want to live in the town
Speaker 2: with this jump? And it just cuts to being like
Speaker 2: I trust the government NonStop. He thenment, the government knows
Speaker 2: what's best. Please put more chemicals in my drinking water.
Speaker 2: And I don't mean like my control chemicals, I mean
Speaker 2: just allowing companies to dump chemicals in our drinking water.
Speaker 2: I'm kid, I'm a moron. I love the government. So,
Speaker 2: oh my god. So the buyers are leaving. They're packing
Speaker 2: up up the cabin the packing house, and Joyce finds
Speaker 2: is folding when of a hoppers shirts. Okay, but also
Speaker 2: sorry once again, Joyce is just like, so, I guess
Speaker 2: am I hired? He's like, what's like because they said
Speaker 2: called her to detective Buyers as a like Ruse at
Speaker 2: one point. Yeah, I'm just like, oh my god, Detective
Speaker 2: Buyers would be so good. Joyce would be a really
Speaker 2: good private eye.
Speaker 1: Like I agree, just like she really is no nonsense.
Speaker 2: Okay. So there's this character in and DC comic is
Speaker 2: called Elongated Man. He is a super stretchy guy, but
Speaker 2: he's also a detective okay. And he has this wife,
Speaker 2: Sue Didney, who everybody in like the DC universe loved,
Speaker 2: and then she got killed and he tried to resurrect her,
Speaker 2: but like it all went horribly wrong, like a pet
Speaker 2: cemetery basically, yeah, damn. And then like they both ended
Speaker 2: up ghost detectives. And I'm like, DC that that just
Speaker 2: prints money. Ralph and Sue Didney ghost detectives, come.
Speaker 1: On, come on, so.
Speaker 2: They she she's folding up one of Hopper's shirts. She
Speaker 2: finds the note that Hopper was supposed to read to
Speaker 2: the kids instead of just threatening Mike's grandma.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Frank is pro threatening people's grandmas.
Speaker 2: I am absolutely no, I am absolutely not. Nana should
Speaker 2: be treasured. Yes, you're nana's, your grandma's, your ganges. Did
Speaker 2: nana call? What happened? To Nana, so she gives the
Speaker 2: note to eleven. Eleven starts reading it, and it's a
Speaker 2: very good performance by David Harbor.
Speaker 1: Well, kids read to us in Hopper's voice, Yeah.
Speaker 2: And he's just like, I know you're growing up. I
Speaker 2: know you're gonna be things are changing, and I wish
Speaker 2: they wouldn't, but that's the nature of this whole thing.
Speaker 2: But please, you know, take mercy on your old dad
Speaker 2: and leave your door open three inches.
Speaker 1: And like, when they're there, I really feel like they
Speaker 1: did a good job of being like and this mayror
Speaker 1: is the worst, Like when he says to Hopper and
Speaker 1: don't give me any of that dead daughter soft story,
Speaker 1: and Hopper's like, I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna like, if you're lucky, I'll be the one
Speaker 2: coming for you. If you're unlucky, Joyce will be coming
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And you know, so I forgot about the parallel
Speaker 1: of like Eleven is his daughter and he had that
Speaker 1: history of loss.
Speaker 2: Well, what I love is that there's no like because
Speaker 2: there's a lot of these shows and things will it'll
Speaker 2: be like, oh, you know, like I'm not gonna call
Speaker 2: you dad or your Hopper and like after a certain
Speaker 2: like which I understand, like you know, you like there's
Speaker 2: a transition period, but I do love that it was
Speaker 2: just like no, like Eleven's my kid, I'm her dad.
Speaker 2: That's that's where we're at. Yeah, so the buyers leave,
Speaker 2: you know, we get a lot of shots. There's a
Speaker 2: beautiful shot of Karen hugging Mike, who is Karen is
Speaker 2: Mike's mom? Because he comes home, he's clearly upset that
Speaker 2: Will's leaving. This isn't like this ending is full of
Speaker 2: great little moments like Will leaves behind all his D
Speaker 2: and D stuff and and Mike's like, what what are
Speaker 2: you gonna do if you want to play for another group?
Speaker 2: He's like, why would I want to play for another group?
Speaker 2: I'll be back and I'll just use your stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And then they give Will's stuff to Erica, Dustin and
Speaker 2: Lucas do Yeah. And then there's just a lovely shot
Speaker 2: of Max sitting on her bed or possibly Billy's, which
Speaker 2: how does she explain what's happened? Like what happened to Billy?
Speaker 1: Like, I mean the way the rest of the cover
Speaker 1: up is explained. Yeah, that it was a chemical spill
Speaker 1: that exploded them all I suppose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jonathan and Will are driving away, Will's crying, Eleven's
Speaker 2: in the truck with Joyce. And it did make me
Speaker 2: happy that Eleven was with Joyce, yeah, because I was like,
Speaker 2: she'll be well protected, because it's always ill for Eleven
Speaker 2: at the end of the East season. Yes, I'm just like, no,
Speaker 2: just let it be okay. So and that's where our
Speaker 2: season is.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: Then there's a mid credit sequence where we cut to
Speaker 2: Russia and like they're like, we're in a prison and
Speaker 2: they're like, no, don't take the American take him, and
Speaker 2: we see a prisoner get fed to a demon demic organ.
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, let's see what happens next season.
Speaker 2: I guess so. But that's season three of S.
Speaker 1: And my question when this happened was they let the
Speaker 1: demogorgan out of a little hatch. How do they get
Speaker 1: it back into the little hatch?
Speaker 2: Which is a good question which I was thinking about
Speaker 2: it while we're doing this episode. I think they probably
Speaker 2: bribe it with other meat, like and Ord just prefers
Speaker 2: the dark. Yeah, they might like maybe they have like
Speaker 2: UV lights. It's like, oh no, back in my little hole. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, although this facility did not seem that
Speaker 1: high tech. They had to drag this prisoner down no
Speaker 1: less than like a dozen flights of windy stairs.
Speaker 2: Sorry, that just did make me think about there's this.
Speaker 2: I saw a clip of this show called Henry Danger. Okay,
Speaker 2: and Henry Danger and this guy named Captain Mann are
Speaker 2: racing up some stairs and like then Captain Man gets
Speaker 2: the top of like one hundred and thirty three flights
Speaker 2: of stairs. He's like, he finds I has to go
Speaker 2: back down. He's like, I can't do it. I'm so tired.
Speaker 2: He's like, hey, wait a minute, I'm in vulnerable and
Speaker 2: what then cuts to like two minutes of him just
Speaker 2: falling down these stairs.
Speaker 5: Just let you just keep cutting different forms, and like,
Speaker 5: that's what I would do if I was infnible, to
Speaker 5: just launch myself down the stairs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, get there faster.
Speaker 2: So next week we're doing the first half of episodes one, two,
Speaker 2: three of Heated Revelry. It's happening. I love the Mighty
Speaker 2: Duck movies. I love good romances. Seems right of my alley.
Speaker 1: Do you love the Cutting Edge?
Speaker 2: I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1: It's an eighties movie about a hockey player who falls
Speaker 1: in love with an ice skater.
Speaker 2: I mean that's that probably has been remade a.
Speaker 1: Dozen times, the anime for.
Speaker 2: Ok No nineteen ninety two.
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