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Bill Frost TV from August 31st, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Well, here he is, munching on some Oreos and getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to tell us what's on TV. It's the fine writer,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Frost. William P. Frost, as a matter of fact.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Bill is a writer, as I mentioned. His writing can
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  Speaker 1: be found at cityweekly.net. A bi-weekly column? Bi-monthly column?
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  Speaker 2: Once a month.
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  Speaker 1: Once a month? A monthly column there?
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And Bill is also a podcaster, the TV Tan podcast. Yes.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: And a musician. Magna Vega is the band. They just
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  Speaker 1: had a triumphant tour of Quarters. You played at Quarters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Fine venue.
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  Speaker 1: And it went well.
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  Speaker 2: It did, yes. Great.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, today, you can probably watch this right now if
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  Speaker 2: you have not been watching Furious on Hulu with Emmy Rossum.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Season finale today, and it has been picked up for
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  Speaker 2: a second season.
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  Speaker 1: It's really good.
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  Speaker 2: It is, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Where she's tracking a female serial killer. She's an FBI agent.
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: And depending on the finale here, it could be still
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  Speaker 2: tracking that same serial killer into the next season, or
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  Speaker 2: we might have a whole new one.
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  Speaker 3: New, fresh serial killer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Criminal Minds has been on for almost 20
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  Speaker 2: years now.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody on that show is excellent. Yes. There's the black woman,
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  Speaker 1: the actor's name I don't remember, who plays the senior
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  Speaker 1: FBI person. She's fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I've never seen her before.
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  Speaker 2: Neither have I, no.
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  Speaker 1: And she's an older woman. Yeah. Just great.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's that. The Furious on Hulu. Tomorrow, this is
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: an extreme deep cut. If you remember Martin from the 90s. Yes.
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: Damn, Gina.
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  Speaker 2: Martin Lawrence. That's why I remember it. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: You do, yeah. I thought you meant Martin the Vampire movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Remember that? Barely. There was a recurring character
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  Speaker 2: on the show named Varnell Hill, played by Tommy Davidson,
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  Speaker 2: who had a late-night talk show.
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  Speaker 1: I remember Tommy Davidson. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now we've got the Varnell Hill show on Paramount +.
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  Speaker 2: This is a spinoff character from 30 years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Was anyone clamoring for this?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. This was a BET Plus production, but
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  Speaker 2: then that shut down and got folded into Paramount +.
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  Speaker 2: So the show still exists, and it's a comedy centered
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  Speaker 2: on a late-night talk show. Tommy Davidson.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure how this happened.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure we'll get a season out of it.
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  Speaker 2: But Martin Lawrence is there and a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: old gang. Also, Mandalorian and Grogu is available on Disney
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  Speaker 2: Plus tomorrow. Yes. Fine movie. I liked it. Just think
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  Speaker 2: of it as an extra long episode of The Mandalorian.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what it's kind of like. There's thought out
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  Speaker 4: there that that's exactly what was... going down is they
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  Speaker 4: were just making a new season of the Mandalorian. They said, well,
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  Speaker 4: we could probably make.
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  Speaker 1: A little money. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Throw it there first and then we'll put it on Disney.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And on Wednesday, Prime Video has a new movie
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  Speaker 2: starring Gal Gadot called The Runner. And this is hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: She's an attorney in London whose son has been kidnapped
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  Speaker 2: by Damian Lewis.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: And she's out on a morning jog when she gets
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  Speaker 2: a call, and he tells her, you keep running or
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  Speaker 2: the kid dies. So this is Speed meets Taken.
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  Speaker 1: What? Really? That's dumb.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. And that's on Prime Video on Wednesday. And
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  Speaker 2: I think the only people who asked for this were
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  Speaker 2: the Nike product placement department. Yeah. And remember when Damien
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  Speaker 2: Lewis was, you know, the it actor? Yeah. And now
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  Speaker 2: he's doing this. Yeah. Thursday, Gina, I don't know, you
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  Speaker 2: might be into this show. Chad Powers. I mean.
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  Speaker 1: What is that? It's sports.
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  Speaker 2: It's Glenn Powell. It's Glenn Powell posing as a college quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: He washed out of college sports years ago, but now
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  Speaker 2: he's back in disguise to take the Georgia Catfish to
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. Unless he's found out, it's ridiculous, but it's
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  Speaker 2: actually pretty funny, too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I might give it a try. Sports comedy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: As funny as sports comedy gets, it's right up there, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's a rough go, but yeah. Yeah, that's on Hulu,
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  Speaker 2: also on Netflix on Thursday, season two of The Gentleman
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  Speaker 2: from Guy Ritchie.
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  Speaker 4: This is the thing that Meghan Markle's supposedly wanting to
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  Speaker 4: do in London, and no one wants.
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  Speaker 2: Her to do it. I don't see her name anywhere,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think I watched part of the first season.
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  Speaker 2: It's better than the movie. And, uh.
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  Speaker 1: And something about it turned me off, and I stopped
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  Speaker 1: watching it.
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  Speaker 2: It's very violent, very profane, very Guy Ritchie. That wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, that isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Also a Giancarlo Esposito is in here, and Vinnie Jones
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  Speaker 2: from Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. And, yeah, as
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  Speaker 2: a series, I prefer it to the movie. And on Friday,
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: here's a movie that's kind of getting swept under the rug,
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  Speaker 2: Mayday on Apple TV, starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is set in the 80s, a U.S. Navy pilot
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  Speaker 2: played by Ryan Reynolds. He's trapped behind Russian lines during
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  Speaker 2: a secret mission gone wrong, and he's relying on an
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  Speaker 2: ex-KGB agent played by Kenneth Branagh to get him out
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  Speaker 2: of there. Kenneth Branagh also has kind of a soft
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  Speaker 2: spot for American culture, therefore.
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  Speaker 4: Why are they hiding this?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're just kind of dropping it on Labor Day weekend,
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  Speaker 2: and I haven't seen a lot of promotion for it.
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  Speaker 1: Is it Netflix?
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  Speaker 2: It's on Apple TV.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Apple does that. They'll just drop stuff.
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  Speaker 2: They're like, oh, you'll find it on your own. Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: And I never do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's why Bill is here.
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  Speaker 2: And going all the way to Sunday on MGM +,
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  Speaker 2: which I'm sure somebody has. A Tale of Two Cities,
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  Speaker 2: a new four-part British adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Starring Kit Harington. Okay. And nobody else I recognize.
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  Speaker 3: Jon Snow.
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  Speaker 2: Jon Snow.
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  Speaker 1: And Jon Snow?
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  Speaker 2: Really? Both of them?
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Now, this is a series?
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  Speaker 2: This is a four-part series.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very short series.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's a big book.
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  Speaker 1: As I recall.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Four episodes. So they're going to try to squeeze
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  Speaker 2: us all into four episodes. And yeah, that's... That's a
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  Speaker 2: very slow week there. It was the best of times.
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: It was the worst of times. Yes, it was. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it was. And if you haven't watched the new season
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  Speaker 2: of Adults on Hulu yet, do so. It is extremely funny.
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: That's what Rebecca's been saying.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Adults.
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  Speaker 2: Adults. Yeah, it's the second season. It's about a group
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  Speaker 2: of 20-somethings in New York. But it's not Friends.
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  Speaker 3: It's not Friends.
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  Speaker 2: It's much filthier. It's Filthy Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean, much filthier? Friends was not filthy,
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  Speaker 2: was it? Well, anything is much filthier than friends, and
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  Speaker 2: this show is definitely. And Rebecca has been lamenting that
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  Speaker 2: she identifies with the more straight-laced female character instead of
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  Speaker 2: the wild party girl character.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we all have to grow up sometime.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: She is getting older.
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  Speaker 2: It just reminds me of when I was younger. I go, well,
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  Speaker 2: not that much younger. She thinks she's just aged out
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  Speaker 2: of everything. I'm like, no, no, not at all. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's it. Also enjoying Lanterns.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I watched the first two episodes. I quite
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  Speaker 1: liked it because I'm really fond of Kyle Chandler.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And him playing that kind of grizzled sort of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: close to being an alcoholic character.
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  Speaker 2: He's very good at that. Yeah. Remember when he used
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: to get the newspaper early?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That show? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Early edition.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently this next episode flips everything on its head.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 3: We find out more about Jon Stewart's past.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: He's a child. Now, is Jon Stewart the... That's.
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Pierre, his trainee.
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  Speaker 1: His good-looking trainee.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He's really quite good, too. I don't know what I've
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  Speaker 1: seen him in before. I don't think I've seen him
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  Speaker 1: in anything.
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  Speaker 3: Probably Rebel Ridge, if you watch that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I saw some of that, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: On Netflix?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he's really excellent.
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  Speaker 4: It's doing something that doesn't happen very often, and that
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  Speaker 4: is it's taking characters that I never cared about, because
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  Speaker 4: I never read DC Comics, and it's making me like them.
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  Speaker 2: It means it's well done.
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  Speaker 3: And you get a crash course in Green Lantern.
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  Speaker 2: And they do it very subtly, too. It's not very exposition-y. No, no.
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  Speaker 2: They just kind of work it in there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there was no origin story. It's just, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they just say, yeah, these blue aliens.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still not quite sure what Green Lantern does, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm finding out. Space cop. Little by little.
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  Speaker 2: Space cop, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Space cop.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I saw a bit of the Ryan
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: Reynolds movie over the weekend somewhere, and it's so much
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  Speaker 2: worse than I remember. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, a Green Lantern movie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's bad.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Green Lantern fans get mad when I say, that
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  Speaker 4: Ryan Reynolds movie?
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  Speaker 3: That's a Green Lantern movie.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Everything about Green Lantern is in that movie.
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a lot, but that's what you like the
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  Speaker 3: character for.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry you don't like it. I've been watching this President Curtis.
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. What's that?
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  Speaker 2: It's a Rick and Morty spinoff.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: Rick and Morty spinoff. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The president of the.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine.
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  Speaker 3: Rick and Morty meets the X-Files, but he's the president.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: It's quite funny.
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  Speaker 2: It's also easier to follow than Rick and Morty.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because Rick and Morty, that whole universe.
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  Speaker 2: So much science.
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  Speaker 4: So much science and so many characters that you've forgotten.
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: and yeah all the universes and yeah anyway is that
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  Speaker 4: everything i'm finally watching the americans 10 years.
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  Speaker 1: Later i still haven't gotten to that one it still
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: holds up your friend margo martindale i said that to
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  Speaker 1: joe last night i'm like.
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: Hey beloved character actress margo martindale from bojack horseman yeah
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  Speaker 2: I just love television so much. Bill Frost. Billfrost.tv. Sign
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: up and subscribe. I'll send you stuff.
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: If you will, that's a threat.