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It's a ham radio, the Cadillac 
of ham radio. 

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Hello everyone, Welcome back to 
yet another episode of ham radio

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as Stranger Things podcast. 
We've got a great episode for 

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Welcome back to another episode 
of Ham Radio, a Stranger Things 

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podcast. 
On today's episode, we will be 

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recapping Netflix's To Dom 
event, which was live streamed 

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on the streaming platform this 
past Saturday, and we will be 

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sharing our thoughts on some of 
the Stranger Things Five content

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that was shared after the event.
The event including the official

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Season 5 synopsis, cast list, 
our first look at some official 

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production deals, and their 
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We will be doing a separate 
episode to talk about the teaser

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trailer itself. 
So for those of you that were 

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not able to watch live, the 
event was held at the Kia Forum 

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in Los Angeles, CA, USA and was 
hosted by Sophia Carson of 

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Purple Hearts and the Lifeless 
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The event lasted about two 
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To be honest, as someone who 
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the first hour was rather 
cringey, but the last hour was 

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pretty good. 
The first hour included a sneak 

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peek of the new Knives Out movie
Wake Up Dead Man with the cast 

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and director on stage. 
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T-shirt cannons where they'd 
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be like, well, you know, so and 
so couldn't be here. 

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And and then someone would go 
and that's when you're wrong. 

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Dun Dun Dun would play and then 
like somebody else would show up

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with another T-shirt cannon. 
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Knives Out, the one that came 
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Couldn't get into the second 
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few scenes in came across as 
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But if you love it, 
congratulations. 

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I I will say the trailer for 
that one did look pretty good 

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compared to the last one. 
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where all of the largest quick 
game characters came out and did

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like a performance to open the 
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And then the cast came out and 
they showed the trailer for a 

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Squid Game season 3 and the cast
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Georgie, My Life with the Walter
Boys and Forever were there. 

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They did this cringey gag with 
the audience where they did like

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entering like fake fan 
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fans, but then it became obvious
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either the cast members had 
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had written for them. 
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my opinion. 
Then the WWE wrestlers were on 

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stage and they kept saying One 
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And then the cast of One Piece 
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of the new characters, so that 

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was cool. 
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cheerleaders were briefly seen 
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be there like on stage, but then
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backstage, like covering for 
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While they did like this gag 
about spoilers, which was kind 

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of odd, and they did this really
dumb gag with Lily columns from 

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Ellie and Paris where she like 
pitched Netflix executives on 

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basically changing the names of 
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do. 
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it was like, well, they've done 
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stick of the show. 
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kind of cringe to me. 
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was there, and he shared a first
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the Band, which was Liam Payne's
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That looked interesting. 
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teaser for Guillermo del Toro's 
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cast and the director was on 
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There's a trailer for Happy 
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that, Caleb, Finn and Noah came 
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scenes footage from seasons one 
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And the setup was they all come 
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this on a couch in front of this
little TV and they put in these 

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tapes to show the behind the 
scenes footage and everyone like

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favorite behind the scenes 
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And then Millie and Gayton sent 
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currently filming Noah Holmes 3 
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So she wasn't able to be there. 
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there. 
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project yet for whatever reason.
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all got up to to leave saying he
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And then there was like, I've 
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shared the series of things. 5A 
date announcement, teaser 

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trailer. 
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cast members weren't on stage 
because Cara Bono, who plays 

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Karen Wheeler, posted like 
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So it's it's kind of odd. 
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rest of the cast had was given 
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not to be on stage, which was 
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the other shows, they had the 
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whereas this was the only one I 
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three members of the cast. 
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able to make it, I I thought 
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I I get it was a bit they were 
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little strange and they 
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they were talking on stage. 
So I think that's going to be in

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season 5. 
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There's two members of our party
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of a thing. 
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something else planned that 
wasn't possible because Millian 

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Gaten couldn't be there. 
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little bit odd. 
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trailer, the cast of Wednesday 
took the stage and shared a 

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video showing the 1st 5 minutes 
of the new season, which 

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honestly looks really good. 
The Lady Gaga took the stage and

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performed a medley of her songs 
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Abracadabra. 
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gates and she came out of a 
coffin, ended this whole 

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Wednesday themed set. 
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be guest starring in Part 2 of 
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And following the event, it was 
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playing the mysterious and 
ignomic Rosalynn Rotwood, a 

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legendary Nevermore teacher who 
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Wednesday. 
That's the recap. 

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Thank you Jasmine for that 
lovely recap. 

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I had quite a few Internet 
connectivity issues for like 

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almost the first hour of To Doom
To Doom. 

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So I didn't really get to see a 
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I don't, I don't know if it was 
because there's so many people 

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getting on the app or if it was 
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And you know, my Internet is 
terrible. 

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I mean, Netflix is really is one
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I've always had like Internet 
issues with, like connected 

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connectivity issues with. 
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just switched to my iPad and it 
worked for like the rest of the 

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event, which was good because I 
got to see the Stranger Things 

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stuff as it happened live. 
But yeah, I would be like tuning

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into what was like on the 
Twitterverse, things like that. 

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And so, yeah, I heard it was 
very cringe the first hour and 

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that I didn't really miss much. 
But still like, you know, I'm, I

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wanted to be able to watch all 
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And also that first hour, I was 
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I didn't know when the Stranger 
Things stuff would be airing or 

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the the Wednesday stuff, which 
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And I was fearing that like, by 
the time I got the Internet 

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situation figured out, it would 
have been bygone and I wouldn't 

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have been able to see it live. 
But anyway, I I did manage to at

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least get to see the Lady Gaga 
concert, which was really great.

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But yeah, like what you're 
talking about with the the 

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behind the scenes stuff that 
they showed with the Stranger 

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Things stuff, I really liked 
that. 

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I thought it was really cool to 
see like the old footage from 

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back in the day when they were 
all so young. 

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And hopefully this means they've
printed together that 

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documentary Jasmine and what 
their their favorite scenes 

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were. 
And I definitely will say that I

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like Millie's scene. 
That's one of my favorite 11 

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scenes that she's ever done. 
It was very bittersweet, 

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actually. 
My heart was pounding out of my 

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chest when they when the three 
boys were up there and, you 

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know, playing all the tapes and 
stuff. 

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And I was like, OK, you ever 
hurry up? 

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I really like going to get it or
or not, you know? 

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And then I was kind of worried 
that that was all it was going 

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to be like just them doing that 
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And I was like, Oh my gosh, it's
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And then Finn said, oh, we got 
one more tape to play. 

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And I said, oh, thank goodness. 
And so when they started to play

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it, you know, we get our first 
look at Joyce and Will from 

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Season 5. 
And I said, oh, this is it, you 

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know, And then when they 
started, you know, I mean, I 

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know we're going to get more 
into this when we give our 

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breakdown of the teaser itself. 
But for a few seconds there 

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during the teaser, I was very 
concerned. 

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But yeah, I I really enjoyed 
what all I did get to see from 

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to them. 
I saw the law of the red carpet 

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stuff. 
And and I'm going to say like, 

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like seeing Finn, Caleb and Noah
there. 

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I was like, wow, they're like 
young men now. 

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And that's so weird. 
Even though I did not start 

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watching the show until season 
3, I mean they were still 

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teenagers back then and they 
still look a lot different now 

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than they did then. 
So it was pretty bittersweet, 

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you know, seeing them there. 
But I thought they look good. 

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I thought they look fantastic. 
And even though Gayton and 

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Millie's were pre recorded, I 
thought they, you know, young 

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woman, young man and again, just
so weird, you know, seeing that.

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And yeah, I also, I kind of 
thought that Karen and Nell 

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would be on the stage with them.
But I mean, I get it. 

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Like they're like the three, you
know, originals. 

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And I mean, Karen's been there 
from season 1. 

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And so is the character of 
Holly. 

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But in terms of if we're talking
about like screen time and and 

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all that, I mean, it makes sense
why the three of them would have

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been up there. 
But yeah, I thought again, I 

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thought it was a good event 
overall. 

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Yeah, I got to admit that when 
they started rolling the the 

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teaser trailer and you got Joyce
and Will and the voice over and 

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then they went into the cliffs, 
I had this moment where I was 

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like, if this is going to be a 
clip show, I'm going to be so 

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mad because I just sat through 
an hour of cringe. 

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If all we're doing is a clip 
show here, I'm going to be 

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really mad. 
But they went into the new 

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footage. 
I was like, oh, OK, OK, we're 

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good. 
We're good. 

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But yeah, it is weird that they 
had like the full cast. 

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Yeah, they had the full cast for
most of the other shows. 

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And I get that certain things 
has gotten to be such a large 

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cast that they can't do 
everybody. 

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gonna be able to attend, it is a
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people that were in attendance. 
That's what it was. 

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Strange we didn't get anything 
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year before they did, you know, 
Nicola Cochran was there. 

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They did all this stuff for it. 
It was a big deal. 

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anything for Stranger Things. 
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Hamilton's announcement, but 
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oh, do they do anything for 
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filming, always enough filming 
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Season 4 Bridgerton. 
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I did think that was very odd. 

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only two hours. 
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like they couldn't cram all of 
it in. 

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I don't know. 
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definitely not the only one that
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were like, if this is just a 
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been watching a lot of reviews 
of the teaser on YouTube today 

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and a lot of them have said 
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So we're all, you know, thinking
like a hive mind. 

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So that's good. 
That's good. 

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We're all, we're all got our 
heads in the right place. 

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Yeah, I was surprised at how 
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came on because I was expecting 
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stuff came on around 9 and it 
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would be because and I, this is 
something else. 

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that like every other person who

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had nothing to do what they were
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which got kind of annoying. 
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that kept saying it. 
It's like, can can you just show

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us something and stop saying it 
every two seconds? 

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I get that that's the big poll, 
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people for other shows that like
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Stranger Things on Wednesday 
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keep people watching. 
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that. 
So yeah, I mean, you could 

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working out the kinks. 

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I think we're supposed to be 
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conflicting information. 

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So you can definitely tell that.
I mean, this is the first time 

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they've live streamed it on 
Netflix and they've added new 

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capabilities in the last year to
live stream events. 

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the bugs. 
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it, I think it went well. 
I think obviously the next time 

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they do it, it'll be much better
because now they've, you know, 

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they've had a trial run and 
sometimes you just don't know 

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things until you, you try them 
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But yeah, overall I, I, you 
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second-half of it. 
And it's like, Can you imagine 

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being a cast member of one of 
those other shows and like 

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you're at this event and you've 
been told like you have to like 

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include like the biggest show on
this platform, like in every 

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joke that you say because we, we
got to promote that while you're

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up there trying to promote your 
show. 

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I mean, could you imagine like 
having to do that? 

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And like that doesn't say you're
irrelevant at all. 

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Yeah, there's, there's 
definitely a hierarchy there and

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that was on in in full display 
during the event for sure. 

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But you know what, you know, to 
me, like again, like I enjoyed 

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when I got to see you from Tadam
and all the stranger things 

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stuff was great. 
But like whenever you just stop 

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and and think about, you know, 
this is the last time we'll ever

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see like our first look at new 
content from a new season of 

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Stranger Things. 
And it will be the the last 

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Tadam event where like the 
Stranger things show, as it 

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were, we'll have, you know, be 
releasing anything or doing 

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anything on it. 
I mean, it's just, it's so 

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harrowing when you you step back
and you reflect on that and it's

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again, it's just, it's so, yeah,
it's kind of sad. 

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Yeah, well, as they say, I mean,
all good things must come to an 

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end, so yeah. 
But it is kind of a bittersweet 

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in a way. 
Managed to like see the, the 

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Happy Gilmore stuff and when it 
like they were first like 

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introducing all that to the 
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Like I thought it was going to 
be a real documentary about a 

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real golfer. 
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out like, who are they talking 
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like pictures of real golfers 

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and stuff. 
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time since I've seen the Happy 
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And then it came out of the 
Happy Gilmore 2, which I totally

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forgot that was even happening. 
But I thought that that skit was

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was really good. 
It was really funny. 

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Yeah, that one was pretty good. 
Great. 

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So one of the things that we did
get after it was after the Doom 

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event was over was. 
Netflix released the official 

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synopsis for season 5 and 
according to their website, the 

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synopsis is his whereabouts and 
plans unknown. 

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Complicating their mission, the 
government has placed the town 

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under military quarantine and 
intensified its hunt for 11, 

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forcing her back into hiding. 
As the anniversary of Will's 

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disappearance approaches, so 
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The final battle is looming, and
with it, a darkness more 

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powerful and more deadly than 
anything they've faced before. 

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To end this nightmare, they'll 
need everyone the full party 

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standing together one time. 
So when I first saw this being 

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circulated, I legit thought it 
was like fan made or you know, 

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something created by AI but 
Nope, it's the official 

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synopsis. 
And I guess maybe I thought that

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because I wasn't expecting them 
to also, you know, release that 

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right after to Doom. 
But like my assumption is right 

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now is that this is the synopsis
for Volume 1 and maybe volume to

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I guess it depends on like how 
they're going to split up the 

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volumes. 
But I'm confident that they will

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release another synopsis for the
series finale before it drops. 

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I mean, they did that for season
4. 

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They released synopsis what we 
would later learn was for Volume

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1, and then right before volume 
2 came out, they released one 

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for that one. 
So I assume they're going to do 

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the same thing here as well. 
But yeah, I felt like it was a 

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decent synopsis. 
I mean, it gives just enough to 

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confirm what's at stake in the 
final season without giving 

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anything away. 
But a lot of this is what we've 

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kind of already heard about or 
suspected given how season 4 

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ended or like just from things 
we kind of been seen with behind

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the scenes. 
But the main thing that stands 

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out to me in the synopsis is the
line as the anniversary of 

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Will's disappearance approaches.
So I wonder if like the main 

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action of the season, I mean, we
know it's going to take place in

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the fall of 87, but I wonder if 
the specific dates of the 

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setting will be like taking 
place during the week of or 

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leading up to November 6th. 
Because if that's the case, like

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nothing would excite me more 
than for. 

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The final battle to take place 
on November 6th, literally 

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bringing everything full circle.
Jasmine, what are your thoughts 

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on? 
That yeah, I mean, it's not 

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surprising to me that that's a 
really important part. 

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I know we'd speculated that for 
for the release stage for season

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5, it would be in October, 
November and that, you know, 

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maybe the second part was 
released on November 6th. 

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I am a bit surprised as that 
they're doing November, 

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December, because as people have
commented, you know, it seems 

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more like a Halloween thing, not
a Christmas thing. 

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Although I don't know if they're
trying to do something about the

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Christmas lights in Season 1. 
I don't know. 

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But yeah, I could see it 
culminating there. 

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Although it's surprising that if
that's the case, they wouldn't 

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pick that as the release date 
like they did with previous 

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seasons. 
Like Season 3 came out on July 

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4th and Season 1-2 followed a 
set schedule. 

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So that was my thought that, you
know, and Season 4 was supposed 

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to come out on on March 22nd, 
what was supposed to be spring 

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break. 
So when it got delayed. 

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So that's what I thought they 
were doing. 

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I don't know if the the dates we
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are somehow significant. 
I would think so because that 

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was the plan for 3:00 and 4:00. 
So I'm not sure what 

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significance they hold. 
But like you said, I mean this, 

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this gives us an overview, but 
it's in line with what we were 

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thinking. 
And you know what we saw in the 

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teaser. 
So it's in line with all those 

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things. 
And I, I think you're right that

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they are probably going to 
release a second one either for 

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Volume 2 or for the the finale 
or or both. 

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And I do think it's interesting 
that they say they'll need 

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everyone the full party standing
together one last time. 

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Like I said, when the stuff 
premiered at To Do, they really 

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emphasized the party and that 
being like, it sounds like the 

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original party plus L So clearly
all of them working together is 

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going to be a really core part 
of Season 5. 

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Which I am so excited about. 
And again, that is it's very 

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interesting because like Season 
1, like Will was in the Upside 

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down like the entire time. 
And so it almost felt like he 

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wasn't even a part of the party,
even though like he was, but I 

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guess because we didn't see him 
like physically interacting with

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them and then the season 1, 
season 2 as well, like he 

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because he was possessed and for
a bulk of the season. 

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So yeah, it's definitely going 
to be very feel like very fun to

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watch him actually be with them 
in the season. 

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I mean, I'm not sure what's 
really going to happen with Will

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this season, but yeah, I mean, I
definitely think it's going to 

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be very fun watching him 
actually work with them as like 

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a nice, you know, parallel to 
like with season 1. 

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I must admit. 
Like, you know, I wasn't really 

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too sure about how I would feel 
going into it with will be 

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taking more of a like a central 
role in season 5. 

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But just like the two things, 
like especially that thing at 

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the end of the the teaser of 
seeing Noah's acting there is 

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definitely like sparked a 
passion and for me going into 

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season 5 and, and just just 
gives me kind of a renewed hope 

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that it's going to be worth it. 
And it's going to be something 

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that's just good storytelling 
and entertaining. 

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Because I mean, I've it's I 
don't feel like it's ever been a

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secret that will is not one of 
my favorite characters. 

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I don't hate him, but he's not 
he's not definitely not in my 

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top five, but I've always found 
what happened to him very 

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interesting. 
And it's that him that and the 

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upside down are two of the 
biggest mysteries in the show 

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that they have yet to really 
explain. 

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And I'm glad that we've gotten 
confirmation that those two 

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things will be addressed and 
explained in season 5. 

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So yeah, I'm I'm very excited to
see Will his journey this 

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season, but also just have the 
the original party back together

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as something I'm I'm very much 
looking forward. 

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To Yeah, me too. 
I'm really excited for Will's 

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storyline this season. 
When Season 4 came out and the 

445
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,360
Def brothers were interviewed, 
one of the things they said was 

446
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,360
that Will was going to be a huge
part of Season 5. 

447
00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:44,880
They were really going to focus 
on his story. 

448
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,400
And I felt so validated because 
there were so many people out 

449
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,840
there online saying, well, they 
said it, but they're not going 

450
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,320
to do it. 
And I never really, I never 

451
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,760
really understood that because 
there were a lot of people for a

452
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,440
lot of plots, specifically about
things that Duff Brothers said 

453
00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,920
in interviews that they said or 
that came up in season 4. 

454
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,480
You know, like the revival of 
Stancey and all that, where 

455
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,960
there was all these people on 
the Internet being like, well, 

456
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:07,600
they said, but they're not going
to do it. 

457
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,520
And I'm like, that's just bad 
marketing and it's bad writing 

458
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,720
to bring this stuff up and then 
not do do anything with it. 

459
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,600
And I just felt so validated 
because there were so many 

460
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,320
people being like, well, they're
not actually going to do 

461
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,640
anything with it. 
And I was like, bullshit, yes, 

462
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,840
they are. 
I wouldn't say that to people, 

463
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,440
but that's how I felt. 
And just to see this, yes, he's 

464
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,440
going to be a huge part of this.
L obviously is a huge part of 

465
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,240
it. 
And I said previously, I thought

466
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,240
there might be a team up there. 
What we're getting here is more 

467
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,480
what I actually originally 
envisioned based on the 

468
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,880
different Brothers had said, 
which is that you've got Will 

469
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,520
storyline and L storyline 
running in parallel. 

470
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,840
You got George and Hopper 
supporting them, and they're 

471
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,120
running in parallel. 
And like together, there's 

472
00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:49,240
whatever they got to do here has
to be something to do with the 

473
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,160
two of them, which made sense to
me because it started with them,

474
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:53,920
right? 
The series starts with Will 

475
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:59,200
Disappearance escaping the lab, 
her helping them find Will and 

476
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,520
then like, you know, 
communicating through the void 

477
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,680
and then Will comes back, she 
disappears. 

478
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,080
Like that's how this started. 
So to me, it's it's got to come 

479
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:10,360
back to those two characters and
there's got to be something that

480
00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:11,840
they're doing. 
Obviously the stories run in 

481
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,280
parallel and there's got to be 
something they come together and

482
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,560
do in order to defeat Vecna. 
I I mean to be that just has to 

483
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:18,680
be part of it. 
They keep saying they're 

484
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,600
bringing it full circle. 
That has to be it. 

485
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:26,640
So I'm really excited for his 
storyline and he's, you know, 

486
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,680
when, when he's, you know, 
screaming and then the teaser 

487
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,400
there. 
I just, I mean, Ashley, you 

488
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,200
know, I talked about this after,
you know, we called each other 

489
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,680
after we watched it live and, 
and just say, you know, he's 

490
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,280
giving. 
I love what you said. 

491
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,080
We're like, you know, he's like 
giving the performance of his 

492
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:40,720
life here. 
Like you can tell they're giving

493
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,040
it their all the actors are 
really throwing themselves into 

494
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,280
it. 
I think this is the first time 

495
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,720
where everyone's able to bring 
their their full selves or full 

496
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,240
authentic selves to set. 
And I think that does really 

497
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,640
impact the acting and make for a
better performance. 

498
00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:58,000
And like you said, and the first
season will have been abducted, 

499
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,320
the second season he got 
possessed and the third season 

500
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,280
he was really sidelined and then
he was part of the action in 

501
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,280
season 4. 
But again, the pot he was in 

502
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,240
like wasn't the strongest for 
him and and Mike. 

503
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:14,800
So I'm really excited to see, 
you know, him have a strong 

504
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,600
prominent storyline where it 
looks like, you know, the acting

505
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,040
is really good and we see Mike 
is taking is stepping back into 

506
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,240
a bigger role again. 
And you know, I'm just really 

507
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,400
excited to see all that play out
and and the acting looks so far 

508
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,240
with the clips we've gotten 
looks fantastic. 

509
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,800
And I'm just I'm really excited 
because, you know, Will is one 

510
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,080
of my favorite characters. 
I really enjoy him as a 

511
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,880
character in his journey and 
yeah, I'm just, I'm really 

512
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,240
excited about that. 
Yeah. 

513
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,760
And I don't want to talk too 
much about this right now 

514
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,160
because I want to save a lot of 
my thoughts on this for when we 

515
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,200
talk about the teaser trailer 
when we break that down. 

516
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,800
But I'll say, Jasmine, to kind 
of piggy it back off, your point

517
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:59,400
about Will and Elle is I believe
that those two and the night of 

518
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,120
November 6th or definitely a 
connecting thread. 

519
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,440
And that's all I'm going to say 
about that right now. 

520
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,480
Yeah, we'll definitely get into 
it more when we break down the 

521
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,480
teaser trailer in full. 
Yeah, I agree. 

522
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,960
I think that that night and what
happened, especially since in 

523
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:18,400
season 4 we see the Upside Down 
is frozen on that day is very 

524
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,560
important. 
And I kind of see them as being 

525
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,400
2 pieces of a hole or once the 
lock and once the key. 

526
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,960
Kind of there's a reason that 
Vecna has kept them alive. 

527
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,720
You know, we see in Season 4, 
you know, he tells he wants to 

528
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,280
watch and he's going to kill our
friends. 

529
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,760
And we know that he allowed 
Joyce and Hopper to go all the 

530
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,280
way down there and bring him 
back, whereas that hasn't 

531
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:39,720
happened for any other 
character. 

532
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,920
I mean, the guy for the lab 
never got past the they got a 

533
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,280
few steps in and that was like, 
whoosh, they were gone. 

534
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,160
So to me, now that we know that 
Vecna was behind it the whole 

535
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,120
time, that's his domain. 
He's in control of everything 

536
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,000
that goes on down there. 
To me, they have been kept alive

537
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,320
for a specific reason. 
I don't know what that is, but 

538
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,360
whatever reason Vecna has kept 
them alive or not, you know, not

539
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,560
killed them outright. 
I I think has to be important 

540
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,640
and whatever causes upside down,
Upside down to get stuck on that

541
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,640
date. 
I mean, that has to be important

542
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:15,920
to the, you know, the final 
conclusion of the story and how 

543
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:20,640
they how they defeat him. 
So following the event, the cast

544
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,880
list for Season 5 was published.
So we had our regular cast 

545
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,800
members that we knew were going 
to be there that were in Season 

546
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,680
4. 
And then as previously 

547
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,080
announced, Nell Fisher has been 
cast to play an older Holly 

548
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,040
Wheeler. 
Jake Connolly will be playing 

549
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,080
Derek Turnbow. 
That's new information. 

550
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,160
So that's Turnbow is in the 
Turnbow trap. 

551
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:38,840
That is one of the episode 
titles. 

552
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,320
And there is a scene in the 
teacher trailer, which we'll be 

553
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,720
breaking down later on, that 
does seem to indicate that that 

554
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,760
team is from part of the turnbow
trap and, and what that's about.

555
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:52,000
And then Alex Bro will be 
playing Lieutenant Akers and 

556
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,040
Linda Hamilton will be playing 
Doctor K. 

557
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,120
You know, I really wish we would
have gotten character 

558
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:01,360
descriptions along with the cast
list for these new people, but I

559
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,960
guess for now we'll just have to
take what we can get. 

560
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,880
But at least we know like who 
Linda Hamilton and Alex Bro and 

561
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,760
Jay Connelly will be playing. 
So that's a start. 

562
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,400
I find Doctor K's name very 
interesting. 

563
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,760
Like is that her first name or 
is that her last name? 

564
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:25,720
But either way, it reminds me a 
lot of Keys and ET, the 

565
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,400
scientists there. 
And you know, evidently is she 

566
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,960
is a doctor. 
Now, whether that's of science 

567
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:39,040
or medicine, we'll have to see, 
though I, I lean towards 

568
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:44,920
scientist, maybe working with 
military, maybe an independent, 

569
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,000
I don't know. 
But also, you know, like 

570
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,560
Jasmine, I know you said this, I
believe like after it was 

571
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,680
announced, sometime after it was
announced that Linda Hamilton 

572
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,040
would be in this show. 
And like, I know we talked about

573
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:02,920
this like some last year, but 
like you had theorized that, you

574
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,560
know, what if she was like a 
geologist or something? 

575
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:11,560
And I mean, honestly, that seems
very likely now, I guess. 

576
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:16,400
And I would love that if if that
were the case, because again, 

577
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:21,320
like she would be able to study 
the the upside down. 

578
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,640
Yeah, I definitely think there's
more to this character. 

579
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,040
And you know, I remember we 
speculating, is she a military 

580
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:27,880
character? 
Is she something to do with that

581
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,360
arm they've been filming on so 
much? 

582
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:34,440
She somehow connected to Murray 
in some way. 

583
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,440
She connected to Brenner of the 
lab. 

584
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,200
And then it seemed like she was 
going to be military and she 

585
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,280
still could be. 
But it's like, well, she's a 

586
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,760
doctor and she isn't medical. 
Is it psychological? 

587
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,280
Is she is a PhD? 
Is it a combination of those 

588
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,520
things? 
I think more than one thing is, 

589
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,000
is possible. 
And I'm, I'm very interested to 

590
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,320
see what her character is like 
because at first she's just 

591
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:00,120
playing on a military character.
I mean, she's good at it, but 

592
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:01,760
that's not really very 
interesting. 

593
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,520
And something I, I really 
enjoyed about when they've cast 

594
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:08,680
other 80s icons is it's, it's, 
it's a bit of a different role 

595
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,000
if you look at the the other 
actors that they've cast. 

596
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,520
So making her a Doctor I think 
is a little bit different. 

597
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,240
Know what we see her in 
Terminator. 

598
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,120
So hopefully it's more of a 
combination role where it's not 

599
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,040
just strict military because I 
mean, she's great at it, but 

600
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:24,400
it's like I've been there, done 
that. 

601
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:28,160
So hopefully it's more of a 
combination role and it's it 

602
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:29,960
sounds like it's going to be 
more interesting than that. 

603
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:34,880
So I'm personally excited for 
that part of the story to be 

604
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,120
revealed. 
Yeah, so am I. 

605
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,080
And it could also, this also 
could totally just be a 

606
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,000
placeholder name like they did 
with Peter Ballard. 

607
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:48,320
Remember him from the 2019, you 
know, new characters reveal and 

608
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:53,120
then later after like season 1 
or sorry, season 4 come out, the

609
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,480
stranger writers account on 
Twitter came out and said like, 

610
00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:01,560
yeah, that was a fake name. 
So it could totally be that and 

611
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,600
her name could be something else
entirely. 

612
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:09,000
I mean, I would hope that 
wouldn't be the case, but I mean

613
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,640
it's it certainly is possible. 
Oh, I hadn't thought about that.

614
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:15,880
Like, I remember that happening,
but oh, I hadn't thought. 

615
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,880
You're right. 
They could be, could be 

616
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,200
something totally different. 
Or I mean, I guess not totally 

617
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,480
different because what they did 
for Jamie, what it was related, 

618
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,360
He wasn't orderly, but there was
obviously so much more to it 

619
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,200
than that. 
And that wasn't his real name. 

620
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,120
So I feel like her being a 
doctor has to be a part of it 

621
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,400
somehow because it was like a 
kernel of truth. 

622
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,960
I mean, I think the way they 
phrased it was he's an orderly. 

623
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,280
Will he find the strength to 
stand up to the horrors he sees 

624
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,560
every day? 
And it made it kind of sound 

625
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,280
like it was orderly, like a 
mental hospital type situation. 

626
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,920
And then, you know, he does 
stand up, but it's, umm, there's

627
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,680
a lot more to it than that. 
He's not the innocent guy he's 

628
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,240
made out to be, which is, of 
course, all part of the plot. 

629
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,680
So I don't know if maybe we're 
going to get a description, but 

630
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,040
I mean, that could also be fake.
I mean, I guess there's going to

631
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,480
got to be a kernel of truth in 
there somewhere. 

632
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:06,360
So I think maybe her being a 
doctor is real, but there there 

633
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,480
could be a lot more to it. 
Or you know, that that's a very 

634
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,000
good point. 
They'd want to keep it under 

635
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,800
wraps. 
So even if we do get a 

636
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:16,360
description of her character, 
there'll be a kernel of truth in

637
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,600
there. 
But it could turn out a bunch of

638
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,719
it could be not real or not the 
full story, definitely. 

639
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,000
Yeah, no, he was the horror. 
He didn't just stand up to it. 

640
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,239
He was the horror. 
I mean, I feel like it's a very 

641
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,800
good way to describe Henry slash
fact now. 

642
00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:34,920
He was the horror. 
He is the horror, not a it isn't

643
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,520
bystander here. 
He he is the horror. 

644
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:42,800
So on On the Sunday following 
the To Doom event, the Stranger 

645
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:47,280
Things Instagram account posted 
eight production steals of the 

646
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:52,679
new season, and all but one of 
them is from the new footage 

647
00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:57,120
that was shown in the Season 5 
teaser that was released at 

648
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:02,680
Doom. 
So from the carousel still #111 

649
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,960
and Hopper and what appears to 
be some sort of lab, I've also 

650
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:11,120
heard like military base. 
But anyway, this this image is 

651
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:15,680
actually not from the teaser. 
So like you and I were, we were 

652
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,320
kind of talking off mic that 
maybe they released this 

653
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:24,440
because, you know, the only like
actual footage that we got of 11

654
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:30,760
and Hopper in season 5. 
You can't really tell like if 

655
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,800
Hopper's even in that. 
And so maybe they or they just 

656
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,680
felt like this was a better just
a better image. 

657
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:42,960
But in the still, an El's nose 
appears to be bleeding, 

658
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,600
indicating that she has either 
just used her powers or is in 

659
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:51,360
the process of using them and is
staring straight ahead as though

660
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,600
she's looking at looking at 
something or someone. 

661
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,760
And Hopper is behind her with a 
gun aiming in the same 

662
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,440
direction. 
So clearly they're in defense 

663
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:05,560
mode here. 
I would suspect that this this 

664
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:13,360
image of this scene is connected
directly to what happens in the 

665
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,680
scene that was shown, a clip of 
the scene that was shown in the 

666
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:21,720
teaser, because it looks like 
they're in the same, in the same

667
00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:24,480
place. 
So that would be my guess. 

668
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:28,560
And if I had to really guess, 
and this is just based on what 

669
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,720
we saw in the behind the scenes 
teaser that was released last 

670
00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:36,760
year, that this is when like we 
saw like that Alex Bros 

671
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:43,880
character, Lieutenant Akers seem
to be like coming to what looks 

672
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:48,920
like a similar place. 
And so I would suspect that 

673
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:55,440
that's who like he's trying to 
enter into where they are. 

674
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:03,000
That would just be my guess, but
what say you? 

675
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,600
Yeah, I definitely think that's 
likely. 

676
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,040
And I'd love it if this was 
something like, you know, he's 

677
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:08,920
trying to get in and they kind 
of meet in the middle. 

678
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,480
We can see him maybe a gun and 
we've got a scope on it and he's

679
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,240
trying to infiltrate whatever 
this is. 

680
00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:18,000
If they've clearly tried or 
attacked whatever this thing is 

681
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,840
and meet in the middle, realized
they're facing a common enemy 

682
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,760
here. 
I'm hoping that we know the 

683
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,600
military is putting the town 
under lockdown and they're 

684
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,120
searching for Al. 
I'm hoping that for these two 

685
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:32,600
characters, for Doctor K and the
Lieutenant anchors, I hope 

686
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,880
eventually there is conflict on 
meat in the middle moment. 

687
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,160
Because something you and I both
really disliked about the 

688
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,920
military plot in Season 4 was 
that we were supposed to buy 

689
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:42,880
that these guys were like taught
military brass. 

690
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,880
And yet they were dumb as rocks.
And we got a whole season of our

691
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,760
heroes having to run away from 
these guys and avoid them 

692
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,360
because they were just so 
convinced that she was the 

693
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,840
villain and we're just being 
real stupid. 

694
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,200
So I'm hoping there's, you know,
a kind of a meet in the middle 

695
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,480
moment here, because we've been 
done that. 

696
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,560
And as you pointed out to me, 
they, the Duff brothers, make a 

697
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,680
point of not doing the same plot
twice unless it's a continuation

698
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,120
of something they've already 
been doing. 

699
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,520
So I I would think they wouldn't
do that again. 

700
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,360
Also, it wasn't particularly 
Welsh received as a storyline. 

701
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,120
So I'm, I'm hopeful that, you 
know, the military plot this 

702
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,800
season is it's running in 
parallel to what our heroes are 

703
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,480
doing, because I'd, I'd be fine 
with that, but something they'll

704
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,360
get more of the military 
interfering all the time and 

705
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,080
just being stupid. 
So I'm hoping that whatever 

706
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,920
they're facing here, they can 
meet in the middle and realize 

707
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:35,840
that they're, you know, El is 
not the villain. 

708
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,920
They are on the same side, so if
it is part of that same scene, 

709
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,640
I'm hoping it's something like 
that. 

710
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:43,680
Some other things I like about 
this this photo. 

711
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,640
It's cool to see hoppers new 
look here. 

712
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,480
Honestly, it's growing on me. 
I wasn't crazy about what we saw

713
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,600
in the behind the scenes, but I 
feel like it does look cooler 

714
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,680
like in context makes more 
sense. 

715
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,360
And now that we see more about 
the military aspect of the 

716
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,680
season, I think their outfits 
and their their appearance is 

717
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,320
making more sense and I like 
else look a lot more here that I

718
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,800
did the behind the scenes. 
I wasn't crazy about this look, 

719
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,200
but I like it better here. 
And it seems to be more of a 

720
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,600
warmth thing. 
And what I'm wondering is, OK, 

721
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:14,080
this is the fall. 
But also we know the Upside Down

722
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,400
is really cold, right? 
We know it's cold and kind of 

723
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:17,520
slimy. 
I guess. 

724
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,160
We don't know what the 
temperature is, but we know it's

725
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,080
like slimy down there and it's 
not pleasant. 

726
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,280
And since we know it's been 
taking over Hawkins, like we see

727
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,160
that the end of Season 4, I'm 
kind of wondering if maybe that 

728
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,800
explains some of the outfit 
choices that we've seen them in.

729
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,160
Because maybe they're just cold,
like it's fall plus the Upside 

730
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,120
Down. 
Maybe they're just like really 

731
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,040
chilly. 
Like maybe what they're trying 

732
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,280
to show us here is that it's 
affected the climate. 

733
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,920
And so that's why we see what 
appears to be Elle wearing 

734
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,920
sweatpants and then like shorts 
and AT shirt over top of that 

735
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,080
and then a bandana. 
And Hopper's got multiple layers

736
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,120
here. 
He's got beanie. 

737
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,880
He's got like a sweater. 
We've got fingerless gloves. 

738
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,920
We've got a jacket. 
We've got like then like a 

739
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,000
satchel. 
So they're everyone's very 

740
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,240
layered here. 
So part of it's obviously 

741
00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:03,400
tactical, but I, I think maybe 
it's more of a what they're 

742
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,960
trying to convey about the 
climate, which if that's what 

743
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,400
they're going from, is someone 
who lives in the colder climate,

744
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,440
we all wear weird stuff to keep 
warm. 

745
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,360
So if that's what they're doing 
here. 

746
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,800
I can get on board with that. 
That makes more sense to me now 

747
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:18,160
than I did in the behind the 
scenes. 

748
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,120
Out of context. 
It's just like, Jesus, where do 

749
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:23,640
they put them in? 
But it's making more sense to me

750
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,920
now. 
And I really love seeing Ellen 

751
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:31,240
Hopper team up like we saw them 
at the end of Season 2 and then 

752
00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:34,240
you're talking the the mall and 
stuff in Season 3. 

753
00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:38,360
So I, I really love seeing them 
team up and you know, 1 of 

754
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,440
Hopper's issues we see in 
seasons 2 and threes, he doesn't

755
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,720
want Elle using her powers 
because he doesn't want to 

756
00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:45,960
acknowledge how much danger 
she's in. 

757
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,000
And you know, he, he wants to 
protect her after what happened 

758
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,600
to Sarah, he blames himself. 
So it's cool to see him get to a

759
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,760
point where he's accepted that 
this is who she is and rather 

760
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,800
than trying to fight it, they're
working together using those 

761
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,400
powers to their advantage. 
So I'm also really excited for 

762
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,040
that because I feel like it's a 
lot of growth for Hopper based 

763
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:06,840
on where we saw him in seasons 
2:00 and 3:00. 

764
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,760
And we saw the beginning of 
that, the end of season 4 when 

765
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:13,360
they reunite and you know, she's
talking about the, the door and 

766
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,400
I leftover 3 inches. 
He's like, it's OK, it's OK. 

767
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:20,200
So I I really love seeing the 
the continuation of that, that 

768
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,960
growth with his character. 
Yeah, I wasn't too sure at the 

769
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:28,880
beginning if I would have liked 
his look for Season 5 either, 

770
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,520
but I kind of had in the back of
my mind went even behind the 

771
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,400
scenes pictures. 
But on screen it will look 

772
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,800
different. 
And I I'm really I'm glad to say

773
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,560
that this teaser has confirmed 
that for me. 

774
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,160
They, I think it, the look looks
really good for him. 

775
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:47,520
And so for just as a side note, 
before I continue reading all 

776
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,280
the other stills, I just want to
let you guys know that stills 

777
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:55,600
numbers 2 through 8. 
These were all stills that were 

778
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,360
taken from the teaser. 
So the again, the only one that 

779
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:04,160
wasn't was the first one, but 
the remaining seven were taken 

780
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:09,200
from the Season 5 teaser. 
But still #2 is Lucas at Max's 

781
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,920
bedside in the hospital? 
Which indicates she's still in a

782
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:13,920
coma a year later. 
So I'm guessing we're going to 

783
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:18,880
see her in like Mindscape or 
void scenes because, you know, 

784
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,200
they must be, you know, saying 
anything is just an incredible 

785
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:22,400
actress. 
They must be doing something 

786
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,160
with her. 
But the fact that the plan for 

787
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,440
season 5 clearly changed after 
so much time had passed because 

788
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,400
of the strikes and everything, 
where I I think the original 

789
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:36,640
plan was for everything to wrap 
up in 1986, whereas they've 

790
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:40,520
pushed it ahead a year now 
because the actors have age and 

791
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,480
that's just is what it is. 
I don't think the original plan 

792
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,920
was for her to be in a coma for 
a year and a half, but here we 

793
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,240
are. 
Something I did notice is that 

794
00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:52,320
her Max's arms and legs aren't 
cast anymore. 

795
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:56,000
So it looks like her limbs have 
healed and they've cleaned up 

796
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:57,360
her face. 
So it does seem that her 

797
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:01,240
physical body has healed by this
point that it's, it's more of a 

798
00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:03,680
mind thing really. 
Vecna has her stuck somewhere or

799
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,520
she's hiding from Vecna. 
So it appears that her plot is 

800
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,800
going to take place on another 
plane this season. 

801
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,800
And I would assume that at the 
end of the season, we're going 

802
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,000
to see the the conclusion for 
that because as the synopsis 

803
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,800
says, their goal is to find and,
and destroy Vecna. 

804
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,440
So once they've done that, the 
end of the season, I presume 

805
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,040
she's going to to wake up and 
then that's going to be a part 

806
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,360
of that. 
But I mean, I have to say at 

807
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,000
least her body is healed by this
point. 

808
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,800
That's nice to see. 
So in still #3, Dustin and Steve

809
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:39,360
are in the Upside Down. 
We don't yet know the location, 

810
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:43,360
but it looks like either Hawkins
National Lab or maybe the radio 

811
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,280
station. 
But what is clear is they are 

812
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,720
looking up at something with 
somewhat perplexed looks on 

813
00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:53,240
their faces. 
And Dustin also appears to have 

814
00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:56,800
a bloody lip and a bruised up, 
bruised up face. 

815
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,360
Yeah, a lot of the cast looks 
banged up. 

816
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,760
And this like people comment 
that Mike also looks like he's 

817
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,760
been injured. 
And we know that Dustin gets 

818
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,400
beat up at some point by the 
guys on the basketball team. 

819
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,000
So a lot of people getting beat 
up. 

820
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:11,760
And we don't know when the 
quarantine starts. 

821
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,160
I mean, we all went through 
COVID being cooped up for so 

822
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:15,640
long. 
People can only take so much if 

823
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,240
they're just taking their 
frustrations out on each other 

824
00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:24,840
or if this is monsters or, you 
know, bad guys or I'm just like 

825
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:29,120
falling or injured in the 
process of doing something. 

826
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,760
So be curious to see what that 
looks like this season because 

827
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,720
normally it's just Steve that's 
getting beat up. 

828
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,200
The rest of the cast is spared. 
And what's interesting is I 

829
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,720
don't know if we've gotten any, 
any footage of or stills of 

830
00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:47,240
Steve being getting beat up or 
like his face being all bashed 

831
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:48,560
up. 
Have we actually? 

832
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,320
I don't think so. 
Yeah, I mean, you know what's 

833
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:51,920
going to happen because that's a
running. 

834
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:53,680
That's a running joke every 
season. 

835
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,480
But yeah, that's interesting. 
Everyone else's face is bashed 

836
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,680
up, but it is right now. 
Some things I noticed in this 

837
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,440
scene is that Steve appears to 
be holding what looks like a 

838
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,960
bayonet in his hand. 
It's it looks like there's a 

839
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:09,120
knife on the end of it. 
Could be a scope which is new 

840
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:10,840
for who. 
He normally just has the nail 

841
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,600
bad and that's that's it. 
I'm still hoping the nail bat 

842
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,520
makes a comeback in season 5. 
I missed that thing. 

843
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,560
I would have liked to have seen 
it in season 3. 

844
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:22,520
So I'm hoping it makes a 
comeback one last time. 

845
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,320
And I'm wondering if this is 
part of the same scene where 

846
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,360
Steve, Dustin, Nancy, and 
Jonathan drive it upside down or

847
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,600
the 1:00 where they're standing 
next to the glowing red light. 

848
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:33,720
A Dustin's outfit looks similar 
to the one where we see next to 

849
00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:36,600
the growing red light. 
So it could be one of those 

850
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,480
scenes. 
It's kind of hard to tell what 

851
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,320
was Steve's outfit because of 
how dark it is and we see we 

852
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,360
he's been beat up. 
So we don't know if that's 

853
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,600
somehow related to the 
basketball guys or something 

854
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,520
else entirely. 
It would not come with the 

855
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,680
timeline is here. 
So I'm really curious to see 

856
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,360
where where in the timeline this
this scene fits in. 

857
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,840
In the fourth still, Mike is 
standing in front of some new 

858
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,560
kid characters, shielding them 
from something. 

859
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:05,640
The Joyce is behind them looking
like she's holding Will or 

860
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,640
hugging him, like almost looks 
like she's kind of holding him 

861
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,560
up. 
But whatever it is that they're 

862
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,400
looking at, it's Mike looks 
terrified and the kids look 

863
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,200
amazed. 
Yeah, You know what I just 

864
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:18,800
noticed? 
I'm looking at this again and 

865
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,680
there's another person in this 
shot. 

866
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:24,000
There's like what appears to be 
a military guy who's like passed

867
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,880
out on the floor behind them. 
So it looks like he's either 

868
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:31,080
dead or unconscious. 
So I don't know if he's been 

869
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,920
attacked by something or they've
taken him out, but I just 

870
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,960
noticed that there's a guy in 
like camo military gear who's 

871
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:41,080
like on the floor behind them. 
I hadn't noticed that either 

872
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:42,760
until you literally just brought
that. 

873
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,040
Up. 
Yeah, I, I hadn't noticed it 

874
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,040
till right now, but like, 
they're clearly at some kind of 

875
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,360
military base based on the 
background. 

876
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,280
And this guy tried to stand up 
to whatever it was and he got 

877
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:53,680
taken out. 
But yeah, Will looks like he's 

878
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,560
collapsed and Joyce is like 
holding slash kind of hugging, 

879
00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:00,520
dragging him. 
And we do see that scene of Will

880
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:02,640
screaming in the teasers. 
I don't know if he's telling 

881
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,320
them to to run and then 
collapses because it seems very 

882
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,480
strangled to me. 
And I saw people online point 

883
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:11,400
out that Mike's face looks 
bruised on his his one cheek. 

884
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,680
So he's been injured somehow. 
And then you can see the new 

885
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:19,240
character of Derek is behind 
Mike on his right, and he's 

886
00:47:19,240 --> 00:47:23,880
looks like completely terrified.
And I feel like they're in 

887
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,960
between like, befuddled and 
like, confused and terrified. 

888
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,160
This has to be like a monster or
something for the Upside Down 

889
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,080
because they've clearly never 
seen something like this before.

890
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:42,240
And then there's a girl on 
Mike's left who guessing based 

891
00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:44,560
on their ages, I would assume 
that Derek and this other girl 

892
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,680
are Erica's friends because they
look like they'd be around the 

893
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,080
same age as her. 
And then there's a younger girl 

894
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:55,600
kind of half in the frame beside
Derek on the right, and she 

895
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,040
looks younger. 
So I'm guessing this is a friend

896
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:02,000
of Holly's or perhaps a sibling 
of one of these kids. 

897
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,640
So I'm, I'm wondering if maybe 
the plot here, as we've 

898
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:09,320
speculated that Holly and Erica 
go missing at some point and 

899
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,680
that these are their friends. 
They've come looking for them 

900
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:15,800
the way that everyone came 
looking for Will in season 1 and

901
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,040
that while they don't want these
kids in danger, they know 

902
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:19,720
they're not going to stop 
looking the way they wouldn't 

903
00:48:19,720 --> 00:48:22,000
stop looking for Will. 
When everyone else gave up, the 

904
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,320
party kept looking and his 
family kept looking. 

905
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,240
So I'm wondering if that's what 
this is. 

906
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:28,720
I I will say one of my immediate
reactions. 

907
00:48:28,720 --> 00:48:30,960
I said this to you on the phone.
Ashley is OK. 

908
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,040
So we've got Todd Beaches, all 
these new characters. 

909
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,080
Where's Will's love interest? 
Man, I've been holding out hope 

910
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,000
for that one. 
And it's like, OK, he can fight 

911
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,440
monsters and find love too. 
Everyone else in the cast gets 

912
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:43,680
to do that, like, like all the 
other characters get to do that.

913
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:46,360
Like where's his love pages? 
Like where's his love story? 

914
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:52,160
Like justice for Will man. 
Well, we must also keep in mind 

915
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:57,200
that there were two characters 
that I will not name here that 

916
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,720
we're not in this teaser, but we
will talk about that when we 

917
00:49:00,720 --> 00:49:04,720
break the teaser down. 
So I guess that is the answer in

918
00:49:04,720 --> 00:49:07,640
which you seek I. 
Mean, I'm still hopeful. 

919
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:11,160
I mean, I think it'd be kind of 
a a sad or kind of a lame ending

920
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:15,400
to have stretched his coming out
for Four Seasons and then have 

921
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,880
it just be, well, he was in love
with his best friend and his 

922
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,880
best friend was in love with his
sister and will wound up alone 

923
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:25,240
or some lame crap where it's 
like right at the end or he 

924
00:49:25,240 --> 00:49:27,640
shows him the epilogue with a 
boyfriend or a partner or 

925
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:28,960
something. 
I don't know. 

926
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:30,840
I'm hoping for more than that. 
And especially since Will is 

927
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:34,520
going to be a prominent part of 
the season, I'd like to see he's

928
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,200
coming out and I'd like to see 
him meet somebody. 

929
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,880
Maybe he's a kid of someone 
who's there as part of the 

930
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,200
military efforts or the relief 
efforts. 

931
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:46,280
Because it's got to be somebody 
new to the environment. 

932
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:52,520
Just based on your reputation as
a zombie boy, a nerd, part of 

933
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,360
party and everyone thinks his 
friends are in a cult, I feel 

934
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,880
like he'd have a hard time 
finding love with somebody who 

935
00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:02,320
knew who he was already. 
Like, I feel like it's got to be

936
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,360
an outsider. 
So we'll talk about that more 

937
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:08,080
when we break it down. 
But yeah, that was that was one 

938
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,520
of my key reactions. 
I think what telling about this 

939
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:14,040
trailer is what's there, but but
also who who's not there, what 

940
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:16,200
we don't see. 
I think it's just as just as 

941
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:19,560
telling. 
Sometimes it's it's not always 

942
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:24,080
what is being shown. 
Sometimes you got to be able to 

943
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:26,400
read between the lines, you know
what I'm saying? 

944
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:34,480
And then after that and still #5
we have an iconic shot of Joyce 

945
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:38,800
holding an axe, standing in 
front of what I believe is a 

946
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:44,800
door in the distance. 
She is flanked by Robin, Will, 

947
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:48,800
and what looks to be Erica. 
And they all look like they're 

948
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,800
inside of the barn. 
That we've seen a lot in the 

949
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:56,080
behind the scenes. 
Then the new character Derek is 

950
00:50:56,280 --> 00:51:00,480
kind of standing above Will and 
maybe Erica in like the loft. 

951
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:03,960
I don't know. 
I don't know why he's standing 

952
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,800
there, but still a cool shot. 
Yeah, I really love this shot. 

953
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,240
I love that they're coming back 
to, you know, Joyce and her 

954
00:51:10,240 --> 00:51:12,560
trusty acts. 
And the corduroy jacket from 

955
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:16,080
from Season 1 has has returned. 
We saw it earlier in footage. 

956
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,240
But love this for Joyce. 
Something I loved about her 

957
00:51:19,240 --> 00:51:21,880
character was like her plot in 
Season 1 and her, you know, that

958
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:25,640
iconic shot of her with the axe 
in the living room or her 

959
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,280
fighting for her son. 
And she's like, I don't care. 

960
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:28,720
This whole town thinks I'm 
crazy. 

961
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,000
I'm getting my son back. 
And she clearly has brought this

962
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,640
kind of determination to 
whatever they're doing here. 

963
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:36,960
And I love that. 
And I think this is a really 

964
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:40,120
interesting shot, especially 
since you can see Derek standing

965
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,240
above them to me. 
But this what this must be is 

966
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:45,600
the turnbow trap. 
And since we know that's Derek's

967
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:47,600
last name, I think he's up 
there. 

968
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,440
We saw that behind the scenes 
shot of my hog jumping into like

969
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:53,840
what looked like like a Bale of 
hay on the on the floor. 

970
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:56,040
I'm guessing that they're 
expecting something to come 

971
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,400
through this door and that he is
like the turnbow trap is this is

972
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,400
they're setting Derek up to be 
part of the trap. 

973
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:04,520
And then once whatever this is 
comes through the door, they're 

974
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,960
going to attack it and he's up 
there kind of his baby. 

975
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:10,160
They've got him up there and I'm
guessing maybe there's a 

976
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:13,840
trapdoor or something that will 
release him so he falls and it 

977
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,360
can't get him. 
When we first heard that, I 

978
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:19,080
thought maybe it referred to 
something that was part of the 

979
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:22,800
DND campaign or Turnbow was like
a name for something. 

980
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:24,560
I didn't think it was going to 
be a person. 

981
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,840
So I'm interested to see if this
is Vecner, whoever, whatever is 

982
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,400
after this character that we're 
only meeting for the first time 

983
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:33,840
this season. 
That seems kind of important for

984
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,440
somebody we've never heard of 
and never seen before. 

985
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:40,320
So I'm really curious as to, you
know, how that occurs and how a 

986
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:43,200
character we've just met could 
be that important that they're 

987
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:46,440
setting up some kind of a trap, 
if that's what this is. 

988
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:51,160
And then still number six, we 
have a close up image of Will 

989
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:55,120
standing in an unknown an 
unknown location. 

990
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:59,680
He appears to be in great 
distress and his right cheek 

991
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,920
appears to be kind of puffy like
he's been beat up. 

992
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:06,280
Or maybe that's just the way 
like Noah's face is like what 

993
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:12,320
he's like moving his face there.
But if you I noticed when I was 

994
00:53:12,720 --> 00:53:15,480
putting together these notes, 
but I noticed that if you zoom 

995
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:20,600
in closely to his eyes, you can 
make out what looks to be like 

996
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,560
black veins in the corneas of 
his eyes. 

997
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,680
Yeah, I noticed that too. 
When you can see that when you 

998
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,280
when you zoom in. 
So it's possible he was injured 

999
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,160
or this is him. 
Like he's straining a lot like 

1000
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:32,720
this clip from the teaser. 
Presumably this is from the part

1001
00:53:32,720 --> 00:53:35,280
where he's screaming at them to 
run and it's very like a 

1002
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:36,080
strangled. 
Yeah. 

1003
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,040
Like obviously something is 
happening to him. 

1004
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:41,280
It's not like a this is not him 
a normal yell for him. 

1005
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:43,560
This is something has has 
happened to something that's 

1006
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:46,080
like preventing him and he's 
freaking out trying to get 

1007
00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:48,680
everyone outside of danger. 
And this could also be part of 

1008
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:53,800
the this scene from earlier 
where he's collapsed and Joyce 

1009
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,760
is holding him. 
So I'm like love the acting so 

1010
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:01,440
far, this love the visuals. 
We're getting really excited to 

1011
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,080
see what this season is is 
bringing, bringing for Will. 

1012
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:08,720
Absolutely. 
Then still #7 again, one of my 

1013
00:54:09,240 --> 00:54:12,400
favorite. 
This is one of my favorite parts

1014
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:15,240
from not only this carousel but 
the teaser. 

1015
00:54:15,240 --> 00:54:20,880
We have Karen and Holly and 
Karen also looks very distressed

1016
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:27,280
and is holding or hugging an 
even more distressed Holly and 

1017
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:30,640
what appears to be a location 
inside the Wheeler home. 

1018
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:33,040
Yeah, I, I also find this one 
super intriguing. 

1019
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,560
I went back and look at the 
behind the scenes teaser we got 

1020
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:38,920
and Holly appears to be wearing 
the same outfit we saw her in. 

1021
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:41,720
And that's the one where she's 
in her bedroom. 

1022
00:54:41,720 --> 00:54:44,720
She gets up on the floor and 
sees the lights are flickering 

1023
00:54:44,720 --> 00:54:47,640
and, you know, goes downstairs 
to the kitchen and we see her 

1024
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:50,440
looking scared in the kitchen. 
Now in the kitchen shot she 

1025
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:54,080
looks drenched, like she's just 
had a shower, whereas in this 

1026
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:57,720
one their hair does not appear 
to be wet, but she is wearing 

1027
00:54:57,720 --> 00:54:59,520
the same. 
So this does all appear to be 

1028
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:03,520
part of the same sequence. 
And to me, this felt like a real

1029
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:07,640
parallel to the scene in Season 
4 where Karen is holding Holly 

1030
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:12,120
as the earthquake happens and, 
you know, trying to shield her 

1031
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:15,320
from, you know, the the falling 
debris and then the shaking and 

1032
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:18,200
everything what's happening. 
And I think that this scene is 

1033
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:20,760
very previously very similar 
where, you know, she's trying to

1034
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,840
protect her from whatever is is 
coming at them. 

1035
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:27,240
And it's like, it's not like 
this is exactly really new. 

1036
00:55:27,240 --> 00:55:31,680
I mean, throughout the seasons 
of the show, like most of what 

1037
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:37,360
we see Karen and Holly is Karen 
holding Holly like a lot like 

1038
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:39,200
this. 
So it's just so interesting to 

1039
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:41,920
see this. 
Obviously now this is not appear

1040
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,480
to be a happy moment like the 
other times. 

1041
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:47,800
But yeah, I'm I'm definitely 
interested in in seeing these 

1042
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:51,320
two this season. 
And then the last still that we 

1043
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:54,000
that we got is also one of my 
favorites. 

1044
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:58,600
We got a very interesting visual
of what I assume to be a new 

1045
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,000
part of the Upside Down we've 
never seen before. 

1046
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,760
In this image we see what 
appears to be two people, 

1047
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:08,200
speculation is 11 and Hopper or 
11 and Mike, standing in front 

1048
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:12,400
of a massive upside down vine 
covered wall. 

1049
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:16,520
They are holding flashlights, 
shining them on the wall as 

1050
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:20,360
though they're looking for 
something plastered on the wall 

1051
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:24,400
or some very nasty looking mucus
plugs. 

1052
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:27,560
It's like the best way I know 
how to describe it, but they 

1053
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:31,760
look very nasty. 
But where the people are shining

1054
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:35,600
their flashlights does appear to
be the center and it looks 

1055
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:40,000
almost like a gate in and out of
itself or at least like it an 

1056
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:44,880
eye shape mucus thing. 
Anyway, it's it's nasty. 

1057
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:45,800
It's. 
Nasty man. 

1058
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:48,480
Yeah, whenever they're shining 
their light out, there should be

1059
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:52,000
the opening, whoever that this 
wall thing is. 

1060
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:53,760
And you're right, it could be a 
gate. 

1061
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:55,920
I don't know. 
It kind of reminds me of when 

1062
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:58,600
Elle went through like the 
mucusy stuff to get back into 

1063
00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:01,120
the school at the beginning of 
season 2. 

1064
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:04,440
It looks like a an upgraded 
version of that. 

1065
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:08,160
But man, the upside down has 
really grown like in just from 

1066
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:12,160
1-2 to 4. 
But this is his next level and 

1067
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:14,120
we know they do a lot of stuff 
practically. 

1068
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:17,200
So I would imagine they probably
did part of this practically and

1069
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:20,880
then replicated it or they did 
maybe the close-ups practically 

1070
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:23,400
and a greens game. 
But however they did this, I 

1071
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:28,120
mean, it looks nasty, but also 
very interesting that I mean, 

1072
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:30,080
this is what the upside down has
grown to. 

1073
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:33,400
I mean, this is a lot for our 
heroes to to handle that. 

1074
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:35,720
I mean that that that's pretty. 
That's pretty big. 

1075
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,240
I mean, they talk about the 
mother gain season 4, but that 

1076
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:40,000
looks like the mother of that's 
a gate. 

1077
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,160
That's a mother of mother gates.
Yeah. 

1078
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:44,400
And I will say I think the 
quality of the season just so 

1079
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,800
far looks amazing. 
The practical and special 

1080
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:48,280
effects. 
We do see a little bit in this 

1081
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:52,680
teaser and then the stills look 
amazing and you can tell they've

1082
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:55,680
put a lot of time and money into
making it look really cool and 

1083
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,160
interesting. 
And I mean, that part of it has 

1084
00:57:58,160 --> 00:57:59,760
always been really cool 
visually. 

1085
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,000
That's always been something 
this show is really strong in. 

1086
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:05,680
But this just looks like next 
level and and honestly, compared

1087
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:08,600
to season 4, I'd prefer that 
something where they put the 

1088
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:11,360
time and the energy in the 
budget into everyone's in 

1089
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:12,800
Hawkins. 
They make it look as cool as 

1090
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:16,360
possible, whereas in I feel like
in for the budget kind of got 

1091
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:18,440
stretched where they were trying
to make every single set. 

1092
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,360
They were in every single place,
the cool, authentic and 

1093
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:22,680
different. 
I commend them for trying 

1094
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:25,080
something new. 
I think did feel like they kind 

1095
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:26,920
of did stretch things. 
So this is cool to see. 

1096
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,720
OK, We're just really 
concentrating in this one area 

1097
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:31,880
to make it look as as cool as 
possible. 

1098
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:35,160
Yeah, for sure. 
I I just love how crisp this 

1099
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:38,680
footage was. 
And it's really weird because 

1100
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:43,720
I've been started re watching 
the show recently and now it's 

1101
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:47,360
like it's going to be hard for 
me to be able to look at the 

1102
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:50,560
even like even season 4. 
But you know, certainly the 

1103
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:55,200
first three seasons the same 
again, just based on like these,

1104
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:59,280
these clips from this teaser. 
Yeah, the quality looks really 

1105
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:02,320
high and this everything looks 
very high res and this is just 

1106
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:05,880
the preliminary stuff. 
So I'm sure the visuals for the 

1107
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:09,200
final version are going to be 
stunning and also kind of gross.

1108
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:11,880
That's the final gate, like 
stunning, but gross probably at 

1109
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,120
times based on what we're seeing
here. 

1110
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:18,440
So as part of the teaser, we got
the release date announcement. 

1111
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:23,200
So volume one will be dropping 
on November 26, 2025. 

1112
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:27,280
Volume to we'll be driving on 
December 25th, that's Christmas 

1113
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:30,920
of 2025. 
And the finale will premiere on 

1114
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:35,040
December 31st at 2025 on the 
episodes, we'll be premiering at

1115
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:40,920
5:00 PM PST time. 
And the latest information from 

1116
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:45,720
Todom is that 4 episodes will be
released on the November date, 3

1117
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:49,480
episodes on Christmas, and the 
finale episode will be on New 

1118
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:51,640
Year's Eve Release dates 
finally. 

1119
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:55,760
Call your families and tell them
that you will not be seeing them

1120
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:58,120
over this holiday season, but 
that you love them. 

1121
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:02,440
Just do it now. 
Just do it now and don't wait. 

1122
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:05,440
And I know you and I were 
talking because Canaan, American

1123
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,720
Thanksgiving is different, but 
we were talking earlier about 

1124
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:10,560
how all three of these dates 
fall on like American 

1125
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:12,480
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New
Year's. 

1126
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:15,280
It's kind of weird. 
I know people watch with their 

1127
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:18,360
families, but think of my own 
family, not circadian. 

1128
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:21,320
Like the November date doesn't 
affect us, but so now I got to 

1129
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:25,800
take time out of Christmas with 
my family to to watch this. 

1130
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:29,080
For anyone whose families don't 
watch, it is kind of weird. 

1131
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:31,760
And people have said we're 
expecting October, November, not

1132
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:33,960
November, December. 
It's not really a Christmas 

1133
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:35,360
thing. 
It's more of a Halloween thing. 

1134
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,480
And but they are Wednesday being
August, September, are they? 

1135
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:40,680
I'm kind of starting to wonder, 
are they dropping something else

1136
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:43,280
in October that they want to 
reserve the date for? 

1137
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:47,560
Because this this stuff is very 
kind of Halloween themed and 

1138
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:49,160
it's weird. 
They're not dropping anything in

1139
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:53,960
October and it's not really a 
Christmas or New Year's or I 

1140
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:57,080
mean, it doesn't bring to my 
mind Thanksgiving either. 

1141
01:00:57,080 --> 01:00:58,880
So I mean, unless they're trying
to do something with the 

1142
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:01,760
Christmas lights. 
But I mean, if they're maybe 

1143
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,120
bringing it back to that or I 
don't know, they're just trying 

1144
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:05,960
to increase numbers. 
So I think people will watch 

1145
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:08,800
with their their families that I
don't know actually. 

1146
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:09,920
What are your? 
Thoughts on that? 

1147
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:14,840
I mean, honestly, I think it's 
because they want, and by they, 

1148
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:26,120
I mean the Duffers want enough 
time to properly edit and do the

1149
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:32,040
special effects for it and maybe
not run into the same issues 

1150
01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:37,960
that they had with Season 4. 
That's the best, my best guess. 

1151
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:42,480
To me, that's what kind of makes
the most sense at this point. 

1152
01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:47,080
And also because Part 2 of 
Wednesday comes out in September

1153
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:50,040
and maybe Netflix wants to have 
a good buffer in between the 

1154
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:52,800
two. 
But yeah, I, I honestly believe 

1155
01:01:52,800 --> 01:02:00,800
it's, it's it's really to do 
with giving them enough time in 

1156
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:05,640
post production. 
I think, you know, was the case 

1157
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:07,720
with Volume 2 and, and the 
finale. 

1158
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:13,640
I think the same thing because I
mean, the Duffers have they said

1159
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:19,160
like earlier this year that they
they filmed like 8 blockbuster 

1160
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:25,560
movies and I believe it. 
So I mean, you know, I feel like

1161
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:30,120
we're we, we have a lot. 
And so yeah, I feel like that. 

1162
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:34,040
And also they maybe Netflix just
literally wanted to end the year

1163
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:37,040
with a bang. 
And why not have the final 

1164
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:42,720
season of your most popular show
drop at the literal, literally 

1165
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:46,760
the end of the year? 
And plus, I feel like maybe 

1166
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:52,280
Netflix knows like people will 
make time to watch Stranger 

1167
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:55,400
Things. 
And I think they they know that.

1168
01:02:55,440 --> 01:03:00,840
And so I don't think they have 
any fears of the repercussions 

1169
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,760
because they know that people 
are going to watch it. 

1170
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:06,560
I think too, like, I like the 
times that they included. 

1171
01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:10,120
And so like for me, because I 
don't like on Christmas Day, I 

1172
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:13,320
don't usually go anywhere. 
And so, you know, I've spent 

1173
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:18,480
time with my mom and my grandma 
earlier that day and then have 

1174
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:23,240
the rest of the the day to chill
and then I can watch it at 8:00 

1175
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:26,720
PM my time. 
I mean, I know now everyone's, 

1176
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:29,280
you know, that's not the case 
for everyone. 

1177
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:36,720
But I think if it were like if 
the times were off, like if say 

1178
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:39,520
if they were going to release it
like they normally do, like 3:00

1179
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:43,600
AM, I would be more concerned. 
But I feel like with the times 

1180
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:47,160
that they're going to release 
them, I do think they they did 

1181
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:52,240
take extra steps to accommodate 
for the holidays for people. 

1182
01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:55,360
Yeah, that, that's fair. 
Although my experience in the 

1183
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:57,720
past of like something supposed 
to be dropping a certain time, 

1184
01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:00,160
you know, reloading and 
reloading and reloading, trying 

1185
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:02,920
to get it to come up has always 
been annoying. 

1186
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:07,240
So because you got to wait to 
like then five O 1 kind of a 

1187
01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:09,560
thing. 
But yeah, I mean, does come out 

1188
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:11,920
for us, it would be, you know, 
8:00 PM. 

1189
01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:13,920
So it's coming out in the 
evenings. 

1190
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:16,280
I guess the idea is you spend 
Christmas morning and afternoon 

1191
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:19,880
with your family and then in the
evening you can you can TuneIn 

1192
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:22,840
expect to get a lot of, you 
know, back and forth phone calls

1193
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:24,960
with my friends about like, did 
you did you see this? 

1194
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:28,160
Oh my gosh, did you see it yet? 
Because we did that for the 

1195
01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:31,880
second-half of four, because we 
watched part volume 1 together 

1196
01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:36,560
that my friend was on vacation. 
And so for for Volume 2. 

1197
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:39,880
And so we want to talking on the
phone and doing it that way. 

1198
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:42,160
At least we'll all be together 
for the November date and then 

1199
01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:45,280
for New Year's. 
So go out with a bang, I guess 

1200
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:49,800
been emotional New Year's. 
RIP to the ratings for all the 

1201
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:52,120
New Year's programs that go on 
that night. 

1202
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:55,720
I was about to say like Ryan 
Seacrest, I love you man, but 

1203
01:04:55,720 --> 01:05:00,360
I'm sorry but I think I'm going 
to have to forgo the ball drop 

1204
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:04,400
this year and cause the upside 
down is where it's at. 

1205
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:09,080
I can already hear the jokes now
from the, you know, from the 

1206
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:13,600
Dick Clark New Year's Eve 
special of all the other ones 

1207
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:16,000
being like those of you who 
aren't tuning in to watch 

1208
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,520
Stranger Things tonight. 
Yeah, exactly. 

1209
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:20,600
I know. 
I also feel like attendance 

1210
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:23,000
might be down to because 
normally everyone congregates 

1211
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:25,440
where they're doing ball the 
ball drop in different places 

1212
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:27,280
around the world, but I feel 
like a lot of people are going 

1213
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:29,880
to stay home and watch rather 
than go out. 

1214
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:34,040
Yeah, or it might be something 
that can keep you up until like 

1215
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:38,080
midnight and then once it's off,
then you can go watch the ball 

1216
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:40,960
drop. 
And it's like you watch have a 

1217
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:45,520
very emotional moment watching 
the finale and then you can go 

1218
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:48,880
watch the ball drop and watch 
fireworks. 

1219
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:51,080
Yay. 
So it's a good, I feel like a 

1220
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:53,440
good spectrum there. 
Emotional moments, a lot of 

1221
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:55,720
highs and lows, and that's our 
show. 

1222
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:58,240
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1223
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:00,440
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1224
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:02,360
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1225
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:04,760
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1226
01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:07,680
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1227
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:08,600
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