Murderbot - S01E05 - Rogue War Tracker Infinite

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[00:00:46] Willkommen zu den Lorehounds, die Beacon Tamperin. Ich bin John und ich habe Immobilize-Your Motor Funktion für den Längen von diesem Podcast. Und ich bin Alicia und ich promise nicht zu versuchen, zu kissen jemanden als wir die 5e Episode von Apple TV Plus zu Murderbot, Rogue War Tractor Infinite. Spoilers für die ersten 5e Episode von der Serie, aber wir haben nicht gesehen. Wir haben schon ein paar Reise, aber keine Spoilers für etwas passiert. Alicia, Ihre Hot Takes?

[00:01:13] Ja, so I was waiting for this one because I saw in the image that it had Anna Konkel in it. The actress, the new character who joined, Le Bebe. Le Bebe. And so I was just curious, like, how does this character come into it? And I guess we can say for non-book readers, this whole situation where they find someone alive at Delft for All and bring her back, that's added for the show.

[00:01:41] So we can somewhat, we can speculate a bit about that. Although, yeah, we obviously do know how the book ends. But yeah, I was, so I was really waiting to for, to see her show up and be like, I'm like, who is this? What is this person doing here? Uh, so it's interesting. Definitely want to talk about that whole situation. Um, I, I had fun with it again, as usual. Like I've, I'm just, I'm enjoying the season. And I was thinking about, I was thinking about the fact that it's only 23 minutes again.

[00:02:11] And that's, that's sitcom length. So it makes me wonder, does Apple plan to syndicate this someday? Where it's going to appear somewhere on, on network television with ads, ad breaks? Yeah, I guess it's not that brutal, right? Like for a show called Murderbot, there's really not a lot of gore. Right. Right. I think, I think it's a good possibility. And I was also thinking about the whole, you know, again, we, we get a cliffhanger of sorts.

[00:02:39] And I think every episode is just going to do that. And I think it's because it's hearkening back to the whole Flash Gordon, you know, space pulp, um, cliffhangers at the end of every release. Yeah. Yeah. I, that's, that's interesting. Again, I would have classified this as a cliffhanger that I wouldn't like normally, but in this show, I think it's just part of the gambit and, and I will go with it. Not everything needs the same thing. Mm-hmm.

[00:03:09] Yeah. So what, what did you think of this? I thought it was the best episode yet. I thought they really did. I thought they really did a great job. That scene is so iconic in the book too, in the novella, uh, the, the scene where they're like, okay, so he's been rogue the whole time. Yeah. With Gareth and being like, Hey, uh, this is, uh, this is not great guys. This is not great. Yeah. They really did almost word for word in that scene. Yeah. They did. And, and I really loved it. And I, and I loved the joke.

[00:03:38] They took that right out of the book where they, they're debating whether he, uh, he's really watching, watching the show or not. And they, they give a controversial ticket. He goes, that's bullshit. Yeah. What does it, I have it written down here. The one where the colony solicitor killed the terraforming supervisor who is secondary donor for her implanted baby. And the book version is she didn't kill him. That's a fucking lie. But in the book version, uh, there was no F word and more details. Okay. Okay.

[00:04:08] Yeah. Yeah. He's it's a deep cut. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah. That was great. That was great. And Edgar Othin's like, so what? It's like, no, that, that actually does matter. The fact that he's just like a chill dude. Yeah. Yeah, it's true. Yeah. And, and they did change some of what's going on with, uh, with, with murder bot. And, um, why I, I am so bad with names today. Who's the lead? Who's the lead? Mensa. Mensa. Thank you.

[00:04:38] I don't know why she's really smart. Yeah. She's, she was, she was great in the, in the hopper with murder bot. That was a different scene too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I love how they keep building out like the world of this, uh, you know, this, this world or the galaxy or whatever that they're in, in terms of all the entertainment.

[00:04:58] So the title refers to rogue war tracker, infinite colon tribulation, which, um, labibi says is a great show and murder bot and Rothy's face suggest otherwise. I love BB is so funny. Like I, I don't know whether to trust her. Honestly, I do. I do not trust her. I'm very suspicious. She's disappearing for stretches of time.

[00:05:25] And we know that there was a group pretending to be other people at the other place at dealt fall. And I'm just wondering who, you know, if, if, if that group were able to pretend to be preservation, uh, alliance, preservation, alliance, preservation, ox. Sorry. Yeah. If that group were able to pretend to be preservation ox, I, I could see dealt fall being the new impersonation. Yeah, exactly. And it is.

[00:05:50] And at some points, you know, toward the end of the episode, murder bot even says to Mensa, um, if someone came to you, you would let them in, you know, cause Mensa's like, why would they let them in? And he's like, if someone came to you pretending to be, you know, you guys, they were pretending to be a preservation ox to dealt fall. Well, if somebody did the opposite, pretend to be dealt fall to preservation ox, you would let them in too. And it's like, yeah. Um, did you not just literally do that? Yeah, exactly.

[00:06:20] Yeah. He goes, Hey dummy. Uh, it's, it's fun stuff. It's a good episode. You want to get right into the plot? Sure. Okay. So back at the base, picking up where the last episode left off, uh, the preservation ox team decides to save their sec unit who shot itself through the chest rather than let a combat module override, force it to attack the team. It's supposed to be protecting as they're hauling. It's heavy ass back to the hopper.

[00:06:48] A woman pops out of the bushes wearing adult fall uniform and covered in blood. She says she is a survivor of the sec unit attack and Mensa and the team invite her to return to their habitat across the ocean with them while they try to reach out to the company to tell them what's going on. The woman who introduces herself as Labibi is both afraid of murder bots, unsurprising, but is also uncomfortably sexually interested in our asexual protagonist. Honestly, that awkwardness was the thing that was making me trust her most.

[00:07:18] Cause I was like, if you're trying to be not noticed, this is not the way to do it. Yeah. Well, I mean, I do wonder, um, just because like the show seems to be making us not like her, you know, in terms of she thinks the thing that the show, everyone else thinks is bad. She thinks it's good. She's trying to kiss an entity that is repeatedly professed to us, the audience, that it is not a sex bot and is not interested in that kind of behavior.

[00:07:48] Um, yeah. So then I'm like, is that a misdirect? Like you, you're setting her up to be disliked. So maybe, um, I'm less trusting of her than I should be. Yeah. Maybe I honestly eat. It's almost expected now that she's going to betray. I wonder if you're right. And it's a misdirect and they're going to do like a reverse twist on us. Yeah. Oh, she was fine the whole time. Yeah. Maybe, maybe. Oh man. But it did.

[00:08:16] Um, they are setting up, you know, this, I definitely recognize being that like, uh, when you're like, please stop behaving that way. And then she's like, well, stop staring at me stuck up robot. And that's, yeah, definitely. Unfortunately, when someone's crossing a line and you tell them, no, they're going to call you stuck up or something. Right. Right. Although when she tried to, she, she kissed its chin. Oh my God. And then melt me down.

[00:08:44] And I, and I love the way that the, um, the, the integrity rate or whatever, whatever, like for murder bot, like just starts going down and you're like, Oh wait, that can happen with just emotional harm. Yeah. It makes sense. Um, but she said that was just for luck or whatever. That was totally a star Wars reference. Wasn't it? Yeah. That was a star Wars reference. You're right. You're right. Yeah. So I had here, I guess we've already answered this, but on a scale of one to little finger

[00:09:12] of, of little finger to John snow, how much do we trust the BB little finger to John snow? Um, uh, let's, let's go great. John car stark. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I feel like even if she is not part of this mysterious third group, I still don't like her. I mean, I love the actress. I have to say, I love her from other things also, but, um, yeah, the, the character I'm like, no bad news bunny.

[00:09:42] Yeah. I agree with that. That's fair. That's fair. She's causing problems. That's for sure. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, do we believe her whole, she says she's in, uh, an indenture and we still don't know how people get put on an indenture. Is this like a way of getting off? Cause she said she's from industrial junction, 15, 15, 23 of a rod is like, Oh, that sounds nice. Yeah. It's an unpaid internship to get out of the lower levels of Coruscant. Yeah.

[00:10:12] That's, that's basically what I'm wondering, but I don't know. I don't know. Do we believe that she's that? Because then also, I mean, it's jumping ahead a little bit, but later on, she's awfully interested in Garoth and data he's analyzing. Right. Right. Yeah. I, I don't know that. That makes me suspicious, but also like she did back off when he told her to. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. I mean, and again, like, would you make yourself that obvious if you were trying to go undercover?

[00:10:41] That's a good point. That's a good point. Hmm. Um, so what did you think of, uh, of your boy Rati this episode? He was fun. I mean, Oh my God. What a, what a foot in mouth moment with, uh, we have a child. I, I did think the naming a child sec unit was hilarious. Yeah. No, that was funny. But Pinley could not be any less on board with that. Yeah. I'm not, I'm not having a child based on this. Not with you. I'm definitely not naming it sec unit.

[00:11:12] Yeah. Yeah. Uh, and, and, and just his whole, like, trying to be buddy, buddy with, with murder bot is hilarious. Second. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. I'm friends with the sec unit, your corporation rim. So you probably wouldn't like get it. I love also that he has the, this mark on his head from where he got the kickback from the gun last episode. Oh yeah. Yeah. I forgot about that. Yeah. Good attention to detail. Yeah.

[00:11:40] He's got this like red circle on his head where the gun plonked him. All right. Shall we, uh, tackle Garothan's interrogation? Yes. Let's. He was, he was certainly getting tackled. That's a great scene from the book too. Um, so back at the base, the team repairs murder bot as well as it can with barard was managing to extract the tendrils of the combat. That override module, which by the way, was totally giving me the last of us tendrils the year. Oh yeah.

[00:12:11] Yeah. And that was new for the show. I really liked the visualization of that because of the show. He just wakes up and they're like, yeah, we deleted it. Don't worry about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, this was a cool. And also I love how they're building barad wash is my second fave. Um, after Mensa of the preservation ox group. Hmm. Uh, but anyway, so she takes the tendrils from murder bots port so that it can think for itself.

[00:12:38] But when they turn it back on, Garothan sets it to be immobilized as he's learned that murder bot hacked its governor module and does not have to follow their orders, which Mensa points out means murder bot was protecting them when it didn't have to. Garothan is convinced that the thousands of hours of entertainment it's downloaded must be hiding something more sinister. Um, but Rothy, Rothy and pin me test it with a sanctuary moon deep cut and determine its fandom is real.

[00:13:06] Tired of Garothan's games, murder bot reveals. It doesn't have to listen to commands to remain immobilized either and pins Garothan against the wall. So, yeah. He says a little bit more in the book. He, in the book before he, sorry, it, sorry, I forgot to stop doing that. Um, in the book before it puts Garothan down, it says, I don't like you, but I like the rest of them. And for some reason, I don't understand. They like you. And then I put them down. Which, which I think is more calming.

[00:13:37] Yeah. Yeah. I think they're trying to leave it more on edge. Yeah. Yeah. That's fine. Give us a little more, a little more, uh, drama. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I wish, um, I wish in both the book and the, and the show, it would have been fun to see the dynamic between doubtfall and preservation ox. Before this all happens. Like if they met early on, although I guess then we would not be suspicious about LaBebe.

[00:14:05] We would know whether or not she was part of their team. Right. We are. I kind of want to call her LaBebe. I think that's funnier. I'll say it the way she says it, but I just feel like also when they asked her name or several things, like I, I, I don't know whether I was looking for it or maybe I sensed like she paused a beat before answering. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. I mean, it could be trauma. Like I'm, I'm hesitant to talk to you, but it also could be sabotage.

[00:14:32] I just, you know, I, I just have to say even like her saying her name when they, she first introduced herself, I burst out laughing when she said my name is LaBebe. Well, so a route of response. What did she say? She was like, that's beautiful. Yeah. That was great. That was great. It's a beautiful name. Oh, she's like, just, she's also dropping a very passive aggressive insults. Like, oh yeah, my supervisor called you guys the amateurs.

[00:14:59] Like, is she really that blundering or is there some purpose to rile them up? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. It's, it's, it's a tricky situation. I could not tell you if they are legit or not. Yeah. Yeah. And murder Bob points out if the corporation wanted them dead, there are a lot of easier ways to do it, but they wouldn't want that because, um, this is something to go into more in the book.

[00:15:24] I don't think it's a spoiler to say, but they, it's basically there's like insurance on all these people. And especially now that we know that Mensa is a leader of her planet, there's extra insurance on her. So they're like, we have to pay that, you know, if. Yeah. You don't want to do that. Yeah. We just want to collect the premiums, not pay out. That's how insurance works. Yeah. Right. That's the whole point.

[00:15:46] Um, but I like the, that they point out the lack of the governor, the lack of the governor module, you know, murder bot still helped them, but also the lack of the governor module allowed. Murder bot to help them, you know, allowed, uh, a sec unit with a governor module that was working, wouldn't have like comforted a Rada. Like we saw in the first episode. Right. Wouldn't have, and certainly didn't shoot itself like we saw last episode.

[00:16:17] So it actually, um, by trusting murder bot, they allow murder bot to help them more. Yeah. And, and they benefit from the lack of a governor module. I think Garothan hasn't seen that yet, but I think Mensa is starting to. Mm-hmm. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Um, what do you think about the whole Rati Pinli, Arada situation? Do you get any physical chemistry between them? Or is it just like. I don't know.

[00:16:47] Like Rati likes all the same stuff Pinli does, like games and shows and stuff, but. Yeah, I, I don't know. Maybe they need a contract to like date or something in this universe. I, I don't know. Maybe they're like in the early stages and, uh, Rati just like put a foot in his mouth by being like, hey, let's, uh, let's have a kid. It's like a guy on the second date being like, oh yeah, let me put a baby in you. Exactly. With a coworker though. So it's like an extra weirdness. Right. Exactly.

[00:17:17] Mm-hmm. That's not great. Yeah. That's not great. And, um, so yeah, but we have, we have all these dynamics being set up. I'm interested to see how they play out. Mensa asks sec unit to promise to also protect Gaurathan. And I think it will do it just because Mensa asks, not because it has to. Right. Right. Because he, I think Murderbot really respects Mensa.

[00:17:44] Even, even though Murderbot does not have to, you know, uh, obey Mensa, Murderbot wants to. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, exactly. And, uh, yeah, I think we get that also in the, in the next section where Murderbot is just thinking to itself like, oh, wow. Look, this is like a conversation. Like I've seen on TV, not just commands and requests for information. Yeah. That, that was really great. That was, that was a nice little touch.

[00:18:13] No. No. And then Murderbot, uh, tells them it hacked hub system and, uh, controls what is or isn't recorded. Um, so yeah, that's basically, that's, I, I think I like in the book that, I guess they have more opportunity to show that how Murderbot is controlling all these things at the same time while conversing with them and all that stuff.

[00:18:37] So, you know, when Garothan's like, well, we would notice if it had been watching that much content, it's like, you have no idea. Yeah, exactly. We would notice. No. Yeah. But anyway, we should distrust hub system as we see in the last section anyway. Right. Exactly. And, and also Murderbot says like, the, the corporates doesn't want you dead. They just poison the food. Right. Yeah. It's super easy. You don't even realize how much you depend on them. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:19:06] They wouldn't have to go to all these lengths. It was just scary, right? Like, man, I wouldn't want to be at the whim of that, but I mean, at the same time, like we're all at the whims of a lot of different systems right now. Yeah. Well, it is interesting that it's financial interest. It's keeping them alive. You know, they're anti-capitalist. Um, they are, you know, a communal structure, uh, but at the same time, it is the financial interest where, um, standing between them and corrupt.

[00:19:36] Humans just letting them die. Yikes. Although apparently maybe someone took a bribe. So. Yeah, exactly. It's, it's capitalism giveth and taketh, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mostly taketh. Mostly taketh, but there's, there's markets everywhere anyway. So you just have to live with part of it anyway. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, this isn't a show about capitalism. This is a show about murder bot. And we need a break. It's a little bit a show about capitalism. I guess you're right. I guess you're right.

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[00:20:35] And the time and the money that I do so much spend, can I another way invest in. Especially in Wachstum. We're back for an emergency beacon intervention. What's going on, Alicia? Murderbot suggests it's time to trigger the emergency beacon, sending an SOS to the corporation that will call someone to pick them up after about five days of travel time.

[00:21:05] However, it seems the beacon has also been tampered with and they can't launch it using Hubsystem. Murderbot says it will take the hopper to the beacon and set it off manually. And Mensa joins. She tells the team to prep to move to a more hidden location once they return. Gaurathan will analyze all the data while they're gone to find more clues to what's going on. But as they approach the beacon, Murderbot detects a threat. It yells at Mensa to turn the hopper around now.

[00:21:34] And she banks to the right just as the beacon explodes. And then she goes, I think, you know, the end. Did it look like they were falling? I guess so. Because they were caught and they didn't blow up, but they were caught in the... Yeah, they're going down. I think this is how they're going to get them to meet whoever is doing it. Because this is clearly a trap, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. So I think they're about to be hostage. Yeah. Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're right.

[00:22:03] I wanted to see... I would love to see some travel, but I don't know. Yeah, maybe toward the end of the season. Some travel through this worm. Yeah, through the wormhole. Yeah. And how that all works. I think... I just love to see how that's represented on screen. But... Yeah. So another thing that made me suspicious about Labibi, and I'm using Arab quotes in my voice, that she doesn't know if Deltfall attempted to launch its beacon.

[00:22:32] And this is where she says the whole thing about the seven-year indenture to inter-trap mining solutions. And I just... I don't know. I feel like her response here is one of the things that made me most suspicious. Like the way she was like, I don't know. How would I? No. I just do laundry. Yeah. And people were... They were rightly like, hey, you have a cleaning person come with you? At the same time, that could be one of two things.

[00:23:00] That could be these guys are not ritzy, and they wouldn't even think to bring a laundry person over. But... Or it could be that it was a made-up position and nobody would bring somebody. Right. Right. Yeah. And also the way she... Like, she does present herself as a bit dim-witted. Um... But the way she misinterprets what... You know, they're like, oh, that's disgusting. They mean disgusting as in having indentured servants. Um...

[00:23:28] But she's like, I can't help it if I don't have a degree. Um... And they're all like, no, no. We... No. I mean, no. Even though we're all scientists over here. The amateurs. Um... Of, you know, our political or social alignments. Mm-hmm.

[00:23:53] But there is a time in everyone's life where they are so trying to dance around getting the terminology and getting, like, exactly every data point right in their speech that the minute they mess up, they, like, feel the need to do exactly that. Yeah. And I love seeing that in action. That's so hilarious to me. It's like, no, no, no. Not like that.

[00:24:16] But then it makes me think, like, is LeBibi, air quotes, um, just messing with them, like, knowing that that's going to send them spiraling and the questions? Yeah, maybe. I... I... I think it could be, you know, get them off their balance. Like, make her seem so incompetent and so annoying that she's never a suspect. Mm-hmm. Could be. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we learned, uh, two facts about Mensa.

[00:24:46] First, her name's Ida, so I guess they all have first names that we are not privy to at this point. Um... Yeah. It's interesting that Garothan calls her that. And we learned that she's the best pilot, so maybe they wouldn't have survived with someone else. Yeah, true. Maybe Garothan's one of her baby daddies. I mean, I think Garothan would like to be one of her baby daddies, but I think she's got several other spouses. You don't think he's on the list?

[00:25:14] Um, not by the way they're behaving, but it seems like he wants to be. Yeah, I mean, they could be ex-partners. Mm-hmm. I mean, I think they're friends, but he wants more. That's the vibe. That's what I've been getting from what we've seen and heard. What do you think about him going, uh, if I don't make it back, Pinley's first? Yeah. Well, that's the question.

[00:25:36] His response, like, she's like, they're, you know, clasping hands, you know, in the sort of, uh, he's like, don't, please don't say that about not making it back. And then she says a thing, like, Pinley's first among equals. And then he's like, oh, okay. So, yeah, did he think she was going to say something else to him? Romantic? And then it's... I love you. Yeah. And then it's like, by the way, you're not in charge. Yeah, I don't know.

[00:26:05] I don't know what he thought she was going to say. I do think it could have been romantic, but you're not in charge is definitely, like, insulting for him. But also, I understand why she would do it because he has, he clearly has too much bias. He clearly is, like, not... Like, being a leader also requires social skills. Yeah. And he does not have them. Yeah. I would have put Bardwaj in charge, but if not Pinley, yes, sure, fine. Yeah, I don't know if Pinley was the best choice either. Pinley's pretty awkward.

[00:26:33] Well, Pinley's been, like, also much more so than in the books compared to the books. I think they've fleshed out Pinley's personality more in the show, which is a good thing. But Pinley is the second most suspicious, I would say, after Garothan. That's true. Because Pinley was also helping him with his calculations, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Although Pinley, of course, does know Sanctuary Moon. I'm like, yeah, it's like, I'm trying to think.

[00:27:00] It's like Garothan saying, like, I don't know, he's watching some show called Star Trek. And it's like, you don't know what Star Trek is? Are you kidding me? Right. But then, yeah, we get that lovely, awkward moment where she says, I'm glad you are here. And I love Mensa is my queen of empathy. I love her. And he says, me too. I think that. And just then, I feel like Murderbot did this on purpose. It's time to leave.

[00:27:29] He's like, oh, come on. So I wonder what he was going to say. What do you think? I think that we should sign a contract. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were finishing a sentence. I'm leaving this in. I'm leaving this in. I was like, what's going on here? I don't know what he was going to say. But I did love Murderbot going, it's time to leave. Like, the way he said it was such good delivery. It was like he wanted to interrupt.

[00:27:57] I think just because, just to thwart Garothan. Yeah, I think he just hates Garothan. Yeah. Which, I mean, fair. Yeah, to a certain extent. Like, what has Garothan done to be nice to him at all? No, it's true. It's true. Garothan has just been the one who, the only one who's not like, who's always suspicious at every term. And the only one not to, I don't know, be glad that it's not a slave to a governor module. Right.

[00:28:28] Yeah, and Garothan's clearly not a fan of Labibi either, though. So that wins some points with me. But, yeah, like I said, she was seeming awfully interested in looking over his shoulder at the data. Yeah, she definitely was. And I was, I was suspicious there. But she did back off, so I don't know. Hmm. Yeah. We'll see. We'll see. I mean, it would be, they're messing with people who have read the book also, in any case. So I'm curious if book readers have thoughts.

[00:28:59] Yeah. If you post in the Discord about it, please use spoiler tags. But I'm curious how she ties into what we know, where we think this season's going to end. Yeah. Yeah. Did you feel called out as a parent when Murderbot said, for some reason humans liked talking about their offspring, even if you didn't ask? I legitimately think about that all the time. Like, I don't, I don't bring up my kids.

[00:29:25] I really don't bring up my kids, except the fact that, like, I have kids, unless somebody asks about them. And then, sure, yeah, I'll show you their pictures. I'll tell you all about them. But I understand that, like, you're not going to care about them as much as I do. It's okay. It's all right. I can care about them enough for everybody. But this is also the point where Murderbot's, you know, reveling in being involved in a conversation versus a command.

[00:29:54] So I don't think it minds it. And it's even, I mean, we know Murderbot has some interest in human drama, because why else would you watch all these shows? Right. So I think it's just, you know, when it's like this, this is a warmth and a familial thing. And then, you know, it's, I think it likes that. But then versus what Labibi's doing with the gross sexual aggression. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:30:23] Oh, boy, Labibi. Oh, boy. You're not going to get what you want there. Oh, and the whole monologue about whether. The pee-pee. The pee-pee, yeah. That was insane. But again, is that trying to throw them off and, like, see her as a weirdo instead of a threat? Maybe. I kind of think it might be. I was cringing so hard during that. And I was wondering, because you like cringe humor. I was wondering if that was good cringe for you or bad. Yeah, yeah. I thought it was hilarious.

[00:30:53] I thought that was good. Yeah. It's very cringey. Yeah, it was. Like hiding behind my fingers. Yeah. Yeah. I don't hide. I relish it. You lap it up. You're like, give me a spoon. I bask in the cringe. We got David watching the rehearsal. So that's a cringe achievement. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, you skip to season two, which I can never do that. But I was saying season one actually is ultimately, sorry, mild spoiler for season one of the rehearsal.

[00:31:22] It becomes about parenting. Yeah. I do prefer season two, though, because I think it knows what it is from the beginning. And season one did not. Well, season one is a journey. I liked that about season one. That it's just like, you're like, what's going to happen now? Oh, my God. Now what? I don't know. Season two went places that I didn't think HBO was going to let him go. Sure. Sure. That too. I will quote from it. HBO gave me a blank check as long as I don't go over budget.

[00:31:52] I mean, I guess he's earned that. Yep. Yep. He sure has. So Murderbot fans, check out the rehearsal on HBO if you haven't yet. You might like it. Yeah. If you like the cringe of Murderbot, boy, let's level it up for the rehearsal. Yeah. And there's some feel good characters too, but no Menses. No Menses. Although actually there was quite the monologue about Einstein. Oh, I forgot about that. I forgot about that.

[00:32:21] I mean, she's not wrong about in general, the intelligent people. Although I've heard bad things about Einstein as like a person with a romantic individual. So no, I think, I, I, I think that was the one time in this whole series that Nathan broke character. He smiled and he like, he, he had to like double down. Like, wait, what? Yes. Please do talk more. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

[00:32:49] Well, this isn't the one shot we might do on the rehearsal. So. Yeah. I mean. Wrap it up basically. Yeah. It was a fun episode. Um, uh, it was, I mean, I, I, the people, there are people who are saying they're going to wait until the end of this season to binge at all, which I understand. But also I'm really glad to, we're watching it basically on a weekly schedule too with everyone else. And I'm really, uh, glad to have it dribbled out like this. It's been really fun.

[00:33:17] And then I'm going to rewatch it in a binge at the end of the season. Yeah. I think that'll be a lot of fun. I think it'll work as like, I guess it'll basically just be like a three hour movie, right? Yeah. Basically. Yeah. Yeah. That's fun. That's fun. At the end. And we're only halfway through. So five more weeks to go. We're only halfway through. All right. Well, if you want to join us on this journey, send feedback to lorehounds at the lorehounds.com. Get on the discord link tree in the show notes has the link for that.

[00:33:46] Uh, and there's a forum with episode chats for each episode. So you don't have to get spoiled ahead. If you're behind the show, I guess you're not behind the show. If you're listening now. Hopefully. But, uh, yeah, hopefully. And, uh, what else we got going on? Uh, we're doing our wrap up with the three you, David and I for and or we're filming, I mean, filming recording that later today. So it'll be out soon too.

[00:34:12] Um, and we've got super cast and patron stuff going on. Um, add free access to our podcasts and bonus content there with, you know, the extras for and or and wheel of time and everything else. And, uh, we've got second breakfast and 11 Z's extras this week. We are sorry. This month we're going to do two. This time we're really going to catch up with two. So we have the gene Hackman. When's going to be the French connection. And then it's your month to pick. Yeah.

[00:34:41] I gotta, I gotta pick a whole thing with that. I have several lists prepared, but I have to decide which one. And, uh, we're all, there's also going to be some Marvel stuff, uh, coming. There's going to be, uh, Jean and I are doing an episode looking back on this, uh, Sony spider villain verse with our power rankings and, uh, just an analysis of that whole thing. And we also have coming up, uh, we're doing for subscribers, a prep episode for the new

[00:35:09] 28 years later movie. Uh, we're going to start with on the subscriber feed, looking back at the prior two movies before the new one comes out. Very cool. What about our affiliates? Affiliates. We got nevermind the music they're doing their weekly music and psychology breakdown. We've got radioactive ramblings covering the fallout lore rings and rituals is still on pause, but properly Howard is back. They are doing what, what are they calling it?

[00:35:38] The Kevin bacon one. Yeah. It was, they did. It wasn't degrees of bacon. Was it? But it basically is. Yeah. They, they are having a great time. And I can tell it's going to be a fun bacon wrap. That's what it's called. Okay. Okay. Yeah. It's funny. You know, everyone talks about Kevin bacon. Nobody talks about his cousins, Kevin lettuce and Kevin tomato. Hmm. All right. That was a bad one. Oh, I'm moving. I was trying to think of a punny response and I just fell short.

[00:36:05] So you went, well, um, yeah. And then, uh, your, your podcast too. Yeah. Yeah. We'll shift dust. Um, getting back into dune in the star Wars canon timeline podcast. I just released for subscribers and episodes, uh, about how and or has changed rogue one. And then there's going to be more high Republic stuff back in the main feed. All right. Sounds good. Sounds good. Um, you want to think. Let's yes.

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