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Speaker 1: Warning. Today's episode contains spoilers for Stranger Things Season four,

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Speaker 1: which we are recapping to get you ready for season five,

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Speaker 1: the final season Stranger Things. Oh my name is Jason

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Speaker 1: Concepcion and I'm Rosie Night and welcome back to extro

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Speaker 1: Vision of the podcast where we dive to your favorite shows, movies, college, fun,

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Speaker 1: country comedy from our back Guys, we're ready with your

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Speaker 2: Week plus plus those before we jump into our Stranger

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Speaker 2: Things season four recap. A quick production note this holiday season,

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Speaker 2: we will be sharing a couple of shorter stocking stuffer

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Speaker 2: episodes with you. With so many great shows, movies, tv

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Speaker 2: help us cover some extra content we wouldn't be able

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Speaker 2: to get to on our normal episodes, So stay tuned

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Speaker 2: for our stocking stuffers starting the week of Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: But first let's get into it. Stranger Things Season four recap.

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Speaker 1: We open in nineteen eighty six Hawkins, Indiana. We're back

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Speaker 1: in Hawkins, Indiana, and once again Hawkins, Indiana is going

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Speaker 1: through it. The season opens, though with a flashback to

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine inside the laboratory of doctor Martin Brenner

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Speaker 1: his government lab where he is experimenting on psychically gifted children, including,

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Speaker 1: of course, our favorite Eleven. Brenner begins his morning routine

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Speaker 1: it is Eleven, and she is smeared with blood, and

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Speaker 2: Cut to the present Eleven, now not covered in blood

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Speaker 2: has been adopted by Joyce Buyers, the relentlessly determined single

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Speaker 2: tore open dimensions to rescue her son Will. Joyce has

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Speaker 2: most of his time with his new best friend, Argyle,

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Speaker 2: a gentle and perpetually high pizza delivery guy and probably

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Speaker 1: Yes he's very good. We go to California with Will,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Mike during spring break. Mike Wheeler still with Eleven,

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Speaker 1: though they're doing it long distance. The group then you know,

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Speaker 2: At the roller and Angela stages of public humiliation, tricking

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Speaker 1: You loved it when you first saw it.

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Speaker 1: Soon afterwards, the government agents arrive, but it's two different

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Speaker 1: competing government agencies. One group is led by doctor Sam Owens,

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Speaker 1: a scientist who once worked alongside Hopper, who wants to

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Speaker 1: another faction commanded by a Lieutenant Colonel Sullivan, who thinks

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Speaker 1: At eleven is behind the Hawkins murders, which we'll get

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Speaker 1: to in a second, and must be neutralized. Owen's team

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Speaker 1: to Project Nina, a secret Nevada lab where Owens has

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Speaker 1: resurrected her former mentor, Doctuz what He's back, the man

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Speaker 2: We're going to take a quick break and we'll be

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Speaker 2: which is Hawkins, the Hellfire Club, and the First Death.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about it back in Hawkins, the other half

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Speaker 2: of our story begins. Dustin Henderson, the group's enthusiastic Tinkra,

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Speaker 1: During a basketball game, Lucas scores the winning the winning

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Speaker 1: And this captures the kind of split, the normal split

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Speaker 2: The next day, Hawkins is in chaos. Please surround Eddie's home.

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Speaker 1: Weckna emerges within days. More Hawkins teens are dying in

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Speaker 2: to town with Billy in season three, becomes Veckna's next

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Speaker 2: Billy's stand. Max has shut everyone out. Drowning in guilt,

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Speaker 2: she writes goodbye letters to her friends, accepting her fate.

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Speaker 2: But when the group learns that music can act as

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Speaker 1: It truly became like the song of the next few months.

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Speaker 2: I think she made more money. I think Kate Bush

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Speaker 1: other time. Presumed dead after the Starcart Mall incident is

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Speaker 1: Project Nina in the Nevada Desert, Project Nina forces eleven

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Speaker 2: And we're back in nineteen seventy nine. We won, and

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Speaker 2: In reality, the tear became the gateway to the upside down,

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Speaker 2: and Henry became veckner Its first monster. This revelation restores

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Speaker 1: While Eleven is underground, the Hawkins group digs deeper. Nancy

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Speaker 1: He tells them he was haunted by visions of his

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Speaker 2: Well, a way to be proved wrong? Inside Max is mine.

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Speaker 2: Vecna nearly wins, breaking her limbs, blinding her and stopping

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Speaker 1: As it has emerged in recent days that that what's

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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, Milly Bobby Brown.

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Speaker 2: Harbor in the non They they made some sort of

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Speaker 2: And yes, guys, In twenty nineteen, ahead of time, as

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Speaker 1: who was exploited and abused. On the next episodes of

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Speaker 1: Extra Vision, we're diving into the Running Man and the

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Speaker 1: Chair Company. That's it for this episode of the actual

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Speaker 1: listening bye x ray Vision is hosted by Jason Sepsion

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Speaker 1: and Rosie Knight and is a production of iHeart Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Our executive producers are Joel Monique and Aaron Kaufman.

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Speaker 1: Our supervising producer is Abuzafar.

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Speaker 2: Our producers are Common, Laurent Dean Jonathan and Bay Wag.

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Speaker 1: A theme song is by Brian Vasquez, with alternate theme

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Speaker 1: songs by Aaron Kaufman.

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Speaker 2: Special thanks to Soul Rubin, Chris Lord, Kenny Goodman and Heidi.

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Speaker 2: Our disc called moderate, though