WEBVTT - Stranger Things Season 4 Speed Recap

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

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<v Speaker 1>which we are recapping to get you ready for season five,

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<v Speaker 1>the final season Stranger Things. Oh my name is Jason

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<v Speaker 1>Concepcion and I'm Rosie Night and welcome back to extro

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

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<v Speaker 1>country comedy from our back Guys, we're ready with your

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<v Speaker 1>episodes a.

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<v Speaker 2>Week plus plus those before we jump into our Stranger

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<v Speaker 2>Things season four recap. A quick production note this holiday season,

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<v Speaker 2>we will be sharing a couple of shorter stocking stuffer

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<v Speaker 2>episodes with you. With so many great shows, movies, tv

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<v Speaker 2>books coming out these next few months, these episodes will

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<v Speaker 2>help us cover some extra content we wouldn't be able

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<v Speaker 2>to get to on our normal episodes, So stay tuned

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<v Speaker 2>for our stocking stuffers starting the week of Thanksgiving.

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

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<v Speaker 1>We open in nineteen eighty six Hawkins, Indiana. We're back

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<v Speaker 1>in Hawkins, Indiana, and once again Hawkins, Indiana is going

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<v Speaker 1>through it. The season opens, though with a flashback to

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventy nine inside the laboratory of doctor Martin Brenner

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<v Speaker 1>his government lab where he is experimenting on psychically gifted children, including,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, our favorite Eleven. Brenner begins his morning routine

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<v Speaker 1>the same way I guess he always does before he

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<v Speaker 1>begins experimenting on kids. But when he arrives at the

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<v Speaker 1>lab with the alarm sounding, he finds everybody's dead. There's

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<v Speaker 1>just like blood smeared everywhere except for one survivor, and

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<v Speaker 1>it is Eleven, and she is smeared with blood, and

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<v Speaker 1>you're left to wonder, did she do this?

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<v Speaker 3>Did she do this?

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<v Speaker 2>Cut to the present Eleven, now not covered in blood

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<v Speaker 2>and living in California, powerless, trying to be normal, and

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<v Speaker 2>has been adopted by Joyce Buyers, the relentlessly determined single

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<v Speaker 2>mother played by none other than Wenona Ryder, who wants

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<v Speaker 2>tore open dimensions to rescue her son Will. Joyce has

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<v Speaker 2>moved our family West for a new start. Will, her quiet,

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<v Speaker 2>sensitive younger son who feels the upside down still watching him,

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<v Speaker 2>and Jonathan, her older, aimless but loyal son, now spending

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<v Speaker 2>most of his time with his new best friend, Argyle,

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<v Speaker 2>a gentle and perpetually high pizza delivery guy and probably

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<v Speaker 2>my favorite character. On the show.

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

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<v Speaker 1>Jonathan Mike during spring break. Mike Wheeler still with Eleven,

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

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<v Speaker 1>the group of kids Idealistic leader flies from Hawkins to

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<v Speaker 1>visit his girlfriend. Eleven is trying to be like everything's great,

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<v Speaker 1>everything's normal, Like I'm having a great time here. It's good,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's not true. She's getting bullied all the time,

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<v Speaker 1>particularly by angela popular classmate who like just makes fun

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<v Speaker 1>of her hair, her clothes, the way she talks everything.

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<v Speaker 2>At the roller and Angela stages of public humiliation, tricking

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<v Speaker 2>Eleven into the spotlight and laughing as the milkshakes flats

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<v Speaker 2>across her face. Furious and humiliated, Eleven lashes out, hitting

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<v Speaker 2>Angela in the face with a roller skate before storming

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<v Speaker 2>away and tears that's right.

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<v Speaker 1>You loved it when you first saw it.

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<v Speaker 2>You love it you.

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<v Speaker 1>Soon afterwards, the government agents arrive, but it's two different

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<v Speaker 1>competing government agencies. One group is led by doctor Sam Owens,

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<v Speaker 1>a scientist who once worked alongside Hopper, who wants to

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<v Speaker 1>protect Eleven and help her get her powers back, and

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<v Speaker 1>another faction commanded by a Lieutenant Colonel Sullivan, who thinks

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<v Speaker 1>At eleven is behind the Hawkins murders, which we'll get

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

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<v Speaker 1>reaches her first, They get her out. They take her

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<v Speaker 1>to Project Nina, a secret Nevada lab where Owens has

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<v Speaker 1>resurrected her former mentor, Doctuz what He's back, the man

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<v Speaker 1>who raised her in keptivity.

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<v Speaker 2>We're going to take a quick break and we'll be

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<v Speaker 2>right back. And we're back, okay. So now we get

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<v Speaker 2>to the other side of the story, and the one

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<v Speaker 2>that I believe was most beloved by Stranger Things, Yes fans,

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<v Speaker 2>which is Hawkins, the Hellfire Club, and the First Death.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's talk about it back in Hawkins, the other half

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

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<v Speaker 2>has joined a Dungeons and Dragons club called the hell

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<v Speaker 2>Fire Club. Nice ex men reference there with Mike Wheeler

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<v Speaker 2>and Lucas Sinclair, the athlete of the group who is

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<v Speaker 2>now trying to balance his new basketball friends and cool

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<v Speaker 2>life with his old nerdy crew. The group's leader is

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<v Speaker 2>Eddie Munson, a rebellious metal head senior known for his

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<v Speaker 2>arrythma guitasso, loves complete disregardful authority and the fact that

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<v Speaker 2>he looks forty five. Sorry Joseph Quinn.

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<v Speaker 1>During a basketball game, Lucas scores the winning the winning

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<v Speaker 1>basket while his old friends play Dungeons and Dragons across town.

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<v Speaker 1>And this captures the kind of split, the normal split

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<v Speaker 1>I think that kids who are growing up and go

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<v Speaker 1>through that same night, Sweet Nervous cheerleader Chrissy Cunningham, the

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<v Speaker 1>girlfriend of Hawkins High basketball star Jason Carver, begins having

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<v Speaker 1>terrible upside down style haucinations about her dead mom and

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<v Speaker 1>ronning walls and all this stuff, and she's just trying

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<v Speaker 1>to find a way out of this. She goes to

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<v Speaker 1>Eddie Tovie drugs, but before she can go back and

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<v Speaker 1>even use the drugs, she's like lifted into the air

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<v Speaker 1>by some unseen force and her body is contorted and

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<v Speaker 1>her limbs are broken. Her eyes go white, and she

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<v Speaker 1>dies violently in Eddie Wnson's trailer.

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

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<v Speaker 2>The town blames him, and the kids no bad. It's

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<v Speaker 2>very much inspired by the West Memphis three and this

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<v Speaker 2>kind of notion of satanic panic. So Nancy Wheler, Mike's

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<v Speaker 2>older sister, is now a gun toting, badass reporter for

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<v Speaker 2>the school newspaper. I love this character term for her

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<v Speaker 2>begins investigating Chrissy's death at the school newspaper insane. I

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<v Speaker 2>love it. Her research leads her to unsettling connections and

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<v Speaker 2>echoes of other supernatural events.

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<v Speaker 1>Weckna emerges within days. More Hawkins teens are dying in

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<v Speaker 1>this similar horrifying ways. Fred Benson, Nancy's fellow reporter at

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<v Speaker 1>the school paper, and Patrick McKinney, a member of Lucas's

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<v Speaker 1>basketball team, all experience trauma guilt related hallucinations before dying

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<v Speaker 1>in this horrific like limb twisting way. The group our

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<v Speaker 1>heroes named the killer Vecna after a D and D villain,

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<v Speaker 1>and they realize that he feeds and prays on pain, trauma, guilt,

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<v Speaker 1>on these kind of scars that never heal.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, very interesting how much D and D law they

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<v Speaker 2>do use in this show. I wonder what the licensing

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<v Speaker 2>aspects of that were or whether it was kind of

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<v Speaker 2>fair usage. But very interesting. Max Mayfield, Lucas's ex girlfriend,

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<v Speaker 2>and the skeptical redhead of the group, remember she moved

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<v Speaker 2>to town with Billy in season three, becomes Veckna's next

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<v Speaker 2>target since her stepbrother Billy died saving her at star

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<v Speaker 2>coourt More just an incredible format some of a Big

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

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<v Speaker 2>she writes goodbye letters to her friends, accepting her fate.

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<v Speaker 2>But when the group learns that music can act as

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<v Speaker 2>a lifeline, that a person's favorite song can tether them

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<v Speaker 2>to reality, they fight back. In one of the show's

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<v Speaker 2>most iconic sequences, Max faces Vecna and his hellish mindscape

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<v Speaker 2>as Kate Bush is running up that hill, blasts through

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<v Speaker 2>her headphones. She sprints towards the light, tearing herself free.

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<v Speaker 1>It truly became like the song of the next few months.

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<v Speaker 2>I think she made more money. I think Kate Bush

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<v Speaker 2>made more money because of Stranger Right. We love Kate Bush.

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<v Speaker 2>I love this for her, And yeah, I think I

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<v Speaker 2>love that you mentioned this is so iconic because I

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<v Speaker 2>think it is actually the scene of the show. Like

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<v Speaker 2>I think, if you think you're it now, they don't

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<v Speaker 2>think about the kids on bikes. I still see in

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<v Speaker 2>La people with Max style character kind of lifted up

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<v Speaker 2>in front of their house during Halloween. Yeah, great stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>We go to Russia and a plot line that seems

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<v Speaker 1>totally from Marvel's Black Widow movie Across the World. Joyce

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<v Speaker 1>Buyers receives a strange package in the mail, a Russian

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<v Speaker 1>nesting doll with a hidden note claiming that Jim Hopper,

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<v Speaker 1>former Hawkins police chief, now presumed dead David Harber got

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<v Speaker 1>his own problems going on. We'll talk about that some

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<v Speaker 1>other time. Presumed dead after the Starcart Mall incident is

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<v Speaker 1>actually alive. Joyce teams up with her friend Murray Bowman,

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<v Speaker 1>the paranoid conspiracy theorist and Russian language expert, to investigate.

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<v Speaker 1>The two fly to Alaska to me to smuggler named Yuri,

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<v Speaker 1>who promises that he can get them into the Soviet prison.

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<v Speaker 2>And oh my gosh, that's a terrible plan. Sounds like

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<v Speaker 2>one and it's going to inside that prison. We join

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<v Speaker 2>hop Pop by the way, Yeah, David Hobba does have problems,

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<v Speaker 2>but I'm also a hopa hate. I just need you

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<v Speaker 2>guys to know it's double double ended. I wrote an

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<v Speaker 2>articalacchif notist. I felt like Season three season four, like

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<v Speaker 2>his arc with l was just not grey. I'm really

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<v Speaker 2>glad she lives with joy So he's gaunt, scared, scarred,

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<v Speaker 2>and hopeless in a Russian prison. He's fighting to survive

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<v Speaker 2>the brutal labor essentially like a gulag, and is later

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<v Speaker 2>a caged Domagorgan is unleashed for the god's amusement. You

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<v Speaker 2>know when you really loved that, guys, when you saw

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<v Speaker 2>it in Star Wars, when Luke fought against the monster

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<v Speaker 2>in the basement to enjoy Jabba, to entertain Jab of

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<v Speaker 2>the Hut, And now we see it for the god's

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<v Speaker 2>amusement in the prison. Eventually, Joyce and Murray do outsmart

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<v Speaker 2>Yuri infiltrate the base and rescue Hopper in a tearful

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<v Speaker 2>reunion that closes one of the show's longest emotional loops.

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<v Speaker 1>Project Nina in the Nevada Desert, Project Nina forces eleven

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<v Speaker 1>to relive various repressed memories through sensory deprivation Altered States

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<v Speaker 1>Anyone the movie Altered States Anyway. Inside these visions, she's

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<v Speaker 1>back in her childhood at the lab, where she befriends

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<v Speaker 1>a soft book and orderly named Peter Ballard. Becomes, but

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<v Speaker 1>Pete's not what he seems. He's actually Henry Kreole, the

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<v Speaker 1>son of Victor Crele, the man Nancy is currently investigating

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<v Speaker 1>in Hawkins related to all the deaths. Henry was doctor

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<v Speaker 1>Brenner's first test subject, called the One. His telekinetic abilities

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<v Speaker 1>turned violent. He slaughtered his family, was captured by Brenner,

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<v Speaker 1>and eventually grew resentful of the other children who were

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<v Speaker 1>part of the experiment.

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<v Speaker 3>We'll be right back after a quick break.

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

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<v Speaker 2>this is a huge reveal, basically kind of the kind

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<v Speaker 2>of reveal I would have assumed we got in season five,

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<v Speaker 2>so I was very interested. We got it. Hey, we

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<v Speaker 2>lun that Henry was the one who manipulated young al

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<v Speaker 2>Coaxingcots to remove a tracking chip from his neck, which

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<v Speaker 2>was actually a power suppressor. Freed, he kills everyone in

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<v Speaker 2>the lab because he is being abused by Dr Branner

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<v Speaker 2>as all of them are eleven, fights him, and with

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<v Speaker 2>a final burst of power, banishes him through a tear.

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<v Speaker 2>In reality, the tear became the gateway to the upside down,

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<v Speaker 2>and Henry became veckner Its first monster. This revelation restores

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<v Speaker 2>Eleven's confidence and reignites her powers like the Studio Ghibli

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<v Speaker 2>movie Kikeys Yes.

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<v Speaker 1>While Eleven is underground, the Hawkins group digs deeper. Nancy

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<v Speaker 1>and Robin Buckley, Steve's witty, socially awkward coworker from family

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<v Speaker 1>video Love Her, Love Her, bluff their way into Penhurst

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<v Speaker 1>Asylum to interview Victor Creole, the blind, broken man who

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<v Speaker 1>once survived something similar to what's going on now in Hawkins.

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<v Speaker 1>He tells them he was haunted by visions of his

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<v Speaker 1>dead family until a familiar song snapped him out of

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<v Speaker 1>the trance. Whoa proof music can save Vecna's victims, and

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<v Speaker 1>also another strand connecting this case to what's going now.

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<v Speaker 2>Meanwhile, Steve Harrington, reformed ex jock and self appointed babysitter

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<v Speaker 2>of the group, one of the greatest character changes from

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<v Speaker 2>its bully. It's a hero, absolutely unbelievable.

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<v Speaker 1>He's too handsome and talented.

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<v Speaker 2>Get him out. You got to get him in there.

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<v Speaker 2>Man Dustin Lucas, Max and Erica Sinclair, Lucas's younger sister

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<v Speaker 2>and the group's sharpest strategist, who is also one of

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<v Speaker 2>my favorite characters. In the show, they go to track

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<v Speaker 2>the portal activity at Lovers Lake. Steve dives to investigate

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<v Speaker 2>strange lights between the water and is yanked into the

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<v Speaker 2>upside down. Robin, Nancy, and Eddie follow him through, where

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<v Speaker 2>they fight off swarms of flying demo bats and discover

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<v Speaker 2>that each Vecna murder has opened up a new gate

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<v Speaker 2>connecting their world to the other oh No on the

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<v Speaker 2>West coast.

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<v Speaker 1>Back in the desert, Mike, Will, Jonathan, and Argyle on

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<v Speaker 1>the coordinates to project Nina and race to find Eleven.

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<v Speaker 1>Along the way, Will admits that he's struggling with his

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<v Speaker 1>feelings for Mike, a mix of love, jealousy, and longing

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<v Speaker 1>that he can't finally send that is part of him.

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<v Speaker 1>They find Elle in time for her to escape the base,

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<v Speaker 1>and it provides a makeshift sensory tank and a surferboard

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<v Speaker 1>pizza parlor, submersion in saltwater, and armed with the with

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<v Speaker 1>sheer will power, she projects her consciousness across space to

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<v Speaker 1>help her friends in Hawkins.

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<v Speaker 2>Iconic I mean love that astral projection, absolutely insane choice,

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<v Speaker 2>Vecna's plan, and the battle for Hawkins. By the finale,

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<v Speaker 2>all story lines converge. The heroes reveal Vecna's murders weren't random,

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<v Speaker 2>Realizing that each gate death did open a gate between

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<v Speaker 2>Hawkins and the upside Down. With four victims, the world

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<v Speaker 2>will mudge. The team launches a three front plan and Hawkins, Nancy, Steve, Robin, Eddie,

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<v Speaker 2>and Dustin arm up and infiltrate the upside Down creole house,

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<v Speaker 2>while Lucas, Max, and Erica stake out the real one

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<v Speaker 2>to draw Vecna in. In Nevada, eleven enters Max's mind

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<v Speaker 2>to confront Vekna from inside the dreamscape, and in Russia, Hopa, Joyce,

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<v Speaker 2>and Murray returned to the prison to kill the captive

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<v Speaker 2>monsters and weaken Vecna's hive mind connection. Do you feel,

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<v Speaker 2>Jason like they only added evil Russians using these monsters

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<v Speaker 2>because evil Americans are also using.

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<v Speaker 1>Ellie Munson accuse murder?

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<v Speaker 3>You know?

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<v Speaker 1>Guy on the on the fringes of Houck and Society

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<v Speaker 1>to its unexpected hero when he shreds Metallica's Master of

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<v Speaker 1>Puppets on his electric guitar in order to distract the

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<v Speaker 1>demo bats. When Dustin is like you gotta get out

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<v Speaker 1>of here side, Eddie's like, no, not this time, and

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<v Speaker 1>he dies on his feet, shredding, buying his friends a

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<v Speaker 1>chance for victory. Upstairs in the creole, added Jason Carver,

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<v Speaker 1>still convinced the Hellfire Club Worsh's worship of the Devil,

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<v Speaker 1>attacks Lucas the ground split's open, killing Jason instantly sorry,

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<v Speaker 1>Jason as sorry. Final gator erupts, you're wrong, and what

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<v Speaker 1>a way to be proved wrong?

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

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<v Speaker 2>Vecna nearly wins, breaking her limbs, blinding her and stopping

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<v Speaker 2>her heart, but Eleven refuses to let her go, reviving

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<v Speaker 2>her body just as Mike shouts his long delayed I

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<v Speaker 2>love you, should have been and I love you from

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<v Speaker 2>Eleven to Max. But sure, the combined attacks eleven psychic

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<v Speaker 2>battle and the Hawking Team's Molotov assault and hop a

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<v Speaker 2>strike against them. A Gordon had Russia finally weaken Beck.

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<v Speaker 2>Now his body burns, and when the smoke clears, he's gone.

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<v Speaker 2>The victory comes at a price. Mike's Max survives, but

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<v Speaker 2>she's in a coma, her future uncertain. Hawkins itself has

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<v Speaker 2>been torn open.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll find out what happens to Max when her contract

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<v Speaker 1>is either renewed or.

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<v Speaker 2>Not the aftermath.

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<v Speaker 1>Two days later, the town reels from like earthquakes that

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<v Speaker 1>are striking Dustin breaks the news of Eddie's death. Eddie's

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<v Speaker 1>uncle who mourns, uh, you know, a guy who everyone

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<v Speaker 1>still thinks is like a mass murderer. Robin reconnects with Vicky,

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<v Speaker 1>her band crush at a Hawkins relief camp, the Gangreen

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<v Speaker 1>Knights with Eleven, Will, Mike, Jonathan and Argyle, and finally

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<v Speaker 1>in the woods, Eleven walks to the rebuilt Hopper cabin

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<v Speaker 1>where her adopted father steps through the door.

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<v Speaker 4>Alive, no devil, quiet, emotional embrace and reunion that many

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<v Speaker 4>people love, but that Rosie doesn't like.

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<v Speaker 2>I did not love. I was not a much more

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<v Speaker 2>complex sheen.

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<v Speaker 1>As it has emerged in recent days that that what's

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<v Speaker 1>the actor's name?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, yes, Milly Bobby Brown.

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<v Speaker 1>Bobby Brown filed some sort of complaint against David.

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<v Speaker 2>Harbor in the non They they made some sort of

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<v Speaker 2>bully They made sure to say it was not a

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<v Speaker 2>sexual complaint, but it was a bullying and harassment complaint.

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<v Speaker 2>And yes, guys, In twenty nineteen, ahead of time, as

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<v Speaker 2>always as a hater, I wrote an article that was

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<v Speaker 2>published at twelve am. I'm guessing that was when the

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<v Speaker 2>show came out in twenty nineteen, season three called we

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<v Speaker 2>need to talk about Chief Hopper, and it's about how

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<v Speaker 2>he's an abusive father guy. So go read that. That

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<v Speaker 2>was kind of fun stuff I was writing about in

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<v Speaker 2>twenty nineteen. Jason, how do they do season five finale

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<v Speaker 2>of Stranger Things when the whole town is torn up?

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<v Speaker 2>Are we getting another big time jump? Are the kids

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<v Speaker 2>twenty five? Now? What's happening? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>I wonder if we do. I wonder. I think we

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<v Speaker 1>might get in a big time jump. And I think

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<v Speaker 1>also that as we saw in season four, you can

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<v Speaker 1>you know, only one third of the story took place

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<v Speaker 1>in Hawkins, So I think we're going to see that.

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<v Speaker 1>I think we're going to see the story continue to

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<v Speaker 1>expand even as it shrinks, and become the final battle

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<v Speaker 1>with Vecna, which I think will become a battle to

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<v Speaker 1>both defeat Vecna but also redeem Max as a child

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<v Speaker 1>who was exploited and abused. On the next episodes of

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<v Speaker 1>Extra Vision, we're diving into the Running Man and the

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<v Speaker 1>Chair Company. That's it for this episode of the actual

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<v Speaker 1>listening bye x ray Vision is hosted by Jason Sepsion

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<v Speaker 1>and Rosie Knight and is a production of iHeart Podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Our executive producers are Joel Monique and Aaron Kaufman.

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<v Speaker 1>Our supervising producer is Abuzafar.

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<v Speaker 2>Our producers are Common, Laurent Dean Jonathan and Bay Wag.

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<v Speaker 1>A theme song is by Brian Vasquez, with alternate theme

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<v Speaker 1>songs by Aaron Kaufman.

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<v Speaker 2>Special thanks to Soul Rubin, Chris Lord, Kenny Goodman and Heidi.

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<v Speaker 2>Our disc called moderate, though