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0:00 I sincerely debated starting this with the audio of Matthew McConaughey crying from Interstellar. So I have an announcement to make. This is the last episode I watched this tonight. Yeah, we made it. This will be one hundred and forty five episodes. It has been so fun. I have loved every minute of it. It's been so cool interacting with you the listeners, and talking about what we're watching and kind of laughing with each other about, you know, what we're up to and what we find good bad out there in the world. I absolutely am sure that I'm going to forget some people, and if I do, please forgive me. But I want to shout out for sure some like, you know, longtime listeners, people that I've interacted with a lot, My guy Omar, my friend ap everyone who wrote a review of the show, Sean Ryan, James, Jefferson, Nicole, Lexei, Nathaniel Nauart, Flip Clark, Brandon Cocherell, Benjamin Charobani, Stephen Cope for my buddy in Nearaje, Everybody, Jesse, Everybody, Miles Doina Hoffman, my sister Stephanie, who designed the art for the show, Our wonderful composer of Voyage Media Drows Gonzalez, who did our theme music that you usually hear on every episode. The reason that I decided to end it now is couplefold.

1:22 I mean, basically, it became clear over time that this was a show it was going to basically it's gonna be like a cult classic, much like The Shield, my favorite TV show of all time, a small but loyal audience, right, And it just became clear that it was never going to be organically, you know, maybe if I had the marketing budget, maybe, but organically it was not going to grow to a point where it was self sustaining, meaning that I could really justify the amount of time that it takes to make the show every week and all that kind of stuff. And also I thought that I kind of wanted to go out on top, meaning I don't know that I would never be able to do better than getting the creator of the you know, underlying ip. Obviously he's involved in the show Hugh Howee of Silo, which was are you with the streaming show of the summer in terms of how successful it was, and certainly not how much I liked it. To get him on the show the Monday after the season finale aired. It's pretty good. I don't know that I was going to do better than that, so I wanted to kind of go out on top.

2:27 I sort of knew that I was getting closer to the end, and I thought, man, I'm not gonna I'm not going to really be able to do bad than that. That's the last trick I had up my sleeve. I thought a fun thing to do for this last episode was I just kind of look over all the episodes I've done and kind of call out some highlights, some things that really jumped out to me, almost all of which are episodes I had of guests. Getting an interview Hugh Howee, of course was awesome and I really enjoyed it. That was just a very cool opportunity. Richard Wank one of my heroes and screenwriting, the writer of all the Equalizer films. I know Sean Ryan told me he listened to that interview three times, so it was totally worth doing just for that. But Richard is just an awesome guy, and I'm really grateful I got to talk to him. I did the sky the Definitive, as far as I'm concerned, Skyline Movie franchise Megapodcast with Leam MacDonnell. I love that guy. I really liked those movies, So yeah, that was really fun as well. Honestly, probably my favorite episode of the entire podcast was the Guilty Pleasures of the Night Agent episode with James Jefferson aka Brother of Doom. Really enjoyed doing that and I you know, I definitely got some feedback from people saying that they thought it was really funny and it was, you know, an enjoyable listen hilariously the most popular episode of the show. This is a show based in positivity, right, It's things that I think you should watch, I think are good. The most popular episode of the entire show is the only episode that was negative, which was the Tulsa King. It's the only one of the whole series where I was like, I'm still going to talk about it even though I don't think you should watch it at So I just thought it was

3:59 hilarious that this is the most popular episode of the whole podcast. Actually, correction, it's the second most popular episode. The most popular episode was Tell Me Lies on Hulu, followed by The Night Agent, followed by Vengeance on Amazon, followed by Best Watches of my life. I did Emily the Criminal with producer Dian Grek is an awesome guy. That's a really good movie. That was just a very cool conversation. I did Top three TV Series of the Year with Kendall Lampkin, who is single handedly responsible forgetting me to watch Severance, which I absolutely loved, so big shout out to Kendall for that. So yeah, that's it. That's the end of the podcast. You know, for those of you that you know connect with me about this show and text me or message me on socials or you know, we kind of go back and forth talking about we're watching. I've really enjoyed those conversations with you. We probably will keep doing that. But yeah, the show is going to end now just because I just I literally just can't just if I continue to do it with doubt it having some financial return for the amount of time that I put it to it. So yeah, that's the end.

5:08 I want to say again, sincere our heartfelt thank you to everyone who engaged with me on the show. It was absolutely a delight and for the last time, thank you for listening. Bye bye. Let me name mur