This is the Baymaw Podcast with Marty Solman. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today we continue our review of the chosen with a discussion on the fifth episode, The Wedding Gift.

Coming down the back half stretch here. Last four episodes of the season.

And I am tired today, Brent Billings. You need to pick up my energy level.

It's your responsibility. Get me going here. What's going on?

Well, I don't know actually how much energy we can have with this because this episode is incredibly dense.

There's so many characters, so many points of cultural context going on.

There is.

Yeah, we're going to have to power through this somehow.

No, there is. There's a lot of intersecting storylines.

Absolutely.

So let's get right into it. Fire off that spoiler horn.

So we began in Jerusalem. And as I was watching it, the subtitle said 88.

But then in the round table discussion with the consultants, one of them was saying,

you know, a lot of people are probably going to have a problem with the fact that you pegged it at 8012.

So apparently they originally had it subtitled as 8012 and then changed it later on.

Which would have been horrific because there's no way it's 12.

Like no school has caught it.

Like there's no way that zero corresponds to the birth of Jesus in any historical timeline.

So, uh, done 82 would have been a big mistake.

Well, and they discussed that a little bit.

Some guy who came up with the dating mechanism, you know, several hundred years after the fact,

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