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You know, it's not accurate, Rebecca, to say that we do the Patreon episodes just to have some place to put Adaptation Nations.

But it's also not not accurate.

Right. It's not true.

It's not true.

It's one of the reasons. I mean, this exists for both listeners and for us to have a playground. And what better playground, I mean, short of bringing back annotated than getting to talk about movies. Was that a meat? Was that a playground? It was like a playground that was also a meat grinder? It was like a playground inside of a chicken processing factory. You know, I have,

this is probably just hindsight and rose-colored glasses at the same time. But I have thought, like,

knowing, if we went back to annotated, knowing what we know now about how to make a show like that,

it would probably still be a meat grinder, but at least we would know we were getting into it.

Are you saying that there was something in the last 10 episodes we didn't know after the first 20?

Because remember, we didn't do just four.

We did 30 of those.

That's true.

Well, we got much more efficient at recording them over time.

The first couple were really intensive.

They were.

We did like line by line readings.

Yeah.

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