Well, welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan. Here is always with. Luke Savage. Hi, everyone. Welcome back. And folks, you're getting your goddamn Sopranos episode.

How about that? We had to do it, if only to get Will, to watch some more of the Sopranos,

although I suspect he'll still tell us he's at the end of season two, and all he did was watch

Many Saints of Newark. That's exactly correct. I watched another entry in the Sopranos franchise.

Which, which, you know, is not nothing.

You know, it's often said that in the neoliberal age, you know, when history is over,

we have to take these kind of small symbolic victories.

And even though we can't move forward into a future where Will watches seasons

three, four, five, and six of the Sopranos, getting him to watch the Many Saints of Newark

isn't, isn't nothing. I want to explain something to you and the listeners. I love Goodfellas.

I think it's one of the best movies ever made. If Goodfellas were a hundred hours long, I would have a problem. I honestly don't

know how you can watch two seasons of the Sopranos and then stop watching. Like, it's not something

you put a period on or an ellipsis. You just got to keep going. I am eventually going to get back

to it. I am so tired of looking at

these McMansions, at these offices, at these strip clubs, at these hideous New Jersey highways.

I needed some beauty in my life. I got a log kung fu movies and 70s pornoes and three stooges

shorts on letterboxed, just to give me something else to look at.

You know, I am curious, Will, we've had a lot of meta discussion on this show and in private

as well, I should say, off mic, about your viewing of the Sopranos.

But it's, you know, it's all been about like, are you going to watch it?

Have you watched it?

That kind of stuff.

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