On the Empire Podcast this week we say welcome to the podcast to Chimagy, welcome to the

Jungle Star, Karen Gillen, plus all the usual news and nonsense on the movie podcast

that is available for acquisition from Disney, the bidding starts at a Nando's gift card

and that's the honest ends there as well. Hello pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to the

Empire Podcast, the last Empire Podcast of 2017. So sad, we're taking a break, we're taking

a break. I'm off on holiday and that means no one's around the edit the podcast, therefore

this is the last podcast of the year. So then them's the breaks, we're going to jam

pack everything into this one and joining me to do to discuss everything that's happened

this week including an amazing news story this broken literally as we're ready to record

this thing. Our two colleagues have such lethal cunning, Helen O'Hara, our supernatural

and Hamilton guru, our geek queen. I was going to get you a shirt to put onto your

Hamilton dolls, Helen, their Hamilton dolls. I do, right? I mean, I don't, but sure,

let's for the purpose of the jokes, I guess. It's not even a joke. I don't even know what

it is. It's quite for help, quite frankly. But how are you? You good? Yeah, I'm good.

Thank you. I'm seeing Hamilton tomorrow night. You are, aren't you? Yeah. For the third

second, second time. But the first time where they remember all the words, the first time

where it's not the original Broadway cast. Chris, there's a lot of words to remember, isn't

it? These are the lot of words. A lot of words. Yeah. How do they remember so many words?

How do Shakespeare actors remember so many words? There's a lot of stuff to remember. Practice.

I can't remember the script for the podcast. No. I literally just wrote it. You watched

me write it and then I forgot it. Yeah. Hello, James Dyer. Hello, Chris. You're all right.

I'm fine. How are you? Yeah, I'm all right. Good. Grilled by a never-increasing sense

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