The So, Welcome to the Watching Dead, the officially unofficial podcast for The Walking Dead on AMC, I'm Jim.

I'm A-R-N.

And today we're talking about season 9, episode 12 titled Guardians. A-R-O-R-O-R-O-O-O-R-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-T-T-T-TIS. I'm Jim. I'm A-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O What do you think of this episode? I continue to enjoy these episodes of The Walking Dead.

They've been my summer balm.

I, man, I, this is the kind of shit that I want to see the tension between you know the good governance that

Michoane wanted to put in versus her fear and kind of paranoia and the tension between that and democracy.

The shit going on, Nigan is really good.

I even like the personal drama between like, you know, the weird love quadrattle quadr triangle between

Gabriel and Rosita and Sadeg and Eugene rhombus it's a love rhombus is what it is.

I enjoyed Eugene's beaded ponytail.

The one thing it's not is a quadrilateral, forget about that.

No, yeah, get that, get that shit out of here.

But, and I think the whisper culture is frankly fascinating, although I have many, many questions about how they maintain the safety of that camp, how do they not keep guardians bum rushing them all the time?

You know, maybe when you call the whole pack together to witness some kind of bizarre ritual you'll leave a lookout or two

So you get more than like one second notice of the slow shambling dead coming to eat you all

Yeah, I got some notes for them, but you know, they're crazy, they're crazy.

They're clearly insane, so that's entertaining. And I just, I love the, is it Connie? Is Connie the deaf woman? I love the is it Connie is Connie the the deaf woman. I love the Connie and

Darrell Roadshow. Yeah so far so good. Really good. So yeah I thought this episode is great. What do you think?

I don't know what to do with episodes like this because like how do I make fun of an episode that's decent?

How do I talk about an episode of the walking dead that's decent?

It all feels like they're conspiring against me to to ruin this podcast because I have no idea what to say.

I've never seen Walking Dead that's this competent, at least not in, you know, eight years. I don't know what to do with it but yeah it's it's a good

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