Hello and welcome. I'm not even gonna try to do a stupid intro here because this is a big episode for us. I'm Kriffin Newman.

I'm David Sim. Let's clear our thoughts. I don't know. Yeah. This is episode nine of Griffin and David

present Revenge of the podcast. Hello. Hi. This is a mini series investigation. We've been doing

into the third and final film in the Phantom Manus trilogy. It's a culmination of a series of

investigations. We started out watching. There's a lot of string on our poster board. We, we, this is yes.

It has driven us a little bit mad. A little up the little bit mad. More than a little mad. Thoroughly mad.

We started out investigating a Star Wars episode one of the Phantom Manus trying to figure out what that movie was about. Yeah.

After about two and a half months of work on that, we moved on to attack the clones. Yeah. So to try to figure out if that was a good sequel.

Right. I guess so. It's not. It's not. That was easier to figure out. Very easy. We figured that out pretty much

minute one of the first episode. No. We went into a third mini series podcast. Revenge of the podcast.

What you're listening to right now trying to figure out what was this larger story three films. Right.

Right. Classical story structure three films. You completed your saga. The trilogy. What was trying to be said.

And the through line amongst all these was we weren't just looking at the text. We weren't just looking

at the material. We were trying to figure out what the intention was of the filmmaker behind these works.

Wow. A director, a writer. If only we could get him in studio self-finance. Now David's being a little cheeky.

Ah, I'm being cheeky because a couple months ago in a bit. I threw it on the show. Unlike me. No bits.

No bits. That of course is a producer band, AK producer band, AK The Benduiser, AK The Haas, AK Hello Fennel,

AK Mr. Positive. You forget the poet laureate. I was getting to it next. I know I forgot it last week.

I know and I was really, really upset about that. AK The Poet Laureate, AK The Peaper, AK

producer band Kenobi. That's a new one that was dubbed by our guest today because our guest

says someone we threw out an open invitation. If he was listening, if he was out there, if he wanted

to come defend himself, our door was open. As always. And today I can't believe I'm saying this. I'm

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