Hello and welcome to Close Reeds here on the Close Reads Podcast Network.

I'm David Kern and I'm joined by Angelina Stanford and Heidi White.

How's it going, Angelina and Heidi?

Great.

We're really, really good.

So I said if there's something different about my introduction.

I said that we were on the Close Reads Podcast Network.

I know. That felt weird.

I know. It feels weird. It feels weird. Yeah, I like it, but it feels weird to say it's

close reads and the Close Reads Podcast Network. So I got to figure out the best way to make

that roll off the tongue in a way that doesn't seem strange.

But I say it that way because as of, I guess, this week, we kind of have officially

launched the Close Reads Podcast Network.

We've expanded.

So starting on Monday, we're recording our first episode of The Plays the Thing.

Tim and Matt Bianco will be taking us through King Lear. And so that's the first Shakespeare play that we're going to do. We also will be

launching a movie podcast where me and another friend of mine who some of you, well, actually he'll be new to most of you.

So I'll save introductions for when he's on the show.

We're going to be talking about 10 sort of essential movies that everybody should watch.

And we're going to talk about why they're important and how to watch them and different

things like that. But we're also going to be bringing on various film critics who can kind of

help place those movies within the sort of larger canon of the last hundred years of movies,

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