Hey everyone.

Welcome to Season 4 of Outlander. This is Matt Roberts, executive

producer here with Tony Grafia, also executive producer and it's our first podcast of the new season.

It is and this is episode, coincidentally episode 1.

401. Well, 401. Coincidentally episode 1. 401.

Well, 401, but episode 1 of the new season.

What did we call this one?

I can't remember.

It's called America the Beautiful, which we'll see in a moment. But right now, we've got a cold open.

The cold open was an idea that Tony and I co-wrote this script. It was cold open.

We had an idea for starting years and years in the past and show kind of what a

monolith might look the circle of stones monolith might look like back then.

Yeah, I think what's interesting when we write together, I don't know if you've noticed this, but we always have an idea way, way in advance.

That's something that when we know we're going to be writing an episode,

we come up with an image or an idea is instantly in our heads of,

oh, we got to show this somewhere.

And this one was very kind of almost random

because it didn't have specifically to do with the episode.

But we knew we wanted to show like, hey,

what were the first stone circles?

Like when we saw Cragna Dune, where did those come from?

And, you know, like Stonehenge, where, you know, where did they originate?

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