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Hello and welcome to the watch. My name is Chris Ryan. I am an editor at the wringer.com and joining me on the other line with an entire bottle of burgundy. It's Andy Greenwald.

I just feel like I'm in for it today. I already feel like it. I feel like um dear listeners the deck is stacked today on the watch podcast. I want to talk a little bit about the art of the pan when it comes to cultural criticism because I don't know if anybody has been online like I have and I'm online.

But some reviews for Ghostbusters colon after life have been trickling in and I know the still has like an 80% rotten tomato meter somehow but like every review I've seen has just been like F this piece of S you know like really really getting after the word corpse has been thrown around a lot in ghostbusters review reviews.

So I wanted to talk a little bit about the nostalgia industry. Um franchises IP and our relationship to criticism. I also want to chat a little bit about the fact that this Batman movie is apparently three hours.

And I just wanted to see at these face when I told him that my relationship of criticism is about to level up.

Yeah, I want to hear about that and then Andy and I are going to talk a little bit about what we're looking forward to for the season of succession, which obviously starts on Sunday night and just as a reminder, you can catch the watch podcast now on Sunday nights.

After succession heirs, so we'll go live with our episode recaps on Sunday nights and then obviously on the prestige TV pod.

There's plenty of other offerings Sean and Joanna myself and was I'm sure bill will be jumping in Andy. Andy's a one pod guy. That's what I love about him is number one pod is the Andy Greenwald show.

Yes, and then sometimes what I don't have a car valve for the watch.

A pre existing contractual carve out to make occasional appearances on this show. Yeah.

So last night and this is this is great because I can tell Andy's um and he's kind of like licking his lips a little bit today's like kind of got his head in his hands because

Greenwald and I went out with a biz dinner last night. Unfortunately, Kaya couldn't make the trek to the east side, but Andy and I went out and had a lovely meal an Italian meal. It was great. And then Greenwald pulled the power move for anyone kind of over.

I would say the age of like 35. I've only really seen it's really Andy and Bill Simmons that I've seen pulled this recently, which is so nice. The coffee after dinner. Now Bill is more of a coffee after dark guy, which I'm kind of like you know at four or five o'clock when I'm like we're

going to have a look at how we're going down for the evening bill, be like time for the the venti latte. Andy last night after a honestly like a robust and very rich meal that we had.

And he went a spresser shot as we dined over honeycomb ice cream.

We by the way, the pandemic era dining rule book.

Throwing out the window when it comes to CR and AG. We were like they were like one dish of ice cream two spoons and I was like lady one spoon.

I know this guy for 25 years felt like Tom Williams games with when Greg does all the cocaine rose just like I hope you don't die.

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