Part I: The End's Not Near, It's Here with Ben McKenzie and Josh Schwartz
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Melinda Clarke
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🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The end is near- Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke are recapping the last episode of The OC series. Today the ladies are joined by Ben McKenzie and Josh Schwartz for a special two-part episode of Season 4, Episode 16, “The End's Not Near, It’s Here.”
The End’s Not Near, It’s Here Synopsis: Six months after the earthquake, everyone makes decisions that will determine the rest of their lives.
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| 1:09.6 | Oh, it's exciting. Hi! |
| 1:20.0 | Can you see us? No. It happened. It happened, dude. It's a fucking miracle. It's a fucking miracle, |
| 1:36.6 | isn't it? Why is there a time of microphone in front of Ben? Do we need that? Can we? |
| 1:40.9 | That's his audio. Okay. That's how he hears us. Oh, okay. Can you not see Josh have you done this |
| 1:46.8 | before? I haven't done this this particular thing before. He's new. Yeah, I'm going to cut this. |
| 1:52.5 | What time behind you? What does it say? Yeah, what's behind you? Sounds like fraud, but okay. I |
| 1:58.4 | think this is a plug. We're going to look at today. This is a plug. It's a plug. |
| 2:08.8 | It's so good to see your face, man. It's going to see you guys. Oh my god. Oh my god. I |
| 2:14.3 | said, I mean, well, we got to save this for on air. Are we going to cut your |
| 2:19.3 | phone? Are we recording? It's a kind of broadcast thing. Josh, is that a sweater? I like that. |
| 2:25.9 | So he will lose the new sweatshirt. Oh, yeah. Oh shit. Is it? I can't see. It's too far away. |
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