Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode in NerdSoup. My name is Rubin, joined here today with no one, and I am back to review Ploribus. Episode 7.

The Gap. Good episode.

Uh, well, before I get into that, I want to apologize for the sound of my voice. I'm a little under the weather. I've got the, the suds, the December sniffles, so bear with me. And if you can't stand the sound of my nasally voice, just, you know, play the video on mute, so at least we get the view, right? Maybe click a couple of ads. You need some tires. You want to learn how to

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So far, I've done the first three. Looking forward to doing the last three as well. Really good doc. If you're

American, I feel like it's essential viewing. If you're not American, you can learn something about

why we're so propagandized. So, episode seven, the gap. I feel like this is an episode that's

going to frustrate a lot of people with its pacing because it only focuses on Carol and Minusos.

And essentially they're doing the same thing. Their journeys in this episode are similar.

I think it's safe to say that both characters in this episode, based on their actions, are suicidal for different reasons.

I think with, for Carol, you see the moment when she's lighting the

fireworks and one of them falls over and it looks like she's going to be in the line of fire

and it just destroys the house instead that she's she's going a little crazy she's going a little

stir crazy that clearly she wants those those moments of human connection but she doesn't have anybody

to share them with so when she goes out to dinner when she's teeing off the golf balls when she goes

to the country club all of these little events that she is trying to it reminds me a lot of

will smith and i am legend when he's walking through the town and he's got all the billboards of people, all the cutouts, it's not quite the same. And for Minusos, it's almost a suicidal

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