‘Pluribus’ Episode 7: The Parallel Journeys of ‘The Gap’
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🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome back to the Press News TV podcast feed. I'm Joanna Robinson. I'm Rob Mahoney. We're here in person, talk about episode seven, The Gap. What is the gap? Yeah, Rob, what or what could that episode title mean, do you think? I don't know. I feel like it could refer to a great many things. I like to think of it as, you know, maybe the gap between all of us as we isolate ourselves and certainly as these |
| 0:37.7 | two characters are kind of drifting further apart philosophically. |
| 0:41.2 | You don't think Carol and her new sort of like embrace materialism phase went to the gap? |
| 0:46.2 | Oh, she definitely might have. |
| 0:47.2 | I mean, look, definitely kind of gap style at times. |
| 0:49.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.7 | Could it have anything to do with the thing we got one million emails about last week, the Darien Gap? |
| 0:58.0 | Judging by our inbox, it is possible. It does seem like that could be a consideration that may be dealt with in this episode. |
| 1:03.2 | Okay. So we're here to talk about Plyrobus episode seven, The Gap, written by Jen Carroll, directed by Adam Bernstein, in which we check in on Carol over the scope of a month, and then presumably Menusos on a month-long journey up to from Paraguay to New Mexico. |
| 1:21.4 | Guys, you cannot drive there directly. |
| 1:23.8 | So we have learned. |
| 1:24.7 | So we have learned. |
| 1:26.8 | This is an educational process for us, Joe. |
| 1:29.1 | Thank you for all your emails about the Dary and Gap. Some of them were very polite. Some of them were rude, but that's okay. We appreciate all of that. But if we didn't know about the Dary and Gap before, we'd certainly know about it now. We do. I just want to say really quickly, we did get one email about the TV show Long Way Up, which is the U.M. McGregor TV show where he and his friend |
| 1:44.3 | Charlie took motorcycles from the tip of South America up to Los Angeles. Did I watch that show? |
| 1:50.4 | Yes. Did I not finish that show? Correct. Episode 8 is when they encountered the Darien Gap and I did |
| 1:56.0 | not get there. Should have done your due diligence. How do you feel about us doing a travel, a travelog |
| 2:00.6 | show, Joe? |
| 2:01.3 | Oh, um, well, can it be wine based? It can be wine based. It can be daring and gap based if you |
| 2:06.8 | like. I mean, this did seem a little perilous for my taste. And certainly we couldn't be |
| 2:12.5 | driving through it, but maybe that's a hiking, not bottle episode, but a little side quest. |
| 2:16.9 | All right. How are your machete skills? Not great at carterizing. Okay. That part I'm not looking forward to. Okay. Everything we learned from our lovely listeners about cannibalism and the Darien Gap aside, how did you like this episode? I fucking loved it. I thought that's just like one of the most beautiful episodes of TV I've seen this |
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