Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Wednesday January 20th 2021 on today's episode

we are not going to be talking about film and TV news we're just going to be talking about the presidential

inauguration very briefly my name is Ben Pearson I'm the senior writer at slash film dot com and I am joined on today's episode by slash film managing editor Jaga Paul.

Hello, hello. Weekend editor Brad Omen. Hey, that's me. And Writers, Quiet Tran Bowie. Hey everyone.

And Chris Evangelista.

Hello.

Well, welcome to a new era in the United States of America, everybody.

We were going to just scrap today's episode of the podcast completely because the news has understandably been focused on the transition of power and there has not really been a ton of worthwhile movie news.

We were going to do a water cooler episode,

but everybody's obviously very, very distracted

by the real news that's out in the world right now.

So instead of just scrapping the episode,

we just figured we'd put out a short discussion today of just all of us just sort of like rawly reacting in the moment to what we just witnessed. Joe Biden taking power as the President of the United States. So, I mean, this is going to be just a very, very quick, like free form conversation.

I doubt any of us are going to be able to provide any sort of, you know, super deep context

for anything that we've seen going on, but I just

figured this would be, you know, after four years of basically all of us kind of feeling

miserable. I just wanted to take the temperature of the room and see how you guys are feeling today.

So anybody, go ahead.

The floor is all of ours.

It's opened up.

We're living in a democracy again.

I'll start. It was good television overall. They had a Lady Gaga

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