Hey, everybody, happy new year and welcome back to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast

Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing

over at blisterreview.com. Okay, today Cody Townsend is back to review some of the big news of December and admittedly to talk about a number of things that didn't just occur this past month.

So in this edition, we got lots of topics and a lot of big topics with a number of articles and shows and films for you to

check out.

And we really hope you do check those out because there is some really great writing in

important films and the rest.

So we really are only touching on a number of these things.

And we really want all of you to be

thinking about these issues well.

Now, I want to note that we recorded this conversation, and I'm recording this introduction,

on the 4th of January, which happens to be my mom's birthday.

So happy birthday, mom.

I hope you're having a great day.

And I'm going to call you in a bit.

And it also happens to be Chris Davenport's birthday.

And I got to have an early birthday dinner with Chris last night here in Crested Butte,

where Chris asked me when the next reviewing the news episode

was happening. And I told him that Cody and I were actually going to record the conversation

the very next day on his birthday. And then Chris got all excited and wanted to walk through a bunch

of the topics that he thought we needed to talk about in this

conversation. And it turns out, Chris is a smart guy, and we did end up talking about a number

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