Hello and welcome into the Ringerverse, your nexus feed for all things fandom.

I'm your friend Ben Lindbergh, host of ButtonMash and Ringerverse recommends MC.

And hey, long time, no talk, at least here at Ringaverse

recommends, because we missed a month. You did not imagine it. You did not miss an episode. We missed

an episode. Our apologies. There were scheduling complications. There were health complications.

Comic Con got in the way. We couldn't make the July episode happen, but we're back,

and hopefully better than ever. I'm outside the city. I'm not in my natural habitat, but every

now and then, even I need some pretty pastoral scenery, so hopefully that'll be a treat for you.

Perhaps you can hear the crickets. It will be so soothing. But I'm losing the light,

just like in that episode of the studio. So I'll make this quick. We took some time to think about

what we want to do with Ring Reverse Recommends while we were taking our sabbatical, and we've

decided to retool just a tad. We are debuting a different format this month. Much of it will be the same.

We will still give you the same recommendations and clips you know and love from your friendly

Ring ofverse hosts. However, we have decided to do a centerpiece recommendation in each

month's episode from here on out. Because although we've

loved doing Roon Reverse Recommends and it seems like a lot of you enjoy it as well, it's been missing

something. There's been great participation, but a lack of interaction just because of the way

we do these things. We each submit our clips. We're talking to you, but not to each other. And we thought maybe we could incorporate some conversation, some interaction. So each month, I will be having a more extended conversation with someone else. Maybe one of the other Ringiverse hosts, maybe a friend of the Ringiverse who will be joining me to spotlight something,

to talk about something at greater length that we like.

Not as deep a dive as we would do on a full episode,

but a lot longer and richer than we can in a couple minute clip.

So this month, we will be centering and focusing on foundation, specifically Foundation Season 3. And I will be joined in just a

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