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Thank you. in to your favorite shows throughout the week as usual. Hello and welcome to another edition of the Recapables, a podcast on the Ringer Podcast Network.

This week we are talking about everyone's favorite 80s nostalgia fest, Stranger Things.

We are doing a bit of a mini-series on this.

We are tackling the whole season, which is eight episodes in three installments of this podcast.

One will obviously be releasing today on July 4th, and we will have two additional episodes on July 5th and July 6th to go along with your binge.

We know that everyone has a lot of ample time and air conditioning

on this long holiday weekend, and we are here with you as you spend it on television. I am your host

Alison Herman, and here with me on the other line, he is ready to set sail on this ocean of flavor.

It's Miles Surrey. Hey, Miles. How are you doing? I'm good. I've got Tostito,

salsa, beer, and I'm ready to go. Your kickback on your lazy boy, just digging into some.

Got Magnum P.I. on the VCR. So that is, of course, a reference to our favorite character

on this show, Chief Hopper, played by our favorite Twitter personality, David Harbour. We will be talking about him

in great detail later in this episode. But first, this is the third season of Stranger Things.

It is billed in the manner of a great 80s franchise as Stranger Things 3. We've had some time to

get used to this show. It is basically as old as the

website we work for at this point, which is a little strange because it's obviously a show about

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