You're listening to Once, episode 204, the unofficial podcast for ABC's TV show Once Upon a Time.

I'm Daniel J. Lewis. I'm Jeremy Laughlin.

And we are thrilled to be back in the studio, thrilled to be talking with you again, thrilled

that this show is back. Hashtag thrilled. Jeremy, what did you think overall of the show,

especially with it going dark like it is? Overall, overall, it was like a beating red, enchanted heart with a speck of darkness in it.

That is very symbolic in so many ways.

And kind of an enchanted heart that was, it was beating,

but sometimes it was kind of an irregular beat. And red curly hair coming off that heart.

Ew. Yeah. So Merida is in this. And by the way, these are our initial reactions. So we're

going to be a bit all over the place with our thoughts and ideas and review and reactions.

We might not get things right, but that's what our full discussion is for.

And our upcoming full discussion is usually on a Wednesday night at 7 o'clock Eastern time.

But for this week, because International Podcast Day is on September 30th, which is a great day to host a podcast.

Yes.

But I'm one of the founders

of International Podcast Day. So I have a lot of responsibilities on that day. I'm hosting a lot of

streams. I am sponsoring the International Podcast Day Gratitude Award, so I need to announce

the winner on that day, which would be around the time that we'd be doing a podcast. So

celebrate podcasting on that day.

The best thing you can do, really, to help us is tell someone else about the podcast. Yes,

reviews are nice. Donations are wonderful. But the best thing that you can do to help us,

tell someone else, get someone else subscribed to oncepodcast.com. And that's a great way to

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