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The Well

THE DROP – Part 8

The Well

Anson Mount & Branan Edgens

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9821 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary


Discussed in this Drop: 



PEN15 (hulu), THE SOCIAL DELIMA (Netflix), the looming danger of deep fakes, HUMAN NATURE (Netflix), LOVE ON THE SPECTRUM (Netflix), THE DEMON IN THE MACHINE (book), TO HOLD UP THE SKY (book), HARPER’S magazine essay “MAKING MEANING”, BECOMING YOU (Apple TV), WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS (Netflix), The spiritual rootedness of LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO (music) versus the spiritual distance of GEORGIAN FUNERAL CHANTS (music), NORMAL PEOPLE (Hulu), THE SECRET MUSEUM OF MANKIND series (music anthology), and the greatest film of all time BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC (Netflix)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the well. I am Brandon Edgons.

0:19.4

And I'm Anson Mount.

0:24.7

And this is called The Drop. Yeah, this is a segment we've been recording recently while we're between seasons, just as a way of checking in with our

0:29.6

listeners and let you know some of the things we've been reading and watching and experiencing

0:33.6

so that you can too if you're looking for something to do in this COVID time of hours.

0:38.6

And it turns out that because this COVID time of ours is lasting a little bit longer than

0:42.8

anyone thought, that's not really true. I think we, I think we knew we just were kind of in denial

0:48.3

about it. I mean, like, to have the experts tell you this is going to go on for a while,

0:52.0

and you're kind of like okay but really this long

0:55.9

and get kind of weary of it so that's why the what are you doing um uh section yeah it's kind of

1:06.3

drag it's kind of going on for a while and become kind of a thing, which I don't mind, because there's a lot

1:11.5

less editing on our part. Yes, that's true. So if you're new to the show, you might want to go

1:17.1

back and start at the beginning, where we have more of our regular episodes, which require

1:24.1

a lot more work and editing and are much more polished. Or you can listen to these too and enjoy and, um,

1:31.7

yeah.

1:32.8

Yeah.

1:33.3

We want to set the scene for us because anyone was wondering what the sound is in the

1:36.5

background.

1:37.0

Yeah, we're on my screened-end porch, uh, fire going in the fireplace.

1:42.8

And it's, uh, we're in the gloaming.

1:45.0

It's about to be dark.

1:48.2

And it's getting earlier and earlier.

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