The Last of Us - Ep. 5 Endure and Survive

Pop Culture Leftovers

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Episode 5: Endure and Survive While attempting to evade the rebels, Joel and Ellie cross paths with the most wanted man in Kansas City. Kathleen continues her hunt. For more Joe Vitale check out the Vintage Geeks Podcast. For more Brian and Joe listen to Pop Culture Leftovers. For more Melissa Sloter listen to the Wild Pretty Things podcast. And for more Billy check out The Reality Guys on YouTube. The Reality Guys is a Reality TV Reaction and Review channel. Bill, Brian, Kevin, and Waleed cover everything and anything Reality TV. The Last of Us takes place 20 years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival. Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian, Wonder Woman 1984) and Bella Ramsey (HBO’s His Dark Materials and Game of Thrones) star as Joel and Ellie. Gabriel Luna (True Detective) as Joel’s younger brother and former soldier, Tommy; Merle Dandridge (The Last of Us video games, The Flight Attendant) as resistance leader Marlene; and Anna Torv (Fringe) as Tess, a smuggler and fellow hardened survivor. The series guest stars Nico Parker (The Third Day) as Sarah, Joel’s 14-year old daughter; Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus) and Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) as Frank and Bill, two post-pandemic survivalists living alone in their own isolated town; Storm Reid (Euphoria) as Riley, an orphan in Boston; and Jeffrey Pierce (The Last of Us video games) as Perry, a rebel in a quarantine zone. Lamar Johnson guest stars as Henry and Keivonn Woodard as Sam, brothers in Kansas City hiding from a revolutionary movement seeking vengeance. Graham Greene guest stars as Marlon and Elaine Miles as Florence, a married couple surviving alone in the wilderness of post-apocalyptic Wyoming. Written and executive produced by Craig Mazin (HBO’s Chernobyl) and Neil Druckmann, of The Last of Us and Uncharted video game franchises. Carolyn Strauss (HBO’s Chernobyl and Game of Thrones) serves as executive producer, along with Evan Wells from the original game’s developer, Naughty Dog, and PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back to the last of us presented by pop culture leftovers. I'm Brian. I am one of your hosts and
0:07.2	if I have learned anything through five episodes of the last of us, it's you cannot get attached to
0:14.8	anyone on this show. RIP Bill and Frank. We're going to talk about the latest deaths in this new
0:24.7	episode, but I'm also joined by Joe Stark of pop culture leftovers. Welcome, Joe. Hey, stoked to be
0:31.2	here. And we've got Melissa Slaughter from the Wild Pretty Things podcast. Welcome, Melissa.
0:37.4	Hello, hello. Thank you for having me back. Billy could not make it this week. Things came up,
0:43.3	work related. Could not join us on this episode. Sad not to see him here, but I was like, let's
0:51.8	see if we can get a fourth on this one. And I reached out to one Joe Vitale of the Vintage Geeks
0:59.1	podcast. Welcome, Joe. Thanks for inviting me. Absolutely, man. One of the biggest reasons I've
1:05.8	invited, I love having you on our regular pop culture leftovers episodes, but I know for a fact
1:10.8	you've been listening to our recaps on the last of us. And that's that plays that plays huge
1:16.6	because you know what we've been talking about. And I know you're a fan of this show. We're a
1:21.6	fan of you. And so I was like, it just makes sense to ask Joe to come on. Things worked out.
1:26.2	You're here. And I can't wait to talk to you about this, this latest episode.
1:31.8	Well, like I said, I sent you that message earlier and that was not bullshit that your episode
1:37.3	for recap, all of you was phenomenal. I mean, it was like, if I was going to tell anybody to
1:42.5	listen to a recap show as an example, that's a show I'd point out to. And it's from people who
1:48.0	know the game and people who don't know the game. And I love hearing the theories and analysis and
1:53.9	everything that you guys brought to it. Me knowing what happens in the game, it was just still
1:59.4	it's exciting to hear. Like, I wish I could erase my memory of the game and go start from scratch
2:05.9	because it's it's that special to me. I've played I think I told you I played it. I don't know,
2:10.8	seven eight times. I'm playing I'm replaying it again. It's just it's it's just it's a beautiful game
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