This is The Talking Dead, a podcast dedicated to the AMC TV show The Walking Dead.

Hey there everybody, my name is Chris, and my name is Jason, and this is The Talking Dead

number 540 recorded on Sunday, August 15th, 2021. Welcome to the program, everyone, and

we've got a couple of guests with us today, which is very exciting. I think a lot of people

will know these two folks, because I think many of our listeners, or I think we share a lot of

listeners with their podcast, but it's Jason and Lucy from The Walking Dead Cast. Welcome to both

of you guys. Welcome, welcome. Hello. Thanks for having us. Of course, of course. So of course,

we are here to do our annual season wrap-up crossover episode, and it's been a while,

it's been a while. I think it's the longest duration between this episode we've ever done,

and it's the 10th one, which is very exciting. Wow. I mean, it's hard to, it's weird to think

about, but season 10 actually started back in 2012, so it's just, feels like, yeah, it does feel,

but it was 2019 though. Well, it does feel, it feels like a hundred years ago to me, to be honest.

When I sat down to start thinking about this and making some notes, I realized that, you know,

I remember it. I remember a lot of the stuff, but I wasn't sure, did that happen season 10 or

nine, or even eight? It felt like I couldn't place things quite as well, but did you guys have the

same experience? Did it change your sort of prep for this episode at all? I mean, I went back and

finished all of the 16 episodes. I didn't quite have time to go do the six that came after that,

but yeah, and I hadn't always, I don't always do that for these crossover. Sometimes I just go over

my notes, but I decided to do it just because it had been such a long time ago that it started,

and it was a great experience to do that, to have it all in a big chunk over the course of a week,

and have it all fresh in my head. You know, especially when you get to that last episode,

the 16th episode that felt like a weird Kota several months later, you read a novel, and then

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