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

Hi, my name is Jason, and my name is Chris, and this is The Talking Dead episode number 547 recorded Thursday, September 16th, 2021.

Indeed it is, thank you for tuning in everyone. It is a little bit later than usual, almost an hour past our normal recording time.

Not that that affects anybody out there listening, but it does affect us. It's all my fault. I didn't get home in time today to do this, so thank you for your patience Jason, and for continuing to show up and wait for me.

Well, I've made you wait in the past.

Well, this never happens either, so it's fine. Don't worry, it's all good. It's not like I'm going to bed anytime soon, so it's fine.

All right, well, in that case, we're good to go, and you'll just, we'll finish this and you'll probably continue playing video games later anyways, right?

I'm not touching video games until I have to work tomorrow. I've sworn them off for the entire week tomorrow.

And yeah, I'm not touching anything. All right, break. Well, then then get a good night's sleep tonight, so you can play video games like 48 hours straight over the weekend.

You know, I hadn't thought of that, but great idea. All right, glad I can help. All right, well, it is Thursday night, so that means we are going to call.

I mean, we are going to play and read your feedback. We're not going to call anybody. Why not, really? We should call somebody, right?

I mean, someday, maybe we'll do another one of those call and shows. I don't know, but it's not today. No, we just just Alan.

Let's talk to somebody. All right, well, just start picking off numbers then. Come on, let's go.

0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1. Oh, the first phone number. I wonder who owns that. Nobody. I don't think you can get there. I don't think so. All righty. Well, it's feedback night.

But first, I wanted to report on the ratings from the last two episodes.

Episode number three, called hunted, got 1.87 million viewers. And this episode, number four, called rendition, got 1.88.

So, well, very close, but slightly higher. Slow and steady wins the race.

Slow and steady wins the race. That's both of those are lower than the first two episodes, but rendition is tiny bit higher than hunted.

And as I've said before, I'm pretty sure it seems very clear at this point that this is about the level that the numbers are going to stay at for most of this season.

Maybe do you want to make a prediction like you think as it wraps up as we get into like episode 23, 24 to like finish it off once and for all suddenly the numbers will go way up again.

Not a chance. No, I don't think so. I don't think so at all. People got better things to do or other things to do at least.

There's lots of shows out there. I don't think people are going to go, oh, I wonder that show's going to end. I better pick it up again. It's more of that show's going to end.

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