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 573 recorded Thursday, March 10th, 2022.

Welcome to the show, everyone. I am happy you're here. Also happy you're here, Jason.

I'm happy I'm here too, Christopher. That's great. And I'm tickled, tickled that you're here.

Tickled, whoo, tickled pink. I don't know, maybe more of a fuchsia.

That's kind of pink. It's very pinkish. Yeah, it's a deep, dark, bright pink.

If pink can be all of those things, I don't know. Anyways, good times, fun to be here.

We are going to be doing some listener feedback amongst other things. I think this, this podcast, of course, and it's all about the most recent episode of The Walking Dead, which was called Rogue element season 11 episode 11.

Before we get into any of that, I just want to really quickly recap the ratings so far since the show returned.

If you recall episode nine had 1.76 million viewers, episode 10 had 1.6 and episode 11 had 1.67.

So a slight bounce back, but really in the same rounding air.

Yeah, pretty close to it. Yeah, pretty close.

They just guess at the ratings anyway, right? Like if they don't have actual numbers, do they?

No, I don't know. I, you know, they used to have those ratings families or whatever they were called.

Yeah. And you'd get a box in your house, and that would keep track of what you watched. And even that feels like an incredibly inaccurate way to do it.

Well, they, you know, each household represents so many other households. Yeah. So it was just a guest.

But now they have cable boxes, which can probably accurately report back exactly what the fuck you're watching. So maybe they do have actual numbers.

Well, maybe I don't know. I, again, I don't know how it all works other than what number gets posted. And that's what I look at just to see where it's going.

So 1.7, sorry, 1.67 million for row element, which is slight uptick, but pretty much holding steady.

Well, you know, ultimately not to harp on this too long, but ultimately if they keep using the same way of calculating the number, then the number makes sense.

Because it's not really about the number. It's about the trend.

Well, yeah. And that's what I've always said. I just want to follow the trend, you know, even though there's all kinds of other things that factor into it that we're ignoring.

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