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Hello and welcome to the watch. My name is Chris Ryan. I am an editor at theringer.com and joining me on the other line, he'll have what's to date because he's having its end-degree walls!

Happy Monday, buddy.

The thing about Monday is it's always Monday. Andy, we are going to be talking today about the golden globes.

And we don't have to do that thing where we stop. We can just get right into it.

I'm kind of... I'm really used to that now.

No, I know. You're a creature of habit. You're a creature of habit.

I like to pop off right at the top to kind of mess up your rhythm. You know what I mean? That's what I do. And yet I've been muzzle these last few months with the framework where you have to set us up.

So I've been very quiet at the top.

I've noticed that. And I kind of sometimes... There's this pregnant pause every time I start a podcast where I'm like, what Andy am I getting today?

Now, eventually I always get the best of you. You know what I mean? And I have my ways of extracting that.

But sometimes when I'm like, man, he seems a little down today or whatever. I don't know how we're going to elicit that pure, unbridled joy and passion for comic book culture that I know you have inside you.

I... Well, a couple of things. I appreciate your tender management of me because that's what I expect out of everyone in my life to great effect. People love that.

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