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Warning on today's episode, there will be spoilers for Frankenstein, which is over a century old.

So if you're going to get spoiled on Frankenstein, it might as well be here.

And Predator Rosie Knight. And welcome. Hello, my name is Jason Concepcion.

And I'm Rosie Knight.

And welcome to XRG, our weekly group chat roundtable with producers and special guests

to talk about all the things we're excited about in movies, TV, comics, and pop culture.

In today's episode, we are bringing in the scream queens for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

It's a big combo, guys.

Me and Jason loved it.

I'm excited to dig in.

In segment two, I'm bringing in Aaron and Ian super producer chatter about Predator Badlands.

And guess what?

Somebody's got a spicy take. Segment three, It's me. And I'm going to be interviewing the star of Predator Badlands, Demetrius Schuster, Kolomatangi, who is definitely, after this movie, want to watch. Then, of course, we'll be ending it as always with Thank Galactus. It's Friday. And we're all going to share our things that we can't wait to do this weekend.

But first, Frankenstein. Let's bring in Carmen and Joelle.

This is the Green Queens. Welcome to the program. How are you, ladies?

Let us quickly, I'll quickly recap the plot, which is that, you know, Victor Frankenstein is going to the Arctic to kill his creation, but then his creation ambushes him.

And while he's grievously wounded, he then tells, in flashback, the captain of the ship,

like, all right, you want to know what's going on with this fucking crazy creature?

I got a story to tell you.

I got a long-ass story to tell you.

And he tells him the whole thing, and involves his sad childhood and the Crimean War and how he got hired by this crazy rich guy to like, you know, dissolve the boundary between life and death and how he built this creature.

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