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Ruminations Episode XXIV: One Grab Bag to Rule Them All

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Chris and Steve are back for Ruminations Episode XXIV to talk about… things? After a very busy second half of 2025, we felt it would be good to reconnect with our listeners (multiple, according to Chris!) and discuss some of the media we consumed during the year, though, of course, without planning for our conversation in the slightest. What concert did Steve feel FOMO for before realizing he was better off skipping out? Which horror audiobook had Chris lowering his radio as he drove through the suburbs with his window down? Was a certain 7-minute “AI slop” video the best piece of pop culture we saw all year? Should Chris get a tattoo? What topics do you want us to record episodes on in 2026? Happy new year, dear listeners!

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Ruminations Episode XVII: House of Power, Rings of the Dragon

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Ruminations is back for our seventeenth episode, this time to talk about the two prequels to juggernaut fantasy series that premiered in September, HBO’s Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon and Amazon Prime’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. For the second time this year, this is the second version of an episode that we, Chris and Steve, recorded. Before you ask, no, no one was too drunk this time! Back in August, we recorded a grab bag episode about our respective summer trips, interesting stuff we recently watched, a wedding and a 30th birthday, and ended with our varying degrees of apprehension towards HoD and RoP, but since each show finished its first season before we could edit the episode… we decided to re-record and focus on the shows in full. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we each enjoyed one of the shows over the other.

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