Greetings from Meta Station, where a playwright and an English professor who have been best friends for sixteen years recap our favorite genre television shows. Check out our archive for 4 seasons of coverage of the CW's post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama "The 100," including cast and creator interviews, and join us in summer 2019 for coverage of three new streaming miniseries perfect for binge-watching - "Good Omens" on Amazon Prime, "Russian Doll" on Netflix, and "Gentleman Jack" on HBO!
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"His Dark Materials" 1x03: "The Spies"
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Welcome back to Meta Station, where IT’S TIME TO CRY ABOUT MOMS! Lyra finally finds a family, we learn a lot more about daemons, some Dramatic Backstory is revealed, a show finally presents a suicide storyline responsibly, and we have a LOT of thoughts about white male patriarchy. Also, the alethiometer finally works, Ma Costa is our new favorite c…
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"His Dark Materials" 1x02: "The Idea of North"
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Welcome back to Meta Station! Sadly for you, several of our BEST jokes this week happened before we started recording, and we apologize to our longtime fans for depriving them of the newest installment of our ongoing “vases vs. botulism” debate. (You had to be there.) Fortunately, this still ended up being one of our favorite conversations, because…
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"His Dark Materials" 1x01: "Lyra's Jordan"
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Welcome to Meta Station’s first recap of “His Dark Materials,” the perfect show for a podcast hosted by an atheist English professor and a Catholic playwright. Join us for a deep dive into the transformation of the books from page to screen, with side quests into climate change, Vatican II, “Paradise Lost,” gender fluidity, and Galileo. Plus, we la…
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Choose your faces wisely, because it’s time for Part II of “Good Omens,” where imagination is the greatest power of humankind, the kids are trying to figure out how to fix the world the grown-ups ruined, Madam Tracy finally gets takes center stage, Derek Jacobi pops in for a truly delightful cameo, and it turns out Crowley still thinks pretty highl…
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Hello, new friends! Welcome back, old friends! Meta Station is back and we've missed you, too! Summer is truly the best time of year for binge-watching television (some people will tell you it is the time of year for Going Outside and, like, Doing Stuff, in Nature, but those people are wrong and dangerous, stay in here with us where there's air con…
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Welcome to META STATION SUMMER VACATION!We're spending July and August covering some of our favorite binge-worthy miniseries of 2019, kicking off this week with a discussion on episodes 1-3 of Amazon's fantastic adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's shippy apocalypse romp "Good Omens."To whet your appetite, if you've missed us, or to intr…
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Episode 5x13: "Damocles, Part II"
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Welcome back to Meta Station! Since last we recapped you, Erin finished her book, we went to a con, Claire's had the flu like three times, and Donald Trump Jr. is probably going to jail. WHAT'S NEW WITH YOU GUYS??We split up this week’s 4-hour podcast in two parts, so pop on over to this link - https://soundcloud.com/meta-station/unity-days-2019 - …
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We talked for so long about Unity Days 2019 that we pulled it out of the recap podcast to post on its own. Join us as we relive the magic, glory and wonder of the third (and maybe final?? unclear??? Sachin is VERY PERSUASIVE????) Unity Days convention in Vancouver B.C.! It was hands-down our favorite yet, with brand-new guests we'd never met before…
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She's been in the biz since she was nine, she's fluent in French, she knows how to swordfight, and she loves "Fight Club." She's also twelve years old.We sat down with the fantastically delightful Lola Flanery on Sunday, for a super fun interview which then got eaten by Skype Recorder (*shakes fist at ALIE*), so we gave it a second try on Wednesday…
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ERIN FOUND A KITTEN IN A PARKING LOT SO THAT WAS THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS TODAY Yes, the Lola interview will go up tomorrow, yes, we're eventually going to recap the finale, yes, we've still got Chris Larkin and William/Ivana interviews on deck, but for now, please enjoy this outtake that is literally just twenty minutes of Claire and Erin talki…
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Episode 5x12: "Damocles, Part I"
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Welcome back to Meta Station! [INSERT INAPPROPRIATE JOKE ABOUT MARCUS KANE LOOKING LIKE A SNACK HERE]LOTS of deaths this week, including Vinson, a whole bunch of redshirts, and the myth of Blodreina (and we’ll feel a lot better once we know Gaia and Kane are okay), but the fractured groups are finally beginning to coalesce back together, which is a…
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OUTTAKE - Let's Do The Trig Warp In Jan(uary)
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Has anyone else had "Sword of Damocles" from Rocky Horror stuck in their heads ever since they announced the title of the finale? We derailed on Rocky Horror/The 100 crossover possibilities for five solid minutes before we even managed to start talking about the episode this week, and gave ourselves stomach aches from laughing in the process!P.S. W…
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WELP, CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO BET MONEY THAT IT WOULD BE CANNIBALISMYOU WIN AN EXTREMELY GRIM AND DEPRESSING EPISODEJump in our Way-Back Machine and return with us to a simpler time, where we can revisit our old friends Kara Cooper, brighter indoor lighting, and Kane's good hair! Enjoy this brief flash of a more-or-less sane Octavia before …
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Episode 5x10: "The Warriors Will"
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Hello and welcome back to Meta Station! We are, again, unfortunately subjecting you to our unedited ramblings, as Erin is on her way out of town and Claire is at San Diego Comic-Con, so our schedules this weekend are a little crazy. Hooray, you get this week’s podcast a few days early! Boo, you have to listen to our unfiltered verbal chaos. But we …
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Episode 5x09: "Sic Semper Tyrannis"
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Hello and welcome back to Meta Station! Our nightmare of biweekly hiatuses has come to an end and now we’re on a runaway train speeding downhill towards the finale, and BOY OH BOY are we excited. How are you guys holding up? Is everyone breathing? Eating? Getting enough sleep? Are we all stressed as fuck about how Abby’s only remaining friend is a …
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Episode 5x08: "How We Get to Peace"
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Et Tu, Bro-té?????Welcome to our episode recap of “How We Get to Peace,” an episode that was far superior to its weirdly clunky title. But HOLY WORM EXPLOSIONS, BATMAN, what a ride! Apologies in advance that this one’s going up mostly unedited, because it was another weird schedule week, but we didn’t want to make you wait any longer for the chance…
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Episode 5x07: "Acceptable Losses"
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First things first: Meta Station is raising money for RAICES Texas to help reunite and free immigrant detainee families! We started with a goal of raising $2500, which we BLEW OUT OF THE WATER in less than 24 hour thanks to the enormous generosity of Lola Flanery (Madi), Marie Avgeropoulos (Octavia), and 49 other amazing fans, so now we are just go…
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Kabby Roundtable With Special Guests!
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Starved for Kabby content since there’s no new episode tonight? WE GOT U, FAM! After many delays caused by travel, book deadlines, and the sheer nonstop vexation of attempting to edit out the background noise caused by recording in a Los Angeles Airbnb with woefully thin walls, THE KABBY ROUNDTABLE PODCAST IS FINALLY HERE! Claire is joined by retur…
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Hey look! Our 506 pod is here for you on a THURSDAY!! That's because Erin is going to visit Claire tomorrow and Claire is on a work deadline, and therefore we had almost no time to edit, so--apologies in advance for all the ums and likes and that one time when Erin's dog experiences VERY LOUD bronchial distress causing Claire to completely forget w…
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Claire and Erin Interview Luisa D'Oliveira!
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Claire and Erin sat down for an interview with the wise, lovely and hilarious Luisa D'Oliveira and fell immediately and irrevocably in love with her. Join us for a conversation about artistic bravery, how science fiction helps us understand our humanity, the relationship between Emori and John Murphy, her experience playing a chipped version of her…
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Clairin Outtakes - A Love Letter to Paige Turco (with special guests!)
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A sneak preview of the Kabby roundtable podcast going up this week! After we'd wrapped up and said our goodbyes, we ended up spending another fifteen minutes just exploding with emotions about how much we love Paige, including the importance of strength through vulnerability, what she means to us as women, why it matters that TV shows invest in com…
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Welcome back to Meta Station for our recap of an amazing episode which is simultaneously a heartfelt emotional drama (Indra saying “I love you!” Kane taking care of Abby! Miller and Jackson kissing! Clarke and Bellamy fireside-bonding again!) and a FUCKING HORROR MOVIE (demon sandworms erupting from stomachs! Eligius IV’s very own Hannibal Lecter! …
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Special Bellarke Roundtable with Special Guests!
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Join Erin for a special bonus podcast of flailing over the OTT Bellarke-ness of 503 and 504 with special guests Chash (@chashlet/ponyregrets), Brittany (@bgonemydear), Elizabeth (@leavemearoan/hawthornewhisperer), and Crystal (@wordyblerd)! We talk hugs, mugs, Madi, and--because this IS Meta Station--the nature and challenges of noncanon shipping, …
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Hello and welcome back to Meta Station! We picked up this week with all the Raven and Murphy we didn’t get to last time (with bonus soccer and Murphy being an unexpectedly solid bro), and spent a great deal of time falling head over heels for Lieutenant Zeke Shaw (stop trying to make “Miles” happen, show) as he, in turn, fell head over heels for th…
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Clairin Outtakes - Luisa D'Oliveira Does Hogwarts Headcanons
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What House is Monty? Who would be the best Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher? Which character does Erin think is the Filch of the Ark? Join us as two Ravenclaws and a Hufflepuff discuss our Hogwarts/Spacekru headcanons.Por META STATION
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Clairin Outtakes - Captain Daddy And The Strap-On
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A pair of brief outtakes to illustrate that A) we are literally twelve years old, and B) it's really all William Miller's fault.Por META STATION
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Hello and welcome back to Meta Station, where the takes are HOT and the zombie supersoldiers are COLD, and the jokes are weird because we’re both on book deadlines and slowly losing our minds. Erin unfortunately cannot be with us today, as she is dead, on account of what a motherfucking drama queen Bellamy Blake was when he strode dramatically into…
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Clairin Outtakes - Bellamy, Kane, and the Troy Barnes Pizza Gif
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Take a journey with us and imagine Bellamy Blake blasting open the bunker doors with McCreary's air cannon only to find his dad in a MURDER PIT while his sister just CHILLAXES ON HER SKULL THRONE 'cause it's just another day in Blodreinaville.Por META STATION
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Clairin Outtakes: Richard Harmon Fancasts His "Rudy" Remake
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To tide you over until Murphy returns to your screens tomorrow, here's an outtake from our delightful interview with Richard Harmon, where we put him through the same exercise we gave Sachin with "Back to the Future": recasting his favorite movie using characters from "The 100."Por META STATION
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Hello and welcome back to a much grimmer and bloodier Meta Station than the one we all enjoyed last week! Claire and Erin and joined by our friend Crystal (@wordyblerd on Twitter), a freelance writer/TV critic formerly of Black Girl Nerds, to scream at the top of our lungs about “The Red Queen,” which shot straight to the top of our all-time series…
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"Take Me To Wells": Yu Gonplei Ste Odon, Thelonious Jaha
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Our full recap of the amazing episode 5x02, "The Red Queen," will go up later tonight, with special guest Crystal (@wordyblerd), our delightful Twitter friend and freelance writer/critic formerly of Black Girl Nerds. In the meantime, to pay homage to the loss of one of the show's original core regulars, here's our emotional sendoff to the sometimes…
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We’re back, bitches! And so is everything that made this show great. HOO BOY WHAT A SEASON PREMIERE! Mom feels! Road trips! Jasper closure! Clarke as a video game character, wandering through post-apocalyptic wastelands and collecting emotionally-loaded power-up items! Bugs for lunch! Pinterest-worthy outdoor decorating schemes! A smol with a bear …
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Sachin Sahel (Once Again) Interviews Clairin!
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THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL. Er--or maybe it always was! Anyway, Sachin is back for Part 2 of the Anniversary Clairin Interview! This time we're doing the Claire-only and Erin-only questions, so get pumped for lots more talk about CLAIRE'S AMAZING TIME-TRAVEL NOVEL THE REWIND FILES (go buy it right now, it's on Amazon, there won't be a test but there …
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Sachin Sahel Interviews Claire and Erin!
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It's our second podcast anniversary! We're so grateful to all of you coming along on this journey with us over the past two years, we love each and every one of you so much! To celebrate this momentous occasion, we decided it was time for y'all to get to know us a little better, so we opened it up on Twitter for fans to send in questions to ask us.…
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Meta Station Interviews Richard Harmon!
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The endlessly delightful Richard Harmon joins us on Meta Station this week to talk about growing up in a family of artists, the creative freedom of no-fucks-given auditioning, Murphy's flexible morality, the cathartic nature of portraying dark characters, and Murphy's relationships with Bellamy, Clarke, Emori, Abby and others going into season 5. A…
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Season 5 Trailer Analysis with Selina Wilken!
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We are back with the most extra trailer analysis ever! Literally one hour of talking per one minute of trailer, you guys. Almost three seconds of talking per each of the 5,000+ frames WHICH CLAIRE AND SELINA SCRUTINIZED ONE BY ONE. NOT A SINGLE STONE UNTURNED, THEN DISSOLVED INTO ITS COMPONENT MOLECULES FOR IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS. PLUS! Erin is convince…
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HAPPY TRAILER DAY, EVERYONE!! Now that the S5 trailer has dropped (AAATTTT LAAAAAAASSSSSSTTTTT dot mp3), we can share this snippet of trailer chat from our interview with Jason! Featuring the origins of #HugsAndDeath, a special shoutout to Sachin Sahel aka Jackson, and the hug that got left on the cutting room floor!…
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Jason Rothenberg Returns to Meta Station!
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Since Jason had to miss his panel at Unity Days this year due to production conflicts, Erin and Claire decided it would be fun to open up Meta Station for a virtual fan Q&A...and Jason agreed! Over the course of our three-hour conversation (#ThatsSoMetaStation), we answer 15 fan questions about everything from what we can look forward to in season …
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Episode 1x12: "We Are Grounders, Part I" (unedited!)
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Welcome back to Meta Station! It's been two months since we posted 111, for which we profoundly apologize; family, travel, work, book deadlines and general life stuff got in the way, and we meant to record at least one episode while we were together (Claire went to go visit Erin in November) but instead we just drank a lot of wine and cuddled with …
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Welcome back to Meta Station! Elizabeth’s back to join us for “The Calm,” which, true to its name, slows the propulsive plot action way down to give us what amounts to a three-part deep-dive character study of Kane, Raven and Clarke . . . with a side order of Braven sex, Kabby cuddling, and Finn once again working Erin’s last nerve. Also, Bellamy h…
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Clairin Outtakes - Yu Exodus Charter Ste Odon (with special guest Elizabeth!)
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In which we discuss why the Exodus Charter is called the Exodus Charter, even though we can't remember if anyone has actually called it by name yet, and marvel at how jarring it feels for Anya to watch Tris die in silence because Trigedasleng doesn't exist yet.Por META STATION
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Episode 1x10: "I Am Become Death"
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Welcome back for our recap of 110, “I Am Become Death,” AKA the one where everyone coughs up blood and it's SUPER GROSS. WHAT A GODDAMN INTENSE EMOTIONAL THRILL RIDE FROM START TO FINISH, for real. Come flail with us about Raven Reyes, brilliant vulnerable heroic self-sacrificing genius queen and Our Lady of Making Things Go Boom, and rage with us …
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Welcome back to Meta Station! Grab a cup of Jasper’s moonshine and join us for an explosive (HAHAHAHA) recap of “Unity Day”, in which Anya shows up, Kabby is rising, thirteen is an unlucky number, Diana Sydney is the queen bitch of our hearts, Linctavia gets sexy for the first time, Clarke has no chill even about drinking games, we take a lengthy C…
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2018 "The 100" Fandom Fun: Three Awesome Interviews!
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Welcome back to Meta Station, and happy Claire’s 36th birthday to one and all! We’ll be back next week with a new recap, but in the meantime we wanted to give you all a sneak peek at some of the amazing fan-created events happening in 2018! THERE’S SO MUCH HAPPENING FAM! Thanks to all the great people who are already working their butts off to make…
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Welcome back to Meta Station! Grab your gun and crack open the jobi nuts, it’s time for a “Day Trip!” Join us as we take a deep dive into the way the show explores guilt and forgiveness, from the Jake Griffin of it all to the way Hallucination Jaha foreshadows Pike . . . with a side order of stoner chaos at the dropship camp, and a brief jaunt up t…
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Clairin Outtakes - The One With Claire's Crazy Week
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If you follow Claire on Twitter, you watched this insanity all go down last week in real time, but if you didn't . . . well, there's been a LOT going on. (Please don't ask Claire about Rachel and Joey anymore.)Por META STATION
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FYI this outtake is all about the gross things pets do, SO BE FOREWARNED, Erin's dog Hank got into some hilariously gross shenanigans.Por META STATION
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Episode 1x07: "Contents Under Pressure"
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Welcome back to Meta Station! Our hiatus is over and we’re back to yell in your ears about Season One. And hot damn, what an episode to come back to! This is one of our all-time faves of both the season and the series, so we’re full of wildly enthusiastic shouting about everything from Griffin family feels, the ethics of torture, actual human angel…
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Hello lovelies! We're back from hiatus, kind of! We were planning on returning the first week of August to dive back into our S1 recaps, but we just had to make an exception when given the opportunity to nerd out about music with "The 100" composer Tree Adams! Join us for a deep dive that goes from shippy flails (yes of course we asked about the Ka…
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Virgil's "Georgics" is basically porn about cows and Claire & Erin have the text messages to prove it.Por META STATION
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