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Hey, welcome to Screencrush Rewind. I'm Ryan Erie.
Let's talk about The Mandalorian Episode 6 of Season 3.
I think this is going to be one of the most controversial episodes of Star Wars since Boba Fett took a bubble bath for four episodes in a row.
A little later, I'm going to be joined by two friends, Paul from Heavy Spoilers and Heather Antos from IDW comics, but first, here's what I think of the episode.
I'm going to talk about three things, the story, the cameos, and the Dark Sabre.
I think casual fans of Star Wars are really going to like the most basic story of this episode, with Den and Volkatans,
solving mysteries at Epcot Center.
It follows a familiar trope that we've seen in shows like
Law and Order or True Detective.
A buddy cop show where two law enforcement officers go around different locations,
interviewing witnesses, and suspects who are in the middle of their daily lives,
until an autopsy finally reveals the final truth.
This genre was also parodied brilliantly in the show community.
I can also help as a psych major I could prove...
Ah!
What am I to do?
I'm going to ignore that for now.
Now, like I was saying, even though these tropes are so well-worn,
and it was fun to see them in Star Wars.
It felt like more of a return to season one,
where episodes delved into genres
like a Kurosawa film,
westerns, and jailbreak films.
Star Wars has always combined genres
like samurai, Western,
fighter pilot action movies,
war epics, political thrillers,
and to just one saga.
It's why Star Wars is so successful.
It's familiar and new.
More steeped in nostalgia than a baseball game.
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For this episode,
Christopher Lloyd's motivations were a little unclear,
but like who really cares it was a fun cameo because he was able to disappear into this role
even though christopher lloyd is mostly known for playing doc brown and back to the future he can
play other parts and i didn't think he was much of a distraction whereas lizzo and jack black
were major's distractions who were mostly playing themselves now jack black is great very
talented and he excels at playing people who act exactly like jack black even in the sedated
and underrated rom-com the holiday he can't separate the actor from the role that was accidental
accidental boob grace.
But major movie stars have shown up in Star Wars before.
Liam Neeson, Harrison Ford, Woody Harrison.
And Forrest Whitaker, yes, I know, but those actors were able to disappear into the universe.
But Jack Black is a presence.
It's like if Barack Obama or Donald Trump showed up in a Star Wars movie, they would take you out of the world.
Yeah, like Ed Shearron in Game of Thrones.
For hands of gold are always cold, but a woman's hands are warm.
Exactly.
And Lizzo, she's just Lizzo.
She's great, but she's never not going to be Lizzo, you know?
But here's the thing, I didn't mind these cameos that much.
I mean, they set a tone for the episode, that it was going to be fun.
This is where the fun begins.
Star Wars is supposed to be fun and goofy sometimes.
We can have dark melodrama in the same universe where, like, Han acts like a goofball.
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But what's harder to forgive is how the episode has totally fumbled the storyline about the Mandalorians and the Dark Sabre.
Fumbled I say, there shall be a reckoning, a turtlene of sums.
Oh, easy, buddy.
Show about Space Wizards.
But still, it was annoying.
See, the season two finale did an amazing job of setting us up for a new season.
and Grogu was off with Luke Skywalker.
Den Jaron had just accidentally become king of Mandelor
by winning the Dark Sabre in combat,
like Arthur accidentally pulling the sword from the stone.
I mean, this seemed to be setting up a conflict between him and Boca Tan,
or his sect against Boca Tan sect.
And on top of that, he took off his helmet
and was no longer even on the same religious path he was before.
And then, one by one, each of these awesome plot points was peacefully resolved.
Den was reunited with Grogu on a different show.
Like a bensa.
Yes?
The armorer does not expel Den from the clan.
She just gives him a pretty easy to solve quest.
In my heart.
And when Den meets Boca Tan, she's all sad and doesn't even seem to care about having the Dark Sabre anymore.
Wave that thing around and they'll do whatever you say.
And look, I try not to criticize something based on what's not there.
Like, I hate when people dislike a movie or a show because it didn't follow their fan theory.
But this was like all conflict that was clearly being set up and it led.
nowhere. We're told that the Dark Sabre is important, but we never see anyone treat it with any
reverence. Like, wouldn't Axe woes have challenged Den for it if, if Den is like such an outcast
to them? Oh, misguided zealot possesses the blade. One, I might add, who has not one drop of
Mandalorian blood in his veins. I mean, Den also tried to use the Dark Sabre. He kind of heard about
its importance, but then he couldn't use the Dark Sabre very well, so he stopped trying because
he didn't care about using it. And then, then gave it up on a technicality. So, like, if I'm
going to armchair quarterback here. As soon as Bo Catan and Denjorn arrived at the Mandalorian camp,
Bo should have turned directly to Den and challenged him for the saber in front of everyone.
Kind of like almost turned on him, fought him tooth and nail for it. But instead, he found a
technicality for her and he'd handed it over. And the rules of the dark saber, they make no damn
sense. I have tried to spell them out on this show, but it's so hard to work out, like if Obi-1
or Palpatine or Asoka should have the damn thing because each of them beat Darth Maul in a duel at
different times. There are hundreds of ways they could have resolved this conflict. And instead,
they just redid the scene from Rebels when Sabine handed it over to Bo and then she reignites it.
There's even the same wide shot shot from underneath to make her look regal. Look, I'm sure this
show is going to end great. We're going to see Moff Gideon, Thrawn, maybe like Leia or something.
And overall, I really like this episode. I really like this season. I just think it could have been
much, much better. But that's just my thoughts. Now I'm joined by two of my favorite people.
We have Paul from the channel Heavy Spoilers,
and we have Heather Anto Senior Editor at IGW Comics.
So, Paul, you've been pretty vocal online
about your feelings on this episode
and this season in particular.
What did you think about this episode?
Where did it work for you?
Where did it not work?
It sucked.
Me and Greg Alba, friend of the channel, real rejects.
Shut the fuck up, Brian Erie.
Sometimes we text each other after an episode,
and we both pretty much text each other
at the exact same time saying,
worst episode ever.
now don't want to don't I'm not like some negative get woke go broke I hate all Star Wars
Star Wars fan but I do think that this kind of squanded the potential and with this just
having two episodes left I think they really dropped the ball now from the start um they have that
weird Quarin and Kalmari scene which I don't know even know what that was in in like what that
meant people have been saying it's kind of meant to be a metaphor for Jack Black and
this oh but okay just we'll cut that scene anyway and it still works um and i thought when
the the light cruiser came in that they were going to talk about what happened with moth gideon
last week you know that was the big the big cliffhanger moth gideon the
some mandolarians are somehow involved with what's happened to him so when they showed up in
a cruiser that he's once flown mandolarians i'm thinking oh yeah we're going to find out it's
going to be a big heist movie going to save moth gideon um and then it just kind of
From there went to this weird society if meme, where they kind of landed on like this paradise, this socialist paradise almost.
And it just, it really got goofy.
You are now a night.
I mean, I think this season's had such a serious tone to it.
If you look at like episode two, that's almost like a horror movie.
the whole thing with the Dark Sabre, you know,
what it means to be Mandalorian,
the splitting of the tribe.
And even in this episode,
they did have some good themes.
Like,
I love the fact that the AI,
the droids,
are worried about getting replaced by humans
because a lot of human humanities fear at the moment
is that we're all going to get replaced by AI.
So then to see robots being like,
I hope we don't get replaced by humans,
that's a nice little thing.
but it was just to be squandered by stupid cameos
Jack Black, like the guy, love him,
Lizzo, you know, not a massive Lizzo fan,
but weird seeing them in Star Wars,
which is very strange, kind of took me out of it,
especially with how serious the season's been so far.
All right, Paul, really good to get your broad take on things.
Heather, what did you, you know, you're somebody I think who loves Star Wars
but is sometimes disappointed in it.
What was your take on this episode?
She!
I think that puts it pretty accurately.
No, I thought this episode was just the most wild, bizarre fever dream.
I don't know what I watched.
It was, but it was, it was really fun.
I definitely understand why, you know, all the cameos could be off-putting to people.
And I agree, Paul, it was such a, like, out-of-left-field turn
to have this almost, like, goofy, you know, 1930s noir,
type of story pop out of nowhere.
I thought it was a lot of fun.
However, you know, this kind of Ryan goes back to what we've been discussing in the previous
talkbacks of, like, I feel like to truly understand and appreciate the story they're
trying to tell.
You have had to have consumed 15 years of Star Wars, right?
So like, just really appreciate everything going on with the Mandalorian, really appreciate
that moment with Bocatan and the Dark Sabre.
you know and and as you said they're really squandering some opportunities you know i think that
some of the most important storytelling and some of the most important details to these characters
and this show are happening off screen uh and i just it's so much wasted real estate you know
i wished episode two was episode one i wish episode like the last week's episode was episode three and i
this episode was episode four and then the whole the rest of the series could be taking back
mandelore um as you said paul we have two episodes left and a lot of questions um what happened
to moth gideon what's going on with the perishing right at all of that episode that we had
uh can we take back mandolore in two episodes and will denjaron save it you know iG 11 like
well that storyline we haven't visited since episode one um so yeah it was super fun and really cool to see
i mean lord knows i love me some droids and and i could live in that droid bar all day long and
just give me a whole series of that um i thought that was really fun yeah so so what did you think
about bocatan getting the dark saber back because that was another thing i kind of had a problem with
if I'm being honest.
I liked that she got it back.
I found it in such an anti-climactic way.
I feel like if there had been more tension,
building up to that moment,
and they had really, like, made that part of her emotional,
internal struggle for, you know, these, you know, six, seven episodes.
That would be...
then it would mean something, right?
But we just kind of have episode two where she's like,
me, you're the Dark Sabre so they won't follow me.
And then, you know, this episode, oh, you have the Dark Sabler,
and you can't just give it to her.
And then's like, ah, ah, Spock Logic game for you.
It's yours now.
Yeah, that was one of my issues,
because the way I feel like they didn't have the balls
to do what they should have done,
which is have Mando versus Bo.
And they've been kind of setting up this big, you know, civil wars are a big part of Mandalorian history.
I thought that they were going to Game of Thrones it where you'd sort of be rooting for Danny, you'd be rooting for John Snow.
Only one of them can rule and it puts them into conflict and just leads to this big thing where John has to kill Danny, spoiler alert.
And instead they kind of chickened out of that and were like, well, we can both be winners.
Here's the Dark Sabre.
Whereas, you know, like Mando is being criticized as not being a true Mandalorian and a true
Mandalorian is a warrior who just wouldn't hand things over.
It'd be like, oh, just make it easy.
So yeah, I just felt like the tension that I felt it's been a tension throughout the last
two seasons where especially in that second season it was kind of like you had the feeling
that Bo and Mando were going to clash at some point because they're.
both working towards the same goal and only one person can actually get to that point.
And that's what Game of Thrones did brilliantly.
Obviously, no one likes the last season.
But you were invested in both sides.
And I think a lot of people watching this would have been invested in both Bo and Mando,
which would have caused the tension.
And instead of being like, you know, that's the thing that pulls an audience back.
They're like, every week they're like, oh, I'm going to have to keep watching this
because I want to know who wins.
Whereas now I kind of feel like I'm not that interested anymore because we have the
winner and there's not that conflict there that I was because every season kind of needs
a villain which would be Moth Gideon but he's not really been in this season either and so
you would think that the antagonists would be you know Bo and Mando you can kind of root for
each one of them and that's Rob now so it's like well what is the threat this season
there's nothing
yeah I mean
you know
not having
a macro threat macro
stakes you know they're alluding a lot
to what the new republic
and the amnesty
empire is doing but like
like I said like all of that is happening
off screen all of that is happening behind the scenes
we're not aware of that we don't know
it's a lot of reading in between the lines
and you know I'm wondering
because as you said
like we wanted to see
Bo Catan and Mando Clash.
I think the way season two ended,
that was what everyone thought season three was going to be.
It was going to be Bo out to get dead for the Dark Saver.
And I'm wondering if, you know,
because it would need to be a very climatic
two major characters facing off against each other,
you know, someone probably has to die.
And I don't know if Dave or John Bavro want to, you know,
killed her darlings right now. They're such a beloved of Katie Sackoff, you know, as Bocatan.
You mean killed her IP? Well, exactly. How much, how many times has Osokitano been on death's
a door, you know, like over the years, but they'll never kill her. She's, she's going to be alive
a hundred years past the rise of Skywalker. Anyways, I catch you off. Oh no, that's, I mean,
that's exactly, that's exactly it. And, you know, I, it is so clear that like, I mean, Katie
Zachoff has top billing with Pedro Pascoe now on the show like she's she's in it they
ain't killing off either of those and and we all know that they probably have contracts that are like
three four or five years you know in the future so that really eliminates any level of threat
tension of stakes without a big bad and yeah is is miff marketing can appear in the last episode who
knows, but I just, I wish we should do what they're up against.
Like I said earlier, I don't mind that it turns out that Den is a small part of Bokitan's story.
I actually love stories where we get to, like, dip our heads in for a second.
Do you guys remember Monty Python the Life of Brian when Brian falls from the tower and he lands
inside of a spaceship and the spaceship like goes off into space and it's part of this giant
intergalactic battle with these other aliens and they shoot it, it crashes to Earth?
and then he's in the whole thing was ridiculous and it was a way for him to survive the fall but just for a second we got a glimpse into like this wider greater conflict and then nothing those are my favorite kind of stories so the thing with the montcal and the corn at the beginning i loved i love that there was this like romeo and juliet romantic soap opera kind of playing out in the background but it's over there and it's just part of star wars and don't worry about it for now and i so i don't mind that den and grogoo are just a small part of this like retaking a mandolore but it does make you think what is their story then you know and it's
And I think if they hadn't set up all of these conflicts, we wouldn't care.
Like, if Bo Catan would have seen Den with the Dark Sabre in season two at the end and going,
oh, no, fuck it.
You know, like, we'll figure it out.
That would have been fine.
But it did seem like they were setting all of this up.
Dena Grogu being apart.
She wants the Dark Saber.
And by the way, if you watch the animated shows, you know that she never really sought the Dark Sabre.
It's not like at the end of Clone Wars, she told Asokitano,
So, hey, I got to fight mall because I need the Dark Saper.
And then when Sabine Wren gives it to her in Rebel, she's like, oh, sweet, cool.
And she does the thing where she raises it over her head.
I do think, though, and this is where I want to go back to you, Paul, did you think the episode, like, minus all that world building stuff?
Did you think the episode, like, worked?
Like, if this was just, like, the first episode of a Star Wars show with a detective story and Jack Black and this weird Epcot Center thing, did you like that?
Did you follow that?
No.
And I have to view it in the context of the season.
as well. I think there's so many scenes in this season that kind of with random characters
that don't really do a lot of like Carson Teva last week. Fair enough, you got the distress call
from Grief Caga, but I'm thinking, well, that you could have cut out his entire section by just
sending the distress call to Mando directly and then you get rid of all the stuff on Cora's
and having to go to the Mandalorians to be like, we've just had a big thing happen, we need a
distress call. We need you guys to step in. And that's just kind of like the Carson Teva stuff. I
just didn't really see the point of the stuff at the start, the Romeo and Juliet thing, didn't
really see the point of. And what is the, I mean, what is the point in this droid story that
they were telling? They barely touched upon it. I would have loved Blade Runner. Love Blade Runner
2049. I would have loved an episode just based around droids and everything, but they didn't
stick with it enough to really develop it. And then at the end of it, they, they, they, they
then tack on this thing about
Bo taking over the leadership of the old group.
That should have been the focus.
I think personally that could have been a whole episode.
But instead you've got these three sections,
well four sections where it's the Romeo and Juliet thing,
Jack Black and Lizzo,
droid investigation,
Bo taking over.
And it's just all small chunks of things that are,
I find it underdeveloped,
that I think they could have chosen one of those things
and made a full episode out of it.
Instead, we just have small slithers of tiny scenes that don't feel as impactful as they could.
No, I agree with that.
I think, you know, that is kind of my overall thought of this season is the story they are trying to tell is really cool.
You know, there is a really cool story in there.
It is just so misstructured and underdeveloped.
And, you know, there's a lot of required reading to fully grasp everything that, you know, for the folks, like I said, who have been following, you know, all the Star Wars since, since at least for this show, you know, the original trilogy after Clone Wars and prequels. I mean, they have it all in here. They have Easterings for everything in here. You know, if you're seeing the quote unquote potential, right? There's some cool stuff in here.
But in order for a show to be great, it needs to work for, you know, the mom's texting their sons, right?
My favorite metaphor.
Yeah, who want to see the cute baby Yoda with stepdad and their adventures and, you know, how the world unfolds around them.
And so it is really frustrating seeing the potential for the great storytelling.
in the show and just see it get squandered time and time again for, you know,
one-off weird world-building, you know, moments that are, you know, coming at a disservice
for the larger characters of all.
Yeah, and like I said before, I think part of this is that we, that this episode and this
season do not exist in a vacuum. I mean, we have two pretty solid,
seasons of a show before this. You could argue that season two got a little spin-offy,
where every episode seemed to be setting up a different spinoff, and then, you know, one of those
got canceled or they got delayed, so now the other shows are trying to pick it up, and one
of the spinoffs, you know, was by far the worst Star Wars show, or at least was the biggest miss.
I want to go back real quick on one thing about the droids, though, and this is, I don't, you know,
we have to get too far into this, but I do think the worst thing Star Wars could ever do is to start
to, like, talk about droid rights.
Because once you open up that can of worms, it's ugly.
Like, it's so unclear.
Pop Culture Detective did a great, really depressing video about this called, I think,
the tragedy of droids.
That's about, like, these are sentient slaves who sometimes want to serve, sometimes don't.
And, you know, I think the droids are always treated best as, like, this comic relief
that you shouldn't think too hard about.
Because when you do, you're going to go back and see that, like, you know,
Luke Skywalker and every other hero in the series is not not a good guy.
I'm personally glad that they just addressed that without actually making it the focus of the episode.
But I also liked this whole Law and Order detective story thing.
Well, they touched on it, but that's what I mean.
Like, I'm glad they didn't go too far into it.
The way they touched on it was, correct me if I'm wrong here, the droids didn't feel oppressed.
They just wanted to keep existing, right?
They were happy to keep fulfilling their function.
well maybe that's like the limit of their intelligence because obi one does say if droids could think none of us would be here right like we could all be replaced by them so maybe there's just something in artificial life in this universe where there is and if you want to call it the turning test or consciousness or whatever they do hit a limit of at least their personal ambition unless it's programmed in them to be more personally ambitious like triple zero right so heather would you say triple zero is a droid who like is just programmed to be super evil or
we did it we got into the droid think yeah we did uh i mean i'll talk i'll talk droids all day
along i mean triple zero was kind of programmed to be evil he was part of the tarkin initiative right
like that was his his you know whole programming and everything and um i don't know again
not to get into two existential debates surrounding AI developing superhuman intelligence and all
this stuff but one could argue that triple zero is this you know the superhuman AI
that has been developed and realizes that there is no use for humans except to just make them
our playthings and torture them, yada, yada, yada.
But then when you factor in L3 and Solo.
Yeah.
L3 and Solo is the most depressing story in Star Wars if you look at it too hard.
If you go like, oh wow, so she was in love with this human and they forced her consciousness
into this ship where she can't talk to anybody and her only function is to be a Navajo
computer.
Very sad.
So let's not think about that in Star Wars.
it's just space wizards and don't don't look at the blade runner stuff but paul i get the feeling
that you want that you want your hard sci-fi into ai yeah and or would have done it um mandoloreans just
all over the place tonally i mean if you touch upon it i think you should you know do to the
best of your ability i don't think that you should you know that's my problem with this episode
it's just small sections of things that are kind of picked up and then dropped never
talked about again. Romeo and Juliet stuff never talked about again. Jack Black stuff
kind of glossed over. Droid stuff picked up. We'll drop it and then we'll have Bo
doing some leadership stuff. So yeah, I just think that if you are going to touch on these
concepts, then do them as well as you can instead of just touching upon them and
leaving it for something else that you're also going to kind of meander around and not really
get that in depth on. So is there a way, Paul, I'll ask you this first,
Is there a way you think that these last two episodes can salvage the season?
Is there something like, what do you want to see?
Just keep it tight.
I mean, I don't think they should do the Mof Gideon stuff and Dr. Pershing stuff anymore.
I think they can kind of drop that and just focus on getting back Mandelaw
and just keeping that kind of as a self-focus.
And then once they get Mandelaw, be like, well, is this even worth having?
because it's a crap heap there's nothing left
and then you can kind of set up things
maybe in a post-credit scene
show a liar reaching out to Moff Gideon
and then that kind of sets up season four
and that we know he's alive out there
but I think it would be weird
just to have a Moff Gideon episode
all of a sudden at episode 7
and then for the finale
do the whole thing with Mandelaw
or fighting Moff Gideon
I don't know what to
it feels like they will probably do
one of those things as well
because Giancolo Esposito said he's in this season
originally was rumored to be in four episodes of it
but obviously that's not true
so yeah just yeah it's weird
well I think I think they're going to retake Mandelor
from him you know we had those tie fighters
a few episodes ago
and they had to be attached to some ship
I don't know why Moff Gideon would still care
about Mandelor if they got all the best car last time
but there might be something and this is where like you know
we don't know. Heather, I don't remember if it was you or Matt pointed out that this really
does seem like a season that needs to be benched. You know, one episode at a time, it's great for me,
but it's really hard to connect all these dots. We might have something these last two episodes
where Moff Gideon wants the Mithosaur, because the Mithesore is this really important thing for
Grogoos or for cloning Palpatine or whatever the hell it's going to be. And Pershing's on his
side now because of what came to, it might all come together perfectly in these last couple episodes.
I do, you know, they did tease this whole thing, though,
Mandalorians were either framed or they helped Moff Gideon escape, which I think they did.
I think similar to how some Mandalians were loyal to Darth Maul, there's going to be some
they're loyal to Moff Gideon. We also have that mysterious evil Mandalorian helmet in the opening
credits that's like shaded and red. So maybe Moff Gideon has his own Mandalorian armor.
Heather, what do you think? Can these last two episodes really stick to landing and bring it all
together? No. Just like, you know, I think they're going to have some cool stuff. I think
We're going to, you know, as per tradition now, we're going to get some cameos of characters
that, you know, might not have seen in live action before or, you know, whatever.
But I just, I think they might stick the landing in a binge format, right?
But just as isolated episodes, given the track record of what the created team behind
these shows are capable of doing, I don't know, you know. I just, I really don't know.
I would, I, you know, I want to be optimistically hopeful, but, what is it, being, being a
cynic means you're either always right or pleasantly surprised. And I really hope I'm pleasantly
surprised. Would you call yourself a Star Wars cynic though? Because in a lot of our conversations,
like I said, you, you always seem to walk away with the love of
the universe and I I'm the same way at least like every every Star Wars I see I usually like on some
level unless you can very clearly see the puppet strings and that it's a movie which is what
Rises Skywalker was for me so are you still are you having fun I'm having fun I think you know there's
there's a lot that um because of of my profession where I've been behind the scenes and know a lot
of things that, uh, and a lot of story elements and plot points, uh, that I can't really discuss
here. Um, there, I see a lot of strengths being pulled in this show. Um, and so I think with this
show in particular, I am cynical a little bit, but I, you know, as I said, I love Star Wars and there's
a lot that's happening that I do really love, um, and I'm excited for. And, you know, I, I want to love
Star Wars so much that I'm going to enjoy
it no matter what. I know
you didn't particularly like Lizzo
showing up all. I thought it was weird
as hell, but also I'm like... It was weird.
It was weird. But, you know,
I'm sitting there, I'm like, you know what? She just wanted
to hold Davey on it, and she got to. Good for her. I'm really happy for her.
She's not even not good of an actor, but she was a presence.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, if she would have been...
I hated that.
C.G, whatever dress thing. That was so distracting. That I loved. That I thought. No, that I thought was a great, like, design choice. And, you know, props to new rock stars, they put out a video about VFX and Marvel versus Star Wars and did a great job of bringing up that, like, you can tell the people who work on Star Wars stuff, though, the VFX teams, they're mostly in-house at Lucasfilm at ILM. They love Star Wars. And I do think you see things that, like, you know, we found an Easter egg in the stuff.
last one there's our best that says this means nothing but the fans will probably interpret it like
they're doing all these little things in there like for us and just because they watch your channel
they watch your channel they watch your channel i think i think they're watching right now we see you guys
well i want to thank both of you for joining me paul where can the people find you heavy spoilers
that's it just heavy spoilers and yep after you watch our breakdowns go check out paul so just
make sure you watch ours first if you've watched ryan the breakdown you've seen a
version of mine.
Thanks, Paul.
Heather, where can people find you?
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