We come out the gate doing what we do best: absolutely not staying on topic. A simple conversation about water somehow turns into Daniel confessing his undying childhood love for milk (yes… milk had a run).

From there, we dive headfirst into "Conformity Gate" — the viral Stranger Things theory that had hundreds of thousands of fans convinced a surprise episode was dropping January 7th. Turns out the real villain was the Instagram algorithm. Ray and Ryan got cooked by an old post that just decided to hit timelines this week.

With expectations reset, we give our final thoughts on Stranger Things Season 5 — how the last episode landed, whether the series stuck the landing, and how we feel saying goodbye to Hawkins for good.

Ryan then puts us onto a stack of shows worth your watchlist:

• The Ronin Warriors sequel

• Sentenced to Be a Hero (yes, that trailer we've been waiting years for)

• The Darwin Project

• Foundation

• See

• And we officially band together to close out Season 1 of Banshee

From entertainment to real life, we shift into current events — breaking down Trump moving marijuana to Schedule III and the growing conversation around Venezuela, oil, and global occupation.

We wrap it all up the only way we know how: Grinding of the Gears, because somebody's gotta get these takes off.

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