Lost Light - Season 5: Stranger Things

"All of our separate groups are all separate but they have threads in this tapestry." -- Everybody in the Stranger Things verse knows something but not everybody knows everything. Our party continues to put the pieces together.

The old fake body in quarry fooled us all again. Jim had his microphone setup all wrong so his audio track is really really bad at at times but Caleb's is always rock solid.

Talk about your creepy neighborhood building situation. Got sewage pipes just big enough to crawl in and guards at the front door who are not terribly effective.

You can't ask for a better big brother than Jonathan. You can't ask for a better friend than Barb. You maybe could ask for a better Chief of Police than Hopper.

Kicking off Season 5 strong. We bring back the wrestling segment. We talk about TV shows. We take time for coffee and contemplation before we investigate Will Byers disappearance.

I dug into the archives and get out our Season 3 templates for this one. We chat about the banger of a year that Kendrick has had thanks to our previous podcasts and we announce Season 5 of Lost Light.

Warning: Major Spoilers! ...but if you are like most people (please refer to box office numbers) you aren't actually that interested in this movie and you'll probably stream it in the background while you are eating dinner so having listened to this podcast now it'll make that experience much more pleasant.

Caleb drops a huge bomb about what video games he is playing. This episode is brought to by Harbor Freight.

Who was this movie made for? What was their target audience? I need to know who greenlit this 2 hour rotoscope extravaganza.

Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow; inject that Old Tom Bombadil straight into my veins Amazon. Pharazon's son needs to go play in traffic and save us all the agony.

Season 1 walked so season 2 could run. Sauran is stoking Calebrimbor's ego like the forge at Eregion. Spoilers: The horse thankfully doesn't die.

If Thorin Oakenshield fronted a Nu Metal band the crowd would go wild when the start to play Down with the Dragon-Sickness.

Also, Kevin Costner's first chapter of Horizon is on Max so go stream that too.

You want to hear us talk about barrels because man alive do we talk about barrels. Also, why does Kili have such big main character energy here? Take a break my guy.

Also, a bunch of audio books and TV and everything that normal people talk about in normal situations.

Worth a listen just for Jim to confuse Wood Elves and Goblins like a friggen idiot.

“How about Gandalf not once looking approachable or warm. He looked scary and crazy the whole movie.”
Also we set an extremely aggressive goal to finish the Hobbit Trilogy before Rings of Power Season 2.

If you are going to be comfortable in social situations you need to master small talk and what better topic than one of the few things that we all have in common, the weather.

We'll get to the recap, but first we discuss visiting Phamlando and going in blind to watch Dune 2.

We discuss the second 2 episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 in this episode. Also Transformers, Dune Part Two, and preparing for Mania Week.

Join us for the Lost Light of Valinor.

We are doing it. Another season of Lost Light starts now. Caleb & Jim are joined by their special guest Caleb's squeaky chair.

We discuss the first 2 episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 in this episode.

The grand finale of our Kendrick Lamar discography season. You'll have to listen to the whole podcast to hear our big reveal of season 4. If you skip to the end you are a cheater.

If you only ever listened to DNA. and LOYALTY. off this album we wouldn't blame you.

One host like this album and one host didn't. You'll have to tune in to see which direction we went.

Let's make a pact between you and me that we pretend this episode was published in the middle of September.

Family. Famille. Famiglia. Familia.

We try to recap everything that happened in this movie but the most important thing is that Dom Toretto and his rag tag bunch of misfits brought us joy.

Marianna Conway on AllMusic says “Kendrick aint the king of rap, he aint the god of rap, he is rap itself born as a human being raised as a human being grew up to be the legend. if rap was religious, i would call u saint duckworth.”

Caleb and Jim talk about Kendrick Lamar’s “magnum opus” (Caleb’s words) and whatever else comes to mind.

Thomas Schroter on AllMusic says "Kendrick Lamar finally put together his sound and his style for this mixtape. Each song tells a different part of the theme of the album, and he has everything from deep tracks to radio hits. An excellent album that I go back to all the time."

Caleb and Jim talk about Kendrick Lamar’s first great thematic work and whatever else comes to mind.

Come along as we listen to Kendrick start to sound like Kendrick, mostly. He's dropped the K.Dot moniker but he's still trying to find his sound and you can hear it. We thought 2 mix tapes wasn't going to be a big deal but there is a lot going on here and we were just able to scratch the surface.

Join us for episode 2 of our Kendrick Lamar discography journey. No Sleep 'Til NYC features a wide cast of characters so it almost feels odd calling it a K.Dot mixtape and whatever kind of East/West theme they were going for got lost. C4 hit Caleb hard when it came out but he's able to see past the rose colored history to realize there are a lot of rough parts but some diamonds in there too.

A young teenage Kendrick Lamar's first 2 mix tapes.
"Jay-Z and Lil Wayne were so hot in like 2003-2004. This is probably every young rapper of that time just sounding like them; doing their impersonation of them."

This is it. Season 2 is over. We've reached the end of the road. With the last 2 short films we've watched everything that this franchise has thrown our way. We also have our big Season 3 announcement here so if that's all your are interested in there is a chapter marker for you.