Episodes
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Episode 94 - S05E03 - A Life Spent
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Monday Aug 24, 2020
S5:E03 - Jess and Jared recap and discuss “A Life Spent."
To begin, Grill is a sci-fi kind of name, as is Virgil, but in a different way. Also, Grill saying he owns Mack is *GROSS*, and feels especially messed up. Daisy sort of breezes past her world-destroying prophecy, and Deke wants to address it, and discuss multiverse theory. In hindsight, Deke has evolved a lot, and we can see bits of his grandpa showing through with his techy-ness. A lot of Deke, and well, everyone's stories, are about dealing with Trauma. Jemma is being used to help a girl named Abby, but learns she's only doing so to help Kasius, who uses the Inhumans as gladiators. Daisy catches up with Yo-Yo to figure out the plan to save Simmons, and steal the scroll from Grill, who catches on that they're up to something. We see that Tess was looking out for Flint, a character from Inhumans comics that we'll meet properly a little later in the season. Jemma gets to know the Inhuman girl, Abby, and helps her while learning more about the way things work for them there, and that the girl has intangibility powers.
"The trawler is a giant fish eating rocks in space." And it is! Coulson and May spend some time alone, and hash it out, because Coulson's eternal optimism is faltering and she's dealing with an injury. Grill hears an alarm, but nothing seems to be wrong, and ends up turning off Yo-Yo's "malfunctioning" metric, so she can pull off her scroll-heist. They get ahold of what Tess calls "the lost knob," a radio dial that Virgil needed, but they're caught by Grill who metric's them to the wall with magnets, and they're saved by Mack, who wasn't around until then. Meanwhile Jemma coaches Abby through her powers with science and education, and then she's ready for, wait no...gladiatorial combat. Deke tries to stop Daisy from going after Jemma, but she won't listen. Mack won't listen to Tess when she suggests killing Zev to cover their asses, because he lives by a code. Lady Basha comes to have her big dude kick Abby's ass in the arena and Jemma tries to help her through it, and it works so well she kills Basha's champion. When Zev wakes up Tess is freaking out, but Mack stays strong.
Basha buys Abby from Kasius and Jemma is freaking out, and a box of lemons thwart Daisy from getting to Jemma during an awesome Mission: Impossible-like heist scene, and Chloe was rad! She quakes, ending the fight. Grill interrogates the team and is about to come down hard on them but Yo-Yo planted a gun on Zev and Grill sacrifices his righthand man after Coulson and Tess back Yo-Yo up, and Mack is horrified with the team's actions, and especially Yo-Yo's choice to let someone else die for their lives. Mack continues to be growing into the only person for the job of Director. And Yo-Yo has lived her whole life in the face of those questions, and isn't willing to give up her life, or her friends. It seems like Deke has given Daisy up to Kasius for his own benefit, but we know that's not right! And the episode ends with Coulson's season ending cliffhanger, followed by the Roaches ripping apart Zev after he was sent to the surface of the Earth, where they send those sentenced to death.
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Saturday Aug 01, 2020
Episode 93 - S05E01-02 - Orientation
Saturday Aug 01, 2020
Saturday Aug 01, 2020
S5:E01-02 - Jess and Jared recap and discuss “Orientation."
The fifth season is nuts and confusing, but it's a fun one! We take on the two-part premiere, and start the issue with a little bit of current events diversion from a month and a half ago.
So, after we meet a new weird character we'll get to know better later to the music of the Talking Heads, we learn where the team went in the finale--the future! So everyone but Fitz is in over their head, and we're along for the ride! Our new mysterious friend has a nice pool day at home before picking up everyone but Fitz in a weird van with a Matrix-y shifting logo. Coulson sees that they're in space meets a man named Virgil as they run from space monsters called "Roaches," and learns they're a part of some prophecy. Coulson reunites with Mack, Yo-Yo and Simmons, who isn't impressed with space. Been there, done that. We take note of the gory violence, and the poor lighting Jaclyn mentioned before. Daisy saves the team, and we're introduced to Deke, as is May, who's probably at his most obnoxious, and most Star Lord-y. Deke implants May with a "metric," and we don't know it yet, but he's actually helping. Meanwhile, Virgil thinks they're all part of some predestined prophecy, Mack thinks it's magic, and Jemma mocks him endlessly as a result. We side with Mack, citing Ghost Rider. And Mack continues his movie-based fears, with aliens joining robots. Mack and Yo-Yo are separated from the rest of the team, and tortured by the Kree, but have some great moments together amongst it all. We get some Yo-Yo arm foreshadowing, and Deke has one of those "what drugs are you on, and where can I can get some?" lines. In Roach and Kre fueled confusion and the group's separation, Virgil died. Coulson and Deke start to figure out the time travel of it all, right as Jemma and May see a school bus in space and the remnants of Earth, and Daisy, Mack and Yo-Yo begin to crack the case as well when they find a postcard from Fitz that reads "working on it," in the walls of the station.
In part two Jemma and May are on a trawler being hit by asteroids and survive by turning it off and on again. They ask Deke for help, and all he can do is give them metrics, like he did May. They meet Tess, tell her Virgil died, and they find out the Kree they killed are in charge, and they shouldn't have done that. They find out that Earth blew up and these are the survivors, and see the remnants of humanity, and find out they're in a space station called the Lighthouse. Deke tells Tess that these are the S.H.I.E.L.D. from Virgil's prophecy, and though skeptical, she shows them to Virgil's stuff. Tess crosses paths with Grill and we start to see how the future works for them. Deke's got a Framework arcade, and he really likes Daisy, but it's not *too* bad, yet. Simmons is taken by the Kree after she shows that she's got medical knowledge. When Deke and Daisy come back May explain what happened to Simmons, and Tess tells Deke that she thinks Virgil might have been right, because our team seems weird to them. Jemma is at a well lit Kree bathhouse and no one will respond to her. The head Kree dude, Kasius shows up, and he's a douche. We see their system is insane and Tess kills a scavenger a la Battle Royale to save herself, and the rest of the S.H.I.E.L.D. team. They make a deal to steal a Kree tablet for their metrics, and they end up getting into Grill's servitude because Yo-Yo proved to be so useful. Kasius has the Kree enforcer, Sinara, kill a dude Jemma fixed up for being imperfect, and he's just the worst. Daisy follows Deke into his Framework to lecture him for using it keep people placated and oblivious, and he shows her video salvaged from the past, Daisy was the one who broke the world. WHAT?!?! Also, Kasius has made Jemma a slave, because he's the gross. Coulson, May, Yo-You and Mack are slaves to Grill, and this is *rough*. And where's Fitz?!
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Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Episode 92 - S04E22 - World's End
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
S4:E22 - Jess and Jared recap and discuss “World's End."
As Jess puts it so well in the recap to the finale of this final third of season four, the show sort of loses its connection to reality from now on, and it changes fundamentally.
Yo-yo is in the Framework and trying to save Mack before the Framework goes down for good, and Radcliffe's ghost in the machine is there to help. Robbie shows up to stop Ivanov's stupid robot face in his tracks, and uses his hellfire and badassedness to put Aida in her place, and really gets under her skin. He seems to be able to hurt her, but appears impervious to her. And this wraps up the season perfectly, connecting AIDA and Robbie's arcs with the Darkhold and the Ghost Rider curse in a full circle. Talbot has some hard news for Coulson, there is no S.H.I.E.L.D., and he needs him immediately to argue on its behalf. Robbie and Daisy quasi-flirt, and we were ROBBED. Mack doesn't recognize Yo-yo, and Radcliffe tries to help bridge that gap, but the dissolving Framework and Radcliffe's vibe are making the Framework Hope figure out what's going on. Jared is slightly confused by Ivanov and his Russian analyst LMD buddy's strategy, but we're happy to move on and not delve into Ivanov any more than we have to. At the meeting with Talbot Ivanov drops the Darkhold on the U.N. task force and Talbot calls "a load of L. Ron Horsecrap!" before being shot in the face by a Daisy LMD, framing S.H.I.E.L.D. and making Inhumans look bad. AIDA is a weirdo, reveling in torturing Daisy as Robbie destroys the hell out of the Daisy LMD. Daisy and Robbie tag team fight a buttload of LMDs and Coulson is super bummed to have missed the superhero team up of his (and our) OTP.
We digress slightly because we lost Robbie's Ghost Rider spin-off, and that SUCKS. Coulson has a sweet, but difficult moment with Fitz and Simmons trying to get them to push through their issues and get them back to working in tandem. Yo-yo understands Mack's difficulty letting go, but can't let him die for Hope's framework self. Coulson mentions Robot May being more supportive, tipping May off to Coulson and Robo-May's connection. Daisy hacks the crap out the Framework to save Mack and Yo-yo, and makes some goo-goo eyes with Robbie. Yo-yo debates leaving with Radcliffe, and Hope's fears are confirmed, she knows she's not real (violating the first rule of Early Childhood Education). Fitz tries to reason with AIDA, and Jemma won't have coddle her, and AIDA doesn't respond super well. Coulson can't quite explain almost getting with Robo-May, but May agrees that they both deserve a do-over with each other. We have a JemmAndroid death fakeout, and AIDA is stopped by Coulson possessed by the Rider. Ghost Rider Coulson burns the crap out of AIDA, and puts an end to the Darkhold's creation once and for all.
Mack looks for Hope in the Framework and tells her that she's the most real thing in the world, and Yo-yo won't leave him. Framework Hope begins to disappear, and we watch her die, erased from the program in Mack's arms, and we are destroyed. They go through Daisy's back door, and Mack remembers both Yo-yo, and his Framework life with Hope, and hopes to have that life with Yo-yo now. We go on for a bit about Mack's amazingness, and how is the perfect S.H.I.E.L.D. Director, and Jared's perfect choice for Captain America one day. Ghost Rider has an amazing exit as he opens a gateway to another dimension with his hellfire and chains, and we're so sad to him go. Daisy forgives Fitz on the team's behalf and Coulson decides they need a break and a meal, so they go out for dinner. We hear our favorite sentient Chronicom and trusted friend Enoch for a moment before everyone but Fitz disappears, and then Coulson's in space, and that's it!
Also, congratulations to S.H.I.E.L.D. alumnus J. August Richards for coming out to his audience and the public as the proud Gay man he's been privately his entire life. We love our Deathlok!
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Friday Jul 03, 2020
Episode 91 - S04E21 - The Return
Friday Jul 03, 2020
Friday Jul 03, 2020
S4:E21 - Jess and Jared recap and discuss “The Return."
We get into the penultimate episode of this...third of the season, but also, since it's the *final* third, the penultimate episode of the season in general! A long-absent non-Framework'd May and Coulson must reunite while fighting off an army of Ivanov-bots (Anton Ivanov? A.I.? *Really*, S.H.I.E.L.D. writers?) The Zephyr's literally on fire but Daisy, Jemma, Yo-yo and Davis fight the impending disasters and manage to pull through. Fitz is disoriented as the newly (In?)human AIDA teleports them to some picturesque beach. AIDA continues to mess with Fitz's brain by compounding his guilt, reinforcing that he made all his own choices in the Framework. Yo-yo yells at Daisy for leaving Mack behind, but understands why she had to let him make the choice, though against Daisy's request, really wants to jump into the collapsing Framework to try once more to pull Mack back out. While fending off the Robo-Russians Coulson finds deflecting May's questions to avoid addressing his feelings for her, and how he told them to Robo-May, more difficult than fighting off the scores of attacking androids. May kicks the crap out of a ton of A.I.vanovs in a hallway/doorway shot while Coulson holds his own, and it's freaking rad. Ivanov floods their facility at this point, though as Jess points out, what was he waiting for? Though, we maybe cracked the character's essence: he's really bad at planning/illogical/maybe just stupid. Fitz tries to reason with, and teach AIDA, who's almost infant-like emotional state combined with her Inhuman abilities leaves her exceptionally dangerous, though he manages to appeal to her growing empathy and she saves Mack with her teleportation. Jemma has no patience for either AIDA or Fitz and has them immediately taken into custody. May is told about Robo-May's sacrifice as they return to the base, and place AIDA & Fitz into the containment capsule as they pass an emotionally poignant fallen photo of Mace's heroic moment in Vienna. May and Coulson try to explain to Jemma what their Framework lives were like, and what they mean to them, in order to process what Fitz has become, but can't handle it, and Daisy and Yo-yo hit the nail on her head, explaining that she both worries about who Fitz is, and who he may love. We see Fitz try to let AIDA down gently, even relating himself to Ward. But as misguided as she is, and as immature, AIDA simply cannot deal with his rejection, and goes berserk. Talbot shows up and makes Jared's day when he tells Coulson to "shut his robot mouth, or I'll have my men weld it shut for you!" The superpowerful AIDA uses Lincoln's electricity to bust out as Coulson tries to convince Talbot he's not an LMD. AIDA cuts a swath through the playground to get to a fleeing Fitz who barely manages to escape on the Zephyr to a conflicted Jemma. There she comforts an emotionally destroyed, sobbing Fitz, and Yo-yo does what Daisy begged her not to before, and goes after Mack in the Framework. AIDA gets her emotions going by briefly smooching and then totally destroying the bodies of some of Ivanovs LMD duplicates, and Ivanov offers to help her gain control of this world as she had in the Framework.
Talbot and his team abandon the ruins of the Playground, seeing no trace of the S.H.I.E.L.D. team or AIDA and her LMDs. An inter-dimensional gate left intact turns on and opens, with Ghost Rider stepping outside. As the episode closes we see Yo-yo strapped to a table in a Framework Hydra facility, falling apart at the seams.
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Friday Jun 19, 2020
Episode 90 - S04E20 - Farewell, Cruel World!
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Friday Jun 19, 2020
S4:E20 - Jess and Jared recap and discuss “Farewell, Cruel World!"
With this being the "420" episode, and Ghost Rider returning soon to close out the season, Jared laments the lack of planning that failed to deliver on the perfect Season 4 episode 20 title, "Blaze It!" This episode is very emotional as the team's time in the Framework comes to an end. Trip's acceptance of his reality, but refusal to accept his lack of a love interest is dead on. Jemma's attempt to get to Fitz blows up in her face as Alistair pushes her hand and ends up shot, making Framework Fitz hate Jemma completely and destroying Jemma's plans utterly. And Alistair's behavior is like a crash course in abusive gaslighting, feeling proud of his history of cruelty and violence towards Fitz for simply being around. Jemma reunites with the team as they gather at Radcliffe's backdoor out of the Framework to begin their voyage back to reality. Coulson gets used to being the face of the Framework's resistance and May and Daisy's Framework relationship isn't the same as in the real world. Trip suggests what we hoped during our first watch of this season, and breaks our hearts by not escaping to the real world with the team. May accidentally spills the beans about the Framework's reality to Mack but he isn't having it, refusing to leave Hope. Coulson starts to die and reminisces about his past death(s) before he convinces May to take a leap of faith back to reality with him. Fitz shows up to take revenge on Jemma for killing his father and is unbelievably cruel to her as she professes her love to him and he shoots her in the leg and she's saved by Radcliffe. He earns his redemption, though at the price of them fridging poor Agnes to motivate his regrets, and double crosses the Framework Fitz to help get him back to the real world against his brainwashed wishes. Daisy leaves Mack behind, breaking the hearts of Yo-yo, and us.
As the team reels from processing their time in the Framework and then the egg-timer dings and AIDA's Darkhold-built "real girl" body is done, and she teleports Fitz out of there with one of her many Inhuman powers. We reel over Mack's incredibly emotional end scene with Trip and Hope, and appreciate the writers for their depth of emotion, but also wonder if their goal is to torture us.
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Thursday Jun 11, 2020
Episode 89 - S04E19 - All the Madame's Men
Thursday Jun 11, 2020
Thursday Jun 11, 2020
S4:E19 - Jess and Jared recap and discuss “All the Madame's Men."
The episode opens on a behind-the-scenes look at "the Bakshi Report," the Framework's version of FOX News, where we get a glimpse of the Hydra war hero version of John Garrett in the Framework's version of "history." May & Daisy escape Hydra and shatters AIDA's spine in the process with a good Quake'ing. May's body cam footage of their assault helps fight Bakshi's Hydra propaganda, turning the masses of the non-player characters of the Framework to their side. Simmons and Trip try to find the location of Project: Looking Glass, AKA AIDA's plan to become a "real girl," leading them to an abandoned Russian oil platform, which Jemma instantly connects with the location applying to the real world equivalent, not the Framework. Framework Ward acknowledges how awful he must've been to Daisy, and we talk about how bizarre it must be for the team to interact with this version of him. And the episode closes with Jemma fully unveiling AIDA's plan to the team, she's going to use the Darkhold's knowledge to make herself real, and bring Framework Fitz along with her.
Also, is the Framework plot pretty much the Matrix, but where Mr. Smith (AIDA) just really wants to sleep with Neo (Fitz)? We think so. And we continue to poke holes in the "one regret" idea and how it works with "non-player characters." And Jess takes note of the further insanity of their headquarters' location, because they take prohibition-era tunnels (we see you season 7!) to the Playground--but from where?! And hey...they're time-traveling this final season...could they time travel to young Ward? Who knows!
And these fictional super cops aside, fuck the police, and now as always, Black Lives Matter. Visit https://www.assatasdaughters.org/donate-1 for a great way to give back if you can by supporting Black women, femmes, and gender non-conforming people in a volunteer-based collective that addresses the ongoing shortage of resources and community programming for Chicago's women-identified, femme, and gender non-conforming youth based on the traditions of radical liberatory activism of Assata Shakur.
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Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
S7:E01 - Jess and Jared react to “The New Deal" with our special guest, Jaclyn!
This is very different episode for us, where we aren't recapping and reviewing the episode like we usually do (we'll do that when we get to Season 7!), *AND* we got to have on one of our favorite Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. friends, Jaclyn!
The final season began with a crazy trip to the 1930s! With Chronicoms attempting to "correct" anachronisms and chaos in the timeline caused by the S.H.I.E.L.D. team's prior time travel shenanigans from Season 5. We got young Malicks, the Koenigs' grandpa, and Daisy and Mack saying "fuck you" to the racist world of the Depression era U.S. and looking amazing and being awesome in spite of a super racist and sexist world. We had a blast with Jaclyn discussing our reactions, general thoughts on the final season, the ongoing struggle of the FitzSimmons ship being forever kept apart, how May was done wrong in Season 6, Robo-May vs. Robo-Coulson, Enoch (our favorite sentient Chronicom, and trusted friend), Mack's ongoing evolution as *the* Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., a bit of Deke love, Yo-Yo's character development and an attempt to tackle ableism and living with an amputation, and we even hate on Lincoln a little, so it was a pretty great time.
We were so happy to have Jaclyn on to discuss our initial reaction to the beginning of this final S.H.I.E.L.D. season!
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Friday May 29, 2020
Episode 87 - S04E18 - No Regrets
Friday May 29, 2020
Friday May 29, 2020
S4:E18 - Jess and Jared recap and discuss “No Regrets."
Jess starts this one by calling out the episode's author as both "wonderful" and an "emotional terrorist," which Jared feels sounds about right.
Mace & Coulson infiltrate the Hydra conversion camps. Meanwhile, Framework Fitz tells Daisy he knows about "her world," but AIDA/Ophelia has misled him, portraying them as invaders from another reality/dimension, not the world of their real lives/selves. May's Framework change, while supposedly leaving her with no regrets, has also led to her having nothing to lose. The episode leads Jess to pose the question, how connected are Framework and IRL AIDA, exactly? Jemma resists with the A.I. sentience of the "Non-Player Characters" of the Framework, though it's challenged by Framework Mace and Ward. Mace & Coulson sort of switched roles in the Framework. AIDA tries to bribe Daisy with Lincoln's resurrection, revealing the entire schtick of the Framework as "one changed regret," for everyone, but she doesn't but it. While in Hydra's custody Daisy gets her spy on and talks to Radcliffe through the vents and learns about a secret backdoor beyond AIDA's reach/control, and they formulate an escape plan from the Framework. Mace & Coulson's mission brings us back to Trip, or at least a very emotional reunion for us as viewers with his Framework equivalent, and Coulson is compelled to save his former students from his Framework life as a teacher from Hydra's programming. Hydra bombards the building with the missiles opens May's eyes, both to their cruelty to the children in the camps, their disregard for collateral damage, and the heroism of Mace, Coulson, and Triplett. Seeing Mace die to save them, crushed under rubble from the building, turns May to the resistance, and the episode ends with her sneaking a Terrigen crystal to Daisy to spark her Inhuman powers...Ooooooo!
Also, we talk a little about how we like people in Florida, but not Florida so much. And we talk a little about dealing with depression during the COVID-19 crisis, and not beating yourself up so much, or comparing struggles/tragedy right now. And, the Playground...the Bus...are the S.H.I.E.L.D. creators obsessed with grade school?
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Thursday May 21, 2020
Episode 86 - S04E17 - Identity and Change
Thursday May 21, 2020
Thursday May 21, 2020
S4:E17 - Jess and Jared recap and discuss “Identity and Change."
As Jess describes, this is an intensely emotional, disturbing episode, and more emotional than we remembered.
We meet what remains of the Framework's version of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the form of the Resistance movement, led by the Framework's version of Mace (who's *REALLY* an Inhuman in the simulation), taken to him by the Resistance's mole hiding in Hydra...Ward! It's an emotional rollercoaster! Mack is arrested and taken into custody by May and Daisy-as-Skye, and Mack is forced to help Daisy reveal her true allegiances, and breaks our heart and knows he's compromised his beliefs, but is dedicated to keeping Hope alive (sorry). Hope and Mack are super cute with their robot-hating-movie bonding and talking about Chopping Mall. AIDA wants to go by Ophelia as Madame Hydra, furthering her attempt to Pinocchio herself into "a real girl." They're able to locate Radcliffe and Agnes living in hiding/away from Hydra in the Bermuda Triangle, but Fitz and the Hydra forces arrive and Fitz cruelly and heartlessly murders Agnes, destroying Simmons, and us. The torture of the audience continues with...literal torture, as the Framework-ed Fitz has gone full dark side and is torturing both Radcliffe and Daisy, and Mack's experiences finally motivate him to join the Resistance and help make his world a better one for Hope.
Our shared Google doc was almost borked, but Google absolved itself while we record. One of our digressions is about insect reproduction/hierarchies, so that's a thing. Remember Jupiter Ascending? Rewatch it! And Hydra's badges bring about mandatory high school I.D.s on laniards. Also, have you ever heard of reverse déjà vu? We get into the concept of jamais vu! We talk a little about pandemic and stay-at-home orders and irrational protests vs. real issues and what's getting coverage, inspired by the bleakness of the Framework and our own existence. Plus, Chloe Bennett's brother is named *what*?!
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Wednesday May 13, 2020
Episode 85 - S04E16 - What If...
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Wednesday May 13, 2020
S4:E16 - Jess and Jared recap and discuss “What If..."
The third-third-of-the-season premiere has finally come, and we're finally all the way in the Framework!
Despite being a Hydra Agent along with May and Daisy, wait, I mean Skye, NPC Framework Ward is *super* likable and charming, and we don't love it! Jemma was dead in the Framework, but crawled her out with a view from those who aren't Hydra Agents in their virtual fascist new world order, and sees how Inhumans were used to exploit everyone's fear and prejudice. Coulson is a paranoid teacher struggling with his role teaching propaganda, but not quite ready to understand the truth of their new reality and accept Jemma's attempt to bring his true self to the surface. And Jemma drops the straight dope on Hydra being all Nazis, "and don't you let anyone forget it."
We talk a bit about Carrie-Anne Moss being the best part of Netflix's corner of Marvel, and our asides go off track maybe more than ever before as we get to the bottom of Willem Defoe's, reportedly, "confusingly large" penis, in real time as we recorded. Our apologies/you're welcome.
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