Episode 10: Kitchen Confidential (2005) Episodes 11-13

Hi there. I'm Chris Stashue and I'm just By and we are the hosts of The One Season Show, a podcast where we take a look at TV shows that only lasted one season. Every month we'll tackle several episodes of the show. This week, we are finishing Kitchen Confidential. Done with our second season of the One Season Show, Kitchen Confidential had to come to an end eventually, and we are here to talk about the final three episodes.

An Affair to Remind member power play and the award goes to these things down. I've got these on my way. So An Affair to Remember directed by lev El Spiro, written by Leslie Wake. Its stars the only guest star of note, and it's a I would say it's a rather big one is a firefly Zone, Marina Bachern, and she plays the mistress that Jack Bourdain sleeps with. The mistress of who you might ask of Pino, Jack's boss.

Remember Frank Lanella, who's in the show. Sometimes he like shows up, he comes up to get that yeah, and then he like and then is it this episode or is it I don't know, I wish one of the episodes. Who are coming up to here? He just gives the restaurant away so he can sleep. It is this episode, Oh is it okay?

Yeah? So he he shows up in this episode. We haven't seen him really much in the last few aside from a few snippets here in there. He's almost like daa sex MOCKI nuts, yeah, kind of. He's just like and I'm here or some shit and buy yeah.

Yeah. So again, No, this is just another episode of Jack is too much of a stud for his own good and now he's in trouble because of it, which is about half of these episodes. Half of these episodes are Jack boarding getting in trouble because of his dick. Well, I think it's I think the better way to put it is, it's all of these episodes storylines with Jack, Yeah, which I mean, and he's your protagonist. He's our making character, and he's not changing, he's not developing.

He's not necessarily a good person or even a likable person. The only reason he's like somewhat charismatic is because Bradley Cooper is charismatic, right exactly if he were played by you know, if if he was switched with any of the other actors in this I don't think he could pull it off. Just this character is unlikable but not funny enough unlikable like say Seinfeld or It's Always Sunny or you know, Kurb Your Enthusiasm even where it's like, yeah, all those people are assholes in those shows for the most part, but they're funny enough to maintain that. And also, you know, especially with though It's Always sunny, they always like their plans always get fucked up and it always backfires on them, and they don't win.

Jack wins in every episode like whatever bad happens gets brushed under the table, except for the brunch episode kind of like I mean ends up putting one over on him in that brunch episode. Yeah fine, but he still has his restaurant and he still doesn't learn and sleeps with her again. So I'm not I'm not giving the show an excuse. I am merely just commenting on, Like there is at least one episode where Jack Bourdine doesn't get away with him, right, fine, but it's it's even It's not like any of it's no, there's no real consequence to him not getting away with it. It's just like, well, Chucks, I guess I just can't win him every time.

But I'm gonna win him most at the time. Yeah, No, this episode is not good. It's a fisicy Italian woman that Pinos sleeping with and not leaving his wife for puts Jack in the middle of them, and it works out in Jack's favor because Pino thinks it, thinks of it as like a boss move and promotes like just like lets him be fine, like just just be okay, like, yeah, you're great, and that's it. Gives a restaurant to Yeah, he gives the restaurant to his daughter, and okay, well, and he also gives Jack the apartment above the restaurant, right, yes, that his mistress isn't in it anymore. Yeah, not that that matters.

No, Like that's just another like okay, so Pine, you slept with Pinots mistress, fucked everything up, and you got the apartment in the end. Okay, cool, good for you, bro. Well he essentially did Pino's dirty work for him, right exactly, and he's getting rewarded for it. Yeah. So yeah, it's it's not good.

I mean, it's not a good episode. I think that this is one of the bigger dud episodes that we've had. I mean, I mean coming into like the last home stretch of these episodes. I know that this show is ultimately it's ultimate downfall was baseball like ratings wise, numbers wise, That's that is why it was canceled. But I don't see just based on the quality of these episodes and sort of the story trajectory not really having a trajectory, and none of the characters really evolving, I can't see that this see that this show would have lasted much past a season and a half, maybe two seasons anyway, not especially with Bradley Cooper's career right well, and not if people weren't like feeling like they were just getting upset with the show being complacent, yeah, or just the same thing.

Honestly, like this every you know take away my general feelings of it not aging well and my want for it to be more like have more driven story. It's just it's the same thing every episode almost It's the same beats, it's the same kind of like all the jokes are roughly the same, all you know, each characters, Like we were talking in the last episode, how Nicholas Brendan's character essentially is just always harboring the gay jokes. It's just one tricks all over the place, and it gets boring, and I think that people would have just kind of tuned out because there was nothing keeping them like hooked on this show. It wasn't funny enough to where they'd be quoting it all the time and like you know, something like that.

We're like a Seinfeld or whatever, and there's no story or characters gripping enough for to keep people on the hook. I don't think that baseball necessarily would have been the only factor in this show's downfall had it continued past the first season. Yeah, I agree, I agree. I think I think ultimately, you know, this episode is one of those episodes where it's just like okay, fine, like you're gonna get this one out of the way, like whatever, Like it's it moves a plot along, but like, so well, we have to talk about the other the b plot which was of this episode, which was inevitable and I'm honestly kind of surprised this b plot didn't happen earlier. But the oh no, Jim's a virgin episode because we all saw that coming and just sidebar on Jim, like, yeah, he's funny here and there, but honestly, he is one of those characters that really fucking irritates me, and like movie and TV world where they're just so dumb and naive that they really wouldn't be able to function and in real life, like like like she would like know what the the the growth from zero is Jim Die Like right, dumb, you're dumb character, right, He's just so stupid.

Yeah, it's just it's confounding that like if you were a person in real life, there's no way you would have gotten to this point in your chef like you know, career, like there, you probably wouldn't be able to function and like dress yourself. No, he's effectively like a child basically, Like it's just with no like I mean you would probably be able to dress yourself. You would just end up wearing like, you know, like two different shoes and right, right, you know what I mean. He's like too stupid for his own good exactly, And it's played off is that he's just naive and goodhearted and gee Galligasha's and he's so swell, and it's just it's fucking irritating. It's not funny, it's overdone.

It's the same beat by beat up to even you know to this plot point of of course he's a virgin. Oh no, so now the brows of the kitchen have to take him out to the bar and try to get him to hook up with somebody. But oh no, they're going to sleep with all the ladies instead, ha ha ha, because they like getting ass hilarious like okay, right, and they can They're always getting an ass like isn't that so cool? Guys? Don't you want to be like these guys?

It's just annoying. It's wait, wait, wait, you don't, well, you know maybe, I mean, look, here's the thing, and you know this, having worked in the service industry and I I mean I have ostensibly now worked in the service industry for almost a year now, there is a lot of screwing that goes on in the service industry. Oh yeah, absolutely a lot. And that's where the show and that's where the show does excel, like you know, like some of the kitchen antiques, like in the last episode when we were talking about the brunch episode, and a lot of what you know, the only good things in that episode are the staff dealing with brunch, like dealing with the reality of what brunch means to a restaurant, and those moments are the truly like the funniest moments of this show and the relatable ones that it's like if you've worked in a kitchen.

Sure, even if you haven't worked in a fucking five star, every plate seventy bucks kind of restaurant, you've worked in a restaurant, though, and fundamentally every restaurant is the same. You work in a kitchen to make other people food, and the other people can treat you in any varying degrees of shit that they want you to treat you in, and you just kind of have to take it. And then the people that you work with also get to treat you like shit because there's the stupid hierarchy and yeah, all that stuff exists, and that's fun. But again, if I want to watch just some like fun relatable kitchen antics, i'll watch them in like Waiting or something where it's a contained movie that's like an hour and a half and then I move on with my life.

But a whole show of occasionally some funny kitchen antics not gonna cut it. Well, that's the thing. I mean, you're completely You're completely right. The thing that I do love about Waiting is that Waiting, which also starts John Francis Day. And I believe it came out within a couple of years, if not the same year as this, Yeah, definitely around this time it went for it.

And look, I think we'd be having a different conversation about this show if the show had gone for it, if it had been able to go for it, right, yeah, if it wasn't playing on whatever Foxes, like you know, programming restrictions and you know, because wait, Waiting gets pretty non p you know, non friendly, not non TV friendly, and that honestly, that shit happens in kitchens. So you just go for it because it's there and people are going to laugh at it, the dude showing each other they're junk and you know, saying homophobic stuff like in Waiting. In Waiting, I give it a pass week or the movie goes for it. Anyways, Well, in Waiting, like those characters, you're all like, these are the asshole you know, these are the assholes of the exactly, They're deplorable.

These aren't the cool guy like these And I think maybe that's where we're we have a difference where Jack Ordain's and Nolita is a high end, like right, fine dining. So all of these people who work in this kitchen are really fucking good cooks and they're talented with you know, they're you know, ostensibly artists of the food world. In Waiting, it's just your fucking Rockneys knockoff, you know whatever chain restaurant with your everyday average people. But still, what did you say, Wait, what's the name of the restaurant. Well, I said Rockney's.

But that's a local chain. Okay, Friday's would probably be a better Yeah, So like a Friday's just a general chain Applebee's. Here you are, here's your shitty frozen food, thank you, right, sort of thing. But I think that like when we're watching stuff and waiting, Yeah, these people, the people who are dicks are dicks, and they're portrayed as that and that's what they are. But there are all their characters, like John Francis Daily in Waiting, who are good characters and who evolve and who are you know, you're okay rooting for you know, you're okay being on their side for certain things.

But in this show, pretty much everybody is a raging asshole and they're rewarded for it constantly, and the only person that's not a raging asshole is a raging idiot or or they're all the the female characters who are all varying degrees of dumb, bimbo slut, you know, stereotypes. They all, especially with the chefs that there, there's a lot of sort of like look at the with Stephen and you know, he's he's an attractive man, he's a cool guy, but he's a horrible asshole, right well, and that's and that's the thing is like, yeah, in Waiting, I don't feel bad for those characters because they're turds. Uh in this show. It's just like you guys don't have to be like this, No, and you're not. And in Waiting, the shitty characters, you know, get shitty things that happen to them.

They're not rewarded. They're not rewarded with apartments above their restaurant. They're not rewarded with their own restaurants for manipulation, like they're not, which brings us to h what Becky's final appearance. She's in the next She's not in power Play. Oh no, she's not.

That's the other right, So yeah, the next episode is power Play, which is directed by Matt Shakman, written by Stacy trou doesn't have any guest stars of note, and Mimi is in charge and Tanya and Jim kiss yep, which happens. Like. The thing with Tanya's character is Tanya's finally getting a character. Kind of it's better than where she was at the beginning of the season, I guess, saying much. But she just has more lines.

Honestly, to me, she just has more lines in screen time. But she suffers the same fate as Jim does. Is that she's the female counterpart of being too stupid to function. She's the female also a bimbo, like you know, to look at like that. That's what they're going for, and that's I don't know, I don't I think that, Sure, she has more to do, but I think that she's still the same character that she's been this entire time.

She's just got more screen time. Sure, No, I I completely agree. I think, you know, I appreciate that they've paired those two characters off because it makes sense, right, getting Nick as Brendan's come up and sort of is like, hey, he's been fawning over this girl this whole time, right, and then she falls for the you know, the nerdy virgin, and so yeah, that's nice. You know, we get some some like I said, some some consequence to the assholary, but I don't know, it's it's it's also really tired, like it's like, oh, the nerd gets the hat girl and it's one over. It's like, what am I watching some teenage like you know, Conrod, some teen comedy where it's it's not original.

No, it's not that. The show follows a lot of tropes. And I think that ultimately they were they should have committed more to Anthony Bourdain's book instead of trying to do whatever it is they're trying to do, because right now, it just feels like they took some elements from a book that was interesting and then shoehorned those elements into a very structured formula of a sitcom or television show that we've all seen, and we have to hit these same beats to get these same you know, cute laughs. Thank god, there's a laugh track. Thank god.

I mean there could have been Yeah, yeah, there could have been. That's I'm glad, like, oh god, it would have been. I would have been really been like fucked up. The like the reality they were going for even more. I do like that Mimi is now the boss.

But again, like the characters have had, the characters have had arcs and as such that like they're in different spots than they were at the beginning of the season, but their characters are the same. Yeah, they have just gotten either more responsibility or different responsibility, but they have not grown as people. And this episode is a prime example for Jack, who now that Mebe is in charge, feels that he can run the restaurant even more than he already did before when Pino was running it, because he has absolutely no respect for Mimi as a person or a boss or a woman, just nothing like he He's a total like, all right, Memi's in charge. That means I can walk over all over her and do everything and that I want to do.

And the only way that she gets, you know, back at him is by again manipulating his friends by offering them things that they want, and essentially that would be offering Stephen, you know, if a chance to essentially have an item that Jack didn't pick on the menu that he made, which would potentially upstage Jack and we can't have that, and he doesn't really learn. I would still argue that he doesn't learn anything at the end of this episode, that he's still like. She's like, oh you respect me. He's like, hmmm, not really. But yeah, it's again I think I think it's just another episode that just falls under.

It feels like we just need to get to the end. Yeah, And I don't know. I mean, okay, so this episode this season, this only season was thirteen episodes, they only aired three. Did they write and film all of these episodes before they got canceled? I believe they did, because it kind of feels like they know they were getting I don't know, like it does kind of feel like they're writing to get like certain things wrapped up.

But I guess they're not if they if they've written and filmed everything beforehand, but just the way like frankl Angela leaves the show and all that, it just kind of feels like they were trying to push some wrap up. But I don't know. I think maybe that's just telling of the poor writing on it. Honestly, well, the poor writing has been in effect this whole time, right at least, I would say the poor writing has been in effect since probably like the second half of the season, So yeah, I would say so. Like I think that the first season, the first half of the season started off pretty like fine.

I enjoyed the characters, but it got pretty stagnant pretty quickly, and it was pretty evident early on that the episodes were going to be what they were pretty much every time. And then there's the last one, which is unfortunate that it's the last one. Well again, I think for me, when it comes down to this episode, I don't think it sets up the final episode very well. No, right, no, it doesn't. It just it's it, I guess.

Yeah, all the Becky episodes seem weird and misplaced, and I don't know if it's that they were out of order, if it's just that the character of Becky seems like she should be more and that there should be more happening, but there's not. The final episode is directed by lev l Spiro, written by Kareem Rosenthal and Dean Lapata. It stars Rob Skyler as the Epicure Judge, which is the prize that Nolita is nominated for in New York along with Becky's Restaurant, which is also one of Pinot's restaurants, and Jack has to figure out how to win the award and keep the woman that he loves question Mark. Also, Jim is still with Tanya the end. Yeah, isn't that cute?

And it makes Nicholas Brendon upset? That's that's that. But yeah, so this episode is indirect relation to the last time we saw Becky, which was when she ultimately got her to run her own kitchen, which is another restaurant that Pino owns. So yeah, this is again Becky coming in to ostensibly get a peek in the kitchen and see what they're making and try and steal their secret weapon so that she can then use it in her restaurant and win the award. Because again, God forbid we allow this woman to win anything based on her own merits.

She has to just keep stealing and manipulating from the men. But then at the end of the episode, she turns around and doesn't do that, right, she learns her lesson like a good little girl. Just you saying that is so creepy, right, I got like a chill just a chill up, like a good little girl, like a good little girl, good little girl. But yeah, no, I mean sure, maybe she learns a lesson. I guess we'll never know because characters the last episode.

But yeah, no, her character is definitely poorly written, and this was the only reason that they have her do that is so that Jack can maybe kind of say I love you without actually saying the words I love you. But I don't know if you know this, but saying I love you is super gay. And characters in this show are hashtag not gay, hashtag no homoh. Yeah, characters in this show would never be seen as saying they love anyone other than themselves or quote get an ass, so right, yeah, exactly like the show. Like, don't get me wrong, but like there are problems in this show that don't translate well to screen.

We've talked about this, and I'm sure that this is just the way the kitchen industry is. Like I don't doubt that, And if I'm wrong, email me or tweet at us on Twitter or on Facebook and let me know if it's not that way. But the toxic masculinity in the kitchen I'm sure is never going anywhere. Not for toxic. Yeah, because it's just it's all about competition and being the best and being you know, if you can't be the best.

Then you have to be underhanded and you have to, you know, just take opportunities where you see them, and that's what she's doing. And sure, I guess you can argue that because she's doing that, then you know, like you know, she's turning that men can be underhand. Men are underhanded, so so can women. But that's just not there's nothing else to her character to make her not just manipulative like that. That's her only traits other than that she's I'm not going to take ship from you.

I mean, we didn't even mention in the one episode where she's getting in addition to using sex to manipulate Bradley Cooper into brunch, she also, in order to get Mimi to stop being her friend, just kisses her in the middle of the kitchen, and of course all of them, you know, everybody else in the kitchen who's a dude, is just falling all over themselves. And so yeah, like we're just we're getting every stereotype for he's character and we're getting nothing else to warrant any kind of you know, that character development. The end where maybe she learned her lesson and maybe she didn't know she'd probably not and you know why. And you know, even if she if they wanted to continue that and they do have her learn her lesson in the air of her ways, and fuck that too, because Jack hasn't learned shit.

He's the same person since the whole time, aside from the fact that he's not I mean, he's still having sex with people and walk ins and all that shit that he was supposedly trying to avoid in the first couple episodes when he's trying to be good boy Jack. But the only thing that sticks from that is that we don't get any scenes of him being you know, like trashed or hopped up on drugs. But he's still like fucking people in the walking all the time, and customers and people he works with. And it's he learns nothing, so why should anybody else really, I mean, main character is learning lessons? Is dumb?

Right? Yes, God, God forbid your protagonist does anything with her life. Yeah, it's kind of a bummer. I mean, you know, they it's not that they don't seem to care about creating growth with these characters, it's just it didn't never seem to be at the forefront of their minds, Like laughs, were it right? I mean, look, look at shows like Big Bang Theory and stuff like that.

Even those shows have character growth, which is sad to say we're comparing anything to Big Bang Theory, the show that is like essentially taking nerd subculture and putting it stupid stupid, stupid stupid. But yeah, like you're right there, things happen with consequence in that show. This show lacks entirely lacks consequence, but doesn't commit to its lack of reality any you know anymore past that. Yeah, it's it's kind of it's not depressing, it's just kind of like, you know whatever, Fine, it seems like a missed opportunity. Yeah, and I think that, you know, look, ultimately this show aired for all of three episodes.

It would only go on to air for one season technically, that's why we're talking about it. But at the end of the day, there are things about this show that really feel like a missed opportunity. And there are things the show that feel like it was kind of hamstrung, tied hands at the beget from the beginning. I mean, you know the fact that it wasn't on a station that would allow it to do stuff like Waiting did, where you can use the you know use you know, quote un be a bit more vouch. Yeah, I'd be raunchy used quote unquote foul language though.

I think the idea that we can't use certain words on TV as fucking stupid as it is. But ultimately, at the end of the day, like if this show had been on HBO or Showtime or even Cinemax, I think it would have fared better because I think it would have been able to really get into It would have been able to punch up the the you know, it would have been able to punch up the humor, and it would have been able to punch up the drama, like, it would have been able to merge those better because it would be able to have more layers and feel like a more developed show, whereas Fox it's also only what each episodes with commercials would have been a half hour long. Oh yeah, so yeah, there's really no I mean they're not They don't have a lot of room per episode to begin with, and then they're just literally just doing one offs for every episode.

Yeah, it just feels like a season of filler. Well, and that's unfortunate it is, but you know, I mean, hey, Bradley, like like we were talking about this, this show probably would have been doomed just due to Bradley Cooper's career taking off. And I agree. I mean they may have done like in the office and like transitioned him out right, yeah, and they would have like, you know, maybe brought in a new head chef or one of the other people would transition to a head chef and and you know, that's fine. That could have been interesting.

Maybe they could have done more with that. And I think I think that this show did have a lot of opportunity and it can definitely see where these characters had they been given more to do more, you know, just a more development as characters, I think they could This show could have been really good. It could have been a memorable like a bunch of characters that you like to hang out with on a weekly basis. But it ultimately it just kind of fell shortened, especially with the just treatment of certain characters on this show. I agree, I agree one percent.

And look, I still love this show. I'm probably so going to be watched this show, but it'll be kind of hard for me to not get over some of the nagging things, right all right, I mean, like, hey, like you know, I still enjoy stuff that hasn't aged well either, So I mean it's I mean, people still watch Friends, and apparently that show has all kinds of problems. Oh yeah, yeah, sure it does. I've never seen an episode, by the way, I never will at this point. Yeah, I don't know.

If you didn't watch it in the nineties, there's no point in starting in twenty twenty. Well, I don't, like, we don't have time. Well that's true, but there's so much more you could be watching. Yes, I would agree with that one percent. So I'm going to ask you the big question, what was your favorite episode of the season and what was your least favorite episode?

You know, I kind of I don't know, like none of the none of the episodes like stick out to me as being like the funniest or any thing, But I do kind of. I think I'm going to go with the one where it's his mentor trying to eat himself to death, because I think that that's the episode that really tried to commit to the absurdity that I think they wanted to go with but never managed to get. Yeah, the one that sounds, yeah, it sounds like a Tales from the gript episode. It really does. If they had committed to that absurd tone, this show could have been Because that's the other thing is this show doesn't have to go.

It didn't have to go like dramedy show. That's maybe what I've been talking about more so is how to how to make it better. But it also could have gone a different route and embraced that full on just absurd, pure comedy. And that could have been fun too. And I think that I don't know how our just that were like, fuck it, We're just going to do this weird ass episode.

And I appreciate. What's the one that feels like it's always sunny? And that's yeah, this show, like, this show felt like it could have been it's always sunny, right, It had that opportunity, had that potential because again, all the characters are sort of assholes, but they're just not it's not enough. I agree, and uh, I'm gonna agree with you. One hundred percent.

My favorite episode of this show. I've said it before, I'll say it again is Dinner Date with Death one hundred percent. I love it. I think, like you've said, it's funny, and it kind of it really uh, it really kind of grabs the absurd in a way that I like, and it doesn't really let go of the absurdity. Um, you know, I do like Teddy takes Off, but that's because, like we've talked about on the last episode, it's because John chose just so fucking yeah.

I like that one a lot too. I think that that one was probably one of the most consistently funny as far as one that I am my least favorite episode. Say, come on it, it has to be the same one for both of us. I can't remember what the title. It's French Fight.

Yes, yeah, okay, there we are. Yeah, it's literally our favorite episode, our least favorite episode, back to back yep. Essentially yeah, because then it was just like what the fuck? This is fucking stupid, This is fucking stupid, and just just uh yeah, no boy now no, real bad, really not good in the worst way. And I don't like it.

I don't like it Unlike the way it treats female characters. I don't like a lot. I mean, any of the episodes that have that are like, honestly, any of the episodes that do feature female characters prominently, I do have the most problems with because they're featured badly. I would almost rather them just not have episodes and just focus solely on the men of the restaurant rather than get the episodes with the stereotypes that we get. The stereotypes are so good when they're just slutty women.

Yeah, they're the best. Yeah, Tweavage Confidential, he got them. So, Jess overall, where do you kind of give your post mortem? Because I think we should do a post mortem at the end of each season. We already did it for Where Well, so Jess, where is doing the postmortem for Kitchen Confidential?

Kind of give your final thoughts on the show? Overall? I think that this show, you know, like I've said, it had grains of potential. The talent is there. Everybody that's in the show is you know, they're good at what they do.

Bradley Cooper is obviously very charismatic and you know, he's nice to look at. Everybody on the show does well with what they're given. It's just unfortunately they're not given a lot and this show is very cold and empty for the most part to me, and I guess I would probably give it about maybe like a two and a half out of five. If we won't with star ratings on shows overall, but two and a half, what was it, epicures out of five? That'll be a sent back.

I would give it three and a half. I mean, again, I have just as many problems as you do, but unfortunately I still have a hard time, you know, completely, Yeah, I mean I totally get it. It's also not one of those shows that like, I can't just like that would be difficult for me to understand why it has an appeal. I totally get it. It's just that the errors and the things that stick out are just too too much for me to push it over that to that three out of five, yeah, two and a half.

Yeah, for me, it's three and a half. I mean, look, there's there's problems with it. It's not the it's not the best show. It's better than Werewolf. That's not saying much, But ultimately, I think at the end of the day, when you look at a show like this, it does feel a lot more like miss potential than anything else.

But hey, you know what, it's still it still did a good enough job of being somewhat entertaining to more or less entertaining through thirteen episodes and that's not the same thing we could say for Werewolf agreed. Where can people find you, Jess? Well, you can find me on Twitter at writer Jess Bayard, and you can find me twice a month and occasionally in a bonus episode of the Culture Cast, where this month was Mike White March, and fittingly enough, it's dystopian sci fi. So yeah, I'm over there, and yeah, you can find I'm at home a lot now, folks, So I'm on Twitter, I'm creating stuff. I'm taking advantage of that, reading a lot future future Jess or past Jess is telling future Jess to make sure that she's reading yeah, and past future Jess is gonna listen to this later and yell at past Jess.

Hopefully by the time this episode airs it will matter. So that's true. There you go, Always the optimist Chris Dasher. You can find me on Twitter with my unoptimistic Twitter handle, Casualty Underscore Chris, Twilight Zone eighty five, Barney Miller podcast, and Chronicles from the Crypto where you can find me when I'm out here, along with the Culture Cast, which Jess already mentioned. Big thanks as always to Forever Sunset for City Lights, City Dreams, which was this season's music for the one season show.

Stay safe out there, and we'll catch you on the next episode. Sto