Now tuning into Earbud Media. Audio for everyone. I have a confession to make that I might have girlbossed too close to the sun this week. Okay, sure. Elaborate, please. I think it's because we haven't been reading on this show that I. It wasn't until I opened up my kindle this week that I found myself confronted with the fact that, like, I didn't have fiction as the most recent on there. They were just nonfiction business books. And I was like, oh, no, these are all fucking Harvard business
reads. I'm a tech bro. All the airport books. Yeah, it was. It wasn't. But it was, like, two steps away from how to influence friends, make business leads at the urinal. You know what I mean? Like, sure. Like. And I was like, oh, no. I need to go read a gay vampire book immediately. This is the worst thing that's ever happened. Yeah, it's dire out here. I am. I am about 2 seconds away from getting engaged and making a LinkedIn post about it. You know what I mean? Like, this is
terrible. Oh, no. These are my confessions. I appreciate your vulnerability. I hope you get back on the wagon soon. Don't fall too far into the pit. It's just I'm aware of the problem now, so now I can fix it, you know? But it was just staring. Staring at the black mirror. That is my kindle being, like, I've fallen. I've fallen far, and I need to fix this. Yeah. What happened to me? What happened to me? When? When did this happen? My. My 15 year old self would be
so disappointed, you know? Yeah. I need to change this. But alas, welcome to Into the Twilight. Hey. A safe space where we are not gonna peddle you on how to network. That's not what we do here. No, it is not. No. The only time that we would talk anything about that is the fact that I heard on so many social media platforms this week that fucking what's his face got voted off first from Survivor. Dude, that was the highlight of my fucking life. Are you
kidding? Almost made it my happy thing because it did bring me a lot of joy. It brought me so, like, the nerve of them being like, let's use you in every ad for this television program. And then, like, get the. Every other confession. Testing was like, get the fuck out of here. No. Yeah, right. We see right through you. And I love that a lot. Yeah. How are you? I'm here. I'm living. Okay. This is less of a happy thing and more, I guess, like a journey that I'm going to be going on. I want
you to hold my hand. I do this. I'm so scared. Because I. So this is, like. This is lore probably for the folks at home. I'm not sure if folks know this because I don't really talk about it, but I have been on and off, like, trying to get back to where I was in, like, college and high school of, like, actually being able to speak Chinese properly because I studied it for a very long time and I fell off the wagon. Right. Okay. And I'm trying to, like, get back into it
and do my little duolingo. Whatever. Yeah. And I thought, okay, cool. Next step, like, listening to stuff or watching shows or something. What if I find, like, a little book just to try and, like, translate it and figure it out? That seems fun. Like a fun little immersive experience. And I've been looking and I have. I do have, like, sense and sensibility, but I'm like, I haven't even read that in English, so that probably wouldn't be very helpful. So I should probably start
there. And I was like, you know what would be a pretty fun to read? Plus something I'm very familiar with. Oh, my God. So I now am the proud owner of Twilight in Chinese, and I'm going to try to read it as language immersion. Okay, everyone shut up. Everyone just walk with me. No, this is fucking genius because this is a real thing. Like, this real. This is really how it's gonna help you, right? But now I'm desperately to know in China. Like, yeah. What dialect are you studying? Yeah. What
are the vibes like? Like, I need to know, like, what is golden onion? Like, what is dazzling? Right? What is strawberry shampoo? Like, I need to know. I need to know the things, you know? Yeah. Like, I feel like just, like, net vocabulary. Like, I'm gonna get so many fun words out of this. You know what I mean? How does Mormon propaganda translate in Chinese? Right? Holy shit. This is genius. Thank you. I'm very smart. But it'll be fun. We're gonna have fun. We're gonna figure it out. And
maybe I'll just be on a long journey here trying. Just etching into a tablet of this story, truly for the first time since we read it six years, eight years ago. Okay, so two things. One, this might actually get me back into. For real, for real studying Spanish. Yeah, we should all do this. So this might actually make me go get twilight in Spanish and get back into it because I know. I know how to read in Spanish. I just. Yeah, yeah. I don't. I fucking
use duolingo, which is, like, nothing. Like, that's not helpful reading, right? It's all AI. Also, I dated someone who I think I've talked about. They were the person who slept on the floor and, like, didn't have a mattress, who studied Chinese in college. And watching them mentally deteriorate from being, like, spoken at home to, like, studying it in college was a journey. Yeah. Fuck, we might need to do this. That might be. I think we just, like, buddy, read here.
Cause I know that book. I can, like, recite it completely. Yeah. Damn. So let's, you know, maybe make a little book club, a pseudo side book club with folks that are learning another language. Fuck it. Try it with Twilight. You know why? Nothing. Why not? Damn, that's smart. That's my truth. I love that. And I'm. I'm terrified, but I'm looking forward to trying. That's so smart. Yeah. How are you, my friend? Oh, I'm
here. I'm. Yeah, I'm alive. I will say it was kind of hard to pick a happy thing this week just because, like, the world is exhausting. Yeah, sure. So I. I found and I didn't. I didn't want to be. I didn't want to be a basic bitch because, like, I've had. I've had moo deng on my list for a couple weeks, but now all the morning shows are talking about her, and so I was like, fuck it, I'm not gonna do that. Yeah. Like, it's. Oh, it's done. We're about this close to, like,
yeah, administration's talking about her. And then I. It's not fun anymore. So I, instead, I'm going to talk and bring for my happy thing, the Belgrade Philharmonic
Orchestra, for my happy thing. Okay. Specifically, they have a program called my first Symphony, and I've never seen this offered before, where this orchestra, Belgrades Philharmonic orchestras in Serbia that I found on TikTok, they offer a specific type of program for kids under two where right in the pit by the orchestra, they have this, like, little padded section for the babies to effectively just have a mosh pit. So all of these under two kids can listen
to. They're playing beethoven during this time, and all these babies get to listen to a dope ass orchestra during this time. But rather than being forced into, like, a. An orchestra seating, which is super uncomfortable for babies, they just get to crawl around and vibe and what a treat. I would love to crawl around and vibe during an orchestra. Yeah, that probably feels so good for a baby just to, like, go around in the ball pit and just mosh the hell out. You kidding? So there's.
There it's all effectively just, like, padded because they have to remove it for the orchestra, like, for standard shows. Right. So it's all just this padded stuff. Right. That they put out for the kids to just crawl around. And I originally found this on TikTok. The photo that I shared with you is LinkedIn, so you can see it. But the. The reason why I found it on TikTok is that there was, like, a toddler that was looking up at the pit, but because they're two years old, they can't see over to
the. The orchestra people playing. And it reminded me so much of when I was a kid at Papa Murphy's, and I wanted to be able to see the people making the pizza, but I wasn't tall enough, and it was just like, let me in. Like, I want to see what you're doing. It's like, please. Yeah, but this is genius. It's a very sensory friendly
way. And I know that there are some things, like orchestra shows and also Broadway shows that are offering sensory friendly performances now, but I feel like if I was part of the orchestra, I would get super distracted by how cute the babies are. Totally. But it's beautiful. And the reason I found it was on TikTok, this. The orchestra has a TikTok, so you can see some of the performances as well. Otherwise, I don't know how I would have found them, but very cool and made me very.
I love this. So support baby mosh pits. Support your local baby mosh pit. You know. I think that it'd be ccool if other orchestras had it. Yeah. Right. I imagine it's fairly easy to get padding to put around, right? Yeah, I think we could do this. And also, it's good to get the kids learning concert etiquette young. A hundred percent. Yeah. I think it reminds me a lot of. I mean, there are a lot of. There's a lot of literature about orchestra music, things like Beethoven being good for baby's
brains, whatever. I think in general, music is good for baby's brains, so, I mean, they could be playing, fucking, whatever, and it'd be dope. Yeah. But I think that that's cool. I think they'd be very awesome. I haven't seen an orchestra in, like, a decade, but I would love to. Instead of being in those really uncomfortable theater seats, to just chill out and hang. Yeah, but go get your babies
and let them see the orchestra in a comfortable and also safe way. I don't usually bring baby content to the show. But it is a treat whenever you do. Yeah, 100%. I just wish that sometimes we would get a little bit of a heads up for some of our current events so that when this news drops, I don't get an alert on my watch that my heart rate is gonna go up out of nowhere in the middle of a work day. I'm happy about it. I would just like a little bit of
a heads up, you know what I mean? Yeah. That's all because this really came out of. Came out of the blue here. Yeah. Yeah. We've been talking about it for years, and it's like, I've been so used to being disappointed, so when we get a treat, it's so nice, you know? Yeah. We don't really have faith in Warner Brothers. Could you please take the. Take the class to Robert movie corner, please? Thank God. We're so back. Pew, pew, pew, pew. It's Robert
Pattinson corner. Okay. And it's more specifically fucking Mickey 17 time. Finally, after years of being jerked around by the Warner Brothers Corporation and being like, oh, no, we can't release this. No, it's too expensive. It's too. People won't like it. Oh, no. Oh, God. Guess what? It's actually. Yeah. Cowards, first of all. But we finally got a trailer plus a release date. Thank fuck that hasn't been pushed, you know, indefinitely as it was previously. Right. And I'm. I'm so
excited. Like, I was watching this trailer. I was, like, vibrating and levitating in ways I've never been before because I guess, too, like, we knew, like, a little bit about the contents, but a lot of it was very, like, shrouded in secrecy and stuff, like, what actually, the tone of things were going to be, and I was thinking it would be in, like, you know, the Robert Pattinson "High Life" sci-fi kind of arena. 100%. But this is fucking goofy as shit, and I love it so
much. I'm so excited. I can't remember the last time that I saw a trailer that Robert was in. And I giggled the whole time. Yeah. Where he smiles, where he laughs. It's been so long, and I wasn't giggling. Oh, Robert, you weirdo. I'm gonna have to suffer through this for content. I was in a. Oh, my God, I'm gonna love this. Yeah. This is so fun. Everything about this is incredibly exciting to me. I love that we're operating in a space where there are two canonical Robert Pattinson's
cloned together. I love that. That's very exciting. To me, I love his silly little voice in this. That's how you know it's gonna be a hit. He throws on a little accent. We're good. You kidding? This man and his silly little voices. I'm obsessed. Like, I think he realized, like, he locked in for. Even for, you know, good time. You could argue, too. But I think. I think it really locked in with boy in the heron of being like, oh, this is. The people love this. Like, the people love
when I do this. And this is what he truly loves most in this world, I think, is to just get in there and be a little freak. And thank God for that. And he's so good at being a little freak. Yes. The best to ever do it. I I already knew I was gonna love this because there's. I don't know that I've seen a bong Joon ho piece that I don't love. I already knew from, even if it was shrouded in mystery from the cast, I was going to be into this. This trailer only made me more excited
knowing that we have a star studded cast. And about 50% of that cast is Robert Pattinson. And Robert Pattinson. And Robert Pattinson. Yes. There are a lot of mickeys in this, and I'm so interested. You know what's also really beautiful to me? The fact that in January, when this comes out, not only will we have this movie with Robert and Steven Yuan, we will also have the week before the Kristen Stewart movie with Steven Yeun. They're both at the end of January.
Oops. All Steven. He's the web that connects them all. Are you kidding? Like, get them all in a room together and let's make some magic happen, baby. Are you kidding? He's gonna have to do a lot of press that month. That sounds tiring. Yeah. Yes. He's gonna be worn out, but you gotta hand it to him. But, oh, my God, what a time to be alive. And I. Steven in this looks so good. I honestly forgot that Mark was in this too. Yeah. I'm just so excited. Naomi looked
really good. Like, the whole, I'm in it. I see the vision. I'm really excited. I just. I'm. I'm good to wait. I think the January makes sense. Yeah. I don't want to rush anything because I understand the vision, even though they pushed it. I'm not going to demand more because I don't want Warner Bros. To be like, yeah. I don't want them to get scared. We're grateful for what we have. But I'm just really excited. And I think that this feels really different than high life.
To me, high life was so sad, and this, in and of itself, is sad. Like, don't get me wrong, the premise of this is sad. Yeah, for sure. Totally. But it's also very funny because Robert's in it, and he's gonna put his weird, funky little twist on it, and I'm very interested in it. The thing that I'm not sure about, and you might have more insight on this, there also might be folks who are in the industry that might have more insight on
this. There's been a lot of hubbub about keeping movies in theaters and not, yeah, putting them on VOD. I am not in the industry. I am only someone who likes having content on demand. I don't care if it's in the theaters as well. I like to be able to have it on demand because I can't go to the theater to see it. Right. So why can't it be both, is my question. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I see a lot of people. That being, like, don't. Don't put it on VOD. It's gonna ruin
film. And I don't get it because I. There's an audience of people like myself who cannot go to the theater and want to support. Right. And I think, too, like, I think that's a very, like, uh, like, a lukewarm, like, actual representation of the thing, because I feel like having. And we've seen this, too, in. In previous movies and stuff that, like, if it's gonna work well in theaters, it's gonna work well in theaters. Like, having it available on demand doesn't truly impact that much. Having it
on streaming, maybe. Right. Because then it's a different, like, okay, like, someone will go on Netflix, right? Like, Netflix will have the movie in a theater for a week and then put it on Netflix. Right? And everyone has a Netflix subscription, so, like, oh, it's for free. I just got a free movie, and I don't have to go to a theater. But, like, for most things, especially for the VOD era of stuff, those things are, like, $25 rentals. You know what I mean? Like, and that's, like, almost
as much, if not more, than going to see a movie in the theaters. And so people aren't really making that jump unless they, like, you know, it's a priority for them to see it, and they want to see it. And also in a way that's accessible, obviously, maybe it shouldn't be, like, 30 american dollars, but, like, I think that's a big sticking point of, like, it's not really going to hamper the theatrical performance because people, most people don't like paying
$30 to see it at home. It's only people that are probably, like, this is the option that I have. So, like, I don't. I don't understand the beef, you know. I think there's an issue of the world of, like, why is the cost of a ticket and Vod both $30 that I don't like. Right. And, like, if Mickey 17 doesn't go on streaming
for a year after this, fine. Right. But, yeah, if I can see it on demand, like, if I can pay for a rental in the same day as release or two months after release, I would like to support them. I will hate to. For sure. Yeah. Because I can't go. I want to give you the money. Right. I was going to watch it anyways. Right. I think that I am not in the industry, so I don't know, but it's just like, yeah, hey,
I can't go because it's not safe. But I also know there were people before who have, like, allergies to corn who couldn't go anywhere, so. Right. Yeah. Why is that ruining. We can all win here and support, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe. Is there a way to fix the problem so that it doesn't ruin the industry that way? I guess. Right. Just let me in. Let me watch the goddamn movie. Yeah. That's all I want. Yeah. Don't get me wrong. Do I want
a blue raspberry slushy? Sure. Sure. I'm making do, you know? Yeah. I'm very excited to watch this. It's gonna be a great month for film. Yeah. Whew. I didn't realize until looking this up for today's episode. Episode? This is the 50th episode of the Vampire Diaries. Whoa. We made it. Indeed. We had it. Happy senior year to all who celebrate. Happy 50th episode. It really does. It do be smelling like teen spirit up in these halls? It. Yeah, absolutely, it does.
Hey, quick question to the writers. I thought when this show started that Jeremy was a freshman, so why is he doing it now? Yeah. Do we do a little time skip here? Let's go. Just for him, though, in addition to playing wow this summer and working at the Mystic Grill, did he do some extra classes or what's up? Yeah. Did him die? Give him an extra life or, like, what's good? Yeah, he was doing some, like, what's the word? Independent study with his ghost girls. Yeah,
that's true. His time at the summer working at the mystic girl was actually an independent study for a couple classes, and it just bumped him up to being a junior. Yeah. You're so right. I can't believe I didn't have think of that. Yeah, you always gotta. You can't forget about independent study because that's the life hack. That's so right. I can't believe I forgot that most of this school runs on independent study. My bad. Yeah. Fuck. I I'm so obsessed with Elena becoming a powerlifter. She's.
She's so in her grind. She's locked in. She's training. She's ready to kill everyone if need be. We love to see it. Rick is out here being like, all right, let's go. Like, they're having their little, you know, Rocky moment of just like, let's go. Here we are. We're running up the stairs. We're learning how guns work. We're, you know, we're figuring out vampire stuff. Let's go. It meant everything to me to see them before the first day of your senior year. Caroline is making sure that her curls
are great. Bonnie's doing protection skills on everyone. Elain is out here in the woods behind their house just absolutely shredding at this time. Yeah. I love her. I. It means so much to me. It's really. I knew, I think I underestimated Rick's power to find vampire shit because. What do you mean that there are vervain grenades? Yeah. Like, I
think this entire time, Rick in the background, I was just. And continuing to collect his, his treasures and hunting things and just can at any moment be like, oh, here's the stuff that's always existed we knew of, you know, grenades with vervain in them. Totally. For sure. Like, okay. Okay, mister scientist, what are you doing in here? What's going on? What. I need. I need a little bit more. I can't believe I didn't think I'd ever say this, but I do need a little bit more on
the. I would like to know a little bit more about these weapons, my guy. Yeah, I am. I do have questions, you know, and I feel like I'm not really getting a lot of answers about them. Yeah. I also would like to know when Elena got a key to Rick's apartment so that she can just go absolutely shred in there. She. At this, at the end
of her senior year, she will own half of the property in this town. Like, she will have half the property in Mystic Falls in some way or another, whether it's by, you know, the actual title to that two houses or just the keys to every home in mysticals. I don't know how she does it. I mean, bless this mess. You know what I mean? She's got real estate on the mind, and you got to respect that. One of my favorite moments in this, it reminds me
of. I think it's the Debbie Downer SNL sketch when Bonnie, Caroline, and Elena are all rocking up to the school in the morning of. And they're all doing the like, damn, our boyfriends suck. Bonnie's like, fucking Jeremy. He's always talking to dead girls. He's not paying attention to me. Fuck this dude. Caroline's like my hybrid boyfriend. He's being an asshole. And then Elaine's like, yeah, who's wearing a scarf now, by the way? She's doing the caroline thing from season one.
Yes, absolutely. And she's like, today's supposed to be our anniversary. And they both turn in and they're like, God damn, Elena. Jesus. Yeah, we're trying to have, like, a little bit of a light fun, like, poking at our, you know, our misfortunes. And you just kind of went there, Elena, a little too far. You brought it way down. I love too. Yeah, it's like, man, the vibes were supposed to be just a little more goofy, but okay. He didn't take the note. That's all right. Elena has her own personal
dark cloud around her. And it's like, jesus christ, girl got a little rainstorm. It's like, well, I just want to be dead. And it's like, Elena, can we listen? Get up, girl. Come on. Like, fuck, yeah. They both turn to her and I. Love to that, like, hey, I'm. Hey, are you good? Like, do you need to go job? Yeah, I know. We're all kind of. Joshing, you seem really. You're bringing a real dark energy, and it's like, 08:00 a.m.
Yeah, I love to see that. Like, Elena is very much, like, struggling to be there, obviously, and just being like, it's honestly a miracle that I'm here. And Caroline's just, like, fixing the poster for the bonfire. And she's like, oh, I forgot about it. And Caroline's, well, duh, you have to come. It's like, Caroline, this woman is not here. Like, I know you're just gonna be like, oh, fun. It's a little event I plan. It's gonna be fun. We'll get drunk. It'll be so cool. And she's like,
I want to die. She's so good at compartmentalizing, which is not a good thing. Like, no, Caroline. But she's imppressive when she does it. Caroline is having her own problems here. Like, I relate to her a lot with that, but I love the way that she handles Elena, being like, alina, you can't. It's the first night out. It's a Tuesday. We're all gonna hang out until 02:00 a.m. at kid trunk. You can't just not come into that. Yeah. Come on. God, I
love her so much. I love her. I love her so much. She's so good in this episode. I knew this after last week's episode, but Paul. Paul, this episode. Yeah. So important to me. And I know that it says a lot more about me, but he's a lot hotter. Yeah. I also too, like, he. Because he's given such a. He's getting early Damon energy of, like, no remorse. No, like, care for other people. He's crashing at, technically, their place. Technically Elena's place.
And having all these women around and ruining their rugs and just. Just drinking human blood like it's. There's no tomorrow. And it really brings a certain energy. Cause Damon now is forced to be kind of like the more sane one. And he's like, ah, God, I have to go to the dry cleaning for this. And, like, you're making a mess out of this place and you're really annoying to live with now that you're like this. He's like, Stefan, I didn't even. We
didn't even own the game twister before this. You had to go and buy twister at some point last night. What is your. What are you doing now? I've been explaining to someone how we got blood all over this persian rug. Like, I don't have time for this. Right? Like, you are a toddler and I'm just, like, working around you, and it's very frustrating. But also, I'm so glad that you brought that up because how the fuck did Rebecca get into their house? That's Elena's house. I know. I just.
I know that she's. She's an original, right? So, like, maybe the rules don't apply to her or whatever. Yeah. Then why. Why did Elena get the house to begin? Right. It feels like really the purpose is not being fulfilled. Can we spend 20 minutes talking about Rebecca's hair feathers? They. I mean, I think we would have enough material for sure. For 20. Because I felt so triggered as someone who was in high school when this came out. Yeah, I never got them. I never got them because, hey, they
don't work on curly hair. That's not a thing. Sure. That was reserved for people that looked like Rebecca, that were the popular kids. I'm honestly surprised Caroline doesn't have them because it was a popular thing. Yeah. But it was specifically the brand. It was the pink zebra that she had that really brought the Jersey shore energy to it that. Yeah. I was grateful for the authenticity of the moment, I
think. Yeah. Her leaning into. Yeah, I'm, like, 100 years old, but I'm really gonna pretend like I'm 18 here. Yeah. That I'm. I appreciate. Yeah. I love that both her and Stefan re enroll in high school because it really gives the energy of, like, so there's this 50 year old woman here, you know, that's, like, the energy that's happening and her just being like, hey, Rick. Mister Rick. Yeah, I'm new here, and, like, history is my favorite subject. It's like, what is happening?
What is going on? I do love, and I know that this has to happen. Cause it's a television show, but the fact that they're all assigned to the same history class, it's just chef's kiss to me. It's really beautiful. It's so good. Their one actual class that they take every day means the world to me. Yeah. So good. I'm glad that there is a actual explanation for this that we find out. But I hated, for most of this episode to see Tyler go back to douchebag Tyler. Dude, it was so
painful. Like, we were starting to finally like you, man. Mm hmm. I was rooting for you. Yeah, we were. And that's. That's saying something. And he's like, oh, man, Klaus, that's my. That's my number one dog. He made me the coolest, official number one hybrid. I'm patient zero, baby. And I'm the coolest ever. This is so sick. And Caroline is like, you are being embarrassing and rude. Also, you are sloppy because there's
blood on your shirt from your breakfast. How about you tone it down a fucking notch and you're compulsing people in public. Very obviously. How about you lay low, idiot? God, I loved that moment, too. Not only when he, like, rocked up, but later on that night when he was talking about Klaus and Damon just, like, slowly walking towards him with. And Caroline's like, no, no, no. We gotta take him out. Damon's like, you know what? I don't fucking have time for this.
Yeah. But to know that, it's like. I'm just like, there's too many annoying, annoying things. Yeah, that's wild. Yeah, I don't like it. But it is gonna pose some interesting loyalty questions. Especially near the end of the episode when he was just had sex with Caroline and then Rebecca rocks up and he's like, like, well, okay, yeah, I guess I'll do what you do. Oh, yeah, sorry, gotta go. I got some important things to do. It's like, motherfucker. Especially after being
like, oh, Caroline, I don't want to be who I was. And like, the only thing I like about me is you. It's like I. Brother in Christ, what are we doing here? First of all, no, second of all, step up. What's going on here? Jesus. Also, where's your mom? Right. Dad's office right now. My guy. Yeah. Where's your parents? God. Yeah. So embarrassing. I. It brings a very interesting complication. But I don't like it. I don't like it when Tyler goes back to being. Being a douchebag.
Not only cause I trusted you, but also can Caroline just have like one fucking good thing, please? No, not one. Also, speaking of that, this is the first day of school and they won't let Bonnie relax ever. No. Can't catch a fucking break out here. And it's. She is having to clean up Matt's mess and I'm so over it because, listen, is it sad that Vicki manipulated her alive brother to try and do a mystery which is bidding? Yeah, right. But sure, Matt,
it's the first day. Don't you think that Bonnie wanted to go out and hang out with her friends? Why are you asking her to be at the school and clean up your mess? Let her have a limerita in the back, in the back woods and fucking chill out. God, she deserves and also Mike's heart like everyone else. Absolutely. Yeah. I don't condone and or agree with underage drinking, but God damn, if anyone deserves a drink, it's Bonnie.
Absolutely, absolutely. And like, even like Matt is being annoying, but also Jeremy is being annoying. Also. Jeremy? Yeah, like fucking pick a side, my guy. Jesus Christ. Cuz he's like, oh my God, Anna. I can't stop thinking about her, but like, it's totally random. I don't know why she keeps popping up.
I'm not trying to do anything, so whatever. And it's like, hey, if you knew that Vicky, because you're talking to Anna all the time, is trying to do some sort of thing and there's also another mystery witch involved. I don't know, that seems kind of like relevant information before it's too late to tell your girlfriend who's a witch. Did you forget? She's a witchen. What? Why are you just spending all your time in the. In the gray space with your ghost girlfriend? What?
What's going on? The most typical thing teenager Jeremy was. Yeah. Moments of really bright intelligence mixed with absolute no fear thought at all. Because him walking by Matt, pretending like he can't see Vicki, very smart, very Jeremy. And then coming back and talking to his ghost girlfriend, knowing that he has all of these pieces that very clearly fit together.
And instead of talking to his girlfriend, his witch girlfriend, about a witch problem, he's like, I'm gonna talk to my ghost girlfriend, who's a vampire, about a witch problem. Yeah, Jeremy. And why is my witch girlfriend mad. At me for smacking on the head at me? Because I can't stand thinking about her and I shouldn't be when I'm with my witch girlfriend. And why is my witch girlfriend mad at me for not coming to her about this problem? And also, I can't stop talking about my ghost
girlfriend. I just, like, figure it out. Like, life is just, like, so hard, and it is. Never wanted to shake him more. It is. Your life feels really hard, Jeremy. But I do also just want to shake you a little bit, you know? Yeah. Right. I don't think you're really. The excuses really run up to a certain point of your horrific life and childhood. You know, these are kind of current problems
that you're doing right now that. Are more on you. You have four puzzle pieces that fit together perfectly and you are trying to eat them. Why are you trying to eat them, Jeremy? Just put. Use your hands, Jeremy. God. Right. You're right there. But that's. That's honestly, that's a chain. That's a teenager if I've ever seen one. You know what I mean? You can lead a horse to water, you know? So I don't. I don't blame. I don't blame Bonnie
for being pissed. I also wouldn't want to be at this school any longer than you. You need to be on your first day the back so she can't catch a fucking break. I would love to know your thoughts on this plan that they've cooked up. For Stefan, like, galaxy brain, because, listen, everyone's being like, Elena. Get over it. Also, he doesn't have humanity anymore. It's never gonna work. You just gotta do it with, like, brain, brute force and, like, try to stabilize him.
So when other vampire comes into the mix to kill Klaus, maybe the bond will be lifted or whatever, but don't try to pretend like that's not the situation. And she's like, bet. But also, what if I think I can. I can crack him? What if I think. What if I can fix him? You know what I mean? Like, I just put me in there, coach, let me do. You keep saying it's impossible, but. Right. When has that ever worked on me, Elena Gilbert? Like, when is that phrase ever rung true to me?
Ever? That's not a sentence that exists in my brain. Everything that's happened to me you've said is impossible. So. Yeah, and so she gets, you know, a little drunk, but not maybe as drunk as she's presenting herself to be and does a little. They're chatting, you know, he's just being an asshole. And she's like, well, whoops, I'm drunk. What if I almost fall off of this thing? What would. What? What then? How about that? How about them apples? Yeah, this
was closer to the school than it seemed. Yeah, they were like, on, like, the. Yeah, it seemed more. Yeah, closer to there. And motherfucker, he catches her, and she has this grin on her fucking face of, like, I know it. I knew you do that. I knew it. I knew it. Which, to be fair, could also just be Stefan being, like, he is now programmed to protect just her physical body because she's a blood bank. But he calls her, earlier in the episode, a human blood bag, so. Yeah, not.
Which isn't great. You know, it's not fun to hear from your kind of boyfriend. But he does catch her, and she's like, gotcha, bitch. Rick comes out, you know, fucking gets his ass. Which I don't think Rick makes it very clear of, like, Elena. That was not part of the plan. I said to distract him, not take your suicidal ideation to almost fruition here. Right. Just on the off chance that he will swoop on it. Yeah, but she's like. But he did, though, so. But so. So it
worked, though. Yeah. I mean, just because Klaus compelled him doesn't mean that he had to succeed in saving, right? Yeah, for sure. Sure. Yeah. So. Yikes. But it did. I mean, they trained him, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Took him out back like old Yeller. He got lost. Yeah. He ran away. He's in a farm upstate. He's really happy there. But it lasted for, like, maybe 15 minutes. Yeah. So whatever was in those tranquil was not. Yeah. Like, Rick, what is your stash if you have not been
harboring this for decades? At this point, it seems like. And all these gizmos and gadgets yeah, it's like. And you're constantly growing vervain. Like, you have, like, a system going. On a little bit. You know, you have some sort of methodology here. Are you using old? Are these, like, the ones just from the back dusty corner of your fucking treasure chest? Like, what? What do you mean? Yeah, I think he must have grabbed the expired ones because
we're something. Maybe it was the fire that really activated Emir, because Stefan was not out for as long as he should have been. Yeah. Right. Which is unfortunate, but yeah. At the same time, the spell that Matt did worked, Vicki came back, and we found out what the cost was for Vicky coming back, which was to kill Elena. And we still don't know who the mystery witches at this point. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Because the trade in the way that she described it, too, was
like, there can't be hybrids. Like, that's the. And so immediately, Matt is like, don't kill Tyler. That's my dude. And she's like, no, no, no. You don't understand. We have to kill Elena because she's her blood. She's got. She's the one making all. She's got the juice inside of her. Right? So that's. That's a fun little condition. I love that. Whoever this witch is, she's got. She's cooking, she's got plans. So I'm intrigued by this, by this little piece of information. And
so the car gets set on fire. Not great. Very scary. As if Lena wasn't already scared enough. Bye, cars. Because her parents died that way, and. But it was only fine because of Bonnie. Not anything that Rick did with his fucking lacrosse stick, but bless his heart. And, yeah, that was a real. An effort of just, like, I gotta think fast. Let's go. X games moment with the O lacrosse stick. And
honestly, it might have worked. It might have tracked that window if the witch's powers weren't trying to keep that window sealed. Yeah. But thank you to Bonnie for taking Vicky out of the equation. That moment was sad. Yeah. But I. I have questions about this witchen. Yeah. That I would like to know more about, that we don't really get a lot. A lot of answers on. I will say that the. Something that I found distracting this episode was Damon. Elena. Yeah. They have. They have a
moment. I think it was in the middle of this episode when Elena was at Rick's apartment and she's. She's lifting weights. I don't know why Damon was there to begin with. Yeah. And he does his usual little. I think he was like, referencing Buffy, which I always find wild, that there's, like, the empire lore that exists in this world. Yeah. And him pointing out weak spots for a vampire in the most seductive way possible was so rude. Like, sir, this is
a. I thought this was a classy party. What are we. You can't just point out, like, where the sternum is and, like, where you should kill someone that way. That's not rude. Don't do that. Yeah, that's not nice. I. I feel like that would have. If that had come out of. If I'd watched this. When this had come out, that would have been very rude. That would have changed. Oh, yeah. I think. Yeah, I. There was. This was a very, like, maybe two minutes of this whole episode, but the Katherine Michael
stuff. Yeah. They made it seem like she's not gonna survive him feeding off of her. Yeah. Because she looked already really out of shape. Yeah. In that, uh, whole. All of her cuts and stuff here, but. Jesus. But getting confirmation that he can and also will kill Klaus was interesting. Yeah. It's like, okay, all right. Uh, you don't have chains on you anymore, so I'm intrigued now. Yeah, I. Alright. I have. I have questions. How did you feel about the end of this episode with Elena
stabbing Stefan fucking baller? I love that. This episode. The touching was. Yeah, there's a lot of. Yes. And again, Rick is always just kind of in the corner being like, what are you guys? I'm just asking you to do very simple things of either, you know, just knock them out for a second or. What. Why is there so much lingering? Why are you always just whispering?
And she's like, hey, man, I know you aren't a person and haven't been and also now have no humanity, but I really do think I can feel fix you. And I will just be belligerent about it until you crack. And he's like, you sound really silly and you suck. And sorry. It's like, all right, bitch, that mother. Hurts so bad the way that he said it of, like, do you have any idea how pathetic that makes you? It's just like, fuck. I think she does, actually. Right?
But she can't stop. Like, she knows that, but what else does she have right now? She's running on these fuels. Like, she's gotta just see it to its. Its end, you know? And it's very. It is pathetic, for sure. But she's like, I know, bitch. I'm. I'm just scared and I hate this. But, like, this is all I got right now. This is the biggest challenge. But that doesn't mean that I'm not gonna stab you and walk away. I'm just. I gotta keep trying.
Right. Yeah. Speaking of touching, to have the episode end with Jeremy and Anna being able to. What is going on? Yeah. They mentioned earlier on in this episode that, like, if. If Vicki came back, it was gonna, like, fuck with the balance of things. Yeah. The space continuum would be right. Which makes sense in theory that, like, she. I mean, she wasn't supposed to die that way, but, like, she did die, and so she should move on, and so she were gonna come back then something.
Then the balance would be off, theoretically. But that does not accept. Explain Anna. What it does explain is the fact that Mason. I mean, to me, what it would say is, like, if someone came back that wasn't supposed to, what I initially thought is that the cost was that Matt was gonna die for good. Like, I thought it was gonna be a one for one. But if the balance is now off in the, like, life or death, are people just going to keep coming back?
Because if Anna can now touch, does that mean she's alive? Mason's now back. Like, are all of the people coming back now? It feels like it's just gonna open. Like, the portal to be dragging that. To be playing that card, I guess. Yeah. That's usually, like, a season seven card, right, when you start running out of ideas. Yeah. It's like, what if all of your favorites from the first couple
seasons. Yeah. The people that have, like, already been running the convention circuits are coming back kind of thing. Right. But. But now Mason's in at the Salvatore house just, like, wreaking havoc. Yeah. Now I'm scared. But appropriately, next week is titled Ghost World. Yeah, this was the episode I could find the least amount of photos of and the one photo that I could find. It looks like Elena has two dads. Yeah. This is, like, Rachel Berry out to dinner with dance. It looks like.
It looks like Rick and Stefan are sitting Elena down and being like, so we want to talk to you about, like, your college fun and how much we have saved up for you. Like, yeah. God, I love Elena and her. What a dress world it would be if that was the show. Yeah. These two dudes who have to keep her safe but aren't morally tied to her in any way. Tell me that's not the show. No, literally. Oh, God. We have some amazing patrons that we would like to thank. Do you want to start us
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for you. Okay. It is by the author, the God hecate. I did not look at this author beforehand. I love. I love to see gods on ao three, titled I'm gonna steal you from him. The summary is. Oh, I'm not gonna read the summary. The summary. This is from Katherine's pov. I'm not gonna read the summary because that's why I chose this. It's all one chapter. Catherine remembers loving Damon. It was an exciting time. Two boys circling her like happy puppies. So unlike the wolves she
was running from. Warm hands holding her own and warmer lips, heartbeats filling the absence in her chest. There were moments, long after she played dead and left the boys behind, that she thought about Damon and Stefan and the games she played. Smirks and smiles. Lust and sacrifice. Sometimes she looked for them. Damon amused her. He was a child playing with toys too big for him, slamming them together in a bloody rhythm. A young vampire. And she had never acted
like that. Never had the time or the mercy. But she can't resent him for it. And she slips away before he has a chance to notice her. Watching Stefan hurt. But she watched him. And she watched Damon. Sometimes she stepped in and cleared away the obstacles in their way or the debris they left behind. And then things got complicated because they found Elena. And Klaus followed suit. And it all exploded, just as it did decades ago when Claus first found her. Elena. Her
degraded echo, Klaus success. And Catherine doesn't even gain anything from it all. Now, after a few messes between Klaus and the werewolves, and right in the middle of stylus game, here they are. Elena and Damon and their little roadside attraction of a romance. Loving Damon doesn't look good on Elena. It looks painful. Oh, God. I hope this isn't the end of Katherine. Cause I do love her. But I am worried. I'm a little worried, but we'll see. Yeah. My girl.
We just need some more bad bitches, that's all. God, yeah. It's so hard out here. I know. Well, friends, we have given you some amazing suggestions this week. Tell your friends about the show. We've got 50 episodes of the Vampire diaries to catch up on, which is great. And as we say here in the Pacific Northwest, get bit. Into the Twilight is an Earbud Media production. You can follow us on Twitter
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