*Spoiler Free* Those That Listen To The Level7Access Podcast

I had a chance to listen to this. I thought that I commented on it, but I see that I forgot to post.

First, a warning to anyone else who plans to listen to this: the podcast is well over two hours, so make sure that you allot enough time.

In general, if you did not say that this was only your second time recording, I would not have guessed. If you did not mention a speech disorder, I would have assumed that what I heard were just technical glitches. In fact, I still believe that they were simply technical glitches.

I did not take notes, so I cannot comment on much of the talk. I do remember a couple of points.

When the group was discussing the question about whether "they" were drinking real alcohol, I first thought that the "they" referred to the characters. When you said that at least one was not drinking real alcohol, my first thought was, "please tell me that you are not saying that Simmons was really pregnant and drinking fake alcohol," before I realized that you were talking about the actors. I assume that Clark Gregg was the actor that you were sure was not drinking real alcohol. Actually, while there is not a law against drinking alcohol on camera, most networks' standards and practices departments frown on the consumption of real alcohol as do insurance companies. It is near certain that the actors were drinking iced tea.

I used to teach writing classes, so I am a bit picky about grammar. In the podcast, you made a reference to "Cubbies." The word, "Cubbies," may be used only in reference to the Chicago Cubs winning. For example, "The Cubbies won!" is grammatically correct, but "The Cubbies lost," is grammatically incorrect. One would say, "The Cubs lost," instead. It is also grammatically incorrect to use "Cubbies" in other contexts, such as being casualties in a charmingly retro visual effect of a spaceship crashing.

I know the Grammar was bad but I was insulting the Cubs so I didn't care. I *am* an English major after all.

And they *were* technical glitches... it's just they were glitches in the language center of my brain.

Also, yes, CG was who I was referring to.

Talk about the length of the episode, our Skype call was close to 3 and a half hours.

Michal referenced me in their recently released 'Ant-Man' episode...

If I understand correctly, you bribed them to do this podcast in 2017, yet they did not post it until this week. Furthermore, you already perform a service for them by writing the summaries. I think that they should at least give you your money back.

One of my local NPR stations opened a promo with something along the lines of, "If your New Year's resolution is to listen to more podcasts..." I did not make that resolution (or any for that matter), but I gave yours a listen.

Regarding the episode itself, I agree that it was a meh episode. As you can see below, I was more interested in the sports commentary than on "Meet the New Boss." I did not find the ghosts to be compelling, and, at the time it aired, I was still ambivalent about Ghost Rider. You and the other commentators did a good job, but this episode did not supply nearly as much to work with than what most other episodes supply.

You seem upset that Los Angeles stole back the football team that St. Louis stole from them in the first place. Actually, St. Louis stole them from Anaheim, who stole them from Los Angeles, who stole them from Cleveland. Expecting them to stick around is like dating a serial cheater and expecting him/her to be faithful. If you were angry about Arizona swiping the Cardinals, that would be more understandable as they merely left Chicago (where they were a surplus team) for St. Louis without the intermediate steps.

I can confirm that many people in the Los Angeles area, including a fair number of football fans, were indifferent about the Rams returning, although traffic is probably low on the reasons why. Part of the reason is that there are enough things to do in the Los Angeles area already, so there was no need for any more teams. For sports fans in general, Los Angeles is primarily a Laker-Dodger town, and football fans already had USC and UCLA. Also, for professional football fans, not having an NFL team meant that they got to see the top games on broadcast television rather than having to see the local teams instead. Fans seem to be slowly embracing the Rams, but there are still questions of what the Chargers are doing here. It helps that both of them made the playoffs this year, although the Raiders had trouble selling out home playoff games when they were in Los Angeles.

By the way, I understand your feelings toward the Cubs in the podcast for "The End." The Cub-Cardinal rivalry is one of the biggest in baseball. What do you have against the Dodgers?