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Love the podcast so much and thanks for the three episodes each week. I can’t seem to find anyone IRL that watches this show and I can’t seem to get enough of good, smart commentary like what you provide.

I too was surprised when you mentioned that ratings are down, but I agree with what you said on the Deep Dive about the audience needs to be at least somewhat interested in ideas and bigger picture themes than just sex and violence. That is why I love this show so much and can’t stop thinking about it. I’m not sure why I never watched it when it first came out in 2016, but I happened to start during one of the snowed in weekends we had and could not stop watching. Thank god I didn’t have to wait 18 months for Season 2 because I am slightly obsessed with W/.

Anyway, I was driving home from work today and was listening to yours and another cast I look forward to each week and the word HOST kept jumping out at me. How many times do you think you’ve heard or said that word while watching or recording? Thousands probably. Now that a big theme of duality and characters changing “sides” has emerged, I can’t help but think that word also has its own duality. I don’t think this has come up as a topic, BUT…

In S1, the word host held the – mostly positive – connotation of the following definitions: 1. a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere; 2. a person, place, company, or the like, that provides services,resources, etc., as for a convention or sporting event In S1, they were there to take care of the guests, see to their every need, cater to them and entertain them. To host the guests.

Now, it’s S2 and the word host has taken on a darker connotation and definition: 1. a living animal or plant from which a parasite obtains nutrition. The “hosts” are now being used as a vessel to keep a person’s conscious mind alive.

Which one is their true reality as a HOST?

And, you can take it one step farther and reference the HOST as the Holy Eucharist as it is in Catholicism: The term Eucharist is also used for the bread and wine when transubstantiated (their substance having been changed), according to Catholic teaching, into the body and blood of Jesus Christ. The HOSTs are being consumed in order to trigger the change into body and blood… This one may be reaching, but still…

Just some driving thoughts for you to ponder…

PS: Roger – were you the Roger Roeper that Gary Dell’Abate gave a shoutout to on the Howard Stern Show last week? If it was, were you, or are you ever on the Wrap Up Show? It sounded like it was you and you were… Love Stern too. I would love it if that were true!

Thanks guys, from a big fan,
Kim in NJ

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