Author: Dick Ebert

Dear Ashley, I think this is Caleb’s 2 or 3 time through. The first time would have been when he was diagnosed as an outlier. At the end of that he would have been given his friend Francis and they would go to war as buddies. The second would have...

Hey Hosts! I’m going to make this quick because it’s already 11:30 on Wednesday here in SF, and I want to get this to you on time. Could Engerraud be a fragment of Jean Mi’s imagination/personality, since Jean Mi was schizophrenic? We aren’t certain if Engerraud is real since most...

Hi guys, The Passed Pawn episode tried to borrow from the Matrix in its reliance on an electromagnetic pulse to be the ultimate weapon against the machine world. It kind of made sense in the Matrix because presumably the squid machines were not organic but semiconductor based objects. The way...

Hi, I was rewatching Ep 7 tonight, and trying to figure out if Caleb’s entire military career is fabricated. He says “the quants fed us names” – who are the quants? Were they just getting data from RICO but that part of his memory is blurred? Michael C

Hey all. Enjoyed the deep dive (even without Big D!). Ashley – you mentioned your husband was / is a competitive chess player and explained to you that when a pawn reaches the eighth rank it can ‘be replaced with a piece that’s already been taken away from you and...

Hi All, Love the show, thank you much. I was thinking about all the worlds nested within worlds in the show and it got me thinking: (Seinfeld voice) What is the deal with the Valley Beyond? The Valley Beyond is nested inside the Forge that has all the Guest data....

Hey guys, Love the podcast, but I’ve got a question I have not heard anyone talk about. Weren’t there two Solomon’s? There was one that Caleb was talking to, with the human cold storage. And there was one with Dolores, Maeve, and the EMP. My question is why are there...

Hello Shatworld, Here’s a quick thought. If this entire season turns out to be a simulation, I hope they’ll fully embrace the insanity of it with a musical number. Ford on the piano as the rest of cast sings “Que Serac Serac, whatever will be, will be. The future’s not...