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We watched Kill. Bury. Print., the Peacock doc about a small-town Oklahoma sheriff caught on tape talking about killing the local newspaper family. Then we asked the question nobody wants pointed at themselves: what does a little power do to a decent person? Minister DJ Dangerfield says power puts our weaknesses on steroids, and he explains why truth was never obligated to protect your relationships or your rightness. Cody works out exactly which episode of The Office the newspaper borrowed its

Dave & Cody close out Ted Lasso Season 4 with the finale and a full season verdict. Cody compares the season to The Hangover Part II, takes a well-earned victory lap for calling the Higgins twist weeks ago, and catches a red-string callback you probably missed. Dave connects Ted’s blind spot with Henry back to what went wrong with Nate, makes the case for Ted as the kind of leader who’s genuinely happy when the people he built move on, and the guys argue over the strangest line in the episode.

Dave & Cody waited for the finale to air so they could spoil all eight episodes of HBO’s Lanterns, the Green Lantern murder mystery. They dug the Geek Phone out of the closet for the first time in ages to bring on Geek Scotty, the show’s resident comic book Merlin. He has the receipts for every lore complaint the fans raised. Cody admits a hologram almost made him cry and Dave admits the middle of the season got a little slow on him. In Deeper Themes, John’s parents get compared to Whiplash, a

The Lady Greyhounds play for promotion in the penultimate episode, and it delivers the feels . Cody, a man famously immune to TV feelings, admits he nearly cried, while Dave was ready to rank it near the bottom until the second half flipped him. Cody makes the case that Boots has been self-sabotaging all season, spots a Beyoncé-and-beehive connection that earns a rare co-Beard's Jam of the Week, and calls Shannon the next GOAT based entirely on her headphones. Plus a sneaky burner-phone catch

Cody has been waiting years for this episode. One of them gave it a 9.5. The other one gave it a 7, which for Dave is basically a love letter. Somewhere in between, we realized Patrick Swayze's motivational speaker is just Mama Boucher with frosted tips, and that it's the rare movie that takes a troubled teenager seriously. 25 years later, and we're still arguing about the ending.

Ted finds Alice crying and doesn't say a word. He just sits down and breathes with her. We gave that one to Cody, and he explains why "I'm sorry" is the first thing out of our mouths when we finally break...and what Ted's actually doing by saying nothing. Also: Cody's theory on who's buying up Richmond shares, and it is not who Rebecca thinks. Dave makes the case for an entire episode of nothing but Higgins doing detective work. And the two of them split hard on whether the Roy and Keeley payo

The song kicks in and the scene becomes permanent. Dave, Cody, & Geek Paul draft the greatest needle drops in movies and TV — with one strict rule: no songs written for the movie. That knocks out more of your favorites than you'd think, and yes, we read the list of casualties on air. Along the way we learn that "needle drop" started life as an accounting term, find out what diegetic means, and debate the song that's been permanently ruined by one scene. Plus: Greta Gerwig casts Meryl Streep a

Cody cracks the code on this one. He noticed the entire episode is built on three word phrases, and once you see it, you can't unsee it. Dave floats a theory about Alice's hair that may or may not be a very bad sign. The Diamond Dogs investigate whether Zelda is the scorpion in her own story, and Cody has a guess about what job she's really after. Also: why "Believe" hits different in a locker room full of women who were already running on it, a stat about reading to kids that'll make you feel

Dave and Cody agree this one's the funniest episode of the season — and then spend a chunk of it being mad at two scenes. Cody's therapist take on whether anything Roy says on that much pain medication counts as true. A real argument about whether Alice torching her own good night is bad writing or a character doing what she always does. Dave puts Keeley's hospital behavior on the record as a little devious. Plus Cody's practical case against the Beard age-gap romance, why the Roy and Keeley s