For some light summer watching/listening, Jana and returning friend of the show Lily got together to yell about the relatively tame first episode of Critical Role's Exandria Unlimited Calamity Episode 1: Excelsior; the horrors of putting a god in time-out, literal late stage capitalism, mages in charge, and being observed at a party notwithstanding.

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:20 - Summer Fun Explanation

0:04:14 - Dramatis Personae

0:09:04 - Content Warnings: End of the World, Violence, Blood, Body Horror, Memory Modification, Discussion of Eco Fascism

00:11:00 - Out of Game Tidbits

00:13:10 - High-Level Recap

0:21:17 - Tone And Whiplash

0:32:39 - The Existential Horror of Flying a City Through Late Stage Capitalism

0:45:11 - Movers, Shakers, and the Most Dramatic Bitches of the Age

01:01:49 - Bread Crumb Trail of Doom

01:24:25 - The Purvan Scale

01:36:48 - Post-Credits Credits

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Music "Red Fox Tavern" by Curran Son, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBpKUIyOHdo

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