Sweet Child Of Time: Recaps Of Time Related TV Shows And Movies · Steve Barnes hosts; cohosts James McCollum, and Lindsey Dunn

Welcome To Derry Discussion with Charlotte Barnes pt 1

March 26, 2026·1 hr 11 min·4 clips

The Shakopeewa story about the Galoos is Charlotte's favorite part of the season.

Steve opens with the usual housekeeping. James sends listeners to the video version on YouTube and Spotify, with a joke about finally seeing what Steve looks like. Then the conversation loosens up. Steve says it feels good to have an official podcast discussion again after two or three months away, and Charlotte gives him someone new to play off. He treats her as a younger viewer, which matters because he thinks Welcome to Derry may be speaking to that audience. They wander through the kind of talk that happens after a show has been sitting in your head for a while. Before they get to the scary scenes, they compare split movie structures, IT Chapter One and Chapter Two, and the business side of stretching one story across releases. Charlotte makes the franchise point cleanly: some two-part movies feel like one long movie split in half, with no real need for a third part. Steve follows along without turning it into a lecture. They have fun with the idea that a very long Marvel movie could have been divided and sold twice. Then the horror takes over. Steve asks which scenes from episodes one through five have stayed with Charlotte. She goes straight to Dick entering Daniel's mind and hearing the Indian origin story about Pennywise, his forms, and the protective Galoo. Steve perks up because he had written down the same scene as one of his favorites. That shared reaction is the best part of the episode. For Steve, the episode four sequence gave him goosebumps and made the series feel like it was building toward something bigger. Charlotte agrees, but keeps it casual. The ending stays loose, with Instagram handles, Steve thanking Charlotte for letting him be social again, and a promise that the conversation will continue.

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