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267 - The Exorcist (1973) and GOODBYE!

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They start by saying episode 267 is the final one. The hosts lean into the joke and keep talking anyway, which feels right for the whole run. They point out that there are still plenty of movies untouched after five years. Horror keeps surprising them in scale. It still feels like a smaller, often overlooked genre to them, even though it has produced a huge amount of material. That turns into a reminder that the category is easy to miss but hard to exhaust. The conversation settles onto The Exorcist and its place as a familiar horror title. From there, they move into the messy parts of the film's possession story. They push back on the idea that the Ouija board deserves all the blame. The horse, they joke, is the real culprit. That riff turns into a bit about Regan talking to Captain Howdy and acting like that is perfectly normal. The hosts then compare that to their own imaginary-friend histories. One of them remembers having an imaginary friend named Gus. The memory is oddly specific, down to where Gus's house was and what color it used to be. The joke lands even harder when that same name turns out to have been a childhood nickname. They riff on imaginary-friend rank as if the friend could be promoted through the military. That kind of nonsense is exactly why the episode feels like these hosts. Even as the goodbye lands, they keep drifting back to the show's email, the internet's habit of never forgetting anything, and the idea that the podcast will still be there to hear later. The ending is all sign-off, with a final bloodthirsty joke, a note that they still check the email, and a closing complaint about absent studio cats. It ends like a door left open after a long, loud night.

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A messy farewell wrapped around The Exorcist.

Episode 267 uses The Exorcist as the frame for a goodbye, and the hosts make clear early that this is their last episode after five years and 266 earlier installments.

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Press play for a horror-movie goodbye that is also the show's last episode, with plenty of dumb Ouija-board jokes.

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