Episode 428 - S19E18 - Service

**Matthew Reuter** (0:05)
Hello listeners, and welcome back to another episode of Law and Order Special Viewing Unit, the show where we view, review, and lovingly ridicule everyone's favorite question mark cop drama, Law and Order Special Victims Unit, every episode in a pro from the beginning.

**Aviv** (0:18)
So you don't have to.

**Matthew Reuter** (0:22)
Hi, I am your host, Matt Reuter, joining me as always. The- we don't have any good side characters in this week's episode.
The- you can be the Wade Knight, the scuzzy-

**Aviv** (0:38)
Grigor.

**Matthew Reuter** (0:39)
Yeah, you can be Grigor, the scuzzy motel operator manager. Uh, that's me from the side over there. How are you doing tonight, Aviv?

**Aviv** (0:49)
I know what it's like to blow up some steam, throw a few dollars at some ass.

**Matthew Reuter** (0:53)
You got to go out to uncork. I believe this is the phrase. I'm like, that's, that's a very specific way of saying that.

**Aviv** (1:00)
Finn, you're a bitch with a capital C, Matt.

**Matthew Reuter** (1:03)
See, I thought that was going to be your line.

**Aviv** (1:05)
Yeah, there were a lot of good ones. I almost did James Preston, Sergeant, US. Army ID number 12019031010

**Matthew Reuter** (1:16)
This episode, like.

**Aviv** (1:18)
Holy shit, you guys.

**Matthew Reuter** (1:19)
I mean, we're playing all the hits at this point. It's like the military being apparently populated with exclusively terrible people.

**Aviv** (1:26)
But then awesome people at the end, right?

**Matthew Reuter** (1:29)
But like it, it's it's always like whenever the military is involved with this show, it's it's never like they're never depicted as heroes or good guys.
So here, it's always like just they're just trying to obstruct the police. Now, granted, it's like when Godzilla and King Kong are like destroying Tokyo.

**Aviv** (1:50)
But but I think I think yes, but there's also always this thing of like, well, I mean, these people are heroes and it's just a few bad apples that are operating, taking advantage of these heroes. But but if you serve your country, you're a hero. I have, I have, I have some unkind things to say about James Preston.
Sorry.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:13)
Oh, oh, oh, is that army ID?

**Matthew Reuter** (2:15)
Is that a fact?

**Aviv** (2:17)
Not about his gender.

**Matthew Reuter** (2:20)
Okay, well, I assumed as such, but it's probably good that you got ahead of that one in case it's someone's very simple things about trans people. Yeah, you never know. Every every episode could be someone's first episode of listening to the podcast and we don't want to attract the wrong element, the wrong kind of people.

**Aviv** (2:36)
If you can imagine the the user reviews on this pretty weird.

**Matthew Reuter** (2:44)
Yeah, I'm I'm not looking forward to that section of the show where we go through the user reviews because they're going to be polarized and both bad for different reasons.

**Aviv** (2:57)
They're not. I mean, they are polarized, but but there isn't a huge thing of like trans people in the military people. Yeah, I mean, they're they're they talk about trans people in the military, but but they're like Atex Chad is not. It feels like someone went through and deleted the most hateful stuff.

**Matthew Reuter** (3:17)
Oh, you mean they finally added a moderator to the IMDb reviews?

**Aviv** (3:20)
Just for this one episode, it seems.

**Matthew Reuter** (3:23)
I it's just like guys. Well, I mean, you know, at this point, it really does feel like they are writing these episodes in reverse.

**Aviv** (3:34)
They're just like while driving to set basically.

**Matthew Reuter** (3:38)
But they're like, OK, well, what's and again, I do understand, like the context of the time that these episodes, like the year was not that long ago. No, it was not that long ago. It was, you know, obviously first set of hell.
And now we're in the second set of hell. But it's and and during that era, that time hell even now, but it felt like it was worse back then.

**Aviv** (4:04)
But now it's much, much, much worse.

**Matthew Reuter** (4:07)
Right. But in a different way, because eight years ago, the fucking pedophile in chief, like was a lot more limber, like he was actually up around doing a lot more things and just spouting off.

**Aviv** (4:20)
And it's like there were people like sort of tamping him down from.

**Matthew Reuter** (4:23)
Yeah, like try to. So if there were something now, it's just he just is just shitting his pants in public, and everyone is just trying to pretend it didn't happen.