‘The Vampire Lestat’ Episodes 5 and 6 Deep Dive

**Joanna Robinson** (0:05)
No, you're not dreaming. It's House of R, Vampire Lestat, a little early in your feeds. I'm Joanna Robinson. Joining me today, the beautiful, the luminescent, the queen of the damned herself, Mallory Rubin.

**Mallory Rubin** (0:18)
Straighten your tie.
Inflate your lips, be it facial or labial. We're back.

**Joanna Robinson** (0:27)
Why did you just hit us? What was the other? You were deciding between two. What was the other one?

**Mallory Rubin** (0:30)
We really tore between that and bought a retirement villa, wallpapered her basement sex dungeon with billable hour invoices, which like, goals.

**Joanna Robinson** (0:38)
Yeah, like Christine could not be more Mallory goals coded. We're here to talk about Episode 5, New York, which is where those lines came from. And also Episode 6, Montreal.

**Mallory Rubin** (0:48)
That's right.

**Joanna Robinson** (0:49)
In which a lot of stuff happened and we'll get to all of that. Don't lose your head right after this.

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**SPEAKER_5** (1:23)
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**Mallory Rubin** (1:40)
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**Joanna Robinson** (2:06)
Quick programming reminders. The Vampire Lestat, every week-ish, we had missed last week, but we're doing a double dose this week, and then we'll be here at some point for the finale. We don't have screeners for the finale yet, so we don't know if we're getting them.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:19)
Monday the 20th at the absolute latest.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:20)
At the latest, probably. Will be my guess.
House of the Dragon.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:25)
That's right. Are we out of it?

**Joanna Robinson** (2:27)
A really fun special Talk the Thrones is coming for y'all this week. Also, the Deep Dive. That's right.
I'm excited.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:36)
Same. It's been so fun to cover this season.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:39)
Thrilling. And then what do you call them? The other ones that we're doing this week?

**Mallory Rubin** (2:43)
Adi and Appi. We have our last Christopher Nolan Revisited Podcast on Oppenheimer. Our hope and dream is for Sean Fantasy to join us for that. He's currently out of the country.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:52)
Currently in Canada, but if he makes it back, that's the plan.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:54)
We have a lot of like, if the schedule cooperates stuff in the mix right now, but that's the goal. And then of course, a little film.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:01)
Sean Fantasy is the Atomic Bomb of The Ringer.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:05)
Has Sean Fantasy ever sat nude in a hotel armchair, legs crossed, at exactly the right angle?

**Joanna Robinson** (3:13)
The Robert J. Oppenheimer. I said, is he the bomb?

**Mallory Rubin** (3:17)
Well, you know, these are both good and reasonable questions, I think.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:21)
We've been watching all of these Nolan movies.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:24)
Folks, The Odyssey arrives next week. It's finally time to cover The Odyssey, and we have seen it, and it is amazing. It is incredibly good. We can't wait to pod about it. We're going to try to see it again before we do a deep dive on that. And that's going to be the end of next week. We have a lot of podcasts coming in the feed next week.
We're like a week and a half, two weeks. I don't know. How far away is Comic-Con? Not far. So stay tuned for more information about Comic-Con. We'll be there. The Midnight Boys Pew Pew will be there. We've got a lot of good stuff coming up. It's an exciting time.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:58)
So follow the pod, why not? Watch us on YouTube or Spotify, wherever you get your videos, not wherever, but some places. And we're on social at House of R Pod.
And you can email us, hobbitsanddragons.gmail.com.

**Mallory Rubin** (4:13)