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I often wonder just how many audio recordings were made and just rotted away, or taped over. There's a good chance every soap had fans recording it for years.

Thank you! I am so glad that David Gale fan account has been sharing so many rarities and treasures. @dc11786 @slick jones @FrenchFan @Brent @Vee @danfling @SFK @soapfan770 @Contessa Donatella @Soapsuds @Khan @te. @skylark @Paul Raven @vetsoapfan @robbwolff @All My Shadows @soapfave06 @Soaplovers @Matt @will81 @TVFAN1144 @jam6242 Looks like they start with this episode.

I agree at this point he will hurt Trump more. It's just something I keep seeing his cultists saying on Twitter - they keep begging Trumpsters in California to vote for RFK.

I think the plan was to get him off swing state ballots and have him stay on in blue or red states. Some of his cultists were hoping to get some Trump supporters in those states to support him and take electoral votes from Harris. It's very kind of her to tell queer people they aren't going to be losing anything. @Vee Thanks for all of your articles and videos. I have to admit I don't love the video of JaunDiced being booed because it will probably make a lot of the press and the true believers praise him as noble and going into enemy territory, wah wah wah, but it's still funny to watch. Nate Silver is still giving Trump the edge, because of PA polling and Harris not getting a convention bounce (which doesn't even exist in recent years). I do think it's going to be very tight, and Trump has the media and rigged election boards on his side, but you can see just how desperate he is based on these types of stunts. And of course the "pro life" movement is mostly staying quiet, and all the media figures who excoriate Harris for flip flopping are eating this BS from him up. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-wants-make-ivf-treatments-paid-government-insurance-compani-rcna168804

After seeing him in the role, Chris ended up being my favorite of the Joeys - he was good at the sarcasm but also the heartfelt moments. I don't think the character ever clicks after that (almost all of the material for Nathan's Joey sucks once his initial story with Dorian is over, and the show never invested in the last three Joeys).

I hadn't even thought about that. So many morbid moments on AW by that point.

I liked Simon a lot too. I think that was one of my disappointments. Falconer was OK, but just didn't capture my interest. I have a soft spot for the first few seasons as they had so much heart, but the show still managed to have strong moments up to the Georgie story. I remember the episode where Georgie was going to commit suicide while she was home alone. The story with Trevor becoming so angry and violent was extremely tough to watch but was at least natural family drama. The therapist story was not. I liked the first Charlie, but I don't think they needed to make her a long lost sister. That always felt a little cheap to me.

Thanks. I remember the popcorn scene mostly from being on one of the old AWHP tapes - there was a caption on the site that mentioned them both being dead. You can see what different actresses Mary and Faith are - they don't quite gel. I like Faith Ford, but she was too perky to be a Matthews (so was Alexandra Wilson as Josie). Seeing Julia talk about how she envied Liz over being in glamorous New York was a nice break from all the cosmopolitan characters on the canvas in the '70s and '80s.

Fall 1996, I think.

I enjoyed those credits, although I liked the later credits too with the hands enjoined at the end and voices saying, "I love you." I still think Ellen Wheeler used that for some of the last GL openings. Sisters, in their early seasons, often managed to have more heart in the whimsical moments than other shows of the era, especially Picket Fences. I was never that fond of Falconer either. George Clooney has always bored me to tears in dramatic roles. Mitch was a more likeable character and fit in better, even if they had run out of story for him. Adding the affair storyline on top of the false memories plot was what disgusted me the most. It felt like a trashy USA movie.

I think most of the Locher Rooms I've watched with ATWT have had Melanie. She's a very compelling presence. Locher seems to have a long relationship with her so doesn't go over her too much.

North Carolina is always just out of range, aside from 2008, so I have a feeling we'll end up back there. Sometimes I wonder if they should put money elsewhere but when it's that close I can see why they are torn. Nevada is the one where I am most torn because it was stubbornly against Biden for months of polling and is difficult to poll. Maybe they just needed fresh blood (and as much as efforts will be made to tie Harris to Biden's record, she is seen as fresh blood in many ways). I hope so. Some of the media and the GOP have been trying to turn the Arlington PR stunt gone wrong (the tiktok they made of it is stomach-churning - for the sake of any hope I have for this country's future I hope it isn't effective) around on Harris, even though she has said nothing about the matter. This may be the most blatant example yet. I would rarely suggest you watch the Ozempic king in action (and if you don't have Twitter you probably can't anyway) but you can see here just how much he is consumed by hatred and misogyny, and clearly rattled at just what a bad position he is in (especially now that he is fourth or fifth in his own campaign structure below Trump, the Trump family, the whale decapitator and Cruella).

After being dormant or uploading months behind, the Neighbours Youtube channel has started throwing clips up much more quickly. Now that they are mostly caught up to new episodes, they've started putting up some of their social media material. I hope some of the interviews or the weekly Haz spoiler gossips might show up at some point (those were better use of Haz than his scripts often were). Here's the first of a number of recaps they did with Paul. And this is the Toadie pop a squat scene that makes me cringe any time I think of it (which is, sadly, too often).

I have half-memories of that character (Trey). I do remember Joe Jr, unfortunately not for very good reasons. Ron burnt through so much story compared to his successors. That could be, especially if they thought GH was going to be canceled soon.

I am half surprised Frank or Ron never tried to get any of the Ford actors on GH (or did they and I just missed it).

I genuinely liked Lawson on OLTL and felt the character got a raw deal for many reasons. Kelly did nothing for me on OLTL, although I've been pleasantly surprised by what I've seen of him on GH this year (I haven't watched a lot of his earlier stuff where he was, I guess, meant to be a quasi-bad boy).

Tomorrow.

Thanks @jam6242 . Can't imagine facing that type of double blow (especially as I still don't get why they even wrote her off GL). No wonder she didn't do a lot afterward.

All great ideas.

I wonder how long Ross kept that office. It's nice to see more of these friendly Vanessa/Ross scenes. I wonder if the show was already setting up the Dinah story by this point. Not sure if I love or hate Roxie's coat.

NYT is at it again (they later deleted the "progressive" part).

Rick Hearst has always been a mix of smarm and sincerity, and none of the soaps ever knew what to do with this balance. The show did keep him around in some form for a number of years, in spite of all he did (and not being a fan of Sonny/Carly/Jason), but then Frank and Ron had no real interest. I had assumed we'd never see the character again. At least Heart is really putting in the work while he's there. I wonder if some of the people who were sandbagging Mulcahey are trying harder now, especially as the show's future is probably on the line. It helps that some of the worst stories set up under his run have been wrapped up and they're allowing for more emotional material and giving scenes to talented actors who can actually do something when given the chance. Sometimes I forget that GH does have a lot of talented actors onboard. Of course, these stories may have been set up by Mulcahey, and the bottom will drop out within a few weeks or months.

There is a sect of very right wing Catholicism that you often get with converts in recent years - I don't mean just your average person converting, but the circles of the rich and powerful. Many of them are attached to Peter Thiel. The Red Scare (the nasty podcast by two women who mainly spew all kinds of right wing hate and tradwife talking points)/Dimes Square circuit is in the same vein. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/j-d-vances-radical-religion https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/jd-vance-post-liberal-catholics-thiel/679388/ What Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, and Others Are Learning From Curtis Yarvin and the New Right | Vanity Fair https://ravenewworld.substack.com/p/the-grimes-red-scare-debate-was-a That's such a short clip (from a right wing account), but I wouldn't be surprised if it's true. There was a great deal of hostility toward Harris and I don't think she has defined herself, which is one of the reasons I was anxious about her being the candidate (she's certainly done well so far). With that said, Don Lemon has always been hollowed out, just switching personality and viewpoint depending on the political winds of the time. There's a lot of money out there to promote the line about how much black voters love Trump. And Trump did improve his performance in 2020, with a strong chance of doing that again this year, so he has all the more incentive to push that line. He looks completely exhausted. I guess similar to former BFF-for-the-cameras Chris Cuomo, selling your soul over and over has consequences. He is apparently so exhausted he forgot what battleground states are. Indiana, Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio are not battleground states.

Joking aside, after the depressing, miserable exit Fiona had on OLTL, I wonder how Frank feels about her... (I guess he did bring her back for a cameo or two) I do remember the abortion story getting some praise, but sadly I don't think that's what the show wanted from her given the hard pivot into mini-Carly. And that seems to be who Tracy misses. I guess the idea was meant to be she was a mini-Luke, whatever Luke was meant to be in those last decades.