After the Show: Is there a statute of limitation on spoilers?

No one likes spoilers, but after a certain amount of time shouldn't it be okay to talk about it? For example, Murphy and Jodi just finished 'The Sopranos' but aren't sure how much they should give away or talk about on air (although the series ended 10 years ago).

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Earlier in today's show, you know, Jody was talking about
the ending of the Sopranos. Yeah, and so in the
after the show podcast is I just wanted to kind
of explore something here because I was concerned about giving
away a spoiler at the end of a show. Even
though I don't care that it ended ten years ago,
it was ten years I know that even watching it
ten years later, I didn't want to know any spoilers.

(00:21):
I didn't google anything. I stayed away from everything so
that this show wasn't spoiling. Now, of course, I remember
it being in the headlines everywhere in O seven when
that when the show ended.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
A non ending ending, right, and we didn't.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
I don't think we revealed anything earlier this morning. But
it does bring up the question, at what point where
is there a statute of limitations on spoilers. I don't
think that there can be. Not today. Maybe back in
the day, if you didn't rent the VHS, you know
what I mean, or by the movie you say.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I got, there has to be I'd have to say
five or ten years. It's like you think ten years
for sure, Yeah, ten probably a good number.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Let me throw I'm gonna throw a wrinkle into that.
Then that's almost twenty years ago. Would you want to
spoil that for anybody that hasn't seen it? Absolutely not right, No,
I don't believe.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
I don't like spoiling anything, so I think it's nice
to not spoil. And I know that we talked a
lot about that ending, you know, today on the show,
and you were worried about that, but it was already spoiled.
Everybody knew. That was the most non ending ending of
any TV show. It's still very worth watching, I'm here
to say if you, especially if you're like gangster stuff,

(01:27):
it's still very well done and well worth watching and
offensive and all that. But I think it's different when
it comes to things like reading for children. I remember
I got so upset once when one of the big
secrets of Harry Potter was spoiled for our daughter before
she was ever reading it, Like she knows one of

(01:49):
the big secrets of it, and that's one of the
reasons she told me she never wanted to read it.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
The ten year old doesn't work on that one either.
It's almost like it's got to be case by case.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, So I think stay away from children's literature. Let
a child experience, you know, books for the first time
on their own.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
I agree with that, but I think you need to,
you know, it's got to respect the person that's watching
the show hour.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
I mean, look, Jody and I I wouldn't want somebody
have to have told me anything about characters and the
sopranos or anything like that, you know, before finishing the series.
And yes, it's ten years later. Yeah, so I think
it's sort of like it's a twenty seventeen kind of problem,
you know, in case by case.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
What do you think, David, I'm just still caught up
on what Jody was saying about being spoiled on Harry
Potter because that I luckily read it. But right after
I read the six books, someone put so and So
dies on page six O six?

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Why serious?

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yes, it was like back in my space back in
the day. I was so happy. I literally just finished
it like that week. But I like my heart dropped
for all people who didn't read it, I'm like, wow,
that's just me.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, And it's also very exciting for you when you're
you're digging into something a book, when you read your
first oh wow moment remember reading a book. I was
probably in junior higher high school. I think it was
called Rebecca. It's a piece of literature where there's a
huge shocker at the end, And I remember that moment
in my life, holding the book open and walking around

(03:13):
my house with my mouth open, going and having no
one to talk to about it because they didn't know
I was talking about. That's a moment for you, and
I would hate for it to be spoiled too.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Well, okay, what about Old Yeller. Everybody knows what happened
in Old Yellow.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, but children who've never seen it or read it well.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Or except for adults that have it either. That's my point.
My creed is sort of like I think it's a
person by person thing. It's if somebody has not seen it,
read it, or done it or been there, you probably
shouldn't be the one to spoil it for him. Yeah,
because they'll always remember that you were the one that
spoiled it for him.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Why do you think that over the years you have
been sort of a spoiler non intentionally.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Laid off on it when you when you guys started
watching Breaking Back. I know it's the Sopranos. It's like,
I know how this ends, but I kept my mouth
shut well, and I asked you a couple of times,
didn't you see this ten years ago? How it ended?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
What I remembered about that is it was the journey
song Stop Believing, and that it cut off abruptly, and
that you didn't know what the outcome was. That's the
only thing that I remember, which is fine, but I
didn't want to read anything more about it than that
and the truth. That's why it's funny. It's kind of
not a spoiler when we got to the end of it,
because yes, that's what happened, but the context of it,
you would have never known.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Even to tell you that ending, even frame by frame,
still doesn't give you anything right because the ending gave
you nothing. It's my aggravation missed any part of the
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