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Crossing Streams

Crossing Streams

By: Craig Elsten
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San Diego radio vet Craig Elsten is joined each week by a rotating cast of top voices to talk about streaming TV, current and past shows, and much more. Each week is a different show and co-host.Copyright Craig Elsten Art
Episodes
  • #264: Interview with Amelia Campbell from The Chair Company
    Dec 22 2025
    Craig and Chris are joined from New York by Amelia Campbell, who plays Amanda on The Chair Company. Chris and Amelia are old friends from a Shakespeare production in San Diego, and the podcast gets into her casting process for The Chair Company, working with Tim Robinson and much more!
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    49 mins
  • #263: The Chair Company & Stranger Things 5 Part One
    Dec 20 2025
    this is a rarity: Craig Elsten and Chris Reed are out of alignment on this episode of Crossing Streams! One host really likes one of the two shows covered and kind of tolerated the other, while the other host REALLY didn't like one of the two shows, and truly enjoyed the other. Who's who, and which is which? Listen and find out, as we cover HBO's The Chair Company, and Netflix's tentpole teen drama Stranger Things 5 (Part One)!

    :30 Intro
    2:00 a quick note on the Oscars moving to YouTube
    9:30 The Chair Company discussion
    36:25 Stranger Things 5 discussion
    1:06:30 What We’re Watching
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • #262: Pluribus Episodes 4-6 Review
    Dec 9 2025
    Vince Gilligan's new show Pluribus is looking like it might just be a masterpiece. On this episode of Crossing Streams, Craig Elsten and Chris Reed take a look at the big themes and moments from episodes 4-6 of the first season. The show contains spoilers for all six episodes of the series to date.

    SHOW TIME CODES

    :30 Intro
    4:00 quick housekeeping
    5:30 Episodes 4-6 had a theme: discovery for Carol
    10:00 Rhea Seehorn is carrying the rock for Pluribus, but we will meet Manousos
    14:30 Jeff Hiller appearance!
    18:00 Carol’s diabolical plot to learn the truth in episode 4
    23:00 Manousos can’t get here from there
    27:45 The crazy visuals and methodical montages of episode 5
    34:00 The Hamlin-Phone
    36:00 transitioning to episode 6 and Empty Las Vegas
    38:45 Pluribus as an allegory for AI re: Diabate in Vegas
    44:15 you down with HDP?
    48:15 The Others are colonizers and consent hypocrites
    54:00 circling back to Koumba’s role and viewpoint
    59:45 What We’re Watching
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    1 hr and 18 mins
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