What Goes Up Must Come Down, Eventually

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0:14Hello and welcome to the Daft Monks podcast. Hey Nate. Hey dare, ho dare, Nate. How are you? I am fantastic. How are you doing on this evening one week from last recording?

0:27Listeners, if you can't tell, they had a hard time with the mic check today.

0:31Yes, uh, apparently I have a community computer instead of it just being my computer. And the funny thing is I leave all my audio stuff out. That way I don't have to constantly reset it up. And everybody else thinks it's a big toy over here, apparently. Uh this morning my headset was thrown on the ground and my audio box was almost on the floor. So I'm like, that's [expletive] fantastic. Children.

0:55I just imagine you know like the old time like phone operators like just like unplug things and plug them in the different holes. I just imagine like Roscoe doing that with like different equipment.

1:03He's probably like, I'm gonna fix it. Like it's not broken, don't [expletive] fix it.

1:08Maybe one day you will get your own office. I mean, Nate, I haven't announced yet, but I look like purchasing a second home soon. And uh I'm making sure I have enough bedrooms to have an office this time.

1:22Are you gonna get one of those fancy catwalks installed in the house? That way they can be like on the ceiling.

1:27Oh, when you say catwalk, I immediately thought like you know, like a model walks a catwalk. Oh no, like you think we're that gay that we're gonna install like. You know, David, maybe. No, yeah, we see that. I've seen like really cool Mario Brother like theme ones, which is really cool. But um, just affording this house, it's gonna be a gorgeous house. Nate, nothing is gonna be in it. Like there's not gonna be a lot of furniture. It's like two floors, it's got four bedrooms upstairs with like the owner's suite. Oh dang. And then downstairs, a nice big open floor plan of a like a nice square that's like the dining room, the kitchen, and the living room. Like a nice, huge, huge space.

1:27I was like determined that I was being such a diva nade because we were like in different floor plans and like lots of cheaper ones, or lots of ones that still gave us bedrooms, but were one floor. But they all had like they were they were long, so it was like a living room was after the dining room was after the kitchen, and the living room was after the dining room. And I was like, I don't want a [expletive] long room, I want a big square, like I want it to feel like just a giant [expletive] space. And the long ones, it almost feels like you're in on like a hallway, right? And you know who has hallways?

2:28[expletive] horror movies. Like you don't want any hallways, trust me. My trailer is one long hallway. Is it in a neighborhood or by itself?

2:36No, it's a neighborhood, it's a hall, it's all just a neighborhood of those like building models. So I I don't know if you know this thing. I don't know if it was always like this, but so during COVID, builders got effed because they just ran the [expletive] out of supplies. So I think builders took a huge hit during COVID for a while. Right. And now it's like, here's more floor plans, but you're picking one of these homes and that's basically the home. Oh, yeah. What I'm seeing is a lot of builders are kind of reducing the amount of customization and more like, all right, you this is like more options where you're picking one of these six homes, and that's what you [expletive] get deal with it.

2:36And you can do some of the basics like pick out the color of the cabinets and the floors, but like the level of customization you you saw like prior to COVID seems less available, at least in my city.

3:16Right. It's probably the same everywhere. They're like, Do you want cabinets?

3:20Okay, because that's what you're getting, so just pick a color and we're just gonna paint it. Exactly. It's like we're at this point, like every kitchen is using this. Right?

3:29I think Megan's sister like got a pool and they were out for a whole [expletive] year waiting on [expletive] for that pool because of COVID.

3:36So they just had a huge hole in their backyard for a year. Like Chris. Would you ever want to pull Nate? Like, especially being Nevada, Arizona. I've always been kind of like they're actually a lot of effort from what I've heard of people like growing up, like getting the chemicals right, uncovering them, covering them, cleaning them, like filters. Right. So would would you ever consider a pool?

3:56Like if it was no, that's way too much work. And then you hire a pool guy, and now you're running into the risk of the pool guy trying to bang your significant other. I don't have that risk. Tail is old as time. I don't got that risk, Nate. You don't know. Now you live in a city. It could be some hot chiseled guy showing up and David's inside a couple more months, but then I'm gonna be in farmland and the options are fewer.

4:17They still go out there. Those blue-collar guys will go anywhere. Fun fact, Nate, I'm working out of my bedroom. Like, literally, people are like, oh, that's cool [expletive] in the background. I'm like, it's not supposed to be, but like where I am. Not very professional for a professional. Nope. I mean, I can blur the background, but I'm not that I'm not that kind of guy. Like, I refuse to blur my background. I'm like, you either see everything or nothing. You stand up, you got no pants on, or anything.

4:38You're like, oh, this is my house.

4:40I'm already standing up. I got I got I did get a standing desk with like the little like button that goes like up and down. Ooh, for ergonomics. Uh yeah, just I don't know. Like I definitely don't stand all day every day by any means. I usually do like a couple calls standing up, and then when I'm not on calls, I go sit down like the couch. So I like mix it up. But it's better than sitting all sitting all day, your body just feels yeah.

4:59If I sit down for too long, my body will just seize up. Like I have rigor mortise, and then it's like, oh, I guess we're dying now. You stopped moving for an hour, so I guess we're just gonna call it quits.

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5:09I love it's a very specific story you shared last episode where your character, wink wink, has to put his wallet in his front pocket because he can't it upsets his sciatic nerve if it's back. I'm like, that's a really specific detail for our character.

5:25These characters are us, okay? I'm making it as real as possible.

5:30They straight if they were so real that listeners, I had to ask Nate, I'm like, do you actually wake up to gunshots?

5:35It's like, I don't know, but Rump could be a wild town. It is a wild town, but no, no gunshots yet. Maybe the occasional homeless guy scurrying out in the street. But one time it was really weird. Like, there's a guy, apparently, who drives around my neighborhood. Now, eventually you'll see my neighborhood, Nate, but it's just separate homes on their own acres of land. So there's a pretty good distance. But apparently he drives around at three in the morning when I'm heading to work and tests out everybody's driveway. Luckily, I have an automatic gate that blocks him. But everybody else, like, I'm watching this dude.

5:35Like, he pulled and then stopped and saw my gate and then backed up and then went to the next door lady, drove in her driveway, and then came back out. And then tried to the next house. No, he went to the next house and did the exact same [expletive] thing. I don't know what was going on in his head. Was it trying to steal packages or something? He could have been, but at three in the morning, like this is a weird time. Yeah. It was the weirdest. I thought he was like lost looking for a house, but no, he did it to just every house going down. And I'm like, geez, what's up with this dude?

6:41You know, like really weird thing. I wonder if it's the same guy who growing up, me and my friend used to walk and get donuts. Probably told you a story already, but we went to get donuts at like 4 a.m. That's when it shop opened, kind of like a religious thing. And we were walking, and some car pulled up slowly to us and then rolled down the window. And it looked like the Mr. Sixer from Six Flags looked just like him from my memory. I swear to goodness, Nate. And he was like, nice day for a walk, boys, ain't it?

7:05Wahoo! And then like he really did.

7:09And the wahoo, like, I don't know if that's exactly like he made some kind of audible, like, we woo. He like, like, like laugh, or he drove away while saying something, so it sounded like he like trailed off. But it was just like me and my friend were like, what the [expletive] just happened? Like, that was so weird. And it's like 4 a.m. Like, what are you doing at like we're gonna get donuts? What are you doing driving around talking to like adolescents like at 4 a.m.? Like, that's weird.

7:33That's like if I was five years younger, I would lure those kids back to my house and lock them in my basement. They don't know how lucky they are. But a nice day for a walk, nonetheless.

7:47It was so weird, Nate.

7:49It was so weird. Anywho, Nate, what have you been watching? Oh, lately, I was glued to the American Gladiators story on Netflix. It's only five episodes long. They are about 40 minutes an episode, but just opening up my mind to what American Gladiators was, you know. Did you ever watch that show, Nate?

8:12I was so I mean, men, you were young too. We were both young, right? Like, yes, but I just don't remember. I remember Purple Rocks. There was maybe some hidden each other before that. Yeah, but the pugle sticks. Yeah, laser and ice. That's that's all I remember. I just remember that mountain at the end, right? That's a thing. I'm not making this up. Or am I thinking of the Nickelodeon show? Uh you might be thinking of guts. Yeah, guts. Do you have it? Um [expletive]. Okay. Well, I do think I watched it, but I have yeah, I I must have been young enough, Nate. I truly don't recall. Right? That it's blurring in.

8:43Well, I watched it quite a bit, and then I also watched reruns because that's freaking awesome. I think that's more of what I watched was like reruns, like TBS when I was like 11 at one in the morning, TBS would be like, hey, you know what you want to watch? Some gladiators. And I'm like, yeah, I do.

9:00So that was when I started watching it. What happened to those days? Because now it's like if you stay up past like a like 1 a.m., like you're getting sold the most bizarre like vacuum cleaners that like hang on your refrigerator. Like it's just QVC and like weight loss programs. Like you are up between 1 a.m. and like five, you are not getting any good television.

9:22Right. What happened to these broadcast companies? Like, hey, let's just throw out some filler, you know, like nick at night, and then it would just be I love Lucy until [expletive] four in the morning.

9:32That's and and that's what sucks is like the the Gen X kids aren't gonna get our experience because like when we stayed up late, we got the previous generation shows, right? Like you just described. But like they stay up late and they're just getting like QVC. So like they just won't know like what you know our retro television was.

9:48Right. Or they're just streaming the [expletive] office for the 20th time in a row. Are you an office person? I always forget. I love the office. Yeah. I mean, if I st if it was still on Netflix, I'm thinking about getting a VPN just so I can stream it from the UK. Why do you want to watch it in the UK? Because it's not on in the United States. So if you get a VPN, you can set your thing up so it's saying like that you're in the UK, so then you get access to different shows on Netflix.

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10:13So oh, so you want to see the UK version of the office? No, I want to see the English version. Is it not? It's not here. Correct.

10:19Correct. Yeah. No, they took out the service. Well, it's probably because it's on like [expletive] HBO. I don't know, it's on something. Oh, well, now I gotta check because I'm just on the fence of getting a BPN, but then that's more technology that obviously I can't [expletive] handle, Nate.

10:32Isn't like the Office kind of like friends level, right? Where like people were just paying crazy amounts of money. I feel like Office is the same thing. It's like a show that you put on your network because they're just gonna keep watching it over and over again. So you're like a constant subscriber. So someone has to have it. I'll be looking that up later. All right, it's out there somewhere. I'll give you one of my logins, except Netflix, because now they charge like for extra people.

10:52I know, which is outrageous. But we're covered on Netflix and we're covered on Hulu, and I pay the extra for Showtime just to watch Yellow Jackets. Because I love that show.

11:01You always surprise me with what you're frugal with and what you're not. Showtime is definitely one of the ones I'm surprised about.

11:08Totally worth it for the one [expletive] show that I watch on Showtime.

11:13I'd spend it again. Oh, so going back to Gladiators, it like there's now it's not just like, oh, this is uh look at Gladiator. It's like kind of dark, right?

11:21Like there's isn't there about like drug use and are like other [expletive]. Are I just making this up? So there's a lot that goes into it where um I think the big portion of the show is um watch the contract that you [expletive] sign because they will [expletive] you over. It's like the Goldwyn Company or something like that.

11:38Yeah.

11:38And they signed the original contract when the show was still a pilot, and apparently that was the only contract you were allowed to have, and there was no room for renegotiations.

11:49So did like later contestants or like had better offers than or no, like everybody just in the same contract, yep.

11:56And then so a lot of them were just happy to be on a show, but then these [expletive] are making action figures and breaking in all these different profits merchandising, they got nothing from it. Not a penny. How good would that be? Oh yeah, and they were putting their bodies through the ringer, like it and then there was another clause in the contract where if you got hurt, Goldwyn Company was not liable, and they just basically put you in a wheelbarrow and shoved you outside. Like what? Yeah, one of the gladiator girls completely blew her knee out, and then she was like, they were just good luck with that.

12:27Yes, they said bye, Felicia, and then they just they didn't do they get like health care or anything?

12:33No, nothing.

12:34Nothing, yes, that's why it was crazy at Squid Games level, Mayla, basically Goldwyn Company looked so awful in this documentary. Do they still operate?

12:45Do we know?

12:45I don't know because I'd I'd never remember hearing it before, but once you see their logo that they play, you'll be like, oh, I have seen that before, like in movies or other crap. Like they did one company. I think that's what it is. I'm gonna try it looking at it. They did uh Mystic Pizza, like that was their selling point. They're like, We did Mystic Pizza, like get the [expletive] out of here with Julia Roberts. It was Mystic Pizza. Like, how many times are you gonna [expletive] say it in this documentary? I get it. You did [expletive] Mystic Pizza with Julia Roberts. Like you don't have to keep rubbing it in my face. What else have you [expletive] done?

13:16Because they cut out everything else they said to focus on how horrible they were. Right. Like, oh, we'll give him Mystic Pizza.

13:25But yeah, that was his thing that he was like, my dad never renegotiated, and neither do I. Be like, and it showed a picture of his dad, and it was like black and white from the 20s. And like, yeah, of course this man is never gonna negotiate with anybody. He's probably killed people, yeah. He's law and gone. Oh, it was rough. And then uh probably one of the other highlights from the episode was uh they talked about obviously the steroid use, which was a hot topic back in the early or late 80s, early 90s, going on into the mid-90s. And they were like, you know what, guys, we're gonna start testing for steroids because our sponsors do not want our gladiators on steroids.

13:25And then it flashes over to a picture of the gladiators, and every single one of these [expletive] has got to be on steroids. No [expletive] way, yeah. Oh, yeah, completely ripped, you know, and coming from a guy who's on TRT, like they're on uh a lot of steroids. And then so the funny thing was though, they're like, Okay, we're gonna drug test you, so be ready. And then they come in and they're like, All right, you guys ready to be drug tested? And then everyone's like, Oh [expletive], I don't think I'm gonna pass. I don't think I'm gonna pass. And they're like, Okay, six days from now, we're gonna drug test you, so be ready. Like they they just had to say it, you know?

14:40Like it was [expletive] outrageous. I'm looking at all of like their credits, so they mostly did movies, not TV series, and it's a lot of really old [expletive], but then some random stuff like Mystic Pizza, but also like Lolita or Wild at Heart. I don't know that one. I don't um, but then like this is weird. Like, there was a show called Nikita, or is it a movie? It sounds familiar. Oh, it looks like a movie. Well, all right, so hear me out, eh? My dad used to obsess over he definitely my dad owned like a Jessica Simpson VHS that was just like about her life story, and he watched it a lot, and that was weird.

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15:17That is kind of weird.

15:18But anyway, uh he watched a lot of like shows that like I think like why would he watch this? I'm like, I think he's just like watching a hot chick on TV. So Nikita was this like female femme fatale spy. Yeah, I remember that. Who starred in that? Do you remember? All right, well, it's there's a movie and a TV series. So the movie Who was the TV series? Um it says the director, I'm trying to find the actress's name, stars Anne Parallod. Oh no. Yeah. I don't know that. I I don't remember this movie, but I did remember the TV show, my dad being very into it. That's what I remember. It was like on TNT or something, wasn't it?

15:54Nikita. It was like after wrestling. It was late. It was like after WWF.

15:59Or now WWE. It was like that's that's my child is my dad watched Highlander, Nikita, and then there was another one where it was like a hot chick agent. Zina, warrior princess. No, no, no, no. No, no. It was like um, she had like red hair. I vividly remember this. Like, oh uh, hold on. I like red hair.

16:19I'm sold already.

16:21Um that, yeah. Typing that into Google was not helpful at all.

16:25Um red haired broad TV show.

16:28Like it wasn't Felicity, but it was something kind of like, oh, what's this [expletive]? This it looks like this [expletive]. Oh, is it alias, alias alias? Alias, he was also really an alias, so like Nikita Alias, like my dad just went through like a female secret agent TV watching Spree. Um, and that's something about strong women, Nate.

16:46Something about strong women.

16:47Yeah, it explains a lot. Um, yeah, Nate. So as far as me watching stuff, I uh I thought it was kind of wild that like nobody talked about The Witcher season three coming out. Like it just like literally on the day of, I'm like, oh, Witcher's out? Like I just saw like one like maybe tweet about it or Instagram post. And then I went and I'm like, oh yeah. Um now it's the first half of season three, Nate. So it's the first five episodes. Right. And I would say it's very much like setup for the next five episodes. Did you finish it? I yeah, I watched I watched it in one night, I watched all five episodes. Okay, okay. Um it's a lot of like I said, it's a lot of setup.

16:47I think a lot of people are gonna like it. And then oh, Nate, you would hate this too. The room so the seas the five episodes do build up to like a reveal, that is for sure. And Nate, it is so [expletive] obvious. Like, I'm not the type Nate, like sometimes you are like, oh Nate, you're the smart one, like or whatever. Like, not really. Like in movies, like I usually don't see like where they're going, you know, where we you know we talked about you, right? Literally start quoting me the lines of the movie, and they would like do a thing or say a thing, and I'm like, it's clearly this person, like this is a gosh, if I'm getting this, like this is really not like my own.

18:02Is it too obvious?

18:04And what's hilarious is since the last episode is like meant to like you do kind of like all right, I'm can I just like tell you a little bit without telling you all all I'll tell you is season five is a uh a big party, and you keep like reliving the party again from different perspectives, which sounds cool, like Groundhog Day, yeah, and you just keep getting a little bit more info each time, and then there's a reveal. But it's like literally going to the episode, I'm like, we clearly know, and then like the information just like didn't there's not a point where you're like, oh [expletive], in my opinion. It was just kind of like, yep, like, yup, they're just reaffirming makes more sense, yeah.

18:04So I'd be very curious, Nate, if you do watch season three of The Witcher, to let me or the first part, let me know what you think.

18:50Oh yeah, I'll blast it right away. I'll message you as soon as I'm watching and be like, this is [expletive] stupid. Yeah, you're gonna hate it.

18:57Like this is uh this is an original idea. Like oh, you're gonna hate it though. I I know it, I just know it because you're so good at picking up at this stuff. I just really feel like you're gonna have like figured this show out, like episode two, and be like, why am I here? Right. So we'll see.

19:12Like fast forward.

19:13We'll see. All right, Nate. Today I think we won't go another like 30 minutes of uh banter like we did last time, and we can jump right in to Daft Monks season three. I feel like we need like a like a subtitle or like a tagline, like like if if season two is like the dark sun or something, right? This is uh to be decided, I guess.

19:34But yes, to be because I had something written. What do we what do we have written in uh Notion? It was like uh the boy. Oh yeah. So Daft Monks, season three, yeah the beacon, the boy, and the ballad.

19:49Yes, yes. We do this thing where you come up with something and it's almost good, but I don't fully like it, and then I rewrite what you said, but in a way that I like, and then I'm like, I love it. And I think that's what happened. I think you pitched something similar, but I was like, that's great, but what if we do this? Yeah, yeah.

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20:04All right, that's why we're a team.

20:06That's why. And it was all Nate's idea, everybody. All right, so yeah, let's uh dive in. Still don't have intro music to Deafmung season three, the Beacon, the boy, and the ballad. Yes.

20:20Um in the machine, never need a spring, but we can never stay on. Look at let me get Nate.

21:05Would you like to recap what happened last episode? Last time. No. No. We're not doing that anymore. Oh, my bad. You should always do it as Dante now. Last time I was murdered.

21:22Where's Rachel?

21:25Last time on Daft Monks season three, episode one, we were introduced to our characters, Ash, the kind of me guy. He's miserable. I'm sorry.

21:36Blue collar, unhappy worker, disillusioned from his life and on the verge of taking his own whatever.

21:45Yes. And then we are also introduced to Roy, the homicidal driver, the the try-hard, corporate, Kool-Aid drinking, aspirational, hard working, white collar person. He killed Dante, everybody. Like, I don't know if you guys realize that in the last episode.

22:04Even Blake and I, he does not even know that anyone died. Not Dante or anybody on that street. He doesn't know that a bus is on fire, that he does not know he doesn't know that he ruined Ash's day.

22:15Single-handedly. Oh, but he's about to find out, I think. Oh yeah. He even had the audacity to not even read the instant message that Dante sent him.

22:24Hi, this is Dante. This is my fourth time trying to get a hold of you. I'm going to try a new number if you don't.

22:34Uh old like carrier pigeon comes in, like, this is my last chance. I am Dante. And um, so realistically, all that really happened is we did our little introduction. We know about our characters, we know kind of what their shtick is. And then you drove the car to your place of work at the Beacon Group, and you just so happened to check in the trunk. And I think that's where we're going to pick up today.

23:03And I guess for what it's worth, that we said that one of those Dante messages did play on someone's holo watch over the air. So maybe we'll follow up with that, or maybe it'll be another red herring. Maybe Dante never amounts to anything this whole show, but we always try to make it seem like he's going to.

23:22Like there's a terrorist attack. Is it Dante? No, we haven't heard from that guy in a long time. Like, oh [expletive].

23:30Alright, so picking up today, we'll start with Roy. When he collided with the only vehicle parked in this entire empty uh basement level parking garage while trying to parallel park for no reason, there's no need to parallel park. You could have just literally pulled in. But he accidentally hit the lateral button, uh, which then shifted the car laterally into the only other vehicle in there. And that is when the alarm went off and the uh trunk popped open. And when he went to inspect the trunk, which this was the first time he realized bound vehicles had back storage in the back of the vehicle, he saw what could only be described as a boy. And Nate, could you describe or go into more detail as to what this quote unquote toy looks like?

24:15So as of right now, in the trunk, the boy is bound in some kind of fancy electronic device where Roy cannot see his hands. They are encased in some kind of metal thing, which is also latched to another kind of metal contraption that is wrapped around his ankles and feet. And he is looking up at you, and he also has a weird film of skin going across his mouth. He's like, mmm, as he's looking at you. Chip? Is that you? And uh, you know that it's just like a biofilm. It's supposed to mimic flesh or be like a band-aid that someone just threw over his face just to keep him from talking.

24:54Right. Looks down, shocked to see uh what looks like a child, and he's like, not again. This must be the work of Dante. He immediately looks down and then looks up at like the gate to see if that guy's paying attention and it's not even from this distance. He can kind of see the guy's back. He doesn't get a lot of traffic, so he's already like watching a movie on.

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25:20Like he don't give a [expletive]. And he like looks down at the kid and he's like, Did I take the right vehicle? Or what and you're like, and so he uh is like, right, right, uh yeah, and he like peels, he doesn't take it all the way off, he just like half peels off the like the skin fill, and he's like, uh, excuse me, uh child, um, what are you doing in the trunk of my vehicle?

25:41The child takes a deep breath, and just in that moment the lid of the trunk closes down, and two very well-armed security guards are now staring at you. We'll take it from here, Roy number one five six seven two. Oh my god, you know my name? You guys hear a lot about my work up there? Uh down in security? We knew you were gonna be delivering this package. You shouldn't have opened the trunk, but obviously you weren't disclosed with that information. We will take it from here, Roy.

26:12Alright, yeah, well, the keys are all yours, I say. I mean, uh not keys, because it's you know attached to my employee ID. Can't have that. I really need that to get in. Um, by the way, how do I get up to the main level?

26:23As you look, he lifts up his sunglasses and he has like actual one of his eyes is like biomechanical, and you see it go like zooming in on you and [expletive]. And he's like, he's clean.

26:34Clean. Yeah, no, I showered today. I have a very like strict regimen, like skincare, and uh what are we talking about?

26:41Uh that's all for now, Roy number blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. I need to write down whatever your [expletive] number is. That way, no, no, no. Guys, we're gonna make up a new number every time we're not gonna [expletive] That's all for now, Roy number 56721. Please go about your business in and then he checks his holo watch and he like you can see it like rotating with his eye. So most people have like a holo watch that actually shows a little hologram that sticks up, but it looks like this one's linked kind of just straight to his eyeball for some reason. Don't you have something to do in synergy through a manager of synergy? And he looks over at his partner, he's like, what the [expletive] even is that?

27:15Like what Yes, you're right. I'm way too busy as a synergy supervisor. Uh this has been an absolute pleasure. I will be sure to tell the big guys upstairs that you guys do great work. I didn't get your name, Mechanical I Man? Not important. Not important, very unique. Okay. I uh and he's starting to feel like very like he doesn't always pick things up right away, but he's definitely getting the vibes that they're like, shut the [expletive] up. And they're like already kind of just like taking the child and like walking away, so he's just backing away. And he's like, all right, uh yeah.

27:15And he goes to talk to the kind of like gate guard since they really never answered his question about how he leaves this facility and gets to the actual main levels of the office, which are definitely much higher up. And I think let's kick it over to Ash.

27:55Ash is now currently late for work by approximately 10 minutes due to the uh bus accident. And he is almost inside when he gets a call on his lens operating system. It's his boss.

28:11Uh hey Ash. Uh nice you to show up today. No, you know what, don't even bother explaining. Uh, I just need you to head over to this address. Pronto, we have a pretty urgent situation over at the beacon group.

28:22Uh, the the the beacon group, I'd like I do I have to go there by myself because the police it creeps me the [expletive] out. No, no, I hired three more people to help you with your job.

28:30You did? No, you're not [expletive] yes, you have to go there by yourself. Oh [expletive]. And you were supposed to be there 20 minutes ago, so if you want to just, you know, maybe speed that the [expletive] up, that'd be great. Uh alright. Um, I'm happy to do it, sir.

28:43I'll I'll be right there, I promise. Yeah, cool, great. Hangs up. Ash is like, [expletive] [expletive]. Like, and then he double double checks his visor, his lens, and he's like, okay, it was off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, I gotta hustle double time. Um, let me check the garage and see if my work truck is available. It was down for no AC, and I need AC, otherwise, Ash can't work. And I uh climb down to the mechanic shop, it's still broke, and it actually just has a little tag on it says do not operate. Nobody's has even been working on this [expletive] thing. I'm like, yeah, story my [expletive] life.

28:43So I grab my tools out of the truck and then I start just walking to Beacon Group another [expletive] six blocks away from our station. I really feel like they should put more stations in town closer to these buildings. Like, there's not enough of us working on all this [expletive] infrastructure [expletive], you know? And then nobody gives me the time of day, and then I trip and fall, and my tools go all over the place.

29:42They're like the clang that [expletive] up.

29:44I'm like, [expletive]! This [expletive] sidewalk company can't even make a straight sidewalk, you know? Like, what are we doing here? This city [expletive] sucks. If I could move anywhere else, I would. And then I begrudgingly pick it up, and I make my way into the front lobby of the beacon group because it seems that I forgot my access pass in my work truck to actually gain workers' access, and I wasn't going to walk all the way back there. So I walk up to the lobby. Hello, madam, or sir, or robot AI. It is I, Ash. I work for the power company. Um, is there any way that you can just give me access to downstairs? Because you guys are having an issue. I'm here to fix your issue.

29:44Let's not make this harder than it needs to be.

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30:33Yeah, hey man. Uh, real person here. Uh, we are way too low hill for any kind of uh holographic people. Yeah, I got you, man. I hate it here. Uh yeah, normally I'm supposed to check IDs, but uh I heard the issue downstairs is pretty urgent, so I know they're you were supposed to be here, I think, a little while ago, to be totally honest. So yeah, just head down. The elevator's over there on the left. Yeah, you're gonna need some credentials. Um here, just he like writes down a number. Just uh enter these, but just you know, don't like put anything else in the system. This is actually like an overwrite code for the elevator. You usually have to scan your credentials. But oh, perfect, perfect. Thanks, man. I I appreciate it.

31:07Thanks for looking out. It's just go straight to that level. Yeah, like let me just tell you about my day though, you know? Like Oh, that's not necessary. No, yeah, there was this crazy guy, and he drove right into my bus. You know, like you're not gonna believe it. It caught on fire, and then everybody got a message, and it was just really weird, you know. Like, that's how my day's starting. How's your day going, by the way? Like, you know, oh, you're still taking the bus? Oh, well, nice talking to you then. Uh elevators this way. Yeah.

31:33Alright, cool. Tear rolls down his cheek. Somehow, like, Nate or not Nate. Somehow, Ash is always the poorest person. Like, I just want to decide that, like, literally, no matter how, like, like clearly, this guy works on like the lowest level of like whatever this facility, and he's still like a higher class.

31:54Like, oh yeah. I want to say with the shift in society, actually, like inside business jobs just [expletive] went through the roof, and then your blue collar workers are like, do we really need them? Like, they should just be happy they're not automated.

32:07Yeah, like like like most inside jobs are super common, so it's like by no means is you like working for a corp a big deal, but if you don't, one of the few people who don't work at a corp, like, and you're not like and then you're in a field that wasn't already automated, like you literally are not. So, like that guy was definitely also like a blue-collar worker, but he did not see himself like and you on the same level. So he was trying to be nice, but like that niceness came to a elevator. Oh, yeah.

32:33I love it.

32:34All right, I work my way to the elevator, enter in the access code, start going downstairs. So you enter and it's like credentials accepted. Your level will be queued after. And it like immediately goes up, like the opposite direction. And I imagine this elevator like takes priorities, and so like somebody with like higher credentials than you like needs to go down. So you are going up to get somebody before you go down. And it like lets you know like your cue in terms of like when it will let you get off the elevator.

33:03It's like you're in spot number seven. [expletive] seven. This is outrageous. Uh I I guess I guess I guess I can wait as as long as I don't gotta get into the spot number eight. It went up, the elevator went up, and the queue went up. This is [expletive] [expletive].

33:18It just like cuts out and one more thing.

33:21Uh I want to be like, well, as long as I don't gotta stand in that [expletive] thing in the elevator, I'll be okay.

33:25And then the little AI comes on, it's like VIP entering elevator. Please stand in isolation chamber.

33:32I'm like, [expletive]. So I stand in the far corner of the isolation of the elevator and a shade starts pulling around me.

33:41That way the guest with the VIP coming in the elevator doesn't have to look at me. I imagine when you were sitting, like that side of the bench went down, so that you were sitting on, so you had to stand up, and then like on like the non-on isolation side, a bench went up and then a curtain around it around you.

33:58Like, [expletive], every time I hate sitting in this thing, it's embarrassing. And then, like, after I get in, the curtain starts closing, and then like two bottles of Febreze come down, and it's like I'm like, I don't [expletive] stink, man. But now I'm muffled, so I can yell all I want and they can't hear me.

34:18Alright, so we switch over to Roy, who did eventually uh get assistance and find his way into the office, and uh he is taking kind of like um he's taking like an elevator that's made for more like common people like commuting up and down to their their their access level. So he gets up there and uh immediately starts saying hi to everybody. Like, Donna, how's your day going? Hey Roy, number 56712. Oh, Donna 364851. There's no one like you, especially this early in the morning. I love working here early, and I know you do too. She just looks at you like she's like in the middle of chewing something. It's like and it goes back to her work. One day you're gonna say something. I know it. Man, I just love coming in early.

34:18Look, look, I mean, getting here before all the snacks are loaded. All the snacks are just like brown sticks. Imagine like string cheese, but if it was brown and it wasn't cheese, that like that's it, that's the only option, right? Like you know how like cool offices, like the my own in New York City has like sodas and like and like all kinds of free [expletive] you can just go and grab. And this just has like brown nutrition sticks.

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35:26Right. It's enough to like fill you up, but it also has some kind of drug in it that gives you energy and focus. Yeah. And people are just chowing down off these [expletive] things.

35:35Yeah, coffee became too inefficient, so they just literally like you can just keep grabbing these sticks. Yeah. So he's like, ah, and I love these, and I like getting the pick before everybody else gets hair. They're all the same stick, but Roy thinks that he like gets to like pick the best ones and he heads on over to what looks just like a call center floor, which is nothing wrong with that if you work in a call center, but it's just like a giant room of just cube after cube after cube after cube, but low, like you can see over the cubes. They're just low enough that like when you sit down, it has like a workstation.

35:35And he just like walks, he's like way, way, way in the back, and uh takes him forever to get there. And he's still in early um because he always gets up super early. That's why he was selected actually for this mission, is because that they knew he'd come in before the rest of the people would be there. And so he's just saying hi, he's greeting everybody, and then he kind of just like stops dead in his [expletive] track fate. Like he sees something, and it just like Roy doesn't get riled very easily, like he always stays positive if he knows what the [expletive]'s going on, but he sees over at the water cooler basically the equivalent of like what is his nemesis.

35:35It's a guy named Greg, and he has been employee of the month every [expletive] month. Like as long as [expletive] Roy can remember. And uh he slowly walks over. Like once he makes eye conduct, he knows he has to like interact, and he's like, right, Greg, I see you came in earlier than usual today.

36:55I imagine Greg like chewing gum and then like with his mouth open to people to like show dominance, yeah, in the workplace. Like Oh hey, Roy number 56712. How's it going?

37:12Good, Greg. Yeah, that's me. Yeah, I don't know your number. Uh, it's not listed publicly. I looked many times to try to see it.

37:22Yeah, come to find out. Uh uh, just got that new promotion. So comes with uh VIP access and secure blocking of employee privilege.

37:35Yeah, yeah, that was the promotion I was going for. Uh well earned, Greg. Well earned, my friend. Well, I gotta go. Uh been super busy today, you know, just hitting the grind and you know, just making money, you know.

37:51Oh, yeah, sure. I gotta get going too, Roy 56712. Um my office isn't even on this floor. I just I come back down here, you know, to get a feel of my roots, see where I came from, you know, that kind of stuff.

38:04Looking at your face, I see I was in your shoes once before. I'm glad I'm where I'm at now.

38:11Roy was like holding a pen and just like snaps it with his thumb.

38:14Like you got a little ink on your pants there, Roy 56712. No, that was oil from Nevermind. Oh, yeah. I heard you had uh drive a Earth-based vehicle. What was that like?

38:28Pretty wild, actually.

38:29Well, I gotta go, Roy 56712, so thanks. Uh my office is upstairs. Go ahead and uh message me on your holo watch whenever you know you need to. I got a spam filter that's pretty heavy, though, so you might not get through. So uh yeah, gotta go.

38:45I want to imagine like as the elevator opens, it's like Q number eight.

38:51Well, [expletive] me. And then it like cuts out.

38:59Uh Sarroy goes by and gets to his space and he has this like he has uh you know those like Zen Garden sandwiches. Yeah, the little rock garden. Like kind of like the real ones, but they sell them for like $30 at gift shops to put on your desk. He has one of those, and he's like, every day I like he like starts like every day as a process, and he goes through and he like makes a new like kind of like shape. I don't know, maybe some kind of like kanji that he thinks means something that it doesn't. And he's just like, today I'm going to be intentional. I'm going to not be jealous of my peers for opportunities they've had, and I'm going to find my own opportunities.

38:59Closes his eyes and he opens it back up and he like puts his like fingerprint and it like scans his face and opens up his list of tasks. And per usual, something he's never really wanted to admit it, but he doesn't really know what he does. Roy, like again, synergy supervisor, he's been trying to figure out for years. Like he even subtly, like sometimes when he's like, So, Donna, yeah, what's your role like? And he'll like try to be screwed. He's like, Yeah, you know, uh, how did that work with the previous synergy supervisor? And like he's like trying to find out what the [expletive] he does, but he just cannot figure it out.

38:59And in a way, just like right now, he has like a list of like mundane tasks, like renaming files, like not opening them, he just has to rename them. And then he has to like like manually, you know how like you can like sort orders on most computers. He's like manually putting things in an order, even though there's a sort button, it just he just has like the most mundane stuff, and he like he doesn't get it, but he knows if he just tries hard enough, it'll amount to something one day.

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40:37Uh right now, another employee walks up to your cubicle, little short fellow. Aw, hey Roy 56712. Uh how's it going? This uh this is I know we never talk or anything, but I didn't I need you to do a big favor for me.

40:54Oh yeah, what is it? Uh and he looks at his name tag and it's a really long name tab and it's like Jeremy2216C. So it's Donna's birthday today. You know, as you may know, it went out in the company email. Uh Cremudgeon. We're gonna cheer her up, aren't we?

41:08Oh yeah, about that. We're all gonna do cake and ice cream, but there's only so much to go around. Do you think you could not come to the break room at about 10 o'clock? Like, just don't go in there. It'd be better for everybody, I think.

41:24A little like tear goes down his face, and he's like, Of course, Jeremy, 21316. I'm a team player, and I would want somebody to do the same for me, even though nobody got me cake or ice cream for my birthday.

41:37Aw, thanks. That that'd be awesome. And it's really weird that you got a tear running down your face. Like those energy sticks they give us have like a antihistamine in them, and it keeps your allergies from going up. So you might want to eat some more sticks. Well, yeah, good day there, Roy 56712. Okay.

41:53Thanks, Chair. And he's already like walked over. Yeah, he's gone. And he just kind of like looks back at his computer and it went to sleep immediately. They've actually intentionally put like really rapid like sleep timers on his computer, so he has to always like wake it up intentionally just to keep him busy. It's very unclear. But in like, so with his monitor off for a sec, he sees his face and he's just like, Is this what happiness looks like? And he's about to be like, nah, I don't think so.

42:21And then like over the intercom, they're like, Run two, three, one, two, one, four, six, eight, come to be prioritization dashboard for your next assignment.

42:30And he's like, Whew, thank god. I was getting down the dumps there for a sec, but uh, this is gonna be a better day. I'm gonna turn this around. I'm gonna own the day, seize the day, carpe diaz, as they say. [expletive]. He like grabs his like, he like dumps out the sand of his like Zengarden and like puts it on the like, I don't know. I I don't think it's like a mouse anymore. I imagine it's something different, but he just like leans it up against something so that it's like the mouse or the cursor is like just dragging like in a circle. He's like, I'll clean that up later with like the dust on the ground. And then he runs off. And I'd say, maybe we go back to Ash.

43:11Here I am. I'm talking to myself sitting in this elevator. There have been approximately 12 priority stops ahead of mine. I overheard one person say, oops, wrong floor, and then they got another priority ahead of me to get back on the elevator, and then they got off and said, Oh no, I was right the first time, and went back down. I'm losing my [expletive] mind.

43:42You know, there's like an emergency button in elevators. There is like like a button like similar to that, so it has like an inner like it's talking to somebody, he doesn't know who, but it's like Captain Slog. Like he's like, like as if he's been trapped there for 10 years and he's just like recording his history.

43:56Inside of the shade is actually like it's like screens, and it's been the same beacon group commercial the entire time.

44:05And then he starts saying it verbatim, like, oh beacon group, we [expletive] live to please, and your children will be happier with beacon group, and he's like

44:15Zoning out like [expletive] I want to say uh it stops again and are finally now like you actually are descending again. For a while you just kind of kept going up and like you're going back to descending, and a guy walks in and he's just like, Where the [expletive] is that power guy? Like they were supposed to be here hours ago. I'm I'm in here. I'm in here, but I don't know if it the sound barrier can actually hear. Yeah, it sounds muffled, and my guy's on his like holo watch because you get service in elevators in the future. Yes. And uh he's on his holo watch and he's like, Oh hey, sorry, no, I I don't know, there's some like weird noise, and there's like a ventilation problem in this elevator.

44:15But uh yeah, that guy was supposed to be here [expletive] hours ago, and we have a situation zero on our hands. If he doesn't get down there soon, uh the whole experiment's gonna be lost. I would just start banging my head on against the screen like bow boom. Yeah, maybe when he's done, he can check out this elevator because something is not sounding right in here. Um and it immediately hit the ding. He was only going up like a floor or two, and he gets out. Q at zero. Now arriving at your destination. And it starts like descending very rapidly. Ash doesn't trust it. He feels like he's been lied to before. And somebody else is gonna get on this [expletive] elevator.

44:15The curtain starts to like unroute like collapses, and like you have like the full access to the elevator again. Alright. So far so good. I just gotta wait for that door to open.

From 45:00

45:43Alright. Just waiting.

45:46Three, two, one. You've arrived at your destination. Oh. Thank you for riding. Meeting group, public transportation.

45:52Yes, beacon group, thank you. Thank you, AI. Thank you. Don't put the Fabrizio away. Like trying to slap it out of its hand. [expletive] [expletive]. Somebody does need to fix that, and it's not me.

46:06And as soon as you exit out, you're definitely in this like lower, like very like kind of like uh a lot of equipment, a lot of hardware, very um kind of reminds me of like a server room, but there's also like still kind of cables. Um, I still imagine like there's there's a definitely a need for cable. Like, not everything's wireless. Right. There's still servers, there's still cables, they just hold more [expletive] in it, you know. Yeah. Um, but anywho, there's a bunch of people arguing, like, I don't know when the [expletive] he's gonna be here. He's supposed to be here forever ago. And uh, and then they hear like the elevator door open, and like literally like eight guys, like guys in like suits look at you, and they just stare. Hey, I'm Ash.

46:06I'm here to fix your power. Oh my god, thank God. All right, I guess we're good to go. Uh go up and talk to the VP of the cryogenic optimization and information storage compartmentalization. So a couple guys head over and he's like, Alright, uh, glad you're here. We have a serious situation on our hands. Uh, where is the rest of your crew?

47:08Uh, this is it. There was a problem with the bus earlier. That's why I'm late. Um, but yeah, you're looking at it. I'm a one-man show. We're short on staff. A lot of people have been quitting. And then there was that thing where 12 dudes won the lottery. I wasn't in it because I couldn't afford to give up my share. So Yeah, yeah, that's me. I'm Ash.

47:31Just uh point me where you need me, I guess. Whatever. Okay, uh, man, we need to get you on this fast. Um, we're having a major failure on multiple levels of all of our like power failure. I don't know, the lights on. The light's never on, man. It's blinking, it never blinks. I need you to look at this [expletive]. Um, and I need this to figure out yesterday, man. Okay, I'm on it. Uh where's the hub room? It's been a while since I've been in the beacon group. Where's the hub room? Yeah. Okay. All right, Pans Labyrus. So go ahead and take a right over here and a left, and then you're gonna go about like eight servers down, another left, a right, another right.

47:31You're gonna stop at uh server 616, and then it's actually you like climb up the ladder above that, there are some overhanging equipment. And I think that's where the first light came on, and then actually see uh the rest of the lights, and did you see blinking across this whole like [expletive] like server room? And he's like, but that was we think it started there. So if you could take a look there, uh there also there's some lights out over there. So probably give that check.

48:32Oh oh oh okay. And then I start walking the first direction that he pointed to, and then like every so often I look back to see if he's still looking at me, like, yeah, am I still going the the right way? Okay, okay, yeah, thank thank you.

48:47And you just hear often your friends like, yeah, I've got somebody on it. We should have this resolved uh uh immediately, sir. Yep, yep, yep. Get the subject ready.

48:54Ooh. I make my way over to the server that they were talking about. I do get lost approximately four times, but I find it. And it is an easy fix. I'm gonna say it's a little toggle switch that somebody bumped into, and I'm gonna just be like, flick, and then all the lights stop blinking, and like a white light comes on instead of the red light, and then everything looks back to normal. I'm like, yeah. Four years of my life I wasted in training for this good time.

49:27I wanna imagine in this like universe or whatever at this at this point in the future, like binary switches are not like a thing, right? Like if it's if you don't scan something or hold something up in front of something or like whatever, and then like they don't know how to operate it, you know, like sweet like when power light, like lights don't turn on from a flick of a switch anymore. It's like voice activated. So like they don't know that if that was like if that was anything, it just looked like part of the design of the server. Yeah, could have been a random screw for all they know. They don't know how screws work.

49:27And we're gonna cut up to Roy, and Roy is over at what I imagine again is kind of like a common space, and they're just like big ass like monitors the size of entire walls, and it just has like different like imagine like um checking like transit times for like the train, and it has like oh, the different terminals and the different things, and it like Roy like steps on this like circle and it like lights up around him, and it's like Roy, play number six, number seven, eight eight. And like the board with like all the different like tasks, like kind of like a bunch of tasks drop off, and Roy's like comes forward, you know, virtually, and then it's like a new assignment has been given to you.

49:27Please enter the lift and enter code, and it just like shows the code. All right, now we're talking. I am going, is that down? Am I going back down? I'm pretty sure I want to go up. And he's like talking to the computer, and it's like, Nope, your assignment is on floor. Bank, blank, blink, blank, which is a very low number, he knows. And he's just like, God damn it, alright. Um, and then in the background, he gets like, Happy birthday as the elevator's closing. Yeah. And he's like, [expletive] this. And he just gets in the elevator and uh he enters the number and it's like override, accepted, please enter floor, intended.

49:27And he goes to like push the button on the floor, and then he remembers the kit, and he just remembers that the kid is about to say something, and then like the flashback of like the like lid being closed, and he's like, if I can't make my day or Donna's day, or anyone's day, maybe the best out of synergy is making this kid's day. And he goes ahead and uh he has we'll say something about Roy. Is I don't want to say he has like uh photographic memory or anything like that, but he kind of like um he is like good at like if he sees he does not retain information he hears, but information he sees he can kind of remember well. Ooh, okay, yeah.

49:27And he remembers um even though the guy with the eye like didn't have anything project on his holo watch, um the other guy was like writing down information that he was hearing, and on his notepad he saw um something about like sector seven, yeah, omega floor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so he like literally like makes those selections and it's like descending, you number two. And we'll go back over to Roy.

From 50:00

52:20I I also want to think like as the elevator's closing, he sees Greg in there, like, you get the first slice of cake, Greg, even though it's not his [expletive] birthday. And then somehow Greg's making eye contact with Roy 56712 as he's taking a bite. Yeah. [expletive] eh. Okay. Uh back to Ash. [expletive]. I'm pretty sure I'm lost. You know what'd be great? A [expletive] map down here. That would be terrific. Or how about a schematic of what the [expletive] I'm supposed to be doing? And I'm talking to myself again. Okay, keep it together. You know what? I'm just gonna just trace something out. I'll trace it out, but that'll get me back. It has to. So I I find like a random colored wire that I think makes sense.

52:20This should go back to the elevator, and I'm like, yeah, that should [expletive] work. Why not? It's the same color. And I just start tracing it back, but it's actually kind of like leading me deeper into the maze.

53:19Yeah.

53:19And then I get to a section where it's like hollowed out and it's just round and open, and there's like a cryogenic tube in the middle with like lab equipment and stuff on the side, and then I look to the left and it's just a straight shot to the elevator, and I'm like, what the [expletive]? Who designed this [expletive] [expletive]? Like, you could have told me to go straight from the elevator and then make a right turn, and then that would have been all the directions you [expletive] needed. Why did I have to come in the backside and go left, right, left, right, straight? Forget it.

53:53Forget it. Off in the distance, you hear a ding and the doors open, and then like a silence, a pause for a moment, and then you hear like a hello? Yeah, I'm over here. Uh hold that elevator. What's the cue?

54:05Uh the the it's it's at zero. Like oh, thank God. I'm out of here. Uh everything's fixed. I don't know who you are, but you're probably important. So everything's fixed. Oh, it's gone. Sorry.

54:18I think closed out and start. Uh hey, sorry, uh who are I don't know where are you? Can can you like wave your hands or something?

54:26This is a big room. Oh, yeah. I'm straight over here. Just looks looks straight. Oh, that's you.

54:31I thought that was like a little dot or something. No, yeah. Hey, I'll be right there. And he does the like kind of like corporate jog. No, you don't you don't have to come over here. I was leaving. Oh, no, it's good. I'm coming. I'm coming. All right. What okay, cool. Takes a little while, and he's like, whoo. That was a doozy over there. Hell of a hell of a runway, end of a catwalk, if you know what I mean.

54:52Yeah, you jogged. You didn't have to jog over here. I was gonna walk that direction.

54:57I didn't want to make you wait, man. I didn't want to make you wait. I mean you have to wait for that elevator now, but that's neither here nor there. Um, hey, I'm just looking, uh, has there been, I know this is a weird request, right? But has there been a small child um with some security guards down here?

From 55:00

55:11I don't think so. All I see are a bunch of servers and other kind of equipment that I have no clue what it does, and this big cold Mr. Freeze chamber behind me. Who is Mr. Freeze? I'm assuming that small child in that tube behind me.

55:26And he looks and uh yeah, like floating in the tube is the child with his eyes closed, uh, but still seemingly with like the mouth like kind of tape over. Um, and he's like, Oh [expletive], like that's perfect. That's Mr. Freeze. That's who that's who I was looking for.

55:44Mr. He's so young. Well, it's another job done by me, Ash. So you're welcome. I'm gonna leave. You have fun with your kid. That's kind of weird that he's in that floaty tube, but you know what this does, you know, he doesn't push anything, but he's just looking. He's like, what? Why do you think he's in there? You know what I think about it? It's none of my [expletive] business, is what I think about it. So I'm going to leave. So you have fun, and I'm going to leave. So bye, Roy. He looks at your okay.

56:13Like, oh, look, I'm sorry I'm being so forward, Roy. I get you're having a bad day. And I lean back on the desk, I'm like, hey, we've all been there, man. All right. I'm a manager, I'm a supervisor of Synergy. I get these things. And as I lean back, I push a button on like a keyboard, and suddenly all the lights start blinking again that you are like turned off. It's like, oh, that was weird. Damn it, roll the baby.

56:32And like uh now, like uh more like red lights come from the ceiling, like coming down.

56:39Danger, danger, purging system.

56:43Roy, do you know what the [expletive] that means? Purging system. Uh well, purge means to expel. And as soon as you say that, water starts dumping out from the cryo chamber.

56:55Okay, well, that part makes sense. But system, I mean, there's a lot of systems here. There's a there's a social and a kind of like corporate system that I'm trying to get ahead of, and man, I could just not crack that one. Yeah, I think, oh no, the kid, and the kid just like drops on the ground and he's all the water for the colour. You're still explaining your job. He like slams his head and like the glass cracks a little bit. I'm like, oh, do you think he's okay?

57:15No, get somebody. No, Roy 56712. He's not okay. He just smashed his head, and there's a little blood trickle coming from it, and he's a small child inside the [expletive] beacon group, and this place gives me the creeps as it is. So now that they have children in tubes, I'm leaving. I'm gone.

57:33I'm sure this is just a new beta for the daycare facility for um the human grown. And as he does it, he gets cut off, and like the crack just keeps like getting bigger and beginning, like growing up the tube. He's like, hey Ash, uh I think this thing's about to and then it just like starts to like scatter, and this kid like falls out, but Roy like at least has the reflexes to like grab him. And as that happens, the like elevator, like ding, you're the elevator open, and like a bunch of security guards come down, like, what the [expletive] is going on?

57:33And they look at just you two and like me holding the child, and you just like standing there like I don't [expletive] know, and everybody just kind of is like looking at each other for a sec.

58:15And then over the intercom, security protocol 7, 7, G.

58:25And we will call it there.

58:27Sounds good to me, man.

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58:50And then it just like cuts to like in the background. There is like somebody like just like writing on all these notes, like almost like he has that like uh police like cork board with like string going to different things, and you see Dante in the center and like strings going out, and this guy's just like staring at it, like just like petting his beard, like pondering, and it just like cuts out.

59:10Yeah, where are you, Dante? I will find you.

59:14It's the the son of the radio DJ or whatever that got murdered. Where are you?

59:22It's gonna be a whole separate thing later on with this vigilante is gonna try to find Dante.

59:30Next episode, he'll have little pictures of uh Roy and Ash on his wall.

59:36He's like, How do these guys connect?

59:39Maybe that's how we recap the episodes is like that guy just tied a piece together every episode. And at one point we just do a whole episode that has nothing to do with the main storyline, and it's just that guy, like a day.

59:52We can make it very uh 1920s noir. Like it was a night like any other night. I was standing on the street corner when a car struck a van. Little did I know that van held the person that I was looking for.

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60:06Dante. It has to be someone super random too, maybe like the bus driver or something. I don't know. Like some I don't know. Something else.

60:13My legs were burnt in that fire.

60:16Yeah, it would be a passenger on the bus because it has to be somebody who like was in the vicinity. I want to imagine the holograp thing only showed up. Like the radio person was in a building nearby. So like only people in that vicinity got it. But I love it. Thanks for listening, listeners. Uh, it has been episode two of Daft Monks The Beacon, the boy, and the ballad. Yes, I did not forget that. We got two so far. Will we get to the third part? We don't know. Keep listening, and next week you might find out. In the meantime, go ahead and give us a subscribe in whatever your major podcast app is. And check us out on social media. Nate, uh, there's a new social media channel.

60:16Uh Facebook and Instagram just launched something called Threads. The same thing as Twitter, but for Facebook, but for Meta. And we're already on it, Nate. Day one, we were on it. I posted one clip showing that we are hip, and I will never touch that channel again. So go ahead and leave us a message, leave us a comment, and we will probably not respond because I don't think I'll ever open that up.

61:18Check out our threads. Stupid. Who came up with that [expletive] name?

61:23All right.

61:24It has been a pleasure, and we will talk to you next week. Thank you, and bye.