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Season 1 Origins: Rigel 1 · The Teamup Play Show Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a lily Pad production. This is the
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  Speaker 1: Team Up Play Show podcast Welcome to the City of Bones.
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  Speaker 2: Mhm.
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  Speaker 1: It has been said that you can tell what is
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing to a city by looking at
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  Speaker 1: its tallest building. In medieval times, glorious cathedrals and churches
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  Speaker 1: shadowed the people in God's embrace. The political palaces stood
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  Speaker 1: tall over the people of the seventeenth century, and in
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  Speaker 1: modern times people craned their necks to see the tops
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  Speaker 1: of our skyscrapers, monoliths to industry opulence and the eternal
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  Speaker 1: curse of work. I'm not smart enough to know if
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  Speaker 1: this is true or not, but in the city of
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  Speaker 1: New Babbel, it certainly is. The tallest thing is obvious,
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  Speaker 1: a glaring reminder of a golden age. The last space
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  Speaker 1: barge a behemoth, a spacecraft so large meant to carry
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands to the heavens now it acts as
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  Speaker 1: an annoying reminder of the city's accomplished and then lost purpose.
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  Speaker 1: When the silent Pilgrims went to Venus and then the
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  Speaker 1: un forced the Evos to space, all support and motivation
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  Speaker 1: for the once globally funded space program went out the window.
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  Speaker 1: The last space barge, the launching station, and the surrounding
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  Speaker 1: campus remain the molted and decaying skin of a living
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  Speaker 1: dream as long slithered away. But a lotus flour must
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  Speaker 1: grow through the mud and murk before it blooms atop
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  Speaker 1: the water. It started with displaced workers that were out
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  Speaker 1: of a job when the space program shut down. But
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  Speaker 1: the station, the campus, and even the space barge started
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  Speaker 1: to become homes, then a community, then a civilization. People
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  Speaker 1: started moving in. They were called hippies, commies, gypsies, and
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  Speaker 1: the like. Initially it was chaotic and dangerous, but the
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  Speaker 1: people found their stride. It was a communal way of life,
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  Speaker 1: rooted in work and generosity. It was imperfect, but it
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  Speaker 1: was freeing. The station became out of reach of the
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  Speaker 1: city's law enforcement. It eventually became so attractive that they
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  Speaker 1: were running out of space and had to build, and
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  Speaker 1: they built down the chute. The huote was an enormous
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  Speaker 1: concrete tube a quarter mile wide and twelve miles long
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  Speaker 1: that acted as an exhaust event. It ensured that the
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  Speaker 1: fiery belches from the space barge launches made it safely
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  Speaker 1: into the Colorado Desert. Adjusting for its ovular shape. Stacked
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  Speaker 1: houses have now been built down its length to house
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  Speaker 1: the thousands of new Babble citizens who have come to
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  Speaker 1: live there, and they have become known as the Shooters.
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  Speaker 1: Life in the chute is not quite as idyllic as
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  Speaker 1: life within the station or the space barge itself. It's
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  Speaker 1: almost a geography issue now and a numbers issue. There's
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  Speaker 1: just not enough supply to get to everyone. Even though
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  Speaker 1: the people that run the chute, who are the gang
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  Speaker 1: with the name cor the Core Gang, even though they
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  Speaker 1: promise to provide for the people, they can't reach everyone.
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  Speaker 1: And about halfway down the chute, in a three storied house,
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  Speaker 1: we find Jamir and his family. Jamir, you wake up,
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  Speaker 1: it's morning. What do you think is going on in
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  Speaker 1: your room? Do you think any of your siblings live
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  Speaker 1: in it with you?
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  Speaker 2: Jamir, at this point, as a young man of twenty,
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  Speaker 2: has started to split his time between his family house
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  Speaker 2: in the Chute that he grew up in in a
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  Speaker 2: communal living pod for other young adults a little further
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  Speaker 2: down the chute, But most nights he eats with his family,
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  Speaker 2: hangs out, and ends up just staying over. So he's
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  Speaker 2: staying when he sleeps in his childhood home. He's sleeping
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  Speaker 2: with his younger brother, who's his younger brother who's half
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  Speaker 2: his age, Jason Junior, who just goes by Jase. So
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  Speaker 2: when when Jamiir wakes up, he sees across across the room,
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  Speaker 2: which is only about four feet away, sleeping kid brother
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  Speaker 2: arms of Kimbo hanging out of the bed, open mouthed.
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  Speaker 2: He enjoys watching his kid brother before his chaotic movement
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  Speaker 2: and day begins at rest, peace full. He hears his
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  Speaker 2: sisters are up, he hears the activities of the day
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  Speaker 2: outside have already become and the loud reverberations that happen
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  Speaker 2: in the shoot of echoing sound are a comfort to him.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, the noisiness of the shoot is just
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  Speaker 2: the background of his life. Jamir looks over his old
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  Speaker 2: bed at some of the posters that Jase has left
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  Speaker 2: up as he likes it. When Jamir comes to visit,
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  Speaker 2: and Jamir looks round on the ground for the cleanest
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  Speaker 2: pair of underwear to swap into.
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  Speaker 1: And as you are putting on your underwear, Jamir, what
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  Speaker 1: do you look like? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So, Jamir, like a lot of shooters, has very short hair,
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  Speaker 2: His hair is dark dark brown. He has dark dark
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  Speaker 2: brown hair, which is tight largely because the shoot also
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  Speaker 2: gets hot, and so long hair is kind of seen
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  Speaker 2: as a luxury that a lot of shooters don't tend
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  Speaker 2: to go for. So he has very short crops, dark
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  Speaker 2: brown hair. He has mid to dark caramel colored skin,
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  Speaker 2: deep brown eyes, thick eyebrows. Doesn't stand too tall, but
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  Speaker 2: not too short either, about five nine five ten, like
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  Speaker 2: a lot of shooters. Also is a pretty wiry person.
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  Speaker 2: There is not a ton of food to go around
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  Speaker 2: in the shoot, and sometimes sometimes also people are a little
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  Speaker 2: suspicious of people who seem to be getting filled out
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, that perhaps they're not sharing properly with
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  Speaker 2: their neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, your room is at the very top ear and
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  Speaker 1: it kind of adapts with the curved roof of the shoot,
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  Speaker 1: and it is a ladder to get down, so that
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  Speaker 1: that's the way the rooms are kind of stacked on
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  Speaker 1: top of each other, no wasting space for stairways. You
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  Speaker 1: go down the ladder, you see that your father is
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  Speaker 1: singing and dancing kind of in between the dining room
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  Speaker 1: and the kitchen, and he's serving food to your other siblings.
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  Speaker 1: He's like got some potatoes, got some shoot potatoes. Can't
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  Speaker 1: get potatoes like this anywhere in the world. We got
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  Speaker 1: shoot eggs from shoot chickens, shoot bacon from shoot pigs,
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  Speaker 1: shoot orange juice. Your dad is not a singer, but
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  Speaker 1: he's just a fun guy, and so he's just trying
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  Speaker 1: to make your younger siblings laugh and your older sister
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  Speaker 1: rolling her eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I walk up, I kind of give my youngest
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  Speaker 2: sister Dara a shove and say, yeah, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: think those eggs came out of the big shoot. I
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  Speaker 2: think those came out of the chicken shoot, right Dad.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, good one kid. Yeah, Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: The egg shoot, the egg shot. Come on, give it up,
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  Speaker 2: give it up, Give it up.
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  Speaker 1: Leah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I looked at my oldest I looked at my
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  Speaker 2: oldest sister. Hold out my fists for a fist bump.
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  Speaker 1: Aliah gives you a begrudging fist bump. Your dad is
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  Speaker 1: a little bit living in the reality that his teen
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  Speaker 1: kids are not too old for this kind of thing,
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  Speaker 1: and I think you meet him at this level trying
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  Speaker 1: to get your siblings involved in the passion of life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, I definitely take a hearty helping of potatoes.
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  Speaker 2: But I try to Yeah, I try to well, I
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  Speaker 2: enjoy the potatoes. I try to go light on the eggs.
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  Speaker 2: I want to save. I want to be respectful and
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  Speaker 2: save some eggs for my mom, especially because I know
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  Speaker 2: she'll eat last.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Your older sister, Aliah, who you just tried to finish,
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  Speaker 1: fist bump in reaction to your dad's song as you
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  Speaker 1: all sit down and start eating, except for your mom.
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  Speaker 1: She's not here yet, but Aliah says she's peeling an orange,
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  Speaker 1: and she goes, you can't grow oranges in the shoot, Dad,
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  Speaker 1: I bought this in the city. Your dad just says,
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  Speaker 1: and aren't we lucky that you did? You're amazing. You
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  Speaker 1: got got work today's son.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully you know I'm gonna I'm gonna check in see
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  Speaker 2: what jobs there are to be passed around. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a workday for the fair citizens of
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  Speaker 2: New Babylon. I say, as I look kind of pointedly
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  Speaker 2: at Leah and say, you know, so they need their
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  Speaker 2: coffees and lunches and files delivered all across this town,
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  Speaker 2: and some honest shooters have to be the ones to
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 1: That's good, good son, good for you. Hey, listen, do
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  Speaker 1: you you ever have to go up up north in
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  Speaker 1: Colorado North? Do you ever have deliveries up there? Very rarely?
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  Speaker 2: I mean some guys occasionally get assigned to those. I've
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  Speaker 2: done one job with somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, because I don't really like you going up there.
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  Speaker 1: You know what they say, up there, see a shooter,
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  Speaker 1: shoot shooter. You gotta be careful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I definitely, I definitely try to keep a
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  Speaker 2: low profile.
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  Speaker 1: Good, good, Well, I'm proud of your son. I'm working.
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  Speaker 1: I'm working here today as always. Your dad is a
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  Speaker 1: plumber in the shoot. He doesn't get paid with you know,
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  Speaker 1: a paycheck. He is just paid with goods and living
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  Speaker 1: and other services. So like the electrician in the shoot
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  Speaker 1: coming comes and does the work for free, and your
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  Speaker 1: dad goes and does the plumbing for free, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of them. It's not just the two of them.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the idea. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very proud of my dad and his work.
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  Speaker 2: But I have decided to, yeah, branch out, try to
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  Speaker 2: earn a little coin and a new Babylon, even though
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  Speaker 2: between the Core and the New Babylon taxes a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the money I want to bring home gets eaten up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you grab a banana stuff in your bag and
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  Speaker 1: you gotta head off to work. You take the last
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  Speaker 1: ladder out of your house to the empty space below,
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  Speaker 1: and chained up there with too many redundant bike locks.
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  Speaker 1: Is your prize possession, your hoverbike. Standing next to it
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  Speaker 1: is your mom. This is where you normally find her
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. She's smoking. I think you're old enough
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  Speaker 1: to understand that your mom puts her stress into cigarette
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  Speaker 1: smoke and likes watching it float away from her until
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  Speaker 1: it dissipates into nothing. That's all right, mama, All right kid,
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  Speaker 1: going out to work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I give her while she's sitting down smoking, I
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  Speaker 2: kind of wrap one arm around her, squeeze her, and
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  Speaker 2: rest my head atop hers and say.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, honey, good morning. You sleep okay,
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  Speaker 1: slept fun, slept fun.
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  Speaker 2: Then. Yeah, I was a little beat after yesterday. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of deliveries. I hope I can get as many today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I'm proud of you. You're doing good. You're
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  Speaker 1: doing good. You and your sister out there in the city.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but you know, Flia works in the buildings,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm not doing quite that good. But thank you, mama,
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  Speaker 2: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love you.
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  Speaker 2: I love you too. I might not be home tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I need to Actually, if I don't sleep at the
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  Speaker 2: community living pod a certain amount of time, then I
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  Speaker 2: might lose my bed. So I'll let you. I'll try
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  Speaker 2: to let you know. But if you don't see me tonight,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just crashing there.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's okay. Just tell your friends hello for me.
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  Speaker 1: And if you need anything, if you need food, or
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  Speaker 1: you need to come do your laundry, you can always
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  Speaker 1: come here. You can bring your friends too. We love
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  Speaker 1: having you, We love having them. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I always love sharing a meal,
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  Speaker 2: but I pay up my new Babbel dollars to the course,
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  Speaker 2: so they give me food rations. Mama, They're they're they're
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  Speaker 2: feeding me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right. I just hope that doesn't run out
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  Speaker 1: on us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, the rations are a little thin,
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  Speaker 2: but hey, sometimes, you know, sometimes people reject to food deliveries.
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  Speaker 2: So I get a little extra bite, a little perky
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  Speaker 2: of the job.
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  Speaker 1: Mom, she laughs, as you start to unlock your bike.
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  Speaker 1: What does Jamir read in the tension in his family
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  Speaker 1: about their views of their living situation in the city.
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  Speaker 2: Jamir, unlike his parents, actually like went to get like
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  Speaker 2: a formal education and went to get that in New Babbel,
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  Speaker 2: and so Jamiir understands the city better. My mom has
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  Speaker 2: a weird love hate relationship with New Babbel where she
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  Speaker 2: wants to get out of the Shoot. It's tired of
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  Speaker 2: the many hassles of shoot living, but also resents a
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  Speaker 2: New Babbel for how they treat shooters. She especially was
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  Speaker 2: there for some of the worst treatment of shooters when
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  Speaker 2: she was a little kid and her mom moved them
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  Speaker 2: into the shoot. Yeah, where's I Definitely like my dad
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  Speaker 2: has made peace with this life and is trying to
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  Speaker 2: just enjoy this life. They're both proud of my older
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  Speaker 2: sister Leiah for kind of trying to fight her way
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  Speaker 2: into the middle class, and my mom quietly is rooting
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  Speaker 2: for her to get a better job and be able
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  Speaker 2: to save up money to buy a place in New Babble,
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  Speaker 2: where my dad would feel very bummed, very saddened by
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  Speaker 2: that after kind of giving his life's work literally to
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  Speaker 2: the shoot and receiving you know, the services and food
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  Speaker 2: that has shared the Shoot, for her to kind of
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  Speaker 2: opt out of that system would be difficult, but you
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  Speaker 2: know he sees his kids. He's too old at kids
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  Speaker 2: already are now working out of the shoot, and he
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  Speaker 2: knows times in the shoot are tough, so it might
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  Speaker 2: be a different world, but he doesn't like to think
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  Speaker 2: about it too much.
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  Speaker 1: You prepare your bike as these thoughts move through your head,
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  Speaker 1: your mom and your sister trying to find heaven elsewhere,
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  Speaker 1: and your father doing his damnedest to create heaven where
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  Speaker 1: you are. You grab your have a bike. Most shoot
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  Speaker 1: kids have a normal two wheeled bike. Your boss was
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  Speaker 1: selling an old one, and you saved up for a
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  Speaker 1: long long time to afford this Zero friction that's the
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  Speaker 1: name of the bike, Zero Friction from Ellington Electric. The
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  Speaker 1: two paddles in the place where the wheels would be
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  Speaker 1: on a normal bike are flat and make the bike
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  Speaker 1: stand up for its charge. You have to pedal for
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  Speaker 1: five minutes to create enough energy for the paddles to
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  Speaker 1: activate their anti gravity bumpers, so you kind of sit
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  Speaker 1: here and chat with your mom as you're pedaling for
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  Speaker 1: that first five minutes, and then it slowly rises from
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  Speaker 1: the ground as the shoot around you begins to crawl
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  Speaker 1: in its waking. People leave their homes for jobs in
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  Speaker 1: the city. Some have cars, some have bikes. Some take
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  Speaker 1: the shute bus to the electric rail that has a
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  Speaker 1: stop just over the Huote and you ride out into
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  Speaker 1: the city. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely throw on my helmet and then when i'm
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  Speaker 2: you know, a little bit out of eyesight of my
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  Speaker 2: mom while I'm in the shoot, I definitely take it off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You are twenty one or something, right, you twenty? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: The route to your work is pretty simple. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: you know the city incredibly well, just because of having
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  Speaker 1: rode around it so much. Your boss's named Joey, and
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  Speaker 1: he's got a place that does Joey's deliveries. It's very simple.
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  Speaker 1: There are no apps. People call in and tell them
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  Speaker 1: what they need and what they want, and Joey makes
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  Speaker 1: a list for you. You for the next day sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing. You get in and Joey sees you right up.
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  Speaker 1: I've got you down in sas today, Jamir, mostly letters
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  Speaker 1: and food.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds good, easy work. Thanks for the Thanks for the
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  Speaker 2: day's work, boss, Yeah, you.
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  Speaker 1: Have a good one. Come back if you need thing,
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  Speaker 1: but try not too huh, Yes, sir, we'll do. He
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  Speaker 1: gives you your list, you look through it, and this
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  Speaker 1: is kind of how you always begin. You start to
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  Speaker 1: track it out in your brain, how you're going to
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  Speaker 1: do things, where you're going to go. The nice thing
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  Speaker 1: about your job is you if you get a good
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  Speaker 1: list like this, you have to finish it all. But
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  Speaker 1: you're done when you're done, Yeah, and you try to
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  Speaker 1: go fast because you know the city. Well. Yeah, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you have to go to pick things up and take
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  Speaker 1: it to someone else. But sometimes people have sent things
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  Speaker 1: to Joey's and then you are given those and you
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  Speaker 1: take them around. Why do you think Jamir is attracted
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  Speaker 1: to this job? Well, why do you think it's special
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  Speaker 1: to him? And what does it mean to have your bike?
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  Speaker 1: Having a bike is like flying two feet off the.
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  Speaker 2: Ground and little, that little separation, that little bit of magic,
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  Speaker 2: that little whisper of like the spaceships of old that
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  Speaker 2: launched out of here and the heroes of old that
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  Speaker 2: flew through this city. Zipping around this city, it makes
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  Speaker 2: me feel connected to it and connected to its history,
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  Speaker 2: connected to the great things that happened here. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be a shooter that all I know
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  Speaker 2: is that little stretch and those same houses built on
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  Speaker 2: the same things in the same community living pods. I
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  Speaker 2: like the uniqueness of different parts of New Babel and
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  Speaker 2: the things going on. And even though again I don't
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  Speaker 2: have the wherewithal perhaps to break into the upper worlds
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  Speaker 2: of New Babel, this delivery job does give me glimpses
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  Speaker 2: into the justice system, into the business going on, into
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  Speaker 2: the governmentism. Delivering lunches and delivering right inner office mail,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I like that. Yeah, it gets you within
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  Speaker 1: all of the city. Today, you're heading towards the Kansas
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  Speaker 1: part of town. New Babble sits on the tripoint of
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  Speaker 1: KANSASSCA in Colorado. It's called sass Sas by the people
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  Speaker 1: of New Babel. And like I said, you know the
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  Speaker 1: city very well. You know the streets very well. The
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  Speaker 1: numbers run by number. Excuse me, the streets run by
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  Speaker 1: numbers from south to north, and by a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different names from east to west. Sass is in the
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  Speaker 1: south part of the city. So you're working on the
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  Speaker 1: low numbers first to sixty fifth. You're reading your addresses
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  Speaker 1: and you're trying to kind of parse all this together
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  Speaker 1: and put a route in your mind. And you like
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the Sass Run. It's a little chaotic, but it's a
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: beautiful part of the town. There are different kinds of
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: people that live in every sector of the city, but
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: if you were to stereotype the people that lived in
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: this southeast part of town, you would call them artsy.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: There is a rebellious, artistic bohemian spirit here. It's rare
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: to find a wall that hasn't been marked beautifully by
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the spirit of the urban experience in paint and chalk,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: design and wonder. Sas is where you come to give
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: in to your lust for life by indulging in both
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the basist and the most high brow temptations. There are
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: artisans that excel in every craft and practice. It is
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: a swirling and lively den of passion, color and pleasure,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: soaring theaters, experimental art galleries and studios, sweaty and smoky
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: music venues, bragging neo jazz and blues, and bright outdoor
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: arenas forcing the lilting strings and woodwinds of classical music
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: to dance on the winds of sass in New Babbel
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: as you ride through all this. This side of town,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: as you can imagine, is kind of sleeping right now.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: As you are earlier then it's waking. How do you
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: think your day of deliveries go today?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think you know. Being in the SaaS run,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I try to adjust my demeanor and tone based on
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: the vibe of the people that I'm serving, you know,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: So I try to feel myself a little bit more relaxed,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: even though I'm speeding and trying to make every second
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: count to just beat this list and cheat the day
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: by getting out done an hour or two before my
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: colleagues will. I try to act calm and not rush,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: because I know that SaaS people hate that when you
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: feel like you're in a big hurry, and they sometimes
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: want to chat and act like they care about my life,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: and I try to politely get through those conversations as
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: quickly as possible without again like annoying them, with the
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: hope that I get some tips from from from these
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: folk who don't aren't as good of tippers as one
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: might expect, but who think that they're great tippers.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: They try, they try.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and and they also like to make a
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: little bit of a production of giving a tip, which
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: feels insulting to me.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: M yeah, let's go ahead, and a roll to see
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: how you tip out today? All right, cool, Yeah, let's
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: do so for this, forgetting a day of good tips,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I would let you roll cokes, street Smarts or maybe
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Glory also, depending on how you're going about it.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I think I'll go about it by uh again again,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: just trying to mirror the people that I'm talking to,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: meet them in their day, and try to be a happy,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: warm presence in our brief interactions.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Cool, I'm gonna call that street Smarts. Then, okay, I'm
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: gonna roll my D eight. This is a simple check
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: for you. So I'm rolling a D six. I got
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: a one. I also got a one. But that means
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: that you fail, sadly, because meets it loses in this game.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Uh, meets it loses it.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: You tip out normally, you don't tip out exceptionally today,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: but just kind of, like you said, a normal day
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: in sass where your tips are just kind of like
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: very performed and not as big as you would like. Yeah.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I take my money, and as I'm taking my money,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I'm putting in two different pockets. One pocket is the
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: money I think I can get away with squirreling away,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: and then the other money is the money that I'm
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: willing to show to the core, knowing that they'll take
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: a large cut of it.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Very cool. Let's also roll just to see if you
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: get done early today. So give me that other another
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: street smart check. Okay seven, ooh nice, you beat me
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: by five, so you get done real early. You get
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: done an hour and a half ahead. Almost every day
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: after work you meet up with your two best friends.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: And do you think that that communal living spot in
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the shoot is where you guys meet up?
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: I think we might rotate. I think one of my friends, Jackie,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: who lives in the chute, has a nicer communal isn't
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: a better maintained shared communal living pod that we crash at.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: But our friend Taylor works in New Babbel, and so
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: occasionally we might meet up at a comic book shop,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: or at a bar, or at even even a park
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: if the weather's nice near to where he works.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Got it, got it? Got it? So Taylor, Jackie, she
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: lives in the shoot, she lives closer to the station
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and closer to the space bars is still there, so
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: she has a different life than you do. But she's
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: still a shooter. And then, yeah, your friend Taylor lives
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: in Colorado South. Hey, I think let's have y'all meet
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: at There's a bar called Tanks that is pretty close
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: to the station in the downtown area. And it's this
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: bar where these big old barrels and vats of beer
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: are set up that are meant to look like the
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: gas tanks of space barges. You all meet up there.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Taylor's not quite there yet. He just got a new job.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: But Jackie's sitting there in the booth as she normally is. Jackie,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: you beat me today. I don't have a job like
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: you do, so not yet. I'm looking I'm looking around.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Hey, there's nothing wrong with being a true shooter. You
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I do like it. I do like the shoot. I
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: mean you mean, I mean you know we know.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I dap her up, I give her a hug,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: sit down, plunk down, and say, so, what do you
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: think shall we uh? Should we get something? Or should
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: we wait and hope that big money bags will pick
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: up the drinks today?
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Oh? We should definitely wait. Hell yeah, he just got
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: a new job. He's got We'll say that we're celebrating
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: him by letting him pick up the tab.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: That is correct, That is correct, Yes, yeah, So what's
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: going on, Jackie? Was anything going on today for you?
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Just reading? I went over to the pen Dragon Library.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Pen Dragon Library is the biggest library in the city
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: and it is in the ask So north east, the
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Nebraska part of town, which is for jack I mean
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: this this city is enormous for Jackie. That's a that's
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: a day trip. Jackie doesn't have a job. She gives
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: one of her energies that she's willing to to y'all's obsession,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: y'all's great hobby. Didn't really find anything interesting today, but
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: that's all right, hey, I mean, kudos to you forgetting
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: all the way out there. That's yeah, that's quite a hike, hey.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: And every time you don't find anything, you know, you
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: get then you're just one book closer, one article closer
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: to whatever nugget you'll dig out next.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: That's right, Like how many knows until you get a yes?
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Like if if I've done a hundred, then I got
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: to be close, right, I.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Mean maybe not, you know, it might be all knows,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: but we don't know.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: No, no, we don't know for sure until we.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: We don't know, you know, And I mean other you
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: found some stuff out other people have found some stuff out.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: There's there's a lot of history here that the city
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: is so focused on the next big thing and on
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: what's going on now that it doesn't care about the
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: cool shit that used to happen here.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, kisses me off there. But you know this, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: you guys, wait for Taylor. Taylor comes in. The doorbell
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the bell over the door is hit by the waving door,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and Taylor walks in. Taylor is in his blues. So
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Taylor just became a police officer in New Babel. I
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: think the way your friend group kind of operates around
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: this is like you're in love with the superheroes of
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: old right, there was an age of heroes over sixty
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: years ago in the city. I think Jackie has poured
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: herself into its research, and Taylor's thought was like, well,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: if I can't be a hero, the next best thing
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: is to be a cop.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Look at this fresh meat coming in.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Boys, Hey stop stop stop it you.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Piece a ship. They gave you a batch. I give
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: him a big hug.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys, hug it out. He gives Jackie a hug.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: He's very recently. I don't know what they call it.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: When you when you get even you become a cop,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: you graduate from Yes, he's very recently graduated from police academy.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: I think this might be kind of his second week
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: on the on the beat, you know, Hey, hey, don't
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: give me that, man. I'm I'm trying out there. I know,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: like I don't. I don't have powers and we'll never
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: get that, you know, because that that that day and
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: age is over. But like, I'm doing what I can.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: You know, no, no, no, you have power.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: You got the power to beat up as many shoot
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: kids as you want.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: And you guys laugh as Taylor sits down. How are
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: we doing, guys?
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: We're good? Uh, you know, I worked my butt off
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: for a few Nichols and the Jackie over here made
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: it up to the pen Dragon today but sifted for
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: a while but didn't find any gold.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, that's too bad. Jackie chimes in, Hey, so who
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: would we be? I don't think we've ever asked this question,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: which is crazy. We must have at some point, maybe
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: long enough ago that we don't even remember, But who
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: would we be? Of? Like the seven big heroes back
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: in the day, there's war Hero, the Range, the Inspector,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Inspector Claw, Carte Blanche, Spellbook, Bright Sword, ever Wing. Those
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: are kind of the big ones. Who would like if
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: we got to be them, who would we be?
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Oh? Man, I mean, you know, I want to say
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Spellbook obviously, but right I don't have.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: The mind for that stuff.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, I want to, you know, be the one
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: that can crack the code. And but you know, Leah's
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: got more of the determination plus brains, so I don't know.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'd get lucky, you know, and get a dope
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: sword like Bright Sword and destroy stuff with it, you know.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Taylor says, well, I'm drawn to Inspector Claw. It's
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: because I want to be a real detective. I want
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: to make detective one day and solve real crime. Good luck.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Jackie says, well, it doesn't seem like he was a detective.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of confusion about what his powers were.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Anyway, I could see you as a detective Claw, definitely, man,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Jackie says.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Plus, he was also one of the Big three. I
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: don't think any of us are Big Three material.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I dared not. But you know, the officer
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: over here, he's reaching for the stars.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I'm trying. It's tough. It's tough. For you, Jimir, because
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I feel like you love to fly around the city
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: like everwing on your bike. You're into those magic texts
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: that your grandma left to which you're awesome. By the way,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I think they're magic.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: They're inscrutable, but I mean they're weird and we haven't
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: found in all of our research anything like whatever language
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: these things are written in. So yeah, yeah, I mean
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: I wish I could be anybody. You know, I'd be
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: the dorky sidekick of somebody, you know. I just I
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but I'm just saying you have a lot
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: of the You are smart, you know, I don't know.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I know your sister got the big fancy stuff, but
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: like you're you're still smart and and you're also a
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: fighter though, like like bright Blade, remember when you you
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: would defend me against the bullies before him I growth
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: spurt Junior high.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, I'm not gonna leave you hanging man. And
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: also you didn't have to grow up in the shoot,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: so you were at a disadvantage.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I do nvl's knuckles, that's for sure. Jackie says, sorry, y'all,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I think I'm breaking up the trio. I think I'm
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: taking carte blanche just got a rep for the ladies.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: You know, there weren't too many back then.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: No, yeah, stand true, stand true.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: I support that, plus using those fiery chains, using the
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: tools of her bondage to deal out vengeance. So bad ass. Yeah,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: What I wouldn't give to have been born then. I mean,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: my all I ever hear is that how hard it
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: was us back then, and how terrible it was, and
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: how shooters were struggling to survive.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: But like.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: It was an age of real heroes. And now now
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: what do we have to look up to? I guess
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: I guess good cops, right.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Like you look to Taylor and I think you see
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: he is crestfallen a little and just says that's what
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I wanted. But I don't know, it's not like it's
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: not like what I thought it'd be. You know, when
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: you you know, when you you're thinking about like an
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: amazing burger or something you're gonna have, and then you
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: get there finally and it just doesn't deliver.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: I genuinely do.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I was kind of putting myself in, I don't know, gunslinger, badass, righteous,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: just cop type thing, and it's just it's not like that.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Hey, man, you in all seriousness, you've been on this
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: job for.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Like two weeks. Yeah, you're right, You're.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Right, and give it time. Some crazy stuff will go
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: down and you'll have the opportunity to step up. And
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I know you when that moment comes, you're gonna step
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: up and be a hero.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I hope.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: So I know it. I know it, man.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Anything else you chat about with your friends here, I
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: think we might just.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Like argue about plans we make for the next hangout
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: of like, ah, where should we meet next? That's too expensive,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Oh that's too far? Get in without having phones to
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: kind of make the plans. The latter half of any
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: hangout has to be this. And I also do like
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: to try to draw some details out of Taylor into
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: like what his job is, who he's working with, and
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: get some Yeah, just just get more insight into like
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: again side of the justice system of New Babel.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Taylor, right now, he'll give you a little info.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: He is working on the in Colorado North Sometimes that's
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: where new recruits are from the Academy begin because it's
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: kind of it's probably the part of the city that
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: has the least crime, or at least that's the reputation
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: of like the fanciest, nicest part of town. So he's
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: just probably a b cop up there doing regular patrols,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: answering easy calls like hey, my door was open when
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I got home. Could you please come in and look
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: in my house? Make sure no one got in, just
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: like rich people shit stuff like that. From time to
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: time he'll get hired out to ride behind a transfer
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: of money and transfer of funds. All money in New
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Babbel is cash. Uh So there's a lot of cash
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: that just has to move around, and so he'll do that.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Sometimes he's kind of got the easy part of well
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: I say easy, but he's got the light work right now,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: I would say, yeah.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: I definitely like it. Gain after teasing him and riding
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: him a little bit, I definitely like take a genuine
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: interest and like express like, oh that you know that
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: that's cool that you help somebody, or that's fascinating. I
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: didn't know like what went into again some of some
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: of the aspects of his job. I try to give
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: give my give my brother a little pep.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Talk, yeah you and hanging out with your friends. Are
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: you gonna go home today? Before you uh head to
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: the the communal.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: Living, Living, Pot Living CLP the clip. Yeah, yeah, I
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: think I will come home for dinner and again telling myself,
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to my place. I'm gonna, I'm gonna,
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be there. But it's a fifty to fifty
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: chance if I get my bike back up and running
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: and actually go back to the communal living prod. I'm
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: having a hard time leaving the nest.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. When you get home, your dad and a man
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: who you recognize are standing out underneath your home. The
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: man is we would probably call him like a collection
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: agent of the core. He just says, how'd y'all do
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: this month, Johnny boy? Your dad says, oh, good, good,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: here you go. Your dad very happily hands him over
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: a big wat of money from you, your family and
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: your mother who works in the city as well.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, as I pull up, I kind of see this
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: happening and take a deep breath, try to put on
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: a happy face and say I got a little more
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: actually today, and I'm careful to reach into the correct
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: pocket to retrieve the cash that I get. I said,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: I get. You know, you know, those dass people aren't
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: the best tippers, even for hard workers. But yeah, yeah,
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: I got this to give it the community.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: That's a good kid. That's a good kid. He takes
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: the money and takes about half of it and gives
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: you the rest back.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, thank you, thank you so much.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: When I take that back, and again, careful to put
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: it back in the pocket that I took it out.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Of right, And he goes over to a flatbed truck
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: and grabs a single box of goods, just you know,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: normal stuff you do, toothbrush, toothpaste, or I think there's
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: probably a system where your family can request, can request
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: certain things.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Always paper towels, always exactly, some detergents, the essentials.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: And then there is something special in there today that
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: you never have gotten from the shoot before, and it
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: is a bag of oranges. Your dad doesn't seem to
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: notice crabs the box says, oh thank you. The gentleman
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: who's here, the collector says, it's not as much as
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: we would like, but we're trying, we're growing.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: Hey, did those oranges come from the shoot? Oh?
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Good, good observation, young sir, Yes they did. The core
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: and I mean this is this is inside information. Although
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: we are giving oranges out to a lot of people,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: but the Corps has figured out how to get the
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: biodome in that space barge up and running. What Yeah,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: well thank you. Yeah, of course we're hoping more like
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: this and and just generally more for our people can
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: can start happening now. Yeah.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's exciting. Thanks for uh, thanks for all
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: you guys do.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, your thing. He salutes you, gets in his truck
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: and goes on to the next house. You guys climb
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: back up into Yeah.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: I just say, dad, dad, Yeah, I was just sayings.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: As my dad is like about to like take this
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: crate up with him, I like kind of forcibly, like
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I I got it, I got it, Like make make
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: him give it up against his will so he doesn't
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: have to climb up with all this junk.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're walking up the ladder for someone his age
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: is not the easiest with a big old box. Your
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: sister is waiting for the two of you. When you
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: get up there, your sister Aliyah. Yeah.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: I come up and I say, hey, Leah, guess what
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: the shoot has?
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Now? What's that.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: Fresh oranges? I walk over and I put the crate
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: tent on the table and I say, grown proudly right
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: here in the shoot. I mean technically the barge, but
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: you know the shoot. That's I mean, that's great. How
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know something. They got a biodome in the
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: barge to turn on, and I guess it can turn
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: into the orange dome and we're getting oranges now, so
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: good stuff.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I guess h Aliyah always gets antsy around
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: this time of the month when they come to collect.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: She You've heard this line probably a lot of times,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: but she goes, Dad, you know, if you've got a
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: plumbing job in the city, you could actually make enough
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: money to provide for all of us and maybe even
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: get us out of here. Your dad takes this with
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: some grace and smiles and says, what don't you like
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: about the shoot? Leah?
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: I definitely kind of cringe as she says this, Like
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: we've done this before.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: You're just you're just so attached to getting out of
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: here that you can't enjoy it for what it is.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's amazing. You want to be oppressed out there,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: stand in a line, go to the bank. Here, we
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: could be we could be free. We could be free
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: in the shoot. Yeah, it's not. It's not for everybody
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: out there. A lot of people are happy here. I mean,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty happy here, all right. She rolls her eyes
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: and just says, it's just I don't think it's the
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: freedom you guys think it is. If you stopped working
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: for them, do you think they still be delivering food?
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: There was just a guy here to take away your
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: heart earned cash, my money. Moms.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: We pay in and if the plumbing breaks down, Dad
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: has to help somebody. But when the electric goes out,
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: or when the dishwasher breaks they they send a guy
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: free of charge. It's you know, it's does it even
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: out every month? No? But hey, maybe we're accidentally helping
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: people that are having a bad bunch down the street. Leah,
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: it's not all about you. And I kind of look
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: at Dad and not as I finished my statement.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: I know it's not about me. It's too late for me.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: It's too late for you. Jimir. Dad, think your thank
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: you the teens man. Think of your little kids. They
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: could grow up outside of here. Your dad at this,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: it probably usually doesn't go this far. I think your
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: dad at this gets a little dark and just says,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: how dare you? How dare you? All I think about
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: is my kids. I've made the best life I could
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: for them here, and he kind of goes off into
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: one of the other rooms, climbs the ladder up to
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: his bedroom.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: I I kind of sternly look at Leah and say, hey,
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: Darna and Layla aren't kids anymore. They're they're they're they're
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: growing in fast. I don't want them to overhear you
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: talk like this. It's not right.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's right for them to be stuck
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: here when they don't have to be, when they don't
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: need to be. Dad has an incredibly useful and desirable
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: skill that could be used all throughout the city. People
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: paid good money for that kind of thing. I just
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: don't get it. I'm sorry. I'm not trying to. I
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe I am trying to be a little contentious,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: but I just don't understand.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: Even if it is and I lower my voice, even
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: if it is like the right technical move, he's not
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: gonna change. He's been serving these people his whole life.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: At his age.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: He's not just gonna stop and go fix some nice
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: toilets in the sass or North Colorado or something. He's
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: he would feel so out of his element. He doesn't
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: want to travel around there. You know how much he
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: hates going into the city. This is where he is.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: This is where he'll stay. If Leila and Dara and
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: Jace want to claw their way out, you can give
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: them a leg up when the time comes. But until then,
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: I mean they're going to school. Okay. That that was
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: big that mom and dad figured that out for them
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: and for us, and so you know, if they do
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: well and make the right connection, maybe they'll choose to
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: be out, or maybe they'll choose to stay here. It's
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: fine here.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: What about you, though, I mean, you're a working age now,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: you're a smart kid. You could you could do something better,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: some different.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't have the connections that those New
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Battle kids have. I'm just another shoot, clearly trying to
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: take a piece of their pie. I'm I'm fine with
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: my little life. It's not the best life, but I'm fine.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Leah.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: And you're you're shining bright. You know, you're you're gonna
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: rise up and do great things.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: You know, she sighs and looks at you. Just want
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: you to be on my team. Brother.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: I'm on your team. I'm on your team. You know,
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: if if you need help, Look, I pocketed like you know,
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: seventeen new Babbel dollars today. So when you're ready to
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: buy that loft department in the city, I'll help out
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: with the down payment.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: She goes, Oh, so you don't even really believe in it.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: You're keeping money for yourself. Hey, hey, everybody plays the game. Okay,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: you're stupid if you're not playing the game. Whatever, go
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: keep wasting your time with those little dead saviors you love.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't understand why everyone isn't
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: wasting their time trying to figure out what special sauce
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: those people had and how we can get it back.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: That time's dead, brother.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: Well, it's only dead because somebody killed it. It doesn't
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: doesn't It doesn't have to be this way.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: That was been as Jamiir and me Johnny Wilson as
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: your game director. Thank you so much for listening to
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: the first part of Rigel's origin story. I'm just here
• 56:20
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• 56:22
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• 56:25
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• 56:34
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• 56:38
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