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S1-Ep.39: Emmanuel · The Teamup Play Show Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a lily pad production.
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  Speaker 2: This is the team up play show podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Previously in the city of bones.
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  Speaker 2: Quanta, you pull the list back out. A gross list
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  Speaker 2: filled with abused and used people. Your eyes go to
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  Speaker 2: the top name on the list. The name you both
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  Speaker 2: find in this moment is Adam Dukes. Jason, you find
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  Speaker 2: it in the context of documentation to legally change one's
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  Speaker 2: name after adoption to Adam Ellington, who is Manny's father.
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  Speaker 2: One of them is to you specifically from Manny Ellington
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  Speaker 2: that says, I know our city is going through a
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  Speaker 2: tragedy right now, but maybe to distract us, come by
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  Speaker 2: for that testing you talked about to get your book removed.
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  Speaker 2: The other one is from Elaine Akira who said she
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  Speaker 2: would let you know about the autopsy. They all had
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  Speaker 2: enormous amounts of apomorphine and luciferin in their blood. staggering amounts.
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  Speaker 2: It reminded me of an unsolved case I had to study.
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  Speaker 2: The cold case of Darren Pachowski and an unnamed woman
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  Speaker 2: found dead with the same toxic in their bloodstreams.
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  Speaker 1: What are those two things?
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  Speaker 2: Do I know any of those big medically words? Here's
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  Speaker 2: what you know about these. They are hallucinogenic. They make
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  Speaker 2: one incredibly susceptible to They also are derived from a flower,
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  Speaker 2: the blue lotus.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, we'll head to the, I guess the police
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  Speaker 4: station would have files that we can score for cold case.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Elaine can give you the files, certainly. You see
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  Speaker 2: an image, and then there are two figures in the bed.
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  Speaker 2: There are no wounds on the bodies, but here's what
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  Speaker 2: you gain. Darren Pachowski says, found dead with likely a
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  Speaker 2: forbidden lover, a Jane Doe. They died of a toxin
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  Speaker 2: in their bloodstream.
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  Speaker 4: Is there anything unusual or of note about the actual
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  Speaker 4: physical files or photos?
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  Speaker 2: Has any of this changed, tampered with, seem unusual? There
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  Speaker 2: is a page that is missing. You do see the
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  Speaker 2: imprint of like a picture in the top. and then
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  Speaker 2: some information. You can't read any of it, you can't
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  Speaker 2: see the picture specifically, but it does seem like it
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  Speaker 2: might be the woman's face. Our three heroes are solving
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  Speaker 2: a great mystery in the city of New Babel. Who
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  Speaker 2: murdered the crime lords and why? While you're doing this,
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  Speaker 2: great change is happening in the city. With the new mayor,
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  Speaker 2: Henry Hilland, from time to time in your patrols and
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  Speaker 2: as you run through the city, you do see American
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  Speaker 2: cars not having hover capabilities, but themselves doing a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of patrol of the city and looking at things,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps the ambassador himself. But we are thread chasing.
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  Speaker 1: Those hot dogs are weird.
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  Speaker 2: Mm.
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  Speaker 4: Those are like square hot dogs sitting on two marshmallows.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't get it. It doesn't make sense. It feels regressive.
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  Speaker 2: We've done one point of thread chasing. Two of you
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  Speaker 2: had three. One of you had two. What else are
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  Speaker 2: we chasing here thread-wise, fam?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, do we want to keep spending to go talk
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  Speaker 1: to Pachowski kids? I was thinking... Of talking to Dirk
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  Speaker 1: about Sushant and or Manny. And then maybe looking into
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  Speaker 1: Henry Hillen's wife.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: But we also can just keep digging this murder hole
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  Speaker 1: if we want. What do y'all think?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: How many, how many more, how many more nodes are
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  Speaker 4: there of this mystery? Like how many, we talked to
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  Speaker 4: the hot dog guy and the hot dog guy's like,
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  Speaker 4: don't talk to me.
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  Speaker 2: Look in the sewer. And then he Like the sewer
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  Speaker 2: in the sewer is like, don't talk to me, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a sewer.
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  Speaker 3: We got a hot dog guy and we got some
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  Speaker 3: kind of potential MD to talk to. So we might
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  Speaker 3: keep chasing that rabbit hole. Pulling that thread one more
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  Speaker 3: step at least.
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  Speaker 2: We could try.
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  Speaker 4: Otherwise, our other focus mainly that we said it was
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  Speaker 4: trying to push a little bit on Manny. I do
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  Speaker 4: have a way to potentially poke at that with some
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  Speaker 4: unmasked stuff. So I'm not opposed to keep trucking mystery
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  Speaker 4: team style here.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Give another point to mystery.
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  Speaker 2: It was the janitor all along trying to protect his gold.
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  Speaker 2: My gold.
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  Speaker 1: I guess we also don't all have to, but it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's more fun if we do it together.
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  Speaker 2: I would have gotten away with it, too, if it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't for you electric and star-powered and paper kids and
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  Speaker 2: your paper cat and your stupid robot.
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  Speaker 1: Hey.
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  Speaker 2: You could burn the cat. Great. So at the end
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  Speaker 2: of last episode, we kind of joked that you were
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  Speaker 2: going to Pachowski's dogs. Now we're unironically going. Unironically. I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't silly at all.
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  Speaker 1: I do put Sticky in a tote bag over my
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  Speaker 1: shoulder and carry him around like a little chihuahua.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Are you guys going as heroes or are you going as...
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  Speaker 2: I think maybe we unmask for this.
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  Speaker 5: Really?
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  Speaker 2: For just regular... I mean, maybe. For hot dogging, we're
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  Speaker 2: just trying to talk to peeps.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, because Rigel was masked to talk to Linda.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So if he shows up, Unmasked.
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  Speaker 4: If you guys want to go masked, I can go
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  Speaker 4: and have a big hilarious menu and just sit in
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  Speaker 4: a booth in the corner. Feel all the paper in
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  Speaker 4: there as Jason.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. And eat a hot dog.
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  Speaker 1: We could go like really close to closing time or
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  Speaker 1: right after.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's so obnoxious. We'll have a hundred hot dogs
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  Speaker 2: now at 859. Let's do it. Yeah, so you go
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  Speaker 2: to Pachowski's Dogs?
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And two of you go as heroes? Yes. Jason goes,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just a customer. I would like 100 hot dogs, please. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Dan Pachowski looks down at you. He's a young man.
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  Speaker 2: He's a young man, but a little bit older than
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  Speaker 2: you guys. He says, Hey, can't do a hundred dogs
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the night, but I can do one. Perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Between one and 100 dogs, please. Uh, I'll do one.
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  Speaker 2: Between one and 100 dogs. I sit down and put
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  Speaker 2: a menu out. All right. Jason gets his dog and
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  Speaker 2: sits down. How are you two entering Pachowski's dogs?
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  Speaker 1: I just think through the door a few minutes later.
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  Speaker 2: After a loud thunder crack. Yeah. You push open the door. Oh, hey.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, hey.
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  Speaker 2: Quanta, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's me.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, I can't believe you're here. This is my shop,
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  Speaker 2: Pachowski's Dogs.
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  Speaker 1: It smells great.
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  Speaker 2: Rigel, you come in, too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Rigel walks in behind, kind of clopping with his boots.
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  Speaker 3: As I walk in, I flip the hanging door sign
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  Speaker 3: that I assume is there to closed. And I say, hey, Poindexter,
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  Speaker 3: we got a conversation we need to have with the
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  Speaker 3: big man over here.
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  Speaker 2: To Jason. Me? I'm just a regular customer. Masked vigilantes
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  Speaker 2: in your hot dog store? Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you want me to get you to go? I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what they're doing. I'll just enjoy my
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  Speaker 2: dog quietly in the corner. I've got acid reflux. Can't
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  Speaker 2: take it to go. Sorry, guys. I can't send this
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  Speaker 2: customer out. We're not quite closed yet. Can't discriminate against
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  Speaker 2: someone with acid reflux. Right. That's just what he said.
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  Speaker 3: This will at least keep more customers from coming in
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  Speaker 3: while we talk.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Hey, I'm sorry. I didn't... I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm fully above board here. Fully... I'm not... Oh, no. No.
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  Speaker 1: You're not in any kind of trouble.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Then what are you guys doing here?
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  Speaker 3: We have a few questions and I heard you have
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  Speaker 3: pretty good chili cheese fries.
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  Speaker 2: That we do, that we do. I'll whip those up
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  Speaker 2: and come sit down with you. Please. Thank you. Do
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  Speaker 2: you want anything?
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: I'll also take an order of chili cheese fries.
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  Speaker 2: Damn, I'm going to make one myself. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: make me hungry. He whips up three orders of chili
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  Speaker 2: cheese fries. You sit in the booth farthest away from
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  Speaker 2: Jason's food.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And he says, so what can I do for you, heroes?
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  Speaker 1: We are sorry to dredge up the past, but we
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  Speaker 1: have some questions about what happened to your father.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, hey, yeah. Ching Ching, you hear the music? The
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  Speaker 2: music's loud. He looks at you, Jason. He's like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: could you turn on something on the jukebox before?
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  Speaker 1: I got it. Nice. I wave my wrist and turn
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  Speaker 1: on the jukebox.
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  Speaker 2: He gets real close to you guys. Listen, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if there's somebody listening to us here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. I send my senses out to see if I
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  Speaker 1: can find any hidden microphones.
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  Speaker 2: Roll a sense check. I forgot you can do that.
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  Speaker 2: This is just, it's a simple check. It's not hard
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  Speaker 2: for you.
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  Speaker 1: I rolled a short top one and a five, six.
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  Speaker 2: Rolled a three.
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  Speaker 7: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: There are no bugs in here. Certainly.
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  Speaker 1: My eyes roll back for a second and the lights
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  Speaker 1: kind of flashed. flicker in and out. I didn't sense
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  Speaker 1: anything in here listening to us. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that makes you feel any better, just taking my word
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  Speaker 1: for it.
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  Speaker 2: She would know. Trust us. Well, yeah. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you have all the electric stuff. You can turn that down. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: Alright.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, leave it there. One, two, three, four. New Babbles version.
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  Speaker 1: Shania Twain. Man, I feel like New Babble.
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  Speaker 4: Mambo No. 6 featuring Shania Twain.
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  Speaker 2: Far future. A little bit of Shania. No, I trust you.
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  Speaker 2: It's just me and my family, we've been under quite
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  Speaker 2: a bit of surveillance since the event. And listen, I
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  Speaker 2: was real young, and my little sis... It really upsets her,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm glad you came to me. Don't, uh, if
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't mind, don't go bothering her, please.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for letting us know that she was actually on
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  Speaker 3: our list to talk to as well. But anything you
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  Speaker 3: can tell us, especially who you know or believe you're
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  Speaker 3: being surveilled by, would be helpful for an investigation we're
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  Speaker 3: a part of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, no, it's, uh, I got my theories. I
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  Speaker 2: dove real deep into it when I was a teenager.
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  Speaker 2: And then scary men came by, told me, stop. Or,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he told me a lot of bad things.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they would have done that if you
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  Speaker 1: weren't close to something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we got time and lots of delicious fries, so.
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  Speaker 2: Take it away. it's not a super long story. I
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  Speaker 2: just think my dad was in bed with the lady.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody really knew who the lady was. So that's what
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  Speaker 2: I was digging in on. And I got my theories,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know for sure.
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  Speaker 4: While he's talking, can I send a Mr. Crinkles, like
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  Speaker 4: fold up the menu and do a Mr. Crinkles to
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  Speaker 4: like send it into his back rooms, basements to snoop around,
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  Speaker 4: look for his, his, Journals, Walls of Crazy, Theories, just
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  Speaker 4: to see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure. You can warg into Mr. Krinkles. One, two,
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  Speaker 2: Shania Twain. Anytime Jason wargs.
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  Speaker 3: Anytime Jason wargs, I lose it.
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  Speaker 2: That's just hilarious. Paper warging is something else, man. He's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's what my dogs do to people sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: It might be reflux.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't reflux. Yeah, so this lady, hard to find
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  Speaker 2: anything about her. So the first thing that started happening
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  Speaker 2: to my family was the money. Like my ma would
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  Speaker 2: get checks in the mail and it wasn't ever for,
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  Speaker 2: it couldn't be used for anything. It had to be
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  Speaker 2: put away for us. And so she saved up for
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: like our dreams and what we wanted to go do
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  Speaker 2: in the city. So he gestures to the hot dog
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  Speaker 2: store He's like, hence the dogs I had a gift,
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  Speaker 2: what can I say? Yeah, you've used it well Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: thank you And my sister, she's a doctor now Money
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  Speaker 2: just kept pouring in And my poor mom, she lives
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  Speaker 2: in the south side She loves it there, she wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: want to leave But that wasn't how it was My
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  Speaker 2: dad was an important man city council, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But the money started coming in after Darren's death.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Where did it come from?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's where I tried to make the two connections.
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  Speaker 2: Where's the money coming from and who is this lady?
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  Speaker 2: Are those things connected? Maybe, maybe not. How did they
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  Speaker 2: both die? When you get money like that, you think
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  Speaker 2: of reparation, right? Like, like, something bad happened to us
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  Speaker 2: and they, whoever did the bad thing, didn't want the
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  Speaker 2: bad thing to get out. Yeah. And so we get money.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why when the scary man came around, they
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  Speaker 2: told me to stop looking into things. And so I
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  Speaker 2: did because, you know, I have a gift and he just,
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  Speaker 2: just did a hot dog stand. Sure. My little, my little,
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  Speaker 2: my kid sister wanted to get through school, but, um,
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  Speaker 2: Who could have that much money and do something that bad, right?
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: That's the question.
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  Speaker 1: What were you finding out when the big scary men
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  Speaker 1: came by?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, about the woman. Let me paint you a picture
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: while you think, Johnny. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Crinkles goes into the back rooms of the kitchen. There's
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  Speaker 4: wax paper with cartoon hot dogs that look like dogs
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  Speaker 4: on them. They start running around and chasing each other
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  Speaker 4: in a hieroglyphic art style, two-dimensionally, having a little adventure.
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  Speaker 4: Fun music plays underneath that Johnny will have to add in.
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  Speaker 4: After they get chased around, Mr. Krinkles finds his way
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  Speaker 4: to the basement where there's notes and files backing up
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  Speaker 4: everything he's about to say.
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  Speaker 2: Relevant photographs. Dates and times. Specific ones. Numbers. How much
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  Speaker 2: has dad weighed? Facts. It's all there.
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  Speaker 1: Exact time of death. The exact story of the hotel
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  Speaker 1: that they were on. The room number.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, room number is good. Yeah, so the one connection
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  Speaker 2: I made there was... If someone willing to kill for her,
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  Speaker 2: she had to be important. Yeah. There was her picture
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  Speaker 2: in the crime scene photos they let me look at.
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  Speaker 2: I had only seen that face one other place. It
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  Speaker 2: was in a tabloid, you know, the New Babbler? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it was one of those gotcha picture moments where
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  Speaker 2: it said, who is Adam Ellington's new girl?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And she was in the back of one of his cars.
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  Speaker 2: And there was never any certainty that she was doing
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  Speaker 2: anything and she wasn't really seen. But whoever altered the
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: evidence and got rid of her from the case files
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have been that hard because she was kind of
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: a ghost.
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  Speaker 1: Dan, maybe you've already thought of this, but I have
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  Speaker 1: a theory. Would you like to hear it or would
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: you like us to just go.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: On our way? Oh, please. It was an obsession of mine.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think your dad was caught in the crossfire?
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  Speaker 2: Of what?
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  Speaker 1: Getting rid of this woman, whoever she was, was the
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  Speaker 1: true intent.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe. My dad didn't like the shoot, you know, and
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: that's fucked up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he made a lot of enemies.
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  Speaker 2: He did, and, you know, the stories about the Wraith
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  Speaker 2: and that kind of thing, that's what the news says.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like, oh, the Wraith killed him with poison,
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  Speaker 2: but the Wraith never did that before, as far as
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  Speaker 2: we know. It was mostly exploding people's heads. Yeah, that's
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: what we know about the Wraith as well. But, uh,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't know. I don't know who the real
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  Speaker 2: target was. If it was an affair, maybe both of them.
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  Speaker 2: Crime of passion?
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  Speaker 1: Could be, but why the reparations?
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Maybe guilt. Yeah, my mom and us kids, and they
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: didn't do nothing wrong. Yeah.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Any chance this guy's kept that scrap from the babbler
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  Speaker 4: somewhere where we could see the picture down in the
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  Speaker 4: dank corner?
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Hot dog basement.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: A greasy hot dog basement.
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  Speaker 4: A greasy tabloid newspaper.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Roll an investigation check. Okay. You know I'm going to
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: have my paper since do it. Because I'm looking for paper, baby.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, God, if we didn't. If we didn't live in
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: a neo-noir city, what the fuck would I do?
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I rolled a nine on a challenging check. Oh, poopy poops.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I got a six.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: That's just an upside down nine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you think about it. You find bags
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: of potatoes and bags of glizzies. Mr. Krinkles takes them.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Takes a bag of glizzies at least. And that's all
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I figured out. Then, you know, what was the day
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I found that tabloid in the old library and then
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: they came after me. So. Excuse me, my acid reflux
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: has concluded. Hey, good for you, man. Thank you for sharing.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Good day to you.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: I'm like walking out like my shirt is filled with
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: hot dogs now.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Oh thank you for your time Mr.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Pachowski Hey no problem And yeah don't I mean yeah
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Don't talk to my sister And listen this is If
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: you keep following I think bad stuff will happen to
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: you guys So be careful.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Bad stuff happens to us a lot Alright We've handled
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: it so far.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Cool very cool Hey I'm a fan man Whatever people
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: say like Thank you for protecting.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Us Hey yeah you want a picture for your wall?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: What? Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. I got one of the tailor.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: You see her up there?
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Respect.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: We would be honored to be up there with the tailor.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, awesome. Can I get one with each of you?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Like two different pictures? Sure.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, why not?
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: We'll get that guy, come back and take pictures. You
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: guys take pictures at Pachowski's Dogs. They are poorly framed.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: My finger is in the shot.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I'm holding a french fry up to my masked mouth.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: So we'll say that's two points of thread chasing. Two
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: of you have one more here. Yes. Yes.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I would love your input, guys.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what is more important? Should I find out if
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Dirk knows anything about the Ellington's involvement with Everwing and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: their team? Or should I like go to the hospital
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: and look for like a Hilland? Cause she was sick.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, interesting.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: But record like records like now we've established that's like,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: that's paper. That's paper.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Well, it sounds like, adam ellington manny ellington this case
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: it's all connected in some way so whatever we can
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: learn about them whether it's from dirk or otherwise.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah all right i'll talk to dirk with my last one.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Okay find dirk in the nest uh dirk has been
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: doing a good job patrolling through the city and uh
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: rock fist has been hanging out with him he's been
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: teaching him a lot of life they're playing foosball down
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: there yeah hey guys quanta hello.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Can I steal you away from foosball for a second?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, of course.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Excuse us, Lucky. I mean, you're welcome to hang out too.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I just have some questions for Dirk.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I like these little guys. They're pretty great. They're very cute.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: They are so cute.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: They kick the ball. They kick it. Dirk comes over
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: to hang out with you. What can I do for you, Quanta? Word.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Finding out some things about Manny Ellington and that family.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: And I was just, I was curious about Adam Ellington's
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: involvement with you and the Knights back in the day.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: No, uh, Richard.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, not the Knights. You were the Veniam Knights
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: as the day.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Hunters.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Hunters. Thank you.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Uh, yes. Richard, uh, uh started helping us and then
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: his adopted son adam took the reins and really did
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: more for us than richard ever did uh technology housing
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: the nest this this right here what did you know
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: about him very little it was all very cat and
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: mouse in what way Well, we very rarely, if ever,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: saw him personally. It was always missives and amounts of
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: money and buildings bought for us and in our names
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: and food, clothing. It was so that we didn't have
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: to work.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: So you never met him?
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: I don't remember meeting him. It was two lives ago
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: for me. Right.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Well, um, you know the thing Sticky's been showing us?
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: We found out the boy in those is the same
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: person as Adam Ellington.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Interesting. Very interesting.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: So, makes us wonder who is Manny Ellington.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Yes. Adam... was never known to have a wife. But again,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: for us, he was elusive. Manny... Manny has been, in
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: my waking, much more in the public eye than Adam
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: ever was.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: So Adam even shied the public.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Yes. Richard was a fairly public figure.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Hmm. So if, you know, you were just looking at
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: a photo from that time, you wouldn't be able to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: pull Adam out? You don't think?
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Maybe just with context. He was still a famous person.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Do you know if he's still alive?
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't believe so. He'd be very old. Yes, he
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be too old.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Did you ever.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: You know, I mean, he was your benefactor, but was
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: there anything that ever felt off that you remember?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: We were young and we were fighting the good fight.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I think we felt lucky and blessed to be given
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: all that they gave. I think we took without asking
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: many questions.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, that makes sense. Just I guess keep your
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: distance from Manny, if you wouldn't mind for now, or
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: let us know if he reaches out to you in
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: any way.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Very well.
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: Thanks.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: It's all very strange.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I will rack my brain to think if I'm missing anything,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: if anything's lost in my circuitry.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: No, thank you. I appreciate it.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Two-on-one foosball?
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, Rockfest is good.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: He can create other appendages. Roll all the little guys.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Just look at these little guys.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: I love forcing Johnny to have to yes and to
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: give us things that we want canonically that are not important.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: To the plot. Yeah, they're just playing foosball, which we
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: have now in the basement. Foosball table is just there.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: And there's a pinball machine and a ninja slushie.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Ooh, a ninja slushie. Ooh, I'll make the slushies. Then
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: two-on-one foosball.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Jameer, what are you doing with your final point of
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: thread chasing? Unmasked, I'm going to go talk to my sister.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: Ooh.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you find Lila at home one night after her practice. Hey, Jameer. Hey, sis.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Good to see you. How's practice? Good. I'm getting ready
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: for Kono Condors again. All right. All right. You know,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: keep a solid base.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Knees over shoulders or under them, you know, depending on
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: the gravity.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: I know, Jameer. Have you ever played shootball? No, just watched.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Just watched a lot. I got it. Armchair shootball coach.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Just wanted to ask, though. Yeah, what's up? You work
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: for Ellington Electric, yeah? Right, yeah.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: I know we don't talk work a lot, and my
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: work is pretty boring. It Pays the bills, but the Ellingtons,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: that's a big company.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: That's a lot going on. Yeah, it's pretty cool. What's
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: your work over there like? Well, I'm just like an aide,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: which is just like a fancy word for gopher. I
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: just go for coffee, go for extra notepads, go for
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: pens and pencils.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I understand that work, but when you're
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: doing that work, You know, you hear stuff.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: You see shit.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I sure have, delivering, you know, coffees and sandwiches and
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: other stuff. Well, have you learned anything on the job?
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Anything juicy?
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: I think this will need to be a roll. Okay. Okay.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: A juicy roll roll for juice do you ever go
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: for your boss on the top of a collapsing building
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: while wearing a mech suit.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: I'm just a gopher somebody roll why don't you roll
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: a d20 for me one to five will be not
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: so juicy Five to ten will be juicier. Ten to fifteen,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: pretty juicy. Fifteen to twenty, the juiciest. The juiciest. I
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: got a ten. All right. A ten.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Medium juice.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Medium juice. Medium juice. You got that medium juice, girl.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: You're just average.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: You're a straight five. I mean, there's just, like, there's
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: a lot of places we're not allowed to go. I
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: guess that's pretty interesting. Like, you would think it's just, like,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: an electric plant, right? Mm-hmm. Or something, but it's not.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: There's laboratories there.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: There's... Tamir, it's so weird you're asking about this, because, like,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: a few days ago, I saw past a door that,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Manny was coming out of... And there was... A lady... In.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Um.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: It's one of those things where you see it and
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: you're like... Did I see that or is my mind
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: just being weird? Because he's very nice and everything's... And
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: they gave me a raise... Of course. Good work. And
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: so you're like... I don't want to like... Self-sabotage and
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: like see things that aren't really there... Just to like...
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: It can't be this good.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: Anyway.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: There was a lady in like a big tank. A tank? Yeah,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: like blue fluid and there was wires all connected to
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: her and a breathing tube. That's creepy shit. Right? That's
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: not normal, right? That's not normal. Okay. I didn't tell
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: mom and dad, obviously, because they would freak. Yeah, maybe rightly,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: but Yes, understood. So. So. Yeah. Fucking taste.
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: Foosball?
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: But other than that, it's really normal. Other than that,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: normal shit. Yeah. But that, not normal shit. Yeah. Yeah.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I'd say. There's a big chunk of it I'm not
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: allowed to go in, though, which is, again, I think
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: that's weird. That was the only time you saw anything weird? Yeah. Yeah. Well.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, other than the fact there's just a lot
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: of laboratories and, like, lots of stuff going on. Yeah.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, as cool as it is to learn about
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: all this shit, don't get into trouble.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: It's a good gig.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: It's a good gig. Yeah, man, it's a good gig.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: And if you ever need work, I mean, you know,
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: you can always join me in the bike business.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, no thanks. You have this talk with your sister,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: gaining a little information about something weird she's seen.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: You've got such nice, like, sister goggles on. I'd be like,
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: she couldn't be lying about anything.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: I'll take it. Face value. So nice of you. Little sib.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: She can't get one. And we enter unmasked life. What
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: did we give to unmasked life, everybody? Four. Four. Two. Two.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Two for the other two of you. Two, two. Jason,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: what are you doing with your four and unmasked? I
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: did a two, two.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: So I think first order of operations, I don't know
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: if you want the big picture, if you kind of
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: want things in phases here, but I think first things first,
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: I do want to get over to the library and help.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: I suppose if it's Henry Hill and his team or whatever, like,
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: rebuilding the library, restocking the shelves, trying to get it
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: back up and running. I don't know if it's going
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: to be open soon, but you know, at the very least,
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: you know, get, get over there, be seen and know that,
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: you know, I.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Own the library now. So yeah, you go over there
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: and you haven't been around too much. There's a young
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: woman with a clipboard who's, I approach her immediately. Seems
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: to be in charge. You seem to be in charge
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: of things. That's right. Hi. I like your clipboard. Thank you.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Seems like it's got schedules and plans for the library.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. Well, and organization, where everything goes. My name
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: is Julia.
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: Great.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Jason.
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: Hi.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Hi. Oh, Jason. Jason Turner. Yes. Owner of... An operator
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: of the Pendragon Library. Oh, my God. I'm so glad
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: you're here. I don't have a clipboard or anything, so
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: I understand. Well, no. I mean, there's a lot I
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: need to go over with you about where you want things.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: I have thoughts. Okay. You and Julia get to work.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Absolutely doing this library. Doing it up. Absolutely doing this library.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Doing it up. She has been given a lot of stuff.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: We're like Abso-Bookly.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Along with the stuff from America, a lot of books
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: have come in from Henry Hilland. She works for Henry,
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: and she was put in charge of giving the library
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: back to the people. It has been fully rebuilt. rebuilt
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: to look as close to the old one as possible. You,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: you certainly feel the difference immediately, but yes, you, you
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: rebuild the library with, uh, with Julia. She's, uh, very bookish.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: I think the two of you get along very well.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Is there, and you can say no, if this is
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: not fall under unmasked life, but like, while I'm hanging
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: out doing this, is there any chance of like carving
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: out some, like we need this part for load bearing, uh,
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: or like, this is the, Arthur would have wanted an
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: adult section of the library for porn. I want to
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: sneak in a secret room in the library plans.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: I'll say you can do that. Ooh, I love that. Nice.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: A sanctum.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Very good.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Fun.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: For porn.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: A porn sanctum. Yeah, no superhero stuff down there. It's
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: all superhero. It's all superhero porn. Always, dude. Where do
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: you want it to be? Because I think you could
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: have been a part of some of the design discussion, certainly.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: I think if we've already got the nest as, like, underground,
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking cool attic, atrium, like, in the clock tower.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Of the library.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Overlooking the city dramatically.
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: Love it.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Great. Jameer, what was one thing you wanted to do
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: with Unmasked Life? I think Jameer does want to, like,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Pick up some shifts. With the city feeling a little slower,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: I just want to be in it. I want to
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: be delivering food. I want to be riding around on
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: my hover bike.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Connecting with the people, seeing life from the ground.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you get back in and pick up a couple
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: shifts with Joey. Maybe, you know, almost close to a
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: full week of work. Yeah. Jameer, you haven't been around.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: You know me, been picking up bread from all kinds
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: of places, but have to come back to see my
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: main man.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: You gotta hustle, man. You gotta hustle. And you pick
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: up some shifts in the city. Yeah.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Hovering around on the hover bike, saying hi, smiling and nodding.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: It feels a little weird being down below and not
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: up above, which is wild that so much has changed
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: so fast.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Quanta, what's one thing you wanted to do with
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: unmasked life?
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: I would like to go to work within the back
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: of my mind, remembering that Manny had stopped by before.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: So I think every time a customer comes, a slight
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: little hope that it's going to be him again. Yeah.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Hey, Gabe, any messages while I was out?
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Nothing specific, Ronnie.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Great, great.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: But.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Just throwing on my fancy robe.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Tying it up, throwing dust.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: On the floor. Sorry. But people are always excited to
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: see you.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Great.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: And you go back to work and do some readings
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: with people. Jason, another thing from you. Gonna see Paige.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Gotta go to the hospital to see Paige. How much
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: time do you think you spend with Paige? You gave
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: a four, so.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: I think if the library was only kind of one
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: point's worth, then I would say probably just another one
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: point here.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Okay. So maybe if it's over two weeks, a few days,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: but sleeping there overnight, certainly sometimes. Hospital chairs. Yeah. So
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: you check in with Paige... Her vitals are all fine
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: and even. The doctors say that strange sort of thing
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: of like, it's just up to them now and they
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: want to come back kind of thing yeah um still
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: very unsure of what will happen when Paige returns we're
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: gonna save a Paige scene till the end of this
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: unmasked heard um but there will be something with Paige
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: down the line nice mmm Jameer.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Your last point. Or were both those points for work? No,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: just one.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Yes, what's your last point in Unmasked? I want to
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: go to some kind of shoot town hall.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: I want to.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: I just want to.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: I don't plan to speak, but I want to hear, like,
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: the core gang had a real peak. under Cordula the
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: last few months. How's the Soma Prince doing? How are
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: people feeling? Are we still getting yummy yummies from the
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: space barge?
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: What's going on? How did the shoot ball vendors feel?
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Can they return?
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: They filibuster.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: I'm Jason. And I'm Jason.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: And we have some thoughts about vending.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Close down Pachowski's dogs. Am I right? Yeah. Because they're
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: putting strain on the good old shoot dogs.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Get rid of the American fruit coming in because we.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Got shoot fruit. We got our own shoot fruit.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: Pull out a t-shirt cannon, but it's full of apples.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, God. Yeah, those two idiots are certainly at the
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: shoot town hall. It does happen in the shoot ball arena.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: It's a good place for everyone to sit. True. And yeah,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: I think in the shoot, a town hall would be
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: like wild. There are a lot of crazy people that
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: show up and say crazy things. There's one guy who's like,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: I have had a mango. Every day.
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah!
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Jason, the vendor, loves that.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Respect. Respect. Every day. And it gave me bad diarrhea,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: and I'm mad about it. Boo. Boo. Yeah, that's right.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: We don't want diarrhea when we ate mangoes. No! That's
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: our number one priority. Boo. Boo. Boo. So I think
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: it is wild. There is no core presence there. None. Okay.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Normally one of the captains would show up to a
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: thing like this, but there is no one. There is
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: a shoot elder who has been in the shoot for
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: a long, long time that tries to keep things organized
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: and tries to actually hear pleas and promises to try
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: to get in touch with the core. but it is
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: a little chaotic, Jameer. Okay.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: Jameer sees the eyes of the people, the fear, the uncertainty,
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: and it doesn't sit well in his belly.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: You need some Tums?
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Later. Later. Get your Tums here, red hot Tums. God
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: damn it. Off the grill.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Fresh off the grill.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Quanta, your last point in Unmasked.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: I will go to family dinner.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: You go to family dinner.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Yes. Through the course of the evening, you know, I
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: wanted to hug my parents just after, you know, our
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: heavy discussion about what's coming for the three of us
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: last episode. But then I try to like get Sandy
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: to talk about work more. And cause there's been so
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: much happening in the city, like something had have to
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: pass through her office. And Quanta even realizes like, I
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: don't even know who my mom works for. Like what,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: you know, she, she got me off the hook, but
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: that was just her knowing how to navigate the law here. Yeah.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: So maybe like during dessert, just being like, mom, There's
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: been so much going on, like the murders of those
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: gang leaders.
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Talk about judgment and the council swearing in Henry.
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts legally about all this?
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Well, it's a mess. It's a mess because
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: there's so little precedent for everything. It's a mess because...
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: the city charter is old and, and kind of confusing.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: It's a mess because when there was no mayor, there's
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: no higher authority really. And the system of judges was
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: so corrupt under the last mayor. A lot of that's
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: been cleared out thanks to Henry. So we're happy about that. Um,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: but you know, a lot of it right now is
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: assigning new judges and, I was doing a lot of
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: just like insurance claims and bullshit. They had to call
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: us down for all the destruction in Kono that happened
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: at the mayor's skyscraper. So, yeah, I've been kind of
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: doing grunt work, honestly, but it's what's got to happen
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: for the city to heal.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry I don't know this, but who do you
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: work for? Are you part of a firm? Are you
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: like in-house?
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Winston, Winston and Cantor. I'm a partner with them.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: Sorry that I didn't know.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: That's fine. It's boring. Pretty boring.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Kind of is.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Hey, me and your mom were talking. You're Quanta, right? Yeah.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm Quanta.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: We fucking knew it. Yeah, honey. We just wanted to
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: say we're really proud of you. And we want you
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: to be safe. I know it's very dangerous what you're doing.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: But we love you.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: I love you guys, too. And I'm... Sorry I didn't
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: just come out and say it.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: No, I get it. Hey, kick their ass out there
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: when they need it, all right?
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: We're trying. We're really trying.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: No, I know you are. It's tough. We're proud of you.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: Sorry that we're part of the grunt work you got
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: No, hey, if it had actually fallen over, there'd be
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: a lot more to do. So you guys did great.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: We saw you up there. Thanks. That's when I think
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Your mom and she is known for a while, but
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: that's when I knew for sure. I was like, hey,
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: that's my girl holding up that building. Come on. Come on.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: We're trying to hold up a lot, moms.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we asked your dad, too, and he was not
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: good at lying.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he's not.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I basically told him. I started sweating. It's okay, Dad.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: And I said, no, no, no, she's not.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: It's okay, Dad. I'm honestly surprised you Didn't tell them sooner.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's tough for me to lie to your
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: moms again about how I went last time.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: That makes sense. And I'm sorry I put you in
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: that position.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Hey, that's okay.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Well, what do you... Do you really think that me
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: and my friends that we're doing good?
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Sandy shrugs. The mayor was as corrupt as they come.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a piece of shit.
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Yes. We had a good life under him. And most
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: people didn't. And that's not fair. I think his removal
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: is a good thing. But that's the problem is you
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: cut off one head and what happens?
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: We're trying to figure that out.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: Also, do you think, I mean, you know, you never
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: raised me this way, but Are there, are there day that,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: that think like we're better than humans?
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, mostly in that church.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 47:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Well, besides that.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: That your dad and you hung out at.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: But that was, that was, that was different than like
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. That was like soft power.
• 47:58
  Speaker 7: Hmm.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, not saying it's good.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Just.
• 48:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: No, there aren't any day groups that I know about
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: that are what you're saying, like day supremacists.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I guess you're right. The church does come
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: kind of close to that.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: Close as it is, you know.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I just really wanted to distance myself
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: from them that I haven't really thought about it in
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: a while.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good idea.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: I really messed up with all of that.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: You live and you learn.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: That's a nice way to put you destroy people's lives
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: and then Try to make up for it by becoming
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: a vigilante in the night.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: But that's your journey, and we're so proud of it.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: That's what your 20s are for. That's what your 20s
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: are for.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Mommy. Can I have another cookie?
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: Mommy.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Of course. Mommy. You hang out at family dinner. All right, Jason,
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: back to you. You got two more points. Two more points.
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: They're both going to getting some tests done.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Take this book out of me. I do not want
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: to be a superhero. Unmask me forever. Whoa.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Unmask me forever, daddy.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Daddy. Magic tooth daddy. You go to Ellington's. You greet
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: the girl at the front desk. Hi. Oh, yeah, this girl.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: You still work here?
• 49:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: Why wouldn't I? No reason. You're so good at your job.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: I learned about sarcasm. And you were being sarcastic just now?
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: Was it not obvious? I don't know. Are you being
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: sarcastic right now? Fuck, this is hard. Maybe. Are you
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: flirting with me? I don't know. Fuck, I don't know.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: I got an appointment. You go into your appointment. She
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: walks you back, and you do head into a very
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: hospital-looking office. hospital-esque section of the electric plant that is
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Ellington Electric. More hospital cheers. Manny said he was sorry
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: he wasn't going to be here, but he says he'll
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: look at the test results and write you a letter. Yeah,
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: that's okay. Thanks. Whatever. Hey, whatever to you too. Thanks.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: A doctor comes in. They strap you in, Jason. They
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: run every kind of medical test that is runnable. MRI, scans,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: blood tests. Name two more. X-rays. That's one. Brain scans.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Any kind of medical test. Can they also,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: I just request one. Yeah, urine is good. Urine. Urine.
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: I just want to be laid flat on top of
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: like a Xerox copy machine.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: They scan the book. They scan you on a Xerox
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: to get really grainy images of the book. Yes. You
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: run tests with the folks at Ellington and Manny's going
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: to get back to you.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: And he, In this part of the facility too, is
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: there opportunity for like a little bit of downtime snooping too?
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: Is there anything I can just like poke around at,
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: peek at while I'm here?
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Sneak around? I don't know if it's something I
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: would do, but sneak around. So just disappearing from the
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: table or not being walked out, both of those are
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: going to draw quite a bit of Oh, no, no, no, no.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Don't worry. Hospital gowns are made of paper. I don't
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: think so. Shitty ones. Or whatever the thing they cover
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: the table with. I want to disappear into that. No,
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: I don't need to go. But you know what I mean?
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: I could send Mr. Crinkles on some recon. Yeah, roll...
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: You can also just do a general paper scan of
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: the building. Roll an investigation check here with... Your paper sense.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: This is a difficult check. I'm rolling a D12. All right.
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: This will be a D8 plus a D6 for me.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: I rolled a three. I got a five. Nice. Witter. Five.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: Are you looking for anything specific?
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: I think so. I think generally I want to see
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: if there's any signs that connect with You know, any
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: indication of Adam Ellington, any other kind of experiments happening? Like,
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: I'm going to stay in this sort of wing.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: The hospital side, lab side. I don't think Jason would
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: know about tube stuff that Jameer discussed with his sister. But,
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: you know, if that's in this part of the building,
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: I would certainly be looking for other patients. Like, they've
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: got a whole hospital here. Like, who else is being
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: researched upon? What's the research happening here?
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Okay. If that's where you're... If that's where you're focused,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: I think. Unless you think there's another place I should
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: be focused. If you want to tell me where I
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: should be focused, I will focus there. But that is
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: what I'm thinking about focusing on. You got a success
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: and you beat me by two. I think in a
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: general scan, you send Mr. Crinkles around, you do just
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: a broad paper scan. The things on paper that come
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: back to you, because you're the paper guy. That's me.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: There is a room. Labeled Hannah Hilland. I knew.
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: It.
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: Freestyle. Sick wife in a tube. Honestly, Mr. Freestyle. Honestly, Mr. Freestyle.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: If you're going to call me on it, honestly, Mr.
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: Freestyle.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: Every man has dreamed of taking the love of his
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: life and having her get a bad disease that needed
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: to put her in a tube so he can mourn
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: over the idea of her rather than live with the
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: reality of her.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: All thought about it. I feel gross. The other thing
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: you get, and this is in Manny's office, which you've
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: been to. I think because you've been there, you know
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: it's relatively close. You scan that a little bit as well.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: You find a family tree.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Ooh.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: There is Richard. Richard had no wife and had no heir.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: Adam was adopted. Adam is next to a woman named Nora.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: Nora Ellington. The two... Beneath Adam and Nora, there are
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: two children. Diane and Carver. The name Adam is crossed
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: out in pen and replaced with the name Emmanuel.
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: Oh my God. My God, he did it.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: He did it. He did it. The rat bastard. A
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: dramatic breeze opens just the back of Jason's hospital gown.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: Cat flies back in. So you gain that knowledge and
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: you get tested. All kinds of fun tests. Every fluid.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: Every fluid and scan.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: The reflexes.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got acid reflux.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: I saw the little hammer on your knee.
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: Hammer on my... Real delayed. Hammer on the knee. Ten
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: seconds go by. Oh, my leg. Is that good? You
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: shouldn't eat so many hot dogs. It's like a really
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: bland doctor. Give it to me straight, doc.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: You've had reflux because you have a book for an esophagus.
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah. All of my neural pathways. Yeah, my spine is
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: Fused with a book spine.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: One of the nights you go to visit Paige, you
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: visit her often. She sleeps, breathes quietly. What do you do?
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: Do you talk to her? Do you just sit there?
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: Do you read to her? What do you do?
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'll read to her mostly, but every
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: once in a while I'll just sort of start to
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: talk to her as if she's awake and alive and
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: normal and give her updates. tell her what kind of
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: stuff I'm learning, paper phantom secrets, all of it. I'm
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: just sort of just talking to process. Uh, and I
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: think all the while to specifically the paper phantom suit
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: is like, again, off of me. It's like chilling in
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: the corner, floating, looming presence, but never speaking.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: There's one night you enter the room. And there's a
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: man in there. Paige is off of her hospital bed
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: on a floating, not like hover tech, but on a
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: floating gurney. Over her, there are two straps that glow
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: blue with zero point energy. The guy turns his head,
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: looks at you. He's in a trench coat. He's bald.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: He has scruffy face hair. He says, ah, shit. You're
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: not a doctor. That's true. Hey, kid, listen, I need
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: to take care. You gotta understand.
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: What?
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: Uh, I don't think so. Oh, this is gonna be
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: so much to explain. Well, you can explain it to me,
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: or you can explain it to me. The cloak flies back,
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: covers me up, dukes up, swords out. His big trench
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: coat flies back. He pulls out two guns, which are
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: unlike anything you've ever seen. They have long barrels, but
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: they're both handheld. The face of the barrel glows orange,
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: and he hasn't even fired. They don't look like normal-sized
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: bullet holes. He says, I wouldn't try it, kid. My
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: name is Brock. Does that mean anything to you? Rock Danton,
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: does that mean anything anymore? Moonslayer? How long has it been?
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: Does it mean anything that I'm missing?
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's one of the OG Evos. That like fought
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: in the war. Yeah, he's the one that destroyed the moon.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: And he's stealing your girl. I don't know if I
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: would know that. Brock Danton is... Is he famous? He's
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: so famous. Okay, great. Him and William... So William Blainer
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: is famous for... making the day people, you know, that
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: much Brock Denton famous for, um, the creation of the, uh,
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: bombs of life and the blowing up of the moon
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: on accident. Yeah. Does that name mean anything? Brock Denton, moonslayer.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, vaguely. Listen, I love your whole thing. Honestly,
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: big fan. Hey, I'm enjoying what you're putting down too,
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: but you can't take her. Let me tell you why
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: before we have to fight, okay? All right. I represent
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: the Evos of Io. Except we're changing. Best thing we
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: can figure is that far away from Mother Earth out there,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: we're de-evolving. Devolving. Moving a step back the evolutionary chain. Okay.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: And devolving. Maybe that doesn't sound like a big deal.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: We're all just becoming normal people again, but our society
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: on Evo is built on our abilities. It's how we
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: live out there. An entity of pure evolutionary energy popped
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: up on our scanners. We haven't cared much about what's
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: going on on Earth for a while. So for the
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: first time in fucking decades, I'm back on Earth, and
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: I think she can help us.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 5: Aww.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 6: What?
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: Where she goes, I go. I can't take you to space, kid. Well,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: you can't take her. I'm not letting her go. She's
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: all I have left. Hey, I'll bring her back. Maybe.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 6: Oh, no!
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: How do you like that for a guarantee? There are
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: evos that keep us alive. The death toll, if the
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  Speaker 2: devolving continues, will be catastrophic. If there's a shot, he
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  Speaker 2: lifts his guns. I gotta take it. You say you're
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  Speaker 2: a fan of the paper phantom and his vibe. Sure. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you know me that well. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where we'll end this episode of the Team
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  Speaker 2: Up Play Show Podcast.
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  Speaker 7: Woo!
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  Speaker 2: All right. We'll do a little bit more screeching in
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  Speaker 2: the chat cave.
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  Speaker 2: Like the little fucking chats we are. Join us on
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  Speaker 2: And it's patreon.com slash teamuprpg. And we'll see you over there.
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  Speaker 2: But more importantly, we'll see you next week with another
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  Speaker 2: episode and find out what's going on with the moonslayer.
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  Speaker 5: Whoa.
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  Speaker 6: Bye. Bye.
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  Speaker 2: Bye-bye. Fly me to the moon. It's destroyed. The moon.
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  Speaker 2: Months before our heroes meet. Bless me, Father, for I
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  Speaker 2: have sinned. I have never come before to confess.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, yes.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you for coming, my child. You should know I'm
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  Speaker 7: not a father. Merely a deacon here at the church...
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  Speaker 7: Father Arthur is, uh, indisposed.
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  Speaker 2: So you cannot offer me absolution?
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  Speaker 7: Well, no. I can only offer a listening ear and counsel,
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  Speaker 7: as I was instructed.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right, I suppose. I don't think that I've
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  Speaker 2: done any wrong.
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  Speaker 7: Then why come to confessional?
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  Speaker 2: Why would you call me child as you are not
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  Speaker 2: yet father?
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  Speaker 7: Force of habit, I guess. For my own time in
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  Speaker 7: the seat in which you now sit.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps this was a bad idea. No, no.
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  Speaker 7: Please. I want to listen. It's important to empty our
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  Speaker 7: minds before God, child. Go on.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to have to stop calling me child, deacon.
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  Speaker 2: Of course. Well, if you're willing to listen, be aware
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  Speaker 2: that what I'm about to say may seem insane. No
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  Speaker 2: one has listened to me with any sincerity. That is alright.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord God hears every plea.
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  Speaker 7: It's okay. Go on.
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  Speaker 2: I've come to seek spiritual guidance. I don't believe in
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: your narrow view of what God is. But I think
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: that I... Am God forced to walk among mortals? For
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  Speaker 2: some reason, sent here to Earth to do godly works.
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  Speaker 2: Sent here to do something, but I feel unfulfilled. Trapped
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: in an earthly body. I'm looking to be freed. But
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know how. I don't know what work has
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: yet been undone. I've tried everything. So much good. It's
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: the only explanation for the wonders and horrors of my life.
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  Speaker 2: I'm worried I'll... Deacon? You think I'm crazy. Well, then
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  Speaker 2: it was a mistake to come here. Have a good day, sir.
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  Speaker 7: No, no, no. Forgive my silence. It's not what I
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  Speaker 7: was expecting, but I am intrigued. What makes you think
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  Speaker 7: this way? Are you a day of the Church of
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  Speaker 7: New Babel Day?
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  Speaker 2: No, I am not. But to your first question, there
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  Speaker 2: is much to say. Where do you want me to begin?
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  Speaker 7: At the beginning, I suppose. I have time. It is
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  Speaker 7: rare that people come into confession at this time of day.
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  Speaker 2: Very well. The beginning. I think of Horus, god of Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: the gods and demigods of Greece... Krishna, Karna of Hinduism,
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  Speaker 2: and even the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, and your Christ, of course.
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  Speaker 2: All birthed miraculously, all God.
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  Speaker 7: Was your birth miraculous?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. My parents were biochemists. They were chosen to leave
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  Speaker 2: this rock and reach the heavens. Save this earth and
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  Speaker 2: find new worlds in space. And they left me here. Tragic.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, but not miraculous. Also, you don't seem old enough
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  Speaker 7: to have been a baby at that time.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't finished, Deacon.
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  Speaker 7: Forgive me. Continue.
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  Speaker 2: They left me as a mass of cells and other
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  Speaker 2: experimental genetic material in a canister full of biofluid. They
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: didn't know it, but their work in genetic enhancement was working.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: I could hear and see them without being able to communicate.
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  Speaker 2: These are my first memories. Every other subject had failed,
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  Speaker 2: so when they left for space, they left me. I
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: wasn't supposed to make it, so what guilt could they feel?
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: I remember them turning out the lights, shutting out the
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  Speaker 2: power to my glass womb and leaving me. Abandoned. I
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  Speaker 2: grew until I was strong enough to break my prison.
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  Speaker 2: I was what you would call a child, but I
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  Speaker 2: was stronger. Smarter, tougher. A miraculous birth. A wonder.
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  Speaker 7: I suppose that it is.
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  Speaker 2: To be continued.
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  Speaker 8: That was Ethan Goldman as the Paper Phantom. Stephanie Fackler
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 8: as Quanta, Ben as Rigel, and Johnny Wilson as your
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  Speaker 8: game director and the creator of Team Up.
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  Speaker 2: And special thank you to Matt Jacobs as the Deacon.
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• 1:08:42
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• 1:08:45
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• 1:08:48
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening, heroes. Well, well, well,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: this is so sad, but this week's episode's over.
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  Speaker 4: But you know what's not sad? is that we get
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: to shout out our superheroes. So let's do it. Shout
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 4: out to Crank Billerus and Mava Amada. As they like
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 4: to say, touch tips. Hey, shout out to Korn. She
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 4: sometimes runs an eight minute mile. That's a single digit number.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: Korn, that's great. You should be proud of that. Meow, meow. Hey,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: it's Geo and Brandy. We love the podcast. We love
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: cats that smoke cigarettes and we love team up. Please
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: keep it up, meow meow. Big shout out to Troy Davidson.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 4: A shout out to Matt, who's trying to become an
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 4: American this year, and maybe you should stop.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: Give up that dream, Matt. Shout out to Audra, who
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: demolished yet another bowl of mashed potatoes.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: Give it up for her. I'm sure she's in an
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 4: early grave. Shout out to Jen, who prefers the Star
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 4: Wars prequels to the original trilogy, who I'm sure is
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: in an early grave. shout out to chris who's currently
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 4: on the merlin birding app he's safe uh shout out
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 4: to pac-man pidgey norm and stetna mccringle for saving christmas
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 4: back in 2024 from the yule lads and santa's evil
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: twin brother pac-man pidgey norm and stetna mccringle what you
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: done for me lately okay just think about that Shout
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 4: out to Farmer Bob and Mama Robin. Hummingbirds and seahorses
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 4: to you.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: Shout out to Brian. He's the Colorado home hero. Working
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: with him is rolling an empowered 20 when you really
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: need it. Shout out to Kevin Feldman. Shout out to Christina.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: Shout out to the Lusinator. He lost for our wins.
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  Speaker 4: Shout out to Cam, who's currently still pro pineapple on pizza.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 4: I wonder if that shifts annually cam just write sack
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  Speaker 4: in the comments. If that shifts annually, shout out to
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: you for listening. You're our superheroes. We couldn't have done
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 4: this without you. We'll say thank you a million times
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 4: and it still won't be enough. Thanks for making our
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: dreams come true. And I hope you're not in an
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 4: early grave.
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  Speaker 1: This has been a lily pad production.