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Benders & Brews S2 - Episode 10 - Bring Out the Whole O.S.H.A. · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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Uh.
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Jasmine, oolong, green
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and white. Long ago, these four
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teas were skilfully brewed at the Blissful Brew.
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Then everything changed when the shop's
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popularity threatened its existence.
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All Mr. Okuron, the shop's owner and tea
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master, could do was to recruit four teenage
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orphans to learn his trade and staff his
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shop. A year has passed since the orphans were
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hired, and although their skills have progressed, they
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still have a lot to learn before they can brew anything.
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But I believe that they have the potential to make the
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Blissful Brew the greatest tea shop in the world.
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Last time on Benders and Brews an
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Avatar legends podcast.
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So after waking up the next morning.
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The ship approaches the city of Yudao and begins
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pulling into the docks where they plan to leave the ship and
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our gang, along with a group of pirates led by the captain,
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who will follow them ashore and continue to seek out the
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alleged treasure. Of course, our heroes don't want
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these tag alongs, and so they decide to leap off the rear of
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the ship into the waters below and swim themselves the
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short distance to the wooden ship docks awaiting for him.
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Um, and now that you've disappeared into the city, you find yourselves in the
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squares, bustling people going to and from
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work. One thing that you start to notice is
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that, uh, there's definitely become a very
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heavy Fire Nation population in the area.
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Bill, go insert yourself into their
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pie show conversation. You do this all the time with old
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timers.
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We're here looking for someone.
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Who are you looking for? Mayu
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Yinyu.
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And as you say that name, the pieces just kind of
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slide out of their hands, and they both have kind of these
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gaping, open mouths. But it is not
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wise to shout the name Mayu
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Yinyu when the Fire Nation is around.
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M. He is an entertainer,
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but he's also a leading member
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of the local Rescue Team
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squadron.
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If you are searching for my
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union will
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find you. Try
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the performance hall, the local theater.
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Yes.
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Oh, wait, guys. I also got to know
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this weird, like, outcast thing just came swooping in
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and dropped something, and I
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picked it up.
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So you want to speak to Mayu?
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Unfortunately, we, the u dao faction of the
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Rescue Team Squadron, will need to see proof that you're
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not a Fire Nation spy by hitting them where it
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hurts in a way that no Fire Nation
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sympathizer would dare to do. Luckily for
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you, I'll give you a choice between the three.
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Pick one and attach it to the owl, and we'll send
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the details for the task. Do the task,
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and we'll tell you where you can talk to Mayu.
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One, sabotage. Two,
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steal. Three, break free
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sabotage. You already want to burn down Half
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City?
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All right.
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Welcome back to another episode of Vendors and Brews. We're
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on episode ten. Two more episodes after
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this and it'll be the end of season two and
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we'll have all kinds of cool, fun announcements. I'm,
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uh, going to keep this fast and quick so we can jump
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back into the episode here. Let's, um, kick
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things off with, uh, Connor, aka Brock
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Lee. You got a fun fact over there for me? For
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Brock Lee?
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I do. I got a fun fact for you.
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While working at the Blissful Brew, uh,
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Brock is known to leave
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early just about every day that he
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can. It's just his
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routine. He's supposed to work until 04:00.
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330 rolls around and he is just
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up chilling in his rock bed.
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Chilling, doing his thing. Mr. O'quen knew
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about know, it just became
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sort of his thing.
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He's got flex scheduling. Flex scheduling?
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Yeah.
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Right on. Awesome. Uh, Dave
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Akao, guo
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Boguao.
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Brock never wondered why he had to start a half hour
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earlier than everyone.
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That is how flex scheduling works.
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Uh, what's, uh, what was interesting fact for this
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week?
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Uh, so he writes haikus
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in his journal.
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Yes, here is a haiku
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from his journal.
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Enter an alley,
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behold a hole in the wall
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surprise. Noodle shop.
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That's beautiful.
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That's ah, amazing. Fantastic. Ten out of ten.
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I do have to ask yes. How many
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rocks you know on the rating skit the rating scale did
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he rate that noodle shop?
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Oh, it's probably a solid boulder.
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Solid boulder. All right,
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high praise. This is a great noodle shop. All,
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uh, right, moving on. Cameron, aka
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Bill Dore. What is your interesting
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fact, Bill? Uh,
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door's favorite number is 35.
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All right, next.
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Okay, interesting were, uh, you good your favorite
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number too?
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I was thinking about.
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Everyone needs a.
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Fair number sometimes we
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don't really understand why rock's got a secret lover. That's
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true. Never tell us her name or
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the rock's name. Yes. Uh,
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Michaela, aka Mika. What interesting
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fact do you have for Mika?
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Um, Mika's fun fact
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is that she's also
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a mime.
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Oh, that'd be bad.
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We m did just learn that she's really good at interpretive
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dance.
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That or she's very lucky.
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Or very lucky. Has Mika ever
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interpretive dance before?
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She's watched it.
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She's never done it before. So that last episode was
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the first time she ever interpreted danced?
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Probably.
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I mean, she was your fun she.
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Lived in the woods for a long time.
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That she did. You
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were interpretive dancing in the oral?
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The only shake were
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the trees.
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I have music to interpretive dance, you know what I
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mean? Usually, uh, interpretive dance to the
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music that is being played.
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But she didn't really have music.
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She didn't really have music.
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Sounds of nature. And so then that's how she
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got the natural movements of water
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down because that's what she used as the rhythm.
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I mean her other fun fact know that she
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watched fish and made up stories for them.
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Oh yeah, that's true. Hey, that's it.
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Uh, she's kind of a weird kid. Fair enough.
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Uh, all right, we'll take it all right, sounds good. My
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name is Skylar. I'm the game master.
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Uh, my interesting fact is that I
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am currently working on a real
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life Clue game for my workplace,
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and I'm very excited to see how that turns out. I am involved
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in a lot more games other than Avatar Legends.
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Um, what is it called?
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Murder Someone?
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No, that's not what it we're actually.
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Doing an office job shadow.
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Job shadow?
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Where you crash the party or whatever.
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Uh, you crash the party?
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Yeah. I want to real life Clue game.
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If it works out if it works out really well, maybe we can get, like,
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a big group of us together.
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That would fit actually really well.
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Okay, fair point. Yes.
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All right, cool. We just made plans. Sorry,
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you can't join us for audience unless you happen
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to be in our area.
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Whatever. Uh,
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Halloween party.
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That's true. That's how you get
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exclusive club.
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Uh.
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Whatever the case, thanks for listening. Let's
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jump into the episode.
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The last time that you guys uh, or
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last time in the last episode, you guys had infiltrated
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you got to Udao, you escaped the pirates, at least for
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now, um, and you sort of infiltrated
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the theater, uh, the local theater,
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in search of Yudao, who had allegedly had some connections
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with the theater. Brock, um,
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had inspired a potential romantic
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path that he could go down. Uh,
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Guo might have a job soon.
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Brock, uh, or sorry, bill definitely doesn't have a
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job coming soon. Not yet. And Mika most
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definitely does have a job coming soon. In fact, she was invited to
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a gala because of her exceptional performance
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skills.
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Bill, get it together, man.
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Seems like Bill really bill really got the short
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stick in that episode.
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You kind of brought it upon yourself.
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Bill sticks the longest stick you
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overcome. This is like talking about the captain sack
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all over again. Um, whatever
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the case, you guys are outside the theater. Uh, as the
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hour of noon kind of starts to draw
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near, your, um,
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owlcat returns with a new
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note. It simply
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says, there is a factory in
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Udao that has been repurposed to make
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large scale weapons. We need you
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to break into the facility and
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hit them in several key points in order
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to severely disable it. And it has, like,
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a small sort of drawing of, like, the city of
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Udao. This one's a slightly larger note, by the
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way. Um, and it kind of has, like, an X on where
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this factory is located. And sure enough, as you kind of turn your
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heads, it's not hard to find the large Billowing
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smokestack shooting, uh,
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dark clouds into this sky,
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uh, as you can smell, like sulfur
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and other factory materials,
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um, coming off of it.
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Nothing a trusty Clipboard can't get us
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into.
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You do still have your clipboard,
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clipboard. Hopefully we'll be dry by the
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time we get there.
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Hey, Mika, want to help us out? Well, I'm dry
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more talking to Glow.
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On.
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The backside of the note, it lists the three
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areas of this factory they need you to
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disable, right? The furnace, the assembly
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line and the casters.
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So we could probably split up and take all of,
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just take down one of them and
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call it a day.
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But we get there first.
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It's a short, like maybe ten minute jaunt over
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to this factory. And as I said before, it's not hard
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to find. As you see the smokes billowing out of the
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smokestacks above it. Uh, the facility
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itself has, uh, it's large,
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it's massive. It does not have a huge amount of side
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doors or windows. Instead, it has
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two men guarding the large iron front gates,
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uh, both dressed in Fire Nation
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garb.
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Any ideas?
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Or we can what's around
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on this street? Is this like?
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I'm guessing it's not a residential area.
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Um, no, but it's not far from the residential area,
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which might spark some sort of depressing thoughts
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of what this might be doing to the community.
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Um, but I digress. Um, it's
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sort of a cleared out area. Everything in this
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area is dirt. Even the grass itself just kind of doesn't really
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grow around this factory. Um, you do
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see a small group of construction workers that seem
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to be adding on or maybe they're retiling the roof or something.
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They have a large ladder that kind of leads up to the rooftop of
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this factory over on one corner, uh,
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to the sort of east rear corner. Um,
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otherwise, like I said, there's the main doors that
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lead inside their large double doors. Currently
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they're open, but, uh, there are two guards, fire Nation
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guards that stand in front of them at attention.
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I think it's time we go to.
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The construction workers with the clipboard.
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I go up and say, I'm with
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OSHA, sir. I'm here to, uh,
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do a little check of, uh, your construction site.
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Make sure everything's up to code.
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You see it from OSHA. What exactly
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is OSHA?
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Office Safety and Health
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Administration.
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Um, uh, okay, what
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is that?
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I go onto these sites and I make sure that
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your workers are safe, not in
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a dangerous situation
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while, uh, they're making
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what appears to be a roof here for, uh, this
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building.
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Tell them to bring out the whole OSHA.
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Yeah, I'm going to have to bring out my whole OSHA here.
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Hold on now. There's no need to bring out
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the whole OSHA. You
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see a pretty exclusive
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construction group. M. Okay, uh, what
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do you need from me? You look
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around, we're all doing okay.
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What do you need from me?
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I don't need nothing from you. Uh, I just need,
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uh, probably about ten minutes. I'll be
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walking around the site, just making sure, uh, there's no big
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dangers to yourself or your employees. I
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do have my constituents here with me. Uh,
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that's, ah, the rest of the ocean.
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I didn't think you bring out the
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whole OSHA?
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Yeah, unfortunately, we already brought out the whole
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OSHA.
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Bad that we get some kind of reports or something.
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I'd heard some rumblings from around this
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residential area around here, but, uh, they're.
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Just always complaining they don't like the factory. It's not
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our fault.
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I know, sir. I'm just trying to do my job. So if you give me ten
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minutes, I'll be out of your hair. We'll all be out of your hair in about ten minutes
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here. All right, so
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we'll go up to the roof.
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You go up the ladder.
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Yeah, I got to go up to the ladder.
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He holds it for you because he's kind of worried because
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the second you step on it, it felt a little rickety.
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That's not the and, uh,
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yeah, you guys make it. All four of you just climb up
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there to the roof.
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The whole OSHA.
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The whole OSHA.
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OSHA is now on the roof. I think the sad part is the.
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Amount of times we said it in.
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That little bit right there, I still think was less than the amount of.
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Times we said it.
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I think you're right.
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Is that actually what OSHA stands for? I don't know.
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I think you're pretty darn close.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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Well, office works too well. Not really
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like a department, but I digress anyway.
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All right.
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But yeah, so he believed it.
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Yeah. All right.
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So, uh, what's the deal going on on the roof?
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Okay, so, yes, they are definitely patching up
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a they've removed a whole
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section a hole, like
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H-O-L-E section in the roof.
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Um, it doesn't look unclean, like something smashed
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through or something. It's a hole that they personally put in
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there so they could patch up this roof. Just to clarify,
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they've, um, got that hole. You look inside, you can see all the way down
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to the production floor. There's people in there working. Um,
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there's a large furnace. You, um, see
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metal going into this furnace, and then you see,
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uh, sort of shovels that are
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pulling it out. There's some special
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metal, whatever you'd call them, like
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receptacles that pull out the molten metal,
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which gets moved over to one of the assembly lines.
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It gets dumped into the various
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casters. The casters are what form
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the metal into the pieces that are then transported
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over to the production crew, who put the pieces
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together into these large scale sort of
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machines. They seem to be, um,
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bibble. Actually, they would look fairly
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familiar to you.
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Mhm. Got it.
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So, uh, I walk up to the, uh,
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workers who are other workers over.
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There on the roof?
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On the roof, yeah. The construction workers? Yeah, there's a couple of
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guys over there.
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Okay.
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So I'm going to walk up to them, and I'm just going to be
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like, hey, guys, I'm with OSHA here. Uh,
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what's OSHA? Uh, the Occupational Safety Health
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Administration. Don't worry about it. Uh, we are here just to
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make sure that you guys are up to code, making sure
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that there's a lot of all the safety regulations are being met.
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I got to come here and check, uh, out the hole that you
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guys are working on. Just make sure everything's all right. And I just climb down
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the hole like, oh, yeah,
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there's tons of violations,
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potential violations in here. I'm going to have to go
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deeper in. And I just climb down.
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This is just like an open hole to the
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Looney Tunes floating in midair.
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There is a rope hanging there, and it's, like, attached to
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a nearby chimney or something.
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Yeah, I just get down the hole as
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I just start spouting random, like, OSHA type
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jargon. Oh, yeah, that's a violation.
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Oh, uh, man, uh, when was the last time you guys took a
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break? You guys even have dental?
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Oh, dang it.
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I was going to make that joke. I was going to have him be like, look,
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man, between you and me, we don't even have
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dental.
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They don't even have dental. They don't even have dental.
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Tell them about the whole OSHA.
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These guys.
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Oh, uh, yeah. Unfortunately, this is such a large site, we had to bring out
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the whole OSHA. So they're going to be following
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me around on this, uh, site here. And we're just going to
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this is.
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The easiest, uh, episode title that we've.
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Had to deal with so far.
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This is almost as bad as the Gua Ling
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factory a couple weeks back.
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Yeah, my lungs haven't recovered
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still.
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Mind you, he's a 14 year old.
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Am I the only one who's passable for you're?
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The only one with the normal.
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That'S true.
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Okay. We just have glow, like
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twelve.
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I put Dilbert on a sort of
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hard hat. His tentacles are hanging
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down like a.
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Beard.
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Covered in ink so it looks like a beard.
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Okay.
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I'm m climbing down in the ocean, in through the
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roof, and I guess they're following behind me, and
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I'm just spouting the most random I mean, if you
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want to be in the factory, sure, you're already on the roof.
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We could have walked to the front door, but I guess you took the
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most bro.
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I flaunt the power of the clipboard wherever I
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go.
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How, uh, are you holding this clipboard.
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As you, uh, between his
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thigh? Because I have to
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still be talking.
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He's an arm as well. It's true.
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I'm either just holding it with my feet and I'm just slowly
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lowering myself down with my hands with my
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rippling musculatures.
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I'm realizing that all this time I haven't made you guys
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do any kind of a trick
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roll or anything.
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I was, uh, just so convincing convinced.
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You.
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I can't argue with it.
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It would have been a ten. It would have been an eleven. Sorry.
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Oh, okay.
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Well, yeah, we'll take that. Even though it's late, we'll take it. All
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right. Because at this point, it'd be weird to
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retcon.
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Uh, awesome.
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Okay, so explain to me, so you're just, like, hanging
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there, like, Mission Impossible style from
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this rope?
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I'm not even acknowledging
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what the workers are saying. I'm just
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going down. Shimmying down, like, oh, yeah, this
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looks like a potential violation. Shimmying down a little more.
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Oh, yeah, you got to check out the there's
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no support beams on this part of the roof.
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Don't tell me about it.
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And then I get to the floor, and then I'm like, I got to take a
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look around, make sure there's no structural damage to the rest of
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the roof. And I just start walking into the
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factory.
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Is that a missing rivet I see?
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Let me take a closer look.
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And I start climbing.
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Oh, don't worry. I'll hold the rope.
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Charles, you hold the rope? Yep.
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Mika, what are you doing? These guys are all
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climbing their way down.
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I'm m supervising.
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Oh, yeah? Okay, good. You're making sure that
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they're following. Group needs a
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supervisor. You're the OSHA for the OSHA.
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She's super OSHA.
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The power of the OSHA.
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OSHA.
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Okay, so, Brock, you're already making your
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way through Guo. Um, you finally get down to the ground,
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so you kind of join with Brock. Is there anything particular
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you guys are moving towards or looking for?
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Who's, uh, got the map?
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What's that? A burst
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gasket?
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I start climbing down the road myself.
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Does Mika have the map?
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Do we have a map?
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She's got a map.
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There, uh, wasn't a map factory. It was just a map to
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get to stop
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yes.
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The assembly line, the conveyor belt, and the
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caster.
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Well, the assembly line is the furnace.
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The furnace and the caster. Okay.
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All right, guys, maybe we can
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find, uh, some
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uniforms. Maybe they got
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a spot. They put the dirty ones or something.
21:47
Uh, you notice sort of like a doorway. Uh,
21:50
it's just one of those swinging doors, kind of like what you'd see at
21:52
restaurants that lead into the kitchen, kind of that sort of set
21:55
up. Um, and you see a
21:58
couple of people walk out of them, and they are actively
22:01
retying their aprons on.
22:04
And so that might suggest to you that maybe there's some sort of a
22:07
back room back there or subcord some type.
22:11
That way. Looks promising.
22:13
All right, so you guys head back there. As you open the
22:16
door. There's a room with a
22:19
long table inside of there. Uh, there's a small
22:22
water, uh, like a fountain of some kind
22:25
to use for cleaning your hands.
22:27
Or, uh, there's a little spigot that kind
22:30
of comes out of it that shoots water through it, um, in case
22:33
you get something in your eyes. It's like an eyewashing station.
22:37
Um, but you definitely see some people sitting around
22:39
the table. They look like they have their little packaged lunch
22:42
boxes or whatever the case. Um, and
22:45
they're eating away at some various
22:47
foods. What are you doing? Are you still
22:50
on the roof or did you climb down as well?
22:52
Uh, obviously I had to climb down.
22:54
Okay.
22:56
Yeah.
22:56
Right.
22:56
You're supervising your crew. So did you fall to the background?
22:59
Yes. Sorry.
23:02
Awesome.
23:03
All right. So yeah, uh, the four of you are in this background.
23:06
There's a couple of people eating. They kind of see you come in and they kind
23:09
of look at you a little bit. Like, funny. Like, who are these people?
23:12
They're not wearing the aprons and stuff, but they don't really
23:15
question you. They just continue eating.
23:18
Um, you assume that they're probably like some pretty
23:21
not to say low level workers. But they're employees
23:24
here. They don't ask questions.
23:27
Is there any spot where there could
23:30
be fresh uniforms?
23:32
Um, you see another door. Just ah, another swinging
23:35
door. You see two sets of them. Um, one of them has a little
23:38
like, plaque or each one has a plaque above the wall. One of them
23:41
kind of shows the depiction of a man and one shows the depiction of a
23:43
woman.
23:44
M. Obviously. I go into the woman's
23:47
side.
23:48
All right.
23:49
Um, I'll go into the men's side and just
23:52
grab a uniform.
23:53
Sure. Same. Okay.
23:54
All right. So the three of
23:57
you guys, is Mika going into the
24:00
men's or the women?
24:02
You got to supervise.
24:05
I have to supervise.
24:06
Supervise. Yeah. You go into this
24:09
steamy what? Shower, um, room.
24:12
No, I'm just kidding. It's a
24:15
pretty standard locker room. There's two benches on the
24:18
ground. Uh, two, uh,
24:22
lines to each other are
24:24
parallel. Right?
24:25
Parallel, yeah.
24:26
Okay.
24:27
Two parallel, uh, benches sitting there next to each
24:30
other. Uh, otherwise the walls are all covered in these sort
24:33
of, um, drawers. Wooden
24:35
drawers. They wouldn't have metal lockers
24:38
at this day and age, I don't think.
24:41
No.
24:41
They might. No. Michaela
24:44
confirms they would not.
24:46
They might.
24:47
No.
24:47
Sorry. Nation's ahead of his time. Whatever.
24:50
Um, the case. You, uh, open up tanks.
24:53
You open up one of these drawers and you
24:56
find some common person's
24:59
clothes
25:02
that's, uh, not what you're looking for. So you continue opening more some
25:05
of the other drawers and sure enough, eventually you find some
25:08
aprons that match the ones that everybody else out there
25:11
are wearing. Additionally, um, you find some
25:13
very heavy gloves
25:16
able um, to sort of resist heat to some extent just because
25:19
they're such a heavy material. And you also
25:22
find some um, uh, hats
25:25
uh, to protect your hair. You find some
25:28
boots. It, uh, takes a little while to find boots
25:31
in your size though. That's kind of the main tricky
25:34
aspect. But sure enough, you're able to eventually find boots that
25:37
are in your size. Uh, every once in a while somebody
25:40
walks in. Uh, they see you guys looking
25:42
around. Uh, Brock, I assume, probably turns to
25:45
them holding his clipboard and he's like, Can I help you?
25:49
And immediately they say, oh no. Sorry.
25:51
And then they leave. Um, that happens maybe, like,
25:53
twice. Uh, but like I said, they don't seem like
25:56
people that would really ask questions. But whatever the case, you guys have
25:59
a full factory worker costume that
26:02
you've put together at this point, each one.
26:04
Of you onto the assembly floor.
26:06
We go, yes.
26:07
Hi ho.
26:09
Do you still have your clipboard with you or are you going
26:12
to oh, you're keeping that? Okay, as
26:15
you guys step out from what was basically the break
26:18
room, uh, you see another individual not
26:21
wearing an apron, but rather wearing some finer
26:24
clothes with, uh, the same
26:26
hat, but not the same rest of the clothing.
26:29
And he is also wearing a clipboard.
26:32
And he says, you four.
26:35
And then he sees Brock's clipboard.
26:36
He goes, oh, sorry, you three, get
26:39
back to work. What are you doing? Your break's been over for
26:42
a good five minutes now.
26:44
Sorry, I was holding him up. He just
26:47
needed some help with some, uh,
26:49
extra logistical stuff. Don't be too hard on him.
26:53
What do you want these people for? Logistical
26:56
stuff.
26:57
They, uh, don't know anything.
26:58
They're grease monkeys.
27:00
Yeah, but some of them are pretty smart.
27:02
Monkey hogs.
27:03
Some of them are pretty smart, and, uh, sometimes with
27:06
all the heat, you can't remember how to multiply
27:09
and divide. And these guys are pretty sharp. So, uh,
27:12
they were helping me out with some quick maths.
27:14
He comes walking over and he says.
27:16
Let me see that.
27:17
I trust their math.
27:19
This is not for your eyes, sir. This is above
27:22
you.
27:22
Excuse me?
27:23
My clipboard is heavier than yours.
27:26
It is above you. Uh.
27:32
My clipboard is larger than yours.
27:35
There we go.
27:36
I am more important, sir.
27:38
All right.
27:38
Roland intimidate is
27:40
that's with passion?
27:44
1313.
27:46
Okay, um, so on a hit, they
27:49
choose one on a ten plus, you pick one
27:52
they cannot choose.
27:54
Okay?
27:54
So here's the options that they have to choose from, because
27:57
you're intimidating him by telling him that you are
28:00
more important than he is.
28:01
Okay?
28:01
Um, first one is they run to escape to get back
28:04
up. The second one is they back down but keep watch. The
28:07
third one, they give in with a few stipulations. Or
28:10
the lastly, they attack you.
28:12
But off balance, I wouldn't expect
28:15
him to attack me.
28:17
Uh, that's the thing. I mean, at the end of the day, if
28:20
you think that they wouldn't choose one of these options
28:23
anyways, I'm not going to sit here and
28:26
be like, oh, man, he didn't pick that one.
28:27
Perfect.
28:27
I'm going to screw him. I'm still going to play
28:30
the logic.
28:31
Game here so he will not leave and get
28:34
backup.
28:35
Okay, all right, sounds good. Um, instead,
28:38
he's going to back down, but he's going to keep watch.
28:42
He, uh, now dislikes you. You are
28:45
that coworker that he couldn't
28:47
necessarily deny that you might have more
28:50
power than he does, but, man, he's going to find
28:53
a way to shut you down because he's
28:56
that kind of a guy.
28:57
I love it. I love sewing. Office discourse.
29:00
Yes, fantastic. That'll be the true, uh,
29:03
fall of this factory, for sure.
29:07
So, yes, the man with the sabotaged them, but
29:10
in a way that's not obvious at first,
29:13
and six months later.
29:15
Toppled the social hierarchy.
29:18
Let's go back into the break room.
29:19
And eat some people's lunches.
29:22
That would really spark things, man.
29:26
Next thing you know, you start walking around.
29:28
Yeah, cool. Great idea. That way we cause discourse.
29:30
He's like, oh, yeah,
29:33
you start walking around to the employees and you're like, you guys ever heard
29:36
of a thing called unionize
29:39
managers?
29:40
Like,
29:44
awesome.
29:44
All right. You've gotten this guy off your back. At
29:47
least for the time being.
29:49
Sweet.
29:50
The power of a clipboard, man.
29:52
I am thoroughly impressed, honestly. I'm going to go
29:55
buy myself one at my earliest convenience.
29:58
Clipboard or a ladder?
29:59
Nobody questions a guy just got his ladder. He's got work to
30:02
do. You'll carry a ladder around for fun.
30:05
Yeah, you can get into you probably get anywhere you
30:07
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33:18
like I said, you've got this guy off your back for the time being.
33:21
You've got these three underling
33:24
employees standing in front of you, waiting to be
33:26
assigned some work.
33:28
Yeah.
33:28
So I'll tell GuoHan,
33:32
you, uh, go over to the assembly line, and, uh,
33:35
for Bill, you head over to the
33:38
other thing, to the furnace. What's a
33:41
caster?
33:42
Casters are sort of like the molds that they
33:45
put the melted metal into, and then that way it solidifies
33:48
into the shape of the pieces, um, that then
33:51
get built into the machine. No.
33:57
That was me answering.
33:58
I like this.
34:00
Uh, no, I'm not going to the furnace.
34:02
Mika, you go over to the captor. Mika, you go over to the
34:05
furnace. Fine.
34:07
That, uh, doesn't work well with water.
34:09
What are you talking
34:15
uh ah.
34:16
All right, so we'll start with the furnace, just because that's kind of
34:19
the first place that most of this process starts
34:22
at.
34:22
Brock.
34:23
Um, doing I'm just going to
34:26
supervise with my
34:28
clipboard.
34:32
I'm doing my job.
34:34
Um, Mika. Yeah, I want the notebook. I took the
34:36
supervising job from Mika. Um, Mika, you make
34:39
your way over to the furnace, and immediately, the closer
34:42
you get to it, the more you're hit with the just emanating heat
34:45
that comes off of it. It is a
34:48
massively hot fire. Um, there is a
34:51
few people that are manning this furnace
34:53
area. You see people that are kind of overseeing
34:56
the metal that goes into it. Uh, they'll kind of make sure
34:59
that it's in the bins. It's not sticking out in any way that would make
35:02
it bump up against the furnaces. Like the edges of
35:05
the opening that it just gets dumped into.
35:07
Um, and making sure all of it ends up inside. If any of
35:10
it falls out of the little bins that dump it in, then they
35:13
throw it into the furnace themselves, although it's really
35:16
hot to get that close. So most of them, they'll just put it into the next little
35:19
bin that comes by. These are like stone
35:22
bins to make sure that they don't melt in the fire.
35:25
Um, of course, there's somebody keeping an eye on the other side
35:28
of the furnace where, uh, they have stone
35:31
bins that are pulling the
35:33
molten metal out of,
35:36
um, and then there are people behind the furnace that are
35:39
operating sort of a giant, uh what are those things
35:42
called? It's like a bellow.
35:45
Got you. Okay.
35:46
Sorry. No, you're good. I don't know, it just came
35:49
up with some dude, but I think I've heard that term.
35:52
Okay, so it's bellows.
35:53
Sorry.
35:53
They're operating this massive bellows, um,
35:56
that's pushing, uh, air into the heat. And of course, every time that
35:59
they press down on these bellows and the air goes shooting into
36:02
this furnace, you can feel that heat emanate
36:05
even more as kind of the air pushes the heat
36:07
outwards and, um, helps to keep this fire
36:10
going. Of course, there's a couple of people that are just
36:13
shoveling this huge mound of what looks to
36:16
be coal, uh, shoveling that into the furnace
36:19
to also help fuel it. Uh, do you have
36:22
a particular spot that you go to, or
36:24
where are you off to now that you're in this
36:27
furnace area?
36:29
The bellows.
36:30
Okay, so you kind of come around to the back and you see these
36:33
people on the bellows. They're sweating. Obviously, most people
36:36
around the furnace area are very much sweating.
36:39
Um, these people definitely have the
36:42
nice airy side of things. They're on the backside of
36:45
the furnace, so it's not quite as hot as when you're kind of closer
36:48
to the front. Um, but they're sweating more
36:51
from the activity of it because it's a big bellows. You
36:53
got, um, two people on let's say
36:56
there's two of them. You've got two people on each one. Both
36:59
of them have to raise and lift this thing
37:02
up and down and up and down constantly. Uh,
37:05
obviously, you know that your goal is
37:07
to sabotage this furnace.
37:12
So plug the air hole.
37:15
Plug the air holes, sure.
37:17
How do you want to do that with their sweat?
37:21
Do tell.
37:22
Don't be misty. Air.
37:25
Okay.
37:25
Put out the fire.
37:27
Okay.
37:28
So you're bending this sweat
37:31
off of these people, and then you toss
37:34
it into the, um it
37:36
evaporates very quickly wow.
37:39
In the little hole. Who to thunk it where the
37:42
air comes out?
37:43
Sure.
37:45
I mean, it's hot. So hot.
37:48
Yeah, but it's great. Sweat droplets, they're
37:50
sweating a lot.
37:52
There's a lot of fire. I mean, this is
37:55
like, insanely hot. I mean, it's like trying to rain on
37:58
a volcano.
38:00
Um.
38:03
What else? Around me.
38:05
Sure. Um, so there's the other positions that I talked about. The
38:08
furnace itself is just like this giant, massive,
38:10
stone sort of
38:13
orb almost, or like a half orb, I guess you could
38:16
say, uh, with the copy cement of fire in it.
38:19
Obviously.
38:19
Nearby you can see the assembly lines. Um,
38:23
there are the assembly lines where people are putting the
38:26
pieces together. There are the assembly lines where people are putting
38:29
this broken up pieces of metal onto or
38:32
like the ore for the metal. Um,
38:35
and that's what's getting transported into the furnace
38:38
itself. Um, there's the molten
38:41
metal that's coming out of the furnace and that's getting taken
38:44
away. Um,
38:47
trying m to think of what else. Is there anything in particular you're
38:50
hoping to find?
38:53
Something useful.
38:55
Something useful? That's a broad concept.
38:57
Well, you don't necessarily want to be
39:00
obvious about blocking the
39:03
bellows.
39:04
Sure.
39:06
Um, the bellows themselves are made out of some sort of like almost, uh,
39:09
fabricy material, which is what allows them
39:11
to open.
39:13
Potentially. Take
39:17
one of those broken pieces of metal and try
39:20
and tear the fabric.
39:21
You might be able to yeah, that could work.
39:24
Okay, we'll try that.
39:25
Okay.
39:26
So you go over to the conveyor
39:29
belt where the metal is being brought in. Um,
39:32
and you kind of just join the line and they're, like I
39:35
said, kind of processing the metal, deciding what pieces,
39:37
if anything, needs to get pushed in or thrown in by hand, whatever the
39:40
case. Right. Um, sure enough, as you
39:43
kind of just join into what they're doing, kind of follow their example. But
39:46
secretly you're looking and you find a long
39:49
piece of protruding metal. It looks like it
39:52
could have been an old spear of some kind,
39:54
possibly. Um, but it's kind of
39:57
bent and warped or whatever. So whoever
40:00
previously owned it doesn't really want it anymore. And so
40:03
they threw it out and this is where it ended up.
40:07
Um, I am going
40:10
to take it
40:13
and hide it within my skirt
40:15
dress thing.
40:17
Okay.
40:17
Actually, I'm in the
40:20
uniform and I.
40:22
Yeah, you got like, the apron. I mean, it's more like over your
40:25
clothes, I guess, technically.
40:27
Well, I'm going to try and hide it.
40:29
Okay.
40:29
Yeah, absolutely. Um, let's
40:32
do a push your luck, which is
40:35
with passion
40:38
ten.
40:38
Okay.
40:39
Um, your boldness pays off despite the cost. Uh, you gain
40:42
an additional lucky opportunity.
40:45
Um, okay.
40:49
Tearing the fabric indiscreetly.
40:51
Got it.
40:52
Possibly, yeah.
40:53
Um, so you take the spear and you kind of put it into
40:56
your clothing in some way, shape or form. Um,
40:59
but it definitely works. Nobody notices around
41:02
you. You do this, um, as you are
41:05
doing this, uh, somebody over on the
41:08
bellows collapses.
41:11
Ah. They're just sprawled out on the floor. They are completely
41:13
unconscious. Uh, one of the sort of manager
41:16
people, in fact, it's the same one that was just giving Brock some
41:19
crap, uh, just moments ago, comes rushing over.
41:22
And says, get this guy off of the
41:25
get him out of here. Uh, if he's not working,
41:28
dock his pay. Uh, he's not working right now. So obviously
41:31
these hours don't count. Uh, let's see.
41:34
Somebody needs to run. Ben. Ah, you there.
41:36
And he points at you and he.
41:37
Says, I need you to run bellows. Uh,
41:40
get him going. We got to keep this fire hot.
41:43
Yeah. And I walk over there.
41:45
All right, sounds good. Um, he kind of follows off
41:48
after the employee that passed out as he's being
41:51
hauled away by, like, a guard who's just kind of pulling
41:54
him by his arms. You, uh, take hold of the
41:57
bellows, kind of following in suit with the other person
41:59
that's doing it. Uh, so now you're on bellows duty, and you
42:02
have this spear in your possession.
42:06
I'm just here to reach around and.
42:08
Just poke a hole.
42:10
Yeah.
42:11
Do you do it discreetly in any way,
42:13
uh, to avoid this other employee that's
42:16
also doing it, uh, with you, or are you doing anything to keep
42:19
them from noticing, or are you just kind of going for it?
42:22
I feel like I can do it
42:25
pretty discreetly because I'm sure
42:28
with the both of us, it's probably,
42:30
like, putting more effort into
42:34
sure.
42:35
Oh, you're going off the hope that they're kind of
42:37
distracted.
42:38
Uh, tired and distracted. His
42:41
partner just passed out or whatever.
42:43
Sure.
42:43
I'll have you do one more push. Your luck.
42:50
Ten again.
42:52
All right. Awesome. Sure enough, as
42:55
you lift up, you stab
42:58
very careful. Uh, I'm imagining you
43:00
have the spear kind of hidden by your leg,
43:03
and so you kick your leg out in such a way that it
43:06
kind of shoots the spear out from underneath your
43:09
skirt and pokes it into it so that definitely nobody would
43:12
see that you do this. Um, you kick
43:15
so hard that the spear actually pokes all the way
43:18
through this bellows and out the other side. And
43:21
as you push down, the air just kind of comes out the
43:24
side, and it deflates really quickly. So the
43:27
other person on the other side just kind of, like, falls really quickly to the ground
43:30
and then scrambles to get up, and they're like.
43:34
Oh, no, this is not
43:36
good. Oh, dear.
43:38
Uh, and so it's just kind of looking around wildly, like, not
43:41
sure what to do. They're, um, a bit
43:44
distracted. Uh, they might
43:47
think it might have been their fault, or they just have no
43:50
idea what to do in this situation, and they're really worried about getting
43:53
in trouble.
43:58
I'm going to panic with them.
44:00
Okay.
44:01
Just, like, play along. Um okay.
44:04
What does that look like?
44:06
Um.
44:08
I'm just going to kind of, like, throw my hands up in the air.
44:11
Like you just don't care, or like you do care.
44:14
Like I do care.
44:15
Or like an interpretive dance.
44:19
The dance, uh, interpretation is
44:22
panic, and.
44:23
I'm going to say, oh, no. What are we going to do?
44:26
I don't know.
44:27
I'm going to kind of run to the side and
44:30
see if I can pull out the spear.
44:32
Okay. Yeah.
44:33
You're able to pull it out, but now it's got these
44:36
gaping holes in it. Of course.
44:39
Yeah.
44:39
And I'm just going to toss in the other one.
44:42
Not discreetly.
44:45
Are you doing it like oh, no.
44:47
I did it by accident.
44:48
Yeah.
44:48
Okay. All right.
44:49
So, yeah, I'm going to just go with it. You toss
44:52
the spear as if you were just getting it out of
44:55
the way, but in truth, it goes shooting forward and
44:58
into one of the other belt or the other
45:00
bellows. Now, uh, it has a bit of a protruding
45:03
hole in it, and now they're freaking out.
45:07
You guys have a hole? Oh, no, we all have.
45:10
What are we going to do?
45:13
Oh, no, not my
45:16
fellow.
45:20
Um, everybody's panicking at this point. They're freaking
45:23
out. They're shouting it back and forth at each other. What do you
45:25
do?
45:28
Hey, guys, I'll go see if I can find some
45:30
fabric or something to try and repair the
45:33
bellows.
45:34
Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah. Find us a
45:37
patch.
45:37
Yeah, you got it. And I'm going to run towards
45:40
one of those three who's that closest?
45:42
Yeah. Okay. Awesome.
45:43
All right, we'll jump over to let's
45:46
see. The, um, furnace is definitely down
45:49
right now. The furnace is starting to
45:52
cool without the assistance of the air that
45:54
keeps the heat really, like, pumping. Um,
45:57
that's not good for it. So that's definitely on
46:00
the problematic side. Uh, let's jump
46:03
to the casters. Bill, you're
46:06
on the casters duty. Uh, you
46:09
approach and you see these large
46:11
metal or actually no stone. It's got
46:14
to be stone. You see these large stone or
46:17
various stone casters. They are just,
46:20
uh, inlaid with sort of a shape for a specific
46:23
piece of whatever these things that they're building
46:25
is. Um, as they
46:28
move on a conveyor belt, like much of the things in
46:31
this, uh, room, as they move by
46:34
sort of the other end of the furnace, there's some containers
46:37
that go into the furnace. They pull out the molten metal and
46:40
then they dump it into these casters. Um, the
46:43
casters come around a long ways to get to your
46:46
area, um, giving the metal some time
46:48
to cool. Your job as you look
46:51
around and see the other people working is
46:54
to turn this caster upside
46:57
down and make sure that the metal comes out of
46:59
it so that it can move on to the people that put it all
47:02
together. What parts is it making?
47:06
Um, it looks like a lot of gears. These
47:09
aren't like the big ones. You can see the area where the big
47:11
ones are being worked on. But it's kind of a special process
47:14
that revolves a lot more like machinery in and of
47:17
itself. But, um, these are sort of for the smaller pieces. So
47:20
you've got your gears, your cogs, your
47:24
various, um, pieces along those lines, uh,
47:26
your handles, your cup holders.
47:32
M. Okay, but obviously these
47:35
are key pieces. Big machine.
47:38
I would even go as far as to argue that these are the very
47:41
small but very important pieces. Like,
47:44
if something came out and wasn't quite right,
47:47
the whole machine wouldn't run. Kind of thing like the spark plugs
47:50
and the engine components. Um,
47:53
and of course, because they're such specific
47:56
and necessary pieces,
47:58
anything that happens to the casters would
48:01
cause a lot of problems with development of
48:04
more of these, uh, weapons or war machines or
48:07
whatever it is that they're designing, because they would have to
48:10
get brand new ones of these casters. You can't just fix it,
48:13
per se. You would have to order a whole new caster in order to
48:16
get the piece just right. How do you break
48:19
a caster?
48:20
Hmm? Uh.
48:25
Easy brewing stone caster. Do you
48:28
have your staff with you? Yeah.
48:30
Okay.
48:31
I have a staff on my back. Uh, you definitely notice
48:34
a couple of strange looks from some of the other employees as they
48:37
see it sticking out from death glare
48:39
back.
48:40
Okay.
48:40
They don't look at you again after.
48:44
Uh, just stand there.
48:47
Okay. Go ahead.
48:47
I have a metal plate.
48:49
Okay.
48:50
Right. Yeah, they're moving. Is
48:53
there a hole on the top of the
48:55
caster? What was the caster?
49:00
It comes in on the conveyor belt. And then you would just take the
49:03
caster, you'd flip it over, pop the piece out, and then
49:06
put it back and let it go back?
49:08
Yeah.
49:08
Okay, so casters are just a bunch of smaller parts?
49:11
Yeah. So I had to destroy all these little
49:14
parts. Uh, some of them come in. They're, like, medium size.
49:17
I mean, they can get kind of large, a bit
49:19
heavy. That's the situation.
49:23
Okay, go for it.
49:24
Me saying skyler, please. I have
49:27
absolutely no idea what to do here. Eight.
49:30
Okay, so on a seven to nine, you can ask one of the
49:32
questions. Uh, they are, what here can I
49:35
use to blame destroy the casters? What here can I use to
49:38
destroy? Hey, you know, that's how
49:41
it goes sometimes. You see that over on the
49:44
side? Uh, there are some hammers that
49:47
are used. Uh, you watch as one of the employees, they're shaking
49:50
the caster. It's not coming out. So they go over, they get a
49:52
hammer. And, uh, it's a typical
49:55
ball pen hammer kind of a thing, or not even a ball pin. I don't know
49:58
whatever it is. But it's got the hook side and then the
50:01
blunt side. And they'll usually use the hook side to try
50:04
to work the piece out. Pop it out of the caster. It's good
50:07
to go. Um, but there's always the
50:10
blunt side. These are not metal casters. Keep that
50:13
in mind. These are stone.
50:14
Oh, yeah. Okay.
50:16
Um, is there a sledgehammer? Yes. Okay, I'm going to
50:19
grab it.
50:20
Okay.
50:20
You got a sledgehammer. It does not look like it's
50:23
been used a long time. In fact, you can kind of well, you have gloves on,
50:26
but you can see dust kind of come off of it. You, um,
50:29
wonder why it's even here. Maybe in case of
50:32
emergency or something. I'm going to walk over to my stand. I'm
50:35
just going to kind of lean on my sledgehammer.
50:37
Okay.
50:37
And then do I hear the ruckus
50:40
that has been caused over at the, uh
50:44
sure. Yeah, it's not
50:47
far.
50:48
Oh. I'm going to be like, hey, what's.
50:49
Going on over there? Um, some of the people
50:52
kind of, like, glance over at you, but they look a little like they
50:55
don't want to glance at you because they're worried you might glare
50:58
at them again. Do you guys hear, though, that commotion.
51:01
Over at the furnace?
51:03
Uh, a couple of them look up and they look over towards the
51:05
furnace. They kind of peek a little bit, and then they kind of nod
51:08
their heads. Wonder what that's all about.
51:12
We should go check it out.
51:14
They're looking around.
51:16
Um, I'm not going to leave my station. That's how you get
51:19
in trouble.
51:20
Oh, okay.
51:24
I know the clipboard guy.
51:26
I know the guy in charge. You won't mind.
51:28
Well, we all know who's in charge.
51:30
Yeah, it's that new guy. I'm going to point at Brock.
51:33
The clipboard guy just standing there? Yeah, I was going to say
51:36
you are supervising. You see Bill point at
51:39
you over there as you supervise. He's a new
51:42
supervisor. You look up from your blank rock
51:44
clipboard and you see Bill pointing at
51:47
you.
51:48
I just kind of nod back at, like,
51:50
yep, give him a thumbs up.
51:54
Oh, that's perfect. See,
51:57
you'll be fine. You gave me a thumbs.
52:01
Uh, m a uh, let's do a
52:03
plead. Okay.
52:06
Uh u.
52:10
Seven and nine. They need something more
52:13
evidence that this is the right course.
52:17
He's got a clipboard.
52:20
Have you ever seen someone in power.
52:22
Who does give me a thumbs up? What does that even mean?
52:25
Means that, uh, he has super hearing.
52:27
I work directly under him, so I know exactly what that
52:30
thumbs up means. It means you're doing a great job.
52:34
Everything's under control.
52:36
Well, how do we know that they even need our help
52:39
over at the bellow?
52:41
Listen.
52:42
He's going to put his ear and
52:45
just listen to the sounds of
52:48
voices.
52:49
Of people going.
52:52
In the distance. They, uh,
52:56
all look over to the guy with the clipboard.
53:01
Uh.
53:05
You absolutely cannot hear what they're
53:07
saying.
53:13
The whole department of
53:16
casting department just staring at you.
53:19
I'm just going to look up for my clipboard, and I'm just going to
53:22
look at I'm just going to point at
53:25
Bill and I'm just going to point
53:27
at Bill. That's, uh, all I'm going to do. I can't say
53:30
anything.
53:31
Describe how you're pointing. Is it an aggressive point?
53:34
No, it's like, uh.
53:40
You loyal.
53:43
I'm like, yeah, this guy, he's got a
53:46
good brain in his head, this dude.
53:50
How many DJ Khaled quotes can we give
53:54
into this?
53:54
Episode. Uh, at least another
53:57
one.
53:59
Oh, good one. You ever play
54:02
rugby? Bring up the whole
54:05
lobster. Wait, tell him to bring out the lobster,
54:07
then bring up the lobster.
54:10
Okay, uh, I'm going to say that given the
54:13
fact that you needed some more reason for
54:15
them, I would say
54:18
that's roughly enough reason. They all look at you and they.
54:21
Say, what do you want us to do?
54:24
Uh, just run over there, see what.
54:25
They need help with.
54:26
I'm sure it will be quick.
54:29
They just probably need all hands on deck right now.
54:32
What about the casters?
54:34
I got it.
54:35
Are you sure?
54:36
He left me in charge. He pointed me and everything that he
54:38
did.
54:39
All right.
54:39
And sure enough, uh, a fairly large migration
54:42
of the caster department starts to head over
54:45
to go see what's going on over at the bellows. All right. And then I'm
54:48
going to put, uh, the sledgehammer over my
54:51
shoulder and start walking towards the caster, looking
54:54
all like, uh, Ben
54:56
Stiller.
54:58
What was that movie?
54:59
Zoolander. Yeah, Zoolander.
55:00
Walking to the cast.
55:17
Um, obviously, Mika, you left because
55:20
you're off to, quote, unquote, find a patch, which is good
55:23
because there's a lot of people over there right now and
55:26
they're all just shouting at the bellows.
55:28
Like, what are we doing?
55:31
Sims characters and something.
55:35
They're not doing anything. Pointing at it.
55:37
That's right.
55:40
And they're all like, well, you need to go, dude.
55:45
I don't know. Someone said they're getting the patch.
55:50
They're like, don't worry. Someone's coming back with a patch. Well, where are
55:53
they? We need it now. They're coming.
55:56
Turns out no one's coming back with.
55:57
A patch, which gives you ample opportunity to smash a
56:00
bunch of these casters in a frame.
56:02
You flash back to Bill, who looks like an
56:05
80s music video or something.
56:09
Sweat rolling down. His
56:12
sparks fly as he smashes these
56:15
film casks.
56:16
That's right. Just particles flying up
56:19
towards him as he's plowing through with a big old smile
56:22
on his face. Whoa. You're
56:25
over at the assembly line station. This
56:28
is technically before all this craziness has gone
56:30
on, but as you approach, you see people with a number of
56:33
various tools. Wrenches.
56:36
Uh, screwdrivers, sure.
56:39
Mostly, um, wrenches. Let's go with wrenches. Screwdrivers seems a little
56:42
too modern. Uh, they got wrenches.
56:46
You take a piece, you put another piece in it.
56:49
You take a bolt and you tighten that on it. And then
56:51
you set it down. And each person looks like they have kind of more of a specific
56:54
they grab very specific pieces that are on the assembly line.
56:58
They put those together and then they set the completed
57:00
piece down. And then that goes on
57:03
and people pick that up and they put that onto some other
57:06
pieces, so on and so forth. You, uh, have absolutely
57:09
no idea how this machine is put together. Um,
57:12
but there's plenty of wrenches, and your
57:14
job is to screw up the assembly line. What
57:17
are you doing? All
57:20
right.
57:21
Uh, so I go
57:23
over to the cart with the tools
57:26
on it and grab some wrenches off
57:29
of it.
57:30
Uh, use dual wielding wrenches.
57:34
Also grab, like, a hammer, one that has,
57:37
like, the pointed side to it.
57:39
Okay.
57:40
Or maybe a crowbar or something.
57:42
Oh, yeah, there's definitely one of those.
57:44
Let's grab a whole tool belt.
57:50
Woe the toolman
57:53
spin on the ground.
57:58
True cover.
58:00
Adjust my hard hat a bit to cover dilbert
58:03
who is still on my head.
58:07
Uh, all right, so this assembly line,
58:10
is it made out of is it like a belt?
58:12
Yeah, it's kind of just like sort of a
58:15
rotating belt. So, um, you actually
58:18
see on either side of, uh,
58:21
these assembly lines, there's literally a dude that has to just
58:23
crank the assembly line. That's just all he does all day
58:26
is just cranks the assembly line so that it's constantly moving. There's
58:29
somebody at each one of the different sort of assembly lines, but
58:32
this one's the primary one. The other ones are just like, pick
58:35
up the metal, dump it into the casings. Not a big deal. But this
58:38
one's the one that makes sure that the pieces are getting put together,
58:41
obviously. So it's pretty vital.
58:44
Not that the others aren't, but I digress.
58:48
And so the
58:50
pieces that are coming through. Um,
58:54
let's see. First off, I'm going to go up to the more
58:57
beginning where
59:00
there's fewer pieces that have been assembled
59:03
yet.
59:04
Okay. Um.
59:08
And I'm going to
59:12
is there a person working on this section of.
59:14
It, um, like, where the initial pieces kind of
59:17
pop out?
59:18
Yeah.
59:18
Um, not so much here. Uh, the line starts a little bit
59:21
further down, and that's where they start to
59:24
collect them. So you have to kind of give them a second to cool down
59:27
once they get popped out of the casters before you can start
59:30
picking them up and putting them together and stuff like that.
59:33
So I'm going to take the crowbar.
59:36
And.
59:39
Try to pry off the side of
59:41
the assembly line like the guard
59:44
that's keeping all the stuff on the belt.
59:47
Okay.
59:48
Uh, you start doing this, uh, and somebody approaches
59:51
you. He's, uh, holding a clipboard. It's
59:54
not the same guy as before. Actually, you know, it is the same
59:57
guys before. There's, like, one manager guy that's been working
59:59
here in this area.
1:00:01
And he says, what exactly are you
1:00:04
doing?
1:00:06
Oh, I just got to take this fender off
1:00:09
here to lube the bearings.
1:00:12
That's pretty good. Do, uh, you want to roll me a
1:00:15
trick?
1:00:18
No, I got a seven.
1:00:19
A seven?
1:00:20
All right.
1:00:21
Uh, so you pick one. Uh, they stumble. You take plus one
1:00:24
forward. When acting against them, they act foolishly. The
1:00:26
GM me tells you an additional opportunity that you
1:00:29
get. Or they overcommit, and they are deceived.
1:00:32
For sometimes they over commit deceived
1:00:35
for some time.
1:00:37
I know what
1:00:40
oh, yeah. Sorry about that.
1:00:42
I didn't mean to confuse, uh, or
1:00:45
get, uh, into your business. Uh, yeah, you do what you
1:00:48
got to do.
1:00:49
I'd like for him to stop the assembly line while I
1:00:52
do this, but time is money.
1:00:55
That's fair. That's fair. Yeah. Uh, sorry I
1:00:58
can't help you with that. But, uh, if you really need
1:01:01
it, I don't know, i, uh, can check with upper
1:01:03
management and see if that's allowed. But in, uh, the
1:01:06
meantime yeah. Uh, do what you got to do. Sorry, I didn't
1:01:09
mean to bother you.
1:01:10
Oh, no worries. It's a nice clipboard you got there.
1:01:13
Oh, thanks. Yeah, I appreciate
1:01:16
it.
1:01:16
There you go. Get, uh, your opinion on something.
1:01:19
Uh, you think my clipboard is nicer than that guy's over there?
1:01:22
He plants over at Brock?
1:01:26
It is a bigger clipboard, though. I mean, look at this
1:01:28
thing.
1:01:29
Uh, it's got nice features.
1:01:32
This is a better clip.
1:01:33
I mean, this is specially made.
1:01:34
Look at it's.
1:01:35
Got my name it's got my name engraved on it.
1:01:37
Yeah, it looks like, uh, an
1:01:40
efficient product there.
1:01:43
Thank you.
1:01:43
Streamlined. Yeah,
1:01:46
it's more efficient than that. Whatever.
1:01:48
That thing is made of rocks. Looks a little
1:01:51
bulky. Yeah. All right. Anyway, you're all
1:01:54
right? No. Uh, do what you got to do.
1:01:57
Uh, I appreciate it keeping the assembly.
1:01:58
Line, uh, up to date where it's got to be.
1:02:01
All right.
1:02:01
Get back to it. Carry on.
1:02:03
All right, so let's see, where are these
1:02:06
parts coming out at?
1:02:08
Yeah, so they come from the assembly
1:02:11
line kind of continues around. So it's like one big circle
1:02:13
around the furnace. So they come from
1:02:16
the caster section. Casters. Pop them out
1:02:19
of casters. Then they come around to you. Give it some time to cool,
1:02:22
and then you put it together. All right.
1:02:25
Uh, what was going to take
1:02:27
the crowbar and stick it in, like,
1:02:30
the other side. So he's
1:02:33
cleared off the guard on the one side, so it's just, like,
1:02:36
open.
1:02:37
Oh, yeah.
1:02:37
Uh, he's going to take going across.
1:02:41
The entire underside of the
1:02:44
no, like the top side.
1:02:45
Oh, okay.
1:02:47
And so it's, like, diverting the parts.
1:02:49
Uh, just onto the,
1:02:53
um.
1:02:55
All right.
1:02:56
What else can I do here? Uh,
1:02:59
it goes to another section. He,
1:03:01
uh, goes up to the worker on
1:03:04
that section. He says, uh, oh, hey,
1:03:08
Brock. Guy at the clipboard over there said
1:03:11
it's time to take your mandatory break.
1:03:14
Oh, my break? Oh, fantastic. Yeah.
1:03:17
You don't have to tell me twice.
1:03:19
And he just heads off to the
1:03:22
break room.
1:03:22
Hopefully nobody ate his lunch.
1:03:27
Only.
1:03:32
So Guo's gonna use the hammer now
1:03:34
to, like well, he's just gonna crawl
1:03:37
underneath this part of the assembly
1:03:40
line.
1:03:40
Okay.
1:03:41
And he's going to take the wrench and
1:03:44
just start untightening bolts
1:03:46
underneath there.
1:03:47
Okay.
1:03:48
So eventually it'll
1:03:51
loosen itself and the crank
1:03:54
will unscrew or whatever.
1:03:56
Absolutely.
1:03:56
He's going to take the bolt completely off.
1:03:59
And then just, like, chuck it.
1:04:03
So, yeah, you unscrew the bolt. Uh, you pop it
1:04:06
off and as you do, things start to buckle a little
1:04:09
bit on the assembly line and you can hear it just
1:04:13
to, like, a stop. This is happening just
1:04:16
as the massive distraction over at the
1:04:18
bellows is happening. And so, uh, rather
1:04:21
than hearing people.
1:04:22
Go, oh, what's happening to the conveyor belt?
1:04:24
You hear footsteps starting to walk away
1:04:27
from the conveyor belt as they go to investigate
1:04:30
what's going on over at the bellows, which is perfect
1:04:33
because the assembly line is, like, at a full stop
1:04:36
right now. Uh, whatever you pulled out of it has
1:04:39
completely stopped it. And obviously it was a key
1:04:41
piece that you've just tossed aside and
1:04:44
has gone who knows where.
1:04:48
Um, so I'm going to go to the next
1:04:50
section and just be like, repeat the thing.
1:04:53
Sure, yeah.
1:04:55
Brock with the clipboard said it's time to go on your break.
1:04:57
Oh, there's not even anybody there. They've all gone to
1:05:00
investigate the Bella.
1:05:01
Okay, so then I just take the hammer and I start whacking
1:05:04
the crank.
1:05:08
Yeah.
1:05:09
You bend it horribly into, like, a warped ah
1:05:12
situation. Um, and you do this from piece or section
1:05:15
to section until all the sections have sort of a
1:05:17
different problem that's wrong with them.
1:05:20
Like, one I take, like, a knife
1:05:23
and just cut through the belt.
1:05:26
The other one is like, all right, Dilbert, do
1:05:29
your thing. It's like cover with.
1:05:35
Lube it up.
1:05:35
For there it is.
1:05:37
Yeah.
1:05:38
You have sufficiently like I said, you've caused such a
1:05:40
versatile amount of different damage to
1:05:43
the entire conveyor belt, it would take somebody
1:05:46
a massive amount of time to not only find and that's
1:05:49
assuming they even have all the pieces, since you've kind of
1:05:52
tossed some of them who knows where.
1:05:55
Um, so, yes, you have definitely
1:05:58
destroyed the assembly line. Um, right.
1:06:01
Now, Mika, I assume you said you were
1:06:04
coming over to meet with, ah, one of them.
1:06:06
Right.
1:06:06
Um, now the four of you have
1:06:09
completed your tasks, or three of you have completed your tasks. I mean, I guess,
1:06:12
Brock, you've completed the task of supervising.
1:06:14
I was a great supervisor.
1:06:15
You were a great supervisor. You nodded and pointed and
1:06:18
thumbsed up. You brought out the whole as necessary.
1:06:20
I brought out the whole ocean, man. I got us in the building.
1:06:23
That's right. Okay, so now you've all completed your
1:06:26
tasks. You've sabotaged your pieces. Yeah. How
1:06:29
are you getting out of here?
1:06:30
I mean, I got the clipboard. I'm just going to walk out the front door. Walk out the front
1:06:33
door.
1:06:34
Okay.
1:06:34
All right.
1:06:34
And I mean, if they're behind me, I'm just like, yeah, I got to take these guys
1:06:37
on some extra training.
1:06:39
Let me act that out. Uh, sure enough, there's the two
1:06:42
guards that are just outside the door and.
1:06:44
They say, hey, uh, where are you guys?
1:06:46
Going?
1:06:48
I just got some four new hires. We, uh, got
1:06:51
to take them on a full tour, and I got to take them on
1:06:54
the outside. Just, uh, show them around.
1:06:56
Oh, okay.
1:06:57
Take the old Circumference check.
1:06:59
Yeah.
1:07:00
Sir.
1:07:01
Perimeter knowledge and such. Okay.
1:07:03
Uh, yeah, sure.
1:07:05
Uh, hey, uh, what's going on in there? Oh,
1:07:08
inside? Yeah. There's, like, shouting and
1:07:10
stuff.
1:07:11
Uh, there's some of those company disputes.
1:07:14
Some people wanted to ask for dental insurance.
1:07:17
Could you imagine if we had dental?
1:07:23
Yeah. It'd be anarchy.
1:07:25
I mean, I love my dental, but those guys,
1:07:28
they're making minimum wage. Who cares?
1:07:31
Exactly. Part of the job. Hey, um,
1:07:36
real quick, uh, it's not like, a union
1:07:38
thing, right?
1:07:40
Someone brought up that word.
1:07:41
No, they brought it up.
1:07:43
They wanted to unionize.
1:07:47
Headache already.
1:07:48
That's why we got these new hires. They don't know about the
1:07:51
union.
1:07:53
See?
1:07:54
They don't know.
1:07:55
This is why we got to bring in new guys every week.
1:07:57
He just glares at Bill, and he's like, don't even say that
1:08:00
word.
1:08:00
I don't want to hear that word out of your mouth. If you hear
1:08:03
anybody say that word, you tell me who
1:08:06
it was. All right? He was inside. Yeah. All
1:08:09
right, well, we're going to find out about that. Anyway, sorry. Don't mean to
1:08:12
bother you. Uh, have a great, uh, I don't.
1:08:14
Know, rest of orientation. Uh,
1:08:17
let us know if you guys need anything.
1:08:19
Will do. You have a great day, sir.
1:08:21
All right. Wonderful.
1:08:23
Um, as you guys walk out I mean, where are you guys headed now
1:08:26
that you're out of the factory? Doesn't
1:08:28
matter. Away.
1:08:30
Yeah.
1:08:34
Oh, back to the theater for your party.
1:08:36
That's way.
1:08:37
Later. How long are we in there?
1:08:40
Were we only in there?
1:08:41
You guys walk out of the Factory, and then you kind of, like, go
1:08:44
around the building a little bit, and then you just kind of stem off into the
1:08:47
this is where we ditch the guys.
1:08:49
We forgot to clock out
1:08:52
overtime.
1:08:54
And as you guys are making your way down the path, uh,
1:08:57
you can start hearing escalated shouts and such
1:09:00
from the Factory as more and more things you start to
1:09:03
see. Uh, actually, the Billowing
1:09:06
smoke from above starts to dissipate ever so slightly,
1:09:09
and you notice there's quite a significant less amount
1:09:11
of that smoke. Um, and as you walk
1:09:14
away proudly, a, uh, voice emanates
1:09:17
from behind you, and he says,
1:09:20
hey, that was pretty well done in
1:09:22
there. And you turn around. Standing
1:09:25
before you is a fansely dressed man in
1:09:28
ridiculously colorful clothing, and he
1:09:30
says the name's Mayu
1:09:33
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