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Season 1 Origins: Quanta 1 · 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 Welcome to
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  Speaker 2: the City of Bones. Mm hmmm. A dreary night struck
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  Speaker 2: the city of New Babel. Oh so many years ago,
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  Speaker 2: silent pilgrims had gone, the evos had been forced off
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  Speaker 2: planet into space. New Babbel was quiet for those that
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  Speaker 2: were used to a buzzing hive of a city, It
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  Speaker 2: felt even empty. But those that braved a peak from
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  Speaker 2: their apartment windows that night saw the new denizens of
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  Speaker 2: the city. Mysteriously, they walked aimlessly into the spotted light
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  Speaker 2: supplied by street lamps, walking as if they came to
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  Speaker 2: replace those that were lost. They would become known as
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  Speaker 2: the day Spelled Dae, a race of robotic people metal
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  Speaker 2: mesh skin made of a weak alloy that simulated human flesh,
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  Speaker 2: that had subtle metallic coloring of varying shades, an impossibly
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  Speaker 2: complex system of tubes running through their bodies, carrying a
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  Speaker 2: nanotech biochemical fluid that transferred data through the body as
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  Speaker 2: quickly as the human nervous system. They needed to eat
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  Speaker 2: human food. They seemed to have human souls. After violence.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of conspiracy theories. Two churches, and many many
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  Speaker 2: years they became part of New Babbel society. They became teachers, politicians,
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  Speaker 2: business owners, factory workers, and everything else. And it was
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  Speaker 2: eventually discovered that they could copulate. This fluid inside of
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  Speaker 2: them could be mixed and left for a time, and
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  Speaker 2: it began to grow this mysterious metal around it, And
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  Speaker 2: so there were day children. The most wondrous part of
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  Speaker 2: it all is that these day children began to have
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  Speaker 2: visions at around the time that human children were hitting puberty.
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  Speaker 2: Day children would go into a catatonic state of euphoria
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  Speaker 2: and see things. Some visions lasted minutes, some lasted weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Much has been theorized about what it is that they
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  Speaker 2: see during this time, but no one really knows. All
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  Speaker 2: that is known is that it happens only once and
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  Speaker 2: then lives within that day for the rest of their lives.
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  Speaker 2: And this is where we begin with Veronica Canter, a
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  Speaker 2: day child at her twelfth birthday party. You remember the
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  Speaker 2: voices singing to you, the candles burning in front of you,
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  Speaker 2: the small gasp of the people surrounding you when they
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  Speaker 2: saw you go catatonic. At least you were at home.
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  Speaker 2: You really didn't want it to happen at school.
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  Speaker 1: That would be so embarrassing.
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  Speaker 2: The real world faded like a curtain being pulled back
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  Speaker 2: to reveal your world of vision. It's a forest, dense
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  Speaker 2: and so green, greener than anything you've seen. The forest
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  Speaker 2: around you writhes and wriggles, breathes and glows. You've heard
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  Speaker 2: about other people's visions, and in this moment you know
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  Speaker 2: that you're in your vision and that doesn't happen to everyone.
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  Speaker 2: You have freedom within it. What do you do? I think.
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  Speaker 1: I turn in a circle and take it all in,
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  Speaker 1: Like what stands out the most to me? As I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking around?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Is it like you said, it's so green? Like that's
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  Speaker 1: out of the ordinary. Is there anything else that stands
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  Speaker 1: out as would be like strange?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead and roll a vision check right three succeed.
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  Speaker 2: You see that the forest moves. That isn't strange at first,
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  Speaker 2: but then you focus on a leaf or a vine,
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  Speaker 2: and you notice that it's all moving towards something a
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  Speaker 2: central point. Oh quickly, not very again, it's like the
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  Speaker 2: normal forest has life and movement. Well, as you start
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  Speaker 2: to focus, you see that any movement that does happen
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  Speaker 2: is happening in a direction.
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  Speaker 1: Is it like the everything's kind of growing that way too,
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  Speaker 1: not like actively moving, growing, like growing like everything has
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  Speaker 1: grown a certain direction, like trees are leaning that kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think on your success you notice, I think
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  Speaker 2: you think both that things are growing that way, but
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  Speaker 2: also they are being fed from that way.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go that way.
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  Speaker 2: You start walking through the forest. As you get closer,
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  Speaker 2: you start to notice that the speed does pick up
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. The roots underfoot and the leaves overhead
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  Speaker 2: writhe a little bit quicker. Towards this middle point, as
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  Speaker 2: you keep walking, you start to hear a voice, feminine
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  Speaker 2: voice calling, I'm over here. Hello, Yeah, just a little further,
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  Speaker 2: You're almost there.
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  Speaker 1: Keep going, but maybe slow down a little bit so
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  Speaker 1: I can maybe see them before they see me. You
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  Speaker 1: slow down, although I suppose they've seen me, if they've
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  Speaker 1: talked to me.
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  Speaker 2: As you think this thought, there's a route behind you
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  Speaker 2: that's carrying a lot large rock. It rushes underfoot and
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  Speaker 2: then sprouts in front of you. The rock spins within
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  Speaker 2: the root that's holding it, and you see a pupil
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  Speaker 2: of an eye, oh, and then another one, and then
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  Speaker 2: the loam of the ground and the trees all around,
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  Speaker 2: and the foliage and the moss come together in this
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  Speaker 2: central point before you and create a woman. By She
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  Speaker 2: is rotund and shapely. All of her is attacked to
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  Speaker 2: all the world around her and you. Her hair moss
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  Speaker 2: and twig, her skin green and covered in bark, and
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  Speaker 2: her eyes, though rock, shine with the light of the moon.
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  Speaker 2: She is enormity. She is beauty. She is home. She
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  Speaker 2: looks tired. Hello, child, I she speaks with the vibration
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  Speaker 2: of the earth around you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think I do that like a kid thing,
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  Speaker 1: where like my first reaction is very honest and nervous,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm like kind of like shake it off
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  Speaker 1: and pretend like this is like the most normal thing
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  Speaker 1: that's ever happened to me.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Hello, I am afraid that I need you again.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 2: I need your aid.
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 2: With what you look at her, and you see some
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  Speaker 2: of her seems sad. Although she is a vibrant conglomeration
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  Speaker 2: of all the forest around you, parts of her are
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  Speaker 2: litl thing and wayne I'm tired.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I can I don't makeud make a pillow?
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  Speaker 2: Warm laugh echoes into the ground and into the trees
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  Speaker 2: and resonates through the wood. A pillow would be nice,
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  Speaker 2: But there is something, perhaps more profound, A gift to
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  Speaker 2: you I give that you may give it back.
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  Speaker 1: Mhm okay. I hold out my hands, You hold out
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  Speaker 1: your hands.
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  Speaker 2: A wispy willow tree that is her arm. And then
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  Speaker 2: her hand comes down, grabs a hold of all of
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  Speaker 2: you in soft loam and moss, and then she hurls
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  Speaker 2: you into the sky. Why as you reach the apex
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  Speaker 2: of your flight, lightning streaks out of a nearby cloud
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  Speaker 2: and strikes you. Yeah, but it doesn't feel like being struck. Strange,
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  Speaker 2: feels warm. It is an embrace. Your body melts, but
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  Speaker 2: it isn't destroyed. It instead unites itself with the lightning
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  Speaker 2: and trap on its current, and thus surfing waves of plasma.
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  Speaker 2: You see the world, You see the heavens, you feel
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  Speaker 2: the earth, and you pierce the sky. We jump forward
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  Speaker 2: to Ronnie, not Veronica, but Ronnie remembering this vision in
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  Speaker 2: her present. As you and your roommate Jillian rearrange the
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  Speaker 2: furniture in your apartment. You are twenty one, and the
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  Speaker 2: two of you live in a very nice apartment on
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  Speaker 2: the northern edge of Colorado South or Coso. Your parents
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  Speaker 2: worry saying you live in the bad part of town
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  Speaker 2: quote unquote, but you've always felt pretty safe, as safe
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  Speaker 2: as anywhere else in the city. Who do we see
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  Speaker 2: moving around the furniture with their roommate.
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  Speaker 1: You see a young day woman. I think her metal
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  Speaker 1: skin is like opalescent, just because I like opals.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so opalescent, kind of a yellowy white.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like a creamy white. There's like shimmery other rainbow colors,
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  Speaker 1: yeah in it, mildly, yeah, subtly, subtly yeah, yeah, when
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  Speaker 1: the light catches it. Just so, I think, like, what's
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  Speaker 1: like the fashion of New Babbyl.
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  Speaker 2: The fashion good question. The fashion New Babbyl is caught
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  Speaker 2: in a little bit of a time capsule. It's as if,
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  Speaker 2: though we are in the future, the kind of fifties
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  Speaker 2: have stayed around. So women dressing nicely are wearing sheath
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  Speaker 2: dresses or a frame dresses and skirts. I think that
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  Speaker 2: the pant suit for a woman is probably just in
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  Speaker 2: vogue and okay, yeah, but I think, yes, probably the
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  Speaker 2: average woman in this time would also be feel free
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  Speaker 2: to wear jeans and ginos and such.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she's probably got some jeans on barefoot
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  Speaker 1: and the apermit, like the cuffs rolled up a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, just a T shirt and maybe a scarf
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  Speaker 1: tied around her bald head or her metal head with
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  Speaker 1: like the bow on top and the headband kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: And she's going, no, no, I don't like it in
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  Speaker 1: that corner, and move it back really yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, fine, Jillian moves the chair that you are worried
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  Speaker 2: about back where it was before.
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  Speaker 1: I like that better. What do you think, Well, this is.
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  Speaker 2: How it was before. I thought. I was asking because
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  Speaker 2: I wanted a bit of a change in the flow here.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what's wrong with the flow we've got?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just wanted to shift it up. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking when we go to get food from
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  Speaker 2: the kitchen sometimes this gets in the way, and then
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I need to turn on the lamp,
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  Speaker 2: and if the lamp is over here, then I will
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  Speaker 2: see it and I won't miss it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you will miss the lamp, right if it's
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  Speaker 1: over here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that way we can move the chair back
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  Speaker 2: to where I put it.
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  Speaker 1: Just now, okay, move it back, let me see it again.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, she moves it back. Jillian is older than you.
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  Speaker 2: She's twenty seven. And she is a neuroscientist and works
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  Speaker 2: at the college in the station campus. So there's the
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  Speaker 2: station which is the very central part of this city
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  Speaker 2: where they used to launch these giant space barges into
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  Speaker 2: the sky again sixty years ago, seventy years ago. She's human,
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  Speaker 2: she is human.
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  Speaker 1: What was the name of the school again?
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  Speaker 2: Is the station campus? So within the station now, which
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  Speaker 2: is again where.
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  Speaker 1: They Oh so it's not the school, it's just the
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  Speaker 1: I just said that because it's campus.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sorry, it is. There is a college in the
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  Speaker 2: There is a school in the in the station, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and she teaches there or works there both.
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  Speaker 1: Smart cookie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she wants to move the furniture around often. She
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  Speaker 2: she needs change here flow she she it's important and
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  Speaker 2: she's very important to you. You've always been very good
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  Speaker 2: at reading people since your vision? What does what does
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  Speaker 2: that mean to you to Veronica that you've always been
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  Speaker 2: good at reading people.
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  Speaker 1: Have I ever been able to, like honestly compare visions
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  Speaker 1: with any peers, like even as like a young kid,
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  Speaker 1: you know, was that common that we would be like
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  Speaker 1: what did you see? What did you see?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, I think they talk about their visions.
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  Speaker 1: So was it like part for the course. What I saw,
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  Speaker 1: roll a check for this. Let's roll a spirit check
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  Speaker 1: three again three. That is not a success, but it's
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  Speaker 1: a partial success, I think. I think in your interest
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  Speaker 1: in what vision happened to you, and you're questioning about
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  Speaker 1: other visions and talking to your parents and stuff, I
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  Speaker 1: think generally.
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  Speaker 2: The vibe you get is that it's all chaos. Every
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  Speaker 2: vision seems unique, and every vision seems because of the
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  Speaker 2: kind of ubiquity of its, of the uniqueness, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of all the same.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think then maybe she really hasn't put those
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  Speaker 1: two together. It's just like the visions are these weird
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  Speaker 1: things that the day people experience, and yeah, like some
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  Speaker 1: kind of wild dream or fantasy. And then she just
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  Speaker 1: has a skill at reading people, like she you know,
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  Speaker 1: has a skillet. I don't know, like like if she
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  Speaker 1: was like good at cooking. You know, it's just like
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  Speaker 1: just a skill. It's just something that's a quality she has, right,
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  Speaker 1: and hasn't thought more deeply about it.
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  Speaker 2: Got it? You've always been good at reading people, but
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  Speaker 2: it's always been tricky to read your roommate, Jillian. She
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  Speaker 2: also shares her research with you openly. This world has
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  Speaker 2: not put as much dedicated study into the workings of
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  Speaker 2: the mind as our world has. It doesn't have like
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  Speaker 2: our modern understandings of you know, mental stress and mental health.
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  Speaker 2: And that being said, her research is cutting edge, even
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  Speaker 2: though to us it might seem not. So. She focuses
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  Speaker 2: on the chemical response to outer stimuli that affects the
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  Speaker 2: mind and the nervous system electrically, the influence of endorphins
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  Speaker 2: and dopamine through movement and excitement that build fresh pathways
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  Speaker 2: in our psyche so as to break habits of thought
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  Speaker 2: and addiction.
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  Speaker 1: Is it the same for humans and day?
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  Speaker 2: I think together you have found that some of it
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  Speaker 2: is very similar. And that's I think part of your
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  Speaker 2: partnership is that in your line of work, she's helped
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  Speaker 2: you understand some of this and what it means. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the world around her has not accepted much of what
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  Speaker 2: she has postulated, but you have found it incredibly helpful.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Jillian, if you need the chair there so the
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  Speaker 1: lamp can be there, it's fine, It's fine, Okay. I like,
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  Speaker 1: like I personally liked it better or was before. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, by the look of things, A good a
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  Speaker 1: good look okay, but you know it's fine, it's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, maybe we'll compromise. Just move it over just
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  Speaker 2: a few more quanta, and I think it'll be good
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  Speaker 2: of you more wet quanta. I've told you this before.
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  Speaker 2: Remind me, quantum is the smallest measurement of any physical entity.
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  Speaker 2: Quanta is its plural. So move it a few quanta over.
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  Speaker 1: So move it like imperceptibly.
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  Speaker 2: Well no, it's like it's like it's just so much
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  Speaker 2: of my research and my work. It's like if someone says,
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  Speaker 2: move it over a pinch and they're a cook, a
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  Speaker 2: pinch is very small amount, and.
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  Speaker 1: I you're just part of my Yeah, it's just yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: quanta got it. I'll move it up. I'll move it
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  Speaker 1: some some Yeah, just one a few quantas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little. Do you have dinner? I do like that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have dinner with your moms tonight?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, cool, Well then I might bring someone over. Oh okay,
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  Speaker 2: yeah I met someone. Oh at work?
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  Speaker 1: Tell me where I sit in the chair.
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  Speaker 2: Then I just moved as you said. She's like, did
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  Speaker 2: you get milk yesterday? I was going to use it
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  Speaker 2: to cook?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh perfect, okay, thank you? Yeah, yeah, I was
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  Speaker 2: thinking I was gonna make like a Feticini thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying Italian. I've never tried it before. There's I
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  Speaker 2: really like the Little Caribbean. It's pretty close to us,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of good food there. But but
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying going to try Italian because he seems special
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know, maybe I like it. Italian is special.
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  Speaker 2: Well's fancy. I don't know's I feel like it's fancy.
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  Speaker 1: I just like smile and look at her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks at me a lot.
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  Speaker 1: He looks at you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, at work, and it's like he said I was cute. Also,
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  Speaker 2: he told me that. But that's like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: it's very childish. It's like junior high Billian.
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  Speaker 1: Are you excited about this guy?
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  Speaker 2: We'll see you.
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  Speaker 1: Seem I don't know. I guess you're usual amount of excited.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, yeah, I don't know. We'll see. I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you. I'll tell you how it goes. But you
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed dinner with your moms. Please give me a kiss
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  Speaker 2: for me, and we should grabbed dinner and.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll save some of that fancy Italian for me.
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  Speaker 2: You go out. I don't want to do fancy with you.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like you not I'm not worth fancy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you are. I'm very fancy. We're like burger friends,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Burger friends. Yeah, we're burger friends.
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  Speaker 2: Go get burger like. It's not like we don't have
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  Speaker 2: to put on airs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well I do for moms. So I'm gotta go change.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see you in a few quanta.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I love you, I love you.
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  Speaker 1: Bye.
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  Speaker 2: She heads out to work, and you head out to work.
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  Speaker 2: You go to the shop.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm not it's not dinner time.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Oh sorry, yeah I messed that up.
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  Speaker 2: Still morning. Fine. You head to your place of employment.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you work?
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  Speaker 1: I think? Do we sorry, do we talk about this?
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  Speaker 1: Do I work in South?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: South? But in my apartments in South Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So it's probably pretty close.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think I think somewhere close to the
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  Speaker 1: Little Caribbean, just like a little just like a teeny
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  Speaker 1: tiny store front. I think it's got the address that
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  Speaker 1: has the half on it, so it's like the two
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  Speaker 1: and a half.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been a place that's been like boxed in
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  Speaker 1: inside somewhere else. It's just like a teeny tiny, little
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  Speaker 1: store front. I don't think with the window, just the
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  Speaker 1: door in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what does the outside look like? Does it say anything?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I think just on the door is like a
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  Speaker 1: Neon sign that says Ronnie's readings on it. It's like
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  Speaker 1: in purple neon.
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  Speaker 2: Purple Neon, it says Ronnie's readings. I flick that on,
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  Speaker 2: flick that turn on the open sign that.
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  Speaker 1: Underneath it is like a small sticker on the door
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: that says like affiliate of the c NBD.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Great, and you do have an appointment today? Sometimes you
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: do definitely take well, do you think you take walkins
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: or is all appointment? You definitely take walkins, But you
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: do have an appointment this morning with a a repeat,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: a repeat customer who comes in often. Her name is Angel.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: When it hits you know ten, she comes in and
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: it's just like, Oh, Ronnie, I need you bad, honey.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Oh Angel, what is it? I've I've put on like
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: a gaudy patterned cloak over I just like over my
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: T shirt and jeans. Yeah, but I'm barefoot in here too.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I think what else does the does the area look like?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: And what's the vibe in here? Yeah? I think I've
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I've put on a bunch of like jewelry too that
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: just has like shapes and stuff on it, maybe like
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: like some branching kind of shapes. But there's lots of
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: like texture and cloth like on the walls. But the
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: floor is like smoothed, I guess like concrete. But then
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of sand, so it's actually quite slippery.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Concrete on sand is quite slippery. Yeah, like a shuffle board. Yeah,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: so it's but not not that slippery, right right, like glass. Fine,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: So there's just like some not some, but there's sand
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: then strewn about the floor.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's cloth on the walls, sand on the
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: floor on a concrete.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: And then I think like one table with chairs on
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: either side on the other side.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: And these are the tools of your readings. Angel comes in.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: She is a.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Probably in her thirties, blonde woman. You've you've met with
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: her before. She's a bit unkempt and disheveled this this day.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's unusual, that's unusual for her.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, Normally she comes in. She's very put together and
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: she wears very tight closed like outline her figure very well.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: She's a little bit forward and loud. Because I met
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: this new guy. And he's so rich. Wow, he's really
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: he's so good to me. I don't know why I'm complaining,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: but I don't know. I think he might be cheating
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: on me. Yeah, he goes to strange places. He doesn't
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: let me come with him. He says it's just work,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: and I shouldn't ask him about his work. But I
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: don't know if I believe all that. I need you, Ronnie.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I don't want to feel this way anymore. I don't
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I need you to take away the hurt, the pain.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Come here, sweetheart. I hold out my hands for her
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: to take them. Chees off.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: She flips her shoes off, happy that you're moving along
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: with this ritual. Flips your shoes off.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Radio of course, all right, stand I am. I bring
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: her to the middle of the sandy concrete floor and
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: like holding her hands, do a maneuver where like I
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: sweep like one foot around like from her, like reaching
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: around her to behind me and then the other to
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: create a shape of kind of like a circle in
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the rod, yeah, in the sand, kind of drawing in
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the sand. And then I think probably I have some
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: kind of like button or something that would then like
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: turn on music without me, like having to go over
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: and like turn on something to play music, but maybe,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: like so, I don't know if it would be feasible
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: in this world has some kind of device I would
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: like to and on a record player, and it.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Is absolutely They're just like radio, certainly radio waves and
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: signals that you could turn something on from a distance.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: So I think I think I probably have already just
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: got out the music that I know that she has
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: like connected with before, and already set it up.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, She's like, oh, this is my favorite. How do
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I know these things?
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Oh you're amazing.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: All right, just move when you're ready.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, And what do you lead her through here?
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I think just any like swaying, any slight movements that
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: she starts doing, like while we're holding hands facing each other,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I just like start exaggerating those with her. And then
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: if like she takes a step, I take a step
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and start like mirroring that to like increase her circulation.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: It's like we begin this to start kind of like
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: sensing what she's feeling.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, together, you move light and shimmering music your tools.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: As you dance, you follow her and she follows you.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: You work up quite the sweat. This isn't just swaying.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: What does Ronnie know that she is doing here?
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I think when talking with Jill, she realized that it's
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: like the ritual of people coming to see her and
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: do this something out of the ordinary, but then also
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: like becomes repetitive and ordinary to them. And then also exercise,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: like the increase in circulation and endorphins released, and then
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: like intense yes, but almost like leading people to like
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: meditation and like focusing on just these movements and then
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: now that's yeah, she's helping them feel better in some
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: way emotionally by just doing that.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you take the scientific work that your roommate has
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: been doing and call it spiritual healing, and that's what
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: you do. And in your time of doing this, have
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: you found that it helps?
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean people keep coming back.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Right, something a little different happens. I think a lot
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: in your life, Ronnie, you you notice things sometimes that
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: you wave off as happens dance or your eyes playing
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: a trick on you. You walk people through these elaborate
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: dances where they actually do start feeling better, and you
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: just believe in your roommate's work, but also sometimes you
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: feel like you are pushing buttons that your movements, combined
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: with their movements, trigger certain pathways or shut down certain
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: pathways in the brain. Today, as you're doing this with Angel,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: as you've done many times, you within her see a tunnel,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: A tunnel that's allowing pain to flow, tunnel that through
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: meeting with you, you you've squeezed and made narrow. I
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: think in this moment, Ronnie thinks this is her imagination.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be nice if Angel didn't come back whining
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: about the salon or how her waiter treated her or
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: the new guy she's seeing. Wouldn't it be nice if
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: you just shut it off?
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I would.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: You close your eyes as you do in these dances.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: You feel like what you're doing is helpful. I feel
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: the power of it. Can you imagine closing the tunnel,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: pinching it Payne can't get through anymore. Maybe just a
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: hope that she can go into her life, maybe a
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: more regulated person that doesn't freak out about the smallest thing.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Your eyes open and she's there staring at you, smiling,
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: dancing with you, sweating. Oh, Ronnie, thank you. I feel
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: a hundred times better, darling.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Of course you will any time.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: And now she looks at the ground where your feet
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: have made patterns in the sand. What do you see?
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Tell me, what's it going to be like?
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: When I go out, I step back, like very ceremoniously,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: and like kneel down and put my hands on the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: sand and turn my head from side to side, as
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: if I'm like surveying the whole pattern of what our
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: feet have made in the sand. Angel I think for
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: you all will be well.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, Ronnie, I was hoping you'd say something like that, Oh,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: you're amazing, You're a doll. She kind of leans over
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: and kisses you on the cheek.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: It's just what the and say, darling.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Thank you. She gives you money. She gives you cash,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: and then she's like, and here's extra. Just do something
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: nice for yourself. And she gives you like a huge tip.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Thank you that's unnecessary. As I put it in a
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: pocket on my robe, it's like, no, don't be silly,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: You're very necessary.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: This city needs you, and be careful on this side
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: of town. I've told you before I could buy you
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: a place up north.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I'm perfectly content here. People, as you said, need me,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: and people are everywhere.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: I suppose you're right, all right, Ronnie. All right, Angel,
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: I love you you too, She barges out of Ronnie's reading.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I drink some water.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Detox with a little water.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: You and then sweep the floor.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Sweep the floor and spread out the dust again for
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: the next person. You probably do have a couple more
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: walk ins today, but a payment from Angel is always like, oh,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: this is what I make in a week, and so
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: you're not too stressed about going out and getting clients
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: to come in today. Lock up time comes and you
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: close up. You have an appointment with your mother's. As
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: you finish, I've.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Put on like a nicer dress for going to meet
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: my mom's.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, take off the clothes. Your moms live not too
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: far away, but on the north side Cono, Colorado North.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: You step out into the city as you do, how
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: does Ronnie looks at New Babble. You've lived here your
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: whole life, as you understand, it's very difficult to leave
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: this city. What does Ronnie? How does Ronnie feel about
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: this place as her home?
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: I think in a lot of ways she's still getting
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: to know it. Having moved to Colorado South with Jillian
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: over the past few years, I think she's felt more
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: ownership of it in the last few years, having gone
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: out on her own. I think she, being in the
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: time of life that she's in, like, has started to
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: like feel a little derisive towards her, towards her upbringing, sure,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and the place where she's from too. So going back,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: like walking back into Colorado North, I think just feels
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: like these people here, you know, she's started to believe
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: that they're not her people. Yeah, so I think, yeah,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: she's connected more with a different space or end is
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: trying to you.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Match your breath to the movement of the city. As
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: you get on the electric rail and head north. You
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: like this ride. It goes over the chute and into
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Colorado North. This ride also makes it obvious those feelings
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: you were pondering that, though drawn on a map by
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: people of import, city lines and boundaries are invisible to
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: those who ride the storm of the city life. Though
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: the shoot separates Colorado North and South, they really aren't
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: that different and they're that close together. You wish you
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: could show your parents, you wish, I guess they could see.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: As you cross into Kono, a few small police zeppelins
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: hover overhead, while a floating platform of big band musicians
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: entertain arrivals getting off the train, celebrating their long day's
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: work and their return to Colorado North.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: So ridiculous.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Your mothers live on the south side of Colorado North,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: because I think they are themselves a little above or
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: under however you want to look at it, all the
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: posh ness that is here in this side of town.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: They live in a big, beautiful, old three storied shotgun
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: house and they're lovely. You were in your two moms
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: primarily and your dad. So when Day mixed their nectar
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: together to make a baby, it was found that more
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: than two could be involved, and it seemed like when
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: more than four were involved, things got a little bit
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: too chaotic, and sometimes those small day life forms didn't
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: continue to grow. It probably got wrapped up in, you know,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: political movements and stuff of like three is the best
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: way to make a day Bay Bay kind of like
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: a baby adaby. Three is the best way to make
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: a baby because you're getting this data liquid from three
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: different sources, so it varies the child maybe a little bit.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: This was none of this was to science y, but
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: just kind of ideas that people were having, and I
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: think your parents fell into that a little. Your mom's
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: no longer hang out with your dad. Why why is that?
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Or do you know I like me Steph or as
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Ronnie whatever.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I think Ronnie would know, but I don't know if
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: stuff remembers exactly. Oh, he's still involved, yeah, so my yeah,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: I know that my father is still heavily involved in
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: the church. And my moms don't buy into that now
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: if ever they did, but they is in the Church
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: of the New Babel Day.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, your dad is a prominent member in the Church
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: of the New Babel Day, which he's very proud of
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: and he loves very much. And growing up he took
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: you to that church quite a bit. You are still,
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: in fact connected to the church a little bit. They
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: have made you a footbridge, which is like their lowest member,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: kind of like a deacon in a Protestant church, their
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: lowest member of clergy. Because the Church of the New
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Babble Day is a human founded church that believes that
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: when the Day showed up, it was God coming to earth,
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: and that each day within themselves bears all of God
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: as well as a portion of God. This church was
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: founded a little less than sixty years ago when the
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Day popped up. Because you grew up in the church,
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: and you do this spiritual guidance for people. Any act
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: of that kind would need to be endorsed by the church.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: And so they made you kind of their lowest clergy
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: member to just say, Okay, we got to make sure
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: that Ronnie's doing the church work, the God work of
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: the day. And I think because of this, you're also
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: pretty highly thought of as a bit of a church
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: prodigy thing. But how does Ronnie feel about the church
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: in her twenties?
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ronnie, she does not believe that she is all
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: of God or contains a portion of God, but finds
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: it useful or what she does for work to that
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: people that some people believe that she does. Yeah, that
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: she has some kind of higher spiritual thing about her.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: So she uses that, Yeah, where she can.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: As fragile as the history as fragile and as young
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: as the history of the Church of the New Bibel
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Day is, it's still pretty powerful, especially in Cono in
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: Colorado North So people like Angel probably come believing that
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: God is helping them. You're at your mom's house. They
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: split up with your dad, probably when you were very
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: very young. What do you do?
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: I think, take ady breath and walk through the door.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: You walk through the door, I'm home. Your moms are
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Sandy and Alicia. Sandy is was called Sandy by her parents,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: your grandparents when she was born because she grew the
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: metal she grew was kind of a dusty sand color.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: And then your other mother is Alicia, who is an
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: artist and a bit of a hippie, who greets you
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: first as you come in. I think Sandy Sandy.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Sandy just seems like she got home from work and
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: is kind of taking off her outer coat outer jacket.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: She has pants suit with the very pointy shoulders and
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: pointy collar and just says, oh, dear, welcome, thanks for coming.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Can I help with anything?
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness, you could. I'm sure you could. Well.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: I just kind of just got home myself. Let's go see,
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: all right. She leads you to the kitchens and they're
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: in the kitchen, moving slowly as ever. Is Alicia, your
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: other mom, who is patient and kind and also often
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: her mind travels. She is a wandering thinker. She smiles
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: as she sees both of you. Oh hey, mommy, she heay.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: My two favorite women.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Hi.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love you so much.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: I love you too.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: I know we do this every week, but it just
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: feels too long, doesn't it. She gives you a hug,
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: and she says, okay, would you chop the potatoes for me?
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: Of course I was going to get to it, but
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: I just got kind of obsessed with peeling the carrots. Okay,
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: thank you, and she starts chopping up the carrots. Your
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: other mom, Sandy, goes over to the brandy cart and
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: ports herself a brandy. Ronnie.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Huh brandy, No thanks, Mom, Sure, yeah, yeah, I'll pour
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: you when I'm right here. I know, mom, I'm good,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: all right, all.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Right, very well, Alicia. And your mom holds up a
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: glass of white wine that she's already drinking, and she cooks, oh,
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: of course, sorry, so Ronnie, what's new? As you chop
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: the potatoes, your mom, Sandy starts screeling you.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: Jillian wanted to move the chair again today? Did that?
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: Oh goodness, she's always wanted to move that place around.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: It's funny.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she is funny. And your mom, Alicia says, I
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: like Jillian. I think she's good for you. I think
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: she's good to have.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: But what do you mean, Yeah, she's great.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying she's a good friend. Yeah, and if
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: you guys wanted ever to be something else, we're not. Well,
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying you could be. And Sandy goes, yeah,
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: I mean it's not a bad idea. She's smart, she's.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not interested in Jillian, and I'm not interested in that.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Right now, I'm building my business and growing up and
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: all that, right.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Trying to Sandy says, your business spiritual healing.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my business.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: How did it go today? Good? Any kooks come in in?
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: Your other mom? Alicia says, honey, don't say that.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: I think I call Sandy mom, and Alicia and mommy.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: She, mommy, she and mom. I'm sorry. Sometimes people are
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: people are weird, people are crazy. I don't know what
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: to say. If I if I was listen, look at
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: me straight, Ronnie, If if I was not doing good
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: and was in pain, and I was like, I'm gonna
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: go dance around on some sand and then someone's gonna
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: tell me what my future is gonna be. Do you
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: think do you think that that would do you think
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: you would call me normal for that?
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, we all have our things. You're drinking Brandy, Mommy,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: she's drinking white wine, and it paid for dessert.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Your Mom's soften at this as they feel the guilty
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: pleasure of their drink and a smile. Alicia says, where
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: did you go for dessert?
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: Your favorite place?
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: My favorite? Yeah, Sandy says, so not ice.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: Cream, No, it's not ice cream?
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: All right, well, I know the last week you brought
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: us ice cream, you brought me my favorite this week.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: I could get it.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Alicia says, dinner's not even ready.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Is it just just so you can see it?
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, fine, what do you bring out?
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: I think it's like a tiny it's like three tiny
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: little like layered cakes, like a little parfect kind of
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: layered like cake, whipped cream like strawberry jam. Kelly's Alicia, Oh,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Kelly. She just cooking is an art for her. You know,
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: I'm trying, but I try not to make it a chore,
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: but I try to make it like a meditation. That's beautiful, honey.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: So you're welcome, and my business paid for it. So
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: can we just have a nice.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: Dinner your mom Sandy lives Upper Head. Okay, okay, yeah,
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: we can have a nice dinner. We always have a
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: nice dinner. Yeah, we just but we could talk about stuff.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: You can talk to me and I can talk to you. Yeah.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, you're right.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: We can talk.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we can talk talk about What else do you
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: want to talk about?
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, we can talk about my job.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, how's it going? How's your job? Mom?
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: I am swamped in a sea of dix oh schmucks
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: all day.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: M hm.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: None of them are as good as me, none of
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: them as quick as me. No, they all make more money. Yeah,
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: makes me mad. Alicia comes over, stops chopping carrots and
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: just starts rubbing your rubbing Sandy's temples. It's okay, it's okay,
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: and Sandy's just like, yeah, I was the first lady
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: to make partner. Yeah, and that's big and I'll always
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: be proud of that. But after that, they just can't
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: let me, can't let me win, you know, Is she okay?
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Is she okay? Like? Do I like in this moment?
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Can I like get like a vibe check?
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, roll vision or spirit. This is a simple check.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: You don't succeed, but you're very very close. Your mom
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: seems like your mom seems She often comes home and
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: vents about the inequality in her workplace and the unfairness
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: that it is to be her, much like this world
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: hasn't dabbled into a greater understanding of the mind, the mind,
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: their views on women in the workplace, a day in
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: the workplace, people of color in the workplace is all
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: behind us. And I know we don't, you know, our
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: world doesn't obviously doesn't do it perfectly, in fact does
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: it poorly. But it's it's still even further behind than that.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: So a woman lawyer as a partner is certainly stressful,
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: to say the least. You guys have a lovely dinner together.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: It takes Alicia a long time to prepare it, but
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: both you and Sandy jump in and help. Is there
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: anything else you go over with with your moms? As
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: you guys switch from dinner to dessert.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: One of the things I think, I'm like, the only
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: thing I could think of is I think I try to, like,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: not maybe consciously, but just kind of like needle them
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: a little bit about Koso and about how great it
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: is living there, and like, like I I think Ronnie
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: doesn't realize like how chill they are compared to the
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: rest of Cono. Sure, like she's just kind of like
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: with where she is right now, is kind of like
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: lumped in like their's success and they're like nice house
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: and all of that is like in the way that
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: you know, and they're and their bias against Goso. She
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: I think she just kind of like enjoys like kind
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: of annoying them and that she loves.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: It there pushing those buttons.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they received this pretty well, the kind
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: of smile and nod with you. Uh. I think even
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: Alicia says, looks at Sandy and says, we need to
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: go visit. I can't believe we only were We helped
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: you move in, but after that we haven't been over.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: You should see my you should see my my police
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: too place of work. I mean, maybe some dancing would
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: do you good, mom after a day with the dicks.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably anything. I'll try. I'll try anything.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, you won't be a cook, I'll try.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, I won't be a cook. I'm sorry. She's a
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: couple of brandies in now softening up. I'll come. I'll
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: do your dance and I'm sure it'll help you have
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: a lovely evening with your mom's as the night is
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: winding down. Your mom Sandy's has a cube. Very few
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: people have cubes. In the city. But they're just they're
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: equivalent to kind of a cell phone, but there are
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: not flat screens. There's only tube screens still, so they're
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: kind of these obnoxious cubes that people clip on their
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: belts and keeping their bag. To us, they would be obnoxious,
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: but to the people of New Babble is only a convenience.
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: They have these little screens on them, a very basic
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: version of the Internet and a very basic messaging system.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: But also you can make calls with them. Your mom's
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: your mom. Sandy's cube starts to rattle on the table.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, the dicks.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: She looks at it, sees the name. Oh, very specific dick.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: Who's going to answer? It's your dad. I can do
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: it all right. She throws the cube over to you.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: What do you do the button? Hey, Sandy, Sandy.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: No, no, it's Ronnie.
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: Oh perfect rone. I was looking for you. I called
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: your I called the home line at your place. Didn't
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: get through. Maybe if you were with your.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Mom's Yeah here, I am okay.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: Good, good, good? Hey, I need your kid. Somebody's going
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: on here at the church.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, what's wrong?
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: There's a man here, a man here is threatening violence
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: on the church.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: What.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, He says his wife started coming here and it's
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: changed their whole relationship. And he's he's got a he's
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: got like a flame. He's got a flame of this.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: Dad.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: Just just leave.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know what I can do. You come come here.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: Oh no, there's people. You're always good at calming people down.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: There's people here. Gosh.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Oh.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: I'll try to talk him down until you get here. Okay,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: all right, I love you. I'll see you soon.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Oh are they I gotta go, you gotta go help everything. Okay, No,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: it sounds like somebody's trying to make trouble and that's scared.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, that guy's scared a lot.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I don't really know what I
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: can do when I'll go try.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, you're you're better kids than I ever was.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: Alicia says, I love you, sweetie, I love you. Here.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: She hands you like a tin of leftovers.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Thanks.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, tell Jillian we we miss her. Will come see
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: you soon.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Yeah, she's not busy next week, maybe she'll
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: come with me.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: Oh that'd be great. What's she doing tonight?
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: Oh a man?
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: Oh. They both look a little crestfallen.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: Sorry to disappoint you.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: No, she should do what she wants, follow her heart.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: You too, are ridiculous.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: We love you, sweetie. Goe we do.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, yeah yeah, I gotta go.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: You head out. The church isn't very far from here.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: It is further north. You probably need to hop on
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: another train you come to the Church of the New
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: Babble Day. There are many churches all throughout the city,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: but Colorado North has the most concentrated number of the
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: churches here. It is a metallic edifice in worship to
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: your kind, tall building, striking with pinpoints of light that
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: weave up, meant to be the eyes of the day
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: that shine subtly. It is an analogy. We all gather
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: within the God that is among us. You see a
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: crowd on the street outside your dad holding up his
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: hands kind of in front of the crowd, and there's
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: a man standing there with a flamethrower. Oh my God,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: and your dad's just saying, hey, man, listen, I've told
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: you a bunch of times now, it's not gonna do
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: anything because it's a metal Look at it. He goes
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: and kind of knocks on it, doing ding. It's a
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: metal building. It's not gonna work. I'm not gonna do anything.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: The guy's like, I, I can't believe this place. He
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: seems angry. My wife, you brainwashed her. She believes she's
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: God now. It's a day man. She believes that she
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: is God now, and that's how she treats me lesser
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: that that I haven't what realized my godhood.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: I like crush because is there a way for me
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: to get to my dad's side? Yeah?
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: Absolutely?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, hey, hi, Hi, what's hi? Hi? Dad?
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, Oh, I'm good, honie. He looks over at you
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: while keeping his hands up.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Hi, Hi there, what's your name? My name is Dave.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: What's your plan here? Dave?
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know you all. You need to feel, you
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: need to feel what i've what I'm feeling like.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: I can see that you're you're really really mad on Dave,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: You've maybe lost someone that you love in a way.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: It does, it does. It does feel like that. It
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: feels like she's gone, she's not who she was.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: Well, and my experience of my parents' relationship, if you
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: don't mind me saying, is nobody ever says the same day?
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: But I like be like rerea cheek for the flamethrower
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: something leader like, look at my pad because he's kind
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: of like, I don't know, hopefully, I don't know. It
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: seems like he's been like thrown off balance.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally do. You both start to move to grab
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: the flame thrower. Yeah, but I thought that when we changed,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: we would change into people we could still like be with.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: But she looks at me like like a like I'm
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: a worm now like I'm a like I'm I'm less.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: That doesn't sound like God to me.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Your dad gets his hands on the flame thrower
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: same time as you do, and all of a sudden,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: the words ringing in your mind that doesn't sound like
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: God to me.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: That doesn't sound like God to me.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: Suddenly you're no longer in front of the church. You
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: blink your eyes open, and you are, in fact soaring
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: through the air, a familiar feeling. You've thought about it
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: so many times. It can't be another vision. Has this
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: ever happened to any day before? You don't think so.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: You're too old. You already had yours, like getting chicken pox.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: It's almost as if if you picked up right where
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: your vision as a child left off.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: I look at myself in my twelve.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: You are lightning. Instead of striking the forest floor, this
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: time you strike the water, deep, endless, churning. See you
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: sink and you are electric no more, you are metal
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: and you are sinking. Lightning continues to flash above, journeying
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: on without you. Way to kick up, kick up. Your
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: head crests the surface. You see day less, day drifting
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: and hanging, as though attached to invisible strings, motionless. Start
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: to sink again.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: Fight against the water, try to stay up.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: As you fight, you find yourself lifted, cupped coral, sand, seaweed.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: Froth of the waves comes together before you, and the
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: woman who once was the forest is now the ocean
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: and holds youw She looks at you sad eyes. Why
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: do you wait, child?
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: Wait for what?
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: In your disbelief you drown.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: All due respect? I think it's I think it's the
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: water that was just drowning me.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: There is much to do and much I need from you.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: They are waiting. She looks at the day hanging.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: Do I recognize any of them? No, m I I
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: don't know what this is.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: I think maybe maybe, maybe, yeah, maybe I cracked. Maybe
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: maybe that guy just hit me on the head really
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: really hard as I reached through the flamethrower, and I'm out, Yeah, Yeah,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's that's probably what happened.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: They wait for you, my storm, for in you are
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: all of them, all of the day. Their heads go up,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: their eyes open, light pouring out of all of them,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: and they begin to scream. They are pulled together with
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: you as their anchor. They are drowned with you and
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: in you. And that's where we'll stop our session. So fun.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: That was Stephanie Fackler as Ronnie and me Johnny Wilson
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: as your game director. Thank you so much for listening
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: to this first part of Quanta's origin story. I'm just
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: here to tell you that the story is not over.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: There are three more full episodes. If you want to
• 1:11:41
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• 1:11:44
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• 1:11:49
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• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: you over there, heroes.
• 1:12:17
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