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Serial Experiments Lain, Ep. 12- Landscape · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle maybe, and I'm here. I
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  Speaker 1: think if you're hearing weird lips smacking in the background,
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  Speaker 1: it's because my cat is licking herself next to me
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  Speaker 1: right now. Can you hear it. I don't think you
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  Speaker 1: can actually hear it, but if you can, that's what's
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  Speaker 1: going on. She's super cute, so she can stay and
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  Speaker 1: continue to lick herself, even if it's kind of weirdly loud,
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  Speaker 1: at least to me, maybe not to you. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here, I guess, And we're gonna talk about late
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  Speaker 1: episode twelve, but before we do, I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: give you a little update, I guess on the summer season,
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  Speaker 1: which I guess is begun. I don't really know what's
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  Speaker 1: going on this season. I'm sure there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: good things that I don't know about that I should
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  Speaker 1: look into, but I haven't yet. But the one thing
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  Speaker 1: I did start watching was Ja dugar Oh, which is
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  Speaker 1: life in Mongolia. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, because it is not a language that
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  Speaker 1: I know how to pronounce. But in case you don't
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  Speaker 1: know about what that is, it is a historical fiction
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  Speaker 1: thing based on either a Jose or Shojo manga by
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  Speaker 1: Tomato Soup, and I say Shojo or Jose because I
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  Speaker 1: think it was originally published on the internet as Joe Say,
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  Speaker 1: and then when it started being serialized, it was and
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  Speaker 1: still is serialized in a Shojo manga magazine, So I
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  Speaker 1: guess it could be either there's an overlap there, but
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  Speaker 1: yay Shojo or josey so far really really good. Two
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  Speaker 1: episodes were released at the same time, and I haven't
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  Speaker 1: read much of the manga. I've read like a chapter
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  Speaker 1: or two, and I wasn't like Super Souls originally. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I'm not really sure what we're gonna do
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  Speaker 1: with this, but there's been like a lot of death already,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm like, I'm there. I'm I'm enjoying it. I
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  Speaker 1: like the main character, so I'm really interested to see
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  Speaker 1: how it goes. Yeah, I mean, it's, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: historical fiction about a slave in e who ends up
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  Speaker 1: being taken captive when Mongolians invade her city, and then
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  Speaker 1: I guess becomes a slave in Mongolia. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: yet because we're not that far, but then probably lots
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  Speaker 1: of other things, maybe but yeah, and the animation is
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  Speaker 1: real interesting, very much more cartoony than a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it works very well with the manga style.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of has that like power Puff style. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what that's called, but like it's also really pretty.
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  Speaker 1: It's done by Science Sadu, who you will remember did
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  Speaker 1: and I think is still doing dondad On, So they're
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  Speaker 1: pretty good with what they do visually. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: been it's been good so far. So if you're interested
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  Speaker 1: in like kind of sad violent things that are Shojo
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  Speaker 1: or Joe say which you should be check it out
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  Speaker 1: or don't. You know, it's up to you. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to do anything. You can just sit there and
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  Speaker 1: stare at the wall. That's what you want. Like, if
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  Speaker 1: that's your thing and you get a lot of like
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  Speaker 1: joy out of it, go for it. Yeah. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying either anyway. Also, I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: say that we had like another trailer for the remake
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  Speaker 1: of Magic Night Rares. I believe that's coming out now
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  Speaker 1: in fall twenty twenty six seasons so soon, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: part of me kind of wants to do it for
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, like take the rest of the summer season.
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  Speaker 1: Off Lane ends next week and then start up with
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  Speaker 1: it for a fall season. Does that sound terrible? You
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  Speaker 1: can tell me that it sounds terrible. You can say, Michelle,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to do a clamp showjo please, no, please,
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  Speaker 1: and I would. I would say, Okay, let's not do it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the thought that I had it might not
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  Speaker 1: even be a good one. I kind of wish that
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  Speaker 1: they would just redo Fushigi Yugi or something, because I
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  Speaker 1: would definitely do that. But yeah, there's one part of
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  Speaker 1: me that's like, man, that would be super cool. I
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  Speaker 1: remember when I used to watch Magic Night rayres. And
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  Speaker 1: the other part of me is like, is it a
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  Speaker 1: good story? Though, like the adaptation wasn't like great, but like,
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  Speaker 1: is the story worth me doing it on the podcast?
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  Speaker 1: And frankly, I don't really know. If you have thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on that, please email them to me. My email is
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  Speaker 1: in the little show notes. There's a little quote at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of them from the episode, and then next
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  Speaker 1: to it is my email. You can email me and
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  Speaker 1: tell me please don't do that, Michelle, or that's fine,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care, or even wow, that would be so cool.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're not gonna say that, but if you
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  Speaker 1: want to, you can email me. All Right, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: stop talking about stuff that's not laying now. I feel
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  Speaker 1: weird today. It's the first day in like five or
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  Speaker 1: four days that it hasn't been like one hundred degrees,
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  Speaker 1: but it's superhumid, so I can't like open the windows
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  Speaker 1: and have nice time anyway, But yeah, let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: So Lane. Episode twelve is called Landscape. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I understand that title. Honestly, maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'll figure it out as we're going. But anyway, if
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  Speaker 1: you remember from the last episode, we ended with Lane
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  Speaker 1: changing the timeline or making everybody forget that Alice really
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  Speaker 1: likes that teacher and masturbates to him and they were
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  Speaker 1: like in school, and then like Lane smiled, real weird
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  Speaker 1: and she was like, Lane, you smiled, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: she smiled before. I didn't say that then, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying it now, so we don't start there, because why
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  Speaker 1: the fuck would we. Oh. Also, before I go any further,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't watch this episode where I normally watch it,
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  Speaker 1: because it just kept stopping at a specific point and
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  Speaker 1: saying that I didn't have internet connection and to check
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  Speaker 1: my internet settings, and obviously I had internet because I
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  Speaker 1: was doing stuff, so I don't know what happened, but
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  Speaker 1: I could not watch the episode, and I tried multiple times,
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  Speaker 1: so eventually I had to find a different place to
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  Speaker 1: watch it. And it has different subtitles, which are definitely
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  Speaker 1: fans of as far as I can tell, because some
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  Speaker 1: of the names are different, like Alice's adi Su, which
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  Speaker 1: I am not sure what it's supposed to be. I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty sure that early on I saw, like in the
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  Speaker 1: actual like in a text message from her Alice, So
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  Speaker 1: that's why I said Alice instead of Adisu. But what
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to say is it's like infinitely better and
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  Speaker 1: easier to understand. And I'm a little annoyed that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't find this place first, because this was so much easier.
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  Speaker 1: As I've said, you know, previously, the subtitles that I
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  Speaker 1: was watching were like definitely wrong in a lot of places,
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  Speaker 1: like someone would say what like Lane would just say huh,
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  Speaker 1: and the subtitles would be like what do you mean, Alice,
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  Speaker 1: Like stop that, just stop it. So this has been
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  Speaker 1: way better, and I was really excited, but all so
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  Speaker 1: sad that I found out this late. Anyway, we start
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  Speaker 1: like we always do, normal stuff, present day, present time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I still don't like that. I have one more chance,
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  Speaker 1: one more chance. Anyway, we go back to a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of normal things, and we have a lane voiceover through
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  Speaker 1: the whole normal shit area that goes, oh okay, So
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  Speaker 1: that's how it works. I had no idea the world
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  Speaker 1: was so weasy to figure out. I was overthinking things
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  Speaker 1: all along. I always thought the world was such a big,
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  Speaker 1: scary place to live in with nowhere to hide. But
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  Speaker 1: once you figure it out, it's so easy. We hear
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  Speaker 1: a woman say, see, I told you it would be,
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  Speaker 1: and then we go to the title card landscape Layer twelve,
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  Speaker 1: and it's on a different background. It's on like a
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  Speaker 1: blue sky background with clouds, almost like the background of
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  Speaker 1: like Windows home screen type thing, but not exactly, but
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  Speaker 1: sort of. I thought it was weird that it's not
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  Speaker 1: the same as usual. I mean, last episode was different too,
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  Speaker 1: but that's because it was partially recap. So yeah, different background,
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  Speaker 1: I guess. Back from the title card, we go to
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  Speaker 1: wires humming on background that is out of focus, and
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  Speaker 1: it slowly comes into focus, so it's like lots of
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  Speaker 1: tree tops with like a building or multiple buildings behind them,
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  Speaker 1: and one of them, the closest one, looks like maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's the school, but I'm not sure. And then we
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  Speaker 1: go to Alice. She is resting her head on her
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  Speaker 1: hand and kind of looking down. She's at school, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: so it probably was the school. We see Rayka and
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  Speaker 1: Judy standing at Lane's desk, and Judy laughs and says saying,
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  Speaker 1: that's terrible. Raka's like, I can't believe you just said that.
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  Speaker 1: They laugh. I want to know what she said. Alice
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  Speaker 1: is just watching them, looking really forlorn, and Lane says,
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  Speaker 1: I know, but it's really true, and then giggles. Alice thinks,
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  Speaker 1: what does it mean. We get a close up on
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  Speaker 1: her eye and we hear Rega say I think it's Rika.
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  Speaker 1: That's the first I've heard of it, acting all high
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  Speaker 1: and mighty again Haleane. Alice blinks and then gasps. Lane
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  Speaker 1: is staring back at her. The girls are still talking
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  Speaker 1: in the background. Alice looks pretty freaked out because things
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  Speaker 1: are weird right now, and I would also be scared
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  Speaker 1: of Lane, and Lane is just kind of smiling at her,
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  Speaker 1: like really slightly, but you know, very naturally, like it's
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  Speaker 1: not a forced smile anyway. This kind of freaks out
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  Speaker 1: Alice more, and her eyes kind of widen and she
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  Speaker 1: turns away. At that moment, her cell phone starts to
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  Speaker 1: buzz and she reaches down somewhere either her pocket or
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  Speaker 1: desk we can't really see, and pulls out her phone
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  Speaker 1: and looks at it. We see her male menu on
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  Speaker 1: her phone, and characters start to like type in and
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  Speaker 1: they say, you can rewrite unpleasant memories. Oh fuck. Alice
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  Speaker 1: looks real freaked out, and she's like, but that's As
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  Speaker 1: she's looking at the screen, the characters suddenly start to
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  Speaker 1: like glitch out and she looks up and she's like,
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  Speaker 1: but that's Lane is still staring at her, and that
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  Speaker 1: like doesn't make Alice feel any better, and also, how
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  Speaker 1: did you send that text? Lane? We now go to
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  Speaker 1: like a blue staticky screen that has like more light
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  Speaker 1: blue static in the center, and slowly Lane's face and
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  Speaker 1: shoulders kind of tune in to focus, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: like you're using an antenna to get better signal, and
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  Speaker 1: it looks like she's naked by the way, yay Lane,
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  Speaker 1: Without moving her mouth, she's just kind of like looking
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  Speaker 1: around and stuff like that. Moving slightly. She says, people
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  Speaker 1: only have substance within the memories of other people, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why there's all kinds of mees Oh, there weren't
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  Speaker 1: a lot of mees per se. I was just inside
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of people, that's all. She disappears from the screen. Fuck.
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  Speaker 1: We go to the disco ball, which is motionless, and
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: we see, you know, the three kids just sitting at
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  Speaker 1: a table in the club. It's dark. I think I
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  Speaker 1: see JJ in the background at the bar, so it's
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  Speaker 1: like the club is open, but no one's there. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really know. Or maybe JJ just hangs out there
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  Speaker 1: because he gets bored, or maybe he has no home
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  Speaker 1: and he lives there. I don't know. Anyway, they look bored,
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  Speaker 1: which I guess makes sense. But also it's like things
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  Speaker 1: are real weird right now. How can you be bored? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: they said they look bored, but really just Mumu and
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  Speaker 1: Masayuki look bored. Toto has like VR goggles on. He's
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  Speaker 1: kind of leaning back in his chair and he says
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  Speaker 1: to I guess whoever he's talking to on VR? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I see, yeah, now I get it. Mumu says, hey, Tato,
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  Speaker 1: tell us who you're talking to. Toto just laughs like
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  Speaker 1: he's heard a really good joke, and Masayuki says, what
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  Speaker 1: is it. Toto sits up and kind of leans against
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  Speaker 1: the table and says, well, you know, he takes his
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  Speaker 1: hood down, which I didn't even say he was wearing,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: but he had a hoodie on and his hood was up,
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  Speaker 1: so now it's down. He continues it so happens that
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  Speaker 1: I kissed a name'll fuck you. Mumio and Masayuki turn
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  Speaker 1: to each other and they're both like huh. Mumia looks
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  Speaker 1: upset and says, Toto. We now cut to lots of
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  Speaker 1: people walking down streets. We see their feet and then
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  Speaker 1: we just kind of like see their shadows. Then we
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  Speaker 1: get like a lot of interwoven, partially transparent layers of
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  Speaker 1: people walking and cars driving by, like all just like
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  Speaker 1: city activity happening. Next, we get to a shot of
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  Speaker 1: buildings with you know those weird towers that I was
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  Speaker 1: telling you about in that episode that I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what are they? They kind of look like chest pieces,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that they're not supposed to just weird
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  Speaker 1: towers rising up. They're like in between buildings. I think
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  Speaker 1: there's two of them. And you know, while this is occurring,
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  Speaker 1: we just hear lots of different voices just saying Lane.
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  Speaker 1: We get to another city shot, and this time there
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  Speaker 1: are three of those towers, and the voices are continuing.
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  Speaker 1: Now we see a blue screen that same staticky screen.
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  Speaker 1: Lane appears and kind of moves a little bit, and
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  Speaker 1: then it's back to black. A newscaster pops up. He
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  Speaker 1: is kind of staticky and out of focus, and there
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  Speaker 1: are images behind him just kind of flashing, and it's
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  Speaker 1: really hard to make out what they are because everything
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  Speaker 1: is so like staticky and grainy. And also the whole screen,
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  Speaker 1: including the newscaster, is kind of just like moving back
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  Speaker 1: and forth and all around, like there's somebody behind a
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  Speaker 1: camera that is drunk. I don't know. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: weird and you know, just shaky and unsteady and unsettling. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he says Protocol seven is expected to allow for the
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  Speaker 1: seamless sharing of information between the wired and the real world.
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  Speaker 1: And now the following message. We get a closer shot
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  Speaker 1: of the newscaster now, which is very very like pixelated,
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  Speaker 1: and his eyes are like super wide, like he's insane,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, let's all love Lane. What and he
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: says it like three more times, and then it just
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  Speaker 1: starts saying la la la la la la la la
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  Speaker 1: la la la, and then it just cuts. Yeah, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We go to a screen that is just untranslated Japanese,
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  Speaker 1: but then also in English says iwakura Lane on it
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  Speaker 1: kind of in the middle. Then we see Lane on
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  Speaker 1: that blue screen again and fades out. Sure, we cut
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  Speaker 1: to like, folks, I guess they are cops on the
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  Speaker 1: train tracks in the rain, you know, like from when
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: eighty you know, died and there was that police stuff,
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: you know, that stuff from a couple episodes ago. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we hear someone say and I think this is God.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna say it's God. All the functions
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  Speaker 1: of the human body, without exception, can be put into
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  Speaker 1: words and described in materialistic terms. We cut to a
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  Speaker 1: shot of that thirteen near the tracks again and we
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: see that guy picking up what I think is a
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: piece of white fabric or paper. I'm not really sure that,
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: you know, like drenched and wet and stuff because it's raining.
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  Speaker 1: Then we see an image of buildings in a city
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  Speaker 1: that looks like maybe it's kind of inverted like colorwise,
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: I wasn't really sure. There's like pinkish clouds moving in
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  Speaker 1: the background and they're being reflected on the buildings, which
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  Speaker 1: is pretty cool, and God continues, the body is nothing
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  Speaker 1: but a machine. If the physical limitations of the body
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  Speaker 1: restrict mankind's evolution, it would be as if the fall
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  Speaker 1: of the species had already been decided by a god
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't even exist. We see pigeons on the sidewalk,
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  Speaker 1: now yay, and then we cut to like some static
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  Speaker 1: and then like to like a weird structure that I
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: wasn't sure what it was, but maybe it's like an
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  Speaker 1: underpass with like purple and red and blue reflected on it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't understand. And then we see this like weird
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  Speaker 1: pink person floating off between some buildings, like they're three
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  Speaker 1: D mapped or something. God continues. The information etched inside
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  Speaker 1: humans isn't only that which they themselves have acquired as individuals.
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  Speaker 1: We get lots of shots of potentially real landscapes that are,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of grainy, and they just kind of
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  Speaker 1: dissolve into static. God continues. The species is connected to
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  Speaker 1: its predecessors and information has accumulated with in them. We
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: see like a grainy image of a park that has
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  Speaker 1: this like big dinosaur playground equipment thing that I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what it is, but like the dinosaur thing like
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  Speaker 1: comes out of the image like towards us. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like transparent. I don't know what this means, guys,
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  Speaker 1: God continues, If that information isn't shared, it's meaningless, mere data.
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  Speaker 1: We see a city again, but this time is drawn.
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  Speaker 1: God says, mankind can evolve, evolve by their own power.
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  Speaker 1: We see some more like grainy city scape images going
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  Speaker 1: to static again. God continues, but to do that, they
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  Speaker 1: must first know what they truly are. Now we see
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  Speaker 1: like lots of green three D mapped people like out
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: in the street through a window. God continues, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think they are? Me? Now we cut to dark buildings.
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  Speaker 1: We're like panning down towards the ground, and the buildings
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  Speaker 1: kind of transition in to like little computer chippy things,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with lines and stuff and electricity shooting through them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to call this, and God says,
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  Speaker 1: originally people were all connected to each other. All I've
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  Speaker 1: done is make things as they once were. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: just concentrating on lots of computery lines and electricity. He continues,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you've done, Lane, so you can do anything
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  Speaker 1: you want. We see Lane standing on the sidewalk wearing
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: a yellow dress. The wind is kicking up and whipping
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: it around, and she is just kind of standing there,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: looking off, smiling, and I'm pretty sure she's staring at
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  Speaker 1: the high tension power lines in front of her. Yay,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: but then she turns her head. Okay, before we go on,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about evolution and how we as
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: individuals evolve or as a species evolve. I didn't really
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: like in this translation that I was watching that there
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: was a lot of mankind and man so I had
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: to take those out. But that's not what I want
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: to to talk about. What I wanted to say is
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: that's just evolution, guys. And yeah, I mean that's totally
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: right on. That we are an accumulation of the knowledge
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: that's been collected from you know, everyone before us. You know,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: it's not like people that are really much smarter or
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: any smarter than they've ever been. It's just that we've
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: had really smart people do things, and then we can
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: all share that knowledge and you know, progress things from it.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: It's like if I was just me and there's not
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: electricity in the world for some reason, and I didn't
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: know about electricity, Like I wouldn't be able to make
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: a light bulb because I'm just not that smart. But
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: being in the world today, I still can't make a
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: light bulb, but I would know how to make one.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I kind of understand how to make a light bulb
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: because other people have made light bulbs before and I
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: looked into it. This feels like a bad example, but
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: you get what I mean. Maybe anyway, So that's all
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: like totally fine and makes sense, and I like that,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: but I don't like the idea that like that's different
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: than other evolution that other animals don't because it's not.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: All evolution is kind of collective, even if it's not
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: about knowledge. You know, you have one part of the
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: population that has a different trait and then that gets
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: passed down to other people. I mean, if it works
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: out and it is beneficial evolution wise, so it's always
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: kind of a collective effort, if that makes sense. So yeah,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But also, like I don't think everyone
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: was originally connected to each other. I don't think that's
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: how the conscious mind works, but sure, God, let's go
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: with that anyway, we can continue. Sorry, we see a
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: city again where like panning down from the building tops,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and then we go to a very dark room with
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: minimal lighting. Basically it's just overhead like fluorescent lights that
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: are kind of greenish. For some reason. It's so dark
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: that I can't really tell what's happening in this room,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: and there's just kind of this constant, mechanical worrying happening.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: It does kind of look like it's a long corridor though,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: but that's really all I get. And then we go
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: to a different thing and I see, oh fuck, it's
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: a parking garage. I don't think this is my computer
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: monitor's fault. I really think that this lacked definition, but whatever.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: And the only reason I knew this was a parking
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: garage at first is because I see a car sort of.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: It's a black car. A red light kind of comes on.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: We can see it from the front dashboard window. And
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: then we cut to Carl who's lighting a cigarette with
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a lighter, and you know, he's being reflected in the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: driver side window. It's a really cool shot. Actually, he exhales,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: like a bunch of smoke. The short guy, who we
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: still don't have a name for, is in the driver's seat. Okay,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: so I take that back. He was being reflected in
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the passenger side window. Whatever. Anyway, short guy's in the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: driver's seat and he starts like waving his hand to
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: disperse the smoke and move it away from him, and
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: he says, I find you quit smoking. Carl doesn't say anything,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: and I also wanted to point out that he doesn't
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: have his goggles on, even though the short guy does.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Short guy says, why is this happening? We did exactly
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: what we were told to. Carl says, it means that
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: our client wasn't the only one who thought those computer
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: geeks playing Secret Society would be trouble. I don't know
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: what that means. Short guy turns his head and says,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: what do you mean? Yeah? Exactly. Carl's like our client
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: was in contact with Ady Matsumi. He exhales, No, maybe
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: eighty was behind all of this. Yeah, that's what I think.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Short Guy's like, enough about eighty. Okay, the guy's dead.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Carl takes another drag of his cigarette and looks at
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: short Guy and we can see his really gorgeous eyes,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: and he says he's not dead. Short guy gasps, huh.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Carl's like, whether he had a body or not never mattered.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I think it matters. It never mattered. Sure. Short guy
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: is silent for second, and they says, are you serious.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Carl just smiles. Suddenly, short guy looks up and is like, huh.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Carl looks at him and he gasps, and we see
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: that another black car has kind of turned the corner
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: and is coming towards them. It pulls up like right
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to where they parked and then shuts its engine off.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: They both get out of the car, and then they
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: walk over and stand in front of, like the front
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: of the car, kind of in the path of the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: other car's headlights, which I don't know if that works,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: like because the car is perpendicular to them, so I
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: feel like the headlights would be going forward further down
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the parking garage and not to the side where they're standing.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And I was gonna like go outside and try this
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: with my car, and then I didn't because I thought
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: of it this morning and I have to record this now.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: But I feel like the lighting doesn't totally make sense.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: But then the shadows make sense. So I'm a little
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: bit confused. But I I think this is a me
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: problem and not a real problem, so let me stop
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: talking about it. Anyway. The other car's door opens, and
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: at this point Carl has skuggles back on. By the way,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: a guy with a briefcase gets out and walks in
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: front of his car, and he like sets it down
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: on the ground. Short guy's like, payment for services rendered. Huh.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: You guys have been using us, haven't you? The guy
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: who might be the guy from the office when Lane
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: went there, but I'm not sure, just kind of smiles
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: really slyly, and he says, interpret it any way you like.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Carl's like, you want us to leave town? Huh? And
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: go where? Pittsburgh? Sorry, that's literally what I wrote in
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: my notes. The guy's like hmm and smiles. I suppose
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: a place with no power line that isn't covered by
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: a satellite. Okay, yeah, not Pittsburgh. I don't even know
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: where you find that. Short guy's like, there's no place
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: like that on Earth, and you know it. Okay, I
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: agree with him. Anyway, The guy says, if you're gonna run,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: you'll have to find a place like that. He turns
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: and he's to walk back to his car. Carl's like,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: what's gonna happen? The guy stops. He puts his hand
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: on his open car door. Carl continues, what are you
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: planning on doing by connecting the wire to the real
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: world without any devices? The guy smiles and turns back
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: towards them and says, something wonderful's gonna happen. Fuck. We
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: get a close up of his eyes and I'm looking
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: forward to it, aren't you. Carl looks shot. I mean
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: we can't see his eyes, but his mouth is slightly
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: hanging open. The short guy makes some sort of frustrated noise.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: We cut to the car's wheel, you know, the other
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: guy's cars wheel as the engine turns over, and then
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: we see the tire start to rotate. It backs into
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: a spot, does a k turn, and drives off. Short
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: guy says what the and then he like stops because
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: he just starts to flail around and scream okay, and
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Carl's like, what's wrong. Short guy kind of loses his
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: balance and like trips back into the car hood and
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: then he like falls over onto the ground and he
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: starts like crawling and he's like crying in agony, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: then he like flips over so he's like on his back,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: but then he arches up like his stomach in the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: air or something I don't know, and he's like screaming still,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and then he like flips over again and he like
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: grabs his head and kind of goes into a fetal position. Okay,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I don't what. I don't think this is good, whatever
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: it is. Carl's like, what are you seeing? I was
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: gonna chastise him for just kind of standing there, but
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: then he goes over to short guy, kneels down and
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: kind of like grabs him sort of I don't know
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: by what. I couldn't really tell, and lifts him up
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a little bit. And it's like, hey, short guy is
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: still making all of these cries of agony, and we
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: cut the first person perspective like through Carl's goggles, which
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: just make things a little more colorful. I guess I
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: couldn't really tell. So the short guy rips off his
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: goggles and like screams, and Carl like focuses in, you know,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: with the goggles on on the short guy's right eye,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: and he's like magnifying and magnifying and there's like something
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: in there, something white in there, and it's lain just
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: in his eye. Carl gasps because yeah, and immediately lets
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: go of the short guy, and the short guy just
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: kind of falls back on to the pavement, and then
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Carl gasps. We cut to the short guy again, who
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: is dead, his eyes wide open mid screen. Fuck. I mean,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't really like him, but I don't think he
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: needed to die. Carl now makes some sort of like
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: terrified noise, and then he suddenly looks up and gasps
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: him alone. He is shaking and sweating now, and he
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: scans the parking lot with his goggles that now looks
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: like maybe this is a thermal image, I'm not sure,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: and something is walking towards him. I think it's a
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: lighter blue color than everything else or whatever. He starts
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: to make these little terrified cries, and we see through
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: his point of view as the thing moves closer at closer,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and then he screams, and we cut to another section
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: of the parking garage a that it echoes out. I'm
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: pretty sure he's dead. No, I liked Carl. We fade
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: to black. Fuck. We fade into power lines buzzing on
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: a white and kind of peach colored sky, and then
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: we get this kind of like weird shot kind of
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: looking up at Alice as she walks, and now the
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: sky is yellow and white. I don't know what happened there.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: We pan down from above and see that she's walking
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: down like a neighborhood street kind of looks like where
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Lane lives, and like she's walking through those blotchy shadows.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Her steps echo, everything else is dead silent, and we
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: pan up now on Lane's house and there are so
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: many wires now like coming out of that wall, which
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: they'll don't know why there are wires coming out of
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: the wall at all. I guess she ran out of room.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: But they did apparently remind me of spaghetti because I
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: wrote it and then put a little smiley face next
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: to it. It likes spaghetti. Alice looks up at the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: house concerned, and then back down at the wall. It's
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: kind of like by the gate that says ewakoda on it,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and there's like a doorbell under it. She presses the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: doorbell and it makes like a weird sound, like it
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: starts out normal, like a normal doorbell sound, and then
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: it gets like weird and e tonal at the end,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: like something is wrong with it. She looks up at
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: the house and pushes the gate open. I don't think
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: she meant to. Maybe she was just trying to like
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: rest her hand on the gate because she's really surprised
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: it's not locked, and immediately closes it again. She looks
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: back up at the house again, and we cut to
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the porch and see that the front door is partially open.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Alice looks super worried. I mean, yeah, Now we see
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: from inside of the home looking out at the open door.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: As Alice approaches it and looks inside and gasps, the
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: kind of main hall area is dark and just like
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: filled with trash and graffiti, and there's like furniture that
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: like appears to be like turned over to Yeah, you
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: do need to not leave your door open otherwise vandals
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: will come and also maybe squatters. But then again, like
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: there's barely anyone living there. No Lane lives there. We
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: have to keep her safe. She stares at this mess
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: in shock and then decides to walk inside, which I
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: don't think that's a good idea. Once she's just slightly inside,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: she stops and says, Lane. She looks down at the
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: floor there are slippers kind of strewn everywhere, and clothing
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: and like an overturned dresser or something. Alice, who is
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: you know, sweating, takes off her shoes, which seems like
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a really bad idea considering there's all the shit all
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: over the floor, and continues to walk. She stops right
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: outside of that main room you know, like the living room,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: family room, kitchen, combination open plan place, and looks in.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: It's dark in there and messy, but like it doesn't
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: look like it's been vandalized. It just looks like someone
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: left in a hurry. She gulps and continues to walk forward.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: We now see her as she reaches the bottom of
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the stairs, and it is like foggy now. Alice starts
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: to work her way up past all of this trash
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: that's just on the stairs, like books and a teddy
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: bear and a potted plant and like an umbrella and
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: other things. She puts her hand over her mouth because
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: of all this fog, but starts to cough anyway. Suddenly
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: she looks up and just stops dead. She brings one
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: of her feet back down a step, and we see
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: that Mika is there in the midst I think standing
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: at the top of the stairs. Yeah, Alice looks like
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: she's gonna cry, and she kind of throws herself against
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the wall and falls into a sitting position and just sobs,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and she says no and puts her hand over her face.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: When she looks up again, Mika's gone. Alice stands up,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: still crying a little, and ascends the rest of the
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: stairs in the hallway. Now, she walks down the hall
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: and stops at a door, and after taking a moment
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: to steel herself, she slowly pushes it open. I mean
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: it opens really slowly. She steps inside and she's looking
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: around and she says, this is Lane's room. Yeah, it's
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Lane's room. It's got stuff all over it that's like
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: wires and shit. We cut to her like looking around,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: and I think she hears movement. I couldn't really tell,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: or she backed into something. I wasn't sure. And she
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: turns really quickly and says Lane. We see her like
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: walking around and looking at stuff, and then she gasps
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: and quickly steps back and like knocks over like a
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: com pewter monitor behind her. We get a close shot
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: of Lane's arm with like wires all around it and stuff,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: and it kind of looks like it's extending from a
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: pile of cables. But then Lane sits up, So I
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: guess she's just in a pile of cables on her
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: futon or something, but like not consumed by them. I
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: wasn't sure anyway, Alice says Lane. Lane just sits there,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: looking down, holding a teddy bear, and then she turns
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: slightly and says, Alice. Alice is like, what did you do?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Laane looks like sort of happy, but also her eyes
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: look really sad or tired, and she says nothing. I've
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: just been watching. Alice is like watching what. Lane just stares.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Alice takes his shaky breath and is silent for a second,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: and then says, I thought I'd gone crazy, but I
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: didn't Lane. Why did you leave only me? Laane doesn't
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: say anything and really doesn't appear to be looking at
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Alice anymore, and Alice, now with tears in her eyes, says,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: why did you leave only my memories alone? She just
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: kind of collapses on to her knees and starts to cry,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Why do I always have to remember those horrible things?
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: A tear falls down her cheek. Do you hate me
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: that much? Lane looks up, like, what do you mean? No,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: and Alice says I can't take this. She starts sobbing.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Lane's like, no, you've got it all wrong, Alice. She
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: crawls over her fouton towards Alice. I didn't want to
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: hurt you. Alice is like, liar, look what you've done.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: She's still sobbing by the way. Lane gets closer, but
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: you're okay, right, Alice. Alice says, what, Lane's like, you
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: or my friend? Even without connecting to me. Alice is like,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: what do you say? Lane like gets up right in
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Alice's face and Alice gasps, and Lane says you're my
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: only friend, even without connecting to me. Alice shrinks back
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: and says connecting, what do you mean? Lane smiles and
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: moves right up on Alice again, connecting to me and
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: everyone uh. Alice. At this point, Like gets up and
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: runs back and says stop. Lane's like I love you, Alice. Fuck.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Alice turns back, do you know what you're saying? Lane's
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: like humans were originally connected at an unconscious level. I
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: just reconnected them as all. Alice says, Lane, you Lane's
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: like I didn't do anything. It doesn't matter which is
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: real this side or the other? I was in both.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I'm a program designed to destroy the barrier between the
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: wired and the real world. Alice is like, you're a program.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Lane says, you and everyone else, Alice, you're just applications.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: The truth is you don't need bodies what. Alice looks horrified.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: There's a long pause, and then Alice sits down again.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: We cuts her hand as she reaches out towards Lane,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: and Lane just kind of stares at her, confused. We're
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: just seeing like a close up of Lane's eyes, and
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: then she glances to the right and we see that
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Alice has put her hand on the side of Lane's face.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Lane just kind of stares at it and then looks
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: back at Alice, and Alice says, you're wrong. Layne's eyes widen.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Alice continues, I don't really understand what you're saying, but
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I think you're wrong. Your body's cold, but you're alive. Lane.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: She takes her hand off of Lane's cheek and then
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: holds Lane's hand with both of her hands and then
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: lifts Lane's hand up and places it over her heart
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: mine too. See. Lane stares kind of confused, and Alice
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: is like, see my heart. Lane smiles and says, it's
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: beating sort of. Actually, she says doki doky doky doki,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: which is on a monopoeia for heart beating sound, so
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: it's really weird. In this translation, she just says beating, beating, beating,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: which is weird, but in Japanese she says doky dogy
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: doky doge, which makes more sense anyway. They both giggle
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: at that, and Lane's like, but why why is it
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: beating like that? Alice is like, because I'm scared. It's
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: pounding because I'm scared. Lane says, but you're smiling, Alice.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Alice is like, yeah, I guess so, but I'm scared.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I've always been scared. I wonder why. Lane says, why
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: we hear God say because she's afraid of losing her body.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: All sensations are caused by impulses in the brain. He
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: kind of fades in above their heads and continues, you
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: just need to block the unpleasant impulses, select only the happy,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: pleasant ones. Lane turns, you know, towards him and says wheely.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Alice is like, who are you talking to? God says,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: if you really love her, why don't you connect with her.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Blaine looks away and says, I'm not sure. Alice stands Lane, Lane,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: who are you talking to? Lane? Wayne is just basically
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: ignoring her, by the way, and God's like, you must
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: have a bug? Fuck, he chuckles. Very well, I'll take
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: my time and give you a thorough debugging what. He
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: extends his hand. Come, Lane, Yeah, I'll just stop there
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: for a second and say, what the fuck? I don't
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: think I like the way that that sounded. Yeah. Yeah,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: it kind of schewed me out, honestly. Anyway. Alice gasps
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: because she can actually see his hand now. For some reason.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: It's just like this white, kind of like computer screeny
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: looking hand. I don't know how to describe that, and
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: it descends down and then kind of rests in the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: air next to Lane, reaching towards her like it wants
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: her to take it. Alice stumbles back and screams, as
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: you would, and Lane says, what I don't understand is
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: you God? Alice is like, you're talking to God. God says,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: what don't you understand? Lane, Lane's like, what you did
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: was to remove devices from the wired phones, TVs, the network.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Without those, you couldn't have done anything. God kind of
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: kneel floats over her and says, yes, those are things
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: which accompanied human evolution. Humans who are further evolved than
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: others have the right to greater abilities. She's, dude, think
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of yourself. Lane looks up at him who
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: gave you those rights. God's eyes widen and he gasps,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: and we cut to Alice, who has her hands over
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: her face, just like standing there terrified. And then Lane says,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: the program that inserted code sync to the Earth's resonant
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: frequency into the Protocol seven code which would raise the
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: collective unconscious to the conscious level. Did you really come
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: up with the idea by yourself. God's hand is shaking now,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: he says, what are you getting at? No, it can't be.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: It can't be. Are you telling me that there really
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: is a God? Lane stands, and the wires just kind
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: of slowly slough off her. She says, it doesn't matter
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: with nobody you can't understand. Yeah, She starts to walk
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: towards Alice. God's like, that's a lie. I'm omnivident. I
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: gave you a body here in the real world. You
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: were omnipresent, scattered through the wired I gave you ego.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Lane at this point is trying to pull Alice like away,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: but Alice is just continuing to stare in horror, and
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: God continues, you mean to say, Lane turns back. If
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: that's true about me, what about you? God's like, I'm different.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I His hand just like starts getting all veiny and weird,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: and then he like screams in anguish, and all of
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: a sudden, like all these body parts just start appearing
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: like throughout the room and like coming towards him and
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: like making him come together or something. And he's like
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: just screaming, and at first it looks like it's making
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: him into like a flesh and blood person, but not exactly.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: And then we like see this big eye like pop open,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: and Lane says, the wired isn't the upper layer of
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: the real world. God's like, what do you mean, Lane continues,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Inside the wired, you were, God, But what about before
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: the wired was created? You were just acting like God
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: standing in for someone who was waiting for the wire
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: to reach its current state. God is just this morphing
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: flesh lump. Now I don't know what's going on, and
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: he says, and acting God, that's a lie. His tongue.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: I think like shoots out and it like wraps itself
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: around Alice and Lane, and Alice screams, fuck. He like
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: lips them into the air, like still screaming and like
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: morphing and shit. And Lane's like Alice, she looks at
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: what is kind of God's head now even though like
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: this is just not working out well for him, I think,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: and she says, a body doesn't mean anything to you.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Right At this point, the like coolant system just breaks
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: and spills out, and then like computer things like start
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: falling off of each other, and corns start like writhing
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: and disconnecting, and then they like all start like wrapping
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: around God. This causes God to like drop them, I guess.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: And once they are safe, I mean relatively, Lane just
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: kind of calmly holds Alice as she screams and cries.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: God reaches his hand out from this big pile of
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: computer shit that is, you know, in developing him, and
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: it like kind of morphs into two hands and he
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: like reaches out for them. But then like a big
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: computer piece comes and like smashes it back. Everything kind
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: of stops and we see that every piece of computer
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: equipment in the room has crushed God to be continued,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: and then we go to the ending theme and that's it. Yay,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: closing thoughts. I got interrupted there for a minute, so
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: I don't remember what I was gonna say. Well, let's
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: let me see if I could figure this out. So what,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know why God started getting a body. I mean,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: his whole belief, his whole like foundation of the idea
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: of who he is is breaking down because he must
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: have been created because the wired was created, so at
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: some point there was something else before him. But I mean,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I think God is supposed to be Adi Masumi, So
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: I guess maybe it's just a part of him that
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: still exists. I don't really know, but I guess him
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: having this existential crisis is making him get body parts
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: and then they get all Morphy what. I don't know.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know why his tongue shot out and picked
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: them up. What was he gonna do with them? What? Yeah?
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: So I thought this was really interesting, but I don't
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: know if I understood it, like I understand the idea
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: behind it. He's obviously not really God, even if he
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: created Lane, he still isn't God, and he can't really
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: understand things that people understand because he's not a real person,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: which I thought was cool him being like, so there
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: is a God, Lane being like, you're never gonna know
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: because you're not a person. Like, I don't think there's
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: a god in this. Actually I think that we're basically
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: saying there still is no god, but whatever, So something
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know, God is all freaking out. And now
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: maybe he's dead because he got crushed by computer equipment.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: But I assume Lane did that. I don't really know though,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I'm just very confused. But I didn't like him. He
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: was a piece of shit. And I'm very worried about
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: the idea that Lane has been connecting to people because
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: is that what happened to Carl and short guy? Did
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: you just die when you get connected? Because we haven't
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: seen people in like, we didn't see other people like
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: in the later part of this episode, just her and Alice,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: So like, what happens when you connect to Lane in
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: the wire? Like, is do you just die and then
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: exist in the wired? Is that what's happening? Because I
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: don't feel like Lane would have just gone after a
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: short guy and Carl, especially after Carl was like I
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: just like love you. So I'm assuming that's what's going on,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: which is just really bad. And also, why did that
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: guy who paid them, you know, Carl and the other guy,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: why was he like happy about this? You know, this
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: is basically gonna be the end of humanity. And it's like,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: even if the wired is connected to the real world,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: the wire still needs like electricity and shit to exist.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: I think. So if people are just bodyless in the Internet,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: I think eventually we're fucked because people have to like
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: tend to utilities and make sure that they're still running functionally.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: And eventually, if the system is going to break down,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: we're gonna lose the Internet, whether it's connected to the
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: real world or not, I think, but I'm not sure.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: And then just everybody dies for real good this time.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: So fuck. So yeah, I don't think this works out
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: for everyone in the long run. And I'm glad that
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Lane all of a sudden kind of had that switch
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: where she's like, oh fuck, this guy is leading me
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: down the wrong path and I have to be more
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: than a program, like I have to stop this. So
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: that's all good. I have no idea what I just said.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean this is really interesting. I'm super confused,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: but that's going somewhere, I think. Oh and the other
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: thing I really wanted to say about this episode that
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: like really bothered me was why the fuck is Mika
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: still in the house, Like she's clearly not well and
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Lane's parents, her no real parents are gone. They left
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: to go wherever the hell they went, maybe to you know,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: hide from all of this horrible shit that's gonna happen.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Why was Mika left there? Because Mika, you know, they
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: were acting as her family, so but Mika was too.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: I don't think Mika was their kid. I mean, if
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Mika is their kid, then it's really shitty that they
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: left her. But I felt like Mika maybe was also
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: an actor or something. So like, how come nobody said, Okay,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: you gotta come out of there. We're gonna let Lane
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: live in this house while by herself and make crazy
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: shit happen. How come they just left her there? But
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: also what, like, I mean, maybe she wouldn't have left
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: because she's you know, I don't know what's going on
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: with her, But you'd think that whoever was the men
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: that you know, put Lane in the house with this family,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: they would come and they'd be like, cool, we have
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: to get her some treatment because she isn't okay, so
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: how come she's there being insane but seems mean? So
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: I think those are just my takeaways from this episode.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think I have anything else that I need
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: to say here, so yeah, I hope that you're getting
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: something out of this. I really do. I don't know
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: what it is, but you can tell me if you
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: want to, what you think it is, what you think
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: the messages of this are either this week or after
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: you hear like the final episode, because I'd like to
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: hear what you have to say. But uh, yeah, I
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: don't know. Man. I hope that you are not hating this,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: really really do, because eventually I'm gonna do a show
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: like an anime. We're gonna cover an anime that you're
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: gonna hate so much that you just hate me. I
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: think that's my fear. So I hope this isn't the
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: one it could be. Anyway, I'm gonna go eat some
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: cantalupe and put my air conditioner back on, and I
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: hope that you have a really good whatever. I'm gonna
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: see you next week unless Lots of Fire in the
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: World ends that. Yeah. Later weeps