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Axis & Allies E19: Where on the Doll Did They Touch the Robot? · The Multiverse Collective

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  OK, there are three versions of Honky Tonk Badonkadonk, all by
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  Trace Adkins with different different album covers, but they
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  all have the same name, same artist and I don't actually
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  know. Whichever one like my My Country
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  mix is started to pull is the wrong one.
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  This is going to be the cold open isn't?
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  It. Oh yeah.
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  Oh, OK. No, right there.
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  Country Club mix weird. Is it the Country Club mix or
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  the Country Club mix? No, it's the country.
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  Club mix I. Was going to say.
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  I I don't know that Honky Tonk, Badonkadonk and Yacht Rock would
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  be. That's what it is the.
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  Donation. I would.
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  Listen to like I'm, I'm, I'm sending it to you right now like
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  this is this is linking the version of the song that I hate?
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  Although that being said. Like, I mean it, it'd be cool if
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  it wasn't what I wanted, like, or if it was what I wanted but
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  like. Like that in the style of What a
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  Fool believes on. Ironically, that might be pretty
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  good. Oh God, did I just open my
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  Spotify up for the first time? Oh God, I.
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  Say you should be able to play just from straight from the
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  discord, yeah. Should have done that.
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  That would have been much better.
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  Oh Christ. Jesus Christ.
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  Did that come through? Yes.
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  Very. Clearly.
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  Yeah, yeah. Jesus.
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  The room I know he's can't. Sleep, Jesus Christ.
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  You know what's fun? There's no volume knob.
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  There is on discord but you got to find it.
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  All the way up, baby. It sucks.
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  It's very confusing. It is.
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  It doesn't know what it wants to be.
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  I'll be honest with you, I cannot tell the difference.
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  If you heard them side by side you could it's it's way faster.
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  It is. Way.
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  Faster, very like 128 BPM, 4 on the floor.
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  Like, and it's got like it's got, it's got a beat behind it
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  that the original doesn't have. Ace, since your return from the
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  Pacific, you have gone from. Soldier.
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  To superstar, how has your? Time in the limelight travelling
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  around the country been. Well, that is a great question.
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  On the one hand, it's nice not being forced to eat what they
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  serve a chow every day. I mean, can they really even
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  call that food? But to tell you the truth, the
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  best thing about this tour has been eaten all manner of folks
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  from this great country of ours, and in just a couple days, I
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  know that I'm going to give them all one last speech that'll
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  really fire them up. All right, so like I said, we're
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  going to start with Cordelia. So Cordelia, we see her sitting
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  on her, the bench in her room, not sitting at the bench in her
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  room, looking at this revolver in her hands.
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  Do you think she's managed to glean anything more from it at
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  this point or is it still just a gun?
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  I think it's still just a gun. It's a cool gun.
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  It's a gun that she's now disassembled and reassembled at
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  least 10 times just because she wants to get a feel for it.
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  But I don't think she understands the significance.
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  So as you're staring at this pistol, you look up and you
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  realize that you're suddenly no longer in your room.
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  You are standing in either a desert or a wasteland or
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  something in front of you, and in front of you there is a small
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  campfire with a man sitting to his back, sitting with his back
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  to you. I think Cornelia is not sure if
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  this is like a very vivid dream or reality, so she's just going
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  to approach. But does she have the gun on
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  her? No.
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  She doesn't. OK.
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  Does she have any sort of sidearm on her?
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  If she would have had something on her, maybe, but.
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  Probably not. I mean because she was sitting?
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  Probably not. Not in her room, no.
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  Yeah, she's hesitant and she's she's not like super confident,
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  but she is walking over. As as she's walking around this
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  fire, this man, he's got a a leather hat and a leather jacket
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  on. And he, you see that there's a
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  small animal, probably a rabbit rotating over the fire as he's
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  cooking. And he looks up and goes, well,
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  good to see you sit down, have a bite.
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  Thank you. I'm Cordelia.
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  What can I call you? My name is difficult.
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  A lot of people around here these days know me as Slick.
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  Nice to meet you, Slick. Don't you?
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  Why don't you have a seat? I'm Cordelia.
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  Sit down. I see that you've come into
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  possession of my old gun. Your old gun, it's a nice piece
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  of machinery. Ain't she, though?
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  She's a Bude, you know. I want her on a house.
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  Then I gave him a pool back in New Orleans.
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  None's a hell of a way to get a gun.
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  Well, you know, you got to do what you got to do these days.
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  I honestly, I'm kind of glad she's coming to your possession.
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  I, this ain't me trying to get her back or nothing.
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  I just, I feel like you've been struggling lately trying to
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  figure her out. Yeah, I just can't quite seem to
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  figure out why I came into possession of your gun.
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  And Cordelia sort of like looks around trying like get more of a
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  grasp as to where she is. She's just sort of in like you,
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  you presume the desert of somewhere in the American South,
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  but you don't. You don't have any way to sort
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  of triangulate yourself that that guns, it outlived me.
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  It'll outlive you. It'll outlive pretty much anyone
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  that ever holds her. She's a she's a work of art,
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  that one. But if she came into your
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  possession, then you should know that you're holding a wicked
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  piece of power there. What do you mean wicked piece of
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  power? Well, that all depends on you,
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  depends on your devotion to your cause.
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  The the stronger you believe in what you're doing, the stronger
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  she's going to be. Is she's got a name.
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  Do you know that? No, I didn't know that.
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  What you call her. Joe, you say?
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  Joe, you say? Is her name Joe, you say?
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  Joe, you say? It's a nice name for a nice gun,
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  Slick. Yes, she is.
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  That she is. And when you need her, she'll be
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  there to help you out. I can't really.
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  I don't know your life. I don't know what's going on.
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  But all I can tell you is that she'll be there for you when you
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  need her. I appreciate that so.
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  And you're probably going to need her more than you think,
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  because it appears that there's some already some things coming
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  into your world that y'all don't even know about yet.
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  Now that's saying a lot because there are quite a few things
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  coming into my world that I know a very small amount about that I
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  already am quite terrified of. It'll get worse.
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  I got I got one more little thing here to give you.
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  And he reaches into his pocket. Actually, two things I'm
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  thinking about it. And he reaches down to his hip
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  and he detaches the holster and he tosses it to you and goes.
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  That'll hold it real good for you.
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  I appreciate it. And the last thing here is it
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  might help you, it might warn you, not sure.
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  And he looked at something in his hand and he sort of blinks
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  in and goes, huh, good choice. And he flicks a coin to you.
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  And on this coin, on the back is 6 eyes and on the front you see
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  Eunice's face. Fucking hell, Kyle.
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  God damn it. And as you look up, as you look
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  up, you're sitting back at your desk.
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  Oh fuck. We see Rex, he is in in a dream.
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  We're skipping forward a little bit here in time.
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  So it's it's one of the nights that we're skipping here and Rex
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  is having sort of a fitful dream.
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  In this dream, he's sort of sitting in the rafters looking
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  down at this factory that he's never seen before.
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  And you're just sort of looking around and you see some soldiers
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  walking around just sort of doing their patrols.
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  You sort of move around them sort of deftly portaling from
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  rafter to rafter with a, with a skill that you usually like.
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  You're usually pretty good with your portals.
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  But this is instinctual, OK? There's like no thought about
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  where you want to go. And as you, you see what you
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  think might be your target and you jump down and you see these
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  cages and cells with humans in them and they sort of look at
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  you and they're, they look horrified when they see you.
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  OK. Are these are these like the the
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  people we've seen in cages before, like back on Japan?
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  They're not. These are, these are regular
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  people and they, they sort of don't smell like what you're
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  looking for right now. OK, there's there.
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  You have a hunger and this isn't going to fix it, but you sort of
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  say, you know that what you want is here.
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  It's here somewhere. And as you as you look around,
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  you sort of get a lock and you definitely jump through another
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  portal and you're standing outside this warehouse full of
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  shipping containers. And this is where what you're
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  looking for is. OK, I'm just going to start
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  opening containers then. Oh yeah, you open the first one
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  and you see these tiny little cages full of these shadowed
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  homunculi. Oh yeah, he's going to I'm, I'm
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  assuming I've got my my sword at least.
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  You have a couple, you have several small swords with you
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  actually. And you have feel like you have
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  more hands than normal. And you just, you get to work
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  feasting. You are ripping things open like
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  these. These things, they're
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  aggressive. They try to attack you.
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  But what what is a a Warren of rabbits going to do to a fox
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  that wants to eat them? You know what I mean?
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  Yeah. That that's fair, yeah.
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  And you, you eat and you eat and you feel full.
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  And as you're eating, soldiers run in and they're sort of look
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  horrified when they see you, and they start shooting.
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  And these bullets, they hit these tiny little portals and
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  just ricochet back. And you take all these guys out
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  and you decide it's time to leave.
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  And when you go back through the portal, you see yourself
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  sleeping in bed. And as you look at yourself
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  sleeping in bed, you wake up. Oh my God.
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  Oh God. Welcome back.
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  Welcome back everybody. Yeah.
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  Are you dealing with like what I'm dealing with right now?
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  God, I want those reactions. Yeah, those Lord.
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  Yeah. Oh my God, Would you guys like
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  to do anything before we jump any further or are you guys
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  going to just sit down? I'm going to.
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  Have an existential crisis? Yeah, I mean, like, obviously
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  Cordelia doesn't understand the significance of what just
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  happened, but I do, so I'm crashing out about it.
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  But no, Cordelia's just going to keep this new found thingamabob
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  in her pocket all the time now. Let.
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  It be known. I have no fucking idea what's
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  going on. And Kyle, if it's worth
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  anything, she's like almost never going to stop touching it.
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  Does anything happen when she touches it?
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  By the way, just for my own knowledge, Buck.
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  OK, fine. It's a little warm.
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  That's weird. Yeah, yeah, it's weird, but but
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  you know, she doesn't. She's not looking that much into
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  it because she's handling it so often.
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  It makes sense that it's still warm.
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  Rex, you gonna do anything about that or.
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  You just gotta what kind of do about that?
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  I don't. Know.
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  Lovely. Tell people.
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  Tell anyone. Cordia, you might actually tell
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  Rex about this. I mean, you don't have to.
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  You don't have to. He's going to have a beer.
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  He's in the old, good old British fashion.
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  He's just going to have a beer. Yeah, actually, Cordelia would
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  like to go to Rex's quarters because she also needs a beer.
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  Yeah. Go for it.
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  Cordelia is going to walk down the hall from her quarters to
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  Rex's and just, like, knock on the door.
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  Not like a cop knock, but like a little bit more tentative than
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  usual. Come in.
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  Yeah, come in. Can I, Can I have a beer?
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  I'd need a beer. I was just about to crack one
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  myself. I just had the freakiest fucking
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  dream, man Shit. Shit, you had a freaky dream.
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  So did I. Oh, fuck.
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  Oh God. But I like, I don't know, I like
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  it. It couldn't have just been a
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  dream, though, Rex. It's like I got this thing from
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  this dude that I met in my dream that.
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  That is. Odd.
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  And she's going to take the coin out of her pocket and put it on
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  the table. Oh no.
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  Can I can I look at the coin? Can I like?
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  Oh yeah, yeah, you can. I'm going to.
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  Does it have by any chance speaking from experience from
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  other other guys? Does.
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  It have. Six eyes on it.
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  It has six eyes on one side and Eunice's face on the other.
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  Holy shit. Damn it.
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  Damn, yeah, she's. Pretty, isn't she?
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  Yeah, I didn't know Eunice had coins made of her.
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  That's that's pretty mental. No, I.
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  Didn't either. It's I I never seen anything
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  like this before. Well I had a dream of it where I
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  was infiltrating a factory and then I had like 7 arms and seven
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  swords and I was killing these shadowed monkey light and then I
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  parted back and then there I was lay asleep.
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  Oh, Rex, you feel great by the way.
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  And I feel amazing. That's a much freakier dream
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  than what I had. Shit, I just met this dude named
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  Shit. The fuck was his name Slick?
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  Slick? We what he told me about, you
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  know, the, the weird old gun and he gave me this coin and a
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  holster and it's this whole thing and.
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  Yeah, no. Are we going insane?
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  I think we might be going insane and Cordelia tornadoes the beer
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  into her mouth. Yeah, Rex follows suit.
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  I I forgot to mention Cordelia. I I mentioned it to to Rex.
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  This has been several days since the last episode.
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  Like you guys got to where you're going and it's just, I
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  should probably set the scene you guys got and there's just
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  sort of like this, this hole in the middle of the city, but it's
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  not really doing anything. There's just a bunch of science
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  nerds set up around it, studying it.
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  So you guys are just sort of there on standby.
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  So it's it's been 3 or 4 days since the events of everything
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  else happened. I.
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  Don't know, maybe the weird hole is just making our dreams
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  freakier and more realistic and letting things.
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  Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I'm hoping, I'm hoping that's
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  what's going on. Yeah, I mean, I can't think of
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  another plausible explanation. It's just, it's weird.
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  I like, I know I've been thinking about Heunus a lot
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  since the cigarette incident and then everything that Ace said.
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  Yeah. But.
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  Understand the word I mean. I mean.
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  It's a weird. We don't need to talk about it
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  anymore. That's OK.
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  I'm OK not talking about it, no. Cool.
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  I don't know. It's.
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  Just it's weird that I got the coin.
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  Yeah, We don't. I don't.
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  We don't need to unpack this. This isn't.
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  It's just it's weird, that's all.
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  It's just weird. It does seem rather odd.
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  Yeah, maybe it is that whole. Maybe we're in Angel Grove.
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  Right, you are. Hey, maybe this area that.
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  What was his name again? The.
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  The Dirklin. Declan, Declan.
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  I know you're not good at names, man, but This is why we've been
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  spending a lot of time with him. He's talking about he's talking
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  about 5 weeks to realise what both yours and and aces names
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  were properly. I know, I know.
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  And it and it feels like it's been like a month since we last
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  spoke to the dudes, so. His time is just passing in such
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  a such a strange way. Nowadays it's, it's hard to keep
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  track of these things, but yeah, maybe, maybe he can.
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  You know, he, he, he came through a bottle.
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  So maybe he has. Yeah, maybe he'll actually know
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  what this is about. Maybe this is something that's
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  like happening. We should, I don't know, maybe
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  talk to him about it. And then and then worst case
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  scenario, worst case, we, we speak to Schmidt.
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  But but that's like that's like the very, very bottom of the
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  barrel. Like we're not even scraping the
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  bottom of it. It's the underneath of the
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  barrel we're scraping. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  That's, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
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  I think. Yeah, we should, we should talk
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  to Declan about this. I think it's, I mean it, we're
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  at least worth mentioning that that like stuff is like coming
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  out of our dreams now. But maybe we don't talk about
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  the stuff coming out of the dreams.
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  Maybe we just say we're having a weird temporal effect due to
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  the. Oh, I like that.
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  That's good. Due to the the weird hole in the
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  middle of the city. Yeah, you are so much smarter
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  than everybody gives you credit for, Do you know that?
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  Don't tell anybody. I'm not going to say shit to
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  anyone. Thank God for that.
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  Declan, we're so how are you doing in this situation?
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  We're back like this is your home city, but your home city is
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  just a crater. This is it's not the Angel Grove
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  you remember, but it is an Angel Grove, and there happens to be
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  another weird hole in the exact same spot you left the other
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  one. I don't think he's taking his
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  eyes off of it. Any chance that he can get, he's
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  going to be somewhere watching that thing.
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  OK. Are you what are you doing with
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  the ongoing repairs of? That will probably be one of the
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  only two times. That and sleeping.
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  He'll go back to routinely check to make sure they're not
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  touching things they should not be on Ranger, because they
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  better not touch his robot in the wrong ways.
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  Where on the doll did they touch the robot?
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  Exactly. So what does Ranger look like
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  now? It's it's it's it's had some
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  time to get better. I'm assuming it's not as
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  derelict as it was before. Yeah, after some convincing and
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  probably at least one repair tech that he punched for
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  touching too much, all of the sheet metal that he was using to
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  repair parts that he did not have actual armor for has been
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  removed and fully welded with higher quality materials.
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  He refused to let them do a fully new paint job, but he let
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  them touch up. So the left leg is still blue,
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  the yellow right arm. But now he's also had them add
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  three more colors because I definitely only told you 2 when
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  I was talking to you about it, but I realized there are three.
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  So the left arm is going to be red.
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  The right leg will be pink and then there's going to be a
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  mixture of black and green on the torso.
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  Nice. So yeah, you're just sort of
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  probably having breakfast, I assume at this point, just
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  watching this weird hole. Yeah, does it?
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  Are we still in the train? I feel like you've probably just
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  like set up camp, like you're it's probably nearby, but I I
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  don't think the train went right up to it.
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  You just sort of stopped at whatever freight yard and moved
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  all your shit to the hole are. Also our asters set up.
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  In the game, yeah, You've got everything there, OK.
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  He's definitely got Ranger set up off away from the camp a
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  little bit on a hill or something with enough view of
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  the city, and he's got the leg open on the.
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  The tent. And everything opened up and
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  he's just got his whole setup out and he's sitting next to a
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  campfire talking to. Nothing.
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  That's crazy. OK.
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  Or at least it looks at first, like nothing.
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  So this is the scene that Rex and Cordelia a walk up on.
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  I assume it's pretty easy to find him.
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  You just look for the giant green dragon robot and then he's
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  usually within hands reach of that.
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  So yeah, you go looking for him and you find him.
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  He's just sitting there, probably eating breakfast and
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  having a. Conversation with himself there
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  would be a noticeable thing potentially with that.
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  OK. There's a shimmer in the air
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  next to him. Right now it just looks like the
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  air next to him has just like a color tint like on ATV almost.
• 23:23
  This one is blue. All right.
• 23:29
  Do we do we leave him to finish his conversation?
• 23:32
  I don't know, it feels private and perhaps like we're
• 23:39
  intruding, but I'll be so honest, it always feels like
• 23:43
  we're intruding when we're talking to him.
• 23:45
  I was about to say, this probably is a pretty regular
• 23:47
  thing. Like he, it feels like whenever
• 23:49
  you're not actively having a conversation with him, he's
• 23:51
  probably talking to something. Yeah.
• 23:54
  Truly must. Are we sure he's actually a
• 23:57
  Ranger and not just some crazy guy from a different dimension
• 24:01
  who took a robot? I am not sure about anything at
• 24:07
  this point about our reality or his reality or if he's just a
• 24:12
  schizophrenic man that found a robot.
• 24:15
  OK. Let's go break the proverbial
• 24:22
  ice and Rex is just going to walk over and pat Declan on the
• 24:28
  shoulder and be like hey dude, sorry to interrupt your
• 24:33
  conversation with nothing. Oh no, no worries, no worries.
• 24:38
  And as he says that, it vanishes next to him.
• 24:43
  Cordelia makes a little note of that.
• 24:45
  I'm not even going to read into that.
• 24:47
  Yeah, Cordelia's not going to ask, but she did notice the
• 24:53
  change. How are you doing?
• 24:57
  Any noticeable changes? With the whole no.
• 25:00
  Well, I assume the hole hasn't changed.
• 25:03
  Yep, nothing has changed since we found there.
• 25:05
  No, no changes. It's still just sitting there.
• 25:11
  OK me, me and me and Cordelia have have questions about this
• 25:19
  hole. Yeah, sure.
• 25:21
  Do you want to snack? And he literally only has Mres.
• 25:26
  Oh, no, that's OK. Thank you.
• 25:28
  We've we've eaten. Yeah, we we ate before we came.
• 25:33
  I'm sorry we didn't bring you anything.
• 25:35
  Oh, they did. I asked for this.
• 25:38
  Oh, oh, oh, oh, I am so. Sorry, this man generates his
• 25:45
  lethal. I cannot imagine that Cordy.
• 25:49
  Wants an Astor. Close man.
• 25:52
  Astor powered, am I right? OK, I don't know how we're going
• 25:58
  to smoothly transition into this conversation, so we'll I'll just
• 26:02
  send it. Let's just go for it.
• 26:04
  Yeah. Does does the portal whole
• 26:10
  portal thing have any temporal effects on?
• 26:13
  Dreams. Like can it?
• 26:14
  Can it make you have weird dreams?
• 26:18
  And it was definitely a dream and not a weird reality shift or
• 26:22
  anything like that. It was a dream.
• 26:24
  I was asleep. Did I notice any effects before
• 26:27
  I came through the one on my end?
• 26:32
  Nope, nothing on my end. I mean, I found the energy
• 26:36
  seeping into the grid and basically chased it right away.
• 26:41
  And then, you know, fight, fight, fall, fight wrecks.
• 26:46
  Met you guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 26:50
  Mm hmm. Lean over to to cartilage.
• 26:55
  Have you guys been having? No, no, no, no, no.
• 26:59
  No. No, no lino.
• 27:02
  What's causing it's? A very specific question for you
• 27:07
  to not have had something happen.
• 27:09
  We, we just want, we're just curious.
• 27:12
  Is that a sign something's happening with this one?
• 27:15
  No. More just we're curious about
• 27:20
  anything that anyone might. Be experienced with these holes
• 27:23
  and we do. Did Rex talk to Declan about his
• 27:27
  little friend? I told him briefly that I have.
• 27:31
  I'm going to say it's been a month.
• 27:33
  I believe we. I believe he did.
• 27:34
  No, because he's trying to have Hoopa get you a whole.
• 27:38
  Home. Yeah, I'm going to lean into
• 27:40
  Cordelia and be like, do I speak to Hoopa about this?
• 27:43
  Why didn't we think of that earlier?
• 27:45
  Shit, yes. And then but you you just keep
• 27:49
  Declan occupied for like 45 seconds.
• 27:53
  Yeah, you got it. You.
• 27:54
  Got it. And then?
• 27:55
  So how are you adjusting to life here in?
• 28:01
  In Rex is just going to be like Hoopa.
• 28:09
  You've been through a big change recently, yes?
• 28:15
  Why are we having these weird deep dreams dude?
• 28:17
  What dreams? The the one last night where we
• 28:21
  were in in a factory and I had 7 arms and then we killed all
• 28:25
  these shadowed mink life and then we we pulled home and I was
• 28:28
  laying in bed and and then I woke up and I felt amazing.
• 28:32
  Niall Romy Deer Hooper dies. Oh shit, +30 shit.
• 28:38
  Hooper dies. Holy shit.
• 28:41
  I know it must have been a big adjustment.
• 28:44
  I mean, I'm obviously still getting used to not fighting all
• 28:48
  the time. 11:00 So that was a talk role from Hoopa that wasn't
• 28:57
  anything. That's nothing to worry about.
• 28:59
  You saying there's nothing to worry about makes me worry about
• 29:01
  it, Hoopa I. Don't know.
• 29:05
  What you're talking about, you're still looking, you're met
• 29:08
  physical. I understand.
• 29:13
  As somebody who's recently left an active war zone, I do
• 29:15
  understand it is a lot. I guess it is very similar,
• 29:20
  yeah. Do you know anything about
• 29:23
  Cordelia's dream where a guy called Slick gave her a weird
• 29:27
  coin? I.
• 29:28
  Don't know what that's about do. You know anything I.
• 29:32
  Know what you know. I can't.
• 29:35
  Learn things while I'm here, can I?
• 29:37
  I don't fucking know. You're a God.
• 29:39
  I'm. I'm just a human being with you
• 29:42
  in my head. And the hard drive.
• 29:44
  Weird, right? Yeah, very weird.
• 29:48
  It's so weird when Rex talks to himself.
• 29:51
  Yeah, he does that a lot. But I've also I've noticed
• 29:54
  though Declan and not to be rude but you also seem to talk to
• 29:58
  yourself quite a bit and I'm not sure if it's just like a war
• 30:00
  hero thing or. Wait, I thought ACE was the war,
• 30:06
  no? Cordelia just stares off into
• 30:09
  the middle distance. Rex comes out of his
• 30:12
  conversation with Hooper and just like.
• 30:16
  The fuck? I I imagine, I imagine there's
• 30:25
  probably a radio somewhere nearby, right?
• 30:28
  I I imagine the the camp probably has a radio.
• 30:31
  Oh, Declan has one? If not, it's on at all times.
• 30:36
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I mean.
• 30:38
  You you hear over the radio that today is the Medal of Honor
• 30:42
  ceremony at the Washington Memorial for the Hero of the
• 30:47
  Pacific, Ace Randolph. The hero of the fucking Pacific,
• 30:51
  my ass. OK, I was just making a show,
• 30:55
  Cornelia von What kind of time it was there?
• 31:02
  Did you plan this, Declan? Did You Know?
• 31:06
  Yes, I planned the world. I didn't.
• 31:11
  Know actually leans back into Cordelia.
• 31:14
  Hoopa knows fucking nothing. Well, I think he's something.
• 31:18
  He's lies. He's he's stuck in your head.
• 31:21
  He. Can't wait.
• 31:23
  I think he knows more than he's letting on.
• 31:25
  I think he's maybe lying. You know you're sitting at a
• 31:29
  campfire with me. Right.
• 31:31
  And I'm whispering, whispering whisper.
• 31:37
  Quieter. As we're having this
• 31:52
  conversation, we zoom out and we whisk across the country and we
• 31:56
  see Ace standing like at the at these Parade grounds next to
• 32:05
  General Finch. And Finch's just sort of has his
• 32:08
  hand on Ace's back and goes. You ready for today's son?
• 32:13
  I think Ace takes a breath in and exhales and says General.
• 32:18
  I've been looking forward to this day since getting on the
• 32:22
  trail. You've done you've done a real
• 32:26
  bang up job. Sales of war bonds are up 60%.
• 32:31
  People love you all across the country.
• 32:33
  We've got more people trying to get interviews with you.
• 32:36
  You're you're a real people person, Ace.
• 32:39
  What can I say when when you're passionate about something, I
• 32:43
  guess it just comes naturally. Yeah, you ready to get out
• 32:48
  there? And he hands you a sheet of
• 32:49
  paper with your speech on it. He goes.
• 32:51
  Knock him dead, son. Oh.
• 32:52
  I'll be doing something all right.
• 33:30
  The. Ace, you walk up and there's
• 33:40
  this roaring crowd on the Washington Monument ready to
• 33:43
  hear your speech and be I assume, I assume the president
• 33:48
  gives out Medal of Honor. I think so.
• 33:50
  To be or no, probably just General Finch.
• 33:52
  We'll just have General Finch give out, give you the medal.
• 33:54
  All right. Sure.
• 33:55
  So he walks out with you and he's got the little box with the
• 33:57
  medal in it and he's lets you he he steps up to the mic.
• 34:01
  And ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor a very brave
• 34:07
  man. You've probably heard him all
• 34:09
  over the news and radio and TV ads and even in your cinemas.
• 34:16
  Ladies and gentlemen, a man who needs no more introduction, Mr.
• 34:20
  Ace Randolph, the pilot of Hyperia, and just roaring crowds
• 34:25
  as he steps aside. So Ace once again takes a a deep
• 34:31
  breath in under his breath. He he says the like the go
• 34:38
  phrase for Hyperion Adase Goghisti.
• 34:42
  And as there's like a surge of kind of green fluorescent energy
• 34:47
  that flows through him. Ace looks out to the crowd and
• 34:51
  he starts a speech. Ladies and gentlemen of the
• 34:55
  United States of America, thank you for your time today.
• 34:58
  My name is Jack Ace Randolph, the 5th hero of the Pacific
• 35:03
  Theater and astropilot of the great Hyperion.
• 35:06
  I want to thank General Finch and the rest of the military for
• 35:09
  allowing me to speak in front of you today.
• 35:11
  There are two things that I've realized are the most important
• 35:14
  things in life after my time on the front lines.
• 35:17
  Thanks and honesty. And I need to apologize because
• 35:23
  I have not been honest with you over these past few weeks.
• 35:27
  I need to thank the real people that I was partnered with, whom
• 35:31
  without I would certainly not be alive, my asked a partner, Rex
• 35:35
  Buchanan, and by commanding officer Captain Cordelia
• 35:39
  Cunningham, as well as the grand strategist of the Japanese
• 35:43
  Pacific Resistance, Lizette Sakamoto.
• 35:46
  Ice House Heartbreaker. Not only did I only see them all
• 35:50
  twice in the Pacific, I really can't stand either of them.
• 35:54
  Gary is a blowhard who can't stand being in someone's shadow,
• 35:57
  and Eunice is A2 faced person who will drop you.
• 36:00
  The moment is convenient for her.
• 36:02
  So for that I apologize to you here and now in full.
• 36:07
  I'm not a perfect human being, I've killed several people in my
• 36:10
  short time on the front lines. But one thing I will not do is
• 36:14
  stand before you and lie to my country, besmirching the names
• 36:17
  of the people who I hold dearest in my heart and in the name of
• 36:21
  honesty. I will no longer stand for the
• 36:23
  military using the likeness of myself and other Astropilots to
• 36:27
  use our harrowing experiences as an advertisement to commit
• 36:30
  domestic atrocities. The enemy we're fighting is
• 36:33
  real, and it is terrifying, but that does not mean to go as far
• 36:37
  as what they're doing to us today.
• 36:39
  They are interning our own people, rounding them up and
• 36:42
  treating them worse than livestock, all because they look
• 36:44
  different than you and I. And that is something that I
• 36:47
  simply cannot, in good faith, allow it to happen.
• 36:50
  I say this to all of you, my fellow countrymen and women,
• 36:53
  knowing full well that at best, I will be dishonorably
• 36:56
  discharged and barred from ever seeing the people I love the
• 36:59
  most. At worst, they'll throw me in
• 37:01
  the deepest and most recessed jail cell they can find before
• 37:04
  either killing me outright or leaving me to rot.
• 37:07
  But that is a risk that I take because I know that the truth is
• 37:10
  out there and can no longer be put back.
• 37:13
  They will do everything they can to make you forget what you've
• 37:16
  heard today. But I know that just as the
• 37:18
  forest survives after a wildfire, then my words will
• 37:21
  always be remembered. Thank you, and May God have
• 37:25
  mercy on my soul. And as soon as Ace says that, he
• 37:28
  kicks off the ground and tries to transform into Hyperion and
• 37:32
  just book it the fuck out of there.
• 37:52
  So as you, I think as you're having this speech, you sort of
• 37:58
  dawn that it sort of dawns on you that there's a lot of
• 38:02
  military police around you now. Like they, they, they've been
• 38:06
  gathering on the edges of the stage.
• 38:07
  And as soon as you've like, finished up your speech, they
• 38:11
  rush you. Yeah.
• 38:13
  Roll. Let's make a roll.
• 38:14
  Let's do, let's call it weather the storm plus, oh, actually
• 38:21
  your choice of which of those pluses.
• 38:23
  How do you think he's going to get out of that Defy nowhere
• 38:25
  sense? I think it's going to there
• 38:29
  there. Could be a good argument.
• 38:30
  For any of them, I think, honestly, I think this is going
• 38:34
  to be a defy just because Ace is like going against like
• 38:38
  everything that he's been programmed to do for years.
• 38:42
  And so I think he's just acting. I don't even think he's acting
• 38:46
  consciously. I think he's letting Hyperion
• 38:49
  take the reins and get him out of there.
• 38:53
  OK, that's what I needed. That is a natural 12 + 214.
• 38:59
  So you, as you, as you're finishing up, you feel this
• 39:04
  heavy strong hand laying on your shoulder of the general.
• 39:09
  And he sort of pulls you back and he tries to push you into
• 39:12
  the military police as he takes the takes the microphone and
• 39:17
  starts trying to get control of the now silent crowd.
• 39:21
  And as he pushes you, you trigger this transformation and
• 39:25
  you grow into Hyperion, which I don't think we've seen the new
• 39:29
  Hyperion, have we? I think this is the first time
• 39:31
  you're you're breaking it out. In public, Yeah, yeah.
• 39:35
  So what? What does Hyperion look like
• 39:36
  now? So just to remind everybody,
• 39:39
  instead of this, this very thin kind of Adien mech, we see a
• 39:46
  much a much thicker, much more defensive like I, I think the
• 39:51
  way that I described it was those like those old clay
• 39:54
  statues of like like the fertility goddess.
• 39:58
  So just very much like built for defense as opposed to attack.
• 40:03
  But I think the way that Ace wanted this to be done was.
• 40:09
  Almost to sacrifice some of this defense to like, have more of a
• 40:13
  hollow interior so that when Ace turns on The Jets and tries to
• 40:18
  fly away, he can outrun anybody coming after him.
• 40:24
  OK, so yeah, you you grow. And how are you you, you rolled
• 40:30
  a 14. So I I feel like you can
• 40:32
  probably get away at least from this first part.
• 40:36
  How are you getting away from the stage and dealing with these
• 40:40
  MPs as Hyperion? As General Finch kind of pushes
• 40:44
  me back into the awaiting arms of this squadron of police, I
• 40:49
  think you just see this like wood, like wood and metal and
• 40:55
  just burst out of the hard drive.
• 40:58
  And I think it throws everybody back for just long enough for
• 41:02
  Ace to jump in the air and engage the the jet packs that he
• 41:07
  had been like waiting on. And I think he just flies over
• 41:12
  the crowd towards the West as fast as he can go.
• 41:17
  OK. Let's see, let's make one more
• 41:21
  roll. I think there's probably was a
• 41:23
  couple other Astors there, like as just a show of force
• 41:27
  situation. They chase after you.
• 41:30
  How are you going to evade, fight back, disable them?
• 41:36
  How, How are you going to handle these two other American Astros?
• 41:40
  So I think once Ace has like a second, he's going to engage the
• 41:46
  chameleon cloak. Oh, OK.
• 41:49
  And he's, he's just going to try and like maneuver through the
• 41:55
  streets of Washington, DC long enough to where they lose him so
• 41:59
  that he can get out of the city. OK, let's let's let's roll
• 42:03
  another weather the storm, but for using the the chameleon
• 42:07
  cloak. Let's give you the driller have
• 42:09
  confidence or advantage. Let me take advantage.
• 42:13
  OK, so that's three D6 and you take the highest too?
• 42:16
  All right, let's see what happens.
• 42:18
  All right, I am glad I did that because that goes to.
• 42:22
  Do I add anything to that? I'd be you're either you're defy
• 42:26
  or your sense. I feel like there's a good
• 42:29
  knowledge for each of those. Probably sense, I'd say.
• 42:32
  This makes more sense to be sense, and that is an 11A dirty
• 42:36
  11. OK, yeah.
• 42:38
  So you, it's, it's a narrow escape.
• 42:41
  You manage to find your way out of the city.
• 42:45
  Going down these streets. You don't you?
• 42:46
  You managed to avoid cars and people don't know it.
• 42:50
  Like they feel like there's something there, but they can't
• 42:52
  see you 'cause you're invisible. And I think so.
• 42:55
  Ace certainly has a place in mind that he wants to go and
• 43:00
  kind of hide out, should he be able to to do so.
• 43:05
  And so I think Ace is just trying to make a beeline,
• 43:08
  honest. Hang on, I had a map pulled up
• 43:12
  and now I'm gonna pull that up again.
• 43:13
  I should have just kept it open. So from Washington DC, he's
• 43:18
  basically making a beeline straight West.
• 43:22
  OK, to I assume a forest? Yes, and that is where the the
• 43:28
  latitude and longitude coordinates that I put in come
• 43:31
  into place or come into play. It is a It is an area in the
• 43:36
  middle of nowhere in the Monongahela National Forest in
• 43:41
  West Virginia. We we see Ace getting out and
• 43:56
  escaping to this forest, into the mountains and flashing back
• 44:01
  to the camp. There's chaos.
• 44:06
  The the news reporters that were covering the ceremony on the
• 44:09
  radio don't know how to take it. You guys heard everything that
• 44:13
  happened. I told you this was going to end
• 44:16
  badly. Yeah, well now we have to
• 44:18
  fucking forgive him. Shit son of a bitch.
• 44:20
  He's not getting away without wearing the fucking cat ears.
• 44:22
  This time though. I'm.
• 44:24
  Glad I'm I'm still going to punch him but.
• 44:25
  OK, punching him a side. What was he talking about?
• 44:29
  They're rounding up your own people.
• 44:31
  Oh. Yeah, they, they've rounded the
• 44:35
  Japanese people as like less than human, basically.
• 44:41
  Isn't that what you? Described to me that the bad
• 44:44
  guys are doing. Yes, the irony is not lost on
• 44:47
  either of us. I'm British, man, the American
• 44:51
  politics have nothing to do with me.
• 44:55
  You can't pretend things to find and nothing's wrong.
• 44:59
  Make make make me love you more. It should be the opposite, but
• 45:08
  it's keeping score. Don't.
• 45:17
  Look back, my heart beats me and it comes true.
• 45:25
  Like you would act like I'm nine years long.
• 45:27
  Look back All I play in this game, it's so fun when people
• 45:31
  play. This.