Midnight Burger - Chapter 52: Old Friends

Episode Date: May 12, 2026

"And then there's you..."Cast:Ava - Finlay StevensonMarguerite - Lauren LeblancEx - Camille SmickerCaspar - Joe FisherLeif - Tom MoormanPhilomena - Amber DekkersEffie - Julie Cowden-StarbirdZebulon - Neal StarbirdDavid - Quintin Jones, Jr.Kazi - Jessica Morris Written by Joe FisherDirected and Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay StevensonEpisode art by WhisperdanMusic:Torna a Surriento (The Return to Sorrento) - G. Paghara; Ernesto de Curtis, Pref. by Giovanni MartinelliPirate Song by Reinald Werrenrath; Robert Louis Stevenson; Henry F. GilbertFrom the Land of the Sky-Blue Water by Fritz Kreisler; Cadman; Kreisler; Carl LamsonSubscribe for early access, ad free episodes, additional content and more!Subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/midnightburgerSubscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/midnight-burger/id1537653218How about some merch? https://www.midnightburgermerch.comRead and search Scripts with PodScripts: https://podscripts.app/Explore the Midnight Burger Wiki: https://wiki.weopenatsix.com/wiki/Main_PageFor more information on our show, visit our website: https://www.weopenatsix.comFind and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partnersSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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A new season of Rattled and Shook is available now wherever you get your podcasts. Previously on Midnight Burger, there's a guy named Casper and he's got a lot of friends. Hey, Phil, I didn't mean to come here. I know it's very strange, but to get out of your life, I'm going to need your help. Yes, that's right, folks. Casper is somewhere out there in the multiverse, doing what he does best, which is, of course, get people much smarter than he is to get him out of the jam he put himself in. I need your help. Help with what?

I need you to help me make a motorboat. He's trying to get back to Cryptesia, where David is. I brought you balloons. Also, Effie the robot and Zebulon the ship. Also that weird lady who put that thing in his brain that one time. Hello, Casper. Take this fucking thing out of my head. No. Kazi, take this fucking thing out of my head. No.

Meanwhile, Croc's got a gun. What do you call it? I'm sure, as a responsible gun owner, Kroc only has this gun for self-defense. I'm in the diner. Eeps, now let's remember the rule of guns is that if you put a gun on stage in the first act, you can't fire it until at...

Eaps. Let's start the shift. I'm going to go ahead and put this in the cat. of bad. Do you feel comfortable with that? Okay, let's game this out. We have a big gun. It's being proposed that this big gun can destroy the diner, right? Let's consider for a moment all the things the diner has been through and not been destroyed.

A black hole one time, etc. What then could be made that would destroy it? destroy it. That's the question, right? It can't be a question of high-level energy because what has more energy than a black hole? Also, if it did have more energy than a black hole, it would rip apart basically everything as soon as it was fired, right? So then it must be something else. Some sort of Achilles heel. Yeah, I hear you, they could just be fooling themselves. She says she's going to destroy the diner, but what the hell does she know? I know. More data.

Hi. So, Jizinka, this big gun of yours. How does it work? New energy. New energy. Can you expand on that? No. Okay. So what phase of the testing are you in?

Efficacy testing is complete. It's complete. You know how it works? Correct. The diner is destroyed? No. How do you know it works? There have been several successful tests on targets in the testing field.

The testing field? What is that? My father has collected a field of test targets. Test. The other constructs? The ones scattered all around the castle? For an ample period of time, my father has been collecting similar targets and arranging them in the testing field. Oh. It is important to continue maintenance testing. I will test now.

That's okay. Just think, don't do this on my account. It's really fine. It is important to continue maintenance testing. I really take your word for it. Here is our current target. Fox. It is the most recent acquisition. Testing will identify deviations.

Maybe skip it, though. Please secure yourself for energy release. Energy release? Destroyed. It's gone. You destroyed it. As I said, the testing phase for the weapon has ended. What phase are you in now?

Targeting. The constructs in the targeting field do not. require acquisition in a targeting matrix. In order to destroy an extrasolar target, there will need to be complex targeting schemes. So how far along are you in testing the targeting? Testing is nearly complete. All that is required now is a target within range. What's your range? As soon as Midnight Burger is detected in the Cryptesia system, I will target the weapon and fire.

Fucking great. Any ideas, Carl? This is how you do it. Agreed. We've been flying wrong our whole lives. Incorrectly. We were supposed to be flying privately this whole time. We were.

Instead, we were flying publicly. I didn't realize how terrible it was until now. These seats are leather I may not be able to leave this plane Why would we leave? It's nicer than my house Can we get her to take the long way to wherever we're going? Where are we going? No idea Do we want to know? No idea

Good morning Hello Can I get you anything to drink? To drink Hmm How deep are we going into the lap of luxury here? Two mimosas, please. All right then No problem. Please look over these NDAs while you wait. Okay. NDAs. Guess it was just a matter of time.

Are we going to be asked to make weapons of mass destruction? It's possible. Okay. Do you know how to make a weapon of mass destruction? Because I have no idea. Why would I know? You're a physicist. Uh, we're both physicists. Right, but my physics is the stargazy physics,

and your physics is closer to the making things blow up physics. I guess I can figure it out. Great. And we're okay with that, morally? As long as we get to stay on the plane. So that was one of them, right? What? Herf, she's one of the Android things.

There's two of them, right? That was one of them? I think so. Wow. It's not as impressive as the leather seats, but it's nice work. Hey there. Well, well, well. Mr. Motorboat.

Everything all right? You guys are comfortable? So comfortable. I realize this is a rather unusual situation. We don't know what you mean. An Android just took our drink order and we're looking over these NDAs while we're being flown to an undisclosed location. And I'm like, God, again. Just another Tuesday.

Sure. I promise all will be explained to you. We can't wait for that explanation. We can't. Hey, Casper. Did you know I can get the internet on my phone? I've heard about that. I hear it's very popular.

When the most powerful woman on the planet tells you to get on a plane, you just kind of do it. It's obligatory. But then there's you. Right. And I was like, who's this guy? I get that a lot. The ex-husband of the most powerful woman on the planet. That's me.

Who walked into my office asking for a motorboat. Hmm, phrasing. Look, I realize that an android just took your drink order, and yet I'm really the odd one out on this plane. Because you teach middle school history and everyone else. on this plane can crush walnuts with their intellect? Something like that. Okay, two mimosa's. Fantastic.

We didn't read these NDAs, but we signed them anyway. Great. We're totally fine with whatever death ray laser you guys are building. That's great to know. Let me know if you need anything else. We will. Everything is so great, by the way. You're doing such a great job.

Thank you. How's your day going? You having a good day? I am. Thank you for asking. Of course. Could I get something to drink? Ma'am?

Robot ma'am? Could I have a beverage? You know what? I'll be right back. Seriously? What? You're hitting on the Android? I'm not hitting on the android.

How's your day going? Are you having a good day? That's not hitting on someone. So really something just needs to be shaped like a woman. Do you hit on the hula girls that truckers keep on their dashboard, too? Oh, those are pretty hot. Cheers, dummy. Cheers, dummy.

Hey, what's up? This is stupid. Why am I doing this? Why don't we just tell them everything? Well, we can't dump it all on them at once. We need to slowly introduce all of the completely ridiculous aspects of the story one at a time. Human beings are so slow. Don't complain to me about slowness.

Right before this, you were literally watching trees grow. Fine. We've got the NDA signed, which Philomena was really worried about. Now, I'm going to go talk to her, and we will get to the nitty-gritty of the situation, okay? Fine. Fine. I would just like to say you're a super-powerful android who can see through time and space, and you could totally tell us exactly what's going to happen and all of the right things to do,

but you're just not doing that, and I haven't complained about that at all. Spoilers. Casper. Oh, for fuck's sake. Yes. I've seen the numbers, and they don't make any sense. We're going to have to start the process over from the beginning. We calibrate the units and go back to square one.

I don't know how to solve this problem right now, and I don't have time. Set everything back to zero and wait for my go-ahead. Hi. Hi. What's going on? Important things? Yes. Things I wouldn't understand, I'm assuming.

I'm trying to bring back two and three. Two and three were zapped into a random place in the multiverse. Their minds were backed up to the mainframe on campus. I'm trying to load those minds. into new simulacrums, but some things not working. You can just reboot them into new bodies? Theoretically, I can, but some things not working. Would you like my two cents? Maybe I can solve the problem.

No, thank you. Are we ready to do this? As ready as we're ever going to be. You really think they're going to buy this? It's a thoroughly unbelievable story, but we've got pretty compelling evidence. And they're not going to just freak out and join a nunnery? Uh, those two joining a nunnery is actually a more unbelievable story than the one we're about to tell them. Fine. Let's go. Okay.

Hello. I'm Filomena. Hello. You have a lovely plane. Thank you. Will we all get one of these when it's Utopia? No. Another strike for Utopia. I've been asking around about you two.

Rut Row. That's almost never followed by something good. Did they talk about how good we? are at parties. Or would be if we ever went to them. If you talk to Professor Alyssa Keithley at Caltech, I don't know how the lab mice got out and she can't prove anything. I actually suffer from delayed onset childhood. You can look it up. I actually age backward, Benjamin Button style, but only mentally. Professor Maddox, you are working on something

so secretive that you write in an antiquated form of Dutch shorthand. And, Professor Sagnié, you are rumored to have a stack of notes on your kitchen table that you've never shown to anyone. Both of these projects are apparently revolutionary and would change the face of physics. Is that why you write in that shorthand? What's with the notes on your kitchen table? You first. You first. Wait, how do you know this?

I know this because Casper told me. Hi there. Mr. Motorboat? I really need that to not be my nickname. Is he your private investigator or something? He's not. I've been waiting until we were in the air to tell you this because I need you two to be a captive audience for a while. Now I'm uncomfortable. I am too. It's a new feeling. Ladies, here are a couple of tablets. There's going to be some data you're going to need to look at.

Okay. Sure. I'm going to make a phone call. Okay. Sure. Several calls in the past week. Maybe it really is the end times like. they're saying on all the wrong news channels. Hi there. How's it going? I'll be there.

You'll be there. David's Gallery thing. I'll be there. Oh, yeah? Yeah. It's on my calendar. I'll be there. Okay.

That's great. Okay. What do I do? Do I bring a gift to an art opening? I think you just wear a turtleneck and go for it. Okay, then. I'll see you there. I think this is really great, Phil.

Yeah. Yeah. I think so. Okay, I'll see you then. I'll see you then. But he's right there. Yes. So who were you talking to?

Him. I, uh... I need the two of you to use those very big brains of yours to zoom all the way out. A few days ago, this Casper showed up on my campus. I knew it wasn't my ex-husband, but I didn't know how it wasn't my ex-husband. long story short, we performed a scan of him with a spectrometer. That scan revealed that. At the molecular level, his body reflects light at a slightly different frequency than anyone on board this plane or this planet.

What does that mean, Dr. Sagniere? What that would mean that he's from a different universe? That data is on your tablets now. I'm from a different universe than yours. The motorboat I need you to build me is the vessel that's going to get me back to where I need to go without killing me. Is this data right? It's right.

Look, you're both very smart people, and I'm sure you're both thinking of all the ways that this can't be true. So, X is going to speed things along for us, okay? Don't freak out. How is she going to speed things along? I don't know. What is she going to speed things along?

going to do? I don't know. Oh, Mama. What? She's gone. I know. Where did she go? I don't know. Back now!

Shit! Here you go, Marguerite. What? This... A teddy bear? Do you want to tell Ava what that is? This can't... You...

wrote his name on the... tag, remember? I... This... this is August? Your mom accidentally gave him to goodwill, right? You... You found my teddy bear? From when I was a child? No, Marguerite. I didn't.

I went to a universe where you never lost it, and it was sitting in a box in the attic. I... Think. We would like more mimosas, please. One second. Eva, the research that Marguerite has on her kitchen table is research that confirms the big bounce theory. It confirms it?

In another universe, she shows this research to you. And when you combine her research with your research on a single point of null entropy in the universe, you leave your job and you go and find it. When you find it, that's when you meet me. From the beginning. Okay. Once upon a time, my son ran away from home. You know what the problem is, Carl? I'm not the save the day one.

I'm the one who gets some sort of weird idea and then someone else does the save the day thing. I'm a muse, Carl. I inspire people. But now, here we are, as soon as Jizinka figures out how to target that thing, and as soon as the diner gets back to Cryptesia, it's going to get blown to bits. And we, that's you and I, Carl, we have to figure out a way to stop it. There does not appear to be an off-switch, or a way to unvassed. plug it from the wall. And a cannon as long as a football field does not seem susceptible to

me spilling coffee on it. What's the biggest flaw with any scientific endeavor, Carl? I've told you this a million times. Us, humans, thinking people, our short-sightedness, our prejudices, our hubris. Jazeenka is the weak link here. Okay. Okay. Remember when I asked her why she was doing this? She said, it's what I do. And then I said, why? And then she said, I have answered your question. I met this guy at a conference one time named Danny Mars. Danny designed weapons. You see, Carl, if you get enough scientists in a room, it's in a room. It's in a inevitable that there will be a few who have shoes that are a little too nice, drive cars that are a little too fast, always buying drinks at the bar. Defense contractors. They're all over the place, but I remember Danny because he was a loud one, and he was a talker, could not shut up about what he did for a living, and he was completely oblivious to how much.

much he disgusted the other scientists who were all dedicating their lives to observing space rocks and studying mere cats or whatever. Danny stood there holding court at the bar while he described his crowning achievement. It's called a daisy cutter, apparently. It's a bomb. When you drop it, It doesn't explode when it hits the ground. It explodes right before it hits the ground. It's designed to leave the ground under it untouched while shredding all of the human beings standing on it. Cutting down the daisies.

Danny had apparently designed the next generation daisy cutter and talked at length about how much more efficiently his bomb massacres people. It was fascinating to listen to him talk because he could have been talking about anything. He could have been talking about a vegetable spiralizer, but he was talking about this. Late that night, one of the zoologists got a little drunk

and decided to lay into him and call him a murderer, made a whole scene. Danny just stood there While he got torn into by this lady And at the end of her diatribe against him He simply shrugged his shoulders And said, it's what I do Maybe Danny just needed something else to do, Carl

Wish me luck Oh, Jazeca When you say this thing uses new energy What do you mean by that? The weapon is powered by harvesting quantum vacuum fluctuations. You're... You're harvesting vacuum fluctuations? Yes.

Jesus fucking Christ. Okay. Um... Anyway. Hey. Have you ever wondered what else this technology can do? What else? Yeah.

Jizinka. An experience. Expansion of applications? Yes. I was asked to create the weapon. Right. Jizinka, do you ever have ideas come to you? In idle moments?

Maybe you had a weird dream or somebody says something and it sends you down a rabbit hole? What is a rabbit hole? It's a place where new information leads you. You get curious and you find your mind going to a different place. I am presented with problems and I orchestrate their solutions. Right. Want to mess around? Please define mess around.

What if I presented you with a problem and you came up with a solution? I am currently engaged. Sure, with the big gun. But what if the big gun was a dual purpose device? You're proposing multiple applications. What if your weapon could also be something else? Please define the problem to solve. Oh, I don't know.

The weapon can deliver energy. Can it also deliver information? Jizinka? Please define the data set. Oh, okay. Gee, I don't know. Let's start small. How about a simple audio record?

I can solve this problem. Oh, yeah? Yes. Great. I have the organism. The... Carl? I have the Carl.

Okay. Carl, you're up. Yes, dear. Everything all right? Yes. Dear, I believe so. All right. You seem to be wandering a bit about the ship, dear.

Our things, dear. Things? Any pressing matters at the moment? All continues apace. We've just disembarked a batch of the infirmed and are docked with the flagship, awaiting our next deployment. Any funny business of foot out there? Well, that's not the sort of thing I can check on from where I sit,

but I don't observe anything out of sorts at the moment. Dear, I do believe I'm having a notion. Really? I believe so. Been a while, dear. It has. My notions have a propensity to begin in my knees, and as you know, dear, these knees are not my own.

They are not. They are, in fact, knees of eyes. made in some sort of foundry. And yet, I am having a notion. Perhaps these new legs of yours are not unlike the legs of a foal. Awkward and stumbling at first, but once given the chance can break into a run. Indeed.

Where's David? I'm unsure. David. May we have a word. Hey, y'all. What's up? David, what's the present state of your duties? My duties. My duties are complete. I was about to go have some dinner. What's going on? Effie?

David, come on down to the ship. I'm having a notion. A what? A notion, David. I don't know what that means. David. Effie has, throughout our lives, had a bit of a notion now and then about things. You guys keep saying notion like it's going to suddenly become clear to me?

David, I am getting dangerously close to repeating myself. Do I have to repeat myself? Okay. Geez, I'll be right there. What's it to be, dear? Put some coal in the engine, dear. I believe we'll set out and follow my knees around for a bit. I'll get the pistons firing, dear.

How do you think they're doing? They seem to be doing fine. How could they possibly be doing fine? I'm not doing fine. I can tell. Ava gets this look in her eyes when she's suddenly not bored anymore. Does she? Yeah.

I don't want them stepping off this plane and making a call to the New York Times. They signed the NDAs. Yes, because nobody's broken. an indiae before. I don't understand what you're worried about. I'm worried about my life's work, Casper. I've been building Imelda and Scott for my entire life. If it gets derailed because of this plan, I will be nonplussed to say the least. Oh, you'll be nonplussed. So you're running a goofy errand for a minute. That's not going to suddenly get people to change their mind about utopia. Yes, it will. What are you talking about? There's a particular psychology around changing the

World Casper. How's so? I want you to watch something. Okay. Take my phone. Look at that. This lion was kept in a cage all its life. We set it free.

What happens next will shock you. Are you sure it's going to shock me? Click it. Okay. Now, I want you to watch that lion. Look at the look on its face. The side of its cage opens, and suddenly it sees a big, wide, beautiful world. What does it do?

It coweres in the corner. Right. A better world is about six feet away, but it has no idea what a better world is. It has no idea there was even the possibility of endless grasslands and a big blue sky. And because it can't imagine that better world, that better world becomes terrifying. People are the same way. They'll look for any excuse they can to stick with the thing they know, even if the thing they know is killing them.

I've almost got them at the edge of the cage, Casper. One wrong move, and they'll retreat back into the darkness. And if you don't believe me, keep in mind that the electric car was invented in 1884. I can actually find miniature models earlier than that. You can go back to... Casper! Sorry. So, I'm sure you can imagine if news broke that I was going on a top-secret mission to create a trans-dimensional motorboat,

that people would be scared back into the corner of the cage. I understand. Turns out that video did shock me. Okay, I'll go check on them. Make sure they're going to be all right. Thank you. Hey, what was that thing you were talking to other me about? A gallery opening?

has a showing at a gallery in Baltimore. That's great. You're going to go? Yes. I think that's great. How do you have a gallery showing when you're a street artist? I have no idea. Okay, I'm going. Hey, what did you say you named your company?

I already did this with one, Casper. I'm not doing it with another. Emelda and Scott. Yes. Your hamster. Yes. From when you were eight years old. Yes.

Is the name of your international corporation? In the early days, investors felt more comfortable if I implied I had a part. So you just put the name of your hamster in the company name? Yes. That's going to be amazing for historians a hundred years from now. I am now done talking to you. Okay, okay. So you're the motorboat?

I'm the motor. We need the boat. It was a much simpler world just a few minutes ago. It was. I know how you feel. How? Well, I used to be a pro- programmed robot. But then, something happened to me and I had to spend several decades at the

bottom of a river in Kentucky putting myself back together again. Sure. I have a question. Thank God. What are you doing here? Me? You can travel through space, time, and dimension, and you're just hanging out with us humans? Yeah. Why? Why? Well, what? Well, I pulled myself out of that river and part of freeing my mind was knowing how powerful I was. But I didn't know what any of that meant. I had to figure that out. I had to figure out, I had to figure a lot of things out. And the first person I thought to talk to was Casper.

Hey guys, did you know that Filomena named her world-changing company after her hamster? This guy. Casper, I have a question. Okay. When you walked into Ava's office, you knew both of us. How did you know me? Oh, right. Yeah, I skipped that part.

At a certain point, we ran into a time-traveling dimension-spanning movie theater, and you were there. I was there? Yeah, you and Polly Jean. Polly Jean. Polly Jean wife of the dean? Yeah. What was she doing there? They were together.

What? What? Yeah, they were secretly together, and then the dean found out, and that's how Marguerite lost her job. That's crazy. It's so, so crazy. Yeah. You guys actually got married at the diner. What?

What? Are you eating Moghery's mine right now? Yeah. So she, uh... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Could I have a moment alone with my colleague, please?

Sure. Sure. Can I get you guys anything? Could I have nine shots of vodka, please? Sure. It's so crazy how different these alternate realities are from our own. isn't it? I wonder if in one of these realities you actually tell me things. I was going to tell you. Uh-huh. And then I didn't do that. Correct. Married?

So, while I'm reeling from the fact that you're sleeping with the dean's wife, and you're reeling from the fact that you actually committed to a relationship, can we talk about the other thing? There's another thing? The big bounce theory? Oh, right. I guess I figured it out. You guess? Ava, I got a stack of notebooks on my kitchen table that I thought was mostly me riffing, but apparently I nailed it.

You didn't think you might be on to something? Of course I didn't. I had little monsters. doodled in the margins. I didn't think I was about to blow the doors off of astrophysics. What about you? What is this point of null entropy thing? A diner, apparently. Huh. Look at us. Eat our dust, Vera Rubin. So...

So... Motorboat. Right. How do we do that? I've got some ideas. Oh, thank God. Why the keyboard? I'm sure you could have invented a better way to communicate. The sound of the keys is comforting.

In addition, speech holds too many variables. The meaning of a word can change with tone and inflection. I cannot understand it. With the keyboard, I cannot be misunderstood. I see. Jizinka, you said that this weapon is powered with new energy? Yes. By harvesting quantum vacuum fluctuation?

Yes. Do you know what that is? Energy generated spontaneously in a void. Yes. Even in the widest voids in the universe, there's activity. Energy spontaneously bubbles up and dissipates again in the blink of an eye. That energy isn't supposed to be harvested, Jazeinka. That energy is supposed to be allowed to return to nothing again. I don't know what happens if that new energy is unleashed into the universe. There might be serious ramifications.

There is a relationship between the proposed targets and the given energy in the universe. It appears immune to influence. I theorized that new energy introduced into the universe would be an effective agent against the proposed targets. My theory was correct. There are some things that you just don't fuck with, Jesus. Zinka? If something can be made, there is a compulsion to make it. I understand that compulsion.

You have asked me to add a data delivery subroutine to my weapon. I am now adding it. I am compelled to. I know. If a thing can be made, I am compelled to make this thing. Are you saying that there are things that should not be made? Yes, I am. How do you know which things should be made? and which things shouldn't.

You've made a very destructive weapon. Do you understand how that could be a bad thing? Destruction is everywhere. The weapon is only a small part of that. Why is the destruction created by the weapon different from the destruction that occurs due to other sources? Because you're choosing to make it. Choosing to make a destructive weapon

is not the same as a solar flare wiping out your planet. But I make things. Make other things. When I am asked to make things, I must know if they can be made. I know. I understand this feeling, too. I get it.

I become disturbed if I cannot know. I know. Where does this feeling come from? I don't know. The target you are trying to destroy. There are people who live there. Do you understand that you'll destroy them too? They have been asked to leave.

They're still there. Why will they not leave a place that is marked for destruction? Why won't you choose to not destroy it? To vacate the target is a simple choice. Can you understand what it's like for them? Right. Empathies. not really your thing, is it?

What is that? Jazeenka? Target has been detected. Quadrant 3. Shit. Beginning targeting sequence. How long does the targeting sequence take? Unclear. This will be the alpha test of the targeting procedure.

Any chance it takes more than 12 hours? Unlakely. Shit. Okay Here we are There's nothing here Where are we Humboldt County

What are we doing here We need somebody to design the motorboat, right? You're sure this is the guy Well, you wanted an unconventional choice for an engineer This is definitely the guy Why have I never heard of him? You don't want a guy you've heard of

You want a guy you've never heard of Do you have any idea how complex this project Is going to be? You've got to trust me, he's the right guy I don't like nature I don't like leaving the plane We like the plane. Trust me.

Leif? Leif, you're out there? I know you saw the plane land, man. Come on. In his defense, this is exactly where I imagine engineers living. He's here. Just give him a minute. Leaf, you don't know me, but I swear to God, you really want to talk to me.

Come on, man. Okay, I'm going to go a little deeper into the woods. Do you need breadcrumbs? A ball of twine? I'm fine. I never knew my father, but I don't imagine he would go through this much trouble to get back to me. My dad would if it was an excuse to use the RV. I mean, since it's just as girls, he's got all sorts of reasons to get back there.

Like what? I probably shouldn't say. Eva gets this look in her eyes when she's suddenly not bored anymore. He said that to me on the plane. Hello. What does that mean? You don't know what that means? No.

Anybody want to help her out? You'll have to forgive her, Filomena. She doesn't yet understand human beings. Girl, me too. Especially the male ones. Neither do you, dude. They may not be my thing, but that doesn't mean I haven't left a trail of broken man hearts behind me.

You don't know what that means. When a man notices something like that about you? I've been focusing on other things. He hasn't. Did you guys have to use those crazy 90s in college? Oh, yeah. I remember those. We called ours Mick and Jagger.

Ours was Dances with Burritos. What is it? You load your data into this huge machine, and you wait for hours to hear back if your numbers are all wrong. And you just wasted the last six months of your life. I mentioned this in passing on date number two with the other, Casper. He somehow makes it to date number three, and he brings me a jigsaw puzzle.

So I'll have something to do while I wait for my data to come back. That's not bad. Isn't that kind of creepy, though? I can be. It's a fine line. So you're saying... Oh, stand back.

She's starting to get it. I'm uncomfortable. God damn it. Uh-oh. What happened? I should have brought breadcrum. I should go check. Get me out of this.

What the... Fuck, dude. I've been foamed. What happened? I was sprayed by some kind of foam, and it instantly hardened around me, and now I'm trapped in some sort of silicone chocolate sundae. I wonder who's responsible for this. Would you get me out of this, please? Hold still.

What the fuck? You look like grimace. What is this? Just another one of his goddamn things that he goddamn makes. There. Be free. It's all over my damn clothes. Leif.

Leif, get out here. man, come on. I've got more where that came from. Leif, no one knows that better than me. Come out here. Who are you? I'm Casper. We need your help.

We have to make a motorboat. A what? Wow. That is an amazing beard. He really went full Nordic fisherman. Philomena Scott? Hi. What the fuck is going on?

This will be fun to watch. Yeah, this was 24 hours ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. Okay. Okay, let me explain. I'm really getting explaining everything again, fatigue. Uh, how about you? Kind of.

You want to just do the thing? Okay. One moment, Leif. She'll just be a second. Really nice up here, aside from the foam. How are the winners? Islet us now? Where the fuck did she go?

Uh, y'all, we should stand back. X is really swinging for the fences on this one. Swinging for the fences, how? Oh my God. I didn't. Whoa. Motherfucker. You did it.

That was fun. Next time, Dodger Stadium. What the fuck is that? Leif, this is the Nancy Sinatra. What is it? It's your ship. What? So,

Oh, ho and a bottle or rum. Drink and the devil had done for the red. Yo, oh, ho, and a father. Go through that gateway down. Here I go, dear. So? So? Oh, what are we doing?

Just having a look-see. A look-see at what, Effie? Having a look-see. Okay. I was just thinking there's a war on. Never mind that now. Never mind the war? David.

Bit of patience, David. Uh-huh. This feels like the right track. Okay. See, the key to having patience is knowing what one. is being patient for. I've got a feeling, is all. A feeling.

Yes, David. A feeling. Okay. What does this feeling feel like, exactly? I got a feeling in my knees. In your knees. Yes. Your robotic knees? Oh dear. Well, they're the only knees I have at the moment, aren't they?

Have you considered an oil can? Have you considered me ten in your back sign? Anyone for a nice? game of checkers. Is this how it usually works, Zebulon? Effie gets a feeling and everybody takes off in a spaceship. Generally speaking, that is how we

comport ourselves, David. Okay. Well, this is a weird one, but it does get me out of orientation duty. Think we'll be back for karaoke tonight? I'm sure I don't know, you slayed Cotton Eye Joe the other night.

I do like that Cotton Eye Joe. You know, it's a important to do things like that, you know? Really takes the edge off in a time of war. David, I do realize that sojourns such as these make me seem a few bristle short of a broom. But just as it's important to sing a song or two with one's compatriots, it's also important to listen to one's knees from time to time. Stepping out of our routines creates opportunities for the angels, David.

Hey, fine. Let's follow some knees, y'all. We have emerged. Yes, all right. Let's drop anchor right here, husband. Slowing to a crawl. What now? We're gonna set ourselves down and wait. Fantastic. Anyone want to play Ice Spy? David.

There's no material in existence that can protect the human mind from the rigors of interdimensional travel. No, duh, dude. That's why we have to think about it in another way. What other way? It needs to make its own reality. Adaptive crystalline can do that if it's constructed correctly. I understand the concept.

But there's no way to build that. This is going nowhere again. This is good. This feels like home. Casper, it's been three days. Why are humans so slow? Hey, you love this. You love... Humans. Do I? Yes. You love traveling naturally through the time stream. I don't know about that.

You're tubing right now. You're in an inner tube floating down a lazy river. I'm making hot dogs. You're in an inner tube. All we need is a tire swing and a 12-pack of natural light and we're in business. Have you noticed how your attitude changes when you're around her? What are you talking about? does. That's not true. You're a little fuzzier than you usually are. Fuzzier? Yeah. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm grilling hot dogs. I'm never happier than when I'm grilling hot dogs. You know this about me, by the way, because you can read my mind. I'm trying not to do that right now. I'm trying to keep us on a level playing field. A level playing field. Yeah. You just chrisengeled a spaceship

into the forest. We're never going to be on a level playing field. But I'm trying. That's the important part. And so are the people inside the house. So just hang out in your inner tube for a while, okay? Okay.

We're breaking for the night. Again? Again. Are you getting anywhere in there? We are. It doesn't sound like you're getting anywhere. I know it doesn't sound like it, but we are. You're just yelling at each other.

This is how it works. Researchers pull one way. engineers pull the other, and the more they pull, the more they find a wide enough window of opportunity that they can both exist in. Leif is trying to pull them from the world of the possible into the world of the probable. That's all. I don't think you know them the way that I do. And I don't think you know project management the way that I do, because I am the successful international businesswoman, and you are the guy making the hot dogs. How dare you? Give me a hot dog. Here.

Thank you. I've got about a million text messages to return. I'll be on the plane. Hi, Mom. Hello, sweetie. She didn't have to add the last part about the hot dogs that was out of bounds. I know everybody's frustrated, but I've never made a thing before, and I'm having fun. Making a thing.

We have made exactly zero things so far. I know, but it's still fun. Good evening, ladies. Another day, another dollar? Who wants a hot dog? Yes, please. Do you have hot mustard yet? We do not have hot mustard yet.

What kind of hot dog stand is this? You know what? The free kind? The out of the kindness of my heart kind of hot dog stand. Fine. Give me the hot dog. X, we've decided to have a girl's night on the plane. Are you coming?

That sounds like fun. If Ava gets drunk enough, she'll do her James Chadwick impression. Who's that? He discovered the neutron. Most people do Christopher Rolkin, but whatever. Let's go. Okay. I'll be right there.

Thanks, hot dog man. Please come again. We're always open. This will be fun. I have an acted drunk since the yard. Why is she acting weird toward me? Who? Ava? Yeah, these past few days, she's been weird. It's a weird situation.

I know that woman. There are no weird situations for her. It's just weird. You know, weird. What did you do? What do you mean? You know what I mean. What did you do? Nothing. Now who's the mind reader?

It's not a big deal. What's not a big deal, Lex? I may have mentioned something when we first got here about, you know, the fuzziness. Why are you 12 years old? I'm not the only one who noticed. Just the only one who said something out loud. Casper, I'm going to tell you the thing that I've probably told you a million times. What?

Fucking relax! You ever get used to that? I'll let you know. Hot dog? Sure. Quite a week. Sure. A space pirate?

Oh yes. Oh yes. A pirate he. Huh. I finally had a look at that ship that is apparently mine. How's it look? Pretty impressive. Fusion Drive that small with that much output?

Did I build that? Uh, I don't think so. I think you told me that. That was made on a planet called Trusk. Trusk. Yeah. You have built something like that, though. It was a dark matter engine.

Dark matter? Yeah. You called it Uncle Rogue. Nice. Dark matter. Dark matter. There's a lot of stuff in there that... Who's Burtberg?

She's a friend of yours. She's from a planet. called Seagius. She's blue. Blue. Yeah. That engine can't get me to another planet. There's a network of warp gates all over the place.

Wow. Although those gates were built by a race called the Teds, and the Teds don't like it when Earthlings have breakthrough innovations. And they don't seem to have stopped Philomena. So. Maybe they're not out there in this universe. Huh. Who knows what's out there? Yeah.

You know, Leif X is probably going to have to send that ship back to where she found it. There's another version of you out there that might need it someday. Yeah. That's fine. I already made notes. Hey, Leif, don't build a spaceship and leave. of earth. Okay? Why?

Just don't. You're telling me not to do the coolest thing anyone has ever done. Yes. What a shitty thing to tell someone. How'd you end up out here? I was born here. You left, though. Why'd you come back? Mom passed away.

My dad finally made good on his threats and moved down to Paraguay. Paraguay? I don't know He said global collapse was coming And he was going to write it out in Paraguay Whatever Anyway, all this land was here And I was sick of making toys for rich assholes

So I moved in And it's just been you out here Yeah About 10 years now It's not so bad Nobody messes with you Leaf You're no good on your own

man. What do you mean? You are absolutely no good on your own. You get up to no good at all by yourself. That's not true. Leif, I haven't been inside that big workshop of yours over there, but I know for a fact that you've got several things in there that you should not, under any circumstances, be building. Right? They're for self-defense. No, they're not. I don't even know what they are, and I know they're not. How do you know? Leaf, do not build a spaceship and go to space. Or if you do, build a really big one.

One that can be full of people saying, hey, don't build that, dude. I know you know what I mean. You need people adding layers to your life, okay? Your Mick Fleetwood, okay? you need the full Fleetwood Mac experience. Fleetwood Mac hated each other. That was cocaine's fault. Layers.

Layers. Layers. Yes, layers. Layers. Why are we still saying layers? Layers. Layers. Oh! You're doing the thing where you have an idea.

Got it. What are you thinking? Layers. Go get the girls. I've got an idea. Now we're talking. Casper. Yeah. Am I happy? I mean, who's happy, man?

You're better. Okay. Let's get you home. I have given this much thought, and I now feel that I must speak. As we all know, final judgment waits for us all in that heavenly realm, but we here in this realm of flesh and blood must do our utmost. to strive towards a righteous and considered judgment of our peers while we all await the judgment of God.

And while I am but a man, it falls to me this day to eke out but a fraction of our Lord's wisdom. Which is why, after much deliberation, I say unto you that that, heinous murder was perpetrated by one Colonel Mustard in the dining hall with the candle stick. He's right. Gildern. That's three in a row.

May his punishment be tempered with mercy. Zebulon, you missed your calling. I'm going to get you a magnifying glass and a funny hat. Yo. Well, now, David, tell me more about this hat. Yo! What is it, dear? Effie?

Zebulon. Flip us around One moment There, right there Send us in that direction Nice and slow like Very well dear Nice and slow

Effie, what's happening Something's about to come a knocking I'm not easily impressed But this stuff is pretty impressive Thank you It just Locks into place This would take

years in a conventional shop. And it's just a cocktail of irradiated silicate. I don't understand any of this, but I feel like my contributions were essential. Your cosmic radiation numbers were very important, Marguerite. Gee, thanks, boss.

Congratulations, Marguerite. You're an engineer. Okay, don't tell Ava. Are you having flashbacks to the womb watching this? A little bit, yeah. You're going to have a Wonder Woman's airplane now. I can finally take the kids on a trip. Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon. Hey, you know that thing you're thinking about saying?

Yeah? You should say it. Really? Yeah. It's not too weird. It's totally weird, but you should say it. Okay. Here we go.

Hey. Hello. It's almost time for me to leave you. I hope we don't kill you. Me too. So, Can we have a moment of radical honesty between the two of us? Oh, I bet this will be great.

I would like to make a suggestion. I bet you would. There's a gallery opening in Baltimore. I think you should go. What? A gallery opening. Yeah, I heard you. What are you talking about?

You should go. Art is important. Why? It's for Philomena's son. Philomena's a friend of yours now. You should go check it out. You know, be that supportive person. Uh-huh.

Who else is going to be there? Many people, I'm sure. Anyone else of note that you would like to mention? Well, I don't know much about who's who in the art world. You're going to be there. I may be there. It's possible. I'm supportive.

I support people. Are you trying to set me up with you? I don't think I would frame it in that exact way. Uh, I think. No, thank you. Baltimore's lovely. No, thank you. Utopia's coming.

There's going to be a lot more art out there. You misrepresented yourself to me. I don't think that's true. There's a whole other side to your story that you were not telling me. There's not an etiquette book written that covers appropriate behavior for our specific situation. We do not have a situation. You know what I mean.

Baltimore, you should think about it. Give me one reason to go that benefits me and not this other version of you? I think there is one very important thing that the two of you have in common. What? He also thinks that everything you say is amazing. And we are complete.

Casper, come look. Okay, here we go. Let's see our ship. What do you think? It's a box. It is. It's a glass box. It's a cube.

It's actually several complex layers of functionality. About 7,500. layers, as a matter of fact. All in the shape of a box. Cube. Correct. Why is it a box? What shape did you want it to be?

You didn't think it was going to actually be a motorboat, did you? I like it. I'm literally just getting back into a box. Yes. Shouldn't this, I don't know, have wings or something? There's no reason for it to be aerodynamic. But it would make me feel better. Exactly.

Zero reasons. So, X and I just get into this thing and then... That's the idea. What do you think? Whose idea was this? Yours. Right. Okay.

Fuck it. Uh, listen, everybody. I know that none of you know me at all. But it's been great seeing all of you again. Thank you all so much. Ava Go get her, Tiger Here we go

Okay Phil Thank you It's been Illuminating Okay Okay, this should be okay All right

We're inside How does it work from here Do I have to power it up Or Lift off Cool What a fucking week All right, everyone. Good work. Let's take about 48 hours off and come back strong on Monday. All right?

Um, what are you talking about? You all work for me now. We do? Oh, what was in that NDA? I don't know. Did she buy us? Maybe. What the hell are you talking about? We made a lot of breakthroughs this week, leave. Time to put them to work. What are we doing? Colonizing the solar system. What? I call Europa. I call Europa. But, ah, damn, we can share. Okay, let's go. Hey. Leif, come on.

Hey, I'm nobody's employee. Suit yourself. More planets for us, I guess. Hey, you guys aren't going to Mars, are you? Mars sucks. Don't go to Mars. Dave, stop being a smart idiot. Okay, give me five minutes.

Two minutes. Jizinka. Jizinka, how can I convince you to not do this? I know how you feel, if that means anything. I can be, let's just call it obsessive. Nothing mattered to me except for the answers that I was looking for. I haven't cared about much else. I wouldn't admit this to anyone else,

but I went to Denmark and came all the way back here in search of answers when maybe I should have... I don't know, maybe I should have looked for something else. Again, I'll only admit this to you, but I think, I think there may be more than one important thing in my life. And maybe I'm not as single-minded as I thought. One of those important things is the thing you're trying to destroy right now. How do I make you stop? How do I tell you that there's more to the universe than our obsessions?

That doesn't sound good. What's happening? Tazinka? Target confusion. What? The signal is being detected in two distinct locations. Two locations? They are on opposite sides of the target environment.

Two diners? Yes. Somebody's back. Jizinka, it's impossible for there to be two diners. The signal is unique. Correct. Therefore, it must be a flaw in your targeting matrix. This appears to be true.

I think the only thing you can do is start from scratch to identify the problem. There may be a fundamental flaw in your calculations. Here you are correct. It's a shame. You were almost there. I will archive this matrix and begin a new file. I think that's the most responsible thing. Hey, before you do,

how about we try out my little side project? Project. You were saying you could deliver an audio recording on the back of the energy cascade? Yes. Perhaps then this. This work session will not be devoid of progress. Yes.

Consolation Prize. I will prime the weapon. Please proceed to the data inputs to create audio file. Okay. Begin speaking now. Is this thing on? Kazi, listen closely. It's all...

We did it. Did we do it? I think so. Why are we floating in space? I wasn't sure where to go. Okay. I mean, I guess I'm not either. Whoa, whoa.

No gravity. No gravity in the cube. Yeah, yeah, I think they may have forgotten about that. How do you forget about gravity? It is kind of important. How are you standing? I don't know. Well, this is fucking great.

I've got to travel around like a cork in a damn ocean. Grab on to something. It's a cube. What was that? What is that light? It's a ship. Shit. Are we being abducted?

I hope not. For their sake. You know, when you finally got. I didn't think he'd be wrapped up in a fun little present. David! Casper, what on earth are you doing floating around in that square? Hey! Hey, you guys!

Well, I'll be! Hello there, darling! Well, this is making much more sense. Was it you that drug him all the way back here? It was. Hi, David. Hi! Who are you?

You didn't tell David about me? Can we deal with that later, please? I am upside down. Stay where you are, y'all. I'll bring that odd craft of yours inside our own. Well, I'll just be floating here. I can't wait to hear this story. David, I'm back.

Took you long enough, Dad. I know. Oh, hello there, Casper. Welcome back. We have much to discuss. Oh, fucking great. Goodnight burger, y'all. Be sure and tune in.

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printing with cats, Calaisi Del Mar, Von Vega, Dixie Dinah, 7,000 Possums, KBS 1017, Silas Vex, Sarah Jack Sparrow Space Pony, Revibe, Debbie E, Emma, Mr. and Mrs. Owo, Dusty Ventures, and his pilot Uzi drifted through space. Ronnie Porter, Gloria's line cook, Eagle Rock Lobster, The Gabbiest Painter, Kudel, Firel, Painted Oni, Kudel, Ferell, Emily with two E's, Space Man Nathan, Ramsey's Niblich the Third, Kerklunk, Kerklunk, Whoops, Where's Myribrin, Gagarin, A Grimlin with the Munchies, Michelle Scorakio, Genuine Jacob, Space Rooster Randy, Leopard Donut, Poofie Thang, Mellow Nuggets, Keychain Crap, Matt-Match Mark, Stilo, Bumling Lilybee, Buffy's Daughter,

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Just Rachel. Waffles, Waffles, Waffles, Waffle. Danger Girl, Atlas Bear, Patty the Ginger, Ava's cigarette ash, Hugh Bift it, A, Zeus, Anaphylaxis, scab with Comtacks, the shape-shifting sad girl and her girlfriend say, Joe, you've done it again, Pipples Skin in the Pippi Pond. Sarah Nicole, The Kells fights with the Bethany's, Angry Leafs Laser Saw, Magnus Aerochill, Amy Perry, Christopher Kai, Source Decade, Descendant of the Sweather Catfish Whisperer, Vagabond Mary, Randy's Amigo, Bold Mouse, Katie Mermaid and the Delinquent Duo, Nomin, Nicole.

Victor Schauberger reincarnated as White Mountain Hillbilly Glitter Cupcake, Max Danger's, Security Chief Shatsy, The Anx Peach, Team Michelle and Billy, Nea Nix Reno, Frankinator, Nortle Bash, Jordan, Rwin X, Belasco, Ryan Rosinski, average height, medium rage, Audio Monkey, Joe, Team Hafe of Eisen, K. In the Mysterious AZHQ, I'll grant you that we have a multiplicity of mics, a jumble of James's, a trifecta of Tonys, one of whom still wants, to be Laif, but sadly, no Bethany's.

Rowan, Thady of the Black and Herald of the Stars. Ariane Can't Manage Normal. Ryan Burnett, The Joyful Nialist, Dr. Dr. B, Zopres and the Bumble Army, growing into my farm boots. Super Beth becomes an RN alongside my bootstup farm friend. Geneva Boss, Arkansason, not Arkansasoyer, brothers of the cosine, uncivil gnomes, the Rat Queen Evelyn, Great Lunch Conversation, Captain Scott, Letty Lou. He was a shifty one that Nick Howard.

was here, Bobby Ray Winland Jr., B-Bop, B-Dabadduwop, Warped Echoes, Slabs McTurps, Big Brother House, this is Lord Robert O Tartis, you are live on Channel 4, please do not swear, Jeremiah Franco, Justin, the Nick of Time, Gothic Rainbow, So He Made It, Cody McClure, McCadley, Eternal Companion, Maxine Lazot, Jingoloss, Eris, Goddess of Nobody, Has Matilda, Ditsy Bay, Just Your Average Reese, Kyle Church, I Am a Laif on the Wind, Static Ego, Lolly, Evan M. Dobson, Dave B, Nabi, your friendly neighborhood pathologist, going to be lit, Captain Emerald L, Wayne Hall, Danny Mars, externally screaming, but Bethany, I-made biscuits, Skibo, and Fuzzle MacBurnitz, Neelix Tiny Wolf, Asher the Raven, Christina Senate is teleporting, BRB.

The Shains are not organized enough for a war, but there is a growing number of us, and it is concerning. Definitely not an android, seriously, I'm not. The Wandering Welshman, Whatever Tabby, Carolyn Harper, Nikolai Tolkachev, Capo the Sartorius, Z3, D-D-T, Shy Sparrows, BLTN, the Kiwi-Duckling, Dana-Bobana, Fee-Fina, Fofana, Monsters' Olmanac's Biggest Fan, Aubrey and her dad, Tequila Muckingbird, Swethergoose, Dammer in the Space Goblin, Isso-Pail, Exquisite Wimsy, I am Lord Zoltan, hear me roar, Pocket Ghost Max. Mags the Conqueror imposes economic sanctions on the N-Bethanies for the whole Lasersaw car incident. Wes and Heather wonder if Derek Adair will join. My cat's name is Beef.

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Mavis Bacon's, Pyro's Calling, Joe Swasian, the Wizard's Supercalifragilistic Expialadocious, and introducing Risi Pontiff as the 38th Doctor. Too many Jans, says, things are bad, but we're going to win, Pamela Roselle Tierra, Then Stina says, Thud Tweed, Enigmatic Catbird, Countess of Carbon. Slappy the Squirrel, luminous elk, Rodeon caution, love is for the Nierds. Taz Hernandez, Captain Crash and the surviving crew. It's just Tyson now. Casper needs all the hugs, but Joe needs an O2 tank.

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Crafty Lizard Be Quilton, Noble Barrel. Yes, my brain is weird, thank you. Bibbidi-Bobbity Boom. Megan the Meg Young, Corey Morose, Russell Bunny, Max Savage, Jenny Wren, Apprehensive Craig, Tim Aranetta, Bacon, Nicole Studioso, Rambo, Chaos Squatcher, Jeremy, Jeremy, Stephanie Sturges, Kirsten, hurry up and wait, Sarah Farmer and Bella Donna first of her name, Criddle, Twilio, Heidelberti, Tom Webster, Rashme Vincatech, McClump, Azana the Leathersmith, Salazar the Do Mage, Hayward's finest Garin Elizondo. To my little, you'll always be my good girl, you took a piece of my heart and left a pawprint on my soul, till we meet again. Sir Schitzelot strikes again, damn animal. Ashton James,

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astronoib, Magnos the Civil Gnome. Welcome, everybody. I'm Hydealon, and I'll be leading our Midnight Burger emotional support group. Starlight. David Peerini, Techno Ranger Rick, Joe's Weaslaf, Virgo Ares Infinity, Best Buds Danny and M, Charles Q. Choi, a bug named Nat, Cici writer, Hunter B, Rudra, Death the Kid, Big Whiskey, All Cockinator. Ron was here. Magic Pony, Robert Leverry, often wronged Dan, Jess Gioia, killer odd. Dr. Punkusher Esquire officially opens Closet Baby Cat Speedway for the season. Creator 67, Mervate of the Dark Seas, Cosmic Shrug, incorrigible Ross, SCRB Mark 11, Eric A. Rayborn, Maggie's Yarm, Stu, Enthonymy, Megan Mighty, Haunt, Purple Saline, Three Legs are Perfectly Good, Drew and L.A., Anomalous Death to PSL Vandal,

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Brigadine. At the Pasadena Playhouse. Ficking great. Ficking great. I don't recall of, I don't know, I don't know exactly what vocal fry means, honestly. It's like, it's like, oh my gosh. It's that. Okay.

I don't remember that part. It's like influencer voice. Right, okay. See, this is the one I should have checked in on. Did you like a favorite? Let me just reread this for a second. So it's in moments like these. It's in moments like these when I'm reading the script.

And I imagine what it would be like to be F-E-to-have the husband, Zebulon, be this way about board games. Like always be this way about games and how it drives her fucking crazy. He's really like, it's like inherit the wind in this moment for him. You know what I mean? He's taking it seriously. It is a man's life. It's also tough because we've been watching so much porro. and there's a whiff of David Soucher's Poro about this, just a little bit.

So I got to knock across these. I believe in you, Zebulon. So it's a terrible word, and I'm so sorry I put it in there. So sorry. Simulacrums. Simulacrums. He could have been talking about a vegetable spiral. Lyser.

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