Speaker 1: You are listening to table story.
Speaker 2: Deathless is an improvised cinematic narrative with live production, including
music and dialog. There is no script. This story contains violence,
disturbing imagery, adult themes, and a darkness which may read
you doubting. For you, Lord, proceed at your own risk.
Speaker 3: A lodge of shape from shade, loget of fact from
me that he says, stand up for the thing you
can't stand. A louse.
Speaker 4: Cora, my dear you hear a sickening snap as the
world around you fades into smoke, your senses consumed by
the overwhelming onslaught of fashion embers dancing against your nerves.
Never really painful, though now warm with ire might be
the best way to describe it. A minor irritation which
seems pleasant against the seemingly eternal and call the void
that surrounds that. You find yourself reaching out, feeling the
flame's protection against this void. You look off into the distance.
Has his room gotten larger? There is nothing, Yeah, nothing
at all that you can see except would you roll
for me? My love?
Speaker 5: Of course, just.
Speaker 4: A straight D one hundred. We're not going to do
any of that difficulty bullshit.
Speaker 6: Six ninety six.
Speaker 4: Wonderful, Absolutely wonderful. You feel the void closing even more
as the warmth struggles to keep you safe. But you
do notice something, as we all know that failures do
not necessarily mean that you fail, and I don't want
you to fail right now. I want you to see
the ashes falling from the sky. They're a bit thinner,
almost like a tunnel, and it points to where the
smiling one once stood or does stand? Yes? Does stand?
What would you like to do.
Speaker 5: The smiling one?
Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh, yes, yes, the large statue that may
or may not have been yours truly?
Speaker 5: Ooh, okay, Well, if I see a tunnel with something
at the other end and otherwise like void around me,
I guess I would try to go towards the smiling
one in the tunnel.
Speaker 4: As you take each step, you notice a spotlight shining
at the base of the smiling one, and it gets
brighter and writer, and you begin to feel a bit
safer and safer as you approach. Would you like to
continue approaching?
Speaker 7: Yes, wonderful, I knew you could do this.
Speaker 4: We're gonna fast forward a bit. I don't want to walk.
It's a very long way it's like three football fields.
You get there.
Speaker 6: The whole way is this line. The hallway is that long.
Speaker 4: You find yourself at the base of the smiling one,
but where the featureless suggestion of a body once stood
in mimicry, You now see me wailing on a Fender stratocaster.
My back is to you, seemingly unaware of your presence.
What would you like to do?
Speaker 6: Bow? Bow bow?
Speaker 4: Wow? Wow?
Speaker 5: And I'm not a music or instrument person. Is that
the name.
Speaker 4: It's a guitar. It's an electric guitar. It's the one.
This is a fun fact, now you know what. I'll
let everyone research it. I'm not going to spoil the
little easter egg here.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, if I go down this tunnel and I
see you rocking out on a guitar, I'm probably just
gonna take it in for a couple of seconds. How
well are you playing this guitar?
Speaker 6: Very well?
Speaker 4: It's it seems like I shouldn't be playing this well.
Oh but I.
Speaker 5: Am like like cross status.
Speaker 6: Yes, just still in my.
Speaker 4: Own groove right now, enjoying it.
Speaker 5: Okay, after a couple of seconds, I would probably say
your name out loud. May or may not here. If
you don't hear me, I would try to reach out
and like tap you on the back or the arm.
Speaker 4: Hmm, just out of reach. However, as soon as you
say my name, he stops and he turns around. However,
what you might find odd is that even though he
swings the gaitar on his back, it is still playing.
Speaker 6: This move.
Speaker 4: Doesn't say a word. How could he. He has no
mouth nor nose, nor does he have any features of
any kind. He kneels down and takes off your glasses gently, softly, peacefully,
and then the world begins to blur for you. The
embers give out, and that's when you hear two individuals yelling.
Speaker 6: Moves world party time, excellent, excellent wood.
Speaker 4: It's total darkness for you right now. But you feel
yourself sitting. This is odd, It is really odd. You
were just in avoid. As you open your eyes, you
find yourself in this well worn love seat in a
cluttered basement. And is it?
Speaker 6: Is it a studio?
Speaker 4: What is this place? It's not tidy. There are cobwebs
in the corner. However, this space does burn with a
charm of chaotic energy. The mis Matt's furniture has been
scattered about with only camera placement in mind. Other than
a singular studio light, The room itself is lit by
a soft, flickering glow of half working string lights and
the lava lamp. Posters of rock bands cover the wall
and fight each other for placement. And you notice aging
studio and recording equipment nearby.
Speaker 6: Why are together? And if this is a fire hazard,
someone should honestly you hat you can you report this?
This is not good.
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 7: Mm?
Speaker 4: Well no, sorry?
Speaker 5: Anyways, you should probably appoint someone to watch those chords
and no one trips.
Speaker 6: You hear that she's doing your jump for you.
Speaker 4: Unbelievable. Everything's working, there's no fires yet. What would you
like to do, Cora?
Speaker 5: Does it seem like the light the one studio light
is facing me. Is the love seat a focus.
Speaker 4: It's facing yes, the love seats?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 5: So I am on stage in this yes?
Speaker 4: And you do see the equipment a camera, the light,
obviously some other stuff in the background.
Speaker 5: If I send out my magical sense, does my magic work?
Do I sense it?
Speaker 6: I don't know, rule, but see.
Speaker 5: A regular do you one hundred again?
Speaker 4: Or yes? Please?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: We don't need difficulty of mind.
Speaker 5: Semantics, so a mind roll or a D one hundred
roles D one hundred ninety three.
Speaker 4: This is not great for you. You see nothing with
your magical sense. However, your eyes are beginning to adjust
to the brightness of the light, and you see shadowy
figures manning each of the bits of studio equipment.
Speaker 5: I would call out, hello, who's there?
Speaker 4: They don't answer. The one behind the camera, It's head
tilts to the side a bit.
Speaker 5: I would want to get up and get out of
the light so I could see the room better, probably
like if I can get up off of the love seat,
maybe like scooching to the side so I can keep
everything insight.
Speaker 4: As you get up, a second spotlight shines on you,
this time revealing a sofa. It's beat up and frozen
in time is the visionary and myself sitting there?
Speaker 5: How far away is the sofa the second sofa that.
Speaker 4: Appears within standard talk show distance from the desk to
the chair.
Speaker 5: Does it seem like you both are frozen or does
it seem like you're interacting with each other?
Speaker 4: It seems as if someone hit pause mid introduction of show,
so we're both well, I don't know. I don't want
to speak for a visionary, but I'm definitely wailing on
a guitar that does not exist in the air. Guitar,
that is what it's called.
Speaker 6: I got drumsticks, man, and I point them at my head. Stoker,
would you rule for me?
Speaker 8: Please?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: So one hundred? Please?
Speaker 7: M of course Stoker?
Speaker 4: Will I didn't misspeak.
Speaker 9: I meant Stoker, Yes, I know, all right, it's just
taking me a minute, all right?
Speaker 4: In the quorra?
Speaker 7: Why don't you rule for me?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Cor rule for me? I want to see what this means?
Speaker 10: Oh what what?
Speaker 5: Ninety six ninety three, ninety nine, one hundred. I'm sorry, Dice,
who offended you today?
Speaker 6: Not me?
Speaker 4: It's because I'm not ruling. That's why.
Speaker 6: The holy world, man, it's my world, all right.
Speaker 4: So here's what happens you. Your magic sense comes back
to you. You sent it out, and I don't know
if this happens to you or not. I would suspect
maybe not in this way. But it comes back almost
like a radar does, like a bounces back, and you
recognize that behind the camera is Stoker, but it's not Stoker,
but it feels like Stoker. And then holding the lighting
is Esteban the boom mic is fin craft services is gonna,
and the holding the Q cards is constantine. They cannot
interact with you at all. This seems like they don't
even know who they are. This is what they look
like to you. Will Cora, the other moog sitting on
the couch, says what do you think about the new
Nirvana album? And he looks at the camera and kind
of like tugs on his collar a little bit.
Speaker 5: The Nirvana the who I'm like.
Speaker 4: Not the who that's more visionary. It's sting, isn't it?
Speaker 6: Vision a man, it's all my thing. I just appreciate
music if it rocks and it makes me move my body.
Speaker 4: Oh visionary? Might I remind you that not many people
want to see you moving your body.
Speaker 6: You don't make music. Man, if you mentioned you or Nirvana,
my body's gonna start moving, you know, just up and down.
Usually maybe if you move.
Speaker 4: Your body again, they're gonna take us off the air.
Local broadcast does not appreciate it one bit.
Speaker 6: Amen. I'm ahead of my time. What can I say?
A lot of people tell me these very European moves.
Speaker 4: Mess.
Speaker 6: How many people have told you that exactly?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Maybe one European lady.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna assume that was your mother. It's not
a European leady.
Speaker 6: My mother not a European Lady's got a nice purse, though,
so she has some European flare herself. We can talk about.
Speaker 4: Who is and who is not European women all day.
But we have a show to do here, don't we.
We have special guests, not just Cora tonight. We have
the rest of the band, don't we Visionary.
Speaker 6: Sure we do. I don't really know this band very well,
but they're all here right now. I mean, I'll do
my best if they're any good. I can't promise my
body won't be moving well.
Speaker 4: And this moogle looks at the camera. I guess we
will hope that they are terrible, then, won'te me?
Speaker 6: They seem like it not seem like they could play
well together. I don't know just about judging Adam.
Speaker 4: No. Right, well, the first guest coming up is going
to be none other than the one makes your skin
crawl a little bit. He's not there one minute and
then he is the next. That's right, I'm talking about
the one the only pulse rate.
Speaker 11: And as Cora, you might find your eyes navigating towards
anywhere else that's not myself or Visionary at the moment,
and pulse rate comes out from nowhere.
Speaker 4: There's nothing beyond the cameras, but you hear a door open,
pulse rate.
Speaker 6: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for taking busy, busy, busy amounts
of time to come see us. We appreciate it.
Speaker 9: Yes, it has been busy. Thank you for having me
a pulse rate.
Speaker 4: And this moog looks at the camera. Was that a lie?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 4: Tell us, dear friend, what have you been up to
these days?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 9: I've been working on cataloging all of my favorite episodes
of my favorite TV show.
Speaker 6: And what's that?
Speaker 4: Dare I ask?
Speaker 7: I think you know?
Speaker 4: The moog looks nervously at Visionary. Do you know what
is this? I thought you vetted all this? I may
what do you mean you don't know?
Speaker 6: He doesn't he ask you to watch it with him
all damn.
Speaker 4: Tim struggling to find the words.
Speaker 6: The other moog says, the one with a bunch of
guys and skirts that are swinging swords with each other.
Speaker 7: I am in mut I have inside.
Speaker 6: Me what you've done?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 4: Visionary that's the one.
Speaker 6: Man. It's Highlander. Man, it's Highlander. That's right.
Speaker 4: Tell us what do you appreciate most about the Highlander series?
Speaker 9: Oh oh, that's such an interesting question, as you visionary,
I guess, sorry, I'm sorry, Well, I'm interested to know
what visionary thinks.
Speaker 6: Man, I just don't. I don't get it. You're a
person who exists to kill all the other people that
are like you, and that makes you stronger. Yes, oh, okay,
never mind, I get it, totally get it. That's I
don't like my flat. I don't like my family sometimes neither.
But I guess, you know, just for frictional purposes.
Speaker 4: The crowd really liked that one.
Speaker 5: I look around in confusion when I hear laughter.
Speaker 4: Yes, there's no audience, there's nothing.
Speaker 5: It's just a basement.
Speaker 4: It's just a basement, not even a full one at that.
Speaker 6: Oh, all right, movies?
Speaker 4: What else do people talk about? In this particular Moog
is struggling. He's going through the Q cards. He's motioning
to the que card holder to go, go.
Speaker 6: Go go.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, books, pulse right, I understand that you've recently
read a rather good one. Yes, of course, yes, tell me,
was it the tone of your.
Speaker 12: Life, moog, I have to ask you something, oh me,
if you must?
Speaker 7: Are you keeping a secret from everyone?
Speaker 4: The move pauses, staring off into nothing. All this it
would seem to be as you can't see his eyes
at all, can you. Well, I'm a man of many
secrets and intrigue.
Speaker 8: I will have you nobles, right, I know. But there's
everyone else.
Speaker 4: Oh no, it's that time, isn't it.
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 4: Of course everyone knows that I'm wonderful on the guitar,
and I am an avid fan of the Highlander series?
Speaker 6: What else could you be referring to? And you steal
my fog hat CD again?
Speaker 4: No, I would never steal that. Why would I steal that?
Speaker 6: It's gone flute hard rock with flute mina. Open your mind,
expand it.
Speaker 4: I would rather expand it in other ways. Thank you
very much. Well, if you would like to keep your
influx of food pulse rate, I would recommend that you
don't tell everyone at home and everyone in the town.
Speaker 6: Okay, but.
Speaker 9: I like big secrets, big lies, and yours is the
most delicious.
Speaker 4: And why do you think that is? I know those
who know seldom live to tell the tale.
Speaker 9: You're so funny I'm going to go behind you and
start giving you a massage. Oh you're so funny and
good at guitar.
Speaker 4: This is more like it. He's into it. Oh, this
moog loves it and the guitar bit Oh, he's eating
it up. God is completely down.
Speaker 6: He's right, you're getting a lot better these days. Oh well,
thank you his God's look it up now. It's weird.
Speaker 4: Visionary likes music with flutes in it, rock and flutes.
Speaker 9: And he thinks I whispered something in your Yeah, do
you whisper? I'm going to let you know. Oh, and
that's what I whisper.
Speaker 4: All right, very well, No.
Speaker 7: There, we gonna sort of dance out of the room before.
Speaker 4: You do that role for me as yourself pulls rate
of course, three times please mm hmm twice more. Ooh hm,
all right, offf you go run along.
Speaker 7: We are princess of the universe.
Speaker 4: Yes, he fancies himself a prince of the universe. All
that power now would go right to his head. You
would have none of the responsibility, would he dijerry, This
is the part where you agree with me.
Speaker 6: Oh sure, man, Sorry, sorry, it was just a bit
enchanted by his dancing.
Speaker 4: Yes, we always are with the rule of A twenty seven.
Speaker 6: It's pretty good. I mean it's not my favorite show.
Speaker 4: But with The Highlander or this one, there's a right
answer there, my friend.
Speaker 6: As you know, his moves were follow closer by college
game day. That's right.
Speaker 4: And speaking of which we do need to get a
bit of a move on. We cannot interrupt college game day.
The words hang on his tongue.
Speaker 6: All the time.
Speaker 4: For our second guest, everyone feel wonderful, the sensational.
Speaker 6: I supposed to do something for this.
Speaker 4: I didn't know there's gonna be a second guess.
Speaker 6: Of course there's a second guy. Did you not read
the briefing that I spent for I had to type
it up on a typewriter. Do you have many time
you cannot make a mistake?
Speaker 4: What exactly is it brave? Because it has we're briefing it.
But it was like seven pages long, it was. It
was properly spaced, really maybe five double space.
Speaker 6: I'm a fan. I'm a I mean, I survived on
double space and I get it. Okay, I'm sorry, Please
please continue? All right, everyone, avert your eyes. It's dead.
Speaker 13: I oh my god, Well, thanks so much for having
me moog. Mister Moore thrilled such a fan?
Speaker 6: Mm hmm, calm down, please, yes, we know, thank you.
Speaker 4: Then I'm here too.
Speaker 13: Oh hey, fish fisis.
Speaker 4: I'm no longer calling you that ever Again that went
right to your head as well. All right, dead I
we understand that you've recently been enjoying a certain piece
of fiction. You can't tell us what it was and
what it's about.
Speaker 13: Oh, such a good question, moog. Yeah, I have been
really enjoying a new film that has just come out,
a new film called water World, and it is something else?
Speaker 6: Is it? World of Water? Is it?
Speaker 13: Have you not seen it?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 13: God, you have to go and see it, moog. It's
so good. It is a world, post apocalyptic, filled with water.
Everyone is looking for a fictional place, a mythical place
called dry Land.
Speaker 6: Huh dry Land, Yep, that's right.
Speaker 13: They all live in these little rim shackle towns put
together called the Tolls. And it's a it's brilliant.
Speaker 6: And they drink their own piss, do they? That's what
I heard, anyone. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm
definitely going to now.
Speaker 13: Sorry. I thought that this was like a talk show, right,
like a late night talk show, like, are you supposed
to be asking me, like more questions about me?
Speaker 4: Moog that I rule a D one hundred to for?
May please?
Speaker 13: May I ask where exactly the old one or the
new one?
Speaker 4: The new one? Yes, just a regular man.
Speaker 6: Have you seen have you seen Robin Hood Prince of Thieves?
That was really good?
Speaker 13: That's not what I wanted to do. Seventy six?
Speaker 4: All right, seventy six? What does that mean?
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 4: You notice an expression on the on that move's face,
and it's kind of like, why are you talking about
a movie? Is what you get out of it?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 13: You know, uh, questions about about me? I mean that
what was the last piece of media you part.
Speaker 5: Took in.
Speaker 4: That ipartook in, well, not including this show right here.
I watch each and every episode to make sure that
the next one is better than the last and certainly
doesn't make me feel icky at all.
Speaker 13: A toll tolls like in LA I don't understand.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen the movie. We've been over that.
Speaker 6: How for my producer their own pas, Because if it's
not good, I don't want to sit through a whole movie.
I'll just kind of going in the middle. I just
think it sounds hilarious.
Speaker 4: While all this is going on, Cora, what are you doing?
Are you still taking in the show? Are you perusing?
What have you done?
Speaker 5: I think I'm just a little like flabbergasted and definitely
taking it in. I think at this point I would
recognize Visionary's voice.
Speaker 4: Maybe you've met him, yes.
Speaker 5: Uh, indirectly. Yes, in the hallway, I was about as
long as the tunnel I just went through. Yes, I think. Okay,
So it's like it's one of those one of those
like situations where you're in a really, really weird dream
and you're just kind of like absorbing it. I think
the longer you all talk, the more I would want
to see more of the basement. But I think I
would probably be and you can correct me if I'm wrong.
I would probably feel kind of fixed in place when
I'm in the light, so I'm just watching.
Speaker 4: It definitely feels safer in the light. Yes, I would
say that, but I don't feel like fixed necessarily. You
don't feel actually you know what rule for me?
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's see sixty two.
Speaker 6: You feel as if.
Speaker 4: You could step into the darkness if you wanted to.
Speaker 6: But without.
Speaker 4: Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like an
unnecessary risk based on what you felt in the previous area.
Speaker 5: Yep, the void with the embers and stuff. Yeah, so
I think I would just be I would be caught
in that like uncomfortable place of I feel like I
need to stay in the light to feel safe. But
also I'm under a blaring studio light and the center
of attention with shadowy figures watching me. So it's that like,
should I try to get out of here? Should I? Sure?
Should I stay here? Meanwhile, just being distracted by the
conversation y'all are having about you know, current media that
I may or may not have seen, and you do
know I would have seen water World.
Speaker 4: You do notice just that, Corara, when you move, if
you adjust your positioning, you move your weight around whatever.
The figures that you recognize as those from the coffin,
they follow you their eyes. The camera stays on the show,
but their attentions on you.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 13: I look at you, Moog, and I say, he's just
a poor boy from a poor family. Spare him this
life from this monstrosity.
Speaker 6: Oh do you see.
Speaker 4: Well, Narrator Moog just finished the entire song in his head.
You see studio Moog's fingers involuntarily tapping roll for me.
Speaker 6: Eighteen ooh, you have.
Speaker 4: Right now you are dead eye, but a characterization of
dead eye. Right now in this scenario, you have one
sentence as proper dead eye. You've come to the realization
that you're in a studio. Moog's right there. Your last
thing you remember, you were in a room with the
bleeding walls and clocks ticking and all of that, and
now you're in a studio with Moog right next to you,
laughing and Visionary but they look a bit off. That's
all you get.
Speaker 13: Uh, Can you guys take me.
Speaker 4: Home and with that get back to normal.
Speaker 6: Ah, just go upstairs.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 6: Yes, we're not holding you again against your will. That
would be you gotta finish the show as more questions.
Speaker 13: Right, we're gonna have Oh ask me another question.
Speaker 6: Yes, Visionary, you had some questions. Uh yeah, number one
for television cannot touch your face?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Why not?
Speaker 4: And then the camera cuts directly to Studio Moog and
it goes Folks, if you are a bit squeamish share
week of the stomach, you might want to not look
at this next bit. And then the camera goes right
to Visionary's finger, slowly.
Speaker 6: Going towards Rad gets there. I'll do this and I'll
put my hands on the side of his face face.
Roll for me, yes, roll for me.
Speaker 4: It's exciting. I shouldn't have clap out. My dogs are gonna.
Speaker 6: Bark six Oh shit, oh shit.
Speaker 7: Fuck.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay, Visionary. You're seeing all of this, not you,
proper Visionary from from yes, from where you are walking
down the hallway right with a fan behind you, and
you trip, and you see all of this. You cannot interact,
but you are seeing for the next until the scene ends.
You're seeing all of it.
Speaker 6: Did you fucking trip me? Your German shepherd mother?
Speaker 4: Touch you? And if you touch me you are going
to lose an arm.
Speaker 6: Now I'm just and now we're back.
Speaker 13: As you touch my face, there's a hideous sort of
like squelching sound, and my skin is kind of like
breaking under your touch, and it starts to rot away
like in flakes where you're pushing on it.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm not going to push too hard. But then
I take my hands off and I go I see, look,
I'm not sick or anything, just fine, And I'm wiping
my hands on the sofa.
Speaker 13: I look down the barrel of the camera and my
face is slowly sliding off of off of my skull
in like little chunks, and I give like a smile.
Speaker 4: You put your lean to know.
Speaker 6: I mean it just it looks a little scary, but
it's okay. It ain't gonna get sick from it.
Speaker 4: Mook looks disgusted. Studio mug is just can hardly look
and jumps off of the sofa and sits on the
arm of the seat in which Cora was hitting. Well,
mm hmm, Cora, was it? Yes, yes, don't be so pretend.
The camera's not even there, he whispers into your Yeah,
m have you ever read Charlotte's Web?
Speaker 5: That's the one with a spider in the pig, right.
Speaker 4: A spider and the pig. Yes, I think.
Speaker 5: Maybe when I was younger. Also, you uh, you guys,
you guys were talking about a brief. I don't think
I got a script or a brief or even like
a like a a memo or anything. I just found
myself here. Why am I here?
Speaker 6: Why are you here? Do you mean?
Speaker 4: Why are you here? Cora? You are gracing us with
your presence. We understand that you are currently on a
world tour right now, the likes of which no one
has ever seen, and someone from your management team. We
definitely are not holding her against her will. Glanced at
the camera as it's live broadcasting to maybe six blocks,
I don't know, maybe fourteen people are watching your manager.
Your management team said you would be delighted to be here,
and that they sent you the brief isn't that right? Visionary?
Speaker 6: Yes, it was in your mailbox, left on your doorstep.
They called you up and read you the whole thing.
Pretty sure. They sent it by a postal person who
sang it outside your doorstep while attached to a pigeon.
It got to you.
Speaker 4: And for those of you who at home, who wouldn't
have a briefing, and why would you, you'll provide you
getting this for entertainment. Cora here and her band the
Corvettes are looking for new talent and agreed to help
us by looking at some recent talent that may provide
uh some value or some worth and who knows me,
maybe even might be worthy of sharing the stage with
one day.
Speaker 5: I look like days for a second and then go,
oh right, my manager, the I play the fingerbells, don't I?
Speaker 4: And play the fingerbells.
Speaker 6: What an understatement?
Speaker 4: How absolutely just oh just so humbling to be in
front of someone who diminishes their own achievements to help
raise others. You don't just play the finger bells. The
fingerbells become you. You know how to use this instrument instruments?
What would you say in your expert opinion instrument or instruments?
Speaker 5: I think it depends on the grammar of the sentence.
Speaker 4: Grammar.
Speaker 7: Fuck m.
Speaker 5: I think I think you can classify them as both.
Speaker 6: Well is each bell?
Speaker 4: Is it multiple? I don't even know how it works.
I'm ashamed to say. I just listen on vinyl like properly.
Speaker 5: Well, you see it's it's these fingers right here, so
technically there are she's.
Speaker 6: Trying to crush my head. Look out, watch out out.
Speaker 4: Roll Cora. I want to see if you crush his head. No,
you don't, one, you do not, and good thing, because
this would be an awfully short session if you did.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 4: At this point, you notice in studio Moog a bit
of concern, just for a moment on his face, and
it washes away. Well, yes, anyways, I'll tell us about
your next album, please.
Speaker 6: I like.
Speaker 5: Squint and think really hard. Well, you see, it's more
conceptual right now, But I was really inspired by this
new album. Have you ever heard of Pure Moods?
Speaker 4: Moog looks studio, Moog looks at the camera. I'm not
allowed to make that joke, folks, tell us please assume
there are exclusively seventy five year old women watching the
show right now and they've never heard of Pure Moods.
Please let them know.
Speaker 5: Well, it's it's just a really powerful type of album,
you know, really inspiring. You know, it just occurred to me.
You're a musician. What if we considered a collaboration. We
call it cure boobs.
Speaker 4: Oh, his face lights up with delight. He is thinking
twelve thousand things at once. You can tell Visionary you
know that when he gets this way, he needs to
be calmed down because otherwise things might get a little hot.
What do you do, visionary?
Speaker 6: Man, I've seen a commercial for this, you know it
goes like this. Oh that's the end of it. Man,
it's great, bru, we're gonna see. I mean, it's not
usually my typ music, you know, but it's got a
lot of weird stuff. There's this lady I think she's
I don't know, like El Salvadoran or something named any
and she's not got a bunch of songs on there.
Twenty eight.
Speaker 4: It works. Muga's instantly brought out of this sheer excitement.
And while you can't really tell, you can infer from
the movement of his eyebrow and his cheek that his
eye is twitching now and he's a bit hunched over
as well. Do all right, man, I'm fine, Thank you.
You want me to take care of this lady?
Speaker 6: She bothering you?
Speaker 4: No, not at all, not her, No, never, absolutely not.
Speaker 6: She anyway, Mayam, you don't know, Cora the corvett'sis.
Speaker 4: I thought you were about expanding your mind.
Speaker 6: You got an album, cannot borrow it. I feel she
is the snow, but I feel like we should be
best friends.
Speaker 4: She I have you know. She is the world's ninety
ninth top fingerbells player.
Speaker 6: Man, I haven't fingerbeilled anybody since I was fifty.
Speaker 4: To see that on my television.
Speaker 6: We talked about this.
Speaker 4: Oh sorry, sorry, they're sweat beating down studio. Move's face
as he turns to dead eye, suddenly remembering that there
was another guest on the show. M Cora was just
talking about Charlotte's web brushes it under the rug. He's
clearly lying, as he's the one who brought it up.
Speaker 13: Oh right, yeah, I man, I love Charlotte's webs so much.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 4: Do you think that some people are like Charlotte and
they're quietly spinning little miracles into our lives without ever
realizing it? No?
Speaker 13: I think we're all pigs.
Speaker 4: The studio Moove suddenly is wondering why he even has
this television show anymore and rethinking all of his life decisions.
Oh worse.
Speaker 13: I look at Visionary and I go, hey, man, you know, like,
if you ever looking for someone a fingerbel.
Speaker 4: And that's all the time that we have for now. Everyone,
Thank you all so much for joining us.
Speaker 14: Here on Moves World, Body Time. Excellent party on Visionary,
party on Moog.
Speaker 5: This was great.
Speaker 13: Can we do it again?
Speaker 4: Cameras cut, dead eyes gone, Visionary is gone, Studio Moog
is gone. It looks as if someone snapped and you
are now sitting in an empty proper studio and you
can see beyond the camera and beyond the craft services,
and you just see not bleachers but seating and more
shadowy figures. Watching that sense of dread that you got
from the void fam earlier is emanating from them. What
would you like to do?
Speaker 5: Oh my god. Uh, that's really tough to say, because,
like I think the change in scenery would be really jarring,
kind of like when you're in a dream and like
you just kind of settle into a moment and then
it all changes and you just like react to whatever
is going on. I think I'd be scared of the
shadowy figures in the stadium.
Speaker 4: I did not have that in my notes that you
might be scared. Hmmm, Oh, we can fix that.
Speaker 7: Here.
Speaker 4: You smell that scent of smoke and that calming presence
fam earlier as well.
Speaker 5: Okay, does that help?
Speaker 6: We can roll and see if it helps too.
Speaker 5: No, I think it would have you want feeling of
like the protective flame going through the void. I would
call out from mug actually and see if Moog is
still around.
Speaker 4: Oh. Rule, definitely need to rule for that one thirty eight.
You call out and you don't hear anything but the flame.
It feels like it's I don't know how you would
know this, but it feels like the flame is leaning
on your shoulder in a very familiar way. And you
feel as if someone might be behind your back. If
you were to turn around, you would see nothing. Okay,
it's not threatening.
Speaker 5: When else do I see it? Besides the you said,
it's more like a regular studio. I can see the stuff,
the equipment, stadium, seating behind. Am I still on the
pick couch, the love seat?
Speaker 4: If you want to get up, you can, yes, but
I would imagine you are still there. You've not gotten up.
I think you investigate a little bit and then set
back down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I did. Okay, Uh, I would. I would
probably get up and cautiously explore the room.
Speaker 4: What you notice because you were kind of glancing around
a little bit taking in the show and all that,
you notice that the stairs leading up are now leading down,
which is weird because this is a basement. It's definitely
a basement. It smells like a basement, that mildewy kind
of smell. You feel a tug on your jacket towards
the stairs.
Speaker 5: Okay, I think I would kind of, like in a daze,
follow the tug and go towards the stairs.
Speaker 4: You go down the stairs, and you feel like you're
walking for much longer than you should. It's definitely moving,
But the number of steps steps you count yourself taking
do not match the number of steps that you've gone down.
When what would you like to do?
Speaker 5: Can I see anything? Is it dark?
Speaker 4: It is a very narrow stairwell, but there is end
in sight. There's a door at the bottom. You can't
quite make it out. If you want a rule to
try to see can see more? You can.
Speaker 5: My curiosity? Sure, yeah, let's roll.
Speaker 4: Or you can eighty one rule one more time for me.
Speaker 5: Poor.
Speaker 4: With the eighty one you don't see anything, But with
the four, your magic sense almost instinctually comes out when
you realize you can't really see it's just a door here, and.
Speaker 6: It's again.
Speaker 4: It's that weird radar thing where it goes all the
way down and then it comes back up.
Speaker 6: And as the.
Speaker 4: Wave comes back to you, the stairwell gets smaller and
you are now just one step away from the bottom.
Speaker 5: As if I like went down faster.
Speaker 4: Almost as if your magic changed the stairwell a bit. Yeah, okay,
do you take that last step?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I do?
Speaker 4: You see a stone door in front of you. It's
closed and sealed. It appears as if there's no way
to open it. You look down and you notice a
stone bowl, an offering bowl, a control panel, a stream deck.
What's behind that on your desk? Right now?
Speaker 5: What's behind my stream deck?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 5: The poll of my monitor stand.
Speaker 4: Can you look for me see if there's anything there
that shouldn't be there? What please.
Speaker 6: You see?
Speaker 4: A pair of aviator glasses sunglasses behind the bowl? Can
you show everyone? What would you like to do?
Speaker 5: So creeped out?
Speaker 4: That's because some of me that's ever happened on this channel?
Speaker 9: What the fuck did you do?
Speaker 5: I have to tell you?
Speaker 15: Add like a blurred reality moment where I was like, wait,
if I actually get the dream?
Speaker 5: I'm sorry? What was the question?
Speaker 4: Can you roll for me?
Speaker 5: Okay? Thirty eight thirty eight?
Speaker 4: There's power admitting from the sunglasses. It feels safe and
it feels familiar. You turn around, the staircase is gone.
Docness remains.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Is the door in the in the bowl still there?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: I would try putting the glasses in the bowl.
Speaker 4: You put the glasses in the ball, nothing happens. You
feel as if someone is has wrapped their arm around you.
Speaker 6: I would.
Speaker 5: Does it does it feel like someone I recognize? Or
is it just a present? The comforting presence okay, fifty three.
Speaker 4: It is a comforting present presence, but it does feel familiar.
Speaker 5: Okay. Can I move out into the void where the
stairs used to be? Or am I stuck on the
landing in front of the door.
Speaker 4: You can move out into the void. Yes, when you
take you go to take a couple of steps, and
I feel someone tugging at your jacket to beg you
to stay.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: If you look off into the void, you will. It's
weird because it's all black. It's all dark. However, you
can make out silhouettes, endless of them from now, from then,
from the four, from the future. Maybe it's hard to say.
Speaker 5: Do I recognize any of the siltle words? Rule forty with.
Speaker 4: The forty you don't recognize them, but you recognize they
are people, or at least the shape of a person.
Some have more distinct features than others, but it's all
very blurry. Still. You would probably see different maybe hairstyles,
head shapes, stuff like that. You could probably discern that
they're wearing different clothes. Some might be sitting, some might
be standing, some might be laying down. Okay, all fixated.
Speaker 5: On you, though, I would reach up and remove my
glasses and try putting on the aviators. See if that
changes anything.
Speaker 4: It does. All those figures are now nodding their head,
and some maybe even smirking. That you can tell. If
you look at the door, you will see familiar markings
on it.
Speaker 6: What was it eight?
Speaker 4: I believe? And now the door is not closed any longer,
but a jar, and from behind it you hear the
sound of rushing water. Perhaps it's the ocean sounds artificial,
almost as if it's what someone thinks an ocean should
sound like. It's not quite right, but not quite wrong either.
What do you do?
Speaker 5: Reach out a hand towards the opening in the door,
See if I feel anything different, a breeze or a
change in something.
Speaker 4: Do you step forward or do you just reach out?
Speaker 5: Probably smell step forward to be able to get within range.
Speaker 4: You smell stale popcorn, an expired cola syrup. It's faint,
which is odd because your vampire sensus they should be overwhelming.
Your jacket tugs towards the door.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would. I would walk through it, maybe glancing
over my shoulder one last time at the shadowy figures
in the distance.
Speaker 4: They are if they had those have that have seats
on the edge of it. Those who are not are
now you can tell, focused on you, brimming with anticipation.
And as you walk through the doorway, the door closes,
and if you heard any whispering before from them, you
no longer do, and maybe you no longer will ever again.
As you cross the threshold, you find yourself in an
empty theater. It's a movie theater, but it's it's old
and it looks how can I put this? It's a
proper theater that was retrofitted to become a movie theater.
Speaker 6: There's a screen that looks like.
Speaker 4: It is a bit too small for the stage. And
you see everyone that was just interviewed, plus Studio Moog,
but not Studio Mog. No, you don't see studio move Nope,
scratch that. You see visionary, you see pulsry, You see
dead Eye, and they as you woke up, see Moog.
You look at dead Eye and dead Eye, however, doesn't
look like a walking corpse. What does she look like.
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 13: I looks like a normal woman in her mid twenties,
brown hair, glasses. She's wearing a printed T shirt and
a stripe one over top. Of course, she's smiling.
Speaker 4: She's smiling. Sorry, go on, No, she's smiling.
Speaker 6: Mood.
Speaker 4: Her smile makes you feel like you are seeing the
sunrise again. But you would not ever dare that out loud.
You walk into the theater and you see the hit
movie water World on the screen, but it's blurry. Can't
quite make out what's going on. You see visionary pulse
rate and dead eye mid discussion, very loud, disrupting the movie.
And there are those scattered about.
Speaker 7: Kevin Kostner has this secret?
Speaker 5: What are you talking about?
Speaker 13: Man?
Speaker 7: It's so good?
Speaker 6: I wish you would tell it. Maybe picked the pace
up here?
Speaker 7: Oh it will I can't wait.
Speaker 13: Let me just what's a movie?
Speaker 6: He was a Seattle aeron or he was a baseball
player before this?
Speaker 13: Yeah, like a real ulysses?
Speaker 7: Oh did I.
Speaker 6: Visionary?
Speaker 4: You notice your best friend walking on boo?
Speaker 6: Oh? Come on, I mean I don't know why. I
don't know why you got to look in the mirror
before we go sit and watch a movie.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's gonna be dark in here anyway. God, Also,
take the take the glasses off. It fucks with the
fucking color grating, you know, like you want to look
at it the way that they made it.
Speaker 8: Let him have his glasses, he needs them a part
of him.
Speaker 4: Whatever, Just sit down, Come on, I'll go over.
Speaker 5: And sit next to them. If that I is at
the end of the group, I would sit next to them.
Speaker 13: Come on, and I like pat the seat next to
me as you go to sit down and then elbow
you er. Do you see some real good shit?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I hear they drink piss in this.
Speaker 6: Movie, but it didn't happen yet. Don't worry, you didn't
miss it.
Speaker 7: I spoiler?
Speaker 1: Is that a spoiler?
Speaker 10: Fuck?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 13: I avoided so much about this movie, and now I
know they drink piss.
Speaker 7: Do I like that?
Speaker 13: Does it make it better or worse?
Speaker 7: Fuck?
Speaker 6: How many there's a surprise we're gonna find out?
Speaker 4: Do you know his secret?
Speaker 5: Is it that he drinks piss? I mean there's a
lot of water in this movie.
Speaker 7: Oh it's about his ears?
Speaker 6: Oh what is it?
Speaker 8: What is it?
Speaker 7: Do you really want to know?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, obviously, Yes.
Speaker 6: He's a fish's fish. What the hell?
Speaker 13: That better not be a fucking pop point or that's
like gonna be the worst movie I've ever seen.
Speaker 7: No, it's going to be good, trust me.
Speaker 6: He's always rat. Remember he'd done this before. Never roll.
Speaker 13: Okay, whatever, let's just watch the worst movie ever made together,
and it'll be the best movie ever made because we're
watching it together.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: You remember when we saw Jurassic Park and he knew
a guy from Seinfeld was gonna screw him over?
Speaker 9: Are you telling a lie?
Speaker 4: Hold on, I need to roll now. I nearly forgotten.
I was having so much fun watching. Oh fuck, I
ruled the four Yes, okay, so you you'll be fine.
I'm sure. Someone stands up in the middle of the
theater if you all are kind of towards the back. There,
front and center, they are wearing a water World T shirt.
Speaker 6: There.
Speaker 4: He is a very large man, and he stands up
and says, He stands up and says.
Speaker 6: What the fuck?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 4: I was enjoying this movie and you just ruined the
piss part. I brought all my friends here and we
were sitting here. This is the first night, and all
you wanted to do with waiting for this and the
fucking drink?
Speaker 6: Are you insane? Sit down, man, Throw a popcorn at him.
Speaker 4: Sit down this This man gets wild up. He's large,
maybe six foot four or five. He's built like a
football player.
Speaker 13: Ay, man, listen, the guy pissing into his own mouth
isn't going to change the story enough for you to
not enjoy it. Okay, so just you know, watch it
chilled out and it's in his own.
Speaker 6: Mouth, now what?
Speaker 4: You just can't help.
Speaker 6: Yourself waiting until you see the tattoo there.
Speaker 4: And then four more men stand up, all bigger than
the last, and he says, you know what, I'm fucking
done with it. Let's kick the shit out of these
fucking nerds boo, and they run at you, and we're
not gonna do proper initiative or anything like that. Whoever
speaks first acts first.
Speaker 9: I start dancing with the first one that comes to us.
I grab him and start keeping a won't terrified.
Speaker 4: He's fighting you tooth and nail. He's trying to get out,
but he just can't. He's like, he looks over what
the what the fuck?
Speaker 7: What the who?
Speaker 6: And the Steve do anything?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 9: He smells so nice. Now be a gentleman on our
first date?
Speaker 6: Vision, What do you do? I think I'll stand up
to what I mean? They're all big right, Yes, hey man,
you're playing football? What the fuck of course I play football? Well,
I hope you enjoyed it, because she ain't gonna play
it again. And then I just fuck does that mean
I kick him in the knee and you.
Speaker 4: Kick him in the knee and it fucking goes the
wrong way. It just snaps right, and he is down
on the ground and he hits the side of his
head on the chair and he's out, cold, blood spilling out.
One of them goes after.
Speaker 6: Dead.
Speaker 13: I yeah, I raised my hands. Hey wait, what are
you doing? What are you doing?
Speaker 4: Hah huh, Cora, you feel your hands start to get hot.
I'm sorry, Cora Moog, you feel your hands start to
get hot? And what would you like to do?
Speaker 5: I think I would instinctively step in front of that
I and go, uh hey, buddy, you really you really
want to do this instead of watching the movie? Come on,
just go sit down?
Speaker 6: What what the fuck me? Of course I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 4: You're all ruining the movie.
Speaker 6: I don't give a shit whatever.
Speaker 4: I'm not a I am from the nineties, don't care
about any of this shit. And he go he goes to.
Speaker 6: It's not like it's going to be on TikTok later.
What do you think to record this?
Speaker 4: He goes to punch Dead Eye right in the face.
Speaker 5: I think, without even thinking, my hand would go out
and either block or push aside or sweep his arm.
Speaker 4: You go roll for me real quick. I want to
see what the dice say.
Speaker 6: Twelve.
Speaker 4: You go to do that, but that's not what happens.
You catch his fist and you know your hand and
it begins to boil, and you look over at Dead
Eye and you look back at the man and he
drops to the thor screaming, pulse rate your dance partner.
You swung him a bit too hard, and now his
neck is snapped.
Speaker 9: Oh, I'm still talking to him about his past.
Speaker 4: Not anymore, my friend.
Speaker 7: Well he can't hear me, but I still go.
Speaker 4: There's one more remaining, by my account.
Speaker 2: Hold on, he's that interview with the Vampire moment where
he's dancing with the core.
Speaker 7: I'm dancing with the corpse.
Speaker 9: His blood is out of my mouth and I'm saying,
do you remember in the sixth grade when you tried
on your mother's dress?
Speaker 12: What night?
Speaker 8: That was.
Speaker 4: The one remaining backs up into the stage front.
Speaker 7: What the fuck?
Speaker 6: What the fuck?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 6: Come on, it was only just messing around. We're going
to do anything on us? What the fuck are you guys?
I think I'm gonna go over to him and I'm
gonna get in a serace and go. Look, man, do
you want to wash this guy? Drink piss or not?
So sit down, shut the fuck up, or go get
your friends some help. The they're all they're all fucking
denic thing. I can't say I don't need help. And
you can sit here and watch this guy guy in
the movie.
Speaker 4: Do you force him to watch the movie? What do
you do?
Speaker 6: He comes sit next to us, you know what, You'll
be fucking quiet.
Speaker 4: He runs for the exit. I grab him, You grab him?
How do you grab him?
Speaker 6: Tell me bye? Clearly? Football tackle him to the ground,
and I just if I can, I'll pick him up.
Speaker 4: You football tackle him to the ground, and you go
to rag him by his leg? Maybe, well, which is
that you picked? You drag him by the leg or
pick him up. Let's just say he's half the man
he used to be.
Speaker 6: Oh when I hit him?
Speaker 4: Yes, he football tackled him.
Speaker 6: Pieces oh oh booth, Oh shit, man.
Speaker 13: God, what a mess.
Speaker 5: You guys can't take you anywhere else?
Speaker 7: Would you like to meet him? And I hold his
head up and start.
Speaker 13: Pulse, or just don't bring him home like last time. Okay,
Christ stank for a week?
Speaker 8: Why not just for a few days, just just one though,
I carries guy.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be no, no, no, wait, I have a
great idea.
Speaker 2: Stick him in front.
Speaker 5: It will be like ms T M ST three.
Speaker 6: K Yes, I don't catch that man. Can we even
catch that ow?
Speaker 7: Let's find out.
Speaker 9: I throw him ut visionary Oh Jesus Christ.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, fine, And I'm just dragging them pieces up
to the front and setting.
Speaker 4: Them up in the thing.
Speaker 6: All right, you set up your audience action.
Speaker 7: What's everyone else in the theater?
Speaker 6: Theater?
Speaker 4: Nope, that was it? That was everyone else?
Speaker 6: Oh good, because it was the last show. It was
the very last showing what I've been showing. Alraight, We're
gonna have to get rid of these bodies that one
before when we leave, so as you I'm.
Speaker 5: Sorry, we can like the nineties the popcorn.
Speaker 6: Stuff them in the garbage can on the way out.
Maybe it makes sense.
Speaker 4: As you go and you set up, you'll make shift
audience again and miscellaneous seats throughout the theater. You go
when you sit next to each other, Yes, Moog, you
find visionary and dead I on either side of you.
Pulse Rate isn't city Well, correct me if I'm wrong
on this one. I don't imagine pulse Rate sits on
the seats normally. I think he sits on the top
of the backrest and his feet are on the proper seat.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh yes, perched.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you or resume your viewing of water World,
and you've made it just in time for the piss drinking, which.
Speaker 6: Is five minutes.
Speaker 4: That's a great yeah, except oh yes, there's always what
thirty minutes of previews?
Speaker 6: Except Cora, Cora, can you rule for me?
Speaker 5: Forty eight?
Speaker 4: You it's blurry, it's out of focus, and you don't
hear anything. But it's from your past. You are watching
as if someone is displaying a movie from where do
you think from? When either.
Speaker 5: This is from Moog's past?
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, this is from your past? Here?
Speaker 5: Is it still blurry?
Speaker 11: Though?
Speaker 4: Yes? With the forty eight it's a bit blurry. You
could try to get it sharpened if you like.
Speaker 5: I think before I realized, I would throw my hands
in the air and go.
Speaker 13: Come on all this really, go travel here.
Speaker 5: We're here. We've just had a I, and the movie's
not even in focus, and would look behind up at
the box where the window is and see if there's
any like movement up there.
Speaker 4: There is no window. There is a light pointing at
the screen. Your friends are frozen in time. Maybe again, are.
Speaker 6: You pointing a visionary I'm frozen pointing at the screen.
I misjudged my fitness to do this while you've seen this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so after after realizing that it's not the it's
not the regular movie, what would first hip me off
that it's not water World? What we came here to watch?
Speaker 4: What do you mean.
Speaker 5: You're saying it's a memory? Yes, so what would first?
But it's blurry? So what would first hip me off
that it's not the movie we went to see?
Speaker 4: Oh? A feeling. You have this feeling, and you feel
as though something is trying to turn your head away
from it, gently, though not forceful, inch in a protective way,
almost almost as if maybe not turning your head, maybe
trying to blur your vision even more.
Speaker 6: Oh, that's what it is.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's almost as if something is trying to stop
you from watching a scary movie. Do you allow it?
Or do you want to see? What's on the screen.
Speaker 5: I think. I think the combination of the blurry image
and the feeling of something trying to keep me from
watching I would maybe realize what it was. The blur
of colors would be just enough for me to put
it together.
Speaker 4: And now you're feeling deja vu, out of body, dejavou
if that's even possible. What would you like to do?
Speaker 5: Does it feel like I there's a feeling that's trying
to keep me from watching it, like it's a scary movie.
But is there something else that's compelling about the fact
that I'm seeing a memory on the screen? Like if
am I meant to see it?
Speaker 4: Are you meant to see it? I think that it
feels like an invasion almost, but not for you, Korra.
It feels like it's your magic displaying it for some reason,
maybe an aftershock maybe not maybe roll please, m power
has gone straight to my head twenty five With A
twenty five, you feel a similar feeling to when the
echo of your magic came back. You didn't do that,
it just happened, and now you're not doing this, but
it's just happening.
Speaker 5: Would you like to know what the memory would be?
Speaker 4: I would love to know what the memory would be.
Speaker 5: I think it would be disorienting because at this point
I would probably have forgotten that I was Korra, and
I would be thinking of myself as Moog. But then
the combination of the blur of the screen and the
colors and the sensation of don't look, don't watch would
be like a sense of vertigo of recognizing, oh, that's
what it is, and I think I would with the
sense of deja vous. Remember it was when I was eleven,
and it was the first time that I went to
my uncle's business, because I had a large family and
a lot of them ran their own kinds of shops,
and I'd been to my uncle's shop before, but it
wasn't until I was eleventh that I went in the
back room, and it was the first time that I
saw exactly what he did. And the first thing that
I remember seeing was the hooks hanging from the ceiling
and the corpses hanging from them.
Speaker 6: Pigs peaks. I'm sorry, please go in mm hmm.
Speaker 4: It's because it's going full circle, because the fucking Yawlt's weapon,
then the fucking pigs on the lumps, So sorry, please continue.
I'm muting myself now.
Speaker 5: And at that age, I don't think I had put
together yet that the tidy little packages of meat in
the front of the store had come from these animals
hanging in the back. And for the first time I
understood what the stains on my uncle's apron were, and
that the way that he sliced the meat in such
a clean and efficient way meant that or came from
the daily interaction with these dead things. And I remember
my face getting and my body is starting to tingle
and feeling sick to my stomach and realizing, Oh, I'm
in a place of death, and my uncle's business is
the business of suffering.
Speaker 4: Fucking hell, No wonder you don't like attachments to people
of things.
Speaker 6: Sorry.
Speaker 4: What I meant to say was thank you for sharing
that memory with us. That was greatly appreciated. Definitely didn't
say that thing before. This is what We're gonna sweep
that one under the rug. M all right, you want
this happening, and everyone else just sees what the world did.
I says something to you, but you don't hear it.
Speaker 5: What Sorry, what did you say?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 13: Do you find him hot?
Speaker 5: Uh? Oh? I mean I mean yeah, like, look at
that Look at that those cheekbones and that that jaw line.
I mean, I mean it's not.
Speaker 13: But you know, well, yeah, it goes without saying.
Speaker 7: Mook.
Speaker 4: Now it's weird. Pulse Rate is saying something and you
can't hear him. But it's not because you're tuning him
out this time, this time, so it is time, moog.
I am going to ask you to roll to see
if you can hear what pulse Rate is saying.
Speaker 5: Is it roll?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 5: Fifty three fifty three?
Speaker 4: It's a whisper. You get the gist of it. What's
the gist of it, pulse Rate? The geest is.
Speaker 7: How we get to know exactly what's on her skin, Moog.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter what the gist of it is. Now
the visionary is speaking, you cannot hear him, and I
am going to ask you to roll again.
Speaker 5: Seventy nine.
Speaker 4: You will never hear what he says. In this moment,
it's probably all areas. Look down at your hand and
it's kind of close to dead Eye's hand and almost instinctually, no,
you know, what what do you do with that hand?
Speaker 5: Is it the first time I'm aware of where it's placed?
Speaker 4: Or do I tonight. Yes, in this moment, yes, I think.
Speaker 5: Once I realize how close it is to dead Eye's hand,
I like, uh, like go to clench my fingers and
then force myself to relax and maybe like scooch my hand,
maybe like a centimeter closer the dead eyes.
Speaker 4: Dead Eye, you noticed this is not a setoma. It's
like a couple inches closer. Now he thinks, this guy
over here, he's probably up to some joke or something
at you'll expense. Maybe I don't know who's to say.
Speaker 13: I, uh, freeze. I don't move my hand away. I
leave it where it is, and I'm kind of holding
still and sneaking looks out of the corner of my eye.
Speaker 4: What do you do? Moog?
Speaker 5: I feel like, uh, this would be a very moog
moment of uh. There'd be like a in a stretch
and like a repositioning of the body. But the hand
stays perfectly still in like the position.
Speaker 13: Oh man, I would like ever so almost in my
move my pinky finger a little bit over and then
back a little and then I have no idea what's
going on in the movie.
Speaker 4: Time out on this scene. Production, Barry, this is for
you right now. Thank you I appreciate Imon Diamond Imon
moove your last move? What do you do.
Speaker 5: Last move?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: I think Uh, if I were to be doing the
flicking my eyes to the side to see whatever I
can see, what would I notice? Uh? Did I from
like out of my peripheral vision?
Speaker 13: You are very familiar with my physicality, and my physicality
is usually pretty closed and pretty tight. I usually keep,
you know, as tight in myself as possible. You would
notice that my hand hasn't moved, but my head is
kind of angled down, So you're like, she's not watching
the movie. You know, That's what I imagine you would think,
because I'm not really looking at the screen, and I'm
breathing sort of tensely, like quickly but not I'm like
trying to cover it, you know. Yeah, it's very I
think the closest thing that I could say is it's
like very teenage. It's very like what someone who doesn't
know what to do in this situation would do, like
don't move because you don't want to scare them off,
but like, you.
Speaker 5: Know, yeah, okay. So I think the combination of that
plus the pinky moving away then moving back, I think
I would just simply smile a little softly to myself,
and then move my pinky over so that our pinkies
are touching, and.
Speaker 13: I would like, I would like flinch the moment you
touched me, like my pinky would flinch away, and then
I would put it back slowly.
Speaker 4: And normally this is a way the scene would end,
and it would be this really touching moment when yeh,
a boy who fell for the girl on New Year's
Eve would find the strength to pursue that feeling.
Speaker 6: However, you are your.
Speaker 4: Own most enemy, Moog, and you just had to get
that one line in because God forbid someone learned your
true feelings. God forbid you she were vulnerable. What do
you say?
Speaker 5: You know, honestly, I don't know if I trust my
mood channeling right now. I think possibly in this moment,
I would still be maybe to have like a moment
of like blur where I kind of come back to
myself and realize I'm kra And I like the idea
of almost me being stuck in your memory and my
mouth just opens and your voice comes out and says
whatever you would say to ruin the moment.
Speaker 4: Your mouth opens and the words ah, you've gotten some
of that ooze on. This is a new jacket. Come on,
come out, you're not proud.
Speaker 13: Of I rank my hand. Sorry sorry, yeah, sorry yeah,
And I pull my arms into my chest and I
slide down the seat, pull my leg away from you
and lean lean as far away as I can. So sorry.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I have hearn that.
Speaker 4: Why couldn't you just I've kept your mouth shut for once?
Why are you a little boy with his comic books,
afraid afraid to let anyone know how you truly feel?
You have become the thing you fear. It's a good thing.
You have eternity to try and make it out right.
And as you have that final thought, those embers come back,
blurring your vision and used to come. When you open
your eyes again. Ah, when you open your eyes again,
your senses are yet again consumed by the overwhelming on
sort of fashion embers dancing against your nerves, never painful,
but a warm with high a minor irritation. Blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Something about it
or an only cold void doesn't seem as cold as
a movie theater, does it? Cinema? As you reach out,
you feel only the fire fighting against the void, getting
weaker and weaker. There is nothing else except off in
the distance. You hear the sound of a nineteen sixty
three Fender Precision bass guitar. Rule for me, please.
Speaker 5: Twenty at twenty.
Speaker 4: You immediately know what is going on right now. You've
seen this before, Cora, you've returned. You approach the smiling
one as a light begins to show your way. Do
you approach the bass as you did before, the base
of the statue?
Speaker 5: Yes, I do, excellent.
Speaker 4: He swings the bass guitar to his back in a
practice and fluid motion, and he turns around and smiles.
The bass guitar is, of course still playing, even though
he is no longer strumming it gently, softly and peacefully.
He takes back his aviator sunglasses, puts him down for
a moment, and winks as he walks off into the darkness.
The room begins to shake and rumble. You can still
kind of hear music echoing through the quiet destruction of
the chamber, Once filled with the effigies of the gods
of old. They crumble around you, You see everyone else,
and you hear a sickening snap as Moog falls to
the floor unmoving, and this, my friends, is where we
end today's episode.
Speaker 6: Move, get up, Get up, Moog, moog?
Speaker 15: What the hell?
Speaker 6: Widen the moving? Get up? Please? Yes, I'm gonna get
some help.
Speaker 14: He's not moving, moove.
Speaker 7: Don't play around moog, so shake him.
Speaker 10: They can't shake him.
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Speaker 13: My time