Chapter 52: Old Friends

12 May 2026 · 2 h 13 min · 40 chapters

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In short

Midnight Burger’s diner is targeted for destruction in Cryptessia. The crew races to stop Jazinka’s quantum-vacuum-powered “big gun,” while trans-dimensional complications force them to rebuild plans, recruit an unconventional engineer (Leif), and confront the weapon’s ability to deliver information as well as energy. The episode also reveals multiverse backstory (the “Big Bounce Theory,” alternate versions of characters, and Philomena’s son’s art connection) and ends with the weapon being primed to test an audio-delivery “side project.”

Guests (in-episode guests/guest characters): This episode is an audio drama with no external celebrity guests listed in the transcript. Key guest-like characters include:

  1. Jazinka: an android/weapon creator who harvests quantum vacuum fluctuations and adds subroutines.
  2. Philomena: a physicist/organizer who recruits scientists and is connected to the multiverse “Big Bounce Theory.”
  3. Professor Alyssa Keithley (Caltech): history of lab-mice escape; “delayed onset childhood.”
  4. Professor Maddox: works on secret physics in antiquated Dutch shorthand.
  5. Professor Sagnier: rumored kitchen-table notes; confirms trans-universe origin via spectrometer frequency shift.
  6. Leif: an off-grid engineer living in the woods; helps build the motorboat/ship.
  7. Effie, Zebulon, David, Carl, Casper, X: recurring crew members who coordinate, pilot, and investigate.

Key claims

The weapon’s energy can be harvested from quantum vacuum fluctuations; targeting nearly completes once Midnight Burger is detected; the targeting matrix may be flawed due to “two diners” signal confusion; the gun can be repurposed to deliver an audio recording.

Notable examples

The “lion in a cage” analogy for why people resist change; the “daisy cutter” weapon story (Danny Mars) explaining “It’s what I do”; Leif’s foam trap and rapid ship construction; the final “audio recording” test idea.

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Jack's Dilemma

0:31 to 0:43

Jack faces an unusual situation and seeks help with a serious problem.

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Jack's Dilemma

0:54 to 1:44

Jack faces an unusual situation and seeks help with a serious problem.

“The guy who looks like a golden retriever and the aggressive one with a mouldy leather jacket.”

Discussing the Gun's Potential

1:44 to 3:21

Characters explore the implications of a powerful weapon and the diner’s resilience.

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Testing the New Weapon

3:21 to 8:16

Jazinka explains the weapon's capabilities and testing methods.

“You two for two, right back home, let y 'all let's go.”

Flight to an Undisclosed Location

8:16 to 10:38

The characters are flown to an unknown destination while navigating intrigue.

“As soon as Midnight Burger is detected in the Cryptessia system, I will target the weapon and fire.”

Introducing the Plan

10:38 to 14:01

Characters discuss their plan to bring back lost minds and the challenges involved.

“It's not as impressive as the leather seats, but it's nice work.”

Trouble with Two and Three

14:01 to 15:06

Discussing the challenges of bringing back two entities from the multiverse.

“I don't know how to solve this problem right now, and I don't have time.”

The Unbelievable Plan

15:07 to 16:22

A conversation about an unbelievable story with compelling evidence.

“Will we all get one of these when it's utopia?”

Molecular Revelations

16:23 to 18:37

Unveiling the molecular differences of a mysterious character and implications.

“I really need that to not be my nickname.”

The Teddy Bear's Journey

18:38 to 20:51

A nostalgic revelation about a lost teddy bear from another universe.

“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.”
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Facing an Imminent Danger

20:52 to 22:08

Discussing the urgent need to prevent a catastrophic event.

“Once upon a time, my son ran away from home.”

Reflections on Humanity and Science

22:09 to 25:58

A critical look at the intersection of science and human ethics.

“And we, that's you and I, Carl, we have to figure out a way to stop it.”

The Dual-Purpose Weapon

25:59 to 28:00

Exploring the potential of a weapon that serves multiple functions.

“Maybe Danny just needed something else to do, Carl.”

Exploring the Nature of Weapons and Information

28:00 to 29:18

The characters discuss the dual functionality of a weapon as a means of delivering both energy and information.

“What if your weapon could also be something else?”

A Conversational Exchange on Duties and Notions

29:18 to 30:26

Characters engage in a dialogue about their current state and the concept of having a 'notion'.

“You seem to be wandering a bit about the ship, dear.”

Concerns Over the Future and Psychologies

30:26 to 35:55

The conversation shifts to worries about the impact of their actions and the psychology of change in people.

“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.”

Connections and Alternate Realities Revealed

35:55 to 38:18

Exploring connections between characters through shared memories and alternate reality implications.

“Hey, what was that thing you were talking to other me about?”

Revelations on Physics and Theories

38:18 to 41:16

Discussion about astrophysics, personal discoveries, and the implications of their theories.

“When you walked into Ava's office, you knew both of us.”

The Ethics of Creation

42:52 to 47:07

Explore the philosophical dilemmas around creating destructive technology.

“I'm sure you could have invented a better way to communicate.”

Searching for the Engineer

47:07 to 48:52

A team searches for an unconventional engineer in the woods.

“This will be the alpha test of the targeting procedure.”

Unexpected Encounters

48:52 to 51:46

Encountering unexpected figures and navigating social dynamics.

“Okay, I'm going to go a little deeper into the woods.”

Building the Motorboat

51:46 to 56:00

The team discusses their plans for constructing a unique motorboat.

“I'm really getting explaining everything again.”

Navigating Interdimensional Travel

56:00 to 58:20

The characters discuss the complexities and humor of interdimensional travel and project management.

“We're gonna set ourselves down and wait.”

Hot Dogs and Relationships

58:20 to 1:00:40

Light-hearted conversation about hot dogs and underlying tensions in relationships.

“It doesn't sound like you're getting anywhere.”

Reflections on Space and Responsibility

1:00:40 to 1:04:20

A discussion on space travel aspirations and the responsibilities that come with them.

“I may have mentioned something when we first got here about, you know, the fuzziness.”

Engineering Marvels and Personal Growth

1:04:20 to 1:10:00

Characters explore their engineering skills and the importance of collaboration.

“What a shitty thing to tell someone How'd you end up out here?”

Conversations About Art and Support

1:10:03 to 1:13:28

A discussion about attending a gallery opening and supporting friends.

“Are you having flashbacks to the womb watching this?”

The Cube Reveal

1:13:28 to 1:15:54

The characters reveal and discuss the functionalities of a mysterious cube.

“It's actually several complex layers of functionality.”

Colonizing the Solar System

1:15:54 to 1:18:51

Plans are made for colonizing space, with playful banter among characters.

“Hey, you guys aren't going to Mars, are you?”

Signal Confusion and Unexpected Visitors

1:18:51 to 1:21:25

A discussion about signal detection leads to unexpected encounters in space.

“I will archive this matrix and begin a new file.”

Listener Shoutouts and Creative Names

1:24:00 to 1:36:38

Explore a creative list of listener names and humorous character titles.

“The Bears are joining the Bethany War against the Bethany's bearing arms for the bigots on behalf of Bigfoot Benny and the Bigfoot Jets.”

Listing the Community Names

1:38:00 to 1:39:12

A comprehensive listing of names from the community, showcasing the diverse contributors.

“Max, Nia, Ivan, and Mark will see you at six.”

Extended Community Acknowledgments

1:39:12 to 1:48:43

Continued enumeration of community members, celebrating contributions and unique identifiers.

“Carp Fishman, The Great Goblino, Low Oxygen, Save the Mungos, Joji the Birdwatcher, A flock of gray horses from the top of a sycamore.”

Final Community Messages and Farewells

1:48:59 to 1:52:00

Concluding remarks including final acknowledgments and good wishes to listeners.

“Whiskered, any two hands for the double high five?”

A Whimsical Greeting

1:52:00 to 1:53:38

Listeners are welcomed with an upbeat and quirky message.

“I hope something good happens to you today.”

A Parade of Names

1:53:38 to 1:57:16

A rapid-fire listing of creative character names and playful phrases.

“Scout and Foxglove says the floor is lava.”

The Multiverse of Characters

1:57:16 to 2:01:09

Exploration of a diverse set of characters and their unique traits.

“Patricia the Time Lord Kashak the Lizard Wizard Casts Check Engine Light Mango Connoisseur Britty Bug the Quirky Jester The Big Moose and His Wife the Little Moose That Old Glory Coal G.L.”

The Quirkiness Continues

2:01:09 to 2:06:00

Continuation of amusing naming and character references with humor and wit.

“Ivy Paisley, Toast, Sue Watts, Myrtle, Caitlyn, Leader of the Unicorn Revolution, Transdimensional Delivery Man, delivering pipe across the multiverse, apparently.”

Character Introductions and Backgrounds

2:06:00 to 2:11:09

Get to know the various characters and their quirky personalities.

“Then Steena says, Thud Tweed, Enigmatic Catbird, Countess of Carbon.”

Discussion on Script and Influencer Culture

2:11:09 to 2:15:25

Exploration of script reading and cultural references in performance.

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0:41Potential savings will vary. Thanks for supporting the Fable & Folly Network. Here's another show we know you'll love. So, my name's Jack Valentine. Seeker, sir. The guy who looks like a golden retriever and the aggressive one with a mouldy leather jacket. The dealer killed seven students in the 90s. This is number eight. You need to let this go. This isn't about my feelings. Isn't it?

1:11Half-price pints of the king's arms. Jack is not a good role model. Do not copy her. I can walk on my own. Mind the furniture. A human is dead and your scent is at his house. She still has blood on her lips. I think I'm in trouble, seriously. I need your help. It's inhumane. And we aren't human.

1:38Whoever's doing this is clearly targeting you.

1:43Jack Valentine, Vampire Detective, is an urban fantasy audio drama by Josie Jaffrey. Available wherever you get your podcasts. P-P-P-P-P-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 gonna 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.

2:27He's trying to get back to Cryptessia, where David is. I brought you balloons. Also, Effie the robot and Zebulon the ship. Zebulon! 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.

3:07Eeps, 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...

3:21Eeps. Let's start the shift. You two for two, right back home, let y 'all let's go.

4:06Carl, I'm going to go ahead and put this in the category of bad. Do you feel comfortable with that?

4:16Okay, 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? 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.

5:12They 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.

5:26Hi. So, Jazinka, this big gun of yours, how does it work?

5:39New 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.

6:35I will test now. That's okay. Juzinka, 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. The stone fox. It is the most recent acquisition. Testing will identify deviations. Maybe skip it, though. Please secure yourself for energy release. Energy release?

7:35The target has been 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 Cryptessia system, I will target the weapon and fire. Fucking great. Any ideas, Carl?

8:50This 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 Alright then No problem Please look over these NDAs while you wait Okay Hey, NDAs.

10:00Guess 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.

10:34So that was one of them, right? What? Her. 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.

11:14We 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. Mmm, 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?

11:57Something like that. Okay, two mimosas. 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.

12:42How'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.

13:21Fine. 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.

13:58Recalibrate 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 something's not working. You can just reboot them into new bodies? Theoretically, I can, but something's not working.

14:41Would 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.

15:12Hello. I'm Philomena. 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. Ruh-roh. 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.

15:59And Professor Sagnier, 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 what 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.

16:42Now 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.

17:26Okay, 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.

17:39But 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. Sagnier? What that would mean that he's from a different universe?

18:33That 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 do? I don't know. Oh, Mama! What? But she's gone. I know. Where did she go? I don't know. Back now, shit! Here you go, Marguerite.

19:19What?

19:24This, uh... A teddy bear? Do you want to tell Ava what that is? This can't, um... 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.

20:14I think we would like more mimosas, please. One second. Ava, 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.

21:00From the beginning. Okay. Once upon a time, my son ran away from home.

21:43You 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 Jazinka figures out how to target that thing, and as soon as the diner gets back to Cryptessia, 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.

22:26There does not appear to be an off switch, or a way to unplug it from the wall. And a cannon as long as a football field does not seem susceptible to me spilling coffee on it.

22:42What'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.

23:05Jazinka 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.

23:29I 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 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 he disgusted the other scientists who were all dedicating their lives to observing space rocks and studying meerkats or whatever.

24:26Danny 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.

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25:23He 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.

25:59Maybe Danny just needed something else to do, Carl.

26:06Wish me luck.

26:14So, Jazinka, 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. Jazinka? An expansion of applications? Yes. I was asked to create the weapon. Right. Jazinka, 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.

27:24You 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?

28:21Jazinka? Please define the data set. Oh, okay. Gee, I don't know. Let's start small. How about a simple audio recording? I can solve this problem. Oh, yeah? Yes. Great. May I have the organism? The Carl? May I have the Carl? Okay. Carl, you're up.

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29:47Dear? Yes, dear. Everything all right? Yes. Dear, I believe so. All right.

30:02You seem to be wandering a bit about the ship, dear.

30:13How are 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 afoot 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.

30:51Dear, 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 iron 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.

31:57I was about to go have some dinner. What's going on?

32:03Effie? 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. Jeez. 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.

33:01How 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 NDA 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?

33:45So 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 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 gonna 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?

34:29It cowers 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.

35:26You 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.

35:52Turns out that video did shock me.

35:57Okay, I'll go check on them. Make sure they're going to be alright. Thank you. Hey, what was that thing you were talking to other me about? A gallery opening? David has a showing at a gallery in Baltimore. That's great. You're gonna 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. Imelda and Scott. Yes. Your hamster. Yes. From when you were eight years old. Yes. Is the name of your international corporation.

36:31In the early days, investors felt more comfortable if I implied I had a partner. 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 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.

37:22Thank 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?

37:38Well, 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 Philomena named her world-changing company after her hamster?

38:18This 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?

39:17What? Are you reading Marguerite's mind right now? Yeah. So she... 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.

40:08Married.

40:12So, 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?

40:58What is this point of null entropy thing? A diner, apparently. Huh. Look at us. Eat our dust, Vera Rubin.

41:16So. So. Motorboat. Right. How do we do that? I've got some ideas. Oh, thank God.

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42:51Why the keyboard? I'm sure you could have invented a better way to communicate.

43:00The 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. Jazinka, you said that this weapon is powered with new energy? Yes. By harvesting quantum vacuum fluctuations? 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, Jazinka. That energy is supposed to be allowed to return to nothing again.

43:56I 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, Jazinka. 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.

44:42I 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.

45:32But 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?

46:35I cannot. Right. Empathy is not really your thing, is it?

46:49What is that? Jazinka? Target has been detected. Quadrant three. Shit. Beginning targeting sequence. Shit. 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? Unlikely. Shit.

48:00Okay. 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.

48:36Leaf? Leaf, are you out there? I know you saw the plane land, man. Come on. In his defense, this is exactly where I imagine Engineer is 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 us girls, he's got all sorts of reasons to get back there.

49:24Like what? I probably shouldn't say. Ava 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, Philomena. 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.

50:07Did 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? It can be. It's a fine line.

50:48So 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 breadcrumb. 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.

51:30There. 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.

51:51A 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 us 24 hours ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. Okay. Okay, let me explain.

52:15I'm really getting explaining everything again. Fatigue. How about you? Kind of. You want to just do the thing? Okay. One moment, Leith.

52:28Uh... She'll just be a second.

52:35Really nice up here, aside from the foam. How are the winners? Is there a lot of snow? 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?

52:58Holy shit! Oh my god. I did it. Whoa. Motherfucker. You did it! That was fun. Next time, Dodger Stadium. What the fuck is that? Leaf, this is the Nancy Sinatra. What is it? It's your ship.

53:24What?

53:28Fifteen men on a dead man's head Yo ho ho and a puddle of rum Drink and the devil has done for the rain Yo ho ho and a puddle of rum Yo ho ho and a puddle of rum There, right there Go through that gateway there Here I go, dear

53:54So? 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?

54:50Have you considered me tanning your backside? 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.

55:16Think we'll be back for karaoke tonight? I'm sure I don't know, David. You slayed Cotton-Eyed Joe the other night. I do like that Cotton-Eyed Joe. It's 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 bristles 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. Okay, fine. Let's follow some knees, y 'all. We have emerged.

56:03Yes, alright. Let's drop anchor right here, husband. Slowing to a crawl.

56:15What now? We're gonna set ourselves down and wait. Fantastic.

56:27Anyone want to play I Spy? David.

56:35There'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.

57:19You'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? It 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.

58:05A level playing field? Yeah. You just chrissangeled 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.

58:47Leaf 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.

59:29We 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 girls' 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 Walken, but whatever.

1:00:06Let's go. Okay. I'll be right there. Thanks, hot dog man. Please come again. We're always open. This will be fun. I haven't acted drunk since the yarg. 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.

1:00:34What 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, X? I may have mentioned something when we first got here about, you know, the fuzziness.

1:00:59Why 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!

1:01:16You ever get used to that? I'll let you know. Hot dog? Sure.

1:01:30Quite a week. Sure.

1:01:42A 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? 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.

1:02:44There's a lot of stuff in there that... Who's Bert Bert? She's a friend of yours. She's from a planet called Segeus.

1:03:01She's blue. Blue. Yeah.

1:03:10That 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.

1:03:46You know, Leaf, 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.

1:04:04Hey, Leif. Don't build a spaceship and leave 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

1:04:32How'd you end up out here? I was born here You left though Why'd you come back?

1:04:40Mom 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 ten years now. It's not so bad. Nobody messes with you.

1:05:21Leif, 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.

1:06:18I know you know what I mean. You need people adding layers to your life, okay? You're Mick Fleetwood, okay? You need the full Fleetwood Mac experience. Fleetwood Mac hated each other. That was cocaine's fault.

1:06:40Layers. 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.

1:07:05Am I happy? I mean, who's happy, man? You're better. Okay. Let's get you home.

1:07:38I 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 the heinous murder was perpetrated by one curdle mustard in the dining hall with the candlestick.

1:08:43He's right. Fildern. 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. Well, now, David, tell me more about this hat. Yo. What is it, dear? Effie? Zebulon. Flip us around. One moment.

1:09:10There. 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-knockin'.

1:09:37I'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 silicates. 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.

1:10:22Hey, 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.

1:10:49Hey! 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?

1:11:44Well, 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, 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. Ava, there's not an etiquette book written that covers appropriate behavior for our specific situation. We do not have a situation.

1:12:33You 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... 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?

1:13:43You 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.

1:14:53it's been illuminating okay okay this should be okay all right we're inside uh how does it work from here do i have to power it up Poor -

1:15:18Lift off! Cool. What a fucking week. Alright everyone, good work. Let's take about 48 hours off and come back strong on Monday. Alright? Um... What? 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, Leif. Time to put them to work. What are we doing? Colonizing the solar system. What? I call Europa. 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?

1:16:08Mars sucks. Don't go to Mars. Babe, stop being a smart idiot. Fuck. Okay, give me five minutes. Two minutes.

1:16:34Jazinka? Jazinka, 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, um, 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.

1:17:39One 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?

1:17:55That 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. Jazinka, 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.

1:18:59I fear 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? Side project? You were saying you could deliver an audio recording on the back of the energy cascade? Yes. Perhaps then 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.

1:19:51Begin speaking now.

1:19:57Is this thing on? Kazi, listen closely. It's all bullshit.

1:20:25We 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, 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 onto 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 back, I didn't think you'd be wrapped up in a fun little present.

1:21:06David! 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.

1:21:58Oh, fucking great.

1:22:15Thanks for listening to Midnight Burger, y 'all. Be sure and tune in this time next month for more adventures in the vastness. And if time and tide roil you too harshly, or diurnal courses leave you with no safe havens. Just remember, we're out there somewhere looking for you. We open at six. Midnight Burger is made possible in part by our Monte Cristo level and above supporters. Pronghorn, Billy, Bert Bert, Bethany, Second Bethany, Ray Kapsner, Dave Clark, Tegan Rose, KTR, Robbie Rob, Michelle Smith, Andrea Beagle, Burden by Noon, Pago, from the Welsh village of Clanvirpith Gwyngith Gageryth Wundrabith Lintasilia Gogogok adores Midnight Burger.

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1:24:12The Bears are joining the Bethany War against the Bethany's bearing arms for the bigots on behalf of Bigfoot Benny and the Bigfoot Jets. Bunches McGinty and her grumpy old Pinto. A steak? Avalon, Droughtbreaker, A Goddamn Harpoon, Pickle Pancakes, Charlie DeLambert, Bajolanth, Life's One True Love, Miss Chris Still Making Sandwiches, Michael Card, Raven the Neccoqueen, Spike Osorio, Benjamin Davis, Twyla Sands, Alexandra Scaldone, Curtis Barnes, The Huak, Shenzo, Chris the Monster, Persephone Wadacore, Time-traveling, dimension-spanning Goose Named Fig, Cillinzer, Cressara, Fernando Alacuzzi, Wad of Gore, NotThatKeith, Jordan Lawley, Volpe the Space Fox, SomeFuckingSwampWizard, Skeksis, RoyalPunk, Trisha Schaefer says, Ew, David, that is not a taco.

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1:51:56I want Finley to say my name. Well, I guess I'll just go fuck myself then.

1:52:28I hope something good happens to you today. Yes, you.

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1:59:12Uh,

1:59:16sign my shovel. Kay the Flying Penguin honks at the horde of Bethany's encroaching on their nest. Honestly, this is getting absurd. Truck Stop Sandwich, Indigo Escargot, Love My Captain, Joe Malma, Wandering Biscuit, Castriff, Aims Affection for Internet Protection, Retro MG, NightScript, Widget the World Watcher wearing a waistcoat and wig. This Lana is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Uhtred and Rose's Viking Void Vitals, fueling the intergalactic fight against fascism. Yeah, not sure what I'm doing. River Brown, Senior Deuce, Warped Rider, Tim Nacy, Ruben Clamso, Turwin, Morgan Brockman, Sylvie, Friendly Neighborhood Fire Protection Engineer, Skull Bulb, Dustin Watson, Betty White 813, Randy Supreme and Queen Lancaster, Bolivar Shagnasty, The One True Cheap Con, Starscribe, Lucian Thunderstruck, Hohohoom Mamama, Glorbnar 7, now granting refugee status to victims fleeing the Bethany Wars.

2:00:16Dooser now identifies as Roman Durge, The Other Adele, Chef Galval, Leah Hall, Sarah May. Minsky Enterprises is excited to announce that Cone of Silence Consultants, LLC, has been named its exclusive provider of logistics services. Silly Willy Bubble Butt, Sierra Not From Arkansas, Ebenezer Boob, Caleb Tumiala, Jason Woods, Arnie Arbuckle Esquire, Potion Maestro, Nebula Nell, Regulators Mount Up, Wandering Scholar, Kringle Over Coffee, Mad Yogi Eileen, A Cat Named M, Petito Pato, Palace, Big Mo, Dominic Narwhal 8, I am Annie, I live forever and every moment I've existed, I swear to every star in the cosmos, I never forgot it was a gift.

2:00:56The Stone Fox, Sylvia, Pepitos, Slap Power, Henry the Goose, Jennifer Baumer, Ninja Grim Reaper, Miles Nelson, I am a bomb till I think of something else to do, Brrrrit Words, Hotshot Huntley, Momo's Mama, Space Mormon Says What? Ivy Paisley, Toast, Sue Watts, Myrtle, Caitlyn, Leader of the Unicorn Revolution, Transdimensional Delivery Man, delivering pipe across the multiverse, apparently. Matlock, Lord of the 13th Sea, Mr. Trigvie, The Fourth Era, Printing with Cats, Khaleesi Del Mar, Von Vega, Dixie Dinah, 7 ,000 Possums, KBS 1017, Silas Vex, Sarah Jack Sparrow's Space Pony, Re-Vibe, Debbie E, Emma, Mr.

2:01:39and Mrs. Owo, Dusty Ventures, and his pilot Uzi Drifting Through Space, Ronnie Porter, Gloria's Line Cook, Eagle Rock Lobster, The Gabbiest Painter and Her Bird of Fire. Painted Oni, Q-Del, Pharrell, Emily with Two E's, Spaceman Nathan, Ramsey's Niblick the Third, Kerplunk, Kerplunk, Whoops, Where's My Thribble? Jackie Wavelet, Yayoi Gagarin, A Gremlin with the Munchies, Michelle Scaracchio, Genuine Jacob, Space Rooster Randy, Leopard Donut, Poofy Thang, Mellow Nuggets, Keychain Crap, Matt Matt Sharkman, SteeLo, Bumbling Lilybee, Buffy's Daughter. A quick pause so Joe can sip from his tiny teacup.

2:02:15Hey guys, remember that time three years ago that I had a small teacup?

2:02:45Ava's Cigarette Ash, Hugh Biftit, A-Zeus, Anaphylaxis, Scav with Comtax, The Shape-Shifting Sad Girl and Her Girlfriend Say, Joe, You've Done It Again, Pipli Skin in the Pippi Pond, Sarah Nicole, The Kells Fights with the Bethanies, Angry Leafs Lasersaw, Magnus Aerochill, Amy Perry, Christopher Kai, Source Decay, Descendant of the Sweather Catfish Whisperer, Vagabond Mary, Randy's Amigo, Bold Mouse, Katie Mermaid and the Delinquent Duo, Nauman, Nicole,

2:03:34In the mysterious AZHQ, I'll grant you that we have a multiplicity of mics, a jumble of Jameses, a trifecta of Tonys, one of whom still wants to be Leif, but sadly, no Bethany's. Rowan, Vady of the Black and Herald of the Stars. Arianne Can't Manage Normal. Ryan Burnett, The Joyful Nihilist. Dr. Dr. B. Zoprez and the Bumble Army, Growing Into My Farm Boots. Super Beth Becomes an RN, Alongside My Bootstop Farm Friend. Geneva Boss, Arkansan Not Ark and Sawyer, Brothers of the Cosign. Uncivil Gnomes, The Rat Queen Evelyn. Great Lunch Conversation. Captain Scott, Letty Lou. He was a shifty one, that Nick Howard.

2:04:11Kinger was here. Bobby Ray Winland Jr. Bebop Be Dabba Doo Wop. Warped Echoes. Slabs McTerps. Big Brother House. This is Lord Robert O. Tardis. You are live on Channel 4. Please do not swear. Jeremiah Franco. Justin. The Nick of Time. Gothic Rainbow. So We Made It. Cody McClure. McHadley. Eternal Companion. Maxine Lazalt. Jingolos. Eris. Goddess of Nobody. Hazmatilda. Ditsy Bay. Just Your Average Reese. Kyle Church. I Am A Lafe On The Wind. Static Ego. Lolly. Evan M. Dobson. Dave B. Nobby, your friendly neighborhood pathologist, going to be lit, Captain Emerald L, Wayne Hall, Danny Mars, externally screaming, but Bethany, I made biscuits, Scebo and Fuzzle McBumpernitz, Neelix Tiny Wolf, Asher the Raven, Christina Senat is teleporting, BRB.

2:04:59The Shanes 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, Z3DT, Shy Sparrows, BLTN, The Kiwi Duckling, Dana Dana Bobena, Fifi Fofena, Monsters Almanac's Biggest Fan, Aubrey and Her Dad, Tequila Mockingbird, Spweathergoose, Dameron the Space Goblin, I So Pale, Exquisite Whimsy, I Am Lord Zoltan, Hear Me Roar, Pocket Ghost Max, Mags the Conqueror imposes economic sanctions on the NB Bethany's for the whole laser saw car incident.

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2:11:08Welcome, everybody. I'm Hydelon, and I'll be leading our Midnight Burger emotional support group. Starlight, David Pierini, Techno Ranger Rick, Joe's Weaslaf, Virgo Ares Infinity, Best Buds Danny and M, Charles Q. Choi, A Bug Named Nat, CC Ryder, Hunter B, Rudra, Death the Kid, Big Whiskey, All Cockinator, Ron Was Here, Magic Pony, Robert Oliveri, Often Wrong Dan, Jess Gioia, Killer Odd. Dr. Puntkusher Esquire officially opens Closet Baby Cat Speedway for the season.

2:12:04What? Amelia Lucero et al. Fear Now Doesn't Polish the Shiny Melon. Blargo, Blargo, Blargo. The Jazz Man. Tonight at 11.

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2:13:12Uh, attention, Dread Pirate Fred, Fred Burger, we have run out of languages. Please contact our office. What the Chuck, Sonu Nisuno, Ben and Jessica, Todd Van Voorhis, Nea DeRusso, Peachy Zatoichi, Ingi the Grack, and Azula the Brave and their ever-faithful squire Grabthar. Jen Extraneous, Dancing Dog Dreams, Trinket Coralie, and Existentially Exhausted Bean. Well, it's my mom emailing us about Brigadoon at the Pasadena Playhouse, honey. Brigadoon. Brigadoon. At the Pasadena Place. It'll be thick and great. I don't recall I don't know I don't know exactly what vocal fry means honestly it's like oh my god what's that okay I don't remember that part it's like influencer voice oh shit right okay see this is the one I should have checked in on do you like a moment Let me just reread this for a second.

2:14:20This is my favorite. 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 Effie, 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.

2:14:48He'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 Poirot. And there's a whiff of David Suchet's Poirot about this. Just a little bit. So I got to not cross these. I believe in you, Zabulon. All right.

2:15:18So it's a terrible word and I'm so sorry I put it in there. I'm so sorry. Simulacrums. Simulacrums. He could have been talking about a vegetable spiral. Lyser.

2:15:33Vegetable. Vegetable spiral lyser.

2:15:39Vegetable spiral laser. Lyser. and she's getting feelings.

2:15:49In season five. Oh no. She cares about people. What?

2:15:59Oh, fucking great.

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From the publisher

"And then there's you..."


Cast:

Ava - Finlay Stevenson

Marguerite - Lauren Leblanc

Ex - Camille Smicker

Caspar - Joe Fisher

Leif - Tom Moorman

Philomena - Amber Dekkers

Effie - Julie Cowden-Starbird

Zebulon - Neal Starbird

David - Quintin Jones, Jr.

Kazi - Jessica Morris 


Written by Joe Fisher

Directed and Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson

Episode art by Whisperdan


Music:

Torna a Surriento (The Return to Sorrento) - G. Paghara; Ernesto de Curtis, Pref. by Giovanni Martinelli

Pirate Song by Reinald Werrenrath; Robert Louis Stevenson; Henry F. Gilbert

From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water by Fritz Kreisler; Cadman; Kreisler; Carl Lamson


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