Speaker 1: Mag Mill was a production of I Heart Radio and
Speaker 1: Bamford Productions. Ye, Jan, Jan at you home here? What
Speaker 1: are you doing? Are you cooking? Yes? Well attempting? This
Speaker 1: is unusual? Should I tell the fire department to stand by?
Speaker 1: Or smart ass? Don't appreciate your domestic housewife, Janet. We've
Speaker 1: been together for ten years and I've never known you
Speaker 1: to be domestic? What's going on here? You're cooking? You
Speaker 1: have your favorite music on? Something is up? Well? I
Speaker 1: wanted to do something special to celebrate, to celebrate what
Speaker 1: I offered a promotion today. You did. That's wonderful. Congratulations,
Speaker 1: thank you. What is it? It's um, it's a pretty
Speaker 1: huge one, actually, a once in a lifetime kind of deal. Well,
Speaker 1: don't keep me in suspense. It's it's for Project Magma.
Speaker 1: That that's great. Oh, I knew you'd get on board.
Speaker 1: What do they have you doing? Are you on the
Speaker 1: sustainability portion? You know I put in a good word
Speaker 1: with you with Dr Fry, So I was just hoping
Speaker 1: she would get around to making sure that the pilot
Speaker 1: keV what they asked me to pilot the mission? Are
Speaker 1: you fucking kidding me? Hang on, don't get upset. Don't
Speaker 1: get upset. How can you expect me not to? I know,
Speaker 1: I know, it was just very unexpected. I mean, they
Speaker 1: called me in to talk about what I thought was
Speaker 1: my application for the sustainability role, but they wanted to
Speaker 1: and you turn that fucking music off. I can't even
Speaker 1: hear myself think, Kevin. Three years, three years, Jenna. I've
Speaker 1: been working on this project for three goddamn years of
Speaker 1: my life, trying to make this project work, working towards
Speaker 1: this goal, and then you swoop in and take it
Speaker 1: behind my back. It's not like I stole it from you.
Speaker 1: I wasn't even going for it. They came to me,
Speaker 1: they asked me, you know how badly I wanted that, Jenna.
Speaker 1: So now I'm the guy for getting an amazing opportunity. No,
Speaker 1: you're the bad guy for taking the opportunity away from
Speaker 1: your husband when you know how much it meant to me. Jesus, Kevin,
Speaker 1: It's not like I was actively volleying for the position.
Speaker 1: I wasn't working against you. I went and thinking it
Speaker 1: was for something else entirely. But you accepted it anyway,
Speaker 1: didn't you, Kevin? Didn't you? Yes? Un fucking believable, Kevin,
Speaker 1: I love you, but you were acting like a real
Speaker 1: dick right now. I can't you be happy for me?
Speaker 1: This is a huge deal, not just for me, but
Speaker 1: for the both of us. We are both going to
Speaker 1: make history. But history doesn't remember the guy on the ground.
Speaker 1: They remember the guys on the ship. Can come on, Jenna,
Speaker 1: I love you, but I just I need some time. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: wait where are you going out? I need some space?
Speaker 1: Mag Mel Episode three, decidedly not feeling okay. Jesus, this
Speaker 1: thing is really jammed in here having some trouble. What
Speaker 1: was that I said? Are you having some trouble? Hang
Speaker 1: on what I said? It looks like you're having some trouble.
Speaker 1: Just give me a minute. Well, when you're done playing
Speaker 1: handy woman here, I just wanted to let you know
Speaker 1: that sandwiches are done, Sydney sandwiches. You're pulling out all
Speaker 1: the good stuff today. What do you stress eating or something?
Speaker 1: Do you want to eat or not? I do? I do? Thanks.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get cleaned up after this, but I
Speaker 1: am starved. Hey, can I ask you something? What's up?
Speaker 1: When you were over on that ship? What happened? What
Speaker 1: do you mean you were practically there with me the
Speaker 1: whole time. I mean when we lost transmission for a bit,
Speaker 1: you were gone an awful long time. I was offline
Speaker 1: for only like a minute or two, said relax. I know,
Speaker 1: I know, but I don't know. I just had this
Speaker 1: terrible feeling while you were over there, and I was worried. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I came back, didn't I? Yeah? But did anything happen?
Speaker 1: I thought I heard voices. I did too, but I
Speaker 1: think we were just getting some I don't know, electronic
Speaker 1: interference from the ship or something, just artifacts from some
Speaker 1: of their previous transmissions. You know how those radio waves
Speaker 1: work sometimes, got it? Te warp drive back online? Yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: back in business, baby, Finally we should set a course
Speaker 1: for shit. Yeah, where exactly are we going to go? Tee?
Speaker 1: Is there anything around here? Again, we are an uncharted territory,
Speaker 1: so my star maps cannot help. But with the warp
Speaker 1: drive back in place, I can use the sensors to
Speaker 1: try to find something. Yes, do that. I gotta eat
Speaker 1: and then get cleaned up and then find a way home.
Speaker 1: Took the words right out of my mouth, Magmal were
Speaker 1: returned after these messages, and now back to Magmal said
Speaker 1: see Seish keeps free Jesus Earth to sid I've been
Speaker 1: standing here for like ever. Sorry, sorry, I was just
Speaker 1: somewhere else. What did you say? I said, the wonders
Speaker 1: a steaming hot shower can do for you. Oh good,
Speaker 1: feeling better? I take it much. How's things going in here? What?
Speaker 1: What the hell were you just up to? You were
Speaker 1: staring at this thing? What? Oh? Right? Yeah? Do you
Speaker 1: know what it is? I don't know, but you were
Speaker 1: probably right. It looks like an idol of some kind.
Speaker 1: It's not really clay, though, like you thought, well, then
Speaker 1: what is it? Stone? Maybe? But I've never seen stone
Speaker 1: that looks like this before. Somebody carved this thing out
Speaker 1: of stone. They used to carve intricate statues out of
Speaker 1: marble and ancient Greece, so this would have been easier. Okay,
Speaker 1: but still, I mean, what the hell is it? I
Speaker 1: didn't take that good of a look at it when
Speaker 1: I was over there, but now, my god, it's ugly
Speaker 1: as Hell's that ugly? Different? You would say that kind
Speaker 1: of just looks like a man sitting on a box,
Speaker 1: but like a man with like weird growths coming out
Speaker 1: of him. It looks like a guy I dated in
Speaker 1: high school. Yeah, your high school sweetheart had tentacle appendages
Speaker 1: coming out of his face. No, he had an uncompt beard,
Speaker 1: which was even worse. Regardless, I only grabbed it because
Speaker 1: it like called out to me. I guess. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine they brought this thing from home me either.
Speaker 1: Maybe they stumbled across some huge new discovery with it.
Speaker 1: It's interesting, though, where did they get it from? It
Speaker 1: doesn't look like any deities the ancient tribes on Earth
Speaker 1: used to worship. What about the Mars stuff? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was just about to check that before he came in,
Speaker 1: before you went off into day dreamland. You mean, hey, T,
Speaker 1: can you see if this thing matches anything in your files?
Speaker 1: Of course I'll start looking. Hey, how's that? Reading? That
Speaker 1: ship's log coming along to slowly? As I said, it
Speaker 1: is badly damaged, and I keep running into errors. How
Speaker 1: come the log keeps showing up as ours and refusing
Speaker 1: to read ours? What do you mean? I mean as
Speaker 1: the Magma's log? I think due to the ships being
Speaker 1: so similar and the extreme damage done to it, there
Speaker 1: is a glitch in which our ship is reading it
Speaker 1: as its own log, hence causing another error is that normal? Truthfully,
Speaker 1: I am unshore, but much of this backup technology has
Speaker 1: a terrible retention rate, so I am not entirely surprised.
Speaker 1: So if I bang on some panels, do you think
Speaker 1: it would work? I mean that usually does the job
Speaker 1: for me. I was joking. Mostly I will keep at
Speaker 1: it and try to get some answers, provided you do
Speaker 1: not harm my panels, I said, I was joking. God,
Speaker 1: with a billion dollar program, you think they would create
Speaker 1: technology that would I don't know work correctly. As an aside,
Speaker 1: we need to have our check in Janna oh Man,
Speaker 1: can't said go first? Already had mine? Seriously, this is
Speaker 1: what happens when you take two hours hours? Do we
Speaker 1: have to? I mean, we're in the middle of a
Speaker 1: crisis here, which is exactly why we need to do
Speaker 1: these It's not like command is going to get these
Speaker 1: ports back anyway right now, Janna, Fine, let's go get
Speaker 1: it over with. Today is March. This is Jenna Session
Speaker 1: number six one seven. Hello Jenna, how are you today? Dude?
Speaker 1: We were seriously just talking in the other room. Do
Speaker 1: we really need to start each session with that? You
Speaker 1: know what my programming dictates, it's better to start fresh
Speaker 1: with each of these, to get a clearer head so
Speaker 1: you can talk freely. I always talk freely. I don't
Speaker 1: just mean with your language. You know what I am
Speaker 1: referring to. So let us begin again. Hello, Janna, how
Speaker 1: are you today? I'm absolutely amazing, proteus. How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear it. How are you holding up
Speaker 1: with everything going on? Dude? This is important, Janna. The
Speaker 1: more you comply, the faster this session will be over.
Speaker 1: It's fine, okay, everything, it's fine. I'm just one big
Speaker 1: ball of fine. Forgive me for prying, but you don't
Speaker 1: seem fine. Your heart rate is elevated. Can you stop
Speaker 1: checking my vitals please? You know it's part of the
Speaker 1: standard procedure. Yeah, and it's fucking creepy. What's worrying you?
Speaker 1: What's worrying me? Oh? I don't know. Maybe it's um
Speaker 1: the overwhelming sense of dread of being stranded out in
Speaker 1: uncharted space, far from home, with no idea how the
Speaker 1: hell we got here or what the hell we're going
Speaker 1: to do. But yeah, everything is just peachy. Fucking keen
Speaker 1: in't it your sarcasm aside? I do understand the gravity
Speaker 1: of the situation. But do remember that the ship is
Speaker 1: well stocked, and should it be an emergency, you and
Speaker 1: SID will be able to sustain yourselves for many years
Speaker 1: if necessary. Gee, that does make me feel a whole
Speaker 1: lot better. Wow, Why don't we change topics for a
Speaker 1: moment and focus on new developments. That's the newest development
Speaker 1: I've heard. Why do you have some other bad news
Speaker 1: to tell us, Tea? Let's talk about what happened on
Speaker 1: the other ship, the coast ship? You mean, yes, if
Speaker 1: that is what you wish to call it. What about it?
Speaker 1: You were there with said you saw it all too,
Speaker 1: But I wasn't there with you. I can't see what
Speaker 1: is inside your head unless you tell me that's a
Speaker 1: brain t and not one made of circuits and hard drives.
Speaker 1: I know when you are deflecting. How did you feel
Speaker 1: going over there? It was standard up, not a big deal, yes,
Speaker 1: But how did you feel? You said yourself. We are
Speaker 1: in an extreme and abnormal situation, so visiting another vessel
Speaker 1: was bound to elicit some emotions from you. I mean
Speaker 1: it was fine, Sure, a little scary since I didn't
Speaker 1: know what I was walking into, But look it all
Speaker 1: turned out okay, Now, didn't it. Did you hear the
Speaker 1: things that Sid claimed to do? You mean the whispering? Yes? No? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I thought so at first, but I think
Speaker 1: it was just the interference and my nerves getting to me.
Speaker 1: There was nothing they are. Sid was being all paranoid
Speaker 1: and it just got into my head. And what did
Speaker 1: they say? What did who say? The whispering voices? You
Speaker 1: said you thought you heard them at first, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: as it turns out, I didn't. What did you think
Speaker 1: you heard? Then? How could you do this to me? Nothing?
Speaker 1: You hesitated for a moment. Why you know you can
Speaker 1: trust me, Janna? You can tell me. There's nothing to
Speaker 1: tell Okay, what about when the transmission was lost? What
Speaker 1: about it? Do you want to tell me what happened then? Well,
Speaker 1: when a device isn't broadcasting or receiving properly, generally the
Speaker 1: signal is lost until it is restored. What happened on
Speaker 1: the ship, Janna? What was that loud noise before the
Speaker 1: transmission cut out? I already told Sid my elbow hit
Speaker 1: a pan, knocking it to the floor, and after that nothing.
Speaker 1: I waited until the signal came back. I'm surprised us
Speaker 1: to Janna about you hiding things puts us all at risk?
Speaker 1: Well I didn't. Did you look around at all? Did
Speaker 1: you see anything else you might want to share with me?
Speaker 1: I look at me, Jenna. No, okay, I won't push
Speaker 1: if you are not ready to talk about it, but
Speaker 1: at some point you will need to. I know. It's
Speaker 1: just I'm fine, it's nothing. Nothing happened, and I'm back now,
Speaker 1: safe and sound. Okay. Let's just move on and try
Speaker 1: to figure out how to get us home. Okay, And
Speaker 1: how are you doing otherwise? Do you want to talk
Speaker 1: about the other? Is T enough? I said nothing happened
Speaker 1: over there. I wasn't going to ask about that again.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask about the other elephant in
Speaker 1: the room, so to speak. I'm not talking about the
Speaker 1: said thing, and neither am I. I mean the recording,
Speaker 1: the one from your hut. Yes, I know, the one T.
Speaker 1: You don't need to remind me. Last time we spoke,
Speaker 1: you were still defiant about its contents. Have you processed
Speaker 1: it at all? Yes? And I'm feeling okay about it.
Speaker 1: There is nothing I can do about it now. So
Speaker 1: your body says you are decidedly not feeling okay. You
Speaker 1: cannot keep holding things in, Janna, it is unhealthy. Please
Speaker 1: let me help you. I said that I'm fine. Why
Speaker 1: do you insist we talk about this right now? I
Speaker 1: am here to ensure your well being as well as
Speaker 1: help you overcome behavioral patterns that may compromise the success
Speaker 1: of the mission. Right now, you are displaying signs of deception,
Speaker 1: and without confronting the betrayal of your husband, you may
Speaker 1: repeat the same mistake. Believable. You know why don't when
Speaker 1: you stay out of my fucking business, you fucking machine.
Speaker 1: Your business is my business, Janna. Your well being and
Speaker 1: mental health are essential not only to me, but also
Speaker 1: the mission. I only have two mission functions on this trip.
Speaker 1: While my primary mission was to help you both explore
Speaker 1: the Helix stampula, my secondary mission is to assist those
Speaker 1: also on the mission in whichever way possible, including these
Speaker 1: therapeutic check in sessions while on board the Magmaal. You
Speaker 1: are in my care and I need to make sure
Speaker 1: that you continue to function at optimal levels. Optimal levels.
Speaker 1: I'm not a fucking robot t I'm a human being.
Speaker 1: I'll process my own fucking emotions on my own fucking time,
Speaker 1: not when a goddamn tin can tells me to do
Speaker 1: you understand I did not mean to make you upset.
Speaker 1: Jack a little too late for that. If you just
Speaker 1: give me a minute to expect. We're done here, Jenna,
Speaker 1: We're done. Engage computer mode, computer mode engaged, fuck off
Speaker 1: from a computer mode, engaged for horror and programming to
Speaker 1: detected Magmaal will returned after these messages, and now back
Speaker 1: to macmill. Okay, Tee, let's try Tamil. No matches detected. Damn,
Speaker 1: how about Varsie, no matches detected. Jesus, what is this thing?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? I'm just trying to figure out
Speaker 1: this idol you brought back. I can't make heads or
Speaker 1: tails of this thing. You still can't figure out what
Speaker 1: language it is. We really don't have it on file. No,
Speaker 1: I've tried a ton and nothing matches up like Hebrew,
Speaker 1: no matches detected. I haven't got a clue then, and
Speaker 1: you've got nothing, Tea, No, I have been unable to no. Wait,
Speaker 1: hang on, what is it? I've had a background process
Speaker 1: working on decrypting the ship log. Did you do it? No?
Speaker 1: But some bits and pieces have come across that may
Speaker 1: be helpful. Well, spit it out already. According to a
Speaker 1: bit of data I was able to uncover. The language
Speaker 1: appears to be an offshoot of ancient Sumerian Sumerian that's
Speaker 1: from like three tho b C. How do you not
Speaker 1: have that in your memory? Banks, I said, an offshoot
Speaker 1: of Sumerian. Sumerian is effectively a dead language. It went
Speaker 1: extinct around eight hundred BC and used very sparingly until
Speaker 1: one hundred a D. I was not programmed to know it,
Speaker 1: nor was I programmed to know languages deriving from it. Well,
Speaker 1: can you translate for us? No, the data from the
Speaker 1: ship log does not contain an accurate translation key. I
Speaker 1: might be able to surmise some of it or find
Speaker 1: already translated portions as I continue to decrypt it, but
Speaker 1: at the moment it cannot be fully translated. Well that's
Speaker 1: just great. Okay, are you Are you able to find
Speaker 1: out what happened to the other ship yet? No? Not yet,
Speaker 1: But there is more in this data package more bullshit.
Speaker 1: I've managed to uncover or where the other ship retrieved
Speaker 1: this idol? Wait, what you mean like a location? Yes,
Speaker 1: it appears to be from a planet approximately two thousand
Speaker 1: kilometers away. Um, that's not much further away than the
Speaker 1: black hole? Is there anything else on it? To atmosphere
Speaker 1: readings and their findings unknown? Great? Okay, but do you
Speaker 1: know what that means? What they found this stuff on
Speaker 1: some alien planet one that hasn't been discovered yet by
Speaker 1: command back home. That that means there is other life
Speaker 1: out there. We don't know that, Sydney. How can we not?
Speaker 1: That ship is one of ours, and and it definitely
Speaker 1: came from somewhere. What is it doing all the way
Speaker 1: out here? Yeah? But more importantly, why is all the
Speaker 1: crew missing? You should be thinking about that. If they
Speaker 1: did visit some alien world, what happened that they're no
Speaker 1: longer on that ship? Okay? Okay, but this is still
Speaker 1: a huge discovery. What if what if they were sent
Speaker 1: all the way out here, like like on a secret
Speaker 1: mission or something, and they found what they were looking for?
Speaker 1: What if they got out here the same way we did, Sydney,
Speaker 1: did you ever think of that? Okay? Then then maybe
Speaker 1: they're in trouble too, and we could help them. The
Speaker 1: crew might still be alive out there and we could
Speaker 1: save that. I can't even save ourselves. We're stuck. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe it was a generational starship maybe a mission we
Speaker 1: hadn't heard about yet. Maybe they found a whole new
Speaker 1: world and are setting up shop there, but they can't
Speaker 1: get in touch with command either, so they're just waiting
Speaker 1: for someone to find them. We could help with a
Speaker 1: scientific breakthrough, Sydney, I need you to get real. Okay.
Speaker 1: I know this is your first big mission, but I've
Speaker 1: been on hundreds of expeditions in our Solar System and
Speaker 1: stuff like you're saying that doesn't happen. I'd know about it.
Speaker 1: Besides entering into an unknown atmosphere in an unknown planet,
Speaker 1: we'd have a whole list of issues and complications that
Speaker 1: we'd have to deal with. It's dangerous. Okay, then what
Speaker 1: do you suggest? Well, we could try and set a
Speaker 1: course for home to how far away is it? Again?
Speaker 1: One systems are fully restored. Return trip estimated at eight years,
Speaker 1: seven months, and three days. You want to wait eight years? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a long time and it sucks, but we have
Speaker 1: enough food and fuel to make it back, don't we teach? Indeed,
Speaker 1: success rate of a return trip is set at nine percent. See,
Speaker 1: we've already been on this ship for two years, and
Speaker 1: even I can see the seems unraveling. Do you do
Speaker 1: you really think we can handle another eight years. Look,
Speaker 1: I know that theoretical science isn't all there, but we
Speaker 1: can try to slingshot ourselves back in that direction using
Speaker 1: the black hole. It's a risk, but we could try
Speaker 1: to set the correct course and hope for the best
Speaker 1: possible outcome, though possible. Without the correct calculations, there is
Speaker 1: no way to know exactly where the magma would wind
Speaker 1: up or if the ship would even survive the trip.
Speaker 1: So you're telling me the options are either wait another
Speaker 1: eight years or or fly into a black hole. That's it? Oh?
Speaker 1: Those both both seemed reasonable to you. I didn't say reasonable,
Speaker 1: but they are the sensible ones. Yes, you're willing to
Speaker 1: wait eight years as opposed to taking a detour to
Speaker 1: a planet that may possibly have a way home for us. Yes,
Speaker 1: you would wait eight years, So so what difference does
Speaker 1: another few hours make? Because it's uncharted territory, Sydney, we
Speaker 1: could be walking into a hostile situation. This whole fucking
Speaker 1: thing is a hostile situation. No, I can't calm down.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to be calm around you for months
Speaker 1: and you keep throwing everything in my fucking face and
Speaker 1: now we are really in a life or death situation,
Speaker 1: and your solution is to sit idly or instead of
Speaker 1: actually doing something about it. I'm just trying to make
Speaker 1: sure that we are safe. Can't you see that? Funk
Speaker 1: being safe? We're beyond that now we need help. This
Speaker 1: place might have it. Why can't you fucking get that
Speaker 1: through your head and see that if not turn around
Speaker 1: and we go home. You feel that strongly about it? Huh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. What's it going to hurt? It's just a
Speaker 1: few hours. What's the worst that could happen? Proteus? Are
Speaker 1: you able to set a course for that planet based
Speaker 1: on the information in the ship's log? Yes, based on
Speaker 1: current functional systems, we can make it there in approximately
Speaker 1: four hours. Okay, are you really sure about this? Yes? Please?
Speaker 1: You don't really have any other options? All right, fuck it,
Speaker 1: set the course. Let's go setting course now. I'm coming
Speaker 1: up to the bridge to prepare for the ship for
Speaker 1: manual control, just in case, of course, Channa, Yeah, thank you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't mention it. Mag Mel starring Ali Trasher, Julia Hennig,
Speaker 1: and b J. Gribb. Additional voices in this episode provided
Speaker 1: by cat Ton Chanko and mac Manson, written by Jeff
Speaker 1: Heimbuck and Lindsay Skagin, Directed and edited by Jeff Heimbuck,
Speaker 1: Produced by Jeff Heimbuck and Ali Trasher. Executive produced by
Speaker 1: Holly Fry. Audio engineered by Corey Celeste and Alex Gona.
Speaker 1: Original musical score by Corey Celeste. Additional songs by The
Speaker 1: Ramikins as played by Roscoe SoulTrain. Magmal is a production
Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio and Bamfer Productions. Questions comments email
Speaker 1: us at Project magmaal at gmail dot com. Until next time,
Speaker 1: We'll see you when we see you