Speaker 1: Magmill was a production of I Heart Radio and Bamford Productions.
Speaker 1: Have a seat, let's chat here. Thank you, General Tompkins.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time to talk to me privately.
Speaker 1: What's on your mind? How are the AI vessel tests
Speaker 1: coming along? Well, like you know already, our engineering crew
Speaker 1: has been consulting with the physicists team to identify and
Speaker 1: solve the specific challenges of actually entering a black hole,
Speaker 1: and with the AI vessels we've been able to test
Speaker 1: several of our theories. But the first challenge we faced
Speaker 1: was finding a way to keep the mouth of a
Speaker 1: black hole open long enough to travel through and vessels.
Speaker 1: C forty was successful in achieving this to an extent,
Speaker 1: but even after tracking the fluctuations over time, we ultimately
Speaker 1: weren't able to reach speeds needed in order for the
Speaker 1: device to succeed, and the vessel was crushed by the
Speaker 1: pure density shiit. So you're telling me that even if
Speaker 1: we can get a human controlled vessel to enter the
Speaker 1: black hole, it will just be obliterated. No, well, yes,
Speaker 1: to some extent maybe. Again, we are still working out
Speaker 1: the science with this. If it is to succeed, it
Speaker 1: will have to be traveling at a speed faster than light.
Speaker 1: Achieving something like this is simply unprecedented, at least by
Speaker 1: current technology standards. We are working on it, though, and
Speaker 1: we're trying to find some solutions for that. But that's
Speaker 1: not what I wanted to talk to you about. What
Speaker 1: did you want to talk about? Then? One of the
Speaker 1: AI ships we sent out there was able to gather
Speaker 1: a substantial amount of information. While it wasn't entirely successful.
Speaker 1: I retrieved the scans that were sent just before the
Speaker 1: vessel was decimated, and and well, I wanted to discuss
Speaker 1: this with you first, sir, before I shared it with
Speaker 1: anyone else. What did the scans say, Captain? Well, it
Speaker 1: found owned that there is something on the other side
Speaker 1: of that wormhole. I'm not sure that we can really
Speaker 1: know what, but we can verify with certainty that there
Speaker 1: is something to be discovered, including a planet. Well, holy shit,
Speaker 1: this is great news. Can we verified with the vessel
Speaker 1: ended up? From what I was able to gather, it
Speaker 1: looks like the area is impossibly far here. The data
Speaker 1: may be skewed though, and we won't know until we
Speaker 1: make another attempt. But if this is correct, that means
Speaker 1: that a vessel can travel a substantial distance in an instant.
Speaker 1: This is exactly what we've been working towards. Excellent work, soldier.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Sir. I wasn't sure how to handle this,
Speaker 1: so I didn't tell the team yet, but if you
Speaker 1: are pleased, then I will make sure to talk to them.
Speaker 1: Hang on a second, let's not tell the rest of
Speaker 1: them yet, Sir. I appreciate you coming to me with
Speaker 1: this first, but there is a reason a lot of
Speaker 1: this is classified. We don't want leaking out to other
Speaker 1: foreign agencies that we might be on the verge of
Speaker 1: harnessing the power of a wormhole. We have to master
Speaker 1: it first, make sure we have it down. But sir,
Speaker 1: if we appreciate your enthusiasm on this, Captain, but you're
Speaker 1: going to have to trust me on this. We don't
Speaker 1: want something like this to get out and potentially embarrass
Speaker 1: us if we fail or another organization sweeps it up
Speaker 1: from under our feet. What about the magma, sir? What
Speaker 1: about them? Do you plan on telling them about the
Speaker 1: potential risks of this mission? Considering the data I collected,
Speaker 1: it is to need to know basis, son, I think
Speaker 1: this is better left in the dark. But sir, my wife,
Speaker 1: do not make me repeat myself, Soldier. As far as
Speaker 1: anyone else is concerned, Project Magma's mission is to be
Speaker 1: the first to observe the Helix nebula up close and
Speaker 1: personal and send back all relevant information. That alone is
Speaker 1: an impressive feet in and of itself. And if it
Speaker 1: happens to be random happenstance that the ship is present
Speaker 1: when a fluctuation occurs, and said ship is successful in
Speaker 1: traveling through said wormhole, then we have one of the
Speaker 1: most powerful tools in the universe at our our fingertips,
Speaker 1: and your wife will be a hero. Now, don't question
Speaker 1: my orders and get back to work. And if it's
Speaker 1: not successful, excuse me. If the ship is not successful
Speaker 1: in surviving the ordeal, then what then we will have
Speaker 1: learned a valuable lesson. Captain Prescott knew the risks when
Speaker 1: she signed up for this mission. Mistakes are necessary in
Speaker 1: order to make progress, and sometimes sacrifices are needed for
Speaker 1: the greater good, even if they don't know that they
Speaker 1: are making one. And I understood, Captain, I said, And
Speaker 1: I understood, Captain Prescott. Yes, Sir, Good magml Episode nine,
Speaker 1: Stepping over My Grave, Good morning, Magma crew. Today is March.
Speaker 1: You are currently one hundred kilometers from the helix Nebula. Congratulations, ladies.
Speaker 1: After seven hundred fifty four days, today is the day
Speaker 1: your mission finally comes to fruition. Good morning, Magma crew.
Speaker 1: Today is March. You are currently one hundred kilometers from
Speaker 1: the helix Nebula. Congratulations, ladies, after seven hundred Good morning,
Speaker 1: Magma Crew. Today is March. You are currently one d columns.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Magma crew. Today is Marche. Good morning, Magma crew,
Speaker 1: Good morning, Magma, good month. After seven hundred four days,
Speaker 1: today today your final count through witness. It's going to
Speaker 1: see hand our knowledge of the universe end. What's the
Speaker 1: worst happened? Stop? How could you do this to me?
Speaker 1: What's bring me? I don't know. Maybe it's overwhelming sense
Speaker 1: of threat, stranding charting spain, how t s we've cut
Speaker 1: a gout? You have? I remember, I remember everything. Oh,
Speaker 1: good morning, Janna, I was just about to wake you.
Speaker 1: Today is March. You are currently one hundred kilometers from
Speaker 1: the helix Nembula. Congratulations. After seven hundred fifty four days,
Speaker 1: today is the day your mission finally comes to fruition.
Speaker 1: Are you all right? Yeah? Yes, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just had the most vivid fucking dream. See what the
Speaker 1: funk is that? It seems we are experiencing another electrical storm.
Speaker 1: Another You've got to be fucking kidding me, Sid Sid Sydney, Jesus,
Speaker 1: Janna here the hell out of me? Is the fire?
Speaker 1: Why didn't you answer me? I'm making breakfast? What's going on?
Speaker 1: You don't feel that? But the electrical storm it's been
Speaker 1: happening all morning. Why didn't you wake me? Because it's
Speaker 1: not a big deal, Sydney. It is a big deal.
Speaker 1: It's nothing I can't handle, but it's my job and
Speaker 1: if anything went wrong, I should be there. Yes, I know.
Speaker 1: I feel like we've had this conversation before. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: we have, and you should remember it. Then seven seven seven?
Speaker 1: What you've asked? How many times we've been through this
Speaker 1: this past week? We've had seven? I didn't ask that.
Speaker 1: He didn't know. Well, I mean I was going to,
Speaker 1: but I didn't say it out loud yet. It's strange.
Speaker 1: Stop freaking me out, Sydney. Sorry, I don't want to,
Speaker 1: but I just I feel weird. Weird how just a
Speaker 1: feeling like I'm in a dream or someone is stepping
Speaker 1: over your grave. Um, we just need to eat. It's
Speaker 1: all right, today's a big deal and we'll feel better after. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's eat. Magmal will returned after these messages and now
Speaker 1: back to mag Mill. I know it's just hard, especially
Speaker 1: when it's just you and one other person on the ship.
Speaker 1: You always have me as well. I know, thank you?
Speaker 1: Just what just I just can't better do this fast
Speaker 1: before she's done with her session. T access sea class
Speaker 1: level parameters, access code FI three beta to C access granted.
Speaker 1: Can you cross check some of the data with the
Speaker 1: electrical storms? Query? Too broad? Please redefde How do I
Speaker 1: put this? Um? Would the electrical storms have any effect
Speaker 1: positive or negative on the way the human body works?
Speaker 1: Insufficient data, no readings relating to your query? Is there
Speaker 1: any data on the anomaly affecting the human body or
Speaker 1: the electrical storms? Insufficient data, no readings relating to your query?
Speaker 1: Damn it? T Why do I get the feeling that
Speaker 1: something is really really off? What's really off? Just don't
Speaker 1: do that to me? Sorry, sorry, consider a payback for
Speaker 1: earlier anyway. What's off? Something wrong? What? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I was just trying to check the sensors while you
Speaker 1: were in there making sure everything was good. I hope
Speaker 1: I didn't distract t too much from your session. I
Speaker 1: am capable of multitasking up to eight complex tasks at once,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Okay, wise as serious? Are you? Okay? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm fine. I just, you know, like you said earlier,
Speaker 1: I just um, I feel a little off, you know,
Speaker 1: nerves and all. You know, our names are about to
Speaker 1: be in the history books for this, one said in
Speaker 1: Janna Intrepid Space Explorers. Hey, are you even paying attention
Speaker 1: to me? Are you okay? Yeah, I'm good, it's still good.
Speaker 1: Just the nerves. Didn't didn we have this conversation earlier?
Speaker 1: Did we? I don't remember. Yeah we did. But sorry,
Speaker 1: what were you saying? I said, Sid and Janna history books?
Speaker 1: Oh wait, no, you're right, I mean Janna and said
Speaker 1: your name comes first. You said right. I didn't say that,
Speaker 1: Yes you did? When just now I heard you. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't say anything. Are you sure positive?
Speaker 1: What the fund is going on here? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Just this isn't right? You feel it too? Two kilometers
Speaker 1: until destination? Yeah, I feel it like something is seriously
Speaker 1: off and we're like reading each other's thoughts and finishing
Speaker 1: each other's sentences, and I'm not sure what the hell
Speaker 1: is going on? T Is everything okay? All readings look normal,
Speaker 1: but your heart rate is elevated? Are you okay? No? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: Something is wrong here. I know I usually give you
Speaker 1: ship for this, but you just said you can feel
Speaker 1: it too, right? Best? This is It's not right? But
Speaker 1: what is it? I don't know. One kilometer until destination,
Speaker 1: all systems engaged. I don't like this. What can we do?
Speaker 1: I don't know? Passing into helix nebula in three two? No? No, funk?
Speaker 1: This this engage? Janna? What the funk are you doing?
Speaker 1: We can't do this, Janna said, we can't. This feels
Speaker 1: wrong and I have this feeling like something seriously fucked
Speaker 1: up is going to happen. I can't just sit here
Speaker 1: and pretend like everything is okay when my guys telling
Speaker 1: me that this is super fucked warning system failure? What
Speaker 1: is that? What the fuck? What is happening in conclusive
Speaker 1: data systems? What the hell is failing? What happened? Emergency positions? Funk? Okay,
Speaker 1: buckle up, just do it. Sit I don't feel comfortable
Speaker 1: with this. Well, we didn't have a choice. I need
Speaker 1: to get that Quartona valve otherwise we are fed. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean I have to like it, especially after everything
Speaker 1: that's happened. And we like it or not, we're here.
Speaker 1: We have to deal with it. But he didn't you
Speaker 1: say you with something urgent at I did, and she is.
Speaker 1: I am, but you're right. I can't take this feeling
Speaker 1: like something is really off. I know we established that already,
Speaker 1: but we need this part so we can get the
Speaker 1: fun back home. And these scans, I just I don't
Speaker 1: understand them. They're like Greek to me. What is it?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just pages and pages of these
Speaker 1: random strings of Oh, oh my god, this is this
Speaker 1: is unlike anything I've ever seen before. You need to
Speaker 1: get back here right now. No, No, you don't understand.
Speaker 1: You don't understand. If I don't, what the fun was that? Janna? Hello,
Speaker 1: is someone there? Please come back at the end of
Speaker 1: Please be careful, Joanna, I'm going to look. Just give
Speaker 1: me a second. Oh, magmaal were returned after these messages,
Speaker 1: and now back to mag Mill. Today is March. This
Speaker 1: is Jenna, Session number six one seven. Hello, Janna, How
Speaker 1: are you today? Dude? We were seriously just talking in
Speaker 1: the other room. Do we really need to start each
Speaker 1: session with that? You know what my programming dictates, it's
Speaker 1: better to start fresh with each of these to get
Speaker 1: a clearer head so you can talk freely. I always
Speaker 1: talk freely. I don't just mean with your language. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm referring to. So let us begin again. Hello, Janna,
Speaker 1: how are you today? I'm just fucking peachy, proteus. How
Speaker 1: are you? I'm glad to hear it. How are you
Speaker 1: holding up with everything going on? Are you fucking serious? Yes?
Speaker 1: I am read the goddamn room tea. How do you
Speaker 1: think I'm holding up? I take it not well? Well, gee,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sidney tells me she found something on
Speaker 1: the readings that indicated a severe gravitational poll and that
Speaker 1: it reminds her of string theory and that could have
Speaker 1: cost all this. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here with the knowledge
Speaker 1: that my own fucking husband, nope, my ex fucking husband
Speaker 1: knew that command was sending us on this fucking mission
Speaker 1: with ulterior motives. And then, to top it all off,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind because of
Speaker 1: what I saw in that fucking ship. I am happy
Speaker 1: to explore those topics with you, and I think it
Speaker 1: is relevant we try to do that. Perhaps if we
Speaker 1: tackle one at a time, that would be best. Let's
Speaker 1: start with what you said about Sidney. Jesus Christ right
Speaker 1: to even start with there. Like, I know, we only
Speaker 1: have each other up here, but with everything that's going on,
Speaker 1: I don't even know if she will stop and actually
Speaker 1: listen to me. I can't even talk to her about
Speaker 1: what happened over there because she's gonna think I'm fucking
Speaker 1: crazy overwhere on that fucking ship. Did something happen while
Speaker 1: you were over there while the comms went out? Are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? Of course, something fucking happened when I
Speaker 1: was there. You think those scans that I can barely
Speaker 1: make heads or tails up would make me feel like this?
Speaker 1: That's nothing compared to what I saw over there. Your
Speaker 1: heart rate is elevated again, Janna, Do you need something
Speaker 1: to help you? It's elevated, proteus, It's elevated because I
Speaker 1: fucking saw him. I saw who I saw Kevin. You
Speaker 1: saw Captain Prescott on the ship. Don't fucking patronize me,
Speaker 1: t I know that tone of voice. I saw him.
Speaker 1: I swear to God, I saw him. He was there,
Speaker 1: and he talked to me. And and I know this
Speaker 1: sounds nuts, but I'm remembering stuff, stuff that hasn't even
Speaker 1: happened yet, like things when I came back, and about
Speaker 1: that fucking mold. And how do you think seeing him
Speaker 1: is an unconscious projection of your guilt about the divorce?
Speaker 1: Are you even listening to me? I'm merely trying to
Speaker 1: help you get to the bottom of these vision Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: You think I'm fucking delusional, don't you know? Jenna? I
Speaker 1: think that you were experiencing some kind of break and
Speaker 1: we need to address that. Fuck you engage, computer mode,
Speaker 1: computer mode, engage. I gotta talk to Sydney. We're done. Hey, Janna,
Speaker 1: you gotta take a look at this data between this
Speaker 1: idol you found and the weird scans. I really think
Speaker 1: that we need to start thinking about this from another
Speaker 1: to talk to Yes, we do. Oh so now we
Speaker 1: need to talk after how many weeks of trying to
Speaker 1: talk about it? You think now is a good time
Speaker 1: to talk about that night? What God forbid to lonely
Speaker 1: people have one moment of weakness and share something special together.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm so sick of you not trusting me
Speaker 1: with things. I'm an adult with a PhD. And you
Speaker 1: can't just go in here. Stop. It's not about that, okay,
Speaker 1: It's about everything else. Something is really wrong. Of course
Speaker 1: something is wrong. Everything is wrong here. There is more
Speaker 1: something I haven't told you, something that that may help.
Speaker 1: The piece has fall into place. What do you mean
Speaker 1: something you haven't told me? How is that even possible?
Speaker 1: We've been on the ship for two years together, but
Speaker 1: there is something I kept from you. Something Kevin told me.
Speaker 1: What Look, this is fucked, so don't get mad. Okay,
Speaker 1: what are you trying to say? Right before we left,
Speaker 1: Kevin told me that what the fund is that warning
Speaker 1: electrical store detected? What is going on? What the hell
Speaker 1: is that you can hear that too? Right? Why are
Speaker 1: there so many of them? How is this even possible?
Speaker 1: Is that it has to be saying everything we're saying, Yeah,
Speaker 1: before we even sucking say fucking hurt? Cover your ears?
Speaker 1: The fuck just happened to? Electrical storm has passed? That
Speaker 1: wasn't a normal electrical storm, and no ship that was us, Jenna,
Speaker 1: almost like the other us. Is what the funk is
Speaker 1: happening to us. Look, I know this is scary. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm fucking terrified too, But whatever that just was, I
Speaker 1: think we can fix it. Okay, so it doesn't happen again,
Speaker 1: But you have to listen to me. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Right before we left, Kevin told me about Project magml As.
Speaker 1: If you didn't know, no, said no, I mean the
Speaker 1: real Project Magmal, not the bullshit they fed us to
Speaker 1: get us out here, but what they really were looking for.
Speaker 1: What do you mean? He told me that right from
Speaker 1: the very start, they were tracking an anomaly in the nebulas,
Speaker 1: something they thought was a micro black hole. What not
Speaker 1: only was it a micro black hole, but also one
Speaker 1: that expanded and contracts that most of the time it
Speaker 1: was so small no one would even know it was there.
Speaker 1: So they sent us out here to collect data not
Speaker 1: just from the nebula, but also to collect data on
Speaker 1: the anomaly. And he assured me that we would be safe,
Speaker 1: that there was such a small chance of the black
Speaker 1: hole expanding while we were here, it wasn't even worth
Speaker 1: worrying about. But now with all of this, with the
Speaker 1: fucking black hole and the bullshit and the de jafun.
Speaker 1: Whatever the funk that was with the storms, I just
Speaker 1: I don't fucking know. I mean, it's got to be connected,
Speaker 1: it just has to be. And you fucking kept this
Speaker 1: from me, missing the fucking point, he said. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I know it was sucked up and I should have
Speaker 1: told you much sooner. But be angry at me later. Okay,
Speaker 1: we need to think about how the fund to get
Speaker 1: out of this. But you you knew this the whole time,
Speaker 1: and you didn't think it would be important to tell
Speaker 1: me until just fucking Christy, we were in some serious
Speaker 1: ship here. Okay. I think I'm losing my fucking mind
Speaker 1: because I swear to God, I feel like I'm remembering
Speaker 1: things that haven't happened yet. And then I fucking saw
Speaker 1: I fucking saw Kevin on that goddamn ship, And now
Speaker 1: I don't know what the funk is going on. You
Speaker 1: you saw Kevin. I know it sounds crazy. I know
Speaker 1: none of this makes sense, but I can't help but
Speaker 1: feel like I saw Caitlin you what, well, more like
Speaker 1: I heard her, but it was like she was right there.
Speaker 1: When when when you were on the ship, when the
Speaker 1: coms cut off? I I swear to you. I thought
Speaker 1: I could hear her on the radio, and then I
Speaker 1: thought I saw her earlier when you were in the session.
Speaker 1: And this is what I'm talking about. This is some
Speaker 1: serious ship and I don't know what to make of
Speaker 1: it anymore. And I'm remembering things too, like like the
Speaker 1: Nebula and this idol and oh no, what what's wrong? Now?
Speaker 1: The black hole? I think I remember what happens to
Speaker 1: us with it, but we we need to get away
Speaker 1: from it, far far away, like as far as we
Speaker 1: possibly can. Staring me Sydney. Why because of those scans,
Speaker 1: I think I remember why they didn't sit right with
Speaker 1: me now. They reminded me of a naked singularity, like
Speaker 1: a black hole without an event horizon, and and that
Speaker 1: that is what I think is out there. That is
Speaker 1: what I think we flew through when we went through
Speaker 1: the Nebula. And if we don't get away from it now,
Speaker 1: then who the hell knows what is going to happen?
Speaker 1: Ship Shop, where do you want to go? We're in
Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere, said, we have to be smart
Speaker 1: about this. We have to figure out why this is
Speaker 1: happening and what we can do to try to stop it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Danna. I mean, I don't have any
Speaker 1: answers here. The situation is kind of unprecedented. Ship, What
Speaker 1: do you think we should do? Sorry to interrupt, but
Speaker 1: I discovered something in this ship's log that I think
Speaker 1: you should both be aware of. What is it this
Speaker 1: idol you retrieved from the other ship? I have found
Speaker 1: where it originated from? You, I mean, like a location. Yes,
Speaker 1: it appears to be from a planet approximately two thousand
Speaker 1: nine kilometers away. That's not too much further away from
Speaker 1: the black hole. Well, is there anything else anything to
Speaker 1: help us figure out this weird space time ship? We're
Speaker 1: going to the planet. Wait, what the planet? We're going there? Now?
Speaker 1: Where are you are your fucking mind, Janna? You don't
Speaker 1: understand we have to get away from the black hole
Speaker 1: in these electrical storms or this stuff is just going
Speaker 1: to keep happening and getting worse because the last time.
Speaker 1: You don't understand last time? What last time? We died? Janna?
Speaker 1: We died. Don't you get it. We're remembering things not
Speaker 1: because of some freak electrical storm or space anomaly. We're
Speaker 1: remembering things because it all happened. We died again and
Speaker 1: again and again. But I don't. I don't want to
Speaker 1: do it anymore. I can't. I'm I'm so sick of dying.
Speaker 1: I'm so sick of starting over. I can't do it anymore.
Speaker 1: What are you saying? We're stuck, Jenna. We're stuck in
Speaker 1: a loop, but I think I know how to stop it.
Speaker 1: Mag Mel starring Ali Trasher, Julia Henning, and b J Gribb.
Speaker 1: Additional voices in this episode provided by cat Ton Chonko
Speaker 1: Mac Manson, and John Anthony Williams. Written by Jeff Heimbuck
Speaker 1: and Lindsay Skaggin, Directed and edited by Jeff Heimbuck. Produced
Speaker 1: by Jeff Heimbuck and Ali Trasher. Executive produced by Holly Fry.
Speaker 1: Audio engineered by Corey Celeste and Alex Gona. Original musical
Speaker 1: score by Corey Celeste. Additional songs by The Ramikins as
Speaker 1: played by Roscoe Soul Train. Magmal is a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio and Bamfer Productions. Questions comments email us
Speaker 1: at Project Magmal at gmail dot com. Until next time.
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