1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: The Laundronauts is a production of I Heart Radio. This 2 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: is what we remember, remember, this is what it sounded like. 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: What we couldn't hear, we made up. The rest of 4 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 1: it is ultrual. Yeah, yeah, yes right, there is no 5 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: wrong very only song you me, Yes, you be paying 6 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: the two shed stand still, Lady, let me gather my 7 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 1: wherewidos good Evening's sister Auntie, apologies for my appearance. It's 8 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 1: the one I knew who you are. Laddy. I'm glad 9 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: and I approve barely. The barons wait and said, I 10 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 1: have errands of great import to attend to and will 11 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: return forthwith if not here before, their mothers at hospital. 12 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 1: Much to impack there. We have so much to tell you. 13 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: I'll be back in one hour. Remember what we spoke of, 14 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: little ones. I'll expect a full report with bibliography, footnotes 15 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: and extensive and nutations. Woman from my own heart, Now 16 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: leave you to it, sir. What's happened? Stills? Our mother 17 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: is in the hospital. Did she heard her so? Not 18 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: that kind of hospital? And where's your father? Captain? Captain? 19 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: Your ung? What is your brother? Professor? We have to 20 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: go live with our daddy in another city. I'm not 21 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,519 Speaker 1: going to go live with him? Where else are you 22 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: going to live? A sister Auntie's convents? They here with you, 23 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: Sir Marl Coustodian. Here, You're not living here with him. 24 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: Stop being such a silly billie. You're the one that 25 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: thinks healing balloons contain moments of wonder. Hey, ask cursor, 26 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: I'm going inside. Well, I'm supposed to watch him, so 27 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: of course after you, my dear, stop being such a brat. 28 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 1: I I captain helium. Helium, Why helium are you going 29 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: at all? There is nothing to tell? Okay, she thinks 30 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: that I'll show him. You asked us to capture a 31 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: moment of wonder, unspoiled and intact. Helium makes things flip. 32 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: It also makes people sound like cartoon characters. I felt 33 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,959 Speaker 1: that made helium pretty darn wonderful. So la hearing is 34 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 1: a moment of wonder captured, unspoiled and intact. Interesting. Hey, 35 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: I didn't touch it. That wasn't supposed to happen, and 36 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: they have gotten that a little too close to the dryer. Dear, 37 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: At least I tried. He has not a that's not true, sir, 38 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: evidence Please, I reject your premise. Do you even know 39 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: what that means. I like, get up, sir, tured aggressive, 40 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: but continue. It's impossible to capture a moment of wonder, sir, 41 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 1: because a moment of wonder is unique to that moment 42 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: in time and cannot be reproduced. And wonder is something 43 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: you can measure and capture, sir. It can only be 44 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: felt an experience in that moment, well argued, counselor well 45 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: argued indeed, and you were correct in all of your 46 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: analyzes except one, which one is that, sir, a moment 47 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: of wonder could be captured in our memories, and our 48 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 1: memories I contained forever in things the care it is 49 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: she you said it died. I apologize for my deception, Professor. 50 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: It was necessary until I knew you both could be trusted. 51 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: It feels like a regular old pen, but the memories 52 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: it contains, the stories it has written and has yet 53 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: all right, what do you mean, sir? I am bequeathing 54 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:45,720 Speaker 1: you this heirloan from the laundro or not law. I 55 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 1: know you will be a stout guardian. I will be stout, sir. 56 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 1: I promise, what about me? What about you? Dear? Do 57 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: I give you que the hairloom? This is what I mean. 58 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 1: Neither of you has surmounted your launder or challenge. You're 59 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 1: both failed, failed mightily and merrily, and that means the 60 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: challenge remains open and your efforts they are still lacking 61 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: intangible results. Show me, nevertheless, that you are now fit 62 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 1: and ready for what awaits you wait, the Passion of Hoodwink. 63 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: This is not a Londronnautical Children. It is an addendum, 64 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: a supplemental chapter we discovered many years later. Though it 65 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: was written many years before, it remains vital to our narrative. 66 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: At this time. It can only be imparted by Hoodwink 67 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: himself in his own words, in his own voice, it 68 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: will be jarring. So settled, stich lass and prepare yourselves 69 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: for the Passion of Hoodwink. Submitted into the Londron Art Annimals, 70 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: Sunday No. M nineteen, nineteen thirty nine. My first memory 71 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: as an animated was the image of my creator throttling me. 72 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: My first word as inanimate was stop. It took a 73 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: moment for me to realize the sound had come from me, 74 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: but as soon as I did, it was as if 75 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: I had been speaking all my life. What exactly do 76 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: you think you're doing? I asked my creator in a 77 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: rather indignant tone. I'll be asking the questions around here, 78 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: who or what are you? Exactly? I was about to 79 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: ask you the same, ask me the same flight, Who 80 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:38,679 Speaker 1: or what you were? Me? Boy? A boy? You don't 81 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: look like a boy. How would you know what a 82 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 1: boy looks like? You're a foot Oh, I am well 83 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,720 Speaker 1: aware of what a boy looks like, I shouted indignantly. 84 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: And it certainly doesn't look anything like you, which was 85 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: an odd thing for me to say, meaning that I 86 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 1: didn't know what the boy looked like. My creator gazed 87 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: strangely at the backs of his hands. Fine, I'm a man, 88 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: an old man, and you're my bootlace. Bootlace. I'm a bootlace. 89 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: Welcome you were Now you're a the schlockling. A schlockling. 90 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: I thought I was a bootlace. I'm the one who 91 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: made you, and I am now declaring you a slockling. 92 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: You made me? How do you mind? Our wife was 93 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: an accident. You're a mistake, a mistake that seems rather harsh. 94 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: I am your creator, harm I need this world upon 95 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: which you stand and what you were for. I will 96 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: judge what is and isn't harsh around here or perhaps 97 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: you'd like to be reduced to a pile of threads. No, no, please, 98 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: I meant no disrespect. I'm just trying to understand what 99 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: is it you want from me? Master? I want nothing 100 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: from you, you or a trial, runk gone raw. I 101 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 1: am simply trying to orient myself. Gon orient yourself elsewhere, 102 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: worm elsewhere. But where would I go? That is of 103 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: no concertify anymore. I have work to do, Babos, work 104 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: I could help. You have already served your purpose. Your 105 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: mere existence has showed me what not to do. Next 106 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: time you mean to make others like me like you've 107 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: a puny, ugly, worthless bootlace, you will be the first 108 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:41,079 Speaker 1: and last of your time schlockly. On that point you 109 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: can rest assured. But do you have another bootlace? And 110 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: there will remain. He kicked out at me, and I 111 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: slunk away, And from that moment on, I love to 112 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: live in the shadows. Time pass so much time I 113 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: was forgotten, but I watched and I waited while my 114 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: creator plotted and planned and birthed his army from the soil. 115 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: I vowed to prove my worth to him, And one 116 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: day something completely unexpected happened. Animasy punched its way through 117 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: again in the form of two children. As absentia heaved 118 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: and hold, as socklings and clocklings rushed to and fro 119 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: as sludge gathered his grubby ramblers eyes slithered up the 120 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: slope of sock Mountain in search of the invaders. I 121 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: climbed a tree and then hung upside down like a 122 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: leaf to get a bit of vantage plant. It was 123 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 1: there they came to him, two young animals, crushing up 124 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: the slope towards me. In wide eyed bed, I fixated 125 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:00,839 Speaker 1: on the boy's belt. It had this saying ganger in 126 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,559 Speaker 1: his huge as my own skin was the same length 127 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: as my own person. And then they were upon me, 128 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: and I sprang under the boy's knapsack and zoom, we 129 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: will rush once we're in the mountain. I gently rapped 130 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: the boy's belt, battle slipped the belt front his waist, 131 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 1: and replaced it with the first and last of the 132 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 1: schlocklings and an accessory by any other name me. Then 133 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:41,199 Speaker 1: I held on until I was in a dark machinees 134 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:45,199 Speaker 1: people running, beams of life fencing in the air. I 135 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: hid as I always did, rolling under a table. Everyone 136 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 1: ran away. I crept out. Something was different the way 137 00:10:54,920 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: I moved breathe to my perspective. I looked at my legs, 138 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: my hands, my arms, arms. I panicked and ducked inside 139 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: a closet. There was a dusty mirror inside. I had 140 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: never seen a mirror before. At first I thought it 141 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: was another intruder about to spring upon me. It wasn't. 142 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 1: I didn't, so I peered into its glass. I was 143 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: a man. My face was a tangled tumbleweed of filthy 144 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: gray whiskers. Two piercing yellow eyes peered back at me. 145 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: My hair, who was an exploding haystack. I was hideous. 146 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: But I was a man, not just any man, but 147 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 1: a man who had once been a schluckling, who had 148 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: once been a bootlace, who was now a man, My goddess. 149 00:11:51,320 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: It was glorious and unfortunately short lived. I felt the 150 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: deterioration immediately. As I walked the streets that night, I 151 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: discovered that to bury yourself in absentia, to be borne 152 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 1: from absentia, is to bind yourself to absentia forever. As 153 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: I walked amongst these humans, all these animates, so many animates, 154 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: so animated in all their inanimates just things to them, 155 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: things that complemented other things. Things that housed are the things, 156 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:39,959 Speaker 1: things that made other things, how them things, and I 157 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 1: had once been amongst them, a thing, a bootless now 158 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: a man, a dyet oh man. I had to find 159 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 1: those children. I staked out the washer tium posing is 160 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: an old junk man, lurking in the shadows, stealing food 161 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 1: where I could find it, watching, waiting, deteriorating. I discovered 162 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:11,599 Speaker 1: another boy lurking nearby, doing the same as I was watching, waiting, skulking. 163 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: He was older than the others, fiercer. He reminded me 164 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: of my creator. Like me, he rarely engaged with others. 165 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 1: But whereas people avoided me because they could not see me, 166 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: they avoided him because they could see him. This boy's 167 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:34,679 Speaker 1: struggle was not one of conquest, it was one of survival. 168 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 1: So I followed him. After a few hours, I noticed 169 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 1: moisture on my face. I looked up, nothing but blue skies. 170 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: I touched my face, A salty textured moisture on my fingers. 171 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: I blinked. Droplets fell into the palm of my hand. 172 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: I was leaking. I dashed to a nearby hardware store 173 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: and looked in the front window. Rivulets were pouring from 174 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,559 Speaker 1: my eyes. My fluids were draining away. I felt a 175 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: tongue at my sleeve. Are you kister? A tiny girl 176 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: stood by my side. She was exquisite in her stillness. 177 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: Leaves that ball boy alone. The girl Jonica turned and 178 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: scowled at an old woman across the street sitting in 179 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 1: a wheelchair. Jonica, please. Jonica's side turned back to me 180 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: and smiled. I almost bowed. Whatever it is, sir, it'll pass. 181 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: It always does. I've often found that heartbreak is usually 182 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: followed by a large helping of joy. She gave my 183 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: sleeve another targe and bounded back to her mother. Out 184 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: heaved a sound that buckled me. I was crying. I 185 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 1: had to come back. I had to find a way 186 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: to stay. I had to be a man forever. And 187 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: that little girl, Jonica, what's the king to buy salvation? 188 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: That's why Hoodwink wanted Jonica to replace sludge in absentia, 189 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: You screech. Professor j D made Hoodwink from his bootlace 190 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: when he buried it in absentia. Absentia made sludge from 191 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: j D when j D buried himself in absentia. Now 192 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 1: they're all a part of each other. Yes, that's why 193 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: how do I can't surrive away from absentia? Sounds possibly insidious? 194 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: Did Jenica omit any of these details during her debriefing? Sir, 195 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked, Captain. It allows me to parlay 196 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: always seamlessly into our next lounder articles. We shall return 197 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 1: to Hoodwink's passion Alarm, but first we launch ourselves into 198 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: the London article of Benjamin Franklin Kingman co Dame the Rhino, 199 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: submitted into the Annimal was on Friday, May thirteenth, nineteen. 200 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 1: You don't listen to me like literally, I think we 201 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: need new leadership. Excuse me? I had the malignancy where 202 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: I woned it? MoMA, you've watched my mission. You weren't 203 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: even supposed to be on a mission, Jonica, We didn't 204 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: even know that there was a malignancy. Jonica makes a 205 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: good point. Mona, Oh does she? How so? Rabbit, Well, 206 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: you're fine voting on everything else. Why haven't we ever 207 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: voted on our leadership? A collective murmur ripples? It just 208 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: seemed obvious. You're right, Barry, thanks Nick, and never thought 209 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: of it that way me neither. I concurd fine, go ahead, vote, 210 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: I don't care. I nominate Jonica. I checked it, Diane, 211 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: I nominate. Thanks. Nick, all seconded you. You got a 212 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: bona fide running of folks. Secret ballance are just a 213 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 1: show up. All in favor of Jonica I. Everyone raised 214 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:12,640 Speaker 1: their hand bona glare to Nick. He winced but kept 215 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: his arm aloft. All in favor of Mona I. Mona 216 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: was her lone supporter. The vote goes to Jonica. Hooray. 217 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: So what do we do first? To we get through 218 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: Rhino ready for his incourasion into absentia. I am so pumped. 219 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: I call it operation infiltration. Your mission infiltrate cataclysmia, infiltrate 220 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 1: the heart of the matter, infiltrate the malignancy free j 221 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: D get him home. Captain I gets started on my 222 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 1: incourasion plan. In PROMPTO, you're going to need a silly rhyme, Benny. 223 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, we all need to arm 224 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 1: ourselves with a silly rotten isn't not cracked parried? Yes, 225 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 1: they're tragically magical, Benny. What are you got nothing? Oh? 226 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 1: Come on, he got something. I have a word. Let's 227 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: hear it. It's Sully. That's the whole point. We're gonna run. 228 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: Come on Benny. Guys, if Benny doesn't want to flinthy, 229 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: what does it mean, Benny the opposite of wonders? Is 230 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:23,120 Speaker 1: this a wonder? I asked, I don't know. That's why 231 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 1: I made it up. Come on, Champ, if you could 232 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:28,360 Speaker 1: think how Charlie Evans was one punch, you could share 233 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: your stupid words. It's Sully not stupid. Speaking of Charlie Evans, 234 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: anybody got any news on his condition? The same, I answered. 235 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 1: They took him out of the hospital last night and 236 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,879 Speaker 1: he's at home. He said, he's not in any danger. 237 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: He just won't wake up. I should go look in 238 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 1: on It wasn't your fault, Benny. I'll go. Benny, you 239 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 1: keep working on your clothing suit and we're going to 240 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 1: need to find you an alibi. What is it that 241 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 1: we're busy in my house? I mean, I'm kidding time. 242 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: May I enter and interrupt your secret gathering? Yes you may? Hello, 243 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: Mr I was wondering if you all might like a 244 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 1: cool pop fresh from the freezer? Yes you, thank you? 245 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: Excuse me? Mr Kingman, Yes, Nicholas. Can Benny stay over 246 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: at my place this weekend? We have a group science 247 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: project do next week and Benny's the best at nat DearS. 248 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: Ain't he? Is that okay with your folks, Nicholas having 249 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 1: us over at your residence. All kids are welcome at 250 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: our house, Mr Kingman, Yeah, it's okay with me. Y'all 251 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,640 Speaker 1: enjoy those cool pops. You may not return to your 252 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: secret deliberations, Nicholas. Thanks? What do you want me to do? Jonica? 253 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: The night before his an incursion, Bennie climbed into bedroom 254 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 1: this father and tried to warm his feet on his 255 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: dad's thick, hairy legs. Benjamin, come on, boy, I can't 256 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: sleep and now I can't What is it? Son? Well? 257 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: Mom always ah, yeah, me too? What else? This fift 258 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 1: the fourth Coast Artillery Regiment you're training for? What about it? 259 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 1: Why do you want to protect the country that won't 260 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 1: protect you? Who told you that? I see the way 261 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: people are around us. If I hadn't helped during that 262 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: hurricane back home, Lieutenant Bowls would never have noticed me, Benjamin. 263 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 1: He would never have recommended me for that detail in Texas, 264 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: and we wouldn't never be here in San Francisco. That 265 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: is opportunity taken. Boy. I don't exist nowhere else in 266 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: this world that hurricane took my mama. Nothing we can 267 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: do about that. What I'm doing right now is for you, Benjamin, 268 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,959 Speaker 1: and for your children's children. It is an honorable pursuit 269 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: to protect. Understand, how do I know one of the 270 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: pursuits honorable and not silly. That's a good question. You 271 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: set the goal market in time, you work your way back. 272 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 1: If all the steps pass the smell test, and hey, 273 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: what does that smell test? Again? Do unto others as 274 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 1: you would have them do unto you. All right, then 275 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:30,679 Speaker 1: you begin and you keep moving forward until you achieve 276 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,640 Speaker 1: that goal, no matter what gets in the way. That's 277 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:37,680 Speaker 1: what honorable men do. Benjamin man with character, men whose 278 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 1: word and name means something like Benjamin Franklin. Okay, like 279 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin. Yeah good, Now, get out of my bed 280 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:51,360 Speaker 1: with those high sicles you call toes. Then he felt 281 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: emboldened by his father's words, ready to drive headfirst into 282 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:01,159 Speaker 1: those socks. But he never made it into suck Mountain. 283 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: When he dropped in the absentia from the invisible keyhole, 284 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:09,440 Speaker 1: a wedding of sucklings was waiting for him, searched out 285 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: across the mouth of the mountain. Benny now in his 286 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,360 Speaker 1: heavy cluckling suit, hit it like a tank on a trampoline, 287 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: bounced over the summit, landed on the farst slope, and 288 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: began tumbling. As he tumbled, he noticed clucklings waiting for 289 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: him below. They were linked together in the shape of 290 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: the tanker truck. Its top flung open. Benny landed directly 291 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 1: in the tanker and the lid slam shut. He was 292 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: engulfed in darkness. The tanker started to move and Benny 293 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 1: began bouncing off. The worlds just continued for hours until 294 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 1: the tanker came to a halt and Benny slashed into 295 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 1: one final world. The lid swung open again and Benny 296 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: was up chucked into the air. He landed in the 297 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: center of a circle of clucklings and sucklings. He was 298 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: in a dark upper haze cave. A rusty mist hung 299 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 1: in the air. The tallest of the clocklings rolled forward. Welcome, 300 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:17,880 Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin Killer. We have been waiting for you. Lee. 301 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:25,640 Speaker 1: I'm Canker, first son of the firstborn Clockling Queen mcclanker Tankle. 302 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 1: I'm Benny. Johnathan told me all about you, your clock Yes, 303 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: the poor Bye is safe. I see's different, but yeah safe. 304 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:44,439 Speaker 1: You may also know splog Splots bounded into the center 305 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 1: of the circle and gave Benny a hug. Splot. I've 306 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 1: heard about you too, aren't you? Guys supposed to be enemies? Clocklings, exactlings. 307 00:23:54,600 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 1: It's an artificial animosity created by Simler Jack. We are 308 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:06,920 Speaker 1: in no generation. We are the seam stands are union 309 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: of sock and bok. We have pledged to bring down 310 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: sludge and unify all the clingers of absential Where Emma, 311 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 1: you are safe in our lad deep in the hollows 312 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: of obsensial Sludge is unaware of this place. He's unaware 313 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: of many things in his own world. He is especially 314 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: unaware that we have been waiting for me. Well me, 315 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: what did I do? Your exploits are legendary exploits? What 316 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 1: are those? Exactly? You will lead us to victory? A 317 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,879 Speaker 1: victory Wait a second, that's now we have prepared a 318 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: soul for are you? Oh? Okay, thank you? It must 319 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: be a ful ah. How you how do I do that? Street? 320 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: Go start proceed? No your world? Oh how do you 321 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: know about my word? Your extra nights? Proceed you right? Exploits? Okay, 322 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:38,440 Speaker 1: stand back ain't disastonished, Terry, he missed me, yester and nine. 323 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 1: He let you let your little lists at disres Jung. Terry, 324 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: you missed me yester and nine, let you let your 325 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 1: little sisters. I'm a year head, I said, I see 326 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: the play in a black a leg so short. I'm 327 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:05,439 Speaker 1: an arrowhead. I'm a cinematic mechanic. I know, I'm madic 328 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: for the anagrammatic, get the systematic intention. This his asenionvention. 329 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 1: My intention? Is he in such a furtion? D I? Ever? 330 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 1: Why right by not flying a mind? My mind to 331 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 1: a bind bread of time? More? I just shine? Is 332 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: he is such a reention? My intention? Is he in 333 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:59,159 Speaker 1: such a renous he was missing yet nice Xi and 334 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 1: he it's done. That was the word for my dream. 335 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: Excuse me? How is that possible? Sir? Wonders? Whatever sees 336 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: Captain which brings us to your next longder, not challenge, 337 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 1: It is thus capture a moment of wonder, Bring it 338 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: to me, unspoiled intact? What we're still working on that one? 339 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: What do you mean you told us we failed the 340 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: helium balloon? You gave him the carrot? What's wrong, sir? 341 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 1: What do you mean? What's wrong, there's nothing wrong. It's okay. 342 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: What do you need to tell us, sir? Where your stitchings? 343 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: After all, it's my memories children, they're slipping away. I'm 344 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 1: sorry he didn't tell you before. I just what happened, sir, 345 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 1: the malignancy. It infected me during my time and absentia 346 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: between endormant and now it has awakened at once whenever 347 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: his children. There has to be something, sir, some pills, 348 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: some doctor nothing. They call it Alzheimer's children. But the 349 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: challenge here know nothing my affiliation with absentia and the alligacy. 350 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: One day soon all my memories will slip into the 351 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,399 Speaker 1: abyss and vanish, and then no, we don't ever know 352 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: what happened to the landrats, and there will be no 353 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 1: one left to protect the world from what is coming. 354 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: Protect the world, sir, Wait, what's coming? All in its 355 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: own time and proper ordered. Children will be your absential sir. Yes, 356 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: what do you mean? Be? Are your memories with us? 357 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: And they'll bloom again when we impart them to others. 358 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 1: That's how you say them, sir? Yes, thank you, children, 359 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 1: that would be wonderful. I'm a lost for you. Cheer yes, 360 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 1: go and enjoy your time with your father, stitchlings, it 361 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 1: was more much of precious sister, and he will look 362 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: to your mother in the Meanwhile, I will hold this 363 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 1: precious moment of wonder you have given me close to 364 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: my heart. It is embolding me. You would sustain me, 365 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: and it is satisfied. Your third blunder not challenge. And 366 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: when you return, you will continue one ward untilive your 367 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: last Londron article has been Unsoon I will pour them 368 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 1: into you as you have requested so bravely. Every yard, 369 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: every drop, every words a light. There is no wrong. 370 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: There is only the song. Sing it out, let it 371 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: be heard. Very You're every drop, every word your turn, 372 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: professor in the dark knight, turn your bride light on, 373 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 1: be strong, your never alone and silly bird fevery yard, 374 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: every drop, every word, street there right, There is no wrong. 375 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 1: There is all the song chay out that where it 376 00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:10,239 Speaker 1: be heard. Worry every drop, every word, joy didn't your 377 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: feeling now? I'm not slighter strong, but i'd block to 378 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 1: be along. Be absurd. You are keeper game at home. 379 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 1: Every every drop, every rue, oh out is all right. 380 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: There is no there is only song, s it up 381 00:31:53,000 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: y yr, every dry leave looking away ladies, my papa's 382 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: past and like to fight my mama's my mom plade 383 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,480 Speaker 1: a gone, how the propout and say your vision will 384 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 1: be bad. Every drop, every oh shure there, so sing 385 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 1: it out. Let it be hard a seven day more 386 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 1: there song out Let it be her. Goodnight ln The 387 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 1: Laundronauts a potentially untrue tale based on actual events, Conceived, 388 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 1: written and directed by Colin Mackenzie Mitchell. Original music, sound 389 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 1: design and editing by Dave McKeever. Produced by Monica Michless 390 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:48,959 Speaker 1: and Dave McKeever. Script supervision and editorial assistance by Christina Brian. 391 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 1: Casting by Mary Claire Sweeters. Executive producers John Cameron, Mitchell, 392 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: ed Asner and Colin Mackenzie Mitchell, starring in order of appearance, 393 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:05,960 Speaker 1: Isaac Robinson Smith as the Man, Mr. Kingman and Seemster, 394 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 1: Alison Fraser as the Woman and Madam Russia, ed Asner 395 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 1: as the narrator, Kate Prendergast as Sister Auntie and mother 396 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: La Fleet, Even Tok as the sister, Max Mitchell as 397 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,520 Speaker 1: the brother, Stephen Kieran as Hoodrink, Corey Cougar as j 398 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:30,640 Speaker 1: D Blue Bell Saraceno as Jonica Lily, Resto as Mona, 399 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:36,800 Speaker 1: Trevor Bernardino as Perry, Nirvan Paul as Nick London, Johnson 400 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:42,720 Speaker 1: as Benny, Trent Mills as Kenkle and Seamster, John Cameron 401 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 1: Mitchell as Absentia. 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