WEBVTT - Episode 6: There’s No Such Thing as a Hive Mind Charlie Brown 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.920 The Hookup is a production of iHeart Podcasts, Blumhouse Television 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:21.520 and Amber twenty. Listener discretion is totally advised. February third, 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:25.560 twenty twenty four, Ludlow Hills, California, seventeen hundred hours specific 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.480 standard time. This is a report of Damian Basilhurst, student 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.479 and resident at Crestwick University, ID number seven seven two 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.559 nine six. In the likely event that I encounter an 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.159 untimely demise, this log shall be a record of my 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.480 final days. The Bloodlow Hills are alive, but it ain't 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.160 with the sound of music. A series of recent events 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.839 has set me down a rabbit hole of research and conspiracy, 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:51.519 a deep dive yielding little other than increased paranoia. I did, however, 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.480 discover one thing I can't stop thinking about, the Sunshine Act. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:56.880 See. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.960 In accordance with an amendment to the Freedom of Information Act, 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.200 some formally classified military documents quietly went public a while back. 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.120 This amendment, known as the Sunshine Act, declassified past to 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:12.720 US military operations related to chemical and biological warfare. One 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.600 such defunct military effort that came to light was called, 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.679 and I quote the gay Bomb, allegedly an Air Force 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.400 research lab in Ohio briefly explored the development of the 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:27.559 chemical weapon, which, when deployed amongst enemy ranks, would turn 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:28.360 your foes gay. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.959 It's still unclear to me how that would even be helpful. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.119 Like is the idea that the enemy troops would all 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.280 just be too busy fucking to fight back. It's ridiculous, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.560 I know, and the type of thing I'd just lap 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.720 off if it weren't for the paupers in circulation that 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.360 maybe turning. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:45.639 The local gay guys straight. 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.640 This is dumb. Why am I even entertaining this. There's 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.160 no way poppers can turn you straight, just like there's 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.320 no way the gay bomb turned people gay. If I 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.640 just think this through with calm, rationale and a level 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:03.080 head my specialty, I'm sure there's another answer. I mean, 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.240 take p and Peter, the latest in a string of 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.200 men to go insane and try to make me in 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.760 hell a hookup. Being the keen social media stocker I am, 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.480 it didn't take me long to identify this handsome exchange 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:18.520 student's full name. Prior to September, all Peter's socials depicked 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.240 him partying it up in Cape Town, often at gay clubs. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:23.800 Then he posts an update that He's touched down in 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.480 LA for the semester, where he continues to frequent gay 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.840 clubs and what's left of Lisa vander Pump's establishments, but 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:34.280 then as of late October that all stops. Suddenly it's 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:43.880 fishing trips. Hello, Hello, Damien Matteo, Are you okay? 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.000 I'm fine. I slipped out the back when things started 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:49.560 to get heavy. 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.480 F five four FuMB I'm gonna make Damian inhal these 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.000 poppers till his stupid face goes none. 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.760 Yeah, that's a word for it. Are you in your dorm? 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:04.960 Can I come see you? 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:09.920 Okay, but Damien, be careful. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:29.400 I never am Matteo, I never am. Jesus, they ain't 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.480 exactly the hang out in the quad and play hacky 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.840 sackweather the brochure promised, which is fine by me. I 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.760 so don't have the mental wherewithal to run into anyone. 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.800 I know, Hey, Damien crazy, we're having. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.440 Stay alert. There are hostels everywhere. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.160 Oh way, I love that for. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.440 You, that voice. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.160 Of course I'd run into him. I believe in fate 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.320 about as much as the next guy who doesn't believe 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.400 in fate, But it feels like divine punishment that the 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.320 boy blocking the stairs to Mateo's dorm. 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.120 Right now is Wade? 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.560 Yeah, took my virginity and then I sort it out 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.600 at him, Wade. I've spent the last year avoiding him 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.560 and the apology I'd have to expel like a kidney stone. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.719 But now there he stands, chatting it up like the 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.800 world's not ending. If this is a sign from the 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.560 universe telling me to apologize, I'm ignoring it. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:30.640 Wade looks so sure of himself. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.560 His body language screams confidence in a way I could never. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:38.520 Annoy. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.599 You know, Doctor Wiley must have thought I was a 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.760 petty lunatic when I told her this. But something about 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.800 Wade's transition from agro closeted don't tell anyone we're fucking 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:52.680 to ultra woke human pride parade really annoys me. Like, obviously, 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.599 I'd never want anyone to feel insecure about their sexuality, 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:01.680 but Wade made me feel exactly that for months. So 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.320 to see him adjusting so well, Yes, Yes. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.599 The campaign was a huge success. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:08.960 We raised enough. 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.919 Money to airlift all two hundred gay orphans stranded on 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.600 the sinking Ukrainian oil rig to safety. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.640 It was amazing, like. 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.240 Yoh shit, he's turning this way. I panic and duck 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:30.400 into the nearest building. Where am I? Huh, the science building? 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.320 And I haven't been here since last year? But Santi, 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:37.559 what's in here? 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:39.200 Another classroom? 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:39.839 Okay? 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:40.680 What about here? 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:42.200 Faculty office? 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:42.839 Ooh? 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:43.520 Okay? 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:45.600 And what about this. 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.080 One janitor's closet? Why are you so excited? 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.080 I don't know, It's just you spend so much time here. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.039 It's cool to finally see it for myself. And that 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.400 sounded way more passive aggressive than I intended. 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.520 I know, that's actually what I wanted to talk about. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.120 I'm gonna be spending even more time here moving forward. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.640 Remember how I told you I was applying for that research. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.200 Grant, Yes, the one that you said sounds like a 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.680 sanitarium for criminally insane old people. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.640 Oh, ashcroft inlet, Yeah, of course. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.280 You won the grant, not yet, but I have been 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:23.520 selected as a finalist. 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.479 Boy, Oh, I never doubted you for a second. Who 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.920 are the other finalists? Do they need to take an 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.760 unexpected tumble down the stairs? Then you would win by default? 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.479 Right, there's just one other kid, and I appreciate your offer, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.160 but most respectfully decline. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:40.960 WHOA we have a cadaver lab. 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.919 Huh oh, yeah, I guess so. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.760 And there are bodies in there, that's the idea. 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:49.000 Cool. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:51.440 You know, a cadaver lab. 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.120 Would be a good place to dispose of a body. 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.360 You could just leave the corpse in there. The next 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.520 day people will come in and start chopping it up. 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.279 Willy Nelly for science. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.479 Should be a campus tour guide, right. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.160 They won't let me though, ever since I did the whole. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:07.400 You were joking? 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:09.560 Okay, sorry, sorry? 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:09.920 What were we? 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.600 Oh? The grant for real? Boy, I'm so happy for you. 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:16.600 Sounds like you'll be pretty busy. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.840 I will be, which is why I have. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:24.200 A little gift for you, my student ID. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.400 I ticket when you were high last night. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.840 I wasn't high last night. Okay, I have a question. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:32.000 Riddle me this. 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.920 You know, like erosion, How like with enough time, a 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.160 river will gradually wear a weight in dirt or whatever 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:41.000 it's flowing through. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.880 That's right, I'm familiar with the concept of erosion. 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:51.240 Okay, why doesn't that happen to us like when we peek? Yeah, 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.000 and that's a valid question. I would have asked you 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.800 that sober Wait, but why doesn't that happen to us? 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.960 Anyway? I got your ID voted for research lab access. 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:07.680 Look see now you can convision me anytime. 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:09.800 Boyo. 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:15.600 I don't know what to say except does this also 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:22.520 give me access to the cadaver lab? Santi, I'd forgotten 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.480 about that grant. The other kid probably won by default. 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:33.679 At this point, I don't see wade outside anymore. 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:38.120 Perfect. 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.560 It's almost like the universe is telling me don't go 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.720 to Mataos. It will be an emotionally devastating experience from 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:46.760 which you'll never recover. 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.560 Sought off, universe, You're not the boss of me? 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.560 Nope, not a sign. Didn't see that. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.080 Who is it? 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.000 It's your friendly neighborhood hook man. 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:09.760 Were you followed? 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.000 I mean, probably knowing my luck. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:14.160 Come on, come in. 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.480 Poteo's room is a mess. And now that I got 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.920 to go, look at Mateo? So is he? So? 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.640 How are you on the bed? 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:36.440 Whoa okay? 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:37.000 Uh? 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:37.600 Mateo? 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:45.000 Whoa okay okay? A pettier man than I would point 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.840 out that it was once Matteo who chastised me for 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.680 cutting to the sex too quickly. This is some unexpected 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:59.360 but I'm down. Oh okay, no, no, nom out, get out, 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.200 get out? Fuck what? It won't stay up. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:10.080 It felt pretty fucking up. Oh oh yeah, I see? 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.719 Ah, whoa MATEO, It's okay, whiskey Dick is just part 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:18.040 of the human experience, like fear, guilt, and shame. You 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:22.920 don't get it, Damien, No, I really don't. So can 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.920 we please just talk for a sec the non penetrative 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:27.520 kind of talk. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:36.120 Oh, yeah, you're right, I'm sorry, it's okay. 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.080 First, did anything bad happened to you last night at Peter's? 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:46.840 No, when things took a turn for the worst, I ran. 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:49.720 I'm so sorry. I was scared. 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.680 It's fine. Really, I did the same thing. I'm just 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:58.880 glad you got out. Did you see what happened to Elias? 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.600 Oh shit, yeah. 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.000 I lost track of him after where wolf ended. No 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.240 idea if he got out or Elias. 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:15.640 This is a loss an no bad blood to speak on. 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:17.600 Nice to meet you, Damien. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.400 He was kind of shrimpy and annoying. But the boy 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.640 knew how to play a game of Werewolf, that's for sure. 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:27.760 I hope he's okay. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.439 What about you? What did Big Top and Peter do 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:32.559 to you in the bathroom? 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.800 Well, after they got all berserk, they tried to make 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:42.920 me inhale. The hookup berserk, you know, red face, bulging 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.559 veins glossed overlooking their eyes, and every time they moved 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.240 I could hear their bones. 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.040 Just like Bellboy. Then that night he attacked us and 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.280 made me inhale it can I say something? 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:57.040 Oh? 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:58.360 But you you go first? 0:11:58.640 --> 0:11:58.760 No? 0:11:58.760 --> 0:11:59.480 No, no, you go? 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:00.600 Oh. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:01.600 I was just gonna say. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.880 As you know, I've been spending all my time looking 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:10.480 for answers about what happened to Santy, but I don't know. 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.719 It feels like the longer I'm searching for him, the 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:19.280 more I keep finding myself unraveling this entirely unrelated mystery. Like, 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.760 no matter how hard I try, all roads lead to 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:23.280 the hookup. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.240 What if it's not an unrelated mystery at all? What 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.360 if Santy's disappearance in the hookup are connected. 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.439 I've considered that, but. 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:38.000 Go on, I'm missing something. I know I am how. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:42.040 This all fits together. I could really use a throat 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:43.040 fuck right about now. 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.640 Sorry, throat fuck. 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.840 You know the informant dude from the Watergate scandal. He'd 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.320 meet Robert Redford in the parking garage and give him 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.240 little like hints and clues and stuff when he was 0:12:55.240 --> 0:13:01.160 stuck deep throat it was that his name. Okay, well, 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.640 like that's still pretty fucking weird. Who thought deep throat 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:08.199 was a good code name? His commanding officer sergeant as Blast. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.559 And I'm sorry, but if someone who calls themselves deep 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.360 throat wants to meet you in a secluded parking garage, 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.160 information ain't when he's looking to. 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.360 Trade getting a lot of mileage out of the deep 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:19.760 throat bit. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:24.360 Huh shit, I'm sorry. This is that joking thing I 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:25.200 do that you hate. 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.360 It's okay, I kind of missed it. 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.880 I can't pinpoint exactly when it happened, but I just 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.760 now realized that when I look at Matteo, I don't 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.800 see Santy anymore. I stare into his eyes and I 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:41.320 can finally just see. 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:49.480 At Tayo. Anyway, the hook up, you think it's causing 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:50.560 people to turn agro. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:56.080 I think it's doing more than that. Can I say 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:56.959 something crazy? 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.560 Always cool? 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:01.480 If I light incense? 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:02.640 Sure? 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.800 Do you remember what you said the first night I 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:08.520 came over here? 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:10.600 How goes lower? 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:11.440 No? 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:16.400 I mean about the incense. You said that monks believed 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:21.440 inhalance had the power to purify us, to change us. 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.160 Did I I'm pretty sure I was just trying to 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.240 sound smart. Physicians in the Middle Ages also believe that 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.080 illness and plague was caused by inhaling a type of 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.240 evil toxic air called miasma. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.120 Not sure how much stock we can put in. 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:40.160 It, But what if that's legit? I mean, maybe not 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:44.200 the whole evil miasma air part. But what if something 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:52.400 you inhale, like say paupers, could change you, like on 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.240 a really fundamental level. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.560 Do I seem fundamentally changed? 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:03.160 Weird answer? I mean, wouldn't the logical question be fundamentally changed? 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:07.800 How Because huh, lest we forget, Mateo did and held 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:13.080 the hookup, which means if my conversion theory is correct, 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:19.119 then Mateo wouldn't be gay anymore, which is impossible obviously. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.280 But I sat back down on the bed and turned 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:26.440 to face him, humoring his question. Does he seem fundamentally changed? 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:32.040 No, you still seem like Matteo. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.240 I don't feel like Matteo. I haven't since the hookup. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.160 At first, I thought my libido was just fucked up 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.520 in response to the dramatic belboy experience. 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:42.640 But then I. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.480 Started craving the hookup, waking up sweaty with nothing on 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.320 my mind. But the certainty that I'll die if I 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.480 don't get more. So when me and Peter DM me 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.320 on metal and said he had a bottle of the 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.760 hookup for the winner of the game night he was hosting, 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.400 I was there. My mistake was assuming it would be 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.160 settlers of Katan. And even though I said some uh 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.560 uncouth things to you last night. 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.280 I know you were just trying to protect me. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:12.400 I did a great job, clearly. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.240 At first I thought that was the point of the hookup, 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.520 to be addictive enough so people keep buying more. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:24.040 But but this isn't duel selling I have. It isn't 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.160 the hookup's true objective. 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:28.320 No, no, no, no no no. 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:33.400 That's crazy theory you alluded to earlier. That is the 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:39.000 true objective of the hookup. So I'm gonna ask you 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.960 one more time, Damien. Do I seem fundamentally changed to you? 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:48.520 I already said, Am I different? 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:51.600 Yes? 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.320 You know in spaceship movies when the astronauts come back 0:16:56.320 --> 0:17:03.360 aboard their ship and it makes that noise as gravity 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.680 is released back into the airlock, That's what I felt 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.600 like just now. Matteo and I have been beating around 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.240 the bush this whole time and talking in Enema's. But 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:14.840 now that we're addressing the elephant in the room, it 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:15.800 suddenly feels so. 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:17.680 Real. 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.479 It happened gradually over the past week. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.200 First it was just noticing the Roughs check out girl 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:29.120 in a new way. Then it was widening my porn searches. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.880 From muscle twunk forgets money to pay dishwasher repair man 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:37.400 pays him with sex, to Matriar can't afford to pay 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:38.280 Busty off. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.479 Pair pays her with sex. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.240 Huh, why do all of your porn searches sound like 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:46.400 entry level trafficking? 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:48.040 Yeah? I just caught that too. 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.480 Regardless, I thought at first it was just a later 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:54.879 in life discovery of bisexuality. 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.600 But you're not into guys anymore. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:17:59.960 He's not into me anymore. 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.560 I don't know who I am, Damien. 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:08.679 Ah fuck, fuck, this couldn't be any more my fault. 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:10.760 If you had to come with me to Bell Boys 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.720 that night, you wouldn't have taken the hookup, and you 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.959 wouldn't even have come with me if I'd been honest 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:16.320 about Santy and how. 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:16.920 You look like him. 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.280 Amian, will you shut your dump you off or your 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.200 goddamn fucking sentence. 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:28.359 I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. Look, I appreciate the apology, 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:31.200 but there isn't time. Okay. 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:33.959 Look there's something else, another side effect of the hookup 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.399 that I need to tell you about. About two days 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:44.760 after inhalation, the blackouts started. I suddenly come to with 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.680 no recollection of the past hour or afternoon, or even 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:49.480 a full day. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:54.040 That's right back in p and Peter's bathroom when he 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:55.440 and Big Top snapped out of it. 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:55.840 For a minute. 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.200 Oh what just what is going on? 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:00.000 Who are you? 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:02.120 Why you're my boss? 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.520 They didn't remember anything, Damien. 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.960 I called you because the blackouts are getting longer and 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:12.240 more frequent, and. 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:16.440 I can't explain how. But I know it's gonna take 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.960 me over soon for good God. 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.680 But before I'm completely gone, I need to tell you 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.480 something about the night Santi disappeared. 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:29.440 What about it? 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:31.440 I saw it? 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:34.320 You saw it? 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:37.120 No, that's not right. 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:46.240 I remembered it, but it's it wasn't my memory. I 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.840 I think everyone who's under the hookup's influence is connected. 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.600 It sounds crazy, but it's it's like my brain is 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:55.600 linked up to something bigger. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:57.879 Like a hive of mind. 0:19:58.760 --> 0:19:59.240 What is that? 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:04.000 I mean pretty much what you just described a connected 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:09.840 network of consciousnesses which comprise some sort of centralized collective entity. 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:15.400 Sometimes each individual branch can alternate between independent and group thought, 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.520 you know, maintaining some degree of free will. But in 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.919 other cases, the individual exists solely for the purpose of 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.280 carrying out the will of the collective, or to keep 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.520 consistent with the name the Queen. 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:29.520 I knew you'd understand. 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.800 I read a lot of sci fi, which is what 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:37.520 this is. Science fiction. There's no such thing as a 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.200 hive mind, just like there's no such thing as a 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.359 gay bomb or poppers that turn you straight. 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:45.120 But if bugs can share a common consciousness, how can 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:47.320 you really say it's impossible for humans too. 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:49.400 Bugs don't share a hive mind. 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:50.399 It's a misnomer. 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:56.680 Hive dwelling insects communicate with like vibrations and pheromones and shit, look, 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:00.600 I'm not trying to be a doubting Thomas here because 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:02.440 we're kind of in for a penny at this point, 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:07.800 But is it really plausible that your brain is hooked 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:08.679 up to some. 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:11.000 Hooked up. 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:13.880 The hookup? 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:23.320 Oh shit, terrifying, But you gotta respect the wordplay. I okay, 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:29.399 So you're experiencing the memories of other people who've taken 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:29.960 the hookup. 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:33.640 I think I've only caught glimpses so far, and most 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:36.840 of them are everyday occurrences running to catch a bus, 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:39.480 trying to connect a Wi Fi, puking in an uver, 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:42.000 and I witnessed them from the POV of the person 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:46.080 whose memory it is, so a lot of them were passable. 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:46.200 As my own. 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:53.359 But last night I remembered something. I, or rather the 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.199 person whose memory it is, was standing in the hallway 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:59.360 of the Ludlow Lodge. It didn't look like it does now, 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:02.399 which I can only assume means the memories from before 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:07.200 the renovation. Okay, remember when you were telling me about 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.280 the night Santy disappeared and you couldn't figure out how 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:14.040 his body could get down from the sixth floor undetected. 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:17.400 Right, because the security cameras only really cover the stairways 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:19.640 and elevator, which means. 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:21.320 The only way to get a body from the sixth 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:23.760 floor to the first floor would. 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:27.400 Have been via the old dumb waiter, which was rusted shut. 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:31.480 But that's just it. It looks rusted shut, but in 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:34.120 reality I think it was just locked. 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:40.560 In my memory, I was watching another guy approach the dumbwaiter. 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:44.560 Another guy who it was dark. 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:47.879 And I really couldn't make him out, but it was 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:51.720