1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media. 2 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 2: Book Club book Club Clubok, Club book Club. It's the 3 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 2: Cool Zone Media book Club, which is a podcast that 4 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 2: is a book club that It's very confusing when I 5 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 2: try and explain cools on Media book Club because I'm like, well, 6 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 2: it's a podcast, and I'm like, well, we listen, and 7 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 2: You're like, well, you listen on other podcast feeds. It's 8 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 2: kind of a parasitic podcast. Maybe symbiotic. 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a lamp prey. Yeah, let's say a lamprey. 10 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 3: Lamp Preys are basically good. 11 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone is happy they're there. 12 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 3: I'd love having a lamp prey attached to my body. 13 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 2: Yeah. And that's schools on Media book Club, where the 14 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 2: squatters of podcasts because we sneak into other Cool Zone 15 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 2: media podcasts. It's like if the landlord was squatting the apartment. 16 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 3: Right right, Yes, it's exactly like that. And like landlords, 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 3: I have been algorithmically increasing your rent in a way 18 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 3: that finally attracted federal government scrutiny. 19 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 2: Wasn't there some game that came out where like they 20 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 2: couldn't figure out how to make it was like City Skylines. 21 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 3: I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, how to make it fun 22 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 3: to play with landlords who worked like real landlords. 23 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, so they had to get rid of landlords in 24 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 2: order to stop real estate prospecting or whatever. 25 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 3: Landlords are a big part of the problem. I think 26 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 3: the biggest part of the problem is just that, like, 27 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 3: we built an entire society where like a huge number 28 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 3: of people will absolutely lose their mind if their house 29 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 3: doesn't increase in value forever, and that's just kind of 30 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 3: dooms the whole civilization. 31 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 4: I know. 32 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 3: It makes me think a lot about the ancient Romans 33 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 3: where you read about, like, okay, the entire backbone of 34 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 3: our military and society is these small free farms, and 35 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 3: of course all of the rich people eye up all 36 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 3: of the small free farms as soon as they get 37 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 3: money and destroy the class of people who used to 38 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 3: provide them with a military in order to make themselves 39 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 3: moderately richer. And like, wow, what a dumb self destructive there. 40 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 3: You read about like the Myans or whatnot who like 41 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 3: poisoned their water. It's like, oh, okay, like what kind 42 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 3: of society would do such a stupid thing to destroy 43 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 3: their own ability to sustain themselves? Like everybody, that's what 44 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 3: all societies do. Yeah, as we drive cars as I 45 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 3: have a truck. 46 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 2: Yeah. 47 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, let's read this story about largely about that. 48 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, helly m well, this is part three. If you 49 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,839 Speaker 2: didn't listen to parts one or two, you're an adventurous 50 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 2: sort and your brain works fundamentally different than mine. 51 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 3: Just raw dogging Corey Doctoro's story, that's right, not even 52 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 3: the lube of the first part of the story. 53 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to give you the littlest bit, which is, Okay, 54 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 2: where we last left our heroes. They were about to 55 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 2: throw a communist party with plans to break into an 56 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 2: industrial three D printing factory to print shopping carts for 57 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 2: folks living on the streets. That's where we left our heroes. 58 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 2: Because this is part three of Party Discipline by Cory 59 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 2: doctor She went from scared to furious so fast it 60 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 2: scared me twice. And it wasn't the normal cherrelle eyeball poison. 61 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 2: This was real, uncontrolled anger that made me take a 62 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 2: step back. We're doing it because it was important to you. 63 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 2: She hissed so intense that other people turned to watch us. 64 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 2: She forced herself to calm down and bent her head 65 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 2: toward me. You tell me, linay, why are we doing this? 66 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 2: Maybe it was the jolt of new immediate fear that 67 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 2: I got when her fury welled up that got me 68 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 2: past my future theoretical fear of jail and let me 69 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 2: get back to my thoughts because now I can access them. 70 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 2: Because we're all so sure, there's no way to escape that. 71 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 2: We're all going to be done too not doing, Cherrell, 72 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 2: I'm graduating high school this year, and as far as 73 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 2: anyone can tell, there's no reason for me to even 74 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 2: exist once I finish. My mom would miss me, and 75 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 2: so a teashow. But Charrell, no one needs them to 76 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 2: exist either. We're spare humans. Do you remember economics class. 77 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 2: The lower the pay is, the worse the work, the 78 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 2: more unemployed people they need to make the people with 79 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 2: those terrible jobs feel like they can't afford to quit them. 80 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 2: The most use the Zadas have for either of us 81 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 2: is to be miserable and downpressed so bad that everyone 82 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 2: else works double hard so they don't have to join us. 83 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 2: Schrell cocked her head. You sound like a wobbly do I? 84 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 2: I replayed what I just said. I hadn't spent a 85 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 2: lot of time with Wobbley's, but I'd read some of 86 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 2: the pamphlets they left in the toilets, the darknet rants 87 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 2: you had to click through to use their proxies. I 88 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 2: guess I do, well. Who cares? They're right? We knew 89 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 2: they were right all along, Schrell. But while we were 90 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 2: in school, we could pretend that it didn't matter, that 91 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 2: we had a purpose to go to classes and grind 92 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 2: for grades. But now class is over and the bell's 93 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 2: going to ring, and then what so you want to 94 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 2: have a communist party? It wasn't a question, and it 95 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 2: was supposed to be sarcastic. I puffed up. Yet, damn right, 96 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 2: I do. At least we're doing something. The whole system 97 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 2: only works because we let it work. Don't do anything 98 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 2: to stop it from working. She spit again. It works 99 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 2: because doing something usually means going to jail. Girl, you're 100 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 2: supposed to be smart. Be smart. It's not too late 101 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 2: for all of us to go to the party tonight. 102 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 2: Some of Alai's friends are cute. I'll introduce you. Remembered 103 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 2: that it had been me who'd had doubts, had went 104 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 2: to Cherrell for reassurance. Instead, I'd got this rage and fear. 105 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 2: Neither of us was sure about this, and it was 106 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 2: too late. The stragglers were coming through the woods. It 107 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 2: was time to tell them all that we were going 108 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 2: somewhere else tonight, somewhere that all of us had bullshitted 109 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 2: about wanting to go since freshman year, a chance to 110 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 2: make the world do something for us for a change, 111 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 2: instead of to us. We're going Charrell, you and me 112 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,479 Speaker 2: and them. It's going to be amazing. We're going to 113 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 2: get away with it clean. We're going to have the 114 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 2: most amazing senior year in the history of Burbank. Hi, 115 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 2: you believe in me, Lenai. I don't believe in you, 116 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 2: but I like you and I trust you. She grinned. Suddenly, 117 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 2: I got your back. Let's do this. We told them 118 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 2: they could go home if they didn't want to risk 119 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 2: coming to the Communist party, but we told them after 120 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 2: we told them that they were the only kids in 121 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 2: the whole school we trusted enough to invite to it, 122 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 2: and made sure they all knew that if they backed out, 123 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 2: there'd be no hard feelings and no chance to change 124 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 2: their mind. Later tonight, when they were at a corny 125 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 2: party with a bunch of kids, instead of making glorious revolution, 126 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 2: every one of them said they'd come. I'd found an 127 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 2: all ages show and encino that night, two miles from Steelbridge, 128 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 2: Antoine's old job. We got piled into ubers heading for 129 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 2: the club, chatting about inconsequentialities for the InCAR cameras and mics, 130 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,279 Speaker 2: and every one of us paid cover for the club, 131 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 2: making sure to use traceable payment systems that would alibi 132 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 2: us as having gone in for the night. Then we 133 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 2: all met in the back alley, letting ourselves out the 134 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 2: fire doors and ones and twos. I did a head 135 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:40,799 Speaker 2: count to make sure we were all there, squashed together 136 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,799 Speaker 2: in a spot out of view of the one remaining 137 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 2: camera back there. I'd taken out the other one the 138 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,919 Speaker 2: night before, wearing a hoodie and gloves, sliding along the 139 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 2: wall so that it was out of range until I 140 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 2: was reaching up to smear it with some old crankcase oil. 141 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 2: We hugged the wall until we were back out into 142 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 2: the side streets. All our phones were off and back, 143 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 2: and everyone had maps that used backstreets without cameras. To 144 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,359 Speaker 2: get to steel Bridge. We strung out in groups of 145 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 2: two to five, at least half a block between us 146 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 2: so no one would see a big group of kids 147 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 2: walking while brown and call the cops. Regrouped at the 148 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 2: head of the industrial road that led down to Steelbridge, 149 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 2: lined with shuttered factories, empty and silent except for the 150 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 2: distant railway thunder. And you know what else would be 151 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 2: empty and silent is our lives. 152 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 3: Yes, without these sponsors. Oh my god, they're not even lives, Margaret. 153 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 3: Can't you call them that? It's not living without products 154 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 3: and services? No, No, absolutely not. 155 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, we're back, and you know, Margaret, uh huh. 156 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 3: One of the things I respect most in an author. 157 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 3: It's actually most of what makes the old Simpsons great 158 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 3: is the ability to have things happen in the world 159 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 3: years or even decades after you write something that may 160 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 3: it seem a lot smarter and funnier. And in the 161 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 3: case of Corey, doctor, oh, you've noticed that like the 162 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 3: cheap poor person like amalgamated food extract that they have 163 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 3: in this is scop. 164 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: Yeah. 165 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 3: And there's a piece of AI gibberish going viral on Facebook. 166 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 3: Now that's like an AI generated and comprehensible meme with 167 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 3: like a heaven and a hell, and there's like a 168 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 3: floor mat in front of hell. The one in front 169 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 3: of heaven says heaven and the one in front of 170 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 3: hell says stop because like it's just an AI hallucinating. 171 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 3: I have thought, like I kind of want to push 172 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,319 Speaker 3: Corey's word. Well, I guess it's Corey and that AI's 173 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 3: word now, but I kind of like the idea of 174 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 3: using that as a generic term for like AI generated shit, Like, yeah, 175 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 3: there's a bunch of scop in my news feed today, 176 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 3: Like it's really clogged up with a bunch of fucking scop. Yeah, 177 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,719 Speaker 3: Like it feels good to say. 178 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 2: I am entirely here for it. I think, without having 179 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 2: asked him, that he would approve of this. 180 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 3: Yes, I suspect he would. I haven't asked him either. 181 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 3: I actually have owed him an email for like seven weeks. 182 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 3: Maybe i'll send after this. 183 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, people can hear it next week. But I just 184 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 2: finished recording an episode about George Orwell, who wrote incredibly 185 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 2: complicated man, but incredibly useful, incredibly good in so many ways. 186 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,839 Speaker 3: Complicated man. Yeah, only his women, and by his women, 187 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 3: I mean his hand grenades understood him. 188 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't understand women. 189 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 3: I will say he did understand hand grenades. They were 190 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 3: the real love of his life. 191 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. He invented the phrase Cold War. Really. 192 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually didn't know that, and I thought that 193 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 3: it neither speaking to guys who Yeah, the more you yeah. 194 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, the deeper you go, there's more and more there. 195 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 3: Well, I'll say this. Every criticism of George orwell, and 196 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:45,959 Speaker 3: he's got more than his fair share. Yeah, none of 197 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 3: them are criticisms of him as a writer. 198 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 2: That's true. 199 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 3: That man could fucking turn a phrase. 200 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 2: Some people try because they basically say he writes to playing, 201 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 2: he's not a real intellectual or whatever, But he instead 202 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 2: intelligently wrote about why he chooses to write that way. 203 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, he was one of the best to ever do it. 204 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 3: He's right up there for me with Vonnegut. 205 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. So all right, I said, last call, 206 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 2: turn around now, or it'll be too late. Of course, 207 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 2: no one was going to walk away with everyone else watching. 208 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,559 Speaker 2: After an awkward moment, I smiled at them all and said, 209 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 2: all right, you're in. There was a chuckling and murmuring 210 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 2: and backslapping, and I led them to the back door 211 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 2: of Steelbridge, where Antoine said we could expect to find 212 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 2: a way in. I tried not to show how nervous 213 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:33,839 Speaker 2: I was. My hand shook as I reached for the door. 214 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 2: Then I remembered and reached into my pocket and got 215 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 2: my gloves. Glove up. I turned around and watched them 216 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 2: all do it, because of any of them left prints 217 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 2: behind they could lead to me. We were all in 218 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 2: this together. I put my earbuds on the factory network 219 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 2: and got the music tuned in, kicking in the pass 220 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 2: through so that i'd still hear conversation around me. It 221 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 2: was fast, crazy salsa from Russia, thunderbeats and hard wrapping 222 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,319 Speaker 2: over big horns, and we all nodded in time. As 223 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 2: we passed through the door. The light swirled in amazing patterns. 224 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 2: Projection mapped onto huge masses on the factory floor, turning 225 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,839 Speaker 2: them into stone or wood, or water or smoke as 226 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 2: the beamers hanging down from the ceiling played over them. 227 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,560 Speaker 2: They were at least a hundred people there already, the 228 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 2: giant building's far edges lost in shadow. I spotted a 229 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 2: keg and headed for it, threading through some weirdly dressed 230 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 2: dancers who were dancing even weirder, though not badly at all, 231 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 2: Like their dance moves were from another timeline. I would 232 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 2: have stopped to admire them if I hadn't seen Antoine 233 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 2: by the keg, and if he hadn't seen me and 234 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 2: beckoned up close. He looked like he was about to 235 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 2: throw his head back and start speaking in tongues, that 236 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 2: churchy look of someone right on the edge of something 237 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 2: too big to contain in a single human body. He 238 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 2: grabbed my hand and squeezed it like a drowning man. Linney, 239 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 2: it's happening, it really is, Antoine. What about the machines, 240 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 2: He used his free hand a gesture at them, the 241 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 2: men and women working on them, just getting started. We 242 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 2: hit some snags with the power meters. Didn't want them 243 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 2: to snitch us out. But he gestured at the dancers. 244 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 2: We got some skilled assistance. I looked at the dancers again. 245 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 2: They were weird in some way that I couldn't quite 246 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 2: put my finger on. I couldn't remember ever seeing anyone 247 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 2: dressed quite like them before. Printer clothes that crinkled and 248 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,559 Speaker 2: rustled like thermal blankets the homeless people used, cut in 249 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 2: boxy lines like a child's drawing, right down to the 250 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 2: thick piping that ran around the edges like crayon lines. 251 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:34,559 Speaker 2: It looked a little like the stuff you saw refugees 252 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 2: wearing in the videos where they washed up on a 253 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 2: beach or bobbed in the sea, or crowded against a 254 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 2: fence in a camp somewhere. But they were also party clothes, 255 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 2: definitely sparkly and bright, and I never heard of party 256 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 2: cut refugee wear or had I. I stood up on 257 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:55,559 Speaker 2: my toes and whispered in his ear one word, walk aways. 258 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 2: He nodded, and I felt the blood rush to my cheeks. 259 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 2: I'd seen documentaries about them, and sometimes you heard about 260 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 2: them in the news. Terrorists, thieves, pirates, people who'd walked 261 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 2: away from it all, living in the forgotten and empty places, 262 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 2: were cycling toxic waste and their own tailings into weird 263 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 2: funhouse versions of civilization, like horror movie sets. If wobblies 264 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 2: were exciting radicals walkaways or orcs and ghouls, the dancer 265 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 2: seemed a lot scarier. All of a sudden, I knew 266 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 2: that walkaways got mentioned in the same breaths as communist parties, 267 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 2: but I always figured that was a scarce story. I 268 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 2: thought communist parties were about wearing fake beards that hung 269 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 2: off of fake glasses, not rotting civilization from within. What's more, 270 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 2: I'd brought all my friends along for this. If the 271 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 2: cops got word that Walkaways were here, there'd be no mercy. 272 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 2: Just being in the same building as them could land 273 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 2: us all in prison for a long long time. No 274 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 2: Wonder Detective no name, had such a heart on to 275 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,079 Speaker 2: figure out what was going on. He wasn't trying to 276 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 2: stop a party. He was trying to catch terrorists, Antwine. 277 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 2: I could tell he'd seen the expression on my face 278 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 2: and had an idea of what was going through my head. 279 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 2: He put a hand on my shoulder and steered me 280 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 2: into a private room to one side of the factory floor, 281 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:15,599 Speaker 2: some kind of supply closet with high shelves under the 282 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:18,959 Speaker 2: ancient fluorescent tube lights, the shelves bare and showing the 283 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 2: dusty outlines of the stuff that had been piled on 284 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 2: them when Steelbridge had been running as a real factory. 285 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 2: I know what you're gonna say. He had beer on 286 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 2: his breath. Was he drunk? How drunk walk aways? 287 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 3: Antwine? 288 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 2: When the cops find out, cops aren't gonna find out, Linay, 289 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 2: that's the point. Who do you think knows how to 290 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 2: fool the power meters? They got their own internet running 291 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 2: off drones and blimps. They hacked the meters to think 292 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 2: they were still talking to LADWP. Not only that, they 293 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 2: also got the mills and the rollers help all the 294 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 2: machines got them unlocked from the manufacturers, so they'll even 295 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 2: turn on. That's all walk away shit. No one here 296 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 2: could do it. So what you're saying is that you 297 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 2: knew all along that they'd be here. He made a 298 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 2: pained face, and I knew I'd caught him. Yeah, I 299 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 2: knew it. You should have known it too. Who do 300 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 2: you think started the communist parties? Who do you think 301 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 2: makes them possible? Helena? What do you think the point 302 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 2: of them is that shut me up? An hour before, 303 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 2: I'd been dedicated to making something happen in the world 304 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 2: instead of letting the world happen to me. I'd been 305 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 2: willing to risk everything to prove that I had a 306 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 2: place here. What was the point of communist parties to 307 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 2: push back? To write fifty foot tall graffiti in the 308 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 2: form of stolen machines and furniture and cars and vehicles, 309 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 2: shopping carts for homeless people? The walkaways? We ah caught 310 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 2: in the same place as those dudes. There's going to 311 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 2: be a terrorism bus. You know that those dudes are 312 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 2: the reason we're not going to get caught. They're the 313 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 2: real deal the resistance. You know, they're out there all 314 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 2: the time, keeping low and getting away with it every day. 315 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 2: They're good people to know. A thing I've noticed about 316 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 2: Cherrelle and her family is that they can always find 317 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 2: the bright side, even when they really have to dig 318 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 2: for it. My family was a lot better at worrying 319 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 2: about the downside, which was why, even though I was 320 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 2: the one who wanted to have a communist party, she 321 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 2: was the one who ended up making it happen. I 322 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 2: tried to look at it like Cherelle Wood, like Antoine would. 323 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 2: I had brought thirty kids to a communist party where 324 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 2: there was free beer, dangerous and amazing machines and walk aways. 325 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 2: I was going to be a living legend, assuming none 326 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 2: of them ratted me out. Shut up, eh, Okay, Antoine, Okay, 327 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 2: But if we all end up getting rendered too Tajikistan, 328 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 2: I'm going to blame you, I'll slip you a hack saw. 329 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 2: He was still a handsome fool. Get me a beer, fool, yes, ma'am. 330 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 2: Cherelle's side eye. When Antoine and I got out of 331 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 2: the closet, could have cut steel. I crossed my eyes 332 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 2: at her and stuck out my tongue and got antoine 333 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 2: to fill me up a second red cup for her. 334 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 2: I handed it to her and clicked cups as we drank. 335 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 2: The software that was djaying kicked into a song we 336 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 2: both loved, but a mix neither of us had ever heard, 337 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 2: and Charell started to bop her head a little, and 338 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 2: then I did it too, And then we drank up 339 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 2: and hit the floor, and a space opened for us, 340 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 2: and we started to dance for real. I'm a good dancer, 341 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 2: and Cherell is a great dancer. I got good by 342 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 2: paying attention to her, and the other partygoers paid us 343 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 2: the highest compliment. They danced too. For a while, it 344 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,919 Speaker 2: was just like any party, dancing, grinning faces the crazy lights. 345 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 2: Now the software was picking out people and projection mapping them, 346 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,199 Speaker 2: turning them into shimmering fish creatures or stone statues or 347 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:41,159 Speaker 2: red skin devils. The Walkaway's crazy party clothes made an 348 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 2: especially great canvas for the painted light, and when one 349 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 2: of them got lit up, the rest of us formed 350 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,959 Speaker 2: a circle around them while they busted out their best moves. 351 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,880 Speaker 2: Trying to see if they could outpace lightning fast reflexes 352 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:56,159 Speaker 2: of the projection mapping program. The software was good, and 353 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 2: it spun track after track, seamlessly matching beats but speeding up, 354 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 2: daring us to keep up with it. On the floor, 355 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 2: humans and machines locked together in a musical battle. Charrelle 356 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,439 Speaker 2: and I busted at her best moves, and when she 357 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 2: spun away to dance with an older guy, a steel worker, 358 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 2: not a walk away, you could easily tell him apart. 359 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:16,199 Speaker 2: She danced like he was a nineteen year old at 360 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,160 Speaker 2: a club in New York City, not a middle aged 361 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 2: guy in a stolen factory in the San Fernando Valley. 362 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 2: Then I was whirled off by a pair of walkaways, 363 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 2: and one of them was white, and she and her friend, 364 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 2: a Mexican looking guy, these freaked out moves that would 365 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 2: have looked corny if anyone else had tried them, something 366 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 2: like a war dance from an old cowboy in Indians movie, 367 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 2: or something like a Lindy hop. But with them it worked. 368 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 2: I tried out some of their steps, and they smiled 369 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 2: and encouraged me, and soon we were all grinning like fools, 370 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,360 Speaker 2: much like you'll be grinning like a fool. If you 371 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:51,120 Speaker 2: purchase new product from product store. 372 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,640 Speaker 3: It's the only thing that can make you happy. 373 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 2: That's true. 374 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure we're allowed to say that. 375 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 2: I haven't been stopped physically, right, and I will tell 376 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 2: the truth until I'm physically stopped. 377 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 3: Yep, yeah, yeah, that's all right. 378 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 2: As Americans, it's right to talk about the truth of product. 379 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 2: And here's an ad for it. 380 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 3: Welcome back. 381 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 2: And I'm a little disappointed that there was also service 382 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 2: in there. I had just been talking a big game 383 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 2: about product, but really, maybe it's like dungeons and dragons, 384 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 2: you need both. 385 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, products are the services of products. 386 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:29,119 Speaker 2: When we make a tabletop role playing game for cools 387 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 2: on media, it's going to be called products and services. 388 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 3: Oh my god. Yeah that's a good one. Margaret still 389 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 3: going to be three point zero based. Oh oh, I'll 390 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 3: just remember how that rule set works until the day 391 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 3: I die. 392 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:40,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's fair. 393 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,160 Speaker 3: Let's get weird with it. Let's do second edition Shadow Russ. 394 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 3: So many D six is, Margaret, like thirty D six 395 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 3: is for every person? 396 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 2: And I don't know how the damage system works even 397 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:50,919 Speaker 2: though I'm currently playing it. 398 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 3: Nobody ever did it's like a fell jammer or not 399 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 3: spell jammer. Fucking rifts. Yeah, the most knowledgeable rifts players no, 400 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 3: like a third of the rule today game. I hear 401 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 3: legends that up deep deep in the mountains in Harlan County, 402 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 3: up in furthest Appalachia, there's a man who knows all 403 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,880 Speaker 3: of the rules to rifts. But some people say that's 404 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,159 Speaker 3: just the legenda lies. 405 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 2: Now I've seen him. I tried to study at his feet, 406 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 2: but he wouldn't let me anyway. Meanwhile, in the background, 407 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 2: piped in and mixed down with the music by our earbuds, 408 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 2: I was aware of the sounds of machines, first faint 409 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,439 Speaker 2: and tentative, but then more intense and regular, and the 410 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 2: software doing the music matched it with paradiddles that put 411 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 2: it into a jazz time. So the Lindy hot parts 412 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 2: of the walkaway dance really worked, and more people were 413 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 2: doing it. But more and more of the dancers were 414 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 2: drifting over to the machines, first the steel workers, then 415 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 2: the walkaways, then the rest of us, grabbing more beers, 416 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 2: forming semicircles around the lines where the machines were doing 417 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 2: their things. The sheet metal workers moved smoothly passing parts 418 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 2: from one machine to the next, transferring wire grid works 419 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 2: to huge beds where they were stamped and folded, then 420 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 2: to a bed where a writhing nest of robot arms 421 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 2: made a series of precise, high speed welds. The shopping 422 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 2: carts took shape before our eyes, moving to finishing steps 423 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 2: where water jets cleared off snags of metal and then 424 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 2: polished the steel, then into a coating bath tended by 425 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 2: workers and masks. One of the walkaways was unstacking plastic 426 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 2: tubs from a pile that was leaning on a column 427 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 2: and hauling them over to the area where the upside 428 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 2: down carts were being muscled into place in long, precise rows. 429 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,679 Speaker 2: The walk away, a woman the same color as me 430 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 2: and not much older, I realized with a surprise, pulled 431 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 2: something out of her crate and snapped it onto a cart. 432 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,199 Speaker 2: It was a wheel. She went back for more. The 433 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,239 Speaker 2: walkaways had brought wheels. I had even thought about how 434 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 2: a steel factory would produce rubber wheels. Someone else had, though, 435 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 2: someone who'd thrown more than one Communist party. It wasn't 436 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 2: a game for amateurs. I joined her. She gave me 437 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,360 Speaker 2: a pretty smile. One crooked tooth and a lopsided dimple. 438 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 2: Her hair was in short braids streaked with silver. It 439 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 2: looked amazing, nice hair, I said. As we met at 440 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 2: the wheel tub. It was nearly empty. We had help 441 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 2: now three more people clicking the wheels into place. Thank you. 442 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 2: I like your shoes. I'd worn my coolest kicks, covered 443 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 2: in tiny relief sculptures of hundreds of famous athletes twined 444 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 2: around each other, every pair unique and printed by Goldman Nike, 445 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 2: designed so that the rubber deformed to make them dance 446 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 2: and move when I walked, ribbed with high contrast piping 447 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 2: that glowed bright enough to show every feature even in 448 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 2: the factory light. They were the most expensive thing I owned, 449 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 2: and I nearly died when Mamma gave them to me 450 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 2: for my birthday. So I was proud that she noticed. 451 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,640 Speaker 2: Thank you, Mind if I scan them so I can 452 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 2: print some later. She was already moving around them, holding 453 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 2: out a bead that she passed over them for several passes. 454 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 2: For a second, I felt like she was taking something 455 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 2: from me, picturing her and her friends wearing identical shoes 456 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 2: by lunchtime the next day. Then I told myself I 457 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 2: was like the assholes who insisted that this factory and 458 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 2: all its feedstock just rot until the roof caved in. 459 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 2: Be my guest, because what else could I say, seeing 460 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 2: as she was already nearly done, except whoops. She needed 461 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 2: me to lift up each soul, So I did that, 462 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 2: holding on to her shoulder muscily while she finished up. 463 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 2: I think I can redo them with the faces of 464 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 2: all my friends. She pocketed the bead. Be fun to try. 465 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 2: My name's Mercenne, call me mayor you want linee. Her 466 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:39,639 Speaker 2: handshake was rough, strong, calloused. She was Hella strong. No 467 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 2: wonder she could throw around those tubs like they were 468 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 2: full of cotton balls instead of heavy duty wheels. Looks 469 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 2: like there's more needs doing. She shoved a tub my 470 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 2: way and I staggered under it, got it balanced, and 471 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 2: crouched walked it to an empty spot. The assembly line 472 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 2: was really tearing now, so much rolling stock on the 473 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 2: factory floor that we are in danger of running out 474 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 2: of space. Someone realized that the shopping carts were shopping carts, 475 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 2: so you could push one into the back of another 476 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,639 Speaker 2: and it would nest inside it, making long segmented rolling 477 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 2: snakes out of them. Even with that measure. We were 478 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 2: soon filled to the doors, but it was okay. The 479 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:15,640 Speaker 2: feedstock was done and the dancers were starting to look 480 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,440 Speaker 2: a little glazed with the heat of their bodies and 481 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 2: the machines. It was two am. Antoine came over and 482 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 2: high fived me. Where's Charelle? I looked around. She'd helped 483 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 2: out in spells, but had been more of a dancer 484 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 2: than a maker. I had stayed with cart constructional logistics 485 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 2: straight through, pausing only for beer and water. There had 486 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 2: been three of us who took the lead on the carts, 487 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,440 Speaker 2: Mare the walk Away, and a guy I figured out 488 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 2: was a wobbly. Being part of their trio made me 489 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 2: feel fucking badass. I have to admit, there she is. 490 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 2: She was with a group of the kids that we'd 491 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 2: brought along with us. I'd known those kids most of 492 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,120 Speaker 2: my life, and it struck me that in a month 493 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 2: I'd stop seeing them every day, and I'd probably never 494 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 2: see a lot of them again. That was a weird feeling, 495 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:05,679 Speaker 2: but not into entirely a bad one. More enormous Chuell 496 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 2: spotted us and toasted us with her red cup. She 497 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 2: was grinning like a fool, looking for all the world 498 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 2: like Antoine. Antoine put his hands on his hips and 499 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 2: looked at the tight packed shopping carts. Now what I 500 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:23,399 Speaker 2: was exhausted, exhilarated, and exactly exceedingly exalted. I had an 501 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,120 Speaker 2: all over tingle of danger. The cops could still show 502 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 2: up an accomplishment. We did all this. Everyone with a 503 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 2: truck brought it. We load them up, tarp them over, 504 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,360 Speaker 2: dump them downtown near the market where the homeless are. 505 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,959 Speaker 2: They do the rest. That made sense. I mean, we 506 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:40,680 Speaker 2: weren't going to push them through the streets all night, 507 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 2: were we? But it was such an anti climax. I 508 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 2: got a better idea. Some of the steel workers use 509 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 2: sheets of metal to make ramps that helped us roll 510 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 2: the carts into the collection of pickup trucks and the 511 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 2: factories sheltered loading area. Once they were loaded, the walk 512 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 2: away spread out and visited each truck's cab, doing something 513 00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 2: to them to keep them from knowing where they'd been, 514 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 2: giving them plausible new geography in case someone ever pulled 515 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 2: their log files. Most of the steel workers were going 516 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 2: to walk home, and the walkaways were going to head 517 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 2: into the night and ghost, of course, with laps sitting 518 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 2: and squashing all the kids we'd brought would fit into 519 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,359 Speaker 2: the cabs of the trucks. They were just sorting that out, 520 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 2: led by Cherrell. When Mayor found me and stuck her 521 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,239 Speaker 2: hand out, just wanted to say goodbye before we all 522 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,239 Speaker 2: went back to our corners. I shook her hand and 523 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 2: then on impulse, gave her a hug, which was all 524 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 2: muscles and bone. Damn walk away at life must be 525 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,919 Speaker 2: for real. Take care of yourself, which was a funny 526 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 2: thing for her to say to me, since I lived 527 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 2: in civilization and she was a criminal who lived in 528 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:42,239 Speaker 2: the bad lands. Uh, you too, She held me out 529 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 2: at arm's length. I mean it, it's scary here, lots 530 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 2: scarier than when we have out there. She jerked her 531 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 2: head towards the hills. We stay out of their way 532 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 2: and they stay out of ours. You staying here in default, 533 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 2: You're a problem they have to solve. We're self deporting 534 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 2: to nowhere poof out of say, out of mind. The 535 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 2: word default leapt out at me, and it was what 536 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 2: they called us here in the real world, the people 537 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,920 Speaker 2: who just did what they were supposed to do. School 538 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 2: was default. Family was default. Even parties like Alas were default. 539 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,919 Speaker 2: The shit we just done not default, the sort of 540 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 2: thing that the cops would pull a fake lockdown to 541 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 2: get inside of. Not being default. Felt good. Thank you. 542 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 2: I hope I see you again. You want to make 543 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 2: that happen, Just message me. She passed me a slip 544 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 2: of paper that trickles into walk Away net. You send 545 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 2: it a message, it'll bounce, and that bounce message will 546 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 2: get logged and I'll see the log eventually. Cool. I 547 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 2: meant it. Walkaways were super spied ninjas, of course, but 548 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 2: getting a glimpse into how they were able to operate 549 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 2: without getting hammered was cool and impressive. And that is 550 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 2: the end of part three. Because if you want to 551 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 2: know what happens to the shopping carts, you're gonna have 552 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 2: to wait unless you've read the book on your own. 553 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,159 Speaker 2: But you wouldn't do that. You wouldn't do that to me. 554 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 3: No, you might do that to me. You probably would. 555 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 3: I can see it in your eyes. 556 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 2: I know both of us. 557 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 3: I know you won't be faithful to me. 558 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 2: I know, but if you are, you'll wait till next 559 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 2: Sunday and join us for part four. 560 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 3: I've partied for yourself, honest and true. You know you 561 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,959 Speaker 3: won't listen to another podcast I've decided to apply like 562 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 3: the morality that like English regency culture applied to aristocratic 563 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 3: women who had sex before marriage to like, oh, people 564 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,120 Speaker 3: who listened to other podcasts before this one comes out 565 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 3: next week. That's how I'd be socially dead. You'll be exiled, yeah, 566 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 3: you know, put out from your entire family and social circle. 567 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. Cool Zone Media podcasts are okay, yes, of course obviously, 568 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 2: And once you've heard part four, then you can listen 569 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 2: to some non coool Zone Media podcasts as long as 570 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 2: the hosts have been guests on cool Zone Media. 571 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 3: And to be clear, you are allowed to have like 572 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 3: pre marital sex outside of the English royal family. Like 573 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 3: that's fine, just no podcasts. 574 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, totally yeah, well except for our new podcast, 575 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 2: Sex Outside the Aristocracy. 576 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, that's right. We only tell sex stories from 577 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 3: people who are not members of the House of Windsor Yeah. 578 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 3: It turns out that has done nothing at all because 579 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 3: none of those people fuck the truth. 580 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you want to hear more about the story, 581 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 2: we'll see you next Sunday. 582 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 1: It could happen here as a production of cool Zone Media. 583 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from Cool Zone Media. 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