WEBVTT - Episode 7: Quoth the Raven “Are You on PrEP?” 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.920 The Hookup is a production of iHeart Podcasts, Blumhouse Television 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:12.360 and Amber twenty. Listener discretion is totally advised. I don't 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.800 understand what you're not getting, Santi. They are one thousand 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:16.520 percent gay. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:18.960 I hear you, boy, though, I just think you're describing 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.680 a little too much meaning to a children's book. 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.400 Who said anything about meaning? I am just stating the 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.880 fact that Frog and Toad are gay. I don't mean 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.239 anything by that, It's just how it is. Every night 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:36.400 Frog drills Toad fact. I mean, haven't you ever gotten 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:38.280 like a foot job from a guy with webbed feet? 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:42.199 It just hits different. So Toad is the bottom I 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.720 would have guessed it was Frog, a common misconception which 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.240 causes Toad a good deal of grief. See Toad feels 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.519 insecure because as the older man dating a strapping, young 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.000 twunk like Frog, the societal expectation is for Toad to 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.840 be the agro top Zadi type. But that's simply not 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.960 the case, and it explains why Toad is kind of 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.880 such a grumpy cuck all the time. All that bottom 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.240 shaming has really gone to him over the years. Are 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:09.600 you going to finish your onion rings? 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:14.119 By all means, hey, while we're on the topic, can 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:18.800 I ask you something he may when you and Wade fucked? 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.039 Who is the frog and who is the toad? 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:22.920 Damien? 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:28.120 This is Wade. I'm confused. So this Wade, he was 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.080 the real person. You lost your virginity too. You told 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:38.920 me it was santy to what you know about Wade? 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.200 I know about everything. Boy, you. 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:52.800 Who's there? You did this to me, Damien Wade. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:53.840 You're a wicked boy. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.440 Damien, I'm not. I'm not wicked. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:02.240 You betrayed my trust after I opened up to you. Acker, 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:05.240 you opened up for me too. 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:14.799 Ever, since I met with doctor Wiley the other day 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.320 and reopened those older wounds, all I can dream about 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.359 now is wide. I mean, I thought the Sandy dreams 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.440 were bad, but this. I'm not sure what the frog 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.960 and toad part was about, though, that was weird. I mean, 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.400 I outed someone. He may have been like a barrel 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:37.000 of waste, but still that's really bad form. So try 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.680 as I might to focus on the conversion popper hive 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.200 mind conspiracy at hand, Lately, I keep hearing this steady 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:47.040 thump wherever I go, Like the guy in the Telltale Heart. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.120 You know, tormented by the heartbeat of the man he 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.400 dismembered and hit under the floorboards. Okay, I don't know 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.280 if he like dismembered him. I might have made that 0:02:54.320 --> 0:03:01.640 part up, except instead of a heartbeat. Once upon a 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.160 Tuesday dismal, while I mourned my own abysmal sins against 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.360 a gentleman who wronged me, yet I wronged him worse. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.359 While I lay there, glum and gloomy on my own, 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.960 no man nor roomy. I fucked up. I know, So 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.320 sue me, Sue me for my crimes perverse. I hear 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:20.440 the haunting, rhythmic, thrusting phantoms of my crimes perverse echo 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.760 like a telltale curse. Since yester when I hit afraid 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.640 espying him the boy called Wade, whom not two years 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.240 ago I outed. When circumstances grew adverse, the guilt inside 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.079 has reawakened a deep remorse. I want no stake in 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.040 the smell of shame, like mourning bacon, pungent, like the 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.440 porker's curse. Perhaps I must atone, I mutter, should I 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.080 seek to shed this curse from which I'm forced to 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.840 speak in verse as I started gently flapping my phone 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:50.360 produced a high pitched wrapping. It's just a pop up 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.520 bed for a sex shop called Chalk Full of Nuts. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.560 The customer comes first. Ugh. Sex shops have been using 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.280 that slogan since Pilgrim Time in Metal is a ghost 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.400 town these days. There's like hardly anyone on here anymore. 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:16.360 Have they all turned straight like Matteo? Ugh take cover 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.760 guilt approaching. Speaking of the paupers plan, I've set my 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.800 sights upon the man whose craven scheme I do believe 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:27.200 has brought the end so niish and furthermore to raise 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.760 the ante. Perhaps he also murdered Santi with fava beans 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.560 and nice KIANTI how he truly seemed the shyest. I 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.960 mustn't get bamboozled, for the wildest men are off the shyest. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:43.440 I'm onto you, my sweet Elias. Okay, But at the 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.960 same time, what do I actually know about this alias kid? 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.400 I know he somehow ended up at PM Peter's game 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.040 Night of the Damned. I know he and Santy were 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.240 competing for a prestigious research grant, evident by the photo 0:04:56.240 --> 0:05:00.039 I found of them in the science building yesterday. And 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.000 and I know he's kind of cute. He reminds me 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.440 of how in high school I had this imaginary boyfriend 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.040 named Cotton who I'd visit on his family's farm in 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.720 Oklahoma and we'd bang on bails of hey as a sunset. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.039 But I digress. So how does one go about finding 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:21.039 this elusive Elias. Well, for starters, one needs to be 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:35.839 an adept cyberstalker. Crustwick University Elias Crustwick University, Elias Research grant. Nope, 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:43.920 farm boy, barnyard porn, that's for later. I mean, you'd 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.400 think with a name like Elias, he'd be easier to 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:50.440 pin down, but I'm not worried. I swiped the photo 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:54.800 of Elias and Santy from the lab reverse image search. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:57.560 This is a handy tool I used to find a 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.600 guy's socials based on his dating Appics can form an 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.919 extreme opinion without ever having to meet him. You just 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:08.960 upload a photo and boom, I knew it. The first 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:13.360 result is a LinkedIn profile for one Elias Laski. That's 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.719 twenty first century sleuthing for you, man. I am so 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:21.679 crafty and relatable. Okay, let's see Originally from Iowa Studies 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.359 Medical Science at Crestwick u oh and works weekends at 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:29.080 the Crestwick Student Clinic as an assistant prep nurse. Wait, 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.040 nobody talk to me. I feel a plan coming together. 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.720 Some sort of accidental meet cute at the student clinic 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.760 mayhap lull him into a false sense of security, so 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:44.520 he tips his hand. I hatch deployed. It must succeed 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.360 to boil this here centipede. I've stalked him, and I 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.760 don't believe our pallid purpose, pure and pious. He works 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.080 part time at our scholastic clinic, getting pre med practice, 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.520 handing out free prophylactics meant to quell the HI virus. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.360 I'm overdue, in any case, to go on PRAP to 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:06.080 stop the virus. I'll bury you, friend, so call me eyelish. Okay, 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:27.200 that one wasn't my best work. Hi, I have an 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.240 appointment for Damien Hurst. Mm hmmm. 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.040 And what's the purpose of your visit to go on prep? 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:35.119 Mm hmmm. 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:36.880 I'll need to ask you a few questions. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:37.240 First. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:39.240 Are you sexually active? 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:45.000 Believe it or not? I am a virgin? Really, yes, really, 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.840 I'm saving myself for Jesus. I hear he likes him tight. 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.440 I will stand by that joke until my dying breath. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:54.320 Which might be soon. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.560 Have the following. Which types of sex do you practice 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.040 vaginal sex, anal sex, oral sex. 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:07.880 Anal and oral but not like combined? You know, I 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:08.560 mean not yet? 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.840 And uh when it comes to anal sex, do you 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:17.120 practice insertive, receptive or both both? 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.800 I mean historically I fancied myself at top, but some 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.240 recent expirations have raised the question of whether I really 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:24.840 do prefer it or if I'm just like you know, 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.240 pray to the bottom shaming stigma in the k community. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:27.840 You know what I mean? 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.880 Receptive? All right, have a seat in your student nurse. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:34.440 Will be right with you. 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.640 Thanks, and don't forget to visit the Barnacle boutique. Just 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:42.680 stock up on Crestwick spirit gear for tomorrow's badminton Championship. 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.839 On the heels of last year's crushing defeat against the 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.839 Saint Bartholomew Bulls, the Crestwick Crustaceans are poised to reclaim 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.440 the gold in tomorrow's game. Thanks Anna, I'll be sure 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.319 to show my crustation pride. 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.679 Damien, you can head on back to the exam room now. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.400 Seatful pretense as aside, I am overdue to be on prep, 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.640 especially now that I have to worry about catching heterosexuality too. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.320 I just don't have the capacity for much else. 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:16.240 All right, mister hurt Damien Elias, Huh do you work here? 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:18.560 That's a bizarre coincidence. 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:20.880 I don't believe in coincidences. 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.000 Shit, he's onto me already. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.720 Everything happens for a reason, So if the universe brought 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.800 us back together, it's no coincidence. 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:33.199 Oh oh, I'm glad you made it out of p 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.360 and Peter's Townhouse of Terror in one. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.720 Piece, barely, are you okay? 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.520 I mean in a severely traumatized kind of way. 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.679 Yeah, that was a really intense game of Werewolf. U. 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.960 I was referring more to Peter and Big Top going insane, 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:52.640 but yeah, werewolf too. 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.880 Did you see what happened to that other guy, the 0:09:55.920 --> 0:10:01.800 one who hated you, Big Top, the other one right him? 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:02.560 Is he okay? 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.240 He escaped? 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:10.199 That's good. So you're here to get on prep right? 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.560 Huh? All right, I guess we're done talking about that. 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.640 Uh yeah, have you taken it before? 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.839 I've sort of been putting it off, just never felt 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:22.079 like I needed it. 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:24.680 Life begins outside your comfort zone. 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.719 M Life begins screaming, covered in afterburth. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.240 Fine, but going on prep isn't some admission off to 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.960 pravity or loose morals? Say? 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:38.439 Ah uh, I know that, and you know that, but 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.120 the ovarmin flight on my head that dictates my self 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:45.800 wealth hasn't got m mallow. Why'd you throw the swab away? 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.800 Isn't that part of the exam? 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:56.040 Oh? No, I was just testing your reflexes, testing my Oh, 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:57.400 lift up your shirt. 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:09.880 In hey, Okay, okay, that's enough of that. The stethoscope 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:10.960 was really cold. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.240 You're cute when you're flustered, Damien. 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.040 Focus. There's time to get dicked down later. Right now, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.360 we need to shift this conversation towards Santy and the 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:23.120 Ashcroft Inlet research grant. Careful now, I just might fall 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:27.079 for you, cute, funny future doctor. 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:31.040 Not quite. My major's actually medical science. I just like 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.320 to volunteer at the clinic to help people get on prap. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.720 Okay, okay, I can work with this right, medical science? 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.640 So is that like a lot of research and stuff? 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.839 Yep? I'm actually part of our whole research grant program. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:45.560 Give me your. 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.520 Arm rad tell me about it. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.200 Really, it's not that interesting. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.319 I think everything about you is interesting. 0:11:54.360 --> 0:12:01.480 Elias okay, wow, your research project that will make me 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.520 eligible for a huge grant when I graduate. 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.199 Way cool? Uh what are you researching? 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:11.200 It's a chemical compound. I underestimated the commitment though. I've 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.839 had practically no free time since I started the program 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:18.160 yoga dating. I even had to quit the badminton team 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:19.120 this year to make time. 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.960 By code red, Elias was on the badminton team. That 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.240 means he owns a crust big badminton hoodie, which makes 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.920 him supremely eligible to be my stalker. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.880 Anyway, How are you with needles? 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:45.880 I'm sorry? 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.720 Are you squeamish about needles for drawing blood? 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.480 Oh? Oh uh no, no not really. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.120 Oh wow, so brave? 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:57.880 Do I get a lolly? 0:12:58.640 --> 0:12:59.160 We'll see. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.920 Wait, that wasn't me flirting. I really want a lollipop. 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.160 I bet you looked good in the badminton uniform. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.680 I looked great, but my partner on the grand project 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:11.640 went a wall, so I had to quit the team 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.840 to pick up the slack awall. 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:15.640 What happened? 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.480 Oh, it was bizarre. The guy his name is Santiago, 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.920 just disappeared one day. 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:25.439 Oh yeah, I remember hearing about that. I didn't know him. 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.320 Were you too close? You ask a lot of questions, 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.560 but think of all the things I know because I asked. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:37.920 Can't argue with that. It was a weird situation. Santi 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.600 and I were working side by side for hours every day, 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.760 but only one of us would receive the grant upon graduating. 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.040 And there it is who remembers the word of the 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.880 day mony, gotcha? 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:58.520 But now that Santy is Mia Santi, are you guys 0:13:58.520 --> 0:13:59.720 on nickname? Basis? Now? 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.320 Shit? Careful dame? 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:09.120 It feels a little morbid to talk about. But well, 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.240 the truth is, as long as Santi was in the picture, 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:12.760 I never stood a chance at winning. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:13.960 How's that? 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.760 Well? Key and I were evenly matched in terms of 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:26.600 brain power, work ethic, but Santi had the big d diversity. 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:36.840 Oh oh, optics wise, Santiago Ramos was the more desirable winner. Ah, 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:39.960 I just feel like there's something wrong with that sentiment. 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.560 I don't know, you had the whole gay thing going 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.040 for you. Doesn't that count? 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:46.040 Oh? 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.600 Well, I guess Santi was gay too, so it cancels out. 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.840 Didn't you hear? Gay's not diverse anymore? 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.560 Right? So nobody's heard from him, not since. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.800 He went missing the night of last year's championship game. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.920 So I guess it's almost exactly a year ago. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.680 Time flies when you murder your rival for academic gain. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:10.800 But wait, shit, that's right. It was the night of 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.880 the Bad Mitten game and Elias was still on the 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:18.640 team at that point, which means Elias has an alibi. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.400 So I rescind my battle cry. It seems his only 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.600 crime is of a nature hippocratic and keeping with the 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:29.200 mockery and paltry sleuth ad hockery, this mysteries debauchery remains 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.120 as ever enigmatic to better sleuth than me. Perhaps it's 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.040 not so enigmatic, nor hide wager. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:42.080 So traumatic not done. Now, let's talk band aids. We've 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.040 got Batman, Pokemon or I stand with. 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:49.880 Ukraine, I mean Pokemon. 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.160 Please, once we get the results back on your blood work, 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:54.720 we'll go ahead and call in your prescription. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.000 That easy, huh. 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.640 I do have one more question, He's told totally about 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:01.240 to ask me out. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:02.920 I'm flattered. 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:04.200 How didn't you know Santy was gay? 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:06.200 Uh? Huh? 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:10.320 Earlier you mentioned something about Santy being gay. How do 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:10.760 you know that? 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:15.480 Uh? Are you sure you must have mentioned it first? 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:19.160 No, I'm pretty sure I didn't. Fuck right? 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:24.160 Oh, you know what I actually did vaguely know Santy. 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.680 We never met or anything. I was just like aware 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.120 of a gay kid named Santy that goes to school here. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.520 Gotcha, No you didn't. You said you didn't know him. 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.960 Okay, we've hit a wee fork in the road here, 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.920 leaving me with two options. Option A would be to 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.840 keep lying my way out of this. That's historically been 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.680 my knee jerk reaction, although it is also how I 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:53.120 twisted myself into this knot so maybe it is time 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:57.480 for option B. The truth. Well, okay, and a bridge 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:04.640 version of it. You're right, Elias, I haven't been completely 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.560 honest with you. The truth is I did know Santi. 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:10.600 I knew him a lot. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.560 Were you guys together? 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:19.360 It was confusing and complicated, but yeah we were. 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.600 So this whole routine where you pretend to run into 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.760 me under the pretense of a prep appointment was just 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:30.280 to pump me for information because you knew he and 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.439 I were competing for the grant and that made me 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.440 a suspect, which. 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.720 I now know you're not because you have an alibi. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:43.600 You were playing in the badminton game. See problem solved? Yay? 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:44.920 Wow? 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:46.440 Are you mad? 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.320 Are you mad. You thought I was a murderer. 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.000 Well, to be fair, somebody wearing a Crustwit crustacean hoodie 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.159 has been following me lately, so I actually thought you 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.960 might be a murderer and a stalker. Needless to say 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.520 that sentence did not achieve the intended effect. 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:06.160 Definitely needless, and your logic doesn't even track. You say 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.760 your stalker plays on the babminton team, and you also 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.800 think your stalker is Santy's kidnapper. But since Santy was 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:15.800 taken during the babminton game, then theoretically everyone on the 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.720 team would have an alibi, which means nobody could have 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:19.639 committed the crime. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:25.920 Wow, he's right. How did I miss that? So then 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.800 you're saying that the kidnapper and stalker have to be 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:30.680 two separate entities. 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:35.880 No, what I'm saying is my life coach once came 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:37.560 up with something that I think would be pertinent to 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:42.399 this situation. She said, the simplest solution is often the 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:43.040 most likely. 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.480 Is your life coach a thirteenth century philosopher use Otherwise, 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.040 pretty sure she didn't come up with. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.160 That, You know, Damien, for someone with so much dysfunction 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.640 in their life, I'd expect you to be more accepting 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:55.440 of a little help. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.640 Excuse me, I'm just saying you're very. 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:05.800 Cynical, and based on the general disarray of your life, 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:07.200 I'm not sure you have the right. 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.840 To be Wow, okay, And had it occurred to you 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.960 that the general disarray of my life is exactly what 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.320 gives me the right to be cynical, I'm sure if 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.080 my biggest problems were being too white and deciding which 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.280 holistic healing crystal would summon the goddess of self care, 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.840 I'd be doctor optimists too. And honestly, what even is 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.680 your point about the simplest solution being the right one? 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.400 My point is that there probably is no killer Santy 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:41.800 left you. Ah, I'm sorry, Demian shouldn't have said anything. 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:48.480 No, No, You're right. It's a very real possibility, isn't 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:50.960 it fucked up? How the outcome and which Santy wasn't 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.159 murdered is the one I'm more afraid of. 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:59.720 Wow, when you find Santy, we can just keep that 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:00.960 between us. 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.920 I'm really sorry, Elias. I didn't mean to come after 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:10.520 you like that. I'm just so frustrated, like every lead 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:14.399 only leads to a dead end. It's like I'm shackled 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:20.320 to square one and I what I know, this isn't 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:23.760 what matters right now, But I think I might be 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:25.080 a kind of shitty detective. 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.280 Hey, that's not true. You tracked me down here, didn't you. 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.760 Yeah, I guess I am pretty crafty and relatable. 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:36.800 Besides, I doubt you'll have many more mysteries like this 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.240 is sold in your lifetime, so you should be fine. 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.199 I'm majoring an investigative journalism. 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:54.600 Oh right, have you considered switching majors? There is something else? 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:57.399 And I'm not sure if I should say anything, because 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:00.320 the last thing I'd want is to desecrate your memory. 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:05.000 What are you talking about? Tell me I wasn't just. 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:11.080 Being cagy before. Ashcroft inlet is conservative with the information 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.240 they share. When Santi and I were initially selected for 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:16.479 the grant program, we were told the bulk of our 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:20.400 research would be testing various biochemical interactions against a specific 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:22.480 drug they were developing. 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:24.639 Now streaming on exposition plus. 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:29.000 The people from the Foundation called it agent M and 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.359 it's apparently such a groundbreaking medical advancement that we aren't 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:33.919 allowed to know what it really even is. 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:36.880 Yet that sounds shady. 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:41.000 I know, it's just it's been so exciting to be 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:44.199 part of something important. I may have willfully overlooked some 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:51.399 red flags, but Agent M is I mean, it's remarkable, 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.160 even without knowing its intended purpose. Just watching the way 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:57.680 it manipulates and reshapes organic matter is mesmerizing. 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:01.160 Well, if there was any doubt that Agent M became 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:03.879 a hookup, I'd say it's now entirely dispelled. 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:08.040 But the point remains. Earlier, when you asked about the 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:14.040 actual objective of the project, you weren't told. Well, I wasn't, 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:20.719 meaning not long before Santy disappeared, he started having a 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:26.240 lot of closed door conversations with our supervisors. At the time, 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:29.320 I just assumed it meant he was the front runner. 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:32.240 But then I'd started catching him at the lab, but 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:36.680 weird hours sneaking around hying about it, and when I 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:41.359 raised the issue with the Foundation, they completely shut me down. 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:44.679 So you think Santy found out what Agent M is? 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:51.560 Obviously I can't know for sure, but definitely felt that way. 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:57.560 Do you think do you think the Foundation did something 0:22:57.680 --> 0:22:58.120 to him? 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:03.359 I did at first, but I can't make it make sense. 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:08.119 He was their golden boy. I do think Santy was 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:12.359 involved in something on Savory. I just can't imagine how 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:13.960 it factors into his disappearance. 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:18.120 If what Elias is saying is legit, then not only 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:22.000 was Santy helping develop a conversion drug, he was on 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:22.760 board with it. 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:24.400 I know about everything. 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:29.000 Boy, you no, there's no fucking way the Santy I 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:33.399 knew would never do that. Though maybe the Santy I 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:35.400 knew wasn't the real Santy at all. 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:41.760 I feel sick. I'm so sorry, Damien, and none if 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:44.800 this even means anything I could have misinterpreted or no, 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:51.120 I'm glad you told me this. You know, it takes 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:53.840 forty three muscles to frown, but only seventeen to smile, 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:57.480 So when you think about it, it's really much easier 0:23:57.520 --> 0:23:59.040 to just put on a happy base. 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:01.359 Oh me a fucking break. 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:04.080 But life snow foam when you take the easy way out. 0:24:04.800 --> 0:24:06.680 So I say it's a ok to cry. 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:13.119 Yeah, you're right. Did your life coach tell you that? 0:24:13.600 --> 0:24:21.560 Worse it was in today's horoscope? Anyway, enough sad talk, 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:27.040 it's my turn, your turn for what to say? 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:32.880 Ah ooh what do you just like that? His mouth 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:35.440