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Speaker 1: Picture Company, Side Copia Pictures, and Upper Room Productions. Get

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Speaker 1: out of Wait, Get out of Way. I followed the

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Speaker 1: gray van for about ten blokes. We even in and

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Speaker 1: crazy son of a bitch sleep through to the other

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Speaker 1: of side like coached. Okay, Jenner, resume oar pilot. Resuming

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Speaker 1: autopilot Jack, to improve your chances of survival, please consider

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Speaker 1: buckling your seatbelt. I turned the car around and race

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Speaker 1: back to next corp with a thirty megaton migraine exploding

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Speaker 1: in my frontal lobe. Arenas stopped when the bay was

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Speaker 1: covered in thick fog. Visibility on the Golden gate bridge

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Speaker 1: was maybe fairy feet, and that sixteen miles power. I

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Speaker 1: felt the same sensation I have now out here in

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Speaker 1: the desert on oil pilot at night, like I'm suspended

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Speaker 1: in a void going nowhere. May thirteen, two or four am.

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Speaker 1: A voice message from your brother Michael Jackets. It's it's Michael.

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Speaker 1: You can you call me back? I really need some help, man.

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Speaker 1: It's something's wrong with my head. Dude. Ever since the

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Speaker 1: Next Corporate, ever since the trial meant I'm kind of withdrawal.

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Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. I just yeah, I'm having um,

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Speaker 1: I'm having these bad bolts again. Just so, he just

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Speaker 1: called just call me back. May seventeen, seven, twenty two

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Speaker 1: A m A voice message from your brother, Michael, I

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Speaker 1: really need you to call me back. Then. It'm I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm homesick. Something happened to me. And there dude, this

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Speaker 1: is to all of us, but I need I need

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Speaker 1: to make and why why the hell would you call? One?

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Speaker 1: Three fifteen pm. A voice message from your brother, Michael,

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Speaker 1: how are your mad? Look? I got a call from

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Speaker 1: Abel Abel Night. She was with me in the clinical trials.

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Speaker 1: She says she thinks we meg be entitled some kind

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Speaker 1: of I don't know, compensation from Next Corpse. She's got

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Speaker 1: this lawyer and she rounded up the others. There's sewing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you know, you always say never

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Speaker 1: A voice message from your mother jack it's your mother.

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Speaker 1: You need to call me as soon as you get this.

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Speaker 1: It's Michael. Jack he's gone. I got a call from

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Speaker 1: the Oakland Police Department, said Jackie, your brother said. On

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Speaker 1: June seven, one month before my brother Michael died, a

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Speaker 1: lawsuit was filed against Next Corp. Michael was one of

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Speaker 1: the several plaintiffs who had participated in the human clinical trials,

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Speaker 1: but they had all essentially signed away their rights upon

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Speaker 1: entering the trial. So they must have been something, some

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Speaker 1: evidence of Next Corpse liability, something that would be strong

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Speaker 1: lawsuits were felt before three of the plaintiffs died by

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Speaker 1: a parent suicide. Maybe that's what dr Abby Reynolds was

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Speaker 1: This riddle was spinning in my brain. When I got

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Speaker 1: is everyone looking for you? Actually? What you're doing? Sorry?

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Speaker 1: What's that on my computer? What are you doing on

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Speaker 1: I just need to log in. I don't have access

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Speaker 1: my bad, my bad? What would it be? I mean

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Speaker 1: you say to him? Whoa? What? Hey? Jack? What did

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Speaker 1: But now he's fucking gone. So what did you talk about? Well?

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Speaker 1: Look Jack, we've got the keynote tomorrow. I know, I know,

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Speaker 1: and you're worried about that. Max isn't coming back. What

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Speaker 1: morning said he was going to be gone indefinitely. We wait,

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Speaker 1: going when he would return. Jack. Did he happen to

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Speaker 1: I told you to keep an eye on him this weekend. Finish.

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Speaker 1: I proofed it. I proofed it. I could probably reconstruct

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Speaker 1: it's sorry free. That's message would have to wait. Apparently,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't the first time Max Fooder had gone off

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Speaker 1: the deep end. I'm just curious, how did you do it?

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Speaker 1: How did you come up with shy? It was after

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Speaker 1: my father died. This is from December. Second became a

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Speaker 1: month before CS. Max had offered me a drink and

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Speaker 1: it became another late night session drinking indulging. It was

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Speaker 1: Finn who saved me. I showed up at his place

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Speaker 1: that summer. He was deep into some experiments. He was

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Speaker 1: on fire about a project he called the Reconnected Mind.

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Speaker 1: Fucking madman right here. But I've done it. I've been

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Speaker 1: looking for ways to bridge the gap between the modern

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Speaker 1: I've never seen him like that. His eyes were glowing

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Speaker 1: an incredibly romantic tale about human Finne wanted to hack

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Speaker 1: But like everything else in this story, there are other sides.

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Speaker 1: The same question is true of all new technologies. Is

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Speaker 1: Finn was going to have to deliver the keynote. Now

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Speaker 1: watching everything was at stake, not already cyborgs. It's good, right,

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Speaker 1: on a narrative Fin would buy. I would have to

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Speaker 1: made my job even easier. This place is sweet meat, right.

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Speaker 1: We ended up at a place called the Escape part

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Speaker 1: a diet of bar slash retro arcade. No smart devices permitted.

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Speaker 1: Apparently Finn's favorite pastime was drinking beer. And playing antique

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Speaker 1: we hopped on the Gallagher machine. It was fun you first,

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Speaker 1: was number thirteen. Administer tomorrow Ship Come on Up Tomorrow's Monsters,

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Speaker 1: starring John Boyega as Jack Locke, Darren Chris as Max Fuller,

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Speaker 1: Produced by both Flynt, Dan Bush and John Buega. Tomorrow's

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Speaker 1: Monsters is a production of iHeart Radio, Flynn Picture Company,

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