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Speaker 1: Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of I Heart

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Speaker 1: Radio Together Everything, So don't don't ah, it's the Worst

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Speaker 1: Year Ever, the only podcast whose title was just plagiarized

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Speaker 1: by Radio Lab. We are in the process, I promise you,

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Speaker 1: of of pursuing legally. Um. I feel confident saying their

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Speaker 1: offices will be nothing but a bloody crater in the ground.

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Speaker 1: When wait, did they plagiarized us for their sure duke,

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Speaker 1: they have a series or at least an episode called

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Speaker 1: Worst Year Ever? They know the worst year to be

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Speaker 1: alive on planet Earth, and I have never been angrier. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they just did. They just take um clips from our

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Speaker 1: show over the past few years. It's just our show,

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Speaker 1: is as I understand it. It's it's just our a show, um.

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Speaker 1: But but cutting it and editing it very carefully to

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Speaker 1: have Cody admit to being the UNI bomber. Well, yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: it's not a hard well that sounds like good journalism,

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Speaker 1: capustrated stitch together. That's my assumption. I've said it before

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Speaker 1: and I'll say it again. No, they put periods in

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Speaker 1: C A motherfucker's I'm going to burn radio Lab to

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Speaker 1: the ground. Yeah, I think it's a real lab, right,

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Speaker 1: It's like, oh yeah, it's it's a laboratory. So there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of flammable things in there. They should not

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Speaker 1: tried us. Yeah, they'll be they'll be too busy being

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Speaker 1: on fire, on fire a d O lab people collab.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the worst year we've been reading books.

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Speaker 1: Good we have been. Has there been news? I don't

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Speaker 1: think so. It doesn't seem likely, does not seem like

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Speaker 1: a thing there's been. The only news I care about

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Speaker 1: is what's going to happen to this tiny little guy

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Speaker 1: inside of another guy. That's what matters to me. The

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Speaker 1: emotion allegory we discovered this was this week. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: know there's people in the reddit who are frustrated who

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Speaker 1: say that the story What's Fair had a point and

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Speaker 1: we didn't get it. I think we got it. They're like,

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Speaker 1: you doing an iron rand allegory. We got it, it's

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Speaker 1: just incompetently done. So there's not actually a point because

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Speaker 1: it's not really established whether or not um like, what's

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Speaker 1: his name? The murderer brother is any Like, we just

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Speaker 1: hear from his perspective that his physical labor is what's

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Speaker 1: saving the farm, and we never actually get a reveal

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Speaker 1: to show that his brother was actually doing anything that

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Speaker 1: kept the farm going or the family going. So again,

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Speaker 1: yeah's that's what Ben is trying to do, but there's

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Speaker 1: no message because he didn't do it competent do it.

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Speaker 1: That's my argument with reddit. Well, also the other brother. Uh,

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Speaker 1: not only did he not demonstrate that he was actually

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Speaker 1: doing uh uh, it did demonstrate that the work he

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Speaker 1: did do was build a tractor that did not work,

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Speaker 1: that did not work, that that was not effective. Didn't

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Speaker 1: it didn't work when you press the button should have

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Speaker 1: been easy. Uh. Yeah. If the messages that like, there's

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Speaker 1: uberman inventors and laborers and laborers need to know their place.

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Speaker 1: We never established that the Uberman's is in fact good

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Speaker 1: at anything. It's not actually shown by anything that happens

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Speaker 1: in the story. Yeah, one could argue that it demonstrated

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Speaker 1: that the messages that sometimes two people who are bad

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Speaker 1: murder happens between two people with very fewer teeming qualities

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Speaker 1: or qualities at all, oh qualities whatsoever, because they're not

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Speaker 1: really characters in any meaningful way. Yeah, well, important thing,

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Speaker 1: this other book, I think the one that we haven't

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Speaker 1: gotten wrong yet. The pictures of the mechanical might have

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Speaker 1: created a cliffhanger um and two listeners to eagle eared listeners.

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Speaker 1: We may be repeating ourselves, and that's okay, because it

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Speaker 1: gonna read. We may repeat ourselves. So I think the

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Speaker 1: mites are coming, dozens of them, hundreds of them. I pull,

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Speaker 1: I tug, I yank. Finally, I pry the damn thing open.

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Speaker 1: that they said. It doesn't matter. My legs hang free though.

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Speaker 1: As I am hand over hand grabbing, I'm upside down.

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Speaker 1: A drop of stomach gas bathes my face, a drop

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Speaker 1: burning off the skin. I don't think almost fast. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's fine, that's fine. This is what might do. And

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Speaker 1: and it just Stomach acid is basically the acid from

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Speaker 1: alien exactly excellent. Yeah, yeah, we all know this. We

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Speaker 1: all learned this, we're all learning it now maybe, But

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Speaker 1: A drop of stomach acid baits my face, burning off

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Speaker 1: the skin. But I'm almost there. I feel the jerk

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Speaker 1: before I see it. A mechanical might has my leg

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Speaker 1: claws at it frantically. Not a good sentence. Ken might

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Speaker 1: has the time to write the word? And I kick again,

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Speaker 1: But my leg feels slow, unresponsive. Then I feel warm.

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Speaker 1: When I look down. The mechanical might is gone, so

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Speaker 1: out in shards. I bite right through my bottom lip.

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Speaker 1: like splintered. Maybe you know Ben's wife is a doctor.

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Speaker 1: Oh you're right, I'm sorry, Yeah, sure, she's the one

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Speaker 1: who said that if you if you wind up vomiting,

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Speaker 1: I know it. I'm going to die down here in

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Speaker 1: the gut of the whale. Amy will never know what

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Speaker 1: happened to me. She might she knew you were, she

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Speaker 1: Love is a powerful force. But also most people whose

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Speaker 1: because that's incredibly not okay. You should have told me

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Speaker 1: And I have been with some very forgiving people, um

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Speaker 1: but but I don't think anybody would forgive that really

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Speaker 1: that dog in the Futurama episode the Sad One, but

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, again, we know nothing about this world about

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Speaker 1: Do like all crazy rich people now do versions of this?

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Speaker 1: it's it says everything. UM. And I guess Ben is

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Speaker 1: he really thought it through. I think that the primary

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Speaker 1: If this, then what is not a sentence or question here? No? No,

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Speaker 1: comes down in great gushes, washing over me, refreshing me.

422
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 1: But then the stream becomes too strong. The ring opens again,

423
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,120
Speaker 1: sucking the water into the stomach. I grabbed the wall

424
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: of the esophagus and hold on for dear life. I'm

425
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: not going back in there with those metal mites, says

426
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: the iPod nano in the throat. The water stops, and

427
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: the whale takes a deep breath, swelling his belly out,

428
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 1: swelling out his belly. Now that I'm in the esophagus,

429
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: I can hear everything better. And now that I'm bigger,

430
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: the voices don't seem quite so distorted, which means I

431
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 1: can hear that the doctor is back. Too many new

432
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: paragraphs for so little to say. Sir, he's saying, I

433
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,439
Speaker 1: cannot imagine how we survived. But oh I can't demadge,

434
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,160
Speaker 1: and how you botched it, says the whale. But you'd

435
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 1: better fix it. I feel the pressure in my chist.

436
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: I know it is, and it's growing worse all the time.

437
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:09,640
Speaker 1: How are you talking so well with an iPod nano throat? Yeah,

438
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: not quite throat, not quite throat yet, and the esophagus,

439
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: but like what it seems like it would make it

440
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 1: difficult to talk, difficult I've never shoved an iPod nano

441
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: into my esophagus, but I don't think I would be

442
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: able to speak the way I normally speak, especially if

443
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: it's like got little hands and it's grabbing. It seems

444
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 1: like it would be a problem, be a problem. I

445
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,959
Speaker 1: don't know. We can ask Ben Shapiro's doctor wife. Perhaps

446
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: she will say, no, the esophagus actually does fine with

447
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 1: an iPod nano in it. We do it all the

448
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: time in our family. We eat I pod nanos, but

449
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: not all the way. We keep them in our throats,

450
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: keep them stuck. That's called medicine. Esopha. Guys that he

451
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: should started. Esophagus is a good band. It's okay band.

452
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 1: I've listened to them. Yeah, Esophagus rock rock joke on

453
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 1: hip hop fans out there radio in radio land. I smile.

454
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 1: At least I'm giving the bastard a little pain. But

455
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: you're clearly all right. He seems very actually notice at all.

456
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: Then I punch his esophagus from the Yeah, he flinches.

457
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: I feel it now, he says, I feel it now,

458
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: he says, kind of, because he's got the thing in

459
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: his throat. We tried the mice, says the doctor, how

460
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: about a metic smart, very smart. They know I must

461
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: be out of the halo one way or another. Yeah,

462
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: you punched his esophagus and then and they know that

463
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: I haven't been killed by the stomach acid because you

464
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: punched the esophagus. Wounds. It helps you. So if they

465
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: can't bring me to the acid, they'll have to bring

466
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: the acid to me. If he vomits, he'll bring up everything,

467
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: including the acid. I'll be burned beyond recognition. Or he'll

468
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: throw you up, and then you'll be outside of his

469
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: body in a very shallow pool of puke that you'll

470
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: get out of quickly, because puke doesn't dissolve, doesn't dissolve

471
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: skin particularly quickly. Guys his world, his rules, his world,

472
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:44,719
Speaker 1: his rules, his dream. These facts don't care about your

473
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: feelings of how the world, But my facts do care. Ah,

474
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: I can't, says the whale. My ulcer. It'll start beating again.

475
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: Good point. So that's what that red spot was in

476
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: the stomach. He already knew this. Hold on, yes, hold on,

477
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: I gotta word. Just banged my head on the table.

478
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: What do you I feel like He's already noticed this

479
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: and guessed it was an ulcer but whatever. Uh, maybe

480
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: I'm just making it up because he should have. So

481
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: that's what that red spot was in the stomach. Well,

482
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 1: bless God for the whale's coffee and stress addiction. Okay, no,

483
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: it won't, she said. No, he's the doctor speaking. No

484
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: one won't, says the doctor. That medicine you talk earlier.

485
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: Here we go. No one won't, says the doctor. That

486
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: medicine you took earlier. Couded your stomach lining the acer

487
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: should be closed temporarily. The whale leans forward. I can

488
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: feel him do it, Yes, he says, I see your

489
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 1: point like it's like c W dialogue. No, the ced

490
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: the c W dialogue is always better written than this. Yes,

491
00:30:56,280 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: I see your point like it talks like that. All right,

492
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: I prepare myself to die, amy, if only I could

493
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: say goodbye. Also formatting error on that paragraph, of course,

494
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: it doesn't doesn't matter. The doctor pads out of the room.

495
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: The doctor pads out of the room. That is the

496
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: ridiculous pads out of the room. Is um a phrase

497
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: that you see when you're describing sleepy little children up

498
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: going back. Maybe he's like, he's just like being careful

499
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: not to upset the whale. You know. Ah, the doctor

500
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: pads out of the room, or at least it sounds

501
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: like it. A few minutes later he's back. See this

502
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: is where we get like earlier, when he's literally in

503
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: the person's stomach and he's describing like what the people

504
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: are doing with utter like complete, like omnipresent confidence, and

505
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: here he is, the doctor pads out of him, or

506
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: at least it sounds like it. Yeah, so just from

507
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: the beginning, describe what things sound like, not what is

508
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: literally happening. And then five pages later be like, well,

509
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like that's going on. It's like

510
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: it sounds like the doctor leaves and comes back five

511
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: minutes later. Yeah, Like it's like I hear I hear footsteps.

512
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: It sounds like having a thing the size of a

513
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: smartphone jammed in your esophagus is not a problem enough

514
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: that they need to like rush a ton. Also, the

515
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: doctor pads out of the room, or at least it

516
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: sounds like it, and a few months later he's back.

517
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: So here's the thing, Ben, Your character has resigned himself

518
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: to die. He's gonna die, and he wants to say

519
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: goodbye to Amy, whoever that fucking is but you've already

520
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: established it. Like he can grab onto the esophagus from

521
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: the inside, and like you're like standing in there and

522
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: you just like hanging out for a few minutes knowing

523
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: that he's gonna puke you up. So just like climb

524
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: use those few minutes to climb the esophagus. Right, he's

525
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: just like chilling down there. It's just like a wasted

526
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: seems like wasted time. Anyway. A few minutes later, nothing happens,

527
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: and now he's back. Follow he orders, and here comes

528
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: the shower again. Not water in a pill. No, they're

529
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: too smart for that. They know I'd grabbed the pill

530
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: prevented from hitting the stomach. Now you wouldn't it were

531
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: like knock. It's like it'd be like half your son. Whatever. No,

532
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: this shower is of epicac slime all over me. Too

533
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: many commas. You need to right, sens is better, very

534
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: apparent right now, No comma. This showers of epicac comma

535
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: slime all over me. The ring opens, sucking it in

536
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: just a few seconds now before the guys are of

537
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: acidic vomit comes up, finishing me. I rubbed my right

538
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: leg what's left of it, and looked down through the ring.

539
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: The epicac is washing through the stomach. The mechanical mites

540
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: are swimming around in it. Soon they'll be joining me

541
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: along with the acid. Okay, so the acid doesn't affect

542
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,720
Speaker 1: the mechanical mines. Oh yeah, no, they're fine. It burns

543
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: through than very quickly. Yeah. The mites, well, obviously, that's

544
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: why there are so many mites in our stomachs. That's

545
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: why we got the mites. Soon they'll be joining me

546
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,240
Speaker 1: along with the acid. New paragraph, unless I joined them first,

547
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: the script, the ulcer. New paragraph. It's the only chance.

548
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: New paragraph. All of these new paragraphs are designed to

549
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: be like dramatic and it's just dumb. Well, it's because

550
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: each of them is expressing a completely distinct thought. M

551
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: So you gotta switch, you gotta switch. Well, yeah, because

552
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: like it's like he wants the suspense of like timing

553
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: and space, um and like drawing it out, but he

554
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: can't write enough words, so he's got to make two

555
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: word paragraphs and like it's the illusion of suspense, right, Um,

556
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:16,320
Speaker 1: but I'm full of suspense, so let's find out what happens.

557
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: I can't make it up the esophagus in time. You

558
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,280
Speaker 1: had a few minutes while the doctor was gone. Buddy,

559
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 1: this is like, yeah, you could have been climbing up

560
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: by that. I can't make it up the esophagus in time.

561
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: You could have when the doctor was gone. I did,

562
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: all right, Not with this time bomb below me. Well

563
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: you had time. It wasn't a time bomb when the

564
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,320
Speaker 1: doctor was gone. But I can make it down. I

565
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: hold my breath and dive down through the ring. The

566
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: fall seems endless. I feel like I'm skydiving through noxious air.

567
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 1: I briefly wonder if I'll survive the fall at all,

568
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: but then I'm on the side of the stomach. I

569
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: claw at the wall, grabbing a handhold, plastering myself as

570
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: the acid swirls below me. The mites haven't noticed me yet,

571
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,240
Speaker 1: covered as I am, and the sticky gou that coated

572
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 1: the stomach just a few body lengths away. As the ulcer.

573
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 1: It's covered in that same coup, but not for long.

574
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: If I can keep holding my breath, I edged my

575
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: way down toward it. It's raised and throbbing, but yes, right,

576
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 1: but not obvious to the mites. I fall to my

577
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,720
Speaker 1: knees and begin scraping away the now hardened black coating,

578
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: chunk by chunk, I rip it away. The mites turn

579
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: and see me, but they see something else, the red,

580
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: ugly flesh of the ulcer, bleeding, inviting them because they

581
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:41,720
Speaker 1: love blood, love to as much as they love tobacco.

582
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 1: Mechanical mites. Um, yeah right, these are the mechanical mites too,

583
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: So they don't they eat, No, they're they've been programmed

584
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:57,240
Speaker 1: to chase attack ulcers, to crave blood like normal mtes

585
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 1: also crave, apparently because the normal whites were also bloodthirsty. Correct.

586
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: That's fucking great, Ben, very good, and it's so good,

587
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: in fact, that I think this is a wonderful time

588
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: first suspense cliffhanger time. We'll be back. I promised that

589
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: this story is over in a couple of pages. I

590
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: don't promise ship because it's been Shapiro. There could be

591
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: a whole another version of this story that he's producing

592
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: with his new film team. Oh god, yeah, I hope

593
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: he is. I was gonna say that he is. I

594
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: bet he's not, because and hear what's some what's a

595
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: failed actor who turned into a right? I mean Kevin

596
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 1: Sorbos as guy fighting mites, Kevin Sorbo Dean Kane is

597
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: probably the whale or the doctor. Yeah, Dean Cane will

598
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: be the whale. Get like kid Rock in there or something. Yeah,

599
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 1: Kid Rock could be his friend who dies tragically to

600
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: the mites. Man, I'm already wow, perfect casting. Maybe could

601
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: be a throw Kirsty Alley in there. I know we

602
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: have a winner. M I'd watch it. I would too,

603
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:15,320
Speaker 1: I absolutely would. Of course, will be right back together.

604
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: Oh we're back. I'm thinking of Kirstie Ali waiting at

605
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: home for Kevin Sorbo to finish his three years fighting,

606
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: having no idea where he went, having no idea where

607
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: he went, but waiting faithfully reading all these news stories

608
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: about the one guy who invented shrinking technology and exclusively

609
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: uses it to shrink down people to kill the mites

610
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: that he fears are drinking his blood. Yes, that's why

611
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: he made mechanical mites to drink his one. Exactly. You

612
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,280
Speaker 1: gotta get those. It's more sterile, right because they're mechanical.

613
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, yeah, that makes sense to me. M M,

614
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: all right, what happens he's been Oh we're gonna get you,

615
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: We're gonna get you up from that cliff. The ulcers

616
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 1: bleeding and inviting the mites. They rush at it, pincers,

617
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: scraping together with twisted glee. The first mite virtually leaps

618
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: over me, and it's eagerness to be flesh. Oh yeah, firstually,

619
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 1: I didn't read it fairly. The first mite virtue. Man, No,

620
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,280
Speaker 1: that's bad. That's not that's not that's not my fault.

621
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: Correct that the first mite virtually leaps over me, is eager.

622
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: It leaps over you. It leapt. It either leapt over

623
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,800
Speaker 1: you or it did not. Yah, did it? Like? What

624
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 1: are you saying? Are you saying it like leapt and

625
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: then hit you in the head because it didn't get

626
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: above you? Are you saying that it it jumped up

627
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: and then like walked around you? Or yeah? At this bad?

628
00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:00,720
Speaker 1: At this? It plunges deep into the ulcer, dig blood

629
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: oozing from the interesting that the stomach acid is not

630
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 1: caught aizing the ulcer wound that he's describing. I thought

631
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: that that's what the stomach acid did to all wounds.

632
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just if you're tiny. The whale screams convulsive. Sorry, Katie,

633
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: I cut you off with no, I did. I had

634
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 1: nothing to say. Really, screams gonna keep coming. I grab

635
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 1: another chunk, pull it off the ulcer, throw it away.

636
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: How big is this ulcer? Now the blood of the

637
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 1: whale is around my knees, and the mites are coming.

638
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: Oh they're coming. Yeah, sorry, and we're sure these are

639
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: still the robot mites which which he has programmed to

640
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 1: be insatiably attracted to his blood. To blood apparently, and

641
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: not just mites or one guy, but the blood of

642
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: the man who invent to them and is deploying them. Yeah,

643
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: it's a classic story of hubrists, the hubris of a

644
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 1: man who made mites that don't need to eat, but

645
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: somehow are again insatiably attracted to his blood. A little

646
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: to the sun, um a great, what happens? A little

647
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: too close to the halo? Mistic All right, oh what happens?

648
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: They're coming by the tens, the dozens, the hundreds, drawn

649
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: by the blood, and they follow the first much Where

650
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 1: are they coming from? All over? He is now the

651
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: size of like an iPod. Those mites will be almost

652
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: microscopically small. Tom shouldn't he be able to stomp on

653
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 1: him or something? Anyway? Also than this ulcer by now?

654
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: Yeah he's yeah, I was just thinking that too, But

655
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: they're coming by the ends. The dozens the drawn by

656
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: the blood, and they follow the first mite, tearing into

657
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: the open flesh, the first mite, which virtually leapt over me.

658
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: That's not included in this. It's fine. The whale screams again.

659
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:26,720
Speaker 1: Then I'm horizontal, Comma flat. The whale has been pushed

660
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: to the ground. The acid drips towards me slowly. I

661
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: climb for higher ground. But something is going on above me.

662
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:39,479
Speaker 1: A scraping, a cutting, too many commas. They're cutting open

663
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:43,879
Speaker 1: the whale. They're gutting him. My breath is running out,

664
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: but the sawing is growing nearer. Then I see it,

665
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: a sliver of light. They're almost at the stomach. Then

666
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: they're through. I see the point of the scalpel sliced

667
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: through the tissue. An enormous hand reaches down towards the ulcer,

668
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: airrying an enormous piece of gauze. Is he gauzing the ulcer?

669
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: That that is what he's doing? Wait, I'm sorry? Is

670
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: that is that a treatment for ulcers? I don't think

671
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: cutting someone open is? I mean, I guess there's sometimes

672
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: you do. Sometimes there are surgeries for ulcers, And I

673
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:21,919
Speaker 1: don't think you just like cut them open and shove

674
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: gauze on it. Not a doctor pretty sure that's not

675
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 1: the treatment. Is also pretty sure, like we have their

676
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: right and if he's like, if it was a bleeding

677
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: situation bad enough that they needed to do an immediate intervention.

678
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,760
Speaker 1: We have stuff like cellocks today that like stops bleeding

679
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: extremely quickly, and I imagine in this future where they

680
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 1: can shrink things, maybe they have other options, but no,

681
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: they're just jamming gauze onto an ulcers. Just wanted to

682
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: make sure. Um, yeah, science has progressed to the point

683
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: of shrinking technology, but literally nothing else. So this is

684
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: my chance, and I take it. I leap as far

685
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: as I can grasp the hand so like quite a bit.

686
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 1: I hear a gasp. Remarkable for only having one leg, truly, yeah,

687
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: really pretty good jump for a one legged man. This

688
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,720
Speaker 1: is where we find he's got some like moon boots

689
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: onto that. Yeah, like grappling sort of gutten type of thing,

690
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: or much like the actual left over him. He leaps

691
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: as far as he can, but literally I hear a

692
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: gasp from above, and suddenly I'm flying through the air

693
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: clear of the whale in the bright artificial light of

694
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: the office. I'm on the carpet, screaming, laughing, all at once,

695
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: covered in the whale's blood, covered in his filth, crying

696
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: for air and crying for joy. I'm alive. I got

697
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 1: to read the sentence again. I'm on the carpet. Comma screaming,

698
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: Comma laughing all at once, Comma covered in the whale blood,

699
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,800
Speaker 1: Comma covered in his filth, Comma crying for air and

700
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: crying for joy. What a bad sentence. I'm alive. Period,

701
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: That's a complete sentence. No, Katie, you are right, and

702
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: I did it again. That's what this is for. We

703
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: can't just read all the way through. How is that

704
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: a way to enjoy this piece of art? Uh? Then

705
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: I look up into the eyes of the whale. He

706
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: sees me, his eyes widened. Kill him. Sherihspers and the

707
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 1: doctor turns, but he falls to his knees. Job second,

708
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: kill him, Step on him, whale, step will kill him.

709
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: He whispers, and the doctor turns. Period new paragraph. But

710
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: he falls to his knees, bleeding. I look up and

711
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: there's Jensen Giant in the light, sweating, holding a scissors.

712
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: My name is that the guy that was supposed to die?

713
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: Uh is the guy who's like on the calm, right, Okay,

714
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: I do my casting. This guy's kid Rock. Absolutely, this

715
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:25,280
Speaker 1: is kid Rock. Uh yeah, with the my name. Okay,

716
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 1: to explained the thing I just did. I look up

717
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: and there's Jensen Giant in the light, sweating holding a scissors.

718
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 1: They're dripping blood to the blood of the doctor. Oh

719
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,720
Speaker 1: my god, then we know it's the blood of the doctor.

720
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 1: But wait, just a point of clarification. Did he say

721
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: holding us scissors? He did, thank you. I kind of

722
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: glossed over that holding scissors, holding scissors, scissors, holding a

723
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: pair of scissors. Tiny, But that's important, nobody. Yeah, I

724
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,359
Speaker 1: think in general, writing is important in a story. Yes,

725
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: I entirely agree. It's just like, it's just how like

726
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:14,280
Speaker 1: a six year old would say it scissors. He pads

727
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: to his bedroom. His pads to his bedroom holding a scissors.

728
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: A thank you for because I thought I was putting

729
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: enough sauce on that that part to really to really

730
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: highlight I feel like, but I feel like it sort

731
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,800
Speaker 1: of passed us by. Um, this is a team effort,

732
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 1: you know, what are the things passed us by? So

733
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: the doctor turns, he falls to his knees bleeding. I

734
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,800
Speaker 1: look up and there's Jensen, giant in the light, sweating,

735
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: holding a scissors. They're dripping blood to the blood of

736
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:55,439
Speaker 1: the doctor. Again, they're dripping bloods too. He did say

737
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: the words correctly or write them down correctly, but like

738
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:04,320
Speaker 1: it's just it's bad. It's bad. This is this is

739
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: the this is the c W stuff where it's like, oh, oh, oh, okay,

740
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: now I get it. Now I've been explained enough to

741
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: understand this like dramatic thing you're trying to create where

742
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: we really realize Jensen has stabbed the doctor. I know

743
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 1: he stabbed the doctor. He doesn't explain the things he

744
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:28,800
Speaker 1: needs to explain, and over explains the things that are obvious. Yes, anyway,

745
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: she over explained. He's she said, explaining Lee their whole

746
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: They're dripping blood the scissors or us is or is

747
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 1: dripping bloods the bloods of the doctor. He slumps beside me,

748
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:50,720
Speaker 1: his dead eyes staring through me. Yeah, you know he's dead, Jensen.

749
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 1: I squeak. Oh sorry, I squeak camp, he says. The

750
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: whale's eyes turned to Jensen. You bastard, you betrayed me. Kemp,

751
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: whose name is Kemp his name is kemp Ah. You

752
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: you bastard. You betrayed me. No, says Jensen, you betrayed yourself. Okay.

753
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: Jensen sits down next to the whale, and the whale

754
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: bleeds period. He bleeds period. Yeah. Down by my feet.

755
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: I can see the dust mites feeding on his blood

756
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 1: as they do. Sure, that's what dust mites love. Also,

757
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: you can still see them, m I can see the

758
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: dust mites feeding on his blood. Dust mites are visible

759
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 1: easily by the naked eye. I laugh. I laughed for myself.

760
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:58,240
Speaker 1: I laugh for Phillips, and I laugh for Amy, mostly Amy,

761
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: who has no idea where you been for three Oh? No,

762
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 1: oh no. I laughed for her. When she's gonna she's

763
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: gonna laugh at this story when she finds out what

764
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 1: I've done and why I didn't explain where I was

765
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: going and where contact or where my leg went, why

766
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: my entire body is burned. Sorry. Protagonist Amy is busy

767
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,240
Speaker 1: fucking a guy who works for being there that invented

768
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:24,360
Speaker 1: an enlargening ray, so she always knows where he is

769
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: because he's so big. He's so big, how can you disappeared?

770
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,359
Speaker 1: She wanted a man who was so gigantic, she could

771
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: never not know where he was. This the sequel to this,

772
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: as he goes home and Amy hasn't been faithful and

773
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 1: he becomes some sort of in cell. Yeah yeah, he

774
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 1: like becomes an anti small game. Yeah yeah. He comes

775
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: home and Amy is living in the shoe with her

776
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: gigantic boyfriend. The tiny man got cut like but like

777
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 1: like if Amy did get together with like an enlarged guy,

778
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: like that would make this story just good, like I

779
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: would like every favorite an amazing Ah. Well, fingers crossed.

780
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 1: We still have a couple of sentences left, we do.

781
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: I laugh. I laughed for myself. I laughed for Phillips,

782
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: and I laughed for Amy. Mostly I laughed because I'm alive.

783
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: End of story. That's the conclusion. Um. So like, well,

784
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 1: I want to come back to like what the the

785
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: allegory was supposed to be about abortion, as he made

786
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: very clear two times within like two paragraphs and then

787
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: never again. I feel like nothing else in this story

788
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: does that. He didn't even like come back to it,

789
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 1: Like I guess technically the actions of like, oh, the

790
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: doctor and then like his friend the abortion doctor, right,

791
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: like that's what he's advocating for. I guess, unless do

792
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,800
Speaker 1: you think that he doesn't he has to be conscious

793
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 1: that he was doing an abortion allegory. Oh, he definitely was.

794
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,719
Speaker 1: He like there are so many uh sentences about like

795
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 1: choice and like it's my body, my purview. He was

796
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 1: very obviously an abortion, but then it wasn't. But then

797
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 1: it wasn't. So maybe he's just saying, um, yeah, you're

798
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 1: justified in killing people if they're trying to do abortions.

799
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess, yeah, sure, that's the message.

800
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:42,240
Speaker 1: I just I guess we're giving him too much credit.

801
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: If there is a message, Well, I think the message

802
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: that people who are fans of him would get from

803
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,240
Speaker 1: this if you read it was like, oh, I agree,

804
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: abortion is bad, Like that's what he like. It's so

805
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: empty and lazy that like all he needs to do

806
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: is those two sentences and then and someone like, oh, yeah,

807
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 1: I get it, but it's not really what you're doing.

808
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:09,399
Speaker 1: These tech people not trustworthy. Maybe there's something I don't know. Um,

809
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:13,800
Speaker 1: and like the idea that the law the law is

810
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: that like if you have a little guy inside you,

811
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: like some adult man shrunk down to kill your mites,

812
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,439
Speaker 1: then you have the right to kill him, which again,

813
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: I feel like it's not the law unless he's again,

814
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: unless he signed a contract it said. Even then, I'm

815
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 1: not sure you can sign a contract to let somebody

816
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 1: murder you in this way. I don't know. Maybe I'm

817
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 1: sure you can sign a contract that like, if I die,

818
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 1: it's not his fault, but I don't know that it

819
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:48,800
Speaker 1: would apply in this instance. Liability waiver, sure, but not murder,

820
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: not active murder. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure he could

821
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: hide I accidentally swallowed you and like you're gonna be

822
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt on that m That was

823
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: a great short story that changed my feelings about all

824
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 1: of society. Also, I have a quick question about society.

825
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: Um how is it? No? Um? So the because the

826
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,319
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just because we've stretched this out over three

827
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: different episodes. Why did the whale want to kill him

828
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: once he was inside him? Um? Oh, because he'd seen

829
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 1: that the whale had cancer and was going to die

830
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: and could tell people and that would be bad for that.

831
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: Wait and why Yeah, that's that's why the way I

832
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: wanted to get him. You know, part of the reason

833
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: why you forgot Cody is because it didn't get mentioned

834
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:48,439
Speaker 1: ever again. Ever, again, and you would speak, You would

835
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: think that that would factor in somehow, in some way,

836
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Speaker 1: body invented shrinking technology, business will be fine. But he

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00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 1: only uses it to have tiny men fight, never monet down.

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Speaker 1: Like it's like it's like sometimes as an artist, you

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Speaker 1: write something, or you you put together a song or whatever,

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Speaker 1: and you you just you don't want to sell it.

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00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 1: You just want to put it out there because you

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Speaker 1: didn't make it for the money, and you want just

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Speaker 1: one thing that's pure and disconnected from capitalism. That's shrinking technology.

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00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 1: For this billionaire, we all have our things I'd forgotten

845
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: that is so fucking stupid. Stop him from ruining his

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00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 1: company's stocks or something right, stop him from ruining his

847
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 1: company's stocks by like revealing information that like his technology

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00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: can fix. But also like if you just got him out,

849
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 1: he wouldn't like be trying to ruin your life. They

850
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,319
Speaker 1: saved him and didn't try to kill him. Be like, man,

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00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:01,359
Speaker 1: can we not talk about what you saw? I'm really

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Speaker 1: struggling to deal with my cancer diagnosis. Of course, of

853
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: course you saved my life. Also as like your employee

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00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: money suggests using this amazing shrinking technology to shrink the

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00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: tumor down to nothing. But yeah, maybe we could use

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Speaker 1: this miracle technology you invented to stop this, Like, don't

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Speaker 1: even you have, like, don't even tell anybody that you

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Speaker 1: used it for that if you don't want to use

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00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 1: like obviously you should, but like you can keep it

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Speaker 1: to yourself. Man. Also speaking of keeping things to yourself,

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Speaker 1: So maybe this guy signed a contract that said, if

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00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: I get stuck in your stomach, you can kill me.

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00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 1: But almost definitely if you have tiny humans in your

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00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:46,399
Speaker 1: office killing the mites for years, because there's no other

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00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:50,360
Speaker 1: way to kill the mites. If you have that, you

866
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: definitely have them. Like sign an n d A for

867
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 1: this exact reason. Yeah, the first time you overheard a

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Speaker 1: phone call in all your being a tiny guy in

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00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: this guy's office like this the last minute, I finally

870
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,439
Speaker 1: heard a phone call, and I'm gonna tell everybody because

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00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: I didn't sign an n d A, which is utter nonsense. Um.

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00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: Bad job, Ben, bad job, no benefit of the doubt. Um.

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Speaker 1: So we're at the time. I guess that's that's all

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Speaker 1: we need. There is one more short story left and

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Speaker 1: before we go for listeners for you all, I think

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00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 1: we can play a little game a quick guess of

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Speaker 1: what you think this is called. Keep in mind, this

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00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: is a Ben Shapiro short story that is a very

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00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: poorly veiled allegory for something about how like I don't

880
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: know equality is wrong or fairness is whatever it is.

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00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 1: This one was I believe, sorry me, I believe this

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00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: was called in the in the Depths or something or

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00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 1: like in the whole. Yeah, it's from the Jonah and

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00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 1: the Whale. But I was gonna say it's real meaning,

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00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 1: like actual message again Jonah and want to read it. Yes,

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00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 1: I'm aware he had a message. He just did not

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00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 1: succeed in getting it across to absolutely obviously has a message.

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00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 1: It's bad, it's just incompetent. Mean when we say that

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00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 1: is that there's no actual message because of how badly

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00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:31,600
Speaker 1: he wrote the episode. Complete nonsense. Yeah, and fair sex.

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00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 1: Oh interesting? Um, I guess I'm excited for Amy to

892
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 1: realize where her lover has been for three years. I

893
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: don't think she cares. She's got that big guy. She's

894
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 1: dating that giant guy. She got the enlargening array inventor

895
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 1: who weirdly makes tumors bigger. Yeah, it makes them so

896
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 1: big they can't hurt you. Yeah, you just live inside

897
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 1: your tumor. You get a free flesh house. That's the

898
00:58:55,560 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 1: trips um an answer to the housing crisis. Really, yeah, Robert,

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Speaker 1: what's your guest for the next chapter. I clearly guessed wrong.

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00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 1: That's the title of the story. Yeah, we're guessing um

901
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 1: why liberals um are bad. You're both wrong, but you're

902
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 1: both very close. Uh. The next one, and I cannot

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00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: wait to read this is called utopia. Oh my god. Okay,

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Speaker 1: a little nauseous because it's been I'm gonna guess it's

905
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 1: like some sort of leftist utopia that is uh nine

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Speaker 1: four but written by an idiot. I guarantee that that's

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Speaker 1: what it is. Okay, I'm very excited. I'm extremely excited dystopia.

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00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm so excited for this I am going

909
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:50,959
Speaker 1: to read the first sentence of this story out loud.

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00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: Oh Cody, what an embarrassment of riches for our listeners.

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00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:58,440
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you are so lucky, you greedy listener.

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00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 1: Whip your dicks out, listening. Is it's time for happy,

913
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Speaker 1: It's time for the mites to come all right, in

914
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 1: all caps, it's a quotation in all caps, all men

915
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 1: are created equal, excellent fantastic. Yeah, yeah, Oh my god, utopia,

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Speaker 1: that's what I likes to hear. Well, we're all gonna

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Speaker 1: wait with bated breath for this next installment. This has

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Speaker 1: been a delight, the most excited I have of course.

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Speaker 1: All Right, all right, we'll be back next week. Check

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Speaker 1: us out, check in next week, Brohems and other teams. Oh,

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Speaker 1: there's so many words that he's capitalized for no reason.

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