1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: The Laundronots is a production of I Heart Radio. This 2 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: is what we remember and remember, this is what it 3 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: sounded like. What we couldn't hear we made up. The 4 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: rest of it is arch Hawaii, Idaho, Alaska. I don't 5 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: understand a sister, mother, children back for another round of 6 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: cleansing and atonement. I see, I sharn't corrected, I'd said, 7 00:00:49,120 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: but my sciatica has stricken me upright? How do we fast? Terrible? Sir? Shoot? Wait? 8 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: What's the children miserable? I tried to provoke joy. Everywhere 9 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,759 Speaker 1: I went. People kept shouting at me, go away, kid, 10 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 1: you bother me. I tried to hand out three jolly 11 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,919 Speaker 1: rangers at school, and two sixth graders stole the whole bag. 12 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 1: Stupid joy scarions. I tried with our mother, sir, but 13 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: it was a total disaster. I heard her crying, sir 14 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. He woke me up 15 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: and went downstairs. She was sitting at the kitchen table, 16 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: flipping through an old scrap book, sniffling. I asked her 17 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: if she would like some homemade hot coco, sir, because 18 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: that always cheers me up. She used salt instead of sugar. 19 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: She got hysterical, laughing, crying, squeezing us. If not for 20 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: you too, it was whole horrible. I just made it worse, sir, cardswap. 21 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 1: Don't you see you succeeded. You're bumbling, stumbling attempts to 22 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: console your mother reminded her of the riches that she 23 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 1: still possess. Yes, you, those were tears of joy. Children. Yes, 24 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 1: I am swayed beyond a reasonable doubt by the evidence. 25 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: I declare your second challenge officially accepted and surmounted. That's 26 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: all on good time, children, all in good time. But 27 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: first we mious. We've our way back into the laundererauticle 28 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: of Jonaica Veronica, a fleete aka the Puma, paper like 29 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: backstitches and a quilt just beginning to take ship. Unless 30 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: we left Jenica, she was being transported to sludge Is 31 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: home the Sloud Despond by Mctweedie Splotch and the grubby Rumblers. 32 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 1: As they rumbled along, Jonica noticed the sun she created 33 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: remained in absentious sky even without the carrots Puma. Jennicas 34 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: fell off her mount. She was so startled by the 35 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: voice she searched for the sauce. No one she glanced 36 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: at her cohorts. They remained focused on the horizon. I think, 37 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: where are you? It's complicated. You remade Absentia through a 38 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: song alone. Jenica Perry had to wield the carrot. What 39 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: does that say? It says everything I knew at the 40 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: moment I met you that morning in front of Harry's hardware. 41 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: You are my salvation, You are everyone salvation. You simply 42 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: have to read the power away from sludge that's knowing here? No, 43 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: why are you here? Her? An accident or fate take 44 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: Sludge's power and j D will no longer have any 45 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: place and absenture. He will have to return to his 46 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: real home. You will have succeeded. Everyone will be happy. 47 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: What about move? You will become the goddess that you 48 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: have always wanted to be, Jonica, goddess, not a happy 49 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: homemaker like your mother as taught you, Not a god 50 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: like you've been taught in the churches and schools. A goddess. 51 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: Goddesses aren't for you. I beg to differ. I'm in 52 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 1: the presence of one, a deity still unaware of her 53 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: own divinity. Jerniko grew quiet. There was a time when 54 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 1: everyone worshiped goddesses, Janica, but they were usurped by the 55 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: jealousy and ambition of men. Here there will be no 56 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: one above you. Your every desire will be made flesh. 57 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 1: So I'll have to see there is always a sacrifice 58 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 1: you And now I will remain here as your loyal 59 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: and obedient servant. This is, after all my home, My 60 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: dear Jernika glanced at Tweetie and Splotge there remained oblivious 61 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: to strange conversation she was having with bud wings disembodied voice, 62 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: even stranger though the waves of unease and Jonaica's stomach 63 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: that transformed into fluttering butterflies of excitement. What do I 64 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: have to do? Find the heart of the matter? Isn't 65 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 1: that very just work? Sludge was trying to deceive you? 66 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: Are you doing the scene? I longed for my home, 67 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,679 Speaker 1: but you're already here. I cannot remain until Sludge's power 68 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:00,160 Speaker 1: has been removed. Our coexistence is not a symbiotical one. 69 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. I'm still at this mercy. 70 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: Where is this matter that I do not know? That 71 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: you will have to discover on your own? What do 72 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: I do when I get there? More? Later, we have 73 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 1: arrived three d a came to a sudden halt, and 74 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 1: Jonaica was thrown from her proach. She tumbled to the 75 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: ground and leaped back up, scowling at the suckling. They 76 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: were standing at the edge of a meadow of tall, pink, 77 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: undulating grass. The meadows stretched for a single square mile, 78 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: like a posted stamp of pink on rainbow striped paper. 79 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: The rumblers closed around her tree d nudged her forward. 80 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: Have you forgotten that I was the one? Treaty bowed 81 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: low and shame Like a patch of moss. Janaka placed 82 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: a gentle hand on his head. A treaty nodded, take 83 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: me to the s spine tweety gesture to the meadow. 84 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: Jonica took a deep breath, Well, here goes everything, and 85 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: strode across the boundary. She was in the basement of 86 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: her great Granny Money. She turned back, Absensio was gone. 87 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: She was surrounded with a cold, dank, cob webbed bunker 88 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: of her youth. A candle created dancing spiders of light 89 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: against the wall. For Jonica couldn't find the candle. Chocolate 90 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: and why sweet tass lines. Jonica followed Granny's voice, rushing 91 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: fingertips gently over dusty armors, scratched out desks, dilapidated couches 92 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: into the show up what Granny man he created her 93 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 1: fine furniture. The smell of paint and harney oily leads 94 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: sawdust into granny study pipe smoke, a buffalo skin rock 95 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: sprawl on the floor, heavy smith coroner type mater balance 96 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: on the flimsy card table, bookshelves rising to the celing 97 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: Twain dustsky, Bronty flowazon for sweet so steel, Aha steel, 98 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: the hearts of the hopeful at the window was a 99 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: great gunny Many turned away from Jonaka, small and sinewy, 100 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: wrapped in a quioted showl of her own, making a 101 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: warm bubble bath can whiskus so the lad strip always 102 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: strip wheep from the child. Joannica wanted to interrupt, but 103 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: it's been so long since she had heard the sweet 104 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: sound of Granny's voice. Ye fotos, sweet boches, sottles, steal, 105 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: steal the hat sound Granny. The silhouette shivered turned, revealing 106 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: the sneering visage of well, at least you have something 107 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: happy to remember, Jollica, I how to make everything up 108 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 1: from nothing? You have no happy lines, no I don't 109 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 1: believe that. Believe this the basement of Great grenny Man. 110 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: He transformed into a long, glittering hallway that stretched forever. 111 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: The hallway had a smooth marble floor and a vaulted 112 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: ornate ceiling. Life sized portraits of oddly unfamiliar people lined 113 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: the walls, interspersed with giant windows of such geometric intricacy. 114 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: The light spilling in from absentia created holographic equations in 115 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: the air. What is this? Please? My house? The slough 116 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: of Despon beautiful. I built it to adjust the memories 117 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: and mounds of animals living in things like you. Indeed, 118 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 1: I would all. Now it's just being me. What does 119 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: that mean? It's adjustice to make me feel better. Now 120 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: it's adjusting to you. I don't understand. Follow me. He 121 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: let Jonnica down the other room, reveal themselves like runway 122 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: models showing off their latest passions, ballrooms, chymnasiums, planetariums. You 123 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: broke her own sludge halted. Excuse me, I met you 124 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: and honoring aunt or not we should hands. We took 125 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: an oath and that wasn't the heart? Was it? No? 126 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:45,559 Speaker 1: That nothingness? It's well absential and I meant so you 127 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 1: liked you broke her oath, and I deserved some satisfaction. 128 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 1: You deserve whatever I decide you deserve. You're not the 129 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: boss of me, Johnny, not here, not anywhere. I'm not 130 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: trying to be the boss of Eastlude. You said the 131 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: oath was magical. Don't they think they might be repercussions 132 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,719 Speaker 1: from violating a magical oath? Like could wenk appearing out 133 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: of nowhere? Fludge's presence wam slightly? There might so before 134 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: more repercussions repercuss, maybe fulfill your side of the bargain 135 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: and make it right. You still want to go to 136 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: the heart? Yes, Why do I get the feeling this 137 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 1: is yet another scheme concocted by your friend hoodwinks he's 138 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: not my friend. Well, he's not my friend, Johnica, and 139 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: he should nut how to playing an influence. He has 140 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: that a search you. What does he know? What does 141 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: he know? What does he know? He just sniff him 142 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: out normally, Yes, but he appears to have some inside 143 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 1: and knowledge, but it's keeping him closing from me. Let's 144 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: beat him at his own game, use me as me 145 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 1: and go to the heart. He has the carriage. You've 146 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: gotten me. Fine sludge belched, and they were back in 147 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: the gloom of his ominous forest. As you can see, 148 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: the rabbit has permanently marked the location. Jonaka stared in 149 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: wonder at the crimson bunside bush of flowering wallets. There 150 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,679 Speaker 1: was as wide as a wildfire and as sall as 151 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: a tornado. Fluttering wallets buzzed about it like hungry bees 152 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: around the hive. Wow, not unlike the sun you've now 153 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: emblazoned into my sky. Pary seems to have also left 154 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: his mark. The fluttering wallets broke away from the bush 155 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: and encircled Jonnica enough the wallets scattered and recongregated around 156 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: the bush, all except one. The defiant wallet hovered for 157 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: a moment, then gently landed on Jennaker's shoulder. This is 158 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: your doing, Puma, You and your laungo knots. You've inspired 159 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,079 Speaker 1: as the bias a monst white mans. Jonica gave it 160 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: a smooch. Your name is Wallace and you are a Walhanne. 161 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: It's important to name things. It gives them personality, and 162 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: not to your brute wollishan Wallace. The volition dutted back 163 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: to his fluttering kin and coward. Let's not forget why 164 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: we're here. Hoodwink and you're breaking your yes, yes, yes, 165 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: where's this hunt? Below? Clock City? Its proper name is 166 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: a state of Cataclysmia thanks to your colleague the Rabbage. 167 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: So what do we do? It's more a question of 168 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 1: what you will do? Pooma. I am not allowed to 169 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 1: descend in Gotaclesmia. Aren't you in charge? I had to 170 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: make an arrangement with the Clocklings in order to ensure 171 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: my safety. It came with certain conditions. One of those 172 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 1: conditions is that I never physically enter a state of cataclesmia, 173 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:33,479 Speaker 1: so I have to go in by myself. Yes, however, 174 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 1: I don't trust you, so I'm going home to take 175 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: a nap. Do you have a headache? I can hear 176 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 1: you in my dreams, remember, Jonica. If I hear anything untaught, 177 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 1: there will be consequences. Is that understood? Understood? Queen mcclanker, 178 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: who are you talking to? Who's Queen m clinker? What's happening? 179 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: The Queen of Roach? I advise getting out a wide 180 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: swamp ego to plans it. Jonicho obayed and watched as 181 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: the glass dome rose from the ground and opened in 182 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: front of her eyes, Why must everything be so grand? 183 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: In response, a vanguard of cluckling soldiers rumbled out of 184 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: the hole, encircling them grand and the last cluck being 185 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: rode forward, and Queen mc clanker was finally and grantly 186 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: reviewed and youth. Jonacha had expected a clock of grandiose proportion, 187 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 1: but Queen mcclenko was more of a watch. She was long, 188 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:12,400 Speaker 1: lithe and leathery, elegantly narled, studded with diamonds, encrusted with rubies, 189 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: and many armed, many legged of the jeweled oxens. Her 190 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: glass face was scarred with air, but sparkling and kind, 191 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: and took it weaved and leaves spun under the glass, 192 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: revealing her expressions as she spoke. Johnaico found herself on 193 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:37,639 Speaker 1: her knees, bowing before the Queen's langesty. Oh, don't do that, 194 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 1: She's just a whole woman's anchor. Watch. Dandel is a 195 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:50,680 Speaker 1: standard of sand as by the cold. Oh, here we go, 196 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: and here to the use of what a huge mistake. 197 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: Mockery and chuckery is just clockery, acose, Please stay in 198 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: the eye a fla upon the holes. Are we done? 199 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: So be grand reager to sow with all the eagles 200 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: lead a bland under fever to their barking with the 201 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: beagle's be ground regal Dad to saw the all diseagers 202 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: lead the bland and the beaver to barking with the beagles. 203 00:18:52,359 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: Oh clear, now excellent? Why have you come, mam Master? 204 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 1: I have a guest who wishes to want to take 205 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 1: a tour of Cataclysmia. She is, for lack of a 206 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 1: better word, a spine Trea, with all a mistrusted fear 207 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 1: she deserves. Hey, is this not? I am? Yes, she is. 208 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: She is still alive. Master, what we have a standing 209 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: order Germany or apprehend in a lundronot sit into theur. 210 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:53,360 Speaker 1: Now this one is girl, and I want to determine 211 00:19:53,440 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: it it not. I am temporarily suspending at order. This 212 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: laudronaut has brought an enemy into a midst. His name 213 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 1: is Hoodwink. He wishes to destroy Cataclysma and the Clerkley. Second, 214 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: that's not. Take this spy to the heart of the match. 215 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 1: Draw out this Hoodwink, apprehend him, bring him to me. Understood? Understood? 216 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 1: Must well, that's satisfy our old Johnica. I guess good. 217 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 1: What about hearing the heart? Nothing needs healing? I lied, 218 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: that's the malignant growl. Quiet I failed. Let it go? 219 00:20:54,080 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: What malignancy? But must you have swon me by to 220 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 1: the brutal dan boon of honesty? Can either lie not quietly? 221 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: A mind nearby in the prison of such you and 222 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:24,920 Speaker 1: your kind remain repulsively refined, your honest tear other sales 223 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: to astonish me. Sud's presence waned. He turned away and 224 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 1: lost in thought. You said, your heart, what is it? 225 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: Your heart? Down there? Plugger's presence wind further. I buried myself, Johnnica, 226 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 1: Like the pens, are the wallets and the watches, but 227 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: I buried all of me. Take cards and the heart, 228 00:21:56,040 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: make like that bind Ud, bring him to me. I'll 229 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 1: be watching. Letstenes you wish? What about the malignancy? Embraced 230 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 1: sludge hiccup, and vanished, leaving a hole of absence in 231 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 1: his wake. The whole quickly we filled with color and depth. 232 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 1: Coming along child, the clinker, lady, gentle tender on Jonaica's hand, 233 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: me getting his loads down. Nothing canadon Is sometimes takes 234 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 1: yes before he emerges. Yes, my nation. The tall grandfather, 235 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: clock shaped clockling soldier rolled forward and unfolded the staircase 236 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 1: mixed body the stairs went back up to a seat 237 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: to top. The creatures showed, this is my son, can 238 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 1: he will be your guardian and died while you are 239 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 1: in this state of catracles. My a state, not a city, 240 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 1: cities of a sucklings, states of clucklings. After you, Jonica 241 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: climbed up the staircase and swept in. Klinker rolled grandly 242 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: down into the The other soldiers followed Jonka and Cankles. 243 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 1: So if jd buried himself, yes, professor, why didn't he 244 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: become a bush or a tree like the other things. 245 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: Perhaps it had something to do with him being an 246 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: animate sir Man, Well, sir, it seems to me that 247 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: animates and inanimates had different properties, and where of those 248 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:05,160 Speaker 1: properties mixed with absentia, they have completely different reactions like chemistry, sir, 249 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: Please don't he just got a chemistry set for his birthday? Well, 250 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 1: happy birthday, captain. That's a lucky number seven, it is, 251 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 1: thank you, sir. And yes, I didn't get a chemistry set. 252 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,719 Speaker 1: And I've been experimenting and I've noticed, for instance, sir, 253 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 1: how when you dropped the middle lithium into a glass 254 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 1: of water, it creates a gas. When you dropped the 255 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: middle potassium into a glass of water, a burst into flames. 256 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: The water is the consant, sir. But the properties of 257 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: the two medals are different, so the react differently, just 258 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: like animates and inanimates do with absentia. How on earth 259 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: did you get potessia? Is that how my macromay model 260 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: of a DNA molecule burst into flames? Sorry you said 261 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,920 Speaker 1: it internally combusted. I moved my lap to the garage, sir. 262 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,680 Speaker 1: So what happened to j d then? Was he just 263 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 1: swallowed by absentia? For that, my dear, we must return 264 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 1: to the tumus progress as she descends into Cataclysbia in 265 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:12,479 Speaker 1: search of the very heart of the matter. But as 266 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 1: Jonica attempted to describe it to us later upon our return, 267 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 1: it was like being dropped onto the open face of 268 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 1: a gigantic pocket watch on big engine. The roads, the homes, 269 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 1: the bridges, the buildings, even the movements of the cocklings. 270 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 1: Everything connecting the city, both wormerously mammoth and intimately intricate. 271 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:43,160 Speaker 1: Towering pistons, the gargantuan wheels, the pounding hammers, all part 272 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: of a self sustaining municipality, pumping power up into absentia. 273 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 1: Jonaica's caravan passed through an endless array of heavily guarden 274 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: tightly secured airlocks, gates and tunnels, always descending deeper and 275 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 1: deeper into the bowls of cataclysphere. The messes and the 276 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: decks and the things once opposes of all less and 277 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 1: the other clock links took up stations along the way. 278 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 1: But then there was just mcclinker, can't call, and Jonka, 279 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: who arrived at a door at the end of what 280 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 1: appeared have been an endlessly narrowing tumbel can't call, obeyed, 281 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:35,359 Speaker 1: Unfolded his staircase, Jonica descended the first element see the 282 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 1: deep boom, to see the heart of the mad, not 283 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: even the last for him the privileged. I didn't thank you. 284 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: This was not a Christion. Sorry, No, was that you 285 00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 1: will responsible to pear and it rest to the gear 286 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:09,600 Speaker 1: and I'm questioning quit, Jonaica saluted, Chang the clothing sprang 287 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: to attention es my musition, the god his impertence, da 288 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 1: I give him some leaves, as he is the first 289 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: and most trustful or mark you accompany or inside the 290 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 1: heart of the matter. My other guards appears it from 291 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 1: but every entry way and quiet leading into the streamber 292 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 1: if and when this hood wink makes an appealing will 293 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: be better hanged. My planker produced an oddly angular key 294 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 1: and then serted it into the lock, and the door 295 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: swallow open. You have five minutes year. The master listened 296 00:27:54,400 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 1: from his slumber. She leaned in conspiratorially to mca use 297 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: your time, while Jonica took a deep breath. He goes everything, 298 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:18,119 Speaker 1: then stepped across the threshold can't go, followed in the 299 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 1: door stump shout, and locked itself. There was like entering 300 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: an underground Cathine. Jonaica's eyes rose and rhymes. Is the 301 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:36,159 Speaker 1: heart of the matter was more organic than mechanical, you know, organically, 302 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: more machine than organ and huge. What does it? It 303 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: provides life blood to a serve and I think, and Jonica, 304 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 1: he never actually got a chance to meet in addition 305 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: or also meet you, Londronald Charlico, thank you? So what 306 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: do you mean? It provides wife wood absentia, and the 307 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: heart is a source of sensuous power. Without it we 308 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: would have never been going. If the heart should ever 309 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: stop beats evil all here with the clothings of sworn 310 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: to protect the heart with our love? What about the malignity? 311 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: It's last seen in the lower mid artery of the 312 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 1: left up a venture. I was told it was born 313 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 1: when the heart was warm, known before I became animal. 314 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: It grows and vows the heart like a parasitic twin. 315 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 1: We have managed to serve its progress through lavorious measures, 316 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: but we cannot stop it. But you can po Jonaka 317 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: can't go leap to that? Where are you complicated? Stop 318 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: seeing Joner flung off her knapsack. Come on out and 319 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 1: take a licket. We are so like dawned on Jonica? 320 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: Are you in my knapsacks? Jonica kicked her sack. It's me, 321 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: stop kicking Come out now. I was hoping you wouldn't 322 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: have to see me in my match room today. Don't 323 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 1: make me kick you again from one of our knapsack? 324 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: Whose the things such ideous beauty? Jhonica was rendered nonsensical 325 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: when attempting to describe it to us. It was a 326 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:47,240 Speaker 1: worm or a snake or among us among It was thick, muscular, 327 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: puhy green brown in color. Harry couldn't down where its 328 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 1: eyes or mouth for when it spoke, you are I 329 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 1: am a shaped What are I am? A shopling? The 330 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 1: first and last of my kind? And you, my dear, 331 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 1: are the bomber Goddess, the savior of Absentia. Under side 332 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 1: Cantle Russia to him, Hoodwink, Bradish, the corrots squeezing Ink 333 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: into the era think was like steee wire latch stopped 334 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 1: him in his tracks. Who try to push forward, but 335 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 1: the net tightened, tangling his gears. Jonica Hoodwink pounded over 336 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 1: to Jonaka. She pounded away. Sludge has awakened. My Queen 337 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: mcclenker and her guards are assembling. It is time to choose. 338 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:54,080 Speaker 1: I bury yourself here in the heart of the matter, 339 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 1: commit yourself to Absentia, become the goddess you were meant 340 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 1: to be sent j D D Free so much mountain care, 341 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: so much impending day Ja Yet inside Johnica, no waves crash, 342 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:16,719 Speaker 1: no butterflies flatter, just the crystal clear clarity of an 343 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: icy calm lake. An early order. I'm the Laundronauts are 344 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 1: potentially undrew tale based on actual events. Conceived, written and 345 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 1: directed by Colin mackenzie Mitchell, original music, sound design and 346 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 1: editing by Dave McKeever. Produced by Monica Nicholas and Dave mckever. 347 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 1: Script supervision and editorial assistants by Christina Bryan, Casting by 348 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:54,800 Speaker 1: Mary Claire Sweeters. Executive producers John Cameron Mitchell, ed Asner 349 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 1: and Colin Mackenzie Mitchell starring in order of opinions, I 350 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 1: Is Like Robinson Smith as the Man, Alison Fraser as 351 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 1: the Woman, Great Granny Manny Madam Russia, and Mac Tanka 352 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: Esner as the narrator, Max Mitchell as the brother, Evan 353 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 1: tok Has the Sister, Stephen Kieran as Hoodwinker, Blue Belle 354 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 1: Saraceno as Jonica, Corey Krueger as Sludge, Trent Mills as Candle. 355 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 1: The Laundronats is a collaboration between I Heart Media and 356 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:41,760 Speaker 1: Little Brother Sam Productions. 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