0:02

From PRX. Friends

0:07

beyond the binary, ladies

0:09

and gentlemen, boys and

0:11

girls, it's time for

0:14

the podcaster. Who,

0:17

who loves podcasts? Uh, I guess

0:19

that's a lot of podcasters, but

0:21

I love creative constraints. I

0:23

guess there's another thing. I think

0:26

that's the other thing. So this

0:28

episode is based on another podcast

0:30

and creative constraints. Uh,

0:33

or how, you know, making it

0:35

fun, but making it sleepy. So

0:37

this is a crossover with the

0:39

novelizers. You could find it wherever

0:41

you consume your podcasts, uh, the

0:43

novelizers. Or at

0:45

the novelizers.com or use the link

0:47

in our show notes. And

0:50

it's going to be fun. If this is your first

0:52

episode of sleep with me though, oh boy. Are

0:55

you in for a treat? I'm

0:57

laughing because I had so much

0:59

fun making this episode and looking

1:02

at a scene from the movie, the

1:04

matrix in a few different ways through

1:07

that sleepy, sleepy lens, if you're new though, sleep

1:10

with me is a podcast that's here to keep

1:12

you company, take your mind off of stuff so

1:14

you could fall asleep to be a friend in

1:16

the deep dark night. So you

1:18

don't have to fall asleep alone or toss and turn

1:20

alone. You got somebody there to keep you company and

1:22

say, Hey, I'll talk to you. I'll tell you about

1:24

the matrix in a way and describe

1:26

things in a way you say, well, I don't know

1:29

if that's accurate. And then

1:31

you'll fall, probably fall asleep or you say, well,

1:33

it's kind of accurate and it's more sleepy and,

1:37

uh, like, uh, yeah, so that's a

1:39

sleep with me in a, in

1:41

a tiny bite-sized piece. I'm

1:44

so glad you're here because the reason I make the

1:46

show, you deserve a good night's sleep. The show does

1:48

take a few tries to get used to. So give

1:50

it a few tries. You got nothing to lose. And

1:53

if you don't like the show, it doesn't work out. I

1:56

got a whole other list of podcasts, a

1:58

sleepy podcast at sleep with me. So

2:01

if you're already sure that

2:04

this is not going to be a second date,

2:06

check that out. But it does take

2:08

a few tries. There's a lot of people that are

2:11

regular listeners that pay for the podcast

2:13

that said, yeah, it took me two

2:15

or three tries. But

2:17

I'm so glad to hear what we got coming up. Support so

2:19

the show can be free. Then a long

2:22

meandering intro, which is separate

2:24

from the support, made to ease you into

2:26

bedtime. And then

2:28

later on, we'll be talking about kind

2:30

of a novelization of one scene of

2:32

the Matrix. Renoval,

2:35

not I'll novelize it, then I'll forget

2:37

how I novelized it, then I'll renovelize

2:39

it again. So

2:42

let's just see how it goes. I'm so glad you're here.

2:46

Welcome to sleep with me the podcast

2:48

that puts you to sleep. And

2:50

these sponsors are how we're able to do it for

2:53

you for free twice a week. This

2:55

is Scoots here. This is where I ask

2:58

you to, hey, if you think about signing

3:00

up for sleep with me plus it's sleep

3:02

with me podcast.com/plus, which is a few questions.

3:04

If you're new to the show, just ignore

3:07

this message. Or if you only listen to

3:09

sleep with me occasionally or it

3:11

could be easily replaced by another show. Not

3:14

important. Do you listen to sleep with me regularly? Yes. But

3:17

yeah, it does improve your life in any way

3:19

at all. And would you miss sleep

3:21

with me if we stop making it? Like how much

3:23

would you be willing to give on an annual

3:26

basis or a monthly basis to say, hey, go

3:28

ahead and start that podcast back up. So this

3:30

is a way of not doing that. I'm asking

3:32

if you if the answer to those questions are

3:34

yes. Yeah, you're a

3:36

regular listener. Yes. Sleep with

3:38

me improves your life. Yes, I could

3:41

and would pay for the show if it was

3:44

missing from my life. I'd pay to get

3:46

it back. Or if you lost it, you're

3:48

like, you'd say, oh, where, where has my

3:50

sleep with me podcast gone? Could

3:52

you help me find it? And this is a reward reward,

3:55

whatever, 120 bucks. I

3:57

need my year of sleep with me back. Or

4:00

you would find a way to support the show if you said, well,

4:02

now I gotta put up a poster. If the

4:05

answers are yes, like I do need, like

4:07

we're kinda in that place right now, and

4:09

the whole podcasting industry's in that place more

4:12

or less, where it's like,

4:14

hey, I really need you to think about supporting the

4:16

show right now if

4:19

the answer's yes to those questions. So

4:21

we don't have to go through, oh, where, oh, where,

4:24

has my Sleep with Me podcast gone? Because I don't

4:26

want that. I love making the show. It does take

4:28

a team of people to make the show. So

4:31

think about it, sleepwithmepodcast.com/plus, if you get

4:33

a lot out of the show and

4:35

you'd miss it and you'd say, oh,

4:37

where, oh, where, oh, where, has my

4:39

Sleep with Me podcast gone? Sign up

4:41

for sleepwithmepodcast.com/plus. And I'll

4:43

thank you, believe me, I'll send you a video and say

4:45

thanks, thanks so much. All right, buddy,

4:47

it's time for the Sleepy Supporter Zone. And

4:49

the Sleepy Supporter Zone is probably going to

4:51

be changing here in the future. Our

4:54

long time editor, Carl W,

4:56

who edited the Sleepy Supporter

4:58

Zones, crossed that great

5:00

rainbow bridge to the

5:02

place where all the dogs run free. And

5:05

Carl was a huge animal person, so Carl's

5:07

up there, running with those sweet,

5:10

sweet dogs we all love. Carl's

5:12

been an amazing person to work with. He's

5:14

really going to be missed. I know all those dogs

5:17

are happy to have him, but we're going

5:19

to miss him here. Carl's been with the

5:21

show since 2016. I

5:23

met him at a podcast meetup years before

5:25

that. And you can find

5:27

out more, I shared more about it on

5:29

social media and Discord and on like our

5:32

support channels and stuff like that. But

5:34

Carl was a part of the community.

5:36

Carl took action to create positive change,

5:38

just like we talk about, even when

5:40

I was looking for places and

5:43

different things, Carl would tell me about them. And

5:46

so we're going to be sharing in the show

5:48

notes of our shows two places you could support,

5:51

New York City Mesh and Sean Casey Animal

5:53

Rescue. Those are two causes that are very

5:55

close to Carl's heart that Carl was actively

5:57

involved in. And if you want to support...

6:00

the show if you want to support all

6:02

that hard work years and years of hard

6:04

work behind the scenes so that you could

6:06

get a good night's sleep that Carl did

6:08

and then when Carl wasn't editing the show

6:10

Carl was using his time to support

6:13

other people other beings in our world so

6:16

please consider supporting one of those two

6:18

organizations and then we'll kind of go

6:20

from here of like what

6:22

changes we're gonna make with the Sleepy Supporter Zone and

6:24

stuff like that but please check out those organizations

6:27

if you're in need of extra support there's

6:29

lists of organizations in there and there's also

6:31

other organizations we want to be a part

6:33

of positive change. Mr. Bart there's

6:36

a lot of people who help on on the show

6:39

including Carl W. Who

6:41

are they? Chris Posty Posters Hello,

7:12

you see the time to shine

7:14

What's going on? Hello,

7:17

my name is

7:40

Chris. Chris,

7:42

we're gonna make a video of you

7:44

and your team. Thanks

7:47

Mr. Bart. Don't forget

7:49

to check out the show notes and support some

7:51

of those organizations that Carl supported and what do

7:53

you say we slow down and get on with

7:55

the show. Hey,

7:57

are you up all night tossing?

7:59

learning, mind racing, trouble getting

8:02

to sleep, trouble staying asleep.

8:05

Well, welcome. This is Sleep With

8:07

Me, the podcast that puts you to sleep.

8:09

We do it with a bedtime story. All

8:13

you need to do is get in bed, turn out

8:15

the lights and press play. I'm going to do the

8:17

rest. What I'm

8:19

going to attempt to do is

8:22

create a safe place where you can set aside

8:25

whatever's keeping you awake. I'm going to do a

8:27

little bit of thoughts, like things on your mind,

8:29

things, thoughts about the past, the present,

8:31

the future, thinking

8:34

thoughts, stuff you're thinking

8:36

about. I

8:41

just laugh because overthinking is

8:43

one of my, it's something

8:45

I do automatically, I do it automatically and

8:47

then I overthink about my overthinking. So it

8:49

could be thoughts. It could be feelings related

8:52

to those thoughts, emotions that are left over

8:54

from the day or about

8:56

something coming up or that are just

8:58

there. It could

9:01

be any physical sensations. It

9:03

could be changes in time,

9:05

temperature, routine, work schedule. You

9:08

could have a unique work schedule. Maybe

9:11

you have something coming up. Maybe you're going

9:13

through something or going somewhere where you

9:16

got guests, whatever it is. I'm

9:19

so glad to be here to keep you company and

9:21

take your mind off of stuff. The

9:23

reason I go through all that stuff of

9:26

listing a lot of the things that

9:28

keep us awake at night is

9:30

because, well, one, I never realized it

9:32

until just now. Knowing what keeps us

9:34

awake doesn't necessarily give

9:37

us the obvious solution. Well,

9:39

it gives other people who

9:41

give us advice, sleep-slips, sleep-splainers.

9:46

They have the answer, oh, well, you got to just

9:48

stop thinking. Okay. Well,

9:51

I don't know if I—okay, then why don't you think

9:53

about something nice then? Just do that

9:55

and then you'll sleep—that's what I do. I

9:58

think about how old do dandy? my

10:00

day is going to go the

10:02

next day and know how loo-loo

10:04

lucky I was to have the day

10:07

I had. That's what I'm thinking about

10:09

at bedtime. I say, okay,

10:11

I know what I'll be thinking about at

10:13

bedtime. It'll be you. But

10:16

yeah, thank you

10:18

for that advice. Be asleep. I

10:21

mean, you just got to choose. Just think about something

10:23

nice or don't think about anything at all. The

10:26

choice is yours. So

10:28

that's one thing. One

10:31

reason I list all that stuff is, well, I

10:33

don't know if you've gotten feelings. You just got

10:35

to look. Have you tried? I say, no.

10:39

You know what? Like we've tried it

10:41

all. And sometimes I

10:43

know why I can't sleep and sometimes I don't know

10:45

why I can't sleep. So I couldn't even, I'd

10:48

probably just tell that person overthinking

10:50

anyway. Say, last night

10:52

I was thinking about nothing. Oh, that's what

10:54

you got to do. You got to think

10:56

about something. Okay, well, I'm not sure. Well,

10:58

you got to figure out why then. Well, that

11:00

would involve my, like, so I couldn't sleep last

11:03

night. I don't know why. You got to think,

11:05

better think about that. Wow.

11:08

Okay. Are you a

11:10

professional sleep advisor? Because I'm not

11:12

a, oh no, no, I'm just

11:14

in your brain. I'm one of your friends in your brain. Really?

11:17

One of my friends. Well,

11:20

am I lucky to have

11:22

you in there? I'm

11:25

a sleep explainer. But, so

11:27

where was I? I got mixed up. Oh, whatever's

11:29

keeping me awake. The reason I go through all

11:31

that really is to let

11:34

you know, because here's the thing. When we

11:36

get advice like that, a lot of times

11:38

it's well-intentioned. It's from people that sleep good

11:41

or they, you know, they're the hero of

11:43

their own story. They think it's well-intentioned. They

11:45

don't realize that at least for me, it

11:47

makes me feel really lonely. It

11:50

does hurt in a way because they say, yeah, because

11:54

they do. There's an underlying thing there. You're

11:56

doing it wrong. Or

11:58

sometimes they just say that. doing it wrong.

12:00

You got to think about something sweet, but not

12:02

too sweet. Or,

12:05

well, just wait. Have you tried wiggling your toes?

12:07

I say, okay,

12:09

great. More, more. I thought I was

12:11

just using you as an example. Oh,

12:14

yeah, I'm full of examples. So

12:17

it just, you know, you know how

12:19

it feels if you've gotten advice you

12:21

can't use and they're confident it works

12:23

for them. And you say, well, I don't

12:25

know. I just shrugged my shoulder. I said, I appreciate

12:27

it. Thank you so much. I've got to go. I

12:31

got to go be awkward somewhere else. I'll be

12:33

back. Once I'm, you know, once

12:35

those people move on, I'll probably come back. Oh, terrific.

12:37

I'll see you in a bit. I'll

12:40

just be over here. Given, you know, I'll

12:42

be talking to other folks. So

12:45

that's one reason I list all

12:47

that stuff is so you know

12:49

you're not alone. And I realize

12:51

this is a podcast and whatever

12:53

it's digital and pseudo.

12:55

But I'm really here to

12:58

keep you company and to be your friend in the

13:00

deep dark night and take

13:02

your mind off stuff and let you know you're not alone

13:04

or to ease the loneliness

13:07

a bit. Maybe that's what I could do. And

13:10

so I list all that stuff so

13:13

that there's another layer there. I may

13:15

not have been through exactly what's keeping

13:17

you up at night, but I

13:20

can probably relate to how it feels. And

13:22

if you even if you say, you know, none of that

13:25

you don't get how I feel. I say, okay, I

13:28

do know there's enough people

13:30

listening right now that there's

13:32

someone out there that can relate to how you

13:34

feel. And they've been

13:37

there in some similar situation. And

13:40

they are right now listening to my

13:42

voice and nodding their head and hoping

13:45

you feel less alone. Because

13:47

that's why they're like if it's a regular

13:50

listener, that's why they keep coming back because

13:52

they say, I'm here, I'm

13:54

not alone. So that's

13:56

important to know. It's also important to know you

13:59

deserve a good night's sleep. That's what

14:01

I have sleep with me podcast.com/no thank you

14:03

because if you would believe what the people

14:05

say to me before they go to that

14:07

website you'd think I'd say well no

14:09

I'm not sure you should have a

14:11

good night's sleep but really everyone

14:13

deserves a good night's sleep and

14:16

you do and if you get to

14:18

sleep you need so your life is more manageable

14:20

your life's gonna be better and you

14:23

deserve it like you deserve a bedtime you could

14:25

feel neutral about or look forward to and that's

14:29

what this show really is all about cutting through

14:31

the loneliness letting you feel seen and

14:34

saying hey I'm here to put a little

14:37

ease of those other feelings and to

14:39

barely entertain you to be your goofy

14:41

friend in the deep dark night here

14:43

to keep you company so

14:46

that's what I do or that's why

14:48

I do the show that's really it

14:50

because I've been there holy cow have

14:52

I so what I

14:54

do here is I send my voice across

14:56

the deep dark night I use a lulling

14:58

soothing creaky dulcet tones and pointless meanders superfluous

15:01

tangents which means I overuse words

15:03

I forget what words mean I

15:06

repeat myself I watch

15:08

a movie I read a script I

15:10

cover it then I recover it and

15:12

then I forget how I covered it

15:15

the first time so yeah it's

15:18

it shows very different and it's

15:21

not traditionally soothing you see I

15:23

thought I was gonna hear some

15:25

chimes and some bells and someone

15:28

calm and reasonable they say no

15:30

I'm like you're you're awkward you know

15:32

awkward neighbor down the block and you

15:34

say or your friend you know they

15:36

said what do they say if you're

15:40

super like if you're you're super successful

15:42

they get they have one word for

15:44

it but in my word my world

15:47

it's quirky I forget

15:50

what they call it if you run a

15:52

tech company and you're a little bit different

15:54

they say oh okay you're whatever they

15:57

don't not charming some part of my brain some

15:59

part of myself of the steam brain, they

16:01

said, charming. And I said, no, unfortunately no.

16:03

I mean, there is a charm to us.

16:06

But I've also been doing the show a

16:08

long, long time. So it's a developed

16:10

charm because I know

16:13

I'm not alone anymore. I mean, that really

16:15

is where my, like you see, Scoots, you're

16:17

somewhat charming. You're just barely, you have a

16:19

little bit of charm. And

16:21

it really is. I'm not pandering

16:23

anymore. It really

16:25

is that. I've learned that from listeners. And I said,

16:28

oh yeah, I'm not alone with these little facets

16:31

of my personality. Why

16:34

can't they think of the word they could, I

16:36

don't know. But so, oh,

16:38

I go on and on and on. You deserve

16:40

a good night's sleep. It shows very different. Oh

16:43

yeah, it does take a few trashes because if

16:45

you got here, you probably expected something like that.

16:47

Someone to say, okay, this

16:50

is the podcast to put you

16:52

to sleep. Like

16:54

I could have done that, but

16:57

I would have only done like five or

16:59

six episodes instead of over 1200 episodes when

17:02

this one comes out. Yeah, I think it'll be after 1200.

17:07

And so, what else do you need

17:09

to know? Thanks, producer Brain. Okay, so

17:11

a couple things to know other than it takes

17:13

a few tries, most people don't like to show

17:15

on the first try. Oh,

17:18

this podcast is one you just barely listen to.

17:20

You could have figured that one out on your

17:22

own. You just kind of barely listen. Elevated

17:25

background noise or

17:27

like the chattering of a friend who doesn't

17:29

expect you to listen. You

17:32

call your friend, you say, hey, tell me everything about,

17:34

you know that box full of

17:36

collectibles you have? Oh, do I? Can

17:39

you go through that box, but I'm not going to listen to you.

17:43

Or you know how every day you want to

17:45

tell me about your favorite comic book and the

17:47

plot of that funny comic? Oh, I can't wait

17:49

to tell you more about that adventure. Oh,

17:53

yeah. And you just say, okay,

17:55

could you do that now? I'm going to fall asleep while

17:57

you do it, but it's only because I love you. So,

18:01

like, you got a funny way of showing it. Yeah,

18:04

I know, but what can I say? I think it'll

18:06

work to put me to sleep. That's the genesis of

18:09

the podcast. That's really what you hear. I'm

18:11

here, because in a

18:13

social compact situation, that

18:16

for some reason is unacceptable, as

18:18

ideal as it

18:20

would be. You see, could you

18:22

do that for eight hours? You

18:25

say, I thought we were friends. This

18:28

feels very transactional. They say,

18:30

well, it's actually not, well, it's just

18:32

a withdrawal, actually. There's no transact, I

18:34

mean, I guess that's the transaction. It's

18:37

only withdrawal. I mean, it's

18:39

a withdrawal from, like, so with

18:41

sleep with me, it's a little bit different,

18:44

right? I can do this, because it's

18:46

a podcast. So it's a podcast you do,

18:48

like a TV sound in the

18:50

other room would be another example. We're

18:53

out of focus picture. The other thing to

18:55

know is I'm not actually here to put

18:57

you to sleep. I'm here to keep you

18:59

company while you fall asleep. There's people who

19:01

are listening who can't sleep at all or

19:04

who need a break during the day. There's

19:06

a reason the show is over an hour. It's

19:09

because there's no pressure to fall asleep. I'm going to be

19:11

here. I'm going to be here to

19:13

the very end. You could listen episode after

19:16

episode if you need company in the deep

19:18

dark night. That's what I'm here for, to

19:20

keep you company whether you're awake or asleep,

19:23

whether you're listening or not, to

19:25

take your mind off of stuff, whatever

19:27

time of day it is. And

19:30

I'm here to be your boyfriend, your boar bae,

19:32

your boar sib, your boar bud, your boar bur,

19:35

your nay boar, your boar bee, your

19:37

boars, your boar bruh, your

19:39

boyfriend. Like to keep you company.

19:43

But you don't have, this is a great thing.

19:45

You say, oh, my boyfriend don't need anything. Like

19:48

I could support the show or whatever, but I don't

19:51

have to. And

19:54

plus is over 600 episodes. So if

19:56

I needed 600 hours, I could do that. Those

20:00

are a couple things that are different about the spy

20:02

gets the structure of the show is also different So

20:05

let me explain that to you because it

20:07

is intentional show starts off with a greeting

20:09

friends beyond the binary ladies gentlemen boys and

20:11

girls So you feel seen

20:14

and welcomed in usually say something silly So

20:17

that you say okay, I could check this show out

20:19

if you'll seen I feel welcome. I'll look at you

20:21

know I'll get a little bit

20:23

closer Then

20:25

there's support for the show so it could

20:27

be free so they say okay.

20:29

Yeah, I'll check it out sponsor supported

20:32

Then there's a long meandering intro which is

20:34

separate from the support. We're about 15 minutes

20:37

into the intro or so and intro

20:40

kind of goes like the

20:42

intro Goes about I don't know

20:45

anywhere from 12 to 20 minutes long The

20:48

intro is designed to introduce new people

20:50

the podcast. It's pretty unsuccessful at that

20:52

That's why it takes two or three

20:54

tries, but the intro

20:56

also serves a bedtime sleep of

20:59

purpose Which is to

21:01

ease you into bedtime to give you a

21:03

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21:05

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21:07

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21:09

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21:12

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21:14

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21:16

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21:18

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21:20

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21:22

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21:26

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21:28

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21:30

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21:32

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21:34

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21:36

okay So that's why

21:38

the intro goes on and on and on then

21:41

their support after the intro before the story tonight

21:43

It'll be a story about them like

21:46

a novelization of a scene from The Matrix

21:49

Double novelization I think

21:52

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21:55

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22:11

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this is Scoots here. This

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is a interesting episode. It

25:49

is a crossover episode, an

25:52

experimental episode, behind the scenes

25:54

episode, all rolled up

25:56

into one. I'm

25:58

doing a crossover. with the

26:01

podcast The Novelizers, which you

26:03

probably heard earlier

26:05

me talking about him. The

26:08

Novelizers, classic films novelized by

26:11

people like TV comedy writers and

26:13

other people, and narrated by your

26:16

favorite comics and actors. And

26:19

they've done some classics. They did a

26:21

season one with Star Trek II, The

26:23

Wrath of Khan, and

26:25

they had a lot of great people. And

26:58

we could do a crossover to promote the

27:00

podcast and maybe make a little bit of

27:02

extra content around it. So

27:05

I'm doing, I get to choose, and

27:07

it was a tough choice between, but for

27:10

season three, I think it's going to be

27:12

The Matrix. And

27:14

the great part is, the part of The

27:16

Matrix I got to choose was kind of

27:18

a dream sequence. But

27:21

so we're supposed to novelize it right.

27:23

So I figure what I'll do here

27:25

is I'm going to go through the script

27:27

that I have and kind of

27:30

look through it and kind of read it and just see. Then

27:33

try to, as I'm reading the script,

27:35

see what's ready for novelization. And

27:38

then I'll like watch the episode

27:41

or have the episode run while

27:43

I'm talking. And

27:45

then probably try to come up with the finished

27:48

product, because it shouldn't be 50

27:51

minutes like this episode. Ideally, it would be around 50

27:53

minutes. I

27:55

think it's only eight pages. So it should be

27:57

around eight minutes or eight to ten minutes. long

28:01

but we'll see so this is fun

28:03

so of course I

28:05

didn't write down where I supposed to

28:08

start up but this happens in

28:10

a part of the movie early on and where Agent

28:13

Smith our favorite friendly person is

28:16

saying mr. Anderson you know you

28:18

say I don't

28:20

know what magic you're weaving Hugo but

28:22

I hope that's your actual name but

28:26

like so agent Smith

28:29

we'll just pick it up like a

28:31

page I think I'm supposed to read when

28:33

the dream sequence starts but we'll see and

28:35

I'll make it sleepy don't worry so

28:38

but this is the end of an interview

28:40

just will lead into the episode where he's

28:42

saying you know mr. Anderson there's

28:45

this bag and forcing that already it's

28:47

a little bit dreamy up until this

28:49

point Neo is just a regular person

28:51

with you know name that's could be

28:53

spelled and you know different like could

28:55

be reversed which I didn't realize till

28:58

like 10 years after I saw the

29:00

film and this was a

29:02

big movie to date people like me that

29:04

this was a big DVD purchase like this

29:06

was one they said you get if you're

29:08

gonna watch it home don't watch it on

29:11

VHS man watch it on DVD so okay

29:15

so anyway so this

29:17

is about 20 minutes 22 minutes in

29:19

the movie he says mr.

29:21

mr. you know tell me mr. Anderson what

29:24

good is a phone call if you can't

29:26

speak and then Neo tries

29:28

to use the phone but he has

29:31

trouble opening his mouth kind of like he's

29:34

he hasn't had enough chat he says in

29:36

Neo says in his head my goodness

29:39

I probably don't have enough chapstick on

29:41

my lips does anyone have

29:43

any chapstick any of you secret agents

29:45

that are interviewing me and according

29:48

the script you know that makes Neo

29:50

feel slightly uncomfortable and then he says

29:53

even is because of the fact that

29:55

he his lips feels like they

29:58

Need extra lubrication? His.

30:00

Jaw Titans. In

30:03

the agents a snicker

30:05

watching news confusion grow

30:07

into something else. Where

30:11

he says sir. What? Are they

30:13

going to sell me what Lakers would as

30:15

as some sort of the situation? The see

30:17

Oh yeah you could get a prevent it

30:19

from the vending machine or. Different.

30:22

Brands of lip balms. Aura?

30:24

Yeah, but or twenty dollars? And

30:28

then Neo says say, wait a

30:30

second year, My Blitzer Really. Dislike.

30:33

Is that they're not just dry?

30:36

You. Know they were totally to sit to the

30:38

situation is a move. Lips were not totally

30:40

dry. Then. They are pressed

30:42

together. Then they may have dried. And

30:46

what was on my list was not. you

30:48

know something you did I had to the

30:50

have something to the his something sweeter sticky.

30:53

And. Then near me, be innocent.

30:55

Maybe like, or. This. Is

30:57

experience you may have a in in

31:00

a state that's been altered by something.

31:03

Races. Is it. did I ever have any lips?

31:05

It all. You

31:07

like that song as quoted many

31:09

times before. Make him Laker. Make.

31:12

And lips of whom the ago and okay

31:14

lips my mate, my mate mail absurd been

31:16

made made into nursing it all. In

31:20

but he says i can't sing their

31:22

because I'm imagining now and will I'm

31:24

liberalise sir. And you

31:26

how and then also the whole thing of

31:29

like how would I even make a phone

31:31

call. So. This creates

31:33

a sense and neo. Of

31:36

the. As a

31:38

need for somebody say hey man to school down,

31:40

just chill. But. That's

31:42

at the situation was to is these

31:44

agents Sir. And. He says it

31:47

like he good goes to get up he

31:49

said like to go get up ugly to

31:51

go visit the vending machine. And.

31:53

Get myself some lip balm. The.

31:56

if if you if you gentlemen

31:58

oh excuse me do like

32:00

I don't know I don't do a good

32:02

I don't do a good Neo but

32:05

he says my dudes I don't think

32:07

he does say that but if

32:09

you were to say that in this situation he

32:11

said excuse me my dudes I'd

32:13

like to go get some lip balm does

32:16

it also you know since you're here I'm

32:18

here under your care do you

32:21

actually have a lip balm vending machine and then

32:24

Agent Smith says you're going to help us

32:27

Mr. Anderson whether you want to or not

32:30

and I love saying Mr. Anderson sometimes I

32:32

just say it like that's the only this

32:35

is one of the few I don't know

32:37

how good my actual whatever it's called when

32:39

you're trying to do somebody's imitation it's not

32:41

called that but I'm

32:43

not really good at any of them other than Miss Peggy

32:46

which is not sleep podcast thing but

32:48

I could like so I can't do

32:50

the actual real Miss Piggy but I

32:52

can only do haiya when

32:55

Miss Piggy karate chops things

32:58

and then I can't even do a

33:00

full sentence where she says something something

33:02

frog but I have to the only way

33:04

I can make it sound like Miss Piggy is if

33:06

you can't hear what I'm saying

33:08

something something frog because she delivers in

33:11

that way and then

33:13

I can I can do another character

33:16

that's no longer relevant you say excuse

33:18

you have any other things

33:20

you could do that is less

33:23

pop culturally relevant than Miss

33:25

Piggy and Agent Smith I'd

33:28

say do I can do one line

33:30

from Yogi bear but I

33:32

can't do it on a sleep podcast either was

33:35

I can also I can't remember it because it's

33:37

been so long because it's

33:39

like I couldn't I've never even done

33:41

this for my daughter because she would

33:43

say I have no idea who Yogi bear is

33:46

but it's something something

33:48

doodly-do or something like that and

33:51

then he says something to his kid or his like

33:54

it so I used to be able to do that but

33:56

I can't remember it anymore and then

33:58

I do a terrible Antonio Bonilla Darris,

34:02

Mr. Anderson, what are you going to do?

34:05

Do a poor version of my, I'm going

34:08

to weave something for you, Anderson. Okay, but

34:12

they say, by the way, let's

34:16

see, they say, hey, like, we'll give you, say, how

34:18

about this? Your lips are fine,

34:20

man. That was just something going on with you.

34:22

Maybe the AC, I don't know. But they

34:25

say, like, we want you

34:28

to wear this special necklace. And he

34:30

says, like, and he

34:35

says, what is the necklace? And it says, well, he says,

34:37

it's kind of like when you become a best friend in

34:39

a movie, not this

34:41

movie, but instead of

34:44

saying, I don't know what it is symbolically that

34:46

I can't think of what it would be right

34:48

now, but it says, he goes,

34:51

I'm gonna keep half, Agent Smith

34:53

says, and you're gonna keep half,

34:55

and your half says, my. And

34:57

he goes, the weird thing is, I'm gonna

34:59

triplicate it for all these other agents, and

35:01

it's gonna say, dude's. And he

35:04

goes, why do you keep projecting that term on

35:06

me? And he says, just put the necklace on, please.

35:09

And he says, is this sort of the necklace you

35:11

could use to, he goes, I thought

35:14

we're friends. And

35:18

like, the neo says, well, I

35:20

guess you gave me that lip, but

35:22

I don't think I remember you giving

35:24

it to me. This is going pretty

35:26

well, sleepifying it, because I think we're like

35:28

10 minutes in, we're only halfway through one

35:31

page. But he says, okay,

35:33

I'll wear it. And they

35:35

say, great, man. So they put

35:39

this necklace around him, and he

35:41

wears it. And the necklace

35:44

is a weird kind of necklace that wears

35:46

its wearer. But neo's not totally

35:48

aware of the wearing of the wearer, the

35:51

wearing. And

35:53

so that part happens. He puts an necklace

35:56

on, or I guess It's

35:59

a pendant with a chain. They're different. The

36:01

necklace? I'm not sure. And.

36:03

The. With. The idea of.

36:07

Being. Under the care of agents

36:09

and them putting a necklace around your

36:11

neck he is he starts to drift

36:13

back offer. Like. Confuse, You know?

36:15

did I just have a dream where I needed

36:18

lip balm? And. Then three authority

36:20

figures. He gave me a best

36:22

friend and necklace. but it's not

36:24

like best friend. He

36:26

said was it four pieces are just two

36:29

pieces That was somehow became three pieces. It

36:31

said my do it's. And.

36:35

He wakes up in bed and says

36:37

will holy cow man why could have

36:39

had some dream my girl. With.

36:42

That's was a strange you know? And

36:45

his lips are. you know I'm in his

36:47

lips. Way to he looks yourself He feels

36:50

his lips. He says. These

36:52

are kissel lives so thank goodness

36:54

is still retain made credibly Kissel

36:56

lips. And or

36:58

because we've located my hit you know,

37:01

dresses and feel very dreamy. But

37:04

yeah. okay. And then he

37:06

looks down. Any sees

37:08

that he's only wearing his shark

37:10

to spend and necklace, sir. Which.

37:12

is just of like go whether saying

37:15

with of start to. Say.

37:17

He doesn't know this, but it's actually not

37:19

know. It's just not a shared to says

37:21

made from plastic. but. No.

37:23

One up to the point is so I for

37:25

said the hard to tell him mad are unlikely

37:27

because his fictional character I can say it as

37:29

a. Stand. And

37:32

narrator. So. Again he

37:34

would see so touched his lips against a sucker

37:36

very to you know I'm very kiss a bola.

37:39

This. Phone rang sir not and

37:42

vibrator but I I would

37:44

presume that was an censored

37:46

do not disturb for for

37:48

goodness sake because. If.

37:50

He had a ring around and someone had call

37:52

him or there are some sort other. this is

37:55

bill or by was his p. Three.

37:57

Notification era. P.

37:59

N E. So probably

38:01

pre-do not disturb era and

38:04

it may have even been a landline. Now that

38:06

I'm thinking about it, it was

38:09

definitely a landline because I mean maybe

38:13

I'm dreaming of someone dreaming. But

38:15

yeah, we'll just say it's a

38:17

land. Oh, a landline is

38:20

a phone that is a

38:23

stationary phone that's

38:25

connected to a cord. Like

38:27

something you would plug in a wall

38:30

but not for electricity. It goes

38:33

into a separate wall called a phone

38:35

cord which connects your

38:37

phone to the phone port or

38:39

I don't know. You used to have to pay someone, if

38:41

you moved into an apartment, sometimes you'd have

38:44

to pay someone to put one of these in or turn

38:46

it on and you

38:48

plug it into the wall. Then you have to turn on the service

38:52

just like the other thing. Back then you didn't get

38:54

a phone. Your phone only did one thing or no

38:56

two I guess made calls and

38:58

received calls. Okay

39:01

so his phone rings and landline.

39:03

He says, okay my phone's ringing

39:06

and keeps ringing

39:08

though because he's still

39:11

in a state of waking up

39:13

I guess. And

39:15

he says, I got to go get this phone man.

39:18

And he answers the phone but

39:21

he doesn't say anything because

39:23

he's still thinking about... he's

39:26

using his... he says, do I still have this

39:28

like a whatever chiseled

39:30

jaw and kissable lips or not? Was

39:32

that really a dream? Like

39:35

were my lips really stuck

39:37

together but stuck together through

39:40

their own? And on the

39:42

other end of the phone is a

39:44

voice of Morpheus. And if you've ever

39:46

thought about mythology before, you know Morpheus

39:49

is in the dream... you know

39:51

like in the dream... in the

39:53

post earthly dream space. In

39:56

this case Morpheus is more... I don't know if

39:59

it's a nickname. But

40:01

Morpheus is the name right now talking,

40:03

it's no game. He's talking to Neo.

40:07

But he says, hey, by the way, they're listening to

40:09

this call. They're tapped in. So

40:13

I got to be brief. And

40:16

Neo says, the agents, and Morpheus

40:19

says, I know, I know, I know. They got there

40:21

first. But they underestimated how

40:23

important you are, Neo. Hardy

40:27

har har. And

40:30

if they knew what I knew, they would

40:33

have never, even though they didn't give you

40:35

lip balm, they would have never given you

40:37

lip balm. Also there's no lip balm

40:39

vending machine. And

40:42

Neo shrugs at them and says, yeah, that

40:44

makes sense. That's a very dreamlike thing. Maybe

40:48

at an airport? I don't know, other places with dry air?

40:52

And Neo says, okay. He

40:55

didn't even actually know if there was a conversation or

40:57

he was just in his head. But

41:00

he says, what about my

41:03

dude's, and then he feels his

41:06

shark tooth necklace. And

41:08

he goes, what is going on, man? And

41:11

Morpheus says, you're the one, Neo. You

41:15

may have spent the last few years looking for

41:17

me, dreamcatcher,

41:21

but I spent most of my life looking

41:23

for you. And

41:25

Neo says, you know, like, he

41:28

says, have you heard of performance pressure like

41:31

Morpheus? And

41:33

Morpheus says, you still want to meet? And Neo

41:35

says, yes. He

41:37

says, you know, he goes, there's this

41:39

one bridge. It's in a lot of

41:41

movies and used in different

41:44

ways, and it's awesome. Adam's Street

41:46

Bridge. And

41:49

Morpheus goes, or no, it was Neo.

41:52

Neo goes, okay. And

41:56

he says, meet me, and he says, Adam's Street Bridge.

41:58

He goes, is that a movie? ever end any

42:01

of the games where you're like

42:03

driving around or what movies was it

42:05

in? But Morpheus has

42:07

already hung up. So

42:09

the next thing is City Street

42:11

Night. It's

42:14

like just past, just

42:17

like, there used to

42:19

be a song that was made into a song

42:21

for commercials about being just past

42:23

midnight or half past midnight.

42:25

Maybe it was on the show

42:28

Miami Vice. That doesn't

42:30

have to do with anything though, but it's

42:32

just past the middle of the night. The

42:34

time when it seems like there

42:36

are no rules, you

42:39

know, that everybody's up to something. That's what my

42:42

nana was. Oh boy, nothing

42:44

good happens after 9 p.m. That's the time

42:46

to be in bed. Nothing

42:50

good could possibly come, like put

42:53

on your lip balm and go

42:55

to bed. You wouldn't be dreaming

42:57

of lip balm vending

42:59

machines. Who

43:02

dreams of that? Who

43:04

says my dudes? I

43:06

don't know, but if you were in bed at

43:08

9 o'clock you wouldn't be worried about those things.

43:10

You'd be sleeping. The

43:13

authority figures would not need to visit you

43:15

in your dreams. And

43:17

also don't you think it's interesting that

43:19

someone whose name is based on dreams

43:21

and sleep is the one

43:23

that may be visiting you during your waking

43:26

hours, even though you should be in bed,

43:29

but you're dreaming of agents. Anyway,

43:33

why am I even supposed to be narrating this? I

43:36

don't know, but don't be. Go to bed. But it

43:38

is late

43:41

at night. The roads have

43:44

just been sprayed with rain.

43:46

It's very cinematic.

43:48

Holy cow. And

43:52

Neo's walking. Neo's wearing boots,

43:54

and the boots are made

43:56

for walking, scraping. And

44:00

people are out and about even though it's

44:02

raining which would be which my name like

44:05

nano That would be a first warning sign

44:07

people who walks in the rain at night

44:10

I mean, I realize that the weather may

44:12

be temperate who's walking around

44:14

in the rain after dark But

44:17

neo is in these people who

44:19

neo feels like are looking at him And

44:22

then he reaches a bridge and he

44:25

notices headlights behind him He

44:28

turns around and the car

44:31

quickly comes to a stop beside him and

44:33

the door opens There's

44:36

a woman there. Also, by the way, I'm

44:38

pretty sure the doors open in a strange

44:40

way which also confuses neo

44:44

Well, it wouldn't you know, if you're watching it,

44:46

you wouldn't be confused because you say okay Front

44:49

door opens normal back door

44:51

opens away from the front door You

44:55

see that like a Yeah,

44:57

the first thing I would wonder just like you

44:59

after the first thing I'd wonder about the fifth

45:01

thing I would wonder is

45:03

who designed these doors like because it would be

45:06

good For a car

45:08

with people who wear face paint that

45:10

you can't mention on a sleep podcast

45:12

They also have poofy things and

45:15

round red noses This

45:17

would be the perfect doors for them to pour out of

45:19

the car Though normally

45:21

I don't think their cars have that feature Also,

45:25

most people tell me that their car is a gimmick and

45:27

it's a hole in the ground But

45:29

so they're both doors open outward

45:33

It's the French car a car you say I

45:35

want a car whose doors open like French doors

45:38

Well, that's gonna be $15,000

45:41

extra and you'll never be able to get it

45:43

fixed But will look

45:45

cool Yes, probably

45:48

I mean to bet if you have someone like

45:50

Trinity who says to neo get in And

45:53

there's someone behind the wheel their

45:55

a-pop and that's a p o

45:57

c apex

46:00

a sizable individual. Beside

46:03

a pocket to

46:08

Neo dreams because which is holding

46:10

a hair dryer blow dryer but

46:13

it must be battery-powered because she just

46:15

pulls it a little bit because she's

46:18

pointing at me was lips. And

46:22

also the windshield wipers are going the rains

46:24

outside of the car. So we have extra

46:27

layers of sound and in

46:30

whatever that's called kinetic motion and

46:34

neo our this is

46:36

what of what and

46:38

turned he says

46:41

it's for it's necessary neo we

46:43

have to be sure and he

46:45

says be sure about what and she says

46:47

be sure for you for you from you

46:49

and she could

46:53

take this thing is very complicated

46:56

like overly complicated my only opinion

46:59

I know I'm not supposed to break from the story here

47:01

but basically what she

47:03

needs to do is remove the necklace

47:05

from neo now what neo

47:07

doesn't know is that his

47:10

shark tooth necklace that he thinks is

47:12

a shark tooth necklace from his youth

47:15

is actually the same it is the

47:17

my dude's necklace from his dream which is

47:20

just sole purposes to keep track

47:23

of him it's got some sort of tracker

47:25

within the shark tooth he

47:27

still thinks that once

47:29

upon a time when he was a lad

47:31

he was swimming around in the seas and

47:33

found a shark tooth and

47:36

then put it on a piece of leather and put

47:38

it you know it's one of those memories he has

47:41

but just to make it more

47:44

cinematic instead of just using scissors

47:46

or untying it a super high-tech

47:48

device with scanners and all sorts

47:51

of stuff and it does like x-ray and

47:54

like a chemical analysis right in front of

47:57

neo like it's a whole like lab brief

48:00

case. I

48:02

mean talk about investments like

48:04

some sort of like groundbreaking

48:06

thing that can analyze pendants

48:09

or necklaces or other small

48:11

wearables. So it

48:13

gives a chemical breakdown whatever I don't know

48:15

what plastics made of but maybe

48:17

it even display I don't know it definitely does it

48:20

displays it first in the chemicals and it says AKA

48:23

plastic 100% and then

48:26

even just so Neo they make sure

48:28

Neo gets it 0% shark

48:31

tooth then it shows

48:33

within it tracker for

48:36

tracking then also says also undiscovered

48:39

faint you know spiritual

48:41

image my and then

48:44

even shows other half dudes

48:46

which is probably how they track him and

48:50

she looks at this whole thing

48:52

and then uses you know takes

48:54

it off I mean this looks like

48:56

the kind of thing you know you do I don't know

48:59

what else you'd use it for I mean I text stuff

49:04

and so she clips the

49:07

necklace off but it's it like you know it

49:09

has laser like it has like a bunch of

49:11

sound effects has to spin up or you know

49:13

green neon and they

49:16

close the thing that she throw he

49:18

goes that's my shark tooth necklace then

49:20

even let's slip my dudes and everybody

49:22

looks at him and

49:24

she goes didn't like read the readout

49:26

again you know it's a hundred percent

49:28

plastic with a tracker inside and you

49:32

know says I can't believe like he

49:34

is forget this whole thing man he

49:36

do you

49:39

understand that I you know he tell this is a

49:41

part I didn't have time to go on a tangent

49:43

for in the middle of a 10-minute tangent from one

49:45

minute scene but he does

49:47

go into a slight thing about so we

49:49

he did fill us in in the backstory

49:52

about how like it became

49:54

a seat like it would do it's I guess it

49:56

would look like him as a little kid swimming and

49:58

you even

50:00

some of the characters, I'm

50:02

not sure which one, Switcher,

50:05

Apoc, they get a little

50:07

misty-eyed because it's such a

50:09

beautiful memory. Because maybe even said you

50:11

know I was afraid to swim and

50:13

once I overcame my fear to swim

50:16

I was afraid of what was

50:18

in the water and I saw her

50:20

one day I would not just swim but I would swim

50:22

on the swim, swim, swim and I would

50:26

swim and then that day and then somebody

50:28

who's approval and I could never meet and

50:33

I found two toothes maybe

50:35

that's who taught him to use the term

50:38

my dudes I know it's

50:40

an older figure in his

50:42

imaginary life but no

50:44

one has a heart to tell him this right now and

50:47

even the fact that he's seeing the chemical analysis

50:49

of the shark tooth that

50:51

it's not a shark tooth and

50:55

you know they like maybe even to further

50:57

break it she brings up you could buy

51:00

800 of those for

51:03

.4 cents each in bulk right

51:05

now Neil but he

51:07

says I'm not so sure about this and

51:11

Switcher stopped the car and then

51:13

Switcher says listen up kid we

51:16

don't get time for these shark

51:19

tooth memories we got one rule

51:22

here from

51:24

now on out our way or

51:26

the highway and Neil goes that's

51:28

fine because first of all it's confusing so

51:31

it's our way not your way or the

51:33

highway but we're on a

51:35

street and he starts

51:37

to open the door and Trinity

51:40

says Neil you know you got to trust me

51:43

and he goes why why should I

51:45

trust you like what what uh-huh eternity

51:48

says Neil you've

51:50

already been there you

51:53

already know that road you already

51:56

know where it ends if

51:59

you know of course there could be side thing

52:01

where Neo takes it literally says, yeah well that's

52:03

14th and then I take a right you know.

52:06

But instead we catch

52:09

that sweet sweet jaw and

52:11

those kissable lips, the rain,

52:13

the street lights, looking

52:16

out the window. We're

52:19

seeing things through Trinity's eyes almost

52:21

and Trinity says, I know that's

52:23

not where you want to be. And Neo

52:26

closes the door and the

52:29

car is back in motion now. And not

52:31

only was you know if it was strange

52:33

enough that the doors open in a way

52:35

you know that's not familiar to us except

52:37

in you know areas where you say time

52:40

travel. What other cars do you

52:42

know espionage,

52:44

time travel, video

52:47

games, super

52:49

rich people and other

52:54

things. I don't know what else

52:57

where else you know aspirational car

52:59

ownership. If

53:01

that wasn't strange enough the fact that the street

53:03

lights as the car starts to move kind of

53:06

seem a little bit green in the tinge. And

53:09

if Neo really could listen beyond the

53:11

raindrops you'd feel a slight hum

53:15

like a like a noise that's

53:18

comforting like a couple notes

53:22

that kind of feel like synthesized brass

53:24

but in the best possible way. That

53:26

way I can't do it justice because

53:28

I don't know what I'm talking about.

53:32

So okay so now I guess we're back. So

53:34

the car's moving, his shark

53:37

tooth and aqueous is gone. And they

53:42

head off into the night

53:44

like the car keeps going.

53:46

And yeah so we'll be

53:49

right I'll be right back everybody I

53:51

mean instantaneously. And we'll

53:53

look at the actual images. Now we'll

53:55

see but I don't know that's pretty pretty

53:58

pretty tangential. Okay,

54:01

so everybody, this is your buddy

54:03

Scootz again. And what I'm

54:05

going to try to do here is just

54:07

watch the scene and took notes.

54:10

I was going to watch it while

54:12

we were in the studio, but because

54:14

of the multiple layers of logging in,

54:18

it's not important anyway. I think this will

54:20

be better because it made me

54:22

really focus on some stuff. So

54:26

we'll run through this. We'll see how long that

54:28

takes, and then I'll kind of look at, is

54:30

there... I

54:32

know now, also, like I recorded the

54:35

part you just heard, that's

54:38

already left my mind, even though I said

54:40

that's pretty good. So

54:43

I'll refresh your memory from the start here.

54:47

I guess I should take it fresh,

54:49

though. So

54:53

welcome to Matrix Radio

54:55

Theater. I don't know. At

54:59

our last episode, you may remember, Neo

55:03

was interviewed by Agent

55:06

Smith and two other agents whose

55:08

names I just don't remember. But

55:12

they referred to Neo just in case

55:14

it was confusing as Mr. Anderson. But

55:18

in a little bit of a different

55:20

voice, but I just don't have the

55:22

ability to weave the weaving right this

55:24

moment. Mr. Anderson, no, don't got

55:26

it, Mr. Anderson. Nope,

55:29

still don't got it, but that's

55:31

fine because Neo was

55:33

interviewed by them. And

55:36

probably most importantly, as you remember,

55:39

they said, we're going to give

55:41

you a tadpole to keep... Or

55:44

maybe I said something else earlier, but now,

55:46

as I recall, it was a tadpole. And

55:50

Neo said, what do you mean? And they said, well, this

55:52

is strange. And

55:54

don't worry, it'll make more

55:57

sense and less sense in a few

55:59

short seconds. seconds, but

56:01

we're going to give you a tadpole that lives in your armpit

56:03

hair. And

56:05

it won't make it, like trust me,

56:08

it won't, and Neil said no thank

56:10

you. I don't want

56:12

any, one, tadpole, care for

56:14

a tadpole seems a little bit

56:16

complicated. Two,

56:18

what does this have to do with our

56:21

interview? I thought this was work related or

56:23

something. And

56:26

maybe my other activities, the dance

56:29

mixes I make. Two,

56:33

the idea of anything, I

56:36

realize there's microscopic beings out there, but

56:38

other than that, I don't like, just

56:41

the idea of a tadpole that lives in anyone's

56:44

armpit hair seems like something

56:46

I would be having in a dream. So

56:49

ideally this is just a dream, and

56:51

I can soothe myself by saying that.

56:53

Neil, you're just having a dream. But

56:57

like, and then they

56:59

said, they actually had a

57:01

great strategy. If you,

57:03

now they said, and then Neil said, what if

57:06

I just start to care, one more question. If

57:09

I started to care for this, like

57:12

I had an affinity for this tadpole,

57:14

or tadpoles in general, and they said

57:16

don't worry, the tadpole has evolved in

57:18

a way that even if you, you know,

57:22

it's safe in your armpit hair. And

57:25

then they tickled his sides and

57:27

he lifted his armpits up naturally.

57:31

And that was the last thing he remembers,

57:33

is that them, like, you know,

57:36

but we can assume that

57:38

a tadpole, like something like

57:40

a tadpole, they also said, but this was

57:42

like a cut from the film. Like,

57:47

actually, by the way, Neil, this is, would I

57:49

say, I forgot what they were going to say.

57:52

They tickled him. It was a

57:54

piece of not important

57:57

information that a reasonable person might have

57:59

asked. would the tadpole be safe in

58:01

your armpit hair? Always. And

58:04

then something else about it that you would have

58:06

probably thought to yourself, if you're gonna have this

58:08

thing living in my armpit hair, I mean you

58:10

have other questions, right? Do I need to feed

58:12

it? I thought you

58:14

were doing the next scene. I

58:16

don't know. There was one more question

58:18

but it already, the answer already escapes me

58:20

that Neo would have

58:22

asked before he fell asleep. I don't

58:26

know, also great question, would Neo name the

58:28

tadpole in his armpit hair? I don't know.

58:30

But so Neo wakes, but then this is

58:32

just a dream, Neo. It's just a dream.

58:35

Oh, another question. The audience of ours

58:37

might. Was it very cute when he

58:39

giggled when he was tackled? Yes, very

58:41

cute. And

58:44

then we have Neo waking up in bed

58:46

and there's a couple pieces of play setting

58:49

I need to do. Neo, as a

58:51

character, sleeps with a t-shirt on and

58:55

I don't know if we take anything

58:58

like will Neo later in life sleep

59:01

with a t-shirt? I would say probably not. So

59:04

maybe this is part of the Neo's character's

59:06

journey. Adventure,

59:08

like shirtless in the inmost cave

59:11

is coming up one day. Also

59:13

Neo has,

59:16

we could really get a good, like

59:18

some nice paneling in this attic that

59:20

Neo lives in. Nice positioning of the

59:23

bed except this is a shelf because

59:25

Neo sits up in bed waking up.

59:28

Is there checks his armpits? Nothing. No

59:30

tadpoles. I

59:32

guess, does it, does it, like he pulled his,

59:35

how did he check his armpits? Great question. I

59:37

just saw it, I just realized he pulled his

59:39

shirt collar and looked in his armpits, which

59:42

if you're gonna check your armpits, probably not the best

59:44

way to get a full accounting of what, you know,

59:46

but he almost, there's a

59:48

shelf above his bed, one of those hanging

59:50

wall shelves. I don't know

59:53

if anybody has one of those in their

59:55

home. Don't recommend them. They don't hold anything

59:57

unless you have some sort

59:59

of a person. in your house that's so

1:00:01

useful and they know where studs are and

1:00:04

that kind of stuff. But

1:00:06

also don't put them near your bed because what if

1:00:08

you moved around even more. Also

1:00:12

we get to see a little bit of,

1:00:14

you know we get a little personal Neo

1:00:16

time. We see that Neo has maybe a

1:00:18

dresser that was once a card catalog or

1:00:21

looks like something that was once used

1:00:24

to hold stuff in a high school

1:00:27

like science lab and like the kind

1:00:31

of thing you could buy now somewhere for like

1:00:33

$4,000. It should

1:00:37

be like somebody smarts probably selling them

1:00:39

out there. That's why I'm laughing. Also

1:00:43

on the top of Neo's dresser we'll call it

1:00:45

there's a, oh the one thing

1:00:47

I noted was there's

1:00:50

a fish bowl. Looks

1:00:52

like he took it from, it's full

1:00:55

of, I think it's

1:00:57

full of prophylactics which is like a form,

1:00:59

you know like in case, you know for,

1:01:01

I don't know for

1:01:03

if Neo's sleeping without a shirt on. Like

1:01:06

that you'd see in a high school, what do you

1:01:09

call that, a health center. I

1:01:14

said did he take that from like a health

1:01:16

center? Is it, I mean,

1:01:18

you know again I only have, I don't

1:01:21

have like quantum dot technology at

1:01:23

my fingertips but that's,

1:01:26

I said is that a fish bowl from a

1:01:28

high school, whatever, because I

1:01:30

didn't need to access those so I don't

1:01:32

know exactly what it's called. Nice

1:01:35

attic, nice wall panels, nightstand, dresser,

1:01:39

library card catalog, raining outside

1:01:42

and his

1:01:46

phone rings right and

1:01:48

his phone has buttons which I thought was

1:01:51

important. It's either, I think the phone

1:01:53

is a deep shade of green and then

1:01:56

Neo answers the phone. There's someone speaking on the other line

1:01:58

but if we were to watch. He's

1:02:00

listening intently, blinking, and on

1:02:04

the other line is Morpheus. And

1:02:07

first Morpheus tries to lay on the

1:02:10

honey. He says something like, I've been

1:02:12

looking for you my whole life, but

1:02:14

I got to be brief. I got to get to the point. Everybody's

1:02:18

always underestimated you. No

1:02:24

pressure. And

1:02:26

what does this say? Oh, you still want to meet up?

1:02:29

What do you think? And

1:02:32

Neo says, what is going on, dude? Like,

1:02:34

I'm pretty sure I just had

1:02:36

a dream that a tadpole was in my

1:02:39

armpits. And he

1:02:41

says, listen, just go to the

1:02:45

cinematic street bridge if

1:02:47

you want to meet. And

1:02:49

we see a shot of Neo standing,

1:02:52

looking at these waterfalls, coming off the

1:02:54

top of the bridge. You

1:02:57

definitely need your windshield wipers on full if

1:02:59

you were going out there. Car pulls up

1:03:01

actually behind Neo. And

1:03:05

it does have the doors that it alluded

1:03:07

to. This

1:03:11

is a classic car, but

1:03:13

with, I don't know anything about

1:03:15

periods of style. I

1:03:17

don't know. Is this a mid-century, is

1:03:19

there such a thing as a mid-century modern car

1:03:21

door? Or mid-century?

1:03:24

I mean, people love that. If

1:03:26

you say, that car door is like that, that's

1:03:28

mid-century. Can I get myself a mid-century, what do

1:03:31

they call it, mid-century modern car

1:03:33

doors? Oh, sure. We could

1:03:36

do that. It's like,

1:03:38

you know, you want to,

1:03:41

with that, you want it to go

1:03:43

with your science lab furniture, your

1:03:46

vintage classic science lab furniture.

1:03:50

And so the door opens. We see

1:03:52

Trinity. Now Trinity, it's tough

1:03:55

to, if this was the first scene I'd watched

1:03:57

in a long time, and I

1:03:59

would have the Nia is that is

1:04:01

that is that pleather or vinyl or

1:04:04

what is that what like your suit is

1:04:06

that a vinyl suit you're wearing or a

1:04:11

leite it's shiny that's

1:04:13

the Nia's first

1:04:16

reaction and also a

1:04:18

knowledge I'm entering a world where

1:04:21

people go about their evenings

1:04:23

in stylish possibly

1:04:26

functional depending on the breathability

1:04:28

of it and

1:04:32

Neo says to himself

1:04:34

holy Neo futuristic situation

1:04:36

like and

1:04:39

okay and that's

1:04:41

trendy Trinity says get in the

1:04:44

car and

1:04:47

he gets in the

1:04:49

car and also we see

1:04:51

a car's got some cool lights if you

1:04:53

want to do I don't know if those

1:04:55

go on individually if you wanted to do

1:04:57

some reading if you're in the backseat as

1:04:59

a passenger and you just gets in the back of

1:05:01

the car the car I guess starts

1:05:04

driving right away and as

1:05:07

the dialogue goes on anytime you need

1:05:09

a little extra punk punctuation in the

1:05:11

dialogue there's a little bit thunder and

1:05:13

lightning to underline it and

1:05:17

he see they say surprise

1:05:19

and they have noisemakers which

1:05:21

Neo's thrown off

1:05:24

by like when you blow in the

1:05:26

thing like the thing at a party

1:05:28

where you blow it in the thing unrolls and

1:05:30

I don't know if you've ever done this don't

1:05:33

write if you don't recommend it I don't don't

1:05:35

do this but I may have

1:05:37

done in the past the

1:05:40

person sitting in the front seat she

1:05:43

unrolls hers and it touches Neo's

1:05:45

nose but she does it with

1:05:47

her eyes like her eyes narrowed

1:05:49

like don't mess around here man

1:05:51

and Trinity

1:05:54

does it too and it doesn't quite

1:05:56

reach Neo's earlobe

1:05:59

but close enough.

1:06:02

And the character in the

1:06:04

front seat, Switch, who's

1:06:06

not in pleather in

1:06:09

some sort of white suit,

1:06:13

we only get a hint of it with

1:06:15

matching hair matches. And the only reason

1:06:17

I mention the hair matching the suit

1:06:19

is because of the next tangent they

1:06:21

go on. But

1:06:24

she says, listen up kid, take

1:06:27

your shirt off. And

1:06:29

Neo is immediately confused

1:06:32

and says, well one, what kind

1:06:34

of party is this? And two,

1:06:36

I'm wearing a jacket. And she

1:06:38

says, exactly, take your shirt off.

1:06:41

And then he goes, he's what?

1:06:43

Like, and then she

1:06:45

says, stop the car. Do you need the car

1:06:47

not moving to take your shirt off? And again,

1:06:49

he says, just take my shirt off

1:06:51

with a jacket. Like, I have a jacket on.

1:06:53

Can I take my jacket off? Silence.

1:06:58

And he looks over at Trinity, who

1:07:00

just nods. Like, yep, you got to

1:07:02

take your shirt off with your jacket

1:07:05

on. We don't need to over explain

1:07:07

it. Like, this was a sleep podcast.

1:07:10

And again, he gets his blank

1:07:12

look, which I mean, reliably, anybody

1:07:15

would. But then Switch says, listen

1:07:17

up, Coppertop. And

1:07:19

she starts to keep talking, but Neo

1:07:22

is so confused by that reference. And

1:07:25

so is I until just this time when

1:07:27

I said, holy cow, how many times have

1:07:29

I watched The Matrix and I never caught

1:07:31

this piece of dialogue? But

1:07:34

Neo totally misses it. And he says,

1:07:36

did you just call me Carrot Top?

1:07:39

Like Carrot Top? Like he holds his

1:07:41

hand towards his head. I don't even

1:07:43

know if Carrot Top was

1:07:46

a celebrity in this, like, I guess

1:07:48

Carrot Top would have been a celebrity

1:07:50

in Neo's world, at least. So

1:07:53

it says Carrot Top. Like Carrot

1:07:55

Top. And she says Copper Top.

1:07:58

It's like... And

1:08:00

then she says, by the way, you interrupted me. I was

1:08:03

saying it's either are like you can hit the, you can

1:08:05

take your shirt off or you can hit the road. And

1:08:08

Neil says, fine. And he says, I'm not like,

1:08:10

I'm not going to be, what is this some

1:08:12

sort of like joining your club thing? You

1:08:16

blow like noise makers at me and then

1:08:18

I'm going to take my shirt off with

1:08:20

my jacket on. Then I'm going to

1:08:22

get caught up in my jacket. But

1:08:25

realistically, I don't even know how I would

1:08:27

do that without my jacket falling off while

1:08:29

I'm taking my shirt off. So

1:08:32

yeah, no, no, I'm not going to do like, I'm

1:08:34

not going to do these like, this is like the

1:08:37

equivalent of reindeer game, I believe. And

1:08:40

so he says, fine. And

1:08:42

then Trinity says, wait, Neil, come on. Don't

1:08:46

like it. Come on, please.

1:08:48

Trust me. Trinity says, trust

1:08:51

me. Don't you could you could

1:08:53

earn your own futuristic outfit. Nevermind.

1:08:59

Like, just pull your shirt

1:09:01

up. And then she

1:09:04

plugs something into the cigarette lighter.

1:09:07

And Neil says, there's no way that's going to

1:09:09

blow the, this car is old. Like

1:09:13

there's no way that I think this, she

1:09:15

has this giant device that I probably referred to

1:09:17

in my other read through. And

1:09:20

Neil says, there's no way that device is not going to

1:09:23

blow out the fuse for the, he

1:09:25

goes like, and the

1:09:28

person driving, AIPOC, I

1:09:30

believe, says, dude, listen

1:09:32

to the car and everybody falls silent. And

1:09:35

you hear this, you realize the car

1:09:38

is a piece of sweet, sweet

1:09:40

technology. That's like

1:09:42

even more like we say, I want

1:09:44

an electric car. Like

1:09:47

that's mid century modern, or, you know,

1:09:50

and also has those cool doors. You

1:09:54

know, where I can use all my

1:09:56

devices, especially super, you know, super high

1:09:58

tech ones. But

1:10:01

just the sound of the car,

1:10:03

you know, it's in a movie,

1:10:06

not a sleep podcast, or a

1:10:08

novelization or whatever would have filled it

1:10:10

in. That sound

1:10:12

of a car like somewhere

1:10:14

between a wine and a hum. More pleasant on

1:10:17

the ears than a wine, but more

1:10:19

high-tech than a hum. But

1:10:22

Trinity says, don't worry. And Nio says,

1:10:24

what is this thing? And she goes,

1:10:27

it's like an armpit hair comber, a

1:10:29

brusher. Like

1:10:31

kind of like one of those things, do

1:10:33

you have a dog? And Nio goes, no,

1:10:35

but I'm familiar with dogs. I love them.

1:10:40

And somebody up front, I don't know who says it. I'm

1:10:42

a cat person. I don't know who said it though. I'm

1:10:44

not going to say if it was Switch or APOC. You

1:10:47

can make it because it's

1:10:50

unspecified. An unspecified voice because

1:10:52

there's so much thunder and lightning. It's

1:10:55

just like a throwaway line. But

1:10:58

you know, Coppertop was not a throwaway

1:11:00

line. Would have thought it was. But

1:11:04

it's a seed planted. And he goes, wait a second.

1:11:09

So she extends this thing.

1:11:11

And it's very high-tech. It

1:11:15

looks like the kind of thing like if

1:11:17

you drop something that's got

1:11:21

little grabby hands. Like

1:11:25

they're coated with some sort of nice

1:11:27

stuff. Like some sort of

1:11:30

like, I don't know, soft material. And

1:11:33

Nio goes, is it going to tickle?

1:11:35

And Trinity says, a bit. But

1:11:40

this is like there's a somewhat

1:11:42

extended sequence. Because as you could

1:11:44

imagine, this was difficult. I mean,

1:11:47

they do make eye contact during

1:11:49

multiple times. And this

1:11:51

is one of my favorite parts of the thing. Because

1:11:55

everyone's trying to stifle giggles. APOC even

1:11:57

has to pull over. in

1:12:01

the extra, extra extended version, it's really

1:12:03

good because you see both APOC and

1:12:05

Switch. I don't

1:12:07

know. I mean, I think there maybe even were outtakes

1:12:10

of this, like

1:12:12

bursting to laughter, holding into

1:12:14

laughter. And I think,

1:12:16

I mean, maybe in imaginary interviews the cast

1:12:18

even said, this really brought us together. Wish

1:12:21

we would have done this on the first day. Because

1:12:24

Trendy's got this device combing through

1:12:27

Neo's armpit hair. And

1:12:31

she keeps saying, sit still, sit still, come

1:12:33

on. And he's trying, don't laugh,

1:12:36

just sit still, just breathe through

1:12:38

your nose. And

1:12:40

Neo's trying to not laugh. Also

1:12:43

has his shirt pulled up, like almost

1:12:48

over his head. Still has his jacket on,

1:12:50

by the way, I guess. Just

1:12:53

because Trendy's got a

1:12:55

good angle. And this thing has

1:12:57

like a pen light on it. And it's

1:13:00

just like a really great, like, I don't

1:13:03

know, like an amuse-bouche

1:13:06

or whatever. A little bit of a

1:13:08

pillow softener. Seeing him squirming around,

1:13:11

giggling, fighting off giggles,

1:13:15

her giggling. Well, moment of

1:13:17

levity. I think that's the right phrase

1:13:19

I was looking for. And eventually

1:13:22

she gets to the tadpole out.

1:13:24

And they pull up to a

1:13:27

pond called a tadpole pond, which

1:13:29

leads to the assumption

1:13:31

that's perfectly good to sort of like drop

1:13:33

the tadpole in the pond. So he

1:13:36

goes, there really was a tadpole in my armpit

1:13:39

hair. And she

1:13:41

goes, maybe one day could write a song

1:13:43

about it. And he says, okay. And

1:13:46

then they drive off into

1:13:48

the night. And then we see, the

1:13:51

next thing we see

1:13:53

is stairways. And you say, you

1:13:55

know, during my limited

1:13:58

knowledge of mid-century. modern

1:14:02

you say I don't know about it this

1:14:04

is the kind of apartment building that I

1:14:06

like seeing on film and but I don't

1:14:08

know if I'd want to live there or

1:14:11

like it's a staircase is going up there's

1:14:13

checkered flooring the big square checkers

1:14:18

black and white squares so

1:14:20

I say okay that's a

1:14:23

mood wallpaper and the

1:14:25

mood is so thick you can smell it

1:14:28

you could smell the mood it's musty it's

1:14:33

plastery it's a

1:14:35

little bit moist but it's also

1:14:38

pouring rain outside but it's easy

1:14:41

but there's something about this that's

1:14:43

not bad compared to you know

1:14:45

walking through some ultra-modern you know

1:14:47

ceilings are higher there's more it's

1:14:51

airy man and not

1:14:53

sure if I like it or I don't but I

1:14:56

know I have nostalgia for it either way and they

1:14:59

pause outside the door and there's

1:15:01

nice nice light fixtures along the

1:15:03

wallpaper in this kind of wallpaper

1:15:05

you'd want to touch you'd want

1:15:07

to touch your fingers and feel

1:15:09

the different things

1:15:13

and you'd even maybe like there's a

1:15:15

comedian once Jerry Seinfeld said wallpaper

1:15:17

what happened with that you know like

1:15:21

people used to paper their walls I

1:15:24

don't know that's I don't do a

1:15:26

Jerry Seinfeld but I said who would

1:15:28

make an observational comment about wallpaper at

1:15:30

this inopportune moment in the 90s

1:15:34

and that's who I thought of but

1:15:37

I mean this is more about

1:15:40

the textures and layers and

1:15:43

it's Trinity who's rubbing her finger

1:15:45

on the wallpaper the

1:15:47

velvet there's a velvety part of

1:15:49

the wall a good wallpaper uses

1:15:51

like a velvety part sometimes when

1:15:53

it's appropriate for the room or

1:15:55

the hallway and mood which is this

1:15:58

one that is And

1:16:02

like looks at Neo and

1:16:05

she says before you go in there's two

1:16:07

things one try to be honest to do

1:16:09

not ask him about

1:16:11

his glasses. Neo says

1:16:14

what she goes don't ask him

1:16:16

why he's wearing while he's wearing or any

1:16:18

of us wearing sunglasses indoors at nighttime but

1:16:21

definitely do not ask him about

1:16:23

the fact his glasses have no

1:16:25

sides or whatever you call them

1:16:27

ear holders. She

1:16:30

goes I'm not an optometrist but I don't

1:16:32

even know the ear the thing he goes

1:16:34

ear holders she goes the things that hold

1:16:36

your glasses on your ears like these and

1:16:38

he goes he's wearing

1:16:42

glasses that have no sides.

1:16:45

She goes well they have she goes just don't

1:16:48

ask about him don't don't stare at him

1:16:50

too much but pretend you're looking at him

1:16:52

they're a good method for

1:16:55

looking at him but then if he

1:16:57

takes him off don't look at the

1:16:59

glass look at him not the glasses

1:17:01

and then he says so he did don't

1:17:03

mention the glass he goes is that

1:17:05

how touchy it goes is that how

1:17:08

intense Morpheus is he's that sensitive she

1:17:11

goes no no it's just

1:17:13

distraction on the conversation and

1:17:15

everybody's asked like if you're like I

1:17:17

guess I shouldn't be telling you this

1:17:19

because I asked about the glasses and

1:17:23

he said that you like that's the way I

1:17:25

would have known that's the way I know

1:17:28

you're one of us but not the one

1:17:30

Trinity and

1:17:32

he chuckled lovingly and I

1:17:35

guess I shouldn't have even told you but and

1:17:39

Neil goes thank you and

1:17:42

then he shakes his head again they think he

1:17:44

just says it glasses with no sides what kind

1:17:46

of world am I in now with

1:17:49

that he prepares to cross

1:17:52

the threshold which

1:17:54

will be coming soon to your

1:17:56

ear ear buds your ear

1:17:58

your sweet sweet ears You know,

1:18:01

whether you take your glasses, you know, don't

1:18:04

worry. There's no such thing as, by

1:18:07

the way, no such thing as tadpoles in your

1:18:09

armpits, except for, you

1:18:11

know, one of the Emenade or Jugband

1:18:14

songs that was never published. But that

1:18:16

was more about swimming in ponds than,

1:18:18

you know, science

1:18:20

fiction, neo-noir, whatever. So,

1:18:23

yeah, that's it. Good night, everybody. All

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show, and then the bonus episodes. So

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let's start with the bonus episodes, actually.

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So Saturday, a

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new posty episode came out.

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It was one that Russell

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loved, and that

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came out, and that's in the bonus feed. You

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know, some people like listening to posty super deluxe

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episodes during the day. Some people sleep to them,

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and yeah, so that one is in the

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bonus feed. And

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then it looks like we got a

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bonus coming out for Boar Besties and

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this week, which is April

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15th when I'm recording this. And

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then we have another posty super deluxe came

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out a couple weeks ago.

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That was a picnic lunch with Scooter. And

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that's in the bonus feed, and that makes

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that don't like automate your playlist or anything

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just to kind of build and choose how

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you want to listen. That's probably in the

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all-in-troll, all-night episodes. I know

1:23:11

an all-in-troll episode is coming out this

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Thursday. Last Thursday was

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Make Great Pets season one,

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part two, almost six hours.

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It's about the max length

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we can get. And

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have a good file size. So

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that was like seven episodes of

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Make Great Pets. April

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3rd all-in-troll episode came

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out. And then we

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had March is

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that bonus episodes. There was another

1:23:42

all-in-troll episode. So that's in

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the all-in-troll all-night feed. And again, like

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so much easier, like these all-intros. Is

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that what everything that's in there? 277 episodes

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split between all in. So if you love

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all intros, I bet 200 of those are

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all intros. even

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more. And then in the store,

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both in the story only episode of Feed and

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then in the ad Free

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Feed, let's run through the new episodes.

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Bring It On, we started last week,

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so we had 1254 was our first watch along where I watched half of the

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movie Bring

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It On. Wednesday was 1253, Ben

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Broughton, The Crayon Rambler. That was one of

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those episodes that had an intro that I

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said I should make an episode based on

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this intro. Went to

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make an episode based on the intro and then

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went in an even another direction of what if

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there was a RPG game

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based on the movie Bring It On, which

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allowed me to figure out and never watch Bring

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It On, let me learn more, then I didn't

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watch Bring It On. Then April

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7th was our Alba Sablick's,

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like we're getting ready, big

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announcement if I haven't made

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it anywhere, we're gonna

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do three seasons of a

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crossover with Alba Sablick's, so

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that's cool. So yeah, like that's

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something we're looking forward

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to doing and

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yeah that was episode

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one of that or that

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was the one we did originally. Then 1252 was the

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finale of the

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Great British Bake Off and

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episode 10 is then Multiplex

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5, Tiki Transistor Hut,

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that was a good one. 1250, one of

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my favorite episodes probably in the

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past few years, Will Di Wonka

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tour that came out of like some

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news articles about the experience and I

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said this has got to be an

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episode and that

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will be a series, I mean like

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a recurring thing. Then

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Gribbers Bake Off episode 9, Patissier,

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