Episode 37
Episode 37: Stake Me Out
Dangling over Hamlet Opening, Book and Ocean hatch a plan to draw Frida out of hiding.
This one is basically an RTS played via walkie-talkie.
Transcript
Welcome to Oops!
Speaker:All Apocalypses, a show where we explore the collapse of society by playing fun, tabletop role playing games.
Speaker:I'm your host, Stu Masterson, and I'm joined by one of my favorite co-hosts.
Speaker:That's so sweet.
Speaker:Wait, you got two here because, hey, everyone, I'm Brady and I play Book McCready, a super sturdy sleuth who just walked off a sniper rifle shot despite having his eardrums blown out by a psychic scream.
Speaker:Oh, Brady, I didn't know you're going to make it for this intro.
Speaker:Yeah, I'm here and I'm Jacob.
Speaker:I play Ocean, a gentle giant and burgeoning astral projectionist.
Speaker:Ooh, that's exciting.
Speaker:How was my Brady impersonation?
Speaker:That was perfect.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And your comment is for people, for eagle-eared listeners we have, you may have noticed that Brady should have been very close.
Speaker:Sorry, not Brady.
Speaker:Book should have been very close to dying from the gunshot last episode.
Speaker:But he forgot about the significant damage he took from failing his open, his brain roll and the shrieking sound of the subias yelling in his ear.
Speaker:We did the math and he wouldn't have died.
Speaker:So it didn't really change anything, but it would have been a much more intense moment because he would have had a single hit point.
Speaker:While you guys were playing around making jokes still.
Speaker:But he's fixing it on his sheet.
Speaker:That's as punishment.
Speaker:He's been kicked out of the central.
Speaker:Yeah, he's gone.
Speaker:He's not allowed to record today until he thinks about what he's done.
Speaker:Him not making it.
Speaker:This is poorly timed because we were joking about Brady dying last time.
Speaker:That's true.
Speaker:He's not dead.
Speaker:He'll be here.
Speaker:He'll actually be in the rest of the episode, just not in this intro right here.
Speaker:I think this is our first intro where we only have one of us.
Speaker:I did one entirely by myself.
Speaker:Oh, that's true.
Speaker:You did.
Speaker:And you and Brady recorded one in a hotel room, right?
Speaker:Yeah, the bonus episode we don't talk about.
Speaker:Even though it has my favorite joke I've ever made in it.
Speaker:What joke was that?
Speaker:I'm 69 for a moment.
Speaker:Caught in between ball and table.
Speaker:That is a great joke.
Speaker:I can't forget that entirely.
Speaker:That was the only reason we probably released that episode with terrible audio that I had to put music behind so you couldn't hear our AC unit.
Speaker:Oh man, anytime I recommend someone to listen to us, I'm like, okay, just ignore my mic for the first 15 episodes or so and then I swear I sound better.
Speaker:But yeah, you got a better setup.
Speaker:Yeah, we got some quite nice audio professional recording now.
Speaker:We do have a little bit of housekeeping things to do.
Speaker:First, if you don't listen to the outros, we are very shortly going to be recording our episode 40 recap thing, where we go through episodes 21 through 40.
Speaker:So if you have any questions related to that, definitely send them to us at oops at Stu dot cool.
Speaker:Or if they're specifically for any of us, you can actually use our little real names at Stu dot cool.
Speaker:So like if you like Jacob, you can send it to Jacob at Stu dot cool or Brady at Stu dot cool.
Speaker:You just reminded me that I have that email.
Speaker:And that is stu dot cool and cool is spelt like it normally is.
Speaker:It's wild.
Speaker:We're on 40 episodes or close to 40 episodes.
Speaker:It's kind of wild.
Speaker:We've almost been at this for a year.
Speaker:We're coming up on our one year anniversary.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Well, our one year anniversary happened to coincide with our 40th episode with our recording schedule, maybe.
Speaker:I hope not, but it may.
Speaker:Less exciting information is that Google podcast is closing down at the end of March.
Speaker:So if you're using Google podcasts, there's a bunch of ways to like export it and switch to other podcatchers.
Speaker:They're trying to make everyone move to YouTube music to listen to podcasts.
Speaker:So we are up there now.
Speaker:We like did all the necessary stuff to make sure our podcast is available there.
Speaker:I personally am not a super big fan of YouTube music.
Speaker:I just don't like the layout of it.
Speaker:Yeah, but we have a good amount of listeners who are using Google podcasts now.
Speaker:So just be aware that in a little over a month, they're just going to close down forever for some reason.
Speaker:What podcatchers do you use, Jacob?
Speaker:What are some of your favorite ones?
Speaker:I use Spotify is my main one just because it's so easy to use.
Speaker:It's not my favorite.
Speaker:I'm not a biggest fan of Spotify, to be honest with you, besides like the music side of it.
Speaker:But my main one that I use is on an app on the iOS called Overcast.
Speaker:And that's been my favorite for a while now.
Speaker:I think Overcast is also available on Android.
Speaker:Is it?
Speaker:I've heard that's a good one for Android people.
Speaker:I think it's only on Android.
Speaker:Pocket Casts is my favorite.
Speaker:It's a good one.
Speaker:It lets you do as all the normal things you'd like to see.
Speaker:It's not super clunky, pretty straightforward to use.
Speaker:And for any people who have private RSS feeds, so if you're like a Patreon subscriber to someone, it lets you import those.
Speaker:For some reason, a lot of podcatchers don't let you do.
Speaker:So it's pretty much my favorite.
Speaker:I do have way too many of them.
Speaker:But those are the two unfun things.
Speaker:I don't want to do a question of fall in love since Book isn't here right now.
Speaker:Yeah, I mean, I can't fall in love with myself.
Speaker:Yeah, that's frowned upon by the Catholic Church.
Speaker:That's what the antidepressants are for.
Speaker:So I thought I'd just ask you a question without any preparation.
Speaker:Am I still answering this in character as?
Speaker:This is going to be a Jacob question.
Speaker:This is a Jacob question?
Speaker:Oh, shit.
Speaker:Yeah, people get to learn about me through all these questions, and I don't like it.
Speaker:I feel like I'm getting left out to dry with all of my appropriate answers.
Speaker:All right, I'm excited.
Speaker:I feel on the spot.
Speaker:Yeah, this is going to be a nice Apocalypses related question, because that's what this podcast is supposed to be about.
Speaker:If you had to draft a five person team to be your party in a post apocalyptic wasteland, who would it be?
Speaker:I think some qualifiers on this are it can be fictional or non-fictional, but it can't be anyone who has like superpowers.
Speaker:Does that make sense?
Speaker:Fictional or non-fictional can't be somebody with superpowers.
Speaker:Can't be explicitly matched.
Speaker:I would say.
Speaker:Because that makes the apocalypse too easy.
Speaker:One more qualifier.
Speaker:You just assume all of your loved ones are included.
Speaker:Like they're fine.
Speaker:They'll be a part of your whatever pod you figure out.
Speaker:So don't waste spots on all those people.
Speaker:Okay, so I'm drafting my fictional character apocalypse party.
Speaker:It could be real people.
Speaker:But yeah, usually fictional people are a little stronger and better at things.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:You can do it with like a mind of, okay, I think I'm going to survive my apocalypse by like hunkering down somewhere.
Speaker:So these are the people I want, but there's no guarantee you'll be in that situation.
Speaker:So think about that.
Speaker:You may want a little more flexibility in your people, but you can still aim for something.
Speaker:With these three people, I think we'd be able to do this good.
Speaker:Am I part of this five?
Speaker:Am I included in the five person or is it five?
Speaker:Five additional people.
Speaker:You get five free agents to come to your existing pod of apocalypse survival.
Speaker:The moment you asked that, two people fictional characters popped to the top of my head just out of the blue.
Speaker:The first is Ash from the Evil Dead.
Speaker:That's a great choice.
Speaker:I think he would be a great choice.
Speaker:Second choice.
Speaker:This is an obscure movie.
Speaker:It's not obscure.
Speaker:I don't know why I said that.
Speaker:This is an older movie.
Speaker:It's not really well remembered by a lot of people.
Speaker:So I think a lot of people just forgot about it.
Speaker:I don't remember the character's name, but the main character in Book of Eli, the blind badass guy.
Speaker:Yes, Denzel Washington.
Speaker:I feel like those two would be my frontline, like defend me kind of situation.
Speaker:I love Book of Eli.
Speaker:We talked about it in the first episode.
Speaker:We did.
Speaker:We did.
Speaker:That is a good, that is a solid movie.
Speaker:I think a lot of people forgot about.
Speaker:But yeah, I'd have him.
Speaker:So that's my two.
Speaker:I think those two would cover my like frontline fighter types to keep me safe.
Speaker:And they'll provide good protection.
Speaker:Definitely.
Speaker:Yeah, I need a smart idea guy.
Speaker:Yeah, none of them are going to be kind of cracking the code for the, because you also don't know exactly what type of apocalypse.
Speaker:So this could be like a zombie apocalypse where you're looking for a cure, you know.
Speaker:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker:So I need a smart idea guy.
Speaker:Yeah, that's an important point.
Speaker:You're drafting them now pre-apocalypse, so you don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker:You're getting them on retainer.
Speaker:Yeah, so we're prepped and we're getting prepped and ready.
Speaker:I want Sherlock Holmes on my team.
Speaker:Oh, damn it.
Speaker:I was going to take him.
Speaker:I think that's about the best smart idea guy you can possibly have.
Speaker:We should have gone one at a time.
Speaker:You've drafted one of my players right from under me.
Speaker:Taken freight from you.
Speaker:So Sherlock Holmes, I think, will pretty much cover me when it comes to smart ideas.
Speaker:And I'm going to go also with Katniss Everdeen from Hunger Games, because I think she may stab and kill me in my sleep to protect herself.
Speaker:But she's pretty smart, and she's got really good survival skills when it comes to gathering stuff.
Speaker:And she's got long range support with her bow.
Speaker:So I think she'd be a pretty valuable member of the team.
Speaker:That's true.
Speaker:Like Mr.
Speaker:Book of Eli, I'm not sure.
Speaker:He obviously was able to survive in the wilderness and knew a lot of stuff, but he wasn't like go out into the woods and get me a deer, I think, type person.
Speaker:So I've got my two Defend Me guys.
Speaker:I've got Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker:I've got Katniss.
Speaker:I need one last person.
Speaker:I need a Jack of All Trades that can basically just do anything.
Speaker:I don't want to lay your list here, but you don't have a lot of very fun people.
Speaker:A lot of them are a little independent.
Speaker:You know who I'll pick as my last pick?
Speaker:I think I'll pick Samwise Gamgee as my last pick.
Speaker:I don't think he'd be particularly useful in the survival side.
Speaker:But he'd just be a very loyal, valuable friend there who would support me, and he'd be fun, and he would cook really good food with whatever scavenging things we can scavenge out.
Speaker:I think he'd be a great choice to wound up my team.
Speaker:That is an annoyingly good selection to round out your team.
Speaker:I'm upset by how good your team became with that one little glue.
Speaker:He's the heart and soul of my kind of callous, cold individuals.
Speaker:He just took all those people who I said are going to be kind of cold and independent, and now they're going to be best friends forever.
Speaker:You guys are going to be...
Speaker:We're going to have a great narrative arc of growing together as a team.
Speaker:I like my list.
Speaker:I think that's a great list.
Speaker:You have a very good list to run down your list one more time real quick.
Speaker:Yeah, I've got Denzel Washington from Book of Elias.
Speaker:That's how I wrote it.
Speaker:I've got Ash from Evil Dead.
Speaker:I've got Sherlock Holmes, who I think honestly covers...
Speaker:He's also kind of an all-rounder.
Speaker:I think he can pretty much do everything.
Speaker:I think even in the books, he still beats the shit out of people constantly.
Speaker:I've got Katniss Everdeen and I've got Samwise Gamgee.
Speaker:That's a good list.
Speaker:And you have an inside advantage because you already have medical expertise.
Speaker:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker:I feel like I need to fill that bucket in my list, but you don't have to.
Speaker:The first thing I was thinking was like, none of these people can do first aid.
Speaker:I was like, shit, Jacob can't.
Speaker:Let's say I've got it covered.
Speaker:And several of my loved ones are also medical professionals.
Speaker:Damn it.
Speaker:You are in a good spot.
Speaker:I think you're going to survive this apocalypse and you're going to have a good time doing it.
Speaker:Though I will say it's going to be post Lord of the Rings same way as GMG.
Speaker:So he's experienced and seen the world.
Speaker:Okay, that's even better.
Speaker:He's basically been through the apocalypse already.
Speaker:Yeah, so he's pretty much been through anything you could have.
Speaker:Okay, I feel like I got a my hardest gap right now is thinking of someone who does have medical expertise.
Speaker:And there's not like a psycho crazy serial killer character.
Speaker:Yes, most of the people in media who do have medical expertise.
Speaker:Okay, I'm going to choose I'm going to work around my own rule here.
Speaker:I don't know if this is going to be legal or not.
Speaker:I'll evaluate.
Speaker:Okay, I was going to say the main character for my zombie.
Speaker:If that doesn't work because she is technically a zombie, and I think spoilers for the ending, I don't think she actually gets cured ever.
Speaker:I was going to say doesn't she have superpowers from being a zombie?
Speaker:Yes, she has superpowers from being a zombie.
Speaker:So instead, what I'm going to say is Dr.
Speaker:House.
Speaker:Oh, that's a great choice.
Speaker:That kind of covers the Sherlock Holmes too.
Speaker:Yeah, since you took my Sherlock Holmes, I will get the modern Sherlock Holmes of Dr.
Speaker:House.
Speaker:Oh, I'm kind of beating myself up.
Speaker:That is an amazing choice.
Speaker:But he needs a team.
Speaker:He cannot work on his own.
Speaker:We've learned this.
Speaker:So I would pick one of my favorite characters, which would either be Chaser 13, but that seems like a bad call.
Speaker:So I'm going to say actual Olivia Wilde and hope that she came up with some good real life Olivia Wilde because 13 has a short lifespan in house, not to be a downer or more spoil ies her house.
Speaker:So I'm going to go with real live Olivia Wilde.
Speaker:What's she going to bring to your team?
Speaker:She's an actress, right?
Speaker:Big famous actress.
Speaker:Yeah, but she can play her role and kind of bounce stuff.
Speaker:I think she's probably learned a lot of medical jargon and work with real Dr.
Speaker:House as her character.
Speaker:So she'll be an actress playing her role.
Speaker:But you learn all the time in House that he really can't work by himself.
Speaker:He needs someone to bounce ideas off of.
Speaker:Yeah, and her being a famous actress, she's very personal.
Speaker:She can probably be your diplomat if you find other groups of people.
Speaker:I mean, who's going to want to shoot Olivia Wilde, right?
Speaker:You come into an encampment, Olivia Wilde's like, Hi guys, I'm Olivia Wilde.
Speaker:Let me in.
Speaker:They'll be like, Sure, we'll bring you in.
Speaker:And as we'll probably see from the rest of my list that I'm still coming up with in my head, I highly rate, I think, entertainment.
Speaker:So having an actress who could act and perform would be a really good thing.
Speaker:Yeah, she could put on a single woman show.
Speaker:Well, what if I get three more actors?
Speaker:You don't know.
Speaker:That's true.
Speaker:Because my next one is going to be John Cusack from Grows Point Blank.
Speaker:But let me be more clear, not John Cusack's character in Grows Point Blank.
Speaker:I'm going to say John Cusack from that time period, because by that point, he's already a black belt in kickboxing.
Speaker:So the real life John Cusack from that time period.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:And after Grows Point Blank, he's had some weapons training for the film.
Speaker:He plays an assassin in that film, so he kind of knows his way around.
Speaker:He's obviously not going to be an expert.
Speaker:He's not like a Keanu Reeves coming in here, but he's going to know enough.
Speaker:And also, he's a wonderful actor.
Speaker:I feel like he's probably a pretty fun guy to talk to in real life, too, from what I've heard.
Speaker:Yeah, he used to be friends with honoris thompson.
Speaker:Okay, so you got two actors here, so you can start your own traveling theatre troupe now.
Speaker:Which leaves me with the need for musicians, obviously.
Speaker:So I'm going to go with Nate from the band Fun.
Speaker:I can't remember his last name right now.
Speaker:Like the I'm sexy and I know it, Fun?
Speaker:No, that's LMFAO.
Speaker:That's LMFAO.
Speaker:You're right.
Speaker:You're correct.
Speaker:Fun is We Are Young, was their last album.
Speaker:That wasn't the name of their last album.
Speaker:Some Nights is the name of their last album.
Speaker:But he is an amazing singer.
Speaker:Some Nights, that's the damn song that I was thinking of.
Speaker:Yeah, he's an amazing singer, but the reason I'm picking him is not that.
Speaker:There's tons of amazing singers I love, but it's that he does not know how to play any instruments, and I do, so I won't be obsolete.
Speaker:So Elphan will get to play some music together, and I really hope he hasn't learned how to play instruments in the last 15 years, which is, I think, when I heard that fact.
Speaker:Interesting.
Speaker:He's an amazing singer that only sings, which is pretty crazy, because he clearly has a good feel for music.
Speaker:So my big issue now is the only person who can really hold up good in a fight.
Speaker:Well, I think Olivia Wilde would be pretty good in a fight.
Speaker:Probably should be okay.
Speaker:John Q.
Speaker:Sack, for goodness sake.
Speaker:Who only knows close quarter combat.
Speaker:You're putting a lot of faith in John Q.
Speaker:Sack here, too.
Speaker:Yeah, he's a black belt in kickboxing, like I mentioned, which he picked up kickboxing because his character in Say Anything was just did kickboxing, and he stuck with it throughout his life until he got a black belt, and he's like super good at it.
Speaker:It's crazy.
Speaker:He's so driven, isn't it?
Speaker:What a good choice.
Speaker:But I think I need someone who's like a real, like you got both Denzel Washington from Book of Eli and Ash from Evil Dead, which is like, it's hard to get through those two while I'm sitting here hoping Olivia Wilde used a gun in some of her movies.
Speaker:I've got two fictional characters that are very skilled in combat, and you have three actors and Dr.
Speaker:House.
Speaker:And also I have a little gap in my kind of survival area, I guess.
Speaker:I've got some ideas, but I'm not sharing them with you.
Speaker:Yeah, you don't share, you can tell me how I mess up afterwards.
Speaker:I really wasted a good spot by my Olivia Wilde.
Speaker:Who's a big badass?
Speaker:Like, there's some easy ones like Rambo.
Speaker:Yeah, but Rambo's not very smart.
Speaker:I don't think I'd want to hang out with Rambo.
Speaker:I wouldn't have fun with him.
Speaker:Man, I have a lot of big personalities already.
Speaker:Like, I think they're mostly friendly big personalities, but these are people, except Dr.
Speaker:House, obviously, who's a jerk.
Speaker:But they're all people who like to be the center of attention, so I need that Samwise Kimchi right now.
Speaker:But I also need him to be a battle master who can kill waves of zombies.
Speaker:There's a really great choice here.
Speaker:You're missing that.
Speaker:I'm just not going to tell you until after you pick, and then you're going to be like, God damn, that's such a good choice.
Speaker:I'm regretting kind of picking it myself, honestly.
Speaker:I think I'm going to just take a hit on being able to be very offensive.
Speaker:We're going to have to hunker down somewhere pretty strong.
Speaker:You're going more on the personable, survival kind of side.
Speaker:Seeing this list, I've come up together.
Speaker:I need someone.
Speaker:I need my Samwise Gamgee, who I think the closest individual who exists in real life to that would be, I'm going to say, maybe late 90s Jimmy Buffett.
Speaker:Late 90s Jimmy Buffett.
Speaker:It's a pretty good choice.
Speaker:I like that.
Speaker:Unfortunately, he can play a lot of instruments, so now I'm completely obsolete.
Speaker:Well, you need more than one person to play instruments, right, for a band.
Speaker:But yeah, Jimmy Buffett's also such a nice guy, or was, rest in peace.
Speaker:Jimmy Buffett was such a nice guy that he would like be fine with me being terrible at instruments around him.
Speaker:And he'd be like, that sounds real good.
Speaker:He'd be like, oh, you're jamming.
Speaker:Plus, I would love to be taught how to play guitar and stuff by Jimmy Buffett.
Speaker:Like, what a great time that would be.
Speaker:Okay, what did I miss?
Speaker:Okay, so for my musical heart of your team, Jack Black.
Speaker:Oh, Jack Black would have been good.
Speaker:Jack Black could have been your Samwise Gamgee.
Speaker:He would have also brought everyone together.
Speaker:He would have been your Samwise Gamgee.
Speaker:And for survival instincts guy that could probably mow down a million and one zombies and probably a bunch of other things.
Speaker:Oh, there's two here.
Speaker:I just thought of another one.
Speaker:You could do Vin Diesel from Fast and the Furious.
Speaker:Or the one that I was thinking of, James Bond.
Speaker:Oh, James Bond is good.
Speaker:I almost went with Joe Maginello.
Speaker:Maginello?
Speaker:Joe Mags, who from True Blood, because he plays D&D.
Speaker:And I think he would be able to convince everyone else to also play with me.
Speaker:Yeah, he's a big nerd.
Speaker:If he's a big nerdy actor, he can convince your other more, you know, traditional actors.
Speaker:I should have gone with at least him over James Buffett, I think.
Speaker:But I'm sticking with my group.
Speaker:I'm pretty happy with them.
Speaker:I think we're going to survive just not as long as Jacob does.
Speaker:If we meet up, then both of our teams round out each other's teams perfectly.
Speaker:That's what we need to do, is figure out a way to all get together.
Speaker:And we need to figure out what Brady, whose Brady's bringing.
Speaker:Yeah, next time you can't make an intro.
Speaker:Okay, well, next actor is just going to be Brady.
Speaker:I really want to know his answers.
Speaker:Well, thanks everyone for sticking around probably for this too long intro, depending on how well I'm able to cut it down.
Speaker:We'll get to an episode with Brady actually here right now as we get back to the action.
Speaker:Previously, you worked your way up to the roof of Subtropolis and started planning how to scope out the identity of Frida.
Speaker:You talked to Johnny Hertz for a while, and at the very end, you learned that he has a pretty big inkling that Frida is someone who works or lives or stays at the courthouse.
Speaker:He just said that to you.
Speaker:Oh, wow.
Speaker:Actually, he mutes it, brief lines like, well, that's convenient, and then unmutes it.
Speaker:This is something else.
Speaker:Did you ever see them again, or is that the only time you've ever seen this person?
Speaker:Only time.
Speaker:When you say near the courthouse, did they go in?
Speaker:I didn't see them go in the courthouse, but it was like I was going through an alleyway, and they definitely turned right in the direction of the courthouse.
Speaker:And by the time I went there, there was no one.
Speaker:It was like gone.
Speaker:Then just the courthouse in front of me, and I tried to double back, look around the corners, and I could not find them anywhere.
Speaker:Then I did a rare switch into tracker mode and tried to follow their trail.
Speaker:I only pulled that out for special occasions.
Speaker:And in tracker mode, I was not able to find any footprints at all.
Speaker:Very wraith-like in movement.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Well, thanks.
Speaker:No problem.
Speaker:So don't mention I talk to you or do mention I talk to you.
Speaker:Don't mention you talk to us.
Speaker:We're kind of on the run right now.
Speaker:Again.
Speaker:But also stop saying that we're killing people.
Speaker:We're not assassins.
Speaker:I will say that.
Speaker:I cannot speak for Crandall.
Speaker:I don't think anybody gives him any credibility anyway.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:He's becoming pretty popular.
Speaker:In some cases, I'm a little bit jealous.
Speaker:Like our viewership is like more than doubled.
Speaker:He does have a great radio voice.
Speaker:He does.
Speaker:I wish I sounded as smooth and cool as him.
Speaker:I think you're doing just fine, Johnny.
Speaker:I got to get back to the show.
Speaker:Good luck.
Speaker:Ocean's going to immediately put the radio on to Johnny Hertz show.
Speaker:Breaking News.
Speaker:Who is Frida?
Speaker:A question many of us ask themselves.
Speaker:He doesn't, you listen for a while, he doesn't mention you at all.
Speaker:That's exactly what I was looking for.
Speaker:But he does start talking about Frida.
Speaker:So Book is conveniently the right in front of the courthouse.
Speaker:Book is going to focus his binoculars at the courthouse.
Speaker:I think we should kind of take a location.
Speaker:I'm going to take the courthouse.
Speaker:I think somebody should take Frida's alley, and somebody else should take maybe Calista's house.
Speaker:There's two of you.
Speaker:No, there's three of us.
Speaker:Two of you.
Speaker:There's Juniper.
Speaker:There's two of me and two of you.
Speaker:Juniper can see stuff.
Speaker:Ocean turns to Juniper like, you want in on this?
Speaker:We're staking out.
Speaker:I don't have any binoculars.
Speaker:We have an extra pair.
Speaker:It's a car.
Speaker:We have lots of shit in here.
Speaker:I open the glove compartment, I take out a pair of binoculars.
Speaker:I like it.
Speaker:We're also dangling upside down right now.
Speaker:Are we upside down?
Speaker:I thought we were right side up.
Speaker:I guess I've used you guys like wedged in a corner.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Maybe angled a little bit down.
Speaker:That makes more sense too because I think I said my pitons are in the front, back, and on the top.
Speaker:So I think dangling down like a car is like a car stuck in a spider web, I imagine.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You're like Spider-Man when he's on the corner of a building.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So yeah.
Speaker:Ocean will guess we'll watch Frida's alley.
Speaker:That leaves me with Callisto's.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Do you know anything about Frida Juniper, by the way?
Speaker:No, I've never seen her.
Speaker:I know the art.
Speaker:I know she doesn't like hickory, but besides that, nothing really.
Speaker:People talk about her all the time, but I don't trust anything anyone in the bar says.
Speaker:Yeah, it's kind of the same boat that we're in.
Speaker:We've actually done various odd jobs for her, and we still have never met her face to face.
Speaker:Man, you guys probably could have tried to like lure her out with like a request or payment or something like that.
Speaker:I think that ship sailed after they framed us for murders and stuff.
Speaker:Plus, they usually contact us, and it's not the other way around.
Speaker:I don't actually know how we would contact them.
Speaker:Both of you give me a read a such roll.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Read a such.
Speaker:That is an eight for Ocean.
Speaker:That's a six for Book.
Speaker:Six?
Speaker:Six?
Speaker:That's pretty bad.
Speaker:Give me one question, Ocean, for all of y'all.
Speaker:Wait, you know what that means?
Speaker:I don't even get to use my question about...
Speaker:God!
Speaker:How did you get a six?
Speaker:I rolled two twos, and it's plus two.
Speaker:Oh, damn.
Speaker:Good math.
Speaker:My question...
Speaker:Literally, who hears keeping secrets from the rest?
Speaker:Who hears most afraid?
Speaker:What is the source of the most pain or fear?
Speaker:I have these questions for this purpose, and I can't use them.
Speaker:I'm trying to roll back.
Speaker:Oh, this is tough.
Speaker:This is a very important question.
Speaker:Yeah, you have the one key question.
Speaker:The question that I can think of is, what represents the best opportunity for me to find Frida?
Speaker:Is what I am leaning towards asking.
Speaker:Do you have any other suggestions or any other ideas?
Speaker:It's very broad.
Speaker:That is very broad, but what is our best opportunity for us to spot Frida in the alley, maybe?
Speaker:So I have an idea for something we can do, not necessarily something we can ask.
Speaker:Okay, what's your idea?
Speaker:My idea is we ask Johnny slash Crandall after hours to go and like mess up one of Frida's murals.
Speaker:And then hopefully that will lure Frida out to repair it.
Speaker:That's not a bad idea.
Speaker:So like put some graffiti up, like what's a derogatory word for somebody who's trying to inside a revolution?
Speaker:Pinko scum.
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:Is that really it?
Speaker:No.
Speaker:I was just about to say, is that really it?
Speaker:Like radical.
Speaker:Radical is cool.
Speaker:As the Ninja Turtle here.
Speaker:Terrorist, like that kind of stuff.
Speaker:I like that idea.
Speaker:Is there maybe a way instead of maybe defacing one of the artworks, let's encourage her to create a new piece of art?
Speaker:Because I'm not sure if she'd repair it.
Speaker:Has Frida in the past repaired any graffiti, do we know?
Speaker:Certainly when, like, Hickory's men have covered it up, they've usually gone back over it or even enhanced it further.
Speaker:And it got to the point where basically they stopped doing that, and not many other people would want to mess with that.
Speaker:So we can have John Hertz and Crandall.
Speaker:Frame.
Speaker:Yeah, cover up the painting, look like Hickory and stuff have done it.
Speaker:OK, so what's a good question to help us facilitate that?
Speaker:I'm going to say then my question is, what represents the best opportunity for us to lure Frida out to the alley to repair a damaged painting?
Speaker:You know, there's one of Frida's earlier works.
Speaker:It's probably been there the whole time.
Speaker:You guys have been aware of even who Frida is.
Speaker:So it was made before they were particularly popular, I would say.
Speaker:It's this giraffe that's whole neck extends up above the top of the building and goes around the corner.
Speaker:And the whole bottom part has like all this dark smog and clouds.
Speaker:And in the top, it's like very sunny with all of these delicious looking plants.
Speaker:Even to humans, the plants look delicious.
Speaker:And it's this big happy giraffe.
Speaker:It's a great piece of graffiti.
Speaker:On the top.
Speaker:It's a great graffiti piece.
Speaker:I like that a lot.
Speaker:Frida clearly has a soft spot for that one.
Speaker:There's a lot of references in some of their other work where they put like a little small giraffe with that same smiley face, even with things that don't have any important meaning behind it.
Speaker:They just seem to like to copy that sort of very early tag that they made.
Speaker:And it also has been touched up since that original painting.
Speaker:There's not much wind or weather down here, but it still fades away over time, and it's been touched up at least a few times.
Speaker:It's pretty prominent on the corner of one of the buildings in Frida's alley, so it would be easy for you guys to spot it if that was one that gets fixed.
Speaker:You said giraffe?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:When Frida, when Hickory covers up art, do they usually just like whitewash it over?
Speaker:Or do they...
Speaker:It depends on the person.
Speaker:It seems like most likely they would have like just a bunch of white paint, because they do like take care of buildings, fix stuff, things like that.
Speaker:So the most common would be just white paint.
Speaker:If it was just like one of Hickory's dick men being drunk, he may just like spray paint over it with something.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So I think probably for Ocean turns to Book and says, OK, I think if we can whitewash a good bit of that painting to cover it up, have Johnny and Crandall do that, I think that would look like a coordinated effort from Hickory to cover up that painting.
Speaker:But I think we should make it...
Speaker:We don't want the barrier to entry to be very high.
Speaker:Like we don't want Frida to think it's going to take them ages to do it, right?
Speaker:We want to make it so they think, hey, this is important to me, so I'm going to fix it.
Speaker:But it's also easy for me to fix.
Speaker:So there's no reason not to.
Speaker:You know what I mean?
Speaker:What if we have Crandall and Johnny Hertz turn the smile of the giraffe into a frown?
Speaker:Fuck yes.
Speaker:The saddest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker:To whitewash over the mouth, the face and paint a frowning giraffe on the top.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Because if her smiling giraffe is the sign is one of her calling cards, then a frowning giraffe sounds like it'd be somebody that put up that would be intentionally trying to go against her and erase her message.
Speaker:Why do giraffes seem familiar?
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:I don't even know what the hell a giraffe is.
Speaker:That's the only one I've ever seen.
Speaker:No, I think.
Speaker:Oh, man.
Speaker:Kalista and I used to talk about animals.
Speaker:I don't.
Speaker:But for whatever reason, I feel like she liked giraffes.
Speaker:But I could be wrong.
Speaker:We'll have to go back and listen to our old episodes.
Speaker:Go re-listen to every episode.
Speaker:I think this is a good plan.
Speaker:I think we should tune back in and see if we can find a spot to call.
Speaker:I'm very excited about this plan.
Speaker:Johnny Hurts.
Speaker:And then I ate the whole thing.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:That literally a tear in my eye.
Speaker:That was the most beautiful story I've ever heard.
Speaker:And as everyone takes a breather from that, let's go to some quick commercials.
Speaker:I'm kind of sad that we missed that story.
Speaker:We're radioing in.
Speaker:Howdy.
Speaker:I assume it's you guys.
Speaker:Are you ready to activate sneak mode?
Speaker:Oh, God.
Speaker:What do you need?
Speaker:30 minutes later, you see the shack open up and standing in front of it is a man with a big, long leather duster and a huge 10 gallon hat.
Speaker:And he immediately starts crouching to the ground and moving slowly.
Speaker:So, so painfully slowly towards the middle of town.
Speaker:We're just tracking them the whole time.
Speaker:Just moving.
Speaker:This is the best idea ive ever had.
Speaker:Just slow.
Speaker:It's very easy to track.
Speaker:You see him.
Speaker:He's just basically crawling.
Speaker:He's doing like almost like a duck walk.
Speaker:Is that what it's called?
Speaker:When you're crouched down, squatting on your legs.
Speaker:Yeah, your legs have to, you have to high knee to keep moving along.
Speaker:I think that's a duck walk.
Speaker:I mean, that's how a duck walks.
Speaker:So if it's not, that's what it should be.
Speaker:That's how a duck walks.
Speaker:And he's going from building to building.
Speaker:You see him take a very certuitous path all the way around Frida's alley.
Speaker:Like he loops around it like three times before he finally gets to the corner where there is this long fire escape ladder that he starts climbing up.
Speaker:But after two rungs, his hat hits the metal barriers around it.
Speaker:And he has to remove the hat and put it on a trash can to the side before he starts climbing back up that ladder.
Speaker:Ocean turns to Book and says, I don't think Johnny's very good at sneak mode.
Speaker:I never thought he was.
Speaker:I'm not even worried about that.
Speaker:I'm still watching The Courthouse, by the way.
Speaker:You were watching The Courthouse and I was watching the alley.
Speaker:You just probably had the binoculars wrong side way, so it looked further away than it was.
Speaker:I don't know if I just don't know about different types of binoculars, but have you guys noticed in lots of movies and TV shows, they have them backwards?
Speaker:I have not actually.
Speaker:I haven't paid that much.
Speaker:Is that like a joke or is it just them not understanding?
Speaker:I don't understand.
Speaker:And I don't mean like as a comedy.
Speaker:It's usually in like a freaking I've never noticed.
Speaker:I'm going to pay close attention to that.
Speaker:Meaning they're holding them backwards or they show it backwards.
Speaker:They're holding them backwards.
Speaker:Not that they show it backwards.
Speaker:I've never noticed that.
Speaker:But there maybe there's a fancy type of binoculars that has like more little tiny.
Speaker:Oh, yeah.
Speaker:Normally they go from small to big.
Speaker:Yeah, they can.
Speaker:Sometimes they go same to same.
Speaker:It depends.
Speaker:It's the shape.
Speaker:The shape of the lens is more important.
Speaker:The reason they go from small to big is because I don't know fucking because when the light is together.
Speaker:Because your eye is a certain size and a lens being bigger is better.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:More field of view.
Speaker:I don't fucking know.
Speaker:I hate when they show binoculars being shaped like an eight.
Speaker:When really it's a circle.
Speaker:When you look through binoculars, you look through a circle.
Speaker:But how else would you let people know?
Speaker:Because they put the binoculars to their eyes and then it's a fucking circle.
Speaker:I've never really thought about that, but yeah, that doesn't make any sense the way they show it.
Speaker:They showed the separation sometimes, when you don't focus your eyes right and the circle kind of floats around.
Speaker:That would be cool to see in a movie.
Speaker:Make a movie.
Speaker:A movie with accurate binocular portrayal.
Speaker:In our adaptation of Oops!
Speaker:All Apocalypses for the big screen, we're going to make sure this scene in particular is insanely accurate to real life binoculars and also is accurately long for a real stakeout.
Speaker:So just like a whole episode of just watching through the binoculars.
Speaker:It's also going to be a stage play, not a TV show.
Speaker:And to show the binoculars, we will have giant circles that we will have on the stage that we'll make sure are the correct way.
Speaker:And when we want it out of focus, we'll just kind of shake them real quick.
Speaker:That's a great idea.
Speaker:And we'll also intersperse a musical number during the binoculars.
Speaker:So that way we get some more dramatic effect.
Speaker:We play a dramatic musical number of Ocean and Book singing about binoculars.
Speaker:As you look down, the giraffe now has a very subtle frown on its face.
Speaker:How subtle?
Speaker:Medium subtle.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:He did like put white paint first, right?
Speaker:If that's what you asked.
Speaker:Yeah, we want him to like white out the head of the wash and redraw it.
Speaker:Yeah, just a frowny face at the end of the neck of the giraffe.
Speaker:Yeah, and he put some white paint so it like comes down from the top of the building and is on the side as well.
Speaker:So it's someone passing by would easily be able to see that someone's messed with it.
Speaker:Perfect.
Speaker:Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker:Now we have to wait 24 hours to notice and then how you guys peeing jugs.
Speaker:Okay, moving on.
Speaker:How he pooped in.
Speaker:Nope.
Speaker:You got to hold that shit.
Speaker:If the astronauts can hold it, we can hold it.
Speaker:I don't think they do hold it.
Speaker:Oh, they do for a while.
Speaker:One astronaut wore a diaper.
Speaker:That's true.
Speaker:When she went to go murder that guy.
Speaker:That's true.
Speaker:It's the funniest story that's about murdering someone ever.
Speaker:It's the wildest thing.
Speaker:You guys see Johnny Hertz work his way back into his shack eventually.
Speaker:Is there radio station 24-7 or is it?
Speaker:No, but it is a lot of the day.
Speaker:It's too much of the day.
Speaker:Ocean wants to dial in one last time to Johnny Hertz.
Speaker:To call him or to listen in?
Speaker:Call him.
Speaker:Because I don't think we can.
Speaker:I don't think he's on air right now, right?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:No, he's off air.
Speaker:Hey, guys.
Speaker:Oh, wait.
Speaker:Sorry.
Speaker:I can leave sneak mode.
Speaker:Hey, guys.
Speaker:What's up?
Speaker:You got it done?
Speaker:All done.
Speaker:All according to...
Speaker:Shit, I left my hat.
Speaker:Fuck.
Speaker:Well, that's okay.
Speaker:Hickory's men wear hats.
Speaker:I got to go back.
Speaker:Is your name in it?
Speaker:Probably.
Speaker:You don't know if you put your name in your hat?
Speaker:I put my name on almost everything.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Well, go get your hat.
Speaker:But before you go, in the morning, when you go back on air, I need you to do one thing for us.
Speaker:Yeah?
Speaker:I need you to have a segment about how it looks like Hickory's men have defaced another one of Frida's paintings.
Speaker:This is weird in a journalistic ethics type of way, but it sounds like a good story.
Speaker:How about you just speculate?
Speaker:You say one of Frida's paintings has definitely been defaced, most likely.
Speaker:Let's talk about what the most likely suspects are.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And then just let Crandell go for it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That way, we know for sure that she'll look, and I'm sure she listens in to your show.
Speaker:Yeah, almost every time.
Speaker:At the very least, if she's not listening in, then she'll get word of mouth from it.
Speaker:So, OK.
Speaker:Well, thank you, Johnny.
Speaker:That's really all we need to talk about.
Speaker:We'll be listening tomorrow.
Speaker:Over and out.
Speaker:Shh.
Speaker:You see him run back to Gizmo.
Speaker:You know, I got to be honest, his description of someone who is either a spider monkey or a panther is really suspect to me because spider monkeys and panthers share almost no features.
Speaker:That is true.
Speaker:They are very distinctly different animals.
Speaker:I think we need to broaden our our profile.
Speaker:Yeah, I think we should probably just disregard most of the things we hear from Johnny Hurt's show.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:OK, so you guys just stake out.
Speaker:Yeah, at this point, we're going to stake out Ocean passes the the bag of chips to Juniper's.
Speaker:Like, want some of this?
Speaker:Yeah, I haven't seen anything abnormal at Calista's.
Speaker:He's holding his binoculars backwards.
Speaker:And he gently mushes into a Cheeto.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Did you find the lighthouse?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Oh, shit, I forgot he was the one that told you to go find it.
Speaker:Yeah, that's why we were going to talk to you, I think.
Speaker:That might have been part of why we were going.
Speaker:It's been such a blur.
Speaker:So much happened in such a short period of time.
Speaker:It's been a long day.
Speaker:But yeah, yeah, we found it.
Speaker:Do you want to tell him about it, Book?
Speaker:Yes, I'm still watching the courthouse, but I regale him with the story of us saving crinkle fries and then almost getting coated in poop and getting needled by little buzzer bugs, and then crawling into the lighthouse, meeting the dying man, finding another video from my father, and then finding out that I had a sister.
Speaker:That was the big one.
Speaker:I was wondering if you're going to confront him about having a sister.
Speaker:Did you know that I had a sister?
Speaker:Yeah, Ella.
Speaker:Yeah, she went with your parents.
Speaker:I had no...
Speaker:What's her name?
Speaker:You forgot Ella.
Speaker:I had no idea.
Speaker:Wow, that's weird.
Speaker:You were pretty old when they left.
Speaker:I mean, I was 10.
Speaker:Yeah, I remember shit from when I was 10.
Speaker:I remember some shit.
Speaker:I know he doesn't, but...
Speaker:I mean, I just...
Speaker:They left so...
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Yeah, they mostly left for her.
Speaker:You know that, right?
Speaker:No, I don't know anything.
Speaker:Yeah, they left for her.
Speaker:She was real sick, and they thought the surface would help her.
Speaker:Huh.
Speaker:And then they were going to come back for you.
Speaker:Then I never did.
Speaker:Thanks, Ocean.
Speaker:I forgot.
Speaker:It's just muttering a loud book.
Speaker:Well, that sure gives me a lot to think about.
Speaker:Thank you for never mentioning this prior to this point in my life.
Speaker:I thought you knew.
Speaker:Fair enough.
Speaker:Did you know Book as a child, Juniper?
Speaker:Like, I'm friends with his parents type.
Speaker:Did he seem like he?
Speaker:He seemed the same.
Speaker:Yeah, normal fine.
Speaker:In my defense, let's say even if I did, I mean, it was only the last, would have been the last nine months, and then it sounds like they left right after she was born.
Speaker:So I didn't really have much time to make an impression.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Well, that's a shame.
Speaker:Do I see any people in cloaks still?
Speaker:You don't, because you failed your role.
Speaker:We're not re-rolling now.
Speaker:That's a new day.
Speaker:Absolutely not.
Speaker:No, don't get one role per day.
Speaker:That's not how this works at all.
Speaker:But yeah, you're watching the courthouse and daytime comes up.
Speaker:So a lot of people wake up, start moving around, town gets pretty busy.
Speaker:You realize it'd be pretty hard to keep track of too much, but people could easily get by you at this point, but you keep watching and you guys go all day.
Speaker:Do you guys like take any nap breaks or anything like that?
Speaker:Or you guys just powering through 48 hours?
Speaker:I think we would have to take shifts.
Speaker:Yeah, I think we would have them.
Speaker:Do you want the very least?
Speaker:Who would you want to?
Speaker:What's the one place you would let fall out of your?
Speaker:Well, I think because you're watching three places, you have to rotate.
Speaker:Well, I think probably you can move your eyes around though.
Speaker:Yeah, but I think Calista would be the one that we're paying the least attention to all things and considered.
Speaker:Oh, definitely.
Speaker:Yeah, I think the court...
Speaker:When one person's sleep in Calista's stops getting watched as closely, obviously you can still look over every once in a while.
Speaker:But when you're trying to track a bunch of little people down there moving around, it's pretty hard.
Speaker:Nighttime comes, you do listen to the daytime morning radio show of Johnny Hertz and he mentions everything you ask him to mention.
Speaker:In nighttime, much fewer people are coming in and out of the courthouse.
Speaker:It's pretty much dead.
Speaker:Everyone, there's people out back, just hanging out, just like you saw when you broke in, mostly in the barracks.
Speaker:Ocean.
Speaker:After a while, you didn't see anyone around Frida's alley or come up to it, but you notice the artwork looks a little different.
Speaker:As you look closer, you see the smile's been fixed, not all the white stuff has been fixed, and you quickly, you were just looking at it like a minute ago, so you know they've got to be close.
Speaker:So you start panning around, trying to look through your binoculars in all the different corners.
Speaker:I pronounce binoculars where you can't hear me.
Speaker:Binoculars.
Speaker:Binoculars.
Speaker:You start panning around trying to find someone, because just a second ago, it was clearly still sad giraffe, and now it's happy giraffe.
Speaker:And you see someone spray painting on the opposite corner of the building, and it's a huge eye that looks like it's staring directly at you.
Speaker:Oh, shit.
Speaker:And you see a cloaked figure slide down the railing.
Speaker:The painting is a huge eye?
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:In the opposite corner from the giraffe.
Speaker:And it's looking...
Speaker:Actually towards you guys.
Speaker:And it's looking right at...
Speaker:Oh, shit.
Speaker:And you see a cloaked figure slide down from the edges.
Speaker:If you want to try to track them, you can give me a try something challenge.
Speaker:Definitely try to track them at this point.
Speaker:Would I get the plus one for this, for acting?
Speaker:Yeah, you can use the plus one.
Speaker:Oh, perfect.
Speaker:That pushed me up to a 10.
Speaker:So you lose them a bunch of times with your binoculars.
Speaker:They go down alleys that you can't follow, but you pull out further so you can see a wider field of view.
Speaker:You got some fancy binoculars on you.
Speaker:Ocean has the best ones, obviously.
Speaker:Clearly.
Speaker:I'm the better lookout.
Speaker:And you're panning around, you catch them a few times, and there's for a second, you can get a much closer view.
Speaker:And the description that Johnny Hurts gave you does actually seem accurate for the clothing, at least.
Speaker:And from what you can see at this distance, build-wise, it is definitely someone smaller than you.
Speaker:Maybe book size, maybe even a little smaller than Book.
Speaker:Hard to tell with all the clothes.
Speaker:But then they dart down another alley, and then you keep following them, and eventually they make their way back up to the courthouse, and you see them skirt around the outside, climb into one of the windows, and disappear.
Speaker:What?
Speaker:Ocean turns to Book.
Speaker:She went into the courthouse.
Speaker:She went into the courthouse.
Speaker:Were they moving like with ease, or were they moving like, like how youthfully were they moving?
Speaker:They looked like they were moving pretty youthfully.
Speaker:Certainly not with a broken back from a pool table, and they know where we are.
Speaker:Maybe.
Speaker:That's so fucking weird.
Speaker:Okay, Ocean turns to Bowie and says, I've got an idea.
Speaker:It's not a good one, but it's an idea.
Speaker:And he releases all of them.
Speaker:Ocean looks back over towards the courthouse at the window that the figure crawled through, and he's going to open his mind to the psychic maelstrom.
Speaker:Give me that open your mind to the psychic maelstrom roll.
Speaker:I think this is the first time I've actually rolled open your mind to the psychic maelstrom with a positive weird.
Speaker:Oh, so maybe I'll I think I failed literally every other time.
Speaker:So let's see if maybe this is it.
Speaker:This is the time.
Speaker:Am I finally, finally going to not destroy the world every time I go into this?
Speaker:This is such a risky roll.
Speaker:I will say while you're looking at that result.
Speaker:It's a 12, baby.
Speaker:Because you're dangling over the courthouse specifically.
Speaker:You could still trigger vision and have him detach all the pitons.
Speaker:Well, the pitons are they gotta be manually let go.
Speaker:I think he's got I think he's got it since we're doing a stakeout.
Speaker:I think he's got it.
Speaker:No, no, no.
Speaker:I know.
Speaker:But last time you had a vision, you threw a shovel in someone's chest.
Speaker:Yeah, I would need to come up with a situation where he was like pranking a bunch of things.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's making up for the damn snake eyes that I rolled.
Speaker:Read me what it says for a full success.
Speaker:When you open your brain to the World Psychic Maelstrom, Roll plus Weird.
Speaker:On any hit, the World Psychic Maelstrom fills your perception.
Speaker:Ask the MC what you see and feel.
Speaker:And if the MC has any questions for you, answer them.
Speaker:On a 10 plus hit, you can try to control it and or interrogate it.
Speaker:But on a seven to nine, you're just along for the ride.
Speaker:On a miss, be prepared for the worst.
Speaker:Psychic Maelstrom, we've had the entire show.
Speaker:To try and guide it, Ocean wants to open his mind to track the figure and see if he can identify them and see if they take off their disguise and see where they're going in the courthouse.
Speaker:That's what he's going to try and guide the Maelstrom to show him.
Speaker:You're leaning, your seatbelt is like tight against your shoulder as you're leaning over the edge looking down into the courthouse where they've just jumped out of your vision into this window and your eyes kind of unfocused and you see all these little dots of all the courthouse windows blinking at you.
Speaker:Seems like maybe one of those quick little power outages went through the area.
Speaker:What does Ocean think about this person?
Speaker:What do they think is the most likely description of them?
Speaker:Do you have any ideas of who it would be?
Speaker:Like who does Ocean actually believe?
Speaker:So he's imagining this person as being, they are clearly very agile.
Speaker:So they're probably pretty thin in good shape and probably decently strong in order to, you know, sleek around like the way they do, climb up things and avoid being noticed.
Speaker:So they're probably a smaller frame, pretty thin, in good shape, young, not like a child or anything, but on the younger, definitely younger, probably more our age than somebody older.
Speaker:And he suspects Frida's a woman is what he thinks, but the more he thinks about it, he's not really sure, but he's just always assumed.
Speaker:So that's kind of what he's looking for from what he's seen from watching the person and his assumptions about Frida.
Speaker:Like a series of gears in a watch, the roof of the courthouse just uncoils, cranks apart, and you can see into it and you don't know how much of this is actually real or what isn't, but you just see lots of people sleeping, some people walking around.
Speaker:You think you see someone of the stature of Hickory pacing back and forth in that behind that giant courtroom where, you know, Book went and talked for him, talked with him for quite a while.
Speaker:You feel this shadow and you get the feeling of that smiling giraffe the first time you looked at it.
Speaker:When you see this shadow, this nice little cute happy thing, and you try to follow that around through the building as it goes deeper and deeper.
Speaker:And it doesn't go far from this window.
Speaker:It turns down one hallway that seems to be mostly empty.
Speaker:From what you can see, it looks like there's a lot of storage rooms.
Speaker:There's a room just filled with papers on one side.
Speaker:There's a server room that looks dusty and unused.
Speaker:And then what's clearly like a little bedroom.
Speaker:This is much nicer than most of the places, certainly like in the barracks, and they dive into that room quickly.
Speaker:Not literally diving, but move with haste.
Speaker:Ducks into the room, closes the door behind them.
Speaker:In like one fluid motion, this whole get up of multi-layered clothing and ponchos is just sloughed off right onto the ground.
Speaker:And you see a young woman, probably upper 20s, maybe 30s, it's hard to tell from your psychic maelstrom vision.
Speaker:Now just wearing a tank top, and they have tattoos all down the top three quarters of their arms, and then they just stop, like perfect three quarter sleeves at the bottom.
Speaker:And you see them quickly change into other clothes, and they're super nice.
Speaker:It's actually like a pant suit that looks very fancy.
Speaker:And they put on a big flashy watch, and you get a good look at their face, and you don't really recognize them.
Speaker:You feel like it could be someone you've seen around Hickory's men before, but like a name does not come out at all.
Speaker:They put their hair up and go back into the hallway, and you see them walk right into Hickory's room and close the door behind them.
Speaker:And then the top just cranks back closed, just...
Speaker:What?
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:Sorry, you said they walked into Hickory's room, like his bedroom?
Speaker:His office.
Speaker:But he also does live attached to that.
Speaker:But from what his vision was, Hickory was still up pacing back and forth.
Speaker:Sounds like we know where to look for that cassette tape.
Speaker:Not cassette tape, it's video tape.
Speaker:Video cassette sort of thing.
Speaker:You're too young to know that.
Speaker:So yeah, Ocean turns to Book and is like, I've seen her.
Speaker:I know who she is.
Speaker:I mean, I don't know who she is, but I think I could find her now.
Speaker:But she went inside the courtroom.
Speaker:I think she's one of Hickory's.
Speaker:What would Frida be doing with Hickory?
Speaker:Sounds like they're deep undercover.
Speaker:Or they're, I don't know, something else.
Speaker:Question.
Speaker:Do you know where they might have hidden the video cassette?
Speaker:Because that's really all we need.
Speaker:We don't we don't need to unmask Frida as long as we can get the original video.
Speaker:I saw where she went in the barracks, but that's really all I saw.
Speaker:I don't know if that's where she would be or where that's the cassette would be.
Speaker:I think I know where she is in the barracks.
Speaker:As far as I'm concerned, that's the first place we should look.
Speaker:Do you think we should talk to Calista?
Speaker:Ask her what she knows of Frida?
Speaker:We don't necessarily have to pressure her and make it seem like we're trying to, you know, find her, but I'm sure we can probably, I know she's close to her, so I'm sure we could probably do something to talk to her about, to learn more about Frida as a person without making her suspect that word, you know, can uncover or anything.
Speaker:Maybe we could bluff and say that we know more than we actually do.
Speaker:I don't know how we want to play this.
Speaker:I trust your judgment, though.
Speaker:If you think we should talk to Calista, I say let's do it.
Speaker:I just think we should learn more about Frida.
Speaker:If we learn more about her, there might be a way where we can confront her without actually having to, you know, go to the courthouse.
Speaker:Is your goal to confront Frida or to get the tape?
Speaker:Because I was planning on just trying to get the tape.
Speaker:I would like to talk to her.
Speaker:We've never met her face to face.
Speaker:I'd like to know her intentions.
Speaker:What is she trying to accomplish with this?
Speaker:I know she's got revolutionary thoughts, but why us?
Speaker:But if we talk to her, she could destroy the tape.
Speaker:So I think our priority should be to get the tape first and then confront her with the tape.
Speaker:Does that make sense?
Speaker:Yeah, I think I can.
Speaker:Yeah, that makes sense to me.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:How are you going to do that?
Speaker:Well, first, we got to get down from the ceiling.
Speaker:We got to talk to Calista.
Speaker:And first things actually.
Speaker:Juniper, do you know anything about this person?
Speaker:And he's going to describe the woman that he saw.
Speaker:Nothing really stands out.
Speaker:Fancy clothes, you said?
Speaker:Yeah, that's definitely weird.
Speaker:The tattoos.
Speaker:No, I haven't seen anyone with tattoos like that.
Speaker:No, there's some of Hickory's people.
Speaker:The ones who dress fancy usually like work in the court system, which there's not many of.
Speaker:There's just like a few of them.
Speaker:I don't even know what they do, because like Hickory just basically decides when people should be arrested.
Speaker:But that's the only thing I can do.
Speaker:I don't think I've seen anyone like that in my bar.
Speaker:You know, Book, do you think we could get your cult together?
Speaker:My what?
Speaker:My cult?
Speaker:I don't have a cult.
Speaker:Well, you got all these people that are following us.
Speaker:I have a following.
Speaker:I think it could be useful to gather everybody up and maybe have them meet some place out in Subtropolis, so we could actually, you know, come face to face, figure out what they know, and maybe come up with a game plan on what to accomplish here.
Speaker:So maybe if we work as a group, we can form some kind of distraction to get into the barracks a lot easier.
Speaker:Alternatively, we can just descend right now like a little spider and land on the roof of the barracks, and then extract easily by just getting back in the spider and zipping our way out.
Speaker:I think that's a pretty fun idea.
Speaker:It is nighttime, right?
Speaker:It is nighttime.
Speaker:And we are right above the courthouse, yeah.
Speaker:And I have my disguise.
Speaker:I don't know if I want to be there again.
Speaker:It made it too easy for you to throw me.
Speaker:I'm sorry about that.
Speaker:I never apologize.
Speaker:I'm really sorry about that.
Speaker:It just seemed like the only way to get to really throw Pistachio off his game.
Speaker:What I don't get is you could have literally thrown anything.
Speaker:Yeah, but I had to put my hands up so he thought I was surrendering.
Speaker:It was a little fake.
Speaker:You already told them you were not surrendering.
Speaker:You said you were leaving.
Speaker:I feel like it worked, so I don't think you should be really interrogating me on it.
Speaker:Well, it hurt my feelings, and my feelings are valid.
Speaker:Your feelings are valid, and I apologized for throwing you, and I'm very sorry for throwing you.
Speaker:Genuinely very sorry for throwing you.
Speaker:Would you do it again in the same circumstance?
Speaker:If it happened again?
Speaker:No, because I've already done it once, and you would expect it.
Speaker:I don't think you should put me on your head.
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