Promptly Written Crossover Event - Year 2

[00:00:00] and as much as I hate the word moist it was just kind of perfect for that specific spot. I was just going to say like 95% of the time that the word moist ends up on the page

[00:00:12] it usually ends up getting removed for something else because I feel dirty every time I say it. We're all living in a world Gone Geek, it's time to Geekard or go home. The podcast is real. Here's your host, Grounded Geek. Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast is real.

[00:00:36] We are really live here on Facebook Twitch and YouTube broadcasting everywhere and obviously if you're listening on the podcast a couple days later we appreciate you too. Thank you for being here and being a constant listener.

[00:00:50] We appreciate that. We have a great show tonight. This is our second annual collaboration with promptly written podcast, our good friends over there and that means it's a story filled episode and we've got lots of cool stories coming up from myself and Utah who's in the dark apparently

[00:01:10] and Julia, did Utah's camera? What happened to his camera while I had him in the greener. He's gone. He did not have a story ready and so he's out. No, there we go. He's back. Was that your name? That's my story and I'm sticking to him. Hi.

[00:01:28] So there's Utah and Alia. Welcome to the show. And you talk to Fred. My wife. It's my little wampa. Oh, that's right. You haven't seen Empire Strikes Back yet. He has not, but we're working on this.

[00:01:44] This is just a storm for you and spoiler out of spoiler with no context. Oh, yeah. There you go. Want the last design. Does it grow back with the flower? It's bad to self like that. Okay. So tell us where you got the wampa.

[00:02:03] For those of you listening at home that was a wampa, something that was armed to attach is. It's pretty cool. Who makes that? This is a builder bear special. Oh, that's a builder bear one. Yeah. So if you go to build a builder bear. Build a bear.

[00:02:19] They have gotten a hold of. They got a very fast me. Like I was thinking about getting the David tenant bear. Oh, see. You know, Dr. Who? I got a I got a dolic and a canine from the builder bear. Did you. I just saw another one too.

[00:02:38] That I was kind of surprised at, but yeah, they're, they have some pretty cool. Pretty cool IPs. So I know you guys have been working really hard for a month on your stories. Oh, my God. Just starting. Oh, so now we're on before the show started.

[00:02:54] And then all. No, I'm not. I'm not. I can't. As we speak, not typing. To bring everybody to bring our audience up to speed. And then we're going to see what happens is our good friends at promptly written.

[00:03:06] Do, uh, they write short stories every month based on prompts given in by their listeners. And this month the prompt was world gone geek. So we were a part of that. We listened to their stories on their podcast. So you're going to check that out.

[00:03:21] We'll give you all the details here in a little bit. And tonight we're going to do our stories. Yeah. Some exciting stuff going on in the world right now though of pop culture. Uh, the Oscars are next Sunday. I can't believe that it's already next Sunday.

[00:03:35] We have tickets to see Aladdin at Playhouse Square, which will be the first time. And probably a few decades that I will miss the Oscars. So that might be. We don't really have an Oscar. Yes. My mom will be in town.

[00:03:52] So we're taking her to see it and the sweet. Yeah, the, um, we usually do a pre show. But I guess we won't this time. So I guess we'll post show. We'll do post. And we'll go after we'll talk about all the things.

[00:04:04] We'll find out if anybody gets slapped this year, that kind of fun stuff. Um, yeah. So and it's Jimmy. It's all small. He does. No, I'm kidding. It's will Smith. We'll Smith this is even showing up. So nobody's getting to show up.

[00:04:16] But somebody's got to want to slap to him. Yeah, he doesn't even have been banned or something. He's been like 10 years. Yeah, he can't come to Oscar events. Look, I'm just going to say that I can't wait to say that everything. I've never were all at once.

[00:04:29] Got the most Oscars. Yeah, I think that would think I would love to see it. I think the trends are definitely headed that way if you look at all the other award shows so far. It is going to win a lot of stuff.

[00:04:41] That's it's going to win something. It's going to win at least one. Oh, it'll, yeah, I think it'll be more net. But, uh, yeah, kind of crazy. And it's the first year that a Marvel film is nominated for something other than effects or sound or whatever.

[00:04:57] An elastic congratulations and acting award nomination for a Marvel film. She's not going to win. I'm just going to say it right now, and that's not because she's not amazing. I just don't think they're going to give it to her. There's some there's some incredible talent.

[00:05:10] There's an amazing right now. Yeah. And I don't know which way it's going to go. But I'm I'm betting they're not going to lean towards the Marvel movie. That's just me. But I agree. I think I, I, I, I, I, I'm leaning towards somebody from everything everywhere.

[00:05:25] I know, and I think that I would like to see. I think that she would be my pick as well. So we'll see. I actually didn't watch the movie. Oh, my god. I need to watch it. You need to watch it.

[00:05:40] What this, I'm going to tell you one more thing before we move on about the Oscars is this is the first year. Since they've started doing what eight eight. Yeah, nominees. Yeah. Ten. Ten. That's ten. Uh, multiple, which is too much.

[00:05:57] Let's just say, which is too many of my bad but going that I have actually seen all but two. Oh yeah, that's true. Because of streaming services now. It's kind of amazing.

[00:06:09] So I've seen everything except triangle of sadness and women talking and triangle of sadness literally dropped on Hulu this week. So I will be watching that. So I will, unless and then I just need to find women talking and I could probably find that anywhere.

[00:06:24] I mean, I will. We have one here. Oh, wow. But you know what's so interesting is more than one. Like she needs to talk to another woman for a second. And then it's a SBSB plural. Yes. We need another woman on the show. We're taking audition.

[00:06:39] Is there anybody with no. No. So I only had someone to talk to. Besides. I have no. No. I'm not a gay. The only woman because if I, if I don't watch something then it's okay because it just me.

[00:06:53] But if the other woman that was here watched it, then I wouldn't have. Well, but it's still not anyone. No, no, but then it's still just you. I and I don't want that. I'm okay with that. That would be right now.

[00:07:07] It's okay if it's just you and you're the only woman. But as soon as a number of women's here, then it's. You not her. Correct. She doesn't want to be the one the odd man out. I don't. I'm already the odd man out right now and it's okay.

[00:07:23] It's okay. And a trio, it doesn't work. And when there's four people, I guess. It does. Yeah, four is a crowd at that point. I guess. Okay. Well, I just, I'm just saying like if you're interested to see some of these movies before like

[00:07:41] like what was then figure out why they're there, um, we live in an age now where that's perfectly possible. Most of the time they were still in the theaters right up to the last minute and some of them came back out for that purpose.

[00:07:55] But yeah, it's really it's really kind of neat. And when they're when they're talking maybe somewhere and if you know where it is, send me a message on Twitter or Instagram whatever so I can go and watch it. I'll find out.

[00:08:05] I have almost all of the streaming channels. So I'm sure if it's out there, I'll find it somewhere. When I picked up my dinner or Tommy's a salsa woman there, there was someone talking. Yeah, where they talking. You were talking. Yeah. But where they talking about?

[00:08:17] I don't know. I wasn't, I wasn't used to dropping. I was okay. Well, this movie allows us to figure that out with their talking. Oh my gosh. It's moving. What would be hilarious is that there were absolutely zero women in the movie and it was just men talking.

[00:08:31] And people like this movie has the worst title. That's right. It's a movie. It's a movie that's about women talking. They drew you in and it's not even about men or women. It's literally a talk movie. What would that be? What would that be? What would that be?

[00:08:48] There's a mirror cat. A mirror cat, Joe. It's murkett, Joe. Yeah, that's what it is. Talking with that people's advertising. As we don't, I mean, unless we're assuming murkett, Joe's identity, I think we're okay. Look at that. Anyway. I don't know where it was going to go.

[00:09:08] But yeah, so very excited about the Oscars. Very disappointed not to be able to watch it live, but you're going to see a magic carpet right. That's great. Shout out my friend, Winter who is supporting us. Thank you, Winter. Oh, that's a lot there. Hey, Ellie. Hey.

[00:09:26] She said, hey, hi, hi, hi, hi. Yeah, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi. I'm a part of Blackheart. Very cool. Yeah, we're, thanks for watching. That's awesome. We appreciate you. And there's another hay. We got more hay from Winter. We appreciate that.

[00:09:41] We are going to get to our stories and our guests here in just a moment, but I do want to take the second to talk about St. Baldricks. I got a little QR code. Oh my gosh. On my screen, the live is covering it.

[00:09:54] It is a pose of live. I don't know if it is out there in the real world. I doubt it would get on the next time. It's going to be there. Yeah, I'm going to wait.

[00:10:04] Say Baldricks, I got a QR code up there if you'd like to scan that and donate. It is pediatric cancer research for which I will be shaving my head on Friday, which will be very exciting.

[00:10:14] And if I'm not Friday, it will be my 11th time braving the shave if you will. And yeah, I think that's what you think. You're going to answer that call it.

[00:10:26] So yeah, that's why I am like, I don't know if you've noticed, but I decided to go crazy and not wear my hats. And so people could see how long it is getting. And the beard of course is out of control as you can see.

[00:10:38] Gris they had things going on here. But yeah, this is all this is going to go away. So I let it start letting it grow out around November, December. I don't know why it doesn't grow in the back. It's all up here.

[00:10:55] I'm not going to take this off. It's just a hard fluff up here. It's not hard in the back, which is crazy. And we've talked about, I think, on, on promptly written that, you know, I've

[00:11:05] s forwarded them all it back in the high school days, so I don't know why I can't grow it now. It was a pretty certain, it was a pretty thin moly. It wasn't a very, it wasn't a moly to be proud of. I will say that.

[00:11:15] Like it was. It was pretty weak towards all its end of time. So maybe it's just not my thing to have hair back there, but, and maybe it is what it is. It's very interesting because I had another dream about a guy with the moly. Oh.

[00:11:30] Do we want to go there or is that the end of the story? Oh no, I did. I did. I had another group about this guy with the boly and then there was his name. And then I had a funny. It was like a video game though.

[00:11:46] It was like a video game. It's very interesting. Thank you. In the video game with moly. Yeah, it was it. Yeah, well, the video, okay, so the moly guy, I was supposed to be parents. Wait, is this your story or is this the story? Hold on, hold on.

[00:12:00] I need to type the, I need to type this. It sounds like a better story than what I have. No, moly guy was, I was supposed to be preparing all of this guy. And then I thought that was what he said. That's what he said.

[00:12:21] So we were going to call him. We're getting to the video game part. We're getting to the video game part. Oh, oh, oh. Yeah, yeah. So I didn't know that I was supposed to be preparing his sandwiches. And either did the lady that was in the kitchen.

[00:12:32] Then yeah, he was like, oh, yeah, we are doing the wedding or event or whatever. It was outdoors. I walk it through this tent and there's this like demon man guy with a purple sword. It's really long.

[00:12:45] And I'm trying to like, I have to get him off of this platform. And you know, before he like stabs me. And then I got him. But I jumped on this like 20 plus 20 plus point things, you know? And that's how I got him. That's a this one.

[00:13:07] It will be something. I'm working on that video game right now. It's 20 plus point. This sounds like the album for is this one maybe it could be. You might have if this is the plot of the obelisk world, which is one secret for all my life.

[00:13:20] I think you just I think you just killed a skeleton king way quicker than that every day. Oh, that's some training. That's a deep. Oh, no. Yeah. That's a deep that's a deep cut.

[00:13:35] And make sure he knows for a long time, know what that means, but everyone else is not in on that joke. You toss. That's not nice. That's right. She's talking about 20 point plus we got the really wouldn't that we wanted in the green room over there.

[00:13:48] So that was all good. Anyway, so say, don't eat above any amount will be great. Again, it's all for pediatric cancer research. My daughter will once again be shaving my head. Friday morning at 6 am on Channel 5 apparently. I'm going to be on the news again.

[00:14:04] They like come very early. And I'm always there super early. And so they're like, we need somebody to shave early and I'm like, well, I guess I'm going now. So it all depends if Rachel is going to get up that early and go.

[00:14:18] So I may she's not there then I may wait, but she may have other plans. Yeah, who knows? No, she's I think she's playing the com. So I'll see anyway. Say bought her. We'd love it for you to give if can.

[00:14:29] And we're even wearing the shirt tonight, which is it you, which is green, which is why couldn't use the green screen tonight because obviously, you know, what could we just be a floating head.

[00:14:38] Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, basically it was just like I could replace the green with all these temperatures. Oh, I think it's like that. It's a cool shirt you got. Look at this nice one. Sure. I'm wearing now. How's it going on? Is that something?

[00:14:50] I think you can go. You can go. We're going to peek on there from Clever if I stood up. You can see it. Oh my god. Yeah, it's too hot. All right. Anyway, that's enough of that. So this is it is definitely a story.

[00:15:05] All right, so we're going to bring on our guests. These guys, co-stapod cast called Promptly Written Where They Again Right Stories Based On People's Promptly Written Where They Again Right Stories Based On People's Promptly Written Where You Hear Clothes. Did I? I do that for everything.

[00:15:18] There's like a ghost. You talk and, uh, Alia is over there. No, I don't know. It's just a thing. Because it's the name. And so I felt like there's be a ghost, but I guess it would be italicized for catflies. I don't know what it is.

[00:15:32] I just find this funny that you, they write as if that as if they don't. That's what I said it on the right. No, I didn't. I got to play back the tape. You did actually. And it's very delayed on my end. So all I see is funny.

[00:15:45] That's funny. No, I totally don't know where that came from. I was right. They actually do write them, Jack. This sure do. They're very good.

[00:15:56] So they write based on the prompts that people put in and then they read them on the show and talk about the writing process and it's a lot of fun. So we got together with them. The other day, we recorded on their podcast.

[00:16:09] And now they are on ours. Please welcome Matt Shagirik and Matt Shagirik. Matt Shagirik. Matt Shagirik. You're listening to the stories that you've been talking about. Yeah. Thank you. We're glad we're here. Thank you. Matt, there was a whole lot packed into that for 16 minutes.

[00:16:31] No idea what was going on if you're on a premium. I'm telling you there's an inside joke that I know nothing about. Oh yeah, right. I have a scout to keep. Yeah, that's the long story short. Matt's terrible video games. There we go. So. Okay.

[00:16:47] But that's great because now I have something to do. The video is that ammunition a little bit. I thought we were going to have fun today, not just a tack Matt. What the hell? So happy like a decade ago. I think it has been about 10 years.

[00:17:03] It's only fair because last time it was a tackleier, you came straight for the throw. That's true. That's true. I'll give you that. Before we go on, can I use the demon man guy with a purple sword in the story?

[00:17:16] Yes, I give it all a ton of me. Don't forget to 20, don't forget the 20 point plus thing whatever that was. It was like 20 plus experience or something like, but all I know is that I would be using. Yeah, I have been. Okay.

[00:17:32] No, I had a jump on it was like this white circle platform that I had a jump on. Wow, it's like 20 plus. I don't know, but I just know I had a jump on it to get the. 20 points. Okay.

[00:17:44] Be a purple sword guy and bullet, bullet man, bullet guy. Please. Sounds like you've got your story, Matt. I gotta move all these cameras around because it messes up my. Equilibrium when people are looking in the wrong direction to be a part of this.

[00:18:01] So I had to move Matt down here to be useless for the next hour. I'm sorry. Well, don't let's let's let's make use of you as soon as possible. Then we'll tell us a little bit about promptly written and. Yeah, you did it. I was got started.

[00:18:16] Tell me. It's a real good job of summing it up. So like every month, eena nice sit down. We are listeners vote on or submit and vote on prompts and then we have to write stories on the prompt.

[00:18:27] So after we get the prompt, we write a story and then. And then we read them to each other and it's kind of fun because. My favorite part of it is just to see how different our stories are, you know, coming from the same three or four words.

[00:18:45] You know what I mean? Yeah, that's a cool thing. Yeah, because they're usually, especially between the two of you. And just your the different styles that you guys write in the personality. It's just they're usually two very unique stories from each other too.

[00:19:01] It's rare that they're like right down the same same path at all, which is kind of interesting. What's also what's always fun is every so often. You guys switch on expectations. Yeah, yeah.

[00:19:16] And then all the, and all of a sudden like, oh, Matt, what a wholesome story that was. Ian, we're at that. That comes. I think that was the, that was kind of the case this year, right? Yeah, you would. This one's. It sure was.

[00:19:31] It's always my favorite when Ian starts off with. I don't know where this came from. That's then you know, you're in for like a ride. Yeah, yeah, buckle. I'm on. I'm on the lead dream. I'm not there. You know? It's my story. I love that. My story. So.

[00:19:46] You should be. You should be. Yeah, you should use a very like vivid. It seems. I can't tell you the last time I remember a dream that I had. Same. I only ask. I remember a guy better. I remember a guy better. I mean, your story.

[00:20:00] Oh, he's not in my sex. I was doing it. I was doing it a photo of bullet Jeff. We need a what? A photo of bullet Jeff. Oh, this probably. You mean one of my high school. You mean, you're a mallet Jeff? No, I mean the real.

[00:20:14] It was is it. I mean, there was only a story. I mean, it was pretty, you know, to me. Like I said, it was pretty wispy for about. Yeah, no, I liked that word. You were a youngster though. So it was like an adolescent mallet.

[00:20:27] It wasn't high school. It was a musically four. Yeah. Not an adolescent. A teen mallet. That's going to be a great title. Yeah, right now. Right now. Yeah. You're a mallet.

[00:20:45] So one of the things that we have also done in the last time we collaborated was we read a book together. The book we read was the pale blue eye by Louis Bayard or Louis Spire. I don't know how to pronounce it. Louis Louis, Louis Biordi. Yeah.

[00:21:02] The Louvre was not a really fascinating book takes place kind of like back in the 1800s. That ground po is a cadet at West Point and this dude is Gus Landor is called into his best to get.

[00:21:16] Not just the hanging death of us cadet because they assume it first set suicide. But his heart has been carved out of his body and thus a mystery unfolds as they try to uncover the death of us.

[00:21:29] And we are going on and we all I think kind of enjoyed it. If you are out there and you're listening or watching, you want to read that book or see the movie spoilers possible ahead.

[00:21:40] I mean, I think we can try this as as I mean if we spoil something no big deal. I just want people to know that we might but we can try not to, I guess. But on your show, we talked about the actual book.

[00:21:53] And now has everybody had a chance to see the movie now? Yeah. I definitely fast forward and throw a lot of it. Yeah, you watched it at one and a half times speed as I would you do? Yeah, what you can do and that flex.

[00:22:08] I still do this. I do like a computer to do it or can you do it with like on the TV app? Well, that's a good question. That's a good question. I don't know. On the computer, on the computer for sure.

[00:22:20] And I did try watching a little bit at one and a half times speed and I'll tell you what. I don't know why it made me laugh but watching Christian bail act at one and a half times speed. Made me laugh. That's great. Yeah, that's good stuff. Yeah.

[00:22:37] I thought it would be fun to watch it with the audio description on. And then it would be like we're just listening to the audio book. Yeah. And just kind of like, yeah, not even paying attention to what's happening on the screen.

[00:22:50] I normally watch them or have the subtitles. Well, typically there are typically people will say that the books of the book is better than the movie. A lot that's kind of like the cliché is the book is better.

[00:23:03] I don't believe that's always the case because I have seen sometimes where they decided to go and do another format, whether it's TV or movie and they went and it kind of a loosely based and went in a different direction. It was amazing.

[00:23:16] Dexter being a perfect example of that. The books are good on their own. But the show was so much had so much more depth and stuff going on at the books did. But what do you guys think about this? So the book was better. The movie was better.

[00:23:35] I think I already know what some of you guys think because we shared a little bit of the book. The book was better for sure. I think I would say, I think it had seen the movie first.

[00:23:46] I would not have been interested in reading the book at all. I agree with that. That's a fair statement. I think, yeah. So I actually had high hopes when the movie started.

[00:23:56] Like I thought it started out really well and it had a really good tone and I was really surprised to see some of the imagery that they showed because I wasn't expecting them to go there. Like I wasn't expecting an overhead shot of a of a corpse.

[00:24:10] But it just kind of lost me. I don't know. Yeah, it had fidelity to the book very much and like for having done so it was I get what you're saying. Yeah, there were there are definitely lines and scenes and beats that were ripped apart

[00:24:32] of the pages of the book. But as a whole, I liked the movie was disjointed. Like there were times where like land ors in the tavern and all of a sudden he's at dinner with the family. Right.

[00:24:43] They simplified his character a little bit which I think was a smart move for this show. Yeah, that makes sense. We didn't get a lot of his backstory but I think overall casting was a big problem in this movie.

[00:24:57] I saw when I was reading the book Colonel Thayer and Captain. I felt like they were like very like assumed. Like they were just like they were younger and I felt like they were like almost larger than life. They were like people you didn't want to mess with.

[00:25:15] And for Thayer, I couldn't stop picturing a Peter pedigrew the whole time. Like I was like this guy's just a rap. You know what I mean? Like he wasn't threatening it all. He was doing it all. Yeah. He looked like a human cartoon character.

[00:25:34] Yeah, I kept on thinking of the bishop from Monty Python. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the bishop from Princess Bride. Oh, my way. I'm just because it's just the way he was hunched over and like you said, he's just not a very intimidating

[00:25:56] character which is what I pictured both Thayer and Hitchcock to be were kind of like very much strong military men very much, you know. Right. And yeah, the military thing they didn't feel military to be at all. Yeah. I don't know if you're a critic to me.

[00:26:13] And you know it was periodic. It was like a period piece. So I mean maybe that was what the military was like in 1830 but I would assume that they would have I don't know.

[00:26:21] Like when you read the book, these cadets should be afraid of doing anything that's against the rules and like I wouldn't be afraid to do anything with these guys at church. Right.

[00:26:31] I think I saw some of the, some of you guys were saying it's kind of mad and things like that and that all came before I had a chance to see it.

[00:26:40] So I went into it with that like in mindset thinking, okay, well some of some folks, you know, aren't enthused about this. And the more I watched it, I wondered and this is the, this is the conundrum with every book that's ever been made

[00:26:56] into a movie or vice versa. Is I wonder if we would have seen the movie completely differently if we hadn't read the book. Like some of the things, or fair points.

[00:27:09] Some of the things that we loved about the book that weren't in there, that's why it was mad. You know what I mean? Or it's because because let's face it, it's about it's written by a guy who can write right.

[00:27:20] And then about a guy who can write at Gralempo and there's some really great like post sequences we talk about. That there's called action stuff. Really written in this cool style.

[00:27:31] It was sort of the way I felt like it could, you would never be able to make a proper movie or television show about the series on Forth of a fortunate events books because what was so great about an out of any of you read those.

[00:27:44] But what's great about them is the language, the way it's written like the word play and things like that. And if you don't map and the movie, it's just like things happen. You know what I mean? Yeah.

[00:27:56] Unless you're just narrating straight from the book, it's like some of these funny ways that he would say things in the book that made it so fun. They're God. It's like watching Dr. Seuss play out like a law and order show or something. You know what I mean?

[00:28:10] Like all the languages gone and it's a total different, you know? Yeah. Don't do them. I would watch that too. We did with a car. Would you eat that in the bar? Yeah. Would you eat that on the train? Yeah.

[00:28:21] I think I would really like to be a nice, nice, nice and nice, nice, nice, nice. And that's nice. You know, I'm going to find out. I could have supported IceT in this film. Yeah. Like right? Oh, you would have to go through sure. Yeah. Totally. But yeah.

[00:28:35] When I look at the movie, I think the same kind of thing. It's like this movie doesn't. It doesn't feature some of the stuff that I really kind of dug about the book, which was that. That language that we used. You know what I mean?

[00:28:48] So I'm not having that because it's a film. It was a total, you know, narration bill and I don't want to read there. You know, so I'm not saying it would be we'd suddenly we would love it.

[00:28:57] I'm just saying like, I think that may have also tainted our view a little bit. Absolutely. No, I think you're right. I'm even taking that into account the least for me. I felt like there were it was jumping between scenes with really no kind of

[00:29:12] kind of connected to you, connective tissue between. You know, there were times where I'm like, oh, now we skipped over here and we don't have any explanation or why. Like the one that sticks out in my mind is all of a sudden

[00:29:27] we're at dinner with the family and I'm like, we were just like in the woods talking with Landor and now we're having dinner with the family with Landor and Poe. Yeah, there was no no exposition, there wasn't even like a passing moment where they were like,

[00:29:45] hey, come over for dinner tonight. There was no, it was just like, yeah, because the last conversation that they had was Landor saying, I have a dinner or anything to get to and then that was it. You know, that's not the cutter room for because I mean,

[00:29:58] it's the two, two hour and ten minutes already to our movie. Probably could have easily been like two and a half and they could have been through trying to hold on to that stuff. No, I think you're right, that you hit it on the head.

[00:30:09] I'm positive that there is stuff on the cutting room floor that would have made this movie make more sense. Yeah, I think pacing was a big issue. I think it started out kind of on the right track, but then like, like, how you were talking about Poe

[00:30:22] and just like how he spoke like that deserves to be slow down. Like you should hear that you need to do it into process that. And every time he was talking, it was like, I think his casting was good. He was just like running through everything.

[00:30:34] You didn't even know, like, he looked at my part of your time. And like, yeah, I'm in the role. I don't think his delivery was wrong and I didn't even know what was a little odd.

[00:30:41] I got used to it, but I didn't like bail in the role either. Like I like him as an actor normally, but I do not see him as lander at all. Yeah. Well, I just scream out Henry Melling. I liked him as a Gralom Poe.

[00:30:54] I liked his performance. The thing that threw me off though about it was I never thought of, which is something I never thought about historically. It's accurate, but I just never thought about it. I always assume every, every, every action.

[00:31:07] Every poet ever has a snooty British accent, right? You just assume because they're a holly toily. And then, but this guy's from the south. So he's not gonna sound like that. And he's not hard-working educated. Right.

[00:31:20] And so when he started talking with a little bit of a draw, at first I was like, what's happening? So that threw me off at first, but as the movie progressed, like I really started to enjoy him in the role.

[00:31:32] Again, I felt like, I mean, I kind of agree about it as far as like how it did feel rushed. Like a lot of this dialogue, yeah, they just slow him down. But I love how he portrayed the character. I thought that was kind of fun.

[00:31:45] And there's a little bit humor here and there, you know, it kind of had his expense, which was good. But it's neat to see because he's Dudley from Harry Potter. And it was neat to see him in a completely different original role. role.

[00:31:59] So that was kind of cool too. I think, but yeah, it was overall, I mean, I can't say I didn't enjoy it, but it was just, yeah, it's not something that I would rush out to see again for sure. I think I think I think you,

[00:32:12] I think you even pretty much summarized it well and then fact that. Not having read the book. If I watched if I saw this movie, I don't think I would have been compelled to read the book which is sad because the book is good. The book is good.

[00:32:27] No, no, no, no, no, no. It's great. My question is like, if you watched the movie without reading the book, would you even like, what would I be interested in? Yeah. That's the other question too. It felt, you know, it felt disjointed and not that.

[00:32:41] I don't think, yeah, you know what I was looking for. You're just a good book. Yeah. Yeah. The bill, yeah, I definitely don't think about the family wasn't there. It just was, yeah, it just happened. Yeah, it just like, oh, it just like, go by the way. Yeah.

[00:32:57] Yeah, I feel like I definitely feel like, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, woman, woman talking. Go ahead. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Oh, I was going to say I do feel like the only reason I was able to skip ahead,

[00:33:15] like fast forward through a very large chunk of the movie was because I read the book. And I would want to do the same thing even if I didn't read the book because I don't think. Like it wasn't moving very easily. And ironically, you probably

[00:33:29] is fast forwarded through stuff that wasn't in the book anywhere, or wasn't in the movie anyway because the book was so much fuller in the content, right? Yeah. I don't think that it was very cohesive at all. Like without a book as a foundation, it wouldn't.

[00:33:47] I did find the train one change very interesting where they changed Professor Pop-A into a French guy instead of an Native American. Which I assumed they did because they didn't want to piss off any Native Americans with a, you know, kind of of its time representation

[00:34:06] of a Native American. Right. But yeah, the fact that he was Professor Pipe-A and that Pop-A was, I find, kind of humorous. I mean, I care, he was sort of his own, in his own little universe anyway. You know what I mean? Right.

[00:34:20] That was a change that would work. I'm going to turn into that. His fingers, like his fingers, and we're so dirty. Oh, it's pretty cute. In that fact. Everybody's fingernails were dirty in the 1800s. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of par-for the course I think for that time.

[00:34:37] They were just so black. I feel like that was the only thing that I could focus on. He was talking, which is how black his fingers were. You don't remember the chapter of Gus Land or talking about how dirty everyone's nails were?

[00:34:50] I think the other thing that was interesting is, again, without spoiling anything. Obviously there's a twist at the very end that, obviously, if you've read the book, you know is coming. So I did kind of enjoy watching it from that perspective,

[00:35:08] trying to spot the things that might point to that. Did I miss, obviously, when I was reading the book, but now I have a chance to see it, maybe I can pick those things out. And there were a few things that were really,

[00:35:22] I was like, because I was watching it with my wife and daughter and I would see something and I'd be like, that's good. You go with all of that means. But that's kind of cool. You know what I mean? So there's a couple of things.

[00:35:35] There's other movies that are like that where you know the twist at the end, like six cents. Like if you watch that again, it's a whole different experience to be able to speak. How often he gave the whole story away. And you just need to know this because

[00:35:51] it was so well-paced. But yeah, so that was kind of fun. I see. So you're often in daughter-washing with you. And I'm assuming they hadn't read the book. So what did they think? Were they like over all on the press? No, that was okay.

[00:36:03] Yeah, they weren't like, gosh, and over it. But I mean, I enjoyed it. It was like, oh, can I wasn't eating this for you? I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed that the movie didn't have the scene that I was kind of looking forward to

[00:36:13] to see how they did, which was the whole fighting with the saber and the closet. And it was a closet. All right. Wait for that. I was kind of looking forward to see how they did that. And they just were skipping.

[00:36:25] That was a bit of a disappointing change because they just found and rummaging around, right? They just weren't even explaining why he was doing it either. That's how it all happened. Yeah. Well, except that once we know the twist, we can kind of guess why.

[00:36:41] So speaking of the quote, like stuff to pin, you know, military uniforms really that color in 1830. It seems like they were like right, blue and yellow. Like why would you wear something like that? That's not like well, I mean, well,

[00:36:56] you have to remember, you have to remember, I mean, you know, it goes along with the compact tactics of the time, right? I mean, who would line up in a straight line, would line up in a straight line and then line up

[00:37:07] in the straight line and then shoot at each other and keep on doing that until there's nobody left. So I feel like, I feel like the accuracy of weapons to get right exactly. But I feel like, you know, to be over four seconds.

[00:37:19] It could be just a can. Yeah. I think to maybe like, you know, he's your free of small clean and like, you know, presentation. Yeah. But even the kids think about my dad was my Marines and he had a very sharp blue.

[00:37:31] They didn't wear that for something like like, you didn't wear it like, and when he was over in Vietnam, you know, and he was a totally different. You know, you know, what he wore. Well, he knows we are, right?

[00:37:42] So I imagine that was the dress uniform of the officer, or whatever he was, you know, I'm saying that he was a man in the house. Can't even imagine trying to keep patting and leather shoes clean in the jungle. Yeah. Right? I also wasn't expecting it.

[00:37:57] I don't know why, but I wasn't expecting it to be snowing and I might have missed that in the book. I don't know. It was October, November, December. There was no things for the book. Yeah. Oh, you're right. You're right. I don't know why.

[00:38:09] Did surprise me though because I distinctly remember in the beginning of the book, I think Landor mentioned that they were having an Indian summer. And so when the movie started with him, you know, in the snow and the river and all that, that kind of surprise.

[00:38:24] But yeah, I mean, I mean, the dates are, you know, October, November, December, December. Yeah, they get 10, 60, December, right? Yeah, something like that. Yes. So the movie paces a lot quicker too. Like it all happens in a short or amount of time.

[00:38:36] So they needed to already be winter, I guess. Especially since they're using that, I, I, I's house and stuff, you know what I mean? Like it would typically be used, you know, to keep stuff cold. Uh, the ice, that was a big, pretty,

[00:38:48] you know, brutal scenes there with, getting whacked in the head with the, yeah, that was crazy. They're all having to do that. And then we're a little more graphic than I expected. Yeah, he kind of came out of nowhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I appreciate it, though.

[00:39:03] You find some of the guy, some of the dialogue I felt was a little lot of place. It sounded too modern with how I would imagine and speaking, you could just keep a line here. Yeah, you could definitely tell what was like added

[00:39:16] or written by the screenwriter adapted versus what they took right out of the book. I felt like there is a definite, definite difference in vocabulary and cadence. But yeah, I don't know, Christian, I felt like Christian bail was just playing Christian bail.

[00:39:35] Yeah, I don't know what he was like. I thought he was very, like his delivery was really inconsistent. Sometimes it felt like he was getting into a character and then other times I was like, maybe more Christian bail. And something that makes me wonder about just

[00:39:48] like the Netflix production kind of thing. Like, because this was like a straight, this almost like a straight to DVD movie, you know, from back in the day kind of right? Yeah, I guess for all, in terms of,

[00:39:58] well, it wasn't just released in theaters for like a week or two. It wasn't. Oh, no. That's the way the productions are done now. Like they, I mean, we think about Netflix production. Well, it's a simple denominator of two Oscars. You know what I mean? Right.

[00:40:14] The score sazy one with the really bad deep bass. Oh, the D aging. Next to you if you were to give in this to score sazy, we would have had a film on our head. That could be interesting. Oh, maybe. What was the one that he made with,

[00:40:26] well, he made it with a whole different audience. With De Niro and Peshie, right? Yeah, the D aging. We're watching this. We'll be making with De Niro a best. It was like 14 hours long, right? All of them. Yeah, it was actually.

[00:40:37] It was actually a really good this CGI on the deep fake D aging was pretty bad, but it was a pretty good story. The Irishman. That was it. So that was in nominated for Oscars. It was pretty, it was pretty excellent. But yeah, we too long.

[00:40:55] But yeah, Netflix. Oh, so you feel? I mean, they're making, they're making good quality movies. I don't know if you've had a chance to see glass on you yet. That's a nice, that was great. It's phenomenal. It's so good. It's great. And that's the same thing.

[00:41:10] Netflix, it was out in theaters for a little while. And then it's on Netflix right away. So that's kind of their, their formula. And if we're going to guess, I'm on the Ben Wall, a long bandwagon. I'm not sure if they're the knives out. Eee. Diff.

[00:41:26] I wouldn't say it was better. I always saw a part of it. And the parts I would say, my job was better. I wouldn't say it was better than knives up. But it was very close. It was very close to the knife out.

[00:41:38] Because, well, and knives out has the advantage of being the first one, right? Like everybody went in, not expecting it. But now, I got it. Now we're expecting something. So it might be a better overall written and acted mystery. But glass onion is more rewatchable for me.

[00:41:55] Like I would watch a glass onion again in a heartbeat if you wanted to watch it. OK. Even though I know how it's going to add, you know what I mean? I'm ready to watch. Because I was more entertaining. Like the characters were just, I thought,

[00:42:05] and then later, then later, to, and then later to. Exactly. Yeah. It was a little bit more entertaining. But yeah. Anyway. So that's not the book that we read though. So I have. But you know, one more little pitch from that, though, Ryan Johnson,

[00:42:18] who directed both of those also put out a show on P.Cock called poker face with the incredible Natasha Leon. Natasha Leon. And that is the best new show of 2020. It is. I watch it. But not that it was better than others. Yeah, it's happening. Yes.

[00:42:32] But yeah, I am so much. I love her character. It's, it's Colombo if Natasha Leon was Colombo basically. It's a mix which is which is fantastic. Yeah. And as you could. It's an artist mysteriously psychically. Right. Tell us your tech to be yes, you know?

[00:42:52] A Colombo could kind of do that too. You know what I mean? And that's why they're both on the street. And knowing to the people that they're bestigating, which is just the best. Anyway, and I love Natasha Leon. She's so fun. She's cute.

[00:43:04] Anyway, that's a total separate thing. So overall think we're saying obviously the book is better if you're into that. If you're not into either the book, the movie is just, you know, average enough that if you're you know, want to a mystery, it's, it's all right. It's okay.

[00:43:20] I don't think it's a way to write a whole lot of stuff. Yeah, I didn't do enough. Yeah, I didn't do enough that I, you know. Yeah, you know, it's on Netflix if you've got nothing else that you feel like watching them go ahead. And it's a mystery.

[00:43:30] I do like the twist. I mean, it's, it's a nice twist. Yeah. I will say as an aside, just yesterday I was looking at Netflix. And why is RIPD one of the top number one movie on Netflix? The original or the new one they've reached.

[00:43:46] Oh, they just made a new one that doesn't have Ryan Reynolds and Jeffery now. That's probably what kind of thing. Then that's probably why it's number one. Okay, that makes sense now. Because I'm like, we were flipping through and Karen's like,

[00:43:56] all right, PD and like, why is that number one this week? I think it's a prequel if I remember correctly. I like whatever the, I don't remember who's in it. Besides Ryan Reynolds who's the cowboy Jeff Bridges or somebody like Jeff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:44:09] Yeah, it was Jeff Bridges. Yeah, it was Jeff Bridges. It's him when he was a younger cowboy or something like that. I are so interesting. Okay. So that, that makes sense then that would be why it was number one. Because it's like, it's from like 20s.

[00:44:23] It's like from a decade ago, literally. The original. Yeah. And it was okay. I mean, a lot of stuff does trend on Netflix that way though, right? It comes out, they finally get it on the streaming network and all of a sudden it's like, who has renewed life.

[00:44:35] I've seen that happen a couple different movies. It's kind of interesting. But not that one. Not that one. Not RIPD. I mean, no, I don't mean it was. It was a strange track had a big comeback for a while.

[00:44:47] I think like it was one of the top movies. It was rightfully so. Yeah, when it popped in the streaming, like people just like binge the crap out of it and watch it. Sure. Sure. Anyways. All right. So that concludes our little movie review.

[00:45:02] Unless you guys have any last thing that you want to. No, no, no, no, no, no. Concludes. All right. Yeah, that concludes the movie review part. So I think we kind of do these stories, right? Again, the prompt was just, you just decided it was going to be

[00:45:23] what else about that? Yeah, I mean, normally we would have prompt out. But I just like sometimes like I just like brain fart kind of thing and I mean, it will be like getting ready to record and be like, oh my god, I didn't put a poll out.

[00:45:33] And it was so late. I was like, you know what? These guys try to throw us with a loop on the prompts. What time? What time? With your your awfully suggestive themes that you come through. What?

[00:45:46] But I was like, you know what, we're just going to make it a tribute to these guys. We're just going to call it World Gun Geek and see what they do. Definitely because like I got the bad end of that stick.

[00:45:57] That's funny, because last year wasn't last year kind of a mistake on the poll too for the prompt. We tend to make mistakes. I mean, yeah, that was the one where you were option one and you lost your money.

[00:46:07] Yeah, because you left that the default option in there. And there was that was by one one. That was kind of funny though. I think that it was a trend. I think we need to have some sort of needs to be a mishat every year

[00:46:21] and not to be honest. I think so. Because it wouldn't be World Gun Geek if they weren't something. Yeah, we're in technical difficulties. Right. So anyway, but I don't know who wants to go first. I mean, if you know, yeah, I can be first because my

[00:46:34] he's probably the shortest one. All right. And then that way I can get it out of the way. And I don't know, I don't know who's next after that. I was going to have some naked. I will go next.

[00:46:47] I feel like we should have left this last time. Because yours is so probably very good. And I can actually, I don't know about why I have a lot of like profits that I need to talk about before I read my. So wait, what? Yeah, mine does not.

[00:47:02] All I need to say is we need this. Yeah, I just want to explain kind of where it came from. Is that? Is that like part of your word count or no? No, it's just not count. All right.

[00:47:15] Well then you tell you, I guess, yeah, you'll go first. I will. You said up my reading. I will read it. I have to ask you. I will, I think I'll actually just take everybody offline. So we're just listening. And we don't get any background noise by accident.

[00:47:31] So oops, now it's on me. I turned you off instead of me. Thank you. I appreciate that. Now all right. OK. This is a short story. It's about 1,450 words. As I mentioned before, probably before I went live,

[00:47:49] I found that if I kept on going, then I would just keep on going and going and it wouldn't be ready for presentations. So I decided to err on the side of conciseness. And so here we go. The title of my story is Kick David.

[00:48:12] I am a huge fan of Kick David. The most prolific interviewer of a generation, he ended up interviewing over 5,000 guests in the 20 year run of his original show. Get a knack for getting guests that didn't normally do in-depth interviews.

[00:48:29] There's a certain trust that he instilled in his guests, which usually resulted in some incredible interviews. From heads of state, introverted celebrities to pioneers in their fields, Kick David has talked to them. His last interview was 30 years ago with a man named Timmy Jingle.

[00:48:49] He's probably a long dead by now. Was he a comedian? Maybe a reporter. I honestly don't remember. What they do remember is wondering why he was the final guest of the critically acclaimed Kick David Show. Maybe Mr. David didn't know it would be the last show.

[00:49:10] So he didn't think about booking a really memorable guest. Now, please don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that Timmy Jingle wasn't a worthy guest. I mean, he was deemed worthy of an interview by the great Kick David. In any case, I don't know why Mr. David

[00:49:25] decided to come out of retirement, but it couldn't pass up seeing his interview show in person. I don't even care who the guests are. I just want to experience the master interviewer in action. The venue was an old fashioned small theater.

[00:49:42] I say old fashioned because it wasn't like your typical contemporary theater where you're scanned as you walk through the door and you find yourself already in the theater, and you just go directly to your seat. This theater had an actual lobby and ticket takers,

[00:49:58] even if they were synthetics. The rubbery skin revealed their vintage's older models of generation or two back. Back then, there were allegedly designs to purposely not look human to ease the fears of those who didn't trust synths as we called them back then.

[00:50:15] There was a large contingent of society that just couldn't bring itself to trust these new contraptions. Even though synths could do all the jobs that humans didn't want to do and without complaining, it took a lot of convincing. So many tests, so many studies, so many ads,

[00:50:34] all trying to sell the same thing add infinitum. Synths are safe. You think that a generation brought up on Disney's audio animatronic figures would be more accepting, but I guess the difference was that unlike those Disney figures, synths could roam freely and interact unscripted among us.

[00:50:55] Ultimately, it didn't take long for a generation of kids who grew up in a world with synths to take their existence for granted. And many of those kids became the very people that would advance synth tech into what it is today. Other than their eyes,

[00:51:09] synths now look and act quite human. The eyes were the only concession to ease any fears that synths could blend in with the rest of us. The eyes were required to not look human.

[00:51:24] The method was left up to the manufacturer of which there were really only the big three to you Corp, Honda and Kencio tech. They're all basically the same, but Kencio tech has a certain cache

[00:51:38] in American company, a diverse leadership team and somehow their synths were considered the closest to being almost human. I found my seat and sat down, ready for an insightful and enlightening interview. None of us knew what to expect since the topic and guests weren't revealed yet,

[00:51:58] but the house lights went out so we were about to find out. Good evening everyone, in case you forgot, I'm kicked at it and welcome to my show! Uproarious applause lasted for a few minutes.

[00:52:14] It seems I wasn't the only one excited to see Mr. David come out of retirement. Thank you, thank you. Tonight is hopefully the first of many to come as I found myself bored with retirement and I became aware of some interesting developments that I wanted to explore.

[00:52:32] So why not bring all of you along with me? Are you ready? More uproarious applause. This felt more like a concert. Tonight I have two people at the top of their respective games and we're going to delve into an age-old topic. What is sentience? Let's meet our guests.

[00:52:56] A pre-eminent expert in philosophy and the relationship of thoughts ideas and the real world. He studied not only the human condition, but the human psyche as well. Please welcome Professor of Philosophy and Thought at Cambridge University, Dr. Feth Jord

[00:53:13] and the woman who not only invented tech to improve since by leaps and bounds, but is also one of the loudest advocates for synth acceptance in society. Chief engineering officer of Kencio Tech, Dr. Celia Atafin. Thank you both for being here and welcome!

[00:53:33] A pleasure to be here. Or is it? Dr. Jord jorped? Thank you for the invite. Set a much more serious, Dr. Atafin. So let's get right to it! What is sentience? How do we judge what beings have it and what do we do with them?

[00:53:55] Dr. Jord jumped at the chance to speak. Well, the widely accepted definition of sentience is having the capacity to experience feelings, emotions, somewhat even say, sensations. But how does one prove any of that? How does one create a test that truly shows those capacities?

[00:54:14] And this is a hypothetical test universal. Would it work on both natural and synth acceptance? And what do we do with or when a subject passes the test? How does that change our behavior and thoughts towards the subject? What legal ramifications would there be?

[00:54:31] What moral ramifications would there be? Is just being sentience enough? Do we take a step further in consider not just sentience, but consciousness? Where are the gold posts and would we continually move them? Should we frame these questions to focus strictly on synths in particular?

[00:54:49] Well, what would happen if since became conscious? Would that be a result of learning to be conscious? Or would they be programmed with it from the get-go? Can you imagine if either were the case? The world as we know it would go poof.

[00:55:06] Dr. Jord did a hand dance while saying that. Remindingly of Doug Henning doing close-up magic on one of those television-stuff specials that we were all watching and we're all the rage back then. It's magic, he'd always say. Or at least, that's how I remembered it.

[00:55:24] Our world's God, Geek. Dr. Adifin just looked at him and uttered that one single word. I chuckled at the declaration and laughter started to ripple through the audience. But as I slowly stopped, the laughter around me became louder and more spirited

[00:55:46] until it started to sound more like cackling. People's mouths started eerily moving out of sync with the sound. What in the hell is happening? I thought to myself looking around nervously. Before I finished that thought, I started hearing a ripping sound. But with a

[00:56:05] moist squelch to it, it was then I noticed that everyone in the audience was turning their head to face me, like old ventricle, ventricle's dummies. And the sound of tearing flesh was from those that had to turn their head in unnatural amount that may be normal for owls,

[00:56:28] but not for human beings. As a cackling continued, I could see the flesh on some of these people slowly sliding off their skulls, revealing something that was definitely not human bone

[00:56:40] underneath. They were synthetic, but how and why I was frozen in a panic, knowing I had to get out of there, but made a mobile by the sheer shock of what I was witnessing.

[00:56:53] A quick glance to the stage, maybe even more confused as each person was in their own different states. Dr. George looked like a deer in headlights, not moving an inch, even as cackling audience members waved their maiden stage. Dr. Adifan was calmly sitting in her chair.

[00:57:10] Taking it all in with a dry smile on her face. And Mr. David, well, it seems he was in denial as he carried on as if nothing out of the ordinary was happening. Doesn't he hear the cackling?

[00:57:23] Doesn't he see the heads turning over the cackfony I could hear Mr. David say. Please do an in next week when my guests will be satmooric and Liam Ewis who will discuss the

[00:57:36] importance of the pen and watch in human history. Hearing that somehow finally broke me free from my frozen state of frightened disbelief, and I started to quickly stagger to the exit. The sound of footsteps behind me and seeing. Sat with Gary. What did you say Liam Ewis?

[00:58:07] The only thing that I will say is I love all those reverse names, but it was a missed opportunity for hugdunning. That's true. This is very true. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of a gummy at the beginning.

[00:58:26] It's funny because you said it several times in the at the beginning, which in like good ways. It was like I liked the repeating of the name, the way you kind of laid that out.

[00:58:37] But it took several of those for me to finally get what is he saying? That's how I did know that name. And then a finally hit hit me. Dick Cavitt is one of the

[00:58:47] premiere interviewers of our time. So, yeah, but it took me. I'm like that's an interesting choice for a name. Why did you do that? And then a finally hit me and then when you got to defefgeor,

[00:58:58] that was a little bit. It did to me until you said it. So, yeah. But I will say this. I wrote this down when you were that when he asks the question, the doctor, George jumped at the chance to talk. And I'm wondering if is that our

[00:59:15] imitating life? Was that a comment on how I always like one of the first ones that I'm not sure even that. I'm not sure even that. I'm not sure. That's not a certain amount of time. It's already a matating life, but perhaps I was inspired by

[00:59:34] what was mine? But I was like, what the hell is that sound like? I was like, why the sound really like, very similar to my name. Too funny. That's great. No, I'm not sure. No, I'm not sure. No, I'm not sure.

[00:59:49] What always gets me with Utah especially is the performance of the performance. It's like a true success be in. I can't help it. It was fantastic. And I always love, I always look forward to see how people are going to use the prompt.

[01:00:09] When you say, oh, God, I'm not in it. In it all of a sudden there's like a little geeky. First that thought your story was done. Like I'm like, like, literally, it has to take like, was he just was he like teasing us by

[01:00:23] ending it without finishing that it's kind of like Avengers than then the credits were all in the end. Yeah, it's the same thing. I thought that's what you were doing and then when you said geek, I lost it. I was like, yeah, I was just awesome.

[01:00:36] I love it. So good. That's an interesting thing. You're going on the torch though of the some of the common themes and in the stories that I've been doing on our side the past couple of years. And I always happy to see that.

[01:00:53] Yeah, and I think I found another prompt hidden away in your narrative there. I think I expect to see moist squelch as showing up at a visual of these days. Yeah, it was funny too because I've just, I know I'm just this is just flowing out.

[01:01:14] And I'm like, okay, there's a ripping, there's a tearing. There's got to be a more descriptive way of saying this to kind of it's moist and as much as I hate the word moist it was just kind of perfect for for that specific spot.

[01:01:30] I was just going to say like 95% of the time that the word moist ends up on the page usually ends up getting removed for something else because I feel dirty every time I see it. Not the most pleasant of the choice is for a word.

[01:01:46] No, no, but it's somehow, but it somehow fit right there. Yeah, so I did work. Yeah, for sure. There's a part, there's a part in my story where I'm moist squelch would have fit perfectly now. But I'm nice. So wondering if I can work that in?

[01:02:02] There we go. That's a new hashtag. Hashtag moist squelch? It's probably a pretty good band name too. Yes, yes. It's a very good band name. Can you imagine? Just like, ladies, ladies and gentlemen, moist squelch. Put your hands together.

[01:02:23] My first question is one genre music does this band play? Right. I don't know. I've never described music as moist before so I guess it's like some sort of new and perfect kind of. They probably play something like dance. It's like scott. I'm digging an open floor rocker.

[01:02:40] It's happened. Swamp rock isn't swamp rock a thing. It might be probably. If not, it could be. Well, moist squelch and swamp rock. Yeah, no, I like it. So I also originally thought that moist squelch might have been redundant,

[01:02:57] but then I thought about it more and I'm like, no, you know what it works. It kind of fits too well. I didn't want to mess with it. No, I applaud you for it.

[01:03:07] Well, if you had just said it was a squelch out of been like, yeah, but was it dry? Right. Was it a dry squelch? That's really, I mean, you're like, that's, you're like, I mean, hang in with what kind of squelch it. Why? I'm more description.

[01:03:21] Yeah, that is often what I hear the words squelch up this waiting for something like, what was it moist? Exactly. Exactly. It's like, you know, it's like peanut butter and chocolate, right? I think it was, was it a warm squelch?

[01:03:36] Like we don't know if you don't tell us. You know, a warm moist squelch. Yeah. All right. It was a real span. No, I thought that was really cool. No, I thought, where did come from? Like, yeah, I was a culture inspiration. So it's funny.

[01:03:54] And I don't know how you guys do it usually with prompts, but this time around I found myself thinking, all right, here's the prompt world gun geek world gun geek. What can I, how do I end up at World Gun geek?

[01:04:08] And, you know, the obvious one, which is something that I was going to start with was, well, I mean, the definition, the whole point of our name, World Gun geek is the world has got geek, right? All of a sudden geek nerd.

[01:04:24] All those interests have become more acceptable, and so the world has gone that way. And then I thought, well, there's got to be another way to get to that and somehow use it. And so I started messing around with, well,

[01:04:38] what if we just can't split it up somehow? And then I can't, I got to World Gun and then geek. And so I'm like, okay, so then somebody has to make a statement that ends with some form of world gun.

[01:04:53] And then somebody has to call them out as a geek. So then, then I built from there. So I kind of built it from the end forward. Yeah. And so and then it originally was just going to be an interview show

[01:05:07] with the cabinet. I'm like, oh, I'm just going to switch letters around because I'm lazy and I only have two days to do this. So, uh, to be fair, you had a moment. Yeah. No, no, no, no, it's all on me. I'm a procrastinist by nature.

[01:05:23] I'm one of the most optimistic people in the world because there's always later, always tomorrow. I do. I do. And so, you know, I originally was just going to be like kind of an interview show and that's it was going to end with kind of basically

[01:05:35] what happened, which was, you know, proof somehow. One guest was going to say, a proof the world's gone. And then the other person was just going to call him a geek. And then I don't know where this whole sci-fi horror robots turning their heads

[01:05:51] around the face you came from. But I just after I did that last line of world's proof world's gone and geek, it just kind of started coming out of my fingers and I'm like, oh, I need to

[01:06:04] I really started digging it too. I'm like, oh, that's, that's kind of a really cool visual. I kind of like, uh, want to use it somehow. And so, that's great. But did you can also see how like I wanted to continue

[01:06:16] that story? I want to continue on in this world. I want to flesh out a little bit more. But then I would still be typing. I mean, you just keep going now. You got to start.

[01:06:28] Right. Yeah. I mean, that's to me. That's what it's prompts are all about, right? Like it's, um, what I mean, I will definitely say and, uh, I mean, I'll credit you guys

[01:06:38] Matt and Ian for re-igniting my passion for like telling stories. Like I've always wanted to be a writer when I was younger in high school couldn't stop me. Like I wrote so much crap, man. And then I wrote

[01:06:51] stories for it for English in college that I just, you know, still remember and couldn't find if I wanted to now. But uh, I just absolutely loved it. And then there was just a point where I like

[01:07:04] stopped and I just, you know what I mean? Like I still had stories popping into my head. But at that point, I'm thinking, well, I'm going to make a movie about that someday, you know,

[01:07:11] because I'm doing video and that's like my focus now. But um, yeah, when we did the story last year, I was like this was a great experience to write this. And so, um, I literally started

[01:07:28] taking inspiration from all kinds of different places and just writing down ideas now. And I'm my hope is to put together like a short story, compilation of my own at some point. That's awesome.

[01:07:39] Um, but yes. Yeah. And it's just, it's funny how a prop can do that. You know what I mean? Like it was just a goofy prop, but especially that one. But for me, that story last year was even

[01:07:50] it was kind of personal even. You don't even need from such a silly idea of becoming something, you know, super personal. Yeah. And I was like this is great. Like, you know, it's so I was like trying,

[01:08:02] I'm constantly inspired by songs and song titles and things like that. So we've got a whole, I've got several playlists that will lead to short story compilations. I've decided this playlist

[01:08:13] is this book. And this place. So yeah, it looks planned out for the next eight years, but I'll, we'll see if I ever get around it, right? But no, it's been, it's a great to have that process.

[01:08:25] And that's why, you know, I'm with what you said, Matt, if you, I mean, I hope that you tired that you will continue that as well. Hope that that. I mean, if that's what you want to do,

[01:08:36] I'm maybe you don't want to do that. You're like, that wasn't enough for me. I don't know. I just ended up, I might just end it at Moist Squelts. I'm not sure. Yeah. You have to expound upon Moist Squelts now. Actually be the name of the book.

[01:08:49] Yeah. I'm going to be the title of my collection Moist Squelts. I don't know. I mean, if I saw a book at a shelf called Moist Squelts, I would approach with caution.

[01:08:57] You and I, you know, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I,

[01:09:00] you know, I, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I, pre-ordered, you and I, you like, want to sign copies. I'd have to pull it out like a little bit,

[01:09:07] just to kind of see what was on the cover. And if there was like, you know, a five year old, I'd just like kind of like push it back in. I would totally go to the day, totally work with the publisher

[01:09:16] to have like some sort of coding on the book cover, so that it wasn't dry and felt a little oh, dude. Oh, you just like, freak me out. You know, my hands look immediately got clammy just thinking

[01:09:27] about that. It's a burst. All right. Well, any extra stuff? I love, I love, but that's yeah. Let's, let's move on. Is this so do we, do you want to go next, or earlier is that? Yeah, sure I'll go next. Can you read that again? She's not.

[01:09:46] I was like, yeah, right. I read it again and just say it's me now. Yeah, just so I do not have to read my story. I feel like I should definitely preface by saying I haven't, obviously, it's just needs to be a preface about this story because

[01:10:06] yeah, last year, obviously I wrote very short poem. It was a little bit awesome though. I remember being quite moved with that. Yeah, it was good. I think the poem was really good

[01:10:16] and you know, Matt and poems. I mean, yeah, that's a lot. If I can get Matt and a poem then I feel like it was a job well done for sure. Oh, I'm sorry. It was right now. 100% of the time though, a poem

[01:10:29] being read by the poet is way better than me reading a poem by the poet. If I can a book, it's just not fair. When someone is saying it, it's like that's cool because you're giving

[01:10:42] it the the meter and the cadence that's supposed to have and I don't always know what to do with the words on the paper. That's my problem with the paper. Yeah, yeah, you know? And so, yeah,

[01:10:52] let's leave this in that one. Yeah, exactly. That's a very true because I don't know, but I will say that I have not actually written a story a well over 10 years. So this is definitely the

[01:11:04] the first one. So show me the loads of grace. Hey, these all of these are likely to be first drafts. I can't imagine that we wouldn't. I mean, I wouldn't publish the one I was last year

[01:11:17] unless I went back and like did some things to it. I might even make it a little longer. You know, I mean, I mean, so absolutely this made is the first draft type of thing. So that's where we're

[01:11:27] coming from. It's all good. Okay, cool. I didn't know what to title this. So I'm just going to leave it up to you guys at the end. I'm really bad for titles. So untitled. This is what you're saying. Yeah,

[01:11:39] it's not titled right now. He wanted me to say that the idea was dangerous and admit that I was too scared and to appease him, I almost did. But if I'm being honest friends, the idea was simple.

[01:11:59] I wasn't scared and it wasn't dangerous. It was maddeningly exhilarating and I knew exactly what I was going to do. But let's start at the beginning. Shall we? In previous years, Sloan wasn't much

[01:12:12] of an adventurer. In fact, she was the exact opposite, faithfully shy, quiet, and the embodiment of every introverted woman except for when she was behind the mic. Behind the mic, she was faithfully bold, courageous and loud. In high school, Sloan loved every minute of her double life.

[01:12:32] For years, she constantly floated between the two effortlessly and never really looked back as the feeling of being two different people was revitalizing. However, as she got older, now what a youthful age of 28, her two lives already collided in her podcast that was once just for fun. Guru,

[01:12:50] people listened regularly and to Sloan's surprise her followers were dedicated, active and constantly wanting more. The I am woman podcast was born from a place of eagerly desiring other introverted women to be seen, heard, felt and loved by well other women of God,

[01:13:08] but with the twist. Sloan urged herself to, yes, discuss the many intricacies of her woman-dum, but knew she must intertwine that with her love for Nurt Corps. One of the biggest things Sloan had always admired from a distance, but admired nonetheless was how fearless women of God

[01:13:27] could be. I mean, evangelism, participating on the worst of team or engaging in discipleship, becoming an an avid faith-based twitch streamer, those ideas alone were enough to give Sloan an introverted tech. That's what she called being extremely overwhelmed by extrovert activities.

[01:13:44] She never dared, but faithfully prayed to be that woman bold, courageous and loud. And on June 10, 2023, God answered that prayer ten times over. I can't believe it has officially been 10 years, and it's got strategically and intentionally entrusted me the introverted Sloan with the I am woman

[01:14:01] podcast. Sloan exclaimed into the mic. We have come so far, women, and as many of you are, world-gongy fest is this weekend. Hopefully I will see many of you there since I'll be

[01:14:13] broadcast in life. And with that we close out this week's episode. I'll see you all Saturday, bye women. Even as the words rolled off her tongue, she was still in complete shock. Sitting at the desk her mother now passed bought her. She thought,

[01:14:28] world-gongy fest is the biggest faith-based gaming, slash-nured, core festival in the country created by women. And not only am I going to be broadcasting live, I'm a featured panelist and nominee for the podcast of the year. As Sloan drift off into a deeper thought about the upcoming

[01:14:45] weekend festivities, the door crept open, dotting her from her train of thought Zelda, Sloan's three-year-old cat plopped herself onto her lap, making herself increasingly more comfortable. Sloan stroked her calico-feel lines friends for accurately prompting the loud purring reaction.

[01:15:03] Sloan thought to herself again, what am I going to do if he's there? That was the one thought that repeatedly escaped her mind and for good reason. See, although world-gongy fest was created by women, it was facilitated by men and one specific man

[01:15:18] occasionally made her way back into her mind. However, daunting it was, he did indeed occasionally make his way back. Maverick had swagger. He moved and grieved with the type of charisma,

[01:15:31] only specific men had and he knew it. Just as he knew how to get her one would say, hooked every single time and boy did he get her hooked every single time.

[01:15:48] Not to mention he was rated one of the top twitch streamers in the largest donor to World Gongy fest. And today just happened to be his birthday and she already knew where he was. Now the big question was, should she go? She danced yet carefully,

[01:16:04] peruse the idea of surprising him at Therospot. Well, technically her spot, but she graciously allowed him to take claim as well. Zelda, should I go see him? She asked, Zelda completely uninterested in anything other than the soft strokes to her fur looked up better.

[01:16:20] Blinked softly and placed her head back down on Sloan's left leg. She knew she could choose to take that as the rifle know it was or she could listen to the very soft. Yes, that was swirling

[01:16:31] around inside of her and to no surprise she listened to the S. Sloan picked Zelda up and placed her head on her shoulder. She slowly pushed herself from her desk, split the chair underneath

[01:16:42] and walked her cloths and door to find something a little more outdoorsy. She placed Zelda on her rough, roughly made bed and got dressed. She put on some black leggings, a grey oversized hoodie,

[01:16:53] his grey oversized hoodie and a black beany also his as letter M was embroidered on it. She set aloud, no wonder I could move on God, I still have all this stuff. She quickly took off

[01:17:04] his hoodie and beanie through on a black tank, rain jacket and went downstairs. She put her shoes on and grabbed her essentials, phone keys, wallet, and ran out the door. Their spot was only

[01:17:14] a 15 minute drive from her apartment and as she pulled into a parking lot full of cars, only once did up. His, the black Jeep Wrangler that was once his dad's, she always knew it was

[01:17:25] his because of the gold cross hanging from his mirror and a bumper sticker that read a fesian's to eight, a Bible verse that got her through plenty. Sloan got out her vehicle and

[01:17:35] ventured toward a trail that many hadn't read as the brush was still pretty high but noticeably traveled. As she walked, slowly, slowly coming up to the spot they had met time and time again

[01:17:46] she couldn't help but to finally think, I was just actually supposed to go. We hadn't spoken almost a year and immediately anxiety started to overwhelm her so she did what she should have

[01:17:55] done in the first place. She prayed. She lifted her head, opened her eyes and there he was standing right in front of her. Their eyes staring directly at each other. He said, I wasn't sure if you

[01:18:07] show Marie, slow-sumiddle name. He always called her that, she hated it of course. Sloan smirked casually rolling her eyes at the middle name comment and walked close to him. Happy birthday, Mr.

[01:18:18] Turk. He chuckled a bit and said, man you know I hate that. Come on let's go to our spot before someone takes it. So they hyped up the steep hill and then back down which eventually led them to

[01:18:29] God's cove at least that's what they called it. Sloan found God's cove when she first moved into her apartment and evid, hiker and have a dorsy woman, she constantly craved events or adventure

[01:18:43] since moving to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The cove was surrounded by trees and in a pit and in the pit a spring that many including Maverick would cliff jump into. Sloan didn't partake then because

[01:18:56] she was terrified of heights. It was roughly noon and the sun was scorching, thinking herself or taking off the hoodie, hated hoodie, how hot is it outside? Sloan asked 86 degrees. It's supposed

[01:19:08] to get up to 95 if you replied. They made their way to a shaded tree just overlooking the spring. He already packed everything she snarled. Prepared as usual huh? He didn't respond, just looked

[01:19:21] and pause as if he was thinking about what to say but decided otherwise as he continued unpacking his back. Sloan didn't even realize he had a bag with him when they first made eye contact or even as they

[01:19:31] hyped up here she was too focused on the fact that they worked together again after all this time but she still watched as he removed various drinks and snacks from his bag. Do of everything

[01:19:41] she noticed. Trying to convince herself to speak up, you broke the silence and acts. Aren't you going to get into the water? Sloan very much unprepared said, no you know I didn't bring

[01:19:52] my bathing suit. I was never as organized as you. He pulled their own swimsuit from his bag, pulled her old swimsuit from her his bag and said, good thing I know you. He responded with the

[01:20:03] sneaky grin. Sloan knew her facial expression and said exactly how surprised she was that he still had it because he immediately followed up with it. If he immediately followed up with,

[01:20:13] it's not that deep I just hadn't seen you and sent your mom about it. I didn't want to throw it away. See hooked she thought grabbing the bright orange swimsuit from him and thanking him for

[01:20:24] breaking your back. Sloan got up and walked a good distance into the trees to change as she walked back. She couldn't help but to think is this the same man that walked away from her when she

[01:20:34] needed him the most? My mom just passed. She thought she was not she's my mom just passed. She said aloud and that's certainly caring as they weren't that close to each other yet.

[01:20:45] They never had that conversation and she wasn't sure when they should. Was this the right time? But is there ever a right time? She thought as she made her way back to the picnic area,

[01:20:56] Sloan asked if he was excited for World Gondick Fest. He said of course that is the best time of the year. Tons of gamers, cosplayers, voice actors, so many people plus a sponsor that I've been

[01:21:08] trying to get from my channel for the longest. Sloan knew exactly who he was talking about because so had she. World Gondick. They weren't just iconic face-based, all female leaders of the biggest festival in the United States but they were leaders in podcasting and streaming. They made podcast

[01:21:23] and streaming history throughout through their legendary content and guests and maverick wanted them of course, but so did she. Of course. Switching the subject, Sloan asked, are you going to get into the water as well? He looked at better, smiled and said, I thought about it,

[01:21:39] but only if you jump. You know my response to that, I snarled. He replied, come on Marie, jump. I gave him the look prompting him to quickly follow up with okay, I will back off World Gondick if Paul's in momentarily, then swallowing hard. He continued,

[01:21:58] if you jump. We were both staring down at the spring and the thing is he wanted me to say that the idea was dangerous and admit that I was too scared and to appease him, I almost did. But if I'm

[01:22:11] being honest friends, the idea was simple. I wasn't scared and it wasn't dangerous. It was maddeningly exhilarating and I knew exactly what to do. I grabbed his hand and plunged his both into the water. The end. That was a good ending. Nicely done. I love how World Gondick

[01:22:41] is now. Yes. He's not. Yes, he is. And it's like, sorry, it's not. It's partially will film on me. I love that. I'm just like, I'll be in my pocket. Well crap. World Gondick. Yeah. I figured I would just do the opposite of what's actually.

[01:23:07] Yeah. No, I thought that was great. Yeah, no, I was a little crazy. That's a good little way. Yeah, like that. So thank you. So any what was your inspiration for this was any of it based on like

[01:23:24] actual relationship to life or no, it was not. I honestly just didn't know what to write about. It first I was going to write about a discreetal teen. I don't know. I didn't know what to write

[01:23:38] about. So I just started writing and then this is when we came up with it. Any of it, any of it based in real life, any of it. No, you're so good. Well, not this is the is Mavric Mullet guy.

[01:23:54] No, no, no, I have a purple. Or is he purple demon sword? No, I was actually going to like, I was going, I just didn't. I was also a, I'm also a procrastinator. I

[01:24:10] was actually going to based like the middle of it. So I was going to base it off of like a dream, right? Like it was all just going to be a dream that she had and then go more in depth into the dream.

[01:24:24] Like the dreams were basically going to tell her reality if that makes sense. So I didn't have time to kind of navigate. So I just I have a quick thought just like kind of

[01:24:36] observation and then I'm just curious if there's any like way to it. Like what I found interesting was how like the character at the beginning, like throughout the whole thing we're talking about a very independent woman. She's like, yeah, I mean, like in by the way,

[01:24:51] I wrote down like a possible title. I think I am woman would be a great title because it was named a repocaster or whatever, but like at least at the beginning until the very end it was like she was almost

[01:25:03] still looking for the approval of this guy and she couldn't get past that until she like literally grabbed his hand and jumped. Like is there any of that? Like might have like stemmed from inside where

[01:25:18] is there like a woman that's like screaming to get out but you feel held back or anything like that? Or I don't know. I mean, I don't because don't let these do the whole thing back like

[01:25:33] where. This is that would be like this and that goes into like a lot of deeper, deeper rooted additions that we don't really need to talk about. Well I mean, yeah, I mean, I often know

[01:25:45] I often find that like in reflection like a lot of the stuff that I end up writing about might have some like deep-seated like emotional tie with. Yeah. So I was just curious like, yeah,

[01:25:56] I'm sure it does. I don't know. I didn't really give that part too much thought but I'm sure it does. I mean, you know, I'm a woman who's probably not the one. I really do like the way she kind of took

[01:26:07] charge at the end because there was even even that moment when she was getting dressed to go where she was like wait, I'm in his clothes. I need to I like that. That was the nice touch. Yeah, I like that

[01:26:18] a lot. Yeah. So I think we saw like a true character arc like throughout this whole thing. Yeah, it was a well thought out character. Yeah. The only part that I realized

[01:26:28] didn't actually like I didn't realize that I had messed up. So in the beginning I said that she's not really that outdoorsy. But then I said oh yeah, she's an avid outdoorsy person. Sorry, like

[01:26:37] messed those first draft happened. That's all. I find myself doing that constantly. You've got to come worse to delete your good. Yeah, I definitely do want to actually tweak it and make it as

[01:26:50] like this is her sleeping but her dream is yeah because I have two weird of crazy dreams not to be and that could be in that whole thing. I mean, her birthday I look into your

[01:27:01] other dreams. You like you jump and she wakes up and she was like wait, I don't need him and then buy a woman. Yeah, I am. I'm seeing a short film. Nice here. Yeah, all right. Yeah.

[01:27:17] Nicely done really well done. Thanks. All right. Well it's my turn. So I'm going to preface as well. Hold on to your boots and I can't wait. I really was looking forward to this

[01:27:29] because I want to talk to you and Matt and Ian about this and whether or not you sometimes encounter what I'm encountering. So I'll just tell you the character, the main character

[01:27:43] in my story is not a good person. He is a racist, he's a misogynist, he is a rapist, he's a bad guy, right? James Bond. It became very difficult for me at times to like, I knew what I wanted

[01:28:03] this character to do and say and then I was like I can't do it. Like I can't bring myself to write some of the things that I felt like he would say and it was so that's I'm giving

[01:28:17] first of all his preface that he's going to say some things that aren't pleasant but they're very tame compared to what I was thinking. So I'm sure you can imagine some of the things

[01:28:26] that could have come out of his mouth if I was going to go there and I wouldn't at least not on this show, but it's, do you guys ever have a situation where you've written a character that is so

[01:28:37] despicable that you get that, you're a factor trying to write for him? Yeah, I from the longest time would not write from an antagonist point of view because I didn't want to have to

[01:28:48] one be in their head but also have to write them convincingly. But then, you know, I broke that rule at some point and even with my current work in progress, the one character I had,

[01:29:03] who said I had to be in in my head he was a very dark person and I don't think probably in the end I communicated probably as well as I could have if I would have put everything on paper

[01:29:18] that I thought exactly what you're describing but it's just like I don't want to write that stuff and I don't like, you know, you start to psych yourself out like, well if I write this what are

[01:29:28] people going to think about me and you know, I also want to maintain a level of like accessibility and I don't want to write something that you know. And I want you to get to the end

[01:29:36] of the story too, because it's not all that. Like when you're living with it in your head it's like you see everything and hear everything that that person would do and it does kind

[01:29:49] of bother you a little bit but then you realize it's all coming out of your own head also. Which is sometimes like the part that's, but it was just something to me that was just a story

[01:29:58] right? Well, that based on like, it's a few of perhaps right in every day like actually think. But the the the easy one which you were able to put that character together though

[01:30:13] I think doesn't betray like you as a messed up person it I think just betrays the universal sort of like depravity of humanity kind of a thing yeah and anyone in the right

[01:30:26] situation can could fall into you know a really bad spot. And I think even the fact that you are recognizing this is a despicable character yeah means you're the that you're okay you know what I mean

[01:30:38] like no I know I want to make I'm just saying like like I don't have a problem like like I read Stephen King stuff and he writes some just disgusting people some sort of right but I and I sometimes

[01:30:50] I wonder dude like where did that come from but I know that he's a normal guy who's not going to you know what I mean who's right really believe those things so but that's Stephen King right he's been

[01:31:01] doing this for you know longer than I've been alive almost so but if but if he wouldn't have taken that risk he wouldn't be Stephen King right you're right like that's that's what I'm talking about

[01:31:11] less about whether I can do it I know I can write it yeah and yeah I'll feel it keep while I'm doing it but I also don't want other people to be like dude why did he go there you know what I mean

[01:31:21] well because this is this is like a horror story and it went there like it is what it is so I just want to profess that and so you guys at least know that that's there's a bad person in

[01:31:30] that's yeah and yeah and he and now it's in it's in third person I'm I tend to and I will talk about that after I wanted to ask sometimes what inspires you guys I mean both you tell Nalia

[01:31:44] today went in first person and I wonder and then I listen to you guys and sometimes you guys will do one or the other and so I wonder what kind of inspires you to do that

[01:31:56] for me it should be obvious I did not want to be this guy speaking from his perspective but no it needs to be a third person for the fourth person story anyway

[01:32:06] yes all right so I guess I'll read it that's good now we've preface all of that here we go all right and aim of the story is cold as stone those urinals aren't gonna clean themselves

[01:32:27] Randy raised his head upon hearing this and stared into the eyes of his supervisor Terrence Keen and Terrence Balked Randy caught the hesitation you lifted a cigarette to his mouth took a long drag his eyes never wavering from the stair then he dropped the cigarette to the concrete

[01:32:46] Terrence tore his eyes away from Randy's and watched it fall bounced twice with an orange spark and then be subdued into fragments and ash beneath the toe of Randy's boot Randy's eyes never left Terrence now looked up from the flatten smoke and willed himself to return Randy's gaze

[01:33:02] with a sigh Randy pushed himself away from the wall he'd been leaning on and turned to face Terrence Terrence recoiled and slid out of the way to allow Randy to move past him and reenter the building

[01:33:14] the Tyler'sburg tri-county convention center floor was alive with activity hundreds of vendors convention years and exhibitors filled the cavernous room the cacophony of a hundred conversations graded on Randy's ears just inside the door his dirty yellow bucket and mop as well as a cart

[01:33:32] full of cleaning supplies to other paper and attached waste bin awaited him he looked at both with a scowl and begrudgingly began pushing the mop bucket and pulling the cart behind he glanced back to see Terrence reentering the building as well dabbing at his forehead with a

[01:33:47] handkerchief and deliberately looking practically anywhere in the world but at Randy pissant Randy muttered Randy had encountered countless pissants in his life there was the pissant who worked the counter at the little dine and dash on eight to called the cops on Randy when

[01:34:04] he was 13 there was the pissant cop who tricked him into spilling the truth about what happened to that girl there was the pissant and the cheap suit and cheaper cologne who the county assigned to

[01:34:14] represent him in court the judge had been another pissant spouting condescending gibberish about the wall Randy's stubborn refusal to accidentally and peacefully within it society at large and Randy's clear danger to it the girls pissant father who should have raised a daughter who didn't dress like a

[01:34:30] slut and asked for it the guards of a Maxwell maximum security pedantensory were all pissants and the warden was Lord high and holy of all pissants may he die and rot and have rats insist

[01:34:42] nest in his innards if Randy thought 26 years had perhaps been enough time away in Maxwell max to then reenter a society that had begun to rid itself of pissants his pissant Mexican parole

[01:34:55] officer and his limp specimen of a man Terrence soon divested him of that notion the pissants somehow were always the ones in charge Randy noted now here he was pushing a mop with a cleaning cart trailing behind him through the throng of colorful weirdos that copulated the conference

[01:35:13] of the convention center to his left where a gaggle of nerds dressed in the uniforms of that old space show from years back that never seemed to die but only spawned more and more ridiculous

[01:35:23] and irritating incarnations with only slightly better special effects on his right was a pear shaped idiot poured into a spider-man costume and walking straight towards him was a man that read in black leather suit and mask combo garnished with a frilly pink tutu Randy can only assume

[01:35:41] what kind of screwed up kinky nonsense that son of a bitch got up to as Randy made his way towards the west wing bathrooms he passed more and more unusual and ridiculously costume people

[01:35:52] from all manner of comic book movie and television lore they all perused booths of full of toys, books art and other nerd perfinalia with a kind of glee that just made Randy's blood boil.

[01:36:07] damn he muttered as the whole world gone geek pretty much came of voice from his left. Randy started and turned towards the voice ready to spit denim his eyes fell into a large human

[01:36:20] or form seemingly made of stone or hardened clay at least seven feet tall it towered over Randy who was no slouch at six three it's eyes unmoving unblinking were carved deep into a bullet head

[01:36:33] bullet shaped head and seemed to stare directly over Randy's head. Its torso was a wide solid earthen trunk supported by two massive muscular stone legs the arms of the thing man

[01:36:48] were bulging with stone muscles as well and came together to grasp the granite hilt of a tremendous sword held point to the ground down here said the voice. Randy lowered his eyes from the inanimate

[01:37:01] creature to see a perfectly animate young woman five four dressed mostly in black her dark hair tied back into a top not she was or could be pretty Randy thought if she removed some of the

[01:37:12] make up and yanked that bullring out of her nose but this I wouldn't throw out of bed he thought but then this his time with the last woman he'd been with was the reason he called Maxwell

[01:37:22] Max home for nearly three decades this one smiled at him after Randy off a bit women typically didn't do that to him unless they were making fun of them those smiles he wanted to smack

[01:37:33] off their faces and had done so on more than one occasion. I see you've met Gola might this one said addressing the stone creature before him you a fan no Randy said frowning not a nerd

[01:37:47] the woman gasped mocking a fence and then laughed Randy tensed up honey nerd stuff is in bra wherever you been weird is cool now the nerds are in charge Randy frown you don't say

[01:38:04] been away a while saw good she replied Gola might here's a stone guardian fights for justice and peace justice and peace a Randy scoffed she leaned in as if to confide and to avenge the oppressed

[01:38:20] Randy was momentarily distracted as what appeared to be a tall walking talking carpet strobe by the crowd his eyes then returned to her oppressed he said it was a statement she turned to address

[01:38:33] the booth behind her that the Gola might he said stood guard over the banner above the booth red Gola might have been decayed and the walls of the booth were populated with a variety of action

[01:38:44] shots from some comic book Randy guessed featuring the titular stone monstrosity behind the tables to the lanky african american man and a gray sweatshirt emblazoned with the same creature Randy's frown deep into when he laid eyes on the man. That's dibwawk Collins the woman continued

[01:39:02] our t's genial my mom had a thing for w e b dibwawk said extending his hand Randy did not take the offered hand only i'd it suspiciously and do guapa hold it back in glance

[01:39:15] that the woman brow furrowed i'm atty the woman said i write db is uh me cone ponyone de arms who takes the pretty pictures or makes the pretty pictures Gola might five years old this year

[01:39:30] that's so Randy said that's so we just struck a deal with Netflix for a series run. Randy had no idea what a Netflix was and his eyes moved from abby to dibwawk to two

[01:39:41] blackards on the table on one was printed dibwawk Collins artist while the other the red abby spigol writer Randy chuckle dryly spigol he said it was not a question at this abby's own brow furrowed

[01:39:58] yeah that's me Randy lower designs and shook his head figures dibwawk edge closer to the side of the table ready to come around if needed and said what exactly do you mean by that?

[01:40:12] Randy looked at him then back at atty nothing Randy said sizing dibwawk up with his eyes then his eyes returned to atty though it is surprising i guess what's surprising atty said Randy began to turn away and take his bucket in cart hey abby said what's your deal?

[01:40:33] Randy stopped for a moment and turned back to them i'm just surprised to see a Jew and a black man working together a slight smile around across Randy's face but I suppose that's the way of the world now

[01:40:48] what the dibwawk spat disclanked before abby cut him off with a wave i think you should move on pops abby said sure thing Randy said the wheels of the cart and mop bucket squealed as he pushed his way

[01:41:02] through the costume to crowd before he got too far he glanced back at the booth hoping to revel in the pathetic anger of that painted harlot and her companion but instead his eyes fell in the

[01:41:13] goal of might statue he stopped for a moment then shook his head there's no way those blankly staring granite eyeballs we're now looking at him right the night sky was a cloud each and chill was the air

[01:41:30] but his cold as it was it was still unseasonably warm for late February Randy couldn't much care if it was colder hot he looked up the gray expanse above him could just make out a few stars

[01:41:39] to a split in some of the crowds and just breathed in the feeling of freedom that was still only a few weeks old for him he took a deep breath and immediately you're at it as he inhaled the

[01:41:49] burnt popcorn smell of the ethanol plant across the river Randy occupied his usual spot against the wall outside the buildings west wing exit door adding to the growing pile of cigarette butts

[01:41:59] in the concrete next to him the nerds were almost all gone now shuffling out of the exits loaded down with the days bits and bubbles acquired it prices that made Randy wonder how all these

[01:42:09] basement dwellers were able to have so much disposable cash. Terrence emerged from the doorway pulling his coat close to himself he stopped when he saw Randy and did not even try to cover his obvious side Randy Terrence said Terrence Randy replied I know you did the bathroom's earlier

[01:42:30] Terrence role-designed but one of the visitors drank too much butter beer and poked in the third stall of the ladies' west butter what doesn't matter i'm afraid i'm going to need you to take care

[01:42:41] of that tonight Terrence pureed at him can you do that Randy nodded thanks Terrence started to pull away. Philip will read leave you at 11 for the night i'll see you tomorrow afternoon

[01:42:55] along with a dork's here Randy asked Terrence frown they're here through Sunday duh don't let any of the visitors hear you talk like that this is one of our biggest events of the year Randy chuckled

[01:43:07] anyway Terrence looked up the gray sky they say it's supposed to rain maybe i can beat it home good night Randy grunted. Terrence screwed off towards the parking lot and Randy stomped out the

[01:43:17] butt of his latest cigarette he turned and re-entered the building pulled the door close behind them and made sure it latched then he grabbed hold of his mop and cart and made his way to the ladies room

[01:43:27] there were a few straggling vendors still working on their boots as he moved across the convention floor but trolling up the center aisle he saw Greg Lane the night guard who gave Randy a curtain odd

[01:43:38] Randy didn't nod back he knew Greg would make a show of it until all the vendors were gone and then head back to the guard room and watch TV on his phone Randy still didn't understand how that worked

[01:43:47] or sleep Randy reads the ladies room and took a door stop around of his cart he opened the door and wedged the rubber stop under it turning towards the stalls he heard the door sliding shut as the door prop failed to find

[01:44:00] purchase on the slick floor. Damn it Randy said and turned back towards the door a startled voice came from one of the stalls hey someone's in here Randy abandoned the door and looked towards the stalls we're closing everybody's got to get out

[01:44:16] the frustrated voice said maybe i can finish wiping my ass first hey lady do what you gotta do but beat it some privacy maybe the woman was really getting annoyed now Randy shrugged and turned towards the door he pushed it open stayed right worry was

[01:44:33] and let the door close his eyes were trained on the stalls eventually a flush was heard and he heard the woman fumbling at the latch when a stall door opened a or swung back

[01:44:44] Abby speak a l'mrge from it and gave a startled shout when she saw Randy still there what the hell man she turned to beat red the frack is wrong with you I didn't see nothing Randy said

[01:44:56] it doesn't matter it's wholly inappropriate she refused to come close to him and edge overdue the sink to wash her hands. I have to report this you piece of hey hey Randy lifted his hands

[01:45:06] in surrender slowly walking towards her it was a joke i've been kind of out of things for a while and forget myself sometimes especially around women and it's spent a lot of time with them in years

[01:45:18] as you can imagine wouldn't mind spending some time with you yeah she scoffed how care if you've been up river for a half century this was never appropriate behavior back off. He lowered his head

[01:45:30] and kept his hands up I hear you know harm done i'm sorry it was just thinking maybe we could get together later tonight my shift ends at 11 Abby could feel her blood turning cold her skin crawl

[01:45:43] and her heart was climbing up into her throat she didn't feel confident about making it to the door safely she cursed herself inwardly for leaving her phone and bag in the booth not freaking likely

[01:45:56] Abby said teeth clenched Randy restart and brush her hair and she jerked away hip hugging the roof thanks to avoid getting nearer to him push her way to the door Abby knew she should keep moving

[01:46:11] and and pushed her pushed harder towards the door Abby shuttered and I'm sorry I got lost Abby shuttered and pushed through the door practically running for her booth Randy caught the door and watched her figuring he was going to catch hell for this tomorrow

[01:46:28] and wondering if she's just chocked this parole up as a loss and follow her to her car now he thought that patient parents is weak will he take his chances with him and try again with

[01:46:38] her tomorrow he pulled in his supplies and got to work when Randy had finished his work in the bathroom he wrestled his cart and mop bucket out to the back out of the show floor only about a third of

[01:46:51] the overhead lights were on now leading the booths and displays below in shadowed gloom that unnerved him the vendors were all gone as was Greg he was probably halfway through a phone movie by now or

[01:47:02] sawing logs Randy didn't like it much when the place was empty and dark like this he wasn't afraid mind you but the steel and concrete surroundings and the deep silence reminded him too much

[01:47:12] of lights out at Maxwell he only had about a half hour left on his ship shift which will be spent in the employee break room alone eating a candy bar from the machine and listening to the time clock

[01:47:23] take away the final minutes until he would return to a shabby apartment behind the bowling alley he pushed his cart into the maintenance room and tucked it into a corner and began the process

[01:47:32] of rinsing his mop and dumping out the filthy water into the industrial sink when he was finished he put his hands behind his back vent back was a little stretching he heard it pop set of

[01:47:43] factually and straightened up closed his eyes for a moment and begrudgingly embraced the silence the silence was soon interrupted by a crash from out on the show floor that nearly made him jump

[01:47:54] out of his skin he rushed to the door and looked around there's no sound now only the silence he squinted as he peered across the immense darkened room hello he called out his voice echoing

[01:48:09] he listened again nothing damn it Greg you thought to himself get out here and do your job Randy started walking down past the aisles of tables glancing down each aisle to see if he could

[01:48:21] see anything out of place toppled over or otherwise a skew for four aisles he sees and here's nothing then he hears a thump that causes him to spin around is quite sure that it had come from the

[01:48:34] concession stand area I bet those stupid kids stacked the soda syrup boxes too high he said to himself they probably fell down he made his way towards the stand if I have to clean up another mess

[01:48:49] but there was nothing a miss in the store room behind the concession stand Randy gave it one more look and inflict off the store room light he turned ready head back to the employee lounge when he saw

[01:48:59] shadow move between the booths down aisle 400 hey he yelled the hell you got to get out of here he started walking down towards the row where he'd seen the movement you hear me you better not be

[01:49:12] stealing crap he appeared through the shadows between the booth a smile running across his mouth he relished the idea of getting to beat down one of these comic nerds there was more movement this movement sounded like rocks grinding together Randy stepped forward towards the gap between

[01:49:31] the two booths and emerged on the other side of the aisle and froze out of the shadows rose a gigantic figure towering over Randy it's formed blocking out the dim overhead emergency lights it moved slowly towards him and Randy backed up once again squeezing between the booth piping

[01:49:48] listen you costume freak he said look i'm gonna call the guard Randy pulled his radio off the back of his belt but before he could lift it to his head he felt his neck pinched between what felt

[01:49:59] like a giant vice and he was being lifted from the ground the radio clatter to the ground as Randy was flung like a sack of marbles into an artist's booth he broke through the folding table

[01:50:10] and landed hard on his back pan and ink drawings a various supernatural creatures raining down around him he pushed up on his elbows and began furiously scooting backwards away from the figure

[01:50:20] that had tossed him his belt had been run pretty good and his vision was blurry and pink but it could see a massive shape stepping over the broken table in pursuit Randy finally backed into a

[01:50:32] folding chair and quickly used it to haul himself days to his feet before he could move another step however the grip the vice grip that was now crushing his left shoulder and another

[01:50:42] vice grip joined it on the right in moments Randy felt his feet dangling above the ground and his face was nose to nose with the cold hard granite glare of the statue from the gullamite booth

[01:50:55] it was making a strangled horrible gurgling screeching sound and it took nearly five whole seconds before he realized the sound was actually coming from his own throat he choked and coughed and tried desperately to push away from the creatures and grasping and clawing at its cold and

[01:51:11] rocking chest his fingers came away dripping with blood the creature tightened its grip on Randy's soldier shoulders and Randy was pretty damn sure it heard something pop in the right one the pain was

[01:51:23] so excruciating that had passed over into numbness and everything that was happening to him seemed to be happening far far away the creature leaned back slightly and then his massive solid head can crashing forward into Randy's face Randy was sure his nose was broken and probably he probably

[01:51:42] his skull around his left eye that damage assessment was his last thought as darkness overtook him the next day a poor single dad and his 11 year old son were the ones to come upon a body floating in

[01:51:56] the river near the regatta stage where they were fishing when the body was recovered it was determined to be that of one Randy Volker 44 54 recently a 37 a cedar terrace formerly of Maxwell maximum security penitentiary nearly every bone in his body was pulverized and space appeared within

[01:52:14] smashed in by a large blunt object police were baffle abby got this news from parents when she approached him to report Randy's behavior from the previous evening she shivered when she when he described the state of Randy's corpse she felt revulsion and relief simultaneously as she slowly

[01:52:31] made her way back to the booth she scooted past the statue of Golumite in order to reach her chair and her sneaker slipped in some water pool there and grasped on the Golumite's arm to stare

[01:52:41] steady herself she looked down and saw that there was a little bit of water pooled around the feet of the statue looking up into the Golum's face she noticed a red smear across the left side of

[01:52:51] its square nose she wiped it away with her hand and looked around nervously everything good do why asked she absolutely nodded and sat down at the table grabbing a tissue from a nearby

[01:53:02] container and wiping her fingers she worked up a smile squirted some hand sanitizer into her hands and greeted a fan who approached with a mint condition Golumite the valiant number one seal behind

[01:53:13] glass on the cover Golumite was lifting an evil doer by the shoulders as chaos rained down around them Abbey took a sharpie and signed the glass on the frame Golumite the statue stood guard above her and that's it that's the story

[01:53:33] all right wow so quite the tail I can't I can't help but like thinking about like what you were asking beforehand and it's just like you know when you it's almost like when you're writing about these these terrible things like happening you you wonder if there's something almost

[01:54:05] like something wrong in your head where you're like wishing like this upon somebody like that do I really want to be writing this and but I mean like I feel like Randy got what he deserved right

[01:54:18] I mean like it might have been like a little too much but I mean like that's funny that's where see that's where the the some of the difficulty of telling a story like this runs

[01:54:27] I want to make him evil enough to deserve it right yeah but I also don't want to write this about how easy yes so I threw a lot of subtle hints into just how sick he was

[01:54:41] hopefully that can be nice nicely done without being too graphic or quite zoning to me yeah you did a really good job of that's why you mentioned that the evil man the average is very

[01:54:52] 12 it's so not 12 it's home but creep show was kind of my inspiration in that which similar type of thing and a little bit more but it was Stephen King it was creep show like where

[01:55:07] you know the evil bad person something bad happens to them because they're bad and it's like a very simple kind of age old you know tail or whatever but I wanted it to to be like that kind of

[01:55:20] pulpy you know uh creep show type of homage I guess yeah the the line that really cemented him is like truly evil to me was when he said something along the lines of maybe I should just chalk

[01:55:34] this parole up to a loss and go follow or whatever you know like this is like that's like way more like serious than just calling somebody in nerd you know what I mean like yeah that's I mean

[01:55:47] those are lines that that's struck me yeah well there were some other I mean besides the you know obviously making a racist statement about you know Jewish people and black people you know there was more

[01:56:00] that I was what have had them stay in there but again that felt wrong it just felt wrong right but again that's the type of I mean unfortunately that's a person that exists like that's not I think you

[01:56:11] don't know what you can decide you don't yeah I mean like the sentiment was there yeah yeah and I think I think you did a good job of I mean I think that was more than enough to cement that

[01:56:22] Randy was not a good guy I feel like I feel like if you went any further and more or more graphic in all the bad things that he would have said are done that might have been too much I like that you kind

[01:56:36] of kept it at that first sort of layer that tear because then that leaves a little bit to the imagination like oh well I think what he really thinks well I mean Matt you picked I think the the

[01:56:51] line that I was that was supposed to because it's I hinted why he's why he was there for 26 years was the obviously was the rape of a woman and now he's like obviously not then re-ebelts

[01:57:06] still in the right guy who shouldn't have been let out he's just like oh well now I can get back to work kind of like that's just how sick you know kind of yeah I think the the choice to like

[01:57:16] have him recently released from prison was really smart too because like it kind of shows the separation of the like his absence from the world and like he he totally missed 26 years of like life

[01:57:30] so like I mean not sure what a Netflix is or whatever you know there's like little stuff like that right just like we're just like he not only is he evil like like inherently evil but he's also

[01:57:43] just he's just out of touch with everything and that kind of like you know that that's sort of a statement that I was trying to make too that people there are people who haven't been away for 26

[01:57:54] years that still had this still hold this attitude and it's that's worse obviously it's like what that you know how how we not learned something in the last 30 years sure that has made us better

[01:58:07] people as a society and I mean it could even it could also be read as commentary on the prison system itself because I mean isn't though the whole purpose is to rehabilitate them to

[01:58:17] re-enter society and that obviously didn't have any fails sometimes they recommit crime just to go back in because they don't feel like they fit in society well sure right so sure yeah yeah I almost

[01:58:29] I almost I almost I had to find you meant that because that was I almost kind of like had him say that that's you notice that he he doesn't like it when the lights go out at night

[01:58:40] because it feels like for my life yeah that was the same kind of thing but it this you know but at the same time while he did he it unerved them it still was like that's where there's

[01:58:51] some cultures used to what you knew yeah so yeah I think if I re-re and I probably will go back to this and re-react there's a lot more detail I want to put into how they you know the golem

[01:59:04] tax of them oh there there was description in there that like it's one of those things there's sometimes I'd listen to e-in and I get jealous of it but it was right at the beginning when

[01:59:12] the cigarette hit the ground like all of that with like the orange ash bouncing in the boot crushed like all of that was just perfect and it's something that just like doesn't happen for me so I'm

[01:59:23] always like in awe of people who can do stuff like that and still keep it going without like slowing the narrative down. Do you guys pick out where the moist squelter would have been after

[01:59:34] I thought it was a some thing that's probably well he was being crushed his like windpipe because like an moisty and a lot of good hits like it's headbutted yeah when it gets the head but

[01:59:46] it's like yeah I'm thinking like with a moist with a moist that squelter realized that his nose was probably broken and his skull around the left eye yeah that's exactly where

[01:59:56] I would have put it yeah but yeah I just I don't know yeah so I was I also think I wrote the best first line of a short story. I love so I don't know if you guys have heard of this this contest

[02:00:10] where people try to write the worst opening line to a book you know they don't have to write anything else it's just like this is just a warning line is just terrible right like it happened on a cold and

[02:00:21] rainy me yeah that's the best. Yeah I feel like I would definitely it's called a dark installing night like there's a call and the winners like they always remember the top

[02:00:35] really yeah some of them are a fantastic. So funny you're just like oh my gosh like you don't think about I'm like why don't know what is the bad line and then you're like you read some of

[02:00:44] the ones that really creative authors have come up with and it's just like you have to be a great writer to write that badly. You know what I'm saying? Correct exactly. Which is kind of awesome and then

[02:00:54] so I just I was like that's why I felt I'm like this is pulpy this is creep show this is you know 80s king you know I mean when he was early in his career what would be like a really weird way

[02:01:09] to start the story. I think it's a best way that can more interesting way and this is where I think I was going with the twilight zone thing would be to have like a new it had to

[02:01:18] expounded upon the gullamite so we called them yeah I just wanted to call them gullam but like the gullamite legend you would have been expounded on little bit maybe to make this work but

[02:01:29] I was thinking like if you would have had the gullamite subsum randy and then randy has to like embody and fulfill the duty of the gullamite so he asked to then protect all the people he doesn't

[02:01:44] like and you know basically you all these good deeds that's sort of like his punishment for the things that he'd done wrong. Interesting and that would have been like sort of like you know

[02:01:57] this one might have went with the twilight zone thing but yeah that's cool you I mean you guys I don't know if you're familiar with the the gullam the gullam but it's a jewelry jewelry jewelry

[02:02:08] yeah yeah with a big sting stone or clay and it's usually they put a scroll in its mouth or whatever and as long as it's in there like it will do your bidding and it the avenges people you know

[02:02:22] I mean then that's where I thought like how cool would it be you know for that to be like the superhero to be based on because you know like she's she's Jewish and so she's writing that so that's her I don't know so then Abby's aware

[02:02:38] I mean she's like no that's why I wish you came up with the idea for the story She doesn't know she's not a gulamite she doesn't really like I don't know I mean that's at the end

[02:02:49] it's clear that she's something you know I'd left it she's aware that's something yeah but she didn't she didn't want anything because she's like sure right she doesn't want she doesn't care what that is she doesn't want to cause any trouble

[02:03:06] and that the contest is called the bull were litten fiction content yeah okay yeah I do there's like a name because I think the person who wrote that original line in a book is

[02:03:15] it's me that is I'm a thank god no it's not like the 2021 grand prize wonder was so good read it what was it read it what was it oh it says it's okay it says I knew she was troubled the second she walked into my 24 hour deli

[02:03:35] long-dramat and detective agency after dropping a load of unmentionedables and one of the heavy duty machines a mistake that would soon turn deadly she turned to me asking for two things find her missing husband and make her a salami on ride was spicy mustard breaking into tears when

[02:03:50] I told her I couldn't help I was fresh out of salami wow okay it was really good I think we all need to do wow like it was really good

[02:04:04] it was really good but then the eye was fresh out of salami just hit it out of the park great oh I feel like intentionally writing something bad I excel at I can do that

[02:04:17] that's me yeah some of these are great like what do we got here the 2020 grand prize winner heard their her dear John missive flap unambiguously in the windy breeze hanging like a pizza menu

[02:04:31] on the door knob of my mind it's door knob my mind that's fantastic all right that one read that one but I would definitely read the story like if it was all written like that

[02:04:44] the one that earlier just read like yeah that detective agency like that's what they're doing I would totally read that guy story like that that would be into that

[02:04:54] all right well this has been a lot of fun not me obviously we're a little a little bit over time here we need that was gonna happen this is a lot of yes sure um but uh I want to thank Matt

[02:05:04] and Ian for being here today uh there show where we guest drops tomorrow is that right right tomorrow um which is Monday the sixth sixth oh my gosh you were watching right now

[02:05:19] um or listening you can just go to promptly written um on your favorite I or a podcast anywhere podcast or uh available yeah you guys have a prompt for next month yet do we know or

[02:05:34] yes it was you actually you first was something about finicky something about finicky looks finicky oh he looks finicky okay he seems finicky I remember something like that yeah all right cool

[02:05:48] so we'll look forward to to your next episode uh and did do you have any where can people find you but we told him what the podcast is but is there anything else you want to share as far as

[02:05:58] uh Ian uh Ian Lewis fiction dot com is my very simple website as you haven't mentioned Gary next month I'm on Twitter Instagram all of them so whatever really creative guys really creative yeah we can be out of this what we aspire to they put all the creativity

[02:06:15] in their stories like web page I mean come on let's just what was their names Utah in your sorry what was that name sat McGarric and Liam Lewis Liam Lewis what Liam Lewis needs

[02:06:29] a nickname I think it's fog so that's fantastic perfect so uh what we announced on your podcast Matt and I think you said you're gonna put the trailer on there yeah I did I'll take it on the end

[02:06:42] a new podcast that Matt and I have teamed up on um speaking of Stephen King we're talking about earlier uh both of us are King fans and we are going to journey through the dark tower

[02:06:54] series and all of the anslary books that extend throughout his crazy uh Steven King site quenthed universe yeah so let's take a little side quest it's a lot of fun

[02:07:05] if you're interested if you love Stephen King you can join us for that I am not gonna play the trailer because has already been long enough of a show but I will put a link to the show in the show note

[02:07:16] so you can check out check that out we got a trailer out there we're gonna be recording soon we're gonna start starting with the gunslinger and uh uh we're gonna it's uh what I say five

[02:07:26] years journey I think through everything that it's it's a view of your mission yeah I mean let's just I think it's just two years through the the main dark tower or three years to the main dark tower stuff

[02:07:36] it's all the site questions that you're gonna talk about yeah it's all the side quests and then there's a lot of extra movement for up because yeah at the end like the the reading for the listeners for episode it's gonna be what like about 150 page chunks or something

[02:07:50] yeah it's no I think it's never more than like 200 you know so literally you could read more than that obviously but we're gonna take it in those kind of chunks to kind of you know

[02:08:00] talk about it and that kind of stuff and that's it's divided up as the chapters and parts are kind of to make sure that they all stay it's the stop in the middle of the page just you know

[02:08:09] in the middle of the chapter maybe funny yeah and he said until next time you find out all right well thanks again uh for listening and we appreciate you make sure to follow us on all the

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