Transcript - Episode 18: Side Effects May Include... (Part 2)
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Side Effects May Include... Part 2
Wed, Dec 10, 2025
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Ross Bryant 00:00
It's hours later. You've just finished dinner. Your bowls are clear and clean, and it's time, of course, to take your medicine.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 00:11
Here it is, everybody. Sorry, it's still the gray little pills. No fancy new styles yet, but we got your medicine here, and you guys know what to do.
Charlie Finch (Scott) 00:22
If it's going to help me sleep, I don't care what color it is. Just give it to me.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 00:28
A hundred percent.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 00:29
How many of these are we supposed to be takin', Doc?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 00:33
The whole cup. [laughter]
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 00:36
Oh, shit. Okay. Alright then, down the hatch.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 00:41
Do we chew them up or just swallow?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 00:46
No, there's a second cup with water. Dump all the pills, you take a shot of the water.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 00:51
Okay, great.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 00:53
And remember, no water for 45 minutes after that.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 00:57
Okay.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 00:59
Doc, that no water thing you said there, does that include whiskey?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 01:04
Much like to the lotion question earlier in the day, we'd appreciate if you didn't add another treatment to the treatment that we're already doing.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 01:14
Right, right.
cuppycup 01:15
He'll slide his flask back into his vest.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 01:18
Can you give that to me please before you go to sleep? [laughter]
Ross Bryant 01:24
Great. And I think if everyone's kind of bedding down, if Reginald you're kind of on your way out, the doctor from this morning with a face like an egg approaches you. This is Dr. Sid Pierce.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 01:39
Hey Sid, what's up?
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 01:41
Turning in for the evening. I just wanted to... You're doing excellent work. You're doing excellent work.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 01:48
Thanks.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 01:50
Okay, yes, your quarters, of course, you spent last night, same place. Do you need directions?
Ross Bryant 01:55
And you probably don't need directions. There's a little employee housing area just a little bit away.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 02:03
No, I remember exactly how to get there.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 02:05
Excellent. On the house.
Ross Bryant 02:07
And he hands you a little bottle of what looks like Soylent or one of those meal replacement juices.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 02:14
Okay. What is this?
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 02:21
Oh, just, you know, Asclepix not only makes pharmaceuticals for the discerning purchaser of today's modern healthcare market, but is also kind of getting into the Eastern medicine proactive healthcare space. In this you will find one of the most nutrient-dense meal replacement shakes that the market could ever, ever hope to have.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 02:53
Okay.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 02:54
We're moving into Whole Foods and Erewhon early next year, so didn't want you to miss out on the fun of trying something brand new.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 03:04
Okay, so this is like a protein shake or something like that?
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 03:07
Oh, very high in protein, extremely high in B vitamins.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 03:12
How high?
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 03:13
200%
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 03:17
What!? Okay.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 03:20
This is 35% of the protein you need for a day. An active person such as yourself, of course, this will nourish your musculature, but the B vitamins will increase your energy, blood flow.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 03:34
Love it.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 03:34
Not to put this indelicately, but this will increase testosterone. [laughter]
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 03:42
Wow. Okay, man.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 03:43
If you know what I mean.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 03:45
I know what you're talking about, dude. Well, thanks for the juice, man.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 03:50
Yes, let's just say that I have no regrets. [laughter]
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 03:56
Okay, man. Well, thank you. Have a good night tonight. Oh, and I gotta let you know...
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 04:05
Yes, did you observe anything in the group?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 04:07
Yeah, the kind of the weirder guy.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 04:10
You're gonna have to clarify. I'm sorry. [laughter]
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 04:15
The guy who's like, the skinny guy, bald guy. He's always so nervous.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 04:22
Oh yes, Mr. Tennyson.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 04:24
Tennyson. Tennyson. But did he kill anybody? Because he... [laughter] Basically, what he said his dream was, is that he saw a bunch of dead people who had been cut open and were bleeding all over the place. And all he, you know, in his dream, all he's reliving is the experience of "I did that." And so, you know, I know some of these people have some issues with sleep, but this seems like he may have committed a crime and is having, like, guilt about it. That's the way he is going to confess. So that's why I have to bring it up to you, because...
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 05:01
Well, thank you. Thank you.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 05:03
I'm a mandatory reporter.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 05:04
Of course.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 05:05
If there was... if he had injured somebody, you know, we gotta like, he probably shouldn't be here.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 05:13
Based upon the background checks that we have done, I think Mr. Tennyson's record is clean. Now to speak of his subconscious, who among us is in control of our subconscious faculties? Are you a Jungian by any chance, Dr. Biggs?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 05:29
You mean the doctor? Jung?
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 05:32
Yes. Are you familiar with the concept of shadow work?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 05:36
Okay, I mean, yeah. I don't really get too deep into that stuff, you know, but yes. You know, I will say my subconscious would never... I would never, you know, be murdering somebody. You know that's not like... groups of people. I mean, maybe you're subconscious, you get mad, but to actually recall it and be so... He was like, he was able to talk about it like it happened multiple times for extended periods of time. So I'm just saying that's different than "I'm having trouble sleeping because my CPAP," like, that's a different remedy. We can't just get the... whatever's in these pills. I ain't gonna come down on the guy, but whatever's in these pills, those are two vastly different issues with sleep.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 06:20
Certainly, and thank you for bringing it to our attention. That is a very, very disturbing nightmare indeed. Whether that tells me anything of Mr. Tennyson's actual homicidal tendencies, I suppose I'd need someone more well-schooled in psychology to understand. But I will say that as a student of Jung, all of us contain within us a shadow.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 06:43
I got you.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 06:44
To understand the shadow, to reconcile ourselves with the shadow is a path towards full integration and health.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 06:52
Alright. Well, when he talked to you the way he talked to me, you come tell me about the shadows tomorrow, when I come back into work, okay? Because I'm trying to help you out.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 07:03
Well, thank you very much, Dr. Biggs. And thank you for reporting it. As you say, let's all sleep on it, shall we?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 07:10
Got you, man. Thanks for the juice. Yeah, I might do a little more than sleep on it. You know what I'm saying?
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 07:18
Oh yes.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 07:19
Oh yes, speaking of, did Mr. Gordon surrender his flask to you by any chance?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 07:23
Yeah, he did. It's in the drawer at the desk. I put it in the office.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 07:26
Thank you. Thank you very much. Alright, see you in the morning.
Ross Bryant 07:31
Everybody roll Power.
cuppycup 07:33
Oh, man.
Ross Bryant 07:34
[MUSIC: melancholic guitar theme] The cosmos is a cyclopean infinity of chaos, infinite branching paths stretching off to vistas in the distance that will drive the mind mad. Shall we shrink in the face of all this? Or will we climb aboard the chaos and ride it to the end, letting chance guide the way? This is Push the Roll. We're rolling dice against your Patreon suggestions to create improvised Call of Cthulhu adventures in real time with themes of eldritch horror, the weird, the transhuman, the transmundane, the cyberpunk, the splatterpunk, the anything punk. We don't know until we roll. Anytime, anyplace, anything can happen when you push the roll.
Scott Dorward 08:31
No.
cuppycup 08:31
I have a hard success for Hitch.
Ross Bryant 08:34
Ooh.
Mary Lou 08:34
That's a big old failure for Beth.
Scott Dorward 08:38
Yeah, miserable failure for Charlie.
cuppycup 08:42
Charlie's struggling.
Colton Dunn 08:43
I got 50. I think I'm at 50 out of 60.
Mary Lou 08:48
Ooh!
Colton Dunn 08:49
I succeeded.
cuppycup 08:51
Nice.
Ross Bryant 08:52
Succeeded. And you extreme succeeded, Hitch?
cuppycup 08:55
No, just hard.
Ross Bryant 08:56
Okay.
cuppycup 08:57
I'll spend Luck if it's cool.
Ross Bryant 09:00
If it's cool, we'll see. [laughter]
cuppycup 09:02
You know, I don't care if it's cool, Ross. I'm gonna spend three Luck.
Ross Bryant 09:05
Great. Go for it.
Colton Dunn 09:07
Oh, wow.
Mary Lou 09:07
You're wild. You're wild. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 09:12
Okay, cool. Alright, let's deal with our failures.
Scott Dorward 09:17
I hope you're talking about the rolls and not the people. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 09:24
Our rolls, of course.
cuppycup 09:25
We have to disambiguate that every time. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 09:29
Yeah, Beth. Beth Silverman. [MUSIC: ominous drone] A giant green bunch of grapes in a photograph on the wall of the Publix. And there you are right beneath it, contemplating the beautiful, juicy fruit. Your cart full of all the delicious things to take home. The muzak gently, kind of thrumming. It's somehow not the pop music of today that they'd be playing. It's the canned muzak that you remember when you went to the supermarket as a child. [MUSIC: soft muzak]
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 10:13
Oh, that's nice. Heh.
Ross Bryant 10:18
The carts are pushing slowly by. [SFX: shopping cart rolls] Gentlemen nod to you. A tall man lifts a box of Bisquick off a high shelf and puts it into your cart and kind of nods at you politely.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 10:34
Thank you.
Ross Bryant 10:36
Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap. Tap, Tap, Tap. [SFX: metallic taps and bangs]
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 10:45
What is that?
Ross Bryant 10:46
Oh, that's probably one aisle over in the freezer section. The muzak continues to thrum.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 10:55
(vocalizes "The Girl From Ipanema" muzak)
Mary Lou 10:59
She'll scoot on over to the freezer aisle.
Ross Bryant 11:03
You push past, around the corner, past the meat, the livid, ruby red cuts of meat, coming around. The freezer section. [SFX: metallic taps and bangs]
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 11:23
(vocalizes muzak) What is that s...? Does anybody hear that?
Ross Bryant 11:24
[MUSIC: ominous windlike drone] And you can see the doors of the freezer cases with their jolly little signs for Bomb Pops and Push-Ups, and you can hear the tapping coming from one of the doors. The frost caked so heavily on its surface that you can't see through it. It is totally opaque, and you just hear that tap, tap tap, tap tap, tap. [SFX: metallic taps and bangs]
Ross Bryant 11:24
You're alone in the aisle. There's no one else here.
Ross Bryant 11:24
Oh.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 11:53
Okay, okay, okay.
Mary Lou 11:54
And she'll go up and...
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 11:56
Somebody must have left this door open for too long. It is too frosty, but I gotta see what's inside, so...
Ross Bryant 12:03
You open the door?
Ross Bryant 12:05
[SFX: wind blast] The gale force, arctic freezing air that blasts out at you. [MUSIC: soft muzak] And two enormous gloved hands holding a dark, black bag that lunges towards you. And suddenly all the light goes out as this bag goes over your head, [SFX: cloth moves and body impact] and you feel yourself in darkness and cold being pulled into the freezer. [SFX: clothing dragged]
Mary Lou 12:05
Uh-huh.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 12:35
No, my Bisquick! Get off me. Noooo!
Ross Bryant 12:42
You want to make a Fighting/Brawl roll? What would you like to do here?
Mary Lou 12:45
Yeah, she's gonna thrash. Absolutely.
Ross Bryant 12:49
Go for it.
Mary Lou 12:50
She's been waiting for this. Okay. She does not have a high Fighting/Brawl. And that is a big old failure. Big fail.
Ross Bryant 13:02
That is a failure relative to the level of success of whatever is pulling you in. [SFX: clothing dragged] It is so cold. It is deathly cold. You can feel frost all around you, and you're being pulled into this freezer. But there's no doors. This should be a tight and confined space, but you can feel the utter emptiness of it. It is though you've been pulled through this door onto the surface of Antarctica. The slippery ice underneath your feet as you're being pulled inexorably forward. These strong hands pinning your shoulders.
Mary Lou 13:34
Yeah, she's like jumping and kicking and thrashing, like, throwing elbows trying to connect with anything. [SFX: fighting movements] And it's... no matter like how far she reaches or how hard or high she kicks, she just she can't connect with with anything.
Ross Bryant 13:53
Deeper and colder and deeper and colder. Okay, Charlie, you took the drug, but you've not yet fallen asleep. What do you do in bed when you can't sleep? Do you read?
Scott Dorward 14:13
I think I listen to podcasts on my phone.
Ross Bryant 14:17
Great. What kind of podcast?
Scott Dorward 14:21
Mostly kind of "keep fit" ones.
Ross Bryant 14:24
Keep fit? [laughter] Okay. Yeah, I'm just curious. Colton, what does this fit podcast sound like? This men's fitness podcast?
Colton Dunn 14:37
Oh. [laughter]
Fitness Podcast Host (Colton) 14:39
[MUSIC: generic upbeat] Yeah. Alright. So here's the thing, guys. Everybody. You know, the thing is, I'm glad I brought this guy on to talk about this, because you've got to eat enough food in the day.
Fitness Podcast Host (Colton) 14:52
They don't understand that they're supposed to be... There's not enough food that they're eating. They gotta eat, and they got to eat the right kinds of foods, that's the thing, and that's why we have this podcast. So we talk about the right kinds of foods that people should be eating, not the wrong kinds of foods.
Fitness Podcast Guest (Ross) 14:52
A lot of guys don't understand this, folks. A lot of guys don't eat enough food.
Fitness Podcast Guest (Ross) 15:08
The government tries to keep you on a 2000 calorie a day schedule. Our paleolithic ancestors, when they could, ate 5000 calories a day.
Fitness Podcast Host (Colton) 15:19
You know, but they're moving around, so you got to match it up with your movement. You got to think about what goes in and it's going out, and what's going in. When you charge the battery on your car.
Fitness Podcast Guest (Ross) 15:30
You got to think about movement.
Fitness Podcast Guest (Ross) 15:32
You got to think about movement.
Fitness Podcast Host (Colton) 15:33
When you put gas in the car.
Fitness Podcast Host (Colton) 15:33
Yeah.
Ross Bryant 15:33
When they mention movement...
Fitness Podcast Host (Colton) 15:34
Use that energy.
Ross Bryant 15:35
Charlie, you see something move in the shadows in the corner of your room when they mention how much you need to move in a day. [SFX: rustling and violin sting]
Fitness Podcast Host (Colton) 15:35
[MUSIC: generic upbeat, slowing down] Moving is so important, and sometimes we just want to sit there, and we find it hard to move. We sit there and it feels like we can't get up out of the bed, like something's on our chest.
Fitness Podcast Guest (Ross) 15:53
Sometimes you can't move at all. This is a contemporary problem. You know? People today are so inert, they can't get up, even if they try. [SFX: voice pitches down] They can't get up even if they wanted to.
Ross Bryant 16:04
[MUSIC: ominous drone] The thing in the corner is moving towards you out of the darkness now. [SFX: footsteps on linoleum]
Fitness Podcast Guest (Ross) 16:11
So get up. You gotta get up right now. Wherever you're at, I want you to get up and give me 10 squats.
Fitness Podcast Guest (Ross) 16:19
You have to get up right now. 10 squats, folks.
Ross Bryant 16:22
And try as you might, you can't seem to do it.
Fitness Podcast Host (Colton) 16:26
One.
Ross Bryant 16:27
As this thing is moving closer.
Charlie Finch (Scott) 16:29
Oh, God. No. No.
Fitness Podcast Guest (Ross) 16:32
Two.
Fitness Podcast Host (Colton) 16:32
Three.
Ross Bryant 16:33
You see a hand. You see a hand...
Charlie Finch (Scott) 16:36
Get away from me!
Ross Bryant 16:36
Reaching up on the bed, pushing itself up. It is human-oid, but it is not human. The skin is not a hue you have ever seen in nature. As it pushes itself up, its malformed head looming up now over the foot of the bed.
Fitness Podcast Guest (Ross) 16:54
Five.
Fitness Podcast Host (Colton) 16:54
Three, four, five. [laughter]
Fitness Podcast Guest (Ross) 16:54
Six.
Charlie Finch (Scott) 16:55
Get away from me. Get away.
Fitness Podcast Host (Colton) 16:56
Seven.
Charlie Finch (Scott) 16:58
Get away from me.
Ross Bryant 17:02
You can feel its weight start to push down on you. [SFX: bed squeaks and moves] And let's see how you're doing here, Hitch. You massively succeeded.
cuppycup 17:13
I did. If it's relevant, Ross, Hitch left something out when he was telling Charlie about that recurring nightmare he has.
Ross Bryant 17:21
Oh, that's cool. What was your occurring nightmare, Hitch Gordon?
cuppycup 17:24
It is what he said before. It's just that he wakes up, or at least thinks he does, and maybe he told Dr. Pierce this before, like during an intake interview.
Ross Bryant 17:34
Uh huh.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 17:35
[MUSIC: ominous strings] I wake up and I go rushing outside to find Biscuit. [SFX: door closes and footsteps on grass] He's there, alright, but he ain't the same. He's standing real quiet, looking at me, and his whole body's covered in fingernails. Made of fingernails, human fingernails. [laughter] All cracked and stacked together. And he's staring at me, eyes like black marbles, like he knows somethin' I don't. Then I wake up again, Doc, and for real this time, but I've got blood all over my hands because I've chewed my own nails clean down to the nub.
Mary Lou 18:19
(shudders) Ooh.
Ross Bryant 18:22
And you look down at your fingernails. They're a boy's fingernails, a child's fingernails. You're yourself at maybe like seven years old. They're chewed to the quick. And this story that you've just been telling, all that was just said by a large adult figure in a rocking chair facing away from you. [SFX: fireplace and chair rocking] They're looking at the fire in this rustic cattle country cabin, the rough-hewn logs on the wall. The person just describing that litany of this nightmare facing away from you is now silent, rocking, looking at the fire, and you are watching them. This sort of paternal figure, but your nails chewed down.
Ross Bryant 19:05
[SFX: chair movement] He stops rocking, stands up and turns towards you. [SFX: western guitar] And it is not your pawpaw. The face is painted from the top of the head down to the nose in livid colors. Shirtless to the waist, some sort of handwoven garment around the legs. And he raises up a handmade clay ocarina to his lips and begins to play music. Music that you have never, ever heard. And as he does so, the shadows in the room come alive. Reginald Jefferson Biggs... [laughter]
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 19:05
Pawpaw?
cuppycup 19:57
Oh, man.
Ross Bryant 19:57
You mentioned the Sleep Witch?
Colton Dunn 20:01
Oh yeah.
Mary Lou 20:03
The Night Witch.
Colton Dunn 20:04
Yeah, the Night Witch.
Ross Bryant 20:05
The Night Witch.
Colton Dunn 20:06
Yeah. So I'm, yeah, I'm just hanging out in this little room, I guess, and getting ready for bed. I got pajamas on with my initials on them.
Ross Bryant 20:18
Oh yeah.
Colton Dunn 20:19
And I've just prepared, like a little reading to do next to the bed, and I'm sitting down in the little bed. It's like a squeaky, cot bed. [SFX: mattress squeaks]
Ross Bryant 20:36
There's a lump underneath it. It's like, that squeaky cot, it kind of like bumps up against something underneath the bed.
Colton Dunn 20:40
I try to pat that thing down to see if I can get a good night's sleep.
Ross Bryant 20:45
It seems pretty hard.
Colton Dunn 20:46
Yeah, just comes right back up. So I just figure I'll make my way comfortable, and then just take a big swig of that juice the guy gave me. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 20:58
Yeah, you got to slurp the juice. You gotta wheeze the juice. [laughter]
Mary Lou 21:02
You gotta.
Ross Bryant 21:04
So you very much wheezed the juice.
Mary Lou 21:05
Slurp it up.
Ross Bryant 21:07
Yeah. And there you are in bed, and when you set the bottle down, what the heck is that? There's something white just kind of sticking out underneath this cot-like bed.
Colton Dunn 21:22
Okay, I kind of try to lean over the side of the cot to see what's sticking out. [SFX: mattress squeaks]
Ross Bryant 21:27
Oh, it's not exactly sticking out. It looks like it's a chalk drawing that's been chalked onto the floor, and you're just kind of seeing the edge of it protruding from the bottom of the cot.
Colton Dunn 21:37
Oh, I gotta get up and push the cot out of the way.
Ross Bryant 21:40
Okay, great. You push the cot out of the way. [SFX: furniture moves] Underneath the cot is an incomprehensible diagram drawn in chalk. Underneath your bed. There's a circle, and then a circle within the circle, and then a many pointed star inside that circle, and in the center of it all was that bulge that was giving your back some discomfort. It looks like a little metal bowl with a mandrake root sitting in it. And there's a little velvet bag there, right next to the mandrake root.
Colton Dunn 22:12
This was under the cot?
Ross Bryant 22:14
Yeah, what the hell?
Colton Dunn 22:18
Alright. Can I decipher what the symbol is? Is it something I've seen before?
Ross Bryant 22:23
Make an Occult roll.
Colton Dunn 22:25
Okay. Oh, no. Did not do it. It's ten, five and two. I failed that. I see the bag and I go ahead and open that up. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 22:40
Inside a puff of gray ashes falls out.
Colton Dunn 22:44
Oh.
Ross Bryant 22:44
[MUSIC: ominous strings] You've got a handful of ash, and there's something in it, folded up very tightly.
Colton Dunn 22:49
I carefully try to put any of the ashes back in that came out, and then set the bag down on the flat surface and try to fish out the piece of paper.
Ross Bryant 23:02
You do so, and as you unfold it, it kind of unfolds in your hand like a flower. [SFX: photograph rustles] And it's your photograph. It's a photograph of you.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 23:19
Hmm. This is weird. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 23:24
It's weird.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 23:25
Who put this in here?
Ross Bryant 23:31
Yeah.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 23:34
I gotta go. I should probably go talk to...
Ross Bryant 23:37
You turn around and Mark Tennyson is in the room with you.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 23:42
Hey, oh shit! [laughter] Hey, what are you doing in here?
Ross Bryant 23:48
He doesn't speak a word. He's just staring at you.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 23:51
Did you put this picture in here? Did you do this?
Ross Bryant 23:55
He shakes his head slowly, back and forth.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 23:59
That's no?
Ross Bryant 24:00
It looks like, no. He's like,
Mark Tennyson (Ross) 24:02
It wasn't me, Reggie. I can call you Reggie, right?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 24:09
Yeah, that's fine.
Mark Tennyson (Ross) 24:09
It was her. It was the witch. It's a curse, you see? So I hope you understand that we're pals, right?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 24:20
Okay.
Mark Tennyson (Ross) 24:21
It's not me. I don't want to do it.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 24:24
So did you put this in here on behalf of the witch?
Mark Tennyson (Ross) 24:26
She's making me do it.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 24:28
Okay, dude this is unbelievable. Where'd you even get a picture of me?
Ross Bryant 24:32
He walks towards you. There is very much a knife in his hand.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 24:36
Oh, whoa! Hey, hey! Hey, stop!
Mark Tennyson (Ross) 24:39
She's making me do it.
Ross Bryant 24:42
He goes to stab you.
Colton Dunn 24:43
Alright, I just pick up the cot and just hit him with it. I hit him with the cot. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 24:47
Great. Give me a Fighting/Brawl roll.
Colton Dunn 24:52
Okay. Oh no, I'm a doctor, man. Oh, 62.
Mary Lou 25:00
Ooh.
Colton Dunn 25:02
We both failed.
Mary Lou 25:03
Yeah.
Ross Bryant 25:03
The cot crashes across the room. [SFX: furniture impact] But you suddenly realize in this moment, because you succeeded on your Power roll, you know this is a dream. And maybe what really brings it home, that it's a dream, is when Tennyson opens his mouth, and what comes out is not a voice, but the music of a thousand madcap flutes. [SFX: discordant flutes] And all of you wake up and it's morning.
cuppycup 25:39
Oh, man.
Ross Bryant 25:42
It's early morning, and I will say that despite what your subconscious has experienced, only those of you who succeeded on your Power rolls remember your dreams.
cuppycup 25:53
Oh.
Scott Dorward 25:54
Ooh.
Ross Bryant 25:55
Yeah, you all feel rested. Beth, you feel cold, very cold. In fact, you may notice that, much like the mosquito earlier, that didn't seem to make logical sense within this antiseptic environment, your eyes are greeted with something that doesn't quite make sense, which is that the glass of water next to your bed has a little layer of ice on the top.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 26:28
Well, that's ridiculous. The AC is just too high. Is there a thermostat?
Mary Lou 26:36
And she's gonna look around for like a thermostat controller for the room.
Ross Bryant 26:41
Yeah, it seems as though it's been set as it was at 69 degrees.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 26:48
That is ridiculous.
Mary Lou 26:50
And she'll go to, like, crack that layer of frost on the top of the water.
Ross Bryant 26:56
Yeah. Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch. [SFX: ice cracking] Charlie Finch, you wake up rested, but there is a strange heaviness on your chest.
Scott Dorward 27:06
Is there any mud on the sheets?
Ross Bryant 27:10
Make a Spot Hidden.
Colton Dunn 27:12
Oh, no. [laughter]
cuppycup 27:14
What the fuck?
Charlie Finch (Scott) 27:15
That's a 91 but you know, I am going to push this roll.
Ross Bryant 27:20
Push it.
Scott Dorward 27:21
I mean, I've got this horrible feeling that, yes, something was sitting on my chest. I don't remember it, but yeah, after everything I saw yesterday, I'm just going to flip the fuck out. I'm going to start stripping this bed, pulling the mattress off the bed, searching for, yeah, just searching for anything that's going to explain why I feel like this.
Ross Bryant 27:42
Flip it, rip it.
Scott Dorward 27:43
And I've failed. I have 80 over 70, I have failed.
Mary Lou 27:51
You have such a high Spot Hidden.
Ross Bryant 27:52
That's crazy. Okay? So I think what you're greeted to like, no something was wrong here. And you're, like, literally ripping the bed apart. [SFX: bed destruction]
Scott Dorward 28:02
Yeah, oh, yeah. Absolutely.
Ross Bryant 28:05
There was something in this room, but your wrecking it has maybe disrupted your ability to see it. You're left with a sense of unease, but also this, like, once again, an even clearer eyesight. Your hearing, highly attuned. You feel rested, energized, but something was... something's off.
Charlie Finch (Scott) 28:30
Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go and see the doctor about this.
Ross Bryant 28:33
Hitch, yes, your fingernails are chewed almost to the quick, chewed down and ragged.
Colton Dunn 28:39
Jesus.
Ross Bryant 28:41
It's gross. Sorry. Guys, it's my job to be gross and disturbing. [laughter]
Mary Lou 28:52
In Call of Cthulhu, really?
cuppycup 28:54
Is there a sink in the room?
Ross Bryant 28:56
Yes.
cuppycup 28:58
I think he's gonna walk over to the sink and just kind of rinse his hands under cold water.
Ross Bryant 29:03
Yeah.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 29:05
Shit. Not again.
Ross Bryant 29:08
Because you remember everything. You remember that ragged, wooden room with your pawpaw in there, who wasn't your pawpaw. You remember the odd face of that man, and you, what's more, you vaguely remember a strange tune that seems to play in your memory.
cuppycup 29:27
Ooh, I like to think, as he's kind of staring into the middle distance with the water running down the drain of the sink, like the sound of the sink is reminding him of, kind of like the sad flute notes of an ocarina.
Ross Bryant 29:42
[SFX: faucet running and draining; discordant flute] The running water seems to hold within it, this music, this elemental tone. And yeah, Reginald Jefferson Biggs, you, of course wake up...
Colton Dunn 29:58
I'm testing this stuff. I am testing whatever, I want to find out what is in this stuff. I want to know immediately I'm coming in hot to work today, because I don't have dreams like that. [laughter] So this wasn't just like, oh, I had a dream. I drank this, and I had the craziest fucking dream I've ever had in my life. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 30:16
Great. So I love this. First and foremost, I'll tell you, there's nothing underneath your bed. There's no mandrake root, there's no writing. When you wake up, it was a dream. You know it was a dream because that music was coming out of his mouth. But, yeah, you want to test it? Great. You're at, of course, a pharmaceutical laboratory. You've got the instruments there to do such a thing. Yeah, give me a Chemistry roll.
Colton Dunn 30:38
Let's go for it. Let's get lower than 60, come on. 21! Oh, that's not bad. Yeah, 60 and 30, yeah, that's good.
Ross Bryant 30:46
So that's a hard success.
cuppycup 30:46
Nice.
Mary Lou 30:48
That's a hard, yeah.
Ross Bryant 30:50
Between your little residential room, you kind of move through a common area, down some hallways into a laboratory. Your lanyard allows you access in here. You go in. There are microscopes, centrifuges, pipettes and tubes everywhere. And you've got the little remnants of your bottle of juice. What are you doing with it to run a test?
Colton Dunn 31:15
I'm going to put it in a little beaker and put it in the thing that spins it around.
Ross Bryant 31:19
Yeah, nice. It's in that little centrifuge, and you're like, whipping out it's various components. And you can kind of see it separated. [SFX: centrifuge spins] The water, the protein powder, and I can tell you that immediately you see all these kind of vitamins, minerals. But settled densely to the bottom of your vial is a pasty gray powder.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 31:53
Hmm. Now what the hell is this?
Ross Bryant 31:58
You've got a hard success, so I think, yeah, you can extract that ingredient and run some tests on it. I want to say that this might be an electron microscope. So you're kind of turning some dials and knobs, and just imagine that there's a screen, a computer readout in front of you as you're kind of zooming into the powder, and you sort of see this gray mass. You zoom in and you see the texture of it. It looks almost like the surface of the moon. These big, granular gray chunks. You zoom in even more, and you're getting a look now at almost like the cellular structure of what you're looking at here. Cellular. So this is biological in origin, but just looking at it, it's kind of hard to tell whether this is a plant cell or an animal cell.
Colton Dunn 32:48
Oh, I can't tell if it has a thick cell wall or a thin cell wall?
Ross Bryant 32:53
Does this have a lipid bilayer separating the cell wall from the interior? You immediately identify the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell.
Colton Dunn 33:03
Sure, of course.
Mary Lou 33:04
The endoplasmic reticulum, well, there, that's right there. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 33:08
Yeah, but I will say that to your trained eye, this doesn't look like anything you recognize. There's aspects of its cellular structure that just don't make sense to you. There are parts of it that seem to branch out, connect with other cells nearby. As you try to get closer, it looks neither plant nor animal. It's not mineral.
Colton Dunn 33:32
Is that other doctor still here?
Ross Bryant 33:35
In fact, right behind you, you hear,
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 33:37
Someone's up early.
Ross Bryant 33:39
You turn around. It's Dr. Pierce.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 33:42
What the fuck is this? This was in the juice you gave me.
Ross Bryant 33:47
He kind of walks over, looks at the screen like,
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 33:51
Hmm, oh, yes, Lion's Mane.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 33:55
That's Lion's Mane?
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 33:58
Yes, for clarity of thought.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 34:01
The plant?
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 34:02
Well, the mushroom, yes.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 34:04
Okay, well, but why are cells acting like that?
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 34:08
I know your background, Mr. Biggs. You have studied chemistry, biology, no doubt, made deep study of it.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 34:16
Yeah.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 34:17
But I assume that you're not extremely well-schooled in mycology. Then you would know, perhaps, if you did study it, that the way that mycelium communicates rhizomaly creates these rather unique structures. Lion's Mane in particular. It is interesting how it rather mimics human neurology.
Colton Dunn 34:40
Alright, can I see if he's lying or not?
Ross Bryant 34:43
Roll Psychology.
Colton Dunn 34:45
Okay unde 30, come on now. Ah, nope. 80.
Ross Bryant 34:53
As I've said, his exterior is placid. His face is rarely expressive. When it is, of course, it's that sort of network of creases on his bald head and clean shaven face.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 35:09
Yes, yes. Did you enjoy the... I understand it's a little bit lacking in flavor, but the medicinal benefits are legion.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 35:18
No, I didn't like it, man. I didn't like it.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 35:20
You tell me, do you think it would blend well with... if we put in a sort of chocolate?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 35:25
I don't think you should give this to anybody, man. I don't know if you're using a different type of mushroom or what it is that's going on, but when I drank this, I immediately fell asleep, and I had a very messed up dream. And I feel fine today. I feel great. I definitely slept well, but I have that dream. I'd never had a dream like that before. Now I think even if I don't take this stuff, I'm gonna have dreams like that before. I think it messed my brain up, man. And so, you know, we should just, if that's something you guys are thinking about putting out, think a little bit harder on it, but definitely don't give it out to other people who work here.
Ross Bryant 36:00
He starts to walk with you down the hall, back towards that common room where the others are gathering, and he says,
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 36:04
Dr. Biggs...
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 36:05
Because we're giving stuff to patients here. We're doctors. We got to be taking care of these people. We can't be drugging each other.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 36:12
Certainly. I appreciate your feedback, Dr. Biggs. Now, do you remember our conversation yesterday about the susceptibility and impressionability of the human subconscious?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 36:22
Yeah.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 36:23
Certainly. Well, it seems to me... now, I of course, am no psychoanalyst, slightly schooled in Jungian archetypal theory, though I am. I do think that you have been speaking with our patients about their rather disturbing nightmares, and I dare say that some of that left a palimpsest on your own subconscious.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 36:48
No, no.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 36:48
I think that's what we're dealing with here.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 36:50
I've talked to people about their nightmares a lot of times. I've been going to school, I've been doing... this is not the first time I talked to somebody about their nightmare, and that did not make me then have a nightmare. Okay? So you know, I appreciate your guess on that, but I'm telling you, it's something inside of this thing, and when I figure out exactly what that is, if that's just some normal Lion's Mane stuff, okay, but I'm gonna tell you right now. I don't think it's just normal Lion's Mane, so...
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 37:18
Okay, well, I will have our team look at it if it was as unpleasant as you say. Like I said, short in the flavor department. I think we could make a little strawberry banana mixture that would cover up some of the chalky undertaste.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 37:31
Maybe, man. But I mean, is this... [SFX: door opens]
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 37:31
Oh, good morning everyone.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 37:32
Hey, everybody.
Ross Bryant 37:39
Tennyson isn't there.
cuppycup 37:41
Oh.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 37:42
It seems as though we're down one, yes. Unfortunately, it seems as though Mr. Tennyson, I think, developed a terrible ailment by the name of the common cold. So to keep him quarantined from the rest of you, so that we no longer have this interfering with our tests, we have quarantined him. I'm afraid you won't have the pleasure of his company.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 38:05
You're gonna think I'm a dick for this, but you can't talk about other patients' diagnosis in front of other patients. I mean, even though... you can't just like, spit that out like that, so lackadaisically, like that, okay?
Ross Bryant 38:09
He pulls you aside.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 38:09
Is that true? [laughter]
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 38:09
Yeah, that's true, man. I mean, I know to you, it just seems like we're saying he has a cold, but we're medical professionals. We can't give that information out just willy-nilly at the beginning of a meeting.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 38:32
That's HIPAA.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 38:32
Even if it's just as simple as the cold?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 38:35
Even if it's just... especially if it is. It's health related, that's the whole point of the oath, man.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 38:41
Well, see, sometimes you learn or are rather reminded of something new every day. [laughter]
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 38:41
We both learned something new today. [laughter]
Scott Dorward 38:48
Brilliant.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 38:49
Ah well, thank you. Thank you, Dr. Biggs, I am suitably chastened. Enjoy your time on the grounds. I encourage you to go riding.
Ross Bryant 38:56
He looks at you, Mr. Gordon.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 38:58
If the urge strikes, and I'll just keep doing no harm.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 39:03
Well, speaking of cold.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 39:05
Yes?
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 39:06
I was freezing last night in my room. I don't know who cranked up the air conditioning. I'm used to it being very cold in the studio, but,
Mary Lou 39:18
And she's like, wrapped herself up in like a sweater.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 39:21
But I would appreciate if they didn't do that again.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 39:25
Certainly. Well, each one of you has a thermostat in their room to climate control everything exactly as you need for your own comfort. I can see if I can talk to somebody about getting the air in here warmed up.
Charlie Finch (Scott) 39:40
Speaking of comfort, can I have my CPAP machine back? I know, I slept alright last night. I think I slept well, but I don't know. I still felt like... I still woke up feeling like there'd been something sitting on my chest.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 39:57
As I said, we really don't want to bring more medical interventions to bear while the study is still in progress.
Charlie Finch (Scott) 40:06
Well, I don't want to wake up feeling like I had Rumpel-fucking-stiltskin sitting on me all night. [laughter]
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 40:12
Okay, of course. Of course.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 40:15
I mean, I think what the doctor's trying to say is, okay, we could give you the CPAP, but you're not going to be collecting any more checks from this study, because it's going to kind of make your... the data we get from you is going to be useless. Not to be a dick or anything, we would give you the CPAP back, but...
Charlie Finch (Scott) 40:33
What are you going to do about what happened last night then?
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 40:37
Excuse me?
Charlie Finch (Scott) 40:39
Like I said something was sitting... Oh, forget it. Forget it.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 40:45
Yes, well, I certainly heard about the state of your room this morning, Mr. Finch. I'm sorry if you passed a disturbing evening. I assume that Dr. Biggs will make a full report. I certainly hope that our new wonder drug isn't to blame. Your CPAP will be wheeled in.
cuppycup 41:05
Hitch has his hands in his pockets, and he just looks at the doctors and says,
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 41:10
Everything was fine in my room.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 41:13
Okay.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 41:13
Excellent.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 41:14
Great.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 41:15
Well, here's to another day invigorated after a good night's rest.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 41:20
Right.
Dr. Sid Pierce (Ross) 41:21
And I won't be telling anyone what anyone has.
Ross Bryant 41:24
He winks at you, Dr. Biggs. [laughter]
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 41:27
Bye.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 41:28
Can I roll the Spot Hidden again?
Ross Bryant 41:29
Yes.
Colton Dunn 41:32
Ugh.
Ross Bryant 41:33
Alas. [laughter] It's alright, here's what I'll tell you for the Spot Hidden. He cuts a left and walks through a door in this hallway that you have never been into. You notice that he scans his lanyard on a little keypad next to it. You failed the Spot Hidden so you don't notice anything beyond this door. But what you notice, even with a failure, is that when he scans this key card, what you hear is a (makes electronic sounds). [SFX: electronic unlocking sequence and door opens] You may just have a moment of like, "huh?" You've never been to this door, and it seems like there's a lot of locks holding this thing shut.
Colton Dunn 42:15
I say,
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 42:15
That's behind that door. There's always a door, you guys. There's always a door.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 42:22
Hey, Doc.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 42:23
Yeah, what's up?
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 42:25
I know you said we ain't supposed to take extra medicine while we're on this gray stuff, but can I at least get some Neosporin or somethin'? My hands are looking a little bit rougher than usual. No big deal.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 42:39
Yeah, I can get you some of that. Guys, I'm gonna be straight up with you. I don't think any of you guys should be doing this, doing this thing. [laughter] I don't think you should be working with this company.
Charlie Finch (Scott) 42:48
I'm sorry, what?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 42:50
I've been here for like, a week, and I've seen so much stuff. I'm just saying that if I was you guys, I would second-guess what you're... I'm not gonna tell you what to do, and yes, I will get you some Neosporin for your hands. Your hands look messed up, man. I mean, you keep saying you're having a good night's sleep, but your hands look jacked.
cuppycup 43:09
Oh. (laughs)
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 43:10
Dude, just they're bleeding through your pockets, dude. [laughter]
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 43:14
Dr. Biggs.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 43:16
So, uh, yes?
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 43:18
What exactly is going on here in this place?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 43:23
I don't know exactly what's going on, okay, but I do have a feeling that they're doing some unorthodox and maybe using some ingredients, you know, that I don't think it's just the nutrients and normal vitamins and a balance of all the stuff that they're talking about. You know, I think it is... There's something chemically that is affecting you guys. And look, I can't, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna rock the boat too much here, but I'm just gonna say, if I was you, you guys seem like cool people, probably cooler people before you came here. [laughter]
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 43:53
(newscaster voice) So what you're trying to say is this sleep study, what we thought could have been a dream is turning into a nightmare. [laughter]
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 44:07
Yeah, yeah.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 44:11
Oh, this is great.
Charlie Finch (Scott) 44:16
What do you mean it's great? This... they're giving...
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 44:20
Well no, it's not great for us, but...
Charlie Finch (Scott) 44:22
Yeah.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 44:22
It's great for me and my career. If I could turn this into a story, I could break this on KBOS.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 44:30
What's your career? A story?
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 44:32
I'm, well, I'm a journalist. I'm an aspiring TV anchor. You could be one of my sources.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 44:38
Well, everything I said was not on the record. We did not have, like, any agreement on that. And what you wanted to do. You got to find out what's in that room, because it's the only room that I can't get into. So, you know...
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 44:51
Oh.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 44:52
A room you can't get into. Fascinating. Do you have a camera or perhaps you could get me my iPhone?
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 45:02
Oh, the one that we confiscated? Yeah, fuck it. I'll get you guys. I'll get all you guys your iPhones.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 45:09
Mine's a Blackberry. But, yeah.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 45:11
What? Really? How are we even charging that? [laughter]
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 45:15
I've got the 16.
Ross Bryant 45:17
Still? Okay.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 45:20
I didn't even know they sold those anymore.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 45:22
No, I don't know where gonna get them. [laughter]
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 45:25
Hey, Beth, in your professional opinion, you think we could sue this company?
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 45:30
Oh, absolutely, a medical lawsuit.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 45:33
Yeah.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 45:33
Those stories are so popular. They get so many comments on the website.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 45:39
You know, I was really counting on the $60 from this study. But you know, I think we could make like, $400.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 45:46
In this lawsuit, we'll make more than $400 maybe more like $400,000 each.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 45:53
You guys get a little ahead of your skis here. I can't even figure out what's going on here. I'm just trying to help you guys out to stay healthy.
Charlie Finch (Scott) 45:59
Look, I don't want to rain on anyone's parade here, but if we don't know what it is that we're taking at the moment and this stuff is messing with our brains and maybe poisoning us, are we going to live to get this $400,000.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 46:13
That's a good question.
Charlie Finch (Scott) 46:17
Well, thank you!
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 46:22
I'm being honest, that's a good question, man. Because I don't know. I don't know. You know.
Charlie Finch (Scott) 46:26
You're a fucking doctor!
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 46:28
I don't feel poisoned.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 46:29
Well, I don't... but I don't know what's inside of this particular medicine, okay? I understand how to treat people. I understand how experiments go.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 46:39
Charlie, do not be upset. Do not be upset with Dr. Biggs. It is a classic experimental trial. He's informing us. You... you're a whistleblower.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 46:50
I don't know.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 46:53
Charlie, I ain't looking to kick your ass, but if you go messing up our lawsuit and what we're trying to do here... [laughter]
Ross Bryant 47:00
Damn, frontier justice. Okay.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 47:04
Anyway, Doc, I appreciate you being straight with us. I knew I liked you. Glad someone here ain't afraid to call bullshit.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 47:11
I don't know. I'm not on the side of fighting Charlie, though. [laughter] That's not the side I'm on. Charlie, again, I'm here to be your friend here.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 47:21
Relax, relax, Doc, that was a friendly warning. Just letting Charlie know I'd kick his ass if he fucks this up for me. [laughter]
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 47:29
Yeah, okay, man, that's okay.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 47:31
It's Beth's opinion that this is a mystery, and mysteries need information, and information that's been hidden behind locked doors. [laughter]
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 47:47
Well, if we want to get in there, we just got to get that key.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 47:50
Wait, wait, wait. Beth, did you just say "it's Beth's opinion," and then tell us your opinion?
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 47:57
I did. I was trying something new.
Hitch Gordon (cuppycup) 48:00
Well hell, I liked it. Made you sound official.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 48:02
Oh, okay.
Dr. Biggs (Colton) 48:04
I thought it was great.
Beth Silverman (Mary Lou) 48:06
Thank you. Okay, um, great. I'll remember that. [MUSIC: generic news theme] (newscaster voice) What's behind the door? We can only hope to find out. Next.