Metra Ep 8 - I Want a New Story

The penultimate episode; the culmination of the Process. Will Tyler make the right choice?

Songs:
“Cori Comes Home” reprise
“Take a Bite”
“Fearful” 

Content note: this episode contains discussion of sexual assault.

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Written by Emily and Ned Hartford
Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford
Dialogue Directed by Emily Hartford
Produced by MythMakers Media

Featuring: Jeannette Bayardelle, Cherrye J. Davis, Corinna Schulenburg, Fred Inkley, Alia Munsch, Cristina Obando Sanchez, and Sierra Rein

Sound Editing and Design; Instrumentation Arranged and Performed; Vocals Arranged; and all Audio Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by Ned Hartford

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Transcript

SPEAKER_09 0:13

Mythmakers media presents with audio podcast story Jeanette by a Dell as the glove for those J.

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Davis, Corey, Corinna Julenberg and Sam.

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And Fred Inkly and Tyler. Featuring Aliah Munch.

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Sierra Ryan.

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Christina Abando Sanchez. And our wonderful tree nymph chorus. Yeah.

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Hello, humans and fellow revolutionaries. We three tree nymphs are here to present to you episode eight of the scripted serial audio podcast of Metra, a climate revolution with songs. And dear sisters, what where did we leave off from episode seven? Oh, um gosh. Cha cha cha. Oh, I remember.

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That's how the youngest black female hedge fund owner in history became a wow.

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That was so much fun! Yes, Tyler. That's the vision. Wow! We've been waiting for you. I'm here! Now let the scales fall from your eyes. Okay! You know what you have to do. Do I? Tyler Gans, help us bring down the bubbles. You want me to what? Help us bring down the bubbles!

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You're out of your fucking mind. I'm gone. Stop him, Aggie.

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It hurts! Damn it! He's hopeless. Let us bring the myth to its conclusion.

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The myth and its inevitable conclusion.

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He made his choice.

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But how can we ever go forward if we just keep going back? Because you see, Tyler. Now I'm supposed to go back into the myth of Metra and Erisicadon. Back into that abyss of pain! All just to get you to do the right thing. Because at least up until this very moment, I believe this myth was our power. I believe this myth born of greed. And conquest and revenge was our only chance. But I realize now we're just as trapped as you are.

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You cannot change the myth. Tyler!

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You know what happens next in this prison sellable myth? My father sells off his whole kingdom for food until all he's got left is sell is me. Until then he sells me off to some wealthy man, just like he might have sold off like a cow or a pig. All that mentions in passing, like it's nothing at all, just mentions that as a child.

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You don't have to do this.

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And then Ovid says that on her way to the scumbag, whom her father sold her to, well, Metra stops along the shore and cries out to Poseidon to help her. Because, according to Ovid, that's what you do with a rapist. You stay in touch. And Poseidon says, Metro!

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What can I do for you, girl? And he gives her the power of shape shifting.

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What a caring fucking guy, right? So I change into a fisherman. And I escape. But then I forget this. I go back to my dear old daddy, who just sells me off again. And so I change into a bird. And I escape the next pervert I get sold to, but then I still come home. And my father, he just sells me off again. And this just keeps happening. Over and over until one day I just don't come home. That's it. That's all the agency Ovid gives me. I want a new story.

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Corey. A new story? Metra is walking along the shore and she is about to call out a Poseidon for help when she sees three old women dressed in long black dresses. That is not the myth. Sitting amongst the rocks facing each other. Stop it. Yes. That is not the myth. The women are weaving baskets? Yes. Corey, what does Metra do next?

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Stop this nonsense. What are you doing? You are not paying for a nice one.

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Yes.

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Alright. I can see it. I I can hear it. The waves against the shore. The water lapping in a quiet tidal pool. I can smell the sea brine. I I hear the seabirds overhead. The women. The women softly talking. Knowing. Soft laughter.

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Old friends. What does Metra do next? Old friend. I approach the old women and they look up at me and they smile like they've known me forever. One of the motions for you to set.

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Yes. I do. I watch their hands dancing on the weaving shore grass. The motion rhythm are soothing like a pie. The old women laugh and chat, but their words become just soft and pleasant. Can you feel it? Magic is deep and I can feel it too.

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One of the old ladies has you a partially basket.

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I'm a princess. I've never done this. The old woman continued to weaving. A king's daughter don't know how to weave a basket with them. Dancing and bobbing of their own accord. Like something that is blue. And then the basket is complete. I am in the awe of the thing I have created. The women are gone.

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Yes. And in their place are three black crows. Shapeshifters.

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Thank you for the skill you have still called me. Simple though it be. Simple though it be, I don't know if I've ever felt such joy as I feel right now.

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Thank you. And the crow closest to herself.

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My mother.

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And then they fly away.

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And as they fly away, I realize. I realize the power was mine all along.

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You cannot change the myth. Music.

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Metro Beck series to relent. And she does.

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And she does. Okay, okay, okay. Let's let me see that. Please. Let me okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna fix that up for you. So just hold this over the wound. Oh no. Good, good, good, good. Okay, so first, I'm gonna give you a pill for the pain. It's gonna kick in fast. You'll feel less pain soon.

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What did you do? Change the myth.

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You ruined everything! My sisters can no longer the processes have all failed. We have lost all the power of my myth. The evil kings are fleeing back to the bubbles. How dare you to do this to me?

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How dare you betray me? Never told me it would be him. Someone must pay.

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So high. We would sing together, and her voice would float above mine, and I would be so and I would pause in awe. And it felt like the greatest honor one could ever have just to sing with her. My sister was kind and gentle and joyful. And that's the way she sang.

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Until if I had been there, I would have protected her. I would have given my life for her. I would have, I would have.

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You need water.

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Thanks, Sam.

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And you need honey to meet. Thank you. Thank you, Sam. Whatever happens today. We have each other.

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Yes, I knew who I was what I had to do.

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You remind me of her.

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We will get through this.

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How did you know about the conference?

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We found out.

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Hey, Tyler. It's me, Tom.

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Tom?

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Moby. Yeah. Trying to take off this stupid hat and beard. What are you doing here? Playing guitar. What's it look like? What do you mean? I had a band back in college and uh kept a little practice room over the years. You're helping them? Yeah, I gave them access to my security company's network.

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We embedded a virus.

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Starts running later tonight, taking down the bubble power grid and all of my company's computerized security. Leaving only the armed security forces. Who will kill all of you? Yeah, well, worse things could happen, right?

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I I I I argued against what they tried to do to you, drugging you with the implant. I have a family. I have things I have to live for to protect. I have people I love.

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Tyler, if you love them, don't do the wrong thing for what you think is the right reason. Because if you're mistaken, it's gonna haunt you the rest of your days.

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Wow. The guy who designed all those security systems meant to kill outsiders judging me. I'm not judging. Who the fuck are you to judge me? Oh, if he can't, I will.

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I am NOT a bad man! How many children do you have? Three daughters. And they love their daddy. They do? That must be nice for you. That's everything. Do they know how people suffer outside the bubbles? They're young. Do you ever wonder what your daughters are gonna feel about you on that space station someday? When they grow up enough to know that their daddy abandoned billions of people to their dads. When they know their daddy abandoned all their neighbors, their friends, all their kids at school, to go live on a space station with a bunch of assholes with whom the only thing you've got in common is money and the willingness to fuck over the people who trusted you. I know you like to think of yourself as the smartest guy in the room, but you are one stupid motherfucker. Alright. The virus is still bringing down the bubble power grid and security tonight. And we're still going to be there. And I could possibly be sending lots of innocent folks to get slaughtered by security forces. All because I decided to show pity to some deluded, complicit, self-centered asshole.

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Perfect.

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I knew that I could use that too. Get what I needed from you. I wasn't smart, I was just fearful. That if I wasn't vengeful, full of blame, I'd be broken down in tearful. From all my guilt and pain, forgive me.

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Forgiven. Feeling afraid, feeling like I failed all the way back to Metro. What should I have said of it? What could I do when others were bowing before him? Saying all hell and adoring him. Should I screamed out and been warning them that they didn't know the man I knew? And all I ever knew was fearful. I was fearful all the while, never ever not fearful. As I walked that lonely mile.

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Just in your fearful.

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So step aside, people. Step aside for friends and me.

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Oh gotta be bright. No more peace.

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Episode eight features the stellar vocal performances of Stephanie Bacisto is Hama. Tom Molpey is Tom Molpey. And now a shout-out to our stellar ensemble. Christian Vaughn, Walker Schneckenberger, Luke Wynn, Garden, Jonathan Greg, Carl McCullough, William Peteon, and Ned Hartford. What a lovely bunch of folks. Dialogue directed by Emily Hartford. Singing sessions directed by Tom Mopey. Songs written by Aglofonos Corey Sam and yours truly, Tom Mopey. Music and vocal arrangements as well as sound editing and sound design by Tom Mope. All audio produced and recorded and mixed by Tom Mopey at MythMakers Media Studios. Principal casting by McCormick.com for a detailed list of credits and thanks. Follow us on Instagram and Blue Sky at MetroTheMusical One Word. Metro Climate Revolution Songs is a production of Mythmakers Media. Copyright edited Emily Hartford. All rights reserved. Remember, change the myth, change the world. You great A plus, wondrous, motherfucking fabulous climate revolutionaries. So now you've heard the episode where that reference comes from, so should all make sense. See you on the streets.