A Show We Love: Give Me Away

This is a big favorite of ours, from our friends at Gideon Media!

Find all episodes of Give Me Away, and more info here. 

They call the spaceship that crashed in the Nevada desert “The Ghosthouse” because it screams—the screams of thousands of extraterrestrial political prisoners uploaded into its horrific mainframe. The only way to free them... is to transfer them into the bodies of humans willing to share their minds with an alien second consciousness. But who would volunteer for that? Graham Shapiro, divorced and adrift at age 50, is one of the first to raise his hand. Give Me Away follows Graham’s journey into a world of radical hospitality, one which will touch everything—and everyone—in his life.

Season 1, Episode 5 - Your Body is My Body:

The story of Brooke before Deirdre and Riley before it all went bad. 

Featuring Ato Essandoh, Lori Elizabeth Parquet, Hennessy Winkler, Rebecca Comtois, Alba Ponce de León, Jorge Cordova, Christopher Wilson, and Brian Silliman. Written by Mac Rogers, directed by Jordana Williams, sound designed by Bart Fasbender, music composed by Adam Blau, assistant directed by Marty McGuire, and produced by Cara Ehlenfeldt. Transcripts are available at www.gideon-media.com/transcripts. Gideon Media crafts gripping productions that explore human grace and darkness through popular genre forms. Learn more at www.gideon-media.com and follow us on Twitter @mediagideon, Instagram @gideonaudio, and Facebook @gideonaudio.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hey Metro listeners, this is a special one. We're sharing one of our favorite shows with you today, made by folks who have been our friends in artmaking for 20 years. The show is Give Me Away by Gideon Media. It's a funny, intense thriller from the writer of the message, Life After, and Steal the Stars. If you ask me, Gideon are some of the best in the biz, and the Metro team has been really lucky to have their mentorship as we built our show. So I'm confident that if you've never heard Give Me Away, it's about to become one of your faves too. Here's the description of the show. Graham Shapiro has reached the age where his marriage is falling apart, his kids are moving on, and he's not sure what he's supposed to do with the rest of his life. That's when an alien spaceship called the Ghost House lands in the Nevada Desert, and it's screaming. It's housing thousands of alien prisoners who are being stored as digital information, and the only way to help them escape is for humans to take them out and put them in their own brains. Graham decides this is what the rest of his life could be. Give Me A Way depicts an alternate timeline America that is so deeply resonant. The writer, Mac Rogers, is a genius at delivering sharp science fiction that at the same time is quietly revealing existential truths about identity, belonging, xenophobia, and the possibility of radical hospitality. The performances are incredible, and while that is a brag, since many of them are my friends, it's also undeniable. We're plunging you into episode five of the first season, which is a really fun jumping-off point. It's called My Body Is Your Body. But if you want to start with season one, episode one, all of the info is in the show notes, and all three seasons are available now. We're very excited to share. Give me away.

SPEAKER_10 1:44

Ma'am? Hi. What? So sorry, ma'am, don't mean to disturb you. What do you want? Okay, let's take a step back. Lieutenant Brian Riley. You're saying that's you. Yes, ma'am. Roccaris. I don't have a rank. Oh, that's alright. Lots of nice people don't. I just wanted to make sure my team wasn't bothering you at all. Bothering me? You're under no obligation to socialize. I just wanted to make sure you weren't sitting at the far end of the cabin because you were perturbed in any way. Why would I be perturbed? Large group of men. Maybe a touch rowdy at times. I just wanted to make sure you know that these are men of discipline and impeccable character.

SPEAKER_13 2:23

What about that one over there?

SPEAKER_10 2:25

Is he perturbed? I wouldn't worry about Corey. He's having a rough time for completely unrelated reasons.

SPEAKER_13 2:31

Then why shouldn't I worry about him?

SPEAKER_10 2:33

Because, Professor, where that young man is concerned, I'm doing enough worrying for all of us.

SPEAKER_13 2:38

I didn't tell you I was a professor.

SPEAKER_10 2:41

Thing is, they asked me, can this civilian catch a ride on your troop carrier to Red Camp? And of course I said yes. I'm hospitable by nature. But I also took a minute to read up. Now, if I were to ask you what conceptual modeling is, would I be too dumb to understand the answer?

SPEAKER_13 3:00

Would you like the answer I use when they make me talk to donors? Please. There are things in this world we want to act upon even though we can't see them. My job is to take all we know about those things and invent a three-dimensional approximation of what they look like.

SPEAKER_10 3:17

Huh.

SPEAKER_13 3:19

That probably sounds silly to you.

SPEAKER_10 3:21

Not at all. Acting on things I can't see ahead of time is a big part of my job, too.

SPEAKER_06 3:43

Give me away, episode 5. My body is your body.

SPEAKER_10 3:49

Permission to ask a question, sir. Yes, Sergeant, we're actually going inside. Scaffolding's not completed, so we'll have to take the rope ladder up to the door. Not a problem, sir.

SPEAKER_05 4:03

I tell you to take a moment to get used to it, but I've already seen it all on TV.

SPEAKER_10 4:08

Not all. The live stream shows the overall picture, but none of the nuances. You need eyes on sight for that. Sharp eyes. So that's why the screams aren't louder. It's a band-aid solution. Can't exactly study something you've covered in insulation. Sergeant, you alright? Sir? Climbing 50 feet on a rope ladder is no easy task. Do you feel alright? Sir, I've climbed a lot of rope ladders. I'm not sure what you Exactly. Sir? You've climbed a lot of rope ladders, probably most of them under my command.

SPEAKER_05 4:39

Yes, sir. We did them so many times in drills, I probably don't have to think about it anymore, right?

SPEAKER_10 4:43

Getting your weight distribution just so, moving your opposite hand and foot in perfect tandem to ensure that the speed doesn't compromise balance? Yes, sir. That's what the training is for. That's what training is, the accumulated wisdom of decades and centuries of combat transmuted into instinct, so that your every hair trigger response is profoundly informed by the whole history of tactical knowledge.

SPEAKER_05 5:07

With respect, sir.

SPEAKER_10 5:09

Yes, Sergeant?

SPEAKER_05 5:10

Why are we here?

SPEAKER_10 5:13

You saved lives, Corey. We'll never know whose lives exactly, but some of those men who serve next to you every day are alive because of your instinct, your split-second wisdom kicking in when it counted. I know, sir. Except that everything in your body and voice is telling me that you don't know. Now, why is that? Sir, they they were boys. Of course they were boys. That's who they send. Thinking you'll see that they're boys and not react, that you'll forget the training that lives in every inch of your body, but you didn't. The evil was in the sending of boys, not your reaction to it. I'm trying, sir. I'll get there. We're here because the only way I know how to climb out of a hole is to start climbing. I'm not starting you on something small until you feel better. I'm putting you in a situation where you will simply have to be better. This is your post. 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nothing happens here that you don't see. The rest of the world has the live stream. I have you. Is that clear, Sergeant? Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_11 6:29

Room for one more? What? Is this your private expanse of desert, or can I come in?

SPEAKER_13 6:34

I'd prefer to be alone.

SPEAKER_11 6:36

And I'd prefer to bug you.

SPEAKER_13 6:38

I'm serious. Whatever it's worth, I think you're right. Of course I'm right. Redundant security system?

SPEAKER_11 6:44

Well, it's a natural thing to assume under the circumstances. Not after you've given it any thought at all. The man's a fool. Well, he's not a fool. He's just not as smart as you. And really bad at acknowledging it.

SPEAKER_13 6:58

One wrong approach begets another. We're going to waste months if we keep treating the phenomena as barriers or firewalls rather than what? Individual files that have some sort of It's just you and me. Agency. Autonomy. They're not blocking us. That's not what the responses suggest. They're somehow reaching out.

SPEAKER_11 7:28

That's not why would files in a mainframe do that? Do you not believe me, or are you goading me into an answer? I'm goading you into an answer.

SPEAKER_13 7:37

The way we're thinking about the computer is entirely wrong. We're obsessed with the idea that it's withholding something from us because that's how we think about everything. Infiltration, conquest.

SPEAKER_11 7:49

I mean, we did have to get past some initial protocols, wouldn't we?

SPEAKER_13 7:52

Yes, and I'm sure most kennels have a lock on the door. But if you unlock it and go inside, are the dogs unhappy to see you? Kind of a weird analogy there. It is. I wonder why I thought of it.

SPEAKER_11 8:05

Look, Clive's already having to work off your virtual model, so just from that he's on the back foot. So when you call him a dumbass right in front of you. He is a dumbass. I'm just saying, the next time you think so, tell me, and we'll figure out how to bring it up together. Why? Because I can tell what you are, and I want to be in on the ground floor.

SPEAKER_13 8:25

What if you're wrong?

SPEAKER_04 8:26

Hey! Hi!

SPEAKER_11 8:28

Uh hi. Bear trees, right?

SPEAKER_04 8:30

Yeah, I was just assigned. I was in the ghost house just now during the uh drama.

SPEAKER_11 8:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 8:39

Look, this is totally rude, but I would just about kill to know what you guys are talking about.

SPEAKER_11 8:46

I'm not wrong.

SPEAKER_03 8:57

It is our hypothesis that it functions as a sort of penitentiary mainframe.

SPEAKER_08 9:02

Yes, Mr. President, I'm watching it now. Which means in some way by inmates. There may be a bit of a charisma issue.

SPEAKER_03 9:20

Effectively imprisoning them indefinitely.

SPEAKER_08 9:23

Yes, of course. Understood, sir. We'll be in Carson City in half an hour, and I'll head straight out from there. Well, transferable.

SPEAKER_04 9:31

And you are disconnected. Take your time.

SPEAKER_05 9:37

Ma'am, are you okay?

SPEAKER_04 9:39

Give her a second. You don't have to ask that every time, Sergeant.

SPEAKER_05 9:45

Sorry, ma'am. I feel like I have to. We always look not okay.

SPEAKER_04 9:50

She's fine. Or well, uh are you? This was my first time supervising this without Liz, so uh We have to go faster. We just have to go faster.

SPEAKER_13 10:03

Well, I guess we'll go as fast as Sergeant. Ma'am, I'm not okay. If I ever answered yes to that question, I was lying. Okay. Um the reason I always look like this is because I've just returned from an ongoing atrocity.

SPEAKER_04 10:20

Oh right. Why don't we let you?

SPEAKER_08 10:24

Wow, it really does look just like the is this a bad time?

SPEAKER_04 10:29

Um, it kind of is.

SPEAKER_05 10:31

Who are you? Sir, you are not on my roster, so I'm gonna need you to identify yourself.

SPEAKER_08 10:35

Gil Cortez, Deputy White House Chief of Staff. I was kind of hoping I could borrow Professor Harris.

SPEAKER_04 10:42

Okay, you're gonna have to wait until I'm ready now.

SPEAKER_13 10:50

Oh. Jesus, this is government food? It's amazing. We hired local people, a restaurant in Elko. What do you want?

SPEAKER_08 10:59

Wow, Professor, you do not disappoint.

SPEAKER_13 11:02

I don't know what that means.

SPEAKER_08 11:03

Of course they sent Harris. She's practically an alien already.

SPEAKER_13 11:06

I only spoke at that briefing because of Professor Bower's last-minute departure.

SPEAKER_08 11:10

Yeah, I spent most of last weekend talking Clive down. He thinks you conspired with multiple parties to steal the Nevada project right out from under him?

SPEAKER_13 11:18

That's preposterous.

SPEAKER_08 11:19

Is it?

SPEAKER_13 11:20

Conspire and steal suggests secrecy. Professor Bower's failures to adapt to the facts on the ground happened in public where everyone could see it.

SPEAKER_08 11:29

I can see why Diaz likes you so much.

SPEAKER_13 11:32

Is that good or bad?

SPEAKER_08 11:35

Look, I I'm devoted to that man. I've been with him since he was Arizona Attorney General. And when he loses re-election to some Christ-awful Republican, I'll be with him on his book tour. So I support his transparency fetish 110%, even if I think it's misreading the room. How so? He thinks the problem with his predecessors was too much secrecy. Maybe sometimes it was. But the problem nowadays isn't cloak and dagger. It's that everyone's doing the most corrupt shit imaginable in broad daylight with a smirk on their face.

SPEAKER_13 12:11

Mr. Cortez, my interest in beltwaist scuttle butt is very limited.

SPEAKER_08 12:15

It shouldn't be. It affects you directly. The Republicans hate this project. Why? Because a Democratic president likes it. They're looking for any angle to undermine what you're doing here. So if you're the new face of Red Camp, I'm your new best friend. Anything you need, you call me first. Anybody bothering you, same. And whenever you're making a public statement of any kind, I am your life partner. We build it together.

SPEAKER_13 12:43

That's acceptable to me.

SPEAKER_08 12:44

I wasn't actually asking.

SPEAKER_13 12:47

But now I need to go back to work.

SPEAKER_10 13:12

Find a way.

SPEAKER_04 13:13

Come on, man. Seriously? Maybe if we get some sleep, we can No one's getting some sleep.

SPEAKER_13 13:20

This can't continue. This ends tonight.

SPEAKER_10 13:23

Okay, then make me understand. Fuck you. Excuse me?

SPEAKER_11 13:28

Okay, look. You know how when you have a really bad toothache, you can't think about anything except the toothache?

SPEAKER_10 13:34

I'm aware that's true for some people.

SPEAKER_11 13:36

Okay, sure, I get it. You guys never crack. You stride out of the brush on two broken ankles or whatever.

SPEAKER_10 13:41

We're not inhuman, but we do cultivate a tolerance for pain.

SPEAKER_11 13:44

Okay, but while you're tolerating all that pain, how would you like to also be giving a toast at your kid's wedding?

SPEAKER_10 13:50

I don't have children, but I take your point.

SPEAKER_13 13:52

This is a waste of time. Brooke, it's not your fault. That expression is worthless. It's applicable to nothing.

SPEAKER_10 14:02

Do I get the rest from you or do I follow her?

SPEAKER_11 14:05

We knew the transferred consciousness would want to communicate with us once it got acclimatized inside the computer. So we created multiple interfaces: a text program, an illustrator, a virtual modeler, and an audio output.

SPEAKER_10 14:19

Uh-huh. Right?

SPEAKER_11 14:21

We successfully completed the transfer, then probably what? a hundred seconds of silence?

SPEAKER_04 14:26

And then every interface just started spitting out gibberish. The text, the drawing program, the modeler. Just an incoherent spray. And the audio.

SPEAKER_11 14:41

I mean, no need to describe it.

SPEAKER_10 14:52

They were screaming before.

SPEAKER_04 14:53

But they were also working with us, giving us clues, guiding us along.

SPEAKER_11 14:59

But this it's in so much pain, it can't even put together a thought. We made it worse. I mean, we we made it worse.

SPEAKER_10 15:13

I shouldn't what that sounds like to me is that she knows she has to kill it.

SPEAKER_11 15:23

Jesus. We can't save them. And every second we leave them alive.

SPEAKER_10 15:27

You don't have to explain. I've been exactly where you are.

SPEAKER_13 15:32

I have to call the president first. Because of the radiation, I'll have to do that at the far end of the building.

SPEAKER_10 15:40

I'll come with you.

SPEAKER_03 15:48

But it became almost immediately clear that it was a terrible mistake. That there was no but a well in the mistake.

SPEAKER_10 15:56

Up at 5 30 sharp.

SPEAKER_13 15:57

I'm not sure how much intentions matter when you've consigned a sentient being to a worse existence than the one you freed them from.

SPEAKER_05 16:05

Worse meaning less.

SPEAKER_03 16:17

But in practice, we've done quite the opposite. Is the process reversible? We don't believe so, no.

SPEAKER_10 16:23

So there's no way.

SPEAKER_08 16:35

I mean, you're in charge here, Lieutenant. If you wanted an office away from all the bustle, you could probably make it happen.

SPEAKER_10 16:41

Well, Mr. Cortez, a great deal goes on here that I'm not in charge of, but I am in charge of security. And this is where most of that happens. Bottle of water?

SPEAKER_08 16:51

I'm good. Lieutenant, in about half an hour, the president is gonna call you on that phone right there and inform you that he's authorized Director Harris to proceed with the mapping test. Is he gonna have a problem?

SPEAKER_10 17:04

Mr. Cortez, the President of the United States is never going to hear anything from me other than yes, sir, I understand and will implement to the best of my ability. Great. That's all I can. Now I can't stop you from disrespecting me in the future, but I can tell you that no one ever needs to throw out a feeler to see if I'll respect the chain of command.

SPEAKER_08 17:23

Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

SPEAKER_10 17:24

Nobody's clear. This is the mapping test the director will be performing on herself. What?

SPEAKER_08 17:30

Yes, of of course that's and the president is in full support.

SPEAKER_10 17:34

Then there's nothing more to say. Then I'll leave you to it. Except, of course, to mull various outcomes and their consequences. Excuse me? Setting aside the possibility that the president has authorized an elaborate suicide on my watch, the second most interesting outcome is what if she succeeds? Then that'll be great, right? It'll certainly suggest a way forward. One which seems to me will require more volunteers. Which leads me to wonder where those volunteers are going to come from.

SPEAKER_08 18:08

Are you okay? If you're implying the president is gonna ask, American servicemen.

SPEAKER_10 18:12

I'm saying soldiers follow orders. Which makes giving orders a very grave responsibility indeed.

SPEAKER_04 18:34

Well, can you tell me anything? Her idols are fine. I I I don't know what else to say. What is this?

SPEAKER_11 18:41

This was stupid. We did this without any post-op protocols. It's you.

SPEAKER_12 18:48

She just broke, are you awake? Quiet. Where am I? How are you feeling? Is there any pain? Any of you quiet. Where am I?

SPEAKER_13 18:57

You're with me. I'm here.

SPEAKER_12 19:01

You're with me. Where am I? Wait, is she talking to you? Oh my god. I don't know where I am.

SPEAKER_08 19:17

It's been two days, Liz. Can you give me any kind of update? Please, please.

SPEAKER_11 19:22

Shit. I have to call you back, Gil. She's having another. You gotta try to sleep, Brooke.

SPEAKER_13 19:30

This is insane. I can't. She thinks it's death. She thinks I'm killing her. Please stop.

SPEAKER_12 19:37

Please. I'm scared. Well, can't you?

SPEAKER_13 19:41

I mean, can't you? It's rest. It's normal. I promise. This is death. You can't do this. This is death to me. What's she saying? Listen to me. Just please be quiet a minute and listen. If it's death to you, it's death to me. We're the same. And I don't want to die either. Death to you. Death to me. We are the same. What happens to you happens to me. What happens to me? Happens to me. My body is your body. Say it with me. My body. My body is your body.

SPEAKER_02 20:35

My body. My body is your body. Is your body? Is it working? My body is your body. My body is your body. My body is your body. My body is your body. My body is your body. My body is your.

SPEAKER_13 21:53

I didn't before. But I do now. Do you not have? Sleep where you come from? We do, I think. But it's different. It's a sort of stretching. Suspension. Until the muscles, they realign. You're so fast. You're finding everything so fast. You've laid it out perfectly. What's that sound she's making? Can't you find it? I can. But I want to learn it from you. I can't wait to tell you everything. Listen. There is one thing I already know. They were the one who issued the proclamation. We never would have had the courage without.

SPEAKER_04 23:04

Sorry, I'm late. I've got water, some stuff from the cafeteria. Wait.

SPEAKER_13 23:09

Let her finish. What's happening? Theodre is telling us about their leader. The one who died. Who's Deirdre? Deodra says, I know you, don't I? I know your face from Brooke. Hold on. Deirdre is yupin. She found the name in my mind. Beatrice. Hello, Beatrice. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 23:38

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_13 23:40

Sit down. Let her finish. Without the leader, we never would have had the courage. But we followed them all the way to the great hall, the court, the Congress? And there, we told everyone, knowing they could strike us down, that we would not lie. We would not tell our countrymen that no other life was possible. Does she I mean, does she have some kind of control or not control? It's hard to explain. I'm telling you what she tells me in the way she tells me. It's like I what? What's she saying now? Deirdre speaking. But now I need to tell you about the innovator.

SPEAKER_11 24:40

Who's the innovator? She is. And she has a message.

SPEAKER_13 24:50

Brook and Deirdre.

SPEAKER_11 24:51

Did you see it?

SPEAKER_13 24:52

We're only just watching it now.

SPEAKER_11 24:54

Turn it up. I want to hear this again.

SPEAKER_13 24:56

I have so many things to say, but for now I'll restrict myself to this. Thank you. Thank you for setting me free. Thank you for Brooke. Thank you for my new home.

SPEAKER_11 25:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_13 25:13

So you must feel pretty proud right now. We'll feel proud when the rest of the prisoners are free. Say that again.

SPEAKER_11 25:21

I'm in. I want to be next.

SPEAKER_08 25:38

Sir? Tell me. There's everyone else. It's just Sergeant Wheeler.

SPEAKER_10 25:46

Sergeant. Good. They sent you. How are we doing, Sergeant? Got a lot of people stirred up. Something about an unholstered sidearm. That was right after.

SPEAKER_05 26:02

Couldn't think straight. It's holstered now.

SPEAKER_10 26:07

Right after what? Right after what, Cory?

SPEAKER_05 26:11

I must have watched him do it a hundred times. Put on the interface on it, you mean? For a while I thought it took two people. One to wear it, one to plug in the settings. But I kept watching, right? Like you said.

SPEAKER_10 26:24

Right.

SPEAKER_05 26:24

See, once you put it on, there's only a couple settings left. You you can't see them, but they're they're on top of your head. But the switches and the knobs all feel different.

SPEAKER_10 26:36

How did you know that?

SPEAKER_05 26:37

I'm the guy on guard. It doesn't look weird if I inspect stuff.

SPEAKER_10 26:41

So you learned how to operate the final settings by touch.

SPEAKER_05 26:46

And I got inside. All by myself.

SPEAKER_10 26:49

What did you see, Corey?

SPEAKER_05 26:51

Enough.

SPEAKER_10 26:52

What does that mean?

SPEAKER_05 26:54

It means I quit.

SPEAKER_10 26:56

Excuse me, Sergeant?

SPEAKER_05 26:58

I quit, sir. I quit.

SPEAKER_10 27:05

Director?

unknown 27:07

Mr.

SPEAKER_10 27:08

Cortez.

SPEAKER_08 27:08

I have a seat, Lieutenant.

SPEAKER_10 27:09

I prefer to stand.

SPEAKER_08 27:12

Lieutenant Riley, after extensive consultation with Sergeant Wheeler, Sergeant Wheeler's family, Director Harris, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the President has determined to issue an executive order shielding Sergeant Wheeler from any military penalty connected with his expressed desire to his expressed desire to leave your command and his position in the United States Army. He didn't consult with me. The President has further determined to grant Director Harris's application to enroll.

SPEAKER_13 27:40

Director Harris and Deirdre.

SPEAKER_08 27:42

Right. Sorry. Director Harris and Deirdre's application to enroll. Jesus Christ. To enroll Sergeant Wheeler as now simply Corey Wheeler. As an acceptant in the Nevada Project Occupation Program. He didn't consult with me. Lieutenant the President He didn't consult with me. He doesn't have to consult with you. You serve at the pleasure.

SPEAKER_09 28:04

I released that boy. He was a shell when they sent him to me. You are not taken.

SPEAKER_10 28:14

Lieutenant? Of course you are correct, sir. The President is under no obligation to seek my input.

SPEAKER_13 28:21

We would further recommend discontinuing the posting of a sentry inside the ghost house mainframe.

SPEAKER_09 28:26

Oh, who is we?

SPEAKER_13 28:28

We would suggest that placing additional servicemen in Corey's position would serve neither the lieutenant's purposes nor our own. Curiosity is inextricable from human nature.

SPEAKER_08 28:38

Okay, don't push your luck. There's no way the Pentagon will allow.

SPEAKER_10 28:41

I agree. I agree.

SPEAKER_07 28:47

Did I catch you at a bad time, Lieutenant?

SPEAKER_10 28:50

Not at all, Senator. What can I do for you?

SPEAKER_07 28:53

I know it's late, and I imagine the days are pretty long out there.

SPEAKER_10 28:57

I'm a public servant, sir. I always have time for a duly elected representative.

unknown 29:02

Well, speaking as one of those, I've found that it pays to maintain a, let's say, healthy back channel with the Pentagon.

SPEAKER_10 29:09

Ah. I imagine that would be an asset, sir.

SPEAKER_07 29:12

So it may be of interest to you to know that in the course of my unofficial communications with significant persons, that quite a few of those significant persons do not share the president's enthusiasm for certain ongoing projects.

SPEAKER_10 29:26

Sir.

SPEAKER_07 29:26

And in many cases, these significant persons disagree with him quite sharply, I might add. In reference to certain recent judgment calls.

SPEAKER_10 29:36

Senator McKilleb, I will never act in any way against the directors of the commander-in-chief.

SPEAKER_07 29:41

Yep.

unknown 29:43

That's almost verbatim. What they told me you'd say.

SPEAKER_10 29:47

Will that be all, sir?

SPEAKER_07 29:48

Yeah, that's about it. Just wanted to check in, really, let you know how much I appreciate what you do. And I guess just to remind you that the president's only ordered you not to do some things.

SPEAKER_10 30:01

Some things.

SPEAKER_07 30:03

I mean, if you think about it, there's a whole ocean of things he hasn't ordered you not to do.

SPEAKER_10 30:11

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_07 30:12

And if the political climate were to adjust a little, midterm's coming up and all. You might not even need to think that hard.

SPEAKER_11 30:26

Okay. Can we go to the next slide?

SPEAKER_05 30:29

Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_11 30:30

You know you don't have to say that, right? Who came up with this? Uh, we did. Liz and Robin. Based on everything we know about the innovator, we put together this profile of the kind of host pairing we're looking for. Thirty years of age. We're not married to it, but it seemed like the sweet spot. Young enough that we'll have access to their knowledge for a long time, but not so young that the innovator could easily, you know.

SPEAKER_05 30:53

Overwhelm them.

SPEAKER_11 30:55

We were gonna say ride roughshod.

SPEAKER_05 30:57

As they're speaking, uh, I never had a problem with them.

SPEAKER_11 31:01

Because you always agreed with them.

SPEAKER_13 31:02

The innovator's favorite quality in a person.

SPEAKER_11 31:05

Look, we need them, right? Plus, we're not leaving anyone in there anyway, so.

SPEAKER_13 31:10

Talk us through it.

SPEAKER_11 31:11

Okay, so 30 years old, advanced degree in biochemistry or chemical engineering, strong-willed, but not excessively so. You definitely want some aptitude for negotiation, and ideally some kind of background in activism.

SPEAKER_13 31:24

Really?

SPEAKER_11 31:25

Well, yeah. We want them to be able to meet the innovator where they live, right? Speak their language?

SPEAKER_13 31:30

Hmm.

SPEAKER_11 31:31

Should we leave it with you to think about?

SPEAKER_13 31:33

Yes, thank you. Want us to clean up?

SPEAKER_11 31:36

That would be lovely. See you at five. We'll be there.

SPEAKER_05 31:42

Keep doing that ma'am thing. Just have it. Doesn't even make sense. There's two ma'ams, so. Wait, what's that? Oh, uh application just about to reject it. Why? Some midlife crisis guy, way too old. May we see it?

SPEAKER_08 31:57

I'm not supposed to be here.

SPEAKER_13 31:59

I'll kill you if they don't book me back.

SPEAKER_06 32:02

Brooke, deirdrap!

SPEAKER_11 32:04

They're sleeping. They're sleeping. You got them to sleep? Eventually. Shit, you look rough. You want us to take over that an application? Oh, uh, yeah. About this. You ran all the way here to show us an application? You'll understand when you see who it's shit. That's his Jeep, isn't it? Who? Oh, fuck.

SPEAKER_13 32:27

Tell me. Lieutenant, look, this is No pute preferencing, just tell me. There was an error in the mapping process. We transferred the wrong consciousness into Gramscira.

SPEAKER_10 32:37

The most recent mapping procedure I have on my schedule was four days ago. That's right. That's the procedure we're talking about.

SPEAKER_04 32:44

Look, there's been a lot of yes.

SPEAKER_10 32:46

So you haven't told me for four days in clear contravention of our standing agreement. Brook and Dearger's priority was tend to-leads me to wonder if you've informed the president.

SPEAKER_13 32:55

We will. We can do that in the next hour.

SPEAKER_10 32:57

We just That's not necessary, Director. I can handle that myself.

SPEAKER_11 33:07

Okay. Um how bad is that gonna be?

SPEAKER_13 33:12

Who's the application from?

SPEAKER_11 33:14

Take a look. So that's not just somebody with the same name, right? That's the Jamie Shapiro? Yes. That's exactly who that is.

SPEAKER_06 33:33

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