00:00Okay, at Subject Proposal 903 says,
00:04the goats are the board.
00:06Now I'm dyslexic and I read that first,
00:08the goats are board.
00:10And I was like, well, you just wait
00:14to see how board the goats are.
00:19At SCDSCO, which for me is scud-sco, says,
00:25Newman's Purpose is human cloning.
00:28I believe Ms. Casey is a clone of Gemma,
00:30which is why she behaves so strangely.
00:32This could explain what the goats are for,
00:34cloning experimentation.
00:36And what MDR does.
00:38Identifying abnormalities in clone genome sequences,
00:42question mark.
00:43Hmm.
00:44Parentheses, this person used lots of parentheses.
00:47This sounds like what Newman would be doing
00:50in like a super boring version of Severance.
00:55I think this person is really a scientific person.
00:58Scientific background, I would break it down.
01:00Don't you think?
01:01Honey, you should ask that.
01:02Why you're on the trail, son?
01:04No, I'm just kidding.
01:07You are very far off and wrong, bing, ging-gong.
01:12No, I think this person is, for them,
01:14that's what the show is.
01:15Yeah.
01:16And I would say, good for you.
01:17Back to the starting line.
01:20No, no, no.
01:21We just affirm you.
01:24Yeah, I say, you know.
01:26Just as in general, not about this.
01:28We just affirm you.
01:29We affirm you, Skidisco.
01:31You are enough.
01:32Let's see what Jimmy has to say.
01:35Let's take a look at the theme song
01:36for the new hit show, Severance.
01:37It uses a technique called pedal point,
01:38which is where a note typically in the bass is sustained,
01:41often to create tension.
01:42In this case, our pedal is Do,
01:43which is C under wacky dissonant chords in the right hand.
01:46♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪
01:53The important takeaway is that the right hand's
01:54dissonant chords contrast perfectly
01:56with the left hand staying on one note,
01:58creating a tension that is obviously very fitting
02:00for this kind of show.
02:00I mean, our composer, Teddy Shapiro, is unbelievable
02:04and won an Emmy for this theme song.
02:07My daughter did figure out how to play
02:10the Severance theme song from YouTube.
02:13Perhaps it was from at DJIVVI.
02:17It doesn't surprise me that Teddy is using
02:19a kind of complicated technique like this
02:22because he's brilliant.
02:23Wow.
02:25That's genius.
02:26That's kind of what Christopher Walken was saying
02:28about the right hand is doing one thing
02:29and the left hand is doing the other.
02:30That's our characters, basically.
02:32Yeah.
02:32Those are our characters.
02:33Are your characters the same handed as you are?
02:37No, left and right.
02:38Well, I appreciate your musical analysis.
02:41I think you're right.
02:42And I also do think that there's something normal
02:46about one hand, the sustained note,
02:49while we do have this dissonant other chords.
02:52If chords can be scary,
02:54let's just call them scary chords.
02:55I don't have any insight that that was intentional.
02:58And yet I imagine that really was intentional
03:00because choosing score for material,
03:04film or television, is very specific.
03:06So I don't think that there's any happenstance
03:09that happened here.
03:10I think it's absolutely intentional.
03:13At Tim Plausible, fantastic name,
03:16says there's a big, oh, revelation coming
03:20about Dylan's Audi.
03:22He's the only one we didn't see in his Audi life
03:24for any length of time.
03:26It's true.
03:26We didn't see Dylan very long in the Audi world
03:30other than in the closet with his son.
03:34Now that we saw the MDR crew's Audis
03:37walking into season two,
03:39we suddenly have like twice as many characters,
03:41which is an incredible opportunity
03:44because we have these unbelievable actors.
03:46So now we get to see these other parts of their lives.
03:50We've got a companion piece,
03:52which is at fine piece 7936,
03:56who says he thinks his Audi must work out.
03:59Besides lifting weights,
04:00what would cause his arms to be frequently sore?
04:04Well, listen, his arms are like this all day.
04:07He's on that computer, you know,
04:08so his triceps, you know, are sore.
04:11I think he gets a flu shot every morning.
04:14I think that would kill you.
04:15And also lifting weights.
04:17Is that something he imagines he does?
04:19We talk about it.
04:20We talk about it, but he talks about a lot of things.
04:23He thinks he's a pirate.
04:24Yeah, so I think that's some kind of like,
04:27you know, projecting.
04:28Lady Lena says,
04:31seems that red things are untainted by Lumen.
04:35Blue and green have a connection to the company.
04:37When Dylan bites Milchik, the lights turn red.
04:41When Miss Casey performs Mark's wellness session,
04:43her dress is red.
04:45Lumen facilities are blue green.
04:47Much of Miss Selvig's wardrobe is blue.
04:49Can anyone expand on my theory to add to the list?
04:53This is an incredible example of the kind of rich detail
04:58that fans of Severance go into.
05:00It's an amazing theory.
05:01Well, when Dylan bites Milchik,
05:03the lights turn red.
05:04They have to turn red.
05:05There's blood.
05:06There's an alarm.
05:07It's an emergency.
05:08Also one of my favorite moments
05:10when Zack bites Milchik.
05:11I talked about it before,
05:12but I can't get enough of that.
05:14No!
05:15No!
05:16No!
05:17No!
05:18No!
05:18No!
05:19What does it mean?
05:20Get him off me!
05:22It's me!
05:23Get him off me!
05:24No!
05:25I'd like to have a loop of that.
05:27Just him biting him and Trammell's reaction.
05:31I will give you one thing.
05:32That there has been definitely conversations
05:35about different color schemes
05:38in different divisions of Lumen
05:41and what colors upper management
05:44is allowed to wear compared to others.
05:46So, you know, your color theory,
05:49you know, am I an autumn?
05:51Who knows?
05:54Okay, at subject proposal 903 says,
05:57the goats are the board.
05:59Now I'm dyslexic and I read that first,
06:01the goats are bored.
06:04And I was like,
06:05well, you just wait to see how bored the goats are.
06:09Aren't all the boards goats?
06:11Really?
06:12Just a little food for thought, kids.
06:13It feels like this person is at a board meeting
06:16because it's like they're proposing this subject.
06:18Yes.
06:19903 of them.
06:20The first item on the docket is the goats are the board.
06:23And you know, I'm not going to debunk this
06:25because it's possible.
06:27The goats could be the board.
06:28No, the goats lay the eggs.
06:29The goats lay the eggs.
06:30I'm debunking it.
06:31The eggs could be the board.
06:33I'm debunking it.
06:34Okay, well.
06:35The goats are.
06:36We still affirm you.
06:37You get a variety of opinions.
06:38At the written passenger says,
06:41my theory is that Cobell's mother
06:43was one of the first test subjects for the severance chip.
06:46There were some snags
06:47and Lumen sends her to the testing floor.
06:50Stuck in her any state.
06:51I believe Greener was working with Cobell
06:53to get proof of reintegration
06:55as she is motivated by her own interests
06:57and wants her mother back.
07:00I think it's super smart.
07:02More and more I feel like a lot of these fans
07:05should write on the show
07:06because these are all really inventive ideas.
07:10I'm just gonna say there's some stuff
07:11you're onto here, friend.
07:13But other things you're just wrong.
07:16Wrong.
07:18Irving paints the elevator to the testing floor
07:21because he and Bert keep meeting and falling in love.
07:24As a result, they have both been reset multiple times.
07:28Irving has had to watch Bert go down in the elevator
07:31to be reset before he was himself reset each time.
07:35And this repeated trauma has worked its way
07:38into Audi Irving's conscious memory.
07:41Wow, this is kind of digging really deep
07:45into Irving and Bert's relationship.
07:46And I think Irving and Bert's relationship
07:48is really such a beautiful part of the show
07:51and certainly one of my favorite parts of the show.
07:53And there's so much mystery and feeling
07:56that come along with that relationship.
07:59I don't want to have to hurt this person,
08:01Manan and Vanan.
08:03But I think your theory and my theory is we diverge.
08:08Ooh, that sounds like you're getting a debunk.
08:11Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
08:13Are you gonna debunk it?
08:14You know what?
08:15I'm gonna debunk.
08:16Oh.
08:18I like the poetry of this.
08:19I love it.
08:20So I just affirm yours.
08:23I love it, I respect it.
08:24You know she sat in the front row
08:26when she was in the class.
08:28I affirm you, you are enough.
08:31But I debunk.
08:32At All Glass Empty says,
08:34so far my theory is that the numbers don't mean shit
08:37and it's some sort of weird fucked up experiment.
08:41Listen, isn't everything?
08:43That.
08:45Yep.
08:47Why is it a?
08:48You're okay, just fence off the bad data like I showed you.
08:51All Glass Empty, you're wrong.
08:53The numbers mean something.
08:55Again, there's so much in the names.
08:57The names, they're telling on us.
08:58All Glass Empty.
08:58All Glass Empty.
09:00It doesn't mean shit, it's all fucked up.
09:02The glass is empty.
09:03Yeah, I think it's coming from the gut, man.
09:06And I think, I'm not debunking that.
09:08You're not wrong, but that doesn't mean you're right.
09:10We know it's weird fucked up experiment.
09:13I mean, yeah.
09:14But why is the glass empty?
09:15And does anything mean shit?
09:16At Park's Pals Podcast.
09:18I have a fan theory.
09:19Ben's claymation thing is like the new Severance intro
09:25because the intro to Severance is claymation.
09:27I think that this, this is in the world too.
09:30And I feel like this guy, this Congressman
09:32has gone into Severance mode.
09:34Him being robotic.
09:35And, cause that's kind of what the show is about too.
09:38I mean, this is a great theory
09:41and would make a lot of sense
09:43and would bring Congressman Murray back into the fold.
09:46And I think he's been gone far too long.
09:48Clearly an android of some sort and we need answers.
09:53And I think this is it.
09:54Ben's claymation may be the link.
09:56Although the opening credit sequence
09:58for Severance is not claymation.
10:01I hate to break it to them.
10:02A philosophy of film.
10:05The world that the outies live in
10:06is an artificial construct of Luhman.
10:08The first clue to support this theory
10:10is that Luhman can server employees outside the building.
10:14The implication of the outside world being artificial
10:17is not only that Luhman is testing and prodding
10:20his employees to see how they react to emotional stimuli,
10:23but that all the people that we've met
10:26in the outside world so far could all be plants,
10:28just like Orbel.
10:30My mind turned at the end when he said plants
10:32and I thought they were like actual green growing plants.
10:35And I was like, are they vegetables?
10:37Yeah.
10:38I think it just goes to show you,
10:40everyone has their opinion, man.
10:44That's like, that's your opinion, man.
10:46It's your philosophy.
10:47We know that you're a philosopher.
10:49That's what happens when philosophers get involved
10:52with the creative endeavor, man.
10:54That is wild and more than frightening,
10:57not just as a theory for severance,
10:59but as a theory for everyday life on earth.
11:03That would be terrifying.
11:04I also wonder at times if certain people
11:08are who they say they are,
11:09if certain people could work for Luhman
11:13that we don't suspect,
11:15but doesn't mean anyone's telling me
11:18any more than they're telling you, okay?
11:20I think it's great that people have all these theories
11:24because it's all within the realm of possibility.
11:28Yeah, that's the fun of it.
11:29I mean, can you imagine if you had to like,
11:30every day come to work
11:32and someone would send one of these messages
11:34and then you'd have to change,
11:35you'd have to adjust your entire character
11:37based on what they tell you.
11:38I've been trying to.
11:39I base my performance on your performance on Reddit.
11:42He reads the Reddit and then he changes it
11:44and then we react to it.
11:46And so that's kind of the show.
11:48Thank you so much for all the thoughtful theories
11:50and keep watching Severance
11:52to see if you got it right or not.
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