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00:00:00Thank you
00:00:39Hello, one and all!
00:00:41Welcome to Dimension 20, City Council of Darkness.
00:00:45I'm your humble, dented master friend,
00:00:46and with me as always, our intrepid heroes.
00:00:48Say hi, intrepid heroes.
00:00:49Die, intrepid heroes!
00:00:51Wow, we really got it down.
00:00:53Mwah, ah, ah, ah, ah!
00:00:56Beastial failure!
00:00:58Last we left off, our intrepid heroes
00:01:03kicked into high fucking gear,
00:01:07spreading their tendrils of darkness
00:01:08throughout the town of Purpy, Oregon,
00:01:11fanning out to cover more ground,
00:01:14dealing with the aftermath of their climactic meeting
00:01:18with not only Willy Coop to get the lay of the land
00:01:21and the history of the town,
00:01:21but also Nancy Danderhoof,
00:01:24who they sicced on the Whitaker silver mine.
00:01:29So much integrity.
00:01:30Nancy got hurt.
00:01:31Nancy made sort of a devil's bargain with our coterie here,
00:01:35saying, look, I've got a scoop that vampires are real, but...
00:01:39Such a good scoop.
00:01:41It's really good.
00:01:42It's objectively such a huge scoop.
00:01:44It would be absolutely huge.
00:01:46It's an undeniable scoop.
00:01:47Yeah, to beat that for the rest of the season is ghosts.
00:01:51Yeah, it'd be a real fucking rookie road of a scoop.
00:01:53I have nothing else but ghosts in the mines.
00:01:55No, I think...
00:01:55Ghosts are real, arguably bigger than ever.
00:01:58I think...
00:01:58Well, like I said, the demographic is going to be interested in...
00:02:02Ghosts.
00:02:02That's very true.
00:02:02But also we can prove werewolves are real.
00:02:05We just got to start proving...
00:02:07We just got to go down...
00:02:07Idyllica sauce.
00:02:08Leprechaun stripper.
00:02:09Leprechauns?
00:02:10Leprechauns.
00:02:11Sasquatch for sure.
00:02:12So far, if we can get...
00:02:14If she can basically...
00:02:16I think you can get her a Pulitzer
00:02:17if she follows up to haunted silver mine with Sasquatch real,
00:02:22Leprechaun real, werewolf real.
00:02:26That's kind of all of them.
00:02:27And that's kind of all...
00:02:28I think that's all the monsters there are for the most part.
00:02:31The 13 tasks has become the 14 tasks.
00:02:34The 14th is get Nancy a Pulitzer.
00:02:36Danderhoof Pulitzer.
00:02:37Number 15.
00:02:3914.
00:02:39Danderhoof Pulitzer sounds like...
00:02:41We have not crossed off a single one.
00:02:43It sounds like a Cloudward Ho character, if I'm being honest.
00:02:46Oh, I was thinking it sounds like a piece of farm equipment.
00:02:49Yeah.
00:02:50Oh, yeah, totally.
00:02:51You need your Danderhoof Pulitzer.
00:02:52I ride my Danderhoof.
00:02:54You have a right to repair my Danderhoof.
00:02:56Zaith had discovered the Golden Bounty Farms
00:02:59and that the Douglases might be more than what they first appeared.
00:03:02You got sniped.
00:03:03You got sniped, but also got a horse!
00:03:06That's true.
00:03:07Now...
00:03:08Your horse have a name.
00:03:09Gorse.
00:03:10Gorse.
00:03:11Now the Coterie has moved across town from the Silver Matters Airbnb
00:03:16over here to downtown, number nine Shady Street
00:03:19with a bunch of bingo buses parked outside
00:03:21and gorse the horse stabled in the backyard.
00:03:24And a curse.
00:03:25I believe they're dingo buses.
00:03:27Oh, yeah, they're dingo.
00:03:28We pivoted.
00:03:29We flipped the D.
00:03:30We've gotten some duct tape out.
00:03:32Yeah.
00:03:33And we've got some dingo buses.
00:03:35We are talking about going back to getting bingo, though.
00:03:38Yeah, yeah.
00:03:38We might have to retrofit the buses again.
00:03:40But that's why...
00:03:41It's a temp change.
00:03:42Okay, it's a temporary change.
00:03:43They're magnets.
00:03:44Just a quick piece of tape.
00:03:45And rip it off.
00:03:46Are people using the buses?
00:03:47Have we found out yet?
00:03:48I don't think you guys have instituted how you...
00:03:50We just drove it past the house when we were making the pitch.
00:03:53I think we just...
00:03:53We've acquired the buses.
00:03:55Yeah, we drove them.
00:03:55We used them to make the pitch, which immediately failed.
00:03:58And now we've gone home.
00:04:00Licking your wounds after a hard refusal from Patti Babcock.
00:04:04Yeah, that's pretty brutal.
00:04:06He's 21?
00:04:07He's 21.
00:04:08Okay, cool.
00:04:09Moving back to San Diego in three weeks.
00:04:11Yeah, at the end of next semester.
00:04:13You also discovered that the house you moved into that was weirdly hexed,
00:04:17had an evil eye under the welcome mat,
00:04:19was formerly owned by Mona Brown, who had two younger kids.
00:04:25Lucille, Amelia, and Lucas.
00:04:26Amelia, and Lucas.
00:04:28Lucille.
00:04:30Sorry, I looked at Zach and I was like...
00:04:33Madelaine extended her claws into the Laurent Horror Festival working community,
00:04:38and is working on an invite to the Laurent New Year's party,
00:04:44which will be a much larger affair.
00:04:46We had Vesper study Kumite in an abandoned library.
00:04:49Hell yeah.
00:04:50Thank God.
00:04:51Zay stole a horse.
00:04:53Tyler Morimoto, the new retainer, the new sort of go-to for Wing Street and Worthy Industries,
00:05:02secured you guys Nine Shady Street.
00:05:03And in return, you guys moved Tyler's grandfather over to Silver Meadows.
00:05:08To kind of have maybe a little bit of a man on the inside.
00:05:10We also got Swingles Night up and running at Mike's.
00:05:16Darkness Man was sort of had his personal space infringed upon by someone he ate.
00:05:24I think it wasn't okay.
00:05:25I'm on your side.
00:05:26Yeah, he's dead now.
00:05:27Yeah, no, for sure.
00:05:28He's gone.
00:05:28He came up and accosted you, for sure.
00:05:30He's gone.
00:05:30He came up and...
00:05:31He sexually assaulted you and you killed him and that's fine.
00:05:33He sexually assaulted you and you killed him and that's fine.
00:05:35He tickled you nuts without your permission and then you ate him.
00:05:39After that, studying kind of the ghostly realities, you guys went back to a place you had observed before.
00:05:44The strangely dull and disciplined dead Silver Spring Cemetery.
00:05:52Where Vesper on an incredible roll, or Bat Child on an incredible roll of seven, even with three successes canceled
00:05:59out, used her powers of oblivion to harness the power of ghosts raging against the Whitaker family.
00:06:07Seeing that their sort of protection is actually from the amount of wrong they have done has so compiled and
00:06:15compounded that it actually served as a supernatural protection.
00:06:18So many spirits had reason to want them dead that the storm of vengeance kind of canceled each other out.
00:06:26Up until Vesper, along with Darkness Man's potence, cracked the monument of Wallace Whitaker in half, immediately shattering some occult
00:06:37protections of the Whitaker family.
00:06:40And across town, a kindred spirit smashed a massive hairy fist through the window and drowned Barnaby Whitaker in his
00:06:49bathtub as Bigfoot recognized his pupil Bat Child.
00:06:54Right on.
00:06:56Huge.
00:06:56Huge.
00:06:57Huge.
00:06:57Big moment.
00:06:58Big moment.
00:07:00Big foot, big moment.
00:07:01Big foot, big moment.
00:07:03Big foot, bigger moment.
00:07:04No.
00:07:05No.
00:07:06I'm not worthy of meeting him yet.
00:07:07It is December 12th as we exit downtime here in the aftermath.
00:07:15Bat Child and Darkness Man, you behold the cracked monument before you.
00:07:20And feel a spiritual energy return in this place.
00:07:25Both of you guys can give me, I would say, wits and awareness here.
00:07:30Okay.
00:07:34Oh, three.
00:07:36Three also.
00:07:37You sense in this moment on the residue of your connection to the shattered monument as the sort of moment
00:07:44of oblivion being channeled through Bat Child's energy here.
00:07:48Whatever was dampening or dulling magical power of the cemetery, that is now gone, which opens up a tremendous ability,
00:07:54I think, not only for this monument to be shattered here, but also for spiritual energy to be more easily
00:08:00accessed in the town.
00:08:01Or for you to, like, go to grave sites here in the cemetery if you want to, they'll be a
00:08:05little bit easier to commune with.
00:08:07More importantly, I think on Three Successes, you feel spiritually a surge of rushing water, the crash of stones.
00:08:18And I think you actually feel that even though you can sense across town that Barnaby Whitaker is no more,
00:08:26the fact that he was drowned forcefully, in a weird way, the way curses work is like a lot of
00:08:32times a curse, even if someone actively chooses to kill you, it's actually sometimes part of a larger supernatural pattern.
00:08:41In other words, you sense that water, and drowning in particular, is a force that is moving against the Whitaker
00:08:52family.
00:08:52In other words, there is like a, almost a curse on their family.
00:08:57And they were being protected, but now they're not being protected.
00:08:59Now they're not being protected anymore.
00:09:01Interesting, water, running water, works against them.
00:09:05Yeah.
00:09:05That's interesting.
00:09:06Yeah, that's bad for us too.
00:09:08Yeah, I think so.
00:09:09But yeah, you get a sense that the Whitakers, on a supernatural level, will be in a great deal more
00:09:17danger near bodies of water than they had been before.
00:09:22We'll definitely relay this to everyone, but I'm also kind of curious, what does this mean?
00:09:27Like, I would imagine that the Douglases are going to sense a sort of spiritual weakening of the Whitakers.
00:09:35And will they see that as a predatory moment to pounce?
00:09:39Hopefully.
00:09:40And do we want to encourage that?
00:09:43Yeah, I think we want them fighting each other for sure.
00:09:46All right, why don't we get back to the others and let them know that you killed Barnaby Whitaker?
00:09:51No, I was merely a channel for the spirits, seeking their revenge.
00:09:56Let's go back and tell everyone that Barnaby Whitaker is dead.
00:09:59Okay.
00:10:00Yeah.
00:10:01You guys rush over back at 9 Shady Street.
00:10:06Madelaine, you receive a text from Val, Professor Harmon.
00:10:11I'm first putting name terms now because I'm doing so much work for her.
00:10:15I'm doing so much work.
00:10:15You get a text saying, Mad, would love for you if you're free to make plans for New Year's Eve.
00:10:22We'd be delighted to have you come by the professors.
00:10:26In parentheses afterwards, she said, looked at the guest list, running kind of old, even for us, LOL.
00:10:36Amazing, I actually already have plans, but I'll see if I can cancel them.
00:10:42You get a text back saying, oh, no worries, if you don't want to come.
00:10:46No, no, I'll cancel.
00:10:47No, I'll make it happen.
00:10:49I'll make it work.
00:10:50I don't want to put you out, all caps.
00:10:53You cannot.
00:10:55I'm avail.
00:10:56Take avail.
00:10:57Take avail.
00:10:59Where do we find H.J. and Levante here this evening on 9 Shady Street?
00:11:06I think I've probably left.
00:11:08Mm-hmm.
00:11:09And I'm standing on the edge of this bridge right here.
00:11:14Okay.
00:11:15I'm frantically scootering around looking for him.
00:11:19Zath, what are you up to?
00:11:21I'm hiding in a tree waiting for Tyler Morimoto.
00:11:25Okay.
00:11:26Copy that.
00:11:27Great.
00:11:27You don't touch him.
00:11:29I love it.
00:11:30Levante, so you're standing on that bridge.
00:11:34Where do we find you as you gaze out?
00:11:36Just watching, what is the river like here in Burpee?
00:11:41I don't think we've talked, I don't think Levante's ever made a point of watching or looking at how it
00:11:49flows, if it's low, if it's high.
00:11:50Yeah.
00:11:51I think this is a contemplative moment in a dramatic space, which is just the way he likes.
00:11:59This is a fast running stream that comes down from on high.
00:12:05Not wide enough to be a true river.
00:12:07I think technically it's a creek.
00:12:08It comes down thundering, thundering from on high.
00:12:12Not even a goddamn river.
00:12:17Like the bridge here, you can see it's like sort of to scale here right.
00:12:21It's probably, you know, like a 40 or 50 foot wide creek, you know?
00:12:28It's moving pretty fast.
00:12:29There's some little rapids.
00:12:31There's some falls further up as it gets up higher in altitude.
00:12:34It makes a lovely sound, sort of burbling, but it does not have the vastness of the Hudson or the
00:12:42Mississippi.
00:12:43It doesn't have that thing where it creates a skyline on the other side.
00:12:46As you gaze out, you know, standing here on the railing, you see there's like a little bit of graffiti.
00:12:53And the graffiti doesn't even seem sort of threatening or dangerous like it would be in a real urban center.
00:12:58Someone's written the name Gary Sinise in cursive.
00:13:04Oh my God.
00:13:05That's actually really funny.
00:13:08Gary Sinise.
00:13:09And it's in cursive.
00:13:10It's in like straight up third grade, like not the sort of beautiful flowing cursive.
00:13:15It's like the kind where it's like every letter is painstaking.
00:13:18Concentrating so hard.
00:13:19Concentrating so hard on getting every letter.
00:13:21Gary Sinise.
00:13:21Gary Sinise.
00:13:27Staring at some person just practicing.
00:13:30I think Levante and HJ have done this dance before.
00:13:34So I think at this point, Levante is just waiting for HJ to eventually.
00:13:39So quick and so quiet, I pull up.
00:13:44On the scooters that you guys had shipped to town because there is not an official scooter program in Purpee.
00:13:50Not yet.
00:13:52Not yet.
00:13:52Not yet.
00:13:53Not yet.
00:13:54Bingo scooters.
00:13:57HJ, you find Levante on a bridge contemplating the creek.
00:14:01That was a hard one.
00:14:03I've never been told no by someone so young.
00:14:06I tell you, man.
00:14:08What are we even doing, man?
00:14:11Are we fucked?
00:14:12Did they fuck us?
00:14:14Did they win?
00:14:14Are we dead?
00:14:15No.
00:14:15Is this it?
00:14:17Well, now they're dingo buses.
00:14:19So we are just recalculating.
00:14:22And we got Tyler.
00:14:24Thank God we got Tyler.
00:14:27And we're just gonna move to next steps.
00:14:32Maybe it doesn't have to be the dog.
00:14:33Let's move on from bingo.
00:14:35That was just one idea.
00:14:36I'm gonna punch HJ in the face.
00:14:41Fuck.
00:14:43What the hell is wrong with you?
00:14:45You should have cracked me in my front teeth with your scepter by now.
00:14:50How dare I crack the headlight on my scooter?
00:14:53I need to crack something.
00:14:56What's going on with you, man?
00:14:58What?
00:14:59The HJ I know is fucking angular.
00:15:01It's rigid.
00:15:02What's all this fucking curvaceous fucking next steps bullshit?
00:15:08I just...
00:15:08I need you to wake me up.
00:15:10All right?
00:15:10Because I feel asleep right now.
00:15:12I just think there are more ways of taking over this town than that one dog.
00:15:20It's a kid who's gonna move away.
00:15:23I mean, what are we gonna keep the dog when he goes to San Diego?
00:15:26It doesn't make any sense.
00:15:27It never makes sense, HJ.
00:15:30Our plans never make any sense.
00:15:32But if you do enough coke and you push through, things eventually make sense.
00:15:37I take the little spoon necklace out.
00:15:40All right.
00:15:40Exactly.
00:15:42Give me wits awareness.
00:15:45Wits awareness.
00:15:52Two successes.
00:15:54Two successes.
00:15:55Ooh!
00:15:55I think you observe here in this moment, leaning into HJ a little bit, that vampires don't have a need
00:16:04to push blood through their system.
00:16:06They're animated without...
00:16:08That's sort of what a rouse check is, is like flushing the blood through your own undead body.
00:16:14I think you just notice that there's a flush to HJ, that some part of him, not to the full
00:16:21degree of like a rouse check, not to the full degree of a blood surge, but maybe absentmindedly or subconsciously,
00:16:29HJ is choosing to push blood through his system.
00:16:36Your cheeks are so rosy.
00:16:46Is this about SSRIs?
00:16:48Okay, I'm fine.
00:16:49What the fuck is going on with you, man?
00:16:51I just...
00:16:52All right.
00:16:56What the fuck is going on with you?
00:16:57I, uh...
00:17:00I've been finding people who have what I've found out to...
00:17:06Yeah, the new drug?
00:17:07The new drug.
00:17:08It's not Siri, it's SSRIs, it's serotonin...
00:17:13Something reuptaking, I don't know.
00:17:16It's helping me out.
00:17:17I'm just finding...
00:17:19So much peace in myself.
00:17:23Nate changes notes, he's about to get fucking...
00:17:25I'm punched so hard by you.
00:17:28Just so much...
00:17:32I haven't felt this before.
00:17:33I'm preparing to punch you and you're not reacting.
00:17:36I've just felt like I've been flexing for so long, trying to push something out.
00:17:41Yes!
00:17:42Yes!
00:17:43Our fucking...
00:17:44The dirt inside of us, out onto this world.
00:17:48That it might look and take on our color.
00:17:51Okay, I...
00:17:53I'm down.
00:17:55You're down?
00:17:55I'm down.
00:17:56Come on!
00:17:57I just...
00:17:58I lost the dog in me.
00:18:01It's...
00:18:02I just wanted to kind of...
00:18:05Coast for a little bit, you know what I mean?
00:18:07And it's felt good, but I...
00:18:12Let's just go kill Patty.
00:18:14I don't wanna kill him.
00:18:15Steal the dog.
00:18:16I dye it purple.
00:18:19I've lost my brain, dude.
00:18:22I've lost my brain.
00:18:24I don't know, man.
00:18:28Do you wanna go to the co-op with me?
00:18:31And get like a baked, baked sweet potato that they pour lentil soup on top of?
00:18:39Are you serious, man?
00:18:40Yeah, will you get on my scooter with me?
00:18:42Can we go check it out and get the baked potato that has hot lentil soup poured over it, making
00:18:45it really soggy?
00:18:47Do you remember what you told me when you turned me?
00:18:49You told me we were gonna drink the blood of Cain and then fight each other to the death on
00:18:53top of the Golden Gate Bridge.
00:18:57AJ starts weeping.
00:19:01I still want that.
00:19:04Let's go get you a fucking baked potato.
00:19:06I still want that.
00:19:07No.
00:19:08Let's go get you a fucking baked potato.
00:19:10As you guys turn to walk, you guys see rushing.
00:19:12Walk?
00:19:15You're getting on my scooter with no headlights.
00:19:16As you get on the back of your broken no-headlight scooter.
00:19:19No headlights.
00:19:19Can't see shape.
00:19:20As you guys start to zzzz up over the sidewalk, across the grass median, behind you coming up Main Street,
00:19:30you see three squad cars pull out and begin to...
00:19:34Woo!
00:19:37For us?
00:19:38I pull over.
00:19:40I'm a different man.
00:19:42Gotta respect the law.
00:19:43I text the thread,
00:19:45Bat child.
00:19:47Mitch, did you eat another bath?
00:19:49Or, did you eat another husband?
00:19:53I read back, no winky vase.
00:19:57Now this is what you need to be sending to Nancy.
00:19:59You guys, the squad cars, as you pull over and start texting, tear past you, headed all the way for
00:20:07South Perpee.
00:20:08Oh, that's where we're going too.
00:20:10Yep.
00:20:10Okay.
00:20:11They race past you, headed for South Perpee.
00:20:13This side?
00:20:14This side, over here.
00:20:15I will look at...
00:20:16Oh, where the rich people live.
00:20:17I will look at, I'm assuming that it's for, I'm assuming that it's for Barnaby, but I will look at
00:20:24the police scanner to see.
00:20:26Oh, smart.
00:20:26Police scanner is calling out specifically that there's been a call from 911 in the hills up above South Perpee.
00:20:32What do they call it?
00:20:33Do they have a secret name for the Whitaker estate?
00:20:36This is actually a place that is not reflected on our city map because it's up higher.
00:20:41They call it Montrose Road.
00:20:43Wow.
00:20:44Montrose Road.
00:20:45Okay.
00:20:46I relayed that to everyone on the group text.
00:20:49Yeah, this is a guy who lives like, one of those dudes who like, owns the town and doesn't live
00:20:52in the town kind of thing.
00:20:53Saith, you are in a tree outside the doors of the Silver Meadows Senior Center.
00:21:02As you see Tyler Morimoto walk out of the sliding glass doors.
00:21:13Starts to look around.
00:21:14Up here.
00:21:16Up here.
00:21:17Up here.
00:21:18Up here.
00:21:18He looks up.
00:21:21Land on the ground.
00:21:23Hey.
00:21:23Tyler.
00:21:25Hey.
00:21:26Morimoto.
00:21:29Uh, what's up man?
00:21:30Hello, Morimoto.
00:21:36Sorry.
00:21:36Lock in.
00:21:38Hear that one?
00:21:40No.
00:21:42You...
00:21:44Feel like you got quite a reputation going.
00:21:47I see.
00:21:47I saw you at the movie night.
00:21:49Are you?
00:21:49Yeah.
00:21:50I kind of work for your bosses as well.
00:21:54Oh.
00:21:55Oh.
00:21:56Oh.
00:21:56You...
00:21:57You're the guy...
00:21:58You have a horse?
00:22:00I have a horse.
00:22:02Of course.
00:22:04Comes out of the tree.
00:22:10Yeah.
00:22:11I got a horse.
00:22:13Oh.
00:22:14Well, cool man.
00:22:16Yeah.
00:22:16It's nice working with you.
00:22:17Do you think you're the only one who can get shit done?
00:22:21Cause I can also get shit done around here.
00:22:26Hey man.
00:22:27If I've done anything to cause offense or anything...
00:22:35I could be organized if I wanted.
00:22:41I could make a schedule and I could do a to-do list if I wanted.
00:22:50Do a to-do list.
00:22:56Why do you think you're better than me?
00:23:00I don't think I'm better than you, man.
00:23:02I don't think I'm better than you.
00:23:05I think...
00:23:09You could.
00:23:10Yeah.
00:23:11You could make a to-do list.
00:23:12You know what? With like a planner?
00:23:16Any kind of word processor really.
00:23:19Anything.
00:23:19Planner. Paper.
00:23:20Paper, pencil.
00:23:22Google Doc.
00:23:24You know?
00:23:25There's like productivity software if you're interested.
00:23:27Yeah.
00:23:27I know.
00:23:30Do you...
00:23:31Would you like...
00:23:34Would you like help getting more organized?
00:23:39Whatever. I mean, hop on the back of the horse.
00:23:44And we can go pick up some of that stuff.
00:23:47Software?
00:23:50Software.
00:23:50Hardware.
00:23:52Whatever. I don't give a shit.
00:23:59Come on now.
00:24:02He is weeping so hard.
00:24:05The tears are fully lubricated, reaching his chin and falling onto the ground underneath him.
00:24:11As he gets on the back of the horse and goes,
00:24:12Yeah, man.
00:24:14Take me wherever you think we should go.
00:24:15You tell me.
00:24:17I'll go wherever.
00:24:18I don't give a shit which one it is.
00:24:20But we're going to get one.
00:24:21Batchild and Darkest Man.
00:24:22As you guys are leaving the cemetery,
00:24:24you see Zayt peel out with a weeping Tyler Mortimer on the back of the horse.
00:24:28Oh, fuck. He's gonna kill him.
00:24:29He's gonna kill him.
00:24:30You think so?
00:24:31I start bounding out.
00:24:33Okay.
00:24:33I start leaping on rooftops trying to catch up.
00:24:36Zayt! Zayt!
00:24:37Great.
00:24:38Go ahead. Give me Dexterity Acrobatics.
00:24:40You go ahead and give me Strength Athletics.
00:24:43Okay, cool.
00:24:43There's no Acrobatics.
00:24:44Oh, give me, then Athletics is good.
00:24:46Okay.
00:24:48You take off.
00:24:50Oh my, just two passes.
00:24:52Okay, two passes.
00:24:53One pass.
00:24:54One pass, great.
00:24:54You take off sprinting as fast as you can.
00:24:57Batchild, going from rooftop to rooftop afterwards.
00:25:00You get two ankles, bam, in through a roof.
00:25:03Please, I don't want to eat anyone else.
00:25:07You can see a roof absolutely stuffed with squirrel traps.
00:25:12Why can't you let the critters live?
00:25:16This town is full of monsters.
00:25:18Are they cruelty-free traps?
00:25:20No, they're glue traps.
00:25:21What?
00:25:22We can eat these people.
00:25:23We can eat them.
00:25:24You guys, Zayt, you guys begin to pursue after Zayt.
00:25:28Zayt, so you ride a horse all the way through town to the convenience mart over here.
00:25:34He basically takes you into, like, a 7-Eleven, and there's just, like, a notepad.
00:25:39So, like, one of the...
00:25:41Yeah, man.
00:25:42Whatever.
00:25:42Like, $2.99.
00:25:43$2.99?
00:25:47Do you have a pen?
00:25:48Do you want a pen?
00:25:48Oh, yeah.
00:25:51All right.
00:25:52I'll get a pen.
00:25:53Maybe a pencil, so that you can erase it if there's a mistake.
00:25:56Sure.
00:25:57Yeah.
00:25:58It floats your boat, man.
00:25:59He gets a mechanical, a little pack of Bic mechanical pencils and a little, just, like, spiral binder hand notepad.
00:26:09Awesome.
00:26:09Then you get up to the front, and the guy says, that's $8.99.
00:26:16Okay.
00:26:16Tyler goes, I buy it?
00:26:20Should I...
00:26:21The most complicated mugging I've ever seen.
00:26:23Should I expense this to Wing Street and Worthy?
00:26:25Yes.
00:26:26Okay.
00:26:26He takes out a card.
00:26:27Boop, boop.
00:26:28You see he immediately logs it, gets the receipt.
00:26:30You see he takes out a smartphone, clicks the receipt, logs it into a personal finance app that uploads it,
00:26:35that immediately is, like...
00:26:37Zath is staring so hard at this, trying to absorb it, but it's, like, too many steps of things he
00:26:41doesn't understand.
00:26:42Yeah.
00:26:45So if you're doing stuff that gets expensed, you want to log the receipt so that they have proofs, for
00:26:50tax reasons, if they get audited.
00:26:53I know.
00:26:54Do you want a saddle for your horse?
00:26:57Where do you even...
00:26:59Would that make it easier?
00:27:01Yeah, it's pretty hard to hold on.
00:27:05Whatever, man.
00:27:07Where would he...
00:27:08Yeah, take me to wherever you think you can get one of those.
00:27:10Or you just...
00:27:11Why don't you go get that?
00:27:12I'll go get it.
00:27:13I'll go get it.
00:27:14But yeah.
00:27:14That'd be great.
00:27:15So, here's your to-do list.
00:27:18Or, here's a notepad.
00:27:20You can put a to-do list here, but you can also just write other things down.
00:27:22You know, what's a good step on your to-do list?
00:27:25What's something you think would be good to do?
00:27:30I need to A or B any A's?
00:27:35What?
00:27:36There's some high-level shit going on that I can't tell you about.
00:27:40So I have to speak in code.
00:27:45I have to embrace or D any M-M's.
00:27:51I don't need to know.
00:27:54Good.
00:27:55I'm gonna go get you a saddle, man.
00:27:57Am I free to leave?
00:27:58Gonna get.
00:28:01Tyler?
00:28:02Yeah.
00:28:03You're all right.
00:28:06Thanks, man.
00:28:10You see, Gorse.
00:28:12As you start clapping, Gorse starts...
00:28:16I do kind of a jaunty, like, horse.
00:28:20I'm glad you're working with you.
00:28:22Okay, got it.
00:28:23Gorse bites his shoulder hard and goes, ah!
00:28:26More to come.
00:28:29Tyler turns around and sprints into the night.
00:28:34Just start writing my to-do list.
00:28:36Okay.
00:28:37Bat-child darkness, man.
00:28:38You guys head on back.
00:28:40I think you guys arrive at Zayt at the convenience store as he's writing this stuff down.
00:28:44Where is he?
00:28:45Zayt, did you eat him?
00:28:46You who?
00:28:48Uh, the assistant.
00:28:50Oh, Tyler?
00:28:51Tyler.
00:28:51No.
00:28:52Okay, because he's really-
00:28:53I was helping him get organized.
00:28:56Okay, good.
00:28:57I didn't even realize he was struggling.
00:28:59Because we've got a lot to do.
00:29:00Yeah, we do.
00:29:01And it's important that we take care of him.
00:29:03Wait, sorry, Zayt, can I...
00:29:04It seems like Tyler was so put together.
00:29:07Is-
00:29:08Is he hiding it?
00:29:09He's a fucking mess.
00:29:09Really?
00:29:11Should we-
00:29:12Should we-
00:29:13Nah, he's okay.
00:29:13He's okay.
00:29:14We don't have to tell anyone, but he-
00:29:16Is he a liability?
00:29:18Nah, nah, nah.
00:29:18He's just, you know, he's so low on the-
00:29:20You know, on our ladder that it's not going to be an issue.
00:29:23But I really helped him out.
00:29:25I bet you did.
00:29:26And if you guys have any questions on how to be organized, I got a-
00:29:30One of these.
00:29:31A notebook?
00:29:31A notebook, yeah.
00:29:33It's got months in it.
00:29:36That's awesome.
00:29:37Any to-do list, any to-do list that's for a-
00:29:40December is good for two and a half more weeks.
00:29:42Yeah, that's gonna, yeah.
00:29:44So, all these are-
00:29:46Okay.
00:29:47We should probably-
00:29:48We should circle up at the house.
00:29:49We-
00:29:49We have something we should discuss.
00:29:51Yeah, yeah.
00:29:52I think that there's been a big development.
00:29:54Wait, really?
00:29:55Can I write it down?
00:29:56Should I write it down?
00:29:56For sure, don't write it down.
00:29:58No, no, no.
00:29:58Actually, no, this is a product too.
00:30:00No.
00:30:00When you've already done something, you write it down and then you experience the pleasure of passing it out.
00:30:03You don't write this down at all.
00:30:04For sure.
00:30:05I write that down in code.
00:30:06I write that down in code.
00:30:07Kill Barnaby and then cross it out.
00:30:09Kill me.
00:30:09No.
00:30:09Cause it's done.
00:30:11Give me that.
00:30:11I take the paper and I shove it in bad child's mouth.
00:30:17You're not a portal right now.
00:30:19I crossed it out before.
00:30:21Oh, wait.
00:30:22Wait.
00:30:23Do you have to make it a portal?
00:30:24Wait, you just ate a full piece of paper?
00:30:28Sorry.
00:30:28I'm sorry.
00:30:29I'm sorry.
00:30:30Oh, it's cutting me through on the way down.
00:30:33It would be nasty.
00:30:35All right.
00:30:35We have to go back.
00:30:36We have to go back.
00:30:38All right.
00:30:38All right.
00:30:39Let's go back.
00:30:40I'm feeling good though.
00:30:41You guys head back.
00:30:42You guys head back to the house.
00:30:43Madeline, we ended with you with Cal and Ana last time, who are quickly getting dressed,
00:30:48getting ready to head off to see what's going on with the family.
00:30:51I'm like disheveled, covered in very silk sheets.
00:30:54Like where are you going?
00:30:56Cal's like.
00:30:56Like 2 PM.
00:30:58Yeah.
00:31:00See Cal says, it seems like something, something bad happened with, with grandpa.
00:31:04Uh, I don't know.
00:31:05It looks like he maybe slipped in the bathtub.
00:31:07Um, you see.
00:31:08Yeah.
00:31:08He drowned.
00:31:09Um, yeah.
00:31:11He fucking.
00:31:11They're giving you a lot of information over the text message.
00:31:14He drowned.
00:31:14Looks like maybe there was some glass.
00:31:16Like a window.
00:31:17Yeah.
00:31:18They're sending a bunch of texts.
00:31:19The police officer is sending me a bunch of texts.
00:31:20The police officer is sending you texts of pictures of your dead grandpa?
00:31:24Yeah, he said no to texts.
00:31:24This is stuff he's like doing.
00:31:25Is that normal?
00:31:26He's using Instagram.
00:31:27Like, he's not sharing it as a story, but he's using the story software to like circle
00:31:31stuff and highlight it for me.
00:31:32And he's like writing with the crayon tool on the sort of pictures.
00:31:36Wow.
00:31:36Yeah, it looks like there's a lot of broken glass.
00:31:37That's crazy.
00:31:38You can do that in regular feed photos.
00:31:40You don't need to go and see Instagram to do it.
00:31:41He's doing Instagram because it has like a little watermark on it.
00:31:43I don't think.
00:31:43I think he doesn't have the, I think he, I think he has a weird app from maybe somewhere.
00:31:47It seems like he's, it's like the free version of Instagram, but that is funny.
00:31:52Instagram is free.
00:31:53It's free.
00:31:53Yeah, I don't know where he got this.
00:31:55This seems like.
00:31:55Hey.
00:31:56Oh, Instagram's not spelled right.
00:31:57Sorry.
00:31:58Instagram.
00:31:59Instagram.
00:32:00It is Instagram.
00:32:02He says shit.
00:32:04Okay.
00:32:04He's using, he's using Instagram, Instagram free to send me.
00:32:08I have Instagram pro.
00:32:11$20 a week.
00:32:12$20 a week for Instagram pro.
00:32:14He looks and says.
00:32:15It's a terrible virus.
00:32:19He goes, yeah.
00:32:20Wow.
00:32:21Okay.
00:32:21We got to go.
00:32:22Um, we're going to get over there as fast as we can.
00:32:25Madeleine.
00:32:26Sorry to leave in the middle of like this, but we'll be right back.
00:32:28No, it's okay.
00:32:29Family is so important.
00:32:30It's so important.
00:32:31You see, they get in the car and peel out.
00:32:33I text the group.
00:32:34Great job, everybody.
00:32:36One down, two to go, maybe question mark.
00:32:39I'm not sure about the other city council members.
00:32:41I've not really been paying attention.
00:32:44So I think, I think the four of you guys sort of converge back on 9 Shady Street.
00:32:50H.J., Levante, you guys pull up to the Perpee Natural Food Co-op and Community Garden.
00:32:57Um, it looks like it's just about closing time over here.
00:33:00It's, it's, uh, late in December.
00:33:02Um, but you, you've been active tonight for a little while already.
00:33:05So it's about 7.45.
00:33:07Place closes in about 15 minutes.
00:33:10Uh, you see people are making their sort of last purchases and wrapping up.
00:33:14As you approach.
00:33:15Whatever you want's on me.
00:33:17We don't eat food.
00:33:20But what if you want, like, some merch?
00:33:23If I want some merch?
00:33:24Some sort of balm.
00:33:25Okay, great.
00:33:26Some sort of nice balm that you can put on before you go into your coffin tonight.
00:33:29Mm-hmm.
00:33:30I just want a pick-me-up for you, something lavender.
00:33:33Mm-hmm.
00:33:34Do you recognize me anymore?
00:33:38What do you think, H.J.?
00:33:40Do you think asking me whether I recognize you anymore is perhaps some indication of whether
00:33:45or not I recognize you anymore?
00:33:45I walk into the, I walk into the co-op hoping that these are my new people.
00:33:50You walk into the food co-op.
00:33:52It has sort of the, the bright fluorescent lighting of a grocery store, but on shelves populated
00:33:58with organic products.
00:34:00You see, it's really dominated by a local produce section and local farming stuff too.
00:34:05Even, like, their meat section is provided by a small family butcher.
00:34:08And they sort of proudly advertise the local butcher that they work with.
00:34:12You see-
00:34:13What's the name?
00:34:14Well, I'll say this.
00:34:15On the produce, you see Kupalewski Farms.
00:34:17Looking out around the, the food co-op here, there is a potent and powerful smell of various,
00:34:27like, fresh spices.
00:34:28You see there's a big wooden barrel with, like, open coffee beans in it.
00:34:33Roaster, again, local roasting company.
00:34:35There's a small sort of kiosk of cashiers in the middle of the co-op.
00:34:39It is, the entrance is hugely dominated.
00:34:42And by the way, the smells are like turmeric and rich spices and a lot of like, there's an herbal
00:34:47garden.
00:34:48You see there's actually like small potted areas of soil where there's-
00:34:51I buy a tiny basil plant for you.
00:34:53I buy a tiny little basil plant.
00:34:57Enormous cork board.
00:34:59The bulletin board at the front, absolutely packed with, you see, a lot of tear the phone number off on
00:35:07the bottom, little sort of paper things.
00:35:10People do still do that.
00:35:12Hey, you got no fight from me on that.
00:35:15You're right.
00:35:15And there's a lot of what looks like community events around here.
00:35:20You see there's a place that's like free cooking classes.
00:35:27And you can see that the cooking classes are taught by Amelia Brown.
00:35:31Running the register is a beautiful young Indian American woman.
00:35:39She is absolutely swimming in like an XL sized co-op hoodie.
00:35:46She's like a small golden nose stud on the side of her nose.
00:35:50Her hair is up in a bun.
00:35:51You can see that she has some fading henna on her hands.
00:35:57She's excitedly talking with a young, or not that young, sort of middle-aged mom who's there with some kids,
00:36:04who's got a big thing of produce and stuff like that.
00:36:07Again, the smell is rich spice and fresh produce and very strong herbal scents, rich coffee coming out of the
00:36:16barrels.
00:36:17And you do see some sweet potatoes in the back with a small microwave.
00:36:20God, that's so sick.
00:36:21Okay.
00:36:22I think we go up to the cashier and get in line for me to buy this incredible like little
00:36:28basil plant for Levante.
00:36:31I love it.
00:36:32Give me, give me...
00:36:34Just wearing a double-breasted suit.
00:36:37Arms crossed, upset behind you in line.
00:36:40I'm so amped to be here.
00:36:43I would like you guys to give me, each of you, wit's awareness.
00:36:48And I'd also like a willpower roll from each of you.
00:36:52Oh shit.
00:36:54To stop you from buying all the little ginger sweets at the counter.
00:36:57Pass the willpower roll.
00:36:58Four successes on the wit's awareness.
00:37:02Yeah.
00:37:02Sorry.
00:37:03How many successes on the willpower?
00:37:04Oh, I just rolled one for willpower.
00:37:06Is that what it is?
00:37:07I think it's the end of downtime.
00:37:08You should have your full willpower.
00:37:09So we have five.
00:37:09Five.
00:37:10Oh, we have full willpower?
00:37:12Yeah.
00:37:12End of downtime.
00:37:13Yeah.
00:37:14Okay.
00:37:16So.
00:37:17Apple Ship Butchers is the...
00:37:20You see Apple Ship Butchers is the local butcher family.
00:37:25Apple Ship.
00:37:25Mm-hmm.
00:37:26Three successes for willpower.
00:37:28Four successes for wit's awareness.
00:37:30Wit's awareness, gotcha.
00:37:31I got full five on willpower.
00:37:34Awesome.
00:37:34And then wit's awareness, zero.
00:37:36Wow.
00:37:37Cool.
00:37:37You are so excited.
00:37:39Bad basil plant.
00:37:42Oh, God, fresh basil.
00:37:44You look around here.
00:37:45I think on that high...
00:37:48You got a very high willpower roll there.
00:37:49But you're just like so excited for this sweet potato.
00:37:52Levante, you're looking around.
00:37:54You look at the people in this place.
00:37:56There's sign-ups for like clean-up shifts.
00:37:58There's sign-ups for people that are part of the co-op
00:38:00that have to help run the co-op.
00:38:02You look at people here.
00:38:03This place is a fucking pain in the ass.
00:38:07There is no self-checkout lane.
00:38:11In order to shop here, you have to be a part of it.
00:38:14You look at the mom here.
00:38:15She looks exhausted.
00:38:17And she's talking about coming here
00:38:18and teaching a like handmade crafts seminar.
00:38:22She sounds like she's working in ceramics or something like that.
00:38:24Like this tired mom coming back here to teach a class,
00:38:29that's not convenient.
00:38:31That's a fucking huge imposition.
00:38:34And I think you're just looking at this like all these people signing up
00:38:38to do shit in this place.
00:38:40The fuck is that?
00:38:42That's a fucking nightmare.
00:38:44And you walk up and see on that very high
00:38:49Whitsun Awareness as well.
00:38:51You recognize a very different looking thing.
00:38:56There's so much like handmade art and little handmade zines and stuff
00:39:00in the front of the food co-op.
00:39:03Unmistakably, next to the state mandated exit sign on the interior wall,
00:39:10is a small chalk symbol that looks very different than the one that Tyler sent you.
00:39:17But unmistakably sort of written by the same hand as you walk into this place.
00:39:24You get in line, you grab your sweet potato, and you walk up to the cash register.
00:39:28Basil plant too.
00:39:29You are dressed in a double-breasted suit, you are...
00:39:31Double-breasted suit but the tie is loose and the top buttons open.
00:39:35I'm a new man.
00:39:36I have seen this guy at the food co-op.
00:39:38The full mutton chop suit guy is a food co-op guy.
00:39:43I love that.
00:39:44You see that the young woman looks up and says,
00:39:47Hi sir. Basil plant, sweet potato?
00:39:49Please.
00:39:50How's the night? Thanks for...
00:39:52I know you guys are about to close, but...
00:39:54Hey.
00:39:54By all means, you gotta get in.
00:39:57We're busy right up until closed most of the time, honestly.
00:40:00Some people get out at seven, so...
00:40:02Yeah.
00:40:03She rings everything up.
00:40:05My name's H.J.
00:40:06H.J.
00:40:06She says, I'm gonna shake your hand.
00:40:08I hope it's not forward, but I presume you are not members?
00:40:12No, we are not yet.
00:40:14Is that something that we can purchase along with these ingredients?
00:40:21Yeah, you guys can become members if you'd like.
00:40:23Let me grab some sign-up forms. Hold on.
00:40:25Cool.
00:40:25And you see that she...
00:40:26What's your name?
00:40:27Maya.
00:40:28Maya. Great to meet you.
00:40:30Nice to meet you guys.
00:40:31Are you guys new here in Purpy?
00:40:33Yes.
00:40:34Yeah, we are brand new.
00:40:35We've been hoping to check this place out.
00:40:37We hear everyone we've run into that we like and get along with
00:40:42has mentioned the co-op, and so it's really fun to come and check it out.
00:40:45That's really nice to hear.
00:40:48Yeah.
00:40:48Thanks for sharing that.
00:40:49Who owns it?
00:40:50Is it?
00:40:51We all do.
00:40:52Oh, yeah, of course.
00:40:55That's so funny.
00:40:55Who started it?
00:40:56Well, this has been a grocery store for a long time.
00:40:59It went out of business about, I would say, a little more than nine years ago now.
00:41:05And myself and my partner, Amelia, scraped some cash together for the property and we reopened it as a co
00:41:12-op.
00:41:12That's Amelia Brown?
00:41:13Amelia Brown, yeah.
00:41:15We just bought her old house.
00:41:18The house she grew up in over on Shady Street.
00:41:21We didn't know it at the time, but it seems like some funny business is happening with that senior center.
00:41:31Does it seem like they were kind of pushed out of their house?
00:41:35The line behind you.
00:41:39You look at she says...
00:41:40Even if Jess said they're closing.
00:41:43Does it seem like they were pushed out of their house?
00:41:45Give me charisma persuasion right now.
00:41:48Holding a bag of ice.
00:41:48I'll have difficulty three.
00:41:50Fuck.
00:41:52A couple of the kids on the football team got injured and I'm trying to get this to them.
00:41:58Two.
00:41:59Two.
00:42:00Okay.
00:42:00You see, she goes, let me close up.
00:42:02If I can, we're open for another seven minutes and I'll...
00:42:06I'll close up and finish the register.
00:42:09I can meet you...
00:42:11I can meet you guys...
00:42:14Just out in the parking lot.
00:42:15By the bike rack?
00:42:16By the bike rack?
00:42:17Yeah, we'll just speak for a second if you like.
00:42:18I would love to speak to you.
00:42:20Because we, yeah, it just seems like it was a bad situation and...
00:42:25Anyway, sorry.
00:42:25Yeah.
00:42:26Great to meet you.
00:42:27You got it.
00:42:28I'll speak to you guys outside.
00:42:29Okay, great.
00:42:31Finishing up inside, you see that she sort of does the register up,
00:42:34says goodbye to one or two other people.
00:42:37You see that...
00:42:39So she like cleans up the little area around the cash register.
00:42:43You see another young guy.
00:42:45You see he's got like ratty kind of like skater t-shirt but a little like apron tied around it.
00:42:49Starts to like mop up in there.
00:42:51She goes over and speaks to him for a second.
00:42:53She sort of gestures outside and they sort of speak to each other for a moment.
00:42:55And she steps out, puts a big tote bag sort of over her shoulder.
00:43:03And a flex.
00:43:03A huge tote.
00:43:04Kind of a flex.
00:43:06Walks out.
00:43:06You see that she's got a pair of like comfy Crocs on and steps out and goes,
00:43:13So you guys...
00:43:17You guys bought the house on Shady Street from the Whickers.
00:43:24We're actually from San Francisco. We just moved here.
00:43:27Oh!
00:43:28And you see she looks at the two of you and goes,
00:43:30Oh!
00:43:31Like we're gay.
00:43:32Yeah, she goes,
00:43:33You guys are okay.
00:43:35I'm sorry.
00:43:36Watch it!
00:43:39He goes,
00:43:40Watch it!
00:43:41I'm sorry.
00:43:42You guys just bought a house together.
00:43:45We're from San Francisco.
00:43:47I only bought a basil plant and one sweet potato and we're clearly in a fight.
00:43:51We are roommates, all right?
00:43:54All right.
00:43:55Whatever sort of trip this is, internalized.
00:43:57I'm gonna ride the scooter.
00:43:58You have a...
00:44:00He looks and says,
00:44:01I didn't mean to out you.
00:44:03I'm sorry.
00:44:04I just thought...
00:44:05Yeah, I don't wanna...
00:44:06Listen, hey, I get it.
00:44:08You guys have a secret identity.
00:44:09There's a part of you that you can't share with the...
00:44:12You'll feel safe sharing.
00:44:13I feel so seen, but I know that it's not what you're talking about, but very similar.
00:44:17Yeah.
00:44:17But she just looks and goes,
00:44:19Look, two guys in beautiful suits come to the food co-op and had just bought a house.
00:44:26Coked out of their teeth.
00:44:27Yeah.
00:44:28That's not part of it, but that's fine.
00:44:30You see, she goes...
00:44:31Off the handlebar of the screen.
00:44:34Sir, I'm sorry.
00:44:36Okay.
00:44:36It's big timing.
00:44:37You and I apologize.
00:44:38Damn right I am.
00:44:39Damn right I'm big timing.
00:44:42She says, okay, sorry.
00:44:45Yes, we just moved here from San Francisco.
00:44:48We bought the house, but...
00:44:50Do you live here?
00:44:51Or are you a student?
00:44:52Yeah, no, I live here.
00:44:53Okay.
00:44:54Student? Oh my God, thank you.
00:44:57Yeah, we...
00:44:58It just really seems like there's something rotten going on.
00:45:04Sorry to be that outsider that's coming in, but we bought the house.
00:45:08Then we realized that it was probably leverage to send her mom to this old folks home.
00:45:15It's really fucked up.
00:45:16Anyway, we didn't realize that we were becoming part of the problem just effective immediately.
00:45:21So that's why I kind of spilled my guts to you in the checkout line.
00:45:28I mean this very sincerely.
00:45:31Mm-hmm.
00:45:32God, it smells so good.
00:45:33It's like a little vacation.
00:45:36H-J?
00:45:37H-J.
00:45:39I mean this very sincerely.
00:45:41So please don't read any aggression to this that's not really there.
00:45:45What's it to you?
00:45:47What do you mean?
00:45:49What's it to you?
00:45:50Your curiosity in this and I'm asking what's it to you?
00:45:54I'm so sorry if this sounded like just kind of blank curiosity.
00:45:59It was more empathy-driven.
00:46:03I'm just thinking about it from her point of view.
00:46:07And there's something going on with the Whitakers and they're flipping for Airbnbs
00:46:11and it just seems like something's really messy and I just maybe we can help.
00:46:17Gotcha.
00:46:18What I mean to ask is this.
00:46:21Are you coming here as a guy with money who's just moved to this town and you just bought a
00:46:28house?
00:46:29Must have bought it very quickly, right?
00:46:31Are you here from a perspective of being worried about the legal status of the house or a legal situation
00:46:37with the house?
00:46:37Or are you here because you actually are on some level disturbed by what you found out?
00:46:43That's the second one, definitely.
00:46:45Yeah, it seems like there's a lot of powerful people fucking over a lot of people without a lot of
00:46:55power in this town
00:46:56and we're hoping to, I don't know, just become involved.
00:47:03We're starting a bus system again where the buses were defunded.
00:47:07What do you mean you're starting a bus system?
00:47:09We have a lot of money, we're dual income, dual male income partnership.
00:47:14And we have a lot of money.
00:47:15Stopping the scooter, walking over.
00:47:16Now you.
00:47:17That's what you would call it, right?
00:47:19Well, we're business partners.
00:47:20Exactly, we're two businessmen.
00:47:22Demon.
00:47:23I am business partners with my partner.
00:47:26Exactly.
00:47:27Holy shit.
00:47:28There's more than one way to make a family.
00:47:30Everyone here is against me.
00:47:31We are starting a bus system because we are interested in getting involved in local politics
00:47:36because we think Part B could be the next Rome.
00:47:40And Rome historically stays up.
00:47:44Yeah, we all love Rome.
00:47:46We love Rome here.
00:47:47Look, we have a big dingo bus system.
00:47:50They're all parked outside of your partner's old house that she grew up in.
00:47:54Sorry.
00:47:55Huge buses, dingo.
00:47:57Spread it.
00:47:59This is not how we, we've talked about word of mouth a thousand times.
00:48:03Not how we started.
00:48:04Stop body rolling.
00:48:06Fucking stop body rolling.
00:48:07It's just feeling the night air, really.
00:48:10She looks and says, okay, I, I would love, I, I think, I want to bid you gentlemen a good
00:48:23night.
00:48:24And I think, and I think that it's very, what is the plan?
00:48:34Do you, are you, are you, hold on.
00:48:36And you see, she says, we're not that far away.
00:48:38You have buses in front of Amelia's childhood home right now?
00:48:43For now, we need to find a bus depot, but.
00:48:46You got the buses before you got the depot?
00:48:49Turns out we got the buses before we got the, the political candidate.
00:48:54Huh?
00:48:56Look, I'm, I'm over sharing.
00:48:59Um, I'm, it was great to meet you.
00:49:01I'd love to be friends.
00:49:02I, I'd love to see these buses if I can.
00:49:04Oh, come with us.
00:49:05All right.
00:49:05Get on the back of our scooter.
00:49:06Get on the scooter.
00:49:07I have a bicycle.
00:49:08You see, the absolutely most aggressive bicycle, um, uh, she undoes.
00:49:14It is falling to pieces.
00:49:16It's like so old and banged up.
00:49:19Gets on this little fixie, uh, bike.
00:49:21I read what?
00:49:22Kill the 1%?
00:49:24Okay.
00:49:24Um, uh, yeah, she looks at it.
00:49:26Yeah.
00:49:26No bike lock necessary.
00:49:28Yeah, no, yeah, yeah.
00:49:29I've been there quite a few times.
00:49:31It's the perfect place.
00:49:32Um, she gets on the bike, zzzzz, and takes off after you guys.
00:49:34I'm going to run.
00:49:35What?
00:49:36I'm not.
00:49:37After all of that talk, after all of that talk, I'm, I'm, I'm,
00:49:40do you think I'm going to clutch onto you?
00:49:42Oh, okay.
00:49:42I do understand.
00:49:43I understand.
00:49:44I'm going to run.
00:49:44Let me talk to you though.
00:49:46This place.
00:49:47I know I'm being very Dharma to your Greg right now, but this place is the life force
00:49:54of the town.
00:49:55You know I never watched it.
00:49:56You said the town is dying.
00:49:58Yes.
00:49:58This is the one oasis.
00:50:00This is the life bringer.
00:50:02And it's the only thing left.
00:50:04And I'm trying to figure out how it wasn't squashed too.
00:50:07All the ERs are gone, the libraries, the parks, the buses, everything that a town needs.
00:50:12But somehow this remains.
00:50:14So I want to figure out what's going on there.
00:50:17And she seems cool.
00:50:18She's so accepting.
00:50:20Like just every time she says something about us being gay, just sub in the word vampire.
00:50:24And she's awesome.
00:50:25Great.
00:50:26Every time she says something about us being gay, I'll sub in the word vampire.
00:50:29We're just two vampires in love.
00:50:34Watch it.
00:50:35I take off.
00:50:36And I'm going to go put the basil plant in your coffin if I can beat her there.
00:50:42Everyone in the coterie sees first HJ show up, run into the house with a basil plant and run
00:50:48downstairs with it.
00:50:49Oh.
00:50:49We're bringing someone over.
00:50:52Okay.
00:50:52We kind of have huge news.
00:50:54Oh, yeah.
00:50:56Barnaby's dead.
00:50:57Barnaby's dead.
00:50:58Yeah, Barnaby's dead.
00:50:58That wasn't a joke.
00:50:59No, Barnaby's dead.
00:51:00B's been killed.
00:51:01Yeah.
00:51:02B's been Cade.
00:51:04B's been Cade.
00:51:04B's been Cade.
00:51:05B's been Cade.
00:51:05By B.
00:51:06Okay.
00:51:07I relate to them that the same, did I clock the chalk thing or was that just you?
00:51:12I think only Levante.
00:51:14Okay, yeah, yeah.
00:51:15I just let them know that someone's coming over.
00:51:17Question, do you still have the welcome mat up where it was or has that been removed?
00:51:21I don't think I would have, like, because it was underneath the welcome mat, right?
00:51:25Yeah.
00:51:25The power washers come in, like, were supposed to come after we got the bingo buses all settled
00:51:30out, so I don't think it's been removed yet.
00:51:33Okay.
00:51:33Gotcha.
00:51:34Oh, I think Tyler did would have cleared the hex, though.
00:51:36Yeah, yeah.
00:51:36The hex, the b is already, it was already activated, right?
00:51:39Yeah.
00:51:40So you guys see that Maya gets here, leaves her bike up against a tree.
00:51:46Can we have any context of who this is?
00:51:48Yeah, I think I tell them everything about the co-op and everything.
00:51:51I just don't know that she, or that there was a similar hex symbol.
00:51:55You see that she comes around to the back door and knocks on it.
00:51:59Oh, we're showing her the buses in the front.
00:52:01Oh, the buses in the front.
00:52:02She just waits out in the yard.
00:52:02She's just here to see the buses.
00:52:03Yeah, I'm just letting you guys know that someone's out front.
00:52:05How many dingo buses are there?
00:52:07Nine.
00:52:09She pulls up, all of Shani Street is there.
00:52:11Nine full-size buses?
00:52:12The windshield wipers are flooded with parking tickets, notices from neighbors.
00:52:19That's weird.
00:52:19There are messages on them being like, please.
00:52:21We can pay all of that.
00:52:22Yeah.
00:52:22Messages from people being like, please move these.
00:52:24I need to park on this street.
00:52:26My lawn is dying.
00:52:29Please move the buses.
00:52:30God, people need to journal.
00:52:33She walks up and goes, what the fuck is this?
00:52:37Guys, the whole town is like, not even like two miles.
00:52:44You don't need nine, we don't need nine buses.
00:52:47The route is like a 35 minute route.
00:52:50We're preparing for potential growth.
00:52:52There's a single point of failure if a bus breaks down.
00:52:55Exactly.
00:52:55You always have to have a backup for that.
00:52:57So there are six running buses, three backup buses.
00:53:01Do you have any drivers?
00:53:02One VIP bus.
00:53:04We've got one.
00:53:05Yeah, we got a...
00:53:05We haven't reached out to him, but we know he'll work for us.
00:53:07Yeah, yeah.
00:53:08Do you want to...
00:53:09No, never mind.
00:53:10Of course.
00:53:11And...
00:53:12She just looks and stops for a second and says,
00:53:16this would really make life in the town better.
00:53:20That's what we're hoping.
00:53:21Yeah, that's the...
00:53:23We're from San Francisco.
00:53:24Yeah, we have a little bit of a list from a friend, Willy Coop,
00:53:28who was telling us kind of all the different things that were gutted in the town
00:53:32and we're hoping to kind of help reinstate them in some way.
00:53:36She looks at everyone else here and says, hi, Maya.
00:53:38Hi.
00:53:39Hi.
00:53:41These are our other roommates.
00:53:43And then I look at her with kind of like a daring look like,
00:53:46are you gonna...
00:53:47Are you gonna be cool?
00:53:49These are all of our other roommates.
00:53:51Enchanted.
00:53:54Hi.
00:53:54Hi.
00:53:55Is there a horse around?
00:53:57Yes.
00:53:58Yeah.
00:53:58It's right behind me.
00:54:00Horse, pops the head out.
00:54:03She goes, I don't know what's going on.
00:54:09So, buses would be absolutely enormous.
00:54:13Yeah.
00:54:14Actually, your location seems like a pretty interesting starting,
00:54:17because you're right at the top.
00:54:20We're planning on having it end at Mike's,
00:54:22but there's an argument to be made that it could continue back to your place.
00:54:26The parking lot we have is on our property and it's way larger than we mostly need.
00:54:32We could absolutely...
00:54:34Build a bus depot.
00:54:35We would love that.
00:54:37If there was a bus depot that let off, that would be so huge for so many of the families
00:54:41in town.
00:54:41If they had a way to use public transportation to get to...
00:54:47And she said, and by the way, you know, this is a very small town, but we're only a few
00:54:51minutes up the highway from Medford.
00:54:53If you guys wanted to, because they don't have a food co-op up there, you know, the...
00:54:58We do have nine buses.
00:54:59We have nine buses.
00:55:01We could have a Medford line.
00:55:02We could have a Medford line.
00:55:04This is why you get nine.
00:55:05But let's be clear.
00:55:05I mean, the number one goal of the bus system was to promote our...
00:55:12Potential candidate for mayor.
00:55:14Yeah.
00:55:14We have the privilege of looking into some of the politics of Purpy,
00:55:17and we believe that there's some shady stuff going on,
00:55:20and that perhaps the dog mayor is not as innocent as he looks.
00:55:25So perhaps if you know any charismatic parrots or a dingo...
00:55:31The bus says dingo, so it's actually really convenient if you have any Australian wild dog.
00:55:37You guys, it has to be bingo.
00:55:39It has to be bingo.
00:55:41I've known it...
00:55:42I've known Levante for a long time.
00:55:44It has to be bingo.
00:55:45Okay.
00:55:46Action item bingo.
00:55:47Yeah.
00:55:47So it turns out the dog can't vote, and that's very strategic.
00:55:53And so we are hoping to run someone else against the dog for mayor.
00:55:57We kind of want to help you guys disrupt your corrupt city council.
00:56:02That's not been working in your favor.
00:56:05She narrows her eyes.
00:56:07Goes...
00:56:10Cards on the table.
00:56:15Isha, you came to talk to me about this house.
00:56:17This house was stolen.
00:56:18It was stolen legally because legality has never been an impediment for theft.
00:56:27This land was stolen legally from the native people who lived here before.
00:56:32Wallace Whitaker, the architect of the Whitaker family, was a part of the lies and theft that engaged in that
00:56:38land theft.
00:56:40The vast majority of theft is legal or legal enough done by people who will never be prosecuted for it.
00:56:49So this house...
00:56:55Mona signed her paperwork to move into Silver Meadows.
00:57:00Amelia looked it over, didn't see the threat or the risk.
00:57:06Basically, it was a...
00:57:07It seemed to be a way more financially advantageous situation to put the house in as management for Silver Meadows
00:57:17and for the holding company.
00:57:20They rent it out, you know, for the horror festival or whatever, and then that ends up paying, you know,
00:57:27paying off the expensive premiums.
00:57:29But then the house suddenly goes into debt and they seize it.
00:57:33And all of that language is hidden deep in this really confusing contract.
00:57:37Yeah, we read it and we totally got it because we're two businessmen.
00:57:42So...
00:57:44They're fucking vampires.
00:57:46What?
00:57:47That's crazy. Vampires aren't real.
00:57:50Vampires!
00:57:52That's an apt metaphor.
00:57:54Oh, man.
00:57:55They are.
00:57:56Yeah.
00:57:57What's your six guys' relationships to each other?
00:57:59Whoa!
00:58:01Married.
00:58:02Married.
00:58:03San Francisco.
00:58:05We're in a very San Francisco relationship.
00:58:08We're in a very San Francisco relationship.
00:58:08Let's just say that.
00:58:09We're in a dual male income partnership.
00:58:10Yeah.
00:58:12Kind of how we would all describe it.
00:58:14Yeah, we're dimpies.
00:58:15We're dimpies.
00:58:17Yep.
00:58:18Look out, dimpies are coming to town.
00:58:20Yeah.
00:58:20Himpies and perpy.
00:58:21Can I ask about something?
00:58:23Yeah.
00:58:25The whole town's been gutted, but somehow the co-op survived.
00:58:29How did the Whitakers not get...
00:58:31Have they been offering to buy it?
00:58:33Have they been trying to squash you guys, run you out of town?
00:58:36Yeah.
00:58:36Okay.
00:58:37Yeah, they have.
00:58:38How do you protect yourself against them?
00:58:39Yeah.
00:58:42We own it, right?
00:58:43I mean, that's the issue, right?
00:58:45It's like most of how these guys get power isn't actually force.
00:58:50It's cooperation.
00:58:52They make a deal.
00:58:53They say, we'll give you lots of money.
00:58:54We'll make your dreams come true.
00:58:56And if all that your dream is is money, then the people with money make your dream come true.
00:59:00And then life gets worse in small ways everywhere until it all adds up.
00:59:05The reason we've survived is we are not a worthy proposition.
00:59:14That food co-op will never make a lot of money.
00:59:17And that's good because the purpose of the food co-op is to feed people.
00:59:22So great.
00:59:24People need to eat.
00:59:25People don't need money.
00:59:26They need to eat.
00:59:28And so I think that we've we they've made offers, but we've said no.
00:59:33And I think when they crunch the numbers on, you know, basically, they want they want the property or the
00:59:39land, but it's also not that great property.
00:59:42It's not downtown.
00:59:43Right.
00:59:43And so it ends up just being a place that the reason it survived is that the only reason it
00:59:52would exist is that we're trying hard to do something.
00:59:57And when the whole town's run by the Douglases and the Whitakers, the only things that survive are the things
01:00:03that have effort put into them.
01:00:04The funny thing is, it's not that much effort.
01:00:08It's just a little bit from a lot of people.
01:00:11Hmm.
01:00:13Interesting.
01:00:13I'm a little worried, though.
01:00:15I mean, if we built our buses, we might increase the value of your property.
01:00:21How would you protect yourself then?
01:00:23How would they come after you?
01:00:25Do they have other ways of coming after you that wouldn't involve just a enticing deal?
01:00:30Well, you know, I guess for the bus stop, how would they come after you?
01:00:34They'd probably send Todd after us.
01:00:36Oh, who's Todd?
01:00:37Todd is the parking enforcement officer.
01:00:41He also partially, I think, works for Meter, which is sort of a conflict of interest.
01:00:45He shouldn't be working for the city and working for the city.
01:00:46Safe writes down.
01:00:47K-Todd.
01:00:50She says, I can show you.
01:00:52I've seen Todd.
01:00:53Yeah.
01:00:53She says, Todd is, you see she opens a group chat up on her, you see that her phone is
01:00:58all group chats.
01:00:59She goes in and she shows-
01:01:01What a nightmare.
01:01:02She goes in-
01:01:03Please tell me they're all silenced.
01:01:05Yeah.
01:01:06No, no, no.
01:01:06With no alarms.
01:01:07Oh, that's awesome.
01:01:08Cool, cool.
01:01:08You see that she goes into one and shows you a picture of this guy in an off-green
01:01:16cop's uniform in full SWAT gear, camo.
01:01:21You see he has a grenade launcher, like a tear gas launcher.
01:01:25Is this actually too real?
01:01:28I need this man's address.
01:01:30I'm salivating.
01:01:31Yeah.
01:01:32His personal address?
01:01:34Yeah, do you have it?
01:01:35I just need it.
01:01:36We don't have to say everything to everyone, right?
01:01:38We get into it.
01:01:39Just like his neighborhood.
01:01:41Hurry.
01:01:41Well, he works downtown, right?
01:01:43He works out of the DMV.
01:01:47Todd applied to be a part of the sheriff's department.
01:01:52He wanted to join-
01:01:53Wait, you're telling me that guy applied?
01:01:55And he didn't get it?
01:01:57No, I think I saw this guy at Swingles night, actually.
01:02:00Yeah.
01:02:01Wait, and he dresses like that now?
01:02:03And he-
01:02:05Yeah.
01:02:06He got all that online?
01:02:07He says he didn't get into-
01:02:09And he got any dresses like that.
01:02:10It's shocking.
01:02:11You're telling me he failed both the written test and the psychological test?
01:02:16Yeah.
01:02:16The Fraternal Police Order got the psychological test down to a clinical psychologist that comes in from Medford and just
01:02:24asks, you good?
01:02:25And he launched into a string of invective and even failed that test.
01:02:30No.
01:02:30So he didn't-
01:02:31He did not pass.
01:02:33But Todd is our city's-
01:02:36Is Purpy's parking enforcement officer.
01:02:38He not-
01:02:40He supplied all that equipment from home.
01:02:42The city has asked him not to-
01:02:43No way.
01:02:44Can I check if we have any slips from Todd?
01:02:48Oh yeah, on the bus register.
01:02:49Oh yeah, on all of those buses.
01:02:50You go out, you see not only are there notices signed by Todd Farner, but also you see that there
01:02:58are a bunch of decal massive crosshair targets that he's placed on the back of your buses saying from the
01:03:08desk of Todd Farner.
01:03:10And then there's a print your own decals service, like an online ordering shop that he's printed these decals off
01:03:16of.
01:03:16You can afford to do this when you live with your mom.
01:03:18I'm gonna breathe deeply into the notices he left and sent him.
01:03:25Levante, what do you think?
01:03:26I think we've had a great conversation and I feel like there's a lot that we need to discuss as
01:03:34partners before we, I think, to figure out what we would like.
01:03:40She looks at you and says, thanks for coming and talking to me.
01:03:44The Whitakers have fucked a lot of people in town in this way, but also the town has fucked the
01:03:49town in this way.
01:03:50You know, like, there's a few, like the city council, we voted a fucking dog for mayor.
01:03:57Yeah, and we're trying to vote a better one.
01:04:00Don't worry.
01:04:00I agree with you there.
01:04:01The best.
01:04:02I agree with you there.
01:04:03You don't have to tell everyone everything.
01:04:05She looks and says, dark news man, stop fighting.
01:04:07I didn't know you were there.
01:04:08Stop fighting.
01:04:10She looks at you and says, you know, Marisol, have you guys met Marisol or talked to her at all?
01:04:16She's on the to-do list.
01:04:18Okay.
01:04:18Marisol.
01:04:19Marisol's really great.
01:04:21She's great.
01:04:22No.
01:04:22Marisol is amazing.
01:04:23F Marisol.
01:04:24She's the good one.
01:04:25Marisol.
01:04:26Her voting has been interesting though.
01:04:30She works at the Patterson Whitaker Hospital.
01:04:35And look, Marisol and I don't see eye to eye on everything.
01:04:39You know, I, she, she's trying to do, she's a really good person and she's really tapped into the community
01:04:46in a very big way.
01:04:47You know, she probably sees me as a, a young, crazy anarchist and that's fine.
01:04:52If I can help her and then that's, you know, that's fine.
01:04:56Right.
01:04:57But she's a really good person and she's been trying to keep this town healthy for a long, long time.
01:05:01Mya, would you want to run for city council?
01:05:03I have posted things on social media that make that not.
01:05:08Yeah.
01:05:08You know, I don't think anymore that that is a problem.
01:05:11I just don't think that's a big deal anymore.
01:05:14She says, I, hey.
01:05:15I've seen, I've seen.
01:05:16What about the, what about, are you friends with the person who ran Bud and Branch?
01:05:21Helena? Yeah.
01:05:22Do you think that she would have, do you think that she.
01:05:24Oh, you've got to meet Helena.
01:05:25Do you think she's popular enough that.
01:05:27That article came out about her.
01:05:28Yeah.
01:05:29We, that's what we really thought about her with the bus.
01:05:31She.
01:05:31You guys should come over for, um, a hang at night.
01:05:35Let's do it.
01:05:36Okay, great.
01:05:37Actually, we have, uh, we just moved in, so there's no furniture in the house.
01:05:41There's nothing in the house yet, but let's meet, have you guys over to our booth at Mike's.
01:05:45I'm gonna send you, she's like, take my number.
01:05:47Take my card.
01:05:48Uh, she says, I have a business card.
01:05:50Okay.
01:05:51Um, she says, uh, talk to me.
01:05:55Yes.
01:05:55Um, you see, she gives you like a ProtonMail email account, you know, gives you a couple,
01:05:59like, not, like.