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00:00:00encrypted, other stuff like that.
00:00:01Okay, great.
00:00:03I take one of the tabs out of my organizer
00:00:05and I point it to the number on Levante's card.
00:00:09So this lets you know where the number is
00:00:12sort of an organization to.
00:00:14She's really, really good at organizing.
00:00:16Hey, it all comes down to organization.
00:00:20She smiles and says,
00:00:22if they want to stop you, if they feel,
00:00:25and they'll want to stop you just for getting big.
00:00:30Don't want to stop you just for trying to do something new.
00:00:33So where they'll fuck you is the zoning and the traffic laws.
00:00:38They'll put the police after you.
00:00:40If we're not zoned or we don't have the clearance
00:00:42for a bus depot, you know,
00:00:45that's where they'll fuck you, right?
00:00:46Here's the fucked thing.
00:00:48Main Street and Mill Road and Pinecrest Road
00:00:52all got surveyed and cleared for bike lanes
00:00:58and for protected bus lanes.
00:01:00And it died in committee.
00:01:03Barnaby Whitaker and Jean Douglas
00:01:06kept voting for more public hearings.
00:01:09There's no limit to the amount of public hearings
00:01:12you can ask for.
00:01:13And without a majority city council vote,
00:01:14you can always say we haven't heard enough from the public yet
00:01:17and do another hearing.
00:01:18Which, hey, hearing from the public is great, right?
00:01:21But the tools that we need are also the tools
00:01:23that can be used against us.
00:01:25And it's just ad infinitum.
00:01:28I know that we got the thumbs up to do this,
00:01:30but we need to hear more.
00:01:31I know that we got the thumbs up to do this.
00:01:32We need to hear more.
00:01:33And as long as it's,
00:01:34as long as Barnaby and Jean are on the same page
00:01:38about not spending city funds on this
00:01:40and the mayor is a fucking dog,
00:01:42then they can't move forward.
00:01:43Yeah, well, we're gonna really try.
00:01:47Before you leave,
00:01:49I sprint away like supernaturally fast.
00:01:53I go down to the basement,
00:01:55open up that door,
00:01:56and I rip that panel of the wall off
00:01:58that has like their heights and names written on it.
00:02:01Yeah.
00:02:02And I run back out and go.
00:02:04How clearly supernatural is that?
00:02:08Medium.
00:02:09Medium?
00:02:11What is everyone doing?
00:02:13Darkness man, surrender.
00:02:15That's so many dice.
00:02:16And she looks at you and goes,
00:02:19oh, thank you very much.
00:02:24Are you guys friends of anyone else in town?
00:02:31Nope.
00:02:32We actually haven't really made many friends in town
00:02:34other than Willy Coop.
00:02:35He's been really cool
00:02:36and you're kind of our second friend.
00:02:37Why, is there someone we should know?
00:02:39I think you know the people
00:02:41that you should know to get started.
00:02:42And it's, thanks again for stopping by.
00:02:45Can I do some kind of roll off of her roll?
00:02:46Yeah, go ahead and give me intelligence insight.
00:02:52Okay.
00:02:57Three.
00:02:58She's made a connection between something she just saw
00:03:01and something else in town
00:03:02and caught herself before she spilled the beans.
00:03:04Mm.
00:03:05Okay.
00:03:06All right.
00:03:07Thank you for this.
00:03:09I think this will actually mean a lot to Amelia.
00:03:14Helen is a great,
00:03:15she looks over at you, bad child,
00:03:16and goes, Helen is a great call.
00:03:18Helen has zero interest in politics,
00:03:21but what she does have is a really good story.
00:03:24Don't worry, that's what I was thinking.
00:03:26She gets on her bike.
00:03:27Welcome to town.
00:03:28Glad you guys are here.
00:03:29And I really approve of whatever your situation is.
00:03:32Zzz.
00:03:34Okay, I know people have given me shit
00:03:36about the superhero thing,
00:03:37but y'all could learn how to be superheroes, right?
00:03:39Like we have to hide some stuff.
00:03:41Like we can't eat Todd now.
00:03:43We asked where he lived.
00:03:45Oh fuck.
00:03:46I wasn't talking about eating him.
00:03:48I want to go through his trash.
00:03:49I'm not trying to eat him.
00:03:50You really-
00:03:51I want to eat him.
00:03:52No, fuck.
00:03:53I'm trying to eat him.
00:03:54No, I can't.
00:03:54I want to go through his trash to then eat him.
00:03:57Not on the front lawn.
00:03:58Come on, every inside, everybody, inside.
00:04:00We gotta stop telling everyone everything.
00:04:03Of course.
00:04:04She seems cool,
00:04:05but she also seems really suspicious of us.
00:04:07I think she seems like a better connection than anyone,
00:04:10other than even Will,
00:04:11like maybe Ampar would really-
00:04:12We can make a connection without telling them
00:04:15that word vampires.
00:04:16It's a classic-
00:04:17He said vampires don't exist.
00:04:18But it's a classic business tactic, right?
00:04:20I mean, sometimes you say the thing that you don't think
00:04:24they would believe it if they could hear it,
00:04:26just to see, just to read their face.
00:04:29And I mean, H.J., I'm sure you saw what I saw.
00:04:31Yes.
00:04:32She clocked.
00:04:33What if she knows Aaron, right?
00:04:35Aaron Bowe?
00:04:36Yeah.
00:04:37Aaron-
00:04:38I think the reality is the mark that was on the house
00:04:42when we bought it,
00:04:43the same thing, the hex that came over Tyler-
00:04:46Sure, it was a mage.
00:04:47There was one of those on the food co-op.
00:04:50Oh.
00:04:51That's right, yeah.
00:04:52Were you able to tell what it was doing,
00:04:54or just that it was there?
00:04:56I think just that perhaps whatever magic was in this place
00:05:01exists in that food co-op as well.
00:05:03Because there was something that wasn't working about this house,
00:05:06so maybe her partner has some way of warding off the Whitakers-
00:05:12you know, as a backup on the food co-op.
00:05:14Bat Child, you know a little bit more about magic than anybody else.
00:05:17Do you think if you went to look at it, you would know?
00:05:20Um, I could try for sure.
00:05:22I know a lot more about bats than I do about magic.
00:05:24Hmm.
00:05:25So it would be, you know, if it were, say, the scenting-
00:05:29Oh.
00:05:30Oh, okay.
00:05:31Did you, did you both kill Barnaby Whittaker with your bare hands?
00:05:36Yeah, yeah, wait, what's going on?
00:05:36Is he in the Oblivion?
00:05:38No, no.
00:05:38Did you guys mouth him?
00:05:40You should have seen it.
00:05:41Bat Child's over here saying she doesn't know anything about ghosts.
00:05:43She did, like, a freaking Kamehameha with Kupate.
00:05:47I was like, go Kupate.
00:05:49Goddamn, I love the Kupate.
00:05:51Threw the grave of the, like, patriarch of the family, the super old guy,
00:05:57and then it went and summoned Bigfoot to drown Barnaby.
00:06:02He drowned?
00:06:03Bigfoot has accepted me as his pupil.
00:06:06What?
00:06:07Yes, which I know, obviously, like, that's still a tenuous relationship
00:06:10that I must earn at every single twist and turn.
00:06:13Obviously.
00:06:14Obviously.
00:06:15But then Bigfoot took Barnaby and had the self-restraint,
00:06:21probably through years and years of crafting Kupate,
00:06:23to not kick him apart, but rather drown him in a poetic death.
00:06:29So now we've got an open council seat.
00:06:32Wow.
00:06:33Okay, we can still have Bingo as mayor, but we can try to fill that seat-
00:06:37With Helena.
00:06:38With Helena.
00:06:39That's good.
00:06:39But I still, after my experience with Patty,
00:06:43and I'm not trying to let it define everything about me right now,
00:06:47but I do also think having a young person on the council
00:06:52who can say the future of Purpy exists for college students,
00:06:58I think could also be a big, could be a potent choice.
00:07:02I agree, and Helena's young.
00:07:04Yeah, she is, I think.
00:07:05Do you have another person in mind?
00:07:06No, I was just gonna, you know-
00:07:08Do you want to run like an 18-year-old who hasn't graduated yet?
00:07:14That's bigger dreams.
00:07:15The fact that we have Helena is, I think maybe, when we have a lead, we pursue that lead to
00:07:19the end.
00:07:20But I think also if anyone meets a, you know, a prizing 18-year-old.
00:07:24Well, I, you know, I wanted to say, you know, I was working with Tyler earlier and I got him,
00:07:30I kind of got him in line, he was a little out of, he was bent out of shape.
00:07:33I'm glad you said that.
00:07:34Really?
00:07:34I got him, I actually got him pretty organized and so.
00:07:37Oh!
00:07:37Oh!
00:07:38And I'm, you know, on that, I'm, you know, I'm feeling a renewed focus.
00:07:43That's crazy because he sent me an Excel sheet of everything he's eaten in the last 72 hours.
00:07:47Yeah, crazy macro spread.
00:07:49Insane macro spread.
00:07:50Actually, I'm like, what are you just eating chicken cottage cheese three times a day?
00:07:54What's going on here?
00:07:55But you're telling me he was kind of out of line?
00:07:58You know, I just felt a little like I, you know, I just kind of had to show him the
00:08:03ropes.
00:08:04What'd you show him?
00:08:05You know, I just got my, I just had to get the notebook.
00:08:10I got the notebook.
00:08:10Is that a notebook where 11 of the months are no longer useful?
00:08:14Well, actually, the December one got ripped out and I...
00:08:18So, you ate December, but I still have October, November.
00:08:23And it has the first week of January because they know you.
00:08:25Oh, yeah, yeah, that's true, that does.
00:08:27So, I'm kind of using, I'm using a lot of August right now.
00:08:29Well, thanks for putting that on our radars.
00:08:33Yeah, that's...
00:08:34And I'm ready to do some work is all I'm saying.
00:08:37I love that.
00:08:38Okay.
00:08:38Yeah, that's great.
00:08:39Yeah, we're gonna need all hands on deck because I think we really got something cooking.
00:08:43Great work, team.
00:08:44I mean, I think tonight was incredible.
00:08:47Yeah.
00:08:47On all fronts.
00:08:49So, really, let's get a round of applause.
00:08:50Let's get a round of applause.
00:08:51That's great.
00:08:52And Barnaby's gone.
00:08:54And Barnaby's gone.
00:08:55We got a plan.
00:08:57Yeah.
00:08:57We've got a potential candidate.
00:08:59Yes.
00:08:59And I also think that there could be a chance that the Douglases will see the Whitakers weakening
00:09:04and pounce on their own.
00:09:06I'm also, do we want to get the ball rolling on the new dog mayor like sooner rather than
00:09:14later and try to...
00:09:15Yes.
00:09:16Because the current mayor's owner, she's like got like a social media for the dog, right?
00:09:22Tina Bunders.
00:09:23Tina Bunders.
00:09:24Tina Bunders.
00:09:24Do we want to try to lower...
00:09:25Use some connections in San Francisco to try to...
00:09:28Hey, Tina Bunders.
00:09:29Get a verified account for Bingo.
00:09:31Yeah.
00:09:31Get Tina Bunders to try to...
00:09:32Try to move Tina Bunders out of town.
00:09:35That's good.
00:09:35I love that.
00:09:35While we're working the Patty angle, let's work the Bunders angle on a separate phone.
00:09:39Get her a job in San Francisco because she's done such a good job here.
00:09:43Yeah, I've got some friends in the kind of green juice space.
00:09:44Here a second, everybody.
00:09:44While we're having this conversation at home, we should be celebrating.
00:09:48Let's go to fucking Sweetie Pie's and get behind that goddamn velvet rope.
00:09:52Ooh.
00:09:53And then have the conversation.
00:09:55I feel pretty claustrophobic in there, but I'll go.
00:09:58It's definitely a fire hazard, but I feel equipped to fight fire.
00:10:01That place wasn't the most welcoming to me, but I do feel like our experience at Sweetie Pie's was not.
00:10:07Like, of course, I did.
00:10:09I am on my way to being a minority owner in it.
00:10:12Yeah.
00:10:13But until then, maybe we just go to Mike's and I don't know.
00:10:17I'd go to our booth.
00:10:18Mike's feels right.
00:10:18I'd go to our booth, but yeah, yeah.
00:10:21Okay, let's try it.
00:10:22Cheers.
00:10:23It's cool that we can maybe park the buses somewhere else.
00:10:26Should we get those moved tomorrow?
00:10:27Maybe Tyler can drive each of the nine buses.
00:10:30I think so.
00:10:30And then walk back and then we'll lend him a scooter.
00:10:34We'll give him a Type C license.
00:10:36We'll find out.
00:10:37He'll get one.
00:10:38He'll get one.
00:10:38Let me tell you that.
00:10:38He's the kind of guy who would get one.
00:10:40I told him to buy me a saddle a while ago.
00:10:42Hell yeah.
00:10:43So, Tally.
00:10:44Actually, Tyler walks up with a saddle, sees you guys meeting, and goes, fuck!
00:10:49As he drops and says, I'll take notes.
00:10:51I'm sorry.
00:10:51No, Tyler, it's quite all right.
00:10:53I got it, Arnie.
00:10:54It's fine.
00:10:54Zainte actually has been taking notes.
00:10:56Erinbo, Cade, Tina Bunders.
00:10:59Huh?
00:11:00Kill Tina?
00:11:02Zainte?
00:11:02No, I say Tyler.
00:11:03Tyler, delete.
00:11:04Okay.
00:11:05Delete.
00:11:07Tyler, do you know anything about the Templars?
00:11:10The Templars?
00:11:11The little guys with the berets who ride go-karts during Memorial Day?
00:11:14Is that what they do?
00:11:15They hang out right here.
00:11:15Yeah, they're right down the end of the block, yeah.
00:11:17Is that it?
00:11:17That's the whole vibe?
00:11:18It's just they have berets and go-karts?
00:11:21Well, I think that they have little go-karts.
00:11:23Does they each get a go-kart?
00:11:25Every single one who's a member gets a go-kart?
00:11:26Is it boys only?
00:11:28You join.
00:11:28Do they have to provide the go-karts or is it...
00:11:30You can use the scooters any time you want.
00:11:32I think it's...
00:11:33If you have the needs per speed.
00:11:34I wish to be low to the ground.
00:11:35I've never seen a lady Templar, but I don't know if that's because it doesn't hold any appeal or...
00:11:44Girls like go-karts.
00:11:46I don't know.
00:11:48I think that you have to hang out with the other Templars to get the go-karts.
00:11:52I feel like we could just buy a go-kart, yeah?
00:11:53Yeah, yeah.
00:11:54Right?
00:11:54I mean, man.
00:11:55I had two go-kart birthdays two years in a row.
00:11:58You see that he says, but they're like a fraternal order.
00:12:02So it's like they have...
00:12:03If you've gone in there, they have some local events in there sometimes, but there's like a bar and they
00:12:10have a skee-ball thing, but it smells crazy in there.
00:12:13Like cleaner crazy or like old barf?
00:12:17No, no.
00:12:17Like is that leather sofa stuffed with more leather?
00:12:20Okay.
00:12:21Interesting.
00:12:22And they're like a church affiliated group?
00:12:26No, no.
00:12:27It's like a...
00:12:27Fraternal order.
00:12:28It's like a fraternal order.
00:12:29I mean, they might have been like the masons or something.
00:12:31I don't know, but...
00:12:32They're not like sacrificing lambs in the back room?
00:12:35I think they like play skee-ball and almost no one's there anymore.
00:12:39Do they go to the shooting range a lot with bows and arrows?
00:12:44Some of them might, I think.
00:12:46But you know, I'm way tapped out of what's going on over there.
00:12:49Oh, totally.
00:12:49Yeah.
00:12:50You've done a great job already, Tyler.
00:12:52We're going to need you to, if you have time tomorrow, like a three or four hour block, we want
00:12:57you to drive each of the buses to the co-op because they're going to let us park there.
00:13:01And we're going to leave you a scooter so that you can load the scooter onto the bus, drive it,
00:13:06zip back on the scooter.
00:13:07Great.
00:13:08Okay.
00:13:08And pay all the parking tickets as well?
00:13:09Yes.
00:13:10Great.
00:13:11And here you go.
00:13:12And I hand him an incredibly gorgeous vintage Rolex.
00:13:15He looks at it, bursts into tears.
00:13:18Suck it in.
00:13:20Suck it up.
00:13:22We've been practicing.
00:13:23Yeah.
00:13:23That's great.
00:13:24Okay.
00:13:25Anything else?
00:13:26So, uh, uh.
00:13:27That was my father's and before that it was his father's.
00:13:31That was a test and you didn't cry.
00:13:32Great job.
00:13:33I slapped him on the back way too hard.
00:13:34I'm back, baby.
00:13:36I'm back, baby.
00:13:37Come on now.
00:13:37This shit's worn off.
00:13:40There's basil in your fucking coffin.
00:13:42Get that shit out of there.
00:13:47Wow.
00:13:48Okay.
00:13:49So we're going to get a doctor to the Mr. Hyde thing.
00:13:51All right.
00:13:52Cool.
00:13:52Cool.
00:13:52Cool.
00:13:53Cool.
00:13:54You see, you see Tyler says anything else, anything else while I'm out tomorrow.
00:13:59We got, I'll park the buses.
00:14:00I'll take care of the parking tickets.
00:14:02Do you want me to remove the crosshairs and the threats about firing on site from Officer Farner?
00:14:09Yes.
00:14:10Yeah.
00:14:11Yeah.
00:14:11Actually, it'd be interesting though to find out who's willing.
00:14:14Yeah.
00:14:15To meet that.
00:14:16No, I think.
00:14:17Although for your safety, because you'll be the one driving the bus.
00:14:19Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:14:19Let's have those taken off.
00:14:20Yeah.
00:14:21And then can you.
00:14:22Feed gorse, feed and water gorse.
00:14:24Perfect.
00:14:24And I hate to say this.
00:14:25Were there any other color saddles?
00:14:29Well, that one's brown.
00:14:30They have other brown ones.
00:14:31They have black ones?
00:14:33Yeah.
00:14:34Oh my God.
00:14:35Can you also, can you reach out to, what was the one who we spent this evening with?
00:14:41Oh, Maya.
00:14:42Maya.
00:14:42Can you reach out to Maya?
00:14:43Can we set a dinner, maybe week and a half out with her and her partner?
00:14:48And then also, if we could arrange a meet with Helena.
00:14:53Helena of Bud and Brian.
00:14:54Let's, instead of dinner, let's just do a martini bar at Mike's.
00:14:58Yeah.
00:15:00Let's say martinis at Mike's.
00:15:02You might want to sort of suss out their situation.
00:15:05What do you mean?
00:15:06Like if they, you might want to say, or they might not want martinis.
00:15:13Oh.
00:15:13Oh, right.
00:15:14There's kind of a sober vibe.
00:15:15Yeah.
00:15:15Flip it back to dinner.
00:15:17Flip it back to dinner, please.
00:15:18You know, he looks, he looks out and says, how early of a dinner could you guys do?
00:15:22If you want to do Bud and Branch, Bud and Branch closes at 6pm in December.
00:15:29Which works for us.
00:15:30Sunset is like 4.30.
00:15:30Great.
00:15:31So we could meet her there.
00:15:33Yeah, right after work.
00:15:34And see her work.
00:15:36Yeah, we would love that.
00:15:37Great, I'll set it up.
00:15:38Done.
00:15:38Tyler, can I ask you one more question?
00:15:40Mm-hmm.
00:15:41What's going on with the squirrels in this city?
00:15:43Feels like everyone's out to get them.
00:15:45There's just a, I think there's some extremely aggressive squirrels.
00:15:50So it's the squirrel's fault?
00:15:52Bad job, bad job.
00:15:54Sorry, no, I actually didn't mean to be aggressive.
00:15:56Wow.
00:15:56I know the animals.
00:15:57No, yeah.
00:15:58Yeah, well, yeah, I think that there's just some people, like the past, it's like, actually the past few years
00:16:05it's gotten noticeably worse.
00:16:07Really?
00:16:08Yeah.
00:16:08Where?
00:16:09Kind of all over, but especially like, I think some of the newer places in like, in Soft Meadows is
00:16:15like.
00:16:15Sure, yeah.
00:16:16See, I need you to question a squirrel.
00:16:19Something's going on there, I think.
00:16:20You squirrels.
00:16:21Also making a talking point for the dog's platform.
00:16:24Oh.
00:16:24Dog's anti-squirrel, that's fun.
00:16:26It's fun.
00:16:27It's fun.
00:16:28It's fun.
00:16:28It's fun.
00:16:28Get those squirrels out of here.
00:16:29You see, he says.
00:16:29We can do a squirrel rescue wing once we buy this.
00:16:32Yeah, that's good.
00:16:33I did write down squirrel sanctuary.
00:16:35The fun squirrels.
00:16:35Maya and Amelia.
00:16:36Done deal.
00:16:37Helena we got.
00:16:38Cool.
00:16:39And then, did you guys have, is there anything you guys want me to look up or research as well?
00:16:46You guys have been talking to Maya about the bus lanes.
00:16:48You've been talking about the parking officer.
00:16:50You've been talking about like the homes and the whole purchase of the home.
00:16:53Yeah.
00:16:53And then, you guys also have this question of what's going to happen with the seat.
00:16:59What's going to happen with the, he's died earlier tonight.
00:17:01Can you find out if there's an emergency election or if there's something weird or like there's a next?
00:17:05Yeah, like how long do we have?
00:17:06Yeah.
00:17:07You see, he looks it up.
00:17:10Okay.
00:17:11It's up to the city council.
00:17:14It looks like if it's close enough to an election, sometimes they'll just let it slide to the election.
00:17:20But looking at the bylaws, it's probably an appointment to the seat by the city council.
00:17:27But it looks like there's a period where you can nominate or name people.
00:17:32Can you give me one more?
00:17:34Can you get us?
00:17:34Oh, God.
00:17:35Before the others, let's get.
00:17:36We need to talk to Marisol and I'd also like to talk to Herb.
00:17:39Marisol and Herbert Melvin.
00:17:41Okay, sure.
00:17:42Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:17:42That's the Douglas one, right?
00:17:44Separate.
00:17:44Separate meetings, please.
00:17:45Okay.
00:17:46Did I get to tell you guys I got shot by one of the Douglas?
00:17:50Dave.
00:17:51Yeah.
00:17:52Right to the shoulder.
00:17:53Gosh, he carries so much and asks none of us to take any of it for him.
00:17:56Yeah.
00:17:57Yeah.
00:17:58Tyler says, all right.
00:17:59I'm on it, boss.
00:18:00Hey, Tyler, you see how these men are wearing ties?
00:18:03On it.
00:18:05So sorry.
00:18:05Yeah.
00:18:06And that will never happen.
00:18:06Get a gorgeous silk tie and put it on the card.
00:18:09I'll never take it off.
00:18:10I'm going to get a gorgeous silk tie and put it on the card.
00:18:11Never take it off.
00:18:12Okay.
00:18:13Should we look into our compound or is this?
00:18:17I feel like we got a lot on our plate.
00:18:18We got to eat what we got before we eat anymore.
00:18:21You're right.
00:18:22You're always right.
00:18:23Tyler sets up meetings with Maya and Amelia, Helena Latour, Marisol Simano.
00:18:29And also seems to have a hard time tracking down Herbert Melvin.
00:18:34But Herbert apparently does hang out at the Templar Shrine from time to time and can go and be found
00:18:40there.
00:18:41I can see kind of like an off the grid guy.
00:18:43I forgot to do anything.
00:18:44No.
00:18:44Herbert Melvin is just a much older man.
00:18:46He actually lives at one of the nursing homes, but goes to the...
00:18:50Which nursing home?
00:18:52We know which one.
00:18:54Silver Meadows?
00:18:55I think so.
00:18:57So, I think, again, rather than charging us ready to downtime, what you also see is the city council right
00:19:02now has 30 days either to call a special election or make an appointment.
00:19:08The next night, Tyler basically confirms for you guys, like, they have opened a call for applications for consideration for
00:19:17appointment.
00:19:19Appointment would require three votes, which, given that one of the votes is a dog, means that you would have
00:19:26to either...
00:19:26Get all three.
00:19:27Get all three.
00:19:28Whew.
00:19:30So that means that we need to make Douglas think it's in his interest.
00:19:35Or we go special...
00:19:37So it's either appointment or special election?
00:19:40Or special election.
00:19:40If it's not appointment, is it special election?
00:19:43If it is deadlocked, meaning that no candidate can get three votes, then it moves to special election.
00:19:48I think that's easy.
00:19:50That's easy.
00:19:51Yes, I think we just need...
00:19:52Let's talk to Marisol.
00:19:53Marisol, and I think, hey, I'm never above putting a little salt on Herb.
00:19:58Maybe we should work all angles.
00:20:00Yeah.
00:20:01I like...
00:20:01Wow.
00:20:02...this organized Zayn.
00:20:04God.
00:20:04I'm gonna fuck Tina Bunders.
00:20:06Oh!
00:20:08That is not...
00:20:09That is not...
00:20:10That is not what I thought you meant.
00:20:13Wait, sure.
00:20:15Or, you know, just see what's going on there.
00:20:17I don't know.
00:20:18Yeah.
00:20:18I think it's a really good call.
00:20:20I'll chase that.
00:20:21I can't read Bat Child in this moment.
00:20:24Aw.
00:20:25She looks activated in a new way.
00:20:27Unbelievable.
00:20:28Yeah, maybe Zayn.
00:20:30Cool.
00:20:32Bat Child.
00:20:33Bat Child.
00:20:33Bat Child's obsessed with someone fucking Tina Bunders.
00:20:36Bat Child, the table is cracking underneath your grip.
00:20:39It does feel like Tina Bunders and Bat Child would be best friends in another world.
00:20:46Bat Child.
00:20:47Oh, my God.
00:20:47Bat Child's going into a frenzy.
00:20:50Bat Child's going into a frenzy.
00:20:50Bestial failure.
00:20:52I don't need to roll a rouse check.
00:20:54I already have.
00:20:58Goddamn.
00:20:59Goddamn.
00:21:00Hell yeah.
00:21:01Well, for you guys, what is better for you?
00:21:03Should we move into downtime if there's stuff you want to do?
00:21:05Or do you want to have some of these conversations before moving into downtime?
00:21:09I think we should have some of these conversations because I do feel like H.J. and Levante should maybe
00:21:14like A-OK or dispatch us as you see fit.
00:21:18Yeah.
00:21:18So I think as there's a period of a few weeks where they're like collecting names before they either vote
00:21:26on one of them.
00:21:27So they have up through the first week of January to either have the vote of like who's going to,
00:21:34and you can see that they even say like, oh, the timing of this.
00:21:37First of all, the town was preserved.
00:21:39They arrest this woman, Beatrix, who is-
00:21:42The nurse?
00:21:43The nurse.
00:21:43You see that there's a statement that goes out on some local news channels that's basically the chief of police
00:21:49of Perpee saying,
00:21:50we have reason to believe that Beatrix Hennessey, a hospice nurse working with Barnaby Whittaker, may have applied a sedative
00:22:02drug to induce a state of torpor.
00:22:05Um, and then possibly jumped out the second story window, collected the glass from the ground outside, walked back in
00:22:14through the front door unlocked, scattered the glass inside the bathroom, and let Barnaby Whittaker drown after sedating him.
00:22:22Okay, I feel like Beatrix, I feel like Beatrix could have been party to some stuff that might be good
00:22:30information if we could provide her legal counsel.
00:22:33Totally.
00:22:33It's just kind of crazy to me that they don't find any hair.
00:22:38She looks out.
00:22:39Why?
00:22:39Bigfoot.
00:22:40Bigfoot, it's a god.
00:22:41His hair doesn't follow the same follicular-
00:22:44Perhaps it's like-
00:22:45It's like the dewy snow.
00:22:47And I'm learning.
00:22:49It's like-
00:22:50Bigfoot hair stays.
00:22:53Oh, your notes app is pulling up.
00:22:55Hair stays.
00:22:58So we'll run a couple of these scenes here.
00:23:00Does it fall?
00:23:00Over the next couple weeks, going into December, getting closer to the holidays, you see Perpee, doesn't get too festive,
00:23:07and you just sort of, again, I think, like, especially Levante, you look out and see a place that could
00:23:11be doing something special for Christmas, instead doing very, very little.
00:23:14I'm going to call the bartender at Mike's and ask them to go to the convenience store and buy $4
00:23:23,000 worth of Christmas decorations and set them up around the bar and cover the parking lot in fake snow.
00:23:29And whenever we're out in public, we are mumbling about the big tree lighting at Mike's that's coming up.
00:23:36Yes, we're hosting a big tree lighting at Mike's.
00:23:38There's a huge tree lighting, I hear.
00:23:40We're shipping a-
00:23:40We're bringing a tree in.
00:23:41There's a semi-truck with just only one big tree in.
00:23:44December 19th?
00:23:45You're bringing a tree in?
00:23:47Yes.
00:23:47You get an email from Tyler.
00:23:48Like, from up here.
00:23:49You get an email from Tyler.
00:23:50He scoped out the tree that Rockefeller Center was sourcing, and you guys outbid them and shipped it to Perpee,
00:23:57Oregon.
00:23:58Yep.
00:23:59Tyler gets a second Rolex watch.
00:24:02Yeah.
00:24:03Double rolls.
00:24:04Hey, Tyler, maybe I'll just see if you can throw American Psycho on while we're doing it.
00:24:08Yeah.
00:24:08Yeah, obviously, it's being projected onto the tree.
00:24:11American Psycho.
00:24:12Sath, I'm going to buy you a suit.
00:24:14I'm going to buy you a suit if you keep talking like this.
00:24:16Yeah, it's a co-American Psycho Christmas tree lighting.
00:24:22Yeah.
00:24:22Unbelievable.
00:24:24It's lit by the projection of American Psycho.
00:24:27There's no lights.
00:24:28Like, a quarter way up the tree, there's a little screen.
00:24:31Yeah, it's pretty small.
00:24:32Pretty small.
00:24:33So, this stand-alone, shitty, like, biker bar is fucking radiating light.
00:24:39See, it's got two spotlights, like, winging out into the clouds overhead.
00:24:44Blasting, like, city sidewalks.
00:24:47City sidewalks.
00:24:48What are you talking about?
00:24:49It's Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
00:24:51Oh my goodness.
00:24:53Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.
00:24:55There's Patrick Bateman being portrayed on a massive tree.
00:24:58It's a Christmas movie.
00:25:00It's kind of like Home Alone's being played.
00:25:01This is also a really good hill.
00:25:03Actually, not this one because it goes directly into a street.
00:25:07This would be a really good hill for sledding.
00:25:10Oh.
00:25:11That's fine.
00:25:11It goes into a street.
00:25:13No, it goes into the water and we'll just have the water.
00:25:16The water will be frozen so you'll launch up into the street and get helmets.
00:25:21I guess we can't be there for that because that's kind of a daytime activity.
00:25:25Yeah.
00:25:25Nighttime sledding.
00:25:27They do it in Christmas Vacation.
00:25:29I love it.
00:25:30It just seems way more dangerous that way when it's already dangerous.
00:25:33The buses are starting to run and bringing people to Mike's Christmas tree lighting.
00:25:37We all have to talk about that during downtime.
00:25:39The first time one of the buses runs, you see Tyler comes back and says,
00:25:44the bus line got shut down today.
00:25:46Todd Farner came by.
00:25:48We need the permits.
00:25:49We have to.
00:25:50It's city council first.
00:25:51It's all there.
00:25:52All the work is done.
00:25:53It just needs to be approved.
00:25:54P buses KT.
00:25:57Yeah.
00:25:58You see, next couple weeks, who do you guys want to meet with first between Marisol,
00:26:05Helena Latour, Maya and Amelia?
00:26:07I think Marisol and I think I'd like to invite Willy Kuperewski.
00:26:11Oh.
00:26:12Hell yes.
00:26:13So you guys get a, where would you like to have this meeting?
00:26:17Christmas decorations are going up at Mike's.
00:26:20People are coming from all around.
00:26:22People can see it off the highway and pull over and just be like, wow, food trucks and a giant
00:26:28fucking Christmas tree.
00:26:29Is revenue up?
00:26:30Like are we...
00:26:31You guys are hemorrhaging money.
00:26:33Yeah.
00:26:34The Wagyu sliders are free.
00:26:36Oh, it's the Wagyu sliders are still free.
00:26:38Excuse me, shooters, not sliders.
00:26:40Wagyu shooters are still free.
00:26:42Let me be clear.
00:26:43There's a reason this doesn't happen.
00:26:46Do you understand?
00:26:46There's a reason this doesn't happen.
00:26:48You guys are performing CPR on a dead body and you're hemorrhaging money.
00:26:54If I was dead and you put a Wagyu shooter in my mouth.
00:26:56I agree.
00:26:58I want to be, I want to be clear.
00:26:59This should be happening.
00:27:01Market forces cannot make this happen, which is the thing we're talking about.
00:27:08We'll meet them at the diner.
00:27:09Cool.
00:27:09Yeah, I was thinking that too.
00:27:10That's a good call.
00:27:11Awesome.
00:27:12Marisol Simano.
00:27:13You can watch here and see her sort of happily talking with Willy Kubeluski.
00:27:18Right now she is wearing her Whitaker Patterson scrubs, but is folding up or getting ready some Silver Meadows nurses
00:27:27scrubs.
00:27:27It looks like she's working as a nurse at two different places.
00:27:29Wow.
00:27:31Good job.
00:27:32But you see that she is an older, she's got big sort of those bat eyes, sort of like very
00:27:38heavy magnifying glasses.
00:27:40Black hair and a kind of mom bob, a heavyset older Filipino woman who is sort of smiling at Willy
00:27:48as they're both talking back and forth.
00:27:50And you see that Marisol looks up as you guys walk in and says,
00:27:55Hello.
00:27:56Hello, H.J.
00:27:57It's so great to meet you.
00:27:59H.J, nice to meet you.
00:27:59Absolute pleasure.
00:28:00Levante.
00:28:01Levante.
00:28:02Councilwoman, we've heard so many incredible things about you from Mr. Koop.
00:28:07Arooski.
00:28:07Are you on your way to another job from your second job?
00:28:12I am.
00:28:13I have.
00:28:13Which, if I'm counting, it was three jobs.
00:28:16How many hours of work?
00:28:17Oh, you, I mean, you can't live on, city council is a stipend.
00:28:21It's not a, you know.
00:28:23That's a shame.
00:28:24That is a shame.
00:28:25Well, how did the other ones do it?
00:28:26Herbert's retired and Gene doesn't need to work and the late Barnaby also was retired.
00:28:35Understood.
00:28:36It's, uh, politics is for the old.
00:28:40It just is.
00:28:42Um, it's, uh, if the thing that makes the world turn is time.
00:28:47How much time you have.
00:28:49How much time you have to spend and give to these endeavors and, uh, Gene and the late Barnaby and
00:28:56Herbert have all the time in the world.
00:28:58Ain't that the truth.
00:28:58I think it would be how much time you have left.
00:29:00I'll tell you.
00:29:02No, on your way out making all the decisions.
00:29:04That's a little discriminatory.
00:29:06How old are you?
00:29:07Hmm?
00:29:08She says, I'm 58.
00:29:10Oh, wow.
00:29:11Thanks.
00:29:12Can I ask you a question?
00:29:13What's your favorite thing about Purpy?
00:29:15Well, I, our families.
00:29:17Our, our communities.
00:29:18Mm.
00:29:19My husband and I moved to San Francisco when we were in our early twenties.
00:29:26Uh, we worked there for a little while.
00:29:28Uh, he got a job, uh, after residency at a hospital in, uh, Portland.
00:29:34We moved there for a bit.
00:29:36Uh, got laid off.
00:29:38The, the, the hospital got bought and went private and they laid off a lot of staff.
00:29:42Uh, cut a lot of service there.
00:29:45Um, we looked around, uh, a friend of mine that I had known in residency in San Francisco was working
00:29:51on urgent care here and they needed another nurse.
00:29:53So I moved out here when my, my kids were still in elementary school.
00:29:59Uh, and we've been here ever since and built a life here.
00:30:01But I, I, I, so I were, I worked at the urgent care for, gosh, 20, 27, oh no, 24
00:30:12years.
00:30:12Something like that.
00:30:13Yeah.
00:30:14Incredible.
00:30:14It's beautiful.
00:30:15That's great.
00:30:16I mean, I don't know how much Willie Cooper's told you about us.
00:30:19Uh, I let her know.
00:30:21I let her know that, uh, we got, we got regular Rockefeller Carnegie coming in, uh, uh, coming in trying
00:30:30to make things happen here in town.
00:30:32Oh, that's funny.
00:30:34Oh.
00:30:35Who's who.
00:30:36Exactly.
00:30:37Who's who.
00:30:38Who's who.
00:30:39Yeah.
00:30:40But, um, I mean, Willie's not so far off.
00:30:43Uh, we hear stories like the one you're telling us every day as we move around perpy.
00:30:49And we're interested in investing in that opportunity.
00:30:53Um, and we understand that you on the city council have a decision to make upcoming, uh, with regard to
00:31:02how to handle the incredibly sensitive and delicate passing of one Barnaby Whitaker.
00:31:10Well, yes, that's true.
00:31:13Um, we've had, uh, I think we've had three applications and it's been open for a little more than a
00:31:22week.
00:31:23Probably it's going to stay around that, that amount.
00:31:25Looking promising, those apps?
00:31:27Well, yes, right now we are in a little bit of a fight.
00:31:34Mm.
00:31:35She looks over and says, and, and can I just ask, the interest that you, that you gentlemen have.
00:31:41People keep asking, we understand who are these outside, who's Rockefeller coming into perpy?
00:31:48We wanted to move here.
00:31:50We actually lived in San Francisco.
00:31:51We did.
00:31:52We moved here from San Fran herself.
00:31:55Yeah.
00:31:55The Golden Arches.
00:31:57The Golden Arches.
00:31:57And we got here.
00:31:59The Golden Arch.
00:32:00We just want to be in a small town.
00:32:03And this place is stunning, but it seems like something is being choked.
00:32:09Mm-hmm.
00:32:10We want there to be buses.
00:32:12We want there to be an urgent care, libraries, parks.
00:32:15And it seems like something that, that should be doable.
00:32:20It seems like people like you are working on that and it's beautiful work that you're doing.
00:32:24I can't believe you're working two other jobs while also being one of the four most important people in the
00:32:30town.
00:32:32Well, I don't think, I think that the most important people in the town have put a lot of effort
00:32:39into making it so that the city council members are not the most important people in the town.
00:32:44Like who?
00:32:52The, you know, the Whitakers have, have called the shots in, in probably for a long time and the Douglases
00:33:02for a long time as well.
00:33:05But even with that, it's always been like this, but somehow it feels worse now.
00:33:11Does that make sense?
00:33:13Mm-hmm.
00:33:13Of course.
00:33:14It really does.
00:33:14Well, I'm not sure if you've heard about some people with the housing situation with the senior center.
00:33:20We have.
00:33:21Mm-hmm.
00:33:22I really disagree with that.
00:33:24I really disagree with that.
00:33:27Mm-hmm.
00:33:29You know, it just feels like the Whitakers always threw their money around, but it was sort of a thing
00:33:40where it's like they used to have all the jobs, but now they have all the jobs and all the
00:33:45property.
00:33:46It used to be bad enough that everyone in town worked for them, but now it's like everyone in town
00:33:50works for them and can't have their own homes anymore and can't have their own things anymore and everything just
00:34:00feels...
00:34:01Can I ask you a little bit of a potentially private question?
00:34:06Because I know you probably can't discuss what's going on on the board, but are the Whitakers trying to have
00:34:12someone with their interests fill that place?
00:34:14Let me be clear.
00:34:14I should.
00:34:15You live here?
00:34:17Do you live in town?
00:34:17We are citizens of Burpee.
00:34:21We are citizens.
00:34:21It is not a private matter.
00:34:23It is not a private matter.
00:34:25And that's the problem I'm having.
00:34:27I'm having a problem with how much of this we are expected to hash out behind closed doors.
00:34:32I'm not afraid of an election.
00:34:34Who are the three?
00:34:34Oh, I love that.
00:34:36I love that.
00:34:37Let the people of Burpee decide.
00:34:38Yes.
00:34:40I mean, H.J., I want you to ask that question, but I think, above all, we are here to
00:34:45encourage you to lean into that feeling.
00:34:48Right now, the two of the people that have submitted are Florian Whitaker and Annie Douglas.
00:34:56Oh.
00:34:58Annie is a member of the Douglas family.
00:35:01She's heading up the Golden Bounty Retirement Center.
00:35:04And she looks over.
00:35:06Willie raises an eyebrow.
00:35:07They share a look.
00:35:08And you see she doesn't say something.
00:35:10She just goes, we're considering it.
00:35:12Basically, if we want someone appointed, we either have to select Annie or if Herbert and myself agree to vote
00:35:20for Florian, Gene will vote for Florian.
00:35:23Seems like the illusion of choice.
00:35:25Yeah.
00:35:26That it's between those two families.
00:35:28If you abstain, it just goes to a special election and the people of Burpee will decide.
00:35:32And then it can both run.
00:35:34Or if I vote for someone else.
00:35:37But if you vote for someone else, do other people have to get on board? How does that work?
00:35:41No, no.
00:35:42The way it works is we're deadlocked at two.
00:35:44You need three vote for a majority.
00:35:47So with that, even if I voted for someone else or me and Herbert voted for someone else, it would
00:35:52fail.
00:35:53The vote would fail.
00:35:54Yeah, totally.
00:35:55It might be easier just to vote for Florian.
00:35:58That's what I was going to ask.
00:35:58Because if we did go to a special election, the odds that he would win are astronomical.
00:36:05I'm here to tell you that's just not the case anymore.
00:36:10Because we are here.
00:36:13And we believe in a different kind of Burpee.
00:36:17Give me a charisma and persuasion.
00:36:19Can I give dice to that?
00:36:21Yes, you can add two dice to that.
00:36:23I'll rouse.
00:36:25I get hunger.
00:36:28A lean predatory look comes over your face.
00:36:32This is going to be difficulty two.
00:36:35Okay.
00:36:36With an extra benefit if we can get to difficulty four.
00:36:39You can get two from me, two from the rouse.
00:36:41Do you have any abilities that just give you a three dice?
00:36:44I can add a two awe.
00:36:46Yeah.
00:36:46Cool.
00:36:47Hell yeah.
00:36:48So that's...
00:36:49You're up to four hunger?
00:36:50Three.
00:36:51Yeah.
00:36:52Me and Ethel need to hang out.
00:36:55She's still in the air.
00:36:57That's a new downtime.
00:36:57Yeah, yeah.
00:36:58One goes wage downtime.
00:37:00Okay.
00:37:01Three.
00:37:03Plus your two.
00:37:04Plus four from persuasion.
00:37:09Plus two from awe.
00:37:11Plus two from your rouse check.
00:37:13Plus two from my rouse check.
00:37:15Oh, yeah.
00:37:16Please, God.
00:37:17Come on.
00:37:18You know what it's going to work out for.
00:37:20Come on.
00:37:20It's going to work.
00:37:21Oh.
00:37:22Oh, one of them.
00:37:24One's a D10.
00:37:25I think that was just in here.
00:37:27One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
00:37:31Whoa.
00:37:32Yeah.
00:37:32Yeah.
00:37:34Marisol looks at you and says, if you were in my position, who would you vote for?
00:37:41If you're in my position, the only people that have even submitted are Florian and Annie
00:37:48and Todd Farner.
00:37:54We are having a conversation in a matter of days with another potential candidate.
00:37:59Yeah.
00:37:59We don't know if she'll say yes or no, so.
00:38:01More than anything, I just want you to believe in the idea that if you think Perpy can be better,
00:38:09that there is someone better, that there is a better option, that choice is coming.
00:38:17Marisol looks at you, holding a set of scrubs in her hands, wearing another set of scrubs.
00:38:25She can't make enough money to live at either of her jobs, and both her jobs are working for the
00:38:32same family.
00:38:34She is one of the highest elected officials in this town and is scraping by on three jobs.
00:38:43If she hadn't moved here in a time where it was still possible for her to own her home,
00:38:47it would not be possible for her to be a voice like this on city council.
00:38:51I thought it would be pragmatic to be pragmatic.
00:38:58Making reasonable choices is what I've always done.
00:39:06And those reasonable choices got us this Perpy.
00:39:12So, Mr. Worthy, Mr. Wing Street, I don't know what I'm supposed to believe in,
00:39:18but you can count on me to believe.
00:39:20Yes.
00:39:21Great job.
00:39:22We're really excited to have met ya.
00:39:26I ruffle her hair.
00:39:28She slaps you hard right in the face.
00:39:31Bam!
00:39:32Sorry.
00:39:32I'm sorry.
00:39:33Don't write a check you can't cash.
00:39:36Oh!
00:39:38I buttoned my top button.
00:39:40Can we get a few more sprites over here?
00:39:43You guys again!
00:39:47Great.
00:39:48As you guys walk out, you see Marisol drives off to her next shift,
00:39:52the graveyard shift.
00:39:55Is there anybody else that we want to go after in this inter-holiday time?
00:40:01It's more like the Tina Bunders angle, unless anyone else is something they want to do.
00:40:04I'm thinking about going after Todd.
00:40:06If we want to fast track it to get to the election, we can do that too.
00:40:09We can also just fast forward to New Year's if you guys want.
00:40:13I think we need to get Helena on board, right?
00:40:15Yeah, we need to get Helena on board, and then I also kind of think that we need to run
00:40:19security for Marisol.
00:40:22I'm worried that if she starts acting out that they could...
00:40:26Smart.
00:40:26Cool.
00:40:27Yeah.
00:40:27I think it makes sense for all of you guys to swing by Bud and Branch, maybe?
00:40:33To talk to...
00:40:34If you guys are all...
00:40:35You guys rock up to Bud and Branch two nights after that.
00:40:41Reservation for 4.30?
00:40:45For eight?
00:40:47For eight?
00:40:48Hey, we're here early.
00:40:49Our reservation's at 4.30.
00:40:51We're not going to meet anything, but we need 27 sprites for the table.
00:40:55Yeah.
00:40:55We arrived in that bus with all blacked out windows.
00:40:59We're using the buses as transport.
00:41:02I come out with those flight neck pillow on, like a pro-athlete.
00:41:06I'm in slides.
00:41:08I'm in a pro-athlete.
00:41:09Totally.
00:41:10We're on our bus.
00:41:11Eight duffel bags.
00:41:12Feets around my neck.
00:41:13Yeah, totally.
00:41:14Um...
00:41:14Mitch is dressed up in a sharp polo.
00:41:17Whoa!
00:41:18He looks good.
00:41:19I thought we were going to dinner.
00:41:21Yeah, we are.
00:41:22Mitch is jacked.
00:41:24Yeah, you didn't know that?
00:41:24Mitch is freaking sacked.
00:41:25He's a superhero.
00:41:26He's always wearing, like, a leather jacket, an overcoat over a leather jacket over a...
00:41:31It's part of the element of...
00:41:32You didn't cock him as strong?
00:41:34I'm just a giant monster in a polo wearing a COVID mask over my mandibles.
00:41:40Wow, so respectful.
00:41:42Bud and Branch is in this incredible location.
00:41:45It's right here, Main Street downtown.
00:41:48It's stunning.
00:41:49You walk in...
00:41:50It's awesome.
00:41:51You walk in, and it's got beautiful brass fixtures on the bar, all brand new stuff.
00:41:58It's a little bit...
00:42:00It shouldn't be, like, this kind of brand new.
00:42:02Like, it's sort of...
00:42:02The one strike against it is that it's kind of brand new.
00:42:05But you can tell that, like, the bar seats are nice.
00:42:08There's, like, little sort of booth seats.
00:42:10The lighting is good.
00:42:11You see that it's got a lot of, like, autumnal kind of decoration of branches and leaves around it.
00:42:19There's, like, track lighting, or there's sort of, like, recessed lighting hidden behind the branches.
00:42:23There's kind of a dappled autumnal woodland effect in here.
00:42:26It's, like, a little bit bougie, a little bit kitsch or witchy in some kind of way in here.
00:42:32Just elevated casual.
00:42:34Yeah, totally.
00:42:35The tables are close together.
00:42:36I'm gonna untuck my shirt, is that not?
00:42:39I'm gonna untuck my shirt.
00:42:40You look good, dude.
00:42:41I didn't know that you were this, like...
00:42:43Mitch looks...
00:42:43This is...
00:42:44I'll say this.
00:42:45Levante, as you walk in here, something relaxes in you that has been uptight since you got to Purpy.
00:42:53This is a place that would have been not quite to standard in San Francisco, but achieves a little bit
00:43:01of refinement.
00:43:02I think, Madelaine, to the same degree, you walk into this place and...
00:43:07It's almost not ugly.
00:43:10Wow.
00:43:11Almost.
00:43:12I agree.
00:43:13I agree.
00:43:14You see a young woman who is behind the bar.
00:43:18She's got a bright, a bright smile, warm affect.
00:43:22She's, like, early to mid-20s here.
00:43:26And you can see that she seems really, really prepossessed.
00:43:31There's a little bit of a crowd in here.
00:43:33She's working by herself.
00:43:35There's no staff here that you can see.
00:43:37She's, like, running stuff other than someone working in the kitchen.
00:43:39She's running food out from the kitchen.
00:43:41An awesome little, like, bistro, like, cut of meat with some nice fresh veggies on it and stuff like that.
00:43:48You can see that someone cooking back behind there.
00:43:50You recognize the cook has a thing up at the food co-op of, like, a cooking classes thing that
00:43:56they're teaching here.
00:43:57Helena, behind the bar, looks a little bit stressed.
00:43:59She's going to have to close down soon because there's no late-night bus.
00:44:02She's got to go catch the last thing to get home.
00:44:05And you can see that there is a small silver-framed photo behind the bar that has some little electric
00:44:10candles around it
00:44:13that has a picture of a smiling older man with his arm around the woman who's behind the bar with
00:44:20her
00:44:20with some braces on it of him on, like, a breaking ground for the construction of this bar down there.
00:44:29And you see her serving drinks out here.
00:44:31She says, hi, welcome, what can I get you?
00:44:33Do you guys have a wine list?
00:44:35I do, yes.
00:44:36You do buy the bottle?
00:44:37We do buy the bottle.
00:44:38Do you have any Napa reds?
00:44:40Can you get a little more specific?
00:44:41And she opens the book and shows you a Napa selection, whites, reds.
00:44:48Incredible.
00:44:48You look and see that the back hallway that goes to the restrooms, it has some beautiful sort of art
00:44:55up around it,
00:44:56has behind glass that kind of diagonal lattice of a small, like the wines are sort of kept.
00:45:03What am I thinking?
00:45:04I mean, we should definitely lean toward the Willamette Valley Pinot Noirs.
00:45:08Let's do it.
00:45:08We'll have three bottles.
00:45:10Oh my gosh, yeah, absolutely.
00:45:12And she goes over and collects the bottles and runs them over to you guys over here.
00:45:17Thank you so much.
00:45:18I'm so sorry if you guys are having three bottles.
00:45:20We are closing in about, you know, 30, 40 minutes.
00:45:24It's okay, we'll take them to go.
00:45:26Great.
00:45:26Some straws.
00:45:28Can we talk to you once you close?
00:45:30Yeah.
00:45:31We're friends of, I would imagine she was, I think we asked Maya to make the intro.
00:45:38She said, oh, you guys are Maya's friends.
00:45:40Yeah.
00:45:40Sorry.
00:45:41Welcome.
00:45:42Welcome.
00:45:42Welcome.
00:45:42I'm so glad you guys are here.
00:45:44Yeah.
00:45:44And everyone else, I'm Helena.
00:45:48Welcome to Bud and Branch.
00:45:50H-J.
00:45:51H-J, hey.
00:45:53Vesper.
00:45:54Vesper.
00:45:55Vesper.
00:45:56Mitch.
00:45:57Zayf.
00:45:58Hey Zayf.
00:45:58Madeleine.
00:45:59Madeleine.
00:46:00Enchantée.
00:46:01Oh.
00:46:02In France?
00:46:07You see, she looks and says, do you speak French?
00:46:18I'm a red blooded American woman.
00:46:23I speak French.
00:46:26And you see that she looks and says, welcome.
00:46:29Let me, let me finish up everything here.
00:46:32And then we can, please, I just don't, I have to run and catch a bus.
00:46:36Or I'll.
00:46:37It's kind of what we wanted to talk to you about, actually.
00:46:39Point to the bus.
00:46:41That's our bus.
00:46:42This is parked outside Tyler in the driver's seat.
00:46:44Uh-huh.
00:46:45Um.
00:46:45Oh.
00:46:47Awesome.
00:46:47We'll give you a ride home.
00:46:49Great.
00:46:49Great, great, great.
00:46:50Uh, uh, as the sort of, uh, she finishes up this sort of shift.
00:46:55Uh, the bar closes down.
00:46:57Um, she looks out and says, um, well, yeah.
00:47:00Uh, talk to me about, um, you, I, I had heard a rumor about this.
00:47:06That there's just a bunch of new buses parked in, in the, by the front of the food.
00:47:11Yeah.
00:47:11A lot.
00:47:12Yeah.
00:47:12We, uh, myself and H.J. run Worthy and Wing Street Industries, which is a company deeply invested,
00:47:20along with our partners, in, in investing in the town of Purpee.
00:47:24So much so that we've already created the infrastructure for a bus system.
00:47:29We just need the help of city council.
00:47:32Yeah.
00:47:32In implementing it.
00:47:34Anyways, we read an article about you and we think you have a really great story.
00:47:39And if you were ever interested in running for political office, we could provide you the support to do that.
00:47:47Oh, I, oh, I'm so sorry.
00:47:50I, I, that article, uh, wasn't.
00:47:53Helena, you could make a real change in this city.
00:47:58That article kind of says sob story.
00:48:02I, I don't know.
00:48:02I, I, I have.
00:48:04Oh, no, no, no, sorry.
00:48:05The story would be you saying I'm running for council because we want to bring the buses back.
00:48:09Yes.
00:48:10That's the story I'm talking about.
00:48:11A sob story to a hot throb story.
00:48:14Yeah.
00:48:19Uh, I.
00:48:20Everybody loves you, Helena.
00:48:23We've just been here and so many people have seen your praises.
00:48:27Oh, are you guys, do you guys work for like the Democratic Party?
00:48:32Not at all.
00:48:35Independence.
00:48:36You're thinking independent.
00:48:36What's your, what is your interest in recruiting political candidates?
00:48:41Our interest is in perping.
00:48:44Is in finding people who care about this place and can help us make it what we believe it can
00:48:51be.
00:48:52I just moved here and I'm horrified that there's not a library or a zoo.
00:48:55And I just want to live in a place where there's a library and a zoo.
00:48:58Specifically a zoo that's dedicated to conservation.
00:49:00That's the kind of perpy we want to see.
00:49:02We want an elevated casual perpy.
00:49:05The way that this restaurant is elevated casual.
00:49:08It's unpretentious but beautiful perpy.
00:49:11We should bring you guys along on more pitches.
00:49:13Yeah, this is great.
00:49:14You see, she says, it's exactly what I'm going through.
00:49:17Right?
00:49:17You know, there's this thing that happens and I understand that you're kind of not quite sure about this whole
00:49:25pitch and of course we're not going to force you to do anything you don't want to but the skills
00:49:30that it takes to get elected are not the skills that we need in our elected officials.
00:49:36You know, it's mingling with people who have a shit ton of money, it's making backdoor deals, it's being a
00:49:44smiling face on TV and then you get the job and what do you do?
00:49:47Oh, quick pivot to public service?
00:49:49Of course not.
00:49:50We think that you would be perfect and we can help you do all of the schmoozing, smiling on the
00:49:57way up, get elected and then you can make perpy a good place.
00:50:01And you can still work here.
00:50:03We're talking to someone who is a night nurse and a morning nurse and she's on the board.
00:50:10Marisol, she's a...
00:50:11It's Marisol!
00:50:12She's a machine, yeah, for sure.
00:50:14She's fantastic.
00:50:15We have some experience in the restaurant business, we're part owners at Mike's Bar.
00:50:20Yeah.
00:50:20I mean if...
00:50:21They have Wagyu Shooters now.
00:50:23I saw that.
00:50:25Has the septic stuff been handled?
00:50:27It goes by faster than you want it to but it's delicious.
00:50:31The septic stuff.
00:50:32We'd like to think the Wagyu Shooters kind of covers up the septic stuff as we work on that.
00:50:35It's true, yeah.
00:50:36The tamari smell.
00:50:38Yeah, huge tree that fixes the septic.
00:50:40We spent $115,000 on a Christmas tree.
00:50:44And also...
00:50:45Oh my God.
00:50:46You know, if we're being like, if you want us to be more self-interested, we also just want to
00:50:50get someone on city council so that we can get the buses running.
00:50:53Mm-hmm.
00:50:54Oh, and you see, as soon as you say, it's like, in terms of self-interest, like, something clicks for
00:50:59her, she goes, oh, you guys are, because you're business owners as well.
00:51:02Yes.
00:51:03Very much so.
00:51:03Yeah, okay, yeah, I get it.
00:51:04Act local.
00:51:05Yeah, for sure.
00:51:06Anyone who wants to hear give me a wits check.
00:51:10Wits and insects.
00:51:11I'm not rolling.
00:51:12I'll beast you.
00:51:13Yeah, I can.
00:51:14I'll beast you real hard.
00:51:16Vesper in this moment just goes blank, blanks out.
00:51:20I need your bathroom.
00:51:21I take an open-eyed nap.
00:51:25I got three.
00:51:26I also got three.
00:51:27I'll use a willpower.
00:51:29Mm-hmm.
00:51:31I also got three.
00:51:33Cool.
00:51:34On a three, I think you guys look and see, and I think, if you want here, Madeline, you can
00:51:39also use auspex here a little bit.
00:51:41Oh, okay, great.
00:51:42You'd like to roll your auspex dice as well.
00:51:46I got a four.
00:51:47I might willpower as well, just to push it over.
00:51:50Push it over.
00:51:52Okay.
00:51:53Okay.
00:51:55That's like four, five, six, seven.
00:51:58Seven successes?
00:51:59Yeah.
00:51:59Madeline, you look and you get a premonition.
00:52:02Ooh.
00:52:03As you do, you see Helena.
00:52:06You can feel her heart, the blood rushing through her neck.
00:52:11She's young, dynamic, she's very charming, great bartender.
00:52:15You've watched her finish up her shift.
00:52:18It's real grief and melancholy here.
00:52:20There's something romantic, poetic, and beautiful within her.
00:52:24She's set up this tribute to her father.
00:52:27There's something in a bygone age, like you remember the romantic era back in France.
00:52:31There's something here that's very palpable.
00:52:35And then beyond that, your auspex moves further in.
00:52:38And you just see something similar to what you saw with those college students.
00:52:45You talk to her and say, why don't you run for office?
00:52:49Why don't you make a difference?
00:52:53And you see it as plain as day and you feel suddenly in your phone a little silenced buzz.
00:53:01Because your sire has just texted you back.
00:53:06And you remember something he said about Americans in this moment.
00:53:11The first time you were traveling here and he told you what to expect.
00:53:14And he said, above all else, Madeleine, you must know, they wish for great things.
00:53:23But the canvas before them is always themselves, their own life, their own achievements.
00:53:33It is not their fault.
00:53:35They cannot see that the project is beyond them.
00:53:42And you look at Helena in this moment and see that her dream, even though it is selfless, it's about
00:53:48her dad.
00:53:49It's just her bar, her life.
00:53:52How successful could she become?
00:53:55Could she make a good life for her family?
00:53:57Even the parts of it that are selfless, the blinders are on in this potent way.
00:54:02And beyond that, there's just a thought of politics is for assholes and I'm not an asshole.
00:54:10I like wine.
00:54:11I use my free time to stock this cool cabinet here.
00:54:16The people that like politics are fucking freaks.
00:54:19I'm not a freak.
00:54:20I like making a good experience for people that come to my bar.
00:54:24And there's part of that that's so deeply understandable.
00:54:27And then there's another part that goes, why should I have to disrupt my life to make a difference?
00:54:32Why can't I just come and pour wine?
00:54:35Why can't I just come to this place where I enjoy being?
00:54:37And all of that you see around her.
00:54:39The parts of her that are deeply good and selfless and love her family.
00:54:43And the parts of her that fundamentally like have a disdain for politics.
00:54:49And why not?
00:54:50Isn't that reasonable?
00:54:51And then also a part of her that just doesn't even see the cultural water that she's swimming in.
00:54:57Which is the chessboard of her life that she's playing on.
00:55:03There are just so many squares she can't see.
00:55:07Her innermost sense is the moves that are available to me are enrich myself, compete in my own lane, be
00:55:19my own person.
00:55:20And be responsible for my own life to the exclusion of anything outside of this narrow path of success I
00:55:30have laid out for myself.
00:55:32All of that.
00:55:33And you see as you come from the premonition that text is real.
00:55:38What does the text say?
00:55:40It says, my mind wanders to you, my young mentee.
00:55:44I hope you are well.
00:55:45You have ventured forth into a new adventure.
00:55:50Why does he always text me right in the moment where I'm trying to dig into somewhere else?
00:55:58Eleanor.
00:56:00Hospitality.
00:56:03You got it.
00:56:04And I run out of the restaurant to deal with whatever the fuck this is.
00:56:09Sorry.
00:56:10Like she was saying.
00:56:11You got it.
00:56:12You got it.
00:56:14Yeah, basically I think you're our best chance of getting the buses running again.
00:56:17But also, the more buses, the more people are moving around Purpy, the more people are participating and being part
00:56:27of the downtown and the neighborhood, the more successful your restaurant is going to be.
00:56:33We have a line going.
00:56:35Should we tell her?
00:56:37HJ.
00:56:38I don't know if she's ready.
00:56:40There's so many buses running that one of them will be going up to Medford.
00:56:43People from Medford could come and fill your restaurant.
00:56:46But also we're going to have a bus coming from the college so that the seniors who are ready to
00:56:53finally use their IDs will come.
00:56:56Imagine this place open till 9 p.m.
00:57:00At least.
00:57:02She looks and says, what about 10 p.m.?
00:57:07You dog.
00:57:08You see that she looks and says.
00:57:10I crack one of the wine bottles with my scepter.
00:57:12She says, and you can see that she's wavering now because she's like, she wants you guys to succeed, but
00:57:18you see an inkling in her.
00:57:19And on those three successes, the inkling is a very familiar one.
00:57:23She goes, yeah, this would be awesome if this happened.
00:57:26But what if someone else did it?
00:57:29And what if I got to benefit without having to have a second job?
00:57:35And I'm going to need, in this moment, putting this stuff in her self-interest, talking about this here in
00:57:42this moment.
00:57:42You see, I'm going to lower the difficulty from a 5 to a 4, but it's not going to be
00:57:49a group check.
00:57:50It's going to be, so you can, in other words, you can lend someone else some dice, but someone's going
00:57:55to have to make a charisma persuasion here.
00:57:58I will give my dice.
00:58:00Okay.
00:58:00You'll give your dice over here.
00:58:02What are the things you'd like us to roll?
00:58:04Charisma persuasion.
00:58:04Charisma persuasion.
00:58:05Charisma persuasion.
00:58:06I'm low.
00:58:06I'm just two.
00:58:07Oh, you got it.
00:58:08I lend you a dice.
00:58:09I have 5 to it, but I would rather add two.
00:58:12Okay.
00:58:12So we're adding dice from Zaith, Batchild, and from HJ.
00:58:17So is that six additional dice?
00:58:19That is six additional dice.
00:58:21Okay.
00:58:21And the argument is strong enough that we're going to drop it from a 5 to a 4.
00:58:25We need four successes here.
00:58:27All right, so 6 plus, and then my own 7.
00:58:31Your own 7.
00:58:32It's 13.
00:58:33Can I add my awe to this somehow?
00:58:36Or is that...
00:58:37I think we're adding awe over here.
00:58:39Okay, I'll add my awe to this.
00:58:40That's 15 dice right now.
00:58:4215 dice.
00:58:43Yeah.
00:58:44You got to get a 5?
00:58:45I have to get 4.
00:58:46Four successes.
00:58:47Okay.
00:58:48I look over at Mitch, disappointed, and then...
00:58:50What can I do?
00:58:51I don't have anything in anything.
00:58:52Oh, so you put on this ball over nothing?
00:58:55Dark Horseman, you and I could do a sweep for all the rodents so that she passes her next health
00:59:02test.
00:59:02Okay.
00:59:04Health and safety test.
00:59:04I'll get the glue traps.
00:59:07Okay.
00:59:08Here we go.
00:59:09I mean, 15 dice, I need four successes.
00:59:11Yes.
00:59:11And I can willpower.
00:59:13You can willpower.
00:59:13I mean, this game's not so broken.
00:59:15This isn't a reflection on you if you fail.
00:59:18This is a reflection on the system.
00:59:20I am jumping off the bridge.
00:59:21Visions of Patty Babcock come into your head.
00:59:25Exactly.
00:59:25How all of a sudden is a 21-year-old man with a dog wearing flip-flops.
00:59:28No, you got a no from a man in cargo shorts.
00:59:30Yes, exactly.
00:59:32Okay.
00:59:34Okay.
00:59:35One, two, three, four.
00:59:37These start to create...
00:59:38So this is...
00:59:39A crit is four successes.
00:59:41Yeah.
00:59:42So that's one.
00:59:43This is...
00:59:45Yeah.
00:59:46One, two, three, seven successes, eight successes, nine successes.
00:59:53Oh, excuse me, 10, one flew out.
00:59:56That is an overpowering success.
01:00:00I think in this moment, Levante, everything that I described in that premonition,
01:00:06everything I described to you on your test, on your insight, it all locks in your mind's eye.
01:00:13Patty Babcock gave you a no on the hard pitch.
01:00:19In this moment, you see it can't be pure incandescence.
01:00:24It cannot be purely on your charm.
01:00:27The better part of charm, just like the better part of politics, is listening.
01:00:32You see this woman.
01:00:34You see her selflessness and her selfishness.
01:00:38You see the parts of her that want something better.
01:00:40You see the parts of her that are willing to work hard.
01:00:43She comes here on a bus.
01:00:45She's struggling to make this work.
01:00:46She has put everything into this dream of hers.
01:00:49And she wants it to be easy.
01:00:53Isn't that human?
01:00:54You look at her and see all of the map of the complexities of a human person,
01:00:58their place within their community, their nation, their world, laid out in this moment.
01:01:04Seeing her waffle and go, wouldn't I want all this to happen, but I don't want it to cost me
01:01:10anything.
01:01:10The co-op, all that fucking tired mom agreeing to do more work.
01:01:17But that's the cost of the only part of this town that's working, is more work.
01:01:22You look at this woman on 10 successes.
01:01:26What do you say to her?
01:01:28What would your father have done in this situation?
01:01:31Excuse me?
01:01:32Your father.
01:01:33She looks and goes, oh, and you see Roger Latour back the plate on that.
01:01:38She looks at him and says, he, well, he knew everybody in Purpy.
01:01:48He, he was the guy that everybody could rely on.
01:01:51Yeah.
01:01:52You know, when the crash happened in 2008, it was a catastrophe.
01:01:56And, and I remember him saying, you know, we're not going to give up, right?
01:02:04One of his best friends had had the business here crash and he scraped up a bunch of money to
01:02:12buy the lot and wanted to start building it.
01:02:15And it saved, you know, it was everything, it was all the money he'd ever saved up in his, in
01:02:20his whole life, basically.
01:02:22And we grew up in Purpy, he grew up in Purpy, and he said, we're not going to give up
01:02:30on this town.
01:02:32You know what makes the hard work easy?
01:02:36This person, this person, and this person, and this person, that person who just went to the bathroom.
01:02:46You know, people make the hard work easy.
01:02:50Your father knew that, and you know that.
01:02:55You know it.
01:02:59You know it.
01:03:02H.J. is watching the performance of a lifetime.
01:03:08You know it.
01:03:12I'm like tying my shoe behind you going, stop, you gotta fall.
01:03:15Don't say it again.
01:03:17You got to the finish line.
01:03:18You got to the finish line.
01:03:20And you.
01:03:22You know it.
01:03:24You know it.
01:03:25And you.
01:03:25Not you.
01:03:26In there.
01:03:27You know it.
01:03:28You.
01:03:29You know it.
01:03:31We need the buses back, and you.
01:03:33You know it.
01:03:34We need urgent care back, and you.
01:03:36You know it.
01:03:37We are not selling ourselves as a political candidate.
01:03:39This insane spiral morphs into a chant.
01:03:44It's your political slogan.
01:03:45It's your slogan.
01:03:46You know it.
01:03:47No.
01:03:47I don't think it.
01:03:49We need parks, and you know it.
01:03:50It's bad.
01:03:51It's bad.
01:03:51What, you know it?
01:03:52It'd be bad.
01:03:54We need a zoo, and you know it.
01:03:57You know it.
01:03:58She looks.
01:03:59What's wrong with you know it?
01:04:00I was a college student once.
01:04:03It's awful.
01:04:04You know it.
01:04:05All right.
01:04:05We can workshop it.
01:04:06She looks and says.
01:04:07Maybe not that.
01:04:08I'm not sure about.
01:04:10I'm not sure about you know it.
01:04:12What about?
01:04:13What about?
01:04:14What about?
01:04:15What about?
01:04:15You don't have to solve it right now.
01:04:17Yeah, exactly.
01:04:17All right.
01:04:18You're right.
01:04:18She goes.
01:04:19Let's put a pin in you know it.
01:04:21Yeah.
01:04:21It could also be that's what she said.
01:04:24We need buses.
01:04:25And we will figure out a way to honor these 10 successes.
01:04:31When we come back in our next episode of Dimension 20, City Council of Darkness.
01:04:38You know it.
01:04:41You know what?
01:04:42I went for Christmas.
01:04:43What?
01:04:44Big juicy cherry.
01:04:45Nom, nom, nom.
01:04:47Awa, awa, awa.
01:04:49I didn't know how starved I was for community.
01:04:52It's your day to me.
01:04:53Dinner table.
01:04:53I'm gonna stand up and ask you to apologize.
01:04:55Are you computer generated?
01:04:57What's that?
01:04:58Leprechauns and vampires.
01:05:00No way.
01:05:01The most classical enemies.
01:05:03Vampires are real?
01:05:04The tree is...
01:05:06Incredible.
01:05:08Yeah.
01:05:08Yeah, I was supposed to go to Rockefeller.
01:05:10But I've got a guy.
01:05:11You're in the maze.
01:05:12And you're far away from the box in the middle.
01:05:14And I just...
01:05:15What's in the box in the middle?
01:05:17You.
01:05:18But I'm not in there.
01:05:20If I was a werewolf, where would I live?
01:05:22Nice house in the woods, right?
01:05:23I won't see the lodge die in my lifetime.
01:05:25Young lady, if you want to be a temporary heroine.
01:05:27Yes, more than anything.
01:05:29Oh, shit.
01:05:30Like, do you think she's leaving money, like, on the table?
01:05:33Yeah.
01:05:39Got it.