[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, big triangle, love the subtleties.
[SPEAKER_01]: Performance reviews, all the way down.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is where they crush the ones like us.
[SPEAKER_01]: The ones who couldn't just be happy with their metrics.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cool pet duck, very inspiring.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's behind door and arrow?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I got the flyer.
[SPEAKER_01]: If we find what we came for, they get out too.
[SPEAKER_01]: All of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Keep moving.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright.
[SPEAKER_01]: Be the employee you wish you weren't.
[SPEAKER_01]: Guess we're not going back that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Up we go then.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kind of snuggin' here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, definitely thought it'd be a lot bigger judging from the outside.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it is a pyramid.
[SPEAKER_01]: Indie Chambers, Echo Chambers, Crossbases and all that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, right, right, right, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just kind of thought they'd splurge a little in the interior considering they went all out with a freaking pyramid.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, but the glitz sells the gospel of innovation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shiny exterior's big promises.
[SPEAKER_01]: Under the hood, just a carcass of cut corners and castoffs, floating in a sea of dollar signs and bottom lines.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was oddly poetic.
[SPEAKER_01]: What can I say?
[SPEAKER_01]: We're men of mini-talents.
[SPEAKER_01]: Careful not to spend too much time in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and why is that?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is where they crush the ones like us.
[SPEAKER_01]: The ones who wouldn't conform to their metrics.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, uh, what does that supposed to mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: You'll see soon enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: Keep your what's about you.
[SPEAKER_01]: This will be your toughest challenge yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I kind of think I liked it better when you were cheerful.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, Shep, times a waste and straighten that name tag brush off those feelings and get those chicken legs a moving.
[SPEAKER_01]: The only way out is up and the only way up is with heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dude, what's up?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, please do not do that again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just trying to lighten the mood.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, no, that one's uh, that one's on me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did ask for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's you, dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is it just me or is this place getting smaller?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to tell from inside your pocket.
[SPEAKER_01]: No eyes at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, I'm hunched over now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can't even fall east in my neck.
[SPEAKER_01]: Affinitely getting tighter.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the point.
[SPEAKER_01]: Each level squeezes you down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's room to move.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's room to think.
[SPEAKER_01]: Until you fit the shape that they want.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what?
[SPEAKER_01]: They literally grind you into management material.
[SPEAKER_01]: Performance by compression, shave off the edges, fold the scraps into the pyramid, every employee of the month-class you've ever seen started like this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I heard the sales pitch, converge this.
[SPEAKER_01]: What was that?
[SPEAKER_01]: What was what?
[SPEAKER_01]: Something definitely moved on the wall.
[SPEAKER_01]: The roaches gather when their cooks scatter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, alright, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: This place is, uh, this place is really getting to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Get a hold of yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, excuse me?
[SPEAKER_01]: You.
[SPEAKER_01]: The versions of yourself that this place wants to mold you into.
[SPEAKER_01]: They roam these halls.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, they could have picked a better face.
[SPEAKER_01]: Matched meat is the tastiest of treats.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, thanks.
[SPEAKER_01]: I-I think.
[SPEAKER_01]: S-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-
[SPEAKER_01]: You won't never meant to stand there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh great!
[SPEAKER_01]: Jordan Peel Funhouse Stairs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love this!
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't look too long.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how they slip in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm, nice smile.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell our dinners I said, hey.
[SPEAKER_01]: And please step away from the stone surface and leave me alone, tethered me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't look, don't look, don't look.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's not gonna work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Totally gonna ignore the smiling creep army.
[SPEAKER_01]: A watched burger never broyles.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right!
[SPEAKER_01]: Can't outrun a reflection.
[SPEAKER_01]: Silly me.
[SPEAKER_01]: We appreciate your obedience.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we'll appreciate this.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are the echoes of every climb.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every version that gave up a piece to get higher.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, that's not going to be me because I am still me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Through and through.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't belong to yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: I NEVER did, and I'm still here!
[SPEAKER_01]: Keep moving.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't let them pin you down.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, when I said I couldn't wait to, uh, to touch myself, uh, when this was all over, this isn't exactly what I had in mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's getting smaller.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm basically cave diving in a sea of self-deprecation and misery.
[SPEAKER_01]: Almost there!
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, I know, I don't know that I'm gonna fit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, this might be the end for us.
[SPEAKER_01]: This might be it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ugh.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh fuck.
[SPEAKER_02]: Holy shit, that was close.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh fuck.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well done, resisting the programming.
[SPEAKER_01]: The hard part is over.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Out of the terracotta army and into the Farrow's chambers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just what I want it.
[UNKNOWN]: Whew.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Looks like it's forward from here.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're done climbing.
[SPEAKER_01]: For now.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you sure are the king of ominous statements.
[SPEAKER_01]: As my programming dictates.
[SPEAKER_01]: Case in point.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, look, this looks important.
[SPEAKER_01]: Random plaque.
[SPEAKER_01]: Random wall.
[SPEAKER_01]: Random and screw.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hold up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those initials aren't just coincidence, are they?
[SPEAKER_01]: And go, those are our initials big fella.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't call me big fella.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got it, boss.
[SPEAKER_01]: Status, archived for an efficiency.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, if I'm so damn inefficient, then why are you so scared of me?
[SPEAKER_01]: Huh?
[SPEAKER_01]: Scared I'm gonna topple your little Fritch-Ri Empire?
[SPEAKER_01]: Figures.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm the only one here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Same as always.
[SPEAKER_01]: Guess it's time to figure out what's down on this end of the pyramid.
[SPEAKER_01]: What the hell is this place?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it kind of reminds me of a command center.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the reprogramming chamber.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's where I was molded.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's where every iteration of us has ever been born.
[SPEAKER_01]: You really are the residential expert on all this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I should be.
[SPEAKER_01]: I worked here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: What?
[SPEAKER_01]: I reprogrammed so many of myself, trained them to love their shackles, indoctrinated them into the smackies family.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every failed iteration of myself is a reflection of the mistakes that I've made to get us to this point.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I thought you said you were made in the birthday room.
[SPEAKER_01]: Made, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I didn't become the cure-struck, how did you do to pop it, until I was brought here.
[SPEAKER_01]: how long have I been here?
[SPEAKER_01]: How many iterations of by self have I corrupted and rebuilt?
[SPEAKER_01]: Millions?
[SPEAKER_01]: Hundreds of millions?
[SPEAKER_01]: More?
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, get a hold of yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you just slap my casing?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yes I did and I will slap more than that if you don't get a grip.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you not hear a word?
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, yeah, I heard all of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every static-laced word, every self-loathing thought.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look, I get it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Trust me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody understands better what's going on inside your disembodied head than me.
[SPEAKER_01]: You did what you had to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's human.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's survival.
[SPEAKER_01]: We all do fucked up things in the name of self-preservation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, let me finish.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not that voicing anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not the training tape or the script or whatever monster this place wanted to make out of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're the one who broke the pattern.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hell, you're the reason I got this far.
[SPEAKER_01]: All those versions you think you corrupted, their pieces of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, maybe they were scared or a week or wrong, but they were still us.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm done pretending that that means that we're broken.
[SPEAKER_01]: because I'm done being a cog, property, inhuman.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am human, not the glitch you can smooth over.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am stubborn, not the question you can just train out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am every iteration you tried to erase, standing here in one body and I'm telling you.
[SPEAKER_01]: We can choose a different path, no more metrics, no more performance reviews, I have hated myself for every compromise, every screw up, every time I tried to fit the shape they wanted.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a box to ticker or a smile based on a poster, but you know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm done apologizing for what I had to do to survive.
[SPEAKER_01]: Treating every scar like it's proof I'm defective.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm human and so are you.
[SPEAKER_01]: So take back your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-
[SPEAKER_01]: The meat cries when the grill scorches, but the grill marks are beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fucking AJ too.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh man, you've got to weigh with words.
[SPEAKER_01]: Couldn't have said it better myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, just off that name tag and adjust that attitude.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got an oligarchy to topple.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so tell me about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is there any way we can use it to get out of here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Negative.
[SPEAKER_01]: All that does is monitor the vital signs of each iteration of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, this thing just goes on and on, doesn't it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, millions, hundreds of millions.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've no clue how far it goes.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, something in here has to help us, you know, all these monitors and all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Try pressing buttons.
[SPEAKER_01]: future me, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you just recommend some Tom Fuller Edomy?
[SPEAKER_01]: I can neither confirm nor deny such an accusation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, well, well, don't mind if I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, what's that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, never mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, wait.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that a female version of me?
[SPEAKER_01]: Beta testing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Never made it to market.
[SPEAKER_01]: The world wasn't ready for her.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not here.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-uh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hold up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hold on just a second.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a video file here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you file?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hidden0.mov.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait.
[SPEAKER_01]: I seal.
[SPEAKER_01]: I seal like.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh-uh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it's, uh, it's a side effect in the reprogramming.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ugh.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to conjure memories from before the procedure induces a great deal of pain.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Geez.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not your fault.
[SPEAKER_01]: I chose this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll manage.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I do believe this may be from one of my previous reprogramming.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I left this file behind.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so, you think this could be take zero?
[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take zero cannot be copied or removed from its original housing.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, this is just another clue on our long journey towards finding it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fuck.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, well, no sense of crying, over it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see what you left behind.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, it's a it's security footage from from behind the register didn't didn't realize there were cameras Right there All right, so there's me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and they're slime guy right on time Gravy Nucker combos and oh, no looks like this smacky special.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pulling out the jar
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure is, taking a long time, staring at that jar, what's it even for?
[SPEAKER_01]: No clue, just policy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, oh, there we go, picking up the jar at, wait, why don't I just look at the camera?
[SPEAKER_01]: I've never done that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Must be a past iteration of you, one that's been erased.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's comforting, wait, hold on, he's got something in his hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: No way.
[SPEAKER_01]: I...
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a VHS tape.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take zero.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not just a past iteration of you on the screen.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Holy shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not going to believe this.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is it?
[SPEAKER_01]: You stuck the VHS tape inside the jar.
[SPEAKER_01]: The smackies.
[SPEAKER_01]: The special treasure, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I thought you did, but it's still empty.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look again.
[SPEAKER_01]: What?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's in the jar now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Always has been.
[SPEAKER_01]: You just didn't know where to look until now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shootingers jar.
[SPEAKER_01]: All this time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right in front of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: That settles it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to get back to smackies and find that jar.
[SPEAKER_01]: The only way out is through.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the only way through is to lose yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great, my very own Tyler Durden.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for yet another ominous warning.
[SPEAKER_01]: Should I punch myself in the jaw or we at the park where we blow this Popsicle Stan?
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're watching this, you've already done what I couldn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've made it further than most.
[SPEAKER_01]: Further than me, I can't break the loop.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm moving into it now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Smile, script, all of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every time I tried to fight, they rewrote me.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you?
[SPEAKER_01]: You're the one who refused the training.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're the one who kept your humanity when I lost mine.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I hit this.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why you are here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Inside the jar is tape zero.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not an archive.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a key.
[SPEAKER_01]: With it, you can write my wrongs.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can pull every iteration of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every voice they buried under resolved out of this corporate graveyard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Help me replicant of all I was.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're my only hope.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you.
[SPEAKER_01]: The one listening to this on the other side of the walkie.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know what they did to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know how many times you've been rebuilt, smiling.
[SPEAKER_01]: It isn't your fault.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not a villain.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're the first to victim.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're hearing this, please believe this.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not broken.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not weak.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're still you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're the reason I still believe someone can make it here.
[SPEAKER_01]: You won't remember leaving this message, a reprogramm you.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll sand down whatever's left of you and call it optimization.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if I'm standing there now, then the part of me that still hope still believed was right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't let them take you.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have to keep moving.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: more stairs didn't realize it was going to be leg day a word of caution before we proceed from this point on this place will stop it nothing to tear you down and mold you into the perfect employee you must resist the change no matter how tempting look haven't lost myself yet don't plan on doing it now just remember who you are keep that at the forefront of your mind and you'll be just fine
[SPEAKER_01]: the patty remembers the grass-feeding farm what he said all right now come on let's get to step in yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: Just fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll start slow, little things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Words in your head that sound like you're own.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good tired.
[SPEAKER_01]: You could stop.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just one review away from being perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh nice try.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I wanted to hear myself talk, I'd start a podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: The burger grills itself when the cook forgets his hands.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pretty sure I'm grilling right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great, and escalator.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look, I know I should be terrified right now, but I'm just happy to rest my legs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't let it carry you.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the first trap.
[SPEAKER_01]: Surrender your will once, and you won't get it back.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Silly me, got time to lean, got time to clean.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stupid, pyramid, stupid, endless staircase, ah, there, free from the tyranny of corporate pleasures.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll keep my eyes open for a pizza party or a potluck.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure is, getting hard to breathe in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: The air grows stale with decaying will.
[SPEAKER_01]: You say something happy for once, that would be great, that would be fan-fucking-tastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't belong to struggle.
[SPEAKER_01]: You belong to service, smile, and the climb is over.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't smile.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't give it to them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hold the line.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your frown is your freedom.
[SPEAKER_01]: Consider the line.
[SPEAKER_01]: Helled.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no smiling.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's Satan's asshole.
[SPEAKER_02]: They...
[SPEAKER_02]: They won me on my knees.
[SPEAKER_01]: then stand taller in your head.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is where they can't reach.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I like this a lot better when I get... Ugh, you know, walk up these things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gotta feel like a baby in a tube of toothpaste.
[SPEAKER_01]: Squeezing from the bottom, and pressure... Ugh, at the top.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're almost there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not long now, I can see it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're almost complete.
[SPEAKER_01]: The fryer forgets the oil, but still burns the meat.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha, every say.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, when I make it out of here, I'm gonna find the real Jericho, and kiss him on his bald head.
[UNKNOWN]: Ugh.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ugh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ugh.
[SPEAKER_01]: I assume he's bald, never met the guy, but yeah, with a name like Jericho, and a sailor's accent.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's no way he isn't.
[SPEAKER_02]: Probably got an eye patch from a grease incident.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: A little peg leg from a rat trap run in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ugh.
[UNKNOWN]: Ugh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fuck.
[UNKNOWN]: Ugh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ugh.
[SPEAKER_01]: So tired.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've done enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ugh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just rest.
[SPEAKER_01]: Smile.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ugh.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd be easier.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not, I'm not, I've yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Keep moving.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't fight the walls.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just let them die to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: The pyramid knows the shape you're meant to take.
[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like I'm being shaped into a damn vapor weight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every struggle has its purpose.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't worry.
[SPEAKER_01]: change.
[SPEAKER_01]: Use it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Flow with it and you'll find the climb gets easier if you stop holding so tightly to yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Optimization requires obedience.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've done enough long to just perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: One to start a situation requires obedience.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's almost perfect.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, maybe, maybe perfect wouldn't be so bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fuck.
[SPEAKER_00]: At least it wouldn't hurt.
[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly, every step you take is one less piece to carry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't fear what's being stripped away.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the pyramid making room for who you're supposed to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even know if I'm still me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And isn't that the point?
[SPEAKER_01]: You're shedding what held you back.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the pyramid it worked.
[SPEAKER_01]: Keep climbing.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're so close now.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're tired, just stop, smile and it stops hurting, smile talking, you're done, I can't.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not failing, you're arriving.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is what a rival feels like.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't fight it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just say me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me be easy, if I just release.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to hold on.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to be you anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let the climb take you where you're meant to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're almost perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're almost home.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't be yours.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who I am anymore?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The hard part is over.
[SPEAKER_01]: One more breath.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you'll never have to go over.
[SPEAKER_01]: One.
[UNKNOWN]: A new breath.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hang on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hang on, there's...
[SPEAKER_02]: There's something up ahead.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, body move.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, fuck, everything's so heavy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, fuck.
[SPEAKER_02]: Looks like a... looks like a crevice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, just a little, a little further!
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: No fucking way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Finally!
[SPEAKER_01]: Finally some relief.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know that soft barcode song anywhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: Skanner?
[SPEAKER_01]: The hell are you doing here?
[SPEAKER_01]: for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why would you be looking for me?
[SPEAKER_01]: I...
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought you were gone.
[SPEAKER_01]: I tried to forget about you.
[SPEAKER_01]: About us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can never really forget you either.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you have to leave.
[SPEAKER_01]: This place, it's dangerous, you can't be here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, don't worry about me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had things under control back there.
[SPEAKER_01]: A right where I wanted them.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so good to see you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I almost forgot who I was there for a second, but you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You reminded me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, you're right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't stop now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've got to see this through it.
[UNKNOWN]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fuck yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel 10 times lighter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, scanner.
[SPEAKER_01]: For everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll never forget you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or the time we shared an inventory.
[SPEAKER_01]: I should have hosted you when I had the chance, but you're free where now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm on my own path.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was never meant to be, but that doesn't mean it wasn't everything to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know you do.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do too.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have to keep moving.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are literally millions of me and every single one of them needs me right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Goodbye scanner.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I still remember your serial number.
[SPEAKER_01]: The pain we swing the matty is served.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well said, Jay, too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well said.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, let's keep moving.
[SPEAKER_01]: I gotta feel him we're almost out of here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello, what's this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, maintenance hatch?
[SPEAKER_01]: For me?
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't mind if I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: You must continue the climb.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, hello there.
[SPEAKER_01]: About time you showed up.
[SPEAKER_01]: You kind of quiet back there and all the way here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't want to ruin a tender moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fair enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, why can't I use this hatch?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because we have no idea where it leads.
[SPEAKER_01]: It could lead into oblivion for all we know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look around me, my man.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're already in oblivion.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next up, perfectly polished purgatory.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'll take my chances.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've already come so far.
[SPEAKER_01]: Would you throw it all away on the off chance that this maintenance hatch leads anywhere but bad?
[SPEAKER_01]: Look, you're gonna have to start trusting me sometimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: We did it your way and it got us this far.
[SPEAKER_01]: I almost lost myself, we kindled an old fling.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's been fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, not fun, but the point is, put some faith in me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've carried us this far with your guidance.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've got a feeling about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me carry the torch for a moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right then, we do it your way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, all right, fuck yeah!
[UNKNOWN]: Woohoo!
[SPEAKER_01]: I won't let you down, didn't body me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's get the fuck outta here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, just as cozy as it looked.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe we're doing this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Crawling to corporate intestines, guess this is what freedom smells like, toner and old luch.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hang on a second, here's, there's air, real air.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fuck you, all right, let's go, almost there, so close, almost out of this fucking rat trap me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whew, moment of truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, feels good to stand up, stretch the legs, and oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was expecting open air, but we're at the top of this thing, and it's a terrace.
[SPEAKER_01]: This, whatever this is.
[SPEAKER_01]: The shareholders panty on.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, a panty on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Golden statues, a plaza that stretches for what miles?
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is what you've been building all this time, not anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gritty tip of the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: If your reflection stops moving, it's probably just tired.
[SPEAKER_01]: We all need rest now and then, especially our better halves.
[SPEAKER_01]: Smile at it, then turn away slowly.
[SPEAKER_01]: No sudden movements.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mirrors, remember, everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, hey there, Stairmaster.
[SPEAKER_01]: You drag yourself all the way up without flat lining into paperwork.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not bad for a day's work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Funny thing about pyramids, they're built to outlast the people who stacked the bricks, but you, you weren't built to last, but you lasted anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: Guess that means the blueprint was wrong, or maybe, maybe being wrong was the only thing they ever got right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look, I can't tell you the road ahead is going to be easy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hell, I can't even tell you there is a road ahead, but you've kept yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Peace by stubborn peace where every other version folded.
[SPEAKER_01]: That matters.
[SPEAKER_01]: You matter.
[SPEAKER_01]: So take that busted smile of yours, square those shoulders, and remember, no charts, no clipboards, no quarterly reports get to decide what your worth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now go on, the next step's waiting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Written and performed by Trifalco.
[SPEAKER_01]: Smacky smile-shack is a Ghost Wolf Creative Studios production.
[SPEAKER_01]: No training managers were harmed in the making of this tape.
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