[SPEAKER_00]: This season of 5 GM's in a trench coat deals with themes of loneliness, loss, the paranormal, growing older, confrontation, parental pressures, reconciliation, teenage genannigans, illusions to being people of color in the 80s and hope.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listener discussion is advised.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, listen in as my friends take turns leaving stories through the table top game of their choice Hello everybody and welcome to 5G M's in a trench coat season five from inside the tent
[SPEAKER_07]: a couple of things we've gone down since last time you heard us uh... i believe there was a carnival or the carnival if you will uh... there was a a sear of sorts don't like him he told a bit of the future to our three friends here there were some spirits i suppose being being summoned and possessing some of the people and waiting in line to be let in as the carnival itself was protected by some of vows
[SPEAKER_07]: Spiritual magic on top of that a couple of our friends did get a chill and did become sick and eventually one was possessed You did make it out This is barely he barely
[SPEAKER_07]: I think we're going to kind of take a step back and I think it's been two, three days maybe.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Everyone who was sick is on the heels of it and mending.
[SPEAKER_07]: You still feel a little, you know, after having the flu when you feel a little weak, you know.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's still a bit of that.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're still, I think you're still in the bad.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think you've made it out of Nevada yet.
[SPEAKER_07]: You could have, but I think it's just like with the heat, coupled with not feeling well.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've done a lot of stopping and a lot of like relaxing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Where we are currently.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is close to eight nine PM.
[SPEAKER_07]: You were driving down the road, who is driving?
[SPEAKER_07]: I think since they've been sick I've been taking over the driving portion and it was getting really hot and the van the last unicorn started to show signs of overheating.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've pulled off your kind of in this little like divot where there's like a nice tree, a supplying big shade.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's eight or nine p.m. but it's still hot out and you're kind of just waiting out for the car to come down
[SPEAKER_07]: I think you guys recently drove through and got something to eat.
[SPEAKER_07]: I would like to start over here and would you like to tell me what you got to eat?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think he's starting to feel better so he had like a big hearty meal, like a big bacon cheeseburger with like a bunch of fries and uh I mean like a little dessert afterwards.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's made of like I think it's like a little like hand-up eye.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know how to buy it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you have some good diner food in here.
[SPEAKER_07]: What about you, Harvey?
[SPEAKER_03]: I think how he's still feeling a little bit on the, on the bad side, so something a little smaller, maybe like a, like a small breakfast burrito.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's holding it in his hand.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a little bite.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's beautiful.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I think I got chicken tenders and fries and a chocolate shake.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you can kind of never go wrong, which I can tell you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's my bread and butter, my base line.
[SPEAKER_07]: A specialty of consistency.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, you've been sat here now for likely 30 minutes to an hour, still hot.
[SPEAKER_07]: The cart itself is like, I think I'm almost all you'll take a step out and put your hand on the hood.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's cooling down, but the car was pretty functionally overheating.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's an older vehicle and Zika knows cars and I think that right now, Zika, you know, that's probably not best to get back on the road just yet.
[SPEAKER_07]: you're just off on the side of the road.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's quiet.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is like it's a bit serene.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not uncanny or anything.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just a night sky.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's it's you're surrounded by the kind of darkness of desert you've been driving in Nevada.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's no town in sight.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's kind of just you guys.
[SPEAKER_07]: What has been the conversation in the car the past couple of days?
[SPEAKER_07]: Post carnival.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, it's probably been me checking up on the boys a lot being like, how are you feeling?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do we need to stop?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you need any medicine?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like are you are you are you are you hot?
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you cold like just me checking to make sure they're okay because they got
[SPEAKER_02]: messed up.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and so I think it's just been me kind of like being mom for a bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, just making sure they're okay because like, that was scary.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if they want to talk about it, we can, but I'm not going to push that because that was a lot.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I don't think he'd want to see come on talk about it.
[SPEAKER_05]: He doesn't really understand what happened.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, he just like, I'm really not talking about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm thinking that if we are stopping, it's probably because of hobby, like every hour.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got off the road.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just for fresh air to stretch a little.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're drinking a lot of water and some got pee a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, making sure that we get gatorade when we go to like gas stations and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just to make sure that they have their electrolytes up and that sort of thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you've pretty successfully handled that.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've taken good care of them.
[SPEAKER_07]: it's now like I said you're on the heels of it you're all feeling mostly better still a little weak or like soft tummies because of not feeling well
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you do is the car cools down and you have your meals in front of you sitting the car with the door open You sit outside do you guys have lawn chairs do you climb on top of the car like what what is it like it's almost I guess it's sort of like camping right now You're not exactly in camping spot, but it's you're not quite sure along you guys are gonna kind of sit here What are your guys's lives?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like picturing, hobby, sitting in the front seat door, swung open, foot, one like out, and the other like in facing out of the door, just nursing his little burrito, that's
[SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of a sad sign.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm even with that picture.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I've grabbed like a big blanket from one of the bags.
[SPEAKER_02]: And just have it on like laid out on the side of the like car that's not towards the road.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm probably just sitting outside eating my food.
[SPEAKER_05]: Zeke I think Zeke just kind of has a chair folded out near the engine just to keep an eye on it and it's just like dead Like leaning back.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you have I think maybe you have the hood pop now Just kind of letting all the heat escape from the side your head tilted back Zeke are your eyes open as your head's your head is tilted back.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah, he's just kind of looking up at the trees
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you want to roll for me for like you're just general like view of the night sky and like through the trees I guess a brains just kind of examining the area yeah
[SPEAKER_05]: Four.
[SPEAKER_07]: Four.
[SPEAKER_07]: You look upon the night sky through bits of tree.
[SPEAKER_07]: The lack of light pollution here is quite nice.
[SPEAKER_07]: You get to see the stars.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so you see bits of stars.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think just from having been talked at maybe by Amanda, you can make out that like one of these stars is probably like part of the big dipper.
[SPEAKER_07]: One of these stars is part of this and different things like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: just making out little things of these stars that you're only picking up pieces of as the leaves obscure most of the night sky and bits of moon light kind of kind of make their way through the kind of part of leaves themselves and lightly and softly illuminate the space you guys are all in.
[SPEAKER_02]: I probably am like checking in with like, um, Zeke, like, Zeke, how's the engine looking?
[SPEAKER_05]: I made my head up and I look at it and like, it's probably going to be at least a half an hour.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess it's not too bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you know all right, they're bud?
[SPEAKER_02]: Looking at Hoppy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and I had not convinced I'll be honest.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's been a lot of driving and a lot of hot weather.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you did not look good, my guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: I... All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think, Harvey definitely 100% gets boy sick.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh no!
[SPEAKER_03]: And like, when he was younger, his mom would like fuss over him and then sense loving with his dad, he just like thugs it out and like, oh, he's just like, like, like, like a tomb.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is all.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so, he just doesn't know how to take care of himself when he's sick.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have you had enough water today?
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to take that as a note because you have to think about it, drink more water, there's water in the bag, don't groan it, water helps, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe come outside for a bit, you've just been in the car, you can't keep roaning at me, I'm gonna come over there, it gets so good, it can't, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: It's it out.
[SPEAKER_02]: My goodness.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't like the shit that we've been dealing with.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know either.
[SPEAKER_03]: And part of me is like maybe it's just like not real and we just kind of been dreaming all the time.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I still have a bruise on my face from getting punched by that guy.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, maybe we're in purgatory.
[SPEAKER_02]: what makes you think we're in purgatory like we're dead yeah pinch me i think that's fuck pinch you i'm not dead i felt pinched well i mean i feel like you could feel things in purgatory still is this true i don't know i don't know i don't know i just thought you would know that sort of thing i don't know they're right they're right
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just wondering if maybe it's too, too much for us.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's gonna be like this the whole time.
[SPEAKER_03]: You still have what?
[SPEAKER_03]: A few more weeks?
[SPEAKER_03]: At least.
[SPEAKER_03]: All I know is I don't want to get punched again.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I also don't want to be sick again.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, okay, how about we?
[SPEAKER_02]: plan out what we're doing and where we're going a little better so we're not just stumbling upon stuff because that's kind of been what we've been doing so far is stumbling upon stuff and maybe we plan a little better we'll be able to maybe avoid some of the weird stuff maybe we just hit like the main stuff you know like the big things like more people
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, more people like make like maybe like a little more populated like Stay that way and maybe it will stop That's probably a good idea Yeah, because everything we've hit so far has been like kind of out of the way kind of rural rural
[SPEAKER_03]: Drink some water.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, um, so like maybe if we do that it'll be a little better and not as weird Because like they wouldn't do that, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Even if it is real like be out in the open like that, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, we were at a pretty like Because the The current will have a lot of people in it
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean bother everybody but it wasn't like city population I guess not well where do you want to go next?
[SPEAKER_03]: Where are we right now?
[SPEAKER_02]: We're on like the outskirts of Nevada or like still in Nevada but like on the outskirts Yeah, I'd say you're on your way out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, um, we're kind of like on our way out of Nevada We can kind of go anywhere at this point because we can go we go to the Grand Canyon What if we fall?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't think we they have safety things in place, Harvey So people don't do that
[SPEAKER_03]: I just don't want to fall.
[SPEAKER_03]: We were done a boat and that went bad after all.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like maybe we should have gone a boat.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're not going to go on a boat.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the Grand Canyon, Harvey.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but I'm just mean, I just mean in general things.
[SPEAKER_03]: You haven't been going the boat.
[SPEAKER_05]: What do you want them to go?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Grand Canyon sounds fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Grand Canyon sounds cool, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: Wanting to see it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Big rock.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can we ever thought about that?
[SPEAKER_05]: Actually, it's the absence of rock.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, yes, true absence of rock, no rock.
[SPEAKER_02]: The erosion of rock.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: The essence of rock.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: You convinced me.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's, thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we'll go to the Grand Canyon next.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a big, like, tourist stop.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's summer.
[SPEAKER_02]: So a bunch of people will be there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's give me so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, we'll go like early-ish in the mornings.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we can try to beat the heat.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we'll hang out afterwards.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: yeah I'm sure I'm sure there's like morning tours you know oh yeah yeah those creepy government dudes won't be there in the morning and thanks for chasing it good ghosts ghost don't wake up early they're gonna get the alphabet now they are always at night right well sometimes night is also morning well i mean and i was no
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, I just wake up early, it was still dark up.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that's not night, that's morning.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it would be called night.
[SPEAKER_03]: Isn't like three a.m. the witching hour?
[SPEAKER_05]: Can everyone roll me a luck roll, please?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh god, D20?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Because our luck's been so great.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: 18.
[SPEAKER_02]: 18 also.
[SPEAKER_02]: 11.
[SPEAKER_07]: With my two 18s.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think you guys aren't sure why, but you both kind of look up and like westward and you see just the shooting star kind of cresting through.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's, it kind of has this like almost like pink tail.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's,
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not breaking down the same way like a typical shooting star would.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know how much you know about shooting stars between the two of you.
[SPEAKER_07]: But you see this, you see this kind of pfft.
[SPEAKER_02]: Shooting star!
[SPEAKER_02]: Huh!
[SPEAKER_02]: Make a wish!
[SPEAKER_02]: I close my eyes like release height and make a wish.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you walk with your eyes and make a wish?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: God, what bullshit are you about to pull on us?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'd like everyone to give me another, I-I-I want this to be sort of a force of personality role, uh, so whatever you feel is like you're most like personal stat I'm just charmed.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bwayne.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like I-oh, uh, seven.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna go flight.
[SPEAKER_02]: to handle and just look at me so distressed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't quite capture it through words, but just no.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I got a two on my die.
[SPEAKER_07]: Two on your die.
[SPEAKER_03]: Two on my die.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got a 12 and a 7, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: So we'll start with with our two.
[SPEAKER_07]: Close your eyes real tight to make a wish on this pinkish shooting star that
[SPEAKER_07]: kind of it almost feels like as you close your eyes it feels like you're being like dusted like you have this tingle over your body.
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you wish for?
[SPEAKER_03]: I think in this moment right now he's like a fucking hate being sick.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really wish he was fucking over now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like I'm done.
[SPEAKER_07]: You close your eyes.
[SPEAKER_07]: You think about hating being sick and
[SPEAKER_07]: I want you to tell me when was the last time a home remedy worked for you and what was it and who administered it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, like I said, my mom used to fuss over me and I think I was like 12 or 13 and I was like sick with the worst Like can congestion I've ever had up to that point that I remember right and my mom was like you need to put Vix on your feet.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've been telling you put the Vix on your feet put your socks on go to bed Like it'll work and I didn't believe her, but I mean, I did it.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's my mommy.
[UNKNOWN]: So
[SPEAKER_03]: I do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got to sleep.
[SPEAKER_03]: I woke up.
[SPEAKER_03]: She was clear.
[SPEAKER_03]: So.
[SPEAKER_07]: you close your eyes, like any feel almost as sprinkle over you, you remember your mom telling you got to put the vix on your feet, the bottoms of your feet kind of have that like it's not quite a stinging but like a freshness of a vix and the scent walks through your nose and into your lungs and fills you up, you feel it, the sort of lightness that comes with like
[SPEAKER_07]: And you, for a moment or there, you're sitting there, you wake up just before your nose is fully clear.
[SPEAKER_07]: Your mom sitting at your bedside is reading.
[SPEAKER_07]: She has some book.
[SPEAKER_07]: What book is it?
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you see on the cover?
[SPEAKER_07]: You're a little groggy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like an oiled up, man.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: you kind of wake you your eyes are groggy um your mom sees you close their both to put it down and she kind of um she grabs your knee actually oh sweetie you she need to go back to bed you're here you've been here before but you slept the whole time what is how you do
[SPEAKER_07]: it's like I like I just like I woke up yeah maybe you were dreaming about being on a trip with your friends and wishing on a shooting star and you woke up in your mom's here tending to you she just told you to put the vix on your feet and she's here again maybe mom never left I turned into a whirlpool you was all just a dream your injury your relationship with your dad maybe was all just a
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, um...
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm kind of hungry, he just becomes like he's just like a total baby.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: Of course what do you want?
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you want me to go out and get you something you want me to make something I can always make you something I can make a good soup would it good soup of course.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh no, you said do you want to tell me what soup you want me to make me of course way as she she gives you a kiss on the forehead she walks out off into the rest of the house you're the clanking and clinking of of pots
[SPEAKER_07]: It's that clicking thing you know of a kitchen that you've heard be cooked in for your entire life.
[SPEAKER_07]: You haven't heard that sound in a long time.
[SPEAKER_07]: The pot being put down here, dad, say somebody, your mommy, hear her laugh.
[SPEAKER_07]: Zik.
[SPEAKER_07]: You close your eyes really tightly.
[SPEAKER_07]: You feel like this is sprinkle.
[SPEAKER_07]: It comes over you.
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you wish for?
[SPEAKER_05]: He's just hoping that he's just open that the last thing they're corn makes the strip.
[SPEAKER_05]: Because I think he's getting real nervous about it because it's already overheating and they still have a long ways to go in the desert.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you've only had a couple of states up to this point.
[SPEAKER_07]: You close your eyes.
[SPEAKER_07]: This tingle runs over you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Tell me when was the first time you worked on the last unicorn with your dad not any card, just specifically last unicorn or even if it wasn't with your dad when was last time you worked on it How old were you what was going on what was the intention of working on the last unicorn originally?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think he got it like when he was 16, it's one of those things that like someone came into the shop and just had this shitty van, they were trying to get rid of.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he was like, I have a hundred bucks, so the guy was like sold, and he's like, this is my car now, and but it's like the shitty, you know, it's a shitty van, so he's got to fix it up and he's like, yeah, so I'd say he's 16 and it took him a couple years to like, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, I think the first thing he did was like, I think he was old owned by old hippies So he just had a bunch of like weird little shit inside of it And so he just started by tearing out like the shag carpet here in the back And like absolutely so I have a question for you So your dad owns this this mechanics
[SPEAKER_07]: Your dad's good at this.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've been taught how to do a lot of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Was this a, was a zik solo thing that you needed to work on yourself to make it your van or did you get and or ask for your dad's help?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think at first, you wanted to do it himself.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so he did all the little stuff, like tearing out all the stuff inside.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but then when it started getting more complicated and more expensive, too, that I think his dad was always just kind of around giving him a device.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you tear this thing apart, you're ripping out the stuff from the inside, you're dead, because my he's like, you know, don't.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, what you're tearing at right there, you're about to clip the wires and yank them out, and if that happens, all the lights are going to be up and you're like, you know all lights are going to be up and you're going to have to redo all of them, the wires looked good when I checked, you just got to take the inside that sun, you're being a little too, and I think that it's just this kind of continual, I think it's kind of annoying.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you got for it.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's like, I got this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, okay, you've got it.
[SPEAKER_07]: He goes inside for a bit um, you turn around.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's left like I think I do actually pull one of the wife Yeah, but I'm goes off for a moment.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just like, wow, wow You turn around though after having ripped out one of the wires and there's just this bowl of cut-up fruit that he loves for you That annoying thing dad's can do sometimes is be a pain in the ass and then because they can't just say I love you they can't just say has to be something as be an active service
[SPEAKER_07]: And you sure know how you see this fruit?
[SPEAKER_07]: You've ripped up a lot of the inside as you did seek You're here your hands hurt the way a long the way a long day of using them hurt You know where they're like kind of dry and burn a little and but like burn in like the cracks and crevices where they've been used He's right over that shed carpet.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, you're rug burn all of your knuckles and as you ripped it up Maybe you ate some of the fruit what fruit was in there?
[SPEAKER_07]: What's your favorite fruit because your dad would know and he would put it in there
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think it would be like apples, it's just like a good apple.
[SPEAKER_07]: And a nice slice of apple, um, you bite it's tart and sweet, but not too much of either, um, it kind of puckers your lips and like dimples your cheeks for a moment.
[SPEAKER_07]: you take a breath.
[SPEAKER_07]: The apples crisp and light and has the water that you so badly need because you haven't drank anything the entire time you've been doing this you're 16 and dumb.
[SPEAKER_07]: The last portion you kind of yank up pulls up a bit of panel with it.
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't know why it was dug in so officially but when you yank it it like oh and bends a little metal panel you're like
[SPEAKER_05]: Like there's a metal panel and as you look, they glued the shit down.
[SPEAKER_07]: They just got some super powerful glue Got it down Underneath this panel though, you see a bit of plastic peeking out.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you look?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, did Zeke look.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you look This is you again You're in this moment again, maybe everything after today was a dream and
[SPEAKER_07]: You're getting this van ready because one day you might go on a trip with your friends like that and you thought you had or you thought you would start it But you're back here, so you must not have and you look at this little bit of plastic and you look at it's It's a couple of rolls of hundreds Oh, tucked away under here
[SPEAKER_05]: What do you do?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I think I think for a moment, I like make sure it's real.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was like, make sure there's no drugs, there's no drugs, there's no drugs, there's no drugs, it almost looks like bug out, like a bug out bag.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm like, okay, so I think I'm just gonna put it back and just kind of keep a mental note that it's there.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think is that what Zeke did originally?
[SPEAKER_05]: Or is that what Zeke does now?
[SPEAKER_05]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think that's I think he does pocket it originally, but now I think nowadays he would have put it back just to have an emergency fund But you see it and there's this moment of two paths one where you pocket it You buy stupid shit with it.
[SPEAKER_07]: You maybe play some games with your friends because you bought way too much Like see where you get all this stuff all the new movies all the new games
[SPEAKER_07]: And there's now this path that's suddenly been illuminated for you where you just put it back down and you bend that back down because there might be a day where the van overheats and you need that extra money and you're with two friends who you care about more than you even realize and you've been constantly put in positions of having to deal with things that you weren't equipped for and maybe a little bit of extra cash might help with that.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've been it back down.
[SPEAKER_07]: You finish tearing out the rest of the upholstery.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's a little troll doll that's wiggling.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's head almost taunting you finally snatched off the the that's also glued down like I'm looking for something pop soft You go inside.
[SPEAKER_06]: You put your apple bowl away and you just turn it into for the night Clim Hey Close your eyes Watches over you make a wish
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that wish is that we all make it through this trip together.
[SPEAKER_06]: Clim.
[SPEAKER_06]: You wake up.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's fairly early.
[SPEAKER_07]: The sun is just rising.
[SPEAKER_07]: You look out the window of the last scene or corn, the passenger side window, and you see
[SPEAKER_07]: You see MIT, the front of it, you turn and you look, you see your two friends here, he has retired, he's exhausted.
[SPEAKER_07]: Guys, you haven't there a lot of silly shit.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe in the last 24 hours you've been through some very silly shit, but regardless of all that, your summer plan most of the summer has been spent, you have brought claim to every state that you could reach with the last unicorn, and you're at MIT, you've made it what goes on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I think I'm just staring out the window.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kind of just like looking at it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not really saying anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just staring.
[SPEAKER_07]: You were just in Nevada.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think it's one of those things where it's like you've, I've seen it once in person, just a tour.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the rest of the times I've seen it has been through like photos.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's that whole thing of like, you know, I knew we were coming here.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's so weird because we were just in Nevada.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we're here now, and we've made it.
[SPEAKER_02]: and we're all still here.
[SPEAKER_02]: So presumably no more silly shit went on.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was that bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I think I just kind of stare out the window.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like to think, uh, hobbies the first out of the car.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it was just like, wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's bigger than it is on the pictures.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm watching hobby, like, look like a dad outside of the car window.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, oh my god, what is he doing?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I like, I see him like posture up in that way, like looking around.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, oh my god, what is he doing that?
[SPEAKER_07]: I do think you guys are a bit like I said, um, maybe you went through some silly shit recently, uh, you're a bit, uh, some of your clothes are a bit tattered or little things here and there, uh, little scrapes, you guys have been through a lot on this travel, but also traveling's a lot and you hike, you can't, you do these things, you see, how have you, posturing like a dad, I'm gonna run, I'm just like, oh my god, why is he doing that?
[SPEAKER_02]: You're gonna get out of the car?
[SPEAKER_02]: I like put my hands on like my head.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, oh my god, now he's looking at me.
[SPEAKER_05]: So he's gonna get out.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's actually stretching.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, oh, we finally made it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was sitting there like, oh my god, why are they doing this?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you look around, you see other students getting there.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're fairly early, you should be told, but you also did sign up for some summer, like onboarding stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was mom's idea.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, mom and dad should be down here soon with some of your stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: You'll just have to rock the bed without sheets for like a day or two.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's nice and the three of you look at each other There's that moment of recognition of like oh shit like this is done right and like you know You could probably grab some food walk around the campus.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll see it, but you know that this right here is the Open door to goodbye It's
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys have all turned to the knob and so on that door open.
[SPEAKER_07]: Clim is leaving and you guys have somewhere to go back after this.
[SPEAKER_07]: And all three of you wake up all in the van.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're in the same spot, the chair is still out front.
[SPEAKER_07]: You saw all sitting outside, you're all inside.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've all had these dreams.
[SPEAKER_07]: Javi, you remember eating that soup, but you had eaten that soup before, but you do now, and it was good, and it was sweet, and it feels like even though you haven't seen your mom in quite some time, like you saw her earlier today.
[SPEAKER_07]: And that weight in your pocket, that's so heavy for a moment, feels like someone else's caring for you, and you don't have to deal with it right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: The car is cooled down.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's pretty late in the night now.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's probably like 1 a.m. You guys don't know how you just slept for three hours.
[SPEAKER_07]: You kind of look back.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see, you've placed something on top of that spot that you know that you left the money.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's emergency funds.
[SPEAKER_07]: Quite a good amount just in case.
[SPEAKER_07]: Any claim you sit here, still fairly early on into your road trip, and You've already seen the end of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know that you won't get to say goodbye
[SPEAKER_07]: you were there.
[SPEAKER_07]: It wasn't a dream claim.
[SPEAKER_07]: It didn't feel like a dream.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've seen that.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've seen your friends a little tattered up maybe a little bit of their stringy face here grown out because they haven't shaved and however long because you've been camping and roughing it and driving around.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you know that you at least get to all turn that door knob together and open it up and say goodbye, at least for the summer.
[SPEAKER_07]: I guess we're going to end this episode.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys are so good.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys are so good at this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hate you guys.
[SPEAKER_07]: Someone do the sign off.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks for the setting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can we just do the sign off later, can we just put it in later?
[SPEAKER_03]: Put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put it in post, put
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I mean, like, you're a little bit of a freak.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go listen to the other babes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bugs will love you, Bugs will love you, Bugs will love you, Bugs will love you, Bugs will love you.