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you get your podcasts. Hello,

1:36

CMA universe and welcome to the Curious

1:39

Matter Aftershow. I'm Sundi Perik. I'm Alison

1:41

Haislip, and tonight we are going to

1:43

go behind the scenes of this week's

1:45

mind-blowingly epic episode, The Exile Part 7,

1:48

Kill Order. Sundi, this has been a

1:50

ride. It's been

1:52

a journey. It's been a space

1:55

shuttle trip to Mars. it

2:00

here. She's working

2:02

it, you know, she's like doing

2:04

what it takes to survive. She's

2:06

hooking up with people. She's she's

2:09

she is getting her butt back

2:11

to earth. Come hell or high water.

2:13

That's right. It's been a

2:15

hell of a season thus far. And you know, I

2:17

just can't wait for you

2:20

know, you got to know that some of these characters are getting

2:22

there come up and some of these big

2:24

baddies. Well, they got to be going down.

2:26

I hope. Yeah, I hope we'll see. Is

2:29

there justice on Mars? We'll find out. Oh, and

2:32

speaking of baddies, right? Allison?

2:34

Yeah, today on this on

2:36

this after show, we have got the big

2:38

baddies of the big baddies. Admiral

2:41

Tyco. We okay

2:43

we have. Bryce, I

2:45

love you. I have to

2:47

go back to that. Oh, yeah. Because

2:49

what ends like that? What

2:53

ends like that? I like

2:56

me an audio podcast for this too, because like,

2:58

there's no hint. There's no visual hints as

3:00

to who shot what? Yeah, I

3:02

know. Who did he shoot? Who did

3:04

Eugene shoot? We don't know. And by

3:06

Eugene, I mean, shell, but you know, Eugene in our

3:08

hearts. God, I

3:10

guess we have to tune in in two weeks to find out. I

3:13

guess so. It's a real cliffhanger. As long as

3:15

I didn't read I didn't read the scripts.

3:18

So literally every person on the

3:20

screen is in the show. And none of

3:24

us know what's happening except for Jonathan. I

3:26

know what's happening. She read this. Yeah. To

3:31

all of our streaming friends. We are joined

3:33

by our very special guest, Alexander

3:36

Matos. You've seen this

3:38

guy on the stage at the passing

3:40

to playhouse the Trinity Repertory Theater the

3:42

rights and reason theater if you Hey,

3:44

go go Brown, go Brown alum, you're

3:46

Brown alum here. Yeah, I am. Let's

3:48

go baby. All right, go Bruno, go

3:50

Bruno. And probably for life. Eastside

3:53

pockets for life. Anoys

3:57

within theater the National New York thread

10:00

was. So you're homework. I did my

10:02

homework. It was like my first VO thing. Oh, I want

10:07

to make sure I do it right. Yeah.

10:10

Yeah. So I was like, Oh, delinquents.

10:13

Didn't you learn at Brown that you can just wing

10:15

it and still get the fact that they'll never be.

10:17

When I feel comfortable and safe, I'll do that. But

10:19

you know, it's like, I didn't want to show up.

10:21

And at some place, I didn't really know what was going on.

10:24

And then you like, Jonathan's closet and you're

10:26

like, Yeah, exactly.

10:31

Well, I think the cool thing about like

10:33

this show and just the group in general is like,

10:36

even though he was new to the bunch, it's like

10:38

now he's just a part of the family where it

10:40

was like, we did the audio drama together.

10:42

And then I was doing the plane fringe festival. I

10:44

was like, Hey Alexander, can you talk to me what's

10:46

your play? And then the Kickstarter for like the Kickstarter

10:50

for deepest darkness, like we had a fundraiser and he

10:53

showed up there to support too. So it's like, it's

10:55

really cool just to kind of see how this like

10:58

curious matter anthology world just keeps

11:00

growing. And we keep like adding

11:03

new people here and there. And then they just become

11:05

a part of the family, which is so cool. I

11:07

love it. I mean, you got, y'all are super welcoming.

11:09

So of course, I'm gonna show up. Well, get ready

11:11

to do four voices next season, because that's

11:13

all of us. Well, I'm playing

11:16

three characters in a play right now here at

11:18

Baltimore center stage. I'm doing a pride and prejudice

11:20

play where I'm playing every other suitor except Mr.

11:22

Darcy. So I think I'll add one more for

11:24

the next show. You're all the rejects. And

11:28

they're all very

11:30

different too. So it's like, I have a quick change for 10

11:32

seconds. And then I come back in and they're

11:34

like, what is that the same person? Do

11:36

you get wigs or something? Well,

11:39

I'm wearing hats because it feels for

11:41

a couple of characters. Also, you don't want to mess up

11:44

the curls, you know? Yeah, I

11:46

got it. So for sure. Uh,

11:50

what? So you said there was a variety of

11:52

Brazilian accents that you could have chosen. What did

11:54

you which one did you land on? Was it

11:56

the was it the one that you that was

11:58

native to your? Yeah. Yeah, I figured because it

12:01

didn't seem like, also

12:05

this is like in a futuristic kind of

12:09

earth world as well. So just as like accents

12:11

in the US have slowly started melding. I

12:13

took a little bit from a few

12:15

distinct regions and I kind of based

12:18

it primarily on mine, just for familiarity

12:20

and just time wise, like how much

12:22

time I had to spend on the

12:25

project itself. Jonathan

12:27

made me like do these hard R's

12:29

for Martian, like that was R. Was

12:31

there a Brazilian accented equivalent of the

12:34

hard R or did you just like

12:36

carry that over? Well,

12:38

so something that's kind of interesting is our D

12:40

sometimes sound like Jez. So

12:42

instead of Guj, we would say Guj. Oh,

12:45

I did notice that. I did notice that you

12:47

did that through, yeah. Okay, cool. And so sometimes

12:49

you'll see. We all said those sometimes. I

12:52

tried to keep as many in as

12:54

you could understand. Yeah, but

12:57

sometimes it's like, wait, that doesn't sound like, you know,

12:59

on first listen. So yeah, the ones where it was

13:01

like, we're trying to get the main story across. We're

13:04

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24:00

basically like the evil dead gag. It

24:02

is evil dead. Yes. Oh,

24:04

can we please get Rand some sort

24:07

of cool process? That's season four of

24:10

The Curious Matters Anthology. Yeah,

24:12

exactly. Yeah, just give

24:14

him a portal for a hand. That's a portal. A

24:17

portal that ships. You get like an axe one

24:19

turn, and then you like ship some laser guns,

24:21

you know? You just basically Optimus Prime. Or

24:24

cyborg. Transform, you know? Yeah.

24:27

I do feel like it is crazy though, because like

24:30

we said at the beginning, this is the penultimate episode.

24:32

So there's a lot of stuff that happened. This I

24:34

think is one of my favorite episodes, because there's so

24:36

much stuff that you

24:38

reveal, and there's so many characters in it.

24:40

This is the longer. Cool. Yeah,

24:44

this is the longest so far. Next one's the

24:46

longest, yeah. And like getting Colin

24:48

in there, like I absolutely love the stuff

24:51

that Colin was doing in this episode, where

24:53

it's the kind of like underneath

24:55

everything that's going on where he's just talking to

24:57

himself. And so you're getting to see so

25:00

much more from all of these characters, because we've

25:02

spent time with them at this point. I

25:05

think this was. How's your. How you do it on

25:07

the long. Did this episode take you the longest? I

25:09

don't sleep there buddy. As

25:12

of now. Yeah. Just

25:15

wait until two weeks from now. I'm

25:18

still trying. I'm not. I'm

25:21

past the point of exhaustion. It's bad. But

25:24

I am. I have

25:26

more than that. It'll get you somewhere. That's for sure.

25:28

I definitely. We're past that point

25:30

of caffeine. I'm

25:33

doing my damnedest to try to

25:35

get early access for eight out

25:38

this week by

25:41

Friday. So yeah, it's tough. Well,

25:43

we need to know who got

25:45

shot. Who

25:47

shot JR, Jonathan? Who shot JR?

25:50

I mean, not the expense of your health. You'll

25:52

have to find out in two weeks. This

25:57

is like something that I will say. But I'm.

26:00

like the crazier the episodes get, the

26:02

more time it takes for Jonathan. But also it's

26:04

like one of those things where, we

26:07

did this through Kickstarter and so it

26:09

is a small operation. And so I

26:12

just wanna say thank you to everybody who's stuck

26:14

with us through all this because it

26:16

is a labor of love and Jonathan

26:19

is definitely losing sleep. But

26:22

it's one of those things where it's like, we're all so

26:24

proud of it and so happy to do it. And so

26:26

it's awesome that if we do have to do those days

26:28

where it's like, hey, we're gonna push it a little bit,

26:30

that you guys have all been like super on board for

26:32

it and supportive and ready to listen as soon as it

26:34

comes out. Cause the other thing too

26:37

is that like obviously, we wanna get it to you guys

26:39

as soon as possible but like there is

26:41

a certain level of like awesomeness that

26:43

Jonathan has stuck to. And then it's like, we

26:45

don't wanna put it out before then. And so

26:48

I just always think that that's something where it's like,

26:50

we always wanna see stuff at the best level, but

26:52

when it is a smaller operation, like a Kickstarter or

26:54

something, like I love that the

26:56

fans totally support and understand and are right

26:59

there with us. So thank you guys all

27:01

for everybody that listens along with us cause

27:03

we see it, we see you. There

27:06

are other ways by the way, cause I

27:08

think off of that emotional sort of monologue,

27:13

let's say, that we're

27:15

all feeling the feels, we're all wanna support

27:17

poor Jonathan who- So

27:19

if you wanna- So hard felt, indeed.

27:23

If you wanna do that, then guys, we

27:25

got some new merch for you. That is

27:27

true. And so

27:29

you can- Some bad ass merch, should we say?

27:32

It is. Look at that, in a

27:34

stellar space ninja assassin merch.

27:36

Okay, you guys, we asked for it

27:38

last week and then you actually made

27:41

it. That's how I worked. So

27:44

are you gonna show your screen? Cause that would be dope. I'm

27:46

trying to bring up the listing right now so I can share

27:48

the screen. Let me, that's it over.

27:50

Bad ass interstellar space ninja assassin.

27:54

Say that as you hide. The

27:56

big black bug blood black,

27:58

say that. 26

28:01

times the big black bug bled big

28:03

black blood That's

28:05

the yeah So

28:14

it says that it might be hard to

28:16

see on screen unless your things blown up

28:18

just badass interstellar space ninja assassin Which

28:20

was like the line from last from the last

28:23

episode And

28:25

there's so there's This

28:28

is the but there's a there's t-shirts there's

28:30

mugs of it. Yeah, there's the sticker for

28:33

a laptop Well, I

28:35

feel like all meatballs. I feel like

28:38

our merch is doing is uh, it's

28:40

pretty spectacular this season Yeah

28:46

Is a way that you guys can really

28:48

support us support jonathan for putting all this

28:50

energy effort and love into the show And

28:53

then you can you know people come up to you

28:55

and be like, what do you mean mars makes you

28:57

all meatballs? And you'll be like, well, okay. My favorite

29:00

my favorite line that got thrown out in

29:02

this episode was uh I

29:05

might be quoting it a little bit wrong, but

29:07

it was like what happened to

29:09

that shaken not stirred bravado? Hmm

29:13

It's it's something bryce yells at uh

29:15

shell shell. Yeah, or don't don't lose

29:18

that shaken not stirred bravado something like

29:20

that Jonathan's

29:22

like I have no memory of writing this line. I'm too tired. Where is

29:24

that? No way. Yeah. Where is it? Where is

29:26

that? Shaken not stirred bravado now? Yeah,

29:28

that's it. That's it Shaken

29:33

I bet that's also something fun in this episode

29:35

getting to see the interactions between bryce

29:37

and shell at this point where it's like You

29:42

know, he is more emotionally attached to

29:44

her and willing to share that to do is run

29:46

away with his lady It's

29:48

the post coital Energy

29:52

You know what and

34:00

just get killed in the corner. But I'd survive for most

34:02

of it, I think. Listen, he would not

34:04

survive because there's not real coffee on Mars. Oh,

34:06

that's true. You'd be drinking the algae or whatever.

34:08

So, Rock, he's bringing it, Tiffany. He should have

34:10

seen it like me. He brought it, yeah, he brought it with

34:13

him. Panisters of instant coffee, too. I don't even need water,

34:15

I just put it in my gums. That's true.

34:17

Like it's dip, like a pack of dip. Yeah,

34:20

packy dip. Well, you

34:22

know those domes also have tight spaces. So as

34:24

a fellow short king, I'm just saying, I think

34:27

they might need us in maintenance. Okay, so, yeah.

34:29

Yeah, exactly. All right, last

34:31

question. Would you, Alexander,

34:33

ever live on Mars? Well,

34:36

I think that would really have to

34:39

take into consideration the situation on Earth. You know,

34:41

it's like, I feel like I have a job

34:43

to do here. We all have jobs to do,

34:46

and we have to take care of each other. If it's

34:48

like an escapist kind of thing, I'd want to fight. I'd

34:51

want to like love my fellow human and my

34:53

family and friends. But if it's like

34:55

for vibing or like establishing a new colony, then yeah,

34:57

I would go. For vibing, I

34:59

would totally live on Mars for vibes. Why

35:01

not? For vibes? Yeah, why not? This

35:04

is what like the most realistically thought

35:06

out answer that anyone has had on

35:08

this show. If it were

35:10

to escape, no, because I would want to

35:12

love people here. But for vibes,

35:14

yeah. Yeah, I mean, there'll be stuff going on, like who's really

35:16

going to Mars? It's like the people who got the

35:18

funds for it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah,

35:20

for sure. Okay, this is not part of the- I agree, we're going

35:22

to never- Yeah, hold on. This is not part

35:25

of the Exile Rapulace. I just have to ask this

35:27

question because I have no idea what this means in

35:29

chat. And I'm just really interested to see what this

35:31

answer is. But Simplexus is asking

35:33

us to ask you about your

35:35

boy dinner. Oh my

35:37

God. Oh, yes.

35:40

So, well, I call it dog food for

35:42

boys. What?

35:46

It's essentially what it is,

35:48

is a perfectly thought

35:51

out macronutrient considered

35:53

meal that is

35:55

effectively gruel. So

35:58

I have my ricin bean. I

36:00

have my tofu scramble, I have some veggies,

36:03

and I just, you know, like I have a tube

36:05

of, or a tub of super firm

36:07

tofu that I just crushed in my hands, so

36:09

it becomes crumbled. Obviously I wash my hands. I

36:12

put it all in the, in the wok

36:14

there. I throw some peas, I microwave frozen

36:16

peas and some spinach, a little miso, and

36:19

yeah, and then I stir it all up and

36:21

it's got some good macros for, for

36:24

carbs, fats and proteins. And

36:26

when I'm in a rush and you know, I

36:28

don't want to really think about what I'm going

36:30

to cook. That's a quick little boy dinner that

36:32

I got there, which is dog food for boys.

36:34

TM available on a factory. Please

36:37

tell me it's called the roll

36:39

with two U's and an oomlot.

36:41

It's better now. Yeah. I

36:43

have to say when we know,

36:45

when you know, if you know

36:48

who Jeff Torres is, who

36:50

is who connected us with Alexander, that

36:53

dinner makes so much sense. Yeah. They're

36:55

like, they're basically

36:57

the same human. And this is why I think I

36:59

would survive on Mars too. Cause I'm okay with boy

37:01

dinner with dog. How is that not the food that

37:04

you wanted to bring? Yeah. That should have been part

37:06

of it. Yeah. But that's too much. I said one

37:08

food and I thought I was pushing it with the

37:10

rice and beans. But grill, you could just say grill

37:12

with two with an oomlot and then that would count.

37:15

This is specific. This is specific boy dog food. Yeah.

37:17

Yeah. Is this how they taught you to eat at

37:19

Brown? No. Well, this

37:21

is no actualize. I've transcended

37:23

the need for nutrients on a day to

37:25

day. I'm now I'm just like ingesting this

37:28

and the dude in the universe, you know,

37:30

spikes junkyard dogs was a evenly balanced

37:33

spikes are the best. But okay. Listen,

37:35

we can make fun of Alexander as

37:37

much as we want, but we all

37:39

did Google you right before we came

37:42

on that show. And let's

37:44

just say the pictures that showed up. It's

37:47

all abs. It's mostly abs. Literally

37:50

the number one photo. So whatever

37:52

you're eating, just keep eating it. It seems to

37:54

be doing well. There you go. Don't

37:57

put for boy. If you want to see some ads.

38:00

If you want to try this, maybe we should take that

38:02

a game, count the abs. Yeah, it used

38:04

to be eight, but I kind of been, you know,

38:06

I let myself go. It's not just a six pack,

38:08

unfortunately. You

38:11

know, that's how you know

38:13

you fall off, man. And I

38:15

have six abs. I know, don't make fun of me.

38:17

I know it's really bad. When

38:20

building the villages in the Congo.

38:23

Right. Right. You

38:26

need to remain fit. Fit, you do. That's

38:28

why I, you know. Well,

38:30

all of you were drinking two bottles of

38:32

wine during lockdown. I was saving the world

38:34

on my highly caffeinated boy dinner. Yeah,

38:37

it donated two abs to a child in

38:39

the rainforest. Why I have six instead of

38:41

eight. Yeah. Sorry guys, I have to do it.

38:44

So I'm doing, I'm showing them. Oh, you're showing

38:46

them the abs? Wait, that's

38:48

actually not a great photo. I have better lighting, a

38:51

better one. Oh, God. What? Oh, man. What?

38:54

Oh, man. This is not a

38:56

great photo he says. Okay,

38:58

you know what? Then put my face on it. How

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about that? You have more, you have

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more abs than any of the rest

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of us on the screen. No, we

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all have abs. That's all of us put together.

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Then all of us put together, you have more

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abs. It's literally your first photo. I guess so.

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I mean, I didn't put the SEO on that.

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So I think that's just what the world wants.

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This only gets better. This

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is so good. Jonathan, why are you crying, Jonathan?

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Yes. That was informative. Jonathan's like, all I want to do

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is go to bed. Yeah, he's

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got to put this other episode

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together on Friday. Yeah, well,

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it is that time. I think there's no better way

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to go out than this. So it's time to wrap

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We'll be back in two weeks. So

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