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because this book has everything.

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I wrote down just some

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of the highlights here. We

0:42

got goblin hunts. We got

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Jaeger bombs. We have bad

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guys who are very heritage

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foundation coding. Yes, the whole

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thing set in a bisexual

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castle dungeon. Yes. There's a

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multiple personality Scooby-Doo gang that

0:57

is running around fighting gilded

0:59

age lesbian ghosts. M.A. Furries

1:01

who were all trying to

1:03

live through COVID. Yeah. Yeah.

1:05

That's the book. That's the

1:07

book. Welcome to Too

1:09

Many Tabs. That's right. We're

1:12

here. And it's a podcast.

1:14

We're here. Where are we? We're in the studio.

1:17

What? I know. Look at us. We have

1:19

a curtain. I hope you're looking at YouTube.

1:21

Because we have a backdrop. Look at this

1:23

curtain. We steamed it. Look at us. And

1:25

you know what? Usually this is a

1:27

podcast. For the last three years. Yeah.

1:30

Mrs. Pig. This has been a podcast

1:32

where a husband and wife duo sit

1:34

across from each other at a desk.

1:36

Yep. But not anymore. No, we sit

1:38

next to each other. Next to each

1:40

other at a table. Uh-huh. And what

1:43

do we do when we're at this

1:45

table? Often, one of us will look

1:47

up interesting information on the internet and

1:50

share it with the other one. But

1:52

sometimes. Every once in a

1:54

month. Mrs. Prommania reads a book. And

1:56

then she tells me all about that

1:58

book. Right here. Oh, Mrs. Pease

2:01

Book Club! Mrs.

2:03

Pease Book Club, part

2:06

of, too many tabs!

2:08

Too many frauds

2:10

and too many

2:12

scammers that we

2:14

wish weren't real.

2:16

Too many combs

2:18

and too many

2:20

spammers. And we're

2:22

starting to feel

2:24

like we've got

2:26

too many times.

2:29

Your dancing was incredible. I

2:31

did get nervous. You're going

2:33

to break my booklight. I

2:36

was very sorry. Oh, yeah, your booklights

2:38

in here. I know. This is

2:40

my favorite booklight. If I was

2:42

ever to do an Amazon link,

2:44

it'd be to that book. Because

2:46

look at it. It's so slim. And

2:48

when you pull out the butt, that's

2:50

where the USB is. Boom. Oh, my

2:52

God. It's so slim and light. If

2:55

we weren't all in the middle of

2:57

60,000 boycotts. Well now the new one's

2:59

the Ben and Jerry's one. Unilever.

3:01

Yeah Unilever and Ben and

3:03

Jerry's. Yep. Whatever. This isn't

3:05

about that. This isn't about that.

3:08

This isn't a politics podcast. We

3:10

don't talk about politics here. Now,

3:12

what we do. We often do.

3:14

And we talked about politics on

3:16

our patron exclusive podcast. The warm-up.

3:18

Oh my God, it was a

3:20

great episode. We just posted. But

3:23

I just want to start out

3:25

by just, you know, yes, this

3:27

is the new studio. You are

3:29

seeing us on a new studio.

3:31

Adrian from over the years over

3:33

at Pearl Mania 500.net because you

3:35

guys have been investing in the

3:37

show we've been able to put

3:39

investment back into the show itself

3:42

to make a better show to make

3:44

better content for you guys. Yeah

3:46

exactly and so much so is

3:48

that we've now actually been able

3:50

to hire a producer. That's right

3:53

baby we're not alone in this

3:55

room anymore. There's another person

3:57

here monitoring our behavior.

3:59

It's his job to stare at

4:01

us. It is. I'm paying him to

4:04

stare at us. Uh-oh. But you know

4:06

what? You know, he is. He's Mr.

4:08

Pro, our producer. And he's helping us

4:10

a lot. And the big thing, the

4:12

big difference for those you guys who

4:14

don't know is for the last three

4:16

years. This podcast started, as we said

4:19

on the warm up, it started off

4:21

with my very old Obama-era desktop desktop

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computer and a. a plug-in USB snowball

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mic. That we shared. That we shared.

4:27

And every couple months, we have bought

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lighting, cameras. And we've been upgrading slowly

4:34

on a bunch of different stuff. But

4:36

now we've finally got to a point

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where we could take a very big

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leap. And we just want to say

4:42

thank you to everybody who's joined us

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at Pearl Mania 500.net and supporting us

4:46

and all those different things. Thank you,

4:49

thank you, thank you. That being said,

4:51

this is a book club club episode,

4:53

this is always, which is always longer,

4:55

which is always longer. which means there

4:57

will be no shout-outs at the end

4:59

of this episode. So if you have

5:02

already signed up and you're waiting for

5:04

your shout-out, next week's episode will be

5:06

where you'll hear that. It's gonna be

5:08

a banger. It's gonna be a banger?

5:10

Next week. Yeah, well, do you know

5:12

what your topic is next week? No.

5:14

Well, that's one thing that's nice though,

5:17

is now, now that you are, that

5:19

I'm not. having to do as much

5:21

of the off screen lifting. Yeah. We

5:23

can start to concentrate more on having

5:25

fun on screen. Well, we've been having

5:27

fun. Oh, we've been having fun. Oh,

5:29

we've been having fun. But there's been

5:32

a little. Now you just look handsome.

5:34

That's right. The color of the lights

5:36

makes you look very handsome. I looked

5:38

at the old one. You've never been,

5:40

your hair has never been more vibrant.

5:42

Well, I took a shower. That's right.

5:45

You wanna get started? Yeah, with that,

5:47

we're gonna go ahead and get started.

5:49

Wherever we start with this break, we'll

5:51

come right back. And Mrs. P. is

5:53

gonna tell us all about this incredible

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we're back. Are you ready? I

7:03

am ready to dive into some

7:05

literature. Literature today. So you're going

7:07

to tell me all about one

7:09

of us knows. A thriller. A

7:11

thriller. A thriller. Not at Ookie

7:13

Spookies. Okay. And had a little

7:15

touch at Ookie Spookies, but not

7:17

too much. Well, I'm excited that

7:19

it's not ghosts. Well, I'm excited

7:21

that it's not ghosts. Okay. So

7:23

let's get started. Okay. in the

7:25

book itself was a content warning.

7:27

So I wanted to honor the

7:29

book and read the content warning.

7:31

It says, content warning, physical violence,

7:33

references to self-harm, misogyny, abelism, racism,

7:35

and sexual assault. Okay. Okay, so

7:38

that was on the first page.

7:40

As we opened the book, the

7:42

chapter opens with what's called the

7:44

Group Think Collaborative Journal. And I

7:46

said, what the hell is that?

7:48

What it is is a list

7:50

of personalities. So I'm going to

7:52

read to you the personalities and

7:54

I actually printed you out the

7:56

list You did I have because

7:58

you might need it as we

8:00

go through this story. So there's

8:02

Della. Her role is a manager,

8:04

caretaker. She's 65 years old. She

8:06

goes by she, her pronouns, and

8:08

she is currently active. Okay. There's

8:10

Solomon. His role is assistant manager.

8:12

He is 30 years old. He

8:14

him pronouns, active. Empress is a

8:16

teenager. She's about 16 years old.

8:18

She, they, active. There's Mezmer, a

8:20

caretaker, 20 years old. She her.

8:22

She her. There's Ken, that is

8:24

Kenetria, she is the host, 37

8:26

years old, currently inactive. Lurk, chill

8:28

dude, age unknown, he him inactive.

8:30

And then there's Rapunzel who's listed

8:32

as trauma holder, question mark, age

8:34

unknown, gender unknown. Okay. So this

8:36

is the opening of the book.

8:38

That's just all it tells you,

8:40

it just tells you that right

8:42

from the get-go? Exactly. We open,

8:45

we learn these names and these,

8:47

what their roles are, and now

8:49

I'm gonna explain you why. Okay,

8:51

because it just feels like a

8:53

cast. It is a cast, actually.

8:55

Okay. So this book opens, and

8:57

we're listening to Kiki's voice, again,

8:59

she's the four-year-old. And Kiki's telling

9:01

us, that she's four years old,

9:03

and she's always going to be

9:05

four years old, inside of her

9:07

mom. with all of her headmates

9:09

like Solomon and Della and the

9:11

castle is a special place in

9:13

her inner world. Her doctor had

9:15

told her about it years ago

9:17

Dr. Reese that she is special

9:19

because they all have what's called

9:21

disassociative identity disorder. These are the

9:23

multiple personalities. Got it! So this

9:25

is a, this is a cast

9:27

list is also the multiple personalities.

9:29

Yeah, this is the cast list

9:31

of the Mind Palace. Which is

9:33

why the, the genders are actually

9:35

important. Yes. Like actually having the

9:37

pronouns. No, no, no, no. I'm

9:39

saying, I'm saying having it listed

9:41

in here. Yeah. What people who

9:43

like scream out pronouns and shit

9:45

like that. Yeah. It is important

9:47

that you understand. because the person

9:50

you're looking at is going to

9:52

have one physical body. But each

9:54

of these personalities has a different

9:56

gender. Exactly. And then like I

9:58

always think about that with pronouns

10:00

because my name's Alex. And there's

10:02

people who I've talked. I remember

10:04

when I was working about that

10:06

with pronouns because my name's Alex.

10:08

And there's people who I've talked.

10:10

I remember when I was working

10:12

at this one business and I'd

10:14

be emailing them on the phone.

10:16

And I was like, yeah, you

10:18

know, I was just I would

10:20

just sign it. Yeah. Hi, this

10:22

is Alex. They're like, ah! I

10:24

pictured like a Q 20 year

10:26

old girl. I'm like, no, no,

10:28

no, I'm the 29 year old

10:30

man. The grumpiest 30 year old

10:32

you ever met. I listen to

10:34

Bachman Turner Over Drive every day

10:36

on the way to work. Yeah.

10:38

That's what I do. So in

10:40

the castle, the Mind Palace, Solomon

10:42

lives across the hall and his

10:44

room is full of old furniture

10:46

and books. Del lives in a

10:48

room down the hall. She has

10:50

a big stained-class window with black

10:52

Jesus on it. And she prays

10:55

for us so that we don't

10:57

go to hell. This is still

10:59

Kiki explaining what everybody's rooms look

11:01

like. Lurk lives under the stairs

11:03

and his room is super messy.

11:05

Empress shares a room with Kiki.

11:07

Because she's not brave enough to

11:09

sleep alone. Mesmer's room is full

11:11

of crystals. She's always meditating because

11:13

she's trying to reach enlightenment. And

11:15

Kiki doesn't know where Ken's room

11:17

is because she went to sleep

11:19

before she could find out. But

11:21

it would probably be dark and

11:23

full of knives. So, love that.

11:25

So, so, you're Ken. Oh, well,

11:27

that's a dark room full of

11:29

knives. That's, that's like most of

11:31

your personality. Yeah, that's true. You're

11:33

not wrong. Yeah. They unlock the

11:35

door in our castle for the

11:37

tower and Rapunzel is in there

11:39

and sometimes Rapunzel screams like they're

11:41

scared but we don't know anything

11:43

about Rapunzel like I said. She

11:45

just screams every once in a

11:47

while up in the tower so

11:49

that's cool. Kiki wishes she could

11:51

let them out but she knows

11:53

she's not allowed to. We also

11:55

find out that Kiki has an

11:57

imaginary friend but everyone's like that's

12:00

a figment and veer imagination. That's

12:02

what an imaginary friend is. Wait,

12:04

so one of the multiple personalities

12:06

that lives in there has their

12:08

own imaginary friend and the other

12:10

multiple personalities say that's an imaginary

12:12

friend. It's not real. Yes. Okay.

12:14

That's that's very funny. Like that's

12:16

a very interesting. And this is

12:18

all inside of a mind palace.

12:20

Yeah. Technically the person who is

12:22

the the body. Yeah. I believe

12:24

is Kinitria. Okay, so I think

12:26

Kenetria is the base and that's

12:28

Ken. Okay, Ken who disappeared so

12:30

we don't know where Ken is.

12:32

Everybody else is running the show.

12:34

It's very funny because now. we

12:36

recorded already recorded an episode of

12:38

vibing with the food idiot that's

12:40

gonna come out next week on

12:42

the patron and in it we

12:44

talked about cooking some stuff and

12:46

I said all right now I

12:48

mean picture this in your mind

12:50

palace I started giggling yeah I

12:52

said this is gonna come back

12:54

yeah like you're like you understand

12:56

tomorrow why this is funny and

12:58

I'm like oh what and then

13:00

here we are with Lily so

13:02

the book is literally opening up

13:05

inside of an imagination Yeah, of

13:07

someone with DID, and we're meeting

13:09

all their personalities, and the four-year-old

13:11

is explaining it to us. So

13:13

chapter one, we come to, so

13:15

it's like, think of like when

13:17

you wake up from a blackout

13:19

drunk, we come to, and we

13:21

are Ken, and we're the missing

13:23

Ken, we're awake, and she is

13:25

hosting this body, and she's like,

13:27

what the fuck, where am I,

13:29

how did I get here, why

13:31

the fuck am I here? What,

13:33

when did I get here, right?

13:35

So she just wakes up in

13:37

this body and she's like, I

13:39

don't understand, what, where am I?

13:41

And she's standing on a dock,

13:43

the windy sea water's blowing in

13:45

her face, she doesn't know how

13:47

she got there, how long she's

13:49

been there, or why she's there,

13:51

and she's fucking pissed. And we

13:53

learned that she's been running away

13:55

from her, right? nuggets of dopamine

13:57

in the form of drinks, drugs,

13:59

dicks and dildos." End quote. All

14:01

right. Incredible. That's before she found

14:03

out that the void was actually

14:05

full of a bunch of other

14:07

people living in a castle in

14:09

her mind. So she's doing the

14:12

4D. The 4D. Yeah, drinks, drugs,

14:14

dicks and dildos. Okay, as one

14:16

does. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's playing

14:18

4D chess. Playing for a digest.

14:20

I'm gonna let me I'm gonna

14:22

castle my king over here. Oh

14:24

boy. Hey Other people in the

14:26

castle either hate Ken or are

14:28

scared of her and as she's

14:30

coming to she has a flashback

14:32

to standing above a body covered

14:34

in blood and it's her ex-boyfriend

14:36

Landon's dad and the smell in

14:38

her mind is of going to

14:40

jail and then being put in

14:42

the psych ward so it's like

14:44

she comes to she's on this

14:46

dock next to water she's like

14:48

hasn't been in this body for

14:50

so long and her immediate flashback

14:52

is her standing over a bloody

14:54

body now when you said she's

14:56

standing on a dock because the

14:58

first chapter when we open they're

15:00

inside the mine palace yeah is

15:02

the dock the real world okay

15:04

so she is at the actual

15:06

real ocean and now she's having

15:08

flashbacks of the last time she

15:10

was actually present in her own

15:12

body. Exactly. Okay. And she says,

15:14

this is another direct quote, after

15:17

she has this flashback of the

15:19

psych ward and this bloody body,

15:21

she says, a sig would be

15:23

nice, a yagre bomb nicer. Yeah.

15:25

Yeah. Yeah. That's right. So she's

15:27

looking at her surroundings and trying

15:29

to figure out where she is,

15:31

right? I wouldn't. I'm still caught.

15:33

I'm caught on this. I know.

15:35

He would be. If I had

15:37

to choose, I'd go SIG over

15:39

Yagerbaum. You would. If I woke

15:41

up and didn't know where I've

15:43

been or how long I've been

15:45

out, I'd want to SIG and

15:47

I think. Yeah. I don't think

15:49

a Yagerbaum. I don't think a

15:51

Yagerbaum would help. No, it doesn't

15:53

help you think. It doesn't help

15:55

you think. Yeah. I don't think

15:57

it would give me any processing

15:59

time. I think it

16:01

would only really give me... Energy

16:03

to get to thinking. No, I

16:05

think it would probably give me

16:08

the opportunity to black out again.

16:10

No, more blacking out. Yeah. So

16:12

she's looking at her surroundings and

16:14

trying to figure out where she

16:16

is, right? And she looks down

16:18

and there's a pretty pink suitcase

16:20

next to her and she's wearing

16:22

pretty matching pink loafers and she

16:24

realizes that this means Della was

16:26

probably the last one fronting because

16:29

that's very her style. And Della

16:31

is the 65 year old administrator

16:33

who is a manager caretaker who

16:35

prays for them and has black

16:37

Jesus thingless windows in her room.

16:39

Okay. She also realizes that her

16:41

body is a lot thinner than

16:43

last time that she was a

16:45

front and this concerns her because

16:47

she doesn't know how long she's

16:49

been away asleep not part of

16:52

it like enough to lose this

16:54

much body fat is concerning to

16:56

her because she's much thinner yeah

16:58

so usually she'd only go about

17:00

a month or so without taking

17:02

her turn being a front so

17:04

this is concerning right so while

17:06

she's standing there she thinks that

17:08

she is at the Hudson River

17:10

Right, so she's like looking around,

17:13

she's like, I think that's New

17:15

York skyline. I think I'm standing

17:17

at a dock on the Hudson

17:19

River. And another voice comes from

17:21

the back of her head, reassuring

17:23

her that she is correct. This

17:25

is the Hudson River. And it's

17:27

Solomon, who apparently she has like

17:29

a sexy emotional relationship with in

17:31

her mind, because again, he's a

17:34

separate person. And they ended it

17:36

though, because Ken is an asshole.

17:38

Got it. So there there's a

17:40

imagine being such a dick that

17:42

you can't even You can't even

17:44

have a relationship with yourself. Yeah

17:46

inside your own You're like I

17:48

suck Yeah, Solomon informs her that

17:50

she's been dormant for six years.

17:52

Whoa in the moment she gets

17:54

as he says this to her

17:57

she gets a notification from a

17:59

smartwatch that strapped her wrist that

18:01

says reminder today nude job new

18:03

start on life and she's like

18:05

what the fuck okay I have

18:07

a question in this book does

18:09

it give us a time frame

18:11

of like what year it is

18:13

or is it just kind of

18:15

say present day um you'll know

18:18

immediately as let me go a

18:20

little bit further okay so she's

18:22

wearing a fanny pack and she

18:24

starts going through the fanny pack

18:26

I need to tell you something

18:28

sometimes when I'm writing these episodes

18:30

in order to save time I

18:32

use the voice the text feature

18:34

in the Google Doc in the

18:36

Google Doc Sensors, certain words. So

18:39

like every time I say, fuck,

18:41

it blanks it out. It's just

18:43

like star signs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

18:45

And for some reason, it starred

18:47

out Fannie Pack. It says she's

18:49

wearing a blank pack, so she

18:51

starts going through the blank pack.

18:53

Well, it's because he's in Britain.

18:55

He's a fanny. In Britain, no

18:57

fanny is the good coach. Yeah,

18:59

so apparently Fanny pack. A little

19:02

bit of moth. She's digging through

19:04

her fanny pack, and she finds

19:06

the cell phone, and she finds

19:08

a travel notebook, a tactical mask.

19:10

And she finds the phone and

19:12

swipes it open and there's a

19:14

picture as a screen saver and

19:16

it's a drawn picture of everyone

19:18

in the system. It's like a

19:20

almost like a child's drawing if

19:23

not a little bit better that

19:25

somebody took a picture of and

19:27

it's all of the people in

19:29

the mind palace. Okay, it's all

19:31

the personalities. And so this is

19:33

going to be a helpful descriptor

19:35

so you can help picture who

19:37

they are, right? So there's Ken

19:39

and she's wearing a black mesh

19:41

tank top and jeans and jeans

19:44

and Doc moch Martins. She's holding

19:46

Kiki on her Kiki on her

19:48

hip. Mesmer has short orange curly

19:50

hair and she's the only white

19:52

person in the system and Ken

19:54

says quote though she's a ginger

19:56

so maybe that's explain how explains

19:58

how she got in. Uh, okay.

20:00

Lurk wears an oversized gray hoodie

20:02

and baggy jeans. Okay. No one

20:05

knows what he looks like because

20:07

his hood is always covering his

20:09

face. Empress is short and mid-sized

20:11

wearing a t-shirt with hulk on

20:13

it. Denham shorts and high top

20:15

rebox. And she has corn road

20:18

teal hair that compliments her very

20:20

dark skin. Now, Della. This is

20:22

a quote from the book because

20:24

I don't feel it's appropriate for

20:27

me to say this Della is

20:29

described as high yellow and bird-framed

20:31

and dressed for Easter service. Okay.

20:33

Okay, and Solomon has an immaculate

20:36

wave pattern in his hair. He's

20:38

wearing a tailored white button-up

20:40

shirt, dark dental jeans,

20:42

and small round glasses perched on

20:44

his nose. Okay. So now we have

20:47

an idea of what everybody looks

20:49

like. They're all very different. Yeah.

20:51

They're all very different. Yeah. They're

20:53

all very different. Yeah. They're all

20:55

very different. Yeah. They're all very

20:57

different names. Empress Mesmer Kiki and

20:59

like looking at it now and

21:02

like her name is Ken Kinetria

21:04

yeah and like looking at him

21:06

like oh yeah these are black

21:08

names yes but it just didn't

21:10

dawn on me and it was just

21:12

one of those until you started describing

21:14

each individual personality I'm like oh this

21:17

is a black we're living inside the

21:19

head of a black woman multiple personality

21:21

disorder yes and I'm like oh that's okay but

21:23

in the when I was first reading it I

21:25

just was like I bet she has purple hair.

21:27

She just, one of them does. I

21:30

know, no, but the personality says

21:32

purple hair. I know, no, no,

21:34

but I was picturing more of

21:36

cyberpunk. Yeah. That sort of like,

21:38

oh, or like hacker type of

21:40

thing. Yes. And it's like racially

21:42

ambiguous. And then you're like, no,

21:44

no, no, no, no, no. There's

21:46

only one white person in this

21:48

head and they're ginger. She

21:50

only got in because she's

21:53

ginger. Got it. You know

21:55

what? I've definitely pined for

21:58

at least two of the

22:00

people before. Before I met you,

22:02

I've definitely, when I was out

22:04

and I was going hard, I

22:06

definitely pined for at least two

22:08

of these personalities. I refuse to

22:10

tell you which ones. It's lurk.

22:12

So there's a boat. So there's

22:14

a boat. So there's a boat

22:17

approaching. Lurk is a crazy. It

22:19

looks crazy. He lives under the

22:21

staircase. What do you do? I

22:23

lurk. I'm lurking. So there's a

22:25

boat approaching the dock approaching the

22:27

dock. towards Ken. Okay. And she's

22:29

starting to panic because she's like,

22:31

the fuck is going on. And

22:33

she starts kind of like internally

22:35

screaming into the mine castle to

22:38

Della. Like you need to come

22:40

out and handle this. Whatever you

22:42

done, you need to come handle

22:44

this. And so she's screaming internally

22:46

and for Della, and Della's not

22:48

answering. And all the other men,

22:50

nobody else is answering either. But.

22:52

Everybody there starts being like, why

22:54

isn't Della answering? Okay, that's not

22:57

a good sign. Yeah. Where's Della?

22:59

So the next chapter is super

23:01

short. It's just a pull from

23:03

the group Think Journal, where Solomon

23:05

is writing today. So the group

23:07

Think Journal is they kind of

23:09

are using an app on their

23:11

phone to journal, and then each

23:13

other when they front, they're like,

23:15

oh. This is what Della said.

23:18

Oh, this was so it's how

23:20

they're keeping track. It's the memento

23:22

tattoos. Exactly, but on their phone.

23:24

Yeah. So we get to some

23:26

of the chapters are just looks

23:28

into the group thing journal. Gotcha.

23:30

That's a that's a cool device.

23:32

I met a man last year

23:34

who is schizophrenic and actually his

23:37

phone is how he when he's

23:39

having. Not a tax, but like

23:41

when he's having his moments. Yeah.

23:43

His phone is how he knows

23:45

what's a hallucination and what isn't.

23:47

Yeah. Because for some reason when

23:49

he holds his phone up and

23:51

he looks at the screen, he'll

23:53

see like a person in front

23:55

of him. Yeah. But if he

23:58

holds up and looks at the

24:00

screen, they're not on the screen

24:02

in the camera. And there's something

24:04

like wiring in there. So there's

24:06

a lot of weird things with

24:08

tech like that. Yeah. I don't

24:10

know how it was. The next

24:12

chapter is super short. Like I

24:14

said, Solomon is writing and he's

24:17

asking, there's this person named Misty

24:19

who he's talking about and he

24:21

says that Misty is asking about

24:23

the DID. She found Kiki playing

24:25

with some vintage cabbage patch dolls

24:27

at a thrift shop and Solomon

24:29

had to explain to Misty that

24:31

they were taken into foster care

24:33

when they were three years old.

24:36

During one of those child protective

24:38

services misunderstandings that often befall young

24:40

black parents our parents Like Okay,

24:42

so anyway Della likes to get

24:44

use this opportunity to be more

24:46

isolated about what's going on Wait,

24:48

I'm very confused. Okay. Okay. So

24:50

wait wait so in the group

24:52

thing journal. Mm-hmm. There is Kiki

24:54

the four-year-old Okay, so Solomon is

24:57

writing in the journal, and he's

24:59

writing that they're talking to someone

25:01

named Misty, and I guess the

25:03

front changed in front of Misty,

25:05

and he is trying to explain

25:07

why suddenly this grown person was

25:09

behaving like a four-year-old and sitting

25:11

on the floor playing with a

25:13

cabbage patch doll. Okay. And so

25:16

he explains the Misty that when

25:18

they were younger... they got taken

25:20

into child protective services and foster

25:22

care. And that each, he's trying

25:24

to explain each person's kind of

25:26

personality trait. And he's like, don't

25:28

worry, like, Kiki's a very bubbly

25:30

and sweet and intelligent toddler. And

25:32

what happened was that when we

25:34

did make it back to our

25:37

parents. We were no longer a

25:39

sweet bubbly intelligent toddler. We were

25:41

a sullen five-year-old who preferred daydreams

25:43

to reality And the thing is

25:45

none of the people in the

25:47

mind palace Know what the trauma

25:49

is nobody knows what the trauma

25:51

is. But Solomon believes that even

25:53

the baseline of being ripped away

25:56

from your parents and put in

25:58

foster care is enough trauma. Like

26:00

they don't need any further explanation.

26:02

Solomon doesn't, is like, we don't

26:04

need any explanation. That's enough. So

26:06

anyway, I wrote this poorly, you're

26:08

right. But let's take a break.

26:10

Okay. Because I feel like we

26:12

have to digest a lot of

26:14

information. Yeah, there's a lot there

26:17

that just happened, and we're taking

26:19

it all in. Yeah. And so

26:21

that's, this is part of no,

26:23

one of us knows, a thriller

26:25

by Alyssa Cole, and I feel

26:27

like the thriller parts coming up

26:29

soon. Oh. I'm already thrilled. I

26:31

mean I'm already thrilled. I feel

26:33

like we're learning a lot about

26:36

Ken and the person. Ken just

26:38

woke up on a dock and

26:40

there's a boat heading towards her.

26:42

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28:41

so she's still in the stock

28:43

looking at the phone. Ken, okay.

28:46

Ken is still in the doc

28:48

looking at the phone and the

28:50

group chat thing that they leave

28:52

all their notes in, their journal,

28:54

if you will. And two months

28:56

ago, Empress wrote an entry and

28:58

it said, someone canceled my subscription

29:00

to WebMax before I could watch

29:02

the finale. of the show called

29:04

The Time I fell into a

29:07

sinkhole and fell in love with

29:09

a goblin. And I'm pissed because

29:11

my furry art commissions help keep

29:13

the lights on around here. So

29:15

why does Mezberg get to burn

29:17

money playing some scammer for emotional

29:19

genotyping? But I can't see if

29:21

Suta returns to high school in

29:23

the human realm or chooses to

29:25

be his goblin wife. And that

29:28

was Empress? Okay, got it. So

29:30

Empress is a furry artist who's

29:32

super into anime? Yeah. All right.

29:34

Yeah. Book rules? All right. She

29:36

keeps scrolling through and she... finds

29:38

out in the journal that they

29:40

had received an eviction notice and

29:42

that they had fallen behind on

29:44

rent and she is mad because

29:46

she loved that apartment and there's

29:48

a note from Della saying that

29:51

she was contacted by an organization

29:53

called the Kavanaugh Island Conservation Trust.

29:55

They're restoring a historic home on

29:57

the island on an island in

29:59

the Hudson River and looking for

30:01

a caretaker for the winter may...

30:03

longer if things go well. Apparently

30:05

one of us in the Mind

30:07

Palace. Ken Solomon, question mark submitted

30:09

an application a few years back

30:12

and they thought they checked to

30:14

see if they were still interested

30:16

and now there's an opening It's

30:18

free room and board plus a

30:20

monthly stipend and basic health care.

30:22

Oh and Della is excited about

30:24

this opportunity Because she likes that

30:26

she's going to be a little

30:28

bit more isolated with everything that's

30:30

going on in the world. There's

30:33

one big stipulation is that you

30:35

have to spend one night on

30:37

the island before the job becomes

30:39

official. Apparently it's a tradition. Okay.

30:41

Okay. So all right. So they're

30:43

hitting her with the Scooby-Doo. Yeah.

30:45

Spend a night in the haunted

30:47

mansion. Exactly. Okay. So we got

30:49

the Scooby-Dow. Ken is reading this

30:51

and immediately suspicious. Hold on. I

30:53

love the fact that you're going

30:56

to be a, this is a

30:58

solo mystery team. Yeah. gonna walk

31:00

around and go fight and I

31:02

would have gotten away with it

31:04

too. If it wasn't for that

31:06

person with disassociative identity disorder, who

31:08

could see things through the eyes

31:10

of a child. So, immediately suspicious

31:12

and she's like, this is either

31:14

a scam or we're going to

31:17

get our organ stolen. But then

31:19

Ken remembers that she actually applied

31:21

to a bunch of caretaker jobs

31:23

years ago and likely this job.

31:25

So she asked Solomon to brief

31:27

her on what she's missed while

31:29

she was away. For six years.

31:31

And he says, it's not possible

31:33

to sum up the last six

31:35

years quickly. And he says, Trump

31:37

became president, climate disasters are an

31:40

everyday occurrence, the global rise of

31:42

fascism is rocketing like it's 1932,

31:44

the rights of women, minorities, and

31:46

queer people are being stripped away,

31:48

and there's the pandemic that killed

31:50

millions around the world and everyone

31:52

is pretending like it's over. And

31:54

she's like... Trump, fascism, pandemic. I,

31:56

okay, hold on, hold on. I

31:58

am so blown away because like

32:01

imagine going to sleep in 2015.

32:03

That's basically what happened. And that

32:05

was 2020. It's probably like late

32:07

21. I mean, it feels like

32:09

maybe early 2021. It's like 2021.

32:11

I think it's right before vaccine.

32:13

What does it? He said that

32:15

everyone's pretending it's over. Oh yeah,

32:17

so maybe it's post-vaccine. And people

32:19

are like, we're not wearing masks

32:22

anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So

32:24

I mean, maybe we're like March

32:26

or April 22. That's so crazy.

32:28

What a, because there's a lot

32:30

of people would like, joked about

32:32

that, like people going into a

32:34

coma and then waking up and

32:36

having to have it. Imagine having

32:38

that explainer. Oh, it was that

32:40

lady did the Tiktaks member where

32:42

she would like look back in

32:45

time and they're like, what are

32:47

you talking about murder Hornets? Oh,

32:49

yeah, it was a girl. Yeah,

32:51

she was like every three months

32:53

she was being visited by it.

32:55

It would show herself for three

32:57

months before and she'd have to

32:59

go back. Yeah, it was a

33:01

credible. Yeah, she really kept Tiktak

33:03

together during the pandemic. Yeah, she

33:06

was a Canadian comedian actress, but

33:08

we're at war with them now.

33:10

We're at war with them? I'm

33:12

not at war with anyone. Except

33:14

for myself. We're at trade war

33:16

with Canada. I'm not at trade

33:18

war with them. Trade war with

33:20

Canada. Oh, okay, shush. So while

33:22

she's grappling with all this new

33:24

information and the realization that Del

33:27

is missing and apparently now Ken

33:29

is in charge, the boat that's

33:31

on its way towards her pulls

33:33

up and it says... Oh, she's

33:35

going to the house right now.

33:37

Oh, it's just dawn on on

33:39

me. Yeah. That's why she's why

33:41

she's at the dock. She's at

33:43

the dock. That's at the dock.

33:45

Oh my god, oh my, imagine?

33:47

Okay, imagine, you're like, what's going

33:50

on? Trump is president, a million

33:52

people died, fascism and rights are

33:54

gone. I have to go to

33:56

an island for my new job?

33:58

That's what's happening. And the boat

34:00

pulls up and it says, Captain

34:02

John's Island Tours. Okay.

34:05

So the next chapter. This is incredible.

34:07

This is a note in the collaborative

34:09

journal showing that five years ago, Ken

34:11

was dismissed from her master's of arts

34:13

and historic preservation program and barred from

34:16

future enrollment at the college because of

34:18

an attack she did on her ex-boyfriend's

34:20

father. So again, she went to school

34:22

for this. This was her master's program,

34:24

but she got kicked out because of

34:26

she had she went to jail and

34:28

a psych ward. Yeah. And the captain

34:31

of the little boat, his name is

34:33

John, his vibes are very weird. Very

34:35

weird. Well, yeah, he's a boat guy

34:37

in New York. Yeah. I'm just gonna

34:39

throw it out there. Anybody who is

34:41

boat people north of Philly, I don't

34:43

trust. I don't trust New England boat

34:46

people. I don't trust New England boat

34:48

people. I don't want you to get

34:50

up to Canadian boat people. I listen.

34:52

I'm gonna say this boat people, I'm

34:54

on your side. But I don't trust

34:56

boat people. I've been saying this for

34:59

years. I want to become a lake

35:01

person. I want to hang out with

35:03

boat people. And it disgusts me. I

35:05

think liberals need to take over boat

35:07

culture. Because every time I try to

35:09

make a boat friend, they're really weird

35:11

and Trumpy, and they all have Trump

35:14

flags on their boats. Yeah. I need.

35:16

It's part of their thing. Liberal boat

35:18

people. Nobody has a boat that isn't

35:20

thinking about how they can use their

35:22

boat to get rid of something. Mainly

35:24

evidence. people take boats and they take

35:26

it out and then they always know

35:29

where a slip stream is or something

35:31

and they throw a body just want

35:33

a pontoon boat with a sliding board

35:35

I don't know that's a different type

35:37

of boat that's a different type of

35:39

boat that's all I want but you

35:41

don't drink yeah pontoon boats are for

35:44

drinking I went on a pontoon boat

35:46

for a whole day I didn't have

35:48

any drinks well I know I went

35:50

on it for a day you can

35:52

pre-son you went okay you went on

35:54

a pontoon boat every weekend because I

35:56

don't have a Pondu vote friend. Anyway,

35:59

so the cat... in this little boat,

36:01

his name is John, vibes are bad.

36:03

They start heading over the island. The

36:05

water is really rough, it's windy, choppy,

36:07

the weather sucks. He tells her there's

36:09

a storm coming. And... See, that's creepy

36:11

boat people's shit. That's really creepy boat

36:14

people's shit. That's creepy boat people's shit.

36:16

This is creepy boat captain. When ever...

36:18

Creepy boat captain is different than boat

36:20

people. Okay, that's true. I'll give you

36:22

that. creepy boat captain. They're going, there's

36:24

a storm of brewing. There's a storm

36:26

of brewing. And then he implies, uh,

36:29

pretty overtly that he doesn't think she

36:31

is the type of person that would

36:33

take this job. in a pretty rude

36:35

way. Yeah. And we're going to read

36:37

some racism into that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

36:39

So we learned some more old lore

36:42

about the island from John about how

36:44

they used to host goblin hunts there.

36:46

And when they finally make it to

36:48

the island, that feels anti-Semitic. I'm going

36:50

to throw that out there. They hunt

36:52

the goblins. Yeah, we're hunting the goblins.

36:54

And they finally make it in the

36:57

Hudson River. And it's not a mansion,

36:59

it's a fucking castle, it's a real

37:01

castle, okay? It's a big castle and

37:03

she's gonna be the caretaker for it.

37:05

But the thing is, as she bears

37:07

witness and she sees this castle, while

37:09

she's on the boat putting towards it,

37:12

this castle is an exact replica of

37:14

the castle in her mind palace. It's

37:16

the same fucking castle that's in her

37:18

mind where everybody lives. And she's never

37:20

seen this castle before. So when she

37:22

sees it, she can't even breathe. She's

37:24

like, what the fuck is going on?

37:27

Yeah. Next chapter is another note from

37:29

the collaborative journal, okay? And this one's

37:31

from Empress. And she's posting about how

37:33

this system that they all talk to

37:35

and how they communicate with each other.

37:37

Okay, here's thing Empress is posting in

37:39

the journal about how Empress is the

37:42

16 year old that's in the anime

37:44

and is a furry yard Yes, so

37:46

want to be clear. Empress is posting

37:48

in the system about how they all

37:50

communicate and what the castle's like and

37:52

who lives there and blah and it's

37:54

her out she made this public and

37:57

then there's an edited note from Solomon

37:59

being like did you post this on

38:01

a public forum without consent if you're

38:03

going to do that you need to

38:05

change our names and identifying information and

38:07

Empress is like sorry I didn't think

38:09

about that because I have so many

38:12

friends on the subreddit. Back in the

38:14

boat with weird guy John. And we

38:16

learn even more lore about the castle.

38:18

The guy who owned it, Kavanaugh. He

38:20

built it for his wife Grace. We

38:22

find out that Grace may have been

38:25

a bisexual or lesbian and her husband

38:27

did not like that. So we put

38:29

her on an island. Literally. The next

38:31

set and says this castle was his

38:33

way of protecting her from these things.

38:35

And the people she was surrounding herself

38:37

with. If you have to protect your

38:40

bisexual wife from kissing ladies, it's not

38:42

going well. Inside their mind, Solomon and

38:44

Empress and Kiki are still trying to

38:46

figure out where Della is. Okay, so

38:48

while she's like talking to John, there's

38:50

a whole other meeting going on in

38:52

the castle. Subb plot, subb plot, where

38:55

is Della? We can't find her. Anybody,

38:57

check all the rooms. So they're pulling

38:59

up to the island and hitched about

39:01

to the new dock. And Ken is

39:03

really stressed, right? Like clenched butt hole

39:05

stress. Of course. But she feels a

39:07

sense of relief, not release, relief when

39:10

they pull up because she sees another

39:12

person standing there, another black woman. Okay.

39:14

And she immediately like relaxes admit. She's

39:16

like, oh, okay. Again, John's vibe's bad.

39:18

on an island, another black woman, feeling

39:20

safe, er, safe, er, safe, er, we

39:22

find out that this is the island

39:25

supervisor who John had been describing as

39:27

scary and mean. So this woman's name

39:29

is Celeste and Celeste's like, give me

39:31

her bag. She's not friendly. She's actually

39:33

pretty rude. She's like, come on, I

39:35

gotta get you to your room, it's

39:37

gonna rain. And so, Celeste and John

39:40

are... not nice to each other. They

39:42

don't have a nice interaction. Celes seems

39:44

familiar and like they just kind of

39:46

like look at each other and have

39:48

like this sense of knowing but it

39:50

could just be that normal sense of

39:53

knowing in like a weird situation. And

39:55

as there's a lot of dialogue as

39:57

they're getting up to the castle to

39:59

the room, the caretakers quarters where Celes

40:01

is taking them. And we find out

40:03

that Celes has a criminal background and

40:05

that she is part of a program

40:08

to help people get jobs. And they

40:10

have to climb a lot of stairs

40:12

to get up to the castle. And

40:14

Ken is basically wheezing at the halfway

40:16

point because she's so out of shape.

40:18

Again, because her body is so different

40:20

than what it used to be. Also,

40:23

Ken is flirting with Celeste a lot.

40:25

She's trying very hard to flirt with

40:27

her. And Celesta is being trapped. in

40:29

a bisexual castle and while being led

40:31

into it is like, what's a bisexual

40:33

castle? What's going on? You want to

40:35

try some 4D? And she's like, no.

40:38

No, here's your fucking bag. I'm leaving.

40:40

Not my job. It reminds me very

40:42

much of, you know, it reminds me

40:44

of the HR lady from Matlock. Because

40:46

we finally started watching Matlock. We did

40:48

start watching Matlock. The new Matlock. Yeah,

40:50

the new Matlock. It's incredible. It's actually,

40:53

it's pretty good. Don't like the kid,

40:55

but the rest of it's good. Yeah.

40:57

But the, um, I just like, that's

40:59

how I feel. Like, I don't know

41:01

how old Celeste, Celeste feels like an

41:03

older name. Yeah. But Celeste is also

41:05

like, like, oh, incredible. My job is

41:08

to sign you in. Yeah, I do

41:10

this job over here. Yeah, I don't

41:12

do your job. Yeah, I don't ask

41:14

me any questions. Yeah, yeah, no follow-ups.

41:16

So she's in this little apartment off

41:18

the side of the castle and um,

41:20

Celeste is basically like, this is your

41:23

room, don't ask me. questions, I'm not

41:25

HR, I'm leaving, goodbye. She says don't

41:27

go into the castle, you don't want

41:29

to slip and fall, there's no lights

41:31

right now, there's a big storm coming,

41:33

just stay in your fucking room until

41:36

tomorrow, right? And immediately as soon as

41:38

Sless leaves, which is immediately, like, like,

41:40

literally Ken turns around, it's like, hey,

41:42

where's the, you know, I don't know,

41:44

blankets, and she's on slosses in there,

41:46

she's a fucking left. But also, she's

41:48

there, she's there, she's, she's there, she's,

41:51

she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's,

41:53

she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's,

41:55

she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's,

41:57

she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's,

41:59

she's, she's Is there a vending machine?

42:01

No snacks. Are there sodas? I believe

42:03

in the start, I don't know if

42:06

I wrote it down, but literally all

42:08

she has is like cup of noodles.

42:10

The bummer. I know, that's what I'm

42:12

saying, is like there has to be

42:14

a kitchen. Or at least like... There's

42:16

a kitchen, it's not well stocked. Can

42:18

I tell you when I was doing

42:21

all that traveling last year? Whenever I

42:23

get to the hotel, I was always

42:25

like make sure I had like two

42:27

granola bars. and then even if I

42:29

didn't eat it, I still always like

42:31

bought a little bag of chips from

42:33

a vending machine. Yeah. Because I was

42:36

like, I'm gonna be a little peckish.

42:38

But also the bag of snacks I

42:40

sent you with. I know, well, there's

42:42

bag of snacks I sent me with,

42:44

but also like, I just, I need

42:46

to have. Which I do want to

42:48

point out that all I need to

42:51

point out, but also like, I just,

42:53

I need to have. Which I do

42:55

I want to point out to point

42:57

out that all the parties to set

42:59

me with, I need to set me

43:01

with, I need to set me with,

43:04

which I need to have. Which I

43:06

need to have. Which I need to

43:08

have. Which I need to have. Which

43:10

I need to have. Which I want

43:12

to have. Which I want to have.

43:14

Which I want to have. Which I

43:16

want to have. six dollars. I'm like

43:19

cliff bars. cheesy crackers, blah, blah, I'm

43:21

filling it up, candy, the whole thing,

43:23

and then you would just show up

43:25

and they're all drunk and you're like,

43:27

anybody need a snack? Yeah, chicken maple,

43:29

the chicken maple sticks. Yeah. All those

43:31

are, those are, those are big hits.

43:34

Big popular. Oh, I love a thing.

43:36

Bam, big Newton's sleeve. Bam, big Newton's

43:38

sleeve. They're just like, Promania 500, the

43:40

man who yells on the internet and

43:42

seems the angers, and they're giving out

43:44

cookies. And it was everyone, I was

43:46

the oldest person there. I was the

43:49

oldest person there and I was surrounded

43:51

by these like 20 something year old

43:53

girls and like a couple guys in

43:55

their 20s. and they're all like hot

43:57

they're all like hot people and they're

43:59

all hammered and at one point they're

44:01

like we should go up to one

44:04

of the rooms and blah blah and

44:06

I was like no we're all gonna

44:08

stay here in the lobby in public

44:10

on the cameras and we're all gonna

44:12

eat this big bag of stacks dad

44:14

energy for sure and I'll never forget

44:16

like what are the influence one of

44:19

the guys just like yeah and I

44:21

was like I don't give a shit

44:23

Everybody here is hammered. We're going to

44:25

have a nice night and tomorrow they're

44:27

all going to be so nice And

44:29

then you can text each other and

44:31

maybe you can go fuck up on

44:34

some time when I'm not here Not

44:36

fucking up in front of me kid.

44:38

Nope Have some fig newtons absorb some

44:40

of that yager. Yeah, so they didn't

44:42

have yager. Sure. Don't drink yaker. That's

44:44

the problem. That's why that's why they're

44:47

busy vaping No, they're not vapid as

44:49

much anymore. That's good. I don't want

44:51

them to vapid. So Ken immediately decides

44:53

to explore the castle. Of course. There's

44:55

like a side door from the caretaker's

44:57

room to go. So immediately she does

44:59

what she's not supposed to. Yeah, of

45:02

course. I mean, I would too. Like,

45:04

she's walking through. At the minimum. Like,

45:06

it doesn't even matter what I've, when

45:08

I go to a hotel. I can

45:10

still walk the hotel. I'm like walk

45:12

the hotel. Exactly! I need to know

45:14

these things. I want to just know,

45:17

is there a pool? Yeah, is there

45:19

a pool? Is there a pool? Is

45:21

there a pool? Is there a pool?

45:23

Like when they tell you and point

45:25

at something, I've never once gone to

45:27

stay at a place and gone just

45:29

straight to the room and closed the

45:32

door. No. That feels insane to me.

45:34

No. Because you don't know. Because you

45:36

don't know. Because it's insane to me.

45:38

No. Because you don't park. Is there

45:40

a pool? What if there's meth in

45:42

the tap water? We're getting stuff done

45:44

then. We're going to write some good

45:47

episodes. That's true. So she's walking in

45:49

the dark, mysterious, scary castle, and she

45:51

sees an apparition of a woman in

45:53

a white dress coming through the curtain.

45:55

So it's like the curtain blows in

45:57

the... wind and then like a body

45:59

forms through the curtain right and at

46:02

first she's like is it just wind

46:04

but then it like takes a human

46:06

form in a white dress and then

46:08

a huge gust of wind comes blowing

46:10

through the window like to the point

46:12

it almost knocks her over and she

46:15

goes running back in her room and

46:17

closes the door but the wind is

46:19

just pounding on the fucking door like

46:21

shaking the door off it's like

46:23

Hinges? Oh, hinges. Yeah. So that

46:25

stops eventually and she settles

46:28

back into the room and

46:30

starts to unpack her bag.

46:32

And when she's opens it,

46:34

there's a bunch of like

46:36

pregnancy tests on top. And

46:39

she's like, whoa, Della, didn't

46:41

know we had like, we

46:43

didn't know we were doing that.

46:45

But then Solomon in the

46:47

back of her mind is like,

46:49

those are COVID tests. Yeah,

46:51

when you show me your pregnancy test,

46:54

to let us know the babies on

46:56

the way, I actually said, oh, you

46:58

have COVID. You have COVID? No, you're

47:00

gonna be a dad, you moron. You

47:03

idiot. Read a book. It was a

47:05

plus or a minus. Yeah, plus COVID

47:07

minus COVID. Yeah. The next

47:09

day, Celeste comes to Czechlin

47:12

Ken and Ken's flirting with

47:14

her again. And then Empress

47:16

Fronts and Flirts even more.

47:18

And during this conversation, we

47:20

find out there's no Wi-Fi

47:22

on the island at all.

47:25

If you need to contact

47:27

somebody, you have to use the

47:29

CB radio on the second floor

47:31

in the castle. Oh, I would

47:33

go insane. You're going to put

47:35

me in a giant haunted castle.

47:37

about the ghost, you know how many views

47:39

you get on ghost content? You've seen that

47:41

Elmo balloon going up and down the stairs?

47:44

Oh yeah, where it like walks up, like

47:46

it's like a possess. A lot of views.

47:48

I did, trade or fun boppin. I gotta

47:50

tell you, I think it's in reverse. Oh

47:52

yeah, I think it's a reverse video. I think

47:54

so too. But yeah, no in general, but I

47:56

mean like not even that, it's just like, I'd

47:58

be so bored. I'd be so bored. I know. I'd

48:00

be so bored. You would be

48:02

in your mind palace panicking. This

48:04

is also before Balattro. So it's

48:06

like she doesn't even have Balattro

48:08

on her phone? People could just

48:11

play cards. She could just have

48:13

cards in front of her. No,

48:15

I need, I need, I need

48:17

a little angry joker to keep

48:19

the score for me and insult

48:21

me while I play. That's me,

48:23

that's my job. Yeah, I know,

48:25

but I don't have you, in

48:27

this case. Oh, yeah, you've gone

48:29

to an island by yourself. I'm

48:31

going to an island by myself

48:33

with my multiple personalities. Yeah. And

48:35

I'm not a deck of cards.

48:37

Not a deck of cards inside.

48:39

Not a deck of cards inside.

48:41

And all I have is a

48:43

cup of noodles. Yeah. I'm all

48:45

I have is a cup of

48:47

noodles. Yeah. Snack wife. If you

48:50

take anything away from this podcast.

48:52

Get yourself a snack wipe. You

48:54

want to take a little break?

48:56

Yeah, I do, because I want

48:58

a snack. Okay, great. All right,

49:00

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49:57

especially with the the anime loving

49:59

furry artist. Yeah, I already Empress

50:01

is my favorite character. Understandably so.

50:03

Yeah, I just I know her.

50:05

Yeah, I've met her. Yeah, absolutely.

50:08

I've been her. I've been her.

50:10

Yeah, I know you have a

50:12

whole t-shirt too. Yeah. So it's

50:14

the next day and Ken's in

50:16

the castle doing a walking around

50:18

now in the daylight. getting a

50:20

vibe, a layout vibe, right? And

50:22

she feels drawn to this one

50:24

weird door and as she gets

50:26

closer we find out that it's

50:28

the door to the tower of

50:30

the castle. So she starts walking

50:32

towards it and during this, she

50:34

also finds like little booklets of

50:36

little journals who look very old

50:38

and she believes they were written

50:40

by Grace, the wife, right? So

50:42

like old, old, old, old booklets.

50:44

And she's finding all these little

50:47

things around the castle, right? Is

50:49

it had like that gilded age?

50:51

Exactly, very gilded age. Okay, gotcha.

50:53

So we're in petty coats and

50:55

big frocks and stuff. Okay. And

50:57

she also finds a painting, which

50:59

she believes to be Grace, but

51:01

there's someone else kind of drawn

51:03

on the back of the painting.

51:05

And she can't stop staring at

51:07

this person because she looks really

51:09

familiar and she's like, who is

51:11

like, who is this person? So

51:13

she's finding all these little things

51:15

around the castle, right. And she

51:17

gets, she opens the door to

51:19

the tower and she sees a

51:21

spiral staircase that goes up it,

51:23

right? And the whole time she's

51:26

looking around, she's like, this is

51:28

the exact castle in my mind,

51:30

like the layout, everything. She's like,

51:32

this is the layout, everything. She's

51:34

like, this is crazy. And this

51:36

is Rapunzel's tower. Exactly, that's Rapunzel

51:38

tower, yeah. Who we don't know

51:40

anything about? She just screams once

51:42

in a while. Yeah. She just

51:44

opens the window and screams, and

51:46

screams, which honestly. I get, really,

51:48

really, I get. Sometimes you gotta

51:50

open the window and scream. Yeah.

51:52

So she goes up and walks

51:54

the stairs to get up there

51:56

and it smells really. and rotted

51:58

and dusty, you know how those

52:00

things smell. And there's a bunch

52:02

of like antique dusty things around

52:05

and there's an easel with paint

52:07

supplies knocked on the floor. Very

52:09

creepy, it looks like not great

52:11

things happen here. But then the

52:13

worst thing is there's a woman

52:15

standing at the window staring out

52:17

like so she sees the back

52:19

of this woman in this long

52:21

white dress with a big red

52:23

sash around her hair. And Ken

52:25

immediately is like, what the fuck

52:27

am I looking at here? What

52:29

is this? Where did she come

52:31

from? And then the woman turns

52:33

around and her face is actually

52:35

blotted out with black paint, like

52:37

almost like negative space. And the

52:39

paint is moving, right? The paint's

52:41

moving around, it's vibrating, and the

52:44

paint is dripping down. So it's

52:46

like, all this movement on a

52:48

still body. And it's making noise

52:50

like, yeah. And the woman starts

52:52

screaming out of the void. So

52:54

just like a scream comes out

52:56

of the void. And she's screaming,

52:58

you promised. You promised. And Ken

53:00

starts backing up. And she's like,

53:02

I don't know what it was.

53:04

And Ken starts backing up. And

53:06

she's like, I don't know what

53:08

it was. And Ken starts backing

53:10

up. And she's like, I don't

53:12

know. And she's still at the

53:14

bottom of the stairs. She had

53:16

never gone up. Because when you

53:18

look at the stairs, the stairs.

53:20

because there's holes in the stairs

53:23

she wouldn't have been able to

53:25

just walk up like she did

53:27

that was all like in her

53:29

mind like that didn't really happen

53:31

right but not in her mind

53:33

palace yeah so that's not great

53:35

that's not great that's not she

53:37

ends up leaving that area right

53:39

she's like I gotta go and

53:41

as she's walking away she's having

53:43

this internal dialogue about what Promise

53:45

why is this one from yelling

53:47

you a promise and then she

53:49

starts asking Solomon like did you

53:51

see that and None of them

53:53

had seen it. They're like what

53:55

are you talking about Ken? Nobody

53:57

else had that hallucination. You know

53:59

it's got to be bad when

54:02

your multiple personalities are like, you're

54:04

fucking crazy. You're like giving gas

54:06

lit by your personalities is crazy.

54:08

Yeah. So as she's walking again

54:10

through the castle, the door, there's

54:12

a door that's kind of like

54:14

the front door to the castle

54:16

area and a doorknob just starts

54:18

going crazy like somebody's trying to

54:20

open it from the outside. Yeah.

54:22

And she's like, the fuck, because

54:24

again, she's just seen a ghost

54:26

and nobody believes her and she's

54:28

spooked literally. And then this doorknob

54:30

starts going and the door's shaking

54:32

and all of a sudden the

54:34

door swings open. And she hears

54:36

someone say to her, Ken, is

54:38

that you? And standing there is

54:41

this man with blonde hair shortcut

54:43

and it's Landon, her ex-boyfriend. the

54:45

second to last person she ever

54:47

wants to see again and he

54:49

looks like he's just seen a

54:51

ghost and he's like is that

54:53

you and then he says but

54:55

which you is it mmm mm-hmm

54:57

because he knows he knows yeah

54:59

who is it who my talking

55:01

yeah So the next chapter is

55:03

another note from group think journal

55:05

and Della in this journal writes

55:07

that she had seen Landon at

55:09

a restaurant like two months ago

55:11

And she didn't she didn't say

55:13

anything. She just like looked at

55:15

them and then they made eye

55:17

contact and she just ran away

55:20

Because she's like I fucking hate

55:22

that guy because the other thing

55:24

is that Ken dated Landon date

55:26

Landon didn't date landed. So they

55:28

all like they fucking hate this

55:30

guy, right? so Della saw him

55:32

and was like Oh, get the

55:34

fuck out of here, I hate

55:36

that guy. Yeah. So the last

55:38

time Ken had seen Landen, he

55:40

was bailing her out of jail

55:42

after she attacked his father, right?

55:44

So this is the last time

55:46

she saw him. And she, in

55:48

real moment, she answers him. And

55:50

then he's like, yeah, it's me.

55:52

What are you doing here? You're

55:54

asking me what I'm doing here

55:56

when you're trespassing on private property?

55:59

And she's like, I'm not trespassing,

56:01

I work here, I'm the caretaker.

56:03

And he's like, they wouldn't. And

56:05

she's like, what do you mean,

56:07

they wouldn't? And he's like, why

56:09

are you here? And she's like,

56:11

why are you here? And she's

56:13

like, I work here. So they're

56:15

having this like back and forth,

56:17

right? And he's like, I'm a

56:19

member of the trust. And I

56:21

do the hiring when it came

56:23

in. I laughed and threw it

56:25

away. I didn't. And he calls

56:27

her old at a certain point,

56:29

like, because they're not just arguing

56:31

about the job anymore. They're arguing

56:33

about their past relationship. And he's

56:35

like, anyway, you're old now. And

56:38

she's like, you're eight years older

56:40

than me. And he is like,

56:42

yeah, but I'm a man. My

56:44

value increases while yours goes down.

56:46

Oh, Jesus. Yeah. Meaning he's 45.

56:48

Okay. His value goes up. I

56:50

think we know also you said

56:52

that she beat up his dad

56:54

like seven years ago. Meaning he

56:56

was in his late 30s bailing

56:58

his 30 year old girlfriend out

57:00

of jail for beating the shit

57:02

out of his dad and his

57:04

dad is probably like 80. Yeah.

57:06

So you know. I agree with

57:08

the personalities. Landon's a piece of

57:10

shit. Landon sucks. But also I

57:12

met like dudes like that who

57:14

are like part of a land

57:17

trust. Who like have to, like

57:19

they're on the board. Yeah. And

57:21

they have these stupid little titles

57:23

for themselves. And it's all just

57:25

a way for them to be

57:27

able to extract like 10 grand

57:29

out of this fucking property every

57:31

year. Yes. So Celesta's back. And

57:33

she's sees Landon and she's like,

57:35

what's up, what's up intern? Really?

57:37

Yeah, she like does no respect

57:39

for him. Good. He's like puffed

57:41

up like a peacock because Ken's

57:43

there. It's less like whatever. I

57:45

love that he I love that

57:47

you did clarify. He's like 45

57:49

years old because like in my

57:51

head, yeah, I keep picturing like

57:53

first thing the name Landon sucks.

57:56

Yeah. But second thing, I didn't

57:58

you're like blonde, I keep picturing

58:00

like a blonde moppy hair artist

58:02

type. No, no, no, no, like

58:04

this. That guy that did that

58:06

Romcom with the Sweeney girl Sydney

58:08

Sweeney. She did that Romcom in

58:10

Australia. Yeah, remember that guy that

58:12

blonde guy? Yeah, it's like him.

58:14

Okay, that's how I pictured Linda.

58:16

Gotcha. He's very white Lotus. Yeah,

58:18

very sports and agar. Yeah, yeah,

58:20

the guy that the shitty guy

58:22

from White Lotus. Yeah, that guy's

58:24

young though, but an older version

58:26

of him. Got it. They all

58:28

grow up to be the same

58:30

person. They do all grow up

58:32

to be the same person. So.

58:35

And all of that is a

58:37

Republican congressman from Nebraska. So he's

58:39

like, I'm not an intern, I'm

58:41

an associate member, soon to be

58:43

full-fledged member. And he's like, who

58:45

the fuck hired Ken? And she's

58:47

like, I don't know. I'm not

58:49

ajar. And she's like, again, I

58:51

don't care. And he's like she

58:53

says somebody probably overruled you because

58:55

you just fetch coffee as an

58:57

intern Anyway these two fucking hate

58:59

each other. Yeah, I can tell

59:01

right So let's say it's everybody

59:03

though, so it's fine. Yeah, and

59:05

I love that for her They're

59:07

arguing with each other as you'd

59:09

expect and Celeste's like, she doesn't

59:11

even know about this place. She

59:14

didn't know anything about it. She

59:16

didn't even know you owned it

59:18

or part of it. And he's

59:20

like, now you know you're lying.

59:22

He's like on our third date,

59:24

we took a tram to Roosevelt

59:26

Island to see the ruins of

59:28

a sanatorium there. And I told

59:30

her all about Kavanaugh Island and

59:32

the trust and this castle. And

59:34

we talked about how cool would

59:36

be for the person who got

59:38

to be the caretaker job and

59:40

how it'd be more fun than

59:42

going to going to grad school.

59:44

And now you're here, why you're

59:46

pretending you don't know? And Ken

59:48

is like, I don't remember any

59:50

of this. And then she asked

59:53

the internal mind, you know, is

59:55

anybody else remember this? And they're

59:57

all like, no, we don't know.

59:59

But maybe Della, but Della's not

1:00:01

answering, obviously. Yeah. So we're back

1:00:03

in the Mine Palace for a

1:00:05

minute, right? The Mine Palace is

1:00:07

fucking storming, right, right? Literally, like,

1:00:09

the weather has changed. because she's

1:00:11

so anxious and angry that the

1:00:13

sky though is like when you

1:00:15

see the paintings come to life

1:00:17

you know Van Gogh when they

1:00:19

show the Van Gogh like come

1:00:21

to life it's that's the sky

1:00:23

like a storm of a Van

1:00:25

Gogh painting that's what it looks

1:00:27

like right and that's not normal

1:00:29

it doesn't really look like that

1:00:32

usually just sunny and bright and

1:00:34

happy well as happy as yeah

1:00:36

yeah it could be and Mesmer

1:00:38

and Empress and Solomon are all

1:00:40

discussing like what the fuck's going

1:00:42

on with the sky, where's Della,

1:00:44

so like there's this whole thing

1:00:46

happening like we said sub B

1:00:48

plot. Celes is actually being nice

1:00:50

to Ken at this point, but

1:00:52

it's like I'll take you to

1:00:54

the CB radio and you can

1:00:56

call John to get this boat

1:00:58

to come get you because Ken

1:01:00

at this point sees Lanz in

1:01:02

and he's like I don't the

1:01:04

fuck Della got me into. I'm

1:01:06

fucking leaving. Yeah, she's like I'm

1:01:08

out. I don't want this job.

1:01:11

I'll figure out a place to

1:01:13

live. She's like I'll figure it

1:01:15

out rather than be here with

1:01:17

him. Right? So they're going to

1:01:19

go find the CB radio and

1:01:21

get John to bring the boat

1:01:23

back to take her back to

1:01:25

off the island. So, um, Landon's

1:01:27

like, if you don't get out

1:01:29

of here, I'm going to call

1:01:31

the police for like breaking and

1:01:33

entering. And with your record, that

1:01:35

won't be good, right? But the

1:01:37

thing is, is they go for

1:01:39

the CB radio and it's like,

1:01:41

she disappears for a minute. But

1:01:43

it's actually three hours later. So

1:01:45

she went missing for three hours.

1:01:47

She has a three hour blackout.

1:01:50

She wasn't abducted by aliens. I

1:01:52

mean, we don't know. That's a

1:01:54

whole part of the story. We

1:01:56

haven't even discovered. Okay. So she's

1:01:58

but she's like, why is Celes

1:02:00

being nice to me? Because at

1:02:02

this point, she's walking along with

1:02:04

Celes. And Celes is saying, like,

1:02:06

I don't know if John got

1:02:08

the message, but we're going. It's

1:02:10

like a pretty long. explanation and

1:02:12

then walking through the woods together

1:02:14

and they see John on the

1:02:16

boat at the dock and she's

1:02:18

like oh thank God he got

1:02:20

the message but if Landon was

1:02:22

the second person she never wanted

1:02:24

to see again getting off the

1:02:26

boat is the one person she

1:02:29

never wanted to see again which

1:02:31

is Landon's father is on the

1:02:33

boat getting off the dock The

1:02:35

man she beat the shit out

1:02:37

of all those years ago. The

1:02:39

man she attacked in an unprovoked

1:02:41

fit of rage, which ruined her

1:02:43

life and sent her into the

1:02:45

system. So she is like now

1:02:47

in a full panic. But the

1:02:49

thing is, he's not surprised to

1:02:51

see her. He actually waives at

1:02:53

her, like they're old friends. And

1:02:55

she's like, he's the head of

1:02:57

the trust for the Kavanaugh Island.

1:02:59

conservation like he's the one that

1:03:01

hired you he's your boss so

1:03:03

again Ken is in complete shock

1:03:05

so piercing gets off the boat

1:03:08

and his gaze is like right

1:03:10

at her and he's got like

1:03:12

that fucking smile you know the

1:03:14

one like through his teeth like

1:03:16

it just a fucking asshole who

1:03:18

knows he's got you cornered the

1:03:20

nice guy asshole smile Yeah, so

1:03:22

suddenly she remembers some things about

1:03:24

when she attacked him. So like

1:03:26

she just like remembers the feeling

1:03:28

she had when she attacked her,

1:03:30

but she doesn't remember why. And

1:03:32

she gets this sudden surge of

1:03:34

adrenaline-fueled rage and wants to hit

1:03:36

him again because fuck this smile

1:03:38

on his face. When she sees

1:03:40

this guy though, she panics and

1:03:42

disappears into the system. It's like

1:03:44

she gets so angry that she

1:03:47

kind of sucks back in. Yeah,

1:03:49

yeah, and now Empress is fronting.

1:03:51

Oh no! Yeah, Empress, our teenager.

1:03:53

That's the last person you want.

1:03:55

Nope, teenager in front, baby. I

1:03:57

would want either Solomon or Della.

1:03:59

Nope. Della's missing. I know, but

1:04:01

I'm saying is I would want

1:04:03

from what I know from the

1:04:05

personalities. I would want Empress. And

1:04:07

Mezner is in the background trying

1:04:09

to help Empress. Okay. To keep

1:04:11

her calm. right? Because she's the

1:04:13

yoga calm lady. And so they're

1:04:15

standing there and they're, they're watching

1:04:17

them. Do you have a ginger

1:04:19

keeping you calm? That's not good.

1:04:21

That's not good. That's not good.

1:04:23

They're a grumpy bunch. Yeah. So

1:04:26

obviously like her entire posture changes,

1:04:28

like she becomes like, she's in

1:04:30

her body in a different way.

1:04:32

And because of that, Sless is

1:04:34

like... What is happening? What is

1:04:36

happening? Like you seem so different.

1:04:38

And Empress, pardon me, being Empress

1:04:40

doesn't like keep any secrets, right?

1:04:42

So she just explains to her

1:04:44

about the DID personality disorder. So

1:04:46

she's just like, yeah, this is

1:04:48

it and blah, blah. And Sless

1:04:50

is very nice to Empress. Like

1:04:52

immediately Sless is like, okay. Let's

1:04:54

see what's going on. Okay. Yeah,

1:04:56

she's been, she's been around enough.

1:04:58

Yeah. So, oh, you crazy crazy.

1:05:00

Yeah. Instantly, there's a difference of,

1:05:02

there's definitely a difference in ones.

1:05:05

You're like, all right. Because like

1:05:07

sometimes also when you meet somebody

1:05:09

at a new job, you are

1:05:11

like, oh, they're stuffy or they're,

1:05:13

you start to immediately, you get

1:05:15

that first impression, and you start

1:05:17

to like make up a whole

1:05:19

narrative for you in their mind.

1:05:21

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, hey man, just

1:05:23

because you have dissociative personality disorder,

1:05:25

it doesn't mean you're nuts. Yeah,

1:05:27

okay. I know, well, I mean,

1:05:29

it's just like, this person's a

1:05:31

little different. Yeah, so who's on

1:05:33

this boat other than this guy,

1:05:35

right? We got Pearson, his very

1:05:37

young wife carrying a little dog,

1:05:39

a couple of older guys in

1:05:41

their 50s, both white, and two

1:05:44

women, a blonde one and a

1:05:46

brunette one. And overall, the vibe

1:05:48

is bad. Um, they, uh, Empress

1:05:50

is, is like, also, I'm leaving.

1:05:52

Like, so he walks up and

1:05:54

is talking to her and is

1:05:56

asking her questions about, like, how

1:05:58

was you, you were supposed to

1:06:00

be here today, not yesterday, blah

1:06:02

blah, blah, because like, I guess

1:06:04

she got the day around. But

1:06:06

then how did the boke I

1:06:08

know? I don't know. So Empress

1:06:10

is like, I'm leaving. Your son

1:06:12

Landen said I'm not supposed to

1:06:14

be here. And the dad is

1:06:16

like, oh, he's right. You're not

1:06:18

supposed to be here. You're supposed

1:06:20

to arrive today. But it's good

1:06:22

you're here. And we all know

1:06:25

you have no other option than

1:06:27

to be here. And he's like

1:06:29

very condescending. And he like, again,

1:06:31

talks through his teeth. And Empress

1:06:33

actually had put the mask on.

1:06:35

during that conversation because again when

1:06:37

they change she put the mask

1:06:39

up and he is like you

1:06:41

know also you don't need to

1:06:43

wear that mask here this is

1:06:45

a place of freedom I knew

1:06:47

they're gonna be Republicans yeah I

1:06:49

knew they're gonna be magga I

1:06:51

know it. So this is when

1:06:53

we find out that Landon's father

1:06:55

is really big into cultivating American

1:06:57

values on the public stage. And

1:06:59

the reason he wanted Ken to

1:07:01

be on Kavanaugh Island is to

1:07:04

help it live up to its

1:07:06

legacy as it was originally planned

1:07:08

to help disenfranchise Dregs of society

1:07:10

provide some value to the world.

1:07:12

And he couldn't think of anyone

1:07:14

better than her. This guy is

1:07:16

the Heritage Foundation. This guy is

1:07:18

a Heritage Foundation scumbag. I can

1:07:20

feel it in my bones. Oh

1:07:22

my God, what a great villain.

1:07:24

Yeah, so here comes Captain John,

1:07:26

after he parks the boat. I

1:07:28

told you a big storm was

1:07:30

coming. She's like, hey, did you

1:07:32

get my message? I want to

1:07:34

leave, got my bags, let's hold

1:07:36

my bag. And he's like, I'm

1:07:38

not going back out in the

1:07:40

water. And he's like, what? He's

1:07:43

like, there's a big storm, there's

1:07:45

a big storm coming. And he's

1:07:47

like, I'm not, I'm not going

1:07:49

out. I picture him by the

1:07:51

way, only wearing those like comical

1:07:53

boat captain yellow waiters. Like, like

1:07:55

with the little, with the rubber

1:07:57

hat and the rubber jet, like

1:07:59

the rubber raincoat. I picture him

1:08:01

as the old man from Courage,

1:08:03

the cowardly dog. No man. But

1:08:05

I picture him though, like, wearing.

1:08:07

like that like who's like Gordon's

1:08:09

fishermen yeah like one of those

1:08:11

like again New England Sea captain

1:08:13

type of thing but they've always

1:08:15

just gone perfect storm yeah perfect

1:08:17

storm and she's like you just

1:08:19

came through the water and it's

1:08:22

bad so let's just go out

1:08:24

and he's like no can't do

1:08:26

it too dangerous yeah I'm staying

1:08:28

the night at the castle or

1:08:30

until the storm passes I'm gonna

1:08:32

call a little bullshit I don't

1:08:34

know the Hudson that well yeah

1:08:36

but I feel like it's not

1:08:38

that far yeah I feel like

1:08:40

in your little boat, it's not

1:08:42

like you're like going down, maybe

1:08:44

they have to go up river

1:08:46

or down river a little bit.

1:08:48

Listen, but I feel like you

1:08:50

just go straight across. I think

1:08:52

you might be right. So Mesmer

1:08:54

retreats back into the Mine Palace

1:08:56

because there's so much screaming happening

1:08:58

and she's going to see what's

1:09:01

going on. Turns out, Rapunzel's at

1:09:03

the window, just wailing. And no

1:09:05

one's answering. There's no one answering.

1:09:07

Nobody. But when she looks at

1:09:09

her window cell, because she walks

1:09:11

into her room, it looks, there's

1:09:13

a person in her window cell

1:09:15

that she doesn't recognize. Uh-oh, Schenio.

1:09:17

That's creepy. One's a little break.

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So in the mine palace Rapunzel

1:09:59

is screaming. Screaming. There's an intruder

1:10:02

at a window sill. Inside of

1:10:04

the brain. Inside of the brain.

1:10:06

Intruder. Yeah. Also, but let's get

1:10:08

back in the body. Yeah. Solomon's

1:10:10

fronting. And he comes to snap.

1:10:13

He comes to in the body.

1:10:15

And he's like, where am I?

1:10:17

And he's like, I'm in a

1:10:19

kitchen. And he looks around and

1:10:21

he looks down his hands. And

1:10:24

he's helping prepare food. With the

1:10:26

two women that were on that

1:10:28

were on that boat, the blonde

1:10:30

and the brunette. The Blot and

1:10:32

the brunette. So he's helping prepare

1:10:34

food for everybody that just arrived.

1:10:37

Okay. And we find out that

1:10:39

the two women are sex workers

1:10:41

who've been hired and paid a

1:10:43

lot of cash for the night

1:10:45

to come to the castle. Too

1:10:48

much cash. A suspicious amount of

1:10:50

cash. This is eyes wide shut

1:10:52

shit. I can feel it. I

1:10:54

can feel it. When an old

1:10:56

man, who's probably a member of

1:10:58

the Heritage Foundation, asked you to

1:11:01

get on a boat to go

1:11:03

to an island in the middle

1:11:05

of a river, that is a

1:11:07

lesbian bisexual castle. Cage. A cage

1:11:09

for a lesbian bisexual person. Yeah.

1:11:12

No, no, no, listen. It's a

1:11:14

lesbian castle. Got it. That was

1:11:16

being used. You say no. You

1:11:18

say no. Oh, no. How much

1:11:20

is it? It's $20, $20,000. We've

1:11:22

said no to more. We've said

1:11:25

no to more. That's very true

1:11:27

And we didn't have to go

1:11:29

anywhere. They're like sit right here

1:11:31

and say to the camera We're

1:11:33

like we're not saying that we're

1:11:36

not saying that no So all

1:11:38

of a sudden someone grabs Solomon's

1:11:40

shoulder and it's landon and he's

1:11:42

like Ken I thought I told

1:11:44

you to leave and Solomon's like

1:11:46

we tried to leave, but your

1:11:49

father the one who hired us

1:11:51

says we have to stay Mm-mm-hmm

1:11:53

and the and like confront him

1:11:55

and the dad's kind of just

1:11:57

like very agree don't worry about

1:12:00

it son we're all gonna sit

1:12:02

down and have a welcoming lunch

1:12:04

and he's like tell everybody gets

1:12:06

to the big table big dining

1:12:08

room table you know ostentatious and

1:12:11

Ken's like okay I'm gonna go

1:12:13

eat in the caretakers quarters And

1:12:15

he's like, no, no, no, come

1:12:17

sit with us. You need to

1:12:19

eat with us. We'll all sit

1:12:21

down. And then he's like, I'm

1:12:24

going to make a toast kind

1:12:26

of thing or say a prayer.

1:12:28

So let's all hold hands. And

1:12:30

he gives like a little speech.

1:12:32

And it's something of along the

1:12:35

lines of along the lines of

1:12:37

we are here to celebrate the

1:12:39

legacy of Kavanaugh Island and Grace

1:12:41

Castle, like many things of great

1:12:43

value and particular importance in this

1:12:45

country. morality, it has been eroded

1:12:48

by the turmoil and filth of

1:12:50

modern times. But we have successfully

1:12:52

resurrected it through hard work and

1:12:54

sacrifice, a shining beacon in the

1:12:56

east like the rising sun. And

1:12:59

today, we are almost ready to

1:13:01

sit back and admire the glory

1:13:03

of what we have back. Back

1:13:05

into being, we should be proud

1:13:07

of the history we have preserved

1:13:09

and the future we are creating,

1:13:12

one that appreciates and uplifts the

1:13:14

American dream, the morals and values

1:13:16

of this country, and not our

1:13:18

current nightmare. Amen. And everyone at

1:13:20

the table says, Amen, except for

1:13:23

lesson Solomon. Yeah, yeah, because what

1:13:25

the fuck? Yeah, he said all

1:13:27

that about Joe Biden? Oh, no,

1:13:29

that was all directed at Joe

1:13:31

Biden. Except the nightmare that we're

1:13:33

currently in. Remember Sleepy Joe? Yeah,

1:13:36

remember sleeping? Remember sleeping? Remember sleeping?

1:13:38

I do remember sleeping. I do

1:13:40

remember sleeping. I do remember sleeping.

1:13:42

I do remember sleeping. I do

1:13:44

remember sleeping. I dream of sleeping.

1:13:47

What and Solomon said the same

1:13:49

thing what and looks at Landon

1:13:51

and is like home and He's

1:13:53

like I don't remember what like

1:13:55

I don't remember why you would

1:13:58

say that you know and The

1:14:00

god the dad his name is

1:14:02

Winslow Pearson Winslow Pearson is like

1:14:04

don't you remember that when we?

1:14:06

you. I explained that Kavanaugh is

1:14:08

our family name. My name is

1:14:11

Winslow Kavanaugh Pearson and that's Landon

1:14:13

Kavanaugh Pearson and Simon Kavanaugh was

1:14:15

our great was my great-grandfather. Surely

1:14:17

he told you this while you

1:14:19

were dating and Landon says I'm

1:14:22

pretty sure I told one of

1:14:24

them and then the whole table

1:14:26

laughs except for Solomon and Celest

1:14:28

of course. Oh great. Yeah. So...

1:14:30

Now now it's starting to come

1:14:32

together Ken's supposed to be the

1:14:35

new grace Mm-hmm. They're supposed to

1:14:37

keep her there in her bisexual

1:14:39

castle prison Mm-hmm. That's what I'm

1:14:41

I'm feeling. Yeah, am I am

1:14:43

I getting am I pretty you're

1:14:46

you're warmish? I'm warmish. Yeah I'm

1:14:48

barking up a bisexual tree well

1:14:50

all right well so remember when

1:14:52

our scientists used to be bisexual

1:14:54

in this show and now instead

1:14:56

bisexuals are being fucking put in

1:14:59

the weird Hudson River castles. That's

1:15:01

what used to happen with our

1:15:03

books. I know. The books, the

1:15:05

books, I'm just reading the books,

1:15:07

man. I know, I know, I

1:15:10

know, I'm just, I'm just pointing

1:15:12

it out. So now the table's

1:15:14

having a polite conversation, end quotes,

1:15:16

it's not polite. Yeah. At the

1:15:18

table, Lily, now that's Winslow's much

1:15:20

younger wife, her name's Lily. Okay.

1:15:23

And through the conversation, this like,

1:15:25

Waspy conversation. She basically calls Ken

1:15:27

an affirmative hire an affirmative action

1:15:29

hire. She calls her DEA. She

1:15:31

calls her DEA. Okay. This book

1:15:34

must have been written before they

1:15:36

just started using DEA. No, I

1:15:38

know. It was probably written at

1:15:40

a time when they were still

1:15:42

using CRT. Yeah. Remember we jumped

1:15:45

through all these different words. Yeah.

1:15:47

We all know what they all

1:15:49

mean. Yeah. We all know what

1:15:51

they all mean. Yeah. And then

1:15:53

Celest is like, after really says

1:15:55

that. I'm picturing Carolyn Leavitt, by

1:15:58

the way. Carolyn Leavitt, I don't

1:16:00

know. The current. White House press

1:16:02

secretary who is married to

1:16:04

an old man. No, no,

1:16:06

no. This person, Lily, is

1:16:09

described as like really

1:16:11

thin and petite with

1:16:13

long brown hair. Okay,

1:16:15

good. Did you just

1:16:17

said that the press

1:16:19

secretary is not

1:16:21

thin or petite? What a,

1:16:23

but a backhand. No, no,

1:16:25

no, no. The girl in the story

1:16:28

is pretty. Yeah. So

1:16:30

I have always wanted

1:16:32

to go to Cuba. I

1:16:35

know me too. Yeah. For

1:16:37

the politics. I wanted

1:16:39

to go for the food.

1:16:42

When Lily says this, Celeste bites

1:16:44

back and is like, you know

1:16:46

what else is an affirmative higher

1:16:48

action? A young woman marrying a

1:16:50

much older man. Mmm, get him,

1:16:52

Celeste. Yeah, so it's like, what?

1:16:54

You talk a shit? So the

1:16:57

conversation continues and at a certain

1:16:59

point, Landon is like, okay, enough

1:17:01

dad, because they're being really

1:17:03

gross and weird. Yeah. And

1:17:05

Mr. Pearson laughs in like

1:17:08

this maniacical, bizarre way. And...

1:17:10

He's like, listen, we all

1:17:12

know that no matter what

1:17:14

happened in the past, Kinetria's

1:17:16

presence here is necessary. We

1:17:19

couldn't reopen the castle without

1:17:21

her. And Solomon is like, the

1:17:23

fuck you're talking about. What?

1:17:25

I don't like that. Yeah. So in

1:17:27

the mine palace, let's go back

1:17:29

to the mine palace. Yeah, let's

1:17:32

go back to my palace. Because

1:17:34

you're still up in the

1:17:36

mine palace. Because I don't

1:17:38

like what's happening. Mesmer has

1:17:40

disappeared. And Empress can't figure

1:17:43

out where she's at. Dela's

1:17:45

still missing. Now Mesmer is

1:17:47

missing too. And nobody knows

1:17:49

where Ken is. Okay? Yeah. And all

1:17:51

of a sudden, Empress is like,

1:17:53

where's Kiki? And they can't

1:17:55

figure out where Kiki is. Yeah.

1:17:58

And then Empress is like, hey.

1:18:00

Solomon, do you know where Kiki

1:18:02

is? And then Solomon realizes if

1:18:04

they're talking, Kiki's fronting.

1:18:06

Uh-oh, Scadio. Uh-oh. So Kiki is

1:18:09

now fronting and she has climbed

1:18:11

under the table to play with the

1:18:13

little dog. Because there's a little dog.

1:18:16

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Kiki's like, I'm

1:18:18

playing with the little dog. And.

1:18:20

Lily, the awful young wife, reaches

1:18:22

down to like grab the dog

1:18:25

from her and kind of knocks

1:18:27

Kiki over, like pushes her and

1:18:29

is like, give me my dog.

1:18:32

And as soon as like her

1:18:34

hand touches Kiki, Ken comes back

1:18:37

immediately and pushes Lily back to

1:18:39

protect Kiki. And Lily's like, stop,

1:18:41

you're gonna hurt the baby. And

1:18:44

Ken's like, the dog is fucking

1:18:46

fine. And she's like, no, the baby

1:18:48

inside of me. Oh, yeah. Oh,

1:18:50

God. In the Mine Palace, everybody's

1:18:53

panicking. They're looking

1:18:56

for, they're looking

1:18:58

around for everybody. It's a

1:19:00

whole thing, but Ken has

1:19:03

a flash of a memory,

1:19:05

and it's of the spiral

1:19:07

staircase, but then she's

1:19:09

back in the Mine

1:19:11

Palace, and there's the

1:19:13

woman from. the tower in the

1:19:16

mine palace. And the woman is

1:19:18

saying quiet and careful, quiet and

1:19:20

careful and holding her hand. And

1:19:22

so Ken is like, it's a

1:19:24

lot going on at once in

1:19:27

her head. Everybody's panicking, but she

1:19:29

has this flashback memory of this

1:19:31

woman in the tower holding her

1:19:33

hand. Okay. And that's the woman with

1:19:35

no face. The woman with no face.

1:19:37

Okay. Who was like, you promised? You

1:19:40

promised. Yes, exactly. So we're going to

1:19:42

pop ahead a little bit because a

1:19:44

lot of things happen, but you know,

1:19:46

we're we're brevity of time, right? So

1:19:49

we're back in the main room and

1:19:51

the women, the two sex brokers,

1:19:53

have changed outfits and they're wearing

1:19:55

these long white linen dresses. Don't

1:19:58

like that. Never a good side. That

1:20:00

they that is that was given

1:20:02

to them. Mm-hmm. I'm just telling

1:20:04

you right now if you're ever

1:20:06

a sex worker Mm-hmm You know,

1:20:08

how are you doing it and

1:20:10

somebody hands you they pay you

1:20:12

cash to come to an island

1:20:14

first thing. No islands. No islands.

1:20:16

That's a never going to a

1:20:18

second location But not a second

1:20:20

location just no islands. Yeah, no

1:20:22

I don't know what's down the

1:20:24

Caribbean. All right Jeffrey. Mm-hmm. So

1:20:26

Ken's there's no Wi-Fi Wi-Fi So

1:20:28

Ken's back in the body, obviously,

1:20:30

and she sees them and she's

1:20:32

like, what, and the sister wives?

1:20:34

It's like in the book. And

1:20:36

I laughed really odd. Also, I

1:20:38

forgot to say this, the dog's

1:20:40

name is Shalame. Really? Yeah. The

1:20:42

dog's name is Shalame. So Lily

1:20:44

is always like, give me Shalame.

1:20:46

And I'm like, oh, I love

1:20:48

me. Timothy Salomey! No. Because you

1:20:50

don't like Adam Sandler? Nobody should.

1:20:52

Terrible. Okay. Ken and Celes decide

1:20:54

they're going to go to sleep.

1:20:56

Like, these people are being weird

1:20:58

and they're like, we're just going

1:21:00

back to our rooms, whatever. Celes

1:21:02

is going to crash on the

1:21:04

couch in the caretaker suite because

1:21:06

she's not going to go walk

1:21:08

through the storm. Because again, big

1:21:10

storm outside. Yeah. The storm did

1:21:12

come. Okay, I forgot to mention

1:21:14

that. The storm did come. I

1:21:16

assumed it would because I have

1:21:18

a feeling that when an old

1:21:20

creepy captain says, storms are coming,

1:21:22

yeah, the storm always comes. Yeah,

1:21:24

big storm coming. Yeah. So they

1:21:26

go to sleep. Ken comes to

1:21:28

somewhere really dark. So she wakes

1:21:30

up and it's really dark and

1:21:32

pitch black and she's like, where

1:21:34

the fuck am I? And she

1:21:36

kind of like, you know when

1:21:38

you like feel your hands like,

1:21:40

um, and then she like kind

1:21:42

of like touches her hands together

1:21:44

because she's like they feel dirty

1:21:46

or dusty or something and it's

1:21:48

not dusty, it's gummy. And she

1:21:50

has this like whiff of smell

1:21:52

and she immediately recognizes it, that

1:21:54

like, coppery iron blood smell. And

1:21:56

all of a sudden, Landon is

1:21:58

glaring at her with hatred. Like

1:22:00

she just kind of turns and

1:22:02

she sees Landon and Lily and

1:22:04

the other people. there and Lily

1:22:06

like falls to the ground crying

1:22:08

and right below her is Winslow

1:22:10

Pierce, the dad, Landon's dad, in

1:22:12

a bloody mess. She beat the

1:22:14

shit out of McCann? Not from

1:22:16

a punch in a nose this

1:22:18

time. He's severely beaten. His head

1:22:21

is caved in, like gross, dead,

1:22:23

gore everywhere and the weapon was

1:22:25

a candle stick that was right

1:22:27

on the floor next to where

1:22:29

she was standing. And Landon's like...

1:22:31

What the fuck have you done?

1:22:33

She murdered the dad? I mean,

1:22:35

the dad is dead. That's what

1:22:37

I'm saying. She has blood on

1:22:39

her hands. Yeah. But she didn't?

1:22:41

I mean, maybe she did. She

1:22:43

doesn't know. And she's holding the

1:22:45

candle. No, the candle stick is

1:22:47

on the floor. A little bits

1:22:49

away. Okay. But it's within distance

1:22:51

of her reaching it. Are they

1:22:53

in the observatory? They're at the

1:22:55

bottom of where the tower door

1:22:57

is. Okay. So they're in the

1:22:59

hallway with a candlestick. Uh-huh. Okay.

1:23:01

And Ken is playing clue. I

1:23:03

know. And Ken is like, I

1:23:05

did not do this. I was

1:23:07

sleeping. And Landon's like, how do

1:23:09

you know? Um, and so, uh,

1:23:11

Ken asked like Solomon is like,

1:23:13

who else? Is anybody know what's

1:23:15

going on? And Lily's like, it

1:23:17

was probably you. You're just as

1:23:19

likely a suspect. as any, like,

1:23:21

or no, I'm sorry, Ken says

1:23:23

to Lily, it was probably you,

1:23:25

you're just as likely a suspect

1:23:27

as I am, you would inherit

1:23:29

all of his money and spend

1:23:31

it at any way you like

1:23:33

to please. And Lily's like, I

1:23:35

didn't do it, I'm so small,

1:23:37

I'm not strong enough, and Ken

1:23:39

goes, we're literally the same sizes.

1:23:41

Yeah. In the inner world, there's

1:23:43

another person, and Ken can sense

1:23:45

them, like they can feel a

1:23:47

presence coming towards them, but she

1:23:49

doesn't know who it is, right?

1:23:51

And she's deeply concerned, because the

1:23:53

person feels familiar, but she doesn't

1:23:55

know who it is. And then

1:23:57

back in the real world, Landon's

1:23:59

like. Maybe your little girlfriend Celeste

1:24:01

helped you. And Ken's like, she

1:24:03

would never help me. She fucking

1:24:05

hates me. She doesn't even like

1:24:07

me. And Landon is like, yeah,

1:24:09

Ken, maybe you didn't do it,

1:24:11

but somebody did it. And maybe

1:24:13

it was Della. And this. rocks

1:24:15

Ken. She's like, how the hell

1:24:17

do you know who Della is?

1:24:19

And he says, because she told

1:24:21

me she was going to make

1:24:23

my father pay. Or did she

1:24:25

not tell you she said that?

1:24:27

And he's like, we ran into

1:24:29

each other at a restaurant not

1:24:31

too long ago, and she came

1:24:33

up to me and told me

1:24:35

she was going to make my

1:24:37

father pay. Okay, okay. So anyway,

1:24:39

one of those old guys that's

1:24:41

there, he says, that's like on

1:24:43

the board with Landen, he says,

1:24:45

your father would have wanted us

1:24:47

to continue with the ceremony tonight.

1:24:49

And Landen's like, you're right, we

1:24:51

must begin the ceremony. We'll call

1:24:53

the police later to arrest Ken.

1:24:55

That's their thought process right now.

1:24:57

I could be we're in the

1:24:59

middle of a pandemic So these

1:25:01

guys we're gonna have robes. There's

1:25:03

gonna be a big knife. There's

1:25:05

gonna be all whites. Yep, and

1:25:07

now the two sex workers. They

1:25:09

have to just be like this

1:25:11

is nowhere near as far. We

1:25:13

could have been cam girls Yeah,

1:25:15

that's their thought process right I

1:25:17

could be at home. I could

1:25:19

be we're in the middle of

1:25:21

a pandemic So these guys they

1:25:23

they they they they should they

1:25:25

were being paid extra for breaking

1:25:27

for breaking for breaking for breaking

1:25:29

lockdown. Yeah. They're like, we've been

1:25:31

paying extra for breaking lockdown, not

1:25:33

because we're breaking, not because we're

1:25:35

gonna be breaking the law. So

1:25:38

these guys, they all go into

1:25:40

the main room and they start

1:25:42

the ceremony. The ceremony, they're drinking

1:25:44

Viking blood, they're chanting about gobbling

1:25:46

hunts and whatever. And Ken is,

1:25:48

and Celes are like, what the

1:25:50

fuck is going on? And they're

1:25:52

very deeply concerned, but they're standing

1:25:54

near the sex workers and talking

1:25:56

to them. And the girls are

1:25:58

just like, listen, don't worry about

1:26:00

it. Guys do this all the

1:26:02

time. It's like this thing where

1:26:04

they want to hunt and chase

1:26:06

you, and then they catch you,

1:26:08

and they fuck you. It's like

1:26:10

it's. not even a big deal,

1:26:12

like don't worry about it. So

1:26:14

these girls were briefed that they're

1:26:16

about to be hunted and then

1:26:18

fucked, right? And that's what they're

1:26:20

getting paid for, to go to

1:26:22

the island to be hunted. No,

1:26:24

not me. Couldn't be me. Couldn't

1:26:26

be me. Couldn't be me. Couldn't

1:26:28

be me. Couldn't be me. Couldn't

1:26:30

be me. I'm just throwing out

1:26:32

there. And in fact, honestly right

1:26:34

now, talk to, say that directly

1:26:36

to my camera. Say it directly

1:26:38

to my fucking camera. And then

1:26:40

you look at your camera and

1:26:42

they're not there and you're like,

1:26:44

oh, see that, that circle back.

1:26:46

Very good. So, whatever, the ceremony

1:26:48

ends and they're like, the haunt

1:26:50

will begin. And. Ken and Celeste

1:26:52

are deeply unsettled and weirded out,

1:26:54

but they're also just like God,

1:26:56

this is such white people shit

1:26:58

What is happening? But they go

1:27:00

and hide because they're also like

1:27:02

we don't trust these motherfuckers at

1:27:04

all So they go and they

1:27:06

hide like under this staircase the

1:27:08

goblins I don't like this and

1:27:10

the Like they go and they

1:27:12

hide under the staircase And Ken's

1:27:14

talking to Celes and is like,

1:27:16

did you know about this? Because

1:27:18

like she's, Celes's been working on

1:27:20

the island for a long time.

1:27:22

And she's like, listen, I only

1:27:24

learned about this whole thing recently

1:27:26

and I didn't know everything. To

1:27:28

help a friend, we were learning

1:27:30

about goblin hunts and Googling it.

1:27:32

And she was like, when you

1:27:34

look at the history of them.

1:27:36

They call them goblin hunts or

1:27:38

whatever, but when I looked at

1:27:40

all the paperwork of the accidental

1:27:42

deaths that happened on this island,

1:27:44

almost all of them fit a

1:27:46

certain description. And they weren't the

1:27:48

kind of people that would usually

1:27:50

be kayaking to a deserted island.

1:27:52

They weren't white guys. Almost everyone

1:27:54

that accidentally quotes died were women,

1:27:56

undocumented immigrants, black or queer people.

1:27:58

missed or that if they would

1:28:00

have been made a cash offer

1:28:02

it would have been irresistible. And

1:28:04

so Ken kind of scoffs and

1:28:06

is like are you are you

1:28:08

saying that they're they're killing people

1:28:10

and then she in a very

1:28:12

dark way makes this joke of

1:28:14

like I guess that's one way

1:28:16

to help underprivileged people is to

1:28:18

bring them to an island and

1:28:20

kill them. Uh yeah. No, I

1:28:22

think, um, that's, it's, it's, yeah,

1:28:24

calling it a goblin hunt. It's

1:28:26

just so wild to me. Mm-hmm.

1:28:28

That's just, I can't. So we

1:28:30

also find out here. J.K. Rowling

1:28:32

somewhere. No. Just, just huffing the

1:28:34

mold. She loves huffing mold. She

1:28:36

loves. And then getting on Twitter.

1:28:38

Yeah. So. Also in this part

1:28:40

of the story, we find out

1:28:42

that Landon's mom had gotten COVID

1:28:44

in the first wave and became

1:28:46

disabled from chronic illness. and went

1:28:48

from becoming a doting wife to

1:28:50

needing a lot of care from

1:28:52

her husband and then suddenly she

1:28:55

needed to go live in the

1:28:57

castle to you know be away

1:28:59

from people and then suddenly there

1:29:01

was a fall and she died

1:29:03

and then he just had this

1:29:05

much younger wife that was just

1:29:07

lined up immediately yeah okay no

1:29:09

I get that so as they're

1:29:11

crouching they're hiding they're coming up

1:29:13

with a game plan if you

1:29:15

will they see a stream from

1:29:17

a flashlight coming down the staircase

1:29:19

that they're hiding under and they

1:29:21

hear someone talking and they're like

1:29:23

I'm turning into a block of

1:29:25

ice I can't do this all

1:29:27

night and then another voice Says