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who's there? Leonard? Leonard

2:04

who? Nobody knows. It's

2:06

funny because it's true.

2:09

Oh my god! Did

2:12

you just make a

2:14

joke funny by explaining

2:17

why it's funny? Oh

2:19

yes I did! Hell

2:22

yeah! Someone

2:24

on the radio said something about

2:26

the sun, going out forever in

2:29

a month or so, but we

2:31

all knew the end was near,

2:33

nothing to be done from here.

2:35

So I shook my head and

2:37

on to bed I go. Hello

2:41

everyone, this is Malique and Jamie and

2:43

you are listening to World Gone Wrong.

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3:02

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3:04

good setup. Anyway, kind, gentle, beautiful listeners.

3:07

We had a whole ding dang show

3:09

all set up and ready to go

3:11

when we woke up this morning. We

3:14

were gonna go in depth into the

3:16

whole Selke situation that has taken over

3:18

Pier 41 in San Francisco. Is it

3:21

safe to be around the Selkies? If

3:23

a Selke invites you to go swimming

3:25

with them, should you do it? Why

3:28

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3:30

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3:32

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this morning happened, and neither of us

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3:44

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4:37

So in case anyone has been napping

4:40

under a really good rock, and we

4:42

are literally the first thing you did

4:44

since waking up, who is Leonard? Nobody

4:47

knows. Why do we care about Leonard?

4:49

Nobody knows. Is it safe to be

4:51

around Leonard? Nobody knows. All we know

4:54

is that at 8.13 a.m. Mountain Time,

4:56

9.13 Central. Oh, thank you. Every phone

4:58

in America got a text message from

5:01

emergency services. That is not just the

5:03

lower 48 folks. We checked and our

5:05

Hawaiian and Alaskan Brethren also received this

5:08

message. Polite texting hours be damned. O-U-M-Lique,

5:10

do you want to do a dramatic

5:12

reading of the message that all 333.3

5:15

million Americans got today? I'd be honored.

5:17

Quote. Emergency alert. Be advised. Leonard is

5:19

coming. Urgently exercise all measures to protect

5:22

life and property. Follow all instructions from

5:24

local officials. Good luck. It's the good

5:26

luck that makes it art. It's the

5:29

good luck that really gets me. So

5:31

yeah, we all got that and like

5:33

zero additional information. Just you know, hey

5:36

gang, so you all know Leonard is

5:38

rolling into town, be worried for your

5:40

life, be worried for your property, send

5:43

tweet. It is not entirely clear which

5:45

department of the government sent that message.

5:47

Nothing about the situation is what one

5:50

could describe as entirely clear. At a

5:52

press conference this morning, a White House

5:54

spokesperson was quoted as saying, all information

5:57

that is available to the government has

5:59

now been to its citizens.

6:01

You will know more when we

6:03

know more. Until then, follow all

6:05

instructions from your local officials. Of

6:07

course, what really caught people's eyes

6:09

was what the White House official

6:11

was wearing when he said that.

6:13

Wait, wait, what? I didn't see.

6:15

Oh God, wait, you didn't? Okay,

6:18

here, hang on, I'm gonna text

6:20

you the article with the photo,

6:22

one second. Okay, let me just...

6:24

Oh my God. Yeah, pretty great,

6:26

right? Is he... What is he

6:28

wearing? A bulletproof vest, an N-95,

6:30

and a necklace made up of

6:32

like two dozen assorted pieces of

6:34

evil eye jewelry? Oh yeah. Good!

6:36

Yeah, so whatever Leonard is, and

6:38

again, let us emphasize, we know

6:40

nothing about who or what Leonard

6:42

is other than the fact that

6:44

he's approaching America, question mark. He's

6:46

got the people in charge really

6:48

scared, like scared enough to get

6:50

decked out in like three different

6:52

layers of protective gear and send

6:54

out that message to everyone. Yeah,

6:56

which like, okay, let's talk about

6:58

that for a second. I did

7:00

a quick round of things that

7:03

happened in just the last seven

7:05

days that didn't result in an

7:07

emergency message going out to everyone

7:09

in the country. Malik, are you

7:11

ready? Oh, I am so ready.

7:13

Bum me out. Okay, well, Macon,

7:15

Georgia is still covered in that

7:17

fog that makes people's skeletons move

7:19

independently of their bodies. Whatever, no

7:21

big deal. All along the west

7:23

coast, but only in the west

7:25

coast, the tennis channel has been

7:27

replaced with a crackling static image

7:29

through which occasionally you can make

7:31

out a clock that is counting

7:33

down to approximately nine weeks from

7:35

now, which is kind of appropriate,

7:37

actually, for the tennis channel. We

7:39

are still getting occasional tremors along

7:41

the Idaho-Canada border, always accompanied by

7:43

low groaning sounds? Which seismologists have

7:45

described as organic? Organic and alive.

7:48

Thanks? I truly hate that. Oh,

7:50

oh, here's a good one. Allentown,

7:52

Pennsylvania had an emergency mayoral election

7:54

following the death of its incumbent

7:56

mayor in what a have called

7:58

extremely suspicious circumstances. John Rothman of

8:00

the newly founded American Blood Party

8:02

won the election, making him America's

8:04

first openly vampire elected official hours

8:06

after the election, the city closed

8:08

its borders, and caught off all

8:10

communication with the exterior. This feels

8:12

like an okay thing to normalize,

8:14

he said, while dying inside. Did

8:16

any of those things warrant an

8:18

emergency services message? No! Absolutely not.

8:20

But you know who did? Leonard!

8:22

My ex, joking, everyone, I can't

8:24

start rumors like that. I can't.

8:26

Oh God. And folks, we know,

8:28

it may feel like we're being

8:30

a lot right now, but... Good

8:33

God, y'all, after the century of

8:35

a year that we had, like,

8:37

to just have the government come

8:39

out and send a message, just

8:41

being like, hey, stuff's going down,

8:43

if you know, you know, you

8:45

know. Yeah, exactly. God, I've always

8:47

hated when people do that, but

8:49

to just be like, we're not

8:51

going to tell you why you

8:53

should be scared, but no, really,

8:55

you should be very, very scared.

8:57

Yeah, it's less than ideal. It's

8:59

making baseline really challenging. Because if

9:01

you don't know what Leonard is,

9:03

you kind of just go through

9:05

your day going, is this Leonard?

9:07

Is that Leonard? If I buy

9:09

this sandwich, is that when Leonard

9:11

is going to strike? Jamie, I

9:13

spent 20 minutes staring at a

9:15

Frappuccino I bought this morning, wondering

9:18

if Leonard was related to the

9:20

coffee supply, and if I shouldn't

9:22

drink it. I did drink it.

9:24

I think I'm okay. The

9:26

point is, we have enough stuff to

9:28

worry about. We don't need that little

9:30

grenade of paranoia, thank you very much.

9:32

I was going to drive over to

9:34

Garden City to watch a Bronkbuster basketball

9:36

game, but I guess I won't now,

9:38

just in case the Leonard Man cometh.

9:41

Raised his hand. What the heck is

9:43

a Bronkbuster? That's what the sports teams

9:45

over in Garden City are all called.

9:47

Okay, but what actually is a Bronk?

9:49

No, can we just maybe focus on

9:51

the actual thing? Oh, sure, yes. I

9:54

think all these things kind of demonstrate

9:56

why it didn't feel appropriate to just

9:58

ignore this and talk what we had

10:00

planned and why Leonard, whoever the heck

10:02

he is, is kind of living rent-free

10:04

in our heads. But what can we

10:06

even say about this? Oh I have

10:08

some thoughts. Oh yeah? In DD, yes,

10:11

in DD do I do. I've gone

10:13

down a rabbit hole here and I've

10:15

got thoughts thoughts and theories and when

10:17

this is all over I'm very curious

10:19

if it turns out any of them

10:21

are right but let's just start with

10:23

a little bit of safety measures how

10:25

to Leonard proof your life nice yes

10:27

I love it A couple of organizations

10:29

have put out guides on their websites

10:31

based on what we know. Which again

10:33

is basically nothing. Right, and therefore you

10:35

kind of have to assume that it's...

10:37

Everything? Basically, so act like Leonard is

10:39

an earthquake, like Leonard is a hurricane.

10:41

Wait, wait, are we sure that Leonard

10:43

isn't a hurricane? Well, it's unlikely. It

10:45

isn't on the name list for 2024

10:47

or any of the next four years.

10:49

Also, hurricanes kind of take time to

10:52

form and get going. They're pretty visible.

10:54

If Leonard is something that all of

10:56

America needs to be worried about, we

10:58

should probably be able to see it

11:00

by now. And weather services aren't reporting

11:02

anything like that. What? Uh,

11:04

Jamie, how much time today have you

11:06

spent? Let's not talk about that. But,

11:09

okay, measures. First, be ready to shelter

11:11

in place. With almost any natural disaster

11:13

or life-threatening situation, the best thing you

11:15

can do is put a wall between

11:17

you and it. So make sure you

11:20

have food. You have water. You have

11:22

a source of power. Hang on. I'm

11:24

going to start taking notes. Go get

11:26

some food. Well, maybe. That's the thing.

11:28

If it's a hurricane, you know it's

11:31

coming. But you kind of have a

11:33

window to go to the store and

11:35

like stock up. But if it's an

11:37

earthquake... Oh, jeez. Yeah, you don't really

11:39

know when it's going to strike. So

11:42

it's more like, please already have food

11:44

and water and a source of power.

11:46

And for those of us without the

11:48

ability to travel back in time and

11:51

be better prepared for an emergency for

11:53

all seasons. Wait. But you've talked about

11:55

this. Malique! Let's

11:57

hypothetically say just for ha ha you

11:59

know argument take oh for the love

12:02

just ration whatever you do have okay

12:04

and stay indoors sure sure stay indoors

12:06

unless I should have known there was

12:09

going to be an unless Well, that's

12:11

the other thing. You kind of need

12:13

to be ready for an evacuation if

12:16

things go in that direction. So, have

12:18

a go bag. Go back and listen

12:20

to the episode we did about go

12:23

bags and what should be in them.

12:25

Your dad has already been explained on

12:27

this subject available for your listening pleasure

12:30

and your safety precautions. Check with your

12:32

state's Office of Emergency Management. A thing

12:34

that really exists. They've been working overtime

12:37

this year baby. Yeah, they've been doing

12:39

great. Check with them about evacuation routes

12:41

in your area. Look up emergency shelter

12:44

locations. Honestly, download the FEMA app. It's

12:46

got a lot of what you need.

12:48

The main thing is you want to

12:51

know what you're doing ahead of time.

12:53

You don't want to be trying to

12:55

figure this out while you're panicking in

12:58

the middle of an... Oh, rats. Sorry,

13:00

I thought I'd put that on silent.

13:02

Wait. Wait, was that, was that the

13:05

emergency notification system? Oh

13:08

my god! Oh my god!

13:10

You've got to be freaking

13:12

kidding me. Emergency alert. Leonard

13:14

is with us. The die

13:16

is now cast. Official authority

13:18

should be absolutely followed. We

13:20

hope you do well? What

13:22

the heck are we even

13:24

supposed to do with this?

13:26

We hope you do! What

13:28

does that even mean? Aye!

13:31

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15:40

a quick confab during the break, and

15:42

we kind of decided that we've kind

15:44

of said everything we can about safety

15:46

measures already. We don't have any information.

15:48

So try to be safe wherever you

15:50

are, but kind of be ready to

15:53

go somewhere else if you need to.

15:55

And that's what we've got for you.

15:57

So we're going to go right to

15:59

our next segment. to think

16:01

of this as Jamie's thorough research

16:03

and probability analysis center. Jamie's thorough

16:05

research and probability analysis center. Thank

16:07

you. That was really great. Here

16:09

for you. But yes, I spent

16:11

a fairly large portion of the

16:13

day today looking at our what

16:15

is even happening and doing some

16:17

of my own research into what

16:19

Leonard could be, because this feels

16:21

like it should be figure outable.

16:24

Like, if it's something big and

16:26

bad enough to freak out the

16:28

government, we should be able to

16:30

piece together what it is. They

16:32

can't hide something that everyone in

16:34

America needs to be notified about.

16:36

And yes, yes, I know. I'm

16:38

sounding a little pet by silver

16:40

right now. It's been a day.

16:42

Okay? Just keep breathing, okay, babe.

16:45

Thank you. Okay, I looked at

16:47

what people are saying when on

16:49

a couple of hyperlinked marathons, then

16:51

I looked into the ultimate authorities

16:53

on global speculation. The Las Vegas

16:55

betting odds. Wait, people are taking,

16:57

what am I even saying? Of

16:59

course, people are betting on what

17:01

Leonard is. Oh my God, this

17:04

world. Okay, so what? What have

17:06

we got? I have three scenarios

17:08

I think are most likely for

17:10

what Leonard could be right now.

17:12

Oh, great. You want to share

17:14

with the class? I thought you'd

17:16

never ask. Number one. Theory number

17:18

one. A drum roll, please. He's

17:20

a serial killer. What? You know,

17:22

like, out of a slasher film

17:24

from the 80s, Jason, Freddie, Mike

17:26

Myers, Leonard. Isn't Mike Myers the

17:28

dude that voices track? Different Mike

17:30

Myers, that makes me sad for

17:32

you. And I know what you're

17:34

going to say. I know what

17:37

you're going to say. It sounds

17:39

a bit extreme. To notify the

17:41

entire country about one itty-bitty-wittos-siwi-wiel-kiwo. Like,

17:43

how many people could one person

17:45

even... Like 2, 500, 500, give

17:47

or take or take? I'm sorry.

17:49

You were asking how many people

17:51

one person could go? Even if

17:53

they were like super industrious? Well,

17:55

I remember reading this cracked.com article

17:57

about the most like super terrifying

17:59

mass ever, and there was

18:01

this lady in 16th century France,

18:03

and it's all like slightly apocryphal,

18:06

but they say she was a

18:08

fortune teller and a poisoner and

18:10

a sorceress, double slay. She provided

18:12

black art services to the aristocracy

18:14

and killed a whole bunch of

18:16

them, which, hey, you know, I'm

18:18

here for, but also a whole

18:20

bunch of babies, which I'm way

18:22

less here for. By the time

18:24

she was done, they say she

18:26

killed like 2,500 people. Like if

18:28

that lady's pulling up into America,

18:30

I deaf want the government to

18:32

warm me about it. Is that...

18:34

Is that not the example you

18:36

were going for? Well I was

18:38

going to go with the story

18:40

of a Russian guy who poisoned

18:42

women's husbands to get them out

18:44

of unhappy marriages. Deadly and feminist.

18:46

But he's only believed to have

18:48

killed like 300 people. So yours

18:50

is better or worse. I don't,

18:52

I don't know, scarier. So yes,

18:55

Leonard the serial killer. That's theory

18:57

number one. The theory number two.

18:59

Leonard is in actual god damn

19:01

demon. Is

19:05

that what you do that?

19:08

Yeah, you know those things

19:10

that have been happening in

19:12

Iowa? Sort of like that,

19:15

but so this mildly blew

19:17

my mind. I don't know

19:19

how I didn't know this

19:22

before this afternoon, but there

19:24

is a book literally called

19:26

The Dixianaire Infernal. the infernal

19:29

dictionary. It is literally an

19:31

illustrated guide to 67 demons

19:33

with full profiles on them,

19:36

like in accordance to the

19:38

best demonology information that was

19:41

available in 1818, the hinge

19:43

of 1818 for the spooky

19:45

guys. That sounds metal as

19:48

hell. It is a wild

19:50

read. Okay, and so... Right

19:52

between Leschi's demon of the

19:55

forest and hunting and Big

19:57

Daddy demon Lucifer himself, we

19:59

have a da da da

20:02

da da da da da.

20:04

Leonard. a pretty dorky name

20:07

for a demon. Oh, just

20:09

you wait, because this dude

20:11

has overcome his dorky name.

20:14

I mean, maybe that is

20:16

why he is this demon.

20:18

Leonard, who is also explicitly

20:21

known as master Leonard. Wait,

20:23

master as in like... Oh,

20:25

you just, you have no

20:28

idea. I'm fanning myself. He

20:30

is the organizer and orchestrator

20:32

of the nocturnal orgies of

20:35

demons. Okay Leonard. So he

20:37

is literally the man in

20:40

charge of organizing the other

20:42

demons debauched group sex nightlife.

20:44

So pray for his organizational

20:47

abilities. Light a candle for

20:49

that man. Yes. He is

20:51

also represented, oh I can't,

20:54

I'm so excited to tell

20:56

you this, as a goat

20:58

with three horns, objectively making

21:01

him the horniest demon. Oh,

21:03

Jamie. Nice.

21:05

And wait, no, just wait, wait.

21:08

He marks his followers by drawing

21:10

a horn on their forehead, thus

21:12

making them extra horny. Oh my

21:14

God. Oh, just God has nothing

21:16

to do with it. Nothing at

21:18

all. Okay, wait, okay, but like

21:20

is is there more like does

21:22

he do anything super bad beyond

21:24

like running the hell fetish club

21:26

department and getting people really turned

21:28

on? I mean if we believe

21:30

what we will loosely call the

21:32

primary sources on these matters Kind

21:34

of not. He is a demon.

21:37

So he's big on the whole

21:39

like tempting people into making really

21:41

bad decisions. But compared to the

21:43

demon that's all about throwing thunderbolt

21:45

to the homes of very good

21:47

Christian men and women, Leonard, he's

21:49

kind of pretty chill. Yeah, no

21:51

kidding. Again. this is what Leonard

21:53

actually is, I think I can

21:55

kind of get on board. Although,

21:57

why make a whole national thing

21:59

about it? Like, I totally get

22:01

that the normies of America are

22:04

not ready for Leonard, but they

22:06

haven't kicked up so much fuss

22:08

for the other cases of demonic

22:10

stuff so far. Yeah, that's the

22:12

biggest mark against this theory. It's

22:14

a bit of a national attention

22:16

for a local problem. Unless, I

22:18

don't know, unless I know something

22:20

we don't, something about who Leonard

22:22

is, where he's coming from, who

22:24

he's bringing with him. Jamie, you're

22:26

kind of doing this really intense

22:28

thing where you're not blinking. Sorry,

22:30

sorry. Why don't we move on

22:33

to theory number three? Yeah? Yes,

22:35

let's do it. Okay, because number

22:37

three is my favorite of my

22:39

theory children. Are you ready? Are

22:41

you ready? Oh, I am so

22:43

ready. Number three. It's Genius Lokai.

22:45

Is what? Genius Lokai. Come on,

22:47

Malique. Say it with me. It's

22:49

fun. Three, two, one. Genius Lokai.

22:51

Oh, okay. I'm not saying that

22:53

wasn't fun, but what is your

22:55

oh so fancy Latin actually mean?

22:57

Well, there are six Leonards in

23:00

America. I'm pretty sure there are

23:02

a lot more than that. No,

23:04

Malique, listen to me. There are

23:06

six Leonard's in America. Leonard, Texas,

23:08

Leonard, North Dakota, Leonard, Minnesota, Leonard,

23:10

Missouri, Leonard, Michigan, and Leonard, Oklahoma.

23:12

Are you listing cities right now?

23:14

Technically, mostly unincorporated communities, but Leonard

23:16

Texas is a full-blown city, population

23:18

just under 2000. Right, but what

23:20

would it mean for a city

23:22

to be coming? Like, how can

23:24

a city move? Oh, I am

23:26

glad you asked. See, that's where

23:29

the concept of the genius loci

23:31

comes in. In ancient Rome, they

23:33

had this idea of a protective

23:35

spirit of a place that when

23:37

enough people live and work and

23:39

create in a place, when you

23:41

have enough people drinking the water

23:43

and breathing the air and making

23:45

their life there the place itself

23:47

develops an identity it develops knowledge

23:49

and history and a sense of

23:51

self and when those places are

23:53

threatened or hurt or disrespected the

23:56

spirit of the place can come

23:58

alive makes its will known. Jamie,

24:00

how much caffeine have you actually

24:02

had? So much! But that doesn't

24:04

matter right now, what matters that

24:06

this is the most likely explanation

24:08

of what's happening. Malique, everyone on

24:10

Reddit is in agreement. This is

24:12

what has them so scared. Leonard,

24:14

Texas, isn't happy. It's going to

24:16

make itself felt. Leonard, isn't happy,

24:18

and it's coming for all of

24:20

us. I mean, I can feel

24:22

it. Any moment now, we're going

24:25

to find out. Oh,

24:29

son of I... Uh,

24:31

yeah, so, um, folks,

24:33

we just got an

24:35

update, which says, emergency

24:37

alert. The situation with

24:39

Leonard has now been

24:41

fully resolved. If you

24:43

were affected, follow all

24:45

instructions that were given

24:47

to you at the

24:49

time. Otherwise, don't worry

24:52

about it. Stay safe.

24:54

End message? What? Don't

24:56

worry. Just don't

24:58

worry, but how could, how could, how

25:00

could, I don't even ever, what is

25:02

this? Ginny, are you? Are they gonna

25:05

tell us what Leonard was? I guess

25:07

not, like, do you need to go

25:09

scream into another pillow again? No, yes,

25:11

maybe, I don't know. Okay, okay, let's,

25:13

let's maybe wrap things up here. Well,

25:16

folks, I guess that's, that's that. Thank

25:18

you all for spending Leonard Day with

25:20

us and helping to keep us baseline.

25:22

I am not baseline. This is outrageous.

25:25

You owe me, they owe me knowledge.

25:27

I know babe, I know, um, thank

25:29

you all so much for listening, dear

25:31

listeners. We know things are getting weirder

25:33

every day. But we hope your baseline

25:36

and we wish you all a better

25:38

tomorrow. Bye, Jamie, wait. Even when it's

25:40

ashes, they'll be part of me that

25:42

wishes we could stay. Jamie and Malique

25:45

are played by Hillary Williams and Michael

25:47

Turn. This episode was written by Gabrielle

25:49

Urbina, edited by Eli Hamada McLean, assistant

25:51

director Lauren Grace Thompson. Our show art

25:54

is by Carly Fairbanks. And our Banging

25:56

theme song. falling in

25:58

love at the end

26:00

of the world

26:02

by Olivia and the

26:05

the World Gone Wrong

26:07

is produced and

26:09

created by Jeffrey Nils

26:11

Gardner and Wrong is produced

26:14

and created by Jeffrey Mills Gardner and

26:16

Eleanor Hyde. This is a production

26:18

is a production of

26:20

Audacious Machine Creative. The

26:29

Fable and Falling where fiction producers

26:31

flourish. flourish. What are we looking at? It's not a

26:33

we looking at? It's not

26:35

a plane or big. but

26:37

it's it's a drone, it's nothing I've it's

26:39

a drone, it's nothing I've

26:41

seen. to know if Stevens, the only

26:43

way to know if it'll

26:45

harm us is to see

26:47

how it reacts to human

26:49

contact. see you see that?

26:51

That was human, right? right? Well, Peterson

26:53

said it transformed. don't see anything see

26:55

anything weird here? I'll take weird

26:57

Larson over regular Larson any

26:59

day. Alpha 8? any day. you

27:01

here? I blinked for like

27:03

a second, for was just a second.

27:05

It was just gone. Hanger is clear

27:07

and secure. No sign of

27:09

Phillips or the No sign of Let's catch

27:11

ourselves an alien. What do you mean? Who

27:14

are you? I am

27:16

What do you mean? no, you? I

27:18

We call you no, no.

27:20

We call you Alpha 8. Michael, no! Listen

27:23

to Alpha Eight Now on Apollo Plus or Alpha

27:26

.com. I don't know where

27:28

that thing is, but it

27:30

wasn't my mom.