307: La Calavera

Episode Transcript

[0:00:02 – 0:00:06] Adam: I said, I got the lab to rush the results of the Chesney autopsy, if you’re interested.
[0:00:10 – 0:00:11] Erik: I heard you, Scully.
[0:00:12 – 0:00:20] Adam: And Chesney did indeed drown, but not as the results of the inhalation of ectoplasm as you so vehemently suggested.
[0:00:21 – 0:00:21] Erik: Well…
[0:00:23 – 0:00:25] Erik: What else could she possibly have drowned in?
[0:00:26 – 0:00:39] Adam: Margarita mix, uptrucked with about 40 ounces of Corcovado Gold Tequila, which, as it turns out, she and her friends rapidly consumed in the woods while trying to reenact the Blair Witch Project.
[0:00:39 – 0:00:44] Erik: Well, I think that demands a little deeper investigation, don’t you?
[0:00:44 – 0:00:45] Erik: No, I don’t.
[0:00:45 – 0:00:46] Erik: Well, it doesn’t matter.
[0:00:46 – 0:00:48] Erik: We’ve got bigger fish to fry.
[0:00:48 – 0:00:49] Erik: Hold on a second.
[0:00:55 – 0:00:57] Adam: I got sandwiches as well.
[0:00:59 – 0:01:00] Erik: Have a seat, Scully.
[0:01:00 – 0:01:01] Erik: Check this out.
[0:01:01 – 0:01:03] Erik: Is that beautiful or what?
[0:01:04 – 0:01:05] Erik: Crop circles, Mulder?
[0:01:05 – 0:01:08] Erik: Computer-generated crop circles.
[0:01:09 – 0:01:19] Erik: It’s a fractal image predicted by a computer and using data of every known occurrence of the phenomena over the past 40 years.
[0:01:23 – 0:01:33] Erik: What most people don’t realize is that since 1991, there’s been a dramatic increase in size and complexity of circle design.
[0:01:34 – 0:01:39] Erik: That’s when the Mandelbrot set appeared in England.
[0:01:43 – 0:01:45] Erik: Very nice dressing on that salad I see there.
[0:01:45 – 0:01:46] Erik: Yeah, we got some Caesar.
[0:01:47 – 0:01:58] Erik: A series of geometrically perfect rings appearing almost impossibly overnight in a field near Cambridge.
[0:01:58 – 0:02:00] Adam: I’m really impressed with this slideshow you’ve got, Mulder.
[0:02:00 – 0:02:01] Erik: Thank you.
[0:02:03 – 0:02:07] Erik: But that was merely prelude of what was to come.
[0:02:08 – 0:02:25] Erik: Three years later, in 1994, even more complex formations occurred simultaneously on opposite ends of the English countryside with the Mandelbrot set, were it still there, at its center.
[0:02:26 – 0:02:30] Erik: Then, in 1987, even more complex formations occurred simultaneously.
[0:02:31 – 0:02:33] Erik: These croutons are just incredible, though.
[0:02:35 – 0:02:37] Erik: And I’m not wearing any pants right now.
[0:02:38 – 0:02:38] Erik: Hmm?
[0:02:39 – 0:02:41] Adam: You’re not listening.
[0:02:41 – 0:02:41] Adam: I am.
[0:02:41 – 0:02:45] Adam: I guess I just don’t see the point.
[0:03:23 – 0:03:30] Adam: Welcome to Tumble Home, a spooky podcast.
[0:03:31 – 0:03:32] Adam: Happy Halloween.
[0:03:32 – 0:03:37] Adam: My name is Adam, and joining me here in the shed is my dear friend, Eric.
[0:03:38 – 0:03:39] Adam: Good evening.
[0:03:39 – 0:03:40] Adam: Good evening.
[0:03:40 – 0:03:41] Adam: If you dare.
[0:03:45 – 0:03:53] Adam: This is Dumble Home After Dark, episode 307.
[0:03:54 – 0:03:57] Erik: That was the sound of the ghost that used to just hang on a string.
[0:03:57 – 0:03:57] Erik: Yeah.
[0:03:58 – 0:04:02] Erik: That was motion sensor activated, and any time it would get activated, it just went, ooh.
[0:04:08 – 0:04:08] Erik: It’s like, wow.
[0:04:09 – 0:04:09] Erik: Not bad.
[0:04:09 – 0:04:12] Erik: I don’t know if I am scared or…
[0:04:12 – 0:04:13] Erik: I’m scared.
[0:04:13 – 0:04:15] Erik: Feeling like I should be…
[0:04:16 – 0:04:41] Adam: down on my knees in church right now but you know i haven’t been this scared since i saw my first crop circle i haven’t been this scared since the last time i was in church i haven’t been this scared since the last time i watched ghost ship i haven’t been this scared since the last time i watched ghost ship oh man that was scary honestly i was covering my eyes at points in this movie
[0:04:42 – 0:04:43] Erik: Did you think Ghost Ship was scary?
[0:04:44 – 0:04:46] Adam: Yeah, it’s medium scary.
[0:04:46 – 0:04:52] Erik: Tell me you’re a movie from 2002 without telling me you’re a movie from 2002.
[0:04:52 – 0:04:54] Erik: Oh, you’ve got a Mudvayne soundtrack?
[0:04:55 – 0:04:55] Adam: Yeah.
[0:04:55 – 0:04:55] Adam: Okay.
[0:04:56 – 0:04:56] Adam: Yeah.
[0:04:57 – 0:05:01] Adam: This movie has probably the most shocking opening scene in cinema history, though.
[0:05:03 – 0:05:05] Erik: Yeah, there’s going to be a lot of…
[0:05:05 – 0:05:06] Adam: I do not see that coming.
[0:05:06 – 0:05:10] Erik: There’s going to be a lot of interesting conversations when it comes to the timeline.
[0:05:10 – 0:05:10] Erik: Ghost Ship.
[0:05:11 – 0:05:34] Erik: of ghost ship not the timeline of the movie but the timeline of when this movie came out and how it relates to final destination because it’s got a lot of that oh i hadn’t thought of that i’ve never seen final destination any of them is there any camping in those there’s everything how many final destinations are there six i think
[0:05:35 – 0:05:37] Adam: Holy moly, hot dog.
[0:05:37 – 0:05:38] Adam: You’ve never seen one?
[0:05:38 – 0:05:40] Adam: I’ve never seen any Final Destinations.
[0:05:40 – 0:05:49] Adam: Is that the one where they’re like, ooh, I almost fell off that ladder, but I caught it, but then the next day they get hit by a bowling ball, dropped out of a window or something?
[0:05:49 – 0:05:50] Adam: Yeah, basically.
[0:05:50 – 0:05:51] Adam: Death is always coming for you.
[0:05:51 – 0:05:54] Erik: Yeah, you’ve kind of nailed it to a certain extent.
[0:05:54 – 0:05:55] Adam: I know enough.
[0:05:55 – 0:05:57] Adam: I don’t need to watch them probably, but do I?
[0:05:59 – 0:06:01] Erik: Should I check those out?
[0:06:01 – 0:06:04] Erik: I think that would be an incredible TCC series.
[0:06:04 – 0:06:07] Adam: If you loved Ghost Ship, you’re going to love Final Destination 8.
[0:06:10 – 0:06:12] Erik: The last one, Bloodlines, was incredible.
[0:06:13 – 0:06:14] Erik: The first one’s great.
[0:06:15 – 0:06:28] Erik: Some of the ones in between are borderline hit or miss, but you know what to expect, and it’s kind of fun when you know what to expect because it’s like, how are they going to subvert your expectations?
[0:06:28 – 0:06:34] Erik: And I hate it when movies go out of their way to subvert my expectations, but…
[0:06:36 – 0:06:41] Erik: Final Destination is the one movie franchise that can do that, and I’m fine with it.
[0:06:41 – 0:06:52] Erik: Because that’s the point of the movie, is to be like, oh, you think it’s going to be these scissors falling off of the top of a dentist chair while the patient is asleep?
[0:06:53 – 0:06:54] Erik: No, it’s not going to be that, actually.
[0:06:54 – 0:06:59] Erik: It’s going to be this entirely different, crazy set of circumstances that involves…
[0:07:01 – 0:07:02] Erik: a thing you didn’t even see coming.
[0:07:03 – 0:07:06] Erik: So it’d be fun to do one day, but we’re not there.
[0:07:06 – 0:07:08] Erik: It is Ghost Ship on TCC.
[0:07:09 – 0:07:11] Adam: Haunted Ghost Ship Month continues.
[0:07:12 – 0:07:17] Erik: Yeah, and also the glow-up for Mudvayne, the band.
[0:07:17 – 0:07:26] Erik: We will be talking extensively, three, two, maybe four-part series coming out later this year on the history of Mudvayne, the band.
[0:07:26 – 0:07:28] Adam: Incredible, incredible story.
[0:07:29 – 0:07:43] Erik: We’re transitioning from a trivia podcast to a early 2000s new metal rock music podcast.
[0:07:43 – 0:07:46] Erik: And I hope you’re all ready for that because it’s coming.
[0:07:47 – 0:07:51] Adam: I’m trying to picture how to spell Mudvayne, and I’m a little scared to ask.
[0:07:51 – 0:07:51] Erik: There’s a Y.
[0:07:52 – 0:07:52] Adam: Is there a Y?
[0:07:52 – 0:07:54] Adam: There’s a Y. I thought there might be, yeah.
[0:07:54 – 0:07:54] Erik: Yeah.
[0:07:55 – 0:08:00] Erik: It’s really the only one that they throw in there that’s kind of not what you would expect.
[0:08:00 – 0:08:03] Adam: Such a disturbing name, even if it was spelled correctly.
[0:08:03 – 0:08:04] Adam: Right.
[0:08:04 – 0:08:05] Adam: It’s even more disturbing.
[0:08:05 – 0:08:06] Erik: That’s the thing.
[0:08:06 – 0:08:08] Erik: Those guys, they never really got it fully.
[0:08:08 – 0:08:12] Erik: I think it would be even more disturbing is if it was spelled correctly.
[0:08:13 – 0:08:24] Adam: What’s really truly disturbing is that Eric didn’t pack a lunch or a salad, but we do have this bag of beers, and my thirst is disturbing, truly.
[0:08:24 – 0:08:27] Erik: Disturbingly close to that open flame heater.
[0:08:27 – 0:08:30] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know how that bag got thrown there.
[0:08:30 – 0:08:33] Adam: That was pretty wild here on set.
[0:08:34 – 0:08:36] Adam: We have a brown bag.
[0:08:36 – 0:08:37] Adam: What is it saying?
[0:08:38 – 0:08:39] Adam: A brown bag.
[0:08:39 – 0:08:42] Adam: It’s just as listed as brown bag from August 12th.
[0:08:43 – 0:08:46] Adam: And it says Gunflint to Duncan on the whiteboard.
[0:08:47 – 0:08:48] Erik: Real connoisseur’s trip.
[0:08:51 – 0:08:56] Erik: We are also once again doppelgangered in outfits only.
[0:09:00 – 0:09:01] Erik: Oh, Adam seems nipped.
[0:09:01 – 0:09:04] Erik: I’m transfixed.
[0:09:04 – 0:09:07] Adam: We did use, yeah, we’re wearing the same exact outfit for sure.
[0:09:07 – 0:09:09] Erik: Again, but it’s not the same as last week.
[0:09:09 – 0:09:14] Adam: Yeah, I don’t even remember what we were wearing last week, but now we’re once again just wearing the exact same thing.
[0:09:14 – 0:09:18] Erik: It’s almost like that’s what most people up here dress like.
[0:09:19 – 0:09:23] Adam: Yeah, we were dressing for comfort and fashion and warmth.
[0:09:24 – 0:09:25] Adam: That’s the smart thing to do.
[0:09:26 – 0:09:34] Adam: We did use the beers in this bag as a sound effect in the opening X-Files track.
[0:09:34 – 0:09:36] Erik: Oh, was that you putting the salad down?
[0:09:36 – 0:09:38] Adam: That was getting the sandwiches out of the bag.
[0:09:39 – 0:09:39] Erik: Oh, yes, that’s right.
[0:09:40 – 0:09:45] Adam: I threw the sandwich or the salads on the table and then eventually I had to grab sandwiches out of a bag.
[0:09:45 – 0:09:48] Adam: So that’s what we use to simulate that effect.
[0:09:48 – 0:09:49] Adam: If anybody picked that up.
[0:09:49 – 0:09:51] Erik: Simulation sponsorships.
[0:09:51 – 0:09:52] Erik: Very nice.
[0:09:53 – 0:09:57] Adam: We have a picture of the family here.
[0:09:57 – 0:09:59] Erik: Oh, wow.
[0:09:59 – 0:10:00] Erik: Is that real?
[0:10:01 – 0:10:02] Adam: Yeah, this is real.
[0:10:02 – 0:10:03] Adam: That’s a good-looking family.
[0:10:03 – 0:10:04] Erik: That’s real?
[0:10:04 – 0:10:05] Erik: Let me see this family.
[0:10:07 – 0:10:13] Adam: Eric and Adam, this sponsorship is a thank you for all the joy you’ve brought us over the years with your podcast.
[0:10:13 – 0:10:14] Adam: That always makes us smile.
[0:10:15 – 0:10:18] Adam: We are certainly happier paddlers than thanks to you.
[0:10:19 – 0:10:24] Adam: Currently, we’re on our way up to entry point 58, going in on Gunflint and back out through Duncan.
[0:10:24 – 0:10:29] Adam: Hoping our 13-year-old catches a big smallie on the crystal clear waters of South Lake.
[0:10:29 – 0:10:32] Adam: Thank you for all the shared stories and laughter you bring to our lives.
[0:10:33 – 0:10:34] Adam: Wishing you the best.
[0:10:35 – 0:10:36] Adam: Laura, Brad, and Owen.
[0:10:37 – 0:10:37] Adam: There we go.
[0:10:41 – 0:10:41] Erik: Wow.
[0:10:43 – 0:10:44] Erik: It’s a story about adoption.
[0:10:44 – 0:10:45] Erik: That’s so sweet.
[0:10:49 – 0:10:57] Adam: I remember meeting them and wondering, because it was kind of a windy day, and they said they were going in through Gunflint.
[0:10:58 – 0:11:00] Adam: And I was like, oh, boy, it’s a little windy.
[0:11:01 – 0:11:03] Adam: But it wasn’t like one of those crazy days.
[0:11:03 – 0:11:09] Adam: So I hope your trip to Duncan and South was amazing.
[0:11:09 – 0:11:12] Adam: And you probably got to do the ceremony in the Heideland Portage.
[0:11:12 – 0:11:17] Adam: And I’m probably sure that you caught a big smallmouth bass on South Lake, so very good.
[0:11:17 – 0:11:24] Erik: Yeah, I mean, that’s… You know, I think we’ve talked about this in the past.
[0:11:27 – 0:11:29] Erik: You get to do one last trip.
[0:11:31 – 0:11:31] Erik: One last trip.
[0:11:32 – 0:11:38] Erik: You can never go back into the boundary waters.
[0:11:40 – 0:11:42] Erik: You never get to paddle ever again.
[0:11:42 – 0:11:44] Erik: Maybe it’s a curse.
[0:11:45 – 0:11:46] Erik: Maybe it’s a…
[0:11:49 – 0:11:51] Erik: just out of you’re moving somewhere.
[0:11:52 – 0:11:55] Erik: And at the very least, you might not think it will ever happen again.
[0:11:56 – 0:11:58] Erik: Often pondered.
[0:11:59 – 0:12:24] Erik: this for myself and as a fun if not uh i wouldn’t necessarily quite uh categorize it as quite macabre but it’s bordering on it to consider you know the one last trip and i did mention i think i ingests before suggested uh it’s a you know whatever going to gunflint to duncan but like
[0:12:25 – 0:12:47] Erik: i don’t know those border lakes up in that vento area that clear water unit yeah clear water loop it’s pretty tough to not be like if it’s got to be a top five of considerations for sure and if it’s a trip you have done before that you are going to revisit then that’s obviously one of the best answers you can give
[0:12:48 – 0:12:58] Adam: I would also think that if that’s like you got one more trip to do, wouldn’t you just want to say Wabakimi or, I don’t know, paddle the entirety of the Yukon River or something?
[0:12:59 – 0:12:59] Adam: Yeah.
[0:12:59 – 0:13:04] Adam: Some crazy dream trip of a lifetime that you haven’t gotten to do yet?
[0:13:04 – 0:13:05] Erik: Yeah, it’s a fuzzy question.
[0:13:05 – 0:13:12] Adam: But if you’re saying like if you’re going to revisit one trip, of all the trips you’ve done, you get to pick one that you get to revisit?
[0:13:12 – 0:13:13] Adam: Yeah.
[0:13:13 – 0:13:14] Adam: Yeah, Clearwater Loop.
[0:13:14 – 0:13:16] Adam: Well, there’s two different answers.
[0:13:16 – 0:13:18] Adam: Or anything along the border country there.
[0:13:18 – 0:13:22] Erik: It’s one to revisit and then one to do something new.
[0:13:23 – 0:13:27] Erik: But at the end of the day, at the end of the life, would you rather…
[0:13:29 – 0:13:49] Adam: revisit a classic a classic or strike off on i don’t want something new i don’t want some sort of superpowers uh available as well where you could like uh throw down like a blue orb and then it would just clear the lake when you get to it over i want to i want a lake clearance orb
[0:13:51 – 0:14:11] Adam: campsite availability yeah just everybody i don’t want to see wouldn’t that be a great power if you just got to you know whatever you get to mountain that’d be a fun you just like toss a blue urban when you get to the lake and it just like that’d be a wipes everybody question of the week yeah power bonjour superpowers superpowers
[0:14:12 – 0:14:13] Erik: What superpower would you want?
[0:14:14 – 0:14:14] Adam: Yeah.
[0:14:14 – 0:14:16] Erik: Besides draining the lake to see where all the fish are.
[0:14:16 – 0:14:18] Erik: I want to drain the lake orbs.
[0:14:18 – 0:14:21] Adam: And I also want to have lake clearance orbs for sure.
[0:14:22 – 0:14:24] Erik: One orb to empty the water.
[0:14:24 – 0:14:26] Adam: What’s your favorite orb power?
[0:14:26 – 0:14:27] Adam: So that you can see all the dead fish.
[0:14:28 – 0:14:30] Erik: Oh, man, I could have caught that one as it’s drying out in the sun.
[0:14:30 – 0:14:32] Adam: It’s just frozen right there.
[0:14:32 – 0:14:33] Adam: What’s better than catching it is getting to see it.
[0:14:34 – 0:14:39] Erik: But, yeah, no, it would drain the lake but freeze all of the fish where they were.
[0:14:40 – 0:14:40] Erik: We’ve talked about this.
[0:14:41 – 0:14:48] Erik: But then you’d have another orb that would just, like, what would happen to the families, though, that were camped in the lake?
[0:14:48 – 0:14:50] Adam: Don’t ask those kind of questions.
[0:14:52 – 0:14:54] Adam: We’re not going to answer that question at all.
[0:14:54 – 0:14:55] Adam: It’s all about my wish right now.
[0:14:55 – 0:14:56] Adam: We don’t know where they go.
[0:14:56 – 0:14:59] Adam: They just go to an alternate universe temporarily and are displaced.
[0:15:00 – 0:15:00] Adam: It’s fine.
[0:15:01 – 0:15:02] Adam: They don’t even know what happened.
[0:15:02 – 0:15:19] Erik: yeah let’s just say that the other families won’t know it does that make it better or worse they just wake up back in their homes weird must have been the bears yeah no wait what i thought we were on a bonjour trip no we’re back at home down in woodbury i don’t know what’s going on did we even get to stop for anchor
[0:15:20 – 0:15:46] Adam: no no i don’t think so i’m i’m very hungry dad i feel like i haven’t eaten in a week dad sniffs the mustache definitely did not eat a anchor burger yesterday i’d be still smelling that thing today there’s no onions in this mustache no onions in this mustache at all hon i’m sorry i think we’ve been blue orbed i’m pretty sure that we didn’t get any large nuclear spears but we did get these i’m sorry no we got a i thought it was all one kind
[0:15:47 – 0:15:48] Adam: There’s a couple.
[0:15:48 – 0:15:52] Adam: Thank you to Laura, Brad, and Owen, who are looking to adopt.
[0:15:52 – 0:15:58] Adam: So if anybody wants to get in touch with them, they have given us some pretty nice beers, and it sounds like they had a great trip.
[0:15:59 – 0:16:00] Adam: We got a couple.
[0:16:00 – 0:16:01] Adam: It’s a four-pack from Ursa Minor.
[0:16:03 – 0:16:06] Adam: I thought it was all pterodactyl screams, but it’s not.
[0:16:07 – 0:16:10] Adam: There’s also glampings, lemon orange shandies in here.
[0:16:10 – 0:16:11] Adam: I’ve never seen these.
[0:16:11 – 0:16:11] Adam: Have you?
[0:16:12 – 0:16:12] Adam: I have, yes.
[0:16:12 – 0:16:13] Adam: I’m going to start with that.
[0:16:13 – 0:16:15] Adam: The missus likes those.
[0:16:15 – 0:16:18] Adam: Oh, it looks nice, and I’m very thirsty.
[0:16:19 – 0:16:21] Adam: And I’ve definitely had a couple of pterodactyl screams.
[0:16:21 – 0:16:22] Adam: They’re one of my favorites.
[0:16:22 – 0:16:25] Adam: I always feel like I buy those for myself when I’m like,
[0:16:25 – 0:16:26] SPEAKER_00: You know what, Adam?
[0:16:27 – 0:16:27] SPEAKER_00: You had a pretty good week.
[0:16:28 – 0:16:29] Adam: You get a little treat.
[0:16:29 – 0:16:31] Adam: Yeah, you get a nice little treat.
[0:16:33 – 0:16:35] Adam: But anyways, I’m going to save that for later.
[0:16:35 – 0:16:36] Adam: I’m going to start with the glamping.
[0:16:38 – 0:16:45] Adam: Thank you for the art supplies, and I hope you had a really good trip on South and Rose.
[0:16:45 – 0:16:46] Adam: Oh, my God.
[0:16:46 – 0:16:47] Adam: Yeah.
[0:16:47 – 0:16:48] Adam: It’s a pretty good trip.
[0:16:48 – 0:16:48] Erik: It’s a banger trip.
[0:16:48 – 0:16:50] Erik: Big water, big views, though.
[0:16:51 – 0:16:52] Erik: Big sky.
[0:16:53 – 0:16:54] Adam: Multiple littles in there.
[0:16:54 – 0:16:56] Adam: You get Little Gunplin and Little North.
[0:16:56 – 0:16:56] Adam: Yeah.
[0:16:56 – 0:16:57] Adam: Big skies.
[0:16:57 – 0:16:59] Erik: Some little lakes.
[0:16:59 – 0:17:02] Erik: Some of the last, this last week, driving into work.
[0:17:04 – 0:17:04] Erik: It’s been.
[0:17:06 – 0:17:07] Adam: It’s very fruity.
[0:17:09 – 0:17:12] Erik: Citrus.
[0:17:12 – 0:17:13] Erik: Yeah.
[0:17:13 – 0:17:18] Erik: You’re up here in the heat of the summer, and it’s like the grind…
[0:17:19 – 0:17:30] Erik: No matter what you’re doing, I feel like up in these parts during the summer, it’s kind of hard to notice sometimes because it’s packed to the gills.
[0:17:31 – 0:17:32] Erik: Everything is.
[0:17:33 – 0:17:34] Erik: And you’re just a little on edge.
[0:17:35 – 0:17:36] Adam: Just a little.
[0:17:37 – 0:17:39] Erik: And it’s, yeah.
[0:17:39 – 0:17:43] Erik: You get a little tunnel vision to the work, to the home.
[0:17:44 – 0:17:45] Erik: But I don’t know.
[0:17:45 – 0:17:48] Erik: So then about this time of year, the roads kind of start quieting down.
[0:17:49 – 0:17:57] Erik: And the light of the day when you are traveling is like aligned with the witching hour, both in the morning and at night.
[0:17:58 – 0:17:59] Adam: I’m getting, yeah.
[0:17:59 – 0:18:01] Adam: Again, today was another banger sunrise.
[0:18:01 – 0:18:14] Erik: just incredible drives into work where like the sun is rising at such an angle where you come around the corner on 61 and it looks like Grand Marais on fire because all of the glass in town is reflecting off of the sun.
[0:18:15 – 0:18:15] Erik: Yeah.
[0:18:15 – 0:18:17] Erik: So it’s like, is it like for a second?
[0:18:17 – 0:18:20] Erik: I was like, that looks like fire.
[0:18:20 – 0:18:27] Erik: But I was like, oh, no, that’s just like the windows of the trading post from like seven miles away.
[0:18:27 – 0:18:28] Adam: Perfect pain.
[0:18:28 – 0:18:31] Erik: Just like glinting off the sun in an orange glow.
[0:18:31 – 0:18:33] Erik: But like the whole town is doing that.
[0:18:33 – 0:18:35] Adam: That’s a different kind of orb power.
[0:18:35 – 0:18:59] Erik: yeah and then you know you go up over the hill and then you’re into the frost lands because right on the lake right now it’s not frosting but you get up over the hill just a little bit and you get that hard everything the yellow weeds the still kind of barely hanging on leaves of trees and some of the tamarack needles are all just hard frosted in the morning
[0:19:00 – 0:19:18] Adam: it was yeah it was very frosty this morning too some beautiful drives living in the same county or something everything you’re describing makes perfect sense eric i just really do love the the morning drives especially um this time of year yeah yeah you know november’s the new october
[0:19:19 – 0:19:25] Erik: Also, it’s insane that, like, I was just standing in my yard today.
[0:19:25 – 0:19:27] Erik: I was like, I could mow one more time.
[0:19:27 – 0:19:28] Erik: I was thinking about that.
[0:19:28 – 0:19:28] Erik: What the heck?
[0:19:28 – 0:19:29] Erik: It’s November.
[0:19:29 – 0:19:30] Erik: Yeah.
[0:19:30 – 0:19:31] Erik: No, I’m not mowing.
[0:19:32 – 0:19:33] Erik: I am not.
[0:19:33 – 0:19:34] Erik: I’m putting my foot down.
[0:19:34 – 0:19:36] Adam: I still got a little gas in the mower, though.
[0:19:36 – 0:19:37] Adam: I might as well.
[0:19:37 – 0:19:41] Erik: No, I took a hammer and just destroyed my lawnmower.
[0:19:41 – 0:19:43] Adam: I just took a shears and cut the gas line.
[0:19:44 – 0:19:45] Adam: The hell with it.
[0:19:45 – 0:19:45] Adam: Yeah.
[0:19:45 – 0:19:46] Adam: Drain that sucker.
[0:19:46 – 0:19:49] Erik: He just took a shears and just hand snipped the lawn.
[0:19:49 – 0:19:50] Erik: Yeah.
[0:19:50 – 0:19:51] Erik: Real Zen style.
[0:19:52 – 0:19:52] Adam: Yeah.
[0:19:52 – 0:19:54] Erik: Yamamoto style.
[0:19:54 – 0:19:54] Adam: Yeah.
[0:19:54 – 0:19:57] Adam: I put on geese and I went and hand trimmed the lawn.
[0:19:59 – 0:20:01] Adam: That’s how I relax.
[0:20:01 – 0:20:02] Adam: That’s how I unwind, you know.
[0:20:03 – 0:20:03] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:20:04 – 0:20:06] Adam: Stop and take a deep breath.
[0:20:08 – 0:20:08] Adam: This is pretty good.
[0:20:08 – 0:20:10] Adam: Another kind of orb is citrus.
[0:20:10 – 0:20:13] Adam: This has got lemons and orange in the shandy.
[0:20:13 – 0:20:15] Adam: It’s very citrusy.
[0:20:15 – 0:20:17] Adam: I’m going to give it a 9 out of 10 citrusy.
[0:20:19 – 0:20:20] Adam: And it’s pretty damn good.
[0:20:21 – 0:20:25] Adam: Everybody knows the pterodactyl screams are going to get super high marks.
[0:20:25 – 0:20:27] Adam: That doesn’t even have to be said.
[0:20:27 – 0:20:29] Adam: It’s got incredible can artwork.
[0:20:29 – 0:20:30] Adam: Yeah, and scales.
[0:20:31 – 0:20:33] Erik: Scales of a pterodactyl.
[0:20:34 – 0:20:36] Erik: Scales that they’ve almost managed to make kind of look 3D.
[0:20:36 – 0:20:37] Erik: I like that.
[0:20:37 – 0:20:38] Erik: Colors are good.
[0:20:39 – 0:20:39] Erik: High definition.
[0:20:40 – 0:20:41] Erik: High definition for a can artwork.
[0:20:41 – 0:20:42] Adam: High marks.
[0:20:42 – 0:20:42] Adam: Yeah.
[0:20:43 – 0:20:43] Adam: It’s good work.
[0:20:44 – 0:20:45] Adam: Very good work.
[0:20:47 – 0:20:49] Adam: Did you hear about the pumpkin gnoming?
[0:20:52 – 0:20:53] Adam: Did you get any pumpkins in your yard?
[0:20:53 – 0:20:54] Adam: I guess they’ll start there.
[0:20:55 – 0:20:56] Adam: What do you mean by that?
[0:20:57 – 0:21:02] Adam: When I came home from work, there was two large pumpkins sitting by my fire number.
[0:21:03 – 0:21:05] Adam: And they weren’t ones that we put there.
[0:21:06 – 0:21:08] Adam: Just right down here by the old shed.
[0:21:09 – 0:21:10] Adam: That’s where the fire number is.
[0:21:10 – 0:21:11] Adam: And there’s just two pumpkins there.
[0:21:11 – 0:21:12] Adam: Uncarved.
[0:21:13 – 0:21:13] Adam: Right.
[0:21:13 – 0:21:14] Adam: Fresh picked, it looked like.
[0:21:16 – 0:21:18] Adam: And I was like, huh.
[0:21:18 – 0:21:46] Adam: no i didn’t i was not aware we get more pumpkins we already have several big pumpkins that were like ready for carving which we did carve tonight um but um i was like huh and then i get home i’m like uh and uh i guess that what happened was multiple people in the neighborhood pumpkins appeared at their fire number somebody is pumpkin pumpkin gnoming us it’s still a mystery
[0:21:46 – 0:21:50] Adam: And yeah, so it’s sort of it is still a mystery as far as I know.
[0:21:50 – 0:21:59] Adam: But also, I desperately do want to know which neighbor had the genius idea to just drop off pumpkins at everybody in the neighborhood like this.
[0:21:59 – 0:22:02] Adam: And when I say neighborhood, we’re out in the middle of nowhere.
[0:22:02 – 0:22:04] Adam: So there’s not that many houses between here and the highway.
[0:22:04 – 0:22:09] Adam: But like pretty much every driveway along the way apparently had pumpkins dropped off.
[0:22:09 – 0:22:09] Erik: Wow.
[0:22:11 – 0:22:13] Adam: So, I mean, that’s still a lot of pumpkins.
[0:22:13 – 0:22:20] Adam: We’re pretty remote and it’s not houses stacked on top of one another, but that’s still quite a few driveways.
[0:22:21 – 0:22:22] Adam: And they all got pumpkins?
[0:22:23 – 0:22:23] Erik: Yeah.
[0:22:23 – 0:22:26] Adam: So, like, I desperately do want to know who would do something like this.
[0:22:26 – 0:22:30] Adam: But also, I love that it’s a mystery and I honestly don’t want to know.
[0:22:31 – 0:22:33] Adam: Would you want to know or not want to know?
[0:22:33 – 0:22:34] Adam: And did you get any pumpkins?
[0:22:34 – 0:22:35] Erik: I wouldn’t want to know.
[0:22:35 – 0:22:36] Erik: I wouldn’t like, I mean.
[0:22:36 – 0:22:38] Erik: Because you’re not that far from here.
[0:22:38 – 0:22:39] Erik: I wouldn’t go out.
[0:22:39 – 0:22:40] Erik: No, I didn’t get any pumpkins.
[0:22:40 – 0:22:44] Erik: I have one that was carved by the missus.
[0:22:45 – 0:22:50] Erik: I wouldn’t want to know necessarily, but I would be very happy to find out.
[0:22:50 – 0:22:54] Erik: Like, I wouldn’t go out of my way to, like, I’m not going to be, like, pounding on doors.
[0:22:54 – 0:22:55] Adam: Yeah, I have a couple ideas.
[0:22:56 – 0:22:56] Adam: Hey.
[0:22:57 – 0:22:58] Adam: What do you know about these pumpkins?
[0:22:58 – 0:23:01] Adam: So I did run into somebody that kind of lives over at Mar Bayou.
[0:23:02 – 0:23:04] Adam: last night at the co-op annual meeting.
[0:23:04 – 0:23:07] Adam: And I was like, Hey, you guys have a lot of pumpkins, right?
[0:23:07 – 0:23:08] Adam: And they’re like, yeah.
[0:23:08 – 0:23:12] Adam: I was like, you didn’t have to, you know, like drop them.
[0:23:12 – 0:23:12] Adam: Yeah.
[0:23:12 – 0:23:14] Adam: Like pumpkin fairy, a bunch of people.
[0:23:14 – 0:23:15] Adam: And they’re like, what?
[0:23:15 – 0:23:16] Adam: We would never know.
[0:23:17 – 0:23:18] Adam: No, we sell those things for money.
[0:23:18 – 0:23:19] Adam: We keep our pumpkins.
[0:23:20 – 0:23:21] Adam: Pumpkins are gold.
[0:23:22 – 0:23:25] Adam: I was like, yeah, classic co-op comrade thing to say, you know.
[0:23:27 – 0:23:28] Adam: So it wasn’t them, apparently.
[0:23:29 – 0:23:33] Adam: Or maybe that’s exactly what they would say if it was them who is pumpkin gnoming people.
[0:23:33 – 0:23:35] Erik: Yeah, you should just chair company this whole situation.
[0:23:35 – 0:23:37] Erik: This is going to be another chair company.
[0:23:38 – 0:23:41] Adam: These tech of pumpkins just showed up wearing a hockey mask in my backyard.
[0:23:41 – 0:23:44] Adam: Stop asking about the pumpkins.
[0:23:45 – 0:23:49] Adam: And I’m taking these pills and they’re making me smell like a pumpkin.
[0:23:50 – 0:23:51] Adam: I’m taking hundreds of these pills.
[0:23:52 – 0:23:55] Adam: My wife says, why do you smell like a pumpkin?
[0:23:55 – 0:23:58] Adam: I said, it’s because of these goddamn pills you’re giving me.
[0:24:00 – 0:24:01] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:24:02 – 0:24:02] Erik: I love it.
[0:24:03 – 0:24:10] Erik: I’m going to a Halloween party this weekend, but I really want to at some point after the Halloween party go to a mistake party.
[0:24:11 – 0:24:15] Adam: Oh, yeah, are you going to take the green bracelet or the yellow bracelet?
[0:24:15 – 0:24:21] Erik: Which is basically like vaguely different forms of making a mistake.
[0:24:21 – 0:24:26] Erik: I want to make a mistake or I am ready to make a mistake is basically the idea, right?
[0:24:27 – 0:24:32] Erik: I couldn’t get over it, like just how hilarious the idea of a mistake party is.
[0:24:33 – 0:24:33] Erik: It’s hilarious.
[0:24:33 – 0:24:35] Erik: It’s a really bad idea.
[0:24:35 – 0:24:40] Adam: The only thing that I’ve ever agreed with Ron on is that Ron’s like, this is a horrible idea and you shouldn’t do it.
[0:24:40 – 0:24:58] Erik: yeah like yeah i finally agree with ron on one thing no but it is a horrible idea but also a genius right besides that i don’t know third episode of chair company was uh kind of whole home for me besides the mistake party joke you didn’t oh yeah
[0:24:59 – 0:25:00] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:25:00 – 0:25:06] Erik: It kind of was like, it’s that part of the season of these episodes, though, of these kinds of shows.
[0:25:06 – 0:25:13] Adam: They’re setting a little bunch of crumbs out for you right now, like the lady eating popcorn in a pile of futons or whatever.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:15] SPEAKER_03: Popcorn.
[0:25:16 – 0:25:17] SPEAKER_03: Popcorn.
[0:25:17 – 0:25:18] Erik: We’ll figure it all out.
[0:25:18 – 0:25:19] Adam: Yeah, we’re going to figure it out.
[0:25:19 – 0:25:21] Adam: But honestly, we’re not even halfway through the story.
[0:25:21 – 0:25:23] Adam: So, I mean, who knows what’s going to happen.
[0:25:24 – 0:25:30] Adam: I demand that they finish the Twister game and also that we do get to see the wedding at the Haunted Barn.
[0:25:30 – 0:25:31] Adam: The Twister game.
[0:25:31 – 0:25:34] Adam: And what would you do if you found a small drunk guy in your closet?
[0:25:35 – 0:25:36] Erik: Oh, God, yeah.
[0:25:36 – 0:25:37] Erik: That’s right.
[0:25:37 – 0:25:39] Erik: That’s who was in his closet.
[0:25:40 – 0:25:41] Adam: Are you drunk again?
[0:25:41 – 0:25:44] Adam: A little drunk PI assistant.
[0:25:44 – 0:25:44] SPEAKER_00: I’m sorry.
[0:25:45 – 0:25:46] SPEAKER_00: I’ve got a sickness.
[0:25:46 – 0:25:48] Adam: He texted the wrong burner phone.
[0:25:48 – 0:25:53] Erik: He texted the guy he was following’s phone instead of the guy who hired him to follow him.
[0:25:54 – 0:25:54] Adam: No way out.
[0:25:55 – 0:25:56] Adam: There’s no way out.
[0:25:56 – 0:25:57] Adam: Literally out of this closet.
[0:25:57 – 0:25:58] Adam: Help.
[0:26:00 – 0:26:04] Adam: But yeah, the previous episode, you’re led to believe that you’re trapped.
[0:26:04 – 0:26:06] Adam: Now you’re in the gang.
[0:26:06 – 0:26:16] Erik: I just love that Tim Robinson, his humor is like in a situation in a show like this where you end on a cliffhanger in episode two where it’s like there’s maybe somebody in the closet.
[0:26:17 – 0:26:23] Erik: The next episode would be like, actually, no, it’s even more mysterious than that.
[0:26:23 – 0:26:24] Erik: Nobody was in the closet.
[0:26:25 – 0:26:28] Erik: But in Tim Robinson’s world, it’s like, no, there’s just a little weird guy in there.
[0:26:28 – 0:26:30] Erik: I was so surprised there was a weird little drunk guy.
[0:26:31 – 0:26:34] Adam: He’s in there and he takes him to the garage and he’s kicking stuff around.
[0:26:34 – 0:26:34] Adam: Yeah.
[0:26:35 – 0:26:36] Erik: But he doesn’t like beat him up.
[0:26:36 – 0:26:39] Erik: He’s just like kind of like lightly grabbing him.
[0:26:41 – 0:26:43] Adam: And you’re not doing the Jeep tours again, though, are you?
[0:26:43 – 0:26:44] Erik: Yeah.
[0:26:44 – 0:26:49] Erik: I love that you do get the teaser of the box that falls off the shelf in the garage that says Jeep tours.
[0:26:49 – 0:26:52] Adam: We’re going to get to see that Jeep tour rope course.
[0:26:52 – 0:26:57] Erik: I need to see at least a highlight reel of what he thought the Jeep tours was going to be.
[0:26:58 – 0:27:07] Adam: And the only other thing I noticed that I can think of right now is Red Ball Media, who I guess is the one who owns Tekka Chairs.
[0:27:08 – 0:27:19] Adam: When the shirt guy was showing him how stretched out the buttons were on that shirt, he pulls a red playground ball out of nowhere at a shirt store.
[0:27:19 – 0:27:24] Adam: And it was like using that to simulate the belly on the shirt, which was a big red ball.
[0:27:24 – 0:27:25] Adam: So think about that.
[0:27:25 – 0:27:26] Adam: That’s going to come back.
[0:27:26 – 0:27:32] Adam: I am really hoping that like him joining the shirt club is going to end up somehow helping them by episode seven.
[0:27:32 – 0:27:32] Erik: Sure.
[0:27:32 – 0:27:33] Adam: Yeah.
[0:27:33 – 0:27:33] Adam: Like that.
[0:27:33 – 0:27:36] Adam: He thinks it’s like it’s as a presenter is like, oh, damn it.
[0:27:36 – 0:27:40] Adam: Anyways, now I’m all these group text messages and like email chains.
[0:27:40 – 0:27:42] Adam: But eventually one of those guys is going to help him out.
[0:27:42 – 0:27:43] Adam: We got another run.
[0:27:43 – 0:27:44] Adam: They want to help that run.
[0:27:45 – 0:28:07] Adam: five rons do you have five fucking rons in this thing um anyways i like the episode i don’t know why i really like the pills that smell make you smell like a pumpkin or a duck i guess it was a duck yes it was a duck it’s funnier as a duck but uh what did you guys carve on your pumpkin i do want to share my my pumpkin carving with you
[0:28:08 – 0:28:10] Erik: Just a big, just a normal face.
[0:28:10 – 0:28:11] Erik: A normal face?
[0:28:11 – 0:28:14] Erik: It’s a big, big smile.
[0:28:14 – 0:28:18] Erik: It’s got the biggest smile a pumpkin can possibly handle.
[0:28:18 – 0:28:20] Adam: What kind of teeth are you talking about?
[0:28:21 – 0:28:24] Erik: No teeth, just big, wide, open smile.
[0:28:25 – 0:28:25] Erik: That’s nice.
[0:28:27 – 0:28:48] Adam: kind of teeth you talking about we did some with teeth here’s our grouping we got some of the vampire fangs some with squared off teeth and then i got mine in the middle eric you tell me what that is uh it looks like uh the edmund fitzgerald you got it well i don’t know what’s a those just clouds above it
[0:28:48 – 0:28:50] Adam: No, they’re waves, Eric.
[0:28:50 – 0:28:51] Adam: Oh, waves in the lake.
[0:28:51 – 0:28:52] Erik: The three sisters.
[0:28:52 – 0:28:53] Erik: Oh, nice, yeah.
[0:28:54 – 0:28:55] Erik: The last one’s the biggest.
[0:28:55 – 0:28:58] Erik: But it also, yes, it is also coming from behind it.
[0:28:58 – 0:28:59] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:29:00 – 0:29:02] Erik: The little steam coming off of the back.
[0:29:02 – 0:29:04] Adam: I did get a little steam coming out of the steam pipe there.
[0:29:04 – 0:29:05] Adam: That is nice.
[0:29:05 – 0:29:08] Erik: But it also, it looks great because it also still kind of looks like a face.
[0:29:09 – 0:29:13] Adam: Yeah, no, everybody in my family is like, what is the weirdest face I’ve ever seen?
[0:29:13 – 0:29:15] Adam: I love the expressive eyebrows.
[0:29:15 – 0:29:19] Adam: I was like, it’s a wave trying to sink this boat.
[0:29:19 – 0:29:20] Adam: And they’re like, oh, my God.
[0:29:20 – 0:29:25] Adam: This guy fits us.
[0:29:25 – 0:29:28] Adam: Yeah, this guy really is into these boats a little too much, I’d say.
[0:29:30 – 0:29:34] Adam: Yeah, it was pretty good pumping carving.
[0:29:34 – 0:29:35] Adam: You are dressing up.
[0:29:35 – 0:29:37] Adam: I don’t know if you want to reveal your outfit.
[0:29:38 – 0:29:40] Erik: Well, I can say it now because this is going to come out after Halloween.
[0:29:40 – 0:29:41] Erik: I’m going as Dr. Gonzo.
[0:29:41 – 0:29:42] Erik: Dr. Gonzo.
[0:29:42 – 0:29:44] Erik: And the geologist’s wife is going as Hunter S. Thompson.
[0:29:45 – 0:29:47] Erik: She’s got a white bucket hat with a green lid.
[0:29:48 – 0:29:49] Erik: Got the cigarette holder.
[0:29:49 – 0:29:50] Adam: Big cigarette holder, yeah.
[0:29:50 – 0:29:52] Erik: I’ve got the red Hawaiian shirt.
[0:29:52 – 0:29:53] Erik: I’ve been growing out the sideburns.
[0:29:54 – 0:29:56] Adam: Yeah, you look just like Sensei.
[0:29:56 – 0:29:58] Erik: I do need…
[0:29:58 – 0:30:02] Erik: I thought maybe for a second I could grow the hair out, but it’s not possible.
[0:30:02 – 0:30:03] Erik: So I just went with…
[0:30:04 – 0:30:05] Erik: You don’t want to look like a hippie.
[0:30:05 – 0:30:06] Erik: A fun wig.
[0:30:06 – 0:30:07] Erik: Oh, you have a wig?
[0:30:07 – 0:30:08] Erik: I do have a wig.
[0:30:08 – 0:30:09] Erik: What?
[0:30:09 – 0:30:10] Erik: Long hair, wig.
[0:30:10 – 0:30:11] Adam: Oh, my God.
[0:30:11 – 0:30:14] Adam: Yeah, a hippie for one night is acceptable.
[0:30:14 – 0:30:19] Erik: Dr. Gonzo from Fear and Loathing’s sunglasses are kind of…
[0:30:20 – 0:30:29] Erik: Very close to Bob’s blue blocker, big glaucoma goggles from one battle after another, but they’re a little smaller.
[0:30:30 – 0:30:39] Erik: So I can’t go for the, because that’s like, it seems like the go-to costume this year is the Leo character from that movie.
[0:30:40 – 0:31:08] Adam: but i can’t get those ones because they’re too big so i gotta between here and where i’m going i have to try and find like uh just stop at a super one yeah super one i’ll have that i mean even just like a cheap ten dollar pair at a gas station i’m sure i could find that shape they’re like kind of square just stop at the president’s one stop they got everything they got everything it’s the one stop suitcases filled with drugs yep you’re gonna need those
[0:31:10 – 0:31:10] Erik: Yeah.
[0:31:10 – 0:31:12] Adam: You guys renting a convertible?
[0:31:13 – 0:31:16] Adam: You should rent a convertible for the drive down 53.
[0:31:16 – 0:31:20] Erik: We’re going to show up in a- Stop in the Twin Ports and rent a convertible.
[0:31:20 – 0:31:30] Erik: We’re going to show up in a red top-down convertible on the way there, and then we’re going to destroy it and then rent a white one for the way home.
[0:31:30 – 0:31:31] Adam: Absolutely.
[0:31:31 – 0:31:31] Adam: Yeah.
[0:31:34 – 0:31:52] Adam: um the little uh pike wants to be a chili pepper yes what do you want to be and he goes chili pepper i don’t know where he came up with this idea we have grown some peppers in the garden but never chili pepper they make the little uh chili pepper costume for kids just
[0:31:52 – 0:31:54] Adam: We have a little chili pepper costume, yeah.
[0:31:54 – 0:31:54] Adam: Nice.
[0:31:55 – 0:31:59] Adam: So then Natalie’s going to be a carrot, and I’m going to be kale.
[0:31:59 – 0:32:00] Adam: Oh.
[0:32:00 – 0:32:02] Adam: And the baby’s going to be a pumpkin.
[0:32:03 – 0:32:03] Erik: Oh, nice.
[0:32:03 – 0:32:07] Erik: I thought you were going to go for a small-ish thing, maybe like a pea or something.
[0:32:07 – 0:32:09] Adam: Yeah, we should have made a mirepoix.
[0:32:10 – 0:32:10] Erik: Well.
[0:32:11 – 0:32:14] Adam: You can’t really do it, but we can be a pretty good stew with what we got.
[0:32:15 – 0:32:18] Erik: You’d have to be an onion if you wanted to do mirepoix.
[0:32:18 – 0:32:19] Adam: Somebody should have been an onion.
[0:32:19 – 0:32:20] Adam: We’ve got to rethink this.
[0:32:22 – 0:32:27] Adam: But yeah, I tried out my kale outfit earlier, and I’m going to pair that with some tasteful leggings.
[0:32:28 – 0:32:30] Adam: I think it’s going to be a pretty good-looking outfit for going to work tomorrow.
[0:32:30 – 0:32:34] Erik: Well, if anybody knows anything about tasteful leggings, it’s you.
[0:32:35 – 0:32:36] Adam: That’s not appropriate at work at all.
[0:32:37 – 0:32:37] Adam: No.
[0:32:37 – 0:32:38] Adam: You’re going to have to go home.
[0:32:38 – 0:32:38] Adam: You’ll be fine.
[0:32:39 – 0:32:41] Adam: You’re going to have to go home and take a shower, actually.
[0:32:43 – 0:32:47] Adam: I was just really hurtful what she said to me.
[0:32:47 – 0:32:48] Adam: What happened?
[0:32:48 – 0:32:50] Adam: It smells like a duck in here.
[0:32:50 – 0:32:52] Adam: She said, I smell like a duck.
[0:32:52 – 0:32:53] Adam: I have to go home and take a shower.
[0:32:56 – 0:32:57] Adam: Anyways…
[0:32:59 – 0:33:18] Adam: yeah the blue jays are about to win the world series it’s halloween and it’s beautiful up here in the north country and uh it’s been kind of calm so no big boats lately but it’s a great time of year to be here um i think that’s the the introduction i knew what i was doing i don’t know
[0:33:19 – 0:33:41] Erik: The point is that a computer program has shown us that these are not just random happenstance, coincidental occurrences, and that the same program has predicted that in just 48 hours, even more complex formations are going to be laid down in a field near Avebury.
[0:33:41 – 0:33:43] Erik: 48 hours, Scully, 48 hours.
[0:33:45 – 0:33:49] Erik: But I wouldn’t mind getting there earlier if you don’t mind.
[0:33:50 – 0:33:50] Erik: Getting where?
[0:33:52 – 0:33:52] Erik: England.
[0:33:54 – 0:33:57] Erik: I got two tickets on a 5.30 a.m. flight.
[0:34:01 – 0:34:05] Adam: Tonight on Tumble Home, we’re reading The Skull by John Klassen.
[0:34:08 – 0:34:08] Adam: Part 1.
[0:34:11 – 0:34:12] Adam: Otila ran and ran.
[0:34:13 – 0:34:15] Adam: She ran through the trees and up hills.
[0:34:15 – 0:34:16] Adam: She ran for a long time.
[0:34:17 – 0:34:18] Adam: All through the night.
[0:34:20 – 0:34:24] Adam: Otila had grown up in this forest, but after a while the trees began to look different.
[0:34:25 – 0:34:26] Adam: They were getting closer together.
[0:34:27 – 0:34:28] Adam: Otila kept running.
[0:34:30 – 0:34:33] Adam: As she ran, Otila began to hear her name being called.
[0:34:34 – 0:34:37] Adam: She couldn’t tell if it was someone’s voice or the wind in her ears.
[0:34:38 – 0:34:47] SPEAKER_00: Otila, Otila, Otila.
[0:34:50 – 0:34:53] Adam: Attila suddenly tripped on a fallen branch and fell hard into the snow.
[0:34:54 – 0:34:55] Adam: She didn’t get up.
[0:34:55 – 0:34:57] Adam: She could not run anymore.
[0:34:58 – 0:35:00] Adam: She listened for her name, but now it was quiet.
[0:35:01 – 0:35:04] Adam: Attila lay in the snow in the dark and the quiet, and she cried.
[0:35:06 – 0:35:09] Adam: When she was done crying, she got up and began moving forward again.
[0:35:09 – 0:35:11] Adam: All at once, the trees stopped.
[0:35:11 – 0:35:13] Adam: She came out of the woods and into an open yard.
[0:35:14 – 0:35:18] Adam: In front of her, in the distance, was a very big, very old house.
[0:35:26 – 0:35:27] Adam: Attila went up to the house.
[0:35:27 – 0:35:31] Adam: It looked abandoned, but when she tried to open the door, it was locked.
[0:35:31 – 0:35:35] Adam: She knocked loudly to see if anyone was inside, but nobody came to the door.
[0:35:37 – 0:35:37] Adam: Hello?
[0:35:38 – 0:35:38] Adam: She called out.
[0:35:39 – 0:35:39] Adam: Hello?
[0:35:40 – 0:35:41] Adam: Someone answered.
[0:35:44 – 0:35:46] Adam: Attila looked up to where the voice had come from.
[0:35:46 – 0:35:49] Adam: In a window above the door, she saw a skull looking at her.
[0:35:55 – 0:35:59] Erik: The skull moved himself a little so he could see better.
[0:36:00 – 0:36:02] Erik: Hello, he said again.
[0:36:04 – 0:36:07] Erik: Hello, said Otilla.
[0:36:07 – 0:36:08] Erik: My name is Otilla.
[0:36:09 – 0:36:12] Erik: I ran away, and I need a place to hide and rest.
[0:36:14 – 0:36:15] Erik: The skull was quiet for a moment.
[0:36:16 – 0:36:22] Erik: Then he said, I will come down and let you in, but only if you promise to carry me once I do.
[0:36:23 – 0:36:27] Erik: I am just a skull, and rolling around is difficult for me.
[0:36:28 – 0:36:31] Erik: Otilla was quiet for a moment, and she said, All right.
[0:36:33 – 0:36:34] Erik: The skull left the window.
[0:36:35 – 0:36:37] Erik: Otilla waited outside the door.
[0:36:38 – 0:36:39] Erik: She waited for a long time.
[0:36:41 – 0:36:42] Erik: It was very quiet.
[0:36:46 – 0:36:49] Erik: Then she heard some small scratching on the other side of the door.
[0:36:50 – 0:36:52] Erik: The latch turned and the door cracked.
[0:36:53 – 0:36:55] Erik: Open against the snow.
[0:36:56 – 0:36:58] Erik: The skull pushed the door open wider.
[0:37:00 – 0:37:01] Erik: Thank you, said Otilla.
[0:37:02 – 0:37:03] Erik: You’re welcome, said the skull.
[0:37:04 – 0:37:05] Erik: Otilla picked him up.
[0:37:06 – 0:37:08] Erik: She had never picked up a skull before.
[0:37:09 – 0:37:11] Erik: Come in, said the skull.
[0:37:11 – 0:37:12] Erik: I will show you the house.
[0:37:14 – 0:37:16] Erik: All right, said Otilla.
[0:37:18 – 0:37:19] Erik: They walked into the hall.
[0:37:21 – 0:37:23] Erik: It is a nice house, said Otilla.
[0:37:24 – 0:37:25] Erik: Yes, said the skull.
[0:37:26 – 0:37:27] Erik: I’ve always liked it here.
[0:37:28 – 0:37:31] Erik: Have you lived here for a long time, said Otilla.
[0:37:32 – 0:37:34] Erik: Yes, said the skull.
[0:37:36 – 0:37:37] Erik: They went into a room.
[0:37:38 – 0:37:42] Erik: This is the fireplace room, said the skull.
[0:37:44 – 0:37:47] Erik: I come here to drink tea by the fire in the evenings.
[0:37:49 – 0:37:50] Erik: You can make tea?
[0:37:51 – 0:37:52] Erik: said Otilla.
[0:37:53 – 0:37:57] Erik: No, not anymore, said the skull.
[0:37:58 – 0:38:00] Erik: Can you make fire, said Otilla.
[0:38:00 – 0:38:03] Erik: No, said the skull.
[0:38:03 – 0:38:04] Erik: They were quiet.
[0:38:06 – 0:38:08] Erik: Is that you in the picture, said Otilla.
[0:38:10 – 0:38:12] Erik: It used to be, said the skull.
[0:38:14 – 0:38:16] Erik: They went into the garden room.
[0:38:18 – 0:38:21] Erik: Oh, I like this room, said Otilla.
[0:38:23 – 0:38:27] Erik: This is my favorite room, said the skull.
[0:38:29 – 0:38:30] Erik: Can you eat the pears?
[0:38:31 – 0:38:32] Erik: said Otilla.
[0:38:34 – 0:38:42] Erik: I can eat the ones that fall on the ground, but I can’t reach the good ones on the branches, said the skull.
[0:38:43 – 0:38:45] Erik: I will get one for you, said Otilla.
[0:38:46 – 0:38:49] Erik: She held a pear for him, and he took a bite.
[0:38:50 – 0:38:53] Erik: The bite of pear went through him and fell onto the floor.
[0:38:54 – 0:39:00] Erik: Ah, delicious, said the skull.
[0:39:01 – 0:39:01] Erik: Thank you.
[0:39:03 – 0:39:06] Erik: They went into a room with masks hung on the walls.
[0:39:08 – 0:39:09] Erik: What are these masks for?
[0:39:10 – 0:39:11] Erik: Said Otila.
[0:39:12 – 0:39:15] Erik: I used to collect them, said the skull.
[0:39:16 – 0:39:17] Erik: Can you wear them?
[0:39:18 – 0:39:18] SPEAKER_00: Said Otila.
[0:39:20 – 0:39:23] Erik: They are just for show, said the skull.
[0:39:24 – 0:39:25] Erik: You’re not supposed to wear them.
[0:39:27 – 0:39:28] Erik: They went downstairs.
[0:39:32 – 0:39:34] Erik: What is this room, said Otilla.
[0:39:35 – 0:39:39] Erik: This is the dungeon, said the skull.
[0:39:40 – 0:39:42] Erik: There is nobody in it now.
[0:39:43 – 0:39:46] Erik: What is this hole, said Otilla.
[0:39:47 – 0:39:51] Erik: That is the bottomless pit, said the skull.
[0:39:52 – 0:39:57] Erik: Otilla threw the core of her pear into the hole and listened.
[0:39:58 – 0:40:00] Erik: It did not make a sound.
[0:40:01 – 0:40:03] Erik: Do you want to see the tower?
[0:40:04 – 0:40:05] Erik: Said the Skull.
[0:40:06 – 0:40:08] Erik: All right, said Otilla.
[0:40:12 – 0:40:14] Erik: They climbed the steps up the tower.
[0:40:16 – 0:40:17] Erik: Does anybody else know about this house?
[0:40:18 – 0:40:19] Erik: Said Otilla.
[0:40:20 – 0:40:22] Erik: No, said the Skull.
[0:40:23 – 0:40:26] Erik: You are the first person to find it in a very long time.
[0:40:27 – 0:40:31] Erik: They got to the top and walked out onto the balcony.
[0:40:33 – 0:40:36] Erik: You can see everything from here, said the skull.
[0:40:37 – 0:40:39] Erik: It’s beautiful, said Otillo.
[0:40:40 – 0:40:42] Erik: Careful, said the skull.
[0:40:44 – 0:40:50] Erik: The wall is not very high, and it is a long way down if you fall.
[0:40:52 – 0:40:53] Erik: They looked out over the forests.
[0:40:56 – 0:40:59] Erik: You said you ran away, said the skull.
[0:41:01 – 0:41:03] SPEAKER_00: Yes, said Otillo.
[0:41:05 – 0:41:07] Erik: You don’t want them to find you?
[0:41:09 – 0:41:11] Erik: No, said Otilla, I don’t.
[0:41:13 – 0:41:16] Erik: Skull waited to see if she wanted to say any more, but she didn’t.
[0:41:18 – 0:41:20] Erik: All right, said the Skull.
[0:41:21 – 0:41:26] Erik: Then he said, there’s a big room I haven’t shown you.
[0:41:27 – 0:41:29] Erik: How big, said Otilla.
[0:41:33 – 0:41:39] Erik: This is the biggest room I have ever seen, said Otilla.
[0:41:40 – 0:41:43] Erik: This is the ballroom, said the skull.
[0:41:44 – 0:41:45] Erik: It was for dancing.
[0:41:46 – 0:41:48] Erik: There were lots of dances here.
[0:41:50 – 0:41:55] Erik: I went to a dance once, said Otilla, but it was not in a room like this.
[0:41:56 – 0:41:58] Erik: I did like the dancing, though.
[0:42:00 – 0:42:02] Erik: I love dancing.
[0:42:03 – 0:42:03] Erik: said the skull.
[0:42:05 – 0:42:07] Erik: Otillo put her mask back on.
[0:42:08 – 0:42:10] Erik: She carried the skull to the middle of the ballroom.
[0:42:11 – 0:42:12] Erik: She held him to face her.
[0:42:14 – 0:42:15] Erik: Would you care to dance, sir?
[0:42:17 – 0:42:17] Erik: said Otillo.
[0:42:18 – 0:42:21] Erik: My lady, said the skull.
[0:42:22 – 0:42:28] Erik: They danced and danced and danced until it got dark.
[0:42:34 – 0:42:41] Adam: Part 3 When it was dark, Attila made some tea in a fire in the fireplace room.
[0:42:42 – 0:42:44] Adam: Would you give me some tea, please?
[0:42:44 – 0:42:45] Adam: said the skull.
[0:42:47 – 0:42:50] Adam: Attila took a teacup and poured the tea through his mouth and onto the chair.
[0:42:51 – 0:42:53] Adam: Ah, nice and warm, said the skull.
[0:42:54 – 0:42:54] Adam: Thank you.
[0:42:57 – 0:43:01] Adam: You can spend the night here if you want to, said the skull.
[0:43:02 – 0:43:04] Adam: I do want to, said Attila.
[0:43:05 – 0:43:07] Adam: There’s something I should tell you, said the skull.
[0:43:08 – 0:43:09] Adam: Attila put her tea down.
[0:43:11 – 0:43:14] Adam: There’s a skeleton that comes here, to this house, said the skull.
[0:43:15 – 0:43:17] Adam: It is a headless skeleton.
[0:43:17 – 0:43:19] Adam: It walks around the halls looking for me.
[0:43:20 – 0:43:22] Adam: When it finds me, it chases me.
[0:43:23 – 0:43:25] Adam: Has it ever caught you, said Attila?
[0:43:27 – 0:43:31] Adam: No, the skull said quietly, but I’m not as fast as I used to be.
[0:43:34 – 0:43:36] Adam: Attila looked closely at the skull.
[0:43:37 – 0:43:38] Adam: You don’t want it to catch you.
[0:43:39 – 0:43:41] Adam: No, whispered the skull.
[0:43:41 – 0:43:42] Adam: I don’t.
[0:43:43 – 0:43:45] Adam: Will it come tonight, said Attila.
[0:43:46 – 0:43:47] Adam: The skull looked at the fire.
[0:43:49 – 0:43:50] Adam: It comes every night, he said.
[0:43:50 – 0:43:53] Adam: Attila looked at the fire too.
[0:43:54 – 0:43:55] Adam: All right, she said.
[0:43:56 – 0:43:58] Adam: She kept looking at the fire and she started to think.
[0:44:04 – 0:44:07] Adam: When it was time to go to sleep, the skull showed Attila to a bedroom.
[0:44:07 – 0:44:08] Adam: It was a nice room.
[0:44:09 – 0:44:12] Adam: There was a big comfortable bed and some pajamas for her to wear.
[0:44:13 – 0:44:14] Adam: Attila liked the pajamas.
[0:44:18 – 0:44:20] Adam: We should try to get some sleep, said the skull.
[0:44:20 – 0:44:22] Adam: The skeleton will come soon enough.
[0:44:23 – 0:44:24] Adam: Attila blew out the light.
[0:44:26 – 0:44:29] Adam: They slept deeply and peacefully for a long time.
[0:44:29 – 0:44:31] Adam: The house was dark and very quiet.
[0:44:32 – 0:44:39] Adam: Until, in the middle of the night, a headless skeleton opened the bedroom door.
[0:44:40 – 0:44:45] Adam: From somewhere in the skeleton’s chest came a voice, but it only shouted one thing.
[0:44:47 – 0:44:48] Adam: Give me that skull!
[0:44:49 – 0:44:50] Adam: I want that skull!
[0:44:53 – 0:44:55] Adam: The skeleton ran into the room.
[0:44:55 – 0:44:57] Adam: It was faster than Attila had expected.
[0:44:58 – 0:45:01] Adam: She had just enough time to grab the skull before it reached him.
[0:45:02 – 0:45:07] Adam: The skeleton pulled at the skull, trying to get him away from her, but Attila held on tight.
[0:45:07 – 0:45:08] Adam: She did not let go.
[0:45:10 – 0:45:11] Adam: Finally, she got the skull free.
[0:45:12 – 0:45:14] Adam: She slipped past the skeleton and ran for the door.
[0:45:17 – 0:45:19] SPEAKER_00: Give me that skull.
[0:45:19 – 0:45:21] SPEAKER_00: I want that skull.
[0:45:25 – 0:45:26] SPEAKER_00: Give me that skull.
[0:45:26 – 0:45:29] SPEAKER_00: I want that skull.
[0:45:32 – 0:45:34] SPEAKER_00: Give me that skull.
[0:45:34 – 0:45:36] SPEAKER_00: I want that.
[0:45:44 – 0:45:49] Adam: They watched the skeleton fall into the dark until they heard it land, the sound of bones hitting the ground.
[0:45:50 – 0:45:53] Adam: They listened some more, but they did not hear anything after that.
[0:45:55 – 0:45:57] Adam: All right, said Attila.
[0:45:57 – 0:45:58] Adam: Time for bed.
[0:46:01 – 0:46:04] Adam: Attila carried the skull quietly back down to the bedroom.
[0:46:04 – 0:46:07] Adam: She put him on the pillow and tucked him under the blanket.
[0:46:08 – 0:46:09] Adam: Then she put on her coat.
[0:46:10 – 0:46:12] SPEAKER_00: Aren’t you going to sleep too, said the skull.
[0:46:13 – 0:46:16] Adam: In a little while, said Attila, patting the skull gently.
[0:46:17 – 0:46:18] Adam: I’ll be back soon.
[0:46:19 – 0:46:22] Adam: She blew out the light and closed the bedroom door.
[0:46:30 – 0:46:37] Erik: Attila went to the kitchen and found a bucket, a kettle with tea leaves, a teacup, and a rolling pin.
[0:46:39 – 0:46:45] Erik: Then she went out into the night and climbed down slowly and carefully to where the skeleton had fallen.
[0:46:48 – 0:46:53] Erik: When she got to the bottom, she found the skeleton’s bones scattered everywhere.
[0:46:54 – 0:46:56] Erik: She gathered them into the bucket.
[0:46:57 – 0:46:58] Erik: She found every single one.
[0:47:00 – 0:47:03] Erik: Otilla carried the bucket of bones to a rock.
[0:47:04 – 0:47:07] Erik: She took a bone out of the bucket and put it on the rock.
[0:47:09 – 0:47:14] Erik: Then she took out the rolling pin, held it over her head, and smashed the bone.
[0:47:16 – 0:47:24] Erik: She smashed it over and over into smaller and smaller pieces until the pieces were as small as they could get.
[0:47:25 – 0:47:28] Erik: Then she took out another bone and she did it again.
[0:47:29 – 0:47:31] Erik: She did it to all of them.
[0:47:33 – 0:47:34] Erik: Then Otila made a fire.
[0:47:35 – 0:47:37] Erik: She made it huge and hot.
[0:47:38 – 0:47:44] Erik: She melted some snow in the kettle with the tea leaves and made tea over the fire.
[0:47:45 – 0:47:49] Erik: Then she took the bone pieces and threw them into the flames.
[0:47:51 – 0:47:56] Erik: She poured her tea into the teacup and drank it as she watched the pieces burn to ash.
[0:47:59 – 0:48:07] Erik: When the fire was over, she gathered the ashes into the bucket, carried it back up the hill, back to the house.
[0:48:08 – 0:48:13] Erik: She went down to the dungeon and dropped the whole bucket into the bottomless pit.
[0:48:14 – 0:48:16] Erik: She watched it fall into the dark and listened.
[0:48:17 – 0:48:18] Erik: It did not make a sound.
[0:48:21 – 0:48:25] Erik: Then she climbed back upstairs and went to bed.
[0:48:36 – 0:48:37] Adam: Part five.
[0:48:41 – 0:48:43] Adam: In the morning, Attila and the skull had breakfast.
[0:48:44 – 0:48:47] Adam: Attila made tea and picked some pears from the branches.
[0:48:49 – 0:48:52] Adam: I’m sorry last night was so frightening, said the skull.
[0:48:53 – 0:48:55] Adam: Attila smiled and patted the skull.
[0:48:56 – 0:48:57] Adam: It’s over now, she said.
[0:48:58 – 0:49:00] Adam: Thank you for helping me, said the skull.
[0:49:02 – 0:49:03] Adam: You’re welcome, said Attila.
[0:49:06 – 0:49:10] Adam: I wonder if the skeleton will ever come back, said the skull.
[0:49:11 – 0:49:12] Adam: Attila cut a piece of pear.
[0:49:13 – 0:49:14] Adam: It won’t, she said.
[0:49:16 – 0:49:17] Adam: The skull looked out the window.
[0:49:18 – 0:49:19] Adam: It’s a nice day outside, he said.
[0:49:20 – 0:49:22] Adam: Do you want to go for a walk?
[0:49:26 – 0:49:27] Adam: They went for a walk.
[0:49:27 – 0:49:29] Adam: It was a nice day outside.
[0:49:33 – 0:49:38] Adam: Attila stopped and gave the skull a bite of pear and went through him and fell onto the sled.
[0:49:39 – 0:49:40] Adam: Thank you, said the skull.
[0:49:41 – 0:49:42] Adam: He took another bite.
[0:49:43 – 0:49:48] Adam: You know, he said, chewing the pear, you could stay here with me if you want.
[0:49:50 – 0:49:52] Adam: Do you want me to stay, said Attila?
[0:49:53 – 0:49:54] Adam: Yes, said the skull.
[0:49:55 – 0:49:55] Adam: I do.
[0:50:01 – 0:50:02] Adam: All right, said Attila.
[0:50:06 – 0:50:07] Adam: The end.
[0:50:14 – 0:50:20] Adam: Mulder, I still have to go over to the hospital and finish the final paperwork on the autopsy you had me do.
[0:50:21 – 0:50:24] Adam: And to be honest, it’s Saturday.
[0:50:24 – 0:50:27] Adam: I wouldn’t mind, I don’t know, taking a bath?
[0:50:27 – 0:50:29] Adam: Well, what the hell does that mean?
[0:50:30 – 0:50:37] Adam: What it means, Mulder, is I’m not interested in tracking down some sneaky farmers who happened to ace geometry in high school.
[0:50:39 – 0:50:42] Adam: And besides, I mean, what could you possibly get out of this?
[0:50:42 – 0:50:43] Adam: Or learn?
[0:50:44 – 0:50:46] Adam: I mean, it’s not even remotely FBI related.
[0:50:49 – 0:50:49] Erik: I’ll just…
[0:50:50 – 0:50:52] Erik: I guess I’ll just cancel your ticket.
[0:50:52 – 0:50:53] Adam: Thanks for lunch.
[0:51:02 – 0:51:04] SPEAKER_03: It was a Halloween shindig.
[0:51:04 – 0:51:06] SPEAKER_03: Every bloody was frightened.
[0:51:06 – 0:51:09] SPEAKER_03: The ghouls and the goblins did the hop.
[0:51:09 – 0:51:12] SPEAKER_03: And the zombies all danced to Bebopaloola.
[0:51:12 – 0:51:14] SPEAKER_03: It was a Halloween shindig.
[0:51:14 – 0:51:17] SPEAKER_03: Oh my, what a Halloween shindig.