L13: Past Times at Ranguu High [LIVE ft. Ify Nwadiwe]

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Just moments after agreeing to rule the galaxy, the crew is sent on … One. More. Mission. Pleck reunites with an old enemy. Bargie sells NFJs. C-53 meets his son?! Recorded LIVE at Sketchfest 2023 in San Francisco.

Starring:

Jeremy Bent as C-53

Alden Ford as Pleck Decksetter

Seth Lind as Nermut Bundaloy

Winston Noel as AJ

Moujan Zolfaghari as Bargie and Justin Ballweheat

With special guest Ify Nwadiwe as Benedict Judas

Live sound design and mix by Shane O’Connell

Recorded by Shawn Doyle

Edited by Seth Lind

Theme Music composed by Brendan Ryan and performed by FAMES Macedonian Symphonic Orchestra

Additional music by Shane O’Connell

Ship design for The Bargarean Jade by Eric Geusz

Audio hosting by Simplecast

A big thank you to everyone at SF Sketchfest for having us!

Mission to Zyxx is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network.

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Transcript

How's everybody doing?

Yeah!

Happy Sketch Fest.

I want to introduce our crew here, and then we'll get started, right?

Okay.

Coming up before me is our not one, but two sound rods tonight.

We have Shane O'Connell, master sound designer on Mission to Zix.

We have Sean Doyle helping out tonight as well.

Let's get the crew out here.

I'm Alden Ford.

I play Pleck Death Center on the show.

Hello.

Next up is C53 Protocol Droid Jeremy Benz.

Next up, Ship of the Stars, Dreamer of the Land, is the Bargerian Jade Mujahidez Olfagari.

reclusive singer songwriter berman nundaloy seth lane

super soldier aj2884 has uh recently gone ultra after drinking his father winson no

very excited to welcome our special guest tonight.

We're big fans.

Please welcome out Iffy Waddy Winfield.

Allie Kokesh cannot be here with us, but she's thinking about us.

She's here in spirit.

We will pass along your love to her.

Yes.

So,

well, first of all, you should know our show is over.

Not this show, not this show.

Don't leave, don't leave!

We are going to set this show after the events of the season five series finale.

And since this is a brand new episode, we're in a completely new world here.

We don't have a crawl from Jeremy Crutchley, so I am going to provide a little recap during the crawl music, and then we'll get started.

You guys ready to start the show?

All right.

Shane, whenever you're ready.

Mission to Zix is an improvised science fiction podcast following the mission adventures of an intrepid crew of interplanetary emissaries, naive farmboy Pleck Dexter, know-it-all Procrawl Droid C-53, Lizard Bird Bureaucrat Nermit Bundaloy, hulking omni-gendered alien Dar, defected clone trooper AJ2884, former movie star on sentient starship, the bargerian Jade, angsty teenager Justin Balween, and Beano, a magical being with nipples, who turns out to be the all-knowing caretaker of the galaxy.

It's like a workplace comedy in space.

In season one, the crew were ambassadors for the Galactic Alliance.

In season two, they defected and fought against the Federated Alliance.

In season three, they were hunted by but ultimately victorious against the evil Emperor of the Galaxy.

And in the series finale, Pleck fulfilled his ancient prophecy, defeating the evil wizard Court Mayovor and restoring balance to the galaxy.

After which, the crew decided to lead the galaxy themselves.

And that's all you need to know about mission to six.

But I guess I'd prefer not to have a mustache.

Don't mind if I do

You know, guys, I gotta say, I love shaving elves as much as the next guy, but I feel like we kind of just made a pretty big decision to leave the galaxy.

I'm sorry,

maybe we should just come back to it.

Now, come on, AJ.

What?

No, we'll watch.

We'll watch shaving elves later.

Also, wow, what spoiler alert?

What?

Yeah, do golfs get shaved?

That's the plot of the, the...

That's the premise of the show.

Of shaving elves?

Yeah.

I mean, it's the title of the show.

But you're sort of left wondering during each episode, is this the one where they won't shave?

I'm also, like, now that I think about it, it's maybe like the journey.

Like.

It's less important if the elves get shaved or not.

It's so much about, like, why are they getting shaved, you know?

Right.

So wait, we're running the galaxy now?

Yeah, we're going to.

I don't know.

I mean, we just decided.

All right.

Yeah.

All right.

Good.

Okay.

AJ.

AJ.

AJ.

Stop.

Stop.

Stop.

Stop.

Stop.

What do we want to do?

Yeah, I mean, well, I think the first thing we have to do is we kind of have to.

What?

What?

We need to make edicts.

Where did you

learn that word?

What?

He's reading his hand.

We need to make

edicts and

by law.

Okay, all right.

You've been stealing it up by Proud.

Yeah.

Listen, you know, people are like once you get into power, you become the leader of the universe, or whatever they say.

It changes you.

I don't think it's changed me.

I think I'm the same Bargie I ever was.

Yeah.

Which is why I'm pulling together all the crew we have and investing in NF jucks.

No, no, but well, Bargie.

What's an NF juck?

Uh it's a non-fungible juck.

Okay.

I'm soul.

Well, AJ.

Let's do it.

I don't know how much crew are we talking.

I don't know a lot about it.

I feel like I'm pretty comfortable you should not do that.

AJ, if your understanding of this is just what you were just told,

you absolutely should not have done it.

But if somebody powerful is telling me,

shouldn't I do it?

No.

No.

No, I don't think so.

Alright, well, listen, I mean, I don't know.

Maybe we should leave this up to Nermit, but I sort of feel like we should sit around and talk.

Nermit, are you calling us from inside the ship?

Yeah, well, it's.

I just miss the old days of calling in, so now I'm in.

Nermin, you're calling.

You're right here.

I don't know.

We're done with that shit.

We're up to admission.

AJ's.

We're done with that shit.

AJ.

AJ.

What?

Shit.

I mean, AJ's right, though.

No, no, no, right.

no, no, no, no, you're right side of me.

No, I turned on the missionator and I found like one last mission just rattling around in there.

But no,

Nermit, why did you even do it?

Why are you doing it?

Nermit, we're double-checks.

I mean, AJ's right, Nermit, we're not doing missions anymore.

You don't know what, jungle ball?

Also, Dar just left.

Yeah, where is Dar?

Yeah.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh, that's what Dawson is.

Okay.

They're making out with evil Dar.

Yeah, you can just make him out on the cloud over there.

I know.

I mean, good for that.

Yeah, I'm happy for him.

I mean, hey, Dar is done with missions and shit, you know?

I mean, yeah, Dar gets it, honestly.

Did you guys miss the fact that there's literally a mission in the missionator?

Who cares?

Who cares?

What?

Nermit, we call the shots now.

We get to say whether we go on mission.

The computer doesn't tell us.

Also, I'm Justin.

I'm also here.

Okay, yeah, Justin.

Okay, Justin, what are you doing?

We know you're here.

Thank you, Justin.

Wait!

Okay, we're going to pull it up, and we've got it here.

Oh.

It's in sort of a digital envelope.

I swore to myself I would never say these words ever again.

What's the mission, Nermit?

Music to my tiny ears.

Wait, you have an ear?

They're kind of holding over.

I mean, they're not

generous terms.

Yeah.

Well, this is, oh, goodness, an invitation to Pleck Deck Setter.

Okay.

Wait, the mission is an invitation to me?

Yeah.

And it says, you are cordially invited to your 10-year reunion on Moranga 6.

No, no.

I'm not doing that.

I'm not doing that.

I've changed my mind.

No, what?

This sounds like it's gonna rule.

Let's do this.

No, first of all, first of all, it's not a mission.

Secondly, I'm not going.

We're not doing missions anymore.

We're doing reunions.

No.

Yeah.

Hey, Pleck, at least you, like, literally went to high school.

Oh, right.

Like, I didn't get any of that out of Sparrows.

Sorry.

You didn't.

What?

I didn't get any of that out of Spurrance.

I was homeschool.

What?

I didn't.

I didn't get it.

I still get.

Instead, I went to homeschool.

Went to homeschool.

Homeschool.

Oh.

Inside the...

Yes, yes.

Okay.

Yes, sir.

Alright, Justin.

I guess I kind of went to school.

I watched propaganda for like hours.

Honestly, depending on the high school.

Yeah, pretty similar.

The RSVP option is only yes, so I don't know.

Delete the email number.

Let's do it.

No, listen, guys, guys, listen.

I don't want to get into that, but like, I didn't have a great experience in high school, okay?

Oh, really?

Wait, no, really?

You didn't have one?

But you're like.

Say it.

Say it.

You know.

You're great.

Aww.

That's very charitable.

Thanks.

Thanks, AJ.

Wait, what's high school?

Okay.

And yes.

Oh no, Dermot.

Let's do it.

This sounds great.

Yeah, a lot of farms, right?

I was going to say even worse, but yeah.

Oh,

yeah.

Yeah, it's not great.

Yeah.

This is one of those planets that everyone's like.

I'm good.

Yeah.

It's like a fly-by-yeah.

Sort of a fly-over planet.

Yeah, yeah, fly-over planet.

Yeah, crew.

I found some really weird-looking ships in the field, so I'm gonna go hang out with them.

Oh, okay, all right.

Sure, bunch?

Yeah.

Okay.

They're pretty rusty and.

Okay.

Okay, so.

Is it gonna be a problem that you're bringing, you know, a bunch of extra people to your name?

No, I need this, C-53.

I need to be able to say, here's my best friend,

one of the smartest robots in the world.

Oh.

Very nice.

Yay.

They're just saying my name out loud.

Best friend is a category.

It's not a position.

Everybody, remember what the mission is.

Kick ass.

No.

Okay.

Also, get a high school education.

Oh, Justin.

Hey.

Justin, they don't teach anything at the reunion.

Wait.

Yeah.

Boy, what did you say?

Don't talk down.

Maybe it's just former students of the high school come back to sort of reminisce about their time at the high school.

Learn a lot.

Okay, that one.

I lost that one.

I didn't get that one.

Hi.

Hi, welcome to Rangoose.

Thank you.

What are your names?

Who are you?

Thank you.

It's Pleck Dexter Class of 3E.

Plecko!

Yeah, it's me.

It's me.

It's Pleck.

You look.

You look like the same, but sadder.

Oh, yeah, I see it.

I mean,

it's only been 10 years.

It hasn't been.

What a ten years has been, though, am I right?

I guess so.

I'm only seven.

Well, here's your name, Todd.

Thank you.

And I didn't know you were bringing plus four, but you can.

Great.

Nice.

Oh, thank you.

Yeah.

Not many people came, so we kind of need the bodies.

But Toony Tine is in there.

Yaforn is in there.

Maurice is in there.

I don't remember the name of the city.

Caroline the soup is in there.

Caroline the soup.

Shouting your stand.

How big was your high school?

Baron Baron is in there.

Also, your enemy is in there.

What?

Twist.

Click.

Did you.

Did you have a high school nemesis?

I mean, I wouldn't say nemesis.

This is the mission.

We take out the nemesis.

We don't need to do that.

We can't.

We don't even see a couple of people.

Listen, listen.

You know.

It's ranked at six, so I feel like I'm pretty much allowed.

I yeah, yeah.

It's an open carry planet.

Yeah, it's an open carry planet.

It's my right.

Okay, all right, all right, all right, all right.

All right.

Pleck, pleck, who's that guy over there with people kind of just looking up at him

adoringly?

Oh, my rod.

That's Benedict.

Well, well, well.

Hey, hey, man.

How are you doing, Pleck?

I didn't expect to see your face around here anytime soon.

Oh, well, you know, just got the invite and felt like I really wanted to come to this and be here with you guys and you.

No, you were so reluctant.

Oh.

You really didn't want to go?

No, Guy.

Just, you know, Guy, find some punch or something, please.

Oh, there's a punch.

Probably.

I'm going to go make sure he takes a reasonable portion of it.

Yeah, thank you.

And I'm going to get a high school education.

They don't teach anything here.

All the kids are on break.

This is...

Okay.

Alright.

Hey, hey, hey,

before we even get any further into tonight, I just want to say things things are cool between us, Bleck.

Everything's under the bridge.

You can trust me.

Okay.

No harm will come to you

in this building.

Okay, all right.

No matter what.

Listen, Benedict, I...

You can trust me.

Okay.

Let down your guard.

All right.

Listen, Benedict,

I just feel like I should probably say sort of two things.

First,

great.

I totally am glad to hear you say that.

Secondly, I sort of feel like we got to both say it's what.

I mean, I feel like what water is under your bridge?

Because I feel like I,

last time we hung out, it was rough.

Yeah, I said I was going to kill you if I ever saw your face again.

Yeah, I remember that.

Yeah.

You know,

I've thought on things.

I went to therapy and I started working on my inner child and I was like,

the old BJ

has to die so that a new new BJ

can live.

Oh.

So, new BJ.

Yeah, all the threats that I've ever said to you, just consider that not even real.

Okay.

I'm only here to love.

Uh-huh.

Yeah.

So just accept this BJ, okay?

I'll try.

Thank you.

Alright.

So you're going to introduce me to your cool friends?

Yeah, C-53, this is is Benedict Judas.

He's a friend of mine from high school.

Good to meet you, Benedict.

Yes, yes, yes.

You know, me and him go way back.

Clearly?

Yeah, yeah.

But, you know, there's a whole new Benedict Judas here.

I'm just here to make sure y'all have a good time.

Benedict was the

class president.

So you're sort of responsible for this whole shit, Nick.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, I was real excited to throw it.

You know,

some would say I'm

popular.

I was

homeworld coming king.

Yeah, voted most likely to rule the galaxy.

Oh, funny story.

Oh.

Yeah, I mean, I don't want to really brag, but actually,

like yesterday,

I sort of saved the galaxy.

Oh.

Oh, really?

Yeah, yeah.

Wow.

It was a prophecy.

It was sort of like an ancient prophecy, and everything kind of came together.

And

the fabric of reality is sort of here because of the stuff that I and all of us did.

Like

yesterday.

Wow, I'm so happy for you.

And did you hear Tina runs her own farm now, too?

Yeah, like I'm glad everyone in here is just leveling up.

Everybody's nailing it.

Yeah, yeah.

Does she grow things or does she raise it?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

She got purple milk.

She got a big purple milk basis.

Yeah,

profitable.

That's one of the best boxes.

I'm AJ, by the way,

and

I trust you.

AJ.

Thank you so much.

AJ has...

I've never...

How are you carrying that many cups of punch?

Well, you know.

Got two hands and giant forearms and just balance.

Yeah, he's balancing on your forearms.

Does anyone want punch?

Well, hold on.

I actually got a drink for Pleck,

just for you.

Yeah, he's been a character.

not one of these 12 glasses of purple.

No, no, I have

some of Tina's purple milk that I wanted you to try personally.

Special.

Okay.

Yeah, but no one else.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No one else except Pleck.

I'd love you to drink this.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Wow, I guess I'll just drink this in front of everybody.

Yeah, feel free.

You're acting like Benedict Judas might sell you out in some way.

Don't be weird.

Just drink the purple milk.

Don't be weird, Papa.

Does it taste like poison?

It tastes great, yes.

Really purple.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know,

Tina brought some in, and I wanted to save some just for you.

I saw him, Prasa.

Yeah, it's very cool.

Yeah.

Hey, Papa, why are you being so weird about it?

You know, hey, BJ, great to see you.

I'm going to circle around and see who else is.

Hey, yeah, do your thing.

I'm going to go talk to the soup.

She's real rich now.

Oh, wow.

Cool.

Okay.

Devin.

Devin, is that you?

Oh, no.

Devin, it's me, Baron Baron.

Hey, Baron Barron.

I'm not

Devin.

Wow.

I haven't stopped thinking about you since high school.

That's extremely fascinating.

Every single day of my life, I have been thinking about you.

I just want to clarify, I am a robot.

I didn't go to this, I think, largely Tellurian high school.

Entirely Tellurian.

Thank you, Gray.

Yes.

So I'm not.

Whoever you thought

Devin is, or was I not?

I don't think you're not.

Devin, you're everything to me.

Wow.

It's got so it's not.

Devin, this is your thought.

Oh my.

Dad.

No.

No.

Is this why I love video games so much?

So they're vaguely robotist.

Papa.

Hey, Papa, what's going on?

Listen, AJ, the reason I didn't want to come here was because I had a terrible high school experience.

Benedict was like my bully.

He went out of his way every day to make my life hell.

What's a bully?

What's a bully?

Yeah.

Wow.

What's a bully?

Did you ever have a clone that was like a like more of a dick than the other clones?

My commander?

That I trusted with my life?

Yeah, I guess I did.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, so.

So you did what Benedict told you and everything worked out?

No.

No.

Well, that's kind of on you.

No, is it?

How?

Listen, I wasn't cool.

Nobody likes me.

Benedict was always acting like, hey, you could be part of the cool crowd.

And so he'd make me do these things.

I'd get in trouble for them.

He'd sell me out in front of the whole school.

It was terrible.

Benedict Judas that we just met?

Yes.

He doesn't seem untrustworthy to you.

He just gave you a glass of milk.

Everybody, Benedict Junas is going to lead us in a motivational speech for the entire school.

Yay!

BBK, B-E-K, B-B-K-B-K-J.

A motivational speech.

Is this normally what happens?

I don't think this is what happens.

I'm pretty unconventional, but I'm excited.

Look, everyone, you know, I just want to

say how happy I am to see all of y'all here today in this gymnasium.

It's been a whole 10 years since we walked across that stage and

set off to try and achieve our dreams.

And I got to say, you know, I'm real proud of all y'all.

We've all been doing big things.

I hear Pleck, he's one of the leaders of the galaxy.

Tina has her own thought.

Maybe y'all didn't hear me.

I said Pleg

is now a leader of the galaxy, along with Tina, who now has her own farm.

Okay, all right.

But yeah, I just want y'all to all have a good time out here.

Let your guard down.

Let's let all

like bury all the hatchets.

Turn a blind eye to anyone you might have been afraid of in high school because you never know that person might be different.

Have a good night, everybody.

I'm gonna go

Pleck, can I just say I'm so glad this isn't like our other missions where there's some devious person we have to sort of like conquer

you too, Nermit?

Well, Pleck, I mean, did she, he was really trying to build up public support for you.

Yeah, you guys could have applauded it just seemed like it was so quiet it would have been awkward.

We already knew

that we already knew okay.

It was so quiet it would have been awkward if you would applaud.

Also, Benedict told me he's gonna help me get my J da.

Your what?

Majad.

Over time.

What is that?

Majad.

Yeah.

Are you saying GED?

Yeah.

Hey, Hey, Bleck.

Bleck.

Yo, yeah, yeah, hey.

Hey, I'm uh, do you mind?

I'm gonna take Justin into one of these classrooms.

I'm gonna run him through.

I'm gonna get him his GED.

Get him up and running.

But also, for you,

I got this present.

It's nice and wrapped up.

Don't open it till you leave the planet.

You have a little tick sound, too.

Thanks.

Thanks, Benedict.

Yeah, no problems.

Look, you can trust me now.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hey, Papa, Papa, did you get him anything?

It's not like I was expecting anything.

Great.

Yeah, you know.

Oh, boy.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

You don't have to read it.

You know,

you can have his eye patch.

I don't need anymore because my eye is cybernetic now.

Oh, oh, that's cool.

Okay.

That's nice.

Yeah.

And I patch a great gift for someone with two working eyes.

So I don't have a lot of stuff.

I didn't bring a lot of stuff.

Don't do anything then.

Give him an eye patch?

What?

It's just what was in my pocket.

Hey, hey,

it's fine.

I'm going to cherish this eye patch because this isn't just an eye patch.

This is an eye patch from Plague.

Wow, that's great.

Yeah.

Thanks.

Thanks.

I'm going to go teach Justin.

I'm going to look in the mirror and be like, you know things, you know?

Oh, you're still carrying the mirror.

Yeah, I have the broken mirror with me.

Oh, wow.

And DJ got you like a watch or a clock or something nice like that.

It's way too heavy to be a watch.

It's almost maybe too heavy to be a clock.

It's just a dense clock.

Maybe.

Listen, guys, I don't feel like I want to be here anymore.

You guys, have a cup of noise.

No, Pleck, Pleck, you're like a leader of the galaxy.

You fulfilled your destiny.

You swung that wind ever so good.

Show up a little bit.

You're the leader of the galaxy.

You defeated Corbailborn.

But C-53, you know, I don't know if robots do this.

They don't.

I guess being back here on Rangus 6, I just feel like I fall into all this.

I feel so uncool being at this high school again.

You're asking if when I return to the manufacturing plant, that I'm going to be able to do that.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Whether I fall into the same behavioral patterns I did when I was being built.

Think before you ask that question.

Hey, everybody!

It's time where we do that thing we do at every reunion, where we ask anyone to come up and show how cool they are now.

Strange fiction.

Oh yeah.

Oh yeah.

You can also tell someone else they have to.

Oh great, Pleck, get up there.

Pleck.

You have to if you want.

Hey everybody, Pleck Dexter Classic 3E.

Yeah, well, you know,

you may not remember much about me,

but

I was in the marching band.

I was the only pianist in the marching band.

I was the zyball manager for the zyball team for three years.

Really helpful.

Yeah, the zyball team burned down, but that was.

That was, again, not my.

I had run out of water, but it wasn't.

That wasn't.

That wouldn't have helped.

Wait, so the team

wait, somebody, did the team burn alive?

Or what happened?

It was, it was.

Was that the Juck My Nuts guy?

No.

We said it couldn't have hurt.

Hey, everyone, everyone, let Pletch speak, okay?

This is my buddy Pleck.

Thank you.

And even though my father died in that fire, Pleck did nothing to save my father.

I watched my father scream as he burned.

I watched watched my dad's face melt off.

And that's when I told Pleck I would never forgive him and I'd kill him the next time I saw him.

But I healed my inner child.

And even though every night I go to sleep, I hear the screams of my father in my head.

I know it's not his fault.

Sure.

We asked him two weeks before to refill the water bucket,

and that was just enough water to put out one one dad on fire

but damn it Pleck tried his best so go ahead Pleck tell us what you did

we're gonna take a 10-minute intermission we'll see you in a minute

Well,

that's

pretty cute.

That's not what happened, okay?

It's more complicated than that.

Alright, well, let's get into it.

Benedict was always pressuring me to doing stuff for him.

He was always making me take the fall for stuff.

He was smoking a Sigarilio underneath the Zyball bleachers.

Sure.

And when the coach came around the corner, he handed it to me and made it look like I was the one doing it.

I threw it out and it started a fire that burned the whole Zyball stadium down, okay?

Why didn't you throw the Cigarilio into the water?

I was 16.

I didn't know what it was.

Everybody, it's that time in a high school reunion that we always do where anyone can come up and apologize for something they did.

Wow.

I've never seen it.

There's a lot of interesting rankings reunion tradition.

Pretty cool.

Why is AJ going up?

Hey, everybody.

Uh,

I

mean, I'm I'm gonna be one of the leaders of the galaxy.

I, um,

I mean, huh.

A lot of times I was doing stuff under orders, but now that I'm thinking about it, it was probably not great.

I didn't go to high school here, but sometimes we had to subdue a planet and they took it a little bit more.

Okay.

You're not going to get an amnesty for a genocide.

Hey, everybody, it's me, Patricia.

I just want to apologize for what I did.

And you all know what I did.

But what did she do?

I don't know, but she was the only 75-year-old in our class.

Hey, I just thought I'd hop on here and throw an apology out.

You have nothing to apologize for, man.

You're wrong!

I hate that.

Oh, thank you so much.

But no, yeah, you know, I feel like I was what some may call a bully in high school.

Yeah, yeah, you know.

I would pressure people to do things that I wanted them to do and sometimes, you know,

place the consequences on them.

And, Pleck, you know, even though my father died by your hands,

it could have been anyone.

It could have been anyone.

Anyone could have killed my dad.

It wasn't just you.

So I apologize.

For a second, it sounded like he was saying you could have killed anyone.

But he meant it the other way.

Hey, everybody, Plech Dexter, class of 3E.

Go Pleck!

Go Papa!

I guess I should apologize.

I'd like to apologize to all of you and to Benedict, Judas,

and to myself,

to my high school self.

I'd like to apologize to 16-year-old Pleck Dexetter.

What?

Okay, sir.

I'd like to apologize to myself for not standing up for myself, for not doing the right thing,

for letting other people push me around and tell me what to do.

And for not standing up in front of everyone that day when the w while the stadium was burning down and saying, This was not my fault, this was not my cigarillio,

But it was my...

I was part of it.

I was complicit because I was trying to be cool.

I kind of get why we haven't come back to Ranga 6 before.

Yeah, it seems obvious.

I am Pleck Daniel Eugene, Deck Center Class of 3E.

And I'm sorry.

Devin?

Oh, my God.

Devin, is that you?

It's.

Listen, I don't know who you think I am, but I.

My heart beats for you every day, Devin.

Okay, what is your name?

Shafarn.

Shafarn.

I'm gonna.

This might upset you, but I want to make it very clear.

I'm gonna remove my faceplate

and show the robotic insides.

I am not a student here, nor was I ever.

Who did that to you?

Who did that to you?

Oh my god.

Listen, this is a case of mistaken identity going very far in a particular way.

Mom, Dad, we found him?

What?

What?

Is this Devin's mom and dad?

Okay, listen.

Oh, my Rod, Devin.

No, no.

Can I see a picture of Devin?

Because I am so confused right now.

You're in my locket.

It's clearly a Tellurian teenager.

I don't know where Devin is, but why do you think I look like Tendenview?

Because we use one of those systems that tell you how someone's going to look like when they age.

Yeah.

And yes, it was a very cheap one.

Okay.

Yo, yo, everybody.

Everybody, listen up.

Hopping on the mic.

I got some good news.

Now, we've all been, for the past 10 years,

mourning the disappearance of Devin, but

I gotta say

I just got word

that Devin's back.

Devin's back.

Devin is back.

Yes.

Hello, everyone.

It's me, Devin, 10 years later.

You know what?

I'd like to apologize

to the class here for having disappeared for 10 years.

Pretty Pretty junked up.

Where did I do it?

Excellent question.

Devin,

look, let's cut to the chase.

You're back.

I know what's going to bring the school spear back.

You remember the homeschool rap you did?

Yep.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

I would love.

Let's do the homeschool rap and get everyone, you know, get filled with that school spirit.

If there's anything I love, it's freestyle rap.

Okay.

Well, Son, look at your father's face during this.

This is a true daddy.

Here we go.

Remind me of the name of this high school one more time.

Rangu High.

Rangu High, of course.

Of course.

So my famous homeroom rap that I would do a lot.

Sing along if you know it.

Hey, all the students, Rangu High.

We're standing here watching the years go by.

Can't get enough of all my classmates.

Everyone here, you're first rate.

Let's have fun and dance the night away.

I'm Devin, but I'm not here to stay.

Goodbye, everyone.

He's back.

He's back.

That was it.

Work for work.

That was it.

That's pretty good, C-53.

That was terrible.

You know,

do you believe me now that high school sucked?

Oh,

look,

nobody has a good time in high school.

Really?

I mean, I've parsed a lot of Tellurian media about the years of high school, and almost universally, it sounds like a negative experience.

I'm sort of not sure why they do it.

I mean, if you didn't go to high school, you'd be like Justin.

Yeah, you'd be an idiot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I wonder how his tutoring's going to get his jad.

So, yeah, that's why Y equals MX plus.

No way.

Yeah.

I'm loving Educator.

Yeah, you know, I got you.

So we're going to spice things up.

We're going to talk about calculus.

Wow.

Yeah.

I'm just going to bounce around all the maths.

Wow.

Yeah.

Hey, Benedict, I just want to say it

meant a lot to me what you said.

I think about that all the time, and I, you know, I.

Hey, everyone!

It's that time of the high school reunion.

How many events are they packing in?

We've been here for like 25 minutes.

It's completely part of our tradition where you do a cheek-to-cheek dance with the person you once had a feud with.

Everybody!

I'm going to need you to give me that cheek.

I'm going to need you to give me that cheek.

Put that cheek on my cheek right now.

Yeah, wow.

Oh, yeah.

It tickles when you talk that close to my ear.

So what were you going to say?

It's weird that

they turn the music off for this.

Yeah, yeah, I know, but you know.

Wow, look at them.

They're just kind of like slowly pacing back and forth, cheek to cheek, talking.

That's where the nobody else is telling you to stop.

Everybody has stopped talking just yesterday without.

I guess there's not as many people with like long-standing views in the specifics.

It seemed like a high school where everyone pretty much got along except for these two.

Yeah.

So yeah.

You know,

Benedictite.

You can tell me it's safe.

Benedict,

I spent my entire high school feeling like a loser,

and then the last year of high school feeling like a murderer.

And

that was because of how you treated me.

It's because of what you did.

I just

I guess I sort of became who I am because of that four years of my life.

It was really hard.

And before that fire, all you ever talked about was how much you hated your dad.

Yeah, yeah, no, he sucked, but you know.

You told me you wanted to kill him all the time.

Yeah, all the time.

And then, like, when I saw him in flames, I was like, damn, I think I spoke too soon.

Like, now that he's on fire, you know, you know, it's kind of like that thing where it's like, uh, you want what you can't have.

Uh, you know,

yeah, he was a bad stepdad.

He was mean to me all the time, but when he's on fire, I was like, damn, stepdad,

you know, Benedict, I uh, I gotta say, I

didn't want to come here, I had a miserable time, and when it's all over, I'm going to be relieved.

But I'm glad we got a chance to talk.

Yeah, me too, You know,

here's the real thing.

You know, that Sigarolo incident, sure,

you shouldn't have been there.

Sure.

You had homework to do.

Sure.

I asked you to come under those bleachers.

Sure.

I blamed you for it.

Sure.

We shouldn't have been there because we had, you know.

Stop being around the park.

I gotta say, the biggest growth that I've had was

realizing that maybe it was me who killed my shitty stepdad.

Maybe it was you.

Maybe, maybe, maybe, ooh, maybe.

Like a tiny bit, maybe.

And, you know, I put my inner child on trial for that.

And he's awaiting judgment.

So I'm free from the consequences of whatever that was.

Is that how it works?

Shout to it to me.

Hey, Bargie, how are those other ships on Rankus?

Oh

no,

so good?

Oh,

no.

Isn't that fun?

I got them into the NS Juck game.

Oh, no.

Unless you say it's coming real bad.

For them or for you?

Oh, no.

But everything you said, it seemed airtight.

Hey everybody, off of some row, I got nos.

Oh, what's that, Jess?

What's that?

I have my jetty.

You got your GV.

All right.

Right here in my hands.

Literally, ask me any question right now.

Like, right now, like, ask it, ask it right now.

Like, do it right now.

What's the capital of Maruf?

Shaufer Cars.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, good.

Wow, Benedict's a really good teacher.

Hey, can you take a talk-talk of this?

Oh, okay.

Seven reasons that show you got your G

E D.

Number one, I look awesome.

Number two, I got those deep Vs now.

Is that part of it?

It really tells me.

Somebody is part of it, really.

Number three, Zalki, never call me.

Number four,

look what Asia can do.

Okay, stop, stop, stop cheating, stop doing it.

Oh.

No.

And that's all.

That's less than seven.

Wait, Black, you never opened your gift from Benedict.

I can't do that.

You said specifically to open it when you left.

Beethoven!

Whoa,

that?

What is that?

That's bean.

That's Bino.

You've seen Bino before.

Oh, it's disgusting.

Beethoven wanna open it.

Be no, we can't.

We can't open the present.

I think after everything we've gone through, especially Bino,

Vino deserves to open this gift that currently is making a very dangerous sound.

No, Bino, don't open the present.

I think.

No, don't open the present.

He farted it open.

It's a clock.

Yeah, it's like a huge clock.

Yeah, it's a really, really heavy clock.

So, this bean is were everyone's cool with this thing?

not really

chip in here.

Alright, let's plug it in.

Press button.

Hey, what's up?

If you're watching this, I mean you opened up my gift and

yeah, it's a geoclock.

A rock clock.

Because you rock.

Now, I know there's a lot of history and no one can really put a finger on on who actually killed my stepdad.

The more we think about it, the harder it gets.

And

we should just breeze right by it and never try and point fingers.

But if it were you or me,

let's move past it and have a future of friendship.

Good night.

Beetle welcome.

Wait, breaking news is inner child that a hundred years

K Red ITC credits and protocols, Credits and attributions droid commencing outro protocol.

Black Tech Center was played by Alden Ford.

C-53 was played by Jojo Joe Jeremy Boon.

Dar was not played by Ali Kokash.

Bargie the Ship, Justin Balween, and Devin's X were played by Bujan Bagari.

Durbin Bundaloy and Devin's son were played by Seth Seth Lynn.

AJ and Pino were played by Winston Knoll.

Benedict Judas was played by special guest Impiwani ways.

This episode was recorded live in San Francisco Sketch Fast 20th year

in

San Francisco.

This episode will be edited by Seth Lynn with sound design mix and original music by Shane O'Connell.

See music composed by Brendan Ryan and performed by famous Macedonian Symphonic Orchestra with mixing by Danny Keith Taylor.

Shit designed for the Rogerian J by Eric Geist.

Audio hosting by Simplecast.

Mission is 6 was and is a proud member of the Maximum Fun Network.

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