Total Recap

Speaker 1 This is here at IT5 with our final off-season episode before season five. That's right, season five is right around the corner.

Speaker 1 Keep your head on the swivel

Speaker 1 perimeter

Speaker 3 hallway clear

Speaker 3 moving down other hallway

Speaker 3 Rolfus

Speaker 5 and that other guy

Speaker 3 say something maybe I'll take a quick listen

Speaker 6 It's taken me a while to say this, you know look serious maybe spray I'd like to put up a strong wall around myself Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 Don't get the hopes up put your hopes down on the ground

Speaker 6 Rolfus, the wall has crumbled

Speaker 6 And I just have to say this, and I'm only gonna say this once, and don't you dare repeat it back to me.

Speaker 3 Say it.

Speaker 3 Say it.

Speaker 6 You are my one and only.

Speaker 3 Oh, wow.

Speaker 3 Thank you for being so vulnerable.

Speaker 8 I wish I hadn't heard or seen this touching moment.

Speaker 7 Okay, AJ.

Speaker 7 You know what you have to do.

Speaker 7 Dig deep.

Speaker 5 Hey, AJ, what are you up to, buddy?

Speaker 2 It's just, you know, I was using your arm as a pillow, you were using Dar's arm as a pillow, and, you know, when you leave, the circle just sort of gets broken.

Speaker 9 And without any heat, it's just, we gotta stick together, you know?

Speaker 10 Get down to the ground.

Speaker 11 Get down to the ground.

Speaker 12 What?

Speaker 3 What are you talking about, AJ?

Speaker 13 My fake?

Speaker 14 F-A-I-C.

Speaker 14 Federer Lions identification card.

Speaker 15 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 I know what it stands for. AJ, what are you...

Speaker 13 What year is it?

Speaker 4 I'm not afraid of Blashroom. Get down on the ground.

Speaker 2 What are you talking about?

Speaker 2 Hey, AJ.

Speaker 3 Whoa, whoa.

Speaker 11 You wanna come back to the cuddle puddle?

Speaker 13 Over headquarters, we got a giant

Speaker 4 12-foot monster, chest talons holding a toaster could be weaponized.

Speaker 14 Send back up, repeat, stand back up. I'm not weaponized.

Speaker 3 Okay, all right.

Speaker 13 Hey guys, I think AJ, like, mind-wiped or something, but like more

Speaker 14 than usual. I think we may be in a situation where AJ has done what Clints used to refer to as a deep clean.
It's a little more intense than a mind wipe.

Speaker 10 Wow.

Speaker 14 It can have some pretty severe effects. Yikes.

Speaker 2 How far back does the deep clean take you?

Speaker 14 Well, he's asking for a fake, which has existed for at least a while.

Speaker 12 A fake is trying to open fire on us right now.

Speaker 12 Ow?

Speaker 13 Come on, what's the what's the rack?

Speaker 9 Oh, hey, Nermit.

Speaker 2 It's having a great dream. We're just trying to Something's wrong with AJ.
I think he did a deep clean.

Speaker 11 Got a hostage. I got a hostage.
This little Scorpio tank. It's a gold scorpion.

Speaker 3 AJ.

Speaker 14 AJ,

Speaker 14 put the lurd down.

Speaker 15 Okay, now there are two giant aliens with chest talents.

Speaker 15 You'll never take me alive. And pulling foot done.

Speaker 13 Oh, come on. AJ.

Speaker 3 It's empty. My fuck gun is empty.

Speaker 10 Yeah, we know.

Speaker 12 You ran out of ammo for that like months ago. is it!

Speaker 3 This is over here!

Speaker 3 I can't figure my one out.

Speaker 11 Come here, come here.

Speaker 12 Maybe there's another butt gun.

Speaker 11 No, there isn't.

Speaker 9 Paste is just a little bit.

Speaker 18 I've checked before. Come here.

Speaker 10 Please don't hurt me.

Speaker 2 It's gonna be okay. We're gonna figure this out.

Speaker 12 How do you know who I am?

Speaker 9 I mean, for one thing, it says it on your shoulder, but also we're your friends.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we're your friends, AJ. We're your family.

Speaker 5 Wait, so I did a deep clean?

Speaker 9 I think so, buddy. That sounds right.

Speaker 5 How deep? How deep are we talking?

Speaker 14 I mean... What's the last Shirk movie you remember?

Speaker 13 Shirku.

Speaker 11 Oh, no.

Speaker 11 Oh, no.

Speaker 12 AJ.

Speaker 13 Okay.

Speaker 13 Okay.

Speaker 14 Well, AJ, we'd be happy to try and jog your memory here.

Speaker 10 Yeah, okay, okay.

Speaker 5 Just treat me like I'm a newcomer to your adventures and just, like, do a kind of quick recap.

Speaker 20 I'll write it all down.

Speaker 9 I mean, if you're looking for brevity or clarity, you've got the wrong group.

Speaker 2 No, no, no, no, no, guys. No, I think we could really sum up what we've been up to in the last few years in a cogent and helpful way for AJ and, you know, anyone who might be new to our adventures.

Speaker 15 Well, alright, fair enough.

Speaker 14 Let's give it a shot.

Speaker 10 Sure.

Speaker 9 I think the inevitable failure doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

Speaker 10 Yes.

Speaker 12 Wait, what?

Speaker 16 Let's lock and recap.

Speaker 5 First things first,

Speaker 3 who

Speaker 8 are all of you?

Speaker 11 Oh boy. Okay.

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 2 Well, uh, I am Zima Knight, Pleck Deck Setter, a warrior of the ancient religion known as the Space, and

Speaker 2 your mentor.

Speaker 11 Oh.

Speaker 18 I would really say it takes a village.

Speaker 12 Okay, sure. I'm Dar,

Speaker 18 intimidating,

Speaker 18 least sexy alien. Currently, Captain.
I consider myself also one of your mentors.

Speaker 20 Oh, yeah, you seem like a much better mentor. Okay.

Speaker 17 And you know, uh,

Speaker 17 I have the heart of a dancer.

Speaker 12 Well, you're also joking enormous, so I'm gonna write that down.

Speaker 14 Uh, AJ, I am C53, Protocol and Diplomatic Relations droid, albeit somewhat humbled by having lost his droid frame. The cube holding my sentience is currently stored within this toaster.

Speaker 20 So, you're a toaster?

Speaker 15 Uh, no, I'm the cube.

Speaker 5 Yeah, but the voice is coming out of the toaster.

Speaker 14 Uh, yes, well, that's because my cube is inside the toaster.

Speaker 15 Uh,

Speaker 14 you know, we just haven't found another frame to put my cube inside.

Speaker 13 Toaster that thinks he's a robot.

Speaker 11 Got it.

Speaker 12 He does make great toast.

Speaker 12 Obviously, I can make toast.

Speaker 14 I'm inside a toaster.

Speaker 9 I am Nermit Bundaloy. My most recent title is Temporary Emergency Emissarial Negotiations Missions Operations Manager, and I assign the missions to this crew.

Speaker 5 Tiny Lizard Man. His plumage is aggressive in some ways.

Speaker 3 Thank you.

Speaker 6 Hey, just like to chime in, say, I'm sorry

Speaker 3 That's all I want to do.

Speaker 5 Is this who I think it is?

Speaker 6 Yes, this is me. I am the Budgerish.

Speaker 10 Oh, yes. This is incredible.

Speaker 2 Oh, he knows Bargie?

Speaker 20 Everybody knows Bargie.

Speaker 12 Gotta love her.

Speaker 6 But But also, usually my energy is a little higher, but currently I am running on whatever negative energy is.

Speaker 5 Oh, wow. Can you do your famous catchphrase for me?

Speaker 6 Open your door, you chuck chucker.

Speaker 12 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 10 Classic.

Speaker 6 Since this juice, you chuckna.

Speaker 10 Wow. Whoa.

Speaker 6 I love you since the day you opened your hatch,

Speaker 3 Peter.

Speaker 10 Yes. Man, I love you since the day you opened your hatch, Peter.

Speaker 5 It's a classic catchphrase.

Speaker 11 Oh, hi there, it's Tiff. And hey, Rishra.

Speaker 6 I'm so sorry we missed you.

Speaker 11 Yeah, sorry about that. We're probably...

Speaker 6 You know. Yeah, you know.

Speaker 6 You know what we're talking about. You know, you know.
Don't they, Tiff? Oh, they know, Rod.

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Speaker 7 And when you hear the beep,

Speaker 7 I think you know what to do.

Speaker 6 Oh, I think you know exactly what's happening. I think you know what that beep means.

Speaker 9 You know, recipient has exceeded a lot of time.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 20 Tell me what happened.

Speaker 5 Sure, sure.

Speaker 2 I first met the rest of the crew when i joined up uh with the federated alliance who uh you know i didn't know was evil at the time but obviously it turned out to be pretty evil no come on how could they be evil they cloned me and like millions of other clients and they sent us out in the galaxy and that's like cool and then we you know we would enforce the law and you know kind of suppressed rebellion and yeah freedom and yeah yeah

Speaker 2 that's sort of back for you they were evil aj that's why we defected that's why you defected too Right, right.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 5 But we don't say all hail, Federated Alliance.

Speaker 12 No, we don't say that anymore. Yeah.

Speaker 5 So, wait, what would you guys do? Like, what was like a typical day?

Speaker 9 So, basically, I would spend a lot of time preparing detailed mission instructions hours before calling them.

Speaker 9 They would go do the mission, but like, even while they're there, I'd be prepping the next one.

Speaker 9 The missions were primarily a lot of prep work on the instructions.

Speaker 2 And then the missions were primarily prep work?

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I sort of think the missions were primarily missions.

Speaker 9 Well, I mean, that's pretty limited view of just from someone who goes on the mission.

Speaker 6 Alright, so this is what happens during the missions. Okay, they all interrupt each other, they all personally share too much information, then they disappear for hours on end.
Sometimes days,

Speaker 6 I get worried, I call out their names,

Speaker 6 I wait by the door.

Speaker 10 Oh, thank you, Bargie.

Speaker 6 I go eat a snack, I take a nap, I go by the door again,

Speaker 6 I go take a snack,

Speaker 24 I do a nap.

Speaker 19 I think you're sort of describing a cat, yeah.

Speaker 14 So, getting kind of a limited picture of what we did.

Speaker 6 Then I turn on my belly and I wave my belly around.

Speaker 12 No, I make no funny.

Speaker 13 I don't get something.

Speaker 12 Okay,

Speaker 17 this is a cat. This is a cat.

Speaker 12 That's what I does.

Speaker 14 Yeah, Barge, is this prepped for some role?

Speaker 9 Yeah, you can rest your hand a little bit now. I don't think all that needs to go in the

Speaker 5 meow gy was a little bit more.

Speaker 12 But what should go in there is that I was a real horn dog in the beginning.

Speaker 18 You know, I

Speaker 21 want this is important because I'm a parent now.

Speaker 12 I put it in past tests.

Speaker 21 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 11 Wait, so

Speaker 5 when did you're not in the Federated Alliance? Did you leave or did they kick you out or what?

Speaker 9 So here's what happened. So the Federated Alliance was formed by the Council of Seven.

Speaker 9 It turned out that six of them were evil.

Speaker 10 Two. And a twist.

Speaker 14 Honestly, it was.

Speaker 9 But then it turned out that the seventh was even more evil. And so they

Speaker 11 twist on a twist.

Speaker 10 What are you? What did you call it? Are you writing that part down?

Speaker 12 Twist on a twist?

Speaker 11 Double twist?

Speaker 11 Curly twist?

Speaker 2 AJ, you're running out of margins with all those twists.

Speaker 2 Listen, did we come to the realization that the Federated Alliance was evil a little bit later than we probably should have? Yes, but we made up for it.

Speaker 2 We blew up the delegator, which was was uh full of uh uh

Speaker 2 well, Clints, mostly. I probably should

Speaker 11 okay, yeah.

Speaker 5 Oh, wait, the yeah, the delegator, something's coming back now.

Speaker 10 What, yes, really there's a name,

Speaker 16 yes, yeah, yeah, there's a name

Speaker 7 floating up to my head.

Speaker 10 Uh-huh, it's

Speaker 9 just swink.

Speaker 12 No, no, it's

Speaker 10 tiny,

Speaker 10 no, no, no, no, no, don't say it, don't say it, no, it's tiny twos! Tiny twos!

Speaker 13 Oh, no.

Speaker 12 Oh, she turned up the gravity.

Speaker 9 AJ, Tiny Toots was Bargie's nemesis.

Speaker 16 A much more popular ship and her ex.

Speaker 2 Bargie, turn the gravity back on, please.

Speaker 2 But tell us before you do it.

Speaker 3 Ow! Oh.

Speaker 4 I'm gonna write down.

Speaker 13 In parentheses, I think they blew up the delegator.

Speaker 11 Alright, great.

Speaker 12 Okay,

Speaker 2 we destroyed the delegator and joined up with the rebellion against the Federated Alliance.

Speaker 6 And we also recorded at least 62 episodes of Bino and Bocce. Yes.
Not enough to get syndicated.

Speaker 10 That was...

Speaker 6 But it had pretty good reviews.

Speaker 10 Wait, wait, wait, hold on.

Speaker 20 What's a beano?

Speaker 3 Uh.

Speaker 3 Wow.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's another part of it. We we found a bean, and when we put it in hot water, it turned into beano.

Speaker 7 Did beano have nipples?

Speaker 10 Yes. Yes.
Yes, exactly. That's Bino.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Oh, I don't remember anything else about it.

Speaker 10 That's the only thing you remember?

Speaker 12 That's the weirdest thing.

Speaker 17 I love that.

Speaker 22 A big part of our lives for a long time.

Speaker 6 But unfortunately, the show was on a streaming service called Teeny.

Speaker 12 Yeah. And that went down.
That actually wasn't.

Speaker 2 That actually wasn't. Bargie, the reason that Bino went away.

Speaker 13 Bino went away.

Speaker 14 It was the reason that Teeny went away. Yeah.

Speaker 10 Oh, wow.

Speaker 6 That's why it went away is because Teeny was teeny.

Speaker 18 Everyone forgot that teeny was a thing.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 7 You know my only question?

Speaker 13 Why is it called teeny?

Speaker 14 Well, it's interesting, AJ, because teeny was actually a hybrid of Teen C Network.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 14 You know, like a network that just made small videos.

Speaker 6 Yeah. They were very small.
They're so tiny.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, they were physically very small.

Speaker 14 Yeah, physically, the image was...

Speaker 14 I mean, many species were barely even able to perceive the videos at all.

Speaker 5 They were so small.

Speaker 9 So it just cost a lot per month.

Speaker 12 Yeah, it was over $10.

Speaker 14 15 crooned a month? Get the juck out of here.

Speaker 12 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 So, from what you guys are saying, you guys were very much involved in teeny for a lot of the time that you were

Speaker 11 before you met? Yeah,

Speaker 13 it was sort of like a lot of people were talking about teeny.

Speaker 14 I don't think I ever really watched it anymore.

Speaker 17 It was certainly more of a pickpock. Yeah.

Speaker 5 But I mean, the amount that you guys are talking to me about teeny makes me think that you spent a lot of time on the street.

Speaker 2 It was just in the zeitgeist. It was just in the zeitgeist for a long time.

Speaker 16 Everybody was making fun of it.

Speaker 2 But you're right. Pickpock was a much more popular service.
It's an app where you see videos of people who steal from one another.

Speaker 8 Okay, chapter two, the rebellion.

Speaker 5 So now, this was the rebellion against the Federated Alliance.

Speaker 21 Oh, hey, the Federated Alliance.

Speaker 21 Yes, exactly, AJ.

Speaker 12 That's correct.

Speaker 7 We just don't say that.

Speaker 2 We were fighting the forces of Wackness in the Federated Alliance, which you know sort of culminated in the Battle of the Planet Crusher Crushers, which, of course, was a weapon capable of crushing a weapon that was capable of crushing a planet.

Speaker 12 Exactly.

Speaker 2 And I mean, I like to think we were sort of instrumental in that whole thing. Not to put too fine a point on it.

Speaker 7 The Battle of the Planet Crusher Crushers, yes. Right, exactly.
Something else is coming back to me. Okay, what is it? My name.

Speaker 2 Oh, no. That I said earlier.

Speaker 19 No, AJ, stop. Come on.

Speaker 10 We learned nothing.

Speaker 12 Why can't we?

Speaker 10 No. No.

Speaker 3 The gravity.

Speaker 6 I'm more tired just emotionally dealing with that badge.

Speaker 10 How do you only remember that one thing?

Speaker 3 It's alliterative.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 14 I have no limbs. Every one of these crashes really hurts.

Speaker 5 Yeah, right on the old lever.

Speaker 2 And then, of course, you know, Bino granted Bargie's wish to become a star, and we were stranded in Hollywood for some time, during which I became Zima warrior, and that's when you met us.

Speaker 13 That's when I met you, Chris?

Speaker 2 Yeah, you were in a strike team of Clint sent by the Emperor to assassinate, you know, me and everyone else on the crew.

Speaker 2 I took your strike team out with my woodsaber, and you decided to join me to learn the ways of the stabs.

Speaker 20 You took them out with a what?

Speaker 2 With my woodsaber.

Speaker 22 It's the dinglehopper.

Speaker 16 It's the ancient stick, the

Speaker 2 ancient carry around and wield, and sometimes it gives us blinter. Okay, it's more than that.
It's an ancient weapon of the fabled Zema Knights.

Speaker 14 It's made out of a stick.

Speaker 2 Yes, it is. Yes.
Thank you, C53. It's made out of a stick, but it is not a stick.

Speaker 9 You know what else is made out of a stick?

Speaker 11 Hmm.

Speaker 9 A stick. Yeah, well.

Speaker 5 Can I see it?

Speaker 2 Funny, you should ask that. It was actually magically swapped by the Emperor in the All Wee with this

Speaker 12 plastic tube. Ooh.
I like this. This I like.

Speaker 11 Okay, you know what? Yeah.

Speaker 2 It found its way back to

Speaker 9 Oh, why indeed?

Speaker 5 Okay, alright, so I met you guys in Hollywood and joined the team. So what happened when I joined it? Like, pretty cool stuff, right?

Speaker 10 Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 You know, we got a little dumber over, like, on average, I would say.

Speaker 20 Ouch.

Speaker 9 Dumber on average, but, like, we have way more hours of room tone than we ever ever had.

Speaker 2 You know, then for a long time, our entire life was dominated by the fact that Bargie was under investigation for money laundering, treason,

Speaker 2 witness tampering, financial murder, if I recall.

Speaker 10 Financial murder.

Speaker 9 It was also when Horse Hat was born.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 12 Whoa, that's a baby.

Speaker 12 Yeah, oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Big time.

Speaker 18 Well, it wasn't just Horse Hat. I carried two

Speaker 18 very special children.

Speaker 2 Bino, the thing with nipples?

Speaker 12 Hmm, you might remember. Okay.

Speaker 2 The thing with nipples?

Speaker 18 Please, I carried Bino to term in that.

Speaker 21 Okay, all right, sorry.

Speaker 14 dare you, please.

Speaker 2 But right as the trial ended, we were captured again by the Emperor, where Kor Balevor used a whack ritual to

Speaker 10 wait.

Speaker 12 Wait, what?

Speaker 10 His name's Cor Balevor?

Speaker 5 That's the coolest name ever.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he was sort of like the henchman of...

Speaker 21 Does he have like a song?

Speaker 19 He should have a song. It should be like.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Believe it or not, you've suggested this exact thing before, EJ.

Speaker 5 The same riff.

Speaker 10 Corbailvor. Yeah, you have.

Speaker 12 Oh, okay. Great.

Speaker 20 I was right then and I'm right now.

Speaker 9 And unfortunately, after the Emperor abducted us into the Planet Crusher Crusher, when Pleck knocked him off a catwalk during

Speaker 2 him and also

Speaker 9 rendering him infinitely more powerful.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 9 Cor sort of orchestrated a whack ritual simultaneous to the Emperor being thrown off the catwalk with Bino.

Speaker 20 Shuck, yeah.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 9 The whole thing imploded and turned into sort of a gigantic celestial butthole.

Speaker 2 The most gargantuan horror the galaxy's ever seen, known as the Allweed.

Speaker 12 Okay, yeah.

Speaker 5 No questions.

Speaker 2 That all makes sense to you?

Speaker 19 What?

Speaker 9 You had seven questions about Teeny and nothing about the Allweed.

Speaker 14 Well, to be fair, Teeny was sort of a hard phenomenon to understand.

Speaker 12 It's a pretty hard pitch on paper for sure. Teeny.

Speaker 2 Then we all headed to an ice planet to find the former rebel commander Sisu Gundu. And you and Nermit killed a bunch of ice beasts.

Speaker 12 Including

Speaker 2 the coolest ice beast, Dale.

Speaker 11 Come on.

Speaker 12 It's just what happened. I'm just trying to tell him what happened.
A, AJ put me up to it.

Speaker 9 Lizard Man, take a shot.

Speaker 20 Sounds right.

Speaker 9 And B, we had no way of knowing that Dale was known for baking cookies.

Speaker 18 Well, we know now. She's also known for a lot more, like being a loving father,

Speaker 17 a pillar of his community.

Speaker 12 A generous lover.

Speaker 18 Yeah, his wife would not stop bragging about what a generous lover he was.

Speaker 12 Wow, it sounds like a great guy.

Speaker 9 You dared me to shoot him, AJ.

Speaker 11 I don't remember it.

Speaker 2 So we spent several months not only preparing to face the All Wheat, but also helping Sisu Gundu prepare her campaign to be the new galactic leader.

Speaker 2 I discovered my destiny of going into the All Wheat. These guys followed me in and we defeated the Emperor a second time.

Speaker 14 Yeah, we had to go into the All Wheat because Pleck rode a wooden rocket into the All Wheat and we thought he might die, so we went after him.

Speaker 22 I didn't die.

Speaker 2 It worked. Turns out that Bino, that was the other half of the All Wheat.
Okay. Turns out that Bino, in his infinite wisdom, actually sort of had a soft spot for us,

Speaker 2 maybe in large part due to the teeny

Speaker 2 series he had with Bargie.

Speaker 12 Remember Teeny? Yeah, it comes back to Teeny.

Speaker 17 Actually, now I don't know why it was such a huge flop.

Speaker 13 Yeah, no, it was a great idea. It was just poorly managed.

Speaker 2 Poorly executed.

Speaker 9 Teeny thought people wanted, like, you know, 10-minute episodes. What they want are 40-minute recaps.

Speaker 6 Not only 10-minute episodes, but they were on one centimeter by one centimeter.

Speaker 13 They were very small.

Speaker 13 That's the problem.

Speaker 15 It was different.

Speaker 3 You had to hurt the watch.

Speaker 12 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 18 And sometimes you'd have to go 360 and spin it.

Speaker 13 Right, right, right.

Speaker 14 Some videos were only visible in 360 mode where you had to spin your phone at a a constant rate. Yeah, that was the only thing that wasn't really.

Speaker 16 Otherwise, the video itself would spin. You had to spin it in the opposite direction to keep it stable.

Speaker 18 Cause it wouldn't let you do screenshots, which just like made the whole experience unshareable.

Speaker 12 Oh,

Speaker 12 that seems like

Speaker 17 they knew what you were watching.

Speaker 20 But how do you create earned media that way?

Speaker 10 You remember that? Is that baked in?

Speaker 19 All clinics have basic digital marketing.

Speaker 14 Even a deep clean doesn't remove digital marketing strategies.

Speaker 11 Oh, no.

Speaker 12 Anyway.

Speaker 9 So we destroyed all the...

Speaker 10 Oh, yeah. Darr.

Speaker 19 Died is not...

Speaker 9 I mean, that's a pretty gentle way of saying that. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, you could say that Dar is constantly dying in an endless time loop that will stretch to infinity.

Speaker 12 Why is my leg bleeding?

Speaker 10 Why would you say that?

Speaker 9 I would just say that, but why would

Speaker 9 you say that?

Speaker 2 It's probably still too soon.

Speaker 9 Luckily, in a subsequent mission, due to time travel, there became two DARs, so the extra DAR was able to replace Dar who died.

Speaker 2 And that's the DAR you see before you today.

Speaker 12 Right.

Speaker 11 Well, you guys can talk about this all you want, but I will not be writing it down.

Speaker 4 Because I do not understand what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 Well, let me tell you this, AJ. It makes sense, and it's airtight.

Speaker 14 AJ, I can see your helmet is filling up with blood. You should probably let someone.

Speaker 12 How How do you spoke whimy?

Speaker 9 It's timey with a W.

Speaker 11 Got it.

Speaker 9 So we destroyed all we, of course.

Speaker 20 Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And that opened up a rift in reality.

Speaker 2 We fell through it, and we don't know where we are now. And now we've been adrift for so long that Bargie's out of fuel and has shut off all but the absolute bare minimum of life support systems.

Speaker 6 So there's only one way that I know that I'm alive, and that's if I shake.

Speaker 10 you.

Speaker 2 Don't shake that.

Speaker 9 Don't shake the tush.

Speaker 5 It also...

Speaker 9 You're gonna wake up all those other guys, and they're kind of annoying.

Speaker 9 Wait, what other guys?

Speaker 2 What are the other people that were in the all-week with us? They're on the ship now. Yeah.
CC Su Gundu, Rolfus Tittle.

Speaker 10 Wait, who?

Speaker 2 Rolfus Tittle?

Speaker 4 I keep hearing static when you say that name.

Speaker 2 He's the guy you were cloned from. Huh?

Speaker 14 Rolfus Tittle is the source of your DNA, AJ. So I'm not surprised you probably can't hear me saying his name, Rolfus Tittle.

Speaker 4 Rolfus Tittle. No, I can't hear it.
And none of that sounds right, so I will not remember that.

Speaker 11 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 9 Then you're caught up because you didn't remember it before.

Speaker 11 Well, this is actually an amazing recap.

Speaker 12 It's super clear.

Speaker 14 I don't know, AJ. I think anyone trying to familiarize themselves with our situation based on what you wrote would be very, very confused.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I would say turned off

Speaker 5 maybe alienated might be the word

Speaker 2 yeah

Speaker 11 uh i mean

Speaker 4 seems to me that this is a crew of misfits aboard a cantankerous ship that go for a bunch of madcap adventures in a galaxy full of delightful and interesting creatures wow it's essentially a workplace comedy set in a fantastic universe also with a little bit of found family thrown in Okay, huh, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 I don't know if I've ever thought of it that way, but yeah, I mean, I guess that's exactly

Speaker 9 skilled distillation of uh the random tidbits we've just said for the last half hour.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's just like that's how I would describe it if I was paycheated to teeny or something.

Speaker 8 Yeah, well, wait, Cecil, come back, come on. No, Rolfus, you know what? I'd rather get with all of your clones.
I bet they know something.

Speaker 13 Oh, oh, oh, they probably know respect better than you.

Speaker 11 Whoa,

Speaker 3 hi, AJ.

Speaker 17 Oh, what's happening to AJ?

Speaker 12 He's just spinning on his heels.

Speaker 11 Spinning.

Speaker 11 Oh, wow.

Speaker 10 What? Really?

Speaker 15 Yeah.

Speaker 15 What?

Speaker 15 By the power of...

Speaker 11 Power of love.

Speaker 12 Uh, is that what it was?

Speaker 4 Or the other thing is sometimes when the event that triggered the mind wipe is negated, then it actually negates the mind wipe as well.

Speaker 2 That makes sense.

Speaker 11 But it could also be the power of love.

Speaker 2 Yeah, probably one of those two.

Speaker 11 Bottom line, all my memories are back. But there's like one thing, Papa, I wanted to say.

Speaker 21 Oh, yeah, what is it?

Speaker 4 You said that we met when I was on the Strike Team in Hollywood, but we actually met before that.

Speaker 11 What?

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 2 No, the first time we met was on Hollywood. You were said to kill me.
No.

Speaker 2 AJ, what are you talking about?

Speaker 3 You don't remember?

Speaker 10 Okay.

Speaker 14 AJ, when do you think the first time you met us?

Speaker 4 Well, I met Papa on his first day of work on the Barterian Jade.

Speaker 3 That's me.

Speaker 4 Papa was all like starry-eyed, and you're like, wow, the Bargerian Jade. And then I was like just down on the ground.

Speaker 2 That was you?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 12 What? That was wait a second.

Speaker 14 AJ, that was years ago.

Speaker 11 Yeah, that was me.

Speaker 9 For our very first mission, you were the Clint working the hangar bay.

Speaker 11 That's right.

Speaker 12 Oh, come on.

Speaker 11 I'm a little hurt you guys didn't recognize me.

Speaker 11 Just a little.

Speaker 14 Alright, I have a simple way to verify this. I'm going to go through my memory logs, and I'll pull up an image of the Clint who greeted us when we boarded the Bargary and Jade.

Speaker 14 Okay, um,

Speaker 2 wow, your processor's running real hard.

Speaker 11 That is a well, it's uh, you know, the toaster wasn't. we are.

Speaker 6 That's okay, that's okay.

Speaker 11 No, no, that's I'm etching

Speaker 12 manually.

Speaker 14 No, no, I'm etching an image onto this slice of bread so you can see the proof.

Speaker 11 Oh,

Speaker 14 there you go. Take a look.
Oh,

Speaker 12 it looks like a flint.

Speaker 14 Yeah, no, but look at the shoulder.

Speaker 11 Oh, number

Speaker 16 AJ2884.

Speaker 4 So that's a retinal confirmation. Classic retcon.

Speaker 4 Wow

Speaker 4 Wow

Speaker 22 What I know

Speaker 4 what's the retina part of it through your eyes you saw it with your eyes and it's been confirmed Wow classic retcon Wow

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