303: A Quiet Place [ft. Cathryn Mudon]

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Speaker 2 Now, Zima Knight, Pleck Dexetter, and his intrepid crew travel the farthest reaches of the galaxy to defeat whackness, bring balance to the space, and meet weird bug creatures and stuff.

Speaker 10 This is Mission to sink.

Speaker 12 A C53?

Speaker 13 Yes.

Speaker 12 Have you seen Nermit?

Speaker 10 I have, and I'm a little concerned.

Speaker 12 Nermit,

Speaker 16 get down.

Speaker 12 Why are you on top of the refrigerator?

Speaker 18 What do you mean? I'm nest. I'm.

Speaker 3 I'm nesting.

Speaker 3 What?

Speaker 19 What do you mean you're nesting?

Speaker 19 Well, it's just obviously, I'm about to become a parent.

Speaker 10 Well, we don't know.

Speaker 21 And we don't know that for sure.

Speaker 22 I know.

Speaker 18 I know in my heart that I am about to become a parent, and as a

Speaker 18 self-respecting lerd,

Speaker 23 I have to nest.

Speaker 16 But why on top of the refrigerator? You have a terrarium.

Speaker 17 No, a nest needs to be high up on an edge so that

Speaker 18 we can get enough sunlight once the young is in here, once there's enough light and air.

Speaker 16 Right, but there's no sunlight.

Speaker 25 It's a biological imperative.

Speaker 10 It can't be.

Speaker 26 I can't get into the freezer either. Well, these are problems for you.

Speaker 18 You're going to block my raising of my child through your because of your needs for ice?

Speaker 27 I tore my rotator cuff and I. What? Do we have any cool pack cold sacks in the fridge?

Speaker 28 Oh, yeah, we should have one.

Speaker 12 Nermit, do you mind if we...

Speaker 10 You're going to treat a torn rotator cuff with a cool pack cold sack?

Speaker 27 That's what I've been traded to do.

Speaker 29 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 10 Alright, I'm going to move.

Speaker 30 I'm going to move this, and you can get in there to get a cool pack, brand, cold sack, or a cold sack, brand cool pack.

Speaker 20 AJ, I just I just want to be sure. Do you know that a tornado cuff is a pretty serious injury?

Speaker 10 That's usually a months-long recovery period.

Speaker 27 Well, because I am a former clit, we were all bred to heal quickly. All I have to do is apply a cool pack cold sack and it'll knit itself together.
So keep watching.

Speaker 27 Look at that. Look at that rotation.

Speaker 20 Look at that rotation.

Speaker 33 That's really impressive.

Speaker 27 No, No, it's all cuffs good now.

Speaker 34 AJ, that's actually really impressive.

Speaker 35 Uh, guys, I just want to apologize. I've used up all the cold water.

Speaker 37 Okay.

Speaker 38 Dar, can I ask?

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 12 Dar, can I ask a sort of maybe insensitive question?

Speaker 35 That would be on brand for you, so go right ahead. Okay.

Speaker 12 Is this a pregnant thing or like a horny thing?

Speaker 35 I would say it's a horny thing that cannot be resolved because of a pregnant thing.

Speaker 38 Sure. Okay.

Speaker 12 Fair enough. Gotcha.
All right.

Speaker 35 Typically, I'd watch porn and, you know, rub out a couple eighteen.

Speaker 21 Yeah, you're good.

Speaker 40 I get it.

Speaker 35 I just don't want the little being inside of me to have to hear that.

Speaker 20 Yep, a lot of grinding.

Speaker 14 Margie, I have an incoming call from Leximar Pwinch.

Speaker 42 Yep, been trying to call me all all week ever since we left and I'm gonna tell him anything in particular.

Speaker 10 Okay.

Speaker 38 Ghost him.

Speaker 16 Margie, Leximar Pwinch is the biggest agent in Hollywood.

Speaker 28 You told us that.

Speaker 42 Yeah, no, he's great. You know, he makes things happen.
He put me in all the movies. He gave me all the money that I didn't squandered and got a bunch of people angry and coming after me.

Speaker 42 And he's probably wondering, Bargie, where are you? You know, you have contracts. You can't just disappear.
You know, we're gonna sue you. Yeah, just ghost him.

Speaker 20 So you're you're just avoiding it.

Speaker 42 Yeah, just passively just avoiding.

Speaker 14 Seems like a temporary solution.

Speaker 42 My new life motto is keep it under the rug and then sell the rug.

Speaker 26 Oh, is that where you got all the dirt, Nermit?

Speaker 18 Oh, yeah, the once Bargie sold the rug, I was able to access a lot more nest dirt, and then I.

Speaker 26 I don't know if it's healthy for you or your children to make a dirt nest.

Speaker 43 Nermit, yes, can the nest wait for like

Speaker 44 the afternoon?

Speaker 26 Because I feel like, you know, now that we're back in the Zig Squadron, I feel like we gotta get to work.

Speaker 18 Okay, I ran an extension cord up here to get the missionator up here.

Speaker 28 So, if you can.

Speaker 33 Alright, I'm gonna just move some of this.

Speaker 26 Under this trash here, all right, mission time.

Speaker 10 All right,

Speaker 46 AJ, AJ, we don't usually get super excited about it.

Speaker 27 But it's a mission, right?

Speaker 35 And honestly, we're not that excited about missions after we know what the mission is.

Speaker 42 Who are we doing a mission for?

Speaker 18 What do you mean?

Speaker 17 We're doing

Speaker 18 this is a mission for

Speaker 8 the good.

Speaker 42 But you're not gonna pay me, right? This is all just like pro bono?

Speaker 31 It's kind of a deferred situation.

Speaker 27 I thought the payment is exposure, that's what I was told.

Speaker 12 No, that's a fallacy.

Speaker 10 That should never be payment.

Speaker 14 Kind of a fallacy.

Speaker 20 Well, Bargie, if we overthrow the Emperor, we might have a shot at changing a number of tax laws.

Speaker 14 Would that interest you?

Speaker 27 Hold on. Huh.

Speaker 42 Let me think about it for a second.

Speaker 20 Okay. Okay.
Huh.

Speaker 20 Huh.

Speaker 18 What's happening? Bargie's thinking about the tech whether or not she should have tax laws changed.

Speaker 27 Huh. That's it? Yeah.

Speaker 42 I mean, you would visit to track five and uh oh, you don't have to run your actual numbers, it's more of like a general million.

Speaker 20 Well, maybe

Speaker 20 go ahead and sign the mission.

Speaker 18 Alright, I, Master Missions Operations Manager Nermit Bundaloy, signing the first mission under such title.

Speaker 37 We are

Speaker 32 going to a lava planet?

Speaker 25 No, it's it. No.

Speaker 27 Oh, we don't guess before?

Speaker 14 No, not you don't.

Speaker 20 We just let him tell.

Speaker 18 We are going to the locust of knowledge.

Speaker 41 Whoa. Total nonsense.

Speaker 35 I thought you know that planet.

Speaker 17 An establishment devoted to the illumination of the mind.

Speaker 43 Yes, okay.

Speaker 14 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 18 We are going to the repository of the most sacred information in all of the quadrant.

Speaker 17 Oh, heck, the whole galaxy.

Speaker 8 We are going to the public library.

Speaker 36 The what? What?

Speaker 25 What?

Speaker 26 I mean, let me look at that screen.

Speaker 33 The public library. Yes.

Speaker 35 Why did you pronounce it that way?

Speaker 18 I don't know. I just...
I felt like you guys got really excited. I was just worried it was going to be a downer.

Speaker 18 So I made it pretentious.

Speaker 20 Then why did you build it up so much before?

Speaker 17 No, it's the C53. This is where a huge collection of original Zima scrolls is housed.

Speaker 16 What?

Speaker 21 Yes.

Speaker 47 Yes.

Speaker 12 Well, I mean, you know, actually, I have a copy of each of the scrolls.

Speaker 9 No.

Speaker 21 What do you mean, no?

Speaker 14 He has them in his room.

Speaker 18 No, No, no, no. I mean, it might have needed some of them for nesting materials, and that's why.
Dermot!

Speaker 38 What is

Speaker 9 huh?

Speaker 46 Is this one of my ancient Zima scrolls?

Speaker 18 Yeah, but I mean, I'm assuming you memorized it, and that's why we're going here.

Speaker 12 We're going to have to go to the house.

Speaker 16 No, you have the scroll.

Speaker 12 I have to refer to them.

Speaker 18 Well, we're going to the public library. We're going to get them.

Speaker 35 Pleck, you could see why he would confuse it for dirt and or garbage.

Speaker 46 It's very ancient.

Speaker 26 It looks, yes, it's at first glance.

Speaker 44 These ancient scrolls look like garbage.

Speaker 27 Papa, Papa Dex Editor. Please

Speaker 44 stop calling Plekis.

Speaker 12 I don't have a lot of room in there. I just have to put them where they fit.

Speaker 18 So, guys, we're out on the missions of our lives.

Speaker 6 And we need to know things.

Speaker 10 Okay,

Speaker 26 you know what?

Speaker 12 I'll go pick up some of the ancient scrolls if I can find them.

Speaker 16 Great.

Speaker 12 Yeah, maybe C53, is there anything you can pick up?

Speaker 19 I would really appreciate the opportunity to update my

Speaker 20 diplomatic protocols.

Speaker 10 I used to have a huge library of them, but most of them was replaced with on and off burger operating procedures.

Speaker 33 Oh, yeah, you probably don't need those anymore.

Speaker 20 No, I don't I don't think so.

Speaker 18 Dark and figure out how to, you know, sort of like uh solve this horny problem, absolutely.

Speaker 33 At the library?

Speaker 35 Yeah. Any public library worth its salt has a choice collection of literatica.

Speaker 21 Is that true?

Speaker 35 I would hope so.

Speaker 12 I think I've been doing libraries wrong the whole time.

Speaker 18 And I will be, of course, just uh looking in, you know, sort of like parenthood section.

Speaker 26 Nermit, what is it?

Speaker 16 I don't know. I feel like you're jumping the gun just a little bit.

Speaker 18 A father knows.

Speaker 10 Is that an expression?

Speaker 18 A father knows when they are a father in the future.

Speaker 29 I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 18 That's the full expression and the short version of the father knows.

Speaker 12 Fair enough.

Speaker 45 And then AJ could learn anything.

Speaker 27 Yeah, I think I've been clip with the best reading. Mevel.

Speaker 12 Did you just say reading Mevel?

Speaker 27 What? No.

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Speaker 24 Library. Okay, AJ.

Speaker 10 AJ, you can't be this lounge in here.

Speaker 15 The library is typically a quiet, content space.

Speaker 15 No, you

Speaker 10 probably it's gonna get clean.

Speaker 36 Group there, you group, please take your boots. Please remove your boots and your shoes.

Speaker 36 Any footwear, please?

Speaker 21 Any and all footwear, please leave it in the hydro cubby.

Speaker 36 Okay, I'm just gonna pull these to your left.

Speaker 12 I have to put my shoes in this bucket of water.

Speaker 36 It's a hydro cubby.

Speaker 27 It's a hydro cubby, you put it in. You know what?

Speaker 55 Sure, I'll take them off.

Speaker 31 There you go.

Speaker 12 That's a very formal uniform.

Speaker 33 Are you the head librarian here?

Speaker 36 Yes, you can call me Poopins.

Speaker 16 Uh, Poopins, great to meet you.

Speaker 12 Uh, my name is uh Zema Knight, Pleck Deck Setter. This is C53, AJ,

Speaker 9 Dar,

Speaker 25 and Nermit.

Speaker 33 Greetings.

Speaker 27 Are you called head or librarian because you're mostly a head? Oh, you've got little, like, tiny.

Speaker 36 Is it a joke, the word joke?

Speaker 27 No, it just you your head seems bigger than your, like, much bigger.

Speaker 31 Seem like most of the time. By what ratio?

Speaker 36 By what standard ratio?

Speaker 10 You've got a very clotic view of what a being is supposed to look like. That's all.

Speaker 36 I have what would be called by some as a very attractive ratio for my species.

Speaker 21 Okay, yeah, I mean, I think it really

Speaker 44 you really wear it well, Poopins.

Speaker 9 But your

Speaker 27 big-ass head has nothing to do with you being called a head librarian.

Speaker 25 AJ, no.

Speaker 26 No, head librarian is a title that you would earn by having a big ass head.

Speaker 27 No.

Speaker 36 Here's the problem with you interlopers: the wordplay, these word jokes, they're so limited. The idiomatic, they don't translate across the universe.

Speaker 36 So, for me to even fake a chortle at head librarian, and I understand it because I speak 89 languages, but it's it's just so

Speaker 24 uh banal.

Speaker 55 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 16 Poopins, how long have you been working at this uh public library?

Speaker 24 Publique Librari.

Speaker 33 Oh, I'm sorry, Publique Librari.

Speaker 36 Wait a second, I said it right. Of course, how else would you pronounce it?

Speaker 46 Exactly.

Speaker 20 It's not public library.

Speaker 30 I mean, perhaps in some dialects, but around truly, around here, anybody, the public librarians.

Speaker 36 I mean, maybe a more ignorant person would say publique librarians

Speaker 38 for children's dark.

Speaker 31 Well, you've got to update my particles.

Speaker 36 Working in libraries has been in my family for four generations.

Speaker 15 Wow, that's.

Speaker 33 And how long have you been at this library?

Speaker 36 98 years.

Speaker 31 Wow.

Speaker 31 What is

Speaker 36 saying it really, really, you know, makes it real.

Speaker 12 Yeah, do you get to retire at a certain point?

Speaker 27 No.

Speaker 36 Okay.

Speaker 36 We just die and then we get crystallized and then you see those busts? You see all the busts that line the top?

Speaker 10 There we are.

Speaker 24 Wow. All the little heads.

Speaker 21 Wait, well, you can only see the heads.

Speaker 6 Well, I figured they were just heads, but those are the full bodies.

Speaker 12 Those are your those are your family, your your ancestors?

Speaker 23 Yes, it's a crypt of sorts I don't even think you need of sorts

Speaker 18 just a crypto Wow Poopins could you please direct me to the parenting section

Speaker 23 well first of all congratulations when's the duty

Speaker 29 uh you know it's uh 18 months well wow quite a gestation period yes it's uh well it's a it's a

Speaker 35 nermit that's very nice of you to try and help me out with finding the parenting books but actually,

Speaker 35 I was curious, where do the perverts go in this library?

Speaker 32 Ah,

Speaker 4 right over here.

Speaker 7 Lots of people.

Speaker 36 I'm taking these nice people to the erotica corner. Don't make eye contact, just follow me, don't look them in the eye.

Speaker 21 No, come this way.

Speaker 36 Your mom has 12 holes.

Speaker 32 Come on. Come on.

Speaker 32 Come on.

Speaker 31 Look me in my eyes.

Speaker 5 My eyes are true.

Speaker 11 Look me in the eyes.

Speaker 35 Pooke, I may have honestly

Speaker 35 truly underestimated the level of pervert here.

Speaker 21 I want to skip over the,

Speaker 35 you know, the picture books. Take me to the beautifully written prose, like paragraphs upon paragraphs of like, you know, undressing corsets and that sort of thing.

Speaker 21 Ah, yes. Here we go.

Speaker 36 These top three shells.

Speaker 35 Please, sir, please stop looking at me with your genitals.

Speaker 40 I'm.

Speaker 6 My eyes are up here. Oh.

Speaker 4 Where my genitals are.

Speaker 40 Ah, of course. Yeah.

Speaker 35 I just want something that's really going to build to a climax.

Speaker 36 Ooh, well, I have this one. It's 9,000 pages long.
So it's quite a long, long read, but by those first few pages, oh, the climax will be tremendous.

Speaker 35 Challenge accepted. Thank you.

Speaker 47 Enjoy.

Speaker 31 Now, parenting was it?

Speaker 21 Yes.

Speaker 18 Thank you so much for remembering.

Speaker 36 Okay.

Speaker 36 The second you see the mahogany, just pass that.

Speaker 18 Okay, I am going to pull this ladder and this wheelie stool.

Speaker 57 Both.

Speaker 12 Good luck, Nermit. Thank you.
You know, just by the way,

Speaker 16 I don't know.

Speaker 16 I wouldn't say you need to spend too much time there.

Speaker 12 I think you're...

Speaker 45 No, no, no.

Speaker 43 I want to be one of those involved, prepared dads.

Speaker 6 Sure.

Speaker 18 A lot of people think it's just for the omnisexual, multi-gendered other parent, but I think the dad should be really involved.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 27 Close thing I had to a father was a big

Speaker 9 tube of blue liquid I was floating around in.

Speaker 12 Oh, where you uh your your body was built from the genetic building block.

Speaker 9 That's right. Yeah,

Speaker 47 I don't think that's your first time.

Speaker 21 That's probably

Speaker 27 tried to ground me once.

Speaker 10 The liquid.

Speaker 27 The liquid. At first, I wanted to be like that tube of blue liquid, but that's not a good role.

Speaker 10 Yeah,

Speaker 27 you didn't really get me.

Speaker 28 That makes sense.

Speaker 27 I hate him. Okay.
I'm not gonna be like him.

Speaker 25 Yeah, you won't need him.

Speaker 31 You won't be like, I'm not my dad.

Speaker 32 I'm not a tube of blue liquid.

Speaker 6 Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 21 That's good.

Speaker 36 Please, keep, please, keep, please.

Speaker 21 I'm I'm so sorry.

Speaker 27 I'm so sorry, Poopins.

Speaker 34 Listen, Poopins.

Speaker 21 Don't look at them.

Speaker 12 Poopins, for a public library, this is a pretty big, comprehensive place.

Speaker 36 With a central branch.

Speaker 16 Oh, I mean, sure, yeah, I guess so.

Speaker 12 I just, this is a really impressive facility you got here. I was told that there may be some ancient texts here.
I'm looking for something on the Zima religion. Do you have anything related to that?

Speaker 33 Of course.

Speaker 21 Oh, of course.

Speaker 29 Oh, follow me right now.

Speaker 46 Yeah, AJ,

Speaker 12 AJ's my protege, sort of.

Speaker 12 And so, you know, I kind of wanted to show him a couple ancient texts, kind of get him, you know, get him started on something.

Speaker 36 You all can read, correct?

Speaker 15 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 21 Okay, AJ.

Speaker 36 Nothing keeps my pet worse than people who can't read strolling into the Librari.

Speaker 27 Sure. Yeah, well, we definitely all know how to read.

Speaker 25 Good.

Speaker 12 What would people come into a librari for if they weren't going to be reading?

Speaker 54 Sweet, sweet internet.

Speaker 21 Okay, that makes sense. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Alright.

Speaker 28 I'm sorry.

Speaker 21 Poopins.

Speaker 12 Let's say out of every 100 people that comes into a publique librari, how many of them are perverts?

Speaker 36 99.

Speaker 24 Okay.

Speaker 36 Wow. Well, you five.
How many is in your group?

Speaker 44 Yeah, it's five.

Speaker 36 Yep, 95. Okay.

Speaker 36 Well, me, 94.

Speaker 31 Me, you guys.

Speaker 33 Sure, you come in and out of the library.

Speaker 36 We'll never outnumber the Purbos, so

Speaker 36 they're harmless. They're harmless.
They're kind of fun. You know, I wouldn't worry about them.

Speaker 52 Sorry to interrupt. Just wanted to say that the Purbas are having a pizza party down.

Speaker 10 Pants down.

Speaker 55 Are you still welcome?

Speaker 33 No, no, no.

Speaker 12 I'm just

Speaker 12 looking to read some Zima scrolls.

Speaker 27 I can definitely read, so it's not an

Speaker 36 Well, you I will have to accompany you because they are kept in a climate-controlled vault.

Speaker 21 Oh, wow.

Speaker 12 In my experience with ancient texts, or a lizard might eat them and then barf them up to make a nest.

Speaker 36 It's a word joke?

Speaker 23 It's an

Speaker 23 exact

Speaker 32 actual variety.

Speaker 15 Oh, that's not a bad translation.

Speaker 10 It's just

Speaker 23 a thing that happens.

Speaker 38 Sure, sure.

Speaker 36 I know it seems unlikely, but seems highly unlikely, particularly with my ancient text, because every scroll is kept under a glass encasing that is locked with crystallites. Let me open it.

Speaker 5 Wow!

Speaker 16 Poopins, this place is amazing.

Speaker 36 It's a perfect chamber, not too chilly, not too balmy.

Speaker 36 It's a perfect chamber.

Speaker 23 Wow.

Speaker 16 Can I just ask, does every quadrant have a central branch of the public librari that's this impressive?

Speaker 36 No, no, we happen to live in a very, very well-funded district.

Speaker 10 Yes, actually, the Emperor may be doing what is known as gentrifying the quadrant.

Speaker 41 He's raising property values and probably forcing out long-time residents.

Speaker 41 That's terrible.

Speaker 10 It's awful, but it's great for real estate failures.

Speaker 12 That's not important, see if it is yours.

Speaker 10 Well, not to the URI, but to the Emperor.

Speaker 8 Sure.

Speaker 36 Anyway, so, Zima warriors, correct?

Speaker 28 Yes, yes, yes, that's right.

Speaker 44 You know,

Speaker 12 I don't want to, you know, brag, but I actually am a Zima knight, as it turns out.

Speaker 53 Really?

Speaker 26 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 12 You know, in fact, some of these ancient scrolls probably have my name in them.

Speaker 12 I'm sort of the chosen one of the space, and there's a prophecy about me.

Speaker 28 So.

Speaker 28 Wow.

Speaker 10 What are you bringing to this librarian?

Speaker 12 No, I just wanted to put things in context for her.

Speaker 19 It sounds like you're brainwashed.

Speaker 36 Alright, gentlemen, and just so you know, I have hollows set up that give video transmission of everything that goes on in the vault.

Speaker 34 Listen,

Speaker 44 Poopins,

Speaker 12 I'm a Zima knight.

Speaker 16 I would never steal an ancient text.

Speaker 21 It's a mere precaution.

Speaker 36 It's a mere precaution.

Speaker 12 Sure, fair enough.

Speaker 36 I mean, as a public servant, my default instinct was to think that you are trying to sort of pander to me in hopes that I would let you remove the ancient text, take them home, read them on your toilet.

Speaker 36 So the answer is no. I don't care for your prince or whoever the hell.

Speaker 21 So the answer is no.

Speaker 36 But that being said,

Speaker 16 oh, so

Speaker 16 you can't check out the texts then?

Speaker 38 Absolutely not.

Speaker 10 But these are reference works.

Speaker 4 These are references.

Speaker 36 They stay in the library.

Speaker 14 Thank you.

Speaker 36 Okay. Under the crystallite and glass.

Speaker 46 Okay.

Speaker 12 Well, I mean, I have a couple ancient texts. I just am missing a couple.
Because, as I said, they were regurgitated into a nest.

Speaker 27 Yeah, poopins, we're going to need these texts.

Speaker 36 Well, my collection isn't missing a couple because I don't give them out. They stay under the glass and the crystallite.
You see how I avoid the lizards eating them is I don't give them out.

Speaker 14 Fair enough. That's a good strategy.
Right.

Speaker 5 Papa.

Speaker 27 Papa Texiter.

Speaker 26 Yeah, what is it, AJ?

Speaker 27 Do you want me to take this library now?

Speaker 39 No.

Speaker 6 No.

Speaker 4 What are you talking about?

Speaker 27 It's just a giant head with some feet. I think I could probably dock kick it or something.

Speaker 34 AJ, stop. No.

Speaker 53 Look, Liz,

Speaker 21 we're in the public library.

Speaker 28 We have to follow the Librari rules.

Speaker 4 Do not drop it.

Speaker 21 It's weird that she's allowed to whistle in the library.

Speaker 27 She's just

Speaker 3 No, you can't drop kick an elderly librarian.

Speaker 27 This is a lot different. You're right, guys.
This is just some of my Federation programming.

Speaker 12 You know, AJ, if you're gonna learn to be a Zima knight,

Speaker 27 tell me, Papa.

Speaker 12 You have to realize that you can only ever use your powers for good and for defense.

Speaker 27 So I'm trying to defend the scrolls by dropkicking.

Speaker 31 No, no, no.

Speaker 46 I mean, yeah, I get where you're going with it because, yes, I mean,

Speaker 12 that's one way of looking at it, but that's not what we're.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 24 Now, gentlemen, it escaped my mind.

Speaker 36 You are able to check out, of course, the facsimiles and the copies I have of the originals.

Speaker 7 Well, that would be good.

Speaker 36 You simply can't take the originals.

Speaker 4 Well, that makes sense, of course. Of course.

Speaker 31 Of course.

Speaker 10 We wouldn't have learned if we had dropkicked her.

Speaker 27 Yeah, I'm really glad. Poopas, I was going to have to dropkick.

Speaker 44 No, we were never going to. That was never on the table.

Speaker 36 Just like a like a ball, like a air-filled.

Speaker 10 Yeah, no, I agree.

Speaker 4 No, that's

Speaker 19 ruined your side.

Speaker 4 Good, good, good, good, good.

Speaker 28 Poopins, this is truly an amazing place.

Speaker 12 Um, I'm just gonna need a little time to sort

Speaker 12 through some of these ancient texts.

Speaker 27 Me too.

Speaker 36 You take all the time you need.

Speaker 4 Poopins, actually, uh, why don't we have a moment?

Speaker 19 I was hoping to update the protocol software for a C-Series droid.

Speaker 14 Do you have that update?

Speaker 36 Okay, great. That's on a different floor right this way.

Speaker 19 Well, I guess we'll see you guys later.

Speaker 28 Yeah, I mean, sounds good.

Speaker 36 Now, were you hoping to do the update from the branch?

Speaker 15 That would be great.

Speaker 19 Yeah,

Speaker 38 it's possible.

Speaker 36 The Wi-Fi is a little spotty.

Speaker 20 Well, we currently don't have Wi-Fi on our ship at all, so.

Speaker 58 Great.

Speaker 24 Oh, excellent, excellent. Okay, now here's the update.

Speaker 31 Let's see.

Speaker 24 There you go.

Speaker 31 I think I'm not sorry.

Speaker 10 Okay.

Speaker 31 That's a big one.

Speaker 4 Yep.

Speaker 31 Okay.

Speaker 31 When I get to it.

Speaker 10 Very good. You know,

Speaker 57 for

Speaker 15 a protocol update, because some societies there,

Speaker 10 you know, social boundaries change over time.

Speaker 15 If I'm running an old update in a society that, you know, things are no longer acceptable, I could be making any number of faux pas.

Speaker 36 I mean, that would be a nice because you're very affable. You know, just your energy immediately, you bring a very affable energy, and I think any species could tell that.

Speaker 36 But you're right, one faux pas and then

Speaker 24 flips on a dime.

Speaker 15 They can shut me off and, you know, send me straight to a jackyard.

Speaker 31 That's right, B.

Speaker 4 Oh, dear. That's horrible.

Speaker 6 Excuse me.

Speaker 56 I'm trying to send an email to another dimension.

Speaker 39 Yes.

Speaker 38 Um, it won't go through.

Speaker 56 Uh, I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 36 Well, it's a very, very slow.

Speaker 36 Oh, do you know what?

Speaker 36 C-53 is probably sucking up the bulk of the.

Speaker 24 No, he can wait.

Speaker 38 No, it's actually a very important message.

Speaker 56 I'm trying to reach my family.

Speaker 21 Alright, but what?

Speaker 4 I'll be the judge of this.

Speaker 36 I'll be the judge of this. What could possibly be so emergency-oriented?

Speaker 56 My family is held prisoner by an architect making super weapons in another dimension.

Speaker 36 Are you sure that's why?

Speaker 36 It's that important of an email?

Speaker 40 I just.

Speaker 36 It's actually very important.

Speaker 39 It's not an apartment application.

Speaker 56 I was taken from my dimension, and then I was stranded in this dimension. I was put on a escape pod.

Speaker 36 Did you put your username in right?

Speaker 17 Looks like your name is Korn.

Speaker 56 Yes, no, actually, my name is Karn. Oh,

Speaker 6 I think your name is Korn.

Speaker 56 No, it's it's K-A-R-N.

Speaker 6 K-S Korn. K-A-R.

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 17 That's my only idea was the username Bye.

Speaker 17 What?

Speaker 36 Who is that? It's another pervert. I'm sorry.

Speaker 36 Sometimes the

Speaker 36 perverts come in with tech advice and...

Speaker 38 I'm not a pervert.

Speaker 56 I have a computer in my own dimension.

Speaker 7 Well, I am a pervert.

Speaker 54 And I need to download these two gases. Billows of cloud jucking each other.
But my wife has too slow.

Speaker 36 Don't absorb it. Don't absorb it.

Speaker 3 I'm really trying to get away.

Speaker 47 I'm not a bill of an avatar. And I need to get him out of the avatar.

Speaker 32 You!

Speaker 36 There, you have no idea.

Speaker 46 I'm not crazy.

Speaker 56 My family is entrapped in another dimension.

Speaker 36 Okay, I'm shooting them out.

Speaker 42 Shoot!

Speaker 10 I really have to thank you for that time.

Speaker 8 That was fantastic.

Speaker 36 Just don't look them in the eye.

Speaker 24 That's my motto for all of them.

Speaker 15 You know, honestly, the puberts I'm okay with.

Speaker 15 They tend to stay in their area and really helping out if I bring up something they're interested in.

Speaker 24 Exactly.

Speaker 36 And they're always direct about their, you know, you know what you're getting.

Speaker 19 They're pretty clear about it. And they did invite me to the pizza party, even though I neither wear pants or can remove them.

Speaker 52 We make homemade pizzas, one of our finishes.

Speaker 36 It's delicious. It's truly delicious.

Speaker 27 Book being solid. Book being solid.
Alert.

Speaker 20 Alert.

Speaker 3 Parenting. You'll have to excuse me.

Speaker 36 You'll have to excuse me, C53.

Speaker 36 Don't let any orphans or sad sacks bully you.

Speaker 3 Okay, are you sure?

Speaker 14 Positively, I couldn't. Pause it.

Speaker 4 Positive, please.

Speaker 10 Just be downloading.

Speaker 27 Nermit!

Speaker 33 Nermit!

Speaker 24 What? I'm up here.

Speaker 48 What are you doing? What are you doing up there?

Speaker 24 Did you find your parenting books?

Speaker 17 I did. I couldn't help myself.
I tore him up and I made a nest.

Speaker 13 What?

Speaker 36 Nermit, do you have any idea how many crones that fine is gonna cost you?

Speaker 17 I'll pay it. And I honestly, I read the book.
I read the book, but I couldn't control it. It's just I got

Speaker 30 it.

Speaker 36 Whether you read it or not is immaterial to me.

Speaker 17 Well, I just thought you cared about knowledge, and I did draw it.

Speaker 46 You destroyed it.

Speaker 30 You destroyed fit, you destroyed property of the public library.

Speaker 17 Did you see Dar? Did you see how big Dar is?

Speaker 18 That's why I'm you have to make such a big nest.

Speaker 36 Oh, that creature is your

Speaker 36 partner?

Speaker 18 Yes, Dar is going to give birth to our child, and I it's just I need

Speaker 36 you built that nest to raise the child here in my library?

Speaker 18 I know it doesn't make logical sense, but I have a weird reptile brain thing

Speaker 18 coming through.

Speaker 49 I'm sorry, I'm supposed to be a master missions operations manager, and I'm this is some heavy stuff.

Speaker 36 And I'm, you know, as much as I would like to work through a lot of this, unpack a lot of this for you, but yeah, no, you can unpack some of this shredded stuff over here that is on this.

Speaker 36 I mean, you could probably have done several years of preschool, just a really fancy one on the fine alone for what it's going to set you back.

Speaker 49 Oh, wait, wait, this could be perfect for that pervert's fetish is fine paying.

Speaker 14 Yeah, we could work something out.

Speaker 2 Oh, there's nothing that gets me off more than paying a little bit of a bad one.

Speaker 4 Are you sure,

Speaker 4 Coolgar?

Speaker 53 You know, old cool guy.

Speaker 2 Get a lerd in a nest, and I'll pay that fine and get my rocks off.

Speaker 38 Thank you, Coolgar.

Speaker 4 Well, my genitals are rocks, is what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 What luck, I'm a rocked out.

Speaker 25 Hey, well, wait, wait a minute here.

Speaker 43 Is your fetish paying off the fine or is your fetish helping lizards and nests?

Speaker 46 Why do you gotta fetish, Jamie?

Speaker 2 It can be both, can't it?

Speaker 43 Uh, well, because my fetish is getting

Speaker 45 the real story out of people who aren't as clear as they could be.

Speaker 6 Well, I'm a teen, so you'll never find out.

Speaker 36 Nerbert, I really don't want to get involved, but you, as you said, she's like 12 feet tall, and her.

Speaker 18 They're beautiful.

Speaker 36 Her pregnancy, it was protruding. I mean, it looked like it was at least 60 pounds.

Speaker 31 You're a tiny little bird.

Speaker 18 That's why I came here to.

Speaker 36 Nerbert, at the risk of stating the obvious, has it occurred to you, you are in no way the father of that person's child?

Speaker 28 Has not.

Speaker 36 There's just no biological, strictly on a biological physical level.

Speaker 21 There's no way.

Speaker 4 Are we talking about biological impossibilities?

Speaker 11 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 Wow, Kilgar.

Speaker 21 Oh, dear. Shoot! Shoot!

Speaker 11 Poopins!

Speaker 27 Dar, what?

Speaker 36 What is all this going on?

Speaker 35 Poopins, I'm got I have finally reached the climax of the unbearable light years of being, and the pages are stuck together.

Speaker 9 Oh, dear.

Speaker 35 There has to be another copy in the library. There has to be.

Speaker 36 There is. There's a backup copy, and then every night,

Speaker 36 well, unfortunately, Dar,

Speaker 36 every night I go through the pervert section, and I have to put all of the literature into a hydro cubby to soak off the jisms and the pizza

Speaker 36 and the pizza, just all the fetish.

Speaker 36 I said jisms.

Speaker 25 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 36 You wouldn't believe. But the hydro cubby could.

Speaker 35 I just need to know which bodice gets ripped at page 8889. I am

Speaker 35 too close to be cut off here.

Speaker 47 Well, let's find the second copy.

Speaker 4 Here we go.

Speaker 19 I keep it in this chest.

Speaker 30 All right, there you go.

Speaker 36 You can read it for yourself.

Speaker 7 Thank you.

Speaker 36 Dar, can I just ask?

Speaker 36 Who's that little bird man in the that little tiny bird man?

Speaker 38 He's not the father your father your partner is he?

Speaker 45 He's not the father.

Speaker 36 Oh just the perverts and I was sort of talking we just inquiring minds

Speaker 35 of course and I hate to destroy anybody's fetish of large nameless creature and alert but

Speaker 35 Norman and I aren't together right now.

Speaker 3 I'm a true love pervert and I'm tied on with a full story.

Speaker 9 I'm a full story pervert.

Speaker 35 Well, I would like to be alone with my pervert thoughts and the last five pages of this book. So if I like scause me,

Speaker 10 we'll get to the bottom of it later.

Speaker 32 I found it.

Speaker 27 Huh?

Speaker 6 Wake up, AJ. What?

Speaker 10 I was reading.

Speaker 27 I was totally reading. I don't think so.
I can read.

Speaker 12 You don't put the paper up against your face to read.

Speaker 27 Good one, Papa.

Speaker 16 AJ, look, it's my name.

Speaker 12 In this scroll.

Speaker 16 Yeah. Darf was right.

Speaker 46 I'm the one that is prophesied about in this text.

Speaker 27 Wow, so we should get that scroll, right?

Speaker 12 Listen, I think we just need uh you know, we'll take it back to Barjie.

Speaker 44 We'll we'll figure this out.

Speaker 12 There's there's answers in here.

Speaker 16 I know it. Yeah.

Speaker 36 You boys ready to check out? We close in 12 minutes.

Speaker 21 Oh, wow. Soon.

Speaker 12 Yeah, you know, actually, Poopins, we found exactly what we were looking for. I just need to check these three Zima Scroll facsimiles out from you.

Speaker 36 Oh, my pleasure. Right over here to the desk.

Speaker 58 Check out the computer. Ready to check out?

Speaker 36 Would you just plop me up next to the on the table by the computer? Oh, sure.

Speaker 12 You should put the computers on the floor, right? For you?

Speaker 13 Well.

Speaker 25 Okay.

Speaker 32 Yeah, sure.

Speaker 24 All right. Here you go.

Speaker 25 Okay.

Speaker 36 Alrighty, just these three scrolls.

Speaker 27 Uh, yeah, yep.

Speaker 36 Okay, computer, here you go.

Speaker 58 I have to check out the computer.

Speaker 9 Walk one,

Speaker 5 book two,

Speaker 25 walk three.

Speaker 36 Alright, I just need your library card.

Speaker 27 What about a fake? Would you take a fake?

Speaker 12 No, that's not. It's a totally different thing.
Listen, I don't actually have a library card, but I can just apply for one.

Speaker 24 You can just write right.

Speaker 36 No problem at all. Don't you worry.
You can just register here.

Speaker 30 Let me get the screen.

Speaker 33 Does it have to be on the sound on that computer?

Speaker 27 Well, how would you know what it is? You'd have to, I guess.

Speaker 12 Well, she's the head librarian. She probably knows how to use the machines.

Speaker 27 I guess for people who maybe not know how to read, it'd probably be good to hear everything that's going on.

Speaker 36 Don't you think? I hate it when people who can't read come into the library.

Speaker 36 It's like, you know what I mean?

Speaker 30 I can't tell them what, but it's like, what are you doing?

Speaker 24 You know, I get it.

Speaker 36 Anyway, let's just start with the easy stuff. What's your permanent address?

Speaker 12 I currently live on board the Bargerian Jade, who

Speaker 12 don't bother looking her up. She changed her name to Bargie

Speaker 12 with a bunch of numbers and letters.

Speaker 36 That's just a what, a spaceship?

Speaker 26 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a spaceship.

Speaker 36 Yeah, I need like a physical residence, like a

Speaker 28 place of residency.

Speaker 21 Okay.

Speaker 28 I have like a closet on the Bargerian J.

Speaker 33 I don't know how else to describe it.

Speaker 36 Do you get utility bills there?

Speaker 24 Do you have like a

Speaker 26 yeah,

Speaker 33 I do have a running subscription to They Teen magazine, but usually that's

Speaker 12 that's usually delivered by a mail clint.

Speaker 24 Um no, let's think, let's think.

Speaker 12 Poopins, I don't know how to tell you how important this ancient scroll is to me. Can I take a picture of it or something like that to just I can't just hand this out.

Speaker 36 This is the Emperor has provided us incredible funding. And all I'm asking you to do is to just register as a citizen.

Speaker 27 Get down on the ground.

Speaker 46 AJ, AJ, get down on the ground.

Speaker 10 What's going on?

Speaker 59 AJ, AJ.

Speaker 27 I know that you might have trouble. You might just have to lay your head on the ground.
I don't really know how it works, but get your head on the ground. AJ,

Speaker 12 stand down, AJ.

Speaker 36 AJ, I warn you, I have an army of perverts ready at my call.

Speaker 27 Poopus, you'll immediateize right now. If I'm somebody who cares about an army of perverts,

Speaker 58 retina scan commencing.

Speaker 58 Card Tepper.

Speaker 20 Welcome, Ropus Diddle.

Speaker 19 You owe 7,862.46 crude.

Speaker 20 Get over new books.

Speaker 12 Oh, that's not... That's not good.

Speaker 4 Hey, guys.

Speaker 6 I'm back.

Speaker 18 I read parenting books.

Speaker 16 Did you learn anything good?

Speaker 18 Yeah, I did not have a serendipitously great transaction with a pervert that covered for nesting.

Speaker 3 Didn't happen.

Speaker 36 Was there a chapter on raising children that have healthy relationships with authority figures and don't pull lasers out on them?

Speaker 59 That's me.

Speaker 21 Yeah, listen, Poopins.

Speaker 12 I'm sorry for the altercation here. AJ's still kind of learning how to be a real person.

Speaker 27 My dad also was a cylinder of blue liquid, so.

Speaker 58 The two books you still have out are: number one, history of horses.

Speaker 39 Number two, how to be a person.

Speaker 6 Oh, poor Rolfin.

Speaker 31 Poopins,

Speaker 27 a few things I'd like to do. I'd like to say that I'm sorry.
I'd like to apologize for my behavior.

Speaker 9 I'd like to

Speaker 10 help today was that librarian Poopins. I feel like I never would have been able to download this update without her.

Speaker 35 I feel like I would have never destroyed this copy of the unbearable light years of being.

Speaker 10 Had it not been for her helpful suggestions. What?

Speaker 32 Let's go, let's go.

Speaker 4 We gotta get a strap kicker.

Speaker 18 Dar, you look really relaxed.

Speaker 35 I am.

Speaker 44 Okay, guys, we should probably get out of here.

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Speaker 12 Well, guys, uh, that was probably not the best way to exit a library.

Speaker 12 Hounded by perverts.

Speaker 10 Probably not.

Speaker 18 We were chased by an army of people with very specific fetishes.

Speaker 12 And Nermit.

Speaker 12 We really can't take you on missions if you're going to be tearing up.

Speaker 39 No, no, no, I won't. Public property.
I won't do that.

Speaker 10 You promise you won't do that, Nermit?

Speaker 18 I promise I won't do that because I've made a decision. What? I'm going to go to my home planet of Philem, and I'll be a missions operations manager.

Speaker 18 I'm going to be on the cliffs of Philem where I can nest, and, you know, I'll run a long extension cord for the missionator, and we'll...

Speaker 19 Nermit, is this expressly necessary for you to do?

Speaker 10 I mean,

Speaker 20 I don't know if

Speaker 14 this is really going to be worth your time, I guess is what I should say.

Speaker 18 I have a biological imperative. My species doesn't live that long, and I'm going to...

Speaker 39 I'm going to...

Speaker 32 I'm going to be a dad.

Speaker 12 Yeah, Nermit, how much longer do you have left at this point?

Speaker 18 I've already exceeded the average life expectancy of alert.

Speaker 21 Oh, no, what?

Speaker 18 And I thank you guys for it. You've given me purpose, and now I'm gonna go to the.

Speaker 18 I'm gonna go to the windy,

Speaker 18 windy cliffs of the jungle planet Philem on which I was born, and I'm going to build a

Speaker 35 book, and now I'm listening to all of you again. What are we talking about? Nothing.

Speaker 12 It's a lot to catch up on. I'll do it.

Speaker 42 Fine, I'll do it. Alright.

Speaker 39 What?

Speaker 19 Oh, the tax code thing.

Speaker 42 I forgot about it, and I crunched the numbers, and I'll do it.

Speaker 6 Oh, no, Bargain. I'm going to approve of the mission against the mission.

Speaker 12 Yeah, we already finished the mission.

Speaker 18 Yeah, we kind of signed up.

Speaker 18 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Dar, the update is that I'm

Speaker 18 going to head back to my home planet and assign missions from there.

Speaker 20 Huh.

Speaker 35 You're going to be a stay-at-home mom?

Speaker 35 This is Sea Red IT5, Credits and Attributions Droid, commencing Outro Protocol.

Speaker 1 Papa Fleck Deck Center was played by Alden Ford. C-53 played by Jeremy Bent.
Dar was played by Allie Kokesh. Vargi the Ship was played by Mujan Zolfagari.

Speaker 1 Master Missions Operations Manager Nervet Bundeloy was played by Seth Lind. AJ was played by Winston Null.
Hoopins the Librarian was played by special guest Catherine Mudon.

Speaker 1 Catherine performs and teaches at the UCB and can be seen playing Elaine in Improvised Seinfeld.

Speaker 1 Catherine has appeared on Broad City, The Colbert Report, Tonight's Show with Jimmy Fallon, The President Show, and some commercials you probably fast-forwarded through.

Speaker 1 Follow her on Twitter at It's Mudon.

Speaker 1 This episode was edited by Jeremy Bent with sound design and mix by Shane O'Connell. Recorded at Robert Doggy Jr.'s Puppy Pound in Brooklyn, New York, and Headcom Studios in Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 Music composed by Brendan Ryan and performed by famed Macedonian Symphonic Orchestra. Opening crawl narration by Jeremy Crunchley.
Shift Design for the Barbarian Jade by Eric Goist.

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