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00:00 Hey man, what's up? Have you ever heard of calling pope calling pope calling pope? Okay, I just I also I need to acknowledge to you and to all of the fans at home that I am guaranteed going to call this guy calling just a thousand times in this episode. Sure, sure, sure, because and I know this because I've googled him over and over again and been like, why is this calling? Why am I getting on this calling Joe stuff? Okay, is it con just or con yost? 00:28 It's a Colin yoked, Cone. There's a kid of Colin Jones. This account is Colin yoked. There's a Tim in my high school whose last name is just okay. Find them. But and now that I'm saying this out loud, I'm not sure if this is right anymore either, but I'm pretty sure he pronounced it. Yes. Good story. I a call and pope sure. 00:58 Today you die. Unless... Like he's the Riddler. Like he's a Batman villain. Unless... You can run a perfect chance. Shucks! Best it again! 01:29 I was like, oh, I was a dumb story. I got a lot of now because we had a couple of videos that hit pretty hard on YouTube and and there's what the show is. They're really trying to give us a shot. There's someone who's like, I really want to. I really liked that short, but the longs are not good. Yeah, so calling Poe, renouncing longs. 01:51 Colin Yope, you he was a kid in the early two thousands. Okay, he and a little bit about him. He is a little like I well. I don't want to say nerd, but he's not popular two thousands yeah early years he born. I don't know what year he was born, but what I can say like our age. No, he's older than us. He was in high school in two thousand like two. Okay, so like yeah, so I guess I just say you mean like a high school. mean a high school kid. Yeah, I got a guy and now it 02:21 He was, he was not a nerd, but not cool. Like he was kind of somewhere in the middle, like a little geeky, but not like weird, like, know what I'm saying? Like, he had like the middle of the crowd. Yeah. Yeah. He had, he had some like popular kids kind of interest. He also had some nerdy kid kind of interest. He kind of dabbled the road, the fence. So call it one Yeah. He's just hanging out in his room doing whatever he does. Probably on a O L on AIM. Yeah. I was going to say, yeah, that's going to be probably AIM. 02:50 and he hears a knock as dressing about possibly getting drafted for the new war that's being talked about. It's chosen to. don't know. They're I mean he's like sixteen so like he's probably not gonna. I know he's like I know W this thing's gonna last twenty years. You might have been thinking about enlisting though. Honestly, I don't know. I don't know his personality sure, but I mean there's a chance. I feel like you know more about him than I do. I mean I do, but I don't know enough to know if you would have invested in the war on terror. I don't know. Okay, 03:19 Well, what would you have done? That was the whole the whole two thousands was just that show called. What would you do? What would you do? It's a big. What would you do? Would you join the war on terror? Would I? I mean mission accomplished. Okay, so here's a knock at the door. God won this war, so he hears a knock at the door. He's probably on a I M or something. His mom yells upstairs, 03:48 And it's like, Colin, someone's at the door for you. He says he's from the future. And he's like, oh, yeah, I got to find out what that's about. Are you not joking right now? I'm dead serious. That's what she said. 04:05 That's how she would say it to that's a two thousand to where is this app? You said he's in Chicago the oh so be like a little bit northern accent like Colin, Colin, someone's at the door, you know, yeah and then or there was the next line. Colin. Okay, yeah, somebody's at the door for you says he's from the future. All right, my dog talked to me like that. 04:35 It's Bob's of the Chicago. I can tell your future. Yeah, can tell your future. The mom. Okay, so he goes downstairs, gets to the door, opens the door and there's a guy on one knee and he says, okay, I am. 04:56 Will you be my future? Is that what you talk about? He says, call it my once and future king and he says I have brought kneeling like for a king. Yeah, yeah and he says, he says, I brought you a package and he gives him the delivery and cons like okay, thanks and he says, he says, we'll be in touch and then he'd leave, we'll be in touch and then he leaves. Colin goes upstairs, opens up the package and the pack first of all really funny, but you somebody 05:25 because all you got to do is go to their mail and then you know their name. All you got to do is just walk up to a house and grab their mail yeah and then hand them their mail. 05:39 here's thy mail. It never fails. It makes me want to wag my tail. I want to whale hail the king. Yeah, yeah, I get you. Okay, so it was good. So I think it's a really funny bit to do to somebody's run. It's a really funny bit, but wait till you hear this. So he goes upstairs. This is unmarked. What's in the package, an unmarked package. He opens it up and it's a scrapbook. 06:08 Okay. He starts flipping through the scrapbook and it's a very interesting thing because the scrapbook tells the story of Colin's life. Got it. And what's strange about it is you flip through the early pages and it's real. Like there's photos of him and his friends and events from his life and things that have actually happened. Like it's like this, whoever made this knows intimately about me and my life. And then as it progresses, it 06:38 goes past the point in time where he's at and goes through a story where he ends up becoming the saver of humanity. Right. That over the course of his life, robots end up gaining sentience, try to overtake the world, and he ends up defeating the robots and he's like the savior of mankind. That's the story in this scrapbook. Here's the thing about the time travel stuff though, right? Is... 07:06 Let's say that happens. Yeah. 07:14 Okay, we're in the time loop, right? Okay, yeah. All right. Okay. All right. Let's there's a robot takeover. Okay, right. We're in the time loop because like does he does he defeat the robots and the people like how did you do it? And he says a time traveler visited me when I was in high school. Right? So then someone has to time travel to him in high school or does he just do it and they're like we need to go find you in the past. Yeah. 07:42 to make sure you know this your destiny risking messing up the whole thing, the time line. That's what I'm saying at what which you know it's a run ask it makes sense. It is messy. Yeah, you could. What do you think Alice you could next you could you could mix it up, but it's it's but that's what I'm saying is like you could ruin the yeah. I think as you hear the rest of the story like it makes sense logically why this event would happen yeah yeah because I think it fits into the story. If it's into the not real 08:12 it fits into the story, but what I will say is I think that I think the situation where you do go back is where things went horribly wrong in reality and you go back to try to fix it, you know, and so like he didn't actually save the world, but you go back and you tell me that he's the person who could yeah got it to then maybe make him start to train. It's like he had a moment where he could have done it, which we've talked about this in the podcast too before. Everyone says they go back and kill Hitler yeah, 08:40 Right? Have we talked about how like if Hitler is still in our timeline and there is time travel, that means something worse happened. Yeah. And someone went back and killed that person. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. Isn't that crazy to think about? That is crazy to think about. Probably no time travel. Probably more realistic that it's not time travel and that the horrible atrocities committed there were terrible no matter. 09:07 There's comparing it to other events. However, Stalin got out of that pretty unscathed on the PR movement. Yeah, they did a good job PR on that. Anyways... I'm you finished that sentence. They did a good job. So he reads this whole thing, and it's a very striking moment for him because obviously, like I said, it's covered in a lot of information about his life and a lot of intimate details about who he is. 09:33 I mean, it's kind of it's a scrapbook. So there's that are handwritten. There's parts that are painted. There's parts that are like cut out. 09:41 There's even a page reopens and it has a little pop up and it's him finding a robot and he's like wow. It actually plays the music yeah. It's like futuristic music which you don't even know it's like because I mean like think about the music we listen to now opposed to like even like a nineteen fifties and it's like it's just stuff like changed. This is what kids listen to. You can't judge the kids of the future. These kids like this generation K or whatever. He's sixteen and he's like 10:05 man, these kids and their noise, is that how he talks man these kids. So his mom, Colin, you get somebody at the door and then they're like my king and he's like dang these kids listen to bad music. That's so I just wanted to make sure I'm defining the characters correctly for us to tell this story. Yeah, these kids listen to bad stuff. So Colin is perplexed by this. Yes, he thinks it's kind of fun now and so 10:32 He's kind of fun. He's active on this forum called Something Awful. I don't know if you've heard of it, but it was like it was somewhere in between Reddit and 4chan. Like it wasn't as bad as 4chan, but it was definitely worse than Reddit. Yeah, definitely not. But it was before both of those. So he was active on there. And so he posts like the whole thing. He scans every page into his computer, posts the whole thing on the Something Awful forums. And overnight it goes. 11:02 mega viral for that time. Like it had like a hundred thousand hits, which was real in that era. And he, he obviously got a lot of attention. Same way the internet always worked. He got positive and negative attention for this. Right. Um, was kind of a fun event, but then that was kind of the end of it. It lasted a couple of weeks and he just forgot about this moment until a year later, forgot about the time a guy came and you know I'm saying? Like, talk, mean, I, I, 11:35 Oh, that's right at my front door, the claiming to be from. Oh, dang, I got those mixed up. was. Yeah, the day he doesn't forget about it, but it's like it just kind of becomes a weird thing that happened. You know, it's like that was a weird one day. That was a one really weird day. Yeah, but that was it until a year later. He gets a call and. 11:59 it's that same man who is at the door, which by the way his name is Zane Figgey, Am he introduces himself Zane Zane Figgey Am Zane is a pretty Gen Z name, so they nailed that actually is a Gen Z person. How far in the future they come back? I mean it's it's it's only far enough for him to have been the savior of mankind, so like he has to be at least an able body male when this comes around when whatever event body mail. 12:29 I mean he is a male so I guess that last part was a just said we're not one of those pod. That's Like he's not even able hearing that like. 12:43 dude, the people who were like oh females, don't ever say that he's an able bodied person. Okay, I made a joke on. I made a joke online about how you know, because here's the thing is that my wife is prettier than I am yeah, and so people will joke and be like wow. How did you know how that guy pull that off? He must be rich because they think that's all women want, but the reality is is that I just at your right. Just 13:10 wipe the sink down and I don't listen to Joe Rogan. I made that post. The number of people who commented in the comments and then confirmed everything about this post, they would say stuff like, actually females and you're just like, nope, I don't even need to read the rest. You just confirmed it, you dork. Yeah, and then you asked like, hey, are you seeing anybody? They're like, no. You know, I didn't even have to ask. I was like, no one's seeing you. 13:38 it's like do my wife makes me wash my face because she cares about me. You know it's like dude. I can tell from your grimy skin that no one's telling you you look bad. That's how you can tell someone single by the way you were like hey. You don't have anybody to destroy yourself to tell you I wife. You know what I'm not even going to say what my wife said because then you won't you won't be able to unsee it because every time I look in the mirror I go shoot 14:03 ah dang. So I'm not going to tell you. I mean, I mean she's not gonna see anyway. She listens on the audio podcast instead of watching the YouTube experience of this show. Sorry, so that's so funny. So but that's what I So Zane, which is a nineties, two thousand name, also a Gen Z name, but how old is Zane that came to Nils on the door? That's a good question. I'm not having on that. I mean, I mean 14:32 Zane like, oh, I think I so you're asking how old he was like a Neil. Yeah, no, no, no. I'm saying like, Zane like a like a like an older guy who's like no Zane alongside each other, you know, or it's like a twenty something. Okay, that's I'm wondering. Yeah, yeah. So he's a younger guy. Yeah, he's a younger guy. So a year after Zane proposes on the front porch. So a year after his hate is on one knee in front of the front porch. 15:02 Does it is like a year to the date? I don't know if it's a year to the day. I just know it's like a year later. sometime later, sometime, sometime about a year later. Okay, okay. Yeah. He gets a call by from Zane and Zane like very cryptically tells him that there's going to be a big event that happens in Minneapolis and he needs them to be. He needs him to be there soon. Colin, he needs Colin to be in Minneapolis soon. And so he's like, I need you to be prepared for this event. And so Colin is like, 15:30 Okay, hey, long time no see. Remember that time you kneeled on my doorstep? We don't have time to talk about this. Get to the twin cities. And so a couple days later, an envelope shows up on his doorstep. No, no marking or anything on it. And in the envelope is just a plane ticket to Minneapolis. And so Colin says at this point, by the way, a little bit more information in the course of this year, Colin drops out of high school and now he's got a job. He's still living at home with his parents, but it's like this high school thing isn't for me. 15:59 he found himself a job and he's like yeah, he's a robot one day. I don't know I in biology. What do I need a GED for my teacher gave me a C and I was like I'm not going to spare your life. You know I'm talking about like could you imagine starting a teacher and you're like you turning your homework. I don't need to I'm going to save humanity the world. I'm a sixteen year old. You're the savior of the future and then him being like 16:24 Heck yeah, dude, I'm going to quit my job. We're a hardware store right now so I can learn what they're made of. I'm just in limbo. Oh, I used to sell your guys. How about that? How about that? That's crazy. So he says, what the heck? I'm going to take some time off work. Okay, and I'm going to take this unsolicited ticket to Minneapolis. 16:52 sure go fly there. Hey boss, not coming in on Tuesday. Gotta go to Minneapolis. Oh for like a like a conference or you know, you know, you met a girl up there, met a girl that no it's a zane from the future. He gave me a play ticket, gave me a plane ticket. Just going to kind of see what's going on. Yeah, might as well go check it out. He told me something big is about to happen there. 17:19 Yeah, so keep your eye on the news, because I think I'm going to do so your eye on the news. I'm going to put a kid in a balloon. Can you imagine that though, being the boss at ace hardware who all year this kid's been talking about how he dropped out of school and then he says the robots yeah he's like he's like oh yeah time traveler and it's a crazy and that's my fear dude when crazy people say something all it takes is one of them to be like yeah. 17:45 Yeah, I am going to defeat the robots and I got a plane ticket to Minneapolis and you're like, okay. And then you see them on the news freaking. Yeah. You know, well, I think, I think I get, I'm the boss at ACE hardware, that kid calls me after a year of him talking about him beating the robots and watching him play with all the electronics in the store, I'm calling the FBI and being like, Hey, think one of my employees is going to bomb Minneapolis. think he's going to do something in Minneapolis. 18:16 In the early days of this show, we did like affiliate ads where we were like a sign up for grammarly and use code till and and we got like fifteen cents and now we just do patreon. It's a much better way. It's better for us as creators. It's better for you as listeners and it's a much more fun way for us to interact. We do monthly hangouts like on zoom. We just hang out and play games online and and get to know each other. It's a really fun time so 18:43 but still use our code till in at grammerly dot com because I think it's still I might get like a couple cents from that, but join us on patreon because we're having a great time. Yeah, if you don't, we're going to have to start doing mobile game ads. 19:00 So he goes and he lands in the airport, gets out the plane and there's fighting those little, you know, those little robot dogs that came with your McDonald's meals back then. You got to, you got from your lunch break, you bought a happy meal because you think it's better for you and it's fewer calories. It's still too much and you put it down and you're like, look at this and then you know, freaking Colin just across the room looking at it. You hear him in there. 19:32 back at the room later that day and he's like just beaten it. It's like what are you doing training? You come later, he's waterboarding it waterboarding it dude. It's a I got to the information. 19:47 it's two thousand three. Where is he trying to find? Well, they don't know about it. They haven't learned. Yeah, he did. There's a letter because he knew. Yeah. Yeah. Zane told them Zane also said also by the way, we're to get Osama. Don't worry about it. I told the guy next door. said, hey, we're to make a lot of jokes and I need you to tell me. Can I say, can you hear us yelling Osama bin Laden and he's like no, I said we got to yell louder than 20:18 I didn't hear say that part. He goes, no, I don't hear you guys. Oh my gosh. Okay, so he gets off the plane and he goes to baggage claim. Yeah, there's a guy standing at the door and the guy standing at the door like in the little tuxedo hat with the card and everything tuxedo hat. Yeah. And it says, it doesn't say Colin Pope. It says velocity gnome, which is his username online. And he's like, that'd be like you're showing up somewhere. They're like subway king. 20:48 that's crazy dude, and he's like that's me. That's I mean who else would velocity gnome be so he tells him that he's the gatekeeper. He's like I'm the gatekeeper. I'm here to help you on your quest and he says on the drive back. He said there's going to be a is this is an elaborate game for this weird so reddit 21:16 I don't want to be your driver for this quest. He says he says I've got a he says I'm taking you to your hotel for your stay and he says I've got a cipher that I need you to decipher on the drive back and so he gives him this puzzle in the car and he decyphers it really elaborate promposal by some girl in his class. She started in a year earlier and then he dropped out and she was like oh break. 21:42 I was just trying to ask him to prom and I got him to drop out of high school. Oh no, no. 21:54 And so then she's like okay, we need to keep doing the plan, but this time we got to convince him to go back to school. She's like I already paid for the hotel and the deposit and maybe this part of it could be like any and it turns out you can't strike the final blow on the robot without a high school diploma and a three point two GPA. Hey, come on, you're just asking too much. Okay, sorry and so he gets back to the hotel 22:22 and they check in the hotel and when it gets there, there's a crossword puzzle. And it's like, have to solve this crossword puzzle. 22:32 and so he posts a picture of the crossword puzzle on the for talking about. He was a picture of the class would puzzle on the We need you to decipher this code and he's never been like B S you 23:00 be sure to drink your old thing. Is it that's a hundred percent where we're going, so where is someone comes and kneels at your front door goes 23:18 you are the chosen one and then it's just like here's two coke, two coke, two coke, not even coupons. It's a hundred points. a hundred points to get a free coke. Oh, okay. I just spit. I just dropped out of high school and spent three years on this. I have a whole huge following on lines trying to decode what this whole thing is. 23:49 you can trade seven million of those in for a jet. Just kidding, just kidding so it's crazy. So you saw he puts so on wait, just to recap that so he gets so now he's he gets the airport. He's in guys got this user name and is like I've lost whoever yeah give him a cipher. Yes, just the hotel. He's like here's a crossword. This is starting to sound like a very elaborate proposal. It does sound like an elaborate 24:20 proposal. Okay, so he solves the crossword puzzle, but he kind of cheats. He puts it on the something awful forum and he solves it with it with his forum friends. And then the next day he comes back and the gatekeepers there and he's like, did you figure out the crossword? And he tells them a cave in this like new marring hood. He's got his hands together. You know, thing where like the cloak covers his hands. Did you solve the crossword? And so call it tells them it's like an 24:50 numeric code. He's like one one four three two nine or something like that. And the guy, the gatekeeper is like very good. And so then thank you. And so he drives him to a diner in downtown Minneapolis and it drops him off there. He's nothing cooler than a diner to be honest. It's actually very accurate. And he says Zane's in there. 25:14 And he says they've got a table set up for you, Yeah, dude. It's like neon lights, a diner, like the jukebox is playing something. walks in, Zane's sitting over with a cup of coffee, just... 25:37 Oh, what a sight for sore eyes. Hello, Velocity Gnome. 25:45 you know, say it no. We're just bet yeah, he stands up salutes him. I think of the things is looking around like what is happening over there? Okay, no, so they tell him that zanes and they're just asked for him and so he walks up to the hostess boot table and he tells him he's here for zane, looking for zane. Okay, you're at that table over there and so they walk on there like looking around and I like is 26:10 it doesn't happen to be the guy and like futuristic body on that right weird guy over there doesn't happen to be that guy with a weird guy. He's been on one knee this whole day. He's been here for a guy with a sword right, but it's like a toy sword and those like you know those sunglasses that are just one line. It's like line so dumb. It's like we know like you that's not doing anything for you. You know, is it him 26:36 Yeah, so she she's like, OK, I'll take you to this table. And so she takes him to his table. He sits down and the guy sitting across from him, he thinks is going to be Zane. And the guy says, are you Zane? And he's like, no, I'm Colin. And he's like, oh, I'm Tyler. He's like, but they keep calling me Shaxx. It's like, yeah, they keep calling me velocity. No. And he's like, weird. And so they start talking and they realize the same thing's been happening to both of them. Like they both have. 27:04 gotten and then the waitress comes drops off a little note. They flip it over and it says fight to the death. It just says kill each other. Kill each other and it's the robots who have formed this elaborate plan to get him there and so long story short, the waitress comes back and she's 27:32 does slide them. I hate when I'm ahead of the story. That's crazy. What is the note says she slides on a note and it's a note from zane and zane basically says hey, I'm not going to be there today. I'm glad you guys met shags. He's like shags, he says velocity, you know, he says velocity, no shags is your right hand man. 27:55 and you guys are going to end up in the future. Your number two, I quit just then if I found out I wasn't the guy I've here to just be like you're telling me someone shows up my front door to give me a scrapbook of my future. I they fly me to Minneapolis. I out of high school. I'm working at Lowe's and then I come out of here for no reason and then I sit here and he go you're his right hand man. No 28:21 I dropped out of school for this. I'm the hero. I gotta be the you know or nothing. I can only imagine that's how you must feel. That's how I always feel, so he tells them that their their teammates. He's his right hand man and he says hey, I have a my right hand by the way. You know this is my right. This is my right hand. Also, we are. We both have a right hand on this side. This is both of our right hands. Yeah, 28:50 we had to flip the whole room around so that we both can have each other on the right so he can both be each other's right. Yeah, it's the whole thing. We're fifty one fifty one partners. It's a whole thing. We don't have the confidence to be number two. Neither of us something that we deep hole inside of us. Neither our parents really loved us enough. They loved us arguably sometimes too much, but not enough in the ways that we needed. And so now we're both sitting here. Both need to be the best deep 29:20 sorrow inside of us and Tim had a kid to try to fill his, but that has worked out and he's got a career. Do you have a career? It's actually really well, it's actually and actually every time that anxiety is like every time I go, I go, I'm really good at this. 29:49 I go oh yeah, I'm rich. That's what sucks man. Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes life gets hard and you know, sometimes things are stressful and I sit back and I go oh yeah, I'm rich and like that's the whole thing dude. It's all mindset when you see these trad wife accounts on online like the the what I forget what her name is something ballerina. 30:19 And she's got like that $65,000 stove in her house or whatever. And then you're like, man, that's crazy. And sometimes as a man, go, shoot, I feel like I should probably earn more so that my wife could stay home because it is very appealing to be able to just raise kids and be able to be home. And then you go, her husband's the son of the CEO of JetBlue. Yeah, so that helps. Oh. 30:49 life is a we my wife, we're talking about like money can't buy happiness, but money does pay for all the things that make me unhappy to go away. You know I'm saying that's true. That's true money doesn't buy happiness, but it pays for the unhappy stuff to disappear. Yeah, yeah, that's true anyways. So the sorry oh it got to real. Tim doesn't know what it is because I don't like. I don't like feelings 31:15 I know. That's back to what we're saying. Our parents loved us too much in certain areas, but not enough in the other. And now when we get too close to big feelings that are very scary, we go, but not me, I'm rich. I don't feel. So pay for those feelings to go away. So he's the right hand man. He's the right hand man. So now is it just kind of like, okay, where is Zane? Zane's not there. 31:44 Zane wrote them the letter and Zane said I need you guys to find there's a device in a robot locally. I need you to find it in the robot locally in one of the local bots. What does that even mean? So they have to go on this search and they go they go downtown. They see a robot spray painted silver 32:10 it's just a dude like a street performer and they beat the tour out of like freaking rocked his world. Yeah, I know what they decided slightly different plan. They're like give us the letter slightly slightly different plan for them. They went to Chuck E. Cheese's and they said oh there's robots there and 32:33 That is not serious. they go to the... Okay. Okay, shags. So there's going to be a total takeover of the robots. They're going to destroy humanity. Where should we start? I think we should start with... 32:55 can't remember his name. Dadgummit. What's the pizza guy's name? Oh, I was trying to pull out that. I was trying to pull out the freaking Pops the Skully or whatever his name is. The mustache, the guy on the drums, right? Oh yeah, it's like, yeah. Pascoli. Pascolis. We're going to start with Pascoli. Yeah. Dang it, I couldn't get it. It was really funny. It was good. You want to try again? I'll laugh. Oh! If you do it, All right, let's edit it. Robots are about to take over the world. Yeah. When are we going to start? 33:28 I remember his name. 33:33 See it's always a simple bit that gets ten so okay, so they got a chicken cheese. They go to the little the little stage with all the with all the robots. They start digging through their pockets. 33:51 I 34:06 took a while for me to notice too. took a while. You did a lot of that. 34:16 because they find another clue yeah in the pockets of one of the animatronics right and shut up and in the pot like so okay. 34:31 imagine you work at Chuck E Cheese Yeah and you're just at your job and cleaning up the pee in the ball pit. So young and I look over and there are two teenagers to seventeen, eighteen year old boys. Yeah, just what's he got? What's he got their freaking? Hey guys, can I help you? Excuse me, excuse me, one a we're on an interdimensional mission right now or save it the world. Okay, 35:01 you can help by backing off and you're like thirty two. You were good. Chucky cheese. Yeah, you know what you know what you do in that situation. You go all right. You walk away. You say I don't care. You're right. You're right. I couldn't care less. I am in your way. Yeah, that's what my dad used to say anyways. So they they find this new clue and the clue eventually they saw that they figured out it's leading them to a nearby forest. 35:29 But before they leave the Chuck E Cheese, someone approaches them and says, I'm supposed to give this to you and it's a package. What were their instructions? The person who says I was supposed to give this to you. When you see some kids dig through the robot pockets, my once and future king, please go to the Chuck E Cheese on Glenstone. You'll find two young men saviors. 35:57 Once they find the clue, do not help them, do not help them, hand them this. Your mission has been set. What the heck? Okay, is this all going to come together at the end? Yeah, okay. And so it's an ad, it's an ad, it's an ad, I'm calling it right now. So they're, they open up the package. So wait, so someone to chuggy cheese is like, here you go. 36:21 Yeah. So they told me to give you this. Yeah. They told me I'm supposed to give you this. Okay. And it's a package. It's an unmarked package. They open up the package and there's two items in it and a note and the note says for shags I've given you a video camera to document what you're about to do. And so there's an it's a 2003 and all 2003 camp like camcorder. Yeah. And then for Colin or velocity gnome as they're calling him I've given you a memo pad to take notes of what you're about to see. 36:51 We want this well documented and multiple platforms so that way we don't lose con or lose the information of what we're seeing sure. So they go back outside the gatekeepers waiting for them. He drives them to the woods and drops them off. Okay, he drives them. Where's the parents? Where's the parents to be like? He's your son in a couple days. 37:20 Yeah, I think is in Minneapolis, the world accepted a random flight to Minneapolis. 37:28 and I think he's in the woods with Shag. Oh, all right. Well, as long as we know where he is cool, it's two thousand three. Did you tell to be home after dark? Come on, come back with the street lights. on. So they go into the woods. They walk pretty far into the woods on the trail. The gatekeeper leaves them and so it's just the two of them walking in the woods and what they're told from the note that in the other package says that they're looking for a red X. 37:57 and so and they need. Oh, it did say to bring a shovel, so they're walking in the woods with a shovel. The two of them looking for her at X and in stories about this, they said they were getting a lot of weird looks from other people because it's like a trail. It's like a public trail. Okay, it's night time. No, this is the day. Okay, it's daytime. They're walking through like a public trail with sure with a show and so they walk in the woods and they find one of those red exes like spray painting on the ground and so Colin or velocity now 38:27 You can call him gnome. Gnome goes and he starts to dig and almost immediately hears like a clang when he when he you know, okay, that's on the show and we don't know if like the ground was like solid or we just know he dug up. We just know his red X. We know there's a red X. We know he shoved his shovel red X pretty much immediately. They heard the clang. Yeah. And then so dug it up and there was a black lock box sitting in there. He pulled it out. 38:54 and they both realized they didn't have a key or any way to open it. They're talking about what they're going to do to try to figure As they're talking, another person's walking on the trail and goes, think I'm supposed to hand you this key? Hey, I was just praying back there and I think I'm supposed to give you my house key. They don't know that I have a pocket full of pepperoni right now. 39:24 I forget which episode we talked about today. That's crazy. Yeah, I have no idea what the context is of that, but I remember the joke. So they're kind of talking about what they're going to do, how they're going to get this thing open. And then Shag's like takes a step back and he pulls out like a phaser and he points it at Colin and he says, he says, today you die. And he tells him to put the lock box down. 39:52 and he basically confesses to him that he's not shags, that he's someone named Maggie Hark and he's actually a robot and he says he's brought him here to kill him and he says the only way that you will survive is if he pulls out a 20 sided die and he's like you roll a successful chance roll and you escape. This is an elaborate Dungeons and Dragons. 40:17 And so call it takes the die and he rolls it and it's successful and so so Maggie shags or Maggie Hark goes rats and literally runs away like just runs out of the woods and leaves it there alone in Minneapolis and a city he's never been with this black lock box and his twenty sided die and he's just like what is going on? So he leaves the woods today you die. 40:47 unless like he's the riddler like he's a batman villain, unless you can run a perfect chance shocks best it again and that he gets you next time batman. What are you talking about? 41:14 so he runs away. I have given you so many good topics for this podcast and you're sitting here going they're in the woods and a robots looking at him and he's like today you die. That's what you do. Just wait, I have doused myself in water. I am sitting in a puddle right now for this show and you can't give me more than eyes holding a box and to kill by a robot. 41:41 at the end they go happy sweet sixteen. What are you like? What is happening? Yeah, yeah, I mean sorry about it. 41:50 Okay, so he's left in the woods. He walks back out the trail with the lock box and his memo pad. The Maggie ran away with the camera so he doesn't have any of the video from the day. Okay, which is unfortunate, but what he does have is the memo pad. He does have the lock box and he does have the dice or the die. The 20 side die. He goes back out. The driver's gone. 42:19 He's just in Minneapolis alone. has to find his own way home. He's figuring it out. I don't know what happens, but he ends up getting home, getting got back to Chicago, got back to Chicago. Eventually he got into that lock box and found another scrapbook and this scrapbook had even more information about his story. And essentially what it tells him is that there's this massive ongoing event that has been unfolding throughout history. 42:49 involving him and what had happened was sometime in the near future robots became sentient they took over the planet and He was leading the charge like a general for the humanity fighting against the robots in the war Okay, and then he had a son and his son was named Zane and so that same Zane who reached back out to him was his son Okay, and what happened was him and his son had kind of this estranged relationship because he was never around because he was fighting in the 43:19 And you know what's fun is I feel like you believe this. 43:26 can see it in your eyes a little bit, you know, because sometimes we do these stories that I just don't buy lately. Oh of course, but this one you're just like he had a son. 43:37 Much like I've got a son. Yeah, it's different now that I'm a father. I view this differently. 43:46 Zane, so he's really the scrapbook. He has the sun zade him and zade have a bad relationship, yeah, because he's always out warring. Then one day they take a father son camping trip and so they do they repair their relationship, repair their relationship like son in the middle of the road. You know where the robots can't get us the woods in the woods and so they go on this camping trip and something happens on this camping trip where dad has to take a phone call or something for the war. 44:14 and so he ends up having to get separated from the war. He's doing some war thing. Ring, ring, hello. Hello, it's the war. 44:28 sorry audience. The war sorry honey. It's the war gotta go. War is calling color ID says war guide. It says war or sounds a lot like a woman. Get the year just war sounds a lot like a twenty eight year old woman. Follow that. What are you talking about? That's having an affair is what I'm saying and he's calling her war. It's him and one or 44:59 Oh no, oh no, he gets separated from his dad on this camp trip is the point okay, and as a part of that separation, he ends up getting attacked by robo bears and the robo bears attack him and they deeply mutilate him and they turn him into a cyborg and they ring. They take him in as one of their own. 45:24 and they read everybody. Don't worry about me over here. Keep talking about Robo Bears. They rename him Maggie Hark and this is a go re there. We are Matt. Okay, wait, wait, wait. He gets attacked by robot bears, yeah, Robo Bears, Robo, right, and he gets turned into a robot. He gets turned into a cyborg, so they rip him to shreds right and then they give him Robo parts to fix him kind of like 45:51 Darth Vader. Yeah, I've seen it, but like a Frankenstein type situation. Yeah, so they bring him back to life as part robot, part human and they say you want to is dark later part robot, part human. I mean yeah spoilers. It's not really a spoiler. It's anyways, I guess it is a little bit of a spot anyways. I've never seen it. I know you have it. So then they say hey, you want to kill your dad and he's like matter of fact, I have for a long time. He's kind of mean he's 46:19 Houston on his time with the war. Yeah, he just let me get attacked by robot fairs while he's off talking some twenty eight year old. We all know it's not the war. First of all, let's be real. That dad's having an affair. 46:38 See 46:45 Hey, thanks for listening to things alone last night. Just so you know, we got a new merch line coming out for this summer, so you've been working on that summer bod and you want to show off how ripped you are. You can get a small t shirt from us or if you've not been working on that summer, but once you check out our two X selection, so we do have some really cool designs. I'm actually really proud of them. We got like a honking and bonking shirt. We've got regular things. I last night. These are you listen. We don't make a ton of money from this show. This is literally to help cover our expenses, which you know 47:15 like microphones and Alex. so thanks for supporting our show. 47:24 Okay, so Maggie what Maggie Hark is what they named them the bears, the bears bear said you want to kill your dad, your Maggie Hark. Now the bears were like you, Maggie Hark and he was like I am Maggie Hark, the Robo bears. They can talk okay. They're not dumb. I don't know where the story goes, so they're like you want to kill your dad yeah and he's like yeah, I'll go do it right now. They're like no, no, you have to do it a little earlier. Yeah. So what happens is 47:52 They then get involved in this wide ranging timeline of Maggie and Velocity. No, I'm trying to kill each other. And so there are pages and upon pages upon pages of, of Colin Pope. Okay. And that Zane guy he met Photoshop, but Zane's like Photoshopped as like a cyborg and then Maggie or, then Colin. 48:19 throughout history at like famous moments throughout history fighting each other. And what is happening is Maggie is consistently defeating velocity, know, like cause he's just a person versus the cyborg. And so there's just this constant battle of like all throughout history, their time travel traveling and battle like history, like going back in time. Yeah. Yeah. So there's like, there's like footage of them or I shouldn't say footage, but like photos in this scrapbook of them and like 48:49 ancient Rome fighting and then for them in like the Pleistocene era like and like even photos of them in the future. So like they're all throughout time they're at the last supper there. They're hanging out. Yeah, you do the montage like a movie right. You're the last supper. You guys are fighting little you're like shooting bullets each other astray hits Lincoln, got get blamed for it and and then you're the whole thing. 49:17 Yeah, that's the concept. And so that's the storyline that he gets from this. like, okay, it kind of wraps the whole thing up in this neat little bow. And so he just kind of goes along with his life. And Colin at this point does. Colin's like, he's 18. Yeah, yeah. He goes back to he's now found out that one day he's going to have a son who's going to get turned into a cyborg and try to kill him. Yeah. And he's like, well, he's actively trying to kill him in Minneapolis. Okay. Cause that was right. Yeah. He met his son who tried to kill him. 49:47 but luck of the die, so now he's just like, well, back to the hardware store. Yeah, so he goes back to his hardware and so he kind of just goes back about his regular everyday life. Six months later, someone sends him a message on the something awful forums and says, hey, you should check this out. And it's a link to an art exhibit happening in upstate New York and that art exhibit. 50:15 is talking about his life and this event and everything that happened. And so he's like, I'm going to go check that out. so he goes, okay. 50:28 so someone sends you a link to an art exhibit in New York. That's like hey, by the way, it's just a bunch of pictures of you and you're like I should I should go there. I should go and not once do you think I should call the police so ironic that you say that because he gets stopped. State New York. He goes to go check out the exhibit and on his way there 50:58 he runs into a guy and the guy basically stops him and says, hey, you can't go in there and he says, I have something for you and he gives him a note and that note basically tells him to come back after dark. There's a clue for him to find and so he comes back after dark and he's shining a flashlight in the windows of this art museum or this like small exhibition hall. I guess it's not a museum shining lights in the windows, the exhibition hall trying to see the clues. Yeah, so the police show up and they start asking them some questions. 51:26 correct. Luckily, luckily he's like a nineteen year old like baby faced white boy and so so the police are like actually you want to kiss they love him kinda. So they like they ask like oh and he's like what a oh he's like I see what this looks like and he's like this. Actually this is an exhibit about the look 51:53 I'm is like look, it's me about me. I'm trying to solve the thing and so they look at it. They he they pull it up online or whatever and they're like yeah, this actually is about him. I that's weird. I like well back to your business little boy and they leave. They let him just hang out and do whatever he was doing. They're like that's not suspicious. I mean, what do you okay and so the police and he's like please help me find who's doing this. I have no idea who's made this and they're like 52:19 Yeah, that's crazy. That's not really our problem. Honestly, wow, wow, look at the time. You know it's ten thirty five. Usually people murder someone about this hour. I better go get ready for that. Goodbye velocity. I mean 52:37 He says, he says, look, you can, he said, I want to take you to jail unless you roll a chance, roll a perfect 20. So he, but the cop does tell him, you got to get away from here. You can't, whatever you're doing. It's suspicious. got to be somewhere else. And so he leaves. It comes back the next day to the actual exhibit while it's open and he looks around the exhibit and it's photos of him during this whole event. And so there's a photo of him at his doorstep. 53:05 with the guy on his knee and it looks like someone's taking the photo from across the street and then there's a photo of him getting off the plane and meeting the gatekeeper. There's photos of him and Chuck E cheese, so they've been following him the whole time, like getting all this recorded and there's even video footage of him in the woods finding that box and so he's watching all this stuff unfold in this. So the art exhibit is basically hey guys, we're going to make fun of this dumb kid. We found somebody we think could fall for it. 53:38 and so he, while he's at this exhibit, yeah, he finds what he believes is another clue. How is it that you're at an exhibit? You see you've been made a fool and you're like, this is real. This is real. So he goes and he sees what he believes is another clue and he kind of follows that rabbit trail and eventually it leads him to the point where he finds the phone number of a guy named Dylan. 54:05 who he believes is the mastermind of this whole thing. Okay. He calls Dylan and Dylan answers the phone and says, Oh, hey, great. Or no, he calls the phone number. says Dylan's mom's phone number. It's a Dylan's mom answers the phone. It's like, Hey, what do you want? It's me, Dylan's mom. Oh, Dylan. It's that boy for the past. It's the war. 54:35 That's the code word. He told me to say so he calls his mom answers his mom's like yeah. I'll give you Dylan's number and so his mom gives Dylan. Okay, why would the phone number be okay? So he calls Dylan he's like he's like I'm to make this person call my mom and then see if my mom will give them my phone number. What I should say is it doesn't seem like this was it seems like he tracks down his mom's phone number doesn't seem like he was 54:59 given. Okay, this wasn't like a clue that he was given the answer to the clue. Yeah, it was like he tracks down his mom's and then he calls Dylan from the number his mom gave him and when he calls them, uh, Dylan asks his phone. He's like, hello. He's like, Oh, Colin, I was hoping to hear from you. And they kind of talked back and forth for a little bit. And then all of a sudden there's the beep. It was the answering machine on his phone. And so he knew 55:26 was going to be calling him and set up an answering machine and did that thing we all did in high school. We're like hello. Hey, I can't hear you. Yeah, say thing. No, say it louder. No, louder, louder, louder, la la la la la. 55:58 crazy and so he's like oh my gosh, there's a voicemail, so he calls back the next day. Hello hey, I tried to call yesterday. No, I can't hear you. Yeah, I okay, so I tried to call yesterday and I got your voice but louder. I tried I tried to call you louder. He falls for it again. Gosh, no. Well, here's the thing. It's another voicemail, but it's 56:25 different. Okay, and so this happens for days, so every day, whoever the person is, is just that's what I'm saying. It's like you're just how do you find someone in Chicago? You're like hey, you guys want to mess with the kid. You guys want to use a ruin somebody's life. Yeah, it's art. It's art. It's It's art. I promise it's not bullying. It's art yeah and so 56:52 He finally, after days of this, he finally gets a hold of him and connects with Dylan. Dylan says, I've got something. goes, Hello, he answers the phone for. Oh, I'm not falling for this. No, for real. It's actually me this time. I don't know about this. Colin, it's okay. It's me. It's okay. I'm really here. Are you sure you being honest with me? Are you telling the truth? If this is live, say potato. 57:18 Potato. Oh, okay. this is real. he calls him. He calls him and Dylan picks up the phone and it's like, Hey, you've reached Dylan. I'm sorry. I can't come to the phone right now, but it's actually him. Dang it. Boop. Did you just say boop? You just said boop. I've heard so many beeps of it last week. I know that wasn't a real one. So Dylan says, Hey, I've got something I want you to see. I want you to come to New York. 57:48 and so he gets him to come to New York. Wait, wait, wait. I thought he was already in New York. Oh no, so he went home. He went home between this. Yeah. Okay, okay, okay. How long? Okay, I don't know exactly how long it was between that. So he, so he leaves. What I do know is this has been about three years from the day Zane showed up at the store step. That's what I do now. So at this point he's like 19. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so he's like, want you to come to New York. I got something to show you. And so he comes to New York when he gets to New York. 58:14 He goes, it's another whole charade situation. He meets a couple of different characters. They go, they saw the answers you seek, but for now, Kevin Hart. So it comes to New York. They do all this thing. They do all these different clues. They go all these different places. The gatekeepers there again, driving them around town. And then at the end, like the culmination of this, 58:43 They take him into this alleyway and they walk them into this door and there's a guy that's like rushing him through these halls and the halls. There's all these photos on the wall of him and throughout this whole saga and then other photos that he doesn't recognize photos from his childhood. Like it's just him everywhere and he can hear very loudly what sounds like a large crowd, chanting velocity gnome and he's getting that good. Let's see how it Velocity no velocity no. 59:13 velocity numb, and so he's hearing that I was wondering how what the cadence was going to be like that and then he gets rushed through these halls and out this door into a room where this happens. 59:43 That's him in the middle. 59:46 Okay. 59:50 So for audio listeners, there's a big it's a stage and Colin is wearing a backpack. He's clearly has been rushing this building. There's like probably 10 people dancing in a circle around him. 01:00:06 So what ends up happening here is he walked on stage in like a black box theater yeah and he gets rushed on to stay he's smiling like he's like enjoying it. It looks like he's like kind of like oh this is kind of fun yeah and then he's just a part of this rock opera and they do the whole show and he's a part of it and they are engaging with him. They're singing songs are asking him questions. He has lines, but he doesn't know them and he's just kind of ad libbing 01:00:34 and they do the whole story. The crowd seems to be in it. There's a few hundred people there. And there's moments where there's like, he says something and the crowd whispers something else to him and he says what the crowd says. What? And so the whole thing, like everybody in the room is like in on it except for him. And there's like a few hundred people there. And so they do the whole show and the whole show kind of tells that whole story again. And then it leads up to this moment where all of a sudden, 01:01:01 they're doing this big musical number and then it cuts and someone in the crowd comes in and you hear them yell father and it's a Maggie Hark and they have their kind of final battle where he defeats Maggie Hark on stage and that's the we've like what foam swords or what I don't know exactly what it was. I just know they have their big final battle and they defeat him on stage and then they the curtains roll. The crowd goes wild. 01:01:29 crowd like you know they're in yeah, I a while, no matter what and that was the end of the story and Colin so they flash mobbed him. So let me tell you what actually happened here. Let tell you what actually happened here. Colin goes back. He writes this whole story. He launches a website called the future shock where he writes the whole story of everything happens. Okay, it's every single event 01:01:54 he like logs all the stuff from his notes, all the like pictures he has. He scans all of these all the scrap books, all the notes, he like scans them in. So they're all on his website telling the whole story and at a later date, the creators of this concept even end up coming forward and telling the story of how it happened. There are two kids by the name of Dylan and Joe. They're college students when it starts and they said how do they pick Colin? So what happened? 01:02:22 was one day they were just on the internet. Well, one day they were hanging out talking. They were trying to remember a friend that they used to have that they used to play Dungeons and Dragons with. they were like, we gotta see if we can get back in touch with him and start playing games with him. It's been a long time. We haven't talked to him in a little bit. So they used the internet to try to track him down. They ended up finding the little brother of this kid. And it's not Colin, but they find him on this small obscure website that was... 01:02:51 like a proto social media. And this was before even Friendster, before MySpace, before any of that. And it was just this group of these 12 kids at this small school in Chicago. Then this is how they kept in touch with each other. And it was built by this kid, Colin. And so they started following their life on this little social media platform. And they said it was kind of like our version of the real world that only us had access to. And these kids had no idea we were watching everything they were posting on this website. 01:03:20 and so we were like and this is totally normal because your college students and full grown adults and we're spying on fifteen year old kids and like that's normal and like oh it was so fun for us to be able to log in online and be like. wonder what our teens are up to today. Teens are doing. Oh, what did your team do today? Here's a my team did you freaking creeps and so they said they watched for about a year and then 01:03:49 totally normal. You guys are weird for thinking it's a you're weird for your weird for the it's weird. It's weird. Okay, weird. So they watched for about a year and then this event happened. They don't tell us what event happened, but they had an event. weird did you make it weird that they could tell really hurt Colin and they could tell Colin was like in a bad spot because of whatever this event was. They don't say what it was sure. So they say man, we probably wouldn't son guy killed by robot bears. 01:04:15 They were like we should do something to help him feel better, but like wait, we don't know this kid and he doesn't know we know everything about him and so they say hey, maybe we could kind of create this elaborate story where he's the savior of the universe. Okay, this kid's kind of sad. Seems like you might have got broken up with maybe the girl that he likes said no to going to prom. 01:04:35 Maybe we should just reach out to him and message be like, man, we actually found this social media and we would love to be your friend. We think you're cool because just having older guys reach out and say, Hey, we like you is probably enough to boost the self esteem of maybe a 15 or 16 year old kid, but 01:04:53 What if we got on one knee and we're like, you're the savior of the world and convinced him that actually his whole life is part of an interdimensional drama. 01:05:07 Yeah, we should do that. Oh, what are you working on? Just cheering up my team, just so they make the scrapbook. They go to Chicago and what happens is the he go. They pull up Joe stays in the car. 01:05:24 joe films it because he's afraid they're afraid of the police. So joe's filming it because they're afraid that something weirds could happen and they want record that like hey, this isn't anything. Sorry, it's not weird. It's just that we follow the seeding or online and we to drop this off at a store. No, no, no, no officer, no officer, nothing weird. We've just been keeping tabs on this kid's personal life for two years and her kind of worried about him. So now we're here to cheer him up. 01:05:53 no officer, no chris hansen. Don't worry, I got it so zane who's really dylan knocks on the door and his mom opens the door and he's like and there's like a podcast interview where he tells all stories like and this is the moment when we realized we messed up because he's like I didn't factor in that there could be adults in this story that could come into play at any point. So his mom answers the door and I'm like oh shoot and she's like what is is 01:06:21 Can call them out play? Hey, can your son come out to play? And so he says a corner and she's and she's like that's my husband because they have a weird situation right. It turns out Colin's been dating a forty two year old woman. So she says who are you and he says I think we'll be friends one day and she says 01:06:47 Oh, what someone's here for you said I said they're from the f. He said that it's so sketchy and she says oh, call it wait, wait, wait, wait, is two thousand two yeah yeah. Am I crazy? You're not crazy. This the same knocks on your door. You answer it and then you go. Can I help you and then they go 01:07:16 I think we'll be friends some day and then you go. This is for my son. This is well. No, he already asked for calling. She said who are you here and she said who are you and he says I think we'll be friends. One day will be. I think we'll be friends one day and then he says that she says was he someone's here for you. They said her from the future, but that wasn't part of it. I wasn't part of it. Future thing was not part of it. Well, it was part of the doc, the like the scrap book, but she just took what he said. It was like he says it's for the future. 01:07:46 yeah, but he probably would have said I'm from the future. He didn't say that though. Okay, yeah, so he comes out. He she knew was in the notebook then she didn't know that's what saying though. I'm saying like she goes he's from the future. The notebook says he's from the future yeah, but he said something. He said something that loosely sounded like she's from the future. He's from the future and that's then she connected that to he's from the future, but that was a it was surprising that she did that is the point. Okay, okay, like he was like that was a weird thing to say. 01:08:13 like even in the moment, also weird as a we're going to be friends. Hey, I think we're going to be friends. One day is calling here. 01:08:25 Oh, hiya. 01:08:29 think we're going to be friends one day. Are you hitting out of my mom? They call it Riz where I'm from. So he comes down and gets the thing, posts the stuff online. They go home. They think it's the end of it. But then the next day he wakes up to a phone call. Dylan. Dylan wakes up to a phone call from Joe and Joe says, go online. And so he's like, you got to check this out. And so he goes online. 01:08:57 to the 12 friend group social media thing now goes to something awful for him. That's where Joe told him to go and he sees that it's like the front page is their scrapbook. He's got a hundred thousand hits yeah and they look at the comments. Some of them are positive but a lot of them are really negative and they're saying this kid is making the whole thing up and so he's like well we got to make it real because now he's getting all he's getting cyberbullied. Oh he's getting made fun of by people online because he believes he believes there's a time traveler who came to him. 01:09:28 So what should we do to strangers who don't know this guy? Well, Dylan, I think we have to make it real. 01:09:42 You're right, Joe. Should you and I commit the next four years of our lives to this project? I think so. Well, that wasn't the plan. So the plan was, okay, we're going to send them to Minneapolis. We're going to keep doing it to make it real and have the whole thing. And that's going to be the end of it. So they do the whole thing. They get all the footage and they're like, okay, let's make an art exhibit out of this. At least like, let's get something out of this. They make the art exhibit. 01:10:12 and then he shows up at the art exhibit and they're like, why are you here? And then he starts calling Dylan and they're like, okay, we've got to finish. We got, we got to put a bow on this somehow. So they write a rock opera. We got to, we got to, we got to put a bow on this somehow. We got to put a bow on this somehow. And that's just this thinking. That's just a thinking music. You got to put a bow on this somehow. And he was Dylan, what are you singing? 01:10:42 Gotta put a bow on this somehow. 01:10:49 gotta fight the robots and them. Hey, hey, I think we got something we should write a rock. You know what just came out on in the movies, fam of the opera, the opera that's really big on right. was gonna say school house rock, but same thing. I was gonna say school rock school of rock was school of rock two thousand five. I don't know. Yeah, don't know. After this 01:11:17 but yeah, so they write the rock opera, the column up, they get him to come out for it and of course we see how that all played out and so this was really just these kids cyber stockings and then at the end of all the rock opera, the curtain falls, it comes up the whole cast bows and Collins like okay. 01:11:34 and they should get down. They go, are you happy now? Are you still sad about that thing? And they're like, what thing? And then they tell him, he's like, oh, I forgot about that like three and a half years ago. But now you brought it up. But now I'm kind of sad about it actually. Oh my gosh. I should bring it up. We're going to to set up another. have to put another bow on this. That's crazy. 01:12:00 I mean like when how does column react so so he puts all this on the front like con love the whole thing. All of them was like invested in the whole thing and then what was really interesting is they did such a good job with this because like shags shags came in the story and shags was playing a character like he wasn't that interested like he was kind of getting drug along okay. He going by Tyler. He's like I'm Tyler. I'm not shags and like he he was like I'm not invested in this but he was a character in it all along and so like there was all these things that they did and they did so many like minor details like there was a 01:12:30 character he ran into at one point where she was wearing a WNBA jersey that said the Futurettes, which first of all, they nailed the fact that the WNBA was going to take off, also like they just had like all the... Clark jersey. It's like, oh, generic white girl named Kailyn. Louis and Clark. Okay. Yeah, we got it. And she literally was just born that day. It was crazy that they made that. They literally walked around the hospital. They're like, give us the tallest girl here. 01:12:58 he needs someone for the future. Oh, excuse me, nurse, who's the tallest baby you have? What just need to know the name of the baby. think we're going to be friends one day get out the hospital. You free is like oh okay. I'm going to call the doctor. Hey, there's somebody here for the future for you ring ring. Hello, it's the war. It's what 01:13:28 okay, and so they talked about it. They said it was kind of fun to do because as the more we got into it and the more the bigger the further it got from even being about Colin at this point. said they said what was interesting is you you write this whole story. This whole thing becomes such a big deal and like what pranks were really pop by pop at the time, but he said what we realized Dylan was talking about it. Dylan was like we realized pranks were always at like the expense of other people. What if we were like prank that made this person think that they were the savior of the world? 01:13:56 What if we pranked him up? Yeah, we're gonna break him up and so that's what we did and it's kind of the craziest prank anybody's ever pranked. I don't even know if you could call it a prank. It's weird. That's for sure. Okay, so it was an art exhibit. There's a years long art. it was supposed to be an art exhibit like they said out to do that. Yeah, they did it all and then they realized they're like we got enough for an exhibit here as at least get our money back because they bottom up playing ticket. The got a motel 01:14:27 They set all this stuff up. I don't know like they got Chuck E Cheese to agree to this. I don't even know if they I don't think they I don't think you have to. I think I think it really was a situation where the guy is thirty two. We're going to Chuck E Cheese. He sees two college guys come in and put a note in the thing. T's two separate young boys come in and search for young boys and he's like this has got to be a weird church. Yeah, I think this is a lock in it does kind of sound like it actually. So yeah, it's interesting. I don't know if this could have happened nowadays. 01:14:57 like yeah, that was a very early two thousands event to happen. Yeah, this would immediately be like yeah and and it's also it could only happen with the right person like you have to have someone who's going to invest themselves into it like Colin did like he was very interested in being a part of it. He played along point. Did Colin believe any of it? I don't think he believed in okay ever like I think he was he doesn't seem like that's what I was worried about. He doesn't seem at the type that like is like oh this. I really am the savior of the world. There actually is. found a red thread where 01:15:27 Allegedly, there's a user named Colin Pope. So allegedly, this is him. says that this whole thing happened to him. And he says it definitely straddled the line between a prank and larping. And he says, well, I would never run around and say I would be a person who larped out of context. He said it just seemed appropriate to play along when it started happening. And so he's like, I'm just going to do this, I guess. And so every time something happened, he's like, yes, and, and just went with it. And he said it was a ton of fun. Wow. 01:15:56 So very strange event. Sure. It's a memory is going to have for a long time. He had the website up for years, at least a couple of years ago, because I heard a podcast where they were talking about referencing it is now taken down. So all this stuff doesn't exist anymore. I can't find it online. I'm shocked. I was able to find that video just now, but yeah, this is a story of calling Pope and how he saved the future. And at the end of that opera, right? 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