March 2, 2025 • 28 mins
The Lady of Vacant Smiles finds the Mother of Lies in a bunker under RENEWAL. They learn the truth about KAnon and the crypto-reptoids threatening our society. Meanwhile, a castaway washes ashore with grim news.
Cancellation Island stars Holly Hunter as Karen and is written by John Cameron Mitchell and Michael Cavadias, directed by John Cameron Mitchell, and produced by Christy Gressman. A Topic Studios and iHeart Podcasts production.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Cancelation Island by John Cameron Mitchell and Michael Kevdias, a
Topic Studios production, recorded in front of a live audience
at the Bellhouse, Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
New York.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Kelly, are you awake?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh hi, Chris?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I thought you were dead? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (00:28):
Keep your voice down?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
He brought you in here raving about being forgotten? What?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Hey? Why are you tied up? Is this part of
the ceremony?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Honey, you're tied up too?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What ceremony?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
The ayahuasca?
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Everyone was just saying what they felt. Hey, Chris, are
you afraid to be forgotten?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh? My god, shut up, he'll hear you.
Speaker 7 (00:53):
Ooh, Casper, the man who kidnapped us and tied us
to these beds.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Oh what?
Speaker 7 (01:01):
He finally went outside for a few minutes. He keeps
asking me if I'm kay?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Where are we?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
We're in a bunker under the facility. This could be
some kind of kidnapped therapy, but I doubt.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
It looks like a TV studio or maybe for a podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
That's a satellite terminal over there, if we can just
get to it.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Oh God, hello, sir, how are you.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Are you? Kay?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'm fine? Thanks for asking.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
He's not asking if you're a silence woman of sound.
This is Casper.
Speaker 8 (01:41):
He's left over from the CIA.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Not left over. I never abandoned my post mother of lies.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
And for some reason he talks like he's in Game
of Thrones.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Lady of Venken smiles. Are you kay?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Are you kay?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I am am?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I were you vaccinated?
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Of course I've at five fives or three monkey boxes
in a shingle. My dad refused every shot and now
he's dead.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So hi, one, you're contaminated? Really CALLI if that is
your real name. Drink of this smoothie? What's any something
that'll cure you? But I'm not sick, no idea how
sick you are?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
That's what Karen said. Do you don't, Karen ah?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, the ringleader of this boondoggle have been monitoring her, you.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Mean, spying on her?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Drink Cali, don't.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
It's some kind of truth serum.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It's not a truth serum as such. It's a It's
a mycological compound that establishes the maceolium structure within you.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
What within him?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
My celia are the tendrils that fungi use to communicate
through vast underground networks. And in my six years alone
on this island, I came to realize that a single
massive fungal life form permeates the top soil of this
land mass. It is, in fact, the largest living organism
in the world, and I have named it Joan, after
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my mother, who had the largest influence on my life.
May she rest in hell. Through trial and error, I've
managed to distill a compound from Joan that I believe
will connect people to each other through a human mycillier network.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Oh like the diahasca.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I have concocted a smoothie as an appetizing delivery system
for the Jane compound and am convinced it will dissolve
all vaccine based amnesia inducing nanotech that has been forced
on us by Trump's Operation Warp Speed Conspiracy. Take this
cup and drink of Joan.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Okay, btw, I love your hair is like salt and
pepper and surratcha.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
She sus Kellie, don't drink.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
It, but it's like penis and chocolate.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Callie, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And no woman of sound allow her to connect to
the network. Hmmm, that was good, Lady of smiles. Your
nanotech is presently dissolving and will be evacuated in your
next bowel movement.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Oh great, I've been stopped up for days.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Our my celiar connection will grow until we can communicate
through our thoughts and dreams. Then I will find out
if you are Kay?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
What is K again?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
As in knon and I thought he was talking about that.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Bitch K Ballard silence matron of mendacity. While we wait
for the myciliar structures to form within the Lady of Smiles,
I shall ask you one last time? Are you KA?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
How many times do I have to tell you?
Speaker 9 (04:38):
Now?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
You know it's kind of weird. Everyone on this island
has a first name that begins.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
With a K. That isn't a coincidence. What do you
mean someone's trying to confuse me. That can't be too hard.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Wait, all our parents who named us decades ago have
been trying to confuse you.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Don't try to reason with terrorists.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Do you know how many lives were saved because of
the terrorists we interrogated on this island.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
You're that's classified.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
We've been going around like this for a while, Kelly,
to stimulate your neuroplasticity and recover your possible identity is K?
I'm gonna read.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You the last k drought the world.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The most recent communicate from our leader k Oh Great.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
I want to hear the communicate.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Thank you. I begin. I am now convinced former President
Trump is a deep state undercovered lizard hybrid I e.
Crypto reptoid bent on tagging us with vaccine nano chips
with which his lizard rulers can't control us. The reptoids
originated in the Alpha Draconian Solar System, the birthplace of
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the chicksaloub asteroid.
Speaker 10 (05:46):
I've heard of that.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
When the asteroid hit the Earth, it injected embryonic reptoids
deep into our planetary rock mantle. According to plan they
hatched and over millennia multiplied and built huge subterranean reptoid cities.
They plan to invade and enslave the world.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Where is that music coming from that bowse speaker?
Speaker 10 (06:10):
It's perfect.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
They have secretly inseminated certain humans and groomed their offspring,
the crypto reptoids, as scouts and saboteurs, and place them
in positions of influence. Recently confirmed cryptos include George Soros,
Elon Musk, and Billie Eilish. I know it, I call
upon you the millions of K cadres to unmask all
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other high level cryptos. Send your evidence to my secure
TikTok account at if you see K, if you seek friends,
we are at a critical juncture. In the coming months.
I will be going undercover to reconnoiter the most likely
reptoid invasion point. Do not despair. Read the omens. You
will see them in the frightened faces of your pets
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and the uneasy silence of your house. I've seen that,
and in the rubble of an Eastern European nation shattered
by a crypto despot with high reptoid cheekbones on gv
harken ye to these omens, but trust no one, not
even me. It will be up to ye to know
when to act. Woman of Sound and Lady of smiles.
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This island is situated at the northeastern rim of the
Chi Salub Crater, where the Earth's crust is at its thinnest.
It's clear the reptoid legions will emerge from their subterranean
chambers here. It follows that K is also here assessing
the situation, and so I demand of you both again.
Are you kay, oh Chris? It's rude to fit in
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a face.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
You come near me again, I will chew your fucking
lips off.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Oh no, you heard his feelings. You have to forgive him.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Chris, Are you okay?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Nag yet?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
But any minute now?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I hope, I hope you all had a good rest.
I'm proud of Kai, and I'm proud of each one
of you. Last night at the ceremony, you made so
much progress, even you, Carl.
Speaker 11 (08:21):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Karen.
Speaker 12 (08:23):
You've lost two customers. You fucked up, admit it.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Kai, come with me, Carl, whatever, Thanks, guys. I understand
this is all very disturbing, but everything is going It's
going as planned.
Speaker 13 (08:37):
What do you mean the abductions are part of the program.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
If you'll let me finish.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Is there another.
Speaker 14 (08:42):
Facility on this island attacking Karen? I?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I I.
Speaker 13 (08:50):
Karen.
Speaker 9 (08:51):
Are you okay?
Speaker 8 (08:54):
I believe Karen is dissociating. I'll handle this, Kyoko, think.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
You caud okay? Everyone, Karen is fine. We've all been
through a very heavy couple of days. You can go
back to your rooms to rest.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Karen, Karen, speak to me.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I'm afraid to be forgotten. Afraid to be forgotten.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
I won't forget you.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Oh, Claude, really good, you're back. Clood, It's all happening again.
What is Stop interrogating me. We've got to find them.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Well, we're still searching the cave.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Well search harder, for christ sake. You're the chief claviger, Karen.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
I don't like that word. It just means janitor.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
I'm sorry, Claude, I'm losing it. I saw my dead
that was eaten by my cat, and I think I
might have dissociated because of the contradictions.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I have it.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
I think you were just having a panic attack.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Don't tell me what I'm having. I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance.
I accept two concepts that are logically incompatible. I care
deeply about humanity, but if they don't behave I want.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Them all dead.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
A lot of people share that dissonance.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Why are you here, Claude? Why are you on this island?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Karen?
Speaker 8 (10:07):
Do you know what happened to Chris and Kelly? Do
you what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
You want to burn it all down?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Karen?
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Kiss me?
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Why you said that only women will sleep with you?
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Now? Don't talk, just kiss.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Everyone here is in love with you.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
No, they just want to have sex with me.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
They also want Kirk.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
In my experienced, sex is one of the few markets
where the black man has currency. Kiss me. Okay, Claude,
Shall I fuck you now?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Will it be a hate funk?
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Aren't they the best fucks?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I hear?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
By consent? Okay, by the way, Claude, I have killed
people for money.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
I would expect nothing less of you.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Karen, you've destroyed my bloss I have.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Gladly.
Speaker 10 (10:59):
Okay, l the harassment therapy didn't work. You're denying any
progress you made during the ayahuasca ceremony. What the fuck
was that?
Speaker 11 (11:08):
I got a text? Hang on, what the relax? It's
a phone, that's it.
Speaker 10 (11:13):
You're going back on the next supply boat.
Speaker 11 (11:15):
No, Kai, I don't think I am.
Speaker 10 (11:18):
And why is that?
Speaker 12 (11:19):
Because you're a phony? My assistant just texted me some
dirt on you. You've been embezzling your neoscetic GoFundMe donations,
and you bought a house, a nice beach house in
Puerto Rica with it.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
Interesting pause, it's a sanctuary for people who want nothing,
which clearly doesn't include you.
Speaker 11 (11:42):
Why haven't you told your donors about it?
Speaker 10 (11:45):
I've been saving the announcement you're a hypocrisy.
Speaker 12 (11:47):
I am not Listen, I was impressed how you try
to enforce your utopia with an iron fist.
Speaker 11 (11:54):
You could teach me a thing or two.
Speaker 10 (11:56):
I am not you.
Speaker 12 (11:58):
Oh really, well, neither of us want to go back
to the States, right. Look, Look, eventually Jonas will show
up with the goons to take over this island. But
Jonas is an idiot.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
Well then why did you hire him in the first place.
Speaker 12 (12:12):
He's my son, right, I always wanted a kid like you,
a leader, not a flunky.
Speaker 11 (12:20):
How about we make a deal.
Speaker 12 (12:24):
I headquarter my production company here, and you help me
build a new tax free, crypto based and whatever wolkesh
nation here. Do whatever you want, green the place up.
Open a celibacy brabel where the hookers and john stare
blankly at each other all day.
Speaker 11 (12:41):
Save the fucking world on my darn.
Speaker 12 (12:43):
Why I'm lonely.
Speaker 11 (12:46):
I missed my asshole friends. Just think about it. Okay,
I think we're done here. I have some calls to make.
Can you grab me a Lacroix on the way out?
Speaker 8 (12:57):
Well? Thanks?
Speaker 11 (12:59):
Can you open up?
Speaker 8 (13:03):
Mmmm?
Speaker 12 (13:04):
Papa Muss have a great day, partner.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Ah, that was remarkable.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
Claude yes, I'd like you to expand on what you
said before we made love the murder for money.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
We haven't made love yet, We've only made hate. But
what happened, oh, Claude, the Ayahuaska turned our traditional therapies
inside out. Where do we go from here?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
How about turning your therapies upside down?
Speaker 15 (13:35):
What do you mean you've already given the kids the
keys to the car.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
What about giving the keys to the passengers.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I'm intrigued.
Speaker 14 (13:49):
Oh, Kirk, I could kiss you forever.
Speaker 13 (13:53):
Oh gosh, Hi, Karen high Claude, Uh, I know this
looks bad.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
We're beyond that. From now on is whatever works? Okay, Now, Kalina,
if you were in charge of the next group exercise,
what would it be?
Speaker 8 (14:06):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (14:06):
Oh gosh, I don't know. Uh. There were some rituals
we did in my sorority that built trust, but I
don't know if they'd applied perfect. Thank you all for coming,
and Karen, thank you for trusting me.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Okay, we've all managed to squeeze into the store room.
Tell us more about your sorority ritual.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
Okay.
Speaker 13 (14:28):
It was called the black hole of Sigma Kai.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
After Rush, the new pledges were locked.
Speaker 13 (14:35):
In a small basement room. We have a single, tiny
few bucket for an indeterminate period of time.
Speaker 10 (14:40):
You have got to be kidding.
Speaker 13 (14:42):
No, no, it really bonded us.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
I like it great.
Speaker 13 (14:45):
I'll lock you in now, Claude, give me the keys.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
No, I'll lock them in.
Speaker 13 (14:50):
Uh well okay, yeah, Claude.
Speaker 11 (14:53):
Well what are you doing?
Speaker 13 (14:54):
I'm not supposed to be in here with them?
Speaker 8 (14:56):
What am I doing? What have you all been doing?
Speaker 15 (14:58):
My whole fucking li life, the projectiles, shitting out your
first world ideology all over the fucking world. You're destroying
everything that is good as you are so boring while
you do it.
Speaker 10 (15:13):
Oh my god, he's got a God, what are you doing?
Speaker 8 (15:16):
I'm lucking you all in.
Speaker 15 (15:18):
My family starved to death after the Haitian earthquake, and
not one of you cared. God, it's going to be
beautiful to listen to you self serving cunts murder each
other for the last lacroix, and as I suck on
a mango, I'll listen to the soul survivor, and I
pray it's you, Karen, scratching at the door as you
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take your last insipid breath.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
This can't be happening.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
Oh my god, God must have killed Chris and Kelly.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Please don't look us in. I love you.
Speaker 15 (15:51):
None of you have ever loved anything but the sound
of your own whining voices.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
Come on, Claude, go ahead, throw down a fucking match
right on top of these gasoline cans.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Do it? Okay? Oh will wait? Who the hell are you?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Who are you talking to?
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Claude?
Speaker 16 (16:11):
What the fun I'm going up?
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Did he kill himself? No, he's gone.
Speaker 10 (16:17):
Oh my god, this is all my fall. Shut up, Karen.
No one feels sorry for you. Cancelation Island is hereby canceled.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
Oh ty me you mother, shut up?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Pass me that ball, Dad, Callie?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Okay, I know this brand, don't.
Speaker 17 (16:44):
Oh hi, Claude, glad you could join us.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
What are you doing, Casper?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I'm jamming all communications to and from the island. I
can't have them telling anyone I'm here.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Why is Claude here?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
He could be Kay, I'm going back to bed.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Casper. Don't don't look at me.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Me neither, But just come sit on my bed and
I won't look at you. Casper. What have you lost?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
What?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
It's something we ask and rehab. It's called trauma.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Sharing Why I haven't lost anything.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
But you've been alone here for six years?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Did you like it?
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Yes, it's my dream to be alone with some people.
What do you do for fun here, Casper, I'd really
like to know, especially if I'm going to be here forever.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I like to pretend to be Victor of Avaron? What
he was a fairal child?
Speaker 5 (17:47):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
He was abandoned in the French woods by his parents
in the eighteenth century, but he survived by living like
an animal.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, when they caught him, the only words you ever
learned to say were oh my God and milk.
Speaker 9 (18:10):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I think it's incredibly moving.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That's why I became a linguist.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
I bet you're a cunning linguist. We get it. That's
a christ joke. I'm sorry you were saying.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Sometimes I like to take off my clothes and live
in the wild.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Weird but cool.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I like to make land art, like covering a pond
with flower petals in the shape of the CIA logo.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
It's really a gorgeous design.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I actually faked my suicide by swimming out to save
the life belt, so the CIA don't even know I'm here.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Hey are you in uh an in cell?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Fuck you?
Speaker 17 (18:52):
No, it's good.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
There are so many things to be nowadays, it's important
to find out.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Exactly what you are. That way you can be proud.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
I've always wondered if them ace or arrow, what asexual
or aromatic? I might be grace sexual, which is an
attraction to old people, or nuance. I forget which, but
I think I'm actually demi sexual.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
You're attracted to half a person.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
That's right, to people who are still becoming people. I'm
tired of people who know who they are.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
It's weird.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Well I'm weird. I'm weird, but cool.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Yeah, Casper, Yeah, it might stipulate the jone inside me.
If you sat closer to get my ceiling going my celium,
rite your celium. Can you move a little closer, I
won't look at you or touch you. Okay, a little
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closer please? Oh my foot is resting on your yes?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Is that okay?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Good?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
That's weird. It's like all our communications are being jammed.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
Must be the person who grabbed claude.
Speaker 16 (20:19):
Clad he's gone.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
If my fault, it is on my fault?
Speaker 17 (20:23):
Hi hi hi.
Speaker 9 (20:26):
Hi, Oh god, she's dissociating again, Kyoko, Karen's no dummy.
Speaker 10 (20:30):
She must have emergency firearms search the office.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
You're not in charge, Kai.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
According to the Renewal Constitution, the chief curator is the
next in command.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
There's a constitution.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
I'm declaring martial law. Search for the guns.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
Hi, Karen, Karen, can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I'm not sure what to do what.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I'm out, I'm.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
Out, she's out, I'm in.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Fuck God, damn the clod snap or what.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I'm glad we're going back.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
We don't have to, you know, what do you mean?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
We could just.
Speaker 13 (21:16):
Stay here and tell the whole world to fuck off.
We could be the new Adam and Eve. No God
or serpent in sight, just us.
Speaker 10 (21:28):
Yeah. You know Adam and Eve they were rebelled against
God and then.
Speaker 11 (21:33):
You know what they did, what.
Speaker 14 (21:37):
Had babies.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah, we could.
Speaker 13 (21:40):
Our hormones are going to run out anyway. I mean,
you could get pregnant. We could reboot the fucking world.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
Fuck yeah, Jesus, Cleina, you're really well, you're really making
me him?
Speaker 14 (21:55):
What what?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
All right? Greeting citizens of Renewal, our beloved leader, Karen,
for a variety of personal reasons, has transferred her authority
to me. I humbly accept this burden of responsibility for
your lives. Thank you, Karen.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Yes what, I'm very bad and I don't understand what's going.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
As you are all aware, we are under attack by
an unknown person or person's of ill and ambiguous intent.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Does anybody have a sugarette?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Cale?
Speaker 10 (22:29):
Can you take Karen back to recorders? Thank you for
your service, Karen.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Or a mute?
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Yes, Karen, I'll take you to a mint.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
Claviger's will escort you from building to building. It has
been impossible to contact the supply boat to come pick
us all up, so we will have to wait for
it to arrive on its scheduled visit in six days. Wait,
where's Collina and Kirk?
Speaker 9 (22:51):
I saw them walking up on the bluffs. They had backpacks.
Speaker 10 (22:55):
A search party would only risk more lives. All right,
you're all confined to orders, Lights out six thirty pm.
This will all be over in a week, and then
you can initiate your own personal legal proceedings against Karen.
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
That will be all real?
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Is so strong?
Speaker 14 (23:11):
I should be in charge.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Guy is out of control?
Speaker 13 (23:19):
Oh, Kirk, I didn't know about this little waterfall. Oh,
it's so beautiful our little garden of Eden, isn't it?
Speaker 10 (23:27):
Yeah, but we should definitely find a place to camp.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh look, I didn't know there were parrots.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
Fuck, what happened?
Speaker 13 (23:37):
I think something bit me on my ankle.
Speaker 17 (23:40):
Shit, it's a getto kill let's step on it.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Oh God, what the hell?
Speaker 13 (23:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Is it dead? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
But it's eyes they're huge.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
H Kirk.
Speaker 13 (23:56):
I think I need to lie down.
Speaker 14 (23:58):
Yeah, it's okay, Thank you Kirk, Thank you, go girl,
thank you goddess.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Okay, good morning, Chris.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
My mouth tastes like my career died in it worst.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Casper, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
He leaves the room when he's uncomfortable.
Speaker 16 (24:34):
Okay, so you're his' kay? Huh?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I think I love you?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Are you married?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Chris?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Probably?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
What didn't it?
Speaker 17 (24:46):
What did you say?
Speaker 16 (24:47):
I think he's still in my house?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
So's Ken?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Ken's in my house?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Oh, Chris, you're silly and Ken is cute. You should
meet him.
Speaker 16 (24:57):
Well, if Casper doesn't kill me and the lumps in
my breast ought the lumps, I'm in remission. I guess
doesn't help to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Hey, if your k can you tell him to let
me go? What does he need me for, Chris Jesus,
man of stealth.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Clearly we can't let you go with your nanotech remaining act.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Di Casper, the shake of Joan is working. I feel
ready to drop a k.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
It's just down the hall.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You could act as an unwitting lizard tracker.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Or maybe I'm a fucking crypto, are you.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
No, I'm a woman of a certain rage, So.
Speaker 16 (25:35):
Let me go.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I won't tell anyone.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
I'll drink the shake.
Speaker 17 (25:38):
Just let me go, Casper, you can't do that.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
If I was a lizard, I would rip.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Out your spine and make a necklace of your vertebrae.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
That would be a junkie necklace.
Speaker 10 (25:59):
Carl, you're supposed to be confined to quarters.
Speaker 11 (26:02):
Fuck off, guy.
Speaker 12 (26:03):
I know you jammed my phone because you want this
island to yourself. That way, nobody will find out your
little secret.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
What.
Speaker 11 (26:10):
She's a fucking grifter.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
What?
Speaker 10 (26:12):
Don't listen to him. He's just trying to turn us
against each other.
Speaker 11 (26:15):
No, I just want to get off this fucking island.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
What the heck is that it's coming.
Speaker 8 (26:21):
From the beach.
Speaker 11 (26:22):
My god, it's We're saved.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
I'm saved.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
You schmucks It's Jonas jonas.
Speaker 17 (26:30):
I don't think that's a yacht.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Cancelation Island A Topic Studios and iHeart Podcasts production written
by John Cameron Mitchell and Michael Keviadilla's directed by John
Cameron Mitchell, produced by Christy Gressman, starring Holly Hunter as Karen,
Josh Pice as Carl, Aaron Marky as kai k, Todd
Freeman as Claude Murphy, Taylor Smith as Collina, Justice Singleton
(27:14):
as Kirk, Mary Testa as Chris, Joe Firestone as Callie,
Mia Pack as Kyoko, Joseph Keckler as Cale, Maria Mercedes
Galupo as Carmen, Micah Stock as Casper, Dalmis Garcia as Keky,
Michael Kevidias as Jonas, and Josh Nate Davila as Peppo,
(27:35):
Veronica Guadalupe as Pepa. Audio producer Vincent Cashion. Executive producers
Michael Caviadias, John Cameron Mitchell, and for iHeart Podcasts Noel
Brown and Nikki Ettore, composer Lucas Carey. Original song Wait
written by Brett Every and John Cameron Mitchell. Additional music
(27:56):
by Vincent Cashion. Executive in charge of production Jenny Badusa
recording produced by Will Stanton, Live production manager Amanda Harris,
recorded live in front of an audience by Will Stanton
and Sam Torres. Live sound by Max Kaufman. Script supervisor
Rachel Cole, Reader Stephen Winter, Production coordinator Nick Boyd, Assistant
(28:19):
to the director Guthrie McCarty, Vaschon, Production assistant Brandon Harris,
artwork Ricardo Desaigno for Topic Studios Podcasts, Christy Gressman, Adam Cecil,
Michelle Lance, post production, Ethan Lyte, Communications Genie Keatis, Dan Goldberg, Marketing,
Jen Robertson, Mark Chan, business and legal affairs, Alex Jiga,
(28:43):
Ryan mack Zach Locke, Trevor Paul Production finance, Vince Gonzales,
Beatrice Chisholm
Cancelation Island by John Cameron Mitchell and Michael Kevdias, a
Topic Studios production, recorded in front of a live audience
at the Bellhouse, Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
New York.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Kelly, are you awake?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh hi, Chris?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I thought you were dead? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (00:28):
Keep your voice down?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
He brought you in here raving about being forgotten? What?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Hey? Why are you tied up? Is this part of
the ceremony?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Honey, you're tied up too?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What ceremony?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
The ayahuasca?
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Everyone was just saying what they felt. Hey, Chris, are
you afraid to be forgotten?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh? My god, shut up, he'll hear you.
Speaker 7 (00:53):
Ooh, Casper, the man who kidnapped us and tied us
to these beds.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Oh what?
Speaker 7 (01:01):
He finally went outside for a few minutes. He keeps
asking me if I'm kay?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Where are we?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
We're in a bunker under the facility. This could be
some kind of kidnapped therapy, but I doubt.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
It looks like a TV studio or maybe for a podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
That's a satellite terminal over there, if we can just
get to it.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Oh God, hello, sir, how are you.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Are you? Kay?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'm fine? Thanks for asking.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
He's not asking if you're a silence woman of sound.
This is Casper.
Speaker 8 (01:41):
He's left over from the CIA.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Not left over. I never abandoned my post mother of lies.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
And for some reason he talks like he's in Game
of Thrones.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Lady of Venken smiles. Are you kay?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Are you kay?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I am am?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I were you vaccinated?
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Of course I've at five fives or three monkey boxes
in a shingle. My dad refused every shot and now
he's dead.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So hi, one, you're contaminated? Really CALLI if that is
your real name. Drink of this smoothie? What's any something
that'll cure you? But I'm not sick, no idea how
sick you are?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
That's what Karen said. Do you don't, Karen ah?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, the ringleader of this boondoggle have been monitoring her, you.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Mean, spying on her?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Drink Cali, don't.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
It's some kind of truth serum.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It's not a truth serum as such. It's a It's
a mycological compound that establishes the maceolium structure within you.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
What within him?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
My celia are the tendrils that fungi use to communicate
through vast underground networks. And in my six years alone
on this island, I came to realize that a single
massive fungal life form permeates the top soil of this
land mass. It is, in fact, the largest living organism
in the world, and I have named it Joan, after
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my mother, who had the largest influence on my life.
May she rest in hell. Through trial and error, I've
managed to distill a compound from Joan that I believe
will connect people to each other through a human mycillier network.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Oh like the diahasca.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I have concocted a smoothie as an appetizing delivery system
for the Jane compound and am convinced it will dissolve
all vaccine based amnesia inducing nanotech that has been forced
on us by Trump's Operation Warp Speed Conspiracy. Take this
cup and drink of Joan.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Okay, btw, I love your hair is like salt and
pepper and surratcha.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
She sus Kellie, don't drink.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
It, but it's like penis and chocolate.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Callie, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And no woman of sound allow her to connect to
the network. Hmmm, that was good, Lady of smiles. Your
nanotech is presently dissolving and will be evacuated in your
next bowel movement.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Oh great, I've been stopped up for days.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Our my celiar connection will grow until we can communicate
through our thoughts and dreams. Then I will find out
if you are Kay?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
What is K again?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
As in knon and I thought he was talking about that.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Bitch K Ballard silence matron of mendacity. While we wait
for the myciliar structures to form within the Lady of Smiles,
I shall ask you one last time? Are you KA?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
How many times do I have to tell you?
Speaker 9 (04:38):
Now?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
You know it's kind of weird. Everyone on this island
has a first name that begins.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
With a K. That isn't a coincidence. What do you
mean someone's trying to confuse me. That can't be too hard.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Wait, all our parents who named us decades ago have
been trying to confuse you.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Don't try to reason with terrorists.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Do you know how many lives were saved because of
the terrorists we interrogated on this island.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
You're that's classified.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
We've been going around like this for a while, Kelly,
to stimulate your neuroplasticity and recover your possible identity is K?
I'm gonna read.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You the last k drought the world.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The most recent communicate from our leader k Oh Great.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
I want to hear the communicate.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Thank you. I begin. I am now convinced former President
Trump is a deep state undercovered lizard hybrid I e.
Crypto reptoid bent on tagging us with vaccine nano chips
with which his lizard rulers can't control us. The reptoids
originated in the Alpha Draconian Solar System, the birthplace of
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the chicksaloub asteroid.
Speaker 10 (05:46):
I've heard of that.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
When the asteroid hit the Earth, it injected embryonic reptoids
deep into our planetary rock mantle. According to plan they
hatched and over millennia multiplied and built huge subterranean reptoid cities.
They plan to invade and enslave the world.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Where is that music coming from that bowse speaker?
Speaker 10 (06:10):
It's perfect.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
They have secretly inseminated certain humans and groomed their offspring,
the crypto reptoids, as scouts and saboteurs, and place them
in positions of influence. Recently confirmed cryptos include George Soros,
Elon Musk, and Billie Eilish. I know it, I call
upon you the millions of K cadres to unmask all
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other high level cryptos. Send your evidence to my secure
TikTok account at if you see K, if you seek friends,
we are at a critical juncture. In the coming months.
I will be going undercover to reconnoiter the most likely
reptoid invasion point. Do not despair. Read the omens. You
will see them in the frightened faces of your pets
(06:58):
and the uneasy silence of your house. I've seen that,
and in the rubble of an Eastern European nation shattered
by a crypto despot with high reptoid cheekbones on gv
harken ye to these omens, but trust no one, not
even me. It will be up to ye to know
when to act. Woman of Sound and Lady of smiles.
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This island is situated at the northeastern rim of the
Chi Salub Crater, where the Earth's crust is at its thinnest.
It's clear the reptoid legions will emerge from their subterranean
chambers here. It follows that K is also here assessing
the situation, and so I demand of you both again.
Are you kay, oh Chris? It's rude to fit in
(07:44):
a face.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
You come near me again, I will chew your fucking
lips off.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Oh no, you heard his feelings. You have to forgive him.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Chris, Are you okay?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Nag yet?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
But any minute now?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I hope, I hope you all had a good rest.
I'm proud of Kai, and I'm proud of each one
of you. Last night at the ceremony, you made so
much progress, even you, Carl.
Speaker 11 (08:21):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Karen.
Speaker 12 (08:23):
You've lost two customers. You fucked up, admit it.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Kai, come with me, Carl, whatever, Thanks, guys. I understand
this is all very disturbing, but everything is going It's
going as planned.
Speaker 13 (08:37):
What do you mean the abductions are part of the program.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
If you'll let me finish.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Is there another.
Speaker 14 (08:42):
Facility on this island attacking Karen? I?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I I.
Speaker 13 (08:50):
Karen.
Speaker 9 (08:51):
Are you okay?
Speaker 8 (08:54):
I believe Karen is dissociating. I'll handle this, Kyoko, think.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
You caud okay? Everyone, Karen is fine. We've all been
through a very heavy couple of days. You can go
back to your rooms to rest.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Karen, Karen, speak to me.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I'm afraid to be forgotten. Afraid to be forgotten.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
I won't forget you.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Oh, Claude, really good, you're back. Clood, It's all happening again.
What is Stop interrogating me. We've got to find them.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Well, we're still searching the cave.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Well search harder, for christ sake. You're the chief claviger, Karen.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
I don't like that word. It just means janitor.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
I'm sorry, Claude, I'm losing it. I saw my dead
that was eaten by my cat, and I think I
might have dissociated because of the contradictions.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I have it.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
I think you were just having a panic attack.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Don't tell me what I'm having. I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance.
I accept two concepts that are logically incompatible. I care
deeply about humanity, but if they don't behave I want.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Them all dead.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
A lot of people share that dissonance.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Why are you here, Claude? Why are you on this island?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Karen?
Speaker 8 (10:07):
Do you know what happened to Chris and Kelly? Do
you what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
You want to burn it all down?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Karen?
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Kiss me?
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Why you said that only women will sleep with you?
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Now? Don't talk, just kiss.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Everyone here is in love with you.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
No, they just want to have sex with me.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
They also want Kirk.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
In my experienced, sex is one of the few markets
where the black man has currency. Kiss me. Okay, Claude,
Shall I fuck you now?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Will it be a hate funk?
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Aren't they the best fucks?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I hear?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
By consent? Okay, by the way, Claude, I have killed
people for money.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
I would expect nothing less of you.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Karen, you've destroyed my bloss I have.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Gladly.
Speaker 10 (10:59):
Okay, l the harassment therapy didn't work. You're denying any
progress you made during the ayahuasca ceremony. What the fuck
was that?
Speaker 11 (11:08):
I got a text? Hang on, what the relax? It's
a phone, that's it.
Speaker 10 (11:13):
You're going back on the next supply boat.
Speaker 11 (11:15):
No, Kai, I don't think I am.
Speaker 10 (11:18):
And why is that?
Speaker 12 (11:19):
Because you're a phony? My assistant just texted me some
dirt on you. You've been embezzling your neoscetic GoFundMe donations,
and you bought a house, a nice beach house in
Puerto Rica with it.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
Interesting pause, it's a sanctuary for people who want nothing,
which clearly doesn't include you.
Speaker 11 (11:42):
Why haven't you told your donors about it?
Speaker 10 (11:45):
I've been saving the announcement you're a hypocrisy.
Speaker 12 (11:47):
I am not Listen, I was impressed how you try
to enforce your utopia with an iron fist.
Speaker 11 (11:54):
You could teach me a thing or two.
Speaker 10 (11:56):
I am not you.
Speaker 12 (11:58):
Oh really, well, neither of us want to go back
to the States, right. Look, Look, eventually Jonas will show
up with the goons to take over this island. But
Jonas is an idiot.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
Well then why did you hire him in the first place.
Speaker 12 (12:12):
He's my son, right, I always wanted a kid like you,
a leader, not a flunky.
Speaker 11 (12:20):
How about we make a deal.
Speaker 12 (12:24):
I headquarter my production company here, and you help me
build a new tax free, crypto based and whatever wolkesh
nation here. Do whatever you want, green the place up.
Open a celibacy brabel where the hookers and john stare
blankly at each other all day.
Speaker 11 (12:41):
Save the fucking world on my darn.
Speaker 12 (12:43):
Why I'm lonely.
Speaker 11 (12:46):
I missed my asshole friends. Just think about it. Okay,
I think we're done here. I have some calls to make.
Can you grab me a Lacroix on the way out?
Speaker 8 (12:57):
Well? Thanks?
Speaker 11 (12:59):
Can you open up?
Speaker 8 (13:03):
Mmmm?
Speaker 12 (13:04):
Papa Muss have a great day, partner.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Ah, that was remarkable.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
Claude yes, I'd like you to expand on what you
said before we made love the murder for money.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
We haven't made love yet, We've only made hate. But
what happened, oh, Claude, the Ayahuaska turned our traditional therapies
inside out. Where do we go from here?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
How about turning your therapies upside down?
Speaker 15 (13:35):
What do you mean you've already given the kids the
keys to the car.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
What about giving the keys to the passengers.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I'm intrigued.
Speaker 14 (13:49):
Oh, Kirk, I could kiss you forever.
Speaker 13 (13:53):
Oh gosh, Hi, Karen high Claude, Uh, I know this
looks bad.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
We're beyond that. From now on is whatever works? Okay, Now, Kalina,
if you were in charge of the next group exercise,
what would it be?
Speaker 8 (14:06):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (14:06):
Oh gosh, I don't know. Uh. There were some rituals
we did in my sorority that built trust, but I
don't know if they'd applied perfect. Thank you all for coming,
and Karen, thank you for trusting me.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Okay, we've all managed to squeeze into the store room.
Tell us more about your sorority ritual.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
Okay.
Speaker 13 (14:28):
It was called the black hole of Sigma Kai.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
After Rush, the new pledges were locked.
Speaker 13 (14:35):
In a small basement room. We have a single, tiny
few bucket for an indeterminate period of time.
Speaker 10 (14:40):
You have got to be kidding.
Speaker 13 (14:42):
No, no, it really bonded us.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
I like it great.
Speaker 13 (14:45):
I'll lock you in now, Claude, give me the keys.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
No, I'll lock them in.
Speaker 13 (14:50):
Uh well okay, yeah, Claude.
Speaker 11 (14:53):
Well what are you doing?
Speaker 13 (14:54):
I'm not supposed to be in here with them?
Speaker 8 (14:56):
What am I doing? What have you all been doing?
Speaker 15 (14:58):
My whole fucking li life, the projectiles, shitting out your
first world ideology all over the fucking world. You're destroying
everything that is good as you are so boring while
you do it.
Speaker 10 (15:13):
Oh my god, he's got a God, what are you doing?
Speaker 8 (15:16):
I'm lucking you all in.
Speaker 15 (15:18):
My family starved to death after the Haitian earthquake, and
not one of you cared. God, it's going to be
beautiful to listen to you self serving cunts murder each
other for the last lacroix, and as I suck on
a mango, I'll listen to the soul survivor, and I
pray it's you, Karen, scratching at the door as you
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take your last insipid breath.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
This can't be happening.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
Oh my god, God must have killed Chris and Kelly.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Please don't look us in. I love you.
Speaker 15 (15:51):
None of you have ever loved anything but the sound
of your own whining voices.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
Come on, Claude, go ahead, throw down a fucking match
right on top of these gasoline cans.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Do it? Okay? Oh will wait? Who the hell are you?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Who are you talking to?
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Claude?
Speaker 16 (16:11):
What the fun I'm going up?
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Did he kill himself? No, he's gone.
Speaker 10 (16:17):
Oh my god, this is all my fall. Shut up, Karen.
No one feels sorry for you. Cancelation Island is hereby canceled.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
Oh ty me you mother, shut up?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Pass me that ball, Dad, Callie?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Okay, I know this brand, don't.
Speaker 17 (16:44):
Oh hi, Claude, glad you could join us.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
What are you doing, Casper?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I'm jamming all communications to and from the island. I
can't have them telling anyone I'm here.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Why is Claude here?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
He could be Kay, I'm going back to bed.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Casper. Don't don't look at me.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Me neither, But just come sit on my bed and
I won't look at you. Casper. What have you lost?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
What?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
It's something we ask and rehab. It's called trauma.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Sharing Why I haven't lost anything.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
But you've been alone here for six years?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Did you like it?
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Yes, it's my dream to be alone with some people.
What do you do for fun here, Casper, I'd really
like to know, especially if I'm going to be here forever.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I like to pretend to be Victor of Avaron? What
he was a fairal child?
Speaker 5 (17:47):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
He was abandoned in the French woods by his parents
in the eighteenth century, but he survived by living like
an animal.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, when they caught him, the only words you ever
learned to say were oh my God and milk.
Speaker 9 (18:10):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I think it's incredibly moving.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That's why I became a linguist.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
I bet you're a cunning linguist. We get it. That's
a christ joke. I'm sorry you were saying.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Sometimes I like to take off my clothes and live
in the wild.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Weird but cool.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I like to make land art, like covering a pond
with flower petals in the shape of the CIA logo.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
It's really a gorgeous design.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I actually faked my suicide by swimming out to save
the life belt, so the CIA don't even know I'm here.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Hey are you in uh an in cell?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Fuck you?
Speaker 17 (18:52):
No, it's good.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
There are so many things to be nowadays, it's important
to find out.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Exactly what you are. That way you can be proud.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
I've always wondered if them ace or arrow, what asexual
or aromatic? I might be grace sexual, which is an
attraction to old people, or nuance. I forget which, but
I think I'm actually demi sexual.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
You're attracted to half a person.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
That's right, to people who are still becoming people. I'm
tired of people who know who they are.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
It's weird.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Well I'm weird. I'm weird, but cool.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Yeah, Casper, Yeah, it might stipulate the jone inside me.
If you sat closer to get my ceiling going my celium,
rite your celium. Can you move a little closer, I
won't look at you or touch you. Okay, a little
(19:54):
closer please? Oh my foot is resting on your yes?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Is that okay?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Good?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
That's weird. It's like all our communications are being jammed.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
Must be the person who grabbed claude.
Speaker 16 (20:19):
Clad he's gone.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
If my fault, it is on my fault?
Speaker 17 (20:23):
Hi hi hi.
Speaker 9 (20:26):
Hi, Oh god, she's dissociating again, Kyoko, Karen's no dummy.
Speaker 10 (20:30):
She must have emergency firearms search the office.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
You're not in charge, Kai.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
According to the Renewal Constitution, the chief curator is the
next in command.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
There's a constitution.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
I'm declaring martial law. Search for the guns.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
Hi, Karen, Karen, can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I'm not sure what to do what.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I'm out, I'm.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
Out, she's out, I'm in.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Fuck God, damn the clod snap or what.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I'm glad we're going back.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
We don't have to, you know, what do you mean?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
We could just.
Speaker 13 (21:16):
Stay here and tell the whole world to fuck off.
We could be the new Adam and Eve. No God
or serpent in sight, just us.
Speaker 10 (21:28):
Yeah. You know Adam and Eve they were rebelled against
God and then.
Speaker 11 (21:33):
You know what they did, what.
Speaker 14 (21:37):
Had babies.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah, we could.
Speaker 13 (21:40):
Our hormones are going to run out anyway. I mean,
you could get pregnant. We could reboot the fucking world.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
Fuck yeah, Jesus, Cleina, you're really well, you're really making
me him?
Speaker 14 (21:55):
What what?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
All right? Greeting citizens of Renewal, our beloved leader, Karen,
for a variety of personal reasons, has transferred her authority
to me. I humbly accept this burden of responsibility for
your lives. Thank you, Karen.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Yes what, I'm very bad and I don't understand what's going.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
As you are all aware, we are under attack by
an unknown person or person's of ill and ambiguous intent.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Does anybody have a sugarette?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Cale?
Speaker 10 (22:29):
Can you take Karen back to recorders? Thank you for
your service, Karen.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Or a mute?
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Yes, Karen, I'll take you to a mint.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
Claviger's will escort you from building to building. It has
been impossible to contact the supply boat to come pick
us all up, so we will have to wait for
it to arrive on its scheduled visit in six days. Wait,
where's Collina and Kirk?
Speaker 9 (22:51):
I saw them walking up on the bluffs. They had backpacks.
Speaker 10 (22:55):
A search party would only risk more lives. All right,
you're all confined to orders, Lights out six thirty pm.
This will all be over in a week, and then
you can initiate your own personal legal proceedings against Karen.
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
That will be all real?
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Is so strong?
Speaker 14 (23:11):
I should be in charge.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Guy is out of control?
Speaker 13 (23:19):
Oh, Kirk, I didn't know about this little waterfall. Oh,
it's so beautiful our little garden of Eden, isn't it?
Speaker 10 (23:27):
Yeah, but we should definitely find a place to camp.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh look, I didn't know there were parrots.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
Fuck, what happened?
Speaker 13 (23:37):
I think something bit me on my ankle.
Speaker 17 (23:40):
Shit, it's a getto kill let's step on it.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Oh God, what the hell?
Speaker 13 (23:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Is it dead? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
But it's eyes they're huge.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
H Kirk.
Speaker 13 (23:56):
I think I need to lie down.
Speaker 14 (23:58):
Yeah, it's okay, Thank you Kirk, Thank you, go girl,
thank you goddess.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Okay, good morning, Chris.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
My mouth tastes like my career died in it worst.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Casper, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
He leaves the room when he's uncomfortable.
Speaker 16 (24:34):
Okay, so you're his' kay? Huh?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I think I love you?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Are you married?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Chris?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Probably?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
What didn't it?
Speaker 17 (24:46):
What did you say?
Speaker 16 (24:47):
I think he's still in my house?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
So's Ken?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Ken's in my house?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Oh, Chris, you're silly and Ken is cute. You should
meet him.
Speaker 16 (24:57):
Well, if Casper doesn't kill me and the lumps in
my breast ought the lumps, I'm in remission. I guess
doesn't help to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Hey, if your k can you tell him to let
me go? What does he need me for, Chris Jesus,
man of stealth.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Clearly we can't let you go with your nanotech remaining act.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Di Casper, the shake of Joan is working. I feel
ready to drop a k.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
It's just down the hall.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You could act as an unwitting lizard tracker.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Or maybe I'm a fucking crypto, are you.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
No, I'm a woman of a certain rage, So.
Speaker 16 (25:35):
Let me go.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I won't tell anyone.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
I'll drink the shake.
Speaker 17 (25:38):
Just let me go, Casper, you can't do that.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
If I was a lizard, I would rip.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Out your spine and make a necklace of your vertebrae.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
That would be a junkie necklace.
Speaker 10 (25:59):
Carl, you're supposed to be confined to quarters.
Speaker 11 (26:02):
Fuck off, guy.
Speaker 12 (26:03):
I know you jammed my phone because you want this
island to yourself. That way, nobody will find out your
little secret.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
What.
Speaker 11 (26:10):
She's a fucking grifter.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
What?
Speaker 10 (26:12):
Don't listen to him. He's just trying to turn us
against each other.
Speaker 11 (26:15):
No, I just want to get off this fucking island.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
What the heck is that it's coming.
Speaker 8 (26:21):
From the beach.
Speaker 11 (26:22):
My god, it's We're saved.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
I'm saved.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
You schmucks It's Jonas jonas.
Speaker 17 (26:30):
I don't think that's a yacht.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Cancelation Island A Topic Studios and iHeart Podcasts production written
by John Cameron Mitchell and Michael Keviadilla's directed by John
Cameron Mitchell, produced by Christy Gressman, starring Holly Hunter as Karen,
Josh Pice as Carl, Aaron Marky as kai k, Todd
Freeman as Claude Murphy, Taylor Smith as Collina, Justice Singleton
(27:14):
as Kirk, Mary Testa as Chris, Joe Firestone as Callie,
Mia Pack as Kyoko, Joseph Keckler as Cale, Maria Mercedes
Galupo as Carmen, Micah Stock as Casper, Dalmis Garcia as Keky,
Michael Kevidias as Jonas, and Josh Nate Davila as Peppo,
(27:35):
Veronica Guadalupe as Pepa. Audio producer Vincent Cashion. Executive producers
Michael Caviadias, John Cameron Mitchell, and for iHeart Podcasts Noel
Brown and Nikki Ettore, composer Lucas Carey. Original song Wait
written by Brett Every and John Cameron Mitchell. Additional music
(27:56):
by Vincent Cashion. Executive in charge of production Jenny Badusa
recording produced by Will Stanton, Live production manager Amanda Harris,
recorded live in front of an audience by Will Stanton
and Sam Torres. Live sound by Max Kaufman. Script supervisor
Rachel Cole, Reader Stephen Winter, Production coordinator Nick Boyd, Assistant
(28:19):
to the director Guthrie McCarty, Vaschon, Production assistant Brandon Harris,
artwork Ricardo Desaigno for Topic Studios Podcasts, Christy Gressman, Adam Cecil,
Michelle Lance, post production, Ethan Lyte, Communications Genie Keatis, Dan Goldberg, Marketing,
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