Introducing: Cancellation Island

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is John Cameron Mitchell. My new fiction podcast series
Cancelation Island, recorded in front of a live audience, stars
Holly Hunter as Karen, a wellness influencer who launches a
rehab for the recently canceled, complete with a specially curated
gen Z staff.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Karen, what I lack in life experience, I make up
for uncertainty.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Welcome to Cancelation Island, the hottest celebrity rehab this side
of the Bermuda Triangle. In the future, we will all
be canceled for fifteen minutes, but don't worry. We'll take
you from broke to woke or your money back. Our
canceled clients are there to make a fresh start, whether
they want it or not.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
You were, in effect canceled when a number of women
came forward with charges of sexual harassment. They're all lying,
All two hundred and fifty one women are lying. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
So this Cancelation Island is your idea it Carl.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
It's a pilot project that will attempt to rehabilitate reputationally
disadvantaged individuals on a beautiful, uninhabited island in the Gulf
of Mexico.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Uninhabited.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Let's cut to the chase, Carl, you could very well
be a perfect candidate.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
But a nine month program for the canceled isn't all
privileged walks and trust exercises. Strange things happen here, things
that make our guests question if they're really here to
be healed?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Jesus Christ? Is this part of the farrahae?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Cancelation Islands? Revolutionary rehab therapies like bad Touch Football, anti
Racism spin class, and mandatory ayahuasca ceremonies are designed to
force the cancel to confront their worst impulses. But everything
starts to fall apart when people start disappearing.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
That sounded like Chris, What is going on? I'm scared, Karen?
What do we do?

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Please stay where you are, Karen.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
There's no sign of Chris. Karen, where have you brought us?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
From dubious healing rituals to conspiracy theories that seem uncomfortably real?
Things unravel quickly on Cancelation Island?

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Cananon? Isn't it Quanon?

Speaker 1 (02:18):
No?

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Karen?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Q is over? KA is the new Q, and K
is mostly concerned with the secret Blizzard people.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
The only person who defended me was K of that
Kookie cannon.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Are you ka?

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Are you U K? Are you k no?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Are you UK?

Speaker 4 (02:36):
I am not am I?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Were you vaccinated?

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Of course I've at five fives ors, three monkey packs.
Is in a shingle? My dad refused every shot and
now he's dead.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
So hi one, Why are people vanishing without a trace?
Are they escaping the island or are they being picked off?

Speaker 4 (02:54):
The ground is shaky? Shut up, kyoko, it's an earthquake.
Get out of the bed. Oh my god, something's coming
out of that hole.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Cancelation Island, where a second chance might just be your last.
Cancelation Island from Topic Studios and iHeart Podcasts starting on
February ninth, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
you get your podcasts.