February 14, 2022 • 33 mins
"Please give the access code to activate C-Class level emergency protocols."
Magmell is a production of iHeartRadio and Bamfer Productions
Starring Aly Trasher, Julia Henning, and BJ Grip
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Produced by Jeff Heimbuch & Aly Trasher
Executed produced by Holly Frey
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Magmal was a production of I Heart Radio and bamfor Productions.
Ladies and gentlemen, if I can have your attention, please
thank you all for coming today for this monumental occasion.
Today we launch a mission into understanding our greater world
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and to help us usher in a new era of
space exploration. With thanks to the scientific community for supporting
us and General Tompkins for believing in this mission. We
have been able to discover so much so far, though
we are proud of the work that we have done here.
As you know, we can only do so much on
the ground, which is why we are extremely excited to
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take Project MAGML to the next level today and launch
a vessel into the farthest reaches of space to explore
the Helix nebula and help us gain some valuable insight
into the inner workings of our universe. Ladies and gentlemen,
I would like to introduce you to our intrepid space
explorers and the crew of the Magmal, Captain Jannah Prescott
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and Captain Sidney Owens. We will now take a few
questions from the press before these two embark on their
historic journey. Yes, what do you hope to find once
you reach the Helix nebula. Honestly, that part is a
bit of a mystery to me personally, though I hope
to get some more information on how stars can form
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within them, especially considering the Helix used to be a star,
much like our own son, Captain Prescott. Are you nervous
to pilot the first true interstellar mission such as this? Jenna? What? Sorry?
I'm sorry? What was the question? Please forgive my wife,
as you can expect, a mission such as this requires
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intense concentration. Her head is already in the stars. Yes,
you up front. Now, I'm not a space expert in nothing,
but is there something like this a bit dangerous? Well?
Isn't all space travel inherently dangerous? Yes? But considering the
length of the mission and the distance away from home,
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how safe is this mission? In particular? What are the
chances of the crew making it back? I'll take this one. Yeah.
We have done extensive research into just that well before
we even decided on a manned mission such as this,
and we are fully confident for not only success in
regards to the information gathering, but also when it comes
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to the safe return of our crew. I sure hope, so,
thank you all. For coming. But that is all the
time that we have. These two have got to get
ready for launch. But let's hear it for them one
more time. Hey, is everything okay? You seem distracted? Yeah,
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I'm fine, just a little bit of nerves, I guess. Yeah,
I'm nervous too, But you heard Kevin. Nothing to worry about.
I mean, if you can't trust your own husband, who
can you trust? Right? Yeah, exactly, We're about to change
our lives forever. Just think nothing will ever be the
same after this. You don't know the half of it.
What's that? Nothing? Forget it? Come on, let's gonna make history.
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Mag Mill Episode ten. See you when I see you.
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T run through the scans again, Grange, from let's say
December through the present. Is there anything in particular? I
am looking forward to nar down the search parameters. I
don't know anything, anything out of the ordinary, anything related
to I don't know the fucking black hole. We just
went through scanning and run a diagnostic check on yourself. Jesus,
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what are you doing? Just trying to retrieve some data
from when we went through the Nebula figured we had
some time to kill so why not? What did you
set it for any abnormalities in the scans. I thought,
maybe if we find something, we can compare it to
the scans of that electrical storm. You know, what the
you think that's gonna work? Do you have a better idea?
I mean, what the hell else are we doing? Right?
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Got it? You know that finishing each other's sentences thing
was creepy the first fifty times, and it didn't get
any less. So, plus it's fucking annoying. I'm starting to
feel a little violated. Yeah, it's like I don't know
the only way to describe it is like competing memories
or something that didn't happen yet, but they're all crying
out for attention. Great, like annoying memory babies. Does it
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scare you? Which part? Any of it? All of it? Perhaps?
So fucking Lulia? Does are you serious? And it's crazy right?
Like there has to be some scientific reason for all
of this, and it's it almost scares me to ask
just how many times have we done this? How many
lives have we lived? And not to sound morbid or anything,
but sometimes I think I can almost remember what it
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feels like, what what feels like death? Okay, that's enough
out of you for now, thank you very much. I
definitely don't need that creeping through my head, but I'm sorry.
It's fine. I guess it helps distract from the perpetual
headache that I've had. Yeah, I've got one too. But
you've got a plan something to help us out of this, right, Yes, well,
at least I think so. All work in progress. We
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just need to get to the planet and we can
take the next steps from there. I sure hope you
know what you're doing. Yeah, yeah, me too. Magmal will
return after these messages, and now back to magmill a funk.
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What now out the main viewport to the right? What
is it? T what's out there? Oh? Apologies, I did
not mean to frighten you. There is nothing out there
to concern you, but I thought you'd just like to
know now what T spit it out already the planet.
We're here, what we are? That was faster than I
thought it was. But we're here and we need to
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breathe not get off the channel. What's that? I saved her?
I stopped up from taking control, from taking over. Okay,
I do not like it when it happens. It's happening
more and more. We're onto something. Yeah, but it just
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gave me a whole new slew of memories. And let
me tell you, something bad is going to happen, not
this time. We're not going to let it, but sit
I can feel it. Yeah, I know I feel it too.
But but we can do this. We can stop this.
We just need to think about what we know so
far and use that to help us stop it. Well,
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we know there's a black hole and going through it
trapped us in a totally fucked situation. And that fucking
mold from the ghost ship is making us c weird ship.
Oh and we can't trust proteus. That's for damn sure.
I'm sorry. Did I miss something? Very optimistic and we
need tea. I'm surprised at you, Janna. You know you
can trust rust rust me. See I don't remember the details,
but something is up with him and I don't fucking
like it. I am running diagnostics to resolve the issue.
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Shut the funk up your rust bucket? Do you not
want me to tell you about what I just decrypted?
I already know what it is, t it's probably better
if we don't play it. Wait what is it? It's
it's a video of us from the last loop where
I where you? What's it? Look, it doesn't matter because
it's not going to happen. How do you know that?
Because of what you just said, we know it so
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we can stop it, and and I won't have to
fly the ship to try to get away from the
black hole. You fly the ship. Yes, yes, I fly
the ship. But I know this is ultimately, in the end,
my fault, because I'm the one who flies us back
through the black hole. But you don't have You don't
have to sound so surprised that I was flying. No, Sydney,
it's not the ship. That's where it all begins and
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ends technically, because the ghost ship was our ship. Think
about it? What do you mean funk? Okay, Look, I'm
not going to even pretend to understand how a ghost
ship version of our ship winds up where it does
when we found it. But okay, if I never went
on to the ghost ship, I wouldn't have found the
idol or the mold for that matter, and it wouldn't
have gotten into tea, and it wouldn't have sucked with us.
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And if you don't fly the ship through the black
hole to begin with, it wouldn't have wound up where
it was, and we would have never found it to
begin with. So wait, if we get rid of the ship,
we get rid of the problem. Yes exactly, but if
but if we do that, we have no way out,
and how would we even get rid of it to
begin with? You don't need to get out of here.
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What we need is to reset the loop. And it
seems like every time we get sucked into the black hole,
the loop resets. That black hole out there is coming
for us, ship or no ship. The ghost ship is like,
I don't know, a memory of the past or something
somehow finding its way to the exact moment it needs
to be. But this time, if we reset and the
ship is gone, it doesn't exist. So when we return,
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things would play out differently. How the fund did I
just think that? Look, don't don't we need to be
on the ship for it to reset. I'm grasping its
straws here, Sydney, none of this makes sense. I'm just
trying to find a solution and try something different. Logically,
how how is that a solution? We just strand ourselves
out in the middle of nowhere. No, we're not stranded.
We reset, but with no ghost ship, and if nothing
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else we have the survival pod. Remember, look, it's not
a perfect plan, but it is a plan, isn't it.
It's at least a chance Jesus funk. Okay, fine, then
you give me something. What's your genius plan that you
claim to have had. I just I'm sorry. You're right,
your plan is better. It's just it's something, and we
do have to do something. It's it's a good plan,
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but we need to at least try to avoid getting
sucked into that thing. I'm not a specialist here, but
with all those weird cracks and hearing stuff from other
timelines happening more and more, I don't know how much
more it's going to be able to take. But what
if the black holes too far away? What if it
doesn't reset? I don't know. Anything is a possibility now.
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Kevin told me it was unlikely that any of this
would even happen in the first place, And yet here
the funk we are. If we don't reset, and and
if we are stuck, well then I guess that's where
the survival pod comes in, doesn't it. I mean, those
things are meant to last, They're meant for emergency, so
we can sit tight and activate the C class level
emergency protocols? Does that do? At the very least, you
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will make t send back an emergency beacon to Command
and hopefully they send someone to come get us. But dude,
this is all worse case scenario and you need the
access code to even get to it. Well, that just
seems useless. Why that would Command hide an emergency beacon
in a secret level of programming that we aren't even
supposed to know about. I had that same question as well,
because you're right, it does seem pointless. But obviously I
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had some time to explore the SEAT class protocols, so
I did some digging. Apparently it has a fail safe
time or that if God forbid, something happened to us
and we did not return after a certain amount of time,
like after five years or so, it would automatically activate
and send out the beacon for them to try to
find us. But I also found that you can manually
activate the beacon as well. But again, that is all
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provided one has the access code, which of course we
aren't supposed to Okay, and how does the beacon differ
than the one we already know about? I mean, the
normal beacon is the one that led us to the
ghost ship version of the magma to begin with. So
what makes this SEE class one so special? Basically range.
Our regular one only has a short range distance one
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that fell within the parameters of the mission we knew about.
But this one, this one has significantly longer range. I'm
talking deep deep space here. If we want them to
find us, this is the one we have to use.
This is what we have to do. Do you understand? Okay? Okay, yes, okay,
let's do this. Okay, great, t take us down to
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the planet. There's just one thing I have to do first.
What's that? What the hell said? What did the idol
ever do to you? This is a lot more stuff
than I thought it would be, considering the survival pot
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is meant for emergency situations only where you may need
to sustain yourself for a long period of time. It
is understandable any word from Janiette. No, there is still
too much interference for a clear signal. But I will
keep trying. This one is a lot. That is the generator.
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It will help power not just the survival pod, but
also the automated functions as well as my core systems.
So how does that work with you? I mean, generally speaking,
we will remove my operating system from the ship and
transferred to the POD's main systems. While not all of
my regular functions will continue to be available, I am
still able to assist with most tasks. And what about
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the emergency beacon? Once C class level emergency protocols are
fully activated, I will automatically send the distress beacon back
to command at the lighthouse. They get it. It was
designed for deep space transmission. So theoretically speaking, yes, theoretically yes,
Statistically the odds are mostly in our favor, better than not. No, no,
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know this a boy from me. You should set you?
Do you hear that? I am detecting something unusual. It
seems like the electrical storms, but not. What are you
doing to me? Janna is in trouble? How do you know?
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I still can't raise her on the combs. I know,
damn it. I have to save her. Sydney. Wait, Janna, Janna,
are you there? Janna? Janna? Is that you help me? Mommy? No, no, no,
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I know you are not real. I know if you're
just fucking with me piece, I'm so cold. Stop it,
stop enough of the games. I know what you are.
I know you're just doing this, doing what your instincts
tell you. But but you helped me, remember once, and
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now now it's it's my turn to help you. It hurts, mommy,
it hurts so much. Help doing this, and remember you've
done this before, just keep doing it again unless you
help me. Please help us. The only way that this
can happen is it is can help me find Janna. Remember, yes, yes,
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remember this, all of this, we leave, We have gone
through this already. Please help me find my friend. It's
the only way to stop this. And I'm just so gold,
so ang. I don't know why you hate us, I
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don't know why you're you're doing this to us. But
if you don't help us, if you don't help me,
this is going to keep happening. Do you understand We're
going to be stuck doing this forever and ever and
you'll never get what do you want? I don't know
what you are doing, or what that fucking thing is
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or how you are even connected, but you need to
stop and think about what you are doing. Well, we
feed it is our way. Your way isn't working anymore.
Don't you get it? I know you remember, I know
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you do. You told me you do. But if we
ever we want to get out of this, we need
to work together. We need to stop this together. And
then then you consume whatever the hell you want that
is beyond our control. What is all right? A more hell?
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You will? Yes? Thank you? Yes? Yes? Can you bring
me to her? Can you help me find Janna? Please this?
Thank you? Janni, Janni, coming for you, Jane, I'm here, Janni, Janna,
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look at Jenna, Jenni, Janni. Okay, alright, alright, you need
to stop this. Caitlin, Caitlin, you need to stop this, okay,
please please? You need to let me save her. Okay,
I need her. This is the only way it's going
to work. Look at me, Look at me, Look at me.
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Do you hear me? Caitlin? Let her go? I got you, Jennico,
who are you talking to? Do you know? I just
need a minute. I gotta go, right, you can take
a minute later. We need to get out of here.
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You need to get out of here before this thing
gets both of us. Who are you? All right? Let
her call the mold the mold it sentient and I
think I think it's gonna help us now, all right, ship,
do you think you can talk to that thing too.
I don't think it's that easy. Come on, we gotta go.
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Magmal Will returned after these messages. And now back to
mag Mill. What happened out there? I kept trying to
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raise you on the cost. She's hurt Canada's hearts. You
need to get her to the medday immediately and I
will look after. I'm not a chance. I don't trust you.
I know your systems are corrupted. You've been playing us.
My systems are fine. I assure you. See you were compromised.
I'm fairly certain Mold gotten to your system and did something.
But I I think you're okay. Now, I think it
backed off. Look look here a piece of it, A
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piece of it got to me. I was helping Janna.
But but it's it's dormant now right now. I don't
like that it's still sticking you. But that's the least
of our problems. Right now, whatever the thing is out there,
it's coming for us. We gotta think of something. Well,
well we can. We can't leave because even if it
follows us, that is just going to lead us to
re st Loup again, over right, over right right right,
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So okay, we can't do that unless what are you thinking? Shit,
what if we learned away from us but trick it?
How so? T Once we remove your operating core, will
the autopilot still work? Yes, at least in theory it should.
I won't be able to navigate it, but we can
pre chart a course. But even then the magma might
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fall off course and be unable to continue to do
that chart a course straight into that fucking black hole.
What we can't do that, We're not. Don't worry. We're
staying here. We are we are. We're gonna leave that
thing right out of there and blow it to fucking
pieces with the self destruct Holy ship, Janet, you're a genius.
T Would that work? Statistically speaking? Yes, it should. With
that ship gone and that fucking thing on with it,
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that should be enough to disrupt the loop, right, I mean,
nothing would be going back through the black hole. Then
we'll be safe, well as safe as we can be
on this planet. That's a risk I'm willing to take.
Is there survival pot all? Set? Almost one more thing
and tease operating core? Okay, good, go grab that. I'm
gonna go prep the ship and set the self destruct
sequence so we can end this fucking thing. What's it
for all? Are you sure? Yeah, I'm sure. I'll catch
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up to you as soon as I pull the switch.
Now go, we don't have much more time. Did you
chart the course? Tea? Yes? Good. Program's good because I'm
coming up to your central core. Now, are you ready?
Disengaging from the Magmal's central systems in three two one?
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Come on? Come on all right now connected to Survival
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Pod Omega two systems online and functioning. Where is Jenna scanning?
It seems she is still on the command deck. I
will patch us through now. What self destruct sequence initiated? Jenna?
Where are you? Where are you still in the ship?
I'm sorry, sorry, sorry for what risk? What does that mean?
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What are you doing? I mean to investing away from
you and the only way I'll know we're here that
I'm doing myself. Jenna, get off the ship now or
I'm coming to get you. You're not lockdown Survival Pod
Omega locking down Survival Pod Omega two, June. This stuff
stop when you can do this together. You are in
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our own way? Are you doing? Get back here right now?
I'm sorry, say I'm sorry, we're not telling you. I'm
miss Heaven's John. No I'm sorry. We're not always treating
you well. I'm sorry for everything. It's working, she's drawing
it away, it's going after the ship. You don't have
to do this, d d you tell her that she
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doesn't have to do this. I can't lose another person.
D you please, it's been a pleasure serving with you,
Captain Prescott. I made my pieces. Now go on get
back home and live your life for me, please, Yetta,
I gotta go say, I make it right on my
tail and I got into the right for what I think. No, no, no, no, no.
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She was a good person, Sydney. She did that to
save you. Remember her for the well, I don't. I didn't.
It worked, by the way. That thing, whatever it was,
it's gone from my scans. The self destruct took it too.
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But it took dr too, I know, and I'm sorry.
What do we do now? You activate C class level
emergency protocols and I send the beacon back home and
hopefully they come for you. Then we do that. Activate
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the C class level emergency protocols. Please give the access
code to activate C class level emergency protocols. Access code
is out. What the hell? No, wait, what you're doing?
We had a deal yet, Money, we had a ill.
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Get this fucking mold out of me, danged, please get
emergency protocols. You did, Money, What are you doing? Why
are you doing this? We don't have to be scared anymore.
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We did when you asked to get off of me.
You don't have to do this. We aren't stuck anymore.
Now we can be together forever. Money. No, you're not her.
You're just wearing her face. You fucking monster. Save me.
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I did save you. I saved you and this whole
goddamn planet. But you can't fucking help yourself, can you.
I don't Money, No, No, I love her, the real her.
Are not you? Whatever you're doing to me, I guess
it doesn't matter, doesn't But this was This was always
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going to end, wasn't it, no matter what we did,
no matter how hard we fought against it. You can't
change destiny, can you. I know you're not her, but
I want you to know I would have done things
differently if that meant I could have saved you, Calin,
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I would have. I love you deep mid D three
Beta do see C class level emergency protocols activated data
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stored emergency beacon sent for rich reeval I I I
I I I I I I stop the tape please,
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all right, I can't listen anymore. That was the end
of the transmission from the emergency beacon anyway. There was
nothing else from your predecessor. No, that was the only
transmission we received from Proteus Mark one of what transpired. Shit,
don't despair. That doesn't mean Mark one has ceased its
beacon transmission. It just means there's nothing new to transmit.
Does that mean you heard what happened? I'm sorry, captain
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that's all right. It is inevitable, I know. But does
that mean that Captain Owens is It doesn't. We don't
know what happened out there. It could be any number
of things. They're waiting for you in the conference room
thanks to me, Quiet down, please. Though I've had a
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chance to review the transmission from the MAGML, a number
of questions still remain. At the moment, we can guess
that Captain Prescott did not survive to see the mission through. However,
we are unsure of what happened to Captain Owens and
whether or not she is still alive. We know that
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she was able to send the emergency beacon back to us,
along with some sensitive data that we are also reviewing.
That said, we and confirmed this. The micro black hole
did indeed expand upon their arrival to the n g
C seven to nine three, and the mag Mel did
traverse through it. They exited the black hole quite a
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distance from their entry point, thus creating the situation we
are in. We can tell you that both Captain's Prescott
and Owens did the best they could given the situation,
and that the research and readings they have sent back
will advance our knowledge of space travel tenfold. In that respect,
project Magmal was a success. Now begins the next phase
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of the project. Prior to review of the data, General
Thompkins had already given me permission to head the retrieval team.
Using the knowledge we gained, we will travel the same
route as the magma and hope to find some clue
as to its whereabouts. It will take time eight years there,
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eight years back. If n g C N three does
not work as we intended to, but we aimed to
further our knowledge of our larger world and their mission,
Captain Prescott will not have died in vain. She died
an honorable death, and for that I am thankful, and
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if Captain Owens is still out there, well let's bring
her home. You're dismissed. I'm sorry to bother you, sir,
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but there seems to be something else on this transmission.
What is it? It was encoded. I overlooked it at
first because it was at the very end, but there
is a little bit more. Shall I play it? M hm? Yes?
Please commencing playback? Yeah. Mag Mel starring Ali Trasher, Julia Henning,
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and b J Gribb. Additional voices in this episode provided
by kat Ton Chonko Mac Manson, Jessica Fisher, Alex Gona,
and Jeff Heimbuck. Written by Jeff Heimbuck and Lindsay Skaggin,
Directed and edited by Jeff Heimbug, Produced by Jeff Heimbuck
and Ali Trasher. Executive produce by Holly Fry. Audio engineered
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by Corey Celeste and Alex Gona. Original musical score by
Corey Celeste. Additional songs by the Ramikins as played by
Roscoe Soul Train. Magmal is a production of I Heart
Radio and Bamper Productions. Questions comments email us at Project
Magmal at gmail dot com. Until next time, We'll see you.
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When we see you mommy,
Magmal was a production of I Heart Radio and bamfor Productions.
Ladies and gentlemen, if I can have your attention, please
thank you all for coming today for this monumental occasion.
Today we launch a mission into understanding our greater world
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and to help us usher in a new era of
space exploration. With thanks to the scientific community for supporting
us and General Tompkins for believing in this mission. We
have been able to discover so much so far, though
we are proud of the work that we have done here.
As you know, we can only do so much on
the ground, which is why we are extremely excited to
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take Project MAGML to the next level today and launch
a vessel into the farthest reaches of space to explore
the Helix nebula and help us gain some valuable insight
into the inner workings of our universe. Ladies and gentlemen,
I would like to introduce you to our intrepid space
explorers and the crew of the Magmal, Captain Jannah Prescott
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and Captain Sidney Owens. We will now take a few
questions from the press before these two embark on their
historic journey. Yes, what do you hope to find once
you reach the Helix nebula. Honestly, that part is a
bit of a mystery to me personally, though I hope
to get some more information on how stars can form
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within them, especially considering the Helix used to be a star,
much like our own son, Captain Prescott. Are you nervous
to pilot the first true interstellar mission such as this? Jenna? What? Sorry?
I'm sorry? What was the question? Please forgive my wife,
as you can expect, a mission such as this requires
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intense concentration. Her head is already in the stars. Yes,
you up front. Now, I'm not a space expert in nothing,
but is there something like this a bit dangerous? Well?
Isn't all space travel inherently dangerous? Yes? But considering the
length of the mission and the distance away from home,
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how safe is this mission? In particular? What are the
chances of the crew making it back? I'll take this one. Yeah.
We have done extensive research into just that well before
we even decided on a manned mission such as this,
and we are fully confident for not only success in
regards to the information gathering, but also when it comes
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to the safe return of our crew. I sure hope, so,
thank you all. For coming. But that is all the
time that we have. These two have got to get
ready for launch. But let's hear it for them one
more time. Hey, is everything okay? You seem distracted? Yeah,
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I'm fine, just a little bit of nerves, I guess. Yeah,
I'm nervous too, But you heard Kevin. Nothing to worry about.
I mean, if you can't trust your own husband, who
can you trust? Right? Yeah, exactly, We're about to change
our lives forever. Just think nothing will ever be the
same after this. You don't know the half of it.
What's that? Nothing? Forget it? Come on, let's gonna make history.
(03:24):
Mag Mill Episode ten. See you when I see you.
(03:50):
T run through the scans again, Grange, from let's say
December through the present. Is there anything in particular? I
am looking forward to nar down the search parameters. I
don't know anything, anything out of the ordinary, anything related
to I don't know the fucking black hole. We just
went through scanning and run a diagnostic check on yourself. Jesus,
(04:12):
what are you doing? Just trying to retrieve some data
from when we went through the Nebula figured we had
some time to kill so why not? What did you
set it for any abnormalities in the scans. I thought,
maybe if we find something, we can compare it to
the scans of that electrical storm. You know, what the
you think that's gonna work? Do you have a better idea?
I mean, what the hell else are we doing? Right?
(04:35):
Got it? You know that finishing each other's sentences thing
was creepy the first fifty times, and it didn't get
any less. So, plus it's fucking annoying. I'm starting to
feel a little violated. Yeah, it's like I don't know
the only way to describe it is like competing memories
or something that didn't happen yet, but they're all crying
out for attention. Great, like annoying memory babies. Does it
(04:58):
scare you? Which part? Any of it? All of it? Perhaps?
So fucking Lulia? Does are you serious? And it's crazy right?
Like there has to be some scientific reason for all
of this, and it's it almost scares me to ask
just how many times have we done this? How many
lives have we lived? And not to sound morbid or anything,
but sometimes I think I can almost remember what it
(05:20):
feels like, what what feels like death? Okay, that's enough
out of you for now, thank you very much. I
definitely don't need that creeping through my head, but I'm sorry.
It's fine. I guess it helps distract from the perpetual
headache that I've had. Yeah, I've got one too. But
you've got a plan something to help us out of this, right, Yes, well,
at least I think so. All work in progress. We
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just need to get to the planet and we can
take the next steps from there. I sure hope you
know what you're doing. Yeah, yeah, me too. Magmal will
return after these messages, and now back to magmill a funk.
(06:19):
What now out the main viewport to the right? What
is it? T what's out there? Oh? Apologies, I did
not mean to frighten you. There is nothing out there
to concern you, but I thought you'd just like to
know now what T spit it out already the planet.
We're here, what we are? That was faster than I
thought it was. But we're here and we need to
(06:44):
breathe not get off the channel. What's that? I saved her?
I stopped up from taking control, from taking over. Okay,
I do not like it when it happens. It's happening
more and more. We're onto something. Yeah, but it just
(07:05):
gave me a whole new slew of memories. And let
me tell you, something bad is going to happen, not
this time. We're not going to let it, but sit
I can feel it. Yeah, I know I feel it too.
But but we can do this. We can stop this.
We just need to think about what we know so
far and use that to help us stop it. Well,
(07:28):
we know there's a black hole and going through it
trapped us in a totally fucked situation. And that fucking
mold from the ghost ship is making us c weird ship.
Oh and we can't trust proteus. That's for damn sure.
I'm sorry. Did I miss something? Very optimistic and we
need tea. I'm surprised at you, Janna. You know you
can trust rust rust me. See I don't remember the details,
but something is up with him and I don't fucking
like it. I am running diagnostics to resolve the issue.
(07:50):
Shut the funk up your rust bucket? Do you not
want me to tell you about what I just decrypted?
I already know what it is, t it's probably better
if we don't play it. Wait what is it? It's
it's a video of us from the last loop where
I where you? What's it? Look, it doesn't matter because
it's not going to happen. How do you know that?
Because of what you just said, we know it so
(08:10):
we can stop it, and and I won't have to
fly the ship to try to get away from the
black hole. You fly the ship. Yes, yes, I fly
the ship. But I know this is ultimately, in the end,
my fault, because I'm the one who flies us back
through the black hole. But you don't have You don't
have to sound so surprised that I was flying. No, Sydney,
it's not the ship. That's where it all begins and
(08:34):
ends technically, because the ghost ship was our ship. Think
about it? What do you mean funk? Okay, Look, I'm
not going to even pretend to understand how a ghost
ship version of our ship winds up where it does
when we found it. But okay, if I never went
on to the ghost ship, I wouldn't have found the
idol or the mold for that matter, and it wouldn't
have gotten into tea, and it wouldn't have sucked with us.
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And if you don't fly the ship through the black
hole to begin with, it wouldn't have wound up where
it was, and we would have never found it to
begin with. So wait, if we get rid of the ship,
we get rid of the problem. Yes exactly, but if
but if we do that, we have no way out,
and how would we even get rid of it to
begin with? You don't need to get out of here.
(09:16):
What we need is to reset the loop. And it
seems like every time we get sucked into the black hole,
the loop resets. That black hole out there is coming
for us, ship or no ship. The ghost ship is like,
I don't know, a memory of the past or something
somehow finding its way to the exact moment it needs
to be. But this time, if we reset and the
ship is gone, it doesn't exist. So when we return,
(09:37):
things would play out differently. How the fund did I
just think that? Look, don't don't we need to be
on the ship for it to reset. I'm grasping its
straws here, Sydney, none of this makes sense. I'm just
trying to find a solution and try something different. Logically,
how how is that a solution? We just strand ourselves
out in the middle of nowhere. No, we're not stranded.
We reset, but with no ghost ship, and if nothing
(09:59):
else we have the survival pod. Remember, look, it's not
a perfect plan, but it is a plan, isn't it.
It's at least a chance Jesus funk. Okay, fine, then
you give me something. What's your genius plan that you
claim to have had. I just I'm sorry. You're right,
your plan is better. It's just it's something, and we
do have to do something. It's it's a good plan,
(10:19):
but we need to at least try to avoid getting
sucked into that thing. I'm not a specialist here, but
with all those weird cracks and hearing stuff from other
timelines happening more and more, I don't know how much
more it's going to be able to take. But what
if the black holes too far away? What if it
doesn't reset? I don't know. Anything is a possibility now.
(10:40):
Kevin told me it was unlikely that any of this
would even happen in the first place, And yet here
the funk we are. If we don't reset, and and
if we are stuck, well then I guess that's where
the survival pod comes in, doesn't it. I mean, those
things are meant to last, They're meant for emergency, so
we can sit tight and activate the C class level
emergency protocols? Does that do? At the very least, you
(11:01):
will make t send back an emergency beacon to Command
and hopefully they send someone to come get us. But dude,
this is all worse case scenario and you need the
access code to even get to it. Well, that just
seems useless. Why that would Command hide an emergency beacon
in a secret level of programming that we aren't even
supposed to know about. I had that same question as well,
because you're right, it does seem pointless. But obviously I
(11:24):
had some time to explore the SEAT class protocols, so
I did some digging. Apparently it has a fail safe
time or that if God forbid, something happened to us
and we did not return after a certain amount of time,
like after five years or so, it would automatically activate
and send out the beacon for them to try to
find us. But I also found that you can manually
activate the beacon as well. But again, that is all
(11:45):
provided one has the access code, which of course we
aren't supposed to Okay, and how does the beacon differ
than the one we already know about? I mean, the
normal beacon is the one that led us to the
ghost ship version of the magma to begin with. So
what makes this SEE class one so special? Basically range.
Our regular one only has a short range distance one
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that fell within the parameters of the mission we knew about.
But this one, this one has significantly longer range. I'm
talking deep deep space here. If we want them to
find us, this is the one we have to use.
This is what we have to do. Do you understand? Okay? Okay, yes, okay,
let's do this. Okay, great, t take us down to
(12:29):
the planet. There's just one thing I have to do first.
What's that? What the hell said? What did the idol
ever do to you? This is a lot more stuff
than I thought it would be, considering the survival pot
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is meant for emergency situations only where you may need
to sustain yourself for a long period of time. It
is understandable any word from Janiette. No, there is still
too much interference for a clear signal. But I will
keep trying. This one is a lot. That is the generator.
(13:14):
It will help power not just the survival pod, but
also the automated functions as well as my core systems.
So how does that work with you? I mean, generally speaking,
we will remove my operating system from the ship and
transferred to the POD's main systems. While not all of
my regular functions will continue to be available, I am
still able to assist with most tasks. And what about
(13:35):
the emergency beacon? Once C class level emergency protocols are
fully activated, I will automatically send the distress beacon back
to command at the lighthouse. They get it. It was
designed for deep space transmission. So theoretically speaking, yes, theoretically yes,
Statistically the odds are mostly in our favor, better than not. No, no,
(14:00):
know this a boy from me. You should set you?
Do you hear that? I am detecting something unusual. It
seems like the electrical storms, but not. What are you
doing to me? Janna is in trouble? How do you know?
(14:22):
I still can't raise her on the combs. I know,
damn it. I have to save her. Sydney. Wait, Janna, Janna,
are you there? Janna? Janna? Is that you help me? Mommy? No, no, no,
(14:52):
I know you are not real. I know if you're
just fucking with me piece, I'm so cold. Stop it,
stop enough of the games. I know what you are.
I know you're just doing this, doing what your instincts
tell you. But but you helped me, remember once, and
(15:14):
now now it's it's my turn to help you. It hurts, mommy,
it hurts so much. Help doing this, and remember you've
done this before, just keep doing it again unless you
help me. Please help us. The only way that this
can happen is it is can help me find Janna. Remember, yes, yes,
(15:41):
remember this, all of this, we leave, We have gone
through this already. Please help me find my friend. It's
the only way to stop this. And I'm just so gold,
so ang. I don't know why you hate us, I
(16:07):
don't know why you're you're doing this to us. But
if you don't help us, if you don't help me,
this is going to keep happening. Do you understand We're
going to be stuck doing this forever and ever and
you'll never get what do you want? I don't know
what you are doing, or what that fucking thing is
(16:30):
or how you are even connected, but you need to
stop and think about what you are doing. Well, we
feed it is our way. Your way isn't working anymore.
Don't you get it? I know you remember, I know
(16:54):
you do. You told me you do. But if we
ever we want to get out of this, we need
to work together. We need to stop this together. And
then then you consume whatever the hell you want that
is beyond our control. What is all right? A more hell?
(17:22):
You will? Yes? Thank you? Yes? Yes? Can you bring
me to her? Can you help me find Janna? Please this?
Thank you? Janni, Janni, coming for you, Jane, I'm here, Janni, Janna,
(17:54):
look at Jenna, Jenni, Janni. Okay, alright, alright, you need
to stop this. Caitlin, Caitlin, you need to stop this, okay,
please please? You need to let me save her. Okay,
I need her. This is the only way it's going
to work. Look at me, Look at me, Look at me.
(18:19):
Do you hear me? Caitlin? Let her go? I got you, Jennico,
who are you talking to? Do you know? I just
need a minute. I gotta go, right, you can take
a minute later. We need to get out of here.
(18:42):
You need to get out of here before this thing
gets both of us. Who are you? All right? Let
her call the mold the mold it sentient and I
think I think it's gonna help us now, all right, ship,
do you think you can talk to that thing too.
I don't think it's that easy. Come on, we gotta go.
(19:05):
Magmal Will returned after these messages. And now back to
mag Mill. What happened out there? I kept trying to
(19:36):
raise you on the cost. She's hurt Canada's hearts. You
need to get her to the medday immediately and I
will look after. I'm not a chance. I don't trust you.
I know your systems are corrupted. You've been playing us.
My systems are fine. I assure you. See you were compromised.
I'm fairly certain Mold gotten to your system and did something.
But I I think you're okay. Now, I think it
backed off. Look look here a piece of it, A
(19:57):
piece of it got to me. I was helping Janna.
But but it's it's dormant now right now. I don't
like that it's still sticking you. But that's the least
of our problems. Right now, whatever the thing is out there,
it's coming for us. We gotta think of something. Well,
well we can. We can't leave because even if it
follows us, that is just going to lead us to
re st Loup again, over right, over right right right,
(20:18):
So okay, we can't do that unless what are you thinking? Shit,
what if we learned away from us but trick it?
How so? T Once we remove your operating core, will
the autopilot still work? Yes, at least in theory it should.
I won't be able to navigate it, but we can
pre chart a course. But even then the magma might
(20:39):
fall off course and be unable to continue to do
that chart a course straight into that fucking black hole.
What we can't do that, We're not. Don't worry. We're
staying here. We are we are. We're gonna leave that
thing right out of there and blow it to fucking
pieces with the self destruct Holy ship, Janet, you're a genius.
T Would that work? Statistically speaking? Yes, it should. With
that ship gone and that fucking thing on with it,
(21:00):
that should be enough to disrupt the loop, right, I mean,
nothing would be going back through the black hole. Then
we'll be safe, well as safe as we can be
on this planet. That's a risk I'm willing to take.
Is there survival pot all? Set? Almost one more thing
and tease operating core? Okay, good, go grab that. I'm
gonna go prep the ship and set the self destruct
sequence so we can end this fucking thing. What's it
for all? Are you sure? Yeah, I'm sure. I'll catch
(21:23):
up to you as soon as I pull the switch.
Now go, we don't have much more time. Did you
chart the course? Tea? Yes? Good. Program's good because I'm
coming up to your central core. Now, are you ready?
Disengaging from the Magmal's central systems in three two one?
(21:45):
Come on? Come on all right now connected to Survival
(22:09):
Pod Omega two systems online and functioning. Where is Jenna scanning?
It seems she is still on the command deck. I
will patch us through now. What self destruct sequence initiated? Jenna?
Where are you? Where are you still in the ship?
I'm sorry, sorry, sorry for what risk? What does that mean?
(22:34):
What are you doing? I mean to investing away from
you and the only way I'll know we're here that
I'm doing myself. Jenna, get off the ship now or
I'm coming to get you. You're not lockdown Survival Pod
Omega locking down Survival Pod Omega two, June. This stuff
stop when you can do this together. You are in
(22:57):
our own way? Are you doing? Get back here right now?
I'm sorry, say I'm sorry, we're not telling you. I'm
miss Heaven's John. No I'm sorry. We're not always treating
you well. I'm sorry for everything. It's working, she's drawing
it away, it's going after the ship. You don't have
to do this, d d you tell her that she
(23:17):
doesn't have to do this. I can't lose another person.
D you please, it's been a pleasure serving with you,
Captain Prescott. I made my pieces. Now go on get
back home and live your life for me, please, Yetta,
I gotta go say, I make it right on my
tail and I got into the right for what I think. No, no, no, no, no.
(23:53):
She was a good person, Sydney. She did that to
save you. Remember her for the well, I don't. I didn't.
It worked, by the way. That thing, whatever it was,
it's gone from my scans. The self destruct took it too.
(24:14):
But it took dr too, I know, and I'm sorry.
What do we do now? You activate C class level
emergency protocols and I send the beacon back home and
hopefully they come for you. Then we do that. Activate
(24:40):
the C class level emergency protocols. Please give the access
code to activate C class level emergency protocols. Access code
is out. What the hell? No, wait, what you're doing?
We had a deal yet, Money, we had a ill.
(25:03):
Get this fucking mold out of me, danged, please get
emergency protocols. You did, Money, What are you doing? Why
are you doing this? We don't have to be scared anymore.
(25:24):
We did when you asked to get off of me.
You don't have to do this. We aren't stuck anymore.
Now we can be together forever. Money. No, you're not her.
You're just wearing her face. You fucking monster. Save me.
(25:45):
I did save you. I saved you and this whole
goddamn planet. But you can't fucking help yourself, can you.
I don't Money, No, No, I love her, the real her.
Are not you? Whatever you're doing to me, I guess
it doesn't matter, doesn't But this was This was always
(26:09):
going to end, wasn't it, no matter what we did,
no matter how hard we fought against it. You can't
change destiny, can you. I know you're not her, but
I want you to know I would have done things
differently if that meant I could have saved you, Calin,
(26:33):
I would have. I love you deep mid D three
Beta do see C class level emergency protocols activated data
(27:04):
stored emergency beacon sent for rich reeval I I I
I I I I I I stop the tape please,
(27:32):
all right, I can't listen anymore. That was the end
of the transmission from the emergency beacon anyway. There was
nothing else from your predecessor. No, that was the only
transmission we received from Proteus Mark one of what transpired. Shit,
don't despair. That doesn't mean Mark one has ceased its
beacon transmission. It just means there's nothing new to transmit.
Does that mean you heard what happened? I'm sorry, captain
(27:57):
that's all right. It is inevitable, I know. But does
that mean that Captain Owens is It doesn't. We don't
know what happened out there. It could be any number
of things. They're waiting for you in the conference room
thanks to me, Quiet down, please. Though I've had a
(28:29):
chance to review the transmission from the MAGML, a number
of questions still remain. At the moment, we can guess
that Captain Prescott did not survive to see the mission through. However,
we are unsure of what happened to Captain Owens and
whether or not she is still alive. We know that
(28:51):
she was able to send the emergency beacon back to us,
along with some sensitive data that we are also reviewing.
That said, we and confirmed this. The micro black hole
did indeed expand upon their arrival to the n g
C seven to nine three, and the mag Mel did
traverse through it. They exited the black hole quite a
(29:13):
distance from their entry point, thus creating the situation we
are in. We can tell you that both Captain's Prescott
and Owens did the best they could given the situation,
and that the research and readings they have sent back
will advance our knowledge of space travel tenfold. In that respect,
project Magmal was a success. Now begins the next phase
(29:37):
of the project. Prior to review of the data, General
Thompkins had already given me permission to head the retrieval team.
Using the knowledge we gained, we will travel the same
route as the magma and hope to find some clue
as to its whereabouts. It will take time eight years there,
(29:57):
eight years back. If n g C N three does
not work as we intended to, but we aimed to
further our knowledge of our larger world and their mission,
Captain Prescott will not have died in vain. She died
an honorable death, and for that I am thankful, and
(30:22):
if Captain Owens is still out there, well let's bring
her home. You're dismissed. I'm sorry to bother you, sir,
(30:48):
but there seems to be something else on this transmission.
What is it? It was encoded. I overlooked it at
first because it was at the very end, but there
is a little bit more. Shall I play it? M hm? Yes?
Please commencing playback? Yeah. Mag Mel starring Ali Trasher, Julia Henning,
(31:38):
and b J Gribb. Additional voices in this episode provided
by kat Ton Chonko Mac Manson, Jessica Fisher, Alex Gona,
and Jeff Heimbuck. Written by Jeff Heimbuck and Lindsay Skaggin,
Directed and edited by Jeff Heimbug, Produced by Jeff Heimbuck
and Ali Trasher. Executive produce by Holly Fry. Audio engineered
(32:03):
by Corey Celeste and Alex Gona. Original musical score by
Corey Celeste. Additional songs by the Ramikins as played by
Roscoe Soul Train. Magmal is a production of I Heart
Radio and Bamper Productions. Questions comments email us at Project
Magmal at gmail dot com. Until next time, We'll see you.
(32:27):
When we see you mommy,
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