October 19, 2022 • 28 mins
Nicki, Bobbie, and Liam struggle to believe that they’ve actually time traveled, but eventually come to terms with their new situation and devise a game plan to right the timeline: they have to fix Ben’s once-in-a-lifetime regret by convincing 90s Ben to buy the rink, saving it in the future. Only problem? Ben’s flat broke.
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Directed by: Rebecca Cunningham
With Performances by:
Judy Alice Lee as Nicki Fix
Thalia Romina as Bobbie
Joshua Evans as Liam
Tyler Keyes as Leonard
With Barron Bass as Ben
And Scott Hoffman as Record Shop Clerk Jeremy Kane
Additional Voices:
Maura Vincent, Caleb Yen, David Shatraw, Laith Wallschleger
Post Sound & Music by: Chapter Four
Sound Supervision and Sound Design by: Sarah Gibble Laska
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Lyrics by: Natalia Yanchak and Murray A. Lightburn
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A time travelers. This has head the Iine Horn, co
creator of Nicki Fixes Time nix up. Next, be kind
and rewind to the nineties for a most epic episode
of Nicki Fix. But first, a quick word from our sponsor,
Iron Horn's Epic Productions and I Heart Radio present Nikki
(00:21):
Fixes Time Mix. What happened? You will saw that right
to guitar? Just man, it's lit up? And then everything
when wobbly. And now we're in the storage room somehow,
(00:45):
maybe we were electrocuted. You don't look electrocuted. No smoke.
Your hair looks great. By the way, Well we're not dead.
I feel a pulse. Where's been there? I'm going to
get my key. You better be gone by the time
I get back. Who the heck was that? I thought
(01:06):
we were here alone this morning? Already? That could be
the foreman from the demolition crew, Bobby Liam. Look around.
Something's not right here in point of focus already, Nikki, No,
I need look at this. It's Ben's carving of the
seventies skaters that's usually hanging on the wall between the restrooms.
But it's not finished. Then must have taken it down.
(01:31):
Maybe he's taking it with him after all. But wasn't
it still hanging there literally five seconds ago? Or was
it last night? I can't actually tell how long we've
been out. It looks brand new, like it's lost decades
of grime. No way, no, no, no, no, no no
(01:52):
no no, not in away, not possible. We're all waiting
for the follow up here, Liam, what's not possible? I
think I know what happened. We've time traveled. Okay, well
this was fun, but the sun is up. Liam's lost
his mind and I have to get home for brunch later.
(02:14):
You've had your warning. I'm coming in. Who the heck
(02:34):
are you people? What are you doing in here? Are we?
Who are you? I'm Leonard, the assistant manager, assistant manager
of what of? What are you serious? Wow? You are okay?
This is the Millennium Rink in Old Bridge, New Jersey,
ring any bells and your trespassing now is when you
(02:56):
get up and leave. Here's no assistant manager here. We
wouldn't know. You would know. I would know. And it's
Saturday morning. I have eight year olds here for our
birthday party, and now I have to get you all
out of here before the board and irritable parents start
freaking out. About the apparent hobo camp. We're running in
the storeroom, so let's go. It's Saturday, yeah, and the
(03:21):
year is okay ha ha ha ha. Okay, you've had
your fun. This area is off limits. Who let you
in here? To begin with? Ben did okay figures? I
keep telling him to draw a harder line with the
local youth. Aren't you a local youth? I'm a sophomore
(03:41):
in college. Come on, grab your gear and vacate the premises,
I said, move its breadth breast, want to activate? Let's
(04:13):
go this way? Hey, you try to wear this HIGs
into the bathroom sign? Do we know this guy who
you practically live at the rink? And that guy definitely
doesn't work here, but he could have worked here in
the past. I feel fine, but I'm pretty sure Lio
here hit his head. Check for lumps man. There's a
(04:37):
backup over at concessions. See yourselves out, and I better
not find you here when I get back places or whatever.
(04:58):
I can't believe it. Rink people are here, hitch me
ow hard. Sorry, Look how new that floor looks. It's
so shiny. At an arcane corner and Mortal Kombat three
and Original Cabinetlium question if we have actually traveled back
(05:21):
in time? Not you too, we said, if then, what
are we doing here? I'm guessing that it's some kind
of quest. The guitar is the key that ignited the
thin membrane between timelines, and we likely have to fix
something to get back time travel. One oh one. Nonsense
one oh one from the Nonsense Committee. We just inhaled
(05:43):
some toxic fumes overnight, or we're all currently having the
same weird dream we have most definitely not time travel.
Nothing about that is logical. Bobby, are you seeing that
kid rolling by his hair? Is that lot iCal? Oh?
This is crazy. We just have to check our phones
(06:03):
to tell us the date, and of course my phone
is dark. Check yours? Dead mine too. See, my dad's
talked about growing up without phones all the time. I
mean like there were phones, but not cell phones. There
were definitely cell phones like Zach Morris, giant brick cell phones,
(06:26):
but no modern cell towers, so our phones can't connect. No,
this is ridiculous. They just got pried. It must have
been some electrical surge that knocked us out and messed
up our phones. This is really real. We're in the nineties, right,
But we need to figure out why we were brought
(06:47):
to this particular point in time and what point that
actually is. What's the year the date? And why is
this a nexus? And what cosmic purpose brought us here?
Now I have two lunatics to deal with. Do you
even hear yourselves? Oh, Bobby chill, disbelief is perfectly natural.
(07:11):
But trust me, will be fine if we follow a
few simple rules. Rules. Yeah, like number one, don't meet yourself,
easy enough. None of us are born yet, Okay, okay,
see things already aren't so bad. Oh, and don't mess
(07:32):
with the spacetime continuum. That could be dangerous. Dangerous how
well like step out a butterfly, Chaine history, causing apocalypse,
not get born, start a war, create lobster flavored oreos.
Oh my gosh. None of those things are going to happen.
We just have to figure out why we're here, which
(07:52):
is probably connected to whatever was happening right before we left. Nope, nope, nope,
I got one big bag of note for this whole theory.
I'm going to find then who's going to explain this
whole thing, and then put the both of you into
concussion protocol Bobby, it's super important that we all stay together. Bobby.
Wait up, time Denier, typical Bobby, Bobby, are you okay?
(08:31):
Talk to me? It's impossible. This is all some sort
of set up, a set up. Someone came out to
Old Bridge overnight, replaced all the cars and the storefronts
and everybody's wardrobes. Are we in the Truman Show? Hello?
Is this some insane reality prank thing? Where are the cameras?
Are you an actor? Why? Yes? See, we're doing phantom
(08:54):
in the basement over at St. Catherine's. You should come, Bobby,
take a deep breath and two chill. Okay, now look
right over there. What do you see? Newspapers? Right? Newspapers.
(09:17):
We're going to go look at the newspapers and we're
going to check the date. Okay, okay, fine here, now
do you see read it out loud? September? So what's
(09:37):
it say? When are we? You are right? Liamb We've
traveled back in time. We're in m hey, Nicky stands.
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(09:59):
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(10:20):
e ep universe dot com to learn more. Okay, so
how did this happen? We were doing a vigil for
the rank. The candles were all lit. Then Liam showed up.
Don't you remember we were making wishes. It was the
(10:41):
wishes bingo, the perfect catalyst. But that can't be the
only element. What do you mean People make wishes all
the time, day in and day out. Without something to
make the wishes come true, like a shooting star or whatever,
They're just empty words. So what made the wishes come true?
Oh the guitar, of course, Ben said. The guitar was
(11:05):
made out of the rinks floorboards, and right before he left,
Ben was saying about how he could have bought the
building back in the nineties. He wished too. That's it.
That's the reason we're here. Not buying the rink was
Ben's big once in a lifetime regret. Okay, so we
get Ben to buy the building, rink saved, portal opens,
We go home exactly. My friends. The magical time beings, lords, gods,
(11:31):
whatever have clearly given us a life altering opportunity to
save the rink. So we have to find Ben and
the guitar. Wait, where'd you leave it? Oh? My god,
we left it at the rink. Holy cannoli. What we
have to go back and lost? Magical artifact is the
number one obstacle in time travel narratives. That Mark Leonard
(11:53):
is gonna get it. Now, where did we leave the
guitar when I was playing it? We were in the
middle of the rink, but we woke up in the storeroom.
But I bet he knows where the guitar is already
told you I better not need to come back and
(12:14):
throw you out? Is he brandishing a bob at us?
Right away? Running? But lave let's go. Were we clear?
I think he stopped at the doorway. We'll have to
(12:36):
come back later. That guy will never let us back in. Okay.
Now we have to navigate a time where we don't know,
so we need to stick together. Deal Step one, Adjust
to your surroundings. Taking it in and no one's still
our town. It's so weird. Hey, check out those kids
(12:59):
over there. Look at their clothes, their hair. We look
totally out of place. We're wearing jeans and a T shirt.
They're wearing jeans and a T shirt. Camus A dresses
their flannel shirts. They're so many scrunches. I did read
(13:20):
somewhere that the safest thing to do if your time
travel is to get naked, so no one will know
about your clothes, what time you're fend We should not
get naked. Look at that cute little thrift store the
cats me out. Why would they close something like that?
Probably because it's too fabulous, Nikki, Bobby, we should really
minimize all encounters with temporal natives. Sure, whatever that means,
(13:44):
it'll just be safe for him. We look like now unbelievable.
Come on, people, not cool? O? Wait? Is that a
radio shock? I mean no harm? In the endow shopping
up it? Oh? I bet I could get needles from
my record player in there. They're impossible to find me out,
(14:24):
Welcome to the Cat's Meow sales rack? Is me in
the dressing room? NICKI? Do you see the prices so cheap?
We should take a bunch of stuff home and sell
it on that seat. We'd make bang. This sweater would
look great on you, Bobby? What about this baby doll dress?
I'm gonna try it on. And this camuscle and here
(14:46):
you should try this crab top. Wow, srike a poles.
Oh yeah beautiful, Yeah scare let me help you. Hi,
(15:07):
your store is amazing. Thanks. This store is my baby.
I'm taking over the empty storefront next door to it
used to be the Stationary store, but they moved to
the mall. Okay, so that's a total of thirty h
(15:27):
Is that a credit card? Yes, it's got a chip
or touchless. Can you just slide it into your card
reader or tap it? Tap it? The numbers on the
card aren't raised. It won't show up on the carbon copies.
I'll have to call it into the bank. Oh wait, no,
I don't call it in. We'll play with cash. Bobby
(15:51):
helped me out. They only have a twenty. I'm sure
I could take a check. I definitely don't have a check.
Is this monopoly money? What it's real money? Time travel?
Are you trying to pass counterfeits? No? No, no, nothing
(16:11):
to be here. We're going Hi. Sorry, we're not feeling
we can't leave the money here. The long story ever,
beat us never saw us that was so close. I
didn't realize money looked so different. I thought money was
(16:33):
just money. Maybe Liam was right, keeping her actions to
a minimum. Wait where is Liam? We lost him? Maybe
the portal came and scooped him up and we got
left behind because we didn't stick together. I think that's
him coming out of that store. Liam, What what happened to?
(16:57):
Don't go and do anything, or the future world will end?
Just window shopping at the radio shack And then I
had to go in. I didn't talk to anyone. I
observed there are literally cable connections for I don't even
know what. Also, look at this street, bookstore, record store,
(17:18):
video rental place, a freaking candy store. Yeah, but our
money doesn't work here. Of course it doesn't, which is
why I borrowed these totally don't exist anymore candy bars
to sample for science. Oh that's good, you should totally
(17:40):
bring these back now. I was thinking it's his guitar
and his ring still, so next up has to be
finding Ben. But how where does he go besides the
rank um? I think I know remember how much he
hates Starbucks. I do seem to remember for him to
crying corporate coffee imperialists like one to two times, and
(18:05):
then he inevitably starts reminiscing about what was there before Starbucks,
the Silver Fork, his favorite diner. Let's go. Huh, Bear,
I can see the sign the Silver Fork Diner. Look
(18:42):
at this place, families, old people, high school kids, and
everyone is actually talking to each other. Yeah. I couldn't
figure out what was different until I realized they're not
on their phones. I guess here no one worries about
how many likes they're getting, or about performatively posting their
perfect life. We're really all in our own echo chambers
(19:06):
back home, aren't we. Okay, so we know Ben's in here,
but he's twenty something years younger. It's kind of hard
to imagine Ben as a young guy. I don't even
know how old he is in our time. I mean,
like fifty sixty seventy. There he is. Wow, he looks
(19:27):
exactly the same. Was he born? Looking that old? Ben Brown? Right?
My name is NICKI fix uh. Congrats. You don't know
us yet, but we're here from the future with a
message from your future self. Okay, I get it. I
(19:51):
know you kids think it's funny to hear me go
off on one of my what do you call them,
conspiracy theories, But I'm not going to do it. Swear
we're not trying to make fun of you. We're really
here from the future. Yeah, okay, why don't you make
fun of Ben who reads scientific American thinks about quantum physics,
and believes in global warming in UFOs, I get it.
(20:12):
We wouldn't make fun of you. You're like the adult
that I we respect most in the world. Kid, I
don't even know you. That's because we haven't met. I
haven't even been born yet, and we'd all like to
be born. So can you please help us get back
to the future. Please listen to our message and help
(20:32):
us get our guitar back. Your guitar if you kids
stole my stuff? Hey wait, Ben, he left just like that.
(20:53):
He doesn't believe us, would you believe you? It's typical
in a time travel story, convincing the past that they
are talking with the future is difficult to achieve in
first encounters. But maybe we did something wrong. Of course,
we forgot to tell him the most important thing that
(21:13):
he has to buy the rink. I bet that's where
he's headed. Let's go. How are we going to get
into the rank past that Leonard Kid and his assault
mob through the basement cross Base. That's how I always
sneak in mm hmmm, Last Skate. I can't believe it's
(21:48):
that late already. I can't believe Ben is still playing
that same song for last Skate in our time. Kind
of sweet reminds me of home. We're gonna be stuck
here forever her, aren't we. This isn't so fun anymore.
We don't have any money that we can use. We
have no one we can turn to. We don't even
have anywhere to stay. Someone's coming. What what is this?
(22:28):
You better come out of hiding. I'm counting the three,
one two. If you don't come out, I'll I'll hit
you with this guitar. Okay, no no, no, no no no,
don't come guitar. Don't give me don't the guitar three again?
What are you doing here? We told you we're from
(22:49):
the future, and you brought this guitar with you. It
kind of brought us. You gave it to me, Ben,
you made it. You have to believe us. You said
that already us. Your name again, My name is Nicky Fix.
I'm a regular here. I play a show every week
that pretty much and no one comes to hi I'm Bobby.
(23:12):
I'm sort of in the band too, and I'm Liam.
It does kind of look like this guitar that I've
been working on in here, but it can't be the
same guitar. First off, yours is red. It's the same guitar.
Can't be. They look similar. But I know my guitars,
and that would be some trick. Not if we're really
(23:32):
time travelers, we're looking at a classic time displaced object.
Look at the knot on the front of the guitars
near the knops. It's the same. You can feel it. Well,
I'll be darned. I also just finished etching my name
into it, like a signature where on the back there
(23:54):
look under the pain Let me pull the desk light over. Well,
I'll be there. It is my name carved in the
exact spot, the exact same way. It is the same guitar,
but finished in everything. You know. I got the idea
(24:15):
when Leonard was helping me pull up some old flooring
and I thought I could do something with it, kind
of give the rink a voice. You know. It's the
rink itself that called us here. I just got goose bumps.
All right, future kids, get on with it and tell
me the message from the future. Today is the day
the landlord made you the offer to buy this building. Right,
that's right. How did you know he said he was
(24:38):
open to selling and he was giving me a week
to make the first offer. You have to buy it.
You didn't do it in the past or I guess
you're present, I mean our present, and you wind up
regretting it big time. It means that in the future
the rink is going to be destroyed, demolished, could put
(24:58):
as of tomorrow, well tomorrow in our time, you know
what I mean? Huh? Well, message delivered. But I'll tell
you even if my future self insists I'm not buying
the building. It's too much dealing with banks in the
city and the state taxes and all that stuff. I'll
just make a handshake deal with the new building owner
(25:19):
like I did before. Now you can all get into
your little time machine and go home. Thank you. It
doesn't work like that. You have to consider the offer. Okay,
did future me give you any clues on Hi, I'm
supposed to get the money for a down payment. You
don't have the money. I have not even close. Oh
(25:41):
well that's that. Now you can go home with all
due respects, sir, we can't go home until we convince you.
That's how time loops work. You have to buy the rink,
then we can go. Well, okay, if that's so, you've
got one week to convince me and figure out how
to pay for it. One week that's when the owner
(26:03):
is gonna put the building up for sale to the
general public. Meanwhile, you could crash here. There's some sleeping
bags and stuffing back. Plenty of kids have done it
before you. Good night kids, Oh and watch out for
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Lea Romina as Bobby, Joshua evans Is, Liam Tyler Kayes
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Additional voices more of Vincent Caleb Yen David Shattraw, Leith
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(27:11):
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Lyrics by Natalia Yancheck and Murray A lightburn Produced by
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(27:57):
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A time travelers. This has head the Iine Horn, co
creator of Nicki Fixes Time nix up. Next, be kind
and rewind to the nineties for a most epic episode
of Nicki Fix. But first, a quick word from our sponsor,
Iron Horn's Epic Productions and I Heart Radio present Nikki
(00:21):
Fixes Time Mix. What happened? You will saw that right
to guitar? Just man, it's lit up? And then everything
when wobbly. And now we're in the storage room somehow,
(00:45):
maybe we were electrocuted. You don't look electrocuted. No smoke.
Your hair looks great. By the way, Well we're not dead.
I feel a pulse. Where's been there? I'm going to
get my key. You better be gone by the time
I get back. Who the heck was that? I thought
(01:06):
we were here alone this morning? Already? That could be
the foreman from the demolition crew, Bobby Liam. Look around.
Something's not right here in point of focus already, Nikki, No,
I need look at this. It's Ben's carving of the
seventies skaters that's usually hanging on the wall between the restrooms.
But it's not finished. Then must have taken it down.
(01:31):
Maybe he's taking it with him after all. But wasn't
it still hanging there literally five seconds ago? Or was
it last night? I can't actually tell how long we've
been out. It looks brand new, like it's lost decades
of grime. No way, no, no, no, no, no no
(01:52):
no no, not in away, not possible. We're all waiting
for the follow up here, Liam, what's not possible? I
think I know what happened. We've time traveled. Okay, well
this was fun, but the sun is up. Liam's lost
his mind and I have to get home for brunch later.
(02:14):
You've had your warning. I'm coming in. Who the heck
(02:34):
are you people? What are you doing in here? Are we?
Who are you? I'm Leonard, the assistant manager, assistant manager
of what of? What are you serious? Wow? You are okay?
This is the Millennium Rink in Old Bridge, New Jersey,
ring any bells and your trespassing now is when you
(02:56):
get up and leave. Here's no assistant manager here. We
wouldn't know. You would know. I would know. And it's
Saturday morning. I have eight year olds here for our
birthday party, and now I have to get you all
out of here before the board and irritable parents start
freaking out. About the apparent hobo camp. We're running in
the storeroom, so let's go. It's Saturday, yeah, and the
(03:21):
year is okay ha ha ha ha. Okay, you've had
your fun. This area is off limits. Who let you
in here? To begin with? Ben did okay figures? I
keep telling him to draw a harder line with the
local youth. Aren't you a local youth? I'm a sophomore
(03:41):
in college. Come on, grab your gear and vacate the premises,
I said, move its breadth breast, want to activate? Let's
(04:13):
go this way? Hey, you try to wear this HIGs
into the bathroom sign? Do we know this guy who
you practically live at the rink? And that guy definitely
doesn't work here, but he could have worked here in
the past. I feel fine, but I'm pretty sure Lio
here hit his head. Check for lumps man. There's a
(04:37):
backup over at concessions. See yourselves out, and I better
not find you here when I get back places or whatever.
(04:58):
I can't believe it. Rink people are here, hitch me
ow hard. Sorry, Look how new that floor looks. It's
so shiny. At an arcane corner and Mortal Kombat three
and Original Cabinetlium question if we have actually traveled back
(05:21):
in time? Not you too, we said, if then, what
are we doing here? I'm guessing that it's some kind
of quest. The guitar is the key that ignited the
thin membrane between timelines, and we likely have to fix
something to get back time travel. One oh one. Nonsense
one oh one from the Nonsense Committee. We just inhaled
(05:43):
some toxic fumes overnight, or we're all currently having the
same weird dream we have most definitely not time travel.
Nothing about that is logical. Bobby, are you seeing that
kid rolling by his hair? Is that lot iCal? Oh?
This is crazy. We just have to check our phones
(06:03):
to tell us the date, and of course my phone
is dark. Check yours? Dead mine too. See, my dad's
talked about growing up without phones all the time. I
mean like there were phones, but not cell phones. There
were definitely cell phones like Zach Morris, giant brick cell phones,
(06:26):
but no modern cell towers, so our phones can't connect. No,
this is ridiculous. They just got pried. It must have
been some electrical surge that knocked us out and messed
up our phones. This is really real. We're in the nineties, right,
But we need to figure out why we were brought
(06:47):
to this particular point in time and what point that
actually is. What's the year the date? And why is
this a nexus? And what cosmic purpose brought us here?
Now I have two lunatics to deal with. Do you
even hear yourselves? Oh, Bobby chill, disbelief is perfectly natural.
(07:11):
But trust me, will be fine if we follow a
few simple rules. Rules. Yeah, like number one, don't meet yourself,
easy enough. None of us are born yet, Okay, okay,
see things already aren't so bad. Oh, and don't mess
(07:32):
with the spacetime continuum. That could be dangerous. Dangerous how
well like step out a butterfly, Chaine history, causing apocalypse,
not get born, start a war, create lobster flavored oreos.
Oh my gosh. None of those things are going to happen.
We just have to figure out why we're here, which
(07:52):
is probably connected to whatever was happening right before we left. Nope, nope, nope,
I got one big bag of note for this whole theory.
I'm going to find then who's going to explain this
whole thing, and then put the both of you into
concussion protocol Bobby, it's super important that we all stay together. Bobby.
Wait up, time Denier, typical Bobby, Bobby, are you okay?
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Talk to me? It's impossible. This is all some sort
of set up, a set up. Someone came out to
Old Bridge overnight, replaced all the cars and the storefronts
and everybody's wardrobes. Are we in the Truman Show? Hello?
Is this some insane reality prank thing? Where are the cameras?
Are you an actor? Why? Yes? See, we're doing phantom
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in the basement over at St. Catherine's. You should come, Bobby,
take a deep breath and two chill. Okay, now look
right over there. What do you see? Newspapers? Right? Newspapers.
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We're going to go look at the newspapers and we're
going to check the date. Okay, okay, fine here, now
do you see read it out loud? September? So what's
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it say? When are we? You are right? Liamb We've
traveled back in time. We're in m hey, Nicky stands.
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e ep universe dot com to learn more. Okay, so
how did this happen? We were doing a vigil for
the rank. The candles were all lit. Then Liam showed up.
Don't you remember we were making wishes. It was the
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wishes bingo, the perfect catalyst. But that can't be the
only element. What do you mean People make wishes all
the time, day in and day out. Without something to
make the wishes come true, like a shooting star or whatever,
They're just empty words. So what made the wishes come true?
Oh the guitar, of course, Ben said. The guitar was
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made out of the rinks floorboards, and right before he left,
Ben was saying about how he could have bought the
building back in the nineties. He wished too. That's it.
That's the reason we're here. Not buying the rink was
Ben's big once in a lifetime regret. Okay, so we
get Ben to buy the building, rink saved, portal opens,
We go home exactly. My friends. The magical time beings, lords, gods,
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whatever have clearly given us a life altering opportunity to
save the rink. So we have to find Ben and
the guitar. Wait, where'd you leave it? Oh? My god,
we left it at the rink. Holy cannoli. What we
have to go back and lost? Magical artifact is the
number one obstacle in time travel narratives. That Mark Leonard
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is gonna get it. Now, where did we leave the
guitar when I was playing it? We were in the
middle of the rink, but we woke up in the storeroom.
But I bet he knows where the guitar is already
told you I better not need to come back and
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throw you out? Is he brandishing a bob at us?
Right away? Running? But lave let's go. Were we clear?
I think he stopped at the doorway. We'll have to
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come back later. That guy will never let us back in. Okay.
Now we have to navigate a time where we don't know,
so we need to stick together. Deal Step one, Adjust
to your surroundings. Taking it in and no one's still
our town. It's so weird. Hey, check out those kids
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over there. Look at their clothes, their hair. We look
totally out of place. We're wearing jeans and a T shirt.
They're wearing jeans and a T shirt. Camus A dresses
their flannel shirts. They're so many scrunches. I did read
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somewhere that the safest thing to do if your time
travel is to get naked, so no one will know
about your clothes, what time you're fend We should not
get naked. Look at that cute little thrift store the
cats me out. Why would they close something like that?
Probably because it's too fabulous, Nikki, Bobby, we should really
minimize all encounters with temporal natives. Sure, whatever that means,
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it'll just be safe for him. We look like now unbelievable.
Come on, people, not cool? O? Wait? Is that a
radio shock? I mean no harm? In the endow shopping
up it? Oh? I bet I could get needles from
my record player in there. They're impossible to find me out,
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Welcome to the Cat's Meow sales rack? Is me in
the dressing room? NICKI? Do you see the prices so cheap?
We should take a bunch of stuff home and sell
it on that seat. We'd make bang. This sweater would
look great on you, Bobby? What about this baby doll dress?
I'm gonna try it on. And this camuscle and here
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you should try this crab top. Wow, srike a poles.
Oh yeah beautiful, Yeah scare let me help you. Hi,
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your store is amazing. Thanks. This store is my baby.
I'm taking over the empty storefront next door to it
used to be the Stationary store, but they moved to
the mall. Okay, so that's a total of thirty h
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Is that a credit card? Yes, it's got a chip
or touchless. Can you just slide it into your card
reader or tap it? Tap it? The numbers on the
card aren't raised. It won't show up on the carbon copies.
I'll have to call it into the bank. Oh wait, no,
I don't call it in. We'll play with cash. Bobby
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helped me out. They only have a twenty. I'm sure
I could take a check. I definitely don't have a check.
Is this monopoly money? What it's real money? Time travel?
Are you trying to pass counterfeits? No? No, no, nothing
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to be here. We're going Hi. Sorry, we're not feeling
we can't leave the money here. The long story ever,
beat us never saw us that was so close. I
didn't realize money looked so different. I thought money was
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just money. Maybe Liam was right, keeping her actions to
a minimum. Wait where is Liam? We lost him? Maybe
the portal came and scooped him up and we got
left behind because we didn't stick together. I think that's
him coming out of that store. Liam, What what happened to?
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Don't go and do anything, or the future world will end?
Just window shopping at the radio shack And then I
had to go in. I didn't talk to anyone. I
observed there are literally cable connections for I don't even
know what. Also, look at this street, bookstore, record store,
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video rental place, a freaking candy store. Yeah, but our
money doesn't work here. Of course it doesn't, which is
why I borrowed these totally don't exist anymore candy bars
to sample for science. Oh that's good, you should totally
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bring these back now. I was thinking it's his guitar
and his ring still, so next up has to be
finding Ben. But how where does he go besides the
rank um? I think I know remember how much he
hates Starbucks. I do seem to remember for him to
crying corporate coffee imperialists like one to two times, and
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then he inevitably starts reminiscing about what was there before Starbucks,
the Silver Fork, his favorite diner. Let's go. Huh, Bear,
I can see the sign the Silver Fork Diner. Look
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at this place, families, old people, high school kids, and
everyone is actually talking to each other. Yeah. I couldn't
figure out what was different until I realized they're not
on their phones. I guess here no one worries about
how many likes they're getting, or about performatively posting their
perfect life. We're really all in our own echo chambers
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back home, aren't we. Okay, so we know Ben's in here,
but he's twenty something years younger. It's kind of hard
to imagine Ben as a young guy. I don't even
know how old he is in our time. I mean,
like fifty sixty seventy. There he is. Wow, he looks
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exactly the same. Was he born? Looking that old? Ben Brown? Right?
My name is NICKI fix uh. Congrats. You don't know
us yet, but we're here from the future with a
message from your future self. Okay, I get it. I
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know you kids think it's funny to hear me go
off on one of my what do you call them,
conspiracy theories, But I'm not going to do it. Swear
we're not trying to make fun of you. We're really
here from the future. Yeah, okay, why don't you make
fun of Ben who reads scientific American thinks about quantum physics,
and believes in global warming in UFOs, I get it.
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We wouldn't make fun of you. You're like the adult
that I we respect most in the world. Kid, I
don't even know you. That's because we haven't met. I
haven't even been born yet, and we'd all like to
be born. So can you please help us get back
to the future. Please listen to our message and help
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us get our guitar back. Your guitar if you kids
stole my stuff? Hey wait, Ben, he left just like that.
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He doesn't believe us, would you believe you? It's typical
in a time travel story, convincing the past that they
are talking with the future is difficult to achieve in
first encounters. But maybe we did something wrong. Of course,
we forgot to tell him the most important thing that
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he has to buy the rink. I bet that's where
he's headed. Let's go. How are we going to get
into the rank past that Leonard Kid and his assault
mob through the basement cross Base. That's how I always
sneak in mm hmmm, Last Skate. I can't believe it's
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that late already. I can't believe Ben is still playing
that same song for last Skate in our time. Kind
of sweet reminds me of home. We're gonna be stuck
here forever her, aren't we. This isn't so fun anymore.
We don't have any money that we can use. We
have no one we can turn to. We don't even
have anywhere to stay. Someone's coming. What what is this?
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You better come out of hiding. I'm counting the three,
one two. If you don't come out, I'll I'll hit
you with this guitar. Okay, no no, no, no no no,
don't come guitar. Don't give me don't the guitar three again?
What are you doing here? We told you we're from
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the future, and you brought this guitar with you. It
kind of brought us. You gave it to me, Ben,
you made it. You have to believe us. You said
that already us. Your name again, My name is Nicky Fix.
I'm a regular here. I play a show every week
that pretty much and no one comes to hi I'm Bobby.
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I'm sort of in the band too, and I'm Liam.
It does kind of look like this guitar that I've
been working on in here, but it can't be the
same guitar. First off, yours is red. It's the same guitar.
Can't be. They look similar. But I know my guitars,
and that would be some trick. Not if we're really
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time travelers, we're looking at a classic time displaced object.
Look at the knot on the front of the guitars
near the knops. It's the same. You can feel it. Well,
I'll be darned. I also just finished etching my name
into it, like a signature where on the back there
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look under the pain Let me pull the desk light over. Well,
I'll be there. It is my name carved in the
exact spot, the exact same way. It is the same guitar,
but finished in everything. You know. I got the idea
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when Leonard was helping me pull up some old flooring
and I thought I could do something with it, kind
of give the rink a voice. You know. It's the
rink itself that called us here. I just got goose bumps.
All right, future kids, get on with it and tell
me the message from the future. Today is the day
the landlord made you the offer to buy this building. Right,
that's right. How did you know he said he was
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open to selling and he was giving me a week
to make the first offer. You have to buy it.
You didn't do it in the past or I guess
you're present, I mean our present, and you wind up
regretting it big time. It means that in the future
the rink is going to be destroyed, demolished, could put
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as of tomorrow, well tomorrow in our time, you know
what I mean? Huh? Well, message delivered. But I'll tell
you even if my future self insists I'm not buying
the building. It's too much dealing with banks in the
city and the state taxes and all that stuff. I'll
just make a handshake deal with the new building owner
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like I did before. Now you can all get into
your little time machine and go home. Thank you. It
doesn't work like that. You have to consider the offer. Okay,
did future me give you any clues on Hi, I'm
supposed to get the money for a down payment. You
don't have the money. I have not even close. Oh
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well that's that. Now you can go home with all
due respects, sir, we can't go home until we convince you.
That's how time loops work. You have to buy the rink,
then we can go. Well, okay, if that's so, you've
got one week to convince me and figure out how
to pay for it. One week that's when the owner
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is gonna put the building up for sale to the
general public. Meanwhile, you could crash here. There's some sleeping
bags and stuffing back. Plenty of kids have done it
before you. Good night kids, Oh and watch out for
the rats. Ironhorn's Epic Productions and I Heart Radio present
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Nikki Fixes Time Mix created an executive produced by it
Heather Ironhorn and Adam Stafferroni. Executive produced by iHeart Radio
head writer Cecil Castellucci, writers Blue Beckford Barrel, Louis Cornfeld,
Natalia Yancheck, and Adam staff Arroni. Directed by Rebecca Cunningham,
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with performances by Judy Alice Lee as Nicky Fix, To,
Lea Romina as Bobby, Joshua evans Is, Liam Tyler Kayes
as Dante Diamond, and Leonard into Baron Bass as Ben.
Additional voices more of Vincent Caleb Yen David Shattraw, Leith
Walsh Legger and Scott Hoffman as record shop clerk. Posts
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sound by Chapter four. Sound supervision and sound design by
Sarah GiB Alaska, Assistant sound editing by Andrew Berger, Natalie
Escudero and Zachary Spizer. Music composed by Murray A Lightburner.
Lyrics by Natalia Yancheck and Murray A lightburn Produced by
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Arupe Sana Kayla, Development writer, Scott Hoffman, Development executive Greg Lockard,
line producer Anna Stipko, Production coordinator and script supervisor Laura Martin,
Operations Laura Kaufman, Marketing and Publicity, Jesse Post Digital Marketing
Jennifer Gennaro, Social Media Ashley Lynn Nicole. Creative direction and
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designed by Ryan McCann. A special thank you to The
Shadow Unicorn, Iron Horn's Epic Productions and I Heart Radio
present Nicky Fixes, Time Mix, Hey, Time Travelers. Check out
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