February 9, 2021 • 32 mins
Nextcorp, a Silicon Valley body-hacking startup founded by enigmatic inventor Max Fuller (Darren Criss), is on the edge of advancing human evolution with its soon to launch new product “Shut Eye;” a mind-app that promises to eliminate its user’s need to sleep. But when participants of “Shut Eye’s” human trials start dying, conman Jack Locke (John Boyega) attempts to infiltrate Nextcorp to uncover the truth behind what Max Fuller is really developing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tomorrow's Monsters as a production of My Heart Radio Flynn
Picture Company, Psycopia Pictures and Upper Room Productions, Monday Mars
to subject oh three b tomorrow. Jessup. We are currently
at hours without sleep. Patient reporting agitation and lack of focus,
(00:25):
several hours sooner than the last dose. Are you feeling
a tired coming down? I think any side effects since
last night? Um? A little ringing in my ear? Which
one so the left ear? Anything else? Mood swings? Are
(00:54):
you upset? No? But you are cry Why are you
just emotional? The voices too? Voices? Yeah? Have you talked
(01:15):
to Dr Berkeley about that? I'm not gonna tell you that.
Excuse me? No, um no, no, no not let me
call Dr Berkeley. Don't. I don't need your shrink. Sorry,
I'm fine, really, I'm fine, okay, And you haven't been
(01:38):
feeling ill physically ill. Look, can we get on with
it and dose me already? We can do the Dog
and Pony show some other time. Yeah, it's important to
collect these data points before. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I
just need the fog to go away, all right? All right.
(02:02):
For the record, this is round thirteen with dosage of
two full exposures five PRF five seconds each, eyes forward, deep,
breath ready, Yes, here's exposure one. Keep breathing tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. Okay,
(02:37):
that was exposure one. Patient is responsive. Heart rate spike
to two, but seems to be stabilizing. Okay, let's go
through the questions. What was your first thought? M Red balloons?
What did you smell? Cut grass? Any tinkling feeters? Sleep
(02:57):
in phase two? Breathe deep, let the blood get back
to your head. I don't remember starting that one. I
went deep that time, ready for exposure to yes, okay,
and three two and it was number thirteen. Administered tomorrow
(03:31):
ship goodmorrow, h m hm M Christ. Where am I?
(04:15):
Would you like me to go online to determine location? No,
stay offline. Just tell me the last man mark? Can
we passed twenty eight miles west of Urica, Nevada? Anything
else I can help with? Pull over? Okay? Pulling over
for safety. Please keep your seat belt on until I
(04:36):
come to a complete stop. It's January, January seven am.
Everywhere I look, I see monsters and ghosts, headlights in
the rear view. It feels like everyone is out to
(04:57):
get me. M's in any runs in the world. At
least there's there one of the benefits of taking backwards
less chances for me to get tagged by facial recognition
or motion idea. I'm using old unalog paper maps. My
father taught me to use them instead of virtual maps
when you need to stay off the radar, which is
(05:19):
exactly why I have to do. I'm also avoiding all
major interstates and stities, which makes me harder to track,
but it will take longer. It's the best chance I
have to make it across country to Arlington, Virginia without
getting calls. At least the scenic son is coming up
now and sage brush for days this drive. You know,
(05:46):
it's the first chance I've had to think to put
all the pieces together in my head. I wasn't sure
where to begin, but now I know. Let me play
you something. This is Dr Cassandra Berkeley. It's Sunday, June six,
Session three, subject Max Fuller. Okay, let's revisit the lake,
(06:13):
the frozen lake. I don't see why we need to
throw on that. Let's close your eyes. Okay, good, a
deep breath. Good, Now you are there. Tell me what
you see, not what you remember, but what you see
(06:41):
a boy. Where is the boy? He's lying flat on
a finch she device cracking beneath him, spreading his arms
and legs out as wide as possible. He's taking slow,
shallow breath. He's trying to distribute the weight evenly so
(07:04):
it doesn't fall through the eyes. This is struggling. Is
Max to remain lifeless? Max Follow? Any small motion is
an excerpt from his hychiatric session. I've been listening to
it looking for new clues. He's praying for someone to
see him out there, to see him before it gets dark,
(07:27):
and what if you want? Most of all, he wants father.
And now it's true. This actually happened to Max Follow
when he was a child. I know because he told
me one night as a guy on his own product.
This is a blueprint for madness. This is how monsters
(07:47):
gets made. My name is Jack Jack Lock. I'm not
a journalist, so the telling of this maybe a little
distract printed. I'm not a neuroscientist or a bioengineer. So
I almost was once and so I can offer some
perspective in that regard. So am I other than a
(08:12):
fee for an addict, A con manner, conspirator and I'm
nothing man and nobody that. Despite this, I'm asking you
to believe exactly what I'm going to tell you. You You
may know Max Fuller, but you probably have no idea
what kind of man he really is. But you need
to know. It is vitally important that you know that
(08:35):
the world knows who Max Fuller really is, and that
he may be responsible for the single greatest spike in
human evolution since the dawn of mankind. It hasn't happened
to emper. Oh, it's about to. You see. Max Fuller's
work is going to change the world, and we need
to stop him at all costs. All right, But I'm
(08:58):
getting ahead of myself, and I need to catch you
up because I don't have much time left, and several
people already did. We have some breaking news in southwest
Oakland right now a death investigation. A woman's body was
(09:19):
found this morning in an appearance suicide. Officers have non
confirmment as of yet to be a homicide. Orders were
trying to determine how this man fell some thirteen stories
to his death. As soon as we have more information,
will bring it to you. Some of them died of
apparent suicides or within three months of completing the first
clinical trial of Maths Fullest human enhancement products. Of course,
(09:42):
this is a connection the CORPS never made, or maybe
we're not allowed to. Coincidentally, around that time Max Fullest
startup Next Corps was ordered to temporarily suspend testing by
the Human Enhancement Administration for violating safety protocourse. It was
legally at least minor refraction disappointed that the A has
(10:04):
chosen to penalize Next Court, but in good faith, we
will openly welcome the investigation and will further continue to
comply with a d e A and f d A
guidelines as we developed our product pipeline. We welcome. The
product pipeline that Max Fuller is referring to is his
entire menu of mind apps, the sort of software platform
(10:26):
that feeds directly to the human brain, reprogramming our new
code and allowing us to author ourselves and enhance our
existence in ways that were previously unimaginable, creating what Max
Follo caused his human two point oh. But you know,
no one's ever thinking how the side effects not just
for the individual, what are the repercussions for civilization when
(10:48):
we give corporations direct access to our fucking brains. At
what point are we no longer just consumers? At what
point do we become their product? No one thing. Even
though they never stopped testing these mind apps, it's not
too late. It's not too late to stop when Max
Fellers started. But of course I need to get to
(11:10):
him first, and I'm almost off time. Jenny, Hello Jack,
let's go. Please buckle your seatbelt, brax foller. Everybody. Imagine
(11:58):
getting a third more out of life. More time. Our
greatest resource, greater than energy, food, air, anything, really is
simply time, time to do the things you really care about.
(12:19):
And I'm not talking about living longer now, I'm talking
about living better, fuller. Imagine a world that never sleeps.
Literally Thomas Edison did, and so did my father. And
we've been up to something very special at Next Corporate,
(12:42):
a secret project called shut Up Secret until now. It's
a safe application with one very simple benefit. You never
have to sleep again. M Max Fuller has been developing
(13:10):
these technologies for over a decade, and now it should
be pointed out that these sources of efforts have been
going on for the vast bulk of human history. Indigenous
cultures have been using plants to alter consciousness for centuries,
and humans have been drinking caffeine for as long as
we've been able to heat water. Now you jumped to
a few decades ago, the entire conscious world was living
(13:32):
on adorable wars steroids and modafinil, Noah tropics, and an
endless h a list of other barely legal designer drugs.
Then we advancements of Noah tropics, stacks and AI chip implants.
We were able to treat the orders better than ever
and boost our abilities in incredible ways. Cochleay implants drastically
(13:52):
improved our hearing Corny when plants that allowed us to
see in the dark. And then came the brain computer interface,
and then no technology gave us thought. With we started
to become cyborgs, a superhuman. We could think faster and
run farther than humans ever had. But none of the
(14:13):
drugs of the past compared to Max Fuller concuctions. And
by the time Max made that keynote speech, Next Corp
had already been courted by Adria as well as the
governments of China and India. Only at this point, none
of these clients, none of these investors, had any idea
how far along in the process. Next Corp was except
his own team and well met Fuller. You must be
(14:40):
Jack and it's Mr not doctor. My father was doctor four.
This is from the first time I met him. I
was interviewing for a position at his company, Next Corp.
And she's not one to ever be impressed. Oh good, Um,
I worked hard on it. Yes, so you're from London origin.
Only when did you make the jump over to the Bay.
(15:03):
We moved to Irvine first and my moments we've already
and then in a position opened up inside California and
a week later we were on a plane and that's
how the Jetty began. Master's in computational neuroscience from UCS
background in signal processing and fought where and you were
with Stabano crime yes three years which product lines where
(15:24):
you want? So for the first year I worked on
the new were still head tip. That was a big one, yea.
It was their best performing product. So I've ran and
I was on the research team for the Natilist X,
which that was crazy. But so I left before it
went to market. What made you leave? Honestly everything was
moving too slow. Well, yeah, that's that's the entire business.
(15:45):
Isn't it. You You have a thousand hoops to jump
through before you even moved to animal testing, and then
more before you even get to your first I don't
mean that. I mean I don't think anyone that was
working with was forward thinking. Now, I mean is what
about the bottom line? I mean, I get it they
have a mandated their shareholders to make money, but I
also believe corporations have a responsibility of their community. Go on, well,
(16:10):
look that they aren't really trying to help people. I mean,
they're not in the business of helping quadruplegics operate wheel
chairs with their brains. And then come on, see, that's
what my thesis was based on. I wrote this whole theory,
your thesis. I read it, so I know what you're
talking about. Yes, look elined about your resume, because I
(16:32):
didn't want you to be nervous. I mean you're qualified, sure,
but frankly I have interns here with more impressive resumes.
Oh so I wanted to hear you out. Can you
build on a little bit for me? Build one your thesis? Oh,
I'm yeah, absolutely sure. So that the first process and
(16:57):
shift away from CPUs was new networks, right, So and
even though the code and computers trying new ways to
mirror a human cognitive function, the goal never changed. See,
we still wanted to turn machines into humans instead of
having humans become more like machines. I'm gonna stop her.
I'm sorry, Jack, I'm not looking for a history lesson.
I'm looking for new ideas me too, and frankly, that's
(17:19):
why I want to work here with you, Mr Fuller,
and I do appreciate that, Jack, I really do thank you,
but unfortunately that's not enough. I like where your head
is at, thinking outside of the box. But from what
I can tell, you've been dragging this thesis around with
you for a few years now, and it might make
(17:40):
for an impressive conversation at a dinner party. But I
need people with new ideas, people motivated by something greater
than I'm sorry. It's shit. Hang on, I'm sorry, Mr Fuller.
I should have been up from the reason I want,
(18:03):
the reason I have to be here at next Corp.
It's my mother. She's dying and mind is going. They
can't figure out, and I don't. I didn't expect you
to be able to do anything, okay, but I thought
I'm so dumb. I I just thought that maybe maybe one.
(18:26):
I don't even know now. I don't know what I
was even looking for or why the hell you would
give half a ship. But you, sir, you are light
years ahead of others. Mr Fullana, and I do have ideas.
I do for days, and I am motivated. But I
understand your hesitation and thank you for your time, man,
and it means way and shut the door. This is
(18:48):
all bullshit. Of course, my mother is alive and well
and living in a three bedroom, sipilit and level ranch
in Arizona. I did feel guilty about using that I did,
but how the hell else do you get into a
place like this? The science behind what Max is doing
is so complex as to be mind bunding. My background
only took me so far. And like Max said, I
(19:09):
was qualified, but so what? And honestly, there was no
amount of preparation I could have done here. So I
did what I had to do. I took a different track.
I'm nothink if not resourceful. I did enough research to
assume Max had a softball of vulnerability. If you don't
know Max, you've probably at least heard of his father,
(19:29):
Dr Walter Fuller, His groundbreaking research into the link between
Alzheimer's disease and sleep deprivation earned him worldwide fame and
a Noble prize in medicine. A powerful man, big shoes
to fill within. Our plan is a step by step
process with which we hope to tackle the effects of
the disease and dramatically improve the quality of life of
(19:51):
its sufferers. And eventually, with Britain determination turned the tide
on this illness. And when the war against Alzheimer's and
for all, he wasn't blowing smoke. You may know the
names of some of the life saving treatments that resulted
from water Fullness research. Hell, you probably know one of
the five million people affected each year by the disease,
(20:12):
and he won the prize when he changed the delivery system.
Dr Walter Fuller is the recipient of this year's Nobel
Prize for Outstanding Discovery in the field of Life Sciences,
physiology and Medicine. The annual award was presented today to
Dr Fuller for uncovering the link between dementia and sleep
deprivation and the development of Thought Weare, which uses nanotechnology
(20:33):
to regulate hormone levels in the human brain. The nanites,
as we call them, act as a bridge between regions
of our brain and help regulates serotonin, melatonin, and dopamine levels.
So the technology really has implications for treating a variety
of diseases, including depression, Parkinson's dementia, Alzheimer's. What you may
(20:57):
not know about water is the tragedy can ironic attorney's
life talk and Welcome to World News Tonight. I'm Jane Coleman.
We begin tonight with devastating news from the medical community.
Neuroscientist and Nobel laureate Walter Fuller has passed away sadly
after a long battle with the very disease he worked
so hard to eradicate. The guy died of Alzheimer's. Walter
(21:20):
Fuller for all of his brilliance and determination for the
lives he saved with his innovations, Walter Fuller's personal life
was a disaster, a story of loss of lifelong despair,
of taking all of his pain and channeling me into
his research. He was survived by his only liven relative,
(21:41):
my son Max Fuller. Strong stuff here British Blood. I
captured this week's after getting my foot in the door
next Core I earned Max fullest trust, and I had
every office might Mom took me out to Arizona. That
was long go man in. At the time, I wasn't
(22:02):
sure what he confided in me, but I can see
now that he was desperate. He needed an that I
do you have any siblings and a friend? H Yeah,
it was a vulnerability. I was happy to exploit, just
the one. What did he do? He's dead? I'm sorry?
(22:26):
Did it mean to no? No, no, no, no, no no, no, no,
It's okay. It was a long time ago, a long
long time ago. Were you close? I mean identical twins?
So yeah, but it was complicated. It's always complicated, though.
What was he like? If that's not too forward, it's okay,
(22:50):
um m hmm. Benjamin he was. He was a kind
of bully. Ben detested fear. If you were afraid of something,
he'd get in your head, pick on you, work on
(23:11):
you until you gave in, especially when it came to
a game of chicken mhm. The day my brother died,
it was winter and it was way too late to
go out. Dad said no to walking out on the ice,
(23:32):
and Ben had to prove him wrong, definitely, and so
we went out three steps at a time he takes three,
I take three, just like that. At one point, another step,
(23:56):
I saw that we were too far from the shore,
or if we fell through, we wouldn't be able to
touch the bottom. And I remember looking at that shoreline
of snow melting on the bank, air freezing in my lungs,
(24:17):
and there was a sound, a small explosion. I thought
maybe a tree branch had cracked up, And that was
just my mind protecting me from what really happened. When
(24:41):
I turned back around, Ben was gone. One second, he's
on the ice, and then there's just a dark hole
and a crack running underneath my feet. Cheers. Anyway, I
really did assume Max, which is softening on me, laying
(25:02):
down his guard. But in retrospect I can't help but
one day, if he was tipping me off to something
bright and driven, strong willed and stubborn, but there was
still a quiet and timid boy inside. There was still
this broken kid who had survived the ice that day.
I mean, maybe in a way he was paying homage
to his brother drowned so long ago in the frigid
(25:25):
Midwestern lake. Or you know, maybe he was trying to
prove himself, proving his own significance. Yeah, First to his father,
who apparently never got over the loss and maybe blamed
his surviving song for what had happened out on the
first and late that day, and the second to himself.
(25:45):
Either ways, it drove Max to be the man he
is today, A fast talking genius, a visionary for sure.
Wait shut the door again. This is from my initial
Shoup inter view with Max right off that I lied
to him about my mother suffering from the same disease
that killed his father so he would hire me. Just
(26:08):
wait to say, how long? How long has she been sick?
How long is shiv la omph property she's been fogging
for a while? Who? Just so we're clear, you know,
(26:32):
I can't save her, right, I don't know. I mean
whatever she's sick with. If the doctors don't know, then
I don't know either. I'm not And I'm sorry about that.
I really am. Thank you. I know how it feels.
I know how it feels to see something that was
(26:54):
once so vital just drain away. When my father got sick,
it was like watching his entire essence just dissipate. Moman
is the same she used to have this laugh M
(27:15):
so funny. I kind of. You can't help her. That's
not why. I mean, why are you here? Because I
don't want this to happen to anyone else. Well, we
don't need another intern, but no, with your skill set,
(27:39):
there is a lot you can do. We've got a
massive meeting coming up for potential clients and investors, and
I'm going to be busy on the product, but I'm
also the face of this company. It's um it's it's
very hard being two people at once. So maybe you
can shadow me, be like my body man, help me
(28:00):
bridge the gaps between departments. Well, more like a like
a hawk. I'd say I need someone with a thirty
thousand foot view from all sides. I mean, you're a
structural man, good with systems. You can help with everything
from logistics and cost analysis to helping me with my
personal schedule. I can do that, and you're not above
(28:22):
making coffee. I make a very banging clothee. Okay, okay,
I'm I'm I'm taking a chance here. I know and
I understand that I won't for this up. I swear
this means a lot. Mr Fuller, you can call me Max. Yeah,
maxed in. Well, I guess we'd better send you back
(28:45):
down if helts and paved work. Huh, okay, sounds great.
Oh and hey Jack, Yeah, we're dealing with some sensitive
ship here, and I have to be able to trust
the people around me. The truth is that I'm gonna
need another set of eyes around here. Sometimes I'm so
blinded by the work I get a little lost. I
(29:06):
could really use a designated driver, so to speak. So
we need to trust each other with the truth, even
if it's a little uncomfortable. Agreed, Agreed. Max has a
(29:33):
aside to him, a certain softness to him, a kindness.
When I brought up my mother's illness, his eyes would
he took it so hard even I almost believed my story.
But again, my mother is alive and healthy. And whereas
the reason I gave for pursuing this job went technically
on the level, there was a touch of truth. Now.
(29:54):
Max is reckless during human trials under his watchful Why
has something happened? His subjects walked away, changed damaged. Three
of his subjects committed suicide, at least that was the
official cause of death. One of them, one of them
(30:15):
was my brother Michael. I saw him heading to find
Max journa. Tell me the last male marker we passed
Mile Marker Speed up. Please. Max Fuller created a series
(30:36):
of miracles in these labs. But these mind apps come
with a steep price, and from what I've seen, that
steep price wouldn't want to be paid again and again
with anyone who uses them. Max Fuller must be stopped,
and I'm the man who stopped him. Tomorrow's Monsters starring
(31:06):
John Boyega as Jack Locke, Darren Chris as Max Fuller,
Marley Shelton as Cass Berkeley, Clark Gregg as Walter Fuller,
saw and Guja as David Truesdale, Nicholas Takowski as Finn Connolly,
Claire Bronson as dr Abbie Reynolds, David Chen as Michael Corbin, zu,
Hila Elettar as Jenna, Victor Rivera as Eddie Binder, Robert
(31:30):
Praalgo as Agent Batty, Steve Coulter as Senator Berkeley, wrote A.
Griffiths as Rainy Webb, with additional performances by Helen Abel,
Jason Williams, Michael Anthony, Robin Bloodworth, and Teresa Davis. Our
first assistant director is Michael Monty. Our second assistant director
is Sarah Klein, sound and music by Ben Lovett. Additional
(31:53):
sound design and editing by Benjamin Belcolm, Justin Robowski and
Mike Reagan. Casting Jessica Fox thig pen Our. Executive producers
are Scott Sheldon, Shelby Thomas, Alexander Williams, and Matthew Frederick.
Written by Dan Bush and Nicholas Takowski, Created by Dan
Bush and Conald Byrne. Directed by Dan Bush, Produced by
(32:17):
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to subject oh three b tomorrow. Jessup. We are currently
at hours without sleep. Patient reporting agitation and lack of focus,
(00:25):
several hours sooner than the last dose. Are you feeling
a tired coming down? I think any side effects since
last night? Um? A little ringing in my ear? Which
one so the left ear? Anything else? Mood swings? Are
(00:54):
you upset? No? But you are cry Why are you
just emotional? The voices too? Voices? Yeah? Have you talked
(01:15):
to Dr Berkeley about that? I'm not gonna tell you that.
Excuse me? No, um no, no, no not let me
call Dr Berkeley. Don't. I don't need your shrink. Sorry,
I'm fine, really, I'm fine, okay, And you haven't been
(01:38):
feeling ill physically ill. Look, can we get on with
it and dose me already? We can do the Dog
and Pony show some other time. Yeah, it's important to
collect these data points before. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I
just need the fog to go away, all right? All right.
(02:02):
For the record, this is round thirteen with dosage of
two full exposures five PRF five seconds each, eyes forward, deep,
breath ready, Yes, here's exposure one. Keep breathing tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. Okay,
(02:37):
that was exposure one. Patient is responsive. Heart rate spike
to two, but seems to be stabilizing. Okay, let's go
through the questions. What was your first thought? M Red balloons?
What did you smell? Cut grass? Any tinkling feeters? Sleep
(02:57):
in phase two? Breathe deep, let the blood get back
to your head. I don't remember starting that one. I
went deep that time, ready for exposure to yes, okay,
and three two and it was number thirteen. Administered tomorrow
(03:31):
ship goodmorrow, h m hm M Christ. Where am I?
(04:15):
Would you like me to go online to determine location? No,
stay offline. Just tell me the last man mark? Can
we passed twenty eight miles west of Urica, Nevada? Anything
else I can help with? Pull over? Okay? Pulling over
for safety. Please keep your seat belt on until I
(04:36):
come to a complete stop. It's January, January seven am.
Everywhere I look, I see monsters and ghosts, headlights in
the rear view. It feels like everyone is out to
(04:57):
get me. M's in any runs in the world. At
least there's there one of the benefits of taking backwards
less chances for me to get tagged by facial recognition
or motion idea. I'm using old unalog paper maps. My
father taught me to use them instead of virtual maps
when you need to stay off the radar, which is
(05:19):
exactly why I have to do. I'm also avoiding all
major interstates and stities, which makes me harder to track,
but it will take longer. It's the best chance I
have to make it across country to Arlington, Virginia without
getting calls. At least the scenic son is coming up
now and sage brush for days this drive. You know,
(05:46):
it's the first chance I've had to think to put
all the pieces together in my head. I wasn't sure
where to begin, but now I know. Let me play
you something. This is Dr Cassandra Berkeley. It's Sunday, June six,
Session three, subject Max Fuller. Okay, let's revisit the lake,
(06:13):
the frozen lake. I don't see why we need to
throw on that. Let's close your eyes. Okay, good, a
deep breath. Good, Now you are there. Tell me what
you see, not what you remember, but what you see
(06:41):
a boy. Where is the boy? He's lying flat on
a finch she device cracking beneath him, spreading his arms
and legs out as wide as possible. He's taking slow,
shallow breath. He's trying to distribute the weight evenly so
(07:04):
it doesn't fall through the eyes. This is struggling. Is
Max to remain lifeless? Max Follow? Any small motion is
an excerpt from his hychiatric session. I've been listening to
it looking for new clues. He's praying for someone to
see him out there, to see him before it gets dark,
(07:27):
and what if you want? Most of all, he wants father.
And now it's true. This actually happened to Max Follow
when he was a child. I know because he told
me one night as a guy on his own product.
This is a blueprint for madness. This is how monsters
(07:47):
gets made. My name is Jack Jack Lock. I'm not
a journalist, so the telling of this maybe a little
distract printed. I'm not a neuroscientist or a bioengineer. So
I almost was once and so I can offer some
perspective in that regard. So am I other than a
(08:12):
fee for an addict, A con manner, conspirator and I'm
nothing man and nobody that. Despite this, I'm asking you
to believe exactly what I'm going to tell you. You You
may know Max Fuller, but you probably have no idea
what kind of man he really is. But you need
to know. It is vitally important that you know that
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the world knows who Max Fuller really is, and that
he may be responsible for the single greatest spike in
human evolution since the dawn of mankind. It hasn't happened
to emper. Oh, it's about to. You see. Max Fuller's
work is going to change the world, and we need
to stop him at all costs. All right, But I'm
(08:58):
getting ahead of myself, and I need to catch you
up because I don't have much time left, and several
people already did. We have some breaking news in southwest
Oakland right now a death investigation. A woman's body was
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found this morning in an appearance suicide. Officers have non
confirmment as of yet to be a homicide. Orders were
trying to determine how this man fell some thirteen stories
to his death. As soon as we have more information,
will bring it to you. Some of them died of
apparent suicides or within three months of completing the first
clinical trial of Maths Fullest human enhancement products. Of course,
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this is a connection the CORPS never made, or maybe
we're not allowed to. Coincidentally, around that time Max Fullest
startup Next Corps was ordered to temporarily suspend testing by
the Human Enhancement Administration for violating safety protocourse. It was
legally at least minor refraction disappointed that the A has
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chosen to penalize Next Court, but in good faith, we
will openly welcome the investigation and will further continue to
comply with a d e A and f d A
guidelines as we developed our product pipeline. We welcome. The
product pipeline that Max Fuller is referring to is his
entire menu of mind apps, the sort of software platform
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that feeds directly to the human brain, reprogramming our new
code and allowing us to author ourselves and enhance our
existence in ways that were previously unimaginable, creating what Max
Follo caused his human two point oh. But you know,
no one's ever thinking how the side effects not just
for the individual, what are the repercussions for civilization when
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we give corporations direct access to our fucking brains. At
what point are we no longer just consumers? At what
point do we become their product? No one thing. Even
though they never stopped testing these mind apps, it's not
too late. It's not too late to stop when Max
Fellers started. But of course I need to get to
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him first, and I'm almost off time. Jenny, Hello Jack,
let's go. Please buckle your seatbelt, brax foller. Everybody. Imagine
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getting a third more out of life. More time. Our
greatest resource, greater than energy, food, air, anything, really is
simply time, time to do the things you really care about.
(12:19):
And I'm not talking about living longer now, I'm talking
about living better, fuller. Imagine a world that never sleeps.
Literally Thomas Edison did, and so did my father. And
we've been up to something very special at Next Corporate,
(12:42):
a secret project called shut Up Secret until now. It's
a safe application with one very simple benefit. You never
have to sleep again. M Max Fuller has been developing
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these technologies for over a decade, and now it should
be pointed out that these sources of efforts have been
going on for the vast bulk of human history. Indigenous
cultures have been using plants to alter consciousness for centuries,
and humans have been drinking caffeine for as long as
we've been able to heat water. Now you jumped to
a few decades ago, the entire conscious world was living
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on adorable wars steroids and modafinil, Noah tropics, and an
endless h a list of other barely legal designer drugs.
Then we advancements of Noah tropics, stacks and AI chip implants.
We were able to treat the orders better than ever
and boost our abilities in incredible ways. Cochleay implants drastically
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improved our hearing Corny when plants that allowed us to
see in the dark. And then came the brain computer interface,
and then no technology gave us thought. With we started
to become cyborgs, a superhuman. We could think faster and
run farther than humans ever had. But none of the
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drugs of the past compared to Max Fuller concuctions. And
by the time Max made that keynote speech, Next Corp
had already been courted by Adria as well as the
governments of China and India. Only at this point, none
of these clients, none of these investors, had any idea
how far along in the process. Next Corp was except
his own team and well met Fuller. You must be
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Jack and it's Mr not doctor. My father was doctor four.
This is from the first time I met him. I
was interviewing for a position at his company, Next Corp.
And she's not one to ever be impressed. Oh good, Um,
I worked hard on it. Yes, so you're from London origin.
Only when did you make the jump over to the Bay.
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We moved to Irvine first and my moments we've already
and then in a position opened up inside California and
a week later we were on a plane and that's
how the Jetty began. Master's in computational neuroscience from UCS
background in signal processing and fought where and you were
with Stabano crime yes three years which product lines where
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you want? So for the first year I worked on
the new were still head tip. That was a big one, yea.
It was their best performing product. So I've ran and
I was on the research team for the Natilist X,
which that was crazy. But so I left before it
went to market. What made you leave? Honestly everything was
moving too slow. Well, yeah, that's that's the entire business.
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Isn't it. You You have a thousand hoops to jump
through before you even moved to animal testing, and then
more before you even get to your first I don't
mean that. I mean I don't think anyone that was
working with was forward thinking. Now, I mean is what
about the bottom line? I mean, I get it they
have a mandated their shareholders to make money, but I
also believe corporations have a responsibility of their community. Go on, well,
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look that they aren't really trying to help people. I mean,
they're not in the business of helping quadruplegics operate wheel
chairs with their brains. And then come on, see, that's
what my thesis was based on. I wrote this whole theory,
your thesis. I read it, so I know what you're
talking about. Yes, look elined about your resume, because I
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didn't want you to be nervous. I mean you're qualified, sure,
but frankly I have interns here with more impressive resumes.
Oh so I wanted to hear you out. Can you
build on a little bit for me? Build one your thesis? Oh,
I'm yeah, absolutely sure. So that the first process and
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shift away from CPUs was new networks, right, So and
even though the code and computers trying new ways to
mirror a human cognitive function, the goal never changed. See,
we still wanted to turn machines into humans instead of
having humans become more like machines. I'm gonna stop her.
I'm sorry, Jack, I'm not looking for a history lesson.
I'm looking for new ideas me too, and frankly, that's
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why I want to work here with you, Mr Fuller,
and I do appreciate that, Jack, I really do thank you,
but unfortunately that's not enough. I like where your head
is at, thinking outside of the box. But from what
I can tell, you've been dragging this thesis around with
you for a few years now, and it might make
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for an impressive conversation at a dinner party. But I
need people with new ideas, people motivated by something greater
than I'm sorry. It's shit. Hang on, I'm sorry, Mr Fuller.
I should have been up from the reason I want,
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the reason I have to be here at next Corp.
It's my mother. She's dying and mind is going. They
can't figure out, and I don't. I didn't expect you
to be able to do anything, okay, but I thought
I'm so dumb. I I just thought that maybe maybe one.
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I don't even know now. I don't know what I
was even looking for or why the hell you would
give half a ship. But you, sir, you are light
years ahead of others. Mr Fullana, and I do have ideas.
I do for days, and I am motivated. But I
understand your hesitation and thank you for your time, man,
and it means way and shut the door. This is
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all bullshit. Of course, my mother is alive and well
and living in a three bedroom, sipilit and level ranch
in Arizona. I did feel guilty about using that I did,
but how the hell else do you get into a
place like this? The science behind what Max is doing
is so complex as to be mind bunding. My background
only took me so far. And like Max said, I
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was qualified, but so what? And honestly, there was no
amount of preparation I could have done here. So I
did what I had to do. I took a different track.
I'm nothink if not resourceful. I did enough research to
assume Max had a softball of vulnerability. If you don't
know Max, you've probably at least heard of his father,
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Dr Walter Fuller, His groundbreaking research into the link between
Alzheimer's disease and sleep deprivation earned him worldwide fame and
a Noble prize in medicine. A powerful man, big shoes
to fill within. Our plan is a step by step
process with which we hope to tackle the effects of
the disease and dramatically improve the quality of life of
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its sufferers. And eventually, with Britain determination turned the tide
on this illness. And when the war against Alzheimer's and
for all, he wasn't blowing smoke. You may know the
names of some of the life saving treatments that resulted
from water Fullness research. Hell, you probably know one of
the five million people affected each year by the disease,
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and he won the prize when he changed the delivery system.
Dr Walter Fuller is the recipient of this year's Nobel
Prize for Outstanding Discovery in the field of Life Sciences,
physiology and Medicine. The annual award was presented today to
Dr Fuller for uncovering the link between dementia and sleep
deprivation and the development of Thought Weare, which uses nanotechnology
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to regulate hormone levels in the human brain. The nanites,
as we call them, act as a bridge between regions
of our brain and help regulates serotonin, melatonin, and dopamine levels.
So the technology really has implications for treating a variety
of diseases, including depression, Parkinson's dementia, Alzheimer's. What you may
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not know about water is the tragedy can ironic attorney's
life talk and Welcome to World News Tonight. I'm Jane Coleman.
We begin tonight with devastating news from the medical community.
Neuroscientist and Nobel laureate Walter Fuller has passed away sadly
after a long battle with the very disease he worked
so hard to eradicate. The guy died of Alzheimer's. Walter
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Fuller for all of his brilliance and determination for the
lives he saved with his innovations, Walter Fuller's personal life
was a disaster, a story of loss of lifelong despair,
of taking all of his pain and channeling me into
his research. He was survived by his only liven relative,
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my son Max Fuller. Strong stuff here British Blood. I
captured this week's after getting my foot in the door
next Core I earned Max fullest trust, and I had
every office might Mom took me out to Arizona. That
was long go man in. At the time, I wasn't
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sure what he confided in me, but I can see
now that he was desperate. He needed an that I
do you have any siblings and a friend? H Yeah,
it was a vulnerability. I was happy to exploit, just
the one. What did he do? He's dead? I'm sorry?
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Did it mean to no? No, no, no, no, no no, no, no,
It's okay. It was a long time ago, a long
long time ago. Were you close? I mean identical twins?
So yeah, but it was complicated. It's always complicated, though.
What was he like? If that's not too forward, it's okay,
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um m hmm. Benjamin he was. He was a kind
of bully. Ben detested fear. If you were afraid of something,
he'd get in your head, pick on you, work on
(23:11):
you until you gave in, especially when it came to
a game of chicken mhm. The day my brother died,
it was winter and it was way too late to
go out. Dad said no to walking out on the ice,
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and Ben had to prove him wrong, definitely, and so
we went out three steps at a time he takes three,
I take three, just like that. At one point, another step,
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I saw that we were too far from the shore,
or if we fell through, we wouldn't be able to
touch the bottom. And I remember looking at that shoreline
of snow melting on the bank, air freezing in my lungs,
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and there was a sound, a small explosion. I thought
maybe a tree branch had cracked up, And that was
just my mind protecting me from what really happened. When
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I turned back around, Ben was gone. One second, he's
on the ice, and then there's just a dark hole
and a crack running underneath my feet. Cheers. Anyway, I
really did assume Max, which is softening on me, laying
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down his guard. But in retrospect I can't help but
one day, if he was tipping me off to something
bright and driven, strong willed and stubborn, but there was
still a quiet and timid boy inside. There was still
this broken kid who had survived the ice that day.
I mean, maybe in a way he was paying homage
to his brother drowned so long ago in the frigid
(25:25):
Midwestern lake. Or you know, maybe he was trying to
prove himself, proving his own significance. Yeah, First to his father,
who apparently never got over the loss and maybe blamed
his surviving song for what had happened out on the
first and late that day, and the second to himself.
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Either ways, it drove Max to be the man he
is today, A fast talking genius, a visionary for sure.
Wait shut the door again. This is from my initial
Shoup inter view with Max right off that I lied
to him about my mother suffering from the same disease
that killed his father so he would hire me. Just
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wait to say, how long? How long has she been sick?
How long is shiv la omph property she's been fogging
for a while? Who? Just so we're clear, you know,
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I can't save her, right, I don't know. I mean
whatever she's sick with. If the doctors don't know, then
I don't know either. I'm not And I'm sorry about that.
I really am. Thank you. I know how it feels.
I know how it feels to see something that was
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once so vital just drain away. When my father got sick,
it was like watching his entire essence just dissipate. Moman
is the same she used to have this laugh M
(27:15):
so funny. I kind of. You can't help her. That's
not why. I mean, why are you here? Because I
don't want this to happen to anyone else. Well, we
don't need another intern, but no, with your skill set,
(27:39):
there is a lot you can do. We've got a
massive meeting coming up for potential clients and investors, and
I'm going to be busy on the product, but I'm
also the face of this company. It's um it's it's
very hard being two people at once. So maybe you
can shadow me, be like my body man, help me
(28:00):
bridge the gaps between departments. Well, more like a like
a hawk. I'd say I need someone with a thirty
thousand foot view from all sides. I mean, you're a
structural man, good with systems. You can help with everything
from logistics and cost analysis to helping me with my
personal schedule. I can do that, and you're not above
(28:22):
making coffee. I make a very banging clothee. Okay, okay,
I'm I'm I'm taking a chance here. I know and
I understand that I won't for this up. I swear
this means a lot. Mr Fuller, you can call me Max. Yeah,
maxed in. Well, I guess we'd better send you back
(28:45):
down if helts and paved work. Huh, okay, sounds great.
Oh and hey Jack, Yeah, we're dealing with some sensitive
ship here, and I have to be able to trust
the people around me. The truth is that I'm gonna
need another set of eyes around here. Sometimes I'm so
blinded by the work I get a little lost. I
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could really use a designated driver, so to speak. So
we need to trust each other with the truth, even
if it's a little uncomfortable. Agreed, Agreed. Max has a
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aside to him, a certain softness to him, a kindness.
When I brought up my mother's illness, his eyes would
he took it so hard even I almost believed my story.
But again, my mother is alive and healthy. And whereas
the reason I gave for pursuing this job went technically
on the level, there was a touch of truth. Now.
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Max is reckless during human trials under his watchful Why
has something happened? His subjects walked away, changed damaged. Three
of his subjects committed suicide, at least that was the
official cause of death. One of them, one of them
(30:15):
was my brother Michael. I saw him heading to find
Max journa. Tell me the last male marker we passed
Mile Marker Speed up. Please. Max Fuller created a series
(30:36):
of miracles in these labs. But these mind apps come
with a steep price, and from what I've seen, that
steep price wouldn't want to be paid again and again
with anyone who uses them. Max Fuller must be stopped,
and I'm the man who stopped him. Tomorrow's Monsters starring
(31:06):
John Boyega as Jack Locke, Darren Chris as Max Fuller,
Marley Shelton as Cass Berkeley, Clark Gregg as Walter Fuller,
saw and Guja as David Truesdale, Nicholas Takowski as Finn Connolly,
Claire Bronson as dr Abbie Reynolds, David Chen as Michael Corbin, zu,
Hila Elettar as Jenna, Victor Rivera as Eddie Binder, Robert
(31:30):
Praalgo as Agent Batty, Steve Coulter as Senator Berkeley, wrote A.
Griffiths as Rainy Webb, with additional performances by Helen Abel,
Jason Williams, Michael Anthony, Robin Bloodworth, and Teresa Davis. Our
first assistant director is Michael Monty. Our second assistant director
is Sarah Klein, sound and music by Ben Lovett. Additional
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sound design and editing by Benjamin Belcolm, Justin Robowski and
Mike Reagan. Casting Jessica Fox thig pen Our. Executive producers
are Scott Sheldon, Shelby Thomas, Alexander Williams, and Matthew Frederick.
Written by Dan Bush and Nicholas Takowski, Created by Dan
Bush and Conald Byrne. Directed by Dan Bush, Produced by
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both Flynt, dan Bush and John Boyega. Tomorrow's Monsters is
a production of Igheart Radio, Flynn Picture Company, Psycopia Pictures,
and Upper Room Productions. For more podcasts from my Heart Radio,
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