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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. This weekend's
expected temperatures are prominent from New York to Chicago. The
winter storm is expected to bring extreme winds and heavy snow,
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winter storm warnings and advisories. And I'm in West Virginia
now heading straight into a blizzard starts snow in a
few minutes ago, Jenner, what time is it, January eight?
You've been on the road for two days, fourteen hours
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and thirty two minutes. I'm close to the Indiana pas
Morning Commune, which means the road is going to be
buzzing with true patrols. I have to be so careful now.
Max had been missing without a trace for three days,
and he chose this moment to reappear dangerous. But this,
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this is human kind's next frontier. He stepped out onto
the stage and stole the spot night bathroom fit. I'll
be damned back Fuller, m h what he said. It's true.
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You know this is human kind's next frontier. And my father,
the late Dr Walter Fuller, he was its bravest pioneer.
Imagine getting a third more out of life. More time
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our greatest resource, great of an energy, food, air, anything,
really is simply time time to do the things you
really care about. And I'm not talking about living longer now,
I'm talking about living better, fuller. Imagine a world that
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never sleeps. Literally, Thomas Edison did, and so did my father,
And we've been up to something very special at Next Corpse,
a secret project called shut Eye. Secret until now. It's
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a safe application with one very simple benefit. You never
have to sleep again. You see. The plan is not
just to launch a new product, but to launch a
whole new era, a series of applications that will change
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the very definition of human being and being human. First
a human without sleep, then a human without fear, then
a human with perfect memory, all within reach and all
coming soon. Now. Shut I is just the beginning, the
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beginning of our future selves, humankind. To point oh and
I would know. And then Max took off the shy
device prototype held out to ease eye fight. I am
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the first user. I am the torch bearer that will
carry my father's legacy into a new dawn of human enhancement.
And I'm here today to tell you that you can
pre order starting now, I made my way backstage through
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the chaos and the chair and crowd. The shy was
were enough and the fog was sad in I'm behind
the cut and a spot fit and Max in the shadow.
Food was Piste ship at the Max pre order Relax.
We had to offer something viable to the world. We
had to create buzz our valuation. Just Skye are nowhere
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near ready for this. You need to trust me, trust you.
You just appeared again. Max. I had to secure a
new partnership. So you've been getting jacked on my untested
beta product and now you're off there in the shadows,
making utilateral decisions about partnerships, making deals about the future
of our company. Our company, Max, but not even checking
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to sit down before you fall down. Fan, You're gonna
bust an artery. Jesus Christ, Max, Hey Jack, Max, You
all right? Jack. It looks like you got a nasty
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little thing on your forehead. It was an accident, trip him. Well,
I didn't mean to scare you. Uh well, I didn't
mean to leave you boys in alerch Thanks for working
with Finn in my absence. You were put to the
test there. Oh thanks, Really, it's not a think shut.
We were worried, but we're just glad to have you back. Max. Well,
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apparently not everyone is. Look, I should really get back
out there. Look, you've felt a long few days, buddy,
probably haven't been sleeping. You need to stay sharp now,
Jack vigilant. We need to watch each other's backs. So
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you should go get some Should I call me when
you're feeling better? So we knew. He knew I was
on shy, and he probably knew that was soon to
be dependent on it, and therefore depending on him. It
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was a calculated risk that I would soon regreet. I
rushed out of the arena. I was sick to my stomach.
I made my long, winding way back through the convention
floor as quickly as I could, through the endless, tireless
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vegas mace towards my hotel room. I could feel the
full magraine coming in. Now. Lights were certainly too bright.
No noise is truly out called my reflection in the
tinted glass walls. As I staggered, I barely recognized myself.
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I couldn't shake the feeling that was being entailed Again.
When I look back over my shoulder, saw nothing but
a sea of beaming faces. Everyone I passed seemed like
a prettier and now I was moving in slow motion
about the rest of the world seemed to spin faster
and faster in a blur. I barely made it back
to my room. I crawled to the bathroom and dragged
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my house to the shower. The ice cold water was
like shocked theory p For a moment, I was able
to regain my focus. I kept replaying Abbey reynolds face
right before she finished, only hours after Max's own disappearance.
And this was a woman who held the key to
this company's downfall, and she disappeared moments before its greatest triumph. Man,
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this wasn't a coincidence. And what do you know? Right
then my fine lay up text message from Dr Abbey
reymod I said. Text message from Dr Abbey Reynolds read
a message meet me at northwest corner of hotel in
Alleyway in fifteen minutes. I grabbed my phone. I could
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barely hold on. Ah. I don't believe in fame or luck,
or magic or divine providence or even accidents. The universe
has his rules, cause and effect, a chain of events.
A I believe that my migraine was a coincidence or
was it a coincidence that I supported the small gift
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wrapped package sitting by the sink. The nausea was surging
back as I reached for him. The car just read
good work, CAUs I ripped the plackete open. It was
a shy applicator. First, I tried to drop it in
the shower, but my fingers wouldn't let it go. My
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body was working independently of me, like I was a puppet.
I turned it over in my hand and I raised
it to my eye and I took my second bush. Shine. Yeah,
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a sudden flood of dopamine to my brain. The euphoria
was instant. Oh shit, my brain's reward system launched. The
world seemed to sparkle and shine. They smells like Christmas.
My face tingled, called my second dose. The sickness evaporated,
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and I was hyper Alla Jenna reply to Abbie Reynolds,
how would you like me to reply? Tell herround on
my way. I got to the ly early, but as
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I turned into it, I realized that was being followed again.
My tail was about block behind me. It's long, our
shadows stretching towards me. I sliped into the alley behind
the dump stuff and Weird. I know you're back here.
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We've been keeping an eye on you, but we're not
the only one. You're in danger. We're not trying to
hurt you. We're trying to help you. Will you please
step out here. We need to fill you in. It's
hard to explain what happened next, Mr Lot, is that
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you Another figure appeared in the alleyway and strolled casually
up to my tail and attacked him st It happened fast.
It was dark, but I can see the reflection of
blood and faces. The man really had no chance against
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the attacks. People really slammed this man's head down over
and over again. The end of the attacker stood facing
away from me into the dark. He began nearly wiping
his hands with his handkerchief, before adjusting his cufflings and
popping his bloody knuckles. Then he left, strolled away just
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as casually as he had come. Weird for a moment
before creeping out checking on the man who had been
following me. He was now unconscious and blood everywhere. Yes,
corner on one and then it took me a moment
to find where the sound was coming from. I picked
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up and my blood ran cold. Only knew it was
Abby Reynold's phone because of the picture on the home screen,
Abby holding a white rat m h and then an
incoming message mm hmmm. Pictures pictures of me, Pictures that
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had just been taken in that very moment, standing over
the pleading man, a federal agent barely cling into life.
I've been set up. I didn't stick around to find
out what happened next. I called for help and took
off as soon as the paramedics arrived. Excuse me out
the way, out of the way, right, yeah, Max, Max
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is a man. Hey, I had to I had to run.
I had to just get back for some personal stuff.
Just just call me, man, Yeah. Yeah. By the time
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I arrived back in San Francisco, I was speaking to
Crush again. The signs of a shot I Withdrew were
now familiar. I was bleary eyed and already feeling the
ages of the migraine. I almost wasn't prepared for the
voice more that I got when I turned my phone
back on missed call from Agent Batty. This is Agent
Batty h A, and you should call me immediately upon
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getting this message. It's regarding one of my guys and
c yes, one of our agents. I want to know
why he's in the ice U with a crush skull
into broken arms shortly after making contact with you. Shit, Jackie,
better have something real fucking good. And then I saw
it again, the gray van speeding in the opposite direction.
It almost fucking hiten. I spun around to what you
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careened down the block behind us, and then it happened again.
What the same gray van zoomed passed. It was a replay,
and then I was crushing it the universe glitchen. I
was so distracted I almost didn't even register what was next.
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The real kicker, What the hell? Ye? Oh my god,
all right, oh my god, sir, you can't go in there.
That's my building. But that's my apartment, that's my home. Well,
lucky for you, you're not in it right now. The
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official story was an electrical fire. I think at this
point we can all agree that this is not what happened.
January six, three pm. My apartment is gone. It is gone.
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I'm standing here and h m hm, hey, hey there's
an old hands on deck meeting. In twenty minutes, jack Wait,
you're you're back, Yeah, yeah, I took a chet. Where
the hell are you? You're back in town, right, yeah?
I just say all right, yeah, yeah, mom away, Hey Jenna, Yes, Jack,
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cool a car? What destination? Next Corporate? Your car to
next corp will arrive in two minutes. The building was
humming when I walked in. Hey Jack, how you doing?
Hey Jack? Hey? Amen? Ma's really nothing about the park
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can yep? Great work, Jack? Thank you? Hey Jack? Hey?
Big week? Yeah yeah, big week. Me. Well, here's the
conquering hero back from the wars. Hey Eddie, how was it? Ah?
It was something that you look like you went pretty hard,
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really leaning into the Vegas thing. Huh yeah, Well, pound
some coffee. My man Max has called us all into
the bullpen. He just got in big announcement. Looks like
ship's moving, man, Now see you in there. I wasn't
in the head space for the sort of energy excued
him from the building that afternoon. Three solid days awake
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and last time I slept was because I've been choked out,
and since I woke up face down on the floor
of my apartment, I'd taken two doses of shy, traveled
over two thousand kilometers across Death Valley, and back, was
framed for the assault of a federal agent and fled
the scene of the crime early to find my apartment
engulfed in flames. When I arrived home, I was a wreck.
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I could feel myself getting sick. It was more, I
could feel the migraine coming back like it never left.
Probably should look checked in at the clinic. But let's
be honest, I needed guessing. I needed another heel shy,
so I went to next coop. I wish, okay, okay,
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thank you everybody, thank you. I guess you were all
following the events and see, yes, you probably heard a
lot of rumors as well then that we had some
interest in our projects from investors, both public and private.
We're not going to discuss that today, and we have
decided a different direction to move in. As of this afternoon,
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I will be meeting with each department head individually to
discuss the termination of our workforce. Max, what the hell
are you doing? We'll meet separately, Finn, Just give me
a second, Jesus Christ. Max, we do thank you for
your service thus far, and we'll be offering the individuals
let go generous severance packages based on length of service
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and pay grade. What are you doing. Your department heads
will have further information for you as the week continues.
Thank you fin cast Jack for me, Thank you all?
Did you Finn? I have no idea, Jack. I just
got in here a minute ago. I felt like the
whole world was coming apart. It seems total chaos. Just then,
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a disgruntled employee stepped up to Max, your department heads
will have more information. Not good enough, step away, don't
get off, and punched him, and then Max retaliated, black
fac what are you doing? You won't wait until you
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hear from your department heads, She says, Christ Max Eddie,
would you take care of this man? What the hell
are you? Cash fan? Jack? Now? Please? Through the thick
haze of my headache, through the grind of the shot,
I crash, I couldn't help, but cloak maxis change stupid
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As he retaliated that line in speed with which he
put down his attack on the animal grunt. As his
fists met the man's jewel. It was fast and brutal,
and most of them. The way he adjusted his coughlings
immediately often the attack. I've seen it in the anyway
the night before Jesus Christ, Max, what the hell are
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you doing. You can't just fire three quarters of our
people without so much as an explanation. I need you
to calm down. Calm down, Max, Calm down. These people
have been with us for years. Max. Are you carry jash? Jack?
I'm talking to you. What's wrong with you? I need
to Jack, I'm having no been You're having trouble talking.
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It's probably a crash. What have you been giving him?
Shut up? Look? That is grossly irresponsible. Was at this plane? Jack? Oh?
Who that I passed doubt? Tomorrow's Monsters, starring John Boyega
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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 Abbe Reynolds, David Chen as Michael Corbyn,
su Hila Eltar as Jenna, Victor Rivera as Eddie Bender,
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Robert 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.
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Additional sound design and editing by Benjamin Belcolm, Justin Robowski
and Mike Reagan. Casting by 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,
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