The tape opens with a heated accusation of lying, quickly derailed into a plan for a New Month’s Resolution: stop working out and start smoking (though the order is negotiable). A discussion of pizza geometry (round box, square pie, triangle slice) swerves into the concept of “topic drift,” which apparently includes drifting cars in Tokyo via mysterious wind power.
Attention shifts to Stephen “Marbles” — a Bootstuck local with mismatched legs and shoes that somehow even out. His nickname sparks a brief shouting match of “Marbles!” before a strange “ding, ding, ding” interrupts. The host rushes outside, tangled in an extra-long phone cord, only to be hit in the eye with an orange while it’s snowing heavily.
This prompts the revelation of 16 feet of snow (measured as 768 buckets), with Caleb on “bucket duty” and a warning against alternative uses for the bucket. Barry, a newcomer “from somewhere else” (population: sign, flag, post, and a soon-to-arrive office), is expected to help dig out tomorrow — assuming the uphill, no-tire traffic doesn’t stop him.
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Episode Transcript
Well, now you're just lying to me.
Well, no, you got the warning.
You heard it, so now it'shappening.
Speaker 02 (00:10):
You're going to give somebody up for chocolate?
Say it again.
Speaker 00 (00:15):
Usually at the beginning of the month, people
change their habits.
They do something different.
They start working out or theystop eating a certain kind of
food.
Something like that.
Speaker 02 (00:23):
Why?
Have you chosen one?
Speaker 00 (00:25):
I've decided that I will...
Speaker 02 (00:27):
Stop working out and start smoking.
You can do two, right?
Speaker 00 (00:30):
Sure, but I think I might flip those around.
Speaker 02 (00:34):
Flip them around like a square triangle.
Pizza, that's crazy.
Imagine you mentioned somethingthat I didn't know about.
I know all about the round box,the square pie, and the
triangle pizza.
I'm all familiar with it.
You don't give that up.
It's just somebody else'sbusiness.
Speaker 00 (00:52):
So have you ever heard of topic drift?
Speaker 02 (00:54):
Yep.
There's all sorts of differentdrifting.
Sometimes outside, even kind ofa bit of a drifter.
If you go to Tokyo, you candrift a car, apparently.
Imagine that kind of wind todrift a car.
That's a lot.
Speaker 00 (01:09):
We had discussed some of the other people living
there, and you had mentioned...
It's hot in
Speaker 02 (01:14):
here.
We're going to either turn downthe heat, grab that...
Dave, grab the log and throw itout the window.
It's too hot in here.
Turn it down.
Sorry.
What's that?
Speaker 00 (01:27):
Well, it was Dave that I was talking to, and he
had mentioned some of the othernames of people living there in
Pootsduck with you, and he hadmentioned Stephen.
Speaker 02 (01:35):
He's a nice guy.
Doesn't stick around much.
Always driving by, walking by,running by.
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
We call Stephen by his middlename most of the time.
Marbles.
Yep.
Speaker 00 (01:47):
Stephen Marbles.
Speaker 02 (01:48):
Yep.
Sometimes we don't call himthat.
Even Stephen is what Dave callshim.
Dave calls him that all thetime because his left leg is
longer than his right leg.
But his right shoe is tallerthan his left.
So it all evens out.
I don't like all the marbles.
Marbles! Woo! Marbles.
What was that?
Speaker 00 (02:07):
What was that?
Speaker 02 (02:09):
I don't know.
I think something's happening.
Oh, no.
I don't.
What is that sound?
Did you hear it?
It went ding, ding, ding, ding,ding, like I won a prize.
I wonder what I want.
I don't know.
Well, I have to go outside andsee if there's something at the
door.
Let's go.
Come with me now.
I got a long cord.
I told you about that.
Hold on, though.
I'm wrapped up in it.
(02:30):
Oh, circulation.
Speaker 01 (02:34):
Okay.
Speaker 02 (02:35):
Come outside and let's see if we can see what
that noise was all about.
I'll open the door here.
Speaker 01 (02:41):
Oh, there it is.
Yes,
Speaker 02 (02:45):
please.
Oh! Eyeball.
(03:05):
Okay.
It's an orange.
That's a little bit of orangejuice in your eyeball.
I'd rather have it in themorning, but I'll take it in the
eye.
Speaker 00 (03:14):
Well, that's curious.
And it's snowing outside.
So yeah, where would have, didyou get a supply drop today?
Speaker 02 (03:19):
Could have been.
I didn't go outside today.
There was 16 feet of snow thatcame falling down.
Speaker 00 (03:24):
16 feet.
How many buckets is that?
Speaker 02 (03:27):
It's like 768 buckets.
We put Caleb outside on bucketcontrol.
He's on bucket duty.
You ever do a duty in a bucket?
Caleb, don't even think aboutit.
He's got big ears.
Speaker 00 (03:39):
Well, if there's 16 feet of snow out there, he'd be
buried.
Speaker 02 (03:42):
No, Barry is coming tomorrow to help Caleb dig it
out.
Yep, new guy coming to town.
Speaker 00 (03:48):
So, Barry, a new guy, is he from Bootstuck or
from one of the other
Speaker 02 (03:53):
territories?
No, he's coming to Bootstuck.
He's from somewhere else.
You ever been there?
They got a sign.
They got a flag.
They got a post office.
Well, they got a post.
Apparently, they're getting anoffice to go with it real soon.
That'll be nice.
That'd be real nice.
Worth the trip to somewhereelse.
Speaker 00 (04:09):
It always is.
Speaker 02 (04:10):
Yep.
Not always.
Sometimes you can run into somedifficult traffic, like going
uphill with no tires.
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