TAPE 54 - Screw the Violins Together

Bootstuck receives another baffling shipment — one that somehow contains blank coins with holes, six violins (or possibly chair parts), an unidentified handled object, and an alarming number of beans. Between coughing up a real frog mid-conversation and debating how to “screw violins together,” the townsfolk attempt to make sense of their new supplies. They even claim to have a refrigerator — though it doesn’t run and functions mostly as a bookshelf.

Somewhere between food safety and symphony, the group plans to teach the township how to identify edible mushrooms, a noble idea given how often everyone seems to be poisoned. The call ends with their usual abrupt sign-off ritual, and the faint sense that Bootstuck might just survive another day — on beans alone.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 2 (00:14):
So what else did you get in the shipment?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Oh, it was on so many times.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
No, anywho.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hang on, I'm speaking.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
You're walking.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Here we go.
One time or one case.
You're walking over me.
Wait.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Let me finish the quest.
Oh.

Speaker (00:30):
Yep.
Yep.
Whoop.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh my god.
Anywho, uh So well, other thana bunch of magazines you can't
read, what else did you get?

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, we got lots of things this time.
We got we're not sure whatthese are.
I think they're quarters, butthere's nothing on them and they
got holes in them.
They all sound different.
Listen.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Oh my god, that's horrendous.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yep, but it's also music to our ears.
We all we also got violins andcellos.
Six of them.
Yep.
You know how?
You know how to make those go?
Kind of like a guitar, uh, butthen you got an extra piece.

(01:22):
And you slap it.
I think you slap it.
Screw them inside each otherthere and see what happens.
We're gonna find out.
We're gonna put it alltogether.
We've gotta we gotta otherwisewe'll make a chair.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
You need a bone to play those.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Hold on, I got a frog in my throat.
Hold on, I gotta get him out.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, he was small, but he was in there.
That was an actual frog.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
That was an actual frog.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, a little green tree frog.
It's okay.
Carry on.
We also got other things insideof the box.
We got one of these things witha handle.
You ever seen one of them?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Uh, could you narrow it down?

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I could throw it down.
Tell me what it sounds like toyou.
Yeah, it's hard to describe.
Yeah.
We got two of them.
Anyways, we also have a brandnew package of beans.
It's pretty big.
I think we're gonna keep warm.
Yep.
Think about that.
Not too much.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh, I try not to give it too much of my day.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, I like to give most things half of my day, and
then the other half was savedfor nighttime, and then a kind
of propel time.
Cross it off the board.
I don't know if I used that oneright, but I'm gonna take it
off the board anyway.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh heavens.
Um, uh did you get any food inthe latest ship?
Sleep?

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, we got lots of sleep around here.
Uh we got tired pretty quickly.
And that what did you ask?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Not that.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I asked if you got any food.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, beans.
Told you about that.
What else you got for me?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Any any different food other than beans?
Did you see?

Speaker 1 (02:53):
No.
Yeah.
72 cans of beans and one sackof dry beans.
I don't know if there's beansor if there's puffs of wheat.
I ain't sure.
I ain't opened the sack yet.
We're gonna get Caleb to get inthere later after we figure out
what's in there.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Guess that'll go into the food shed.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
That'll go into one of the sheds or into our
bellies.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Good options.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, I like to put food in either a refrigerator or
my mouth.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, wait, you have a refrigerator?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh, I didn't know you had a plant case.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's not running, but we got one.
Yeah, it's like a bookcase.
You ever do that?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Uh no.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
We got so many books here, is why we got lots of
knowledge in our heads.
Yeah, we'll keep readingdifferent things different days,
and then we learn.
Today we're gonna learn aboutwhat mushrooms we can eat from
outside.
It's probably about time.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Uh well, yeah, that that would be quite helpful if
you could forge.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, everybody keeps getting sick around here, so
we're gonna have to figure thatone out.
We cut the page out and we'regonna put it on the bulletin
board for everybody to see it.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, that that's remarkably uh thoughtful.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Sorry about that.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
No, please s feel free to be intelligent at any
time.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, but not right now.
We're gonna have to hang onuntil I have one of those
thinking there, talking to them.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
The one that makes you use verbs.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, and and adjectives.
Yep.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh, cross it off the board.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
No, we used that one before.
And that's not something I wantto talk about today.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
What uh okay.
Well, I guess to wrap up likewe normally do.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
You'll say something and I'll say, Gotta go.
We kinda like that.
You wanna do that one again?

Speaker 2 (04:17):
No.