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After Shock is a presentation of our Heart Radio

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and Nomadic Engine previously

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on Aftershock. So it was a tidal

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wave the killed mob. This is what Mode

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has prepared us for all of our work at

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the ranch. It was for this moment. We lost

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a lot in the title wave. So we will rush

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on what we have left and share with one another.

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And modest vision is still worth bringing

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to life. Do you agree these people

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are soft? When they get hungry, they'll get unpredictable.

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Let's put ourselves someplace they

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can't be tempted to help themselves to our stuff.

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Lord of the flies, already, regardless

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of your feelings towards me, No,

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there's no regardless of

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my feelings towards you. You'd rather have someone

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steal your food with a knife, tear throat

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any day of the week. When we landed,

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I bury a case of bottled

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water, and you're planning

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to keep it for yourself.

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When her kayak's gone, she took

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it out. Look out going,

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have got her, have got her? Let go. I

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claimed this land in the name of the Hawaiian

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people. Marsh Are you okay?

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My first lost today, Major Travis. The

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flu thing killed him. I can't leave

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this ship. It's containment, sir. I'm worried

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about an epidemic, and full

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containment it's necessary.

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I'm sorry. This woman that pulled you out of the water.

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She she what she

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staked to claim on the island in

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the name of the Hawaiian people. Yeah, did

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she say why? She

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said it was a place of power, A

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place of power because

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of how it emerged,

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Like one day the island wasn't there, and

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the next day it was, Yeah,

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all right, you know we called a geology.

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Yeah, sure, I mean it's

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not every day that there's like a brand new island in the ocean.

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So I guess she felt

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there was something special about

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it, and since

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it was in the Pacific, she claimed

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it for the

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Hawaiians. Wow, that

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is Are you allowed

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to say ballsy anymore? I'm

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sure you cancer, you're

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in the service. Please don't call me

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sir. I'm sorry. I

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didn't mean I'm

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sorry. So I take it this

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Hawaiian lady was not an international

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law expert. Well do

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you respect? Yes,

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I mean, just speaking as

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a history teacher, historical precedent

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is kind of on her side. White

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people showed up in Hawaii and just took

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it from the sovereign

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monarchy that was already there, and

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this island didn't have like a government

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or anything. So Jesus

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Christ, you're one of those people that boycott Columbus

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Day. I don't

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boycott school holidays. I appreciate a good

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three day weekend, true patriot.

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Huh, all right, let's back up

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a step. Why were you drowning

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in the first place. I

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took the kayak and tried

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to leave the island, and I got

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swamped, and I went over and it was just

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so cold that I couldn't Why

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leave? You nearly killed

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yourself to get there. And

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then I'd spent two days filling a cave with

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bodies, and Maud died and

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Karen got sick, and it was nothing like

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what made Karen sick. That

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was the problem we didn't know, lay

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Lay, is that you scoot

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over. I have to get dry. I

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can't get a fire going. Oh it's okay.

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There's a prestologu in my dry bag. Oh,

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the orange one. Yeah, and matches

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in a ziploc. Okay, you gorm up. I'll

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go get him cold

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a specific island up step foot on. So

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many of your other folks coming. If

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I can get WiFi up, I'll check Facebook. I

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put it out to my whole Hella Hula plus

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my Hawaiian Language and Culture group and the protect

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mall and a kale folks. I

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follow you on Insta. Your sole

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disobedience work is I

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mean, it's amazing. No way

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mahollow sister. Yeah.

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I I never reached out to them yet because they're

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all back home. But once we get a presence

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here, I'll holler at him and they'll come.

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The Johanna and Dando Beach for sure,

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there's like thousands of us. They'll

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be here. You watch, and

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I hope I'm still here when they come. You

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don't want to go back to the mainland. I mean,

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I have to find my mom. If I were

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your mom, I'd be praying you were

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anywhere. But they're even

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in Hordondo, everything south of Sacramento,

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especially for you pretty girl young.

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And I'm not trying to be crass, but people

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aren't helping each other anymore, and the good

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ones are all in hiding and anyone

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out is bad business. Well,

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I don't want about my mom

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tomorrow. Let's go get your radio. We can

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keep an ear out and so you when it's take to go back,

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okay, and

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I wish we could have stayed at the boat. It's

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cool through out here in the wind. I need

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eyes on the horizon. But if

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you want to go, oh no, no, I'm I'm

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good here with you. So

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that lady that tried to save you, she

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wanted you to stay with her, No

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way, Yeah

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she um

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she had an affair with my dad, and

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I broke up my parents marriage. Oh

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man, I'm sorry,

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sweetheart. That's

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all she says. I'm

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sorry, sweetheart. So

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she feels bad, then who cares how she

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feels? I mean how

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my dad's last moments. She

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also saved your life. Please don't

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take sites. Hey, I got no fish

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in this pond. You

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just be dead now if it wasn't for her, I

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mean, if it wasn't for her, I'd be in l

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A and you'd probably

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be dead. Fucking

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white women always trying to fix things that they funked up

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in the first place. Immensis,

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the cans

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sie you up? Mm

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hmm? Is

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it morning? We're

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almost out of food? All

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right, let's go fishing today.

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And Kayla lost the kayak uh

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crabbing? Yeah,

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come on, let's go. I'm starving. Can we make tea?

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First, I'm still cold from last night. Let's

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get food first, and then we just have to make one fire

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for tea and cooking. Gotta

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be in your bonnet this morning, and

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I checked on Maud's people, but

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in the dark, I

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couldn't sleep. I

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heard coughing over there. I

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think Karen's sick. Wait,

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coughing like like mad members,

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just the wet in the cold. But I

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overheard some of them freaking out their

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supplies are low. Two, I'd

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like to get to the crabs before they do. Okay,

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wait, what makes you think it's Karen that's sick. I

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think the coffin was coming from

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her tent. Should we go

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check on her, Cassie, let's

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put on our seatbelts before helping others

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for once. So

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you weren't sure that it was Karen that got sick,

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There was a guess at that point, but I wasn't

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wrong. How long until other people

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got infected? M

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hm? Which other

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people? I am not an idiot, Wayne,

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and I am not patient. They can't

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got infected. People started dying,

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not right away. It was Karen first,

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but yeah, others got it too, a few at a time,

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kind of like what's happening? Here I

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beg your pardon. Well, I'm not

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an idiot, Mark, and

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you're not as worried as you should.

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Hey, hey, don't point that thing. It makes

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asked me if I care who died on that island?

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Do you care who died on the island? Not

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even a little bit. Some trust

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defaring dipshits decided to re enact

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Lost and it goes bad. Oh

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right now, on this ship, I have

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men and women who enlisted to serve their

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country dying of something I

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can't stop. I thought they were

9:45

reserved. They are people who showed

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up. They may not know

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they're asked from a hole in the ground, but they are not

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prison guards who turntail the second ship.

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Got real. Your only value

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to me right now is to save their lives.

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So right now, out, you will tell me

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everything you know about what's

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the chair? Wait

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way, God fucking

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dammit, God fucking dammit. It

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came from the ground. It's a goddamn earthquake.

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Pull it together, private, Are you hurt?

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I don't think so, sir. Give Mr sharp in

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there sorted out. I need him awake and coherent

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asad Ms

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Wallace too. Who's

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the ranking Uh, that's

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me sir, I'm working on getting it. Shut

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it down. What's that all

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communication? Shut it down?

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You don't want to send us stats? Where's the panel, the

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electric stuff, the hard wire. It's

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here, sir that the boiling room

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runs the electrical But all our operations

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Wi Fi and colms and any eyes only catches

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this right here, so we can

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we can handle all this online. There's no need to

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manually, sir.

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This will affect navigation only on

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autopilot. Someone on

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this ship can read a map. I fucking

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hope. Look,

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I am giving you a direct order. Now, do

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you understand? Yes,

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sir? Now, if anyone tries to fix these connections,

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you have orders to shoot them

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on site, one warning,

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then engage again. Do

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you understand, yes,

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sir? Shoot on site.

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They're so vast, these calfs and its

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chase them towards me. Okay,

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wait, how do you? Oh my god,

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how are you so bad? It this? I've

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never done this before, no kidding.

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Good morning, miss Hawaii, Good

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morning, patronizing white man brought

12:16

the glee club. That's fantastic. Did

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you Tuesday dry? Last night? We

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had a fire and a talk.

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I see, well, then, lay

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you must know everything because there

12:32

is only ever one side to a story. I'm

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just here to catch breakfast. Can

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we fish on your lamb? Thank

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you for asking? Yes, there's

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enough. I'm not sure there is. The crabs

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are small, and they're like super

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fast crabs. I'm spear

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fishing. I'm sorry, I don't know what that

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is. It's how my people ate from

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the Pacific for hundreds of years.

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Would you teach us? We're almost out of

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food? M what do you think

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Siesta? Are you serious?

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I don't care? Let him meat? Okay,

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Holley boy, you come with me. So

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what's your side of

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what happened with your dad? Did

13:20

you want to hear it? None of it makes sense

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to me. Ruined

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my life and you

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save it? Yeah?

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I fucking hate you, but you're

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on the boat, so

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so my dad must have loved you, and

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and you're all I have left of him right now. So I

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just don't I don't understand any of it.

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I don't either. I

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I didn't mean to fall in love with

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him, and I certainly

13:56

never meant to ruin your life. I

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don't understand how you can say that when you literally

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ruined his marriage. What

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are you sure that I'm

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the reason your parents marriage ended.

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I mean, you had a fucking affair. So

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if that's not how your father saw

14:19

it, well that's

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how my mother saw it.

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It's how the fucking lost season feel

14:26

me way, it's not an affairs. If wait,

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what are you not telling me? I'm

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not sure it's for me to say. I'm

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not sure it's for you to keep from me. If

14:39

your father had wanted you to know, he's

14:41

dead, right, I

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lost him, and from from what late tells me

14:46

about what's going on in the mainland, I don't know if I'm ever

14:48

going to see my mom again. So you're

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apparently all I have left at the moment.

14:55

She's just sucking conkers. Like you

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owe me after what you did,

15:02

you owe me the truth. Okay,

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did your parents ever tell you why

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they got married? What

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do you mean they you're in

15:15

love? But they were eighteen.

15:18

That's only a little older than

15:20

you are right now. I

15:22

mean, I know they had me right away. They

15:26

did what they thought was the right thing for

15:28

you. Now, they

15:30

were in love. They met at

15:32

a party two weeks before you were conceived,

15:35

sweetheart. They hardly knew each other, but

15:38

they made a promise to raise you

15:40

up together, to be a family. And

15:44

they also agreed that once

15:47

you graduated from high school, they'd

15:51

live their own lives again. You

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know, I never

15:56

said anything about that. They told

15:58

me that. I know what they told

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you. But

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there's more than one side to a story, and

16:07

more than I heard, even I I don't know your

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mom's side. All I know

16:11

is what your dad told me, that his

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mind never changed about breaking

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up your mom.

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I I wonder if it was a

16:22

different story. I'm not sure

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she wanted to end the marriage anymore, but

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that day he said he did

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to me um

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and we should have waited until

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he was free. I mean we did wait

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for a year, but then we

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I ah

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just got selfish. I think

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I've never loved anyone like that. I've

16:56

never been loved like that, and so

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fucked up, and we I

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hurt you crab

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breadfast, uh

17:16

wow, big, Okay,

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we need some steawheet and then you

17:21

folks bring any salt. There's some in

17:23

the tide pools of the high tideline. I'll get some. Hey,

17:30

you see that around the point?

17:34

More company they

17:36

just keep coming. Native people

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have been saying that since fo you

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see two men aboard, anyone see more? No?

17:46

Are they armed? You can't

17:48

see. But

17:50

if we got a pistol right now, we would have to worry

17:52

about Kayla. Would you go tell MoG's

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people that there's an arrival on the beach and

17:56

that we'd like as many of them as possible

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to come down. Uh

18:01

yeah, okay, why I'd

18:03

like to have numbers on our side in case they're

18:05

not friendly. What are you worried

18:07

about? Lay You

18:10

want to take that one? Because history

18:13

white men landing on an unknown beach.

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I'll go get the others, all

18:30

right, I'll do the talking. Please, Hello

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there, Hello, I

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didn't expect to see people like this one.

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Here we are? What

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are you? Folks? Coming from Oregon?

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Just outside ben you you're

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a long way from home looking

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to make a new one. A matter of fact, drove

18:54

down the coast to check this place out. I

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should look at not very

19:00

friendly, to be honest. Nothing

19:02

here you didn't bring. Uh,

19:06

I'm prepared for that. Just looking

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for a bit of laye. Who's

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that with you? My son?

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Shaw? I'm John Tips?

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All right, Tips, I'm Wayne. I'll

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tell you what you're willing

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to share. What all you brought him? That dinghy? There? We'll

19:26

find a place for you here. What

19:28

did you say fun wants our

19:30

stuff? You let me handle this sun?

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And why would I give you what I've got. I've

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been preparing for this a long time. It's not my

19:39

fault if fathers are caught out. There's

19:41

one beach on this island you can land on. Go

19:44

take a spin around. See for yourself. And you're not. You're

19:47

not landing on this one until we negotiate something

19:49

that works for both of us. Wait,

19:51

are you sure? Yes, I am. Let

19:53

me do this. I'll tell you what,

19:56

man, how about we agree not to shoot you

19:58

dead and you get the funk out of away?

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What's your no? I got, I got

20:02

as the magazine and I got good good.

20:05

Hey you want to see?

20:07

Okay? Loa, thank god, good timing. Who

20:10

is that a gun? We've got your fastest

20:12

and coods. It looks like the math just

20:14

changed, and you are. I'm

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on the negotiating committee. My associate

20:19

here forgot to mention there's a no firearms

20:22

policy on the island. She's not kidding.

20:25

You surrendered yours the

20:27

dead. As a matter of fact, You're

20:29

an idiot, no question. And

20:32

I'm also unarmed, which means you're

20:35

throwing that thing in the water before we let you land

20:38

or you leave. Either

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works, Pops,

20:42

Let's get out of here. This won't make

20:44

it back, so listen

20:46

to him. Now. Let me have to

20:48

God, Dad, we can't. You're

20:51

sure that there's eight volunteers

20:53

willing to get shot before the rest of you can stop

20:56

us. I'm one willing cameraman

20:59

and this second wifies back up. I'll upload

21:01

it, so will Ie. The

21:04

network will be up soon, has to

21:06

be, and you have a beach full of

21:09

witnesses. The National

21:11

Guard will be here any day now. The

21:13

radio says they have orders to shoot felons on

21:15

site. What's it gonna be? Tips, Why

21:19

don't I know you all are are because

21:23

we said so and you trust

21:25

us. Why would I do that? Because

21:28

that's the only way any of this works. We

21:31

all live here together. We

21:34

have to do it on equal footing or someone's going to get

21:36

hurt. Look, you

21:39

don't know me, but I give you my word.

21:41

We are unarmed, and

21:43

if I let you land with that gun, we're all

21:45

at your mercy? Is

21:48

that what you came here for? You

21:50

want to be a dictator? I

21:52

doubt that. I think

21:54

you came here to be left alone to

21:56

make a life see what's here.

21:59

You can do that, but you

22:02

can't bring the power of life and death over the rest

22:04

of us with you. It's not right

22:06

John, and you know that,

22:08

don't you. What

22:15

do you do with it? There's

22:17

nothing God here and we're not calling a trigger

22:19

all these people. That's

22:21

sucking bullshit. Don't don't. Did you

22:23

let your mother hear you talk that way? She'll

22:26

wash your mouth? That was so so fast. Let's

22:30

not talk about mom. Okay, let's let's

22:32

just skip to land. Well, that's what I'm

22:34

trying to do. Get your mother someplace

22:37

where she can lay her heads on. She's

22:39

she's not here, Pop,

22:43

Remember she's where

22:46

in the hell else would she be? Mean? You

22:48

look around? Do you see her?

22:51

She's below decks, says Zodiac.

22:53

Pop boy, you just stopped

22:55

lifting me this minute? Do you hear me? Okay?

22:59

Pop? I'm sorry? What's

23:03

the word you do? Would you give

23:05

us a minute? Please? Pop?

23:09

You okay? Where

23:11

am I not? Ever? You're the one

23:13

going off half cocked? Yeah, when you were talking about

23:16

mom? Mess you rest

23:18

in peace? Where

23:20

were we are? All

23:22

right? These nice people

23:24

are willing to let us land second

23:28

chance. I

23:30

suggest you take it one

23:33

on armed vessel seeking permission

23:35

to land. Thank

23:37

you welcome. Throw

23:39

me your line, I'll all you in. I'm

23:42

okay, loa. Thank you for bringing people that

23:46

made the difference. I mean I would have brought

23:48

more, but like half the camp as a cold or something?

23:51

A cold? Were they coughing?

23:53

Uh? Yeah? Bad? What

23:56

did Karen say about it? Karen

24:00

died this morning? Private?

24:12

Yes, captain you sound like hell oh

24:16

my way to the infirmary, sir, glad

24:18

to hear it. Let's get you taking care of You're

24:20

wearing a mask, sir. Yeah, well, I'm not feeling

24:23

well myself. I want to spread it around.

24:26

I'm also heading to the infirmary. I

24:29

hope it's what I got. Let's

24:32

feel like dad, I'll you catch h My

24:35

book made I think he

24:37

was in Russhape a few days ago the

24:40

infirmary. Any idea what happened

24:42

to him? But too

24:44

busy to visit? Now

24:47

you can catch up. There

24:49

we are nurse

24:58

your sterile supplies, mass gloves,

25:01

tall cabinet on the right. Alcoholics are in there

25:03

too. What's left? We're

25:05

waiting for resupply of lives.

25:12

A word outside?

25:19

How are you holding up? We took a

25:21

dozen to the more this morning, sir? When's

25:23

the doctor coming on? His help

25:26

is coming? Did you get the blood

25:28

work off yesterday? I'll follow

25:31

up? Is there anything else I should know?

25:33

Just that this is a a total ship show.

25:35

If you're pardon my friends, food bar, sir,

25:38

completely food bar. They're

25:41

starting to sound an awful lot like the army. What do

25:43

we do? I can't help these guys.

25:46

You keep them calm, you make them

25:48

comfortable. Help is coming, do

25:51

you hear me? Yes? Sir? All

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right, you get back in there and do

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your thing. H

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yeah, yeah.

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After Shock Episode six stars

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Sarah Wayne Kelly's as Cassie Wallace,

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David Harbor as Wayne Sharp, Jeffrey

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Dean Morgan as Mark Dover, Tatti

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Gabrielle as MICHAELA. Annesley, Janelle

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Parrish as Leila Hua Masters, Austin

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Emilio as Sean Tipps, and

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Michael O'Neill as John Tipps.

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Additional cast includes Henry

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Noble as Reservist Number one, Conrad

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Goody as Reservist number two, Mike

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Piebler as Reservist number three, Mark

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Laws and his nurse, Stephanie Says

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Islander number one, Marcus Fulmer as

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Islander number two and Mark Ramsey

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as Communications Officer. Aftershock

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is created by Patrick Carman, Sarah

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Wayne Calley's and Ben Haber. Written

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by Sarah Wayne Calley's, directed

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by Sarah Wayne Calley's, sound

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design, scoring and mixed by Jeff Schmidt.

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Original score composed by Emily

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Rice. Aftershock is executive

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produced by Ben Haber, Mark

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Ramsey, Sarah Wayne Cally's and Patrick

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Carman. Executive produced by

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Salmon al Raschid, Sam Frohman

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and Simmons Fraser. Executive produced

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by David Harbor. Executive produced

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by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Executive produced

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by Paul Anderson and Nick Pinella

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for Workhouse Media. Executive produced

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by Noel Brown for I Heart Radio.

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Aftershock was produced during the COVID nineteen pandemic

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and was mostly recorded remotely out of the performers and

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producers homes. Additional recordings were at

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Bandwagon in Los Angeles, Hyperbolic Audio

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in New York City, which Shop Studios in Vancouver

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Island, Canada, on One Audio in Berlin,

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Germany, and Boutwell Studios in Birmingham,

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Alabama. Aftershock is a presentation

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of I Heart Radio and Nomadic Engine

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in association with Cardinal Productions,

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Mark Ramsey Media, and Workhouse Media.

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For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit the

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I heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

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you get your favorite shows.