Difference between revisions of "Emily Date Conversation Transcript"

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In March 2009, Chris went on his first (and only) date ever with a troll called Emily. For posterity's sake, the event was recorded, and is now presented in text format for your enjoyment here.

The voices heard in the recording are those of an elite crack team of courageous trolls and trollettes.

Summary

The trolls worry about a possible appearance by Barb, run a mic check.
Emily talks to Bob, ignores Chris.
Bob recites his work history, from serving in the army to retirement. Chris talks a grand total of 9 times, gets ignored.
Bob goes on at length about being retired. Chris tries to interrupt several times, and fails several times.
Chris reveals his favorite artist is Britney Spears.
Bob reveals his patchy medical history.
Finally, Chris gets a whole minute in which to talk. The Amnyfest Ring makes an appearance.
Chris asks why UVA doesn't have a Sonichu Girls chapter.
Chris brings up his pink-eye.
Bob goes back to his health problems.
Bob and Chris mention their Cherokee heritage.
Chris flirts.
Chris fails at flirting.
Chris does the infamous Donald Duck impression.
Chris talks about Sailor Moon.
Emily and Chris leave Bob and go out into the mall.
Chris brings up winning the Sonic competition.
Emily tries to be discreet about going to the bathroom. Chris announces she's on her period.
Emily flees.
The Pickle Man arrives and saves Emily, whereupon Chris announces "HE KNOWS CLYDE CASH."
Chris tries to kiss Emily goodbye.
Emily makes good her escape and goes home with the Pickle Man.

Cast

Frosty: A whiz kid, his high-tech know-how keeps the group online.

Camwhore: "Emily's friend", her mission is to capture video of the event.

Emily: Queen of trolls, she risks both life and limb on a plunge into the heart of darkness.

Pickle Man: Brave and daring hero, he protects Emily from certain peril.

Chris: Misshapen manchild, his disgusting nature seeps into the very recording of his voice.

Bob: Robert Chandler, the proud Internet lumberjack, yet also slave to the manchild.

Transcript

Throughout the recording, a mall full of shoppers produces a background din.

Prelude (00:00 - 03:12)

Frosty: Okay... lock it?
Frosty: Okay--
Camwhore: Are you wearing a thong? With a--
Emily: Yeah.
Camwhore: That better be fuckin' tight.
Emily: It's tight.
Camwhore: That may pop out while you're walking around, while you're like--
Emily: I should be like--
Camwhore: Or a robotic vagina.
Emily: [laughs]
Camwhore: Say "It's my vibrator."
Emily: [laughs]
Camwhore: It's one of those things that you see taped to those- those hentai-
Frosty: Well, the thing is, Chris- if you said that to Chris, he would squeal.
Emily: [laughs] Ungh, ungh, ungh, ungh! Okay, if he get's, like, way too close to me, I'm just gonna be like-- get my chair farther away.
Camwhore: [inaudible]
Emily: [laughs]
Camwhore: I really like your [inaudible]
Pickle Man: [laughs] Maybe Barb- Barbara can come.
Emily: Apparently, she doesn't leave the house anymore.
Pickle Man: No, I'm just [inaudible]
Emily: [laughs]
Pickle Man: [inaudible]
Frosty: There- there are Barb candidates everywhere.
Emily: Yeah.
Frosty: No, no, no, no, no, no. But- but in all actuality, there should be no Barb; if there is Barb, I will shit myself.
Emily: If there is Barb, we're- we're done.
Camwhore: We're not showing up.
Frosty: Yeah.
Emily: Yeah.
Frosty: "You brought your mommy?"
Emily: I should be like, "No– just put that shit in the bag, and we're not doing anything today."
Camwhore: Yeah.
Frosty: Yeah.
Emily: That's it.
Camwhore: And you can call him and be like "You owe me a dire apology, and you're the… jack-off-"
Emily: No– I'm sure I'm gonna yell at him, and make him cry.
Frosty: Yeah.
Emily: And I'm gonna be like "Oh– I live in Clyde's playboy mansion now." [laughs]
Frosty: No– even better!
Emily: [laughs]
Camwhore: [aside] I'm waiting. I'm part of Clyde's playboy mansion.
Emily: Yeah.
Camwhore: I'm the janitor.
[all laugh loudly]
Emily: Okay– let's go see if he's there.
Camwhore: You go see if he's there.
Emily: No! 'Cause- 'cause it's-
Pickle Man: [inaudible (but about "a girl")]
Emily: 'Cause I'm gonna make it like an entrance, like… "Hiii!"
Pickle Man: Did he say where [inaudible]
Emily: No. Like, he wants to be- he wants to meet in front of Chick-Fil-A, so…
Camwhore: Figures! But the general idea would be you park near where you wanna… go.
Pickle Man: [inaudible]
Emily: [chuckles]
Pickle Man: [inaudible]
Camwhore: What if that [inaudible]
Emily: [laughs]
Camwhore: [aside] [inaudible] Do you see those pile of balloons right there? Swear to God: it looks like a penis.
Pickle Man: [inaudible]
Camwhore: The balloons. Right here.
Emily: Oh… [laughs]
Camwhore: It's a fuckin' penis.
[pause]
Camwhore: Nope.
Emily: Oh, okay.
[pause]
Emily: [sighs]
Camwhore: [sighs]
[pause]
Camwhore: There's that ugly bitch that looks like Hamster Girl… at Starbucks.
Emily: [chuckles]
Camwhore: She looks like Hamster Girl.
Pickle Man: Which one looks like Hamster Girl?
Camwhore: Right there. The only one that you can see working?
Pickle Man: Oh– over at Starbucks? You should see her with that hair off.
Camwhore: No, no, no. She looks like Hamster Girl. [inaudible]
Pickle Man: I'm telling you: you should see her with that hair off!
Camwhore: Oh– she don't have no hair?
Pickle Man: Um...
Camwhore: Oh– she has a fake-
Pickle Man: She has fake hair, or… she has no hair… or the hair back like this.
Camwhore: Well, yeah– I knew that.
Emily: Yeah.
Camwhore: I was gonna say: I don't- I guess she dyed her hair blond. 'Cause I remember seeing her with some ugly, strange-colored hair.

Target Acquired (03:13 - 04:43)

Frosty: There he is!
Emily: [startled] What?
Frosty: [unintelligible (but about "a jacket")]
Emily: Oh my God! [jokingly] Eject! Oh my God!
Frosty: Is your [inaudible] on? [unintelligible (but clearly about "a jacket" again)] Are you ready?
Emily: Yeah– I'm ready. [laughs nervously] This is gonna be my best acting moment ever.
Pickle Man: He can't see my face before I suit up.
Emily: Yeah– go, like, look, 'cause he has to get down first.
Pickle Man: [inaudible]
Frosty: He'll realize later: that's what it was.
Camwhore: I don't feel bad.
Emily: Okay. Hopefully, he, like, won't come, like, around and- [inaudibly interrupted] Huh? I don't have my phone.
[pause]
Emily: Oh my God…
[pause]
Emily: If this goes all smoothly, I should get, like…
Pickle Man: [inaudible] Where do I sit… to, like, watch [inaudible]
Emily: Um, there's some benches, like… by the tables. [abruptly] Oh! Oh! Oh, no.
Pickle Man: [inaudible]
Emily: Okay– there's some benches, like, nearby…
Pickle Man: Yeah?
Emily: Um, just sit and watch him [unintelligible] you need to go change or whatever.
Pickle Man: Okay. Well, I- I started the- I [inaudible]
Emily: Yeah.
Pickle Man: Okay. I'll [inaudible]
Emily: [exhales loudly] Yeah. Or just, like… kinda walk around and see if you can… see us.

The Green Mile (04:44 - 05:19)

Nothing but Emily's footfalls can be heard as she marches off to meet the manchild.

Meet the Parent (05:20 - 07:17)

Emily: Hi!
Chris: Hello! Emily?
Emily: Yeah! I'm Emily. So nice to meet you!
Chris: Hi, Emily. This is my father, Robert.
Bob: Hello.
Emily: Hello.
[pause]
Emily: I've started shopping a little bit.
Chris: That's alright.
Bob: You're from West Virgina?
Emily: Yeah... I used to live here for a while, but then, I-
Chris: [abruptly] Hey!
Emily: But then, I moved to-
Chris: Cute hat!
Emily: Yeah– I thought you might like it.
Chris: [laughs contentedly]
Bob: You go to school over there?
Emily: Yeah– University of West Virginia. My friend, uh, wanted to go to school there, and she's my best friend, so I have to… go with her everywhere! [laughs nervously]
Bob: That sounds like the best way to do things!
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Hey, Emily– you mind, uh, a photo of you and me together?
Emily: Sure!
[pause]
Bob: What are you taking?
Emily: I'm doing journalism.
Bob: What?
Emily: Journalism.
Bob: Journalism?
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: Ah! You wanna be a writer!
Emily: Yeah! [giggles] I did a lot-
Bob: He has a… half-brother who's- who lives in New York City… and, uh, does freelance writing and show reviews and things… for newspapers and magazines.
Emily: Is it-- does he love it?
Bob: I guess.
Emily: [giggles again]
Bob: I haven't talked to him in years…
Emily: Yeah…
Chris: I can't this dang camera to work!
[pause]
Bob: Yeah– that's- I worked at, uh- I'm an engineer… and engineers never learn how to spell.
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: I think very logically, but I-
Chris: Shoot! I got bad batteries in the camera.
Emily: [disappointed] Oh...
Bob: If I would- if I would write anything, half the words would be phonetically rather than the way we're… supposed to do.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: I got along fine… writing stuff… on my word processor… when I had a spell checker.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: Without that, I'm [unintelligible (but clearly self-deprecating)] [laughs heartily]
Emily: Did you like doing engineering?
Bob: Well... I- I had a real u-nique situation…
[pause]

Bob's Work History (07:18 - 16:58)

Bob: Look, uh… I'm- I'm really old.
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: Okay– to start with: I'm 81. And, uh, I came along before transistors.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: Not- not [unintelligible] stuff we have now, but even before transistors… when we had vacuum tubes.
Bob: I, uh… got drafted after World War II. That's how old. But, uh... then, they put me in the Signal Corps, and they knew things I didn't know. They taught me how to install valve systems and switchboards and telephone [unintelligible]. So, I found out: yeah– I'm pretty good at that. So, when I got out– 'course that was in 1947– I found out- now, I know that we had a deflation on our hands; I didn't know it then.
Bob: You couldn't get a job, so, I thought "Well, I got the G.I. Bill. I'll go to school."
Emily: Yeah– now, it's really hard to become an engineer.
Bob: Yeah– now, ya- I, uh-
Bob: I went to… a state [unintelligible] college to start with, 'cause I had the philosophy that if I went to a big school I'd be just… swallowed up.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: So, I went to a small school and took Pre-Engineering for two years, and that was the best thing I ever did, 'cause I wound up, uh- well, I got- I got through my two years of Pre-Engineering in small classes.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: And also, I loved music, and I was in the band and everything. And I got in the symphony orchestra… and learned a lot about music while I was up there.
Bob: And then, I went to Auburn, and then [unintelligible] swallowed up!
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: Then, at that time, Auburn- which now has what: 30,000 students, or something? Auburn had about 5,000 students.
Bob: I got my Engineering degree. And then, when I got out, I said "Well, I'll, uh... I can do anything with relays and telephones and valve systems, and [inaudible]. I'm gonna work for Western Electric."
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: That seems logical, right?
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: [suddenly offended somehow] Hey!
Bob: Because they make, uh-
Chris: You- no– you listen to my father… because he's somethin'! Because I get some of my intelligence from him.
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: Especially my technological intelligence.
Bob: But anyway, I, uh- I went to work for them for 40 years, and, uh… at that point in time…
Bob: Uh, this is even before the Atlas missile… the ICBM.
Emily: Yeah. [laughs nervously]
Bob: Before the Korean War… and, uh- but, I- I found out they were building radar systems. Well, that was fine, but also, they had lots of government money, so they wanted some automatic test equipment. At that time, nothing was automatic. They had none!
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: So, that's what I went and built. [unintelligible] what I learned in the army, right?
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: So, I started working with the first automatic test equipment that we ever made. And then, GE heard about it… and they came down to [unintelligible] in North Carolina.
Bob: And- so, GE came down; they offered me a job… up in upstate New York. Cold country in Utica.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: And then, uh... I went down to build some automatic test equipment for the ICBM [unintelligible] Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: Nobody knows how, 'cause we haven't done it before.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: We'd done some of this automatic test equipment down here. "Why don't you come up there?" "Well, okay!"
Bob: So, I went up there for three years and helped develop the, uh, automatic…equipment… for testing the missiles, and… all the guidance systems, and things… in the [unintelligible]
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: But- but I got- I was a soldier, true and tried, 'cause I was born in Texas and raised in Alabama.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: And then, I was in North Carolina first. And then, I hit upstate New York, and I froze to death. [chuckles]
Emily: [laughs] Yeah, that must be really different! [laughs again]
Bob: Well, after three years, I said "I'm going back to somethin' [unintelligible]" Well, GE- I didn't know it then, but I had a real, natural draw… to the mountains.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: And I knew about Roanoke, since I'd been in, uh, [unintelligible] So, I wanted to come back to Roanoke, and GE had plants there.
Bob: And… they were there developing- specializing in industrial automation. Except they didn't done any automation yet. They were just industrial-controlled.
Bob: So, I finagled a transfer back to Roanoke, and… I got there just at the time when they were startin'… to make… any kind of automation controls for engines.
Bob: So, I got into what they call "a new business area". And I got to do all the great things. All my- I- I really had it right. I was in the right places at the right time.
Emily: Yeah. [laughs politely]
Bob: Because I am very logically-inclined.
Emily: That doesn't really happen nowadays, with the economy…
Bob: Yeah– and I- I'm a logician.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: Oddly enough, I never learned how a transistor even works… on records. But I use 'em all the time.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: I use 'em. I'm retired now, a long time. But… when I started out with this group, and the first thing we got into was trying to automate a steel mill… for rolling [unintelligible] steel for your cars.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: Well, we did that. And then, I got into… how to roll papers so you could get Kleenex.
Emily: [giggles]
Chris: And, of course, y'know, he's the guy that designed the controls for all the plastic water machines, so without him at this time, you couldn't have the plastic for your glasses.
Bob: And- and then- then, I got into- I was in the new business area [unintelligible] we could do the first one… and then, somebody else would take over and do the others.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: And-- and then, I got into managing a paper mill. But then, I got into the… industry of- of, uh, like [unintelligible] warehousing, automatic transition, like BART: Bay Area Rapid Transit.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: Automatic railroads and all that kind of stuff. Automated a bunch of that. Then, I got into automating a bunch of mine [unintelligible] around the world.
Emily: You've been through a lot!
Bob: And then, I went to automating tanker ships, so you could run 'em from the bridge and have nobody downstairs.
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: Just someone else involved-
Chris: Want some water?
Emily: No, thank you.
Bob: And, uh... then, uh- then, um, I got into… I developed [unintelligible] I found out that there was very few people like me in the world that had this natural… inclination… for logic.
Bob: Anyway, like the ands, and ors, and the what-ifs, and the what-if-nots.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: And then, I developed a system… called a [inaudible] that stands [unintelligible].
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: Hardware-oriented Y2K pile of junk!
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: Similar fortune… was in… hardware.
Emily: Oh, okay.
Chris: Hey, everybody– I got [unintelligible]
Emily: Oh, thank you.
Bob: What this enables-
Chris: [unintelligible, but clearly addressing Emily]
Emily: [giggles] Thank you.
Bob: What this enables everybody to do- and me, too, but I was lazy…
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: Was to write down on- on paper– and design on paper from the start– a sequence of parallel lines.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: And up to that point, nobody had a way of writin' it down on paper.
Emily: [half-stifles a genuine laugh]
Bob: And they still don't, really! [unintelligible]
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: But that [unintelligible] to mind, horse and buggy.
Bob: Elevator-type system that's over a 5,000 ft hole!
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: Then, I got into, uh, designing… scooter machines, which fused all the plastic around wires, and things like that…
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: Scooters. And then, I got into... die-cast machines… and the machines automating them. They make things like carburetors, and cans, and whatever.
Bob: And then, I got into plastics… and even the plastics were [unintelligible] automating their machines. In the process, I ended up with about… two patents [unintelligible] in my name that they own. And all this… dumb stuff. And I saw the first 2-liter Coke bottle…
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: Come off the line in New England.
Bob: [unintelligible] on it, and all these [unintelligible] doors, and- and, um… shutters, and stuff like that made out of plastic. All this stuff we got plastic.
Chris: [unintelligible] in your frames!
Emily: Yep! [giggles]
Bob: Including, uh, Tupperware.
Emily: Can't… go without Tupperware…
Bob: So, then [unintelligible] finalized and-- and perfected, basically, this [unintelligible] process…
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: Of design and documentation. [unintelligible] It came time for me to retire. And so, I did! [chuckles]
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: So, now, I'm un-indated with all this stuff I did, and I don't know whether I did the world a good thing or not.
Emily: I think you did!
Bob: But I can't-
Emily: You did a lot of things.
Bob: I can't spell the word "cat" without a K in it.
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: Uh, yeah, well, y'know, I'm proud of him anyway, for his accompliment- accom-plish-ments.
Emily: Uh-huh.
[pause]
Bob: He's got a half-brother who [unintelligible]
Chris: His son.
Emily: Oh... okay.
Bob: And he's got a- and I have a daughter, who is his- his half-sister… that's a… Phi Beta Kappa outta UVA Atlantic.
Emily: Oh... [laughs politely]
Bob: She's workin' for the federal government, and she's got a PHD now. She's working somewhere for the federal government. All these math people… I dunno.

Retired Life (16:59 - 24:22)

Emily: I'm not very good at math. [giggles]
Bob: I'm not that-
Emily: That's why-
Bob: I'm good at logic, but not at math.
Chris: But I'm good at math!
Emily: Oh…
Bob: He's not good at math when it comes to managing money.
[pause]
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: Hey– look! Hey– look it! I have… your plastic lid on it!
[Chris chuckles and Emily laughs]
Bob: We've been working with him, now, for 27 years.
Bob: It was a challenge. Most of the time, I've been retired, so I could [unintelligible]
Emily: Yeah... usually, if you're not very good at math, you're really good at writing, which is why I'm going for journalism.
Bob: Yeah– well, I, um... I did- I do alright with writing as long as I got a spell checker.
Emily: [laughs]
[pause]
Bob: I just, uh- I- but I enjoyed my life. It- it, uh- it- I had… things; I had- I had opportunities that most people don’t get.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: I got to see all this stuff now.
Emily: That’s good. I hope that, like, y'know, I can travel around the world and, y'know... write up-- do some journalism, like, overseas.
Bob: Yeah– I’ve been to Australia, and I’ve been to Korea, and I've been to England. Most people [unintelligible] to see 'em, but [unintelligible] I've never seen, 'cause they work too good.
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: Well, it- it was interesting.
[pause]
Bob: I wish I could get- find out what Christian's really good- well, he’s pretty good in drawing…
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: And writing.
Chris: Yeah– he- she should know; she- you’ve- you should know; you've seen a bunch of my artwork.
Emily: Yeah! It’s really good! All my- all my friends like it, as well.
Bob: He’s creative… but he’s, um… I- I guess you know he’s- he's high-functioning autistic… and, um…
Chris Yeah.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: At 6, he couldn’t even talk… but he was… programming [unintelligible] computer: his Commodore computer…
Chris: Commodore 64.
Bob: [laughs] Which was his first little-
Emily: Oh! I don’t know very many- much about computers! [giggles] Sorry! [giggles some more]
Bob: You’ve probably got a laptop, with a word processor, don't ya?
Emily: [reluctantly] Yeah...
Chris: Yeah. Yeah– but you-
Bob: Now, we've- we- we’ve brought him a long way.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: It’s been interesting.
Chris: Yeah... well, that’s a little piece for you- that you can, uh, write about, if you want to.
Emily: Yeah! That- that would be interesting.
Chris: Anyway, you- anyway, you came all the way here from, uh, VCU? Or did you make a few stops along the way?
Emily: No– I came all the way from VCU. Um… like, a lot of my fr- uh, friends over at VCU? They're into the whole Sonichu thing, but there’s a lot more… uh, like, I guess "Sonichu Girls"…
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: Up in, uh, the University of West Virginia. And we… k- we kinda do, like, a newsletter-type thing every week.
Chris: Wow.
Emily: Yeah.
[pause]
Bob: But this is in one of my favorite spots in the country.
Chris: [responding belatedly to Emily] I commend you for that.
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: [unintelligible] little trees on West Avenue.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: Have you heard of West Avenue?
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: You know where West Avenue is?
Emily: Yeah– a little bit; I don’t… really go in that area.
Bob: They're at the end of VCU, then?
Emily: Yeah. [laughs politely] I don’t know that area very well.
Bob: It’s- it's a street of, uh, townhouses. And it's about three blocks long. And it’s got a second name called "Stork Alley".
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: And every spring, they have a "Stork Alley Rally".
Emily: Uh-huh? Oh…
Bob: At the same time, they have the Easter parade over on Monument Avenue.
Emily: Yeah– I’ve never seen it before, but my friends tell me about it. But I’m usually stuck in, y'know… college.
Bob: Yeah– but- but I was only in Richmond… um… 1975 through 1980. And then, I got married to his mother. And, um... he was born, and then, we got transferred over here; I worked for GE. And we lived in Chesterfield County… but I love West Avenue; that’s my favorite spot.
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: I call it "Sesame Street".
Emily: Oh, that’s… [laughs politely]
Bob: Because they call it "Stork Alley", 'cause there’s so many kids.
Emily: Oh, yeah?
[pause]
Bob: I- I- I love the Virginian area.
Bob: His mother… was raised– but you wouldn’t believe it– she- she was raised in a [unintelligible] home. And one that's [unintelligible]
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: Right there on, um… I can’t think of the name of that street: the one that goes right in front of the Burger King… down at… VCU.
Emily: I don’t know what… streets really are-
Bob: Well, again- but that is a street that goes right in front of Burger King…
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: And right down the street from there is where… his mother lived for about 20 years and raised her first son. And he’s got a lot of ties to the family, too; he just doesn’t like me.
Emily: Oh... do you guys have a big family?
[pause]
Bob: Well, uh, we’ve got- we've got my son, and my daughter. You- my son’s in Richmond, and my daughter’s in Washington.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: And then, we’ve got her son, who's in New York. And then, there’s the three of us.
[pause]
Emily: Yeah– Schiflett's a really big family.
Bob: Yeah– we got… two- really, two separate families.
Emily: Mmm.
Chris: Yeah… but it’s not as big as The Brady Bunch!
Emily: Yeah. [laughs politely]
Bob: No… it isn't.
Emily: No.
Bob: But we- we- we enjoy it, and I- I have- uh, I grow flowers. And… I don’t have to worry about… makin' a livin' anymore…
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: With Social Security, and… the GE pension. And GE's good and sound… fortunately!
Emily: Yeah. [laughs politely]
[pause]
Bob: So, uh… I- I grow day lilies. I’ve gotten my yard full of [unintelligible] And in the middle, I’ve got a, um... well, about 15 [unintelligible] greenhouse.
Emily: Oh?
Bob: Except… inside this greenhouse, it’s different.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: Inside this greenhouse, there’s plastic flowers.
Emily: Oh– plastic flowers?
Bob: A swing… and, uh, all my stereo stuff, and, uh…
Chris: Yeah– but he’s got real flowers in his garden.
Emily: Oh. Oh, okay.
Bob: Yeah– the day lilies are real, in the garden; but inside here, it’s all flat.
Chris: Yeah– day lilies bloom about once a year, during- dur- about once-
Bob: In the summer.
Chris: This- this summer.
Emily: Oh.
Bob: There- there's also that-
Chris: And then, they stay that way for about a month or so. It’s a beautiful garden.
Emily: Oh, I can imagine!
Bob: Yeah– I’ve got about 15,000 healthy-
Chris: [dreamily/creepily] Imagine!
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: And I- I love all the music from- from [unintelligible (but seemingly naming a pair of musical artists)].
Chris: Raise me on music, he did!
Emily: [giggles]
Bob: And- and musicals. And soundtracks.
Emily: Well, what’s your favorite artist?
Chris: Uh, my favorite artist? Well, he didn’t raise me on it, but, y'know, my favorite ss- uh... singer is Britney Spears.
Emily: Britney Spears?
Bob: And, uh, he's got all- uh, mine are all back from the '40s, and '30s, and '20s, and-
Emily: And he’s into… more modern pop music?
Chris: Although… I guess if I had to pick a classic favorite, it would have to be Satchmo.
Emily: "Satchmo"?
Chris: Louis Armstrong.
Bob: And-- but [unintelligible] all these big classics now-
Chris: [does terrible Satchmo impression] "Ten feet off the ground! Ba-doom-ba-bam-bow. [Worst attempt at scatting ever]"
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: [imitates trumpet melody]
Emily: [giggles]
Bob: I couldn't afford it when it came out. All the European [unintelligible]
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: I couldn't afford it when they came out, 'cause they were [unintelligible] but now, you can get 'em at Goodwill and Salvation Army…
Emily: Well-
Bob: A quarter to fifty cents apiece.
Emily: [feigning enthusiastic agreement] Yeah! [laughs weakly]
Bob: Thousands of them now!
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: And inside, uh, I found out that inside this, um… um… greenhouse…
Emily: Mm-hmm?
Bob: It's got a dome ceiling… which gives it the ca- cathedral [unintelligible]
Bob: Well… I found this great stereo system at, uh- in the 1970s, at Goodwill… and put it out there… along with the swing.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: And… if you turn the volume up, then that music just sounds like it’s the hall where they recorded it! Ah– it's great! Goin' out there and swingin' with my music for hours on end!
Emily: [unintelligible]
Bob: [laughs heartily]
Emily: That must be really relaxing!
Bob: Well, yeah– it's a nice life!
Emily: Yeah! [laughs politely]

Bob's Health Problems (24:23 - 25:29)

Bob: If I didn't have to worry about him, I'd be in great shape!
Emily: [laughs sympathetically]
Bob: [chuckles]
Chris: [laughs nervously] [unintelligible] But he's been- still been in… good shape all his [unintelligible] I mean, he's been in- he's been through, uh, three triple- two triple-bypasses?
Bob: Yeah– I was supposed to die in 1980.
Emily: Oh, no! What happened?
Bob: In fact, I did.
Emily: What happened?
Bob: I smoked too much…
Emily: Oh...
Bob: And, um... I worked for GE.
Bob: I did all this dumb stuff I shouldn't have.
Emily: Oh...
Chris: Yeah- but yeah– he- but yes– uh…
Bob: And, um…
Chris: God let him survive!
Bob: I had a couple heart attacks, and…
Emily: [responding to Chris] Yeah– for a reason!
Chris: And he's got a pacemaker now!
Bob: Yeah… I- I've been through- I lived through a triple-bypass in 1980 [unintelligible]
Emily: [laughs nervously]
Bob: And survived that… so, I've only died a couple times! And then, I got-- I got through that. Then, he came along.
Chris: Hey! He come-
Bob: And then, I- I got retired…
Chris: Hey!
Emily: Hmm?
Chris: Yeah– hey– he's the one that's b- that has seen the light, but did not actually go to it…
Emily: Yeah. [laughs politely]
Bob: And, um...
Chris: A number of times.
Bob: I had another triple-bypass in '92… And I died a couple times [unintelligible] And that was at Chippenham, over in Chester County.
Emily: Oh...

Memories of High School (25:30 - 26:12)

Bob: And, uh... when I was over there with him, I-- I put him to school through, uh, Chesterfield County's school system.
Chris: Uh...
Bob: Well, they're the best in the country…
Emily: Yeah…
Bob: For- for schools [unintelligible]
Chris: Yeah...
Bob: And- and, um...
Chris: Manchester High.
Emily: [disinterested] Oh, really?
Bob: Then, um...
Chris: That's my birthstone: amnyfest.
Emily: And the side of it… What does it say: "Lancers"?
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: Is that- wait– is that your mascot?
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: Then…what's on the other side? "2000"?
Chris: Yes... that's my class and coat'a arms.
Emily: Oh...
Chris: Manchester High School. And look at the jewel! It's a galaxy cut on top, and a rainbow on the bottom. If you look at- in the ring-
Emily: Yeah!
Chris: Do you see-
Emily: I see it!
Chris: Do you see the rainbow?
Emily: Yeah!
Chris: Yeah. Well, anyway, like, y'know, I guess that's enough- y'know, that's enough talk from him. Uh... you were gonna ask…
Emily: Aww...
Chris: Me something?

The "Sonichu Girls" Club (26:13 - 29:01)

Bob: Now, I wanna find out about these… Sonichu Girls!
Emily: [laughs] Sonichu Girls?
Bob: 'Cause I didn't know about them.
Emily: Oh– didn't… Chris tell you about them?
Bob: No– he doesn't- no– he doesn't normally- he doesn't… tell me much about them, so… See– he's a- he- he and his mother stay up all night… and I stay up all day.
Emily: Oh...
Chris: Uh... actually reminds me more- actually, we're more- sometimes, you stay up in the day; sometimes, you stay up in the night.
Emily: So, you've got, like, mixed… like, sleep schedules, I guess?
Chris: Yeah... my mom- and my- my mom picked up my bad biological- my messed-up biological clock.
Bob: Yeah...
Emily: Oh...
Bob: She stays up all night! But anyway… I- I- yeah– I found out about 'em from… I guess, when you called on the phone…
Emily: Oh! [laughs politely]
Bob: And- and left a message.
Emily: Yeah– it's a pretty big fanbase. Um... there's actually about- about 30-some girls… at University of West Virginia who, like, are part of the fan club.
Bob: Hmm!
Emily: And then, there's- I mean, there's, uh, plenty of others, like, around the world, too, that- we talk to… um, on the forums that we have?
Bob: Uh-huh.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: Do- you got one here in UVA?
Emily: I don't know… [giggles] I don't have very many friends at UVA.
Bob: [inaudible]
Emily: [laughs politely] That's why I heard- that's why.
Bob: VCU's [unintelligible]
Emily: Yeah. They're a lot more laid-back over there.
Bob: Yeah. Well, they're in the sand! How else could you be?
Emily: Yeah. [laughs politely]
Bob: 'Cause in the sand, you have to be laid-back.
Emily: Yeah.
[pause]
Bob: Y'know, I was curious about this- this club…
Emily: Uh-huh?
Bob: I- I didn't know he even knew about it! I didn't know about it. I think it's great!
Emily: Yeah!
[pause]
Chris: Hey– I've been on the Internet chat! And plus, y'know...
Bob: [inaudible]
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: Y'know, certain-
Bob: Plus the medallion, Christian!
Chris: Yeah... um...
Bob: He's got this yellow medallion with Sonichu on it…
Emily: Yeah! Why- why aren't you wearing your… [suddenly concerned] m- medallion?
Chris: Um... I just believe I expressed that, uh... in a video on, uh, YouTube? But I- I, uh...
Emily: I might've missed that; I'm not sure.
Chris: Yeah– um... I'd rather not say in front of- I'd rather not say in front of Father… but, uh...
Bob: There's a lot of things he doesn't tell me; he doesn't share things with me.
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: Oh... [laughs nervously]
Chris: [whispering] If I told him why, he'd have another heart attack…
Emily: Oh, no! [laughs politely]
[pause]
Bob: [inaudible]
Emily: Yeah! [laughs politely again]
Chris: Yeah... But I mean, y'know… think of it this way: at least you don't have another face that you have-- you don't-- it saves you one face to have to look at!
Emily: Yeah... [laughs nervously]
Chris: Yeah– and look at 'em, y'know: they're ashually green-blue.
[pause]
Emily: Yeah– I see it!
[pause]
Chris: Yeah– pink eye in that eye, and then, uh, the prescribed eye drops changed the pigment!
Emily: Wow… I didn't know that… could happen! [laughs nervously]
Chris: Mmm. Yeah... looks like you kinda, like, uh, have green-brown eyes yourself?
Emily: Yeah...
[pause]
Chris: Uh...
Emily: I thought they were just plain brown! [laughs politely]
Chris: Yeah– it's just that- y'know, it's- the angle of the light kinda gave it a little bit of a greenish tint…
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah...
Bob: [unintelligible]

Emily Isn't Hungry (29:02 - 29:58)

Chris: Yeah... but anyway, uh… you came all the way from VCU; uh... you hungry?
Emily: Oh– no, I'm not hungry. I ate on the way here, really.
Chris: Oh– you-
Emily: Stopped at, like, a rest stop. Got some vending m- [laughs nervously] vending machine snacks… and that's it.
Chris: Oh. That's good. That's good; uh... Father was thinkin' about, like- was gonna get us spaghetti, and, uh... [truly flustered] we wanna sh- we wanna split it be-- he was gonna split it between me, and, uh... I'm gonna split mine with you…
Emily: Oh, no… I'm not hungry. Thank you, though!
Chris: [weakly] Yeah.
Bob: We usually split a spaghetti, 'cause I- I can't eat it all!
[pause]
Chris: Yeah... it's a really big bowl for him…
Emily: Oh.
Chris: Really… whoop!
[Emily laughs and Chris chuckles]
Bob: It's not as big as I'd like… y'know... it's bigger!
Emily: No… [giggles]
Chris: Let's see… well, Dad– why don't you go get your spaghetti?
Bob: Do you want some?
Emily: No. I'm- I'm not hungry. Thank you, though…
Chris: Yeah... we could get you some water.
Emily: No– I'm not thirsty, as well.
[pause]
Chris: Mmm. Okay– well, go ahead and get your sh-- go ahead and get the spaghetti, Father.
Bob: Alright.

Bob's Health Problems Revisited (29:59 - 32:11)

Bob: Yeah– I got one other thing I was gonna tell you about…
Emily: Uh-huh?
Bob: Since we've talked about it: on that, uh... I've died about five times now. The last time, I was at Golden Corral. The restaurant?
Emily: Uh-huh?
Bob: [unintelligible]
Chris: And… my mom was there with him.
Bob: [chuckles] I just… hit the floor!
Emily: Oh, no!
Chris: No– not really; uh... he was-- uh, he was pullin' out his credit c- not really "hit the floor", but… he was pullin' out his, uh, credit card?
Emily: Mm-hmm?
Chris: And he would've… hit a- he was standing in front of, like, the cash register, and there was a bar railing there; the bar rail was there. If he- if my mom wasn't there to catch him…
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Chris: His- like his guardian angel, he would'a hit the bar and would've been… worse…
Emily: Oh…
Chris: Would've been worse off!
Emily: Oh, wow…
Bob: But anyway, uh, now, I've got a pacemaker.
Emily: Wow. [laughs nervously]
Chris: Yeah– and that's when he got his pacemaker.
Emily: Oh.
Bob: I guess that won't happen in, uh...
Emily: [laughs politely]
[pause]
Bob: But I- I think the [unintelligible] reason why I survived all those attacks… which I think I'm proud of…
Emily: Mm-hmm?
Bob: I don't know about you.
Chris: He's proud of it.
Bob: I'm proud of it. I don't know whether he is or not.
Chris: I'm proud of him, for it!
Bob: But I'm, um- I found out a few years ago- about… 10 or 15 years ago…
Emily: Mm-hmm?
Bob: That I was… at least one-fourth Cherokee!
Emily: [laughs politely]
Chris: Yeah– so, that makes me an eighth… Cherokee.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: So, I figured that- and then, I checked back all my father's… relatives [unintelligible] all the way up to be up in their 80s, and 90s, and even over 100 sometimes.
Emily: Dang! [laughs politely]
Bob: Well, I figured: well, that's why I keep bouncin' back from this.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: This ain't my time yet.
Chris: Yeah– either that or, uh, God's lettin' him stick around for my… c- for my case.
Bob: Somebody's gotta look out for him!
Emily: Oh... [laughs nervously]
Bob: [cackles]
Chris: [cackles almost identically]
Bob: Somebody's gotta pay the bills!
Emily: [laughs nervously again]
Chris: Yeah… okay, Dad, uh... you s- alright, Dad-
Bob: Now- now, I'm dismissed, so I can go [unintelligible]
Emily: Oh... [laughs nervously yet again]
Chris: Well… not really "dismissed", because… y'know, I'm a little hungry myself… So… [laughs nervously] y'know, Dad, please go get the spaghetti and the bread.
Bob: You sure you don't want something?
Emily: Yeah– I'm sure. Thank you for asking, though.
Chris: Yeah– y'know, I was concerned, myself.
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: Well, I'll let you two talk… mainly to save the table…
Emily: [laughs] Yeah…
Bob: [laughs heartily] Then, I'll come back, and… If you don't mind us eatin' in front of you!
Emily: I don't mind.
[pause]
Bob: You better tell me more about this club you've got!
Emily: [laughs politely]
[Bob walks away]

Chris Fails at Flirting (32:12 - 36:48)

Chris: Mmm. Yeah– y'know, you-- uh... I must say you look good.
Emily: Oh– thank you!
Chris: And, y'know, you are the first, uh, female Sonichu fan to have actually come a long distance to see me.
Emily: Oh– well, it's not that far! I’m sure, like, maybe some of the girls from VCU would come down sometime: like, maybe during s- uh... summer break.
Chris: Yeah– but I mean, at least all the way from, uh, West Virginia.
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: I mean, that’s farther than VCU, I'm sure.
Emily: Yeah! [laughs politely] We might take a road trip down here.
Chris: [in a sing-song voice] "Take a road trip! It's a little road trip!"
Emily: [laughs politely]
Chris: Mmm. [does terrifying Donald Duck impression] "And this is my duck talk! This is, uh, Donald Duck!"
Emily: [laughs in disbelief] [almost fearful] Is that the one that scared that child?
Chris: Uh... at the-
Emily: At Wendy’s.
Chris: Uh...
Emily: I don’t know how that’s scary.
Chris: No– not- not- no– not- really scary; y'see, he was tired…
Emily: Oh... okay. So, you…
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: Oh, okay.
Chris: But it makes a lot of children smile, ‘cause they’re familiar with that D- classic Disney character.
Emily: Yeah!
[pause]
Chris: Yeah... you mi- you don’t mind if I t- if I, uh, have my hand on your shoulder?
Emily: Uh, not for too long…
Chris: [chuckles] "Not for too long".
Emily: Okay... not- not for too long…
Chris: Okay...
Emily: [laughs nervously]
Chris: Mmm. [chuckles again] This is like- wow– I finally… get, like, this… beautiful girl in front of me…
Emily: [laughs politely] Thank you.
Chris: And she's like- and she actually got to know me.
Emily: [weakly] Yeah.
Chris: Just, like, y'know, uh... Yeah. So… what’s your- what's the reason you need your glasses for? I’m near-sighted myself.
Emily: Yeah– I’m nearsighted, as well.
Chris: Oh.
Emily: I don’t have very good eyes.
Chris: [chuckles] It's like, y'know, we’re close, so it's like, y'know, we don’t need glasses to see each other…
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: Do we?
Emily: Hmm... no– it's still blurry…
Chris: Yeah... Mmm. How do you look without that hat? I mean, I want- I'd like to see the, uh…
Emily: I- I like this hat. My hair doesn’t look good today.
Chris: Oh…
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: Your hair doesn’t look good today? Are you sure?
Emily: Yeah– I’m sure. [laughs nervously]
Chris: How’s my hair look?
Emily: It looks good!
Chris: Mmm. Looks good. [chuckles] Boy– I've had it sleepin' against pillows… and I took a shower before I went- before I went to- um, crashing on the… couch.
Emily: [slightly disgusted] Oh...
[pause]
Chris: Yeah– but I put on some, uh, bod- body s- some Axe body spray before I left. Do you like that smell?
Emily: Yeah– it depends on which one it is.
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: Uh, which one is it?
Chris: I believe it's, uh... it's called "Proximity".
Emily: Oh– I really like the choc- the new chocolate one.
Chris: Oh– the, uh, "Dark Temptation"…
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: Oh– I was running low on that can anyway.
Emily: Oh... okay.
Chris: It's like I- if I- if I- if we-- if we was hookin' up, I would've gotten more of that!
Emily: [laughs]
[Note: Chris both stutters and laughs through "if we was hookin' up", so it's not at all clear that Emily realizes what she's laughing at.]
Chris: [sighs] But seriously, though: you are cute.
Emily: Oh– thank you.
Chris: Mmm. Mmm... Yeah– I like- I like this- I like this- I like the get-up you’re wearing. It's like you're- you c- you straight- came straight from, uh... the, uh, PGSM… show.
Emily: Oh, yeah... [laughs politely]
Chris: It's the live-action Sailor Moon.
Emily: Yeah– I’ve seen some of the episodes for that.
Chris: I’ve got the entire series-
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: Saved to my PlayStation 3, including the, uh, wedding episode.
Emily: Oh– I don’t… think I’ve… seen that one… so…
Chris: It's, like, the very- it's, like, a very special last episode.
Emily: Oh, okay.
[pause]
Chris: [in a strange, baby-like voice] You actually get to see Usagi… [back to his normal voice] and, uh- aww, shoot– I forget his name, but, y'know…
Emily: Uh... Mamoru?
Chris: Yeah– Samoru. That’s it; you got it.
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: You got it!
Emily: [laughs politely]
Chris: You got it.
Emily: Yeah– I used to be a really big fan of Sailor Moon. Well, I still am; I’m just not as big of a fan as… nowadays.
Chris: [unintelligible] entire anime series?
Emily: Um, I haven’t seen the last season.
Chris: Yeah– Sailor Stars.
Emily: Yeah... 'cause it didn’t come out in America, 'cause they’re, like, afraid of the transsexuals?
Chris: [chuckles] Yeah.
Emily: [laughs nervously]
[pause]
Chris: Yeah... Yeah– I kn- I know that. But I have that on, uh- I have that on DVD-
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: Uh, y'know, with J- Japanese audio and English subtitles.
Emily: How do you feel about that? Like, the transsexuals and… the Sailor Starlights?
Chris: Yeah. Um...
[pause]
Emily: Does it, like, make you uncomfortable, or… would you-
Chris: No.
Emily: Would you have minded if, like, it came out, and the TV showed just, like, little kids?
[pause]
Chris: Um... Yeah... [pitiful] I don’t have much of an opinion…
[Emily and Chris both laugh]
Emily: It's kind of a… sketchy subject, there.
Chris: Yeah– it's, uh- it's… [in a British accent] itchy…
Emily: Yeah.
[pause]
Emily: [laughs nervously]
Chris: Yeah– but you can sketch a lot in your, uh... journalism, don't ya?
Emily: Yeah. Well, I m- I mean, we don’t draw a lot; we just… We do, like, the little outlines, and then, we start writing.
Chris: Okay– well, I mean, you- I mean, you sketch your letters.
Emily: Yeah...
Chris: I bet you sketch your signature pretty… don’t you?
Emily: No– I thinks it's, uh- it's just basically a bunch'a scribbles.
[Chris and Emily both laugh]
Chris: Eh... a lot of people would say that about their signatures, I’m sure.
Emily: Well, I mean, some people just, like, put an X for their signature, and that’s it.
Chris: Ah... but not you. You put…
[pause]
Emily: An E and… an S, basically. [laughs politely]
Chris: Uh- uh, an S?
Emily: Yeah– Emily Schiflett.
Chris: Oh– that’s your last name!
Emily: Yeah!
Chris: "Schiflett".
Emily: Yeah– my middle name’s Julia.
Chris: "Julia"!
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: "Emily Julia Schiflett".
Emily: [weakly] Yeah.
Emily: Flows nicely, doesn’t it?
Chris: It's beautiful!
Emily: Aww... thank you.
Chris: D- do you dot your I in "Julia" with a heart?
Emily: No... [laughs politely]
Chris: [chuckles]
[pause]

Eating Spaghetti and Conversing (36:49 - 44:46)

[Bob comes back]
Chris: [sighs] Alright, Dad– uh, I'll let you, uh, divvy up the spaghetti onto my plate.
Bob: I get to divvy it up!
Emily: [laughs politely]
Chris: [chuckles]
Bob: Wow! Christian– I don't know… [unintelligible] my treat to finally come down here! I love their spaghetti!
Emily: Oh... really? I don't think- I've only had their pizza there… before…
Bob: Yeah– the, um- all the spaghetti places in town are too expensive.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: My favorite, though, is, um, Olive Garden.
Emily: Oh.
Chris: Yeah– b- but-
Bob: But they don't have one here!
Emily: [laughs politely]
Chris: But they should have one here.
Bob: I think they should.
Emily: [weakly] Yeah…
Chris: You ever been to an Olive Garden?
Emily: Mm-mmm.
Chris: Mmm. Well, yeah– it's a good place to, uh, get, uh, spaghetti.
Emily: Oh, okay.
Chris: I- I've actually- yeah– y'know, I was there with my father… when- the few times we visited, uh, Olive Garden.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Chris: Yeah– a good place to get, uh, spaghetti; really good.
[pause]
Chris: And also, we've been to the, uh, few, uh, nearly- to the other nearly esstinct, uh, restaurants: y'know, like Shoney's [unintelligible]
Emily: Oh– I haven't seen a Shoney's around in a while!
Chris: There's one in Chesterfield Count- there's a bun-- there's a few in the Richmond area…
Bob: And one over close to VCU!
Emily: Oh! Really? I didn't see it! [laughs politely] Of course, I'm- I'm usually not looking for them, so…
Chris: Yeah– we even ha- yeah– we even- at- at home, somewhere, we even have a t- we even have the- the teddy bear: the Shoney Bear.
[pause]
Emily: The Shoney Bear?
Chris: Yeah– it's- that was their mascot.
Emily: Oh, okay.
Chris: And I mean, if you look it up-- if you look up "Shon"- if you- I'm sure if you Googled "Shoney's", you'd, uh... find their mascot being the teddy-
Emily: Oh.
Chris: Being the bear.
[pause]
Chris: [in a somewhat cutesy voice] "Bein' the bear in the shirt…"
Emily: [laughs politely]
Chris: [unintelligible] "to… wan- to wan- to… gawk- to gander at!"
[pause]
Bob: Christian– they got lots of juice!
[Chris chuckles and Emily laughs]
Chris: Well, you can have it…
Bob: [inaudible]
Chris: I don't need to, uh, slobber all over myself… Especially in front of my, uh, "lady friend", here.
Emily: Yeah. [laughs politely] Aww...
Chris: Mmm.
Bob: [unintelligible] a little bit more?
[long pause]
Bob: You can deal without…
[pause]
Chris: Yeah– he doesn't usually eat the bread, so, uh, I'll take his- so, I take his breadsticks.
Emily: Oh...
Chris: I'm gonna go get some more water.
Emily: Okay!
Chris: I'll be right back.
[Chris walks away]
[pause]
Bob: [unintelligible] share with him.
Emily: [laughs politely]
Bob: I share with my wife. [unintelligible]
Emily: Does she do anything for a living or is she retired as well?
Bob: She's retired. She used to be a secretary. She worked for uh, General Power
Emily: Oh.
Bob: You know, our nice power company, whatever they're called now... Dominion?
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: And uh, she worked for uhm Circuit City for a while before she retired.
Emily: Well good thing she's gone- she got out of Circuit City before they started going downhill.
Bob: Yeah, well they were going downhill [unintelligible] retired.
Emily: Oh really?
Bob: Yeah, [unintelligible] got retirement. She didn't retire 'til, a couple- three years ago. She's younger than I am [unintelligible]
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: But she's younger than I am, but uh [pause] [unintelligible] she uh worked [unintelligible, Chris comes back, still unintelligible] she loves that. Grey Street. Grey Street.
Emily: Uh huh.
Bob: Do you know where Grey Street is over there? Do you uh, Do you know where the Burger King is over there by BP is?
Chris: [chuckles] Yeah.
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: [Unintelligible, Emily is laughing while he is saying it]
Bob: The Burger King is on Price Street.
Emily: Oh.
Bob: I-I-I'm an [unintelligible] uh, Main uh what you would call Main Street.
Emily: Uh huh.
Bob: VCU is all back in [pause] all back in here like this,
Emily: Uh huh.
Bob: [unintelligible] and downtown Richmond is this way.
Chris: [says something about Pokemon]
Bob: He loooves Pokemon.
Chris: Yeah, we used to come down here for the Pokemon league or uh [unintelligible] Yeah, I remember that.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: [unintelligible] for you is-is here. Well all around in here, they're everywhere, but fifth Avenue is over there.
Emily: Uh huh.
Bob: And Grey Street is 3 blocks, all the way through there like this where the lower side of VCU is.
Emily: Oh.
Bob: And they got all their little restaurants and their little stores and things like that and they're all along Grey Street.
Emily: Oh.
Bob: And where his mother lived for about twenty years was right about here... On Grey Street.
Emily: Oh.
Chris: Hey, by the way I have used uh chopsticks before.
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: See there?
Emily: That may be kind of hard with a fork and a knife. [laughs]
Chris: Heh heh heh hey that's close enough.
Emily: Yeah. [laughs]
Chris: I can't...
Bob: Yeah, well while we were over there in Richmond.
Chris: I'm sorry, are you a little bit Chinese or Asian or Japanese?
Emily: Nuh uh.
Bob: I think it's just from wearin' glasses.
Emily: Yeah, I think it's just the glasses... And the dark hair [chuckles]
Bob: I'll bet ya [unintelligible] over there was Reverend [unintelligible] of the Korean Church.
Emily: Uh huh.
Chris: And this is in [unintelligible] County.
Emily: Oh-.
Bob: Yeah and he was from Seoul, Korea, and I was in Seoul for about a year. Went in about the time he was born.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: But he was my best friend over there, and used to spend talking with and talking to. Because he was really interested in the world.
Emily: Mmhm.
Bob: And I'm really world oriented, and my favorite institution is the United Nations.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: I think they're the answer to everything we got in this world, but..[delayed pause]. We went to the Korean church while we were over there in [unintelligible] County when he was in school. I tell you, that's where picked up the chopsticks.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: [starts talking but is cut off by Chris.]
Chris: They gave me, they gave me my bible that I used in my [unintelligible] when I graduated from High School.
Emily: Is it part, like, in the other language? Or-
Bob and Chris: No.
Emily: Uh, only English, okay. I know there's some that have like two different languages in it.
Chris: Yeah, it's a King England bible.
Bob: And what they do in the Church is-[trails off quietly].
Chris: King's English, whatever it is.
Bob: [still quiet, hard to hear]
Emily: Oh.
Bob: It's all Korean, maybe except for a few words. And then they had like, a wireless [unintelligible], those little earphones, where you could hear the translation.
Emily: [chuckles]
Bob: It was kind of neat, I enjoyed it.
Chris: Yeah, everybody was able to bring their own food and we'd get to sample it for uh-, and we'd get to have a nice lunch meal every Sunday there.
Bob: [unintelligible]
Emily: [laughs] You like spicy food?
Chris: Yeah, I like spicy.
Bob: What I was gonna say, uh, Kimchi.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: Yeah. Go away, you know?
Emily: [laughs] Too spicy for you?
Bob: Yeah, it's too spicy for me.
Chris: [sounding it out] Kim-Chi, hm.
Bob: But, uh, like they told me if anything that's red, forget it.
Emily: Yeah. [chuckles]
Chris: Except your spaghetti sauce, right Dad?
Bob: They didn't have spaghetti sauce, no they watched that to me, they gave me that more bland stuff.
Emily: Oh. [chuckles]
Bob: [unintelligible]
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: If it was me I can handle spicy, seriously, I can even probably even handle the kid-the kid- the kimchi, what he said.
Emily: I can't handle spicy food that well, it upsets my stomach.
Bob: I like Jalapeno a little bit
Emily: [chuckles]
Bob: [unintelligible]
Emily: Hah, yeah.
Bob: [something more about jalapenos, followed by silence] Yeah, they told me anything that was red, don't pick it up.
Emily: Yeah. [laughs politely]
[silence]

Bob on World News (44:47 - 51:00)

Bob: Yeah, I miss Reverend Chen, he was really interested in learning about the world.
Emily: Mhm.
Bob: And he didn't have a chance-[trails off quietly, very hard to hear]
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: [still talking, still hard to hear]
Emily: Good. [after Bob's latest very hard to hear statement] I wish I could, like, pick up the newspaper and read more. I mean I pick up, like, our school newspaper and that's about it, but I mean when it comes to world events I read some of the articles, but I mean some of them I just can't get into.
Bob: Yeah, it's a new thing on TV.
Emily: Mhm?
Bob: I know we have it here on Comcast, I don't know what you have though.
Emily: I'm not sure what-
Bob: Over there.
Emily: I'm not sure what-
Bob: It's a program on public television, it's really a station here, we have three different stations, [unintelligible] and one of them's called World News. [unintelligible]
Emily: I don't think we have that.
Bob: And, they uh-they have uh English translations of everything on it, but they have programs that originate all over the world. [unintelligible] So you see how the rest of the world looks at the U.S.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: So you see what they're saying about us and what's going on over there. Half the time I find out things that are happening in the United States, that somebody in Germany or Russia or China or in Japan-
Emily: [laughs] That's always nice.
Bob: Yeah, that's one of my my favorite stations, and they have it here. I-it's a public radio sponsored thing, but it's called World View.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: Dubya-vee(WV).
Emily: I think my school has that, I'm not sure, I might have not never noticed or anything like that.
Bob: Well they might have it, because it's very educational.
Emily: I was watching Discovery Channel.
Bob: Yeah, I watch Discovery, and World Discovery Science, and World History, and-
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: Yeah there's lots to see on TV. [unintelligible] He came up with it, believe it or not. He taught himself to read.
Emily: Really?
Bob: Oh he could really read, by turning on those stations [trails off]
Emily: Wow, that's-
Bob: [unintelligible]
Emily: That's go-that's clever!
Bob: [still hard to understand, something about PHDs and psychologists]
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: [background noise starting to pick-up, Bob is becoming much harder to hear, hopefully someone can decipher this completely]
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: [something about learning how to read]
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: [more about learning to read]
Emily: Yeah!
Bob: But they won't listen to me, I'm an 81 year old [unintelligible, sounds like player].
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: But he came up with-
Emily: But you know they'll come up with it and someone else will take the credit for it later on.
Bob: [at this point the people in the background are becoming easier to hear than Bob, lasts around 20 seconds.] I thought it was such a phenomenal good idea. [more hard to hear sound.]
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: Well he-he's a photographic memory.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: But I think those were the autism a little bit.
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: And I got an audio memory too. [apparently they were talking about him.]
Bob: Cause he can, you ever heard of, um Mario World?
Emily: Yeah. [chuckles]
Chris: [chimes in to correct, sounds a bit upset] He's talking about Super Mario World.
Bob: [unintelligible]
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: Well in three days, he-he [unintelligible stuttering] killed King Koopa. I can't get off of Yoshi's Island.
Emily: [laughs] I'm not very good at those games either. [more laughing]
Bob: The reason he is, is cause he can remember all those different moves.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: It's like taking a picture, [unintelligible]
Emily: [laughs] I reckon I wanna know about that.
Chris: I'll tell you one thing, you've got pretty face. [not a mistake]
Emily: Aww, thank you.
Bob: She looks like Margie, doesn't she?
Chris: What?
Bob: She looks like Margie.
Chris: What you mean the Peanuts character Margie?
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: You know Margie?
Emily: [laughs again]
Chris: Uh...no. [cuts off Bob with more laughter from Emily] No, I'd say if anything she uh, wait a minute I'm trying to...I'm trying to figure it out. Um...
Bob: She doesn't look like Peppermint Patty.
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: Yeah I'd say, uh, you compare [unintelligible] you look more like Rei from PGSM.
Emily: Yeah, [pause] she's one of my favorite characters.
Chris: You like Sailor Mars, [something nerdy and unintelligible].
[pause]
Emily: Who's your favorite character?
Chris: Um, with the exception of uh Usagi and Chibi-Usa. I like, uh, Ami.
Emily: Any particular reason, like?
Chris: [chuckle] Well, I don't know it's just like [short ramble]...
Emily: Cause she's smart?
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: And uh also, I think it's, I think also it's the blue hair, I'm not sure.
Emily: Do you like blue?
Chris: Yeah, blue is my favorite color, what's your favorite color?
Emily: I like green.
Chris: You like green. So I guess you like Jupiter.
Emily: Yeah, Jupiter. [laughs]
Chris: [apparently doing a horrendous impression of Sailor Jupiter] Jupi-tahhh!
Emily: [inaudible]
Chris: You know, if you uhh, you uhh, [unintelligible] car, you'd- you'd be all right by yourself at this point, right?
Bob: [something about taking care of himself]
Emily: [laughs] No.
Chris: I mean, it's like, uhh you know, if you, uhh, don't feel like moving around any more, we can go, uhh, walk and talk.
Emily: I don't want to leave him by himself. I mean...
Chris: He's all right.
Emily: Will you be here at the mall very much longer, or...
Bob: I dunno.
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: Well, [unintelligible] by the time we get back, he'll be here for that much longer.
Emily: OK...
Bob: I can stick around, but I'm slow.
Chris: Yeah, he's slow.
Bob: [starts rambling about something]
Emily: Yeah.

The Bear Band (51:01 - 55:23)

Bob: [inaudible]
Chris: You know I taste my food [unintelligible] as well. At least my first bite.
Emily: Yeah. [laughs] [unintelligible]
Bob: After that it's [inaudible]
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: [unintelligible] You know it's on one of my shirts. It's on my favorite shirt, you know, the one I draw myself in often.
Emily: Oh, OK.
Chris: Yeah, [unintelligible] probably for being my first female Sonichu fan...
Emily: [interrupts with a laugh] Thank you.
Chris: ...have come a long distance.
Emily: Thank you. Anyway, where do you want to walk off to?
Chris: Uh, you know, anywhere in the mall.
Bob: All those exciting things around the mall.
Emily: Yeah, doesn't look..it's not very big. [laughs]
Bob: [inaudible]
Chris: Yeah I have. I wish it was two story, like Regency Square.
Emily: Where's that?
Chris: It's in [???] County.
Bob: No, it's not in [???]...
Emily: [laughs over Bob]
Bob: ...County. It's close [inaudible] It's across the river.
Emily: Oh.
Chris: Yeah.
Bob: [inaudible]... That's that big shopping center over in north, north-west side of Richmond.
Emily: Uh-huh. I've never heard of it.
Chris: Yeah, and it has a Bear Band there... that's where I got...that's where I learned about Christian and got my name changed from Christopher to Christian. [unintelligible] ...talk about it very much.
Bob: When he was born, I was too chicken to name him Christian.
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: Wow.
Bob: I was too...so I named him Christopher.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: But I really wanted to name him Christian.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: And so, when he was seven or eight years old...
Chris: Yeah.
Bob: ...we were over at Regency Square...
Chris: Yeah I think his photo...
Bob: ...at Christmas time. And they had this automated Bear Band.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: Like [inaudible] were playing instruments, and one of them conducting and singing.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: And...but underneath [inaudible] talking, and he had a camera, so he could see who he was talking to. And he [inaudible] talking to the bear.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: [inaudible] was British...had a British accent anyway. But he was talking to Christopher. And he asked Chris-he asked Chris his name. He said Christopher, but he misunderstood.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: And he thought he said [inaudible]
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: So he started calling him Christian.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: Over there at the mall.
Emily: Mm.
Bob: Guess he liked that, and uh, so later we [inaudible] did all the paperwork,
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: Made it official, changed it from-from Christopher to Christian.
Emily: Well at least he got the name that you wanted to give him.
Bob: Yeah, yeah I know. But...and then Christian came along with later and confided in me like he does sometimes...
Emily: [awkward laugh]
Bob: ...sometimes, that he [inaudible] much too many problems here in Greene County, north of here where we live.
[loud cough, probably Chris]
Bob: It's a little small county [inaudible] rural. Got maybe 10,000 people in there.
Emily: Oh.
Bob: It's about ten...[inaudible] ten miles up the road.
Emily: Oh.
Bob: And, uh... he had so much trouble over the school system there. They tried to put him in an institution for years. For years I fought 'em in court.
Chris: Yeah.
Bob: And I kept winning and winning and winning, but finally I took him to Richmond to go to school...
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: ...to get him away from...them.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: [inaudible] And I spent seven years over there with him in a townhouse while his mother was working over here.
Emily: Oh.
Bob: But, um...anyway, he confided in me one day after we changed his name.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: He was all, "I really wanted to change my name [inaudible] to be a Christian [inaudible] with a new life in...
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: ...[???] County." We left Christopher over there with those people in Greene County.
Emily: Yeah. [laughs]
Chris: Yeah, but then here's the [unintelligible] I thought..I real-I realized, uh, later after we came back to our Ruckersville home here.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Chris: Uh..yeah, um...after we came back I started hearing Christopher, like you know, Christopher Thorndyke from Sonic X, at least.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Chris: It's like... [unintelligible] like you know...at the same time it's like th-those...it's like the past spirit of Christopher saying [high-pitched voice] "[unintelligible]".
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: Boy, we're still not gonna...we're not gonna [inaudible] how.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Chris: Yeah.
Bob: [inaudible]
Emily: I don't know.
Bob: [inaudible]
Emily: Yeah.

Chris's card game history (55:24 - 59:24)

Bob: [inaudible] Now I can play around...[Chris talks over him]
Chris: Yeah. Well actually, [unintelligible] [coughs] [unintelligible] County in 1998.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Chris: In the February '98 issue of Nintendo Power, uh... they had the [stutters] they had the Charmeleon Pokemon card from the first base set.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Chris: Yeah. Two months...yeah, like a month or two after that, [unintelligible] I signed up for the Pok...I uh, with...uh...within that time I learned to play the game after I picked up some cards from the deck. Then I went to the [unintelligible], at the Books-a-Million.
Bob: (?): Oh my god.
Chris: Then [unintelligible] went to Pokemon League over at, uh, Toys-R-Us, then [unintelligible], and uh, finally over at The uh, Game Place.
Bob: Uh-huh.
Chris: But then they kicked me out, uh, last...June of last year.
Emily: [unintelligible] Toys-R-Us [unintelligible]
Chris: Yeah, they don't...they don't do that anymore [unintelligible].
Emily: Oh.
Chris: [unintelligible]
Emily: You could always, like, go back to those places, I mean, maybe they...
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: ...have other card games that you can play.
Chris: Yeah, well [clears throat] I think [unintelligible] one of the reasons why I decided to go back to playing Eye of Judgment.
Emily: Mm.
Chris: [unintelligible]
Emily: Are you gonna...are you joining? Or...
Chris: Yeah, it's basically all I have to do is go online and play against...
Emily: Oh.
Chris: ...o...uh...against opponents like around the world.
Emily: Oh. Nothing hard. [laughs]
Bob: [inaudible]
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: Yeah, if I get...if I get within the top 100 I win the free promo cards they're off-they're offering.
Emily: Uh, what do you...what do you get if you win like first place, do you know?
Chris: A title.
Emily: A title? [laughs]
Chris: Yep. A title.
Emily: Why don't-no money or anything like that?
Chris: No, but...
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: ...you know, at least I get the free promo cards.
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: And I'd-I'd just as soon get the cards [unintelligible] right?
Emily: Yeah. [laughs]
Bob: [inaudible] You won what, $500 worth of stuff?
Chris: Oh yeah, [unintelligible]
Bob: [inaudible]
Chris: Oh yeah, uh, [unintelligible] GameStop gift card [unintelligible] Guitar Hero gift card.
Emily: Oh yeah! I voted for you.
Chris: Thank you.
Emily: [laughs] You're welcome.
Bob: But he won.
Chris: Yeah, I mean I shared it with my church's congre-my church congregation.
Emily: Well what did you spend your portion...did you spend some of it on yourself?
Chris: Yeah, yeah, I [unintelligible] it on myself. I got some Wii games for myself [unintelligible] Zelda: Twilight Princess.
Emily: Oh.
Bob: Yeah, you were popular at the church.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: You gave...you gave about 10 or 15 games away, right?
Chris: Uh, no, it wasn't-it wasn't like 10 or 15, I'd say it's more like, uh, five or eight.
Emily: Five or eight.
Chris: Yeah, but you know the [unintelligible], you know, the uh...three of the children over there, they uh, they [unintelligible], they appre-they appreciated it so much they gave me...made this little tree for me and [unintelligible] branches...
Emily: Uh-huh.
Chris: And put like the...they put like [unintelligible] ornaments, like you know, [unintelligible] twist-tie...
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: ...and the uh...shoot what is it...pipe cleaner.
Emily: Mm. Oh.
Chris: [unintelligible] pipe cleaner [unintelligible] paper clips...
Emily: Uh-huh.
Chris: ...and wrote their names on the...on the card [unintelligible]. A nice little gesture.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Chris: For, you know, appreciation and the [unintelligible]...
Emily: Yeah, that was very nice for you to do that and for them to thank you like that.
Chris: Yeah.
Bob: How about sending me a copy of your publication...of your Sonichu Girls?
Emily: What was that again?
Bob: About sending me a copy.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: I might join. I guess I'd have to change my...
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: [inaudible]
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: How would you feel about your dad being a Sonichu Girl?
Chris: Now...
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: He could be a...he could be an honorary Sonichu Guy.
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: How about that?
Emily: Yeah, that'll work.
Bob: You gotta tell me what's going on.
Emily: [unintelligible] don't know what's going on.
Chris: [laughs]
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: [unintelligible] four of us, right?
Emily: Yeah.

Girls (59:26 - 01:05:21)

Chris: I-I like to see the girls talk. I listened to girls talk a lot back in high school because I have my wide circle of gal-pals...
Emily: Uh-huh.
Chris: ...between my high-school years and [unintelligible] my elementary-school years. And also I didn't live my young life. In my neighborhood I was pretty much the only guy in the neighborhood.
Emily: [laughs] Well then, lucky for you.
Chris: [laughs]
Emily: All the other guys are jealous.
Chris: Yeah. [pause] Yeah.
Bob: [unintelligible] this girl, I guess, on the TV [unintelligible] your mother [unintelligible] my favorite girl.
Chris: Shirley Temple?
Bob: No, that was back when I was a kid [inaudible].
Chris: Yeah, but you do like Shirley Temple a lot.
Bob: And uh, uh this is one that's on uh...MSNBC if you watch that. On the NBC Money channel.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: Name is Erin Burnett. [inaudible] She hosts a lot of it. She's been...already been to Russia and Asia already. [inaudible] She is very smart. She impresses me, she's a really smart girl. Not a brunette, [inaudible]
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: I don't know about [inaudible]. Like your blondes.
Emily: Do you like blondes?
Chris: I like blondes. But, you know, it's so...that's so stereotypical...
Bob: Yes.
Chris: ...to call 'em flaky cause they're not all flaky.
Bob: No, they're not. No way.
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: Like you know Pamela Anderson is very smart. Uh...
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: ...just to name one at least. She wrote the book, Star.
Emily: Yeah. [unintelligible]
Chris: Oh.
Emily: You didn't realize that?
Chris: No I no-I haven't even heard of it.
Emily: Oh, yeah. She wrote her own [unintelligible]
Chris: That's cool. [pause] I think Britney Spears wrote a book too, didn't she?
Emily: Yeah. Britney Spears is really smart. Even though people like, diss her blah blah blah saying, but she's pretty intelligent.
Chris: Yeah. So anyway, there you go. Three blondes, right there, that are sexified [unintelligible]
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: [inaudible]
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: Hmm...I guess that's why people say uh... [unintelligible] attracted to my mom, is she reminds him of Marcie, you know?
Bob: Yeah.
Chris: I guess she kind of turned him off being Marcie [unintelligible]...
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: ...Marcie type yourself. I mean...
Bob: She looked like Liz Taylor then.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: Everybody thought she was Liz Taylor.
Chris: Yeah. By the way uh Emily, how old did you say you were again?
Emily: I'm 19.
Chris: 19.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Chris: OK.
Emily: [unintelligible], go to college.
Chris: Yeah, you started college as a journalist.
Emily: Yeah. [unintelligible] I don't want to really, you know, go for a degree where, you know, I won't be happy with it.
Chris: Yeah. [pause]
Bob: [inaudible] No, you keep writing...
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: Then you look at it, and put it down [inaudible]
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: [inaudible]
Emily: There's a...in my creative writing class what we do sometimes is that we write one line each day for a story, and just, every day we just write a different line, and eventually like after maybe a month or two, you know, it's supposed to be a story.
Bob: [inaudible] But then, you pick it up and lay it down, you pick it up and look at it again...
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: ...and each time you little minute corrections.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: [inaudible] corrections. But that's the way [inaudible]. And if you don't try, you don't-you don't gain nothing [unintelligible].
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: You gotta keep trying. You know, you don't give up...who knows, some crazy bear might come along and call you Christian.
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: [laughs] What?
Bob: [inaudible] silly bear might come along and call you Christian, right?
Chris: Yeah. [pause] No, I don't think so. I don't think a-I don't think a British bear could confuse "Emily"...
Emily: Yeah. I don't-there's no other name that really sounds like Emily.
Bob: [inaudible] there was a writer named Emily.
Chris: Emily Dickinson?
Bob: Yeah, Emily Dickinson.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: I couldn't even remember...
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: I just [unintelligible] it just came up. That was the only Emily I could think of who was a writer at the time.
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: There's probably a lot of Emilys in [unintelligible].
Bob: His mother... [Chris talks over him]
Chris: [unintelligible]
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: His mother keeps telling me [inaudible]
Emily: Oh.
Chris: Emily [???]
Emily: Yep.
Chris: That's her full name, Dad.
Bob: [???]
Chris and Emily simultaneously: Yep.
Bob: Well now I want you to know something. If you were in Greene County they'd welcome you with open arms.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: Because [???] [inaudible] name up there. [inaudible] two names basically in Greene County. One of 'em's just [???] [inaudible]
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: [???] [inaudible] native tongue.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: [inaudible]
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: [inaudible] know it.
Emily: Yeah, I have a lot of, um, a lot of family, but I don't know most of them. I stick with my parents and maybe a few aunts.
Bob: Where do they live?
Emily: What was that again?
Bob: Well, where do your parents live?
Emily: Oh, they live up in West Virginia too. They moved up there as well.
Bob: [inaudible] wonderful weather.
Emily: Yeah, they don't have...they-they wanna let me go on my own, really. [pause] [Chris talks over her]
Chris: You took a big step.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: [inaudible]
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: [inaudible] I keep telling him now that he's young and I'm old, and [inaudible] he's taking me to the park.
Emily: Oh.
Bob: He-he won't do it.
Emily: [clears throat]
Chris: Listen to him.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: I think it ought to be [inaudible]
Chris: [unintelligible high-pitched noise]
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: I spent 27 years of my life with you, why can't you spend 27 years of your life with me?

Basketball and A Fateful Trip (01:05:23 - 01:14:22)

Chris: Because, [unintelligible]
Bob: I'm not gonna live that long, I know.
Emily: [awkward laugh]
Bob: [laughs]
Chris: I spend time with you, Dad. Like I spend time with you now when you [inaudible] wanted to meet Emily. Before uh, you know, when you leave, uh, leave-leave us alone and let us do our talking.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: [inaudible] go home and watch some basketball.
Emily: That's something to do right there.
Bob: [inaudible] the NCAA.
Emily: [inaudible]
Bob: [inaudible] You don't watch [inaudible]?
Emily: I don't really watch sports. I mean, I sometimes will with some of my friends, but I can't really get into it.
Chris: Yeah, and I was actually [inaudible] in my freshman year of Man-at Manchester High School's varsity basketball team.
Emily: Were you good at it? [inaudible] Do you play basketball?
Chris: Yeah, a little bit.
Emily: Are you good?
Chris: Yeah, I'm fair.
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: But, you know I was...[inaudible]...you know my freshman year I [inaudible] waterboy for the varsity basketball team.
Emily: Oh.
[P.A. system faintly in background]
Bob: Good, cause I think I'm gonna go home.
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: Alright, dad, well you have a safe trip.
Bob: You can do whatever you want, I guess.
Chris: Alright.
Bob: Whatever time Emily wants to spend with you.
Emily: Yeah, I can't stay too much longer. I have to get going back to co-
Bob: [inaudible] back to West Virginia tonight?
Emily: Yep.
Bob: You are, huh? What is the drive...4-hour, 5-hour drive?
Emily: About 5-hour drive.
Bob: I'm a little too old for that.
Emily: [short laugh]
Chris: Yeah, especially [unintelligible] the 8-hour round trip total drive.
Bob: He-he drove to Cleveland and back on the same day.
Emily: Uh...[unintelligible] heard about that. What-what happened?
Bob: He got stupid and drove up there to try to meet somebody and they weren't there. [inaudible] we didn't even know about it.
Chris: No, I left them a note.
Emily: Oh, OK.
Bob: But, uh, he got up there and got back, same day. I can't imagine driving...I can't even fly to Cleveland and fly back in the same day.
Emily: [laughs] Di-did you have a good drive at least? Was it...
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: ...relaxing a little bit?
Chris: Yeah [inaudible]
Bob: Well, if you went-he went up from here over to pick up the Interstate 81, and he went up and picked up the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: ...and he went up and picked up the Ohio Turnpike...and locked himself out of his car.
Chris: Uh...
Emily: How did you lock yourself out of your car?
Chris: I [inaudible] my keys in there at the t-toll booth.
Emily: Oh? How did you get them out? You had to call like the locksmith or something?
Chris: Uh, fortunately, uh, one of the uh, people at-people over at that toll booth had [???]
Emily: Oh, OK. So they were able to help you out.
Chris: Yeah.
Bob: [inaudible] mother [inaudible] cross the street [inaudible] here he is at the Ohio state line.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: W-we didn't sleep very well that day.
Emily: I can imagine.
Bob: Finally he got home, about 3 o'clock in the morning, and he left at, what...
Chris: 5:30.
Bob: 6 o-6 o'clock in the morning?
Chris: 5:30.
Bob: [inaudible] find anybody till we came back.
Chris: Well, at least I didn't get killed.
Emily: Yeah. I think I [inaudible]
Bob: [inaudible] We were worried about that.
Emily: Hm-
Chris: I had money for gas and food.
Bob: He's never driven over 50 miles out of town before.
Chris: Well that was an adventure for me.
Emily: [laughs] [inaudible] experience.
Chris: Yep. But I had my PSP with me to play uh, music on the trip. I had a [unintelligible] with uh, long driving. Recently [unintelligible] paradise.
Bob: Fortunately, he was checking in with us on his cell phone, every once in a while so we could [inaudible] money...
Emily: Oh, so you knew he was going to O-Ohio.
Bob: He left us a note.
Emily: Oh.
Bob: ...detailed note.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: With maps and everything.
Chris: A copy of the map...
Emily: Oh.
Chris: ...I [unintelligible].
Bob: [inaudible] he left [inaudible] when he left home he had about 10 dollars in his pocket.
Chris: No, I had-I had 40.
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: I had 40 dollars. I had 40 dollars plus 10 dollars in my pocket. 40 dollars came from my birthday money.
Bob: That wouldn't even-that wouldn't even take care of the toll [inaudible] turnpike.
Chris: I didn't expect that toll to be 11 dollars.
Bob: [inaudible]
Emily: Really? 11 dollars for a toll booth?
Chris: Yeah. Th-th-they give you a card at one checkpoint, then when you get to the next checkpoint, depending on the distance-depending on uh, how far it was from that checkpoint...
Emily: Oh, OK.
Chris: ...[inaudible] the next.
Bob: Wherever you get off, then you gotta pay.
Emily: Oh, OK.
Bob: You'd never been-never been on a toll road before.
Chris: [unintelligible]
Bob: [inaudible]
Emily: [unintelligible] for a toll booth with about a dollar. [laughs]
Bob: Well you can get on and fill it out, and drive all the way to the Ohio [???].
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: Pittsburgh. I guess they charge you 20-25 dollars for that.
Emily: Dang.
Bob: But he got on in the middle, in a place called Breezewood.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: You've probably heard of Breezewood. [inaudible] up there just-just northeast of [???]
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: [inaudible] Yeah and you go to Breezewood and hang a left. I thought he-I thought he was up here in the valley.
Emily: Oh.
Bob: Couple hundred miles away and then he was at the Ohio state line.
Emily: [short laugh]
Bob: That was some day for us. We were a little worried. Then he-then he started back. We were led to believe that he was about 300-about 200 miles away.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: Turns out he was just outside of Ohio, Cleveland, when he called.
Emily: At least you were able to get back safely.
Chris: Yep.
Bob: I don't know how he did it. 3 o'clock in the morning, I'd have been numb. I wouldn't have been able to.
Chris: [laughs]
Emily: [inaudible] at night.
Chris: Yeah, well I got fair eyesight in [unintelligible]
Bob: [inaudible] mine keeps going downhill [inaudible]
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: Thing called old age and glaucoma.
Chris: Yeah, plus consi-plus considering video games...training, a lot of video game time I've logged in over my lifetime.
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: And I've [inaudible] many types of, like games playing racing and RPG...
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Chris: ...and all, and the adventures [inaudible]
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: But it's like, it's only helpful when you have the directions from Mapquest, and uh, you can uh, find a world map of the uh, east-of the we-of the eastern coast of the United States.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Chris: Which is really Virginia. And uh, Ohio in the [unintelligible]
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: Which I highlighted with a blue marker.
Bob: I have to admit, I did something just about as dumb when I was a kid.
Emily: [laughs]
Chris: Oh, you did something dumb?
Bob: Yeah I did. Well, I'd already been to Korea and back. [inaudible] I was in Korea [inaudible] before the Korean War.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: And I'd always spent my time with the army, well I was in school.
Emily: Uh-huh.
Bob: And I had a friend that was [inaudible], down in Alabama, way down there, you know.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: And um, I had a friend [inaudible]...
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: ...in the Army. So, Christmas break, Christmas time, right. I didn't have anywhere to go. I decided to [inaudible].
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: Yeah. While I was in the Army, I spent nine months in New York anyway.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: [inaudible] Fort [???] [inaudible] and I'd gone up to New York City every weekend. But, for about nine months, well I knew the place like the back of my hand.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Chris: No wonder I was risky enough to [unintelligible] a trip.
Bob: Uh-
Chris: I'd been hanging around in [unintelligible]
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: Yeah, so dumb me, I thought I could hitchhike to-to New Jersey...now this was like the middle of December.
Chris: Oh.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: Warm in Alabama but not in New Jersey.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: I got there, and then I had to stay a couple weeks-
Chris: [inaudible]
Bob: -then I ran out of money-
Chris: [inaudible]
Bob: -and then I had to try to-
Chris: [inaudible]
Bob: -find-to fi-to get back to my way home.
Chris: Just to let you know, uh, [inaudible] Cleveland, [inaudible] kind of like, uh, run down. I thought, Jersey probably looks better.
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: By comparison.
Bob: I've done dumb things too.
Chris: [inaudible]
Bob: [inaudible]
Emily: There you go.
Chris: He went to a bad town...he went to a bad slummy town called Jersey, I went to a bad slummy town called Cleveland.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: Well I've been to Cleveland too, I know Cleveland well.
Chris: Yeah, well...
Bob: [inaudible]
Chris: I me-I me-I mean he took the stupid long trip to Jersey, I took the stupid long trip to see Cleveland.
Bob: And I was hitchhiking and you were in the car. It was different. It used to be safe to walk.
Emily: Oh.
Bob: And you can't even hitchhike places today.
Emily: [unintelligible] can't do that.
Bob: [inaudible]
Chris: Yeah.
Bob: [inaudible] down the road.
Emily: Yeah [unintelligible] [laughs]
Bob: [laughs]
Chris: Yeah.
Bob: Well, I'll see you later. You have a good trip.
Chris: Alright.
Emily: Alright.
Bob: Don't go to sleep. If you get sleepy, pull over.
Emily: OK, don't worry, I will.

A Walk to Remember (01:14:23 - 01:21:43)

Chris and Emily awkwardly leave Bob who continues to ramble as they clomp off through the mall.
Bob: Take care.
Chris: Alright come on, Emily, let's, let's walk…
Bob babbles on about sending something.
Emily:Okay... okay, you can show me around the mall…
Chris: Okay! Here's our… heights… You… you come to just about my eyeline.
Emily: [nervous tittering]
They walk quietly for a moment as Chris mutters something quietly.
Chris: [sigh] So where you li… where do you usually like to go shopping at when you're at a shopping center?
Emily: [impatiently] Clothes stores.
Chris: Yeah, uh, they have a number of clothing stores in, uh...
Emily: Yeah...
Chris: … a J.C. Penney and a Sears, among other places that uh, more name brands…
Emily: Yeah a lot of the stores here are, if you take a look, take a look at the prices and they're pretty expensive.
Chris: Yeah... Yeah... but, you know, they used to ha- they used to have a Kay-Bee Toys here and I- that's where I got my- turns out- my thousand dollar shopping spree I won around the… around the Adventures- the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog…
Emily: Uh-huh.
Chris: That sweepstakes, you might remember I put something about that…
Emily: Yeah!
Chris: … you might remember that, uh, news clip…
Emily: Yeah! I've seen it.
Chris: Yeah...
Chris nervously takes a few steps.
Chris: Wow… you're like… I'm sorry.
Emily: [nervous laughter]
Chris: I'm just fascinated like… you're just like… a character from PGSM or from- came all the way from Japan- just leapt out of my television!
Emily: [nervous laughter] No I'm definitely all American.
Chris: You're all American.
Emily: I'm all American.
Chris: Okay- so it's just- it's just your eyes that are excepting.
Emily: [shameless subject change] Yeah... so what's your favorite store here?
Chris: Yeah it's- currently, since they took away the toy store- I think it's- I would say it's mostly Gamestop, but I also go to the bookstore or Sears, or even the Spencer's that's down on the other side of the mall. And they used to have an FYE here, which was a Suncoast before- before it- before they all merged and became an FYE, but then they closed that to make the next business here.
Emily: What's down the other way… cause I've been… I came down this way, but I haven't been down that way.
Chris: Okay, we'll go down that way! Alright. I hope- Hope you don't mind me sticking around your left side…
Emily: *bravely* Okay, that's fine!
Chris: I mean, I guess I should keep my hands to myself and behave, right?
Emily: Yeah, you should probably do that.
Chris: I mean, I'm just trying to be friendly.
Emily: *nervous laughter*
Chris: But, you know, not- but you know- respectful- touch you gently on the shoulder or the back-
Emily: [vomitously] Yeah…
Chris: I mean at least I'm not that guy from Inuyasha that… go- eh- go for the bum.
Emily: [vomitously] Yeah…
Chris: Heh-heh, that's funny. Always get slapped in the face, he does.
Emily: Yeah...
Chris: I forget his name, I think it's Mamoru, or something like that
Emily: Uh... it's Miroku.
Chris: [talking over her] Do you watch Inuyasha? Yeah, Miroku, that was it, you hi- you hit it on the head right there…
Emily: Yeah…
Emily awkwardly walks several steps.
Emily: *delaying* Is that the… food court there?
Chris: Yeah that's basically the food court.
Emily: OK…
Chris: Yeah it use- it used to have McDonald's here-
Emily: Yeah…
Chris: … soooo many years ago across from the Gamestop there, back then it was called Babbages…
Emily: Yeah...
Chris: And then between them and Suncoast was FunCo Land and Software Etc. and they all merged into a Ga- they all merged into Gamestop.
Emily: Oh... never heard about that…
Chris: Yeah... I'm sh- I'm sh- I'm sure you must've at least noticed those game stores back in your youth-
Emily: Yeah... I play video games sometimes, but not very often…
Salesman: HELLO WOULD YOU LIKE HARAAGARALABHGH
Emily: Oh, no thank you!
Chris: No thank you! Yeah... right over- see- where that [unintelligible name of store], that's where PacSun used to be, where Anna McLerran
Emily: Oh yeah... I've… I've heard of her as well…
Chris: Yeah...
Emily: Is she still around?
Chris: No she, uh- moved to Utah.
Emily: Utah…
Chris: She's a Mormon. Found that out after I met her. But we cam- but we- but we could became good friends and I gave her, uh, you know, gave her a going away/birthday party before she left for Utah…
Emily: Uh-huh!
Chris: For her 20th birthday… and actually her- actual- and actually her friends, uh, her friends and I got together and put together the party. [emphatically] I k- I bought the cake.
Emily: Oh, that's nice of you… and… there was also Megan. Do you keep in contact with her?
Chris: Yeah uh... no, not-no-n-n-not-been-touch with her for a long time.
Emily: Oh...
Chris: That's cause she moved to another state.
Emily: Oh... did she move to Utah too?
Chris: Uh, no, I don't think she moved to Utah, I don't even remember where she moved to.
Emily: Oh...
Chris: But you know, sometimes, I, uh, I dream I'm back in uh, Manchester High, you know, I get to see all my- all my old s- c- all my old friends… there.
Emily: Yeah…
Chris: Sometimes I even see Megan and John in there… John's her brother…
Emily: Oh ok…
Chris: Can you believe that, attending Manchester High like I was back then,
Emily: [small laughter]
Chris: … but yet they never went- they never been- they never been to Manchester High, neither of them. Isn't that… kinda funny?
Emily: [slightly sarcastically] Yeah… that is kinda funny!
Chris: Yeah... FYE was over there…
Emily: Oh... I guess it's becoming a LensCrafters?
Chris: Yeah, I guess… anyway here's the Spencer's.
Emily: Oh...
Chris: If you like looking at the, uh, naughty stuff-
Emily: [quickly] No, I'm not into that.
Chris: Not yet anyway! [laughs]
Emily: [nervous laughter]
Chris: Ah, but you might. But it's mostly humorous, anyway.
Emily: Yeah... well... doesn't look like there's anything down here…
Chris: Yeah... not much… not much to look at around here… the toy stores around here are down here…
Emily: Oh... well I gotta get going soon, it's gonna be a long drive!
Chris: Long drive…
Emily: Yeah...
Chris: Well I hope, uh, you at least, uh, keep the memories we've shared…
Emily: Yeah...
Chris: Yeah I'll walk you to your car, if you want…
Emily: No, I'll probably have to go to the bathroom first… it's that time of the month…
Chris: Oh.
Emily: Yeah…
Chris: Yeah, when you're on your, uh, period…
Emily: Yeah… [nervous laughter]
Chris: Yeah, you know, aside from the, uh, first time, uh, meeting, this first meeting, uh, how do you feel about me? In general…
Emily: You're a really nice guy!
Chris: Thank you…
Emily: I don't know why people pick on you and all that…
Chris: Yeah, they should get to know me in person…
Emily: Yeah…
Chris: I mean I'm a gentleman, I behave… behave…
Emily: *steering the beast* Have you been into any of these stores over here?

Meet the Pickle (01:21:44 - 01:25:29)

Pickle Man: [inaudible] Yeah, so, um, you wouldn't want to go see Watchmen, would you?
Chris: Uh... no.
Emily: I'd see that movie.
Chris: [shocked] Uh... any particular reason why you're dressed up like that?
Pickle Man: Not in particular.
Chris: Come on, Emily.
Emily: What?
Pickle Man: Hey, hey, maybe the lady wants to go with me. Ya, ya want to go see Watchmen? Lots of, uh...
Emily: [gloating] Why, what's wrong?
Chris: The man in the pickle suit… a- it's apparent this guy's amongst the… trolls.
Pickle Man: You think…
Emily: What's a tro…
Pickle Man: [inaudible]
Passerby: Sir… sir, what are you?
Pickle Man: I'm a pickle.
Passerby: You're a pickle! I love pickles.
Pickle Man: Yeah? Pickles are pretty cool.
Passerby: And who are you advertising with?
Pickle Man: I'm not really advertising.
Passerby: You're just dressed for fun?
Pickle Man: Just bored.
Chris: Dressed as a pickle to HAUNT ME.
Pickle Man: Excuse me? I don't even know you.
Passerby: You're just bored?
Pickle Man: Yep!
Chris: [questioningly] You don't even know me… are you sure… do you have internet access?
Pickle Man: Lots of people have internet access.
Chris: Do you know Sonichu and Rosechu?
Pickle Man: No, I do not.
Chris: Do you know about Encyclopedia Dramatica?
Pickle Man: No, I do not. [turning to Emily] Want to go see Watchmen?
Chris: [stress sighs] No, no, no, she's with-
Emily: Alright!
Chris: … she's h- she's headed over to- she's heading back to her home town.
Pickle Man: Uh, Watchmen would be pretty cool.
Emily: Yeah, it would be pretty cool!
Chris: Yeah, alright, uh…
Emily: Let's go see it!
Pickle Man:Okay, cool.
Emily: Yeah?
Pickle Man: [to Emily as they turn to leave together] You've probably seen Watchmen [he refers to the novel], haven't you?
Chris: [answering the question meant for Emily as he is clearly left behind] I've heard of Watchmen…
Pickle Man: [laughs at Chris]
Emily: Yeah!
Chris: [inaudible, but clearly saying something to the effect that he doesn't like the Pickle Man]
Emily: [gloating] What's wrong with him?
Pickle Man: What, you like pickles?
Chris: Yeah… I do not like pickles.
Pickle Man: No pickles?
Chris: And also particularly a guy in a pickle suit who tricked me on the internet pretending that he was Blanca!
Emily: There's nothing wrong with him!
Pickle Man: Who's Blanca?
Chris: [stress sighs/grunts]
Emily: There's nothing wrong with him! See, he's a nice guy.
Chris: [inaudible, but stressed as he moves closer to Emily]
Pickle Man: I think you're making the lady uncomfortable there, Chris.
Chris: [stress sighs] I'm sorry, Emily.
Emily: It's ok… I think I have… to go to the bathroom now…
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: Yeah, go change my tampon.
Chris: Oh boy. [inaudible]
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: [inaudible] … but I guess I do now.
Emily: [attempting to brush him off] OK, well it was nice meeting you… maybe we'll talk online or something.
Chris: Yeah well… I kinda… [inaudible]
Pickle Man: [as they continue trying to walk away] Well, we're going to go now.
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah well…
Emily: I'm going to the bathroom.
Chris: Yeah, uh, either of- [to Pickle Man] you're not going where she's going…
Pickle Man: Uh, we're- we're leaving together.
Chris: Are you with her?
Pickle Man: Now we are. We're going to go see Watchmen.
Chris: No! N- no! She's going b- you gotta go back to West Virginia, don't you.
Pickle Man: We're going to go see Watchmen first.
Emily: I'm kinda- just- gonna- Watchmen's not that long of a movie.
Chris: [suddenly concerned for Emily] Yeah, but you got a five hour drive!
Emily: [dismissively] It'll be ok.
The Pickle Man and Chris indistinctly carry on a short dialogue. The Pickle Man seems to be asking Chris why he is following along, and Chris replies:
Chris: I'm just staying close to my friends
Emily: Alright, see ya!

Hiding Out In The Bathroom (01:25:29 - 01:29:34)

There is a long pause as Emily hides from Chris in the bathroom.
Passerby: [inaudible]...very fashionable looking.
Emily: Oh, thank you!
Passerby: The mall should pay you for walking around.
Emily: [laughs]
Another long pause as Emily finally leaves the bathroom.

A Precious Farewell (01:29:35 - 01:31:10)

Pickle Man: So, you ready to go?
Emily: Yeah, my car's that way.
Pickle Man: Okay.
Chris: Yeah, her car's… Your car's [inaudible] didn't you?
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, so did I.
Emily: Oh, you did?
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: Which [inaudible]?
Chris: Tha- that way.
Emily: Oh... I'm over there.
Chris: Oh. [continues walking alongside Pickle Man and Emily]
Emily: Chris… you don't need to walk me to my car.
Chris: Okaaay.
Emily: This is… Alright.
Chris: So, you have yourself a safe trip back to uhh… West Virginia.
Emily: Oh… [feigning cheerfulness] okay! I might call you on Skype later.
Chris: Okay, you take care.
Emily: You too.
Chris: Hey… [attempts to hug and kiss Emily]
Emily: [tries to avoid Chris] No… no… no thank you! [nervous laughter] No thank you.
Chris: [gives up] Okay.
Emily: Alright, see you.
Chris: Alright, well you take care, be safe.
Emily: Alright, you too.
8 seconds pass as Pickle Man and Emily walk away from Chris.
Chris: [yelling from a distance] HE KNOWS CLYDE CASH!
There is laughter from Pickle Man and Emily.
Emily: [laughing] Mission accomplished!
Pickle Man: Is he gone yet?
Emily: I don't know, let me look behind.
Pickle Man: [inaudible] I'm so sorry, I'm so so sorry. I'm so sorry.
Emily: That's okay!. [inaudible] worse than me…
Pickle Man: I'm so sorry.
Emily: That's okay.
Pickle Man: [inaudible]
Emily: Yeah...
Pickle Man: Okay... [inaudible] man in the pickle suit?
Emily: [laughs]
Pickle Man: [laughingly says something about Clyde Cash]
Emily: [laughs] Wait there… there's Frosty.
Pickle Man: What?
Emily: Looks like he's gone now. I'm gonna go tell him what happened.
Pickle Man: Okay.
Emily: [presumably walking to see Frosty] Yes! Still recording!

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Contents

Summary

Cast

Transcript

Prelude (00:00 - 03:12)

Target Acquired (03:13 - 04:43)

The Green Mile (04:44 - 05:19)

Meet the Parent (05:20 - 07:17)

Bob's Work History (07:18 - 16:58)

Retired Life (16:59 - 24:22)

Bob's Health Problems (24:23 - 25:29)

Memories of High School (25:30 - 26:12)

The "Sonichu Girls" Club (26:13 - 29:01)

Emily Isn't Hungry (29:02 - 29:58)

Bob's Health Problems Revisited (29:59 - 32:11)

Chris Fails at Flirting (32:12 - 36:48)

Eating Spaghetti and Conversing (36:49 - 44:46)

Bob on World News (44:47 - 51:00)

The Bear Band (51:01 - 55:23)

Chris's card game history (55:24 - 59:24)

Girls (59:26 - 01:05:21)

Basketball and A Fateful Trip (01:05:23 - 01:14:22)

A Walk to Remember (01:14:23 - 01:21:43)

Meet the Pickle (01:21:44 - 01:25:29)

Hiding Out In The Bathroom (01:25:29 - 01:29:34)

A Precious Farewell (01:29:35 - 01:31:10)

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 <font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> Say "It's my vibrator."<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs'']<br>
-<font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> It's one of those things that you see taped to those-- those hentai--<br>
+<font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> It's one of those things that you see taped to those- those hentai-<br>
-<font color="#000099">'''Frosty:'''</font> Well, the thing is, Chris-- if you said that to Chris, he would squeal.<br>
+<font color="#000099">'''Frosty:'''</font> Well, the thing is, Chris- if you said that to Chris, he would squeal.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs''] Ungh, ungh, ungh, ungh! Okay, if he get's, like, ''way'' too close to me, I'm just gonna be like-- get my chair farther away.<br>
 <font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> [inaudible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs'']<br>
 <font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> I really like your [inaudible]<br>
-<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> [''laughs''] Maybe Barb-- Barbara can come.<br>
+<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> [''laughs''] Maybe Barb- Barbara can come.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Apparently, she doesn't leave the house anymore.<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> No, I'm just [inaudible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs'']<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> [inaudible]<br>
-<font color="#000099">'''Frosty:'''</font> There-- there are Barb candidates ''everywhere''.<br>
+<font color="#000099">'''Frosty:'''</font> There- there are Barb candidates ''everywhere''.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
-<font color="#000099">'''Frosty:'''</font> No, no, no, no, no, no. But-- but in all actuality, there should be no Barb; if there ''is'' Barb, I will shit myself.<br>
+<font color="#000099">'''Frosty:'''</font> No, no, no, no, no, no. But- but in all actuality, there should be no Barb; if there ''is'' Barb, I will shit myself.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> If there is Barb, we're-- we're done.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> If there is Barb, we're- we're done.<br>
 <font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> We're not showing up.<br>
 <font color="#000099">'''Frosty:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#000099">'''Frosty:'''</font> "You brought your mommy?"<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I should be like, "No – just put that shit in the bag, and we're not doing anything today."<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I should be like, "No– just put that shit in the bag, and we're not doing anything today."<br>
 <font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#000099">'''Frosty:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> That's it.<br>
-<font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> And you can call him and be like "You owe me a ''dire'' apology, and you're the… jack-off--"<br>
+<font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> And you can call him and be like "You owe me a ''dire'' apology, and you're the… jack-off-"<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> No – I'm sure I'm gonna yell at him, and make him ''cry''.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> No– I'm sure I'm gonna yell at him, and make him ''cry''.<br>
 <font color="#000099">'''Frosty:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> And I'm gonna be like "Oh – I live in Clyde's playboy mansion now." [''laughs'']<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> And I'm gonna be like "Oh– I live in Clyde's playboy mansion now." [''laughs'']<br>
-<font color="#000099">'''Frosty:'''</font> No – even better!<br>
+<font color="#000099">'''Frosty:'''</font> No– even better!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs'']<br>
 <font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> [aside] I'm waiting. I'm ''part'' of Clyde's playboy mansion.<br>
@@ Line 92: / Line 92: @@
 <font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> I'm the janitor.<br>
 [''all laugh loudly'']<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Okay – let's go see if he's there.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Okay– let's go see if he's there.<br>
 <font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> ''You'' go see if he's there.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> ''No!'' 'Cause-- 'cause it's--<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> ''No!'' 'Cause- 'cause it's-<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> [inaudible (but about "a girl")]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> 'Cause I'm gonna make it like an entrance, like… ''"Hiii!"''<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Did he say where [inaudible]<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> No. Like, he wants to be-- he wants to meet in front of Chick-Fil-A, so…<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> No. Like, he wants to be- he wants to meet in front of Chick-Fil-A, so…<br>
 <font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> Figures! But the ''general'' idea would be you park near where you wanna… go.<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> [inaudible]<br>
@@ Line 122: / Line 122: @@
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> ''Which'' one looks like Hamster Girl?<br>
 <font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> Right there. The only one that you can see working?<br>
-<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Oh – over at Starbucks? You should see her with that hair off.<br>
+<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Oh– over at Starbucks? You should see her with that hair off.<br>
 <font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> No, no, no. She looks like Hamster Girl. [inaudible]<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> I'm telling you: you should see her with that hair off!<br>
 <font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> Oh– she don't have no hair?<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Um...<br>
-<font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> Oh– she has a fake--<br>
+<font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> Oh– she has a fake-<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> She has fake hair, or… she has no hair… or the hair back like this.<br>
 <font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> Well, yeah– I knew that.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
-<font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> I was gonna say: I don't-- I guess she dyed her hair blond. 'Cause I remember seeing her with some ugly, strange-colored hair.
+<font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> I was gonna say: I don't- I guess she dyed her hair blond. 'Cause I remember seeing her with some ugly, strange-colored hair.
 ===Target Acquired (03:13 - 04:43)===
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 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh my God! [jokingly] Eject! Oh my God!<br>
 <font color="#000099">'''Frosty:'''</font> Is your [inaudible] on? [unintelligible (but clearly about "a jacket" again)] Are you ready?<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah – I'm ready. [''laughs nervously''] This is gonna be my best acting moment ever.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah– I'm ready. [''laughs nervously''] This is gonna be my best acting moment ever.<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> He can't see my face before I suit up.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah – go, like, look, 'cause he has to get down first.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah– go, like, look, 'cause he has to get down first.<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> [inaudible]<br>
 <font color="#000099">'''Frosty:'''</font> He'll realize later: that's what it was.<br>
 <font color="#FF6EC7">'''Camwhore:'''</font> I don't feel bad.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Okay. Hopefully, he, like, won't come, like, around and-- [inaudibly interrupted] Huh? I don't have my phone.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Okay. Hopefully, he, like, won't come, like, around and- [inaudibly interrupted] Huh? I don't have my phone.<br>
 [pause]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh my God…<br>
@@ Line 154: / Line 154: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Um, there's some ''benches'', like… by the tables. [abruptly] Oh! Oh! Oh, no.<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> [inaudible]<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Okay – there's some benches, like, ''nearby''…<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Okay– there's some benches, like, ''nearby''…<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Yeah?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Um, just sit and watch him [unintelligible] you need to go change or whatever.<br>
-<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Okay. Well, I-- I started the-- I [inaudible]<br>
+<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Okay. Well, I- I started the- I [inaudible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Okay. I'll [inaudible]<br>
@@ Line 178: / Line 178: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> That's alright.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> You're from West Virgina?<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah... I used to live here for a while, but then, I--<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah... I used to live here for a while, but then, I-<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [abruptly] Hey!<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> But then, I moved to--<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> But then, I moved to-<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Cute hat!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah– I thought you might like it.<br>
@@ Line 188: / Line 188: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> That sounds like the best way to do things!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah. Hey, Emily – you mind, uh, a photo of you and me together?<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah. Hey, Emily– you mind, uh, a photo of you and me together?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Sure!<br>
 [pause]<br>
@@ Line 198: / Line 198: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Ah! You wanna be a writer!<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah! [''giggles''] I did a lot--<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah! [''giggles''] I did a lot-<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> He has a… [[Cole Smithey|''half-brother'']] who's-- who lives in New York City… and, uh, does ''freelance'' writing and show reviews and things… for newspapers and magazines.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> He has a… [[Cole Smithey|''half-brother'']] who's- who lives in New York City… and, uh, does ''freelance'' writing and show reviews and things… for newspapers and magazines.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Is it-- does he love it?<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I ''guess''.<br>
@@ Line 207: / Line 207: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> I can't this dang camera to work!<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah – that's-- I worked at, uh-- I'm an engineer… and engineers never learn how to spell.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– that's- I worked at, uh- I'm an engineer… and engineers never learn how to spell.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely'']<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I think very logically, but I--<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I think very logically, but I-<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Shoot! I got bad batteries in the camera.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [disappointed] Oh...<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> If I would-- if I would ''write'' anything, half the words would be phonetically rather than the way we're… ''supposed'' to do.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> If I would- if I would ''write'' anything, half the words would be phonetically rather than the way we're… ''supposed'' to do.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs'']<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I got along fine… writing stuff… on my ''word'' processor… when I had a ''spell'' checker.<br>
@@ Line 218: / Line 218: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Without that, I'm [unintelligible (but clearly self-deprecating)] [''laughs heartily'']<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Did you like doing engineering?<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well... I-- I had a real ''u-''nique situation…<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well... I- I had a real ''u-''nique situation…<br>
 [pause]
 ===Bob's Work History (07:18 - 16:58)===
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Look, uh… I'm-- I'm really old.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Look, uh… I'm- I'm really old.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely'']<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Okay– to start with: I'm 81. And, uh, I came along ''before'' transistors.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Not-- not [unintelligible] stuff we have now, but even before ''transistors''… when we had vacuum tubes.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Not- not [unintelligible] stuff we have now, but even before ''transistors''… when we had vacuum tubes.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I, uh… got drafted after World War II. That's how old. But, uh... then, they put me in the Signal Corps, and they knew things I didn't know. They taught me how to install valve systems and switchboards and telephone [unintelligible]. So, I found out: yeah– I'm pretty good at that. So, when I got out– 'course that was in 1947– I found out-- now, I know that we had a deflation on our hands; I didn't know it then.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I, uh… got drafted after World War II. That's how old. But, uh... then, they put me in the Signal Corps, and they knew things I didn't know. They taught me how to install valve systems and switchboards and telephone [unintelligible]. So, I found out: yeah– I'm pretty good at that. So, when I got out– 'course that was in 1947– I found out- now, I know that we had a deflation on our hands; I didn't know it then.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> You couldn't get a job, so, I thought "Well, I got the G.I. Bill. I'll go to school."<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah– now, it's really hard to become an engineer.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– now, ya-- I, uh--<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– now, ya- I, uh-<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I went to… a state [unintelligible] college to start with, 'cause I had the philosophy that if I went to a big school I'd be just… swallowed up.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> So, I went to a small school and took Pre-Engineering for two years, and that was the best thing ''I'' ever did, 'cause I wound up, uh-- well, I got-- I got through my two years of Pre-Engineering in small classes.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> So, I went to a small school and took Pre-Engineering for two years, and that was the best thing ''I'' ever did, 'cause I wound up, uh- well, I got- I got through my two years of Pre-Engineering in small classes.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And also, I loved music, and I was in the band and everything. And I got in the symphony orchestra… and learned a lot about music while I was up there.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And then, I went to Auburn, and then [unintelligible] swallowed up!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely'']<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Then, at that time, Auburn-- which now has what: 30,000 students, or something? Auburn had about 5,000 students.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Then, at that time, Auburn- which now has what: 30,000 students, or something? Auburn had about 5,000 students.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I got my Engineering degree. And then, when I got out, I said "Well, I'll, uh... I can do anything with relays and telephones and valve systems, and [inaudible]. I'm gonna work for Western Electric."<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
@@ Line 245: / Line 245: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [suddenly offended somehow] Hey!<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Because they make, uh--<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Because they make, uh-<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> You-- no– you listen to my father… because he's somethin'! Because I get some of my intelligence from ''him''.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> You- no– you listen to my father… because he's somethin'! Because I get some of my intelligence from ''him''.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Especially my ''technological'' intelligence.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But anyway, I, uh-- I went to work for them for 40 years, and, uh… at that point in time…<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But anyway, I, uh- I went to work for them for 40 years, and, uh… at that point in time…<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Uh, this is even ''before'' the Atlas missile… the ICBM.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah. [''laughs nervously'']<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> ''Before'' the Korean War… and, uh-- but, I-- I found out they were building ''radar'' systems. Well, that was fine, but also, they had lots of government money, so they wanted some automatic test equipment. At that time, ''nothing'' was automatic. They ''had'' none!<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> ''Before'' the Korean War… and, uh- but, I- I found out they were building ''radar'' systems. Well, that was fine, but also, they had lots of government money, so they wanted some automatic test equipment. At that time, ''nothing'' was automatic. They ''had'' none!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> So, that's what ''I'' went and built. [unintelligible] what I learned in the army, right?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> So, I started working with the first automatic test equipment that we ever made. And then, GE heard about it… and they came down to [unintelligible] in North Carolina.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And-- so, GE came down; they offered me a job… up in upstate New York. Cold country in Utica.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And- so, GE came down; they offered me a job… up in upstate New York. Cold country in Utica.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs'']<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And then, uh... I went down to build some automatic test equipment for the ICBM [unintelligible] Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.<br>
@@ Line 266: / Line 266: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> So, I went up there for three years and helped develop the, uh, automatic…equipment… for testing the missiles, and… all the guidance systems, and things… in the [unintelligible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But-- but I got-- I was a soldier, true and tried, 'cause I was born in Texas and raised in Alabama.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But- but I got- I was a soldier, true and tried, 'cause I was born in Texas and raised in Alabama.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And then, I was in North Carolina first. And then, I hit upstate New York, and I froze to death. [''chuckles'']<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs''] Yeah, that must be really different! [''laughs again'']<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well, after three years, I said "I'm going back to somethin' [unintelligible]" Well, GE-- I didn't know it then, but I had a real, natural ''draw''… to the mountains.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well, after three years, I said "I'm going back to somethin' [unintelligible]" Well, GE- I didn't know it then, but I had a real, natural ''draw''… to the mountains.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And I knew about Roanoke, since I'd been in, uh, [unintelligible] So, I wanted to come back to Roanoke, and GE had plants there.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And… they were there developing-- specializing in industrial automation. Except they didn't done any ''automation'' yet. They were just industrial-controlled.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And… they were there developing- specializing in industrial automation. Except they didn't done any ''automation'' yet. They were just industrial-controlled.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> So, I finagled a transfer back to Roanoke, and… I got there just at the time when they were startin'… to make… any kind of automation controls for engines.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> So, I got into what they call "a new business area". And I got to do ''all'' the great things. All my-- I-- I really had it right. I was in the right places at the right time.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> So, I got into what they call "a new business area". And I got to do ''all'' the great things. All my- I- I really had it right. I was in the right places at the right time.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah. [''laughs politely'']<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Because I am very ''logically-''inclined.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> That doesn't really happen nowadays, with the economy…<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– and I-- I'm a logician.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– and I- I'm a logician.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Oddly enough, I never learned how a transistor even works… on records. But I ''use'' 'em all the time.<br>
@@ Line 288: / Line 288: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''giggles'']<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> And, of course, y'know, he's the guy that designed the controls for all the plastic water machines, so without him at this time, you couldn't have the plastic for your glasses.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And-- and then-- then, I got into-- I was in the new business area [unintelligible] we could do the first one… and then, somebody else would take over and do the others.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And- and then- then, I got into- I was in the new business area [unintelligible] we could do the first one… and then, somebody else would take over and do the others.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And-- and then, I got into managing a paper mill. But then, I got into the… industry of-- of, uh, like [unintelligible] warehousing, automatic transition, like BART: Bay Area Rapid Transit.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And-- and then, I got into managing a paper mill. But then, I got into the… industry of- of, uh, like [unintelligible] warehousing, automatic transition, like BART: Bay Area Rapid Transit.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Automatic railroads and all that kind of stuff. Automated a bunch of that. Then, I got into automating a bunch of mine [unintelligible] around the world.<br>
@@ Line 296: / Line 296: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And then, I went to automating tanker ships, so you could run 'em from the bridge and have nobody downstairs.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely'']<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Just someone else involved--<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Just someone else involved-<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Want some water?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> No, thank you.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And, uh... then, uh-- then, um, I got into… I developed [unintelligible] I found out that there was very few people like me in the world that had this natural… inclination… for logic.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And, uh... then, uh- then, um, I got into… I developed [unintelligible] I found out that there was very few people like me in the world that had this natural… inclination… for logic.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Anyway, like the ands, and ors, and the what-ifs, and the what-if-nots.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
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 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Hey, everybody– I got [unintelligible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, thank you.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> What this enables--<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> What this enables-<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [unintelligible, but clearly addressing Emily]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''giggles''] Thank you.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> What this enables everybody to do-- and me, too, but I was lazy…<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> What this enables everybody to do- and me, too, but I was lazy…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Was to write down on-- on paper– and design on paper from the start– a sequence of parallel lines.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Was to write down on- on paper– and design on paper from the start– a sequence of parallel lines.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And up to that point, nobody had a way of writin' it down on paper.<br>
@@ Line 330: / Line 330: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely'']<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Come off the line in New England.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [unintelligible] on it, and all these [unintelligible] ''doors'', and-- and, um… ''shutters'', and stuff like that made out of plastic. All this stuff we got plastic.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [unintelligible] on it, and all these [unintelligible] ''doors'', and- and, um… ''shutters'', and stuff like that made out of plastic. All this stuff we got plastic.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [unintelligible] in your frames!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yep! [''giggles'']<br>
@@ Line 341: / Line 341: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> So, now, I'm ''un-''indated with all this stuff I did, and I don't know whether I did the world a good thing or not.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I think you did!<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But I can't--<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But I can't-<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> You did a lot of things.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I can't spell the word "cat" without a K in it.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs'']<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh, yeah, well, y'know, [[Chris and his ego|I'm proud of him anyway]], for his [[fail|accompliment]]-- accom-''plish-''ments.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh, yeah, well, y'know, [[Chris and his ego|I'm proud of him anyway]], for his [[fail|accompliment]]- accom-''plish-''ments.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Uh-huh.<br>
 [pause]<br>
@@ Line 351: / Line 351: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> ''His'' son.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> ''Oh...'' okay.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And he's got a-- and I have a daughter, who is his-- his half-sister… that's a… Phi Beta Kappa outta UVA Atlantic.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And he's got a- and I have a daughter, who is his- his half-sister… that's a… Phi Beta Kappa outta UVA Atlantic.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> ''Oh...'' [''laughs politely'']<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> She's workin' for the federal government, and she's got a PHD now. She's working somewhere for the federal government. All these math people… I dunno.
@@ Line 358: / Line 358: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I'm not very good at math. [''giggles'']<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I'm not that--<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I'm not that-<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> That's why--<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> That's why-<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I'm good at ''logic'', but not at math.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> But ''I'm'' good at math!<br>
@@ Line 371: / Line 371: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> It was a challenge. ''Most'' of the time, I've been retired, so I could [unintelligible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah... usually, if you're not very good at math, you're really good at writing, which is why I'm going for journalism.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– well, I, um... I did-- I do alright with writing as long as I got a spell checker.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– well, I, um... I did- I do alright with writing as long as I got a spell checker.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs'']<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I just, uh-- I-- but I enjoyed my life. It-- it, uh-- it-- I had… things; I had-- I had opportunities that most people don’t get.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I just, uh- I- but I enjoyed my life. It- it, uh- it- I had… things; I had- I had opportunities that most people don’t get.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I got to see all this stuff now.<br>
@@ Line 380: / Line 380: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– I’ve been to Australia, and I’ve been to Korea, and I've been to England. ''Most'' people [unintelligible] to see 'em, but [unintelligible] I've never seen, 'cause they work too good.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely'']<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well, it-- it was interesting.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well, it- it was interesting.<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I wish I could get-- find out what ''Christian's'' really good-- well, he’s pretty good in drawing…<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I wish I could get- find out what ''Christian's'' really good- well, he’s pretty good in drawing…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And writing.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah – he-- she should know; she-- you’ve-- you should know; you've seen a bunch of [[Chris and art|my artwork]].<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– he- she should know; she- you’ve- you should know; you've seen a bunch of [[Chris and art|my artwork]].<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah! It’s really good! All my-- all my friends like it, as well.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah! It’s really good! All my- all my friends like it, as well.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [[Chris and copyright|He’s ''creative'']]… but he’s, um… I-- I guess you know he’s-- [[autism|he's high-functioning autistic]]… and, um…<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [[Chris and copyright|He’s ''creative'']]… but he’s, um… I- I guess you know he’s- [[autism|he's high-functioning autistic]]… and, um…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> At 6, he couldn’t even ''talk''… but he was… ''programming'' [unintelligible] computer: his Commodore computer…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Commodore 64.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [''laughs''] Which was his first little--<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [''laughs''] Which was his first little-<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh! I don’t know very many-- much about computers! [''giggles''] Sorry! [''giggles some more'']<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh! I don’t know very many- much about computers! [''giggles''] Sorry! [''giggles some more'']<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> You’ve probably got a laptop, with a word processor, don't ya?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [reluctantly] Yeah...<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah. Yeah– but you--<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah. Yeah– but you-<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Now, we've-- we-- we’ve brought him a long way.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Now, we've- we- we’ve brought him a long way.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> It’s been interesting.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah... well, that’s a little piece for you-- that you can, uh, write about, if you want to.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah... well, that’s a little piece for you- that you can, uh, write about, if you want to.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah! That-- that would be interesting.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah! That- that would be interesting.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Anyway, you-- anyway, you came all the way here from, uh, VCU? Or did you make a few stops along the way?<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Anyway, you- anyway, you came all the way here from, uh, VCU? Or did you make a few stops along the way?<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> No – I came all the way from VCU. Um… like, a lot of my fr-- uh, friends over at VCU? They're into the whole Sonichu thing, but there’s a lot more… uh, like, I guess "Sonichu Girls"…<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> No– I came all the way from VCU. Um… like, a lot of my fr- uh, friends over at VCU? They're into the whole Sonichu thing, but there’s a lot more… uh, like, I guess "Sonichu Girls"…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Up in, uh, the University of West Virginia. And we… k-- we kinda do, like, a newsletter-type thing every week.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Up in, uh, the University of West Virginia. And we… k- we kinda do, like, a newsletter-type thing every week.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Wow.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
@@ Line 417: / Line 417: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> You know where West Avenue is?<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah – a little bit; I don’t… really go in that area.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah– a little bit; I don’t… really go in that area.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> They're at the end of VCU, then?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah. [''laughs politely''] I don’t know that area very well.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> It’s-- it's a street of, uh, townhouses. And it's about three blocks long. And it’s got a second name called "Stork Alley".<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> It’s- it's a street of, uh, townhouses. And it's about three blocks long. And it’s got a second name called "Stork Alley".<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely'']<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And every spring, they have a "Stork Alley Rally".<br>
@@ Line 426: / Line 426: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> At the same time, they have the Easter parade over on Monument Avenue.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah– I’ve never seen it before, but my friends tell me about it. But I’m usually stuck in, y'know… college.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– but-- but I was only in Richmond… um… 1975 through 1980. And then, I got married to ''his'' mother. And, um... ''he'' was born, and then, we got transferred over here; I worked for GE. And we lived in Chesterfield County… but I ''love'' West Avenue; that’s my favorite spot.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– but- but I was only in Richmond… um… 1975 through 1980. And then, I got married to ''his'' mother. And, um... ''he'' was born, and then, we got transferred over here; I worked for GE. And we lived in Chesterfield County… but I ''love'' West Avenue; that’s my favorite spot.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely'']<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I call it "Sesame Street".<br>
@@ Line 433: / Line 433: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, yeah?<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I-- I-- I love the Virginian area.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I- I- I love the Virginian area.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> His ''mother''… was raised – but you wouldn’t believe it – she-- she was raised in a [unintelligible] home. And one that's [unintelligible]<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> His ''mother''… was raised– but you wouldn’t believe it– she- she was raised in a [unintelligible] home. And one that's [unintelligible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Uh-huh.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Right there on, um… I can’t think of the name of that street: the one that goes right in front of the Burger King… down at… VCU.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I don’t know what… streets really are--<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I don’t know what… streets really are-<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well, again-- but that is a street that goes right in front of Burger King…<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well, again- but that is a street that goes right in front of Burger King…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And right down the street from there is where… ''his'' mother lived for about 20 years and raised her first son. And he’s got a lot of ties to the family, too; he just doesn’t like me.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh... do you guys have a big family?<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well, uh, we’ve got-- we've got ''my'' son, and my daughter. You-- my son’s in Richmond, and my daughter’s in Washington.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well, uh, we’ve got- we've got ''my'' son, and my daughter. You- my son’s in Richmond, and my daughter’s in Washington.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And then, we’ve got ''her'' son, who's in New York. And then, there’s the three of us.<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah – Schiflett's a really big family.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah– Schiflett's a really big family.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah – we got… two-- really, two separate families.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– we got… two- really, two separate families.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mmm.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah… but it’s not as big as The Brady Bunch!<br>
@@ Line 454: / Line 454: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> No… it isn't.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> No.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But we-- we-- we enjoy it, and I-- I have-- uh, I grow flowers. And… I don’t have to worry about… makin' a livin' anymore…<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But we- we- we enjoy it, and I- I have- uh, I grow flowers. And… I don’t have to worry about… makin' a livin' anymore…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> With Social Security, and… the GE pension. And GE's good and sound… fortunately!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah. [''laughs politely'']<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> So, uh… I-- I grow day lilies. I’ve gotten my yard full of [unintelligible] And in the middle, I’ve got a, um... well, about 15 [unintelligible] greenhouse.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> So, uh… I- I grow day lilies. I’ve gotten my yard full of [unintelligible] And in the middle, I’ve got a, um... well, about 15 [unintelligible] greenhouse.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh?<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Except… inside this greenhouse, it’s different.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Inside this greenhouse, there’s ''plastic'' flowers.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh – ''plastic'' flowers?<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh– ''plastic'' flowers?<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> A ''swing''… and, uh, all my ''stereo'' stuff, and, uh…<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah – but he’s got ''real'' flowers in his garden.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– but he’s got ''real'' flowers in his garden.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh. Oh, okay.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah – the day lilies are real, in the garden; but inside here, it’s all flat.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– the day lilies are real, in the garden; but inside here, it’s all flat.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah – day lilies bloom about once a year, during-- dur-- about ''once''--<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– day lilies bloom about once a year, during- dur- about ''once''-<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> In the summer.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> This-- this summer.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> This- this summer.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> There-- there's also that--<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> There- there's also that-<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> And then, they stay that way for about a month or so. It’s a beautiful garden.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, I can imagine!<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah – I’ve got about 15,000 healthy--<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– I’ve got about 15,000 healthy-<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [dreamily/creepily] ''Imagine!''<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely'']<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And I-- I love all the music from-- from [unintelligible (but seemingly naming a pair of musical artists)].<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And I- I love all the music from- from [unintelligible (but seemingly naming a pair of musical artists)].<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Raise me on music, he did!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''giggles'']<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And-- and musicals. And soundtracks.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And- and musicals. And soundtracks.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Well, what’s ''your'' favorite artist?<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh, my favorite artist? Well, he didn’t raise me on it, but, y'know, my favorite ss-- uh... ''singer'' is Britney Spears.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh, my favorite artist? Well, he didn’t raise me on it, but, y'know, my favorite ss- uh... ''singer'' is Britney Spears.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Britney Spears?<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And, uh, he's got all-- uh, mine are all back from the '40s, and '30s, and '20s, and--<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And, uh, he's got all- uh, mine are all back from the '40s, and '30s, and '20s, and-<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> And he’s into… more ''modern'' pop music?<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Although… I guess if I had to pick a ''classic'' favorite, it would have to be ''Satchmo''.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> "Satchmo"?<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Louis Armstrong.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And-- but [unintelligible] all these big ''classics'' now--<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And-- but [unintelligible] all these big ''classics'' now-<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [''does terrible Satchmo impression''] "Ten feet off the ground!  Ba-doom-ba-bam-bow. [''Worst attempt at scatting ever'']"<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [''does terrible Satchmo impression''] "Ten feet off the ground! Ba-doom-ba-bam-bow. [''Worst attempt at scatting ever'']"<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs'']<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [''imitates trumpet melody'']<br>
@@ Line 499: / Line 499: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I couldn't ''afford'' it when they came out, 'cause they were [unintelligible] but now, you can get 'em at Goodwill and Salvation Army…<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Well--<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Well-<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> A ''quarter'' to ''fifty'' cents apiece.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [feigning enthusiastic agreement] Yeah! [''laughs weakly'']<br>
@@ Line 506: / Line 506: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And inside, uh, I found out that inside this, um… um… ''greenhouse''…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm?<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> It's got a ''dome'' ceiling… which gives it the ca-- ''cathedral'' [unintelligible]<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> It's got a ''dome'' ceiling… which gives it the ca- ''cathedral'' [unintelligible]<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well… I found this ''great'' stereo system at, uh-- in the 1970s, at Goodwill… and put ''it'' out there… along with the swing.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well… I found this ''great'' stereo system at, uh- in the 1970s, at Goodwill… and put ''it'' out there… along with the swing.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Uh-huh.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And… if you turn the volume up, then that music just sounds like it’s the hall where they ''recorded'' it! Ah– it's great! Goin' out there and swingin' with my music for hours on end!<br>
@@ Line 521: / Line 521: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs sympathetically'']<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [''chuckles'']<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [''laughs nervously''] [unintelligible] But he's been-- still been in… good shape all his [unintelligible] I mean, he's been in-- he's been through, uh, ''three'' triple-- ''two'' triple-bypasses?<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [''laughs nervously''] [unintelligible] But he's been- still been in… good shape all his [unintelligible] I mean, he's been in- he's been through, uh, ''three'' triple- ''two'' triple-bypasses?<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah – I was supposed to ''die'' in 1980.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– I was supposed to ''die'' in 1980.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, no! What happened?<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> In fact, I ''did''.<br>
@@ Line 531: / Line 531: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I did all this dumb stuff I shouldn't have.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh...<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah-- but yeah – he-- but yes – uh…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah- but yeah– he- but yes– uh…<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And, um…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> God let him survive!<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I had a couple heart attacks, and…<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [responding to Chris] Yeah – for a reason!<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [responding to Chris] Yeah– for a reason!<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> And he's got a pacemaker now!<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah… I-- I've been through-- I lived through a triple-bypass in 1980 [unintelligible]<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah… I- I've been through- I lived through a triple-bypass in 1980 [unintelligible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs nervously'']<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And survived that… so, [[Chris and death|I've only died a couple times!]] And then, I got-- I got through that. Then, ''he'' came along.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Hey! He come--<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Hey! He come-<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And then, I-- I got retired…<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And then, I- I got retired…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Hey!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Hmm?<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– hey– he's the one that's b-- that has seen the light, but did not actually go ''to'' it…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– hey– he's the one that's b- that has seen the light, but did not actually go ''to'' it…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah. [''laughs politely'']<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And, um...<br>
@@ Line 557: / Line 557: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well, they're the best in the country…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah…<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> For-- for schools [unintelligible]<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> For- for schools [unintelligible]<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah...<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And-- and, um...<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And- and, um...<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Manchester High.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [disinterested] Oh, really?<br>
@@ Line 566: / Line 566: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> And the ''side'' of it… What does it say: "Lancers"?<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Is that-- wait– is that your mascot?<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Is that- wait– is that your mascot?<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Then…what's on the other side? "2000"?<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yes... that's my class and coat'a arms.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh...<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Manchester High School. And look at the jewel! It's a galaxy cut on top, and a [[rainbow]] on the bottom. If you look at-- in the ring--<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Manchester High School. And look at the jewel! It's a galaxy cut on top, and a [[rainbow]] on the bottom. If you look at- in the ring-<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah!<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Do you see--<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Do you see-<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I see it!<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Do you see the rainbow?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah!<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah. [[speech impediment|Well, anyway, like, y'know,]] I guess that's enough-- y'know, that's enough talk from ''him''. Uh... you were gonna ask…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah. [[speech impediment|Well, anyway, like, y'know,]] I guess that's enough- y'know, that's enough talk from ''him''. Uh... you were gonna ask…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Aww...<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> ''Me'' something?
@@ Line 587: / Line 587: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> 'Cause I didn't know about them.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh– didn't… Chris tell you about them?<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> No– he doesn't-- no– he doesn't normally-- he doesn't… ''tell'' me much about them, so… See– he's a-- he-- he and his mother stay up all night… and I stay up all day.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> No– he doesn't- no– he doesn't normally- he doesn't… ''tell'' me much about them, so… See– he's a- he- he and his mother stay up all night… and I stay up all day.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh...<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh... actually reminds me more-- actually, we're more-- sometimes, you stay up in the day; sometimes, you stay up in the night.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh... actually reminds me more- actually, we're more- sometimes, you stay up in the day; sometimes, you stay up in the night.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> So, you've got, like, ''mixed''… like, sleep schedules, I guess?<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> ''Yeah''... my mom-- and my-- my mom picked up my bad biological-- my messed-up [[biological clock]].<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> ''Yeah''... my mom- and my- my mom picked up my bad biological- my messed-up [[biological clock]].<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah...<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh...<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> She stays up all night! But anyway… I-- I-- yeah – I found out about 'em from… I guess, when you called on the phone…<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> She stays up all night! But anyway… I- I- yeah– I found out about 'em from… I guess, when you called on the phone…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh! [''laughs politely'']<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And-- and left a message.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And- and left a message.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah– it's a pretty big fanbase. Um... there's actually about-- about 30-some girls… at University of West Virginia who, like, are part of the fan club.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah– it's a pretty big fanbase. Um... there's actually about- about 30-some girls… at University of West Virginia who, like, are part of the fan club.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Hmm!<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> And then, there's-- I mean, there's, uh, plenty of others, like, around the world, too, that-- we talk to… um, on the forums that we have?<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> And then, there's- I mean, there's, uh, plenty of others, like, around the world, too, that- we talk to… um, on the forums that we have?<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Uh-huh.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Do-- you got one here in UVA?<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Do- you got one here in UVA?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I don't know… [''giggles''] I don't have very many friends at UVA.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [inaudible]<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely''] That's why I heard-- that's why.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely''] That's why I heard- that's why.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> VCU's [unintelligible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah. They're a lot more laid-back over there.<br>
@@ Line 613: / Line 613: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Y'know, I was curious about this-- this club…<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Y'know, I was curious about this- this club…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Uh-huh?<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I-- I didn't know he even knew about it! ''I'' didn't know about it. I think it's great!<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I- I didn't know he even knew about it! ''I'' didn't know about it. I think it's great!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah!<br>
 [pause]<br>
@@ Line 621: / Line 621: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [inaudible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Y'know, certain--<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Y'know, certain-<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Plus [[medallion|the ''medallion'']], Christian!<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah... um...<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> He's got this yellow medallion with Sonichu on it…<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah! Why-- why aren't you wearing your… [suddenly concerned] m-- medallion?<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah! Why- why aren't you wearing your… [suddenly concerned] m- medallion?<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Um... I just believe I expressed that, uh... in a video on, uh, YouTube? But I-- I, uh...<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Um... I just believe I expressed that, uh... in a video on, uh, YouTube? But I- I, uh...<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I might've missed that; I'm not sure.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– um... I'd rather not say in front of-- I'd rather not say in front of ''Father''… but, uh...<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– um... I'd rather not say in front of- I'd rather not say in front of ''Father''… but, uh...<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> There's a lot of things he doesn't tell me; he doesn't share things with me.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
@@ Line 650: / Line 650: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh...<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I thought they were just plain brown! [''laughs politely'']<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– it's just that-- y'know, it's-- the angle of the light kinda gave it a little bit of a greenish tint…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– it's just that- y'know, it's- the angle of the light kinda gave it a little bit of a greenish tint…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah...<br>
@@ Line 659: / Line 659: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah... but ''anyway'', uh… you came all the way from VCU; uh... you hungry?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh– no, I'm not hungry. I ate on the way here, really.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Oh– you--<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Oh– you-<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Stopped at, like, a rest stop. Got some vending m-- [''laughs nervously''] vending machine snacks… and that's it.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Stopped at, like, a rest stop. Got some vending m- [''laughs nervously''] vending machine snacks… and that's it.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> ''Oh.'' That's good. That's good; uh... ''Father'' was thinkin' about, like-- was gonna get us ''spaghetti'', and, uh... [truly flustered] we wanna sh-- we wanna split it be-- he was gonna split it between me, and, uh...… I'm gonna split mine with you…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> ''Oh.'' That's good. That's good; uh... ''Father'' was thinkin' about, like- was gonna get us ''spaghetti'', and, uh... [truly flustered] we wanna sh- we wanna split it be-- he was gonna split it between me, and, uh... I'm gonna split mine with you…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, no… I'm not hungry. Thank you, though!<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [weakly] Yeah.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> We usually split a spaghetti, 'cause I-- I can't eat it all!<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> We usually split a spaghetti, 'cause I- I can't eat it all!<br>
 [pause]<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> ''Yeah''... it's a really big bowl for him…<br>
@@ Line 674: / Line 674: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Let's see… well, Dad– why don't you go get your spaghetti?<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Do you want some?<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> No. I'm-- I'm not hungry. Thank you, though…<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> No. I'm- I'm not hungry. Thank you, though…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah... we could get you some ''water''.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> No– I'm not thirsty, as well.<br>
@@ Line 691: / Line 691: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [''chuckles''] I just… hit the floor!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, no!<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> No– not really; uh... he was-- uh, he was pullin' out his credit c-- not really "hit the floor", but… he was pullin' out his, uh, credit card?<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> No– not really; uh... he was-- uh, he was pullin' out his credit c- not really "hit the floor", but… he was pullin' out his, uh, credit card?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm?<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> And he would've… hit a-- he was standing in front of, like, the cash register, and there was a bar railing there; the bar rail was there. If he-- if my mom wasn't there to catch him…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> And he would've… hit a- he was standing in front of, like, the cash register, and there was a bar railing there; the bar rail was there. If he- if my mom wasn't there to catch him…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> His-- like his guardian angel, he would'a hit the bar and would've been… worse…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> His- like his guardian angel, he would'a hit the bar and would've been… worse…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Would've been worse off!<br>
@@ Line 706: / Line 706: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely'']<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But I-- I think the [unintelligible] reason why I survived all those attacks… which I think I'm ''proud'' of…<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But I- I think the [unintelligible] reason why I survived all those attacks… which I think I'm ''proud'' of…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm?<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I don't know about you.<br>
@@ Line 712: / Line 712: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> ''I'm'' proud of it. I don't know whether ''he'' is or not.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> I'm proud of him, for it!<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But I'm, um-- I found out a few years ago-- about… 10 or 15 years ago…<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But I'm, um- I found out a few years ago- about… 10 or 15 years ago…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm?<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> That I was… at least one-fourth Cherokee!<br>
@@ Line 718: / Line 718: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– so, that makes me an eighth… Cherokee.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> So, I figured that-- and then, I checked back all my father's… relatives [unintelligible] all the way up to be up in their 80s, and 90s, and even over ''100'' sometimes.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> So, I figured that- and then, I checked back all my father's… relatives [unintelligible] all the way up to be up in their 80s, and 90s, and even over ''100'' sometimes.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Dang! [''laughs politely'']<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well, I figured: well, that's why I keep bouncin' back from this.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> This ain't my time yet.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– either that or, uh, God's lettin' him stick around for my… c-- for ''my'' case.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– either that or, uh, God's lettin' him stick around for my… c- for ''my'' case.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Somebody's gotta look out for him!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh... [''laughs nervously'']<br>
@@ Line 730: / Line 730: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Somebody's gotta pay the bills!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs nervously again'']<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah… okay, Dad, uh... you s-- alright, Dad--<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah… okay, Dad, uh... you s- alright, Dad-<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Now-- now, I'm dismissed, so I can go [unintelligible]<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Now- now, I'm dismissed, so I can go [unintelligible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh... [''laughs nervously yet again'']<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Well… not really "dismissed", because… y'know, I'm a little hungry myself… So… [''laughs nervously''] y'know, Dad, please go get the spaghetti and the bread.<br>
@@ Line 752: / Line 752: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh– thank you!<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> And, y'know, you are the first, uh, female Sonichu fan to have actually come a long distance to see me.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh– well, it's not that far! I’m sure, like, maybe some of the girls from VCU would come down sometime: like, maybe during s-- uh... summer break.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh– well, it's not that far! I’m sure, like, maybe some of the girls from VCU would come down sometime: like, maybe during s- uh... summer break.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– but I mean, at least all the way from, uh, West Virginia.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
@@ Line 761: / Line 761: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Mmm. [''does terrifying Donald Duck impression''] "And this is my duck talk! This is, uh, Donald Duck!"<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs in disbelief''] [almost fearful] Is that the one that scared that child?<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh... at the--<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh... at the-<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> At Wendy’s.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh...<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I don’t know how that’s scary.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> No– not-- not-- no– not-- really scary; y'see, he was ''tired''…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> No– not- not- no– not- really scary; y'see, he was ''tired''…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> ''Oh''... okay. So, you…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, okay.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> But it makes a lot of children smile, ‘cause they’re familiar with that D-- classic Disney character.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> But it makes a lot of children smile, ‘cause they’re familiar with that D- classic Disney character.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah!<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> ''Yeah''... you mi-- you don’t mind if I t-- if I, uh, have my hand on your shoulder?<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> ''Yeah''... you mi- you don’t mind if I t- if I, uh, have my hand on your shoulder?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Uh, not for too long…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [''chuckles''] "Not for too long".<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> ''Okay''... not-- not for too long…<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> ''Okay''... not- not for too long…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Okay...<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs nervously'']<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Mmm. [''chuckles again''] This is like-- wow– I finally… get, like, this… beautiful girl in front of me…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Mmm. [''chuckles again''] This is like- wow– I finally… get, like, this… beautiful girl in front of me…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely''] Thank you.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> And she's like-- and she actually got to know ''me''.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> And she's like- and she actually got to know ''me''.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [weakly] Yeah.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Just, like, y'know, uh... Yeah. So… what’s your-- what's the reason you need ''your'' glasses for? I’m ''near-''sighted myself.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Just, like, y'know, uh... Yeah. So… what’s your- what's the reason you need ''your'' glasses for? I’m ''near-''sighted myself.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah– I’m nearsighted, as well.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Oh.<br>
@@ Line 790: / Line 790: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Do we?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Hmm... no– it's still blurry…<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> ''Yeah''... Mmm. How do you look without that hat? I mean, I want-- I'd like to see the, uh…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> ''Yeah''... Mmm. How do you look without that hat? I mean, I want- I'd like to see the, uh…<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I-- I like this hat. My hair doesn’t look good today.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I- I like this hat. My hair doesn’t look good today.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Oh…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
@@ Line 798: / Line 798: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> How’s my hair look?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> It looks good!<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Mmm. Looks good. [''chuckles''] Boy– I've had it sleepin' against ''pillows''… and I took a shower before I went-- before I went to-- um, crashing on the… couch.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Mmm. Looks good. [''chuckles''] Boy– I've had it sleepin' against ''pillows''… and I took a shower before I went- before I went to- um, crashing on the… couch.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [slightly disgusted] Oh...<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– but I put on some, uh, bod-- body s-- some [[Axe|Axe body spray]] before I left. Do you like that smell?<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– but I put on some, uh, bod- body s- some [[Axe|Axe body spray]] before I left. Do you like that smell?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah– it depends on which one it is.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Uh, which one is it?<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> I believe it's, uh... it's called "Proximity".<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh– I ''really'' like the choc-- the new chocolate one.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh– I ''really'' like the choc- the new chocolate one.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Oh– the, uh, "Dark Temptation"…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> ''Yeah.''<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Oh– I was running low on that can anyway.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh... okay.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> It's like I-- if I-- if I-- if we-- if we was hookin' up, I would've gotten more of that!<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> It's like I- if I- if I- if we-- if we was hookin' up, I would've gotten more of that!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs'']<br>
 [Note: Chris both stutters ''and'' laughs through "if we was hookin' up", so it's not at all clear that Emily realizes what she's laughing at.]<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [''sighs''] But seriously, though: you ''are'' cute.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh – thank you.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh– thank you.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Mmm. ''Mmm''... Yeah – I like-- I like this-- I like this-- I like the get-up you’re wearing. It's like you're-- you c-- you straight-- came straight from, uh... the, uh, PGSM… show.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Mmm. ''Mmm''... Yeah– I like- I like this- I like this- I like the get-up you’re wearing. It's like you're- you c- you straight- came straight from, uh... the, uh, PGSM… show.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, yeah... [''laughs politely'']<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> It's the live-action [[Sailor Moon]].<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah– I’ve seen some of the episodes for that.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> I’ve got the entire series--<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> I’ve got the entire series-<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Saved to my PlayStation 3, including the, uh, wedding episode.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh– I don’t… think I’ve… seen that one… so…<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> It's, like, the very-- it's, like, a very special ''last'' episode.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> It's, like, the very- it's, like, a very special ''last'' episode.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, okay.<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [in a strange, baby-like voice] You actually get to see ''Usagi''… [back to his normal voice] and, uh-- aww, shoot– I forget his name, but, y'know…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [in a strange, baby-like voice] You actually get to see ''Usagi''… [back to his normal voice] and, uh- aww, shoot– I forget his name, but, y'know…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Uh... Mamoru?<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah – Samoru. That’s it; ''you'' got it.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– Samoru. That’s it; ''you'' got it.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> You ''got'' it!<br>
@@ Line 842: / Line 842: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs nervously'']<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah... Yeah – I kn-- I know that. But I ''have'' that on, uh-- I have that on ''DVD''--<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah... Yeah– I kn- I know that. But I ''have'' that on, uh- I have that on ''DVD''-<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh, y'know, with J-- Japanese audio and English subtitles.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh, y'know, with J- Japanese audio and English subtitles.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> How do you feel about that? Like, the transsexuals and… the Sailor Starlights?<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah. Um...<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Does it, like, make you uncomfortable, or… would you--<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Does it, like, make you uncomfortable, or… would you-<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> No.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Would you have minded if, like, it came out, and the TV showed just, like, little kids?<br>
@@ Line 855: / Line 855: @@
 [''Emily and Chris both laugh'']<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> It's kind of a… sketchy subject, there.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– it's, uh-- it's… [in a British accent] ''itchy''…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– it's, uh- it's… [in a British accent] ''itchy''…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 [pause]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs nervously'']<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– but you can sketch a lot in your, uh... journalism, don't ya?<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah. Well, I m-- I mean, we don’t draw a lot; we just… We do, like, the little outlines, and then, we start writing.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah. Well, I m- I mean, we don’t draw a lot; we just… We do, like, the little outlines, and then, we start writing.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Okay– well, I mean, you-- I mean, you sketch your ''letters''.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Okay– well, I mean, you- I mean, you sketch your ''letters''.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah...<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> I bet you sketch your signature pretty… don’t you?<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> No– I thinks it's, uh-- it's just basically a bunch'a scribbles.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> No– I thinks it's, uh- it's just basically a bunch'a scribbles.<br>
 [''Chris and Emily both laugh'']<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Eh... a lot of people would say that about their signatures, I’m sure.<br>
@@ Line 871: / Line 871: @@
 [pause]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> An E and… an S, basically. [''laughs politely'']<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh-- uh, an S?<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh- uh, an S?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah– Emily Schiflett.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Oh– ''that’s'' your last name!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah!<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> "Schiflett".<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah – my middle name’s Julia.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah– my middle name’s Julia.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> ''"Julia"!''<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> ''Yeah.''<br>
@@ Line 884: / Line 884: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> It's beautiful!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Aww... thank you.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> D-- do you dot your I in "Julia" with a heart?<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> D- do you dot your I in "Julia" with a heart?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> No... [''laughs politely'']<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [''chuckles'']<br>
@@ Line 892: / Line 892: @@
 [''Bob comes back'']<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [''sighs''] Alright, Dad – uh, I'll let you, uh, divvy up the spaghetti onto my plate.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [''sighs''] Alright, Dad– uh, I'll let you, uh, divvy up the spaghetti onto my plate.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> I get to divvy it up!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely'']<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [''chuckles'']<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Wow! Christian – I don't know… [unintelligible] my ''treat'' to finally come down here! I love their spaghetti!<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Wow! Christian– I don't know… [unintelligible] my ''treat'' to finally come down here! I love their spaghetti!<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> ''Oh''... really? I don't think-- I've only had their pizza there… before…<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> ''Oh''... really? I don't think- I've only had their pizza there… before…<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– the, um-- all the spaghetti places in town are too expensive.<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah– the, um- all the spaghetti places in town are too expensive.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> My favorite, though, is, um, Olive Garden.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> ''Oh.''<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– b-- but--<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– b- but-<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But they don't have one here!<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely'']<br>
@@ Line 912: / Line 912: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Mmm. Well, yeah– it's a good place to, uh, get, uh, spaghetti.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, okay.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> I-- I've actually-- yeah– y'know, I was there with my father… when-- the few times we visited, uh, Olive Garden.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> I- I've actually- yeah– y'know, I was there with my father… when- the few times we visited, uh, Olive Garden.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Uh-huh.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– a good place to get, uh, spaghetti; really good.<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> And also, we've been to the, uh, few, uh, nearly-- to the ''other'' nearly esstinct, uh, restaurants: y'know, like Shoney's [unintelligible]<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> And also, we've been to the, uh, few, uh, nearly- to the ''other'' nearly esstinct, uh, restaurants: y'know, like Shoney's [unintelligible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh– I haven't seen a Shoney's around in a ''while!''<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> There's one in Chesterfield Count-- there's a bun-- there's a few in the Richmond area…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> There's one in Chesterfield Count- there's a bun-- there's a few in the Richmond area…<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And one over close to VCU!<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh! Really? I didn't see it! [''laughs politely''] Of course, I'm-- I'm usually not looking for them, so…<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh! Really? I didn't see it! [''laughs politely''] Of course, I'm- I'm usually not looking for them, so…<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah – we even ha-- yeah – we even-- at-- at home, somewhere, we even have a t-- we even have the-- the teddy bear: the ''Shoney Bear''.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– we even ha- yeah– we even- at- at home, somewhere, we even have a t- we even have the- the teddy bear: the ''Shoney Bear''.<br>
 [pause]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> The Shoney Bear?<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– it's-- that was their mascot.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– it's- that was their mascot.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, okay.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> And I mean, if you look it up-- if you look up "Shon"-- if you-- I'm sure if you Googled "Shoney's", you'd, uh... find their mascot being the teddy--<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> And I mean, if you look it up-- if you look up "Shon"- if you- I'm sure if you Googled "Shoney's", you'd, uh... find their mascot being the teddy-<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Being the bear.<br>
@@ Line 932: / Line 932: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [in a somewhat cutesy voice] "Bein' the bear in the shirt…"<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [''laughs politely'']<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [unintelligible] "to… wan-- to wan-- to… gawk-- to ''gander'' at!"<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [unintelligible] "to… wan- to wan- to… gawk- to ''gander'' at!"<br>
 [pause]<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Christian– they got lots of juice!<br>
@@ Line 945: / Line 945: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> You can deal ''without''…<br>
 [pause]<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– he doesn't usually eat the bread, so, uh, I'll take his-- so, I take his breadsticks.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah– he doesn't usually eat the bread, so, uh, I'll take his- so, I take his breadsticks.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh...<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> I'm gonna go get some more water.<br>
@@ Line 964: / Line 964: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah, well they were going downhill [unintelligible] retired.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh really?<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah, [unintelligible] got retirement. She didn't retire 'til, a couple - three years ago. She's younger than I am [unintelligible]<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah, [unintelligible] got retirement. She didn't retire 'til, a couple- three years ago. She's younger than I am [unintelligible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [laughs]<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But she's younger than I am, but uh [pause] [unintelligible] she uh worked [unintelligible, Chris comes back, still unintelligible] she loves that. Grey Street. Grey Street.<br>
@@ Line 1,084: / Line 1,084: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Yeah there's lots to see on TV. [unintelligible] He came up with it, believe it or not. He taught himself to read.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Really?<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Oh he could really read, by turning on those stations [trails off].<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Oh he could really read, by turning on those stations [trails off]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Wow, that's-<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [unintelligible]<br>
@@ Line 1,135: / Line 1,135: @@
 [pause]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Who's your favorite character?<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Um, with the exception of uh Usagi and Chibi-Usa. I like, uh, Ami. <br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Um, with the exception of uh Usagi and Chibi-Usa. I like, uh, Ami.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Any particular reason, like?<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [chuckle] Well, I don't know it's just like [short ramble]...<br>
@@ Line 1,186: / Line 1,186: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> It's in [???] County.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> No, it's not in [???]...<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [laughs over <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font>]<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [laughs over Bob]<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> ...County. It's close [inaudible] It's across the river.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh.<br>
@@ Line 1,212: / Line 1,212: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [inaudible] was British...had a British accent anyway. But he was talking to Christopher. And he asked Chris-he asked Chris his name. He said Christopher, but he misunderstood.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Uh-huh.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And he thought he said [inaudible].<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> And he thought he said [inaudible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> So he started calling him Christian.<br>
@@ Line 1,436: / Line 1,436: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> His mother keeps telling me [inaudible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Emily [???].<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Emily [???]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yep.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> That's her full name, Dad.<br>
@@ Line 1,443: / Line 1,443: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Well now I want you to know something. If you were in Greene County they'd welcome you with open arms.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [laughs]<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Because [???] [inaudible] name up there. [inaudible] two names basically in Greene County. One of 'em's just [???] [inaudible].<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> Because [???] [inaudible] name up there. [inaudible] two names basically in Greene County. One of 'em's just [???] [inaudible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Uh-huh.<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [???] [inaudible] native tongue.<br>
@@ Line 1,525: / Line 1,525: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> I [inaudible] my keys in there at the t-toll booth.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh? How did you get them out? You had to call like the locksmith or something?<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh, fortunately, uh, one of the uh, people at-people over at that toll booth had [???].<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh, fortunately, uh, one of the uh, people at-people over at that toll booth had [???]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, OK. So they were able to help you out.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
@@ Line 1,579: / Line 1,579: @@
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> But he got on in the middle, in a place called Breezewood.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Uh-huh.<br>
-<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> You've probably heard of Breezewood. [inaudible] up there just-just northeast of [???].<br>
+<font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> You've probably heard of Breezewood. [inaudible] up there just-just northeast of [???]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [laughs]<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [inaudible] Yeah and you go to Breezewood and hang a left. I thought he-I thought he was up here in the valley.<br>
@@ Line 1,593: / Line 1,593: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [laughs]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [inaudible] at night.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, well I got fair eyesight in [unintelligible].<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, well I got fair eyesight in [unintelligible]<br>
 <font color="#545454">'''Bob:'''</font> [inaudible] mine keeps going downhill [inaudible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [laughs]<br>
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 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> And I've [inaudible] many types of, like games playing racing and RPG...<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> ...and all, and the adventures [inaudible].<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> ...and all, and the adventures [inaudible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> But it's like, it's only helpful when you have the directions from Mapquest, and uh, you can uh, find a world map of the uh, east-of the we-of the eastern coast of the United States.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Mm-hmm.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Which is really Virginia. And uh, Ohio in the [unintelligible].<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Which is really Virginia. And uh, Ohio in the [unintelligible]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [laughs]<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Which I highlighted with a blue marker.<br>
@@ Line 1,678: / Line 1,678: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font>Okay... okay, you can show me around the mall…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Okay! Here's our… heights… You… you come to just about my eyeline.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *nervous tittering*<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [nervous tittering]<br>
 They walk quietly for a moment as Chris mutters something quietly.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> *sigh* So where you li… where do you usually like to go shopping at when you're at a shopping center?<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [sigh] So where you li… where do you usually like to go shopping at when you're at a shopping center?<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *impatiently* Clothes stores.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [impatiently] Clothes stores.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, uh, they have a number of clothing stores in, uh...<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah...<br>
@@ Line 1,695: / Line 1,695: @@
 Chris nervously takes a few steps.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Wow… you're like… I'm sorry.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *nervous laughter*<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [nervous laughter]<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> I'm just fascinated like… you're just like… a character from PGSM or from- came all the way from Japan- just leapt out of my television!<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *nervous laughter* No I'm definitely all American.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [nervous laughter] No I'm definitely all American.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> You're all American.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I'm all American.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Okay- so it's just- it's just your eyes that are excepting.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *shameless subject change* Yeah... so what's your favorite store here?<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [shameless subject change] Yeah... so what's your favorite store here?<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah it's- currently, since they took away the toy store- I think it's- I would say it's mostly Gamestop, but I also go to the bookstore or Sears, or even the Spencer's that's down on the other side of the mall. And they used to have an FYE here, which was a Suncoast before- before it- before they all merged and became an FYE, but then they closed that to make the next business here.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> What's down the other way… cause I've been… I came down this way, but I haven't been down that way.<br>
@@ Line 1,711: / Line 1,711: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *nervous laughter*<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> But, you know, not- but you know- respectful- touch you gently on the shoulder or the back-<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *vomitously* Yeah…<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [vomitously] Yeah…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> I mean at least I'm not that guy from Inuyasha that… go- eh- go for the bum.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *vomitously* Yeah…<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [vomitously] Yeah…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Heh-heh, that's funny. Always get slapped in the face, he does.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah...<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> I forget his name, I think it's Mamoru, or something like that<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Uh... it's Miroku.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> *talking over her* Do you watch Inuyasha? Yeah, Miroku, that was it, you hi- you hit it on the head right there…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [talking over her] Do you watch Inuyasha? Yeah, Miroku, that was it, you hi- you hit it on the head right there…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah…<br>
 Emily awkwardly walks several steps.<br>
@@ Line 1,734: / Line 1,734: @@
 <font color="#000000">'''Salesman:'''</font> HELLO WOULD YOU LIKE HARAAGARALABHGH<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, no thank you!<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> No thank you! Yeah... right over- see- where that *unintelligible name of store*, that's where PacSun used to be, where Anna McLerran<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> No thank you! Yeah... right over- see- where that [unintelligible name of store], that's where PacSun used to be, where Anna McLerran<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh yeah... I've… I've heard of her as well…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah...<br>
@@ Line 1,742: / Line 1,742: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> She's a Mormon. Found that out after I met her. But we cam- but we- but we could became good friends and I gave her, uh, you know, gave her a going away/birthday party before she left for Utah…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Uh-huh!<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> For her 20th birthday… and actually her- actual- and actually her friends, uh, her friends and I got together and put together the party. *emphatically* I k- I bought the cake.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> For her 20th birthday… and actually her- actual- and actually her friends, uh, her friends and I got together and put together the party. [emphatically] I k- I bought the cake.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, that's nice of you… and… there was also Megan. Do you keep in contact with her?<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah uh... no, not-no-n-n-not-been-touch with her for a long time.<br>
@@ Line 1,755: / Line 1,755: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh ok…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Can you believe that, attending Manchester High like I was back then,<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *small laughter*<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [small laughter]<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> … but yet they never went- they never been- they never been to Manchester High, neither of them. Isn't that… kinda funny?<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *slightly sarcastically* Yeah… that is kinda funny!<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [slightly sarcastically] Yeah… that is kinda funny!<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah... FYE was over there…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh... I guess it's becoming a LensCrafters?<br>
@@ Line 1,763: / Line 1,763: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh...<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> If you like looking at the, uh, naughty stuff-<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *quickly* No, I'm not into that.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [quickly] No, I'm not into that.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Not yet anyway! *laughs*<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Not yet anyway! [laughs]<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *nervous laughter*<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [nervous laughter]<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Ah, but you might. But it's mostly humorous, anyway.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah... well... doesn't look like there's anything down here…<br>
@@ Line 1,779: / Line 1,779: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, when you're on your, uh, period…<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah… *nervous laughter*<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah… [nervous laughter]<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, you know, aside from the, uh, first time, uh, meeting, this first meeting, uh, how do you feel about me? In general…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> You're a really nice guy!<br>
@@ Line 1,794: / Line 1,794: @@
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Uh... no.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I'd see that movie.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> *shocked* Uh... any particular reason why you're dressed up like that?<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [shocked] Uh... any particular reason why you're dressed up like that?<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Not in particular.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Come on, Emily.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> What?<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Hey, hey, maybe the lady wants to go with me. Ya, ya want to go see Watchmen? Lots of, uh...<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *gloating* Why, what's wrong?<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [gloating] Why, what's wrong?<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> The man in the pickle suit… a- it's apparent this guy's amongst the… trolls.<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> You think…<br>
@@ Line 1,816: / Line 1,816: @@
 <font color="#000000">'''Passerby:'''</font> You're just bored?<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Yep!<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> *questioningly* You don't even know me… are you sure… do you have internet access?<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [questioningly] You don't even know me… are you sure… do you have internet access?<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Lots of people have internet access.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Do you know Sonichu and Rosechu?<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> No, I do not.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Do you know about Encyclopedia Dramatica?<br>
-<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> No, I do not. (turning to Emily) Want to go see Watchmen?<br>
+<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> No, I do not. [turning to Emily] Want to go see Watchmen?<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> *stress sighs* No, no, no, she's with-<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [stress sighs] No, no, no, she's with-<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Alright!<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> … she's h- she's headed over to- she's heading back to her home town.<br>
@@ Line 1,831: / Line 1,831: @@
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font>Okay, cool.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah?<br>
-<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> (to Emily as they turn to leave together) You've probably seen Watchmen (he refers to the novel), haven't you?<br>
+<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> [to Emily as they turn to leave together] You've probably seen Watchmen [he refers to the novel], haven't you?<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> (answering the question meant for Emily as he is clearly left behind) I've heard of Watchmen…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [answering the question meant for Emily as he is clearly left behind] I've heard of Watchmen…<br>
-<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> *laughs at Chris*<br>
+<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> [laughs at Chris]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah!<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> (inaudible, but clearly saying something to the effect that he doesn't like the Pickle Man.)<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [inaudible, but clearly saying something to the effect that he doesn't like the Pickle Man]<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *gloating* What's wrong with him?<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [gloating] What's wrong with him?<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> What, you like pickles?<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah… I do not like pickles.<br>
@@ Line 1,843: / Line 1,843: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> There's nothing wrong with him!<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Who's Blanca?<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> *stress sighs/grunts*<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [stress sighs/grunts]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> There's nothing wrong with him! See, he's a nice guy.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> (inaudible, but stressed as he moves closer to Emily)<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [inaudible, but stressed as he moves closer to Emily]<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> I think you're making the lady uncomfortable there, Chris.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> *stress sighs* I'm sorry, Emily.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [stress sighs] I'm sorry, Emily.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> It's ok… I think I have… to go to the bathroom now…<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
@@ Line 1,854: / Line 1,854: @@
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [inaudible] … but I guess I do now.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *attempting to brush him off* OK, well it was nice meeting you… maybe we'll talk online or something.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [attempting to brush him off] OK, well it was nice meeting you… maybe we'll talk online or something.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah well… I kinda… [inaudible]<br>
-<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> (as they continue trying to walk away) Well, we're going to go now.<br>
+<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> [as they continue trying to walk away] Well, we're going to go now.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah well…<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I'm going to the bathroom.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, uh, either of- (to Pickle Man) you're not going where she's going…<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Yeah, uh, either of- [to Pickle Man] you're not going where she's going…<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Uh, we're- we're leaving together.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Are you with her?<br>
@@ Line 1,867: / Line 1,867: @@
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> We're going to go see Watchmen first.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I'm kinda- just- gonna- Watchmen's not that long of a movie.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> *suddenly concerned for Emily* Yeah, but you got a five hour drive!<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [suddenly concerned for Emily] Yeah, but you got a five hour drive!<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> *dismissively* It'll be ok.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [dismissively] It'll be ok.<br>
 The Pickle Man and Chris indistinctly carry on a short dialogue. The Pickle Man seems to be asking Chris why he is following along, and Chris replies:<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> I'm just staying close to my friends<br>
@@ Line 1,876: / Line 1,876: @@
 There is a long pause as Emily hides from Chris in the bathroom.<br>
-<font color="#000000">'''Passerby:'''</font> (inaudible)...very fashionable looking.<br>
+<font color="#000000">'''Passerby:'''</font> [inaudible]...very fashionable looking.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh, thank you!<br>
 <font color="#000000">'''Passerby:'''</font> The mall should pay you for walking around.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> (laughs)<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [laughs]<br>
 Another long pause as Emily finally leaves the bathroom.
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 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Tha- that way.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh... I'm over there.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Oh. (continues walking alongside Pickle Man and Emily)<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Oh. [continues walking alongside Pickle Man and Emily]<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Chris… you don't need to walk me to my car.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Okaaay.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> This is… Alright.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> So, you have yourself a safe trip back to uhh… West Virginia.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh… (feigning cheerfulness) okay! I might call you on Skype later.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Oh… [feigning cheerfulness] okay! I might call you on Skype later.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Okay, you take care.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> You too.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Hey… (attempts to hug and kiss Emily)<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Hey… [attempts to hug and kiss Emily]<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> (tries to avoid Chris) No… no… no thank you! (nervous laughter) No thank you.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [tries to avoid Chris] No… no… no thank you! [nervous laughter] No thank you.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> (Chris gives up) Okay.<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [gives up] Okay.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Alright, see you.<br>
 <font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> Alright, well you take care, be safe.<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Alright, you too.<br>
 seconds pass as Pickle Man and Emily walk away from Chris.<br>
-<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> (yelling from a distance) HE KNOWS CLYDE CASH!<br>
+<font color="#4682B4">'''Chris:'''</font> [yelling from a distance] HE KNOWS CLYDE CASH!<br>
 There is laughter from Pickle Man and Emily.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> (laughing) Mission accomplished!<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [laughing] Mission accomplished!<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Is he gone yet?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> I don't know, let me look behind.<br>
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 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Yeah...<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Okay... [inaudible] man in the pickle suit?<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> (laughs)<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [laughs]<br>
-<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> (laughingly says something about Clyde Cash)<br>
+<font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> [laughingly says something about Clyde Cash]<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> (laughs) Wait there… there's Frosty.<br>
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [laughs] Wait there… there's Frosty.<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> What?<br>
 <font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> Looks like he's gone now. I'm gonna go tell him what happened.<br>
 <font color="#009900">'''Pickle Man:'''</font> Okay.<br>
-<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> (presumably walking to see Frosty) Yes! Still recording!
+<font color="#CD5555">'''Emily:'''</font> [presumably walking to see Frosty] Yes! Still recording!
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Summary

Cast

Transcript

Prelude (00:00 - 03:12)

Target Acquired (03:13 - 04:43)

The Green Mile (04:44 - 05:19)

Meet the Parent (05:20 - 07:17)

Bob's Work History (07:18 - 16:58)

Retired Life (16:59 - 24:22)

Bob's Health Problems (24:23 - 25:29)

Memories of High School (25:30 - 26:12)

The "Sonichu Girls" Club (26:13 - 29:01)

Emily Isn't Hungry (29:02 - 29:58)

Bob's Health Problems Revisited (29:59 - 32:11)

Chris Fails at Flirting (32:12 - 36:48)

Eating Spaghetti and Conversing (36:49 - 44:46)

Bob on World News (44:47 - 51:00)

The Bear Band (51:01 - 55:23)

Chris's card game history (55:24 - 59:24)

Girls (59:26 - 01:05:21)

Basketball and A Fateful Trip (01:05:23 - 01:14:22)

A Walk to Remember (01:14:23 - 01:21:43)

Meet the Pickle (01:21:44 - 01:25:29)

Hiding Out In The Bathroom (01:25:29 - 01:29:34)

A Precious Farewell (01:29:35 - 01:31:10)

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