Emily Date Conversation Transcript

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 talk 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-- he [unintelligible (but clearly imitating Chris's voice)]
Emily: [laughs] Ungh, ungh, ungh, ungh!
Emily: 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.
Camwhore: 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]
Camwhore: 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!
Emily: [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.
Emily: 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.
Emily: 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.
Bob: 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.
Bob: 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.
Bob: 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.
Bob: 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]
Bob: 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 Satchmo impression] "Ten feet off the ground!"
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!
Bob: 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!
Bob: And then, I got-- I got through that.
Bob: 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…
Bob: And I died a couple times [unintelligible]
Bob: 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…
Emily: 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…
Bob: 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!
Bob: 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]
Emily: 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…
Chris: 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.
Chris: 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.
Bob: 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 [unintelligibile] 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…
Chris: 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…
Bob: 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.
Chris: 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]
Emily: 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.
Chris: [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…
Chris: 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…
Chris: 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.
Chris: [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…
Chris: 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: Its, 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…
Chris: 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…
Chris: 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.
Emily: Well, I m-- I mean, we don’t draw a lot; we just…
Emily: 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…
Bob: [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…
Chris: 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: [Unintelligble, 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: [he says something about Pokemon]
Bob: He loooves Pokemon.
Chris: Yeah, we used to come down here for the Pokemon league or uh [unintelligble] Yeah, I remember that.
Emily: [laughs]
Bob: [unintelligble] 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 [unintelligble] over there was Reverend [unintelligible] of the Korean Church.
Emily: Uh huh.
Chris: And this is in [unintelligble] 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 [unintelligble] 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 [unintelligble] 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 [unintelligble], 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: [unintelligble]
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: [unintelligble]
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: [unintelligble]
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 - 47:58)

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, [unintelligble] and one of them's called World News. [unintelligble]
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. [unintelligble] 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. [unintelligble] 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: [unintelligble]
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 [unintelligble, 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: [unintelligble]
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: Well in three days, he-he [unintelligble 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, [unintelligble]
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? [i have no idea who they're talking about, I think Bob said Margie though.]
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 [unintelligble] 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 unintelligble].
[pause]
Emily: Who's your favorite character?
Chris: Um, with the exception of uh [unintelligble moonspeak]. I like, uh, Ami. [that might not be spelled right, just a shot]
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...

(50:04 - 01:14:22)

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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 McDonalds 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!
Chris: Yeah… right over- see- where that *unintelligble 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: (inaudible)
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: (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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