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 that of an elite crack team of courageous trolls and trollettes.

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]

Babblin' Bob (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.

Raising Chris-Chan (16:59 - 24:19)

Emily: I'm not very good at math. (Girlishly Giggles)
Bob: I'm not that-I'm good at logic, but not at math.
Chris: I'm good at math!
Bob: He's not good at math, when it comes to managing money.
Emily: (Laughs)
Chris: Hey, look it! I have YOUR plastic lid on it!
Chris and Emily share a giggle over the humor of this statement.
Bob: We've been working with him, now, for twenty seven years. (It was a job/challenge?) Most of the time, I've been retired, so I could (coach him?).
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: Well, uh, I uh do alright with writing as long as I got spell check.
Emily: (Giggles)
Bob: I just, uh, I enjoyed my life it, uh I-I had things, I had opportunities most people don’t get.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: I’ve got to see all the stuff [inaudible]
Emily: That’s gooood, I hope that I can travel all around the world and you know, write in journalism..like overseas.
Bob: I’ve been to Australia, I’ve been to Korea, I've been to England, most people that I know have never been to [inaudible] so they write(?) for a living
Emily: (Giggles)
Bob: [inaudible] I wish I could get find out what good he can do though he’s pretty good in drawing
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: -and writing
Chris: Yeah, she-she-she you-you should know, you’ve seen a bunch ah my artwork.
Emily: Yeah it’s really good! All-all my friends like it as well.
Bob: He’s creative, but he’s uh , I-I guess you know he’s high functioning autistic and, uh-
Chris and
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: At six he couldn’t even talk but he was programming(?) (indistinct, possibly AMIGA?) computers and Commodore computers.
Chris: Commodore 64.
Bob: (Laughs) which was his first little--
Emily: Oh! I don’t know that much about computers (Giggle) Sorry! (Giggle)
Bob: You’ve probably got a laptop, with a word processor.
Emily: Yeah…
Chris: Yeah-yeah, but you-
Bob: We’ve brought him a long way. It’s been interesting.
Chris: Yeah, that’s a little piece of history you can write about, if you want to.
Emily: Yeah, that would be interesting.
Chris takes over for half a second.
Chris: Anyways, you came all the way here from 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 friends over at VCU know about the whole Sonichu thing, but there’s a lot more. Like, uh, I guess Sonichu girls?
Chris: Yeah…
Emily: --up in University of West Virginia and we kinda do a newsletter type thing every week
Chris: Wow…
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: This is one of my favorite spots in the country.
Chris: I commend you for that.
Emily: (Giggles)
Bob: --little trees on west avenue.
Emily: uh-huh
Bob: Have you heard about West Avenue?
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: You know where West Avenue is?
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: You know where west avenue is?
Emily: Yeah, a little bit, but I don’t go in that area.
Bob: Then are you from VCU then?
Emily: Yeah, (laughing this off) I don’t know that area very well.
Bob: It’s a little town(house?)…only three blocks long and it’s got a second name, called: “Fork Avenue.”
Emily: (Giggles)
Bob: Every spring they have a Fork Avenue (rally?)
Emily: Uh-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 have told me about it, but I’m usually stuck in you know… college.
Bob: --in Richmond uh 1975 thru 1980 and then I got married to his mother and, um, he was born. Then we got transferred over here and we moved to Chesterfield county …but I love West Avenue that’s my favorite spot.
Emily: (Giggles)
Bob: I call it Sesame Street.
Emily: Oh that’s--(giggles)
Bob: They call itself now cause there’s too many kids.
Emily: Oh yeah…?
Bob: I-I love Virginia. His mother was raised, oh you wouldn’t believe it, raised in [inaudible] and was the one who decided to move
Emily: uh-huh
Bob: right there on and uh can’t remember the name of that school the one that goes [inaudible] on [inaudible] street.
Emily: I don’t really know the streets.
Bob: well there’s a street (on a?) Burger King right down the street from there is where uh his mother lived for twenty 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: Ohh, you guys have a big family?
Bob: Well, uh, we’ve got my son and my daughter; my son’s in Richmond and my daughter’s in Washington.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: And then you’ve got her son, who lives in New York, and then there’s the three of us.
Emily: Yeah, sure is a big family.
Bob: We’ve really got two separate families.
Chris: Yeah, but it’s not as big as the Brady BunCH!
Emily: Yeah.(Giggle) no…
Bob: We-we-we enjoy it and I grow flowers. I don’t have to worry about making a living anymore.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: Social Security, GE pension and GE is good and sound, so what’s it to me?
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: I grow [inaudible] of it. I’ve got my yard for [inaudible] And in the middle I’ve got a um about a 12 to 15 flat greenhouse.
Emily: Oh?
Bob: Inside the greenhouse it’s different.
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Bob: Inside the greenhouse, there’s plastic flowers.
Emily: Oh, plastic flowers?
Bob: --swaying and all my stereo stuff.
Chris: Yeah, but he’s got real flowers in his garden.
Emily: Oh, oh okay.
Bob: The day lillies are real in the garden inside [inaudible] it’s all flat.
Chris: Yeah, day lillies bloom about once a year du-duri-about once this summer.
Bob: –summer.
Emily: Oh…
Bob continues to talk but Chris talks over him 22:33.
Chris: And dey stay that way for about a month or so. It’s a beautiful garden
Emily: I can imagine.
Bob: I’ve got about fifteen thousand healthy--
Chris: (high pitched/dreamily/wistfully/CREEPILY) IMAGINE.
Emily: (Giggles)
Bob: I love all the music from Rick and Rick Van Swing.
Chris: Raise me on music, he did!
Emily: (Laughs)
Bob: --musical soundtracks
Emily: Well, what’s your favorite artist?
Chris: Uh, my favorite artist…well, he didn’t raise me on it, but you know my favorite singer is Britney Spears.
Emily: Britney Spears?
Bob: You’ve got all my [inaudible] back in the 30’s and 40’s and 20‘s..
Emily: And he’s into more modern pop music?
Chris: Well, if I guess I had to pick a classic favorite it would have to be SATCHMO.
Emily: SATCHMO?
Chris: Louis Armstrong.
Bob: [inaudible] you’ve got all these classics now-
Chris: (23:19-interupts with an impersonation of Louis Armstrong) TEN FEET UP THE GRAND BU BUH BUH BEH
Emily: (Giggles)
Bob: It was in the 40’s when it came out on the European market was lacking.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: Back in the 40’s when it came out [inaudible] and now you’ve got to make good will and salvation army.
Emily: Yeah.
Bob: [inaudible]
Emily: YeeAAh
Bob: THOUSANDS of them now.
Emily: (Giggles)
Bob: And inside, I found out inside the greenhouse going soon the (complete rules of society are turned around?) I found a great stereo system in the 1970’s and put it out there along with my swing.
Emily: uh-huh
Bob: You can turn the volume up, and it sounds like it’s the hall where they recorded it. I go out there and swing with the music.
Emily: What? (Bob laughs) It must be really relaxing.

(24:20 - 32:00)

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In which Chris impersonates Donald Duck (32:01 - 36:48)

After more of Bob's life story, Chris orders Bob to retrieve food for them, and continues his conversation with Emily.
Chris: Yeah, you know, I must say you look good.
Emily: Oh, thank you.
Chris: You know, you’re the first female Sonichu fan that has actually come a long distance to see me.
Emily: Oh, its not that far. I’m sure maybe some of the girls from VCU would come down sometime, like maybe during summer break.
Chris: Yeah, but I mean at least all the way from West Virginia, I mean that’s farther than VCU.
Emily: Yeah, (Laughs) we might take a road trip down here.
Chris: (Speaking in a sing-song voice) Take a road trip, its a little road trip…
Emily: (Confused laugh)
(Here Chris graces Emily with his Donald Duck Impression, which is difficult to convey in writing)
Emily: (Laughs) Is that the one that scared that child?
Chris: Er-
Emily: At Wendy’s…
Chris: Uh…
Emily: I don’t know how that’s scary-
Chris: (Talking over her) No, not really scary, you see he was tired…
Emily: Oh, okay so you-
Chris:(Interrupting)Yeah. But it makes a lot of children smile, ‘cause they’re familiar with that classic Disney character.
Emily: Yeah
Chris: Yeah. Y-you don’t mind if I have my hand on your shoulder…
Emily: Uh, not for too long…
Chris: (Chuckles)
Emily: Oookay, n-not for too long…
Chris: Okay… heh, this is like, wow, I finally get, like, this beautiful girl in front of me.
Emily: (Nervous laughter) Thank you.
Chris: And she actually got to know me.
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: Just like you know, yeah. (Changing subject abruptly) So what’s the reason you need your glasses for? I’m nearsighted myself.
Emily: Yeah I’m nearsighted as well. I don’t have very good eyes.
Chris: Its like, you know, we’re close so we don’t need glasses to see each other, do we?
Emily: Yeah… no, its still blurry.
Chris: Yeah… How do you look without that hat? I mean I like to see the, uh
Emily: I like this hat. My hair doesn’t look good today.
Chris: Oh.
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: Your hair doesn’t look good… are you sure?
Emily: Yeah. I’m sure. (Giggles)
Chris: How’s my hair look?
Emily: It looks good!
Chris: That’s good. [inaudible] sleeping against pillows and I took a shower before, before I went – crashing on the couch.
Emily: Oh.
Chris: Yeah but I put on some, buh, er, some Axe body spray before I left… do you like that smell?
Emily: Yeah, it depends on which one it is.
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: Which one is it?
Chris: I believe its, uh, called 'Proximity.'
Emily: Oh, I really like the new chocolate one
Chris: Oh, the uh 'Dark Temptation.'
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: I was running low on that can anyway.
Emily: Oh, okay.
Chris: Its like I, if I – If I – If I – (laughs, stutters indistinctly) – gotten more of that.
Emily: (Laughs)
Chris: (sighs) But seriously though, you are cute.
Emily: Ah, thank you.
Chris: Yeah, I like the - I like this – I like the get-up you’re wearing. Its like you – like you came straight from, uh the PGSM… show.
Emily: Oh, yeah. (Laughs)
Chris: [inaudible]Like a live action Sailor Moon.
Emily: Yeah, I’ve seen some of the episodes for that.
Chris: I’ve got the entire series saved to my Playstation 3, including the, uh, wedding episode.
Emily: I don’t think I’ve seen that one.
Chris: Its like, uh, a very special last episode.
Emily: Oh, okay.
Chris: You actually get to see (Japanese name) and, uh, I forget his name but you know –
Emily: Uh, (Japanese name)?
Chris: Yeah, (Japanese name), that’s it, you got it.
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: You got it.
Emily: (Laughs)
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: did you see the 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, and they’re, like, afraid of the transsexuals.
Chris: Yeah.
Emily: (Giggles)
Chris: Yeah. Yeah I know – I know that. But I have that on DVD, you know, with Japanese audio and English subtitles.
Emily: How do you feel about that? Like, the transsexuals and the [inaudible]?
Chris: Yeah. Um…
Emily: Does it, like, make you uncomfortable, or, would you have minded if, like, it came out on TV Shows to, like, little kids?
Chris: Uh… Yeah… I don’t have much of an opinion… (Laughs nervously)
Emily: (Laughs) Its kind of a sketchy subject there.
Chris: Yeah its… its itchy.
Emily: Yeah.
(Brief awkward pause, punctuated by Emily laughing)
Chris: Yeah but you can sketch a lot in your, uh, journalism, don'tcha?
Emily: Yeah. Well, we don’t draw a lot, we just – we do like little outlines and then we start writing-
Chris: (Interrupting) 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 its, uh, its basically a bunch of scribbles. (Laughs)
Chris: Ah, a lot of people would say that about their signatures I’m sure.
Emily: Well some people just like put an X for their signature and that’s it.
Chris: Eh, but not you. You put…
Emily: An ‘E’ and an ‘S’ basically. (Giggles)
Chris: Uh, uh, an ‘S’?.
Emily: Yeah, Emily Schiflet(?)
Chris: Oh, that’s your last name, Schiflet(?)
Emily: Yeah, my middle name’s Julia.
Chris: Joolia?
Emily: Yeah.
Chris: Emily Julia Schiflet.
Emily: Yeah. Flows nicely, doesn’t it?
Chris: Its beautiful.
Emily: Aw, thank you.
Chris: Do you dot your ‘I’ in ‘Julia’ with a heart?
Emily: No. (Giggles)
Bob Returns.
Chris: All right dad, I’ll let you, uh, divvy up the spaghetti onto my plate.

(36:49 - 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: [inaudible]
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!

(01:25:29 - 01:29:34)

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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!
(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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