A moment of Barack.
Japanese Infection Rate Experiment
Cast
Randi Halle Millien
Shane Mark Millien
SFX and Music Contributors
SFX
Q Tone [Query]
Tone 4.wav by patchen of freesound.org
Q Tone [Response]
Tone 3.wav by patchen of freesound.org
Music
Joseph’s Letter Theme:
Marching Band 80 BPM by NateJMusic of looperman.com
Created by Mark and Halle Millien
Cover Art by Halle Millien
Written, Directed and Produced by Mark Millien
Glossary
Aircrack: the Aircrack is a wireless hacking tool that is renowned because of its effectiveness in password cracking. (This is a thing. I saw it here.
f-tech: fossil tech or fuck you tech cuz it’s so old you wind up cursing at it a lot.
hydrakits: a set of infiltration packages that auto-run in the background that protect against any potential intrusions and simultaneously probe for any opportunities to exploit systems it interacts with on the Q.
metasploit: the Metasploit is a vulnerability exploitation tool that can be considered as a ‘collection of hacking tools and frameworks’ that can be used to execute various tasks. (This is a thing. I saw it here.
vhd: “virtual hub dispersers” operate as VPNs on the Q.
Joseph’s Letter:
Today is a history lesson in Barack Hussein Obama. After the last four years, I am concerned that when today becomes days of yore, there won’t be anything left of his legacy. So I want to set the record straight for my beloved nieces and nephews about my president. Graduations couldn’t take place this year so the second best basketball player of all time, this is not a vote or an opinion, nor will it have changed by the time you get this, Lebron James, got a group of people like, Lena Waithe, Malala Yousafzai, the Jonas Brothers, Yara Shahidi, Bad Bunny, Pharrell Williams, Megan Rapinoe, and Ben Platt, all together to celebrate the class of 2020. Congratulated their accomplishments, highlighted their challenges, and encouraged them in all of their future endeavors. But the piece de resistance, was my Petty President, Michelle’s husband, the one and only Obama. I don’t know what it’s like for you now, but hearing anything from the White House these days is like an exercise in getting punked. You’re constantly pinching yourself wondering out loud in a room by yourself, “Did this motherfucker just say that?” And watching the press thrash about in repetitious dismay, but nobody actually says what we’re all thinking out loud. Is this motherfucker okay? Can’t be. Something is really, really wrong with this dude. Get him removed and rehabilitated. So to hear the English language spoken with clarity and coherence from someone of the High Office felt a little like waking up from a dream. Familiar, welcome, but a little discombobulated. It’s like being in the desert for weeks hallucinating about water and then when you finally get some it’s like, I remember it was good, but was it always this refreshing? Why is my skin glowing? Is that the water too? Ash begone. What is that taste in my mouth, is that nourishment? And your thirsty ass just guzzles it down cuz you don’t know where your next cup of clean free replenishing water is going to come from. And then he gave it just a hint of flavor. Nothing over the top. Not a kool aid packet and pound of sugar. Just a hint of fresh lemon, a wafer of cucumber and maybe a basil sprig or some shit. This brilliant fool said these leaders y’all got now ain’t leading shit, don’t know shit and ain’t shit. You wanna sing and dance and chest bump but you don’t want to spill no precious water, so you listen, and before you know it, you in the tripod headstand with lotus legs and don’t know how you got there. All relaxed and strong in your core and what not. When he was done he left you with that lingering caress of empathy you’d been starved for and you remember that truly great statesman are meant to inspire more than they are designed to deliberate. The dream dissipates and you are back to reality. America. A third of all global confirmed cases, a quarter of the world’s deaths and only 4% of the population. Texas. 1800 new infections, the highest single day increase thus far, after the governor allowed the state to partially re-open weeks ago with plans to announce new openings today. Washington. In six weeks the White House has dismissed four separate oversight heads designed to monitor corruption and abuses within government. And in Germany, Britain, Poland, Spain and Israel anti-lockdown protests led to arrests and more importantly, almost assuredly, more infections. There was this video from Japan that showed a bunch of people sitting down to dinner while one of them covered his hands in an invisible paint that would show up under black light. It’s a buffet. Thirty minutes later the lights go off and everyone sits there in the neon dark confused about the stains that are EVERYWHERE. What the fuck are y’all protesting?! Obama gave us eight years of decency. I’ll leave it to you, my scholars of tomorrow, to discern for yourself how you felt about his legislative accomplishments. I have some serious qualms with a lot of it, but the depth of sincerity provided by that man’s leadership transcends any political preferences I may have personally held and my hope is that in our lifetimes we all get to share in something so beautifully flawed as a human being doing their best to represent humanity to the world again.
#covid39 #covid19 #createathome #coronavirus #quarantine #rona #quarantinechronicles #covidchronicles #coronachronicles #quibi #generationc #flattenthecurve #stayathome #welcometowinnetkaheights #oakcliffdallas #atlanta #castleberyhill #theuninformedparent #covidpodcast #applepodcast #spotifypodcast #listen #scriptedpodcast #scifipodcast #scriptnotes #covid39 #covid19 #newpodcast #audiostories #obama #2020graduates