Mission To Zyxx - Happy Outtakesgiving!

Episode Date: November 25, 2020

Alden, Seth and Shane present a veritable karnucopia of deleted scenes, outakes, and unmixed clips - funny stuff we cut for time, crazy stuff we cut because it’d mess up canon, and clips the way only Shane has heard them.

Hey everybody, Alden Ford here from Mission to Zix with a couple of guests, Seth and Shane. Hello. Hello. We have a festive holiday release for you. It's been a few weeks since you've heard our voices and that's probably healed you on some level psychically, but we're back. Yeah, this is the first of our off-season monthly releases yeah we hope you're enjoying this this holiday week if it's a holiday for you

it is a zix holiday because november 25th is shane's birthday yeah that's what i mean that's the holiday we're talking about right yeah absolutely i assume so yeah are you going to the casino like normal or yeah, we're going to Vegas. Well, you know, we thought we'd do something a little bit different this month for your off-season release, which is that a lot of listeners often reach out to ask us how the show is made, ask us about what kinds of scenes are on the cutting room floor, what kinds of things don't make it into episodes. And while we like to add a little outtake at the end of every episode to give you just a

little glimpse of what this show sounds like when it's not edited or mixed. Which was Shane's idea. Which was Shane's idea, actually. And it's such a fun part of the show. Yeah. Yeah, no, I vividly remember thinking of the idea. And then it was like super early on in me even knowing you all. And I had just

offered to test mix the first one and i was like am i allowed to talk am i like is it cool if i because i have this idea and i like really want to say it but it was a brilliant idea i think we can all agree yeah and if we didn't answer that actually you are you're completely allowed to talk oh great cool let this be us just publicly saying for the first time shane you're allowed to talk. Oh, great. Cool. Let this be us just publicly saying for the first time, Shane, you're allowed to talk. Right. And any previous speaking was unauthorized. No, no. I still have those firmly worded emails you all sent. Those cease and desist texts we see.

So we actually have amassed a number of longer scenes that for whatever reason didn't make it into the episode sometimes they established canon we decided wasn't worth keeping in the show sometimes they were just long scenes in a longer episode that we felt had to be trimmed down for time sometimes they were too funny and we were like this makes us look bad in other scenes yeah sometimes i was like like, it's too obvious how smart I am as Alden in this scene. I need to pare it back. Right. A lot of the scenes feature a character named Alden.

Yeah, yeah. Sometimes I've forgotten my character's name. And the reason it's the three of us in this episode, by the way, is that Alden and I edit most of the episodes. And Shane, of of course mixes and sound designs them we're sort of like the post-production team jeremy bent also uh also sometimes edits but yeah it should also be mentioned we invited the other four and they were not interested um yeah they had that previously scheduled zoom meeting that suspiciously did not include us

yeah yeah i don't know they they're going to release this week, but it's probably going to be pretty cool. It's going to be amazing. But yeah, so by way of sort of showing you what the show sounds like when it is not mixed, as well as giving you an insight into some sort of story points and character stuff that never made it in, we gathered a few clips for you, and we're going to play them mostly unedited, but definitely unmixed.

And they're near and dear to our hearts. It's true. And this first one is a little bit different. Yeah. It was actually in the episode very much like this. And this is one that Shane, you picked out, right? I wanted to show an example of what it's like when I get the sessions. And there's a lot of narration that happens, particularly in scenes that have a lot of action.

And it's a view of the show that nobody else really gets to have. And it's always like a little tiny dagger in my heart when I have to end up muting these narration bits. Because I genuinely love them. One from this season is from the opening of 419 where Korm gets absolutely obliterated.

There's another one! Put your head down, Korm. Aquario, protect me! I'm doing my best, Korm. Quariel, protect me. I'm doing my best, Korm. Through the light of Rhodos shall we see it through. Quariel, my most trusted friend. If for some reason I don't survive,

you must not let the relic fall into the wrong hands. Korm, hear me now. As strong as my belief in Rhodos the Sunlighter, I shall not let you perish. No! This is my signal. Arrows, arrows, arrows, arrows. No! Calm!

No! More arrows. A second barrage. Why? Tiny arrows, really tiny arrows. What are these? These are too Why? Tiny arrows. Really tiny arrows. What are these? These are too small to be arrows.

Dots. What is the purpose of these? Yeah, like a ballista shaft just cuts him in half. Oh, come on! Had you not done enough, you monsters. Quarrel. Quarrel. I have failed you. No, never. Quarrel! Quarrel! I have failed you.

No, never. Quarrel, this burden, you must take it. No, Quarm, I cannot. Quarm, you are the chosen one, destined to bear the legume. Not anymore. I was chosen to take it this far. And now you must... Arrow in his mouth. We were having a conversation!

Right in the back of my... By Rodis. Gwaryl. Hear me? The legume must be returned. Yes. But take it where? He gets set on fire.

All right, all right. I will say that as somebody who isn't really a fantasy fan or like medieval stuff knowing person, I didn't know what a ballista shaft was and i didn't and i didn't even totally understand what you were saying like when i was first listening to it so that's what i just put like another arrow sound and i remember one of the feedback notes that i got and after my first pass was like oh can you make it sound like a ballista shaft and i was like oh that's a thing the fuck is a ballista shaft nerd for anyone who doesn't know a ballista is a crossbow the size of a cannon cool or bigger yeah yeah it's a crossbow that you would kill a dragon with for example yeah or knock down a wall with yeah because

dragons aren't real uh but ballistas are so you're right they are you can google google ballista and you'll come up with weird people no i know ballistas are real i'm saying dragons aren't real it's only you're trying to convince yourself dragons aren't really i know this i know i know it i know it for a fact that they're not just you know uh behind all that is 14 paintings of dragons that he refers to as photos. Um, I don't know if really people have talked much about this, but I feel like the other crazy thing about that scene is that it maps on top

of the intro to 401 and the, the, the like first words of another one. There's another one. This is first line in 401. Yeah. And the little creature, the little like woodland creature. Makes an appearance.

Yeah. Yeah. Squirrel is in both. So go back and listen to the beginning of 401 and then 419. And the music is the same. The music is the same, just remixed. Shane repurposed all the music or re- Yeah.

Recorded all the music with different instruments. Which just shows like the amount of effort we're willing to put into something that literally no one will. Yeah. All right. Sticking in our late season four episodes, this is a deleted scene from one of our favorite episodes of the season, which is four 17,

the daming of the season, which is 417, the daming of the crew, the time travel episode that Winston and Jeremy didn't want to do. I think they both got on board by the end. Maybe they got, they both got on board by a week after we released the episode. Yeah. Once it was out. Yeah.

I remember Winston sent that sweet thing in the, in the group me, like right after we recorded it, being like, I thought we should never do this, but it was so great, and you guys were right. Yeah, that was really nice. That was really nice. I actually printed that out.

You can see it between my two dragon photos. Two? Yeah. Well, between two of my dragon photos. Yeah. So, yeah, this is actually a scene that was cut not just for time um primarily it was cut because it sort of made the premise a little shaky which never we never allow we never allow no no no i guess i should say we cut it because it actually it sort of

created a plot hole in the time travel thing. As you all know, if you've listened to 417, without this scene, the logic is airtight and completely unpenetrable. Don't even think about it. Don't even think about it. Yeah. In the final version of the episode, once Dara travels back in time to keep themselves from firing Plek, that's the timeline we stay in. Yeah. But originally, we went back five minutes to the future,

to the present prime, and this is a scene that explains what happened in those five minutes. Am I crazy, or are they really vibing right now? Am I crazy, but are we really vibing right now? We are really vibing right now We are really vibing right now Okay Alright AJ I'm gonna take you out of here What are the rules of this

So if we go back to this Do the two darts stay in the past But then they'd both be there This will catch up with time Yeah this will catch up with time and then there's two Dars. There's just three Dars? No. No, there would only be two if we didn't take them with us.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We left Dar in that memory. We have to go back. Well, it was just five minutes ago. They should still just be around. uh hey dar hey dar hi sup okay so there's just two dars now yes they're five and they're five minutes apart from each other but they're they've been scooched up to the same time they're both look they're both

glowing where wait what have you guys been doing for the last five minutes i mean we've just been i mean yeah we're just i no please you go right ahead no really if you want to tell them i mean i'm i don't i don't care guys i think we know i think it's pretty obvious i just have such a natural connection so what happens when they chuck in time? You gotta stay outside, AJ. What is the rule now? You gotta stay outside, bud. Do they have a time, baby?

What happens? What happens? Real quick pitch. One of the Dars, one of the Dars does start to question time and then starts bleeding from the nose and their head explodes. Oh no!

Yay! I think we do need to get rid of one of them. We do need to get rid of one. Yeah, absolutely. We also have two Dars and a horse hat on the ship from now on, of course. Psycho. Why would you do that?

See, this is exactly why I was like, we don't do a time travel episode and it's it's 100 playing out exactly as i said it would uh yeah what the what the outtake uh of 417 doesn't communicate properly is how not on board jeremy was for the premise of the episode either that's true uh yeah yeah listening to that i remember editing it and just like there are bits of that that are in and I had to lift out all the parts about coming back five minutes and just keep the rest, which was like all these funny parts. That's a lot of what the editing is, is like choosing the logic that we're sticking with

and cutting everything that contradicts it and trying to keep it make sense and be fun. And I think the real like secret weapon to Zyx is the fact that the people who edit the show are in the scenes as well. Like that's, that's the real rare thing I feel like about our show is that you two and Jeremy edit it. So you have this instinctual and very deep knowledge of like what was funny about the scene and like how to draw it out in ways to get more subtle moments to like hit right. That gives us a lot of credit. Well, but I do want to point out that Alden mentioned in that in that outtake, like, well, we do have to get rid of one of the DARS. led to Shane pitching what was probably the most crazy and coolest idea of the season, which was the time loop to go back to Flirp and have Dara die and replace themselves. It was Shane that...

Yeah, I had no expectation that it would even be considered much less used. Yeah. And I was just sort of listening along, like noodling on a guitar or something with myself muted and i was like this idea just popped in my head and i was like not gonna get used just gonna say it jokes on you buddy uh jokes on you rad um while we're on the subject of 417 uh this is a smaller and much less uh important scene uh that i'll play for, but I thought it was funny. We gotta go back to the future. What? What? What does that even mean? Well, we're

in a memory of memories, so we need to go back to... Well, but what you were gonna go back to is the present. Correct. But don't say back is what I'm saying. Don't say back. Just say we have to go to the future. Why are we saying back? We have to return to the present. Well, but from our perspective, I guess Star's right. It is technically the future. Just don't say back? We have to return to the present. Well, but from our perspective, I guess

Star's right. It is technically the future. Just don't say back. That's all I'm saying. We're from the present. Well, which here in the past is the future. Is the future. Why would we use the reference point of now, which is not our time? Mom, I took a picture

of this tree, but look, five idiots are slowly fading into view in the photo. We got to go. We got to get out of here. We got to go. That was good, yeah. Good stuff, Seth. Now, folks, before we move on, I think it's time for an ad break.

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Let Green Chef do the meal planning, grocery shopping, and most of the prep for you week after week. Did they send any, you know, examples over to us? Can I get some of those? They did ask who they should be sent to, and I said me and Alden. Oh, cool. Thanks. Sorry, James. Ever since, you know, we had that HelloFresh ad, I've been wondering maybe I should try this out. Is this similar to HelloFresh? Actually, I'm glad you asked because Green Chef is actually now owned by HelloFresh, a former sponsor of Mission to Zix. They're owned by HelloFresh to offer a wider array of meal plans to choose from. There's something for everyone.

But not me, well no i mean not anecdotally no yeah yeah and honestly i am currently using hello fresh really i yeah i just moved we have a one-year-old kid and cooking is proving challenging And we're doing like all HelloFresh all the time. It's kind of saving us right now. The green chef box that Alden and I are getting, that Shane is not getting, has not arrived yet. But it's coming soon. I'm excited for some honey citrus glazed salmon. Doesn't that sound good?

Are you getting that one, Alden? I'm looking at the Memphis style meatballs right now. You don't get any. That probably would have been the one I would have chosen if I was allowed to. Yeah, yeah. But you weren't. Okay. You weren't, and you're not.

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Alright, let's unmute ourselves and get back to the clips. Okay. Hey, Shane. Don't worry, Shane. Hey, Shane. Hey, guys. I'm hungry. Oh, man.

Not us. Not us, no. Please pass on. No, don't listen to Alden. Pass on the offer code. I want these meatballs. So this next one is from an episode with a returning and beloved guest jordan carlos he's so fun to improvise with because he's one of those people that just

accepts the like ideas immediately and adds to them just like so fast well also i would say in the in the relatively small number of guests that we have whose character is just wildly different than they actually are and it's just locked into it immediately like as soon as we roll he's just so intense and he just goes with everything yeah and uh yeah it's amazing yeah and so this clip is not i don't know that it would have changed canon much at all but this is just an opportunity to play a bunch of like unedited jordan Jordan as IQQ insanity for you all. Prefect Atelius, we are so sorry about what happened. I myself was under the effects of a restraining bolt at the time.

My mind wasn't really my own. Can I say something now? Can I say something now? Can I say something now? Of course. You know what? It's not even worth talking. Save your breath.

Okay. Come see the new house that I've constructed. I want y'all to come over tonight for dinner. My wife, Cheryl Ann. You have a wife? I have a wife. I have small children. I have much.

I have ruminants running around my property. We're going to sit around. Is this your dog? Yeah, this is my dog. Nothing sexual. What? Thank God. Hey, buddy. How you doing?

Wait, the dog's name is nothing sexual? Yeah, that's his name. Nothing sexual. It's like the what? That's his name. Nothing sexual. It's like the name of my crystalline boat. Nothing sexual. Just a good reminder. It's the kind of thing we have it all over the house and the fridge and the bathroom. Nothing sexual.

Nothing sexual. You know, it sounds good to me. It doesn't sound like you're thinking about it if it's what the name is. You know what I mean? Nothing sexual. Nothing at all sexual. My wife and I have two different beds. Can I ask you a question?

Me? Sure. Are you still sexless and haven't found love? Well, yeah. That's not a no. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, so far, I'm just keeping my options open. No, no, no, nothing sexual.

Taking his time. No, no, no? Nothing sexual. Taking his time. Nothing sexual. Being responsible. Nothing sexual. Good choice. Yeah, all right. Now that's an alarm I can get behind. So you lost an eye, but not your virginity.

Yeah. That's quite a feat. Yeah, thank you. You know, I just uh trying to save the day before i that would have made me uncomfortable oh but you know because i had to bring everybody on my level oh sure sure well what was the level that he was at aj i think a lot of this is gonna go over your hair trafficking and flesh but now do you understand what that means, AJ? I guess it's like, okay, some of the flesh can come, and then some has to stop.

Not a traffic cop. No, no. Have you ever seen Pinocchio? What? I promised you a pleasure land, and then I turned you into a whore. What? That happened in Pinocchio.

Well, the way it was told to me. I love that clip. But my other favorite thing about that episode is we decided earlier on that once IQQ got the sex gun back, he would revert to uber IQQ and to all of his way, IQQ prime and revert to all of his hedonistic ways. And we approached that moment from a bunch of different angles. And the session No Joke has, I don't know, maybe 15 versions of that moment where he breaks down and becomes IQQ again.

And he just goes crazy every time. Like, Jordan just goes over the top so many times with it. We were all just busting up every single time he did it. It never got old. It was great. The first time it happened, Alden, you were like, that's so funny. It cannot happen this soon. That was why we didn't do it the first time, because it happened like four minutes into the episode.

Yeah. Yeah. So this next one is just a classic deleted scene. It was fun, but we just needed to move it along. This was 402, where David Bluffband played the twins,ey and Dean St. Vernacchian. And this was a dinner at the Vernacchians. Tuck in. Your Highnesses, Your Highnesses, dinner is served.

Dinner is served. Petey, did you hear that? Dinner is served. This is too much. Isn't it weird that it's 1 o'clock? Yeah. Also, there's 700 places and there's only... You can do it.

How many of us are there? You can do it. Five? No, so close. Six. That was really good. Yeah, it was six. That was such a good effort.

Let's all sit down to dinner. Come to the dining room. We just woke up, so it makes sense that we'd just be sitting down to dinner. Okay, sure. Okay, sure. Wow, there are a lot of... A lot of silverware. A lot of silverware.

First course, soup of eel and zirconian pellets. Oh. Second course, croutons. We're not even... I didn't even get to say... Okay. Oh, they're taking away the soup Thank you And moi to you

You didn't even set down the croutons I didn't touch the table A loom pieces of the finest Vegetables They're just holding them in front of us Thank you That'll be all So they said dinner.

They meant... Sort of a show. That was delicious, wasn't it? Hey, Mr. Robot Man, is this weird or fancy? What is this? It's a little column A, a little column B. Wow, thanks for dinner. Thank you for dinner.

How many bills? You can separate it. It's okay. It's a freaking itemized bill gotta love the bluff oh man gotta love the bluff so a guest who has been in actually every season is john robert wilson as the grower mind of the keck and season four was no different small cameo in the debate scene in 420 but we had a lot more material from the old grower mind than we used and so here here's an outtake good great throw seth great throw uh thank you thank you droids will not be left after the grand assimilation. Are we assimilating droids now? Yes, we've learned to take in

droids and make them into royal cyber drones. Oh no! I am a weaver. Oh no! I am a weaver. We're still perfecting them. They still think they're weavers, but

the genetic process is ongoing. I am a weaver. Going to kill this one now. Oh, geez. This is pretty grim here. Wowie. So here's one. I'll toot your horn for you here, Seth.

We got a couple of Seth specials coming up. This one is from way back. I mean, it truly feels like years ago. This is the opening scene from 401, where AJ and Nermit famously murdered our favorite ice beast, Dale. Oof. Poor Dale, you monsters. monsters or yeah maybe maybe yes shoots yeah dale is still technically missing and there's no yeah we're not positive

there are a lot of different pitches of how to get dale into 420 and we just didn't i like to think he was there somewhere. Oh, sorry. He's there. But this is an extended scene between AJ and Nermit as they are fighting off the Corvian Ice Beast. I feel like without the extra sound design, it's just funny to hear a lot of your little interjections and stuff. So I like this one. Here we go. AJ, I can't reach the pedal and the handlebars at the same time. Okay, you just get down at the pedal. I'm going to stand completely up and shoot at them.

Full height. Let's do it. Let's get full height, baby. Okay, I'm on the accelerator. I'm not crouching. Explain how this steers. Yeah, I'm up. I'm all the way up.

What? I'm shooting at them. Against all odds, it's working. Yeah, this is amazing. Hey, bro, you should try this. I can't let go of the pedal. Oh, right, you're small. No, someone has to push the pedal.

All right, hold the steering wheel. What? Steer. All right, gonna lean back with a double gun execute. Let's do this. That was great, that was great. I think we got one. Now it's up to you.

I want you to try one. Yes, I want you to fire this. Do it. The kickback on this thing is going to... All right. Do it. Oh, yeah, you're right. Whoa.

Whoa. That was the moment you killed Dale. Who ended up editing that one? Seth edited that one, right? What was the thinking behind choosing to not include double gun execute, but virtually everything else from that sentence? Because that's a cool thing to say. Yeah, double gun execute is rad.

What are you doing, Seth? I made a bad decision. It should have been in. I've regretted it every day, cutting that line. That's a good example of something where I'm glad that you and Winston are so good at not only coming up with funny stuff for each of you to do, but like coming up with funny stuff that the two of you would do while riding one speeder,

like Nerman has to press the accelerator so AJ can stand up and turn around and like, you wouldn't be able as a Lurd to like steer and press the accelerator at the same time. Like that's such a fun thing that like you could never get through sound design. Like it has to be something that the characters time. That's such a fun thing that you could never get through sound design. It has to be something that the characters describe.

Right. I love that. One of the funny things about performing this show is you often end up over-describing things just because it's audio, like saying things you would never say. Yeah, yeah. And we sometimes call it out where it's like, we can all see. We all know that.

Yeah, we're all looking at it. We're all looking at it too, but the only way for the listener to know is just to's like, we can all see. We all know that. Yeah, we're all looking at it. We're all looking at it too. But the only way for the listener to know is somebody like, whoa, it just doubled in size. We know. Yeah. Well, another very, very great Seth scene is, this is another scene that we sort of did twice.

This is all the way back to season three, episode one, where Nermit, as Bermit Nundeloy, has separated from the crew. Different characters. Has separated from the crew and has taken on a residence at a local music venue slash dive bar. And this was one of the passes at the scene that we did. This is the first time we did this scene. And I think we ended up having to redo it because Jeremy is so aggressive

as a random character that despises Berman Nundeloy in this scene. But I think it's very, very funny. But yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for gathering around. Thank you for coming out it's a pleasure it's always an honor and play dependence day oh that's the other reason we re-recorded is because in this version there were too many people in the bar i think we thought it would be funny if there was like nobody there right play dependence day play dependence day Independence Day. Play Independence Day. I'm out of the game.

I'm not. All right. This is a this is a hit. I'm sure you know. I'm sure you know it. All right. One, two, three, four. Gonna ride a speeder, ride a speeder, ride a speeder, ride it all night. Riding on a speeder because I'm Berman.

None the lawyer. Do you know it? No. What? Also, are you making fun of the emperor with that name? He's our emperor. No, no, no, no. His name is Nermit Bundeloy.

Nothing to do with him. We like what a bigot he is. All right, everyone. Guys, I know what can bring us together. I'm going to debut an original. Boo. All right? No, come on.

Come on. Here we go. Boo. And one, two, three, four. I used to ride on the Bajarian Jade. I used to ride so far, far away. I used to ride on the Bajarian Jade all night and all day. What is this jerk and emo bullshit?

Shut up. What is this jucking emo bullshit? Shut up. What are you talking about? I was friends with the Bargerian Shade, the most famous hollow star in all of Hollywood. Oh, yeah, right. I was. And you're playing here? Yeah. Why don't you juck my nuts?

Yeah, juck his nuts. Juck his nuts. No, absolutely not. I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm a make it. Yeah, cool story, nerd. I used to fly.

Boom. Straight into the sky high. Those songs were not in the final episode, but the ones that are, are created in that same way, which is making shit up. And then Shane has to turn into his song in the end shane creates a grammy worthy track for our ridiculous nonsense but i would say that season four we did that about as much as we've ever done it we really we really put

you through the ringer in the music department, Shane. Yeah, especially the Bricks by Bricks episode, which was, what, 408, maybe? Yeah, something like that. Sure. This episode, there was a lot of music, but what was particularly tough about it is that, like, basically everyone agreed that Bricks was great, and the song they were about to listen to was great. It was a hit. It was good music, and the whole galaxy thought it was good music. Right, go read a hit song yeah right a hit song which just instantly had me sweating because i was like well i'm gonna try to make it

as good as i possibly can with whatever oscar ends up doing in my head like my reference for pop music that i feel like i can vaguely approximate is like the pop music that was around when I was in high school. So I was thinking like Timbaland produced like Justin Timberlake kind of stuff. Right, right. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this is what I was working with Seth's like first chopping together. I'm building you bricks by bricks. Changing yourself in my image. I'm changing you bricks by bricks. Change for me, change for me.

Change for me, change for me. Bricks by bricks. Change for me, change for me. Change for me, change for me. And do you have the do you have the yeah yeah and then what I ended up doing is this

I'm building you bricks by bricks changing yourself in my image I'm changing you bricks by bricks Bye. Those are all Oscar's vocals. I set it up where the pitch shifter on the voice, I could control with the keyboard, so I could basically just redo the melody oh wow using like the bricks by bricks as like chords to me yeah oh that's like a timbal and move yeah it's so good yeah thanks before we listen to another clip uh let's uh do an ad

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I don't know if there's any time travel stories, but there might be. Cool. Think about that, Dipsy. Now we know what Alden's into. Yeah, that's what gets me going. It's time travel. But also, it's not just about, you know, the jiggly bits. There's wellness sessions as well. And those can really help you work on your confidence or heighten intimacy with your partner.

And, you know partner and whatnot. I should say, I also went and checked out the Dipsy stories. Really? Yeah. They sponsored an episode earlier read by the inimitable Miss Janelle Fitzmyer. Yes. So I went to the website, and the stories are really great. Yeah.

It's a cool app. It's like if all the sexy stuff in Mission to Zix. No, never mind. Go ahead. No, it's not. No. Remember when I said it's good? And also, you know, I think that our listeners specifically appreciate some high quality audio that makes you feel good about things, you know?

And for listeners of Mission to Zix, Dipsy is offering a 30-day free trial. Hey, Seth, this is my ad read. You seemed embarrassed by it, so I was kind of... I'm not embarrassed by the call to action. I'm not embarrassed by the discount code. Okay. That's the one part I felt like I could do without blushing.

Go for it. You're still blushing. You're so pink. For listeners of the show... Listeners of the show, Mission of Zix, our show, for listeners of our show, This is the part you were looking forward to? You threw me off my game. For listeners of Mission of Zix, Dipsy has a 30-day free trial for you. When you go to dipsystories.com slash zix.

You're supposed to spell it out sorry that's d-i-p-s-e-a stories you know how to spell stories.com slash z-y-x-x uh theoretically you know how to spell zyx but that's 30 days of free audio erotica and wellness, meditations, whatever part of your body needs a little boost, dipsystories.com slash six. Seth, you should have done it. I shouldn't have taken that from you. You're right, I should have. Should we get back to the clips?

Sure. Well, you know, I said earlier that we almost never improvise to real music. And actually, I think the the only there's only one exception to that uh which is all the way back in season two uh our episode with yoni lotan who played uh the ghillie guy pini gorno yoni improvised 50 songs like so many songs and they were all so good and they were all just like him, acapella, doing insane shit. And by good, you mean?

Hilarious. Yeah. Yes, hilarious only. So after a string of really hilarious songs, we thought it would be funny, like, what if Shane plays something and Yoni improvises to that? So this is what happened. Can I just play you? I mean mean you can play us one more song you

already clearly picked up your instruments yeah yeah yeah i just can i just play you one more song i mean you're you're idly strumming like you're not about to just break out into song feel free to just follow through on you'd be cool you'd be cool with that let me just let me just get the right chords here. All right. Oh, that's. If you could. It's very funny.

If you could step off on that space ledge, my friend. You could cut space ties with all the space lies that you've been living in. And if you could be a spy space friend, I would understand. I will be your space friend. This is the best part. Oh, wait, shoot. Wait, wait.

Don't look at me. I'm okay. Okay, one second. Going on. I mean, he's really self-conscious, but I like this one. With galactic rocks in my hand. How do I know what's the space guy gonna do tonight? No, that's not...

Every space is steaming... I feel like I'm pointing out the obvious here, but he's just blatantly ripping off another band right now. I wrote that song in a space college. That's clearly a song by Compound Eye Blind, and you know it. Yeah. I really could have cut that outtake out before my Compound Eye Blind joke, but I refused. I really hope that our listeners at home have learned something about Mission to Zix today.

Yeah. And our listeners not at home as well. No. If you're not at home right now, you should be shamed, honestly. Stay home. Some people have to work still. There's a third wave. Okay, well, yeah.

Okay, listen. For our listeners at home and those of you who are essential workers, I hope you learned something about Mission to Zix today. And to everyone who had been asking for more uncut clips, more behind-the-scenes stuff. Happy now. I hope you enjoyed it. And for everyone who didn't ask, we're deeply sorry.

They're not listening to this part. They certainly have turned it off by now. For the few of you who didn't want this and still listen the whole way through. For the people who are about to press send on that comment or tweet that says, this isn't as good as your other episodes. When are you going to give me more? We're out of season. Yeah.

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Those guys' empty houses. Let's see, Shane's back. Yep, okay, Shane's back, but Alden's not quite back. Alden's's back. Um, yep. Okay, Shane's back, but Alden's not quite back. Alden's almost back. He's closing his door. He's on a rolly chair. He's putting his headphones on, and he's back.

Oh, he's kissing his picture of a dragon. Now he's back.