March 23, 2025 • 23 mins
Everyone shelters in the bunker and drinks Joan. Their darkest secrets are finally revealed.
Cancellation Island stars Holly Hunter as Karen and is written by John Cameron Mitchell and Michael Cavadias, directed by John Cameron Mitchell, and produced by Christy Gressman. A Topic Studios and iHeart Podcasts production.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Cancelation Island by John Cameron Mitchell and Michael Kevidius, a
Topic Studios production, recorded in front of a live audience
at the Bellhouse, Brooklyn, New York.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hands up, everybody, Carl, Cali, Kirk, guy and body armor.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hello, Karen, I've heard so much about you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Shut up, Caspar, Karen, this is now my island. Keep
those hands up, everybody, guys, search for weapons, let's go.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Okay, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Kirk?
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Are you all on his side?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
They've agreed to serve Kay and save us from the lizards.
You could be here any minute.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You've gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
Carl is k.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
The hurricane's coming down the stairs.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
This room will flood. We need to get back down
into the bunker.
Speaker 7 (00:55):
Got damn it?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
All right, move it. Everybody listen.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
We can't just leave everybody up there.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah, if we can't, like a die on my watch now.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
No more dead, No.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
More Dad, Chris, it's trying to get out.
Speaker 8 (01:14):
Just briefe.
Speaker 9 (01:14):
You're gonna make it through this.
Speaker 10 (01:15):
How the fuck do you know that?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well? There's something inside me trying to kill me. I'm
still here.
Speaker 10 (01:20):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 11 (01:21):
Stage four breast cancer not the issue it looks like
you're about to give burn through.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
What my ass?
Speaker 9 (01:28):
Oh god, now what is it again?
Speaker 12 (01:30):
It's a clean towels and the.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Hurricane is hit. We're bringing people down here to shelter.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I gotta call jonas you won't get through in the storm.
Speaker 9 (01:37):
Cleina, how are you feeling? I'm about to have a baby.
Speaker 11 (01:41):
What?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
And it isn't yours?
Speaker 10 (01:43):
What?
Speaker 9 (01:44):
Something is coming out one way or another?
Speaker 13 (01:48):
Oh, my goddess, is that you?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You can't?
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Are you who I think you are?
Speaker 12 (01:57):
Lena?
Speaker 9 (01:57):
Who are you talking to what?
Speaker 13 (01:59):
I don't understand?
Speaker 9 (02:02):
No, you're you're coming through in waves.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Kirk, help me boil?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Why shut up?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Just shut up everybody? Yes, sure, yeah, why not? And
with the way things are going down, it's gonna get
me elected president, sir.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
This island could be bombed at any moment.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Now everyone's too busy killing each other.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Okay, so now what.
Speaker 13 (02:23):
Give me a very honey?
Speaker 6 (02:26):
I wish you could use words.
Speaker 9 (02:28):
Are you talking to me, Clema?
Speaker 13 (02:30):
No, I think I'm talking to my child. What it's
sending me images, feelings the mycelium. Yes, it's communicating through
the mycelium.
Speaker 14 (02:44):
It's sending me another It's.
Speaker 15 (02:45):
A hybrid there's a crypto inside you, Casper.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Put that gun away. What the fuck, Casper, it's not
your enemy?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Why, oh, reptoid element.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
It's not true.
Speaker 14 (02:56):
It doesn't have our language yet. It's sending like JPEGs
of what it's feeling. Okay, okay, you all need to
drink the shake. Then you'll know it's just a baby.
Speaker 9 (03:07):
You might just speak delirious.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
No, she's the mother of chaos.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Easy, Casper.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I've got a gun too, Chris.
Speaker 14 (03:13):
If you drink, you'll understand. You can't lie when you're
in it.
Speaker 13 (03:16):
It's through.
Speaker 10 (03:17):
I can't lie on trooms like the ayahuasca.
Speaker 14 (03:20):
No, it's way beyond that. You're on ayahuasca, but you're
in the mycelium.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
That makes sense, a matrix of spirits. When I had
the shake, it didn't do anything.
Speaker 14 (03:28):
I don't think you drank enough.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
This is a trap.
Speaker 10 (03:30):
I'll drink some more, Chris, how about you?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
What the hell give me some.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
I'm starving.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I'll try it.
Speaker 9 (03:35):
I will too, because I have no will of my own.
Speaker 13 (03:38):
Karen.
Speaker 16 (03:39):
Everyone can hear our thoughts, Karen, we might all be
about to die.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Well, all right, Casper, are you drinking?
Speaker 13 (03:46):
You're the one who discovered this.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Fine, I'll drink too, But if you're lying Calina, I
will kill you. And you're half breed.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
You touch our baby, I will fuck you up.
Speaker 14 (03:55):
Kirk, please, Casper, please unchain Chris while she prepares some
cups of Joan, thank you, doll.
Speaker 12 (04:03):
Joining us, Carl.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Fuck off. I'm going to bed till the storm is over.
Speaker 14 (04:10):
Everyone's got some let's drink. Uh, Casper, can you play
some nice music while we wait for this to take effect?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Did your hybrid request that? Yes, well, here's some music
I've been working on. This is nice, Casper. Really, no,
it's not.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
It sounds like bad yoga music. I heard that, Chris.
Did I see that out loud?
Speaker 16 (04:39):
No?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
You didn't, My god. I can hear you both in
my head. Guys, it's working for Chris and CALLI. Can
you hear their thoughts?
Speaker 17 (04:47):
Oh, I can't believe that psycho sordy bitches in charge again.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I can hear you, Kyogo. Oh God, I'm sorry, I
don't think you are. That's incredible. I can tell she
was lying to Oh.
Speaker 16 (04:56):
I like this.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
It works.
Speaker 17 (04:58):
All those years of experience, I was right, I was
alone at right.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
But I can't control it. Everybody's looking at me and
hearing everything I have.
Speaker 18 (05:10):
I'm not alone, actually, Casper, if you didn't have that gun,
no one would care about you.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Oh that's mean but true. Oh my goodness, this is
weird but cool it is, Kelly Kai, Is it working
for you?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Yeah? But compared to the ayahuasca, it's a little on
the nose.
Speaker 16 (05:27):
God, everything's always gotta be Guy's idea.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I can hear you, Karen, Sorry.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
No, you're not holding No, I can't hear your baby.
I mean I can till it's there. But how do
we not want to attack us when it's more?
Speaker 6 (05:38):
It's a baby and it's shy. I hate babies. Tell you?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Why am I always wrong when everybody.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Else is too? Why is this my nose and not
someone else's?
Speaker 17 (05:48):
God?
Speaker 5 (05:49):
And that I couldn't do this when I was a therapist.
My patience will know that I hate them?
Speaker 9 (05:54):
Why am I thinking in English?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
You still here, bitch? I'm sorry, geeky.
Speaker 9 (05:59):
Why it's all coming out now?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Yes, Claude, you might as well tell them what a
closet case you are.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
You're a homosexual, Cord, I'm not. That is not true. Court,
I thought you loved me.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
I don't lie lying.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Hi, guys, why are you all staring at each other? Kai?
What's going on here?
Speaker 10 (06:22):
You're the one who didn't want to drink the shake, Carl.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
What if they find out I hate people just as much.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
As lizards do.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
What if they find out I'm a virgin?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
What if they find out that turns me on? What
if they find out I was tired of being poor?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
What if they find out I'm a murderer? Oh God,
they hurt. Don't think about it, Karen, don't think about
the murderers.
Speaker 16 (06:39):
I knew it, Karen.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Let it out. Whatever it is, it can't be that bad.
Murder sounds pretty bad, right, Joy?
Speaker 16 (06:48):
You're right.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
My name is Joy, and I killed two children.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Oh, Karen, I don't want to know ing.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
It's okay.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
I need to get this off my chest, Okay.
Speaker 16 (07:04):
In the early nineties, I was joy granted and I
founded a boot.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Camp for troubled teens.
Speaker 16 (07:10):
In the Utah Desert.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
They were the richest of the rich.
Speaker 16 (07:15):
I hated those brats. The worst were these twins, Igor
and Sasha. Their father Oleg was a manure magnate. He
was the prime purveyor.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Of Russian shit.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Hey, what the fuck's going on?
Speaker 9 (07:31):
You guys, we're listening to Karen's confession?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
What did she confess?
Speaker 16 (07:35):
Continued Joy, Igor and Sasha were handsome, blonde, witty. They
ruled over the other boys with their proprietary blend of
American optimism and slavic cruelty.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
They undermined my authority at every turn. They dressed up
as me.
Speaker 16 (07:55):
And cowl nix and clamdiggers and mocked my syntax.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
How does that make you feel?
Speaker 16 (08:02):
They treated me like shit, But somehow I still feel
they didn't deserve to die. You see, I sent them
on a camping trip alone into the desert, with their
canteens filled with kerosene and their lunch boxes full of scorpions.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
They were found.
Speaker 16 (08:23):
Five days later, faces swollen like apple sculptures. I buried
their organs and said they ran away. Their father sued
for negligence and ruined me. I lost my business, my family.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I had to change my name and I changed.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
It to carry out.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Don't look at me, forgive me.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Don't I have the right to be forgotten?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Karen?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
It's okay, it's not kiddy.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
We all make mistakes, Karen.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
My name is joh Well done. Joy, You better know.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
No, Callina, your baby still hasn't said anything.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
It's a fetus. For Christ's sake, You've all terrified it
into silence.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I'm a deverybe mother.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
It's truevery true.
Speaker 18 (09:37):
Shut up, everybody, I got something to think.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I have been lying to you.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
It's true that I was a therapist, but what.
Speaker 18 (09:48):
I didn't tell you is that I am a nasty
fucking bitch drunk.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
In fact, we have two kids.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Both born drunk.
Speaker 18 (10:00):
As they grew, I work them very hard, but always
made sure to daytime to neglect them. Then hector said
I was about ratcha loka who must get sober. But
I disagree it because I come from a long line
of pro functional alcoholics.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
AnyWho.
Speaker 19 (10:21):
So I did what any mother would do.
Speaker 18 (10:24):
I dropped my kids, put them in the bag, and
sailed entire boat to the island of canceled gringos.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Then I act be an example to you. Don't ever
give up, be.
Speaker 18 (10:39):
Yourself and always follow your dreams.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Here are you guys talking about me? All right? Give
me some of that shake. I'm tired of not knowing
what's going on.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Sure, Carl, here you go.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
This should be interesting.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Oh god, it tastes like shit.
Speaker 13 (10:58):
Keep drinking.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Oh oh oh, I can see it.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
I see it.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
See what your child wa what? What does it look like?
Speaker 10 (11:24):
It's long, so graceful, it's like an oak rack.
Speaker 19 (11:28):
Oh, it's.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's so beautiful.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
Oh, Carl, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I love you. Claud he loves me. I do. I
want to be with you.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
You won't hurt me.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I've been hurt, baby, I've been hurt so bad by life.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I would never hurt you. Let's live on this island,
naked and forever.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Kalina and I were gonna do that. Oh, Kirk, you
would raise a crypto baby with me. Of course, they'll
be the Gimckle's daddy.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Thank you, Kirk.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
I hope the chema worked.
Speaker 19 (12:03):
Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I didn't mean to interrupt.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
I love you, Chris, oh, Kellie, thank you, my.
Speaker 16 (12:10):
God, Clena.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
The shake is better than any therapy.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I love you, Lina, I love you, Kirk.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I still love you, Claud.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I love all of you. I really do.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
God.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Everyone is so corny, kilco cheer.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I didn't like you, know, you were so cynical.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
I think the word you're looking for is normal.
Speaker 19 (12:32):
I have hated all of you since the word go
I despise everything you all stand for.
Speaker 15 (12:41):
And my name is not Cocamo or Cocamonga or pool Cocka.
It's kill.
Speaker 10 (12:51):
It means mirror.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
You want to know how ugly you all are?
Speaker 19 (12:57):
Love at me?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I had no idea you were so full of hate, Kyoko.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Well that's rich coming from a murderer.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Fuck you, you hypocrites.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
I'm not a hypocrite.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
I'm a hypocrite.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I'm a hustler. I'm a bad person.
Speaker 18 (13:11):
I'm sorry, I'm not I'm angry, I'm empty, I'm falling wound.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
I'm out of my mind. Well I don't know about you, guys,
but I'm scared.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
Oh Chris, Wait, I need more time.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
To turn this to rhyme. The great story of how
he fucked it up?
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Wait, this tilS too long to fit into song, The
history of how we.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
Got it wrong? Oh Shay, can you see?
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Oh he.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Have you heard?
Speaker 19 (14:33):
I guess I could have chosen.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
Kind towards.
Speaker 11 (14:44):
Wait, you're not read of me. My advice is free.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Don't write a song you can't sing to a dying girl.
I got thanks to say, still hell to play.
Speaker 19 (15:23):
I'll be the voice you never wanted in your head
to day it's me hearing voice.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
My mom, my son, my wife.
Speaker 20 (15:40):
They question on my choicees, story of my life, A
(16:15):
little like a god was had my hand and where
someone loved me.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
There life.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Don't do what I did. I said, Wait, I need
more time.
Speaker 10 (16:46):
To turn this to rhyme.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
How we refused to take it all for grant.
Speaker 11 (17:04):
No, I'm gonna throw up.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Oh my god, what is that?
Speaker 9 (17:15):
She just threw up your baby.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Kirk, help me get it off the floor.
Speaker 14 (17:20):
It's covered with it.
Speaker 17 (17:22):
Was just for starting entail.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Okay, I'm coming.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
Baby. He's making the drone.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
It's not training.
Speaker 14 (17:30):
It's crying.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
What ant we need to swallow?
Speaker 16 (17:34):
It might?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Give it me, Kirk?
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Is it reading?
Speaker 12 (17:40):
No, No, it can't be No, it must die. Back off, casser.
Speaker 15 (17:48):
Jack, Kirk, give me that christ shoulder wound.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
He's leading a lot.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Callie, get the med kit.
Speaker 10 (18:03):
What the fuck?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
The ground is shaky?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
The bonny, fuck you clad, the bunny, the fucking island.
Speaker 9 (18:11):
Blow this set up?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Blow off, shut up, Kyoko gets an earthquake.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Get out of the bed. The crown is opening up.
Speaker 15 (18:25):
My father forgets this.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
My god, something's coming out of that hole.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
This is this is happening.
Speaker 12 (18:38):
It's a lizard.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
It's a lizard.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
It's a seven foot tall lizard.
Speaker 11 (18:45):
Is real, it's really don't hurt us, please God?
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Oh cute a baby.
Speaker 17 (19:03):
So you're the one who called us here.
Speaker 12 (19:07):
Adorable?
Speaker 17 (19:09):
Aw well, hi everybody, sorry about that entrance. You know,
triggering a controlled earthquake, while somewhat startling, is just the
easiest way for us to get up here. I'm a
Josh and I'm what you might call a lizard person,
but I'm actually a playwright. Although I do have the
(19:31):
survival job, which is advocate prime for human kind.
Speaker 12 (19:38):
No matter what you've all done wrong, and no matter
how many of my lizard brethren want you gone, My
job is to make sure human beings are not forgotten.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
Cool, weird?
Speaker 12 (19:54):
Yes it is Kelly.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
How did you know my name?
Speaker 12 (20:00):
We all know about you, Kelly.
Speaker 17 (20:04):
So how are you all doing? You seem kind of upset?
Speaker 9 (20:09):
I mean, the whole world is kind.
Speaker 17 (20:12):
Of upset if you think about it. So anyway, how
can we help.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Our cast, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Cancelation Island a topic Studios and iHeart Podcasts production written
(21:40):
by John Cameron, Mitchell and Michael Cavadillas, Directed by John Cameron, Mitchell,
produced by Christy Gressman, starring Holly Hunter as Karen, Josh
Pie as Carl, Aaron Marky as kai K, Todd Freeman
as Claude Murphy, Taylor Smith as Collina, just As Singleton
as Kirk, Mary Testa as Chris, Joe Firestone as Callie,
(22:04):
Mia Pack as Kyoko, Joseph Keckler as Cale, Maria, Mercedes
Galupo as Carmen, Micah Stock as Casper, Dalmis Garcia as Keki,
Michael Cavedias as Jonas, and Josh Nate Davila as Peppo.
Veronica Guadalupe as Pepa. Audio producer Vincent Cascion. Executive producers
(22:26):
Michael Caviadias, John Cameron Mitchell and for iHeart Podcasts Noel
Brown and Nikki Ettore. Composer Lucas Carey. Original song Wait
written by Brett Every and John Cameron Mitchell. Additional music
by Vincent Cascion. Executive in charge of production Jenny Medusa.
Recording produced by Will Stanton, Live production manager Amanda Harris,
(22:51):
recorded live in front of an audience by Will Stanton
and Sam Torres. Live sound by Max Kaufman. Script supervisor
Rachel Cole read Stephen Winter Production Coordinator Nick Boyd, Assistant
to the Director, Guthrie McCarty, Vaschon Production assistant, Brandon Harris artwork,
Ricardo Dessaigno for Topic Studios Podcasts, Christy Gressman, Adam Cecil,
(23:15):
Michelle Lance, post production, Ethan Lyte, Communications, Genie Keatis, Dan
Goldberg marketing, Jen Robertson, Mark Chan business and legal affairs,
Alex Jiga, Ryan mack, zach Locke, Trevor Paul Production finance,
Vince Gonzales, Beatrice Chisholm,
Cancelation Island by John Cameron Mitchell and Michael Kevidius, a
Topic Studios production, recorded in front of a live audience
at the Bellhouse, Brooklyn, New York.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hands up, everybody, Carl, Cali, Kirk, guy and body armor.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hello, Karen, I've heard so much about you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Shut up, Caspar, Karen, this is now my island. Keep
those hands up, everybody, guys, search for weapons, let's go.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Okay, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Kirk?
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Are you all on his side?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
They've agreed to serve Kay and save us from the lizards.
You could be here any minute.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You've gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
Carl is k.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
The hurricane's coming down the stairs.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
This room will flood. We need to get back down
into the bunker.
Speaker 7 (00:55):
Got damn it?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
All right, move it. Everybody listen.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
We can't just leave everybody up there.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah, if we can't, like a die on my watch now.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
No more dead, No.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
More Dad, Chris, it's trying to get out.
Speaker 8 (01:14):
Just briefe.
Speaker 9 (01:14):
You're gonna make it through this.
Speaker 10 (01:15):
How the fuck do you know that?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well? There's something inside me trying to kill me. I'm
still here.
Speaker 10 (01:20):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 11 (01:21):
Stage four breast cancer not the issue it looks like
you're about to give burn through.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
What my ass?
Speaker 9 (01:28):
Oh god, now what is it again?
Speaker 12 (01:30):
It's a clean towels and the.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Hurricane is hit. We're bringing people down here to shelter.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I gotta call jonas you won't get through in the storm.
Speaker 9 (01:37):
Cleina, how are you feeling? I'm about to have a baby.
Speaker 11 (01:41):
What?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
And it isn't yours?
Speaker 10 (01:43):
What?
Speaker 9 (01:44):
Something is coming out one way or another?
Speaker 13 (01:48):
Oh, my goddess, is that you?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You can't?
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Are you who I think you are?
Speaker 12 (01:57):
Lena?
Speaker 9 (01:57):
Who are you talking to what?
Speaker 13 (01:59):
I don't understand?
Speaker 9 (02:02):
No, you're you're coming through in waves.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Kirk, help me boil?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Why shut up?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Just shut up everybody? Yes, sure, yeah, why not? And
with the way things are going down, it's gonna get
me elected president, sir.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
This island could be bombed at any moment.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Now everyone's too busy killing each other.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Okay, so now what.
Speaker 13 (02:23):
Give me a very honey?
Speaker 6 (02:26):
I wish you could use words.
Speaker 9 (02:28):
Are you talking to me, Clema?
Speaker 13 (02:30):
No, I think I'm talking to my child. What it's
sending me images, feelings the mycelium. Yes, it's communicating through
the mycelium.
Speaker 14 (02:44):
It's sending me another It's.
Speaker 15 (02:45):
A hybrid there's a crypto inside you, Casper.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Put that gun away. What the fuck, Casper, it's not
your enemy?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Why, oh, reptoid element.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
It's not true.
Speaker 14 (02:56):
It doesn't have our language yet. It's sending like JPEGs
of what it's feeling. Okay, okay, you all need to
drink the shake. Then you'll know it's just a baby.
Speaker 9 (03:07):
You might just speak delirious.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
No, she's the mother of chaos.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Easy, Casper.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I've got a gun too, Chris.
Speaker 14 (03:13):
If you drink, you'll understand. You can't lie when you're
in it.
Speaker 13 (03:16):
It's through.
Speaker 10 (03:17):
I can't lie on trooms like the ayahuasca.
Speaker 14 (03:20):
No, it's way beyond that. You're on ayahuasca, but you're
in the mycelium.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
That makes sense, a matrix of spirits. When I had
the shake, it didn't do anything.
Speaker 14 (03:28):
I don't think you drank enough.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
This is a trap.
Speaker 10 (03:30):
I'll drink some more, Chris, how about you?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
What the hell give me some.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
I'm starving.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I'll try it.
Speaker 9 (03:35):
I will too, because I have no will of my own.
Speaker 13 (03:38):
Karen.
Speaker 16 (03:39):
Everyone can hear our thoughts, Karen, we might all be
about to die.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Well, all right, Casper, are you drinking?
Speaker 13 (03:46):
You're the one who discovered this.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Fine, I'll drink too, But if you're lying Calina, I
will kill you. And you're half breed.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
You touch our baby, I will fuck you up.
Speaker 14 (03:55):
Kirk, please, Casper, please unchain Chris while she prepares some
cups of Joan, thank you, doll.
Speaker 12 (04:03):
Joining us, Carl.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Fuck off. I'm going to bed till the storm is over.
Speaker 14 (04:10):
Everyone's got some let's drink. Uh, Casper, can you play
some nice music while we wait for this to take effect?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Did your hybrid request that? Yes, well, here's some music
I've been working on. This is nice, Casper. Really, no,
it's not.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
It sounds like bad yoga music. I heard that, Chris.
Did I see that out loud?
Speaker 16 (04:39):
No?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
You didn't, My god. I can hear you both in
my head. Guys, it's working for Chris and CALLI. Can
you hear their thoughts?
Speaker 17 (04:47):
Oh, I can't believe that psycho sordy bitches in charge again.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I can hear you, Kyogo. Oh God, I'm sorry, I
don't think you are. That's incredible. I can tell she
was lying to Oh.
Speaker 16 (04:56):
I like this.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
It works.
Speaker 17 (04:58):
All those years of experience, I was right, I was
alone at right.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
But I can't control it. Everybody's looking at me and
hearing everything I have.
Speaker 18 (05:10):
I'm not alone, actually, Casper, if you didn't have that gun,
no one would care about you.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Oh that's mean but true. Oh my goodness, this is
weird but cool it is, Kelly Kai, Is it working
for you?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Yeah? But compared to the ayahuasca, it's a little on
the nose.
Speaker 16 (05:27):
God, everything's always gotta be Guy's idea.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I can hear you, Karen, Sorry.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
No, you're not holding No, I can't hear your baby.
I mean I can till it's there. But how do
we not want to attack us when it's more?
Speaker 6 (05:38):
It's a baby and it's shy. I hate babies. Tell you?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Why am I always wrong when everybody.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Else is too? Why is this my nose and not
someone else's?
Speaker 17 (05:48):
God?
Speaker 5 (05:49):
And that I couldn't do this when I was a therapist.
My patience will know that I hate them?
Speaker 9 (05:54):
Why am I thinking in English?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
You still here, bitch? I'm sorry, geeky.
Speaker 9 (05:59):
Why it's all coming out now?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Yes, Claude, you might as well tell them what a
closet case you are.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
You're a homosexual, Cord, I'm not. That is not true. Court,
I thought you loved me.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
I don't lie lying.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Hi, guys, why are you all staring at each other? Kai?
What's going on here?
Speaker 10 (06:22):
You're the one who didn't want to drink the shake, Carl.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
What if they find out I hate people just as much.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
As lizards do.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
What if they find out I'm a virgin?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
What if they find out that turns me on? What
if they find out I was tired of being poor?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
What if they find out I'm a murderer? Oh God,
they hurt. Don't think about it, Karen, don't think about
the murderers.
Speaker 16 (06:39):
I knew it, Karen.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Let it out. Whatever it is, it can't be that bad.
Murder sounds pretty bad, right, Joy?
Speaker 16 (06:48):
You're right.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
My name is Joy, and I killed two children.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Oh, Karen, I don't want to know ing.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
It's okay.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
I need to get this off my chest, Okay.
Speaker 16 (07:04):
In the early nineties, I was joy granted and I
founded a boot.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Camp for troubled teens.
Speaker 16 (07:10):
In the Utah Desert.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
They were the richest of the rich.
Speaker 16 (07:15):
I hated those brats. The worst were these twins, Igor
and Sasha. Their father Oleg was a manure magnate. He
was the prime purveyor.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Of Russian shit.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Hey, what the fuck's going on?
Speaker 9 (07:31):
You guys, we're listening to Karen's confession?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
What did she confess?
Speaker 16 (07:35):
Continued Joy, Igor and Sasha were handsome, blonde, witty. They
ruled over the other boys with their proprietary blend of
American optimism and slavic cruelty.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
They undermined my authority at every turn. They dressed up
as me.
Speaker 16 (07:55):
And cowl nix and clamdiggers and mocked my syntax.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
How does that make you feel?
Speaker 16 (08:02):
They treated me like shit, But somehow I still feel
they didn't deserve to die. You see, I sent them
on a camping trip alone into the desert, with their
canteens filled with kerosene and their lunch boxes full of scorpions.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
They were found.
Speaker 16 (08:23):
Five days later, faces swollen like apple sculptures. I buried
their organs and said they ran away. Their father sued
for negligence and ruined me. I lost my business, my family.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I had to change my name and I changed.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
It to carry out.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Don't look at me, forgive me.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Don't I have the right to be forgotten?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Karen?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
It's okay, it's not kiddy.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
We all make mistakes, Karen.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
My name is joh Well done. Joy, You better know.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
No, Callina, your baby still hasn't said anything.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
It's a fetus. For Christ's sake, You've all terrified it
into silence.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I'm a deverybe mother.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
It's truevery true.
Speaker 18 (09:37):
Shut up, everybody, I got something to think.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I have been lying to you.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
It's true that I was a therapist, but what.
Speaker 18 (09:48):
I didn't tell you is that I am a nasty
fucking bitch drunk.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
In fact, we have two kids.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Both born drunk.
Speaker 18 (10:00):
As they grew, I work them very hard, but always
made sure to daytime to neglect them. Then hector said
I was about ratcha loka who must get sober. But
I disagree it because I come from a long line
of pro functional alcoholics.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
AnyWho.
Speaker 19 (10:21):
So I did what any mother would do.
Speaker 18 (10:24):
I dropped my kids, put them in the bag, and
sailed entire boat to the island of canceled gringos.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Then I act be an example to you. Don't ever
give up, be.
Speaker 18 (10:39):
Yourself and always follow your dreams.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Here are you guys talking about me? All right? Give
me some of that shake. I'm tired of not knowing
what's going on.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Sure, Carl, here you go.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
This should be interesting.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Oh god, it tastes like shit.
Speaker 13 (10:58):
Keep drinking.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Oh oh oh, I can see it.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
I see it.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
See what your child wa what? What does it look like?
Speaker 10 (11:24):
It's long, so graceful, it's like an oak rack.
Speaker 19 (11:28):
Oh, it's.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's so beautiful.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
Oh, Carl, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I love you. Claud he loves me. I do. I
want to be with you.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
You won't hurt me.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I've been hurt, baby, I've been hurt so bad by life.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I would never hurt you. Let's live on this island,
naked and forever.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Kalina and I were gonna do that. Oh, Kirk, you
would raise a crypto baby with me. Of course, they'll
be the Gimckle's daddy.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Thank you, Kirk.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
I hope the chema worked.
Speaker 19 (12:03):
Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I didn't mean to interrupt.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
I love you, Chris, oh, Kellie, thank you, my.
Speaker 16 (12:10):
God, Clena.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
The shake is better than any therapy.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I love you, Lina, I love you, Kirk.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I still love you, Claud.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I love all of you. I really do.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
God.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Everyone is so corny, kilco cheer.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I didn't like you, know, you were so cynical.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
I think the word you're looking for is normal.
Speaker 19 (12:32):
I have hated all of you since the word go
I despise everything you all stand for.
Speaker 15 (12:41):
And my name is not Cocamo or Cocamonga or pool Cocka.
It's kill.
Speaker 10 (12:51):
It means mirror.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
You want to know how ugly you all are?
Speaker 19 (12:57):
Love at me?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I had no idea you were so full of hate, Kyoko.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Well that's rich coming from a murderer.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Fuck you, you hypocrites.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
I'm not a hypocrite.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
I'm a hypocrite.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I'm a hustler. I'm a bad person.
Speaker 18 (13:11):
I'm sorry, I'm not I'm angry, I'm empty, I'm falling wound.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
I'm out of my mind. Well I don't know about you, guys,
but I'm scared.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
Oh Chris, Wait, I need more time.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
To turn this to rhyme. The great story of how
he fucked it up?
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Wait, this tilS too long to fit into song, The
history of how we.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
Got it wrong? Oh Shay, can you see?
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Oh he.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Have you heard?
Speaker 19 (14:33):
I guess I could have chosen.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
Kind towards.
Speaker 11 (14:44):
Wait, you're not read of me. My advice is free.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Don't write a song you can't sing to a dying girl.
I got thanks to say, still hell to play.
Speaker 19 (15:23):
I'll be the voice you never wanted in your head
to day it's me hearing voice.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
My mom, my son, my wife.
Speaker 20 (15:40):
They question on my choicees, story of my life, A
(16:15):
little like a god was had my hand and where
someone loved me.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
There life.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Don't do what I did. I said, Wait, I need
more time.
Speaker 10 (16:46):
To turn this to rhyme.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
How we refused to take it all for grant.
Speaker 11 (17:04):
No, I'm gonna throw up.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Oh my god, what is that?
Speaker 9 (17:15):
She just threw up your baby.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Kirk, help me get it off the floor.
Speaker 14 (17:20):
It's covered with it.
Speaker 17 (17:22):
Was just for starting entail.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Okay, I'm coming.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
Baby. He's making the drone.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
It's not training.
Speaker 14 (17:30):
It's crying.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
What ant we need to swallow?
Speaker 16 (17:34):
It might?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Give it me, Kirk?
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Is it reading?
Speaker 12 (17:40):
No, No, it can't be No, it must die. Back off, casser.
Speaker 15 (17:48):
Jack, Kirk, give me that christ shoulder wound.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
He's leading a lot.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Callie, get the med kit.
Speaker 10 (18:03):
What the fuck?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
The ground is shaky?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
The bonny, fuck you clad, the bunny, the fucking island.
Speaker 9 (18:11):
Blow this set up?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Blow off, shut up, Kyoko gets an earthquake.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Get out of the bed. The crown is opening up.
Speaker 15 (18:25):
My father forgets this.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
My god, something's coming out of that hole.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
This is this is happening.
Speaker 12 (18:38):
It's a lizard.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
It's a lizard.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
It's a seven foot tall lizard.
Speaker 11 (18:45):
Is real, it's really don't hurt us, please God?
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Oh cute a baby.
Speaker 17 (19:03):
So you're the one who called us here.
Speaker 12 (19:07):
Adorable?
Speaker 17 (19:09):
Aw well, hi everybody, sorry about that entrance. You know,
triggering a controlled earthquake, while somewhat startling, is just the
easiest way for us to get up here. I'm a
Josh and I'm what you might call a lizard person,
but I'm actually a playwright. Although I do have the
(19:31):
survival job, which is advocate prime for human kind.
Speaker 12 (19:38):
No matter what you've all done wrong, and no matter
how many of my lizard brethren want you gone, My
job is to make sure human beings are not forgotten.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
Cool, weird?
Speaker 12 (19:54):
Yes it is Kelly.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
How did you know my name?
Speaker 12 (20:00):
We all know about you, Kelly.
Speaker 17 (20:04):
So how are you all doing? You seem kind of upset?
Speaker 9 (20:09):
I mean, the whole world is kind.
Speaker 17 (20:12):
Of upset if you think about it. So anyway, how
can we help.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Our cast, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Cancelation Island a topic Studios and iHeart Podcasts production written
(21:40):
by John Cameron, Mitchell and Michael Cavadillas, Directed by John Cameron, Mitchell,
produced by Christy Gressman, starring Holly Hunter as Karen, Josh
Pie as Carl, Aaron Marky as kai K, Todd Freeman
as Claude Murphy, Taylor Smith as Collina, just As Singleton
as Kirk, Mary Testa as Chris, Joe Firestone as Callie,
(22:04):
Mia Pack as Kyoko, Joseph Keckler as Cale, Maria, Mercedes
Galupo as Carmen, Micah Stock as Casper, Dalmis Garcia as Keki,
Michael Cavedias as Jonas, and Josh Nate Davila as Peppo.
Veronica Guadalupe as Pepa. Audio producer Vincent Cascion. Executive producers
(22:26):
Michael Caviadias, John Cameron Mitchell and for iHeart Podcasts Noel
Brown and Nikki Ettore. Composer Lucas Carey. Original song Wait
written by Brett Every and John Cameron Mitchell. Additional music
by Vincent Cascion. Executive in charge of production Jenny Medusa.
Recording produced by Will Stanton, Live production manager Amanda Harris,
(22:51):
recorded live in front of an audience by Will Stanton
and Sam Torres. Live sound by Max Kaufman. Script supervisor
Rachel Cole read Stephen Winter Production Coordinator Nick Boyd, Assistant
to the Director, Guthrie McCarty, Vaschon Production assistant, Brandon Harris artwork,
Ricardo Dessaigno for Topic Studios Podcasts, Christy Gressman, Adam Cecil,
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