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this is a broadcast so that you and yesterday can stop tomorrow from happening.
i can't give you an exact time of this broadcast because, well time has been copy
written.
so at the risk of giving out false data i'll give no data instead and just let you
know what i know to be fact.
if you are listening to this you could lose your listener's license.
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if you are afraid of being persecuted for what you think you should turn that off
now.
but if you want to stick around and listen to what i gotta say
i told you my name was independent librarian dynamic sean kennedy the 6th
see now inside the archs when you introduce yourself to people
your name has it all, that's, that's who you are, is your name, right?
it's just it was a matter of time before it got to where its at today
being independent is a huge slag. it means you're not employed, or you work for
yourself so, when you introduce yourself you say what company you work with first.
followed by my job which is a librarian which i say rather tongue in cheek since
all librarians are illegal, and books are banned, and well, any kind of sharing is
theft.
the dynamic
so i sign i'm independent librarian dynamic, that means that i'll take any ip
that's given to me.
like i'm not the son of sean kennedy the 5th that's, well in, kinda
philosophically sense i probably am but
you'd walk up to this 26 year old woman and she'd tell you that she was a hundred
and four and it didn't work
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so to show
probably more just for the thrill of it we started putting how much life extension
in our names. so
mostly that kinda thing is done for the rich and only by the rich today
unless you can go to one of the more, one of the more advanced cities where the
have got the black ops to do it.
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i mean the
i was very lucky i only got minor brain damage out of the deal.
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you know, sometimes when i am walking or i'm traveling somewhere i'll, i'll
realize i'm at my destination and i don't remember walking there
you just, you just did the same thing every day and one day you don't remember
walking
since i have lived, well, well over a hundred years for sure i
life kinda gets the same way, i just don't remember a few years
that might sound odd i guess, i guess but
you know, if you had a choice between living forever and not remembering it or
nothing more than a, a goldfish traveling along unable to retain all your
knowledge.
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i guess they
there's a
i'm, i'm not a monk i don't, i don't understand how that, that works but
see if they worked on a different type of time apparently the programs couldn't be
corrupted.
that's why, well it means, that time would end up getting so carefully guarded,
copy written
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time usually's kept track by calendars by parents who have children and they try
to a, mark down the days so they can remember what birthday they have
satellites have moved and the earth has shifted since they went up.
quite often you will get a gps, global positioning system that runs off of the
antique satellites and
gotta try keep track of where your stashes are and where you find different
locations and
it works out ok
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usually there is not much more than a hundred meters worth of error between any
two them
you can tell someone you will meet them there's a good chance you will both be in
the same area, if they get the grid right
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memories,
i wish i could remember it all, cause then i could tell you about it.
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i was married
she was
you've never seen hysteria until you see people afraid of bio-weapons, and plague
we didn't know what the plague could land on, so if someone had plague sometimes
they would burn the whole house
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strange thug like groups would try and keep their neighborhoods pure
at that time i was scared to. i didn't know what was going on, so
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this is long before the burn booths went in, the burn booths didn't go in for
years after that.
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you, you dig a big hole and you know, and then stack the bodies in there.
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and then they'd burn them, and all their clothes and everything
and the families, the people who were left they, they sat back and there was this
hole and they'd just watch their relatives burn
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i burned my wife.
she was so thin after the plague had got through her it was like
took her down to the pits where the burn was gonna happen
it was like this huge wailing sea of people surrounding this pit of pink flesh
i didn't fell right about burning her, but, but the plague no one knew what was
happening so we had to do it.
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wedding ring was gone, all the jewelries was gone, all the valuables were gone
the only thing that meant anything to me was my wife, and, well she was gone to.
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i found a corner of the burn pile where they were stacking the bodies where there
was only children
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i laid her on the pile and i walked back and i watched that spot
the whole time i got as far back but i counted my paces and focused on the exact
spot where she was
and then they lit it on fire
you can always tell people who'd been to the burn piles, they'd just stopped
eating a lot of meat.
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the smoke, the gasoline, the children wailing, everyone screaming and the heat
most people turned and walked away they couldn't bear it.
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i don't remember how long i stayed their for but it was a long time.
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there was only the crews, they were going to start filling it in but
and by the time i got down into the pit there was people who saw me and they
started to yell.
the burn pit was fairly steep, and they had long since closed off the walkway down
so i slid down
i went the spot my wife was and i started sifting through the ashes
my logic because there was so many children it would be easy to tell her teeth
apart from theirs
i found some
they were the only adult teeth there.
i was so dirty by the time the work crews got to me, they dragged me away and i
was screaming and crying
i didn't have time to sort through them then i just grab all the
they didn't know what was wrong with me they just dragged me out of the pit.
they had a lot of life ahead of them and they were just gone, swept up by the
plague
its easier just to stay in the rain than to come in from it for a little while and
be forced to go back out
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i should be giving you information, hard data so you stop the future
if i could ask you a question i guess i'd, i'd want to know if anyone remembers my
wife's name.
what else can i tell you, what else can i tell you about me.
bald
come close a few times, the hands have gotten pretty ratched on
its like telepathy you can hear what people are saying trapped in time.
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not because i'm interested in how we got this way, just cause i, well
well on the fringe out here if you don't have weapons, then you are just another
piece of meat
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there is always that uneasy tension, you know that walking around and there's no
law on the fringe but
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but out here everybody is well aware of the fact that might really, really does
make right.
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but i mean if you had a real gun you would be pretty much forced to protect it
pretty good because everybody would want it.
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desperate people
carcass
i, i don't know if i mentioned carcass he's my dog, well he's a canine system
anyway.
you can always tell people who have got robbed out here when,
its the first they do after you get rolled you wake up and you're
its like a weird ethics of robbing people they just take your stuff and leave you
naked and bloody and stuffed in a burned out car somewhere.
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i've never been rolled, i try to help the people who were
you can also teller a roller, they're naked and the ones that were smart the first
thing they do is make themselves a target vest
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a target vest is a piece of metal, well two pieces of metal, with 2 holes drilled
and they take scraps of string or wire and they make it like a sandwich board that
goes over their chest and back.
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see when you're naked you're obviously not wearing armor an' everyone here wears
armor
so
the people who robbed may not have a, may not want to sell your guts but
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i mean guns were a pretty recent invention when you think about it.
its amazing
sometimes you see guys with a, with swords
so if you have got a sword you have to know how to use it, because everybody is
going to challenge you to try and get your sword
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after you chop a few people up i guess they kinda get the point
well, most people with swords have a name, most people know who they are
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a knife is useful right?, like you can use it in daily life but carrying a sword
around well that only has one purpose so you are kinda inviting trouble
half axe, half machete. its pretty bad-ass when you pull one.
that only works with the scag gangs that don't know any thing
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the toughest people i've ever met were under, oh, 5' 5�, savage
i'll explain that later but they essentially cut up your body and they sell it.
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scag is a ah, i don't know, i guess i, i call it drugs but its not really drugs
there's, in
everything is all run by gangs now right, there's no policing so what they
i don't know what the procedure is, they crack the head open and they extract
hormones from it and sell the hormones as drugs.
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get a hit of scag you can get adrenaline, stuff like that, harvest it from heads
they'll
they'll take the heads, stuff the body in a burn booth sometimes they won't even
pick up the change
well these people need to learn to and well i can handle it but
the fringe is the first stage of the city, when you come in
beyond the fringe there is the wasteland and well, in the wasteland its
this is where people who work at, at the buildings that aren't the archologies
young fellows who work to protect the group from, well scumbags like me
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fringes and outer reaches blend back and forth like the good and bad sections of
town there is no definitive line
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once you get past the outer reaches you are into the inner city and that's almost,
almost like a really, really bad section of town that
you know used to exist in the 20th century and it would be like these
i mean it's the mega-police, i mean they don't go to the outer reaches much
most the mega police are, it's a real crapshoot if, if they show up
i mean those guys are judge jury and executioner on the spot.
they've got the real guns and they've got shock armor
and the know what that armor and that gun is worth so
you just don't walk up to these guys and start talking to them their pretty
serious
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they don't even bother trying to arrest people anymore i mean they just beat them
down, or kill them, shoot them whatever, stomp them
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if its going by the books and they've got supervisors with them, well they will
take them to the four seasons.
well that's a, a
since queens english is copyrighted that's what i try to use so that you know the
way the language is supposed to sound
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so that just not the people in the glass towers know how to talk properly
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you're convicted of a crime you wind up going into the camps and
feed you propaganda day in day out and monitor twenty-four seven
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you get so many points that you have to generate in a day in order for that day to
count on your sentence
so that if you're set for 30 days to four seasons then if you screw up they take
away points
this means that a 30 day sentence could last 6 months if you don't get enough
points to have that day count
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last thing they want to do is get rid of you cause that gets rid of their labor.
i mean if you've got a rare blood type or something like that, i mean i'd sooner
shot myself than go there cause i'll be farming you for organs
but if they catch you you'd probably be better off in the camps
i don't know what happens to people if the corp police get a hold of them.
just
i mean they are corporately funded right so they got, they got all the toys
i heard that panoshiba cops have robots that run in the sewers under the city and
they got
you know people stopped trying to break into the archologies and steal stuff
one does not try to sneak into an archology one hides from the archology
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if a bunch of corp-cops caught you, if you managed to walk away from that you're
doing ok.
they got car condos, looks like big pyramids of cars stacked neatly on top of each
other
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they climb up on the mountain and find their little spot and burrow in there
waste tech hasn't made its way out this far yet.
waste tech is, well as big as you can get being an inner core company with out
being an archology
see they handle all of our sanitation and they make waste gas out of it
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in the inner
in the inner city and even in some of the outer reaches they have, you know,
accounts with the houses.
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apparently you used to have to pay to use the toilet, now they pay you to use the
toilet
everything that's organic that gets flushed down your toilet you get money for
i mean when you come in you, in the booths, they, they have a slot of money right
there, they weigh it, filter it, and give you your worth on the spot
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and you know, when its in the houses they install fingerprint specific they do a
fingerprint retina scan
cause their other big business aside from harvesting human waste and making gas
out of it
they used to get robbed before they started putting bombs in them, now if you tip
one over it's liable to detonate and take out a whole neighborhood
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of course that's illegal but the company just claims their not responsible if
their equipment is damaged
some how i guess, it got past, i mean no one really cares anyway
now no one would even try to fight it i mean everything you would ever want is
sold out of venders
mostly scrap.
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can't remember what the ratio was, its like 3 to one or something like that
outer reaches ,out here on the fringe i mean, they just give you hard currency
if you're lucky enough to have a space that you're renting to live in, i mean
if you are just a transient like most us out here, well heh
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it's the joke waste tech isn't real credit they just gave us the finger. you know
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a little arch lifestyle it's, it's like, it's like a another world
i mean inside the archologies when you eat you ch', they, they take everything out
of accounts so you don't actually money in your hands you've got so many credits
to your account and then when ya
if you have a child that's very, very expensive in the archologies that'll put, i
don't' care who you are
puts you, the whole family and therefore the child in debt
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and that child will work their rest of their lives in that archology trying pay
for the privilege of being born
and ironically enough the older you get the less their worth, because they've paid
off most of their debt
well that brings us back to in order to have an education you gotta be licensed
now
if you are not born in to the archs it is pretty hard to get your way in there
i've heard of whole families that were living in the archs just getting swept out
growing up on the fringes and in the outer reaches and that cha
we call it treasure hunting with the kids, you know, they shouldn't be out doing
it but they wander through the areas
they bring back what ever they find and they barter for it for food
just to survive, i mean you just go around areas that are off limits and what not
and see what you can find that's worth something
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family moves in to a section of the city and some of the areas it reaches in the
fringe, i mean if you
if you live in an area a member of your family better be part of that gang
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in which case it's all good, if not well, then you'll probably have to move
crack sticks are cpu stacks they use for cracking vending machines
oh yeah they still get robbed, i mean, but know they just take this little
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circuit boards and they daisy chain all these processors together and over clock
the whole works so that they can use them for brute force hard encryption breaking
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mostly liches and that vile some monks but you know
they sell
they're illegal of course you get busted with a crack stick i mean but
i mean if you even saw a crack stick in the archology you'd probably be questioned
for days.
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those are the guys who buy all these black market stuff i mean
every little area has got a fence, everyone knows who the fence is, you know, i
got stuff to sell, sure go see the fence
i mean you can do good if you get a spider, i mean if you kill a spider for
plaenamel you can, you can make out ok, but
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spiders are mostly hunting inner city and you don't want to mess with that to
much.
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flesh ripping is when you find the dead and end up cashing them in.
in the beginning it was just you know burn boothing bodies and getting money
but eventually in free enterprise you figure out a way to get more money.
see
drain it for the blood. generally you find yourself a toilet, one of the waste
tech booths and
that way you get the cash cause they make gas form it right
i mean if you get a fresh body that is less than 30 minutes, i mean you're
i mean that's, that's guts to all selling if, if they take the organs out that's
the biggest way to make money
but the problem is that you show up with a body, they take it inside, if they
can't use anything they cut up the body and you don't get the body back, you'll
wind up walking out of there with a donut, there ain't nothing
and they have them all set up like emergency wards in the old days, and you run in
with your body and they rush in
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man they got it down to an art form. you should see a body come apart in one of
those places.
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two crying parents 3 crying kids bringing in a 4th child with a very, very recent
smash on its head
then again you can always sell the fresh heads to the scag lords. well
sharing data
i mean that stuff's free, there's no shortage of tech that displays information
you get your whole back done you know, you might walk out there with enough food
for a week.
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librarians are the most hated and hunted of all the outside trades, i mean it's
they hate us. maybe we remind them of the morals they don't have or something, i
don't know
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not in the archologies i am not one of the privileged, but i, i come and go out of
them, that's all i can say
then again you don't live as long as i do for 6 generations without having a few
tricks up your sleeve.
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i give you more information and i don't know if there is anything you can use out
of this.
this is independent librarian dynamic sean kennedy the 6th, broadcasting sometime
afternow, in an unknown grid.