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- Hey, what's up, man?

I hate to be that guy.

I was the fool who did not pick up smokes

on my way home from work.

Would you mind if I...?

I appreciate it.

My contribution.

- What is that, the Hope Diamond?

- I think it's an ashtray.

- You just move in?

- Yeah, like three or four hours ago.

I'm leaving the city soon,

so I just basically packed up all my shit at my old place.

Sold it off there, found this place.

No lease, snatched it up online, sight unseen.

How long have you been here?

- I have an ex-husband,
hence just started smoking.

About a decade, which I guess makes me

the de facto ambassador to the new tenants.

- Does your ceiling have any leaks?

- Ruin any of your stuff?

- Nothing to ruin.

- Well, my ex actually left a bunch of stuff

in the garage that I was just gonna donate.

If you want to have it for some temporary

like furnishings and stuff.

- Dude, that is really kind of you.

And I will actually take you up on that.

I would say let's just do it now,

but you look like you're headed off to surgery, doctor.

- Yeah, I'm a wedding photographer

and I just fell asleep

in my get up right after the reception.

It was this kind of autumnal equinox goth wedding.

The thing that's awesome about LA

is there's still this huge goth scene.

So they were just slinging around cocktails all night

but started with blood and I got hit.

- I'm about to blow your mind.

The bar I work at, last night it was like

the dark wave electro goth.

I think, I dunno it looks like sort of the Renaissance Fair to me,

but I was wondering why

I was getting more bloodtinis spilled all over me than usual.

And now I know,

it is the, what'd you say?

It was the autumn-in-al...

- Autumnal. Autumnal equinox.

- It's when the weeds turn brown

and the hills burn and everything smells like barbecue all the time.

I's beautiful.

- Oh shit. Check this out.

Last night up on that hillside.

I saw this guy.

- LA is like Halloween,
but just all the time.

Is that your new place?

- Yeah, that's it.

That's my temporary digs.

- It's actually been vacant since I moved in.

So it's kinda nice to have somebody

watching out over us over the neighborhood.

It's getting worse. Vagrants.

- It's been vacant for over a decade?

Someone like murdered there or something?

Was I supposed to have something disclosed to me, what's up?

- Actually, yeah. Yeah.

A 90-year old grandma just threw grandpa out of a window

and he fell face first,
right where you're standing.

-At least we're a cheap ride to the airport.

- There is this

dude sits at my bar and he always says this thing.

He says, "Hey, it can only fall so fast."

I hope for that dude's sake he was falling fast enough

to not feel the impact.

You know?

- Oh no, I made that up.

No one died. I was just kidding.

Anyways. I got to get these bad boys

motor checked and charged before church.

So why don't you just swing on by

when you want to move in your stuff?

- Oh, here we go. Bad neighbor, I'm John.

- Oh, Levi. Alright.

Hey, thank you for this.

- Check it out. That's hungry Dave.

He is really aggressive.

Don't let him get to eye level. Okay?

- What do I think went wrong?

Either one of two things happened.

Either they were trying to put together

this really intricate,
beautiful cosmic puzzle.

And some of those pieces were extraordinary.

Or the way they jammed them together,

it just created this abstract mess

that then they could imbue with whatever meaning they wanted.

It doesn't really matter

because it affected them in very different ways.

And I don't think anything is worth what happened.

I still believe part of it was real.

You can couch it in scientific terms,

it doesn't really matter because the result is the same.

And it's really sad.

I don't just mean the dead one.

- And there is this yellow tail,

but between me and it is

is like this little like cavern with some eel grass on it.

And this like 19th century lobster trap,

looks like something busted out of it, right?

And then... boom.

I looked down, there's a fucking claw around my arm.

I look up, there's a lobster

the size of Danny fucking DeVito.

I kid you not.

And he's dragging me

and I'm so fascinated,

but then I look it in its eyes

but I almost forget I'm loaded

and I can shoot left-handed, right?

I just take aim and shtoonk,
spear the shit out of it.

Barely fazes it. Barely fazes it.

It just kind of saunters off back into its cave.

I've never see that lobster again.

I never saw that spear again.

I didn't get that big ass tuna,

but that was the day I learned that it's like,

yeah, there's a lot of good sushi places in Los Angeles,

but I don't fuck with lobster rolls.

Lobsters are intelligent creatures.

- You can hop on my wifi network if you want to.

- My signal is shockingly good here,

but I might take you up on that.

What is your network?

- It's "Behold the promised LAN"

like L-A-N, it used to be Mr. Rogers neighborhertz,

but that was Lonnie's.
It is not even clever.

Oh, the password is easy to remember.

It's "JUDGEMENT DAY" all caps.

- There's like a billion fucking networks.

So I'm gonna have to mess with this later.

But now I actually have to get to this charity thing

I do at the youth shelter.

Can I grab you something for the way out?

Like a beer or something?

I really appreciate all this.

- No, thank you.
Actually, I don't drink.

- Good for you, bro.

How long have you been sober?

- About 10 years, honestly,
Lonnie was an AA.

So that kinda made me an AA,
but never even had a problem.

I just kinda got way into it.

Stuck with it. I don't know.

- Okay, cool.

Don't forget your plant, on the way out.

- Oh no, no that's yours.

That's actually a house warming gift.

My grandma runs this little nursery up in the Central Valley.

I give her a hand with sometimes.

Speak of the angel.

- Hey, actually, do you mind if I take this up here?

My signal disappears in the courtyard.

- Ah, do what you gotta do.

- Hey, grandma.

I could probably just head on up there next Sunday, like usual, you know.

Yeah. I, of course, will groom myself and wear a suit.

Not just for God, but for you.

Alright, amen to that.

Alright. I'm gonna go. I love you. Bye.

She's out of her mind, man. See you.

- Can I interest you in,

one for the road?

- Yeah. Thank you.

- Did you forget something?

- Just come and see this.

- It was moving on its own

or something invisible was moving it.

There was this light.

- Yeah, no, absolutely.

No doubt and I feel bad about this,

I actually do have to get to my charity thing

at the youth shelter,
but I don't want to rush you.

- Totally. Totally.
Yeah. What are we gonna do?

Are we gonna like stand around all day

and talk about how I thought I saw a ghost

in your new apartment?

I'm sorry. I'm the weirdest new neighbor ever.

And... don't be a stranger.

- It's so weird.
- That's so dumb.

- No, it's just weird.

It's like you go your whole life thinking certain things

are always gonna be a mystery.

Like the identity of Jack the Ripper

or the Bermuda Triangle or the Great Pyramids.

- Pyramids aren't a mystery anymore.

I saw this YouTube video

and they're just ramps in wet sand.

- Alright. Well, a lot of things are still mysteries.

You just don't expect to witness one on a shitty afternoon

in your cheap apartment,

- We're more surveilled than we ever are in history.

Everyone has a camera phone in their pocket

and we still don't have even a single actual bit

of evidence for a ghost or supernatural, whatever.

Man...

there it is.

It's right there.

- It's weird though.
I don't necessarily feel...

Do you feel scared?

- When it was happening,
when we're looking at it, I...

I really did,

but it's getting replaced by something.

- Alright, this is gonna sound weird

because you and me just met

but when I first moved out to LA,

I get a job bar backing

and one of my first days I'm polishing a glass

and this dude behind the bar is like,

"Hey, how long are you gonna give it?"

Like, how long am I gonna give it to strike gold out west, right?

And I tell him,

actually what do you think I told him?

- 39 years.

- I said 10 but it ended up being 20.

And I'm still driving the same shitty Mazda,

to the same bar, except my kidneys hurt,

I am self medicating and pretty sure my liver is shot.

Alright, so like photography, right?

Like, that was supposed to be your golden in, right?

The thing you're passionate about,

the thing that allows you to make a living,

but it hasn't worked out for you yet, right?

Like, tons of things like that, dude, tons.

Life's weird. Like, sometimes things just don't happen,

but that happened, right?

And that's more scarce than gold.

It's like proof of the supernatural.

That's like, book deals and like movies

and like TV shows and like religious views

and shit getting...

- So what do we do?

- Hello?

Hello.

- Hello.

- Oh.

So, the house I grew up in,

had this big ass windows

the pigeons could not see,

so they just slammed into it,
slammed into it.

And you can't tell at first

whether they are just like stunned

or their brains are mush.

We build these things and it protects them.

So they don't get eaten by like a cat

and shit while we're waiting to see if they wake up or not.

- Oh, we will never get the full effect of it on a podcast.

- What?

- If we're gonna try to prove the supernatural,

we're gonna need some kind of visuals

or people won't believe it.

- What are you thinking, like a YouTube channel or something?

- YouTube is like a whole like subscriber,

metadata algorithm, hot girl thumbnail,

like channel subscribe...
I don't understand YouTube.

I was thinking a documentary.

-Alright. Well, I actually do have to run to work now,

but I don't think I work tomorrow night.

If you wanted to reconvene then and get it started.

- Yeah, let's do it.

- Alright.

Is it possible this is extremely dangerous

and we just completely overlooked that part?

- No one's ever died of like a demon or a ghost or whatever.

It's always just slamming cabinets and doors

and like cold spots and stuff.

- Totally. So if it gets dangerous, we just stop.

Easy, right?

I'll see you then.

Can you take care of that?

Just put it somewhere safe inside the house.

Hey, hi. So sorry I did not make it to the thing.

- Yeah, at first I did find it a little bit strange

that the youth shelter that Levi volunteers at

would send somebody to check on him

when he doesn't show up, but...

- I'm sorry.

I think your bio was in one of the destroyed hard drives.

- Maybe let's get that first.
- Oh, yeah.

- Okay?
- Yeah, yeah. Okay.

- Just because this feels a little bit weird,

is it okay if I just look at you?

I know John likes it like this,

but could we just...?

- I started out with photography

and I thought a better way

to finance photography was to become a math teacher.

I thought it'd be more chill.

I thought I'd be the cool teacher,

but those kids they just hated me,

even though I adjusted the curve so much

I should've been fired.

Some people, they like kids,
but they are not good.

Anyways, I fell in love with Lonnie

and chased him out here to LA.

Now I spend my days and nights charging scooters,

and I hope that the rent check clears

so that I'm not moving in with my grandma

when I'm in my thirties.

Move on to the...

the convict thing?

- I mean, I think the reason why I got into this

with John was that I just loved watching the X Files

with my sister when I was little.

Now it's like everything's the X Files, I guess.

- Even though Levi played it off really well,

I knew something about that guy was...

You know, I'll say this...

I can totally see why he wouldn't want to share something like that.

Hey, careful with the threading on that thing, it's kinda old.

Is your phone okay?

- Yeah, I'm all good.

- God, is all that heat just coming from the closet?

- Yeah, it is hot as shit.

I have this theory that the downstairs unit is vacant

and maybe like someone left on a heater

or how kind of sweet would ghost fire be?

- Yeah, how much do you think like Netflix pays

for one of these documentaries.

You hear about movies selling at film festivals for millions of dollars.

So I would say at least like 10 million,

something like that.

- Honestly, that sounds kind of low.

Oh, hey. I know it's a little early for this,

but I was thinking a little bit about the title.

Alright, check this out.

"Something In The Light."

Isn't that cool?

I get it.

- Yeah, because of the fucking...
the light.

That's dope. I thought of one too.

"The Door That Wouldn't Shut."

- For the title?

Yeah, it's cool.

- Thank you.

- It's probably got too many syllables though, you know. Right?

- I'm pretty sure that's the...

almost the exact same amount of syllables.

- It's got one more syllable.

It's hard to remember.

So titles are important.

- Praise Jesus.

I guess that waits for you for that part.

You rolling? Are you rolling'?

- Oh shit.
- Alright, I'm getting it.

- Wait.

Fuck!

Camera overheated and the SD card was full.

So we couldn't have gotten anything anyways.

I might've gotten something on the film camera,

but I doubt it and I didn't charge the batteries.

So welcome to amateur hour.

- Dude, I feel like if you get anything on day one,

that's a win.

- We didn't get anything.

Your camera was completely out of focus.

- I don't think it was.

And also I just feel like this is an indicator

that we need a better plan,
better equipment,

real cameras, real lighting,
real microphones.

- This is real.

- No, but I mean like professional stuff,

like when you see politicians

and they got all microphones on their collars.

We should like divvy up tasks.

Like, you be the main camera guy

and I'll be the supplementary camera guy.

I could do all the audio stuff.

And you could do like the video organizing.

- Data manager.

- Data entry. Exactly.

And obviously we don't know when exactly

this thing's happening.

We're probably going to take shifts.

So, here you go.

Remember to lock up,

remember to leave all the windows open,
so you don't fucking cook us.

- You know this is how stupid people get murdered on "Dateline," right?

- You're gonna murder me?

- No one's getting murdered.

And ghosts can't kill you either.

- You keep saying that,

but you're not Dana Fox or Mulder Scully.

- How do you think a ghost kills someone?
It has a ghost knife?

Hey, while you're up there can you reach me another beer?

Actually, what is that?

- It's just like an energy supplement

I get off this nutropics website.

- Are they safe?

- Yeah, it's just like an all natural amino acid.

- Kind of hard to explain,

but yeah. I mean, I'm kind of an idiot.

I was supposed to do something with him tonight,

but I forgot to get his contact info

and he's not home so...

Grandma, you genius.

Yeah. He's gotta be on some kind of social media somewhere, right?

Sorry. Yeah. I'll call you back later on.

I love you.

Bye.

- What's up, man?

Oh, they make me dress like this

for like the speakeasy shit,

it fucking sucks.

Did I get the right hard drives?

Dope, I actually,

I picked up a high decibel camera right next to my work.

So, I have that too.

Did you get the gear?

- Yeah.

- Awesome. Okay.

Are we're gonna do this or...?

- Yeah.

- And the gear?

- Yeah.

- Hey, John.
I know I said I could do this,

but I was incorrect.

Do you mind helping me out?

Thanks, bud.

This camera's basically what I was talking about

in terms of a bigger thing and actually never told you this.

I was gonna buy a bunch

of camera equipment several years back,

but someone told me my tips would go up 20 to 40% if I fixed my teeth.

So I got braces, spent all the money on that.

Didn't get the camera equipment, check this out.

- You are on the audio.

- Was I supposed to?

- It's alright, I got it.

- So, are you being weird because we forgot to run audio?

- The other day in front of our place.

Who was that?

- That was my probation counselor.

I told you I've got the charity thing I do at the youth shelter

and they just get really weird when I don't show up

or I'm late or anything.

- You know that everyone

would say there's a huge difference between volunteer work

and mandatory community service.

- I don't want to get caught up in the weeds

of what exactly that's called.

- You want to tell me what you did to get yourself a PO.

- It is a not an interesting story,
not even worth telling.

So you read online that I'm a registered sex offender?

- What?

- I was having to go cocktails,

during one of the big city-wide shutdowns

and I had to piss really bad.

There were literally no restrooms open anywhere.

I see this alley, I go back there,
I am relieving myself

and the next thing I know,

I'm pissing all over my shoes

because a cop handcuffs me

because apparently that was the wall of a daycare center.

A closed daycare center.

- Is that true?

- Yeah. It's true.

I mean, you can look up the court record but those things are really dry

and I just gave the Cliffs Notes version.

And it's really hard to defend yourself

against pedophilia allegations wearing a fucking bow tie.

- Are we rolling?

- Yeah, we're rolling.

When I was younger I did this thing called geocaching.

It's kind of like scavenger hunting,

but for adults with a GPS, you know.

And 10 or 20 years ago I found this book

and it was a really cool

kind of pseudoscience coffee table book.

It was called the "Geometry of Magnetism."

And it's written in like Esperanto

and the author's name was redacted.

I swear to you, that symbol is on the cover of my book.

- What? That's not very ghost like.

- No.

Do I seem okay?

- I don't know.

I don't know you.

- No, I mean, do I seem like

I'm having some kind of a psychotic break?

- No, psychotic breaks are totally different.

- If you're a ghost, do something.

Different, do something different.

I mean, we don't actually have any reason

to think that this is a ghost or a poltergeist,

except for some movies or books that we've read.

I mean, we might have this all wrong.

- So what is it?

- That's the question.

The symbol that's on my book

and that was on that refraction,

I swear to God, I've also been seeing it all over the city.

Look, all of this is the EM spectrum,

ElectroMagnetic spectrum,
it's radio waves on up

to the visible light and this is using derivatives

to find acceleration of velocity,

but, look, the value for gravity is wrong.

They've just changed it and I don't really know why.

And then this is a ratio

that's kind of like pi,

which people call them golden ratio.

- Were you quoting Dan Brown books right now?

- What?

- I'm not making a Da Vinci Code documentary.

- No, Jesus, no, it's just a ratio.

It's not exactly the Fibonacci sequence or pi

or the golden ratio or whatever.

It's just an irrational number

with infinite decimals out to infinity.

There are millions of irrational numbers.

This is common in the world and in math.

And it has something to do with a rectangle,

that when it's expressed as a ratio,

it is that irrational number.

I don't know what it means either.

- This has nothing to do with nautilus shells,

the Grail or Stonehenge?

- Everything we've seen so far.

It's either been

on the EM spectrum,
visible light, radio waves...

or...

...gravity.

- Okay. So it's like,

there's one for gravity

and there's one for electrical shock.

- Electromagnetism.

- Right, yeah.

- Maybe there's two of them.

- Two what?

Man, I hope the neighbors are alright?

- I heard there was a murder.

- Hey, I keep having this thought.

Mind giving me a light really quick?

- I got you.

- Jesus.

Okay.

Here you go. Don't forget you got to inhale.

- When we first met, you said this phrase,

it was, "You can only fall so fast."

Why did you say that?

- I wanted to be a skydive instructor.

- No shit.
- Yeah.

- How many times did you jump?
- One.

-And then I was like,

hey, maybe I'll like start a band,

but how do you find all those different people

to play those individual instruments?

And then I was like,

well, maybe I'll get into like the skateboard apparel industry,

but for some reason my parole counselor

was really against me getting into fashion.

And I wanted to work on a fishing boat in Jamaica,

maybe like surf tours or something.

But there was some legal issues with the passport.

The point is that nothing ever quite clicked.

- Yes. I floated around a lot too.

I feel like I was built for this.

- I would also think I was built for this

if my thing was electricity

and treasure hunting and not gravity.

- There's nothing to that?

- I mean, my entire life,

I felt like there's like this invisible force

just holding me back from accomplishing anything

I dream about, anything I want to do.

- That's super depressing

and you should talk to a therapist about that.

- I am not like a continuously depressed person.

This cop just totally parked in my space.

I just feel like someone chucked me out of an airplane

when I was a baby.

And I've been at terminal velocity my entire life.

I didn't ask that person to chuck me out of that airplane.

- How does your parole work?

You know it's insanely weird

that you give apples to kids for Halloween.

Actually you know what's weird is that their parents don't just check

the sex offender registry before they send them marching up

to your door.

You know, they're gonna check

those apples for razors though.

- The OD across the way was originally

reported as a murder

and parents still bring their children there.

I don't think they're worried about

the guy who peed on a wall.

- Well, basically when people buy

or build on a property,

they hire me to come in

and assess for any geologic hazards,

landslides, seismic activity,
sink holes, volcanoes.

- Volcanoes? Are you serious?

- Yeah. Volcanoes.

- That's awesome.

Can you just tell me what you found

in the soil samples beneath the apartment?

- Yeah. Well, I know you were concerned

that there were some anomalies.

The chromium was a little high.

There was some lead in there.

I assume from a pre-1978 paint job,

but everything was okay.

No more arsenic or anything like that.

- The other... the other thing I know.

- What's that?

- The crystal thing.

- The crystal?

- Are you alright?

- Do you mind shooting this real quick?

-Why?

- Well, it's supposed to be 175

and it's obviously much lower.

And if gravity is fluctuating

that much it could be really messing

with the foundation of the building

and that earthquake had just been a warning shot.

- I don't want to invalidate what you're saying at all.

It's just, you know,
I mean, we live in Los Angeles,

there's earthquakes all the time

and people's weight fluctuates. It's normal.

I mean, I just think we've got to be kind of scientific about this,

we can't just assign meaning to every little thing.

- I get all that,

but if in a month we got from some floating things

and some lights to earthquakes,
by New Year's

we would be under rubble.

And we did agree when we started this,

that if we felt like we were in danger, we'd stop.

And I'm not saying we should stop.

I think we should at least acknowledge this.

- I've been giving some thought to that title you suggested.

And honestly I think I just judged it a little too early

and I think it's thematically resonant

with what we're trying to do here.

And I think we should use it.

- "The Door That Wouldn't Shut."

- Hey, can you mute that really quick?

- I listen to this podcast...

Actually can you record that really quick on your camera?

- So, we're rolling.

- I have this podcast that I listened to by...

I don't even know.

He has this kind of wild unifying theory

of the universe that the aliens actually planted

the building blocks of life on earth

as some kind of a science experiment.

And they don't want to contaminate their experiment,

which is why we don't hear from them,

but we will make contact

or they will make contact

at some point once we are socially and politically evolved enough.

So maybe that's now, maybe that's us,

and maybe the heat and all these critters

and all of that is just the flora and fauna

and weather from another planet.

- And that's actually really interesting.

Do you mind if I jump in there and just kind of...? Okay.

I'm just gonna have to get that frame up.

So here's the thing,

I saw online the other day

that basically scientists think

that there are some planets sort of like earth, right?

But the nearest one,

like the nearest one they would have water,

the nearest one would have little critters like we've been hearing.

It would be like 6,000 years away using

the best technology we could possibly come up with.

That being what it is,

how do we explain it being in my attic?

Also, where did you hear this podcast?

- Just on a message board somewhere.

-Are there message boards for more things

than like anime and finding contract killers and stuff?

- Just because something sounds a little bit crazy

doesn't mean it's not partially true.
I mean, that's how you find truth.

MK-Ultra, that was actually mind control.

COINTELPRO that was real,

soft disclosure of UFO's just happened to Congress.

- Here we are at the launch status center.

Let's go inside and see if we can find anybody to talk to.

NASA has known about a time travel method

of Albert Einstein.

He said, if you travel at the speed of light,

you can time travel.

- Time travel.

- Start over.

- There is no light source.

- Crystal?

You mean the quartz deposits?

- Yeah, and how it can create electricity and focus.

- It definitely doesn't create electricity.

Quartz is the most abundant mineral in the world.

If you have them underneath your house, you're fine.

- In your own words.

Just say what happened here?

- I think that if one was to express

what you thought happened to you,

it might be seen as trying

to garner some fame and attention.

- Hang on a minute.
You know, these things found us,

we're not doing it for fame or recognition

or anything like that.

We just... You know,
we just saw something profound

and we wanted to share it with the world.

I don't know what the problem with that would be.

- I don't want to be rude.

- No, it's okay. It's okay.

- Why didn't you play yourselves in the recreations?

- Is that exactly where the snake skin was?

- Yeah. It was a little bit more in a closet,

but I just pulled it a little out for the shot,

just so it would show up more on camera on this side.

- Okay. Cool.

Well, I mean, your sleep looked great.

You wanna cut?

- Yeah. Okay. Awesome.

- Alright. It's so weird doing all this stuff over again.

It's like you're taking too many edibles

and watch Unsolved Mysteries

and you think you on the recreation sketch.

-Cannabis is actually a powerful nootropic...

- Pod of orcas,

apex predator of the sea,

and obviously an orca has never attacked

a human in the wild,

but still just out of fucking respect,

I hold out the spear

and one of them swims over.

I call him Shamoo.

He swam over and just gently ate

the stingray off my spear

and then swims away with the pod singing

these beautiful whale songs like just for me.

- Hey, I keep on having this idea.

Actually do you mind rolling this really quick?

I'm sorry. I just.

- Yeah. Yeah. Let's do this.

- So I think you're right about

the distance thing with the aliens.

I think it's impossible to have had alien contact,

it's too far away,

but if the universe is actually

in 10 dimensions like this Ted talk I listened to,

maybe these gateways to other dimensions

are actually just all around us.

And the gateways are right on top of us.

We just can't see them.

So maybe your closet down there,

that's just another gateway to another dimension

that has different temperatures

and different flora and fauna,
and our creators

trying to...
trying to get us to do something.

You like it?

- See, that and this,

just a couple of things I'm gonna miss about LA.

- I think you're crazy if you are leaving.

- I mean, this is gonna change everything.

- The other night I was leaving my shift at work.

I heard a little buzz

and I'm walking home, walking up Sunset.

There's all these people who are getting ready

for some big, dirty crazy night out.

And you kind of feel the energy of it.

And the Santa Ana winds are blowing

and I look over and it's another coyote.

He's looking right through me like I'm a ghost.

And then he just trots off

down Sunset Boulevard,
that big old coyote smile.

And no one talks about like those moments in Los Angeles.

People talk about the traffic.

People talk about everything else,
everything they can complain about,

but they never talk about like those magical LA moments.

- Yeah. You got to dig deep in this city but...

the magic's there.

- Today I had this fantasy,

of living in some small town,

like a small town,
like in Stephen King stories,

where you can afford rent

and like some big ass Victorian house

and get a dog and go to summer festivals

and eat fresh produce.

And this documentary would be like my retirement fund

for that life.

- You know, they chose this location for Hollywood

because of the beautiful light?

I'm no Hemingway but I feel like we found light literally

and metaphorically just right down in your apartment.

Maybe you should take that as a sign.

Stick around a little while longer,

finish this documentary.

You'll see another magic coyote.

Maybe I can set you up with someone.

- Here we go.

- What?

- Like I've never been attracted to anyone.

And that is a very hard thing

to explain to people that you'd be interested in dating.

(airplane engine roaring)

- It's getting a little unsettling.

- You don't think that has anything

to do with what we're doing downstairs,

this Bermuda triangle shit?

- No. I get the no attraction thing,

but, you know, Lonnie,
for all of his faults,

for all the reasons it didn't really work out between us,

I mean, at least he was accepting.

You know, he wanted to bring kids into this apocalypse,

which is bonkers.

- How do you mean?

- I was out with this guy one time on one of the apps

and we're talking about all the ways

that the world could end.

I mean, we're all gonna die, right?

We're so fixated on not dying,

but it's all gonna happen to us,
so what's the big deal?

I mean, what's even the big deal with...

with like genocides.

And then the conversation naturally led

to my church and people get all binary

when they hear
the word evangelical, so...

I mean, people use this phrase to give themselves peace.

"This too shall pass," right?

But you can just say,

"This too shall end."

It's the same sentiment,
the world's ending for sure. Right?

So why even worry?

You know, it's kinda like you not wanting to

do it with anyone.

You don't understand it unless it's you.

- Alright. Actually I got to get to bed.

-Actually the bar is open soon

if you want we can just grab a quick drink.

- No, I've got to work tonight.

- That makes them quite literally the angels

of not just Abrahamic religions,

but very likely the Samaritans and Babylonians.

Well, folks, tonight, this lone voice in the desert,

will talk to author Jesse Summoner about his latest book,

"Inter-dimensional Angels,

Spirituality in an Ultra-Terrestrial

World Multiverse",

as well as his lecture series

on the works of John Keel

and research into so-called Arcadian time anomalies,

in the world, San Diego.

- Why are you dressed like that?

- I don't want to get bit by a black widow.

If that snake, going into the walls,

bit someone

and we didn't call animal control.
I'd feel really bad.

- I thought I'd measure

because building codes have standardized ratios

for a long time.

So you can buy third-party stuff from Home Depot.

Your closet threshold has a different ratio

than the rest of the building.

- Holy shit.

- There's this thing called Jerusalem syndrome.

It's when people go to

that city for the first time in the modern day,

they get the sense that their whole life led to that moment.

I think maybe that's what I'm doing.

- That's what they speak in Jerusalem?

- No, that was Greek.

- I had this really cool math teacher,

the one that got me into math.

And she was this hippie

that would do these long units

on interesting mathematicians.

And she did this whole week on Pythagoras.

You know, the triangle guy?

A squared + B squared?

High school, middle school?

Anyway, he actually had this society,

some people called it a cult,

but it was called the Pythagorean brotherhood.

And they did everything from a numerology to reincarnation,

to, you know, ritual summoning magic.

They worshipped numbers.

What I'm getting at is I fully recognize

I might be all Jerusalem syndrome

in LA right now, but I think maybe that's what this is.

I think it's the Pythagoreans.

- Well, why can't it be a group like the Freemasons

or the Moose Lodge or...

- What's the...?

The one that's on the scarification all the time.

It's the... the Rose Croutons.

- The Rose Croutons?

Oh, the Rosicrucians?

Yeah. I mean,

I guess it could be any fraternal organization but...

Well, you want to figure this out, right?

- So you're saying the shitty apartment next door

is a magic Greek temple.

- This is just dream logic.

- This isn't the year.

It is the number of days I spent in a mental institution

when I was a teenager.

- It's like all of your teenage years, what for?

- You're part of an evangelical Armageddon church

and you're judging me for managing my mental health at a young age?

- I'm not, I'm sincerely not.

And is that what you've been acting so weird about today?

My Church group?

- I'm acting weird

because you compared my sexual identity

to your apocalypse church.

- We celebrate Christmas without believing in Santa, right?

It's like that.

It's exactly like that.

We celebrate and talk about the end

because it gives us a sense of community, progress...

- My first thought was,

"This is my cue to leave."

Then I'm walking to Griffith park

and I'm taking, umm...

And I come across this park bench

that has this plaque on it.

And on the plaque is William Thomson

from the tape who turns out was the city planner.

- Good work.

-And I felt like I made a discovery.

I made a breakthrough.

You left the windows closed again.

The closet is trying to cook us in our sleep.

- Sorry about that.

I looked up who owned that website

and I just found this social media profile left up

as a memorial to some dead guy.

- We just sorta run something past you.

What if that is stop?

You know, and what if the other night when

that block of quartz was almost dropped to my head

what if that was a message that was like, "Hey, stop."

- We're not quite in dangerous uncharted territory yet.

I mean, Jesus, man,
we're in Laurel Canyon.

Harry Houdini used to live here,

Jim Morrison used to live here, I don't know.

Maybe we were just the most recent people

to tap into its special frequency or something.

- You realized that everyone

you just said had a horrible death.

- Did you hear that?

- Yeah.

Hey, can you play with it?

Yeah. Okay. Keep playing.
I'll be right back.

Pythagoras had this thing called the Honey of the Spheres.

Where he believed that the movement

of the stars corresponded to musical notes

and the musical notes would make a symphony.

So play again, but just really slow because I suck.

I've only played this thing a few times.

- Alright.

- Alright, see. Higher.

-Actually, I think we might be good.

I think we kinda got the,
you know, how it works

and how this does the whole thing.

- I don't think anyone's gonna buy half a documentary.

- The thing is pretty heavy.

- Hey, I really get it,

we're on to something.

Alright. Just do it for me, please.

Please.

Thank you. Alright.

- Oh, fuck!

- I mean, Beethoven was deaf.

Are your ears still ringing?

- My ears are so fucked they cannot get any worse.

- Are you in a band or something.
- I wish I was in a band.

I worked the summer at
symphony hall in San Antonio

and something about the acoustics in there

night after night just battered my ear drums.

- Oh, man, I would've quit.

- Couldn't quit. It was my job, I had to pay my rent.

- Oh yeah, sorry.

- It was part of another probation program.

- Another one?

- I'm not offended.

I get, this is really entertaining for you,

but this one involves my sister

and out of respect for her,

I'd rather just not talk about it,
especially on camera.

- Oh yeah, yeah. Sorry about that.

Yeah. Camera is off.

So think about every little thing

that's taking you to this moment so far,

can't change anything by like a second.

And we never even meet these things.

- No closet, no symbol. No 1908.

That was amazing.

- Yeah. I mean, what's crazier?

Leaving every single coincidence you ever see

or just ignoring them all.

- In last week. Yeah.
Timing changes everything.

- I thought this through, stay with me.
- Alright, hit me, hit me.

- I'm right here.
- Alright.

You and me, our whole lives.

We've seen all of these movies and TV shows and video games

that are basically about simulations, right.

And right now,

me and you are making a film referencing simulations.

Isn't this all totally stuff

that you would program into your own simulation?

- So there were these
neuroscientists on it

that were saying that unconscious minds

have their own agendas.

Maybe the entities are controlling our unconscious minds

in order to get us to do something

like that signaling contact,

but the receivers are our limbic systems.

- And then someday someone's gonna watch this finished film.

I'll be watching from their simulations

and all of their simulations will collide

with this simulation right here.

- I'd say, I just can't figure out

what that has to do with the Pythagoreans,

but I think it's really cool.

- Alright. What you're saying makes perfect sense, but...

- What is?

- Cats, there are these parasites

that you can get from cats

that actually mind control humans.

That's totally real. You can look it up.

There's cats all around our buildings

so we can totally have these parasites.

They might be using these parasites to control us.

Schizophrenia increased around the turn of the century,

which is right around the cat ownership became common.

- I've actually got to get to work.

We should wrap this up.

- I mean, we haven't even checked like a third of the graves.

- Well, I can't call in sick again

chasing my apparently shitty theory.

- Yeah. I don't know how you knew that that was my phone number.

That's a pretty wild coincidence.

- It's nearly impossible.

- I mean, statistically it's impossible

that coincidences don't happen.

- You were compelled to bring

in Dr. Rita Miller, right?

A chemistry PhD from UCLA.

And what was the point at which you thought,

"Alright, time to bring in the big guns?"

- I suspected that there may be some impaired thinking,

which is a side effect of chromium and lead.

So I referred what I found

to a chemist that I knew in undergrad,

Rita, also her PhD is in music history.

It's not in chemistry.

- I think I would be most natural.

It was like, I was doing something else,

and then you just walked up and you're like,

"Hey, you guys do this like documentary thing."

And then you just do it that way.

And then we get to the chemist to drop off soil samples.

She won't sign an NDA,

but it does turn out that her wife went

to high school with John's sister.

- Hang on, it's messing up the audio.

- We get to the chemist to drop off the soil sample

and she will not sign an NDA.

- Hang on, you just look like your picking up lenses...

- She will not sign an NDA.

- No, you look like you're putting up lenses

and putting them down, stop.

-And she will not sign an NDA,

but it turns out that high school had the same name

as the street that John found the first symbol.

And the phenomenon just dried up. Just stopped.

- Can we just do that last little bit,

but just kind of like dark and mysterious

so that you can imagine the music

and bite the apple with finality at the end

so we can cut out on it.

- Finality. Yeah. Got it.

And then the phenomenon just dried up. Just stopped.

- Wait, can we do it without the glasses?

- Hey, you look cool.

You are a real smoker. Good at it.

I'm a little lighter, which I have mixed feelings about,

but maybe a little phenomenon kicking in.

I admit it.

Floating doorway.

- The radio station is 1908.
- Floating doorway.

- Radios like that don't go that high, do they?

- No, they don't.

- Can you record this?

- Okay.

Just get focus.

- You are getting it?

- Of this apocalypse was...

- Did you roll any of that?

- I'm rolling now,

but I'm not really sure what I'm rolling on,

but the good news is

that any time this stuff happens once it happens twice

and camera's ready

and we'll just wait for it to happen again.

- And what if it doesn't?

- Alright. So it's been a few weeks since any weird stuff

so I am thinking, it's time for me

to finally get out of the city.

I just got to tell John, which is awkward.

- Hey, I know I'm supposed

to legally ask you for consent to record,
but this is really,

It's kinda huge, so just know it's recording. Cool?

Yeah. Right.

Hey man, this is hard to say, but I'm leaving. I gotta

be totally out by the first or they take my security deposit...

- So last night I'm downstairs

and just helping Lonnie through a vulnerable moment

he was having.

- Is that enough?

- Yeah.

- I look at the apartment next door

and here it was, I found it.

The floating doorway

and the door was just wide open.

So I walk in...

And inside there's just a whole bunch

of these strays Sphinx cats,

And there was this...

- What?

So if they made that person over there, OD,

then that's like a sacrifice.

And it was a sacrifice.

That means this whole thing is a ritual.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I guess everything started right

when she OD, so that's a really good theory.

- Wait, didn't you say it was

a guy walking his dog, the junkie?

- You ever have a dream

that you suspect is actually just a buried memory?

- I hope not, my dreams are terrifying.

- I keep on having this recurring dream

that I think might have actually happened to me,

where I'm a kid and I'm watching TV.

There's a symbol in Budapest

in Middle East, in somewhere I don't recognize.

But then I think maybe it's just my brain being manipulated

by this place telling me to figure it out.

What's with your closet?

What's this building?
What's your apartment?

I mean, jeez, something about this city,

maybe like some kind of a receiver,

transmitted something like a satellite dish.

Check it out.

Yeah. Okay. This city was designed according to this tablet.

Yeah. See these neighborhoods

and these parks are all on the same grid like configuration.

I mean, I guess in 1908,

when about when all of those would have been put up.

Fred Thompson would have been supervising

the planning on that, so...

- I just checked Quora and there is no succulent,

no cactus, not anything like that, that grows fruit.

That looks like that.

- I'm gonna try to eat it.

- Actually pause for a second.

This dishwasher at work,
he ate this cactus.

He thought was peyote and he got this mouth infection

and they had to remove his jaw.

- I might be one of the first people

in the universe to taste an inter-dimensional fruit.

If I died doing that, I'm fine with that.

- Is that Morse code?

- Oh my God.

- What?

- It's a book.

- Someone left us a book?

- The delivery guy left us a book

because I bought a book about the neighborhood on Amazon.

- Fucking asshole, I almost stabbed a mailman.

I found the original survey of this land parcel.

And yes, indeed the original city planners

did use this shape in order

to define the real estate borders.

Brief glimpse at the history of this patch of dirt,

tells us precisely why they might've clone that.

Did you know that Aldous Huxley once

had a Mescalin experience that was mystical

and changed his entire life, just over the hill.

Jack Parsons of the jet propulsion laboratory

and sex magic fame,

for a very brief time rented one of these apartments.

And also if one were to examine the soil,

he'd find evidence of a meteorite strike.

Might be natural to ask what exactly

were the early Pythagorean city planners doing here.

Well, it's the same thing as us,

researching the gateway.

Gateway or science,

meets magic.

How's that?

- That was great.

I really liked the accent.

- Was I doing an accent?

- No it sounds like a Hobbit. It was awesome.

- Should we retake it?

- No, we're great,

but wait, there's an extra little piece at the end, right?

- The part about if we're for,

I don't think we're gonna use it.

And even if we were wrong about everything else,

it has always been here,
here in this patch of dirt.

Actually, by the way I was thinking about it.

That should be the title,
"Something in the Dirt",

not "Something in the Light".

- You hear that?

- That's Morse code.

- How'd you know which one was langitude

and which one was lotitude.

- Latitude and longitude, and I didn't.

If you swap those two coordinates,

you end up at Point Nemo,

the most isolated place on earth

in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

So the place in the middle of the Pacific

is gonna be plan B

and the place that's right near us

in the desert is gonna be plan A.

- What's this?

I thought you said you had this book

since you were a teenager.

- I did. I just got it reprinted when we needed it,

because it was kind of falling apart.

- Really?

- Yeah. Stop being paranoid. It's weird.

I was wondering if maybe that's sacrifice next door.

Maybe that's the quartz

and the building is foundation needs.

Blood, like life energy in order to carry the signals

that communicate with the mind parasites.

I know sounds kind of nuts,
but I'm just riffing here.

You want to get back on the road.

- Yeah. This is the same zip code

as the beach I spear fish at,

and that is the beach which I spear fish at.

- I don't know it kind of looks like.

It could be a beach anywhere though, right?

- It really looks like it.

- I am just trying to make sure that we stay on track

so we get the right answer.

"Speed is fine, but accuracy is final."

Wyatt Earp said that.

- Okay. Hi, I'm Michael.

I was brought in later in

the whole process of the documentary

because the edit was getting.

Basically John empowered me

to give my point of view.

You know, the one that he couldn't see,

keep it objective.

At first I thought if we all trusted each other

and the checks cleared

and that's when John was in control

and it was what it was.

But then after the radiation incident.

- Alright. First things first,

I need you to stay calm

because I have this completely under control, okay?

- What's up John?

- The electromagnetic spectrum does not end in visible light

and infrared, there's also the UV part of the spectrum.

And I have a sunburn

that was caused by ultraviolet rays, look.

That could be x-ray radiation.

We might've been walking around in gamma rays for months.

It mutated that plant,

who knows what it's doing to our DNA.

We might not even be human anymore.

Now I have constructed this radiation suit

because we can't let building management

send in the EMF inspector

and I closed all the windows just to be safe.

So, give it a look.

It cooked the plant.

What's with the skull?

- So I downloaded geocache app

and I put in the zip code from the redacted manuscript

and coordinates came up for the beach that I spearfish at.

And I swam down in the reef and I found that guy.

- You did that?

- Well, you know, you're not supposed to keep geocaches, right?

- I know, I just figured since

it was probably relevant to what we're doing, but...

Wait, you keep geocaches all the time.

- How is a fake skull relevant.

- How do you know it's a fake skull?

- You cooked the fucking hard drives.

- We both cooked the fucking hard drives.

- You are the video...

You are the fucking video organizer.

And I told you a million fucking times,

to open the windows.

- What was I supposed to do, man?

Just let radiation billow out

all over Laurel Canyon like Chernobyl.

- There is no radiation.

And you left the hard drives next

to the hottest place in the whole fucking apartment.

- They're not all cooked.
We'll just recreate something.

Back when John was in control of the film --

Mike was sending me the hard drives.

He had decided to leave the project because of ethical concerns.

Then I get a call from John, and he says:

"We need to reshoot some stuff."

And I say, "Reshoot what? The re-enactments?"

"No no no," he says, "...Other stuff."

"...and can you do special effects?"

And I say no, I can't do special effects...

...but how much are you planning on manipulating this...

..."documentary"?

But right then I remembered that my ex-roommate was between jobs.

- As soon as I talked to him,

he said, okay, this is all real.

What I need you to redo,

and whatever the fuck that means,

and what really sucks was that Stefania

was like we are not going to give them the footage.

Until we get paid.

I'd personally hold onto that footage

until they get paid and we got fired.

And now we're on what would be the sixth editor, seven?

How many is it?

- I thought you're working tonight.

My carbon monoxide detector went off

and I'm gonna have someone take a look

at it tomorrow morning,

but in the meantime,
it's for my own safety,

I'm gonna stay on up here tonight.

-Actually, I'm not working tonight

and I kinda need my spot.

- I mean, maybe I could just stay in the bedroom.

If you're gonna stay out here.

- Welcome back.

- Is it the biggest fluctuation yet.

I'm telling you, man, this can be really dangerous.

This structure could be...

- Every building in LA since 1978

has been retrofitted for earthquakes.

Come on, they are back, come on.

Thought it would be a kind of a big night

at the bar, right? New Year's?

- I got fired.

- Really?

- Yeah. And if we're gonna keep taking beers,

will you please replenish them like I asked

a trillion fucking times.

- I'm sure you're gonna find

another bartending gig, right?

- I liked my job and bartending jobs

are insanely hard to find in Los Angeles.

I'm leaving anyways, so fuck it.

- Wait, you're still gonna go.

Thread just picked up,
you're just gonna go?

- I don't have a thread.

You have a thread and hoax skeletons

and non-existent radiation aren't part of it.

This new stuff doesn't add up.

Better explanations will be

that you got fucking brain damage from reduced gravity.

- Do you think that maybe you blame random shit on gravity,

because you don't want to bother to figure out

what's really going on?

- Why do you do that?

- Do what Levi?

- Somehow everything everyone else says is absurd,

but fucking...

- Roll the security camera.

- It's glitching again it's frozen.

- You got to restart it in

the playback part of the app.

- No shit.

What's this?

- Came in and it looked like your bag had exploded.

So I cleaned up your mess.

- Weird because it looks like you're going through my shit.

- Yeah. I accidentally saw some legal documents

and sure I suppose that you're not

what most people would think of as a real sex offender.

But what you are is a person

who helped his sister rob construction sites.

And I'm pretty sure your license

is suspended for some unpaid parking tickets.

- Alright, here's what happened.

I was helping her get back something

that she said was hers.

And that was probably a really stupid thing to do.

But I did it because I felt guilty

about giving her her first bump.

And I have no idea why I'm explaining

this to an asshole extremist

who lives off of his ex-husband.

- You know what it makes a whole lot of sense

that you turned your sister into a junkie.

Did that kill her?

Yeah. Go ahead and record this.

You know why I think you're leaving?

It's because you are allergic to success.

You're a fuck up.

And you wear it like some kind of a badge of honor

and you dress like a child

so that nobody ever expects anything of you.

To be really honest.

I think if we actually found some success

in this thing we're trying to do,

you'd find a way to fuck that up.

- What have you had the success at?

Actually don't tell me,
I don't give a shit.

I'm just fascinated that in addition

to being an unemployed arrogant, fascist,

you're also a compulsive liar.

-Actually I've made more money than you've ever seen in your entire life.

- John you're a scooter wrangler.

-And you are the oldest bartender in LA,

I bet your parents are really proud of that.

- Wait, what did you do with all that money?

- I donated it.

- To who? To what?

- To my church.

- You're right, I'm a fuck up,

but at least I'm not a gullible fraud.

I mean, you put away the courts collection

and the snake skins before I come over at least

and hide the receipts for the shit you fabricated.

- You know I think I just realized

that I'm glad that you're leaving

because the only reason I'm doing this with you

is because you just happened to pay rent

on this stupid place by coincidence.

It really upsets me to watch you deceive yourself thinking

that it's gonna be any better where you're going,

because you don't realize

that you still have to live with being you.

You're a fuck up. You're a criminal.

And you have a low IQ.

- Sometimes I wonder if these two things

are just like you and me,

like one of them manipulating the other one

and one in this rabbit hole to nowhere.

And the other one just complicitly going along with it because...

he just wants to believe in something different

than his actual life.

- Maybe the complicit one's life wouldn't be so shitty

if he was smart enough to dig his own rabbit hole.

Maybe the gravity one shouldn't blame

the electromagnetism one for the fact

that he was a piece of shit a long time

before they ever met.

- Shit, I just realized,

you're neither one of them.

At best you're whatever's slithering in the ceiling,

just a big fucking reptile.

I am done.

Get the fuck out.

- If it helps, I felt that quake down in the garage.

- That was a real earthquake?

You and me aren't friends.

I mean, I don't have any friends or family.

I still wouldn't choose to spend time with you

if we weren't working on this thing together,

that said it's a lot easier to believe

that someone is pure evil when in actuality,

it's really unlikely that either one of us is.

- Well. I don't know.

One of us could be.

- Either way. I want all these threads to add up,

but there's just more threads.

- Alright.

Tomorrow morning, oh jeez,
I guess in a few hours,

I'll have somebody come take a look

at the apartment and if it's safe,

you and I can hold up down there until you move on

to wherever you're going.

And I'll just stay in my car tonight.

- No, you're probably right

if this place is gonna sink into the ground

it would've already.

I'll sleep on this guy.

Shove it in there just to be safe,

you can take my room.

- Alright.

Hey.

Can I have a second beer to help me sleep?

Tornado could explain it.

There was one here in Los Angeles once in 1908.

I like to think that he's out there somewhere still though,

you know, sitting by a pool, sipping on a brew,

talking the ear off some stranger with like tall tale

or a fishing story or something.

In Idaho or Tucson

or wherever his lease started the next morning.

But, he is not.

They gave me this little box this plastic urn of his ashes.

And I tried to find some family

or friends to give it to,

but he wasn't lying there was no one.

I mean, his parents died a decade ago.

His little sister was on something

that night at the construction site.

And she slipped.

But I honestly think that he's up there thanking God,

that he got to be part of something profound

to break up his mundane existence.

I mean, we should all hope

to be able to do something important

like that before we die.

You got to keep rolling.

I know you gotta get going.

- I'm actually on my way out.

I need to prep the disks

for whoever is gonna take my place now.

I got to go.

- Yeah, most people end up feeling a little too close to it.

That makes sense.

You got any burning questions

for me on your way out?

- Actually just the same as everyone I guess.

What happened?

- You know, there is worst ways to die

than floating away in zero gravity.

I bet he just froze to death or suffocated up in the atmosphere,

long time before even starting falling.

I mean I don't even think he felt the impact.

- No, I mean,

what do you think happened here?

With all the phenomenon and all that?

- There was something like seven different William Thompsons

in early 20th century Los Angeles.

Some of my figures were off.

- Which figures?

- Some of them.

- I think among all the dramatizations and visual effects.

I still believe part of it was real.

I don't think anyone can say which part at this point, but

something happened.

- So, I couldn't find any evidence

of the Pythagorean brotherhoods.

So I couldn't find any evidence

of the Pythagorean brotherhood.

So I couldn't find any evidence

of the Pythagorean brotherhood being active in centuries,

but that's the point of a secret society, right?

It's secret. You can't see it.

It's like electricity.

Can't see that, but you know it has power.

So, you know, I'm not done.

Find the pattern.

When you're at the center of it.

It all fits.

Eventually.

You hear that?