There's No Place Like the Present
In our last episode, some things went well and some went not so well. If you don't know what those things are, you may want to take a look before proceeding.
Neal Tiemann and Lee DeWyze are in the sumptuous leopard-print Memphis bedroom of Stax Records head Jim Stewart, while the 1968 Stax Volt company Christmas party rages a few yards away. The tiger-print Ghost of Albums Past has just disappeared from Tiemann's clutches.
DeWyze: Standing there clutching air won't bring her back.
Tiemann: Why the hell didn't you deploy the basilisk?
DeWyze: Dude. She's the Ghost of Albums Past. She'd probably turn it to stone rather than vice-versa. We need to go home now.
Tiemann: What do you mean, go home? We don't have Dave back.
DeWyze: Go home. Like, home. You go to it. The only place we can go without Dave or a ghost is back to our own time. Let's play that song of yours and go.
Tiemann: I'm not giving up.
DeWyze: Dude. You know what the Ghost of Albums Future said. If we stay too long in 1968, history resolves itself by killing us off. That's not sweet serendipity.
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Neal Tiemann and Lee DeWyze are in the sumptuous leopard-print Memphis bedroom of Stax Records head Jim Stewart, while the 1968 Stax Volt company Christmas party rages a few yards away. The tiger-print Ghost of Albums Past has just disappeared from Tiemann's clutches.
DeWyze: Standing there clutching air won't bring her back.
Tiemann: Why the hell didn't you deploy the basilisk?
DeWyze: Dude. She's the Ghost of Albums Past. She'd probably turn it to stone rather than vice-versa. We need to go home now.
Tiemann: What do you mean, go home? We don't have Dave back.
DeWyze: Go home. Like, home. You go to it. The only place we can go without Dave or a ghost is back to our own time. Let's play that song of yours and go.
Tiemann: I'm not giving up.
DeWyze: Dude. You know what the Ghost of Albums Future said. If we stay too long in 1968, history resolves itself by killing us off. That's not sweet serendipity.
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