Tribe

Um, this condition has gotten significantly worse

and I don't quite know what to do.

I'm, I'm absolutely at a loss,

and I'm reaching a point of desperation.

I cannot get out of here.

I get behind the wheel of my truck

that is attached to this camper,

and I try to drive away and I don't know how to drive.

I don't know how to move the vehicle.

I don't know the symbols,

I don't... I literally stare at it

like, I have no idea how to use this truck.

It is as if my brain is a hard drive

and something has gone through

and removed the apps of communication and contact,

but left everything else the same.

I have no idea how I got here and how to get out of here.

Whatever this is, whatever's going on here,

I, I don't it doesn't hurt,

but it obviously is directly related to the fact that I've,

um,

I've...

I've lost my mind.

So I was searching around this trailer today,

I came across a, a storage compartment inside of it.

It had all these, they're like media drives.

They're like,

uh, things you would hook up to a camera or a video system

and they all have names on them.

This one says Mount Shasta,

this one says Charlie, and there's a bunch of them.

I think I can remember how to hook up some of these cameras,

and I'm thinking maybe they could

offer some kind of explanation.

Maybe they give me some kind of help to get out of here.

I don't know.

I gotta get out of here.

I don't know, I'm gonna try it.

So the other reason I really like this light is because you

can adjust the colour temperatures right here.

But the best thing is it runs off a battery pack

so that you can use it as a lighting source,

but you can also use it as a lantern,

which sometimes...

maybe I should turn off my phone before I start taping.

Kate, you call me more now than when you were married to me.

Hello?

Yeah. Hey, what's up?

Um, yeah, I'm around tomorrow.

What's going on?

Trip down memory...

What kind of trip down memory lane?

Yeah, all right, I'm around all day tomorrow.

Um. Yeah.

Stop by the house.

Okay. Bye.

All right.

Turn, turn off your fucking phone, Devin.

All right, let's do this again.

And yet, the quality,

This shoots 4K just as well as this canon,

and it's about half the size.

Hello? Hey, come in.

Yeah.

- Oh wow, what do you got going on here?

You got a lot of stuff.

Yeah, well, I'm doing a, um...

You know, I, I, you know how much I love videography

and stuff like that.

So now I'm doing some posts...

I'm posting stuff on social media

comparing like, cameras.

So people who go hiking and you know, it's...

now I've got some time on my hands,

- Yeah. - so I'm doing it, so.

Keeping yourself busy, well...

- Yeah, it's cool, how are you doing?

I'm good, I'm good.

I just wanted to stop by and drop something off for you, uh.

What is this?

- Okay, so Charlie gave me this box of tapes.

Charlie?

Charlie did, yeah.

And he asked me to hang on to them

and give them to you once you were retired.

I have no idea why.

Dude, these are...

Look at these.

- This is, like, back when we were in school together.

- I know, I didn't give them much thought

because you know Charlie.

Have you looked at them?

I haven't, no, no, I...

Do you want to look at them?

- No. I'm pretty good with leaving the past in the past.

I, I, God love Charlie, but, uh, whatever they are

I probably wouldn't understand it anyway.

Wow, this is really cool.

Maybe I'll do a video about this.

Yes, yes you should.

- You should. - Really bizarre.

Um, well, thank you for bringing them by,

- Yeah, no problem. - Do you want to...

- Do you want some more coffee or something?

- No, no, I'm good, I gotta run.

I just, uh, hope you don't mind me just crashing your party.

But I just wanted to...

- Listen, I appreciate you coming by.

- It's really good to see you. - No problem.

- If there's some interesting stuff on here,

I think I may digitise these tapes.

That way I can bring them into the editing system

and have more control over it.

I know it's not necessarily the best system to digitise,

but maybe at least offer some clues as to why

these tapes were left for me in the first place.

- I heard from a few people today,

so the word's already spreading,

that you totally freaked the fuck out in class

and scared the shit out of everyone.

Scared the shit out of your professor.

What? - And...

Wait, what did you do?

What happened, man?

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Yeah. What did you do?

- There's just so much fucking lying going on in these classes.

I asked... I was in my anthropology class

and I asked my professor about it,

I asked a question about the Silurian theory.

The what?

- And he just kind of blew right past it,

just dismissed it as fucking nonsense.

Wait. - It just...

it pissed me off, so I got...

Yeah, I got in his face.

The what theory?

So, you got so upset about...

what is this, the salvia theory?

The Saliva. - The Saliva theory?

It's the Saliva theory.

- It's the Silurian theory, dumbass.

It's basically...

it's this theory that says our evolution was basically

tied to another advanced or intelligent species

Like aliens?

Is that what you're saying?

Yeah, I mean, maybe, or,

you know, another species kind of like us, intelligent,

that evolved and then died out millions of years ago.

Kind of fucking crazy.

Yeah, dude, you're on a scholarship, bro.

What are you...

Let's do some math.

Let's take fucking...

Let's take dinosaurs as an example.

So.

T-Rex.

There were about 20,000 of them at any given point,

and they were around for about 2.5 million years.

So 120,000, some odd generations, 2.5 billion total.

- Ever? - Yeah, ever.

Out of that, you know how many we've found?

What do you mean, like, like fossils and museums and stuff?

Yeah.

All time, that we found?

You know how many?

5000?

Yeah, a thousand? - A thousand?

Easily a thousand.

Right? Easy.

Less than 50.

What?

Bullshit. I call bullshit.

- That's a fact. - For real?

Is that a real stat?

Less than 50.

There's another species kind of like us,

however many millions of years ago.

It's pretty safe to assume that there'd be no evidence of them.

Just like there's been...

There's going to be no evidence of us.

No cars, no skyscrapers, no plastics, no bones.

I think it's an interesting idea

as a thought experiment, Charlie, um, I do,

but I don't think you can apply real science to this stuff.

- Real science? - You know what I mean?

Why isn't this fucking real science?

- Because it's not in our textbooks.

- No, listen, this is the problem

with our fucking education.

It assumes that our evolution had something to do

with some kind of divine, superior intelligence.

It kind of moved us along like that.

Like, like we were chosen.

It's like, it's kind of like my dad used to say, you know,

we were talking about our church,

just that you don't have to worship a God,

you can worship another kind of higher consciousness.

Wait, wait, was this the church in the mountain?