martin trying to touch the explosives and jon yelling at him to stop gives the vibes of a cat attempting to push a glass off a table and its owner trying to stop it

jon telling Martin to stop touching it, and to put his hands in his pockets has the feeling of a parent telling their kid to not eat something thats on the floor

Melanie: "I think you're gonna want to see this" Elias: 👀 John: "It looks like C4" Elias:👁👄👁

"I mean, it wasn't actually paranoia, was it? Because they WERE out to get you" I love Martin

Friendly reminder that with the gorilla skin destroyed, the next best option is a Jonsuit.

This is the happiest and most relaxed conversation Jon has had with his coworkers in a while, plastic explosives and all.

"martin, stop trying to touch the plastic explosive." 1. mood 2. I LOMVE HIMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Melanie probably: Jon where the hell have you been? Jon: oh sorry I took a little longer getting back I got kidnapped again

Hearing how they freak out when they notice that something is recording and then the audio cutting off just reminded me that we aren't supposed to hear half the things we actually hear and the fact that I actively get anoyed whenever they cut me off from listening in is concerning.

Seems the "fussing over" that Melanie was talking about comes from both sides. Jon is so protective over Martin here. They're both fussing over each other, it's sweet.

This is the first instance I've seen of a *heroic* lobotomy, and this moderately disturbs me.

Martin's panicked "TURN IT OFF!" in 05:56 is giving me life

Note for the people like me who can’t remember names: Okay so the name aderald dekker sounded familiar so i checked previous eps and its the guy who performed an "exorcism" on the Not!Them creature and bound it to the table with swirling patterns (he is mentioned first in the post-statement of MAG77 ‘The Kind Mother’ and appears with the "exorcism" in MAG78 ´Distant cousin’) Alsoooo in MAG77 the mother is replaced by the ´kinder’ Not!Mother, and two days after the statement the dad dies and guess how? Carbon monoxide poisoning

Adelaide Deckard's efficiency is admirable and scary. "Ok can't kill him, so I'll just do a joker style impromptu lobotomy"

I almost wonder if the recorders randomly turning on is how Elias listens in. How "we" listen in.

the return of coworker banter involving jon has made me so happy

I found Jon's comment about how he's strangely relieved at finding himself in a position of having no clue as to what's going on interesting. As an Archivist, he should probably feel discontent at his own lack of knowledge, but it doesn't look like he does. I was thinking if that is because The Beholding doesn't really represent knowledge but rather drive to it. What feeds it is not exactly knowing, but the process of acquiring knowledge. That means Jon probably subconciously felt relieved, that there is still something more for him to learn and figure out, because what's the point otherwise? Kinda like a jigsaw puzzle becomes boring once you complete it. Does anyone think about it like that?

"I’ll even make it a statement. Give your patron something to keep it satisfied. It’s not like I sleep enough to worry about dreams." Wait making a statement gives people dreams? Was something like this ever mentioned before? Edit: "I’m not too concerned, to be honest, my dreams are, uh… well, let’s just say I don’t think they’re going to be letting anyone else in any time soon." I AM. concerned. Jon?!?

While the first six minutes were comedic gold, I have auditory processing issues and that was h e l l

_"Just put your hands in your pockets"_

"I’m not too concerned, to be honest, my dreams are, uh… well, let’s just say I don’t think they’re going to be letting anyone else in any time soon." Hey, op. What the f-ck does that mean? So...does the Eye have the ability to watch through any and all depictions of eyes (the "any picture of an angel is an angel" type of sitch) or did Gertrude cut all those eyes out just in case?

His name is GERRY, not GERARD, Jon >:( It was quite literally his last wish

I like that they addressed the fact Melanie didn't explained how THE HELL SHE WAS SHOT BY A GHOST. It's neat.

LOVEE how Martin keeps trying to touch creepy object & Jon is yelling at him to not 🤣 “Put your hands on your pockets or something” 😂😂😂

Jon and Martin both saying an exasperated "what" at the same time is so funny

When they found the explosives and Jon and Martin were fighting oml And then when they were yelling at him about the recorder, god I love them

Their being super cautious around books gives me life.

the entire part with martin trying to touch the plastic explosives this show is a comedy

this statement got me. not because of the nature of it but because of that one bit about sleep and death. i thought this was an uncommon terror; i've never met anyone who was also terrified of the idea of emptiness of death. i remember staying awake as a kid, staring the ceiling, and feeling like the moment of my death would feel like an eternal sleep. it was terrifying. it still is.

Now the image of Jon using his entire self to hold Martin back from C4 while Melanie is inspecting it is now drilled into my brain and I love that

I'm a first-time listener but I kinda have a theory. I feel like the eye can only see the through the tape recorder, and that's why it keeps randomly turning it on, and probably why Jon seems to be bringing it without realizing he's doing it. Either that, or it's Elias that can see their movements through the tape. Either way, I'm worried for everyone here. Also, gotta love Jon preventing Martin from trying to touch dangerous supernatural objects

hey jon, you've barely been at this for two or three years, and plenty of people know you already! alright, maybe not 'people', but surely gertrude wasnt really that known amongst 'people' particularly either

*tUrN iT oFf*

I love the fact that the fear the magnus institute is against is the fear of not knowing, and by going through the statments, we as listeners are actively fighting it

I just realized..Gertrude's plan when stopping these "rituals" from happening is blow them up, lol Im saying this cus I think the eye's ritual that Jerry mentioned was in the Alexandria library, and she blew it up. Its a very straight forward solution XD

Jerry said that the Flesh was new, so maybe there's a new power based upon more manmade fear, terrifying progress. Sounds worrying

lately I've been thinking the eye is so cute.. it turns on the recorder cause it just wants to be present like a puppy with separation anxiety.. they go about their day and don't even know it's there n then they're like oh God you were here the whole time! shoo! and is all sad and goes to pout in the corner (first time watcher no spoils pls!!)

I kept rewinding because I wasn't paying attention and it took three times for me to realize Jon was saying "C4" and not "fifor" or something else beginning similar to FIFA.

Every time I recognize a name I have to pause and exclaim "wait a minute" before frantically leafing through my notes. Finding Adelard's name scribbled under my never-ending list of character names felt like a small victory; he was the dude who bound the not-them to the table! Is this statement before or after the events that transpired in #78?? Gonna be an interesting ep.

Ah yes, my worse fear. I thought I'd never seen the episode. The fear of not waking up the next day... It scared me, to imagine we couldn't ‘realized’ when we fell asleep. All we knew is what happened the _next_ time we woke up... It's a painless death but also unexpected and dreadful one because you don't see it coming.

“TüRñ Įt ØfF!!!”

Johnny Sins

Oh boy, was this statement a bad one to listen to with headphones in the early am in bed at that sick moment between can't sleep/want to sleep and needing to get up for work in a few hours. Thanks.

Is this statement related to the one in the first season that predicted Gertrude's death?

"Ooh, a book!" Eye-aligned much, Jonathan

I bet scrambling brains would be a neat feeling. Not in a morbid way, squishy things are just fun

martin in this episode >>>>>

Ironically this is the episode i fell asleep to

Merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream.

On the one hand, vaild, but on the other, I can usually tell the moment I fall asleep, haha.

martin jon melanie moments letsss goo

On relisten, I just picked up a real subtle piece of foreshadowing here. Very very well done, Mr Simms. I see what you did there.

Jon: MARTIN STOP TRYING TO TOUCH THE PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES!!!! 😂

My theory from this episode and what we know so far: I think Gertrude wanted to blow up the magnus institute, like she probably did with that library in Egypt (if I remember correctly). Other than that, only other thing is that I think that this Dekker, which at first I couldn't remember who he was but then checked previous episodes and he was the guy who tied the Not!Them with the spider table, was at first interested in this case because he thought it had something to do with another fear and that's why he was disappointed when he realized it was the End instead. Now, since the carbon monoxide poisoning was also mentioned in the episode where Dekker is first mentioned and it was about the Not!Them, I believe he at first thought, or more like hoped, it had something to do with the Stranger, just like how Gertrude went around USA in anything that sounded like it had something to do with the Stranger and when it turned out it wasn't about the Stranger after all she was disappointed and left. Finally, I didn't really understood the last part when John talked about his own dreams not letting anyone else in.. did he mean that even his dreams are Eye related, thus even his dreams are guarded by the Eye? Or that he doesn't have any dreams either because he's not dreaming lately or because he's not sleeping? Or maybe his dreams are only about a specific person (cough cough) and they (his dreams) won't let anyone else in them besides that specific person? :3

The 6 first minutes were pure gold jaajjfja. Glad to see that Jon is asking for help and his relationship with Martin is a lot better, even with this... little awkward conversations xD The cut in 6:00 with Melany's voice made me cackle with the mental image JÁ And this statement, well... I don't know what to expect with it. It seems like we have to worry about another entity, huh? In another note... Jonsuit for a ritual. Why not :D

>new emergence Ha, called it two episodes ago. Making a conspiracy-web it totally worth it.

"you met vampire Trevor then?"

Martin is just a human shaped Chaos Cat.

Yes, C4 is the only plastic explosive I've ever heard of.

Season three just gets better and better!

The real plot in this podcast is the developing affections between Jon and Martin. Well, lets be honest, Martin has had it bad since the beginning.

first extinction mention pog

"It’s not like I sleep enough to worry about dreams." - If you know, you know. GOD, I DIDN'T NOTICE THAT THE FIRST TIME.

i don't think i've heard jon say end recording in a while

You know, this episode is talking a lot about carbon monoxcide poisoning...wasn't that also what they used to kill the worms?

HAH and i'm listening to this trying to go to SLEEP HAH a cosmic joke maybe??

I FUCKING KNEW IT, THEY ARE GONA BLOW SHIT UP

Did the Eye turn on the tape recorder so "we" can listen and find out about the explosives?

Hearing this one on Friday the 13th hits different

Does that mean Mike Crew was still human enough to die?

The tapes are meant for us... In a way, we *are* the Ceaseless Watcher. We are the Beholder. Is it weird that I feel strangely guilty, yet I listen on.

Who was Adelard Dekker again?

.... Soooo can Elias hear them through the tapes? Why were they all freaking out? Did I miss smth QuQ

Justin Goth

Yk it's funny, my weird interest in transoribital lobotomies is paying off for the first time.

You know it's weird that the recorder actually lets itself get turned off when they don't want to hear something considering the fact that we've established it can turn itself on at will

How come so few people notice that Adelard Dekker is connected to the web.

UGHHHHHHH i hate it that he brought the tape recorder lmaoooo whats even the point johnny boy

What is it with no one believing in the hereafter???

Oh, I think the eye-scratched or eye-removed things are wards against the Eye. To be hidden from Elias. To hide... freaking explosives... what a badass Gertrude was! Annd... avatars can be brain dead temporarily. Does that mean is Elias gonna be brain-dead...?

What ancient powerful artifact has Gertrude prepared to fight the world ending ritual of a trickster god? Bombs 😊

Jon fangirling about meeting entities as the one of us he truly is

Oh this is the first time we read a statement about the thing Gertrude asked mr deckard to investigate for her

Start 1:05

Wait, wasn't "Avatar" Georgie's name for them?

I'm really confused who is ivy meadows and what happened to her?

He really thought!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

So wait stoners are immune to the dream effects since they chemically remove their ability to dream??

Is this episode important or can I skip it? I can't realy hear what they're saying

Fire in the hole :3

5:13 Three stooges

I can't understand what they're saying.

Spoilers: I’m guessing this one is the end Edit: HELL YEAH

Does anyone else hear “Wusty qwil” or is that just me?

Very Lovecraftian...knowledge can kill you, don't even touch the books!

"I just thought it would be less... crowded" were you hoping to be alone with jon in there, martin🤨🏳‍🌈?

If they so aptly believe in the supernatural, then by that logic, they should believe in God.

When you just discovered this series a couple months ago but your theater group passed out from carbon monoxide but it wasn’t found in the building: