Bix Banderson vs the Universe 05
Decoder Ring Theatre
Gregg Taylor
4.8 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The biggest, baddest, most-all consuming Cosmic Empire ever known is about to meet its match:
An eleven-year-old Earth Boy, on the run from summer camp.
Decoder Ring Theatre presents Bix Banderson Vs. The Universe, an intergalactic adventure par excellence written and read by Gregg Taylor, with additional voices by Clarissa Dernederlanden, Tessa Taylor and Maxwell Taylor as Bix Banderson!
This week: Chapter Five – In which space battles make strange bedfellows.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Chapter 5 |
| 0:07.0 | It was three or four minutes before Echo broke the awkward silence. |
| 0:12.0 | Where are we going, exactly? |
| 0:15.0 | The sector command station? |
| 0:17.0 | Bix said, sounding like he was none too sure of himself. There was another small pause. |
| 0:23.5 | Would you like me to point the ship in the right direction first? |
| 0:28.8 | Yes. Bix agreed, throttling back so the change in heading would not tear the ship apart. |
| 0:34.1 | He was getting the hang of this. The controls felt good in his hands. |
| 0:38.0 | He could totally fly this spaceship. |
| 0:41.2 | It didn't change the fact that he didn't know where anything was. |
| 0:44.3 | If you weren't sure of a heading, you can just ask the computer, Echo said. |
| 0:49.5 | They keep it on mute, just press the blue toggle. |
| 0:52.8 | I'm not sure I trust the computer. |
| 0:55.0 | Bix scowled. |
| 0:56.6 | You said it was a stickler for the rules. |
| 0:59.1 | A computer is just like a robot. |
| 1:01.4 | Echo said, preparing to intercoordinates. |
| 1:04.0 | Except it lacks physical form and consciousness. |
| 1:08.8 | And a charming personality like mine. |
| 1:12.2 | So not very much like a robot at all? |
| 1:15.2 | Bix offered as he prepared to drop the ship out of Ion Drive. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, not so much. |
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