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Decoder Ring Theatre

Bix Banderson vs the Universe 08

Decoder Ring Theatre

Gregg Taylor

Stories For Kids, Fiction, Kids & Family

4.8661 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2020

⏱️ 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 Eight – In which unwelcome guests are entertained and a certain number of feelings are hurt

Transcript

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0:00.0

Chapter 8.

0:04.0

You're just saying that because I'm only a computer.

0:10.0

The voice sounded hurt, and Bix felt he was losing control of this situation.

0:14.0

No, I'm not.

0:16.0

He protested.

0:17.0

I just said that you don't have to talk like that.

0:20.0

Like what?

0:21.4

The voice sniffed, upset.

0:23.4

Like I'm some kind of hunky dream boat and you want to eat me for breakfast?

0:26.9

The computer made a strangled, angst-filled noise, and Bix could not escape the idea that she was crying.

0:32.7

Ugh, you don't want me to like you.

0:36.0

She protested.

0:38.2

Bix ran his hand through his hair and wondered if talking to real girls was this hard.

0:42.5

I do want you to like me.

0:44.3

He said.

0:45.0

But slortho, or whatever his name was.

0:47.9

He used to make you talk like that.

0:49.4

Did you like him?

0:50.5

He didn't care if I liked him.

0:52.7

The computer sniffed.

0:54.0

As long as it sounded like I did.

0:56.3

Okay, this is what I'm talking about. Bix said soothingly, I just mean that I don't want to be like him.

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