You're listening to Canary Cry News Talk. It is Monday, September 2, 2004, episode number 771,

simply titled, Where is Basil? Where is Basil?

My name is Gons.

Basil's the co-host of this show.

Has been for over a decade.

My name is Gons, director of the Age of Deceit Films, your favorite Asian provocateur for Christ, live to tape from the land of New Scum to bring you the best news, which is the gospel message of Jesus Christ, while reporting the egregious with a well-rounded,

biblically grounded take on world events. And today's emergent phenomenon is clearly,

where is Basil? What's going on? Before we jump into anything, just let everybody know. I had the last contact I had with Basil was scrolling, scrolling. I believe it was last Wednesday, the, whatever that was, the 28th of August.

He sent me that audio message.

We had a back and forth a little bit on text messages.

And then I just haven't heard back at all.

And so first thing I want to do is call out the producers.

Producers.

It's not uncommon for Basil to go. Assemble!

It's not uncommon for Basil to ghost me for a few days, especially during Burning Man, because connections could be rough.

You know, he tends to lose things.

Maybe he lost his phone, or maybe some dust, some alkaline got in there and it broke or something.

There's all kinds of possibilities.

So I'm not worried too much yet.

If I don't hear from him this week, then I'll start, I might have to start getting the search crew out there to Black Rock Desert to make sure that we don't find Basil in a cave or captured in hostage situation or something like that. But as of now, I'm not too worried. He does this

all the time in terms of kind of going dark and not responding. And again, circumstantially,

if he was out at Burning Man, you just don't know. Internet, you know, all kinds of different reasons why he not responded. But I'm not too worried yet. But at the same time, I think prayers for the team, I believe the event is over. So they should have traveled back yesterday and maybe they're just trying to recover today, and that's what's happening.

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