Southland Tales
No.
Wonder if Matt sees that camera yet.....
Yep.
The camera, yeah.
Hey, man.
Oh. I didn't know it had water in it.
Go, go, go!
Go.
In the aftermath
of the nuclear attacks in Texas,
America found itself
on the brink of anarchy.
Hundreds of thousands have
perished in the nuclear attacks...
in Abilene and El Paso, Texas.
The president has declared
martial law in Texas.
FEMA has ordered evacuation
within 200 miles of each attack.
The worst attack on the United States
in the history of our country.
Those without protective glasses are
instructed to sit down on the ground
and face away from the blast.
World War llI had begun.
No.
I'm sorry.
The accelerated conflict
in the Middle East
placed significant restrictions
on American access to oil.
Alternative fuel sources
became a lucrative commodity.
Americans were transfixed
by the terrorist threat
and the will to prevent another attack
by any means necessary.
Military checkpoints
were erected at each state line.
Interstate travel visas
were required of each citizen.
Dissenting liberal extremist cells
began to emerge,
the most vocal of which
were the Neo-Marxists.
The 2008 presidential election
was to be decided by
the electoral votes of just one state
as the Republicans
raced to secure California
for the first time since 1988.
On June 27, 2008,
Boxer Santaros,
a famous actor with ties
to the Republican Party,
vanished without a trace.
Three days later, he was discovered
in the Nevada desert
with his memory erased.
The government knew he had
crossed back into California.
But the circumstances
of his return to the Southland
remained a mystery.
Actor-turned-soldier
Pilot Abilene
was critically wounded
during battle in Iraq yesterday
by shrapnel from a grenade
thrown by a soldier in his own unit.
"The Revelation of Jesus Christ,
which God gave unto Him,
"to shew unto His servants things
which must shortly come to pass,
"and He sent and signified it
by His angel unto His servant John,
"who bare record of the word of God,
and of the testimony of Jesus Christ,
"and of all things that he saw.
"Blessed is he that readeth and they
that hear the words of this prophecy,
"and keep those things
which are written therein...
for the time is at hand. "
My name is Pilot Abilene...
and I'm a veteran of the war in Iraq.
I'm going to tell you the story
of Boxer Santaros
and his journey
down the road not taken.
"This is the way the world ends.
"This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends. "
Not with a whimper...
but with a bang.
The search continues
for missing action star Boxer Santaros.
His wife, Madeline Frost,
daughter of vice presidential
candidate Bobby Frost,
could not be reached for comment.
Flights remain restricted in Nevada...
Interstate travel visas are frozen
as the government issues
a code-red terror alert
for the holiday weekend.
Southland residents
buckle down and stay put
as LAX remains closed indefinitely.
Some empires were built
in times of war.
...honor the memories
of loved ones lost in Texas
as a city prepares to celebrate
Independence Day
on the third anniversary
of the nuclear attacks.
Others were built
in times of peace.
The government decided that
it could not properly
conduct a war on terror
unless cyberspace
was placed under federal control.
USIDent was the brainchild
of the Republican Party...
Welcome to USIDent.
...a colossal think tank formed
under the protection of the Patriot Act.
All information is sanitized.
"Two roads
diverged in a wood, and I...
"I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference. "
You know,
Bobby and I are so proud
that we can unveil
the first USIDent facility
here in the Southland.
UPU 5.
Here at last!
Boxer Santaros
had returned from the desert
with a case of amnesia.
Someone had gotten under his skin.
Her name was Krysta Kapowski,
and together
they had written a screenplay
that foretold
the tale of our destruction.
You almost wrecked my car.
Well?
Get in.
Stigmata.
We'll hear that fine new platter
by Nat King Cole...
"I'd Rather Have The Blues. "
The war machine
was running out of gas.
And there was no alternative.
Alternative fuel, that is.
Until one day,
when a renegade scientist
arrived in the Southland
with a cure for our sickness.
He built this great big machine
out in the ocean
that would generate a hydroelectric
energy field called Fluid Karma...
a wireless network of electric power
that would run machines by remote...
machines that would never
have to be refueled.
Treer Products is proud to present
the wizard Baron Von Westphalen
and his executive staff.
Have you built the world's first
perpetual motion machine?
The ocean is
a perpetual motion machine.
Fluid Karma is a simulation
of the principles
you see working right here.
As long as the waves continue to crash,
Fluid Karma will exist.
Quantum teleportation.
Explain the transport mechanism.
That's all I'm asking.
Fluid Karma works via the principle
of quantum entanglement.
Particles thus entangled
will behave identically...
Operation Q...
the atomic test program
of the Federal Civil Defense
Administration
as seen by Joan Collin, reporter.
I had to see Operation Q
through many eyes, not only my own,
but as a reporter through the eyes
of the average American
man and woman.
I'm Krysta,
Krysta Now.
And we are here,
live in Malibu, with my guests today...
Shoshana Cox,
Sheena Gee, and Deena Storm.
Join us for an in-depth discussion
of the penetrating issues
facing society today...
issues like abortion, terrorism,
crime, poverty, social reform,
quantum teleportation,
teen horniness, and war.
Now we all made decisions
in our youth to start doing porn.
I think it's time that we
turn the mirror on ourselves.
And once you get on the bang bus,
you never get off.
You know what?
The bang bus should be banned.
It's totally unethical,
even within the parameters of porn.
Do you like to get slapped
to the ground and f***ed?
Too violent.
Violence and porn should not mix.
It gives porn a bad name.
You know what?
I like to get f***ed.
I like to get f***ed hard.
- Yeah. Me, too.
- Amen to that.
I mean, violence is a big problem
in our society today,
and I will not support it.
That's the primary reason
why I won't do anal.
I didn't know that about you.
Makes me want to give up anal.
Anyone who knows
anything of history
knows that great social changes
are impossible
without feminine upheaval.
Our first issue today is terrorism.
Go ahead and make fun of
my prophecies all you want, Fortunio.
But deep down inside,
everyone wishes
they were a porn star.
Really?
We're a bisexual nation
living in denial,
all because of a bunch of nerds,
a bunch of nerds who got off a boat
in the 15th century
and decided that sex
was something to be ashamed of.
All the Pilgrims did was ruin
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