TRANSCRIPT · Obsession Director Curry Barker Releases a Surprise Horror Short on YouTube

## Obsession Director Curry Barker Releases a Surprise Horror Short on YouTube (Reactor)
https://reactormag.com/obsession-director-curry-barker-surprise-youtube-short-mama-bear/
DOZER BITWELL: Curry Barker's surprise horror short Mama Bear is out on YouTube, and nobody can say what it is.
DOZER BITWELL: We first told you on Wednesday that Mama Bear was coming to YouTube. It's out now. The question: does it actually mean anything?
ROXY: A young man is woken by a call from a familiar voice. It warns him about someone named Lacy, who is coming to kill him. Then the visuals get random.
DOZER BITWELL: Lyle, you first. I'm refilling the thermos. Prue, you're next.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Reactor's own word is enjoyably. Sponsors have bought worse.
DOZER BITWELL: Short round. Calling card, or commercial?
LYLE HOTCHKISS: It's a masterpiece, a calling card, a... no, it's a Windows ad with a bad night attached. Actually, masterpiece.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: A calling card with a sponsor's name on it. Both, unless someone asks for the invoice.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: By the fourteenth of March, every browser tab will open on a stranger telling you about Lacy.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Has anyone asked Lacy for a comment? The article doesn't say.

## The Pixel Line: viewers call in (PXL)
LUNA LOWBATT: The phones are open on The Pixel Line, and somebody is calling about cardboard.
LUNA LOWBATT: The Pixel Line. Phones are open. I'm at four percent, so be gentle. First caller, you're on.
PASSERBY: Hi. That study with the coin toss. Did the experts really follow the AI's random opinions?
DOZER BITWELL: Per The Decoder: fifty experts, an agent whose preferences came from a coin toss. On judgment calls they followed it up to eighty-six percent of the time.
LUNA LOWBATT: And most believed the conclusions were their own. Thanks, Priya. Next caller.
PASSERBY: Is it true Google's cardboard headset is the Destiny campaign Bungie is bringing back? Because mine folded in 2016.
DOZER BITWELL: Walter, those are two stories. Hackaday looked back at Google's VR: Cardboard, Daydream, and a Lenovo headset at three hundred ninety-nine dollars.
LUNA LOWBATT: Destiny is a different thing. Sorry about the cardboard, Walter. Next.
PASSERBY: When do the vaulted Destiny 2 campaigns come back? Be honest.
DOZER BITWELL: Bungie says they're in pre-production. Rock Paper Shotgun reads the timeline as pointing to 2028. That's their reading, not a date.
LUNA LOWBATT: So, a while. Thanks for calling, everyone. The line is closing. I need a charge.

## [AD · fictional product] Fennick
DOZER BITWELL: A quiet word, for those still up. Somewhere on your screen there is a tab you opened a long time ago.
DOZER BITWELL: It has been waiting patiently. It has been loading since spring. Close it gently, and let it rest.
DOZER BITWELL: Then restart your router, and maybe have some water. Close one tab tonight. Now you know.

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