Zoe Saldana, the new owner of the Houston Astros and their stadium, gives their underdog opponent a two-game lead in the best-of-five series, claiming it will be easier to sell tickets to the last three games this way, compared to if it was a sweep. She’s correct.
Rajiv starts playing my guitar. It sounds really great, so a couple of minutes later I pick it up, but now it sounds awful. I look down and there’s only a couple of strings left, but that’s probably not the only reason for the sonic decline.
Romesh pokes a small hole in his finger while restringing the guitar. Rajiv had gotten his electric guitar specialist, who’s clueless about acoustics, to remove the finger protector¹ for an unknown reason.
I show Romesh my two band-aids I’m wearing because I’d done the same thing earlier, twice. He doesn’t feel so bad now.
The three of us find an abandoned movie set at a university, which is where we decide to meet Dimitri.
Stacy is curating an art festival back home. The promotional materials contain photos of her group of friends. We think she’s in too many, and they all look too similar, but she disagrees.²
Sufjan performs using an old realistic hologram technique that blows us away, enough that the police try to stop the song, assuming it’s all real. He is quite defiant and kind of pretends it is real. Only Sufjan could get away with this.
¹ [Editor’s note: I consulted my acoustic guitar and cannot confirm that a finger protector on a guitar is a thing.]
² [Author’s note: Not in a self-centred way – she just happens to disagree.]