Midnight Pals: Corporate Body

RA Busby: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the corporate body
Busby: so this guy volunteers for a drug study
Busby: run by a not-at-all shady corporation
Busby: called drugco
Busby: that's just a placeholder name, i'll probably go back and change it

Busby: this guy needs money
Busby: cuz time are tough, you know
Busby: with the economy
Busby: and covid
Busby: that modern millenial experience
Busby: you kids know

Busby: so they try a new experimental surgery on him
Busby: The first phase is hallucinogenic
Busby: the second phase is glandular
Busby: and the third phase is
Busby: BODY MELT!!

Busby: so they put a big gooey thing inside him
Busby: using a giant ovipositor
Busby: you know, just shoving it up in there
Busby: right in there
Busby: good and deep
Clive Barker: yes yes good

Busby: now he's got these big gross bubules growing all over him
Barker: haha gross haha
Busby: yeah they're pretty gross haha
Busby: they're like
Busby: like joyce carol oates' foot gross

Busby: man have you ever thought about being pregnant
Busby: it's pretty fucked up
Busby: first, you gotta have this thing inside you right?
Busby: and then
Busby: what if the baby is weird?

Poe: what do you mean "weird?"
Busby: you know, like weird
Busby: like what if the baby has bad vibes
Busby: or it could be like a monster
Busby: could be a worm

Busby: so now this guy is pregnant with worms
Busby: you ever think about being pregnant
Busby: with worms?
Eric LaRocca: oh yeah yeah all the time

LaRocca: check it out, here's a photo of my worm baby
Busby: he's lovely
Busby: he has your clitellum

LaRocca: yeah we have a little playgroup
LaRocca: you know, me and the other worm dads
David Cronenberg: its good for our worm babies to get enrichment
Barker: i would die for my worm baby
Barker: i would kill for my worm baby

Poe: oh yeah that whole worm baby thing
Poe: i forgot that was a running gag for a while
Poe: great time to bring it back
Poe: people will definitely remember
Barker: well we already brought back joyce carol oates' foot so