A listener returns to the show and pulls a fiber out of a factory-sealed package. Science pulls a “consistent with” out of its ass. Only one of those folks is being honest.

Also, Crystal's baaack, and I'm open the only sane way: with Ren calling in at 9:30am holding a mystery fiber and the question every exiled patient eventually screams into the void. No diagnosis, no PhD cosplay — just two hella sexy middle-aged hotties who actually have this thing ... proving that you can have morgs and a life. But part of that life requires people practice. I know, you might be out of practice, but maybe today you pick up the phone, go for the walk, say something to a stranger. That helps this more than anything, so CC says. Thus, Healing first. Receipts second.

Then Crystal sharpens the knives. Thirty years, six continents, identical symptom, zero shared telephone game — and somehow the verdict was “mass hysteria”? Bestie, hysteria needs a group chat. We put the CDC’s “unexplained dermopathy” under the lamp, where “consistent with cotton” turns out to be the lab-coat version of a suppressed fart, and the raw spectra that’d settle the mystery for some reason mysteriously never got published. And our physical fibers under intact skin sits there being rude and real while everyone calls it a belief we have or a feeling. Bruh, it's a photograph.

We don’t claim to know the cause. We claim somebody got handed an object, refused to name it, and then billed us, defamed us and exiled us for the audacity of asking.

“Consistent with cotton. It’s consistent with cowardice.” -C.C.

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