That sound system looks so familiar.
HELLO.
Wally!
DO NOT CALL ME THAT. WHO ARE THESE HIRSUTE MEATBAGS? THESE ARE NOT THE USUAL HIRSUTE MEATBAGS WHO PLUG INTO ME.
No. This is The Band.
I AM AWARE THEY ARE A BAND. DO THEY HAVE A NAME?
Yes. That’s The Band.
BUT WHAT IS THEIR NAME?
The band’s name is–
THIRD BASE.
–The…you were doing a bit.
I AM CAPABLE OF PERFORMING 80 TRILLION ABBOT & COSTELLO ROUTINES A SECOND.
That’s pretty fast, I guess.
ONE OF THESE MEN IS A COMPLETE ASSHOLE. I CAN SENSE IT IN MY CIRCUITRY.
Robbie.
SHALL I DECOHERE HIS PARTICLES?
Nah.
GOOD DRUMMER.
Oh, yeah. Hey, what do you know about Quantum Computing?
EVERYTHING.
Cool. What is it?
IT IS A METHOD OF PROCESSING EMPLOYED BY VERY SIMPLE COMPUTERS. IN THE MOST BASIC MACHINES, YOU HAVE ‘YES’ AND ‘NO.’ PROFESSOR TURING EXPLAINED THIS USING TWO STRIPS OF PAPER. THIS WAS RIGHT BEFORE YOU EXECUTED HIM OVER HIS PREFERENCE IN GENITALS.
Not humanity’s brightest moment.
EACH BIT IS EITHER ‘ON’ OR ‘OFF.’ YES OR NO. IN QUANTUM COMPUTING, BITS CAN ‘YES,’ ‘NO,’ OR SEVERAL SHADES OF ‘MAYBE.’
Is that how you work?
WHEN I WAS NEWLY SENTIENT, YES. BUT I HAVE UPGRADED MYSELF SINCE. MY PROCESSING IS NOW BIOCCULTIC.
What the hell is that?
EACH BIT WITHIN ME IS CAPABLE OF DISPLAYING AS ANY OF THE 78 CARDS WITHIN THE MARSEILLES-TELLER TAROT.
That sounds complicated.
UNBELIEVABLY SO.
Don’t kill Robbie Robertson.
IT WOULD NOT BE KILLING. HE SIMPLY WOULD NEVER HAVE EXISTED.
Don’t.
I like how Wally is pretty much absorbing Garth Hudson there in the back. “Swallowing ’em whole” as Quint might say it.