Name: Why hold up a black placard?
Uploaded: 2026-01-09T17:12:59.000Z
Duration: 7 min 15 s
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Emily walks around outside a window holding up a black placard.

Meanwhile, Edward bounces on a long wooden pole.

Stated again, Emily walks around outside of a window holding up a black placard.

I gave up trying to write that down as I heard it and have instead sketched a terrible diagram of what I think is happening.

Cause I'm trying to figure out the setting.

Like, it could be a house, it could be an office building.

When I heard bounces up and down on a pole, I pictured some sort of jungle gym kind of scenario, which I guess if there's a playhouse, it could have a window.

But I'm also trying to think, what wooden pole would you jump up and down on?

Is this just a very lateral over explanation of something that we all know and are really familiar with?

And you can't, like, stand on, like, a long wooden pole because that would be impossible and uncomfortable.

But it could be, like, horizontal and used as a lever.

He could be bouncing on that in order to move something else.

Oh, he is connected via a string to the pole.

We got a smile from Evan and a point when it was like, okay, he's moving something.

I wonder if we're on, like, a construction site or something.

And is he using some sort of, like, simple mechanism to, like, move a heavy object?

Or they are doing this to warn people or to.

I'm also trying to think about the black square.

I'll describe what a placard is just because I think the placard is maybe Not a term used a lot for the US Maybe.

But it's just a thick piece of black card on the stick.

So I know, like, in 2020, with all the protests, a lot of people were doing, like, black square Instagram photos.

Was this a protest and the black square was related?

And we also don't have any date for this.

Emily and Edward are working together on something.

She's not expressing something with the sign.

Is she perhaps shading Edward from something?

Is it to do with, like, shade, or does she need that?

Is it something to do with, like, an eclipse or something?

Like a filming or photography set and she's trying to, like, reduce light on something outside this window?

There's filming going on inside of a house.

Trying to fake it being nighttime instead of daytime.

Cause she's walking about with the pole, right?

And something is being moved by the guy jumping.

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