[Speaker] You've been here before,
you just don't remember.
But you will.
Eventually.
(light synth music begins)
(suspenseful music)
What these beings are is unclear.
They can both be hostile and passive.
What we do know about the frontrooms though,
is that while everyone seems to have their own frontrooms,
they can sometimes collide.
(suspenseful music continues)
Hey, guys, what's up?
Kyle here again.
Kind of annoyed lately.
All you gaming guys, all we talk about these days
is noclipping.
For Christ's sake, I don't know what noclipping means!
I'm not a gamer, I movie reviewer.
I reviewed movies, not video games!
(suspenseful music continues)
What is the frontrooms?
It's funny,
a couple of years ago I would've been surprised
by such a question.
But now I get it almost daily.
The frontrooms, I can only describe as another dimension.
An exact clone of our own world.
Except one major difference;
only one person exists in each frontroom at a time.
(industrial bass music)
♪ There's a little gray man in a little gray box ♪
♪ Watching little gray numbers on a little gray screen ♪
♪ His little gray soul slips out through his fingers ♪
♪ As he hopes they will earn him a little gray green ♪
♪ A little gray man wants a little gray window ♪
♪ That he can look out with his little gray eyes ♪
♪ So he can remember his little gray numbers ♪
♪ Or little gray people under a little gray skies ♪
♪ There's a little gray woman in a little gray box ♪
♪ Counting little gray cows and a little gray day ♪
♪ Her little gray soul slipping out from her body ♪
♪ With her little gray size and a little gray haze ♪
♪ A little gray woman wants a little gray window ♪
♪ So she can look out at a little gray scene ♪
♪ They're not going to give her that little gray window ♪
♪ It's a long way down, do you know what I mean? ♪
♪ I've got a little gray box (indistinct) ♪
♪ Saddest box that you've ever seen ♪
♪ It's the same little pile of little gray ashes ♪
♪ That they saw in the mirror since they turned 16 ♪
♪ A little gray pile of little gray ashes that we've seen ♪
♪ In the mirror for ♪ (eerie rattling)
♪ (indistinct) days ♪
♪ But that's what the devil calls making a living ♪
♪ It's a little red blood from a gray machine ♪
♪ You're just a little red blood for the gray machine ♪
♪ Just a little red blood for the gray machine ♪
Yeah, I understand, Mark, but you don't understand;
the whole group is coming together,
and we're delivering this all at the same time on Wednesday.
No. No.
The customer's coming in Tuesday, we cannot be late
on Wednesday morning, 8:00 AM.
No, it doesn't matter.
It does not matter.
You don't understand what's riding.
No, I don't care.
You don't understand what's on the line.
The entire company is on this.
Yeah, I have important things in my life too that can't
keep me from this job.
Yeah, family too.
No, Wednesday morning, 8:00 AM, there's no excuses.
No, that's fine, we can meet on Tuesday.
But you have to be here Wednesday morning at 8:00.
(eerie rattling)
Do you understand?
(eerie rattling)
What's that?
Yeah, 8:00 AM is the deadline.
No, we can't move anything.
The entire department's locked up in this.
Yeah, no, I have things that are important too
in my personal life.
But nothing's more important than this.
No.
No, you and I can get together with the department
on Tuesday.
(eerie rattling)
Yeah.
What?
(eerie rattling)
No, Ron has all his stuff done already.
Barbara's stuff is done too - they've already turned it in.
No, the client's coming in from Hawaii, they're already
scheduled and everything and ready to go.
They arrive Tuesday.
That means you and I can get together on Tuesday
if I have to walk you through this,
and make sure you have all your stuff in order.
(eerie rattling) But we are not
missing this deadline Wednesday.
It's, a non-issue.
It's non-negotiable.
I mean, besides your stuff being late,
it cannot go past Tuesday.
(eerie rattling)
The guys in the warehouse too.
I mean, they've been slacking.
Have you seen how they've left it?
The past two weeks have been.
(eerie rattling)
It's really a mess down there.
Well, they're going to take a tour of the whole building.
And Donald knows about this too, if we need to go down there
on Tuesday morning when you get here, that's fine,
we can do that.
Yeah, we got to whip them into shape.
Yeah, no, there's no time.
Well, if you've got a problem there, you need to go to HR.
Don't tell me about it because I can't do anything.
(eerie rattling)
Yeah, that's fine, that's fine.
But let's not change the subject.
Let's not stop talking about next week.
(eerie rattling)
Right, Wednesday.
Right.
Okay.
Yeah, well, the whole department's up in arms
'cause they're coming in.
Yeah, they're going to be here.
You and I can go over everything on Tuesday.
Tuesday morning, you and I meet.
Actually, let's meet at 7:30 just to make sure.
In case you're going to be late or something,
I don't want to be waiting around, so 7:30.
We'll start in the warehouse, we'll see what those guys
are up to, what they're messing up.
And then you and I can talk about your account.
All right?
Make sure everything's in order on Tuesday.
If Steve and those guys are messing up, I'm going to need
talk with them also.
(eerie rattling)
Yeah, I don't know what's wrong with those guys.
If it becomes a bigger problem, we're going to really
have to handle it now.
No, I don't care.
If Jacobs comes in there and he wants to deal with it,
then I'll deal with him.
Alright?
You make sure they know that.
That warehouse is a disaster.
Okay?
Yeah, next week everything is on the line with this company.
Our department, first and foremost is going to get the ax.
Well, luckily it's almost done.
Yeah, I'm almost wrapped up here.
Yeah, I know.
I know, but we got to pull this together.
I told you
and I told your guys.
This is silly we're having to go through this again
and again and again.
There's things I'd rather be doing on a Friday night too.
Yeah, I spoke with him.
Yeah, I think he's got it figured out now,
if not, we've really got a problem.
Yeah, I was down there.
I came in first.
I came in through the warehouse, the alarm wasn't even on.
No.
Alan, Jimmy, I don't know who did it.
Probably Charlie.
Yeah.
He's in charge down there, at least he's supposed to be.
Yeah, if he's leaving early or something, we're going to
really have a problem.
I'm going to have to check the cameras.
'Cause I kind of don't trust him
to be honest.
Yeah.
Right.
I think for the most part we got it figured out.
Yeah, I don't want to go to HR with it now - it's too soon.
It could really blow up in our faces.
We've got to handle this.
I think it's got to be internally from our department.
And if it becomes something bigger than that,
I can take the blame for it, and I think we'll be okay.
All right?
Yeah, those guys keep screwing up.
I don't know what's going on with them.
Yeah.
Well, they all know better.
They all know better, they were trained.
No, all those new guys are leaving that back patio a mess.
The forklift is out there, keys are in it.
I saw it the other day.
Yeah, it's a mess.
It's a mess.
Next week everything's riding on this, all right?
Yeah.
Alright.
I trust you.
Alright, I got to go, I got to get out of here.
Alright.
Alright, later.
(cards clattering)
This basically means that there is an infinite number
of frontrooms.
Everyone has their own frontrooms.
It is essentially a prison for them.
Whether or not they are real or simply us
locked within our own brains is under debate.
And though they're alone there, there have been reports
of strange beings seen within.
Well, reports from those who have somehow managed to escape
their dimension.
(crickets chirping)
What's the deal?
What's going on here?
What the hell?
There's no front door?
There's no front door.
What?
There's no front door now?
Where's the front door?
What the hell? There's no door!
Is this not the front door?
There's supposed to be a front door.
Did I take a wrong turn?
This is the front - it's the waiting room.
The waiting room has a front door, there's no front door.
What is this?
What is going on?
There's just no front door now.
There's no front door.
What the hell's going on?
What?
Hi, this is Francis Erdman, your favorite podcaster here.
Today, we are talking about the notion of frontrooms.
This is another dimension that people can sort of
noclip into, similar to a video game.
And this dimension is similar to our own world,
except in that world, you are alone.
So for example, somebody could be at work,
and then they noclip into this other dimension
and they're still at work, except there's nobody else
in that office building.
It's sort of a copy of their office building
or wherever they were originally, except
they're the only ones there.
Interested to hear your thoughts on this.
What do you think causes this?
What do you think can allow people to get back
into our own world?
Personally, I think it's probably baloney,
but what do I know?
It could be an electromagnetic anomaly.
Quantum physics allows electrons to pop in and out
of existence in a situation with a high magnetic field.
Maybe if you get too close to a lightning bolt,
you go into this other dimension.
So to get back to our own world, you need to get close
to another lightning bolt.
But what do I know?
Interested to hear your thoughts.
(cards clattering)
Maintenance?
Who is this?
Hey, John, hey, is Freddy there?
He's on the third floor?
Hey, maybe you know, do you know, was there any
major construction going on today?
Does Freddy not have a phone or something?
I'd like to speak with him as soon as I could.
Yeah, he's going to have an answer to my question.
I'm confused about something.
Do you know if there's been any construction going on?
I got a weird problem.
Yeah, I went down into the lobby and there's no front door.
No, it's not broken.
There's just not one there.
Yeah, no, I turned around
and I tried to go outside, and there's no door.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, yeah, there's no door.
Do you know, was there some kind of construction going on?
Some kind of maintenance project?
No, it literally isn't there.
No.
All glass,
chairs,
lights are on,
no door.
No door. Not broken, just absolutely no door.
I know you just got on, you just clocked in.
No, Freddy's been here since noon.
I know it's the end of his day,
but if anything weird's going on, he'd know about it.
Alright.
Well, can you give me his number, I can call him directly?
That would help, yeah.
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out why there's.
Right, right.
Yeah, there's literally no door.
Not there anymore.
I mean, where are we going to start using the south side
entrance or something?
You don't know?
Yeah, I can't figure all that.
(man mumbling)
I went up to the door, and it's not there.
It's all glass from top to bottom.
Top to bottom, side to side, (indistinct) no door.
Do you know anything about these new hires?
Yeah.
Well, Freddy's on the third floor,
I'm sure he's (indistinct).
Yeah. Yeah.
Freddy! Hey!
Yeah, it's William on the second floor.
Did something happen with the front door?
The front door.
Yeah.
I went down there to get out and the door's not there.
It's just a glass wall.
Do you know something?
(phone ringing)
Hello?
Freddy?
(William groans)
Freddy?
(William groaning)
Freddy?
(William groaning) What was that?
Freddy?
God.
Freddy?
Hello?
Can you hear me? Hello?
What's going on?
What the hell is going on?
It's bricked.
My phone is bricked?
What is going on?
[Speaker] There's no way out of here.
(cards clattering)
(suspenseful music)
(distant growling)
(creature roaring)
Oh, shit.
(eerie bubbling)
(bubbling continues)
(creature roars)
(phone ringing)
Freddy?
Hello?
Freddy?
Freddy, is that you?
Can you hear me?
Freddy?
Hello?
Hello? Freddy, can you hear me?
Freddy, hello?
Freddy, is that you?
Hello?
Freddy?
Can you hear me? Hello?
Can you hear me, Freddy?
Freddy?
Can you hear me? Hello?
(surprising music)
What the fuck is this?
Where's the fucking door?
What the fuck is this?
[Speaker] There is a way out.
Where's the door?
Where's the fucking door?
Where's the fucking door?!
What the fuck?!
Where's the fucking door?
What the fuck?!
What the fuck is going on?
Where's the fucking door?
Where is this fucking door?
The fuck is going on?
Where's the fucking door?
What the fuck?!
What the fuck is going on?
What the fuck?!
What these beings are is unclear.
They can both be hostile and passive.
What we do know about the frontrooms though,
is that while everyone seems to have their own frontrooms,
they can sometimes collide.
You can find others in your dimension.
Why this happens and how, it's not yet understood.
Where is the door?
Where the fuck is the door?
What the fuck?!
What the fuck is going on?
There was a door.
Now there's no fucking door.
No fucking door.
What the fuck?
What the fuck is going on?
I'm fucking trapped.
I'm trapped. There's no door.
There's no fucking door anymore.
There's nobody out there.
There's nobody here.
There's no fucking door.
No fucking door.
There's no fucking door.
What the fuck?!
The fucking is going on?
There was a door, now there's no fucking door.
So there's no door.
(light clicks)
Hello?
(creature roars)
(William groaning)
What? What the fuck?
What was that? (eerie whirring)
What the fuck?
What was that?
Who's here?
Hello?
What the?
Ow, fuck!
Oh my god!
What the fuck?
Who's here?
Hello?
Freddy! (creature growling)
Freddy, it's William, I'm in here!
Freddy, is that you?
Hello?
Freddy!
Hello, who's in here?
Fuck!
Freddy?
Who's in here?
Hello?
Freddy.
I'm hurt.
Is someone in here?
Hello, Freddy?
What was that?
Was that a claw?
Something scratched me.
Freddy, I need help!
Freddy!
Freddy, are you there?
Anybody.
I'm hurt.
Freddy?
Hello?
Freddy, are you in here?
Hello?
Anybody?
Hello?
(William panting)
Freddy?
What the fuck?
Something cut me.
What the fuck?
(water spraying) (William groaning)
I don't get it.
Something cut me.
Something cut me, I felt it.
I saw it.
Something cut me.
Something cut me!
Something attacked me. Something cut me.
Something scratched me or cut me - I felt it.
I felt it!
Something scratched me.
Something cut me, I felt it.
(door creaking)
No door.
There's no way.
(cards clattering)
(creature roaring)
What the fuck?
(creature roaring)
Fuck.
(creature roaring)
(door slams)
(door thudding)
Somebody holding this?
(William grunting)
(surprising music)
(door clicking)
(William grunting)
(door thudding)
What the fuck?
What? What?
(creature roaring) (William groaning)
Oh fuck!
(William groaning)
Oh my god!
Again?
What the fuck is this?
Fuck!
Oh my god.
It's in here.
Is it in here?
Fuck.
What?
(William groaning)
With these collisions, you can meet others
in your frontroom.
But whether it is still your frontroom at that point,
or the other person's frontroom,
or a whole new frontroom is still unclear.
But what we do know is when frontrooms collide,
bad things happen.
Now, whilst experiences in one person's frontroom
seem to parallel another's,
when these frontrooms do collide, everything changes,
becomes unique,
and always,
always become more dangerous.
(William panting)
Freddy?
Freddy, are you there?
I need help.
Freddy.
There's no doors.
There's no doors anywhere.
I need help, Freddy!
Freddy?
Are you there?
I need help.
I'm cut. My hand's hurt.
Freddy!
Help!
Freddy, I need help!
(William groaning)
Freddy.
Freddy?
(William screaming)
[Kyle] I review movies, not video games!
(crickets chirping)
(creature growling)
(eerie rattling)
(horror music)
(eerie chattering)
(eerie whistling echoing)
(crickets chirping)
(sparse piano music)
(keys jangling)
[Speaker] You're back.
You never left.
Where do you think you went?
Please, help me get out of this place.
Is that a camera?
Help. Help me.
I don't even know where I am anymore.
I don't know where anybody is.
I'm not even sure how long I've been here.
But if anyone's watching this, please, come help me.
I'm more terrified than I ever have been.
[Speaker] You're back.
You never left.
Where do you think you went?
What?
What the hell?
What's going on?
What?
What's going on?
(cards clattering)
A lucky few have managed to escape.
But how many have not?
We don't know.
And how some have escaped is as much a mystery.
People noclip into the frontrooms randomly,
and then noclip out.
There's no trigger we've been able to discover,
no connecting thread that explains or can aid
the unlucky ones.
The only suggestion that's out there is to stay quiet,
stay hidden, and stay alive.
Avoid the strange creatures there.
If frontrooms collide, and it's especially more true,
is they become even more dangerous.
The only escape is time.
A lucky few have managed to escape.
But how many have not?
We don't know.
And how some have escaped is as much a mystery.
People noclip into the frontrooms randomly
and then noclip out.
There's no trigger we've been able to discover,
no connecting thread that explains or can aid
the unlucky ones.
The only suggestion that's an out there is to stay quiet,
stay hidden, and stay alive.
Avoid the strange creatures there.
If frontrooms collide, and it's especially more true,
they become even more dangerous.
The only escape is time.
Hello?
Freddy?
(light clicks)
No.
What's going on?
No.
Not again.
No!
What the fuck is going on?
No.
(creature growling)
(surprising music)
(William yelling) (creature roaring)
(suspenseful music)
(cards clattering)
(hard rock music)
(electronic synth music)
(suspenseful music)
(credits bang)