PRESBY: So what?
FINCH: So it matters!
PRESBY: It matters?
FINCH: It matters enough, I mean it’s not the whole issue.
PRESBY: Well how much?
FINCH: How much what?
PRESBY: In percentages how much?
FINCH: Well okay fine, so you have a sub right?
PRESBY: Yes.
FINCH: Good, on this sub you gots your meats and cheeses. These things are bases.
PRESBY: Bases?
FINCH: Yes! Bases, they keep a good base taste for the condiments.
PRESBY: Alright, bases.
FINCH: Then you got your mayonnaise. Now a fool believes the mayo makes the sandwich; the one in the know can tell the mustard matters more. The mustard, see? The mustard is sour enough to balance the mayonnaise. It allows a diverse level of hodgepodge you can’t get with just mayo.
PRESBY: Okay I see, counterpoint. Is there a chance you like mustard for its danger element? I mean you miss a bite or you take too much and mustard just ruins your uniform.
FINCH: Why would you assume I’d mess up a sandwich? I’m a grown man I can handle some danger.
PRESBY: That’s why you chose accounting?
FINCH: Low blow mr.propaganda.
PRESBY: Hey! I spent two years fighting Woolters.
FINCH: In which you didn’t fire your gun once, that wasn’t training.
PRESBY: Well what can I say? At least I gave the enemy a chance to shoot me.
FINCH: Hey a real hero, speaking of heroes. Did you see they got that rebel camp down in the South District?
PRESBY: Yeah thirteen captured crazy stuff, Isaiah’s jumping with joy right now. Honestly I don’t see why, if anything our weekends are shot with all the material we’re gonna have to spin. I mean one of the guys shot a woman! Shameful.
FINCH: I don’t know, you turned that train crash into a positive issue for the country.
PRESBY: Well that train didn’t burn down a ballroom and shoot a woman. Anyway it doesn’t matter, we’re probably gonna bury it. We have some foreign media we’re gonna introduce. It has some drug use so that should feed the newsboys for a bit.
FINCH: Weird huh? What it takes to manage a population. It’s hard to put it in words. It just feels off.
PRESBY: Lying, I do the lying and you fund it. If the average person knew what we buried, spun, exaggerated, I mean they’d riot.
FINCH: Well what can you do? If it wasn’t us someone else would take the role. I’d rather be on the other side of the progergander than the propagandized.
PRESBY: Save the big words for me Presby. Before I forget the lady is making sweaters for everyone for Christmas and she needs all your guy’s measurements.
FINCH: Alright I’ll get all that to you tomorrow. I don’t know though with all this sub talk she might want to add a couple more threads to mine.
PRESBY: I’ll see you at closing time, Finch. I gotta get to this meeting. See you later.
FINCH: See ya.