"A recording of your future?" Ella just looks at him with a frown because while definitely familiar with the whole podcast thing one (ask Ella about the Wolverine one sometime) it hasn't yet crossed her mind that could be someone's world. She'd missed the whole announcement that Alex had made about having found them, and Ella had been quickly collecting massive amounts of media everywhere she went so she had yet to find herself so desperate as too take that little player thing herself. As such she doesn't know much about Strand other than his skeptic bullshit. Which was a whole thing clearly.

"Did you hear the ending of it though? Like the real ending? Maybe Alex manages to pull it off anyway. I don't know her well, but I think she's pretty scrappy at doing that sort of thing or whatever. Getting him to actually believe." But due to their connection and Ella's knowledge of pop culture, she's able to put at least something together. "So this Warren guy? He's like the bad guy?" It's not really a question and they both know it. No, it's Ella leading into a different follow up question. "What kind of bad guy are we talking? Like Elon Musk or like someone super high up in your parents church? Well, not church but you know what I mean." Considering the way that he'd told her about how his parents were fundamentalist evil in the different way than fundies are normally evil.