This puzzle consists of several images and an audio file. The dots next to the images and numbers in the center indicate that we will probably need to connect these images with lines between the dots. We can immediately identify some of these images, but won't have enough information to connect them without the audio file.
The audio is an excerpt from a fictional podcast about conspiracy theories. The podcast has an intro, a long middle section, and an outro, separated by a music stinger. The intro and outro have several clues about what's going on with this puzzle: mentions of the pandemic, unclued anagrams, “mixing diseases around”, “abnormal variants”, “it's all Greek to me”, etc. With these, along with possibly identifying some of the topics in the middle section and identifying some of the images, we can figure out that this puzzle is about phrases that are anagrams of DELTA OMICRON, the two most widely-known Covid-19 variants (and a common subject for modern conspiracy theories).
Each phrase combines two of the images in the puzzle (a left half and a right half, based on the page shapes), and connecting those images with a line will pass through exactly one number. We can notice that the images are sorted in alphabetical order to help us confirm our matches. Indexing into the combined phrase and ordering by their reference in the audio gives the next step:
Left image | Right image | Number | Extract |
---|---|---|---|
DEMOCRAT | LION | 6 | R |
ROMANTIC | DOLE | 12 | E |
DOOM | CLARINET | 5 | C |
MEDIA | CONTROL | 7 | O |
CLIMATE | DONOR | 12 | R |
OLD ROMAN | ICE T | 3 | D |
DOMINO | CARTEL | 8 | A |
CILANTRO | DEMO | 6 | T |
EROTIC | ALMOND | 5 | I |
ICELAND | MOTOR | 12 | R |
DENIM | LOCATOR | 9 | A |
MAD | CLONE TRIO | 3 | D |
OMIT | COLANDER | 11 | E |
Submitting RECORD A TIRADE gives instructions to send teammate a recording of a rant of your own! Upon doing so, we get the answer to this puzzle, KOD SIX MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP.