Maurice invited Maurice over for an Oklahoma dinner, ESPN, and "a hot game of 42". 42 is like a card game but played with dominoes. It is immensely popular in Texas, and just popular in Oklahoma. The game was invented to get around Protestant objections to card games.
Chris, electricity, and a glowing pickle. That is a real thing. Using a variac power supply to convert AC to DC and pumping that through a pickle causes the sodium ions in the pickle to emit an orange yellow light. This is called 'sodium D line emission'. Caution: touching the electric pickle can get you dead; also, electrocuted pickles smell really really bad. Never do this in a small, poorly ventilated room.
The plane is finally going to take off. Maggie, "To St. Petersburg." Joel, "To the Finland Station." St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky is the city's main railway station for travel to or from Europe. In 1917 Vladimir Lenin famously arrived there, from exile, to start the communist revolution.