but you 'd have to wipe the phoner program first to make space for such a highly theoretical second reboot , and jordan 's idea - to hit johnny with the pulse yet again , like lighting a backfire - seemed so spooky , so off-the-wall dangerous , given the fact that clay had no way of knowing what sort of program the pulse had mutated into by now ... assuming ( makes an ass out of you and me , yeah , yeah , yeah ) it was still up and running at all ... `` save to system , '' clay whispered .