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YOU VS: The Attic · Moey's Laboratory of Extraordinary Stories

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_03: It's so hard for me to speak quietly.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_03: You versus everybody.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_03: You versus everybody.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, it's Moe.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_03: And welcome to You versus Everybody.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_03: I waited until the last minute to record this, and so everyone I live with is currently here a wall over and it's freaking me out and I don't want them to hear me record this.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_03: So sorry, you're getting quiet, Moe, today, okay?
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_03: This is a show where everything starts with a prompt and ends in a story.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_03: So today is a you versus episode.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_03: Last episode, I made a new rule that we'd pull out a you versus episode, which is our competition episodes, whenever one of our prompts get four responses.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_03: Well, we kind of have four responses today, and I'm so excited.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_03: Four people took the same opening and wrote what happens next.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_03: We've brought their endings to life with voice actors and music.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_03: You get to listen and you get to vote for your favorite.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_03: Fun fact: a lot of today's endings came from TikTok comments.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_03: Those comments were actually the inspiration for this whole podcast.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_03: So I wanted to air them out here, give them some flair, and let you vote on your favorite regardless of length.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, before we move on to today's episode, I have very cool news for you, which is unfortunate that you're getting quiet, Moe, right now, because I want to yell this from the rooftops.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_03: We finally received some votes for episode two.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, I did say it was a practice round, but let's give credit where it's due.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_03: Drum roll, please.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_03: And the winner of you versus the rear view mirror is Matt S!
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: Matt S.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's Matt S.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Matt S.
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  SPEAKER_03: Congratulations, Matt S.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'll post your story on social media and you get to tell everyone that you're a literary wizard.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_03: I hope to hear more of your writing.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yay! Okay, back to today's episode.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_03: Quick heads up.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_03: This prompt leans spooky and dark.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_03: So today's prompt responses touch on death and setting shit on fire.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_03: If that's not your thing, sit this one out and come hang out next week.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, today's prompt is called The Attic.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_03: And I feel like we've been talking about this since the trailer of this show.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm really excited to finally put this one out there.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_03: And thank you to Bemo from Vermont who voiced this prompt like a month ago, and we've been able to continue using his voice memo.
• 2:28
  unknown: Fuck it.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: It's the third night in a row that I've heard this weird sound.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's coming from the attic.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_01: The attic I haven't stepped in for two years, three months, and five days.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_03: This first ending is brought to you by At Frying Pan from TikTok.
• 2:44
  unknown: Fuck.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_02: It's the third night in a row I've heard this weird sound.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's coming from the attic.
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  SPEAKER_02: The attic I haven't stepped in for two years, three months, and five days.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_02: The light is on, the door is warm, but I don't open it.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_02: After all, if they knew I was down here, they would have to call the police.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god, I absolutely loved this comment.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_03: I know these are like small hooks, but I was just surprised at how much I wanted more.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_03: So bravo to these hooks.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, here's another hook.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_03: Up next, at spice underscore bloodstains from TikTok.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_02: Fuck.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_02: Third night in a row that I've heard this weird sound.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's coming from the attic.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_02: The attic I haven't stepped in for two years, three months, and five days.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_02: That might sound like a very suspicious number, but I have a good reason to remember it.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_02: It was the day I died after all.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_03: The intent of this maybe was darker than expected, but for some reason, when the voice actor sent me his reading, I decided to take it a totally different way.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_03: This sounds like a 90s sitcom about a ghost, and I really want to watch it because who wouldn't love a 90s sitcom about a ghost?
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_03: Our third prompt response comes from at unwilling underscore citizen underscore of underscore the underscore US from TikTok.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_02: Fuck.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_02: It's the third night in a row I've heard this weird sound.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's coming from the attic.
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  SPEAKER_02: The attic I haven't stepped in for two years, three months, and five days.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: Come back to me, darling.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_02: I catch myself grasping the key to that wretched door and have to remind myself that it isn't her.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_02: Not anymore.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_03: And I was super excited to have a little mini collaboration between our voice actors on this one, so thanks, y'all.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_03: Our fourth and final ending comes from Madra underscore Magwai.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_03: I hope I'm saying that right.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_03: Here we go.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: I only count to try to create space between myself and what happened.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: Every time I let my guard down, I'm stricken with the memory so strongly it might as well have happened just a second ago.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: Again.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's impossible to spend my energy or attention anywhere else.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: Again.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm only counting as an anchor point.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'd tell you the minutes, but then I'd lose track.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: And again.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: The noise settled for a while.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: Long enough that I created the false hope.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: Again.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I could stay here.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: Again.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: What a fool.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_00: Again, I've been.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_00: The tempo and intensity increase, and any shreds of focus are gone.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's here.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's all around me.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: My stomach is flipping and I'm choking on the breath stopped in my throat.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: I feel as if I were in the attic now, as the kitchen lights glare into my eyes.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: When I stepped into the attic two years ago, three months, five days, seven minutes, and eight.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: No, nine seconds ago.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: I was changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel now like I did then.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_00: No more denial then.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: Chair legs scraping along the same old scratches in linoleum run vibrations violently up my spine, lifting every hair along my body as it traveled to my crown.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_00: What a fool.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_00: Again, I am.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_00: As I turn the knobs on the stove, I almost feel a chuckle break through my heavy lips.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: Pasted together grimly.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: As I pass through the kitchen door, I grab a lighter from the catch tray on the other side.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: It scrapes lightly along the stairs.
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  SPEAKER_00: My accompaniment monotone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Unwavering.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'm done counting.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_03: That was a really cool motif, the counting motif that came like as inspiration from the prompt.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_03: I'm so excited to hear what prospective writers do with these prompts.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_03: So thank you all for submitting a response.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_03: That's all four of our endings.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_03: Go to you versus everybody.com and vote for your favorite by Sunday night, October 18th.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_03: That's y-o-u-v-severybody.com.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_03: And if you want to tell me why or react to a story or add on to a story, call the hotline at 802-308-3131.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_03: I'll share the voting results next week.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_03: And by the way, next episode, we'll zoom back out to my awkward journey as a sound designer, attempting to be a charismatic journalist, and finding stories out in the wild as we get this podcast off the ground and wait for our prompts to get more action.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_03: I will be bringing you, my microphone, a dinky plastic table, and an empty chair to Lake Champlain to find more stories for the podcast.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_03: So wish me luck.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_03: Today's stories were narrated by Dustin Foos, who's working on getting a portfolio together, and Faye, who you can follow on Instagram at pure.fee, and Linktree slash pure Faye.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_03: I think you'll definitely be hearing more from these two voice actors.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_03: And thank you, thank you, thank you, Dustin and Faye, for continuing to give me your wonderful voices in all of my crazy side projects.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_03: Episode production and sound design by Morgan Foos.
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  SPEAKER_03: If you want to participate, respond to some prompts, be a voice actor for the show, or want to reach out for any reason, go to YOU VS Everybody dot com.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, bye-bye.