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My Sugar Daddy Asks Me For Weird Favors · INSPIRE STORY

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to a podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Today, we are doing an author grab bag from user
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  E A p A tbp A KA Gabby on our
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  slash No Sleep. She has the most popular story, most
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  upvoted story on our slash No Sleep, and we it
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  finally is coming around. Also the title of it, my
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  sugar Daddy asked me for weird favors. I love how
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  that's the most up voted story, which makes sense. Yeah,
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  but the titles here on some on her most popular
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  stories are just fucking awesome. My sugar Daddy asked me
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  for weird favors. We're reading. Every month a parade would
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  pass through my hometown, but we were never allowed to
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  look at it.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: And then lastly, there's a man who follows me around
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  and narrates my life. And he started to say some
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  unsettling thing I love, And you know that I love
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  you know that. I know that you know that I
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  love stories like this that have.
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  Speaker 1: That nice kick of the nuts title.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Just something immediately like ooh, hello,
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  I'm windows shopping already, I'm sneaking. My hands are pressed
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  against the glass, and I'm like, hello, what's in there?
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  I'd love to read what you have.
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  Speaker 4: And also like, you know, we gotta read this one.
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  We read so many no Sleep stories. And if you
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  go to no Sleep and sort by top and of
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  all time, your number one is my sugar Daddy asks
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  for weird favors like that sounds like a Hunter formula
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  if I've ever heard one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh baby, I love I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love the idea too, of because I feel like
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  this could also just be a regular Reddit post and
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  it would still be just as horrifying. So I'm really
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  curious to see, like, does it slip into the paranormal,
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  does it slip into like, you know, all these like
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  other kind of like non normal conventions, or is it
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  just going to be a really sleazy man either or
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  it's going to be disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: And I love that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited it's going to be brutal. Whatever it is,
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  I'm certainly excited for it too. So you can check
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  out the author EA peaked EEP. I feel like there's
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  an easier way to say this. I can't figure out
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  EP had a big e A P A T be P.
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  Their link will be in the description. They seem to
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  be kind of No Sleep Royalty because everything they post
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  like blows up, gets a ton of up votes, so
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  hopefully this is cool.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like.
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  Speaker 2: They have like a really dedicated fan base on ur
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  slash No Sleep, which is pretty sick. I mean, even
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  stuff that's come out this year, thousands of votes, which
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  you know, we're past the I would say, the heyday
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  of our slash No Sleep. So to still get that
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  kind of engagements really cool, and I think that it
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  just goes to show that there is some kind of
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  reader base that is there with them. So as always
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  where we have the link of the description, not only
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  of the YouTube video but the online like Spotify, Apple podcast,
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  wherever you're listening is we will be having some kind
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  of link to make sure you get that engagement there
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  and go support the reader or the authors because they
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  are the lifeblood of the show.
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  Speaker 4: They are they are and they are They're the only
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  reason this train keeps sticking.
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  Speaker 1: And also, I mean, it's cool work, so always support
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  cool work. Now listen to this hunter.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't realize this until we started looking at the
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  top of all time on No Sleep. Okay, so first
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  place is this one, the Sugar Diddy one right right.
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  Second place is my wife has been peeking at me
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  from around Corners Classic on that one. Third is something
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  walks whistling past my house every night. Done that one,
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  we haven't done the fourth one she sold my happiness
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  and glass jars.
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  Speaker 1: Or she sold happiness in class jars.
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  Speaker 2: That's you know, I immediately thought of that meme where
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  it's like you put the figurine in the glass jar
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  and you fill it with with grum.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we haven't done that one. I'm just gonna
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  ignore what you've said. We haven't done that one. The
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  fifth one is called a Shattered Life, but it's by User.
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  I'm pretty sure we've read one of his stories M
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  fifty nine gar. But then after that, six is my
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  job is watching a woman trapped in a room? Seven
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  is I'm a search and rescue officer for the US
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  four Service, which is the stairs in the woods. We
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  need to and I want to put this out. We've
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  covered a lot of the top one. Eight is the
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  Glenn Moont Metro.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we've covered quite a bit of him. Then,
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  which this is the first time I think we've ever
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  actually gone to like our slash no sleeping, Like what
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  is the top story we were talking about that today
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  we found this one. We were looking through her profile.
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  All of the names of the stories are fucking awesome.
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  She's like super active in the storytelling community. I think
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  that's great. And we were talking about this before too.
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  We have got to redo Stairs in the Woods in
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  the way that we do it now.
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  Speaker 4: Like the first episode of the show, it was just
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  kind of talking about the story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was more so us just being like, then
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  this happens, instead of just reading it and reacting to it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we thought at the.
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  Speaker 4: Time, We're like, surely no one's gonna sit down listen
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  to us read an entire story.
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  Speaker 2: That I was like, people are gonna think this is
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  so boring, And then that became the thing that people
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  wanted more than anything. So that is one story I
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  would love to uh read, get like a proper reading.
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  Speaker 1: I think that should be our two year anniversary.
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  Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, I mean we're coming up on it
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  here in you know, four or five months or so.
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  Speaker 4: And there's a lot of other parts to the series now,
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  so we could cover the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I also know the author.
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  Speaker 4: We work together in a bunch of projects, so I'm
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  sure they would they'd be happy for it. I can
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  figure out specifically like how many parts we should read,
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  or like what would be canon, what isn't canon?
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  Speaker 1: Stuff like that. So I think that'd be a good
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  two year anniversary.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. But as always, guys, be
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  sure to check out e A p a tbp on
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  Reddit for all the new stories that she posts. Also,
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  we will leave links and stories to these specific stories,
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  but feel free to just redirect and check out their
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  whole catalog because they are very active and it's pretty sick.
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  I think that's awesome. But without further ado, why don't
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  we start off.
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  Speaker 5: With the top rated, top up.
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  Speaker 2: Voted story on our slash No Sleep. My sugar daddy
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  asked me for weird favors.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into it.
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  Speaker 4: We love you all, appreciate you guys very much. Well,
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  without further ado, let's go ahead and get into it.
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  My sugar daddy asks me for weird favors.
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  Speaker 2: Me, sugar Daddy asked me for weird fivores.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know how to feel about that accent.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like it either.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: His tender profile said he was forty five, but he
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  looked to be in his early thirties at most. Looking
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  for a sugar baby seven hundred dollars a weekly, no sex.
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  Oh that's so funny, Hunter, that's the same thing that, uh,
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  you know, I saw when you first messaged me.
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  Speaker 2: God, talk about an unbelievable deal. A sugar a sugar baby,
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  seven hundred dollars weekly and no and no scrum, no grum,
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  no scrum.
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  Speaker 1: How great is that you would do it in a heartbeat?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, oh God, instantaneously I'd be like, I'd
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  even do a little grum, a little scrumble over rum.
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  I be your little barticle on the bottom of your boat.
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  Why not scrape me off?
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  Speaker 4: Daddy even not even want to picture what that what
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  that act would translate into what the barnacle might mean.
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  Speaker 1: We're just gonna keep sticky and I'm spread out and
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  I'm stuck. Okay, joke, okay, okay, all right, all right.
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  Speaker 4: The part I was mostly making fun of you four
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  was the part where it says you're actually forty five,
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  but you look in your early thirties, so oh good, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I am a youthful man for my age.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, sounded too good to be true. But as
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  a broken university student broken not bro broke, broke, I just.
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  Speaker 1: I can't do it anymore.
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  Speaker 4: It's sounded too good to be true, but as a
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  broke university student, I was willing to take my chances.
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  Speaker 1: Swiped right and tender let me know it was a match.
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  His message came seconds later, Hey, this sweetheart. I cringed
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  at that word.
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  Speaker 4: I hated it, but seven hundred dollars was seven hundred dollars,
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  so I sucked it up and replied, Hey, his name
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  was Jack, and he told me he owned his own business,
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  although he never specified what kind of business it was.
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  We talked for a while all before he asked for
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  my VENMO send me the first pavement. After a few minutes,
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  I got the notification. I stared at the seven hundred
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  dollars for at least twenty minutes, expecting to wake up
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  from a dream at any second.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't a dream.
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  Speaker 2: You're still there. I clicked on the message, Yeah, sorry,
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  if you don't mind me asking what are you looking for?
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  In return?
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  Speaker 1: Stared at the chat until he replied.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just looking for you to do a few favors
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  for me.
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  Speaker 1: It sounded like it was going to be sexual to me.
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  Speaker 2: Like, what, for example, the first thing I need to
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  do is pick up a delivery for me.
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  Speaker 4: That sounded innocent enough, but I was still expecting there
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  to be some kind of twist. Seven hundred dollars to
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  pick up a package. Come on, even I wasn't that
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  naive from the.
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  Speaker 2: Post office or something. No, I'll send you the address.
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  I'd rather not do this or tender you got Kick? Well,
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  can he give me a number?
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  Speaker 1: Kick? What is this? Twenty eleven?
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  Speaker 4: I decided to give him my number instead, and he
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  texted me the address immediately. By the address to his house,
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  where I would have to drop off the package.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not home right now, but there's a key on
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  the bottom of the blue flower pot near the door.
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  Go inside and put the package on the coffee table
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  in the in the living room. Make sure that you
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  lock the door when you go inside the house, and
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  then lock it again when you leave.
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  Speaker 4: I would immediately assume I was going to be kidnapped
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  and murdered.
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  Speaker 2: Murder, of course, almost questionantaneously, I'd be like, no, sir,
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  but I'd keep the seven hundred. I'd say no, but thank.
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  Speaker 4: You, thank you to get some every time.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Daddy, is what i'd say, just like that.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like this is how you approached women before.
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  This just feels fitting.
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  Speaker 2: I called women, daddy, Thank you daddy.
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  Speaker 1: Well that too, that too as well, but mostly the
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  like that's going to be a package pot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the classic blue flower pot. My
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  car keys wallet, and got in my car, put in
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  the address in a Google Maps, got it on my way.
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  My phone buzzed as I backed out of the driveway.
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  Speaker 2: I'm serious, locked the door both times. Please.
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  Speaker 4: I thought that was a little excessive, but I promised
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  him that I would the house looked abandon, had a
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  broken chain link fence around it, with a small door
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  that was hanging onto deer life stuck out like a
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  sore thumb, trying to buy houses that were a lot
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  nicer than this one.
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  Speaker 2: In comparison, you have inject shit.
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  Speaker 4: I looked up to see a man standing in the
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  open doorway of the house. He took up almost the
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  entire space, his head skimming the top of the doorframe.
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  He was huge in height and muscles. His entire torso
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  was covered in tattoos.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: I replied, not moving from my spot on the sidewalk.
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  Speaker 2: Stay right there.
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  Speaker 1: I did. Actually, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Think I would have moved if he had asked me to.
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  Looked around and realized that there was no one else
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  on the street. I was a twenty one year old
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  woman alone in the street. I greit my car keys.
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  A few minutes later, the man came back back out
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  carrying a cardboard box. It was about the size of
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  a shoe box, but stained and damp on some.
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  Speaker 1: Of the corners.
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  Speaker 2: Could you open your car?
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  Speaker 4: I opened the trunk, not wanting that inside of my
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  car seats, and he set it in.
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  Speaker 2: All right there, you go thanks.
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  Speaker 1: I walked around to the driver's side of the car
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  and opened the door.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and one more thing.
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  Speaker 1: I looked at him, watch out. I didn't reply.
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  Speaker 4: A blasted my music as I drove to Jack's house,
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  hoping it would drown out my anxiety.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I parked my car in the stone driveway and stayed
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  inside the car, admiring the house. It was a huge
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  house with stone pillars on the front porch and the
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  greenish grass I had ever seen in my life. I
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  turned the car off and got out, grabbed the package,
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  walked to the front door, getting the key from where
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  he said it would be, opened the door, and stepped in,
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  closing it behind me. I thought about what he had
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  said about locking the door when I got inside. I
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  thought that was a little overboard, But as I stared
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  at the closed door, something made me reach out and
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  lock it. Walked inside, my feet cushioned by the thick
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  moroom carpet, and admired the inside the house. All the
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  furniture was wooden and looked incredibly expensive. I would probably
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  finish school a dozen times with the money that it
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  took to furnish this place. Set the package down on
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  the coffee table. As I walked back to the door,
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  I heard a phone rnking from somewhere inside the house.
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  My froze in my pocket, my phone buzzed. Took it
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  out to a look.
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  Speaker 2: Don't answer any calls that aren't from Marvin.
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  Speaker 4: Put my phone back and followed the sound of the
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  phone poking my head into a different rooms before I
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  found it in an office. I walked over to the
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  desk and looked at the caller ID incoming call from Jack.
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  Speaker 1: That was odd.
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  Speaker 4: I grabbed my phone to look at the message again.
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  I was starting to get a little bit creeped out
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  and decided I wouldn't answer, just to be safe.
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  Speaker 1: Left the house, remembering to lock the door as I left. Okay, so.
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  Speaker 4: He has her go to this place to pick up
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  the package delivered to the house, lock the door both.
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  Speaker 1: Times, but then she hears a phone ringing from.
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  Speaker 4: Elsewhere in the house, and at the same time she
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  gets the text on an answer call calls it aren't
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  from Marvin. Do you think this is something supernatural? Do
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  you think this is like some crime ring she's found
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  herself connected to.
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  Speaker 2: It's got to be some kind of crime ring. Here's
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  the thing, too, He specifically went on tender and is
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  looking for a woman to do this thing. Right, Yeah,
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  that feels targeted.
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  Speaker 4: So it feels like he's looking for someone who like
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  what in a pure threatening you know.
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  Speaker 1: She hasn't looked. She hasn't looked.
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  Speaker 2: In the box yet either, which, assuming off of the
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  stains in the corners, I mean, it's it's trying to
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  be I think blood or some kind of gunk. I'm
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  wondering if there's something in the house that is I like,
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  it almost was like a feeding ritual or something. Drop
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  the thing off, leave, make sure and lock both the doors,
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  because when the thing comes out, if the doors aren't
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  locked properly, it could get out. Where is kind of
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  where my mind goes from it. But it's just the
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  the her being like going specifically on tender looking for
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  a woman, which is presumably you know, in the in
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  the age range he wants probably like the look he
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  wants what that that motive is still unclear to me.
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  Speaker 4: If we're not looking at this as a no sleep storage.
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  Just logistically I would expect this to be drugs. Like
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  if I was the girl and it's like, oh, this
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  rich guy wants me to drive to the bad part
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  of town to leave something at his house. I would
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  expect it to be like Heroin See.
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  Speaker 2: I would think, if it's not the r slash no
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  sleep thing, I would think that it's like hiding like
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  a body part, just with the without how she described
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  the bottom of the box so far, I would think, Oh,
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  it's I feel like I'm covering up a crime in
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  that way.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly, like you're I'm the middle man for something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, same vibe.
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  Speaker 2: Though, even if it's drugs, Like, yeah, like a middleman
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  into some kind of thing where obviously someone doesn't want
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  to be seen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly. You need someone who can't shouldn't be
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  tied back to you for the job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've done a few more favors for Jack since then.
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  Speaker 4: I drove a BMW to a random park in another city,
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  only to get out and drive a different car back
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  to Jack's house. He had me meet one of his
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  employees at lunch, who then gave me a briefcase to
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  deliver to the first house I'd gone to and told
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  me he would know if I looked inside. Several occasions,
• 17:18
  he asked me to drive down to the same house
• 17:20
  and stay with the guy whose same was Julio for
• 17:22
  a certain amount of time. In total, I've made around
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  thirty five hundred dollars damn. Most recently, Jack asked me
• 17:28
  to stay in his house overnight. Woke up to a
• 17:31
  text message from.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Him, and you should just spend the night at my house.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: I just got to say, by the way, this is
• 17:36
  the kind of ride or die every man needs. Just
• 17:39
  gets a text like, hey, take this car to the city,
• 17:42
  don't ask questions again the other one or here, drop
• 17:44
  this briefcase off somewhere, don't look at it.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: I like the modive of like a twenty one year
• 17:48
  old girl, a twenty year old girl who's like, I'm
• 17:50
  getting paid more than any other job I ever had,
• 17:53
  Like it's like a very believable We'd be like, well,
• 17:56
  I don't know, man, I just drive a car here,
• 17:58
  and you really don't maybe like not trying to like
• 18:01
  pray too much because you don't want to ruin a
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  good thing.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Right right.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, uh, you know, I'm making money. I
• 18:08
  need this money, so I'm not going to ask a
• 18:09
  lot of questions. And I like, also, I feel most
• 18:11
  of these stories would have the character be like, well,
• 18:13
  I have to look what's in it? Or I thought
• 18:15
  locking the door was stupid, so I didn't do that.
• 18:18
  But no, she's like, this is good money. I'm going
• 18:20
  to continue to make it.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I think it's also more believable that you don't look
• 18:24
  like an these situations that seem really odd. It's like
• 18:27
  what there's some like psychological tests where it's like people
• 18:30
  in grocery stores tend to not steal something because they
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  feel like they're being watched or something. The idea of like, well,
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  this is a trap, I'm being trapped, like it's too
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  when I was thinking about it, it's like the idea
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  the person has cameras on me or something. So I'm
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  just gonna set it down and leave, you know, Like
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  why rock the boat if you don't have to?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean, like, just if you have a
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  We are now back to the episode. I hadn't ever
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  seen him in person, but I had talked to him
• 21:31
  on the phone a few times. He proceeded to tell
• 21:33
  me he would pay me one thousand dollars to spend
• 21:35
  the night at his house, provided that I followed a
• 21:37
  few rules. Drove to his house that evening driveway was empty,
• 21:41
  and it normally was, but the porchlight was on, walked up,
• 21:45
  unlocked the door, went inside, then locked it again. Everything
• 21:48
  in the house looked the same. Jacket told me over
• 21:51
  the phone that he would leave the list of rules
• 21:52
  on the dining room table, set all my stuff down
• 21:55
  in the living room. My bags look like garbage compared
• 21:58
  to the fancy furniture in there. Into the kitchen, and
• 22:01
  then into the dining room. Sure enough, there was a
• 22:03
  piece of paper on the wooden table held down by
• 22:05
  an empty glass. Lock the door when you come in.
• 22:08
  Only answer calls from Marvin. Don't turn on any faucets
• 22:12
  between nine pm and eleven PM. Don't open the door
• 22:16
  for anyone, no matter who they say they are. After
• 22:19
  ten pm. If the door to the closet at the
• 22:22
  end of the hall is open, sleep in the library.
• 22:26
  If closed, sleep in any of the bedrooms. The gardener
• 22:31
  comes at midnight. If he starts knocking on the windows, hide,
• 22:34
  ooh fuck, turn the t that was kind of creepy.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Huh yeah. If he starts knocking on the windows, hide, yeah, yeah,
• 22:42
  what the.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Fuck, I'd be like, huh.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: It's also like the gardener comes at midnight. It's like,
• 22:47
  I don't think that's a gardener. I don't think that's
• 22:49
  a standard. It's you turn the TV on and let
• 22:53
  it play on static through the night. Do not forget this.
• 22:57
  Help yourself to anything in the fridge.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I'll pay you in the morning. Good night.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Last two things I'd be like, oh ye, what, I.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Made sure to follow all the rules.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: To be honest, I was regretting my decision, but seeing
• 23:12
  as I was already here and I was getting paid,
• 23:15
  I decided to stay anyway. I figured as long as
• 23:17
  I followed all the rules, I'd be perfectly fine. Still,
• 23:20
  it felt a little odd, what was this haunted house? Nevertheless,
• 23:25
  I lounged around the house for a few hours, so
• 23:27
  I was planning on going to sleep around nine, since
• 23:30
  that's the time that all the weird shit would begin
• 23:32
  to happen.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Nay fifty.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: I brushed my teeth using the faucet for the last
• 23:36
  time before nine, checked the closet in the hallway, and
• 23:38
  upon seeing that it was open, I moved my stuff
• 23:40
  into the library and got ready to sleep on the couch.
• 23:43
  I locked doors just in case. Laid on the couch
• 23:46
  scrolling through my phone and I got any more messages
• 23:49
  from Jack, and I started to think up scenarios and
• 23:51
  reasons as to why he had such strict, peculiar sets
• 23:54
  of rules in this house. I had dozed off at
• 23:56
  some point, because exactly ten sixteen p I was woken
• 24:01
  up by the doorbell ringing about to get up to check.
• 24:04
  But then remember the rule, don't open the door for anyone,
• 24:08
  no matter who they say they are after ten pm.
• 24:11
  Stayed on the couch, try not to move, paranoid. They
• 24:14
  would hear even the slightest sound, it's the police.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Open up, did a move, Hello, it's the police.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: I still did a move, but I could hear my
• 24:26
  heart beat in my ears. There's a silence for a
• 24:29
  while after that, then the doorbell ring again.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Hey it's Jack, Let me in.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Sounded like Jack still didn't get up. You would have
• 24:40
  a key, wouldn't he Why would he need me to
• 24:43
  let him in? This continued for almost a full hour.
• 24:46
  Different people would ring the doorbell, announce themselves, and then
• 24:49
  disappear when I didn't respond.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Anxiety, just sitting there and it's like, hey, it's me,
• 24:59
  open up, especially if it goes through different like like women, children,
• 25:04
  all kinds of stuff.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: It's it's uh, that idea of been.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Going on for an hour is so long too.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, because you know that.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: What's actually standing there is like a giant who knows,
• 25:19
  who knows, like cannibal creature you've ever seen, like a giant.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Wind to go bees. And it's just like, hey, it's
• 25:25
  me Jack, you know me right?
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Let me There's something there's just something so threatening about
• 25:30
  somebody who is just like somebody just lying straight to
• 25:34
  your face. Hey it's Jack, open up, and it's clearly
• 25:37
  something pretending to be other people is So it's just
• 25:41
  so threatening, and there's it's such a simple way, but
• 25:43
  it's such a good way to elicit fear.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: What about that video I just sent you?
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Let me see what if it is that one man
• 25:50
  one jar? What is this? Oh yeah, that's so fucking stupid.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I hated.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: I hated this work so good for the story, Like.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: The entity is flipping between all these like oh it's
• 26:15
  me your mom you know me, right, or it's like,
• 26:18
  oh it's me, it's cool then and then immediately back
• 26:24
  to like it's me Paul from the fifth grade. Remember
• 26:28
  we're friends, just like oops, so.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: It's turned into my entire family, an anime character and
• 26:36
  a boy I knew in fifth grade? What is this
• 26:39
  creature outside my door?
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: It's made gocou and then nogging.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: It's so creepy.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: It's yeah, there's a minus into it, like let me in.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Also fucking wide in the door from you looks huge.
• 26:57
  I don't know why that got me the most. I
• 26:58
  was like Jesus Christ, Oh.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Gosh, Okay, yeah, so that's happening out front. The switching
• 27:08
  between voices is great. I love that at any story,
• 27:10
  any mimic creature in like a horror tale is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I like it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, very uncanny, just odd.
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  Speaker 4: I was finally able to fall asleep and the gardener
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  never came. When I woke up the next morning, I
• 28:48
  heard someone in the kitchen. I got up slowly and
• 28:51
  unlocked the door as quietly as possible, taking my phone
• 28:54
  with me, walking across the living room and into the kitchen,
• 28:57
  stopped at the entrance and peered in. It was he
• 29:00
  was standing in front of the stove, stirring something as
• 29:02
  the coffee machine brewed coffee on the counter behind me.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, good morning, he said when he saw me. Hi,
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  I replied, nervous.
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  Speaker 4: I hadn't seen him in person before, but he looked
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  exactly like his pictures online. Scrambled eggs, Yeah, motioning to
• 29:17
  the pan with a wooden spoon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks, walking over.
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  Speaker 4: To take the plate from him. I had my breakfast
• 29:22
  and drank some coffee in silence.
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  Speaker 2: So how was it it? It was okay, nothing super
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  freaky happened.
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  Speaker 1: Cool. Such a jerk. The parzer through that great? There
• 29:36
  is an awkwardness in the room.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna go now. I have class.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't, but I really wanted to get out of there.
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  Oh no, yeah, sure, I'll take you some other time.
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  Speaker 4: Grab my stuff and he walked me to my car.
• 29:49
  I could see him standing in the driveway staring at
• 29:52
  me as I left. When I got home, I unpacked
• 29:54
  all my stuff and noticed that I still had the
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  list with me. Sat on my bed and read it again.
• 29:59
  Felt my body tense up as I realize that I'd
• 30:02
  forgotten something. Turn the TV on and let it play
• 30:04
  on static through the night. Do not forget this. Turn
• 30:08
  the TV on and let it play on static through
• 30:10
  the night. Do not forget this, Do not forget this.
• 30:14
  Stared at the words on the page until they lost
• 30:16
  a meeting beside me. My phone buzzed, stamping me back
• 30:19
  to reality. It was the one thousand dollars payment. I
• 30:22
  looked at my phone and then back at the list.
• 30:24
  Maybe it wasn't an important step because I was thinking
• 30:27
  this over text from Jack came.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not in town right now. Should be back next week,
• 30:33
  so you're free from running any more errands for me
• 30:35
  until then. Just at the payment, go do something fun.
• 30:38
  Mm hmmm, uh oh.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: I stared at the message and read it again and
• 30:42
  again once more for good measure.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: I'm not in down right now.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Thought back to this morning and how Jack was in
• 30:48
  the house, how he can't be breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not in down right now.
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  Speaker 4: Ten minutes a new text came in, this time from
• 30:54
  a number that I didn't recognize.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Did you forget to do something.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: That?
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: The text was followed by a picture of Jack. Whoever
• 31:03
  this version of Jack was standing in front of the
• 31:06
  TV it respond Next came another picture, this one was
• 31:10
  of the outside of my house. It was followed by
• 31:12
  another text, watch out.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Ooh, and that's the ending.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: That's fun. That's fun. That's good.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a fun little like gut punch. I see
• 31:22
  why it did so well because the title works great
• 31:25
  at getting people to click on it. It's like, oh, what
• 31:27
  could this story be about? And it's it's short, it
• 31:30
  delivers on its seams. It also like the mention of
• 31:35
  like all the rules and then we hear if the
• 31:37
  gardener comes taps on the window and you know, don't
• 31:41
  answer it or hide from the windows, it's.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, that's creepy.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: But then the gardener never came, so we don't even
• 31:47
  get to see what the gardener was.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: What that looks like.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: It kind of leaves the mystery in your mind and
• 31:51
  leaves the mystery at the end of what this mimic
• 31:53
  of Jack was probably the same creature that was outside
• 31:56
  trying to get in the night before, but because she
• 31:58
  forgot to turn off TV, like it was able to
• 32:00
  get inside. Maybe and now it's tracking her and like
• 32:04
  maybe this Jack figure she was talking to was like
• 32:06
  part of some occult group that was like that's aware
• 32:09
  of these creatures. Like there's so many different places you
• 32:11
  could take it in your mind, but from what the
• 32:12
  story gives us. It's so minimalist and it works well
• 32:15
  on everything it sets out to do. I understand why
• 32:17
  it's so highly rated. It was really good.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I feel like the Uncanny Valley is a is like
• 32:22
  the Internet's favorite form of horror.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, of course, absolutely.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: I think that being able to deliver on something like
• 32:30
  this is just it's so simple and fun. And I
• 32:35
  think that just the idea of doing these minimal, weird
• 32:38
  tasks and just having these like once again, Uncanny Valley
• 32:41
  kind of things.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: And I got to ask when I was talking to you.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: A little bit about this before we recorded, was the
• 32:49
  idea of rules enlist that feels like such a popular
• 32:54
  Like why do you think that's so popular in these stories?
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Have you noticed that?
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Like I was telling you so many the stories which
• 33:00
  it's like I worked at the station there was five rules,
• 33:03
  or I worked at this place, or I you know,
• 33:06
  I lived here, we had one rule. Why do you
• 33:09
  think rules like obviously besides the taboo or whatever, or
• 33:12
  you know, rules being broken or following things, And it's
• 33:15
  like maybe an easier archetype to write around where it's like, okay,
• 33:19
  well you had these rules and you didn't do X
• 33:22
  therefore this is gonna happen. Besides that, what do you
• 33:24
  think makes it so compelling for viewers? Because they always
• 33:27
  seem to be a part of the most I would say,
• 33:30
  like sought after stories too, Like even Left Right Game
• 33:33
  had that kind of thing. We have to do this
• 33:34
  these these sets of things, you know, structure that gives
• 33:38
  it to it. Why do you think that's so popular?
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: I think it's because it establishes, especially for short stories,
• 33:45
  it establishes these clear parameters of like this has to
• 33:51
  be followed or else, And it gives us two things.
• 33:54
  It's like, Okay, for one, why does this have to
• 33:56
  be followed? Why does this keep the thing we're talking
• 33:58
  about it bay? And also what is the or else?
• 34:00
  What can happen? So it gives you two options that
• 34:02
  immediately hearing that you step into a place and there's
• 34:05
  a list of like supernatural rules, it gives you already
• 34:09
  enough tools to start to piece together lore in your
• 34:12
  mind to be like, what are these creatures you know
• 34:15
  and whatever I think they are? Why does this set
• 34:18
  of rules hold them back? Why is this enough to
• 34:20
  beat them? So it's just an easy way I think,
• 34:23
  to flesh out a story or at least let people
• 34:25
  flesh it out in their own minds very quickly, but
• 34:28
  just kidding. Like, for example, if Hunter, I was like, hey, Hunter,
• 34:32
  when you get into your car the next time today,
• 34:35
  be sure to like turn it on, turn it back off,
• 34:40
  turn it back on. It's like, Okay, why, like what
• 34:42
  did I do to the car? And also why does
• 34:45
  that stop whatever was done to the car? Yeah, I
• 34:48
  think it. Is it a lie in the first place?
• 34:50
  Is it just a superstition to make you go somewhere else?
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Like it?
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: It creates so many questions with just a basic questions
• 34:58
  I think.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, tension and anticipation as well of like
• 35:03
  it's almost like being at your friend's house and you're
• 35:06
  too loud at night, or like you drop something and
• 35:08
  you're like waiting for one of the parents to like
• 35:10
  yell at you, like go to bed or something. There
• 35:13
  is just it's a simple way of really establishing a
• 35:17
  set of parameters and like a war like rules of
• 35:20
  the world that when broken, it's going like some shit's
• 35:23
  gonna stir. And I think it just lets you kind
• 35:25
  of be once again a bit ambiguous, or it lets
• 35:27
  you kind of like really ramp into like maybe more
• 35:31
  interesting concepts without having to like justify shit. It's just like, well,
• 35:34
  you broke the rule, therefore this is happening now.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this thing happened.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Uh oh, you know it's a what's the one from
• 35:41
  Mandela Cattalog You shouldn't have done that, Mark, Yeah.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Bad decision.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Oh sorry Mark. Oh okay, Well let's move into the
• 35:49
  next one here, which is every month of that raid.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: That was pretty good. I also kept it together. I
• 35:55
  was about to start laughing. I kept it together at
• 35:57
  the end when she was looking at the piece of
• 35:59
  paper and it's like I've done something bad and she's
• 36:01
  repeating the lines just in my head.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: It's like there was a knock at the door. I
• 36:05
  look over and go, Ko.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Hey, what's up, slucker.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Hey, it's me Goku. I'm gonna take you, Nimbus Cloud.
• 36:17
  It's me Goku. Come on. Yeah, well I just kept that.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: It's funny you said that too, because I just kept
• 36:23
  hearing that the knocking.
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: I gotta find the dragon balls.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: Like you're four feet from the doors. You can see
• 36:34
  him clearly. He's just like make an eye contact.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Like.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: It's me Goku, me Goku.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: I'd love to see an edit of that, instead of
• 36:45
  him saying it's Goku. After that, it's him like doing
• 36:47
  the power up. Sounds like he's buying the door, but
• 36:52
  then there's still the knocking it in there, so he's
• 36:54
  like like that kind.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Of thing, the power energy.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: It's all muffled through thoseide the door, but still there's
• 37:07
  the just the nice knock.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: I love the idea of like normal people come into
• 37:11
  this podcast because they're like, oh, they're covering horror.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Stories and I'm really into literature. I'll listen, and then
• 37:16
  it's like we were just Goku. Hey, it's me Goku.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah all right, anyway, are we ready to move into
• 37:27
  our next story for this author?
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: We are so. Like I said, the second uh story
• 37:34
  we're reading from Gabby is every month the parade would
• 37:37
  pass through my hometown, but we were never allowed to
• 37:39
  look at it, which I want to say. I was
• 37:41
  talking with a friend the other day just about like
• 37:45
  even like Halloween parades and stuff, and he was like,
• 37:49
  you know, oh, in my town, there's like a nice parade,
• 37:52
  and I was telling him I was like, oh, I
• 37:54
  really wish that we because when I was younger, there
• 37:56
  used to be way more parades or like you know,
• 37:58
  you'd go into your town and do more commune things.
• 38:00
  But it seems so weird now, doesn't it. Like if
• 38:02
  you told someone younger that, they'd probably be like, why
• 38:05
  the fuck would I go do that? That sounds lame
• 38:08
  like it, Like, I'm yeah, stories some reasons, Yeah yeah,
• 38:13
  well yeah, I'm sure not you know, not all encompassing,
• 38:16
  but I would say I would say a majority. But
• 38:18
  stories like this makes you think, like just as like
• 38:21
  an older person that you know, like just seeing this
• 38:24
  parade or whatever and then seeing this title like you
• 38:25
  were never allowed to look at it. It almost feels
• 38:27
  like you have like a repressed memory or something. We're
• 38:30
  gonna be like, oh shit, did I even look at it?
• 38:32
  Like I love, I love a title like this. It's
• 38:35
  just there's there's something that hits so close to home.
• 38:37
  I think with this with just like the title.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it works like, well, you know, this is actually
• 38:44
  kind of similar to like the whole thing you were
• 38:45
  asking with rules, where it's like in the title alone
• 38:49
  where it says but we were never allowed to look
• 38:51
  at it. It's like, okay, why what is the parade
• 38:53
  that I can't look at it? Why does not looking
• 38:56
  at it stop whatever it is or keeps it from
• 38:58
  affecting me. So it creates a lot of questions with
• 39:01
  one point, which I think is one of the reasons
• 39:03
  the whole rule ideas. So why so many people latch
• 39:07
  onto it and like online?
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's probably a sense, there's probably like
• 39:12
  justification that there's probably rules in everything, But it was
• 39:15
  more so like, man, there was just so many stories
• 39:18
  I was looking at where it's like, yeah, a very
• 39:21
  typical one was like I worked at X place I
• 39:24
  was given like and they had weird rules.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: It was just that kind of vibe.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: There were so many, but yeah, I don't know, I
• 39:31
  just found it kind of interesting. It also seemed to
• 39:34
  all the stories were written around the same time, to
• 39:36
  where that might have just been like a popular archetype
• 39:39
  at the time too.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: I mean we see that this one, the Sugar Daddy
• 39:43
  one was top rated on No Sleeps. A lot of
• 39:45
  writers probably just went and was like, okay, rules, got it.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: That's what I mean. Probably we're gonna do this.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly, it's a good chance, all right.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: So hmm.
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: I've lived in Arizona for the past fifteen years of
• 39:59
  my life. But I had a very different life before that.
• 40:02
  I used to live in a small town in the
• 40:04
  middle of nowhere. I couldn't even tell you what side
• 40:07
  of the country it's on, or if it even is
• 40:09
  in the United States.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: It was I think you could tell that I live
• 40:15
  in Arizona.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? I couldn't even tell you
• 40:17
  what side of the country it's on, or even in
• 40:18
  the United States. I have understood what they're saying that.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: Before Arizona, Before Arizona, Oh, I had a very different life.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like I could tell you because I say,
• 40:27
  it's like, okay, well, yeah, they're just a small Illinois.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Is this Saudi Arabia? I can't tell or it looks
• 40:35
  the same. It was a small forest town with dench
• 40:39
  trees in all directions. But where exactly this particular force is, well,
• 40:43
  your guess is as good as mine. The only thing
• 40:46
  I know for certain is the name of the town,
• 40:48
  Point Pine. I lived in Point Pine for the first
• 40:51
  ten years of my life before we moved summer after
• 40:54
  my tenth birthday. Once we left, my parents never spoke
• 40:58
  of it again. In fact, the act is if it
• 41:00
  never even existed to them. I guess it didn't. I'll
• 41:03
  really blame them either, Okay, ma'am. I I keep mushmouthing
• 41:07
  today because I had as before we start recorded, I
• 41:10
  had a milkshake and it just like completely froze my lips.
• 41:13
  So anytime I have to say like two consonants back
• 41:16
  to back, it's rough.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: I don't really fat lips like that would be hard
• 41:21
  to throw around if you can't feel them.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: That felt oddly.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: No, I'm just saying that if you had giant, fat,
• 41:29
  fucking lips like you do, and they get all numbed
• 41:32
  up and frozen, yeah, i'd probably be like to be
• 41:35
  like a bunch of down pillows being thrown around.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: You're probably talking about me throwing my lips around.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Feels very suggestive.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, and I'm not even saying it, but
• 41:46
  I'm just saying that if you had large fat I mean,
• 41:50
  like like your lips could be considered morbidly obese.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: You know my wife.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: You know my wife loves these lips. Actually, big fan,
• 41:59
  big fan, you can ask her.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Well, I feel is kind of inappropriate to me, but
• 42:03
  I'm not going to.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: So now I'm the one being improve and I'm the
• 42:06
  one being inappropriate. We haven't addressed that that drawing you
• 42:09
  made of me on the show yet, that you decided
• 42:12
  to do a piece about me, and it was it.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: The lips are so big.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: Not only did they take up my entire tour so
• 42:20
  but they lay over my shoes and are like.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: They hang out to the sides like drapery. I thought
• 42:27
  you would have liked it. Okay.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: I was at a waffle house and a guy walked
• 42:31
  up to me and said, is this you?
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: And held up that picture? It's true?
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: Did you say yes?
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: I said? I said, I said, I don't know. I said,
• 42:39
  I don't know what that picture. You probably said this.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: You probably said, oh, and you're like, so just duik
• 42:45
  o Bilk should whip.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Cut Hogue.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: That's probably what you said.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: I said, I don't know who that is. I don't
• 42:52
  know what you're talking about.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: But whoever drew that picture should probably someone should probably
• 42:56
  call his local FBI hotline and should probably report him
• 43:00
  for certain threats he has made towards certain people, especially
• 43:03
  political figures.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: I also just realized I should be done about it,
• 43:07
  But I don't know how that is. I loved how
• 43:08
  child this year sentence was too when you're just like
• 43:11
  I kind of a lab it. I drunk. I drunk
• 43:12
  a milkshake. I know, it's like my mouths are all
• 43:14
  lived up and it's a weird numb. I can't every
• 43:18
  time I said back back continence, I can't.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Kind of even do it.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: It's weird because I drink a big old milkshake, drink
• 43:25
  a bickle. I have to think that you were like
• 43:27
  a nineteen fifties diner, like doing a little doo op
• 43:30
  in the parking lot.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: It was a sonic, all right.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: So it's basically the new age version of that.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, when when I got when my Twitter
• 43:42
  account got stolen, when I fell for that scam a
• 43:45
  little ago, every and the video of me start going around,
• 43:48
  everyone was like, not him, lips aren't big enough.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: It's true, it is. I will say that that was
• 43:53
  freaky for people that don't know Isaiah's Twitter account got
• 43:57
  hacked and the guy made like a deep fake video.
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: Or no no no no no no no no no
• 44:02
  no no no no.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: That was me. That was me.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: That was a video I took because I thought the
• 44:07
  scam was that I was talking to Twitter's verification team
• 44:11
  and that there was an attempt to my account and
• 44:14
  I was dumb and fell for it. So I made
• 44:15
  the video to like certify the account or whatever. But
• 44:19
  then after they stole the account, they're like, hey, it's
• 44:20
  a crypto thing.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: So you wait, you recorded? Was you was you promoting? No?
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: No? No, no no, let me back up, Let me
• 44:31
  back up?
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah you have okay, yeah, please tell me.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: So I get a phone call where someone claims to
• 44:40
  be with like Twitter or X's or whatever sport and safety.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Team, and then they send me v emails.
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: To verify like the the cases opened or whatever that
• 44:49
  are from Twitter dot com. It's like support slash Twitter
• 44:52
  dot com and I look up the U r L
• 44:54
  and it's like it was legit a few years ago
• 44:56
  back when X was Twitter, but now that it's rebranded,
• 44:58
  I guess people can just like like spoof the email
• 45:01
  or someone's bought the domain or something like that for
• 45:03
  Twitter dot com or whatever. So it all came from
• 45:05
  like Twitter dot com and they already had information like
• 45:08
  phone number, account email tied, stuff like that, and they
• 45:12
  sent like a portal to like verify login through.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: So I go through.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: Everything looks like X and they're like, we need to
• 45:18
  verify identity.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: And when I signed up for the Blue.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: Check Mark, they had the thing where it's like, oh,
• 45:23
  a picture of yourself and like, I've got my account
• 45:27
  back from other websites before, where you have to send
• 45:29
  a video of yourself and they're like, yeah, I was
• 45:31
  on the phone with this supposed tech guys like yeah,
• 45:33
  just send a video of yourself with your name, date
• 45:36
  and then this code and the code was dollar signed,
• 45:39
  we in and yes. In hindsight, In hindsight, I should
• 45:43
  have realized what that meant.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I thought it was like a code.
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: It's like a symbol and then three letters part of
• 45:52
  the account name.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I should have known.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: I should have known, But I did it for like
• 45:58
  the Twitter guy.
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: And then as soon as ye has that I've already
• 46:01
  entered the password, I get locked out of everything at once.
• 46:04
  And then they log in, They log in, change all
• 46:08
  of my stuff and then post that video's Oh my god,
• 46:12
  that is so funny.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: It was not funny for me at all.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: And my wife, my wife who was not with me
• 46:22
  because she was feeling bad, and my family was in
• 46:24
  for the holidays, So I was doing this between hanging
• 46:27
  out with them, we were out. We went on another
• 46:29
  tour of New Orleans, which I know you're fond of.
• 46:32
  We go out on another tour, and while I'm on
• 46:35
  the tour, all this happens. So my wife, who wasn't
• 46:38
  with me, saw the video and was like, well, surely
• 46:41
  he wasn't stupid enough to fall for this.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: So she says it was Ai and a faith.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: Even though it was as that's what everyone assumed, because
• 46:51
  how could I be that stupid.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: It's not that idea. It's not even that. It's like
• 46:56
  it's like your emotion. You look like a fucking robot.
• 46:58
  Like the lighting is all weird. You're like and this
• 47:01
  like your ear in this prison cell and you're just
• 47:03
  like her. So this is like the uh, the way
• 47:09
  that this was I thought it was. I was like, oh, yeah,
• 47:13
  I got he's an AI video whatever. And I remember
• 47:16
  being like, man, they even got like the kind of
• 47:18
  like grainy like dark room like He's like just to
• 47:25
  think that, you to think that you look like a
• 47:28
  fucking one time obeyed hostage and you were like in
• 47:32
  your room with a notepad and wrote that Crypto going
• 47:35
  down is so fucking funny.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, my god, my favorite thing too.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Later was the follow up, but I was like, oh, Dan,
• 47:41
  because the people are like, wait, he's doing that, he's
• 47:43
  promoting this whatever, and everybody I saw it was be like, no,
• 47:47
  he got hacked or whatever. And then I go to
• 47:49
  Instagram and that's whenever I see your story. We have
• 47:53
  your shades on your outside You're like, okay, so here's
• 47:55
  pretty much what's going on.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Outside? You recorded some of these sun classes on like.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, pretty much. I got hacked and with a whole
• 48:07
  weird thing. So sorry about that.
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: Sorry guys.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: I was under a lot of duress. Thank you the
• 48:21
  gospel time.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: I think that you're getting off like a fucking alligator
• 48:24
  by you tour whatever, So.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: You know what, she's a cracker.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Son is just unfortunate, all right, on this ghost tour.
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: You know it's crazy. You know it's crazy. It was
• 48:40
  literally an alligator by you tour. There was a gater
• 48:48
  next to me, and it was a boat tour like
• 48:51
  that to it. I was under a lot of duress.
• 48:54
  What do you want my shades? What do you want
• 48:56
  me to do?
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, no, I thought it was a verification. So
• 49:01
  I'm just like, I'm just low energy.
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: I have the phone, I just show my face and
• 49:05
  I show the paper and stuff, and I'm like, okay,
• 49:07
  is this good? And I was on the phone with
• 49:08
  the guy still and he's like, okay, that should do it.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: And I'm like is that good. He's like, yeah, that's good.
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: And then he spends ten minutes explaining to me like
• 49:16
  what the heck was, how it happened, how I can
• 49:19
  provide safety, And at the end I thanked him and
• 49:22
  said sorry, I thought you were a scammer earlier, and
• 49:25
  he's like, no problem.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: He just said, oh, oh yeah, no, bro, don't worry
• 49:29
  about it.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: Was he s.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: I talked to this guy for like twenty twenty five
• 49:33
  minutes and he was like, oh, it's no problem. He
• 49:35
  kept being like, it's good that you're aware. It's good
• 49:38
  that you're aware of like scammers online and you're trying
• 49:42
  to be proactive.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: That is fucking crazy, man.
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it happened to a couple other guys too. A
• 49:47
  couple other YouTubers got hit with the same one at
• 49:49
  the same.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Time there, so there's like another scam going around right
• 49:54
  now where it's like you'll say, oh, YouTube sent you
• 49:56
  a private video or something.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: I get those all the time. Yeah.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: I don't even know how many hours I've reported and
• 50:02
  like blocked and they still just keep sending it from
• 50:05
  like there or YouTube email addresses.
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they're all like YouTube YouTube dot com. And
• 50:11
  it'll be like, oh, well, like if you click on
• 50:16
  the video, it's like a AI video of the whoever
• 50:20
  what's the CEO's name right now after Susan, the guy
• 50:23
  they're placed with, whoever that is, it'll be his face
• 50:27
  AI and it's like, you need to change your payout
• 50:32
  to this number below. You need to send all the
• 50:36
  money from your account here.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: Thank you, God, dude.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: I'm appreciated it. Anyways, For god, I told forgot that
• 50:42
  we're even recording a fucking episode that is so funny.
• 50:46
  It's so funny. But the first time we've talked about that,
• 50:47
  well it happens so recently. Anyways, I'm glad start from
• 50:53
  the fucking top, or.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, we started talking about where were we at.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: You don't really blame them either, I think so basically
• 51:02
  what's happened so far been in Arizona the past fifteen years.
• 51:05
  Where they came up before that was a small town
• 51:08
  that was basically like in the middle of nowhere and
• 51:10
  it's a pot and it's a place called Point Pine.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: This all started because my lips are Oh yeah, it
• 51:15
  brings me back. People were seeing that video of me
• 51:17
  and they were like, oh wait no, I think this
• 51:18
  is actually him, and they would photoshop a screenshop from
• 51:21
  that video. But my lips are the whole screen. So
• 51:26
  that's what that's what my Also.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: I just love your youth pastor energy about it too,
• 51:29
  Just like my wife loves these lips because they're good
• 51:33
  at kissing, and she loves these kiss it's from these
• 51:35
  big soft croissants on my face. That was the big
• 51:39
  thing was like I was looking at your lips and
• 51:40
  it looked like big fat, fucking croissants, a giant pigs
• 51:43
  and blankets. That's why. That's why if you look at
• 51:45
  the image, it looked like like croissants.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Hello. That that youth faster dig was a deep cut
• 51:56
  all right. Back to the I don't like this anymore.
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: This is too personal. I don't like this world anymore.
• 52:06
  I don't like this direction. These jokes have gone. I'm
• 52:09
  gonna continue so anyway, Yeah, weird place Point Pine. I
• 52:14
  don't really blame them either, I got on pretty quickly
• 52:17
  and realized that they were trying their hardest to forget
• 52:19
  the memory of Point Pine. Whenever kids at school asked
• 52:22
  me where I was from, I simply told them I
• 52:24
  was from a small town they have never heard of.
• 52:27
  I also learned early on that any questions about Point
• 52:29
  Pine would be met with punishments. A few months after
• 52:32
  we moved to Arizona, my older sister Felicity, had a
• 52:35
  school project about family history. She did it in our
• 52:38
  life in Point Pine, wrote about some of the things
• 52:41
  she remembered from there. Our mom found her project the
• 52:43
  day before she turned it in and burned it in
• 52:45
  the backyard, which Felicity came home that afternoon. Her parents
• 52:49
  took her up to her bedroom. Or heard Felicity crying
• 52:51
  out every few minutes and what I assume was pain.
• 52:54
  Were they just beating.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: Her a word? Did?
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: Doesn't it sound like that a little bit?
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: Said nothing, And from that moment on, neither of us
• 53:02
  mentioned Point Pine again, except for me. Right now, I've
• 53:06
  decided to tell you all about it. I don't know
• 53:08
  what's causing me to remember all these things that I
• 53:10
  had locked up in the deepest.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Parts of my brain.
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: Maybe it's the fact that my father died about a
• 53:15
  week ago. Since he died, my mom's remained silent, hasn't
• 53:19
  said a word to anyone.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: He hasn't even cried.
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: In fact, she ended up sending my father's remains off
• 53:24
  to God knows where my money in.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: My money in on Point Pine.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Though money is My money is on Point Pine.
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: Oh that makes more sense. Yeah, my money's on Point Pine.
• 53:34
  Although I'd be crazy to ask. I've started recalling random
• 53:38
  little things about the town that at the time seemed
• 53:40
  like normal, everyday sayings that we as residents were all
• 53:43
  used to. Now, as I look back, I realized that
• 53:46
  they're not as normal as I thought back then. One
• 53:49
  peculiar thing about Point Pine had to do with the
• 53:52
  Point Pine Bakery. Whenever you were in there, the owner,
• 53:56
  mister Terrence, always knew what you were about to order.
• 54:00
  I remember the kids have some sort of rumor about
• 54:02
  mister Terrence being a magician who could read minds. Although
• 54:05
  whenever you paid for your bake goods, you had to
• 54:08
  tip mister Terrence with an old item of clothing you
• 54:11
  had grown out of. What the fuck giant there's a
• 54:15
  giant box up by the register that everyone tossed old
• 54:18
  baby clothing and choos into what the is.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: That's cool, that's cool.
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: It's like he collects memories or he collects old old beliefs,
• 54:27
  like he knows the future because he holds the past,
• 54:30
  or something like that.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: I love this. I love these settings, by the way,
• 54:33
  like small like.
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's very gravity falls, gravity falls vibes or
• 54:43
  what the town from Alan Wake. I forget the name
• 54:45
  of it right now, but yeah, like oor twin Peaks,
• 54:48
  very twin Peaks.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, I said that, Oh you did. I couldn't.
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: I literally couldn't hear you. But I liked it better
• 54:55
  when I said it. I like to be that's fair.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: That's fair.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: That was one of the odd things, although you'll come
• 54:59
  to realize that it won't seem that weird in comparison
• 55:02
  to some of the other things about Point Pine. Every
• 55:04
  year on your birthday you had to get blood work done.
• 55:07
  I don't think anyone really knew what the point of
• 55:09
  this was, or if they were actually looking for something.
• 55:12
  We all just knew that our birthdays would start off
• 55:14
  with a trip to the Point Pine Labs.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Everyone had to be up at.
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: Eight thirteen am there's a system of speakers placed around
• 55:21
  the town like an amusement park or something, and at
• 55:23
  eight thirteen, without fail, the wailing alarm sound would ricochet
• 55:27
  through the neighborhoods, waking everybody up.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: This was followed by parents.
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: Coming to wake up their children and get them out
• 55:33
  of bed as quickly as possible, like the house was
• 55:36
  on fire or something. Sometimes I expected it to be.
• 55:39
  All the Point Pine schools were placed in different areas
• 55:42
  of the town. Point Pine Elementary was towards the east,
• 55:45
  Point Pine Middle School was in the west. Point Pine
• 55:48
  High was in the dead center of town. Point Pie
• 55:50
  University was up on a small hill towards the south.
• 55:53
  If you hadn't notice by now, every place in town
• 55:56
  was named Point Pine, Blank Point Pine Cafe, Point Pine,
• 56:00
  Point Pine Grocery, etc. Certainly, one of the weirdest things
• 56:04
  by far that took place in Point Pine was the
• 56:06
  Point Pine Monthly Parade. Happened every month without fail. It
• 56:10
  was never on the same date, and each month a
• 56:12
  student from Point Pine High was chosen to be in it.
• 56:15
  The weird thing about this parade was that we weren't
• 56:17
  allowed to watch it go by, not out on the
• 56:20
  streets not from the windows, not even on television. That
• 56:23
  was one of the most enforced rules. You must have never,
• 56:26
  under any circumstance look at the parade. In fact, for
• 56:30
  the most part, we weren't even allowed outside when the
• 56:33
  parine passed through. We always knew when the parade was
• 56:35
  about to start, because it always happened the same way.
• 56:38
  You would hear a chorus of voices, like a church
• 56:40
  choir singing a melody. It wasn't a familiar one that
• 56:44
  I knew. I was only familiar with it in the
• 56:46
  sense that I heard it once a month. It sounded
• 56:49
  like it could be from a nursery rhyme or something similar.
• 56:51
  The voices seemed to come from everywhere, nowhere, all at once.
• 56:55
  It was like they were coming from the sky, the ground,
• 56:57
  the trees, the buildings. Everything in Point Pine was singing.
• 57:01
  Once you heard the first note, you had five minutes
• 57:04
  to get inside a house or building that had locks
• 57:06
  on the doors. This key comes a surprise, but in
• 57:08
  Point Pine not many buildings contain locks. So if you
• 57:12
  happen to be out and about on the street when
• 57:14
  the singing started, you had about three options on the
• 57:18
  places you could go. One of the schools staff break
• 57:21
  room in the Point Pine bar, or the fridge in
• 57:24
  the Point Pine pizza shop. Man, that's why there's only
• 57:27
  three different locations in town that have locks. That feels
• 57:30
  like very intention but everyone knows. Yeah, but everyone knows
• 57:33
  where those three parts are.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: YEAHO, That's why I'm wondering why they make it so
• 57:37
  so easy to basically get fucked out in the open.
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: And also the parade sounds like a rapture almost. It's like, oh,
• 57:46
  you hear the voices like a church choir singing a melody.
• 57:50
  It comes from the sky all at once, Like.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it has that, I mean it almost, Like I
• 57:54
  don't know why. My mind immediately went to the nineteen
• 57:57
  seventies Wickerman like the weird pagan kind of yeah. Yeah,
• 58:01
  like dancing like the choir people in the costumes and
• 58:03
  stuff like that. But the idea of it coming from
• 58:06
  like the trees and the earth and stuff I thought
• 58:08
  was just kind of picky, like just kind of interesting.
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: One year, in the month of August, my friendly and
• 58:13
  I decided we were going to break the rules and
• 58:16
  not go inside when the parade passed. Now that I
• 58:19
  think about it, I'm surprised that kids didn't do this
• 58:21
  more often, considering that well, when you tell kids that
• 58:24
  they must absolutely never do something, they often do that
• 58:27
  exact thing. Since we didn't know when the parade was coming,
• 58:29
  where it started, or the exact path that it took
• 58:32
  around town, we decided the smartest thing to do would
• 58:35
  be to wait in the forest near the Point Pine
• 58:37
  Library until the parade eventually came down the street. So
• 58:40
  basically decided to spend about half of the month of
• 58:42
  August hanging out near or around the library. Around the
• 58:46
  third week of the month, while we were sitting on
• 58:48
  the steps of the library talking about some random things
• 58:50
  that aren't important, heard the music start. Lee and I
• 58:53
  looked at each other and then took off running into
• 58:55
  the trees. Everyone else raced to the nearest school. We
• 58:59
  were far into the forest that someone on the street
• 59:02
  wouldn't see us, but stay close enough so that we
• 59:05
  were still able to see a part of the road.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: Wait, this is also like you, This is what I mean.
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: About like questions or like rules do a good job
• 59:12
  at like creating world building, because it's like, what were
• 59:15
  those moments, like then did everyone go hide in the
• 59:19
  school and the teachers lock all the doors? And then
• 59:22
  just look at the kids and say, just a little longer.
• 59:23
  The parade will be gone any moment, Just wait.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Like I love whenever the rules affect in a whole
• 59:27
  town though, it's fun whenever it's the entire community is
• 59:31
  abiding by this thing as well.
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm, yeah, this is I don't know. It makes
• 59:36
  me ask so many questions about it. It feels good fun
• 59:38
  world building for sure.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: We waited for a while whispering to each other and
• 59:43
  then shushing one another's who waited for the infamous parade
• 59:46
  to pass. This year, my sister's friend Reid was chosen
• 59:50
  to work on the parade. She's a few years older
• 59:52
  than my sister, but they were friends because Red used
• 59:55
  to live next door to us.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: When we were younger.
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: We were crashing in the bushes and leaves when we
• 59:59
  heard the course voices getting louder, therefore closer.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Dude, I totally see it straight.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: In my back, a little bit of my crouch position.
• 1:00:08
  Try to see what Lee was saying. I was always
• 1:00:11
  a short kid, even now, I'm shorter than most guys
• 1:00:14
  my age were in age, really, so Lee always pretty.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: Much towered over me.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: I can't see anything.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: I hissed, shifting my position. Sh Then I hear us stop.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: Moving and instead waiting for them to get closer where
• 1:00:29
  they were bound to pass right in front of my
• 1:00:30
  line aside. Oh no, oh, crap, suddenly leave dove to
• 1:00:35
  the ground, landing in the fetal position with his head
• 1:00:38
  cradled in his hands.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: What, I asked, looking from him to the street. I
• 1:00:43
  saw her. I see that girl, read.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: I asked, looking over to try to spot her. Lee
• 1:00:49
  grabbed me and slammed me down to the ground.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: What was that for?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: You don't want to look at it?
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 4: I noticed it for the first time in all of
• 1:00:59
  the years that I had on him. Lee looked absolutely terrified.
• 1:01:04
  Turned my back on the parade and sat down to
• 1:01:06
  look at Lee instead.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: What did you see those things? They did something to her.
• 1:01:13
  They're eating her, Cody, but she doesn't even care.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Oh that's so fun. Oh my word, Oh that's great.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: I looked at Lee, who still had his head in
• 1:01:27
  his hands, and he was crying. Now set with my
• 1:01:31
  back to the parade, no longer wanting to see for
• 1:01:34
  the singing, get louder.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: Cody, don't fuck.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 4: Cody, Cody now, the voice sounded like, read, look at us.
• 1:01:46
  Cody shut my eyes. The voices went on for a
• 1:01:50
  few minutes longer, and at one point Lee started wailing.
• 1:01:53
  Kept my eyes shut the entire time. After that, it
• 1:01:56
  moved along and continued its way through town. On we
• 1:02:00
  began to hear everyone coming out of their hiding places.
• 1:02:02
  I stood up and leaned down to help Lee get up.
• 1:02:05
  Once he stood up, keapped his head down.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: Lee, what's wrong?
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: I could hear him sniffling. Lee finally responded as he
• 1:02:16
  lifted his head.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: It took my eyes.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: I will never forget the dark, bleeding holes in Lee's
• 1:02:28
  face and the cuts around his skin. Threw open the
• 1:02:31
  forest for a good three minutes before I was able
• 1:02:34
  to help Lee. Lee out of the forest. Feud Olt
• 1:02:37
  saw us and got our parents came and got us
• 1:02:39
  right away. Day after that, my family moved out of
• 1:02:42
  Point Pine. I never knew what became of Lee after
• 1:02:44
  that day. Minutes after we left, my parents acted like
• 1:02:47
  Point Pine never existed. It's ever discussed, and I never
• 1:02:51
  had the nerve to ask about Lee again. As far
• 1:02:54
  as I know, Lee was the only person who ever
• 1:02:56
  saw the parade, and he was never able to see
• 1:02:58
  anything else after that. I don't know if Point Pine
• 1:03:01
  still exists, I'd like to go check it out again.
• 1:03:04
  But even if I knew where it was or how
• 1:03:06
  to get there, I don't think i'd ever go back.
• 1:03:09
  I have a feeling that I wouldn't exactly get a
• 1:03:11
  warm welcome, although I can't shake the thought that my
• 1:03:14
  parents were somehow still connected to the town and after all.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: Those years, and that's the end. That was coo cool,
• 1:03:22
  that's fine. I love the I love the.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: Way that Gabby's ending the stories too, which the cool
• 1:03:29
  thing about this for for audience members of the first
• 1:03:32
  time like reading her stories. Apparently there is a whole
• 1:03:36
  plethora of Point Pine stories, and she has made a
• 1:03:39
  thread that you can go and look at that has
• 1:03:42
  like all the stories attached to this town, which I mean.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: Three, four, five, six of eight.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 4: It is an eight part story the Point Point Pine series.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: They work as individual stories, but it's cool to know
• 1:03:55
  that there's like an entire kind of lore. I guess
• 1:03:58
  that you could like build or you know, just if
• 1:04:02
  you like the existence of this town and the kind
• 1:04:03
  of weird things that happen. And it's cool that there's
• 1:04:06
  a just like a nice backlog of stories that just
• 1:04:09
  fit exactly in this town.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that I gotta say. So far, this author is
• 1:04:15
  batting two for two.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: Both of these have been great. Point Pine. Like I said,
• 1:04:20
  I love the idea of.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: You have this town where like these one off series
• 1:04:28
  could happen. And the issue I always have with these
• 1:04:29
  continuation series whenever we cover them is that you need
• 1:04:32
  so much context to understand what's going on. Like that's
• 1:04:35
  the reason I got so upset when we read My
• 1:04:37
  Jobs watching a woman trapped in a room. It's like, Okay, well,
• 1:04:40
  I don't want to read a bunch of other stories
• 1:04:41
  to understand this one. Whereas with the Point Pine, it
• 1:04:43
  seems like these are standalone stories that just so happened
• 1:04:46
  to happen so happened to happen in the same town. Yeah,
• 1:04:50
  And the one we just read, by the way, is
• 1:04:52
  the first one in the series, So if you want
• 1:04:55
  to read the other seven parts, well you've already heard.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: The intro now, so you can continue from there. But
• 1:04:59
  that's great. I would be down.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: I'd be down depending on how people like these to
• 1:05:06
  do the Point Pine series, that would be pretty sick.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: That was fun. I enjoyed that.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: I like the idea too of like just the little
• 1:05:13
  details in that story of the parade happens once once
• 1:05:16
  a month, because it has to be a sacrifice or
• 1:05:19
  a sacrificial offering to also a parade. When I think
• 1:05:22
  it's just a monster that's in the street that's like
• 1:05:25
  singing and bellowing. It might be like a manifestation or
• 1:05:27
  maybe like a conjoined thing that's like kind of crawling
• 1:05:30
  through the streets.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: But it's like acting as a parade.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: But it seems like an entity that's moving through the
• 1:05:34
  town and kind of like making a display of the sacrifice.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: What's it? Least said, they're eating her, but she doesn't care.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: It's like she's in a trance, almost being consumed by
• 1:05:43
  whatever they are.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: The song, even the song makes it seem like maybe
• 1:05:46
  that's the trance, you know, like that, like it's like
• 1:05:48
  a spell or something like that. But I love the
• 1:05:50
  idea of uh, which I could be totally wrong misreading it,
• 1:05:55
  but I love the idea of like, oh yeah, when
• 1:05:56
  you're a kid, there was a parade that happened every month,
• 1:05:58
  But really it's like, oh no, it's a parade. It's
• 1:06:00
  like a fucking abhorrent thing crawling through the streets like
• 1:06:04
  making a making a spectacle of its of its sacrifice.
• 1:06:09
  You know, I think that that's like such a sick idea.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 4: They have to give up something to whatever the I mean,
• 1:06:14
  it seems like the idea with point Pines that there's
• 1:06:16
  a bunch of different entities in it, but there's some
• 1:06:18
  entity where something has to be sacrificed and they have
• 1:06:20
  to sacrifice up.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: You know, they're young to give give into it.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 4: But at the end, whenever that voice is speaking to
• 1:06:27
  our main character, he says that it's using Reid's voice now,
• 1:06:31
  So it's like, are they.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: Like assimilating her into itself?
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 4: Like again, you when you leave the door open like
• 1:06:37
  that lets people ask questions and they think about the
• 1:06:40
  story a lot longer than they read it.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's impressive.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: Which, you know, it leaves me in a place where
• 1:06:46
  I would love to just hear the next couple months
• 1:06:48
  of like, yeah, you know, I had to know, like
• 1:06:50
  I was this this obsessive curiosity that keeps dwelling, which
• 1:06:54
  you know, I think they always say leave people wanting more.
• 1:06:57
  But these older stories, as we've said before in the past,
• 1:06:59
  they're just so like drive by, you know, like here
• 1:07:02
  it is boom, We're done and move off. These are
• 1:07:05
  some of these stories. It'd be so sick is just
• 1:07:07
  see how they get fleshed out a bit, you know.
• 1:07:09
  And you know, we found it as well that if
• 1:07:12
  you flushed out too much, it loses its mystique and
• 1:07:14
  it's you know, it's mystery. But still that was just
• 1:07:16
  a lot of fun. Like I was at a spot
• 1:07:18
  where I was like, oh my god, yes, please more,
• 1:07:20
  and then it just kind of it kind of you know,
• 1:07:23
  just slowly fades out into being done. But I yeah,
• 1:07:27
  I had a lot of fun with that one. I
• 1:07:28
  just love that idea of the parade monster. I think
• 1:07:30
  that's that's just really cool. But luckily we're are on
• 1:07:33
  our last one, which is also a sick name of
• 1:07:36
  a story, which is there's a man who follows me
• 1:07:38
  around and narrates my life. And he started to stay
• 1:07:41
  and he started to say some unsettling things. So I love, yeah,
• 1:07:46
  I love already the same way with the Weird Favors,
• 1:07:50
  the Sugar Daddy, that kind of stuff, the evasive feeling
• 1:07:55
  of like somebody being around you and just constantly just
• 1:07:59
  like I mean, like a plague or like a fucking
• 1:08:02
  virus or something hanging around being like, could you imagine
• 1:08:05
  being like if it goes the way that I'm thinking
• 1:08:07
  of being like he put up his He put up
• 1:08:10
  his jacket and walked over Like you're having somebody narrate
• 1:08:13
  your entire life, like he would drive you insane.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of kind of like how I am
• 1:08:20
  with you. You're kind of like the thing that follows
• 1:08:21
  me around and torments my life.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: It's true. Or I'm a guy on Twitter who's like, hey,
• 1:08:26
  by the way, right down right down this crypto saying okay,
• 1:08:31
  he wasn't even at Twitter.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: He wasn't even at Twitter. It's just.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: I thought so with the email, I.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: Thought he was. I thought talking to mister Musk himself
• 1:08:39
  for all I knew. I just.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: Isaiah, I'm hitting you a person like to help you
• 1:08:44
  with us?
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: Is he sweetish?
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: He has such a weird accent I can never do.
• 1:08:50
  He's just gonna I AM become mean what we That
• 1:08:56
  is like the cringiest, one of the lamest fucking things
• 1:08:59
  we've heard I Am come in. He looks forward and
• 1:09:02
  he's like, wait, called doge.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: He says.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: He says, uh, putty much pretty much. I become him
• 1:09:12
  pretty much. You're so cool.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: Wow, this is great. I love the everything up.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: I do too.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: I especially love how when all the emails for the
• 1:09:28
  old one cut stolen, they use those to push your.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: Car whatever entity. By the way, that's in the story.
• 1:09:35
  We'd fucking hate having to narrate my life. Man, Well,
• 1:09:38
  it wakes up. He masturbates. He continues to masturbate. He's
• 1:09:43
  masturbating again. He took a ship. He masturbates while he ships.
• 1:09:51
  He's masturbating. It smells here. I'm like, that's not narrating.
• 1:09:54
  That's your own thing. He's like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: Like you're you're just holding eye contact with him.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. He puts on his socks. He mastermates.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: Before you're even out of the bed.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: That's rough, dude, exactly exactly, he says. He gets out
• 1:10:13
  of bed, shy.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: Another day here he does hot yoga.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: He masterbates.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: Oh all right, anyway, he drives to work.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: He calls Isaiah, he mastermates.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 4: You cut that out right now, they say, enough stuff
• 1:10:37
  already on the sub reddit. We don't need to encourage that. Okay,
• 1:10:41
  I'm gonna read the story now. He's always been here.
• 1:10:45
  Although I actually don't know if he's a he, and
• 1:10:48
  though I wouldn't want to assume anything, the voice is
• 1:10:50
  definitely a male's voice.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: I've never seen his face. Always the back of him.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 4: Wears a black trench coat with a popped collar, so
• 1:10:57
  that all I can really.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: See is the very top of his head and part
• 1:11:01
  of his black boots.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: I can't communicate with him, and I figured this out
• 1:11:05
  a few years back. He just stands a few feet
• 1:11:07
  away from me at all times, back to me narrating
• 1:11:11
  my entire life. No one else can see him figured
• 1:11:14
  this out a few years back as well, or can
• 1:11:17
  they hear him by and day usually starts off the same.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: I always wake up to the same sentence.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: Natali wakes up and rulls over in our bed.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: Every single day. He says that because that is what
• 1:11:27
  I do. It's all very mundane. My life is not
• 1:11:30
  that interesting after all. Sort of learned to live with it,
• 1:11:33
  and I can almost tune him out now. I've never
• 1:11:36
  really told anyone else about him, because I know that
• 1:11:39
  no one would believe me, so I really don't have
• 1:11:42
  much of a choice other than learning to deal with
• 1:11:44
  it and tuning him out.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: When I really need to.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 4: About a week ago, I was cooking dinner matched potatoes
• 1:11:50
  and black bean tacos, tuning him out as normal. So
• 1:11:53
  I was chopping up some cilantro for my tacos. However,
• 1:11:56
  he said something that caught my attention.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: Natalia is innocently chopping cilantro without any knowledge that she
• 1:12:03
  is in grave danger.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: Fuck that dude, I'd be like, excuse me, so what
• 1:12:10
  I don't think?
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: I like to think that every time she looks up
• 1:12:12
  at him too, like what he kind of hides he's
• 1:12:14
  like that kind of goes behind a corner and he's
• 1:12:16
  just just like looking at her.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 4: Well, it says that he's always a few feet away,
• 1:12:19
  but with the back facing him or facing her. So
• 1:12:23
  does that mean when she tries to get closer, he
• 1:12:24
  just like takes a step away at the same time,
• 1:12:27
  like if she starts running after him, will he start running, Natolia?
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: Or does he just float?
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: I like you think that he runs. It's like you
• 1:12:34
  hear like his like his like duck footsteps slapping on
• 1:12:36
  the ground after Natolia can make it jiggle.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 4: Wouldn't it be terrified if like you got into your
• 1:12:45
  house and you shut the door behind him and then
• 1:12:46
  a few minutes later, you hear the door fly open,
• 1:12:48
  him sprinting.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: Over to you.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's spreading backwards because you never see his face,
• 1:12:54
  so he's running.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't turn around so I can run towards you.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 4: Now, that's bro That's a horrifying idea. Think about something
• 1:13:02
  running like full sprint speed, but backwards, so I could
• 1:13:06
  just think the back of its head getting closer. It's
• 1:13:08
  an awful visual. I froze the knife in the middle
• 1:13:12
  of my small pile of cilantro and looked over at him.
• 1:13:15
  He was standing on the other side of the kitchen island,
• 1:13:17
  facing my dinner table. What I asked, knowing that he
• 1:13:21
  wasn't going to reply this point, I think I'd be
• 1:13:24
  more freaked out about him replying than him not. He
• 1:13:26
  said nothing for a few minutes, so I finished chopping,
• 1:13:28
  wiping the pieces of cilantro that got stuck to the blade,
• 1:13:31
  my finger, cutting it in the process.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: Fuck.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 4: I walked around and turned on the faucet, rinsing the
• 1:13:38
  knife in my finger.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: Natalia cut herself and her blood oozed out, pleasing the
• 1:13:44
  one who watches.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: Nope, no, no, nope, nope, no, what do you mean? Please?
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: I don't. Yeah, I don't. I this is this is already.
• 1:13:53
  I'm like, you know, what, shame on you?
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: What do you want her to do? Fun?
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, what can you do? Fucking right?
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: Well, you said shame on you implying that she needs
• 1:14:03
  to do something.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm saying shame when you the guy who's
• 1:14:06
  saying that.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: Like pleasing the one who watches I see what you're saying.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that well, I mean like it's some entity, like
• 1:14:12
  some supernatural entity that follows you around, and now it's
• 1:14:15
  saying it likes it when.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: You bleed, and that you're engraved danger Like, uh, excuse.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: Me, you getting hurt makes me chortle.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: I turned the faucet off and turned around.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 4: He had it move, but I was sure that I
• 1:14:28
  heard him correctly walked over to the window on the
• 1:14:31
  wall to my left and pulled on the cord, shedding
• 1:14:33
  the blinds. As I became paranoid, managed to eat my
• 1:14:36
  dinner and do the dishes without any other weird comments,
• 1:14:38
  and got ready for bed. I got sleepier, reached over
• 1:14:42
  and turned off the lamp by my bed, rolling over
• 1:14:45
  on my left side and closing my eyes.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: Datullia rolls over closing her eyes and peacefully lying in
• 1:14:50
  her bed. Well she doesn't know, however, is that she
• 1:14:54
  will soon face a horrible fate that will end in
• 1:14:57
  her death. I'd be pissed, man, But we've been doing
• 1:15:03
  this fucking game for years, and this is the kind
• 1:15:05
  of bullshit you want to pull.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 4: Like it's like, okay, all right, we've been good to
• 1:15:08
  each other, you know, I let you stay in my home.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what is you been in my house for this long?
• 1:15:13
  And you're really gonna just start pulling the ship now? Overreacts.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: Think he just keeps saying chortling. She begins to chortle.
• 1:15:25
  She's like, I'm not laughing. She chortles, chortals more than
• 1:15:29
  anyone never chortles.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 4: It's funny to imagine, uh that, Like he's communicating like
• 1:15:36
  a dad who doesn't know how to work through feelings.
• 1:15:38
  Like she's yelling, and he's just like Natalie is upset,
• 1:15:42
  Natalia is mad at me?
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: Natalia, Natalia.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: I love the chortle. Yeah, you are almost exactly.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 4: You're not quite there, but you're really close to the
• 1:15:53
  voice you did for mister Widemouth.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: It's fair the same note, very similar. There you go. Yeah,
• 1:16:04
  that's it.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 4: I opened my eyes, sitting up and looking over at
• 1:16:08
  his silhouette, slightly lit by the moonlight. Wait a few minutes,
• 1:16:11
  but he said nothing else, and I eventually fell asleep.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: I woke up the next morning as my alarm went off.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: Itatti wakes up and rolls over in bed, one day
• 1:16:20
  closer to her an inevitable death.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 4: Wouldn't be messed up if you just started doing that,
• 1:16:24
  Like she's not actually about to die in any danger.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: But they just starts doing that to make he I mean, it.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: Kind of fucking sounds like it really out of like no,
• 1:16:30
  out of all, out of all the years you've been
• 1:16:32
  doing this, and now you're just like, haha, just kidding,
• 1:16:35
  But am I technically not really?
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: Is it real? I don't know. I guess you'll have
• 1:16:40
  to find out.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: You'll have to find out today when you're in your car.
• 1:16:42
  No big deal. I'm sure it's fine.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you can go start it. It won't blow up,
• 1:16:46
  trust me.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's definitely not a pipe bombing underneath your seat.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: Don't even look and starts up just fine. And he's like,
• 1:16:52
  I told you to trust.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: Me what I tell you, you're perfectly tell you if
• 1:16:55
  I swear.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 4: I got up walking into the bathroom and slam the
• 1:17:00
  door shut, annoyed and a little bit scared. He'd been
• 1:17:02
  narrating my entire life and it never said anything creepier
• 1:17:05
  out of the ordinary. What was going on now? Opened
• 1:17:08
  the faucet and began splashing water onto my face.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: It totally washes her face, but she doesn't seem to
• 1:17:13
  realize that it is much easier for someone to attack
• 1:17:16
  when her eyes are closed.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: Just start doing that. She's completely fine in there, but
• 1:17:25
  just says stuff.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: Like that, and he's like, I have a trident. Like
• 1:17:31
  you're like, what, nothing? I really did say anything. Why
• 1:17:36
  would he have a tried it? I don't know. You
• 1:17:40
  tell medon Poseidon got off the sea. I don't know.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: I goof around, It's what I do.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: I like to have fun.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: Anyway. Do you want to kill yourself today?
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Why don't you put this in your mind all
• 1:18:00
  of a sudden, jump on it.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: Put this in your mouth and jump on it.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: Just hop up and down. And I'm fucking with you.
• 1:18:10
  I'm fucking with you.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: It's a joke called down.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: It's a joke. You're so serious. If you smiled.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: There, it is. He's like, he's like that passively misogynous.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: He's like like it's like yeah, it's like one day
• 1:18:34
  she just realizes. She's like, yeah, actually he was like
• 1:18:35
  a misogynist this whole time, but he just really amps
• 1:18:37
  it up. Are you seriously worrying that today you should
• 1:18:43
  try wearing makeup? She's like, I do.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 4: Maybe your boss will give you that promotion if you
• 1:18:50
  dress better, if you smiled nicer, Why don't why are
• 1:18:56
  you working? Shouldn't you try cooking? You like that that
• 1:18:59
  try you're out less or no. He's doing it in
• 1:19:01
  like the third person thing. So as she's getting ready
• 1:19:04
  for work, he like he's like in the corner and
• 1:19:07
  he's like now. Natalia thinks that she will be fulfilled
• 1:19:10
  by continuing her day at work. Little does she know
• 1:19:12
  she would be most happy years to stay at home mom.
• 1:19:15
  She's like, excuse, excuse me, And he's got like he's
• 1:19:17
  got like a red pill podcast in his ear.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: He like pulls out his bud real quick, like never
• 1:19:22
  mind totally.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: Natalia looks at a baby clothes online even though her
• 1:19:26
  egg're totally dry. She's far too old.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: Little does she realize she should have had this revelation
• 1:19:32
  twelve years ago.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, She's like, why why are you doing this? You
• 1:19:38
  just like shrugs. I like to think too, you just
• 1:19:39
  shrugs all time.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she asked something. He's like, oh, he does.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: The Jim Halpert like lip thing, and he just shrugs.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 4: She looks over every now and then, and he just
• 1:19:53
  like he starts shaving his head, smoking cigars.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: He's just becoming just getting red pilled.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 4: I rinsed the soap away from my eye area, looked
• 1:20:05
  at my reflection in front of me, and ad his
• 1:20:07
  standing behind me. Finish, rinsing my face with my eyes open,
• 1:20:11
  and managed to try it without completely covering my eyes.
• 1:20:14
  The rest of my week went pretty similar. Normal narrations
• 1:20:17
  for the most part was some freeby stuff sprinkled in.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: He is coming for her very soon. It is unavoidable.
• 1:20:23
  Natalia must die.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 4: At one point, it's like, get out of the car, like,
• 1:20:28
  I'm pulling over.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: What are you talking to me about?
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: Stop. Every time he said something, I looked around at
• 1:20:34
  my surroundings. Paranoid. Spent the entire week anxious.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 4: In paranoid, barely slept, fearing that I would wake up
• 1:20:40
  in the middle of the night to some performing spontaneous
• 1:20:42
  surgery on me, put a knife in my bedside drawer
• 1:20:45
  and pepper spray under my pillow yesterday.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: There are more creepier things than usual.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: Natalia's days are numbered. Natalia has been feeling anxious, as
• 1:20:54
  she should. The one who watches is arriving shortly. The
• 1:20:59
  one who watches it was very excited to kill Natalia.
• 1:21:02
  There will be no escape, only death. The thing too,
• 1:21:06
  that makes it creepy is that he's just feet away.
• 1:21:08
  He's so close.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, if I mean, like, if you want to,
• 1:21:12
  he could just turn around and kill her at any time,
• 1:21:14
  because who knows what he is. He's some supernatural being. Obviously.
• 1:21:18
  There was a story I read in college during one
• 1:21:21
  of my literature courses. We had a semester in short stories,
• 1:21:24
  and there's one short story we read that was about
• 1:21:27
  this couple who It was in a world where doctors
• 1:21:31
  had developed a science that can predict your date of
• 1:21:34
  death un up. So it became a thing where like
• 1:21:40
  around the United States, it like some people saw his taboo,
• 1:21:43
  like Bible Belt regions were like denounced it said it
• 1:21:46
  was of the devil, and like in more like progressive
• 1:21:49
  city areas people would go get it and they would
• 1:21:51
  have parties. Up until then, people became more risky up
• 1:21:54
  until it. Stuff like that, And the story centered around
• 1:21:57
  this couple who the wife really wants to go get
• 1:22:01
  it and the husband disagrees, and the one day she
• 1:22:03
  gets it without telling him, and then it's like the
• 1:22:05
  next five years of their life are miserable because, like
• 1:22:09
  it said, she was going to die in five years,
• 1:22:11
  So the next five years, every day they're just sad, depressed.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: They can never come out of it.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 4: And then eventually I think the way it ends, if
• 1:22:17
  I remember right, is they're setting around that night waiting
• 1:22:20
  for her to die, and then the clock strikes midnight
• 1:22:22
  and the story ends. So she didn't die, or like
• 1:22:24
  the test was wrong or something like that, but it's
• 1:22:28
  like the anticipation of it absolutely ruined what time they
• 1:22:32
  did have regardless of what happened, And.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: It's kind of I don't know.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 4: This story reminded me of it because it's like she
• 1:22:38
  was okay with this entity living near her, but now
• 1:22:41
  that it's become menacing, it's adapted this tone of like
• 1:22:45
  it's become dread. It went from something that she got
• 1:22:47
  over to scary all again, just because of what it's saying.
• 1:22:50
  But for all we know, it's just it's doing it
• 1:22:51
  to mess with her. It could be the agent that
• 1:22:53
  wants to kill her, and there's not really a lot
• 1:22:55
  she can do about it. Yeah, No, it's like that.
• 1:22:57
  It's psychological torture. Yeah, it's like the embodiment of dread.
• 1:23:02
  Like he is a manifestation of like anxiety or like
• 1:23:05
  impending death. I didn't go out anywhere for fear that
• 1:23:08
  would somehow cause whatever was going to happen, it happened sooner.
• 1:23:12
  Last night, I was getting ready for bed, brushing my
• 1:23:14
  teeth and staring at his reflection behind me in the mirror.
• 1:23:17
  So I swished mouthwash around in my mouth. He spoke again.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: Natoia brushes her teeth for the last time.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 4: Tomorrow she dies, spit out the mouthwash, choking on a
• 1:23:27
  bit that had made its way down my throat, coughed
• 1:23:30
  and wheezed.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: Natolia choked on the mouthwash, feeling like she was dying.
• 1:23:35
  But it's not her time yet, or time is tomorrow.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 4: That's really funny to imagine that he's like a jerk
• 1:23:42
  about it too. She like chokes and he's like up.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: Up, up, not yet. It's not the death day, that's domorrow.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: Don't don't worry. You won't die here, you're going. It's tomorrow.
• 1:23:50
  You're fine.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: It's tomorrow. Coffee to day. Enjoy choke as much as
• 1:23:54
  you want. You're fine right now.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 4: I managed to catch my breath and walked over to
• 1:23:57
  my bed, crawling in and leaving the lamps on. The
• 1:24:00
  last thing idea was to be woken up at midnight
• 1:24:02
  and have to fight off a killer in the dark.
• 1:24:04
  I woke up today a few hours before my alarm.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: And got up.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 4: I was still alive. Nothing was out of place. Maybe
• 1:24:10
  I wasn't going to die today, Maybe it was all
• 1:24:12
  some sort of fluke. I walked into the bathroom and
• 1:24:15
  grabbed my toothbrush, squeezed out some toothpaste to brush my teeth,
• 1:24:18
  and put the toothbrush in my mouth.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: Looked up in the mirror at my reflection. Then I froze.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 4: I spit into the sink and looked around the bathroom,
• 1:24:26
  stuck my head back into my bedroom and looked around
• 1:24:29
  there as well. I made my way through every single
• 1:24:31
  room in my house, but he was nowhere to be seen.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: He was gone.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 4: Twenty five years following me around and narrating my life,
• 1:24:39
  and now suddenly, when I was supposed to die, he
• 1:24:43
  just disappeared. Somehow, this made me feel worse, as I
• 1:24:46
  realized that while the things he was saying were creepy,
• 1:24:49
  they were also helping me by warning me.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: How much time I had left.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 4: Now I had no warning and no choice but to
• 1:24:56
  wait it out and see what happened. I can't shake
• 1:24:58
  the feeling that I'm definitely going to to die, but
• 1:25:01
  how by who? Who was the one who watches? What
• 1:25:06
  did that even mean? Spent my entire day in the kitchen.
• 1:25:09
  Figured there are more exits here as well as weapons,
• 1:25:12
  and I'd probably be safer here than in another smaller
• 1:25:14
  room of the house. So far, nothing has happened, sitting
• 1:25:18
  in silence, which is odd because I've never been in
• 1:25:20
  complete silence. About an hour ago, all the lights began
• 1:25:24
  to flicker in the house, but that only lasted a
• 1:25:26
  few seconds. It's gone back to normal now. Still don't
• 1:25:29
  know what to expect, but I think I'm probably safer
• 1:25:31
  at my house. Well I thought I would be until
• 1:25:35
  the doorbell rang. Got up and walked over to the
• 1:25:37
  living room. Walking up to the door and peering out
• 1:25:40
  of the people.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: It was him.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 4: He was standing outside my porch with his back to
• 1:25:45
  me as usual. Didn't move, I didn't even breathe, So
• 1:25:49
  I just watched him standing there, still out there now,
• 1:25:53
  and he hasn't said a word, still in my kitchen,
• 1:25:56
  not knowing what to do. I could hear him mumbling
• 1:25:59
  out outside the door a few minutes ago, and I
• 1:26:02
  finally decided to get up and listen.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: Two thousand.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: Bro Oh my god, dude, the fuck. Oh that freaked
• 1:26:18
  me out.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 4: Just oh, the idea of the guy that's always been
• 1:26:21
  there just is back to you counting down.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 4: Eh, he's still counting down, and I've now got about
• 1:26:32
  twenty minutes left. I can see that it's getting darker
• 1:26:35
  and darker outside as he counts down, though it's not
• 1:26:38
  even three o'clock in the afternoon. Yet time I look
• 1:26:41
  out the window, something disappears, a house on my street,
• 1:26:45
  a car, a tree. Whenever something vanishes, it's replaced with darkness.
• 1:26:50
  And he keeps counting down. Despite being my last chance
• 1:26:54
  at communication, I'm going to die today.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: I don't want it.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: Almost seems like a like an angel of death or something.
• 1:27:04
  But the idea of death too, just being that when
• 1:27:06
  he counts down, you're just gonna be nothing is fucking horrifying.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: Disappears, right, I also see he's gonna get attacked.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: It just seems like her world is collapsing, like there's
• 1:27:15
  nowhere to go.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: She'll just disappear. Yeah, and there's nothing.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's like I said earlier, he's like the
• 1:27:20
  embodiment of like the fear of death, but he's literally.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: Standing there counting next to her.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 4: And also there's something menacing about this guy has followed
• 1:27:29
  you everywhere you've gone for twenty five years, and you
• 1:27:32
  wake up one day and he's gone, Like you would
• 1:27:35
  feel you would feel alone in a way that you
• 1:27:38
  probably don't remember feeling.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: You know, I feel that way.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: It would be so the psychological horror of this is
• 1:27:46
  just Jesus so fucked. I mean, got it, Like having
• 1:27:50
  him be gone?
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: Would that not?
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: Absolutely? Have that just be riddled in your brain like
• 1:27:55
  you're like, well, what's wrong, what's happening? Why is this different?
• 1:27:57
  Like even if it's a positive change, it would never
• 1:27:59
  fully be positive because you'd be so freaked out.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the inevitability of death, Like I said, But also
• 1:28:06
  there's this note of what am I trying to say? Oh,
• 1:28:09
  of like the unbeatableness of it, Like it's it's like
• 1:28:11
  what do you do. You can't run from it, you
• 1:28:14
  can't get away, and when it does get away, it's
• 1:28:16
  just standing outside. Now the world's disappearing. It is like
• 1:28:19
  it's like mortality. It's it's good.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: I like it. It's a the countdowns, so menacing. That's such
• 1:28:25
  a fun note.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I fucking I really such a fun little Oh,
• 1:28:31
  such a fun story. God, I almost want you want
• 1:28:34
  to read one more. I'm just I'm kind of stoked.
• 1:28:36
  They're so short and to the point.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: See what the fourth one is.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: There's one that I wanted to want to do. It's
• 1:28:42
  called My Family's Cursed. A clown shows up at everyone's
• 1:28:44
  tenth birthday, but no one ever hires one. I thought
• 1:28:48
  that one sounds so sick. Is that not crazy?
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: It's a funny title. Yeah, let's do Let's do that one,
• 1:28:54
  all right.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 4: So we're gonna tack on one more here, And this
• 1:28:58
  one is, as Hunter said, My family is Cursed. Cloud
• 1:29:01
  shows up at everyone's tenth birthday, but no one ever
• 1:29:03
  hires one.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: Also, this is same author as always.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 4: She is killing it so far, these are three great
• 1:29:10
  stories in a row. My earliest memory of the clown
• 1:29:13
  is from my cousin Jake's tenth birthday party. I was
• 1:29:16
  only five, but I distinctly remember the commotion surrounding the clown.
• 1:29:19
  I remember my parents preparing me before we left the house,
• 1:29:22
  and on the drive.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: There, there's going to be a clown at Jake's party.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: My dad said, just be nice.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: All you have to do is be nice.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 4: My mom added, I didn't understand why they were so worried.
• 1:29:36
  My mom kept wiping her hands on her dress the
• 1:29:38
  entire drive to Jake's house. Why my dad kept taking
• 1:29:41
  deep breasts. Weren't clouds supposed to be a birthday parties.
• 1:29:44
  When we got to Jake's house, there was something going on.
• 1:29:48
  The kids were running around the backyard and jumping into
• 1:29:50
  the bouncy castle, but the adults were standing around in silence,
• 1:29:53
  their eyes darting back and forth across the yard, while
• 1:29:56
  some of my aunts and uncles walked in and out
• 1:29:58
  of the house periodically. It was like they were all
• 1:30:01
  waiting for something to happen. This feels very it, like
• 1:30:06
  how every twenty seven years or however long. I think
• 1:30:08
  it's twenty seven years.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, the thing makes sense.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: JUPI screamers would immediately maybe think of Tommy Taffy.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, this is Tommy Taffy. You're right. That's
• 1:30:19
  a perfect one to one draw.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 2: Or at least just that kind of you know, and
• 1:30:22
  you know, just that world of creepy thing shows up
• 1:30:26
  at X time.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: Kids, I'm Tommy Taffy.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, not the drug's.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: Gonna happen here.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 4: Everything relied. We should really, uh read the rest of
• 1:30:37
  Tommy Taffy, I think to it.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's two more parts. We read half of it.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, I didn't know.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, kids, Hey that's.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 4: All.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: Hell, that's that's a little bit. That's all of it.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: There it is.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 4: As I jumped into the bouncy castle along with the
• 1:31:03
  rest of my cousins, I noticed a movement in the
• 1:31:05
  bushes near the gate that led into the backyard. Continued
• 1:31:08
  to bounce, trying to get higher each time in order
• 1:31:10
  to get a better look at whatever was there. Finally
• 1:31:14
  saw the clown appear from behind the bushes and watched
• 1:31:16
  as he unlatched the gate.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 4: I stopped bouncing and tried to maintain my balance as
• 1:31:21
  I watched the clown step into the yard close the
• 1:31:24
  gate behind himself. Pushed my fingers through the mesh in
• 1:31:26
  the bouncy castle and pressed my face against it, staring
• 1:31:29
  at the clown as he scanned the backyard until his
• 1:31:31
  eyes landed on me. Stared at me for a few seconds,
• 1:31:35
  and I stared back, not really knowing what to do.
• 1:31:38
  Nobody else seemed to have noticed him, yet my cousins
• 1:31:40
  continued bouncing around behind me. He was short and wore
• 1:31:43
  a curly, rainbow colored wig. His face was white, and
• 1:31:47
  it seemed like his skin was naturally that pale. It
• 1:31:50
  didn't look like pain at all. His lips were normal sized,
• 1:31:54
  but bright red. He had a giant, round red nose.
• 1:31:58
  His eyes were dark, so dark that I couldn't distinguish
• 1:32:01
  the pupil from the iris. He had two black lines
• 1:32:05
  that started above the black eyebrows and ran down his
• 1:32:08
  eyelids to the top of his cheeks, which appeared to
• 1:32:10
  be inflated with something. They were round and protruding with
• 1:32:14
  the pink blush on them. His skin was smooth like porcelain.
• 1:32:19
  He wore yellow polka dot pants that were held up
• 1:32:21
  by red suspenders, and a white shirt with giant red
• 1:32:24
  buttons down the front, red ruffles around the neck.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: Chest, and sleeves.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 4: He wore shiny red clown shoes, and he carried a
• 1:32:31
  gift bag in one hand. I don't know how long
• 1:32:33
  I stood there watching him, but suddenly I was being
• 1:32:35
  pulled out of the bouncy house by my mom. She
• 1:32:38
  dragged me to the table and set me down in
• 1:32:40
  a chair between herself and my dad. I continued to
• 1:32:42
  watch the clown as he approached my cousin Lisa and
• 1:32:45
  pulled out a pink balloon from his pocket in his pants.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: He blew up the balloon and then twisted it into
• 1:32:50
  a dog, handing it to her.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 4: She took the balloon dog from the clown and ran
• 1:32:54
  to her mom, my aunt Chelsea, who grabbed Lisa roughly
• 1:32:57
  and dragged her away from the clown. There was an
• 1:32:59
  impalpable amount of tension from the remainder of Jake's birthday party.
• 1:33:03
  Our parents wouldn't let us straight too far away, and
• 1:33:06
  the clowns staved the entire time, wandering around the yard
• 1:33:08
  and handing out balloon animals or honking his nose for
• 1:33:11
  the children. Yeah, you are completely right about this being
• 1:33:13
  a Tommy taffy thing.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: Feels just like it.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 4: When it came time to open Presence, we watched the
• 1:33:18
  shake unwrapped countless video games and action figures, along with
• 1:33:22
  a few clothing items. Once he finished opening the last
• 1:33:25
  gift from the family member, the clown walked up to
• 1:33:27
  Jake and handed him the gift bag.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: He had been carrying around.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 4: The entire party watched Jake's mom tried to stop the
• 1:33:33
  clown from handing Jake the gift on my uncle held
• 1:33:35
  her back.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: What it's just funny, like, no, no, my uncle's hold
• 1:33:44
  her back, and Jake's like, cool, present, run kid, run
• 1:33:51
  god the.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 4: I mean like, I mean ten, they should know something's up, Like,
• 1:33:59
  what's the problem ten years old?
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: Is your mom?
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 3: Like now?
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: And your uncle's like hold her back whatever. He's like,
• 1:34:06
  oh that close, thank you for the gift. It's a
• 1:34:10
  fucking idiot. What the fuck that would be you.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: Candy. I'm like, that's super hugly, thank you.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: Your mom's crying and you're like, what's your problem exactly?
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: Mamould you shut the fuck up. I'm eating candy and boogers.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 5: Jesus, the fucking problem Jeu.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 4: We all washed his shake think the clown and open
• 1:34:38
  the gift bag, taking out handfuls of tissue paper until
• 1:34:41
  he reached in.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: And pulled out the gift.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: It's a book.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: I saw his mom sign relief.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 4: Jake turned the book over and his hands looking at it.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: It was a small hard come.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 4: Just just laughing if the bomb was If the book
• 1:34:57
  was like a bomb, yeah, just kills everyone in the party, like, oh,
• 1:35:04
  thank you for the boom. It was a small hardcover
• 1:35:11
  book with a glossy dust jacket that had a drawing
• 1:35:13
  of a beach on it. Jake thanked the clown and
• 1:35:16
  walked away from him, through the gate and away from
• 1:35:18
  the house. Once he was gone, Jake's dad snatched the
• 1:35:21
  book from him. I asked him about it later, but
• 1:35:24
  he told me his parents thrown it out. Saw the
• 1:35:26
  clown A few times after that, at every cousin's tenth
• 1:35:29
  birthday party, he would show up in the same outfit
• 1:35:32
  every time and give them a hardcover picture book that
• 1:35:34
  their parents.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: Would get rid of. Yeah. This I like the idea.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 4: If it's like a family curse, like maybe generations back.
• 1:35:40
  One of them made a deal or something, and now
• 1:35:42
  this entity shows up at every party and they have
• 1:35:44
  to just let it happen or else.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: To go again.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 4: It's one of those rule things. The consequences of getting
• 1:35:49
  rid of it are worse than putting up with it,
• 1:35:51
  whatever that means. When I was ten, the same thing happened,
• 1:35:56
  and although I begged my parents to let me see
• 1:35:57
  the book, they declined. To my birthday party, snuck out
• 1:36:01
  of my room and saw my dad go up into
• 1:36:03
  the attic with my book. Tried to find it a
• 1:36:05
  few times after that day, but he had hidden it well.
• 1:36:08
  It was nowhere to be seen. I once asked my
• 1:36:11
  parents why any of us had birthday parties if they
• 1:36:14
  were so afraid of the clown, but they told me
• 1:36:17
  that the clown would show up anyway. He always knew
• 1:36:20
  he did see the clown. For a couple of years,
• 1:36:24
  all my cousins had passed the age of ten, and
• 1:36:26
  none of them were old enough to have their own children. Yet,
• 1:36:29
  when I turned twenty, my parents died in a car
• 1:36:31
  accident and I inherited their house. By that time, I'd
• 1:36:35
  forgotten all about the clown in the book and didn't
• 1:36:37
  care to read it or figure out why they had
• 1:36:39
  taken it away. And then, about twelve years later, my
• 1:36:43
  daughter Wendy had her tenth birthday party. My wife knew
• 1:36:47
  about the clown, and we had already seen it appear
• 1:36:49
  once before at Jake's twins birthday party. We had prepared
• 1:36:52
  Wendy and had given her the same warnings my parents
• 1:36:55
  had given me be nice to the clown. About thirty
• 1:36:57
  minutes into the party, the clown jumped over the back
• 1:37:00
  yard fence and wandered over to the table where Wendy
• 1:37:02
  and her cousins were getting makeovers. Stopped myself from running
• 1:37:06
  over and stopping him. He looked exactly as I remembered him,
• 1:37:10
  not a single thing a change, not even his outfit.
• 1:37:13
  I watched as he caught my niece Alice's eye, pulled
• 1:37:16
  out a blue balloon from his pocket. He blew the
• 1:37:18
  balloon up, pulled out another blue one, and then used
• 1:37:22
  them both to form a hat she gently placed on
• 1:37:24
  her head. I watched as she thanked him, and he
• 1:37:27
  clapped his hands together and then continued to walk around
• 1:37:29
  my backyard. Nobody ever tried to stop him, because we
• 1:37:33
  had always been warned not to. We were never specifically
• 1:37:36
  told what would happen if we tried, but we knew
• 1:37:38
  it was bad.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: None of us wanted to find out what it would be.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 4: When it was time to open presents, I continued to
• 1:37:44
  eye the gift bag in the clown's hand. Once Wendy
• 1:37:47
  was done with opening the gifts given to her by
• 1:37:49
  family members, the clown approached her and handed her the bag.
• 1:37:53
  She took it gently, slowly opened it, digging around the
• 1:37:56
  tissue paper until.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 2: She pulled out the book.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 4: Thank you, she said, smiling at the clown. He took
• 1:38:03
  a bow, then walked away, jumping back over the fence.
• 1:38:07
  I led out a sigh of relief. Once he was gone,
• 1:38:09
  and I approached Wendy, taking the book from her. She
• 1:38:12
  didn't seem to mind that it was being taken. She
• 1:38:14
  seemed glad.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: I decided to hide it up.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 4: In the attic, just as my parents had done with me,
• 1:38:20
  But as I stared at it in my hands, curiosity
• 1:38:23
  was beginning to set in. It was the same as
• 1:38:26
  all the other books I had seen, hardcover, with a
• 1:38:29
  glossy dust jacket that contained a drawing on the front,
• 1:38:31
  but no title. This one had a drawing of a
• 1:38:34
  girl that resembled Wendy standing in front of a birthday
• 1:38:37
  cake and about to blow out the candles. She had
• 1:38:40
  the same curly brown hair and green eyes as Wendy.
• 1:38:43
  I opened the book and noticed an inscription on the
• 1:38:45
  inside of the cover that said.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: Happy tenth Birthday, Windy.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 4: The first page was blank, but the next page that's
• 1:38:52
  where the story started. There was a drawing of the
• 1:38:55
  girl on the cover wearing a party hat and holding
• 1:38:57
  a pile of gifts. Under that it read.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 5: Today is Whitney's tenth How happy is she? She got
• 1:39:05
  every gift she wants even though she doesn't need.
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 4: Turned the page as I continued to read the story
• 1:39:10
  that depicted various shrines of a girl that resembled my daughter.
• 1:39:14
  She did various birthday party activities.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 5: Widney elapsed a log with friends and all the guests
• 1:39:19
  are filled with glee. Whitty tries to sneak a peek
• 1:39:22
  at every gift that she receives.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: There were drawings of Wendy with family and friends, everyone
• 1:39:28
  smiling and hugging Wendy.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 5: It did from beyond the backyard fit Who's the best
• 1:39:34
  guest of the ball?
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: A fuddy funny cloud here to have a ball.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 4: On the man, I'm so hooked in right now. On
• 1:39:43
  that page was a drawing of the clown as it
• 1:39:45
  jumped over the fence.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: Her name.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 5: This cloud loves to party, and it loves its tenth
• 1:39:51
  birthdays too. He will never miss a chance to show
• 1:39:55
  up where he's due.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: The next drawn was at the clown in the center
• 1:39:58
  of the page, surrounded by.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 5: But this birthday's a bit different, except the big is
• 1:40:04
  going to happen.
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: The cloud is so excited this doesn't happen.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 4: Often got a little like I'm looking around the room
• 1:40:15
  getting a little friends out. I turned the page to
• 1:40:17
  see a drawing to the clown running around the party,
• 1:40:20
  chasing guests who appear to be frightened. They've been drawn
• 1:40:23
  with their mouths open and wide eyed as they ran
• 1:40:25
  away from the clown.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 2: The clown runs around the yard and pulls something from
• 1:40:30
  his pocket, not a balloon, not a magic handkerchief, with
• 1:40:35
  something big and sharp and shiny.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 4: The next page is a drawing of a gleaming butcher
• 1:40:40
  knife dripping with blood.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: A lot of guests must die, but don't worry, Windy
• 1:40:46
  will be fined.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 4: The next four pages contained various drawings of the clowns
• 1:40:50
  slaughtering people at the birthday party. Some of their next
• 1:40:53
  sliced open, some are stabbed, some lost body parts.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: The clown's fun he's jobbing has been done. Happy tenth
• 1:41:02
  birthday to Wendy. He will see you at the next one.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 4: The last drawing was of the clown jumping back over
• 1:41:09
  the fence, leaving a pile of dead bodies behind him.
• 1:41:12
  I shut the book as a chill ran down my spine.
• 1:41:14
  I realized why our parents ever showed us the books,
• 1:41:17
  especially if they were all this creepy.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: I wonder why the clown would even give us these books.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 4: I decided to do as my parents had done and
• 1:41:24
  get rid of the book at the end of the party.
• 1:41:26
  So I tossed the book on top of the fridge.
• 1:41:28
  Heard the first scream and ran to the door and
• 1:41:30
  threw it open, just in time to see everyone running
• 1:41:32
  away from the clown. He was back, and he stood
• 1:41:35
  right by the fence with a butcher knife in his hands.
• 1:41:37
  On the ground next to him was my cousin, Paola's child, Trevor,
• 1:41:41
  face down in the grass. I scanned the backyard looking
• 1:41:44
  for Wendy, but she was nowhere to be seen. All
• 1:41:47
  the gats ran across the yard, trying to get as
• 1:41:49
  far away from the clown as possible. I watched as
• 1:41:52
  Jake tossed his children over the fence into his neighbor's yard,
• 1:41:55
  followed by his husband and then himself. I looked for
• 1:41:58
  my wife and I spotted her running towards me into
• 1:42:00
  the house. Where's Wendy, I asked, grabbing her arm.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: She jumped the fence a while ago. She's fine, We
• 1:42:06
  need to hide.
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 4: She dragged me inside with her as the screams continued.
• 1:42:10
  A few more family members made it inside and we
• 1:42:12
  hid in the kitchen in the living room. After a while,
• 1:42:14
  the screams died out, and I slowly got up, opening
• 1:42:17
  the door and peering out in the backyard. He's gone, said,
• 1:42:20
  as I threw open the door and walked outside. There
• 1:42:23
  were a total of ten dead people, and a few
• 1:42:25
  minutes after the cops arrived, so did Jake, his family,
• 1:42:28
  and Wendy. I ran to her as I saw coming
• 1:42:31
  up the driveway, picking her up into my arms.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: I'm so glad you're okay.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 4: I kept her by my side for the rest of
• 1:42:38
  the night as we answered questions. I didn't tell the
• 1:42:40
  police that I knew the clown, as they would never
• 1:42:42
  believe my story about the curse, said, We all told
• 1:42:44
  them we had no idea who the clown was and
• 1:42:47
  that we hadn't hired anyone. Hours later, everyone was finally gone.
• 1:42:52
  Wendy had gone to bed, and I went downstairs and
• 1:42:54
  helped my wife clean up some of the best. Once
• 1:42:57
  we were done, grabbed the book from the top of
• 1:42:59
  the fridge and handed it to her.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: What's this, it's what he gave a rose read it.
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 4: I waited for her to finish reading the book. When
• 1:43:09
  she was done, she tossed it on in the counter.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: What the fuck did he plan all that?
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: Is this supposed to be some stupid joke? I shrugged.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 2: Did this happen to everyone else? I don't know. Our
• 1:43:22
  parents never let us read the books. This is so
• 1:43:24
  fucked up.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 4: David stood in silence. His Rose grabbed the book again,
• 1:43:28
  giving it a disgusted look.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go look for something.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 4: I made my way to the attic entrance in the
• 1:43:33
  hall and pulled down the ladder. Slowly made my way up,
• 1:43:36
  each stepped creaking as I stood on it. When I
• 1:43:39
  reached the top, I flipped a switch and the lights
• 1:43:41
  turned on, illuminating the attic enough for me to see.
• 1:43:44
  I dug through countless boxes and moved old to corn
• 1:43:46
  furniture around until I found it book that had been
• 1:43:49
  given to me on my tenth birthday, that hid it
• 1:43:52
  under the cushion of an old chair. I pulled it
• 1:43:55
  out and looked at the drawings of the house with
• 1:43:57
  a single light on in one of the windows. Opened
• 1:44:00
  the book and found a similar engraving on the inside cover.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 2: That read there had be tenths.
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 4: David turned the pages and began to read the story,
• 1:44:07
  ignoring the pictures.
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 5: Today is David's tenth birthday. What a good one it
• 1:44:13
  will be. David eats pizza. His favorite topic is cheese.
• 1:44:17
  He has a water blue fight with his cousin Eric
• 1:44:20
  and they take cover in the trees.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: Everything is fun and suit it will be great. Here
• 1:44:25
  comes to clown.
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 2: He's never late.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 5: David's birthday was a blast, and his gifts were also fun.
• 1:44:32
  But don't be sad that it's over. The fun is
• 1:44:34
  just begun. Views go by, and the clown sees David again.
• 1:44:39
  It's now his daughter's tenth birthday.
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 2: Today the fun. A lot of guests had fun and
• 1:44:44
  for others this day was their last. But David's family
• 1:44:47
  is alive. Think the clown for that. And now it's
• 1:44:51
  time for bed. Time to get some sleep. Don't forget
• 1:44:54
  to check on Wendy. She hasn't made a peep.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: Bro that's the final, oh man.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 4: The final drawing in the book showed an empty bed
• 1:45:07
  in a dark room with a window that was wide open.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: I stared at it for a second before it hit me.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 4: I tossed the book aside as I got a sinking
• 1:45:14
  feeling in the pit of my stomach.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: Something was wrong.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 3: What's going on?
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 4: I did a reply as I hurried down the ladder
• 1:45:23
  and ran down to the hall in a Wendy's bedroom,
• 1:45:25
  throwing the door open, flipped the light on, looked around
• 1:45:28
  the room, but it was too late.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: She was gone. Bed was empty and her window was
• 1:45:33
  wide open.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 3: Ah.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 2: That is such a good ending, I'll tell you right now.
• 1:45:40
  I was like, I don't know, like killer clown with
• 1:45:42
  a knife, blah blah blah. That that little last bit
• 1:45:46
  there at the end, totally fucking kilding.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did it.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 4: Well, But I kind of figured as they were explaining
• 1:45:52
  everything that the whole part about the book because it
• 1:45:59
  says this doesn't happen often, and then it goes to
• 1:46:01
  like the clown's murder spree.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: So the book only comes true.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 4: If you look at it. If you don't look at it,
• 1:46:07
  like all the parents did, it doesn't happen.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 2: It's the beckoning. It's like literally a seance. The book
• 1:46:12
  is a seance that when you read it, it like
• 1:46:14
  it is something that when you flip through the pages,
• 1:46:16
  it like is basically creating a seance for you and
• 1:46:19
  gives the clown like or whatever fucking entity this clown is,
• 1:46:23
  the ability to come back and like take people's lives.
• 1:46:26
  Also the reason why that the adults are just like
• 1:46:28
  just throw it away, just never even look at it ever,
• 1:46:30
  you know, such a fun way of going about it,
• 1:46:33
  you know, I cause at first I was like, you know,
• 1:46:35
  I really like the setup. I like the whole idea
• 1:46:37
  of this book, and I was like, would it be
• 1:46:39
  more effective if literally it was just like the person
• 1:46:42
  the kid that it was like if you read it,
• 1:46:44
  the kid gets taken, like you don't know what happens
• 1:46:46
  to him, But it is fun that it's like this
• 1:46:49
  killing spree thing. But see, I think that the ending
• 1:46:51
  it really is where it's just like wait, what the
• 1:46:53
  fuck and you go down and it's gone, and to
• 1:46:55
  the pictures that are accompanied by it, it's so creepy.
• 1:46:58
  Like I love the idea too that it's like, you know,
• 1:47:00
  it opens and the book is already formed, like it's
• 1:47:03
  like by you touching it, opening it, it's already done,
• 1:47:05
  like the seal is broken.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 4: It's also so many is because I know it's supernatural,
• 1:47:10
  but it's so wild to think that at David, when
• 1:47:13
  he was ten, at his tenth birthday party, he got
• 1:47:16
  a book and then in that book was the detail
• 1:47:18
  of his daughter.
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: When she's ten, how she'll be kidnapped by the clown.
• 1:47:21
  That's such a cool time.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 2: Do you think that it's that or do you think
• 1:47:24
  that because I read it like this that I think
• 1:47:26
  that the books are empty and whoever opens said book,
• 1:47:31
  it's like that whatever seal is broken, that's how the
• 1:47:33
  book manifests its story.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, it could certainly be that way.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 4: It's like the vessel for it, yeah, or the clowns
• 1:47:40
  like some entity that knows when the book will be open.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 2: So it's pretty if it is that foreshadowing or it
• 1:47:46
  just knows that he's like, oh, it's not going to
• 1:47:47
  open up yet. It's almost like this predestination thing. That's
• 1:47:50
  also pretty fucked up. I think that for a killer
• 1:47:53
  clown story. Honestly banged, that was fucking sick.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 4: That's one of the better killer clown stories I've ever read.
• 1:48:00
  This author goes stupid hard in the paint. By the way, also,
• 1:48:05
  just it's been awesome.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 2: We had the same thing with last episode with the
• 1:48:09
  spelunking kind of tortuous uh you know, the torturous spelunking
• 1:48:15
  claustrophobic nightmare where it's just that nice, short and sweet.
• 1:48:19
  These are all just this like just like a nice,
• 1:48:23
  like palatable story that's just like a fun, quick read.
• 1:48:27
  Like I would love to see a compilation of these
• 1:48:29
  stories in a book, like almost like scary stories to
• 1:48:31
  tone in the dark. Like it has that kind of
• 1:48:33
  thing where it's you could like sit down and read
• 1:48:35
  it to your friends and you get freaked out.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: Like, oh read another one. Oh no, well wait, you.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 2: Know, it's just it has that kind of digestibility that
• 1:48:41
  I think is really really fun.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah, this author does great.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 4: Just scrolling through the rest of their stuff, there's so
• 1:48:49
  many times, like some of these titles.
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: How would you like to Die today?
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 4: The boy in the paperbag mask, Uh, the elevator at
• 1:48:57
  work took me to a floor that doesn't exist, Like
• 1:48:59
  all of these sounds so good. And also, like I said,
• 1:49:01
  the Point Pine there is an entire series about Point Pine.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 2: There's gonna be.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: That we should have a Point Pinea.
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 2: We got to get a Point Pine read through.
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 4: Because look's listen to some of these titles from the
• 1:49:12
  Point Pine series. The Day the Angel came. There's a
• 1:49:16
  new guy in town and we don't like him. The
• 1:49:18
  thing in the giant bear costume won't stop handing out popcorn.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: That's so good.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: I love it, by the way, because listen to this one.
• 1:49:28
  Listen to this one.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 4: Due to recent violent events, pumpkins are no longer allowed
• 1:49:33
  in Point Pine.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 2: I love it because I think that Gabby uses uh
• 1:49:41
  the title like the scheming of these r slash no
• 1:49:43
  sleep things to really like make it something very enticing,
• 1:49:47
  Like it uses the format in a really great fucking way,
• 1:49:49
  and I think that it goes to show that people
• 1:49:51
  are connecting with it with the amount of like, you know,
• 1:49:54
  a vote she gets in the kind of like fan
• 1:49:56
  base she appears to have. I think it's just fucking awesome.
• 1:49:58
  So I will say that if you enjoyed the stories
• 1:50:00
  today as much as we did, please go support EA
• 1:50:03
  p A TBP. That's the user name for Gabby on Reddit.
• 1:50:08
  You can look at our entire body of work there.
• 1:50:10
  It's fucking awesome. There's so many it's this is just
• 1:50:13
  such a fun to read.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 2: I had a great time in this episode.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 4: One month ago, Gabby has a story called if You
• 1:50:20
  Meet Me, Please Kill Me. Like, these titles are great.
• 1:50:22
  Every one of them makes me want to see what
• 1:50:24
  the rest of the story is about. This is Yeah,
• 1:50:26
  I understand why, like they're considered no sleep royalty to
• 1:50:31
  all their stuff does well because so far we've read
• 1:50:33
  four and normally when we read through a bunch of
• 1:50:36
  authors stuff, there's like, ah, that one wasn't that great,
• 1:50:38
  that one wasn't that great.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: All four of those short stories were awesome.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know it just goes to show that once.
• 1:50:44
  Here's the thing too, when doing the creative process of
• 1:50:46
  writing and stuff, you're going to write some things where
• 1:50:49
  things just like hey, just doesn't line up or people
• 1:50:51
  don't resonate with it that doesn't necessarily get you know,
• 1:50:53
  it's not like that doesn't give it any value. It's
• 1:50:56
  just impressive seeing a writer here where the stories that
• 1:50:58
  we read, which granted they were the top voted ones,
• 1:51:01
  are the most up voted ones basically, but the amount
• 1:51:05
  and with how consistent she's been with posting. It's just
• 1:51:09
  cool to see somebody that's still active, still being creative,
• 1:51:11
  because we do read a lot of stuff where somebody
• 1:51:13
  it was just like somebody's phase where they were like
• 1:51:15
  I just wanted to write it was the one here. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:51:18
  So it's it's cool to see somebody that's still proactive
• 1:51:20
  in writing and still has this like creative itch to
• 1:51:22
  get out there and make shit because it's fucking draining, man,
• 1:51:25
  it's hard. And then two, if things don't kind of
• 1:51:27
  like line up for you, it's very easy to like,
• 1:51:29
  you know, let the wind out of your sales and
• 1:51:31
  just kind of be like fuck it, never mind, I'm
• 1:51:33
  just not going to So to see somebody who is
• 1:51:35
  so motivated in writing, I just think is really cool
• 1:51:38
  and I definitely want to give that shout out and
• 1:51:40
  please go support these and read them, give them up votes,
• 1:51:43
  comment on them, engage with them, show your buddies. That's
• 1:51:45
  the best way to support these people.
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: What was your favorite other ones who read today?
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, I don't know. I mean ending wise, I
• 1:51:54
  really enjoyed the clown one. The clown uh, that one
• 1:51:57
  was really great, you know.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: I like of the narrator one a lot, like the
• 1:52:06
  pre a lot.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 2: I think if I had to say which one I
• 1:52:09
  like the most, I think every month the parade, And
• 1:52:10
  I think that's just because the concept of that monster
• 1:52:12
  is a lot of fun. I enjoyed the world that
• 1:52:15
  point Pine was setting me up to do. But even
• 1:52:18
  just like the little bits, that was the thing though
• 1:52:19
  with all of these, I feel like the ending really
• 1:52:21
  in every single one of these, the ending really it
• 1:52:25
  had a nice strong fucking punch at the end, which
• 1:52:28
  was good. Even There's a man who follows me around,
• 1:52:30
  Like the counting at the end I think was fucking fantastic,
• 1:52:33
  even though conceptually I feel like the idea of there's
• 1:52:36
  a man who follows me around. I think that one
• 1:52:38
  was the most frightening of just an idea of a
• 1:52:40
  man that's like just around you at all times, kind
• 1:52:43
  of narrating your life, and then he kind of slowly
• 1:52:45
  starts to predict your death or he's like an angel
• 1:52:47
  of death. It's just really cool. But I will say
• 1:52:49
  I think I liked all of them in their own respects,
• 1:52:51
  Like I don't think anyone I don't think any one
• 1:52:53
  of them overshadowed any any of the others. Like they
• 1:52:55
  all felt very on par with quality.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think they think they banged. That was good.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 4: All those stories were great. Yeah, support the author, Gabby
• 1:53:07
  deserves it. Those were awesome. Please keep writing stuff I
• 1:53:11
  need more.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 4: Also, the point pine the last I don't know if
• 1:53:15
  the series is done because there's eight parts in the
• 1:53:17
  last one was five years ago, so the series may
• 1:53:19
  be completed now. Who knows anything you could for Gabby
• 1:53:23
  and the description, please shout it out.
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and just to reiterate again just because I don't
• 1:53:28
  know if there's a way we're supposed to be saying it.
• 1:53:30
  But the username is capital E, lowercase A, capital P,
• 1:53:34
  capital A lowercase T b P. So please do go
• 1:53:39
  check them out. Be sure to show them some love.
• 1:53:40
  And I think that it's just just a lot of fun.
• 1:53:44
  It's just cool saying once again, I love whenever we
• 1:53:46
  find readers that are writers that are still active and
• 1:53:49
  still making stuff. It's just really exciting. So and also
• 1:53:52
  just wanted to say real quick, thank you so much
• 1:53:54
  for if you've listened to this on Spotify, I have
• 1:53:56
  a podcast, be sure to give us a nice rating there.
• 1:53:59
  It really does help us out. And until next time, everyone,
• 1:54:01
  stay creeped and stay creative, keep writing.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: We love it.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 2: Also, once again, like I said at the top of
• 1:54:06
  the episode, thank you so much, you guys are the
• 1:54:08
  best fucking fan base any podcaster discover asked for. We
• 1:54:12
  appreciate you, and we'll see you in the next one.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: We will see you, guys in the next one.
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 4: And if a random clown shows up at a kid's
• 1:54:21
  tenth birthday party and gives you a book, don't read
• 1:54:23
  it unless you really don't like that kid.
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: Bye.