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131. Halesome Love (PRIDE: All That’s Left in the World) · The Book-Watchers

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  Speaker 1: On it options. That's us.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome the book watchers. Yeah, I'm recording and it's been
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  Speaker 3: recording this whole time. Who cares. Yeah, I am recording.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Welcome the book watchers. I am one of your hosts, Devin.
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  Speaker 3: And today, of course, we have the one, the only,
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  Speaker 3: thea a faggot. It's gum coum to the bottom of
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  Speaker 3: the gum, bottom of the of the bottom of your shoe. Okaying, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the beautiful, studying, the amazing, the annoying, overcaffeinated, over caffeinated.
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  Speaker 1: No, there's no such thing as overcaffeinated.
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  Speaker 3: Yes there is, Yes, there is.
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  Speaker 1: There's such thing as not enough caffeine.
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  Speaker 3: That means a drug, you know, Jacob, A legal drug,
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  Speaker 3: A legal drug. You're right, a legal drug. You're right,
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  Speaker 3: You're right.
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  Speaker 1: So life has been lifing.
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  Speaker 3: Life has been lifing.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we are, Like, we're almost halfway through Pride Month,
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  Speaker 1: and we were planning on doing a lot more Pride content,
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  Speaker 1: but life was literally fucking us the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're gonna have all the episodes done for
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  Speaker 3: Pride Month, but I want but we wanted them done
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  Speaker 3: sooner than last minute. But life is lifing.
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  Speaker 1: So life is lifing. It's homophobic that life has life
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  Speaker 1: this on the sacred month. Yeah, and you know, now
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  Speaker 1: that we're on the topic of pride, I learned something
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  Speaker 1: interesting recently that, like, you know, with like with with
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  Speaker 1: the political situation here in the US, like especially with
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  Speaker 1: Trump pushing out like pride related LGBTQ related holidays and
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  Speaker 1: you know support uh. You know, other states, like especially
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  Speaker 1: like Red states are like also jumping on that bandwagon.
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  Speaker 1: So in certain states, their pride Pride Month is no
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  Speaker 1: longer has completely been like replaced with Family month or
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  Speaker 1: family like something to do with family, right, because like somehow,
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  Speaker 1: like because somehow being gay challenges the idea of family
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  Speaker 1: apparently apparently like we have families, like gay people have
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  Speaker 1: families too. You know, we may not be we may
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  Speaker 1: not you know, be able to pop out kids every
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  Speaker 1: few years like normal traditional families are. But we have families, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but still, you know, I'm sure we're trying not to
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  Speaker 1: let that bother us.
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  Speaker 3: Hayter's gonna hate.
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  Speaker 1: Hater's gonna hate. We're still here, We're loud, we're gonna get,
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  Speaker 1: We're allowed and in your face about it. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: get because just as they're loud and they're in our
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  Speaker 1: faces about it too, so.
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  Speaker 3: We don't Yeah, no, yeah, I know, my faggy ass
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  Speaker 3: ain't going anywhere. Du fuck mm.
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  Speaker 1: Hmmm, No, no sir, We're here to stay, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So and so we're gonna we're gonna continue celebrating. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we we have pridelyging scoring on like all month, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing some stuff like we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: doing some like gay ship like we're gonna be making
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  Speaker 1: some gay concert for you guys. Yeah, all right, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So before we get to today's episode on more
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  Speaker 3: Gate our queer content, if you look at the description blow,
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  Speaker 3: you'll see a link he link to a link tree
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  Speaker 3: that I'll take you to the other podcast I'm being
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  Speaker 3: on avoid family podcasts, as well as the Patreon place
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  Speaker 3: goes to grab all that usual shtick. I yeah. So
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  Speaker 3: getting in today's episode, we're continuing on with our Pride
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  Speaker 3: Month theme, of course, and today is not gonna be
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  Speaker 3: a smutty book. That's next week. Today we're doing a cute,
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  Speaker 3: cutesy gay love story with the one the Only Jacob
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  Speaker 3: because he hates smut No, he doesn't, he doesn't hate smart.
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  Speaker 3: Smart's my department.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, Devin, it's clear that Devan does better in
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  Speaker 1: the smut department. I've read my fair fair Shriff smut,
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  Speaker 1: and I was thinking about reviewing more smutty books for
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  Speaker 1: you guys, but but I said, let's do something a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more wholesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you got some wholesomeness too.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because the thing is that, unfortunately, the unfortunate thing
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  Speaker 1: about our community is that sex is a very big
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  Speaker 1: part of the gay community. Is because that's really well,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean unfortunately, like it's not just like because
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  Speaker 1: that's what we made our community about. It's also like
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  Speaker 1: what the haters have made our community about, because they
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  Speaker 1: make us out to be sexual devians and we're here,
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  Speaker 1: like we're here to prove them. Well, we kind of
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  Speaker 1: prove them right, but in a good way, in a
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  Speaker 1: good way, all right, we prove them right, Like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we yeah, we're not having sex traditional way. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: we're not having missionary sex. I mean some of us are.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, anyway, let's like, like today I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to like not make it about sex. Okay. Sex is great, okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, especially when it's two dudes in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: but like, we need more wholesome content. Yes, our community
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  Speaker 1: isn't always about sex, Okay, It's also about family, it's
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  Speaker 1: about coming together, it's about building it's about building relationships,
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  Speaker 1: it's about all right, it's about coming together as a community. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we need we need more wholesome stuff. So I decided
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  Speaker 1: today we're gonna review a an l an lgbt I
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  Speaker 1: ah QT book called All That's Left in the World
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  Speaker 1: by Eric J. Brown. So this is a this is
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  Speaker 1: actually a young adult novel. H Yeah. When I for this,
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  Speaker 1: this book was on my read was on my Amazon
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  Speaker 1: reading list, and I had gotten it as a I
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  Speaker 1: think it was either a birthday gift or a Christmas gift.
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  Speaker 1: And I finally gotten around to reading a couple to
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  Speaker 1: reading it a couple of months ago, and it was
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  Speaker 1: really nice. It was a nice little break from all
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  Speaker 1: the serious novels that I've been reading and also some
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  Speaker 1: of the smutty novels that I've all that I've been
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  Speaker 1: reading too, because there's no smut it's uh, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: definitely like it's it's a coming it's a some somewhat
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  Speaker 1: of a coming of age novel as well. As a
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  Speaker 1: like coming together. It takes place in a poke poke
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  Speaker 1: pop the post. Yeah, I need to like hello, Hello.
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  Speaker 1: It's up my eyeside my ear, like like Joe Sanagato
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  Speaker 1: in the basement yard whenever he likedrips whatever he stutters,
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  Speaker 1: he's just like turns around, picks up his phone, just
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  Speaker 1: like hello. Anyway, it's a pope. It is a post
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  Speaker 1: apocalyptic novel. This book was actually uh. This is actually
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  Speaker 1: released like post in the post pandemic world. So it's
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  Speaker 1: definitely written at the height of the pandemic scare, all right,
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  Speaker 1: because by in twenty twenty two, life had more or
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  Speaker 1: less got me most of us, most of you guys
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  Speaker 1: know what life was like during during the pandemic and
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  Speaker 1: after the pandemic. For for all of our overseas listeners.
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  Speaker 1: In the US, it was a mess, okay, because people
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  Speaker 1: don't listen, all right, and the rest of the world,
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic only lasted a few months or like a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks. Because you listen to your government. You you
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  Speaker 1: listen to the UH to UH to the who. You
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  Speaker 1: listen to the World Health Organization. You stayed inside. He
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  Speaker 1: does social distance. You wore masks, okay, you you put
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  Speaker 1: your lives on hold just for like a few months, right,
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  Speaker 1: just a few months, and it went away, all right.
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  Speaker 1: You were able to go back to go back to
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  Speaker 1: your life like normal. Here in the US, it was
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  Speaker 1: not that. It was not that simple. Because here in
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  Speaker 1: the US we are called the land of the Free
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  Speaker 1: for a reason, because we have the right of we
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  Speaker 1: have the freedom to choose. And unfortunately, when the government
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  Speaker 1: starts telling us that, hey, you're not going to be
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  Speaker 1: for the next few months, you're not going to have
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  Speaker 1: the freedom to go out and get a haircut like
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  Speaker 1: you want, or go do or go to a bar
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  Speaker 1: like you want, or or have fun like you want.
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  Speaker 1: You need to stay inside. You need social distance, You
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  Speaker 1: need to wear your masks. No, because Americans being Americans,
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  Speaker 1: wanted to fight every step of the way. And because
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  Speaker 1: of that, the pandemic for us. Did it last a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks or a few months. It lasted almost two
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  Speaker 1: fucking years. Yeah, I sure did, Okay, So because like so,
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  Speaker 1: the thing is is, like we followed the who the
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  Speaker 1: like most of us did follow the follow the World
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  Speaker 1: Health organizations. Uh they we followed their guidelines. We social distance.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of us did social distance. We did stay
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  Speaker 1: home if we were exposed. All right, we quarantined and
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  Speaker 1: there was like a solid like month month and a
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  Speaker 1: half where we were like all at home, pretty much
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  Speaker 1: everything paused. Frontline workers were still on the front lines
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  Speaker 1: at the time. Devin and I were fortunate enough to
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  Speaker 1: have been employed by Wait, Devin, were you still working
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  Speaker 1: at the museum at that time, or did they already
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  Speaker 1: let you go.
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  Speaker 3: For the initial Yeah, for the initial pandemic when we
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  Speaker 3: were on lockdown for those few months, I was still
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  Speaker 3: working there. I didn't get let go till the till
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  Speaker 3: that October when we were already back on like working
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  Speaker 3: every day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, so we were fortunate because we worked for
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  Speaker 1: a museum which was a nonprofit, and the board actually
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  Speaker 1: voted to the board of directors of the museum actually
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  Speaker 1: voted to not only keep all of their employees, but
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  Speaker 1: they voted to continue to pay us all right, so
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  Speaker 1: we were still getting were still getting paid. Okay, they
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  Speaker 1: still needed security staff at the museum, so, but it
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  Speaker 1: was very skeletal and we were all social distancing. So
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: we so we literally one day out of the week
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  Speaker 1: we would just come in sit at the desk for
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  Speaker 1: maybe like four like about four hours half the day
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  Speaker 1: and then once the next person comes in and releaves us,
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  Speaker 1: we like come thoroughly wipe down the station we were
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  Speaker 1: at and then we can leave.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Right, so it was pretty good. We were all chilling.
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  Speaker 1: Like literally, I've been so many TV shows I like,
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  Speaker 1: I went played like so much many games, like video
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: games that I've been on the back burner for years, right,
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: all these like I played so many games. It was
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  Speaker 1: like I missed honestly, I missed the pandemic because like
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  Speaker 1: it was just like I'm an introvert and that was
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  Speaker 1: like a that's an introvert sweat dream, just literally staying
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  Speaker 1: home getting paid to do nothing. All right, I was living.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone else was crying and like, oh I can't be
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  Speaker 1: a social butterfly, and I'm over here like pathetic, I'm
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: in my lane. I'm chilling all right. Built near the end, admittedly,
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: I wanted to start working out more. But and I
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: started going on hikes some like, and ORD find like
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: hiking trails that were very like you know, not very
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: like not well used or like very like more the
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: lesser known hiking trails in my area. And I was
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: like doing that more often. I was taking my dog
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: with me. I wanted to buy a bike, but unfortunately
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: everyone else was buying bikes because they had nothing better
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: to do, so I couldn't buy it. Because so the
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: one bike that I was able to that I wanted,
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: that was perfect for me was gone, like was already
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: sold out. So I missed out on that. Yeah, but anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it took almost two years for the United States to
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: get back pretty much more or less back to normal. Right,
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: even though we all went back to we all went
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  Speaker 1: back to work, we still had to social distance to
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  Speaker 1: the extreme. We had to quarantine if we were exposed.
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: We uh, and then like for a solid year, we
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: still had to wear masks in social distance. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: And then it wasn't until like twenty twenty, like closer
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  Speaker 1: to twenty twenty two, like halfway through twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: That's when they started like loosening up the rules on
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  Speaker 1: wearing masks, and a lot of people in America really
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: hated wearing the masks. I didn't like wearing the mask,
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: but I weren't anyway because I did not want to
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: catch COVID period. I really did not want to catch
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: COVID all right, especially at least not before we got
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: our vaccines, like we and we didn't get the vaccinations
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: until like mid like early mid twenty twenty one. Yeah,
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: or was it twenty twenty two?
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  Speaker 3: It was twenty twenty one. Yeah, Its finny why I
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  Speaker 3: think it was twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was like the first rounds and then
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  Speaker 1: the second rounds in the boosters. You know, I'm twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: And either way, like it was hell for us, and
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  Speaker 1: it's our own fault because we unfortunately our country is
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: full of stupid people. I mean, you find stupid people anywhere,
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  Speaker 1: but you know here in America we have to be
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  Speaker 1: very extra about it because you know America, all right,
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I like my mother was a hairstylist,
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  Speaker 1: and so many of her clients were were like getting
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: up her ass trying to get her to like do
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: house calls for them so they can like continue with
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: their routine of making sure their hair is pretty. Like
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, bitch, you are at home. Who are you
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: trying to impress the husband that you don't want to
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: sleep with anymore? Like who are you trying to impress? Okay, damn,
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: I'm really no. I'm like this is like like it's
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. There's so much repressed anger from that
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  Speaker 1: time period that like every now and then, I just
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  Speaker 1: have to let it out because I just want to
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  Speaker 1: remind the people, like my fellow Americans, my fellow Americans,
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: we're we are all fucking idiots, all right, if you like.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure most of us know at least one
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: or two people who was exactly like that during the
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: pandemic who was crying because they couldn't go to the bar,
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: go play golf with their buddies, who was crying because
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: they couldn't get their hair done. Okay. I literally had
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  Speaker 1: an uncle who did not get his haircut for three
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: years straight, all right. By the end of it. That
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: dude had a long had a Maine. Okay, that dude
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  Speaker 1: had a Maine. Still he was like, no, like I'm
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: not going I'm not getting a haircut on soul. We're
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  Speaker 1: like absolutely certain that like it's okay to like start
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: going out and doing this, yeah, all right, like when
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  Speaker 1: like restrictions have been let up. Okay. He was smart
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  Speaker 1: about it. Okay, me I was too, But luckily for me,
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  Speaker 1: my mom's a hairstylist, so she could cut my hair
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  Speaker 1: at home, so like it's it was a win and.
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  Speaker 4: Win for me, but still I did not go out.
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  Speaker 4: But yet there were so many people crying about not
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: being able to go out, and it would still go out,
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  Speaker 4: and and the fucking virus kept getting spread left and right,
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: y'all they were.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my country is full of idiots, and that's
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: why our country took so long to recover from COVID
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: all right, to go back to normal, you know, And
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: most other countries don't really have that much that you know,
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: as far as I know, COVID is not really like
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: doesn't really have that any major outbreaks in other countries. Here,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: we literally have COVID season. Now, COVID season has inserted
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: itself in our yearly to do we have flu season
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: and we also have rona season.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: It's the same season for those years.
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  Speaker 1: It's literally the same season. So like now instead of
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: wondering like if the flu is going to come to knocking, no,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: you gotta worry about miss Rona knocking too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, now that so Brant's over, this book is
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  Speaker 1: taking place was definitely written like it was written in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. It was it was published in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, I should say, and it was definitely writing
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: the post pandemic fears because you know, a lot back then,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of people were very scared about, like what
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: if this happens again, what if there was another pandemic,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: because especially here in America, we can't we can't afford
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  Speaker 1: to go through another pandemic like that. Literally, So in
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  Speaker 1: this so in all that's left in the world, that
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  Speaker 1: is exactly what happens. So like COVID did happen in
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  Speaker 1: this book, all right, they recovered from it, but then
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  Speaker 1: a few years later, the superflute happens. This time it's
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  Speaker 1: even worse than the coronavirus. It actually kills billions of people.
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  Speaker 1: Society collapses, all right, and now what's left is basically
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: this kind of this post apocalyptic Last of Us style
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: type world. All right. People are trying are struggling to survive,
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  Speaker 1: all right. There's rumors going around of like government organizations
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  Speaker 1: trying to like, you know, gather up the survivors, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like trying to like re establish order like across the
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  Speaker 1: world world. But you know, it's all at this point,
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  Speaker 1: like in the beginning, it's all just that just rumors
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  Speaker 1: but the story centers around two young two younger guys,
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  Speaker 1: Jamie and Andrew. So Jamie, so each one comes from
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  Speaker 1: different backgrounds. Jamie, he comes from a more or less
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  Speaker 1: privileged background. His mom was a doctor. She was actually
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: on the front lines of both the both pandemics, and
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  Speaker 1: when this super flu occurred, she instead of staying around
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  Speaker 1: to try to help more and more people, she actually
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  Speaker 1: got smart and decided, all right, there's She figured. She realized, this,
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  Speaker 1: this flu is just too much. We don't have enough support.
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  Speaker 1: So she packed up her son and they drove up
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  Speaker 1: to their cabin. They drove to the cabin. This is
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: all happening in the This is all happening like in
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  Speaker 1: the in the northeast, like in the New England area.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is like somewhere between Boston and New York,
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  Speaker 1: so like fairy rural area. She took her son Andrew
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  Speaker 1: to excuse me, she took her son, Jamie to to
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  Speaker 1: their to their family cabin. They she had stopped up
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  Speaker 1: on like like meats, can can goods, excuse me, medical supplies,
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  Speaker 1: all this shit right, so they were ready to like
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  Speaker 1: they were ready to survive. Unfortunately for Jamie, his mom
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  Speaker 1: ended up contracting the super flu and she died. And
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  Speaker 1: this was very traumatic for Jamie because the thing is
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  Speaker 1: his mom being very practical. She had written an entire
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: journal for him listing like different ailments, different treatments like
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: for like common like injuries like broken legs all right,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: like broken legs, abrasions, burns right, treating certain sicknesses right
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: like easy things that like things that even a kid,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: like a teenager can do right. And when she contracted
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: the virus, she also had a planned because she did
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: not want to suffer the way she did not want
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: herself want to suffer the way other people she had
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: seen other people suffer from this virus, because like towards
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the end, the virus causes extreme delirium, so like you're
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: basically going they're basically going through like a massive freak
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: out towards the end, delirium to the point where you're
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: not it's not you're it's not pretty, you're not just
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: going peacefully, all right. And she now this is where
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: it kind of gets fucked up, because she wanted her
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: son to administer a lethal dose of medications to her,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: or like she was going to try to do it
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: herself before she got she was too far gone, and
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: she wanted her she wanted Jamie to help her do it.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: The thing is, Jamie did not want to do that
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: because this is his mother. Okay, he's just a kid.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: He did not want to kill his own mother, right
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: to to oh like cause like to cause an overdose
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: in his mom. So what he ended up doing was
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: he ended up hiding her medicine and hoping for and
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: wanted to hope for the best. Unfortunately, the best did
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: not happen, and her death was very I don't want
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: to say violent, but it was very It was brutal,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: you know, she was she went, she went, She entered
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the delirious state before eventually dying from from the complications
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: of the virus. UH. He was forced to bury her
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: in their outside their cabin, and for months or guy,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: he was alone. But eventually our second protagonist stumbles into
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the stumbles into the story. Our second protagonist is a
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: boy about the same age, like seventeen eighteen years old,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: same as Andrew. Now Andrew comes from like a completely
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: different walk of life.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Like.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: So the thing about Andrew is that like he like,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: he was raised by a single by a single dad,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: and he had a and he had a He had
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: a younger sister, and I think he had another. He
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: had a couple of other siblings, but doesn't really like
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: go in so much detail of that. During the pandemic,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: during the second outbreak, his dad was traveling for work.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: His dad was like stuck around, but it was often
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: but part of his work, he was often traveling, and
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: towards the end, his dad actually like his dad, contracted
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the virus, and rather than stay and expose his children,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: he ends up leaving and or Andrew doesn't know like
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: like what exactly happened to his dad, but it is
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: assumed that his dad, in order to protect his kids,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: left and later died from the virus, so Andrew was
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: left fending for himself and his younger sister. Unfortunately, his
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: sister also contracted the virus and dies, So rather than
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: stick around in Boston, he decides to leave and head
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: south because he learned that there was possibly He learned
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: it as like after the worst of it had ended
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and like pretty much society had fallen apart. He learned
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: that the like this world's version of the World Health
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Organization was gathering was actually had actually like organized enough
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: to like beg in like re establishing border. Like they
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: heard rumors that in Europe the virus had been better
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: taken care of, so that the the European Union had
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: decided to send aid to the US. Right, But the
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: thing is is that they weren't really going to stay
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: in the US. The aid was basically just an evacuation.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: So if you and he started seeing like graffiti signs
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: popping up everywhere saying like go to Washington, d C.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: To meet the to meet the EU relief forces. And
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: there's like a certain time limit for when like they're
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: going to like completely pack up and just leave. So
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Andrews starts making his way down south. He wants to
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: make it see d see so he can because he
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: hopes that there's a chance that they would be able
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: to that he would be able to find the relief
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the relief forces and maybe find safety. Now, Andrew, Something's
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: happened to Andrew across along this along his journey, and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: some things that he actually ends up later keeping from
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Jamie because he's afraid of what would what would happen
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: if he told Jamie what happened, Because you know, in
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: this kind of in this kind of world, you do
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: what you need to do to survive.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he had.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, some things happened he had to he was forced
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: to defend himself and now he like it. And because
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: of that, he is living what he lives now with
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: a lot of regret, a lot of guilt, and there's
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: a part of him trying to reach the the the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: ease relief forces. He also wants to try to make
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: amends with some people that with some people that he
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: had that he had met along the way. But while
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: he's traveling, he's taking he's taking a lot of like
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: he's trying his best to stay off the road, try
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: not to like stay on He's trying not to stay
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: anywhere near the main roads because it because that's pretty
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: much where like how he got in that situation in
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the first place. So he goes off. He goes off
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the road, takes a lot of back roads and trails,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and at one point he ends up stepping in a
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: bear trap so severely injures his leg, injures his leg,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: you know, lacerations in his leg and breaks and it
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: actually breaks his leg too. So fortunately for him, he
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: wasn't that far from Jamie's cabin. So he ends up
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: managing to stumble his way to the to the cabin,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: where he or Andrew encounters Jamie. Jamie, being scared of
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the strain of a strange boy showing up on his doorstep,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: pulls his rifle, the rifle his mom left for him,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: and uh and threatened, threatened to Andrew, like own company
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: culture all, pull the trigger. But Andrew, like with his
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: legs so badly hurt, couldn't go and couldn't go any
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: further and couldn't bring himself to leave, so he just
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: basically like fell to his knees and just like I
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: can't go anywhere my leg's hurt. I'm like, you do,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: do what you have to do, Like I can't go
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: any further. And Jamie taking kitty on on Andrew and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: also and also Jamie being unable to pull the trigger,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: ends up taking Andrew in and nurses him back to health.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: So it's a little cautious at first, he administers He's
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: a little cautious at first, of course, he administers first
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: aid and splints Andrew's leg. He's cautious and very hesitant
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: to like reveal too much to Andrew, But as they
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: spend more time together, they begin to learn to trust.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: They begins to trust each other more, and the thing
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: is they both are hiding stuff from each other. Jamie
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: doesn't really want to talk about what happens to his mom,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: and Andrew doesn't want to talk about what happened like that,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: what happened to him with some strangers he met on
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the On the road, Andrew does tell Jamie that he
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: was trying to make his way south to d C
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: because of the European Union's relief effort, and even offers
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: to take Jamie with him because he points out that
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: while his cabin is very well stuck and he can
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: he can stay probably for like a a couple of
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: years there with no like without needing any new supplies.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: He points out that eventually it's going to run out.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: He can't stay here alone. Jamie's reluctant and wants to
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: just stay, and at one point Andrew, like after like
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: becoming more friendly with Jamie, actually wants to stay too,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: but unfortunately things don't work out that way. While while
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Jamie was doing his chores around the house and around
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: his around the problem, he notices that by one he
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: noticed he started, he finds some burned cigarette butts near
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: one of the near like one of the outhouses of
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: his cabin, and like near the barn outside his cabin,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: like the little storage barn by his cabin, and make
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: being extra cautious. Jamie tries to keep stay on alert.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: But fortunately his extra caution doesn't really come to anything,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: because doesn't really stop anything, because a few days later
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: he finds that a group of people are approaching his cabin. Now,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: of course, he gets his gun tells him to stay back,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: but they have guns of their own. And the people
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: tell him that they know that he has stockpile supplies,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and they tell him that there is that there's actually
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: a large community not that far from the cabin, and
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the problem is is that this community had The problem
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: is this community had pretty much stripped the entire surrounding
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: area clean of any like salvageable resources. So like they've
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: already ransacked the local supermarkets, other supply stores, they ransacked
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: pretty much every pharmacy, every hospital in the area. And
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: they're very and they're running very low on supplies. Uh.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Jamie had actually encountered these guys, had actually had a
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: run in with these guys at one point, because at
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: one point he did need to run into into town
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: to try to find more supplies like mainly just supplies
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: like mainly medical supplies, as well as some hardware hardware
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: supplies to make some repairs around his house. And then
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: he ran, of course ran across these people. He managed
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: to avoid them, but still he knew that these guys
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: were bad news. The thing is is that because there
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: was more of them and only him and Andrew and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: only Jamie and Andrew in the house, they were able
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to they threatened them enough. They basically intimidated the boys
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: enough to where uh, Jamie was forced to put his
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: gun down. They uh, these guys came into the house,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: they took all of the can goods, and they didn't luckily,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: they didn't see the They didn't see that there was
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: a freezer full of venison and other meats, so they
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: didn't take that, and they didn't take and they while
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: they ransacked the house, they didn't find and they didn't
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: find Jamie' hidden supply of medicine and they didn't see that.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: They didn't notice the journal that he has that is
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: his mother's journal full of like you know, medical full
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: of medical tips. So they mainly take the just all
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the can goods and other like other household essentials. And
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: now basically Andrew and Jamie are left with nothing only
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: just like with meat goods, like frozen meat goods that
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: would probably only last them for a few months. So
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: after these guys leave, like one of them, the one
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: of the like, it's funny, these guys robbed them, right,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: and then as they're they're like, if you want, like,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: if you want, you could come join us, all right,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and like both Andrew and Jamie kind of give each
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: other this side. I like, yeah, right, join the people
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: who literally just robbed us at gunpoint, right, so Jamie.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: So the thing is is that like both boys are
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: feeling very like down on their luck. Andrew feels guilt
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: ridden because he feels like his arrival had somehow brought
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: these people to Jamie's door step, which it wasn't, because
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the thing is is that these guys had already discovered
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the cabin, they'd already discovered that Jamie had been there
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: for a while. Now, they left him alone because at
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: that time they didn't need anything from him. But now
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: that they've pretty much like they've been irresponsibly like like stealing,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: like like ransacking supplies and like and like harve like
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: harvesting and like stockpiling all of like the supplies from
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the surrounding area. They weren't actually doing anything to like
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: conserve or to conserve their resources, right, so they were
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: like they were recklessly and irresponsibly using their supplies. So
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: which is why they were desperately trying to why out
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: of desperation they started robbing, uh, pretty much robbing their neighbors.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: So Andrew, feeling guilt read and he stocks up whatever
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: little supplies he can that he has, making sure not
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: just not to like take too much from Jamie. He
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: packs up his things and he leaves. He leaves about
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the next day Jamie, while Jamie like realizes that he
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: is not like he does not want to be alone.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: The thing is is that Jamie himself he is gay.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: He knows that he's gay, but when Andrew comes along,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: he doesn't. He's not really sure if Andrew is the same.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: And he's actually kind of grown a bit of grown
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: pretty attached to Andrew because you know, he'd been alone
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: for months and the two get along very well. And
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: he also realizes that wait a second, like Andrew is
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: still recovering from his injury. So I mean he can
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: walk and move around a little bit easier now, but
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: he's still recovering and he's still vulnerable. So after he
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: realizes that Andrew left, he packs up whatever supplies he
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: can get, takes the takes the medical journal, and goes
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: after Andrew. Excuse me, The two of them meet up,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: like he the two of them do encounter each other
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: gain and after a little bit of a like then
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: it's kind of like like Andrews actually surprisingly relieved and
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: that Jamie followed him, and it's like, okay, well, we're
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: heading to d C. So they start making their way
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: down south, trying to just as before, they try to
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: avoid any like major roads, but they know, like once
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: they get close to DC, they will have to get
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: onto the main roads to get to the airport. Now
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: while they're going through DC. Once they like start getting
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: closer to d C, Andrew Andrews trying to like subtly
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: shift the direction from the actual like DC International Airport,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: which is where the EU was supposed to be. But
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: he wants to shift slightly to like try to go
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: a little off trail to a neighborhood. He tries to
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: like hint to Jamie that he wants to like split
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: at least temporarily so he can go take care of
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: some unfinished business. Eventually, after like after several like like
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: carrowing encounters, and Andrew finally confesses to Jamie what secret
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: he's been keeping m And that secret in particular is
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: that in his journey before he had met or before
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Andrew had met Jamie, he was traveling on the main
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: road and he met an older couple, and this older couple,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: like you know, at first he thought they were nice.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: They were like him, trying to make it south to
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: d C. But and they travel together for they decided
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: to travel together. But thing is, literally the first night
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: that they that they like made camp together, Andrew woke
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night to find the
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: older couple. This older couple, they were going through his stuff,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: and he overheard the husband like saying, like, we need
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: this more than him, all right, We're like basically they
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: were robbing him. They were gonna rob him and leave
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: him with nothing, so Andrew, So Andrew got up and
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: confronted them, and there was a scuffle. And the thing
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: is Andrew he did have a gun, and he ends
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: up shooting. He ends up shooting and killing both of them.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: And this left Andrew with a lot of guilt because
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: like he thought that these guys were friendly. He thought
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: that they could like you know, make it together down
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: to d C to meet the relief aide. And while
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: he was in the short period that he spent with
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: these two, he'd learned that they were also trying to
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: reach their children because they had a The thing is
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: is that they have a they had a like a
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: son or a daughter that lived outside of d C,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: in a neighborhood outside of d C, and they were
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: trying to make it down there to meet up with
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: their kids as well as their grandkids. And afterwards, like
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: after Andrew killed them because he he killed them in
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: self defense they attacked him and they were trying to
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: rob him, he still felt guilt and he felt like
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: he needed to like he needed closure, He needed to
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: see like maybe, like I guess like the best word
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: would be absolution, because you know, he felt he felt
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: really guilty over killing these people. Right, so, he knew
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: where their their kids were, He knew where their family
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: was supposed to be, right so art so what he
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: wanted to do was before heading to the rendezvous point,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: he wanted to go to that neighborhood, the kid's neighborhood,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: try to find their you know, try to find the kids,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: tell him what happens to the parents, and you know,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: face whatever consequences. Right. Well, he finally reveals that to Jamie.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Jamie like doesn't judge him. He's like, well, you know understand,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: was understanding and told him, well, this we're literally in
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: the post We're literally in a post apocalyptic adventure. You know,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: like this is there's like lawlessness and you have to
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: do what you you gotta do what you gotta do
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: to survive. So he agrees to go. So he tells
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Andrew that he's not gonna He's not just going to
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: leave him to deal with this alone. They go together
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: to that to the neighborhood that Andrew knows that this
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: couple's family was supposed to be. The thing is is
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: that they find the house. They go in and after
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: searching the house, they find the they find they find
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the family all together, and they were dead. They had
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: they had died from the They had died from the virus.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: So Andrew feels like he still feels a lot of guilt,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: but at the same time, he feels like a kind
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: of like bittersweet relief because like the very least like
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: at least now he knows what happened to the family,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: and there's part of him that still carries the guilt
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: of what he had done, but as a way of
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: like trying to like make amends, he ends up burying
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the family. Uh. Andrew Andrew Jamie spend the night at
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: the at their house before before setting out to the
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: to the DC International. Here's where things. So here's where
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: this is like the reveal of like like okay, are
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: they there. So it turns out there was going to
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: be there was initially going to be like an European
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Union relief relief effort at d C, but unfortunately the
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: virus had the super flu had re emerged in the
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: EU and they collapsed. So they found there wasn't there
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: that there was like a plane there like that was
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: sent from the European Union and this was like a
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: this plane was sent there as like sort of like
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: a kind of like an initial scout to like secure
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the area, right, get get the airport ready for the
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: rest of the relief team. But the thing is is
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: that the crew contracted the flu and they also got caught.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: They also had received a communication from their European Union
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: that it had it had collapsed because the flu had
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: overrun everything, so no one was there. They found the
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: dead pilots and the dead crew. They did find another
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: another kid about their age, and he was taking he
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: was taking care of his younger siblings. This this kid
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: tells him that, yeah, we found the logs and no
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: one's coming. They asked him, like, well, why are you
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: still here, Like, well, I was hoping I could figure
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: out how to find the flat this plane because we're
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: because we're going to try to go. Because this kid
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: and this siblings try to make it to Chicago run
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: there so they know what their family is. And uh,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: the thing is is that they decided to stay for
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the time being to try to warn anybody who's you know,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: who comes along hoping to find relief. But they say
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: that they're but they say that they're gonna leave soon
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: because you know, there's no they've already pretty much they
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: pretty much already like picked the area clean. There's no
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: there's no food, there's no supplies. They sure what little
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: they share what little they have with with Jamie and Andrew.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: But the two of them are like, well, what do
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: we do now? So they decide, well, let's just continue
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: south because they also heard that there was other uh,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: they heard other rumors that there might be some big
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: there might be like some communities some So they said,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: all right, let's just keep going, like we'll just kind
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: of like plan like we'll just kind of plan things out.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Take it by played by ear. So they leave DC
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: keep making their way south, and eventually they come across
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood. Uh. They come across another abandoned neighborhood, and
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: they encounter an old lady. And they encounters an elderly lady.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: She's actually very spry, this old this old lady, she's
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: very spryed, very like uh and very like capable. You know.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: She's she's been hold up in her home, uh for
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: the entire time, for the entire pandemic, and she's been
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: doing very well take care of herself. She has she
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: knows where she can get her supplies and she takes
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: she's been doing a really good job. She actually sneaks
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: she actually manages to sneak up on the boys and
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: uh and takes them by the surprise. But rather than
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: hurt them, she sees that, oh, they're just kids and
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: invites them into her home, so she gives them shelter
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: for the night. She tells them her story how she's been,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: like her husband's been dead for a while, and she
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: has she has other kids, but she's sure that some
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: of them have already have did not survive the panic
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: because they were closer to home, but she knows. But
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: she reveals that she has a daughter and a granddaughter
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: who lives in the Key in Miami Keys who lives
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: in South Florida, Miami like closer to Miami in Key West,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: and she's hoping, she was hoping that at one point
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: of possibly making the journey down south. But the thing
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: is is that she's old, she's not capable of making
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: the journey on her own, and she'd rather and she decided, well,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: she she doesn't really want to leave because this is
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: her home. This has been like, you know, it's been
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: her home for most of her life. She raised her
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: kids there, her husband died there. She doesn't really want
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: to leave, you know, overnight. While they were staying, they
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: also noticed that they also noticed that they're strange, like noises,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: like there's definitely like some like coming from like some
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: sort of large animal in the area. And okay, so
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: the old lady's name is Henry, and the thing is
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: and so. So Henry tells them that ever since the pandemic,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: she's been hearing a lot of strange noises, like there's
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: some sort of big animal won't wandering the area. And
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: she also reveals that she doesn't live that far from
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: the let me see, she doesn't live that far from
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: their local zoo from our area's local zoo on the
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Smithsonian National Zoological Park. Interesting, So she gives the boys
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: some supplies. She and they decide, well, we are, we're
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: heading south anyway, might as well go and we'll see
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: if we can find your daughter for you let her
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: know that you're still alive. So she leaves. They say,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: give a heart a heartwarming goodbye. She gives them some
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: extra supplies and they start making their way south as
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: they're not even that far. They don't make it that
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: far when they encounter a sign that says Smith's Smithsonian
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: National Zoological Park, and they're like, huh. Interesting. And as
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: they keep traveling, they pass by an area like a
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: construction site. When they hear they hear growling, and when
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: they turn around. As it turns out, after the pandemic,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: the animals were still there and the Smithsonians the Smizonian
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Zoo's uh.
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: Lions managed to escape. Uh so, so this forces the
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: boys to run, like they know, like they're not they can't.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: The boys know that they like if you run, they're smartens,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: you know, like don't run immediately because then that will
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: trigger the animals to chase them. So they slowly back
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: away from the lions. They can see that they're being
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: they're being cornered by uh several by several lionesses and
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: one big male. Yeah, so it wasn't. So they actually
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: encounter Henry after they go to the house. After they
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: go to that neighborhood to find the family of the
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: couple that Andrew killed, and then that's when they encounter Henry.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Then they start making their way to the DC International
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: and that's where they passed through the bar. They passed
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: through the zoo, like close by to the zoo, and
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: the lions attack them. Okay, I'm sorry, I mean a
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: miss I got my timelines mixed up. So neighborhood they meet,
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: they bury, the family, meet Henry, She gives them food.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: They start making their way to the airport, they encounter
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: some lions that escape from the zoo from the Swissonian Zoo,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: and uh they get separated. They get temporarily separated because
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: while because Jamie is the one who's carrying the rifle,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: because he has the Bold Action rifle his mom left
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: him and James and Jamie just has a small gun
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: but it doesn't have a lot of ammunition and it's
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: not very powerful. So luckily for them, they were near
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: a construction site and so Jamie tells Andrew to be
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: ready to run. He tells it. So Jamie tells Andrew
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: to run. He pulls up his rifle and manages to
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: shoot the shoot one of the lionesses that was closest
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: to him, which is a big Like this is kind
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: of like a big moment for him, Like he kind
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: of breaks a big barrier because several times he's had
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: to use the rifle and he hasn't been able to
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: actually like bring himself to pull the trigger. But in
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: this moment, when he realizes that him and him and
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Andrew are going to be you know, their lives are
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: in danger, he manages to like finally break that barrier,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: pull the trigger. He puts down several of the He
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: actually like injures, you know, he manages to like shoot,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: he manages to put down several of the lionesses. And
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: he does scare off the mail lion, at least he rather,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: he scares it enough to give him a chance to
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: uh to run away. Like while Andrew manages to run
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: away from the lions, Jamie is forced to run to
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: the nearest construction site and runs. And what he does
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: even climbs into one of the tractors that we're still
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: there and locks himself inside. And unfortunately, and because of that,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: he can't get away from the lions. He's stuck. He's
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: stuck in there. So Jamie manages to escape the lions
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: by climbing into uh into an abandoned tractor, one of
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: those construction what do they call us, Like it's like
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: one of those big scoops or oh my god, it's
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: the one with the big arms. Like you know, you
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: think i'd know this, like one of the things we
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: learn about as kids.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: I have a way of what they're called, but I
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: know what you're talking about, scoops up the dirt when
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: they're in the on the construction site.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, thankfully so but yeah, he thinks what he
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: manages to hide away, but he's trapped in there because
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: the lions are pacing outside the tractor. He's hoping that
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Andrew managed to get away. Andrew, on the other hand,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: he's losing his ship because he he did manage to
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: get away from the lions, but he realized he left
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Jamie behind in the process, and which fuels his guilt
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: even more. And without anything to do, he's like, not
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: sure what what else he can do. He makes his
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: he continues his way onto their like he continues his
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: way on to his destination, which is the which is
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: the house, which is the Foster's house. I'm sorry, and
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: I was trying to I couldn't. I just got their names.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: So like there so the couple that he had killed
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: in self defense. They their family name was Foster, and
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: he knew that their children were living somewhere in outside
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: of d C. So he makes so he starts making
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: his way to the neighborhood that the Fosters, they knew
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: the Fosters lived in, and while he was there, he
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: realized somebody was following him, and he hides for a bit,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: but then he realizes that that it's actually Jamie. So
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Jamie did. Man, it doesn't really like specify how like
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: doesn't go into too much detail of like how Jamie
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: managed to get away, but let me see here, like, uh,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: while Jamie was trapped this, the weather ended up turning
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: taking a turn, and a large thunderstorm came through, and
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: because it started rating lions, I guess because they're they're
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: meant for more drier climates, they didn't like being stuck
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: out in the rain, so they ended up taking off
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: to find shelter. Uh. So that gave Jamie the opportunity
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: to get out of the tractor and make his way
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: to the neighborhood. So he meets up with he meets
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: up with Andrew and then I'm sorry, guys, I got
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: the timelines completely up so early mixed up. So this
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: actually happened before they got to the so like getting
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: to the Foster's house happened before, like of course obviously
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: happened before they went to the to the airport to
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: find the relief, to find the European Union's relief. But
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: they ended up but that's when they also they met Henry,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: the old Lady Henry, and then of course the lions,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: and now they're dealing with the foster situation. So after
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: burying the Fosters and like Andrew gets his closure more
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: or less, they they began making their way to Reagan International,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: which is the airport, which is the airport that the
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: EU was supposed to be meeting at. There that they meet,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: that's of course, where they meet the other They meet
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: the other kids. They tell them. The kids tell them
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: that there's no supplies here and there's also no European
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: there's no European aid. The EU has completely collapsed and
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: now left with nothing else to do, Jamie Andrew decide, well,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: I guess it's time to keep making our way south.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: We promised to start making our way to Miami because
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: they know they because they've they've heard rumors that there's
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: possibly a safe community there. And Henry's daughter is also
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: supposed to be there as well, So they decide, well,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: while we go down there, we'll find her and tell
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: her mom still alive. Uh Now, as they're making their
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: way making their way down south. Sorry that was bad. Sorry,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: that's a bad reference.
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: Crickets, crickets, crickets, cricket sounds and sort of here mm
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: hmm yep.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: So as they continue they make their way down south,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: they run, they actually fine, they accidentally stumble across another community.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: So I will I will tell you this. This next
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: part of the story was a little bit disturbing because
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: as we all know, like in the event of like
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: total government collapse, you know, people are going to naturally
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: want to create safe communities for themselves, right And oftentimes though,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: like the kind of people that come together that make
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: these communities are that they'll often be of like minded individuals.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: So you know, best case scenario, you find in the
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: community that is accepting of all people and it is
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: just more focused on keeping everybody alive and restore re
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: establishing order, right, building state, building safe spaces. Right. But
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: then you have others who want to who would who
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: want to actually like build their own idea what a
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: civilized society should be like. And this is the community
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: they find. So this is like the community they come
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: across is uh, it's definitely a socialist community because everything
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: everybody should is shared together, Like no one really owns
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: anything all right, like it all belongs to the community.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: The community they come across is I'm gonna be just
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: straight up with you. It's like something out of The
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Handmaid's Till. Because yeah, so the like they encounter this
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: community because they're in the middle of a Fourth of
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: July celebration, so they're shooting off fireworks and they approach
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: to these people thinking they might be friendly, and for
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: the most part, they are. But when they're brought back
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: to the community, when they're brought back to the community,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: they their stuff is like almost immediately taken from them,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: their weapons, their supplies, and they're told that their supplies
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: will be added to the community supply stockpile, right, and
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: if they want their guns back, they have to go
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: check them out, like register and check them out red
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: flags because like they weren't planning on staying. But these
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: people immediately assume that, well they're going to stay, right,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: That's not like there's no efans buttz or ores. But
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: it's also very obvious that this community is being built
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: under like bid look whole ideologies, so like very conservative,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Like the men are in charge, the women are like
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: they have the women have their own roles. They notice
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: that like like when when they were they noticed that
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: when people were celebrating these people were celebrating the Fourth
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: of July, they noticed that there was like a strong
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: lack of women there, and the few women that they
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: do encounter, they're they're in these roles that are not
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: like roles of like positions of power. They're like subservient roles.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: And Andrew and Jamie are both freaked out, are freaking
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: out because they know, like, well, if this is this
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: kind of community, then they're definitely going to be very
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: very homophobic. Because I haven't really talked about this much
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: about the two of them, But the thing is is
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: that both Andrew and Jamie, like Jamie of course being
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: the gay one openly gay when he of course told
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: he did actually come clean to Andrew about his sexuality, right,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: and Andrew isn't really thought much about it for him.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: It was just more of like it's kind of assumed
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: that he would be straight and he would eventually, like
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: if life went on, he would just eventually get with
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: a girl. So I never really thought about it, so
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: it'd be like that. But there's the two so like
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Jamie is definitely developing feelings for Andrew, but he is,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: but he's reluctant to come clean about it because like
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: he doesn't want to ruin the he doesn't want to
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: ruin their friendship. He doesn't want to lose Andrew and
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: be alone and end up being alone again, So he
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: hasn't really come clean about that. But they're both slowly
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: like starting to like admit their feelings for each other. Right,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: they definitely care about each other a lot, and they know,
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: like if it's found out that the two of them
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: have a closer relationship like that, especially for Jamie, they're
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: gonna get these people are probably going to end up
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: killing them. So they barely spend less than a day,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: barely spend a day here. They do encounter some other women,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: some women there. They're set up in a hotel for
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: the night. And while they're and while they were given
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: a tour the people like the community actually goes into
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: the room, takes their ship, goes through everything. And Andrew
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: and Jamie like they split up, wanting to get their
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: stuff back. They actually uh they actually use this socialist
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: system against them. Go then they go to like the
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: supply houses, uh to check out their stuff again, like, hey,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: come we get our stuff back. We have our like
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: and like they're given vouchers for supplies, like for like
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: weekly supplies. So they're like, well, hey, we're gonna trade
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: in our vouchers and like get our stuff, like get
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: our basically get our supplies back. Right, So they much
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: everything back and they unfortunately lose one of the guns.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: But but Andrew manages to get the Andrew manages to
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: get the rifle back at the very least because or
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: rather Jamie manages to get the rifle back because they
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: won't they wouldn't let him check out both guns at
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: the same time. And like while they were when they
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: were alone and it's late, they actually managed to, uh,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: they managed to leave and escape the community. Now, before
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: they escaped, they they met this one young girl. She
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: it's not really like it's not really like put out there,
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure this girl is autistic because she's
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: very quiet, she keeps to herself, and just the way
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: like later on we she actually becomes a part of
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: her She actually becomes a part of her team. Look
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: at her name, Uh, well her name is in hereimon
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: So her name is Kara. And the thing is is
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: that they she's the receptionist at the hotel they put
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: her that they put that they were put up in
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: and they know that she's very like that the men
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: put like brush her aside and don't pay much attention
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: to her. And they also can tell like she don't like.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: They can tell that she does not like the system
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: that she's put in, and they Jamie being more he's
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: definitely a lot better at like talking to like who
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: is it. Yeah, Jamie actually manages to befriend her and
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: tells her like hey, like manages to like convince her
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: to help them like plot out, like use a map
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: and plot out their route down to Miami, and she
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: being very like detail oriented, she actually like takes the
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: atlass that that they gave her and she plots out
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: a very detailed route down to South Florida like she
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: even like she even highlights several like alternate routes to
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: take right stuff that routes that are very direct but
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: also avoid any major road or any like large communities
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: or cities. And they feel bad that they used her
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: that way, but it's very clear that it was very
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: obvious that she didn't like the system and she wanted
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: out too, So they ended up leaving their following the route.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: The sheriff of Fort Caroline and one of the deputies
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: had tracked them all the way down south. They were like,
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: by this point, they were hundreds of miles away from
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: Fort Fort Caroline. So for some reason, the Fort Caroliners
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: were like, this is where like in these kind of situations,
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: like in this kind of situation, these kind of people
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: scare me because like they don't just like let it go.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: They literally like used up a lot of resources just
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: to find these two boys. And mainly, like the sheriff's
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: motivation was because he suspected that they were gay. So
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: it was clear he was doing this out of like homophobia,
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: wanting to like wanting to put down the gay kids. Right.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: And the thing is, though, Jamie was actually really smart
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: in this uh, in this situation. Let me pull out
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: the scene here, let me see you. I'm gonna pull
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: out the scene. It's a river, yeah, it's a river. Yeah.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: So Jamie here gets really smart because when he sees
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: when he sees the sheriff, the guy's name is Harvey Rosewood,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: and the deputy he gets it, he gets an idea
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: because he's because the because Harvey had grabbed had grabbed
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: uh had grabbed his backpack from the from the bank,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: and he knew that and Jamie could see that inside
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: like the backpack was kind of slightly open, and he
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: could see that the gun was that one, that one
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: of their guns was still inside it. And Jamie gets
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: an idea. He stands up right up out of the right,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: up out of the river because like they were still
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: like they were close enough to the bank where the
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: river wasn't going like all the way up to their waists,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: so he was like kneeling down in it. So he
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: gets an idea, stands pull ups buck ass naked, right,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: and it has the intended effects. As soon as like
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: the deputy and the Sheriff's seem like stand up naked,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: they immediately look away, like like because you know you're
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: about to kill a kid for you mean, these guys
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: are about to kill a kid for being for being
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: like for stealing from them and as well as like
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: for being gay. Right, But you're still prudes enough to
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: where like you like look away from a from a
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: naked kid. Like, I don't know about you, but like
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: if I'm about to kill somebody and they're buck ass naked,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: I don't think i'd look away from them for a
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: single second, you know, mainly because like, well I look away,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: that'll give him a chance to like retaliate, yeahs. But
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: either way he gets up out of the water. You know,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: buck ass nude guys look away all because it has
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: the intended effect. They up away all like like, no,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: I don't want to look at some dude naked, right,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: and he's and he convinces and like, Mick, can I
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: at least put something on and crazy, but like without looking,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: like Harvey hands over the backpack, like, yeah, I just
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: put something on, right, we're gonna if we're gonna do this,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: I want I want to be able to look you
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: in the eye, you know, not in the dick. Wow.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: So the thing is is that well, while Harvey like
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: just hands over the bag, uh, Jamie immediately just put
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: his hand, puts his hand in the pack, pulls out
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: the gud, blows out Harvey's head.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: Damn headshot. I mean, to be fair, they had to
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: or they were going to die.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: So I mean.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: They had it coming.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah. The thing is before he can like shoot,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: before he can shoot Harvey, he tells Andrew to get
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: up out of the water. And the thing is when
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Andrew stands, he's also naked, and both both Harvey and
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: Uh and the duties with like look away all like,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: oh God, like another one right, And that's when and
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: that's when Jamie moves. He first first pulls out the gun,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: shoots the deputy in the in the stomach, and the
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: and the deputy drop immediately drops and Jamie, I think
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: it is Jamie. Like when Jamie turns his gun on Harvey,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: Harvey had had Harvey had confiscated their rifle. Problem is
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: is that the rifle was out of bullets, so he
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: was using their He was gonna try to use their
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: own rifle to shoot at Jamie and Andrew. But like when
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: Harvey pulled up the rifle and pulled the trigger and
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: it clicks. All here is a click and and like
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: barely said, Harvey barely has a second to uh, to realize,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: like he's fucked, huh, and he pulls it. He barely
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: has a second to realize that he's fucked. And when
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: Jamie like shoots him in the head.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: Damn headshot. God damn, he had it coming, He had
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: it coming. He only had himself to blame.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fortunately he only had himself to blame. You know,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: when Jamie has to run in like so the thing
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: is the deputy is still a lot because Jamie only
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: shot him in the stomach. Yeah, And the thing is,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: the deputy manages to get away, but but Jamie Andrew
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: are not worried about that. Jamie quickly rinses off because
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: when he shot Harvey, his blood got all over him.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: They quickly, they quickly grabbed their stuff, dress, and they
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: run away, really run away, they managed. So they realized that, like,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: these guys are scouting, like before he shot Harvey, they
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: had Harvey let slip that there's like an entire search
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: party looking for them, So they realized they're gonna need
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: to that one. They're afraid that maybe Karas somehow gave
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: away their the routes that they're taking, so rather than
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: do anything else, they decided to take one of the
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: lesser known routes that she had highlighted, one of the
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: smaller routes she had highlighted, hoping that maybe like they
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be discovered again. Not long after their encounter, they
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: realized someone is someone else is following them, and after
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: hiding a bit, they quickly hide and they watch out
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: for who's approaching, and they see that it's actually Kara.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: She's on bike and she's and she's running down the street.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: She's just riding down the street. They come out, confronts
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: her and quickly interrogate her. She she reveals that she
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: didn't she didn't know that they were following, that they
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: were being followed by the by the Fort Caroline people.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: She tells them, says she wanted to leave because place
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: wasn't that place wasn't good for her either. So reluctantly
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: they decide, well, brother, they're not going. It's best not
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: to just leave her because she knows. Because she knows
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: exactly where they're going. So if Fort finds her and
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: interrogates her or even takes the at List from her,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: her own copy of the Atlast from her, they know
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: exactly where the boys would be. Yeah, so they take
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: her with them. They take her with them. They keep
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: going further further south. They're making They make it about
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: like a good way down, like about halfway down the panhandle,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: Like okay, on on the Panhandle is the leg that
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: goes down into like the Atlanta right because like you know,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: like the way Florida shaped, Like, there's the top part
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: that like connects with like the the other states, and
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: then there's the leg that goes down into the Gulf
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: to the Atlantic. So that's the pan right, yeah, yes, okay,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: So they make it about halfway down the Panhandle when
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: unfortunately they run in to the Fort Caroline search party again.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately they they were ambushed and let me see yep,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: so they get they get it captured by then. And
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: the thing is is that r V, being the son
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: of the community of Fort Caroline's leader, since they killed him,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: he ends up going on a complete like revenge chase.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: Like gets he gets a huge revenge boner and ruthlessly
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: pursues these boys. They get ambushed outside of a of
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: a shopping mall, and the cool cool thing is is
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: that only Andrew and Jamie get captured. They don't realize
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: that Kara is also with them, so Carl manages to
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: create a distraction and Andrew and Jamie managed to get
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: away long manage to get away and hide. But when
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: they escape, the Fort Caroliners start shooting at them, and
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: unfortunately Jamie gets shot in the Stumm.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: No, m hm, they can't do this to me.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So the thing is is that when they get shot,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: they actually also managed to like shoot back, and some
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: of the Fort Caroliners get hit and they also go down.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: They managed to hide from the Fort Caroliners because it's
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: very dark and they don't have enough light, so the
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: Furth Caroliners aren't able to find them, so they while
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: they're hiding. They while they're hiding, they hear the four Caroliners.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: The rest of the search party from the Fort Caroliners
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: gather around and the leader shows up. The leader shows up,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: he's he's really pushing for them to keep searching for
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: these boys. But the thing is is that his own
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: deputies turn on him and tell him that we've had enough. Okay,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: normally don't we don't waste resources on stuff, on stupid
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: stuff like this. All right, Already we wasted a lot
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: of resources trying to find the boys in the first place,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: and as a results, they killed your son, okay, and
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: now we've wasted even more resources trying to find them
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: to bring them, to bring them to justice quote unquote justice.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: And they're like this, that's it. We have to call
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: it here. We're wasting too much resources on these kids
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: and they keep getting away, that's it. So they basically
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: they twist his arm tell them and I'm like, you're
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: not We're not going any further. We've already lost too
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: many men, We've used up too many resources on your
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: stupid little revenge quests. So they so basically they mute
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: me against the lead, this dude, their illustrious leader, and
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: pack up and go back to Fort Caroline. Kara finds
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: Andrew and Jamie. But this is when Andrew realizes that
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: Jamie has been shot and Jamie is deteriorating very quickly. Uh.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: Luckily for them, Luckily for them, Jamie's uh, Jamie's mother's
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: notebook had uh had just the right, had like a
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: section about treating gunshot wounds, so they were able to,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: for the most part, treat Jamie make sure they managed
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: to stop the bleeding. Unfortunately, infection does begin to see
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: set in and and and a few days later, Jamie
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: starts becoming feverish, and they don't know exactly like what
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: part of his like if like he's bleeding internally or
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: he has been if he like if maybe one of
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: his intestines were nicked. They know that he's deteriorating fast,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: so Kara and Andrew managed to put together a makeshift
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: stretcher and they tie it to the back of Carral's
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: bike and they quickly start making their way further down south.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: They eventually come across the route that they take eventually
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: hits a gate, huge gate, clearly something that wasn't there,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: that wasn't there before the pandemic, and they can't get
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: through it. And Andrew he's crying, he's losing his shit
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: because like it's at this point of course, when when
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: Jamie is dying that he finally confesses, like I love you,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: I can't lose you.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because the thing is that both boys up put
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 6: to this point have been like secretly crushing on each
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 6: other because like Andrew eventually realizes that he actually cares
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 6: about Jamie a lot. Okay, he never really thought of
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 6: a boy like that before, but this boy in particular,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 6: he's like, I can't lose you.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: I love you. Like like, oh my god, you're I
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: don't mean to make fun, but like you know, it's
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: it really be that type.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: Shit, really be like that. Yeah.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like I don't want to admit my
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: feelings for this guy. Boom, oh my god, he's almost dead.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: I love you. Please don't die.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: Don't die on me, bitch the fuck.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So the cool thing is is that the gate
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: had its own surveillance, and uh the whoever was watching
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: saw the saw the kids come up, and they sent
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: a guard up to the gate to investigate. So a
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: truck pulls up to the gate. The guards come out.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: You know you have guns. They say, like, what are
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: you doing here? Andrew Begson, Please, my friend has been shot.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: Please help us, like we've like, we've come so far,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: tried so hard. In the end, it doesn't even matter.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, canceled, canceled, fired.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: You can't cancel me.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: I can't to delete. I would never.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So the guards take pity on them. They load Andrew,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: they load Jamie up in the truck and take Andrew
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: and car for the South and they take him to
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: a medical facility. Uh deep within Miami. Uh so what
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: had happened? So as they learn is that within Miami
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: South Beach there there was like a bit of a
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: relief There actually was a relief effort that was set
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: up by local government. And the thing is is that
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: they had set up a safe zone in and around
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: Miami and the Florida Keys. So this safe zone, there's
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: like actually a lot of people living there. Uh. The
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: communities are it's safe, there's no infection, there's actually electricity,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: running water, and uh, they also have a state of
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: the art medical facility. So they bring Jamie in. They
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: treat him, they give him man much needed antibiotics, and
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: he makes in actually makes full recovery. So after he recovers,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: you know, he and and He and Andrew have a
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: heart to heart they at this point, that's when like
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: they finally like fully confess their feelings for each other,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: and they also decide, like, hey, we still got some
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: unfinished unfinished business. They go down they uh they inquire around,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: and they actually find out that Henry's daughter is living
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: in the community, So she's alive and she's there, so uh,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: their appointed liaison within the community takes them to there,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: uh takes them to her house. They meet her, they talk,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: They tell her about Henry and how she's still alive.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: She's saying she's surprised but thankful that she now knows
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: like what happened to her mom, and there's a part
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: of her that wants to find her and possibly bring
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: her down here. But the boys point out that she's
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: old and stubborn get lucky atting her leave, but still
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: they want to do what they can to try to,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: like because they had to take care of her, right, Like,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: they can't just leave an elderly woman like that alone,
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: especially in the area she's in because she's not that
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: far from where the lions.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: Have been prowling exactly.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean she has a gun, so she could
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: probably take care of herself, but nope, one mistake in
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: those lions will get her. So this is pretty much
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: where the book is coming to an end. Andrew and
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: Jamie are given a house together, are given a cabin together,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: and it's it doesn't really say like how much of
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: a time gap happens, but there does happen to be
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: like a bit of a significant time gap, but like
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: a time jump. They're living together. One of the boys
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: is starting to feel restless. Let me see, let me see.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: It doesn't actually say who. Yeah, in the end, it
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: doesn't really say who's like the one like, so, like
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: the thing is that like it's there's like a bit
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: of a there's a few months time gap in the end,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: Like in the apologue, there's like a bit of a
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: time jump. Boys have settled into a cabin together and
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: they were actually they've been they're actually making plans with
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: the community, with their new community to go to go
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: and pick up Henry, okay, because they can't leave real long.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: But they've also been talking together about possibly permanently leaving
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: the Miami Settlement the South Beach Settlement because both of
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: them realize that, like they can easily survive on their
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: own without needing the community's help. There's both both of
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: them have been feeling like this sort of this feeling
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: of restlessness and also this sense that like this is
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: not going to last, like for them at least it's
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: not gonna last. And they're also worried that, Like, they're
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: also worried about a few things because they know that
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: the settlement is trying to get in touch with other
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: with other major settlements that have popped up in the area,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: including the Fort Caroliner Settlement, So they don't want to,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: Like there's a part of them that's afraid that if
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: the Fort Caroline are set up like a steady communication
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: and they learn that the boys are there, it's going
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: to cause issues. So they're both trying to decide whether
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: or not, like when they go get Henry, whether or
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: not they're gonna come back with the expedition group with her,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: or if they're just going to send her back to
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: Miami and then just go and just go on their
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: own way. So there's decisions that are gonna be made.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: I've just really I just learned recently that this is
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: actually this is actually a two part series. So this
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: is only book one. Oh yeah, and there is a
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: book two on let me see what's book two? Uh
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: So Book two is called The Only Light Left Burning,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: And like in that one, you know, that's where like
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: they they both begin facing like their own desires, like
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: Jamie wants to go on the road, Andrew wants to
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  Speaker 1: stay in a safe like in a safe, safe environment.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: You know, they still have to go back into the
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: wilderness to get Henry. But like that's where like we'll
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: see the conclusion of that story. But this is the
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: conclusion of this story. They decide, like at this point,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: they decide they don't have to decide, they don't have
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: to make these decisions right now because like it's in
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: like it's good close to winter, Hurricane season is almost over,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: and they and they're just trying to make sure that
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: like you know, things are safe and like safe and
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: favorable for them before they head out, all right, so
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: that's the end of all that's left in the world.
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  Speaker 1: It was definitely it was cute, It was wholesome, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was refreshing, you know, it was definitely
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  Speaker 1: like there was definitely like many like points in the
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: book where it was like intense, you know, life threatening,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like have you on the edge of your seat,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: But the ending was very it was bittersweet. I would
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: say it's bittersweet because you know, they're together, they're finally together,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: they're in a safe community, but yet there's still some
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: like there's still a sense of restlessness between the two
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: of them, Like they care about each other, but they
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: both have their own wants and they both have their
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: own wants. One of them wants to leave, other one
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: wants to stay, you know, like like that classic song
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: should I Stay? Should I go? Now?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, we'll have to do the next book at
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 3: some point.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, eventually we'll do the next book. It's gonna be
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: like near the bottom of my reading list because like
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: I just barely started. A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinman.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: This is the let Me See You one, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: book eight of the Dungeon Crawler series Dungeon Crawler Carl series,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: Like I'm barely like past the first chapter, uh like
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: first couple of chapters that and like already I'm like.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, some things we're going somewhere, like there's ship starring
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: like I gotta tell you though, like book seven, cause
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: I'll it caused a lot of shit. They they really
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: upset the balance of power. So now we're seeing is yeah,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: so hoping to get that done soon. I've been taking
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: my time with it, like I usually read when like
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: I have free time, or like when I'm at work
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: and there's like a lot of debt, like you know,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: there's not a lot of calls that'd take because I
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: work at a call center. I usually read between calls.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: But lately, whenever I try to read, as soon as
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: I open my book and settle in, I get a
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: new call. Like I'll even like give myself a few
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: minutes like before, like all right, well it's kind of dead,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: no one's calling. Opens book takes out, uh takes out, bookmark,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: finds the place I left off on the page. Call
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: comes in. I usually be type shit right there. But anyway,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: that was all that stuff in the world. And this
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: is what the third book, for the third book that
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: we're reviewing for for Pride month, we got how many
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: weeks have we gotten this year? In this moment, all right?
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: Next week will be the last one for Pregnant.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: At the time it's recording, we're already like it's already
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: like we're already halfway through the month, right right. I
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: haven't yet to do anything for Pride.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: Neither have I. It's just been rainy. Granted, I'm going
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 3: down to a theme. I'm going down to Disney World
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: and Universal during Pride months. I'm hoping, I know Disney
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: does stuff for Pride. I'm hoping they do something for Pride.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 3: They're doing something like something so I can enjoy the.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: Gay I was in Miami. I was in Miami at
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the month, and I didn't have enough
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: time to do a lot of Pride stuff. I tried
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: to go into some Pride stores, but Miami is so
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: freaking expensive that I spent more money on than I
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: did on doing stuff I actually wanted. And the most
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: they did was go to a gay bar. Like I
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: went to a gay bar and it was karaoke night.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 3: E which way gay bar.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: I was like, I felt like a loser. I felt
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: like such a loser being there because it was it
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: was like June first when I went beginning of Pride,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: and I felt like it's a loser because I didn't
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: know anybody there. I didn't want to get up and
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: singing like do like do assuming for karaoke, like I
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: didn't want to, like I'm too shy for that. And
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: I was just sitting there and I'm like, I'm missing
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: my boyfriend. I was like, I wish my boyfriend was here,
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: be a lot more fun. But oh well, got hopefully
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing some like a couple more Pride
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: like Pride themed events throughout this month though, Like I'm
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: also moving this month, so that's good. Things are overlapping
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: and I we're in the worst way possible.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 3: I no, no, no, no no. What you're doing and moving
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 3: is pretty gay because you're moving in with your boyfriend
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 3: during Proud month, No Rose, but.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: I actually want to go out and enjoy being gay
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: almost sexual.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 3: Moving in with a boyfriend couldn't be me?
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: Is me? Literally has been me, has been you. It's
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: literally you right now you live with your boyfriend.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 3: Oh you, and it's lovely.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're going to Disney World with your boyfriend.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 3: I am oh my god.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: Oh that couldn't be me.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 3: Bullshit, it is me. I am doing that said thing.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: But that is to end up today's episode. Catch us
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 3: next week as we finish off with a going back
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: to the smut, because you know it's me, it's gonna be.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: Next week's gonna be a shorter episode because why you
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 3: listen to a podcaster in Pride Month. I mean, great,
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: give us the views, give us the listeners, but like,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 3: go do some pred events next week. It's gonna be
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 3: a shorter episode just for that. Go enjoy Pride Month.
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  Speaker 3: Pregnant harr Krastler until then, Bye bye,