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Point Pine Series · INSPIRE STORY

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to grip Cast. We are going to be
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  doing something. I don't think we've ever done this before.
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  We're going back so we've read things before that was fun,
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  and usually we don't go into the sequels or anything.
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  This is the first time I think we've gone back
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  into a series. I know people have wanted us to
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  go back into the tales from the Gas Station series.
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  People want us to finish the person, the thing in
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  my basement, whatever, and all that stuff. But this was
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  one that we were pretty excited and we've been talking
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  to the author, Gabby, and she even gave us a
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  little exclusive, so she just sweetened the pot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, if you'll remember, a while back, we read
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  a story called let Me Get It Right. Every month,
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  the parade would pass through my hometown, but we were
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  never allowed to look at it. We read that story
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  and it was pretty awesome. It was about a group
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  of kids who there's a parade that passes through town
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  and the parents tell all the kids they can't go outside,
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  and then a group of them sneak out and it
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  seems to be we never see what it is, but
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  seems to be a sort of sacrifice. Saying that the
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  kids inducted into It's like this small town has to
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  appease some ancient deity. Very cool. We also read two
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  other stories from her in that same episode, one of
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  which is the most up voted story on No Sleep.
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  My Sugar Daddy asked me for weird favors, and she
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  wrote the story about the guy who follows me everywhere,
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  about the guy that turns around just counts down. And
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  we read another one of her stories about if you
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  see me, please kill me, about the girl who had
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  the boyfriend who slowly became her. So every recording, yes
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  and more recent recording, everything we've read from Gabby's been awesome,
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  and everyone who has read the rest of her stuff
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  has been like, guys, you liked the first part of
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  the Point Pine series, the one about the parade, you
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  have to read the rest of it. Well. The reason
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  that's what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: The reason that we're even diving back into this too,
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  is that the Patreon was they were like, you should
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  read the rest of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had we had a poll on Patreon, what
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  you what like series you wanted to see while we're
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  recording in person, and overwhelmingly Point Pine one and no
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  one wanted to see the rest of Point Pine, so
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  it reached out to Gabby, and Gabby sent us you
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  know the whole series, said we could read it, and
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  she gave us another Point Pine entry she's never posted,
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  called the History of Point Pine. So I'm pretty excited.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the first one we're reading today is every thirteenth
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  of the month, a new apartment Piers my building. Guys,
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  if you're listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please give
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  us a nice rating there or consider listening there. It
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  does help us out. And also, you know, to our patrons,
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  thank you for voting on this for our read today.
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  And also if you're looking to get some extra content
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  and also support the channel, please consider signing up to
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  the Patreon. It does help us out.
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  Speaker 2: And also Gabby Her Reddit profile name is E A
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  P A t BP. I have no idea what that
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  means for how to pronounce it, but it'll be linked
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  in the description. You can read all of her stories.
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  We're obviously very grateful for her being so cool and
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  giving us exclusive content like this, so as always but
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  especially now, be sure to support the artist. So let's
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  do it. Let's get into it. Are you ready to begin?
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  It's been a while since we've done a long series
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  like this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I know these are usually not I
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  wouldn't say bite size stories, but they're like little quick
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  hits that that kind of come in and out real quick,
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  like little little fun vignettes. But there are I think
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  we're reading like eight or nine of them, so I
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  think eight.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure. Trap in, trap In. Let's begin. Every
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  thirteenth of the month, a new apartment appears in my building.
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  And here did Point pine Oaks for my grandfather after
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  my father wanted nothing to do with it. I, on
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  the other hand, was broke and in need of a
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  place to stay and a job, and well, beggars can't
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  be choosers. So that's the answer to the question that
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  I get asked any time that I'm out and about
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  on the street of our town.
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  Speaker 1: How on earth did you get stuck with that place?
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  Speaker 2: Everyone can see what Point pine Oaks is, which is
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  an apartment building that is six stories tall with twelve
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  apartments on each floor. The outside of the building looks
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  pretty normal. It's just a brick building at the end
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  of a briar road, which is a cul de sac
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  that contains no other buildings on the street except for
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  Point Pine Oaks. My grandfather bought the building in late
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  twenty thirteen. It had been abandoned for over three decades
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  and the town was eager for someone to buy it.
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  It became his passion project, and he fixed up in
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  January of twenty fourteen, and the building soon became the
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  biggest apartment building in all of Point Pine. Any resident
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  of Point Pine knows that the Oaks are anything but normal. However, starters,
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  no one ever decides to move in. If people want
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  an apartment, they have to go all the way to
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  the opposite side of town where the apartment complex is.
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  You see, people don't move into the Oaks. It just
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  kind of Every thirteenth of the month, a new apartment
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  appears until each floor has twelve rooms, and then the
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  following year a new floor appears to commentate the next
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  twelve apartments. Oh, and I suppose I should also mention
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  none of the residents are human, at least not normal
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  living humans. My grandfather made it very clear to me
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  that humans do not live in Point Pine Oaks, with
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  the exception of the owner, which is now me. He
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  never explained to me why humans are not allowed in
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  the oaks, and I never really asked because it just
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  felt like the kind of rule that you follow without
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  asking any questions.
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  Speaker 1: Seems like a kind of story. We're leaning into the
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  tills to the gas station, We're leaning into the vampire hotel.
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  Speaker 2: I think so, given that our first story in the
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  series was about a child whose parents had a role
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  for them, if I had guess every point pint Entry
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  is going to be from a different point of view
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  in the town.
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  Speaker 1: Is it going to be in the town or is
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  it going to be in the apartment complex of town?
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  Speaker 2: Because the first one had nothing to do with the
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  apartment cause.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the first one was a house.
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  Speaker 2: No, the first one was kids at school who snuck
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  out to see the parade.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was them looking at the I thought
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  it was them looking at the parade from their house.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember. No, they run over to the side
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  of the bank and they lay down and they all
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  close their eyes, but one of them looks and they
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  all come over and take the kid. Yeah. So I imagine
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  each story in the series is going to be from
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  a different kids point of view.
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  Speaker 1: Right, that makes sense? What the fuck is the the
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  West Side? Not West side stories, but it's like the
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  by the.
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  Speaker 2: School wayside upside down sidewayside school for whatever, sideways stories
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  from wayside schooling like that kind of like that vibe. Yeah, yeah,
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  that's cool. Yeah, it's a different perspective.
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  Speaker 1: I only know children literature, but yeah, I know I
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  can reference children's literature. Wish I had something else, but
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  sadly I don't.
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  Speaker 2: But there's another there's another horror story that follows that
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  same convention. I can't think of. There's a curely infrequency,
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  but there's some TV show where it's like the same setting,
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  different perspectives throughout anyway. The entire first floor houses people
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  who have died outside of the town. You see, anytime
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  a prior resident of Point Pine dies, they wake up
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  again here Point Pine. Usually they're putting some secluded house
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  up in the mountains, but for reasons unknown, they all
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  ended up here at the Point Pine Oaks in twenty fourteen.
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  The second floor houses the creatures with the eyes that
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  two wide, teeth that are too sharp, in skin that
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  is too green. They first appeared in Point Pine in
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  twenty fifteen and have been in charge of the farmer's
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  market since they're relatively nice and tend to mind their
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  own business. But that doesn't mean that they don't still
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  freak me out every time I see them in the building.
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  They're incredibly long, arms dragging the floor on the third
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  floors where the collectors live. The leader of the collectors
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  is a ten year old Mary Lou Birmingham. Mary Lou
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  is the one who collects children's teeth. Of course, she
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  doesn't take them right out of their mouths, that would
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  be horrifying. She sneaks into their homes after their baby
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  teeth fall out and takes them from under their pillows instead,
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  like the tooth Fairy. Most of the collectors or children,
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  with the exception of old Man Jones, who was an
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  old man as the name wouldn't do.
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  Speaker 1: We piached that one together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've figured that one out, thank you. Some of
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  the children collect dead bucks, others collect less unsettling things
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  like flowers, but some collected dirt from graves. Cemetery on
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  the fourth floor live all the people who died in
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  twenty seventeen with the bell tower appeared in Windsor Park.
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  No one ever figured out what the deal was with
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  that bell tower, but exactly twelve people died that year
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  as soon as they saw it. Once the people of
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  Point Pine picked up on the pattern stopped going into
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  Windsor Park. Of course, after that the bell on the
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  tower would just ring every month and still manage to
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  kill more people. But that's a different story.
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  Speaker 1: I like to think too that, uh, if this is
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  the first entry of the story, it'd be kind of
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  cool if that was what was setting up every story.
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  You know, like.
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  Speaker 2: All the rest of her part got mentioned in the
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  first one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh maybe, I mean, don't ask me. I can't remember anything,
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  but I will say like using this as like a
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  fun catalyst of being like, here's all these interesting people
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  that live in this apartment, and then now every other
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  story subsequently afterwards is going to be the happening to
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  why those people died and showed up here. That'd be
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  kind of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it might be that she made the first story
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  the parade one. I just used Point Pine as a
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  filler name, and then everyone was like, this is great,
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  you should write more in there, Harry.
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  Speaker 1: Was point the first Point Pine thing that we read?
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  Was it the parade was the first story? But was
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  that the first first story of it? Or is the
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  or is the apartment building the first story that the
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  Prade is the first The Parade is the first story.
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  Speaker 3: The series, because she's we read other story, like shorter
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  stories from her that.
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  Speaker 1: Weren't part of the Point Pine series.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but she was saying, so the the Parade was
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  the first story, and then we're gonna go back and
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  read all the ones that are like in that kind
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  of world, and then so I have them laid out
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  in the sheet in order from the author of like
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  how it should go, plus the bonus story at the
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  end that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but the what might have happened is
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  that first story she made point Bums just to fill
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  her name and everyone's like, this is awesome, you should
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  write more there. She's like, all right, I'll make a series,
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  and this is like it's the second entry, but it's
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  the kick off to the series by all this extra lore.
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  But I almost feel like Windsor Park's familiar.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't I why don't we ask her editor put
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  it up?
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  Speaker 2: Who would have thought I wouldn't because I don't know
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  yet because that's in the future. Well, but yeah, we can.
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  Speaker 1: It just popped after that.
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  Speaker 2: But the when the post goes up and be in
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  the past for me, but it's currently in the future. Yeah,
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  well made that median point in time. Who would have
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  thought on the fifth floor are the invisible vampires, but
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  we don't talk about them?
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  Speaker 1: Well, all right, I like invisible vampire, your invisible Andrew vampire.
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  That's a deadly combo.
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  Speaker 2: That's a rough thing. That's a problem. The sixth floor
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  appeared this year, and so far the tenants of that
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  floor were not of one specific species, and they don't
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  seem to have anything in common. First family to appear
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  is in no mouths and communicate by somehow talking inside
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  my head. February, one of the sacrifices from the Point
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  Pine Parade showed up March. It was a headless man.
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  April brought a family of cookies.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you say, cookies, cookies, coop.
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  Speaker 2: Cookieshuck cuck cucks.
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  Speaker 1: I don't fucking know, dude.
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  Speaker 2: April brought a family of kokies that almost gave me
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  a heart attack the first time I saw them.
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  Speaker 1: It's a uh el Kukui is a mythical shape shifting
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  boogeyman and Spanish and Latin American folklore used to scare
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  children too behaving or sleeping. Oh, of course, not sure
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  if that's the it's also pronounced Coco as well.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the cocu coke just Coco.
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  That's what a millisecond Google search it did. But I
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  have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: April brought a family of cocoas that almost gave me
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  a heart attack the first time that I saw them.
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  They were by far the most horrifying residents of the building.
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  They're huge red eyes that rattled around in their skulls.
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  They're decane black skin that was crawling with maggots. Upon
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  opening their mouths, the building shook with a horrible screeching
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  sound that was like nails on a chalkboard at six
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  percent volume.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like Lee Cronin's The Mummy. Does that not literally
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  sound like Lee Cronin's The Mummy so loud?
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  Speaker 2: Gosh?
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  Speaker 1: Also the rattling, the dead skin.
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  Speaker 4: Lee Cronan's The Mummy, Lee Cronan's The Point Pine Place.
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  Speaker 2: Don't break came into.
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  Speaker 3: This like the.
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  Speaker 1: Cronins The Mummy. If you didn't, if you didn't attach
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  the Mummy to it, I would have believed. Well, I
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  guess I still couldn't. I just if it was if
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  it was like this is a random town. This is
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  a ritual they do. I'd be like, they probably took
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  this from a crepypasta, because yeah, it did. It did
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  have a creepypasta vibe to you. Lee Cronin's the Creepy Pasta.
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  Lee Cronin's the Creepy Basta put in a very put
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  a put in a very loud sound effect.
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  Speaker 4: The Cronan is the creep cast.
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  Speaker 2: Don't bring him into this. In May, a seemingly more
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  normal looking family moved in, which terrified me just a
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  bit more than the cuckoos had until they invited me
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  to dinner and I watched their lower jaws drop to
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  their shoulders as each one ate an entire raw chicken
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  in one bite. June brought a demon who would routinely
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  set fires in the building, but other than that it
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  appeared to stay out of everyone else's way. Last month
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  brought the window goes, which was which were by far
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  the hardest to deal with. We had to come up
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  with an agreement that they would only eat the undead
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  folks on the first floor, since they would just wake
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  up in their apartments again the next day, and therefore
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  they wouldn't technically be hurt at anybody today. The new
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  apartment didn't appear until noon. This was odd because they
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  usually appear right at the midnight. On the thirteenth, stood
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  on the sixth floor, staring at the empty wall until
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  a door suddenly appeared, apartment number sixty eight.
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  Speaker 1: I took a few deep.
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  Speaker 2: Breaths to prepare myself for whatever hideous monster would answer
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  the door, and then lifted my hand and knock. Coming,
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  We called from inside. I heard footsteps approach, and then
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  the door opened up in front of me.
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  Speaker 5: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: There was a woman standing in the apartment. She looked
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  normal enough, all in blonde, with the tattoo of a
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  rose on her left forearm.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, I'm the owner of this building, the landlord. My
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  name is Eric.
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  Speaker 2: Extended my hand out, bracing myself for some sort of
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  heat or coldness or shock.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Gwen, nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 2: Shook my hand with a strong grip. It was a
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  normal handshake, but I wasn't gonna relax just yet. I
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  needed to give it a few minutes to know what
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  exactly these new residents were.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come in, I'll introduce you to my family.
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  Speaker 2: Slowly followed her into the apartment, looked around. Seemed pretty normal,
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  and again, all the apartments seem normal. It's things that
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  live inside that aren't normal. Hey, guys, come out here,
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  Gwyn called into the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like some water? Oh? No, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: I turned at the sound of footsteps to see two
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  kids and another woman walk out into the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: This is my wife, Laura and our kids, Kimberly and Christopher.
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  Speaker 6: Nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 2: Laura stuck her hand out and I shook it again.
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  It was normal.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Eric, the owner of the building. Nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 2: There's a brief moment of awkward silence.
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  Speaker 1: So do you have any questions?
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  Speaker 2: Kids took off there with Gwyn and Laura.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So what are the rules? Are we allowed to,
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  you know, paint the walls and hang stuff up? Oh yeah,
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  I mean you can decorate this place. How are you want? Awesome? So,
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  if you don't mind me asking, what are you? Excuse me,
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  what are you I mean? I don't mean to be
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  offensive anything, I just like to know.
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  Speaker 2: Laura Gwenn exchanged looks.
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  Speaker 1: Like lesbians, are you allowed to ask that?
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  Speaker 2: When asked, narrowing her eyebrows, no.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like, what are you? I know you're not human?
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  Eric is either extremely based or.
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  Speaker 2: Lee Cronin's the Eric Stigma Sigma edit like no, but
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  like I know you're not human?
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  Speaker 1: No, I mean I don't care. I'm just saying it.
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  Speaker 2: Are you guys? Like?
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  Speaker 1: What bug people?
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  Speaker 2: Now? The Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Lee Cronin's the lesbians.
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  Speaker 3: This is an average conversation that I have on every day.
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  Speaker 1: And then I step out of the super U and
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  how they're gonna say this is an average conversation, Nick Hause?
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  Every day? Are you people?
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  Speaker 2: Laura laughed?
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  Speaker 1: Not human? What do you think we are? Like mythical creatures?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. That's why I'm asking. I mean, your
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  neighbors are wind to Goes and there's a family of
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  Coco's down the hall. Is this some kind a joke?
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  Is because we're new? No? Well then we're just regular humans.
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  Speaker 2: I stared at them.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't you ever seen a human before? Not a regular one,
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  at least not in this building. Okay, now you're freaking
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  me out. Do you not know where you are? Well? Sure,
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  we're in Colorado? Right, No, this isn't Colorado. What do
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  you mean?
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  Speaker 2: Where are we?
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  Speaker 7: Then?
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  Speaker 1: Point Pine? Where you're in? Point Pine? It's a small
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  town in the middle of nowhere. Do you think it's
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  people that don't know that they're dead yet.
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  Speaker 2: Could be people that don't know that they're dead, beetle,
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  It could be a teleport thing, yea.
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  Speaker 1: Anne Hathaway, Ew McGregor, movie guys, our house, our street,
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  our neighborhood. I have to keep explaining being easy gone, to.
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  Speaker 2: Keep explaining the references and running with a dinosaur last night.
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  Last night we went to go see The Mummy.
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  Speaker 1: We take.
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  Speaker 2: The Mummy and it was awful. It's terrible. Uh. And
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  we did put up a we put a video on
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  Patreon of us like it was.
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  Speaker 1: So bad that we recorded us talk.
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  Speaker 2: It's like forty minutes of me and Hunter talking about
• 18:31
  how bad the movie. Yeah, so if you want to
• 18:34
  pay money for that, it's on the page.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: That wasn't really that's just more so we didn't know
• 18:38
  where else to put it.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: That that's Catharsis for us. But it was so bad.
• 18:44
  That's why he keeps saying Lee Cronin's the blank.
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: And also there was a trailer before it. If I
• 18:50
  kid you not you and McGregor and Anne Hathaway, whose
• 18:54
  street is teleported to a dinosaur land? Yeah, it's it's
• 18:58
  a normal American suburb, but there's dinosaurs.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Now, Oh my god. I thought all of the trailers
• 19:10
  looked so bad.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Which, honestly, which hold on that one can be can't
• 19:15
  be fine?
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: The potential to have a street telephone at.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: The dinosaur landers. How are they going to play? You know?
• 19:20
  The problem with Lee cronin the moment. I mean there's
• 19:22
  a lot of problems, but a problem was it did
• 19:25
  not know what it was. It was far too serious
• 19:27
  for the campiness of the story and stuff like that.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that it was trying to do like
• 19:30
  a Evil Dead two black comedy thing. But the thing
• 19:33
  with Evil Dead two is that it's like slapstick with.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Ashes and black comedy.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: But no, that's what I'm saying. I think that like it.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: It should have been yeah, yeah, or like the original
• 19:42
  Mommy the Brendan Fraser won that movie knew what it was.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: That's that's I would say, that's like a I would
• 19:45
  say that's like a horror comedy.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. But when it wants to be funny, it
• 19:49
  knows what it's doing with Like it's like.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: The trailers, this is gonna sorry to derail this. With
• 19:55
  the trailers to this were so bad. I seriously believe it.
• 20:00
  I seriously believe The Past the Passenger looks like one
• 20:02
  of the worst movies.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: It probably will be let me finish my thought.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Not of all time, but like The Year or whatever.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: The Dinosaur one. There's no way that film takes itself
• 20:12
  too seriously one hundred percent does There's no one hundred
• 20:16
  percent because if it because you Jurassic part doesn't take
• 20:19
  any halfway.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: If it was an halfway, Mark Wahlberg, I would agree, Okay,
• 20:24
  and hathway E McGregor. They're playing they're playing that to
• 20:26
  be like, these are serious, these are actors.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be this whole story about family too.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, do me wrong. It's not gonna be It's
• 20:34
  not gonna be a grizzly it's not gonna be a
• 20:36
  grizzly horror. Yeah, but I do believe it's going to
• 20:40
  They're gonna try to do like a like a less
• 20:43
  comp like because Jurassic Park had was kind of campy
• 20:45
  and fun.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Knew what it was.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not gonna be that. I don't think
• 20:49
  it'll be that.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I think I think it'll least match Tripp.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I think they're going to try to be scary.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Even Jurassic World, they still knew what they were with
• 20:56
  all the dramatic shots and like action segments and stuff like.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: That squirrel that.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I didn't like any of the sequels, but the first
• 21:03
  Drassic World like it. It was fun. What it wanted
• 21:05
  to be.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I ala know is the passenger I editor put up
• 21:09
  is the passenger A is that a creepy that? That's
• 21:12
  that is a creepy pastum that has to.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Be a well, yeah, it's the old story of the
• 21:16
  hitchhiker in the passenger seat you're driving a loan and
• 21:18
  well that's why at first I was like, oh my god,
• 21:20
  you see him doing that?
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: At first, at first I was like, oh my god,
• 21:23
  is this a fucking left right game movie. That's what
• 21:25
  I thought when I first saw it. Because the whole thing,
• 21:28
  too is like, oh, don't look at him. Yeah right,
• 21:30
  And so then the whole thing is that it keeps
• 21:31
  doing the repeat. Yeah. I was like, oh, I actually hype.
• 21:35
  For a second, I was like, oh damn. And then
• 21:37
  it and then it cuts to the and then the
• 21:42
  third he does. Also, I hate that every fucking horror
• 21:46
  movie trailer. People are just screaming. Yeah, that's old is
• 21:51
  all of them? Can there not be any That's why
• 21:54
  That's why sometimes I have a cane pixels the background
• 21:57
  and you're like, oh, I have a good feeling about
• 21:59
  this this trailer whenever it's it's like, oh, it's a
• 22:01
  horror film, but it's uh, it's not just screaming at
• 22:04
  my face the whole time. Also, I about lost my
• 22:07
  fucking mind when that old bitchum and Cidious popped up
• 22:09
  in that trailer.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: I was like, oh God, you have a gift.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, there.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: There's the trailer for a horror movie. And it was like,
• 22:19
  what's this is? Like kind of a ghost family and
• 22:21
  then the Insidious like medium pops up. It's like all right.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: As soon as I saw it from James Wall or
• 22:26
  from Jason Bloom and James Wand I was like, oh fuck.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Well, that's just well at the end of the League
• 22:32
  Cronin's the Mummy. That showing up in the credits was
• 22:36
  the most sense the night had made.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Dude, Well, yeah, when I have to sit through the
• 22:40
  seventy five minute long intro that Bloomhouse makes you sit
• 22:42
  through that getting up other films goes to Egypt. That's
• 22:45
  how I knew that Blomhouse is horrible. That's the worst.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: It's just them, our fucking bops.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: That's Jason Bloom basically taking a giant mirror putting up
• 22:54
  on the wall and he's just jacking off and coming
• 22:56
  all over the mirror. I think, uh, that I'm Jason.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: I think early in the studio there's a I liked
• 23:02
  the first Insidious when it came out, I thought it
• 23:04
  was fine. It's when it became a million sequels I
• 23:07
  was like.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: It's hard to it's hard to look back with anything
• 23:11
  in hindsight. Now with what has happened, I know, I
• 23:13
  get it, you know, so it is what it is? Also,
• 23:18
  all right, we got it?
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Point Pine.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Laura ran to the window in the living room and
• 23:23
  pulled the curtains back in gas what is it? When
• 23:26
  asked turning around. Their window had a view of some
• 23:29
  of the buildings in the town below, along with a
• 23:32
  giant sign right outside Welcome to Point Pine. Population unknown.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: All right, I don't understand, Yeah, me neither. How do
• 23:42
  we get here?
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: I shruggs.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I don't really know how people get here? They sort
• 23:46
  of just show up? Okay, then how do we get
• 23:49
  to Colorado.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Or asked, backing away from the window. You don't.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: What do you mean, can't willingly leave Point Pine? Once
• 23:58
  you're here, everyone who leaves gets and even then when
• 24:02
  you die out there, you just wake up and you're
• 24:04
  stuck here again.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Win inside and Laura ran her hands through her black hair.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: So you don't know why we're here, shook my head.
• 24:11
  But if you really are just human, then this can't
• 24:14
  be good.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: After a few minutes of silence, I left the apartment
• 24:17
  and decided to go outside and get some fresh air.
• 24:20
  Just all right, I'll leave them with that. That didn't
• 24:22
  come to whatever conclusion they.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Well, I must be on my way.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: I stepped onto the elevator and pressed the button to
• 24:28
  the first floor, got off and made my way down
• 24:30
  to the doors, stopping as I reached out to open it.
• 24:33
  I looked down at the watch on my wrist. Still noon,
• 24:36
  But that wasn't possible. I've been up in the apartment
• 24:39
  for at least twenty minutes. But that wasn't the only
• 24:43
  thing that was wrong. It was pitch black outside. Couldn't
• 24:47
  even see the sidewalk right outside the door or giant
• 24:50
  tree that was a few feet in front of the building.
• 24:53
  I pressed my forehead against the glass, squinty to see
• 24:55
  if I could make out something in the darkness. Suddenly,
• 24:58
  someone crashed right in to the glass, causing me to
• 25:01
  jump back at least a few feet.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: In fright, really shit, Hey over the door.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I walked closer and realized that I recognized the person
• 25:09
  who was outside. It was Lee. Everyone knew who he
• 25:12
  was since he had lost his eyes to the point
• 25:14
  Pine Parade years ago.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Lee over the Door.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I guarantee you Lee was the kid from the first
• 25:21
  one because I can't remember what happened to him, if
• 25:23
  his eyes got taken or if he was taken away,
• 25:25
  but I guess he lived and his eyes were just
• 25:27
  oh yeah, yeah yeah, Lee.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Cronin's now the Lee.
• 25:33
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• 25:38
  I know I don't go in the doctor as much
• 25:40
  as I should. If I'm feeling sick, I'll just lie
• 25:42
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  I heard that he had gotten his eyes back at
• 28:46
  the farmer's market, And now are those of my eyes?
• 28:53
  Not that I can see them? And now that I
• 28:57
  was seeing him, I could see that it was true.
• 29:00
  I have to open the door, but it was stuck.
• 29:01
  I tried again, pulling on the door as hard as
• 29:03
  I could, but it didn't budge it stuck. Suddenly, Lee
• 29:07
  went flying backward, and I watched, and the darkness lifted
• 29:10
  and the sun came out again. Looked down in my
• 29:13
  watch again, still noon. When I looked back up, I
• 29:16
  found myself standing in the hallway of the sixth floor again.
• 29:19
  His apartment number sixty eight appeared in front of me
• 29:22
  once again. Reached out and knocked coman. We called from inside.
• 29:28
  Footsteps approached, and then the door opened up in front
• 29:30
  of me.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Hi, Gwen, Yeah, who are you? Uh?
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Eric?
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: We just spoke. I'm sorry you must have made confused
• 29:40
  or someone else.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: I didn't reply, staring into the apartment of Lore and
• 29:44
  the kids came out. That was at least an hour ago.
• 29:48
  But the same chain of events keeps repeating every few minutes,
• 29:51
  and the time has not moved past noon. I don't
• 29:54
  know how to undo it. I don't even know what
• 29:56
  it is. I'm pretty sure I know what's causing it.
• 29:59
  Though humans shouldn't live in Point Pine Oaks. Cool.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: All right, that's the first one. So what do you
• 30:06
  think that loop.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Is for them? I think that people aren't supposed to
• 30:10
  be there. It's a supernatural you know, hotel effectively.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Sure, but they definitely were put there.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, something put them there, something went wrong, And I
• 30:18
  think it may coincide with the guy running to the
• 30:20
  door and something. There's like a darkness over the town.
• 30:23
  Maybe lead at something he's not supposed to announce, some
• 30:25
  entity spoiling him back. Maybe that that glitch caused people
• 30:29
  to appear in the new hotel room or something like that.
• 30:33
  I like to tie into the parade earlier.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like it was not very invasive. If
• 30:39
  you've never read the Parade one, you still weren't yeah lost.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: It's not beating you over the head with like, oh,
• 30:44
  you have to go read this one. Yeah, I agree.
• 30:47
  I like that one.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Hopefully we see Eric again. I like to know what
• 30:50
  how Eric? Because Eric's just a regular guy.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Right, uh yeah, to an extent, he's a regular guy
• 30:57
  who lives in a supernatural Yeah. Yeah, Like I said before,
• 30:59
  he starts like adult gravity falls.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh. I will say this would have felt a
• 31:05
  big campier compared to the first one. I thought the
• 31:07
  first one was a lot more like the parades coming.
• 31:09
  Don't fucking look at it, you know, this one's very
• 31:12
  much just like.
• 31:12
  Speaker 9: There's ghouls, dragons and goblins walking around we're all pals.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: You know, they creep me out, but it is what
• 31:17
  it is, and then truly starts, Yeah, I know you despise.
• 31:22
  How many times have you said that in your life?
• 31:26
  You just I looked at the camera in the viewer.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Lee Cronin's The Lesbians.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: That actually, I honestly I would go see c lesbians.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Lee Cronan's The Lesbians either just back in Cairo again,
• 31:45
  they're in Egypt. What the hell is this? They're just
• 31:51
  throwing up and like there's fucking pus and everything everywhere.
• 31:55
  It was like one of the grossest movies I've seen.
• 31:58
  Maybe not one of the grossest, but I was just
• 31:59
  like needlessly or like, oh my god, come on. It
• 32:02
  was assault on the senses. It was so loud. It
• 32:05
  was just not nice to look out lesbian like shitting
• 32:08
  on the floor and then crawling like punching through the
• 32:11
  floorboards and crawling out from the room.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: I I I'm willing to believe that not everyone would
• 32:18
  have seen it, but they should have at least had
• 32:20
  one person spot her coming.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Through the thing? Was there not one?
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: There's just no way in a quiet Yeah, do you
• 32:26
  see something come through the ceiling?
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: All out?
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Of context. You know what, though, I'm glad that it's
• 32:31
  gonna be like, what are they actually do you think
• 32:33
  that we're making it more We're making it more appealing
• 32:37
  to go see Lee Cronin's The Mummy, So you know
• 32:39
  what we're talking about.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: The Patreon video will be out before this comes out.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well that not everybody who watches this as
• 32:44
  a patron I'm saying. I'm saying that people a gonna
• 32:46
  be like little girl crawling through the floorboard. What are
• 32:49
  you talking like that kind of thing.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: No, I think they're gonna be like the movie is bad,
• 32:55
  got it, We'll see.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't sell Lee Crones the I bet you there's
• 32:59
  gonna be get Yes, I could actually end up watching
• 33:01
  Lee Cronin's The Mummy because the podcast and uh yeah
• 33:05
  those guys, those guys were right, or you're actually actually
• 33:08
  more realistically because it's a YouTube comments it was not bad.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it be that it was scary. I actually liked
• 33:14
  it better than like all the other movies.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe how bad the dad actor was.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's in some other stuff I've seen. It's The
• 33:22
  midsummer Yep, Yeah, you're right, which.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Also I want to tell you a story off camera.
• 33:31
  I guess just added you can cut it.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Interesting, all right.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: There's a new guy in town. We don't like him.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Yep, next entry, new guy in town. We don't like him.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: How you doing, Isaiah?
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Doing good anything? We don't really know when he got here.
• 34:05
  He was just here this morning, although I guess he
• 34:07
  could have gotten here sometime last night or even earlier today.
• 34:10
  But of course we wouldn't know since we don't wake
• 34:13
  up until eight thirteen am. I guess if he got
• 34:16
  here before then, he would have snucked in unnoticed. We
• 34:20
  don't like him. I can't speak for everybody, but everyone
• 34:23
  I have spoken to would agree. We aren't too fond
• 34:26
  of strangers popping in out of the blue makes us nervous.
• 34:30
  How did he find us? We don't know why he's here,
• 34:33
  although I've heard that he's been claiming that he's from here. Still,
• 34:37
  he's been out there in the outside world for way
• 34:40
  too long, new to us, even if we aren't new
• 34:43
  to him. I heard someone say that his name was Cody.
• 34:48
  I don't know anyone named Cody, and I've lived here
• 34:50
  for over ten years. Cody is hyperlinked. What happens when
• 34:53
  you click on it, oh, it takes you back to
• 34:56
  the first one. Was Cody one of the characters in
• 34:59
  the there Cody Cody, I mean, I'm just scrolling. Lee
• 35:07
  was the person in that story I see who looked. Oh,
• 35:11
  Cody was the protagonist from that first story. It seems
• 35:15
  like yeah, because they're saying, look at us, Cody, do
• 35:17
  what I thought his name was Eric.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: I thought, well, yeah, he's right. Cody is the protagonist,
• 35:21
  I think. And then he went out with some friends
• 35:23
  and Eric, well.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: The parade story Okay, sorry, yeah, Cody, Lee, Cody and
• 35:28
  his friends went out. Cody was the one writing the
• 35:29
  first story. Lee was the one who looked and as
• 35:32
  we saw, got his eyes taken.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: So what happened is he probably left and now he
• 35:36
  came back to Point Pine and people are like, I don't.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Know you from here? Yep, oh yeah, okay. At the end,
• 35:43
  he says, uh, minutes after we left, my parents acted
• 35:47
  like Point Pine never existed. So the story ends with
• 35:49
  his parents getting him out there because he saw the parade. Yeah,
• 35:52
  I see you. Now he's come back. Later on, I
• 35:53
  got it. I first saw him while I was on
• 35:56
  my morning run. He was walking up briar Road that
• 36:00
  leads to the Point pine Oaks, and I stopped for
• 36:02
  a second watching him. That's how I knew he wasn't
• 36:05
  from here. Anyone who's from here would know that Point
• 36:08
  pine Oaks has been stuck in a time loop for
• 36:09
  the past four months. I'd also know that the Point
• 36:13
  pine Oaks doesn't take guests, at least not guess would
• 36:16
  walk in and ask for a room. That's so funny.
• 36:18
  It's like anyone's from here knows about the time to Storch.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: That's kind of fun though.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I stood on the corner until he walked back down
• 36:25
  the road.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: What are you doing that didn't used to be here?
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: A gesture towards the Oaks.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm assuming it's not a normal.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Apartment building, you said, walking closer to me, right.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I'm looking for someone. Think you can help me.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: I looked around the empty street.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know you. Yeah, I haven't been back here
• 36:44
  in fifteen years. Fifteen years, gosh, it's.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: A long time.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Not that much has changed, though, I said nothing anyway.
• 36:53
  I'm looking for my dad. He died about seven months ago. Well,
• 36:56
  if he's dead, then why you're looking for him? Don't
• 36:59
  you know? Where he is in the ground somewhere.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: No stared at me.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Everyone knows you never really leave Point Pine.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: He was right, but I wasn't going to help him.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Sorry.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't even know where to start looking. That was
• 37:12
  a lie. I knew exactly where to start looking. He
• 37:15
  was probably in one of the houses up in the
• 37:16
  mountains or in the oaks.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: That's fine, I'll go find people that I know. They
• 37:22
  should still be here. Have fun with your walk.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Watched as he walked away towards the center of town,
• 37:28
  where most of the shops were stopped a few feet away,
• 37:31
  and slowly turned back to look at me.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Hey, has it pried happened this month?
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Maybe? Nervous that he knew about that, No mumbled something
• 37:40
  that I didn't quite catch, continued walking across. I was
• 37:43
  too anxious to finish my run, so I went home instead.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I heard Cody's back.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: My father was on the phone as I walked into
• 37:50
  the kitchen.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Haven't seen that boy in years, and suddly he managed
• 37:53
  to show up here, crazy, ain't it?
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Looked up and saw me.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I'll call you back. How's your run? Who's Cody? Just
• 38:01
  a boy? Is it cold out? I met him Cody.
• 38:05
  I met him on my run, said he's looking for
• 38:08
  his father, right, is he that?
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Cody DELI didn't want to talk about it.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: I'm going to the farmer's market, hmm.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: There were a lot of people around to day, more
• 38:22
  than usual. At least walked around a few stands, trying
• 38:26
  my best to avoid the creature's green skin, white eyes,
• 38:29
  and sharp teeth, which was hard since they were in
• 38:31
  charge of the farmer's market. Was at a produce stand.
• 38:34
  When I saw Cody again, everyone got quiet and started
• 38:38
  whispering among themselves. I hid behind a wooden pole before
• 38:41
  he saw me, and I didn't want to be seen
• 38:43
  speaking to him. Read Everyone looked towards Cody as he
• 38:47
  walked up to Reed. He was in the middle of
• 38:49
  buying something, Cody, so she did know it. Cody, Cody, Cody,
• 38:56
  Hey Leek Croonin's the Reed, so she did know him,
• 39:01
  which meant he was telling the truth. He was from
• 39:04
  Point Pine. That still didn't seem to make anyone any friendlier.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Towards him, though, I thought you the parade, I.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Knew Reid had been in the parade years ago, and
• 39:13
  it only just appeared in February of this year point
• 39:16
  Pine Oaks.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm back. I'm looking for my father. Do you
• 39:20
  have any idea where I could find him? He's at
• 39:22
  the Oaks first floor. I see him from time to
• 39:24
  time the Oaks. Yeah, but you can't go in there.
• 39:28
  I figured I could tell him for you though I
• 39:30
  lived there. What about Lee, He's somewhere around here.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: She was right, he was somewhere being the time loop
• 39:39
  at the Oaks. I wondered why she didn't specify that.
• 39:42
  That's interesting. So in the first story, we have the
• 39:44
  three characters Lee, Cody, and Reid who go and Reid
• 39:51
  was the one who was in the parade, right, She's
• 39:53
  supposed to be the sacrifice, and that's the one who
• 39:55
  has mentioned the last one like one of the girls
• 39:57
  from or one of the people that got sacrificed. Just
• 39:59
  showed up and that's Reed. But for some reason she
• 40:02
  can come and go and isn't in the time loop,
• 40:04
  probably because she's dead.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Well, she also works at the or she lives at
• 40:07
  the the Oaks on the.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Hill, right, No, she lives in the Yeah, she's the
• 40:15
  one that appeared, but I think probably because she's dead humans, Yeah,
• 40:23
  which would explain why it's Lee the tenant and the
• 40:25
  family upstairs. All the monsters can probably come and go.
• 40:28
  I looked around, and I noticed that no one else
• 40:30
  was speaking. It was dead silent. Cody and Reid must
• 40:33
  have noticed too, because they stopped talking and looked around.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: I don't think they liked me much.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: He was right, we didn't. I saw him again later
• 40:40
  that day. So I was leaving the Point Pine Library.
• 40:44
  I just returned some books and my father had checked
• 40:46
  out on gardening, and I saw him talking to mister
• 40:48
  Terrence outside the Point Pine Bakery. It's but on the
• 40:51
  steps of the library. Watching it seemed to be having
• 40:54
  a normal conversation. Mister Terrence was laughing at something that
• 40:57
  Cody had said, and it made me weary of him.
• 41:00
  All ready to trust Cody, now I don't trust mister Terrence.
• 41:04
  They continued to talk and I noticed other bystanders giving
• 41:07
  them weird looks. I decided that it was time for
• 41:10
  me to leave and began walking down the steps and
• 41:13
  onto the sidewalk. That's when the chorus of voices started singing.
• 41:18
  Took off running immediately, as did the rest of the
• 41:21
  people standing around. I knew everyone would head for the
• 41:24
  Point Pine Bar first, since they had recently added locks
• 41:27
  to their doors, which meant it would get full and
• 41:30
  I'd only have to go back and find somewhere else
• 41:32
  to hide. Point Pine Middle School was my best bed.
• 41:36
  It was about two minutes away if I ran fast enough,
• 41:38
  and so I took off in that direction. I ran
• 41:41
  as the familiar melody filled my ears. Seemed like it
• 41:44
  was coming from all around me, above me and below me.
• 41:47
  I ran faster, seeing the school in the distance, I'm
• 41:51
  pretty sure that's the parade, right, The Parade's what melody is.
• 41:54
  I thank you because they talked about in the parade
• 41:57
  that everyone hides you have to find There was only
• 42:01
  a few buildings in town you could hide in when
• 42:03
  the parade was coming. Yeah. Yeah, I threw open the
• 42:09
  doors and walked in. There were only about twenty or
• 42:12
  so people in here, but I knew it would get
• 42:14
  full of no time. Sat down on the floor trying
• 42:16
  to catch my breath.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Marcus, can you watch the doors from me? The prey
• 42:20
  starts in exactly three minutes. Make sure you locked them
• 42:23
  and get everyone inside before.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Then got back up and Missus Monroe handed me the keys.
• 42:28
  I walked over to the door, propping it open with
• 42:30
  my body. As people ran inside the school, I could
• 42:33
  see more and more people coming down the street, ranically
• 42:36
  running as the start of the parade got closer and closer.
• 42:39
  Two minutes left, crowd of people it thinned down. Now
• 42:43
  there are only a few people trickling in. At the
• 42:45
  last minute. One minute left, I could see people coming
• 42:48
  in the distance and I squinted, trying to make out
• 42:50
  who it was. Fifty seconds as the person got closer,
• 42:55
  I saw it was none other than Cody. Forty seconds
• 42:59
  began to close the door. Twenty seconds Cody picked up
• 43:02
  his speed, shouting for me to wait. He kept closing
• 43:05
  the door slowly.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Wait please.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: I watched as he got closer and closer, and time
• 43:10
  seemed to slow down as he desperately ran towards the door.
• 43:13
  I looked at the time ten seconds nine eight seven
• 43:19
  six five. I shut the door and locked it. Four
• 43:23
  Cody banged on the small glass window. I play, He cried. Three,
• 43:29
  let the small curtain fall and covered up the window. Two.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Come on one.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: I heard his footsteps as he ran away, but it
• 43:37
  was too late. There's nowhere else to go now braid
• 43:41
  had already begun. Who is that s Monroe asked the
• 43:45
  new guy. He stayed quiet, so did everyone else in
• 43:48
  the school. Like I said, we don't lock him.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Wonder if do you think that he actually is gone?
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: No, I'm sure I'll show up somewhere. I mean he
• 43:56
  survived at once. Right For some is that you just
• 44:00
  have to close your eyes and look away. It seems
• 44:03
  if you can endure. That's interesting. I like that it
• 44:07
  was like we don't like him. There's this bitterness and
• 44:09
  it's like you may be from here, but he didn't
• 44:11
  stick around here. So then when he dies, no one
• 44:13
  has any sympathy for him. Like how isolated this community is,
• 44:18
  how weird they are about siders, even people from there
• 44:20
  who've just been gone a while or not really jealousy.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: I mean the guy that was able to a guy
• 44:26
  that was able to leave and then come back. They're like,
• 44:28
  fuck this guy an outsider obviously, but I'm.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Just yeah, yeah, you also see the love, just like
• 44:32
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• 44:37
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  Speaker 2: All right, well hunter, are you ready? Yes, so The
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  Day the Angel Came. As I take a sip of
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  my angel, come, no, don't. The rooftop of the Point
• 46:23
  Pine Hospital overlooks the town and the surrounding woods. In
• 46:28
  the distance, you can see the sign that welcomes you
• 46:30
  to Point Pine, although it's too far away to read
• 46:33
  from up here, Not that it matters. I already know
• 46:36
  what it says, anyway, Welcome to Point Pine, Population unknown.
• 46:41
  People usually come up here to smoke. I don't smoke,
• 46:45
  but I like coming up here and looking down at
• 46:47
  all the people in town who are walking around, running,
• 46:49
  errand and whatnot. It looks so small from up here,
• 46:53
  like ants. Sometimes I imagine a giant foot coming down
• 46:56
  from Wiscon squishing everything in town. It's gruesome, know, but
• 47:00
  I've always had an overactive imagination. Besides, it gets boring
• 47:04
  being in a hospital bed all the time, beeping of
• 47:08
  the machines and the smell of antiseptic is enough to
• 47:10
  make anyone go crazy after a while, so I like
• 47:13
  to get away for some time. Usually that means about
• 47:18
  thirty minutes before nurse realizes that I'm missing. I'm sure
• 47:21
  they know where I am by now, and I think
• 47:23
  they like to give me some time before they come
• 47:25
  up to get me, because they normally don't show up
• 47:28
  until about an hour after I get up here. I'm
• 47:31
  not sure if they're allowed to do that, but I
• 47:32
  appreciate it nonetheless. But enough about me story, and about me,
• 47:36
  at least, not really. It's about the people of Point Pine.
• 47:40
  It's about Apollo. I met Apollo a few hours ago
• 47:44
  on the rooftop of the Point Pine Hospital. I'd been
• 47:47
  up there no more than fifteen minutes, and I suddenly
• 47:50
  noticed him standing a few feet away from me, leaning
• 47:53
  over the edge, staring at the town below us. He
• 47:56
  was dressed in all black, including a black cat that
• 47:59
  covered most of his and dirty, worn out boots. I
• 48:03
  was startled because I hadn't noticed anyone else out here.
• 48:05
  When I came up, it was like he had just
• 48:08
  appeared out of nowhere. Give the number of odd things
• 48:10
  that occur in this town, I wouldn't be all that
• 48:13
  surprised if he had. He was smoking a cigarette and
• 48:16
  the wind was blowing the smoke directly into my face.
• 48:19
  A stifle of cough and turned the other way.
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: Don't know what it is yet, do?
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: They over at him? They continued to look down and
• 48:26
  smoke again. Blew it on my face, and I tried
• 48:29
  not to cough. Excuse me, turned to face me, but
• 48:33
  I couldn't make out the top half of his face
• 48:35
  due to the shadow caused by his hat.
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: The doctors, they don't know what you got.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: He replied, taking another drag from a cigarette, this time
• 48:43
  when he excelled and the smoke blew into my face.
• 48:45
  I coughed. He had an accent, but I couldn't quite
• 48:48
  place it. I'm sorry, tossed a cigarette on the floor
• 48:51
  and used his heel to put it out. How do
• 48:53
  you know, he asked, For a few minutes of silence,
• 48:56
  because I know a lot of things about a lot
• 48:58
  of people. Stepped closer to like what He turned back
• 49:02
  towards the town below us and pointed off to the right.
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: You see that man over there in the brown coat
• 49:08
  walking out of the library.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: Squinted and found the man that he was talking about. However,
• 49:13
  I couldn't tell who it was from up here.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: He killed his five year old son about two months
• 49:17
  ago and let his wife.
• 49:18
  Speaker 7: Go to prison for it.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Because it's awful.
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: People are pretty awful. Yeah, you know mister Terrence, the
• 49:26
  psychic baker.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, is he a murderer too?
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: He shook his head.
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: No, he's one of the good ones. What his mother
• 49:35
  used to torture his sister when they were younger.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Mister Terrence is a sister.
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: Head, she's dead, has been for a few years. Suicide.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: There were a few minutes of silence as we watched
• 49:47
  people walking through town.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Who are you, Apollo?
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: I nodded. The dear Daphne nodded again.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: How do you know all these things?
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: He sighed.
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: Let's just say I'm not exactly human. So what are
• 50:01
  you an angel?
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: An angel?
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah? An angel? So why are you here in Point Pine?
• 50:09
  So it's going to do something really bad soon? I
• 50:12
  need to be here for that.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Thought about all the bad things that happen here, things
• 50:16
  like the parade and the time loop that lasts a
• 50:19
  few months.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: How bad?
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: Worse than the parade and worse than the time loop.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: Stared at the people below us, tiny ants walking around town,
• 50:31
  thought again about a giant foot coming down from the
• 50:33
  sky and destroying everything. What could be worse than the
• 50:36
  things we'd already seen?
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: Three millennial men are going to open a burger restaurant.
• 50:42
  It's going to be very quirky. Instead of it's going
• 50:45
  to be Edison bulbs and high top chairs seventeen dollars,
• 50:50
  and they're in metal baskets.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Instead of made options. It's going to say protein, It
• 50:54
  a protein. The appetizers are going to say the shareables,
• 50:57
  it's good. All the sides are going to be family style.
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: The bathrooms are sitters and squatters. It's gonna be kind
• 51:07
  of amusing for about two minutes, and it's gonna get
• 51:09
  real old, real quick.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: All of the food is gonna come out in that
• 51:11
  kind of like patchwork plaid, wide and red design the
• 51:14
  little baskets, but it will just be over a plastic basket.
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's gonna be the honk and chungus burger.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: It will come on a metal tray.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: That would actually be Oh my god, on.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: The menu, it's gonna have a picture.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Out to the parade.
• 51:32
  Speaker 11: See that car, the one driving in the woods, just
• 51:42
  the bad.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: I can see the picture of my head behind the counter.
• 51:45
  It's the menu, and all three of them are like like.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Look, yeah, so that's awesome.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it says like three guys in a dream.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: So the Heisenberger comes with truffle oil and it comes
• 51:54
  with parmesan grated fries. You want to add that for
• 51:56
  ant one dollar charge?
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: No, it is always he is like a seven dollars
• 52:01
  up charge minimum. I ain't nothing on that menu.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Wonder do I have ro marshmallow ketchup to Roger Marshmallow?
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: I nodded as I watched the tiny white car become
• 52:12
  even smaller as it drove.
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: There's a woman in the car. She's gonna kill herself.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: Why is that turned to look at me? This time
• 52:20
  I could see his face. His eyes and mouth were
• 52:23
  like two glowing slits in his face. Backed up.
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: Her husband just took out a loan for a burger restaurant.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, the war God, Wow, she's awesome. There's
• 52:47
  some one of our mirs is about his start.
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: A burger restaurant.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: He's real discouraged, right, Yeah, everyone's gonna wear black aprons
• 52:56
  and black barber gloves.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: Everything's gonna be way too silver. But also break exposed,
• 53:08
  break exposed, like h back lines of the What would
• 53:12
  that What would the name of.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: The restaurant be? I don't know, six guys because five
• 53:22
  wasn't enough.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: HM be like cleavers or something like that, like a
• 53:31
  meat cleaver or something.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I thought it'd be like, what's something
• 53:34
  kind of like a little funny I could play on.
• 53:37
  I had the word hamburger, right, famburger? Doesn't it make
• 53:47
  you want to kill yourself? Fam? Fam Burger's unbelieve because.
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: Everyone because everyone's family.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Exactly, Oh my god, doesn't matter. It's just like, why
• 53:56
  are their bullet casings all over by the front door.
• 53:58
  It's gonna be.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: There's a guy there on the hospital roof and they
• 54:05
  can see someone with a gun walking up like the
• 54:08
  machine gun to shoot out the place, and angels like
• 54:11
  you see that guy, he's a hero.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you see that guy? He's not
• 54:19
  making an inside I can't. Yeah, they only serve bison berger.
• 54:32
  I'm just looking for a burger with fries. Yeah, that's
• 54:36
  not really happening.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: That's not how we do That's not how we do
• 54:38
  things here. There's also like the buns are way too
• 54:40
  big and also way too cooked, but it's like grilled bunks.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: They also burn. The insignia on smoking on top just
• 54:48
  says famburger on top of it.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: And also instead of man, I hate putting famburger into
• 54:57
  the ether, that was work.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Can I interest you welcome to Fanburger. Can I interest
• 55:02
  you in our hangover special?
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh, it's got an egg on it.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I'm gonna There's a guy behind him.
• 55:10
  He's like lip piercings and stuff, and he his the beanie,
• 55:13
  like the bun and the beanie and stuff, and like
• 55:15
  the the jacket whatever. He has the glasses and he's
• 55:19
  just like, yeah, I'm gonna need one of those pronto. Yeah,
• 55:23
  I need a firm I need a firmware update in
• 55:25
  the form of a hangover Burger.
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: The curly, the gelled, curly Q mustache, got two razors.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: A whole lot of.
• 55:36
  Speaker 7: All.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: It's really funny to imagine this restaurant with bodies littered up.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of doing a whole I don't know. Post
• 55:47
  apocalypse kind of day to day.
• 55:48
  Speaker 6: It's kind of fun.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: The it's it's all bison meat. But you can get
• 55:54
  the Elk Burger for a fourteen dollars up charge.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: We can do Elk for fourteen dollar up charge. And
• 56:00
  we can add truffle pepper on that for six dollars
• 56:03
  charge and gold shavings gold and we do have gold
• 56:07
  shaving lemonade. Yeah, we make our own MIC's hard here,
• 56:13
  make our own mics hard.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: We can't get our alcoholizes jet, so it's buy o
• 56:19
  l for the liquor.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't really care what you do on the
• 56:28
  patio lets. You say that, just like he says that
• 56:37
  you just see a giant blood splatter.
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: In the window, the whole front window.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: I feel like that said to me, Like.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: Hey, I'll turn I'll turn a blind eye as long
• 56:53
  as it's not on the camera. Hey, as long as
• 56:55
  like you taste these delicious burgers.
• 56:57
  Speaker 6: Who cares?
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: We don't care, you know, so God.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: We have a sign up sheet out back for to
• 57:06
  play the big Jenga.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, we had big jan and corn always big.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: It's always big, quirky.
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: They have the giant connects for oh.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, giant connect for a big Jenga and
• 57:18
  cornhole in the back in case keep playing the game. Yeah,
• 57:22
  we don't really watch sports ball, but we do have
• 57:27
  Harry Potter Marathon. That would be hell. That is what
• 57:37
  what's that big section off place in the back.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: We'll get this next month. We're putting in an axe
• 57:43
  throwing arena the.
• 57:44
  Speaker 12: X things back there, So be sure to gobble down
• 57:47
  your boozy shake while you you throw axes. But it's
• 57:52
  by it's b y O L for the boozy shake.
• 57:56
  But you can do that on the back pat because
• 57:58
  we don't care.
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's any alcohol in here. Yeah, so
• 58:03
  we still can't get.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: So kind of a patio be boozy shake situation.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but then here it's it's more of a fan shake.
• 58:11
  It's for the kids, for the kid.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: This is kind of a kid shake.
• 58:15
  Speaker 11: You know.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: That's stupid. Benyon picture, Meet the chef, am I putting
• 58:23
  the burger in a microwave.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: We started this is the stream started from a conversation
• 58:31
  we had at Mike's house seven years ago.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it all started with a conversation and a dream.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: I never really thought about being a chef once I
• 58:42
  started talking, I realized it was my passion.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: But when I found out I had no personality and
• 58:45
  no taste, I knew this is exactly what I needed
• 58:48
  to do. I thought to myself, what's what? What do
• 58:51
  I love? That's why I legitily saw it when I
• 58:53
  lived in Round Rock, Texas. This is one there's like
• 58:55
  one of those kinds of restaurants nearby, and it said
• 58:57
  start with a dream. And I had to ask myself,
• 58:59
  what do I love? Hamburgers? It's like, that's the one
• 59:05
  thing you dug up from? What are you? Like, what's
• 59:07
  one thing you love? Hamburgers? Do that? Do what? Hamburgers?
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: Do that? All? Right? There's like it's just like it's
• 59:18
  like bamburger and it's written in that so like the signs,
• 59:22
  like the kind of.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: It's written in Nickelodeon front. It's like the signs kind
• 59:28
  of brown.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: And then famburger is like big text thin then BIG's
• 59:33
  text and like old West, you know, and then it
• 59:36
  says underneath it and like a boat, it's like where
• 59:38
  the good times are always to go.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah we're good, or we're uh, we're hunger. We're hungered
• 59:46
  dares to enter.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: Where hunger dares enter that is right, I got. I got.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: If I saw that, I would say, oh my god.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: All you enter abandoned hunger.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: I say that is if I didn't see, if I
• 1:00:05
  didn't see a Jeep Patriot drive to the front doors
• 1:00:08
  of that place.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, just made nail bombs.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: The owner is just like, stop some.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: There's a tru there's a v v B I D
• 1:00:27
  tumming over the hill, propane tank, slue ship entered.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, abandoned hunger is so unbelievable. Oh my God, Jesus Christ,
• 1:00:44
  God kill us the other way around. Yeah, because it's
• 1:00:52
  a band abandon all hunger.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: You who enter here?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 11: Yeah?
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh John.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: That is also they would have.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: The Saturday eating his son, but it would be a
• 1:01:04
  giant burger instead.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that that I would If a place was self
• 1:01:12
  aware enough to do stuff like that, that would almost
• 1:01:14
  be funny.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: I think it. But it has to be done without
• 1:01:16
  a breath. I think it's impossible. I think that it's
• 1:01:18
  all taken away where it's like, okay, now that's funny. Yeah,
• 1:01:23
  I get what she did there. Yeah, can you read that?
• 1:01:26
  He turned to look at me again.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: So anyway, they see the truck coming and the angels
• 1:01:30
  like the guy's a hero.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: Where was he turned to look at me?
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 4: Because it daughter is sick and the doctors don't know
• 1:01:44
  what it is, but they do know that she's dying
• 1:01:48
  and that woman, and that woman would rather run away
• 1:01:50
  from her problems and never faced them again.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: What The door of the roof swung open, and two
• 1:01:55
  nurses came out. When I looked back as they dragged
• 1:01:58
  me inside, Apollo was nowhere to be found, and the
• 1:02:01
  only thing that was left of him was a cigarette
• 1:02:03
  he had thrown on the ground. Nurses told me I
• 1:02:05
  was dying, He said, my mom wanted to tell me.
• 1:02:09
  They couldn't get hold of her, but someone saw her
• 1:02:11
  steal a car, white car drive off. I don't think
• 1:02:15
  this is the bad thing that Apaula was talking about.
• 1:02:18
  Sorry to get gray outside. The sun is getting dimmer
• 1:02:21
  and dimmer as the minutes pass. I could tell that
• 1:02:24
  something's going to happen. Everyone's acting jittery, anxious. The nurses
• 1:02:30
  started to ask everyone to keep the blind shut. But
• 1:02:32
  I've gotten up and taken a few peaks. It doesn't
• 1:02:35
  seem to be getting any better. The temperature dropped significantly
• 1:02:38
  inside the hospital, and I heard someone say that the
• 1:02:41
  trees in the woods a fused together to form a
• 1:02:43
  giant wall around town. Not that anyone could leave town
• 1:02:48
  before that anyway, but now they can't even venture out
• 1:02:51
  into the woods. I didn't believe Apola before, but I
• 1:02:54
  guess he was right. I got out of bed once
• 1:02:57
  no one was looking because they were too preoccupied the
• 1:03:00
  man next door who was coughing blood. I walked over
• 1:03:03
  to the window and pulled back the blinds just a bit.
• 1:03:06
  I was face to face with Apollo. It was floating
• 1:03:09
  in mid air, his eyes glowing behind him, dozens of
• 1:03:13
  other angels. I didn't tell anyone what I saw, simply
• 1:03:17
  close the blinds. I got back into bed. But listen
• 1:03:20
  really closely. I can hear the worried conversations of the
• 1:03:23
  other patients. The nurses seem to be the most worried, though,
• 1:03:27
  keep whispering to one another and looking into my room.
• 1:03:31
  I heard one of them say that I'm probably going
• 1:03:32
  to die soon, maybe within the next few days. I'd
• 1:03:36
  be relieved it weren't for the fact nobody ever really
• 1:03:40
  leaves Point Pine.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: So is it coming to a fact that it's like, oh,
• 1:03:43
  it almost seems like Point Pine as hell? Uh?
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a purgatory.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a purgatory kind of thing to where maybe if
• 1:03:50
  people die here, they just cease to exist entirely.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's like when the Angel comes. It's like
• 1:03:58
  these people show up, but angel is a stretch of
• 1:04:00
  the word. It's really like some entity that just transfers you.
• 1:04:04
  You have to stand Point Pine, but from one point
• 1:04:06
  of life to the other.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Like an arbiter.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there was a what was that thing about
• 1:04:11
  the town was covered in what there In the last
• 1:04:15
  segment says strapped the trees in the woods a fuse
• 1:04:19
  together to form a giant wall, so no one can
• 1:04:21
  get out and everyone's stuck there. Yeah. Well they could
• 1:04:23
  never leave before, or it was like where someone was
• 1:04:25
  able to leave, but now it's like there's a wall
• 1:04:28
  that you cannot get around. Yeah. All right, So if
• 1:04:31
  you look at the stories list, there's a story called
• 1:04:34
  Room eight thirteen on Gabby's post. But when we talked
• 1:04:37
  to Gabby, she said to keep it to the mainline entries,
• 1:04:40
  how she would suggest to read through them, plus the
• 1:04:43
  bonus story she gave us. So she said, go on
• 1:04:47
  to the next one to Point Pine's newest Visitors that's
• 1:04:50
  what we're gonna do. But there's bonus stories on the
• 1:04:52
  master list. It's going to be linked in the description
• 1:04:54
  that include things like Room eight thirteen. So if you
• 1:04:57
  want even more Point Pine, there's like bonus side stuff.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: There should be two of I think there's.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: Two of them that Gabby recommended. We don't read for
• 1:05:03
  this straight run through, but if you want to check
• 1:05:06
  them out, they're on that master list. So there's even
• 1:05:07
  more Point Pine. But you know, obviously, if the author
• 1:05:10
  says there's a better way to read the series, we're
• 1:05:12
  gonna do that. So our next story in order then
• 1:05:17
  is Point Pine's newest visitor came with a warning. Mary
• 1:05:22
  lou Burningham took my sister Genevieve's tooth. This warning. She
• 1:05:25
  was the one mentioned in the apartment who takes the
• 1:05:27
  baby teeth right under the pillow. Yeah, the child, she's
• 1:05:30
  a child, the tooth fairy. Oh, she's a child. Yeah.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: Because remember there's only one man, old man Jones, oh man.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: Of course, of course I saw her leaving the house
• 1:05:40
  when I got up to make breakfast. I only saw
• 1:05:43
  the back of her head as she walked out of
• 1:05:44
  the front door, but I would recognize those bright red curls. Anywhere,
• 1:05:48
  this wasn't anything out of the ordinary, at least not
• 1:05:51
  in Point Pine. That's just what the collectors do, collect stuff.
• 1:05:55
  No one really knows why or what they do with it,
• 1:05:58
  except for Mary Lou. We've seen her wearing jewelry made
• 1:06:02
  from the teeth of people of Point Pine. She obviously
• 1:06:05
  doesn't wear all the teeth. That'd be weird, And so
• 1:06:08
  I've always wondered what you did with the rest of them,
• 1:06:11
  like a quicklight, like it'd be weird to shure whar
• 1:06:13
  all the teeth A couples fine, but wearing a couple,
• 1:06:16
  you know, let a girl.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: Have because there's so many that he'd be like, how
• 1:06:20
  would you even would be like just covering a long
• 1:06:23
  cape of teeth.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: That'd be pretty cool. See a little girl walking down
• 1:06:26
  the street. There's like teeth. YEA. Last year when our
• 1:06:33
  I'm not I'm not gonna lie, probably need to cut this,
• 1:06:36
  but says last year when our hamster Pennies died, I
• 1:06:38
  straight up breath that as penits last year when our
• 1:06:40
  amster named Penis less.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: Yea back in Lee Cronin's The Mummy is what he's in.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: Ye Cronin's Famburg.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: Hamburger.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: Last year when our hamster Pennies died, Curtis Man came
• 1:06:58
  to take it from us. Collects Dead Animals. Those are
• 1:07:02
  the only two collectors that I'm familiar with, but there's
• 1:07:05
  twelve total, and they all live at the Point Pine Oaks.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: With the amount of close ups too that Lee Cronin's
• 1:07:10
  the Bummy that'd be a gross movie. What he would
• 1:07:13
  put the camera slightly above them like that, He'd put
• 1:07:16
  it so close to them, or it would be somebody
• 1:07:19
  ordering up close. There'd be a little bit of blurring
• 1:07:21
  in the background, you see someone just like eating a burger.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: It'd be that anyways, good we get Lee Cronin to
• 1:07:29
  shoot the Fanburger movie.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: I want to get Lee Cronin for the creep cast,
• 1:07:32
  and we could just call it Lee Cronin's the creep Cast.
• 1:07:33
  For so.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: Recently the collectors have been behaving a little weirder than usual. Today,
• 1:07:41
  when I went on my run, I saw all of
• 1:07:43
  them walking in two single file lines down the road.
• 1:07:46
  I had never seen all twelve of them together at
• 1:07:48
  the same time, so I stopped to observe. They were
• 1:07:51
  walking weirdly they'd put one foot forward and stop for
• 1:07:55
  a second, then bring their other foot forward and stop
• 1:07:58
  for a second. They walk like that all the way
• 1:08:01
  down the road, headed for the shops in the center
• 1:08:03
  of Point Pine. I saw them again about an hour
• 1:08:06
  later when I walked to the Point Pine Bakery to
• 1:08:08
  pick up a pie for my mom. As I was
• 1:08:11
  waiting for them to bring my order out, Mary Lee
• 1:08:13
  walked up to me. Haylee, she said, sounded a bit sad, Hey,
• 1:08:18
  are you all right? Mary Lou's side and glanced down
• 1:08:21
  at the chain she wore around her neck that contained
• 1:08:23
  a small glass bottle that was filled with teeth. Suddenly
• 1:08:26
  that pie didn't sound so appetizing. So she's speaking to
• 1:08:29
  our narrator in saying Lee right.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So Lee is our the person that's are protagonist
• 1:08:34
  right now.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's the one who lost his eyes but
• 1:08:37
  he was in a time loop.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think I don't know how much of
• 1:08:41
  this is narratively, that's sure. Yeah, why would I be
• 1:08:43
  all right?
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: Stared at her, I really know how to answer, haven't
• 1:08:47
  you heard about the visitor? I shook my head slowly
• 1:08:49
  and then glanced over to see if anyone was on
• 1:08:51
  their way with my pie yet no offense to Mary Lou,
• 1:08:54
  but she had a tendency of making people feel uncomfortable.
• 1:08:57
  Mary Lou's side again that reached out and play her
• 1:09:00
  hand on my arm. She wore a ring with a
• 1:09:02
  tooth on it on each of her fingers.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: Try not to gag, be cautious with your eyes, Lee,
• 1:09:08
  but hey for you to lose them again, she.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: Said, staring at me intently with their huge green eyes.
• 1:09:14
  I watched as she walked away. The spot where her
• 1:09:17
  hand had rested on my arm felt noticeably colder than
• 1:09:19
  the rest of my body, and I rubbed my arm
• 1:09:21
  until the feeling went away. I finally got my pine
• 1:09:25
  headed outside. I looked down the road and saw the
• 1:09:28
  collectors were back in their two lines, walking in that
• 1:09:31
  weird way that they had been earlier. I watched them
• 1:09:34
  for a few seconds. Mary Lou turned around and we
• 1:09:37
  locked eyes. She brought both of her hands up to
• 1:09:39
  her face and covered her eyes before turning back around
• 1:09:42
  and continuing her walk. I turned around and started walking
• 1:09:45
  back home, thinking about how Mary Lou was quite possibly
• 1:09:48
  the most unsettling eleven year old that I'd ever met.
• 1:09:52
  On the walk home, I overheard a few different conversations
• 1:09:55
  about the collectors. The people of Point Pine were starting
• 1:09:58
  to become irritated with them, convinced that they were playing
• 1:10:01
  some sort of prank on everyone. When I got home,
• 1:10:04
  my mom was talking about them too.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: Could you believe it? They told Sauntra's kid that he
• 1:10:08
  needed to keep an eye on his arms because he
• 1:10:10
  might lose them. I mean, who says that to an
• 1:10:12
  eight year old Mary Lou told me to be cautious
• 1:10:16
  with my eyes.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: He said, as I stepped in and set the pie
• 1:10:19
  down on the kitchen table. What my dad snapped?
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's fine. They're just weird. They told Cody
• 1:10:26
  the parade was coming back to get him soon.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: Cody had come back to Point Pine a few months ago.
• 1:10:30
  That survived the Point Pip parade twice. Now, Who've been
• 1:10:34
  saying with us for a while now, but spent most
• 1:10:36
  of his time locked in his room in the basement.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe the timely bus is broken.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: Time lo'ves broken at some point, and Cody lived through
• 1:10:43
  the parade incident twice. Saw twice?
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she said something about a visitor.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: What my dad asked? At the same time, my mom asked.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: Who Mary Lou. She asked me if I heard about
• 1:10:54
  the visitor what visitor? I don't know if she didn't
• 1:10:57
  give me a name.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: Uh, that's interesting because I thought by visitor she was
• 1:11:00
  talking about Cody.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: I think she I thought she was talking about the angel.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: H just could be just in us. God, we really
• 1:11:08
  ruined it because I'm thinking of like the layout of
• 1:11:10
  town in my head, right in.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: Front of all these decrepit ware buildings and then just
• 1:11:14
  an extremely bright, big Famburger. It's a cross. It's like
• 1:11:19
  the hotel. Yeah, I went up and dropped the pile
• 1:11:21
  of the counter. Mom says, do you see they're opening
• 1:11:23
  up another Fanburger on on Westchester Street?
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: In my head, in another one in my head, it's
• 1:11:34
  like built like Gatlinburg, where it's a single like skinny
• 1:11:36
  strip in the mountains, and at the end of the
• 1:11:39
  street you have the hospital that they're looking on, and
• 1:11:41
  then like two blocks down on the left you have
• 1:11:44
  Point Oak or Oak, the oak Wood whatever, the apartment building,
• 1:11:49
  and then straight beneath the hospital is the flaming red Famburger.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: The famburger in tournament camp. Yes, they forced as they forced,
• 1:12:03
  they forced Cody into.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: The fam Burger, Like when you said that she's talking
• 1:12:08
  about the angel. In my head, I just see the
• 1:12:10
  angel looking at Famburger and seeing the trug drighting my parents.
• 1:12:19
  If a burger joint shows up, that's a bear trap.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: If a burger, I'm not even If a burger joint
• 1:12:24
  shows on the story, I'm walking off set.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: It could be like if it would to be like
• 1:12:28
  a greasy spoon, though like a diner kind of place,
• 1:12:31
  you know, it wouldn't be Famburger.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: We'll see, We'll.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: See if it does.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't know, we'll see.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: My parents spent the majority of the day questioning what
• 1:12:39
  Mary Lou and the rest of the collectors were talking about.
• 1:12:41
  That evening we all got a flyers slipped under our
• 1:12:44
  front doors. I was sitting on the couch when it
• 1:12:47
  flew across the floor. I walked over and picked it up.
• 1:12:51
  It was a black piece of paper with the words
• 1:12:54
  beware the visitor sprawled crudely at the top of white crayon.
• 1:12:58
  Below that neat writing someone crayon it read the following.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: Brettis is a point Pine. Tomorrow at seven am we
• 1:13:05
  will have a visitor. We advise you not interact with him,
• 1:13:08
  which shouldn't be a problem since no one is allowed
• 1:13:10
  up and since no one is allowed up until eight
• 1:13:12
  thirteen am, who used this time to wander around town
• 1:13:15
  and even your homes. If you hear him, simply pretend
• 1:13:18
  to be asleep. He is here to take from you,
• 1:13:20
  but as long as you don't interact, you'll be fine.
• 1:13:23
  Be careful.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: The collectors didn't take long for people to freak out. Sure,
• 1:13:27
  we were all used to weird things happening in Point Pine,
• 1:13:30
  but how did the collectors know so much about this?
• 1:13:33
  Some people walked over the oaks to try and speak
• 1:13:36
  to the collectors, but apparently Eric wasn't letting anyone in.
• 1:13:40
  Not that I blamed him. After being stuck in that
• 1:13:42
  weird time loop with him, I understood his caution when
• 1:13:45
  it came to the people that he allowed inside his building. Eventually,
• 1:13:48
  people returned to their homes and went to bed. There
• 1:13:51
  was an odd feeling like something really bad was going
• 1:13:54
  to happen. Trying my best to ignore it, went to
• 1:13:57
  bed at my usual time, tossing and turning for a
• 1:14:00
  few minutes before finally falling asleep. I awoke when I
• 1:14:03
  heard the front door creak open, turned over in bed
• 1:14:06
  and looked at the clock seven fifty five am. My
• 1:14:09
  heart sped up in my chest as I realized that
• 1:14:11
  the visitor was here. I could hear the footsteps coming
• 1:14:14
  up the stairs, and I turned so my back was
• 1:14:16
  facing my bedroom door, shut my eyes, trying to even
• 1:14:20
  my breathing. As a visitor got closer, I noticed that
• 1:14:24
  he was humming a very familiar tune. Took a few
• 1:14:27
  minutes before I realized that it was the same music
• 1:14:30
  that played whenever the Point Pine Parade started. The visitor
• 1:14:33
  never stepped into my bedroom, but I heard him wandering
• 1:14:36
  around the rest of the house for what felt like hours.
• 1:14:40
  Finally I heard him walk back out the door. I
• 1:14:43
  breathed the sigh of relief as I slowly turned back
• 1:14:45
  around to look at the clock eight o eight am,
• 1:14:49
  five minutes until we could be up. I laid there,
• 1:14:53
  staring at the ceiling, waiting for the town alarm to
• 1:14:55
  ring or it did. However, I heard a scream pierced
• 1:15:00
  the morning silence. It sounded like it was coming from
• 1:15:03
  the house next door. Frozen bed, not wanting to take
• 1:15:06
  a look and risk seeing something that I shouldn't. Mary
• 1:15:10
  Lou's voice kept echoing to my mind as I laid
• 1:15:12
  there waiting for the town alarms to go off.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: Be cautious with your eyes, Lee, I would hate for
• 1:15:17
  you to lose them again.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: Finally, the town alarms went off, and I climbed out
• 1:15:22
  of bed and made my way downstairs the rest of
• 1:15:25
  my family, Cody following me. I walked over to the
• 1:15:30
  living room window and pulled the curtains open a few
• 1:15:32
  inches to look outside. Most of the neighbors are now
• 1:15:35
  out there crowding on the Humphrey's lawn. My dad opened
• 1:15:39
  the front door, and Cody and I followed after him,
• 1:15:41
  making our way through the crowd of people to try
• 1:15:43
  to see what was going on. We pushed through until
• 1:15:46
  we got to the front of the crowd and finally
• 1:15:48
  managed to see what the big deal was on the
• 1:15:51
  front lawn. See the entire Humphrey's family, all four of
• 1:15:54
  them laying on their backs, facing up towards the sky,
• 1:15:58
  their eyes darting around on the crowd of people above them.
• 1:16:03
  Their noses and mouths were completely gone. Everything below their
• 1:16:07
  nose had vanished and was simply replaced with smooth skin,
• 1:16:11
  no nose, no nostrils, no lips, just eyes and smooth
• 1:16:14
  skin all the way down their faces. Above their heads
• 1:16:17
  was a copy of the flyer that I had gotten
• 1:16:19
  last night, stuck in the grass by a rusty butcher knife.
• 1:16:23
  Only this flyer was a bit different. It was written
• 1:16:25
  on white paper in red font and it read welcome
• 1:16:28
  the visitor at the top. The rest of the flyers
• 1:16:31
  that as follows.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: Residents a point fine. Tomorrow at seven am, you will
• 1:16:35
  have a visitor. You have been chosen to interact with him. Congratulations.
• 1:16:39
  You will use this time to wander around town at
• 1:16:41
  even your homes. When you hear him, get up and
• 1:16:43
  say hello. It's an honor to be chosen. He is
• 1:16:47
  here to see you, and only you be happy, be nice.
• 1:16:50
  I don't put up a fight, it won't be worth it.
• 1:16:53
  The visitor interesting, So maybe it isn't the angels. But
• 1:16:59
  at the same time I could see maybe it's like
• 1:17:01
  they get smooth faces and did there because what happened
• 1:17:04
  was the angel's face also was smooth, and it just
• 1:17:07
  had to slits the head the things. But it also
• 1:17:10
  makes it seem where it's like, are the angels there
• 1:17:11
  to protect them from the visitor. I don't know.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, it's like the collectors were the ones who
• 1:17:16
  were like Mary Lou seems sad because she knew the
• 1:17:19
  visitor was coming, and then she kind of gave lee
• 1:17:23
  word of caution like I wouldn't want you to lose
• 1:17:24
  your eyes, which seemed menacing but was actually like a
• 1:17:27
  good piece of advice. And then everyone else got the
• 1:17:31
  note that's like, hey, do not interact. But then the
• 1:17:33
  target is like, why don't you get up say hi
• 1:17:36
  to it? Yeah?
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so one of them more menacing.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: Does that mean the Humphries like suffocate because they don't
• 1:17:41
  have noses or mouse or are they just like kept
• 1:17:43
  alive in the state.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: I can't tell. I can't tell if it's all up
• 1:17:48
  in the air. There's a lot of different ways you
• 1:17:49
  could read it. I mean you could read as like
• 1:17:50
  a purgatory thing of like is it their existence like
• 1:17:52
  being sucked out of the place, or do they lose
• 1:17:54
  their identity there? Did they like lose the shell that
• 1:17:57
  they inhabit in this body, or is it a thing
• 1:17:59
  where they're just yes, dealing their identity or just torturing
• 1:18:02
  them you know. The next one's called the things in
• 1:18:05
  the Giant Bear costumes won't stop handing out popcorn.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: A turn a little bit, a little bit different from
• 1:18:13
  the last one, but you know what, that's what it's
• 1:18:16
  all about. I hate the carnival, the obnoxious music that's
• 1:18:20
  trying way too hard to sound happy, the hundreds of colorful,
• 1:18:24
  blinding lights, the mix of popcorn, sweets, peanuts, and sticky,
• 1:18:28
  sweaty children. I hate all of it, of course, because
• 1:18:32
  I hate the carnival. It makes perfect sense that I
• 1:18:34
  live in Point Pine, where everyone else adores it so
• 1:18:37
  much that there's always a carnival in town. It's like
• 1:18:40
  the universe wants to torture me. I'm usually able to
• 1:18:44
  tolerate it. I just don't go. It's a perfect plan,
• 1:18:47
  and so far it's worked out exceptionally well for me.
• 1:18:51
  And then they added the dancing bears. They look like
• 1:18:54
  normal brown teddy bears with black eyes and a red
• 1:18:56
  bow tie, only these are about seven feet tall. I
• 1:19:01
  saw the first one in the middle of town while
• 1:19:02
  I was picking up groceries. It was standing outside the bakery,
• 1:19:06
  slowly swaying in place while that stupid carnival music played
• 1:19:09
  through some speakers that seemed to be located inside the costume.
• 1:19:14
  As I got closer to the giant dancing bear, I
• 1:19:16
  thought about kicking whoever had this fantastic idea right in
• 1:19:19
  the teeth. When I passed the bear, it held out
• 1:19:22
  a bucket of popcorn towards me, seemingly manifesting out of
• 1:19:25
  thin air. It kept swaying as it held the bucket
• 1:19:29
  out towards me, staring at me with its stupid beady eyes. Yeah,
• 1:19:33
  no thanks, I scoffed, pushing it aside. The bear dropped
• 1:19:37
  the bucket and the popcorn spilled all over the sidewalk.
• 1:19:40
  Comass mumbled as I kept walking. The next time I
• 1:19:43
  went into town, there were three bears, all identical, all swaying,
• 1:19:48
  and all were playing the same stupid carnival music. I
• 1:19:51
  think the best part about this was that the music
• 1:19:54
  was not playing simultaneously, making the already lousy tune sound
• 1:19:57
  even worse. Which I didn't really know was pop until now.
• 1:20:01
  Every type a person passed by the bears, they would
• 1:20:03
  pull a bucket of popcorn out of nowhere and offer
• 1:20:06
  it to the bystanders. Every single idiot took it, of course,
• 1:20:10
  and I rolled my eyes as their stupid faces filled
• 1:20:12
  with joy. After about three days of this. The smell
• 1:20:16
  of popcorn was everywhere. I swear it was in my
• 1:20:19
  skin at that point it was nauseating. One step outside
• 1:20:22
  and you were hit with the smell of popcorn, and
• 1:20:25
  it even started to seep into my home. All I
• 1:20:27
  could smell was popcorn. Single semi tolerable thing was now
• 1:20:32
  also ruined, which only further forced my hatred. And still
• 1:20:36
  the bears continued to multiply like bunnies. There is now
• 1:20:40
  one on every street corner, even the neighborhoods. The stupid
• 1:20:44
  carnival of music could be heard everywhere in town. It
• 1:20:47
  was so irritating that I thought about jamming something in
• 1:20:49
  my ears for some relief. The next time I went out,
• 1:20:53
  popcorn filled the streets. It was everywhere. It looked like
• 1:20:57
  ol of Point Pine was a popcorn machine. Popcorn machine
• 1:21:01
  that incessantly played carnival music. I could tell that even
• 1:21:05
  the other people who usually loved the carnival were getting
• 1:21:08
  tired of it. No one was taking the popcorn anymore,
• 1:21:12
  and they weren't even going outside now. I was sitting
• 1:21:15
  in my living room trying to watch a movie and
• 1:21:17
  tune out the music, when a scream pierced through both
• 1:21:20
  of the sounds and startled me. I ran to the
• 1:21:23
  window and looked outside, where a woman was pointing down
• 1:21:26
  the street at one of the dancing bears and screaming.
• 1:21:30
  One by one, my neighbors started to come out of
• 1:21:32
  their homes to investigate the murderous screams, and I saw
• 1:21:35
  Andy Cobart take one look down the street and throw
• 1:21:38
  up all over his rose bushes. Seeing that pequed my interest,
• 1:21:42
  so I stepped out of my house, out into the
• 1:21:45
  popcorn fumes that sat heavily over Point Pine. I walked
• 1:21:50
  out onto my popcorn covered lawn and look down the street.
• 1:21:53
  A giant dancing teddy bear was still there, but whoever
• 1:21:56
  it was under the costume had removed the head and
• 1:21:58
  was holding it in their hands as say danced. Oh,
• 1:22:02
  and the person in the costume didn't have a head.
• 1:22:04
  All that came out at the top of the costume
• 1:22:06
  was a neck that appeared to have sewn together at
• 1:22:08
  the top where the head should be. I stared at
• 1:22:11
  the headless dancing person as they moved the giant teddy
• 1:22:14
  bear head around with they swayed on the street corner.
• 1:22:18
  They had been out there for so long now that
• 1:22:20
  the carnival music was no longer happy and bubbly. Now
• 1:22:23
  it was distorted, creepy. We all stood outside our homes,
• 1:22:27
  staring at the headless dancer at the end of the street,
• 1:22:29
  not knowing what to do. When weird things happened in
• 1:22:32
  Point Pine, we're usually warned about them in advance, and
• 1:22:36
  on the off chance that we aren't warned, someone or
• 1:22:39
  multiple someones die. A scream erupted from the next street,
• 1:22:44
  signaling that the dancing bear had removed its head. Andy's husband, Marwin,
• 1:22:49
  walked down the street towards the bear, his feet crunching
• 1:22:52
  down on all the popcorn. I watched as he went
• 1:22:54
  up to the bear, and a bucket of popcorn appeared
• 1:22:57
  in mid air and fell onto Marwin's head. Eiefull to
• 1:23:00
  laugh as he threw the bucket aside. Marwin reached over
• 1:23:03
  and took the bear head away from the dancer, turning
• 1:23:06
  it over to examine it. Shook it a few times,
• 1:23:09
  and I expected a head to fall out and roll
• 1:23:11
  onto the popcorn, but it appeared to be empty. Suddenly,
• 1:23:14
  the dancing bear reached out and grabbed Marwin's arm with
• 1:23:17
  one of its teddy bear arms. Marwin backed up, trying
• 1:23:20
  to get away, but wasn't able to. What the fuck
• 1:23:22
  man shout as he tried to shake the teddy Bear off?
• 1:23:26
  And he ran down the street towards Marwin and attempted
• 1:23:28
  to pry the bear away from Marwin.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: Why is this thing so fucking strong? I mean, it's a.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: Bear welled in tears. I rolled my eyes and ran
• 1:23:36
  over and taking out a small pocket knife I carried
• 1:23:39
  in my pocket to cut off the teddy bear arm.
• 1:23:42
  The knife tore through the fabric, cutting off about six
• 1:23:45
  inches of the arm, sliced right through the arm was empty.
• 1:23:50
  What the Marwin grabbed the now limp piece of fabric
• 1:23:53
  and looked inside of it.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: They don't even have arms, he was right.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: Whoever was in the costume had neck, no head, and
• 1:24:01
  apparently no arms. The entire arm that I had cut
• 1:24:04
  was now limp and flapping around as the Teddy Bear swayed,
• 1:24:07
  as if all the stuffing had been taken out. I
• 1:24:10
  walked up to the Teddy Bear again and sank my
• 1:24:12
  knife into the chest, dragging it down a few inches,
• 1:24:15
  and he gasped, stepped back and waited, but nothing happened.
• 1:24:19
  I looked back at my neighbors who were fixated on
• 1:24:22
  the teddy Bear. After a few minutes, the carnival music
• 1:24:25
  stopped and the bear frozen place. I took a few
• 1:24:29
  steps back, and suddenly blood began pouring out of the
• 1:24:32
  gash in its chest, spilling down the front of the
• 1:24:35
  suit and onto the popcorn on the ground. After that,
• 1:24:38
  chunks of stuff began to tumble out of the same gash,
• 1:24:41
  falling onto the popcorn with a six splattering sound. Looked
• 1:24:46
  closer at the things that were spilling out of the
• 1:24:48
  giant teddy Bear and finally realized what it was. They
• 1:24:51
  were organs. Organs were falling out of the teddy Bear.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: Is that a liver?
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: And that's a heart?
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: Lovely.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: When all the inside stopped falling out of the teddy Bear,
• 1:25:04
  it crumbled in on itself and sank to the floor,
• 1:25:06
  covering the popcorn like a rug. Is it dead? Someone
• 1:25:10
  called from behind me.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 4: I don't fucking know.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: At least the music stopped.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: We all stood in silence in the middle of the
• 1:25:16
  popcorn covered road and stared at the pile of blood
• 1:25:18
  and organs. Andy threw up on someone else's yard, and
• 1:25:21
  then Marwin took him back into the house. Hey look,
• 1:25:25
  I looked up to see that the dancing bear on
• 1:25:27
  the street corner across from Mars had also fallen over.
• 1:25:30
  Everyone in that neighborhood simply stared at the empty bear costume.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: The music is stopping.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: I listened as the music that had been coming from
• 1:25:38
  the bears got quieter and quieter. It seemed that killing
• 1:25:41
  one of them would kill them all. I breathed a
• 1:25:44
  sigh of relief and immediately regretted it as my nose
• 1:25:46
  filled with the smell of blood and popcorn. I coughed
• 1:25:49
  and gagged, but controlled myself before I started throwing up
• 1:25:52
  on people's property. Like Andy, walked back down the street
• 1:25:56
  and toward my house. Just as I was about to
• 1:25:58
  step onto my porch, the ground begin to shake. I
• 1:26:02
  held on to the stair railing and looked back just
• 1:26:05
  in time to hear a loud pop. See Felicity Green
• 1:26:08
  fall backward onto the popcorn in the street. There was
• 1:26:11
  a giant hole in the middle of her chest that
• 1:26:14
  was still slightly smoking. There was another pop nearby, and
• 1:26:17
  the house next door's living room window exploded. When the
• 1:26:21
  Fresh show is that someone called this People ran over
• 1:26:24
  to Felicity's smoking dead body.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: It was a kernel. There's no way a colonel just
• 1:26:29
  ripped a hole in Felicity's chest. Well, it was a
• 1:26:32
  really big kernel.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: Amidst the voices that were shouting at each other from
• 1:26:37
  across the street, there were another two pops. I stared
• 1:26:41
  at the ground intently and managed to see one kernel
• 1:26:43
  pop up into the air and land a few feet away,
• 1:26:46
  making a crack in the sidewalk. As a popcorn around
• 1:26:48
  the area burned up and started smoking. Now it smelled
• 1:26:52
  like burnt popcorn. I walked back toward the street closer
• 1:26:56
  I got, the hotter the area fell. The roads were
• 1:26:59
  heating up. Point Pine was down, actual popcorn machine. I
• 1:27:03
  backed up and at it towards my house. As the
• 1:27:05
  popping started to increase, sending flaming hot kernels everywhere. I
• 1:27:10
  ran inside and locked my door, heading to my living
• 1:27:13
  room window and pulling the curtains back to look outside.
• 1:27:16
  Everyone was now in their homes, and all that was
• 1:27:18
  left in the street was burned popcorn and Felicity's body,
• 1:27:21
  which was still smoking and now appeared to be cooking
• 1:27:23
  from the heat that was coming from the road. I
• 1:27:26
  glanced down the street where the loose organs were now
• 1:27:28
  beginning to move closer to each other, forming a body.
• 1:27:31
  As each organ took its place, a new costume began
• 1:27:34
  to form around the organs, this time taking the shape
• 1:27:37
  of a circus clown instead of a teddy bear. It
• 1:27:40
  was wearing bright yellow clown shoes, a wide and red
• 1:27:43
  striped outfit, and blue suspenders, and a rainbow wig. Clown's
• 1:27:47
  face was painted white, with pink circles on the cheeks
• 1:27:50
  and a black diamond that surrounded each eye. Carnival music
• 1:27:53
  started up again, and the clown jumped up and down
• 1:27:56
  the road, yelling hot, Hot, Hot every time it's feet
• 1:28:00
  landed on the hot street. After a few minutes, he
• 1:28:03
  caught me staring and waved at me as it's headed
• 1:28:05
  to three point sixty skipped towards my house, stopping in
• 1:28:09
  front of the sidewalk, and I stared as a bucket
• 1:28:11
  of popcorn appeared out of nowhere, and he held it
• 1:28:13
  out towards me. When I didn't move, the clown dropped
• 1:28:17
  the bucket on my lawn and then turned around and
• 1:28:19
  made his way across the street, jumping and clicking his
• 1:28:22
  heels together every step while he shouted hot, hot, hot
• 1:28:25
  in a loud, cheery voice. Do you want to give
• 1:28:27
  us a hot hot hot impression? Hot?
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 6: Had hot hot hot hot.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: There you go, It's good. He kept jumping and clicking
• 1:28:34
  his heels as he made his way towards Felicity.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 6: Had had hot hot hot hot had had.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: Had had jump click. Finally reached Felicity's body and leaned down,
• 1:28:44
  tearing off her entire arm with these and then taking
• 1:28:47
  a huge bite from the middle of it, bone and all.
• 1:28:50
  He stared at me while he ate the arm, and
• 1:28:52
  the carnival of music slowly grew louder and louder as
• 1:28:54
  all the other dead bears transformed into one.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: I hate the carnival, I'll be completely honest. What the
• 1:28:59
  fuck even was that entry?
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: So that entry was there's like this anomalous thing that
• 1:29:05
  shows up, that takes on an appearance that people like
• 1:29:08
  everyone wants to eat popcorn, right, and then when the
• 1:29:11
  facade's up, when someone recognizes him as like not just
• 1:29:14
  nice bear costumes, it's like, all right, well, time to
• 1:29:17
  reset it, just because well it feels like.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: The cohesion of the story so far was kind of broke. Well,
• 1:29:21
  like this, so the first one with the parade, it
• 1:29:24
  felt like it felt like an entry like the parade,
• 1:29:26
  where it was kind of like just a moment, you know,
• 1:29:28
  But we've had so many to where I was just like,
• 1:29:30
  it just kind of felt like a bit more random
• 1:29:33
  in terms of the linear structure of what we've been
• 1:29:36
  reading so far. Unless the carnival is the thing that
• 1:29:39
  is popping up that people are like, you gotta want those?
• 1:29:41
  Are those the visitors kind of thing?
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: No, I think it's each its own thing. I think
• 1:29:46
  it's just like the town's full of like different supernatural creatures,
• 1:29:50
  each with their own thing going on. This is just
• 1:29:52
  a thing that wanted people to eat a bunch of
• 1:29:54
  popcorn so that it could.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: Maybe it seems like an effect, right because all the
• 1:30:00
  people I can eat the popcorn, like it killed, like
• 1:30:03
  an infection or like a way to gain trust for
• 1:30:07
  like them to continue.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: Maybe it had some eventual plan it was going to
• 1:30:10
  get to, but once someone kills the bear, it's like,
• 1:30:12
  all right, well that plan's done. New plan like gonna
• 1:30:14
  become a clown or something. It's like it wants to
• 1:30:16
  appeal to humanity, but it doesn't understand that it's not
• 1:30:20
  doing it right. It's like, oh, people like bear costumes
• 1:30:23
  and popcorn, we'll do that. And then it's like, oh,
• 1:30:26
  that didn't work, Okay, they like clowns, will be clowns. Now.
• 1:30:28
  It's like they just are just mimicking without understanding how
• 1:30:32
  to make the mimicry ye kind of thing. That's what
• 1:30:35
  I think. It could just as easily be like a
• 1:30:37
  puppy or like a cute kid or something like that.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: This next one is was the supposed last one before
• 1:30:44
  the our secret entry before the injury that she never uploaded.
• 1:30:48
  So apparently this was the last entry to the Point
• 1:30:50
  Pine place, which was the Due to recent violent events,
• 1:30:53
  pumpkins are no longer allowed on a Point Pine, but
• 1:30:56
  we luckily have one more after this, So right, so last.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: Public story in the Point Pine series? Are you ready?
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: Yep?
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: Due to recent violent events, pumpkins are no longer allowed
• 1:31:09
  at Point Pine. It all started when Cassandra Wolfheart killed
• 1:31:13
  the Pumpkins sprout. I didn't know Cassandra personally, but I
• 1:31:16
  knew of her. She was friends with Tom's sister, and
• 1:31:19
  Tom was friends with me. All that I know about
• 1:31:21
  Cassandra I've learned against my will. Passing comments from adults
• 1:31:25
  for other kids at.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: School at Wolfhart, girl, that's a picky eater if I've
• 1:31:29
  ever seen one.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: One thing that everyone in town knew was that Cassandra
• 1:31:33
  hated pumpkins. She literally could not stand on the side
• 1:31:36
  of them. I want to watch her start screaming at
• 1:31:39
  the top of her lungs when a barista at the
• 1:31:41
  Point Pine Cafe offered her a pumpkin spice latte. The
• 1:31:45
  girl was weird, and her hatred of pumpkins was the
• 1:31:48
  weird cherry on top of the weird Sunday that was
• 1:31:51
  Cassandra Wolfheart. Tom said that anytime Cassandra came over during
• 1:31:55
  the fall season, she would avoid looking into their backyard. Apparently,
• 1:31:59
  the first time she went over, she saw their pumpkin
• 1:32:02
  patch and went wide as a ghost. Before she passed
• 1:32:05
  out on their kitchen floor. She showed me a dent
• 1:32:08
  that she swears was made by her head hitting the
• 1:32:10
  wooden floorboards. But Tom is kind of a liar sometimes,
• 1:32:14
  so I just go along with most of what he says.
• 1:32:17
  I knew about the other girls at school who liked
• 1:32:19
  to play pranks on Cassandra. One day, they filled her
• 1:32:22
  locker with pumpkin guts, and when she opened it, she
• 1:32:24
  threw up in the middle of the hallway. I have
• 1:32:27
  to say that at first I found Cassandra to be
• 1:32:30
  a little ridiculous, but now I feel bad for so
• 1:32:34
  many people constantly terrorize her with her biggest fear. I
• 1:32:38
  think about what I would do. Someone was dangling me
• 1:32:40
  off a cliff as a joke, and I realized that
• 1:32:42
  I'd probably react the same way that Cassandra has. Last week,
• 1:32:46
  I was at Tom's house while Cassandra was there hanging
• 1:32:48
  out with his sister Megan. Even from Tom's room, I
• 1:32:52
  could overhear Cassandra complaining about pumpkin spice season. I haven't
• 1:32:56
  heard her gag a few times after she said the
• 1:32:58
  word pumpkin. Cassandra left before dinner that day once she
• 1:33:03
  found out that Tom's mother was serving pumpkin bread for dessert.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: Boy, that girl sh sure hates pumpkins.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: You put your soul into that one though. That was powerful.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 8: Boy, that girl sure hates pumpkins.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: A lot of passion of that. Tom's dad chuckle that
• 1:33:24
  she went out the front door.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: Why did Tom become my new food character?
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: His dad right?
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: Or Tom's dad?
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: Ye, Tom's dad, Yeah, Tom's dad. Tom's dad would stop famburger.
• 1:33:36
  Yeah is that kind of guy?
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 8: I have a gun in a dream, Tom's dad, you rule,
• 1:33:49
  I have to make it to heaven.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: I can't.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: Blood for the Blood God, and this must be made.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: A few days after that, because Andrew's brothers managed to
• 1:34:12
  carry her to Tom's pumpkin patch in her sleep. When
• 1:34:15
  she woke up surrounded by pumpkins, she screamed so loud
• 1:34:17
  that she woke up everyone in the neighborhood. So when's
• 1:34:20
  the when? So you can't be awake before eight thirteen?
• 1:34:24
  But when do you have to be in bed? Bye?
• 1:34:26
  Because it's like if she wakes up at two am
• 1:34:28
  and a pumpkin patches, she'd done. So I just sucks
• 1:34:32
  for her.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: I would you assume? I don't know. They never really
• 1:34:37
  established that.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: Hey, we prank Cassandra by killing her in the pumpkin patch.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we fed prank bitch. We fed her
• 1:34:45
  in the Blood God exactly. Tom's dad shot her with
• 1:34:49
  his pellet gun.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: I had to be done. They all rushed out to
• 1:34:59
  find her, slamming her fist over the pumpkins, punching holes
• 1:35:02
  into a few of them. She had apparently broken off
• 1:35:04
  a few nails doing this and severely cut up and
• 1:35:07
  bruised her hands in the process. They had to call
• 1:35:10
  the police and the paramedics to tear her away from
• 1:35:12
  the pumpkin patch and then sedate her so they could
• 1:35:14
  transport her to the hospital. Since her brothers had filmed it,
• 1:35:18
  they were in some big trouble with the cops and
• 1:35:20
  their parents.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: May she said she tried to get May said she
• 1:35:25
  tried to go visit Cassandra, but she wouldn't even talk
• 1:35:27
  to her. She kept crying and saying the pumpkins were going.
• 1:35:30
  She kept crying and saying that the pumpkins were gonna.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 2: Want revenge, said, as we did our history homework.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: Revenge for what? For what she did to them?
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: Duh.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: She basically murdered a bunch of pumpkins, Hailey. I saw
• 1:35:43
  what it looked like afterwards. She literally destroyed a whole
• 1:35:46
  pumpkin patch.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: I looked up at Tom, who was highlighted in a textbook.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're pumpkins, like they don't care.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: She doesn't think that, mumbled with a highlighter tap in
• 1:35:58
  his mouth. I didn't hear much about Cassandra for the
• 1:36:00
  rest of the day. But the following morning, when Tom's
• 1:36:03
  parents went outside to clean up the mess, they found
• 1:36:05
  that all the pumpkin debris was already gone.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: You mean someone just cleaned it up, I.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 2: Asked Tom over the phone, and I guess what else
• 1:36:14
  could have happened. I didn't say anything, because honestly, I
• 1:36:18
  don't know. Maybe someone just felt bad and had decided
• 1:36:21
  to help Tom's family out by cleaning up Cassandra's mess.
• 1:36:25
  It wasn't likely that she would clean up after herself,
• 1:36:27
  at least not without having some sort of breakdown. Following morning,
• 1:36:32
  at four am, someone called the police claiming that there
• 1:36:35
  was a girl in a hospital gown, wailing and running
• 1:36:38
  barefoot down the street. It was Cassandra, and when they
• 1:36:41
  caught up to her, she said she was running from
• 1:36:44
  the pumpkin monster. She had made it all the way
• 1:36:47
  to our neighborhood from I read I'm about to read
• 1:36:54
  the lines. She was running from the hospital and I
• 1:36:57
  just pictured her running by Am Murger, which is on
• 1:37:01
  the front left corner of the hospital, like there's a
• 1:37:09
  literal pumpkin monster behind her, the three guys through out front.
• 1:37:12
  It's like arms crossed.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: Watch on the patio smoking weed.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 2: So what you do on the patio A don't let
• 1:37:22
  it shut the door, don't let it draft in.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: They have the true O Disney fans outside.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 2: They rolled tobacco cigarettes. It was Cassandra. She had made
• 1:37:36
  it all the way to our neighborhood from the hospital
• 1:37:38
  and collapsed on her front lawn. I washed through my
• 1:37:40
  bedroom windows. The police talked to Cassandra and her parents
• 1:37:43
  for a few minutes. Something caught my eye off to
• 1:37:46
  the left, and I looked over to see Tom waving
• 1:37:48
  me down. Ran downstairs and out the front door to
• 1:37:51
  meet him.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: What's going on? She says, there's a pumpkin monster out
• 1:37:54
  to get her.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: Tom grinned.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: Maybe all the teasing caught up to her, and she
• 1:37:58
  finally broke.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: Looked over the rest of the neighbors who had been
• 1:38:01
  drawn outside onto the street by the cops, and the
• 1:38:04
  crazy girl in a hospital gown or maybe not. Tom
• 1:38:08
  trailed off, glanced back at him and saw he was
• 1:38:11
  pointing towards one of the running paths that came out
• 1:38:13
  of the woods and between two of the houses on
• 1:38:15
  the street. There was movement in the trees and a
• 1:38:17
  flash of orange before something came out of the woods.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: What the fuck was that? Oh my god, it's here,
• 1:38:23
  The pumpkin Monster's here. Please get to help me. I
• 1:38:25
  don't want to.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: Die, Sandra wailed as she saw it. For once, Sandra
• 1:38:29
  wasn't crazy. The thing that had come out of the
• 1:38:32
  woods was in fact a pumpkin monster. It was about
• 1:38:36
  seven feet tall and made out of broken pumpkins from
• 1:38:39
  Tom's pumpkin patch. The pumpkin pieces were crudely molded together
• 1:38:43
  to form feet, legs, torso arms, hands, a neck, and
• 1:38:46
  finally a head, and had pumpkin cts draped all over it,
• 1:38:50
  hanging off its body and leaving a trail of them
• 1:38:53
  all over the ground. It stopped in the middle of
• 1:38:56
  the street, and people began to go back into their homes.
• 1:38:58
  It seemed to look round for a while, moving its lopsided,
• 1:39:01
  half smashed pumpkinhead from side to side, even though it
• 1:39:04
  had no eyes or any other facial features. After a
• 1:39:08
  few seconds, it headed straight towards Cassandra, who screamed so
• 1:39:12
  loud I thought my ear drums were going to burst.
• 1:39:16
  It began to awkwardly make its way towards her home,
• 1:39:18
  taking wide steps and fumbling as it tried to speed up. Ah,
• 1:39:23
  hell no, is that a Russian? Accent?
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: Was a Russian?
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: So it says? Oh, hell no.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about your intonation on the character. Your assumption.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: Is he Russian?
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 2: No? No, I'm I'm trying to attack you directly, hunter,
• 1:39:46
  Oh alright?
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: Is that Russian?
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: It shook the ground with each steptter and I held
• 1:39:51
  on to a nearby fence for balance. The police pulled
• 1:39:54
  out their guns and shot at it a few times,
• 1:39:56
  but it continued to walk unfazed. Cassandra dart between two
• 1:40:00
  of the officers and headed towards Tom and me.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: What is she doing? Why is she running this way?
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: Pumpkin Monster pivoted and began making its way towards us
• 1:40:08
  as well. Sandra ran past us, looking back towards the
• 1:40:11
  monster for a second. She continued to run down the street,
• 1:40:14
  and Tom and I moved out of the Monster's way
• 1:40:16
  as it chased after After a few seconds, Tom took
• 1:40:20
  off after it as well.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: Where you going? Don't you want to see what happens?
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: I hesitated for a second before I followed, Hey, come
• 1:40:28
  back here, an officer called after us. I do think
• 1:40:31
  it's kind of like so much stuff happens in the town.
• 1:40:34
  Clearly this is like, you know, goose Bombs, fun pumpkin
• 1:40:36
  monster thing, but it's it's funny how so much death
• 1:40:41
  and weird stuff happens in town that their friend is like, Yeah,
• 1:40:44
  Pumpkin deit, he's gonna get her. Don't you want to watch?
• 1:40:48
  Don't you want to see her get like a viscerrated
• 1:40:50
  by a pumpkin person.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like this is like Carly Beth from
• 1:40:54
  Goosebumps mixed in with a Sandlot the guy running at
• 1:40:57
  the end from the way from the dog. Yeah, it's
• 1:40:59
  gonna be vibe. So it's now all I'm mixed hearing
• 1:41:03
  is wipe Out playing.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 10: Oh, wipe Out.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: You know whatever? That deal is not what they played
• 1:41:09
  during the At the end of when he's running, it's like, oh, yeah, I.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: Thought you were talking about the TV show Wipeout. That's what. Yeah,
• 1:41:16
  you're the song. Yeah.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: In the nineteen nineteen ninety two film, they're watching clips
• 1:41:22
  of wipe Out.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 10: The boom.
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: The Russia the hell fuck fuck got big stretch.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: Goddamn. We made it to the end of the street
• 1:41:37
  just in time to see Kitch Sandra trip and roll
• 1:41:40
  down the small hill. She stopped and listened to her screams,
• 1:41:42
  and she kept rolling down the hill. No fucking way,
• 1:41:46
  Tom whispered. We kept watching as Cassandra rolled straight into
• 1:41:49
  another pumpkin patch, her head making contact with the biggest pumpkins,
• 1:41:53
  slamming right through it. With a dull thud.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: My god, she's dead.
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: The pumpkin monster tripped down the field, falling over Cassandra's
• 1:42:00
  lifeless body and falling apart all over her in the
• 1:42:02
  pumpkin patch. Cobs finally caught up and raced down the
• 1:42:06
  hill to check on Cassandra. But I was right. She
• 1:42:09
  had died. Not even an hour later, there was a
• 1:42:13
  town wide announcement no more pumpkins and point pine Ever,
• 1:42:17
  Tom and I watched from the top of the hill
• 1:42:19
  as people carried the pumpkins away to burn them at
• 1:42:21
  the edges of town. Someone had already taken Cassandra's body away,
• 1:42:25
  but left the pumpkin that her head was smashed through.
• 1:42:29
  For days, all that anyone talked about was Cassandra's freak accident.
• 1:42:33
  At night, Cassandra was seen again. Multiple people reported seeing
• 1:42:37
  her walking around town, sobbing and asking for help. I
• 1:42:41
  was one of them. I heard her cries in the
• 1:42:43
  middle of the night, looked up my bedroom window to
• 1:42:45
  see her standing in the middle of the road right
• 1:42:47
  outside her house. She was starty and bruised, covered in
• 1:42:51
  pumpkin cuts dried up blood. She cried loudly, gasping from
• 1:42:55
  breath while she screamed, son't help me play please, I
• 1:43:01
  hate pumpkins. I continue to watch. Is No one, not
• 1:43:05
  even her parents, turned on their lights or even looked outside.
• 1:43:09
  Sandra fell to her knees in the middle of the road,
• 1:43:11
  continuing to cry, before finally falling face first, the forehead
• 1:43:15
  pressed to the road.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 5: Please.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 2: She continued to cry for a few minutes, and I
• 1:43:20
  backed away from the window got back into bed. After
• 1:43:23
  a few minutes, she started to scream. She's done this
• 1:43:26
  every single night since she died. She screams about how
• 1:43:30
  we should have listened to her. Getting rid of the pumpkins.
• 1:43:33
  Now won't stop anything. He claims that they'll come back
• 1:43:36
  and that we're all gonna die. I guess one thing
• 1:43:39
  that kind of sucks about Point Pine is that the
• 1:43:41
  dad never really leave. That's a fun entry. I like it.
• 1:43:46
  The girl who's afraid of Pumpkins gets tortured with pumpkins
• 1:43:48
  and then pumpkin monster gets her again. Very goosebumps.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah what.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't like it? You were.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: It's it is fun. It is very goosebumps. I just
• 1:44:02
  I wish that they all had that cad, like if
• 1:44:04
  that's supposed to be. So the next thing that we're
• 1:44:06
  reading is a secret entry. That was the last one,
• 1:44:09
  right Public Point Pine and Industry Injury. I kind of
• 1:44:12
  wish that they were all. I just wish there was
• 1:44:14
  a bit more cohesion between all of them, like I liked.
• 1:44:16
  I liked the last three or the last two were
• 1:44:19
  like the first one where it's I think there's a parade.
• 1:44:21
  I like the idea of this town being a place
• 1:44:23
  where it's like, all this weird shit happens. No one's
• 1:44:25
  gonna be faced by a pumpkin monster. Yeah, but people
• 1:44:27
  are still tortured and they're you know, it's like still
• 1:44:30
  a horror story for whoever's being affected. Sure, you know,
• 1:44:34
  but the the stuff that's like all cohesive throughout the
• 1:44:36
  middle of section of it feels like that was just
• 1:44:38
  kind of throwing, which I don't know, maybe there's something
• 1:44:41
  out of here.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 2: I mean each one was kind of like its own.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: Each entry was.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 2: Now, did you not feel like it was building towards
• 1:44:49
  something other than some of the bad's gonna happen? But
• 1:44:51
  I think that the entire everything with Point Pines building
• 1:44:54
  towards something bad. It's going to happen, Like that's a
• 1:44:56
  I don't think it was building towards anything. It was
• 1:44:58
  just vignettes because each story was from a different perspective
• 1:45:01
  of a different thing happening. Like the only thing that
• 1:45:05
  happened twice was the parade, but the second time wasn't
• 1:45:09
  even really about the parade as much as it was
• 1:45:11
  like how much the town hates outsider.
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: I think the way that the characters were interwoven made
• 1:45:16
  it seem like there was something that was coming in.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 2: I could see that. I didn't really get that to me.
• 1:45:21
  It was more so just like, yeah, here's a guy
• 1:45:23
  from this other story doing another thing. Because and if anything,
• 1:45:27
  that was reinforcing to me, like yeah, no matter what
• 1:45:29
  these guys go through, it is just one of many.
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I guess if that's the case, that's if
• 1:45:34
  that's what we're saying, then I wish it was just
• 1:45:35
  somebody entirely new you know, because bringing it back to
• 1:45:39
  people that we've known, that's like, oh, well, this guy's
• 1:45:41
  come back. He's been gone, he came back, and people
• 1:45:43
  are like, ooh, weird out by it. That's fine, but
• 1:45:46
  it's like, I just kind of wish they were all
• 1:45:48
  just random vignettes of just different people in this area.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 2: But I could understand that.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, this next one, the last one here is
• 1:45:54
  a entry that has never been published. We get to
• 1:45:57
  read it here the History Point Mind to the Wrong
• 1:46:01
  God for the final entry of the Point Pine series.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 2: Again, you could check out the other episode and the
• 1:46:06
  link of the description on the master list, but this
• 1:46:07
  is the one that was sent directly to us by Gabby,
• 1:46:09
  which thank you very much, Gabby, Thank you Gamby the
• 1:46:12
  History of Point Pine. A prayer to the Wrong God
• 1:46:15
  in the middle of the dark and cold forest. Began
• 1:46:17
  to think this was my end. I was going to
• 1:46:20
  die here in the middle of nowhere, and I would
• 1:46:23
  have the dumbest obituary in the whole town. Wilmer Moore,
• 1:46:26
  aged twenty two, loving brother and son got lost in
• 1:46:30
  the woods while getting high and FROs to death in
• 1:46:32
  the middle of the night like an idiot. Cold air
• 1:46:35
  had pretty much killed my buzz at this point, and
• 1:46:38
  the fear began to creep in. I fought hard to
• 1:46:41
  stop it because I wasn't completely alert and the last
• 1:46:44
  thing I needed was to get paranoid. I hyper focused
• 1:46:47
  on my steps, putting one foot in front of the other.
• 1:46:50
  I decided a few minutes back that I was going
• 1:46:53
  to pick a direction and head that way in a
• 1:46:55
  straight line. I figured that was my best shot, and
• 1:46:58
  I would eventually either hit the road that led into
• 1:47:01
  town or I'd fall off a cliff. At this point,
• 1:47:04
  I'd welcome either one of those options. I couldn't see
• 1:47:08
  the moon, and I remember thinking it was because of
• 1:47:10
  the weed at first, but as I scanned the night sky,
• 1:47:13
  I realized it was absent. It's funny, it's like there's
• 1:47:17
  no moon. I must be pretty Oh no, it is gone,
• 1:47:20
  got it? The moon is.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: In fact, it seemed like the point Pine place. I mean,
• 1:47:24
  if it is like a purgatory, but it does feel
• 1:47:26
  like it's just existing in nothing. Yeah, like it's definitely
• 1:47:29
  not in our world.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 2: Well that's kind of the thought I got by the
• 1:47:31
  darkness that was around the oak that one day before
• 1:47:34
  it disappeared. Yeah, yeah, it feels like it's in space,
• 1:47:37
  floating somewhere. Maybe tonight it's a new moon. I thought
• 1:47:41
  it was easier to hold on to that explanation, given
• 1:47:43
  the fact that I had no idea when the cycles
• 1:47:45
  of the moon happened. Then I began to fear that
• 1:47:47
  I had died in this darkness, as well as the
• 1:47:50
  fear that came with it was my personal hell somehow.
• 1:47:54
  I don't know how long I walked before I saw it,
• 1:47:57
  small dim light off in the distance. My first thought
• 1:48:01
  was that I was seeing the light that remained on
• 1:48:03
  the point Pine Bakery, but it was different, and I
• 1:48:06
  still wasn't seeing any of the other buildings in town,
• 1:48:09
  so it couldn't have been that. As I continued heading
• 1:48:11
  towards it, it was in the path, the direction I'd chosen.
• 1:48:15
  I soon realized that it was a porch light, and
• 1:48:18
  I'd walked right up to a small cabin that was
• 1:48:20
  hidden amongst the trees. I had seen things that were
• 1:48:23
  a lot weirder than this before, so I walked up
• 1:48:26
  and knocked on the door. When it opened, I recognized
• 1:48:29
  the occupant. It was Robert Ford, the oldest child. A
• 1:48:33
  lot of people thought he was a myth, another creepy
• 1:48:36
  story that was made up by someone years ago and
• 1:48:39
  easily believed because it paled in comparison to some of
• 1:48:41
  the other things that took place in Point Pine. Robert
• 1:48:45
  was said to have been a child since fifteen ninety eight.
• 1:48:49
  He's seen in some older photographs that can be found
• 1:48:51
  in the archives of the library detailing some of the
• 1:48:54
  town's history. Of course, the photographs only go back so far,
• 1:48:58
  but it's widely believed that he was a child long
• 1:49:01
  before those images were taken. As I stared at Robert,
• 1:49:04
  I realized that before this I had not believed in
• 1:49:07
  his existence. I had seen the images we all had,
• 1:49:10
  as they were part of our curriculum in school, but
• 1:49:12
  I didn't believe that he was real till I was
• 1:49:15
  face to face with him. There the dark and cold formars. Yes,
• 1:49:20
  he asked, after waiting for me to speak, I'm lost.
• 1:49:24
  Stepped aside and let me in. The Inside of the
• 1:49:26
  cabin was what you'd expect, small kitchen, couch, radio, and
• 1:49:30
  a bed. There was room off to the back, which
• 1:49:33
  I assume was some sort of bathroom. I sat on
• 1:49:36
  the couch.
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: Did you come from town, Robert asked.
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 2: He didn't sit. I nodded, I'm all so high, of course,
• 1:49:45
  stared at him, and he stared at me.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 6: Would you like some water?
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: I nodded, and he walked over to his kitchen. He
• 1:49:51
  was a boy, looked to be around eleven or so,
• 1:49:55
  but I was never really good with kids. Were guessing
• 1:49:57
  their ages?
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: How old are you?
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 2: And slipped out of my mouth as soon as I
• 1:50:01
  thought it.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 6: That depends on the answer that you're looking for.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: Robber replied, is he had to be a cup of water.
• 1:50:08
  Took a sip. It was room temperature, but it felt
• 1:50:10
  weird to a complain.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: Have you always been a child?
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 6: Have you always been your age?
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: Shook my head.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 6: No, neither have I.
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: When did you stop aging?
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 6: When I was twelve?
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: I was close off by one year.
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: Is it weird being like a child your whole life?
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm not really a child, I just look like one.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: That's problematic.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 6: I suppose our problems are different.
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 2: Then drank the rest of the water.
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: How come you never come into town? Some people think
• 1:50:39
  you don't exist.
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 9: To think all these images of you are photoshopped. I
• 1:50:44
  exist for a reason other than being a citizen of
• 1:50:46
  Point Pine.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: What reason?
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 2: Robert sat down on the floor in front of me
• 1:50:50
  Ur's across Apple Sauce.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 6: Do they still teach the history of Pointe Pine in school?
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: They tell us about the settlers. You came here and
• 1:50:58
  liked how like how secluded it was, and they set
• 1:51:02
  up a town far and far enough away from everyone else.
• 1:51:05
  They were never bothered. Blah blah blah blah blah. Then
• 1:51:08
  the bad stuff, then the best stuff started happening.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 9: Ah, So they change the story again again. Yes, the
• 1:51:16
  last time someone came around here they told me a
• 1:51:19
  different version. It seems like the version you were taught
• 1:51:21
  differs even from the original.
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: Wait, so what's the original?
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 7: Are you sure you want to know?
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't I? You can unlearn.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 9: Things, and sometimes certain kinds of knowledge can be a
• 1:51:37
  burden or a curse.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: Ignorance is bliss, as they.
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 2: Say, I will say so far, this is probably my
• 1:51:44
  one of my favorite setups. I really love the idea
• 1:51:47
  of like there's like this immortal child because everything's so
• 1:51:50
  weird in town, but it's like the oracle who's seen everything,
• 1:51:54
  like remembers the old history that keeps getting buried and
• 1:51:56
  stuff like that. I think that's a fun setup. In
• 1:51:59
  another situation. I would have been deeply unsettled by Robert's demeanor,
• 1:52:03
  I want to know, nodded, leaning in towards him.
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 6: Okay, then, but please remember that you asked me for this.
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 2: He nodded again. He began.
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 6: European settlers ended up in Point Pine years ago, but
• 1:52:18
  not because.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 7: They liked the isolation.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 9: They got lost on the way to their actual destination, Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1:52:25
  I was very, very very young then, so the details
• 1:52:28
  of this are a bit murky. But some of these
• 1:52:31
  settlers believed they had arrived in Virginia, and some swore
• 1:52:34
  that they had seen sign leading them to the destination.
• 1:52:37
  Once they were here, however, in Point Pine, they realized
• 1:52:41
  that they were wrong.
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 4: They weren't in.
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: Virginia at all.
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 6: They decided to stop.
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 9: Here and rest, but that ended up being the worst
• 1:52:48
  decision they could have possibly made. By the time morning came,
• 1:52:51
  the road that they had followed into the area was gone.
• 1:52:54
  It had disappeared, and the sign that they had sworn
• 1:52:57
  was leading them into Jamestown had changed and now said
• 1:53:00
  something else.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 7: Welcomed to Point Pine. Population unknown. A few people tried
• 1:53:06
  to leave the town.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 6: They tried walking through the forest, but they got lost,
• 1:53:10
  and not.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 7: All of them made it back.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 2: Outside. The winds picked up a bit, and I could
• 1:53:15
  hear the sound of the trees rustling in the night.
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 9: Very quickly, the settlers realized that there was something very
• 1:53:21
  wrong with the land.
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 6: There was a reason why this place was so isolated.
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 9: Why even the natives have left it alone, with remnants
• 1:53:29
  of dilapidated buildings and homes scattered across the land.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 7: Once they realized they couldn't.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 6: Safely leave, they had no choice but to stay and build.
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 7: They needed to find water and food.
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 9: And so they searched, and they found something, not the
• 1:53:43
  something they were looking for, but something to help them.
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 2: Robert paused. He dragged his fingers across the floor of
• 1:53:50
  the cabin slowly.
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: What did they find?
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 6: They thought it was God. They prayed and brought offerings.
• 1:53:58
  They prayed for food and heard of sheep came wandering
• 1:54:01
  out of the forest. They prayed for water, and they
• 1:54:03
  began to spray from the earth. So they kept praying
• 1:54:06
  and they kept bringing it offerings, mainly food and crops.
• 1:54:10
  Once they had those, soon though, people started to get sick.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 7: More specifically, the children stopped looking me in the eye.
• 1:54:21
  They prayed for the children.
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 6: Some prayed harder than others, offered more.
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 7: Than others, made deeper promises.
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 9: They thought this thing was God, so when their children
• 1:54:31
  were saved, when their children, when their child woke up
• 1:54:33
  the next morning completely fine, they had no reason to
• 1:54:36
  think that something sinister was coming, or they had brought
• 1:54:39
  it upon themselves.
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: So it wasn't God.
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 6: It was a God, just not the God they wanted,
• 1:54:48
  which God wasn't.
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 2: Then Robert shook his head.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 7: Other things, other gods one more in return.
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 9: Other gods are not always good, or just sometime, or
• 1:55:00
  just sometimes, they're not gods at all, but always know
• 1:55:05
  how to convince you that they are.
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 2: Aired at him. I wanted him to explain, but I
• 1:55:09
  knew he would have.
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 9: Soon things began to happen. People would die and they
• 1:55:15
  wouldn't be dead. People would hear things and see things.
• 1:55:19
  It didn't take long for people to make the connection
• 1:55:21
  to realize that what they had been praying to was
• 1:55:23
  not God. They intended to praise, but it was far
• 1:55:26
  too late, and other people didn't care. Other people had
• 1:55:30
  different ideas. They didn't fear this thing. Instead, they saw
• 1:55:33
  it as a resource, as a way to get things
• 1:55:36
  they wanted things they couldn't get any other way, like
• 1:55:40
  what what kinds of things? After I almost died, my
• 1:55:44
  mother became paranoid. She was afraid that I would be
• 1:55:48
  taken away from her any minute, and when she found
• 1:55:50
  out that she wasn't able to have any more children,
• 1:55:52
  the fear intensified. It concerned her, so she became a
• 1:55:57
  believer in this God, a devout follower, willing to do
• 1:56:01
  whatever it took in order to keep her children safe
• 1:56:03
  and alive.
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 2: I'm eating this up. This is what I wanted out
• 1:56:08
  of this.
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 9: I had been alive for about sixteen years before my
• 1:56:11
  father realized what she had done.
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 6: And even then he did not know the full scope
• 1:56:16
  of it. Even now, the deal she made is not
• 1:56:20
  entirely clear to me.
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 9: All I know is that my father, with the limited
• 1:56:24
  details he had had the assumptions he had made, became enraged,
• 1:56:28
  and one night he confronted her.
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 6: They fought for what felt like hours, but it was so.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 7: Long that I couldn't really tell you.
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 6: I don't know if my mother eventually confessed to the magnitude.
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 9: Of her crimes to him, or at the anger was
• 1:56:41
  too much fider control. But that night before the sun rose.
• 1:56:47
  My mother was dead. The next day the parade started.
• 1:56:52
  He was doastating you. You know how it works, you
• 1:56:55
  you know how you have to hide and then you
• 1:56:58
  know where to hide. But they didn't know anything. They
• 1:57:02
  didn't know, they couldn't look, they didn't know it needed
• 1:57:04
  to sacrifice.
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: Did you see it?
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 2: I asked, throw it was dry again. But I didn't
• 1:57:09
  want Robert to stop telling me the story.
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 7: I've seen it.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 9: Yes, it took hours to clean up the dead bodies
• 1:57:16
  after the parade came through. That's what it did to
• 1:57:19
  the first time. He killed everyone in its path. He
• 1:57:22
  lit a fire inside them. Nope, then and they cooked
• 1:57:25
  from the inside out. The smell of cooked flesh lingered
• 1:57:29
  in the air for weeks after that. As a reminder,
• 1:57:33
  the next time that music started we ran. There were
• 1:57:37
  less casualties that time. What happened the second time?
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thinking about the in his eyes were cleared,
• 1:57:44
  his throat thend the cabin, towards the window on the
• 1:57:47
  far left wall.
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: I didn't answer, Ah, why don't they teach us this?
• 1:57:53
  Why did they change the story?
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's picking up on the idea that he didn't
• 1:57:57
  want to tell me. What happened the second time.
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 7: Like I said, ignorance is bliss.
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 2: Set in silence for a while. I thought he would
• 1:58:07
  continue tell me more details, but he didn't. I mentally
• 1:58:10
  kicked myself, figuring that I had ruined my chances of
• 1:58:13
  learning more with my questions. I stopped myself from asking
• 1:58:17
  anything else as I sat there thinking about what he
• 1:58:19
  had just revealed to me. You'll have to leave soon,
• 1:58:26
  he said, breaking the silence.
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 6: What I apologize. I don't mean to be rude, but
• 1:58:30
  you'll have to go.
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 2: Stood up and held the empty cup back out to him.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: Can I have some water?
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 2: He took it and walked back to his kitchen.
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: So how do I get back?
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 2: He ended me the cup and I drank it all
• 1:58:42
  in large rush gulps. Took the cup for me and
• 1:58:45
  opened the door, motioning for me to step outside.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: Can you put me in the direction of town I
• 1:58:49
  got lost earlier when I was smoking the woods.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 2: Robert shook his head.
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 7: It won't matter, you'll never make it back.
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 2: Rose in the doorway.
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 9: What do you mean things that you can't know? Like
• 1:59:02
  I said before, this is some knowledge that is cursed.
• 1:59:06
  Well you learned here tonight. Wouldn't do anyone to point
• 1:59:08
  by it any good? Why do you think I'm out here?
• 1:59:11
  Why do you think they stopped letting me go back
• 1:59:13
  into town? Why do you think they changed the story
• 1:59:16
  every few years? So what am I supposed to do?
• 1:59:19
  I can't live out in the woods a star or
• 1:59:21
  a freeze to death.
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 2: Robert shrugged.
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 7: I tried to warn you.
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: That was That was barely even a warning. I want
• 1:59:28
  to go home.
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 2: I realized I was shouting, like the aspiration echoing.
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: In the night.
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 6: You can't and you need to get out of my house.
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 2: Stepped out into the forest. Sun was rising. But that
• 1:59:40
  didn't seem right. It'd have been inside Robert's cabin for
• 1:59:42
  that long.
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: Good luck. Wilmer turned around.
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 2: As Robert was closing his door.
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 6: Cody made it back.
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 2: He paused, how long ago?
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 7: A few months?
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 2: My palms were beginning to sweat as the paranoid began
• 1:59:58
  to creep in. Glanced was the west. He was remembering something.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 7: You're going to be very glad that you're out of
• 2:00:05
  that town.
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 2: Ah. Interesting With that, he shut the door, and the
• 2:00:11
  singing began. I fell to the floor and wrapped my
• 2:00:14
  hands over my head, shielding my eyes from what was
• 2:00:16
  to come. It never came. Bors continued like usual, only louder,
• 2:00:22
  like the melody was coming from the ground, trees and leaves,
• 2:00:26
  like it was coming from inside of me. But the
• 2:00:28
  parade never came. After a few minutes, the music stopped,
• 2:00:33
  and I peeked, seeing nothing. I stood back up and
• 2:00:36
  noticed that Robert's cabin was gone. I looked around, thinking
• 2:00:40
  I'd somehow gotten lost, though I knew that was impossible,
• 2:00:43
  as I hadn't moved a single inch. Even though there
• 2:00:46
  was more light now, the woods felt quieter and more
• 2:00:49
  dangerous than before, felt lonelier, somehow too emptier than they
• 2:00:54
  had felt when I first gotten lost or even found Robert.
• 2:00:58
  I thought about what he said about how I would
• 2:01:00
  never go back, his voice repeated in my head as
• 2:01:03
  I tried to calm myself down. Finally, I looked toward
• 2:01:07
  the direction Robert had looked before he shut the door
• 2:01:09
  in my face and began walking again, open to eventually
• 2:01:13
  hit town, as I praged whatever God was listening that
• 2:01:16
  would make it back home.
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: That's the end.
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 2: She should upload that that one was really good.
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: But hey, Gabby, what the fuck is going on with Cody?
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 2: Well, Cody's like a harbinger of something.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: Either is what happened? Though I want to what we
• 2:01:30
  never we never figure.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 2: Out what it is. Well, clearly this isn't the end
• 2:01:34
  of the series.
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm curious. Was the last time that she wrote, Well,
• 2:01:39
  it was years it was six years ago without masterless posts.
• 2:01:42
  But she said, I'll update the list as I keep going.
• 2:01:45
  And maybe they started working on other projects, because there
• 2:01:48
  are comments from like two months ago saying why did
• 2:01:50
  you never like continue.
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: To don't pull?
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 6: Don't pull George R.
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: Martin on us, please don't I need to know gab.
• 2:02:00
  So she wrote a lot no sleep.
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 2: It looks like maybe the point puns, like the sequels
• 2:02:03
  weren't getting a ton of attention. She went back to
• 2:02:05
  standalones and they were getting more attention. Uh so, I
• 2:02:08
  totally get that as a creator, being like, if it
• 2:02:09
  doesn't working, I'll go somewhere else.
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: Even if you don't well, even if you don't finish it,
• 2:02:14
  send me a damn send me an email.
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So after well, what's funny is so she went
• 2:02:22
  back to posting like standalone stories and she has been
• 2:02:26
  making bank because, like she did, the woman in my
• 2:02:29
  family give birth differently four point one thousand up votes.
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: She make him bank.
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 2: She did well rank read of like bank bank, because
• 2:02:36
  then I mean like US bank.
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: Could you cash this check for me please?
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I didn't mean that.
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: Conversion to the USD to Karma gold.
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 2: I didn't mean that in the reddit sense I have
• 2:02:48
  to save my save a little bit of my credibility here.
• 2:02:50
  I didn't mean that in the red sense. I met
• 2:02:51
  that and that people kept click.
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's been doing very good. Yes, she said
• 2:02:55
  she did. This is four years ago.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 2: My sisters, I've been locked in an addict for twenty
• 2:02:58
  four hours two point eight thousand like she has.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: She has an extremely dedicated fan.
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 2: Let's also keep in mind the most upvoted story on
• 2:03:05
  No Sleep one hundred percent.
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: I'm not questioning that she's not. I'm just I'm upset
• 2:03:10
  because I don't know. I'm Simmy, Simmy I'm saying.
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 2: I'm saying that should mean I'm saying I understand why
• 2:03:16
  if people aren't reading your sequels to point pine, you
• 2:03:19
  move on to sandal loads. I get that, But hopefully
• 2:03:21
  with this video, I think you can do both. I
• 2:03:24
  think you can do both too. But I hope that
• 2:03:26
  this gets interest in Point Pine, that she continues it
• 2:03:28
  and she should. Gabby, you should absolutely post that last entry.
• 2:03:32
  I think that might be my favorite terry, like that
• 2:03:34
  one the whole thing I do.
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: I do think I like Pine series works best in
• 2:03:38
  my opinion, as I like the connection between all the characters,
• 2:03:42
  like it can be new characters, but they're interwoven. I
• 2:03:45
  was having fun when it was intertwining in that way.
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  Speaker 2: I think. I think if she has an eventual goal,
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  because they talk about once you leave Point Pine, you
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  can ever come back. Yeah, somehow Cody comes back right
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  after his dad dies. We don't get any explanation on
• 2:03:57
  that yet, So I think Cody is a sort of
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  like a prophet almost or a harbinger come back to
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  the town. So I think there's more that can be
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  done there. So I think it makes sense to have
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  some stories that mentioned Cody if he's gonna be so
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  big in later entries. Uh, but then that in line
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  with the kid where he's like, you're gonna be thankful
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  you're not in that town then and yeah, you also
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  have a line from the angel that something bad's coming.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I mean is there's a lot of unanswered questions,
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  right now don't pull George R. Martin, please let us
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  give a little something. I will say too, though, the
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  three the three main characters that we had that was Lee, Cody,
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  and Red the uh.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: It could be anybody in the town, but it's just
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  a small connection between them. It just it adds a
• 2:04:39
  level of cohesion. That's why I was just like with
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  the bear one, it is what it is, the carnival
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  and all that kind of stuff, and the pumpkin one,
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  that's fine, but I do think like that lack of
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  that kind of intertwining was it took me out because
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  I was getting so invested into that even I mean
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  even the one Lee is barely in the apartment when
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  he motherfucker just keeps flying out and my goddamn.
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 2: Loop pull time.
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  Speaker 1: That was a fun like a little oh yeah, a
• 2:05:02
  little more. Yeah, No, it was a lot of fun.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 2: I call me, well, I don't know about that, but
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  I really really that.
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  Speaker 1: Just give me a call one call, hey, this is
• 2:05:12
  what happened. Oh okay, cool.
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 2: I really liked that. I loved the last one. I
• 2:05:17
  love the direction that it is. Uh that he was
• 2:05:20
  a kid when the first Suttlers got there and they
• 2:05:22
  keep changing the story because people can't know it, and
• 2:05:24
  they prayed to a god, and like his mother was
• 2:05:27
  a first convert, and you can see how somehow his
• 2:05:30
  mother prayed really hard that he wouldn't die, and it
• 2:05:32
  looks like she got her wish because he's still alive
• 2:05:34
  even now.
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I imagine that Cody probably intertwined with that boy
• 2:05:37
  out there in the wood somewhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's
• 2:05:40
  a lot of fun stuff there.
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 2: And then I love at the end when the stoner's
• 2:05:43
  like trying to find He's like, so I prayed to
• 2:05:45
  whatever God would listen. It's like we hear about the
• 2:05:47
  mistakes that led to this in the first place, where
• 2:05:50
  you know, they're so desperate to get back to civilization
• 2:05:53
  or they're so desperate to survive that everyone prayed to
• 2:05:55
  this being that was good enough of a god for
• 2:05:58
  a time. And then the story with the stone are
• 2:06:00
  doing the same thing. It's like, well, it may not
• 2:06:02
  be for the best, but I'm scared right now, So
• 2:06:04
  I'm gonna.
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 1: Have some a nice cheese campness to the story that
• 2:06:07
  I think is good that once again it hearkens back
• 2:06:10
  to tales from the gas station and tales from a
• 2:06:13
  lonely broadcast station that I think people really resonate with.
• 2:06:17
  I think also once again fun. I think having characters
• 2:06:19
  that are that keep popping up makes it more too
• 2:06:22
  to where I think you get you become more attached
• 2:06:24
  to those characters and stuff. But I will say the
• 2:06:26
  Point Pne, the Point Pine town itself is just a
• 2:06:29
  fun backdrop that I think it'd be cool to keep exploring.
• 2:06:31
  I still think you can once again do standalone stories
• 2:06:33
  and still just dip into that selfishly move.
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 2: I would love to see way more Point Pine stuff.
• 2:06:39
  Like I said the master list, there's another Point Pint
• 2:06:40
  entry for you all to read if you're interested. And
• 2:06:43
  also please support you know, Gabby of course, and all
• 2:06:46
  that stuff as it certainly deserves it. Gabby, please post
• 2:06:49
  this and please keep writing this series. How about that.
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: Let's say I'm literally I'm going to email you my
• 2:06:54
  phone number.
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 2: Let's say that I expect to call Let's say this, Gabby,
• 2:06:58
  if you finish the Point Pine series or something like that,
• 2:07:02
  we'll cover it. We'll do a return to Point Pine
• 2:07:04
  God the rest.
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: Lucky you, Hey, Gabby, aren't you just the luckiest little duck?
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, I'm.
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 2: Saying because I'm excited and I want to read more.
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: No, we'll cover it, Okay, why not this one on?
• 2:07:18
  You know what, Hey, you don't do that for you,
• 2:07:20
  you know what, You put it all the work and
• 2:07:22
  we'll read it.
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 2: You know what.
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: Gabby truffle fries for free. Yeah, you know what, truffle
• 2:07:26
  truffle fries. Harry Potter Marathon on the back by well
• 2:07:31
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  next time, guys, we will see you in the next one.
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  Stay creep bitch. I'm adding a bitch in the for
• 2:07:50
  now one.
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 2: I like that. I don't give that's a little too
• 2:07:53
  viol Be sure to bomb your local.
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: Be sure to your love it. We'll read it for you.
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 2: Like I was gonna say, be sure to bomb your
• 2:08:11
  local burger joint.
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: But yeah, that's it. Whatever, yeah on us, yeah
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 2: Ye