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50. Devan finally finished a book?! (Fairytale) · The Book-Watchers

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Ms SuDS and on that coffee bean filling. Hi. Welcome the book watchers
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about Saying d Indie podcast or podcasts. O chow, I do this all
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the time. Hi. I am your host and problem Devin, and today
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I'm joined by the tall bitch giant himself, Jacob. Hi, Jacob,
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Hi, how are you? You know? Short? Laying loads to the
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ground as you do when you're five foot six? Yeah, it's not very
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hard for you. Uh uh, you know you agree to that way too
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easily, and that's a crime. That's a hate crime against short people.
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Well, it's uh uh, you know. You don't gotta stay it out
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loud though, so remember I got easy access to your kneecaps. Anyway.
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I'll get to that one day. Oh yeah, so today's episode mmmm,
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well, today, we're finally doing it. Yep, after what two months
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of of I was originally planning on reading this. You know what, you
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know what a right drag me, drag me, drag me. Yes,
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I'm gonna drag you because you know what? You know what? What in
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two months, I've read over twelve books. Twelve books? Uh huh?
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And it took you that long, if not longer, just to read one
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uh huh huh, Yeah it did. And let me tell you something,
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ladies and gentlemen, it took him so long to read this book that we
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pushed this book back and chose to do another book series. And what was
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what was the book we reviewed before this one? Was it? Was it
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brother Song? Or was there another book that we decided to go over.
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I think it was Brother's Song? Was it? Because it felt it felt
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like we did that a while ago, So I mean we skipped like a
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week or two, Okay, I think it's I think it was Brother's Song
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that I think. So we did all these other books and I fell down
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a rabbit hole of reading A brother A bunch of other book series by the
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same author that includes the that includes Bear Otter and The Kid and Yeah,
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it was it was yeah, it was Brother's song. Yeah. I read
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all those books. And then even before it started, well, uh,
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even before I started the Wolf Song series, I'd actually read another book called
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Stormfront from the book from the Dress, Dress and Files. And now we're
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finally doing fairy Tale, even though we usually planned to do this months ago,
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but Devin was like, I want to I want to be included.
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I want to read a book and review it. I'm like, okay,
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cool, okay, okay. Two months later, you know what, Okay,
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I'm well plead my case, ladies and gentlemen. As you could see,
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I am not much of a reader of the physical media of novels.
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I'm more of a phys of a graphic novel and kind book reader, mostly
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because I suffer from hardcore dyslex Yeah. If you don't know what that is,
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ladies and gentlemen, that is basically means you don't read so good,
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meaning your mind doesn't comprehend things the same way as everybody else. It means
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when you look at a book and see the words, the words move around,
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and when the words move around, you kind of just don't want to
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read, and it takes you three times as long as a normal person to
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read. Granted, I know people who have just like to obviously who can
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read books like a normal person. But me, I'm a different I'm a
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different fucking case. I started. I actually wanted to do this podcast because
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I wanted to get myself into books to get better at I mean, I
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could read. I'm not stupid, y'all, but the sexit makes it it's
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a hurdle. Okay, it's a big wall. I got crossed, but
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I wanted to do that. So I'm like, I'm gonna read I'm gonna
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seriously read fairy Tale because I mean I did read a few other books,
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like the Ring series or one of the books in the Ring series and which
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I'm sure will go over on this podcast at some point, and then maybe
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a few others, but like this is one. I'm like, I'm gonna
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do this by myself. I usually like to have, like to read books
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with my boyfriend and he reads to me and I get I understand it better
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because that's how my mind works. But this, I'm like, I can
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do this. I can do this. And then I got frustrated and I'm
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like no, I can't do this, and I'm like no, I can't
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do this. It's is a lot of back and forth, and eventually I'm
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like, you know what, fuck it for this one audiobook. So I
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got audiobook and read along with the audiobook. So that's not cheating, that's
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still reading. I just had an assistant read to me and made my life
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a little easier. Okay, I will get better as we go along,
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because I'm gonna do more books on here. Luckily, those books that I
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want to do are not as long as this one. I think I bit
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off more than I could chew. But I'm glad I stuck with it because
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his book is actually pretty good. Oh I plead my case, think your
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honor. And you know, I thought maybe I would have encouraged him to
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read more by by spoiling the book just a little bit for him, not
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giving complete spoilers, but telling him like, oh, yeah, you know,
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you're definitely gonna love this book because guess what, there's an Eldrick terror
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uh And he was correct, there is there is. Yeah, I love
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him. I love him, so you know, I honestly, you know
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what, I don't even need to roast I don't even need to roast Evan
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because I've been roasting him for the past couple months that I've been waiting him
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for him to finish his book. So I think i've I've gotten the point
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across and uh, I'm I'm just so ready. Let's let's go. This
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has been two months in the waiting. Yeah, yeah, So, ladies
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and Jens and others. The book we talked we are going to be talking
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about today is fairy Tale by Stephen King. This book was really bay clop
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Sclore. His book was released September sixth, twenty twenty two, which is
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weird because I thought, for whatever reason, it came out this year,
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but it didn't. So actually, no, we knew about fairy Tale last
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year because I was like, oh, I want to do this one eventually,
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we never got around to it till recently. So yeah, well,
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because I hadn't bought the book yet, Yeah, and you want and we
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had a list of other stuff we wanted to do and yeah, yeah,
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and then I finally bought the book, but it still took me a few
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months to actually get around to reading it because I had other books I wanted
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to read. Yeah, and then there was a point where I was just
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so overwhelmed that I stopped reading for a bit, because that's what that's what
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happens. Like I will find a book that I want to read, and
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like I'll go months and months of just just reading all these different books,
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and then I get to a point where I fizzled out and I'm like,
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all right, I'm done reading, Like I'm going to just go enjoy life
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now. Yeah, And now here we are and finally read the book,
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and I'm like, oh, I'm so ready to review this book because I
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like this. This book is like probably one of my favorite Stephen King books
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because it's interesting. It's interesting because it's like what if fairy tales were real
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but not just real, but realistic in terms of the story, and not
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just magic wise, but like like so many other different aspects. Because in
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most fairy tales, it's always, you know, like our main character slash
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hero he like you know, discovers he or she discovers fairy tale lands,
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and there's like some sort of evil like king, witch or whatever. Right,
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yeah, and like power of love or like some other like power of
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friendship bullshit allows to defeat the allows them to defeat the evil king slash queens
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slash sorcerer whatever, is like Holy the Land hostage and like, let's say
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there was a curse on the land or something, and once they they break
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the curse, everything goes back to normal and everyone lives happily ever after.
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Well and while like Stephen King definitely took notes from fairy like from like your
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standard fairy tale, like, it didn't things weren't peachy, weren't all peachey
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King at the end of the story, it didn't all go back to normal
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and not everybody lived happily ever after. It was actually more realistic, like,
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Okay, well, curse has been broken. Yeah, the plot,
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the plight of the land has been ended, but there's we're still dealing with
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the repercussions. Yeah, everything isn't going to go back exactly. It's not
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going to go back to exactly what it was before. Yeah. So again,
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this book was done by Stephen King. It is a dark fantasy book,
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so it's not the usual the whole horror mystery, mystery thrillers that Stephen
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King Yieldsy writes. I would say this is more in the vein of the
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Dark Tower, more of the fantasy aspect of that, just more of the
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fairy tale sprinkles than the darker toned Dark Tower. Yeah. So this is
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centered around a story around Charlie Reed, a seventeen year old who I don't
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want to spell it, so let's get right into it, yea, sir,
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So a little backstory about Charlie himself is so, Charlie is the son
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of a single dad. His dad, his mom passed away quite brutally.
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She was struck by a truck while crossing a very narrow bridge. It was
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like, although they don't really go much into details, it's applied that she
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became pure physics at the end of it. So she died in Oh but
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they do describe her death though later on what happened, Yeah, yeah,
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they do, Like they did was brutal. Yeah, it was brutal,
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and it was traumatic, like for a solid minute. His dad had become
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an alcoholic, Like I think what for like a year after her Like it
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was either like a year or a couple of years after her death. His
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dad like had like he he went downhill and it's understandable, you know,
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your wife dies in a brutal accident, and he didn't. He had a
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hard time coping, and unfortunately for Charlie, he basically had to raise himself
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for a few years while his dad continued to descend into alcoholism. Eventually,
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his dad came to a sense, like Charlie helped helped his dad come to
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his senses, his dad started going to AA. And by the time his
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story had I think he uh, I believe his dad had been sober for
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like, I'd say, about four or five years, So it's yeah,
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yeah, at least I think it's at least I'm pretty sious at least five
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years he was sober by the time the story starts and ends. Yeah,
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and Charlie he himself. Although he and his dad have a better relationship now,
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he still holds some resentments for his dad because, like he still remembers
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how the times that they struggled, how Charlie basically had to be the adult,
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had to pay make sure the bills were paid, and and when his
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dad finally pulled himself out of it went AA and just started like turning his
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life around, Charlie just had like still holds on to some of those resentments,
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Like he loves his dad, but he just does want he doesn't forget
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the fact that he was basically raising himself for a few years. There But
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aside from that, Charlie is he's a you know, he's your I don't
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want to say he's your all American boy, but he's your typical like he's
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he's a he's an he's an athlete. He played football and his I understand,
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I remember his bath. His coach wanted really wanted him to play varsity
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for the baseball team, but he really hated the coach, so he was
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like, no, fuck that. But the story is centered around Charlie.
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Uh. And it really begins when he meets an elderly man. What was
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the elderly man's name again, I totally forgot mister Howard Bowditch Boditch. He
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met Howard Bowditch on a day in April twenty thirteen. Basically he fell.
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He was on a ladder trying to work on something on the back of his
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house and he fell broke his leg or so you thought, broke his leg.
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And what lured him to finding Bodich was his dog, radar, Howling,
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and he got Charlie's attention and then from there Charlie cold on one got
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all taken care of. And that's where Charlie gets brought into knowing and basically
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taking care of mister Bowditch or Howard for quite some time. Yeah, So
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when Charlie realized that mister Bodach didn't have anybody to take care of Radar,
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he agreed to take care of Radar for mister Bodache while he recovered in the
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hospital. So he was in the hospital I'd say for like a week or
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a couple of weeks or so. Actually I think he was in there for
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almost a month almost, Oh god, I think it was like two two
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three weeks something that. Yeah, so Charlie ends up Charlie visits him in
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the hospital, gets the rundown of what of what the recovery time is going
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to look like, and what mister Bowditch needs, and he agrees to take
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care of Radar. Now, Radar herself is an elderly German shepherd dog.
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She's almost like fourteen fifteen years old. So she's yes, she an old
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girl. She's an old girl. But let me tell you something, ladies
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and gentlemen, she's a lot older than he thinks she is. And we
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will get she's I mean, technically she's not. She has no she's not.
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Okay, I'll I might cut this part out. She didn't use the
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sundial when they when he went into the thing, because he didn't have He
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never stated when he actstually gone her. You just stated when he was in
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the in the fantasy world, they had her as a puppy. You never
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stayed how long he actually had her, because yeah, you know, he
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actually got her in the nineties, which was when around the time the last
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time he used it. So he did use it on her at least like
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once. So Radar did, Like Radar has been around for a long time.
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Because the book, the book takes place in like Puss in that like
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the time of the story takes place in like twenty nineteen. I'd stay around
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there and mister Bowditch stopped using the uh, he stopped going down the down
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the staircase and using the sundown in the nineties. And now it wasn't twenty
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nineteen. Of this story takes places twenty thirteen, and the story takes place
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or twenty fourteen when he finally Yeah, he found mister Botage in his backyard
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in April twenty thirteen, and then he was taking care of him for seven
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months. During that During that seven month time frame, that's where like he
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was in the hospital, and then he cared for him when in his house.
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Yeah, that was twenty thirteen or twenty thirteen into twenty fourteen, basically
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those seven months that he was taking care of him before something happens. Air
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quotes right, Oh, hold on, because I know he's had her for
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a long long time, like he's had her like well before the he's started.
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I mean it, I mean it makes sense because he was talking about
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last time he went, Radar was a puppy, So I guess because I
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don't think he ever directly says how old she is or because I think all
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they said was she was a puppy, So you could assume that she's old
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as hell, because if it was the nineties or even the eighties, she'd
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be old as hell. So I guess, thinking back on, yeah,
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she Yeah, he would have to use at least once. But he never
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straight he never straight out said that he did. You just assumed because he
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says, can they do say that last time he went she was a puppy,
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last time she went there, well she was older than that, because
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the thing is, she was old enough like the he'd been bringing her down
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into the fairytale line like many times, even after she was a puppy,
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because she even remembered that shoemaker. Yeah, I know. That's what I'm
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saying, is when when they when he talks about the shoemaker, she indicates
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the last time she saw her she was a little puppy, never indicating that
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she was that she was old or whatnot, because she because she does like
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a hand motion, that she was much smaller when she met radar, right,
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or she could have been. How long, okay, how long does
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German shepherds live Germany? Anywhere between twelve and fifteen years. Big dogs don't
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really live for as well. I don't know. It's it's always weird because
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it's either small dogs live for a long time and big dogs don't, or
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big dogs live for a long time. In small dogs don't. German shepherd's
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lifespans nine to thirteen years. Say he went back in the nineties, because
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it's been at least nineties that it was the last time he ever went she
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was a puppy, Say she was a puppy. Then he's twenty three,
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so yeah, he probably used it probably once. But they never straight straight
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up I don't think they were ever straight up indicated I don't remember. I
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could be wrong, but I think you can't see the way that she did
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that. They dead. Okay, well back, let's just get back on
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topic. So yeah, so Radar. So Charlie ends up taking care of
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Radar for several for a little over a month while mister Bowdich recovers in the
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hospital and he eventually does come back. And this at this point, however,
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he needs to be an assisted living because to being given his advanced age,
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mister Bodich is no longer capable of really taking care of himself, even
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with his recovery and the physical therapy. So Charlie decides to take on the
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role of being his caretaker. Now, the thing is, Charlie was,
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excuse me, Charlie was, He feels like he needs to, uh,
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he needs to do this, uh basically become a caretaker for mister Bowden because
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when his dad was an alcoholic, he just remembers making it, like he
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calls it his deal with God. He prayed, he prayed to God,
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prayed to whoever was out there to please, like turn dad's life around so
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we can start living again instead of just surviving. Helped like get him out
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of his alcoholism, all that shit, right, and well when it happened.
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Since that, since then, Charlie has been doing everything he could to
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like basically honor that, like if you do this, I will be the
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best person I can be, right, And he sees that he sees helping
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mister Bowdich as his way of giving back to what was given to him,
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which was his dad and some semblance of their of their old life, you
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know. Like, so he he ends up working with mister Bodich. Let's
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see, I'm gonna pull up my notes because I have notes do afterposed during
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that period basically like when he got back to the house, Charlie of course
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re fortified the house to be able to have mister Bodich live in the bottom
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floor of the house and the multiple floors. That's when Charlie also learns about
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the gold that Howard has mysteriously for some fucking reason. Why gold? Yeah,
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yeah, so it's it's a whole bucket of these like little gold pellets,
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and mister Bota would he would trade it to like a jeweler in one
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of the neighboring towns. Uh. And that's pretty much how he's been.
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That's pretty much where his like all of his income comes from. And over
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the over this period of UH providing for mister botiche he Charlie begins noticing some
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weird like some things that are off about mister Botach, like even though he
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has a very old TV, he just seems very out of touch with the
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modern with the modern world, and even some things like yeah, there's there.
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He's met old people before, but they seem to have a general like
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a general idea of how things are nowadays, but mister Botage seems to be
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like way out of touch. And then of course there was the dealings with
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the jeweler that mister Botich Charlie do for him. Since it was pretty much
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getting around the time that mister botiche needed to change UH cash in some more
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of the gold for money, he has Charlie do it for him, and
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it was kind of Charlie thought, man, this is sucks because like he
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it's very like under the table. And he goes to the jeweler to trade
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the gold for some cash and UH to pay the hospitals hostile bills as well
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as other expenses he needed. But the jeweler is very much like, you
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have more gold I ever seen this much? You have more? Where'd you
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get? Where do you get from? Kid? Where do you get?
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Like, come on, man, you can trust me, tell me where
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he got it? And Charlie's like, oh no, this is this is
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sucks. Just give me the money and I'll get ahead of my way.
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But then, like not too long after that dealing, he finds out that
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that said jeweler was murdered in his store and the killer is still on the
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loose, so like oopsie, well I wouldn't say oopsie, but uh oh
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well, And it's seems like there's just a little little things about mister Botitch
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and how and how he lives that are like really off putting to Charlie,
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and it's confusing for him, but he just rolls with it for them for
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the time being. Eventually, mister bootage health does somewhat improve. He's able
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to move around the house a lot more easily until a commotion comes from this
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large shed and Votach's backyard. Now, this shed has been an issue since
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the beginning because it's been doing some creepy noises and scratching that's happened a few
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times. Charlie's taking care of radar as well as the house. Mister Botage
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is away, so that shed. By the point this happens, Charlie has
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like a what the fuck is in that goddamn shed? Right? And it
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was it's it was like pretty much a the like I say it. Let's
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say about like four or five months after Bodich came home. Uh, something
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began to really scratch and like russell around inside the shed and Bowdich he freaks
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out. He tells Charlie to take radar inside and Bodich he comes, he
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comes out, He comes out of the house. He had grabbed his really
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old Revolu model revolver and he had he had this leather belt strapped on and
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he goes into the shed. H Charlie hears a commotion inside the shed and
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hears a gunshot. And when mister Botach comes out, mister Bodich is looking
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very very worn out. He looks sickly and like, I think like the
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excitement was too much for him. And a few days later, mister Bowdich
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unfortunately passes away from a heart attack. But before he dies, Botage had
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recorded and left a tape for Charlie to listen to. Now hold up hold
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up, Hold up, it kind of kind of skipped around a little bit
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to review because the recording kind of skipped up a little bit, skipped over
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a certain part. SMIs Brow just dies of a heart attack a few days
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later after dealing with that insect insect toy that they see in the shed.
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Hold up, you're gonna yeah. So when he dies, he not only
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leaves Charlie a tape explaining everything all the weird the weird occurrences that have happened
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with the shed, but also about Howard's life itself. Uh. Charlie is
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also shocked to find out that mister Bodach left a will and pretty much willed
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everything to Charlie, the dog, the house, everything in it, and
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everything in the and the property itself, and since Charlie is underage, it
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had to be put in a trust until he comes of a until he turns
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eighteen, but he ends up listening. So when he inherits the house,
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he ends up listening to the tape mister Bowtache left for him, and then
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the tape Boatis recounts a very wild to Charlie, a very wild tale to
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be cool, excuse me, revealing that he's old as fut he's actually one
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hundred and twenty years old and locked inside the shed is actually a portal to
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another world. And so this portal it takes the form of a something it
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looks kind of like a well, but inside the well is a spiral staircase
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and if you go right down into the well. Now and the recording he's
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more. He has more details about like how many steps, what you need
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to do when you go down the wall, everything. But when once you
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go down the well, it takes you to another world. And in this
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world exists a magical kingdom, and inside the kingdom's capital is a is a
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sun dial, and this sun dial is was it was the secret to mister
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Bowditch's longevity. He reveals that world is also the source of the gold that
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he had been using to uh, you know, supplement his income, but
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as a source of his income. But the thing is is that this gold
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is there's something about this gold that causes like extreme amounts of greed because when
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Charlie Discuss realizes that the gold is there, he kind of has this habit
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of looking at it and often like running the gold through his fingers because they're
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just like little gold pellets, so he'll just like be like playing around with
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the gold and everything. So it does definitely has some odd effect on people.
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After mister uh, mister Botage's death and Charlie inherits the house, the
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house experiences a break in. There's no nothing was stolen as far as he
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could tell, but uh, it was very It did freak him out,
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and him and his father end up fixing up the house and getting everything in
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order to make sure that doesn't happen again. Now just uh, after Charlie
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learns of mister Brotage's longevity, he decides that he wants to see it for
31:41
himself. So Charlie decides to take a trip down into down into the well.
31:48
Now he doesn't does he take Yeah, he takes Radar with him right
31:52
the first time when he goes when he goes down the well, I don't
32:00
think. I'm trying to remember if he if he did go because I think
32:05
because I think he did go down the wall the first but I don't know
32:07
if he brought it, brought Radar with him, because I remember him talking
32:13
about when he first brought Radar. He was worried that Radar was going to
32:15
slip and fall, but she didn't. I don't know. I don't think
32:21
he brought her down the first time, because I think he went down there
32:23
to see what the hell's up and then he's like, oh shit, and
32:27
then he went back. I think he went back up right away and then
32:30
planned his journey accordingly, right so real quick. I kind of wanted to
32:37
backtrack because when Charlie was listening to the to the tape, there was about
32:44
halfway through the tape, mister Bodage tells him to pause, to pause right
32:49
here and go into the going to the shed and see for himself what he
32:54
was dealing with, because this is in reference to the thing that had caused
33:00
the commotion inside the shed and that mister Bodae shot. Yeah, So Charlie
33:05
goes into the shed. He sees the well, but he also sees this
33:08
massive cockroach. I know, I was like, oh no, no,
33:15
no, no, no, no, no, Please tell me we're not
33:15
gonna be dealing with with giant cockroaches for the rest of the book. But
33:21
it was a giant cockroach. And he notices that the cockroach had already looked
33:24
like it had decayed, had been decaying for months, even though the incident
33:30
concerning the cockroach happened a few days before, and he goes back. He
33:36
listens to the rest of the tape and mister Bodhach reveals that our world is
33:40
toxic to anything that comes from that world. So like the atmosphere, I
33:45
guess our atmosphere is corrosive to them or just causes rapid degeneration. So anything
33:51
that comes from the well will die in a matter of hours, if not
33:54
in a matter of days, and eventually their body, its body will just
34:00
decay and just disappear. So that's what Charlie saw in the in the shed.
34:07
He listens to the rest of the tape and then going forward, we
34:10
have a few other incidents. He decides to take a quick trip down into
34:15
the well to see what he's dealing with. He follows mister Bodhache's instructions and
34:22
going down into the well, he was told make sure not to like bring
34:29
a lot I think he did have to like at one point turn off of
34:31
his like any kind of like if he brings a flashlight, he has to
34:35
turn it off because at one point there because once he gets to the bottom
34:43
of the staircase, he's gonna come out into a massive cavern. And in
34:46
this cavern he'll not only find the cock broaches, but also an entire nest
34:53
of bats, big ones too. We're talking giant. Yeah, there,
35:00
We're not talking like the size of like the the flying fox type bats.
35:05
We're talking something bigger. And so he knew like at a certain point he
35:09
has to turn off his light and just be quiet as possible, not to
35:13
stir the bats. But he gets the to the entrance of the cavern and
35:17
it's covered by a bunch of vines. So once he pushes through the vines,
35:21
he's met with an entire field of these red poppies, these red poppy
35:27
flowers exactly like mister Bowdish explained described in the book in his recording, and
35:34
he sees off in the distance a little house. He doesn't go into the
35:37
house. He he doesn't go down to the house. He just wait,
35:42
does he I feel like he does? Yeah? He does. Yeah,
35:50
he did meet Dora, because he meets Dora first. That yeah, okay,
35:54
okay. So he decides to take a little stroll through the poppy field,
35:59
and he remembered what mister Bidage said in the recording that there's a little
36:02
house and the person living there, Miss Dora is very kind. She'll give
36:08
you Uh, she's a very kind person. Just don't be just just don't
36:13
be. H. Well, I don't even think he just he, I
36:16
don't think mister Biltage knew of like the sickness that I've been affecting the very
36:22
the this other world. But when Charlie sees the uh this woman her name
36:31
is Dora, he shocked to see that she's actually very like she's very deformed.
36:37
Like her her skin is uh a his turn completely gray. She has
36:44
these lumps and like her skin, her face, her whole body is just
36:50
lumpy and miss uh and misformed. And because of that, it's preventing her
36:55
from actually talking. So even though she's able to, like the pretty must
37:00
go about her day like normal. Uh it's it's it type. He learns
37:05
that that he'll soon learn that this world is affected by some sort of light
37:12
or curse that causes its natives to turn, to begin to decay and turn.
37:17
It's called I think it's called like what the gray death or something I
37:22
think or just the gray Yeah. Yeah, so the sickness is off is
37:30
commonly referred to as the gray causes people, just the common people to turn
37:36
like their skin to turn gray. Their body begins to become malformed, and
37:43
they slowly learned lose their ability to speak and function coherently until they die.
37:51
Until they eventually die. It doesn't affect charge. The gray doesn't affect Charlie
37:57
and as well learn Slater on the book, it doesn't. It doesn't affect
38:00
members of the royal family. So people of a certain bloodlight are unaffected by
38:07
the gray. And after Charlie speaks to Dora for a bit and she gives
38:15
she gives him some food, he goes back up the goes back up the
38:20
well, but when he comes back out of the shed, he is accosted
38:24
by a man with a gun. So this yeah, so this dude,
38:35
Uh, this was the same guy that broke into mister Bodage's house a few
38:40
days before. Yeah, and he, although it was never confirmed, it
38:46
was also implied that he was the man who murdered the jeweler. And the
38:53
reason why he has uh, the reason why he is targeted Charlie is because
39:01
he figured out that Charlie is in possession of the gold that was sold at
39:09
the jewelers. So he threatens Charlie with a gun and tries to convince Charles
39:16
and tells Charlie to show him where the gold is. Charlie acquiesces and leads
39:24
him up to where the vault is, but he manages to distract his would
39:30
be gunman his would be his would be murder, and manages to disarm him,
39:38
getting the gun from the from his attacker, and he leads the guy
39:44
back out towards the shed and he tells the guy basically to fuck off,
39:47
but not before he not before Charlie breaks this man's wrists and sends him on
39:55
his unhappy way. Yeah, later on, uh, Like, later on,
40:04
Charlie like he does feel a little bit of regret for just basically he
40:12
does feel a little regret for basically just breaking this dude's risks and sending him
40:19
out on his way without like alerting the authorities and without like making sure the
40:22
guy gets medical help, because later on he learns that the guy was found
40:27
dead. So Charlie does feel a little bit of guilt because since like he
40:34
broke the dude's wrists, I guess the guy wasn't able to defend for himself
40:37
and he ends up dying. I think it's because that guy ended up getting
40:40
mugged by someone else and they end up killing him. And since his wrists
40:44
were broken, he didn't have his gun. Yeah, because he because Charlie
40:49
did take the man's gun too, and so he did. He did feel
40:54
like a little bit of regret for that, but at the same time,
41:00
he's like, now, fuck that guy who would have killed me. And
41:07
beyond that, Charlie begins making his plans to take a trip through the fairytale
41:13
world because one thing that Charlie just does not want to lose is Radar.
41:20
So Radar, like we've like we've established earlier, is a very old dog.
41:23
She's like about fourteen fifteen years old at this point. She's at the
41:28
end of her life. And well, Charlie, he became really attached to
41:35
this dog and he really didn't want to let her go just yet. And
41:38
since he learned that, since he learned from mister Bowditch that there is a
41:43
magical sun dial in the other world that can basically reverse time around a person
41:52
and make them younger, Charlie thought, well why not, So he ends
41:59
up making plans to go down into the well. He takes Radar and some
42:04
supplies down into the well and decides to make a journey to the Sundal.
42:10
So he makes his plans. He waits for his dad to be out of
42:14
town because his dad goes on a week long trip and he wants he wants
42:20
to try to make it there to the Sundal and back before his dad gets
42:25
back. He packs up. You make sure it packs up Radar. He
42:30
brings a I think he tries he either brings one or he tries to bring
42:34
like a wagon down there for her, or I think that's I think Dora
42:37
ends up giving him a wagon, right, I think Dora gives him a
42:40
wagon. Yeah, So you just make sure to bring everything he can to
42:45
accommodate to accommodate Radar, especially since she needs medicine to help with her arthritis
42:52
and everything. And he makes a journey, he make sures he makes sure
42:58
to lock up the house and everything else before he makes his way down into
43:02
the well. Uh. He stays the night with Dora. Uh. Radar
43:07
is extremely was extremely excited to see Dora like as the first time that Charlie
43:15
sees Radar acts pretty much like a younger dog. She gets very excited when
43:21
she sees Dora. Dora makes sure to help accommodate him and gives him some
43:25
extra supplies. She also makes her request of him because the only way now,
43:30
just really quick, the only way that Dora can actually talk to him
43:34
is by writing, so she will write. She'll just basically write on a
43:39
notepad for him, telling him like what's like what she wants to say to
43:43
him. And she also gives gives him a wagon for Radar because since poor
43:52
Radar she's too old to really make such a long distance journey. The uh
44:00
Charlie ends up carrying Radar along in the little wagon. Dora makes her requests
44:08
of Charlie. She gives him a little like it's like a like a token,
44:16
yeah, for him to give to any travelers he finds. Because the
44:21
thing is, Dora and her brother they have this deal where they any travelers
44:29
in need of new shoes, they just give their old shoes to Dora's brother
44:32
who will repair them, and then Dora will make sure to provide them with
44:39
a new pair of shoes. And you know, it's really sweet. They
44:45
do everything they can. It's really sweet that they do everything they can to
44:47
help people that are traveling, especially because they see a lot of travelers coming
44:52
from the direction of the Emerald City. Oh wait, hold up, hold
44:58
up, what was the name of the actual city? Uh? The city
45:02
was named was the the world of the world. It's the world, the
45:10
world, yes, city is no, okay, so the world so the
45:19
magic. So this other world is actually called Empis and the city itself is
45:25
called Lamar. Yeah, so the thing is Lila. Charlie slowly learns that
45:35
a long time ago Froum the time which was like around the time that mister
45:39
Bodach made his last journey into into Empus. Uh, there was a basically
45:47
a collapse of society. And after this collapse a that was when the gray
45:58
began to affect the land. And it all started in the city in the
46:04
road, in the capital city of Lillomar. And so people have been for
46:09
for like decades now, have been fleeing the surrounding area of Lillomar and trying
46:15
to make their and trying to escape the gray. So as more people continue
46:21
to travel past doors home, she tries to provide them with anything they need,
46:27
especially fresh pairs of shoes, because you know, this is a this
46:30
is a fantasy setting, this is a world set in like times, like
46:36
kind of like a medieval time, or I would say this is more of
46:39
like a Renaissonian style setting. Agreed, Agreed, it's not medieval, but
46:46
it's like definitely more Renassonian. And so she made so of course, like
46:53
you're they can't just go into a famous footwear and buy new shoes. So
46:59
she tries to make sure that all the travelers have any travelers that come by
47:02
have a fresh pair of shoes. Yeah, which is it's kind of cute,
47:07
think it's sweet. Yeah, and her brothers are one that repairs or
47:10
her cousins the one that repairs them. Yep. So she sends Charlie on
47:15
his way, but she tells Charlie to first had to uh Like basically,
47:23
she she tells him of several places that he can stop for the night because
47:30
it's not safe to travel at night, especially because there are wolves. No,
47:37
they only come out at night, these wolves. There's something off about
47:40
these wolves. I don't think we actually see them. No, I think
47:44
they act actually ever give a description of them, but they just say that
47:49
there's something you can't get the found that something off about them. Yes,
47:53
So she tells him to base first stop is to is for the I think
48:00
she's called she was called the Goose Lady or something. It's the Goose Lady.
48:08
Yeah. So, uh, just to kind of like condense the next
48:16
several parts, because this next part from traveling from Doris House to the city
48:22
of Lolomar, it's pretty long because it takes him several days to finally get
48:28
to Lilamar. But when he does, along the way, he makes stops
48:35
and takes shelter with members of the former Royal House of the Galleon. Yeah.
48:40
So these uh, these uh, these Galleon family members, they are
48:46
all living in exile. They they once ruled the city of Lilamar, but
48:52
when the collapse happened, they were forced into exile, and each of them
48:55
bears a very peculiar curse. So if it's the same curse, but the
49:00
curse affects them in different ways. It robs them of one of their five
49:06
senses or like something like that. Yeah, it's something of their senses hearing,
49:13
sight, smell, well, no one has smelled, thank god,
49:16
it'd be weird. So yeah, we only encounter three members, well four
49:20
technically, but the fourth one we'll get to later. But the three members
49:24
that we do encounter. Who are on the or who are the good guys?
49:29
Would be a girl named Leah. So Leah, she is affected.
49:35
The way the curse affected her is that it basically took away her ability to
49:42
speak. But the problem is is that it didn't just like strip her of
49:46
her voice like Little Mermaid style. It took away her mouth. Yeah,
49:52
so where her mouth should be, it's just like a blank space. There's
49:58
like a little like spot two I think on the look like basically where the
50:04
like on the either on the left or right side of her face, where
50:07
the corner of her lips would be. And she has to basically pierce that
50:15
little spot to open a hole up in her mouth so that way she can
50:21
Yeah, so she can. So she's able, so she can be able
50:23
to like get food and sustenance, but she has to drink liquefied mulched like
50:31
liquified food because she doesn't have a mouth. The way she talks is by
50:37
projecting her voice through a horse of all things right, and so basically she
50:45
puppets or like ventriloquists her way through speaking. But it's very it's very difficult
50:51
for her, so she doesn't do it very often. She tells Charlie a
50:54
little bit about the of what its exactly happened to Emphis, but she doesn't
51:01
go into too much detail. Eventually, she sends him on his way and
51:06
tells him to make his next stop at her uncle. Her uncle's house a
51:13
man named Stephen Woody Woodley Woody now Woody. He is like her as a
51:22
member of the royal family, and his the curse that affects him completely took
51:27
away his sight, so where his eyes should be are just empty sockets.
51:36
And he tells Charlie Moore about the history of Emphis, but he confirms that
51:42
the let me see here. He learns that Emphis was taken over by a
52:00
he's basically in a new surper who calls himself that flight Killer. And there
52:07
and the flight Killer is the reason why the gray has come and why people
52:13
have why the royal family have been forced out of the city of Lilamar.
52:16
He's basically he's it's hinted that he is the big bad but at the same
52:22
time there's also mentions of something else. They hints that there's something beneath the
52:34
city of Lilamar that has been slumbering, and they fear that flight Killer's role
52:38
may cause it to wake up. And I'm like when I first, when
52:44
I first, like when they hinted at this, I'm like, oh,
52:49
so we're dealing with like a sleeping giant or like some sort of demon.
52:54
Okay, okay, even yeah, yeah, I didn't really like think it
53:02
would be a terror at first. Oh my god, I go, I'm
53:07
sorry, I gotta go, like sorry, hang on, do I have
53:12
any No, I like, don't, damn it. My allergies are starting
53:16
to act up, and I'm like no, and I ran. I ran
53:20
out of allergy pills. The brand that I use is like really expensive,
53:28
but whatever. I'm just sniffling right now. Anyway, So, like I
53:31
was saying, uh, at first, I didn't realize, like, uh,
53:38
I didn't realize it was like an Eldric like some sort of terror,
53:42
like Eldric terror, but hints that flight Killer is actually serving some other dark
53:47
force, like some sort of dark entity. Throughout the Throughout the book,
53:53
Charlie like remembers stories that his mom told him about, like some ancient evil
53:58
called Gogma Gog magogg magog uh huh uh. It isn't until Charlie comes to
54:10
like he leaves Woody's house the next day and he finally makes it to well,
54:15
he doesn't really make it to the city. Uh. The thing about
54:20
Lilamar is that and the surrounding UH town and the town surrounding it. It's
54:25
huge, Like Lilamar is massive. It's a massive city, and even like
54:36
in the area surrounding it, it's like miles, like miles and miles of
54:42
lads stretching between Lilamar and UH. The last house that Charlie makes a stop
54:50
at, and that is the house of I believe she's like a cousin,
54:54
like a like a distant cousin of Leah's. Her name is claus Adia,
55:00
Yes, Claudia, so Claudia. The way the purse affects her is that
55:08
it took away her hearing, and the way it did that was by like
55:15
where her ears should be, there's just nothing gone, so she has no
55:22
ears. She's completely deaf, and whenever she talks, she yells, so
55:28
it's always like she's always yelling, and it's kind of hilarious. Charlie has
55:31
I think Charlie has to either like write what he wants to tell her down
55:36
just so she knows what he's talking about h and she like the other like
55:45
Leah and what he provided him with food and supplies. She provides him with
55:51
a little bit of extra stuff so that way he can make us. That
55:53
way he can make his journey into the city and back without any issues.
55:59
She even goes so far as to provide Charlie with a motorized tricycle, and
56:07
which was confusing to Charlie because when he got to the when he got into
56:13
Emphasis, all of his electronic devices like his phone, and I think it,
56:16
well, I don't think he's a He brought a flashlight, but his
56:20
phone immediately died. And uh. She said that that Bodich had brought the
56:29
had brought the motor down into Emphas, but he had charged it from there.
56:35
So I guess like in order for machinery to like electronics to work,
56:39
it has to be like built in uh Emphis itself, so he had,
56:46
so basically he had. She gives him an electric motorized trike and it has
56:52
a nice big basket in it for Radar to ride in. I should also
57:00
really quick just take a quick step back, because so like along the way
57:06
on his travels, he does encounter this little man I don't know exactly what
57:12
he is. I think he was either a leprechaun or something, or some
57:15
little grimlin. I don't know. He Charlie gets on this dude's shit list
57:21
because the guy was torturing a big ass cricket. Yeah, and Charlie didn't
57:28
like that. I mean, yeah, it was a big ass cricket,
57:30
like huge, but he at the same time he was like, Charlie was
57:35
like, man, you either killed the damn thing or you don't. Don't
57:38
It's he had this really strong sense that what this guy was doing to the
57:43
cricket was wrong. So he tells the guy to fuck off and threatens him,
57:46
but this guy tells him like, oh, you've made a big mistake
57:50
here. And the reason why I mentioned this guy is because this guy will
57:52
cause problems for Charlie later on down the line, but we'll get to that
58:00
later. Charlie, now equipped with the motor with the motor trike and some
58:07
extra supplies from Claudia, makes his way to the gates of Lilmar. He
58:15
had been given instructions by I think it was either Woody or Claudia that once
58:20
he gets to the gate, he must he must shout to the gate,
58:27
call out to the gate open in the name of Leah the Galleon, because
58:31
Leah is the heir to the throne and she I guess her name carries power,
58:37
but she They tell him that from Claudia's house, don't go directly into
58:43
the city, because by the time he reaches the gate from Claudia's house,
58:47
it will already be the day will be over. Even with his even with
58:53
the trischool, takes them an entire day just to reach the gate, and
59:04
so they tell him take shelter in this tram station like tram house just outside
59:09
the gate and wait for morning to go into the city and then come back
59:14
out. He was given detailed instructions of how to navigate the city. So
59:21
come the next morning, he sets out early and he goes up to the
59:25
gate, calls out open in the name of Lea the Galleon, and the
59:30
gate opens, and the thing is leading up to the gate. When he
59:38
first lays eyes on the city of Li Lamar, he gets his sensation of
59:43
wrongness, like there's something off about the city, like something is twisting it
59:49
into some sort of weird, dark shadow of what the city was originally supposed
59:55
to be. And it's when it's when it gets to this part in the
1:00:00
book, when it's describing the sensation he's feeling concerning the city, I'm like,
1:00:05
oh my god, this was the pump in the moment where I was
1:00:07
like, oh my god, there's an Eldrich's Terror in the city. There
1:00:13
sure is, And yeah, we would later be proven right, Uh,
1:00:20
there doesn't, don't there doesn't. Really. I don't think they really confirmed
1:00:23
what the elder Terror was like really called. But he does say, Charlie
1:00:29
Leader does say, make the mistake of saying its name Gogmagog while he was
1:00:36
in the city, and the entire city groans like something was shifting underneath it,
1:00:44
or like the whole city itself shifted it. So it heavily implies like
1:00:50
that that the name of the creature is called Gogmagog and if you value your
1:00:57
if you wanted to stay asleep, shut the fuck up, and does its
1:01:00
name. But yes, So he finally makes it into the city and following
1:01:07
the instructions given to him by by the royal family, he makes his way
1:01:15
through the city. He also has some help from mister Bowdiche because when mister
1:01:22
Bodache used to travel through the city he had actually marked. He actually left
1:01:27
Marx throughout the city, so whenever Charlie would find see the marks, he
1:01:35
knew he was going in the right direction. And h and at one point,
1:01:45
remembering the instructions from both mister Bowditch and the Galleon family, he comes
1:01:52
across an actual giant. I believe her name was Hannah. Hannah. Yep.
1:02:05
So Hannah was left by flight Killer to guard the way to the Sundial
1:02:14
because sundial is seen as an important artifact. And he does manage to sneak
1:02:23
his way past Hannah. He had to, he had to do it quietly
1:02:29
without the engine of his tricycle on, and he does make it through.
1:02:35
Uh. When he gets past Hannah, he comes across the garden where the
1:02:38
sundial is, and inside the garden there's also a fountain, and unfortunately,
1:02:44
inside the fountain, the fountain actually was home to a mermaid, good mermaid
1:02:49
and we're not we're not talking about evil siren. We're talking about a good,
1:02:52
friendly mermaid. But unfortunately the good friendly mermaid was was was ceased.
1:03:00
Yeah, that was the part was sad, the way to describe that.
1:03:05
Yeah, even later when Charlie tells h Leah and the other Galleon family members
1:03:12
about this. They were heartbroken because the the mermaid was good, was good,
1:03:16
so it was an innocent creature. But we'll later we later find out
1:03:22
that it was actually killed by Hannah's half giant daughter, Mollie. And that
1:03:34
was her name, Mollie something like that and uh Molly. So yeah,
1:03:44
so Stealeya's nerves. He goes to the sundial and he places radar radar on
1:03:52
it, and remember following the instructions from uh mister Bodich, he turns the
1:04:01
dial. I think he has to turn it counterclockwise in order to reverse time,
1:04:08
and he has to remember not to let it turn too many times because
1:04:12
then he may end up taking too much time off of a radar. So
1:04:17
it could be a chance that he risks he runs the risks of completely reverting
1:04:25
radar back down to you know, pre existence. Oh my god, my
1:04:32
analogies are really like acting up now. They all congested, no shit,
1:04:38
sorry, So he turns I think he ends up turning the dial like about
1:04:45
nine, like somewhere between nine, like fourteen times or something like that.
1:04:48
Like he it as he turns it, it begins to spend faster and faster,
1:04:54
to the point where he pretty much loses control of it, and towards
1:04:58
the end of it, he notices that Radar is becoming more active, like
1:05:01
you can't see her properly because of how fast the dollal begins to turn.
1:05:05
But eventually Radar comes to her senses and she ends up jumping off the dial
1:05:11
on her own. And when she jumps off of it, she is a
1:05:15
She has a dog in her prime. She's no longer this elderly dog.
1:05:18
She is young. She's sprightly and very very active. So good for Charlie,
1:05:28
he got he did what he came there to do. So he decides,
1:05:32
all right, we've wasted enough time to We've wasted good amount of the
1:05:38
day trying to get here. Let's get the fuck out of here before it
1:05:41
gets too dark. So Charlie and Radar they make their way back past Hannah's
1:05:51
house and through the city. But it's but he soon realizes that the marks
1:05:59
that mister Bodha which had left behind were gone. So the things that he
1:06:04
was so, the marks that he used to make his way through the city
1:06:09
to the Sundial, they were long gone. He didn't. He at first
1:06:14
doesn't know why, but eventually he figures it out. So as he's trying
1:06:18
to find his way through, he runs into that same little man that was
1:06:23
torturing that that was torturing the cricket, and apparently the dude was so pissed
1:06:33
off. The dude was, you know, so petty that Charlie did that,
1:06:40
that he followed Charlie into the city and began erasing all the marks that
1:06:45
that mister Bodage left behind. So uh, then he leaves Charlie there,
1:06:51
and now Charlie is thoroughly lost in the city of Lilamar. Li Lamar is
1:06:57
very like I said, is very big, and it's like a maze.
1:07:01
Can easily get lost in the city. But Charlie figures out a way to
1:07:06
get back to the front gate. He climbs us I believe he climbs a
1:07:11
statue, and he gets his bearings from the city and manages to navigate his
1:07:16
way through the city. And at one point he ends up going through a
1:07:21
cemetery, which a lot of people had told him don't go through the cemetery
1:07:27
because the cemetery because after everything was said and done, Flight Killer had disturbed
1:07:34
the dead and the dead or not happy, and they almost trapped Charlie in
1:07:43
the cemetery, but he manages to get out. Unfortunately, by the time
1:07:45
he makes it to the gate, the sun has already set. And excuse
1:07:58
me, hold uh so when the sun So, Charlie had been warned that
1:08:05
he needs to get out of the city before dark because the city is patrolled
1:08:09
at night by them, by the Night Soldiers, by an army of the
1:08:13
the undead called the Night Soldiers, and he doesn't and they tell him,
1:08:18
don't get caught by the Knight Soldiers because then that's it. Uh. And
1:08:24
even though he's at the gate, the Night Soldiers know he's there, so
1:08:29
as soon as the sun set, they immediately pounce on him. Uh.
1:08:33
They were uh, they were all hiding in the Royal Palace at the center
1:08:39
of the city, but they quickly make their way to the gate to catch
1:08:43
Charlie. Charlie nearly escapes. He managed to get the gate open again and
1:08:49
Radar got through, but before Charlie could, he is caught by the leader
1:08:55
of the Night of the Knight Soldiers and he has taken into an underground prison
1:09:03
called Deep Melene. It's there he spends I think he spends like the next
1:09:10
several months being put in uh, being forced to take part in a form
1:09:16
of Gladys Gladys world style tournament. Uh. So he spends like the next
1:09:23
few months training for a bigger tournament called the Fair One. Now the Fair
1:09:30
One is just like a sort of like, uh, it's just really a
1:09:35
game to entertain flight Killer and the other nobles that took his side. And
1:09:45
while he's while he's in prison, Charlie learns that flight Killer was actually Leah's
1:09:50
brother Elden. Now Eldon was described to be as a excuse me, He's
1:10:02
described as there it is. He's described as lame in the old sense where
1:10:13
the word lame is used to describe somebody with deformities or like some form of
1:10:18
handicaps. So I think like he was considered he was described as someone as
1:10:23
very squat, He had a club foot, and he was not very attractive
1:10:28
looking. But flight Killer or Elden was you could say he was mistreated by
1:10:36
his family. The only person who trip who seemed to treat him with respect
1:10:42
was his sister Leah. But flight Killer eventually got seduced by Gogmagog and kind
1:10:51
of deal with him and ended up overthrowing the Galleant family and unleashing the Gray
1:10:57
onto the people of and was good. I'm sorry, I was gonna look
1:11:04
up something real quick there, man. Uh. So he spends the next
1:11:21
few months training for the Fair One, and UH while he's there, while
1:11:30
he's in prison underneath the in deep Millian, he begins to notice that his
1:11:41
his brown hair and eyes are beginning to change color. So now his hair
1:11:46
is turning blonde and his brown eyes begins to turn blue, and his other
1:11:53
they fellow and his fellow inmates, I'll see that as a sign that he
1:11:57
is becoming uh, their true prince and savior, because there's a prophecy that
1:12:01
a prince will come and save them from the Gray and end the reign of
1:12:08
end flight killers, reign of terror. Eventually, the Fair One begins.
1:12:14
Charlie survives the first first round, but before the second round can begin,
1:12:21
he and his remaining roommates they escape with the help of a warder named Percy.
1:12:30
So the warders were people that were kept alive and they were used as
1:12:35
servants, and one order named Percy. He would bring out food for the
1:12:42
inmates, and he began to plot with Charlie. On way of escaping,
1:12:48
he shows them away out of the of Deep Maline and they managed to escape
1:12:54
into the street and they do escape the city and where he is reunited with
1:13:01
Radar, Dora and the Galleyan family. Uh. They tell Charlie of Elden's
1:13:06
past as the two youngest sibling Lea. Siblings, Leah and Elden were very
1:13:13
close. Eldon, like I've said, was badly bullet Lea for his appearance
1:13:17
of deformities. At some point, he discovers another well. So we had
1:13:23
the well that led from Earth into Empus. Well, there's a well inside
1:13:27
of the Royal Palace that leads into another world where uh, the evil creature
1:13:39
God Magd is slumbering. Well slumbers of strong world a strong word. The
1:13:47
deep Well leads into and like I said, leads into another world world where
1:13:53
God Magogue is currently trapped. Now, they revealed to him that there's a
1:13:59
prophecy where the Deep Wall will finally be opened, but it will only be
1:14:05
opened when the two moons of Empis touch. So yep, it's called me.
1:14:15
It was called wall either way, So it refers to a prophecy of
1:14:25
when the two moons of Empis will eventually collide with each other. So when
1:14:30
Charlie experiences his first night on Empis, he immediately realizes that one it has
1:14:38
two moons, and two these two moons like literally race across the sky like
1:14:45
they go from one end of the sky to the other in a matter of
1:14:46
seconds. So the thing is is that I get this implies that the moons
1:14:54
are not only orbiting very close to this, very close to the planet,
1:15:00
to the world of Emphis, but they are also going very fast around the
1:15:03
planet. Now, the two moons have never touched each other. Oftentimes they
1:15:10
are like shown they can be seen in different positions in the sky, but
1:15:15
they do. They do fly across the sky very close to each other,
1:15:21
and eventually the two moons will eventually collide. And it's during this collision that
1:15:28
Gogmagog will be able to come, that the deep Well will be opened and
1:15:33
gog Gog can finally come into the world of Emphis. Now Eldon had opened
1:15:40
the deep Well which led him, had opened the way to the Deep Wall,
1:15:45
I should say, and had let him to becoming flight killer, attaining
1:15:49
a power, attaining power as Gogmagog's puppet and cursing Emphis out of revenge for
1:15:54
his mistreatment, so Charlie and the Galleon family and to return to Willemar and
1:16:00
defeat Flight Killer before the moon's moons collide and allowing him to open the Deep
1:16:05
Well once again. Leah is conflicted because she refused to believe that her young
1:16:14
her brother Elden, had become flight Killer, but Charlie ultimately convinces her to
1:16:19
join them. Uh. Leah leads them through the city back into the Royal
1:16:25
into the Royal Palace. During the day. She Ah she leads them through
1:16:35
the Royal Palace and surprisingly this is where like kind of like where the Magic
1:16:41
of EMPHASI has seen more and more of how weird it and convoluted it is
1:16:45
because even though the well is technically beneath the Royal Palace, the path that
1:16:50
she takes them actually leads them to the like very top of the towers of
1:16:57
the Royal Palace, which is kind of weird. But eventually they make it
1:17:00
into the Deep Well and they find flight Killer, which waiting at its entrance.
1:17:06
Just as the two moons collide, allowing the wells to open the wall
1:17:12
to open. Leah sees flight Killer as he is, and except that he's
1:17:15
become evil and she stabs him with her dagger before he is dragged into the
1:17:20
well by Gogmagog and killed. Gogmagog begins to emerge from the well, but
1:17:27
Charlie remember, he's reminded of the story of Rumpel Still Skin, which also
1:17:35
referenced a lot in the story. Yeah, it's not just Rumpel Still Skin,
1:17:41
but there have been plenty of other fairy tales referenced here, but Rumble
1:17:45
Still Skin is like the one that's referenced the most, because he's references that
1:17:49
like several times different characters for whatever reason. Yeah, and the importance of
1:17:57
that is is because the way Rumples Still the story of Rumple Still Skin,
1:18:02
he was causing mischief and he would have caused more mischief, and the only
1:18:05
way to stop him was to correctly guess his name. And someone was able
1:18:11
to guess his name because only because he made the mistake of saying it out
1:18:15
loud when he thought he was alone, but somebody heard it, so when
1:18:18
they told him his name, he was forced to stop. So it references
1:18:21
how names have power. And when Charlie remembers the story of rumple still skin.
1:18:30
He repeatedly declares its name, causing it to retreat back into the well
1:18:34
and defeat. The well is then closed again and pretty much ends the curse
1:18:41
upon emphiis the Gray. The curse of the Gray is stopped, so it
1:18:47
will no longer spread. Leah, Claudia and what He they do begin to
1:18:56
regain what they lost for Leah. Unfortunately, she actually gets her mouth back,
1:19:02
not by defeating her brother and Gognagog, but she takes a knife and
1:19:09
she actually jabs it into her mouth and she reopens it herself grows. It
1:19:17
was implied that she tried that once before, but her mouth had immediately closed,
1:19:21
but since the Gognagogue and flight Killer were defeated, her mouth will remain
1:19:28
as it was. But now it's kind of gross because she she has her
1:19:31
mouth back, but it's all scarred and ugly looking. And this is where
1:19:36
I like towards since it's coming to the end of the story. This is
1:19:40
where I referenced how like this the story was more realistic as a fairy tale,
1:19:45
because what if fairy tales were more realistic. So Charlie, they returned
1:19:53
back to they returned to the surface and Charlie announces their victory and proclaims Leah
1:19:58
as their new queen. The thing is, Charlie had sustained some very severe
1:20:02
injuries during their conflict uh with Gogmagog. I think, like what happened he
1:20:09
broke his arm or like his arm got really fucked up by uh oh yeah
1:20:13
yeah, So future Devin edit that last part the speculation out just now.
1:20:17
But so flight Killer had uh several attendants and nobles who sided with him,
1:20:25
and one of them was this really nasty chick. I don't even remember her
1:20:29
name and she's not important, but she had filed her teeth down to like,
1:20:32
uh like basically needle points. Gross it was. It was flight Killer's
1:20:42
mistress mistress partner. Yeah yeah, she bit the ship out of Charlie's arm,
1:20:48
and like she pour out a chunk of his arm. So he's missing
1:20:55
a good chunk of muscle from like his elbow to like his mid arm that
1:20:59
he won't have get back. And I'm like, I'm reading that, and
1:21:01
I'm like, I can relate because I'm missing a chunk of my bone and
1:21:05
my elbow. It's mid o, I can relate, yep. Uh.
1:21:12
So Charlie ends up spending the next several weeks. I think he spends like
1:21:17
like a month or so in recovery. Yeah, his hair and his eye
1:21:21
reverts back to their brown color, and the citizens begin to rebuild the city.
1:21:28
The thing is is that, like I said, like I was getting
1:21:31
into earlier, even though the gray has been stopped and the curse on the
1:21:38
Galleon family has been lifted, things just things don't immediately go back to the
1:21:42
way it was. Claudia, she's slowly getting her hearing back, but it
1:21:48
won't She won't get her her hearing back. And it's the same with Woody.
1:21:56
Even though he does get his eyes back, he's still somewhat blind.
1:21:59
And Leah has to live with her scarred lips, with her scarred mouth.
1:22:03
Uh. And the people that were more severely affected by the gray, even
1:22:09
though their bodies will recover from it, they will still permanently be scarred by
1:22:13
it. So I'm like, you know what, Like when I was reading
1:22:15
that, I'm like, Wow, that's more realistic, because if something like
1:22:18
that were to happen in real in like the real world, it's not just
1:22:23
going to go back to the way it was. There's still going to be
1:22:27
scars. There's going to be they're going to have to live with like long
1:22:31
lasting effects of it, of something like this disease. But either way,
1:22:39
Charlie and Radar go back to h They do make it back to the well.
1:22:45
They go back up, and when he returns to to his home,
1:22:54
when he he gets back to Century's Rest, which is his hometown, he
1:23:00
realizes he learns that he had been He had been gone way too long.
1:23:05
He four months or so yep, for about four months and February twenty fourteen
1:23:13
it was when he went back in. When he went down the well,
1:23:15
it was like early fall, early min fall of twenty thirteen, and he
1:23:21
had been declared reported missing while he was in Emphis, and he reunites with
1:23:27
his father. In the epilogue, Charlie does take his dad down into from
1:23:33
one last trip into Emphis to prove that to him that the existence of Emphis
1:23:41
and that everything he told his dad was true, and believing him, his
1:23:45
dad helps Charlie to permanently seal up the well so that way no one can
1:23:49
ever go down in it again. And it does end like there's like a
1:23:56
good like it does flat fast forward. I think out like nine to ten
1:24:00
years into the future, Radar is old again. It's like, Okay,
1:24:05
well he got an extra nine years off of radar and he's like an English
1:24:11
teacher now. And I believe he ended up selling the property. If not,
1:24:16
he's no, I don't. I think he. His father's watching the
1:24:19
property and then because I think he's gonna keep the property for like his retirement
1:24:25
or whatever. But I think it. I don't think he. I think
1:24:27
he kept it, but he's having his dad watch it in the meantime.
1:24:31
Yeah. Yeah. And that Ladies and Gentlemen was fairy tale. Yep,
1:24:40
it was. This is definitely, like I said, this is definitely one
1:24:43
of my personal favorites of Stephen King, and definitely enjoyed it. I liked,
1:24:59
oh sorry, go on, sorry, no, go ahead, go
1:25:00
ahead, good No. I mean I like this book a lot too.
1:25:04
I really enjoyed the steen Stephen King do something fantasy related. I mean,
1:25:12
granted, I know he's done the Dark Tower series, but I haven't read
1:25:15
any of those. I only heard what happens in those. But this is
1:25:20
pretty lit now how he references, of course, the fairy tales. He
1:25:26
went his brother's Graham rubble Stiltskin I mean all that Wizard of Oz, because
1:25:32
I mean Emphis is basically Wizard of Oz mixed with Lovecraft. And he mentions
1:25:40
Lovecraft a lot throughout the book, and I love that he makes a jab
1:25:45
at r L sign at one point. It's great because you're because he's talking
1:25:51
about I think Charlie was talking about a childhood friend of his, a girl
1:25:55
that he was into that God meant reading books, and there's someone mentioned st
1:26:01
He's like, I don't want to read something fake scary. I'm like,
1:26:03
damn damn, because I know there's that few between r L sign and King,
1:26:11
So yeah, damn uh. Yeah, I liked I liked it.
1:26:20
He definitely took a different well, you know, he's always had like a
1:26:25
lot of Kings stories do tend to like take a like they do incorporate low
1:26:33
Craftian style entities because I never because like you know, aside from like you
1:26:41
know, just some like more like psychological terrors, you know, you got
1:26:46
it from Steeing from it, Penny you got penny Wise, which is basically
1:26:53
it. Penny Wise is an is an outer creature, Like, yeah,
1:26:57
they came from not from outer space, but from like outside the universe.
1:27:02
Yeah, then of course the Dark Tower and all these other and a lot
1:27:06
of his other stories do tend to take a I mean, he literally has
1:27:13
a character that's literally the lovecrafting entity, a want of Lovecraft's creations without actually
1:27:20
saying it's one of Lovecraft's creations, The Man in Black from the Dark the
1:27:25
Man in Black from the Dark Tower series, that is the rolling chaos nihal
1:27:30
afel tap oh okay. Hence why it's name the Man in Black. It's
1:27:35
a reference to the Black Pharaoh and so he so technically a man blat is
1:27:40
one of Lovecraft's creations, but he is an outright say it. He's just
1:27:44
around causing chaos, making kids, having children left and right and shit.
1:27:48
So there's a whole theory that carries one of his kids and all that shit.
1:27:54
So yeah, I see King personally as a student of Lovecraft, like
1:28:00
Lovecraft was a student was called himself a student of at graulm Po. So
1:28:04
yeah, I love that he references Lovecraft a lot. He takes like inspiration
1:28:10
from him and ship it makes my life a lot more fun reading his work
1:28:14
and seeing the references, and I'm like, I know where that's from.
1:28:24
Yeah, But anyway, that was Stephen King's fairy Tale. I do recommend
1:28:30
it. It was good read. Just fair warning, it is long.
1:28:34
It is pretty long. So yeah, it's definitely one of those books that
1:28:40
you get a lot you do have spend a good chunk of time reading.
1:28:45
And let's question one of those speed readers who can read like single like a
1:28:47
big ass book like this one in like a day. I know people who
1:28:51
can. That's a that's they're they're crazy. But it's a thing. I
1:28:56
mean, I've done it. I've read a book. I've read an entire
1:28:59
book in a day. But I don't like doing that because like I like
1:29:02
to enjoy book and just take it in, you know so, but that's
1:29:09
just me. Uh But anyway, I like to say thank you guys for
1:29:14
finally tuning into with us while we review Stephen King's fairy Tale. I hope
1:29:19
you like it. I hope you can go ahead and pick up a copy
1:29:24
of your own if you haven't already done so, definitely give it a read.
1:29:27
And yeah, I hope you guys can join us next week we talk
1:29:35
about another book, which what book is that going to be? Well,
1:29:45
shit, I don't know who. Honestly, I've been waiting for this moment
1:29:47
for months that I haven't thought what we're gonna do afterwards. Well, we
1:29:51
well cut this part. It's part out, Devin. I think we have
1:29:56
two more episodes to make the finish out the rest of the year. I
1:30:00
don't want to do a Christmas one. I do have that one Christmas one
1:30:03
called The Visitor. I want a relatively short one once I can, I
1:30:11
can, I can forefront that one. It's a little short. It's a
1:30:13
Christmas one. Okay, Uh, what's the what's the What's another book I
1:30:20
have that I've read that we haven't done as far as me I can get.
1:30:26
I can let you borrow the Ring. You can read The Ring.
1:30:28
We haven't done those books yet, and I've read the first one we've done.
1:30:35
Hang on, let me look through my, let me pull my.
1:30:40
We can always do the Lightning, Lightning Struck and Heart. The Lightning Struck
1:30:47
Heart, you could do. We could do that one. Or we can
1:30:50
also do Bear Otter and the Kid. Let's do Bear Otter and the Kid.
1:30:57
All right, Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we are gonna go ahead
1:31:00
and do another book by T. J. Klum. It is another gay
1:31:06
romance novel called Bear Otter and the Kid, and no, it is not
1:31:12
involve a burly hairy man, a skinny hairy man and for some reason a
1:31:21
cowboy. No, it's it's actually a very cute story about it's very found
1:31:30
family oriented family. We love that. Yeah. It is about a young
1:31:36
man who is forced to raise his younger brother after their mother abandons them,
1:31:44
and it's all about them coming together. Main character whose name is Bear,
1:31:51
well that's not his real name. It's actually a nickname gave him, given
1:31:55
to him by his younger brother. Bear falls in love with his best friend's
1:32:00
brother and they come together they built their own family. It's just all about
1:32:05
like it's sort of like a coming of age type story. There's just a
1:32:11
lot of trials and a lot of heavy shit, but eventually they come together
1:32:18
and they form their own family. It's very honestly, it's very wholesome and
1:32:25
I'm pretty sure you guys will love it. So tune in next week we'll
1:32:28
go ahead and review the first book of the Bear Otter and the Kid Chronicles
1:32:32
and hopefully you'll enjoy it. But until then, bybe