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You.
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Hello, listeners. I am
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the narrator.
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Today's story takes place in the town of Devil's
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Lake, North Dakota, a small, remote
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town in the middle of nowhere. The year
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is 1985. The date,
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August 19. This tale will bring with
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it mysteries in intrigue
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lies, hidden realities, and
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the blending of fact from mythos.
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Join our hunters as they seek out the truth and
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find those who are missing in today's story
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of music mayhem.
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Welcome to episode one of
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well, this is we're calling Hunter's Haven, which is inspired
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from a YouTube series we did. But we're just taking that name,
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placing it here. So Hunter's Haven and the
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name of this campaign is music, uh,
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Mayhem. So I have that.
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Um, uh, I'm going to just
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break us into right from the start. If you don't know who these
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characters are, I'm going to just have everyone introduce themselves real quick.
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Starting to my left.
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Yeah, I'm Kenny Whitlock, uh, the boy
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Detective. Right here in Devil's Lake, North
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Dakota. Um, here to solve
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mysteries and
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eat some coughle
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crackers that I make myself.
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Nice and played by Skylar.
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Oh, yeah. Played by Skyler. He's the other guy. He has a
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more normal, uh uh.
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Next I'm picking up some
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hiccups
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as.
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I was driving home from work, testing out the voice, I thought to myself,
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kind of sounds like a young J bear shell.
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It is. Very close. Jay bear shell.
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So, Dave, um,
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so I am playing,
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uh, not sure what the voice we're going to use yet. Maybe I'll just use
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my regular voice. Go for it.
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Maybe we'll slay accent.
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We'll go for something with
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an accent, I guess.
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Uh, names. Danny, uh, Rogers
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is the name. Uh,
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playing the Snoop character. Don't you
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know?
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Got this nifty new camera
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here.
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Want it from the Radio Shack grand opening.
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Perhaps you heard about it in the paper.
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That's great.
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Okay, finally. Uh, Emily, I'm not going
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to do.
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A voice because I don't do good voices.
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You're doing a voice.
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This is my voice.
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Exactly. Also the voice of Bobby.
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Anyways, I'm, um, playing Bobby Eastwood,
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also known as Bob E. I'm playing the
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Crooked. I steal stuff for
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funsies. That's it.
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Sorry.
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Probably steal somebody's homemade
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crackers.
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Yeah, I'll take my kuggler crackers, man.
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Excellent. All right. And with that, now we all
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know the characters. Now I'm going to dive us into this
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world. Got ourselves a little intro here
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in the small, sleepy town of Devil's
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Lake, North Dakota. You best be careful of what
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lurks around the corner. Rumors and whispers
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of things going awry. A modern day menace
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preying from the shadows. This town of Woe filled
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with more tragedy than joy. This week's
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news, three kids have gone missing this
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morning. That number now has jumped to nine.
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The front page of the local news reads
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sam and Max Parker, kids of the mayor,
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have gone missing. Alongside them are four other kids who
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all were at the same party thrown by the local boy,
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Tony McCook, who has also gone
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missing. Mayor Samuel Parker has set a reward
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for anyone who can find his kids and their whereabouts for
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$25,000. The newspaper article
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continues, but for the most part, that's all you need
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to know. With that now known, you now have a
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mission. All three of you, for all your own personal
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reasons, find these missing
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kids. Their lives are ticking through
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the hourglass like
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Days of Our Lives. We find
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our three quote unquote heroes. We'll call
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them, uh, at the local bowling alley.
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Uh, we're going to call it, uh, Bob's Bowls.
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Just call them Bob's bowls. Bob's Bowls is the name of the
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local alley. Uh, we find
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Dennis, uh, Rogers, or Denny, as he likes to be called, uh,
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bowling with his nephew Kenny.
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Uh, it is Kenny's birthday, or was
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Kenny's birthday a few days past. And Dennis
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wanted to bring old Kenny for a fun game of bowling.
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Uh, Bobby is here
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alongside them, not by choice, but rather
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came to just have a night to herself to bowl a solo
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game of bowling. But Bob's Bulls is a
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packed place tonight, and she got tossed into
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their row and is playing a game with the two
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of them.
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The more you practice, the less it hurts your arm.
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And this is where we find our three characters
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with Dennis, uh, having just read this
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article out loud to them while they're bullying a.
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Was. I was looking to snag some
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coupons from the paper here and I turned it
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over to this front page story,
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don't you know? And I saw
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those zeros in my eyes. They went wide,
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like a couple of zeros themselves.
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And I thought, oh, gee, sure bad about them
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kids, but that's a lot of dough they're laying
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out.
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What was it, $25,000?
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You bet you.
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Oh, uh, my gosh, that's a lot of
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dough. Wow.
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That's what I was seeing.
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What would I do with Uncle Danny? What would you do
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with all that money?
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I don't know. I mean,
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probably upgrade the mower, I suppose.
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Yeah, you could probably get a real nice one.
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Uh, uh, Kenny's very
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nervously, uh, looking back and forth over at Denny or
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sorry, bobby kind, uh, of, like, nervous
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because, uh, he knows
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how we got in this situation where she's bowling with us, but
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he's not excited about it
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after her bullying of him back in
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school. Um, so he's just kind
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of hesitant in trying just to not talk to
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her. Hey, uh, I don't mean to
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switch a topic or anything, but, um, whose turn is it to
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bowl?
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It's mine.
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Oh.
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How about move?
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Okay. Kenny sits down.
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Uh, the blue one's mine,
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but I don't know if you brought your own ball over
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here.
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You brought your own ball?
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No, just, like, from the rack.
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Then it's not yours.
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Well, that's the one I was using.
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It's the right size for my fingers.
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It's the right size for my fingers, too, so I'm going to use
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it.
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Uh oh, wow. What a kawinky dinky.
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You guys have the same finger
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know, the grip is very
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important in bowling, don't you know?
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Yeah, that's right. That's what you always taught me, uncle denny.
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It's a really average finger size.
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Lots of, uh, people have that.
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Sure.
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It's not the size of the fingers, it's what you do with
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them.
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Kenny.
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Kenny, why don't you step out of you're still in frame
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there. As, uh, denny holds up
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his new camcorder, kenny
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steps out of the way.
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But then he leans into whisper. He's like, are we supposed to
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be recording people that we aren't related
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to? I mean, I already thought it was kind of weird that you were
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recording me, but she's not even, like, in our
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family.
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Kenny, the way I sees it, this is a great
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learning opportunity for you.
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No, you can compare your form
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to.
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Bob, uh, learning opportunity. Wait a minute, are you saying
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bob is good? Hold on. And then at this point, kenny just stops
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and watches his body goes to bowl because
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he doesn't think that she's that good and worth
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learning from.
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I ignore both of them because they're annoying
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and weird. And I pick up the little
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man's ball and I go up to throw
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it and I kind of slip a little bit and it
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bounces.
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The talon style?
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Yeah, the classic and bounces. But did
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you have the bumpers up or not?
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No, it stayed in the lane, though. I hit one
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pin.
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I think denny's pretty hardcore.
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He wouldn't put the bumpers up. Well, no one has
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bumpers up, people, um, of
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taste and honor. I see.
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Okay, uh, if we fail, we fail with our check.
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You knock over one pin, and then the ball comes
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back and you throw a second one. How's that one go?
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Um, it doesn't bounce, but improvement m
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really hurts my shoulder. I think I put too much too much yank in
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that. Um, I didn't hit any with that. I guess the
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bounce was better.
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I think this is the 10th frame.
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Huh.
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See, I don't think that there's much I can learn from that, uncle
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denny.
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That's where you'd be wrong there, kenny. You
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see, from where I'm standing, it
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looks like she's keeping her thumb in there
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too long, throwing off the release.
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Uh, so ah, it's a video of
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what not to do, guys.
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So then I turn around with the ball and I just kind
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of roll it. Hoping to hit your
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toes.
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Oh.
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Backwards. We bowling.
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But do you jump and do I.
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Jump and spin and go?
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No, I kind of dodge out of the way of this ball rolling
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towards.
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Are you trying to 100%.
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Okay, that's not groovy there.
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The balls aren't supposed to touch this side of the floor.
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I wanted to bowl by myself.
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Well, I don't know why we have to suffer for
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that.
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I don't even have my steel toes on.
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Kenny picks up that. He goes to sit down
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and picks up that newspaper because I think Denny is
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next on, um, the
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frame. And he's just looking at the article about the
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missing kids and thinking about what it would be like for
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him to get his big, uh,
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glory, uh, back if he were to solve such a
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mystery. And that's what's kind of going through his mind of
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like, what if I did,
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man, everybody would love me again.
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Um, and I'm just looking through to see
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if there was anything, any really key details in
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there about maybe the party, uh, that
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was going on. Uh, what was the name of the kid who was
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throwing the party?
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Yeah. His name was Tony
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McCook.
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Tony McCook.
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Yeah. Also, the newspaper article does go into way more detail.
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I just didn't say it. So if you have any questions about
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any of the kids also if you have any questions about
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the past kids that went missing.
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So the whole point is we're trying to find these kids
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alive.
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Well, the newspaper article says they're
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whereabouts.
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So you'd get paid if they were not alive.
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Uh, I mean, he would prefer if they were
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alive when you found I don't find these kids and then just
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kill them. Because you can you
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don't do that.
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You get paid if you find one kid, not m
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all of the kids.
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What if we find part of a kid?
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Okay, so the newspaper article, as you read it,
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the way the mayor because it has a quote from the mayor, it
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seems like he only cares about his two kids being
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found. But also, what if we find the
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other kids? The article also
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assumes, like, if you find his two kids, you're
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probably going to find all the other kids. There's not like multiple
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kidnappers.
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If I are there kidnapper, I wouldn't keep them all in the same m
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place. See, that's what all the cops think. If you
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find one, you'll find them all.
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Oh, spoken m like a true professional,
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huh?
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Hypothetically.
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Hypothetical. You are the crooked after all. You got to
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always be thinking the angles.
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Really put some thought into her character.
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I didn't even tell her beforehand we're doing a kidnapping
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kind of game.
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It's all that true crime.
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I watched.
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Out of curiosity, does it say so is
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Tony one of the kids that's missing or was it just he was.
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One of the six kids that went missing over the
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weekend. So the date is Sunday.
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Okay.
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Those kids went missing the, uh, two, uh,
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nights before a Friday evening. So the, uh,
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newspaper article goes briefly into they were having a Friday night party.
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Yeah, it went late into the night. The parents woke
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up to none of the kids being home and they can't find
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any of the six kids that were at the party.
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And then does it say if
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there were more than just those six kids at this
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party, or were those six, uh, the only six?
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Those were the only six kids. It was a small party
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and it's more like a close knit of friends kind of party.
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Yeah.
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Sounds like our party.
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More like a fun slumber party, if you will.
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Yeah.
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And there was three boys, three girls. So, you know those kind of fun
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high school slumber parties.
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A one to one ratio.
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Yeah.
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So back to the bowling alley.
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A familiar sight if you're a regular at, ah,
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Bob's Bowl. But
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Denny's unconventional
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approach to
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bowl the ball.
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Oh, boy.
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Uh, Denny's kind of talking to himself. It's all
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about the approach. There Kenny, and he's set
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up the camera on the table.
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Set up the camera to record himself.
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It's like resting on the table right
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next to the chili cheese fries.
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It's got a couple of fries in frame.
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You can see a little blob of chili.
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It's very out of focus, uh, on
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the fry, not the bowl.
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So if you've ever seen
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the movie, uh, not the Extremely
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Goofy Movie, but the Goofy Movie.
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The first one. Yeah. The first
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one, he's going off, not.
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Shrek two kind of that kind of.
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Vibe with the perfect cast. So he got
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the perfect bowl. So he
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steps up, uh, he blows
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on the ball. Huff huff waxes
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it with his sleeve of his
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bowling jersey.
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Um, a little step to the right,
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a step to the right. 1212.
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Takes three steps forward, one step
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back. Little cha cha. Uh,
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get the booty bopping. And
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then with a swing of the hips, he steps
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forward and releases.
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Yeah. Roll those dice for me. Oh,
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yeah.
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No, this is 100% Sammy pinsey. Knocks over
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seven. Knocks over seven.
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Bummer.
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Hey, that's still pretty good, though. What is it, nine? It's
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nine pins, right? Ten.
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That's still pretty good.
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Yeah, beef the one sorry, he got.
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A little bit of indigestion from those chili
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cheese fries and
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then he goes ahead and finishes.
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Do I have to roll?
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Yeah, roll. I'm going to see, this is a straight.
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I mean, assume he's getting a what's.
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Your, uh, add your
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cool.
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It's going to be a plus one for my cool. Making it a
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seven.
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Yeah. Um, you can do
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it. It's just ah.
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Um, I'm going to give you a choice
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here. Uh, either you knock over and you save the
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spare, but you also slip and fall
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in the process, or you catch yourself at the
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last second from falling, but you gutterball it.
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Denny always picks up the okay.
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Okay. So, yeah, you make a total fool of yourself.
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And, uh, this is mind you right when the camera finally
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gets in focus,
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it just adjusted just in time.
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Kenny leans over, he's like uncle. I don't even think you had this
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adjusted.
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Whoa. Hey, Spur. Kenny, are you
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okay?
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Oh, I'm all right.
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There.
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I wonder if he got that on camera. We could turn that into
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AFV don't you know?
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Uh, that might have been nine.
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I've got this idea for a new show.
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Yeah, we, uh, could get 25,000 without having to
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go find kids. Missing kids.
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I think that's how much they give out too.
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A lot for the winner. It is a lot.
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As Kenny's picking up uncle or helping Uncle
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Denny to his feet. He, uh,
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know, I think
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maybe just because you said it's Sunday,
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right?
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Yeah.
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Oh, shoot. I, uh, mean, I don't have
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work this week know? I'm still
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really focused on, uh, my career as a
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kid detective. Which is doubly
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weird when you're an adult. Sorry. Uh, he didn't say
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that.
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But what did he say?
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I'm still focused on my career as a kid detective.
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Uh, I don't know if you got work, but maybe we could
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try sleuthing around. That would be a real birthday
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present to me.
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You know what? I got some sick days
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and, man, those chili trees fries are
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really upsetting my stomach. Wink,
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wink. Might have to call in sick
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tomorrow.
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Oh, man. Uh,
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I don't think you should eat those anymore, Uncle J.
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I think you might have an acid reflux problem. Um,
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maybe stick to some things that are a little less
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acidic.
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Yeah, Bobby, maybe you should finish those
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off. Can't help myself.
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I'm lactose intolerant.
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Okay. Well, it's like that fake cheese, I think. Um,
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so I don't think there's a speck of lactose in there. If
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I'm being honest, was lactose and.
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Cholera a thing back in the 80s?
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It's not new.
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I don't know. I didn't see it anywhere on my
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1980s
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popular things.
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Um, think me and Kenny ate most of the ones with cheese
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on the top.
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Also, Pepto was definitely around by this
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point, just for
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safety. Yeah, sure. Bobby,
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if you want to eat some of these fries yeah, go for it. I don't care.
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I could freeze my favorite number.
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I'm just trying to think how we get
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Bobby to join.
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Bobby, if you have any questions, uh, you can
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ask the guy holding the
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newspaper.
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Maybe rough sauce, because Bobby just thinks
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you're
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25K inadequate.
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I'm just saying, Uncle Danny. I mean twenty five k? I mean, that would really
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make up for missing days of work, no less.
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Uh, what makes you guys think that, uh, you've got what it
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takes to find these kids?
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Well, um, you probably remember back
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in the day. You remember the whole mystery of the missing
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mayor's dog. The MMM.
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You are so unlikable.
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That's what he was going for.
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As long as you're referring to in game and not out
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of game I.
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Can'T see a world in which my character
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would ever want to associate with yours.
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Then maybe she focuses more on Uncle Denny.
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To be fair.
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You could see him as such a big pushover that you could
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just take the 25K straight up form from
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him. Fair enough. That could be your in on
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it.
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Just like I pushed him in high school.
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I also really like the idea that after I say the whole
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bit about the missing mayor's thing, you immediately turn
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to Uncle Denny and say, what are your qualifications?
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That's good. We'll play with that. Yeah,
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let's go from there.
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Well,
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I've got a successful marriage,
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partially raised, three kids, and very,
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uh.
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Well.
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Just for example, just the other day, uh,
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I saw Bigfoot.
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Whoa.
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You saw bigfoot.
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Yeah, I was out in the woods
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on one of my lunch breaks. I mean, my lunch break.
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I don't take multiple lunch breaks.
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But you do take them in the woods?
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Well, yeah.
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You got to enjoy nature, Kenny.
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Oh, yeah, I forgot. You're like a lumberjack or something.
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I look work at the lumber mill. So
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I'm out in that neck of the woods, so to
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speak.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Anyways, I was metal detecting
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and caught, uh, a glimpse of
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something running through the trees.
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Pretty sure it was bigfoot.
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And your immediate thought was bigfoot, not
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a, uh, large hairy man?
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What is yours? Well, usually a large hairy man. Is
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your first thought a large hairy typically, yeah.
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Yeah, I thought it might have been Tim going on his lunch
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break jog. But he actually
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is a lumberjack. He cuts down the trees.
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Yeah, he's an interesting fellow, for sure.
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Uh, but when I went over there and investigated for
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boot prints, uh,
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it's just a big old bare
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footprint. Not a bare uh,
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uh.
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Uh, in North Dakota.
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No, all the people on Meth are over in
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South Dakota.
23:13
Yeah, they like the warmer climate,
23:15
but it's not out of the question, I suppose.
23:21
But then I went to, uh,
23:23
rewatch the tape because I film
23:26
all my metal detecting. Well, at least since I won
23:29
that camera before, I just took a picture with the
23:32
Polaroid.
23:35
It's true. He has many
23:38
tapes of his metal detecting.
23:40
Oh, Kenny loves them.
23:42
So, do these guys have any experience
23:45
with the unknown at all,
23:48
or are you just a dad and you're just
23:51
annoying?
23:52
I think that's just what you ask them.
23:57
Yeah.
23:57
Are you just asking
24:00
out of character?
24:03
In character?
24:04
Just say that. Okay.
24:06
Well, I mean, I'm insulted, but you're
24:09
asking about my experiences with the
24:11
paranormal. Uh, man,
24:14
I, uh, think I've seen some weird stuff, but I don't know if I've come to
24:17
enough conclusive evidence to suggest that anything's
24:19
paranormal, necessarily. Although there's a
24:22
part of me that really believes in aliens. But I
24:25
also will admit that that part of me was ignited after
24:28
I saw Star Wars Return of the Jedi,
24:31
and it was pretty dang awesome.
24:34
So maybe it's just wishful thinking.
24:36
Is your weapon the metal detector?
24:42
I didn't know we were talking about weapons, but no, that's a delicate
24:45
instrument. I wouldn't, uh, want
24:48
to damage my, uh, technics Mark One
24:50
model.
24:51
He's got a special case for it and everything.
24:54
I believe it.
24:55
They call it the Coin computer.
24:58
What about you, Bobby? Do you think the supernatural
25:01
exists?
25:03
It could.
25:06
You know, I had an Aunt Linda. Uh,
25:10
she used to say she could talk to her dead dog.
25:15
So there's that
25:18
I'm pretty sure I saw.
25:19
I don't think I got to meet.
25:20
Her the dog
25:23
either.
25:27
I don't think I talked to Aunt Linda. Why are the dead
25:29
dogs
25:33
what did it say?
25:35
Oh, yeah, well, maybe that was
25:38
before your mom married Mark.
25:41
Yeah, it must have been. Well, uh,
25:44
are you adopted? What?
25:47
No, just have
25:49
stepdad
25:53
situation.
25:54
Uh, anyways, the dog, uh, was
25:57
always going on about stuff. It buried in the
26:00
backyard. I found a few of the things, actually, with my metal
26:03
detector.
26:03
Hey, yeah, if you could talk to dogs more often, they're always
26:06
burying stuff all over the place. That'd be a great way to get
26:09
all kinds of cool stuff while you're metal detecting.
26:13
Maybe me and Linda are
26:16
related by blood. Perhaps I got a bit of the
26:19
touch.
26:19
Oh, hey, there you go. Hey, you think maybe we could
26:22
find a dog that is dead
26:25
that knows something about these missing
26:28
mhm? Know, the more I think about what I just said there, that doesn't make a
26:31
whole lot of sense. Like why is the dog dead and
26:34
why does it know it would have had to die in the last two
26:37
days?
26:37
Maybe it knew too.
26:38
Oh, and then it died.
26:42
Or alternatively, maybe what if we went
26:45
snooping around over at Tony's house and,
26:48
uh, we brought your metal detector along and
26:51
maybe one of the kids dropped something that'd be a
26:54
clue as to what happened to.
26:57
So, uh, what's Tony's last name?
26:59
McCook. McCook.
27:01
Yeah, McCook.
27:02
M over at the M McCook house.
27:05
I think his older brother might have been in our class.
27:09
Stefan.
27:12
Stefan also.
27:13
Or was it Steven?
27:15
The article was continued onto the second page.
27:18
And if you kept reading, rather read
27:21
more about the party incident stuff. Um,
27:24
the only kid who wasn't reported missing
27:27
by his parents was Tony. That's because his
27:29
parents were out of town. He was throwing
27:32
a party at their place. They don't get back till
27:35
Monday. And they don't know if their kid
27:38
they don't even know their kid is correct. They don't know any of this.
27:41
Actually.
27:42
The police haven't paged them.
27:44
They are in the Bahamas.
27:47
Yeah, those international calls are expensive.
27:50
Yeah, they're cheaper after seven.
27:54
Yeah, no, but they know their kids kidnapped. They just,
27:57
uh, can't find a soon enough flight to get
27:59
back.
28:01
You're not going to leave the Bahamas.
28:03
They're really racing back.
28:06
Um, but yeah, so, uh,
28:09
there was no adults around when they were throwing that
28:11
party. So technically the house
28:14
is empty. They don't get back till Monday.
28:17
But, uh, Bobby, as to what else we have to
28:20
offer what else I have to offer. I got this, uh,
28:24
great new camcorder here. It's
28:27
a JVC video movie, don't you
28:29
know? You see,
28:32
it's equipped with a video
28:35
playback. You look in the site here
28:38
the viewfinder. I'm getting a little
28:44
look in the site here, and
28:47
you can see what you just
28:50
recorded without a
28:52
television.
28:55
Huh. And it records the tape. So then if you want to watch
28:58
it on a television layer, you just pop that tape right out, put it in the
29:01
VCR.
29:05
So if we
29:08
want to review whatever we find out at
29:10
the McCook place, can view it back
29:13
through this video?
29:17
Yeah, I just want to loop back around.
29:20
Bobby, uh uh, are you trying
29:23
to volunteer with us or you
29:25
why are you getting in on our detectiving?
29:29
Well, you've been really invasive with me since I've
29:32
been here.
29:33
You came to our bowling alley.
29:35
Really? All up in my grill. So
29:39
I was just returning that to you.
29:41
Um, I think
29:44
out of the two of you, I really have the most
29:47
experience here. Um, I have a lot of experience
29:50
with missing things, and
29:53
missing kids are
29:56
basically the same.
30:00
So I feel like I would be able to
30:02
find them and I could potentially
30:06
use your help.
30:07
I mean, if you just need a ride back home, I'm sure we
30:10
can give you a ride back home. You don't have to tack along.
30:14
I remember your experience with missing
30:17
things.
30:18
Like that time
30:21
oh, no.
30:25
Like that time I came out to my shed.
30:28
But, uh, I helped you find that, didn't I?
30:34
Yeah.
30:34
You're trying to steal my
30:37
rack off of my mower right
30:40
off the hood where I attached it with the
30:42
paxi potato potato.
30:45
You said you were looking for your lost
30:48
frisbee or something. Like I don't know how it
30:51
would have gotten into my locked shed, but
30:54
he's right. Seems a little suspicious.
30:56
But, uh.
31:01
That shed just opened right up for me, so
31:03
I feel like maybe you didn't lock it as well
31:06
as you thought you did.
31:09
I suppose Doug could have left it open.
31:12
Doug's? My son. One of my sons.
31:16
But what sort of, uh, experience
31:18
with missing things do you have?
31:23
Um, I like to
31:26
set people up so that they can
31:29
find their things. It's a good learning
31:31
experience for everybody. So
31:34
I foster those situations in which people
31:37
have to look.
31:38
Oh, perfect. You're like a secretary.
31:42
You're just helping out the rest of us.
31:45
Mhm.
31:49
Well, I tell you what. If
31:51
anything, if you can take some notes for
31:54
us while we kind of take a look around
31:57
and maybe dig some stuff up and find some clues,
32:00
I guess that would be of use.
32:02
Um.
32:06
You would be good with, uh, cameras there.
32:10
I know how to point and shoot
32:12
things.
32:15
That was very foreboding.
32:20
Well, you see, sometimes with, uh, this fancy
32:23
new gizmo, uh, I can't always get it to
32:26
record. I press the record button, but it
32:29
won't record. I kind of just press all the buttons at the
32:32
same time and it works most of the time.
32:36
Does it have batteries?
32:39
Oh, yeah, I
32:41
got a backup one too. In the
32:44
car? M.
32:46
Well,
32:49
trying to remember if Denny has a car he doesn't
32:52
have.
32:55
In your backpack. You have a backup battery.
32:58
We walked.
33:00
You offered me a ride.
33:02
I didn't know we didn't have a.
33:03
Car until you don't remember walking.
33:06
We took the mower.
33:11
That would have looked so awkward. But also that
33:14
definitely feels like small town.
33:16
Also, the Bullet la is like two blocks down
33:19
from Denny's, uh, house.
33:20
So it looks like we'll take my car.
33:23
Oh, well, at least she has a car.
33:25
We don't have to oh, you got a right.
33:27
All right, all questions answered.
33:30
One why
33:33
does she make everything make me feel
33:35
uncomfortable? Everything she
33:38
says just makes me feel nervous.
33:41
I shouldn't talk to Sheriff, uh,
33:43
Steve about what I did after
33:46
Balling got.
33:47
To rename the Sheriff.
33:52
Is that sort of a feeling like a
33:54
butterfly in your stomach?
33:56
No, Uncle Denny, it's not like a butterfly
33:59
in my stomach. I know what you're trying to do, Uncle Danny.
34:03
You're trying to tell me that I need friends.
34:07
I already told you that. I
34:10
go home and I get on
34:13
my oh shoot. What kind of computers
34:16
they have? Do they have a computer?
34:17
Macintosh.
34:19
The old Macintosh.
34:20
I get onto my Macintosh, version
34:23
1.0. I type out
34:26
some TXT documents as I solve some
34:29
mysteries. I write down a lot of notes, I switch
34:32
over and I write my Star Wars fan fiction.
34:35
And that's what I do.
34:38
I don't need friends because that just distracts
34:41
me from my publishing.
34:43
Were they even called fan fictions back then?
34:46
Oh gosh, she's listening.
34:53
I said, uh, no, they're like
34:56
mysteries. They're Star Wars mysteries just set in
34:59
the Star Wars universe. But it's like, uh oh,
35:02
where did my missing
35:04
lightsaber? Uh, uh oh, what happened
35:07
to Luke Skywalker's?
35:09
Missing, you
35:12
know, crazy stuff like, like they got to go find it. Like
35:15
Han Solo is like, oh man, you know, I got to smuggle something
35:18
somewhere.
35:19
I feel like you're the type of person that writes stories,
35:22
um, and you don't care that Luke and Leia, uh, are
35:25
siblings.
35:26
Okay, look, okay,
35:29
we're not going into this.
35:32
Let's get in your car and you drive us over to
35:34
the what was it again?
35:36
The McCook house.
35:37
I almost said
35:40
McCook.
35:40
That's a different house. That's over in
35:43
California.
35:44
Let's go over to the Mansion Cook house
35:47
and let's just look around and see if we can find some stuff. I mean, we're not going
35:50
to be probably able to get into the house. Uh, that's
35:53
breaking and entering. And as a professional
35:56
kid detective, emphasis, uh,
35:59
on kid. We
36:02
don't do things the illegal way. We got to do things the
36:05
right way. So we'll dig around outside the house, see. If we can
36:08
find some clues and then, hey, man,
36:12
we'll find a way to split the 25,000 if we find
36:15
these kids. We'll figure that out later.
36:18
All right? So I'm okay to go, guys.
36:21
All head to the car.
36:22
Dennis finished up the last, uh,
36:25
we.
36:26
Get into my car and I just kind of shove a
36:28
screwdriver in, uh, the keyhole and kind of jiggle
36:31
it around a little bit and it turns on.
36:34
Nice. Yeah. Do you listen to
36:37
any music while you, uh, drive?
36:39
Whatever the person who owned the car.
36:41
Previously was listening to, there's,
36:44
like, uh.
36:46
Change it credence tapes.
36:48
Yeah.
36:51
Like my old cher.
36:54
Cher. That's accurate. Yeah, it's pretty good. She's
36:57
popping some share. Nice.
36:58
Would this fall under
37:01
this observation of her
37:04
starting the car like that? Would that fall under read a
37:07
bad situation?
37:08
If you want to roll Read a bad situation, you 100%
37:10
could, um.
37:16
That'S sharp. That is
37:18
an eight mhm.
37:21
So you could ask one question from that list.
37:25
Uh.
37:29
What'S my best way out.
37:34
The door? Uh,
37:38
I guess when you see that, you
37:41
make, ah, kenny sit in the middle. I guess
37:47
I'm imagining an old school pickup truck here where it's
37:49
like, just three seats. There's no back.
37:52
There's no back. So Kenny's just squashed in the
37:55
middle.
37:56
Kenny 100% sees her jam,
37:58
um, the screwdriver into the keyhole and turned
38:01
it.
38:01
To start the car.
38:02
And just thinks, man, look at how far you've come since school. You got
38:05
an old beater truck here that you have to start with a
38:07
screwdriver.
38:09
Completely obliterated detective
38:13
he notices the details.
38:15
It's just interpreting them scenario
38:18
that he.
38:18
Has a lot of difficulty with.
38:21
I crank my window down, get some
38:24
air. A lot of smells going on in here.
38:26
Got some share, bopping.
38:28
Those chili cheese farts are really filling it.
38:30
Um, up yours,
38:37
Lactose.
38:40
So you guys drive along and you get to the McCoy, like I
38:43
said, like, three blocks away. This house, though, very
38:46
big cooks, do well for themselves.
38:49
Not as good as the Macintosh family.
38:51
Not good as the Macintosh family. Uh, but you guys get
38:54
to the house, and when you get there, uh, do you see, uh, the
38:57
front door has got
38:59
some yellow tape on it says Crime
39:02
Scene.
39:03
Yes, that's exactly what I like to see.
39:05
Our Devil's Lake finest doing their
39:08
job, getting things all situated
39:11
up for the crime scene. Uh, obviously,
39:14
I still have this, so we won't have a problem. And he
39:17
takes out this child's plastic,
39:20
uh, deputy badge that the police gave.
39:23
Him way back when he did his
39:25
milk.
39:26
It means literally nothing to anyone. That's
39:29
not just a child. It
39:32
doesn't actually give me any extra power, but in
39:35
mind, he still thinks it was
39:38
legit.
39:38
So do you just walk up to the door and just open it
39:41
while you're holding the badge?
39:45
Uh, I'm here to solve the case. Just open
39:48
the door. And walk, right?
39:49
No, but if there's any tape
39:52
outside the house, that's, like, blocking the front yard or something,
39:55
he just goes right under it.
39:56
Oh, yeah, because he established earlier he's.
39:58
Like, I'm not going to there wasn't.
39:59
Any tape outside of the house. It was just on the door.
40:02
Well, nobody will ask us any questions as long as I've got
40:05
this. You guys are all, uh, the deputies,
40:08
honorary deputies tonight, so come
40:11
on with me. And I go out, and I start
40:13
skulking around.
40:14
Um, just walking around the house.
40:17
Yeah.
40:18
Is it still light outside at all, or is it kind of
40:20
dark?
40:21
It's near dark. It's around, like, 730, but in North
40:24
Dakota. Uh, also ah, I did say in the
40:27
start we're in mid August.
40:28
Yeah.
40:28
So 730. Sundown near now,
40:32
uncle, uh, Kenny, I'm.
40:33
Going to hand you this, and I hand him one of my walkie
40:35
talkies. I said, just in case you're
40:38
looking at one spot. If you find anything, radio in. I'm going to
40:41
look here.
40:44
Yeah, Bobby, I don't care what you
40:46
do.
40:48
So he's searching around the outside of the house. What are you doing here?
40:51
Uh, Danny's getting all of his gear out of the back of the
40:53
pickup truck. So he's got his camera on his shoulder.
40:57
He slung his metal detector.
40:59
You walked to the bowling alley with
41:02
your metal detector?
41:05
The lawnmower to the bowling alley. Uh, he
41:07
never goes anywhere.
41:12
He's got, like, this small case
41:15
that he tucks into his jacket pocket.
41:18
And, uh, he's got, like, a
41:20
Polaroid camera around his neck.
41:24
That's basically his equipment.
41:27
I'm just putting on some black leather
41:29
gloves. I start walking towards the
41:32
house.
41:32
Okay. Do you go right to the front door?
41:35
Sure.
41:36
Do you try it?
41:37
Isn't he already inside?
41:38
No, he's on the outside just wandering around.
41:40
Wandering around the yard.
41:41
All right. Sure.
41:41
I'll try the unlocked.
41:43
Okay, cool.
41:44
I'll just go in?
41:45
Sure, go right ahead.
41:46
I'll look around. What do I walk into? Is it the living
41:49
room?
41:49
It's a front entryway. There's not
41:52
much not much to note in the front
41:55
entryway. Uh, but to your right, you can see,
41:58
like, a living room area. And you do see, like,
42:00
cups. And, uh, the further
42:03
into the living room you go, if you go that way, uh, you get
42:06
back here, and there's, like, a den where there's, like, a TV.
42:09
And is the TV on? TV
42:12
is not on, but there is
42:15
a speaker system that's on in the background. It's just playing some
42:18
music. Just on in the background.
42:20
Share, uh, on for two days.
42:22
It's plugged in, but yeah, it's been on
42:25
for two days. It's currently
42:28
playing a song by Tears for Fears called
42:31
Shout.
42:32
I love that song.
42:33
Yes. Do, uh, you want to listen to the radio or
42:36
not?
42:38
Because I'll go
42:41
mosey around the living room.
42:42
Yeah, you just look around. Uh,
42:45
and do you want to roll? Investigate a mystery.
42:48
Sure.
42:49
You just roll two D six, then you add sharp. That's
42:51
not the best.
42:53
So I got six.
42:55
That's a fail. Well, so you just
42:58
get nothing. You walk around and you just see what I'm
43:01
telling you. Nothing else? You don't really see any other
43:03
clues.
43:05
Is there anything, um, nice
43:09
in this living room?
43:10
Yeah, there's a coffee table. And on the coffee table, there is
43:13
a gold plated cigarette
43:16
tray.
43:17
Uh, relatively small
43:21
palm of your hand. Can I steal that?
43:23
Of course. You're the only one inside, too?
43:26
Yeah, absolutely.
43:27
No one's going to notice a thing.
43:29
Slip that, uh, into my inner pocket,
43:32
ash and all.
43:33
Honestly, probably the best house to steal from, because
43:37
cooks are going to get back so worried about their kid being gone, they won't even
43:39
notice missing.
43:42
They might want to have a cigarette.
43:43
That's true. They might be a little stressed.
43:46
They're smokers. They've got more than one ashtray. So I
43:49
keep an eye out for any more gold plated ashtrays.
43:52
Denny, you saw
43:55
Bobby, uh, walk inside, and you finished getting all
43:58
your stuff. Did you follow Bobby in, or are you going to
44:01
follow your nephew around the outside?
44:06
I am going to start sweeping the front
44:08
yard with my metal detector.
44:13
Okay.
44:15
I get on the walkie. Uh, don't worry, Kenny.
44:18
I'm just going to sweep the front yard here with the
44:21
metal detector.
44:22
All right.
44:22
The old coin computer.
44:23
Oh, sorry, I got to wait till you say, like, Rogers on our
44:26
over. There we go. All right, that's
44:29
great news. Uh, let me know if you find anything. Now,
44:32
I think, uh, that could point us in any kind of
44:35
direction going further over.
44:39
So, as for Kenny, you were walking around
44:42
the back.
44:43
Yes.
44:43
And you spot that the back
44:46
door is wide open and
44:49
has a crime scene tape over it
44:52
as well. And you look through the back
44:54
door and you see someone inside.
44:57
Oh, my gosh, that could
45:00
be Bigfoot. I get on the walkie
45:03
talkie. Danny.
45:06
Uncle Danny, why did you say that Bigfoot
45:09
looked like again? Over.
45:11
So while he's, uh, talking to his
45:14
uncle, I'm just kind of moseying into the den area.
45:17
Yeah.
45:18
Would you say you're looking for jewels? Clues?
45:21
Yeah, clues.
45:22
Clues.
45:22
Clues, yes. Uh, you wander back and you find, like,
45:25
a nice little back, little area.
45:28
Uh, it's not like a den, but it's like a room
45:31
that's in between the den and the outside patio.
45:34
A foyer.
45:35
That sounds about right. Foyer, yes. A little area. There's
45:38
a table out there. Um, and you're looking around that room,
45:41
and you, uh, hear a voice out the sliding
45:44
door talking about Bigfoot.
45:48
Oh, my gosh, Uncle Danny. It's going
45:50
up towards the foyer.
45:52
So, uh, I'm just going to start growling
45:58
for funsies.
45:59
Okay. You hear growling?
46:01
Oh, my gosh, Uncle Danny, I'm, like, 98%
46:04
sure.
46:05
Bigfoot start stomping my
46:07
feet.
46:08
How big are its feet? Over.
46:10
Uh, I can't see its feet right now. Hold on, I'll get a closer look.
46:12
You're stomping a feet. It sounds
46:15
like Bigfoot's wearing boots because this room doesn't have
46:18
carpet, so it very clearly sounds of boots
46:21
stomping.
46:21
Danny is making his way towards the front of the house.
46:24
And he's like, oh, gee, I can hear
46:27
something.
46:29
Does Denny
46:30
runs
46:33
inside.
46:36
I'll get you this tank.
46:42
So are you coming inside?
46:44
I'm slowly coming in from the back door.
46:47
Diddy's seriously smashing all the buttons on.
46:49
The camera to turn on record.
46:52
So as you guys surround Bigfoot,
46:55
you guys both run into the same foyer at the same
46:58
time to see Bobby just stomping around
47:01
growling.
47:02
Oh, my God. Got you.
47:03
This time, as Kenny comes
47:06
in around the corner, I hit him with one of those.
47:09
Oh, my God. You're not
47:11
bigfoot. Where's the beef?
47:18
Oh, Kitty, that was a funny look on your face there.
47:21
Oh, um man. Did you get that on camera?
47:23
Let me see.
47:26
I like the viewport. Yes, you caught it
47:29
on camera. That's actually just what you caught.
47:33
You finally got it turned on right when you get his space. Getting
47:36
shocked. I do like the idea that the only clear
47:39
shots you're getting on this camera is basically the blooper
47:42
reel of this adventure.
47:46
Guys. Bobby, what are you doing in the house? Look,
47:49
this badge only gives me so much permission.
47:52
If the police came here and saw us in here, we'd
47:55
all be in a lot of trouble. I'd probably get my badge taken
47:58
away. I really can't lose.
48:00
Hurry.
48:02
Yeah, yeah, let's hurry up.
48:05
So are you guys going to search that?
48:07
I was going to say, uh, somebody with better Role.
48:09
Since you're inside now, Kenny takes a quick look
48:12
around. So you guys kind of look back and
48:15
you, uh, ran through the room, but he looks back.
48:18
I'm just going to tell you, I already looked back there. I didn't see
48:20
nothing.
48:21
Yeah, I can't trust your non detective.
48:23
You see the room filled with red solo cups.
48:26
Oh, my gosh.
48:27
Some of them are tipped over some spilled
48:30
liquid. And, uh, then you see the TV's
48:32
turned off, but you do hear the radio going on.
48:35
Kenny picks up one of the red, uh, solo cups and just
48:38
sniffs it.
48:39
Um, if you want to roll. Both of you two want to investigate a mystery.
48:42
What does it smell like?
48:43
You were just disgusting.
48:44
Alcohol.
48:45
Oh, my God. Adult
48:47
beverages. These
48:50
kids were committing a crime.
48:53
Are they even worth saving?
48:57
Here's the part we have to consider now, if it weren't for the
48:59
$25,000 reward, I'd be questioning whether
49:02
these kids are even worth saving at this point, to be honest,
49:05
they've gone too far down the wrong
49:08
path.
49:08
Should we not present them to the police?
49:12
Uh, yeah. Then they can suffer the adequate punishment for their
49:15
actions.
49:15
Jury of your peers?
49:17
Yeah, peers. All ah. Right. And then
49:19
with that he's going to start
49:22
investigating Dennis.
49:24
Investigating mystery.
49:25
It's a good thing we're not using that mic.
49:26
You're rolling sharp.
49:29
I got a total of seven, so.
49:31
You can ask one question from that list.
49:34
I got a six.
49:35
Oh, that shrucks huh.
49:38
Sure is dark in here. Is it dark
49:41
in here?
49:42
The lights on? No, it's dark. Only if it's the light you
49:45
guys have. Actually, no, because they left the scene as
49:47
is. So there is some lights on this room. Funny enough,
49:50
this is like, one of the only rooms that actually had lights on.
49:54
Uh, m, I'm going to
49:56
kick things.
49:57
Off with asking what is being
50:00
concealed here? What am I missing?
50:02
That's a good question.
50:03
Or what is being hidden from my sight
50:06
amidst this first area of our
50:09
mystery, per se?
50:10
Okay, so you are starting to look around and you start to
50:13
lift some pillows, some throw pillows that were on the
50:16
couches. And you lift up the throw
50:19
pillow and you find a wallet.
50:21
Oh, man, I better keep this away from Bobby.
50:24
I open up the wallet.
50:26
The wallet is for Mr. Uh,
50:29
Sam Parker.
50:30
Sam Parker. That was one of the kids that's been missing.
50:33
That's the mayor's son.
50:34
The mayor's? Didn't he have two? Was it Sam and Max?
50:37
Yep. Son and Max. Son and daughter.
50:40
Yep. I come walking up to, uh, Denny, and I say, Denny, look,
50:43
I found Sam's wallet was underneath the couch cushions.
50:46
Why do you think he would have left his wallet
50:50
if he was getting kidnapped? How do you think? I mean, who
50:52
takes their wallet out, right? I mean, unless it's slid out.
50:55
Maybe I'm looking at it. Uh, what
50:58
do I see inside this wallet?
51:00
Not much, because it's a wallet of a
51:03
17 year old kid. He's got his driver learner's
51:06
permit in it. Uh, he's got, like, $5
51:08
and a couple of coupons to, uh, a couple of gift
51:11
cards to the local Pizza Ranch.
51:14
Are you going to use those coupons here?
51:16
Well, I wasn't going to steal from his wallet. I'll
51:19
tell you what.
51:19
Well, check the expiration date. Maybe if
51:22
they expire at the end of the week, he's probably not going to
51:25
use them.
51:26
I suppose that's a fair point. What does the expiration date say?
51:29
Uh, August 25. That's a week
51:32
from now.
51:32
Oh, man. All right, well, if we haven't found them by then, we'll definitely
51:35
have to use these.
51:36
Yeah, I'll just have to hang on to these for safekeeping.
51:39
Well, here, you hold on to the wallet.
51:40
But, you know, the wallet being here, uh,
51:44
makes it seem like this is definitely the
51:47
last place he was. I mean, if you would have left somewhere on
51:49
his own wheel, he'd probably take his wallet.
51:52
That's right. Now, here's my other question, right?
51:55
So let's say these kids are in here. They're having a party inside
51:57
the house. Someone kidnaps them. That means they're
52:00
going to have to take them outside the house, right? To take
52:03
them wherever they're at. I mean, unless they're still here, which seems
52:06
unlikely, but also seems slightly possible
52:09
since parents are gone. But anyway, let's stick with the first
52:12
possibility that they got taken out of the house. What
52:15
if we go check outside the house where we're
52:18
supposed to be, just to be clear, and see
52:21
if there's anything that, uh, suggests that anyone was, like,
52:23
hauled away. Any kind of tire
52:26
tracks, maybe even or something along those
52:29
lines. Uh, maybe it'll give us an idea where we should go
52:32
next.
52:33
That's a good idea there, Denny. Uh, it's getting
52:36
dark outside.
52:37
Uh, yeah, that's true.
52:39
Let me see if I can find some.
52:44
Going to hey, Bobby, I'm going to go
52:47
rummage up some flashlights. Maybe in the kitchen. I don't
52:50
know.
52:50
Okay. Can I go upstairs?
52:52
Sure. Go for.
52:53
Uh, wait, Bobby. Oh, okay.
52:55
All right. Uh, I do want to point out one
52:58
thing that I should make kind of clear.
53:01
As you guys are looking through this room,
53:04
you notice something odd.
53:07
If these kids were kidnapped,
53:10
there is no signs of a struggle
53:12
whatsoever.
53:15
Uh, maybe they ran away. Can I find the kids
53:18
room?
53:18
Yeah, go for it.
53:19
Okay. I want to look around in there
53:22
for maybe a journal
53:26
for this.
53:26
Um, as you're leaving the room, you hear a
53:29
Shock DJ starting to talk over the radio. Uh,
53:33
um, all three of you
53:36
hear, uh, you do you guys want to listen to the Shock
53:39
DJ or not?
53:40
I know that Kenny isn't I mean, he's just waiting for the
53:43
flashlight, so there's no reason why he wouldn't I'll.
53:45
Listen because I really liked that last
53:49
maybe maybe they're they're coming to town.
53:51
Oh, yeah, maybe. Yeah, that's a good point.
53:52
Rummage up ticket.
53:54
As you guys hear a, uh, Shock DJ kind of comes
53:57
over the radio as the end of Shout
53:59
by Tears for Fear. You hear him go, uh,
54:02
hey there, folks. That was Shout
54:05
by Tears for Fears, coming at you
54:08
live from the Siren Song radio
54:11
station. My name is DJ Re
54:14
Pip, and I am bringing you today's and
54:17
tomorrow's in yesterday's hits.
54:20
Next up on this playlist, we got ourselves
54:23
a classic. A billboard topping hit, the Power
54:26
of Love by the Huey Lewis and the
54:28
News. Hit it, Huey. And then you guys
54:31
hear the iconic Huey Lewis thing. It
54:34
just goes back to music, right?
54:35
Is that our monster?
54:38
Was that Tears for Fears, just a siren
54:41
song?
54:42
Well, it didn't get.
54:47
Uh you cracked the case. It's the shock. DJ.
54:51
You guys wander around. Uh, you guys separate to
54:54
your different spots. Bobby, we're going to cut to you walking
54:57
upstairs. You're looking for the kids rooms.
54:59
Yeah, it's just a is
55:02
the stairs carpeted?
55:04
This house is very nicely furnished.
55:07
Carpeted. Stairs are hard for me. I kind of trip a little bit,
55:11
but I catch myself. I'm fine.
55:12
Good. There's good railing there for a reason. You make it up to the top
55:15
of the stairs and you see a few rooms, so you
55:18
go around opening them. Are you looking for anything particular?
55:21
I'm, um, looking for the missing kids room.
55:23
Okay, so you open up first room and uh, it's like
55:26
a master bed. Um, so you
55:29
assume adult. So you go on the next one and
55:32
you open it and it's like a, ah, spare guest
55:35
room. Doesn't look like there's any posters, nothing in it. So you kind of
55:38
think not, probably not. And then you open the last room and it
55:41
is filled with like posters of athletes.
55:44
Okay. I'll go in there. I'm just kind
55:46
of rummaging, maybe for like a
55:49
journal or a backpack or something.
55:52
Uh, you start looking through uh, folders,
55:55
bags and stuff and you don't find much of anything. And then you look
55:58
in, uh, the cubby. Well, you do find
56:01
a bunch of his belongings. Like
56:04
everything's here in place. There's nothing really missing. You also notice his
56:07
wallet is also here. This is Tony McCook's. His
56:10
wallet's up here. But that kind of makes sense because it's his house,
56:13
so he wouldn't have it downstairs with him. Uh,
56:16
and uh, you go to his.
56:18
Uh can I check his wallet?
56:21
Yeah, go for it.
56:21
Does he have any, uh, same thing, coupons or
56:24
money?
56:25
Just straight up $30.
56:27
Okay. Can I take that?
56:28
Oh, yeah, of course. Uh, same thing as what we saw.
56:31
Sam's, he's around same age as Sam. He's got his learner's permit.
56:34
Uh, and same, uh, thing. He's got a few gift cards,
56:37
but most of them are to like your local
56:39
arcade. And also a gym
56:42
membership for his own high school
56:44
gyms. Kind of weird. Uh,
56:47
and you just kind of I don't know what you do with the wallet afterwards, but
56:50
I'll just kind of toss it. And then you
56:53
go over to a dresser to keep looking.
56:56
Blank on what they're called, but the dresser right next to,
56:59
uh, right by.
57:00
The bed, the bedside table.
57:02
Thank you. And you open that and you find a dream journal.
57:05
Yeah, he's been logging his dreams.
57:08
It's even called Tony's dream journal.
57:10
All right.
57:12
Can I read some of his dreams? Do you have
57:15
any dreams for me?
57:16
Prepped? No, but I will tell you
57:19
just briefly looking at more recent ones. Right. You probably flip
57:22
to the back and read from the recent versus start at the
57:25
front. Makes more sense doing that.
57:26
I want to know what he's been dreaming about since he was
57:29
okay, well.
57:30
You'Re going to be here a while if that's what you're doing,
57:32
because it's packed. This thing has been written since
57:35
twelve. Uh, no, you start the back. Not really much
57:38
to know. His dreams are wild and
57:41
imaginary. Very,
57:44
uh, sexually
57:46
themed, uh, due to the fact he is a
57:49
teenager. Uh, but uh, for the most
57:52
part, nothing out of the ordinary. For a teen. He doesn't have
57:55
like reoccurring themes of monsters or something like that.
57:58
It's just teeth falling out.
58:00
Teeth falling out. A lot of being laughed at for showing up at
58:03
school in his know, a lot of public embarrassment.
58:06
You think Tony might have a problem with humiliation?
58:09
Uh, I have a big fear of that.
58:11
Sounds like he's got some anxiety.
58:13
That too. Fear of being rejected by his
58:15
peers. That's why he's hosting a party. Maybe we're diving
58:18
too deep into town. He's gone
58:21
missing.
58:22
I read that a little bit. I just kind of
58:25
chuckle. Throw that on the bed too,
58:27
because I don't want to put stuff back. It
58:30
doesn't matter. He's missing.
58:33
You, uh, keep looking around. Not much else to note. You do notice that he has
58:36
a giant duffel bag, uh, just sitting in his closet.
58:39
When you open his closet. Duffel bag filled with no clothes
58:42
though. So you would assume if he
58:45
was to go somewhere plan, he would have filled the duffel bag
58:48
with stuff.
58:48
So it was just empty?
58:49
Just empty. Just sitting there. All his clothes are in place. Doesn't
58:52
look like he would have wasn't planning on going
58:55
anywhere anytime soon.
58:58
Um, that's it. There's not much else to note in this
59:01
room. Very empty. Lights are off.
59:03
Ah.
59:03
I'll mosey out of this room and
59:06
back to that master bedroom.
59:08
Yeah.
59:09
Is there any kind of jewelry box?
59:11
Yeah, there's a jewelry box. Are you going to take
59:14
a lull.
59:14
Of it or just like, um, I don't know. She
59:17
looks like she got any diamonds.
59:18
It's a nice pearl necklace.
59:19
I'll take that.
59:20
Okay. Nice pearl necklace. You just stash that away and then slide the
59:23
jewelry box back. All right, we're going to go to Denny in the
59:26
kitchen. You are just rummaging
59:29
around. Anything in particular you're
59:32
looking for besides flashlights?
59:33
Coupons.
59:34
More coupons? Huh?
59:36
Uh, ham sandwich,
59:39
glass of milk.
59:41
Really? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. No, you open the fridge,
59:44
it is filled to the brim with food.
59:47
You think maybe they filled the fridge up before, uh,
59:50
they left? They didn't want old Tony to starve himself,
59:52
apparently.
59:54
Uh, did I notice on Tony's driver's
59:57
license? Wait, kiddicks.
59:59
No.
59:59
We found Sam.
1:00:00
Sam's.
1:00:00
How old is Sam?
1:00:01
17. Okay. Yeah.
1:00:04
Learner's permit.
1:00:05
Mind you. The newspaper article actually said the ages of
1:00:08
all the kids too that went missing. I didn't say that. But
1:00:11
if you wanted, you have the newspaper.
1:00:12
How old was Tony?
1:00:14
17. Is Tony
1:00:17
17?
1:00:18
Do we have like a young one or are they all the same age?
1:00:20
17. Okay, just going through the age. Also if you guys just want
1:00:23
me to name the kids too. Sam Parker, age
1:00:26
17. Max Parker, age 16. Tony,
1:00:29
age 17. Hannah grower.
1:00:32
Grover. Hannah Grover, age 16.
1:00:35
Tim Redding, age 15. And then Michelle
1:00:38
Mitchell, also age 15. Now I do want
1:00:41
to point out if this is you reading the article,
1:00:44
Denny, you recognize the name Tim
1:00:46
Redding, for that is the name of your neighbor's kid.
1:00:49
All right. Um, then Denny
1:00:52
looks, finds like the junk drawer. He's
1:00:55
looking through the drawers, the cabinets for, uh,
1:00:58
flashlights, maybe under the sink.
1:01:00
Yeah, you look around and it doesn't take you too
1:01:03
long. Uh, just opening a couple of drawers, you find a
1:01:06
drawer that's filled with batteries and flashlights and
1:01:08
scissors and all sorts of stuff.
1:01:12
There is exactly three flashlights,
1:01:15
believe it or not. All working.
1:01:18
Wow. Isn't that who would have thought?
1:01:20
So, uh, he, uh, grabs the flashlight, set those
1:01:23
on the counter. He's like, oh, scissors, I was
1:01:26
needing those before. And, uh, he takes the scissors and takes
1:01:29
the paper back out and turns it over and
1:01:32
starts clipping out those coupons.
1:01:35
Initially it all comes together.
1:01:38
And then as he's flipping it back over,
1:01:41
he notices like he takes a closer look at the names
1:01:44
and he sees, oh,
1:01:46
jeepers, that's Tim Reddings.
1:01:50
That's Jeff's kid.
1:01:55
It is now.
1:01:59
Jeff and Patty. Jeff and Patty.
1:02:03
Oh, man, that's hitting a little too close to
1:02:06
home, literally. And I come back out to the
1:02:09
living room. I found some flashlight
1:02:11
skiing. Thanks, but oh,
1:02:14
bad news. It's real bummer. Tim
1:02:17
Reddings was one of the kids who went missing. That's my
1:02:19
neighbor.
1:02:20
Oh, Timmy. Oh, um, man, that means that he
1:02:23
was drinking too.
1:02:26
That's so disappointing. Kids these days, I tell you what. I
1:02:29
mean, I might just be a kid detective myself, but
1:02:32
I'm not somebody that really, uh, partakes in the
1:02:35
beverages of the adult variety.
1:02:37
Like some real Michael Jackson energy
1:02:40
over here.
1:02:42
Same time this is happening, Bobby walks.
1:02:44
Back into the room and says, you got
1:02:47
some real Michael Jackson energy going on
1:02:50
here.
1:02:50
Oh, I love thriller. It's a great music
1:02:53
video.
1:02:53
It's a great mhm
1:02:56
to. Can I take the flashlights?
1:02:59
Yeah, I want to
1:03:02
just start clicking through them, make sure none of them.
1:03:04
Are like, oh, I don't know
1:03:07
why.
1:03:07
That Michael fella always grabbing his
1:03:10
package, though. I don't get that.
1:03:12
I think it helps him hit those high notes.
1:03:14
Oh, that's a theory there. Yeah, there those
1:03:17
flashlights. Did they pass your inspection there,
1:03:20
Bobby?
1:03:21
They'll do. I'll take one.
1:03:23
All right, I take one as well.
1:03:26
I take another one. And, uh,
1:03:29
I run back to the kitchen and grab some tape
1:03:32
from that drawer and I
1:03:34
tape the flashlight to my camera.
1:03:38
Nice.
1:03:39
Why didn't I think of this before?
1:03:41
Well, it's like you got night vision almost.
1:03:44
Yeah. Real night
1:03:47
prowler.
1:03:48
Yeah. And then with that, Kenny's going to head
1:03:50
outside to check on his theory about,
1:03:53
uh, the kidnapping. Yeah.
1:03:56
And with that, I'm going to have, uh, all of you are going to start
1:03:58
walking outside to follow up on Kenny's
1:04:01
theory of there's got to be some more
1:04:04
information outside the house. And with that, we're going to
1:04:07
end this episode.
1:04:09
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