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IT CAME FROM SCREAMBOX: Tales from the VOID, Plastic Smiles | Story time with the boys! · WASD and Beyond

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We got a good one, Noah. Yeah, we're going to.
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We're going to do things a little bit differently today.
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We are sans Alex. He had some other stuff going on
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that he couldn't get pulled away from, so I thought we could try
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shaking up the format a little bit.
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We're still going to, you know, we're still watching stuff.
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We're still looking at stuff on screen box, but I wanted to do
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this thing a little differently. And then depending on how this
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goes, maybe we'll do more different stuff in the future.
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But today we have got a short from a series on screen box
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called Tales from the Void. Tales from the Void is an
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anthology horror series based on stories from the Reddit thread R
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slash No Sleep. The whole.
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The show is hosted by the host of the No Sleep podcast, David
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Cummings, and features a handful.
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I think there's six episodes for now of shorts based on some well
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known, some lesser known stories from R/NO Sleep.
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And today the story we're going to be checking out is Plastic
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Smile, which is based on Betsy the Doll by CK Walker, who if
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you know Creepypasta, if you know R/NO sleep, if you listen
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to Creepcast, you know who CK Walker is.
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She was, she wrote for Haunting of Hill House in Blind Manor.
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She's written Barasca, Room 733, Mayhem Mountain, all of these
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like really, really well written stories.
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She's really, I would say one of the best writers to ever get
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their start on no sleep. So the way I thought we'd do
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this is we could talk about the short a little bit and then do a
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little bit of a reading of the original story.
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Yes, I think that's a fantastic idea which will spawn into many,
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many, many more versions of the show, I'm assuming.
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It's just going to. Keep growing.
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So yeah, I, I, I don't. Want to ride the coattails of
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some too many other people out on the Internet who just read
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creepypasta. But I thought with this little,
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with the twist of it, having a short made of it, then we can
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tie it back into our it came from our thing.
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So have you had you heard the story?
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Had you heard of Betsy the doll? What was your?
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Did you know anything about this going into it?
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So I like many of the creepypastas.
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I, again, I've said it on the show, I've seen tons of, I've
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read tons of them, right? Like either from Reddit because
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I was never a Reddit guy. I was like an old school, young,
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like 4 Chan kid. So I was on slash X, which was
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like slash Paranormal, which is still around, but obviously that
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site is more or less defunct now.
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But a lot of good creepypasta came from slash X.
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This didn't fly under my radar like a lot of the stuff that
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came from Reddit. So I had heard of Betsy the
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doll, but I never fully read the short.
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But but if it's anything resembling the short film or
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the, you know, the episode we just watched for this anthology,
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My God, that. Yeah.
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It just, it's fucking sad. It hits you.
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If you had a bit of a childhood, like I did this, you're watching
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like there's a few scenes and I'm like just, I shuddered.
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I was like, oh, turn it off. Yeah, this.
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I didn't. I definitely can't really relate
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to it in that way. But I read this a few years back
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and then in prep for this, I read it again.
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And when you get to the ending, cause the author loves to do a
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twist, like there's a twist in almost every one of her stories.
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When I got to that twist like man, I got, I got goosebumps and
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my stomach dropped. It's just like it's.
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So well set up and you don't see it coming.
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Like it's set up to be one thing.
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And then at the last second she totally does a 180.
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So I will just go to for spoilers.
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If you haven't watched this, go watch this.
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You definitely can't be spoiled for it.
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Like if you go if you go in knowing the ending, the rest of
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it kind of falls flat. So yeah, now that they're gone
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or now that you're back. After you stop here, Yeah, go
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watch this or read this. Come back.
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Big time spoiler time. The doll's not a doll.
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The doll is her, her little. Sister that fucked.
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Me up, dude, I was, we were watching it and I'm like, God,
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something's weird about this doll.
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Like this thing's like, yeah, haunted dolls are fun, right?
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Like we all have a fun little haunted doll thing, but to then
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be like, Nah, it's a baby. I was like what the fuck and
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just that cop is just so oblivious at this point that she
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just set her sister down the drain or the the tunnel
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essentially. That's like a storm drain,
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essentially, yeah. And it's like, no dude, but like
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the the cool thing is, I mean not cool thing.
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The exploration into the psyche of a abused child you typically
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like for me, I would find ways to escape in my head, which is
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what this was. This was ways to not see the
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world for what it actually is or to your your situation rather,
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which was interesting that even though like obviously she had
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love for her sister in the story, like she loves her
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sister, but she also views her sister as like a doll that she
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cares for and loves. But it's it's, it's her.
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It's her personal escape from reality because she can't, she
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doesn't have any toys. She barely has that book, which
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is ripped away from her. You know, why not?
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In her head, humans come and go. Her mom comes and goes.
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Her father's non existent. The guy who lives with her is
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not really a human at this point.
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He's just a, you know, they're all drug addicts.
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So why you? I could see why in the story,
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she views her sister as a dog. That's something like in her
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mind is irreplaceable because she's never had one.
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She's had people. She's never had that, though.
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The doll, yeah, that was cool. That was really cool to see.
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Maybe I read too far into that, but.
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No, it's you're 100% right. Like the whole thing is that she
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sees her little sister as a doll or something to be taken care
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of. I mean, her little sister is a
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like a baby, like a pretty fresh baby.
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Like less, you know, definitely less than a year, would you say?
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Yeah, probably like a couple, you know, nine months, almost a
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year, yeah. Yeah, like, you know, still
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can't talk is like, but it it's insinuating that the baby can
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crawl, crawl around because you see some later shots, like when
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it starts, the doll can't do anything.
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But then as as the short goes on, you start to see the doll
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blinking or her face changes expressions or she crawls around
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the room or she's able to look at a out the window somehow.
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And I don't know if you noticed it, but they had an effect where
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the the glass was fogging up from her breath.
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But then you have this storybook that the little girl is reading
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to the doll about a, a little girl who runs away from her home
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and goes down the tunnel and goes to like a magical fairy
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land. So she's like, in her mind,
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'cause she's still a child in her mind, she's like, this is
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what I can do to get away from, you know, this horrible abusive
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situation that I'm in. And it all essentially climaxes
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with her putting Betsy into like a basket and sending her off
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into a storm drain because in her mind, it's the only way she
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could save her from the life that she has.
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Yeah, yeah. She sent her off to go live with
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the other children, like the lost children, basically, which
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is cool. I mean, yeah, yeah, it's
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definitely a good, like I said, it's a, it's a good exploration
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into the psyche of a child's mind when they don't, when they
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can't quite process truly what's happening and they have to use
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imagination to escape. Yeah.
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It's great. And the whole like the whole
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time for the first little bit, it's intercut between the, the
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girl who's now grown going back to the apartment that they lived
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at where her like the insinuation is that her mom died
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in there. So she goes back there for some
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reason, I think just to look through and see if there's
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anything she wants to take. And she finds a videotape that
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we see the the guy, his name is Zed.
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I don't really know what his role is in the family unit.
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Junkie dude who hangs around. In my mind he's like.
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I think he's either like the little girl's older brother or
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potentially like an uncle or something because he seems much
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younger than the mom. Yeah, he does.
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So she goes in there and she finds this videotape that he
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recorded, and it cuts back at that point for the extended time
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to that time. And you see on the videotape the
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the girl and Betsy as a doll. But then at the end, when it's
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doing the reveal, we see the same shot that we saw before,
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but this time Betsy is a human baby.
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And like that, that reveal is insane.
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It's so it's. A great reveal.
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It's so it's done. That's that's that's the biggest
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thing here. Like you can you can fuck up an
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entire story with a bad twist. Yeah, you can destroy something
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perfect and make it literal dog shit.
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This was not that. This was a great twist that I
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was not expecting. I was like, OK, cool.
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We're like in my head. I'm like, all right, we'll get,
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like, another, like, evil doll. Yeah, like, OK, the doll's
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pissed. It doesn't want anyone to hurt
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Betsy, right or not. Angie.
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Angie No. Her name's Abigail.
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Abigail Abby. So it doesn't want anyone to
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hurt Abby. So it's going to hurt things,
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right? And it's not at all what
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happens. And I I prefer this because like
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we've seen it. We've seen the doll that is
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either evil or is evil towards everyone else but the child.
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And you know, this was done just great.
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This was good. Yeah, like you said, they, they
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really stuck the landing with this.
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Some of the effects, like we someone pointed out while we
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were watching it, one of the people in the spawn camp channel
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at the time, there's some like special effects where they're
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showing like a bird flying into the tunnel.
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And I was like, oh, that, that doesn't look that good.
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And then somebody pointed out it looks like a cartoon bird.
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That's what I said. Yeah, you, you pointed out you
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had like a cartoon bird, which if you want to, if you see it
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that way, it's like, oh, it's like from the book, like it's
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part of the. Yes, that's what I thought.
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Yeah. Well, the tunnel itself is
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whimsical. So when you're when the shot
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happens where she's in front of the tunnel and it's pointed out
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where it's everything is whimsical around her and nothing
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looks like just like a drain tunnel, Like it looks like an
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actual like, hey, like come down here and live with the fairies,
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live with the other children. And now you're a part of this
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family, right? Like it's all whimsical and
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happy. So that's why I was like, you
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know, the bird is you're like, this is the slowest moving bird
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ever filled. And I'm like, yeah, but I think
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it's like a cartoon because the way it goes into the tunnel too,
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it's just like it hits the dark and it's gone.
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Yeah, the, I mean, who knows how far that it's like a storm
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drain, you know, it's a bit, it's, it's what you expect.
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It's like a big pipe when you know for water to drain under a
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road, but it seemingly goes on infinitely.
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Yeah. So All in all, really good,
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really good short. I think they set up the twist
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really, really well. I'm gonna give it 4 out of five.
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Oh absolutely. It gets 4 out of five.
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This is done great. The landings, the the twist
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sticks the landing. It's wonderfully shot.
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It's acted really well and I just think it it it does what it
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needs to do. Was this the first episode of
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Tales from the Void? No, this is like the 3rd or 4th
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episode. OK, out of how many 'cause about
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say this? So there's six episodes total,
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and this is the fifth of sixth episodes.
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OK, so it it's a strong fucking mid almost ending point.
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Yeah, I mean the the story that they chose for the last episode,
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I would love to cover this one. We probably wouldn't need to
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read the story because it's very long.
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It's called A Whistle in the Woods and it's based off of a
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story called Something Walks Past My House Every Night at
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3:03 AM and it's a mouthful title, but it is one of the
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better stories for sure. I'm super pumped to get.
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Further, that one's really tense.
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I hope that we definitely can explore this either, you know,
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during this set of episodes, or maybe, yeah, down in the future.
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But do we want to read the original?
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We do, and for the audience, I'm going to be honest, before we
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read the original, we're going to have a weird cut here because
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I have to go pee so I'll. Just do my own thing.
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I'll just vamp a little bit. We're going to read a
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creepypasta, but I'm not trying to copy a creepcast.
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But we are going to be creeping our cast for a little bit, if
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you know what I'm saying. Big fan.
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Not trying to not as if I could not try to copy, but you know
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who doesn't like a good narrative?
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That's that's going to stay between you and me.
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What the audience? Yeah, me and the audience had a
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little pow wow just then. So we're not cutting any of
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that. I'll, I'll go, I'll comb
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through. We'll see.
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I for everyone who's new to the show, I never have to do that
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anymore. Yeah, usually when Nick has to
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go to the bathroom during a show, he just does it on the
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show. It's happened twice.
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It's happened twice. Go back, go back to.
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Well, yeah, Go back to the Halo episode of WSD and beyond.
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What was the second time? Game wards.
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You did not on the mic when? You left no.
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Is that, do people know that? No.
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This is the first here. OK, OK, well, all right, let's
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some tea. It's only on it came from screen
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box. Yeah, yeah.
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That's a screen box. It came from screen box
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exclusive. But yes, yes, I am ready to dive
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into that. We have fun here.
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We do. How do we do this before we, I
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don't know, really quick. I've been using Tiger Tiger
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bomb. Why?
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For my neck. Oh, on your neck?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I forgot I had it on my finger
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the other day and I itched my eye.
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Oh my God. Oh my God, indeed I was.
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Like you ever you ever put that stuff on the Jenny's?
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Yes. Brutal mistake.
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I would not. I would not.
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Mistake. We want.
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This isn't. This isn't.
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This isn't. This is not for that.
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We gotta read a story pretty real quick here.
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Let's do it. I think you should lead it off.
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This is Betsy the doll. Like most people these days, I
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had a fucked up childhood. But who doesn't, right?
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My father took off before I was born and my mother was left to
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care for me on her own, a skill she was sorely lacking.
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My mother slipped right back into the drug addled party
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lifestyle that she'd enjoyed before I was born and had soon
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turned our two-bedroom apartment into an opium den.
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For the first five years of my life, I walked around in a
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confused, terrifying mist. The smoky air would flood down
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the hallway from our living room and slip under my bedroom door.
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It always seemed to linger for days.
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I know my mother wasn't a bad person, just a victim of her
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addictions. When she did have spare money,
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she would put food in the house and buy me new clothes from
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Goodwill. The only pieces of furniture I
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had in my bedroom was a mattress set and a little blue and white
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toy chest. Not that I had a lot of toys to
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put in. And of course, just the three
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I'd gone on birthdays. 1 was an art kit, 1 was a little red
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wagon, and the last my pride and joy was a doll named Betsy.
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Betsy was my best friend. We would have imaginary tea
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parties together, sleep together, and even take baths
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together. Sometimes I even remember her
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voice. When I thought back on my
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conversations with the doll in adulthood, I realized that I was
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likely suffering from delusions thanks to the always present
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butts of smoke that laid claim to the dinghy hallways and
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drafty bedrooms of our smart small apartment.
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You guys can tell we're great readers.
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Still, I remember the sound of her voice, a pleasant tingling
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lilt. That's a weird fucking word that
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was almost always coupled with a raucous giggle.
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I always remember the things that she said to me, and the
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things she wanted me to do. She asked me to steal.
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She asked me to steal usual food or pens and pencils She wanted
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me to bring bring her forks and knives and hit the hit the bad
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man who slept on our couch. It was always something.
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I would always get in trouble. What?
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Oh, it was always something and I would always get in trouble.
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I'm on the I'm on the spot here. But she would.
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But she wouldn't. When I told my mother who had
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put me up to these games, she would scoff and shake her head.
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She never believed me. Adults never do.
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I can do something. I was just around my 6th
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birthday. I asked my mother for a birthday
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party. I wanted to invite the Mean
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Girls from school and serve them cake and ice cream to make them
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like me. I remember standing in the
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kitchen that day with such hopes, having just asked the
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most important question of my entire life.
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The glass bottle of Coca-Cola I held was shaking in my nervous
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hands. I waited with bated breath as my
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mother continued putting groceries away, almost as if she
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hadn't heard me, but I knew she had.
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Finally, just as I had failed a second time to muster the
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courage to repeat my question, she turned around and gave me a
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flip and shake of the head. A birthday party?
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Laura, that's ridiculous. I can't afford to feed 15
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children that aren't even mine. Hell, I can barely afford to
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feed you. You eat like an elephant,
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especially for a girl your size. I'm sorry, Betsy does.
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There's barely anything left for me to eat around here, much less
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a classroom full of other people's brats.
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God damn, my face fell as she shook her head, mumbled
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something else under her breath, and stumbled off into the living
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room. I heard the music go up then, as
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then as more people walked in the door.
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Some left, some stayed. I never knew them either way it
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it simply wasn't fair. My mother threw parties all the
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time. What about me?
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I was a kid, all my friends had birthday parties and now the
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Mean Girls at school would know I was too poor to have one and
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they would tease me even more. I felt tears start to well in
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the corners of my eyes and I and I choked, choked back a SOB
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while I ran to my room and slammed the door behind me.
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Betsy was lying on the bed and smiling.
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She was always smiling. Usually it made me feel better,
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but today just made me angry. She just kept staring at me,
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smiling. She was going to tell me to do
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something bad again. This was why my mother wouldn't
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throw me a birthday party. It was because of all the
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trouble I got into because of her.
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This was her fault. Betsy didn't have to go to
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school, and Betsy never got in trouble like I did.
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And in my young mind, I truly believed it was the doll, not my
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mother, who was to blame for everything.
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I snapped then. Oh my fucking God, I snapped
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then. I screamed in indignant rage and
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threw the bottle as hard as I could at the bed.
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It hit Betsy on her forehead and she fell on the floor.
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Good. I picked up the bottle and hit
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her again and again. I thought I heard her laugh and
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I hit her harder, then I laughed.
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When my rage was spent, I dragged Betsy to my toy chest
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and threw her in. I slammed it shut and kicked the
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chest against the wall. I never wanted to see Betsy
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again. Ever.
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That is Nope I skipped one. I never owned another doll after
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Betsy. After about a week the the
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police came and two nice ladies took me to live in a new home in
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a new state with food and toys and no drugs.
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The trunk went into storage and the wagon disappeared.
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I never saw my mother again. As I got older my foster parents
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admitted that she was in jail doing 25 years.
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That was fine with me. I never I felt nothing for her
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anyway. I still had nightmares because
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of my life with that woman. But then slowly I became I began
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to heal. I focused on doing well in
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school and I ignored my mother's letters from prison.
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She reached out to me several times in my 20s as well, but I
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always did not declined her calls.
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That is until this morning. I'm 30 now with my own children,
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a loving, honest husband. I have a beautiful house, 2
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dogs, and a career as a social worker trying to make a
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difference for kids who had a bad like me.
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I'm happy, I'm steady, and I'm content.
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So when I got a voicemail from my mother informing me she had
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been paroled and that she wished to speak, I decided to let her
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say her piece. Since the kids were home from
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school, I went into our shed in the backyard to return to my
23:07
mother's call. The shed was the children's
23:10
domain and they used it to play in the summer.
23:13
I sat on my old toy chest, which was currently being used as a
23:16
tea party table, and dialed the number she had left me.
23:20
Three rings. Hello, Laura.
23:24
Hello, Mother. How are you?
23:25
Oh, Laura, Thank you for speaking to me.
23:27
I know you have your own life now and a family.
23:30
I would love to meet them someday.
23:32
I just wanted to tell you how sorry I am for everything,
23:35
Mother. You are not meeting my kids
23:37
ever. And since you called me, I'm
23:39
going to, I'm going to, I am going to.
23:42
What I have that's written fucked up.
23:44
That's not me. There's some typos.
23:47
OK, I'm going to say what I have needed to say for years.
23:50
The opium, the heroin. They destroyed you.
23:53
And the worst of it is that you almost took me down with you.
23:56
I was 5. That was no home for a child.
23:58
Honestly, I'm surprised it took you so long to get caught,
24:02
Laura. I know.
24:03
It seems I know how it's. We will get better at this guys,
24:08
I promise you. I know how it seems, but I
24:11
honestly know nothing. Look, it hardly matters and I do
24:14
understand why you would feel that way, why you would hate me
24:17
and not want me, want me to meet your little ones.
24:20
I learned a lot about forgiveness while I was away and
24:23
just. Oh, Laura, I am so sorry about
24:25
Betsy. Betsy.
24:28
I paused, confused. Why would you care about her?
24:31
I know, Laura, believe me, I do. It was all my fault.
24:34
The drugs, the partying, and Betsy.
24:36
Oh God, if I had only paid attention, if I had only known.
24:39
She's gone, and it's because of me.
24:41
As my mother began to cry, I tapped my fingers on the toy box
24:45
impatiently. The drugs had clearly fried her
24:47
brain. Mother.
24:49
I sighed. Why are you talking about Betsy?
24:52
And why do you even care? I know where Betsy is, right
24:55
underneath me. What are you talking about,
24:58
Laura? Oh God, where is she?
25:00
I shifted uncomfortably. Well, Betsy's in the trunk where
25:04
she's always been. There was a beat of stunning
25:07
silence. What do you mean, your sister's
25:10
in the trunk? Sister, what the hell are you
25:13
talking about? Back on drugs so soon?
25:15
That's a record even for you. Betsy is a goddamn doll.
25:18
I locked her in my toy box a few days before you got arrested for
25:22
possession. Oh, Laura.
25:25
Oh, God, no, no. Laura, what have you done?
25:28
I wasn't arrested because of the drugs, Laura.
25:30
I was arrested because of Betsy disappearance.
25:33
You always called her your little doll, but we thought you
25:35
knew. Oh, God, we thought you knew.
25:37
Laura. No.
25:38
What have you done with my baby? My mind had gone blank and with
25:42
no emotion I set the phone down next to me and stood up.
25:46
I could hear the muffled sound of my mother's anguished cries I
25:49
and feel the dark clutch of of possibility in my own chest.
25:53
Memories were stirring in the back of my mind, threatening,
25:56
threatening to flood forward into my consciousness.
25:59
They pushed against the door in my mind that had been locked so
26:03
tightly for so long that I had forgotten it was even there.
26:06
Was it even possible? Could the trauma and the opium
26:09
have really led me to believed that a small child was actually
26:12
a doll begging for food and utensils to eat to eat with,
26:17
asking me to protect her from the bad man?
26:19
No. I slowly turned around and
26:22
brought my eyes down the makeshift tea party table.
26:25
Surely it was too small. You couldn't fit a person in
26:28
there. You couldn't.
26:29
But then what about a very small, starving, emaciated
26:32
child? What about her?
26:34
Would she fit? Would an investigator even
26:36
bother looking for a person in this chest?
26:40
I knew I wouldn't. It was just too small, and I was
26:43
sure we had opened the toy box at some point over the years,
26:47
hadn't we? Or had something swimming?
26:49
And the dark recesses of my memories always stopped me.
26:53
I couldn't remember ever seeing it open.
26:55
I knelt down to the ground and opened the clasps.
26:58
It would have been better not to look after all that I had
27:01
overcome this new life that I had earned for myself.
27:04
It could all be undone by opening this toy box.
27:07
I shouldn't open it. I should throw it in a landfill
27:10
and forget it ever existed. I should not look inside.
27:13
I opened the chest. I never had a doll.
27:16
My mother could never afford to buy me one.
27:19
I never had a wagon either, for that matter.
27:22
But I did have a toy box, a pretty blue and white toy box,
27:26
and when I was 5I beat my little sister to death and put her in
27:29
it. God fuck man, I don't know
27:34
what's the. End.
27:35
I don't know what's more rough that to the story or my reading
27:39
of it. Well, then hopefully it'll be
27:42
fun for people to to listen to, but that is the story that the
27:47
short is based off. I think they're both really good
27:51
telling of this story. I, I do lean a little bit more
27:58
toward the short actually, because I think it's like it, it
28:02
leaves a little bit more up to your imagination in the sense
28:05
that there's more like different concepts going on.
28:08
This one I feel like the original leans more into.
28:13
Potentially the drugs were affecting the little girl for
28:16
being around it, which is another interesting thing, but
28:18
it's very different than what the short does.
28:20
It's a harder story to put on the screen for casual viewers.
28:26
This I feel like anybody could turn on watch and you're fine.
28:31
This read right here is I mean, you can see the drugs in the
28:34
show, right? But it's the the drugs are
28:39
affecting the girl in a different way.
28:40
These drugs are affecting her in multiple ways.
28:43
The abuse that she's suffering and then she's also getting
28:47
second hand. Yeah.
28:49
So that is, but I still also in my mind, I don't, I, I'm, I'm
28:56
more so I'm leaning towards in both stories that the girl was
29:00
so traumatized that in her head she was escaping.
29:04
And that's why both of these stories are so good.
29:07
And of course, as an adult, you want to rationalize it instead
29:10
of saying, well, I was a kid, I was escaping.
29:12
It was the drugs around me where I was being affected by that.
29:16
So it's it's, it's even, it's more interesting because there's
29:19
more trauma now as an adult. Yeah.
29:22
And that's even more interesting to me.
29:25
I think also like there's a really big difference where the
29:28
crux of the written story is something caused her to act
29:36
violently toward Betsy, whereas in the short, it's more positive
29:43
in a way because she's like, well, I'm going to spare my
29:46
sister or I'm going to spare Betsy from this life.
29:50
So I kind of I kind of like that ending better, but it is more of
29:54
like a horrifying. I mean, in in both versions,
29:59
Laura or Abigail learns that she either on purpose or by
30:03
accident, killed her little sister.
30:06
Yeah, I think it's just if, if I'm Laura, if I'm Abigail and my
30:13
in my mind, I was rescuing her. That's better than I freaked out
30:16
and killed her and stuffed her in this chest that I've been
30:19
carrying around for my entire adult life.
30:22
Yeah, yeah. At that point, you can just be
30:23
like, OK, well, maybe she lived, but chances are she didn't live
30:27
down the tunnel. But but in the actual short
30:31
story that was written, it's very finite.
30:35
It's very definite. It's it's also very gruesome at
30:39
the end where it's like a little girl got so stressed out by her
30:44
surroundings and she thought she was taking out on a doll in her
30:48
mind because the doll was telling her to do things that
30:51
she was getting frustrated with. And then the birthday party
30:54
comes and it's like, well, I didn't have it because of the
30:57
doll. The doll was telling me to do
30:58
bad things. So I did bad things.
30:59
And it's like, you know, it's, it's it's really interesting to
31:04
see how those two scenarios play out with each other and how they
31:09
all they they coalesce to a degree.
31:10
But I almost wish in the short, the birthday party was maybe
31:13
discussed. The book I think is the her book
31:16
at that point is the replacement for the party.
31:19
Yeah. The book.
31:20
I like that too. The book and the story within it
31:23
is sort of the replacement justification for almost
31:27
everything. I mean, we see that this girl is
31:30
has like presents normally when she's hanging out with another
31:34
little girl out and, yeah, who presumably lives in the
31:36
apartment as well. Well, she's still.
31:38
Trying to show the other little girl the the tunnel.
31:41
Yeah, she. Yeah.
31:42
It's the thing that, like, she has an interest in it and
31:45
doesn't have anybody to share it with.
31:48
So then in like a moment of desperation, she she acts on it.
31:52
And then, you know, you get the context of what actually
31:56
happened. But really, really good
31:59
adaptation. We had recently done the Soviet
32:04
Sleep Experiment, which is also based on a creepypasta.
32:07
I think that shorts are the perfect form for these stories
32:11
because some of them can be very long, like some of them that
32:15
they've done shorts for are longer stories, but it's such a
32:19
good format for a little thing like this is really well done.
32:22
Hats off to David Cummings of the No Sleep podcast because
32:28
this is this is really great. This is really good.
32:30
I can't. I can't wait to watch the rest.
32:33
This is fantastic. It, it was great.
32:34
I I'm very excited for the rest of the series.
32:36
I have a couple points or a couple things.
32:39
Did you know I've always wanted to write a short story about
32:41
something that I had happen in my childhood?
32:43
Yes. Oh yeah, I've had a reoccurring
32:45
dream since I was a child about a rug.
32:47
I was going to say, is this about the rug because we've
32:49
talked. About this it's about the rug
32:51
dude. So for context for those
32:53
listening, I, I since I was like 7 that my grandmother had a
32:57
circular rug in their, in the little bedroom that I would
33:02
sleep in when I had to leave my, my, my, my house for reasons.
33:07
And I would sleep over there And every night I'd wake up super
33:11
late and I would either need to go to use the restroom or get a
33:14
glass of water or something like that.
33:16
And I would like the rug in my brain or my dreams had teeth and
33:24
would eat you. So the dream was I'd hop out of
33:28
the bed and then the rug loaded like, like having these little
33:35
eyes. It would just be there.
33:39
It would be in the center, but as I was trying to creep around
33:42
it, it would like open its eyes and slowly look and then open
33:45
its mouth and say, hey, like you can step on me.
33:48
I'm soft, I'm nice, don't worry. Like I'm the I'm the safe path
33:52
to the hallway. And I would in my dream, always
33:55
trust it. And as soon as I would, it would
33:58
thank me. And then it would just the mouth
34:01
would open to the perimeter of the edge of the rug and I would
34:04
fall into the rug. My God.
34:07
And it was an endless pit just in.
34:10
And then I would wake up as a kid.
34:12
Yeah, the infinite fall. And then I wake up and then the
34:15
rug is. But the problem is, every time I
34:17
wake up, the rug is right there. Yeah, and you see it.
34:20
So I didn't have I had I didn't have stuff that like that
34:24
necessarily, but my either my great grandmother and my
34:28
grandmother made some Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls and they were
34:34
in a hanging basket, like a wall mounted hanging white Wicker
34:41
basket on my wall. And at a time I had AI had a a
34:45
bunk bed and if the way it was oriented, they were on the wall
34:51
across from me. So I was just sleeping and I
34:53
woke up and opened my eyes and looked at the wall.
34:55
I would just see freaking Raggedy Ann and Andy staring
34:59
back at me. And then I think at some point
35:00
when I was like 10 or 12, maybe even like 13, like they're in
35:04
there for far too long. And I said to my mom, I was
35:06
like, I hate this. And I they gotta go.
35:10
He's gone. They have to go.
35:11
And she was like, she was like, oh, you don't like him, but your
35:14
grandmother, your great grandmother made him.
35:16
And I was like, I don't care. Get them out.
35:19
And now they're they're peacefully sitting in my
35:23
sister's closet, minding their own business.
35:25
Then that's where they could. Because she wanted them and I
35:27
said you take it. I do not want anything to do
35:30
with that. Do not.
35:31
I don't want to see them. I don't want to know about them.
35:34
They can be gone forever, so. Fuck that.
35:39
I had one last question though. Yeah.
35:42
With the upcoming Backrooms film coming out.
35:46
Yes. How do you what do you make of
35:48
it? Cuz like I feel like for
35:50
something like the back rooms, you can do something long for
35:53
him because there's so much you can explore with that.
35:57
So the thing with the back rooms, most of that movie is
36:03
original content. The guy who's making it hit, the
36:06
young young man, he's like 19 now and he is coming up with
36:11
basically all of the lore that's going to be present.
36:14
Because the whole thing of the back rooms is.
36:17
It's based on like one image essentially.
36:20
Yeah. So he's come up with.
36:23
It's an SCP. For it, it's something like an
36:26
SCP, but he's come up with like justification for it.
36:29
He's come up with lore on how it got there, all kinds of stuff.
36:37
We will be going to see that in theaters.
36:38
Oh yeah, I'm. I'm going to be seeing that for
36:40
sure that he's jangling the keys and I am running towards them,
36:45
but I'm I'm super excited for that.
36:47
I hope I hope something like this series gets pretty big.
36:51
I mean, a lot of people seem to like it on Reddit like I would.
36:54
There's some stories from no sleep like like Barasca and like
37:00
the Left right Game that I think would make really good like long
37:04
form movies and. That'd be cool.
37:07
I mean, they've they've done stuff like for both of those, a
37:10
channel on you can find them on YouTube.
37:12
It's called Q Code, I believe. And they've done like radio
37:17
plays, like acted and sound effects.
37:19
And Tessa Thompson is in the left, right game.
37:24
Cole Sprouse is in the Barrasco one.
37:26
It's it. And that's another CK Walker
37:28
story. Really good stuff.
37:30
Real. Like I really love to see stuff
37:32
like this. And yeah, I hope, I hope you
37:35
guys, if you know, if you like this episode, we can explore
37:38
more of these. We probably will regardless
37:42
later down the line, but we'll see how we go.
37:45
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37:57
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38:00
We have a very awesome big episode that we are preparing to
38:05
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38:06
We want to make sure this is done right.
38:08
We want you guys to enjoy it to the fullest.
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38:13
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38:16
say next week we'll have a more solid announcement.
38:20
You'll know what it is. It was huge and exciting and we
38:25
can't wait for you guys to hear it.
38:27
And there might be another trip that we might be doing soon.
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Let's just. Leave it at that.
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38:34
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38:46
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39:02
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