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It Came From A Fan · INSPIRE STORY

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Creepcast. Today, we are doing something that
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  is a first for this channel, and it is going
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  to be reading fan made stories. We made a shout
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  out a while ago basically telling people that you know,
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  work on our slash, No Sleep gets deleted all the time.
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  I know that the rules are really strict there. We
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  read a lot from No Sleep, We read creepy pastas.
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  But we were like, you know, our subreddit at our
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  slash creep Cast, we want people to just feel like
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  they can write stuff there. And there's even you know,
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  there's been a nice big backlog of stuff using the
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  tag of people using the tag fan made story, and
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  there's even been our moderators have collected threads of stories
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  as well. But we were going through today we were
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  kind of like, you know, we had some ideas of
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  what we wanted to record, but then we started looking
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  at some of the stories here and we just thought
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  that we would do our own grab bag of viewer
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  stories to see what is the talent in our little
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  pool of listeners here. You know, maybe maybe there's some
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  gems just waiting to be uncovered. You know, why why
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  can't this be the new slash? Why can't this be
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  the new No Sleep, where you know, new awesome horror
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  stories are made, and I think it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: What maybe some of them, you know, are actually worth something,
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  you know, they ride some value to the earth. It'd
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  be surprising out of our audience, but you know, maybe
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  maybe there's something there. No so uh, there was a
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  bunch of them we read in Soorceld in the Earth
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  awhile back, which we knew the author of that previously
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  from uh it breathes, it bleeds uh, And he had
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  gotten that story and Soorceled in the Earth.
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  Speaker 3: I believe it was taken down off of No Sleep.
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  Speaker 2: So he's like, I'm going to put it in creep
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  cast because they liked the previous thing I did. So
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  we that's technically the first thing we've read from there,
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  but we knew the author going in. But there are
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  honestly scrolling through close to one hundred stories you guys
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  have posted in our subreddit. So we went through, we
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  found some titles that look interesting and we are going
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  to be reading those today. And also, as mentioned, we
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  assume if you put it in our slash creep cast,
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  it's fair game.
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  Speaker 3: It is free a.
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  Speaker 1: Pre games and there is this is a real estate
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  for us. There's going to be probably a wide variety
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  of stories. As with anything, you know, this is to
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  encourage people. Even if it's you know, we're laughing, we're
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  memeing along and all that kind of stuff. You should
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  be creative and right right, right right and submit it
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  and share it with people, because that's the only way
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  the fucking humankind keeps going is by sharing stories, all right,
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  So that's happen.
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  Speaker 2: Even if one of these stories we read today makes
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  Jeff the Killer look like crime and punishment, if like
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  it's just brutal.
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  Speaker 1: If we read a story today that makes Jeff the
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  Killer look like crime and punishment, we will be reading
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  this every week because that will only that that has
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  to be absolute gold. Then literally we're sifting through literal
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  gold at this moment. I'm really really excited. Also, the
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  reception so far on the Patreon has been awesome. By
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  this time, we should have already our first episode up.
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  It is a bit of a bit of a cratch
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  out episode, if I being honest, glad that we didn't
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  put that one.
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  Speaker 2: On the We just kept reading even though we probably
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  shouldn't have. So that was Yeah, I was gonna say
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  I remember the whole time, it was like, this is
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  the first story on our patreon, So if.
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  Speaker 1: You want to check that out, be sure to check
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  out our patreon. You can go to and you know,
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  find new episodes there. I think we're gonna be trying
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  to play this game called like what was it called again?
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I'm not human.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm not human. It's like a little demo that
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  looks really cool. Well, gonna be trying doing that, just
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  doing some stuff, but we got a lot of cool
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  stuff planned there. And as always, if you're watching this
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  on YouTube and you're driving or you're heading to work,
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  consider listening on Spotify or Apple podcast. It really does
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  help us out. And without further ado, let's get into
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  some of these stories. And I think the first one
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  when I was scrolling through, uh, there's a lot to unpackage.
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  All right, there's a lot the stories. There's stories we're
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  covering today are the missing Person I'm looking for no
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  Longer Exists, which I think is a strong title. I
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  like that one. Yes, Uh it's And then the next
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  one is I've discovered a book that does not end
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  the nursing Home at the Edge of the World and
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  then the last one that I want to read first
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  because it's the shortest, is called loss of Innocence, all right,
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  which I don't know why that tickled me in a
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  way because here's the thing, lots of lots of innocence
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  and the the user the profile's gone. They've deleted their
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  profiles since then. So I want you to know that
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  if you're watching.
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  Speaker 2: This and you're the you're the luxurious author of this
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  short story, and it is very s weren't.
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  Speaker 1: Come back to us, I have to know. But I'm
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  this is going to be Lots of Innocence is the
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  first fans story we're gonna read, and I legitimately think
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  it's gonna kick us off into a good direction.
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  Speaker 2: I just have to say, by the way, yeah, the
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  number of stories scrolling through our own subreddit and maybe
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  we've cultivated this.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm not gonna act like I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Innocent, but the number of stories that were titled something
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  to the effect of my dad wasn't nice to me,
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  or the thing from my childhood, and they all had
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  not safe for work post on them.
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  Speaker 1: There was an absorbit amount of not save for work stuff,
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  to the point where I was like, I feel like
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  we've just cultivated a smut it like a smut like
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  subreddit or whatever. So you know, here's here's just a
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  thing to throw out there. Don't write porn on the
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  subreddit please, And I don't know, trying to be scary.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, or or I'll go further and say
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  do not right thinly veiled Yeah, yeah, one barrier of like,
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  oh but he had glowing eyes and the back and.
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  Speaker 1: Then just back into immediate heavy bagshots. That's pretty much
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  what the stories are. So uh, I don't know, we'll see.
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  I don't think any of the ones who are reading
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  today have the not safe for work. I don't think
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  we're brave enough to venture there yet.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the title Loss of Innocents combined deleted the.
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  Speaker 1: Account, the loss with the deleted exactly with the deleted
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  account made me think that this is if we're going
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  to start off with something nice, sure, this is we're
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  starting with the literal cherry on top. I think, so, yeah, Isaiah,
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  without further ado, why don't you get us into this
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  redacted profiles story?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So normally I like to be like, oh, this was
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  written by you can support them here, but this guy
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  is dead.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll leave we'll leave links to all of I'll
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  be in the description. Yeah. Yeah, So that way you
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  can go support them, comment on them, all that kind
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  of stuff, and be sure to you know, show some interactions,
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  show some love to these people because they did put
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  themselves out there and fucking you know.
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  Speaker 2: Also, also, by the way, and I know this hasn't
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  happened yet because we haven't done one of these yet,
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  but if you're scrolling through the good cast subreddit and
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  see a story.
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  Speaker 3: You like, be sure to upvote it.
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  Speaker 2: Because when I was looking through to trying to pick
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  out stories for us to read, a lot of them
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  even once that people in the comments seem to like
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  it and have that many up votes, probably because just
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  not a ton of people are going through and checking
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  them out. Yeah, but if something gets a bunch of
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  up votes, we are more likely to check it out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, if the community likes it,
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  we'll read it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's people going in and being like, hey, I support
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  this one. They should read this. That's kind of how
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  we are looking at that, which, now that you know,
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  go support it.
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah dive us in all right, Loss of Innocence. I
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  redacted a few months ago, I was in an accident.
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  My friend and I were driving home. My friend and
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  I were My friend and I were driving home from
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  work when a young woman on a bicycle came out
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  of nowhere and smashed into my friend's car at eighty
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  miles from now.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, pause, okay, time out real quick now, now, Isaiah,
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  are they saying that the bicycle was going eighty miles
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  that's what I was? Or where there was a friend's
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  car going eighty miles an hour? What if they were
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  both if they were both going eight miles an hour?
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  Does a neutron star just form in life as we
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  know it seased to be?
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  Speaker 3: I think she just gets out of my eyes across.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the fucking the submersible going down the Titanic.
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  They just imploded and turned to a fine dust, that little.
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  Speaker 3: Uh the submarine that imploded. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What made me laughing is I was reading My friend
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  and I were driving and underd like I can see
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  the line beneath it.
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  Speaker 3: I just smashed eighty.
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  Speaker 1: Miles per hour, all right, So we don't know, We
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  don't know for a fact if it's I'm gonna assume
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  the young woman on the bicycle was going eighty miles
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  an hour. All right, Tour de France, downhill, Lance Armstrong,
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  Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Eighty miles an hour on a bicycle is like light speed? Yes,
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  And that's what she was like falling down a cliff.
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  Speaker 1: She had a beautiful summer dress flowing. She was perfectly
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  up straight. She wasn't even like in a speed pose.
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  Speaker 2: She was perfectly up straight, legs legs outstretched, her legs
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  were even on the pedals.
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  Speaker 3: She was she was just barely.
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  Speaker 2: This is gonna be this is gonna be really rough
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  at the end. This is just like an actual confession
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  the author is making. Maybe it is, and you were
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  joking about like wow, brutal it was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 2: We got out as soon as we realized what happened
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  and called an ambulance. But unfortunately, sorry, I'm not gonna
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  keep something. But what do you mean We got out
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  as soon as we realized because as soon as she was.
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  Speaker 3: Karen pull the car over. No, I think we hit something. No, dude,
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  she was going eighty miles an hour. It looked like
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  a flash.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it looked like it looked like a like
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  a fly hitting the window.
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  Speaker 1: For a moment, like what was that they like a meteor. Yeah,
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  then they see a fucking woman on like a nineteen
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  fifties bicycle, just like flinging through the air. All right, sorry,
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  that's the last time I'm going to stop it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right.
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  Speaker 2: The woman died choking on her own blood at the scene.
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  The investigators analyzed the scene and cleared my friend of
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  any wrongdoing and rolled it a freak accident. My friend
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  wouldn't listen to reason, though. His guilt consumed him entirely
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  ever since. I understood how he felt to an extent,
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  but I couldn't help him accept that it wasn't his fault.
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  He was utterly destroyed by what had happened and felt
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  that he would never be able to be forgiven for
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  what he had done.
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  Speaker 3: Over the next few weeks, he got worse and worse.
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  Speaker 2: He would often talk about wanting to travel back in
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  time so he would have never been driving the car
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  that day. Trying to convince him that he needed to
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  see professional help because he needs to accept that it
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  wasn't his fault. He wouldn't listen, though, and over the
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  coming weeks he came to work less and less, and
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  whenever he did come, he looked awful, like he wasn't sleeping.
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  Speaker 3: The last time I saw him at work.
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  Speaker 2: He told me he wished he never grew up, because
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  humans are bound to harm others, no matter how hard
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  they tried not to.
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  Speaker 1: As adults.
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  Speaker 2: What he talk, I wish I was never fucking born,
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  which I was never born, because adults are too. They
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  always harm each other's I'm a ticking time bomb, Jared,
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  a fucking.
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  Speaker 1: Dicking time bomb.
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  Speaker 2: You should kill yourself, Jared, because you're gonna hurt someone too.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's gonna happen, is Jared. Also, there's no names
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  in this story. I'm just saying Jared.
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  Speaker 2: But Hunter, a woman lost her life choking on her
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  own blood, not from being choke, not from blunt force drama,
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  from being struck by a car while she was going
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  eight miles an hour and a bike.
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  Speaker 1: She somehow landed.
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  Speaker 2: The pool of blood collected in her mouth, and she
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  was like, yo, I didn even see you.
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't have been driving. I'm an adult human stew Hunter. Well,
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  I'm an adult, so I shouldn't have been driving behind
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  the wheel. I should have KNOWNE.
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  Speaker 2: This would have happened if it was each other, if
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  it wasn't you, I would have U I would have
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  driven up on the side of a sidewalk and crushed
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  into another human being because it's just my it's my
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  adult urge ok. I urged him to see a doctor
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  because he was clearly mentally unstable and beating himself up
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  for something out of his control.
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  Speaker 3: He wouldn't listen and just.
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  Speaker 1: Said, I know what I need to do now.
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  Speaker 2: That was the last time I saw him until tonight.
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  It had been two weeks. I don't know why you
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  said that, as if you were reading something really quickly,
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  like you said that the way no, no, no, no, the
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  way you went I know what I need to do.
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  Speaker 3: I know what I need to do now.
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  Speaker 1: I know what I need to do now.
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  Speaker 3: There you No, I like the first one better.
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  Speaker 1: That was the last time I saw him until tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, until tonight.
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  Speaker 2: It had been two weeks since that day at work,
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  he hasn't come in again, and our manager told me
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  he had to let him go for good. This time
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  I understood. After my shift, I went over to my
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  friend's place to check up on him. The lights were
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  on and I could hear the TV on, so I
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  knew he was here. I knocked and called out, but
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  there was no answer. I twisted the handle. Luckily or unluckily,
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  the door was unlocked. I stepped into his apartment, which
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  was lit up only by the TV playing kids cartoons
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  in the living room and the dim light coming the
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  dim light coming from this bedroom door, which was slightly
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  cracked at the end of the hall. Is he going
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  to be a giant fucking baby? He's going to be
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  a giant fucking baby. That would be something or viewer
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  of this show would write, the last time we saw
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  man become a baby, we enjoyed it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I exactly, Well, I just I'm just saying he's
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  putting emphasis on like, oh, that's why I wish it
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  was never an adult, and then be like I know
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  what I have. Also, they never just said what his
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  job is, so I like to think that he's a
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  deep sea diver. So they're like on a boat and
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  he's like, I know what I have to do, and
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  he hasn't seen him and he goes to his house
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  and there's just like SpongeBob playing the TV.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, sorry, go ahead, why a deep sea diver? I
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  I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like at first I was thinking of pizza shop.
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  But I think that's just because he was driving, you know,
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  So I'm like, oh, he's like a pizza delivery darmers
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  while I was thinking, But then I was like, well
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  could he It could be nothing, And then I was
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  like going around, I'm like, it'd be really funny if
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  his job was like super eccentric for no reason. Because
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  it's like a it doesn't make a difference. But now
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  I got my head too much about it, and now
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  I think that he's a deep sea diver.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes perfect sense to me. I guess okay, good. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I called out again, no answer. I looked around closer
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  at the apartment. It was disgusting. Cans of baby food.
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  Oh oh, hotter god, damn? Did you might be right?
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  Cans of baby food littered the floor, and rags covered
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  in shit and pissed reminded the narrow hallway. The smell
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  was horrible. It made me gag. I heard some movement
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  from my friend's bedroom. I called out again and heard
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  a strange moan answer. Because I got closer to his bedroom,
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  the smell got stronger and more vibe. I announced I
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  was coming in for gently pushing the door open. What
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  I seen in his room still haunts me. My friend
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  was on all fours, wearing nothing but a shit filled
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  rag that was damp and leaking. His head shaved all
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  over except for a small patch of wind whispy hair.
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  Speaker 3: Like a newborn's from the top of his head on
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  the floor.
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  Speaker 2: His teeth lay in a small scattered pile surrounded by
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  dried up blood. When he saw me and looked into
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  my eyes and began crying, a deep and horrible cry,
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  like an overgrown baby. His mouth tripped blood from his
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  bloody gumbs. I could barely process what I was seeing.
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  I couldn't help but back away out of fear, but
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  this seemed to anger him. He began crawling towards me, clumsily,
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  but with surprising speed.
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  Speaker 3: I turned to run out.
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  Speaker 2: He grabbed my leg as I fled, making me trip
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  and slammed to the floor. I frantically crawled away, but
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  he was on top of me. He flipped me over
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  on my back and wrapped his strong hands around my
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  throat as he choked to me. I stared deeply in
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  his eyes and saw nothing over the pain and a
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  desperate desire to.
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  Speaker 3: Be forgiven, said I.
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  Speaker 2: Fighting him, I gently touched his face, gave him a
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  look to communicate that I forgave him, just wanted to help.
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  Speaker 3: He seemed to understand it. Let go of my neck.
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  Speaker 2: He began balling again, rawled into the corner of the
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  hallway and curled up in a ball. Sat there with
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  my friend as he cried until he fell asleep. I'm
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  setting outside his apartment waiting for paramedics as I write this,
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  just hoping they get here my friend's able to get
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  the help he clearly needs.
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  Speaker 3: That is the end of loss of innocence.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of innocence, Such a good title.
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  Speaker 2: I will say. I will say I like the teeth thing,
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  like he raps his own teeth out.
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  Speaker 3: That's fun.
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  Speaker 1: Listen the idea of a guy turning into a baby,
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  which I wondered if the guy wrote this because he
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  was like my my husband's taking our role play too far.
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  Wonder I wonder if he thought that was interesting. The
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  idea of a guy like reverting back to a baby
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  is funny. Him colliding into a woman at astronomical speeds
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  being the thing that trigger it is very funny. Also,
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  the justification of him being like this is why I
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  never wanted to get old. It's because something like this
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  would happen, is is pretty funny. If this was a
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  little longer, it had more dialogue, this probably would have
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  been like in like just a really funny thing. It
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  just it's it's short compact. I wish there was more.
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  I love it. It's absurd. I love also that I
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  don't know anything about these characters. They don't know what
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  their names are, don't know where they worked. It's just
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  a thing of one day they were driving together their buddies.
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  I think they were working and they he basically killed someone.
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  His deep sea diver was like, you got your fired.
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  It's a tragic tale of a deep sea diving man.
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  What'd you think? Would you out of out of five creeps?
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  What would you give loss of Innocence.
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  Speaker 3: A five creep? I mean, for fun, I'd give it three.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if we're talking, if we're talking about the
• 19:12
  whoror one would be nothing. So I would say too,
• 19:15
  because I do like the idea of like a grown
• 19:17
  man that's just like wearing these diapers and rags and
• 19:22
  smells disgusting, and he's ripping his own teeth out.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: That's a fun visual. Why do you think, why do
• 19:27
  you think the baby they get wrapped up.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: I think it was way too short for the concept,
• 19:31
  and that's why it kind of comes off as comedic,
• 19:33
  because what otherwise could have been like long and like
• 19:36
  mental deterioration, was just adults hurt people. I can't be
• 19:40
  an adult. So he goes and does that, so it's you.
• 19:42
  I feel like the shortness plays against it a lot,
• 19:44
  but it is a fun concept.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: This could have been seven hundred pages long, Isaiah. It
• 19:50
  could have been. It could have been as long as
• 19:52
  an infinite jest. And if the man reverts back to
• 19:54
  a baby because he killed somebody and he was like,
• 19:57
  this is why I never wanted to grow up. It's
• 19:59
  gonna be funny, all right. There's no no way to
• 20:01
  get around that. Those things. I mean, to be fair,
• 20:05
  it truly was a loss of innocence, wasn't it.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm yeah, uh, In fact it was.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I was like, I'm glad we read it. I think
• 20:14
  I think there's stuff there. I think it was fun.
• 20:16
  I think whoever that author is, even though they deleted
• 20:18
  their accountant, come back to us on the earth. Yeah,
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  Now let's get back to the store. There's a couple
• 21:22
  of questions. I had one. He uh, it seems like
• 21:27
  the baby knew that the guy was coming in there,
• 21:29
  right because he was set there and he was like, uh,
• 21:33
  where's the deal at I called out, Uh yeah, I
• 21:37
  called it again and heard a strange mode answer, which
• 21:39
  made me think of the peanut butter baby, is what
• 21:43
  I was thinking. So he's sitting there and he's like, uh,
• 21:46
  you know, hey, Uh Carl, are you there?
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: He's like, ah, the other room.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: So it's like he knew that he was coming in.
• 21:59
  So wonder what I'm wondering is why the hell did
• 22:02
  he strangle the son of a bitch? He gave him
• 22:05
  a peanut butter baby answer. I'm like, he's still mad?
• 22:09
  The fuck is up with that?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Or is it because of the baby? The baby choked him?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: No, that's what I'm saying. The baby gave him a
• 22:16
  peanut butter baby answer with the strange bone right, Carl.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Are you here?
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: So he knows he's there. So to me, I'm like,
• 22:27
  is it just the pure loss of innocence that's what
• 22:31
  made this baby? Would the baby have killed anyone? I
• 22:34
  guess is what I'm is the is the answer I
• 22:36
  wanted to know if anyone would have watched I.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I'm maybe I don't know. Again, the story is so
• 22:43
  short it doesn't.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Humor me humor meat with speculation.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, the baby would have killed anyone who came through
• 22:50
  the door.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: All right, do you okay? Well, then would you say
• 22:52
  that his strange moan was that of the peanut butter baby?
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Sure?
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Uh, well, there you go, my my, my questions. I
• 23:03
  guess I've been answered.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Till we go to to the nuts.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Story that was loss of Innocence by or redacted. Please
• 23:13
  come back to us redacted. Peanut butter baby a deep
• 23:17
  sea diver turning into the peanut butter baby is pretty
• 23:19
  funny and.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Also to naming your story, loss of innocence is awesome,
• 23:25
  really funny. We're gonna get that tattooed on my chest.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Next story we're doing is the person the missing person
• 23:32
  I'm looking for no longer exists. I actually think that's
• 23:34
  a really sick title.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: It's a good title. It's also we have an author
• 23:38
  this time. So the author there.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Weren't they? They weren't they weren't I guess bullied or
• 23:45
  you know, felt embarrassed and deleted. I'd say, come back
• 23:48
  to us redacted.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I do I agree, I agree with that.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: So the author of this one, their name is Raymond
• 23:54
  on their Reddit profile. Uh, and their user name is
• 23:58
  Consequence level seven eight seven seven. I will say that
• 24:03
  they created their account on June the eighth, and then
• 24:07
  they made this post and never done anything else again.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, what what?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: The only way to tell is what the author's writing
• 24:17
  stuff here on our deal. It's like, I feel like
• 24:21
  we have a we have a bunch of authors that
• 24:22
  are just serial killers, that are like.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: This is it.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: This is the only little.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: This is like, the only thing that you'll know of
• 24:28
  me is this thing right here. I don't want to
• 24:30
  be known. This is my opinions. They're ready account's cute though,
• 24:35
  they have like a little guinea pig thing, so maybe
• 24:38
  maybe they're not a serial killer.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Who knows.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: But this is the only thing they've ever posted, so
• 24:44
  I guess this will determine everything about them. This is
• 24:48
  our only understanding of them as a person.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: So Consequence level seven eight seven seven. Hopefully you had
• 24:54
  no loss of innocence, and hopefully the story is good. Isaiah.
• 24:59
  Let's run it.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Let's run it all right. The missing person I'm looking
• 25:03
  for no longer exists. I'm an investigator working on a
• 25:07
  contract contract basis in the Pacific northwest of the United States.
• 25:11
  Around four months ago, a string of house fires spring
• 25:13
  up across Oregon. Initially, I had no involvement in the
• 25:16
  investigations revolving around these fires. I'd kept up with information
• 25:21
  about them to have on file for future contracts.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Otherwise, all I.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Knew up until a few weeks ago was that there
• 25:27
  were rumors of a serial arsonist because the points of
• 25:31
  origin of the fires were fairly unusual. Three weeks ago, however,
• 25:36
  I was contacted by both the local police department and
• 25:38
  a private client to participate in the investigation of a
• 25:41
  missing person's case. Now, usually I would not post information
• 25:45
  about a client publicly, but due to the nature of
• 25:48
  what I'm about.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: To explain, I don't think it matters at this point.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: The missing person in question is a twenty nine year
• 25:54
  old female named Millie from the documentation and summaries given
• 25:58
  to me by my client and the police. She was
• 26:00
  born and raised in Oregon, has an interest in classics,
• 26:03
  works for a number of historical education foundations, and is
• 26:07
  not someone who would be suspected of disappearing without warning.
• 26:11
  All this information was true and verifiable until yesterday morning.
• 26:15
  Be totally honest, I am completely lost.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: On what to do.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Situation goes beyond anything I've ever experienced in my life before,
• 26:22
  let alone as an investigator. The following is my recount
• 26:25
  of the events leading up to today. Any advice is appreciated.
• 26:29
  Three weeks back, when I first was contacted by my client,
• 26:32
  who is a close relation to Millie, I was told
• 26:36
  that she had not contacted any of her family in
• 26:38
  almost a month. This was apparently highly unusual for her.
• 26:43
  With visiting her home, nobody answered the door. Her car
• 26:46
  was still on the driveway, but all the blinds of
• 26:48
  the windows were shut and the doors were all locked.
• 26:51
  I initially approached this contract somewhat casually, since a lot
• 26:55
  of these cases ended up being misunderstandings or runaway spouses.
• 26:59
  Then about a week later, I got a call from
• 27:01
  a local police department. Apparently a fire had started in
• 27:05
  another home. This was no issue for the department or
• 27:08
  for their arson investigators. What was a problem was the
• 27:12
  fact that all of the previous homeowners had been reported
• 27:15
  as missing many months prior, and this case was no different.
• 27:19
  This information was withheld from the public to stop any potential.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Suspects from going into hiding.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Said, so happens The missing person in both of my
• 27:26
  client's case and the arts investigation was none other than Millie.
• 27:30
  Investigators had already been assigned to the previous missing person's case,
• 27:34
  so they needed to outsource this one in order to
• 27:36
  keep diligent on the others. I had previously worked with
• 27:39
  the police department, so I suppose I was the first
• 27:41
  on their list of investigators. I was given briefs on
• 27:44
  her background, missing person reports, family relations, etc. Which was
• 27:49
  far more information than I had gone from my other client,
• 27:52
  and a week prior to the police contacted me, I
• 27:53
  had found almost nothing that could be considered a lead,
• 27:57
  so I was very thankful to have added to work with.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: I did have access to her.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Home and a record, and since she barely had an
• 28:03
  online presence, I was unable to track down information about
• 28:06
  her other than through her friends and family. The only
• 28:09
  other information I was able to gather was by contacting
• 28:13
  the educational foundations and museums she'd been working with.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: All of them said they hadn't heard from her in
• 28:18
  almost two months.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I was brought in to investigate the house fire along
• 28:22
  with the arson team the day after I was contacted.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: The team had already.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Swept over the house the day of the fire, but
• 28:27
  we're returning to explain the strange nature of this case,
• 28:30
  and assisted me in whatever way they could. It was
• 28:33
  explained to me that the point of the origin of
• 28:34
  the fire was around the fireplace. This would have been
• 28:37
  normal enough if it weren't for the fact that the
• 28:38
  fireplace itself and the carpet around it were completely untouched.
• 28:42
  The fire started around the fireplace, specially focused on the ceiling.
• 28:47
  Not only that, but the carpeted floor of the living
• 28:49
  room was unaffected. Other than being covered from the ash
• 28:52
  that had fallen from the surrounding walls and the ceiling.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: It was a zone.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Incredibly hot flame had been floating in mid air just
• 28:59
  to of the floor. Entering the home, this is exactly
• 29:02
  what it looked like, clean, dark red carpeted floor, surrounded
• 29:06
  by pitch black scorched walls and a half burnt ceiling.
• 29:10
  Structural integrity of the home seemed to be intact enough
• 29:13
  to be safe to enter. There's a burnt couch, some chairs, tables,
• 29:17
  and a wall of burnt bookshelves that had toppled next
• 29:20
  to a fireplace. I took my time to look around
• 29:22
  the home, starting with a second story bedroom. Tried to
• 29:26
  turn on a light, but the power had been shut
• 29:27
  off in case the problems stemmed from an electrical fire.
• 29:31
  When I tried to put up the window blinds to
• 29:32
  get light into the room, they wouldn't budge. Looking closely
• 29:35
  with a dim flashlight, the blinds of all the windows
• 29:38
  to the room had been nailed down to the wood
• 29:40
  of their window frames. Asked the arson team about this,
• 29:43
  and they said, there's no concrete explanation as to.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Why it was across every window of the house.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: If she had been stalked, this might make sense, but
• 29:52
  that would likely not apply to the second story windows.
• 29:55
  No history of mental instability or paranoia. This was fairly unusual.
• 29:59
  I checked the master bedroom in the bathrooms upstairs and
• 30:01
  got almost nothing. Everything looked fairly clean and like a
• 30:05
  relatively normal lived in home.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Even in the office there was almost nothing unusual to find.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I searched lightly for journals or documents that might assist
• 30:14
  in figuring out what happened, but much of the evidence
• 30:17
  had been taken in already, so I would need to
• 30:20
  request access to it. Back in the living room, I
• 30:22
  noticed that none of the burnt books had been moved
• 30:25
  I checked with the arson team, who cleared me to
• 30:27
  look through the books scattered all around the fireplace. Among
• 30:30
  the toppled bookshelves, many of the books were unreadable and.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Reduced to a block of ash.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: So sifting through the pile directly in front of the fireplace,
• 30:38
  I came across one that was surprisingly intact. I was
• 30:41
  covered in ash, but quickly flipping through the pages, it
• 30:44
  was completely unburnt. I was ecstatic to see that it
• 30:47
  looked to be a journal of some kind. Usually I
• 30:51
  would turn this into evidence and request access to it
• 30:53
  after it had been gone over the core investigative team.
• 30:56
  Mother client had put high urgency on finding Millie, so
• 30:59
  I instead decided I would do some work with it
• 31:01
  at home and then turn it in as evidence the
• 31:03
  next time I came to Milly's property, so I could
• 31:05
  bypass the weeks it might take to get access to it.
• 31:08
  I'll summarize my room to room search by saying I
• 31:10
  found absolutely nothing else in that home that could lead
• 31:13
  to any potential avenues to explain her disappearance. The only
• 31:16
  thing out of place was the fire and the blind's
• 31:18
  being nailed shut. When asking, the department said her passport
• 31:21
  and more personal documents were all in a fireproof lock
• 31:23
  box upstairs. Otherwise, all the potentially useful contents of her
• 31:28
  office were really just historical papers and drawings of ancient
• 31:31
  Greek architecture and mythology. May seem like I am not
• 31:35
  being very thorough with this search for her, but I
• 31:37
  cannot stress enough how little information was there was to
• 31:40
  go off of and trying to find her. She was
• 31:43
  a relatively private, family oriented history buff who lived by
• 31:47
  working minor jobs with a large variety of nonprofit historical foundations.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: I checked every source I could find.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: I forgetting home late, set the notebook on my desk
• 31:57
  on top of a clean towel, set down to start
• 31:59
  reading it with gloves on. It was dark outside, so
• 32:02
  I had to turn on the nearby lamp since I
• 32:05
  was going to be turning the book in, I was
• 32:06
  hoping to avoid any of my own potentially traceable DNA
• 32:10
  or finger prints getting anywhere on the book. Front of
• 32:13
  the journal was a rough red fabric that, top of
• 32:16
  being covered with ash, looked pretty tattered. At first glance,
• 32:19
  it looked like the bottom right corner that parts of
• 32:22
  the hard back shell have been burnt. Like the other books,
• 32:25
  but feeling them, I realized they simply had been covered
• 32:28
  with bits of dark, smoky black.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Ash that have worked its way in between the fibers
• 32:31
  of the cover.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: For one, if he brought this thing all the way
• 32:34
  back to his house, he's got so much DNA And yeah,
• 32:42
  there he is one hundred percent getting asked a bunch
• 32:45
  of questions by the police, No question.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, why would you remove that? Uh uh, it's my job.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: I wanted to know.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I needed to also contact Hades just as she had
• 33:00
  and get sucked through the fireplaze portal. The spine of
• 33:04
  the book had fifteen indented black notches that looked like
• 33:08
  hash marks, equally spaced from top of the spine to
• 33:11
  the bottom opening it. Some pages had stuck together from
• 33:14
  moisture and weathering and needed to be carefully pulled apart.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: The paper was old and very coarse.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Yellowing had spread over the corners of the inner hardcover
• 33:23
  and the bottom left. There also seemed to be an
• 33:25
  egg sized, deep reddish black blotch. I initially thought someone
• 33:29
  must have spilled ink on the cover. Up on closer inspection,
• 33:33
  sprawling pattern of lines inside the inky marks seemed more
• 33:36
  like fingerprint of a giant.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: I remember exclaiming what in confusion.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: It was very clearly a fingerprint of some kind, but
• 33:44
  it was truly about the size of an egg. I
• 33:46
  thought somebody had to have made a stamp of their
• 33:49
  fingerprint as a clever way to sign personal items without
• 33:52
  giving their identity away to the average person if it
• 33:55
  was found. Unfortunately, Millie had no fingerprint on file, even
• 33:59
  with international travel, so I couldn't compare to see if
• 34:02
  it was hers. This peaked a sort of morbid curiosity
• 34:05
  in me. Journals are per personal, but that was going
• 34:09
  a step beyond. I had to understand why someone, especially
• 34:12
  if it was Milly, would go to such links to
• 34:14
  hide their identity For a journal.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: It could even help explain her disappearance.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Turning to the next page, it was hard to avoid
• 34:22
  ripping the paper when trying to get the two pieces
• 34:24
  unstuck from each other.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: First page surprised me.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: It was filled with a wall of text in a
• 34:30
  language I did not recognize. Some letters looked familiar but
• 34:34
  slightly off when compared to English counterparts, y's and o's
• 34:38
  with strikes through them, neatly written, and what looked to
• 34:40
  be charcoal were sprawled across the page scenes Milly had
• 34:44
  associations with classical studies.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: I had to assume it was.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Some alternate Greek alphabet that I obviously could not read.
• 34:51
  This continued in a few pages until it suddenly cut
• 34:54
  off midway through. On the left side of the third page.
• 34:58
  On the right hand page, there looked to be only
• 35:00
  two words written. One was neatly put in the top
• 35:03
  left corner and was written in ink, and the other
• 35:06
  was off the side, written in some charcoal. As before,
• 35:08
  pages following were written semi sporadically. Some had what looked
• 35:12
  to be full sentences, others had one word in large letters.
• 35:15
  The writings alternated between the ink and the charcoal, but
• 35:18
  both looked to be in the same handwriting. After a while,
• 35:21
  flipping through came across the set of pages that were
• 35:24
  drawings of scenes. These were written in charcoal and had
• 35:28
  been so badly smudged that I could not tell what
• 35:30
  they'd picked in. It looked like an interior of some kind,
• 35:34
  but all the details were smeared and smudged till incomprehensible.
• 35:38
  The pages following the drawings were blank. Flipping through, I
• 35:41
  was scared that was the end of my potential lead.
• 35:44
  My fears were quelled when, after about ten pages of flipping,
• 35:47
  I came across more writing. It was the same script,
• 35:50
  but looked like a new author, as the writing was
• 35:53
  smaller and softer than the previous text. Flipping through this
• 35:57
  was similar locks of text diminishing in two smaller texts,
• 36:00
  eventually leading to smudged images and charcoal. I continue to
• 36:04
  flip through these pages, looking for any semblance of recognizable language,
• 36:07
  until I eventually came across something different. This page looked
• 36:11
  to be in a new language, something closer to French,
• 36:15
  written in ink. Some words were slightly recognizable. Comment and
• 36:20
  what looked like approacher were the two that I could
• 36:23
  more directly pick up on, but most of it I
• 36:26
  couldnot make any sense of. Same pattern came up again,
• 36:29
  wall of text, short sentences, and some charcoal drawings. I
• 36:33
  wish i'd stop there. If I'd stopped there, everything would
• 36:36
  have been fine. Turning pages and attempting to decipher yielded
• 36:40
  no better understanding. That wasn't until I turned to a
• 36:44
  new blank section moving through, I was again worried I'd
• 36:47
  come to the end of this fascinating and potentially useful book.
• 36:50
  Saw a blanche of ink in between the pages I'd
• 36:52
  flipped through, which I quickly turned back to the top
• 36:55
  left corner.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: The right hand page, there was a clear as day
• 36:59
  English wars.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Hello.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Sort of shocked my brain back into what I was doing.
• 37:04
  Up until this point, nothing had been decipherable. Though it
• 37:07
  didn't feel like I was doing anything wrong, Reading that
• 37:11
  one word made me realize I could be doing something
• 37:14
  I shouldn't be. This was someone's private property, someone missing
• 37:18
  a less my brain had to come up with reasons
• 37:21
  to keep reading, even though I might be prying into
• 37:24
  something that could have been of little used to the
• 37:27
  case that came from a crime scene. Maybe I find
• 37:30
  evidence and progress the missing person's case, or perhaps a
• 37:34
  family member might appreciate the memories within the matter of
• 37:37
  the reason I turned the page.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Next page was not much more for both do you
• 37:43
  have a name? Okay?
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: This is fun because the whole time it's like, all right,
• 37:46
  where we get to with the writing, And clearly she
• 37:50
  was interested in some kind of ancient religion or spell
• 37:54
  or something like that. But now we're seeing her interactions
• 37:56
  like she was talking through the page.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Just yeah, I thought I was leading until a necronomicon
• 38:00
  kind of thing. But yeah, it's cool. It's a weird
• 38:03
  supernatural text that she's like talking to spirits through or something.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fun. That's fun.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Also, all the old texts, it's something that's obviously been
• 38:11
  passed around for god knows how long.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: This book he establishes as the red cover. It's old.
• 38:17
  There's a thumb print of something like a demon or
• 38:20
  like some ancient being passed it on, and like several
• 38:22
  different people from different cultures have pushed this through each other,
• 38:27
  and her being a history major, she came across it
• 38:29
  somehow and tried it for herself.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was interesting to me.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Someone had written on this page, but not the text,
• 38:35
  and it was a question no less turned into the page.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: There was more texts on the left.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Page, nice to meet you.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: And again the right hand page was plank. The next one,
• 38:46
  Oh that's cool. It's like whatever answer it gave her,
• 38:51
  it probably shows up. Yeah, yeah, that's neat. The next
• 38:55
  page simply read unimportant. Something clicked in my head that moment.
• 39:01
  This wasn't a journal. It was a sort of book
• 39:04
  filled with a pre planned half of a conversation with
• 39:08
  the previous owner. It must have been passed down from
• 39:11
  person to person, or left for more people to find.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: This would explain what I saw before, at least somewhat.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Maybe they were all conversations between previous owners.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: This was incredibly unprofessional me. I don't know what came
• 39:23
  over me.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Something about this book was so intriguing up to this
• 39:26
  point that I wasn't really thinking about the situation I
• 39:29
  was in. That same more curiosity was brought about again,
• 39:33
  potentially conversing with a missing person drove me to want
• 39:37
  to see what conversation am I being stored if I
• 39:39
  followed along going back, I took my closest pen Next
• 39:43
  to the first English page, I wrote, Hello, I mean
• 39:48
  you gotta be curious, right, you do? But it's just
• 39:50
  god like rule number. It's just like in movies when
• 39:53
  it's like, you know, what is this? What is this
• 39:56
  weird language?
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Bah lah?
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Cool?
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: It's like why why read?
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, turning the page. Next to the question about
• 40:06
  a name, I.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Wrote, Yes, my name is Isaac.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: I turned the page again.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: My blood stood still for a moment as I read
• 40:14
  the response, nice to meet you Isaac. So hold on,
• 40:20
  he wrote, he's writing next to the person that previously
• 40:26
  wrote well, he's.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Writing, what's your name?
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: He writes, yes, my name is Isaac.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He's following all that along with him, the stuff
• 40:33
  before and now on the blank pages, he's seeing the response.
• 40:37
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  Speaker 2: I sat there and stunned silence for a few minutes,
• 41:59
  rereading the page, tried to make sense of what had
• 42:01
  just happened. I tried to remember what I had read
• 42:04
  on that page previously.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: It would have.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Definitely noticed if it had said my name before written there,
• 42:11
  but here it was plain day. I tried to explain
• 42:14
  it away as being me hastily reading over the pages,
• 42:18
  heart pounding out of my chest.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: I wrote my own question, do you have a name?
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Turning the page, I remembered what it had said before,
• 42:25
  which was still written there unimportant m M. So it
• 42:31
  knew what he was going to say. No, that wasn't
• 42:34
  the previous owner.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking that that was the previous question she wrote
• 42:39
  as well, and it's been left there is what? What is?
• 42:43
  What is?
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: What?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I believe it to be where she saw this saying
• 42:46
  what's your name?
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Who are you?
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: And then the thing probably just put unimported see okay.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Something about this made me slam the book shot even
• 42:54
  though I knew what was written there, even though I
• 42:56
  had just read it moments ago, I still wrote a
• 42:58
  question and had written the answer before I even knew
• 43:01
  I would ask. It felt like my own thoughts had
• 43:04
  been peered into a personal and violating way. Took a
• 43:07
  few minutes to calm down, try to rationalize what was
• 43:10
  going on. Up until this point, I thought I'd been
• 43:14
  conversing with Millie. Even the handwriting looked comparable to notes
• 43:17
  I had seen written by her and her documentation. Nothing
• 43:21
  could explain what was happening other than me misremembering what
• 43:24
  was written. This was a rabbit hole I did not
• 43:27
  want to go down anymore. After setting for a few moments,
• 43:30
  I decided I should just read on and stop being
• 43:33
  frightened of something that could be rationally explained. It had
• 43:36
  to be rationally explained. Isaac was already written there, and
• 43:40
  I had missed it in my hysteria. I had to
• 43:43
  have unconsciously responded to the answer I'd written On the
• 43:46
  next page. I opened the book again, flipped back to
• 43:49
  the page I left on. Flipping forward to check the
• 43:52
  next page did nothing to help my paranoia.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Where are you putting past my anxiety? I wrote, Hello?
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Why is your name unimportant?
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: I flipped the next page.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: That's good? Worse, Camille.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: This that old my stomach a little. This was entirely
• 44:10
  indirect and seemed completely disconnected from my question.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: I've been parano about nothing. I decided to keep moving
• 44:17
  with this.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know Camille, who is she?
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: Turning? The page The next was blank. This surprised me.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: I thought there'd be something written with how this book
• 44:27
  had been filled up until now?
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: So I turned again, How was your day?
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Ben?
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: At this point I was feeling a little less anxious
• 44:34
  about everything. This was a far simpler and more disconnected
• 44:37
  from the previous contact. I was more along the lines
• 44:39
  of what I'd expect from a gimmick like this, So
• 44:43
  I wrote.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: My day was fine. I'm an investigator. I found this
• 44:47
  journal in a burnt house earlier, Arson plus a missing person,
• 44:50
  A very unusual situation.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Turning the page, I was puzzled for a moment. So
• 44:56
  you do know, Camille, Hmmm, it's resting. Then I froze.
• 45:03
  My heart started pounding again. This time it was pounding
• 45:06
  so hard it began to hurt. The weight behind that
• 45:10
  name felt like someone was pouring cement over every inch
• 45:13
  of my body.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: On the next page, I wrote a question Millie.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Turning the page, I stumbled trying to get out of
• 45:20
  my chair away from the book. Written on the next
• 45:23
  page in the top left hand corner were the following words,
• 45:27
  A very unusual situation. So yeah, now he's completely convined
• 45:32
  that whatever this is on the other side, the book
• 45:34
  is talking to him for that it or it's already
• 45:37
  written the answers, and he's asking the questions to whoever
• 45:40
  wrote in the book knew he would ask in.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: The future or something.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: Adrenaline surge through my body like I never experienced before,
• 45:46
  nothing previously in my life even remotely compared to the
• 45:50
  confusion a tread I felt in that moment.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: I could barely get air into my lungs.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Reading just a few words of situation, I became much
• 45:56
  bigger than I previously could have imagined. I thought long
• 45:59
  and hard about whether I should continue other than what
• 46:03
  this book was. My first question was why I had
• 46:05
  not heard from anyone up until this point that Millie's
• 46:08
  name was actually mill Even in documents, her first name
• 46:12
  was recorded as Milly. Hen'ce why I hadn't connected the
• 46:15
  dots the first time it came up. I was petrified.
• 46:18
  Every part of my body was screaming at me to
• 46:20
  stop this and run, And yet something in the back
• 46:24
  of my psyche was screaming the opposite, that if I stopped,
• 46:28
  something horrible would happen. That I needed to approach this
• 46:31
  very cautiously and leave it very carefully. I set back
• 46:35
  down and reread the sentence a few more times, trying
• 46:38
  to convince myself there was a logical explanation. Unfortunately, this
• 46:42
  was more direct than any coincidence could explain. I began
• 46:46
  to run through the possible responses in my mind. Somehow
• 46:49
  I got the feeling that I needed to get back
• 46:51
  out of this unexpectedly present conversation in a way that
• 46:54
  did not let on anything about how I was feeling lightheaded.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: I wrote, where are you from?
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: S in all my will to keep my hand from shaking,
• 47:05
  somewhere close.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: I don't like that. That is oddly threatening, isn't it.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, somewhere close. H ooh.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: It's a funner way than just being like I'm here
• 47:20
  with you, because that feels too late. Yeah, somewhere close
• 47:23
  just feels so oddly threatening.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: It's like, what do you mean by that?
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Do you mean somewhere close, like as compared to earth
• 47:28
  or as Yeah, it's comed to my bedroom that I'm
• 47:31
  just vague.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: It's just vague enough to be unsettling.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: This is a really fun concept, an investigator finding a
• 47:39
  book that he's talking to effectively. Also, like we clown
• 47:43
  on stories sometimes for like having their characters to be
• 47:46
  too dramatic in scenarios like I stood up, I jumped,
• 47:48
  I freaked out and stuff. But I feel like with
• 47:50
  how grounded the story was in its intro of him
• 47:53
  being an investigator, I feel like this is a logical,
• 47:56
  like him jumping up and like pushing himself against the
• 47:59
  wall and stuff. I feel like that is a thing
• 48:01
  you would do if you realized a book was talking
• 48:03
  to you.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Well, there's a difference between overacting and simply acting. The
• 48:07
  story has propped up this thing now to where the
• 48:09
  story feels, the character feels lived in, and then now
• 48:11
  we're getting to like get these visual representations of his
• 48:14
  like physical state along with his mental state. Because it's
• 48:17
  one thing to just be like I was petrified, but
• 48:19
  then to have it be able to explain a character
• 48:21
  like getting up and pacing around a room, like you
• 48:23
  can hear his footsteps in your head as you're reading this,
• 48:26
  you know, those those things add to the story and
• 48:29
  the like kind of bravado and the tension that's happening,
• 48:32
  you know, because.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: You need to.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: It's also patting it like it is. If it would
• 48:35
  it'd be different if it was back to back to back,
• 48:37
  all these different quotes, but these little descriptors give us
• 48:40
  a nice breather between them, and they are it's just
• 48:42
  building anticipation, which is really fun.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm. Something about these words felt more threatening than before.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: What did Camille say to you before she left?
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: If I could use this situation to help Millie somehow,
• 48:54
  then maybe something good come of everything going on the
• 48:58
  wrong question, that's fun, that's cool, I shuddered slightly. What
• 49:07
  did that mean? What constitutes a wrong question? I worried
• 49:11
  I'd make the same mistake if I asked. Between each response,
• 49:15
  I had to think deeply about the consequences of what
• 49:17
  I was asking. I thought it would make sense to
• 49:19
  ask something completely unrelated to anything.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: That have been mentioned so far, what is the day today?
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: Flipping the page gave a response that ate away at
• 49:27
  my curiosity again. The next page was filled with what
• 49:30
  looked to be a series of shapes to lines being
• 49:33
  made up of the same characters at the start of
• 49:35
  the book, and the language I did not understand. Buddy,
• 49:37
  that's the reason question. That's the wrong question. You ask
• 49:44
  a question and it's just like yeah, so.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not going yeah, if you if you fucking asked
• 49:49
  a question, And then the stupid ass Pokemon that are
• 49:51
  like weird hieroglyphics whenever start floating around. You know, you're fucked, dude, Yeah,
• 49:56
  why I better ask him something straight up and he
• 49:58
  just responds back like that.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: That's such a funny way to describe like non Euclidean geometry,
• 50:09
  Like oh no, the pokemon again.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: You know what Pokemon talking about? What the fuck were
• 50:13
  those called Oregon?
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: Is that what you're talking about? One that it's like
• 50:18
  made up of shapes, the digital one.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: I thought you were just referring to, like the demon
• 50:23
  was drawing and like ununderstood hieroglyphics and like geometry, and
• 50:28
  you're like, oh, yeah, the Pokemon.
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, it's this.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Look here, I'm posting it in the I'll send to you.
• 50:36
  And I don't know. I don't know Pokemon enough to know,
• 50:38
  but I remember when I was younger, these guys were
• 50:40
  in there. I'm saying, these little motherfuckers.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Oh are those pokemon? Yeah, the ones that are just shape.
• 50:47
  I mean, we'll show a picture. But I don't know
• 50:49
  what you call those. I don't know what they're sucking.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: They do kind of look like that, don't they. That
• 50:54
  is that's not a bad that's not a bad guess.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Oh are they just called unknown? They might just be
• 51:01
  called unknown?
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Uh Oh, that's the wrong question. Bad decision, mark Ooh
• 51:12
  would you ask what's the day? And it starts because
• 51:14
  it's not going by like the Gregorian calendar or the
• 51:16
  Julian calendar or whatever.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: It's just like pulling you straight back from time. It
• 51:22
  was poorly sketching.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: Charcoal, and even if I could read the language, the
• 51:25
  characters were so smudge that it seemed unlikely to be legible.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: I don't understand whatever you wrote there? Could you write
• 51:31
  it in English?
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: As long as I kept the conversation moving in a
• 51:34
  mundane direction, I figured I could end it after a while.
• 51:38
  As though I had enjoyed the chat nd go. Turning
• 51:41
  the page, I was slightly confused by the answer where
• 51:44
  are you from? The question itself was fairly clear. The
• 51:48
  confusing part was that this response was in my handwriting.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Wh what weird?
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: It's stealing his handwriting to be like, this is what
• 51:58
  you're supposed to ask?
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: Is that what it's doing? Oh? Sure? I decided to lie.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: Given whatever this was, any information about myself was definitely
• 52:08
  not in my best interest.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: I'm from Europe? What about you?
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: And I realized I had just effectively asked the same
• 52:15
  question from earlier. Seeing as asking these questions seemed to
• 52:18
  agitate it, my anxiety spiked immensely.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: Turning the page, my breath left my lungs.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: I know who you are, so earlier he asked it
• 52:29
  where are you from?
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: And it did it?
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: It said somewhere near and uh, He's like, I don't
• 52:35
  like that, so he tries to take it somewhere else.
• 52:37
  Then it like copy paste his question again where are
• 52:40
  you from? And in responding to himself, he accidentally once again.
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: Says what about you? He asked once again where are
• 52:47
  you from?
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Basically, and it responds with I know who you are
• 52:50
  again like a vaguely threatening answer.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Do you think that it's like a version of himself?
• 52:56
  You know what I mean? Because the thing slowly become like,
• 52:59
  not that it's coming him, but could he be talking
• 53:01
  to an alternate reality version of himself or something or
• 53:04
  something that's taking the shape of him, like somewhere close
• 53:08
  to me.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: I think it's a This feels more like a demon
• 53:12
  or entity because it's historic, right, it's like some.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Well sure if I still tradition, I still think something
• 53:16
  could be taking his likeness or something, because the whole
• 53:19
  idea too, that Milly is gone or something. It could
• 53:23
  the handwriting thing threw me off like it was in
• 53:25
  his handwriting.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Well, that's because that's the exact same
• 53:29
  thing he asked earlier.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: So it's just like taking it and then or haz
• 53:33
  hated it on a page later. Yeah.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what little calum I had begun to experience in
• 53:37
  this situation immediately left me. Asking anything relating to whatever
• 53:41
  I was talking with seemed to bring about a sense
• 53:43
  that it did not want me to diging any deeper.
• 53:47
  Maybe that's what happened to Milly. Maybe she asked too
• 53:49
  many questions about whatever this was. I decided not to
• 53:53
  respond to this. If I left it blank, maybe it
• 53:55
  would move on. Fortunately, it's very wrong. On the next
• 53:59
  page there was not handwriting, but rather a drawing charcoal sketch,
• 54:06
  similar to the ones I had seen earlier in the book.
• 54:08
  This time it was not so much like the others.
• 54:11
  It was a clear sketch of a street lined with houses.
• 54:15
  Turning the page again there was another sketch. The sketch
• 54:19
  was just a single house, not just any house, though
• 54:23
  it was my house.
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: Oh no, In a panic, I turned the page again.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: The next sketch was a close up of the right
• 54:32
  side of my front lawn where you could see my
• 54:35
  office window. Oh god, damn, the office I was in.
• 54:39
  I did not want to turn the page again. My
• 54:42
  mind was screaming at me to stop here. My body
• 54:46
  moved so it were acting on its own. I turned
• 54:49
  the page again. I screamed as I heard what sounded
• 54:53
  like something heavy and wet hit the window behind me
• 54:56
  so hard I'm surprised to class didn't shatter.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: I turned to the window.
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: By the grace of God, I had my curtained shut
• 55:04
  to call of my willpower to look away.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: But I turned back to the book. This time.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: The sketch was from the perspective just outside my office window.
• 55:15
  You could clearly see a crew drawing to me, turned
• 55:17
  towards the reader, as if looking over my shoulder at
• 55:21
  the window. Something was there and it could see me.
• 55:25
  I did not know what to do. At this point,
• 55:27
  I felt as though my sanity was leaving me. I
• 55:30
  quietly rolled out of my chair. Some deep, unrecognizable voice
• 55:34
  within my mind began to call me towards the window.
• 55:37
  Feeling wasn't just a pull. It was a lustful desire,
• 55:41
  like I had to go towards the window, as though
• 55:43
  it had some untold pleasure ready for me. When I
• 55:46
  got there, I walked towards it slowly, each half of
• 55:49
  my brain fighting the other so abdly. My head began
• 55:52
  to pound with an indescribable pain. I felt like my
• 55:55
  mind was going to be torn apart. So I got
• 55:58
  to the window. I sat there. The fear had gone
• 56:01
  strong enough that I was able to at least stop
• 56:04
  myself from opening the curtains. Now that I was right
• 56:07
  in front of the window, I could hear a faint,
• 56:09
  continuous hum coming from the glass, so though a steady
• 56:13
  tone was vibrating it, I could also fill a warmth
• 56:17
  like I never felt before. The only thing I could
• 56:20
  compare it to would be a combination of as if
• 56:23
  I had been embraced by my soulmate for the first
• 56:26
  time and simultaneously had scolding desert sand thrown across the
• 56:29
  front of my body. Wherever the warmth touched, all at once.
• 56:33
  Pain brought me to my senses. I began to cry.
• 56:36
  I was so frightened, tears running down my eyes. I
• 56:39
  backed away from the window. I backed up, not taking
• 56:43
  my eyes off it until I got back to my desk.
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: I mustered up the courage to look away. Saw that
• 56:49
  the drawing had changed. It was the same in position,
• 56:53
  but it depicted me in front of the window as
• 56:56
  I was just moments ago.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know what struck my instincts into action, but
• 57:01
  After a moment of contemplation, I took the left hand
• 57:03
  page and turned back to the previous page. As I
• 57:07
  did so, I heard the hum die away and the tingling,
• 57:11
  painful warmth fade. I dared not turn to look. Stead
• 57:16
  I continue to turn back the pages one by one.
• 57:21
  I watched the sketches zoom further from my house until
• 57:24
  I got to a page with text.
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: It's not the page that was there originally.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Where are you?
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: This was written across both pages in large, sprawling, charcoal texts.
• 57:34
  At this point, I had determined that by continuing I
• 57:38
  would be in more danger than anything that could happen
• 57:41
  to me if I closed the book, So I did
• 57:43
  just that. I closed it immediately. The headache, anxiety, and
• 57:47
  adrenaline had been pumping through every vein in my body disappeared.
• 57:51
  My body relaxed, as though it knew that it just
• 57:54
  narrowly escaped some unknown horror. I waited my chair, silently,
• 57:58
  watching the windows and doors of my room for what
• 58:01
  I have to assume was ours, because by the time
• 58:04
  I left my room it was light again outside. Very
• 58:07
  cautiously wrapped the book and the towel I had set
• 58:09
  under it earlier.
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: Headed to my front door.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: After stepping outside, nervously approached the window to my office
• 58:15
  to see what was there. On the window there was
• 58:18
  what looked to be dried, dark chunky blood and burnt
• 58:22
  skin left behind from whatever was pressed against it. It
• 58:25
  resembled the imprint of a face with skin hanging off
• 58:29
  of it pressed up against the glass. Saginum is shapen.
• 58:34
  Just thinking about what would have happened if I'd open
• 58:35
  that window made me feel ill. I'd a shovel in
• 58:38
  my car already, which is an unfortunate necessity and more
• 58:42
  unsavory missing persons cases. I drove for a very very
• 58:46
  long time. Strangely, I encountered nothing strange. The whole time
• 58:51
  I drove from the town. I was into one of
• 58:53
  the deepest rural hikes.
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: I know in Oregon.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: It's been an hour digging a deep hole, the heart
• 58:58
  racing the entire time, and I bare the book there.
• 59:01
  Now some of you might be wondering why I didn't
• 59:04
  just burn the book. I have a good reason. Under
• 59:07
  what circumstances had only gone missing? What string of events
• 59:10
  preceded her disappearance, A string of fires and a string
• 59:13
  of disappearances. I believe I'm not the first one to
• 59:17
  have this experience. I fear that if I tried to
• 59:19
  burn the book, I will become another missing person's case.
• 59:23
  I instead successfully buried that book somewhere nobody will ever
• 59:26
  find it. I do not plan on trying to remember
• 59:28
  where I chose. This wasn't already strange enough. Just yesterday
• 59:32
  some new information came to light. I tried continuing to
• 59:36
  find Millie despite all that had happened. This is a
• 59:38
  human being we're talking about. I tried to set the
• 59:42
  past few weeks without involving myself any further, but I
• 59:45
  just couldn't sit knowing she could be alive somewhere along
• 59:48
  with the rest of those people. So I decided to
• 59:52
  involve myself in the case again, even without the book.
• 59:55
  Yesterday morning, when I called the police department, however, I
• 59:59
  was shocked to learn that nobody knew what I was
• 1:00:01
  talking about. There's no missing person's case. In fact, there
• 1:00:05
  were no missing person cases at all. But still, the
• 1:00:08
  fires had been in vacant houses and were determined to
• 1:00:11
  be electrical issues across the board.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: Even strangers.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: Still, I called the private client, who was supposedly close
• 1:00:17
  family to Millie. They asked how I got in their number,
• 1:00:19
  and even worse, stated that their younger sister, Camill, had
• 1:00:23
  died at a very young age from an illness, and
• 1:00:26
  went as far as to hang up on me when
• 1:00:28
  I tried to ask further. I don't know what's going on.
• 1:00:31
  If anyone has any advice, I'll take it. I don't
• 1:00:34
  believe Milly died as a young girl, and I believe
• 1:00:36
  she and others might still be suffering somewhere out there.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: Something about the warm keeps replaying in my dreams.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: The lust and pain I felt just being near whoever
• 1:00:45
  that thing was at the window can only lead me
• 1:00:48
  to wonder what horrible experiences they might be going through
• 1:00:52
  right now, like a twisted version of being drowned after
• 1:00:55
  following a siren's call. For now, though, I'm going to sleep,
• 1:01:00
  I'm done with journals. I'm hoping I can put all
• 1:01:03
  of this behind me.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: Man, Bravo, that was awesome. That was great.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: Wow, what a great, what a great story. First off, two, well,
• 1:01:12
  let's get into question time. Do you think that do
• 1:01:16
  you think that the whatever entity this was, could that
• 1:01:19
  have been Milly on the other side of some sort.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: No, I think what it is is there is a
• 1:01:27
  demon or some age. It said she was reading like
• 1:01:30
  old Greek mythology, So like some ancient demon or god
• 1:01:33
  or whatever that's tied to this book that you can
• 1:01:36
  communicate with. There might, actually, I'm not that familiar with
• 1:01:38
  Greek mythology, there might be a myth in Greek tradition
• 1:01:42
  about like something you talk through a book for all
• 1:01:44
  I know. But whatever it was is something that people
• 1:01:50
  can communicate with by writing on the page, and it
• 1:01:52
  gives them an answer, and it eventually beckons them to it.
• 1:01:55
  Like he said, it was on the other side of
• 1:01:56
  the window, and even though he was terrified, he felt drawn,
• 1:02:00
  he felt compelled.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: To go open it.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: And if you do open it, I think it takes
• 1:02:03
  you away potentially, or you just see the previous victim
• 1:02:07
  of it or something like that, uh, and it erases
• 1:02:11
  you from history. That would also explain why all of
• 1:02:14
  the answers are like a race like in the same way,
• 1:02:17
  everyone who's interacted.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: With it's gone.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: And there was a string of house fires, so perhaps,
• 1:02:21
  as he implies at the end, people tried to burn
• 1:02:23
  it and then instead everything around it burned besides the book,
• 1:02:27
  and maybe the person burned with it. But it seems
• 1:02:30
  that whoever interacts with it is ripped out of history.
• 1:02:32
  And that's why I don't know why he would have
• 1:02:34
  got the name Milli wrong.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: Maybe Milli is like, well.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: I thought that Millie was actually was a part of
• 1:02:41
  well that was he said, that was the name that
• 1:02:43
  was on the report.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Camille was the actual name. But he's like, I never
• 1:02:47
  thought to connect them because on the actual report, Milly
• 1:02:50
  was the one written. If that's what you mean, yeah,
• 1:02:52
  I wonder what that could be.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: Maybe Milli is like the name the demon uses or
• 1:02:56
  something like that, and it just picked him to be
• 1:02:59
  its next victim. And then the reason he was asking
• 1:03:01
  about Camill is Kmil was the last person in line
• 1:03:03
  who had the book. Yeah, he's speaking to some ancient
• 1:03:08
  and well, I think Camill is Milly. Well it is,
• 1:03:12
  but I'm saying, like, why would it use the name
• 1:03:14
  Milly if every other instance its name's Camil. Because he
• 1:03:17
  sees that, like Milly is the name of like, oh,
• 1:03:19
  this is the missing person. But he says it's on
• 1:03:21
  all the official documentation. But then after this experience with
• 1:03:24
  the book's over, they don't know a Millie. They know
• 1:03:26
  a Camill. It seems that Milly was just an alias
• 1:03:29
  for some reason that was written on everything. Oh yeah,
• 1:03:33
  So I don't know where that connection comes from.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: But the story did a lot of really good things.
• 1:03:38
  One thing it did very well was I think it's
• 1:03:40
  set up a very fun uh like. I like the
• 1:03:44
  idea of like an Arson, the guy basically trying to
• 1:03:46
  solve a mystery case in this weird arson uh basically
• 1:03:52
  like this weird Arson case where he finds this book
• 1:03:54
  it's very weird. He kind of takes it even though
• 1:03:55
  he shouldn't, and then he is tempted by it the
• 1:03:58
  same way that all the other victims have. It also
• 1:04:00
  does a good job by like because in movies people
• 1:04:03
  do dumb things because that's conflict, and you need conflict
• 1:04:06
  for story. There is no conflict, there is no story,
• 1:04:09
  so that's why people do it. But I do think,
• 1:04:11
  for like a Reddit post horror story where someone's like
• 1:04:13
  talking to us as if it's like an r slash
• 1:04:15
  no sleep, it's fun that the guy rejects that like
• 1:04:20
  temptation at the end, like it's it's it's It's a
• 1:04:23
  very satisfying thing for the character to be smart. But
• 1:04:26
  I think the most effective thing the story did was
• 1:04:28
  building anticipation, uh, in just so many great ways, like
• 1:04:34
  pacing around. It really took its time with all of
• 1:04:37
  the things. Because it it did it like had a
• 1:04:41
  new fun way of like basically combining like that fucking
• 1:04:45
  book and Harry Potter mixed with like an ecronomicon. Like
• 1:04:48
  it kind of like had like it's a new fun
• 1:04:50
  take on that onto this like kind of stereotypical trope
• 1:04:55
  of like evil book with you know, ancient text in
• 1:04:58
  it that summons an evil spirit of some kind. I
• 1:05:01
  think that it played with that really well, but also
• 1:05:03
  too just like the subtlety of how it was, you know,
• 1:05:06
  the you know, it didn't go overboard on like you know,
• 1:05:08
  because the creature could have said something like yeah, the
• 1:05:11
  creature the thing could have like you know, been saying
• 1:05:15
  all this horrible shit or like horrifying stuff, but it
• 1:05:17
  was all very subtle and simple and that within.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: Itself somewhere and it built it.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it built that dread. And then the charcoal drawing
• 1:05:26
  was really fun too, have like you like see these
• 1:05:28
  sketches being made of someone outside your house and stuff,
• 1:05:31
  just a lot of fun like, I really really enjoyed
• 1:05:34
  this one man, and I think too great length, Like
• 1:05:37
  it wasn't too short, It wasn't too long. It was
• 1:05:39
  just this nice, solid story and I lost a little
• 1:05:43
  of my innocence in it as well, So I think
• 1:05:45
  that's fantastic.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm glad that you're still incorporating that.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: Time love, loss of innocence love it. That was awesome, though.
• 1:05:52
  We'll be sure, like I said, we have all the
• 1:05:54
  stories in the description of this as well, But that was.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: A ray Raymond come back.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: If that was your only post ever, keep doing, keep writing.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: We miss you, we need you consequence level seven eight
• 1:06:09
  seven seven.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: The next story is by only a Blur and it's
• 1:06:14
  called I've discovered a book that does not end two
• 1:06:17
  book stories, two book fair. So go ahead, let's say
• 1:06:23
  two be fair. We did not know that the missing
• 1:06:25
  person story was going to be primarily a book story,
• 1:06:27
  but here we are.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: Yes, that was convenience.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: So the author Only a Blur goes by Brandon Uh,
• 1:06:33
  and they seem to they post in our slash screep
• 1:06:35
  cast a lot. We were there number two most listened
• 1:06:38
  to podcasts last year. I don't know why we weren't
• 1:06:40
  number one, but that's okay.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: What's the first?
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: Well to counter that, the first is the official podcast
• 1:06:47
  with you know, the the Gang, So number three with
• 1:06:51
  Red Thread, which was the show I was on.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know why I could cast.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: And he's a big fan of yours, then.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: It seems yeah. He also he bought our merch. He
• 1:07:03
  bought the last creep Cast drop. According to this picture
• 1:07:06
  of him, he posted our slash creep Cast a lot,
• 1:07:08
  so he seems to be a fan. And he also
• 1:07:10
  posts our slash BoJack Horseman, so you know, peek recognized.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: Very cool, very cool of you. But so it seems
• 1:07:17
  he started writing this previous year.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: So so he started posting in our slash creep Cast,
• 1:07:22
  and then after that he started.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: Posting short stories.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: He's posted a couple to No Sleep and our Slash
• 1:07:29
  Horror Stories, one called the regular at My Bar Won't
• 1:07:32
  Stop coming in, And he also posted that one to
• 1:07:35
  creep Cast as well. That one seems to be doing well,
• 1:07:39
  but the one we're reading, I discovered a book that
• 1:07:40
  does not end. It seems he posted to no Sleep
• 1:07:43
  and then it got taken off of No Sleep. Oh
• 1:07:47
  classic no Sleep fashion. So we are going to be
• 1:07:51
  reading this, So after that one got to lead from
• 1:07:53
  No Sleep. He then posted his stories over to our
• 1:07:55
  slash Creek cast, and so now the story we're reading
• 1:07:58
  today was taken off of no probably because is it
• 1:08:00
  you know, doesn't it gives like the full name of
• 1:08:03
  a fictional character or something like that. So but yes,
• 1:08:08
  posted by Brandon only only a month ago. So it
• 1:08:11
  seems that he's got a thing for writing getting into it.
• 1:08:13
  So hopefully I love it, is good, and we don't
• 1:08:16
  make too much fun of it, and you continue, right,
• 1:08:19
  I love it.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: Nice new author. Let's see what he has here, dude. Also,
• 1:08:23
  I want to say that I like the name of
• 1:08:25
  the title. It's a nice hook. So let's see if
• 1:08:27
  the hook has a little bit of bait on it
• 1:08:29
  for Daddy.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: Well, I didn't like the way that you weren't.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't like it was unpleasant after it, I.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: Think calling fans of the show or preferring to yourself
• 1:08:41
  as Daddy when talking to them.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, well I meant okay, that that was a bit
• 1:08:46
  I didn't mean too. That was a bit of an overstep.
• 1:08:48
  I'm sorry.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, as long as you know that all right,
• 1:08:53
  I've discovered a book that does not end by Brandon
• 1:08:55
  also known as only a Blur. Most of my life
• 1:08:58
  I have been considered a bookworm by the people around
• 1:09:00
  me in my life. Always loved reading, ever since my
• 1:09:03
  eleventh grade English teacher assigned us to read Blood Meridian
• 1:09:06
  by Kormick McCarthy. Okay, all right, well, I feel like
• 1:09:08
  I'm all right.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: I wonder if he's I wonder if he's a fan
• 1:09:13
  of yours.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: Well, my I've talked multiple times that my eleventh grade
• 1:09:17
  English teacher assigned The Road by Cormick McCarthy.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: Did you see that? Did give that story multiple times?
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: And I know for a fact that English teacher was
• 1:09:28
  not assigning Blood Meridian, that's for sure.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: I like the uh did I saw you responded to
• 1:09:36
  that tweet that was like a yeah, I mean, it's
• 1:09:38
  not that I dislike Windygon, but I hate that this
• 1:09:42
  character is like a creepy like that he's like a
• 1:09:44
  what is it a creepy pasta character people judge as
• 1:09:50
  if as if that's your fault, like in any way
• 1:09:53
  or whatever.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: So that's kind of uh, not to go on too
• 1:09:58
  much of a tangent, but I almost see both sides
• 1:10:01
  of it, because has there ever been something you've been
• 1:10:04
  really inchely interested in that gets popular really quick and
• 1:10:08
  the tone around it kind of changes, you know.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think, like to be fair, because you
• 1:10:16
  use that image, right, that's like that was kind of
• 1:10:19
  a popular image.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: But I just think that it's the image of Judge
• 1:10:21
  hold me like that, yeah, the pain video.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so like that's just that's also just a prime
• 1:10:29
  meme kind of image, you know what I mean, like
• 1:10:32
  it almost yeah, I don't know, like you have an
• 1:10:34
  image like that, it's going to take shape and it's
• 1:10:36
  going to like breed new life, especially because you're I
• 1:10:38
  mean that's so well too, so like that's it's less
• 1:10:41
  about even people understanding and more so that it's just
• 1:10:44
  a great simple image that you can like kind of
• 1:10:46
  repurpose because it's not that it's too detailed. You can
• 1:10:49
  kind of like redraw it.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: It's almost like fucking when what is it? Pepe the
• 1:10:54
  Frog got taken over? Yeah, just it just evolves and
• 1:10:57
  transforms into whatever the fuck people are gonna run with that,
• 1:11:00
  you know.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think I think there's a there's a
• 1:11:03
  balance with it because like, for Judge Holten's a good example.
• 1:11:07
  So a lot of people maybe seeing that image before
• 1:11:09
  and stuff like that, but they hadn't and maybe they
• 1:11:11
  heard of Blood Meridian, but they weren't familiar with the story.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: They weren't familiar with the concepts.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: And I read the book, really liked it, wanted to
• 1:11:16
  talk about it, so I talk about it. And I
• 1:11:19
  don't think I'm the sole reason that Blood Writian got
• 1:11:21
  more popular online.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: I think Corbett.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: McCarthy's death also ledge a bunch of people checking it
• 1:11:25
  out and stuff like that. But I certainly was a
• 1:11:28
  piece in the puzzle a blood writing and gaining popularity.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: And or at least in online spaces.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: It was obviously a popular book beforehand, just a lot
• 1:11:38
  of you know, younger audiences weren't familiar with it, sure,
• 1:11:42
  And I think when that happened, a lot of people
• 1:11:48
  kind of started to perceive it the way they do
• 1:11:51
  other stories, like, oh, creepy character, heavy, intense moments, all
• 1:11:55
  the you know, kind of like dramatic, bloody moments from
• 1:11:59
  the book. And they started to kind of not dumb
• 1:12:03
  down but summarize a lot of Judge Holden's actions is
• 1:12:06
  a big, scary, evil man in the Old West, right, and.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: Because of.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: You know, greed and all that other kind of shah.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when you read Blood Meridian, it's almost like Judge
• 1:12:20
  Holden is a spirit of sort. I mean, obviously he's
• 1:12:23
  real in the book, but the way it's described is
• 1:12:25
  you have this bloody gang of like a headhunters, and
• 1:12:29
  there's this one figure in them that completely sands in
• 1:12:32
  contrast of everything else in the desert, like they are
• 1:12:34
  all these The book goes to great links to describe
• 1:12:37
  how hairy and like dirty the guys are, but he's
• 1:12:40
  pristine and hairless, towering above the rest of them. It's
• 1:12:43
  almost like having the Grim Reaper in camp with you,
• 1:12:46
  and a lot of the symbolism around him drawn from
• 1:12:48
  like Lucifer and like figures of death and Greek mythology
• 1:12:52
  and stuff like that. So he's almost otherworldly, like he's
• 1:12:56
  too terrible to exist. And when you distill that character
• 1:13:01
  down to creepy, scary man who you know is like
• 1:13:05
  a pedophile or whatever, you lose a lot of the
• 1:13:07
  weight of what that character is. Yeah, and I understand
• 1:13:11
  that by me making the video, it became more popular,
• 1:13:15
  so people started to talk about that's frustrating, and that's
• 1:13:17
  fair criticism. But some people take that further and say
• 1:13:21
  that my presentation or the way I talked about Judge
• 1:13:25
  Holden was the dumbing it down, and I disagree with that.
• 1:13:28
  I think in a lot of my stuff or like
• 1:13:30
  in that video I talked at links about the stuff
• 1:13:34
  I just said about his you know, determination of being evil,
• 1:13:37
  but also like kind of the greater cultural context arounding it.
• 1:13:42
  Like I saw one not to just like one get
• 1:13:44
  one guide, but I saw one person talking about my stuff,
• 1:13:48
  and it's like, well, I don't think wend Goon did
• 1:13:50
  a good job talking about like how the story is
• 1:13:54
  a big piece about like the evils that were done
• 1:13:56
  to natives and you know, during this time in history.
• 1:13:59
  But I talk to my video that if Judge Holden
• 1:14:02
  is like this agent of death, or if he's the
• 1:14:04
  devil himself, then he has seated himself in the most
• 1:14:06
  violent place on earth, which is the headhunters of the
• 1:14:09
  early American West. And I think in that statement, like
• 1:14:12
  I feel like in my video presentation, I did an
• 1:14:16
  honest effort at making Judge Holden, the personification of him
• 1:14:20
  legitimate to the way he is in the book and
• 1:14:22
  if people took that and dumbed it down, I understand
• 1:14:25
  the frustration, But also in the most careful way I
• 1:14:29
  can say this, it's not my fault that people, you know,
• 1:14:33
  took the character and then made it into sort of
• 1:14:36
  a meme or something like that. But at the same time,
• 1:14:38
  I understand being upset that because of my video, the
• 1:14:41
  character got dumbed down, if that makes sense. This has
• 1:14:44
  nothing to do with the video or the podcast or anything.
• 1:14:46
  I just thoughts have been in my head. I haven't
• 1:14:48
  had a place to talk about him yet.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: But no, no, I didn't. I think that it's justifiable. Also,
• 1:14:52
  the same time you.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: Made a video about a subject you're passionate about, I
• 1:14:56
  think you did a good job covering it. The video
• 1:14:59
  also went stupid viral, and you're gonna have people that
• 1:15:02
  saw that who share that interest as well across the internet. Internet,
• 1:15:06
  and it gets filtered.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: Time and time again through these conversations to where there
• 1:15:09
  probably are people who use that image or imagery or
• 1:15:12
  do whatever and have no idea where it comes from.
• 1:15:15
  You know, That's that's just also meme culture. That's just
• 1:15:18
  the way that shit evolves and stuff like that. It
• 1:15:21
  is what it is. I do think though, that like
• 1:15:23
  the descriptors of death, because every time that I saw
• 1:15:25
  the original painting of it always made me think of
• 1:15:27
  the grim Reaper from A Seventh Seal. Yeah you did. Yeah,
• 1:15:31
  just that kind of like, you know, just a pale
• 1:15:33
  faced kind of thing. But anyways, it's just prime also
• 1:15:35
  because it's a perfect for that meme edit of like creepy,
• 1:15:39
  weird smile. It's kind of funny. Yeah, it's also settling
• 1:15:43
  and odd. You know, it's simple and it's like lowbrow
• 1:15:46
  and it's approach. It's a fucking awesome painting. It just rules.
• 1:15:49
  Uh so, yeah, I don't know it is what it is.
• 1:15:52
  I just thought it was funny, you know, or I
• 1:15:53
  just thought it was It's it's always interesting the conversations
• 1:15:57
  people bring up in the discourse it causes. It's it's always,
• 1:16:01
  uh it's interesting what people decide to uh, I guess
• 1:16:07
  talk about or you know, some people get I say upset,
• 1:16:10
  but who knows. I mean it's over text. But it's
• 1:16:12
  just something where it's like I who who cares? I
• 1:16:16
  don't know, just think I think.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, like I agree with you for the most part,
• 1:16:21
  you know, the who cares saying, but I also understand
• 1:16:24
  having like it. Honestly, after seeing like the judge get
• 1:16:27
  dumb down to you know, as the tweet said, creepypasta characters,
• 1:16:30
  that is frustrating.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: That does annoy me because I think he's so much
• 1:16:32
  more than the story.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: I think he represents them, of course, But at the
• 1:16:35
  same time, I'm not gonna stop covering stuff like that
• 1:16:39
  because for what I'm passionate about it, I enjoy stories,
• 1:16:41
  and I enjoy when they're done well talking about how
• 1:16:43
  they're done well, but also because I feel like one
• 1:16:48
  of the biggest issues that cause characters like that to
• 1:16:52
  be perceived in a dumb down way is because we
• 1:16:56
  often just hand people dumb down.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: Stories, right like I not.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: Just you two, but in like, you know, the way
• 1:17:02
  kids are talked to in school, in high school and
• 1:17:04
  stuff like that, they're given the most milk toast interpretation
• 1:17:07
  of things.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 3: They're not really encouraged to dig into art.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: One of the reasons I love stories so much is,
• 1:17:11
  as this guy referenced in the eleventh grade, my English
• 1:17:14
  teacher taught us the road and he taught it with passion.
• 1:17:17
  And I heard that, I was like, wow, I want
• 1:17:19
  to learn more stories like that. So at the same time,
• 1:17:22
  when you know, people take the judge and then they
• 1:17:25
  kind of dumb it down. We have this guy who
• 1:17:27
  started writing short stories after he read our slash screep
• 1:17:30
  cast and he makes a reference to Blood Meridian in there,
• 1:17:34
  and now he's writing his own story.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 3: So for every negative way people.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: Interpret stories, who take them and then spread them across
• 1:17:41
  their Internet, there's other people who hear it, learn about it,
• 1:17:45
  and then are impressed to go about with their own things.
• 1:17:48
  So yeah, I don't regret making that video to any
• 1:17:51
  regard because for any amount of danage it did, a
• 1:17:53
  bunch of people learned about Blood Meridian and they learned
• 1:17:55
  about the Judge in ernest and I think that's I
• 1:17:57
  think that's invaluable to teach people, I know, sorry, to
• 1:18:01
  help show people.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: About art and about what's out there. I don't think that.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: I don't think that there's any real damage that have
• 1:18:08
  Also to say to who cares, that's a misrepresentation of
• 1:18:12
  I that's not the correct thing to say what I said.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: More so, what I mean is it's it's unavoidable to
• 1:18:20
  try and you know, uh, to try and please everybody.
• 1:18:25
  You can't do it, you know what I mean? And
• 1:18:27
  also it would be different too if.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: The video was was Judge holding the first creepy?
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: Was he the first sep? That's that's that's something that's different,
• 1:18:36
  you know what I mean, because then you're also completely
• 1:18:38
  lambasting the character. I guess that's what I mean is
• 1:18:42
  like if somebody you just you can't help it. It
• 1:18:45
  is what it is. You know. Also too, I think
• 1:18:48
  people go in with things and I think that people
• 1:18:50
  go in guns blazing because they're just like it's also
• 1:18:53
  very much. That's also why I mean, keep this or not.
• 1:18:58
  I fucking hate Twitter because it's nothing but hive mind
• 1:19:01
  quote tweet bullshit where there's no there's no discussion. It's
• 1:19:05
  people just being like I'm pissed. Are you pissed too?
• 1:19:07
  And it's that you know, so it is anyway.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, we have a story, Yeah, we have a story. Sorry,
• 1:19:13
  it didn't mean to get so sidetracked with it, but you.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: Know, I think it's it's fascinating here it come from
• 1:19:18
  that person. Because a lot of things that you do
• 1:19:19
  do have a cultural online impact and stuff, and I
• 1:19:22
  do think that, like, you know, if there's one thing
• 1:19:25
  that's to be said, even with these fan made stories,
• 1:19:27
  is getting people excited about things and having interest and stuff.
• 1:19:31
  So much of what people decide to do with their
• 1:19:33
  time is be pissed off or demean shit, which I'm
• 1:19:35
  no better, you know, I definitely him. You have fucking
• 1:19:39
  little annoying rat when it comes to things. But all
• 1:19:43
  you can do is be excited about stuff and try
• 1:19:45
  to contribute back in some meaningful way. And that's like
• 1:19:47
  the best thing, yeah, most positive thing you can do
• 1:19:50
  with your time, versus dwelling on why things are different
• 1:19:54
  or popular for some reason. You know. It's just like
• 1:19:57
  if you just don't like something, move on. If you
• 1:20:00
  love something, contribute to it and like try to be
• 1:20:02
  a part of the conversation.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's well said.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: And I think, like I think, like this guy here,
• 1:20:10
  this is really encouraging because you know, you tell one
• 1:20:12
  hundred people about something, fifty people are gonna take it
• 1:20:16
  the wrong way, fifty people will take it the right way.
• 1:20:18
  I think it's worth telling one hundred for the fifty
• 1:20:20
  that take it the right way, is my outlook. But like,
• 1:20:23
  we got this guy here only a blurb Brandon. I
• 1:20:25
  scrolled through because I was trying to find you know what,
• 1:20:28
  all he's written. He's had a Reddit account for years,
• 1:20:32
  and then he's he's never posted any stories he's written,
• 1:20:35
  and then he starts posting anar slash screep cast, and
• 1:20:38
  then he writes.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: Two stories in the past couple of months.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: To me, that is worth one hundred people dumbing down
• 1:20:47
  a character. Right that maybe this one guy started listening
• 1:20:51
  to the podcast or listening to our channels and was like,
• 1:20:54
  I want to start telling stories. That's worth all the
• 1:20:57
  other junk that comes with it. Right, that's encouraging. It's
• 1:21:01
  really cool to see. And then in the first part
• 1:21:03
  there's what I assume to be kind of a reference
• 1:21:05
  towards myself that means a lot makes me feel.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 3: Good, makes me feel good.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: I'm glad man.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: So anyway with the story, the usual to start from
• 1:21:14
  the top. Yeah, yeah, I'll just start from the top.
• 1:21:17
  Most of my life I have been considered a bookworm
• 1:21:19
  by the people around me. In my life, I've always
• 1:21:22
  loved reading, ever since my eleventh grade English teachers signed
• 1:21:25
  us to read Blood Meridian by Coormick McCarthy at.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 3: A novel Ope.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: In my eyes, not only now powerful stories are and
• 1:21:31
  their impact on juven emotion, but also the depravity of
• 1:21:34
  human beings their unrelenting nature. After an experience like that,
• 1:21:38
  I was hooked. I would search through bookstores, libraries, garage
• 1:21:41
  and estate sales wherever there was a book to be found.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: I was at the foreground.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: Once I had exhausted all of those means to find
• 1:21:48
  new and exciting reads, I entered to the Internet.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 3: I have a fascination with band and lost books.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: Something about the mystery surrounding them excites me and makes
• 1:21:55
  me want to consume them. About three months ago, I
• 1:21:58
  came across a listing on some second hand book website
• 1:22:01
  for a novel titled World's History from Beginning to End.
• 1:22:05
  This immediately piqued my interest because I noticed there was
• 1:22:07
  no author listed, which is not unusual when authors want
• 1:22:10
  to remain anonymous. What made it strange was that there
• 1:22:12
  was no publisher or identity of anybody that made this book.
• 1:22:16
  It was also very difficult to tell exactly what time
• 1:22:18
  period this book was from. The hardcover looked as if
• 1:22:21
  it was almost brand new, as it was just pulled
• 1:22:23
  off the printing press. The pages, on the other hand,
• 1:22:26
  looked like they were made of papyrus, which hasn't been
• 1:22:29
  used to make books in centuries. I figured I must
• 1:22:32
  have stumbled upon a piece of lost media that I
• 1:22:34
  could hopefully use to impress the other eccentrics I knew online.
• 1:22:38
  I messaged the listory immediately asking if it was still
• 1:22:41
  available for sale. They responded about ten minutes later with
• 1:22:44
  a location pin about two hundred and fifty miles away
• 1:22:47
  from where I was. I asked if we could meet halfway,
• 1:22:51
  but they just sent the same pen. Knowing how these
• 1:22:54
  sellers usually are, they won't budge when they have a
• 1:22:56
  meeting place set in stone. Picking up the book was uneventful.
• 1:23:00
  Drove to the guy's place, parked right outside his modest,
• 1:23:02
  middle class home in the suburbs, sent him a message
• 1:23:05
  letting him know I was there. He sent it back
• 1:23:08
  saying the book was in the mailbox and I have
• 1:23:10
  to leave the money in there. Aside for feeling like
• 1:23:12
  I was buying Wheed in high school again, I didn't
• 1:23:14
  have any off feelings about the interaction. When I got home,
• 1:23:18
  it was nearly eleven thirty at nine, and I put
• 1:23:20
  the book on my nightstand in the fell sleep once
• 1:23:23
  I woke up the next morning The first thing I
• 1:23:25
  did was cracked that book open and began reading. The
• 1:23:28
  novel was not as long as I had imagined for
• 1:23:30
  a full history of the world, only about eight hundred
• 1:23:33
  pages from looking at it. The first chapter opened up
• 1:23:36
  on a singularity in a vaseless space of emptiness seeking growth.
• 1:23:40
  Over the next fifty pages that discussed the beginning of
• 1:23:43
  our universe through the Big Bang. The second chapter was
• 1:23:47
  around thirty pages and talked about how organisms began to
• 1:23:50
  attach themselves to Earth, creating a multitude of different species.
• 1:23:54
  After a few more chapters, I learned about the dinosaurs,
• 1:23:56
  evolution of man, the Stone Ages, and evolution of tools,
• 1:24:00
  development and language, art culture. Now I was about six
• 1:24:04
  hundred pages in. We have not even broken into the
• 1:24:07
  first empires of the world and the tenth chapter, and
• 1:24:10
  about seven hundred and twenty pages into the book, it
• 1:24:13
  finally began discussing the start of civilization in Mesopotamia.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 3: Once I read through that, I.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: Was nearly at the end of the novel with only
• 1:24:19
  an initial history of the world. I thought the book
• 1:24:23
  might be part of a series. But since I couldn't
• 1:24:25
  even find a trace of this book anywhere.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: I doubt i'd find others.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: The final page of the novel was on page eight
• 1:24:32
  hundred and seventeen, edited with the chapter talking about the
• 1:24:35
  rise of the Babylonian Empire. As I flipped the final
• 1:24:39
  page to see the back cover, I was surprised to
• 1:24:41
  see a new page, a new chapter title on it
• 1:24:45
  Persian and Roman Empires. I was shocked that they would
• 1:24:49
  add just one page of another chapter at the end
• 1:24:52
  of the book, but I read it anyway.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: As I flipped that page, another one was after it.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: I swear I did not see or feel another page
• 1:25:00
  on the other side of the one I just read.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 3: This kept going for the next eleven hours.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: Every time I would flip a page, new one would
• 1:25:10
  be there in its place to continue the story. Although
• 1:25:13
  the book seemed to go on indefinitely, the size of
• 1:25:15
  the book never changed. After all that time, I had
• 1:25:18
  made it to around the year nineteen ninety seven with
• 1:25:22
  the death of Princess Diana. It was nearly three in
• 1:25:25
  the morning at this point, and I had to process
• 1:25:27
  to some degree while I was experiencing, so I did
• 1:25:29
  my best to go to sleep All night. I could
• 1:25:32
  not stop thinking about the seemingly unending book, so it
• 1:25:35
  an optical illusion, so somehow miscounting the pages, I had
• 1:25:39
  to figure out what was going on.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 3: That's funny to imagine.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: A guy who like it's he's literally at the back
• 1:25:44
  of the book and new pages keep coming, and he's like, oh,
• 1:25:46
  must must have missed that one.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: Hope, Yeah, I missed that one. It's very like goosebumpy,
• 1:25:52
  isn't it. It's just like this thing of also the
• 1:25:54
  compelling nature of being like, well, I guess I'll just
• 1:25:57
  keep reading because it is an anomaly. You know. It
• 1:25:59
  is like because the size of the book never changing,
• 1:26:02
  but you still keep flipping and there's more pages. That
• 1:26:05
  would be such a weird mind fuck, but it almost
• 1:26:08
  seems like he's like hypnotized in some weird way to
• 1:26:11
  keep reading it, keep continuing into this like weird, fucking
• 1:26:16
  never ending book.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's also threatening how it's like beginning to end.
• 1:26:23
  I waited for the sun to rise before I began
• 1:26:25
  reading again. Every new chapter this point spanned over one
• 1:26:29
  hundred pages each and only depicted about six months to.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: A year of history at a time.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: After another nine hours of reading, I made it to
• 1:26:36
  modern day. They were discussing various airplane crashes. It happened
• 1:26:40
  in DC, Philadelphia, and Scottsdelle. I read about the death
• 1:26:43
  of my favorite director, David Lynch, and all the other
• 1:26:46
  major events that have happened so far this year. I
• 1:26:49
  don't know how a book can be published mere hours
• 1:26:52
  after these events were being discussed.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: I kept turning the pages it kept reading.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: When I realized it had listed an event that happened
• 1:27:00
  and yesterday. This is impossible, since I bought the book
• 1:27:04
  two days ago. I could possibly haven't you been in
• 1:27:07
  it that happened yesterday? My curiosity peaked. I kept reading
• 1:27:11
  the novel continued into how the rest of the year
• 1:27:13
  will play out. I figured whoever wrote it had a
• 1:27:17
  bountiful imagination to insert their own predictions into a book
• 1:27:20
  about world history. Once I wrapped up the twenty twenty
• 1:27:23
  five Years, I decided it was a good time to
• 1:27:25
  go to bed, so I did. I must not have
• 1:27:28
  slept much in the last couple of days, because I
• 1:27:30
  had slept.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 3: Through the entirety of the next one.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: I woke up thirty two hours later in my bed
• 1:27:36
  and did my usual morning routine of going to the bathroom,
• 1:27:39
  brushing my teeth, shower, shave, make breakfast, put on the
• 1:27:42
  news found out. I was sleeping through a whole day
• 1:27:45
  when I saw the date on the news story they
• 1:27:48
  were showing was about a sex scandal that happened with
• 1:27:50
  a very prolific celebrity. I felt a sense of deja
• 1:27:54
  vou come over me because I felt like I heard
• 1:27:56
  about that before. Figured maybe I dreamed it, or maybe
• 1:28:00
  I saw an article minutes after the scandal dropped. I
• 1:28:03
  know those wishful thinking, because for the two days prior
• 1:28:06
  to my sleep the only media I consumed.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 3: Was that book.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: I went to my night stand and picked up the book,
• 1:28:11
  but at the end to find the chapter on this year.
• 1:28:15
  Just as I thought, there was a page that discussed
• 1:28:17
  the very same celebrity in the sex scandal, with every single.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 3: Detail painfully accurate.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: The book even discussed details that were not president in
• 1:28:25
  any news footage or article online. The book had a
• 1:28:29
  police evidence like description of the crime and gave way
• 1:28:32
  to information a regular civilian should not have access to.
• 1:28:36
  I've been a Christian all my life and believe that
• 1:28:39
  this book is divine.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 3: That's access to information that no person has any right
• 1:28:43
  to know.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: I wish I didn't know it myself, but it is
• 1:28:47
  the curse I bestowed upon myself.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 3: Whether this book is from God.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: Or the devil, I do not know, but I wish
• 1:28:53
  I had the willpower to stop myself from reading after
• 1:28:55
  I found its prophecy. Once I began reading, I also
• 1:28:59
  like that becauld normally be like, oh, this book's like evil,
• 1:29:03
  or like this is some forbidden knowledge or whateverybody's just
• 1:29:06
  like I think this is divine. Like he's immediately it's
• 1:29:10
  a gift. He's not getting it away. Yeah, Like I
• 1:29:12
  have to treasure this thing. It's beautiful.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: Once I began reading, for the rest of the decade,
• 1:29:17
  I became more and more frightened about what I was
• 1:29:19
  going to learn. In the year twenty twenty seven, it
• 1:29:22
  said there'd be an event that altered the course of
• 1:29:24
  human history. This was the popularization of easily accessible bioweapons
• 1:29:28
  and underground markets. Many private terarist organizations, struck cartels, and
• 1:29:32
  even individual criminals hoarded as much as they could to
• 1:29:35
  either threatened or dispose of individuals or large groups of people.
• 1:29:39
  One of the first attacks used was on the White House,
• 1:29:42
  a discros for the federal agents watching. This is a joke.
• 1:29:45
  I do not agree with them. Well, the first attacks
• 1:29:50
  used was on the White House. A disgruntled voter had
• 1:29:52
  gained access to a lung cancer synthetic. Attacker mailed thirty
• 1:29:57
  small samples on different days and envelopes that would cary
• 1:29:59
  the the airborne When opened. Six months later, nearly half
• 1:30:03
  the White House staff, including the President, were either infected
• 1:30:05
  or had passed away from lung cancer. Other groups would
• 1:30:08
  have different tactics, so like in twenty twenty nine when
• 1:30:11
  a domestic terrorist organization took a crop duster filled with
• 1:30:14
  a synthetic HIV virus and flewid over San Francisco as
• 1:30:17
  a homophobic attack, or in twenty thirty two, when we
• 1:30:21
  see the largest death toll from.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 3: Any bio weapon ever made.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: Russia began experimenting with the new synthetic disease that would
• 1:30:28
  almost immediately kill.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 3: The person affected by it.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: They call it smirt zevirtku, smirt severku, I'm sorry, and
• 1:30:36
  it was used to fill the heads of atomic missiles
• 1:30:38
  to eviscerate the remaining people.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 3: Who survived after bombs were dropped.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: Russia launched three missiles towards Ukraine, but had not tested
• 1:30:46
  the scale of the airborne illness They hit three different
• 1:30:48
  cities in Ukraine and wiped out every person in each one,
• 1:30:51
  along with the rest of the country. Russia had not
• 1:30:54
  foreseen that the virus would spread so wide wide enough
• 1:30:58
  to destroy every person in the southern region of both
• 1:31:00
  Belarus and Russia. I became obsessed with this book, encumbered
• 1:31:04
  every waking moment of my being. I learned all about
• 1:31:07
  the future that our world and universe has to offer.
• 1:31:10
  I had to keep reading and understand what will happen
• 1:31:12
  in my lifetime and beyond.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 3: I wish I'd just put the book down.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: Soon after Russia held an accidental extinction of a country,
• 1:31:20
  the entire world fell into an arms race to see
• 1:31:22
  who had the most powerful and destructive bioweapon. The three
• 1:31:26
  countries with the largest quantity and highest mortality rate were
• 1:31:29
  going from third to first Russia, America, and Ireland. Ireland
• 1:31:34
  posed a major threat to the rest of the world
• 1:31:36
  because it owned as many bioweapons as both America and
• 1:31:39
  Russia combined. If the country is entered to a salemate
• 1:31:42
  to see who would act first, that's.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 3: Really funny to imagine Ireland.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: I'm like, fucking the Ireland, really dogad fucking I'm totally serious.
• 1:31:57
  How don't you want you to imagine me have all.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 3: I've got the weapon, I'll send it. I'll do it
• 1:32:04
  in a moment.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 4: You've got the weapon, I'll send it.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 3: I'll fuck it.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: I'll fuck you off with it, all right.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 3: I'll put it, put it in a car bomb.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 6: You'll see, you're saying, right here, right now, we have all.
• 1:32:17
  We have all of the bioweapons. I'll tell you that much.
• 1:32:22
  So funny think Ireland would have that, your darn Tutin.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: America were ones to send the official declaration of war
• 1:32:31
  after a high ranking official was assassinated by an individual
• 1:32:34
  who's a part of the Irish Radical Party. They dropped
• 1:32:38
  bombs filled with large amounts of radiation on top of
• 1:32:40
  Ireland's government basis.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 3: Little did they know an America's declaration would also be
• 1:32:46
  its end.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 2: The bombs are targeted at where the highest concentration of
• 1:32:49
  Ireland's bioweapons were to eliminate them from the arms race entirely.
• 1:32:54
  The outcome of that decision was a world widespread of
• 1:32:56
  almost every type of disease non demand kind. Even disease
• 1:33:00
  is that were thought to be extinct were brought into
• 1:33:02
  the light of day. The Black plague, smallpox, and even
• 1:33:05
  guinea worm disease. Millions were killed upon the initial destruction,
• 1:33:09
  followed by nearly the rest of the human population within
• 1:33:12
  the next twelve hours. Months and years go by without
• 1:33:16
  anything eventful taking place, just small segments for each chapter
• 1:33:20
  discussing how the terrain of the world was changed and the.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 3: Various mutated creatures that rose because of it.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: After about three years worth of text, was there in
• 1:33:27
  event involving a human occurring. Roughly ten thousand people across
• 1:33:31
  the world had a bomb shelter built in their home
• 1:33:33
  for the purpose of a global disaster. These individuals were
• 1:33:36
  the first to come to the surface after years of
• 1:33:38
  no human involvement in their environment. Around eight thousand of
• 1:33:42
  these people died minutes after reaching the surface because the
• 1:33:45
  air still lingered with multitude of plagues. The other roughly
• 1:33:48
  two thousand people that saw the ones that left the
• 1:33:51
  shelter never returned, so they assumed what was true in
• 1:33:55
  that surface was still dangerous. Many of them died in
• 1:33:59
  their show two years later or until they ran out
• 1:34:01
  of nutrients. Few also ventured to the surface later to
• 1:34:05
  make a life for themselves, but the same fate as
• 1:34:07
  their predecessors. The year twenty eighty nine was the last
• 1:34:11
  year that humans existed. After that, plant life and animals
• 1:34:15
  to go over the world. In the next fifteen years,
• 1:34:18
  plant life grew rapidly due to their mutation from the viruses,
• 1:34:22
  except instead of growing into a green oasis, turned into
• 1:34:25
  a mix of deep crimson brown plants that covered every
• 1:34:28
  surface it could latch onto. The animals that survived lurked
• 1:34:31
  around the earth and became extremely aggressive towards each other.
• 1:34:35
  This caused all life on Earth besides botanical life to
• 1:34:38
  see successistence by the year twenty one to forty.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 3: Centuries of text flows by in roughly thirty pages.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: One thing that never got mentioned even in the passing
• 1:34:48
  of the novel was a presence of God, any God
• 1:34:51
  for that matter. No religion was discussed beyond the Crusades
• 1:34:54
  and other religious numbers that did not directly involve faith.
• 1:34:58
  This book that seemingly knows everything the world has to offer,
• 1:35:01
  and no answers would be the point of living. It
• 1:35:04
  about life free from sin. It won't aid be in
• 1:35:07
  peaceful afterlife. I decide with whatever life I have left,
• 1:35:11
  I want to live. I want to live it Like
• 1:35:13
  Biff Tannon, I'm back to the future Part two.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: I do not want to think about any of the
• 1:35:18
  knowledge I have consumed beyond what will give me a
• 1:35:21
  financial or spiritual gain.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 3: I have no faith left in humanity.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: I'll make the quickest buck that I can before the
• 1:35:28
  major bombs drop. After that, I'll build the most comfortable
• 1:35:31
  bomb shelter with enough supplies and entertainment to last me
• 1:35:33
  through the end of days. This post is not a
• 1:35:36
  warning on what's to come. That much is inevitable. I
• 1:35:39
  simply cannot be the only person who carries the burden
• 1:35:41
  of knowing what I have learned.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: Well, there's the end of that story, and I'm sitting
• 1:35:45
  here with a fucking panic attack.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 3: Feels so real.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: That's what the kind of stuff, with the kind of
• 1:35:53
  stuff going on in the world right now, it feels
• 1:35:54
  so like I was just like this is this all
• 1:35:56
  makes sense to me?
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 2: It's awesome Ireland getting the weapons.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: Ireland was the That's the most fabricated thing I've heard,
• 1:36:05
  for sure, But still it's one of those that the
• 1:36:08
  idea of like nuclear fallout and just the kind of
• 1:36:10
  like a lot of like existential stuff coming in the end. There.
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 2: You know a lot of stories, could you know I
• 1:36:16
  feel like this could have also been a story where
• 1:36:18
  it goes the direction of like mom, meet me, read
• 1:36:20
  me a bad time story, Okay, and she's reading the
• 1:36:22
  story and it gets more fucked up and she just
• 1:36:24
  like won't stop reading or something.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: You know, you could go so many different rounds for that.
• 1:36:28
  But taking it into like that existential kind of uh
• 1:36:32
  you know, uh knowledge of all the world and stuff
• 1:36:35
  is pretty cool. And I like the idea too of
• 1:36:38
  that was one thing I thought was kind of relatable
• 1:36:40
  at the beginning, was you get into a book, you
• 1:36:42
  start collecting, you know, because I have a couple Like
• 1:36:44
  I like collecting old books and stuff too. And the
• 1:36:46
  idea too that you just stumble across this thing. It
• 1:36:48
  has no author, it's just kind of this like text
• 1:36:51
  and you just kind of keep flipping. But it's like
• 1:36:54
  the morbid curiosity of having to know, and it like
• 1:36:56
  Earth turns into like almost like a fallout kind of
• 1:36:58
  fucking situation, all this kind of stuff. But I love
• 1:37:01
  the idea that the two that the book doesn't get bigger,
• 1:37:03
  it just he just kind of keeps turning the page
• 1:37:06
  to the last.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 3: Pages showing up.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a treadmill almost just keeps like cycling over. Also,
• 1:37:12
  it's a fun idea that at the end he's like,
• 1:37:15
  well because earlier said he was a Christian, and he's
• 1:37:19
  like this book that knows everything says nothing of God.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 3: So I guess there's no reason to live at all.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna make enough money to build a bomb shelter,
• 1:37:25
  and I guess I'll just live out my days in needless.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 3: Enjoyment because the world's coming to an end.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: So it's like this prophecy has changed him. That's fascinating
• 1:37:34
  that that was a fun story. That was a fun
• 1:37:36
  little like the earth is going to end this way,
• 1:37:38
  So here's what I'm doing, because very sweet.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: I always get fucked up by like weird existential stuff
• 1:37:43
  like that to where like you're like, I did not think.
• 1:37:45
  I did not think I wanted to think about that today,
• 1:37:49
  you know, And that's what I'm going right now. I'm
• 1:37:51
  like really kind of bummed that I still have a
• 1:37:53
  lot of work aft to do, and I'm like for
• 1:37:54
  what for what?
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 3: What?
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: Why even do it?
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 3: It? Want?
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: The reason you do it is so you can build
• 1:38:03
  your bunker and put a bunch of Nintendo Wii games
• 1:38:07
  down there for the end of the world.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: If anybody comes across a neon sign that says loss
• 1:38:12
  of innocence, no, that's my bunker, and you're totally welcome
• 1:38:14
  to stay with me in the end of the day.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 3: Mainly the bunker loss of innocence. It's like, well, I'm
• 1:38:19
  not coding in there.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, we'll see.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 3: That's the old wod distraction.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: And then that we were like, oh no, that's actually
• 1:38:26
  super fucking cool.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 2: It's like, I'll just I'll just get the plague. That's fine,
• 1:38:31
  I'll just keep walking.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: The nursing home at the edge of the world. This
• 1:38:35
  looks like part one. You said that Part two got deleted,
• 1:38:38
  but we could at least read part one.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: So if you go to their page, so that for
• 1:38:42
  one of the authors, this is Phoenix Heat, and Phoenix
• 1:38:45
  Heat seems to douce the writing in our for several years.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 3: He's done writing in Our slash Scary Stories r slash
• 1:38:52
  No Sleep, and then they dropped a veteran, a veteran
• 1:38:57
  of the genre.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: They posted part one and then so they've been sitting
• 1:39:01
  on this for a few weeks now. They posted it
• 1:39:03
  in No Sleep. Didn't know what to do, so I'll
• 1:39:05
  throw it up.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 3: In creep cast.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: But then for some reason, I don't know what happened. Okay,
• 1:39:13
  so they post that, and then they post part two
• 1:39:16
  on our slash Scary Stories, and it posted our slash
• 1:39:19
  two on No Sleep, but it got take it. Wait, yes, yeah,
• 1:39:22
  they post part two on our slash No Sleep. I
• 1:39:25
  think No Sleep took down all the parts, but then
• 1:39:28
  they posted part two on our slash creep cast, but
• 1:39:30
  then it got taken down off creep cast. I have
• 1:39:33
  no idea why we're becoming No Sleep already, we're becoming immediately.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: Hey guys, I upload here so we can delete your stories.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 2: Thanks upload here so we can also censor it and
• 1:39:45
  delete it.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 3: I have no idea why I got taken down. But
• 1:39:47
  then they post and said that.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 2: So they posted this in reply to the June fan
• 1:39:53
  made story thread and said they give a brief summary
• 1:39:57
  of the story, and then says part one, two, and three.
• 1:40:01
  Uh wait, parts one and two are out. Part three
• 1:40:04
  is already written. I just need to reread it over
• 1:40:06
  for clarity one last time, and it'll be posted soon.
• 1:40:08
  And then that was posted twenty six days ago. I
• 1:40:11
  don't see they've posted parts three anywhere. So parts one
• 1:40:15
  and two are up and they posted both of those
• 1:40:17
  to our slash Creek cast, but we deleted the part two.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 3: I guess, I don't know.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: Why we're horrible people, but.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 2: The part two is up on our slash Scare stories.
• 1:40:28
  I think, well, why don't you do this.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: Let's let's read. Let's read part one, and then we'll
• 1:40:33
  fucking well, we'll be like, hey, submitted again, and we'll
• 1:40:35
  have to talk to whoever the fucking moms are this ship,
• 1:40:40
  and it'd be like, let the let the poor bastard
• 1:40:42
  post the second part.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but then we see we see that, like part
• 1:40:46
  two goes up and it's like a direct thread all
• 1:40:48
  our lives.
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 3: It's like they said they dress.
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: Well, that will need to be made clear. So you know,
• 1:40:57
  all right, but.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: We get to the ball this for now, but for
• 1:41:01
  part one, for now, let's at least touch part one
• 1:41:04
  of the Nursing Home at the Edge of the World,
• 1:41:06
  which I will say is a fun little title, kind
• 1:41:08
  of has a fun title.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: It has the same vibe.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: As like I worked at a voodoo shop or like
• 1:41:12
  Tails from the gas station kind of vibe.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: Is the is the vibe I get them.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: It's it's very fun and also like we're gonna leave
• 1:41:18
  link to it in the description, so you can go
• 1:41:19
  check out part two and then three whatever they post
• 1:41:22
  it for yourself. Hopefully by then part two will be
• 1:41:24
  in the subredd it will figure that one out. No promises,
• 1:41:27
  no promises, no promises, no promises. Nursing Home at the
• 1:41:31
  Edge of the World, Part one by Phoenix.
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 3: Oh Heat Phoenix Oh Heat.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: The woman had.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: Long, greasy hair that framed her crooked face. The left
• 1:41:40
  half was pulled taut against her skull, as if her
• 1:41:42
  skin was painted onto it. The right half was sloped down,
• 1:41:46
  one eye barely open and the edge of her mouth
• 1:41:48
  unable to close. Small drop of saliva wormed its way
• 1:41:52
  down her chest, shifting from her side onto the bed
• 1:41:55
  she lay on. One of her hands was curled into
• 1:41:58
  an unnatural claw, reminiscent of a spider's legs long after
• 1:42:03
  its final moments on this bed was the most beautiful
• 1:42:07
  woman in the world. God mother, Well, the next line is,
• 1:42:12
  my mother had her first joke seven years ago.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 3: M So it's their mother.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 2: So now do you feel bad about saying my great
• 1:42:19
  my great grandma, my great grandma had arthritis so bad
• 1:42:22
  that like her toes were all fucking they're all.
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: Basically like capital l's and shit, you know what I mean.
• 1:42:27
  Her big ass, fucking big ass marble knuckles, and her
• 1:42:31
  hands were all like bent up as well, and she'd
• 1:42:34
  always come over and she's just like, how about you
• 1:42:37
  like that? And then she would like try to like
• 1:42:39
  pinch my cheeks, and I was like, I was repulsed.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: I was repulsed by her hands. And remember I'd go
• 1:42:45
  I'd be like okay, and I'd like run to the
• 1:42:47
  bathroom and like wash my face.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: It was just I don't know how.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 3: To scare me. Did She's like, are you okay there?
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: I'm like I just got in here. It's like okay, yeah,
• 1:42:59
  I'm fine, Okay. She watched Happy Gilmour all the time.
• 1:43:05
  It's all she watched.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 3: What Why Why were you repulse? Fires? She she had
• 1:43:13
  a disability.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: Her fucking hands. Man, I'm a child, and her hands
• 1:43:17
  are they were like seriously, her fingers were crooked. One
• 1:43:21
  was like basically like permanently over her other one, and
• 1:43:24
  they were all like this and she could barely grab stuff.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 3: She'd say, can't you hand me the spoon?
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: And so I said okay, and then she would like
• 1:43:32
  hold it all weird and I felt bad. I'm like,
• 1:43:34
  do you want me to give me to do it
• 1:43:35
  for you? She said, oh please? And I was feed her.
• 1:43:38
  One time she fucking fell asleep while I was feeding her,
• 1:43:41
  and she was like not choking on the soup, but
• 1:43:43
  it was in her mouth and she was like h
• 1:43:48
  And I didn't know how to wake her up, so
• 1:43:50
  like slapped her leg and she was like ah, like
• 1:43:53
  that freaked out the soup whatever, And it doesn't matter
• 1:43:59
  whatever it was was.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 2: There was there any member of your fam, any elderly
• 1:44:06
  member of your family that you do not have a
• 1:44:08
  traumatic story or were terrified of?
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: Plenty plenty. I had a lot of good grandparents. I
• 1:44:17
  had a couple weird ones.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 3: Sure, one that tries to kill you, that's.
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: Not totally confirmed, but I will say the other one was.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 2: Your mother, who wasn't adult at the time.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 3: I think she was neither.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 2: The most people do not, well, look, I've let this
• 1:44:38
  go too long. Most people do not have a grandfather
• 1:44:41
  that tried to kill them.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's not normal at.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: All, hunting accident. And I will say that the great grandma,
• 1:44:50
  she just literally had arthritis, and it scared me when
• 1:44:52
  I was younger. I was young, young, and if you
• 1:44:55
  see that, you're going to be horrified. She was a
• 1:44:57
  nice enough lady.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 3: How often do you hate people with disabilities.
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: Like the okay, don't hate her once again? Young and frightened, scared,
• 1:45:07
  horrified really, to be completely fair, I remember I'd look
• 1:45:10
  at my I would look at my hands in the
• 1:45:12
  bathroom and stuff, and I would just like I would
• 1:45:14
  sit there and like I would like squeeze my fingers
• 1:45:16
  and stuff to make sure that they were like I'm like,
• 1:45:19
  I asked my dad to like, my hands aren't gonna
• 1:45:22
  end up like that? And he was like, oh, probably.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 3: Is. They told me what. Okay, So would you say
• 1:45:30
  you were a repulsed byer then?
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 7: No?
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: I was not. Well, yes, but it was just because
• 1:45:35
  I was afraid. I was afraid.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 3: So how how often are you repulsed by people with disabilities?
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: Almost never? Because honestly, and I'll tell you something right now,
• 1:45:44
  because everyone's God's little angel.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, right, all right, as long as that's on the record,
• 1:45:53
  I guess. Anyway, my mother had her first stroke seven
• 1:45:58
  years ago. Just last week she had her thirty second Bruh.
• 1:46:02
  I still remember the weeks after her first stroke. I
• 1:46:06
  was in college in New York and didn't have a car.
• 1:46:08
  It's been almost all of my savings going from taxi
• 1:46:11
  to taxi to see her, just for her to get
• 1:46:13
  angry at me for wasting my money. Nothing in heaven
• 1:46:16
  or hell, surely nothing in between stop her from seeing
• 1:46:19
  me graduate. She told me that and promptly sent me
• 1:46:23
  back to school, paid for my trip out of her
• 1:46:25
  own pockets. Back then, she still seemed so strong. If
• 1:46:29
  the stroke had affected her, she didn't let me see it.
• 1:46:33
  As the years went on, I watched her to deiorate
• 1:46:35
  both body and mind. By the third stroke, she could
• 1:46:38
  barely use one of her hands. She began to forget
• 1:46:42
  what she was saying part way through her sentences. By
• 1:46:45
  the fifth stroke, she could no longer walk, and every
• 1:46:47
  word took a great strain on her mind. When my
• 1:46:50
  graduation came, she was still alive. Five strokes more than
• 1:46:54
  enough to kill someone. I knew that, but my mother
• 1:46:56
  defied all odds and held on for me. Both my
• 1:46:59
  grandparents one of my aunts were there with me during
• 1:47:02
  the graduation. There was an atmosphere of discomfort in the air,
• 1:47:06
  but I didn't care. Made the most of it with
• 1:47:08
  my mother. After a tenth stroke. She didn't seem to
• 1:47:12
  remember much of that day, but that was okay. I
• 1:47:15
  showed her the photos, and without fail, they brought a
• 1:47:18
  smile to her face. But day by day, month by month,
• 1:47:23
  smile was fainter and fainter. I was sitting in her
• 1:47:27
  nursing homeroom trying to decide which movie she would want
• 1:47:31
  to watch. Held up an old cartoon I used to
• 1:47:33
  watch with my brother in the hospital and asked her
• 1:47:36
  if she wanted to watch it gee ye. Her lips
• 1:47:47
  didn't move much, but she managed to grunt out a response.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 3: Took it as a yes.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: I put the movie into the old Xbox I gave
• 1:47:56
  her to use the DVD player. She had a whole
• 1:47:59
  stack of DVD He's even taller than I was. People
• 1:48:01
  used to give them to her s gifts to keep
• 1:48:03
  her happy. She couldn't get up to put them in herself, though,
• 1:48:06
  but I would come as often as I couldn't do
• 1:48:08
  it for turned the volume up to a tune out
• 1:48:11
  the loud machine hooked up to her. It wasn't a
• 1:48:14
  long movie, but we enjoyed it together. I could see
• 1:48:17
  it in her eyes. Didn't marr which movie I played,
• 1:48:19
  as long as we got to enjoy it together for
• 1:48:21
  whatever time we both had left.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 3: I'm getting sad.
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: This is rough.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 2: After it was over, I decided I'd go get something
• 1:48:32
  to drink. My mom drifted off to sleep sometime during
• 1:48:35
  the movie. She usually had a hard time staying awake
• 1:48:38
  any more than a few hours at once. From outside
• 1:48:41
  her room had a few years shot off the loud machine.
• 1:48:44
  Heard the soft music playing in the hallways. Same station
• 1:48:48
  was always playing, not one I recognized. It was in
• 1:48:52
  some foreign language that was shockingly similar to English.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 3: To weren't any discernible words.
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: Hello, missus Dawson, I.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 3: Said, cheerfully to the old lady along my path.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 4: Oh hello, dear, what a nice young man you are.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: Do you happen to work here? I'm lucky for help.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 2: Her words were strong, spider, shaking body. Her skin was
• 1:49:15
  as pale as a ghost and thinner than paper.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: No, but you can go to your room, missus Dawson,
• 1:49:21
  and I'll make sure help is there for you as
• 1:49:22
  soon as they can. They ben have trouble finding you
• 1:49:25
  if you're walking around.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 3: You know that, Hei, Hi, do my room.
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: It looks confused.
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 3: So I held her shoulders gently as I could and
• 1:49:35
  pointed her down the hallway.
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: If you go down this hallway, ma'am, turn left at
• 1:49:39
  the end in the first In the first room is
• 1:49:41
  yours room two one one.
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 3: Oh hai, Si hw nice young men you are? Do
• 1:49:48
  you have family here?
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: She made eye contact, but it felt more like looking
• 1:49:53
  at a clay sculpture than it did a person. There's
• 1:49:55
  a little consciousness left behind her eyes. Yeah, I do,
• 1:50:00
  I responded with a smile. She nods it, turns around
• 1:50:03
  and begin walking away, murmuring something about how nice she
• 1:50:09
  was walking in the wrong direction. But I was sure
• 1:50:12
  a nurse would find her later and help. I loved
• 1:50:16
  my talks with missus Dawson. She was always so sweet.
• 1:50:19
  I would have helped either what the I did, what
• 1:50:21
  I could.
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: She goes the opposite fucking direction. I'm like, she'll find it,
• 1:50:30
  She'll be all right, No, she won't. She's probably going
• 1:50:34
  for a quick, little brisk walk, little pep talk to
• 1:50:37
  herself to get back in the groove. How stella got
• 1:50:40
  a groove back? That's how I'd say. And she said there,
• 1:50:43
  murmuring to herself, I'm like, all right, well I did
• 1:50:45
  my best. I'm not gonna mess with that old fucking
• 1:50:46
  bee hive walking around.
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 3: Dude.
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 2: The help shows up eventually and it's like, well walk it.
• 1:50:52
  And Hunter's been like, I've been pointing her to the
• 1:50:54
  wrong wings on purpose.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: He's gonna see he's gonna see her again in her
• 1:50:58
  fucking she's gonna have great calves, big calves.
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 2: If this was you, you would like point out the front
• 1:51:05
  door of the nursing home to the highway and it's like,
• 1:51:08
  it's right across the street.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 2: If I was, If I was, if I was in
• 1:51:13
  a nursing home and some woman was like, hey, Eric,
• 1:51:16
  where am I going, I would say, don't ever talk
• 1:51:18
  to me.
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: Don't touch me, you old fucking cook. That's what i'd say.
• 1:51:21
  And I say you touch me again, I'll knock your
• 1:51:23
  fucking lights out. You hear me, you old bitch?
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 3: And she say hi, Oh my god.
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: And if I was, I'll say, I'm the old man
• 1:51:30
  in the situation. I look at a guy, grab him
• 1:51:33
  real tight by his wrist, real tight.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 5: And I'd say, kill me, kill me, push me into
• 1:51:43
  the road, please throw me, take.
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 3: Me to my room.
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: The guy would take me to my room and I'd
• 1:51:50
  be like, turn on, put the bath, fill up the bath.
• 1:51:54
  He's like, okay, you want hot water.
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 4: I'm like scolding, scolding, God.
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: And he's filled up.
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 2: It's fucking steaming his hell in there, and I'd be like,
• 1:52:01
  put me in. He put me in, and then I
• 1:52:03
  would grab his hand and I'd put his hand on
• 1:52:05
  my face and I'd say drown me. And I'd have
• 1:52:08
  him put his hand on my face until it was
• 1:52:09
  totally summers and I'm like and then he'd be like, I.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: Can't I do it? Do it? Pussy kill me is
• 1:52:15
  why I do it. I'd want him to drown me.
• 1:52:17
  I wanted to drown me. Or I would say give
• 1:52:19
  me those pills, and say, hey, give me those pills,
• 1:52:22
  and I'd take.
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 2: A big thing of the pills and I would just
• 1:52:24
  like slowly drip my shoulders down and I would just
• 1:52:26
  slowly fall asleep in the tub and fucking drown to death.
• 1:52:31
  I like, how you had all of that ready.
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: I I'll think I'll think about I think about it
• 1:52:40
  every day. If anybody drops me off at a fucking
• 1:52:42
  nursing home, I'm gonna just tell anybody.
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 4: I'll give you I'll leave. I'll leave two hundred dollars. Hey,
• 1:52:47
  the tooth fairy left you two hundred dollars to hit
• 1:52:50
  me in the head with a hammer until I die.
• 1:52:54
  I have two hundred dollars underneath my pillow. The two
• 1:52:57
  lifts something for you.
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 3: Here's the question.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 2: Would you return the favor if you were the young
• 1:53:02
  man in that scenario.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: M No, I don't think I kill anybody, but I
• 1:53:07
  would like maybe maybe not saying I would, but maybe
• 1:53:12
  if I was like, oh, it's kind of hot in here,
• 1:53:14
  and I like fucking propped open the back door and
• 1:53:16
  I was left open, I'm like, let's see what nature,
• 1:53:18
  whatever happens in nature for the old geriatric man to
• 1:53:23
  wander outside here I go and I'd be like, well,
• 1:53:26
  I didn't see that, and I'd just walk off, and
• 1:53:28
  I'd be like, well, if he comes back, then if
• 1:53:30
  he comes back raised by wolves, and he's worth you know,
• 1:53:33
  staying alive. If not, then that's just what nature wanted,
• 1:53:35
  is what I would say.
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 2: Raised by wolves at eighty five years old exactly, ho.
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 3: Ho?
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 2: Or maybe what happens is wolves come into the nursing home.
• 1:53:51
  Oh my god, who let these wolves in? You just
• 1:53:56
  hear my cars, get off. Drive the fuck out of there.
• 1:54:00
  I stayed that you leave the door.
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my grandma has are wolves.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: Exactly, giant pack wolves. I'm driving away, speeding away.
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 2: I look back and I see my my grandma's face
• 1:54:11
  in the window, and she's like, and she's being fucking
• 1:54:16
  torn apart by three by three young Oh, I say,
• 1:54:20
  I mean hungry pups.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: You can see their ribs. There's their fucking eyes have
• 1:54:23
  been eating out by flies and ship.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 3: She's like, damn.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: That kind of thing.
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 3: You feed your grandfather?
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, I didn't. I didn't feel I didn't feed
• 1:54:37
  him that. I propped the back door off and just
• 1:54:39
  nature took its course. Nature took its course. That's what
• 1:54:41
  was supposed to happen. I'm gone, I don't even hear that. Right,
• 1:54:46
  I'm driving, I'm driving away. I'm driving away. I have
• 1:54:51
  to block that out. Because I saw the wolves come in.
• 1:54:53
  I definitely know something bad is gonna happen, but I immediately
• 1:54:55
  get my I get my mind off of it by
• 1:54:57
  blasting the wolves come. No, no, no, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 2: So in this in this situation, backdoor is left open
• 1:55:04
  and I just just to throw it a little just
• 1:55:06
  a let's see what nature says.
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: I say that right before I get ready to leave.
• 1:55:09
  I fucking steal a. I go to an old man,
• 1:55:11
  I fucking grab his pudding out of his hand. I said,
• 1:55:13
  it's mine. Now he's like my snack pack, and I
• 1:55:15
  fucking slap him in the face and I'm eating his
• 1:55:17
  chocolate snackpack. I leave open the door. I'm like, let's
• 1:55:20
  see what nature has to say. Right And as I'm
• 1:55:22
  going to go, I I bump my ass in the
• 1:55:24
  door to open it because I have my snackpack, and
• 1:55:26
  I like, look, and I'm like, oh shit, and there's
• 1:55:28
  five visceral, young hungry pups that come in with one
• 1:55:31
  alpha and I do zoincs and I get the fuck
• 1:55:34
  out of there. That's what I'm saying. So I see
• 1:55:36
  it as I'm going out. But I'm like, oh, nature's already.
• 1:55:38
  Nature's acted so quickly.
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, only acted because you left the door.
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Nature acted on no no, no, no no.
• 1:55:47
  Nature acted on its own. And I and I'm able
• 1:55:49
  to say, and I'm you know, and I have to
• 1:55:51
  block out the screams of my grandmother and I'm blasting
• 1:55:53
  electric avenue in my car. Where are you going?
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 3: On rock to electric?
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: And I'm driving away and I'm speeding.
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 2: I'm going like eighty five in a residential neighborhood because
• 1:56:04
  i could.
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: See my grandma the window pan, hitting the fucking window
• 1:56:09
  and stuff. She's never been so strong she almost cracks
• 1:56:11
  the window. And I'm like, where was that strength?
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 2: Oh? Help me here and there I'm like, okay, well,
• 1:56:15
  what the fuck that was hiding somewhere? Good luck with that.
• 1:56:19
  So and for you to witness all this too, you
• 1:56:22
  have to be like four feet from the window, not moving.
• 1:56:26
  Just my car, my car stalled out front, so I
• 1:56:30
  was sitting there trying to start it, or so you
• 1:56:33
  could easily because the door is open well.
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 3: Around. I'm not being challenged.
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: I'm not being challenged by nature, all right. Once again,
• 1:56:42
  i just want to say, nature's taking its course right right,
• 1:56:45
  And I'm not.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 2: Going to interfere with women at the nursing home being
• 1:56:49
  fed to the pack of wolves that for some reason
• 1:56:52
  are right outside the nursing home.
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: Exactly ready to go. Exactly. Everyone that is supposed to
• 1:57:00
  survive nature will survive, and they'll be better off for it,
• 1:57:03
  and nature will be happy too. Those young pups will
• 1:57:05
  go probably bellies full. That's not for me to decide.
• 1:57:09
  Then that's not my fault. That is nature. I'm not
• 1:57:11
  going to interfere. Right if you saw it, if you
• 1:57:15
  saw a cheetah get grabbed by an alligator, would you
• 1:57:17
  dive in to save the cheetah? No, you'd probably say, well,
• 1:57:20
  that's just that's nature.
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, So.
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 7: All right, Uh do you think that maybe would I
• 1:57:32
  if my grandma was calling me, If my grandma was
• 1:57:36
  calling me, hello, ome on, she's on car play, she
• 1:57:38
  interrupted my song, I'm fucking pissed electric any pissed.
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: And then in the in the car play, I'm sitting
• 1:57:45
  there and she's.
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 6: Like, Hotter, you need to cut back because there's wolves.
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: There's wolves in the nursing room.
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, huh, say what this diver right in
• 1:57:59
  the back of you here.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: They're getting close. I think they're assignment. I'm my grandma.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 2: I'm in a really, really bad intercept. This reception is horrible.
• 1:58:16
  I'll be back tuesday. Okay, you take your medicine. Yeah, well,
• 1:58:21
  actually I'm stand now.
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: In this version, I'm standing at her, looking at her
• 1:58:23
  through the window, making eye contact through the glass.
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 2: Are you there?
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 3: I imagining it.
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I left hours ago, and let's just be
• 1:58:31
  actually just watching it.
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 2: I'm like, it's probably those pills because you took you
• 1:58:34
  took your funny pills, right, yeah, I did, because you
• 1:58:36
  remember you said that they're funny looking.
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, well, I love your grandma. Have
• 1:58:41
  a safe sleep. Okay, maybe she just sleeps she gets
• 1:58:43
  eaten that way, the wolves come in, rip out her feet.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 2: Oh so here's here's my thoughts. Right, yeah, so you,
• 1:58:55
  you and your you in life had a you know,
• 1:58:57
  an experience with a grandfather, a traumatic experience that involved dogs. Right,
• 1:59:03
  and now, in this fantasy that you've put together for
• 1:59:07
  yourself of an.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: Adjacent fantasy that's the wrong word fantasy and scenario scenario, daydream,
• 1:59:16
  well scenario, In this.
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 8: Day dream of yours, In this day dream of yours,
• 1:59:21
  you see adjacent grandparent, a grandmother in a position of
• 1:59:28
  helplessness where she is at.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 2: A nursing home, one that we know from your mother's
• 1:59:33
  own story, your grandfather was placed in the real world.
• 1:59:37
  You imagine a grandmother in that same scenario, and in
• 1:59:41
  this scenario, you cause a circumstance that allows them to
• 1:59:48
  be consumed by wolves, which are really just adjacent to dogs.
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 3: I don't think.
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 2: Do you think that in this fiction you've put together,
• 2:00:00
  having a grandparent be mauled by wolves by something that
• 2:00:06
  is not your fault, as you were arguing, but certainly
• 2:00:09
  your contribution being killed by dogs.
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 3: I can could contribute. I'm your actual grandfather.
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to pay dog going to this line
• 2:00:20
  down nature, natural order is what it is, the same
• 2:00:24
  way you could argue that perhaps your grandfather, you know,
• 2:00:28
  in his move to kill you naturally you were barely
• 2:00:31
  saying it, although still still was a thing, almost as
• 2:00:34
  if it would be an accident for you to leave
• 2:00:36
  the door open, would it not?
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: Well, no, because it was stuffy in there, and I
• 2:00:39
  was trying to I was doing a good thing. If
• 2:00:41
  I would have left a window open, the same thing.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 2: You accidentally this accidentally because you didn't mean for it
• 2:00:46
  to led to the wolves coming in and killing your grandmother.
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: Well, that's just that's nature.
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 3: That's nature.
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 2: So but that but that is an accident then on
• 2:00:53
  your part leaving the door open.
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: No, because I was intentional, because there was drafting there,
• 2:00:58
  because as I said before, fun.
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 2: There was a group of old people who said, fun, God,
• 2:01:06
  let me finish. There was a group of old people,
• 2:01:07
  As I said before I said this in the beginning,
• 2:01:10
  a group of old people said.
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: Oh god, Hatcha, would you be dear?
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 5: Could you leave the door open because it's so stuffy.
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: I said, sure thing, missus Dickinson. And then she gave
• 2:01:20
  me your snack pack and she said, hey, here's a treat.
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 2: No was I gonna thanks, that's nice, and I grab
• 2:01:25
  the stackpack. I'm eating it.
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: I prop it opoon because they do that sometimes even
• 2:01:28
  the workers like, yeah, no problem, and that's what happened.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 3: So you're.
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 4: Acts.
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 2: So anyone else could say that was an accident then
• 2:01:39
  what you were doing.
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: But you they should they should have suggested it. I'm
• 2:01:42
  not I'm not putting on them, but they should have
• 2:01:44
  suggested it.
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 2: You won't detail it as an accident because then you
• 2:01:49
  have to acknowledge there's a connection between what you also
• 2:01:52
  claim to be an accident, your grandfather almost killing you
• 2:01:55
  and instead killing your dog, because then that would draw
• 2:01:57
  the parallel too closely. I think that the trial of
• 2:02:00
  you experienced with your grandfather shooting your dog next to
• 2:02:03
  you is leading you to a scenario, a fantasy in
• 2:02:06
  which you, by no fault of your own, cause dogs to.
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 3: Murder a grandparent. I think that that's.
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: You know, and I think if it helps get the
• 2:02:18
  conversation moving to where we can get back to this
• 2:02:20
  beautiful story. That's someone in our community, by the way, Isaiah,
• 2:02:23
  not that you care, someone crafted for us to read here.
• 2:02:26
  Uh that you just seem to You just seem to
• 2:02:28
  be wanting to make this tangent as long as possible.
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 2: And I like, how, now that I've raised Risen a
• 2:02:33
  good point, you now deflect the onus onto me that
• 2:02:36
  I don't care about.
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: I just want to say, I'm completely lost. I'm lost.
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 3: Huh.
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 2: I don't even know if we're now pulling another We're
• 2:02:44
  now pulling another non sequitur. We're now like reaching somewhere
• 2:02:48
  else for you to have a different point. At first,
• 2:02:50
  it was me not caring about whoever wrote this story
• 2:02:53
  or the story itself. Now it's you saying that you
• 2:02:55
  cannot be found with it. I think you're dodging the point.
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: You talk to me, you say these things, you say, Hunter,
• 2:03:03
  what do you think of the scenario? I deeply appreciate
• 2:03:05
  your opinion. I give you them, and then you just
• 2:03:07
  take it and you run wild with it.
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 3: Right. Yeah, Now it's my.
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: Point, I kind of point. It just gets tiring, doesn't right, Right,
• 2:03:16
  I'm sure, I'm sure.
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I think the audience, I think the point
• 2:03:19
  has been made very clear to them.
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 3: I think they will elaborate with that further.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that's an interesting parallel that when your
• 2:03:26
  mind's given a chance to run, it runs back to
• 2:03:29
  that recurring trauma. And I care about you because you're
• 2:03:31
  my friend, and I think you should talk to someone.
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 3: That's all I'm saying.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 2: After another minute or two of walking down the hall,
• 2:03:37
  I made my way into the employee lounge. I didn't
• 2:03:41
  think they'd mind me using it, so long as I
• 2:03:43
  never took anything that didn't belong to me. There was
• 2:03:46
  a small kitchen in it that the staff used to
• 2:03:48
  use heat meals they brought in for lunch. Zinc was
• 2:03:52
  overflowing with thirty dishes, and flies were buzzing fiercely around it.
• 2:03:56
  The marble countertops surrounded the caked in a thick layer
• 2:04:00
  of grease and dried sauces. I can't remember the last
• 2:04:03
  time the janitor worked. I'd have to bring him in
• 2:04:05
  for it later. The cups were kept in a low
• 2:04:08
  down cabinet that I always had to get down on
• 2:04:11
  my knees for. Mostly this was so the people in
• 2:04:13
  wheelchairs could come in and grab a cup when they wanted,
• 2:04:16
  but the residents weren't allowed in here anymore. Inside the
• 2:04:19
  cabinet there are only a few clean cups in the back,
• 2:04:22
  which were hard to reach. I ducked down even lower
• 2:04:25
  and used one hand to support myself as the other
• 2:04:28
  beach fur a cup, and managed to grab it just
• 2:04:30
  by the fingertips. Without warning, my eardrums were suddenly assaulted
• 2:04:34
  by the deafening sound of a horn, impossibly loud and
• 2:04:38
  coming from all around me at once, uncontrollably, my body
• 2:04:42
  jolted up and my head cracked into the lip of
• 2:04:44
  the marble counter above me. I dropped the cup and
• 2:04:47
  rolled back onto the floor, pressing both my hands against
• 2:04:50
  my ears to try to block out the noise, but
• 2:04:52
  it did no good. It was as if a train
• 2:04:55
  was traveling the distance between my ears and blaring its
• 2:04:58
  horn the whole way through. I lay there on the
• 2:05:01
  ground with my knees tucked into my chest, my head
• 2:05:03
  tucked between them for god knows how long. Eventually, after
• 2:05:06
  enough time, the horn began to grow quiet side of
• 2:05:09
  my head, not all at once, but in odd fragments
• 2:05:12
  and segments. I was able to hear it all around
• 2:05:15
  me at first, but I couldn't hear it as much
• 2:05:18
  from behind me. Then I could only hear it from
• 2:05:21
  either side of me. Then I couldn't hear it at all.
• 2:05:25
  The blessing of silence was waylaid with a thrumbing pain
• 2:05:28
  behind my eyes. I didn't get up at first, stayed
• 2:05:32
  down to collect myself a bit, and he shook a
• 2:05:35
  little that I managed to get on to my feet.
• 2:05:37
  Saw a few clear drops of blood where my head
• 2:05:39
  had begun. Sure enough, I recept where I cracked my head,
• 2:05:43
  and my fingers came away wet. I figured I could
• 2:05:46
  just get my glass of water later, and while trying
• 2:05:49
  not to freak out, I left the lounge take my
• 2:05:51
  way to the first floor. Building has three floors, the
• 2:05:54
  first being the floor were with all the activity rooms,
• 2:05:57
  the reception area with all the offices, and the main kidding.
• 2:06:01
  Second and third floors are full of residents in a
• 2:06:03
  few smaller miscellaneous rooms. I'd only been up to the
• 2:06:06
  third floor once or twice when I accidentally hit the
• 2:06:09
  wrong elevator button and didn't realize it. I never saw
• 2:06:13
  a need to go up there otherwise, so I didn't.
• 2:06:15
  It was where most of the hospice patients and students
• 2:06:17
  at the local medical school would reside. The hallway I
• 2:06:20
  walked down was full of wheelchairs and walkers, most of
• 2:06:23
  them empty, spare one with a fat old man sitting
• 2:06:26
  in it. He looks like a chaeruh, but with a
• 2:06:29
  full beard, his skin pale and his cheeks chubby. His
• 2:06:33
  hair was sparse and wispy against his scalp, and his
• 2:06:35
  head was stilted to lean on his shoulder like a pillow.
• 2:06:38
  I know it would be hard to wake him up.
• 2:06:40
  I tiptoed around him anyway, just to be polite. A
• 2:06:42
  few yards passed it, did the rapture happen? Is that
• 2:06:46
  what the train hornsund? And now like this one guy
• 2:06:48
  leves to just share his Maybe A few yards past
• 2:06:55
  him was the main desk for the second floor. It
• 2:06:58
  was where the nurses and assistants on the floor worked
• 2:07:00
  to maintain comfort safety for the residence. As I walked
• 2:07:04
  past it, I could see Missus Dawson down a perpendicular hallway.
• 2:07:07
  Her head was on a swivel, as if she was
• 2:07:09
  trying to find something that wasn't there. I'd let the
• 2:07:12
  nurse take care of her after me after the desk,
• 2:07:15
  inside a large room. Just off the side was the
• 2:07:18
  elevator and stairs to go down well stairs. At least
• 2:07:21
  the elevator had been broken for some time. The doors
• 2:07:24
  were permanently jammed open and revealed a long, dark drop underneath.
• 2:07:28
  It wasn't mcdildough. I just made sure the door to
• 2:07:30
  this room was shut tight so the residence would be safe.
• 2:07:33
  Made my way down the stairs. The sun shone brighter
• 2:07:37
  down here thanks to the floor to ceiling windows to
• 2:07:39
  the left and right at the front desk.
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 3: Stairs led me to the main reception area just passed
• 2:07:44
  the front doors.
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 2: The only noise heard here away from the residence was
• 2:07:48
  a music that odd and incomprehensible music. I made my
• 2:07:52
  way over and leaned down over the guest sign and
• 2:07:55
  sheet and signed myself out as a visitor. I walked
• 2:07:58
  past the desk after signing my signature and opened a
• 2:08:00
  door into a back office, then walked over to a computer,
• 2:08:03
  pooted it up, and began to write something I took
• 2:08:05
  up recently, keeping a log of my days here. I've
• 2:08:09
  been thinking about posting them somewhere where I could talk
• 2:08:12
  to someone like me, but I haven't decided yet. I
• 2:08:15
  guess if you're reading this, then you already know my decision.
• 2:08:19
  I'm not sure why I decided to write. I think
• 2:08:21
  it just makes me feel more sure of myself. Comforts
• 2:08:24
  me in some strange way, like I'm assuring myself that
• 2:08:27
  I am real and I exist. It means I'll have
• 2:08:29
  something to look back at and organize my thoughts with.
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 3: Done. Stupid, but it's been working as a sort.
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: Of therapy for me.
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 2: I had saved on my document to turn the computer off.
• 2:08:39
  Half of my day's log was done, yet another half
• 2:08:41
  of the day still on. Lived right about two rooms
• 2:08:45
  over from the first office was a storage room with
• 2:08:48
  some uniforms and tools for the workers I'd set aside,
• 2:08:50
  and we had to strip off all my clothes and
• 2:08:52
  hang them from the hooks on the back of the door.
• 2:08:54
  Even my socks and underwear came off. I was as
• 2:08:57
  fair as the day I was born, and by one
• 2:09:00
  I perused the uniforms I had gathered in this room.
• 2:09:03
  There's a dark purple males nurses outfit on a shelf,
• 2:09:07
  and a neatly folded pile that I decided on under
• 2:09:10
  where I was on top, and the socks, pants, the shirt.
• 2:09:13
  After that, I made sure they were all in place
• 2:09:15
  as I found them the first time, making sure to
• 2:09:17
  tighten the drawshrink on the pants tightly. There were Twoesa's
• 2:09:20
  size is too big for me, but I may do
• 2:09:22
  as best as I could hold on.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 3: So what.
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 2: The clothes he's found he's been stealing and putting back here? Yeah, okay,
• 2:09:34
  we're gonna keep reading with a few antiseptic wipes.
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 3: Since the ointment in hand, I made my way out
• 2:09:39
  into the quiet hall.
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 2: My footsteps on the linoleum floor went tap, tap, tap,
• 2:09:44
  almost in time to the song playing. As they carried
• 2:09:47
  me towards the bathroom. I had to clean some dust
• 2:09:49
  off the mirror first before I could see myself clearly,
• 2:09:52
  but I managed to twist my head and away I
• 2:09:54
  could see the cut on my scalp and clean it
• 2:09:56
  up properly. One task was completed. Now Missus Dawson needed atension.
• 2:10:00
  My mother would probably be awake by then. I could
• 2:10:03
  give her some water and maybe cook some food after
• 2:10:05
  that too. But as I opened the door to the bathroom,
• 2:10:08
  something caught my attention. Smell one that surprisingly enticed me.
• 2:10:13
  At first, I'll be it confusingly smelled like toasting fresh bread.
• 2:10:17
  When I was a kid, my mother used to bake
• 2:10:19
  her own bread, his hobby of hers. Coming home from school,
• 2:10:22
  only to open the door and smell that incredible cent
• 2:10:24
  of bread fresh out of the oven was bliss. Even
• 2:10:27
  more than that, sometimes when I had a bad day,
• 2:10:30
  she would make me a grilled cheese to cheer me up.
• 2:10:33
  Smell I was smelling was just like I remembered it.
• 2:10:35
  Someone nearby was making grilled cheese. I'm not sure who
• 2:10:39
  could be doing it, but almost cartoonishly, I followed the
• 2:10:41
  smell down the hallways. Granted, the smell didn't seem any
• 2:10:45
  stronger or weaker as I walked, but it must be
• 2:10:48
  coming from the kitchen. There's no other explanation. So towards
• 2:10:51
  the kitchen I walked, and as I did, smell changed.
• 2:10:54
  The bread began to burn. I picked up the pace.
• 2:10:57
  Smell of lush, fluffy, warm bread turned turning acrid and
• 2:11:02
  borderline noxious. But the kitchen seemed so far away. Every
• 2:11:06
  step of mine drew me closer, and it had had to.
• 2:11:09
  But as I looked around, I found myself still in
• 2:11:11
  the doorway to the bathroom. The door hadn't even closed yet,
• 2:11:14
  it was leaning against my shoulder. Somehow, even after what
• 2:11:17
  felt like at least sixty seconds of walking, I was
• 2:11:20
  standing totally still. That's exactly where I first smelt the bread.
• 2:11:24
  It didn't make sense. I had to be imagining it.
• 2:11:28
  There was no one in the kitchen, no one was
• 2:11:30
  cooking grilled cheese, and my legs most definitely still worked.
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 3: Took a step forward, then another, the third.
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 2: The first step shifted my left arm, the second turned
• 2:11:39
  my head, and the third flexed my core. Something had
• 2:11:42
  gone horribly wrong with me. Panic began to set in
• 2:11:45
  as I realized my own body was outside of my control,
• 2:11:48
  and that's when the world around me began to change.
• 2:11:51
  It was as if I had stepped into my own
• 2:11:53
  blurry memory. If I unfocused my eyes, I could see
• 2:11:56
  the familiar shape of the lobby around me, But if
• 2:11:58
  I tried to look any closer or all, the details
• 2:12:00
  began to blur together. Under the objects I could see
• 2:12:04
  had any outline blending into each other to form new
• 2:12:06
  shapes I never even dreamed of, yet each one looks
• 2:12:09
  so familiar. Objects in the background linked in and are
• 2:12:13
  twined with objects in the foreground, and the difference between
• 2:12:15
  the two became indecipherable to me. I know this place,
• 2:12:20
  where I am and where to go, but felt like
• 2:12:22
  this place.
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 3: Did not know me. The one constant in this lobby
• 2:12:26
  was the song.
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 2: Still the music played, but as my senses warped in
• 2:12:29
  my mind muddled, the noise swam around me, wiggling into
• 2:12:33
  my brain and checking itself into my nerves. The words
• 2:12:36
  in the song seemed so close to understandable. I know
• 2:12:39
  I had heard them before, but the more I tried
• 2:12:41
  to place them, the further away my thoughts ran from me.
• 2:12:45
  I tried to close my eyes and block out the
• 2:12:47
  side of my world slipping away, but my eyes did
• 2:12:50
  not listen. Instead, my legs began to move, to carry
• 2:12:53
  me to a place I could not know, because I
• 2:12:55
  could not tell the difference. Logically, I know I was
• 2:12:58
  still in the lobby, maybe in the kitchen or the bathroom,
• 2:13:02
  but for all I could.
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 3: Tell, it might have been the other side of the world.
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 2: In that moment, I couldn't form a real thought my
• 2:13:08
  inner monologue sounded like it was speaking in a foreign language.
• 2:13:12
  Words came in the wrong order, the wrong parts were emphasized.
• 2:13:16
  Some words just seemed entirely made up. It was getting
• 2:13:19
  worse by the minute, so I decided I needed something
• 2:13:21
  to latch onto. By bit, I tried to move for
• 2:13:24
  myself to take some amount of control. Try to shift
• 2:13:28
  my shoulder, My toe wriggled. Try to move my toe
• 2:13:31
  and my knee bent. I tried to move my knees
• 2:13:34
  and my jaw clinched down hard through brute force, and
• 2:13:37
  with an incredible amount of luck, I managed to close
• 2:13:40
  my hand. I felt something in my palm, something I
• 2:13:43
  had felt before but just couldn't remember what. I squeezed
• 2:13:47
  it hard, trying to use it to anchor my body
• 2:13:49
  in place and stop me from moving. I'm not sure
• 2:13:52
  if it was just my eyes playing tricks on me,
• 2:13:54
  or if I actually was moving. But the walls and
• 2:13:57
  colors around me continued to shift and meld. Something did
• 2:14:00
  change that I never could have imagined. Someone began to scream.
• 2:14:05
  It was shrill and pierced my ears. If I could
• 2:14:08
  have wieled my arms to I would have checked if
• 2:14:10
  they were bleeding, definitiing always around me, except that god
• 2:14:14
  forsaken song It's still played. I have no idea how,
• 2:14:18
  but even through the otherworldly scream, I managed to hear it.
• 2:14:22
  The lyrics seemed to speak to me Through all things
• 2:14:25
  around me, they alone connected. I could not see what
• 2:14:28
  was around me, I could not feel the ground beneath
• 2:14:31
  my feet, and my mind was in more pieces than
• 2:14:34
  I could hope to reassemble.
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: But I began to understand and give us this day
• 2:14:38
  our daily bread.
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 2: My grip tighten, and my body began to seize and
• 2:14:42
  for give us our trespasses. Everything in front of me
• 2:14:45
  began to swirl, twist is.
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: To forgive those who trespass against us.
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 2: My jaw was still clenched, muscles tightening and relaxing against
• 2:14:53
  my will, and finally my eyelids began to close.
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 3: Every thought in my head like sand running through my fingers.
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: And to slip away.
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 2: I lay there for some amount of time, I'm not
• 2:15:03
  sure how long, until my body relaxed. Whatever my hand
• 2:15:07
  was gripping slipped away, scream easing into a gentle, meek sob.
• 2:15:12
  The music has always persisted, but I could no longer
• 2:15:15
  make out with the words, and what I could only
• 2:15:17
  describe is the first moment to listen the whole or
• 2:15:19
  deal my consciousness faded away. Interesting, So I made the
• 2:15:23
  joke about the raptor earlier. This might actually be the rapture,
• 2:15:26
  considering he's hearing the Lord's prayer and there's people missing
• 2:15:32
  out of wheelchairs like they were raptured up, and then
• 2:15:34
  there's a singing coming.
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 3: And it seems that the description of I may need
• 2:15:39
  to reread that.
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 2: But that description of I was walking through the hospital
• 2:15:43
  and I'd collected clothes I had found. That almost makes
• 2:15:45
  it sound like people raptured out of their clothes and
• 2:15:47
  the clothes left mind. And he's been living in here
• 2:15:49
  for some time, maybe taking care of the elderly patience
• 2:15:52
  and keeping clothes. I don't know, but yeah, I feel
• 2:15:57
  it's obviously religious because the song he keeps hearing is
• 2:16:01
  the Lord's prayer, So maybe that is what's going on.
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 2: Took hours for me to wake up. I'm not sure
• 2:16:07
  how many, but when I woke I was greeted with
• 2:16:09
  pale moonlight. Three PM. When I finished the movie with
• 2:16:12
  my mom. Now it was the middle of the night. Okay,
• 2:16:15
  so all that was a dream, right, mmm? I think
• 2:16:20
  well yeah, with him saying it took ash me to
• 2:16:22
  wake up, so I'm guessing. I'm guessing that this just.
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 1: Felt like has some like super long feeling, you know,
• 2:16:29
  I mean, like whenever her dream feels like it's almost
• 2:16:30
  years or something like.
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like I mentioned it like a full night. Yeah, yeah,
• 2:16:35
  I think so.
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 2: My mouth was dry as a desert and my entire
• 2:16:38
  body was sore as if I had just had the
• 2:16:40
  workout of my life. It was lying flat on my
• 2:16:42
  back on some heart surface, but I didn't need to
• 2:16:45
  look around and know where I was.
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 3: Just hang in there.
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 2: The poster said, little cat was hanging from a branch
• 2:16:51
  in the captioned photo. It's a poster that I got
• 2:16:54
  for my mom when she first moved into the nursing home,
• 2:16:57
  like when the doctor said there was a chance she
• 2:16:59
  could get better, just taped her ceiling and she thought
• 2:17:02
  it was hilarious, even with the rest of the family
• 2:17:04
  thought it was odd since my aching body's wishes. I
• 2:17:08
  shifted myself into a sitting position and looked around me.
• 2:17:12
  The Xbox had long since gone into sleep mode, and
• 2:17:14
  the smell permeated the air. Let me know I needed
• 2:17:17
  to change her diaper. Dragged myself to my feet and
• 2:17:19
  looked at her, her eyes meeting immediately, and I, like usual,
• 2:17:24
  forced a big smile on my face.
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 3: Was the first time since she had her first stroke.
• 2:17:29
  Didn't know what to say. What had she seen?
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 2: What did I get here? What happened to me downstairs?
• 2:17:36
  Whether or not she knew the answer sent matter. She
• 2:17:39
  couldn't tell me even if I asked. A growing familiar
• 2:17:41
  suspicion grewom I got and I decided to focus on
• 2:17:44
  what she needed first.
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 3: I could take care of myself.
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 2: She couldn't you thirsty, mom, I'm sorry it's so late.
• 2:17:52
  I'll make some food in a bit. I'm sure I
• 2:17:54
  can find something to cook up for us.
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 3: Her good eyes stared into my soul. It was puffy
• 2:17:58
  and red. She had been crying.
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 2: I reached out to the bed next to her bed,
• 2:18:03
  grabbing her communication sheet, pull it up for She shakily
• 2:18:07
  reached out. Her good arm pointed a slack finger at yes.
• 2:18:11
  I adjested my smile and beyan to speak, but her
• 2:18:14
  arm began to shift, pointed to something else on the sheet.
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 3: She pointed at help, then slowly and steadily. She raised
• 2:18:21
  her arm and pointed outside the room.
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: Help a sign? Does someone need Does someone else need help?
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 2: The day is over and I haven't had food or
• 2:18:34
  taken care of any of the residents yet. My mom
• 2:18:37
  has always been the kind of person who puts other
• 2:18:39
  people's well being in front of her own, so when
• 2:18:41
  she said help outside, it just seemed obvious to me.
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, Mom, I'll make sure everyone is okay, but don't
• 2:18:49
  you fall asleep in that diaper again. I'll throw a
• 2:18:52
  movie on for you and it'll be back before it's over. Okay.
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 2: Through on Christmas movie we used to watch together when
• 2:18:58
  I was a kid, and told her I've sure before
• 2:19:00
  walking out, so I left. I heard her let out
• 2:19:03
  a little groan that told me she had hit the
• 2:19:05
  morphine button. I needed to check her machine later. She
• 2:19:08
  seemed to be going through more morphine every week lately.
• 2:19:11
  I'm not sure what I'll do when I run out. Okay,
• 2:19:14
  so he keeps saying stuff like that, what I'll do
• 2:19:17
  when I run out? The outfits I found it's like
• 2:19:19
  he's been the only one here for a while, because
• 2:19:22
  normally you would wait on the nurses to refill the
• 2:19:24
  morphine machine, right, but he's like, what I'll do when
• 2:19:26
  I run out?
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 3: So has he been here for a while, just the
• 2:19:29
  two of them?
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's hard to say, because that's what I'm wondering too,
• 2:19:33
  is is was it not a dream and he just
• 2:19:35
  woke up like he went to bed, woke up and
• 2:19:37
  then he's still it is kind of like reality, you
• 2:19:39
  know what I mean, Like I wasn't a dream.
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 2: That also explains why he went and started writing all
• 2:19:44
  this on a computer in the nursing home. Yeah, because
• 2:19:48
  he's just been here by himself, almost taking care of
• 2:19:50
  all the patients on his own, what few were left.
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 3: Outside of her.
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 2: This also explains why he needs to be the one
• 2:19:59
  to go help outside instead of, you know, the rest
• 2:20:01
  of the people that worked there. Outside of her room
• 2:20:03
  on the rest of the second floor, all the lights
• 2:20:05
  were still brightly lit, went from room to room and
• 2:20:07
  made a list of what each resident needed. Yes, Okay,
• 2:20:10
  so he's definitely the clothes he talked about finding the
• 2:20:13
  ones that are too big. Is because he's just wearing
• 2:20:15
  the clothes He's taking care of everyone in the nursing
• 2:20:17
  home because he's the only person left. Yeah, I haven't
• 2:20:20
  checked the empty rooms, just to check that someone hadn't
• 2:20:23
  made their way inside. There were nine residents in their rooms,
• 2:20:26
  not including my mom. But unfortunately, when it passed away
• 2:20:29
  while I was conscious, it looked like her breathing apper
• 2:20:32
  at his head come undone and she suffocated. Found her
• 2:20:35
  on the ground halfway across the floor of the room,
• 2:20:37
  presumably trying to crawl to.
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  Speaker 3: It for some hope of fresh oxygen.
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 2: The ground by her hands was scuffed and her nails
• 2:20:43
  were all filed down her fingertips a desperate attempt to
• 2:20:46
  pull herself forward. With a deep sigh, I walked out
• 2:20:50
  of the room, closed the door, locked it with a
• 2:20:52
  master key, and walked away.
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  Speaker 3: There or eight residents in their rooms, not including my mom.
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  Speaker 2: Some residents weren't happy to be woken up by me,
• 2:21:00
  but I was sure waking up hungry or sick tomorrow
• 2:21:02
  would be much worse. Two of them asking me about
• 2:21:05
  some horrendous noise they heard, some kind of yelling. I
• 2:21:08
  reassured them everything was okay and everyone was happy. Moved
• 2:21:11
  on to the next room. Eventually I had a list
• 2:21:14
  of everyone's needs, from diaper changes to food, especially the
• 2:21:17
  nighttime medicine that some needed only one person was missing
• 2:21:21
  from my list, Missus Dawson. She wasn't in her room
• 2:21:25
  like usual, and I didn't see her walking around the
• 2:21:27
  hallways either. I been down on my gut feeling that
• 2:21:31
  something was wrong and just assumed she was in a
• 2:21:33
  staff room or perhaps the floor's main bathroom.
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 3: She didn't turn up in either.
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 2: I realized something then I'd come upstairs with my stupor,
• 2:21:41
  which means I made it past the door revealing the
• 2:21:43
  elevator shaft, feeling similar to a rock singing in my stomach.
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 3: Kitney. As I turned my walk into a run down
• 2:21:50
  the hallway.
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 2: I could already see the door of the elevator and stairroom,
• 2:21:53
  just past the nurse's desk, which was halfway open. Painting
• 2:21:57
  said him once more, And as I ran, I almost
• 2:21:59
  missed it sound of someone crying. I practically trip trying
• 2:22:03
  to slow down my run. So suddenly it was a miracle.
• 2:22:06
  I heard it all over my footsteps and the sound
• 2:22:08
  of the music playing. Sound was coming from the nurses desk.
• 2:22:12
  It was a large circular desk with four computers facing
• 2:22:15
  each hallway and an island in the middle that served
• 2:22:18
  to hold paperwork for the whole floor. I put one
• 2:22:22
  of the flip up countertops that stepped into the desk
• 2:22:24
  to see the source of the crime. Curled up underneath
• 2:22:27
  the desk, doing her best shop at being invisible, was
• 2:22:30
  Missus Dawson. She looked at me with fear in her eyes,
• 2:22:34
  but I don't think she was afraid of me, just
• 2:22:35
  afraid of the world around her. Her eyes were puffy,
• 2:22:38
  like she had been crying for a long time, and
• 2:22:40
  her cane wastwhere in sight.
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 1: Missus Dawson, are you okay?
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 3: Do you need help?
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: Up?
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 3: Every word I spoke under twitch.
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 5: Yes, please, it hurts.
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 4: I need you to help me.
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 3: I took her hand and lifted her her feet, letting
• 2:22:56
  her lean as much weight as she needed on me.
• 2:22:59
  She was so light. Considered carrying her, but it felt disrespectful.
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 8: Is he gone?
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 1: Is who gone? Ma'am?
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 2: So lifts to turn to the light. Goldn't take my
• 2:23:09
  eyes away from her arm. Her upper arm, just above
• 2:23:12
  her elbow, was a mess of purples, yellows, and pinks.
• 2:23:15
  It's a large bruise, and I couldn't help but notice
• 2:23:18
  it was about as wide as my hand.
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: Was that man who was here earlier, I thought he
• 2:23:24
  worked here but then something happened.
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 3: Her words tragged, each one taking a conscious effort on
• 2:23:30
  her part.
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: What happened? Do you know how you got this bruise?
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 2: I asked, hoping to at least get some fragments of
• 2:23:37
  what happened. Fortunately, her broken mind worked against her. It's
• 2:23:40
  like I'd had for years.
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 1: Now, Bruce, what Bruce dare?
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 3: I decided not to press the matter more. She may
• 2:23:47
  not remember it, but I had a growing suspicion in my.
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 2: Gut about how she got it, like a root catching
• 2:23:54
  the soil the gnawine, feeling that I did something very
• 2:23:56
  wrong crew inside of me. I took her to her
• 2:23:59
  room and said down on her bed, gently helping her
• 2:24:02
  get on to it to lie down. Her arm needed
• 2:24:05
  medical attention in medicine, her body needed food to begin
• 2:24:08
  to heal itself, and before she tried to get up
• 2:24:11
  in the morning, I needed to get her a cane.
• 2:24:14
  My head spawned with all the work I needed to do.
• 2:24:16
  My body was sore and fatigue in my mind was
• 2:24:18
  fogging full of holes. I'm here in the office now
• 2:24:21
  typing this up. I'm going to include this in the
• 2:24:24
  same daily log as the previous one. Doesn't make sense
• 2:24:27
  to me to make it a new one, even if
• 2:24:29
  it's technically after midnight. Now I'm not sure what happened
• 2:24:32
  to me, and I don't think the people living here
• 2:24:34
  will be any help to me anyway. I think that's
• 2:24:37
  why I made the decision I did to post this
• 2:24:40
  online somewhere. I just stroke today, sure of it. My
• 2:24:44
  mother's life was anything to go by. Who knows how
• 2:24:46
  soon the next one would come. I think I know
• 2:24:49
  for sure said another one would come. I'm not sure
• 2:24:52
  if there's anyone left for this to even reach, but
• 2:24:55
  I don't see the harm of posting it. I had
• 2:24:58
  to type it out real quick while I was still
• 2:25:01
  fresh in my memory, with all the grainy details still
• 2:25:03
  fit together. But now I need to go take care
• 2:25:06
  of my residence. I'm not good at goodbyes, so I'll
• 2:25:09
  just say that I hope to hear something anything.
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 3: If I do. Thank you. Note to self to lead
• 2:25:16
  any mention of Johnny.
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: An. That's a fun, nice little uh beginning to a series.
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 3: Interesting? This is cool? Okay?
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 2: So it sounds like maybe even from maybe I've misread
• 2:25:28
  the beginning of the story. Maybe from the beginning, he's
• 2:25:31
  been here by himself, like the story opens there, or
• 2:25:35
  maybe it's whenever he hears that large train horn or something.
• 2:25:38
  But at some point everyone else disappears, and he says
• 2:25:41
  at the end, I don't even know if there's anyone
• 2:25:43
  out there to read this. So maybe it is like
• 2:25:47
  the Rapture. Everyone disappeared and like just their clothes are
• 2:25:50
  left behind, and he doesn't know what's coming. He doesn't
• 2:25:53
  know if it's the end of the world or what.
• 2:25:55
  But he's just here with a few old people and
• 2:25:56
  he's decided to take care of them. But he he
• 2:25:59
  has a weird like he has this weird, foggy vision
• 2:26:02
  that reminds him of his childhood and all the shapes,
• 2:26:04
  nothing looks right. Then he wakes up years later. He
• 2:26:06
  might have hurt Missus Dawson. And there's also the mention
• 2:26:08
  to delete any mention of Johnny. So this Johnny character
• 2:26:12
  showed up somewhere in the story but was supposedly deleted.
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 3: So what does he have to do with any of this?
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 2: And who is Johnny that? There's so many interesting questions.
• 2:26:19
  This is such a fun scenario, the nursing home at
• 2:26:21
  the end of the world, just a guy taking care
• 2:26:23
  of everyone by himself, what an awesome setup.
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the rapture part of it as well,
• 2:26:28
  Like think just the hip having to basically almost be
• 2:26:33
  this like a like I'm wondering if he's gonna start
• 2:26:36
  trying to help people pass.
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 3: On hmm, you know what I mean. Oh, that'd be dark.
• 2:26:41
  He's trying to take them to the next word in
• 2:26:43
  the next world.
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like prepping them up to do that after life.
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 2: And that's why I'm wondering too, Like if he like
• 2:26:49
  starts carrying on this responsibility, what's the Fairyman of the dead?
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 1: Is it tirn or something like that.
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 3: I think that's right. I think it's different. Yes, it's
• 2:26:59
  probably different per culture or whatever.
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 2: But that just makes you think of some m It's
• 2:27:04
  a fun Yeah, it's a it's a fun uh fun
• 2:27:07
  beginning to something of like a little series.
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: And I do think that we we we need, we
• 2:27:12
  need part two up on the subreddit and we need
• 2:27:16
  to know why. I want to know why the second ones.
• 2:27:17
  Speaker 2: We need to know why part two because Part two
• 2:27:20
  is still on theirs like they're personal. I think they
• 2:27:23
  just posted it to their own page, because yeah, it
• 2:27:27
  looks like it's just they just posted it I didn't
• 2:27:29
  know you could do that on rap but you don't
• 2:27:30
  have to post it to a sub.
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 3: They just posted themselves. And then they also posted it
• 2:27:34
  to r slash Deep Night.
• 2:27:35
  Speaker 2: Society, which is another like you know, scary story thing
• 2:27:38
  and r slash scary Stories. And it didn't get taken
• 2:27:40
  down from there, so I would know why it got
• 2:27:43
  getting cut off. Mostek makes sense stuff gets cut off
• 2:27:46
  there all the time. Why did it get taken off
• 2:27:48
  of creep cast?
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 3: I want to know? To know this, we need to
• 2:27:51
  have internal investigation. How cool was it though?
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 1: So many different kinds of stories from viewers here. I
• 2:27:58
  definitely we need to read more viewers submission to Please
• 2:28:01
  take time and if you have written something, share it
• 2:28:03
  with us on the sub on the subreddit, you know,
• 2:28:05
  use the tag fan made story. Uh, we got we
• 2:28:09
  got some fun stuff of like obviously somebody's like, you know, redacted,
• 2:28:12
  please come back redacted. We need you for the loss
• 2:28:16
  of innocence. That was just I mean, it's just it
• 2:28:18
  was a fun day of reading. I don't know it
• 2:28:20
  was this was This was a nice also too, almost
• 2:28:22
  almost three hours. I feel like it flew by. I
• 2:28:25
  really liked the the third story was good. I really
• 2:28:28
  loved this last one. I want to see the rest
• 2:28:30
  of it. Yeah, lots of innocence. Fine, it's fun.
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 2: Uh. And then the third one we read, which was
• 2:28:36
  the book that Doesn't end fun, awesome story, Thank you
• 2:28:39
  very much, I think.
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sure that stuff was in reference to
• 2:28:42
  my stuff.
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 2: It means a lot to see someone writing cool stories
• 2:28:44
  after being inspired by us.
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 3: That's cool.
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 2: But also that second story very much. The woman I'm
• 2:28:50
  missing for I like this. That one actually scared me. Yeah,
• 2:28:52
  that one actually got me spooped.
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 3: A little bit.
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 1: That had a lot of Like I said, the build
• 2:28:56
  up of the anticipation of the story was so effect
• 2:29:00
  so simple too. It's just a guy sitting down reading
• 2:29:02
  a book, but it's telled in a way where it feels,
• 2:29:06
  once again refreshing. It feels like you're on the edge
• 2:29:08
  of your seat reading in. I'm really curious to see
• 2:29:10
  how people like that one. Also, let us know which
• 2:29:11
  one you like the most. Done there and be sure.
• 2:29:13
  Like I said, we're leaving links to all of this
• 2:29:15
  stuff in the YouTube description as well, So if you're
• 2:29:17
  listening to this on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or anything
• 2:29:20
  like that, if you want to know more about the stories.
• 2:29:22
  The links are in the YouTube description, so please be
• 2:29:24
  sure to go support them, leave a nice comment on them,
• 2:29:28
  up vote it, you know, leave thoughts, criticisms, anything, you know.
• 2:29:30
  That's what it's all about. It's awesome. Man, so sick.
• 2:29:34
  So thank you guys so much for listening today. Thank
• 2:29:37
  you so much for the viewers who wrote these awesome stories.
• 2:29:39
  This is definitely a new series we're going to be doing.
• 2:29:42
  Can't wait to just keep diving in to more and
• 2:29:45
  more of this. This awesome fucking storytelling in our community. Man,
• 2:29:49
  so cool.
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 3: Definitely, it's really cool to say this out of you guys.
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 1: We have the coolest community on the internet. I swear
• 2:29:56
  to God.
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone here, everyone's funny, everyone writes cool. So this
• 2:30:01
  is just like we just scrolled through today and we're like,
• 2:30:03
  here's a few that look fine, and these were awesome.
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 3: These were so well done. They're better than a lot
• 2:30:08
  of other places I read stories online. And this is
• 2:30:10
  just people who watch the podcast. You all are great.
• 2:30:12
  Thank you all so much for doing this, thank you
• 2:30:13
  for posting it there.
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 2: Thank you for, for some reason, taking your insane talent
• 2:30:18
  and incorporating us incorporating us into it in some small
• 2:30:22
  way by posting on the subreddit.
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 3: Y'all are awesome. We don't deserve you. Thank you guys
• 2:30:26
  for being so cool.
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: We'll see you in the next one. Guys. Also, like
• 2:30:29
  I said, I'd be sure to check out the Patreon.
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 2: If you want some more bonus content. New episode will
• 2:30:33
  be up. It's probably already up by now when of
• 2:30:36
  this video comes out. So guys, thank you so much.
• 2:30:38
  We will see you next week.
• 2:30:39
  Speaker 3: Bye bye, See you in the next one.
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 2: And time for the internal unfairs investigation of the creepcast
• 2:30:46
  on Team Bye.