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Terror at Camp Roanoke E0 - 2025 Monster of the Week One-Shot · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

• 0:44
  >> Speaker A: Whoa. What have we here?
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  >> Speaker B: Hey, we're already behind schedule. Why did
• 0:50
  you stop doing it?
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  >> Skylar: I,
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  >> Speaker A: I found something.
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  >> Speaker B: What do you mean you found something? We've only got a
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  couple weeks left to clear this area where the boss man is gonna start
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  cutting our checks.
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  >> Speaker A: I know, I know, but I just. I
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  saw something in the dirt and I figured I should check it
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  out. That's what the camp owner
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  guy said to do, right?
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  >> Speaker B: No, you're right. But it better be good. We can't be
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  shutting down every time we see a shiny rock.
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  >> Speaker A: You should u take a look at this.
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  >> Speaker B: Well, now, this here is an interesting
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  find indeed.
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  >> Speaker A: Do you have any idea what this is? Some
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  carved stick from a hundred years ago?
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  >> Speaker B: Yeah, something like that. There's all sorts of
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  relics that were left behind by the native tribes and early
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  settlers scattered across this island. This here looks
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  like some kind of totem.
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  >> Speaker A: Whoa. any idea how old it is? How much is
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  it worth?
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  >> Speaker B: First of all, asking questions like that is going to get
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  us in trouble. The camp owner owns this land, and
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  therefore anything we find belongs to him. I
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  don't care how much it's worth. You try and keep
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  anything, we are both getting fired.
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  Secondly, I've been working in Construction for
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  23 years. How in the world would I know anything about
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  ancient Native American relics?
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  >> Speaker A: Oh, right. Sorry.
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  >> Speaker B: That's fine. I'm just warning you. Don't go pocketing
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  anything.
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  >> Speaker A: Understood, sir.
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  >> Speaker B: You know, this totem reminds me of the old legend
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  about what happened to the settlers that originally landed on this
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  island.
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  >> Speaker A: A, legend?
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  >> Speaker B: Yeah. You don't know about the lost colony of
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  Roanoke?
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  >> Cameron: No, sir.
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  >> Speaker A: Can't say I've ever heard of it.
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  >> Speaker B: Didn't you listen in history class? This is a
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  famous American mystery. See,
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  a whole group of settlers, some of the first to stepp foot
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  on American shores, tried to settle here on this
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  island. But they didn't have enough supplies to last through the
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  winter. So their leader, a fellow named
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  John White, headed back to England to bring back the
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  necessary stocks the settlers would need. But he
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  got stuck. You see, it took him three years
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  before he was able to get back here. And when he did return,
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  the whole settlement was gone, Not a soul in
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  sight. All he found was the carving on a
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  wooden post that read, grow a toan.
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  >> Speaker A: Whoa. what happened
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  to them?
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  >> Speaker B: Well, if we knew for sure, it wouldn't be a
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  great American myiseery now, would it? With that being
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  said, there's lots of theories out there, like they died
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  of disease or just integrated with the local native
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  tribes. My theory revolves around them all
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  getting wiped out by a Wendigo.
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  >> Speaker A: A wend what?
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  >> Speaker B: A Wendigo. A horrible monster spawned
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  from a person who feasted on human flesh, who couldnt
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  shake the taste to the point any where it became an addiction.
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  Their insatiable hunger for more slowly changing them
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  into a horned monstrosity known as the
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  Wendigo that hunts the forest, seeking out lost
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  campers and hikers who strayed too far from their
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  path.
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  >> Speaker A: Yikes.
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  >> Speaker B: Yikes is right. But that's all myth and
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  legend. We need to get back to work.
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  I'll take this totem back to the camp with me. You keep
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  on digging. You find anything else, just set it
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  aside for the time being. But please try and
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  keep on schedule. Our job is to prep this land
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  for building, not running archaeological
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  expedition.
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  >> Speaker A: Yes, sir.
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  U hello? Is
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  someone there?
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  Hello?
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  Hello? Hey, look, this is an
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  active construction zone. You're really not supposed
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  to.
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  >> Skylar: No
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  M.
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  Welcome everybody to our special annual
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  Monster of the Week Halloween special. One shot.
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  That's a lot of title. But the key thing that you need to
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  know is that the title of this one
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  shot is Terror
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  at Camp Roanoke. Joining me
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  today for this very special one shot, we got
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  Cameron, who you probably all recognize from most of
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  our series. We've got Connor, who has been a
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  guest star on a couple of them and also
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  has been on Bender and Bru,
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  our original series as Brock Lee. And then
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  finally we have Fatty Lumpkins, who has
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  played Keto you'll recognize as Keto from
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  criminals Violet Numis. so welcome all
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  three of you to this very special again, Monster of the Week
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  One shot. Things are going to get spooky. Things are going toa get
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  scary. But before they can get spooky and scary,
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  we need to know what the stakes are. And by
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  that I mean who the heck your characters are that are about to get
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  haunted or otherwise
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  terrified by what I have planned.
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  So starting with Cameron, why
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  not tell me a little bit about your,
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  >> Cameron: Hi, I'm Cameron.
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  >> Skylar: Yes, you are. Cameron, tell me a little bit about your character. Who
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  are you playing? What does he look like?
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  >> Fatty Lumpkins: give me.
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  >> Skylar: Give me a brief description we get.
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  >> Cameron: Do you have my reference sheet?
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  >> Skylar: No, I. Well, yes, I do, probably. Yeah.
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  >> Cameron: My form that I filled out.
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  >> Skylar: No, I don't.
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  >> Cameron: Dang it.
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  >> Cameron: I sent you an eight page thing and then delete it on my
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  end.
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  >> Skylar: As soon as I saw how many pages it was. I just kind of ignore.
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  Okay.
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  >> Cameron: My guy's name is Martin fresh.
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  >> Cameron: Fresh.
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  >> Cameron: He is 37.
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  >> Skylar: Okay.
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  >> Cameron: He works at the local high school.
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  >> Skylar: Okay.
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  >> Cameron: He is the history teacher saying, the
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  form you filled.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm looking right at it.
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  >> Cameron: I'm trying to do it from memory right here.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah, I've had. You meant like you sent me something
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  outside of this. Yes. Okay, so the high school he taught at
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  high school. What?
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  >> Cameron: Yeah.
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  >> Skylar: Just is currently. Yes, but it's summer.
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  >> Cameron: It's summer. Which is why he's picked up this job. Right?
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  You ask that later.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah, I was gonna say that's a question I asked later, but I mean, it's.
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  >> Cameron: His reasoning is pretty simple.
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  >> Skylar: Right.
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  >> Cameron: He needs to pick up some extra work during the summer.
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  >> Skylar: Sure.
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  >> Cameron: So, yeah.
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  >> Skylar: As teachers often do.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah.
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  >> Speaker A: And he's.
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  >> Cameron: So he's going to work.
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  >> Skylar: What does he look like?
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  >> Cameron: Average. Like, think basic
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  white man. Basic white man with
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  a basic haircut and white
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  man haircut. Yeah. And
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  looks like he could blend into.
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  >> Skylar: Any crowd as long as they were white.
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  >> Cameron: Any crowd.
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  >> Skylar: In a crowd. Wow. I don't know. I went to a family.
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  Okay.
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  >> Cameron: New York crowd.
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  >> Skylar: Okay.
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  >> Cameron: not New York's. A little more variety. How
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  about we go with, like, Philadelphia?
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  >> Skylar: You just say anything in the south, probably.
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  >> Cameron: Oh, yeah. Dallas.
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  >> Skylar: Yes. Okay. Fair.
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  >> Cameron: He's in Dallas.
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  >> Skylar: Okay, so, we.
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  >> Cameron: Nowhere. Nowhere near Dallas. Massachusetts.
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  >> Skylar: Okay. Okay.
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  >> Cameron: So that's where we are, right?
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  >> Skylar: no, you're in North Carolina, actually.
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  >> Cameron: Oh, North Carolina works. That probably works really well there.
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  >> Skylar: Yes, absolutely. so tell me about Martin
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  Fresh. What he yearns for, what he
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  is hoping to someday achieve, Whether or not that
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  relates to his job here at camp.
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  >> Cameron: he has a master thesis
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  slash research book. He wants to write about the
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  Aztec empire.
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  >> Skylar: Okay.
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  >> Cameron: Don.
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  >> Skylar: Don't we all. We all love writing about the
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  Aztecs. are there any specific
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  beliefs that he kind of holds to? Anything
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  that he, would be willing to fight for?
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  what's. What's sort of the deeper side of.
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  >> Cameron: I 100% forgot what I wrote for this.
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  >> Skylar: Youisa being fair and kind. He tries his best. Do the right
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  thing. He's very, like, neutral good. Kind
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  of. If we're talking on D and D terms, maybe even lawful good. For
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  the most part.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah. That's probably the best way. Thiscrib.
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  >> Skylar: He's just a good guy. Ye. Generally good guy, which is good.
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  As far as he's a teacher, he'd.
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  >> Cameron: Be more neutral good than lawful good.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah.
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  >> Cameron: But he tries to do the right thing. When presented the
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  option, as far.
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  >> Skylar: As social settings go, just so we can get an idea of Your
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  character going in, like, how does he tend to
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  react to being around other people?
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  Especially if the strangers.
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  >> Cameron: Oh, he's very introverted. but like, if
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  you like sat down to him with him and talked with him,
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  he'd be actually really. He's not like the introvert
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  that can't hold a conversation. He's really good at
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  holding conversations. and he gets interested by
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  talking to people. It's just he's not good at starting them. So he just
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  doesn't. also, I forgot to mention, he has a wife.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah. Ah.
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  >> Cameron: And two kids.
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  >> Skylar: Oh.
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  >> Cameron: So.
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  >> Speaker A: Man.
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  >> Skylar: And the stakes just went up for my character.
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  >> Cameron: Yes. But he's just going to a summer
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  camp where.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Nothing happens. Yeah, Nothing.
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  >> Cameron: All I wasnna say, he's just gonna have a good time, slice the life
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  and then just leave and go back home to his family.
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  >> Skylar: That's right.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah.
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  >> Skylar: so with that being said, tell me a little bit about his stats
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  as far as from your character she perspective. Tell me a little bit about
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  Martin Fresh. What. What did he take as far as the
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  monster of the week stats? What equipment does he
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  have? What moves does he have? Yes, that's from the
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  basic one.
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  >> Cameron: He has two charm, one cool, one
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  sharp, zero tough, and minus one weird.
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  >> Skylar: Okay, he's not a very weird guy.
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  >> Cameron: Which fair enough.
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  >> Skylar: He's an average dude. Yeah. And he's a teacher he works
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  off of earlier.
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  >> Cameron: Whoops, I did it wrong. I'm zero cool. Cuz he's
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  not cool either. He's a history teacher.
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  >> Skylar: Oh, savage. Savage. All those history teachers out
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  there that.
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  >> Cameron: Are listening and they went. It's tough, but true.
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  my moves are always the victim. Let's get out of here.
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  And what could go wrong?
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  >> Skylar: Okay, nice.
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  >> Cameron: And then my gear is. I have a golf club and
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  a pocket knife.
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  >> Skylar: Okay.
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  >> Cameron: And then I don't need my
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  car. I have a car, but I had to leave it at
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  the bust stay.
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  >> Fatty Lumpkins: So station and drove him inside of the bus seation
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  camp.
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  >> Cameron: So.
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  >> Skylar: Okay, fantastic. well, who knows if that
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  car may come into play at the very end.
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  >> Cameron: My 2018 Honda Civic.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah, your 2018 Honda Civic. Not a sponsor. although
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  I don't know if it. Why would they sponsor us to talk about an
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  older model of their co. Just kind of a
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  liable if you had a do.
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  >> Cameron: Very reliable.
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  >> Skylar: Awesome. Beantastic. Okay, so that.
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  >> Cameron: Wait, you told me that was the slogan for this thing. That's still the
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  reason I'm Dr. Is I. Ah, him.
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  >> Skylar: Roan out. Sponsored.
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  Sponsored. Not sponsored.
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  >> Cameron: Loosely. Sponsored by 2018.
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  Wish it was sponsored by Dale's's
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  ah used car
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  dealership specifically. Come get your
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  Honda Civics today.
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  >> Skylar: You know, the fact that I used Carly dealership would push us
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  to explicitly talk about 2018 Honda Civics really kind
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  of suggests that he has a lot in inventory and that
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  kind of.
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  >> Cameron: Put was expecting a bigger rush.
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  >> Skylar: Whatever the case, let's jump over to Connor.
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  >> Speaker A: Yeah.
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  >> Skylar: Who is your character.
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  >> Cameron: So he went through a bit of a change
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  just between the writing and the sitting
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  down because we had.
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  >> Cameron: We had.
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  >> Cameron: Well, he's not like a fully changes. Anyways.
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  >> Cameron: We got a 20 something year old kid.
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  >> Skylar: Okay. Goes by the name of Soapy Joe.
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  Soapy Joe. Is that his. His. His Christian.
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  >> Cameron: Is that his Christian name or is that his.
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  >> Skylar: That's his.
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  >> Cameron: That's his stage name. The man is a. He's one of
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  those small time conspiracy youtubers.
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  >> Skylar: Oh, very cool.
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  >> Cameron: Got like 50k subs. He had
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  like one viral video.
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  >> Skylar: It's honly prety.
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  >> Cameron: Got like a good amount of following and then
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  it's just stopped at like 50.
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  >> Skylar: I can't wait to hear about what. That, what that one big
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  viral lead. Yeah.
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  >> Cameron: You got like one virus.
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  >> Skylar: Sure it'll come up there.
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  >> Cameron: I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, it was.
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  >> Skylar: Sure it'll come. Yeah.
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  >> Cameron: So he uploaded it to this YouTube channel
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  known as Soapy Joe. Just as like a.
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  Becausez. That's all he had at the time.
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  >> Skylar: Right, right.
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  >> Cameron: He was so. And then it went like mega viral. He
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  has those subscribers and now he's just kind
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  of. He's a conspiracy vlog type
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  guy.
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  >> Skylar: He's okay.
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  >> Cameron: He likes getting out there and going into the weird.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah. Everybody's just waiting for the next viral video. So tell me a little
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  bit about what he looks like.
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  >> Cameron: He looks like.
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  He looks like a guy that,
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  you know, there's kind of a specific look
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  that comes with guys who are super into conspiracy theories.
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  So he's got like the scraggly kind of beard.
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  He's got, you know, the, the baggy
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  clothes that maybe could stand to be washed. You
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  know, it's got the boots, the big baggy like
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  cargo pants. N. He's got like carts, some car, lots
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  of pockets.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah, yeah.
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  >> Cameron: I mean you got to carry all the microphones, the batteries.
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  >> Skylar: I mean that's why I loved cargo pants back when I was in like high
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  ye.
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  >> Cameron: and he's a, you know, he's like a bigger guy, maybe a
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  little bit of a huskier build, but you know, not,
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  not like huge by anyruct of the
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  imagination.
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  >> Fatty Lumpkins: Fatty lumpkin.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah, not like fatty lumpkin hus me know.
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  >> Skylar: Fantastic. Awesome. So what are.
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  Why is he here at the cam? Why did
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  he choose to take this job?
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  >> Cameron: Well he needed a little extra money because you know only
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  50k subs the on the youtubes doesn't really pay a lot.
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  That's o. Yeah. And he figured you know I could use my camera
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  skills. They needed some videography, some photography for the.
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  For the website of the grass of the campground.
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  >> Skylar: So doesn't hit that point. Like he's getting a little bit of ad revenue
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  but he hasn't hit that point on YouTube where he's got sponsors reaching out to him
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  specifically.
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  >> Cameron: Well, he's got sponsors but they're like. They're like really
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  niche, really small sponsors. Like
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  one you might hear of is a quantum bean. So it.
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  It's like a coffee brand for people who are really the conspiracy
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  theories.
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  >> Cameron: But they're like. They're infused us like adrenaline
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  they're in.
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  >> Skylar: They're like they're put in a bag.
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  >> Cameron: They gott say of 400 hertz. It's like this
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  is calibrated 400 hertz. They're open
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  your third eye. They're like those kinds.
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  They're paying him like a hundred bucks so he could
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  probably stand to guess and I video per video.
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  He can. I mean so he's got my pump out videos.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah. So he's like I'm a. I'm gonn go here and then like.
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  >> Skylar: But you got to make sure it's good content.
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  >> Cameron: Well he's gonna be at a camp.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah.
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  >> Cameron: You could just make up conspiracies about.
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  >> Cameron: The camp that what he plans to do is like sneak out
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  at night and maybe like fil himself just like you know
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  those close up where kind of like mountain monsters that
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  show just.
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  >> Cameron: How yah ever pointed up at him.
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  >> Cameron: Like whoa, whoa, whoa. I think there
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  Sasquatch. Yeah, exactly like that. He just does that
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  five times a week and he just burs out money.
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  So that's basically what he is. He's like one of those bigfoot hunter.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah.
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  >> Skylar: Like so as far as like his kind of
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  personal beliefs that he holds close to or whatever
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  the case. Like what's kind of his
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  focus, what's he willing to fight for.
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  >> Cameron: You know, whatever the case he needs views and clicks
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  and engagement. That's all he's. That's
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  all he's looking at. He's desperate.
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  Maybe's the next big hit because he got that hit of
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  virality and he's like, mmm, I just need that one
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  more time. Yeah, I just need it again, man.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah, absolutely. so what made him sort of
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  take this job?
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  >> Cameron: A need for money with which to buy goods and serv. Okay,
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  so it's pretty just straightfor like.
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  >> Skylar: There'S no other, like, added.
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  >> Cameron: I mean, he gets to use his camera. He gets that the outdoors.
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  He does enjoy the outdoors.
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  >> Skylar: It is a pseudo, unsupervised job. That is kind of
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  nice.
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  >> Fatty Lumpkins: Yeah.
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  >> Skylar: So awesome.
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  >> Cameron: Cool, cool, cool.
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  >> Skylar: All right, well, we'll find out definitely more about
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  soi Joe, once things get started. But I want to
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  make sure that we touch on the last individual.
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  fatty lumpkins.
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  >> Speaker B: Who are you playing?
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  >> Fatty Lumpkins: Yeah, fatty here. And I will be playing greieve
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  Gershwin. Greie gershitz.
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  >> Skylar: That's gonna be a.
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  >> Cameron: Can we just call you gershh
• 16:30
  Gersc.
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  >> Fatty Lumpkins: I would prefer you call me grieve because, that
• 16:34
  is more of an honor. Because if there's one thing you should know
• 16:37
  about gree, it is that my idol is Steve
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  Irwin.
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  >> Skylar: Steve.
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  >> Cameron: Oh, you do an Australian accent.
• 16:43
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: Yes.
• 16:44
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 16:44
  >> Skylar: Well, yes, let's see.
• 16:47
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: But we're hearing it. It is ugly.
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  >> Skylar: He'd started doing that every time he was doing his pharmacy
• 16:52
  stuff.
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  >> Cameron: Good day, ma.
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  >> Fatty Lumpkins: This is n.
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  >> Skylar: Speed is good day, mate.
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  >> Fatty Lumpkins: This is patatty. How can I help you?
• 17:01
  >> Cameron: It's a start.
• 17:02
  >> Skylar: Yeah. Why you sound like that?
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  >> Speaker B: I just want my melatonin.
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  >> Skylar: I don't know why they have't called up. It's a like
• 17:11
  high GR of melatonin.
• 17:12
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: Yes.
• 17:13
  >> Skylar: Okay. awesome. So tell me about what
• 17:15
  greieve looks like.
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  >> Fatty Lumpkins: Yes. So greieve, because he
• 17:20
  idolizes the late great Steve
• 17:22
  Irwin, has fully sold out to
• 17:25
  dressing and acting like Steve Irwin.
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  >> Cameron: We'renounced.
• 17:28
  >> Skylar: Sponsored by Steve Irwin.
• 17:31
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: You, no way affiliated with the animal planet or
• 17:34
  discovery channel for the.
• 17:35
  >> Cameron: Or the Irwin channel or the irrwin family trust.
• 17:39
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: But yes, he sports a
• 17:42
  two piece gray cat or not
• 17:44
  gray khaki tan shorts with the button up
• 17:47
  te. And he look did switch up a
• 17:50
  little bit going with the bandana. Hey, so
• 17:53
  that's about the little more d dynasty.
• 17:55
  >> Skylar: Yeah.
• 17:56
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: The bandana is the Australian flag versus the
• 17:59
  American flag.
• 17:59
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
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  >> Fatty Lumpkins: Yes, yes, yes.
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  >> Skylar: Man, he's all in on this. He's like Josiah with British.
• 18:04
  >> Cameron: Here's the thing. Is he Australian? No.
• 18:08
  >> Skylar: Oh, has he, has he done anything in
• 18:10
  particular that he would be really proud of? Something
• 18:13
  that he is like, oh, yeah, that was me.
• 18:16
  >> Cameron: That was my thing.
• 18:17
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: He is A bit of a pacifist. Like he is
• 18:19
  strictly into this Steve Irwin
• 18:22
  spirit.
• 18:23
  >> Skylar: Oh.
• 18:23
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: Not too harm the animals, but he just wants to learn and
• 18:26
  haveure appreciate, interact,
• 18:29
  collect and release.
• 18:31
  >> Skylar: Yep.
• 18:31
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: All these animals. So he's always looking for the next big
• 18:34
  animal. But to date his favorite find is
• 18:37
  he did come across the inland
• 18:39
  taipan on a mission trip. And when he did get to
• 18:42
  go visit Australia.
• 18:44
  >> Skylar: Oh, he actually has gone.
• 18:46
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: He has been his Australia
• 18:48
  more if.
• 18:49
  >> Cameron: They'Once and that's his whole identity.
• 18:51
  >> Skylar: Now I'm more than once he's that. He's that
• 18:54
  girl, from college that went like, and studied abroad and then
• 18:57
  she came back and she's like, oh man, I am, I
• 18:59
  am so read.
• 19:01
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: Yeah. His cover photo on Facebook,
• 19:04
  YouTube inst or whatever is him holding inland
• 19:06
  Taian deadllyt snake in all of Australia.
• 19:10
  Well, double fisting with the can
• 19:12
  ofaustus Australian.
• 19:14
  >> Cameron: Yes. Australia. There you go.
• 19:16
  >> Skylar: All right. Right on. Okay. So, with that
• 19:19
  being said, does he have a particular
• 19:22
  achievement now? Now that he's held to taipan, what
• 19:25
  is, what is next on his list of things that he wants
• 19:28
  to accomplish with his, his life and
• 19:30
  his sort of Steve Irwin esque
• 19:33
  identity?
• 19:34
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: So yeah, holding all the snakes and stuff, he, his
• 19:37
  heart is still near and dear to crocodiles
• 19:40
  and nice, alligators. So he most
• 19:43
  recently has heard through the YouTube and the
• 19:46
  Instagram reels that there'this
• 19:48
  massive alligator in the depths of North
• 19:51
  Carolina named Big Al. So he is a
• 19:54
  bigy alligator. That is his next,
• 19:57
  his next passion project, Dig.
• 19:59
  >> Cameron: And even I'heard of Big O. Yep. I'm just
• 20:02
  a history teacher.
• 20:03
  >> Skylar: Mm You know, doesn't take much to hear about a big
• 20:06
  alligator for sure. so tell me, why did he
• 20:09
  choose to take this job at the summer camp then?
• 20:12
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: So the reason he is twofold. So
• 20:14
  he had heard that big owl
• 20:17
  resides in these lakes, swamps,
• 20:20
  what have you, bodies of water.
• 20:21
  >> Skylar: Yes.
• 20:22
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: But his other thing that you should know about Greie
• 20:25
  Gershwin is that he is estranged from his
• 20:28
  family. Because if you know anything about famous
• 20:31
  jazz composers, you're probably familiar with the name George
• 20:34
  Gershwin. O who is his great, great
• 20:36
  grandad. The premier jazz
• 20:39
  musician may have heard of Rhapsody in
• 20:42
  Blue as was abord.
• 20:43
  >> Skylar: So dad actually just went into the public domain
• 20:46
  I think this year.
• 20:47
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: So I did recognize the name. That's his family name.
• 20:50
  And jazz music runs in the family,
• 20:53
  except it does not run through his veins.
• 20:56
  So rather than pursue a life
• 20:59
  and musical excellence, he is dizzy
• 21:01
  chaseasing snakes and crocodiles and his family does not approve
• 21:04
  of it.
• 21:05
  >> Cameron: So he was he good at
• 21:08
  an instrument?
• 21:09
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: M. He was about as good as Fatty
• 21:12
  was in high school. Just he played.
• 21:14
  >> Skylar: Oh.
• 21:16
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: M. I like that Fatty's referring to.
• 21:18
  >> Cameron: Himself in the third person.
• 21:20
  >> Speaker B: Patty in high school drew very the years of
• 21:23
  class.
• 21:24
  >> Fatty Lumpkins: So, yes, since he does not have his family's money nor
• 21:27
  any music scholarships or
• 21:30
  concerts to bring in funds, he has
• 21:33
  to work at this shoddy day camp
• 21:35
  while looking for big L. Ouch.
• 21:37
  >> Skylar: Don't tell the owner, Willie, that you
• 21:40
  think it's a shoddy day camp.
• 21:42
  >> Cameron: I mean, our job is to make it less shaby.
• 21:44
  >> Skylar: They actually very tr. So, with
• 21:47
  all of the players introduced, I'll give you a little bit of a
• 21:50
  background to how this,
• 21:53
  will go. firstly, you guys are all going
• 21:56
  to be, bust over to this island,
• 21:59
  which is the island of Roanoke, right off
• 22:01
  sort of the, the edge, the eastern edge of
• 22:04
  North Carolina. And there, there has been a
• 22:07
  brand new summer camp that was built by
• 22:10
  Willie, or Mr. Willie, as he likes
• 22:13
  to be referred to, calling it obviously Camp
• 22:15
  Roanokak, as would be logical. And you guys have
• 22:18
  all been hired to prepare this summer
• 22:21
  camp for the upcoming season. So we're talking like mid
• 22:24
  June. You guys are getting moved over there. They're going to
• 22:27
  have campers this next week. It's
• 22:30
  a whole summer camp, right? It's got all the necessities. They're going to
• 22:33
  have boats and kayak section. They're going toa have a swimming
• 22:36
  area. they're going toa have some fishing. They're going toa have
• 22:39
  like a beach area that's got all kinds of beach games,
• 22:42
  all that kind of good stuff, that normally would come with a summer
• 22:45
  camp. And so you guys are going there the week ahead of
• 22:48
  time to do the final touches to prepare this camp. Now,
• 22:50
  obviously this camp was built last year. It's
• 22:53
  technically brand new. Everything in it is brand new. Or at least,
• 22:56
  the buildings have been renovated. Maybe they're older, but the buildings
• 22:59
  have been renovated in such a way u to be used for
• 23:02
  summer camp activities. But of course it had to be
• 23:04
  winterized and now needs to be de winterized. You guys are
• 23:07
  going there to get everything all prepped and set up and everything for the campers so that
• 23:10
  it's ready to go the second they get there. They don't have to wait.
• 23:13
  So, that's where we're kind ofn toa kick things off.
• 23:16
  And you're also going toa be hearing some really interesting
• 23:19
  historical background, some of which is fictionalized
• 23:22
  obviously, but a lot of all of it is inspired very
• 23:24
  heavily by the true happenings, that happened at
• 23:27
  Roanoke Islands, involving the Lost
• 23:30
  Colony. So you guys can head right over to the first episode where you can
• 23:33
  hear the history and then we'll jump into the story. So
• 23:36
  thank you guys for listening. We'll see you over the episode one
• 23:45
  hey everyone, Skylar here, creator and creative
• 23:48
  director at Session Zero Heroes. I just wanted to quickly say
• 23:51
  a few things before we head into the next episode. Firstly, thank
• 23:54
  you than so much for listening to our 2025 monster the week
• 23:57
  one shot. We love creating these and honestly,
• 24:00
  Monster of the Week is what inspired us to create TTRPG
• 24:03
  content to begin with, so it holds a special place in our
• 24:05
  hearts. We'll be posting a brand new episode of Terror
• 24:08
  at Camp Roanoke every week throughout October
• 24:10
  2025, with the final episode landing
• 24:13
  nicely the day before Halloween on October
• 24:15
  30th. We hope you enjoy the mystery we put together.
• 24:19
  I personally had a ton of fun creating it and working with the
• 24:22
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• 24:24
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• 24:27
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• 24:33
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• 24:36
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• 24:39
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• 24:51
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• 25:22
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• 25:25
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• 25:28
  Roanoke.
• 25:29
  >> Speaker A: M.