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• 1:09
  Jonathan: Hello, Dork Squad.
• 1:11
  Jonathan: I'm Jonathan Cormur, and you're listening to Dork Tales Storytime, the podcast for kids and their pop culture loving grown-ups.
• 1:23
  Theme Song: It's a beautiful day for a story, adventure, and glory, new friends and old ones too.
• 1:30
  Theme Song: It's an excellent day to get swept away in a tale, so let us regale you definitely have our work cut out for us.
• 1:47
  Redge: I would say so.
• 1:49
  Jonathan: Are you sure this is the house?
• 1:52
  Redge: I followed the instructions to the letter.
• 1:54
  Redge: Although a good friend Hogenstein left fairly cryptic directions.
• 1:59
  Redge: Let me see.
• 2:00
  Redge: He wrote Dear Reginald, greetings.
• 2:04
  Redge: I hope you are enjoying this most gloriously gloomy season.
• 2:09
  Hogenstein: I'm writing to you because you are a most accomplished and reputable hedgehog.
• 2:14
  Hogenstein: You remind me of me, a hog of some acclaim, known for my studies of the strangest of sciences.
• 2:22
  Hogenstein: But to the point at hand, it is a creative and adventurous mind like yours that I'm after.
• 2:29
  Hogenstein: I wish to make use of an old home that's been in my family for generations.
• 2:34
  Hogenstein: It is called Raven's Roost.
• 2:37
  Hogenstein: It was always my mother's dream to transform it into a bed and breakfast for the magical and mysterious residence of the Foreshadow.
• 2:47
  Hogenstein: Being a scientist with my head always in my work, I have not yet put my attention to it.
• 2:53
  Hogenstein: I could use your creative genius, your love of life, your joie de vivre, as it were.
• 3:01
  Hogenstein: Please will you raise this old home from its eternal slumber and breathe new life into its dusty halls?
• 3:10
  Hogenstein: To find it, step into the fogs of the Foreshadow and think of something spooky scary that sends tingles down your spine.
• 3:21
  Hogenstein: Turn right three times and then take exactly 235 steps.
• 3:27
  Hogenstein: Finally, look at your companion and say, Boo! And the home will appear before your very eyes.
• 3:38
  Hogenstein: Thank you for reading my letter and considering my request.
• 3:42
  Hogenstein: I do hope the next time I come to Raven's Roost, I will be able to declare, It's alive, it's alive, alive, alive, alive, alive, alive.
• 3:54
  Redge: And it's signed, yours most maddeningly and maniacally, Hogenstein.
• 4:01
  Jonathan: Wow.
• 4:01
  Jonathan: Well, he really believes we can make this place shine, which is hard to do being in the Foreshadow.
• 4:10
  Redge: I, for one, believe in us too, without hesitation or doubt.
• 4:14
  Redge: There may be cobwebs in all of the windows, there may be a chilly and mysterious fog hanging over everything,
• 4:22
  Jonathan: and a very weird overgrown garden surrounding a bubbling bog.
• 4:26
  Redge: And strange moss growing up the walls and a bunch of broken boards and a door that's hanging off its hinges.
• 4:37
  Jonathan: Did you see a shadow pass by the upstairs window?
• 4:40
  Redge: Okay, okay, so it has a lot of uh character.
• 4:44
  Redge: But we can turn this place into the best bed and breakfast the Foreshadow has ever seen.
• 4:51
  Redge: The only bed and breakfast the Foreshadow has ever seen, but uh you know what they say, blaze the trail.
• 4:57
  Jonathan: Well, I'm willing to try.
• 5:00
  Redge: That's the spirit.
• 5:02
  Jonathan: Maybe don't mention spirits.
• 5:05
  Redge: Come on, Jonathan, let's go inside.
• 5:09
  Jonathan and Redge: Ah
• 5:12
  Redge: What was that?
• 5:14
  Jonathan: Oh, I think it was just that raven up there on the roof.
• 5:18
  Redge: Oh just a friendly raven.
• 5:22
  Redge: Hello, good sir
• 5:25
  Poe: Beware
• 5:28
  Jonathan: Did he just say
• 5:30
  Poe: Beware in there so says I Poe the raven up in the sky
• 5:40
  Jonathan: Beware of what?
• 5:42
  Poe: This haunted house where things go jump
• 5:47
  Redge: Jump
• 5:48
  Poe: Thump
• 5:49
  Jonathan: Thump
• 5:51
  Poe: and bump in the night.
• 5:54
  Poe: Caw!
• 5:59
  Jonathan: Not bump in the night!
• 6:07
  Redge: We're going to be fine.
• 6:09
  Redge: It's nothing to worry about.
• 6:11
  Redge: Look, I've got a mop and a dream!
• 6:15
  Poe: Legends say the roost is full of spirits, ghouls, frights.
• 6:22
  Poe: Would not be I that would go inside and be within their sights.
• 6:29
  Jonathan: Uh Redge What do we do if this place is full of spirits, ghouls, and frights?
• 6:38
  Redge: I'm sure it's not so bad.
• 6:40
  Redge: Thank you very much, Poe, for the warning.
• 6:43
  Redge: But I think we'll step into Raven's Roost and begin our work.
• 6:48
  Poe: Ah the hedge of hog and human will not accept defeat.
• 6:55
  Poe: Certain no trick awaits them only a lovely treat.
• 7:01
  Poe: But when the bell tolls midnight, be sure your work is done, or it will be the ghosties who are having all the fun.
• 7:19
  Jonathan: And there he goes.
• 7:21
  Redge: Very polite of him to give us a heads up.
• 7:24
  Redge: Now, let's get started, shall we?
• 7:28
  Jonathan: Okay, but let's be sure to leave before midnight.
• 7:31
  Jonathan: Just in case.
• 7:39
  Redge: Wow.
• 7:40
  Jonathan: This place is huge.
• 7:43
  Redge: It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
• 7:47
  Jonathan: Look at this grand staircase.
• 7:50
  Redge: Can't you just imagine a little concierge desk right at the bottom so people can check into their rooms right when they walk in?
• 7:58
  Jonathan: Oh, that will be perfect.
• 8:00
  Redge: Oh, and these old floors are beautiful.
• 8:03
  Redge: Just a little polishing needed.
• 8:05
  Redge: Uh Jonathan, maybe you can start on that side of the room and
• 8:10
  Jonathan: Redge, right behind you!
• 8:14
  Redge: What what is it?
• 8:15
  Jonathan: Your sponge! It was floating in the air!
• 8:18
  Redge: Oh, don't be silly, Jonathan.
• 8:20
  Redge: Sponges don't float in the air.
• 8:22
  Redge: And look, it's still there in my bucket of soap and water.
• 8:26
  Redge: Just where it's meant to be.
• 8:29
  Jonathan: Maybe I was just seeing things?
• 8:31
  Redge: Most likely.
• 8:32
  Redge: Now, where was I?
• 8:33
  Redge: Oh yes.
• 8:34
  Redge: Jonathan, you will start by clearing the cobwebs over there and
• 8:41
  Jonathan: it's doing it again!
• 8:43
  Redge: What?
• 8:44
  Redge: Now, Jonathan, I don't see any floating sponges.
• 8:51
  Jonathan: Okay, I know I'm not imagining it.
• 8:53
  Jonathan: It's floating again.
• 8:55
  Redge: Jonathan, please focus.
• 8:57
  Redge: We have much work to do, and not a lot of time to
• 9:00
  Jonathan: Redge, look out!
• 9:03
  Redge: Ach! Oh no! The sponge was floating in the air!
• 9:08
  Jonathan: It dropped back into the bucket so fast that I didn't have time to warn you.
• 9:13
  Redge: Now my fancy cleaning jumpsuit is covered in suds.
• 9:17
  Jonathan: Redge, we have more pressing things to worry about.
• 9:20
  Redge: Well, I don't see how.
• 9:21
  Redge: I love this jumpsuit.
• 9:24
  Jonathan: Redge, focus.
• 9:25
  Jonathan: How did the sponge float on its own?
• 9:29
  Redge: Our minds must be playing tricks on us.
• 9:30
  Redge: It's the only answer that makes sense.
• 9:37
  Jonathan and Redge: Ah!
• 9:38
  Redge: Everything is floating!
• 9:40
  Jonathan: Run!
• 9:41
  Redge: Right behind you!
• 9:43
  Jonathan: Watch out for that floating globe!
• 9:44
  Redge: And all of the candles!
• 9:47
  Jonathan: And all the books!
• 9:49
  Redge: And my sponge! My beautiful sponge!
• 9:53
  Jonathan: We gotta get out of this house!
• 9:55
  Redge: No! We have to fix it up for Hogenstein! I'm not giving up just yet! Come on!
• 10:00
  Jonathan: But Redge,
• 10:01
  Redge: Look! There is a lovely sitting room at the end of this hall.
• 10:04
  Redge: Things are still firmly fixed to the ground in there.
• 10:07
  Jonathan: Alright, but if I see one more flying sponge, I'm out of here.
• 10:19
  Redge: See, Jonathan, this room is nice.
• 10:22
  Redge: Here, take these rags and dust off all of these trinkets.
• 10:26
  Redge: I will dust the piano in the corner.
• 10:28
  Jonathan: All the objects are obeying the laws of gravity.
• 10:32
  Redge: It was just a weird fluke, I'm sure of it.
• 10:34
  Redge: Now, I can clean off these keys in peace.
• 10:42
  Jonathan: You know, you're right, Redge.
• 10:43
  Jonathan: This room is far more relaxing.
• 10:46
  Redge: Uh I uh I uh
• 10:51
  Jonathan: And I had no idea you learned to play the piano so well.
• 10:55
  Redge: Uh the thing is,
• 10:57
  Jonathan: I mean I knew you were taking lessons, of course, but
• 11:02
  Redge: Jonathan?
• 11:03
  Jonathan: Yes, Redge
• 11:05
  Redge: I'm not playing the piano.
• 11:08
  Jonathan: What?
• 11:10
  Redge: It's playing on its own!
• 11:15
  Jonathan: Redge, are you doing a waltz with your mop?
• 11:20
  Redge: I can't help it! It it seems to be dancing on its own!
• 11:26
  Jonathan: And taking you with it!
• 11:29
  Redge: And one, two, three, one, two, three!
• 11:33
  Jonathan: Redge, don't count on the beat for the floating mop!
• 11:36
  Redge: Then I'm not sure what else to do, Jonathan.
• 11:38
  Redge: I'm just trying to keep uh uh.
• 11:41
  Redge: And uh I'm getting a little dizzy.
• 11:45
  Jonathan: Redge, uh, try and spin in this direction.
• 11:48
  Redge: I'll try, yay, yay, yay.
• 11:51
  Jonathan: A little closer, a little closer, and yes!
• 12:01
  Walter: Brilliant idea, covering the floor with soapy water.
• 12:04
  Walter: I slipped and fell right out of the grasp of my mop.
• 12:07
  Walter: Although, now I'm even more covered in suds.
• 12:12
  Jonathan: Alright.
• 12:13
  Jonathan: A raven warning, objects floating and dancing on their own, a piano playing but no one is sitting at the keys?
• 12:20
  Jonathan: I'm calling it.
• 12:22
  Redge: No, there must be some part of this place that isn't
• 12:25
  Jonathan: haunted.
• 12:26
  Jonathan: This place is haunted, and we have to leave before
• 12:37
  Walter: Before the bell tolls.
• 12:45
  Jonathan: Did you hear that?
• 12:47
  Redge: Okay, you're right.
• 12:48
  Redge: I give up.
• 12:49
  Redge: Let's get out of here.
• 12:56
  Jonathan: Wait, which way do we go?
• 12:59
  Redge: I'm all turned around.
• 13:08
  Walter: Oh me, oh my, oh, how frightening indeed.
• 13:12
  Walter: Let's see if you can escape using your speed.
• 13:18
  Jonathan: Come on, Redge, let's just run and hope we find our way out.
• 13:21
  Redge: I'm right behind you.
• 13:22
  Redge: I thought the door was just over here.
• 13:26
  Jonathan: Did we take a wrong turn?
• 13:28
  Redge: Is it just me, or is this
• 13:29
  Jonathan: hallway stretching endlessly before us?
• 13:32
  Redge: I've definitely seen that portrait before.
• 13:34
  Redge: We aren't getting anywhere.
• 13:37
  Jonathan: This hallway never ends.
• 13:39
  Redge: Oh no!
• 13:53
  Walter: Two more tolls! That makes eight.
• 13:57
  Walter: Time to clean up and face your fate!
• 14:05
  Redge: My vacuum!
• 14:06
  Jonathan: It's coming down the hallway! Redge, get up on my shoulder! We gotta run faster!
• 14:13
  Redge: I can't believe even my vacuum has turned against me!
• 14:17
  Jonathan: How are these things moving on their own?
• 14:19
  Jonathan: Are they possessed?
• 14:21
  Redge: Wait! You're right, Jonathan! How are they moving on their own?
• 14:33
  Walter: A mystery with answers that nobody knows.
• 14:37
  Walter: Like how this hallway just goes and goes and goes.
• 14:49
  Jonathan: The vacuum is yelling at us.
• 14:51
  Redge: I don't think it's the vacuum speaking.
• 14:53
  Redge: Jonathan?
• 14:53
  Redge: Toss me.
• 14:55
  Jonathan: What?
• 14:56
  Redge: Toss me back.
• 14:57
  Redge: Don't worry, I still have my baking soda.
• 15:01
  Jonathan: Redge, how is another one of your cleaning supplies going to help?
• 15:04
  Jonathan: For all we know, your baking soda is going to start singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
• 15:16
  Walter: The final bell tolls and midnight has arrived.
• 15:21
  Walter: Now the only question How will you survive?
• 15:32
  Redge: Just trust me and toss me.
• 15:34
  Redge: We don't have any more time.
• 15:36
  Jonathan: Well, all right.
• 15:37
  Jonathan: If you insist, here you go!
• 15:42
  Redge: Cowabunga and hiyah!
• 15:51
  Walter: Gross.
• 15:53
  Redge: Aha!
• 15:54
  Jonathan: Redge?
• 15:54
  Jonathan: Was that a ghost?
• 15:57
  Redge: It was! The baking soda revealed their form.
• 16:01
  Redge: My mother always taught me that you can toss a little baking soda at a ghost and make it reveal its form for just a moment.
• 16:09
  Jonathan: Huh?
• 16:09
  Jonathan: I never knew.
• 16:11
  Redge: So, we saw you, who whoever you are.
• 16:15
  Jonathan: You might as well just show yourself.
• 16:18
  Walter: Oh boo!
• 16:20
  Redge: Ach.
• 16:21
  Walter: Oops, uh, sorry.
• 16:22
  Walter: I forget that a ghost saying boo might be a little scary to the living.
• 16:27
  Jonathan: Who are you?
• 16:28
  Jonathan: And why have you been chasing us around since we arrived?
• 16:32
  Walter: The name's Walter P.
• 16:33
  Walter: Geist, and I believe a little fright is my right when strangers step into my home.
• 16:39
  Redge: Hello, Walter.
• 16:40
  Redge: My name is Redge, and this is Jonathan.
• 16:43
  Jonathan: Hello.
• 16:44
  Redge: We are not here to harm anyone.
• 16:46
  Jonathan: We had no idea someone was living here.
• 16:49
  Redge: Hogenstein said it was abandoned, and that it was his mother's dream to turn Raven's Roost into a bed and breakfast.
• 16:56
  Walter: Oh, that mad scientist.
• 16:58
  Walter: He always has his nose in the beakers and his brain in the books.
• 17:02
  Redge: What do you mean?
• 17:03
  Walter: It was his mother's idea, all right.
• 17:05
  Walter: An idea I gave her.
• 17:08
  Jonathan: Really?
• 17:08
  Walter: Ah, you better believe it.
• 17:10
  Walter: She knew me from way back in the day.
• 17:13
  Walter: I haunted her neighbor's place for a while.
• 17:15
  Walter: Anyway, I told her I wanted to open a thrilling and bone chilling spot right here in the Foreshadow, for all of my spooky, ooky buddies to enjoy.
• 17:26
  Walter: It would be one of a kind.
• 17:28
  Redge: I know that's right.
• 17:30
  Walter: She told me her family had this real eerie spot by a bog called Raven's Roost and bada bing, bada boo, we went into business together.
• 17:40
  Walter: Problem is, most folks fear ghosts and won't come to help a ghoul turn an old haunted house into a wicked and welcoming haunted home.
• 17:50
  Redge: But we're not like most people.
• 17:52
  Redge: That's exactly what we're here to do.
• 17:55
  Walter: Sure.
• 17:56
  Walter: But then you'll take this perfect spot off of yourselves and kick me to the curb.
• 18:03
  Redge: Gasp! We would never
• 18:06
  Walter: really?
• 18:07
  Jonathan: Not at all.
• 18:08
  Jonathan: We want to help you make this place the B and B you imagined all those years ago.
• 18:14
  Walter: Well, Jack O Lanterns! That's a horseman with a different head now, isn't it?
• 18:19
  Redge: It uh is indeed.
• 18:21
  Redge: You too will help this old specter start the bed and breakfast of his nightmares?
• 18:28
  Jonathan: Absolutely!
• 18:29
  Redge: I'm in.
• 18:31
  Walter: Well, let's get started then, shall we?
• 18:38
  Jonathan: It looks really great in here, Redge.
• 18:41
  Redge: It really does, doesn't it?
• 18:43
  Redge: I'm quite proud of us.
• 18:46
  Jonathan: And it seems like Walter is thriving as the new bed and breakfast manager.
• 18:55
  Walter: Hello, this is Walter P.
• 18:57
  Walter: Geist, purveyor of fun, glee, and frights, and newly dubbed owner and operator of Ravens Roost.
• 19:04
  Walter: How may I help you on this bootiful morning?
• 19:08
  Walter: You'd like to book a room for next weekend?
• 19:10
  Walter: Yes, mm-hmm.
• 19:11
  Walter: We can do that.
• 19:13
  Walter: Now we have themed rooms available if you'd like one.
• 19:16
  Walter: Well, next weekend we have the Sleepy Hollow Hovel, Witch Coven Corner, and the House of Haunts available.
• 19:24
  Walter: Oh, which one do I recommend?
• 19:26
  Walter: Well, I must say, I'm pretty partial to a good haunting myself.
• 19:38
  Redge: Ah yes, Walter will do an amazing job.
• 19:41
  Redge: I can't wait for Hogenstein to see it.
• 19:45
  Jonathan: I agree.
• 19:46
  Redge: Now, I heard Walter put trick or treat cakes on today's breakfast menu.
• 19:51
  Redge: We have to go get some before they run out.
• 19:54
  Jonathan: Ooh, what are those?
• 19:56
  Redge: Well, you order them and get a treat.
• 19:59
  Redge: Pancakes with whipped cream and strawberries.
• 20:02
  Redge: Or
• 20:03
  Jonathan: a trick?
• 20:04
  Redge: Exactly.
• 20:06
  Jonathan: What is the trick?
• 20:08
  Redge: No spoilers, Jonathan.
• 20:10
  Redge: Come on, let's go to the dining room.
• 20:14
  Jonathan: Um okay.
• 20:15
  Jonathan: Sounds uh good?
• 20:17
  Redge: Trick or treat, time to eat.
• 20:19
  Redge: I hope I get something sweet.
• 20:36
  Jonathan: This has been a Jon in character production.
• 20:38
  Jonathan: This story was written and produced by Molly Murphy and performed by Jonathan Cormur.
• 20:43
  Jonathan: Sound recording and production by Jermaine Hamilton at Pacific Grove Soundworks.
• 20:47
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• 20:50
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• 20:57
  Jonathan: You can find even more ways to reach us in the show notes.
• 21:01
  Jonathan: Now, go be the hero of your own story, and we'll see you next once upon a time.
• 21:11
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