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The Strange Life of Someone Trapped in a Sitcom · INSPIRE STORY

• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Cats dance.
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  Speaker 2: Let's let's get this. Uh uh isaah, can you hear this? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Here, go ahead and sing the song my cat cat
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  Cat and a dance dance dance cats, key cat.
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  Speaker 2: Hell, one room cat. I'm a kitty cat. So then,
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  since then the incense? That was a beautiful rendition, Nick,
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  would you do me a favor? Baby? Could you do
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  me a favor? Real quick? Actually? Baby, can you do
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  me a favor? Oh? Can you get daddy just a
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  little red bull?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: All right, I'm back.
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  Speaker 2: Daddy needs a little red ball.
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  Speaker 3: Nikki, Nikki, he go in there and get me amble,
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  Thank you, princess.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, make sure sugar free?
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  Speaker 3: Uh Nick, Harry, I need it?
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  Speaker 5: Can you see the stream now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Okay? Is anyone saying anything yet?
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  Speaker 2: Is that sugar free?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you daddy? Huh to the West.
• 1:37
  Speaker 5: The Writer's Journey?
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  Speaker 2: What the fuck is journey of the West mean? What
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  does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: Are you meming me? What is that like Nazi propagance
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  or something? What the fuck are you talking about? I
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  don't know what that means. It's Chinese odyssey.
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  Speaker 2: This is the writer's Journey.
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  Speaker 3: I heard it's a good writing book, so I was
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  gonna read it. Oh my communists, Chinese literature is in
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  the other room. You know that, Nick, Come on, Red.
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  Speaker 6: Bull sugar Free yeah, wow.
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  Speaker 5: All right, now there's people showing up there.
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  Speaker 2: It is wow, sugar free room.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, you guys can't see him right now. Uh. Hunter
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  refused to set this up and away where you could
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  see him, but he's you can hear him right now.
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  Speaker 2: So this is incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, you can't see me, so you're gonna have to
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  use your imagination. First off, let me tell you right now,
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  Isaiah'll you'll see this in the final cut on the adic,
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  but you're gonna you're gonna see that. I am completely
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  nude right now. I'm not even joking, completely naked, and
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  I'm gonna do this.
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  Speaker 2: Really. I want you to listen to this and then
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  close your eyes. Isaiah. I can see it on the stream,
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  so you have to close your eyes. Ready, ready, ready.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh my god, that was Magell.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's good.
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  Speaker 5: This is just smart.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's good. Oh wow.
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  Speaker 5: I can't I can't do this. I'm a father now,
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  I have standards.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god. Red Bull is so tasty. Mm hmmm. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, do you want to tell these do you want
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  to tell our beautiful little princesses and princes? What we're
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  reading today?
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  Speaker 2: Baby?
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  Speaker 5: We are reading two stories. Well, hold on, we gotta
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  do Yeah, we're recording. You have to do the oh shit, duh.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to creep Isaiah can't talk won doing the
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  thing because it throws off my groove. Okay, please, thank you.
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  We've discussed this before. Now I have to get my
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  whole I have to do my whole remedy. Hold on, ye, well,
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  it's just every time, it's so Welcome back to creep Cast.
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  Today we're going to be reading a beautiful story called help.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trapped in a sitcom season one episode one.
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  Speaker 5: That one, and but there's another one that.
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  Speaker 3: Were well, potentially need to see how that. That's fucking busy.
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  I gotta see how much long we can do. I
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  don't know if we're going to be able to have
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  time to do that one. Okay, so we'll fucking fill
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  it in later.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the other one, if we get to it, is
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  I've uncovered videotapes revealing malicious reality shows, so get it.
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  Sitcom reality show theme of the episodes creepy shows, everyone
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  really creepy. I was more hyped about before Hunter started
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  this podcast by moaning into the microphone. But whatever, you
• 5:21
  guys haven't seen it yet, but we've recorded an episode
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  that I think's going up this Sunday by a writer
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  known as Max Voyage. Max Voyage hasn't posted in six years,
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  but we read two stories from them as part of
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  a grab bag on the episode that they'll be going
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  up on the current week while we're recording, and there
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  were both bangers, and then we saw the sitcom one
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  decided to give it a try. So the best way
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  to reach reach Max Voyage seems to be his Reddit.
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  I don't see any other links to his writing beyond that,
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  but he's got a ton of stories on No Sleep
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  and the Cryptic Compendium and stuff like that, so be
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  sure to check them out at the link in the description. Also,
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  for those that don't know, we are live streaming this
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  to the Patreon at the same time, so I'm seeing
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  people's reactions hurling by. I'm seeing a lot of water
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  emojis and a lot of people with turnk Brownie profile pictures,
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  so I don't We'll see how this goes so.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to join this live stream next time,
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  feel free to join our Patreon. We can hang out
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  with these fucking degenerates that are spamming the chat.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, never mind, don't even do it. Never mind,
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  this is enough.
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  Speaker 5: Don't even do what?
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  Speaker 3: Just don't don't don't even don't even bother sign it up.
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  Speaker 2: We have enough people in here. This is too much.
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  Look at this, Jesus Christ, it is.
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  Speaker 5: I can't keep up with it.
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  Speaker 2: I will say.
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  Speaker 5: Patreon has fixed the thing I think where the chat
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  would be too much and you couldn't see the bottom
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  of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're it is better. I am so though.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, for the people here, the rat King
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  short story is really fucking cool. We were able to
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  read two of his stories, and both really good. I'm
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  curious to see this one too. I really like I
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  I love these uh, I really like these uh these
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  stories where I don't know, like it's like a fourth
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  wall breaking kind of meme, you know what I mean,
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  like a deal of some dude. Actually, I'm curious to
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  see how he uses a screenplay format to uh create
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  a creepy pasta.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun, so one.
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  Speaker 5: Said, will this be Sunday's episode. No, as much as
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  we hate our editors, we don't give them that type
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  of turnaround times.
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  Speaker 2: Like this will be a future one.
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  Speaker 5: This will be a future one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The one going again, the one going up this week
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  is this guy's story. But we recorded it like two
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  or three recordings ago.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen that? Have you seen that?
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  Speaker 7: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: The video that German kid playing Fortnite, that's one of
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  my favorite.
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  Speaker 2: I love that one. I love the one so much.
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  Speaker 5: Why did you bring that up?
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  Speaker 3: I don't really know, uh, because because people are saying yippie,
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  That's what I'm thinking, because he doesnight.
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  Speaker 2: You freaking hippadaf he cool? Is that bitty it's sucking
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  foot night.
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  Speaker 3: And like the whole the whole translation is like I
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  just want to I want to drink Coca Cola and
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  play Fortnite or something. And he has the most genuine
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  yippy evertnight.
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  Speaker 5: It is a haunting how much the Patreon and your
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  people in chatter, just your minions to say something. It's
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  just like whatever, it's so good to point them towards.
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  Speaker 2: Just out.
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  Speaker 5: Before we recorded, Hunter was like, oh we should stream
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  this to Patreon. I'm like, well, yeah, let's do it
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  next time when I can set everything up. He's like, no,
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  we have to do it this time. We've got to
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  do it right now.
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  Speaker 2: And listen. I since you've been hey, sind you been gone.
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  Speaker 3: Now, since you've been gone, I've been me and the
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  me and the Patreon chat. We've been getting down and
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  dirty together. We're we're homies now. So it's been too long.
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  I need to my fix with my with my Patreon pals,
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  my pepis ope that doesn't work, my patreon, my Patreon friends.
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  Speaker 5: That doesn't like it, don't even go back to reverse
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  a reverse parasocial relationship. That's really cool of you.
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  Speaker 2: It's good. Yeah, I need them. That's I have to
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  have them.
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  Speaker 5: Or also, I'll fold in on my about streaming this
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  episode this week, so yeah, we have to.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to be reading one, potentially two stories. We'll
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  see how it goes. Thank you to the patrons for
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  being a part of today's live recording. So actually this
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  is kind of fitting. We're doing a sitcom episode and
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  we have a live studio audience while we so thank
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  you to our live studio audience and all of the
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  people on Patreon. Again, the artists slash artists that we're
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  covering today will be linked in the description. Is there
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  anything else we're missing?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: The only thing we need to establish is that in
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  the script format, you should read says me, So like
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  if it says me, you'll take those lines and I'll
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  take everything else.
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  Speaker 5: All right, sounds good? All right, Well, without further ado,
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  are you ready to get into it?
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  Speaker 2: Let's go help.
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  Speaker 5: I'm trapped in a sitcom Season one, episode one, season
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  one pilot, an empty room cathod ray television plays. The
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  image is grainy, stretched over the screen like a membrane
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  theme tune, hollow, empty, a parody of something I have. Remember,
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  this is all I see, living room. I am on
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  the couch, tie undone, your cold in my hand? TV
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  is playing. I do know how I got here. Broom
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  feels spacious, opens itself up around me. There's a noise
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  at the door. The lock slowly turns and the door opens. Okay,
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  well think I have an applause sound effect.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry? Was my not fucking good enough?
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't. Uh well the stream should have been able
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  to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, well.
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  Speaker 5: It's like it's I looked over I looked over at
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  the audio bar and it was peaked red the whole time.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's like, everyone's like, yeah, all.
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  Speaker 5: Right, there you get it.
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  Speaker 2: We're in the I want to do the one.
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  Speaker 3: I want to do the one where it's like, actually, dude,
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  I can wait, hold on, I forgot I can let
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  me know if you can hear this, I'm gonna record
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  this one second. Okay, yeah, all right, now it should
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  be on a button, so I should do I.
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  Speaker 5: Can't hear that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's unfortunate. Well I tried.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Well anyway, I can do. What else can I
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  can do this to them? Everyone wants I just hit
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  an air horn.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, this is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 5: I could just hit sound effects and everyone's like, oh
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  my god, that's pretty great.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 5: This is this is fun. You are right, okay, all right?
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  Where are we?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Cheering applause? Oh oh yeah, hold on, hold on to
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  get back. I freeze. What was that? For a moment,
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  I think it might just be Tonight's or the kettle whistling,
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  but the sun is unmistakable. It's an audience cheering, and
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  as they cheer, my friend Bill walks through the door.
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  Speaker 2: Miss me, Champ.
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  Speaker 5: He moves his hands and his hips as he says, Champ,
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  I practice over the top motion. He grins like a wolf.
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  I was frozen for a second, and there's a dead
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  air in the silence. Did you hear that?
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  Speaker 2: Hear what? Champ?
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  Speaker 5: I frowned. He must have heard it. It was loud
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  and obnoxious. It was so loud I couldn't think the applause,
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  the cheering when you entered. Bill grins wiggles his hips again,
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  offers me a theatrical shrug, as if to say, no idea,
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  what you're on about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, at least someone's glad I'm here.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think I have a laughter one.
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  Speaker 3: Also, for love of God, turn up your fucking mic
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  so people will stop bitching and chat.
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  Speaker 2: I'm maximized, believable. It's touching.
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  Speaker 3: Then you need to lay down the law and tell
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  him that it's fucking good enough.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, off, all right.
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  Speaker 5: You turn on your listen to the stream for a
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  second and see if you can hear. I heard it
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  sounds fine, Okay, then everyone else grow I.
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  Speaker 2: See one more.
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  Speaker 3: If I see one, if I see one more fucking
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  comment about it, I'm we're in this ship.
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  Speaker 2: You hear me.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me if you see one more comment right now?
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  Speaker 2: All right, I will all right, go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I saw someone said turn it.
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  Speaker 2: You can't let them. You can't let the one I
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  hit the air horn.
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  Speaker 5: They kid, I freeze. What was that? For a moment,
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  I think it might just be tonight is or the
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  kettle whistling. But the sound is unmistakable. It's an audience cheering,
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  and as they cheer, my friend Bill walks through the door.
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  You've already read, I read, I read, I already read
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  all that. See we're gonna edit that out of the
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  final cut. But now there's a live audience who knows.
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  Speaker 2: That I do.
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  Speaker 4: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: It's because we have weird. We have stage fright, is
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  what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's because of the people fucking complaining and doing
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  all this fucking ship and it's.
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  Speaker 5: So we don't get stage fright on stage. No, get
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  it when we're in our house recording.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, when I'm on stage. When I'm on stage, I
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  just get the scaredy farts. No you don't, Yeah, I
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  do it, reeks, I do a little.
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  Speaker 5: Give me some of those stage with you five times?
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  You have never was the story? What was this not.
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  Speaker 4: You bare?
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  Speaker 5: You are scared of breathing up there? Let alone?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like, honestly, sometimes you get
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  you give it back to it, because there are sometimes
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  where I'm like, he is letting something loose over there.
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  Speaker 5: Don't they give it back?
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  Speaker 2: You do?
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  Speaker 3: It's like Ali and Frasier trading blows. Is what it
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  feels like on stage. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Well, at least someone's glad I'm here.
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  Speaker 5: Laughter and as he says that. As he speaks, the
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  room he erupts and laughter. Canned laughter. I flinch, try
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  and look around to see if I can see the source,
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  but nothing. The room is empty. There was again canned laughter.
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  Bill winks and swaggers towards me.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you know, it's not a crime to admit I'm funny, right.
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  Speaker 5: Bill, cold sweat beat on my back, My hands become
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  clinched fists.
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  Speaker 2: You can't hear it.
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  Speaker 5: Bill's stomach rumbles.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing I can hear is that it's beer.
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  Oh clock.
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  Speaker 5: Laughter again.
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  Speaker 2: I hate Bill, by the way, I.
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  Speaker 5: Say, Bill, is you?
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  Speaker 2: This is an interaction between me and you?
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  Speaker 5: Never without question?
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  Speaker 3: No, no no, no, I no no no, I no no,
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  I'm not gonna acknowledge that.
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  Speaker 5: No, wrong, that's one hundred percent something you would say.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing I can hear is is beer a clock.
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  Speaker 5: That's you. The sweat, the swaggering of the hips, the
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  like hips sachet it mentioned, that's also something you would do.
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  There's a clip of you that's very like well rounded
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  on the Internet of you setting at the back of
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  your set and then spreading your legs in and out
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  while staring at the camera.
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  Speaker 2: So that actually never happened.
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  Speaker 5: I've seen it many times, many times. Anytime you say
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  something crazy on Papa Meat, I get a thousand replies
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  the next day. They're like, is this is you? This
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  is your co host? You're with this gun, you support
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  this gun.
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  Speaker 2: I can't confirm or deny. All I know is that
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  I don't like Bill Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Oh no, that says a lot about you, I think. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I looked over that. I made the mistake too. I
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  looked over chat is seriously like a fucking like a
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  Japanese ghost or something.
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  Speaker 2: I looked over.
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  Speaker 3: The first thing I saw was fat Cam. Do you
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  know what, dude? Why the fuck do I subject myself
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  to this shit? I haven't sat there and I said
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  they were my pals. What the fuck is up with this?
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  It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, and keep reading.
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  Speaker 5: Someone keeps saying, swig break that's something you.
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  Speaker 8: Said, right, No, I'm pretty sure you said that.
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  Speaker 5: Okay. He jumps over the back of the couch and
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  fishes a beer from the six pack that's in front
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  of us. Has that always been there? I only remember one?
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  And the phone rings since when if we had a landline.
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  It's an old fashioned sound, a mechanical shrill ringing that
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  goes and goes. I imagine some brittle insect thrashing inside a
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  plastic case. I'll get it. Bill shakes his head, grabs
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  my shoulder. The scrip is tight. I try to shrug
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  him off. Hey stop, he interrupts me, looks dead into
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  my eyes. The phone's still ringing.
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  Speaker 2: Done it?
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  Speaker 5: Can you not read it like that? Can you be perceptible?
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  At least so the discord picks it up?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, whatever?
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  Speaker 2: Bill? Please please don't answer something.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, you know what? Maybe wherever you want? Sure, I'm not.
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  My head hurts throbs against my skull. Am I hallucinating
• 19:22
  something about Bill? Almost shocks me. Such a departure from
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  his previous cheery demeanor. He looks panicked older somehow, his
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  teeth yellowed in the bags under his eyes, or the
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  color of a bruise.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, this is definitely me, Actually that is he? Yeah, No,
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  two fucking persons, two Persian bags under my eyes. I'm
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  just fucking absolute stained teeth, all right, Bill.
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  Speaker 5: Persian bags. He speaks in a whisper, now, his tongue waiting,
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  his lower lip.
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  Speaker 2: Just please don't answer.
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  Speaker 5: The phone cuts a hallway mark. I look at him,
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  thousand questions on my lips. He says nothing. He soaked
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  through to the bone. There's a gash on his forehead.
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  Speaker 2: It's pouring out there.
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  Speaker 5: He chews the nail, tries to walk past me. I
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  can see the bulge of some implement inside his coat,
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  and smell petrol and smoke on his skin. He's breathing deeply,
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  panting almost. As he tries to walk past, he speaks.
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  Speaker 2: Have you been here the entire time?
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: I have no idea what he's talking about. Been where?
• 20:32
  Turns to look at me, looks at me as if
• 20:34
  I'm someone else.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Entirely, I'm sorry, I had no choice when I turned
• 20:39
  to look.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: I can see that the hallway behind me, the one
• 20:42
  Mark is walking down stretches as far as the eye
• 20:45
  can see. Pulogen lights flicker. Mark turns around, offers the
• 20:50
  ghost of a smile. He's possessing thing like someone else
• 20:56
  who's a part of the show.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I don't, I I don't know.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: All I know is all I know. As I tried
• 21:03
  doing that was my legitimate earnest attempt at a Joey
• 21:06
  Wheeler kind of like accent, and it was atrocious. I'm
• 21:11
  going to try to really wrangle in Mark's voice more,
• 21:14
  but that was that was horrible.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Okay, that to me, it sounds like you were trying
• 21:18
  to do like a stereotypical like Raliota mobster accent.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, well that's kind of that's kind of what it's. Yah,
• 21:25
  it's not terrible.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Then.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Some people have said you sound like Yogi Bear for
• 21:32
  you to fart into the microphone. Don't give it to them.
• 21:40
  This is what you want. Some one said Hunter is Moloch.
• 21:44
  That I agree with. I can get behind that. That
• 21:46
  Hunters of Mesopotamia.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: You know, man, we're fucking hey, hey, we're we're we're
• 21:50
  reading a story. We're not we're not conversing with chat
• 21:54
  right now, right, there's moments for that, right now. We're
• 21:57
  locked the fuck in. You're so new to this, man,
• 22:01
  I've had so much more experience now with this, so
• 22:04
  usually my streams run a little more smooth. I run
• 22:06
  a bit of a tighter ship. But that's okay.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: People just keep typing the word sniff as if they're
• 22:15
  like sniffing there. Yeah, speakers, when you did that, all right, well,
• 22:20
  at your audience, you built them. I'm just some guy
• 22:26
  that you imprisoned to be here to read stories for you.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know why I thought you said impregnated at first,
• 22:31
  and I was gonna say, what you talking about?
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Don't don't give them that, don't.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: You know what's actually so fucked up?
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I shouldn't say it out loud, but I will say
• 22:43
  you would take the best paternity whatever, photos like you
• 22:49
  in an autumn forest with a big bump.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: You would.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: It would look so natural, it's not even I mean,
• 22:55
  it would be unbelievable.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: You know, you know, you know what makes me furious
• 22:58
  about this. I'm not even looking at the chat, but
• 23:01
  out of my peripheral when you start saying that, I
• 23:03
  can see it get faster. I can see more people
• 23:06
  got something to say, you start talking about it. I
• 23:09
  know for a fagnant.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know for a fact too. You got that
• 23:12
  fucking tan ass skin and stuff. You would have that
• 23:15
  crazy at stretch marks that starts like right in the
• 23:18
  middle of your stomach and splits outwards that pregnant women get.
• 23:21
  You'd have one of those, and you'd proudly, you'd proudly
• 23:24
  display for everybody, hairy ass, fucking big belly sitting there
• 23:28
  holding it both hands.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Easy, easy, peasy.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: I don't appreciate a lot of the comments people are
• 23:35
  publicly making about me and my podcast co host, my
• 23:41
  business partner. Some of the things that are being said
• 23:43
  in chat right now regarding me being pregnant are just obscene.
• 23:51
  Oh I don't okay, all right, all right, I want
• 23:55
  to keep reading the story.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Cuts a coffee shop.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: I don't remember how I got here. One moment we
• 24:01
  were in my apartment, and then the hallway, and then
• 24:04
  the coffee cup is hot in my hand, small heart
• 24:06
  in the froth. When I look up at the barista,
• 24:10
  an attractive mid twenties woman bows her head and smiles,
• 24:14
  dazzling white, geometrically perfect teeth like small square tiles on
• 24:18
  a bathroom floor. I think, do I know her?
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Bill's speaking, and that's when I turned to her and
• 24:25
  I say, talk about having a turkey.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Laughter, I sort of laughter. Canned laughter again makes me flinch.
• 24:36
  Lean in, Look behind me. No one's laughing here? Where's
• 24:41
  it coming from? The woman next to Bill looks familiar Stacy,
• 24:46
  I remember now, a college friend who had a thing
• 24:48
  with Bill until they broke up a few months ago.
• 24:51
  Still friends, though, Stacy grins as well.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Hope afterwards you made sure to flip her the bird laughter.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Who's can you do the laughter effect forulis? That's good?
• 25:10
  Can you just do the laughter effect from now on?
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I flinched again. I can't see a studio audience anywhere,
• 25:18
  but I imagine them faces pressed against the windows behind us, learying.
• 25:22
  It does from bathroom stalls and from under tables. I
• 25:25
  watched Stacy's hands pale small against her cup. She takes
• 25:30
  her ride and takes two sugar cubes from a bowl
• 25:32
  in the center of the table, dropping them into the
• 25:34
  murky brown liquid. I could see how perfectly manicured her
• 25:38
  nails are. As I study them closer, I noticed something
• 25:42
  there under the nail, bloody blood and what seems to
• 25:47
  be dirt. I don't know dirt, did Stacy? What's up
• 25:53
  with your nails? Were you cooking? That is kind of
• 25:58
  a funny thing to say, are you cooking?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: It's like you assume it's dirt? What do you mean?
• 26:02
  Or were you cooking?
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: You were?
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Animals out of the ground right?
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Also too, if you see bloody nails, how the fuck
• 26:08
  are you thinking that the brown thing under nails is
• 26:10
  dirt not pooh?
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Am I wrong? Wouldn't you think that's just pooh? Why
• 26:15
  would you think that's dirt?
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I just see. Will you read the Windigoon
• 26:23
  impreg fan fiction hunter draw Windygoon Pregnant? How you've started
• 26:26
  something and it's so okay?
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Am I wrong?
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Though?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know it's vulgar, but it's nasty.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: But if I saw, if I saw perfectly manicured fingernails
• 26:43
  and I saw the little blood, I wouldn't assume that
• 26:45
  the brown substance underneath it is dirt.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: I'm sure it's not just the color brown. I'm sure
• 26:49
  it looks like smell dirt. So you can tell that
• 26:51
  between dirt and poop?
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Depending on the kind of poo.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: I mean, I guess it's kind of overlaps, but I
• 26:58
  actually it looks like I think the cases. It looks
• 27:00
  like she's been.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Digging, been digging at something.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: A little scratching sniff is what it is.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: I can't stand you with some of these alliterations you
• 27:10
  use for the grossest things. Okay, her face slips for
• 27:15
  a moment, at least that's the only way I can
• 27:18
  describe it, like her features all shut down and reboot.
• 27:21
  She turns to me, Oh, don't be silly. Flinch. When
• 27:28
  she says my name, it's censored with the same beep
• 27:30
  they use to sense her explicit songs. I watch her lips,
• 27:34
  but nothing my name? What's my name? Pause? She's hiding something.
• 27:42
  Don't be silly? Isn't a response? No, really, Stacy, that's
• 27:49
  not a response to my question. She takes a moment
• 27:53
  theatrically examines her nails, runs her tongue over her glossy teeth,
• 27:57
  takes another sugar cube from the bowl, examines it, drops
• 28:00
  it into her cup. There's something strange about it, the
• 28:03
  flat square planes of the cube disappearing into the black liquid.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Stupid questions get stupid answers.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: There's something in her voice, something shaking, something broken and
• 28:14
  weeping and desperate, but it's just beneath the surface, only
• 28:18
  appearing in trimmers and ticks, and try to scratching her.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Should I try to do her line again, except more shaky.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: I think what you were doing was good where it's
• 28:28
  like stereotypical, like bimbo valley girl, a valley girl, but
• 28:33
  put a little put a little like on it.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Questions gets two answers somewhere between the two takes.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: I think, see now the now with the live audience,
• 28:49
  they get to see us workshop this.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: You don't.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: We'll do this in episodes a lot where there will
• 28:53
  be a line and I just saw where's the windy
• 28:56
  tummy cam? I hate, I hate what you've done here.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I I eight stupid shablished stupid questions to get stupid answers.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: That was good, That was it? That was it right there?
• 29:06
  That's it, that's it right there. So we do this
• 29:09
  a lot where we'll workshop a little like sentences and
• 29:11
  stuff you like, I'll put this inflection on it, change that,
• 29:13
  change that, and now you all get to see it.
• 29:16
  But all they care about is but can I have
• 29:21
  the hairy wendy tummy? Okay, there's something in her voice,
• 29:25
  something shaking, something broken and weeping and desperate, But it's
• 29:29
  just beneath the surface, only appearing in trimmers and ticks.
• 29:32
  And she starts scratching her face. Stacy, what's going on?
• 29:38
  She looks panicked for a second, as if somewhere someone
• 29:40
  has said her name. Eyes wide, she leans forward slams
• 29:44
  her forehead against the glass table in front of us.
• 29:46
  Once the table shakes, coffee spills. The table is fractured
• 29:51
  and there are small shards in her forehead. She pats
• 29:54
  at the rivulets of blood with the tips of her fingers, then,
• 29:57
  as if tasting a salad dressing, licks them clean. Somewhere
• 30:05
  in the distance, phone rings. Bill's eyes go wide. He
• 30:09
  looks at me, cut to laundry mat.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: What do you think I think. I think it's so
• 30:14
  it depends on the nature of what this is.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: If this is like an alternate reality or just like
• 30:18
  some weird like purgatory or whatever. I think it's you know,
• 30:21
  the whole thing about like if you're in a coma,
• 30:23
  you know, you hear a voice or you pick them
• 30:26
  a phone and you hear like someone from the outside.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: I think it's something like that.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's just there's this movie that kind of harks
• 30:32
  on that idea that came out during the COVID era,
• 30:35
  like twenty nineteen twenty twenty era called Come True, really
• 30:38
  really fun film, but it kind of has a similar vibe,
• 30:41
  very dreamlike kind of quality, which is, would you kind
• 30:44
  of explain this weird, surreal dream that this person is in.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Even though too I can't tell is our protagonist.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Are they just like totally bought in that they're in
• 30:54
  this sitcom?
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Or are they still like, why the what the fuck
• 30:57
  is this? Because the only thing that they said still
• 30:59
  don't know what's going on.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: They understand it's they get that it's a sitcom because
• 31:05
  they're like it's can studio laughter. They can imagine it,
• 31:07
  so they understand the format, but they don't know what's
• 31:09
  happening because he's like, how did I get here? Whise bill?
• 31:12
  Does this person know me? Like he's still trying to
• 31:15
  figure out the logistics of it. I also really like
• 31:17
  how when she said his name it was a bleep,
• 31:19
  like the censorship. It's like whatever has him in here?
• 31:22
  Trying to indoctrinate him to be a part of this,
• 31:24
  similarly to Stacey and Bill probably are where you see
• 31:27
  their cracks for a second, but then they go back
• 31:29
  to the formula.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Losing their own identity. It would be fucking horrifying.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, almost the point where there has not been the
• 31:36
  protagonist has not said their name once.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: It's kind of fun so far.
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: I really like the setup where it's like because he's
• 31:43
  acting completely reasonable, being like, what's wrong with you? What
• 31:46
  are we doing? But it's in the backdrop of a sitcom,
• 31:48
  so it's so out of place, or like that one
• 31:50
  where he says like uh, he says, like what's wrong
• 31:54
  with your nails? And there's laughter.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: He's like that's not an answer.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: Quit like he's shaking it off almost to continue deliberating.
• 32:02
  So it's a fun setup. Like the premise A lot
• 32:05
  cut to laundromat. I sit on a chair reading a magazine.
• 32:08
  Since when do people read magazines or go to laundromats?
• 32:12
  Something hurts behind my eyes, presses against the corney and
• 32:15
  drapes itself over the front of my brain. Kathy has
• 32:18
  her hands on her hips, looking at me as she talks.
• 32:22
  She stuffs the wedding dress after wedding dress into the
• 32:24
  open chrome mouth of the machine. Seems endless, as if
• 32:28
  the chrome mouth leads to chrome got some great rusted interior,
• 32:33
  coiled steel intestines and whistling iron lungs, and a throat
• 32:37
  that continues forever endeavor, iron lung, ironlun reference.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know what to say.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: What if you like her, you should just ask her
• 32:49
  out the old fashioned way.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: She keeps putting wedding dresses in, and with each new
• 32:55
  dress they become progressively more and more soiled, covered in
• 32:58
  dirt and blood and yellow stain I can't identify. And
• 33:01
  they just keep coming, they keep coming, there's no end
• 33:04
  to them. Like some perverse marital magician. She just keeps
• 33:08
  pulling these wedding dresses out of a small plastic laundry box.
• 33:12
  And now they're ripped, just a bundle of bloodstained threads,
• 33:14
  a handful of dust. I have expect her to pull
• 33:17
  a rabbit out of the open mouth of another machine,
• 33:20
  some half dead gray thing, drowned and stomach filled with
• 33:23
  the SuDS and cheap detergent. I imagine her smooth and
• 33:26
  it's wet, matted fur patting at the clumps of bubbles,
• 33:29
  the color of an oil slick that sweet. I don't
• 33:32
  know who you're talking about. I don't know how I
• 33:34
  got here. My head hurts, I can taste blood. I
• 33:38
  think I'm going to be sick.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: I think I'm going to be sick. If you keep
• 33:44
  running away from your problems. She seems perfect made for you.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: I don't think I know you. I don't think I
• 33:52
  know anyone.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: I think my.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Skin's too thin, and it's stretched over the wrong bones.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: And she looks at me.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: Something passes over her face, puts it in shadow for
• 34:02
  a moment, like the reflection of clouds moving across the
• 34:05
  surface of a lake.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: It's always been like this always.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: I hit them with the applause effect again. Oh good,
• 34:23
  I think that this is stellar so far. I really
• 34:28
  like the thing. I think my skin's too thin, and
• 34:30
  I think it's stretched over my bones. And then she's like,
• 34:33
  it's always.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Been like this.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: And then it's like it's like the studio, which is
• 34:37
  representative of the force that has them trapped there, goes
• 34:39
  wild like it's like they're still treating it like it's
• 34:42
  a part of the sitcomer. It's some big like revelatory
• 34:45
  moment or joke.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: It's almost what the crowd goes.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: While it's almost described like that near the end of
• 34:49
  sitcom seasons, where like the two characters finally kiss or
• 34:51
  something and you hear everyone cheer and applause. It's kind
• 34:56
  of like that, but it's like the stand in is
• 35:01
  one character recognizing to another that they're trapped there, that
• 35:05
  this is just how things are. That's pretty cool. Cut
• 35:09
  to cuts a living room. My head hurts, spins a little.
• 35:14
  I'm set on a couch and I reached down, grip
• 35:16
  the edge of the cushion with both my hands and
• 35:18
  hold on tight, as.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: If at any moment it might throw me off, as
• 35:22
  if it's the only connection I have to the real world.
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: Faux leather bowl. Imagine a large brass ring around the
• 35:29
  bridge of my nose.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: That's the thing about men, really, they want a certain
• 35:33
  version of you, and on a date, you get to
• 35:36
  choose which version that is.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: So you go get it girl, just to kill. That's
• 35:41
  when I see it.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: There in the bathroom, a woman visible from the living
• 35:47
  room through an open door, slumped against the wall. Limbsplayed
• 35:52
  her next red in the wall behind her is covered
• 35:54
  in thin arcs of blood well against splatters that make
• 35:57
  a pattern behind her, her throats and slit. One of
• 36:01
  her hands is missing a finger. Her blood's running over
• 36:04
  the floor, in the space between the white, perfectly square tiles.
• 36:09
  My stomach turns. Her eyes are so empty, so glassy
• 36:13
  and vacant. I can almost see the struggle, the brutality
• 36:17
  of her last moments, the short, nasty violence that ended
• 36:21
  her life.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: And that's what I said.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: If you're gonna go wear this season's Prada, then you
• 36:26
  might as well wear then.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Uh fuck fuck. And that's what I said.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: If you're not gonna wear the season's Prada, then you
• 36:35
  might as well wear nada.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: There's a dead body in the bathroom.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: That's such a good that is such a good turn
• 36:51
  a beat for this story. You might as well wear naa.
• 36:55
  There is a dead body in the bathroom.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: There's a dead body. Here's the bathroom I've got.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: I'm on baby duty now, So if you hear the
• 37:04
  baby scream or freak out or whatnot, it's just it's
• 37:07
  part of the plan.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: So I love you, Oh God, PDA, dude, keep it
• 37:13
  out of the fucking stream.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: Man. Everyone's saying, baby Tanka Yeah, it's so great, isn't
• 37:20
  that right? Tnka? I love that name.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Wait? Is the baby on stream?
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, we don't. I'm not gonna put her
• 37:27
  on stream. But she's off. She's in a bassinette over here,
• 37:30
  to the side. She's witnessed to the stream. There it goes.
• 37:36
  There goes the baby crying.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: I hear the baby doing.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Can I do an impression of your baby?
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, so talk to me as if you're I'm
• 37:46
  your baby.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: Hi? Baby?
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Is that you say to your daughter?
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: Sweetie? Hello?
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: Awful, keep it going.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Give me another one, dude, get another one?
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: Hello?
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: How are you just clipping out on the microphone?
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Do you like that?
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: So? I can't wait for you to get canceled over
• 38:35
  something that just got I've got books of infod of
• 38:39
  Destroyed to just bring up. I can't wait for I
• 38:45
  can't wait for the expos a video in a year
• 38:47
  where it's like he would go on podcasts in the
• 38:50
  Patreon server.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: You would pretend to be his co host newborn Shi
• 38:55
  he was ship there.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: And you would pretend to be a baby, and everyone
• 38:59
  in the chat would be ga mom with sexual euphemisms. Yeah, yeah,
• 39:08
  one day, one day I'll it'll happen. Okay, there's a
• 39:13
  dead body in the bathroom. Her skin is pallid drained,
• 39:17
  and it's taken on a waxy quality, a muted sheen.
• 39:27
  It's just your line, no rush, I'm out of lots
• 39:32
  of these.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: It shows he's still in the discord.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: Oh maybe he had to mute his mic or something.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: I get with it. Danny's hard work for women. You
• 39:45
  think I shop all the time just to look good
• 39:47
  for me.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: I think someone's been murdered in their bodies in the
• 39:51
  bathroom and it's covered in blood.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Ah, hey is dating isn't easy for guys either.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: There are three things I need to make a date
• 40:02
  worth it. Food, beer, pan, more beer.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: You are so. I can see through the open door
• 40:13
  to the bedroom, a room lit by a dim red light,
• 40:16
  and there I can see a shadow moving, shifting. It
• 40:20
  seems to grow small and sways as if dancing, As
• 40:23
  if I think someone is in that room and they're
• 40:27
  moving their body to a rhythm. We cannot hear their
• 40:30
  skins shifting and riding up their leg like a dress,
• 40:32
  and their mouth half open. Blood begins to pool around
• 40:36
  the body's legs. I can see that the incision on
• 40:39
  her throat was wild, sloppy. From the bedroom, there's the
• 40:43
  sound of a muffled moan. I don't think we're alone.
• 40:49
  I think whoever murdered that girl is still here and
• 40:52
  I want them to leave. I want them to leave.
• 40:53
  I want them to leave. Uh So, I really this
• 41:08
  story is actually really well paced. I like how the
• 41:10
  scenes go on and there's like a presence here and
• 41:12
  now there's like this woman Lyne dead over there.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: I really think this is awesome.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: It's a shame the story is, you know, getting hindered
• 41:20
  with you know, me being pregnant and you.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Really rough and I'll legitimately that I have fucked up
• 41:29
  the story.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it is actually good. I'm not gonna stop.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: Well, I don't think you should stop, per se. I
• 41:36
  just more so want to outline that it's your fault.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: It is, I think leimate legitimately, I agree I fucked
• 41:44
  it up.
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: Well, no, I said, I think that this show because
• 41:47
  if someone really wants to read the story directly, they
• 41:49
  can go read it. That's what we point them there.
• 41:51
  I think a lot of the appeal to this show
• 41:53
  is that we are going to ruin the story sometimes
• 41:56
  and they're going to be for absurdest reasons. So I
• 42:01
  think that that's fine. I mean, I'm just sitting here
• 42:04
  pulling concrete out of my hand.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: So have you showed your have you showed them your You.
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: Guys haven't seen that Episode's updated's looking better. I wrecked
• 42:15
  my dirt bike and uh absolutely skinned my hands open
• 42:19
  like this hand was just like you could see the
• 42:21
  muscle striations and there's blood everywhere. And then a couple
• 42:25
  of the last podcast recordings, I've had these really thick
• 42:28
  dogs on them, so funny. Yeah, I have the video.
• 42:31
  So I have the video on the security camp of
• 42:33
  the house on record. Hunter loved video.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: You guys are getting redy. You're getting ready to get
• 42:50
  a lot of Isaiah media. You haven't even seen his
• 42:53
  dentist photos yet. Wait, wait till you see his dentist photos.
• 42:57
  My god, you'll see this. You'll see this this Sunday.
• 42:59
  I'm not even joking. It's it is unbelievable, unreal. Yeah,
• 43:07
  I actually I have that photo right here. Do you
• 43:11
  want to give him a sneak? You could give a knee.
• 43:13
  I would love to see it again. It's it's unreal.
• 43:16
  First off, I just want to say, this is a
• 43:18
  dentist photo. It might be one of the most sexual
• 43:20
  photos I've ever seen in my life.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: First off, look how tiny it is. Look look up extremely.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: God, look at.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Looks like a donkey gout botox. It is unreal. Wow,
• 43:43
  it's it's it is criminal that they did this to you. Also,
• 43:47
  did they take this photo in a closet? Where the
• 43:49
  fun they take this photo.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: You're going to be stealing this is your dentist. You're
• 43:55
  going to be still awaiting these photos for research purposes.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: It looks like it looks like a Sabrina Carpenter album cover.
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: One.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: I meant that bitch, but.
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: For the first time he was all.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Legitimately, in the episode, you'll see you'll hear how genuine
• 44:20
  my reaction is. It is unbelievable. We'll also just to
• 44:23
  sue it out to its normal size, Isaiah, don't don't.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Someone said, and we put it on a T shirt.
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: I wanted to be the thumbnail. I wanted to be
• 44:33
  thembnail with that in the center. Uh, that's its original size.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of stuff going on with this. There's
• 44:42
  a lot of stuff going on with this. Uh.
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: I think I lost connection for a second. I should
• 44:48
  be back now. Yeah, I think I'm backing back.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Is it out?
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: We're back?
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: What were you saying? There's a lot of stuff going
• 44:54
  on with what.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Sure, I don't see it. I don't see it on alive.
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: Well give it a suck. People are saying the lips
• 45:02
  are so powerful and crash the stream.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: There is there is one thing about this photo and
• 45:07
  we should get back to the story.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Is the Uh what I don't understand about you? How
• 45:13
  many teeth are in the human mouth? Is it? Is
• 45:15
  it twenty twenty eight.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: Two?
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: I think all people are immediately making it their profile
• 45:22
  pictures like five. I just want to say, I just
• 45:35
  want to say, there are supposed to be thirty two
• 45:37
  teeth in a mouth.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Zoom in on this.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: There is like your I don't know why, but your teeth.
• 45:44
  It just doesn't feel like you have enough teeth in
• 45:46
  your mouth. It seems like they just cover far too
• 45:49
  much rooms. It looks it seems like it seems like
• 45:53
  in Isaiah's mouth there might be twelve, twelve to sixteen
• 45:56
  teeth instead of the normal thirty two.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: At this site and strage It's photo. This just unbelievable.
• 46:11
  It is unbelievable to give this send me, send me
• 46:16
  that photo really quick.
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: I have to do in your server.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: I have to do something because this is actually gonna
• 46:26
  blow your fucking mind.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: One second.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: It's in the It's it's like three messages back.
• 46:34
  Speaker 7: This is gonna.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: You have I'm gonna send you something back, and I
• 46:38
  want you to be sure and show this.
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: The The context for everyone is I got a new
• 46:44
  dentis lately, and the new nist was like, okay, we
• 46:47
  just need your records from the old dentists. So the
• 46:49
  old dentist sends the records, and the records quote unquote
• 46:53
  was a word document that had every like X ray
• 46:57
  and every dental picture I had on one page, Like
• 47:03
  they had just copy pasted all of the pictures onto
• 47:06
  one page, so all of them were like super small.
• 47:09
  And the new justice was like, yeah, we can't use these.
• 47:11
  But in the midst of all of the X rays
• 47:13
  and the dead center of the page was just this
• 47:16
  photograph that I guess they just held the camera up
• 47:20
  to my face and took a flash shot.
• 47:23
  Speaker 8: I guess, second, look at this.
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: Okay, I don't see anything yet, give me.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: This is very quick.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: I'd want to I want to do another pass.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: We shouldn't ironically make this a photo.
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: Look at those Okay, what are you sitting this? You're
• 47:52
  cracking up, you're trying. I wish I took more time.
• 47:59
  Speaker 8: I need more.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: I need more, like you're dying, just a little more time.
• 48:08
  You said your discord. There you go. I need I
• 48:15
  need more time. I was like wondering, this is exactly
• 48:29
  what was like outside of the.
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: Fut What did you say?
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, what did you say? This exactly what?
• 48:51
  This is exactly what?
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: Because I was like, I would kill to have the
• 48:55
  rest of his face to see what what your face
• 48:59
  looked like during.
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: God?
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: Should someone needs to put this on a on his
• 49:11
  shirt with a dog?
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: This is just smile dog is all this? Let me
• 49:15
  look up a German shepherd. Let me get something. I'm
• 49:25
  doing the Lord's work right now? Holy hell?
• 49:30
  Speaker 8: Can we do?
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: Can we can we do? First?
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: That's just this on why I don't say why not?
• 49:43
  Speaker 8: Man?
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: You know what, man, dude, this is what.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: You need to tell people to chat. This is what
• 49:48
  you gotta tell people.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: He'll be like, You'll say people people will be like,
• 49:53
  what makes creepy pastas?
• 49:54
  Speaker 8: Aren't scary.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: You're like, oh, yeah, look at look at this the
• 49:58
  show and then just show him this.
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: Oh okay, are we.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: It's my talk.
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: God, spread the word, because spread the word.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: And then there's another one.
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: That's photo negative, that's like the hidden picture.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: I find.
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: It edits sor Okay, all right, should we go back
• 50:45
  to the sitcom story? Now said someone said, this is
• 50:51
  my perssona just a German shepherd, super realistic cute lists.
• 51:02
  I got one more, one more? Okay, all right, all right,
• 51:05
  chat's not getting bored, so we can edit this down
• 51:07
  in the final cut.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: This won't be in the this is.
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: The this is the this is words. Yeah, this is
• 51:14
  the good ship here, this is.
• 51:17
  Speaker 7: Anytime anytime we record with the stream chat, it just
• 51:25
  becomes their show, which is fine for them, but like
• 51:30
  the final recording is not gonna be decipherable.
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: Oh you gotta make this your you gotta make this
• 51:40
  your profile picture on Twitter or on Instagram.
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: The number a bunch of people have now changed their
• 51:49
  picture to the what the drawing of me with the lists? Okay,
• 51:55
  this is this is Hutter's newest orchard park. I like
• 52:05
  taking an actual image of me and then being like, no,
• 52:08
  this is what he looks like. It's my lips blown
• 52:11
  up like a thousand times.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Oh barely barely blown up.
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, my lips are pretty big in that picture.
• 52:21
  Will admit.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: I love the idea that you're they're like, all right,
• 52:24
  just a relax, this is what you do with your.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: All right, just kind of give us a little smile.
• 52:31
  I like how you're titled.
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: I like how you titled it. His lips not that
• 52:41
  sounds that sounds like the name of a creepy pasta.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: That is legitimately a creepy pasta name.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: His lips don j back is such a.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: God?
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: Is that?
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: Here we go?
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: His lips on jpeg is so good? God damn.
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, go look at Twitter now he's up there.
• 53:15
  Just go look at my cow.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Let me see it looks it looks so good. That's
• 53:27
  such a good profile picture. Here you go. Yeah, that's
• 53:31
  the good stuff.
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, all right, yeah, I'm back to the story.
• 53:39
  Back to the store, cut to hallway. Mark pushes past
• 53:44
  me towards the door. He has a coat on im.
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: Sorry, hey, hey, sorry, didn't see you there.
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: He looks out of the window.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: It's starting to rain. Where are you going nowhere?
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: Important shifts on its feet, looks side to side.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: Don't worry about it.
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: Catch a car. I'm driving a small car, a car
• 54:08
  that I recognize is mine. The wheel is cool in
• 54:11
  my hands, and as the car banks left, someone in
• 54:13
  the passenger seat falls against me. The radio plays soft, calm.
• 54:19
  News reader's voice washes over me slowly. I tune into
• 54:23
  the individual words. I reach to turn it up.
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: Thank you for.
• 54:27
  Speaker 10: Joining us this evening. Reports of an arson attack are
• 54:29
  reaching us, and despite the heavy rain, the whole family
• 54:32
  was burnt to a crisp. I wouldn't say they you'd
• 54:35
  seen members of the household trying to unlocked upstairs windows,
• 54:37
  but den a meal.
• 54:39
  Speaker 5: Stacy, asleep in the passenger seat, shifts so that she's
• 54:43
  now leaning against the window. The rain licks at the
• 54:46
  glass behind her head. Windscreen wipers scrape a dole rhythm.
• 54:50
  In front of me. There's a spade resting between her legs.
• 54:54
  She wakes up, her eyes pinned open, leans forward, and
• 54:58
  wretches into the Footwell, what what what now?
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: You cannot show this one though?
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: Okay, m she's just sitting here doing this instead of
• 55:14
  instead of participating in the story.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: This is this is this is actually the last one.
• 55:25
  Speaker 8: Okay, that's a sick freak.
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: Can I describe it? I can describe it, right, It's
• 55:42
  it's the it's the picture. It's the picture form Nicko
• 55:54
  Kano Avocado's only fans of his buttle, but he changed
• 55:58
  its fireplace.
• 56:04
  Speaker 8: You just say, that's it.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: Cut off.
• 56:19
  Speaker 5: My teeth, just baired.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: You will show them, and they paid for the patrion
• 56:25
  as well, show them.
• 56:26
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's covered. There's nothing bad that's showing
• 56:30
  someone's you know, wouldn't be hypothetically get in trouble for that.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's yeah, I mean there's nothing actually, okay, I'll
• 56:42
  show I'll show it here in the stream.
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: Well now because you can kind of see now, let's
• 56:46
  not you.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: You can see some detail on the edges.
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: The teeth aren't thick enough. So we'll say no to
• 56:55
  that one.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably imagine, Yeah you can imagine.
• 57:01
  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, can you read your line now?
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you've made my daughter cry.
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: Petrol.
• 57:13
  Speaker 10: Petrol burns even when it rains and the flies catches
• 57:15
  like kindling.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: They're coming. We had a deal. They're coming for us,
• 57:22
  and oh God, when they find us, of God.
• 57:25
  Speaker 5: She checks the rear view mirror. It's true. I can
• 57:28
  see a long road behind us, empty except for a
• 57:31
  pair of headlights that are slowly gaining on us.
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: And I, for one can't wait. We can't run forever.
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, do you have any idea what they'll
• 57:40
  do when they catch us?
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: Skin's only so thick. It's only so thick.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: Skin.
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: There's that mention of skin again, about being tight. The
• 57:54
  headlights are getting closer, the beams illuminating the Can.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: You just lock in for five?
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: You can't fuck it, just have your fall beat. There's
• 58:02
  the thing about the skin being tied.
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because earlier he said that it feels like my
• 58:07
  skin's thinned, like he's getting stretched. And there she said,
• 58:09
  Skin's only so thick, It's only so thick, right, So yes,
• 58:14
  I can do that. The headlights are getting closer, the
• 58:17
  beams illuminating, the drops of rain like motes of dust
• 58:20
  in the sun. I can almost make out a figure
• 58:22
  behind the wheel. It looks half familiar.
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: Slip out us, like an old wedding dress stuffed in
• 58:28
  the attic. Slit wide open.
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: Okay, Stacy starts to cry. Then, as I try and
• 58:35
  fail to read what the sign would just pass reads.
• 58:38
  I hear it, a shrill, mechanical ringing. I checked the
• 58:42
  rear view mirror, and there on the back seat is
• 58:45
  an old fashioned black rotary phone, the receiver laid flat
• 58:49
  on top of the black casing, the strange numbered circle
• 58:52
  beneath a dial. I believe it's called the dial.
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: Answer it.
• 58:59
  Speaker 5: Stacy wretches to get into the footwell, looks at me.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: Dawn cut to a hotel. Don't you remember, I shake
• 59:08
  my head.
• 59:08
  Speaker 5: I was just in the car with Stacey and there
• 59:10
  was someone behind us in a phone bone on the
• 59:13
  back seat. Remember what think about it? Don't you remember
• 59:18
  the lobby hums with the quiet energy. I realize that
• 59:22
  I've been holding my breath. It's deserted, a huge empty space,
• 59:27
  like some giant underground cavern, except with carpeted floors, a
• 59:31
  ceiling that extends up seemingly forever. I can't hear anything
• 59:36
  that dim, sterile hotel light, sickly pale. My mouth feels dry.
• 59:43
  I feel so small, like when you finally make it
• 59:46
  out of the city and you realize that the horizon
• 59:48
  stretches on so much further than you thought. It continues
• 59:52
  almost into infinity. That you can watch it go. There's
• 59:55
  paper on the table in front of me, empty like
• 59:58
  an invitation, crisscrossed with pale gray lines. I start walking
• 1:00:03
  away from the reception desk through the lobby, and my
• 1:00:06
  feet don't make a sound against the floor, and it
• 1:00:08
  seems as if this room extends forever. No windows, same
• 1:00:13
  strange pattern on the carpet, circles and stars and numbers
• 1:00:17
  peeded until my eyes hurt. I'm dwarfed, infinitely small as
• 1:00:22
  the lobby stretches out away from me in all directions.
• 1:00:26
  It's so empty, and I can't help but feel if
• 1:00:28
  there was someone else here, someone else treading the same pattern,
• 1:00:32
  it might not be so I'm trying hard to remember,
• 1:00:36
  but I don't know what. And I could feel my
• 1:00:38
  face being pulled in all sorts of strange directions, and
• 1:00:41
  it's only then that I realize I'm crying. My cheeks
• 1:00:44
  are hot with tears, and I'm breathing in short frantic burst.
• 1:00:48
  Somewhere behind me, an elevator chimes, doors slide open. I
• 1:00:55
  love the way this thing's written with You have these
• 1:00:58
  like otherwise mundane moment settings of the hotel, the car,
• 1:01:01
  stuff like that. But you get these little clues in
• 1:01:03
  each step, piece of some history behind, like the receptions
• 1:01:06
  telling him, no, you have to remember, you have to remember.
• 1:01:09
  And then like the mentions of skin and stuff like that,
• 1:01:12
  like you get these little breadcrumbs. And then here.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: He's starting to see. He's starting to see something like
• 1:01:20
  through this haze he's in.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 5: It's almost like I said earlier, he's in a coma
• 1:01:23
  and he's able to look out of it, like the
• 1:01:26
  infinite hallway and the infinite lobby of the hotels. He's
• 1:01:28
  starting to realize the illusion.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a personalized hell pretty much.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, cuts an eye club bill slousches against the
• 1:01:36
  wall and an alley lit by red neon from behind
• 1:01:39
  the dirty orange of street lights. From the front, he's smoking,
• 1:01:43
  black eye, front tooth, missing shirts, brown with blood. I
• 1:01:47
  think he's waiting for someone.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: I need to tell you something. You need to know this,
• 1:01:52
  it's important.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 5: I raised an eyebrow.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: Right when they come, you mustn't listen. They don't know
• 1:01:59
  all the whole story.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 5: Right, He wipes his face.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: That's right, they don't know the whole story.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: He holds out the palm of his hand. In the
• 1:02:10
  center is a small hole raged at the edges, wet red. Slowly,
• 1:02:16
  he raises it to his face until I can see
• 1:02:19
  his eye through it. It started to rain.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: I can see you.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: Then quiet, so quiet, I almost can't hear a stage whisper.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't hurt myself. I can't sleep at night. I
• 1:02:34
  still awake, and I look at the ceiling and I
• 1:02:36
  dream of hurting myself. It makes me feel sick and excited.
• 1:02:41
  Like six.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 5: Someone walks past and Bill flinches. A woman in a
• 1:02:46
  tight black T shirt. Can't see her face, but she
• 1:02:49
  seems familiar. I've seen her somewhere before. There's some sort
• 1:02:55
  of design on the back of her shirt, screen printed
• 1:02:57
  in red, a pentagram, each point of the star numbered,
• 1:03:01
  and the star contained within a circle of its own
• 1:03:05
  numbered circle. When she's gone, it's quiet again. Bill drinks
• 1:03:09
  from a hip flask, his hands shaking. I can hear
• 1:03:13
  footsteps behind me.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: There here, okay, man.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 5: It's so cool. So Bill like is also as the deluges.
• 1:03:20
  She's like, they don't know the whole story. He's starting
• 1:03:23
  for the show.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: He's putting on a character for the show.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: And then by putting up the napkin and looking at
• 1:03:27
  him through the hole. It's like like breaking the fourth wall.
• 1:03:31
  It's like he's hiding his face so that he can
• 1:03:34
  speak honestly for a moment, and then when someone walks by,
• 1:03:37
  immediately he goes away. That's so fun. And then like
• 1:03:40
  the woman goes by wearing the pentagram with the numbers
• 1:03:42
  on it, almost like it's a spell or rituals.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: Maybe this is.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 5: Demonic or satanic or like pagan or whatever, which would
• 1:03:49
  make sense with the alliteration to red from earlier like
• 1:03:51
  the red room at the end of the hall, and
• 1:03:53
  then her like the woman being bled out. Perhaps it's
• 1:03:55
  some kind of ritual that's being performed, right, and that's
• 1:03:58
  so cool. Cut a restaurant. I'm sitting opposite the girl
• 1:04:01
  from the coffee shop. She's so pretty, I think. She
• 1:04:06
  smiles again, mouthful of sugarcubes. She says. Her name is Aida.
• 1:04:11
  This place is so nice. I don't know where I am.
• 1:04:15
  I don't know how it got here. I think something
• 1:04:18
  very very bad is happening.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: You do anything for me, but didn't you.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know you. I don't know who I am
• 1:04:29
  or how I got here.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: Ah.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 5: I look around the restaurant. It's empty. I love the
• 1:04:36
  sitcom audience being a part of it too, between the
• 1:04:39
  laughter and then like the awe when he says he doesn't
• 1:04:42
  know how he got here. He reminds me, you know that,
• 1:04:46
  you know that short film that made a lot of rounds.
• 1:04:49
  I think it was at cons a few years back,
• 1:04:51
  but the one about the girl who's trapped in the
• 1:04:53
  red lobster commercial. Yeah, yeah, so and like everyone was
• 1:04:59
  super high because out for a while. It kind of
• 1:05:00
  reminds me of that where each time the commercial goes by,
• 1:05:03
  she's like asking more questions. And I think it's one
• 1:05:05
  of the other guys in the commercials like don't speak,
• 1:05:07
  don't notice it, and then there's like an entity that's
• 1:05:09
  controlling the whole thing. It reminds me of that a lot. Man.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: This is just like the descriptions here.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 5: Translates so well visually. I look around the restaurant. It's empty,
• 1:05:20
  We're alone. The other tables are set, cutlery plates, napkins,
• 1:05:26
  folded wine glasses catching the light. But it's just us.
• 1:05:30
  I think maybe if I strain, I can hear the
• 1:05:33
  quiet murmur of conversation, like the hum of a fridge
• 1:05:37
  in the background. It only surfaces if I really think
• 1:05:40
  about it. If I really concentrate.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: I know Io, I know who you are and how
• 1:05:46
  you got here.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 5: I take another look around the restaurant, praying that someone
• 1:05:51
  else will walk in, a waitress or waiter, holding a
• 1:05:55
  menu or a bottle of wine. And it's just us.
• 1:05:59
  Circular tables, evenly spaced around us in every direction, the
• 1:06:02
  same tablecloth on each one, the same chairs stretching. I
• 1:06:07
  realize now, as far as the eye can see, I
• 1:06:11
  cannot see where the tables end. And for a moment,
• 1:06:15
  I have a feeling like vertigo, like I'm standing at
• 1:06:18
  the edge of something vast and dangerous. The pine forest
• 1:06:22
  that stretches itself over the horizon, a swollen sea that
• 1:06:25
  laps hungrily at the boat, promise, potential, something out there
• 1:06:31
  moving in the spaces you cannot see. It's overwhelming. My
• 1:06:37
  head spins. A pattern on the floor looks familiar. I think.
• 1:06:43
  The tables go on and on, and so the eye
• 1:06:46
  cannot distinguish between them anymore, and they're just a blur
• 1:06:50
  pattern of their own and printed on the edge of
• 1:06:52
  my vision. I picture myself, for a moment, wandering between
• 1:06:57
  these tables for an eternity, searching for someone, anyone. I
• 1:07:03
  don't know what could be more terrifying realization I am
• 1:07:07
  alone or the realization that I am not quiet cough.
• 1:07:13
  I turned back to Ida. She's holding a black rotary phone,
• 1:07:17
  holding the base in her left hand and the receiver
• 1:07:19
  in her right. She extends her right hand towards me,
• 1:07:22
  so that's in front of my face. She smiles, gritted paper.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: It's for you. I feel applause to your silence dead
• 1:07:35
  air static.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 5: Pause that effect, Oh there you are, and then silence
• 1:07:41
  dead air static. Wow, that was cool. I really enjoyed
• 1:07:47
  that one.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: Hmmm, what a weird way. Do you think by answering it,
• 1:07:53
  do you think it seals their fate? Or do you
• 1:07:54
  think that you have to connect? Like I'm wondering what
• 1:07:57
  do you think is on the phone?
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 5: So to me, this sounds like the way the receptionist
• 1:08:03
  was saying, you have to remember hold on these.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: She said, don't you remember? Remember what?
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 5: And she says, don't you remember? And then the lobby
• 1:08:11
  homes with energy. It's it's sort of quiet, but all
• 1:08:14
  the things we see around because he doesn't remember how
• 1:08:18
  he got here, but all the things we see around
• 1:08:20
  it are very brutal, right, like the red rooms, the
• 1:08:26
  woman bleeding. It's not just like a coma dream. It's
• 1:08:29
  like there's some entity here with them and the woman
• 1:08:32
  in the pentagram with the numbers on it. So typically
• 1:08:35
  when you number a pentagram, it's like the order to
• 1:08:36
  draw it right, like where the stuff goes, like a
• 1:08:39
  ritualistic pinogram. So perhaps he did a ritual or perhaps
• 1:08:43
  he tried to invoke something for some reason. So it's like,
• 1:08:49
  maybe he performed a ritual to get something and then
• 1:08:53
  got more than he bargained for, and instead of this
• 1:08:55
  creature given him what he wants, or like this demon
• 1:08:57
  or whatever given him what it wants, it's kind of
• 1:08:59
  tracked him in this purgatory or this Like.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like the idea of it being, uh, that
• 1:09:04
  we are seeing the aftermath of the repercussion of something
• 1:09:07
  that we don't know, you know, some kind of bargain
• 1:09:10
  I think is interesting. It was good man, I do think, uh,
• 1:09:14
  it was a fun one. I think uh. I like
• 1:09:17
  I like Maxi's stuff a lot.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this guy, like over here, this guy does a
• 1:09:26
  great job of like taking in the other two stories
• 1:09:31
  we read, of taking these.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: Concepts that seem kind of.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 5: Basic on surface level, like creepy kids and h you know,
• 1:09:39
  creepy mansion or like traps. Also just rituals or so
• 1:09:43
  much with them. Rituals are rituals.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: All that kind of stuff, unknown kind of rituals. And
• 1:09:50
  I like that he just drops you in the center
• 1:09:51
  of it, and it's just like, this is just what
• 1:09:53
  it is.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: You know, have fun. I think it's cool.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 5: But and if you think the idea of a couple
• 1:10:31
  of horror podcasters being terrified in front of their audience
• 1:10:34
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• 1:10:43
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• 1:10:52
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• 1:10:55
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• 1:10:58
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• 1:11:03
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• 1:11:09
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• 1:11:11
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• 1:11:16
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• 1:11:18
  few moments in this that certainly got to me, especially
• 1:11:20
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• 1:11:23
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  Hopefully you guys check out Undertone while it's in theaters.
• 1:11:39
  And we are now back to the episode. I think
• 1:11:50
  I really like so going off that implication, I think
• 1:11:53
  the person on the other end of the phone is
• 1:11:55
  either someone who is still who wasn't taken to this
• 1:11:57
  place like everyone else was. I also like the idea
• 1:12:02
  that everyone else who is in here had the same fate,
• 1:12:05
  right like maybe they similar you know, it actually reminds
• 1:12:09
  me of Hell Raiser. Like in hell Raiser, they all
• 1:12:11
  get the box and they perform the spell to bring
• 1:12:14
  the cinebyites and then they're all in that dimension with
• 1:12:16
  the cinebites and can interact with each other there even
• 1:12:19
  though they're from different times. So maybe like Bill's been
• 1:12:21
  here for a long time, he was I'm occultist or
• 1:12:23
  something like that, and he's like real gung ho type
• 1:12:28
  of guy until he speaks truthfully for a moment, he's like,
• 1:12:30
  I want to hurt myself. I can't sleep at night.
• 1:12:32
  I stay awake, I look at the ceiling and I
• 1:12:33
  dream of hurting myself. Makes me feel Oh, actually, you
• 1:12:39
  know what what this could be people here who have
• 1:12:47
  hurt themselves, like feed the pig. Yeah, could be that
• 1:12:56
  those who take their own life end up here. Because
• 1:12:57
  you also have the woman who had the blood and
• 1:13:00
  dirt in her fingernails, right, which that could just be digging,
• 1:13:05
  or that could have been she was doing a ritual
• 1:13:08
  or she did something to hurt herself. And you have
• 1:13:09
  the woman in the bathroom who's bled out with her
• 1:13:12
  broat cut open, right, maybe that's what he can't remember.
• 1:13:15
  And then you have these people speak honestly of themselves
• 1:13:18
  for a second. And then what was that line she
• 1:13:21
  said in the car where she says, you have the
• 1:13:25
  person on the radio talking about a family that's burning
• 1:13:28
  up in a house, which felt very reminiscent of Silent
• 1:13:31
  Hills in the PG demo where you're walking through and
• 1:13:34
  you hear the guy on the radio talking about a
• 1:13:35
  family annihilator. Do you have any idea when.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: They catch us?
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 5: The skin's only so sick, it's only so sick. It's
• 1:13:42
  almost like they're running out. Maybe that's what was implied
• 1:13:45
  by the dirt and the blood underneath the fingernails, that
• 1:13:48
  they're to tear rating as they go through this, and
• 1:13:51
  they're trying to run for something, they're going to be caught.
• 1:13:54
  The radio wants him to answer the phone, but Stacy
• 1:13:56
  says it's about idea for him to answer the phone.
• 1:13:59
  And then there at the end of the restaurant, I
• 1:14:03
  just says this place is so nice, and I just
• 1:14:06
  says you do anything for me, wouldn't you, And he
• 1:14:08
  says I don't know you, And then Ida says I
• 1:14:11
  know you. I know who you are and how you
• 1:14:14
  got here. My head spins, and then at the end
• 1:14:18
  she hands okay. So the people in the car Bill
• 1:14:21
  and Stacy didn't want him to answer the phone, but
• 1:14:23
  this Ida character, and also the voice on the radio
• 1:14:27
  wants him to answer the phone, so they're probably the
• 1:14:29
  powers at hand, So they're in the end when she says,
• 1:14:33
  I know how you got here, and he imagines for
• 1:14:35
  a second infinitely wondering through this restaurant, and then she
• 1:14:39
  hands him the phone and says it's for you. I
• 1:14:42
  think she's probably one of the spirits. It's a part
• 1:14:44
  of this or the thing that was.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: His target originally.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 5: Maybe ida's his dad wife, or maybe it's something he
• 1:14:50
  lost on or like some love he wanted to use
• 1:14:53
  a sacrifice or a spell to get to. So now
• 1:14:56
  even though he doesn't remember her, this is the object
• 1:14:58
  of his affection. That would also make since because she's
• 1:15:00
  the only one in the story described as beautiful back
• 1:15:02
  in the coffee shop, right, so it's like she's being
• 1:15:06
  subtly planted there for him to see. And then at
• 1:15:10
  the end when she says it's for you. Perhaps this
• 1:15:12
  is either him facing the repercussions of what he's done
• 1:15:15
  or going to the afterlife, because the alternative to answering
• 1:15:18
  the phone is the vision he saw of infinitely walking
• 1:15:20
  through the restaurant. Whatever's on the other end of the phone,
• 1:15:22
  it can't be worse than that. So yeah, perhaps this
• 1:15:26
  is people that hurt themselves, or perhaps this is people
• 1:15:30
  that have committed a ritual or both and now they're
• 1:15:33
  stuck here and now they have to play the part
• 1:15:36
  until they move on. And I think a lot of
• 1:15:37
  people can't move on like Bill, like Stacy and stuff
• 1:15:40
  like that, but Ida is giving him the option to do. So.
• 1:15:43
  That is so much lore packed into like a fun format,
• 1:15:48
  short little horror story like this.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: I love that. That's what we'd liked about Max's other story.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: So too is the way that you're able to run
• 1:15:53
  wild kind of with ideas and thoughts just based.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 5: Off and rag King was a great which is a
• 1:15:58
  story going up this weekend, guys. Rat King was an
• 1:16:01
  excellent example of that, where like, there's so many theories
• 1:16:04
  you could come up with off of like a twenty
• 1:16:06
  minute little story because he does such great job as
• 1:16:08
  sprinkling in the world building. The dialogue was great too,
• 1:16:11
  like the little moments of.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: Break yeah, when I when we weren't, when we were
• 1:16:14
  joking and stuff in between all this stuff. This is
• 1:16:17
  one that I would recommend that like read it without
• 1:16:20
  two obnoxious hosts, just like giggling and shooting their pants.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: The entire time. Uh, I think it'd be.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 5: Stuff Cooinage. I would love to see some support for
• 1:16:32
  so he he posted a ton of stories and then
• 1:16:35
  six years ago he posted like a compilation or like
• 1:16:39
  a a master post of a bunch of the stories
• 1:16:42
  he has to read. Uh and we read three so
• 1:16:44
  far and they've all been phenomenal. But I would like
• 1:16:47
  to see him come back. I'd like to see this
• 1:16:49
  guy write more stuff.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 5: Oh, oh, there's activity on the board now. Oh, this
• 1:16:55
  isn't sorry, this isn't r slash max voyage not. Yeah,
• 1:16:57
  he has his own subreddit, not the user max one,
• 1:17:00
  and it Sh'S right by bed. Yeah, the user max
• 1:17:02
  voyage hasn't posted in six years. I don't believe. So
• 1:17:06
  I would like to see him come back because he's
• 1:17:09
  a great writer. But yeah, that was the story. That
• 1:17:11
  was pretty cool.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sick man.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 3: Well, I think this is where we're in our live today. Sorry,
• 1:17:16
  we didn't schedule this if also too once this live goes,
• 1:17:20
  Once this live is done, it'll take a second for
• 1:17:23
  it to process on Patreon. That's why it's just not
• 1:17:25
  immediately live after we're done. But I'm sure, I'm sure
• 1:17:29
  we'll post this one live and just have it up
• 1:17:31
  for you guys to listen to, or we'll just wait
• 1:17:32
  for it to be edited. Nobody deal was just a
• 1:17:34
  little on the whim kind of live stream. So we
• 1:17:39
  will see you guys soon. Thank you guys so much
• 1:17:41
  for listening to this week's episode.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: We will catch you in the next one.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 5: See you guys in the next one. I had a
• 1:17:50
  point to make at the end of this I can't
• 1:17:54
  remember what it is now, so I guess it doesn't matter.
• 1:17:56
  Hunter is absolutely impossible to work with, and one day,
• 1:18:00
  when I finally do it, he will be responsible.