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Clowns, Comas, & Canaries - Heavy Rain - Part 1 · Replay Reviews

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I haven't heard one in so long.
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I might be out of practice.
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You can go ahead and laugh anyway though if they're not funny.
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In this episode, Kathy gets creeped out by a mall clown.
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We use the good China to set the table for a 10 year old's birthday party.
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And we find out that a lot of people will do a lot for very little money in this town.
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Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews.
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My name is Leah.
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And my name is Kathy.
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We are two friends who are here to replay, review, and analyze your favorite video games.
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And since Kathy has never seen the games before, it helps me view them through her fresh eyes,
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almost like I'm discovering them again for the first time.
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We hope it will be a similar experience for you.
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We're back!
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We're back!
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Way ahead of schedule.
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Hopefully it'll stay that way.
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Well, we are playing Heavy Rain, a game that has been out for 13 years almost to the day.
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And it's our first David Cage game.
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And that will mean nothing to you right now.
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But through the course of this podcast, it will mean something to you.
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First thoughts on part one?
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This game took me through a roller coaster of emotions.
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Starting with waiting for the shoe to drop, then increased anxiety, sadness, and then
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ends the game, or at least part one, with increased anxiety again.
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Okay, so we meet Ethan, our main character, who is working and also preparing for his
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son's birthday party.
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So we see Ethan just wandering around in his house and then he picks up a photo frame of
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is it him and Grace, his wife?
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Yeah.
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So we see a John Wick situation where she's dead and then we're gonna get some flashback
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of happy moments they were together.
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You don't know, but that was my first reaction.
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And part of it is getting to know how to use the controls.
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But the other part is also, what is he doing?
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Just wandering around in this room?
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Yeah, these controls are notorious, very notorious.
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It's more work to brush your teeth in this game than it is to brush your teeth in real
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life.
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Also, major FBM.
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Do we talk about butts too much in this podcast?
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Well maybe if the game stopped showing butts, we would stop talking about it.
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You know what, you're right, it's not our fault.
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We're just pointing out a trend.
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That's all it is.
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And I thought that it was gonna protect his modesty besides his hip bone from the little
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corner thing, but no, I was like, oh, okay, thank goodness, give him some modesty and
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then bam, butt crack.
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And here's a butt from the center.
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And then we see a side profile of him after he's showering.
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It's I question it.
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I don't know why it's necessary.
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We also see a lot of, I don't know if it's intentional, but moments where they show it
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from an angle where you can see his wedding band sparkle on his hand.
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And in my notes, I was like, hmm, this is foreshadowing a death of his wife, Grace,
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or maybe a divorce on the horizon, probably because he's drinking straight out of the
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orange juice carton and needing three different currents of orange juice in his fridge.
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Yeah, that is a little questionable.
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And also we got to give some recognition that Grace is doing literally everything from picking
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up the groceries with two kids, which is not an easy feat.
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And then she comes home, has to carry all three grocery bags by herself.
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And then she also has to prepare and do a million things, a billion things that she
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has to do while Ethan's just out there playing with Sean and Jason.
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Even though his wife says she has to do so much stuff, he only does like dishes or even
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sets out four plates.
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Maybe she was a little late asking for help, but I will say he slowly puts down four plates.
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He does because they're her mother's china and why they're being set out before a 10
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year old's birthday party.
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We both reacted to that.
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We don't, we don't understand that.
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Where are the paper plates with Scooby Doo on them?
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Come on.
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But anyways, we find that Sean's upstairs because of the pet bird is dead.
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Merlin, correct?
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Yes.
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And I'm wondering, is this foreshadowing something related to like the bird dying to something?
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Or even how Sean says that he's willing to give up anything for the bird to live, which
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we'll come back around to talk about that.
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Yes, we will because I have a wild theory.
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Yeah, but it's just not time yet.
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It's not time to disclose the theory.
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So we'll come back to this dead bird.
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Continuing on, the family takes a trip to what meet.
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We're a little out of practice.
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My apologies.
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Okay.
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Later on, the family takes a trip to what must be the most crowded mall ever to exist.
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They split up purposefully when Grace and Sean go to buy some shoes and then accidentally
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on.
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We are out of practice.
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And then accidentally a bit later on when Jason wanders off into the crowd, Ethan is
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trantically.
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Oh my gosh.
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I need someone to slap me.
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I'll come over to slap you real quick.
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Ethan is frantically trying to find Jason and eventually catches up to him just in time
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to save him maybe from being hit by a car.
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He definitely jumps in front of the car.
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He's between the car and Jason, but it doesn't work.
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Jason dies.
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Wow.
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He just jumped right into that part.
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I thought you were going to go more summary level into...
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I was not expecting that.
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I had to rip off the bandaid because my question is, how did Jason die if Ethan was between
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him and the car?
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Oh, okay.
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Okay.
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Hold on.
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We got a couple of things to talk about.
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I want to address that real quickly.
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What if this entire game is some crazy where they put a spell where...
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Oh God.
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Where are we going?
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I'm just going to throw it out here because I don't know.
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But what if it's some destiny changing thing the moment when Sean says, I would do anything
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to save him and Jason's life is tied to the bird where the bird dies, Jason dies, but
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if doing something to change it, maybe...
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Okay.
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Hold on because that's my theory.
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No, what?
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That's my theory.
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Here.
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Okay.
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There's two.
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Okay.
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So he says in his childlike child state of sadness, not being able to process this, this
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is kind of a big thing that Ethan sort of just skates over.
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And he says, Sean says, I'd give anything for him to come back to life.
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Is it possible?
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That he made a deal with the devil.
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Sean?
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Yes.
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To bring the bird back to life.
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And is the cost of that Jason's life a life for a life?
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Now we don't know.
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Does Merlin come back to life?
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Could it be?
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I actually thought because Sean said that, maybe the bird's death was already the effect
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of him doing something.
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Maybe Sean said that when Jason died to spare Jason, Merlin died.
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So it's the reverse where because Ethan jumps out to save Jason, I think that the save was
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successful.
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So does that answer my question?
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If Ethan was between the car and Jason, how does he die?
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Just because the life for a life.
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That's why even though he was in position to save him, Jason still dies, even though
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he did not directly get hit by the car.
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And Ethan is just in a coma for six months, which just is putting it lightly.
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But is that why even though he was between him, he could not be saved?
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Because it was written in the accord that Sean made with the devil.
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Life for a life.
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I think it's no, I don't think that I think the opposite actually.
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Hold on.
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I have one more thing before you tell me no.
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So skipping ahead just a little bit, it is a natural response to be devastated if you
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lose a sibling.
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We'll start with that.
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Not trying to make light of that.
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But could the reason that he feels so horrible and he is so depressed be because he thinks
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even if he didn't purposely do it, if he in his head was like, whoever's listening, I'll
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do anything to have Merlin come back to life.
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So does he think that his wish or whatever could have been the cause of Jason's death?
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And so he blames himself?
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No, I don't think so.
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I think he's just Oh, gosh, I have another theory.
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Hold on.
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Go, go, go, go, go.
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Let me just write it down.
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This has already gone so far off the rails.
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I was not expecting this.
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So taking a step back first, though, I want to clarify that my theory is that the bird
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died in order to save Jason.
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So I think Jason and Ethan are still alive.
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And then here's where you do the whole rewind thing.
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Say that it wasn't successful that Ethan couldn't save Jason in time.
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And they're at the scene.
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Grace rushes over.
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And then Sean goes, I would do anything to save so life for a life.
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And then everything rewinds back to the moment where Sean's in front of Merlin and Merlin's
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dead.
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And it's only because Merlin's death spared Jason and Ethan's death, which then brings
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me to my second theory.
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What if they both are alive, but Ethan is still in a coma and he's just going through
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effects in his mind in his comatose state of what it would have happened if he didn't
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get there in time.
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So right now, everyone's still alive, besides Merlin, because they wait, though.
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What if what?
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What if Ethan so when Sean says I do anything to bring him back to life, what if Ethan's
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dreaming in his coma and Sean's actually saying this about Ethan?
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So is Merlin's life sacrificed in order to save Jason or Ethan then?
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I don't know how we got here in 18 minutes.
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Oh my gosh.
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Okay.
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If he's in a coma, he's dreaming this and he's just hearing Sean say I do anything to
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bring him back to life and his weird dream brain.
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You know how when you're dreaming and you hear something externally and you put it in
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your dream, like that's what he's doing.
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And so Sean's talking about Ethan and not Merlin.
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So what about Jason?
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Is Jason dead or alive then?
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I don't know.
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And then how did Ethan get to his comatose state?
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I think we're so wrong.
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We might be wrong, but it is also a valid thing.
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I did not expect so much to hinge on Merlin the bird at this point.
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And I know that that's not why people are here.
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Wait.
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Oh, God, she's note taken.
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That street that isn't it Canary Northern Street?
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I don't think so.
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It's close.
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So let me scroll down.
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I have it written down.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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Carnaby Corner North.
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Oh, damn, we were so what if it was though?
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Seriously, Carnaby.
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Okay.
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Carnaby Northern Google Carnaby.
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What does that mean?
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Here we go.
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It just means like a village.
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A Carnaby bird is also known as its Carnaby's black cockatoo, also known as a short build
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black cockatoo.
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It's found in southwest Australia.
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You can find anything you want on the internet to support your theory.
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This is proof.
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We're going to put more Merlin the bird to rest.
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RIP friend.
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Freaking clowns.
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My goodness.
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I thought clown looked so creepy.
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The makeup was just so gloomy and depressing.
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Oh, yeah.
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The only thing worse than a clown is a mall clown.
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Seriously, another wild theory I'm just going to throw out.
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But what if the clown is part of like a group of people that are nevermind, I'm going to
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put this part when we see the merry-go-round later.
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Okay, listening people to hear Kathy's clown theory.
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You don't want to miss it.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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But I also want to take this opportunity on our platform just for a quick PSA for what
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happens if you lose your kid in a crowd of people is that you don't shout their name.
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Jason, Jason, no one's going to know who your son Jason is and why you're shouting them.
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What you do is you say red shirt, black pants, boy, brown hair.
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And so people actually know what to look for when your kid is missing in a group of people
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or a potential kidnapping situation.
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And it's pretty effective compared to just shouting out your kid's name.
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So PSA.
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Yeah, actually, it works.
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You lost me in the mall today.
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You had to describe me to people.
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It's a adult woman, but child sized blonde hair.
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Two years after the accident, Ethan is picking Sean up from school and it seems obvious that
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he and Grace have split up.
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Yeah, definitely.
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I don't think we see a ring on his hand anymore.
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It's definitely difficult.
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And I'm wondering, is he getting any therapy?
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Because it's not just only affecting him.
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You can totally see by the body language of Sean, not that we get much body language from
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video game characters, but Sean seems pretty down to.
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I feel like the only major color in that house is coming out of the TV.
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And the orange juice.
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So moral of the story.
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Relationships fade.
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Orange juice is forever.
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By ourselves from Tropicana.
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While Ethan works to keep Sean on schedule, he picks up a newspaper that reads,
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Origami killer strikes again.
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The seventh victim identified.
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The police have confirmed that the modus operandi is indeed that of the origami killer.
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At the end of the scene, I'm wondering if Ethan's the origami killer.
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So this is a killer with a history.
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So how does that tie into your theory?
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If it's Ethan, how does that tie in if this killer already has a history?
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I mean, depending how far back the history goes, I can't remember.
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But what if it's that Ethan is killing people, but he doesn't know it?
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Because later when he gets a letter, what if there's poison in that letter that hypnotizes
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him that he's being used?
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So it's not like he's the one who's thinking of killing people.
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Perhaps that his body's being manipulated and hypnotized to be killing people.
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Don't know exactly if this is a valid theory though.
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See that does maybe make sense for me because one thing I don't understand is why anyone
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would pick up that letter.
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Read it which says,
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When the parents came home from church, all their children were gone.
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They searched and called for them.
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They cried and begged.
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But it was all to no avail.
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The children have never been seen again.
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This is very ominous.
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I would be extremely disturbed.
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I would have locked every door, every window, close all the blinds.
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He just sets it down and keeps going.
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He walks outside and plays a sad, soggy game of basketball in the rain.
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So does he have this reaction because subconsciously he knows who this letter is from and what
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it means?
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I think so.
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It's not a normal reaction.
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Why aren't you seeing who sent it?
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Why don't you double check the envelope for details?
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It gives me chills even thinking about what that letter talks about.
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Okay, okay.
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I have a question for you.
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I don't know if the writers of this game are British.
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How do you spell pajamas, Kathy?
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P-A-J-A-M-A-S?
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That's how I would spell it.
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In this game, though, the subtitles spell it as P-Y-J-A-M-A-S.
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That's not pajamas.
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That's P-A-J-M-A-S.
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How do you spell it like that?
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Because I did notice also they spelled the neighborhood with a U.
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So maybe it's the-
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You are right.
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Pajamas is commonwealth.
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Is that what it's called?
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I've always called it just like British or English spelling.
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But it's multiple nations, I think.
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It's a political association of 56 member states, which most of them are part of the
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British Empire.
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I've heard of commonwealth laws and everything, but I didn't realize what exactly it is.
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All right.
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Mystery solved.
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Yeah, we're going to have to edit that out.
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It's mildly fascinating.
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After putting Sean to bed and unsuccessfully hunting for his teddy bear, Ethan has some
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sort of episode, he's shaking, sweating, and apparently eventually blacks out because he
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wakes up in the middle of the street, Carnaby Corner North, not Canary, sorry, Kathy.
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And then after the initial shocker is off, he realizes that he's holding an origami figure,
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I think a dog, in his hand.
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Pretty suspicious when he just read an article about an origami killer.
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And I don't like how we don't get more because how far is the street from his home?
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I want more details.
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Well, we're not going to get any because we're going to move on to scene two, where
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we are now controlling a new character, Scott Shelby, who's looking for a woman named Lauren
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Winter.
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He arrives at a very seedy motel, which we both got Wolf Among Us vibes from.
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Go back, check out season one.
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And he asks the dust clerk about Lauren Winter, and he only reveals her room after being bribed?
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Five dollars, though.
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Is that really how easy it is to bribe somebody?
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Five dollars?
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Hard times in this city.
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Also this guy, the clerk, is reading, I believe, the same newspaper that Ethan picked up, but
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the continuation of the front page story, and basically indicates that the police have
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no leads.
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And then Scott goes up to Lauren, and this is when we learn that she is a lady of the
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night, and she only charges 50 bucks.
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I guess I don't-
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For 10 minutes?
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That's true.
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I don't know the going rate.
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It doesn't really seem worth it.
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But yes, that's like, what, 300 bucks an hour?
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I think that's pretty good.
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That's pretty good.
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So he gains entry under false pretenses, and this is when we learn that Scott Shelby is
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a private investigator who has been hired by the families of the Origami Killer victims,
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and he's here to ask Lauren some questions because her son Johnny was a victim.
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I'm wondering if they go to church, or if there's this church-related thing, between
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after another sneak peek of the newspaper, piecing that together with the letter that
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they have, what's the common link?
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And this is the first time we get some comments about the amount of rain they get, so that
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ties in with the title of Heavy Rain.
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Maybe it has something to do with murders happening whenever it's raining?
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Well, interesting that you say that because we don't get a whole lot out of Lauren.
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The only detail she really tells Scott is that it was raining.
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She's definitely not happy about being questioned, and as soon as those 10 minutes are up, she
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asks him to leave.
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Which he does, but on his way out of the motel, he has an asthma attack in the hallway, during
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which a man walks past him and forces himself into Lauren's room.
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Remind you of Baby Wolf?
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Yeah, another CD motel fight scene.
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But also, they demolish her apartment.
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It's destroyed.
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Are we ready for scene 3?
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I'm really excited.
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We meet an FBI agent at the crime scene of the latest origami killer victim.
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So this car pulls up, driven by someone with trembling hands holding a vial of blue liquid.
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He gets out of the car and says,
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God, my hands are trembling, I gotta keep my act together, at least for now.
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I feel like, why are we portraying so much good people who do something and then they
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become bad people because they become addicted or everything?
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Like, do you think that's the case with this character too?
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Where he's like, either relying on drugs or something in order to solve a case?
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It is interesting though, because so far we have Ethan with blackout episodes, Scott Shelby
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with asthma attacks, and then this guy with the mystery shakes.
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So what's going on?
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Why are all these characters having issues and is there some weird connection with that?
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We are introduced to one of my all time favorite video game characters, Agent Norman Jaden.
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He's looking for Lieutenant Carter Blake and he soon finds him.
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Blake gives him the lowdown on the case.
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A body was found two hours ago and they believe the crime was committed by the origami killer.
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And then yeah, Jaden has some crazy contraption called Ari.
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Seems to help him analyze evidence, record data, kind of like a mobile office.
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But it's almost like some Ari's like some AI, so it's artificial something intelligence,
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artificial retina intelligence.
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I don't know.
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I'm just spouting nonsense.
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And I'm wondering if using that and the glove needing the blue vial of something is what
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gives him some really cool technology to be able to work and to point at something using
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his gloved hand in order to research stuff.
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And if the trade off to that is having shaky hands or something that's probably pulling
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him apart.
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But my other theory is that between Ethan, Shelby and him, maybe the connection is all
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three of them are parents of kids who either died or something that makes this whole case
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a figure out the origami killer so personal.
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Jaden searches the crime scene and the victim and some notable finds are on the victim there
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is an orchid an origami figure in his right hand and he experienced an advanced and long
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lasting state of exhaustion.
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Jaden says he was drowned and his face was covered with mud like all the other origami
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killer victims.
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My question is, is the origami in the hands of someone who is about to die or who died?
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Because if it's the victim themselves, that means Ethan's going to die.
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If it's the parents of the kids that are being kidnapped, something's going to happen to
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Sean.
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So we need a bit more clarification on what the identity of the people who hold the origami,
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what they mean and who they are.
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Basically what's the thread?
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What's the connection between the origami and Ethan's hand and this victim's hand?
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And then also around the crime scene Jaden finds orchid pollen, footprints, tire prints
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and he states that there are train tracks nearby which is the same for all the other
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victims of the origami killer.
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Final scene of this episode, we're back to Ethan and he's at a doctor's appointment.
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You said he needed some help?
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Looks like he's getting it.
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After which he takes Sean to the park and he's able to do a good job of cheering him
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up until things go pretty bad.
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But before we get there, it seems like a psychological appointment, right?
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He's seeing a psychologist of some sort.
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But it also looks like a private practice because you see the words ego on the side
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and then you see the background and it gives a similar...
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What do you call those things at churches where they have those windows with stained
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glass?
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Oh yeah, the stained glasses.
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You have that.
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And so I'm wondering, is this doctor related to the origami killer or the letter because
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of something about churches?
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I'm gonna take that and I'm gonna run with it.
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Yes please!
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I've always thought the interior of this office was a little bit odd.
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Maybe this is why he can't afford better housing.
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Maybe this is just a really expensive doctor but it does resemble a church in a way.
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So if we go back to the coma theory, is he in like a Catholic hospital?
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And that's why things look like a church?
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We're just keeping our wild theories alive in case they're right.
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But the coma theory is not my top theory.
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It sounds like he blames himself for Jason's death and he's close to giving up.
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Also the blackout was not a one-off, it sounds like, and the doctor indicates that the level
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of brain trauma he experienced can have unknown effects.
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And he was in a coma for about six months.
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I don't know how I missed that the first time I played this game.
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I was like, oh yeah, makes sense, he was in a coma.
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That's a long time though to be in a coma, he was out six months?
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Now at a park, Sean seems to be having some fun.
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Ethan's doing a pretty good job of making him feel better until he loses him.
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To be fair, he had another blackout and he ends up at the same street corner.
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It was going so well, Kathy.
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It was, but then you also knew something was going to go south by how sad the music was
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when he was playing on the seesaw and carousels.
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It's related to carnivals and therefore related to clowns.
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I was waiting for that.
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I knew you were waiting for this clown to pop out of the shadows.
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Right?
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It's, I mean, it fits.
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I feel like someone at least needs to question the clown in this investigation.
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Right?
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What do he sees?
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Clowns, carnivals, and carousels.
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The trifecta.
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All right, um, Ethan frantically searches for Sean, but he's unable to find him anywhere.
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And when he collapses, he realizes that he again has had an origami figure clutched in
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his hand this entire time.
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Is this the same origami or a different new one?
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And if so, where's the old one?
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And if it's the same one, do you think actually touching or what triggers his blackouts?
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Great question.
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Let me pop the video and see if they're the same origami figures.
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I think they're both like dogs.
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I think they are too, but I'm going to verify just for the sake of the podcast.
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We need to give accurate information because this is really important.
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The origami, if it was a bird, it would support our Merlin theory.
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If Merlin isn't the KFC by the end of this game, I will contest it.
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All right.
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So first blackout, it is very much resembling a dog with a curled up tail.
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Looks like a Shiba Inu if we're going to be specific.
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Let me go to Norman Jaden.
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It is the same dog in the victim's hand.
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Going back to the final scene, same doggy, same origami figure.
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I don't know how that's going to play into anything, but...
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Okay but hear me out, right?
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Let's go back to the clown.
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What are clowns known for?
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Balloons.
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Balloon animals.
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Who's to say that that skill set doesn't transfer to paper as well?
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You're blinking and thinking too hard about this.
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Yeah.
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Let me, let me noodle on this some more.
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It's going to keep me up all night.
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Because Ethan is running around trying to find his son.
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Why isn't he calling Grace to see where his son is?
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Maybe Sean knew to go find his mom when his dad is just blacking out because it's not
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going to be the first time Sean sees his dad blacking out.
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Sounds like he's a drunk.
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Okay, that's not funny.
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It's a very serious issue.
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But yeah, that's a good question.
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Why isn't he doing more?
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Like okay, I understand running to where you last saw him and then running home, but then
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he runs out into the street again instead of like calling the cops?
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But I think going back to the coma theory, maybe the reason why he does like these things
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and doesn't call the cops and that the cops aren't involved within his dreams is because
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he's still in a coma and Ethan and Jason are still okay thanks to Merlin.
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That's actually, you know, back in the old days with mining, the whole canary in a coal
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mine, they would sacrifice a canary's life for the life of the crew.
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So maybe there is some symbolism here.
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I feel like we're so wrong, but for some reason it's working.
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Let's see how wrong we can take this theory.
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Well, there's no batteries to track like there are in Atlas, but we have to track something.
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So Kathy, there are QTEs in this game and you're gonna tell me my percentage.
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How good did I do in part one?
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How many decibel points do you want this percent to be?
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As many as you would turn in on a report at your job.
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I'll just do two for now.
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Why'd you ask me?
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I didn't know if you had a preference.
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Well you got a 95.95 this game.
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That's pretty good.
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I did miss one on purpose though because I felt like it was inappropriate how much Ethan
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was demolishing his child at that sort of fight.
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Yeah.
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Okay, can I guess my game total percentage?
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Okay, let me write it down.
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I'm gonna guess, I'm gonna go pretty close, but I know the game gets harder.
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So I'm gonna say 87.3.
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87?
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I thought you'd give yourself a bit higher.
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I'm going to give you, I was thinking like 97, but now-
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Oh, the confidence in me.
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Nope, you already said it.
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Well no, I was because you were so, I'd have so much confidence in you, but you barely
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have any in yourself.
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If I don't purposely miss any, how much better would I have done?
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You'd immediately go from about 96 to 97%.
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Wait, you said 96?
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I thought you said 86.
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No you're at 95.95.
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Hold on, hold on, hold on, I take it back.
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That's why I thought that you dropped so low from 95 to 87.
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94.2.
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Okay, I'm gonna stick with the 97%.
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Episode look back is that this part one gave me so much anxiety, especially towards the
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end.
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I don't have kids, but the thought of my niece or my nephew getting lost and stuff gives
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me so much anxiety and I hate that you chose this game because now I'm gonna be stressed
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until we watch the next part.
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I never got lost in a mall, but I did fall down an escalator in a mall.
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And we had to go into the Macy's to find an elevator for like five years because I would
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not go anywhere near an escalator.
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I fell down an escalator.
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When?
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I don't know.
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What?
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I did not know that.
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Yeah, petrified of escalators.
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We went to the mall together, we took escalators didn't we?
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When did we go to the mall together though, high school?
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We did go during when we watched Over the Hedge.
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That was my birthday?
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Yeah.
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And my mom fell asleep in the theater.
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Really?
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I did not know that.
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That was a while ago.
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I would be surprised.
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That was elementary school.
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Anyway, it didn't lie.
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I got over it.
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It hurt.
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It hurt a lot.
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Did you fall just like one or two steps or like from top to bottom?
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You know, in my mind, it was top to bottom, but in reality, it was probably more like
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four or five.
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Did you fall to the bottom or did someone stop you?
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Oh no, I fell.
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No one stopped me.
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I'm stressed for you now.
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I appreciate that.
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If you need to navigate our mall, go into Macy's, you'll find an escalator to take you
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to the top floor.
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No, damn it, not an escalator.
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You'll find an elevator to take you to the top floor.
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Have you been to the ones at the convention center?
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God!
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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It's pretty tall.
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It's pretty steep.
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Okay, new story, though.
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Have you ever been to Disneyland?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Have you parked in the parking structure and had to take the tall, tall, tall escalator
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back up?
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No, because we weren't rich like you guys to park in their parking lot.
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We had to walk all the way from our hotel.
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If you were staying at a hotel within walking distance, you could have afforded the parking
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garage.
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What I was going to say is, it's like a two or three story escalator.
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It's tall.
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So I'm standing on it.
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I don't like heights, and I also don't like escalators, as we have discussed.
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The guy in front of me was goofing off being an idiot, and then he starts to fall backwards.
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You know that jolt you do when you start falling where you're like, he did that.
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I was like, oh my God, he's going to fall, and we're all going to fall.
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It's going to be a disaster.
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It's going to be the 2015 Disneyland escalator pileup that lives in infamy.
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His balance came in to save the day.
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We need to end this episode immediately.
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This needs to be over.
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Yeah.
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Yes, we need to wrap this up.
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Welcome back to season two.
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Thank you for listening.
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We're going to play our new outro.
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We're going to try to kick it up a notch in terms of professionalism this year.
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Are we off to a good start?
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I don't know.
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I think that's it, though.
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Anything else you want to say, Kathy?
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No.
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Thank you for coming back to listen to us talk about the three Cs, carnivals, clowns,
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and canaries.
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Yes.
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Watch out.
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Don't.
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Just don't.
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I don't know what I'm trying to say.
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I don't know why you're not stopping me.
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I want to see where this goes.
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That's why.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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We need to stop.
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Count us off, please, for the love of God.
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Okay.
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Voice recorder on.
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36:41
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