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We Weren_t Allowed To Talk To Women · INSPIRE STORY

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  Speaker 3: Today we are going to do something that sounds something
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  that's very familiar to us, Isaiah, which is the story
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  is called we Weren't allowed to talk to women. That
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  is the and I will say right off the bat,
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  there is a not safe for work tag on this,
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  so don't know what that's about, but super optimistic.
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  Mother Horse Eyms.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely otherwise in that, let's get into our life.
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  Speaker 1: Blow all the hold the hold I have to I
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  have to make to make the joke real quick, because
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  there was no chance to say. This title applies to
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  both of us. Because I grew up you know, very
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  like Christian, very like you know, be behavior around women
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  kind of think. And you were told this because they
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  had restraining orders on.
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  Speaker 2: You that you know that was a hysterical joke.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I had it in my head and it had
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  come out at some point, so that's it was going
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  to be more natural. But because you wouldn't, you wouldn't
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  let me speak, I had to. I had to, you know,
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  put it out there somehow.
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  Speaker 3: So Isaiah, Isaiah, to yourself, read the second line of
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  the second paragraph.
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  Speaker 1: Along winding lineage marked with rape and slavery.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, well I said, read it to yourself and
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  that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's that's awesome, thank you for I did not
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  I did not choose today's episode. I did not pick this.
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  Hunters like, hey, I've got a story for us to read.
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  And the first thing I see related to the story
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  is that that's sorted.
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  Speaker 3: I chortened myself. We weren't allowed to talk to women,
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  I said, so I said. I said, Oh, that's silly,
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  I said.
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  Speaker 1: And then he read it, and then he read it
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  and he got to that sentence I just read, and
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  he's like, the story is about me. It's all about me.
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  I can't talk to women and and those things that's me.
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  Speaker 2: That's we have got to edit that out.
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  Speaker 1: That's that we're not at water. Absolutely, of all the
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  things I have said on the show, that is not
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  even top five. No no no no no no no, no
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  no no. And I'm the one who said it, not you.
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  I said it about you, so about me.
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  Speaker 2: I know. That's why it's even worse.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you'd have nothing to do with that, okay, whatever,
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  that we weren't allowed to talk to women. A Hunter
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  Hancock special that Windygoon had nothing to do with written
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  by Solo Solo that Hunter Handcock Special that I had
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  nothing to do with. Alright, I was born into one
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  of those old families of the South, the kind that
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  has long silence, toppled, incaid, tempting desperately to hold itself together.
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  Oh wait, we didn't. We didn't even say I feel bad.
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  We didn't even say anything about the author I did.
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  I said, you got me all that time, written induction,
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  I said, written by you kept favorite cock Special.
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  Speaker 2: That's all.
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  Speaker 1: You put me in a defensive position, putting in a
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  defensive position with this.
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  Speaker 2: You put yourself in your own position. I didn't put
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  you in that.
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  Speaker 1: Now you put me in positions all the time. Let's
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  get that straight. Okay, So the website is no longer up,
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  but they had their own website. They haven't posted on
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  Reddit in three years, but in their bio says that
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  they're an aspiring author. Says they're recently cleared out this
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  account of post and comments to keep it solely focused
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  on my writing post. My stub wredditt our slash Solace
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  a coffee you can check out or cofi. However you
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  pronounce that, so Soulis wrote it. The story has eleven
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  We'll leave them linked to the description show support for
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  the author as always. And now and now that that's
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  out of the way, now that Hunter's got me knocked
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  off my game and flustered, we can continue. M M.
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  I was born into one of those old families in
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  the South, the kind that is long silence, toppled in decaid, attempting,
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  desperately pulled itself together. We'd had money once, as evidenced
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  by the grand old buildings had set on our property.
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  But the old barns and guesthouse is set empty and abandoned,
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  choked with cobwebs and weeds and Spanish moss. The forest
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  had begun to reclaim the property. My family was like
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  many others of its kind, the long winding lineage, marched
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  with raven slavery and pain. But one thing set us apart.
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  There were no women in my family. I had no mother,
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  no sisters or grandmothers. Every member of my family was male.
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  Speaker 3: No Isaiah Dee, do you think that we're going into
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  egg territory.
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  Speaker 1: You'd like that one, don't you? Some men laying eggs man.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of Oh, little dinosaur men running around the South,
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  good for one.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we are, thank you. My wife was a
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  front to keep appearances up. But I think the idea
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  is it's going to be some kind of ritual brings
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  the guys for it or something like that. Given the title,
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  we weren't allowed to talk to women now, or they
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  kill women after they you know, get there, or it
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  is mark not safe for work. And the horror you
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  picked so.
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  Speaker 2: Or dinosaur men, I don't think why can we never horse?
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that you could never get into a
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  dinosaur human Absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: We absolutely had a dinosaur horror story and you hated it.
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  Speaker 2: What was that one?
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  Speaker 1: The Gregory eighty eight?
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  Speaker 2: The Twitter arg that wasn't dinosaurs? Those are just big eggs.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, it turns out to be eggs and you
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  see an image of them and it's like a skull
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  dinosaur face thing running around and you were mad.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it must have done it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying that if we had something where they said blatant,
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  blatantly they were dinosaur humanoids, do you think you couldn't
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  do it?
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  Speaker 1: Do you not remember that one the higins around here
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  aren't real or whatever, where like people are being grown
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  in eggs.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about the eggs, Isaiah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying that if it was dinosaur humanoids, That's what
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  I'm saying, And it's blatantly that I'm saying, like velociraptor stuff,
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  And I'm asking you a question.
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  Speaker 2: And the question I'm asking is could.
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  Speaker 3: You successfully do that or would it be too cheesy
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  that no one would take it seriously.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you can have a legitimate threat in
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  a story that you are like dinosaur human hybrids. But
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  you could play into that and get like some Jurassic
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  Park esque moments. I guess that could be effective.
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  Speaker 2: That's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 1: I think you have to lean into it, though I
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  don't think. I don't think dinosaur humanoids can be taken seriously.
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  Speaker 2: That's sad. I wonder if there's ever away.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean maybe if it's like a future
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  story or an alien story or something like that. But
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  I feel like when you jump the shark that much,
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  you have to lean into it. I feel like there's
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  some premises that are so outlandish that they don't lend
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  themselves to reality. Now that doesn't mean you can't have
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  creepy moments and stuff, but the overall tone of the
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  story I think can't sit well in a serious note
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  if the idea of it is so far fetched. Yeah,
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  all right, Well, I'm trying to think if there's any
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  I'm sure one will come to mind. But like, I mean,
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  there's stuff with like aliens, like Alien, the movie Alien
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  with the xenomorphs like that has scary moments. So yeah,
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  I mean, if you're setting it's not a dinosaur exactly,
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  it's not a human dinosaur hybrid. So yeah, no, no,
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  I can't think of anything to counter that. Statements all
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  stick by it for now. My five brothers and I
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  never thought it strange. Though we were uneducated and mostly
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  separated from the outside world, Our days were spent laboring
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  on the decaying property, all of our efforts inevitably useless.
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  When we weren't plucking weeds or were clearing out the
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  decades of trash from the various buildings we played, the
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  quasi wilderness of our home was a perfect stage for
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  our games. My father was a kind man, but strict.
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  Our self contained life came with a strange set of rules.
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  There was a chapel on the property, a small light thing,
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  half hidden in the woods. It was in better condition
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  than anything else. Due to my father's don't care, we
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  were not allowed inside the chapel without him. However, a
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  padlock on the door prevented us from sneaking in. We were,
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  on occasion allowed to go to town. It was a
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  half hour walk through the woods to get there, and
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  excursions were highly anticipated. There were conditions, though. We had
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  to stick together, and we weren't allowed to talk to women.
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  We could talk to men and other boys, but my
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  father strictly forbade us from talking to women, girls, even
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  old mates. He instructed us to say hello and good day,
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  and yes ma'am and thank you ma'am, like good little
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  southern boys, but other than that, not a word. This
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  was weird, of course, but everyone in town seemed to
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  abide by these rules as well. The women would give
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  us nods and avoid us otherwise. It was so ingrained
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  into our daily lives that none of us ever questioned it.
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  Do you remember there was this documentary that came out
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  a while back. I think it was called The wolf Pack.
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  I'm pretty sure those name of it was about a
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  group of boys who their father never let them leave
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  their room and like their mother was out of the picture.
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  I forget why, but it was like seven brothers or
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  five brothers who all lived in an apartment building in
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  New York and I guess they were homeschooled or didn't
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  go to school or something. And once a year their
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  father would like take them across the street to get
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  ice cream. But other than that, they never left the apartment.
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  But all they did was watch movies every day, like
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  that was their only interaction with the outside world. So
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  all of them talked and behaved like they were movie characters,
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  like these dramatic, over the top things like they would
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  all they would all. They were all like caricature cameo
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  types of like some of the cool slick trickster guy. Yeah, hold,
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  he said, this is called documentary. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
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  think it's called wolf Pack.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a guy who acts like Arnold Swartzenegger and
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  there's a guy who asks like Danny Zuka from Greece
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  and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I distinctly remember all of them dressed like reservoir
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  dogs character. They all love reservoir dogs. So they all
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  have like nicknames for each other and wear.
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  Speaker 2: Suits, mister Brown, all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, So The wolf Pack is a twenty
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  fifteen man, I thought this was older. Twenty fifteen is
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  a twenty fifteen American documentary. It's about the Angulo family
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  who homeschooled and raised their seven children, six boys and
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  one girl, in the confinement of their apartment in Lower
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  East Side, Manhattan. Yeah. So it's like they all just
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  watch movies all the time and that's their interaction. So
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  like the documentary, if I remember right, it follows them
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  like going out to the real world quote unquote, like
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  you know, they learn around the outside world by watching films.
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  Eventually began to re enact scenes from their favorite movies
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  using elaborate homemade props and costumes. Their father, Oscar, had
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  the only key to the door of their sixteen story,
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  four bedroom apartment. He prohibited the children or their mother, Suzanne,
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  who homeschooled the children. Oh, the mother was in the picture. Okay,
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  I'm misremembering parts. Except for a few strictly monitored trips
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  on the nefarious streets of New York, everything changed when
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  the fifteen year old Mukunda decided to walk around the
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  Neighborhood in twenty ten against Oscar's instruction. So a lot
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  of the movies about them like experiencing the real world
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  and seeing that it's a lot more boring than movies
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  make it out to be. Like every interaction they have
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  with people they expect to be some big, dramatic like thing,
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  but it's not, and they're kind of sad about it,
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  if I remember right. Yeah, it's a very very strange movie. Anyway,
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  that combined with like this just being a group of
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  boys going out not allowed to talk to women, reminded
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  me of that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I can see the connection. Also, I'm very interested.
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  Sorry I was reading as well. I am interested in
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  watching this. I hope that one of them is like
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  deeply entrenched into like everyone's like Quentin Tarantino movies. And
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  then there's one guy who's like just like mean girl
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  like I like her, Like.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. I deuced Bigelow, Maligglow.
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  Speaker 1: I love Nicholas Sparks that can't get enough of it.
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  Uh this this video seems this documentary seems one hundred
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  percent like something you'd cover in a pop and meat
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  video like that, it wasn't going to work forever. Of course.
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  My oldest brother, Jamie started making eyes at the pretty
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  girl who worked at the drug store ice cream counter.
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  She made eyes back. Soon he was sneaking off to
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  be with her. During our visits, he would leave my
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  brothers and I at the drug store at the park
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  bind our silence with penny candy and ice cream. Jamie's
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  little twists didn't last long, though. Laslow, the second youngest,
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  had always been loose slipped. One day, when we came
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  back from town, our father asked us what we did.
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  Speaker 2: Jamie snuck off.
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  Speaker 4: Laslow blurted, he always goes and sneaks off to see
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  that ice cream girl.
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  Speaker 1: Pause. Face grew very pale. He turned to Jamie and
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  seized him by the shoulders. Is that true, he asked,
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  in a voice that was much too quiet.
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  Speaker 2: You're seeing a girl.
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  Speaker 1: A tense silence hung over us. Jamie opened his mouth,
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  closed it.
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  Speaker 2: Jamie, come join me on my porch.
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  Speaker 1: Paul said icily. My father never hit us. I want
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  to make that clear, But when he was truly angry
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  or upset, he had a way of talking that cut
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  you to the bone. It made you feel like absolute dogshit.
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  When I was really little, got in trouble, I would
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  hide and cry for hours. Afterwards, consumed by guilt, Jamie
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  and Paul went onto the porch. The rest of us
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  dispersed throughout the house. Happy mood of the day soured
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  for a couple of weeks. Afterwards. We beat on Laslow
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  especially hard and gave him the worst roles in our games.
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  After that, he mostly kept his mouth shut. Jamie returned
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  with the pale face. He didn't talk to any of
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  us until the morning, where he tried to act like
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  nothing had happened. Caught him alone that day, I tucked
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  on his sleeve and asked.
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  Speaker 2: Him, what did Paul say to you the other night.
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  Speaker 1: Jamie looked down at me. His face suddenly seemed very old.
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  He gave me a weak smile and tossled my hair.
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  Speaker 2: Not your business, don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't in the habit of displeasing my older brother,
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  so I went along with my life. Next time we
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  went to town, the ice cream girl battered her eyes
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  at Jamie, but he stared straight away from her if
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  she frowned. Sadly, he wasn't as nice as us after that.
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  There's much else to say of my childhood. He was unique, surely,
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  but we had always lived our lives that way, and
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  I was not questioning the type. Our existence continued rather
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  uneventfully for years. My brother and I cleaned old houses
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  that would never be occupied, and we did yards that
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  would never be used. Forrest grew in faster than we
• 17:50
  could pluck. Then came the day when Jamie turned eighteen.
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  Birthdays were frequent in a family of seven, but turning
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  eighteen that was special, according to Paul. On the special day,
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  Paul got us all up early and scrubbed our faces
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  with a spitwet cloth, made us put on our best clothes,
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  moth eaten from this use. He gave Jamie one of
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  his old suits and it hung baggy on his thin frame,
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  and we gathered in the chapel. Inside, the air was
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  still and silent. I remember feeling disappointed, Hunter, I have
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  terrible news what all? So I was recording this whole time,
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  but I accidentally had display capture opens, so I was
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  not recording my camera until this moment.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you're you're going to be in blackness.
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  Speaker 2: Then my friend, just just like my Cara, went out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but whatever image you use of me, I just
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  asked that it's not what the kind of I asked
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  the editor that it's not the kind of image hunter
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  would want to use of me. Okay, all right, whatever, Well,
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  there's nothing I could do. It's my fault, I guess. Okay. Anyway,
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  Hi everyone, first time for the video. Okay. I remember
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  feeling disappointed at the side of the perfectly normal interior.
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  I always expected there to be some great, terrible secret
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  that my father was guarding it. It was just an old chapel.
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  We sat in the front pew, all in a row.
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  Paw and Jamie hung back at the door. They exchanged
• 19:27
  some quiet words and then began to walk. They marched
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  arm in arm, staring stiffly ahead. They stepped in time
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  to some silent rhythm. Slowly they made their way up
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  the aisle. My father bent behind the pulpit. The sound
• 19:41
  of creaking wood broke urse silence. It opened a trap door. Pawn, Jamie,
• 19:47
  still arm in arm, send it into the door downstairs.
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  We couldn't see from our angle, my brothers and I
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  said uncomfortably in the pew, restless but quiet. I felt
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  a strange swelling sensation, like some beeing enormous was happening
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  that I couldn't comprehend. I channeled this by plucking wildly
• 20:05
  of loose threads my ill fitting pants. My brothers and
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  I said nervously for a while, until Paul emerged again alone,
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  shut the trap door behind him.
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  Speaker 2: WoT him to go home.
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  Speaker 5: Boys.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask where Jamie was, but my tongue
• 20:19
  felt heavy. Instead, I fell into step behind him. We
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  made a solemn procession back to the rotting mansion where
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  we lived.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus, they didn't even take him, didn't even take Jamie
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  back with him.
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  Speaker 1: They left him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they just left open the trap door, and he's like,
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  all right, well back home, boys.
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  Speaker 1: That would kind of there. I mean, that's freaky. They
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  got it's the building that their entire life has been
• 20:43
  hyped up, but they can never go in. And then
• 20:45
  they go in, your oldest brother goes down the stairs,
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  and then all right, that's it.
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  Speaker 3: And only only your fucking snaggle tooth dad comes back out.
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  Speaker 2: That would that would that would bum me out. That's
• 20:58
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  Speaker 1: Jamie was there the next morning, story in as a
• 22:34
  bad next to mine. We all scrutinize him for some change,
• 22:38
  but he was the same. Jamie had always been the
• 22:41
  only answer to our questions we received was a hard
• 22:44
  sock in the arm, and we bothered him too much.
• 22:46
  A few months later, Bob came into our room in
• 22:48
  the middle of the night. I'd been lying awake, but
• 22:51
  I pretended to sleep as he quietly roused. Jamie let
• 22:54
  him out the door. I dozed very lightly, only to
• 22:57
  be reawoken when I heard them coming back up the stairs.
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  Jamie made his way to his bed slowly the faint moonlight.
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  I could see that his shoulders were shaking, crawled under
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  the covers. I could hear the muffled sound of him sobbing. God.
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  Uh oh.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like wondering, do you think it's gonna be something
• 23:14
  where it's like you can't talk to other women because
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  maybe this entity or something will get jealous.
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  Speaker 2: It could even be like.
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  Speaker 1: A yeah, it could be It could also be like
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  maybe maybe they're not actually a family. Maybe it's like
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  the dad has these boys captured or kidnapped, or they're
• 23:35
  part of some order or something.
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  Speaker 2: They could very well not be his.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they just think they are, and when they
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  turn eighteen they're yeah, don't know, part of some ritual,
• 23:44
  forced to be a part of something. But I do
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  think it involves female figures, like a wife entity or
• 23:50
  a mother entity. Mother seems more right because it's like
• 23:52
  a family dynamics. Yeah, or it could just be a
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  human trafficking operation. That would be swell, that'd be very
• 23:58
  fun and happy. It also thought it was weird that,
• 24:02
  despite there being seven of them, right, they all live
• 24:05
  in the same room. You know, like it's a mansion,
• 24:09
  but they all sleep in one place. That's kind of odd, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean kind of I mean even like old Southern
• 24:15
  houses that were built to have like multiple generations of
• 24:18
  families live in them.
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  Speaker 2: So true.
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  Speaker 3: So I whatever I'm thinking here is he's prepping his
• 24:23
  sons for probably what the dad had to do when
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  he was younger as well. I'm just wondering what that
• 24:29
  I keep saying entity. It could be nothing down there,
• 24:31
  but or not not nothing but I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Natural exactly.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm tracking. After that, Jamie was different.
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  He was withdrawn and angry, stopped playing with us, and
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  it was quick to yell there's an angry tension between
• 24:46
  him and Paul. Even as young as I was, I
• 24:49
  knew the change had something to do with that strange
• 24:51
  place in the chapel. I wouldn't have to wait long
• 24:55
  to find out the secret of our family. After all,
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  I was the second oldest. My birthday came that November.
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  I remember every second of that day. Paul woke me
• 25:04
  before my brothers. This is also a fun dynamic where
• 25:07
  like we see all the things that happened to Jamie
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  and now it's like, okay, now our narrator is going
• 25:11
  to go through it. Whatever.
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  Speaker 3: It was kind of even more tortuous if you think
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  about it. You see something, Yeah, you see your brother
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  go through all that stuff, right, and you know that
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  you're like, Okay, well that happened on at birthday. That's
• 25:21
  going to happen to me in this November. That'd be
• 25:24
  that would be a bit torturous.
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  Speaker 1: Paul woke me before my brothers. He brought me into
• 25:29
  the master's suite, where he spent the nights of his
• 25:31
  lonely existence. The room might have once been grand, but
• 25:35
  now the walls were ashy with a cigarette smoke, and
• 25:37
  it smelled like stale living. The bed sheets were rumpled
• 25:40
  on only one side. Made me sad to think of
• 25:43
  Paul's sleeping alone every night in that huge, moth eat
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  in bed. Paul dressed me in the same suit that
• 25:48
  Jamie had worn. Fit me a little better. This feels
• 25:51
  very not not mare before Christmas. What's the one where
• 25:56
  they're all dead the corpse is bride. This feels very corpses,
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  like all them in, like the rot, the underground area,
• 26:02
  stuff like that. It's almost like they're all dead. It
• 26:05
  fit me a little better. I was fuller and shorter
• 26:07
  than he was. I looked in the mirror and felt
• 26:10
  a flash of pride. I was a proper gentleman for once,
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  like those clean cut men in the old magazines we
• 26:16
  sometimes found while cleaning, no longer a dirty face. Little
• 26:19
  boy paused that back after fixing my tie, his eyes shining,
• 26:24
  harsh line of his mouth wobbled as he rubbed his
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  thumb across my cheekbone.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so proud of you.
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  Speaker 1: He said, and hugged me. My chest swelled with warmth
• 26:34
  and pride. We walked through the woods to the little
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  white chapel. It was cool. The woods were alive and
• 26:40
  red and orange. My brothers scattered in the pews while
• 26:43
  Paw and I waited outside the doors. Looped his arms
• 26:46
  through mine and looked at me. Just follow my lead,
• 26:49
  he murmured, Pat of my arm. His words soothed me.
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  Doors of the chapel swung open at their own, and
• 26:55
  the sound of the church bells echoed through the woods.
• 26:58
  Bowed the rusty bell, and the tower set still. But
• 27:01
  I wasn't afraid. So you can hear the church bells,
• 27:05
  but they're not from It doesn't or it seems supernatural.
• 27:08
  It's not coming from the actual bell on top of
• 27:10
  the church. Okay, Pap walks me down the aisle towards
• 27:13
  the empty pulpit. We walked in time to the toll
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  of the bells. Something I realized only that the two
• 27:18
  of us could hear. Oh God, My brothers whispered and
• 27:21
  fidgeted in the pew. Jamie said on the far end
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  staring straight ahead, sized, dull, backstiff. We ascended beyond the
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  pulpit lay the secret trap door, ancient, moldered. I gave
• 27:34
  the rusted brass ring a mighty pull, and it opened
• 27:37
  with a creek. Ors lay a stone staircase riddled with
• 27:41
  cracks and dappled with moss and mushrooms. Shallow stairs led
• 27:45
  into the dark. For the first time that day, I
• 27:48
  felt something other than anticipation and pride. I was afraid,
• 27:53
  but I think looking back that I would have been
• 27:55
  unable to leave by tried m pawn and I walked
• 27:59
  careful down the stairs, still held tight to my arm.
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  We emerged into an earthen tunnel, tall enough for us
• 28:06
  to walk upright, though roots from the ceiling brushed our heads.
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  For a moment we stood still. There was a strange
• 28:13
  sputtering sound, and a breeze blew from the darkness ahead.
• 28:18
  That should have been impossible, as the tunnel seemed to
• 28:20
  only go deeper into the ground, But as the breeze came,
• 28:24
  so did light. Alcoves have been scooped into the earth,
• 28:27
  and walls and tins of candles suddenly burst to life
• 28:30
  in their wax filled recesses. I jumped as the sudden
• 28:34
  light revealed hundreds of moss. They took off, excited by
• 28:37
  the flame. Their soft wings flapped and brushed against my cheek.
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  Spawn and I walked down the tunnel. My apprehension grew
• 28:44
  started shaking. Pau stood resolute by my side, its present steadying.
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  I don't know how long we walked in silence. The
• 28:51
  tunnel was not without its own sound, the pop fat
• 28:54
  from the candles, the drip of moisture from the ceiling,
• 28:57
  the tamping of our shoes, and the fluttering of mothway
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  I landed on my shoulders in my head bounced off
• 29:03
  of my face often. I wanted to ask Paul where
• 29:06
  we were going, but and again he stayed silent. Soon
• 29:11
  I became aware of a faint, sweet smell. Almost at
• 29:14
  the same time, the candle light revealed a door. Moss
• 29:18
  were clustered around it, so thickly that it appeared the
• 29:21
  frame was made of a canvas of pale, shivering wings.
• 29:24
  Paw turned to me flickering candle light, olives of his
• 29:27
  face were cast in sharp relief. He looks more like
• 29:30
  an ape than a man. This is where I leave you, son,
• 29:34
  He said, put his arms on my shoulders.
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  Speaker 5: Don't be afraid.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: You won't be here, I promise.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: Just do what nature tells you to do.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Oh no, hunter.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: This so then he so he leaves, He's gonna leave
• 29:50
  him here. And that's what happened on Jamie's birthday as well.
• 29:52
  But I'm wondering, Yeah, nature, Yeah it's gonna be it
• 29:55
  might be, might be a it's kind of I really
• 30:11
  loved all the descriptive stuff of like the moth wings pattering,
• 30:15
  the like dry I just imagine like little droplet sounds,
• 30:18
  you know, like the moisture dropping from this tunnel, and
• 30:22
  even just like the fire, like the wick burning and
• 30:24
  dancing so quiet in the in the tunnel that I
• 30:28
  just that description was really nice because it really put.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Me like it sunk me in, like wrapped me like
• 30:32
  a blanket.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: It was really good. The writing is great, like the
• 30:36
  quality of writing, measured tones and stuff. Awesome nature. Though.
• 30:43
  What it's really funny is as soon as you hear
• 30:45
  nature in that context, the first thing you go to
• 30:47
  is in the jungle. So I can only imagine that
• 30:50
  that is what plays in your head. Never you saw
• 31:05
  that I was shaking and they let his hand on
• 31:07
  my face.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: This is our family's legacy. Eli Jamie did this. I
• 31:13
  did this, My father before me did this. It's as
• 31:17
  old and ancient as our blood. Old. Even nothing's going
• 31:21
  to harm you.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, I choked out. My father smiled wayley and turned
• 31:26
  and left me before the door. He disappeared back the
• 31:29
  way we came, and I was alone. Cautiously pushed open
• 31:35
  the stone door. The moss fluttered away from it, forming
• 31:39
  a cloud, and I had to bat a way to see.
• 31:42
  Chamber that I emerged into was huge. The walls were
• 31:46
  lined with hundreds of alcoves with candles burning bright. More
• 31:49
  candles were spread across the floor. Across from me, there
• 31:54
  was a great white bed, oh no, surrounded by gossamer curtains.
• 32:00
  The sweet smell was overpowering, undercut by something primal and funky,
• 32:04
  like body odor, dirty pussy. Then the bed moved from
• 32:10
  midside unfolded pairs of strange appendages. I struggled to comprehend
• 32:16
  what I was seeing. They were arms, human arms ending
• 32:21
  in human hands, but they bent in too many places,
• 32:26
  and they were too long and pale. Long tendrils like
• 32:31
  feathers flared from their elbows. It wasn't a bed a shit,
• 32:37
  it was a person, perhaps in the loosest sense of
• 32:41
  the word. Its body was huge, white and bloated. Fuck
• 32:45
  but I thought were pillows were actually huge, penduless breasts,
• 32:50
  pair of nipples. The swell, the swell of the beds
• 32:54
  comforter was a huge stomach sagging down to the ground
• 32:57
  in ripples of white flesh.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Dude, imagine your dad drops you off in the first
• 33:03
  day to get your life. It was this giant, like
• 33:06
  fluffy pillow. Fuck monster. Do you think that's wait so wait,
• 33:13
  so he's like, hey, I had to do it. Paul
• 33:16
  had to do it, Grandpa, grandpa bing had to do it.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Did you know it's funny? You know what's funny about this?
• 33:24
  Last week was my episode?
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: It was it was it was my episode.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: It was ridiculously long. It was about the CIA and
• 33:35
  God and giants and all that stuff. Went on for
• 33:39
  eleven hours, like up my alley. This one it's an
• 33:43
  hour and a half. Probably. It's about a giant bed
• 33:48
  woman that these guys are forced to pair with, like.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: A seriously, don't talk to no broads when you're out
• 33:58
  and about you're upset.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: The pillow woman, you get to do a funny accent.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: I love it. This is this is definitely my kind
• 34:06
  of episode.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: This is your kind of yeah yeah, one one for them,
• 34:12
  one for me kind of thing.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Also like a body horror monster.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Like even the way that he described her arms so
• 34:17
  far disjointed, like I'm I'm imagining like multiple jointed arms,
• 34:22
  Like it's like bending and like all kinds of weird shit.
• 34:24
  At first, it was like it was like a spider
• 34:26
  legs or something, as is how I kind of pictured
• 34:29
  the arms at first, you know what I mean?
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Like the bed itself is a whole person. Ye, yeah, yeah,
• 34:34
  this sounds like something you would make for one of
• 34:38
  your like a Margaret kind of thing, like one of
• 34:42
  your popa meat house creatures. Right, it's an entire bed,
• 34:45
  but the bed is a thing like a person.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: As I watched a pair of the arms reach you
• 34:51
  gently part gossamer curtains like a bride lifting a veil
• 34:55
  its face, how to describe its face? Once cleaning trash
• 34:59
  out of I found an old china all. It had
• 35:02
  a puffy, exaggerated expression of innocence, though time had worn
• 35:06
  the paint from its face and gave it only the
• 35:08
  barest imitation of humanity. The creature's face looked like that doll,
• 35:13
  but its eyes were large and bulging and completely black.
• 35:16
  God fuck that dude, that's terrifying.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: I hate that it's even a kind of a human
• 35:24
  esque face. That makes it worse.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I imagine it where the headboard would be,
• 35:29
  you know, hmm, like linged up looking at him. It's
• 35:33
  like these dark black eyes. Yeah. Most notably of all,
• 35:37
  from its forehead spreaded a pair of long, feathery antenna
• 35:41
  They were as long as its arms, reaching towards the
• 35:44
  high ceiling. They waved back and forth gently like ferns.
• 35:49
  So I took it in, stunned by the wrongness of
• 35:52
  it all. Creature smiled at me. It's pale, fleshy lips parted,
• 35:57
  revealing a tripping black mouth with a note teeth, and
• 36:01
  then it spoke, No sweet and ice, it said. The
• 36:06
  voice was so wrong. The inanittation of words were clearly English,
• 36:11
  but the voice feminine, but it had a weird buzz
• 36:14
  to it and a thick quality, like someone speaking with
• 36:17
  their throat blocked. I was somehow able to find my
• 36:19
  own voice.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: What are you?
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: How do you know my name. Strange buzzing and clicking
• 36:26
  noise came from the creature. The fat on its body
• 36:30
  rolled like waves, and the toothless mouth gaped wider. It
• 36:34
  was laughing.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: I mean you, you are the fruit of my loins.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: I bore with your brothers, and your father, and your
• 36:43
  father's father and.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: His father before him.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: I know every interview or fresh for it grew and
• 36:51
  she painted within me. Oh, time has come for you
• 36:55
  to give, to give of yourself so I may have
• 36:58
  your son.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Dude, Oh that dude, imagine his mother.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Imagine having your imagine having the fuck your mom, grandma
• 37:15
  and great grandma.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Dude. It's like a giant It's like a giant insect.
• 37:20
  It's like a giant brood mother with the antenna and
• 37:23
  the shape of it and everything like that. It's like
• 37:26
  it's like this alien that maybe like way back in generations,
• 37:30
  like convinced the first member of the family and then
• 37:32
  threatens them if they ever leave from it. So it's
• 37:35
  like using them to grow people. Oh huh uh, I understood.
• 37:43
  Almost immediately. I felt a mix of horror and revulsion,
• 37:47
  but it was far off suppressed. The sweet smell filled
• 37:51
  my nostrils, made my head swim my skin was hot
• 37:54
  and itchy, and the ill fitting suit. Oh, making them
• 37:58
  wear a suit like it's a like it's a wedding,
• 38:01
  like they're the groom.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Do you think this has anything common, this has anything
• 38:04
  to do with like the incestuous nature of Southern.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: May can be a commentary on that, Like I'm wondering
• 38:12
  Southern aristocracy, like even the way like this like cousin
• 38:16
  marriage and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, maybe that could
• 38:19
  that could be the idea that. And it's also like
• 38:22
  there's kind of this theme that's floated around about like
• 38:25
  the rot of the family, like the houses decrepit, the
• 38:28
  forest is trying to reclaim it, almost embodying the forest,
• 38:31
  as if the forest is trying to do a justice
• 38:33
  by getting rid of the property. And he says at
• 38:36
  the beginning it dates back to slavery, right, So it's
• 38:38
  like there's been such great sins committed by the lineage
• 38:41
  of this family. It's like everything around the family is
• 38:45
  trying to do away with it. The house is trying
• 38:47
  to rode away, the forest is trying to overtake the property.
• 38:49
  And now we have a physical embodiment of the rod
• 38:52
  in the family in this incestuous bug underneath the property
• 38:57
  that they that birth this entire generation and the generations
• 39:01
  before it. Yeah, it's yeah. I think that's fair to say.
• 39:07
  There's like a statement they are being made about it. Yeah.
• 39:09
  I should have been terrified. I should have been disgusted.
• 39:13
  I am in retrospect, but I was under the spell
• 39:16
  of the creature, scent of its pheromones too powerful for
• 39:19
  my brain to comprehend. At that moment, I knew that
• 39:22
  my body served a singular purpose, and I knew what
• 39:25
  that purpose was. Then I was before the creature. So
• 39:29
  many arms petted my hair, my body, my face, and
• 39:33
  the soft feathers tickling me. It cooed and spoke to
• 39:37
  me as I climbed on top of it, my body
• 39:40
  sinking into its soft and yielding flesh. I lay on
• 39:45
  its stomach. Its bosom is my pillow, lying against its skin.
• 39:50
  Though it was tacky like dough, I felt a comfort
• 39:54
  I had never known, nor ever known. Since I was safe,
• 40:00
  I was swaddled, I was loved. It wrapped its spindly
• 40:04
  arms around me. It's buzzing words of encouragement burrowing into
• 40:11
  my brain like worms. Ah, It's like a mother and.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: We're pretty gross.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: I'll say I had a pretty stern stank face right there.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: This is this is cosmic punishment for me making goth
• 40:34
  mommy jokes for so long. It's like, oh you like that?
• 40:38
  Is that what you want? Okay? Here you go. It's like, okay,
• 40:40
  I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm tapping out right now. I
• 40:43
  regret it. And then I began to move my hips
• 40:48
  and I was in heaven. You know, boy, Shakira, the
• 40:53
  hips don't lie, not to encourage you, but the bed
• 41:00
  bug thing is singing that the whole time.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Okay, actually, I think I love Shia, dude, any I
• 41:14
  honestly probably getting with the bed monster if it was
• 41:15
  fucking singing Shakira.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I'll spare you the mechanical details of that coupling. Me
• 41:23
  recalling having sex with a moth monster who was also
• 41:27
  a oh feathery antenna, yeah moth duh, Yeah, a moth
• 41:31
  monster who was also apparently my mother and grandmother is
• 41:34
  just as traumatizing as you reading about it. But what
• 41:37
  I must say is that I have never felt pleasure
• 41:40
  like that, since I have never once felt so loved,
• 41:45
  so held and so safe. I know now that I
• 41:48
  wasn't in my right mind, and recalling it makes me nauseous.
• 41:52
  There are still nights I jolt a weight, feeling a
• 41:54
  ghost of that heavenly pleasure. For a moment, I grieve
• 41:59
  that I'll never feel it again.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Damn.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know how long I was in that chamber
• 42:04
  with that thing. I vaguely remember dressing myself slowly, still
• 42:09
  drunk from the pheromones in the air. I remember the
• 42:12
  creature rubbing its belly.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: Bruh, yeah, definitely. Oh boy left some sour dough in
• 42:21
  the oven when he left, for sure.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Oh god, damn.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: I remember the creature it's belly as I left, followed
• 42:38
  by a cloud.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Of moths, little little easy bake oven. Shut up, you're
• 42:46
  awful called it, called that monster bed Crocker, No, go.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Ahead, this is so up your al I love it.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: This element, I will say to the the idea like
• 43:02
  the description that I thought was fucking revolting and awesome
• 43:06
  was him saying that the skin felt like dough.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Like you whenever you touched dough, and it's like kind
• 43:11
  of sticky. Oh like that.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: It's soft, it's like a cloud, but when you try
• 43:16
  to pull your hand back out, it sticks to you
• 43:18
  and you realize it's kind of sandy almost.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: And the whole time it just has these words of
• 43:22
  encouragement the entire time. How fuck does that?
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh ooh, the motherly thing with it and like
• 43:29
  its shape and like you sink into the stomach of it,
• 43:33
  all those things combined, Oh oh god. Oh okay. You
• 43:41
  know this is also payback because last week I was
• 43:43
  listening back to the Mother Horse Eyes episode and there's
• 43:45
  so many parts where it's me like nerding out about
• 43:47
  biblical stuff and you're just like, okay, And now this
• 43:50
  is payback because you get to be hype and I
• 43:52
  get to like, I feel like I'm going to throw up.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: I legitimately the entire time been sitting here, I've been
• 43:58
  thinking about like what moth pheromount like, what moth pussy
• 44:01
  pheromones smell like?
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Dude, I was like, I mean, but that's like, it's
• 44:07
  such a it's such an interesting descriptive where I was
• 44:10
  just the whole time, I was just like cinnabon, for sure.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: I was like, ibut, cinnamon rolls, a little bit of
• 44:15
  icing on top of that. Well, he prepared the icing.
• 44:18
  He was he said there he was talking about.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: It, and there there you go with you, you being you.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: Come on, man, come on, do you think that actually
• 44:28
  kind of be like would almost be like having sex
• 44:30
  with the Pillsbury dope boy?
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, actually that's literally would be like what.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: Giggling and ship you don't you don't see a little
• 44:39
  motherfucker anymore, do you?
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: There's no commercials of that little son of a bit,
• 44:43
  even though.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Fucking laughing you touching his belly.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: You walk into the room. That's the noise it makes.
• 44:58
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  back to the episode. I slept dreamlessly for hours and hours.
• 46:30
  Over dinner, I made eye contact with Pause. I was
• 46:33
  shoveling spaghetti into my mouth. He beamed at me proudly,
• 46:36
  and I felt good. Jamie was looking at me also.
• 46:40
  He didn't return my smile. His mouth was now permanently
• 46:44
  set at Graham line. Seeing encounter with the moth creature
• 46:47
  faded like a dream. Jamie continued to bother me. Had
• 46:51
  any experience the same? Heavenly pleasured I'd had. Sure, there
• 46:55
  were lingering dregs of fear even discussed at what I'd done,
• 46:58
  But if everyone in our family had dined it, what
• 47:00
  was arm It was our legacy after all. More time passed,
• 47:05
  my confusion turned to anger. Jamie barely interacted with us anymore.
• 47:09
  Did you think he was better than us? Did he
• 47:11
  think that his feelings made him separate from the family?
• 47:14
  Somehow I never got the chance to confront him. He
• 47:17
  came to me. It's about five months after my eighteenth birthday.
• 47:20
  Life had continued as normal, but one morning when we
• 47:23
  woke up, there was a strange feeling in the air.
• 47:27
  I made a comment about it to my brothers, but
• 47:30
  they just looked at me blankly. So we went about
• 47:32
  our chores. I felt strangely happy. We were walking out
• 47:36
  to one of the old guest houses when Jamie grabbed
• 47:38
  me roughly by the arm and pulled me away. He
• 47:41
  was nearly nose to nose with me, and his eyes
• 47:43
  were bright and wild.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: You listen, good night, Eli. Why the hell do you
• 47:47
  think Paul never let us talk to the girls in town.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I looked at him in confusion.
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: The thing in the chapel, it doesn't want outside competition.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: It gave birth to all of us, boy, but it
• 48:01
  can't control the ginger of the baby.
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: It maked, Why do you think there's no girls in
• 48:05
  our family? What do you think happens when one is born?
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Mm? See, I assumed it was all automatically. Boys, that's interesting.
• 48:12
  The beginnings of dread began to creep up from my stomach.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Yours is coming today, Jamie continued.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: His mouth turned to a scowl. Let go of the
• 48:22
  bicscrip on my.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Arm, for your sake. I hope it ain't a girl.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: His face fell. Oh, I wasn't so lucky that explains
• 48:32
  why he's shaken out of the delirium that.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm wondering.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: I'm wondering if you don't, if you don't produce a boy,
• 48:40
  if it fucking like mutilates you or something.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: I wonder if it bites off your something like that.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: I think it just kills the girls. When it gives
• 48:46
  birth to a girl, that kills.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: It, yeah, eats it or something.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, something brutal. So that's what happened because remember Jamie
• 48:54
  a few several months afterwards, got let out at night.
• 48:56
  Then he came back different. That's what he saw. But
• 48:59
  it's about to be. Yeah, he saw his he saw
• 49:03
  his daughter slash sister in law, Yeah, slash step aunt.
• 49:11
  Oh oh he gave is that that would work? Step aunt? Yeah? No,
• 49:15
  just aunt.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: You know what I said.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: It's just a whole plain wrong.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah. The dynamics of that are rough. Okay. Anyway,
• 49:29
  it's like that song on my own Grandpa, like, I
• 49:34
  have never heard that. I don't.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of fucking backwards stuff you've
• 49:37
  been listening.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: You ever heard that song? It's bad? The guy that
• 49:40
  did uh the squirrel went berserk. No, you don't know
• 49:46
  that one that day the squirrel went berserk in the
• 49:50
  first self Rochester.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: This very it sounds like that's like one of the
• 49:54
  gayest things. On hold on, hold on in the most
• 49:57
  middle school way, I could say it. That is one
• 49:59
  of the gayest things.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: Just like when the squirrel went berserved.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, So fuckd just Gray Stevens. Stevens,
• 50:07
  Oh god, it's Ray Stevens. He has he has a
• 50:10
  song where he's explaining like he married an older lady
• 50:13
  and his dad married a younger girl and it turns
• 50:15
  out it was a mother and daughter. And then he's like,
• 50:17
  my cause and effect because I married her, or no,
• 50:20
  he has a kid with the older lady, so then
• 50:23
  he's married to.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: No.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: No, his dad has a kid with a younger lady,
• 50:30
  which makes that like his grand which makes that his son.
• 50:33
  But also his dad is a grandfather, so he does
• 50:37
  the math and he's like, I'm my own grandpa by
• 50:40
  like the cause and effect of it. Yeah, anyway, that
• 50:43
  is completely unimportant. But yeah, Okay, before I could say anything,
• 50:48
  he was gone, stalking off. After the rest of our
• 50:51
  brothers stood staring after him as night came my dread
• 50:55
  grew gon was my pleasant mood from before. Night found
• 50:59
  me leapless, and I stared at the ceiling for hours.
• 51:03
  When the door creaked open, I knew it was Pa.
• 51:06
  He came to my bedside and motioned for me to
• 51:08
  join him. We made our ways through the dark woods
• 51:11
  to the chapel. That bad feeling was everywhere, soaked into
• 51:15
  the very air. The creatures of the night were silent,
• 51:18
  and it was cold. Chapel stood a white smear in
• 51:21
  the darkness. We went inside. The floorboards seemed to vibrate,
• 51:25
  and when Pa opened the trap door, I heard it
• 51:29
  a terrible buzzing wail, full of anger and pain, punctuated
• 51:35
  by inhuman squeaks and growls. I had heard the sounds
• 51:39
  of animals and pain before. It was like some sort
• 51:41
  of horrible symphony of all of those cries. I recoiled
• 51:46
  at the sound, standing rooted to the spot. I looked
• 51:49
  at Paw to see if my horror was reflected in
• 51:51
  his face. It was to some extent, but over it
• 51:54
  lay of a near of hardness. I realized that whatever
• 51:57
  was happening was no mystery to him. He'd probably experienced
• 52:01
  it a hundred times before took my arm and practically
• 52:04
  dragged me down the tunnel. The moths were flapping around wildly,
• 52:08
  diving at us and bouncing off the walls. A few
• 52:11
  of them flew into the candle flames through feathery wings,
• 52:13
  burning as fast as paper. Screaming got louder. Came to
• 52:19
  the chamber. The creature was in the same spot, but
• 52:23
  this time its body was rippling like a wave. Some
• 52:27
  of its arms were braced on the walls and floor.
• 52:30
  The sweet smell was gone, replaced by that of blood
• 52:34
  and visceraugh. The creature's puffy doll face was twisted in
• 52:39
  a horrifying mask of pain and rage. Spittle flew from
• 52:43
  its black mouth as it wailed, the sound bouncing around
• 52:47
  the chamber. Its antenna swiveled wildly around its head, every
• 52:52
  feather twitching and shaking at the side of us. It's
• 52:56
  pallid face concorded further y bellowed my father's name.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: Crud Lawrens, but get me on the corcions.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: I was transfixed by the creature's rippling body, bile rising
• 53:14
  in the back of my throat. It was pushing something out.
• 53:18
  I realized a dark puddle was forming on the floor
• 53:21
  beneath it. My father moved towards the creature like he
• 53:25
  meant to comfort it. A pair of arms sideswiped him
• 53:28
  with surprising strength, sending him careening into the wall. He
• 53:32
  tripped over the candles. Creature let out a deep throaty
• 53:36
  grown his body, gave one more powerful ripple, and there
• 53:40
  was a wet This is so gross, And there was
• 53:46
  a wet noise as something dropped onto the floor of
• 53:50
  the cave. What lay before me was essentially a cocoon.
• 53:55
  It was roughly watermelon sized, white and it's glistening. It's
• 53:59
  fluid and the light. The creature's screams died, which were
• 54:03
  rattling breaths. So I watched the cocoon began to tremble,
• 54:08
  a tiny red fist toward its way through the gauzy membrane.
• 54:12
  From the whole, I heard a cry, weak and plaintive.
• 54:17
  It was a baby. Something came over me. I somehow
• 54:21
  knew that the baby was mine. I'm sure others can
• 54:24
  tell better stories of parential instincts kicking in, but that's
• 54:27
  what happened to me at that moment. While my father
• 54:30
  and the creature struggled to recover. I knelt down and
• 54:33
  began ripping the cocoon apart, trying to free the baby within.
• 54:36
  The cocoon had the texture of spider silk, thin and sticky.
• 54:41
  It dissolved in my touch. Soon the baby was free.
• 54:44
  Its skin was red and blotchy, and it looked like
• 54:47
  a lumpy potato, but its face and cry were holy human,
• 54:52
  and as I held it in my hands, I could
• 54:55
  feel the very gears of the world turning. My fate
• 54:58
  was changing. Oh wow, creature rasped. I looked up at it.
• 55:03
  Its expression had relaxed, its black eyes grown wide and shining,
• 55:07
  reflecting the candlelight. Santana had calmed, zooming their slow and
• 55:11
  gentle waving. It reached its nearest pair of arms out
• 55:15
  to mek it to me, demanded. I lifted the baby
• 55:19
  in front of me and realized with sudden dread something
• 55:22
  on it was missing. The baby was female. Creature's arms
• 55:27
  strained for the baby, and I instinctually clutched it to
• 55:29
  my chest.
• 55:31
  Speaker 8: Why yep, that eats the babies.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: How messed up, dude? How it licked its lips, leaving
• 55:49
  behind a film of grace spit from a black tongue
• 55:52
  Jamie's words came back to me then, and I realized
• 55:54
  that he was right. POD got to his feet. He
• 55:57
  clutched his side, clearly hurt, and his clothes were cinge
• 56:00
  from candle flames.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: Just give it to her son, it'll be over soothing.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: I looked down at the baby was crying and squirming.
• 56:09
  It grabbed onto my shirt as tightly as it could,
• 56:11
  its little fist bawling the fabric. But the first time
• 56:14
  in my life, I made my own decision. I turned
• 56:18
  away from my family and I ran.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Gosh shit.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: I held the baby tightly to my chest as I
• 56:25
  spread it into the tunnel. My father called after me,
• 56:28
  but his voice was drowned out by a buzzing whale
• 56:30
  that grew in volume until it seemed a physical thing,
• 56:33
  a wave pushing me out. Moths bounced off my face
• 56:37
  as I ran past the candles, they blew out, filling
• 56:40
  the tunnel with darkness. I thought I heard my father scream,
• 56:44
  a sound of terror beneath the creature's anger. I don't
• 56:47
  like to think about it. Left our property towards town.
• 56:50
  The baby's still bawling loudly. Finally I had to stop running.
• 56:54
  My lungs burning and my legs cramping. I'd never been
• 56:57
  as afraid as I was limping through that dark. My
• 57:01
  daughter's cries a dead giveaway to any who would follow,
• 57:05
  but nothing dead. I walked through the town, knocking on
• 57:09
  doors until someone answered. My daughter's sobs had tapered from
• 57:13
  a steady stream to quiet whimpers, and I knew she
• 57:16
  needed care. Soon the ice cream girl answered the door.
• 57:20
  Her hair must asleep. She took in the side of me,
• 57:23
  recognizing me immediately, and her eyes widened at the baby
• 57:26
  in my arms. Please help us, I croaked. It was
• 57:31
  the first time I'd spoken to a woman, really spoken.
• 57:34
  Shirley's family took care of me for a while. They
• 57:37
  taught me how to care for my daughter, how to
• 57:40
  change diapers and prepare formula and berber. I never left
• 57:43
  their house for fear of seeing my family. I was
• 57:46
  there for only a week or two. Then my daughter
• 57:49
  and I hit the road again, went from town to town,
• 57:52
  surviving on the kindness of strangers. It was usually women
• 57:56
  who ended up helping us. I met all kinds of
• 57:59
  women hardened by the world, bitter ones, gentle ones, fiery ones.
• 58:04
  It taught me about the world at all, the things
• 58:06
  I'd been missing. We were far enough north that I
• 58:09
  felt safe. I began trying to settle down. My daughter
• 58:13
  was growing into a healthy, fat, little toddler. You oh't
• 58:16
  know if I'm really afraid that the daughter is going
• 58:19
  to be one of those bad things.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: That's what That's what she wondering too.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: She was the axis on which my world turned. Everything
• 58:27
  I did I did for her. Eventually I named her
• 58:30
  Deborah Debbie for short. I found a decent job with
• 58:34
  on side daycare for Debbie. Back then, it was a
• 58:37
  little easier to provide for a child than it is today,
• 58:39
  I won't deny, but I still worked myself to the bone.
• 58:43
  It was the easiest way to chase away the shadows
• 58:45
  that plagued my mind. I had lovers here and there,
• 58:48
  both men and women, but doesn't lasted. Sex was difficult
• 58:52
  for me, considering what I'd been through. I always felt
• 58:55
  disgusting afterwards, always unable to ignore the simple fact that
• 58:58
  I would never feel as good as that, and that
• 59:01
  knowledge made me feel like a monster. Eventually I stopped
• 59:05
  trying to feign interest in sex, and I was happier
• 59:07
  for it, But it meant that I had never got
• 59:09
  into a real relationship. I didn't need a relationship. I
• 59:13
  had Debbie. As the years passed and she grew bright
• 59:16
  and smart and funny, shadows of my passing farther and
• 59:19
  farther away. But I was a fool to let myself
• 59:22
  be comforted by time. I cannot escape the curse of
• 59:25
  my blood, no matter how far I run. Yesterday was
• 59:29
  Debbie's fourteenth birthday day. She locked herself in the bathroom
• 59:32
  in the morning, crying for hours. She finally let me in.
• 59:36
  I could barely contain a scream because there bursting from
• 59:40
  my daughter's forehead was a pair of long, feathery antenna. Ah.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: That was awesome. That was sick. What a great little
• 59:52
  ending there.
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: Oh that's rough, dude, such a goddamn such a short,
• 1:00:02
  sweet little thing. Compared to last week too, it's still
• 1:00:05
  packed such a great punch also too. So I'm wondering too,
• 1:00:12
  obviously the competition right of not wanting any female children.
• 1:00:18
  Do you think it was just solely so that moth
• 1:00:20
  creature could be the only one, or do you think
• 1:00:22
  it was just like or first, let me ask, is
• 1:00:24
  that something that moth do in general to the ether
• 1:00:26
  own children?
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: No? I don't. I don't think that happens.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: I'm so curious. Do you think that? Do you think that?
• 1:00:37
  Do you think that the moth killed the dad and
• 1:00:39
  the family?
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: No, I know I hold a hold on children. No,
• 1:00:43
  I'm crazy, Absolutely not because moth. I don't think moth
• 1:00:45
  eat at all. Maybe some do, but they're just the
• 1:00:48
  adult versions of the caterpillars that are the crystalis and
• 1:00:51
  then they're just normally just in moth state long enough
• 1:00:53
  to eat, I mean, not eat, to breed, and then
• 1:00:56
  they die. I'm pretty sure.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: So this is one that's continue to eat to where.
• 1:01:02
  Oh I wonder actually if the moth died because it
• 1:01:04
  was unable to eat it's young or whatever, you know
• 1:01:07
  what I mean.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: That's the adult moss generally do not eat much, and
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  some species don't eat at all.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting. Interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if it was just keeping itself alive through
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  like generations of this of like the men coming back
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  to like basically keep it alive through sex, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the idea of eating the daughters is so brutal,
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  eating their own children, and now that creates it. There's
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  some interesting things about like, you know, he is a
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  moth or like he's a half moth creature throughout the story, right,
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  and now it's like you go back to the mother
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  and you know, you give it another child that's the
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  same way as you, and it doesn't want competition. So
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  does that mean when his daughter gets old enough, she's
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  also going to put out pheromones and try to convince
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  her father to keep this lineage going that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that.
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  Speaker 3: And also at what point in the bloodline did a
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  man find a giant alien moth creature underground and just it.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: Sounds like, well, it sounds like it was something that
• 1:02:05
  came up from the dirt, like something ancient that started
• 1:02:08
  to like insert itself onto his family.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: Also, I like the parallels earlier what they said of
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  like the family was born on slavery, rape, and pain.
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  Basically you could look at that like literal slaves, so
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  you could also the family itself has been enslaved by
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  this thing, and like is you know, unwillingly having sex
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  with this thing and basically continue its bloodline that way,
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  unable to actually ever have like a real human existence too.
• 1:02:34
  But yeah, I was curious because they said it was
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  he was lumpy like a sweet potato.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: So I'm curious, even when it was.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: A baby, did it look normal or did it look like,
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  you know, hasn't always been kind of a weird looking Well.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: They said it was weird, but or that the little
• 1:02:48
  girl was weird, but that she had a cry that
• 1:02:51
  was distinctly human. So I think it looked human up
• 1:02:56
  until it was fourteen and started growing the antenna right, Yeah,
• 1:03:00
  whatever way you look at this story, it's incredibly messed up. Well,
• 1:03:04
  from every angle, this is brutal, is rough, It.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: Hurts such an interesting Also, it got us there in
• 1:03:11
  such a fast way, like I don't know, bought into
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  like weird southern culture thing of like dad who like
• 1:03:18
  does not allow us sons to talk to women, only
• 1:03:22
  to find out that like basically the family survived by
• 1:03:25
  inbreeding with this thing that is like not it's his
• 1:03:28
  father's mother's father, mother's grandfather. All that kind of stuff
• 1:03:33
  just so fucked up and weird. Also too good for Elias.
• 1:03:37
  Elias is a dope character getting the fuck out of there.
• 1:03:39
  Also to Jamie having the.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: Will yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Elias, it's Elias my bad.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Elias is our main character.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: And then the uh and then Jamie even having the
• 1:03:51
  gusts just like kind of warn him as well, but
• 1:03:53
  obviously he had to suffer through that.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: I'm so curious if you got that.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Warning his daughter would have been eaten. Yeah, Now then
• 1:04:00
  it's like, okay, would have been better if she was
• 1:04:02
  if this is going to start again and the process continue.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm wondering if he because of that altercation
• 1:04:08
  when he's just like just think about it, because at
• 1:04:11
  first he was like so on board with just being like, well,
• 1:04:14
  this is what our family does.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: If he doesn't get that, if he didn't get that
• 1:04:18
  kind of interaction with his brother and that kind of perspective,
• 1:04:21
  do you think he would have saved his child or
• 1:04:23
  do you think that his fatherly instincts would have kicked
• 1:04:26
  in and he's just like it would have still been
• 1:04:28
  the same fate, you know what I mean, what do
• 1:04:30
  you still have taken and ran away?
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: Kind of an interesting thing. Also, he has so many
• 1:04:34
  other brothers that I'm wondering. I'm so curious to see
• 1:04:39
  from the author's perspective, if like the you know, is
• 1:04:42
  the thing still alive?
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: Is it still going on?
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: There are so many like fun little things to think about,
• 1:04:48
  because in this case, I loo to think that this
• 1:04:50
  is actually the thing that killed the creature, and now
• 1:04:52
  the dad and them are able to, like I don't know,
• 1:04:55
  live their lives normally. However, that is the dad is
• 1:04:58
  fucked because he's just I mean it's a lifetime.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: I mean he got well, he got ripped apart. Is
• 1:05:03
  what sounds like. I heard my father's scream over the
• 1:05:06
  sound of the creature's anger. I don't like to think about.
• 1:05:08
  That sounds to me like, so he probably did die.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: Then who knows.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: Well it says earlier you you have brought me only
• 1:05:14
  transgressions or whatever she says, and then she year's the
• 1:05:16
  father's scream. So I think that means that it killed.
• 1:05:20
  You know.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's kind of interesting because that means that.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: Is fine, which is fine.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: That means that dad was.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: The last one to actually have a son. And then
• 1:05:29
  now I think what he means is you've only give
• 1:05:31
  me transgression. I'm wondering if it's saying like you your
• 1:05:33
  kids only.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: Bear women women. Yeah, that's what sounds like to me. Also,
• 1:05:39
  this is kind of reminiscent of Tommy Taffy and that
• 1:05:42
  it's a father who has a curse that willingly tries
• 1:05:45
  to let their children get through the curse. And it's
• 1:05:48
  a sexual curse, funny enough, or it has sexual elements
• 1:05:52
  to it, and it's like we just have to maintain,
• 1:05:55
  we just have to, you know, get through this stage.
• 1:05:59
  But at least with the original Tommy Taffy, there was
• 1:06:02
  evidence of that family trying to stop it. Even if
• 1:06:05
  you know me and you made jokes about like you
• 1:06:06
  should have tried harder, there was some attempt to like
• 1:06:09
  push it back, whereas here it seems like the father
• 1:06:12
  was just bought into it. But at the same time,
• 1:06:14
  maybe the father was still under the delusion maybe you know,
• 1:06:20
  but he thought he needed to take care of his sons.
• 1:06:21
  Who knows.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: If it's all you've ever known and that's how you've
• 1:06:24
  been raised and stuff, I mean, what else what else
• 1:06:28
  would you know? I mean, is it different, yes, but
• 1:06:30
  at the same time, but that's just like what life
• 1:06:33
  has been.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: Then of course you're going.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: To continue to carry on the kind of the kind
• 1:06:38
  of I guess, systematic fucking shit that happens in your
• 1:06:42
  own family, you know what I mean, My dad did this,
• 1:06:44
  therefore I do it. Whatever, And especially if you don't
• 1:06:46
  allow them to associate with anybody in the outside world,
• 1:06:50
  especially women, then what's the uh you know, what.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: Do you expect. I don't think that. I don't think
• 1:06:55
  I can fault to Dad.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: I just think he's just a person that I mean,
• 1:06:58
  years of delusion, you know, to this point now where
• 1:07:02
  you have a character like Elias who's sitting there and
• 1:07:05
  he sees his brother Jamie talking to the other girl,
• 1:07:07
  Like you can tell the younger guys are interacting more
• 1:07:10
  than they should be with people outside of you know,
• 1:07:14
  the dad's reach to where that probably gave them a
• 1:07:17
  bit of perspective as well. So, I don't know, very interesting,
• 1:07:22
  like you said, though, definitely my kind of story.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: I love just weird. I'm man, I've just was.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: Thinking in my head about the big pillowy kind of
• 1:07:29
  monster thing. Also, it just living in this like fucking
• 1:07:33
  underground tunnel with candles lining the wall like visually, such
• 1:07:37
  a fun story. Also, the author Solas did Soulis, did
• 1:07:41
  a incredible job with some of the descriptions, just like
• 1:07:45
  like even just the I'll go back. I know I've
• 1:07:46
  are talked about it, but I just love that descriptor
• 1:07:49
  of the dough skin, just that feeling of like I
• 1:07:52
  already know what that feels like like' and I'm just
• 1:07:54
  I feel like I've felt it on my hands since
• 1:07:56
  we've been reading this, or even a lot. Tearing open
• 1:08:00
  the cocoon and it's like a silk, like a spider
• 1:08:04
  web kind of like texture and stuff. And the sounds
• 1:08:06
  that would make of tearing that open super fun also too,
• 1:08:10
  just like, you know, this could easily be a story
• 1:08:13
  that you stretch out and stuff, but it was just
• 1:08:15
  such a fun little like almost social media post, you know.
• 1:08:19
  Even at the end, he's just like and and it
• 1:08:20
  has just that little cherry on top with the antenna
• 1:08:23
  at the end.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: Really enjoyed it.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that killed. That was awesome.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: We like EE. We like EE.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: And it's nice to have a nice little digestible fucking
• 1:08:34
  a nice swift punch to the gut after a long episode.
• 1:08:38
  So this is just a nice little palate cleanser to
• 1:08:41
  kind of get us back into our normal routine of
• 1:08:43
  having episodes to be like two and a half.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: Three hours long. It's always nice whenever you find a
• 1:08:47
  story that's just short and punch. You like this, really
• 1:08:50
  like it.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: So they have I'm looking at their stuff. They have
• 1:08:54
  at least two others stories posted in No Sleep. One
• 1:08:57
  is called Saint in a Box. That's a lot, But
• 1:09:00
  they had another one called Drowning Doesn't Always Kill You
• 1:09:02
  that was removed from No Sleep, uh knowing No Sleep.
• 1:09:05
  It may have been removed because they said, like, yeah,
• 1:09:07
  because they gave a location the fictional locations like address
• 1:09:11
  or something.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: Like something, fucking one of the one of the giant
• 1:09:15
  arbitrary rules they have on their fucking submission boards.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: That's kind of it.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: If you're watching this, if you're watching this soul list,
• 1:09:22
  just throw it on creepcast whatever, throw it on.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: Creep cast, dude, throw it on creep cast. We'll leave
• 1:09:26
  it up. Also, it's a great name for a story, not.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: Dr Doesn't Always kill You? Pretty fun.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, guys, thank you so much for listening today.
• 1:09:35
  I know this one was a short one. We'd, like
• 1:09:37
  I said, we were just trying to give ourselves a
• 1:09:39
  bit of time after that behemoth we recorded before.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: But this is this one turned out to be great.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: Not often do you get a nice fuck fuck family
• 1:09:46
  moth pussy story, dude, that you know, very rarely happens
• 1:09:49
  in this lifetime, so we're very lucky. Uh, be sure
• 1:09:52
  to check us out on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and
• 1:09:55
  all those kind of places, and as well, if you're
• 1:09:57
  interested in checking out the Patreon, feel free to check
• 1:09:59
  it out air and support us and get some more
• 1:10:01
  behind the scenes content or just extra content in general.
• 1:10:04
  But like we said before, it will not affect our
• 1:10:06
  weekly uploads that we have.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: Here for you for free, so just let you know.
• 1:10:12
  Thank you so much for listening to creep Cast, and
• 1:10:14
  god damn it, we'll see you next week.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: Bye bye. My level of discomfort and all of that
• 1:10:20
  was fitting compared to the level of comfort ied last week,
• 1:10:22
  so I guess we're even Bye.