January 24, 2023 • 37 mins
If you had a chance to save a loved one, would you take it? How far would you go? It's the gang's collective birthday this month, so as a way of saying thanks to you Conspiracy Realists around the world (and beyond), the guys have teamed up with their extended conspiracy family to present a unique tale of morality, of good and evil, and... fast food.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, here we go. This is a classic that many
of our fellow conspiracy realists may not be expecting. So
if you were a long time listener, you know that.
Noel Matt and they call me Ben. Uh. We leave
Vultron up whatever time allows to do one of our
greatest loves, which is fiction. Uh. This is a very
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weird story about what what is it? This is a
fast food place on Christmas even and nol you brought
it with the h you brought up with the sound
design or pal Alex Williams shows up and of course
the one only Matt Frederick Alex with a banger of
a song. By the way, I love that, texting U
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about it another satisfied customer, It's an amazing song. Sometimes
I text Alex and say, hey again, I think this
song is amazing. I mean you know, no, this is audio, uh,
cinema for the mind. Uh you remember this one? Oh? Yeah?
Fun on this one. Oh. I always have fun on
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these radio play kind of episodes, and I think y'all
will to this one is a particularly um fun and
uh in a little prescient perhaps, from UFOs to psychic
powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
You can turn back now or learn this stuff. They
don't want you to know. Phil Comman, my name is Matt.
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They called me Ben, you are you? And that makes
this stuff they don't want you to know. This is
a very special episode. Dan, you really whipped on our
whole German theme we had going, Okay, i'll do ut
please do a bad Kennedy German accent when Z called me,
that's pretty good. That wasn't good. Don't know the Kennedy
German thing that you're talking about, Ben, the old MyD
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You you heard that story, right, I don't know. Uh well,
uh well, Mr President. Uh. The story is that when
you were in Berlin, you gave a speech where you
meant to say, I too am a resident of Berlin,
but what you did instead was I too am a
specific type of doughnut. That's awesome. Yeah. I can't remember
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if that's true or if that's just a myth. He
said he was like a crueler or something. I guess.
I'm I'm staring at No because No, you used to
live in Dreaming. Yeah, I'm staring you because you used
to live in Germany. I was a child, so for
I did not consume the news for the purposes of
this podcast. You are now our official German correspondent and expert.
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I reject that distinction. All right, it's pretty great. So,
as you guys can see, we have nothing for you today.
Oh yeah, we have we have nothing ordinary for you.
Is that good? Because this is uh, this is a big,
big week for us through um, some accident or or fate,
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some metaphysical clockwork of the heavens and the firmament. Uh.
It turns out that Matt, Noel and I all have
a very close birthdays. And as a matter of fact,
while we are in the studio here along with of
course our super producer Alex Williams, it is Noel Brown's
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birthday as we record this. Happy birthday, Happy, Happy New Year. Man.
It's birthdays are super important. It's the only New Year
person gets. I don't think you're forty. That's what I
tell people so that they can tell me how good
I look. That's a great strategy. It's like you look
like trash and I'm pretty happy with thirty four. It's
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been a good it's been a good day. You're great. Yeah,
I went and had some hang with friends last night.
You were there. Yea, and you were there. You were there,
Alex was there. Actually you weren't there, No, I wasn't
you were you were getting in on a flight. Yeah,
because I was celebrating my birthday in a way. Yeah. See,
we all celebrate in our own ways. And that you
had a birthday just days ago. Yeah, yeah, I celebrated
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mine with some red label. I just won't go too
much into detail. If you know what that is, that's
what it is. And uh, yeah it was delicious. It's
very cryptic, mysterious. You know. It was scotch. Is it
like a Johnny Walker? Yeah, I didn't want to say
I'm drinking a bunch of scotch. You are a man
totally what I did. Gender thing, and it's meant you're
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you know, you're of age, you have you have agency,
you are in fact forty six, ye forty six and
a half. You look great. You what is your secret? Well,
the secrets mostly soungred day. The young's Oh oh good, okay,
that's what we had thought it would be. Plus he
has a touch of the Benjamin button. Yeah, a touch
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of the button. And uh, and so we all have
our we all have our birthdays. Going on and in
the past, during and let's say, momentous occasions like Halloween
or something that we would get together and typically under
the direction of our parent company, Illumination Global Unlimited, we
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would present some sort of story or a tale or
a listener mail that you may have sent in and uh,
for this episode, we decided to make a little story
of our own. Used it looks everybody been selling it
short a little bit. This is a fantastic story that
Ben specifically wrote to celebrate his birthday and our birthday. Yeah,
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and we had no idea what was coming table read.
It was very professional. It was a beautiful thing that
came together two kinds. It was great. And you know,
I won't say when your birthday is been, but it's
very close to a time you're listening to right now. Now,
everybody's gonna assume it's related to the eclipse. It's not.
But yes, so yes, we put this together and luckily
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Matt Noel, obviously, you guys are two of my closest friends.
And I still don't know how you put up with this, uh,
with this last second stuff that I end up pulling sometime. Well,
it's mostly on Alex. It is a lot. I mean,
you're getting some resentful nods. He's like, oh, you want
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me to do some more sound design? Problem? Right, So
we have this story for you and we hope you
enjoy it. I also, I think we shall also point
out that we have other stuff we can create. If
you guys enjoy fictional stories, We're not going to do
it all the time, special occasion, you know what I mean.
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And we also have a ton of fantastically talented other
people coworkers that are featured in this. Yeah. I don't
know if if anyone's noticed, but the stuff they don't
want you to know team has sort of grown a
little bit, well, actually, the whole how stuff works team.
But we're lucky enough to be able to tap two
of these folks, and Alex and Tristan, they've been helping
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us out a lot. Yeah, probably hear us dropping their
names from time to time. So you're definitely gonna hear
super producer Alex in this story. And apparently Tristan tells
Ben he loves him. I think we cut that far. Yeah,
I'm still gonna say it. So you'll also you'll also
hear some other collaborators of ours, right, long time listeners
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will recognize uh lord, vogelbaumb and any recent food stuff fame.
You know, you'll probably be able to tell who's Yeah.
Oh boy, we've already said too much. So let's let's
uh cut past the cheesecake and let's cut the cheese.
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Think that's the most awful, Like if I'm as um
for a fart because it makes cheese seem gross. Yeah,
it's really unfair to cheese. Well, I don't know what
you guys, but I'm getting a little hungry. Is anybody
interested in I don't know, hitting up a fast food
join or something. Every night in cities and towns across America,
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the same conversation takes place. But where did these hungry
diners turn for a convenient burger and an easy beverage?
Standing in front of the fast food friar, like the
ferryman before the river sticks this food employees Sam Sullivan
is about to learn that some combo meal deals come
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with much more than the side of friesing the coke.
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H m hm, Hello, Sam, it's uncle Roy. Listen. Have
you heard from Amanda? No, she was supposed to go
to your place tonight, right. It's just that I haven't
heard from her yet, and it's getting late. I texted
and called, but there was no response. Hey, no phones
at work, Sam, Come on, keep it moving, do the work. Look,
I'm sure she's fine. Okay. Maybe she went to a
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movie or a holiday party or something. I hope. So
it's just with all the stuff in the news lately,
you never know. Because she's fine. Look, I have to
get going. Could you just send me a text when
she gets there? Okay? Well, thanks, Uncle Roy. Back to
work then, welcome to beasels Burgers. How may I help you?
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Samuel Sullivan? Just a man I was looking for good evening? Sir?
Goody uh? Hello? Can I help you with your order? Yes,
let's see, I'll have a blackened goat schard. I'm sorry,
I mean I'll have an apple cobbler. Yes. If that's
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also your total? Is dollar tin? Yeah? Please drive around
to the second window. Okay, here, sir, are you all right? What? Oh?
The chains? Pay no mind, Samuel, I have something very
important to tell you. How do you know my name?
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No time? Listen and listen closely. Years ago you made
a promise and a bargain, and now this promise comes
due tonight. You will be visited by three spirits. Not
all wish you well. But you must answer each question,
each request, and you must remember ultimately how you answer
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is up to you. The choices will always and only
be your own. Uh okay, yeah, sure, pal, But spirits
are no spirits. The apple cobbler here is still a
dollar ten. This should suffice, remember, Samuel, the choices are
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your own. Dude, Those real silver dollars? Uh? Well, you know,
I think so? Hey, did you get a loaded that guy? No? No, no,
I didn't see anyone. Was he weird? You know? Christmas
man Holidays brings out the freaks. He was trying to
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do some sort of bit or something. I guess, hang
on my sex, Sam, those silver dollars from eighteen oh four,
Well the store can still take them, right, Well, yeah,
but we should totally switch them out. I mean, you
got any ones? I think? So? Yeah, here's here's two bucks.
And as assistant manager, I declare that I take one
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considerat a finders feed. Are these worth like money? Like
money money? Are you kidding me? Yes? Yes, Sam, these
old coins are worth at least their weight in silver,
probably more. But how did that guy know my name?
Who cares look whoever he is, that nutjob just paid
us hundreds of dollars for a preheated cobbler. Welcome to
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beasels Burgers. Would you care to try our spit roasted
Bub's glutton grille? Oh that does sound nice, dellectable in fact, yes, yes,
I don't care to try one, Sam? Oh? And number
three as well? Uh? And and to drink or tears
or more pigs milk? No, no, sir, I'm afraid we
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do not. I'll have an orange fan to that. Okay,
that'll be eight dollars and forty nine cents. Please drive
around to the second wind Sam, Sam Sullivan, It's so
wonderful to see you again. I'm sorry. Have we met? Oh? Yes,
but it was a long time ago. I think that's
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the phrase you'd use back before your parents were born
or their parents, back when everything was dark. I don't
know if you remember now, but it usually comes back
to everyone in time. Uh sure, okay, fine, whatever, here
we go. One orange fanto, one bub S gletton grill
and a number three with fries perfect A one more thing? Yes?
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Could you spit in it? What? Could you spit in
the bag? As a favor? I'm not sure. That's a
good idea, sir, good idea. So I'm not sure. Spit
in the bag, okay, Jesus all right, that'll still be
eight dollars and cents here keep the change. How about
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a give you something else? Sam? As a tip. Your
daughter isn't at the movies. She isn't at a holiday party?
Are you a friend of Amanda's? Well, a friend of everyone's.
At the end, it's just another beginning. What perfect, my my,
what a time we're having, remember Sam, that's the thing
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about kids, They're never wear you a thing. Hey, Tim, Yeah,
I'm starting to get a weird feeling a little under
the weather. Is Is there anyone else we could call in?
And I'm afraid not, man, it's just you and me
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on the graveyard shift till dawn. You want some ass
bread and some coffee, some cocaine? Uh? No, I appreciate it,
but I think I just need to take a restroom break.
Can you keep your eye on the drive through for
a second? Yeah? Sure, Why'm not m m m hi
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you preached, Amanda. I'm not able to get to the
phone right now, so yeah, leave me a message. Okay, bye? Hi.
Mandy's dad I'm just calling to check in. Uncle Roy
said he hasn't heard from you. Could you send us
a text when you get this? All right? Bye? Love you.
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Did anyone come through Loope? I guess the fans are
all waiting for you, buddy whatever. Welcome to beasels Burgers.
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May I interest you in an Asa FROs Frapp or
a pale horseman smoothie? You're now? Are you? Never bothered out?
And look, lady, I don't know who you people are,
what the hell you think is so funny? But I
am going to call the cops on you tonight. I
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don't think you'll understand what's happening here. I'll come around.
That's better. Here, I'll show you something. Call your manager
over what's his name? Tim? Hello? Tim? Heye Tim? Yeah? Here,
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I'll try again, Tim. Oh, Tim, I know what happened
to your parakeets, Smarty remember her? The feathers were so
solid off to the snap, so surprising, dude, I said, yeah,
you don't hear that. No one can hear us, Sam,
not unless they're already touched by the dark. Unless you
mean the fryar or the a c Then no, no, Sam,
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I did not hear that what is up? Come check
this out at the window. I'm telling you, Sam, it
doesn't matter. Watch I'm waving, see me waving a very
human thing to do, like remembering to blink? What am
I supposed to be looking at? Sam? Could you close
the window? Could you close the window? Please? Don't let
all the heat out? Are you seriously telling me you're
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in on this? You know what? That is pretty dumb,
even for you, man, you tell him Sam, Look, man,
maybe you really are into the weather or something. I know.
Working on the holidays it sucks, but it's time and
a half and I got no one else to fill
in here, So just could you try and take it
easy for me? Please? Giving me a heart attack here?
It's been a ghost town all night. We haven't seen
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a single customer since what the silver dollar guy. We're
basically being paid to sit on our butts here for
a few hours. Can you just hang please? You're telling
me that you cannot see her. There is no one
to see Sam, Jesus, man, would you get it together.
I'm going to grab a smoke now. You can't trust
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the others, but you can trust me. I want to
make a deal with you. Sam Sullivan a better deal
than the one you made before. I never made a
deal with anyone. Oh yes, yes you did. Maybe you
didn't know it, but the deal was made nonetheless, and
now we'll make a new one. I will give you
a prophecy, and you will give me a keepsake. Look,
I'm not sure if I understand the reliquary. Yes, that's
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the word. Your grandfather's pocket watch. Do you remember the
one you gave Amanda when she graduated high school? How
did you know about the pocket watch? Reach into your pocket, Sam,
that's where pocketwatches belong, isn't it. How Oh my god,
here it is. But but it wasn't here a second ago.
And there wasn't all that blood drying on it either.
I imagine. I don't know what sort of game you
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people are playing, but I promise you give me the watch,
give me the reliquary, and I will help you find
your daughter. Okay, here the agreement is sealed. M heed
me close, immortal. These three things I prophecy. You will
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find one thing lost, you will lose one thing found,
and your choice in the end will be wrong. Hey wait,
what the hell? God damn it. Welcome to Beasels Burgher's.
How may I help you? Mandy? Where where have you been?
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Your uncle Roy and I have been calling you all night.
I'm not sure where I am at. Sort of feel
I can come out here for something. Get just drive
around in meet me at the window. But I can't
drive around. I read the car. I'm sorry. It was
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a sharp turn and I wasn't drunker or anything, but
I was probably driving too fast and get it down
into the lake. I think maybe Vanessa got out, but
I'm not sure. Are you open? I only have a
little time. I wanted to ask you for a memory.
Do you remember when Mom was alive, back when the
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chemo took over and we sat by the bedside night
and day, waiting, listening. Remember all those things you thought
but never told anyone, how death has a sound and
a smell. And I do you remember how that Granny
hospital used to take me on field trips through the
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cafeteria and to Georgia State and at pizza place to
keep me from saying Mom right after the latest treatment.
Remember how we would both speak sleep sometimes just watching her,
watching shallow breath, wondering if her chest would rise again,
or in Polish and the one we just saw would
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be our last. This is im real, that's what you
said to that part. I remember at the memory. I
want from you. Where is it there? S I am
at Mom's bedside, and Grady, you're praying, you're praying, Dear God,
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were God's were Hell or whoever's bothering to listen? Keep
them safe? Please please, at least keep Manty safe. I'll
do I'll do anything. And there you were in a
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room with flickering, a low light, fluorescent bulbs that wash
everything in a sick green hue, watching mom die. No
one ever really dark. You reach it out there, Mandy.
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You have to make a choice, a choice of the work.
I'll be back. I no, wait, Mandy, Amanda, Well, my friend,
here we find ourselves again, wheels within wheels. I trust
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you've enjoyed our new acquaintances. Listen, son of a. You
can't leave, Samuel. If you try to open the doors,
you'll find them stuck fast. Should you crawl through the window,
you'll find you cannot fit. Listen, Listen, close and listen. Well,
your daughter is in the hospital as we speak, three
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floors down, in fact, from the same room where your
wife passed into our arms, where you and I first met,
and I am, as they say, a creature of my word?
Why can't I move a small precaution only to make
sure I have your full attention? Where were we are? Yes,
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Amanda Sullivan, curtainly comatose, brain dead and doomed? How many
missed calls from Roy? I wonder will it haunt you
years from now? The calls you missed while you are
speaking with a ghost. That's what your daughter is now.
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But we can bring her back, Samuel, as we agreed,
all you have to do is choose, Oh God, the phone, choose,
choose what choose? Who will take her place? Of course nature?
After all, the phores a vacuum here. I'll make it
easy for you. The next person who comes to your
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window can be your sacrifice, your tribute to the dark.
What do I have to do? All you have to do,
Samuel is say yes, I will hear you. Welcome to
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beasels Burgers. How many How may I help you? M
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m m hm. Another side is FOD customer coming around
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the other side, FOD customer well when well well well,
another size FOD customer coming around the back on ano
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those sad and there you have it. A story of morals.
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I would say, well, what do you think Samuel learned? No, um,
don't don't spit in the bag. That's what I learned.
That's what I learned. That was one of my favorite parts. Actually,
I think it's a great part. But don't spit in
the bag. If a creeper runs up on you and
you saw you when no one's looking, if someone asked
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me to do it, I would. I would probably do it.
When do you? Yeah, what's when are you gonna get
that opportunity? Yeah? You gotta lived. But he was so forceful,
like spit in the back. He obviously wanted something right,
something maybe even more than spit. And we just talked
about d n A right, that's true. That's point point
that you make. Come on, well, well you know, I
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don't know if he learns anything. We don't know what
he decides to do. That's true. So I guess the
question for the listeners is what would you decide to
do if you were if you were somehow in that situation, Well,
to save your daughter? I mean I think unfortunately I
know what I would do. Spit in the bag, wouldn't you.
I've definitely spit in the bag, and I would say,
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welcome to Beaselsberger's pull on through to the second window
and you know, see what happens, although it would probably
end up being you know, a parent there's got it.
You know, there's always a twist. Yeah, exactly, Very oh, Henry,
I think this may be one of the first times
you played a villain. Yeah. I was feeling it. I
was enjoying myself. Although you know, my favorite part is
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when Alex was on this very mike and actually was
on our show. I think that that made me really happy. Yeah,
and we're doing a bang up job. No less, Yeah, yeah,
no less. And most importantly, we hope that you enjoyed
the show at least a fraction as much as we
enjoyed making it. And I want to say, Noel, no
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offense to anyone, but I really liked your assistant manager. Yeah, dude,
I really try to embody the role, uh, you know,
really live out my cantankerous curmudgeon lee old man kind
of like dream. It's just such a it's just such
a perfect jerk line for someone to be annoyed by
having said yeah twice, I said, yeah, but it was
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the it was the were the gold coins or silver
silver dollars from eighteen o four actually worth a quite
a bit of money. It's silver dollars. And and of course,
uh this, this sort of stuff would not happen without
the most important part of this show, which is you,
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not general you, specifically you listening to this now and yes,
also specifically you, which reminds us it's time for chat
at corners. Our first message comes from Luke, who says,
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I live near the beautiful Ocala, Florida, which for years
has been a prime spot for rainbow gatherings. Oh boy,
you guys, Oh here we go, all right, saying every
February people come from all over the US to meet
there in the National Forest on Valentine's Day. The annual
Rainbow Gathering is in full swing to welcome people home
to pray, chant and send positive vibes towards the mutual
(30:01):
goal of world peace. Now that is a great goal,
I think, I mean all the always says you're correcting,
assuming there's no background checks to join up on the crew,
And there are many runaway street kids and people with
warrants hanging out him on the ranks. There's also a
bunch of not safe for work nudity, but in my
experience it's mostly been old hippies and young feral children
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running around. Oh, feral children, fair children. When I last
attended to gathering, my then girlfriend now wife and I
brought oranges as a gift to share with those we
came in contact with. The oranges went quick and we
were hugged almost every one hundred feet. Everyone we encountered
was extremely friendly and welcoming, but being an avid listener
(30:47):
of the show, I'm suspicious of everyone and cautious to
not eat anything offered to me. But you know, Luke
doesn't mind offering out oranges. Well, he does, but the
other people don't. I love the show, and I found
the Mars thought experiment very interesting. I couldn't help thinking
that any colonization attempts on Mars would be similar to
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the PlayStation two game Red Faction, which is a fantastic game, Luke,
and inevitably there would be no equal treatment, just the
ruling class and the working class on the planet who
would find out they are seen as expendable stepping stones
for the rich. Keep up the great work, Luke. If
you guys, have you guys ever heard of Red Faction?
Like Red Faction back in the day. Cool. So it's
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like a sandbox he kind of game, right, yes, exactly,
and it's based on destruction of buildings. But the whole
idea of the plot is that on Mars you've basically
got miners and scrappers and then the wealthy people that
control the minds and the scrappings. Well, for our next
shout out, I have one from Kent. Maybe it's ken
f It's all there's no space, so I'm gonna call
him Kent. Let's see how he signed it. Now it's
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ken Man to let down Apollo eleven and Yugoslavian engineers
as the subject. Guys, I just watched Houston We have
a Problem and never knew there was a conspiracy theory
regarding the Apollo program and Yugoslavia. The comment that a
debt was owed to the US, with repayment being tied
to the infamous Ugo automobile was the icing on the cake.
(32:11):
Have you done or could you investigate this odd claim
in your typical deep dive fashion? The movie seemed complete, However,
I suspect there is more to the story. Great show,
Thanks for years of interesting discussions. Can that's cool? Yeah?
The ugo in and of itself is a is a
neat story, right then? Yeah, the the ugo of the vehicle,
(32:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, we have a if you're interested in
were the one that exploded when you hit it or
something like that, like it was because of the location
of the engine or something, location of the gas tank.
So there maybe a couple of those. Yeah. So you
can learn more about the difficulties with some of the
cars produced under the communist era if you go to
(32:52):
car stuff and check out uh, I think cars behind
the Iron Curtain. Yeah, Iron curtain cars, uh, and they
have the I have some pretty interesting stuff there. But
I will say not every not every car they put
put out during that era was bad. Well, I want
to know what the connection is to Apollo eleven. So yeah,
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we gotta check out this movie and maybe we can
I don't know, I mean, we can doing these interviews lately.
We can get the filmmaker. That'd be pretty cool. We
shall do ADDI. Yeah, thank you for that recommendation, and
also let us know what you guys think of the
interviews if if they seem to your cup of tea,
it seems like people are enjoying them. For the most part.
We're trying to spread it out to where you have
(33:35):
kind of a traditional episode that we do three of
us in the studio and then bring somebody else in
every once in a while. It's fun for us, we
have it's fun for you because we learned a ton,
Like really, we learned so much. When we have somebody
else in here, and we got a couple of real
cool ones coming up and then near future that are
already in they can yeah, yeah, yeah, we've been doing
our homework. We've been we have been Honors students. You know,
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we've been. We've been working at it. So we have
one more shout out for today and it is from
Michael Z. Michael says, Hi, just looking up stuff on
Instagram and can't remember if you guys have done a
podcast on The Man from to Read. If not, I
think it would make a good show, short and sweetened
(34:17):
to the point. Michael Z, Um, this is this is
a very interesting tale. Have you guys heard of the
Man from to Read? Yes, we did an episode video
episode on its. Part of the video. So the legend
is there's this guy who lands in Japan. Um. I
think Michael, you maybe had perhaps you were inspired by
(34:39):
our utsuro Bune episode. But there's a guy who lands
in a Japanese airport. He has a passport that no
one recognizes. He claims he's from a country called to Read,
and all of his according to the story, all of
his um stuff looks real, and the people and hooundered
(35:00):
him began to think that perhaps he was from a
parallel dimension or another universe just slightly tilted to the
left of our own. But there is no confirmed primary
source of this, there's no It's kind of like Barren Stein,
Barren Stein Bears, you know, Barren stain um. But it
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is it is interesting. Michael. I'm gonna dig in and
see if I can just send you the link to
our video, maybe the one about mysterious disappearances. So I
will send that to you, And thanks for asking about it.
I wonder if we could do an audio podcast about
mysterious disappearances. It just gets very dark, you know, like
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Eliza Lamb. That that bothered me, That mean more so
than I think almost any we've done, just because it
was so fresh kind of and like the evidence that's
out there, like that video is just very chilling. That
was That was an interesting one. But then you know,
I guess we did that the want the National Parks
Disappearance one which is dark as well. Um, but yeah,
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I think anytime you're talking about people just vanishing into
thin air, it's always a little bit disturbing. And send
us your examples or things that you think your fellow
listeners would like to hear in the future. This concludes
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Okay, here we go. This is a classic that many
of our fellow conspiracy realists may not be expecting. So
if you were a long time listener, you know that.
Noel Matt and they call me Ben. Uh. We leave
Vultron up whatever time allows to do one of our
greatest loves, which is fiction. Uh. This is a very
(00:25):
weird story about what what is it? This is a
fast food place on Christmas even and nol you brought
it with the h you brought up with the sound
design or pal Alex Williams shows up and of course
the one only Matt Frederick Alex with a banger of
a song. By the way, I love that, texting U
(00:45):
about it another satisfied customer, It's an amazing song. Sometimes
I text Alex and say, hey again, I think this
song is amazing. I mean you know, no, this is audio, uh,
cinema for the mind. Uh you remember this one? Oh? Yeah?
Fun on this one. Oh. I always have fun on
(01:05):
these radio play kind of episodes, and I think y'all
will to this one is a particularly um fun and
uh in a little prescient perhaps, from UFOs to psychic
powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
You can turn back now or learn this stuff. They
don't want you to know. Phil Comman, my name is Matt.
(01:35):
They called me Ben, you are you? And that makes
this stuff they don't want you to know. This is
a very special episode. Dan, you really whipped on our
whole German theme we had going, Okay, i'll do ut
please do a bad Kennedy German accent when Z called me,
that's pretty good. That wasn't good. Don't know the Kennedy
German thing that you're talking about, Ben, the old MyD
(02:01):
You you heard that story, right, I don't know. Uh well,
uh well, Mr President. Uh. The story is that when
you were in Berlin, you gave a speech where you
meant to say, I too am a resident of Berlin,
but what you did instead was I too am a
specific type of doughnut. That's awesome. Yeah. I can't remember
(02:25):
if that's true or if that's just a myth. He
said he was like a crueler or something. I guess.
I'm I'm staring at No because No, you used to
live in Dreaming. Yeah, I'm staring you because you used
to live in Germany. I was a child, so for
I did not consume the news for the purposes of
this podcast. You are now our official German correspondent and expert.
(02:49):
I reject that distinction. All right, it's pretty great. So,
as you guys can see, we have nothing for you today.
Oh yeah, we have we have nothing ordinary for you.
Is that good? Because this is uh, this is a big,
big week for us through um, some accident or or fate,
(03:13):
some metaphysical clockwork of the heavens and the firmament. Uh.
It turns out that Matt, Noel and I all have
a very close birthdays. And as a matter of fact,
while we are in the studio here along with of
course our super producer Alex Williams, it is Noel Brown's
(03:34):
birthday as we record this. Happy birthday, Happy, Happy New Year. Man.
It's birthdays are super important. It's the only New Year
person gets. I don't think you're forty. That's what I
tell people so that they can tell me how good
I look. That's a great strategy. It's like you look
like trash and I'm pretty happy with thirty four. It's
(03:56):
been a good it's been a good day. You're great. Yeah,
I went and had some hang with friends last night.
You were there. Yea, and you were there. You were there,
Alex was there. Actually you weren't there, No, I wasn't
you were you were getting in on a flight. Yeah,
because I was celebrating my birthday in a way. Yeah. See,
we all celebrate in our own ways. And that you
had a birthday just days ago. Yeah, yeah, I celebrated
(04:19):
mine with some red label. I just won't go too
much into detail. If you know what that is, that's
what it is. And uh, yeah it was delicious. It's
very cryptic, mysterious. You know. It was scotch. Is it
like a Johnny Walker? Yeah, I didn't want to say
I'm drinking a bunch of scotch. You are a man
totally what I did. Gender thing, and it's meant you're
(04:40):
you know, you're of age, you have you have agency,
you are in fact forty six, ye forty six and
a half. You look great. You what is your secret? Well,
the secrets mostly soungred day. The young's Oh oh good, okay,
that's what we had thought it would be. Plus he
has a touch of the Benjamin button. Yeah, a touch
(05:01):
of the button. And uh, and so we all have
our we all have our birthdays. Going on and in
the past, during and let's say, momentous occasions like Halloween
or something that we would get together and typically under
the direction of our parent company, Illumination Global Unlimited, we
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would present some sort of story or a tale or
a listener mail that you may have sent in and uh,
for this episode, we decided to make a little story
of our own. Used it looks everybody been selling it
short a little bit. This is a fantastic story that
Ben specifically wrote to celebrate his birthday and our birthday. Yeah,
(05:43):
and we had no idea what was coming table read.
It was very professional. It was a beautiful thing that
came together two kinds. It was great. And you know,
I won't say when your birthday is been, but it's
very close to a time you're listening to right now. Now,
everybody's gonna assume it's related to the eclipse. It's not.
But yes, so yes, we put this together and luckily
(06:07):
Matt Noel, obviously, you guys are two of my closest friends.
And I still don't know how you put up with this, uh,
with this last second stuff that I end up pulling sometime. Well,
it's mostly on Alex. It is a lot. I mean,
you're getting some resentful nods. He's like, oh, you want
(06:27):
me to do some more sound design? Problem? Right, So
we have this story for you and we hope you
enjoy it. I also, I think we shall also point
out that we have other stuff we can create. If
you guys enjoy fictional stories, We're not going to do
it all the time, special occasion, you know what I mean.
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And we also have a ton of fantastically talented other
people coworkers that are featured in this. Yeah. I don't
know if if anyone's noticed, but the stuff they don't
want you to know team has sort of grown a
little bit, well, actually, the whole how stuff works team.
But we're lucky enough to be able to tap two
of these folks, and Alex and Tristan, they've been helping
(07:11):
us out a lot. Yeah, probably hear us dropping their
names from time to time. So you're definitely gonna hear
super producer Alex in this story. And apparently Tristan tells
Ben he loves him. I think we cut that far. Yeah,
I'm still gonna say it. So you'll also you'll also
hear some other collaborators of ours, right, long time listeners
(07:35):
will recognize uh lord, vogelbaumb and any recent food stuff fame.
You know, you'll probably be able to tell who's Yeah.
Oh boy, we've already said too much. So let's let's
uh cut past the cheesecake and let's cut the cheese.
(07:57):
Think that's the most awful, Like if I'm as um
for a fart because it makes cheese seem gross. Yeah,
it's really unfair to cheese. Well, I don't know what
you guys, but I'm getting a little hungry. Is anybody
interested in I don't know, hitting up a fast food
join or something. Every night in cities and towns across America,
(08:24):
the same conversation takes place. But where did these hungry
diners turn for a convenient burger and an easy beverage?
Standing in front of the fast food friar, like the
ferryman before the river sticks this food employees Sam Sullivan
is about to learn that some combo meal deals come
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with much more than the side of friesing the coke.
(09:11):
H m hm, Hello, Sam, it's uncle Roy. Listen. Have
you heard from Amanda? No, she was supposed to go
to your place tonight, right. It's just that I haven't
heard from her yet, and it's getting late. I texted
and called, but there was no response. Hey, no phones
at work, Sam, Come on, keep it moving, do the work. Look,
I'm sure she's fine. Okay. Maybe she went to a
(09:33):
movie or a holiday party or something. I hope. So
it's just with all the stuff in the news lately,
you never know. Because she's fine. Look, I have to
get going. Could you just send me a text when
she gets there? Okay? Well, thanks, Uncle Roy. Back to
work then, welcome to beasels Burgers. How may I help you?
(09:53):
Samuel Sullivan? Just a man I was looking for good evening? Sir?
Goody uh? Hello? Can I help you with your order? Yes,
let's see, I'll have a blackened goat schard. I'm sorry,
I mean I'll have an apple cobbler. Yes. If that's
(10:16):
also your total? Is dollar tin? Yeah? Please drive around
to the second window. Okay, here, sir, are you all right? What? Oh?
The chains? Pay no mind, Samuel, I have something very
important to tell you. How do you know my name?
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No time? Listen and listen closely. Years ago you made
a promise and a bargain, and now this promise comes
due tonight. You will be visited by three spirits. Not
all wish you well. But you must answer each question,
each request, and you must remember ultimately how you answer
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is up to you. The choices will always and only
be your own. Uh okay, yeah, sure, pal, But spirits
are no spirits. The apple cobbler here is still a
dollar ten. This should suffice, remember, Samuel, the choices are
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your own. Dude, Those real silver dollars? Uh? Well, you know,
I think so? Hey, did you get a loaded that guy? No? No, no,
I didn't see anyone. Was he weird? You know? Christmas
man Holidays brings out the freaks. He was trying to
(11:39):
do some sort of bit or something. I guess, hang
on my sex, Sam, those silver dollars from eighteen oh four,
Well the store can still take them, right, Well, yeah,
but we should totally switch them out. I mean, you
got any ones? I think? So? Yeah, here's here's two bucks.
And as assistant manager, I declare that I take one
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considerat a finders feed. Are these worth like money? Like
money money? Are you kidding me? Yes? Yes, Sam, these
old coins are worth at least their weight in silver,
probably more. But how did that guy know my name?
Who cares look whoever he is, that nutjob just paid
us hundreds of dollars for a preheated cobbler. Welcome to
(12:28):
beasels Burgers. Would you care to try our spit roasted
Bub's glutton grille? Oh that does sound nice, dellectable in fact, yes, yes,
I don't care to try one, Sam? Oh? And number
three as well? Uh? And and to drink or tears
or more pigs milk? No, no, sir, I'm afraid we
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do not. I'll have an orange fan to that. Okay,
that'll be eight dollars and forty nine cents. Please drive
around to the second wind Sam, Sam Sullivan, It's so
wonderful to see you again. I'm sorry. Have we met? Oh? Yes,
but it was a long time ago. I think that's
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the phrase you'd use back before your parents were born
or their parents, back when everything was dark. I don't
know if you remember now, but it usually comes back
to everyone in time. Uh sure, okay, fine, whatever, here
we go. One orange fanto, one bub S gletton grill
and a number three with fries perfect A one more thing? Yes?
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Could you spit in it? What? Could you spit in
the bag? As a favor? I'm not sure. That's a
good idea, sir, good idea. So I'm not sure. Spit
in the bag, okay, Jesus all right, that'll still be
eight dollars and cents here keep the change. How about
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a give you something else? Sam? As a tip. Your
daughter isn't at the movies. She isn't at a holiday party?
Are you a friend of Amanda's? Well, a friend of everyone's.
At the end, it's just another beginning. What perfect, my my,
what a time we're having, remember Sam, that's the thing
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about kids, They're never wear you a thing. Hey, Tim, Yeah,
I'm starting to get a weird feeling a little under
the weather. Is Is there anyone else we could call in?
And I'm afraid not, man, it's just you and me
(14:44):
on the graveyard shift till dawn. You want some ass
bread and some coffee, some cocaine? Uh? No, I appreciate it,
but I think I just need to take a restroom break.
Can you keep your eye on the drive through for
a second? Yeah? Sure, Why'm not m m m hi
(15:24):
you preached, Amanda. I'm not able to get to the
phone right now, so yeah, leave me a message. Okay, bye? Hi.
Mandy's dad I'm just calling to check in. Uncle Roy
said he hasn't heard from you. Could you send us
a text when you get this? All right? Bye? Love you.
(15:50):
Did anyone come through Loope? I guess the fans are
all waiting for you, buddy whatever. Welcome to beasels Burgers.
(16:12):
May I interest you in an Asa FROs Frapp or
a pale horseman smoothie? You're now? Are you? Never bothered out?
And look, lady, I don't know who you people are,
what the hell you think is so funny? But I
am going to call the cops on you tonight. I
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don't think you'll understand what's happening here. I'll come around.
That's better. Here, I'll show you something. Call your manager
over what's his name? Tim? Hello? Tim? Heye Tim? Yeah? Here,
(16:53):
I'll try again, Tim. Oh, Tim, I know what happened
to your parakeets, Smarty remember her? The feathers were so
solid off to the snap, so surprising, dude, I said, yeah,
you don't hear that. No one can hear us, Sam,
not unless they're already touched by the dark. Unless you
mean the fryar or the a c Then no, no, Sam,
(17:16):
I did not hear that what is up? Come check
this out at the window. I'm telling you, Sam, it
doesn't matter. Watch I'm waving, see me waving a very
human thing to do, like remembering to blink? What am
I supposed to be looking at? Sam? Could you close
the window? Could you close the window? Please? Don't let
all the heat out? Are you seriously telling me you're
(17:36):
in on this? You know what? That is pretty dumb,
even for you, man, you tell him Sam, Look, man,
maybe you really are into the weather or something. I know.
Working on the holidays it sucks, but it's time and
a half and I got no one else to fill
in here, So just could you try and take it
easy for me? Please? Giving me a heart attack here?
It's been a ghost town all night. We haven't seen
(17:58):
a single customer since what the silver dollar guy. We're
basically being paid to sit on our butts here for
a few hours. Can you just hang please? You're telling
me that you cannot see her. There is no one
to see Sam, Jesus, man, would you get it together.
I'm going to grab a smoke now. You can't trust
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the others, but you can trust me. I want to
make a deal with you. Sam Sullivan a better deal
than the one you made before. I never made a
deal with anyone. Oh yes, yes you did. Maybe you
didn't know it, but the deal was made nonetheless, and
now we'll make a new one. I will give you
a prophecy, and you will give me a keepsake. Look,
I'm not sure if I understand the reliquary. Yes, that's
(18:44):
the word. Your grandfather's pocket watch. Do you remember the
one you gave Amanda when she graduated high school? How
did you know about the pocket watch? Reach into your pocket, Sam,
that's where pocketwatches belong, isn't it. How Oh my god,
here it is. But but it wasn't here a second ago.
And there wasn't all that blood drying on it either.
I imagine. I don't know what sort of game you
(19:04):
people are playing, but I promise you give me the watch,
give me the reliquary, and I will help you find
your daughter. Okay, here the agreement is sealed. M heed
me close, immortal. These three things I prophecy. You will
(19:26):
find one thing lost, you will lose one thing found,
and your choice in the end will be wrong. Hey wait,
what the hell? God damn it. Welcome to Beasels Burgher's.
How may I help you? Mandy? Where where have you been?
(19:46):
Your uncle Roy and I have been calling you all night.
I'm not sure where I am at. Sort of feel
I can come out here for something. Get just drive
around in meet me at the window. But I can't
drive around. I read the car. I'm sorry. It was
(20:07):
a sharp turn and I wasn't drunker or anything, but
I was probably driving too fast and get it down
into the lake. I think maybe Vanessa got out, but
I'm not sure. Are you open? I only have a
little time. I wanted to ask you for a memory.
Do you remember when Mom was alive, back when the
(20:27):
chemo took over and we sat by the bedside night
and day, waiting, listening. Remember all those things you thought
but never told anyone, how death has a sound and
a smell. And I do you remember how that Granny
hospital used to take me on field trips through the
(20:50):
cafeteria and to Georgia State and at pizza place to
keep me from saying Mom right after the latest treatment.
Remember how we would both speak sleep sometimes just watching her,
watching shallow breath, wondering if her chest would rise again,
or in Polish and the one we just saw would
(21:12):
be our last. This is im real, that's what you
said to that part. I remember at the memory. I
want from you. Where is it there? S I am
at Mom's bedside, and Grady, you're praying, you're praying, Dear God,
(21:32):
were God's were Hell or whoever's bothering to listen? Keep
them safe? Please please, at least keep Manty safe. I'll
do I'll do anything. And there you were in a
(21:52):
room with flickering, a low light, fluorescent bulbs that wash
everything in a sick green hue, watching mom die. No
one ever really dark. You reach it out there, Mandy.
(22:19):
You have to make a choice, a choice of the work.
I'll be back. I no, wait, Mandy, Amanda, Well, my friend,
here we find ourselves again, wheels within wheels. I trust
(22:44):
you've enjoyed our new acquaintances. Listen, son of a. You
can't leave, Samuel. If you try to open the doors,
you'll find them stuck fast. Should you crawl through the window,
you'll find you cannot fit. Listen, Listen, close and listen. Well,
your daughter is in the hospital as we speak, three
(23:08):
floors down, in fact, from the same room where your
wife passed into our arms, where you and I first met,
and I am, as they say, a creature of my word?
Why can't I move a small precaution only to make
sure I have your full attention? Where were we are? Yes,
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Amanda Sullivan, curtainly comatose, brain dead and doomed? How many
missed calls from Roy? I wonder will it haunt you
years from now? The calls you missed while you are
speaking with a ghost. That's what your daughter is now.
(23:50):
But we can bring her back, Samuel, as we agreed,
all you have to do is choose, Oh God, the phone, choose,
choose what choose? Who will take her place? Of course nature?
After all, the phores a vacuum here. I'll make it
easy for you. The next person who comes to your
(24:13):
window can be your sacrifice, your tribute to the dark.
What do I have to do? All you have to do,
Samuel is say yes, I will hear you. Welcome to
(24:35):
beasels Burgers. How many How may I help you? M
(24:58):
m m hm. Another side is FOD customer coming around
(25:40):
the other side, FOD customer well when well well well,
another size FOD customer coming around the back on ano
(26:00):
those sad and there you have it. A story of morals.
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I would say, well, what do you think Samuel learned? No, um,
don't don't spit in the bag. That's what I learned.
That's what I learned. That was one of my favorite parts. Actually,
I think it's a great part. But don't spit in
the bag. If a creeper runs up on you and
you saw you when no one's looking, if someone asked
(27:01):
me to do it, I would. I would probably do it.
When do you? Yeah, what's when are you gonna get
that opportunity? Yeah? You gotta lived. But he was so forceful,
like spit in the back. He obviously wanted something right,
something maybe even more than spit. And we just talked
about d n A right, that's true. That's point point
that you make. Come on, well, well you know, I
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don't know if he learns anything. We don't know what
he decides to do. That's true. So I guess the
question for the listeners is what would you decide to
do if you were if you were somehow in that situation, Well,
to save your daughter? I mean I think unfortunately I
know what I would do. Spit in the bag, wouldn't you.
I've definitely spit in the bag, and I would say,
(27:46):
welcome to Beaselsberger's pull on through to the second window
and you know, see what happens, although it would probably
end up being you know, a parent there's got it.
You know, there's always a twist. Yeah, exactly, Very oh, Henry,
I think this may be one of the first times
you played a villain. Yeah. I was feeling it. I
was enjoying myself. Although you know, my favorite part is
(28:09):
when Alex was on this very mike and actually was
on our show. I think that that made me really happy. Yeah,
and we're doing a bang up job. No less, Yeah, yeah,
no less. And most importantly, we hope that you enjoyed
the show at least a fraction as much as we
enjoyed making it. And I want to say, Noel, no
(28:32):
offense to anyone, but I really liked your assistant manager. Yeah, dude,
I really try to embody the role, uh, you know,
really live out my cantankerous curmudgeon lee old man kind
of like dream. It's just such a it's just such
a perfect jerk line for someone to be annoyed by
having said yeah twice, I said, yeah, but it was
(28:57):
the it was the were the gold coins or silver
silver dollars from eighteen o four actually worth a quite
a bit of money. It's silver dollars. And and of course,
uh this, this sort of stuff would not happen without
the most important part of this show, which is you,
(29:17):
not general you, specifically you listening to this now and yes,
also specifically you, which reminds us it's time for chat
at corners. Our first message comes from Luke, who says,
(29:37):
I live near the beautiful Ocala, Florida, which for years
has been a prime spot for rainbow gatherings. Oh boy,
you guys, Oh here we go, all right, saying every
February people come from all over the US to meet
there in the National Forest on Valentine's Day. The annual
Rainbow Gathering is in full swing to welcome people home
to pray, chant and send positive vibes towards the mutual
(30:01):
goal of world peace. Now that is a great goal,
I think, I mean all the always says you're correcting,
assuming there's no background checks to join up on the crew,
And there are many runaway street kids and people with
warrants hanging out him on the ranks. There's also a
bunch of not safe for work nudity, but in my
experience it's mostly been old hippies and young feral children
(30:25):
running around. Oh, feral children, fair children. When I last
attended to gathering, my then girlfriend now wife and I
brought oranges as a gift to share with those we
came in contact with. The oranges went quick and we
were hugged almost every one hundred feet. Everyone we encountered
was extremely friendly and welcoming, but being an avid listener
(30:47):
of the show, I'm suspicious of everyone and cautious to
not eat anything offered to me. But you know, Luke
doesn't mind offering out oranges. Well, he does, but the
other people don't. I love the show, and I found
the Mars thought experiment very interesting. I couldn't help thinking
that any colonization attempts on Mars would be similar to
(31:08):
the PlayStation two game Red Faction, which is a fantastic game, Luke,
and inevitably there would be no equal treatment, just the
ruling class and the working class on the planet who
would find out they are seen as expendable stepping stones
for the rich. Keep up the great work, Luke. If
you guys, have you guys ever heard of Red Faction?
Like Red Faction back in the day. Cool. So it's
(31:29):
like a sandbox he kind of game, right, yes, exactly,
and it's based on destruction of buildings. But the whole
idea of the plot is that on Mars you've basically
got miners and scrappers and then the wealthy people that
control the minds and the scrappings. Well, for our next
shout out, I have one from Kent. Maybe it's ken
f It's all there's no space, so I'm gonna call
him Kent. Let's see how he signed it. Now it's
(31:50):
ken Man to let down Apollo eleven and Yugoslavian engineers
as the subject. Guys, I just watched Houston We have
a Problem and never knew there was a conspiracy theory
regarding the Apollo program and Yugoslavia. The comment that a
debt was owed to the US, with repayment being tied
to the infamous Ugo automobile was the icing on the cake.
(32:11):
Have you done or could you investigate this odd claim
in your typical deep dive fashion? The movie seemed complete, However,
I suspect there is more to the story. Great show,
Thanks for years of interesting discussions. Can that's cool? Yeah?
The ugo in and of itself is a is a
neat story, right then? Yeah, the the ugo of the vehicle,
(32:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, we have a if you're interested in
were the one that exploded when you hit it or
something like that, like it was because of the location
of the engine or something, location of the gas tank.
So there maybe a couple of those. Yeah. So you
can learn more about the difficulties with some of the
cars produced under the communist era if you go to
(32:52):
car stuff and check out uh, I think cars behind
the Iron Curtain. Yeah, Iron curtain cars, uh, and they
have the I have some pretty interesting stuff there. But
I will say not every not every car they put
put out during that era was bad. Well, I want
to know what the connection is to Apollo eleven. So yeah,
(33:13):
we gotta check out this movie and maybe we can
I don't know, I mean, we can doing these interviews lately.
We can get the filmmaker. That'd be pretty cool. We
shall do ADDI. Yeah, thank you for that recommendation, and
also let us know what you guys think of the
interviews if if they seem to your cup of tea,
it seems like people are enjoying them. For the most part.
We're trying to spread it out to where you have
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kind of a traditional episode that we do three of
us in the studio and then bring somebody else in
every once in a while. It's fun for us, we
have it's fun for you because we learned a ton,
Like really, we learned so much. When we have somebody
else in here, and we got a couple of real
cool ones coming up and then near future that are
already in they can yeah, yeah, yeah, we've been doing
our homework. We've been we have been Honors students. You know,
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we've been. We've been working at it. So we have
one more shout out for today and it is from
Michael Z. Michael says, Hi, just looking up stuff on
Instagram and can't remember if you guys have done a
podcast on The Man from to Read. If not, I
think it would make a good show, short and sweetened
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to the point. Michael Z, Um, this is this is
a very interesting tale. Have you guys heard of the
Man from to Read? Yes, we did an episode video
episode on its. Part of the video. So the legend
is there's this guy who lands in Japan. Um. I
think Michael, you maybe had perhaps you were inspired by
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our utsuro Bune episode. But there's a guy who lands
in a Japanese airport. He has a passport that no
one recognizes. He claims he's from a country called to Read,
and all of his according to the story, all of
his um stuff looks real, and the people and hooundered
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him began to think that perhaps he was from a
parallel dimension or another universe just slightly tilted to the
left of our own. But there is no confirmed primary
source of this, there's no It's kind of like Barren Stein,
Barren Stein Bears, you know, Barren stain um. But it
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is it is interesting. Michael. I'm gonna dig in and
see if I can just send you the link to
our video, maybe the one about mysterious disappearances. So I
will send that to you, And thanks for asking about it.
I wonder if we could do an audio podcast about
mysterious disappearances. It just gets very dark, you know, like
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Eliza Lamb. That that bothered me, That mean more so
than I think almost any we've done, just because it
was so fresh kind of and like the evidence that's
out there, like that video is just very chilling. That
was That was an interesting one. But then you know,
I guess we did that the want the National Parks
Disappearance one which is dark as well. Um, but yeah,
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I think anytime you're talking about people just vanishing into
thin air, it's always a little bit disturbing. And send
us your examples or things that you think your fellow
listeners would like to hear in the future. This concludes
our gosh but and that's the end of this classic episode.
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