E7 | Mr. Winslow

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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back to the show.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Without a ton of direction, we all started doing what
we could to learn more about Endangered Enterprise. Ali found
a database with some interesting animals, all seeming a bit
too crazy to actually be real. There were scarlet spotted cheetahs,
strange birds, and lots of different extinct animals. The strangest

(01:28):
part was that the info dated back only two years,
each small finding went into the pile, the ever growing
stack of random clues. We just needed that one big
lead that could actually help us out, and boy to
I remember the day we got it.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Hitter Protectors, this is Ali. What can I do for
you today?

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Well? Hello, wellie, my name is Arthur Winslow. I was
hoping I could speak to someone on your animal.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well, sir, you're talking to one right now.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh. Sorry, Well, I'm dealing with a problem here at
my shop. This old book.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Great, I mean not great, you have a problem. I
mean I love your Storrecer. I've been there so many times.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Well, I'm glad you like my shop. The problem, though,
is that I'm fighting some kind of nuisance of a bug.
They're tearing up my entire newspaper collection, bit by bet.
I'd hate to have to call an exterminator, so I
started with y'all got it.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
We can definitely head on down see what we can do.
Hopefully we can just get those critters relocated out of
your shop.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
Mister Winslow, Oh that would be great.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
We'll be there in about thirty minutes.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
If that works, I'll be here. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Ally, You're welcome. See you soon. Marcus Gabe, are either
of you free to come help me with a call?

Speaker 5 (03:00):
I can Ali, just give me a minute to finish
up here.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
When we made it down to this old book, we
were greeted by a friendly old man at the door.
The building itself was an old brick structure right in
the center of downtown. I'll never forget the smell of
old books we were greeted with when we walked through
the door. It was a mix between paper, leather, and cedar.

(03:26):
Anytime I opened a worn out book, it still brings
me right back to that place. Old mister Winslow took slow,
careful steps with his cane until we reached a glass
case in the back of the stoor. The case reached
all the way to the ceiling, with sliding doors on
either side. It was packed with newspapers and old articles,

(03:49):
some dating back over one hundred years. And wow, did
we have our work cut out for us. Turns out
the entire case was infested with cockroaches. Swell you too,
I'll leave you to it.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
Just holler if you need anything.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
Okay, thanks mister Winslow.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Marcus, this is the most cockroaches I've ever seen in
one place, not to mention the biggest I've ever seen. Lee,
tell me you brought gloves, got you covered alley? And
I guess we just we just load these guys up
in a box and bring them elsewhere.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
Yeah, I guess, so let me try on id them. Aha.
They're Madagascar cockroaches. I should have known because their size.
The good news is that this type of roach only
bites when they feel threatened. We just need to move
slowly and carefully. The bad news is that we just
can't release them anywhere. I mean, they're originally from Africa.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Humh well, where do we bring them once they're packed up?

Speaker 5 (04:56):
Lots of people have Madagascar cockroaches as pets. Definitely not
the p for me, though, But they're easily tamed. Let's
take them to totally Frog that pet store down the street.
Oh yeah, the owners of that place are so nice.
I'm sure they'll find these critters a good home. But
what are we supposed to do with all these old papers?
Most of them are torn to pieces? Hmmm, good points.

(05:20):
Excuse me, mister Winslow. What would you like us to
do with all these papers that seemed destroyed?

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Just awesome? It's a lost cause. To try to piece
them back together. Feel free to keep any that you
won't though they're no use.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
To me, now, okay, mister Winslow.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
Thanks.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Ali and I spent the next two hours carefully sorting
through the papers and gathering every last cockroach into the
bin I'd brought from h Q. We were just about
finished when we discovered something we were never expecting.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
Marcus, take a look at this paper, Endangered Enterprise a
ward's professor Roger Anderson the Award of Excellence and Geological Research.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
After all this researching, we found this here.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
This is crazy, you're.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Telling me, Marcus, Take a look at that pile of
papers we just threw in that garbage back over by
the door. I'm not so sure this is a coincidence.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
We sifted through papers for a few minutes, and lo
and behold, we pulled out ten pages that had a
headline saying something about endangered enterprise, endangered Enterprise funds research,
endangered Enterprise saves, critically endangered a kikiky bird, and the
list goes on. And the reality was these cockroaches were

(06:44):
most definitely put here on purpose to destroy evidence. Someone
didn't want us to find out any more about endangered Enterprise.
When we made it back to HQ, we planned our
next step. Although all the articles about saving endangered species
we're fascinating, the real golden ticket was the article about

(07:06):
Professor Roger Anderson.

Speaker 7 (07:10):
Guys, great work today. We finally have something leading us
in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Thanks to you.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
I'm just glad we noticed. Ali's the real ones to
thank for that.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
It was a team effort. But mister Luke, what's our
next move? What do we do with all this?

Speaker 7 (07:27):
This person right here, Roger Anderson. If we find him,
we get our answers about endangered enterprise.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Well, let's just see what pops up when we search
his name. Then let's see Roger Anderson. Huh. And that
was easy. Look, he's a professor at the community college.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
Isn't that where Gabe's sister goes. That place is only
ten minutes away. Tops looks like.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
He teaches geology one oh one on Tuesday night.

Speaker 7 (08:00):
Well, guys, I guess I'm going to class tonight. Time
to pull out the old college sweatshirt. I knew I
saved that for a reason.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
As mister Luke packed up for college class, the rest
of us closed up the critter queue for the night.
We were so excited to finally feel ahead of the game.
But like all our other challenges, Victor von Smog and
his accomplices were working day and night towards their worst
plan yet. If only we would.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
Have known, Becky, I mean agents.

Speaker 8 (08:35):
Yes, what is it?

Speaker 6 (08:37):
Come help me with this contraption. I'm too big, too
fit under this thing, and I can't connect the batteries.

Speaker 8 (08:44):
Okay, okay, give me a second. Where does it connect?

Speaker 6 (08:52):
Yeah? Zip bottom left? Attach it to those loose flyouts.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 8 (08:56):
Oh man, so you have me on a timer or something.

Speaker 6 (09:00):
We are on a timer. This mission launches in t
minus two days. I don't have time for your attitude
or your questions.

Speaker 8 (09:06):
You know, I could just go off and start my
own mission. I'm sure the boss says something for me
to do something without you around, preferably fine.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
I'm sorry, now I need you. Okay, this won't work
without your help and you know it.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
Fine.

Speaker 8 (09:23):
Apology accepted. Now just start treating me like a real
agent and we won't have a problem.

Speaker 6 (09:29):
Dad okay, no more, daddy, daughter. Then you call me
Smog and that's it.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Deal.

Speaker 8 (09:38):
They're done. Anything else, No.

Speaker 6 (09:41):
But you'll be happy to know I solve that problem
myself today. Oh did you just a few hundred cockroaches
and that collection of evidence is destroyed.

Speaker 8 (09:52):
Well, I give it to you. That's one way to
use one of their precious critters against them, endangered enterprise.
In the dark, we can keep this plan on schedule

Speaker 6 (10:06):
Exactly, my dear, exactly