March 9, 2022 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Maxie Miles as the production of a typical artists and
I heart radio have a good day. Well, well, well
i'll be Maxie Miles. Did your uncle rope you into this?
How did you know? Oh that Joe is always looking
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out for you. I know he'd want you to be
safe safe. Well what with the poor Stevens boy missing?
I think we're all concerned about our younger citizens. So
you don't think he ran away after all? What changed
your mind? Oh? Well, I wasn't saying that. I just well,
(00:45):
all possibilities are still open, unfortunately, but don't you worry,
young lady. You are safe as houses in Hastings. But
people have gone missing before, right, people have died. Well,
of course, death is a part of life, my dear,
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But people have died suspiciously. I'm not sure what you mean.
Hastings is a good town full of good people, right, yeah,
I know that, of course. Um speaking of good people,
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do you know Mr Beatie? Of course? Oh? Oh, I
see this is about what happened with his family. I'm
guessing what family. Oh no, see, you've got some more customers,
So I'll just take this big bag of butterscotch and
(01:48):
be on my way. Oh that's a three thirty, got
your exact change right here, Thanks very much, dear wait, Mayor,
how keep up the good work. That guy gives me
the creeps. Mayor How he's a big teddy bear. I
(02:11):
don't know about that. Well, whatever you think of him,
he was in the middle of telling me something that
could actually help with Riley, So thanks for that. Don't
you think that if hell knew something, he would have
told Mr Combs already? I thought he gave you the creeps.
That doesn't mean I think he's a kidnapper. I just meant, Look,
(02:33):
if I tell you something, will you promise not to
go all max about it? What does that mean? Like,
don't make it into a whole thing that you obsess over?
What is it? Jenna Riley's interview with the mayor for
the paper did not go well. Not go well? How
I don't actually know. All Riley said was that the
(02:56):
mayor was mad, mad about what something that Riley found
out about. I guess that's what I mean. I don't
think How is the perfect civil servant that everyone thinks.
I think he's like skimming off the top of town
funds or something. And if the beloved Perma Mayor of
(03:18):
Hastings was corrupt. That would be the biggest scandal this
town has ever seen. From a typical artists and I
hurt radio. You're listening to Maximles. This is chapter four
(03:58):
The Secret Admirer. So he went out again last night,
but no double back this time. He went out around
(04:19):
nine o'clock and then was back at ten, got into
his truck, nothing else, drove away and came back. Mm hmmm,
what are you thinking? I'm thinking that there's nowhere to
go for an hour at nine pm in Hastings. He
couldn't have been running an errand because most places closed
at eight on Sunday night. Maybe he went to the tavern? Okay,
(04:43):
But did he leave exactly at nine and get back
exactly at ten, give or take two minutes? But yeah,
pretty much. It's a ten minute drive to town from
our houses, So that means he would have been at
the tavern for forty in its doesn't feel right, does it?
So what's next? You'll keep an eye on it? Sure? Yeah,
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I mean I'm always in the tree house anyway, I've
got nothing else to do. Do you spend every night
in there? I mean I don't sleep in there? Are
you sure? I don't sleep in there very much? But
trust me, if you lived with my family, you'd spend
all your time somewhere else too. Oh I doubt that
I'd love a house full of people. Things get boring.
(05:30):
It's just me and Joe all the time. I'd kill
for a little boring, and i'd kill to have my
parents around. Sorry, I didn't mean no, it's totally fine.
I don't know why I said that. Oh no, No,
I mean I'm sure you missed them a lot. I
wasn't trying to say that. Yes, of course I do.
But I mean it's not like you don't love your parents.
(05:52):
Of course, Yeah I do? Right, so so, uh sentimental
moment over? Is that what passes for a sentimental moment
in your book? Oh? Hey wait, speaking of family, I
found something out about Beatty yesterday. Only you max, only
(06:16):
me what only you would leap from your dead parents
to an investigation? Crap? Sorry, Yeah, I'm seeing the sentimentality
thing you were talking about. I don't know how you
walk around with a heart that big. Come on, Miles,
I'm sorry, Okay, I just i'd say stuff sometimes. Yeah,
(06:37):
I know, tell me what you found out? About Mr Beatty. Okay,
so apparently Mr Beatty had a family at one point.
What mm hmm. May Or How mentioned something yesterday and
then I tried to ask Joe about it during dinner
last night. He wouldn't give me much but just said
(06:59):
it was a tragedy, something about Beatty having a wife
and son. Then tragedy mm hmm. Joe wouldn't tell you
anything else. He doesn't. He doesn't really like to talk
about that kind of stuff because you know, right well,
(07:24):
that definitely is interesting. You know, Beatty having a family,
a kid. That's so hard to picture. I told you
he wasn't as scary as he seemed. Well, you're also
the one who wanted to follow him because you think
he's like holding Riley captive somewhere. I never said that.
I just I think it's weird that he's going out
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at night all the time. We're at the stage of
the investigation where all potential leads need to be chased down.
Speaking of I have another another what potential lead? Jenna
said that Riley's piece for the paper may have been
a bigger deal than we thought. Bigger deal how corruption
(08:04):
scandal something about may Or How I don't have the
specifics yet, but there's something there. You're working the store
this afternoon, yep, every afternoon from now until well until
Riley has found Probably Joe is worried I'm going to
do something stupid and dangerous if I'm not occupied. He's
(08:26):
not wrong. Shut up. That's good though. You can gather
more until about beating maybe even how Yeah, you've got
math with THEO right now? Right? Yeah? Could you see
if he knows anything about the official investigation. I doubt
his dad tells him much, but he might have overheard something.
(08:48):
I just want to know where they're at. Um, Why
don't you just ask him yourself at lunch? Because just
can you help me out for once? Teller? For once?
What are you talking about? Just ask him? Okay, okay, whatever, Max,
thank you, have a great day. Why does no one
(09:23):
know anything about Mr? Beede? Hi and welcome to Archer's General.
Oh hi, Jenna, lovely to see you too, Maxine. Please
don't call me that. We don't have any of the
new magazine issues in yet. You'll have to come back tomorrow.
(09:46):
That's not why I'm here. Then? What are you here
for this? What is this? Just read it Jenna, is
this a a love letter? What? Why are you giving
this to me? Oh? My god, Max, it's not for you.
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Oh m, this is the fourth one I've gotten in
the past two weeks. They just show up in my locker. Wow,
that's creepy, right, I was going to say romantic you
would You really don't like getting this kind of stuff.
I mean, whoever it is, he clearly really likes you.
(10:28):
These are poems, Jenna. I know it's so embarrassing. Why
is that embarrassing? It's all squishy and sensitive? What's your point?
I don't do squishy and sensitive? Right? I forgot that
you and Ross are basically the same person. What do
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you mean nothing, Jenna? Where are you showing me this?
Because I want to find out who wrote them? Oh
that's great. What you like him too, and you want
to find out who it is so you can tell
him what. No, that's not what's happening here. I want
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to find out who it is so I can tell
him to stop. Why if you don't know who it is,
how do you know you don't like him? Because I
just I know, Okay, I don't have time for all
that stuff. Is that why you broke up? With Cody.
I broke up with Cody because he's a moron and
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a bully. But yes, that was one of several contributing factors.
So will you help me or not? Jenna? I mean,
don't you think there are more important things to focus
on than some random love notes? Of course there are, Maxine,
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but neither of us can do anything to help Riley.
And before you start, no, you can't. Max You're fourteen.
I know that you want to help, and you like
this kind of stuff, but this isn't a fun, hardy
boy's mystery. This is dangerous, and I'm doing you a
favor by giving you something low stakes to focus all
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that insane energy on. Oh is that why you're doing this?
To save me from myself? Someone has to and Ross
is too chicken shipped to do it himself. Besides, I
have a curious mind too, and I would like to
know who has decided to declare their love for me
in the completely infuriating form of anonymous notes. I do
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not understand how you don't think it's romantic. Maybe he shy,
maybe he's intimidated by you. Don't you think you should
at least just think that some people have reasons to hide,
and some people are selfish cowards. I have a feeling
this guy is the latter. Ease, come on, Max, I
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gave you that intel on Riley's article. The least you
can do is okay, fine, fine, I get it. I'll
help things that the store are going. Okay, Yeah, they're fine.
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It's pretty boring most of the time. It's not exactly
the most bustling place in Hastings. Is any place in
Hastings bustling. That's a good point. Yeah, it's one of
the things I love about this town. Actually, I know everyone,
and pretty much everyone knows me. There's no getting lost
in a crowd. I thought you wanted to run off
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to New York the moment you graduated. Well, I mean,
I want to visit New York. I'd love to go
to college there or Boston somewhere with you know, real
public transportation and museums. But I don't know. I couldn't
be surprised if I ended up back here. Yeah, your
dad felt the same way, both your parents. Actually, I mean,
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we may have all scattered to the winds when high
school ended, but the winds eventually blew you back to Hastings. Well,
once your mom took a teaching post at Hastings High,
your dad was always going to be right behind her. Well, yeah,
I think that's how marriage works. Well no, no, I
mean she got that job way before they were married.
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It was right after college. I think I was still
at Hastings, actually in my senior year, and then Mary
shows up as the new teacher, and I just knew.
I knew my brother would be moving back to Yeah,
they've been in love for so long. With the long
distance thing for college, it made it harder. And your
dad wasn't gonna let that be a barrier anymore. So
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he came back to Hastings to be with her. Mm hmmm.
And then I came back to Hastings to be with you, kiddo.
But you like it here, okay, right, I mean I'm
not like keeping you here. I mean I can't exactly
leave you on supervised, no matter how grown you think
you are. But I know that. But just because I'm
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a minor doesn't mean you have to up end your
entire life, just Max, Max, Where is this coming from?
I don't know. I've just been thinking about family, I guess,
just generally speaking, and I don't like the idea that
you're trapped in this miserable small town existence because of me.
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I am not living in a miserable small town existence. Like. Yes,
I moved back here to take care of you, but
see see, I've ruined your cool city life. But there
was never any way I was letting anyone else take
care of you. You're my favorite niece, after all, I'm
your only niece. Besides, I found things to like about Hastings. Really,
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like what I'll tell you when you're older. Oh, oh
my god, are you dating someone I know I'm still
a young man. Tell that to your gray hair, Maxine.
Someone has to be brutally honest with you. I look
in the mirror every day. That's enough brutal honesty for me.
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I love my life here with you, Max. I miss
your parents every single day. I would do anything to
get them back, but I'm so grateful to get to
have you as my family. Thanks Joe, me too. What
do you think happened to Riley? I don't know, kiddo.
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I hope nothing bad, but bad things happen sometimes. Bad
things happen sometimes, but it's sort of good things. Dinners
with my niece. The Harvest festival dogs falling in love?
So you are dating someone? I think that you are
what I'm not. I'm not dating anyone. What was with
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the note in your backpack? You look through my backpack
I was putting on the counter and it fell out.
So who's the lucky guy? Oh my god, no one,
you can talk to me about this stuff. It's not
for me. What. Oh did you write it? Oh? I
guess I was making assumptions based on the whole boy
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meets girl perspective in the poem. But if if there's
something you want to talk to me about, Oh my god, no,
please stop talking. It's Jenna's She's been getting them in
her locker for the past few weeks, and she wanted
me to find out who's been leaving them. Got it,
she wrote, ju and helping her? Well, I mean, I
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am known for being good at solving things. I thought
you and her were on the outs where we're fine.
We're just not best friends anymore. That happens. People grow up,
and some people get popular and pretty and become the
object of a love letter writer's attention, and some of
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us don't. Max Anyway, I should probably start in on
my list of suspects so I can interview people at
school tomorrow. Max. Thanks for dinner, Joe. These are all
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of them for now, six letters in three weeks, always
left between second and third period. Right, what classes do
you have? Those periods Math and then Health, which are
right down the hall from each other, which means you're
never passing your locker when you go to health unless well,
do you ever go back for any books? No? I
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usually bring all my morning class books with me and
then do a swap over during lunch. So whoever's leaving
you these notes must know that they know your locker
is going to be clear between those periods, and that
you'll go to your locker after third period and before lunch.
That's creepy. I think that depends on who it is.
If it's someone with a locker really near yours, then
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it's possible they're just going to their locker between each
period and have just noticed that you're never there. What
if it's someone with a locker in a totally different hallway,
then yeah, it would be a little weird for them
to know this much about your movements unless they have
both Math and health with you. Do you share both
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of those classes with anyone. Uh yeah, probably like half
a dozen people at least. All right, then we'll start there.
Write down the names of everyone you share both classes with,
and then the names of anyone in the vicinity of
your locker who might have caught onto when you're not there.
I'll take that list and start to narrow down the
suspects based on who likes girls, who single, and who
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might write you letters rather than just asking you out. Okay,
and then and then I'll start to interview the suspects,
suspects whatever you want to call it, potential boyfriends. Whoever
is writing these notes is not a potential boyfriend. You
should at least wait to figure out who it is first. Well,
(20:20):
come on, start writing. Hey, hey, Ross, what are you
(20:42):
doing here? I thought you had work shot closed early
for the manager's nephew's birthday or something, so I've got
the afternoon off. Huh made any breakthroughs? I think I've
narrowed it down to three people. Chat Ryan Carter? What
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what would they want with Riley? What? Oh? No, no, sorry,
not for Riley. This this is a thing for Jenna.
What is this her hit list or something sort of?
She's trying to figure out who has been leaving her
love notes. That's not you, right, I mean, your lucker
isn't near Jenna's, but you are in her math class.
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What me is sending Jenna Ambrose love notes? Yeah? I
thought it was pretty far fetched. That's why you were
eliminated early, just double checking. Why is it so far fetched?
I mean, I know you and she aren't best buzz anymore,
but Jenna's cool. We've always gotten along. Are you saying
you like her? No, I'm not saying it. I just
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want to know what's so far fetched about it? That's
all you. Romancing Jenna is not what's far fetched. I
get it. She's pretty, she's smart, she's popular. I'm sure
there are lots of guys in school who would want
to go out with her. But but the idea of
you romancing anyone is a little far fetched. Oh, I didn't.
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I didn't mean that as a bad thing, A right, right? Right? Sorry?
Did I I feel like I hurt your feelings? No,
you didn't. It's just that you don't seem like the
type of person who would write a bunch of love letters. Yeah.
I get it, and that's not a bad thing. I mean,
some people just aren't romantic people. Why do you assume
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I'm not a romantic person. Well, come on, ros, I mean,
you've never asked anyone out. I don't think you've ever
had a crush on anyone, which, again, is totally fine.
Just because I don't go around leaving weird poems and
people's lockers are talking about my crushes all the time
doesn't mean that I don't have them. Okay. I just
thought maybe I'm just waiting for the right moment, you know,
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or maybe it's just not worth putting yourself out there
when you know for certain that the other person doesn't
feel the same way. I mean, you know, I get
the appeal of staying anonymous. You can test the waters
without getting hurt. Yeah. I guess that's true. But wait,
how did you know the notes were being left in
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her locker? What? Oh? You mentioned something about my locker
not being close, so I just assumed, I mean, you know,
where else would you leave notes for someone? Okay, but
you also knew they were poems. How did you know
they were poems? What? I didn't tell you that I need? Um? Ross?
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Did you write these notes? What? No? No way, I promise.
What are you sure you can tell me, trust me, Myles,
I did not write them. I do not have a
crush on Jenna. Okay, then how you know who? Don't you?
You know who has a crush on Jenna? Maybe I do? Yeah? Who?
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I heart radio have a good day. Well, well, well
i'll be Maxie Miles. Did your uncle rope you into this?
How did you know? Oh that Joe is always looking
(00:23):
out for you. I know he'd want you to be
safe safe. Well what with the poor Stevens boy missing?
I think we're all concerned about our younger citizens. So
you don't think he ran away after all? What changed
your mind? Oh? Well, I wasn't saying that. I just well,
(00:45):
all possibilities are still open, unfortunately, but don't you worry,
young lady. You are safe as houses in Hastings. But
people have gone missing before, right, people have died. Well,
of course, death is a part of life, my dear,
(01:05):
But people have died suspiciously. I'm not sure what you mean.
Hastings is a good town full of good people, right, yeah,
I know that, of course. Um speaking of good people,
(01:26):
do you know Mr Beatie? Of course? Oh? Oh, I
see this is about what happened with his family. I'm
guessing what family. Oh no, see, you've got some more customers,
So I'll just take this big bag of butterscotch and
(01:48):
be on my way. Oh that's a three thirty, got
your exact change right here, Thanks very much, dear wait, Mayor,
how keep up the good work. That guy gives me
the creeps. Mayor How he's a big teddy bear. I
(02:11):
don't know about that. Well, whatever you think of him,
he was in the middle of telling me something that
could actually help with Riley, So thanks for that. Don't
you think that if hell knew something, he would have
told Mr Combs already? I thought he gave you the creeps.
That doesn't mean I think he's a kidnapper. I just meant, Look,
(02:33):
if I tell you something, will you promise not to
go all max about it? What does that mean? Like,
don't make it into a whole thing that you obsess over?
What is it? Jenna Riley's interview with the mayor for
the paper did not go well. Not go well? How
I don't actually know. All Riley said was that the
(02:56):
mayor was mad, mad about what something that Riley found
out about. I guess that's what I mean. I don't
think How is the perfect civil servant that everyone thinks.
I think he's like skimming off the top of town
funds or something. And if the beloved Perma Mayor of
(03:18):
Hastings was corrupt. That would be the biggest scandal this
town has ever seen. From a typical artists and I
hurt radio. You're listening to Maximles. This is chapter four
(03:58):
The Secret Admirer. So he went out again last night,
but no double back this time. He went out around
(04:19):
nine o'clock and then was back at ten, got into
his truck, nothing else, drove away and came back. Mm hmmm,
what are you thinking? I'm thinking that there's nowhere to
go for an hour at nine pm in Hastings. He
couldn't have been running an errand because most places closed
at eight on Sunday night. Maybe he went to the tavern? Okay,
(04:43):
But did he leave exactly at nine and get back
exactly at ten, give or take two minutes? But yeah,
pretty much. It's a ten minute drive to town from
our houses, So that means he would have been at
the tavern for forty in its doesn't feel right, does it?
So what's next? You'll keep an eye on it? Sure? Yeah,
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I mean I'm always in the tree house anyway, I've
got nothing else to do. Do you spend every night
in there? I mean I don't sleep in there? Are
you sure? I don't sleep in there very much? But
trust me, if you lived with my family, you'd spend
all your time somewhere else too. Oh I doubt that
I'd love a house full of people. Things get boring.
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It's just me and Joe all the time. I'd kill
for a little boring, and i'd kill to have my
parents around. Sorry, I didn't mean no, it's totally fine.
I don't know why I said that. Oh no, No,
I mean I'm sure you missed them a lot. I
wasn't trying to say that. Yes, of course I do.
But I mean it's not like you don't love your parents.
(05:52):
Of course, Yeah I do? Right, so so, uh sentimental
moment over? Is that what passes for a sentimental moment
in your book? Oh? Hey wait, speaking of family, I
found something out about Beatty yesterday. Only you max, only
(06:16):
me what only you would leap from your dead parents
to an investigation? Crap? Sorry, Yeah, I'm seeing the sentimentality
thing you were talking about. I don't know how you
walk around with a heart that big. Come on, Miles,
I'm sorry, Okay, I just i'd say stuff sometimes. Yeah,
(06:37):
I know, tell me what you found out? About Mr Beatty. Okay,
so apparently Mr Beatty had a family at one point.
What mm hmm. May Or How mentioned something yesterday and
then I tried to ask Joe about it during dinner
last night. He wouldn't give me much but just said
(06:59):
it was a tragedy, something about Beatty having a wife
and son. Then tragedy mm hmm. Joe wouldn't tell you
anything else. He doesn't. He doesn't really like to talk
about that kind of stuff because you know, right well,
(07:24):
that definitely is interesting. You know, Beatty having a family,
a kid. That's so hard to picture. I told you
he wasn't as scary as he seemed. Well, you're also
the one who wanted to follow him because you think
he's like holding Riley captive somewhere. I never said that.
I just I think it's weird that he's going out
(07:44):
at night all the time. We're at the stage of
the investigation where all potential leads need to be chased down.
Speaking of I have another another what potential lead? Jenna
said that Riley's piece for the paper may have been
a bigger deal than we thought. Bigger deal how corruption
(08:04):
scandal something about may Or How I don't have the
specifics yet, but there's something there. You're working the store
this afternoon, yep, every afternoon from now until well until
Riley has found Probably Joe is worried I'm going to
do something stupid and dangerous if I'm not occupied. He's
(08:26):
not wrong. Shut up. That's good though. You can gather
more until about beating maybe even how Yeah, you've got
math with THEO right now? Right? Yeah? Could you see
if he knows anything about the official investigation. I doubt
his dad tells him much, but he might have overheard something.
(08:48):
I just want to know where they're at. Um, Why
don't you just ask him yourself at lunch? Because just
can you help me out for once? Teller? For once?
What are you talking about? Just ask him? Okay, okay, whatever, Max,
thank you, have a great day. Why does no one
(09:23):
know anything about Mr? Beede? Hi and welcome to Archer's General.
Oh hi, Jenna, lovely to see you too, Maxine. Please
don't call me that. We don't have any of the
new magazine issues in yet. You'll have to come back tomorrow.
(09:46):
That's not why I'm here. Then? What are you here
for this? What is this? Just read it Jenna, is
this a a love letter? What? Why are you giving
this to me? Oh? My god, Max, it's not for you.
(10:07):
Oh m, this is the fourth one I've gotten in
the past two weeks. They just show up in my locker. Wow,
that's creepy, right, I was going to say romantic you
would You really don't like getting this kind of stuff.
I mean, whoever it is, he clearly really likes you.
(10:28):
These are poems, Jenna. I know it's so embarrassing. Why
is that embarrassing? It's all squishy and sensitive? What's your point?
I don't do squishy and sensitive? Right? I forgot that
you and Ross are basically the same person. What do
(10:49):
you mean nothing, Jenna? Where are you showing me this?
Because I want to find out who wrote them? Oh
that's great. What you like him too, and you want
to find out who it is so you can tell
him what. No, that's not what's happening here. I want
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to find out who it is so I can tell
him to stop. Why if you don't know who it is,
how do you know you don't like him? Because I
just I know, Okay, I don't have time for all
that stuff. Is that why you broke up? With Cody.
I broke up with Cody because he's a moron and
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a bully. But yes, that was one of several contributing factors.
So will you help me or not? Jenna? I mean,
don't you think there are more important things to focus
on than some random love notes? Of course there are, Maxine,
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but neither of us can do anything to help Riley.
And before you start, no, you can't. Max You're fourteen.
I know that you want to help, and you like
this kind of stuff, but this isn't a fun, hardy
boy's mystery. This is dangerous, and I'm doing you a
favor by giving you something low stakes to focus all
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that insane energy on. Oh is that why you're doing this?
To save me from myself? Someone has to and Ross
is too chicken shipped to do it himself. Besides, I
have a curious mind too, and I would like to
know who has decided to declare their love for me
in the completely infuriating form of anonymous notes. I do
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not understand how you don't think it's romantic. Maybe he shy,
maybe he's intimidated by you. Don't you think you should
at least just think that some people have reasons to hide,
and some people are selfish cowards. I have a feeling
this guy is the latter. Ease, come on, Max, I
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gave you that intel on Riley's article. The least you
can do is okay, fine, fine, I get it. I'll
help things that the store are going. Okay, Yeah, they're fine.
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It's pretty boring most of the time. It's not exactly
the most bustling place in Hastings. Is any place in
Hastings bustling. That's a good point. Yeah, it's one of
the things I love about this town. Actually, I know everyone,
and pretty much everyone knows me. There's no getting lost
in a crowd. I thought you wanted to run off
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to New York the moment you graduated. Well, I mean,
I want to visit New York. I'd love to go
to college there or Boston somewhere with you know, real
public transportation and museums. But I don't know. I couldn't
be surprised if I ended up back here. Yeah, your
dad felt the same way, both your parents. Actually, I mean,
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we may have all scattered to the winds when high
school ended, but the winds eventually blew you back to Hastings. Well,
once your mom took a teaching post at Hastings High,
your dad was always going to be right behind her. Well, yeah,
I think that's how marriage works. Well no, no, I
mean she got that job way before they were married.
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It was right after college. I think I was still
at Hastings, actually in my senior year, and then Mary
shows up as the new teacher, and I just knew.
I knew my brother would be moving back to Yeah,
they've been in love for so long. With the long
distance thing for college, it made it harder. And your
dad wasn't gonna let that be a barrier anymore. So
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he came back to Hastings to be with her. Mm hmmm.
And then I came back to Hastings to be with you, kiddo.
But you like it here, okay, right, I mean I'm
not like keeping you here. I mean I can't exactly
leave you on supervised, no matter how grown you think
you are. But I know that. But just because I'm
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a minor doesn't mean you have to up end your
entire life, just Max, Max, Where is this coming from?
I don't know. I've just been thinking about family, I guess,
just generally speaking, and I don't like the idea that
you're trapped in this miserable small town existence because of me.
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I am not living in a miserable small town existence. Like. Yes,
I moved back here to take care of you, but
see see, I've ruined your cool city life. But there
was never any way I was letting anyone else take
care of you. You're my favorite niece, after all, I'm
your only niece. Besides, I found things to like about Hastings. Really,
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like what I'll tell you when you're older. Oh, oh
my god, are you dating someone I know I'm still
a young man. Tell that to your gray hair, Maxine.
Someone has to be brutally honest with you. I look
in the mirror every day. That's enough brutal honesty for me.
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I love my life here with you, Max. I miss
your parents every single day. I would do anything to
get them back, but I'm so grateful to get to
have you as my family. Thanks Joe, me too. What
do you think happened to Riley? I don't know, kiddo.
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I hope nothing bad, but bad things happen sometimes. Bad
things happen sometimes, but it's sort of good things. Dinners
with my niece. The Harvest festival dogs falling in love?
So you are dating someone? I think that you are
what I'm not. I'm not dating anyone. What was with
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the note in your backpack? You look through my backpack
I was putting on the counter and it fell out.
So who's the lucky guy? Oh my god, no one,
you can talk to me about this stuff. It's not
for me. What. Oh did you write it? Oh? I
guess I was making assumptions based on the whole boy
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meets girl perspective in the poem. But if if there's
something you want to talk to me about, Oh my god, no,
please stop talking. It's Jenna's She's been getting them in
her locker for the past few weeks, and she wanted
me to find out who's been leaving them. Got it,
she wrote, ju and helping her? Well, I mean, I
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am known for being good at solving things. I thought
you and her were on the outs where we're fine.
We're just not best friends anymore. That happens. People grow up,
and some people get popular and pretty and become the
object of a love letter writer's attention, and some of
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us don't. Max Anyway, I should probably start in on
my list of suspects so I can interview people at
school tomorrow. Max. Thanks for dinner, Joe. These are all
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of them for now, six letters in three weeks, always
left between second and third period. Right, what classes do
you have? Those periods Math and then Health, which are
right down the hall from each other, which means you're
never passing your locker when you go to health unless well,
do you ever go back for any books? No? I
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usually bring all my morning class books with me and
then do a swap over during lunch. So whoever's leaving
you these notes must know that they know your locker
is going to be clear between those periods, and that
you'll go to your locker after third period and before lunch.
That's creepy. I think that depends on who it is.
If it's someone with a locker really near yours, then
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it's possible they're just going to their locker between each
period and have just noticed that you're never there. What
if it's someone with a locker in a totally different hallway,
then yeah, it would be a little weird for them
to know this much about your movements unless they have
both Math and health with you. Do you share both
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of those classes with anyone. Uh yeah, probably like half
a dozen people at least. All right, then we'll start there.
Write down the names of everyone you share both classes with,
and then the names of anyone in the vicinity of
your locker who might have caught onto when you're not there.
I'll take that list and start to narrow down the
suspects based on who likes girls, who single, and who
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might write you letters rather than just asking you out. Okay,
and then and then I'll start to interview the suspects,
suspects whatever you want to call it, potential boyfriends. Whoever
is writing these notes is not a potential boyfriend. You
should at least wait to figure out who it is first. Well,
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come on, start writing. Hey, hey, Ross, what are you
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doing here? I thought you had work shot closed early
for the manager's nephew's birthday or something, so I've got
the afternoon off. Huh made any breakthroughs? I think I've
narrowed it down to three people. Chat Ryan Carter? What
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what would they want with Riley? What? Oh? No, no, sorry,
not for Riley. This this is a thing for Jenna.
What is this her hit list or something sort of?
She's trying to figure out who has been leaving her
love notes. That's not you, right, I mean, your lucker
isn't near Jenna's, but you are in her math class.
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What me is sending Jenna Ambrose love notes? Yeah? I
thought it was pretty far fetched. That's why you were
eliminated early, just double checking. Why is it so far fetched?
I mean, I know you and she aren't best buzz anymore,
but Jenna's cool. We've always gotten along. Are you saying
you like her? No, I'm not saying it. I just
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want to know what's so far fetched about it? That's
all you. Romancing Jenna is not what's far fetched. I
get it. She's pretty, she's smart, she's popular. I'm sure
there are lots of guys in school who would want
to go out with her. But but the idea of
you romancing anyone is a little far fetched. Oh, I didn't.
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I didn't mean that as a bad thing, A right, right? Right? Sorry?
Did I I feel like I hurt your feelings? No,
you didn't. It's just that you don't seem like the
type of person who would write a bunch of love letters. Yeah.
I get it, and that's not a bad thing. I mean,
some people just aren't romantic people. Why do you assume
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I'm not a romantic person. Well, come on, ros, I mean,
you've never asked anyone out. I don't think you've ever
had a crush on anyone, which, again, is totally fine.
Just because I don't go around leaving weird poems and
people's lockers are talking about my crushes all the time
doesn't mean that I don't have them. Okay. I just
thought maybe I'm just waiting for the right moment, you know,
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or maybe it's just not worth putting yourself out there
when you know for certain that the other person doesn't
feel the same way. I mean, you know, I get
the appeal of staying anonymous. You can test the waters
without getting hurt. Yeah. I guess that's true. But wait,
how did you know the notes were being left in
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her locker? What? Oh? You mentioned something about my locker
not being close, so I just assumed, I mean, you know,
where else would you leave notes for someone? Okay, but
you also knew they were poems. How did you know
they were poems? What? I didn't tell you that I need? Um? Ross?
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Did you write these notes? What? No? No way, I promise.
What are you sure you can tell me, trust me, Myles,
I did not write them. I do not have a
crush on Jenna. Okay, then how you know who? Don't you?
You know who has a crush on Jenna? Maybe I do? Yeah? Who?
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