February 3, 2020 • 21 mins
Rose (Minka Wiltz) instructs Pearl (Elizabeth Hunter) in the basics of mentalism, their means of financial survival. Under the stage name Pandora, Pearl performs a street-corner medicine show. Afterward, Rose reveals some of Pearl’s family history.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Seventh Daughter contains scenes of realistic violence and graphic sexuality.
It is intended for mature listeners. Have you come seeking knowledge?
Do you wish to know the truth? Allow me to
(00:20):
show you. Close your eyes and follow the sound of
my voice. Allow it to lead you further into the past.
When I remove my blindfold, you may look into my eyes.
Don't just look at them, look through them, and you
(00:44):
will see what they have seen, and all my secrets
will be revealed. The Seventh Daughter. Good, you're awake, yes, ma'am?
(01:11):
Clear me some room on the table. Got your cleaning done, yes, ma'am.
Mm hmm, not bad, not bad. Now that the cleaning
is done, you can help me with some cooking. Oh good,
I'm starring. Not for you, not for me either. We'll
(01:35):
eat a meal after after what after we've owned it?
What are we cooking? Medicine? We bottle it up right
here in the room. I'm miraculous, mixture of rare isles,
exotic urban divine spirit ah, a miracle drug with absolutely
(01:57):
no medicinal value. But but what, come on? Ask me
what you want to know? What do we do with
medicine that doesn't do anything? Sell it to people who
don't actually need it. I'm going slow so you can
(02:20):
see exactly how it's done, and you can learn the
proper mixture of ingredients, like cleaning the room, cooking the
medicine will be your job. Now. Once I feel it,
you cork it and glue one of these labels on
(02:40):
the front lotus blood. Is it like patent medicine if
you want to call it that. Sell it in a shop,
no door to door, No on the street. We do
what's called a high pitch, a high pitch from the
back of a carriage. When the sun goes down, we
(03:03):
light gasoline torches that hang from the ends of poles.
Dramatic lighting catch people's eyes. And I'll set up a
display of medical curiosities, shrunken heads, jar babies, tapeworms, like
a museum. Where do we do this? Wherever we can
(03:26):
attract a crowd. How do we attract the crowd? That
will be your job me. That's right, We're gonna attract
the crowd by putting you on display. People will look
at me. They won't know what to make of you.
(03:47):
Why would people be interested in looking at me? We'll
make them interested. Got around good people last year City.
Permit me to share what you a message your truth
and of hope, the mystery of the Caribbean island, and
the redeeming grace of our heavenly Lord. And see if
(04:10):
you're Jesus Christ. These marvels, mysteries, and the blessings are
personicide and the unlimited lily white flesh of one extra
ordinary child. A childhood is an ambassador of God's tender
messes and evidence of his ferruscious power. Oh is the
(04:34):
child who represent the power youth of which I speak.
Oh is the embodiment of purity and perfection, filled with
the wisdom of the ages. Permit me to introduce you,
good people are Steel City to the seven daughter. By
(04:58):
that time we should have a crowd of a dozen
or so. And then what you perform? Perform? We'll start
with something simple, the absolute lowest form of decorin the
alphabet code. I'll list twenty six ordinary items in no
apparent order, but you'll memorize them in this particular sequence
(05:24):
A through Z. The alphabet is simply a means of
keeping track of their order. For example, A is this box, yes, yes, okay?
B is this pencil, C is the door, D is
the chair, got that A B C D box pencil?
(05:48):
Door chair? What's see the door and the box D?
Now do you see change? An aggregation of urban oil
heretofore known only to the mystics and healers of the Orient.
I shall now move among you and randomly point two
(06:11):
items in your position. Pandora, blindfolded and without any coaching whatsoever,
will accurately name these items. You there? What's that in
your hand? A walking stick? You there? Show me your yes, Pandora,
(06:37):
a flower in the lapel of a young gentleman. Carnation,
I believe. And what color is the carnation? White? Yes, white,
as white and pure as your virgin and soul at place.
Applause is not necessary. Pandora performs for your eddie Vakisha,
(07:01):
not for your approven I'll be doing all the work.
I'll find the items we're looking for in the sequence
we've established. You just have to sit there and recite
your A, B c's. But if someone watches us perform
a second time, won't they figure out the pattern? That's right?
And that is why we never perform the alphabet code
(07:23):
the same way twice. The next day we do the
alphabet backwards. The day after, we rearrange the letters to
spell a sentence the quick brown Fox. But the alphabet
code is child's play, the lowest form of ducker in.
You know what duckering is. I assume it's like triggery. Wow,
(07:45):
you're more clever than you look. As quickly as we can,
will move beyond the alphabet code. I'll teach you other signals, modifiers.
I will be able to communicate names and dates. Eventually
we won't use the alphabet at all. We'll be able
to carry on separate conversations, hidden within the words everyone
(08:06):
else is hearing. Anyway, Once the audience is hungry for more,
I'll turn the tip and close the sale. Hide out
behind the banner and change into your dress while I
drum up the crowd you have around? What people I'm
(08:29):
permitted to share with? True part? I didn't realize anybody
was back there. What are you doing anyway? I'm waiting
for the show. Oh yeah, you're your Andora? Is that right? Yeah?
(08:51):
You're really something. Look I don't I don't mean to
get you in no trouble, but those big guys and
that pale skin, just like a baby dough and not
so much of a baby either practically a grown up
dough soft and white. Anybody ever tell you you know?
(09:15):
She probably don't tell you how beautiful you are? And
I think we both know why that is. Tell me
what she h? What's she calling herself these days? The
gal running the show? I think she might used to
be a friend of mine. Rose, China Rose. China Rose
sounds like perfume or soap or something. I respect. That's
(09:38):
her stage name? What's tell me? What's your real name?
Can you tell me that? Say? China Rose is the
only name I know? Yes, huh, funny? She ever called
herself by the name? Leave the girl alone? You should
be back here, Leave us alone. I'll call the cops.
(09:59):
Whatever you say, duchess, I'll be watching. Who was that?
How should I know? I ever ever catch you talking
to that man or others like him? Did I not
hear your voice telling him my name? Pay attention to
(10:27):
your work. You let a man distract you, and he'll
destroy our act. We'll perform the word apostle just like
we planned. Yeah, yeah, yes, man, all right, then stop sulking,
(10:48):
clean yourself up, and I'll go drum up a crowd.
I did all that that's good. Isn't it not as
good as it seems? I spent fifty cents on bottles,
(11:12):
two dollars to print the labels, the rental of the wagon,
your dress, the ingredients, torches. What does that leave one
and six? What's that dollar? Oh? That's not so good.
It's a respectable beginning. We should start seeing real money
(11:33):
in three or four days. You you performed well, burl Oh,
thank you? How much do we need for the passage? Passage?
To what to see my father in Haley? You ask
too many questions. You do your job, allow me to
do mine. And speaking of jobs, there is one more
(11:57):
duty that I'll expect you to perform every evening after supper.
First light the lamp and bring me my toy, the toy,
the silver tray with the lacquered box, my toy box.
(12:18):
Hop you know, hop your medicine. I can survive without
it for a time, eating spoonfuls of yen she scraped
from the damper. But it's no substitute for this proper
curative restorative. Are you ill? Mm hmm? Some would say, here,
(12:46):
let me show you how to prepare it. Use the
knife to slice a piece of opium from the loaf.
Then you take this little hook called a yen hock huh,
and as the cooked opium thickens, you gently work it
(13:07):
into a little ball of putty like so the little
brown pearl just like this, And then we place it
in the bowl and tilt the pipe at an angle
so the flame warms the pearl. Careful that we don't
(13:28):
scorch it. You just want to heat it so the
breath of the dragon will travel up the pipe. And
I turned the pearl with the yin howk, so a
(13:49):
new area is exposed to the heat of the lamp,
and I just breathe. Ah. Some nights I will smoke
two pipes, sometimes three, scrape the yn she into the box,
(14:15):
and prepare another pearl, just like I showed you. If
a smoker is not able to obtain a proper toy,
she can eat a spoonful of yen she instead. Yes
you told me that. M oh, yes, Well it isn't pleasant,
(14:41):
but keeps the demons away. Pay attention. You might need
to know this someday rose mm hmm. Who was that man?
(15:02):
What man? The man and the bowler hat and the
coat with the fur color h The man who sugar
talked you. He didn't sugar talk me. Oh he did.
You just didn't know it. Didn't you notice the way
(15:23):
his eyes were skating across your face. It's the surest
sign of what off his lust. Ah. A woman doesn't
know she's being sugar talked until it's dripping down her
(15:45):
neck like molasses. I'm not a woman, I'm a girl.
Doesn't make any difference to them. Sooner the better, as
far as they care. Huhm. Take you away from me,
take away our livelihood, take away your power. If I
(16:14):
ever catch you talking to one of them, I'll have
you back at the convent before sunrise and you can
live the rest of your life there. M hmm. With
its ponds, it swans, the sisters lined up in a row,
(16:41):
Oregan music playing all the time. Oh, nothing to do
but watch the grass grow and breathe the air. Nothing
to do but breathe during the performance. You called me
(17:07):
a seventh daughter? What does that mean? Old Roman knee
superstition when they say the seventh daughter can commune with spirits,
and so you shall read minds conju voices from the
(17:29):
grave cause spirits to rise and frolic in the dark
under my guidance and hypnotic control. I'll do all that.
Mm hmm, it'll be just like tonight. Did you see
(17:50):
their faces tonight? The way the people looked at me,
It was almost as if I were some kind of freak. No,
m what were you going to say? Confidence is good,
it strengthens you. But don't believe the lies you're telling.
(18:15):
Don't eat the slop you're selling. Don't think of yourself
as anything other than what you are, which is what exactly,
at best, a diversion, the magician's misdirection. You're like a
(18:36):
dancing bear, the organ grinder's monkey in a white crept sheen,
and at worst a liar and a fraud. But it's
nothing to be ashamed of. The line between illusionist and
deceiver is a fine one, and your toes must always
(18:59):
touch upon it. Don't look so sad. You will find
this line of work quite rewarding. Continue to perform well,
and I'll take you to someone who can train you
in more elaborate skills, show you the real secrets, so
(19:19):
that maybe one day you can get your face painted
on a canvas banner, just like her, Just like her, Davina,
the woman on the canvas. Yeah? Was she? Was? She
my mother? What makes you ask that I look like her?
(19:45):
M h, I guess you're doing that. Did you know her? Yes?
I was told that she died when I was born.
H Did I kill her by being born? No? She
(20:09):
was dead already by the time they pulled you out
of her. Her life was over. Hush now sleep. Am
I a seventh daughter? Don't be silly? If you are
the seventh? Where are the other six? No? There is
(20:34):
only you and I and my father? What about my father? Rose?
When will we see my father? Rose? I must now
(21:02):
replace my blind fold. As my vision begins to fade,
Your own senses will gradually return, Return to the warmth
and the light of your own reality. The Seventh Daughter
(21:22):
is a production of I Heart Radio, written and directed
by Brett Wood, recorded and mixed by Rob Gal, featuring
Nca Wilkes as Rose and Elizabeth Hunter as Pearl. There,
you may now open your eyes.
The Seventh Daughter contains scenes of realistic violence and graphic sexuality.
It is intended for mature listeners. Have you come seeking knowledge?
Do you wish to know the truth? Allow me to
(00:20):
show you. Close your eyes and follow the sound of
my voice. Allow it to lead you further into the past.
When I remove my blindfold, you may look into my eyes.
Don't just look at them, look through them, and you
(00:44):
will see what they have seen, and all my secrets
will be revealed. The Seventh Daughter. Good, you're awake, yes, ma'am?
(01:11):
Clear me some room on the table. Got your cleaning done, yes, ma'am.
Mm hmm, not bad, not bad. Now that the cleaning
is done, you can help me with some cooking. Oh good,
I'm starring. Not for you, not for me either. We'll
(01:35):
eat a meal after after what after we've owned it?
What are we cooking? Medicine? We bottle it up right
here in the room. I'm miraculous, mixture of rare isles,
exotic urban divine spirit ah, a miracle drug with absolutely
(01:57):
no medicinal value. But but what, come on? Ask me
what you want to know? What do we do with
medicine that doesn't do anything? Sell it to people who
don't actually need it. I'm going slow so you can
(02:20):
see exactly how it's done, and you can learn the
proper mixture of ingredients, like cleaning the room, cooking the
medicine will be your job. Now. Once I feel it,
you cork it and glue one of these labels on
(02:40):
the front lotus blood. Is it like patent medicine if
you want to call it that. Sell it in a shop,
no door to door, No on the street. We do
what's called a high pitch, a high pitch from the
back of a carriage. When the sun goes down, we
(03:03):
light gasoline torches that hang from the ends of poles.
Dramatic lighting catch people's eyes. And I'll set up a
display of medical curiosities, shrunken heads, jar babies, tapeworms, like
a museum. Where do we do this? Wherever we can
(03:26):
attract a crowd. How do we attract the crowd? That
will be your job me. That's right, We're gonna attract
the crowd by putting you on display. People will look
at me. They won't know what to make of you.
(03:47):
Why would people be interested in looking at me? We'll
make them interested. Got around good people last year City.
Permit me to share what you a message your truth
and of hope, the mystery of the Caribbean island, and
the redeeming grace of our heavenly Lord. And see if
(04:10):
you're Jesus Christ. These marvels, mysteries, and the blessings are
personicide and the unlimited lily white flesh of one extra
ordinary child. A childhood is an ambassador of God's tender
messes and evidence of his ferruscious power. Oh is the
(04:34):
child who represent the power youth of which I speak.
Oh is the embodiment of purity and perfection, filled with
the wisdom of the ages. Permit me to introduce you,
good people are Steel City to the seven daughter. By
(04:58):
that time we should have a crowd of a dozen
or so. And then what you perform? Perform? We'll start
with something simple, the absolute lowest form of decorin the
alphabet code. I'll list twenty six ordinary items in no
apparent order, but you'll memorize them in this particular sequence
(05:24):
A through Z. The alphabet is simply a means of
keeping track of their order. For example, A is this box, yes, yes, okay?
B is this pencil, C is the door, D is
the chair, got that A B C D box pencil?
(05:48):
Door chair? What's see the door and the box D?
Now do you see change? An aggregation of urban oil
heretofore known only to the mystics and healers of the Orient.
I shall now move among you and randomly point two
(06:11):
items in your position. Pandora, blindfolded and without any coaching whatsoever,
will accurately name these items. You there? What's that in
your hand? A walking stick? You there? Show me your yes, Pandora,
(06:37):
a flower in the lapel of a young gentleman. Carnation,
I believe. And what color is the carnation? White? Yes, white,
as white and pure as your virgin and soul at place.
Applause is not necessary. Pandora performs for your eddie Vakisha,
(07:01):
not for your approven I'll be doing all the work.
I'll find the items we're looking for in the sequence
we've established. You just have to sit there and recite
your A, B c's. But if someone watches us perform
a second time, won't they figure out the pattern? That's right?
And that is why we never perform the alphabet code
(07:23):
the same way twice. The next day we do the
alphabet backwards. The day after, we rearrange the letters to
spell a sentence the quick brown Fox. But the alphabet
code is child's play, the lowest form of ducker in.
You know what duckering is. I assume it's like triggery. Wow,
(07:45):
you're more clever than you look. As quickly as we can,
will move beyond the alphabet code. I'll teach you other signals, modifiers.
I will be able to communicate names and dates. Eventually
we won't use the alphabet at all. We'll be able
to carry on separate conversations, hidden within the words everyone
(08:06):
else is hearing. Anyway, Once the audience is hungry for more,
I'll turn the tip and close the sale. Hide out
behind the banner and change into your dress while I
drum up the crowd you have around? What people I'm
(08:29):
permitted to share with? True part? I didn't realize anybody
was back there. What are you doing anyway? I'm waiting
for the show. Oh yeah, you're your Andora? Is that right? Yeah?
(08:51):
You're really something. Look I don't I don't mean to
get you in no trouble, but those big guys and
that pale skin, just like a baby dough and not
so much of a baby either practically a grown up
dough soft and white. Anybody ever tell you you know?
(09:15):
She probably don't tell you how beautiful you are? And
I think we both know why that is. Tell me
what she h? What's she calling herself these days? The
gal running the show? I think she might used to
be a friend of mine. Rose, China Rose. China Rose
sounds like perfume or soap or something. I respect. That's
(09:38):
her stage name? What's tell me? What's your real name?
Can you tell me that? Say? China Rose is the
only name I know? Yes, huh, funny? She ever called
herself by the name? Leave the girl alone? You should
be back here, Leave us alone. I'll call the cops.
(09:59):
Whatever you say, duchess, I'll be watching. Who was that?
How should I know? I ever ever catch you talking
to that man or others like him? Did I not
hear your voice telling him my name? Pay attention to
(10:27):
your work. You let a man distract you, and he'll
destroy our act. We'll perform the word apostle just like
we planned. Yeah, yeah, yes, man, all right, then stop sulking,
(10:48):
clean yourself up, and I'll go drum up a crowd.
I did all that that's good. Isn't it not as
good as it seems? I spent fifty cents on bottles,
(11:12):
two dollars to print the labels, the rental of the wagon,
your dress, the ingredients, torches. What does that leave one
and six? What's that dollar? Oh? That's not so good.
It's a respectable beginning. We should start seeing real money
(11:33):
in three or four days. You you performed well, burl Oh,
thank you? How much do we need for the passage? Passage?
To what to see my father in Haley? You ask
too many questions. You do your job, allow me to
do mine. And speaking of jobs, there is one more
(11:57):
duty that I'll expect you to perform every evening after supper.
First light the lamp and bring me my toy, the toy,
the silver tray with the lacquered box, my toy box.
(12:18):
Hop you know, hop your medicine. I can survive without
it for a time, eating spoonfuls of yen she scraped
from the damper. But it's no substitute for this proper
curative restorative. Are you ill? Mm hmm? Some would say, here,
(12:46):
let me show you how to prepare it. Use the
knife to slice a piece of opium from the loaf.
Then you take this little hook called a yen hock huh,
and as the cooked opium thickens, you gently work it
(13:07):
into a little ball of putty like so the little
brown pearl just like this, And then we place it
in the bowl and tilt the pipe at an angle
so the flame warms the pearl. Careful that we don't
(13:28):
scorch it. You just want to heat it so the
breath of the dragon will travel up the pipe. And
I turned the pearl with the yin howk, so a
(13:49):
new area is exposed to the heat of the lamp,
and I just breathe. Ah. Some nights I will smoke
two pipes, sometimes three, scrape the yn she into the box,
(14:15):
and prepare another pearl, just like I showed you. If
a smoker is not able to obtain a proper toy,
she can eat a spoonful of yen she instead. Yes
you told me that. M oh, yes, Well it isn't pleasant,
(14:41):
but keeps the demons away. Pay attention. You might need
to know this someday rose mm hmm. Who was that man?
(15:02):
What man? The man and the bowler hat and the
coat with the fur color h The man who sugar
talked you. He didn't sugar talk me. Oh he did.
You just didn't know it. Didn't you notice the way
(15:23):
his eyes were skating across your face. It's the surest
sign of what off his lust. Ah. A woman doesn't
know she's being sugar talked until it's dripping down her
(15:45):
neck like molasses. I'm not a woman, I'm a girl.
Doesn't make any difference to them. Sooner the better, as
far as they care. Huhm. Take you away from me,
take away our livelihood, take away your power. If I
(16:14):
ever catch you talking to one of them, I'll have
you back at the convent before sunrise and you can
live the rest of your life there. M hmm. With
its ponds, it swans, the sisters lined up in a row,
(16:41):
Oregan music playing all the time. Oh, nothing to do
but watch the grass grow and breathe the air. Nothing
to do but breathe during the performance. You called me
(17:07):
a seventh daughter? What does that mean? Old Roman knee
superstition when they say the seventh daughter can commune with spirits,
and so you shall read minds conju voices from the
(17:29):
grave cause spirits to rise and frolic in the dark
under my guidance and hypnotic control. I'll do all that.
Mm hmm, it'll be just like tonight. Did you see
(17:50):
their faces tonight? The way the people looked at me,
It was almost as if I were some kind of freak. No,
m what were you going to say? Confidence is good,
it strengthens you. But don't believe the lies you're telling.
(18:15):
Don't eat the slop you're selling. Don't think of yourself
as anything other than what you are, which is what exactly,
at best, a diversion, the magician's misdirection. You're like a
(18:36):
dancing bear, the organ grinder's monkey in a white crept sheen,
and at worst a liar and a fraud. But it's
nothing to be ashamed of. The line between illusionist and
deceiver is a fine one, and your toes must always
(18:59):
touch upon it. Don't look so sad. You will find
this line of work quite rewarding. Continue to perform well,
and I'll take you to someone who can train you
in more elaborate skills, show you the real secrets, so
(19:19):
that maybe one day you can get your face painted
on a canvas banner, just like her, Just like her, Davina,
the woman on the canvas. Yeah? Was she? Was? She
my mother? What makes you ask that I look like her?
(19:45):
M h, I guess you're doing that. Did you know her? Yes?
I was told that she died when I was born.
H Did I kill her by being born? No? She
(20:09):
was dead already by the time they pulled you out
of her. Her life was over. Hush now sleep. Am
I a seventh daughter? Don't be silly? If you are
the seventh? Where are the other six? No? There is
(20:34):
only you and I and my father? What about my father? Rose?
When will we see my father? Rose? I must now
(21:02):
replace my blind fold. As my vision begins to fade,
Your own senses will gradually return, Return to the warmth
and the light of your own reality. The Seventh Daughter
(21:22):
is a production of I Heart Radio, written and directed
by Brett Wood, recorded and mixed by Rob Gal, featuring
Nca Wilkes as Rose and Elizabeth Hunter as Pearl. There,
you may now open your eyes.
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