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Broadcasting online 24-7. This is your station for the hits.

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Good morning my beautiful friends. It is 9.32am and you're listening to me, Jack Henson,

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with the morning muse. The skies are a little overcast here and it looks like it may start

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raining later but it's impossible to dampen our spirits in the studio later today. Do

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you know why? Because we have the launch of a brand new show. They made it big on their

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college radio station because of their show's unique concept which is kind of like real

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world new show mixed with a fantasy setting. It's great. It's weird but it's very very

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good and we are so so lucky to have them. And I know you're just as excited as me if

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that's even possible but for now you'll have to wait. You'll have to listen to me which

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I know that none of you want to do but hopefully we can stave off that disappointment with

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some music and some singing and some love and romance. So let us face the music and

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dance to this song here. This is Live in My Head by Elder Kedem.

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The radio crackles through speakers that struggle to carry the tune through the halls of an

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old radio station. The halls art deco light fixtures flicker and hum in tune to the music.

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Through an open door we see a sturdy tanker desk holding a modern mixing station near

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a glass room with some well-loved microphones and padded soundproof panels failing to hide

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the radio static bugs. The studio's happy hums are cut by a creak behind a locked door.

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The sounds of the building hold their breath, waiting. Second creak makes the room go even

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quieter. Even the room tone holds its breath. Nothing dares make a sound. Till a third gives

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the all clear and the station starts singing again. Outside we see the station and the

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hill that it sits atop. Large pine trees surround the station, beaten only by the signal tower

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in its height and a settled fog that winds its way through the trees and obscures the

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city below. A figure leans against the door of the station, keys in hand, playing a game

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on their phone. In the distance we hear a car making its way up the hill on the only

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road to the station.

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So Vic pulls up in a blacked out Challenger. Pretty beat up, very loud, very kind of noisily

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kind of revs into this parking lot. Not even going that fast, it's just a rough ass car.

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Stick shift, they take their kind of spiked like heeled Doc Marten boot off of the pedal

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and gather all of their stuff. They have a bunch of different bags that they bring in

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with them. A backpack, like a large kind of briefcase looking thing. And I think they

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kind of step up to the door. They are on the taller side, about 5'9". Pretty average build,

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maybe a bit thicker on the bottom. They're wearing a pantsuit, like a wide leg pantsuit

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on the bottom with a vest top and a plaid kind of back-bustled jacket over it. All of

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it looks like it probably came from a secondhand shop, but in a really stylish way. She's got

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a kind of cute little hat with a wide brim, sort of sloped over her forehead as she takes

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out the keys. And her hands shake gently as she inserts the key into the lock for the

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first time.

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You spot as you get closer to the door, a masculine person in a slightly ruffled but

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ultimately tidy suit. They come around the corner as they hear you, putting the key in.

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They have sharp features, you might describe them as slightly fox-like if you were to use

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like animal iconography. Oh, hey, you are for the new show, right? The name is...

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Iflyn.

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Oh, yes. Yeah, Al Iflyn Light. That's you, right?

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Yeah. Hey, I'm Vic. Who are you?

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Hi Vic. My name is Reed. It's nice to meet you. I was just here to make sure that you

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got in okay to text the boss. But that's great. I'm glad you got here. You already got the

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keys. We're all set up for today, right? Your show is in... They check a watch on them.

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In like seven, eight hours is your first broadcast. So we have everything prepped for today?

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Yeah. I mean, I don't think there's anything I need. Got some coolers in the back in case

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people need snacks. Do you have vending machines inside or...?

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Yeah. Yeah, we have some vending machines and coffee in the green room that you're welcome

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to use. There's no one recording today. So it's literally just you four on your own.

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Nice. Okay. Any deliveries or messages I got to look out for?

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No, nothing. No, not today. It's purely just your station. Yeah, we're not expecting anyone.

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Just booked you to plan and then perform. And then when you're done, or we just like

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lock up because you already have the keys, lock up and then give me a text that you got

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out and then that's it. That's all we need. Cool. All right. Thank you. Is your information

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inside? Do you have a card? Yeah, I got a card. Right. Well, since you're

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all situated, I'll be off. They walk past you to the only other car in the parking lot,

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pass it and then they drive off. As your key is now in the door and after they drive, you

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get a vvvvvvvvvvvvvv on your phone. Looking at it, you see that you have an email from

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a huge fast food chain that you had some minor correspondence with, which is Food Bucket.

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And this is Food Bucket's marketing manager. You just have a email saying, good luck on

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today's episode. They would love to get the ball rolling on sponsorship since we are national now.

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So if you could get just a small commercial endorsement spot said by any of the hosts,

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that would be a great start. Thanks, Vicky.

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Hmm. Well, I've moved mountains before. I think she pulls, um, like a really interesting looking

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vape pen out of the pocket near her lapel and takes like a long pull as she opens the door

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and like takes a really deep breath as she exhales. Her skin in the light is kind of like a really

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deep kind of sienna color. She wears rings on all of her fingers. And she kind of jingles softly

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as she walks in for the first time with her necklaces and her bracelets and things like that.

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You walk in and the jingle that you naturally give off kind of echoes and bounces down the hall.

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It's a nice building, old definitely, but pretty well looked after. There is, of course,

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that smell of like slight must, but that's to be expected in places like this.

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You are fully on your own save for the light hum of a large neon sign that says connections 95.8

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and the low tin of someone else's show going on on the speakers. So, Sloan, you're arriving.

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Sloan, you're arriving. What does your character's car look like?

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Or do they even arrive in a car? Do they get an Uber? How do they get there?

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So, my character is driving a 2004 Mercury Sable GS.

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Just the color of dirt, if dirt was dusty and dust if dust was dirty.

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There is a large crack in the front window that kind of goes from the center to the upper driver's

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side, just in an arc, which like you could try and replace it or fill it, but like what's the

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point? It's not going to go anywhere, you know, it's just there. It's got a bunch of dents and

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scrapes on it, indications of perhaps poor spatial awareness or maybe a little bit of zoning out while

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driving. And also it is covered in bumper stickers. There are so many bumper stickers on the back of

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her car, namely ones that say things like, please don't honk at me, I'll cry, or a picture of Ted

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Cruz that says this man ate my son, just like a rainbow with a Kermit the Frog adjacent character

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without copyright. That's like the rainbow connection or something like that. Just a whole bunch

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of bumper stickers going. I would say I'm going to put it at a humble 10 over the speed limit.

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Will you get into the parking lot? You spot Vic's car already being there. You might have actually

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passed Reed on the way in since there is truly only one road going in and out. So you passed

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someone who you don't really know and then got in to see just Vic there. What does the inside of

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her car look like? Pronoun? Absolutely fabulous question. Yes, she her pronouns. And the inside

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of her car has a bunch of Gatorade bottles sort of like strewn about on the ground, a couple of red

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bowls thrown in there. She at some point came upon a bolt of fuzzy pink fabric that she has stapled

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to the roof of the car to cover it. And has also sort of put it on the backs of her headrest and

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the passenger side headrest. There's like some scratches and random stains sort of all over the

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inside of the car. It smells very much like somebody at one point smoked in this car quite a lot.

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And then somebody drank coffee in this car quite a lot. And then somebody who shall remain nameless

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tried to cover both of those scents and failed. And yeah, she's got about three scented trees hanging

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from her rearview mirror. You know when you have like static on a lot and then the static stops

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and your mind is just at that like, you're just feeling that very like calm buzz of you don't have

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anything you need to do right now. You turn the car off and you open the door where there is no

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responsibilities. It's just you and you're just sat here and it's like that moment just before

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you fall asleep where everything is just perfect. But you know at some point you need to open the

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door and you know that tonight's episode needs to be planned and scripted. Have you done anything

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toward planning and scripting today's episode?

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She has, she looks over to the passenger seat and to the I would say pile of papers

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that have been just scribbled on front and back. Her notebook is actually probably two

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of her notebooks are stacked on top of each other some with papers hanging out partially ripped

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with just like notes and notes and notes. None of which really makes sense or are cohesive

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because she was pushing her head against a brick wall trying to come up with ideas for this thing

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and finally was just like I just need to write words on a piece of paper.

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So effort has been made and she's got a few things that she's excited to especially bounce

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off of other people and maybe get some input but she's feeling a little nervous about the fact that

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she hasn't really come up with a solid idea and is really hoping that somehow

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a miracle will happen and between the exit of her car and the threshold of the writer's room

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a magical idea will appear to her like a message from the universe.

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I do think however now it is time to open the door.

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You don't know how long you've sat in the car with the engine off but it has been

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some time. She tries to remember the calming techniques that she was told about in group therapy

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and can't really bring any of them to mind so instead she just opens the car door.

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When you open the car door there is a small clatter of

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her license and registration. Her name lands face up toward us. Tell me the name of your character

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or what do you do when your license and registration falls face up out of the car? What do they look at?

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What is a name? What's a name? She opens the door and from where her ID has fallen in between the

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door and the car seat because she does not have a wallet the ID just clatters to the ground and

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lands face up and there is a picture of her with shorter hair and there is a little piece of duct

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tape on it over where the name goes and that piece of duct tape says river. River lake.

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You take what I can imagine is incredibly small steps toward the building.

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Yeah she's shuffling. I mean she tends to have a pretty forward gait because she's always got

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places to be but definitely today she's taken more of her time which is to say that she's moving

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faster than most people but slow for her. River is I would say probably about 5'8". She is curvy.

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She is wearing a flannel shirt underneath a sort of like overall dress with leggings underneath

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and some sort of knockoff fuzzy UGG adjacent boot. She has sort of like a tasseled scarf around her

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neck and has a bright green beanie on her head. Her hair is cut sort of like to a little bit above

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shoulder length with bangs. It's a curly dark sort of mop. Her eyes are very dark and look out from

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these like octagonally shaped glasses and she carries a really old ratty bag made out of canvas

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that looks like one of those bags that grocery stores starting putting out in like the 2000,

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2010s to be like we love recycling but she's just had it forever and she is shuffling, shufflingly

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towards the door. Hello! Yo! Hey! Oh my god you already have everything set up. Fabulous! Wow!

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Are we allowed to have that in here? And she points to the bottles of liquor that are on the table.

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The only instructions I got were make sure we clean up before we leave and to lock the door.

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So as far as I'm concerned we're gonna have a nice recording session today. Yeah?

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I can't wait to hear what you've got. I don't know. Right now? No, no we can wait. We can

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brief everybody together but you know I'm just saying you know I'm excited. Yeah I know I'm really

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excited too. This is insane. Wow god it doesn't even feel real. Oh boy. How are you feeling

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about everything? Great, great. Yeah when everybody gets here I have something I need to ask

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hoping that... You know that immediately makes me feel so nervous. Yeah, yeah it's nothing to be

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nervous about. It's just you know part of the part of the gig. You know you gotta have every

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great radio station has ads you know. It'll be quick. Oh, oh, oh ads, ads, ads. Yeah ads, ads.

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It's normal it's part of the gig. Great. Okay yeah. Yeah, yeah no big deal. Yeah let's wait for

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everybody else to get here. I'm so excited. Hey, hey, hey, hey listen I've known you for a long time.

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Are you... is this about DMC? Are you nervous? You're you're being kind of... I'm just excited.

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You know I mean yeah obviously I'm really nervous too but I'm also really excited. It's like

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excitement and nerves which all feels like panic most of the time. Yeah I feel that. I think they

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sweep you up into like a surprise like a tack hug. Oh they... she for sure hugs back and just like

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pats you lightly. She's like hugging you without touching you with her palms because her palms are

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incredibly sweaty and she like just into your ears just like I'm sorry I smell like anxiety sweat.

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It's okay it's all right. Honestly it's not a bad smell. You're good. They kind of like stand back

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and look at you approvingly. She gives a big smile and puts her hands on her hips and just like

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strikes a pose and is doing that thing where like you just pose awkwardly because you don't know how

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to be normal in that situation. But like she and Vic have known each other for long enough and she

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feels comfortable enough with Vic that like she knows that Vic understands that this is just her

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being her. Yeah as she kind of like moves away back out of your personal space I think there's

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like a lingering look. Like a are you sure you're okay my friend? But she doesn't press it. Like

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they just move away and like give you your space but they definitely are like you're good you're

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great you know. Thanks um you know what else is great? These Doritos. Excuse me. She's gonna go

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for the bag and rip into it. Outside a third car pulls up. So Devin Michael Corris drives a Jeep.

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A it is a it is a black Jeep that it's not it's not new it's not fancy but it is well taken care of.

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DMC does has received this car from parents you know while he while he's saving up and he has

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taken care of it. It's something that it taking care of it respects the the offer and gift that

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his parents had given to him. And so he pulls in windows are all down he's listening to alt hits

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from the early 2000s.

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You are capable and deserving of love.

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All right let's do this. As you open the door and you say this affirmation to yourself you get a

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text. Your agent is very much in your corner is a like ride or die gives you huge opportunities

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and tries constantly. It's like really very good for arguably what could be a first agent of yours.

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The text that you get. Big opportunity tonight. I'm excited to hear the show. Everyone is going

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to love you but remember your show got popular because of you. Their show got more popular

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because of a gimmick. Make this your show now. Signed by Zeke. Thanks could not have done it

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without you. Zeke catch you later. Thanks again. DMC. There's that weird hum that happens to the

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world when it snows when everything is just incredibly quiet and it feels slightly like

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unnatural but that same feeling also happens when it is very foggy. In the past few hours this very

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large fog has rolled in and now you can barely see past like the second set of trees that surround

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this radio station and there is that almost comforting buzz of all of the sound getting

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soaked up in this uh in this tree line as you sit and you kind of absorb that feeling. It's broken by

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a very unique carcophonous sound of heavy metal just loud enough to drown out like the screeching

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mess of a car whose power steering and brake fluid and everything that you can imagine is

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perpetually leaking and is not really being well maintained. In the car if you were to catch her

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in your rear view mirror she is singing very loudly, arm like kind of hanging out the window

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and then also like in the middle seat here there is just like a cardboard like thing that is sort

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of like in the middle like coming up like resting on the other one of her arms and she's like sort

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of stabilizing that. You will see that the front door is actually there's there's bungee cords that

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have the front door held in place uh to the back door so she just sort of like hops out the front

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window um and onto the ground is wearing big combat boots, black jeans, black t-shirt, black

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fishnet stockings under the black t-shirt, smoky eye that's left the realm of smoky a little bit,

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dyed black like very clearly dyed black curly hair um that blue toned black. She's gonna hop

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out of the car then reach back in to turn off the music and then pull out the cardboard uh cutout.

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DMC hears the heavy metal and like starts bobbing his head like he's enjoying it too and throws up

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the international symbol for rock in Charlie's direction because he loves this vibe. Charlie

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gets out the car sees DMC in uh what can only be described as a as a yearning for 90s grunge.

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It is uh jeans that are slightly too tight, a slightly oversized flannel and a read band

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books tee. He is a little bit on the shorter side about around five six five seven close cropped

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hair and looks like he's from a country that was colonized by Spain.

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Oh yeah yeah hey hey you um yeah see you uh

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are you not going in? You changed your mind? Oh no I was uh just answering a text how you doing

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Charbar? Uh yeah come again uh no no I can I can do something else. No no Char no Char Charbar

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Oh you don't like it? No I just we'll workshop it. What is the what's the bar for?

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Like is it is it is it is a reference?

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No it kind of like your your name is Charlie taking the char part of Charlie rhyming it with

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Char part of Charlie rhyming it with something bar I mean I mean I mean like candy bar your it's

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pretty sweet you know right just Charbar no you don't like it? No I I think it's you know I think

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it's I think it's you know you you're you're it you just kind of came up with that and that's kind

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of that's great that's awesome that you kind of just like you're off the cuff I like that about

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you yeah we should go inside let's head inside and we'll take the giant cardboard cut out of a

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dragon wearing glasses sunglasses um and shouting hey do you help with that no

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no I think I think when we when we enter DMC announces DMC and Charlie in the house hey

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what's up hey we're down here yo hey yeah just oh down down the hall uh she sticks her head out

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of the doorway and just like waves down the hallway uh does like a a gasp to Charlie and like waves

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very obnoxiously to her hey hey hey as soon as Charlie is next her just like slings an arm over

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her shoulder in the very familiar way that old friends do just like not even really thinking

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about it just hug oh man you got the anxiety sweats you okay we don't need to say it out loud

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like I maybe I could say it out loud but we don't all need to say we don't need to comment on it

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we just well I mean do you do we need to take a 10 I'm I hey listen and she like shows you her

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hand and is covered in Dorito dust and she's like I'm taking a 10 working on it okay okay

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yeah I'm working on it right now when River like throws this very familiar arm around Charlie and

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you know they walk in together chatting how how does DMC feel I think while that exchange is going

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on DMC pushes past to see the dig see what the new equipment is see a vic is anywhere in the room or

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like in the booth or something just so that I don't have to be an awkward presence around these two

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friends Vic is leaning up against kind of the soundboard an area that doesn't have any buttons

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on it so that their butt doesn't like mess with the tech and they're just kind of smoking their pen

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they kind of nod to Charlie and on their way to kind of welcome DMC Charlie you feel like a low

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low dab like their knuckles like looking for yours as they kind of pass you so Vic approaches you

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they don't usually wear any kind of like makeup it's just usually like a black lip gloss she

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kind of just smiles like a welcoming smile hey it's good to see you are you excited you too

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this is awesome look where we are we're doing it right I got your favorite snacks I've got

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sparkling water we've got tequila and whiskey for later on when we want to celebrate yo t-dubs

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hell yeah let's go yeah so hey um you got nerves what's going on with you me you know just pre-show

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nerves like like anything else but no we we got this this is the the show is is well tested

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people like it we just you know got to do more of that right that's all just more there's more of

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this listen you I picked you because you and river have fantastic chemistry you look good together

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you sound good together that improv show that you dragged me to is great surprisingly um and I think

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the best thing to come out of it you enjoyed it yeah this is the best thing to come out of it

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now we have this whole new approach uh our higher-ups are pretty excited thrilled even um

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um charlie is great great charlie is great charlie is great no yeah no I think honestly

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I think charlie makes the show like just charlie doesn't make the special sauce but I also know

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that charlie uh doesn't love change always and your change has it been any friction you I mean

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we did the test together love river we got great chemistry I think uh we're just we just need to

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get in there and start recording and just let you know let the magic fly you know yeah I agree

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okay well we're gonna have a meeting in a couple minutes uh got some things to say I think river

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wants to address everybody and go over their show notes and um I've got something small to ask that's

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not a big deal cool okay all right charlie as uh river goes back to their snack Dorito pile

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and DMC and Vic talk you get a small buzz on your on your phone you have a

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reddit a subreddit for your show and there's a new there's a new post it's just people

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being like oh I'm excited for tonight I'm looking forward to the the first like show after they get

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picked up by this someone commented that it's a bit of a shame that you're not in in more of a

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host seat because you were just so sweet you know you seem so nice there was an episode where you

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asked if river was okay and comment just says it just seems like they're really good friends

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I know a comment yeah but they're not in a lot of pictures together like it seems like

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Vic doesn't take a lot of pictures so I don't actually think they're real friends but you know

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I I'm sure I'm sure she's fine but um I don't know it then there might be something there

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and then the comments start just slowly becoming this almost theorizing on your friendship

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I find like a you know couch or whatever in this green room to to laze upon as I stare at this

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and like it wouldn't be easy to tell this at first even knowing Charlie for very long

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but there is after like a few minutes River would probably pick up on the familiar

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like click clack of like a comment being typed and deleted typed and deleted and typed and deleted

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she throws a Dorito over at Charlie and says stop doom scrolling through like a mouthful of chips

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sure but would you say that we're friends enemies or a secret third thing what what

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I'm just I'm just you know the the the crowd wants to know and I'm like are you on the reddit

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that are Charlie no I'm just asking because I am doing a lie yeah okay yes very uh well you know

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actually that is very believable but I fucking know you're on the reddit I really think that

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you should think about deleting that app from your phone but like yeah who cares what they're

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saying it just I mean I get it but like listen if you put a comment in there they're just gonna like

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use that as fuel for their fire they're obsessing over something very minuscule

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and it's honestly it's not really their business it's but if you were to ask me

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I would say that we are friends enemies and also a secret third thing

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good good that's the right answer it is the right answer you know I just I do think that my process

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of typing and deleting is much like the ritualistic burning of of you know your your diary statements

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at the um Charlie at the end of the year you know it's like yeah yeah it's therapeutic

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I'm okay oh wait oh so do we want it we want to do this now we think like now so do we want to drag

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this out huh we're gonna talk about talk about our coping mechanisms because we can talk about it

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if you wanna you want to bring that out you don't need to talk about it all right oh what do you got

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for today that was a cruel change of subject Charlie and I don't appreciate it at all and I

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don't appreciate it at all and she's like smiling as she says it um kind of has an ever-present

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smile is the kind of person that smiles uh when she is nervous and also angry and also happy and

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also sad and she gives a little giggle and then sort of sighs and uh grabs like a handful of paper

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towels and just starts like smearing the Dorito dust off of her hands I have had a little bit of

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trouble coming up with stuff for today I think probably just because the nerves are getting in

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the way um but I did write some stuff out and I shipped some things to Vic and they were into some

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of those things and um I figured um actually I thought that uh before I settled on anything

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I would bring it to the full table so that uh Devon could have some input that's that's like

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you know I can't find any flaw in that plan yeah no that is that that's a good plan um

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well you know just let me know how I can help I'll be around uh also

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where do we want to put Charles um green room or recording booth do you think I feel like

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recording booth like we gotta we gotta stare at him while we gotta we gotta we gotta also like

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I feel like we should do some like BTS for this and everyone's gonna love it yeah if he's in there

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with us yeah yeah I'll make TikToks it'll be it'll be good you talk about doing that like you're an

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old man I gotta film some TikToks for the you know some TikToks grandpa for the youth

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you do hear an alarm go off just a phone alarm like a phone buzz not like a big alarm from

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Vic's phone as I imagine Vic has set a timer to when the meeting has to begin

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meeting has to begin you have 10 minutes to 10 minutes to vibe the meeting is precisely

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at this time just to give you a an idea of space in this place there are um several rooms there's

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the main entrance that you all walked in the hallway of course there is the green room

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recording booth there is a security office a regular like admin office and a writer's room

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which is just like a it has like a large table and several other chairs around it some bean bags

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mainly a place for people to go and gab and gossip it's a nice building it's like has that slight

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smell of must but you know that almost comforting smell of must that you find in like antique stores

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and when you go into like old church halls people have been there but it has that kind of musk smell

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all the doors are open and they're nice all all of the equipment is like pretty pretty okay uh the

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the computers aren't like the highest tech I think they probably capped out of like

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Windows XP but I mean hey they work

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so everyone meets in the writer's room there's a white board with pens you can write stuff on

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yeah bringing in bringing in the snacks um the crinkle of snack bags and maybe the clunk of a

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bottle of tequila um and I guess river probably just turns around is like well how's everybody

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feeling ready go let's go feeling pretty good yeah this is this is great um first of all thanks uh

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which is kind of silly but thank you for being here I don't know I just want to start this off

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by just basking in it a little bit um Vic thank you so much for getting us this opportunity um you

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work so hard for it and we work so hard for it and you especially work so hard for it I said that

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already but um I just yeah clap and there's like the awkward sound of three people clapping while

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Vic stands there um and uh Charlie uh you literally have been with me since the very very beginning and

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obviously could not have done any of this without you and your hard work and your intelligence and

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skill um and just like I appreciate you so much and I'm so glad that we get to bring you

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get to stay together and be together um for this and um yeah and Devin so nice to have you on the

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team um it's an honor really yeah yeah it's really really like I'm I'm so excited uh uh when

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Vic told me that you were going to be joining our team I was just so thrilled um which you know

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obviously because I've already told you would not be here with without any of you three this is this

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is all I'm just I'm just here yeah yeah yeah yeah um but uh since since we've done all of that um

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let's talk about run of show um I have a couple of notes and I left most of them in my car

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but I do have my notebook here but I kind of wanted to throw out a couple of things and then

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leave it open because I'd really like everyone to maybe have a bit of input on this first go around

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um so you know I sent out that text saying like hey keep an eye out for fun news stories or

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anything like that so if y'all want to like if you have a notes list you want to break that out let's

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let's sit down and get to it let's brainstorm this thing

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I definitely want to include something that's a little bit lighter so I found a couple of um

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sort of like funny pieces that we can start with um there was this uh this story out of Florida

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and there was this story out of Maine and I think maybe we can take them and sort of mix them

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together so that instead of it being like either a bear breaking down somebody's front door or

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a guy um like ripping off somebody's uh the back door of somebody's jeep it can be like a bear that

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rips down the door of a wagon all of you hear the front door open nobody else is supposed to be here

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today hello yo as I call that like just out the door into the main entrance hallway hold on I'll

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I'll go check I'll uh pop my head out of the room Vic backs you up the front door is open

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it's just like wide open maybe maybe the wind opened it I'll be right back I'm gonna go close it

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isn't there a key card swipe I mean there's keys that I have that go in the lock but not a key card

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swipe it's also one of those weighted doors that like every time you've opened it it just shuts

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behind you I'll take a look and just as I as I'm approaching I'm just like hello anyone come in

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um can you give me a brain's roll please first roll of the game oh I forgot we were playing

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get your character sheet out chuckles I had the dice ready to go

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those bones yeah let's do it nine because I rolled the d10 the fog has set in pretty heavy now

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you previously when you couldn't see like past the second line of trees now you can barely see

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past the first the any form of outside influence the city below is completely covered in fog

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the road almost instantly like goes if you can barely see to the end of the car park

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with your nine you see just next to a tree just before um the fog completely falls away

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there is someone standing

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just just before they get completely developed by the fog and they are facing toward the door

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toward the door I stare until they disappear contemplate for a second and I

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spooky another day in paradise and I close the door and make sure it just shuts door shuts there's

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that satisfying of the door fully shutting you test it it's fine you walk back to the

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writers room when you walk back in I'm in the middle of yeah so this there's this cat that got

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elected mayor of a small city in Arizona so I feel like we could use that but like that's that

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yes lay up lay up lay up I love it I love it um what if instead of a cat it's oh god um

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who boy I think I really think we can bring this yeah bear cat yeah bear cat bear unless

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that already exists in real life like there actually is a bear cat it's um also known as

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a binturong uh they smell like popcorn the Philippines that's unrelated the Philippines

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yeah oh you already knew you already knew that no no no I didn't even know they were called bear

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cats I um yeah uh I did a report on them when I was in like elementary school what if what if

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dire bear cat and we just let people just who know of the binturongs just just let them know that

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shit that's a good idea that's a fucking good idea yeah um yes yes yes yes yes yes yes is the

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mayor giant letters on the whiteboard dire bear cat the door opens again did you lock it what the

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fuck hold on uh I got it no I got Charlie and I stick our heads out the door at the same time

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you're busy you're busy I'll get it I'll get it I locked it in or latched it and Vick throws you

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the keys can you can you make sure it's just we're all sewn up nobody else is supposed to be here

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I don't know what kind of weird shit's happening but this is really stupid and I don't want to get

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it we're on a strict schedule is all I'm saying okay let me we can't be going to the door every

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five minutes right right right yes yeah yeah no no problem no problem yeah yeah you go to the door

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it's it's wide open again and I'm assuming I see the same like thick fog and everything

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like enveloping everywhere else um can you give me a brains I sure can

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three take an adversary token adversity tokens I was wondering if we were going to use these

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we did we got an adversity token I want diversity token it's just foggy out there's no one there um

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okay uh I am gonna use my particular set of skills I'm gonna slam the door shut and I'm gonna uh just

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go into like any room and find like any I don't know desk chair or whatever just like lodge it

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underneath the door the the green room where you just were would be the easiest place to

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find it when you and river left did you shut the door I feel like we left it open yeah

384
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:06,400
it's shut oh I would not notice yeah and I would just open it yeah um

385
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:22,640
um it's locked uh well Vic gave me keys so and you open it easy um yeah the smell of slight must is a

386
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:27,360
little okay it's it's that thing where it's like you know when you haven't smelt a room in a while

387
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:33,680
it's like that's strong yeah that's a room yeah yeah you get that and you grab a chair

388
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:43,760
yeah I'll shove it up under the door legal providers room I imagine yep I toss Vic the keys

389
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:53,200
back and uh yeah I think that should be handled um I don't know this place is pretty nice and

390
00:50:53,200 --> 00:51:00,560
everything but uh apparently not nice enough to have doors that stay shut who might yeah also

391
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:07,120
like good air circulation it smells like mothballs in here maybe that's why they don't have locks on

392
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:12,960
any of the doors to keep keep the air flowing I'd rather have mothballs and whatever kind of weird

393
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:20,800
must then stale pizza boxes and rotten beer cans I don't know that's just me that's just me yeah no

394
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:26,160
cigarette smells in here it's supposed to be like a stout old environment better better a little musty

395
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:33,520
than like literally a black mold infestation literally that yeah arguably that was a fun

396
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:43,600
semester it was it was a great semester Vic uh stands up and looks at everybody um

397
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:51,440
their hair uh is in kind of thick locks down kind of one side of their faces their hats kind of

398
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:58,240
tilted back so you can see uh their eyes they're obviously trying to connect in this moment you

399
00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:05,360
know um y'all should be really proud of yourselves I know you're saying thank you to me but I wouldn't

400
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:12,080
be here without any of you you work really really hard and it's taken a lot for us to get here but

401
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:18,000
you know I know it's less than perfect but it's better than I think any of us really thought it

402
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:25,600
could be back in our days and you know the studio on campus it's disgusting and like look what we've

403
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:31,200
graduated to and imagine where we could be just a year from now things blow up all the time we have

404
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:38,080
all the ingredients we need for success seriously this new person we have here I know that DMC you're

405
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:44,400
gonna do a great job Charlie there's nobody that I trust more than you you always just bring it and

406
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:50,640
you come with it every time and I know that it's going to be perfect 100% because of you and River

407
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:56,720
I mean this is your baby this is your baby and you finally get to see it grow up you got a little

408
00:52:56,720 --> 00:53:06,240
toddler now I mean I don't know I'm not oh yeah getting a little bit um whatever this is embarrassing

409
00:53:06,240 --> 00:53:12,800
um they kind of like wipe some phantom tears from their eyes it's cool it's cool um

410
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:22,000
anyway yeah so I was gonna say if you wouldn't mind in the spirit of togetherness our first show

411
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:30,480
together really kind of trying to you know in the spirit of unity there is maybe maybe there's a

412
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:38,160
food bucket in the town um you know we we're all about satire right social satire uh so maybe in

413
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:46,080
our new location uh there's a food bucket and um maybe I don't know Charlie you can be like a dragon

414
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:53,120
customer that like walks in and orders uh their double beefy burger from food bucket

415
00:53:56,080 --> 00:54:00,720
yeah I mean you can we can call it like ye old food bucket like with an e you know like that

416
00:54:00,720 --> 00:54:06,160
okay okay wait wait wait yeah let's see like what if that's funny right it's good it's good

417
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:12,880
right it's good it's good was a thing called the food bucket and it was just like you know

418
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:17,520
it was like a latrine you know it's like just like oh yeah it's like an outhouse right

419
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,280
yeah yeah I gotta hit the food bucket man

420
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:27,600
I like that actually I think that's really cute yeah and then we have food bucket in our world

421
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:35,120
which yeah yeah right except like the latrine is outside and the restaurant is inside and you can

422
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:40,880
get really delicious food for your family for under 25 dollars right Nick what is this

423
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:52,320
what I'm yeah I just well you're just talking like you know like on the Disney channel when like

424
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:58,640
they like talk about a soap and then they look directly into the camera you kind of did that

425
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:07,360
for a second it was like I don't know why do you care about food bucket so much yeah what what is

426
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:17,600
this no no I mean so um it's it's not no no no no I see what's going on like like we we're we

427
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:21,920
have this whole writing room set up and ideas and stuff and Vic just wants to be a part of it like

428
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:30,320
that's right that's yeah and I mean you know the people Pete Peach called um you know I got an

429
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:38,160
email from Peach uh we had had a discussion uh with the the corporation last week um and they

430
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:42,480
were really excited to have us on board they set us up with this as kind of like an introductory

431
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:52,720
experience uh plenty of growth potential as you know um and you know um we got a sponsorship so

432
00:55:52,720 --> 00:55:57,280
maybe there's just you know like just casually there's like a like a food bucket I mean or

433
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:05,040
or or you know um Charlie you wanted to be more involved uh you could just do like a quick I think

434
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:09,120
they sent like a 30 second spot that you could just like do a live read as well that's also an

435
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:16,240
option um and add really quick uh you just kind of yeah like a fill you know I mean that's not

436
00:56:16,240 --> 00:56:27,440
really we haven't really done that uh we we haven't no I mean we're the so it's time for first

437
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:32,080
today I thought like I thought we were you know we were doing doing new stuff today you know what

438
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:39,280
it's cool it's cool like that you know what you're right you're that's not punk rock um and I'm I can

439
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:46,880
take care of it I'll figure something I'm gonna take care of it well uh yeah yeah yeah I mean

440
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:54,480
is this gonna is this what is the what is the nature of of this because it it feels like maybe

441
00:56:54,480 --> 00:57:01,280
there's something more than just like chill it doesn't I don't know I've never really known like

442
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:05,360
a business to be super cool and chill about something is this like an agreement

443
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:12,640
uh you know I mean part of our agreement like we had discussed when we took the deal

444
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:19,680
was that you know we would work with the other brands in the network when we would need to um

445
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:26,480
and yeah this is just it's just one of those times I mean there was like it's like manageable

446
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:33,120
growth right like we're right I got you Vic I got you I see I see maybe we can do something

447
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:38,000
like with the with like Bucky like like introducing Bucky the food bucket mascot you know

448
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:45,520
I mean I I think that that would be really funny you know we can't like make fun of it uh so to

449
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:51,040
speak but it can make fun of itself maybe maybe something that's like you know I'm so delicious

450
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:59,440
wait all right what are the Vic what are the parameters of of this because I it DMC

451
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:05,280
he seems to get it but I'm a little confused can we can you I think we should talk more about this

452
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:11,680
can you tell us more like what are the details yeah just that you you need to put food bucket

453
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:20,720
anywhere from 15 to 30 seconds in or around the podcast you know uh we can um I could try to work

454
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:27,680
something out where it is you know um our life sponsored by food bucket but I felt like maybe

455
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:32,000
that was a little ham-fisted so that's why I went with like in you know something like in more of

456
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:40,400
an insertion into the fiction you know um it's fine it's you know what maybe maybe hear me out

457
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:49,120
maybe what we do is like we go like real low-key with it and instead of food bucket it's like

458
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:56,640
I don't know oh snack basket I could see I could see if something like that would like maybe bridge

459
00:58:56,640 --> 00:59:01,440
the gap maybe we don't have to like save them by you mentioned that there was an option for an ad

460
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:10,880
read and to be honest when I said that I wanted to be more involved I did not mean ad reads

461
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:24,320
not mean ad reads however I do really really care about like our universe so I think I would love

462
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:34,000
to do some ad reads um as long as they so that it stays separate from the show itself

463
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:43,760
yeah yeah totally totally Charlie is just looking at river like a little bit like so that we don't

464
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:53,440
have to have food bucket in our universe yeah yeah a team player okay yes Charlie I appreciate

465
00:59:53,440 --> 01:00:03,920
that a lot um can't they just like send us a a clip that we can play during our our episode like

466
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:08,640
something we can play before we go to a music break like they can just they can send us something

467
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:15,280
that's pre-recorded you know I hear I hear hello fresh do it all the time they have like people

468
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:19,920
just stick it into the podcast and I guess it's like different I don't know well we years or

469
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:24,960
something but like we had stuff like this over at the radio station and certain you know some

470
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:30,640
people would buy an amount of time for the djs to plug their products this is something like that

471
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:35,040
right Vic yeah it's just part part of the professionalism of it all the you know like

472
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:41,520
we're we're here and we gotta we gotta pay to keep the lights on right so that I'm Vic I think

473
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:48,800
like like you're gonna talk to them back seat back pocket we got team player char bar Charlie

474
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:56,720
here um to do ad reads in case they need us to do it right I just think they should send us something

475
01:00:56,720 --> 01:01:06,160
yeah and Vic will Vic will sort that out right like yeah convey our wants to the network and then

476
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:12,880
the problem with that though is that the data shows that it's not actually as successful

477
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:18,640
when you do it that way people know that they're being sold to um but if it's someone like one of

478
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:23,840
you that does the read they recognize your voice they recognize the world and um they're interested

479
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:31,920
in the content so I mean a whole I don't know I just feel like I just feel like that's kind of

480
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:38,480
why why do they even want to be in our world we pretty much explicitly make fun of places like

481
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:44,720
food bucket like what's what's the draw what's the desire I don't I don't I don't really get it I

482
01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:51,280
feel like it would be awkward and weird I mean you know it's it's because we're cool and uh a brand

483
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:57,840
associating with a cool brand equals a cooler brand you know um it's it's cool it's cool don't

484
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:06,560
worry about it um I I am gonna go and uh you guys keep talking don't worry about food bucket we're

485
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:13,200
good um I have some ideas so I'm gonna go take care of that and I've got your backs and uh yeah

486
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:22,720
thanks Vic if we do go with the ad read um what I mean just I'm just thinking spitballing do you

487
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:29,680
think I should do it as me do you think or do you think maybe it should be chum or do you think it

488
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:41,520
should be uh George St. Rogers who does the yeah I mean chum is a chum is a fan for you I mean

489
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:47,600
chum is a chum is a fan favorite um here I um I have the script I printed it out to the liberty

490
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:53,600
if you don't mind uh and um you uh go ahead and make whatever edits you want to it if you want uh

491
01:02:55,520 --> 01:03:01,840
you'd be doing us a huge favor and they kind of slide the paper I read for it okay

492
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:11,360
okay or at the very least she uh like crushes in close next to Charlie and is like two inches

493
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:18,480
away from the script just like looking at it yeah reading it yeah the script is very much like

494
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:24,240
chum bucket is the perfect place to come on a Friday night your whole family can eat for

495
01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:33,040
25 with things like our salted fish fillet our amazing food bucket french fries three orders

496
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:39,360
of hamburger meals just for you and your kids we've got Bucky come on down he'll do a dance

497
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:46,960
like it's really it's super salesy like it's terrible it's atrocious um is it the full email

498
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:51,920
that Vic printed out or is it just the script it's just the script cool thanks Vic uh I

499
01:03:51,920 --> 01:04:00,080
appreciate that can I take a look sure as I I raise my hand you don't have to raise your hand

500
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:06,480
push the script across the table to him I grab it and just I just I just look at it and like start

501
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:12,400
practicing it to myself like as I would back when I was DJ DJing at the radio station uh the the

502
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:19,680
campus radio station just very quietly okay and the other you Bucky will do it okay I don't know

503
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:26,480
if we do the ad read we like might still be able to do the food bucket latrine thing in the show

504
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:32,480
they're not gonna let us down no do you think they're gonna actually listen they'll like I

505
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:39,600
mean I think that it'll caught I you I don't know how any of this stuff works I do understand that

506
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:45,120
it's very complicated yeah and if we don't like follow whatever whatever contract exists

507
01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:53,680
it's gonna be a lot of harm more harm than good yeah contracts or something I don't I

508
01:04:54,720 --> 01:05:00,400
but Vic said that she would take care of it so I'm pretty sure we're covered they've got it sure

509
01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:07,120
yeah yeah and we we also have other like we have most of the outline now we should probably finish

510
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:12,640
that before you know really diving into details of one yeah yeah and you know whatever like

511
01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:17,680
if Vic didn't have it covered they wouldn't say that they had it covered so we're set we're good

512
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:26,000
sure so let's finish let's finish this um let's wrap this bad boy and she's gonna jump back into

513
01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:33,440
planning did Vic leave the room yeah Vic kind of slinks to the back of the room and goes out into

514
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:40,960
the hallway and is just furiously emailing trying to find loopholes and way around that fucking door

515
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:48,080
that fucking door is open again the chair is halfway across the room hey guys I thought you

516
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:52,080
said you fucking secured the door I gave you my keys and everything wait I put it is it open again

517
01:05:52,800 --> 01:06:00,560
steel it's open again chair that's not funny no I did seriously come over here come over here come

518
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:05,520
look at it come look at it because like I'm having I'm already anxious enough I don't need this so

519
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:11,360
can you just come in please I hold on I got this I am going to go to the fucking door

520
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:20,400
and I walk up to it and I first of all I like look through look into every room that I pass by

521
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:26,320
just trying to see shit all of the doors are like a jar or open and I don't see anything in the

522
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:33,920
rooms no I like I look down the corner of the hallway and then I just like stick my head out

523
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:38,880
the door and look in both directions out to like check and see if there's no one standing outside

524
01:06:40,560 --> 01:06:45,680
or anything like that yeah there's no one standing outside no need for a roll you can look as hard or

525
01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:50,240
as soft as you want and there's nothing is the fog still there the fog is still there very much

526
01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:58,960
how cold is it it's pretty cold it's getting it's like yeah crossing into winterish so

527
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:05,920
okay it's cold uh well this door sucks um but I guess that's why it's so musty and here it's

528
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:13,200
so freaking humid and she like just grabs the door and is going to push it closed as soon as you

529
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:19,680
close it there's a every single door down the hallway slam shut and it's through the speakers

530
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:27,120
your show starts blaring incredibly loud like episodes that you have all recorded start echoing

531
01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:33,120
through the the halls past the hall in the recording room which that door is still very

532
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:37,520
much open the door inside the recording room that is locked there is this like

533
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:43,520
like someone is like banging furiously at it trying to get in and it all kind of

534
01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:50,240
raises the lights flicker everything dies immediately

535
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:56,400
and the door to the green room

536
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:07,280
opens just just slightly the hell that shit wasn't live was it i'm under enough pressure i don't

537
01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:11,520
fucking need this today what the fuck what the fuck i don't need this today what the fuck

538
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:17,520
river just like immediately feeling incredibly alone at this end of the hallway is going to like

539
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:23,600
rush back towards everybody else um and sort of like everyone is standing out in the hole yes

540
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:29,200
is going to like cling to whichever body she comes upon first um and is just like what the

541
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:36,240
fuck what the shit what look i this place you know i i know it's an upgrade but you know they've

542
01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:44,480
clearly got some sort of their own mess we should just call the i don't know owner or whatever oh

543
01:08:44,480 --> 01:08:51,600
i've got a guy hey who the fuck is in here dmc is gonna i'm gonna grab the chair that was

544
01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:57,680
you know and hold like start approaching the door to the green room with the chair in hand

545
01:08:57,680 --> 01:09:02,320
for a wrestler style yeah yeah yeah call them i have the business card of a guy uh that i met

546
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:06,880
earlier i'm gonna call i'm gonna call is the door to the writing room closed everything is closed

547
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:14,480
except for the door to the groomer vic are you calling read i am as soon as you click call that

548
01:09:14,480 --> 01:09:20,480
the number you've called has not been recognized please check and try again what the fuck i try

549
01:09:20,480 --> 01:09:28,880
like two more times and if it still doesn't work i try to uh google read name of the studio see if

550
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:39,760
i can find social media you are able to get some form of 5g signal you google and this place has a

551
01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:45,840
manager and it is read there is a picture of him i have pulled my phone out as well and i'm trying

552
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:55,680
to call the same number and then uh i think if it doesn't pick up she's gonna dial um her aunt call

553
01:09:55,680 --> 01:10:04,160
your aunt and the same thing fuck uh there's a uh a guy she's been talking to that she was in a um

554
01:10:04,160 --> 01:10:11,520
school uh study group with once and she clicks his name which is just like a tractor emoji and

555
01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:22,960
then a bunch of uh clover leaves and an eggplant and then uh hits that name fuck my phone i can't

556
01:10:22,960 --> 01:10:29,200
call anyone it's giving me the same same dial tone every single time what's going on i'm seeing

557
01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:34,960
reid's face hold on maybe i can email social media anything can you dm him his email is also

558
01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:42,640
on the back of the card oh great send an email what am i fucking 50 oh she's gonna open her gmail

559
01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:50,720
account and type in the uh email address and just be just just what what do we what do we even say

560
01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:56,400
what do we even say just ask him to come out uh that's what i'm gonna say and just tweet uh hey

561
01:10:56,400 --> 01:11:03,040
read um uh something weird is happening with the lights and we think that there might be an intruder

562
01:11:03,040 --> 01:11:09,520
in the studio uh please help or call 911 or both um because that would be helpful

563
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:17,920
river you send it and it goes you don't get a bounce back email or anything it fully sends

564
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:24,880
i send a similar dm it sends all right so we just you know we just wait to hear back

565
01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:30,880
what if someone's here i feel like i'm gonna go check it out don't what that's like i have it i

566
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:37,760
have a chair by yourself this is literally exactly what you're not supposed to do is go and do it oh

567
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:46,000
be a hero river i'm not a hero just i we can't just sit here and wait i can't these are steel

568
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:50,080
toe boots just go i feel like it's very reasonable to sit here and wait i'm gonna go towards the

569
01:11:50,080 --> 01:11:58,720
green room door and as i'm holding the the the steel chair and tap it open with my foot very

570
01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:05,280
sheepishly and then it swings open like i'm gonna almost get like swing at nothing you know like

571
01:12:05,280 --> 01:12:16,160
it just prepare like almost as if i was expecting a dude to be behind the door what do i see as you

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kick open the door tap open the door you don't take a step as people take steps you are just

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you just are in another room fog covers the walls and comes up to your chest you are still holding

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the chair and then a single spotlight the metallic hum envelopes you hello there beautiful people

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thank you so much for listening to episode one of frequencies and a special thank you to

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all of the people who have supported us on patreon so far uh with an extra extra special

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thank you to kalim parker lang and rodrigo thank you heroes