Dec. 30, 2025

Eternal Lies 24: Murder and Music

Eternal Lies 24: Murder and Music

With a suspicious character in their grasp the investigators do what they do best: lie through their teeth to get information they don't quite know how to use.

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Content Warnings: Coercion, Murder, Self-harm, Addiction, Violence to a friend or loved one

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Daniel's Dread Tails is a show
for grown-ups.

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It may contain adult language
and adult themes.

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Please check the episode
description for content

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warnings.
Last time on Eternal Lies, after

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uncovering the whereabouts of
Brooks's and de Luz's love nest,

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the investigators decided to pay
them a visit, calling in Officer

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Blanco for backup if needed.
Arriving at the address, the

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investigators were immediately
stopped dead in their tracks by

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a concierge who told them he,
and I may be paraphrasing a bit

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here, thought Brooks was a real
cool cat and it was fine by him

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if the world ended.
In fact, the lack of due process

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was a great excuse, because he'd
have done everything he possibly

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could to ensure the world burned
as he laughed.

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With the assistance of Officer
Blanco, the mad concierge was

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subdued long enough for the
investigators to make a break

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for the penthouse, where, after
some wider bumbling, they

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discovered a hidden room.
As it turned out, they weren't

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the only ones checking in on Mr.
Brooks's abode.

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The die is cast.
The fact is sealed.

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May God have mercy on our souls.
It's Daniel's dreadtales.

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That guy who?
Brought horses to his hand.

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Maybe it's both.
Very well be both.

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Victor Cortez was this name of
the person.

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You bet Victor Cortez was not
the name of the man who brought

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horses to North America.
His last name was Cortez.

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His last name was.
Cortez.

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Hernan Cortez, right?
And then he went into making

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records.
OK, we're off topic.

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Very much so.
It's been a while since we

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recorded.
We're we're just getting back

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into it.
Probably Donald.

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I hopefully this isn't the start
of the episode.

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Or maybe it is, I don't know.
Camera pans to Kearns jabbing

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the gun under the guy's fat
chin.

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He's fat, right?
I.

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Don't know if I described him as
fat, did I?

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He was out of breath from
climbing the fire escape.

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But that's because he's a
smoker, right?

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Yeah, smokes like a chimney.
I was imagining like a the white

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back gentleman.
He's not super in shape, but I

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wouldn't necessarily call him
overweight.

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OK, anyway, I mean, compared to
compared to Kearns.

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I'm sorry.
Yeah.

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So I'm jamming the gun under his
chin and I look at my more

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brainy companions and I motion
with my hand like go ahead.

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Well, he's already agreed to
help us out with this.

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I don't think the gun says.
Yeah, No, we're cooperating.

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See, this is me cooperating.
Cooperating.

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And then you Get Me Out of here.
Oh my friend, this is just in

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case you change your mind.
I have not changed my mind.

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I have of the opinion that I am
listening to you and answering

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your questions and then you deal
with Brooks so he doesn't deal

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with me.
Please don't kill me.

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I like this guy already.
Well, we got things to do, so

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we'll see how it works out.
Yeah.

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So can I leave town then?
Or we could?

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You said you have things to do,
so I'll just be on my way.

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Good try buddy.
Oh, good try.

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No, we're going to take you up
on that answering questions

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thing.
In particular, you suggested you

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might know where Brooks is.
Yeah, he's holed up in his

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studio.
Which studio?

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Well, he has a new secret studio
it's underground in.

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Like literally or we just
wouldn't have heard of it.

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Well, no, I went downstairs to
go into it, so I assume it's

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underground.
That makes sense.

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Yeah, he's, he's in an
underground studio with his wife

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and he brings the the band there
to do recordings.

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Now, I think they're done with
the album, or at least they're

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almost done with the album, but
I haven't heard from Books in a

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while.
He got spooked.

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He said that he was worried that
the cops were closing in and

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that Trammell was closing in and
that that he was getting real

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paranoid.
Real paranoid.

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Oh, I'm sure Trammell would love
to see this letter of his.

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Oh, I don't, I don't know
anything about any letters.

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That's, that's none of my
business.

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Could we just, could we go
inside where people can't see us

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at least?
Yeah, we're like making popcorn

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in the microwave and everything.
I don't think either of those

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things were a thing, but
whatever, Fuck it.

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Yeah, J PS A little busy staring
at the sink going through it.

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Oh God.
Oh, we wouldn't have had

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microwaves.
Yeah, so we'd be making up corn

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on the stove.
Kettle.

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Kettle corn, Yeah.
Anyway, friend, what's your name

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again?
It's del Toro, Notchi del Toro.

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It's that's honesty.
He's telling the truth.

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Oh, that's good.
Do you have a problem with my

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name?
I do not, but I was half worried

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that this was actually Brooks
and he was going to sell us up

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the river.
Yeah.

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What's the address of this
underground studio?

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As far as I understand, you've
been there.

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OK, so don't shoot me.
I've only been there twice so.

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Bad way to start a sentence.
Blindfolded me before he brought

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me back.
So what you're saying is if we

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blindfold you and put you in the
car, you might remember the way?

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I could try.
I don't think that's going to

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work, probably.
No, I think we'd need some

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master of the human mind to
unlock the secrets here.

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But where would we find such an
individual?

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No, but but I think the band
might know.

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The band might know.
Well, that's dense reason.

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Although maybe they were
blindfolded too.

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Kronelov would know though.
Kronelov.

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Definitely, Kronelov knows.
Mr. Del Toro, if you're willing,

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may be able to help you remember
anything that you could about

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the route to this studio.
You may have forgotten

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something, as you said, it has
only been two times that you've

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been.
Yeah, is there a skill you want

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to use for this?
Yes, I'm angling for using

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hypnosis.
Hypnosis.

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Oh, you're going to hypnotize
them into remembering this?

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Which was the reason why I
specifically said if he is

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willing, it can only be used on
somebody that is willing.

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Interesting.
This is a legitimate application

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of hypnosis.
Yeah.

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And one of the things that you
can do with it is you can

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recover memory.
OK, this is going to be a

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difficulty for hypnosis.
Check.

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Think I have to start from the
beginning.

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So I think I would have put them
in the hypnotic state first.

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Well, yes, but overall I, I
think to, I don't want to play

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out this entire thing because I
haven't actually thought about

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the entire route.
So instead of narrating him

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slowly remembering all of this
stuff, I want to maybe just have

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you make a hypnosis check and.
Then get.

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Something out of it.
I rolled it for.

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That was the difficulty, yeah.
That was the difficulty.

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What does it look like?
I want to see what it looks

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like.
Kearns shovels a handful of

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popcorn into his mouth.
Well, you tell me, what does it

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look like?
This looks like the the

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stereotypical very clinical
guided meditation, like

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something that you would see in
almost like a 90s drama, not the

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high budget dramas.
The.

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You know, mid.
To low budget drama but yeah

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like.
The the the.

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Stereotypical psychiatrist,
putting somebody under and like

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he's sitting there and you see
him as soon as he goes under,

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just his body kind of melts into
the chair a little bit.

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Not I, I I get why I would have
to specify that, but yeah, yeah,

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I have him guide us through the
journey and what he remembers

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from all of his senses from in
that state, if that makes any

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sense.
Yeah.

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Something like you'd see on the
Mentalist.

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Yeah, exactly.
Some mentalist shit.

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Yeah, He gives you a general
area from consulting on like a

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map as well.
You're able to get like maybe

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5-10 block rate of where this
place could be OK.

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It's a pretty good start.
Yeah, sort of skipping through

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that whole thing.
But yeah, that's that's what's

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going on with that.
Dandy, yeah.

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I would like to do one more
thing before bringing him back.

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I would like to implant a post
hypnotic suggestion.

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Christ, what is it?
You might need to make another

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check.
Yeah, I I would imagine upon

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waking up you will feel a
compelling urge to get out of

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this life of crime and become a
model citizen.

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OK, Difficulty 5.
That's fair.

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I must spend 3 points on this.
I don't get to use hypnosis very

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often, or really at all.
I was wondering if he was going

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to get him to stop smoking.
I was wondering the same thing.

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Smoking is not.
So bad at this point in history.

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All right, Yeah.
It is still bad at this point in

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history.
Well, it's it's not medically

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bad or sorry, it is medically
bad.

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It's not socially bad.
There we go.

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That's where I was going, but I
rolled A5.

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OK.
Sweet.

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He is going to rethink this life
of crime.

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Oh, he's going to get killed
like tomorrow.

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I mean, that's not my problem.
That's not our.

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Problem.
Yeah, that's her.

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That was probably coming either
way anyway.

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Never Donovan.
Other one.

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I mean, I don't.
I never met the guy.

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That's fair.
Maybe he sort of steps out of

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it.
OK, I.

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Rise and shine.
Did that helped?

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Very much.
Thank you.

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OK, again, I'll let you know
anything you want to know.

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OK.
Anything else anybody can think

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of that we need that we can get
out of this guy?

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What's going on with Leticia's
face?

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I don't know.
I haven't seen her in months.

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Well, the last time you seen
her, what'd she look like?

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She was wearing a veil.
I didn't see her face, but she's

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been doing the recordings down
there in their studio, I guess.

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What are they looking for in the
Yucatan?

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Right.
I heard about this.

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OK, This is what I know.
I'm glad you asked me.

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OK, Brooks.
Brooks found out that there's

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some ancient religious temple
way out in the Yucatan.

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He's got an expedition sent out
there.

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He he believes that it'll let
him get in contact with a, with

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a, a God.
There's some sort of God that

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lives out there.
I don't know if gods could live

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somewhere, but it's a place you
could talk to God's temple,

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worship, some sort of ancient
thing, gold, something.

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Dulcimal.
Gold Ducat.

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Golden women.
Golden Girls.

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I wouldn't really know.
I actually was the one who had

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to pick up the, the deliveries
from the reports coming in and,

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and, and gave them to them.
I think the expedition's going

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along pretty well.
They had to like negotiate with

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the local cattle Baron or
something to, to get through.

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He said that it was going to be
something that would let him

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speak to his, the God that he
worshipped, the true God.

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Although I know you guys
disagree on that.

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I'm not a particularly religious
man myself, but you're something

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crazy going on.
But I know.

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Kronelov said that he wasn't
sure there was a God out there,

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but there was something powerful
out there.

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Maybe something that can even
kill a God.

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I don't know what that meant.
Something that could kill a God,

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you say?
Interesting.

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Well, I'm sure Trammell would
want that investigated.

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Oh.
Oh, you tell Trammell.

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You tell Trammell.
This the other thing I heard,

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OK, Brooke said I needed to keep
this name a secret.

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I overheard him saying it, and
he started to He threatened to

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kill me if I ever told anybody
this.

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But I'm gonna tell you.
I'm gonna tell you.

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So we're cool.
OK.

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Kailash, Mount Kailash.
Mount Kailash.

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Yeah, it's a it's a mountain.
He said that there was something

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there, or well, he said that
Trammell thought something was

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there, or like, pardon the he
said that Trammell thought that

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the God was at Kailash, but that
he knew that the God was at the

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Yucatan thing.
I don't know.

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It's just a bunch of I, I really
don't know.

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I don't even know what a Kailash
is.

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Well, there's no reason you need
to.

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OK, great.
Cool hang.

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On one SEC.
Have we heard anything about

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such a location?
This might be something that you

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need to look up.
I don't know if any of you would

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know Mount Kailash off the top
of your head.

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Well damn, if only some of us
had library use.

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I mean I have library use, I
just don't speak Spanish.

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I also have library use but
don't speak Spanish.

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I have library use and I speak
Spanish.

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I bench press a lot.
That is also an important skill.

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Technically, so do I.
I'm trying to think if you would

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know Kailash from anything else.
If I have anthropology, does

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that help?
Have I perhaps flown over it?

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Probably not.
Do any of you know about

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Buddhism or Hinduism?
No, I've got theology.

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I also have theology.
OK, Yeah, you know what, I'll

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let you make a spend, a theology
spend to know about this.

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I'll make that spend.
Sure.

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Do you think you know more about
Buddhism or Hinduism?

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Hinduism.
OK, sure, I'll take Buddhism.

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Yeah, Kailash might be Kaliyosh,
which is the name of a mountain

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where Shiva, Parvati and their
children Ganesha.

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And well, I don't need to list
all the gods live in Hindu

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mythology.
It is a real quote UN quote

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mountain.
It's sometimes called Mount

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Meru, which is also a idea from
Buddhist ideologies of the top

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of the world.
But there is a real mountain in

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the Himalayas.
I'm looking at it right now,

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it's very pretty.
Yeah.

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The Himalayas, huh?
Well, that sounds like the

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region we were looking at, yeah.
It's in in 2025 Tibet.

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Shall we make a quick trip?
To Tibet.

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Yeah, they're in Beck.
I mean the Yucatan is closer

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the.
Yucatan is closer.

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I mean, presumably Brooks
Recording Studio is closer than

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either of those.
Yeah.

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Yes.
I have a feeling we're going to

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have to check out the Yucatan
eventually anyway.

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Yeah.
But our first stop should be

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Brooks.
Yeah.

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Yes.
By the way, to travel to Tibet

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first you would have to like
land in India and then travel

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north, and you're going to need
to do some mountain climbing to

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get up there.
Oh boy.

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Sounds fun.
Yeah, it's the Himalayas like.

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What's that kill us all?
Well, and then what do we

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think's under that mountain?
Mouth.

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The King under the mountain.
Big mouth.

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Big Mouth.
Yes, the Netflix show.

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That nobody likes.
I've actually heard it's like

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fine aside from the animation,
but.

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OK, which which band again?
The Jorge and the Fools.

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Yeah, yeah, The the band that
you've already heard about.

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He thinks that he's going to be
like, really clever to tell this

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to you.
But you, you already have this

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Javier Luna and his grenade.
Fools.

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Right.
Do you happen to know if they're

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performing tonight and if yes
then where?

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Is it the mint or the pass?
I think they play, is it

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Saturday?
They play Saturday nights at La

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Paz.
Well, is it Saturday?

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Yeah, is it Saturday?
I'm trying to decide if it's

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Saturday or not.
Hang on, I'll check my

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smartwatch.
It's Friday.

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Yeah, that information would be
useful if it was indeed

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Saturday.
Well, that's tomorrow.

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Like you can see him tomorrow.
OK, so I've told you a lot.

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We good, we square.
All right, we're just going to

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take you down to the lobby and
introduce you to another friend

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of Mr. Trammell's.
Goes by the name of Blanco.

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Like.
Dave a what?

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Blanco.
We're getting into the cops.

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Yeah, why wouldn't we?
Well, we're going to smuggle him

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out of here.
I mean, I could just toss him

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off the building.
I think Blanco would have more

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of a problem with that.
After we went through all the

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effort of hypnotizing him to
turn his life around.

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I'm sure he could really help
the police out right now.

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He knows Blanco, by the way,
sort of professional courtesy.

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He might be more resistant, but
I guess you did just hypnotize

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him into being a good, good boy,
so.

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Yeah, go do some time.
The war will be over.

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Well, we don't know that he's
done anything to do too much

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time.
What was up with the birds, by

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the way?
I Brooks commands birds.

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How?
I I don't know, he's, he's weird

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birds feeds him weird stuff and
then his wife like whispers

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things to the birds and then
they go crazy.

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Well, doesn't that sound fun?
Yeah, I guess.

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Yeah, I saw you guys had some
fun with them earlier, but you

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survived, which was why I
figured it was OK to talk to

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you.
With a gun in your hand, you.

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Got to protect myself.
Kronelov's out there.

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And birds.
Oh Conelof.

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He's loyal to money, so keep
that in mind.

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You might be able to to buy him
out.

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He's not a true believer.
Well, that's the answer, isn't

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he?
Ted mentioned that he wasn't a

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religious sort.
Yeah, yeah.

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I mean just like a commie.
Hey this.

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Is a dead silence.
It's OK, you can say the R word.

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What?
Reds.

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I think this is.
Pre like red scare.

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Well, there are multiple Red
Scares.

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The comedy's revolution has
taken place in Russia.

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Yeah.
Anyway, so are you going to lead

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him downstairs to the cop?
Yep, might as well.

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OK, As you go downstairs, you
see that Blanco has been keeping

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the bellhop there, the the
security guard, whatever you

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want.
To call concierge.

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Busy concierge.
He's all these things, wears a

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lot of hats.
Yeah, and he says.

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All right, so did you find what
you were looking for?

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Wait, who's this?
Dell something.

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Toro.
He gives a meek wave like hi.

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Yes, this fellow was in the
employ of Mr. Brooks and wants

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out.
I think he'd be a lot of help to

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your investigations going
forward.

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Oh, wait, do you?
Oh, I see.

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Oh, does he?
You're friends with the police,

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he says while he's tapping his
notes.

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I see.
I see how this works.

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I don't think he does, but you
know.

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No.
Oh, I meant to imply that at

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some point, but then I never
did.

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Glad to see we're all on the
same page.

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Yeah, I'll tell you everything
you want to know.

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You're going to keep me in
protective custody, right?

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Blog is like, sure, come with
me.

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We'll keep you safe.
Well, that worked out, yeah.

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Another problem solved.
The concierge is furious that he

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was never able to get Blanco's
badge number or anything like

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that, but says.
He I give him a doggy bag of

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popcorn for your trouble.
He's sputtering it incoherently

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with rage.
Get fucked.

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I don't say that in character.
I do well.

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You don't speak Spanish, so it's
fine.

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All right, get fucked.
Take a face.

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And you, I guess you guys head
out.

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So what do you want to do?
What time of day is it again?

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It's been a hot minute.
Definitely night, it's night

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time.
We have crammed a lot into this

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one day.
We.

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We had we apparently it is
probably head back to the hotel

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time I would think.
You do have a lead on drugs

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being sold at the Mint maybe,
but you all are kind of tired as

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well.
It's probably for the best if JB

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stays as far the fuck away from
that as possible.

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Yeah.
All right, as you're headed back

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to the hotel, you hear some
music.

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Oh no.
What sort of music?

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Well, it sounds, it's a little
muffled.

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It must be coming from somewhere
inside, but it sounds an awful

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lot like the record that you
heard earlier.

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But it's a different song.
Yeah, it's a different song.

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Do we have an auto playing
record with us?

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What?
That record we picked up in the

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shrine room, is it auto playing?
It is not, no.

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You catch this when you've had
to make a stop somewhere.

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The engine is still running, but
you're not driving and you hear

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this music and then you hear a
gunshot.

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Holy shit.
Close fart.

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That escalated in a hurry.
From inside around where the

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music was playing.
Was it playing from a building

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like?
It was playing from a building

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right next to you.
OK.

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I feel like this is some sort of
plot hook that we could

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investigate.
I parked the car.

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Yeah, let's, let's go in.
Let's let's investigate this.

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Yeah, right.
I mean, you don't have to, but

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there are.
No, we don't have to.

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We can just go to sleep.
You just go to sleep.

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That's.
Fine.

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Hey everyone, I'll get you back
to the show in just a second.

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Just popping in to say we have a
Patreon.

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The plan is to keep all our real
content free, but with the

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Patreon you'll have access to
the things that are easier to

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miss in an audio format, along
with a couple extras like the

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Super mid music I make for the
show, scans of Renee's

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paintings, and an episode or two
that never made it to air.

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We didn't get into this to make
money, but if we could hire an

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editor, the rest of the cast
would have no choice but to

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release me from the terrifying
editing dimension that

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constantly shifts and curdles
when with my feet.

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When water comes, it smells
wrong and I haven't seen my

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family in weeks.
Once when I was sleeping,

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something grabbed me and threw
me across the room, but when I

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opened my eyes there was nothing
there except the computer and a

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pile of strange course meat
sustained me for another few

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days.
And the echoes and pispers are

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pain to remove from my track.
You can find it at

427
00:23:55,360 --> 00:24:00,600
patreon.com/dread Tails.
It's a sort of rundown apartment

428
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,200
building.
As you go in, you see that there

429
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:07,960
are definitely a lot of people
also coming in from the area.

430
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,920
There's people opening up their
doors and all heading to this

431
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,320
one floor.
They seem to know where things

432
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,760
are going on.
Probably, if that's at this

433
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,200
point, to follow the crowd, let
them lead us to where we need to

434
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:23,560
be.
Easy enough.

435
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:30,240
You get to the second floor and
there are people all standing in

436
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,600
front of a closed, locked door.
You hear the music coming out

437
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,800
from behind the door.
I smashed the door in.

438
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,840
Oh, you just smashed the door
in, OK.

439
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:41,720
Yeah, don't need to be sad about
this one.

440
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,720
You see, sitting in the middle
of the room at a table are two

441
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,560
men.
One has a gunshot through his

442
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:56,480
head and he is holding a knife.
That knife is covered in blood.

443
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,840
The other man has his throat
slit and has a gun in his hand.

444
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,680
Double suicide, hate to see it.
Cool.

445
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,360
On people with forensics please.
Yeah, let's investigate.

446
00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:13,080
I've I've got evidence
collection.

447
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,040
I also have forensics.
As you have entered the room,

448
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,040
the music is playing.
You can hear it clearly now.

449
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:21,520
Step one, I take the needle off
the record.

450
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,600
OK, and you take the needle off
the record.

451
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,680
I'll let that be.
I'll let that be.

452
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,160
What have I ruined your plans?
Have I?

453
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,520
No, I was trying to decide if I
was going to make you roll

454
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,920
before you got to turn it off.
Kearns.

455
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,360
It's a really good sounding
record.

456
00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:40,720
It was a different song.
You kind of wanted to listen to

457
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,840
it.
I kind of wanted to listen to

458
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:43,520
it.
See.

459
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,080
That's bad.
Don't do that.

460
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,760
But it's a nice song.
We can take the record with us,

461
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,160
don't worry about it.
OK, Yeah, yeah, let's do that.

462
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:56,040
Meanwhile, I'm gonna make sure
that nobody but us enters the

463
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,560
room.
How you plan on doing that?

464
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,400
Here, take my badge.
Oh God.

465
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:02,120
Sure.
Thanks.

466
00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:04,400
There's no picture on it, so it
doesn't matter who uses it.

467
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,080
OK.
Is there a social skill you're

468
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,280
gonna use there Kerns to?
Keep me.

469
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,680
Yeah, sure.
Intimidation.

470
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,080
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Yeah, not a shocker there.

471
00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:20,720
I loom in the doorway, my
shoulders touching either side.

472
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,320
OK, a lot of people are leaving,
but not everybody.

473
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,040
But nobody else is getting
inside.

474
00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:29,160
Should I yell at them, get the
fuck out or no?

475
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,560
I will assist using my mythos.
Oh no.

476
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,640
What?
What the fuck?

477
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,600
I mean, those people are
probably gonna.

478
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,000
You're not gonna be able to get
everybody out of salt.

479
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,120
Yeah, I really don't think so.
I guess you could make an

480
00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:46,840
intimidation spend, although
maybe you want to interview

481
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:47,760
these people.
I don't know.

482
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,000
Yeah.
I'm just gonna stand in the door

483
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,360
and glare at people.
OK, yeah, I'm I'm gonna look

484
00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:58,720
around and other people can talk
and interview witnesses.

485
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,040
I'm just gonna see what I can
find in the area.

486
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,920
Make it a simple search.
Any particular skills you're

487
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,800
using?
Forensics and evidence

488
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,680
collection are both things I
have and both things I intend to

489
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,880
use.
OK, which one would you like to

490
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,400
use first?
Let's start with forensics.

491
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,520
All right, so you take a look at
the bodies.

492
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,600
Yeah, these people were killed
beer moments ago.

493
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,880
I kind of gathered that from the
gunshot.

494
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:28,200
Yes, one from the throat cut and
one from the shot.

495
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:33,400
However, both bodies are covered
in bruises which appeared to be

496
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,280
inflicted over the past a couple
of weeks or so, as if they

497
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:42,600
didn't drag out fights.
Does my forensic use of assessed

498
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:47,360
honesty get any different?
Keep on forgetting you can do

499
00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:48,520
that.
No.

500
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:50,760
Okay.
It is pretty clear that they

501
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,480
killed each other just now
though.

502
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,560
Why is a real question.
Yeah.

503
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,480
Like, I was kind of wondering
like, is the, you know, if there

504
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,960
was any noticeable to me signs
that there may have been like a

505
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,800
third party involved who may
have vacated just before we got

506
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,720
here?
Not that you could see the door

507
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,240
was locked when you guys showed
up so.

508
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,280
Makes sense?
What are the liner notes for

509
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:16,240
this record say?
The record has no label.

510
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:20,360
It's like a shitty record.
It seems like a poor, warped

511
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,800
reproduction of an original
source.

512
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,440
There are no liner notes on it,
it's just a blank record.

513
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,000
You could listen to it to try to
get the lyrics I guess, but

514
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,600
that, you know, raises its own
issues.

515
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:39,160
Yeah, let's not fuck with that.
Any Maker's Mark on the record

516
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,040
itself?
Maybe a Studio del Manana?

517
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,240
No, no marks or anything like
that.

518
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,160
Motherfucker trying to be clever
here.

519
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,960
No, no, that you are being
clever, but that's not gonna

520
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:52,920
give it to you.
Does anybody have craft?

521
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:57,080
I do.
OK, well when you look at the

522
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:58,720
record, you'll be able to tell
something about.

523
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,280
It yo bring me that record.
I have a general thing a

524
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,960
question about like this the
room in general.

525
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:10,040
Looking around, are there any
instruments in this room?

526
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,920
There are not any instruments,
OK, as you bring the record over

527
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:18,360
to the person who really wants
to listen to it, probably you

528
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:22,480
recognize that this is something
that was made through a high

529
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:26,480
quality home recording device
rather than any sort of

530
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:31,520
professional studio environment.
It's like a like a tape leg,

531
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,960
like you, like you, you're,
you're you.

532
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,720
You get your your tape deck and
you record something that's

533
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:39,760
playing.
Yeah.

534
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,680
As opposed to like a
professional recording or

535
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,160
something?
Bootleg.

536
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,400
A bootleg.
Yeah, this is a, this is a burnt

537
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,160
recording, Yeah.
Cool.

538
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,560
As you're looking around the
room again, you're not finding

539
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,840
any instruments.
You're not really finding

540
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,160
anything.
It looks like these guys have

541
00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:04,080
been here with very little.
There's like some beds here and

542
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,520
some food.
It doesn't look like they've

543
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,640
been living well.
These look like they're very,

544
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,720
they're two very poor men.
As you're looking around your

545
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:17,360
evidence collection, you find
one of the dead men has an empty

546
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,360
bottle in his pocket.
A matching bottle has rolled

547
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,000
under a chair, and several
matching bottles are stacked on

548
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,640
the kitchen counter.
Farmers see or Chemistry would

549
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,200
notice this, but also JB, you
just kind of notice it.

550
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,280
Yeah, I thought so.
This is Nectar.

551
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,440
Yeah, OK.
It's all empty, right?

552
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:38,880
Well, there might be a little
bit there.

553
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:45,160
I should go.
They all appear to be empty, but

554
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,760
I think you would probably,
unless you want to make a roll,

555
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,480
try to be getting any nectar out
of it.

556
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,120
Maybe you're trying to pretend
that you're looking to see if

557
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,240
there's any, you know, for
detective purposes.

558
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,960
Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm looking
around and trying to see if I

559
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,360
can find any partially filled
bottles.

560
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,400
They have consumed all the
nectar.

561
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,800
Simultaneous fuck and oh thank
God.

562
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,920
Oh fuck God.
Yeah, sure.

563
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,880
That's a different setting.
I mean he does look pretty tasty

564
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:24,960
on that cross fuck.
Anyway, I'm interviewing some of

565
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,080
the rubber neckers.
OK, what skill are you using?

566
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,000
Let's see, I've got everything
but flattery.

567
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,000
This would maybe be an oral
history thing to just be

568
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,040
chatting with people, get the
general story.

569
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,160
You haven't used that in a while
I.

570
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,840
Haven't.
Everybody's accounts are more or

571
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,320
less what you would be thinking.
They heard the gunshot and they

572
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,520
came down.
A couple of the people, though,

573
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,120
you also notice it's mostly
single men who are living here.

574
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,440
One of them says those two guys
are playing the same song over

575
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,440
and over and over and over
again.

576
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,800
I was ready to kill him too.
And then one was just like, you

577
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,080
can't say that.
It's like, fuck them.

578
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,680
Bunch of drug addicts.
Any signs that there had been

579
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,680
trouble in the unit before?
No.

580
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,600
After you guys have spent a
little bit of time here, the

581
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,800
landlord comes up and asks who
the hell you guys are.

582
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,760
Michael Lovesick, FBI.
Grave your boat, Jones, how you

583
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,480
doing?
This man over here is Ding Dong

584
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,240
Snuggle Pug.
Sorry, what'd you say?

585
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,080
Ding Dong Snuggle Pug I.
Don't know what that means.

586
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,560
Ding Dong snuggle bug.
Close enough.

587
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,240
Kearns, absolutely deadpan.
Pleasure to meet you, OK.

588
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,400
Well, now you legally have to
give one to smalls too.

589
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,520
Get get get out of here.
Get get out of here.

590
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:40,920
Yeah.
All right.

591
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,320
Yeah, let's go.
OK.

592
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,680
Yeah, No, I don't.
I don't.

593
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,680
Nothing happened here.
Don't write any of this down.

594
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:50,960
It's fine.
Get out of here.

595
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,240
It's OK, I've got a phonographic
memory.

596
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:57,400
What?
Why do you say that everything

597
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,040
is fine when it's clearly and I
sort of look over my shoulder

598
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,640
isn't?
Although they broke in criminals

599
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,040
who broke in and then killed
themselves.

600
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:07,160
Yeah, All right.
Sure.

601
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,120
Objectively not what happened?
You know what this guy's hey,

602
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,760
OK, assess honesty.
Is this guy stupid or corrupt?

603
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,440
I've had landlords like this
before.

604
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,520
He doesn't want to answer any
questions.

605
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,720
He doesn't want to be
responsible for anything.

606
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,560
He's very stubborn.
You might be able to scare him

607
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,360
or bribe him into telling you
more.

608
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,680
Buddy.
Take it away, my friend.

609
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:37,040
I crack my knuckles, take a step
closer to this guy, and just

610
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:41,920
tower over him.
Buddy, you might want to start

611
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,920
talking.
Looks I don't even know their

612
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,440
names.
Lies.

613
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,600
You don't want to see Snuggle
Pug when he's angry.

614
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,440
They come in here to drink their
drugs.

615
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,240
It's all off the books.
They pay me in cash.

616
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,040
I think they're hunting for
their boss or their their wives.

617
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,400
They came in like last month.
They're paying me twice the

618
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,120
going wait for the room each
week.

619
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,440
You can't say no to that.
That's all I know.

620
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,840
They didn't give you any names
at all.

621
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:10,560
No, the drug users trying to
secretly do their drugs in an

622
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,360
off the book apartment.
No, they didn't tell me their

623
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,440
names.
I would use assess honesty,

624
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,400
except that seems pretty likely.
Yeah, but I don't like this

625
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,800
guy's tone though, so.
I also don't like his tone.

626
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,320
But so I'm gonna, so yeah, I'm
gonna go.

627
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:29,440
I'm gonna very, very gently
brush and nonexistent speck of

628
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,360
dust off of this guy's shoulder.
You might want to watch your

629
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:40,159
tone with me, my friend.
Sorry, I guess I'm just a little

630
00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:41,960
heated.
Understandable.

631
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:46,480
I'm he is visibly shrinking as
this as this is going on.

632
00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:49,600
He was feeling himself for a
little bit and now he's like, oh

633
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,400
wait, no, actually, please don't
kill me.

634
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:57,480
I'm going to straighten his tie
for him or whatever and I was,

635
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:03,240
so anything else you know will
be greatly appreciated.

636
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,600
I'm sorry, I don't know
anything.

637
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:10,000
They go out to get their drugs
and then they come back, I

638
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,920
think.
I'm sorry, JP is like saw you

639
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,520
straighten his tie and he's
like, that's so fucking hot.

640
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,920
I'm not going to pretend that
I'm not showing off just a

641
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:27,000
little bit.
Let continue go.

642
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:29,640
I don't.
There's nothing else I could

643
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:30,480
say.
I'm sorry.

644
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,960
I believe it that this time.
Get lost.

645
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:35,560
You got it.
Should I?

646
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,880
You're the police.
Do I need to?

647
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,840
Are you somebody to come for the
bodies?

648
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,400
I said get lost.
You got it, OK.

649
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,240
But we should also definitely
call the real cops too.

650
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,320
Like, Oh yeah, no question.
Yeah, someone did that already,

651
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,680
I'm sure.
Yeah, yeah, the cops will be

652
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,000
arriving.
Well, actually, people are not

653
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,040
calling the cops in this
building.

654
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,120
This building seems to be a
building that keeps quiet.

655
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,680
Yeah, I I know the type.
But the cops will eventually be

656
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,680
here, Drew, about the gunshot.
So you got a record.

657
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,040
It's a dead bodies.
It's a empty nectar.

658
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,320
Did anybody check their pockets?
Yeah, when we searched for

659
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,560
evidence.
All they found was nectar.

660
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,000
Yeah.
No ID's, no nothing.

661
00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:21,600
No.
Oh, just just a bunch of full

662
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,560
nectar bottles.
No wallets.

663
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:28,000
I hope.
Like no wallets, nothing at all.

664
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,480
Like just empty pockets.
They had a little bit of cash on

665
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,480
but no identification.
It does make sense that career

666
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,480
criminals wouldn't keep ID's on
them.

667
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,800
Weird thing, their names are
actually Gravy Boat Jones and

668
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,800
Ding Dong Snuggle Pug.
Holy shit Love Shack is still

669
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:47,760
out there?
I guess you want to get back to

670
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,160
that hotel.
At some point, sleep sounds

671
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,520
good.
I'm going to sleep like a rock.

672
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:56,520
What?
It was a busy day, it.

673
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:58,360
Was a busy day.
Yeah.

674
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,480
Yeah, but one of your busiest
days yet.

675
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,480
Attacked by birds, Interrogated
guy.

676
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,960
See some dead bodies?
Like the last time we had a day

677
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:13,760
this busy we were fucking in
Ethiopia, which granted was our

678
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,480
last arc but like it feels like
ages ago.

679
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,160
You know what I probably should
have had?

680
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,600
You made stability tests when
you saw those bodies.

681
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:26,000
You'll be fine.
I'll let it.

682
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,560
I'll let it slide this time.
Yeah, we're, we're there,

683
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,880
there's, we're super
desensitized by now.

684
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:33,280
What?
They weren't gross.

685
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:39,280
They were so friends.
You also have this record.

686
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,280
We also have this record that's
that's not great either.

687
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,040
But here currents you wanted
this.

688
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:46,960
Oh yeah, thanks.
No card.

689
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,240
No, no, no, no.
We have a record player at the

690
00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:51,040
hotel, right?
You do have the record player,

691
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:52,280
yeah.
You listen to the first record

692
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:53,680
on it.
Oh yeah, let's go listen.

693
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,120
I don't think this is a good
idea.

694
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:58,520
I'm all tuckered out.
I'll see you in the morning.

695
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:00,600
OK.
Oh my God, yeah.

696
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,720
So presumably we arrived at the
hotel.

697
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,680
Yeah, you retire to your
respective rooms unless you want

698
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:12,040
to do something else.
Would like to play the record.

699
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:16,240
In your in your room, Sure.
It's probably Would I do it

700
00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:18,960
alone?
Look, if JB is there, he's

701
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,000
covering his ears and watching
you like a hawk to make sure

702
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,040
nothing bad happens.
And if I go Ferrell, what are

703
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,840
you going to do?
Get torn apart.

704
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,960
I.
In a non sexual way?

705
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:39,360
Oh, maybe smalls?
Do you want to make notes or

706
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,280
something?
Very well.

707
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,480
Thanks friend, appreciate it.
Smalls is going to go to the

708
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,120
front desk.
You said the person at the front

709
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,000
desk speaks English.
Yeah, yeah.

710
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,360
And Smalls is going to ask for
some cotton balls.

711
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,120
It's probably more effective
than me just covering my eyes,

712
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,160
yeah.
Beeswax also works.

713
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:04,600
Yeah.
Plato.

714
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,160
I don't think they have Plato.
Yeah, I was about to say I don't

715
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,360
think Plato is an offense.
So what's on the record?

716
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:14,320
You start playing the song, are
you going to be listening to it

717
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,680
closely or are you going to try
to again, we are in the you

718
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:23,160
could just listen to it, or you
could try to resist it, or you

719
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:27,600
could plug up your ears.
I'm going to highly encourage

720
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:31,840
you, as my friend and someone
who has, you know, spent some

721
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:37,000
time quotes you, to actively try
to resist the pull of the music.

722
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,400
I don't know what you all are so
worried about.

723
00:39:39,720 --> 00:39:41,720
It's just some music.
If you want to make out the

724
00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:43,320
lyrics, you're going to have to
listen closely.

725
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,280
Yeah, sure.
What's she singing about?

726
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:51,240
So the song is very similar to
the one that you heard before.

727
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,600
Honestly, if I were to be
reviewing this record, I would

728
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,320
start saying that these songs
are all sounding really similar.

729
00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,880
Like that's getting kind of old.
Oh, thank God.

730
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:07,080
I got you buddy, I got you.
Oh, I understand what's happened

731
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,440
now.
It's a production issue.

732
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,840
I can do a Disney Princess
vocals if need be.

733
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:20,240
This one is singing a song about
a cuckoo bird.

734
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,680
The metaphor is a little
strained.

735
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:28,520
They talk about the bird being a
beautiful song, but also having

736
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:32,360
like a dark secret in that it's
like destroying eggs and

737
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,880
replacing them with its own.
And as you're listening to it,

738
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,160
it's just really, really
soothing.

739
00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:44,600
By the way, we gain a point of
stability.

740
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:45,600
Oh.
Nice.

741
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,520
This is definitely a song about
a cuckoo.

742
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:54,760
And I'm a full stability.
Well, as the song ends, you've

743
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,680
entered a post Hypnotic
congestion to convict acts of

744
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:00,080
random violence.
Oh shit.

745
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,760
Well it's not like he's the most
buff person on the party or

746
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:07,440
anything.
You're going to need that

747
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,280
stability.
Let me figure out the exact

748
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,720
amount that you're going to be.
Distant sounds of Nathan

749
00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:16,480
screaming.
OK, well, that's the thing.

750
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,720
As long as nobody says anything
annoying, I think we'll be fine.

751
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:27,640
Oh no.
OK, so like can I resist that?

752
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,720
No, Oh no.
You listen to the music.

753
00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:33,200
You can't resist this.
OK, fair enough.

754
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,280
No.
But like when the urge for

755
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,200
violence comes, Yeah.
Can that be resistant?

756
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:38,720
No.
No.

757
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,760
Oh no.
Yeah, no post hypnotic

758
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:45,320
suggestions in this system are
kind of cracked.

759
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,440
Yeah.
Yeah, I need to.

760
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:54,240
They're coming up with a plan.
Meanwhile, I'm gonna punch the

761
00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:57,160
person nearest to me.
Oh God, that's me.

762
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:04,600
So Brainwashed 1 here you are
going to take a difficulty 3

763
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,880
stability test with a potential
loss of four.

764
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,000
OK.
That's OK.

765
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,040
So you lose 4 stability.
I don't think you got some back

766
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:16,280
from listening to this nice
music.

767
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,480
Yeah.
And then which person are you

768
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,520
attacking?
The closest one to me, which I'm

769
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:25,280
sorry, JB.
OK, Hey JB, you're attacked by a

770
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,240
friend or loved one?
Oh no.

771
00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:29,040
Great.
And are you putting labels on

772
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,240
things so.
That's a potential loss of five.

773
00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:33,880
Well, that's why I said friend
or loved one.

774
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:35,600
FWB.
So.

775
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,080
Difficulty for potential loss of
five.

776
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:43,280
Oh no shit.
I I am gonna spend 2 to bring

777
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:47,600
myself down to 1 stability.
I helped don't lose 5.

778
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,000
Good luck.
If I lose this, I'm getting

779
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:58,080
fucked.
So this is getting fucked -4

780
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,880
baby.
Well, it's not.

781
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,040
The end of the world, at least.
It's the end of the.

782
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,840
World.
Yeah, that's that is accurate.

783
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,840
JB, what's your head threshold?
3.

784
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:12,880
OK.
Oh, but we'll listen to the

785
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,720
music, it's fine.
What could go wrong?

786
00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:19,640
You're now shaken plus one to
all difficulties of anything

787
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:24,880
that you do cool.
Also flight fight or freeze I'm.

788
00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:28,000
Gonna spend a point.
Oh, actually, first Kerns is

789
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,760
gonna punch you, I think.
Yeah, it hit.

790
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,480
OK, roll your damage. -2 I
believe. -2.

791
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,280
Just cuz you're an armed Yeah,
that's -2.

792
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,440
OK, I swing and I miss,
apparently. -1 OK.

793
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,360
I know Doc, you want to do
something I want to see.

794
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,080
Let me go like an order here.
JB, what do you do for the

795
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:48,520
record?
Freeze.

796
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,360
I am terrified.
Great.

797
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:52,680
What?
What am I thinking right now?

798
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:57,200
Like am I acknowledging that I'm
attacking a friend or a loved

799
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:00,400
one or like I might like just
see see red?

800
00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:03,440
You're just kind of seeing red.
You're just kind of seeing red.

801
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:07,160
OK, if somebody like sort of
slows you down or stops you, you

802
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:10,160
could break out of it.
But right now you are needing to

803
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,000
do violence.
Doc, what do you want?

804
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:19,440
To do Oakley Dokley, I am going
to attempt to restrain Kearns

805
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,960
and talk him down.
I'll be using scuffling for

806
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:24,920
this.
Kearns, I'm pretty sure your hit

807
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:28,680
threshold is 4.
Yeah, I'm just going to spend 3

808
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,120
points.
Thank you.

809
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:35,560
You wouldn't expect this, but
Smalls comes up behind Kearns

810
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:39,600
and puts them in like like a
full Nelson and just kind of

811
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:45,400
pulls them away from JB and goes
hey man, get a hold of yourself.

812
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:49,480
I'm just grunting incoherently.
I'm not sure I'm saying anything

813
00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:51,680
like I'm just OK.
Full Berserk.

814
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,040
Let's have you make another
stability test to see if you

815
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,440
could step out of this.
I'm going to let you know if you

816
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,840
hear this on the the true
record, it's going to be harder

817
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,160
to break out of this, but this
is a shitty reproduction.

818
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,280
OK.
Not that you ever hear the true

819
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,080
record later.
So they could make a roll or

820
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,000
dock.
You could try to break them out

821
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,280
with your psychology skill.
I don't know which one we want

822
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:16,040
to use, but one of you is going
to need to have to do something

823
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,840
because I believe JB is just
sort of shocked.

824
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:23,400
Yeah, I was going to ask about
even if what I do just gives a

825
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:28,960
bonus to Kearns breaking out if
I control psychoanalysis because

826
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,480
like first sentence of the
second paragraph, you can

827
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,520
restore a panic investigator to
a state of calm I.

828
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,360
Think this.
I think that is literally Yeah,

829
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,760
yeah.
Make a psychoanalysis check

830
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:41,880
difficulty.
Three.

831
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,240
All right, I have a bunch in
that.

832
00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:49,560
So I you know what, I'm just
going to spend the 2 bringing me

833
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:52,600
down to 6.
Difficulty 3 and you have a

834
00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:56,600
three-point that you could spend
from the dock, so I guess kind

835
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,000
of difficulty too.
What's the potential loss?

836
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,760
You keep attacking.
It's not a loss of stability,

837
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,080
it's you keep.
It yeah, you're just trying to

838
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,920
regain control at this point.
I'll leave it to dice gods.

839
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,080
If I roll A1, it wasn't meant to
be.

840
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:11,160
I did not roll.
That's a 5.

841
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,160
That's a 5.
OK.

842
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,640
OK, what?
What are you saying to me that

843
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,240
that is helping me to snap out
of this?

844
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,000
Turns.
Look at what you're doing, look

845
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,080
at who you're going after.
What has what has gotten to go?

846
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:32,640
And as the rage sort of
dissipates and I I stop

847
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,560
resisting and I just sort of
lower myself on the floor.

848
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:48,880
Shit.
Thanks for listening and happy

849
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,320
New Year, which some of you may
realize means a rapid fire.

850
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:52,440
Thank you to everyone who
pitched in.

851
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:54,120
This year is coming after I say
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852
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,440
Stuff.
Our GM was Daniel Nathan plays

853
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,560
JB Faulk accidental truecom out
there come victim Damien plays

854
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:01,400
Miskatonic mentalist Donovan
Smalls.

855
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,640
Renee plays pugilist pilot and
musical over enthusiast Frank

856
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,640
Kearns and playing crunchy
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857
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,960
is Russell who also mixes
masters in musics.

858
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,680
The episodes our album artist by
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859
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:15,560
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860
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:19,120
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861
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,360
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862
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863
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:25,920
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864
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,440
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Shout out Black Flair, The Stars

865
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,280
Aren't Alright, the Friendship
Factory, and of course our

866
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,400
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Crows Codex.

867
00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:34,160
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868
00:47:34,240 --> 00:47:36,800
Thanks to everyone who tuned in
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869
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:38,360
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870
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,600
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Dickinson, Mike Christensen and

871
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:42,760
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872
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:44,240
for their old podcast Wrath and
Story.

873
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:46,280
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874
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,520
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875
00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:51,240
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876
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,120
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877
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878
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:58,560
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879
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:00,640
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880
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:02,160
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881
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:04,240
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882
00:48:04,240 --> 00:48:08,320
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883
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,240
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