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Speaker 2: Maybe I didn't know you got Monsoon's in an upstate
Speaker 2: New he I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Oh fine by me? Better than the alternative. If this
Speaker 3: was three degrees cold, there would be snowed in for
Speaker 3: god knows how long?
Speaker 2: Damn it? What snowed in in a library? And an
Speaker 2: idea like New England Town. I mean, come on, it's
Speaker 2: like instant rom com. Can you imagine if only.
Speaker 3: If only there wasn't a mass murderer possibly running around
Speaker 3: said library?
Speaker 2: Yeah that part? Who do we think that could have been?
Speaker 3: Honestly, I have no idea. It's Danville and the only
Speaker 3: theft reported since I've been here was against the New
Speaker 3: York Giants in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2: Is that a sports reference?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 2: And he has layers?
Speaker 3: Who are you just the guy worried about history in
Speaker 3: this creaky old building speaking of we shouldn't make sure
Speaker 3: all the doors.
Speaker 2: Are locked and windows like that one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to help me?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: No, I'm not gonna get Agatha Christie next to actual
Speaker 2: copies of Agatha Christie Books.
Speaker 3: I don't think we can use Agatha as an example anymore.
Speaker 3: Oh was she canceled only since nineteen seventeen?
Speaker 2: What really?
Speaker 3: When the day comes that you have dependable internet again,
Speaker 3: wherever that may be? Sam me a postcard first, but
Speaker 3: then Google, and then there were none?
Speaker 2: Ooh the Internet. Oh to dream, the impossible dream.
Speaker 3: Now, they said Avantes, He's totally fine.
Speaker 2: Technically it's from Mana la Mancha.
Speaker 3: And technically it's still raining. I'm gonna go to the
Speaker 3: second and third floor and make sure sure all the doors.
Speaker 2: Are locked, and I'll be right here.
Speaker 3: Will you at least check the doors and windows down here?
Speaker 3: That's so a thirty total, So all kidding aside, I
Speaker 3: could really use your help to make sure that this
Speaker 3: place doesn't flood.
Speaker 2: What's in it for me.
Speaker 3: Besides us surviving the night considering everything that's going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's boring. At this point.
Speaker 3: You are the impossible dream. Okay, I'll show you some
Speaker 3: original playbells from nineteen sixties Broadway productions.
Speaker 2: Deal, you're extremely weird, Sorry, can't hear you? Busy working
Speaker 2: lost underneath the blanket of gray clouds as they pummel
Speaker 2: Danville with torrential downpour are intrepid reporter Sarah Elizabeth Simmons
Speaker 2: continues in her quest for answers to the story of
Speaker 2: the century, But first she must close these old, rusty windows.
Speaker 2: We're run the risk of not getting to see the
Speaker 2: original playbill from nineteen sixty five's Man of La Mancha,
Speaker 2: book by Deal Wasserman, who also wrote the players of
Speaker 2: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which is kind of
Speaker 2: how I'm feeling right now. Ah old computer, probably barely
Speaker 2: a few years younger than Man of Lamaga more ancient books.
Speaker 2: What does this even say? Rita's barbarorum? If only I
Speaker 2: could google? Huh, this is my email account.
Speaker 4: It says last loggin was at seven thirty five yesterday.
Speaker 4: But hold on, I was in the bruders truck at
Speaker 4: seven thirty So not only did he get online, but
Speaker 4: he opened my email and never told me.
Speaker 2: Motherfucker. Oh fuck, okay, okay, keep it together, fuck no daser,
Speaker 2: fuck fucked in fuck fuck it's okay, you got this, Yes, motherfucker.
Speaker 2: I'll stab you with this letter opener if you try anything,
Speaker 2: Hello Gordon, If you can get online with this tank,
Speaker 2: so can I.
Speaker 3: A funk off.
Speaker 2: Come on, we call this one a hard reset.
Speaker 4: Yes, no, you just need to get online before Jesus
Speaker 4: are you.
Speaker 3: Wearing socks better? I come bearing gifts in honor of
Speaker 3: your deservants. Love.
Speaker 2: It's Wasserman Lee and Darien.
Speaker 3: But whatever I have procured from the chateau they upstairs kitchen,
Speaker 3: this fine bottle of them on a.
Speaker 2: Bic Malbick Mabick from.
Speaker 3: Uh Argentina, Argentina. This is the echo game, Echo.
Speaker 2: Game maybe, but Don Quixote is from Spain. Do I
Speaker 2: really have to have this conversation with you?
Speaker 3: Why do I feel like servants and how he felt
Speaker 3: during the Spanish Inquisition for starters?
Speaker 2: Because they call it the Spanish Inquisition, not the Argentinian
Speaker 2: And second, you're referencing the musical now and not the book.
Speaker 2: But you're definitely driving me crazy.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Oh it's okay, I'm you.
Speaker 2: Know what, Let's just crack open that bottle.
Speaker 3: Shit what I don't have a bottle opener?
Speaker 2: You don't have a bottle opener.
Speaker 3: I was convinced oll Mabick was from Spain. Do you
Speaker 3: think i'd drink on the regular. Let's see what we
Speaker 3: can find in these drawers.
Speaker 2: Hey, is this the phone charger? I think so like
Speaker 2: one that could fit a flip phone. I mean maybe,
Speaker 2: fuck yes. Now let's hope it turns on.
Speaker 3: The old ones need to charge up before they turn on.
Speaker 3: But it looks like it's working. And shit, hold on what,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry?
Speaker 2: Four?
Speaker 3: I did know Aaron. Oh, she was one of the
Speaker 3: dozen or so Daniel Anderson scholars a program run by
Speaker 3: the town that awards a stipend to students. In an
Speaker 3: interim position in the library, I'm sorry, I didn't know.
Speaker 3: It's okay, really just a glorified phone answer your shift
Speaker 3: that the students just used to check their social media
Speaker 3: on at the circulation desk.
Speaker 2: I get it, and thank you for alleviating some.
Speaker 3: Of my fears some of Wait, did you think I,
Speaker 3: like I.
Speaker 2: Had anything to do with Well, to be honest, I
Speaker 2: don't know, Vicente. You changed your name, moved to a
Speaker 2: small technology list town in the middle of nowhere, and,
Speaker 2: on top of all of the shit going on, failed
Speaker 2: to mention not only that you knew the victims, but
Speaker 2: one worked here.
Speaker 3: Like you said, it's a small town. Everyone knows everyone
Speaker 3: in some kind of way.
Speaker 2: Does everyone know there's a fucking mini cave behind a
Speaker 2: shelf of books in a church tern library? Right? Does
Speaker 2: everyone know that it Arrean's phone was hidden there?
Speaker 3: I told you I had to know.
Speaker 2: I checked the computer, Gordon.
Speaker 3: I you feel like you're holding that wine opener like
Speaker 3: a dagger.
Speaker 2: The computer what it's a dial up when you left?
Speaker 3: It finally worked, but you were gone, and I'm sure
Speaker 3: even if it says last logging, you will find all
Speaker 3: your emails unopened because I'm not an asshole, and I
Speaker 3: shut it down before it even loaded to the welcome screen.
Speaker 3: We have no internet, no Wi Fi, but landlines still
Speaker 3: seem to somewhat work, and occasionally they'll let us buffer
Speaker 3: a single photo if you wait like twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, what I believe you?
Speaker 3: You do because it's feeling a big galilean.
Speaker 2: What galilean dude got a pretty rough Hou's arrested with
Speaker 2: servants and unlimited resources. Joan of ARC got roasted in
Speaker 2: the middle of the street.
Speaker 3: Fair But the point stands, I would.
Speaker 2: Never I'm telling you that I believe you. I always did.
Speaker 2: It's just nice to have reassurance. So it's okay, you're
Speaker 2: the first person I haven't run from since I can remember.
Speaker 3: Even though I didn't know where Malbot came from. You
Speaker 3: get a pass and besides, most Argentinians think they're European.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I'll take your room for it. You okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just hoping that phone charges up so we can
Speaker 2: keep looking for answers. But thank you for asking.
Speaker 3: So running away, huh, I feel like I can relate,
Speaker 3: But I want to know about your journey, which part
Speaker 3: I started at the top. We're not really going anywhere
Speaker 3: anytime soon, and this European Argentina and wine isn't going
Speaker 3: to drink itself.
Speaker 2: I remember when I was eleven years old and it
Speaker 2: was take your daughter to work day. I was all
Speaker 2: excited to go see where my dad worked. He was
Speaker 2: an industrial engineer at Merman Hiller.
Speaker 3: No Way. The furniture place, the chair place.
Speaker 2: A very one. We had one in every room and
Speaker 2: spent more time sleeping in those than I did in
Speaker 2: my own bed. So the morning came and I got
Speaker 2: up extra early. I had the best outfit picked, you know,
Speaker 2: something that screamed cool but also hip enough to work
Speaker 2: in teak and chrome one day. So I get dressed
Speaker 2: and I'm running downstairs and I see my mom at
Speaker 2: the table and no one else where's dad. I asked
Speaker 2: that since I didn't see my sister anywhere, I put
Speaker 2: it all together before my mom could lie to me
Speaker 2: in an attempt to feel better. But she tried something
Speaker 2: like Alex needed some extra credit for a project about
Speaker 2: CEOs and it just made sense to go in with
Speaker 2: dad or whatever bullshit she was selling that used every phrase,
Speaker 2: but we all like Alex better than you.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, did you call out your sister?
Speaker 2: Call out Alex? That would have been like trying to
Speaker 2: tell the Pope to wear less white or employless philes.
Speaker 3: Ooh, we were on a roll.
Speaker 2: Shit, I keep forgetting. This used to be a church.
Speaker 3: It's okay, the church won't forget. Then what happened, Well.
Speaker 2: That was the distinctive moment that made me realize two things. One,
Speaker 2: my family cared more about appearances and whatever made them
Speaker 2: look best. Alex was older, the honor student, already looking
Speaker 2: at scholarships from all the IVY leagues, flew in lacrosse
Speaker 2: and cardigans, and my father rolling into work with a
Speaker 2: success story. It would only improve the Simmons stock, which
Speaker 2: led to number two. I had to get the fuck
Speaker 2: out of there and make it a mission to always
Speaker 2: seek out the truth, no matter the cost. I let
Speaker 2: myself be lied to that day, and I vowed to
Speaker 2: never let it happen again that.
Speaker 3: Day when you were eleven. Yeah, I was sill, occasionally
Speaker 3: peeing in the bed if I saw a scary movie cover.
Speaker 2: We'll have to unpack that later. But yeah, the only
Speaker 2: thing I did take from my family was the stubbornness,
Speaker 2: and it's lasted me these last couple of decades.
Speaker 3: That's why you came back. Yeah, I think so, and
Speaker 3: really why you've left.
Speaker 2: I suppose I have left everywhere else when someone threatened
Speaker 2: to take away my choice of chasing the story like
Speaker 2: previous dudes. Yeah, you'd be surprised how unconsciously conniving a
Speaker 2: partner can be if they feel threatened by anything else
Speaker 2: besides them offering happiness and opportunity. Actually, I'm surprised at
Speaker 2: saying that out loud for the first time.
Speaker 3: Oh, no surprise. There. For the record, I wished you
Speaker 3: a bombvoyage.
Speaker 2: Or my dear Vicinde. How they can always make it
Speaker 2: about themselves.
Speaker 3: Damn it, I'm kidding, but this is me time copy
Speaker 3: Sergeant more Wine, ma'am just poor petty officer. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: guess the opposite of being told you're a kid genius
Speaker 3: even though or not is being ignored for a sibling. Shit,
Speaker 3: that's a fucking bummer. Sorry, you've been trying to run
Speaker 3: from that shadow.
Speaker 2: Fucking permanent DNA solar eclipse.
Speaker 3: What happened to your dad?
Speaker 2: He Willie lowmaned himself minus the insurance money.
Speaker 3: Fuck, I am so sorry.
Speaker 2: He worked for forty years, never said more than was necessary.
Speaker 2: It gave us a roof and clothes when we were
Speaker 2: all off to college. He was retired and he decided
Speaker 2: to go a little too fast for the first time
Speaker 2: in his life. Unfortunately, that was a little too fast
Speaker 2: around a tight corner off a cliff overlooking the Pacific
Speaker 2: Ocean in a rented convertible BMW silver lining. Forensick said,
Speaker 2: it was instant. I feel like he lived his life
Speaker 2: like he was in the Truman Show. Knew the truth
Speaker 2: but said, fuck it, I'll just play along. And that's
Speaker 2: why I won't. That's why I need this. I want
Speaker 2: to get these answers. I want to find out why
Speaker 2: break this story, find out why no one outside of
Speaker 2: the Danville area has heard of it. Any of these
Speaker 2: murders and disappearances. That's why I came back.
Speaker 3: Okay, but you also like kind of came back from me, right,
Speaker 3: all right?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, who else is going to teach you basic history?
Speaker 2: It's wide, But tell me the speed of light? Einstein?
Speaker 3: Oh that's a low blow, and it's Romer, not Einstein.
Speaker 2: We've said much worse than this. So this really was
Speaker 2: a church and they just converted it to a library.
Speaker 3: Yeah, makes sense, But they also never built another church
Speaker 3: in town.
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask. It's like they traded the promise
Speaker 2: of salvation for prize of knowledge and history or a.
Speaker 3: Curse of knowledge, depending on who writes the history.
Speaker 2: That fucking draft. It's like getting dumped in a freezer.
Speaker 2: It's coming from the little tunnel, isn't it.
Speaker 3: So I read that during Prohibition Danville may have been
Speaker 3: a little bit of a stopover for deliveries from Canada
Speaker 3: down to Boston and New York. Oh yeah, and hidden
Speaker 3: rooms and mini tunnels like this were pretty common. Who's
Speaker 3: going to check a library for booze? And even if
Speaker 3: they did, who's gonna find this? Did anyone ever get
Speaker 3: caught hiding alcohol?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: That's a great question. Let's look at the Danvil Harald.
Speaker 2: Nineteen twenty two, nineteen thirty.
Speaker 3: And nineteen thirty to nineteen forty. Prohibation was nineteen twenty
Speaker 3: to nineteen thirty three. So we'd have to cover a
Speaker 3: shit on a ground.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems like it would take a bit of time.
Speaker 3: But there's one thing we could check. Yep, keywords, keywords.
Speaker 3: Each compendium has an index with keywords and page numbers.
Speaker 2: No shit, they had indexes back then.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they had them in the fifteenth century, called
Speaker 3: them concordances. But the first dude to be known as
Speaker 3: a professional indexer was Sam Askoff.
Speaker 2: Professional indexer, not.
Speaker 3: Just professional, no, no, he was literally known as the
Speaker 3: Prince of Indexers, like Dewey Before Dewey, who never mind, you.
Speaker 2: Know what, I take it back, I'll never make fun
Speaker 2: of you for not knowing where malback is from. Prince
Speaker 2: of Indexers. Really, that's an actual person.
Speaker 3: I'm a librarian. If I didn't know Ace Coff, cleave Cutter,
Speaker 3: Dewey and so many more, they've come snatched my card
Speaker 3: and drown me in laid fees.
Speaker 2: This is amazing. Okay, well, let's get into these indexes.
Speaker 3: Baby, deal what's first.
Speaker 2: Let's check prohibition.
Speaker 3: Okay, Book one. Prohibition is mentioned three hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: seven times.
Speaker 2: Book two looks like fifty two times. It's still too
Speaker 2: much to come through. We need to cross reference. Oh yes,
Speaker 2: jinx exactly, Book two two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3: Mentions, Book one fuck four hundred mentions.
Speaker 2: That's not gonna work.
Speaker 3: Damn it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, long shot.
Speaker 3: But kidnapping ooh, nothing in book one?
Speaker 2: Sit the same?
Speaker 3: What about broader?
Speaker 2: Broader?
Speaker 3: Something like disappearances? Disappearance brilliant? Okay, Book one is manageable
Speaker 3: forty four disappearances and book.
Speaker 2: Two is seventy three. Wait, let's say if any of
Speaker 2: these are on the same pages as the prohibition ones.
Speaker 2: Let me take a pic.
Speaker 3: Book one index for prohibition.
Speaker 2: And book two. Now, let's go to the book one,
Speaker 2: index for disappearance and first.
Speaker 3: Hit boom, page one. Twenty five April first, nineteen.
Speaker 2: Twenty Ottawa Senators win the Stanley Cup after the disappearance
Speaker 2: of any offense from the Seattle Metropolitans.
Speaker 3: Didn't even know that was a hockey team.
Speaker 2: This will take too long, but we have no choice.
Speaker 3: What if we went back and forth earliest latest, I
Speaker 3: like it.
Speaker 2: So let's check any in book one that are in
Speaker 2: nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 3: Checking ooh, got one October twenty fifth, nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, October yeah, nineteen twenty nine. Oh wow, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the day after Black Thursday, October twenty fourth, the
Speaker 2: Wall Street crash of nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 3: All these articles on the front page are about that
Speaker 3: largest sell off Thomas Lamont, Morgan Bank Chase, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 3: Here maybe on page two m.
Speaker 2: More banking stuff. Wait a minute, what's this? Danville resident
Speaker 2: Frank Shaw declared deceased after disappearance on September twenty third.
Speaker 3: Frank Shaw as in touch Shaw, frank Shaw fuck. And
Speaker 3: of course it's buried at the bottom.
Speaker 2: Buried nineteen twenty nine. Yeah, holy shit, nineteen twenty nine,
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one, twenty twenty two. Gordon grabbed the nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty dan Villa issues.
Speaker 3: Luckily those indexes have been digitized on our local hard
Speaker 3: driven r on.
Speaker 2: It just cross reference disappearance in September and October. Bet
Speaker 2: you'll find something.
Speaker 3: On October nineteenth about a disappearance on.
Speaker 2: Dember twenty third.
Speaker 3: Way, how did you do?
Speaker 2: Thirty one years it's a gap of thirty one years.
Speaker 2: Whatever's happening now also happened in nineteen ninety one, in
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty, in nineteen twenty nine. And I bet if
Speaker 2: we look at eighteen ninety eight or eighteen sixty seven,
Speaker 2: we'll start to see who is being a raised from
Speaker 2: Danville's history.
Speaker 3: Wow, God, Oh is that Aaron's phone? Oh? God, Oh God?
Speaker 2: May you mean by easy cause?
Speaker 3: Eh?
Speaker 1: Consumed Episode eight, The Bottle, written by Carlos Folia and
Speaker 1: Alessandra Hara del Castillo. Editing and sound design by Noami Griffin,
Speaker 1: starring Rachel Rosenbloom and Arturo Castro, and directed by Alexander Williams,
Speaker 1: Assistant director Trevor Young. Casting by Sunday Bowling CSA and
Speaker 1: Meg Mormon CSA. Production coordinator Wayna Calderon. Music by Carlos Scolia.
Speaker 1: Consumed the season one score, available now on Apple Music, Spotify,
Speaker 1: or wherever music is streamed. Executive producers Aaron Mankey, Carlos Folia,
Speaker 1: Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams. Supervising producers Trevor Young and
Speaker 1: Josh Thain. Producers Noami Griffin, j and Rima Ilkali. Recorded
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Speaker 1: Ken Aros. Consumed was created by Carlos Folia, inspired by
Speaker 1: the novel by Aaron Manky. Consumed is the newest chapter
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