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Speaker 1: I heart radio. Miss Honeywell Maxine, lovely afternoon, isn't it. Well?

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what happened? Oh it's nothing, just just

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Speaker 1: a little sprain. Are you all right? Yeah, it really

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Speaker 1: wasn't a big deal at all. I just it was stupid.

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Speaker 1: I was just running and tripped. Not exactly the worst

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Speaker 1: thing to happen in the last few days, obviously. What

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Speaker 1: do you mean, Wait, you haven't heard heard what Riley?

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Speaker 1: A boy from the high school he went missing? Oh god,

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Speaker 1: I guess you're not tapped into the Hastings rumor mill yet.

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Speaker 1: Are there any leads? No? No, All they know is

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Speaker 1: that he was in city Hall Monday afternoon talking to

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Speaker 1: the mayor and after that nothing oh mm hmm, what well?

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Speaker 1: I think I may have seen him there. I took

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Speaker 1: your advice to go to city Hall for the old blueprints,

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Speaker 1: and there was a boy there about your age. He was, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I should say no, tell me. Well,

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Speaker 1: as I was leaving, I passed him as he was

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Speaker 1: to the Mayor's office. No, it was a different office.

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Speaker 1: I think, Maxine Miles getting this car right now? Oh god,

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Speaker 1: I'm serious, Max Joe, I'm kind of in the middle

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Speaker 1: of having it in. Sorry, that's all right. What about

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Speaker 1: come right home after school? Did you not understand? I

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Speaker 1: was right home, but I had to pick up a

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Speaker 1: book at the library, Maxine, I mean it this time, really, Max,

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Speaker 1: After that stunt you pulled last night, I was allowed

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Speaker 1: to be there. It's not joining the search party that

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Speaker 1: I have a problem with. It's the fact that you

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Speaker 1: the woods. I thought we agreed last night that you

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Speaker 1: would keep this to a purely notebook based activity. We did,

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Speaker 1: and I have been Oh you sure have. Guess what

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Speaker 1: I found taped on the back of your door, A

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Speaker 1: full on conspiracy board, red string and all. You said

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Speaker 1: I could take notes. We're well past that. You are

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Speaker 1: throwing all of it away and leaving this to the adults. Sorry, kiddo,

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Speaker 1: but you lost your curiosity privileges when you lied to

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Speaker 1: me and went running head first into danger from a

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Speaker 1: typical artists And I heart radio. You're listening to Maxim Miles.

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Speaker 1: This is chapter three the Treehouse. Yes, fine, I'm throwing

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Speaker 1: it out. Good, I'll just go ahead throughout all of

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Speaker 1: my hard work. What are you doing? God tell her?

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Speaker 1: Lurk much? What is all that junk? It's not chunk.

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Speaker 1: It's evidence evidence about Riley. Nothing that's actual evidence. I'm

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Speaker 1: not holding valuable information or anything. Just my case, your case.

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Speaker 1: You really think it's a good idea for you to

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Speaker 1: keep going on this after yesterday? Don't you start? Yesterday

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Speaker 1: was just a misstep in the investigation. Literally, but there

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Speaker 1: was someone in those woods. It was a deer. It

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Speaker 1: was not a deer, and you know it. Look, if

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Speaker 1: you don't want to throw all that away, I might

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Speaker 1: know a place you could put it, somewhere your uncle

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Speaker 1: won't find. I thought this place was condemned years ago.

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Speaker 1: Oh you can't actually condemn a tree house. You know

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Speaker 1: what I mean? I made it up. Hmm, the tree

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Speaker 1: house being dangerous and about to collapse. What why? I

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Speaker 1: have four siblings, Okay, all right, only child. You don't

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Speaker 1: get it, well, it's a nightmare. I don't know. It

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Speaker 1: sounds kind of fun to me, trust me, it's not.

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Speaker 1: I share a room. I never get to be alone.

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Speaker 1: So you lied to your family. It's not my fault.

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Speaker 1: They're gullible, they'll never come up here, and my parents

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Speaker 1: are too lazy to take it down, so all mine.

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Speaker 1: That's messed up. Ross. Hey, you're lying to Joe. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not. If you keep your murder board up here,

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Speaker 1: you are, it's not a murder board. Riley isn't dead,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Either way, you don't have

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Speaker 1: to do all this, No I do. I need to

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Speaker 1: figure this out. Why you got the hots for rial

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Speaker 1: or something? What? No? God? No, Hey, he's not that bad. No,

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Speaker 1: that's not Riley is great, but I don't like him

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Speaker 1: like that. Right, I forgot? He's not THEO what? Nothing?

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Speaker 1: You're sure that no one will find this stuff? I'm positive,

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Speaker 1: really really really really okay, come on show me what

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Speaker 1: you have already? Mostly just major players, Riley's parents, everyone

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Speaker 1: I don't think you should be left to your own devices.

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Speaker 1: Don't patronize me, Teller. You're the one who looked like

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Speaker 1: he was going to pass out from sheer terror. How's

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Speaker 1: it feeling, By the way, It's totally fine. The swelling

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Speaker 1: is Mr Beati's name in here? Oh? Riley mentioned something

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Speaker 1: I have never seen Riley Stephens mowing Mr Beatie's lawn.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't that exactly. It was something had to do

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Speaker 1: with housework or repairs or I wrote it down somewhere. Um, okay,

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Speaker 1: So I'm up here most nights until late okay. And

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Speaker 1: the other night, Monday night, I saw Mr Beady pulling

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Speaker 1: shovel and a tarp Monday night. Yeah, you're sure, Max.

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Speaker 1: You saw Mr Beatie get into his truck with a

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Speaker 1: shovel into tarp the night Riley went missing. You don't

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Speaker 1: think Mr Beaty, what ever, yeah, hurt someone? Do you

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Speaker 1: What was that? Mr beat Oh my god? Do you

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Speaker 1: think he hurt us? More importantly, what's quit that deffel bag?

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Speaker 1: Where is he going? Probably the same place he went

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Speaker 1: on Monday? Ross? Yeah, Max, you want to find out

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Speaker 1: for sure? No, no way, Ross, Max, we can't just

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Speaker 1: follow Mr Beatie. Why not because at ten o'clock at night,

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Speaker 1: we're fourteen and he's in a car. We can take

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Speaker 1: our bikes. You have a sprained angle, I'll sit on

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Speaker 1: it's almost ten, it's too dark for him to notice.

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Speaker 1: Do you hear yourself right now? Who knows what he

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Speaker 1: got in that duffel bag? And you want to follow

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Speaker 1: him in the middle of the night with let me

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Speaker 1: remind you again a sprained ankle. I told you I'm fine?

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Speaker 1: What if he has Riley? Okay, this is officially insane.

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Speaker 1: Why did you even tell me about it? If we

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Speaker 1: weren't going to follow him, Max, you can't just go

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Speaker 1: big idea? Have? This is serious? You can't always be

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Speaker 1: such a coward all the time. Wait, Ross, I didn't

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Speaker 1: Matt shoot. Sounds like you should probably get back home. Wait, Ross,

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Speaker 1: better get going right? Hey? What are you doing cleaning up?

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Speaker 1: I told you you could leave your stuff here? I

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Speaker 1: meant it even after I keep my word. Max. Okay, thanks, Ross, Yeah, whatever,

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Speaker 1: I'll see you tomorrow if you haven't gotten yourself killed

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Speaker 1: between now and then, right see tomorrow. Is that homework?

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Speaker 1: Uh huh? Why aren't I supposed to be doing my homework?

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Speaker 1: Not the morning is due. It's fine, I'm just finishing

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Speaker 1: throw out all that stuff. You can't go getting distracted

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Speaker 1: and falling behind in school. Not falling behind in school.

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Speaker 1: I get straight a's, and I'd like for you to

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Speaker 1: I was just helping Ross with some school stuff. I

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Speaker 1: thought you guys hated each other. What gave you that idea?

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Speaker 1: The fact that you've been at war for the past

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Speaker 1: three years. At war you stole his basketball. Okay, the

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Speaker 1: bouncing sound was driving me crazy. He knocked your bike

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Speaker 1: of you yell each other's names. That was all middle

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Speaker 1: school stuff, and now that you're in high school, you're

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Speaker 1: mature adults. As mature as you. We've come to a

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Speaker 1: day taunt a date. Taunt. Huh? What for? We have

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Speaker 1: compatible resources? What does that mean? It means that we're

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Speaker 1: helping each other with school stuff. All right, you're sure

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Speaker 1: it has nothing to do with Riley. I got all

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Speaker 1: that stuff out of the house, just like he wanted. Good.

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Speaker 1: Now that your schedule has freed up, I thought it

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Speaker 1: might be good for you to get a job. What wait,

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Speaker 1: you you just said I don't You're right. You're a

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Speaker 1: creating your own extracurriculars. So you're getting a job. Isn't

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Speaker 1: the whole point of the new mining project. There's a

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Speaker 1: shortage of full time, well paid jobs. Yes, part time

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Speaker 1: minimum wage jobs for teens who need to stay out

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Speaker 1: of trouble. There are plenty of those, and you start

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Speaker 1: five thirty and on Saturdays starting at eight. You can't

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Speaker 1: just force me into a job. M hm. Well, the

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Speaker 1: and that's pretty much all of it. We're supposed to

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Speaker 1: be getting a credit card reader next month, so we'll

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Speaker 1: both have to get trained on that, but for now,

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Speaker 1: nothing over our fifty dollar bill, got it? Got it?

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Speaker 1: You're paid every two weeks. You get a ten percent

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Speaker 1: store discount, and that does not extend to your friends,

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Speaker 1: so don't even try it sounds good, that's it, no questions, no,

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Speaker 1: I got it? Mm hmmm. What Usually hiring a kid

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Speaker 1: your miles and your heart's too damn big pack of

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Speaker 1: pall malls and a lighter please seven dollars. Those things

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Speaker 1: will kill you, you know. That's why you shouldn't smoke them.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't planning to good for you, and you shouldn't either.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the tip, kid, but I don't let thirteen

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Speaker 1: year olds dictate my life. I'm fourteen. Your point, fine,

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Speaker 1: do whatever you want, but you can't smoke that in here.

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Speaker 1: I owned the building and everything inside of it, so

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I can. Later, Max by miss Ransom Archer.

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Speaker 1: M hm, that guy that you're staring at, that's Ransom Archer.

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Speaker 1: Oh I wasn't well, hi, Maxie, surprising you here. I

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Speaker 1: familiar with all the customers. Impressive. Ransom isn't a customer.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you notice what this store is called,

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Speaker 1: Archer General Store. Well, I see, yep, which is why

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Speaker 1: you're not supposed to charge him what ransom? When he

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Speaker 1: he comes in, don't charge him. Where is the sales ledger? Oh?

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Speaker 1: It's here, what were you doing with it? Nothing, I

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Speaker 1: right as you were. What can I do for you? Well,

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Speaker 1: I was coming in here for a screwdriver, but now

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Speaker 1: And there are some repairs that I can handle on

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Speaker 1: I just put it all together. Wow you what what?

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Speaker 1: Come on, Max, you really think that Mr Beatie has

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Speaker 1: find out where beauty would go without risking your life

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Speaker 1: for it. That's too it's too slow. Ross. Everything I've

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Speaker 1: something much much worse. Maxie Miles was created by Lauren

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