Speaker 1: Maxie Miles. It's a production of a typical artists and
Speaker 1: I heart radio. Miss Honeywell Maxine, lovely afternoon, isn't it. Well?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what happened? Oh it's nothing, just just
Speaker 1: a little sprain. Are you all right? Yeah, it really
Speaker 1: wasn't a big deal at all. I just it was stupid.
Speaker 1: I was just running and tripped. Not exactly the worst
Speaker 1: thing to happen in the last few days, obviously. What
Speaker 1: do you mean, Wait, you haven't heard heard what Riley?
Speaker 1: A boy from the high school he went missing? Oh god,
Speaker 1: I guess you're not tapped into the Hastings rumor mill yet.
Speaker 1: Are there any leads? No? No, All they know is
Speaker 1: that he was in city Hall Monday afternoon talking to
Speaker 1: the mayor and after that nothing oh mm hmm, what well?
Speaker 1: I think I may have seen him there. I took
Speaker 1: your advice to go to city Hall for the old blueprints,
Speaker 1: and there was a boy there about your age. He was, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I should say no, tell me. Well,
Speaker 1: as I was leaving, I passed him as he was
Speaker 1: leaning against an office door like he was listening in
Speaker 1: to the Mayor's office. No, it was a different office.
Speaker 1: I think, Maxine Miles getting this car right now? Oh god,
Speaker 1: I'm serious, Max Joe, I'm kind of in the middle
Speaker 1: of having it in. Sorry, that's all right. What about
Speaker 1: come right home after school? Did you not understand? I
Speaker 1: was right home, but I had to pick up a
Speaker 1: book at the library, Maxine, I mean it this time, really, Max,
Speaker 1: After that stunt you pulled last night, I was allowed
Speaker 1: to be there. It's not joining the search party that
Speaker 1: I have a problem with. It's the fact that you
Speaker 1: went running after god knows what in the middle of
Speaker 1: the woods. I thought we agreed last night that you
Speaker 1: would keep this to a purely notebook based activity. We did,
Speaker 1: and I have been Oh you sure have. Guess what
Speaker 1: I found taped on the back of your door, A
Speaker 1: full on conspiracy board, red string and all. You said
Speaker 1: I could take notes. We're well past that. You are
Speaker 1: throwing all of it away and leaving this to the adults. Sorry, kiddo,
Speaker 1: but you lost your curiosity privileges when you lied to
Speaker 1: me and went running head first into danger from a
Speaker 1: typical artists And I heart radio. You're listening to Maxim Miles.
Speaker 1: This is chapter three the Treehouse. Yes, fine, I'm throwing
Speaker 1: it out. Good, I'll just go ahead throughout all of
Speaker 1: my hard work. What are you doing? God tell her?
Speaker 1: Lurk much? What is all that junk? It's not chunk.
Speaker 1: It's evidence evidence about Riley. Nothing that's actual evidence. I'm
Speaker 1: not holding valuable information or anything. Just my case, your case.
Speaker 1: You really think it's a good idea for you to
Speaker 1: keep going on this after yesterday? Don't you start? Yesterday
Speaker 1: was just a misstep in the investigation. Literally, but there
Speaker 1: was someone in those woods. It was a deer. It
Speaker 1: was not a deer, and you know it. Look, if
Speaker 1: you don't want to throw all that away, I might
Speaker 1: know a place you could put it, somewhere your uncle
Speaker 1: won't find. I thought this place was condemned years ago.
Speaker 1: Oh you can't actually condemn a tree house. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? I made it up. Hmm, the tree
Speaker 1: house being dangerous and about to collapse. What why? I
Speaker 1: have four siblings, Okay, all right, only child. You don't
Speaker 1: get it, well, it's a nightmare. I don't know. It
Speaker 1: sounds kind of fun to me, trust me, it's not.
Speaker 1: I share a room. I never get to be alone.
Speaker 1: So you lied to your family. It's not my fault.
Speaker 1: They're gullible, they'll never come up here, and my parents
Speaker 1: are too lazy to take it down, so all mine.
Speaker 1: That's messed up. Ross. Hey, you're lying to Joe. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not. If you keep your murder board up here,
Speaker 1: you are, it's not a murder board. Riley isn't dead,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Either way, you don't have
Speaker 1: to do all this, No I do. I need to
Speaker 1: figure this out. Why you got the hots for rial
Speaker 1: or something? What? No? God? No, Hey, he's not that bad. No,
Speaker 1: that's not Riley is great, but I don't like him
Speaker 1: like that. Right, I forgot? He's not THEO what? Nothing?
Speaker 1: You're sure that no one will find this stuff? I'm positive,
Speaker 1: really really really really okay, come on show me what
Speaker 1: you have already? Mostly just major players, Riley's parents, everyone
Speaker 1: he talked to the last day, people saw him, his
Speaker 1: best friends, so suspects. Yeah. Cool. You know you don't
Speaker 1: have to actually help me with this. I can just
Speaker 1: come over here by myself. You nearly broke your ankle yesterday.
Speaker 1: I don't think you should be left to your own devices.
Speaker 1: Don't patronize me, Teller. You're the one who looked like
Speaker 1: he was going to pass out from sheer terror. How's
Speaker 1: it feeling, By the way, It's totally fine. The swelling
Speaker 1: is completely gone. It's basically acton normal. Sure. Wait, why
Speaker 1: is Mr Beati's name in here? Oh? Riley mentioned something
Speaker 1: about helping him this summer, like mowing the lawn and stuff.
Speaker 1: I have never seen Riley Stephens mowing Mr Beatie's lawn.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that exactly. It was something had to do
Speaker 1: with housework or repairs or I wrote it down somewhere. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm up here most nights until late okay. And
Speaker 1: the other night, Monday night, I saw Mr Beady pulling
Speaker 1: out of his driveway at two am. He had a
Speaker 1: shovel and a tarp Monday night. Yeah, you're sure, Max.
Speaker 1: You saw Mr Beatie get into his truck with a
Speaker 1: shovel into tarp the night Riley went missing. You don't
Speaker 1: think Mr Beaty, what ever, yeah, hurt someone? Do you
Speaker 1: What was that? Mr beat Oh my god? Do you
Speaker 1: think he hurt us? More importantly, what's quit that deffel bag?
Speaker 1: Where is he going? Probably the same place he went
Speaker 1: on Monday? Ross? Yeah, Max, you want to find out
Speaker 1: for sure? No, no way, Ross, Max, we can't just
Speaker 1: follow Mr Beatie. Why not because at ten o'clock at night,
Speaker 1: we're fourteen and he's in a car. We can take
Speaker 1: our bikes. You have a sprained angle, I'll sit on
Speaker 1: your handlebars. Then you don't think he's going to notice
Speaker 1: two kids on one bike following him. Like you said,
Speaker 1: it's almost ten, it's too dark for him to notice.
Speaker 1: Do you hear yourself right now? Who knows what he
Speaker 1: was doing with that shovel or what the hell he's
Speaker 1: got in that duffel bag? And you want to follow
Speaker 1: him in the middle of the night with let me
Speaker 1: remind you again a sprained ankle. I told you I'm fine?
Speaker 1: What if he has Riley? Okay, this is officially insane.
Speaker 1: Why did you even tell me about it? If we
Speaker 1: weren't going to follow him, Max, you can't just go
Speaker 1: running off after every shadow in the woods? Are half
Speaker 1: big idea? Have? This is serious? You can't always be
Speaker 1: such a coward all the time. Wait, Ross, I didn't
Speaker 1: Matt shoot. Sounds like you should probably get back home. Wait, Ross,
Speaker 1: better get going right? Hey? What are you doing cleaning up?
Speaker 1: I told you you could leave your stuff here? I
Speaker 1: meant it even after I keep my word. Max. Okay, thanks, Ross, Yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: I'll see you tomorrow if you haven't gotten yourself killed
Speaker 1: between now and then, right see tomorrow. Is that homework?
Speaker 1: Uh huh? Why aren't I supposed to be doing my homework?
Speaker 1: Not the morning is due. It's fine, I'm just finishing
Speaker 1: up some things. This is exactly why I made you
Speaker 1: throw out all that stuff. You can't go getting distracted
Speaker 1: and falling behind in school. Not falling behind in school.
Speaker 1: I get straight a's, and I'd like for you to
Speaker 1: keep it that way, which means whatever you were doing
Speaker 1: at the Tellers last night, you can't be going that lake.
Speaker 1: I was just helping Ross with some school stuff. I
Speaker 1: thought you guys hated each other. What gave you that idea?
Speaker 1: The fact that you've been at war for the past
Speaker 1: three years. At war you stole his basketball. Okay, the
Speaker 1: bouncing sound was driving me crazy. He knocked your bike
Speaker 1: into a puddle and the gears rested. I was able
Speaker 1: to clean it up. I've only ever heard the two
Speaker 1: of you yell each other's names. That was all middle
Speaker 1: school stuff, and now that you're in high school, you're
Speaker 1: mature adults. As mature as you. We've come to a
Speaker 1: day taunt a date. Taunt. Huh? What for? We have
Speaker 1: compatible resources? What does that mean? It means that we're
Speaker 1: helping each other with school stuff. All right, you're sure
Speaker 1: it has nothing to do with Riley. I got all
Speaker 1: that stuff out of the house, just like he wanted. Good.
Speaker 1: Now that your schedule has freed up, I thought it
Speaker 1: might be good for you to get a job. What wait,
Speaker 1: you you just said I don't You're right. You're a
Speaker 1: great student, so school doesn't eat up that much of
Speaker 1: your time, and you don't have any extracurriculus. And that's
Speaker 1: because they won't let me start environmental club with only
Speaker 1: three people. And I don't need you going around and
Speaker 1: creating your own extracurriculars. So you're getting a job. Isn't
Speaker 1: there a job shortage in this town? Isn't that like
Speaker 1: the whole point of the new mining project. There's a
Speaker 1: shortage of full time, well paid jobs. Yes, part time
Speaker 1: minimum wage jobs for teens who need to stay out
Speaker 1: of trouble. There are plenty of those, and you start
Speaker 1: in one of them this afternoon. What I called the
Speaker 1: manager at the general store. This morning, I fixed her
Speaker 1: car for free the other month, and she owed me
Speaker 1: a favor. She expects you every day after school until
Speaker 1: five thirty and on Saturdays starting at eight. You can't
Speaker 1: just force me into a job. M hm. Well, the
Speaker 1: other option is you come to the auto shop and
Speaker 1: help me fix cars. What would you rather do? Get
Speaker 1: discount gum and workings out a warm store, or freeze
Speaker 1: your butt off with me and a bunch of old
Speaker 1: geezers in a drafty garage. Crap, that's what I thought.
Speaker 1: Eat up. You've got a long day ahead of you,
Speaker 1: and that's pretty much all of it. We're supposed to
Speaker 1: be getting a credit card reader next month, so we'll
Speaker 1: both have to get trained on that, but for now,
Speaker 1: nothing over our fifty dollar bill, got it? Got it?
Speaker 1: You're paid every two weeks. You get a ten percent
Speaker 1: store discount, and that does not extend to your friends,
Speaker 1: so don't even try it sounds good, that's it, no questions, no,
Speaker 1: I got it? Mm hmmm. What Usually hiring a kid
Speaker 1: from the high school means trouble. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: be trouble. If I have to be here, I might
Speaker 1: as well do a good job, all right. It then
Speaker 1: your miles and your heart's too damn big pack of
Speaker 1: pall malls and a lighter please seven dollars. Those things
Speaker 1: will kill you, you know. That's why you shouldn't smoke them.
Speaker 1: I wasn't planning to good for you, and you shouldn't either.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the tip, kid, but I don't let thirteen
Speaker 1: year olds dictate my life. I'm fourteen. Your point, fine,
Speaker 1: do whatever you want, but you can't smoke that in here.
Speaker 1: I owned the building and everything inside of it, so
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I can. Later, Max by miss Ransom Archer.
Speaker 1: M hm, that guy that you're staring at, that's Ransom Archer.
Speaker 1: Oh I wasn't well, hi, Maxie, surprising you here. I
Speaker 1: got a job I see that first day, and already
Speaker 1: familiar with all the customers. Impressive. Ransom isn't a customer.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you notice what this store is called,
Speaker 1: Archer General Store. Well, I see, yep, which is why
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to charge him what ransom? When he
Speaker 1: comes in, you just give him what he wants. He
Speaker 1: doesn't pay, He didn't say anything about just next time
Speaker 1: he comes in, don't charge him. Where is the sales ledger? Oh?
Speaker 1: It's here, what were you doing with it? Nothing, I
Speaker 1: wasn't there before. I should probably help this customer right
Speaker 1: right as you were. What can I do for you? Well,
Speaker 1: I was coming in here for a screwdriver, but now
Speaker 1: that you're here, you might be able to help me.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the inn is well, it's in a bit
Speaker 1: of a rougher state than I expected, to be completely honest,
Speaker 1: And there are some repairs that I can handle on
Speaker 1: my own own, hence the screwdriver exactly, But there are
Speaker 1: other things that are well beyond my scope. You seem
Speaker 1: to know quite a bit about the people in this town.
Speaker 1: I've lived here my whole life. It'd be hard not
Speaker 1: to well know of anyone who could help me out
Speaker 1: light carpentry, some plumbing. Your best bet for both the
Speaker 1: screwdriver and the help is going to be the hardware store,
Speaker 1: right of course, I'm still getting acclimated. You know. It's
Speaker 1: not what I expected, Hastings, What do you mean? I
Speaker 1: think I expected the suburbs to be all big box
Speaker 1: stores and sprawling developments. But in some ways it's not
Speaker 1: so different here from New York from New York City?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding? Well, sure, it's a lot smaller, and
Speaker 1: a lot quieter, but the sense of community, the half
Speaker 1: dozen different shops for all your different errands. My neighborhood
Speaker 1: in Manhattan was like that too. What neighborhood were you
Speaker 1: in the West Village? A charming part of the city.
Speaker 1: I bet you'd like it. I bet I would too.
Speaker 1: Why do you leave? I don't understand why anyone would
Speaker 1: leave a place like New York to come live in Hastings.
Speaker 1: Sometimes life pushes you in unexpected directions. So this hardware
Speaker 1: store right, it's just down Maine, left on Poplar Archer's
Speaker 1: Hardware of course. Thanks for the help, Maxine. Anytime have
Speaker 1: a new in owner. Yeah, mm hmmm mmmm what I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't like new people. She's amazing. Just
Speaker 1: because someone's new doesn't mean they're suspicious. People in this
Speaker 1: town need to have a little more faith. M Oh hey, Ross,
Speaker 1: didn't expect to find me in my own treehouse. No, sorry,
Speaker 1: I just didn't think that you'd want to whoa, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought i'd take a crack at organizing your notes
Speaker 1: so far. Okay, now it really is a murder board.
Speaker 1: I see you found my string. You had all the
Speaker 1: makings for a full on conspiracy layout in your pile.
Speaker 1: I just put it all together. Wow you what what?
Speaker 1: What did I do wrong? No? No, nothing, it's this
Speaker 1: is exactly how I would have put it all together. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you Ross. Whatever it wasn't hard. Your notes are
Speaker 1: pretty clear there was an obvious structure to it. Still,
Speaker 1: you didn't have to do this. I had to kill
Speaker 1: time waiting for Mr Beatie to come back last night. Anyway,
Speaker 1: you waited up for him. M hmm. I thought you
Speaker 1: didn't want to investigate him. I didn't want to go
Speaker 1: running head first into the darkness with no plan to
Speaker 1: follow an adult man two days after a kid hour
Speaker 1: age went missing. Don't mistake my practicality for cowardice. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that. It's not like I don't know
Speaker 1: what you think about me. Well, I know that you
Speaker 1: think I'm a stubborn, naive idiot who does things without
Speaker 1: thinking them through. I don't think you're an idiot. But
Speaker 1: everything else no comment. Did he come back? Who? Mr Beatie? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah he did at three in the morning. What you
Speaker 1: stayed up until three? Yeah? I don't get much sleep anyway,
Speaker 1: but he came back at three. No duffel bag and
Speaker 1: he just went right inside. He didn't even turn on
Speaker 1: the lights when he got home. He didn't have the
Speaker 1: Duffel bag. Still, Nope, that's weird, yep. I just think
Speaker 1: that if next time he decided to go somewhere in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night week No, come on, no, Ross,
Speaker 1: I'm not coming with you. Fine, I'll go alone. Know
Speaker 1: why you're doing that. I can take care of myself.
Speaker 1: Come on, Max, you really think that Mr Beatie has
Speaker 1: something to do with Riley's disappearance. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: he's doing something shady. So do what you do best. Investigate.
Speaker 1: That's what you're good at, right, ask around, try to
Speaker 1: find out where beauty would go without risking your life
Speaker 1: for it. That's too it's too slow. Ross. Everything I've
Speaker 1: ever read talks about how the first forty eight hours
Speaker 1: of a missing person's case is the most critical period.
Speaker 1: We're already past that. I know, Okay, I just I
Speaker 1: can't just sit by and do nothing. What if? What
Speaker 1: if Riley really did run away? Have you been talking
Speaker 1: to Jenna? It's not the craziest theory in the world.
Speaker 1: I feel like everyone I know has thought about running
Speaker 1: away from Hastings at one point. Or another, well almost everyone. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm the weirdo for liking Hastings, I get it. I
Speaker 1: just don't think Riley would do that without telling anyone.
Speaker 1: He knows that the whole town would freak out, so
Speaker 1: that just leaves him getting lost or hurt or or
Speaker 1: something much much worse. Maxie Miles was created by Lauren
Speaker 1: Chippen and his Production of A Typical Artists and I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. This episode is written and directed by Lauren Chippen,
Speaker 1: dialeg editing and sound design by Morrissy Owing at Hemlock
Speaker 1: Creek Productions, with editing assistance from Laurian Davis. It featured
Speaker 1: Jordan cob as Maxie Miles, MAXI Follow as Ross Teller,
Speaker 1: Michael Smallwood is Uncle, Joe, Andrew Norock as Ransom Archer,
Speaker 1: Jacquelin Land Graphics, a lot of Honeywell, and Lauren Shippen
Speaker 1: as the manager. Original artwork by Shane McMullan. For more
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