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Speaker 1: The Hookup is a production of iHeart Podcasts, Blumbhouse Television,

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Speaker 1: and Amber twenty Listener discretion is totally advised. Solving a

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Speaker 1: mystery is kind of like a Rubik's cube. At the beginning,

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Speaker 1: all you have is this scramble of disorganized tiles and

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Speaker 1: the vague reassurance that some combination of twists and turns

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Speaker 1: will restore the cube to order. Like if I line

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Speaker 1: up this clue with this question and this person, suddenly

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Speaker 1: I have a strip of consecutive red tiles and things

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Speaker 1: start to make a little sense. Example, let's say the

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Speaker 1: Ludlow Lodge apartment complex is one green tile. Being the

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Speaker 1: site of Sante's disappearance, we can say with some confidence

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Speaker 1: that it's relevant to the puzzle. Another green tile would

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Speaker 1: be the psychotic former Bellboy who lives at Ludlow Lodge.

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Speaker 1: He went crazy and attacked Matello that night. So it's

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Speaker 1: an easy connection. So let's just shift this row so

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Speaker 1: the two tiles are side by side. Okay, great, what's

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Speaker 1: another clue I can shove into this metaphor? Hmm, the hookup?

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Speaker 1: Of course, bell Boy did make Mateo inhale it, but

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Speaker 1: I can't make those tiles line up because we're forgetting

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Speaker 1: about my stalker. You know, he who wears a crustwick

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Speaker 1: bad mitten hoodie and watches me from the shadows definitely

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Speaker 1: warns a tile. Except when I try to make the

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Speaker 1: stalker fit into the puzzle, it pushes bel Boy out

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Speaker 1: of the way. After all, I bumped into bell Boy

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Speaker 1: while running away from my stalker, so they couldn't be

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Speaker 1: the same. No, but the bell Boy has to be involved.

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Speaker 1: I mean, take this yellow square here. This is the

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Speaker 1: vision Mateo pulled down from the hook up Hive mind,

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Speaker 1: in which he saw a body being shoved down the

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Speaker 1: normally locked the lodge, dumbwaiter. And who would have keys

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Speaker 1: to said dumbwaiter The fucking bell Boy, of course, which

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Speaker 1: is a really hard piece of evidence to ignore if

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Speaker 1: it even is evidence, It hadn't occurred to me. But

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Speaker 1: isn't it possible that when Matteo recounted his vision he

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Speaker 1: was actually already under the Hives influence and that was

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Speaker 1: all a lie to throw me off. That would align

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Speaker 1: with Elias's yellow tile here where he suspected that Sandy

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Speaker 1: was involved in manufacturing the hookup.

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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe that's the issue.

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Speaker 1: If we stop trusting Elias's intel. A lot of this

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Speaker 1: falls apart. Plus, he literally had access to the school's

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Speaker 1: cadaver lab. Like, hello, easy body disposal. Damn it, it

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Speaker 1: can't be Alias. He has an alibi. Yeah, a mystery

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Speaker 1: is a lot like a Rubik's cube. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how to solve either. Hey, Wade, what's an inflatable butt plug?

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Speaker 3: Which part isn't clear? This place is bigger than I

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Speaker 3: was expecting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like the three story sex Costco. I never

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Speaker 1: knew I wanted. That's a lie. I've always wanted a

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Speaker 1: three story sex costco.

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Speaker 3: Whoa check out the mosaic wall of condom wrappers?

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Speaker 1: Are you posting that?

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm?

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Speaker 3: Hashtag gay, hashtag gay boy, hashtag LGBTQ, hashtag gay life,

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Speaker 3: hashtag gay life.

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Speaker 1: Wow, really showing some pride in the tags there? Huh?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 1: Nothing?

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Speaker 3: No? Really?

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Speaker 2: What they say you can pick your friends?

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Speaker 1: Hey, the sandbox is my territory.

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Speaker 2: You tweet bitch, and they say you can pick your nose.

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Speaker 1: Fine?

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Speaker 3: You smelling boogers anyway.

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Speaker 1: But for some reason, I have always been pathologically unable

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Speaker 1: to pick my battles. I just find it curious when

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Speaker 1: I see tags like that. I mean, don't you feel

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Speaker 1: a little weird exploiting your sexuality to drive social media traffic?

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Speaker 3: Exploiting my sexuality? Who's being a? How is it a

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Speaker 3: crime to celebrate and share my identity?

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Speaker 1: Well, like, your identity isn't really what you're celebrating and sharing.

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Speaker 1: You're sharing an Android quality photo of a condom ball.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's nothing even specifically queer about that. Like

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Speaker 1: if you were to post a picture of a newborn

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Speaker 1: cousin which you captioned at hashtag gays of Instagram?

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Speaker 3: Is the newborn cousin gay? Well, how could we know

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Speaker 3: that exactly?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 3: Why are you assuming the tags should all be straight?

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm saying that if the post isn't about

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Speaker 1: who the baby fucks, the tags don't need to be either.

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Speaker 3: WHOA? How can you reduce the entirety of the gay

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Speaker 3: experience to who you.

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Speaker 1: Fuck by tagging a photo of condoms as gay?

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Speaker 3: I didn't realize you were one of those I'm gay,

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Speaker 3: but it's not my entire personality types.

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Speaker 1: Bold words from someone who up until very recently described

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Speaker 1: themselves as straight acting.

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Speaker 3: Oh Jesus dayman, did that seem straight acting?

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Speaker 5: It?

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Speaker 1: Did not, No, so we should probably, like, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: look for clues or something.

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Speaker 2: That was weird.

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Speaker 1: It's probably just the locale, right, you know the same

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Speaker 1: way bookstores give you the urge to poop. Sex shops

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Speaker 1: make you horny for your sort of nemesis.

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Speaker 3: Okay, scrapy doo. And exactly what kind of clues are

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Speaker 3: you envisioning we'll find here?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 1: Like, uh, this could be one.

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Speaker 3: Commander Cox Space Explorer five five? Do do people still

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Speaker 3: buy porn on DVD?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 1: Not since Max acquired mission to uranus.

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Speaker 3: Uriness pun That is a low hanging fruit, my friend.

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Speaker 3: At the very least I was expecting we come in peace.

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Speaker 3: Did you just shit? That is better?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Wade, we could be a stand up duo.

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Speaker 1: I'm the funny one and you play the straight man.

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Speaker 4: Haw ha.

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Speaker 3: Save it for the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Podcasts are kind of gay.

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Speaker 3: Damien, aren't these?

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Speaker 1: They are indeed behind the glass counter, colorful little bottles

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Speaker 1: are aligned in perfect order. Musk Berlin Blitz, Chinese water torture,

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Speaker 1: and of course the hookup. Oh yeah, one thing I

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Speaker 1: should have mentioned. As we were entering Chock full of Nuts,

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Speaker 1: I gave way to spark notes run down on the hookup.

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Speaker 1: Fortunately for him, I'm very good at explaining complex information

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Speaker 1: in super digestible terms. So when Mateo maybe received that

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Speaker 1: dumbwaiter murder vision from a hive mind propagoon, I tried

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Speaker 1: to move the red rubiscube tile but couldn't because of Elias,

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Speaker 1: the gay science kid from Werewolf. Does that make sense,

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Speaker 1: hey Wade, what's an inflatable butt plug?

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Speaker 2: Anyway?

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Speaker 3: The hookup?

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Speaker 5: Welcome to Chalk full of Nuts, where the customer always

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Speaker 5: comes first. As Ludlow Hills Premiere Adult Supply Boutique, We're

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Speaker 5: sure to knock your socks off and get your rocks off.

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Speaker 1: Uh, thank you.

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Speaker 5: I wasn't finished.

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Speaker 3: Now I have to start over.

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Speaker 5: Welcome to Chalk full of Nuts, where the customer always

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Speaker 5: comes first. As Ludlow Hills Premiere Adult Supply Boutique, We're

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Speaker 5: sure to knock your socks off and get your rocks off.

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Speaker 3: I'm Nancy, Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Nancy. Could you possibly tell me who your supplier

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Speaker 1: is for these hookup poppers?

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Speaker 3: Do I look like I know that? Well?

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Speaker 1: No, Frankly, But is it something you could find out?

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Speaker 5: Well no, Frankly, I can't disclose distributor information, but I

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Speaker 5: can tell you about the promotion we're running this week,

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Speaker 5: a free bottle of the hookup with every purchase.

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Speaker 2: Audio cue Damien's heart sinks.

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Speaker 3: Kitchen's pushing the hookup.

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Speaker 1: That feels bad and like the next phase of a

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Speaker 1: very deliberate rollout scheme. I'll just get one bottle of

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Speaker 1: the hookup, thanks for research purposes. Not a total lie, though, truthfully,

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Speaker 1: I have been thinking I'm just given all the anguish lately.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it would be easier if no quit it?

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Speaker 4: Dame?

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Speaker 3: Did you just slap yourself?

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Speaker 1: Don't worry about it?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Do you take apple pey?

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Speaker 5: I literally just said you'd get the hookup free with

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Speaker 5: any purchase. Why would you buy it alone?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, fine, I'll get this.

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Speaker 2: I should have looked at what I was grabbing.

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Speaker 5: All right, one red silicone ballgag and your free.

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Speaker 3: Bottle of the hookup.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Nancy.

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Speaker 3: So nope, Hey, I don't think shame you, do you?

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Speaker 3: Oh Damien? Look Prestwick Badminton Nody ten o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Six o'clock, seven o'clock. You're right, okay, not necessarily him, though,

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Speaker 1: I mean I hear the bad mitten kids are a

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Speaker 1: horny crown.

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Speaker 3: Look, he's got the black mask. That's definitely your attacker.

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Speaker 1: Okay, first of all, we refer to him as my stalker,

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Speaker 1: it implies I'm borth stalking. Second, fuck, he's coming this

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Speaker 1: way in the aisle, Go go go.

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Speaker 3: Can you see him? Yeah, he's heading towards the back.

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Speaker 3: Come on, wait, turn that off. He's gonna hear us.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying. I don't know how it got switched out. Stop.

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Speaker 3: I don't think there is an off button. Maybe it's voice.

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Speaker 1: There's an off button. Wade fucking give me that.

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Speaker 3: Stop it. On the bright side, we're lucky it wasn't

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Speaker 3: one of the ten inch ones. Your stalker definitely would

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Speaker 3: have heard that.

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Speaker 2: Well, I do appreciate the levity.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little more folk, gust On, said stalker, passing

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Speaker 1: through a set of double doors across the shop. Where

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Speaker 1: does that door lead.

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Speaker 5: The Minotaur's sex labyrinth?

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Speaker 1: Just Dancy, Jesus scared me.

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Speaker 5: Sorry, had to restock the electro shock lube.

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Speaker 3: What's the minotaur's sex labyrinth.

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Speaker 5: It's where we keep our higher end instruments of pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Can we go in there?

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Speaker 3: If you think you can afford anything.

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Speaker 1: Swar vibrators in there are something to me affording. What's

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Speaker 1: to say about the Minotaur's sex labyrinth? Sans context? You

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Speaker 1: might think it's some froddy fundraiser spookas the crumbling stone

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Speaker 1: walls are just spray painted plaster, and the gravel coating

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Speaker 1: the floor obviously came from a home depot decorative rocks

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Speaker 1: bag somewhat infrequently. The odd plasticene phallus protrudes from the walls,

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Speaker 1: looking more like exhibits than product for sale.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I wasn't expecting this to actually be a labyrinth.

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Speaker 3: It's not a great business model. You can't find anything.

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Speaker 1: Sh I think he went that way?

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Speaker 3: Come on, Damian, slow down.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to lose him.

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Speaker 3: It's fine, he's just around this corner. Of course, it's

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Speaker 3: equally possible he vanished into oblivion.

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Speaker 1: We stumble out into a circular clearing scattered with fake

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Speaker 1: plastic shackles and skeletons. I guess for max dungeon aesthetic.

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Speaker 1: The outer wall is punctuated by six branching corridors, each

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Speaker 1: one opening into a wash of darkness. Damn it, six passages?

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Speaker 3: Fuck? Which way did he go? I? Don't know. I

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Speaker 3: can't see. It's too fucking dim. Was that you? No?

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Speaker 1: Did you hear that one?

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Speaker 3: Hey, Damien, how well do you remember your Greek mythology?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Beyond what I've seen in Zena? Not super well? Why

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Speaker 1: do you ask?

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Speaker 3: Are we just wondering how theseus escaped the labyrinth in

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Speaker 3: that story?

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Speaker 1: Fuck theseus? This is my story, and I'm gonna escape

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Speaker 1: the labyrinth my way with Metal. Remember earlier how we

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Speaker 1: figured out Metal has been showing the targeted ads for

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Speaker 3: We fell right into its trap by coming here.

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think it was a trap. Yeah, the

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Speaker 2: Here, but.

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Speaker 1: I think Metal has been helping me. Look this sort

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Speaker 1: by proximity tab has never been here before. Metal is

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Speaker 3: Huh. Whoa waite?

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Speaker 1: Look Look at the second profile down Sondy.

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Speaker 3: That can't really be him, can it?

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Speaker 1: We'll see. Look when I move in this direction, the

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Speaker 1: profiles reorder themselves. Yes, yes, okay, Come on this way,

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Speaker 3: With Adore off limits.

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Speaker 1: The limit does not exist.

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Speaker 3: Wad wait, wait, wait, hold a second what are you

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Speaker 1: I warrant you this is going to be dangerous. Wade.

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Speaker 1: I won't blame you if you want to go home,

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Speaker 1: but I just know it's not what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Are you sure you're ready to know what happened? Even

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Speaker 3: if that metal account really is himmen and we manage

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Speaker 3: some spectacular rescue. What's your plan? Are you too just

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Speaker 1: I think that's the plan. I mean, otherwise, what was

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Speaker 1: the point of all this? But it's weird imagining the

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Speaker 3: Now? Sorry, not a helpful question, but I definitely don't

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Speaker 6: Rat.

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Speaker 3: Then let's go.

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Speaker 2: For obvious reasons.

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Speaker 1: I've been doing a lot of research lately on paupers,

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Speaker 1: you know, the chemical makeup, history manufacturing. So as I

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Speaker 3: Holy shit, is this a craft brewery?

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Speaker 1: Indeed, tall metallic brewing tanks line the walls, and the

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Speaker 1: faux labyrinth architecture has been replaced by the sleek, wooden

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Speaker 1: veneer and metal graded walkways you'd find on well a

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Speaker 1: think they're making IPAs. Check the emblem on the brewing tanks.

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Speaker 3: The hookup, and see below that those little.

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Speaker 1: Words miasma corp, miasma.

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Speaker 3: Hey, what are you doing getting a better look?

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Speaker 4: Double time truck gets here in an hour and we're

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Speaker 4: still short three thousand bottles.

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Speaker 3: Three thousand bottles. There aren't three thousand gays in Ludlow County.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh no, The barking foreman remains to be seen.

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Speaker 1: But I have a clearer of you now, the worker

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Speaker 1: It's all the converted hookup goons of Ludlow Hills, Big Top,

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Speaker 1: a bell boy, the PM Peter, the cute Chipotle cashier

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Speaker 1: Faki is gay.

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Speaker 2: Rather was I guess?

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Speaker 1: And then of course Matteo. It's not enough to just

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Speaker 1: fuck with them. They have to be a part of

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Speaker 1: this too. You heard that guy, The hookup is about

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Speaker 1: to be shipped wide. I can't let that happen, not

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Speaker 1: to anyone else.

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Speaker 3: Okay, fine, but don't just barge in half cocked. Look

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Speaker 3: down on the ground floor. Do you see that bullpen

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Speaker 3: of desks?

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Speaker 1: Wait?

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Speaker 3: No where right there?

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Speaker 1: I don't see it.

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Speaker 3: Look where I'm pointed.

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Speaker 1: Don't get mad at me. I see it.

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Speaker 3: And do you see the PC on the desk?

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Speaker 1: Mmmmm? And that external hard drive plugged into it? And

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Speaker 1: if I were damning evidence about this entire operation.

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Speaker 3: I'd probably be on that drive.

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Speaker 1: With that kind of data, we could shut this entire

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Speaker 1: thing down. Okay, I have an idea, And before you

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Speaker 1: say it, yes, I'm on metal right now. Minnie Gerkin

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Speaker 1: tap local hiker forty two. He looks like the guy

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Speaker 1: who murders the local hikers. Tap arcouterie whore for twenty tap.

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Speaker 3: Why are you liking them all?

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Speaker 1: It's part of the plan, trust me, escaped mental patient

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Speaker 1: tep Okay, I'm ready. The thing is I need you

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Speaker 1: to stay up here?

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Speaker 3: What why?

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Speaker 1: Because if all those is planned, I'll be sending the

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Speaker 1: get them out through the labyrinth safely.

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Speaker 3: Really, are we sure that rescuing them is top priority?

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Speaker 1: They're not in control of themselves. They don't want to

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Speaker 1: be here any more than we do.

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Speaker 3: Debatable.

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Speaker 1: The pathway to the computer is unobstructed, but puts me

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Speaker 1: in a view of some goons filling hookup bottles nearby.

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Speaker 1: But if I could just maneuver a tight, little forward

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Speaker 1: roll past this first gap, I'd be in the clear. Okay,

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Speaker 1: easy enough. Sometimes in moments like this, you know, when

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Speaker 1: I fuck up really badly, like knocking over for a

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Speaker 1: giant brewing towers of poppers badly, I try to remind

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Speaker 1: myself that the ability to continuously reach new depths of

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Speaker 1: fuck uptitude is a talent in itself. Who am I kidding?

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Speaker 1: The hook up liquid is spilling everywhere.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna flood the entire place.

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Speaker 1: Okay, breeze to your mouth, Breathe through your mouth, breathe. Fuck.

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Speaker 1: Just a few meters ahead, an erupting popper tank gushes

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Speaker 1: its contents all over the desk, completely dousing the hard drive. Okay,

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Speaker 1: new plan, escape with my life.

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Speaker 2: I pivot back towards the stairs.

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Speaker 1: It's little D, Big Top create great, Great, I'm majorly

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Speaker 1: not in the mood. Get out of my fucking way.

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Speaker 1: I'm serious to that, you serious, Mateo. I knew Matteo

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Speaker 1: would probably be here. I mean, I was prepared for that,

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Speaker 1: but it's it's still hard.

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Speaker 3: You haven't been serious to day in your life.

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Speaker 1: You're a joke, Damien, and not a very funny one.

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Speaker 1: It's all of them now, all the goons circling me

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Speaker 1: from every direction. Ah, being around this many guys I've

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Speaker 1: hooked up with would be a nightmare, even if they

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Speaker 1: weren't trying to kill me. The hookup level is still

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Speaker 1: rising almost to my waist.

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Speaker 3: Now where is it?

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Speaker 1: I always have that on me? Mmmm? Don't you just

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Speaker 1: love the smell of freshly baked poppers? Little D? Nice? Try,

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Speaker 1: But you're talking to the guy who wears an N

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Speaker 1: ninety five mask to hookups. Now, get the fuck out

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Speaker 1: of my way, Big Top, stop, get off me, grub, Damien.

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Speaker 6: Babel Hurst, are you proud of the mess you've made up?

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Speaker 1: On the cot walk? He steps into view, black mask, Crestwick,

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Speaker 1: Badminton hoodie. There's no mistaking that's my stalker. Can't help

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Speaker 1: who I am when I go over to a hookups

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Speaker 1: as got to critique the decoor. It looks better this way.

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Speaker 4: Both of you to assume I'm just another one of

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Speaker 4: your hookups.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're historically the guys who hate me the most,

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Speaker 1: so kind of just felt like the most likely outcome

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Speaker 1: anxiety Royals in my guts is my stalker pulls back

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Speaker 1: his mustard hood and begins sliding off black sheer mask.

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Speaker 1: Well it's just like my life, coach said, But only

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Speaker 1: one of us would received a grant upon graduating if

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Speaker 1: we stop trusting me. Elias of intel a lot of this.

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Speaker 4: As long as snt he was in the picture, I

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Speaker 4: never stood a chance of winning.

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Speaker 1: The simplest solution is often the likeliest. Elias stop, stop, stop,

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Speaker 1: they need a sack. Okay, huh didn't we rule Elias out?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I thought he had an alibi since Santy

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Speaker 1: went missing during the Crustwit Crustaceans badminton final, anyone on

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Speaker 1: the team should be in the clear. And I checked

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Speaker 1: the yearbook. Elias really was a Crustacean, But that doesn't

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Speaker 1: necessarily mean he actually played in the final. Shit okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: but but what about when Matteo had that vision from

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Speaker 1: the Hive mind, you know, of the body being dumped

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Speaker 1: down the Ludlow watch, dumbwaiter. He told me he didn't

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Speaker 1: Unless Matteo really was already fully under the Hives influence

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Speaker 1: when he told me that, and it really was just

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Speaker 1: all a lie to get me off Elias's trail. And

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Speaker 1: would you look at that? All the yellow tiles are

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Speaker 1: finally aligned. So is any of this pive mind stuff

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Speaker 1: even real?

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Speaker 3: Always asking the good questions?

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Speaker 1: As Elias speaks nay proselytizes, two goons emerge from the shadows,

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Speaker 1: wheeling forth this contraption. It's tall, supporting itself on three legs.

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Speaker 1: There are these two cuffs affixed to the top of

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Speaker 1: the machine, another two at the bottom, presumably for her

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Speaker 1: hands and feet.

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Speaker 7: I know you don't believe in fate, Damien, or that

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Speaker 7: everything happens for a reason, but I wish you would.

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Speaker 7: You can't really believe it's a coincidence that you're witnessing

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Speaker 7: the birth of humanity's future.

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Speaker 1: Humanity's future is a sex wing.

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Speaker 7: Has anyone ever told you that your use of humor

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Speaker 7: in certain situations could be considered tone death once or twice.

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Speaker 6: It's not a sex.

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Speaker 3: Wing, it's hunt.

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Speaker 7: It's the hookup neural gateway, the hookup neural gateway.

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Speaker 1: Like hon, it's an acronym.

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Speaker 6: Fuck boys.

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Speaker 1: Strap me in as Elias hangs from the hookup neural

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Speaker 1: gate way.

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Speaker 2: What's the fuck? I don't know, like a kinky christ.

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Speaker 1: One of the goons activates the control terminal near the base,

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Speaker 1: punching buttons that I am just certain I'll wish weren't punched.

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Speaker 7: To answer your question, yes, the hideline stuff is very real,

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Speaker 7: as you've probably gathered. In addition to toggling the user's sexuality

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Speaker 7: inhaling the hookup poppers installs a brain link to all

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Speaker 7: the other goons, activate rinecott.

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Speaker 1: The neural gate I don't know what's fucking called it.

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Speaker 1: It starts to shake, and then these two little robotic

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Speaker 1: tendrils poke out from the ends of the machine, high

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Speaker 1: tech baby tentacles, sneaking upwards towards alas the face again closer, closer, closer.

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Speaker 6: This part's why I have to strap in.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean? Oh? Oh good, No, Elias, don't

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Speaker 1: let the don't put those up. Oh Jesus fucking fuck dude,

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Speaker 1: they went up your fucking news.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, this is it, the memories, the.

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Speaker 2: Experiences, Then it's real.

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Speaker 1: Elias can actually access the memories of anyone who's taken

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Speaker 1: the hookup.

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Speaker 6: What's the matter, Boyo, don't believe me? I got that

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Speaker 6: from Mateo's brain.

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Speaker 4: He actually has a lot of wonderful memories of you,

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Speaker 4: like when you didn't tell him he looked nearly identical

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Speaker 4: through your missing X. Then expose him to the hook

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Speaker 4: up while using him to help fine set missing X

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Speaker 4: dump and much with all this insanity over position.

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Speaker 6: Your whole neurotic bottom thing not as good as you think.

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Speaker 1: Stop it.

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Speaker 4: And since I already know everything about you, why wouldn't

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Speaker 4: you just take a little whip and join us.

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Speaker 6: Oh you're gonna love it?

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Speaker 1: Are you one too?

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Speaker 3: A hookup goon?

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Speaker 6: Of course not. Then I couldn't control them.

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Speaker 4: You control them, eeny Meani mini.

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Speaker 3: Big cop.

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Speaker 4: Sir Damien doesn't believe in my absolute control.

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Speaker 3: So let's prove him wrong.

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Speaker 8: I command you to sit, good boy, now back a

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Speaker 8: beautiful and last me.

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Speaker 1: Guy, what's happening to him?

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Speaker 6: He's following orders?

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Speaker 1: What the actual buck, Elias, do you hate gay people

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Speaker 1: this much.

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Speaker 6: Hate gay people? Where'd that come from?

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Speaker 1: Probably the same bump fuck alt right hovel of a

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Speaker 1: hometown that you did. Is this like a right of

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Speaker 1: passage where you're from, you know, go on pilgrimage andcourage

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Speaker 1: some sodomites.

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Speaker 6: It's still me, Damien.

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Speaker 4: I know the socio political implications of that hook cup

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Speaker 4: give a certain impression, but it's not what.

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Speaker 1: You're thinking moment. I'm thinking you're probably not even gay?

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Speaker 1: Do you just fake it to lure queer guys into

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Speaker 1: your sick web?

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Speaker 6: Did it seem like I was faking it?

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Speaker 3: You know what?

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Speaker 4: Honestly, if you really think I'm straight, you're an even

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Speaker 4: more detective than I thought.

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Speaker 6: So then, and no, it's not a self loathing gay thing.

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Speaker 6: My home is.

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Speaker 4: Sexuality is a gift and I thank God every day

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Speaker 4: for it.

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Speaker 3: Then what, Danion?

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Speaker 4: When you applied to kress with you, did any of

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Speaker 4: your application essays mention your sexuality?

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I talked about being gay in one

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Speaker 1: of them.

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Speaker 6: Right, so did I.

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Speaker 4: But I'm curious why did you mention it? I mean,

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Speaker 4: does your propensity for dick really matter? In regards to

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Speaker 4: your journalism studies?

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Speaker 1: How can you reduce the entirety of the gay experience

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Speaker 1: to who you fuck? You're wrong. It's a part of

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Speaker 1: who I am.

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Speaker 6: Of course it is, and that's not really why you

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Speaker 6: mentioned it in your apps.

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Speaker 4: You name dropped your sexuality because you knew subconsciously or

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Speaker 4: otherwise you might not make the cut without it. You

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Speaker 4: knew that compared to all the other kids applying for

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Speaker 4: that program, being a straight dude, but putting you at

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Speaker 4: a disadvantage, So you commodified yourself making.

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Speaker 1: Sense Yet literally no, you sound like an insane person,

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Speaker 1: and I'm worried about secondhand cancelation.

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Speaker 4: If you thought applying to the journalism major was tough,

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Speaker 4: you can't even fathen the competition for the Ashcroft in

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Speaker 4: research grants five ten years ago.

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Speaker 6: I would have had a shock. But didn't you hear

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Speaker 6: day's not diverse anymore? In an era where diversity gets

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Speaker 6: you the goods. All this talk of intersectionality and cis.

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Speaker 8: White gay privilege really starts to close some doors.

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Speaker 1: So, realizing that your diverse status was waning, you set

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Speaker 1: out to rarefy homosexuality.

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Speaker 6: Bing ming dinging ding. You got it.

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Speaker 4: I didn't agree to make the hook up because I

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Speaker 4: hate being day.

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Speaker 6: I did it to be the only day left, and

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Speaker 6: soon I will be restin him.

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Speaker 1: Don't touch me, give me back, then, lest let me go.

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Speaker 4: Were you baptized, Damien, I'm assuming not. You drug me

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Speaker 4: as a type to turn to ash if you cross

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Speaker 4: a church threshold. Still, I think there's a lot to

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Speaker 4: be learned from the sacrament, purification, rebirth, all obtainable with.

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Speaker 3: Just a quick dip.

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Speaker 2: Oh, baptism by poppers. I should have known it would

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Speaker 2: end like this.

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Speaker 4: Of course, you could make this easier on everyone if

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Speaker 4: you're just inhaled of your own free will.

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Speaker 1: I'd rather face bucket tape worm than willingly join your

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Speaker 1: blow ass hide mind.

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Speaker 4: Actually it's called the hook up polecule. High mind sounds

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Speaker 4: a little too twentieth century sci fi. Polecule feels more

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Speaker 4: right and interconnected. Cohort of individuals bound together through sexuality.

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Speaker 3: That was my idea.

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Speaker 6: Nothing really, this is the last time of every day. Boy. Oh,

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Speaker 6: you don't have anything to add.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, polly Cule story Broa ties him. Written and directed

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Speaker 1: by Noah Feinberg. That's Me, sound design and score by

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Speaker 1: Jeremiah Zimmerman, starring Noah Feinberg.

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Speaker 6: That's Me.

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Speaker 1: As Damian, Ray Santiago as Santy and A Matteo, Nico

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Speaker 1: Greatham as Wade, Augustus Prue as Elias, Scott Evans as

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Speaker 1: Big Tuck, Jeffrey Self as bell Boy, Tina Majorino as

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Speaker 1: Doctor Wiley, Obi A Biley as p and Peter, Gabrielle

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Speaker 1: Ruiz as Joma, Sadie Dickinson as Meg. Additional voices by

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Speaker 1: Megan Taylor, Harvey, Susan C. Bennett, Verona, blue Mark Bramhall,

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Speaker 1: Bryan Daniel Porter, Chris Dickey, Aaron Cocher, Christopher Corbin, Kiff,

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Speaker 1: Vandenhavel and Rhys Griffin. Opening theme by Alex Yoder, Casting

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Speaker 1: director Sonny Bowling and Meg Mormon. Executive producers from iHeart,

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Speaker 1: Trevor Young and Matt Frederick. Executive producers from Blumbhouse, Christicky

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Speaker 1: and Noah Feinberg.

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Speaker 3: That's Me.

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Speaker 1: Executive producers from Ember twenty David Thwaites and Jimmy Jellen.

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Speaker 1: Supervising producer Rachel Foley, editor Noah Feinberg.

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Speaker 2: That's Me,