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Speaker 1: The Laundronots is a production of I Heart Radio. This

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Speaker 1: is what we remember and remember what is, what it

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Speaker 1: sounded like, what we couldn't hear we made up. The

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Speaker 1: rest of it is ult It was a strange and

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Speaker 1: difficult thing to sneak into Charlie's third floor apartment in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the night. That we're all getting quite

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Speaker 1: a depth at scaling fire escapes and leaping through windows,

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Speaker 1: it still took an hour of synchronized slinking before we

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Speaker 1: were properly packed into Charlie's bedroob, his parents sleeping just

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Speaker 1: on the other side of his door. Won't they wake up? Nah?

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Speaker 1: Roscoe and Annabelle are deep into their jars by now,

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Speaker 1: why woul This was neither the time nor the place

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Speaker 1: to delve into the familial intricacies of the Evans hustle.

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Speaker 1: The forced intimacy of Charlie's bedroom was awkward enough, walls

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Speaker 1: bear and chipping the flims he caught, the only furniture

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Speaker 1: his floor a swamp of clutter. Charlie noticed our gas

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Speaker 1: looks and jammed his dirty clothes and comic books into

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Speaker 1: Somebody got something to say, Betty clearly and what's to

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Speaker 1: chewing on his own hat. Now what time for night, Charlie?

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Speaker 1: You mean just stuck away some seats one way chipped

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Speaker 1: the dream land, shake hands with a sandman, I added,

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Speaker 1: Do you have a better plan, Perry? He didn't. Charlie

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Speaker 1: Charlie gave Benny an icy glare and slipped under his cover.

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Speaker 1: Now what fall asleep? Then wake up? I added, without waking.

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Speaker 1: We converged on his cut. Then you'll need to find Jonica,

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Speaker 1: maybe get her a message. What kind of message? Morse code? Hush?

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Speaker 1: Perry maybe mentioned something you to discuss, Charlie, something she'd recognize.

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Speaker 1: Mona fluffed his pillow for it. Charlie laid back on it,

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Speaker 1: white eyes. Then you'll just have to win it, wing

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Speaker 1: it like a birdie. Nick clicked off the light and

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Speaker 1: slumped against the wall. The rest of us settled in

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Speaker 1: around the cut. Good night, Charlie, don't blow it, Chuckles,

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Speaker 1: watch it nightty night, Chuck. Stop, don't let the bed

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Speaker 1: I added, trying to sound reassuring. Charlie pulled the covers

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Speaker 1: What come on? That was not even a minute. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh. Yeah, do you've tried falling asleep? When you're

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Speaker 1: trying to fall asleep? Well, what do you usually do? Usually?

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Speaker 1: Just fall asleep? How about a bedtime story? Your folks

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Speaker 1: still reading bedtime stories? Nick maybe mine? Do? Really? Me do? I?

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Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time my folks read me

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Speaker 1: a story. What do you think, Charlie? What do you got, nicky?

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Speaker 1: Ricky Timbo? This is what Nicholas ray. Once upon a

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Speaker 1: time there were two Kibi birds stranded on top of

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Speaker 1: The tiny Kibi's greatest wish was to fly, but he

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Speaker 1: and the chickens. But this did not damp the tiny

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Speaker 1: kiwi spirits. He knew one day he would fly. The

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Speaker 1: big Kiwi saw this and his little brother, and it

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Speaker 1: made him puff up his chest feathers. One morning, the

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Speaker 1: It would be a surprise. Having a great fondness for surprises,

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Speaker 1: the little bird agreed. The older keep worked around the clock,

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Speaker 1: even when the little Kiwi fell asleep from lack of

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Speaker 1: The big Kiwi led his brother back to the cliff

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Speaker 1: great Now, who's gonna tell me a bedtime story? Was Nick?

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Speaker 1: The little kiewie ser m hm, excuse me? The qui Nick? Roy, sir?

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Speaker 1: Is he talked to me about himself and maybe his

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Speaker 1: brother Bobby. Well observed children, it is often the case

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Speaker 1: ourselves in our characters children. Their desires become our desires,

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Speaker 1: we shall learn an armed captain? But first he must

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Speaker 1: returned to our London artical proper, as Jonaka's yarn was

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Speaker 1: the city of what the has an attic. But it

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Speaker 1: Basement sinatics but mostly four sworn in San Francisco. Not

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Speaker 1: so for Granny Manny. She was a rebel without a pause.

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Speaker 1: She once had a controlling husband named Norm that she

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Speaker 1: dismissed within hours of their nuptials after catching him a

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Speaker 1: wink at one of her bridesmaids. I didn't design more ever,

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Speaker 1: since he was one of three husband's great granny money

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Speaker 1: the attic. It contained all the keepsakes, heirlooms, and adventures

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Speaker 1: of Jonica's early years, including her penchant was cinnamon and

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Speaker 1: Jonaica finally stepped off her suckling bridge and into the

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Speaker 1: both wood and rock ingrained with watches, coins, pins, keys,

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Speaker 1: The mighty King was quivering uncontrollably in his mighty throne

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Speaker 1: like a Catholic schoolboy about to burst into giggles. During massweet,

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Speaker 1: King mctweaty sprang from his throne, smashed his head against

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Speaker 1: He then bounded across the room, gathered up Jonica, and

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Speaker 1: a confetti blizzard was sp Jonica's heart did a double

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Speaker 1: Jonica forgot where she ended, and spluts now began. Then

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Speaker 1: tweety had joined the celebration during his Marvel's melee as

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Speaker 1: Jonica fun did not lose consciousness from old squeeze. She realized,

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Speaker 1: The suckling shook their heads. Where is or slide whatever?

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Speaker 1: I want to see him right now? The king sighed

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Speaker 1: turn and kept turning. He stopped. Johnna moved closer to

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Speaker 1: Does the want to calm down? Down? His body shimmered

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Speaker 1: her away. What have you done? The voice again? Quiet?

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Speaker 1: The suckling shook their head. What I said, be quiet?

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Speaker 1: The suckling slid up towards Jonica, looking to comfort her.

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Speaker 1: She suddenly brandished the carrot. Stop they ovadue I wanted

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Speaker 1: back to the boy, the boy without his stupid taped

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Speaker 1: in the rubble just behind j D's foot, closer to

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Speaker 1: as if awakening from a long nap slatch. Please, I

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Speaker 1: prefer it. I don't see so well without my specs

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Speaker 1: you didn't find any chance to bring them with you,

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Speaker 1: That's your fault? Really? How so the vomitron you've had

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Speaker 1: Is someone else in here with me? Well, that depends

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Speaker 1: on your definition of someone, Charlie? And here? Who is that?

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Speaker 1: Call me? Good wink? I calling you nothing, pal? What

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Speaker 1: What kind of a message? Tell him? I made contact

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Speaker 1: For the sound, Jonica and the arms of the giants

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Speaker 1: He looks desperately to Mona talk your mother, Chuck, don't

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Speaker 1: life really is Please You cannot blows on other people's

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Speaker 1: Look to your other children. She needs you now, Captain,

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Speaker 1: follow the leader your somnambulistic sense. She will guide you

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Speaker 1: The Laundronauts are potentially untrue tale based on actual events. Conceived,

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Speaker 1: written and directed by Colin mackenzie Mitchell, original music, sound

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Speaker 1: design and editing by Dave McKeever, Produced by Monica Michless

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Speaker 1: and Dave McKeever. Script supervision and editorial assistance by Christina Brian,

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Speaker 1: Casting by Mary Claire Sweeters. Executive producers John Cameron Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: ed Asner and Colin Mackenzie Mitchell, starring in order of appearance,

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Speaker 1: Isaac Robinson Smith as the Man and Ruscoe Evans, Alison

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