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Speaker 3: Huh, what the hello?
Speaker 5: Anyone in here?
Speaker 3: Fucking kids?
Speaker 2: If anyone is in here, I'm gonna beat your ass
Speaker 2: if you're fucking with my cars?
Speaker 3: What the hell is this? Who put this shirt on
Speaker 3: the edge? What is that?
Speaker 6: Oh? Gods, flashes? I should do lassis.
Speaker 4: Tsis cancer today?
Speaker 3: You shouldn't teach them. I don't just got you should
Speaker 3: speaks like's.
Speaker 7: I can't have the fins of sids and the should
Speaker 7: be honor between your hides, and you should have in
Speaker 7: your house.
Speaker 5: I just don't know how you can prefer boneless, Okay.
Speaker 7: I just think it's gross enough that we eat them
Speaker 7: with our hands. They're covered in some kind of sauce
Speaker 7: that only Americans got into.
Speaker 5: That called Buffalo for a reason only.
Speaker 8: We would say, hey, what can we add to hot
Speaker 8: sauce butter? Yes, that's it.
Speaker 5: Well, now I'm getting hungry.
Speaker 8: No, I'm getting angry. Is there really no internet in
Speaker 8: this town?
Speaker 5: Well as established there usually is, though, it's like mid
Speaker 5: nineties dial up, and there's.
Speaker 7: Nothing we can do about it because everyone seems to left.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I tried calling Rudy, Rudy the Internet guy.
Speaker 8: It's a guy, not like a company.
Speaker 5: I mean, Apple was just a couple of guys ones.
Speaker 7: Fifty years ago, so there's just one person for everything
Speaker 7: in Danville.
Speaker 3: Guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, We're truly a time capsule, so it's usually a guy.
Speaker 5: Are you recording this?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm just really curious as to why so many
Speaker 7: people left.
Speaker 5: Well, from my limited experience, is a relative nube up
Speaker 5: here in the baronies?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: What was that?
Speaker 3: What was what?
Speaker 8: That terrible Southern accent?
Speaker 5: Oh? Okay, terrible is subjective. So Danville is not Boston
Speaker 5: and it can really dip in tempts. Every year that
Speaker 5: I've been here, there's always been an exodus of folks,
Speaker 5: especially the older ones who take off till the end
Speaker 5: of winter.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that totally makes sense. But it's October and it's
Speaker 7: like maybe sweatshirt weather outside.
Speaker 5: And that doesn't help us with the question of Alfonso.
Speaker 5: But hey, I'm just glad, I mean surprised that you
Speaker 5: came back. Yeah, which if I was Valenti who basically
Speaker 5: Mexico Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, totally.
Speaker 5: Look, we smashed those history books for a reason. You
Speaker 5: coming back knowing there's no technology except for the week
Speaker 5: radio signal, knowing that there's some crazy shit happening, not
Speaker 5: knowing when your call would be ready. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It seems like you.
Speaker 8: Wouldn't even bother to look in the rear view.
Speaker 5: Yeah, or maybe it's been you alone.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've decided that you're not Valentino Quintana.
Speaker 5: Valente Flente.
Speaker 8: Just the facts, ma'am, the story, my well read friend.
Speaker 5: There's been a murder or wildlife attack.
Speaker 8: People are disappearing.
Speaker 5: They do every year for the season.
Speaker 8: But again, it's the middle of October.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the mini exodus usually happens post Thanksgiving, so this
Speaker 5: is early.
Speaker 8: You know what doesn't make sense though.
Speaker 5: You're going to say the internet, how how is it possible?
Speaker 7: The twenty minutes away in Loomington, there's the clearest of signals.
Speaker 7: And here it's a nothing burger and the one guy
Speaker 7: in charge of skip town.
Speaker 5: Mmm burger, we may have to go back to Shaw's.
Speaker 8: Okay, you're just using food to change the subject again.
Speaker 8: Now who looks sketch?
Speaker 5: Uh guilty? But also remember I am incredibly awkward. I've
Speaker 5: devoted my whole life to history and books and look around.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is a pretty good racket, being able
Speaker 5: to hide behind them for most of my life.
Speaker 7: I'll come back to how that's slightly adorable in a second. Yes,
Speaker 7: people have left, but have they ever just disappeared like Alfonso?
Speaker 5: Off the top of my head, all I can think
Speaker 5: of is Missus Milligan's.
Speaker 8: Grandson, Missus Milligan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she comes in every Tuesday to check her email
Speaker 5: account to see if her grandson mailed her an electric letter.
Speaker 8: Jesus, that is a biggass book.
Speaker 5: It's a copy of every Dan Bil Harold from the nineties.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry you have a newspaper hat.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I went digital for about five minutes in twenty
Speaker 5: twelve and then shut down completely.
Speaker 8: They should have pivoted to video.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that sounds like an industry joke that only one
Speaker 5: of us.
Speaker 8: Gets still salty. Okay, so nineties newspaper right.
Speaker 5: She'd occasionally ask if we'd ever heard from Jacob Winters.
Speaker 5: Jake Winters. I found out just up and left one
Speaker 5: morning in the early nineties. I want to see nineteenee
Speaker 5: because yes, yes, so they say he disappeared after going
Speaker 5: down to Boston to watch Ah Here it is September
Speaker 5: twenty third, nineteen ninety one. Nirvana play their first show there.
Speaker 8: So he went and never came back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what it says. Danville Sheriff Peter Brewder has
Speaker 5: called off the search for Jacob Winters, citing the fact
Speaker 5: that he most likely never came back from Boston.
Speaker 8: Weird, is Peter Jack's dad?
Speaker 5: I think so?
Speaker 8: Was there a search in Boston? No idea, that's super bizarre.
Speaker 7: But I don't know if some grunge head probably following
Speaker 7: Nirvana on the road is the same as a local
Speaker 7: cook disappearing overnight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jesus sorry.
Speaker 8: It's okay. I guess we're right back where we started.
Speaker 8: And I have so many questions.
Speaker 5: I have one, yeah, yeah, would it be okay if
Speaker 5: if I can us.
Speaker 8: On one condition, name it.
Speaker 4: You never ask again, Olbert, where is he?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 9: Whoa easy, brother, Let me inside, Let me inside, Bird,
Speaker 9: Let me the fucking inside to see Buster.
Speaker 5: I need to see Buster.
Speaker 6: Jack.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I can't, you can't.
Speaker 10: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: What No, I'm sorry, brother. If you lease up, I'll
Speaker 5: have to cuff you.
Speaker 3: I can't have you disturbing.
Speaker 10: What what a possible crime scene. It's okay, Olbert, you
Speaker 10: can let Jack up.
Speaker 3: Max.
Speaker 10: Jack, I strongly suggest you don't turn this corner. I
Speaker 10: won't stop you, but I don't think you need to
Speaker 10: see this.
Speaker 9: Oh my oh Jesus Christ, they they they?
Speaker 4: Who's they?
Speaker 8: Jack?
Speaker 3: It can't be It can't be Buster.
Speaker 10: Who's they Jack?
Speaker 3: The this is I'm sorry, I just he's just rambling.
Speaker 4: Max. Buster was Jack's best man.
Speaker 8: Jesus.
Speaker 10: All right, Jack, why don't we take this down to
Speaker 10: the station.
Speaker 3: Are you arresting me?
Speaker 10: Let's just have a conversation. Come on, I'll drive, okay, Jack,
Speaker 10: let me be clear. This is just a formality.
Speaker 3: But you're still recording.
Speaker 8: I understand.
Speaker 10: And the sooner we get through these questions, the sooner
Speaker 10: you can go home to Rema and Avery. All right, fine,
Speaker 10: lovely Ki, where were you this morning at home?
Speaker 3: And yes, my wife and son can vouch for me.
Speaker 11: Great, Why did you decide to go to Busters after
Speaker 11: the incident.
Speaker 3: The girl's car?
Speaker 11: The girl Sarah Simmons, Yes, and why did you speed
Speaker 11: in so hot?
Speaker 3: Really, the town, or what's left of it, is on
Speaker 3: pretty high alert. In case you haven't noticed.
Speaker 9: We found a body near the cemetery. So when I
Speaker 9: saw you and Olbert's cruiser and an ambulance in these
Speaker 9: EMT vehicles outside my best friend's place of business, yeah,
Speaker 9: I went to the worst case scenario, so I floored it.
Speaker 3: That doesn't make me guilty.
Speaker 5: No one said you wear it makes me a good friend.
Speaker 8: I understand.
Speaker 10: And we're almost done here, I promise.
Speaker 4: Jack.
Speaker 11: When you were outside, you said the what did you
Speaker 11: mean by the? But what what did you mean by the.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 10: Sorry, These old fashioned things can be a pain sometimes
Speaker 10: bloody machine.
Speaker 8: All right, Jack, you're.
Speaker 10: Free to go. And Jack, Yeah, I'm truly sorry.
Speaker 3: What happened to him?
Speaker 10: Honestly, it looks like he got too close to the
Speaker 10: engine and you saw how greasy that floor was.
Speaker 8: I think he slipped and one.
Speaker 10: Of his overall straps was in the wrong place at
Speaker 10: the wrong time.
Speaker 3: So you don't think it was foul play.
Speaker 5: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: All right, thanks.
Speaker 10: Max, No, thank you.
Speaker 8: Let's get you home.
Speaker 7: You know, for a studio inside an old library and
Speaker 7: a small down.
Speaker 8: This is a pretty swinky bed.
Speaker 5: Oh you like it.
Speaker 8: I'm sure you've had so many bibliotaco groupies up here.
Speaker 5: Oh are you trying to say library and Spanish? Maybe
Speaker 5: ah as in be able to take ah ah correct.
Speaker 5: And furthermore, you're honor now that we're on the stand.
Speaker 8: Come on, you're not on the stand.
Speaker 5: You're grilling me like it's the fourth of July.
Speaker 8: That's actually funny.
Speaker 5: Okay, thanks, But to answer your question, there's no way
Speaker 5: to answer this question.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, why not?
Speaker 5: Because if I say, yeah, bro, i've had more nergirls
Speaker 5: up here than ship's launch for Helen of Troy, you
Speaker 5: may judge me. Conversely, if I say, nope, you're the
Speaker 5: first person terribly into bed that isn't me, Well, then
Speaker 5: I'm even more boring than you probably already think.
Speaker 8: It's the second one is, of course, it's the second one.
Speaker 8: That's what I don't get. What you're smart?
Speaker 7: Kind not too shabby on the eyes, I mean, yes, okay,
Speaker 7: the Spanish is also cute, but I'm not trying to fetishize.
Speaker 8: It's your ethnicity stock, but.
Speaker 7: All I'm saying is, why did you say why aren't
Speaker 7: you at the Boston Public Library, the Benecke Help, the
Speaker 7: Library of Congress.
Speaker 5: Okay, for the record, the fact that you just referenced
Speaker 5: to Bennicky ooh, sexy as hell.
Speaker 8: Okay, now I understand why no one else has been
Speaker 8: up here.
Speaker 6: Ha ha.
Speaker 8: No, but really, why.
Speaker 5: Is this pillow talk?
Speaker 7: If by pillow you mean I'm getting to know you
Speaker 7: after we've had some fun, because I think you're not
Speaker 7: half bad, then yes, we sent talk pillows with me.
Speaker 5: Um one hundred and eighty six thousand, two eighty two.
Speaker 5: What one hundred eighty six thousand, two hundred eighty two
Speaker 5: miles per second? That's the speed of light?
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 5: When I was a kid, we lived with my older
Speaker 5: brother half brother, but we never used half. He was
Speaker 5: from my dad's first marriage and was a military guy.
Speaker 5: With my pops being so old, he raised me part time.
Speaker 5: Once my mom left the picture. Sorry, it's fine. She
Speaker 5: was in a situation took me years, but I don't
Speaker 5: blame her anymore. So my dad was very old school,
Speaker 5: and mind you, this was a different generation. So the
Speaker 5: occasional sorry, so, the occasional slap or Napalisa as they
Speaker 5: call him, was a bit common from the old man.
Speaker 5: But my brother, God bless him. He he wentted to
Speaker 5: change the cycle, and coming from the military, he had
Speaker 5: his own way to discipline me.
Speaker 8: Did he make you enlist?
Speaker 5: Oh? Can you imagine?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: No, God, no, no. Remember I was very much full
Speaker 5: Gordon mode at this point.
Speaker 3: So when he came home it.
Speaker 5: Was inspection timepially, so for every corner of the bed
Speaker 5: that wasn't folded perfectly, or during laundry or homework not done,
Speaker 5: et cetera, it was push ups or Britannica, the old
Speaker 5: Encyclopedia yep, depending on the violation. I had the copy
Speaker 5: by hand, the Encyclopedia, which part all of it. Wow,
Speaker 5: years later, I can still tell you this speed of
Speaker 5: light or who first figured it out?
Speaker 8: You're gonna tell me, aren't you?
Speaker 5: One hundred six eighty two miles per second and Danie's
Speaker 5: astronomer only Roamer in sixteen seventy six. Sorry, are you
Speaker 5: asleep yet?
Speaker 8: I mean I'm already in bed. So is that why
Speaker 8: he became a librarian? Some literal Stockholmie in syndrome.
Speaker 5: You see there, Patty Hurst, It's actually the opposite. I
Speaker 5: stayed here because I left there as soon as I could.
Speaker 5: I moved as far away as I could for school,
Speaker 5: and then even farther away for whatever job I could get.
Speaker 5: I just wanted a clean break from the environment of
Speaker 5: Gordo and the aforementioned baloney.
Speaker 8: You found refuge up here.
Speaker 5: Bet your ass. And it's for those famous libraries. They're
Speaker 5: amazing to visit. But do you know how many years
Speaker 5: I'd had to spend in the basement sub circulation desk
Speaker 5: with no windows, learning how to catalog for next to
Speaker 5: no money, while trying to live in New York or
Speaker 5: Boston or god forbid, New Haven.
Speaker 7: Oh I love this story.
Speaker 5: Yeah, see see.
Speaker 8: This is where you don't ask and just kiss me again? Avery,
Speaker 8: Could you lower that and come here?
Speaker 5: What what do you mean?
Speaker 8: What shows some respect? Your father just lost his best friend.
Speaker 3: It's fine, it's fine. It's not fine.
Speaker 5: What's not fine?
Speaker 4: None of this?
Speaker 5: Jack?
Speaker 3: You have to ream my dad, not now, son, Jack?
Speaker 7: If you don't reelux, what's happened the McDonald's girl?
Speaker 5: Enough dad, not now? What about?
Speaker 2: Aaron said?
Speaker 5: Not now?
Speaker 11: Bonzo.
Speaker 7: Now, Fluster, your best friend, the man who gave the toast.
Speaker 5: Freaking said, stop it.
Speaker 3: Okay, stop all of this.
Speaker 9: I don't care about Erin or or Alfonso, and Buster
Speaker 9: was just an accident until someone tells.
Speaker 3: Me other turns that fucking thing off.
Speaker 11: Avery, How could you you know how much she meant
Speaker 11: to him?
Speaker 3: Avery, Come back, son, I'm sorry, you.
Speaker 4: Know all of this is connected.
Speaker 9: Dear, just just stay out of this. For the love
Speaker 9: of God, I am asking you, and.
Speaker 7: I'm telling you, if we don't change things up, don't
Speaker 7: make me do something I don't want to.
Speaker 3: Look, I'll take care of it. Please, please, please please stop.
Speaker 7: Smart and sexy but snores story of my life. And
Speaker 7: now for the only other thing this thousand dollars recorder
Speaker 7: can do?
Speaker 8: What a flashlight? Right now?
Speaker 7: If I were a pantry or kitchen, where would I be?
Speaker 7: Definitely not in the YA section.
Speaker 8: Oh, cooking books.
Speaker 7: You would think we're getting warmer. Oh, but I'm actually
Speaker 7: pretty fucking cold right now. I'm in a closed windowless
Speaker 7: room right now.
Speaker 8: And can you hear that? That's a draft coming from
Speaker 8: this shelf? Podcasting for Dummies? But that makes no sense.
Speaker 8: Wait a minute, it's coming from behind the books.
Speaker 6: This is.
Speaker 3: Holy shit.
Speaker 7: So I've just discovered a hidden door behind a bookcase
Speaker 7: in this library.
Speaker 8: I just need to figure out how to open this lock.
Speaker 5: Looks like I'll need a barrel key. Jesus, Sorry, but
Speaker 5: this door is alarm activated in my system, beeped on
Speaker 5: my phone when you open the shelf.
Speaker 7: Okay, but A, I'm recording and B what the hell
Speaker 7: is behind this door? A?
Speaker 5: Why did you have to qualify that you're recording? Do
Speaker 5: you think I have something to hide? Is this a
Speaker 5: big reveal that I'm the big bad killer?
Speaker 7: If you don't open this door, what else am I
Speaker 7: supposed to believe?
Speaker 5: It's a utility closet? What a utility closet? There's a
Speaker 5: breaker for the power, a bunch of brooms, a shitty mop,
Speaker 5: and an even shittier yellow bucket brass pull. Sorry, do
Speaker 5: you want the entire inventory?
Speaker 8: I want to see it.
Speaker 5: You, I want to see it, Gordon, If.
Speaker 7: You value anything we've been through in the last twenty
Speaker 7: four hours, you'll understand that. Though I do believe you
Speaker 7: and I want you, truly, the world literally right outside
Speaker 7: here is a fucked up place, and things are happening
Speaker 7: to people, and I need a little extra reassurance that
Speaker 7: I'm not about to be added to the list of
Speaker 7: fucked up things.
Speaker 5: Move what You're gonna have to move out of the
Speaker 5: way so I can open it? See Oh thank god.
Speaker 5: I want to tell your listeners.
Speaker 7: I'm not streaming live as if Danville could handle that bandwidth.
Speaker 7: I'm just recording for later. But yes, I feel like COLDO.
Speaker 7: But at least there's something in here, literally everything Gordon
Speaker 7: just mentioned, plus more cleaning products and a poster of
Speaker 7: what looks like is that Tom Brady?
Speaker 5: Forget it, Sarah, it's New England a Hurrala reference.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, journalism, degree, hard and work. I'm still hong Ah, You're.
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Speaker 1: written by Carlos Folia, editing and sound design by Noah
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Speaker 1: Anna East Fairweather, Junior. A labby Alma Martinez, Tracy Martin,
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