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Speaker 1: Welcome to stuff you should know, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey, and welcome to the Spooktacular spook Cast. I'm Josh,

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Speaker 2: and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too, and we are

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Speaker 2: all wrapped in bandages because we're mummies, scary mummies, mummies

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Speaker 2: that have been dead for thousands of years but now

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Speaker 2: want to pull your brains out with the hooks we

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Speaker 2: were buried with.

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Speaker 1: That's good.

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Speaker 2: Thanks. I've been writing it and workshopping it for months.

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Speaker 1: I think it paid off, my friend. So, if you

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Speaker 1: are new to the show, or new enough that you

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Speaker 1: don't know what we do on Halloween, what we do

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Speaker 1: is we each pick a spooky story that's in the

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Speaker 1: public domain so we don't get sued, and we read

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Speaker 1: it together, sometimes with fun accents, sometimes without. This is

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Speaker 1: an ad free episode, and we have it. We've mentioned

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Speaker 1: this before, but we had it written into our work

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Speaker 1: contract that Halloween and Christmas are I guess barricaded off

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Speaker 1: from ads, so you can enjoy the spectacular without having

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Speaker 1: ads right in the middle of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it was a good move. Good move.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So Josh, we're gonna read yours first. Do you

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Speaker 1: want to set this one up.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this is a story by Aldrin in Blackwood. He's

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Speaker 2: a recurring friend of the Spectacular episodes because he's squarely

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Speaker 2: in the public domain. But he was also a good

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Speaker 2: writer of ghost stories. For sure, this one it's not

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Speaker 2: his best work. But we and you in particular, but

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Speaker 2: I think we both did looked for a story written

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Speaker 2: by a woman. And it's harder to do than you

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Speaker 2: would think because the stuff that it's in the public domain.

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Speaker 2: I think we're up to nineteen twenty eight or twenty nine.

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Speaker 2: There weren't a lot of women published at the time,

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Speaker 2: at least it was very disproportionate compared to men. So

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Speaker 2: what we did this time was we found a story

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Speaker 2: written by a man but told from the point of

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Speaker 2: view of a woman. That's as good as we could

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Speaker 2: get this year, everybody.

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Speaker 1: That's right. The other thing, too, is, especially back in

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Speaker 1: those days, women didn't write a bunch of horror, short horror,

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Speaker 1: and I did find some good ones in the Weird

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Speaker 1: Tales magazines, but those that don't think you're in the

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Speaker 1: public domain yet some of it that's where you can. Oh,

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Speaker 1: some are these from like the nineteen forties.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I found some from like like nineteen twenty eight,

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Speaker 2: twenty nine, and they're pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's also hard to find like a clean copy

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Speaker 1: of those like the one I found. I had to

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Speaker 1: blow up a PDF of the magazine itself that it

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Speaker 1: was kind of cool wow, but ended up ended up

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Speaker 1: being too long. But maybe I don't know, maybe we

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Speaker 1: can knock that one out one year.

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Speaker 2: That's funny. We both found a new source of rich

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Speaker 2: source of horror stories to use in the future at

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Speaker 2: the same time.

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Speaker 1: Well, mine was weird tales. What was yours?

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Speaker 2: Amazing stories, astounting story stuffing with that? I don't remember,

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Speaker 2: but the first one I sent you that was from

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, cool. Well, maybe you know, if we live

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Speaker 1: long enough, we'll be able to read some of those.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was thinking, if we keep this up for

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Speaker 2: another like fifty seventy years, we're really going to get

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Speaker 2: into some good stuff and I.

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Speaker 1: Won't have to do a creepy accent.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna start okay.

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Speaker 1: All right, so I'm playing the woman a Monty Python style,

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Speaker 2: Right, m I'm going to be the man.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And by the way, this story for a quote

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Speaker 1: unquote horror story gets a little sexy.

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Speaker 2: It does, for sure. You know, I just realized something.

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Speaker 2: The entire story is told by the woman from her

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Speaker 2: point of view, so you're going to be doing a

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Speaker 2: lot of reading unless we split up the stuff where

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Speaker 2: she's relating the story.

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Speaker 1: Well, no, no, no, I think that's what you should do. Okay,

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Speaker 1: and then I'll just read her part and once once

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Speaker 2: Okay, but we can also switch it can be the lady. No, no,

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Speaker 2: it's okay. I was just saying, it occurred to me

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Speaker 1: That's what we usually do. Okay, you ready, all right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's do it. What's it called?

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Speaker 2: This is the Woman's Ghost Story by Aldronan Blackwood.

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Speaker 1: Geez, sorry, one more quick question. Are they British?

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Speaker 2: And they can be? It doesn't matter, Okay, Okay, I'll

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm so good at it.

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Speaker 2: I think Algren in Blackwood was I think one hundred

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Speaker 1: So we'll go britt on this one at least I will.

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Speaker 2: Oh and then one more thing, big hat tip and

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Speaker 2: a big thank you to a guest producer, Ben, who's

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Speaker 2: handling the sound effects this episode. So thanks a lot, Ben.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Cherry decided she didn't like fun in her

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Speaker 2: Okay, so here we go with the Woman's Ghost Story

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Speaker 2: by Aldrin in Blackwood. Uh yeah, sorry, good?

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Speaker 1: Take two? All right, back to one, everybody, So I

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Speaker 1: start then you're gonna read the other stuff? Right?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, okay, all right? Ready here we go.

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Speaker 2: Yes, she said from her seat in the dark corner.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you an experience if you care to listen.

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Speaker 1: And what's more, I'll tell it briefly without trimmings. I mean,

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Speaker 1: she laughed, They dragging all the unessentials and leave your

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Speaker 1: listeners to disentangle. But I'll give you just the essentials

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Speaker 1: and you can make of it what you please. But

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Speaker 1: on one condition that at the end you ask no

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Speaker 2: We agreed we were all serious. After listening to a

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Speaker 1: In those days. I was interested in psychic things and

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Speaker 1: All right? It was a cheap and dingy lodging house

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Speaker 1: We went in, he shuffling after me through the unlighted

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Speaker 1: Who are you? I felt uncomfortable, as you might imagine.

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Speaker 2: I repeated, quickly and nervously. The fellow was well dressed,

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Speaker 2: I would not mention it. Out of quite ordinary things

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Speaker 1: Boy, she's really talking a lot about hell.

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Speaker 2: How great her story? This story?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because she fills it with mundane details. All right,

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Speaker 2: The keys were in her pocket. Everybody, that's right? And

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Speaker 2: Ooh, the man was frightened to death, I repeated, Aghast,

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Speaker 2: that's me, he said, stupidly.

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Speaker 1: Well, your name is Gomer. I stared at him, just

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Speaker 1: But I might have been at a middle class tea party,

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Speaker 1: But I thought you were the caretaker I tipped this

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Speaker 1: afternoon to let me sleep here. I gasped, Did Carrie

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Speaker 1: send you to meet me?

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Speaker 2: No, he replied, in a voice that touched my boots. Somehow,

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Speaker 2: I am the man who was frightened to death. And

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Speaker 2: what is more, I am frightened now, so am I?

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Speaker 2: I managed to utter, speaking instinctively.

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Speaker 1: I'm simply terrified, yes.

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Speaker 2: He replied, in that same odd voice that seemed to

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Speaker 2: sound within me. But you are still in the flesh,

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Speaker 2: and I am not.

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Speaker 1: I felt the need for vigorous self assertion. I stood

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Speaker 1: By this time, I was convinced that I was entertaining

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Speaker 1: Now I remember your case and the wonderful way you behaved.

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Speaker 2: I stammered to him across the empty room, amazement, momentarily

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Speaker 2: I could get away. What I want is sympathy, or

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Speaker 2: really more than sympathy, I want affection. I want love.

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Speaker 1: That accent are you from. While he was speaking, I

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Speaker 2: So this lady's already bored of talking to.

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Speaker 1: A ghost, right, Yeah? That wand's love.

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Speaker 2: You're right, I should be much happier if you didn't

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Speaker 2: light the gas, he said at once, For the vibrations

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Speaker 2: not be afraid that I shall injure you. I can't

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Speaker 2: gulf fixed, you know, and really this half light suits

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Speaker 2: me best. Now let me continue what I was trying

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Speaker 2: to say before. Hm, hmmm. Oh, you know so many

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Speaker 2: people have come to this house to see me, and

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Speaker 2: have been terrified. If only, oh, if only someone would

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Speaker 1: Hmm. His voice was so sad that I felt tear

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Speaker 1: Of course Carrie didn't send you, I know now.

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Speaker 2: I managed to utter. My thoughts scattered dreadfully, and I

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Speaker 2: a stroke, an elf stroke. I know nothing about Cherry

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Speaker 2: or who he is, continued the man quietly. Oh sorry,

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Speaker 2: I know nothing about Carrie or who he is, continued

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Speaker 2: and I've been frightened ever since, and am frightened still

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Speaker 2: It's at me. Fear of terror only helps to render

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Speaker 2: speak gently and rationally with me, cry if they like pity, comfort,

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Speaker 2: won't you take pity on me? His voice rose to

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Speaker 1: A horrible little laughter came gurgling up in my throat

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Speaker 2: By God, he cried at one, straightening up against the window.

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Speaker 2: You have done a kind act. That's the first attempt

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Speaker 2: of course, like begets like, and this hate was returned finally.

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Speaker 2: I suffered from horrible delusions, and my room became haunted

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Speaker 2: a little hope came to me. For the first time.

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Speaker 2: I saw you had courage, originality, resource love. If only

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Speaker 1: It sounds like he's asking for consent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Algren in Blackwood for you.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Uh, all right, where worry? He was about

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Speaker 2: You women, he continued his voice, plainly thrilling at my approach,

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Speaker 2: you wonderful women to whom life often brings no opportunity

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Speaker 2: know how many of us simply yearned for it. It

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Speaker 2: might find the chance that you now have. But if

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Speaker 2: you only spent your love freely, without definite object, just

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Speaker 2: again to feel with me, to be kind and gentle.

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Speaker 2: And if you can't love me a.

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Speaker 1: Little, am I being love bombed?

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Speaker 2: It seems like it, for sure.

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Speaker 1: He's a little desperate, even for a ghost. My heart

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Speaker 1: for I could not restrain them. I love too for

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Speaker 1: the way he called me madam sounded so odd here

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Speaker 1: But my laughter stopped dead and merged in a flood

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Speaker 2: He was doing downward.

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Speaker 1: Doc I think, so.

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Speaker 2: Put your arms around me. Kiss me, for the love

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Speaker 2: of God, he cried, kiss me, Oh, kiss me, and

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Speaker 2: I she'll be freed. You have done so much already.

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Speaker 1: Now do this.

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Speaker 2: I know it's getting hot and steamy, it really is.

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Speaker 1: I stuck there, hesitating, shaking my determination on the verge

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Speaker 1: the terror had almost gone.

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Speaker 2: in the most beseeching voice I ever heard. Forget that

437
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 2: I'm a ghost, and come out boldly and press me

438
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 2: to you with a great hiss, and let your love

439
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 2: flow into me. Forget yourself for just one minute, and

440
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 2: do a brave thing. Oh love me, love me, love me,

441
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,920
Speaker 2: and I shall be free.

442
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 1: Wow. This Halloween episode has taken a toin n The

443
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,119
Speaker 1: words or the deep force they somehow released in the

444
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 1: center of my being stood me profoundly, and an emotion

445
00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:45,199
Speaker 1: infinitely greater than fear surged up over me and carried

446
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,119
Speaker 1: me with it across the edge of action. Without hesitation.

447
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 1: I took two steps towards him where he knelt, and

448
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,440
Speaker 1: held out my arms. Pity and lover in my heart

449
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 1: at that moment, genuine pity, I swear, and genuine love.

450
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 1: I forgot myself and my little trimly and a great

451
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: desire to help another soul. I love you, poor, aching,

452
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: unhappy thing.

453
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 2: I love you, I cried through hot tears.

454
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,880
Speaker 1: And I am not the least bit afraid in the world.

455
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 1: The man uttered a curious sound like laughter, yet not laughter.

456
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 2: Oh I was waiting for it.

457
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 1: Oh boy, okay, yet not laughter, and turned his face

458
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:43,880
Speaker 1: up to me. The light from the street below fell

459
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: on it, but there was another light too, shining all

460
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 1: round it that seemed to come from the eyes and skin.

461
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: He rose to his feet and met me, and in

462
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 1: that second I folded him to my breast and kissed

463
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 1: him full on the lips, again and again.

464
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 2: All our pipes had gone out, and not even a

465
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,639
Speaker 2: skirt rustled in that dark studio, as the storyteller paused

466
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 2: a moment to steady her voice and put a hand

467
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 2: softly up to her eyes before going on again.

468
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 1: Now what can I say? And how can I describe

469
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 1: to you, all, all you skeptical men sitting there with

470
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,679
Speaker 1: pipes in your mouths, the amazing sensation I experienced of

471
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 1: holding an intangible, impalpable thing so closely to my heart

472
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,919
Speaker 1: that it touched my body with equal pressure all the

473
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 1: way down and then melted away somewhere into my very being.

474
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:41,199
Speaker 1: At this moment, the pipes fell from their mouths, for

475
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,719
Speaker 1: it was like seizing a rush of cool wind and

476
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 1: feeling a touch of burning fire. The moment it had

477
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: struck its sweet blow and passed on, a series of

478
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 1: shocks ran all over and all through me. A momentary

479
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: ecstasy of flaming sweetness and wonder thrilled down into me.

480
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 1: My heart gave another great leap, and I was alone.

481
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 2: I wonder if this story is just one big euphemism.

482
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: Maybe I just realized in doing Harvey Corman from Blazing.

483
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 2: Saddles Nice, that's technically the second Harvey appearance, because she

484
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 2: mentioned mean streets earlier and Harvey Kaitel was in there.

485
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, is this me? Okay? Here we go.

486
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: The room was empty. I turned on the gas and

487
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: struck a match to prove it all fear had left me,

488
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: and something was singing round me in the air and

489
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 1: in my heart, like a joy of a spring morning

490
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,400
Speaker 1: in youth. Not all the devils or shadows or hauntings

491
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,880
Speaker 1: in the world could have caused me a single trimmer.

492
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 1: I unlocked the door and went all over the dark house,

493
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 1: even into kitchen and cellar, and up among the ghostly addicts.

494
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 1: But the house was empty. Something had left it. I

495
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 1: lingered a short hour, analyzing, thinking, wandering. You can guess

496
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,439
Speaker 1: what and how, perhaps, but I won't detail, or I

497
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: promised only essentials remember, and then went out to sleep

498
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: the remainder of the night in my own flat, locking

499
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: the door behind me upon a house no longer haunted.

500
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,880
Speaker 1: But my uncle, Sir Henry, the owner of the house,

501
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: required an account of my adventure. Of course, I was

502
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 1: in duty bound to give him some kind of a

503
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 1: true story. Before I could begin, however, he held up

504
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: his hand to stop me.

505
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 2: Eh. First, he said, I wish to tell you a

506
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 2: little deception I ventured to practice on you. So many

507
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 2: people have been to that house and seen the ghost

508
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 2: that I came to think the story acted on their imaginations,

509
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 2: and I wished to make a better test. So I

510
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 2: invented for their benefit another story, with the idea that

511
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 2: if you did see anything, I could be sure it

512
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 2: was not dear merely to an excited imagination. He's a horse,

513
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 2: by the way, I'm doing a horse for her uncle.

514
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: I thought that was really good. He went for the accent.

515
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: Then what you told me about a woman having been

516
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: murdered and all that was not a true story of

517
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: the hunting.

518
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 2: No where was not the true story is none of

519
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,919
Speaker 2: a consin of mine went mad in that house and

520
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,640
Speaker 2: killed himself in a fit of morbid terror, following upon

521
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 2: years of miserable hypochondriasis. It is his figure that investigators see.

522
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 1: That explains.

523
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 2: Then, I guessed, no, explain what I thought of that poor.

524
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 1: Struggling soul, longing all these years for escape and determined

525
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: to keep my story for the present to myself explains

526
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: I mean, why I did not see the ghost of

527
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: the murdered woman?

528
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 2: I concluded, we precisely, said, sir Henry. And why if

529
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: you had seen anything, it would have had value it

530
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 2: as much as it could not have been caused by

531
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 2: the imagination working upon a story you already knew, and

532
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 2: and scene.

533
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: Wow, that one got pretty sexy.

534
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I figure that most of our Halloween episodes are

535
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 2: not quite steamy enough, so I'm wanting to steam this

536
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 2: one up.

537
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it all makes sense now with Algren on

538
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: Blackwood writing the story from one's point a few facebook yeah, exactly.

539
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 2: Every couple of paracrassies stopped and made that sound right.

540
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 2: You did great, by the way. I mean, you really

541
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,479
Speaker 2: carried that story shucked. I mean, I appreciate it had

542
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,719
Speaker 2: the accent, the hallway story. It was just a delight

543
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 2: to listen to you.

544
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: I feel like she's a part of me now, you know, Yeah,

545
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: she is forever and thus I a part of you.

546
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 2: I don't know about that.

547
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: I mean I held you to my bosom and we kids. Yeah,

548
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,959
Speaker 1: that's she made out a lot my Toledo and ghost.

549
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 2: I like the horse guy too, Yeah he was great.

550
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 2: Can you just see like his huge mutton chops?

551
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, totally.

552
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 2: So now we're onto your story, right, it's time for

553
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 2: your story, the story you chose.

554
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 1: That's right. This is from Ambrose Beers. It's called the

555
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: middle toe of the right foot, not on, but of

556
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: the right foot. And here we go, just to give

557
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: you a little preamble. This is a story about some

558
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: men who go to a haunted house and some stuff happens.

559
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 2: I should probably do some of this reading. Huh.

560
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, you should do a lot of this reading. And

561
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to tell who's who at first, Yeah,

562
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: because it goes for a chapter and then it jumps

563
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: back and tells the pre story in chapter two, and

564
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: then back to the present.

565
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 2: So we'll figure it out. Yeah, all right, take it away, Okay.

566
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 2: The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce,

567
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 2: The Wickedest Man Alive. It is well known that the

568
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 2: old Manton House is haunted in all the rural district

569
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 2: near about, and even in the town of Marshall a

570
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 2: mile away. Not one person of unbiased mind entertains a

571
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 2: doubt of it. Incredulity is confined to those opinionated person

572
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 2: who will be called cranks as soon as the useful

573
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 2: word shall have penetrated the intellectual dements of the Marshal advance.

574
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 2: I think this is worth explaining. So he was basically

575
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 2: taking a shot at the local paper saying that they're

576
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 2: intellectually They weren't even smart enough to use the word

577
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 2: cranked yet. Yeah, I had to read that like five times,

578
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 2: so I thought it might be worth pointing out.

579
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: No, totally, I didn't get it, So now I do.

580
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you for thanking me.

581
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: You're welcome.

582
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 2: The evidence that the house is haunted is of two kinds,

583
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 2: the testimony of disinterested witnesses who have had ocular proof

584
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 2: ocular meaning eye witnesses, and that of the house itself.

585
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 2: The former may be disregarded and ruled out on any

586
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 2: of the various grounds of objection which may be urged

587
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 2: against it by the ingenious, but facts within the observation

588
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 2: of all our material and controlling I'm not going to

589
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 2: explain that last bit, because even I still don't understand it. Okay.

590
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 2: In the first place, the Manton House has been unoccupied

591
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 2: by mortals for more than ten years, and with its

592
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 2: outbul buildings, is slowly falling into decay, a circumstance which

593
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 2: in itself the judicious will hardly venture to ignore. It

594
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 2: stands a little way off the loneliest reach of the

595
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 2: Marshall and Harriston Road, in an opening which was once

596
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 2: a farm and is still disfigured with strips of rotting

597
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 2: fence and half covered with brambles. Overrunning a stony and

598
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 2: sterile soil, long unacquainted with the plow. The house itself

599
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 2: is intolerably good condition, though badly weather stained, and in

600
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 2: dire need of attention from the glacier. The smaller male

601
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 2: population of the region having attested in the manner of

602
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 2: its kind, its disapprovals of dwelling without dwellers. That means

603
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 2: that the kids throw stones through the windows and have

604
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 2: broken them all.

605
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, this place is not in great shape.

606
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 2: No, and Ambrose Beerce composes such thick plumage it's hard

607
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 2: to see the meat sometimes.

608
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,719
Speaker 1: That's right, he's not all about the essentials.

609
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 2: No, he hasn't even mentioned the keys in his pocket yet,

610
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 2: that's right. Or that he climbs the alps. It is.

611
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 2: This is the house. It is two stories in height,

612
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 2: nearly square, its fronts pierced by a single doorway, flanked

613
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 2: on each side by a window boarded up to the

614
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 2: very top. Corresponding windows above, not protected, serve to admit

615
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 2: light and rain to the rooms of the upper floor.

616
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: Grass and weeds grow pretty rankly all about, and a

617
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,719
Speaker 2: few shade trees somewhat the worse for wind and all

618
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 2: leaning in one direction, seem to be making a concerted

619
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 2: effort to run away. In short, as the Marshalltown humorists

620
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 2: explained in the columns of the Advance, the proposition that

621
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 2: the Manton House is badly haunted is the only logical

622
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 2: conclusion from the premises. The fact that in this dwelling

623
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 2: mister Manton thought it expedient one night, some ten years

624
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 2: ago to rise and cut the throats of his wife

625
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 2: and two small children weremoving at once to another part

626
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 2: of the country, has no doubt done its share in

627
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 2: directing public attention to the fitness of the place for

628
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 2: super natural phenomena.

629
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: All right, so there's our first little reveal here, is

630
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: that the former Manton gentleman murdered his wife and child

631
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: and left and fled.

632
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 2: That's right, all right. He was a real puttz. He was, Oh,

633
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 2: you want to keep going? Sure to this house. One

634
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 2: summer evening came four men in a wagon. Three of

635
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 2: them promptly alighted, and the one who had been driving

636
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 2: hitched the team to the only remaining post of what

637
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 2: had been a fence. The fourth remained seated in the wagon. Come,

638
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,439
Speaker 2: said one of his companions, approaching him, while the others

639
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 2: moved away in the direction of the dwelling. This is

640
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 2: the place, the man addressed. Do you want to be

641
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 2: the man addressed?

642
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 1: Uh?

643
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 2: Sure that the man addressed. The man addressed did not move,

644
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 2: By God, He said harshly, this is a.

645
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: Trick, and it looks to me as if you were

646
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: in it.

647
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 2: Perhaps I am, the other said, looking him straight in

648
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 2: the face and speaking in a which had something of

649
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,760
Speaker 2: contempt in it. You will remember, however, that the choice

650
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 2: of place was with your own ascent left to the

651
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 2: other side. Of course, if you are afraid.

652
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 1: Of spooks, I'm afraid of nothing.

653
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 2: The man interrupted with another oath, darn it, and sprang

654
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 2: to the ground. The two then joined the others at

655
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 2: the door, which one of them had already opened. With

656
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:27,479
Speaker 2: some difficulty caused by rust of lock and hinge, all

657
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 2: entered inside. It was dark, but the man who had

658
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 2: unlocked the door produced a candle and matches and made

659
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 2: a light. He then unlocked a door on their right

660
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 2: as they stood in the passage. This gave them entrance

661
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 2: to a large, square room that the candle but dimly lighted.

662
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 2: The floor had a thick carpeting of dust, which partly

663
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 2: muffled their footfalls. Cobwebs were in the angles of the

664
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 2: walls and depended from the ceiling like strips of rotting lace,

665
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 2: making undulatory movements in the disturbed air. The room had

666
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 2: two windows in adjoining sides, but from neither could anything

667
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 2: be seen except the rough inner surface of boards a

668
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 2: few inches from the glass. There was no fireplace, no furniture,

669
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 2: There was nothing besides the cobwebs and the dust. The

670
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 2: four men were the only objects there which were not

671
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 2: a part of the structure.

672
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: All right, So four men are now visiting this old

673
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,320
Speaker 1: haunted Manton house where a supposed murder has taken place,

674
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: and one of them doesn't seem to like really know

675
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: the other guys, and seems like he's saying, hey, you

676
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: played a trick on me by bringing me here, And

677
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: they were like, you agreed.

678
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 2: To it, buddy, Yeah, shut your mouth, Yeah exactly.

679
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: Shut that by hole. You want me to pick up?

680
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, you pick up all right.

681
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: Strange enough, they looked in the yellow light of the candle.

682
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 1: The one who had so reluctantly alighted was especially spectacular.

683
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: He might have been called sensational. He was of middle age,

684
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: heavily built, deep chested, and broad shouldered. Ah, I know

685
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 1: I'm playing him. Looking at his figure, one would have

686
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 1: said that he had a giant strength. Maybe not at

687
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: his features that he would use it like a giant.

688
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: He was clean shaven, his hair rather closely cropped in gray.

689
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: His low forehead was seamed with wrinkles. Above the eyes

690
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: and over the nose, these became vertical.

691
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 2: Those are called elevens. You can get them taken care

692
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 2: of with piller.

693
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: Is that in between those little worry lines are called elevens?

694
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, in between your brows. Never heard of that, because

695
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 2: there are a pair of vertical lines, So now I

696
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 2: get it's like an eleven.

697
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 1: The heavy black brows followed the same law of the

698
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: eleven saved from meeting only by an upper turn at

699
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 1: what would otherwise have been the point of contact. Deeply

700
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,839
Speaker 1: sunken beneath, these glowed in the obscure light a pair

701
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: of eyes of uncertain color, but obviously enough, too small.

702
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: There was something forbidding in their expression, which was not

703
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 1: bettered by the cruel mouth and wide jaw. The nose

704
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: was well enough as noses go, One does not expect

705
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: much of noses. All that was sinister in the man's

706
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: face seemed accentuated by an unnatural pallor. He appeared altogether bloodless.

707
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: So this guy that they brought with them, the three

708
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: guys brought, is like creepy looking and weird looking.

709
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, and seems pretty grumpy stand offish.

710
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree.

711
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 2: You want me to pick up? Are you going and

712
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 2: keep going?

713
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 1: Uh? Well, let me do this part and then we'll

714
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: get to the play parts. The appearance of the other

715
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 1: men was sufficiently commonplace. They were such persons as one

716
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: meets and forgets that he met. All were younger than

717
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,320
Speaker 1: the man described. Between whom and the eldest of the others,

718
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: who stood apart, there was apparently no kindly feeling. They

719
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: avoided looking at each other.

720
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 2: So the other three are younger than the grumpy man

721
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 2: and they don't really like him, or vice versa.

722
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: Looks like right, and I think the grumpy man is

723
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:55,280
Speaker 1: gross smith right.

724
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh no, I don't remember what they call him.

725
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 2: Gross smith is yeah, no, because the yeah, well we'll

726
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 2: get there one day. Yeah. What we should tell everybody

727
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 2: if you haven't noticed already. One of the reasons it's

728
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,280
Speaker 2: so difficult to keep up with who's who is Zambro

729
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 2: Bierst didn't go to the trouble of naming most of

730
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 2: them until part way through, and it's just confusing.

731
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 1: I definitely know Grossmith is the big creepy guy that

732
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: they brought there.

733
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 2: Oh is that right? Okay, I think that's Rosser. No,

734
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 2: that's Rosser, is it? Yeah? Because listen?

735
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, you're right.

736
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 2: Go ahead, gentlemen, said the man holding the candle and keys.

737
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 2: I believe everything is right. Are you ready? Mister Rosser?

738
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 2: The man standing apart from the group bowed and smiled,

739
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 2: which is what you would do if your name was Rosser.

740
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:48,399
Speaker 1: You're right and not a part of the group.

741
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 2: And you, mister Grossmith, the heavy man bowed and scowled.

742
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 2: Oh wait, see this is so confusing. So you're right,

743
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 2: Grossmith is the grumpy old I think. So why do

744
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: I even argue with you? You know?

745
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: Well, everyone, I promise we read these several times on

746
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,280
Speaker 1: our own. It's just a little confusing.

747
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 2: This was not just put in front of us by Jerry.

748
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: That's right.

749
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 2: The heavy man bowed and scowled. That's mister Grossmith, the

750
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 2: grumpy guy. You will be pleased to remove your outer clothing.

751
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 2: So it's getting steamy in this one too.

752
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

753
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 2: Their hats, coats, waistcoats, and neckwear were soon removed and

754
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 2: thrown outside the door in the passage. The man with

755
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 2: the candle now nodded, and the fourth man, who had

756
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 2: urged Grossmith to leave the wagon, produced from the pocket

757
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:42,439
Speaker 2: of his overcoat, two long, murderous looking bowie knives, which

758
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 2: he drew now from their leather scabbards. They are exactly alike,

759
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 2: he said, presenting one to each of the two principles,

760
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 2: for by this time the dullest observer would have understood

761
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,320
Speaker 2: the nature of this, meaning it was to be a

762
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 2: duel to the death.

763
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, they see what's happening here.

764
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 2: I didn't realize it until he said it was a duel,

765
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 2: or really until they produced the knives, that that's what

766
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 2: was going on.

767
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a little confusing. Uh you want me

768
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: to take it?

769
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, all right.

770
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: Each combatant took a knife, examined it critically near the candle,

771
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,280
Speaker 1: and tested the strength of the blade and handle across

772
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 1: his lifted knee. Their persons were then searched in turned

773
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: each by the second of the other. The second is

774
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: in the second of the duel is that right.

775
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the present dueler. Yeah, your back up, your

776
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 2: wingman for the duel, all right, go ahead, Oh, if

777
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 2: it is agreeable to you, mister.

778
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: Grossmith, said the man holding the light.

779
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 2: You will place yourself in that corner.

780
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: He indicated the angle of the room farthest from the door,

781
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 1: whither Grossmith retired his second, parting from him with a

782
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: grasp of the hand which had nothing of cordiality. Okay,

783
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 1: so a second sounds like he was forced into this.

784
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 2: Maybe it sounds like it.

785
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:09,280
Speaker 1: In the angle nearest the door, mister Rosser stationed himself,

786
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 1: and after a whispered consultation, his second left joined him,

787
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: joining the other near the door. At that moment, the

788
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: candle was suddenly extinguished, leaving all in profound darkness. This

789
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: may have been done by a draft from the open door.

790
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: Whatever the cause, the effect was startlight, gentlemen, said a

791
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: voice which sounded strangely unfamiliar in the altered condition, affecting

792
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:33,280
Speaker 1: the relations of the senses.

793
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 2: Gentlemen, you will not move until you hear the closing

794
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 2: of the outer door.

795
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: A sound of trampling ensued, then the closing of the

796
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: inner door, and finally the outer one closed with a

797
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: concussion that shook the entire building. So these guys have

798
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 1: been locked in a dark room with knives to fight

799
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: to the death. That's pretty good.

800
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 2: Yeah.

801
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 1: A few minutes afterward, a belated farmer's boy met a

802
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 1: light wagon which was being drawn furiously toward the town

803
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: of Marshall. He declared that behind the two figures on

804
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: the front seat stood a third with its hands upon

805
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: the bowed shoulders of the others, who appeared to struggle

806
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: vainly to freed themselves from its grasp. This figure, unlike

807
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,760
Speaker 1: the others, was clad in white and had undoubtedly boarded

808
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: the wagon as it passed the haunted house. That the

809
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 1: lad could boast a considerable former experience with the supernatural thereabouts.

810
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: His word had the weight justly due to the testimony

811
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: of an expert. So this guy I had seen this

812
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: kind of thing before.

813
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 2: Basically yeah, and also Ambrose Bierce was meant to be

814
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 2: read silently right.

815
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: The story and connection with the next day's events eventually

816
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 1: appeared in The Advance, which is the newspaper with some

817
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: slight literary embellishments. In a concluding imitation that the gentleman

818
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: referred to would be allowed the use of the paper's

819
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: columns for their verse of the night's adventure, but the

820
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: privilege remained without a claimant.

821
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 2: Okay, some weird stuff happened. Four men go in, Three

822
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 2: men fly past a superstitious farm boy who mentions it

823
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 2: to the paper, and the paper says, this is crazy.

824
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 2: Anybody who wants to come forward and say this was

825
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 2: us and tell us the story go ahead, And no

826
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 2: one did.

827
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,479
Speaker 1: Right's right. And now chapter two we jump back in time.

828
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 2: The events that led to this duel in the dark

829
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 2: were simple enough. One evening, three young men of the

830
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 2: town of Marshall were sitting in a quiet corner of

831
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 2: the porch of the village hotel, smoking and discussing such

832
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 2: matters as three educated young men of a southern village

833
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,760
Speaker 2: would naturally find interesting hoggs. Their names were King, Sancher

834
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,320
Speaker 2: and Rosser. At a little distance within easy hearing, but

835
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 2: taking no part in the conversation, set a fourth. He

836
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 2: was a stranger to the others. They merely knew that.

837
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 2: On his arrival by the stage coach that afternoon he

838
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 2: had written in the hotel register the name of Robert Grossmith.

839
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 2: He had not been observed to speak to anyone except

840
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 2: the hotel clerk. He seemed indeed singularly fond of his

841
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 2: own company, or, as the personnel of the advance expressed it,

842
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 2: grossly addicted to evil associations. But then it should be said,

843
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 2: in justice to the stranger that the personnel was himself

844
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:29,720
Speaker 2: of too convivial disposition fairly to judge one differently gifted,

845
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 2: and had, moreover, experienced a slight rebuff in an effort

846
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 2: at an interview. You want to be king?

847
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: Sure, I hate any kind of deformity in a woman,

848
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:47,280
Speaker 1: said King, whether natural or acquired. I have a theory

849
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: that any physical defect has its correlative mental and moral defect.

850
00:45:53,680 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 2: Okay, I am fur Then, said Rosser gravely, that a

851
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:05,320
Speaker 2: lady lacking the moral advantage of a nose would find

852
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 2: the struggle to become missus King an ouduous enterprise. I'm doing.

853
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 2: Leonardo DiCaprio and Django unchained.

854
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 1: Okay, where's my beautiful sister that was so creepy? Uh

855
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: so is this me? Uh?

856
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so.

857
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: Of course you may put it that way, was the reply.

858
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 1: But seriously, I once threw over a most charming girl

859
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: on learning quite accidentally that she had suffered amputation of

860
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: a toe. My conduct was brutal, if you like. But

861
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: if I had married that girl, I should have been

862
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 1: miserable for life and should have made her.

863
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 2: So I just want to point out you morphed just

864
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 2: briefly into Zach Galifanakis in the middle of that. Okay,

865
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 2: who's Sancho? Am I Sancho?

866
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: You know I like it. You could be Sanchure.

867
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 2: Let's see, whereas said Sancho with light laugh, By marrying

868
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 2: a gentleman of more liberal for you, she escaped with

869
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 2: the parted throat.

870
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: Ah, you know to whom I refer. Yes, she married Manton,

871
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: but I don't know about his liberality. I'm not sure.

872
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: But he cut her throat because he discovered that she

873
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: lacked that excellent thing in a woman, the middle toe

874
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:23,399
Speaker 1: of the right foot. Am I right?

875
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 2: Guys, look at that, Chap, said Rosser in a low voice,

876
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 2: his eyes fixed upon the stranger. That Chap was obviously

877
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 2: listening intently to the conversation.

878
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: Damn, his impudence, muttered, king, What ought we to do?

879
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 2: That's an easy one. My gud's turned into forest gump,

880
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 2: Rosser replied, rising sir. He continued addressing the stranger. I

881
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 2: think it would be better if you would remove your

882
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 2: chair to the other end of the verandah. The presence

883
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 2: of gentlemen is ever unfamiliar situation to yo.

884
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 1: So so these guys are talking about what happened to

885
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: that the guy who supposedly killed his wife because she

886
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: had no toe, and he's this guy's overhearing this conversation,

887
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: and they're not too thrilled with that, right.

888
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, And one of them apparently dated her for a

889
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 2: while but found out that she didn't have a toe

890
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 2: and was like, no way, no, how, right.

891
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 1: All right, I'll pick up you ready. The man sprang

892
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: to his feet and strode toward with clenched hands, his

893
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 1: face white with rage. All were now standing. Santra stepped

894
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: between the belligerents. You are hasty and unjust, he said

895
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: to Rosser.

896
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 2: This gentleman has done nothing to deserve such language.

897
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:48,280
Speaker 1: But Rosser would not withdraw a word. By the custom

898
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: of the country and the time, there could be but

899
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 1: one outcome to the quarrel.

900
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 2: You're the stranger. I think, right, that's.

901
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: Right, and I forget how I was doing him. I

902
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 1: demand the satisfaction due to a gentleman.

903
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 2: And said this stranger.

904
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this year, said the stranger, who had become

905
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 1: more calm. I have not an acquaintance in this region.

906
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:11,799
Speaker 1: Perhaps you, sir, bowing to Sancher, will be kind enough

907
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 1: to represent me in this matter. Santra accepted the trust

908
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: somewhat reluctantly. It must be confessed, for the man's appearance

909
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 1: and manner were not at all to his liking. King,

910
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:25,399
Speaker 1: who during the colloquis had hardly removed his eyes from

911
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: the stranger's face and had not spoken a word, consented

912
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 1: with a nod to act for Rosser sid. They're figuring

913
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 1: out who the seconds are.

914
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:32,439
Speaker 2: Right, mm hmmm yeah.

915
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: And the upshot, Oh there you go, tas I noticed,

916
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 1: And the upshot of it was the principles. Having retired,

917
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,760
Speaker 1: a meeting was arranged for the next evening. The nature

918
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: of the arrangements has been already disclosed. The duel with

919
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:48,240
Speaker 1: knives in a dark room was once a commoner feature

920
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 1: of Southwestern life than it is likely to be again.

921
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 1: How thin a veneering of chivalry covered the essential brutality

922
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: of the code under which such encounters were possible. We

923
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: shall see.

924
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:06,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, so just and by Southwestern, he's basically talking about

925
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 2: Louisiana or Mississippi.

926
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 1: Probably at that point. Yeah, I guess so.

927
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,919
Speaker 2: And also what he's talking about is like, so one

928
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 2: man was insulted by another man, and now they've agreed

929
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 2: to a duel.

930
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:18,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he was eavesdropping. Yeah.

931
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 2: Yeah. And in the South, especially at these times, you

932
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 2: basically had to kill somebody else who insulted you.

933
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, you mind your own business.

934
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:30,479
Speaker 2: You want me to pick up a chapter three?

935
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:31,280
Speaker 1: Please?

936
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 2: Chapter three? In the blaze of a midsummer noonday, the

937
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 2: old Manton House was hardly true to its traditions. It

938
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:45,760
Speaker 2: was of the earth, earthy. The sunshine caressed it warmly

939
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 2: and affectionately, with evident disregard of its bad reputation. The

940
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 2: grass greening all the expanse in its front seemed to grow,

941
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 2: not rankly, but with a natural and joyous exuberance, and

942
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 2: the weeds blossomed quite like plants, full of charming life

943
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 2: and shadows and populace with pleasant voiced birds. The neglected

944
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,879
Speaker 2: shade trees no longer struggled to run away, but bent

945
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 2: reverently beneath their burdens of sun and song. Even in

946
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 2: the glassless upper windows, was an expression of peace and

947
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 2: contentment due to the light within over the stony fields,

948
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 2: the visible heat danced with a lively tremor incompatible with

949
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 2: the gravity, which is an attribute of the supernatural. Such

950
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 2: was the aspect under which the place presented itself to

951
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 2: Sheriff Adams and two other men who had come out

952
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 2: from Marshall to look at it. One of these men

953
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 2: was mister King, the Sheriff's deputy Ah. The other, whose

954
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,240
Speaker 2: name was Brewer, was a brother of the late Missus

955
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 2: manton Ah. Under a beneficent law of the state relating

956
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:48,440
Speaker 2: to property, and if you put all those three together

957
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 2: you have a proper sentence which has been for a

958
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 2: certain period abandoned by an owner whose residence cannot be ascertained.

959
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 2: The sheriff was legal custodian of the Mantin farm and

960
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 2: apportuendancies thereunto belonging.

961
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:05,879
Speaker 1: So in other words, the sheriff, it's an abandoned house.

962
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: The sheriff is sort of taken care of it.

963
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, he owns all the apportenances, right.

964
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 1: And so this sheriff, the sheriff and his deputy he

965
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: was one of the four guys, and Brewer, the brother

966
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: of the killed woman, are now after this duel, going

967
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,360
Speaker 1: to the house to check things out, right, Yeah, yeah, okay.

968
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 2: His present visit was in a mere perfunctory compliance with

969
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 2: some order of a court in which mister Brewer had

970
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 2: an action to get possession of the property as heir

971
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 2: to his deceased sister. By a mere coincidence, the visit

972
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,760
Speaker 2: was made on the day after the night that Deputy

973
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 2: King had unlocked the house for another in very different purpose.

974
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 2: His presence now was not of his own choosing. He

975
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 2: had been ordered to accompany his superior and at the

976
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 2: moment could think of nothing more prudent than simulated alacrity

977
00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 2: and obedience to the command going, did me keep going?

978
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: Yeah? Maybe I should me read now.

979
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:08,799
Speaker 2: It me.

980
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 1: Carelessly opening the front door, which, to his surprise, was

981
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: not locked. The sheriff was amazed to see lying on

982
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 1: the floor of the passage into which it opened a

983
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: confused heap of men's apparel. Examinations showed it to consist

984
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,800
Speaker 1: of two hats and the same number of coats, waistcoats,

985
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 1: and scarves, all in a remarkably good state of preservation,

986
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,919
Speaker 1: albeit somewhat defiled by the dust in which they lay.

987
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:37,879
Speaker 1: So this is the stuff they took off the night before.

988
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:42,240
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, mister Brewer was equally astonished. But mister

989
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 1: King's emotion is not of record. He knows why this

990
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 1: closure there, with a new and lively interest in his

991
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 1: own actions. The sheriff now unlatched and pushed open a

992
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: door on the right, and the three entered. The room

993
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:58,800
Speaker 1: was apparently vacant. No, as their eyes became accustomed to

994
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: the dimmer light, something was visible in the far of

995
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:05,279
Speaker 1: this angle of the wall was a human figure, that

996
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: of a man crouching close in the corner. Something in

997
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: the attitude made the intruder's halt. When they had barely

998
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: passed the threshold, the figure more and more clearly defined itself.

999
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 1: The man was upon one knee, his back and the

1000
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:23,400
Speaker 1: angle of the wall. His shoulders elevated to the level

1001
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 1: of his ears. His hands before his face palms outward,

1002
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,840
Speaker 1: the fingers spread and crooked like claws. The white face

1003
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 1: turned upward on the retracted neck, had an expression of

1004
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: unutterable fright, the mouth half open, the eyes incredibly expanded.

1005
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: He was stone dead, yet with the exception of a

1006
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: bowie knife, which had evidently fallen from his own hand,

1007
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:54,839
Speaker 1: not another object was in the room. All right, I'll

1008
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:56,319
Speaker 1: do this paragraph and you can take it home.

1009
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:57,319
Speaker 2: Ready, yep.

1010
00:54:58,040 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 1: In thick dust that covered the floor were some can

1011
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: fused footprints near the door and along the wall through

1012
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 1: which it opened. Along one of the adjoining walls, too,

1013
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 1: past the boarded up windows, was the trail made by

1014
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 1: the man himself in reaching his corner. Instinctively, in approaching

1015
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: the body, the three men followed that trail. The sheriff

1016
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:21,320
Speaker 1: grasped one of the outthrown arms. It was as rigid

1017
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 1: as iron, and the application of a gentle force rocked

1018
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:29,720
Speaker 1: the entire body without alerting the relation of its parts. Brewer,

1019
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: pale with excitement, gazed intently into the distorted face, God

1020
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: of mercy. He suddenly cried, it.

1021
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:43,759
Speaker 2: Is Manton, Mike King, You're King.

1022
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: You are right, said King, with an evident attempt at calmness.

1023
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 2: I knew Manton. He then wore a full beard and

1024
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 2: his hair long. But this is he, he might have added,

1025
00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 2: I recognized him when he challenged Rosser. I told Rosser

1026
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 2: and Sancher who he was before we played him this

1027
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 2: horrible trick. When Rosser left this dark room at our

1028
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 2: heels forgetting his outer clothing in the excitement and driving

1029
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,840
Speaker 2: away with us in his shirt sleeves. All through the

1030
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:19,320
Speaker 2: discreditable proceedings, we knew with whom we were dealing murderer

1031
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 2: and cowered that he was.

1032
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: So the original murderer in the Manton house is now

1033
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: come back? Is that what we're to believe?

1034
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 2: Yeah? And he went by Grossmith, but these three recognized

1035
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 2: him immediately, and so they I don't know if they

1036
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:38,319
Speaker 2: set up a duel or whatever. I don't know if

1037
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:40,439
Speaker 2: they set the whole thing up, But once a duel

1038
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 2: was going on, they knew exactly where they were going

1039
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,120
Speaker 2: to take him, which was the very house that he

1040
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:48,919
Speaker 2: murdered his wife and children in. Can you imagine being

1041
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:50,920
Speaker 2: in that position? No, no, you can't.

1042
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 1: No, But they didn't kill him. No you ready, Yeah,

1043
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: let's do it. Take it home, brother.

1044
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 2: But nothing of this did mister King's say with his

1045
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 2: better light. He was trying to penetrate the mystery of

1046
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 2: the man's death. That he had not once moved from

1047
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 2: the corner where he had been stationed, that his posture

1048
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 2: was that of neither attack nor defense, that he had

1049
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,720
Speaker 2: dropped his weapon, that he had obviously perished of sheer

1050
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 2: horror of something that he saw. These were circumstances which

1051
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 2: mister King's disturbed intelligence could not rightly comprehend. Groping an

1052
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 2: intellectual darkness for a clue to his maze of doubt,

1053
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 2: his gaze, directed mechanically downward, in the way of one

1054
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 2: who ponders momentous matters, fell upon something which, there, in

1055
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 2: the light of day and in the presence of living companions,

1056
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 2: affected him with terror. In the dust of years, that

1057
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 2: lay thick upon the floor, leading from the door by

1058
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 2: which they had entered, straight across the room to within

1059
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 2: a yard of Manton's crouching courts, were three parallel lines

1060
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 2: of footprints, light but definite impressions of bare feet, the

1061
00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 2: outer ones those of small children, the inner. From the

1062
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 2: point at which they ended, they did not return. They

1063
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 2: pointed all one way. Brewer, who had observed them at

1064
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 2: the same moment, was leaning forward in an attitude of

1065
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 2: rapt attention. Horribly pale he be. Brewer look at that,

1066
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 2: he cried, pointing with both hands at the nearest print

1067
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:22,880
Speaker 2: of the woman's right foot, where she had apparently stopped

1068
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 2: and stood.

1069
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 1: The middle toe is missing.

1070
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 2: It was Gertrude. Gertrude was the late missus Manton, sister

1071
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 2: to mister Brewer.

1072
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 1: Oh boy, so she came back for some revenge.

1073
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:52,520
Speaker 2: And the kids too, that's right. The kids were chanting

1074
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 2: and clapping kill kill, kill kill, and the mom was like,

1075
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:56,760
Speaker 2: you got it?

1076
00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 1: You think you think? Elk, we're without this middle toe?

1077
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 2: Check out?

1078
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 1: How'd you like it up your butte?

1079
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:08,560
Speaker 2: That was probably how Ambrose Beers would have written it.

1080
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 1: I think.

1081
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 2: So that was great, Chuck, you did great, I did great,

1082
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:18,280
Speaker 2: We did great, Jerry did great, Ben Ben's gonna do great.

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Speaker 2: And you guys all did great listening to us and

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Speaker 2: thrilling to the adventures that we wove for you.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: I guess we want to say happy Halloween. Everybody, have

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Speaker 2: a safe and happy and fun and candy filled Halloween.

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Speaker 1: That's right. And this one falls on Halloween for a change,

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Speaker 1: so that's pretty it's pretty much about us for us.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So happy Halloween to the Max. Yeah. And since

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Speaker 2: I said happy Halloween to the Max, we're not gonna

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Speaker 2: do a listener mail, right, We're just gonna end this

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Speaker 2: and say audios.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: So if you want to get in touch with us.

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Speaker 2: You can send us an email to stuff podcast at

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Speaker 2: iHeartRadio dot com. Stuff you Should Know is a production

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Speaker 2: of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: For more podcasts my heart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.