Speaker 1: Maxie Miles is a production of a typical artists and
Speaker 1: I heart radio. Hey THEO. Wait up? Okay, Max, you
Speaker 1: have a free period now too. Well. I'm headed to
Speaker 1: the library to study if you want to join. Actually,
Speaker 1: I was hoping to talk to you. Look, Max, I
Speaker 1: don't know anything about the investigation. I promise my dad
Speaker 1: won't tell me anything. No, no, it's not that. I
Speaker 1: mean so if you had even overheard something or know
Speaker 1: what the main theory is right now? Nope, no, never mind,
Speaker 1: just focus, Max, Um, Are you okay? I so this
Speaker 1: is kind of weird. Okay. Jenna has been getting these
Speaker 1: notes in her locker, like poems and stuff, and she
Speaker 1: wanted me to figure out who it was. And yeah,
Speaker 1: have you told her yet? No? No, I didn't. I
Speaker 1: thought that maybe you'd want to tell her. What Why
Speaker 1: would I want to do that because you have a
Speaker 1: crush on her? Max? What you don't know? I? Oh god,
Speaker 1: this is humiliating. Yeah, thanks, No, sorry, I didn't mean.
Speaker 1: I just look. I think it's really sweet what you
Speaker 1: were doing. I read the notes and they were really good,
Speaker 1: THEO really romantic. Really Yeah, Jenna's a lucky girl. You
Speaker 1: really think so? I do? Often this is perfect. You
Speaker 1: can tell her for me, what I mean. She wanted
Speaker 1: you to find out who it was, and you did,
Speaker 1: so now you can tell her. But THEO, if you
Speaker 1: know she's going to know it's you, wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: better to just tell her yourself ask her out? But
Speaker 1: she might say no, okay, but that's true. Even if
Speaker 1: I tell her, don't you want her to hear how
Speaker 1: you feel from you? I don't know. I guess I
Speaker 1: never really thought about what I would do if she
Speaker 1: found out, So you were never planning on telling her.
Speaker 1: I was kind of just focused on writing the poems,
Speaker 1: if I'm honest, I never really thought about what she
Speaker 1: might think of them. But you were writing those poems
Speaker 1: for her, right, Yeah? You really think they're good, the poems. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's clear you really care about her. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what they say, poetry is the food of love.
Speaker 1: I guess the opposite is true too, love makes for
Speaker 1: good poetry. I guess THEO if you're not going to
Speaker 1: do anything about it, I did promise Jenna i'd figure
Speaker 1: it out for her. Yeah. Yeah, it's totally fine. I
Speaker 1: get it. So you're okay with me telling her that
Speaker 1: you like her sure, and if she doesn't like me back,
Speaker 1: well I hear heartbreak is good for poetry too, Right, Anyway,
Speaker 1: I should get to study hall. Are you coming? Um? Actually,
Speaker 1: I've got other stuff I need to do. Are you
Speaker 1: going to tell Jenna now? No? No, I'm meeting her
Speaker 1: after work. I just I don't much feel like sitting
Speaker 1: in a dark and quiet library right now. See you later, Max. Yeah.
Speaker 1: By THEO from a Typical Artists and I heart radio.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Maximles. This is chapter five The Truth.
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Max, Hey liss honey. Well, I'm so sorry
Speaker 1: about the other day with Oh, no need to apologize.
Speaker 1: I understand where your father is coming from. Joe. Isn't
Speaker 1: my dad, he's my uncle. How nice to have family
Speaker 1: in town. No, it's my parents. They they passed away
Speaker 1: a few years ago. So Joe takes care of me.
Speaker 1: Oh I see, I'm so sorry Max, Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: He seems like he's a fantastic guardian. He is, even
Speaker 1: if he's being stupidly overprotective. You don't think you should
Speaker 1: be worried that that boy Riley is still missing, isn't he? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He is, which is whyatt I just I think I
Speaker 1: can help. Max. I understand being worried about your friend,
Speaker 1: really I do, but you need to take care of yourself.
Speaker 1: The last thing this town needs is another missing child. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. Chin up, Max, It's going to be okay. Why,
Speaker 1: just on my way here, I heard some people discussing
Speaker 1: the search party this afternoon. They're doing another one. I
Speaker 1: guess they want to look deeper into the woods. This
Speaker 1: time they'll find Riley. Max. Yeah, yeah, they will, right, Yes.
Speaker 1: Now the reason I'm here, Oh right, what are you
Speaker 1: shopping for today? You? In fact, I was hoping to
Speaker 1: solicit your aid in a peculiar problem I'm having. Really
Speaker 1: you want my help? Well, as you know, this town
Speaker 1: really is quite small, and people do talk. Guessing you've
Speaker 1: heard some stories about me. Apparently you're very good at
Speaker 1: solving town issues. See, I can help with Riley. Missing
Speaker 1: pets and stolen bikes are a bit different. I think.
Speaker 1: I don't say that to diminish the things you do, Max,
Speaker 1: but it might be best to work your way up
Speaker 1: to the serious stuff. So what kind of problem are
Speaker 1: you having? It's the end. There's been some strange noises
Speaker 1: this past day or so. I fear that someone may
Speaker 1: have broken in. Oh wow. Now, I don't want to
Speaker 1: distract the community watch group with this when they've got
Speaker 1: much more urgent things to focus on. So I was
Speaker 1: hoping you could lend a hand. You're sure my uncle
Speaker 1: didn't put you up to this to keep me busy.
Speaker 1: I assure you he did not. Why would someone want
Speaker 1: to break into the maple floorpe. It's not even open yet,
Speaker 1: right exactly, It's practically empty, so I have absolutely no
Speaker 1: idea why anyone would be lurking about unless unless what, Well,
Speaker 1: it's foolish, but some of the noises, it almost feels
Speaker 1: as if the place is haunted. What. I'm not inclined
Speaker 1: to believe in such things, but the building really does
Speaker 1: have quite the history. Oh, I am in, I am
Speaker 1: all the way in, excellent. I know you have school
Speaker 1: and work and all of that. So I was thinking
Speaker 1: maybe Saturday. Whatever is going on, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: a danger. Said today is perfect, lovely. I will see
Speaker 1: you then, have a good day, Detective Miles, thanks you too. Hey,
Speaker 1: Mr Monty, is my uncle there? Hey? Joe? Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: everything's fine, No, not yet. Well, that's actually why I'm calling.
Speaker 1: We just got a new shipment of stuff in and
Speaker 1: I offered to stay late to do inventory. Is that okay? No?
Speaker 1: I think we're planning on ordering a pizza, maybe like
Speaker 1: nine or so. No, you don't need to What was that? Oh? Wow, great? Thanks? No,
Speaker 1: she just said she'd give me a ride home. Yep,
Speaker 1: of course, I love you too. Where are you calling
Speaker 1: for me? Uh? Nope, it was out on the phone,
Speaker 1: wrong number anyway, tills all locked up? Wait wait, wait,
Speaker 1: it's only four thirty. Right, you've got that extra curriculo
Speaker 1: thing today I forgot yep, exactly. Me and a friend
Speaker 1: are doing an environmental survey in the park. All right,
Speaker 1: thanks bye? What not the answer you were expecting? THEO?
Speaker 1: THEO has been sending me these notes. No, no, THEO
Speaker 1: and I are friends. This there's no way I thought
Speaker 1: we understood each other. This is a disaster understood each other?
Speaker 1: What do you mean? I thought THEO was like me, like,
Speaker 1: too busy for dating? You mean, yeah, too busy for dating? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean after talking to him, I'm not sure that.
Speaker 1: I mean, is he totally cracked? Never in my life
Speaker 1: have I thought about THEO combs in that way. If
Speaker 1: it makes you feel better, I actually think because like,
Speaker 1: even if dating was on the table, he shouldn't want
Speaker 1: to date me, and I would never want to date him.
Speaker 1: We'd want to date people like ourselves, or at least
Speaker 1: that's what I thought. I'm sorry, Jenna, I'm totally lost
Speaker 1: like another girl. Okay, that's what I'm saying. I don't
Speaker 1: want to date THEO, not because he's not great and all,
Speaker 1: but because I don't see him in that way. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'll never be able to see him in that way,
Speaker 1: because because you want to date another girl? Yeah, anyone
Speaker 1: in particular, that's your first question. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like invested in your love life after
Speaker 1: all this. I'm curious Max. You always zig when I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna zag. No, No, there's no one in particular.
Speaker 1: What what are you thinking right now? No, it's nothing.
Speaker 1: I just got I got swept up in the romance
Speaker 1: of these notes. I guess I was kind of hoping
Speaker 1: this would all lead to you sailing off in the
Speaker 1: sunset with someone. And you thought THEO was the same
Speaker 1: way that he wouldn't want to date you because he
Speaker 1: would want to date a boy instead. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: don't know. We never talked about it or anything clearly.
Speaker 1: Maybe he does want to date boys too, but I
Speaker 1: just thought it doesn't matter now our friendship is screwed
Speaker 1: up forever. Why because he likes me and I can't
Speaker 1: like him back. I don't see why that has to
Speaker 1: ruin everything? And for what it's worth. Well, I wasn't
Speaker 1: planning on saying anything, but I don't think you'll be
Speaker 1: offended by it now, So what is it? Max? I
Speaker 1: don't think THEO was really all that invested. What well?
Speaker 1: I told him that I knew it was him who
Speaker 1: wrote the notes so that he could tell you himself
Speaker 1: instead of me, and he didn't want to see I
Speaker 1: knew whoever was writing these was a coward. Come on,
Speaker 1: that's not fair, Jenna. Theo's your best friend. He probably
Speaker 1: didn't want to mess anything up either, then why write
Speaker 1: them at all? I think I think you're his news? What? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that must be it. He seemed way more focused on
Speaker 1: his poems being good than anything else and was going
Speaker 1: on about heartbreak is food for poetry or something. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I wasn't really following. That sounds like THEO,
Speaker 1: so maybe he was just playing a part the poet
Speaker 1: in love with the beauty a full news. Maybe I
Speaker 1: think you should talk to him. You won't tell him, right,
Speaker 1: tell him what that I'm that I'm gay? Oh No,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's mine to tell. I am surprised
Speaker 1: that he doesn't know already. Aren't you guys like really close? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We are, but I don't know. We don't always talk
Speaker 1: about real stuff, you know. Yeah, why didn't you tell
Speaker 1: me what? In all the heart to hearts we've had
Speaker 1: in the past few years? Okay? Fair? So you didn't
Speaker 1: know in middle school what I mean. We were friends then,
Speaker 1: so I assume you hadn't figured it out, or otherwise
Speaker 1: you would have told me. Oh my god, Max, How
Speaker 1: are you making this about you right now? Sorry? Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm not I I just want you to know that
Speaker 1: you could have told me. You could have told me anything.
Speaker 1: I was still figuring it out, okay, and it wasn't
Speaker 1: something I wanted to talk about until I had completely
Speaker 1: figured it out. Did you think that I'd care? Because
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think anyone would. It's just it's
Speaker 1: hard being different in Hastings. You know, it's easier to
Speaker 1: just go along with what everyone else is doing and
Speaker 1: there are no gay people here. My uncle is gay. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: one person. Actually, I'm pretty sure he's dating someone, so
Speaker 1: that would make two people who aren't totally straight. Really,
Speaker 1: who is he dating? I have no idea, but he's
Speaker 1: been spending large parts of the weekend out and then
Speaker 1: he comes back all happy. Gross. I know you don't
Speaker 1: think I understand what it's like to be different. I mean,
Speaker 1: every family in Hastings is like the perfect white bread
Speaker 1: all American, two parents and two point five children, and
Speaker 1: I'm me. Yeah, you're you president of the Hastings is
Speaker 1: the Best Place to Live Committee. Just because I love
Speaker 1: Hastings doesn't mean I always feel like it loves me.
Speaker 1: You're not alone and being raised by a single guardian person.
Speaker 1: THEO lost his mom too. I know that's part of
Speaker 1: why I'm sorry Max, for whatever that's worth. I actually
Speaker 1: am sorry for what that THEO likes me and that
Speaker 1: I don't like him. But you do, No, I don't. Oh,
Speaker 1: come on, Mac, everyone knows ironically THEO is the one
Speaker 1: exception to that. Yeah, well I guess I know why
Speaker 1: he wouldn't. He's been a bit distracted. I'm sorry. It's
Speaker 1: not your fault. Besides what, I don't know what talking
Speaker 1: to THEO this morning about you, I wasn't nervous for
Speaker 1: the first time ever, ever, since Ross told me that
Speaker 1: THEO wrote the notes. I don't know what THEO liking
Speaker 1: me made him repulsive to you. No, it's it's not that.
Speaker 1: It's the poems were so beautiful, you know, so passionate,
Speaker 1: and then talking to him about them was he didn't
Speaker 1: mean any of it. I didn't say that THEO thinks
Speaker 1: the world if you. I don't know what it is exactly.
Speaker 1: THEO is more passionate about the idea of love than
Speaker 1: he is about me. Yeah, yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Classic prioritizing having a crush over who the crush is,
Speaker 1: and that's a pretty cynical way to look at things. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: understanding people has never been your strong suit. Max. You're right.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how you could feel strongly enough to
Speaker 1: write poems for someone and not do everything you possibly
Speaker 1: could to tell them. I get being scared. I mean,
Speaker 1: I never told THEO how I feel. But if I
Speaker 1: were really in love with someone, I like to think
Speaker 1: I'd do anything for them. Isn't that the way it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be. I have no idea, Max, find me
Speaker 1: another girl in New Hampshire who also likes girls, and
Speaker 1: maybe I'll tell you. Well, I've already solved one. Jenna
Speaker 1: Ambrose love life mystery. I'm on a roll. I wish
Speaker 1: Riley was here. I feel like he'd have the answers.
Speaker 1: You know, Riley has never dated anyone either. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: he has that thing, you know, the fitting in thing
Speaker 1: that we don't the perfect family. He feels like he
Speaker 1: has things figured out. Yeah, I just hope he's okay
Speaker 1: me too. Any new leads. I'm exploring a few avenues,
Speaker 1: so no, yeah, basically not. But speaking of I gotta go.
Speaker 1: They're doing another search party. Are you sure that's a
Speaker 1: good idea after what happened last time? I promise I
Speaker 1: won't go running around this time. Hey, Max, thanks for
Speaker 1: for listening and for being cool with everything. Of course, Jenna,
Speaker 1: I know we're not that we're not as close as
Speaker 1: we used to be, but I'm here. I'm always here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, go be reckless and stupid. I'm not being
Speaker 1: reckless or stupid. You say that now, Hiley, Riley, Riley, Riley, Righty,
Speaker 1: Riley Right, Riley Riley Okay, right, Riley? Where are you right?
Speaker 1: Is that? Riley? We're right? Why is Mr Beatie breaking
Speaker 1: off from the crew? Where is he going? It's just
Speaker 1: an animal, Max? Is that cabins? What are you doing? Ross? What? Why? Why? Sorry?
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to scare you. Were you following me?
Speaker 1: Were you joining the search party without a buddy? I
Speaker 1: was late? So you walking around alone has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with the fact that Sheriff Combs would definitely call
Speaker 1: your uncle if he saw you trying to join the
Speaker 1: search again? Look at me, I'm fine, aren't I? Now?
Speaker 1: Come on? What where are you going? Mr Beaty is
Speaker 1: up to something great? Here we go? Look Ross, there's
Speaker 1: a cabin up there. Okay, so what we're in the woods?
Speaker 1: Woods have cabins. But why is Mr Beady heading toward
Speaker 1: it in the middle of a search? Is it his cabin?
Speaker 1: Is this where he's been coming in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night. I don't see him anywhere? Why, your beauty,
Speaker 1: you said you saw him? Yeah? Where did he go?
Speaker 1: Maybe he's searching like we're supposed to be doing. Why
Speaker 1: are you even here? Ross? Remember what happened last time?
Speaker 1: But how would you know I would be here? Come? On. Whatever,
Speaker 1: what's your plan here? Just barge into someone's house. I
Speaker 1: know I saw Mr Beaty walking to the cabin seconds ago.
Speaker 1: There's no likes on, so so maybe he's not there
Speaker 1: at all. Right, there's one way to find out. Oh,
Speaker 1: you can't be serious, Come on, Ross, what's the worst
Speaker 1: that could happen? You want me to go down the list?
Speaker 1: If Betty isn't in there, we can poke around the
Speaker 1: in and out before he gets back. And if he
Speaker 1: is in there, we'll play dumb. Say we got lost
Speaker 1: on the search and are looking for help. Ship, What
Speaker 1: what's wrong? That's a solid plan. I knew you'd come
Speaker 1: around tell her. Now let's go ship. It's locked? Is
Speaker 1: that surprising? Maybe there's a black door or you can't
Speaker 1: be serious, it's unlocked. I think crawling through a window
Speaker 1: still counts as breaking an entering, even if it's unlocked. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't see anyone. I think we're clear. Are we
Speaker 1: really doing this? We have no idea if this has
Speaker 1: anything at all to do with Riley? Well, only one
Speaker 1: way to find out. Yeah. Maxie Miles was created by
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Speaker 1: Davis and Melissa Ponds. It featured Jordan Cobbs Maxie Miles,
Speaker 1: Mike's a Follow as Ross Teller, Morgan Elgerton as the OCMBS,
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