Speaker 1: Maxie Miles as the production of a typical artists and
Speaker 1: I heart radio have a good day. Well, well, well
Speaker 1: i'll be Maxie Miles. Did your uncle rope you into this?
Speaker 1: How did you know? Oh that Joe is always looking
Speaker 1: out for you. I know he'd want you to be
Speaker 1: safe safe. Well what with the poor Stevens boy missing?
Speaker 1: I think we're all concerned about our younger citizens. So
Speaker 1: you don't think he ran away after all? What changed
Speaker 1: your mind? Oh? Well, I wasn't saying that. I just well,
Speaker 1: all possibilities are still open, unfortunately, but don't you worry,
Speaker 1: young lady. You are safe as houses in Hastings. But
Speaker 1: people have gone missing before, right, people have died. Well,
Speaker 1: of course, death is a part of life, my dear,
Speaker 1: But people have died suspiciously. I'm not sure what you mean.
Speaker 1: Hastings is a good town full of good people, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that, of course. Um speaking of good people,
Speaker 1: do you know Mr Beatie? Of course? Oh? Oh, I
Speaker 1: see this is about what happened with his family. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing what family. Oh no, see, you've got some more customers,
Speaker 1: So I'll just take this big bag of butterscotch and
Speaker 1: be on my way. Oh that's a three thirty, got
Speaker 1: your exact change right here, Thanks very much, dear wait, Mayor,
Speaker 1: how keep up the good work. That guy gives me
Speaker 1: the creeps. Mayor How he's a big teddy bear. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. Well, whatever you think of him,
Speaker 1: he was in the middle of telling me something that
Speaker 1: could actually help with Riley, So thanks for that. Don't
Speaker 1: you think that if hell knew something, he would have
Speaker 1: told Mr Combs already? I thought he gave you the creeps.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean I think he's a kidnapper. I just meant, Look,
Speaker 1: if I tell you something, will you promise not to
Speaker 1: go all max about it? What does that mean? Like,
Speaker 1: don't make it into a whole thing that you obsess over?
Speaker 1: What is it? Jenna Riley's interview with the mayor for
Speaker 1: the paper did not go well. Not go well? How
Speaker 1: I don't actually know. All Riley said was that the
Speaker 1: mayor was mad, mad about what something that Riley found
Speaker 1: out about. I guess that's what I mean. I don't
Speaker 1: think How is the perfect civil servant that everyone thinks.
Speaker 1: I think he's like skimming off the top of town
Speaker 1: funds or something. And if the beloved Perma Mayor of
Speaker 1: Hastings was corrupt. That would be the biggest scandal this
Speaker 1: town has ever seen. From a typical artists and I
Speaker 1: hurt radio. You're listening to Maximles. This is chapter four
Speaker 1: The Secret Admirer. So he went out again last night,
Speaker 1: but no double back this time. He went out around
Speaker 1: nine o'clock and then was back at ten, got into
Speaker 1: his truck, nothing else, drove away and came back. Mm hmmm,
Speaker 1: what are you thinking? I'm thinking that there's nowhere to
Speaker 1: go for an hour at nine pm in Hastings. He
Speaker 1: couldn't have been running an errand because most places closed
Speaker 1: at eight on Sunday night. Maybe he went to the tavern? Okay,
Speaker 1: But did he leave exactly at nine and get back
Speaker 1: exactly at ten, give or take two minutes? But yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much. It's a ten minute drive to town from
Speaker 1: our houses, So that means he would have been at
Speaker 1: the tavern for forty in its doesn't feel right, does it?
Speaker 1: So what's next? You'll keep an eye on it? Sure? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm always in the tree house anyway, I've
Speaker 1: got nothing else to do. Do you spend every night
Speaker 1: in there? I mean I don't sleep in there? Are
Speaker 1: you sure? I don't sleep in there very much? But
Speaker 1: trust me, if you lived with my family, you'd spend
Speaker 1: all your time somewhere else too. Oh I doubt that
Speaker 1: I'd love a house full of people. Things get boring.
Speaker 1: It's just me and Joe all the time. I'd kill
Speaker 1: for a little boring, and i'd kill to have my
Speaker 1: parents around. Sorry, I didn't mean no, it's totally fine.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I said that. Oh no, No,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm sure you missed them a lot. I
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to say that. Yes, of course I do.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's not like you don't love your parents.
Speaker 1: Of course, Yeah I do? Right, so so, uh sentimental
Speaker 1: moment over? Is that what passes for a sentimental moment
Speaker 1: in your book? Oh? Hey wait, speaking of family, I
Speaker 1: found something out about Beatty yesterday. Only you max, only
Speaker 1: me what only you would leap from your dead parents
Speaker 1: to an investigation? Crap? Sorry, Yeah, I'm seeing the sentimentality
Speaker 1: thing you were talking about. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: walk around with a heart that big. Come on, Miles,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Okay, I just i'd say stuff sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, tell me what you found out? About Mr Beatty. Okay,
Speaker 1: so apparently Mr Beatty had a family at one point.
Speaker 1: What mm hmm. May Or How mentioned something yesterday and
Speaker 1: then I tried to ask Joe about it during dinner
Speaker 1: last night. He wouldn't give me much but just said
Speaker 1: it was a tragedy, something about Beatty having a wife
Speaker 1: and son. Then tragedy mm hmm. Joe wouldn't tell you
Speaker 1: anything else. He doesn't. He doesn't really like to talk
Speaker 1: about that kind of stuff because you know, right well,
Speaker 1: that definitely is interesting. You know, Beatty having a family,
Speaker 1: a kid. That's so hard to picture. I told you
Speaker 1: he wasn't as scary as he seemed. Well, you're also
Speaker 1: the one who wanted to follow him because you think
Speaker 1: he's like holding Riley captive somewhere. I never said that.
Speaker 1: I just I think it's weird that he's going out
Speaker 1: at night all the time. We're at the stage of
Speaker 1: the investigation where all potential leads need to be chased down.
Speaker 1: Speaking of I have another another what potential lead? Jenna
Speaker 1: said that Riley's piece for the paper may have been
Speaker 1: a bigger deal than we thought. Bigger deal how corruption
Speaker 1: scandal something about may Or How I don't have the
Speaker 1: specifics yet, but there's something there. You're working the store
Speaker 1: this afternoon, yep, every afternoon from now until well until
Speaker 1: Riley has found Probably Joe is worried I'm going to
Speaker 1: do something stupid and dangerous if I'm not occupied. He's
Speaker 1: not wrong. Shut up. That's good though. You can gather
Speaker 1: more until about beating maybe even how Yeah, you've got
Speaker 1: math with THEO right now? Right? Yeah? Could you see
Speaker 1: if he knows anything about the official investigation. I doubt
Speaker 1: his dad tells him much, but he might have overheard something.
Speaker 1: I just want to know where they're at. Um, Why
Speaker 1: don't you just ask him yourself at lunch? Because just
Speaker 1: can you help me out for once? Teller? For once?
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Just ask him? Okay, okay, whatever, Max,
Speaker 1: thank you, have a great day. Why does no one
Speaker 1: know anything about Mr? Beede? Hi and welcome to Archer's General.
Speaker 1: Oh hi, Jenna, lovely to see you too, Maxine. Please
Speaker 1: don't call me that. We don't have any of the
Speaker 1: new magazine issues in yet. You'll have to come back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: That's not why I'm here. Then? What are you here
Speaker 1: for this? What is this? Just read it Jenna, is
Speaker 1: this a a love letter? What? Why are you giving
Speaker 1: this to me? Oh? My god, Max, it's not for you.
Speaker 1: Oh m, this is the fourth one I've gotten in
Speaker 1: the past two weeks. They just show up in my locker. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's creepy, right, I was going to say romantic you
Speaker 1: would You really don't like getting this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, whoever it is, he clearly really likes you.
Speaker 1: These are poems, Jenna. I know it's so embarrassing. Why
Speaker 1: is that embarrassing? It's all squishy and sensitive? What's your point?
Speaker 1: I don't do squishy and sensitive? Right? I forgot that
Speaker 1: you and Ross are basically the same person. What do
Speaker 1: you mean nothing, Jenna? Where are you showing me this?
Speaker 1: Because I want to find out who wrote them? Oh
Speaker 1: that's great. What you like him too, and you want
Speaker 1: to find out who it is so you can tell
Speaker 1: him what. No, that's not what's happening here. I want
Speaker 1: to find out who it is so I can tell
Speaker 1: him to stop. Why if you don't know who it is,
Speaker 1: how do you know you don't like him? Because I
Speaker 1: just I know, Okay, I don't have time for all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Is that why you broke up? With Cody.
Speaker 1: I broke up with Cody because he's a moron and
Speaker 1: a bully. But yes, that was one of several contributing factors.
Speaker 1: So will you help me or not? Jenna? I mean,
Speaker 1: don't you think there are more important things to focus
Speaker 1: on than some random love notes? Of course there are, Maxine,
Speaker 1: but neither of us can do anything to help Riley.
Speaker 1: And before you start, no, you can't. Max You're fourteen.
Speaker 1: I know that you want to help, and you like
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff, but this isn't a fun, hardy
Speaker 1: boy's mystery. This is dangerous, and I'm doing you a
Speaker 1: favor by giving you something low stakes to focus all
Speaker 1: that insane energy on. Oh is that why you're doing this?
Speaker 1: To save me from myself? Someone has to and Ross
Speaker 1: is too chicken shipped to do it himself. Besides, I
Speaker 1: have a curious mind too, and I would like to
Speaker 1: know who has decided to declare their love for me
Speaker 1: in the completely infuriating form of anonymous notes. I do
Speaker 1: not understand how you don't think it's romantic. Maybe he shy,
Speaker 1: maybe he's intimidated by you. Don't you think you should
Speaker 1: at least just think that some people have reasons to hide,
Speaker 1: and some people are selfish cowards. I have a feeling
Speaker 1: this guy is the latter. Ease, come on, Max, I
Speaker 1: gave you that intel on Riley's article. The least you
Speaker 1: can do is okay, fine, fine, I get it. I'll
Speaker 1: help things that the store are going. Okay, Yeah, they're fine.
Speaker 1: It's pretty boring most of the time. It's not exactly
Speaker 1: the most bustling place in Hastings. Is any place in
Speaker 1: Hastings bustling. That's a good point. Yeah, it's one of
Speaker 1: the things I love about this town. Actually, I know everyone,
Speaker 1: and pretty much everyone knows me. There's no getting lost
Speaker 1: in a crowd. I thought you wanted to run off
Speaker 1: to New York the moment you graduated. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I want to visit New York. I'd love to go
Speaker 1: to college there or Boston somewhere with you know, real
Speaker 1: public transportation and museums. But I don't know. I couldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if I ended up back here. Yeah, your
Speaker 1: dad felt the same way, both your parents. Actually, I mean,
Speaker 1: we may have all scattered to the winds when high
Speaker 1: school ended, but the winds eventually blew you back to Hastings. Well,
Speaker 1: once your mom took a teaching post at Hastings High,
Speaker 1: your dad was always going to be right behind her. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's how marriage works. Well no, no, I
Speaker 1: mean she got that job way before they were married.
Speaker 1: It was right after college. I think I was still
Speaker 1: at Hastings, actually in my senior year, and then Mary
Speaker 1: shows up as the new teacher, and I just knew.
Speaker 1: I knew my brother would be moving back to Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've been in love for so long. With the long
Speaker 1: distance thing for college, it made it harder. And your
Speaker 1: dad wasn't gonna let that be a barrier anymore. So
Speaker 1: he came back to Hastings to be with her. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: And then I came back to Hastings to be with you, kiddo.
Speaker 1: But you like it here, okay, right, I mean I'm
Speaker 1: not like keeping you here. I mean I can't exactly
Speaker 1: leave you on supervised, no matter how grown you think
Speaker 1: you are. But I know that. But just because I'm
Speaker 1: a minor doesn't mean you have to up end your
Speaker 1: entire life, just Max, Max, Where is this coming from?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've just been thinking about family, I guess,
Speaker 1: just generally speaking, and I don't like the idea that
Speaker 1: you're trapped in this miserable small town existence because of me.
Speaker 1: I am not living in a miserable small town existence. Like. Yes,
Speaker 1: I moved back here to take care of you, but
Speaker 1: see see, I've ruined your cool city life. But there
Speaker 1: was never any way I was letting anyone else take
Speaker 1: care of you. You're my favorite niece, after all, I'm
Speaker 1: your only niece. Besides, I found things to like about Hastings. Really,
Speaker 1: like what I'll tell you when you're older. Oh, oh
Speaker 1: my god, are you dating someone I know I'm still
Speaker 1: a young man. Tell that to your gray hair, Maxine.
Speaker 1: Someone has to be brutally honest with you. I look
Speaker 1: in the mirror every day. That's enough brutal honesty for me.
Speaker 1: I love my life here with you, Max. I miss
Speaker 1: your parents every single day. I would do anything to
Speaker 1: get them back, but I'm so grateful to get to
Speaker 1: have you as my family. Thanks Joe, me too. What
Speaker 1: do you think happened to Riley? I don't know, kiddo.
Speaker 1: I hope nothing bad, but bad things happen sometimes. Bad
Speaker 1: things happen sometimes, but it's sort of good things. Dinners
Speaker 1: with my niece. The Harvest festival dogs falling in love?
Speaker 1: So you are dating someone? I think that you are
Speaker 1: what I'm not. I'm not dating anyone. What was with
Speaker 1: the note in your backpack? You look through my backpack
Speaker 1: I was putting on the counter and it fell out.
Speaker 1: So who's the lucky guy? Oh my god, no one,
Speaker 1: you can talk to me about this stuff. It's not
Speaker 1: for me. What. Oh did you write it? Oh? I
Speaker 1: guess I was making assumptions based on the whole boy
Speaker 1: meets girl perspective in the poem. But if if there's
Speaker 1: something you want to talk to me about, Oh my god, no,
Speaker 1: please stop talking. It's Jenna's She's been getting them in
Speaker 1: her locker for the past few weeks, and she wanted
Speaker 1: me to find out who's been leaving them. Got it,
Speaker 1: she wrote, ju and helping her? Well, I mean, I
Speaker 1: am known for being good at solving things. I thought
Speaker 1: you and her were on the outs where we're fine.
Speaker 1: We're just not best friends anymore. That happens. People grow up,
Speaker 1: and some people get popular and pretty and become the
Speaker 1: object of a love letter writer's attention, and some of
Speaker 1: us don't. Max Anyway, I should probably start in on
Speaker 1: my list of suspects so I can interview people at
Speaker 1: school tomorrow. Max. Thanks for dinner, Joe. These are all
Speaker 1: of them for now, six letters in three weeks, always
Speaker 1: left between second and third period. Right, what classes do
Speaker 1: you have? Those periods Math and then Health, which are
Speaker 1: right down the hall from each other, which means you're
Speaker 1: never passing your locker when you go to health unless well,
Speaker 1: do you ever go back for any books? No? I
Speaker 1: usually bring all my morning class books with me and
Speaker 1: then do a swap over during lunch. So whoever's leaving
Speaker 1: you these notes must know that they know your locker
Speaker 1: is going to be clear between those periods, and that
Speaker 1: you'll go to your locker after third period and before lunch.
Speaker 1: That's creepy. I think that depends on who it is.
Speaker 1: If it's someone with a locker really near yours, then
Speaker 1: it's possible they're just going to their locker between each
Speaker 1: period and have just noticed that you're never there. What
Speaker 1: if it's someone with a locker in a totally different hallway,
Speaker 1: then yeah, it would be a little weird for them
Speaker 1: to know this much about your movements unless they have
Speaker 1: both Math and health with you. Do you share both
Speaker 1: of those classes with anyone. Uh yeah, probably like half
Speaker 1: a dozen people at least. All right, then we'll start there.
Speaker 1: Write down the names of everyone you share both classes with,
Speaker 1: and then the names of anyone in the vicinity of
Speaker 1: your locker who might have caught onto when you're not there.
Speaker 1: I'll take that list and start to narrow down the
Speaker 1: suspects based on who likes girls, who single, and who
Speaker 1: might write you letters rather than just asking you out. Okay,
Speaker 1: and then and then I'll start to interview the suspects,
Speaker 1: suspects whatever you want to call it, potential boyfriends. Whoever
Speaker 1: is writing these notes is not a potential boyfriend. You
Speaker 1: should at least wait to figure out who it is first. Well,
Speaker 1: come on, start writing. Hey, hey, Ross, what are you
Speaker 1: doing here? I thought you had work shot closed early
Speaker 1: for the manager's nephew's birthday or something, so I've got
Speaker 1: the afternoon off. Huh made any breakthroughs? I think I've
Speaker 1: narrowed it down to three people. Chat Ryan Carter? What
Speaker 1: what would they want with Riley? What? Oh? No, no, sorry,
Speaker 1: not for Riley. This this is a thing for Jenna.
Speaker 1: What is this her hit list or something sort of?
Speaker 1: She's trying to figure out who has been leaving her
Speaker 1: love notes. That's not you, right, I mean, your lucker
Speaker 1: isn't near Jenna's, but you are in her math class.
Speaker 1: What me is sending Jenna Ambrose love notes? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: thought it was pretty far fetched. That's why you were
Speaker 1: eliminated early, just double checking. Why is it so far fetched?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you and she aren't best buzz anymore,
Speaker 1: but Jenna's cool. We've always gotten along. Are you saying
Speaker 1: you like her? No, I'm not saying it. I just
Speaker 1: want to know what's so far fetched about it? That's
Speaker 1: all you. Romancing Jenna is not what's far fetched. I
Speaker 1: get it. She's pretty, she's smart, she's popular. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there are lots of guys in school who would want
Speaker 1: to go out with her. But but the idea of
Speaker 1: you romancing anyone is a little far fetched. Oh, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean that as a bad thing, A right, right? Right? Sorry?
Speaker 1: Did I I feel like I hurt your feelings? No,
Speaker 1: you didn't. It's just that you don't seem like the
Speaker 1: type of person who would write a bunch of love letters. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I get it, and that's not a bad thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: some people just aren't romantic people. Why do you assume
Speaker 1: I'm not a romantic person. Well, come on, ros, I mean,
Speaker 1: you've never asked anyone out. I don't think you've ever
Speaker 1: had a crush on anyone, which, again, is totally fine.
Speaker 1: Just because I don't go around leaving weird poems and
Speaker 1: people's lockers are talking about my crushes all the time
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I don't have them. Okay. I just
Speaker 1: thought maybe I'm just waiting for the right moment, you know,
Speaker 1: or maybe it's just not worth putting yourself out there
Speaker 1: when you know for certain that the other person doesn't
Speaker 1: feel the same way. I mean, you know, I get
Speaker 1: the appeal of staying anonymous. You can test the waters
Speaker 1: without getting hurt. Yeah. I guess that's true. But wait,
Speaker 1: how did you know the notes were being left in
Speaker 1: her locker? What? Oh? You mentioned something about my locker
Speaker 1: not being close, so I just assumed, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: where else would you leave notes for someone? Okay, but
Speaker 1: you also knew they were poems. How did you know
Speaker 1: they were poems? What? I didn't tell you that I need? Um? Ross?
Speaker 1: Did you write these notes? What? No? No way, I promise.
Speaker 1: What are you sure you can tell me, trust me, Myles,
Speaker 1: I did not write them. I do not have a
Speaker 1: crush on Jenna. Okay, then how you know who? Don't you?
Speaker 1: You know who has a crush on Jenna? Maybe I do? Yeah? Who?
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