1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of Five 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. 3 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Scare the pants off you Clark, and there's 4 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: Charles Ghastly, Chuck Bryant and Jerry's floating out there somewhere 5 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: in the ether, which makes this Stuff you Should Know. 6 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say, Chuck, scare the 7 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: pants back on you Bryant. Oh, that's even better. Maybe 8 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: we should edit that in and say it again. But 9 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: with feeling. That's as much feeling as I can mustard 10 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: these days. Man. I'm with you, buddy, I'm with you, 11 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: but we're not here to talk about anything in the 12 00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: world except scaring the pants off and then act on 13 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: people with our annual Halloween episode correct sir, So Chuck, 14 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,479 Speaker 1: we come up with a couple of pretty good ones. 15 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: I would say this year, I'm in love with yours. 16 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: I think these are both really good. And I was 17 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 1: surprised to see Philip paid Dick had stuff in the 18 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: public domain. Well we read one of his last year. 19 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: Did yeah that the Hanging Man I think is what 20 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 1: it was called. It was very scary, very creepy, but 21 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: I think it was just last year that his stuff 22 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: first came in, which goes to show you how old 23 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 1: we are. I think it's not an age thing, right, 24 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: I think just certain ones were put in the public domain. 25 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: I feel like if they don't copyrighted after X number 26 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: of decades, automatically goes into the public domain. So yeah, 27 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: I think it's because we're old. Well, hats off to 28 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: Phil Dick for his great work. That's right, hats off 29 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: and pants off mics on. So you want to get 30 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: started with the Beyond the Door? Yeah, let's do it. Okay, 31 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: I'll take the part. How about that? It sounds wonderful. 32 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Please dim your lights, please um arouse 33 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: your sympathetic nervous systems, and prepared to hear Beyond the 34 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: Door by Philip K. Dick. Larry Thomas bought a cuckoo 35 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: clock for his wife, without knowing the price he would 36 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: have to pay. That night, at the dinner table, he 37 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: brought it out and set it down beside her plate. 38 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: Doris stared at it, her hand to her mouth. Oh 39 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: my god, what is it? She looked up at him, 40 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: bright eyed. Well open it. Doris tore the ribbon in 41 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 1: paper from the square package with her sharp nails, her 42 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: bosom rising and falling. Larry stood watching her as she 43 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,959 Speaker 1: lifted the lid. He lit a cigarette and leaned against 44 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 1: the wall. A cuckoo clock, doors cried, a real old 45 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: cuckoo clock, like my mother had. She turned the clock 46 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: over and over, just like my mother had when Pete 47 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: was still alive. Her eyes sparkled with tears. It's made 48 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: in Germany, Larry said. After a moment, he added, Carl 49 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: got it for me wholesale. He knows some guy in 50 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 1: the clock business. Otherwise I wouldn't have He stopped. Doris 51 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: made a funny little sound. I mean, otherwise I wouldn't 52 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: have been able to afford it. He scowled. What's the 53 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: matter with you? You got your clock, haven't you. Isn't 54 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: that what you want? Doris sat holding onto the clock, 55 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: her fingers pressed against the brown wood well. Larry said, 56 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: what's the matter. He watched an amazement as she leaped 57 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: up and ran from the room, still clutching the clock. 58 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: He shook his head, never satisfied, they're all that way, 59 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: never get enough. He sat down at the table and 60 00:03:54,200 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: finished his meal. So I think we have a puts 61 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: on our hands. Chuck. Yeah, And I gotta say, I've 62 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: seen you with Humi and you're a wonderful husband. But 63 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: you played the part of your husband very well. Thank 64 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 1: you very much. I think from time to time you 65 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: might say I'm a natural. No, that was that was 66 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: well done. I don't I wonder what this guy's problem 67 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: is already. I'm guessing he's like a mid fifties average dude. 68 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: Not a very good gift giver. No, I mean, here's 69 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: a great gift. And let me just urinate all over. 70 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: Hold it still, so I don't mess. All right, you're ready, 71 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: I'm ready, Right, here we go. The cuckoo clock was 72 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: not very large. It was handmade, however, and there were 73 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: countless frets on it, little indentations and ornaments scored in 74 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 1: the soft wood. Doris sat on the bed, drying her 75 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: eyes and winding the clock. She set the hands by 76 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,600 Speaker 1: her wristwatch. Presently, she carefully moved the hands to two 77 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: minutes of ten. She carried the clock over to the 78 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: dresser and propped it up. Then she sat waiting, her 79 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: hands twisted together in her lap, waiting for the cuckoo 80 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 1: to come out for the hour to strike. As she sat, 81 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: she thought about Larry and what he had said, and 82 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: what she had said too, for that matter, not that 83 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: she could be blamed for any of it. After all, 84 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: she couldn't keep listening to him forever without defending herself. 85 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: You had to blow your own trumpet in the world. 86 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: She touched her handkerchief to her eyes. Suddenly, Why did 87 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: he have to say that about getting it wholesale? Why 88 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,679 Speaker 1: did he have to spoil it all? If he felt 89 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: that way, he needn't have got it in the first place. 90 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: She clenched her fists. He was so mean, so dang mean. 91 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: But she was glad that the little clock sitting there, 92 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,679 Speaker 1: ticking to itself with its funny grilled edges in the door. 93 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: Inside the door was the cuckoo waiting to come out? 94 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,239 Speaker 1: Was he listening his head cocked on one side, listening 95 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: to hear the clock strike so that he would know 96 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: to come out? Did he sleep between hours? Well, she 97 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: would soon see him, she could ask him, and she 98 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: would show the clock to Bob. He would love it. 99 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: Bob loved old things, even old stamps and buttons. He 100 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: liked to go with her to the stores. Of course, 101 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: it was a little awkward, but Larry had been staying 102 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: at the office so much, and that helped off. Only 103 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: Larry didn't call up sometimes too. There was a wir 104 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: the clock shuttered, and all at once the door opened. 105 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: The cuckoo came out, sliding swiftly. He paused and looked around, solemnly, 106 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: scrutinizing her, the room, the furniture. It was the first 107 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 1: time he had seen her, she realized, Smiling to herself 108 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 1: in pleasure, she stood up, coming toward him shyly. Go on, 109 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: she said, I'm waiting. The cuckoo opened his bill. He 110 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: worred and chirped quickly rhythmically. Then after a moment of contemplation, 111 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: he retired and the door snap shut. She was delighted. 112 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: She clapped her hands and spun in a little circle. 113 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: She five years old. I guess she's a tad dad. 114 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: I love it. He was marvelous, perfect, and the way 115 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: he had looked around, studying her, sizing her up. He 116 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: liked her. She was certain of it, and she of 117 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: course loved him at once completely. He was just what 118 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: she had hoped would come out of the little door. 119 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: Doris went to the clock. She bent over the little door, 120 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: her lips close to the woods. Do you hear me? 121 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: She whispered. I think you're the most wonderful cuckoo in 122 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: the world. She paused, embarrassed. I hope you'll like it here. 123 00:07:52,720 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: Then she went downstairs again, slowly, her head high. Very nice, Chuck. 124 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: That was a great Doris. And I think I didn't 125 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: know where Doris is coming from. She's very likable at 126 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: this point. She's delighted by simple things, right. She does 127 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: little twirls and spins and stuff, which I mean, how 128 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: can you dislike that? You know? Okay, I'm picking up 129 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: again with moa. Larry and the cuckoo clock really never 130 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: got along well from the start. Doris said it was 131 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: because he didn't wind it right and it didn't like 132 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,959 Speaker 1: being only half wound all the time. Larry turned the 133 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: job of winding over to her. The cuckoo came out 134 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 1: every quarter hour and ran the spring down without remorse, 135 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: and someone had to be ever after it winding it 136 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: up again. Doris did her best, but she forgot a 137 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 1: good deal of the time. Then Larry would throw his 138 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:59,719 Speaker 1: newspaper down with an elaborate weary motion and stand up. 139 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,079 Speaker 1: He would go into the dining room, where the clock 140 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: was mounted on the wall over the fireplace. He would 141 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,439 Speaker 1: take the clock down, and making sure that he had 142 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: his thumb over the little door, he would wind it up. 143 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 1: Why do you put your thumb over the door, Doris asked, 144 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: Once you're supposed to? She raised an eyebrow. Are you sure? 145 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: I wonder if it isn't that you don't want him 146 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: to come out while you're standing so close? Why not? 147 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: Maybe you're afraid of him? Larry laughed. He put the 148 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: clock back on the wall and gingerly removed his thumb. 149 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:35,199 Speaker 1: When Doris wasn't looking, he examined his thumb. There was 150 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: still a trace of the nick cut out of the 151 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: soft part of it. Who or what had pecked him? Oh, boy, chuck, 152 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 1: I think it's your turning. All right, it's getting eerie, 153 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 1: a little eerie. What's in the clock death? What's in 154 00:09:54,960 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: the clock death? All right? Here we go, okay. One 155 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: Saturday morning, when Larry was down at the office working 156 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: over some important special accounts, Bob Chambers came to the 157 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: front porch and rang the bell. Doris was taking a 158 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: quick shower. She'd dried herself and slipped into her robe. 159 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,559 Speaker 1: When she opened the door, Bob stepped inside, grinning, Hi, 160 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: he said, looking around. It's all right, Larry's at the office. Fine. 161 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: Bob gazed at her slim legs below the hymn of 162 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: the robe. How nice you look today, she laughed, Be careful. 163 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: Maybe I shouldn't let you in. After all, it's getting naughty, 164 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: very naughty. They looked at one another, half amused, half frightened. Presently, 165 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: Bob said, if you want, i'll know. For God's sake, 166 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: She caught hold of his sleeve. Just get out of 167 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: the doorway so I can close it. Mrs Peters across 168 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: the street. You know. She closed the door, and I 169 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 1: want to show you something, she said, you haven't seen it. 170 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: He was interested, an antique or what she doesn't of course, 171 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 1: what else would it be. She took his arm, leading 172 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 1: him toward the dining room. You'll love it, Bobby, she stopped, 173 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: wide eyed. I hope you will. You must, you must 174 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: love it. It means so much to me. He means 175 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: so much. He Bob frowned. Who is he? Doris laughed, Oh, 176 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: you're jealous. Come on. A moment later, they stood before 177 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 1: the clock, looking up at it. He'll come out in 178 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: a few minutes. Wait until you see him. I know 179 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: you two will get along just fine. What does Larry 180 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: think of him? They don't like each other. Sometimes when 181 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: Larry's here, he won't come out. Larry gets mad if 182 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: he doesn't come out on time, he says, says what. 183 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: Doris looked down. He always says he's been robbed, even 184 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: if he did get it wholesale. She brightened. But I 185 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: know he won't come out because he doesn't like Larry. 186 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 1: When I'm here alone, he comes right out for me 187 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: every fifteen minutes, even though he really only has to 188 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: come out on the hour. She gazed up at the clock. 189 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: He comes out for me because he wants to we talk. 190 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,839 Speaker 1: I tell him things. Of course, I'd like to have 191 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: him upstairs in my room, but it wouldn't be right. 192 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,439 Speaker 1: There was a sound of footsteps on the porch. They 193 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: looked at each other horrified. Larry pushed the front door open, grunting. 194 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 1: He set his briefcase down and took off his hat. 195 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: Then he saw Bob for the first time. Chambers, I'll 196 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: be darned. His eyes narrowed. What are you doing here? 197 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: He came into the dining room. Doris drew her robe 198 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 1: around her hopelessly backing away. I uh, Bob began that 199 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: that is we uh. He broke off, glancing at Doris. Suddenly, 200 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: the clock began to were The cuckoo came rushing out, 201 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: bursting into sound. Larry moved toward him. Shut that din off, 202 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: he said. He raised his fist toward the clock. The 203 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: cuckoo snapped into silence and retreated. The door closed. That's better, 204 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:03,719 Speaker 1: Larry studied, Doris and Job, standing mutely together. I came 205 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 1: over to look at the clock, Bob said. Doris told 206 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: me that it's a rare antique and that nuts. I 207 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 1: bought it myself. Larry walked up to him. Get out 208 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: of here, he turned the Doris YouTube and take that 209 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:20,200 Speaker 1: dank clock with you, he paused, rubbing his chin. No, 210 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: leave the clock here. It's mine. I bought it and 211 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: paid for it. Is a such a classic Larry move, 212 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: I know. And if I had a dime for every time. 213 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: You know, one of Emily's boyfriends came over to look 214 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 1: at our antique clocks. Right, they're new and wholesale. Certainly 215 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: it's making sense to you, huh, I think, uh, yeah, 216 00:13:50,600 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: I know this story well. Um In thes that followed 217 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: after Doris left, Larry and the cuckoo clock got along 218 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 1: even worse than before. For one thing, the cuckoo stayed 219 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 1: inside most of the time, sometimes even at twelve o'clock, 220 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: when he should have been busiest, and if he did 221 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: come out at all, he usually spoke only once or twice, 222 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: never the correct number of times, and there was a sullen, 223 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 1: uncooperative tone in his voice, the jarring sound that made 224 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: Larry uneasy and a little angry. But he kept the 225 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 1: clock wound because the house was very still and quiet, 226 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: and it got on his nerves not to hear someone 227 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: running around talking and dropping things, And even the worrying 228 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: of a clock sounded good to him. But he didn't 229 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: like the cuckoo at all, and sometimes he spoke to him. Listen, 230 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: he said late one night, to the closed little door. 231 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: I know you can hear me. I ought to give 232 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: you back to the Germans, back to the black forest. 233 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: He paced back and forth. I wonder what they're doing now, 234 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: the two of them, young punk, with his books and 235 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: his antiques. A man shouldn't be interested in antiques. That's 236 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: for women, he said, his jaw, isn't that right? The 237 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: clock said nothing. Larry walked up in front of it. 238 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: Isn't that right, he demanded. Don't you have anything to say? 239 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 1: He looked at the face of the clock. It was 240 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: almost eleven, just a few seconds before the hour. All right, 241 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: I'll wait until eleven. Then I want to hear what 242 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: you have to say. You've been pretty quiet the last 243 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: few weeks since she left, he grinned, Riley. Maybe you 244 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: don't like it here since she's gone, he scowled. While 245 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: I paid for you, and you're coming out, whether you 246 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: like it or not. You hear me. Eleven o'clock came 247 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: far off at the end of town. The great tower 248 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: clock boomed sleepily to itself, but the little door remained shut. 249 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: Nothing moved, The minute hand passed on, and the cuckoo 250 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: did not stir. It was someplace inside the clock, beyond 251 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: the door, silent and remote. All right, if that's the 252 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: way you feel, Larry murmured, his lips twisting. But it 253 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: is and fair. It's your job to come out. We 254 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: all have to do things we don't like. He went 255 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: unhappily into the kitchen and opened the great gleaming refrigerator. 256 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: As he poured himself a drink, he thought about the clock. 257 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: There was no doubt about it. The cuckoo should come 258 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: out doors or no. Doris. He had always liked her 259 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: from the very start. They had got along well, the 260 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: two of them. Probably he liked Bob too. Probably he 261 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: had seen enough of Bob to get to know him. 262 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: They would be quite happy together, Bob and Doris and 263 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: the cuckoo. Larry finished his drink. He opened the drawer 264 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: at the sink and took out the hammer. He carried 265 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: it carefully into the dining room. The clock was taking 266 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: gently to itself on the wall. Look, he said, waving 267 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 1: the hammock. You know what I have here. You know 268 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do with it. I'm gonna start on 269 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: you first, he smiled, Birds of a feather, that's what 270 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: you are, the three of you. Larry is losing it, 271 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: I think, Chuck. Yeah, that she split. Yeah, he kicked him. 272 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: He kicked her out with Chambers when he caught them. 273 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: And now he's just alone with his thoughts, drunk in 274 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: a hammer and uh, the cuckoo clock. That's really taking 275 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:14,400 Speaker 1: him off. Like so many Germans. The room was silent. 276 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: Are you coming out or do I have to come 277 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: in and get you? The clock word a little. I 278 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,159 Speaker 1: hear you in there. You've got a lot of talking 279 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 1: to do. Enough for the last three weeks, as I 280 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: figure it, you owe me. The door opened, the cuckoo 281 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: came out fast, straight at him. Larry was looking down, 282 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,199 Speaker 1: his brow wrinkled and thought. He glanced up, and the 283 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 1: cuckoo caught him squarely in the up. Down He went 284 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: to hammer and share and everything, hitting the floor with 285 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:49,680 Speaker 1: a tremendous crash. For a moment, the cuckoo paused, his 286 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: small body poised rigidly. Then it went back inside its house. 287 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: The door snapped tight shut after it. The man lay 288 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: on the floor, stretched out grotesque, his head bent over 289 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: to one side. Nothing moved horse. The room was completely silent, except, 290 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: of course, for the ticking of the clock. Did this 291 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 1: clock kill him? Did you read the story? I mean no, 292 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: I like to be surprised. Well, then wait for the rest, chuck, 293 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 1: and you take it from here? Do you read him 294 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: ahead of time? Oh? Man, I don't. They would like 295 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: to go in fresh like Castanza's dad. I see, Doris said, 296 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 1: her face tight. Bob put his arm around her, steadying her. 297 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: Doctor Bob said, can I ask you something? Of course, 298 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: the doctor said, is it very easy to break your 299 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:55,640 Speaker 1: neck falling from so low a chair? It wasn't very 300 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 1: far to fall. I wonder if it might not have 301 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 1: been an accident. Is there an chance it might have 302 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: been suicide? The doctor rubbed his jaw. I never heard 303 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,640 Speaker 1: of anyone committing suicide that way. It was an accident. 304 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 1: I'm positive I don't mean suicide. Bob murmured under his breath, 305 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 1: looking up at the clock on the wall. I meant 306 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 1: something else, but no one heard him. Beautiful Chuck Pravo 307 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: killed that man? It did? It didn't like that Guff. 308 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: I think the threat with the hammer is what really 309 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,919 Speaker 1: pushed the cuckoo over the edge, so straight into the 310 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 1: brain through the orbital socket there, I guess, or else 311 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: it caught him so surprised that he threw himself back 312 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: off the chair and broke his neck on the floor. 313 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: Who knows the doctor is ever gonna find out? He's 314 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: clearly lazy. Yeah, this doctor doesn't care. The big question 315 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: is did Doris do a little twirl when she found 316 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,239 Speaker 1: out that Larry had died and that the cuckoo had 317 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: killed him? And I think so, And I think Bob 318 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 1: should be free to quite honestly, I think Bob's gonna 319 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 1: be okay because the cuckoo is clearly a demon servant 320 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: of Doris, and if Doris is happy with Bob, then 321 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 1: Bob's in the right Bob needs to stay on doors 322 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: is good side or then yeah, he's in trouble. If not, alright, 323 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: good pick, good pick too. Oh yeah that was my pick. Thanks, 324 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: I appreciate it, and we're gonna do your pick, which 325 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,200 Speaker 1: I've got to say, of the two, this is I mean, 326 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: this is just straight up great horror fiction. Yeah, this 327 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: is good stuff. This is from an author named m. R. James, 328 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:40,199 Speaker 1: not Mr James, no Mr James, m R James, and 329 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: it's called Rats. And I hope everyone is joining this 330 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 1: add free episode per tradition, Yeah, per Halloween scary, scare 331 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: the pants off and then back on you traditions. Right. 332 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,439 Speaker 1: We're not even gonna plug our book that's available for preorder. No, 333 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 1: I can't see us plugging stuff. You should know Colon 334 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 1: and Complete Companion mostly interesting things in an ad free 335 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: episode right now or the audio book since people are 336 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: listening to us reading. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. But 337 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,199 Speaker 1: we would never say something along the lines of like 338 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: It's available for pre order now everywhere you buy books, 339 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 1: and out in November. Right, Okay, I think we've killed 340 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: the spooky mood enough. Oh it was dead from the 341 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: beginning when we were laughing at Larry being such a jerk, 342 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,439 Speaker 1: you know, all right, gather the kids around, everyone, and 343 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: here we go with rats by m R James. Shall 344 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: I start this one? I think so? Man, all right? 345 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,360 Speaker 1: And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, 346 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: you'd see the ragged, moldy bedcloths, a heaving and a 347 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: heaving like seas, and the heaving and to heaving with 348 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: what he says, why with the rats under him? It's 349 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: a good start, huh it is. It's a great start. 350 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: But was it with the rats? I ask, because in 351 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: another case it was not. I cannot put a date 352 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: to the story, but I was young when I heard it, 353 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: and the teller was old. It is an ill proportioned tale, 354 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: but that is my fault, not his. It happened in Suffolk, 355 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: near the coast, or however you pronounced Suffolk, in a 356 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 1: place where the road makes a sudden dip and then 357 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: a sudden rise as you go northward. At the top 358 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: of the rise stands a house on the left of 359 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 1: the road. It is a tall red brick house, narrow 360 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 1: for its height. Perhaps it was built about seventeen seventy. 361 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: The top of the front has a low triangular pediment 362 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: with a round window in the center. Behind it are 363 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: stables and offices in such garden as it has is 364 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: behind them. Scraggy Scotch firs are near it. An expanse 365 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: of gorse covered land stretches away from it. It commands 366 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 1: a view of the distant sea from the upper windows 367 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 1: of the front. A sign the post stands before the door, 368 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: or did so stand for though it was an inn 369 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,159 Speaker 1: of repute once, I believe it is so no longer. 370 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: To this end came my acquaintance Mr. Thompson, when he 371 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,880 Speaker 1: was a young man on a fine spring day, coming 372 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 1: from the University of Cambridge, and desirous of solitude and 373 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: tolerable quarters and time for reading. These he found for 374 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,199 Speaker 1: the landlord and his wife had been in service and 375 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: could make a visitor comfortable, and there was no one 376 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: else staying in the inn. He had a large room 377 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 1: in the first floor, commanding the road and the view, 378 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 1: and if it faced east, why that could not be helped? 379 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 1: The house was well built and warm, very nice, thank you, 380 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: and mar James knows how to set things, doesn't me? Okay. 381 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,639 Speaker 1: He spent very tranquil and uneventful days, working all the 382 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 1: morning and afternoon, perambulation of the country round, a little 383 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: conversation with country company or the people of the inn 384 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 1: in the evening over the then fashionable drink of brandy 385 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 1: and water, a little more reading and writing, and bed, 386 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: and he would have been content that this should continue 387 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 1: for the full month he had at his disposal. So 388 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: well was his work progressing, and so fine was the 389 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,159 Speaker 1: April of that year, which I have reason to believe 390 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: was that which Orlando Whistlecraft chronicles in his weather record 391 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 1: as the charming year, which, by the way, I looked 392 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:32,439 Speaker 1: that up, and that would be. One of his walks 393 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: took him along the Northern road, which stands high and 394 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 1: traverses a wide common called the Heath. On the bright 395 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,400 Speaker 1: afternoon when he first chose this direction, his eye caught 396 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 1: a white object some hundreds of yards to the left 397 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 1: of the road, and he felt it necessary to make 398 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: sure what this might be. It was not long before 399 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: he was standing by it, and he found himself looking 400 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 1: at a square block of white stone, fashioned somewhat like 401 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 1: the base of a pillar with a square hole in 402 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: the upper surface, Just such another you might see this 403 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:04,359 Speaker 1: day on Thetford Heath. After taking stock of it, he 404 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: contemplated for a few minutes the view, which offered a 405 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 1: church tower or two, some red roofs of cottages and 406 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 1: windows winking in the sun, and the expanse of sea, 407 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: also with an occasional wink and gleam upon it. And 408 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: so pursued his way, Let me keep going, keep going. 409 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 1: In the desultory evening talk in the bar, he asked 410 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: why the white stone was there on the common, an 411 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,640 Speaker 1: old fashioned thing, that is, said the landlord, Mr Betts. 412 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: Way was none of us alive when that was put there, 413 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 1: that's right, said another. It stands pretty high, said Mr Thompson. 414 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 1: I dare say a sea mark was on it some 415 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:47,160 Speaker 1: time back. Yes, Mr Betts agreed. I have heard they 416 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 1: could see it from the boats. But or ever there was, 417 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 1: it fell to bits this long time. Good job too, 418 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: said a third townt lucky mark by what the old 419 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 1: men used to serve. Not look you for the fish, 420 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,160 Speaker 1: and I mean just sorry, Why ever not, said Thompson. Well, 421 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,640 Speaker 1: our never stray morself was the answer. But they had 422 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: some funny what I mean, peculiar them old chaps, and 423 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: I shouldn't wonder but what they made away with theirselves. 424 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,400 Speaker 1: And then Thompson said, can everyone stop eating beef stew 425 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 1: while they're talking? I do have beef stew in my 426 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,879 Speaker 1: in my mouth right now, busted, man, they're kind of 427 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: a funny bunch. Let me finish this one part. It 428 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: was impossible to get anything clearer than this, I guess 429 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,640 Speaker 1: because the beefs too. The company, never very voluble, fell silent, 430 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: and when next someone spoke, it was a village affairs 431 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:50,919 Speaker 1: and crops. Mr Betts was the speaker. All right, I 432 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 1: love this story man, m R James draws you into 433 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,400 Speaker 1: it like plus also that that sounds like a very 434 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: nice way to spend a month in fine weather, eating writing, 435 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:06,679 Speaker 1: walking around the countryside bed. That just sounds eating beef stew. Ye, 436 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 1: great accents. I've been waiting years for that. I wonder 437 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,399 Speaker 1: if that was a a Suffolk one, Sure like it 438 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: did on Suffolk. Suffolks do not every day did Thompson 439 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: consult his health by taking a country walk. One very 440 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 1: fine afternoon found him busily writing at three o'clock. Then 441 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 1: he stretched himself and rose and walked out of his 442 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: room into the passage. Facing him was another room, then 443 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: the stairhead, then two more rooms, and one looking out 444 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: to the back, the other to the south. At the 445 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: south end of the passage was a window to which 446 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: he went, considering with himself that it was rather a 447 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: shame to waste such a fine afternoon. However, work was paramount. 448 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: Just at the moment he thought he would just take 449 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,120 Speaker 1: five minutes off and go back to it, and those 450 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: five minutes he would employ the betsy, as could not 451 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,920 Speaker 1: possibly object to looking at the other rooms in the passage, 452 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 1: which he had never seen. Nobody at all, it seemed, 453 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: was indoors, probably as it was market day, they were 454 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,440 Speaker 1: all gone to the town except perhaps a maid in 455 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 1: the bar. Very still the house was, and the sun 456 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: shone really hot. Early flies buzzed in the window panes. 457 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 1: So he explored. The room facing his own was undistinguished 458 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 1: except for an old print of Bury Saint Edmund's. The 459 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: two next to him on his side of the passage 460 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: were gay and clean, with one window apiece, whereas his 461 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: had two remained. In the southwest room opposite to the last, 462 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: which he had entered. This was locked, but Thompson was 463 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 1: in a mood of quite indefensible curiosity, and feeling confident 464 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 1: that there could be no damaging secrets in a place 465 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: so easily got at, he proceeded to fetch the key 466 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 1: of his own room, and when that did not answer, 467 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: to collect the keys of the other three. It sounds 468 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 1: like he's doing a lot of work to get in there. 469 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 1: To me, he really wants to see what's in that room. 470 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: One of them fitted, and he opened the door. The 471 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: room had two windows looking south and west, so it 472 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: was as bright and the sun as hot upon it 473 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 1: as could be. Here there was no carpet, but bare boards, 474 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: no pictures, no washing stand, only a bed in the 475 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 1: farther corner, an iron bed with mattress and bolster, covered 476 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: with a bluish check counterpane. This featureless room, as you 477 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 1: can well imagine, And yet there was something that made 478 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 1: Thompson close the door very quickly and yet quietly behind him, 479 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: and lean against the window sill in the passage, actually 480 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 1: quivering all over. It was this that under the counterpane 481 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: someone lay, and not only lay, but stirred that it 482 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: was some one and not something was certain because the 483 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,920 Speaker 1: shape of the head was unmistakable on the bolster, and 484 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 1: yet it was all covered. And no one lies with 485 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: covered head but a dead person. And this was not dead, 486 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 1: not truly dead for it heaved and shivered. Who I know? Counterpain? 487 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: By the ways a bedspread? So he saw something laying 488 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 1: covered under a bedspread on the bed. Do you guys 489 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: not have a counter pain? Or we know what a 490 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: counterpain was? Sure, we got counterpains in all of our 491 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: beds I had. Well, we do too, but we don't 492 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: call him counterpains because we're not nineteenth century briads. Weird. 493 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: What do you call him? Um? Bedspreads, blankets, beds, bedspread? Yeah, bedspread? Interesting, 494 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 1: you've never heard bedspread? Or you don't call him bed spreads. 495 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 1: I call him counterpains. Yeah, but bedspreads a lot, a 496 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 1: lot fun? Or to stay because it rhymes, because that's right? 497 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 1: Was that counterpaint? Do you want me to start ahead? 498 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: Where'd you leave off? I left off at? Shivered? Heaved 499 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: and shivered. This dead thing under the counterpane. Okay. If 500 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 1: he had seen these things in dusk or by the 501 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: light of a flickering candle, Thompson could have comforted himself 502 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 1: and talked of fancy on this bright day, that was impossible. 503 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 1: What was to be done? First, locked the door at 504 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 1: all costs. Very gingerly, he approached it, and, bending down, listened, 505 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 1: holding his breath. Perhaps there might be a sound of 506 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 1: heavy breathing in a prosaic explanation. There was absolute silence. 507 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,320 Speaker 1: But as with a rather tremulous hand, he put the 508 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: key into the hole and turned it. It rattled, and 509 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: on the instant a stumbling, patting tread was heard coming 510 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 1: towards door. Thompson fled like a rabbit to his room 511 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 1: and locked himself in futile enough he knew it was 512 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 1: would doors and locks be any obstacle to what he suspected? 513 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 1: But it was all he could think of at the moment, 514 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: And in fact nothing happened. Only there was a time 515 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 1: of acute suspense, followed by a misery of doubt as 516 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 1: to what to do. The impulse, of course, was to 517 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,440 Speaker 1: slip away as soon as possible from a house which 518 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: contained such an inmate. But only the day before he 519 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,360 Speaker 1: had said he should be staying for at least a 520 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 1: week more, And how if he changed his plans could 521 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,960 Speaker 1: he avoid the suspicion of having pried into places where 522 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 1: he certainly had no business. Moreover, either the bets is 523 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 1: knew all about the inmate and yet did not leave 524 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,719 Speaker 1: the house, or knew nothing, which equally meant that there 525 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 1: was nothing to be afraid of, or knew just enough 526 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,120 Speaker 1: to make them shut up the room, but not enough 527 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 1: to weigh on their spirits. In any of these cases, 528 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 1: it seemed that not much was to be feared, and certainly, 529 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: so far as he had no sort of ugly experience, 530 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: the whole the line of least resistance was to stay. 531 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 1: You know, all this guy had to do is go 532 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: downstairs and say, you know what, change of plans, I'm 533 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:17,680 Speaker 1: gonna be moving on, great house? So long? Three yeah, 534 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 1: three stars, or maybe two now yeah. Or he could 535 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 1: have just run right out of the place and down 536 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,120 Speaker 1: to the sea and swam away. It's a good point too, 537 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: you want to keep going? Or shall I pick up? 538 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: I think it's your turn, right. Well, he stayed out 539 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 1: as weak because he was so dumb he couldn't think 540 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:42,680 Speaker 1: of a good excuse to leave. Nothing took him past 541 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,200 Speaker 1: that door, and often he would pause in a quiet 542 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,480 Speaker 1: hour of the day or night in the passage, and listen, 543 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 1: and listen, no sound whatsoever issued from that direction. You 544 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 1: might have thought that Thompson would have made some attempt 545 00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 1: at ferreting out stories connected with the end, hardly perhaps 546 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,360 Speaker 1: from bets, but from the parson of the parish, or 547 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 1: old people in the village, or the stew eaters at 548 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 1: the bar. But no. The reticence which commonly falls on 549 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:15,200 Speaker 1: people who have strange experiences and believe in them, was 550 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 1: upon him. Nevertheless, as the end of his day drew near, 551 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 1: his yearning after some kind of explanation grew more and 552 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,000 Speaker 1: more acute. On his solitary walks, he persisted in planning 553 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,760 Speaker 1: out some way the least obtrusive of getting another daylight 554 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,000 Speaker 1: glimpse into that room, and eventually arrived at this scheme. 555 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,280 Speaker 1: He would leave by an afternoon train about four o'clock, 556 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 1: when his fly was waiting and his luggage on it, 557 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,320 Speaker 1: he would make one lass expedition upstairs to look around 558 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,880 Speaker 1: his own room and see if anything was left unpacked, 559 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,600 Speaker 1: and then, with that key which he had contrived to oil, 560 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,239 Speaker 1: as if that made any difference, the door should once 561 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:58,160 Speaker 1: more be opened for a moment and shut so it 562 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 1: worked out, the bill was paid. The consequent small talk 563 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,440 Speaker 1: gone through while the fly was loaded. And it flies 564 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 1: like an uber is that right, basically? Or a lift 565 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:17,799 Speaker 1: or a black taxi, all driven by legal employees, regardless 566 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,800 Speaker 1: of how you feel about that, Yes, well compensated legal employees. 567 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,800 Speaker 1: Pleasant part of the country, been very comfortable thanks to 568 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,240 Speaker 1: you and miss Betts. Hope to come back soon sometime 569 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,440 Speaker 1: on one side. On the other, very glad you found satisfaction, sir, 570 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,400 Speaker 1: done our best, always glad to have your good word, 571 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,359 Speaker 1: very much favored. We've been with the weather to be sure. 572 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,799 Speaker 1: This accents over the maybe a little irish and there. 573 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what happened. I think you just slipped 574 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: into oscar wild. Then I'll just take a look upstairs 575 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,840 Speaker 1: in case I've left a book or something out. No, 576 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,560 Speaker 1: don't trouble, I'll be back in a minute. And as 577 00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 1: noiselessly as possible, he stole to the door and opened it. 578 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,360 Speaker 1: The shattering of the illusion, he almost laughed out loud. 579 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:09,200 Speaker 1: The l o l nearly propped, or you might say, 580 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,680 Speaker 1: sitting on the edge of the bed, was nothing in 581 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 1: the round world but a scarecrow, a scarecrow out of 582 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,719 Speaker 1: the garden, of course, dumped into the deserted room. Yes, 583 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:24,800 Speaker 1: but here amusements ceased? Has scarecrows bare bony feet? Do 584 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:29,240 Speaker 1: their heads lull onto their shoulders? Have they iron collars 585 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,960 Speaker 1: and links of chain about their necks? Can they get 586 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:35,080 Speaker 1: up and move? If never? So stiffly across the floor 587 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 1: with wagging head and arms close at their sides, and 588 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 1: shiver all right, bring us home. The answer to that 589 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,320 Speaker 1: is no, by the way, scared, No, can't do that. 590 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,360 Speaker 1: Be a haunted scarecrow. But still you don't want to 591 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:56,920 Speaker 1: mess with one of those either. The slam of the 592 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,520 Speaker 1: door the dash to the stairhead to leap downstairs were 593 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,680 Speaker 1: followed by a faint awaking Thompson saw Bets standing over 594 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,600 Speaker 1: him with the brandy bottle in a very reproachful face. 595 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,359 Speaker 1: You shouldn't have, Dune shout, really you shouldn't. It ain't 596 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,600 Speaker 1: a kind of white to act by persons has done 597 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,759 Speaker 1: the best they could for you. Thompson heard words of 598 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,040 Speaker 1: this kind, but what he said in reply he did 599 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,560 Speaker 1: not know. Mr Betts, and perhaps even more Mrs Betts 600 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,279 Speaker 1: found it hard to accept his apologies and his assurances 601 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,600 Speaker 1: that he would say no word that could damage the 602 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:33,200 Speaker 1: good name of the house. However, they were accepted. Since 603 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,760 Speaker 1: the train could not now be caught, it was arranged 604 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,719 Speaker 1: that Thompson should be driven to the town to sleep there, 605 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:43,279 Speaker 1: which personally I find a highly sensible plan. Should have 606 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:47,080 Speaker 1: done it a week ago. That's right before he went. 607 00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 1: The bets has told him what little they knew. They 608 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,120 Speaker 1: say he was a landlord here a long time back 609 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,879 Speaker 1: and was in with the highwaymen that had their beat 610 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,839 Speaker 1: around the east. That's how he came by his end. 611 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,960 Speaker 1: Hunging chain means, they say, up where you see that 612 00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:06,399 Speaker 1: stone where the gallows stood in. Yes, the fishermen made 613 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,120 Speaker 1: away with that, I believe because they see it out 614 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,600 Speaker 1: at seat and it keep the fish off according to 615 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,959 Speaker 1: their idea. Yes, we add the account from the people 616 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,840 Speaker 1: that add the house before we come. You keep that 617 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,560 Speaker 1: room shut up, they says. But don't move the bed 618 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,920 Speaker 1: out and you'll find there won't be no trouble, and 619 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,120 Speaker 1: no more there has been, not once. He haven't come 620 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,000 Speaker 1: out into the house though what he may do now, 621 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:33,560 Speaker 1: there ain't no saying. Anyway, you're the first I know 622 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,120 Speaker 1: on that's seen him since we've been here. I never 623 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,279 Speaker 1: set eyes on him myself, nor don't want. And ever 624 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,960 Speaker 1: since we made the servants rooms in the stapling, we 625 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,560 Speaker 1: ain't add no difficulty that way. Only I do hope, sir, 626 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,960 Speaker 1: and you'll keep a close tongue considering our house. Do 627 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:54,799 Speaker 1: get talked about with more to this effect, And mind 628 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,719 Speaker 1: that yelp review right, that's right, that's Funny's saying, basically 629 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,799 Speaker 1: pretty much, I think you should take his home, since 630 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:06,920 Speaker 1: it's your story. The promise of silence was kept for 631 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,000 Speaker 1: many years. The occasion of my hearing the story at 632 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,879 Speaker 1: last was this that when Mr Thompson came to stay 633 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,759 Speaker 1: with my father, it fell to me to show him 634 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,400 Speaker 1: to his room, and instead of letting me open the 635 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,960 Speaker 1: door for him, he stepped forward and threw it open himself, 636 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,680 Speaker 1: and then for some moments stood in the doorway, holding 637 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,759 Speaker 1: up his candle and looking narrowly into the interior. Then 638 00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:34,880 Speaker 1: he seemed to recollect himself and said, I beg your pardon. 639 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,600 Speaker 1: Very absurd, but I can't out doing that for a 640 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:44,400 Speaker 1: particular reason. But that reason was I heard some days afterwards, 641 00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:53,840 Speaker 1: and you have heard now, m beautiful. So this guy's 642 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:55,960 Speaker 1: scarred for life. He just can't walk into a room anymore. 643 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,600 Speaker 1: Like a normal person. Yeah, of course not. He's seemed 644 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:02,719 Speaker 1: like a long dead former owner of a house he 645 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,000 Speaker 1: was staying and who's now chained by the neck to 646 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:09,040 Speaker 1: a bed and still I guess, moving around hiding under bedspreads. 647 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,360 Speaker 1: And they bought it knowing this right, because they were like, 648 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,960 Speaker 1: don't worry about it, it's not a problem, basically. Yeah, 649 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,200 Speaker 1: that's what they were saying, is that the former owners said, 650 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,000 Speaker 1: you know, as long as you keep the room shut 651 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,160 Speaker 1: and don't move the bed, you won't have any trouble 652 00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,560 Speaker 1: from the undead former owner who was hung for being 653 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:27,279 Speaker 1: a highway robber. And for God's sakes, don't put a 654 00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 1: couple of dead bolt locks on this thing or a 655 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,880 Speaker 1: pad lock. Yeah, just a little tiny key that anybody 656 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,719 Speaker 1: can come by. I love the story stuff. Yeah. And 657 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,480 Speaker 1: if you liked either of these stories but you hated 658 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,120 Speaker 1: our accents or whatever, go read them yourself. They're both online, 659 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,000 Speaker 1: both our public domain. There's Beyond the Door by Philip K. 660 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:50,200 Speaker 1: Dick and Rats by M. R. James and um, both 661 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,919 Speaker 1: of them have a bunch of great little stories, don't 662 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,960 Speaker 1: they chuck. Yeah, And in fact, there are far superior 663 00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,680 Speaker 1: readings on YouTube of these as well. Oh you want 664 00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,480 Speaker 1: to check goes out? Yeah? Yeah, if they don't have 665 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:07,800 Speaker 1: our accents though, I'll tell you that. Nope, they're stew free. Well, everybody, 666 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,920 Speaker 1: Hopefully the pants have been scared back onto you so 667 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,680 Speaker 1: you're decent when trigger treaters come to your house. If 668 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,319 Speaker 1: we're even doing that this year, who knows. But regardless 669 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,160 Speaker 1: of how Halloween goes, have a safe and happy and 670 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:26,320 Speaker 1: super great frightful Halloween, right, Chuck, That's right, Happy Halloween. Everybody. 671 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,480 Speaker 1: Stuff You Should Know is a production of iHeart Radio's 672 00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,040 Speaker 1: How Stuff Works. For more podcasts for my heart Radio, 673 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,759 Speaker 1: visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you 674 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:47,960 Speaker 1: listen to your favorite shows.