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Speaker 1: Bridgewater is a production of I Heart Radio three D

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Speaker 1: audio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankey for full exposure.

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Speaker 1: Listen with headphones. Listener discretion advised. How did you? I'll

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Speaker 1: explain everything, but you need to come with me. This

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Speaker 1: part of the swamp isn't protected. Why don't you put

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Speaker 1: down that knife first? Well, y, Thomas, you're looking surprisingly

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Speaker 1: well and this wasn't for you? Was for that? Are

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Speaker 1: we going to a gathering meeting? Why would you think that?

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Speaker 1: I don't know the symbol you carved those in the

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Speaker 1: trees when you want to meet, don't you? That's one

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Speaker 1: purpose for them, But that's not the primary one. So

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Speaker 1: what is the primary one? Come on, like, we'll talk

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Speaker 1: as we go. Okay, Hey, how did you know Thomas's name?

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Speaker 1: I know who all of you are, Thomas, especially White,

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Speaker 1: the Houdini active pooled there. I'm not sure if you

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Speaker 1: are impressed or annoyed? Can't I be both? Aren't you

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Speaker 1: going to ask me who I am? We know who

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Speaker 1: you are. You're gathering leader from Virginia, right, I guess

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Speaker 1: we all have reputations preceding us. Then I assume you

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Speaker 1: know why I'm here? Well, why don't you tell us?

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Speaker 1: All right, here we go? Ah, where are you taking us?

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Speaker 1: That's not so much about the destination as it is

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Speaker 1: about getting on a bus. What I haven't had a

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Speaker 1: chance to cover the whole swamp yet, and the bus

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Speaker 1: stop was closer than the areas I have secured. The

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Speaker 1: bus will be safe. Iron rank the favor of how

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Speaker 1: by iron busses are steel, which is an iron alloy.

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Speaker 1: The next bus should be here in three minutes. We

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Speaker 1: can talk freely on it. What do you mean you

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Speaker 1: haven't covered the whole swamp yet. The room I carved

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Speaker 1: it wasn't for community cation. It was for protection. That's

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Speaker 1: why that the bigfoot creature vanished. Can't come past the

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Speaker 1: boundaries of the rooms. Now. I can keep it out

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Speaker 1: of areas, but I can't keep it in, So be

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Speaker 1: careful if you choose to come back. So you're saying

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Speaker 1: it's not gone for good, No, just banished to the

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Speaker 1: other side for now. That's why I'm here. A lot

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Speaker 1: of things are not where they should be. Yeah, we've

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Speaker 1: we've figured that out on our own. Does that also

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Speaker 1: mean you figured out what's causing it? Well? Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: know we know that something is off balance. Do you

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Speaker 1: think things are not just off balance, Jeremy, they are

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Speaker 1: broken because of you. Me. What did I do? I

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Speaker 1: was trapped for forty years exactly. You should never have

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Speaker 1: come back out. What do you mean he shouldn't have

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Speaker 1: come back. Thomas was in there for a reason and

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Speaker 1: he should have stayed there. How dare you say that? Hey, hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: don't be mad at me. I'm just a messenger. And

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Speaker 1: who exactly is the source of this message the other side?

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Speaker 1: Oh cool, so you've got like a buddy over there

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Speaker 1: or something. I'm not trying to come here and mess

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Speaker 1: up your life, Jeremy, know you're just coming to murder

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Speaker 1: my father. Again. That wasn't me, That wasn't any member

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Speaker 1: it was an offshoot. Yeah where we've heard that all before. Then.

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Speaker 1: You know I'm right. You have no reason to take

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Speaker 1: your anger out on me, given that I'm the only

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Speaker 1: one here who was actually the victim of an attempted murder.

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Speaker 1: I think I could be angry at whoever I want.

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Speaker 1: That's fair, And I know this doesn't mean anything to you.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't even alive when you were pushed into the liminal,

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Speaker 1: But I am sorry for what happened to you. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't right not to mention it didn't even work. The

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Speaker 1: liminal that's what we call it. Where Thomas was and

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Speaker 1: your solution is just a thrown back again. Do you

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Speaker 1: know exactly what you're dealing with here? We have some idea,

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Speaker 1: then you know who's on the other side, what that

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Speaker 1: theories but not enough solid proof to connect all the dots. Well,

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Speaker 1: we've been thinking maybe it's the fae realm okay, and

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Speaker 1: considering the way you reacted to my iron assumption, Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: so you're not totally clueless. So that is what's doing this.

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Speaker 1: The fake Court, the hidden people, the Secret Commonwealth, whatever

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Speaker 1: you want to call it. Non human beings who reign

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Speaker 1: over a kingdom that lays just beyond a liminal space,

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Speaker 1: who could destroy all of us with ease if they

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Speaker 1: been trying at least here. They made a deal centuries ago.

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Speaker 1: What do you We don't bother them, They don't bother us.

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Speaker 1: doorway here, Virginia, Muda Matlock, the Dragon's triangle places where

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Speaker 1: hence the liminal where you were trapped with someone else.

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Speaker 1: one that has to be new every forty years. That's

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Speaker 1: my understanding of how Bridgewater works. And he wasn't willing,

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Speaker 1: so things have been hinky here for a while. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's not a deal breaker for the fay realm, the

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Speaker 1: non negotiable. It keeps things nice and closed. So without me,

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Speaker 1: the gates are wide open for anyone to waltz into

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Speaker 1: the kingdom or out of it. Okay, so how do

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Speaker 1: we close it? We follow the terms of the deal.

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Speaker 1: Even if I went back in Alden wouldn't be able

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Speaker 1: I take it Alden as the other person in there. No,

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't be able to come out either. Okay, well

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Speaker 1: that's a moot point. Because you are not going back

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Speaker 1: Oh whoa, We do not know that. You think you

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Speaker 1: That's not your storybook, sasquash Jeremy. We've got similar creatures

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Speaker 1: that's Arkansas, right, and it kills livestock. Right then, maybe

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Speaker 1: what we just saw is the thing that killed the cows.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly my point. These monsters are not going to

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Speaker 1: need to fix this. Doesn't have to be me, though, right,

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Speaker 1: Whatever deal exists doesn't stipulate a specific person. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: have to be you. But to be really honest, I

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Speaker 1: don't know who else would willingly go in there. Why

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Speaker 1: why would we trust her on this? Why would we

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Speaker 1: the gathering hasn't exactly been good to I have no

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Speaker 1: reason to lie to you. Even if you are telling

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Speaker 1: the truth, that doesn't mean that there's not something else

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Speaker 1: we can do. Okay, you got rid of that beast,

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Speaker 1: the howler thing, whatever, just very easily. You just teach

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Speaker 1: of this area. It doesn't work like that. I told

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Speaker 1: you I can keep things out by creating a protective boundary,

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Speaker 1: but I can't keep anything in. They'd be free to

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Speaker 1: them down. The monsters coming from the other side are

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Speaker 1: not your biggest problem. Let's say they are a pretty

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Speaker 1: urgent concern. If the terms of the deal aren't honored,

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Speaker 1: the phay realm won't stick to its side of the

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Speaker 1: veil anyone. You're gonna send more monsters through. What does

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Speaker 1: that mean they won't have to The boundary will collapse,

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Speaker 1: the two worlds bleeding into one another, causing problems we

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Speaker 1: can't even imagine. The deal must be honored. It sounds

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Speaker 1: like we we need to renegotiate this deal. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you really comprehend what we're dealing with here, Jeremy.

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Speaker 1: This is old magic. It's not something that that can

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Speaker 1: be altered or undone. It's like gravity. We have to

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Speaker 1: defy gravit, but we always have to come back down always.

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Speaker 1: And do you want to chime in here? Yeah, Dad,

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Speaker 1: I think she's right. We may not have a choice.

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Speaker 1: What is happening here? We we we we met her

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Speaker 1: give up, but thank you. No, Jeremy's right, we don't

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Speaker 1: have any reason to trust you. Your predecessor was slippery

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Speaker 1: lot longer. So until you have proof of what you're saying,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not even sure what that proof would look like,

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Speaker 1: we're going to keep doing what we've been doing and

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Speaker 1: figure things out the old fashioned way, grasping for straws

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Speaker 1: in the darkness. Investigate. You know what, Fine, I can't

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Speaker 1: how disastrous that is, so go ahead, do your own investigating,

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Speaker 1: but do it quickly, and when you finally figure out

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Speaker 1: that I'm telling the truth, come and find me. All right, Okay,

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Speaker 1: so have you moved into Celeste house to huh, stepped

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Speaker 1: into her whole life. I'm not her permanent replacement. Besides,

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Speaker 1: staying in Freetown Forest. That's safe, I'm protected, all right. Listen,

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Speaker 1: but thanks, Remember, don't take too long. Hey, it's Jeremy,

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Speaker 1: Jeremy Bradshaw, the cool Professor. Hi. I know it's only

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Speaker 1: some point, but that's not why call. I'm calling because, um,

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Speaker 1: that was an interesting text to get yesterday. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, after nearly getting ripped apart by a sasquat,

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Speaker 1: I think so. Yeah. But I've decided to call it

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Speaker 1: a hawk a mock howler because it sounds more academic.

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Speaker 1: I am really not looking forward to lecturing today, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what to do, because apparently life doesn't

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Speaker 1: stop just because evil fairies are trying to kill your dad.

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Speaker 1: It feels like a reason to take a sick day, though, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: I think if I take any more of those, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to lose the health insurance that helps me. After

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Speaker 1: these monster attacks. I don't know, what do you want

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Speaker 1: topics for today? This is so fucked Eli Quinn has

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Speaker 1: always live. Well, I don't know what else I'm supposed

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Speaker 1: moving the moment I graduate. Okay, don't joke about that.

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Speaker 1: I'm not joking. It's one thing to grow up hearing

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Speaker 1: I just don't want to worry them. I know, not

421
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: that I want to worry you. No, I know, it's okay, Like,

422
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: you don't have to explain. And after all, we don't

423
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: really know each other, do we. With Nana, you have

424
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: this whole complicated history, and you knew my mom existed,

425
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: you didn't know to expect me. And with Jeremy, I

426
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: don't know how to talk to Jeremy. He's still a

427
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: little boy in my mind. So sometimes when I look

428
00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: at him now, I have to remind myself that he's

429
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: the same person, not just some man i've met. But

430
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: there's other times or I feel like I'm arguing with

431
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: him like I would have if I'd been around when

432
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: he was growing up. Well, for what it's worth, I

433
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: think Jeremy does need you. You're not a fifth wheel.

434
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: It's kind of you to say. I mean it. Look,

435
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 1: I may not know Jeremy well, but I've gotten no

436
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: Hippen a bit, and I think he might be the

437
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: person who knows Jeremy best, isn't he Jeremy's t a

438
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,479
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. They've been working together for a few years,

439
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: and Vippin called him Professor Bradshaw until like, I don't

440
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: know a week ago, but I think Hippin is the

441
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: closest thing that Jeremy has to a best friend. Really,

442
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: that's what I mean. He's not. I just don't know

443
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: how full his life is, or how full it was

444
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: before all of this happened. Vippin said that Jeremy gave

445
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: him a whole speech about not turning out like him,

446
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: telling Hippen to make sure he had a life outside

447
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,479
Speaker 1: of work and all that. I'm not sure that this

448
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: makes me feel better or worse. Yeah. Sorry, I'm not

449
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: exactly the best at tep talks. You know what, I

450
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: think you're doing just fine. Hello, Sophie, it's Jeremy Bradshaw.

451
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: I know it's been forever Jeremy. Good lord. I didn't

452
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: think i'd ever hear from you again. Oh come on, well,

453
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I know I'm I'm terrible at keeping in touch.

454
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: It goes both ways. I imagine you've been quite busy.

455
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: You're back in the bridgual To triangle, right, Yeah, I've

456
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: been back for a while. Must have your hands full

457
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: with all sorts of speaks, no less than I'm sure

458
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: you have in Plucky you're still there. I'm actually back

459
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: at Oxford, if you believe it. What are you going

460
00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: for another degree? Handing them out? In fact, I'm a

461
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: professor like you. Oh wow, an Oxford professor. Wow. Okay, well,

462
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: I guess you've reached the apex for anyone in our discipline. Congrats.

463
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 1: I don't get me wrong. I'm still hoping to someday

464
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: find fame and fortune as the first person to provide

465
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: definitive proof of the paranormal. But twelve years in the

466
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: most haunted village in Britain and I didn't see a

467
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: single ghost. Sorry, no, you're not. You always knew none

468
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: of it was real. What am I hearing? Has Sophie

469
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: Burton become a skeptic? I'm just getting dangerously close. Well,

470
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: I guess time does funny things to all of us.

471
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: Don't tell me that you're no. No, but I would

472
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: say that I am. I am working on keeping an

473
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: open mind. I am impressed. Is that why you're calling

474
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: me up out of thee You need me to give

475
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: you my old ghosts? A real shpille? Not exactly. I've

476
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: actually been trying to expand my expertise, hence the open mind,

477
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: and I'm working on something that's a bit outside of

478
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: my comfort zone. I'm trying to write a lecture that

479
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: covers the Fay realm. And I realized that I don't

480
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: actually really know much beyond the basics because it's never

481
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: really been much of a thing and in Bridgewater, so

482
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: I haven't even bothered before you want to now just curiosity? Well,

483
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: you certainly called the right person. Were choker block for

484
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: the famous? Yeah, that's what I was hoping. What exactly

485
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: do you want to know? It's fairly expensive. Well, that's

486
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: why I wanted to talk to an expert directly instead

487
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: of just diving into my books. Is there a particular

488
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: region or myth origin you're looking at? I guess the

489
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: biggest question is friend or foe. Yeah. So I feel

490
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: like the popular cultural representation is fairly positive overall, or

491
00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: Tinkerbell and the like. But I know there's a lot

492
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: of darker versions of fay Realm. More so, I'd love

493
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: to know which side to come down on. Well, there's

494
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: really not one definitive answer to that question. For as

495
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: long as there have been fay Realm legends, there's been

496
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: good and bad. But there is a distinction. I mean,

497
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: there are different there are different groups, right, they can be.

498
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: In Scottish law, there's the Seely Court and Unseely Court.

499
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: Both are fai courts, so therefore dangerous. But the Seely

500
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: won't go out of their way to hurt humans, but

501
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: the Unselly Court will. They are related to a whole

502
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: manner of evil creatures over here, which is boggets, happy lovers,

503
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: creatures of the devil. Essentially, what do the Fay want, Well,

504
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 1: just general mischief, not the cute fun kind mind, more

505
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 1: of the beating and possessing variety you mentioned. The courts

506
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 1: are those physical courts. Some times there's a lot of

507
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: law around fairy lands. Sometimes they're called other worlds or underworld's,

508
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 1: even had fairy kingdom. And sometimes they are a physical place,

509
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 1: sometimes just a ritual or the very act of doing magic. Okay,

510
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: So if they are physical places, presumably human beings could

511
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: enter into one of these lands, and there aren't many

512
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: legends that explore that idea. Plenty of fiction and films,

513
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,439
Speaker 1: but original myth there's mostly the fake courts coming over

514
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: to the human realle. How about making deals with humans? Oh? Yes,

515
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: Fay contracts very tricky things. The story is you should

516
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: never accept a gift from a theory, especially food, never

517
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: get into debt with them, never make any promises, and

518
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 1: I don't even give them your name in the case

519
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: of creatures, so basically avoid them at our costs exactly. Okay.

520
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: So hypothetically, what if there is an existing contract, can

521
00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: you break it? Um? I have absolutely no idea. Are

522
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: you in law school? Now? Is your class on faery

523
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: contract law? I'm just trying to create a full picture. Well,

524
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I've given a few lectures on the famous

525
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: and there's so much to cover. It's honestly best to

526
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: keep things surface level. If I were you, okay, sure,

527
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: But let's say I was doing very contract law. What

528
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:27,320
Speaker 1: would I teach my students to never enter a contract

529
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:32,240
Speaker 1: with a fairy no matter what. But if they had,

530
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: they are going to let a contract be broken. The

531
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: only way I could see out of it would be

532
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:38,839
Speaker 1: if you had something on the fake court that could

533
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: neutralize it. In a lot of law, they hate being

534
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 1: in debt. If there was a mutual debt that could

535
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: be exploited, maybe the slate would be wiped clean. But

536
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,240
Speaker 1: more likely, you just have a very angry and violent

537
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:55,280
Speaker 1: spirit after you. Okay, is there a way to kill them? Jeremy?

538
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: What is this really about? If I figure it out,

539
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: I promise I will tell you. Jeremy, just please, whatever

540
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: you can tell me about ways to stop them or

541
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: even just ward them off. I really appreciate it. Just

542
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: just humor me here. It really depends on the type

543
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: you're dealing with. There's all sorts of things, turning your

544
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: clothes inside out. Avoiding fairy circles, of course, but circles

545
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: of all kinds can be problematic. A rooster's crow or

546
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 1: church bells have been said to scare them away. I

547
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: can send you a list of all the methods I'm

548
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 1: aware of, if you like, That would be amazing. Sophie,

549
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thanks, You've already been a huge home. Sure

550
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: you're bring me back if you find yourself in over

551
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 1: your head. That's why I called you in the first place.

552
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 1: Are you It sounds ridiculous? Are you okay? I don't know.

553
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: I am. I think I've got it all under control.

554
00:37:53,760 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: Of course, you've got it under control. I always do. Wow, fuck,

555
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: I know. Are you okay? My whole body is sore,

556
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 1: but I am alive. I cannot believe I turned down

557
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 1: your offer to join you. Next time I go monster hunting,

558
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: I'll insist. I appreciate that. Hey, thanks for meeting me here.

559
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: By the way, I was going to suggest hawk amoks

560
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: But yeah. Well, weirdly, Freetown Forest feels safer at the moment,

561
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: even if Peyton is hiding around here somewhere I'm sorry

562
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: again for not being able to help with her. No, No,

563
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: it was fine. It was a long shot. I just

564
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: wish I could know if I could trust her. Thanks

565
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: are really fucked up. Things are certainly fucked up here.

566
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: There's just a lot at stake for me. I don't

567
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: even know how to I don't know how to protect

568
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: myself from a sasquatch. Jeremy, it sounds like it was

569
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: pretty terrifying. Yeah, and if Peyton hadn't shown up, I

570
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: probably would be dead. My dad was right. I'm an academic.

571
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: I'm not the person who fights monsters. Here. Let me

572
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: show you something. I'm not poisonous. I promise it'll be

573
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: easier if I just guide your hand. Trust me. Okay,

574
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 1: so move your hand in a V like this and

575
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: then moved to center and bring it all the way down. Okay,

576
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 1: now you do it. M M okay, I know it

577
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: feels goofy. Let's try it all right, center down. And

578
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: that's supposed to do what exactly? Um? Yeah, well it's

579
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:55,320
Speaker 1: supposed to banish monsters or trap them or something. Honestly,

580
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 1: I haven't had the opportunity to try, but seeings and

581
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 1: keep running into them for real, all that will be

582
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: an experiment for next time. Report back to me. I'm

583
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 1: dying to know if it works. There was this other

584
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: legend trip or a while back. I met her at

585
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:18,359
Speaker 1: some conference or other their legend trip or conferences. You're

586
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: telling me you haven't been to anything like that. No, no, no,

587
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: of course I've been paranormal conventions in academic conferences. I

588
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 1: just haven't met a whole lot of monster hunters in

589
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: one place. Well maybe conference was putting a bit strongly,

590
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: But these communities are all tied in together, and there

591
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 1: are meet ups from time to time. As she picked

592
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: it up from some guy in Norway. So it's some

593
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: kind of old Norse room. Yea, so she said, it

594
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: translates to protection. I think, now maybe you know how

595
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: to fight monsters. Well, here's hoping that I never have

596
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: to use it. Come on, you're telling me there's not

597
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: even a little part of you that's die to see

598
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:11,800
Speaker 1: something else. It was genuinely, really frightening. I would not, oh, ship, yeah, okay,

599
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 1: maybe you're right, of course I am. I mean, after

600
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 1: all this time studying and teaching all of this stuff

601
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: for years, you actually get to witness it. I'd be

602
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: fucking jealous if it wasn't so cool. Yeah, well, you

603
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 1: keep hanging out in these forests and swamps and you

604
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 1: might see something yourself soon. Maybe I just need to

605
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: hang out with you more. Well, Ah, I guess it's

606
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: worth a shop. There's the spirit, you know. I was

607
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: expecting to see you, but not so soon. I don't

608
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,760
Speaker 1: think we really got to finish our conversation Asian earlier.

609
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,880
Speaker 1: And what conversation was that? The one about how I

610
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: broke everything. I seem to remember your son having quite

611
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 1: a lot to say about that subject. It's going to

612
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: get much worse very quickly, isn't it. Yes? I believe so.

613
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,720
Speaker 1: And you think I'm the only one who can fix him,

614
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:26,879
Speaker 1: not the only one, just the right one. What would

615
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: I have to do? This episode of Bridgewater was written

616
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 1: by Lauren Shippin and directed by Brendan Patrick Hughes Assistant

617
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 1: director Sarah Klein, Sound designed by Vincent the Johnny Rema, Okay, Ali,

618
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: Josh Thane, and Trevor Young, with music by Chad Lawson.

619
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: Starring Misha Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw, Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker,

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Speaker 1: Alan Tutick as Thomas Bradshaw, Karen Sony as Vipen Corona,

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Speaker 1: Sabra May as Olivia Hoskins, Cheryl Umania as Officer Bautista,

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00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: Will Wheaton as Captain Haddock, Tricia Helfer as the Legend Tripper,

623
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Speaker 1: Stephen Guarino as Dr Edwards Nandamisu Demba as Peyton Blake,

624
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Speaker 1: Hilary Burton Morgan as Shelley Hoskins, Nicki McCauley as Celeste

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00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: then Victoria Grace as Katie Franks, with additional voice acting

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Speaker 1: by Greta Gould, Shelby Young, Adam oh Byrne, Monty Markham,

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Speaker 1: Charlie Bergman and Tern Westbrook. Executive producers Aaron Manky, Misha Collins,

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Speaker 1: Thane and Trevor Young. Bridgewater was created by me Aaron

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