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Speaker 1: Thirteen days of Halloween is from Grimm and mild blumhouse

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Speaker 1: and I heeart. Three D audio headphones recommended. Listener discretion advised.

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Speaker 1: M welcome to DOTTY's. Grab a seat anywhere. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna want coffee. Yes, to to please. I'll put

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Speaker 1: on a pot. It seems Nice. M Hm HMM. What?

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Speaker 1: We're not going to order anything here. If you're hungry,

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Speaker 1: we can find food elsewhere. That's fine. Take a look

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Speaker 1: at the Cook Oh, that's Gus. No matter what our

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Speaker 1: waitress says, don't trust his cooking. Before he came here

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Speaker 1: he was a well renowned chef. People came from all

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Speaker 1: over to eat his food. He had quite the following,

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Speaker 1: a series of cookbooks, interviews with all the major papers,

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Speaker 1: his own line of Pasta sauces. He was well on

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Speaker 1: his way to being a very wealthy chef. What happened? Well,

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Speaker 1: he moved into a very large house in a very

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Speaker 1: fancy neighborhood. His neighbors loved him. He threw lavish parties,

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Speaker 1: large barbecues, elaborate brunches. You know. His Christmas parties were legendary,

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Speaker 1: so I've heard, and come Halloween there was always a

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Speaker 1: flood of costume children outside of his door. You See,

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Speaker 1: he made his own confections, all kinds, but a toddry

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Speaker 1: scandal at one of his restaurants called something of a

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Speaker 1: fall from grace and he ended up having to shutter

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Speaker 1: his doors. After that, it was a domino effect. His

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Speaker 1: cookbooks quit selling, he lost his agent, he became a

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Speaker 1: pariah and with his good fortune went his mind. He

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Speaker 1: He quit throwing parties, no more brunches, barbecues. His house

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Speaker 1: went dark, except for Halloween. For Halloween he decorated lavishly.

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Speaker 1: The neighborhood children were overjoyed once more. They lined up

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Speaker 1: to receive his famous candies, and one by one they

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Speaker 1: grew violently ill. By midnight, dozens of children in the ER,

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Speaker 1: their mouths shredded by the razor blade he'd placed in

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Speaker 1: the candy. When the authorities went to get him, he

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Speaker 1: was gone, on the run the road. Let him here.

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Speaker 1: Does everyone know this? They do. Why don't they arrest him?

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Speaker 1: The chief loves his CORNED BEEF HASH H my guy

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Speaker 1: said he is an excellent chef. Hello mother, hello, here's

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Speaker 1: your coffee. WHO's your friend? Someone I picked up on

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Speaker 1: the beach? You're not from around here. You have something

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Speaker 1: and if I s laden, I know that. Look, it's okay.

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Speaker 1: Take a moment to glance over the menu first, then

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Speaker 1: we'll talk. Pay No attention to us over there at

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Speaker 1: the girl. He hates being here, we all do. But

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Speaker 1: don't worry, the food is fine, not like those fancy

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Speaker 1: dinner chains, but it's good, except for the desserts. Please

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Speaker 1: don't order Pie. Okay, for the love of all that's

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Speaker 1: been a long shift. He really long shift. My aunt

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Speaker 1: was a waitress once, started out in a little place

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Speaker 1: just like this one. She also made pies. For long

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Speaker 1: everyone wanted them. Within a year she quit and opened

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Speaker 1: her own shop. Orders came in from everywhere. Sooner pies

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Speaker 1: were in stores and restaurants across the country. Yet she

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Speaker 1: up some, but she insisted on saving every dollar, even

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Speaker 1: her whole life anyway. Just don't order the Pie. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll touch you about pie. Now about your problem. Well,

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Speaker 1: of course I know, honey. That secret of yours is

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Speaker 1: juicier than dust as burgers. Well, most things are, but

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Speaker 1: I digress. If you don't confess, you can't leave, not

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Speaker 1: the diner but dire brook. Everyone else passes right through.

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Speaker 1: No one stays here, not willingly, especially not after sunset.

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Speaker 1: Oh sure, you might think you're just visiting some old

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Speaker 1: time picture postcard New England fishing town, pretty if you

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Speaker 1: like gray skies and salty air. It's like a lot

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Speaker 1: And that's how it happens. Once the sun sets, fog

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Speaker 1: course I tried to leave. I tried walking, driving, hitchhiking.

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Speaker 1: I stopped in for lunch, sat in that booth right

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Speaker 1: can't say why. Maybe because her stormy gray hair and

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Speaker 1: started to slide out of the booth when she said

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Speaker 1: your aunt made the best pies. Then she leaned forward

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Speaker 1: We're all hiding something that you I can see it

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Speaker 1: going to talk, are you fine? Then maybe if I

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Speaker 1: go first. My aunt and I went hiking. Whenever she

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Speaker 1: or salads or stews. She'd point out which mushrooms, leaves

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Speaker 1: I dial line win one. Paramedics didn't arrive in time.

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Speaker 1: I was very cooperative. Told them she had a heart condition.

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Speaker 1: I also told them she spent the morning foraging for

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Speaker 1: water him luck looks like something of Flora's uses. insteadly, though,

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Speaker 1: she had made. As our only family, I inherited everything.

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Speaker 1: Then I stopped here. The woman with the gray hair said,

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Speaker 1: I died. Hindsight right. Okay, I've got to tell you something.

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Speaker 1: I have this theory. I think hell has been on

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Speaker 1: earth all this time, hiding in plain sight, and it'll

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Speaker 1: and Mer say he's got a flat about a mile

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Speaker 1: When I found my aunt, I sat on the floor

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Speaker 1: for a while before calling there I confessed, sort of,

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Speaker 1: not that I believed that woman, but muttering it couldn't hurt.

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Speaker 1: And I tried calling for a roadside assistance and myself

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Speaker 1: Next I thought I might make it when I saw

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Speaker 1: the sign that read leaving dire rock, see you soon.

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Speaker 1: That's what I noticed. What lady on the sign? Nothing,

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Speaker 1: Like the other times, I blocked out and woke up

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Speaker 1: the fog, I know. I broke down and told the truth.

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Speaker 1: But my confession had come too late. Sun had already said.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm here for who knows how long years, the

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Speaker 1: for Pie her pies day in and day out. Hell

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Speaker 1: good for the soul. It's just the coffee for us.

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Speaker 1: a hell of a cook. He scorn me. Fashion is

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Speaker 1: here's your check. Have a great day now, and just

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Speaker 1: says confess. Well, she'll just have to settle for money,

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Speaker 1: won't she? No, let's drink our coffee as we walk.

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Speaker 1: It will warm your bones faster that way. Are we

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Speaker 1: well to take the monks? They always make their way back.

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Speaker 1: Come on, you too, take care now, father blessed. Everything

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Speaker 1: returns to him. And Look, the wind off the water

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Speaker 1: has blown the morning fog away. The sunlight is so

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Speaker 1: pale at this time of year, like it barely has

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Speaker 1: to see and the doctor to visit. Yes, excellent, onward, upward. Yeah, tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: on thirteen days of Halloween, the church, the net stay

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Speaker 1: full of fish, of crowd and Scroop, not simply because

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Speaker 1: the offerings I leave to dry here, because of the

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Speaker 1: good work I am pledged to give. Every cycle, every

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Speaker 1: new moon, I write our stories here on the stones,

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Speaker 1: just as generations of pastors have before. We have smoothed

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Speaker 1: these walls with whale fat and warm blood were clean

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Speaker 1: moves here beneath the foundation of this church. We've always

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Speaker 1: been here, in the space between the people and the deep.

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Speaker 1: Thirteen days of Halloween. The Diner, starring Kathy Na, Jimmy,

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Speaker 1: Bethany and and and Adrian Epley, written by Michelle Mudo

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Speaker 1: with additional material by Nicholas Takowski. Sound Design and mixing

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Speaker 1: by Josh Thine, engineering by violent Ferton, DUBWAY STUDIOS NEW YORK.

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Speaker 1: Casting by Jessica Losa. Created by Matt Frederick and Alex Williams,

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Speaker 1: with executive producer Aaron Manky. A production of I heart radio,

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Speaker 1: grim and mild and BLUMHOUSE television.