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Speaker 1: The Laundronots is a production of I Heart Radio. This

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Speaker 1: is what we remember and remember, this is what it

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Speaker 1: sounded like. What we couldn't hear, we made up. The

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Speaker 1: rest of it is true or sometimes machine sometimes machine don't.

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Speaker 1: That's just the wrong place. Are you attempting to apply,

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Speaker 1: young lady, that you've never heard of the Laundronots? Is

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Speaker 1: that what you're attempting to imply. I'm not attempting to

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Speaker 1: imply anything. I'm telling you I've never heard of that.

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Speaker 1: What about you, young man? Surely you've heard of the laundronouts.

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Speaker 1: You're at least nine six or six. You're a veritable

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Speaker 1: redwood And no, sir, I've never heard of the laundronauts.

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Speaker 1: Sweet mother or mushal, it's a talasa to in your travesty.

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Speaker 1: What do you giggle? Girl? I think you're just making

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Speaker 1: it up. You have the audacity to challenge the voracity

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Speaker 1: of my audacity, and your captain do you corroborate your

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Speaker 1: compatriots consternation? I make the think so, sir? Where are

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Speaker 1: your parents? They went to the liquor store to play

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Speaker 1: the scratchers? Ohice? Then we wait and when they return

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Speaker 1: they should be reprimanded within an inch of their lives

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Speaker 1: for their dereliction of parental duty in this matter. Surely

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Speaker 1: they must know the time is of the utmost essence

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Speaker 1: when it comes to the laundronnots. What do you mean

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Speaker 1: when you turned well? Old memory of the Laundronots goes

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Speaker 1: into hibernation so as to protect it from the approaching

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Speaker 1: atrocities of adolescence. And hold, are you your lady five

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Speaker 1: eight and a half you're the size of a garden. No,

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Speaker 1: I know, eight and a half years of fertile ground

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Speaker 1: until you've done fallow child? Do you follow? Excuse me, sir?

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Speaker 1: What then goes into nat turned twelve? How could our

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Speaker 1: pants possibly remember to tell us about the londronots where

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Speaker 1: you're just a regular encyclopedia brow Not no, sir, Because

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Speaker 1: when those probably prep progeny become parents and incantatory bio

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Speaker 1: alchemical reaction occurs in their brains, and those londern art

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Speaker 1: memories come back like a stampede of glubby rumblers filled

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Speaker 1: with one singular purpose, and one singular purpose alone. What

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Speaker 1: purpose would that be, sir, to impart the story of

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Speaker 1: the London knots upon their children? Yes, my dear dads,

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Speaker 1: to your question, I am a laundrono. I am, in

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Speaker 1: fact the last of the laundro roots. What happened to be? Sir?

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Speaker 1: Of course I could. I'm the only one who could now,

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Speaker 1: But all the rest are gone very well. In prepare yourselves, timblings,

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Speaker 1: to pay yourselves for the wonder, Prepare yourselves for the weird,

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Speaker 1: To bear yourselves for everything you have ever ever here

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Speaker 1: the pair a ruptured, Prepare to be flopped. Prepare yourselves

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Speaker 1: for the landers. On Saturday, April two nine, at seven

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Speaker 1: thirty p m. In the knob Hill wash It Turium,

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Speaker 1: one of the very first wash it turiums in the

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Speaker 1: history of washer turium. At the corner of Taylor Geary Boulevards,

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, California, USA, Earth, Johnica, the Fleet, Perry Hennigan,

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Speaker 1: Bigolas Course, Ramona Rais, Benjamin Kingman and I so Charlie, everything, stuff,

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Speaker 1: j D. Belzel into the jumbletn washer, close the door,

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Speaker 1: turn it on and run away. None of us intervened.

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Speaker 1: We were mostly just afraid. Nick's parents on the place.

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Speaker 1: Benny's dad was fixing of the plumbing in the basement.

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Speaker 1: Perry's parents were in the office above, handling some affairs.

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Speaker 1: The rest of our parents had let us attend to

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Speaker 1: the back door, Mr Kingman appeared from the basement looking

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Speaker 1: for his son Benny shriek and jump, which caused the

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Speaker 1: rest of us to shriek and jump, which caused everyone

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Speaker 1: else to rush in from every entrance, skyway, by way,

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Speaker 1: and coral space. Mr Bellzel clipped off the radio and

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Speaker 1: turned to us, peering through coke bottle glasses, asking through

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Speaker 1: clenched grinding teeth, where have you hidden? My son j

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Speaker 1: not just by Charlie Heavens. Nick pointed a trembling finger

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Speaker 1: as a still rumbling jumper frog. Mr belle Zel's face

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Speaker 1: dove inside. Sumphy water sloshed out as he began searching frantically,

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Speaker 1: his stumpy legs kicking in the air. His curses muffled.

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Speaker 1: It was as if a giant metal frog was eating him.

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Speaker 1: He was finally burped back out and spun to us, dripping,

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Speaker 1: red faced and huffing. Where is j D? Mona strove

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Speaker 1: The others showed me as high. Their reactions were uniforms shock,

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Speaker 1: and we did so. We were dragged to our respective

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Speaker 1: j D's soul in our own to boot. J D's

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Speaker 1: picture was in the paper the next day, Local Boy Missing.

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Speaker 1: It was the same photo they used in Saint Xavier's

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Speaker 1: elementary year book for the last three years, the one

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Speaker 1: with his stupid taped up by glasses. It made me, said,

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Speaker 1: it made Benny man. I want a piece of Charlie Ins,

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Speaker 1: a big old chunk of something that can chew on

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Speaker 1: and grad. We need to figure out a plan first.

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Speaker 1: Mona kept us hold in line, relax and focus. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm focused. I'm already working on an algorithm of revenge.

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Speaker 1: Her in sideways, Benny, I want to warm my hands

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Speaker 1: in the steam coming out of your ears. Nick. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: we'll pack me in a suitcase and ship me the

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Speaker 1: Kalamazoo because kiss meant ain't nothing but a state of mind. Folks, Hush, Harry.

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Speaker 1: We really could decipher what Perry was saying, but it

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Speaker 1: usually made us laugh, So we find it. Don't you

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Speaker 1: first have to have a mind, Perry, Oh, most of did.

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Speaker 1: He's still hoping. Santa is going to bring you a

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Speaker 1: personality for Christmas. Nick Assess the guy with no middle name.

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Speaker 1: My parents couldn't afford one, se Nick and suffered from

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Speaker 1: an interminable case of short eight old guy syndrome. Both

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Speaker 1: symbiotic and parasitic in nature, The relationship created ample opportunity

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Speaker 1: for slide insults, and heartfelt camaraderie. Jonica, you got Charlie.

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Speaker 1: Jonica's ultrashiness made her almost invisible at times, which gave

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Speaker 1: her the most humor like of shadowing skills. She quickly

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Speaker 1: sussed that Charlie had been interviewed by the police and

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Speaker 1: released due to lack of evidence. He was soon back

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Speaker 1: on the prowl at Saint X, incessantly lurking and lingering

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Speaker 1: the knob Hill was a trium that Sunday night. It

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Speaker 1: would be Easter and our parents would be unconscious by sunset.

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Speaker 1: It would be the perfect evening to try and raise J. D.

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Speaker 1: Belzel from the dead. But before we do that, children,

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Speaker 1: before we venture any deeper into this dark and decidedly

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Speaker 1: deceptive diagrama, the two of you, young simbles, must first

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Speaker 1: be fully oath for your protection. At yes, fully, that

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Speaker 1: sounds painful. The oath you're about to take not only

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Speaker 1: bind you forever to every duly oath stitchy before you.

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Speaker 1: It also lodges an incantatory bioelchemical suggestion into your head

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Speaker 1: that will sink and slumber deep in the warm recesses

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Speaker 1: of your brain wrinkles until your twelfth birthday, when the

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Speaker 1: oath shall reawaken as a great and ravenous wabbly gobbler. Ready, ah,

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Speaker 1: you must say it word for word, breath for breath,

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Speaker 1: note for an out, as I say it, now begotten

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Speaker 1: or grotten, so forgotten to be sotten. Cotton has gotten russell.

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Speaker 1: Now you begotten modern cotton has sotgotten the bees forgotten

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Speaker 1: cotton rotten. That was horrible. An incantation is as much

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Speaker 1: about melody as it is about magic. Now listen, I

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Speaker 1: begotten or brotten, so forgotten that the sotten cotton has

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Speaker 1: scarcely sufficient and reluctantly ratified. Come this day forward, you're

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Speaker 1: both stitchlings. This is a great rivileged children. Stitchlings are

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Speaker 1: allowed to a door and revere laundering out Premiere and

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Speaker 1: of her, while also tending to more menial concerns. Whatever

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Speaker 1: called upon, will we ever get to bed, sir? Everything

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Speaker 1: onward resembled that easter, even the dark alley behind the washerturium.

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Speaker 1: Perry took one look at the locked back door, announced,

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Speaker 1: I'll be right back, Perry, but he was already shimming

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Speaker 1: the door swung open, revealing our intrepid explorer, grinning ear

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Speaker 1: to ear basket gat no da Gama on me. My

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Speaker 1: parents owned the place, you idiot. I have a key. Well,

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Speaker 1: now we have a plan. D We gathered the JumboTron

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Speaker 1: three times the size of the other machines. When it moved,

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Speaker 1: the ground shook, her roughtest groaned, and somehow it had

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Speaker 1: coupled up J D bell Zo. So we stared at

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Speaker 1: it and waited for it to reveal its secrets. It didn't.

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Speaker 1: I'll go in there any further discussion, Perry Clambert inside

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Speaker 1: the machine. Anyone tries to close that door, I will

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Speaker 1: chew off your fingers and hang them from my ear lobes.

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Speaker 1: Got it, Got it. It's like what a spaceship might

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Speaker 1: put someone in. And she cast the sun. I can't

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Speaker 1: cold wind coming from? Harry scambled out. He was drenched

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Speaker 1: waved his hand weakly. And we need to recreate the scene.

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Speaker 1: I'll go You're far too valuable, Benny valuable. We all nodded,

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Speaker 1: knowing that Mona really meant Benny was far too large

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Speaker 1: your hand. I'll go. No one was surprised. Everyone was shocked,

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Speaker 1: almost as shocked as Nick. He never volunteered, neither for work,

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Speaker 1: not playing. Yet here he was wagging his arm and

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Speaker 1: here as if he had been de boned. Fine, Nick,

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Speaker 1: and I will go. Mona had clearly asserted himself there

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Speaker 1: as our leader. The choice was hard to argue with

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Speaker 1: as a Mona. Here's the plan. I synchronized my lucky

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Speaker 1: pocket watch with Perry's like he stopped watch. Nick and

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Speaker 1: I go in and the machine gets turned on for

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Speaker 1: exactly one minute, then turned off. You open the machine.

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Speaker 1: If Nick and I are still inside, we go home

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Speaker 1: for j. D. Belzel and take revenge on Charlie Evans.

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Speaker 1: If Nick and I are not inside, you wait fifteen

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Speaker 1: more minutes for a signal from us. If no signal comes,

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Speaker 1: you go to the police and tell them everything and

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Speaker 1: take revenge on Charlie Evans. When you get out of

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Speaker 1: the looney bits. Got it? Got it? Jonica cracked open

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Speaker 1: the knaps, actually the lugging around it was full of brands,

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Speaker 1: spanking new scuba gear. What's your flippers? Snorkles? It's been

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Speaker 1: a garage for years something about my uncle Archie and

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Speaker 1: the boxes falling off the truck. Uncle Archie got gunned

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Speaker 1: down here to work a month ago, so I figure

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Speaker 1: it's not going to be any trouble. Will was a

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Speaker 1: little reluctant to offer Jonica our condolences for the many

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Speaker 1: deaths in her family. There was just so many. Nick

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Speaker 1: went in the machine first. We could hear his rubbery

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Speaker 1: knees knocking together as he slithered inside. Mona took a

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Speaker 1: little longer than follow She finally joined Mick and they

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Speaker 1: squeezed together awkward. They gave us the thumbs up and

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Speaker 1: slipped on their snorkel masks. I closed the door. I

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Speaker 1: noticed Nick scoop close with the Mona. When Benny turned

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Speaker 1: on the jumbo tongue, the machine leapt to life with

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Speaker 1: I saw Mona clutch Nick's arm, but it was hard

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Speaker 1: in the phone. It was a flash from inside the mache.

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Speaker 1: It was so bright we allentary blinding, which is the

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Speaker 1: same nomber. Two policemen decided to storm inside, flashlights blazing,

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Speaker 1: guns thrown the short of the two screaming, great, this

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Speaker 1: is the police. If you move, you will get snot.

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Speaker 1: None of us moved, but the taller officer glanced at

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Speaker 1: Little bird Love Bobby Family Heirloom. You could say that

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Speaker 1: The Laundronouts are potentially untrue tale based on actual events. Conceived,

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Speaker 1: written and directed by Owen mackenzie Mitchell, original music, sound

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Speaker 1: design and editing by Dave McKeever. Produced by Monica Michless

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Speaker 1: Casting by Mary Claire Sweeters. Executive producers John Cameron, Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: Alison Fraser as the woman, and Madame Russia ed Asner

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Speaker 1: as the narrator, Evan Toke as the sister, Max Mitchell

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Speaker 1: Mona Near von Paul as Nick, Trevor Bernardino as Perry,

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