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Speaker 1: Welcome to Truth Hounds, a production of My Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: I'm Anna and I've been unemployed for two years now,

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Speaker 1: so i really have nothing going on. And I'm Kyle

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Speaker 1: and in middle school I received the ward most Enthusiastic

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Speaker 1: to Learn. So that makes me pretty special. And that

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Speaker 1: is what makes us the perfect investigative duo. We are

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Speaker 1: two friends who love each other very much. But what

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Speaker 1: we love even more is getting to the bottom of mysteries.

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Speaker 1: All mysteries, sure, but small mysteries specifically. Trust me, No

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Speaker 1: mystery is too small. No, no, no, Why don't you

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Speaker 1: trust me when I tell you we are ready to

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Speaker 1: sniff around? We are the the truth Hounds. Previously on

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Speaker 1: Truth Hounds, Oh my, what is that? What is that? Deep?

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Speaker 1: Macromy the director of the festival, looked terrifying. We can

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Speaker 1: make something really sick and really spooky that also has

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Speaker 1: a social commentary that's for the good of you for long.

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Speaker 1: You know what, We're going to make the short in

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Speaker 1: four hours. Something you probably can't tell right here is

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Speaker 1: that I'm actually terrified. How did this happen? What happened?

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Speaker 1: What is this? Um? It is one pm um and

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Speaker 1: there's just been a break in the case, I got

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Speaker 1: an email, and um I told Anna about it. Let

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Speaker 1: me just get this my shirt. I'm trying to get

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Speaker 1: myself together. Um Anna's coming over in a few minutes,

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Speaker 1: so we can go over it. Oh my god. Episode five,

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Speaker 1: What is fear? And why can't I away hard for? Okay? Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm just getting to Kyle's. Ok Okay are you? Oh

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Speaker 1: my god? Oh, let's go. Okay. So it's so crazy meat,

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Speaker 1: So we have we got an email. So I just

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Speaker 1: wanted you to come over to your okay, okay, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, okay, Oh my god, just perpetually running. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let me see okay, Okay, I haven't got it. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to get it. I don't see it in my embo.

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Speaker 1: Oh my okay, Oh my god, Oh my god, okay,

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Speaker 1: super oh my god. Read this entire email entire Okay,

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Speaker 1: there's tune to this email, but the words got it,

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Speaker 1: got it to comfirm you received and ready to entirely.

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Speaker 1: Failure to follow directions could result in a loss of

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Speaker 1: an official selection status. Wait does that mean wait? Wait

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Speaker 1: for receiving possible honorable mention? Okay, congratulations official? Oh my,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, oh my god. Wait virtual show? What wait? Wait? Wait,

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Speaker 1: your film is an official selection? Okay, virtual show taking

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Speaker 1: place this sympe Okay, wait one second? Okay, so attached

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Speaker 1: to this email as your official bullet Laurel. Be sure

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Speaker 1: to attach it to your poster and shared on social media,

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Speaker 1: tagging us. Okay, what's next? We needed the little copy

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Speaker 1: of your film, masap um. If your film is not

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Speaker 1: in English, please have English. I was up virtual screen

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Speaker 1: or submission deadline? Wait and then there's this Okay, wait,

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Speaker 1: let me see. We are currently organizing our virtual festival

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Speaker 1: this year. Do you have experience that the climate is

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Speaker 1: still not conducive for the types of live events we

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Speaker 1: tend to organize, which are usually balls to the wall.

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Speaker 1: We do make our virtual shows both memorable and valuable

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Speaker 1: to our filmmakers, and our main page does have sample

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Speaker 1: videos the virtual events we organized throughout the pandemic for reference. Ha. Wait,

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Speaker 1: but so the regular funds are balls to the wall. Yeah? Wait, wait,

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Speaker 1: so we got Okay, I just want to look at this.

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Speaker 1: Wait where does it wait? But why does it say

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Speaker 1: why does it say did you get your ticket? It?

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Speaker 1: Because if we got wait, but we got in, so

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Speaker 1: why when we probably know, we probably don't need to

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Speaker 1: get because if you got in, you probably you need

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Speaker 1: to reserve your virtual ticket online to participate in the festival.

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Speaker 1: We've been emailing you know that probably just means, like

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Speaker 1: you you reserve your spot online, just that you're you're

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Speaker 1: going to be attending. Like that probably doesn't mean then

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Speaker 1: what is that you must purchase a ticket to participate? Wait? Yes,

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Speaker 1: so even it says here, yes, even filmmakers need to

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Speaker 1: purchase a take to purchase a ticket to access the show.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry for a virtue. So for a gig or

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Speaker 1: who got in, which is us, you have to purchase

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Speaker 1: a ticket to attend your own screening, which is online. Wait, Belower,

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Speaker 1: about how much does it take? Belower to available ticket?

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Speaker 1: Use the code for fifty okay off your ticket pages? Well,

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Speaker 1: how much is that fifty three dollars plush tags? So

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Speaker 1: for us to screen our short online is at least

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Speaker 1: trun off the party. Yeah, so a lot just happened.

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Speaker 1: Let's just take a moment to talk about everything. Remember

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Speaker 1: that this whole investigation was about meeting this one trigging

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Speaker 1: yet terrifying man, Beat Macromy who happened to be in

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Speaker 1: infiltrate the festival. That meant making a movie, and making

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Speaker 1: a movie was no easy feat. In fact, it entailed

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Speaker 1: a lot. We had to hire a director, find a

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Speaker 1: screenwriter who understood our vision, fundraise for the eventual submission, fee,

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Speaker 1: pets and salad for the day of the shoe, work

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Speaker 1: with a reputable acting coach, higher actor, one of whom

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Speaker 1: was Anna's crush, and finally shooting edit the damn thing.

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Speaker 1: All of that had to happen in order for this

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Speaker 1: one moment to exist. But the thing about this moment,

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Speaker 1: it didn't even guarantee we would meet Bet Macromy. No,

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Speaker 1: it just got us here to the front door of

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Speaker 1: he hardly felt celebrating because we just learned he would

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Speaker 1: still cost us a hundred dollars plus tax to step inside. Sure,

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Speaker 1: he offered us a discount on the tickets, but that

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Speaker 1: didn't matter because the principle of the matter, meeting Beat

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Speaker 1: back room and confronting our fear, it's beginning to cost

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Speaker 1: us a lot of money. In fact, we now faced

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Speaker 1: a question, is confronting your fear worth approximately three? Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know. Let's take an even further step back.

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Speaker 1: If this was a virtual event, would we even get

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Speaker 1: to meet Beat macromy We had done all of this

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Speaker 1: zoom is good, but it ain't that good. Discovering that

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Speaker 1: meet Beat Macromay in person, that felt like a blow

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Speaker 1: to the investigation. It definitely meant that there was further

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Speaker 1: but it would definitely answer some questions and assist us

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Speaker 1: in eventually getting there. There being meeting Beat Macromain in

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Speaker 1: the flesh. We were on the right path. It's just

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Speaker 1: so we came up with another plan, fund raise and

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Speaker 1: computer screen. For now. We did, but we have historically

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Speaker 1: typed up a lengthy letter appealing to my followers. It

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Speaker 1: was verbos, but it was from the heart. I don't

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Speaker 1: Core is an official selection for the two thou Festival,

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Speaker 1: taking place virtually this year. It cost us a hundred

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Speaker 1: fifty dollars to submit, so needless to say, we were

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Speaker 1: very nervous to hear the outcome of the decision. We

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Speaker 1: of whom we were able to afford the submission, as

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Speaker 1: well as pizza and salad for the day of the shoot.

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Speaker 1: And a huge thank you to our talented Cask and

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Speaker 1: taking h now here comes the hard part. Moments after

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Speaker 1: This does not come easily, especially with the holidays around

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Speaker 1: we instead asked that you ven Momie, and our goal

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Speaker 1: is to allow everyone who was involved a ticket. Please

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Speaker 1: donate what you can. Within minutes, we raised fifty three dollars,

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Speaker 1: a price tag on art, but just for the record,

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Speaker 1: which came as a complete surprise to us. Remember we

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Speaker 1: had been anticipating booking flights, renting gowns and tuxedos, taking

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Speaker 1: a limo. The whole crew is there. We are passing

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Speaker 1: a bottle of champagne around. Everyone is taking a big gulp,

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Speaker 1: except for Kyle because she has some sparkling apple cider.

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Speaker 1: She's been sober for five years actually, But we talked

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Speaker 1: some ways I'm jealous because I think apple cider actually

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Speaker 1: That's Megan, the mean person with whom we did a

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Speaker 1: out that Megan was no longer mean, and all it

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Speaker 1: Rod's here? Also? Okay, let's see it's her friend Rod

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Speaker 1: our best to make our guests feel very comfy. We

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Speaker 1: come on, Hi, how are you? How do you want

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Speaker 1: to tea or spend drift or one of four beers?

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Speaker 1: this point to be in this festival. So this is

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Speaker 1: this link to come any moment. Of course, we we

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Speaker 1: We excitedly scanned the names here, we're our peers, are contemporaries,

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Speaker 1: sort of wish he had kept to himself. No offense.

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00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: I think it was just, um, you know, you get

428
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Speaker 1: emails for film festivals, cement our festival. The submission fee

429
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: is still like kind of exorbitant, um. Yeah, yeah, and

430
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: I think, um, this one was one of those ones.

431
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: But yeah, I looked at the website. You know, he

432
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: has something, you know, like just him himself. You know,

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00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: I don't. I was like, I wasn't. I wasn't particularly

434
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 1: interested in the film festival, but I was. He seemed character. Um.

435
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: So I think that's why I mentioned it to you.

436
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: After Chris told us how he had come to find

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Speaker 1: out about the festival, we shared what we had gone

438
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: through and caught him up to date. Well. So we

439
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: became so kind of transfixed on this person that we

440
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: decided that we would just make a movie to try

441
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: to get in, to try to meet him, and the

442
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: submission fee was a hundred fifty dollars. That's very excorted.

443
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: That's absurd. I mean, I don't even a hundred fifty dollars.

444
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: That just seems like you made that up. So we

445
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: fundraised for that, and then we got in. And then

446
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: he's he's in the same email where he said you

447
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 1: got in. He said, you also have to purchase a

448
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Speaker 1: ticket to attend the screening. And the ticket is fifty dollars.

449
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: It's actually fifty three dollars plus tax. Kris didn't mince

450
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: his words. And this next part what's really hard to hear. Yeah,

451
00:40:58,040 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: I mean this sounds like, you know, there was that

452
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: article and I think it's like the Hollywood Reporter about

453
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: kind of bad deal my film festivals. I'm sorry that,

454
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: you know, it sounds like kind of along those lines.

455
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: M hmm. That it was brutal to hear, but you

456
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 1: know what we needed to hear it the festival was

457
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:41,360
Speaker 1: this a bad deal? And beep macromy was a we

458
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: had gotten. It's a bad deal. Hard We got off

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00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: the phone with Chris. Okay, um, this is a lot

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00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: to think about. Thank you so much, but thank you

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00:41:55,840 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: so much for talking to us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry

462
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 1: about your bomber. I was so mad. In fact, I

463
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: was piste off. I should have seen this coming. How

464
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: did I let myself fall for this? I am a confident, smart,

465
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:31,919
Speaker 1: beautiful woman. I mean, hello, I'm gorgeous. I should have known.

466
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: I should have protected Kyle. I mean there were signs

467
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: all along. The festival never listed a location. One festival

468
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: employee listed her high school g p A and her

469
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:50,439
Speaker 1: bio beat Macroman didn't even capitalize his own last name.

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00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,320
Speaker 1: They said a submission to the festival was a submission

471
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 1: to the way of the previously unfamiliar. Yeah, unfamiliar, bullshit.

472
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: I told Kyle, we are doing something about this. No

473
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: one bucks with us. I'm sorry, twelve year old fan,

474
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 1: but no one sucks with us. Wait wasn't there that

475
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 1: other festival, the one that reached out to us asking

476
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: to screen our shirt OKI means short play the audio

477
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: from that moment We got it Instagram message. It says

478
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: I'd love to screen your shirt at my festival. We

479
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,439
Speaker 1: would love to screen your shirt. Yeah, And I wrote

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00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 1: back and I said, WHOA do you mean short? Good

481
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: to clarify we would love that, and he said, I

482
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: absolutely meant short. And then I said awesome sauce. Tell

483
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: us when your festival is we will give you our short. Okay, um? Yeah.

484
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: He reached out and I we transferred our shirt I

485
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: mean short to him, but we never heard back. Wait you,

486
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: we transferred the short and he downloaded the short and

487
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: then we never heard back. What did he do with

488
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,439
Speaker 1: the short? Is he doing something weird with the short

489
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: at his house? Look? This guy identified himself as a listener,

490
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: and you know that I love our listeners, including him,

491
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: and my love for our listeners knows no bounds. But

492
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 1: how could you do this to us? Kyle? Open up

493
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: our Instagram and follow up on his DM. Get me

494
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: get mad? Crack Hi, just wondering about your festival and

495
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 1: if our shirt just joking our short will be screened.

496
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: We waited for an answer. What came next was honestly unbelievable. Hello, Hello,

497
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: so funny. I was just thinking about y'all. I listened

498
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 1: to episode one of season two while cleaning my screen

499
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: printing shop yesterday. War opened our shirts I mean shorts

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00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: program on December eleven. A great response. He had screened

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00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: our short on December eleven and had not even invited us.

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00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: Where were we I mean it? Was sort of like

503
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: someone throwing a birthday party for you, but forgetting to

504
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: invite you. This guy was literally a listener, one of

505
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: you guys. That meant he was a loved one, and

506
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: to have a loved one stab you in the back

507
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: like this and then tap you on the shoulder and

508
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:52,320
Speaker 1: say turn around real quick and let me stab you

509
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: in the front. How you're walking around with quite a

510
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: few stabs. Yeah, I'm sorry, this one hurts. We knew

511
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: what we had to do. We were not going to

512
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: make the listener pay because he's a listener, and that

513
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: actually cancels itself out. We actually really appreciated his support

514
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: and he seemed really cool. But beat Macromy. He was

515
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: going to pay double. He would pay and then he

516
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: would pick up the other guy's tab. We were going

517
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: to scam beep Macromy. We were going to make him

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Speaker 1: pay for everything that he had put us through. Honestly,

519
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: I don't understand. I'm gonna walking because honestly, what okay?

520
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: Because the other guy's a listener, right let me um.

521
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: I was a little worried about Anna. I hadn't seen

522
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: her like this since she wanted to go skydiving for

523
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: you guys, the listeners. Honestly, this whole investigation was starting

524
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: to scare me. From a legal perspective, I needed advice,

525
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 1: legal advice, So I called up my family lawyer friend Paul.

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00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: If you tuned in last season, then you know this

527
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:36,479
Speaker 1: is what we call a Paull call. Hello, is this Paul?

528
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's Kyle. Paul was a busy guy.

529
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: That's why I sound so excited to have finally gotten

530
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: him on the phone. Hey, how are you? I am

531
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: so sorry. I haven't run. We jumped right in. Okay,

532
00:47:55,840 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: So what is the legality of damming someone? Could you

533
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: get in trouble for scamming someone? Spanning? Oh? I said, scamming? Scamming? Yeah? Yeah,

534
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: I mean if you fraud somebody, you're committing your crime

535
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:25,360
Speaker 1: depending upon the gail, the size of the amount of money,

536
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: and you to fraud somebody out of um, you know,

537
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: if it's a pod can be you know, bring in

538
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 1: larsity and a felony and you can go to jail

539
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:39,800
Speaker 1: for several years. Okay. While I had Paul on the phone,

540
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: I had to ask him his official take on the

541
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: Beet Beet festival. You know that how is a bad

542
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: deal in all that's not fraud. Oh, that's not front.

543
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: That's just you know, buyer beware. As long as you

544
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: know and everything is in good faith, that just drips

545
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 1: out to be a flop. Yer mm hmm. Good to know.

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00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,839
Speaker 1: If I knew Anna was here on this call, there

547
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 1: was one question she would have had to have Paul answer.

548
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 1: Would you say that I was bouncy as a child?

549
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: What I was bouncy as a child? Yes, well, bouncy

550
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: like a ball? Yeah. I heard everything I needed to hear.

551
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,879
Speaker 1: We said our goodbyes. Well, have a good weekend, Paul.

552
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:38,800
Speaker 1: I hope to see you soond Okay, bye, thank you.

553
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:46,320
Speaker 1: Paul was right. Scamming Beef macromy could put us in

554
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 1: grave legal danger. I needed to tell this to Anna

555
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: before she did something that she might regret. Plus, technically,

556
00:49:55,640 --> 00:50:00,360
Speaker 1: the festival was not a bad deal. It was just

557
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: a shitty festival. Maybe I would just tell Anna about

558
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:13,839
Speaker 1: that later. M m, well what about the investigation? Where

559
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: did that leave us? Did that mean we were done?

560
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 1: That was it? We love you guys, the listeners so much,

561
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: and we didn't want to lead you down a dark

562
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: alleyway and then leave you there with no answers. But

563
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: here we are ship. I called Anna and let her

564
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: know she should meet me at the beach to talk. Hi.

565
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, well thanks for meeting me. Of course,

566
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 1: I can't turn the tables on me, or is everything okay? Well, okay,

567
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 1: behind your back, I went to I called Paul, Paul

568
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: the lawyer, Yeah, my family lawyer friend. You gave him

569
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 1: a paull call. I gave him a pall call. Yeah,

570
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:25,800
Speaker 1: wait without me? Yes, why did you do that? I

571
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: had to find out some stuff from him, and I

572
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 1: just felt like, you were so worked up. I just

573
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 1: felt like I needed to call him and I need

574
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 1: to tell you what he said. Yeah, it was really mad,

575
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: but I mean, we weren't coming here, and I was

576
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,359
Speaker 1: worked up, and I just think we need to put

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00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 1: a stop to the investigation. What do you mean to

578
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: put a stop to the investiga. It's feeling like, based

579
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: on what Paul said, I feel like we could be

580
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: putting ourselves at risk to get our asses majorly sued.

581
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 1: And I don't want that. You think we can get sued, yes,

582
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 1: because you're talking about I mean, I can't say the word,

583
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 1: but you're talking about bad dealing someone that we think

584
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 1: bad dealed us. Yeah, of course I want a bad

585
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: deal them because they bad dealed us and I want

586
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 1: to make them pay. But we could we could be

587
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 1: put in jail. We we can't be put into No,

588
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 1: we can't be put in jail. We could get sued.

589
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:26,720
Speaker 1: We could get put in jail. I have two hundred

590
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 1: dollars in my bank account. I can't deal with that.

591
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 1: I don't even have that. Wait, I'm sorry you gave

592
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: him a pall call. Did you ask the most important

593
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: question of all? Because you know I like to be

594
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: there when you make the poll call. Okay, yes, yes,

595
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,879
Speaker 1: tell me what you asked him. I asked him. I said,

596
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 1: I said, my my podcast co host would like to

597
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: know if I was bouncy as a child. And he

598
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: said yes. He said good. No, it's not good. Okay,

599
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: so you gotta listen to me. For our own safety.

600
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 1: We have to put the investigation to arrest. And I

601
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 1: know I don't want to do this because we're so

602
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: we spent so much time on this, but I just

603
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: don't think it's safe. He really said you were bouncing

604
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: as a child. Yeah, are you lying? I'm not lying,

605
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 1: It just said he didn't seem as into it. This time,

606
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: which was really weird. He just actually acted like a

607
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: whole different person then the last time we talked to him.

608
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 1: But okay, oh, so we should put a full stop

609
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:50,800
Speaker 1: to the investigation. Yeah, but what will we tell the listeners. Honestly,

610
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: I don't think we need I don't think we can

611
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 1: think about the listeners right now. We have to think

612
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 1: about ourselves. What do you say, What do you mean

613
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 1: we can't think about the list sitners. There's no show

614
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: if there's no listeners. Yeah, but there's no show if

615
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: we're in jail. So yeah, that's a really good point.

616
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, yeah, I thought that was a seal. Again, No,

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00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:48,759
Speaker 1: it's wrong. M h m hm. To be continued later. Hey,

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