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Speaker 1: The Hookup is a production of iHeart Podcasts, Blumhouse Television

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Speaker 1: and Ember twenty. Listener discretion is totally advised. Do you

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Speaker 1: want to hear a joke?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 1: So Sherlock and Watson have started spending a lot of

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Speaker 1: time together, like off the clock. Watson is positive he's

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Speaker 1: getting you know, vibes from Sherlock. So one night, after

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Speaker 1: a round of pints at Eye Old Pint House, one

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Speaker 1: thing leads to another and suddenly they're back at Watson's place. Now,

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Speaker 1: Sherlock's a little nervous because he's supposedly never done this before,

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Speaker 1: so Watson is taking it slow. After a minute, Watson

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Speaker 1: pulls out. He glances down and then grins and triumphantly declares,

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Speaker 1: no shit Sherlock.

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Speaker 2: So is that a yes to gualk.

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Please?

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Speaker 1: Oh and could shit hold please? There's nothing quite so

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Speaker 1: humbling as when you forget to silence your phone and

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Speaker 1: then when you're in public you get a dating app notification,

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Speaker 1: and not one of the designed to be deleted ones. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm talking the unbridled bacchanalia apps with those really shrill

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Speaker 1: notification sounds like that, So you look around all shifty

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Speaker 1: to see if anyone heard you. No, of course no

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Speaker 1: one heard you, Damien. You're in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: noisy on campus Chipotle asking for the medium spicy Saltza.

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Speaker 1: And also the world doesn't revolve around you, you raunchy egomaniac.

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Speaker 1: Still you hold your phone low and open up Metal,

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Speaker 1: the hookup app currently in vogue.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Metal Make Travel.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's see, she's twenty nine, two miles away. Looks

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Speaker 1: like the descendant of some funny business at the family barbecues.

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Speaker 1: But I get it. Mustn't desecrate the royal blood line

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Speaker 1: and all that.

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Speaker 2: Hey, man, what are you into? I have the hook up.

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Speaker 1: I don't deign to imagine what Bell pepper Man has

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Speaker 1: a hookup for, but I do recognize the guy from somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Then again, hey, that'll be nine fifty hm oh right, sorry, shit,

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Speaker 1: did the Chipotle guy see me? U?

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Speaker 2: Metal?

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Speaker 1: Just now? I mean, I know, we just established the

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Speaker 1: world doesn't revolve around me, but well, my world.

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Speaker 2: Does have a good one, Bud.

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Speaker 1: But I scan his caso speckled face for a wink,

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Speaker 1: even a smile as the burrito passes hands. But alas,

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Speaker 1: no such luck.

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Speaker 2: In Ludlow Hills.

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Speaker 1: Like our dating app scene, our town itself is small

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Speaker 1: and mostly insignificant. I mean, if it weren't for Crestwick University,

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Speaker 1: the lifeblood of Ludlow's economy, the metal presence here would

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Speaker 1: be dead. And don't get me wrong, it basically still is.

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Speaker 1: See Ludlow isn't Greenwich Village or West Hollywood or the Vatican.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: Think of us as a tiny, gated community where everyone

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Speaker 1: knows everyone, no matter how often you refresh the apps.

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Speaker 1: And so I take my medium spicy burrito and walk

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Speaker 1: back to the dorms and I stand corrected. An unfamiliar

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Speaker 1: face shoots me a message he's cute, but not so

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Speaker 1: cute that he's probably a catfish the sweet spot, and

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Speaker 1: then his username is now fuck me, it's the circus

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Speaker 1: tent emoji. Oh oh, I get it. It's a big

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Speaker 1: top tent, big top, nauseating, yes, but I respect the pun.

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Speaker 1: Oh big top, says.

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Speaker 2: Cute pick, but your profile is blank.

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Speaker 1: Hm, observant. Truth is I only recently downloaded the app,

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Speaker 1: and no, I'm not in the closet. I've just been

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Speaker 1: dealing with some stuff lately, and Metal has seemed like

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Speaker 1: a lot.

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Speaker 2: But it's time. Let's fill out my profile displaying Damien

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Speaker 2: basil Hurst. Hmm, that's a little personal great.

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Speaker 3: Dame, relationship status, single bio.

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Speaker 1: Now do I want to come off approachable and boyfriendly

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Speaker 1: or sexy and man friendly? Maybe a bit of both.

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Speaker 1: Sophomore journalism major at Crestwick U. Let's get coffee or

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Speaker 1: a drink. I'm the type of guy you can bring

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Speaker 1: home to your parents. But your dad might recognize me.

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Speaker 1: But but I respect the sanctity of marriage, and I

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Speaker 1: so did not mean to insinuate anything about your father's sexuality.

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Speaker 2: That's not my place, right your That's a relief sele prompts.

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Speaker 1: Huh, I have to answer prompts? What is it with

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Speaker 1: dating apps these days? Trying to foster real connections? I

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Speaker 1: don't need anyone poking around my brain. You know what

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Speaker 1: you find when you go beneath the surface, gooey seaweed

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Speaker 1: that brushes against your ankle and makes you scream. Select

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Speaker 1: prompt Jesus fine.

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Speaker 3: Prompt number one. I'm overly competitive.

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Speaker 1: About literally everything. Stay out of my way.

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Speaker 3: Urchins Prompt number two. My dream dinner.

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Speaker 1: Guest is the postmate's delivery guide, and he leaves after

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Speaker 3: Okay, last one prompt number three. My unusual skill is.

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Speaker 1: Oh I know this self sabotage. At least Big Top

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Speaker 1: thought it was funny.

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Speaker 4: Nice stats twenty nine mask UNSA.

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Speaker 2: And that seems paranoid NSA.

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Speaker 4: No strings attached?

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Speaker 2: Oh hah, yeah, no strings is cool? So you looking shit?

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Speaker 1: Am I looking? I mean, on one hand, hormones, But

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Speaker 1: on the other hand, a cozy night in with mister

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Speaker 1: postmates Dick pick in coming, make that a double. He's

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Speaker 1: kind of got this like leaning Tower of Pisa thing

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Speaker 1: going on. I wonder if anyone's ever told him that

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Speaker 1: you there? Yeah, Hi, sorry, I'm super hot. A masterpiece

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Speaker 1: in phallic photograph A fee you travel sometimes with family?

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Speaker 3: Lol?

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Speaker 2: You're green?

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Speaker 4: Travel or host? It means do you want to come

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Speaker 4: to my place or do I come to yours?

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Speaker 2: Travel?

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Speaker 1: I guess I have a roommate, which I admit is

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Speaker 1: a lie. I do live in a single but it's

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Speaker 1: because I don't want other people in my room.

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Speaker 2: Cool, I can host.

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Speaker 4: So are you a top or a bottom?

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Speaker 1: I have a whole thing about this, but honestly, I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to slow place some of my neurosis so stand

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Speaker 1: by open.

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Speaker 2: To either.

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Speaker 4: Nice come over.

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Speaker 1: On the very slight chance it wasn't obvious. I do

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Speaker 1: find it worth mentioning that big top spells it cum over.

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Speaker 2: I'm at the Ludlow Lodge Apartments six six.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's settled, I guess i'm looking.

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Speaker 2: Is this it Ludlow Lodge Apartments?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 2: This is perfect? Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Stay safe, Stay safe drivers always know what you're up to,

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Speaker 1: and he can smell it on you. The Ludlow Lodge

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Speaker 1: apartments are motel style, with each room exiting to the

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Speaker 1: outdoor hallway. It's a long way up to the sixth floor,

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Speaker 1: but I've been skipping leg day lately, as in I've

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Speaker 1: never done it, so I could use the climb sides.

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Speaker 1: It's not like I'm nervous per se. But what's the rush?

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Speaker 2: I'm here? Okay, I really hope this guy isn't a murderer.

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Speaker 2: Hey there, Hey you?

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Speaker 1: And then it happens the hookup, handshaked tango?

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Speaker 2: Are we? Oh? Oh, fist bump, we're doing that? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, bro oh he is a murderer. I hope he

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Speaker 1: kills me soon.

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Speaker 2: Earth's a great dame.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I think too much. I think you look like

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Speaker 1: your pictures.

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Speaker 4: You look older than yours. Come in.

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Speaker 1: I want to remind him that is technically the nature

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Speaker 1: of photos. You're always older than the day you took them.

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Speaker 1: But I hold my tongue. I suspect it's about to

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Speaker 1: get a workout.

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Speaker 4: Do you want to drink?

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Speaker 2: Or we could just get ready to be great? Okay?

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Speaker 4: Sure.

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Speaker 1: I always find it weird looking around a hookups place

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Speaker 1: when you're only in someone's dwelling to play hide the sausage.

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Speaker 1: It's difficult to imagine them on that keyboard in the

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Speaker 1: corner or using that juicer.

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Speaker 2: So you go to Crestwick I do. Yeah, that's cool.

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Speaker 2: So what do you do? I'm a chiropractor?

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Speaker 1: Oh snap, Okay, that was like objectively funny. If he

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Speaker 1: doesn't laugh, that is squarely on him.

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Speaker 3: Nice.

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Speaker 2: Come here, Can I look at your bookshelf?

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Speaker 1: Medical books? John Grisham? Of course the truth? Jet fuel

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Speaker 1: can't melt steel beams.

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Speaker 2: WHOA what? Sorry you've seen nervous? Oh I gave it away,

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Speaker 2: the nervous laughter.

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Speaker 4: No, the sweaty palms.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, I just rolled my eyes so hard they

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Speaker 1: fell out of my face. Sorry, this is just sort

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Speaker 1: of like my first time. What that's not what I meant.

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Speaker 1: This is just my first time with someone from an app.

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Speaker 1: What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the

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Speaker 1: wall When he describes tonight from his point of view?

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Speaker 1: Is that okay to say?

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Speaker 2: Did I just make this weird? No?

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Speaker 4: He didn't make it weird. I actually think it's kind

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Speaker 4: of cute.

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid that if I unpack why naive as I

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Speaker 1: virginal boys get him off, it'll yield unsavory results, so I.

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Speaker 2: Let it go.

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Speaker 4: So what made you take the leap?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You're really cute?

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Speaker 1: Hot hot hot, I mean really hot, and you know

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Speaker 1: it helped that you had a face photo. These apps

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Speaker 1: start to feel like a gallery of headless Torso picks the.

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Speaker 2: Anne Bolens of metal.

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Speaker 1: I like to say, honestly, that one's on me. Know

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Speaker 1: your audience, dame right?

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Speaker 4: Are you on prep?

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Speaker 1: Uh? No? No, I'm not yet. I keep meaning too, but.

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Speaker 2: I brought condoms. I'll grow up, but I promise I'll

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Speaker 2: make it worth it.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's so in reality, I probably won't. Sexual fulfillment

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Speaker 1: isn't really why I'm here. See I remember learning in

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Speaker 1: a lit class a while back about the concept of

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Speaker 1: an unreliable and well, as far as narrators go, I

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Speaker 1: may not have been one hundred percent honest. The truth

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Speaker 1: is I didn't agree to come hook up with Big

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Speaker 1: Top just because of my neglected libido.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 1: I got on board when he dropped the pin to

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Speaker 1: the Ludlow Lodge apartments, Room six one six. Now, remember

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Speaker 1: when I said the complex is motel style. Well, that's

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Speaker 1: because up until this past summer it was a motel.

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Speaker 1: After being bought out by real estate developers from Seattle,

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Speaker 1: it underwent a shoddy renovation, complete with a small and

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Speaker 1: likely diseased pool, and voila home, sweet home to the

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Speaker 1: lower middle class of Ludlow, which tells you very little

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Speaker 1: since we're already a town comprised exclusively of the lower

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Speaker 1: middle class. Now, how is all of this relevant? That's

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Speaker 1: a good question, to which I'll respond by talking more

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Speaker 1: about myself. Lately, the only question I hate more than

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Speaker 1: top or bottom is being asked about my first time see.

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Speaker 1: I really only purged the verge last year, and it

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Speaker 1: was with this guy I was seeing, Santy. I met

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Speaker 1: Santy at a Luau party in October. I know it's

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Speaker 1: a culture and not a party theme. That's why I

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Speaker 1: had to drink so many jello shots. I could hardly

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Speaker 1: stand being there. I think, what was the first thing

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Speaker 1: I noticed about Santy? Well, if I ever remember, i'll

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Speaker 1: let you know. What I do recall from that night

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Speaker 1: is brazenly approaching him sometime around one, I am.

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Speaker 2: Hey, what's up?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 2: There mostly your BAC.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing excuse me, BAC blood alcohol content. No, I

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Speaker 1: know what it stands for. I just didn't realize I

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Speaker 1: was in the presence of a excuse me of a professor. Hey,

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Speaker 1: are there any more of those little jello shot things?

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Speaker 2: Maybe you should take a breather, Maybe you should sawed off? Professor?

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Speaker 2: Who put you in charge? Me? This is my party

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Speaker 1: Would it make things better if I like, physically put

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Speaker 2: I would do it. No need.

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Speaker 4: I'm not much of a feat guy.

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Speaker 2: I'm Santi Damien.

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Speaker 3: So Damien. How'd you end up at my little luau tonight?

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Speaker 1: I tagged along with my roommate, but now he's back

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Speaker 2: So I'm sexiled. I can't keep my eyes open. I

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Speaker 2: see that. Well, you're welcome the crash here. Party's dying anyway, It's.

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Speaker 3: A slow death.

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Speaker 1: I bet you invite all the sexiled freshmen over to

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Speaker 2: Just the ones with really nice eyes.

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Speaker 1: That's I don't I can't really handle compounds right now.

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Speaker 2: Does not compute?

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Speaker 5: Uh huh?

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Speaker 2: So what do you think about staying over?

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Speaker 3: But I'm not trying to take advantage of you. It

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Speaker 2: Place to be right now. How do you know I

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Speaker 1: I could ransack your house in the night, steal all

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Speaker 3: Good point. This whole blind drunk bit could be an

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe I'm just pretending to be. I will now

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Speaker 4: A David Romain NBC News. Did you vomit on Santi.

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Speaker 2: Yes I did, Bailey Drags TMZ. Did you spend the

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Speaker 4: Jenny Brock Breitbart, Did you have sex gross?

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Speaker 1: No, I wasn't even conscious, also Breitbart. We did, however,

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Speaker 2: For a while.

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Speaker 1: We had our own little bubble separate from the real world.

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Speaker 2: But I started to want more.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't know anything about about his friends,

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Speaker 1: But if for quittal was economic stability, our relationship was

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Speaker 1: He was my favorite thing, and he just had other

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Speaker 1: Santy wanted to make my first time special, so he

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Speaker 1: And not just I busted a nut and I'm going home. Gone.

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Speaker 1: Santy has been missing ever since.

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Speaker 3: Hey, this is Santy. Text me to leave a message

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Speaker 3: and I'll get you back.

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Speaker 2: Hi, where are you? Boyo? Didn't you just run out

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Speaker 3: Hey this is Santy. Text me to leave a message

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Speaker 3: and I'll get you back.

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Speaker 1: Santi, Hi, where are you? I called the front desk,

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Speaker 1: they didn't see you leave. Can you call me back?

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Speaker 3: Hey, this is Santy. Text me to leave a message

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Speaker 3: and I'll get you back.

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Speaker 1: Santy, what's going on? The police are looking for you.

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Speaker 1: Can you just let me know if you're okay?

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Speaker 2: Was just? Was it me?

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I got ghosted in a big way. The police questioned

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Speaker 1: everyone that night.

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Speaker 5: The concierge, no, now you listen here, the Ludlow lodgeing,

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Speaker 5: they had none solved disappearance at almost eight We sure

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Speaker 5: as hell don't need you cock, sure out of towners

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Speaker 5: coming in and shaking things up, housekeeping nice or nothing.

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Speaker 4: I was in the lundryroom washing the blood from sheets.

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Speaker 1: Even the bellboy on duty with the deeply asymmetrical face.

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Speaker 5: I was downstairs getting ice because the machine on the

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Speaker 1: But sans any evidence of struggle or foul play, the

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Speaker 1: before the LCPD declared Santy I run away and closed

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Speaker 1: the case. And while I'd like to think he's off

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Speaker 1: sipping White Claw and the Maldives with his secret sugar Daddy,

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Speaker 1: that just never seemed likely to me. I mean, who

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Speaker 1: just runs away post coitus, never to be seen again. Well,

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Speaker 1: well other than my dad. No, my psychiatrist didn't laugh

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Speaker 1: weeks later, so I was never able to get back

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Speaker 1: into this room. But when I saw that Big Top

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Speaker 1: was living here, Oh shit, he's coming. Okay, Damien ahead

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Speaker 1: in the game, Oh.

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Speaker 4: How was that?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: I dissociated and thought about my missing X the whole time.

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Speaker 1: So you tell me it was so hot?

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Speaker 4: Thanks? And dude, you are definitely.

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Speaker 1: A bottom pillow talk the most unwelcome window into the

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Speaker 2: Mmm noted? Hey, can I ask you a question.

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Speaker 1: Do guys ever like ask you to crack him when

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Speaker 1: you say you're a chiropractor?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all the time. Would you like it tune up?

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Speaker 1: I mean, if he won't stop asking, Big Top starts

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Speaker 1: to stretch my arms, acquainting himself off with my spine.

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Speaker 2: It feels nice to be taken care of. Ow do

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Speaker 2: you get tired of doing this?

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Speaker 4: Turn your neck this way. Sometimes chiropractics have the potential

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Speaker 4: to get emotional, and tears kind of gild the vibe

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Speaker 2: Tears Shaw, some.

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Speaker 4: People are really into that shit.

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Speaker 2: No, I mean like chiropractics make people emotional, Oh for sure.

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Speaker 4: It's it's common for chiropractic treatments to trigger past trauma.

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Speaker 4: Our bodies hold so much inside, more than we even realize,

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Speaker 4: and sometimes when we let it crack, we release everything

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Speaker 4: we've been suppressing.

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Speaker 1: Snap, crackle and cry. Well, m no trauma yet, all

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Speaker 1: right here face me. Big Top is staring ahead now,

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Speaker 1: eyes kind of glaze over miles away you Okay.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just I was just thinking about this guy,

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Speaker 4: I was in training. I'll sit up straight out. He

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Speaker 4: was wearing a mask, but it wasn't about his face.

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Speaker 4: It was about his joints. I'm not even sure how

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Speaker 4: to describe it.

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Speaker 2: Mmmm, that's okay.

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Speaker 4: Rotate your head.

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Speaker 2: It's like it's like we were continents.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, we were continents at the dawn of time,

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Speaker 4: two fractured land masses, just drifting for eons until pandigga out.

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Speaker 1: Okay, maybe a little less time spent paying attention to

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Speaker 2: So did you get his number? I guess not.

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Speaker 1: It's funny the moment you register that this stranger you're

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Speaker 1: with has their own life, their own past, own insecurities

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Speaker 1: and baggage, maybe even their own suppressed spinal suffering too.

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Speaker 2: Have you tried to find him?

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Speaker 4: I don't know what he looks like. So when I

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Speaker 4: I have to test for that same you know, cosmic snap,

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Speaker 4: and then I'll know I found him.

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Speaker 1: I feel for Big Top, I do. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: the type of bizarre trauma I'd get myself into. Besides,

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Speaker 1: it's not like I don't have my own agenda tonight anyway.

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Speaker 4: Look alive, soldier, I'm going to go take a shower,

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Speaker 4: but we'll go again when I get back.

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Speaker 1: And the moment's gone, so joint relief aside, Why did

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Speaker 1: I really come back here?

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Speaker 2: Closure?

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Speaker 1: I guess, like like when a ghost can't stop violently

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Speaker 1: tormenting a family until they find its bones and give

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Speaker 1: it a proper burial. I guess Santi is my ghost

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Speaker 1: and that's my cue. But where does one typically find

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Speaker 1: this elusive closure? Under the bed, behind the chipped little

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Speaker 1: credenza where Santy poured our final champagne toast. No, no

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Speaker 1: closure here. I was ready to move on to let

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Speaker 1: Santy go, and Big Top had to come along and

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Speaker 1: invite me to this exact room. No, I can't let go,

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Speaker 1: not until I find out what happened to Santy. This

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Speaker 1: ghost doesn't need a proper burial, It needs a goddamn

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Speaker 1: murder solved. And yes, I'm aware of the irony and

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Speaker 1: me speaking out.

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Speaker 2: Big Top. Is someone there?

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Speaker 1: The recycling been over in the trash cove, it's been

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Speaker 1: knocked over?

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Speaker 2: Is it like that?

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Speaker 1: When I got here, I brushed the hair out of

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Speaker 1: my eyes, gotta look good for my death scene. I mean, logically,

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Speaker 1: I know I'm not being followed and it was probably

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Speaker 1: like a wrack that knocked the bin over. Although raccoons

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Speaker 1: don't eat recyclables, but maybe someone threw food in the

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Speaker 1: recycling bin. I mean, that would be shitty, but better

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Speaker 1: than the alternative. There's just something about coming from a

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say I'm in fight or flight mode because I'm

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Speaker 1: confrontation avoidant and I hate airports, but when you're alone

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Speaker 1: outside a CD apartment complex at night, it's hard not

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Speaker 1: to let your mind wander. I mean, those don't sound

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Speaker 1: like raccoon feed. Those sound like deranged machete wielding maniac feet.

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Speaker 2: Don't turn around. Don't turn around. Don't turn around.

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Speaker 1: Don't turn around, Damien, because because because once you do,

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Speaker 1: and you see them, and they see you see them,

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Speaker 1: it's really real.

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Speaker 2: Then it's no return.

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Speaker 1: Oh shit. I turn around, half covering my eyes and

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Speaker 1: expecting the worst, which is exact exactly what I see.

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Speaker 1: There's a fucking person running at me. Who was that?

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Speaker 2: I couldn't see their face.

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Speaker 1: It was covered in like a hoodie, a really ugly one,

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Speaker 1: too stretched out sleeves, pink and mustard. No goddamn way,

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Speaker 1: that's the last thing I see. Come on Dame elevators

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Speaker 1: just around the corner. And then and then I collide

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Speaker 1: with someone now buck, Sorry, sorry, man, that's my bad.

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Speaker 2: All good, kay, totally. I was just being chased. I

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Speaker 2: don't see anyone, Yeah, neither do I anymore. It was

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Speaker 2: probably just a raccoon. Looked pretty human sized.

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Speaker 5: A bunch of raccoons then stacked on top of each

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Speaker 5: other in a trench coat.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably that they have a good night. I'm sorry

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Speaker 2: to bother you.

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Speaker 1: We had our separate ways, but after a second I

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Speaker 1: turned my head back, and what do you know, he

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Speaker 1: does the same that telltale over the shoulder exorcist headspin

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Speaker 1: where we lock eyes, both thinking the same thing. Ah, Jesus, hormones, chill.

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Speaker 1: But that guy that I just ran into, why do

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Speaker 1: I feel like I know him? It was like late twenties,

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Speaker 1: deeply asymmetrical face. It was dark, but I'm positive I've

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Speaker 1: seen him before.

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Speaker 2: But where?

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Speaker 1: And then like an epiphany, it hits me right here.

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Speaker 1: He was that bellboy on duty the night Santi disappeared.

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Speaker 1: I remember the detectives questioning him.

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Speaker 3: I was downstairs getting ice because the machine on the

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Speaker 3: sixth floor was out of order.

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Speaker 5: Pretty sure that the CCTV can confirm him.

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Speaker 1: He seemed rattled, but someone just went missing from workplaced,

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Speaker 1: so I didn't think much of it. But here's the

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Speaker 1: pickle phallic pun very much intended. What's a bell boy

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Speaker 1: doing sticking around after his hotel of employment gets bought

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Speaker 1: out and turned into apartments? And then, like the time

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Speaker 1: my freshman year roommate got me into Whippets, it hits

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Speaker 1: me again. Epiphany number two. That Bell Pepper emoji guy

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Speaker 1: who DMed me earlier on Metal? You know the guy

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Speaker 1: whose face I said, I recognized.

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Speaker 2: This is him, bell Boy?

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Speaker 1: That was him. Not only is the bell Boy from

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Speaker 1: the night Santy went missing, the man I just bumped into,

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Speaker 1: he's also that guy who hit me up on Metal earlier.

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Speaker 2: What did he say to me?

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Speaker 5: Hey man, what are you aim too?

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Speaker 1: I have the hookup, the hookup, the hookup for what?

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Speaker 1: I could just be grasping at straws here. But I

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Speaker 1: never got to actually speak to mister bell Boy that night.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the cops missed something, Maybe bell BOYD saw something,

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Speaker 1: Maybe bell BOYD did something. You want to know what

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Speaker 1: I'm into, bell Boy? You're about to find out, Hey,

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Speaker 1: this is something.

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Speaker 3: Text me to leave a message and I'll get you back.

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 1: You know, I keep waiting for the time that I call,

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Speaker 1: and your parents have finally disconnected your line. I guess

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Speaker 1: I really just wanted to say that I miss you,

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Speaker 1: and I think I have a lead on what happened,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not going to stop looking for the truth

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Speaker 1: until I find you, okay. Written and directed by Noah Feinberg.

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Speaker 2: That's Me.

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Speaker 1: Sound design and score by Jeremiah Zimmerman, starring Noah Feinberg's

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Speaker 1: Me as Damian Ray Santiago as Santy and Matteo, Nico

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Speaker 1: Breatham as Wade, Augustus Prue as Elias, Scott Evans as

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Speaker 1: Big Tough, Jeffrey Self as bell Boy, Tina Majorino as

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Speaker 1: Doctor Wiley, Obi Abiley as p n Peter Gabrielle Ruiz

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Speaker 1: as Joma, Sadie Dickinson as Meg. Additional voices by Megan Taylor, Harvey,

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Speaker 1: Susan C. Bennett, Verona, Blue Mark Bramhall, Brian Daniel Porter,

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Speaker 1: Chris Dickey, Aaron Cooker, Christopher Corbyn, Kith Danden Bavel, and

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Speaker 1: Rhys Griffin. Opening theme by Alex Yoder. Casting director Sonny

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Speaker 1: Bowling and Meg Mormon. Executive producers from iHeart, Trevor Young

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Speaker 1: and Matt Frederick. Executive producers from Blumbhouse, Chris Sticky and

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Speaker 1: Noah Feinberg.

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Speaker 2: That's Me.

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Speaker 1: Execusative producers from Mber twenty David Thwaites and Jimmy Jellint

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Speaker 1: Supervising producer Rachel Foley, Editor Noah Feinberg.

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Speaker 2: That's Me.