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Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 1: I'm Brian do So, creator of Hitch. For years, I
have been dedicating myself towards the passion of storytelling. Hitch
has transcended my work every single episode. I am thankful
for everyone that has been part of Hitch, including you.
Hitch has a call following and I'm looking to take
Hitch to the big screen. We want to make a
Hitch anthology film and we need your help to get there.
To be successful, your audience has to be known and
the projects have to prove they can make a profit.
This can be done by things such as ticket sales, crowdfunding,
and a big viewership. We need you to spread the
name of Hitch. If you personally would like to help financially,
you can donate to my cofi or is it Coffee,
which will directly fund the acting cast. If you'd like
to do business, you can contact me on my website
www dot briandoso dot com. I will post these links
in the show notes. Now onto the show.
Speaker 3: Propessants Studios presents Hitch, a collection of unusual stories. Ah,
it feels good to be back. It's fall and it's
perfect weather for a hoodie in shorts. Then again, Midwesterners
wear hoodies and shorts all year round. Gotta be prepared
for anything.
Speaker 1: I suppose we'll never tell you it's hot, though, because
what really gets us is the humidity. But sometimes it's
colder than a witch's tit. It's really about the layers.
So I suggest an emergency hoodie, just in case inflation's
up and inflammation's up. A lose lose. We're in the
part of monopoly where we do not pass go and
do not collect two hundred dollars. At least jail has
a hot meal, but we can't even do that. I
wonder what the smallest criminal offense lands you in jail.
Apparently parking too far away from the curb can land
you in a rest warrant. I'm oddly really good at
parallel parking, so I can't do that. Oh well, guess
I'll have to upsell my riders. Would you like a
snack on your ride?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Not available for individual resale, A rest warrant here I
come for joining us, and a roof. In the middle
of the woods of my hometown there was a phone,
a phone I have never seen nor heard of before.
The peculiar thing was the woods belonged to the back
of my house. Okay, it wasn't technically my property. It
belonged to the town's mayor, Montgomery Graves, But he was
too busy managing the town to be able to hang
out in those woods. So I took complete advantage of
that opportunity. One night, I camped out in the woods.
I took my journal and made this night a silent retreat,
writing down everything I saw as if it was a
Union word association test. The pale moonlight reminds me of
my porcelain skin, and the jagged tree branches remind me
of my barbed wild heart. I was in a very
depressed state at the time, but I had every reason
to be. I was let go for my job. It
felt like I had a golf ball in between my
stomach and sternam. If I could just swallow the emotional divots,
my feelings would have passed through. Instead, I cleared my
throat and repressed my darkness. As I cleared my throat,
I looked to my left often saw a phone. It
was a wooden phone booth. There was no way that
phone worked. It was in the middle of the woods.
I approached the phone and there was a sign that
said phone of the wind. This is a phone to
connect to loved ones on the other side. The phone
cord was connected, but there was no way it could
have power. It was in the middle of nowhere. Surely
it's meant for the grieving process. I picked up the
phone and I could actually hear something. A gust of
wind filled the forest and kicked up a cyclone of leaves.
Speaker 5: Is that breathing?
Speaker 1: The phone struck the receiver like a judge in his gavel.
It must have been the wind playing tricks on me.
Speaker 4: Is this some sort of a sick joke?
Speaker 1: I had enough of that debacery and walked back to
my tent that needed setting up. Still, either I was
going mad or someone was trying to pull one over
on me. I chose to ignore it and continued to
walk back to the tent. I felt the night start
to chill as the time crept in my lingering soul.
I thought I was done with the grieving. It's been
three years since she's been gone, But that night my
wherewithal disappeared. How does one properly grieve? My tent and
I had a lot in common. We zipped our flaps
shut while being hollow inside. Maybe that was my problem,
never opening up and accepting the world. The full moon
shines a spotlight on the phone. I wanted to go home,
but the gravitational pull intertwined with my heart strings, playing
a diminished timber that I wanted resolved so dearly. Maybe
if I just rested, But the moon was exceptionally bright
and I forgot my sleeping mask.
Speaker 5: Fine.
Speaker 1: I on zipped the jagged teeth of the tent and
walked over to the phone. Hello, I held my breath.
Speaker 6: Hello.
Speaker 1: I dropped to my knees with the receiver hugging my ear.
I felt my heart beat in my throat, struggling to
find a rhythm. I felt everything coming back, that hollow
shell of a decay read log. Clarissa, Yes, is is
that you?
Speaker 5: Clarissa?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 6: How does it matter?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I don't know what to know,
what to think, what to do. I'm a mess without you,
nothing but the wind coming through the phone, Clarissa, no response.
My eyes welled up with tears of liquid death. I
walked back, silent as the night to my tent, zipped
up the flap, and laid there, awake for what seemed
like hours. I remember getting married with you. Rock House
at Hacking Hills, Smells of native pine, sap from the turpentine,
spirits healing the wounded, songs of unity, collected water from
the falls. Pigeons cooed, never minded, sharing the cooling troughs
and stolen homely smells of baked dough, A house for
passerby that didn't respect the land, a home for those
that cared for their babies and held the wounded hands.
I have been honored to be married to you. On
so much history, so much love, so much power, so
much what makes us all truly human?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: How I miss you. Standing on that rock, lopsided, hands
tied by fasting rope and rings presented. It felt as
if you and I only existed in this vast universe
of cosmic black sand of time. But your hour glass
broke before it could run out, and mine drips in
the quicksand slowly swallowing my heart into the unknown. I
need you, Clarissa. I walked straight to the phone without hesitation. Clarissa,
I yearned for her to answer.
Speaker 5: Yes, is that really you?
Speaker 8: It is?
Speaker 1: Tears rushed down my cheeks like a broken dam. I
miss you. I gathered my composure. Are you real?
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm as real as I've ever been.
Speaker 1: Where are you come home?
Speaker 6: I am home?
Speaker 1: She seemed to confused, a bit scared even this might
be too much for her. It's been three years. It's
almost too much for me. It's been three years?
Speaker 6: Has it? Time? Seems so broken to me? It blends
together like a muddy sink.
Speaker 1: I wish I could hold you in my arms me too.
Speaker 6: I'll take your voice, though.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever let go, and I don't
think I want to.
Speaker 6: I want you to find love.
Speaker 1: I could never find love after you. What we have
is sacred.
Speaker 6: I don't mean another person, but love of life. You
need to It's what I want.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if I could ever see life through
the lens of love ever again. I would have to
redefine what love is. It would have to evolve into
something I'm not ready for yet. I don't know how
to do that.
Speaker 6: Clarissa, you must find love. How you found love before me?
Speaker 1: I know. I know that we traveled our paths alongside
each other, on our own beaten paths. We didn't lose
our identity. But now I'm stuck wandering on your path
looking for you. I'm lost.
Speaker 6: I'm still here, we still have each other.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 1: What's even harder is I'm not there for you to hold,
to protect, to cheer up, to reassure, to simply just be.
Speaker 6: It's tough for me too. Nights are the hardest. Sleeping
alone feels like an epitone of sadness, a wet blanket
of tears. I can never shut it off. But what
I need for you is to be the strong one
for us.
Speaker 1: But where could I have found strength? I certainly couldn't
find it within. Perhaps it needs cultivated, But how Clarissa,
wasn't on the phone anymore. I felt her presence leave.
Maybe my body could get the rest it needed. Before
shutting my eyelids for what felt like projector's screens. A
storm rolled in. It was heavy and a peaceful storm,
A perfect storm for me. It's what my mind felt like.
Neurons fired like lightning, thoughts rolled like thunder, emotions pooled
like rain. The external represented the internal, and for me
it was calming. I don't get deep sleep like this
very often. A sudden crack startled me, and I jumped
out of my tents and ran over to the phone.
Speaker 6: Clarissa, Clarissa, honey, I can't I can't breathe. I'm drowning.
There's too much water.
Speaker 5: Clarissa, where are you?
Speaker 4: Tell me?
Speaker 1: A gust of wind blew the phone out of my hand.
My heart clenched as I reached for it. Nothing. I
started digging into the pools of water that the storm
keeps collecting. I digged and digged into no prevail. My
hollow heart fissured, sweat and rain and tears mixed into
a potion of despair. Clarissa was nowhere to be found.
I opened my eyes again, and what a nightmare. It
was just a nightmare. The storm subsided, leaving a marsh
of Midwest air, croaking frogs, and a radiant white swan.
The swan was staring at me, as if it was
studying me, Clarissa. The swan flew away, it looked back
one more time and trumpeted a beautiful melancholy of hope
and despair. I think I understood I was not to
dwell in the bog I had become. I can't live
in the past, for it does not exist. Even when
looking at a picture, that part of you was dead.
Every thought, emotion, accompaniment was not in the now. You
don't know if your friends or family in that picture
will be around. A picture's worth a thousand words, but
it's also worth a thousand emotions that are stored away subconsciously,
only to recall when you see that picture. It's time
to make a picture collage, a timeline that exists all
at once, leaving the past. But take the past with
me and blend it with the now and the future.
I'll never stop yearning, I'll never stop loving. You were
my true love and only love, Clarissa. I walked over
to the phone, this time for closure, Hello, Hi. I
know what to do now, Clarissa, you do, yes, but
it's not to forget you. But what I've been doing
is forgetting the now and not creating a future.
Speaker 9: See.
Speaker 6: I knew you could do it.
Speaker 1: If I could, I'd stay here forever, even if it's
just to talk to you on the phone.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you can't do that, sweetie. You have somewhere
to go.
Speaker 10: I know.
Speaker 6: I will always love you forever. Our love is eternal.
It is the waves and the oceans, the gravitational waves,
and the galaxy, the smiles in our eyes.
Speaker 1: The storm reconsumed. I must have been in the eye
of the storm. I was knocked on my backside. All
of my breath left my body. I look up and
there was a shadowy figure, A man in a brimmed
hat came a little closer. Mayor Graves, are you ready
to go?
Speaker 11: Some?
Speaker 1: Mayor Graves said, I look over to the phone as
it disappears, go where. He smiled and reached his hand out.
Speaker 5: To where you need to be. You were not ready before,
but now you are.
Speaker 11: Hey there, creepers, it's your hostess with the mostest with
the face that's the grossest. It's Edgar oh gallows, something
on my cheek. Oh m, can't let myself go to waste?
Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry again, Okay, I'm not sorry.
Speaker 4: Now onto the feature presentation.
Speaker 1: There's something in the water.
Speaker 5: Hey Morgan, did you take the twenty six off? I
have that race I'm in.
Speaker 9: Of course, babe. I want to miss it for the world.
Speaker 8: Let's get this party started.
Speaker 12: Party heo, Leon Morgan, want to go for a swim?
Speaker 5: I'm good. There's probably like a million dead bodies in
there anyways.
Speaker 12: Leon, Well call me your reservoir dog, because I'm going
in see not a million dead bodies.
Speaker 5: Hey. If what's down on your shoulder?
Speaker 13: It's glowing?
Speaker 8: What the I think it's seaweed million?
Speaker 5: I'm going in?
Speaker 2: Oh my god it what the fuck?
Speaker 9: Vivian, I'm getting bit up. Let's go home.
Speaker 13: You coming, viv Yeah?
Speaker 8: Mind if I crash it your guys.
Speaker 5: Place, Marcasa you're well, you know does that bracelet things
say piece on it?
Speaker 8: This thing?
Speaker 12: Yeah, and it's called an anklet.
Speaker 5: Well, it's spelled ron.
Speaker 12: It's a conversation starter, dummy.
Speaker 5: Am I supposed to know that exactly?
Speaker 9: How's the Dane life going, viv.
Speaker 12: It's way harder for a woman to find a man
than for a man to find a woman.
Speaker 5: What I'm going with you on this one, Dune? I mean, yeah,
you're definitely right. I just got the Musty all tuned
up and ready for the race.
Speaker 9: I guess I'm thing you can tune up.
Speaker 5: We have a new sponsorship looking at us too.
Speaker 9: M that sounds lovely?
Speaker 5: Are you okay?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 15: I'm thankful for my freedom, no one to hold me down.
I'm thankful for my good my good looks.
Speaker 12: I'm actually thankful for Leon and.
Speaker 7: Morgan, stupid fucking parents. Even when you don't know them,
they have a grip on you.
Speaker 14: H what what what was it that? H?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 5: Viv Vivian ship Morgan Morgan, Morgan, Morgan, Morgan, What it's Vivian?
What do you mean she's she's sleepwalking outside?
Speaker 13: Where is she?
Speaker 5: She was just here, Vivian. Vivian, Hey, viv she's not here.
Speaker 13: Let's check the right.
Speaker 5: Vivian.
Speaker 13: Is that her anklet?
Speaker 5: It's definitely hers? Viv Oh my god, grab my hand,
grab it.
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 5: There's something in the water? Leon, Run, Run, Run, Run run?
Speaker 2: What was that?
Speaker 5: Vivian?
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Speaker 17: Hey, Leon, sorry I couldn't bear to pick up the phone.
You know what happened to Vivian. We need to find her.
We owe her that and I miss you.
Speaker 5: She's dead, She's fucking dead.
Speaker 18: Hey, boogey man and lady, this is DJ Riz bringing
you the bids. Whether you're at home using your car
stereo or you're dancing your tail off at the nightclub,
get your hands off the equalizer. Sound engineers dedicate their
entire lives to mixing and mastering music. Everyday people don't
have the trained heir to EQ. Everything affects everything. The
world may be burning, but the music keeps on turning. Baby,
forget about your problems. Tomorrow might not be here.
Speaker 4: Talk to your loved ones before it's too late. This
one goes out to you video.
Speaker 10: Damned, Leon, I told you that racing is on the track,
not the streets. Where's your respect? Have you been drinking?
Speaker 4: Leon?
Speaker 5: What's it to you? Step out of the car, Leon,
I don't feel like it.
Speaker 19: Step out of the car now, what the hell Leon,
What the hell you know?
Speaker 10: I'll go to all your races, tell everyone how much
of a talented driver you are, and that you'll be
putting a small town of Weston on the map.
Speaker 5: Sorry, mister DePree.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna give you a piece of my mind piece.
You're an embarrassment to Weston. I can't have you in
the public eye. What are your parents gonna think about this?
Speaker 5: Go ahead, tell them her to quit racing.
Speaker 10: Leon, you can't quit.
Speaker 4: Don't be like the rest of us.
Speaker 10: You have to chase your dreams, just not like this.
I'm calling Morgan. She'll pick you up. Then tomorrow you
will come to the station at eight am sharp. We're
going to discuss your future. Hello Morgan, this is Sheriff Dupree.
Your husband's been driving drunk. He's going to need a ride.
We're over on Sandridge Road. I'm going to wait here
until Morgan picks you up. I can't have you risking
anyone's lives.
Speaker 20: Sorry, Hello Leon, What were you thinking? You're willing to
jeopardize everything we have, our house, your career, our marriage.
I thought the drinking was bad, but not this bad.
Speaker 9: This isn't who you are, mister Deprie.
Speaker 5: Sheriff.
Speaker 4: What is going on?
Speaker 10: That looks like every single person from.
Speaker 2: Weston, Morgan.
Speaker 5: It's not just Vivian, It's whole fucking town.
Speaker 21: This is sheriff DePree. I don't know what's going on.
Money from threading my safety. I will have to take action,
stop or I'll shoot. Dear God help us?
Speaker 19: No, no, no?
Speaker 11: Is it a nightmare?
Speaker 1: Is it real?
Speaker 4: What I do?
Speaker 5: Morgan?
Speaker 2: Leon?
Speaker 13: Oh my god?
Speaker 2: What are we going to do?
Speaker 5: I know I'm on the sun roof. I just have
to get them all onto the opposite side.
Speaker 2: What the fuck step on it?
Speaker 5: Whatever happens for me here, that's exactly what's happening to them.
They look consumed. Why I'm not sure. I know we
turn on the radio.
Speaker 4: None of the clubs are answering their phones. Party at
my house tonight?
Speaker 5: Nothing? It must have just started.
Speaker 9: The consumed all had the same going seaweed that Vivian
had on her.
Speaker 5: What's going on in the reservoir. There's something in the water.
I'm fucking done with drinking. I guess it takes an
epidemic for me to realize.
Speaker 9: Why, Leon, Why did you drink so much?
Speaker 11: Is it me?
Speaker 13: Is something wrong with me? Do I not make you happy.
Speaker 5: It was it was Vivian.
Speaker 13: It hurt me too.
Speaker 9: You know I didn't grab the bottle to drink away
my miseries.
Speaker 5: I'm not as strong as you, Morgan.
Speaker 13: You could have talked to me. I am your wife.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well I didn't even care to ask how I was.
Speaker 13: I'm not a mind reader.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that would require you to think about me.
Speaker 9: Huh, well, you don't think I think about you.
Speaker 5: It wasn't feeling like you did. You buried yourself in
yoga and book club.
Speaker 13: Oh sorry, I have a life too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we're supposed to too.
Speaker 9: You're drunk, Leon, and I didn't want to be close
when you weren't sober. You are falling asleep, sitting up.
Speaker 5: Let's leave Weston, leave to wear anywhere but here.
Speaker 9: We can go to my aunt's in Michigan. I'll call her.
That's weird.
Speaker 5: I have no signal same here. Maybe the tower's out.
We could try again once we get out of town.
Speaker 9: It's just a little further.
Speaker 5: Do you feel okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I'm starting to get a little headache.
Speaker 5: Though, same here, and I never get headaches. Actually, my
stomach is ugh, my ears.
Speaker 9: I can't hear anything leon Leon.
Speaker 13: I can't fucking hear you.
Speaker 5: Feel like someone's pinching my eyes.
Speaker 22: I can't even shut them, they're so swollen.
Speaker 13: You need to turn around.
Speaker 2: No, we could do this.
Speaker 13: No we can't. This isn't normal.
Speaker 5: My votes there.
Speaker 20: I feel that we're turning around now.
Speaker 5: Are you any better? Better?
Speaker 9: No, but it's not getting worse.
Speaker 5: Same. We can't leave Weston. Whatever's going on, whoever's doing
this doesn't want us to leave. Let's go to the
gas station.
Speaker 9: Hey, Morgan, my beautiful wife is everything.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 9: I know you are bleeding out of every hole in
your organs, You're like mush, but I also understand that
that's nothing compared to the damage I've done by shutting
you out. Oh wait, I'm having a fucking conversation with
my fucking self because my fucking husband doesn't fucking.
Speaker 5: Morgan, look, I'm sorry, Okay, that's not on my mind
right now. These damn consumed are on my mind. I
like us to not die.
Speaker 9: You know, we could die and you still won't love me.
Speaker 5: What the hell you think? I don't love you?
Speaker 9: No, I don't think you do.
Speaker 13: I feel shitty.
Speaker 5: Come on, Morgan, I love you everything I do is for.
Speaker 13: Us US or you us?
Speaker 5: How I'm striving for a future family.
Speaker 9: By quitting racing.
Speaker 5: Who wasn't actually going to quit? I was just sulking.
Speaker 13: I don't believe you.
Speaker 5: No, you never believe in me?
Speaker 9: Whatever, Leon, Just because I'm not fan girling over you
doesn't mean I don't believe you.
Speaker 5: There's the gas station.
Speaker 13: What do we do if no one is in here?
Speaker 5: I don't know. Leave the money on the counter.
Speaker 9: Oh yes, caramel chocolate my fave?
Speaker 5: You addicted? Ooh KETLW chips? Likewise, touche? You uh want
to pop?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah? What kind do you want?
Speaker 16: Hmmm?
Speaker 5: Come with me into the drink cooler, babe? Oh hey,
there's someone. Hey, man, are you okay? Morgan? Run motherfucker?
Get off Morgan?
Speaker 2: What do you do to get out of.
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Well? Thanks?
Speaker 13: Is he dead?
Speaker 5: I don't know, and I don't think we should find out.
Kill go go go, go go go.
Speaker 2: Don't forget the chocolate?
Speaker 11: Yep?
Speaker 5: Yeap?
Speaker 13: What the actual fuck?
Speaker 5: God? Go baby?
Speaker 2: Before we go? How about a little how do you do?
Did you really need to run him over?
Speaker 5: Hey, you're the one that smashed his skull with a wine.
Speaker 13: Bottle because he was going to eat you?
Speaker 5: Well, I don't one around two?
Speaker 13: Where's that chocolate?
Speaker 5: Here you go?
Speaker 9: Thanks, bab.
Speaker 4: I try to get the success of that. This is
hell on earth? What did I do to deserve this?
Speaker 1: Is this?
Speaker 4: My punishment? Was this inevitable?
Speaker 18: I've lived my life like a party man, and now
I'm the only one left.
Speaker 4: We've done this to ourselves. Is there anybody out there?
Speaker 5: We've got to go to the radio station?
Speaker 9: Is it safe?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 5: What else do we do?
Speaker 9: That's a good question.
Speaker 5: I still just don't idiot yet get what? Why is
this happening? Why are we still alive?
Speaker 9: I've learned that life is suffering. It's what you're willing
to suffer for. We have to ask ourselves what's worth
suffering for now? What is worth all of this trouble?
Speaker 5: If we all just die, what's the point in living?
Speaker 9: That's a question only you can answer for me. I
want to enjoy myself with the people I love, with
what little time we have, even if there's only five
minutes left in my life, I want.
Speaker 13: To share it with you.
Speaker 5: I want that too. Here's the radio station and I
don't see any consumed.
Speaker 13: What's that smell?
Speaker 5: Cover up your mouth? I don't know if this stuff
is airborne.
Speaker 13: It's so strong.
Speaker 9: It's like burnt here and a retirement home.
Speaker 5: Are you ready to go in?
Speaker 13: Ready as I'll ever be?
Speaker 5: Hey man, let's not make any rash decisions.
Speaker 18: Oh, I think the rast decision has already been made.
Speaker 4: Look around.
Speaker 9: We don't know how much this is all spread. We
can't even get out of Weston.
Speaker 18: I've made my decision. Okay, everyone I know is one
of them. My life is wasted, so I might as
well off myself.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's say all of that is true. So what
my life was wasted before all of this happened. There
can be a second chance, a second chance for what life.
Speaker 13: We need to stick together.
Speaker 4: Nah nah, nah, fuck that. I'm just a DJ.
Speaker 5: Hey man, cool.
Speaker 4: It, No you cool it.
Speaker 5: Watch where you're pointing that gun.
Speaker 4: I'll point it wherever the fuck I want to point it.
Speaker 5: What if this all gets better, then you wasted your
life for nothing and go work at the gas station.
Speaker 4: All my contacts will be dead.
Speaker 13: You don't know that.
Speaker 2: How can this get any better?
Speaker 4: How?
Speaker 2: Yeah that's what I thought. Fuck you, I'm out, dude.
Speaker 4: It's like, go on my arm.
Speaker 5: I just want to die.
Speaker 4: I want to die.
Speaker 18: Shit, if you're not gonna, let me kill me and
maybe they will eat the rich.
Speaker 15: Right.
Speaker 2: No you can't, No.
Speaker 5: No you don't. You're not turning and taking me with you.
Speaker 9: We need to get out of here, Leon, there's nothing left.
Speaker 5: Right, Morgan, what are you doing? Morgan?
Speaker 11: Got it?
Speaker 5: Sh Hell no, you ain't getting her?
Speaker 10: Riz.
Speaker 5: I hope your note is important.
Speaker 13: Me too.
Speaker 5: Let's go.
Speaker 13: Jesus Christ, never end.
Speaker 2: Make a run for the car.
Speaker 5: Go go, go, please start, please start?
Speaker 13: Yes, what's happening? We're not going anywhere.
Speaker 5: Did you buy new tires? No, that's why it's too money.
Between that and the weight of the consumed, we can't move.
Speaker 2: What do we do?
Speaker 11: Leon?
Speaker 2: What do we do?
Speaker 5: You get out there and make traction, but I can't.
I don't want to die the sunroof. I'll create a distraction.
You get out and I'll follow. Hey, motherfuckers, you hungry?
Come get me?
Speaker 22: I made it?
Speaker 2: Come on, Leon, be right, get off me, Leon.
Speaker 13: We need to leave now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let me give pray on that.
Speaker 2: Ah, okay, just meand up is all.
Speaker 5: Let's go, h.
Speaker 13: Leon, the engine is on fire.
Speaker 5: Shit, give me a hand, would you? You don't have
to help me. Walk's messed up. Okay, let's go her
like hell, but we need to run.
Speaker 13: Oh my god. Up there, you see the stairs on
the fire escape. That's a good place to rest.
Speaker 5: I just need a little rest. So what is that exactly?
Speaker 13: It looks like a suicide letter.
Speaker 5: Yikes. You don't have to read that, you know.
Speaker 9: Dear good people of Weston. It's DJ Rizz with the biz.
I'm not sure who will be seeing this, but I'm dick.
I can't read this.
Speaker 13: You read it.
Speaker 5: I don't want to read that.
Speaker 9: There could be some valuable information. I choke up when
I read it.
Speaker 5: Why don't you just read it silently? Leon fine, dear
good people of Weston.
Speaker 18: It's DJ Whizz with the biz, and I'm not sure
who will be seeing this, but I'm dead Donezo could
put blamo. My entire self worth was based off of
being famous. Before I was famous, no one wanted anything to.
Speaker 4: Do with me. I was visible.
Speaker 18: As soon as I became a DJ, climbed the ranks
and landed a sweet spot on the radio, everyone wanted
to get to know me. I was at all the
hotspots and had access passes that people wanted, Connections that
people wanted so they could get famous girls that all
the guys drooled over, and stars.
Speaker 4: All the girls wanted for themselves.
Speaker 18: It's a selfish business, full of selfish people, filled with greed.
Speaker 4: It's all they've ever known. It's all I've ever known.
Speaker 18: Now that the world went to hell in a handbasket,
I don't have a single thing to show for everything
I've ever done, the people's asses, I've kissed the bridges,
I've burned off for nothing. All I'm left with is guilt, shame,
and emptiness. In this new world, I'm worthless. I can't
start over. I'm better off dead. If I could do
my life any different, I'd settle down and have kids.
Then again, who knows if they'd be here, and I'd
feel the exact same way. Damned if you do, damned
if you don't. Seems like life is one big crap shoot.
I'm signing off one last time on this one, and
before I go, there's one thing that I noticed. There's
seaweed on every single one of these monsters.
Speaker 5: There's something in the.
Speaker 9: Water, peace man, that really sucks. I can't imagine feeling.
Speaker 5: Like that right kind of relate. Sometimes I feel like
nothing matters.
Speaker 9: That's called nihilism, Leon, Do I not matter to you?
Because our future not matter?
Speaker 5: I can't help how I feel. You know that I
care about you?
Speaker 13: Doesn't seem that way.
Speaker 5: Look I care enough, Okay, I'm not DJ Riz.
Speaker 9: I know it would just be nice to hear that
you care about me.
Speaker 5: I'll try, Leon.
Speaker 9: Look at the reservoir.
Speaker 5: What the hell is that the water's spinning?
Speaker 9: I think it's sinking too.
Speaker 5: We need to get to my car, then, what We're
going to find out what's going on at that reservoir? Yeah, baby,
it feels good to be back.
Speaker 9: I bet you missed this.
Speaker 5: You have no idea.
Speaker 9: I kind of do, Babe.
Speaker 5: Let's go.
Speaker 13: It's nice to you like this, like what happy?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I just have to get my life back in
order like how you did.
Speaker 13: Maybe you can do yoga.
Speaker 5: With me one step out of time now. I'm sorry
that I've been acting the way I've been, Morgan. I
just want to let you know that I see you
and I hear you.
Speaker 8: That's all I ask for, Baby.
Speaker 5: Let's figure this shit out and get out of this
hell hole.
Speaker 13: You know what I think of all this? What karma?
Speaker 14: Well?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's like what dj is said, it's a selfish
business full of selfish people, filled with free Except it's
not just the DJ business.
Speaker 5: It's everywhere. Ain't no lie there.
Speaker 13: Karma has caused and effect.
Speaker 9: Even Newton said for every action there is an equal.
Speaker 13: On opposite reaction.
Speaker 9: The Hindus believe this is karma, Except it's not just
objects at the current state in time. My past lives
and the actions that they took led to these effects.
Each and every life has to face our karma, whether it's.
Speaker 1: Good or bad.
Speaker 13: Now we're here picking up the slack.
Speaker 5: I can see how my actions let us down and
watch bad.
Speaker 9: All I want is someone to share my life with.
Speaker 2: I accept you as you are.
Speaker 5: I'm here now, Morgan, I'm ready. Let's go to that reservoir.
All right, here we are.
Speaker 13: I've got a bad feeling. My heart feels really heavy.
Speaker 5: Look at the sky. It's spinning. The water is spinning too,
and it's black, just like the sky.
Speaker 13: It's the Yin and Yange. I don't think this is safe.
Speaker 5: Which is why we know this is the right place.
Speaker 13: Leon. There's something in the water.
Speaker 5: It's one of the consumed.
Speaker 13: It's Vivian.
Speaker 5: Viv What if we kill her?
Speaker 13: Why what good is that going to do?
Speaker 5: Then bring her back to life like CPR.
Speaker 13: Hell, though, we don't even know if they can die.
Speaker 5: We drown her.
Speaker 13: She came from the water. I don't think they can drown.
Speaker 5: What if we take the seaweed off first, then drown her.
We can try, We need to try. Do we just
keep running from everything for the rest of our lives.
It's like you said, each in every life has to
face their karma. Let's do it.
Speaker 2: How laon.
Speaker 5: Morgan, take the seaweed off, right?
Speaker 2: She almost bid me?
Speaker 5: Try again?
Speaker 2: Got it?
Speaker 11: Leon?
Speaker 1: Shit?
Speaker 22: Thanks Morgan, Sorry, viv it's for your own good, all right?
Speaker 5: Morgan? Give Vivia mouth to mouth? Will I do chest compressions?
Speaker 13: Will they turn into one of them? What if she
bites me?
Speaker 5: I don't think she's gonna do anything. I could do
it if you want, no, I can help. Come on, Vivian,
you asshole, get up.
Speaker 13: You can do it, viv.
Speaker 15: Damn it, Leon, Leon Morgan, what's the what's happening?
Speaker 13: Vivian? You're awake?
Speaker 8: How am I alive?
Speaker 1: Leon? Leon?
Speaker 18: No?
Speaker 2: I should be dead, not Leon.
Speaker 13: If the world is going to ship look around?
Speaker 4: What the fuck.
Speaker 17: Is this?
Speaker 5: It is this what it feels like to turn turn
into one of them? Did I have a life worth living? No?
I'm not ready yet. This can't be it. This can't
be how it ends. I haven't done anything of my life.
Who am I? What is that?
Speaker 1: I am?
Speaker 5: The void? Is this what consumes me?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 5: What are you? I am?
Speaker 4: Everything that was, everything.
Speaker 11: That is and everything I am power?
Speaker 5: Where did I go wrong?
Speaker 4: That is a question for yourself.
Speaker 1: Shut fin.
Speaker 5: Can I just have one more chance?
Speaker 4: That has helped me to decide?
Speaker 5: Who decides? Who decides? You feel it taken over? Ah?
This is painful?
Speaker 11: Ah?
Speaker 1: Leon?
Speaker 13: Leon is he?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 13: He's one of them? Help me, help you? What kill him?
Speaker 12: No, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 2: Fuck that.
Speaker 13: It's what we did to you, and we brought you
back to life. How we'll drown him? Come on, hurry
before he's completely awake. Please please, please.
Speaker 8: Let's go Leon, You son of a bitch. You're not
saving me the dying.
Speaker 5: Did it work?
Speaker 9: Yes, viv, I can't believe we're all alive.
Speaker 8: This is the last we are going to see each other.
Speaker 13: What do you mean you just got back?
Speaker 23: I came back to say goodbye. I love you guys,
But this is bigger than us. Everything is bigger than us.
There's something else out there beyond our comprehension.
Speaker 13: I don't understand, Vivian.
Speaker 8: It's like another dimension. We're guinea pigs, labrats. We were
never in control. This is our last chance. I have
to destroy a world to save our world.
Speaker 5: Morgan, She's right. This thing is called the void, and
it was in my head. It's the universal balance. It's
like you said, Morgan, karma. It's fucking karma. I have
to go.
Speaker 8: I don't have much time. The other side is in
maintenance mode. Like I said, call me a reservoir dog,
because I'm going it. I'm gonna miss you guys.
Speaker 5: Good luck, Vin, don't worry. We'll take care of the consumed.
We need to get in my car. I don't have much,
but enough to protect ourselves. Stay behind me quick. Now's
our chance. Can you pop the trunk? The choice is yours.
Do you want the longboard or the baseball bat? Here
you goes, slugger.
Speaker 13: What are we doing?
Speaker 5: Fine? Vivian? Sometime ah, Morgan, before anything happens, know that
I love you. And then if we get out of
here alive, I want to start a family.
Speaker 20: Really in that case, let's not die.
Speaker 2: What the hell that must be, Vivian.
Speaker 13: I think it's working.
Speaker 4: This is not the only mankind.
Speaker 1: We eat some songs.
Speaker 19: I will be back here.
Speaker 13: We live to fight another day.
Speaker 9: Never underestimate the infinite possibilities.
Speaker 4: The infinite possibility is fine. Even you must come to
terms of hours.
Speaker 5: Morgan, get out of here.
Speaker 4: Oh what happened? I don't know? Surely don't remember coming
here though?
Speaker 1: Why is there blood on my hands?
Speaker 5: Did you do all this? What is going on? I'm
calling the police. You guys don't remember what happened? The
world was about to end?
Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
Speaker 5: Honestly, don't remember anything. Come to think of it, I
don't I even know my name?
Speaker 4: Was it the Devil? No?
Speaker 5: But it might as well be Leon. Yeah?
Speaker 13: Can we just go on a walk and enjoy the peace?
Speaker 5: I love that, Morgan? Yeah, that thing, the void, it
got into my head.
Speaker 13: What do you mean?
Speaker 5: It was talking to me while it was consuming me.
For some reason, I remember everything. I'm like everyone else
around here.
Speaker 9: I think it's because we've brought you back to life,
where these people that consume just left them.
Speaker 13: The void must have took whatever.
Speaker 8: That was with it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. The void said it was the universal balance. Also
said seek within and you shall find. Is there anything
like this in your yoga stuff?
Speaker 9: Well, there's this thing called sanatana dharma. It basically means timeless,
eternal set up truths. It's more about raising questions that
makes you dive deeper within yourself.
Speaker 5: I think I finally get it now. The world doesn't
happen to me. The world happens through me. It's not
about me, it's about us. I think I finally get
it now.
Speaker 9: Yes, And the more we live like this, the closer
we become one.
Speaker 5: That's not bad. I like it. I still want to
race though.
Speaker 9: It's okay to enjoy things.
Speaker 13: Just know that nothing is permanent.
Speaker 5: Don't you worry about that. I don't think this whole
void thing is going to slip my mind like ever,
You're not wrong. I want to go for a ride.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, Hey, Leon Morgan, Sheriff defree you two.
Speaker 10: Keep safe. Now you're here.
Speaker 5: We'll do Sheriff.
Speaker 2: Now hit Leon Classic.
Speaker 1: Today's episode on Hitch was written by Brian do So.
The cast for Phone of the Wind is briand So
as narrator, Shannon do So as Clarissa the cast for
There's Something in the Water is Danny Bussell as Leon Ashton,
Dominique as Morgan, Annaliee Smith as Vivian, Brian Botman as
dj Riz, Joseph Boone as Sheriff Dupree, Rex Light as
Townsmen Bill Chessman also as Townsmen Special thanks to Shannon
do So.
Speaker 5: Hitch is a fictional podcast.
Speaker 1: Any names or likeness that are similar to real world
ones are entirely coincidental.