Speaker 1: Seven. Lamb Productions Presents.
Speaker 2: Com Doctor episode thirty six, New Son.
Speaker 1: Destruction at time. Can you get the door?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Please don't be a salesperson.
Speaker 2: Please don't be a salesperson. Please don't be a salesperson.
Speaker 3: Hello. Hello, are you time?
Speaker 2: I am?
Speaker 1: Who are you?
Speaker 3: I'm just in Case his mother Penelope? Mom, Hello, son, Case.
Speaker 1: His mother came rushing in and hooked his son.
Speaker 3: Mommy, I've missed you.
Speaker 1: Miss you too. But how come you're here?
Speaker 3: Because, honey, you need to talk.
Speaker 1: Okay, Nilope and Case sat on the couch time dorm.
Speaker 1: I'm giving us some minute.
Speaker 3: Oh it's okay, honey, he could stay.
Speaker 2: I don't mind. I can give you to some privacy
Speaker 2: to catch up.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, we're okay.
Speaker 4: Stay Um, okay, I'm awkwardly took a seat on the
Speaker 4: arm of the couch.
Speaker 1: So, Mom, why that visit? Something wrong?
Speaker 3: Huh. There's no easy way to say this. But your
Speaker 3: dad and I had to talk the other day and
Speaker 3: we decided it's time that we get another son. What
Speaker 3: we just feel it's time that we get another son.
Speaker 1: You mean like a brother, because Mom, you're in your
Speaker 1: early sixties.
Speaker 3: Oh god, yeah, no, I'm not having another baby. Your
Speaker 3: father and I haven't had sex in five years.
Speaker 2: Eh Um, maybe I should go.
Speaker 3: No, Stay, you should hear this too, should I?
Speaker 1: So? Wait? You're going to adopt a brother?
Speaker 3: Who said anything about a brother?
Speaker 1: You said another son?
Speaker 3: Yes, honey, to replace you? What I know? This isn't
Speaker 3: easy to hear, and that's why I felt it was
Speaker 3: best to do this face to face, even though your
Speaker 3: father said he just wanted to do a letter.
Speaker 1: A letter, but why uh?
Speaker 3: Because you haven't really been around much and you never call,
Speaker 3: and when you do, it's to ask for money. You
Speaker 3: are to complain about your friend just in time.
Speaker 1: Hey, I don't do that, not anymore.
Speaker 3: It just feels like you're always busy. But your father
Speaker 3: and I want to concrete family with the son who
Speaker 3: calls often to check in, and who shows up on
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving and Christmas, and who doesn't always ask us for
Speaker 3: money for scratch offs.
Speaker 4: I had to work on Thanksgiving and Christmas is no
Speaker 4: good because we always have to deal with that drug,
Speaker 4: a fake Sannah, just more excuses.
Speaker 2: Really, I think I should go. This is family stuff.
Speaker 3: Stay really, but why uh?
Speaker 4: I can change. I'll come over on holidays. I'll call
Speaker 4: just to talk. I'll even put you as an emergency
Speaker 4: contact on all my four.
Speaker 3: Honey, I'm sorry to say it's too late.
Speaker 1: What that's bullshit?
Speaker 3: Oh? Here we go now with the anger.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but this sucks. Please give me another shot.
Speaker 3: I wish we could, but we've already made moves. See
Speaker 3: it's like when we changed car insurance. We got another
Speaker 3: one before canceling our current one.
Speaker 1: What the hell does that mean?
Speaker 3: We didn't want a lapse.
Speaker 1: A lapse in sons?
Speaker 3: That's right?
Speaker 1: So you already have a new son?
Speaker 3: We do. His name is Chester and he's here with me.
Speaker 3: What where Chester? You can come in now? Hello, justin?
Speaker 3: This is Chester, our new son, Chester. This is Justin,
Speaker 3: our old son.
Speaker 5: Nice to meet you. Fuck you?
Speaker 1: Who the fuck is that?
Speaker 3: It's Chester?
Speaker 1: I'm Chester? Oh give a fuck?
Speaker 3: Well you asked?
Speaker 2: You did ask?
Speaker 1: Shut up?
Speaker 3: Time now, Honey, you need to calm down.
Speaker 1: Do I yes?
Speaker 2: I really don't want to be here anymore. May I leave?
Speaker 3: No? You may not, But I hate this, but you
Speaker 3: need to be here.
Speaker 2: I don't think I do.
Speaker 1: Mom. Why are you doing this?
Speaker 3: I already told you why. We want a real son.
Speaker 1: But I am a real son.
Speaker 3: Not anymore but you should get to know Chester. He's
Speaker 3: a nice boy.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mom.
Speaker 3: Don't say that you fuck Hey, that's my son you're
Speaker 3: talking to.
Speaker 1: I'm your son you're talking to.
Speaker 3: No, you're my son's friend.
Speaker 1: I'm not his friend. He doesn't want to be friends. Mom,
Speaker 1: stop saying that.
Speaker 2: I want to leave your say I hate this.
Speaker 3: So why because you're not even trying?
Speaker 1: Trying?
Speaker 3: What trying to get to know my son? You guys
Speaker 3: have a lot in common. You really should try being friends. No, Chester,
Speaker 3: tell him something about you.
Speaker 1: I'm an archaeologist. I don't fucking care.
Speaker 3: Tell him something else.
Speaker 5: I don't lick my fingers after eating cheetos.
Speaker 3: That's a good thing about you.
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 3: Tell him something else.
Speaker 5: I won fifty dollars on a scratch off yesterday.
Speaker 3: Oh that's one of my favorite things.
Speaker 1: That's one of your favorite things. I'll give you fifty
Speaker 1: dollars if it makes you love me again.
Speaker 3: He didn't give me the fifty dollars.
Speaker 5: I haven't even cashed it yet, but when I do,
Speaker 5: I'm splitting it with Mom and Dad.
Speaker 3: He means me and Owen.
Speaker 1: I know Dad's name.
Speaker 3: Mom, My name is Penelope, and I think you mean
Speaker 3: you know his dad's name.
Speaker 1: Why are you doing this?
Speaker 3: I've already told you. Chester is a real son, a
Speaker 3: real darling. He calls me every Sunday, he plans to
Speaker 3: come over each and every holiday. He doesn't ask for money.
Speaker 3: In fact, he gives us money when he wins on
Speaker 3: a scratch off. And he doesn't even have a temper.
Speaker 1: This is fucking bullshit. I do not have a temper.
Speaker 3: Tell that to your red face, Leah. Also, he has
Speaker 3: straight a's.
Speaker 1: Straight a's. He looks forty. I'm actually thirty seven.
Speaker 3: That's right, he's thirty seven.
Speaker 5: Listen justin me.
Speaker 2: Oh right now, you mean him.
Speaker 5: I know this is hard, but your parents wanted something
Speaker 5: they didn't have, something you couldn't give them. But I can,
Speaker 5: and I promise, no matter what, I will.
Speaker 1: Treat them right. Step away. Chester.
Speaker 5: I think you and I need to be friends.
Speaker 3: That's what I want.
Speaker 1: Yes, nothing doing.
Speaker 3: You will not be mean to my son, but no,
Speaker 3: he's very special to me. We went for a stroll
Speaker 3: in the park today. He helped me install a new
Speaker 3: floodlight in the backyard, and he drove me to my
Speaker 3: pediatrist appointment at two thirty. I love him. Very much,
Speaker 3: and I want you to get to know him. Now,
Speaker 3: why don't you two walk down to the corner store
Speaker 3: and pick up some soda pop and some scratch offs
Speaker 3: for me? What that'll give you some time to bond.
Speaker 1: But come on, justin me?
Speaker 3: Oh now, right, Case I don't want to go, don't
Speaker 3: be a party pooper.
Speaker 1: Yeah you pooper.
Speaker 4: Chest A grabbed Case's hand and led him outside.
Speaker 3: I do hope they get along.
Speaker 2: I don't think they will.
Speaker 3: Oh well, it won't last long anyway, what won't. None
Speaker 3: of this shit is real. Chester is the son of
Speaker 3: a friend I play pinacle with on Thursday nights. He's
Speaker 3: a stage actor, and said he'd help me out with
Speaker 3: this little ordeal.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, you mean you're just doing all of this
Speaker 2: so he feels bad about not spending the holidays with
Speaker 2: you or calling you more?
Speaker 3: Sure that? But also I know last month he won
Speaker 3: one hundred dollars off of scratch off with the money
Speaker 3: I gave him didn't give me any of it. And
Speaker 3: we have a deal ever since he was a little
Speaker 3: child that anything either of us won on a scratch
Speaker 3: off would be split.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but you do want to spend more time
Speaker 2: with him? Because he's your son, right right, Huh?
Speaker 3: I like money?
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