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Speaker 1: Welcome listeners, too fast Food Horror. E Jair is away

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this week dealing with some unfortunate issues that have come

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about over at Saint Anthony's Bell Tower, and he has

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left it up to me to tell you about all

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the news and happenings that have come about since our

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last episode. Let's see where we are. Good news, we

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have located Paul Terry. Bad news, we're pretty sure he's

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inside Saint Anthony's bell Tower. Good news, we know he's

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alive and well since we have acquired a certain piece

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of video that he was able to email us. Bad news,

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we're not sure how to get him out of Saint

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Anthony's Bell Tower. Maybe I should just go ahead and

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play the video and let you decide for yourself. Boys

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and ghouls, I give you the last known video from

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the Catch Me If you Can YouTube show starring Gingerbread

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Men ninety nine, also known as Paul Terry.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, my little gingerbread boys and girls to the

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Catch Me If you Can show, and as always I'm

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your favorite redhead that can. The gingerbread Man ninety nine

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is a very special show. This evening, we're on location

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at the infamous Saint Anthony's bell Tower here in.

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Speaker 3: Well. I can't tell you that now.

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Speaker 2: If you're not familiar with the lore of Saint Anthony's

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bell Tower from this show or from Fast Food Horror,

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I'll give you a brief overview. In nineteen eighty five,

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the church was closed by the diocese because of falling attendants.

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They deconsecrated the church with all the necessary pomp and

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circumstance that comes with it, taking away the hollow nature

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of the grounds. About a week later, though, odd things

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began to happen. Noises could be heard coming from the

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church at odd hours, screaming, yelling, and banging, the sounds

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of windows and glass breaking. People reported seeing shadows like

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figures against the windows, and when the cops showed up,

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no one was there, all the windows intact and no

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signs of anyone breaking in. It went on like that

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for the whole summer, every single night.

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Speaker 3: Then about the end of October there was a fire.

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Speaker 2: And get this, it was on Halloween night. Spooky vibes right,

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The whole church went up in flames. I found in

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old news articles documenting it. Every fire engine in the

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city came. It only took them all night and part

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of the next morning to put it out, and all

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that remained was the seven story bell tower. Here's where

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things get interesting and why we're here though. Four years later,

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in nineteen eighty nine, a young neighborhood girl, Jenny Stratton,

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entered the tower at midnight, why because her friends dared

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her to ring the bell. They all watched from the sidewalk.

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Police witness statements reported exactly that they her friends watched

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her enter the tower through a hole she made by

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disliked a loose board at the entrance. About ten minutes

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after entering, all of her friends reported hearing the bell ring,

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and because they feared the noise of the bell would

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bring all the neighbors out, including their parents, they all scattered.

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But that was the last time Jenny Stratton was ever seen.

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She was never found inside the tower, nor at home,

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and after a long extensive schirch by the local authorities,

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friends and family, she was never seen again. Well kind of,

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Oh it's almost eleven forty five. Let's get to the

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door and I'll tell you the rest. If you've been

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following along on Fast Food Horror, a neighbor provided EJ

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with a copy of a VHS tape The original VHS

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tape was found a few yards from the tower sometime

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after Jenny went missing.

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Speaker 3: This was just a copy, not the original.

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Speaker 2: So what was on the tape? You see, Jenny entered

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the tower with a VHS camcorder to document her entering

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the tower and going up the steps to ring the bell.

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I encourage you guys to go back to Fast Food

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Horror and listen to the previous episode where EJ played

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the actual edited version.

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Speaker 3: Of the VHS tape.

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Speaker 2: I say edited because he was besieged by lawyers and

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city officials not to play it, and they had finally

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come to an agreement to play an edited, abridged version

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of the tape. But he did play the tape nonetheless,

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and since it was the podcast.

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Speaker 3: Only the audio.

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Speaker 2: The audio documented Jenny's entrance into the tower, who were

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walking up the seven stories of the spiral staircase.

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Speaker 3: Which took her about ten minutes. Give her take.

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Speaker 2: Illuminated only by the flashlight of the camcorder and the

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moonlight streaming in from the landing above where the bell was,

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it documented her ringing the bell with a large wooden mallet.

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She found the top landing of the tower and then

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her exiting the top floor. Jenny then documents her descent

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from the top landing. Now, remember it only took her

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about ten minutes to get to the top, but she

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documented her walking down the spiral staircase, never finding the

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ground floor on multiple attempts. She walked for more than

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an hour in the spiraling loop and lower and lower

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and never found the ground floor. And when she returned

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to the top floor, it only took ten minutes. Crazy, right,

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She would walk down the staircase for forty five minutes

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and then walk back up and it only took ten

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and never passed anything resembling the ground floor at all.

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At one point, she even tossed a quarter from the

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top of the staircase and never heard the quarter hit

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the bottom. It was like she was trapped in some

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kind of parallel universe, a loop of some sort that

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seemingly went on lower and lower with no escape. And

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now we're here at the door of the tower, just

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like Jenny all those years ago. Now the city has

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taken securing the tower a lot more seriously since then,

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with this very sturdy looking metal door and a scary lock.

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But thanks to the magic of YouTube, one can learn

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how to pick such things. Let me just get on

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my handed dandy little tools I bought off eBay and.

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Speaker 3: Vola an open door. We're in. This is crazy.

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Speaker 2: It's just as Jenny described on the tape, a spiraling

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staircase going all the way up. Absolutely no illumination, no

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lights except for the moonlight streaming through the hole in

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the landing where resides the bell. It doesn't look like

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anyone's been here in years either. No footprints, no cans,

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no trash, no nothing, well except if you count the

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spider webs and dirt. I guess I just gonna look

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around here with my flashlight. We got a concrete floor

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on the bottom here, no holes in the floor, nothing

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suggesting a basement entrance or anything like that. The staircase

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starts right here too, on the ground floor, and goes

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all the way to the top seven stories. No physical

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reason why she should have kept walking or found herself

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walking on an endless spiraling staircase. Well, gingerbread, boys and girls,

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let's go. We've got a date with that bell.

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Speaker 3: Shoot. I'm out shape.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I should be this winded after going

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up seven flights.

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Speaker 3: But I am.

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Speaker 2: We're here, though, and there it is Saint Anthony's bell. Huh,

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just like Jenny described. And right over there is the

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mount Man, just as Jenny described, almost to the tea.

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The windows are really high up, though no real way

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to climb out or hop to the windows. Walls are

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too smooth. The windows are covered by slats too, so

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easy out.

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Speaker 3: Oh shoot, it's almost midnight.

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, let's hit that bell and don't forget

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to subscribe.

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Speaker 3: I should have.

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Speaker 2: Won your plugs. Oh damn it, that's loud, all right,

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before the cops come.

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Speaker 3: I guess we should get out. I'm sure that just

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woke up everyone in the neighborhood. Down we go.

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Speaker 2: Uh, you guys are seeing this right like, I'm not playing.

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Check out that clock at the top corner of the screen.

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I've been walking down these steps for more than thirty minutes.

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It only took me ten minutes to get up here.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm still walking. I'm looking over the railing

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and it's just pitch black. Okay, this is absolutely freaky.

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I'm going back up. Okay, I'm back to the top of.

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Speaker 2: Oh god, it only took ten minutes. What the hell's

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going on? All right, let's try this again. Okay, this

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is nuts, I mean absolutely crazy. I left the top

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landing at twelve fifty, twelve to fifty, and now it's.

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Speaker 3: One thirty four.

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Speaker 2: I'm walking down this staircase for almost forty five minutes,

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just going around and around and around, and I've never

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passed the ground floor. I've had my flashlight on it.

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I've never seen anything but just more and more steps

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in darkness. I'm going back up.

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Speaker 3: Did you guys hear that? Hello? Hello? Is someone there? Oh?

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Speaker 2: I think there's someone in here with me? Oh my gosh, Hello,

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who's there?

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Speaker 3: Who's there? Who's that? What?

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Speaker 2: Who? How did you get in here? Who are you

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talking to through the door?

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Speaker 3: I was recording from my audience. Who are you?

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Speaker 2: How did you get in here? Isn't it a bit

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late for you to be out?

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Speaker 3: Nice? New kids on the black shirt?

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Speaker 2: By the way, was that your mom's or a Target

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retro print? It's mine? Are you part of the search party?

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Are my parents here? I've been walking these steps for hours.

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I ring that damn bell so many times I lost count.

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What what's in your hand?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 2: This is a selfhl oh sh you're Jenny Jenny Stratton.

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You're not a part of the search party. Are they

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not even looking for me? Well, not exactly, not anymore.

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Uh boy, I've gotta sit down. This this isn't good.

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Oh my god, this isn't good. And you you, you

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still look the same. How is this possible? Are you okay?

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You don't look so bad? You still look like you

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did it in nineteen eighty nine. Yeah, hello, McFly. What

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year do you think this is?

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Speaker 3: Ugh, it's twenty twenty five. Bye bye bye,