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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to May's Mouth, a Ghostwax interlude. May's Mouth is

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<v Speaker 1>set in the worlds of Ghostwax, but is a shade

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<v Speaker 1>darker and contains graphic content. Listener discretion is advised. Episode

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<v Speaker 1>two hook Up.

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<v Speaker 2>They've been watching the front of the deli all afternoon.

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<v Speaker 3>Really, we've got movement. Pass me those binoculars. Someone's going in.

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<v Speaker 1>Why are they showing up so late?

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<v Speaker 4>What kind of hours are these.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, these things don't follow our schedule. They're on another rhythm.

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<v Speaker 3>That's it, Big Butcher, eleven o'clock.

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<v Speaker 5>Look at the size of that fucker, meat Mountain. Lose

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<v Speaker 5>your car keys and his neck folds ish.

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<v Speaker 2>The figure Molly hones in on is comically large, his

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<v Speaker 2>limbs and body oversized for his bald head. He looks greasy.

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<v Speaker 6>How does no one find that suspicious?

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<v Speaker 5>How it's that wavelength. I'm telling you, there's all kinds

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<v Speaker 5>of stuff people just don't see, look past like their

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<v Speaker 5>brains edit it out, even us.

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<v Speaker 6>Maybe you. I'm observant, man, I pay attention.

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<v Speaker 1>He thinks.

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<v Speaker 5>So I bet we see more than most now that

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<v Speaker 5>we've had the lids peeled back. But we don't see everything.

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<v Speaker 5>No way you definitely don't. I keep trying to tell

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<v Speaker 5>you you miss me all the time?

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<v Speaker 1>Yo?

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<v Speaker 5>How came I never get the binoculars.

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<v Speaker 6>Because you drop shit?

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<v Speaker 5>Can I bring something up?

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<v Speaker 1>MANE?

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<v Speaker 5>I wish you wouldn't doing the same thing every day

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<v Speaker 5>expecting different results. What's that the definition of?

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<v Speaker 4>I really think it's not. It's like a definition not

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<v Speaker 4>the definition.

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<v Speaker 7>Being all fucked up in the head is another one.

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<v Speaker 5>Do we have any reason to think this will turn

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<v Speaker 5>out any differently than the last three days, seven attempts,

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<v Speaker 5>twenty hours and a partridge in a fucking pear tree.

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<v Speaker 3>We have to keep trying, yeah.

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<v Speaker 5>But do we have to keep trying the same thing?

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<v Speaker 6>And what's your big move?

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<v Speaker 8>Then?

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<v Speaker 5>Okay, so what do we know? We know that this

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<v Speaker 5>place says it's a deli, but it's not on any

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<v Speaker 5>city records. You can't order from it on any website. Eh.

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<v Speaker 5>When you go up to the door, it's locked. It's

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<v Speaker 5>not a business. It's nothing. When we tipped off the

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<v Speaker 5>cops that it's a drug front, nothing swatted the place. Nothing.

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<v Speaker 5>Nobody can fucking see this place. It's called Yellow's Deli.

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<v Speaker 5>Who's Yellow? A goddamn ghost? Right?

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<v Speaker 6>Right? And yet delivery people come by at all hours.

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<v Speaker 5>Show up at all hours, and take big packages away

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<v Speaker 5>on scooters and bikes and shitty cars to where.

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<v Speaker 4>We don't fucking know because we keep getting lost.

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<v Speaker 6>When we follow them. We lose them every time.

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<v Speaker 8>And if you're trying to tell me that's my fault,

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<v Speaker 8>you're welcome to drive that. We can't imagine you have

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<v Speaker 8>a license.

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<v Speaker 5>No Christ, way would I. But yeah, we follow, we

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<v Speaker 5>get lost, we lose them, something freaky, right, something unnatural? Okay,

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<v Speaker 5>while we ship sailed for some of us. Fuck you

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<v Speaker 5>continue so we can't get to wherever these people are going.

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<v Speaker 5>But VICKI check your notes. Do we see repeats delivery people? Mmm?

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, thirty six deliveries, nine different people.

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<v Speaker 5>But try as we might, none of us can pick

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<v Speaker 5>up a delivery from there. Not certified on any of

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<v Speaker 5>the door dashy food courier whatevers. But wow, these fucking drivers,

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<v Speaker 5>they are checking their phones. I've been watching them. They

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<v Speaker 5>pull up, check phones, Look at mister big butcher inside,

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<v Speaker 5>look scared, checkphone again, go in. So it can only

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<v Speaker 5>be one thing. Yes, it could be that they are

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<v Speaker 5>part of some cults or group, or they're one of them.

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<v Speaker 5>But I don't think so. They are so normal and

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<v Speaker 5>they don't feel off. Molly doesn't get the pricklies from them.

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<v Speaker 5>I think they are like us, but they have something

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<v Speaker 5>we don't. They have I don't know, a contact or

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<v Speaker 5>an app or something we don't not publicly available, right,

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<v Speaker 5>They've got a way to get like chosen to pick

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<v Speaker 5>stuff up here?

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<v Speaker 3>M yeah, copy, So we walk, We nab one of

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<v Speaker 3>them and ask lift the phone.

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<v Speaker 5>Sure, or we could do it the easy.

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<v Speaker 3>Way, which is walk.

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<v Speaker 1>Well.

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<v Speaker 5>I was thinking, if someone is using an app to

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<v Speaker 5>get these people witlessly involved, maybe we could too use

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<v Speaker 5>an app.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, huh, you know, bruh, what the hell's that?

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<v Speaker 1>Like?

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<v Speaker 5>You don't know, Queen?

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<v Speaker 9>Why does that sound familiar?

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<v Speaker 10>Jesus?

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<v Speaker 3>Is that really the simplest way?

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<v Speaker 5>What's simpler? I use it to get into people's houses

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<v Speaker 5>all the time, isn't that right? Ben?

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<v Speaker 8>Okay, that'll be plenty um. What No, he's lying, he's

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<v Speaker 8>doing his lying thing.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh did we mean nothing to you?

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<v Speaker 1>Ben?

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<v Speaker 11>No?

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<v Speaker 6>Stop be done with this bit.

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<v Speaker 3>Sick, isn't it.

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<v Speaker 5>I thought you were an ally?

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<v Speaker 3>No us this we are sick.

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<v Speaker 4>We are fucked.

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<v Speaker 11>We just keep on moving, swimming like fucking sharks, blooding

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<v Speaker 11>our kills, meat in our teeth, We make jokes, watch movies,

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<v Speaker 11>drink fucking soda.

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<v Speaker 4>Fuck's sake, my shoes. What fucking murderers? His fucking face?

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<v Speaker 11>Oh the last one she was what twenty?

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<v Speaker 6>So what what do you want to do? Molly?

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<v Speaker 8>You want to give up? You want to die. You

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<v Speaker 8>want to be dead because you know, when the ache

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<v Speaker 8>gets bad enough, you'll die. Hell, I've almost off myself

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<v Speaker 8>half a dozen times waiting to find people with what

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<v Speaker 8>we need.

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<v Speaker 6>I'm not going to give up. I'm going to fucking

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<v Speaker 6>find it.

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<v Speaker 3>And what and then what?

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<v Speaker 10>Whoa?

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<v Speaker 5>Whoa?

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<v Speaker 2>Guys?

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<v Speaker 5>What I've got one Tommy twenty seven, six foot one.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh he's pretty cute. Bonus.

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<v Speaker 4>Wait that guy, the guy picking up from yellows right now.

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<v Speaker 5>Yep, says two hundred feet. So yeah, well what do

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<v Speaker 5>you do?

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<v Speaker 3>Send him something?

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<v Speaker 5>Okay, let's reel in a big one here. Someone take

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<v Speaker 5>a hot picture of me.

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<v Speaker 2>The rain let up, but it was a cold, dark night.

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<v Speaker 9>Yeah, hello, it's me here for the sex.

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<v Speaker 1>Jeez.

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<v Speaker 2>Four seventeen, the lights in the hall were flickering. Fig

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<v Speaker 2>wondered if there was a message hidden in their erratic

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<v Speaker 2>patterns probably not.

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<v Speaker 9>Hey, hey, wow, you're uh you look great?

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<v Speaker 5>Thanks. I stole these clothes from some with great taste.

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<v Speaker 7>Okay, well, come on in. You can steal some of

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<v Speaker 7>my stuff if you want.

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<v Speaker 5>If you've got nice stuff. Huh hey, not bad, little

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<v Speaker 5>butch for my taste. But place looks good.

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<v Speaker 10>Thanks.

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<v Speaker 7>They uh, well, a lot of this is new TV.

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<v Speaker 7>Those speakers lights over the island. The old ones were

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<v Speaker 7>super ugly.

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<v Speaker 10>And am I.

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<v Speaker 5>Standing too close? Should I step forward or backward?

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<v Speaker 7>I just I don't usually do this sort of thing.

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<v Speaker 7>I mean, I bet everyone says that, but I really don't.

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<v Speaker 5>Everyone says that too. It doesn't matter. Nothing matters.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, hey, uh so would it be cool if we

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<v Speaker 7>talk some first?

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<v Speaker 5>Sure? Not like I have a van full of people

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<v Speaker 5>waiting for me?

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<v Speaker 1>What?

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<v Speaker 5>And if I did have a mystery machine full of

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<v Speaker 5>psychos out there waiting for me, I would delight in

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<v Speaker 5>making them wait and think about all the unsavory things

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<v Speaker 5>I'm doing.

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<v Speaker 10>Do you have friends waiting for you? That's I mean,

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<v Speaker 10>that's kind of weird, right.

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<v Speaker 5>Well I don't have any friends waiting for me. Just kidding,

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<v Speaker 5>but I am really weird though. That doesn't matter either.

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<v Speaker 5>Nothing matters whatever I do or say, I just do

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<v Speaker 5>and can and just keep doing, and no one ever

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<v Speaker 5>stops me.

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<v Speaker 10>Sure? Uh? Do you want to drink?

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<v Speaker 5>See?

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<v Speaker 10>Huh?

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<v Speaker 5>Sure? What do you have open?

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<v Speaker 10>I was having a whiskey, but I can do cocktails?

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<v Speaker 5>Okay, no need, I like one and only one thing straight?

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<v Speaker 10>Okay, gotcha.

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<v Speaker 5>A little more there, cowboy?

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<v Speaker 7>Can you really hear my accent? I've been working so

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<v Speaker 7>hard to get rid of it.

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<v Speaker 5>The past is pretty sticky, isn't it.

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<v Speaker 10>Lack mold glasses.

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<v Speaker 5>That's pretty good.

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<v Speaker 10>So what do you do? Fig you a model?

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<v Speaker 5>Let's not spoil things already.

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<v Speaker 10>Sorry, sorry only fans.

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<v Speaker 5>No, no, nothing as upstanding as that. I just take

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<v Speaker 5>what I want, I do what I want, I kill

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<v Speaker 5>when I feel like it.

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<v Speaker 10>Pretty privilege is so real.

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<v Speaker 5>You're brave to let me in. I honestly am always

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<v Speaker 5>amazed at how horny wins over sensible. I once met

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<v Speaker 5>up with this guy, so gorgeous but like cracked. He

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<v Speaker 5>went on and on about how he was invisible.

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<v Speaker 10>Huh.

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<v Speaker 5>He said the world couldn't see him, that he moved

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<v Speaker 5>through life just doing whatever he wanted. No one ever

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<v Speaker 5>stopped him, and he could just do or say, or

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<v Speaker 5>take or even hurt people, and he would just get

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<v Speaker 5>away with it. He said. He hit a man in

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<v Speaker 5>the face with a brick in the middle of a supermarket,

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<v Speaker 5>shattered his jaw, sent his teeth flying into the piled

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<v Speaker 5>up apples. Jesus yeah, and everyone just kept on. Walked by.

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<v Speaker 5>A lady brushed one of the guys incisors off a

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<v Speaker 5>red Delicious and put it in her bag.

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<v Speaker 10>This is why I don't like meeting people.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, you never know who's going to be a cannibal monster.

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<v Speaker 10>He was a cannibal too.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh I don't know, maybe, but I meant me, oh yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 5>I ate him and took his power. He was the

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<v Speaker 5>first other person I met who had been touched by

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<v Speaker 5>the maze. I just kind of knew. I felt a

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<v Speaker 5>weird pull to him, and then I wasn't sure why.

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<v Speaker 5>I just got this urge. I knew if I consumed him,

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<v Speaker 5>i'd get what he had, that weird gift curse. No

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<v Speaker 5>one would really see me, I thought, I wanted.

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<v Speaker 7>That nice I think you got his good looks too.

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<v Speaker 5>You don't need to keep complimenting me. I'm here, I'm inside.

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<v Speaker 5>I plan to stay the night. Did that hurt.

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<v Speaker 10>I mean I was raised right.

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<v Speaker 7>Well, no, not really, but they did teach me to

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<v Speaker 7>be complimentary of a date. At least, even if they

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<v Speaker 7>do tell creepy stories about all, they did teach me

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<v Speaker 5>The dame shitty parents.

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<v Speaker 7>They'd have to learn to dig upwards to get back

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<v Speaker 7>to shitty.

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<v Speaker 5>At least they didn't name you figment Jesus.

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<v Speaker 10>That is a name, isn't it.

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<v Speaker 5>Church of Universal Oneness?

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<v Speaker 9>Huh hippies, Oh sure, did they love you?

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<v Speaker 5>They did.

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<v Speaker 7>Well, I'd forgive them for the name. Then could have

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<v Speaker 7>been worse.

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<v Speaker 5>Tell me.

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<v Speaker 7>I didn't even slip up, no search history, getting caught

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<v Speaker 7>in the back seat with a boy.

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<v Speaker 2>Nothing.

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<v Speaker 10>They just knew.

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<v Speaker 7>I sounded like my brothers, acted like my friends. I

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<v Speaker 7>didn't do anything out of line. The fear kept me

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<v Speaker 7>straight as an arrow.

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<v Speaker 10>But they just knew.

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<v Speaker 7>I actually used to think this, and this is really stupid,

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<v Speaker 7>but it's how I felt.

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<v Speaker 10>I used to think God ratted me out.

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<v Speaker 7>Huh yeah, So the only person, the only person I

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<v Speaker 7>told anything too was okay. So after practice senior year,

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<v Speaker 7>the damn kind of finally broke. I was in the

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<v Speaker 7>locker room, keeping my eyes to myself, and my friend

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<v Speaker 7>Brent Beckner came up to me, and I don't even

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<v Speaker 7>remember what he said, but when he turned the light,

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<v Speaker 7>the light just caught on the thin layer of sweat

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<v Speaker 7>on his collarbone, And.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I was like, fuck damn.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, I pushed that shit down below my boots for

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<v Speaker 7>so long. But watching this one little drop of water

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<v Speaker 7>trace the side of his neck and around his collar

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<v Speaker 7>and just wishing it was me, Does that make any sense?

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<v Speaker 5>Oh so much sense. Wow, were bleeding all over.

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<v Speaker 7>There was no denying it anymore. The closet was collapsing.

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<v Speaker 5>Under the weight of Brent Beckner's perfect collarbone.

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<v Speaker 10>Yeah damn.

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<v Speaker 7>But I didn't tell anyone except I stayed up all

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<v Speaker 7>night praying.

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<v Speaker 10>I prayed for it not to be true.

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<v Speaker 7>Just please, please, I'll do everything else right, I'll be

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<v Speaker 7>the holiest motherfucker alive.

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<v Speaker 9>Just don't let it be true.

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<v Speaker 7>So when two weeks later I found a conversion therapy

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<v Speaker 7>pamphlet on my bed next to a pack bag, I

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<v Speaker 7>remember thinking.

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<v Speaker 9>You fucker, I asked you for help and you ratted

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<v Speaker 9>me out. I begged you and you turned me in.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, I can confirm God is a ratfucker psychopath and

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<v Speaker 5>you're bleeding a lot, aren't you.

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<v Speaker 10>You've met God?

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<v Speaker 5>Oh yeah, a couple times.

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<v Speaker 10>Well, if you see him again, ask him, what the hell? Man?

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<v Speaker 5>Sure you're getting pretty pale?

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<v Speaker 10>I mean, I'm not moping. I'm fine.

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<v Speaker 7>I'm great, Like life has been a fucking mess, but

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<v Speaker 7>so so much better that whole it gets better.

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<v Speaker 10>Shit.

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<v Speaker 7>I remember seeing that when I was a kid, and

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<v Speaker 7>like laughing, I did a full milk spit take when

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<v Speaker 7>this rich actor fucker told my hillbilly ass.

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<v Speaker 9>Hey girl, it gets better girl, like.

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<v Speaker 7>Maybe for you, but we all know that ground's not level,

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<v Speaker 7>not ever so I mean, but.

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<v Speaker 10>Fuck me right, it did get better. Shit got nuts.

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<v Speaker 7>I pushed my dad down the stairs, grabbed the bag

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<v Speaker 7>packed for my conversion therapy, and stole the car. I shit,

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<v Speaker 7>I had never told anyone this, but I uh, I set.

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<v Speaker 10>It on fire.

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<v Speaker 7>I knew I couldn't keep it, but I set it

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<v Speaker 7>on fire so they would never.

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<v Speaker 10>Get it back. Is that bad?

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<v Speaker 7>I just read this poem about spitte and like revenge

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<v Speaker 7>being a poisonous weapon that only works on the wielder.

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<v Speaker 10>What do you think was that to shut me up?

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<v Speaker 5>No? I just wanted to kiss you. I told you

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<v Speaker 5>I do whatever I want. Ever, since I ate that guy,

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<v Speaker 5>I can just do whatever I want and get away

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<v Speaker 5>with it.

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<v Speaker 10>I think you just have a pretty face.

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<v Speaker 5>People don't let you hurt them because you've got a

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<v Speaker 5>pretty face.

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<v Speaker 10>Sure they do. I'd let you hurt me. You did, Huh?

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<v Speaker 5>I did? Do you feel I'd had?

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<v Speaker 10>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 7>I thought it was the booze and you it was me.

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<v Speaker 5>The booze isn't helping thins the blood and you're really gushing?

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<v Speaker 5>What what do you mean I stabbed you earlier? It's

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<v Speaker 5>something important. I think I asked if it hurt, but

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<v Speaker 5>you didn't say anything. You won't notice. I can't get caught.

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<v Speaker 5>No one sees me do anything bad. I killed you

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<v Speaker 5>ten minutes ago.

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<v Speaker 10>That wasn't very nice.

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<v Speaker 5>I told the people in the van outside I was

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<v Speaker 5>going to They just stared at me. I honestly don't

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<v Speaker 5>think it would have mattered even if they heard me.

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<v Speaker 5>They wanted me to get it out of you, found

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<v Speaker 5>out how they contact you, steal your phone, just you know,

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<v Speaker 5>get it done. But but then you'll call someone about

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<v Speaker 5>it or report it to someone or other, and it's

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<v Speaker 5>just cleaner this way. Figuratively speaking, normal people can't catch me,

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<v Speaker 5>can't stop me. Never know I do anything wrong, But

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<v Speaker 5>I don't know about them, you know, and I don't

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<v Speaker 5>know if it extends to my friends. Best not to

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<v Speaker 5>risk it. Hey, what's your phone code?

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<v Speaker 9>Wow?

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<v Speaker 10>Am I so tired? Ah?

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<v Speaker 7>What?

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<v Speaker 5>It's zero three sixteen three sixteen funny?

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<v Speaker 10>I feel kind of bad.

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<v Speaker 5>Shh, Hey, come here. You won, Okay, you won. You

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<v Speaker 5>got to be you, and you made your own life,

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<v Speaker 5>your own way, and you were a really good person,

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<v Speaker 5>I think, and you got to die young and pretty.

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<v Speaker 10>I'm scared. Why am I scared?

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<v Speaker 5>Look in my eyes?

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<v Speaker 9>Yeah, that's better.

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<v Speaker 5>You want to go to bed with me?

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<v Speaker 10>Then what?

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<v Speaker 5>You and I will have a really nice time while

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<v Speaker 5>you stay conscious. He'll drift off to sleep happy. Then

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<v Speaker 5>I'll probably eat some of your cheek and leg and

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<v Speaker 5>head back down to see my friends, all covered in

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<v Speaker 5>your blood and no one will notice or say anything

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<v Speaker 5>about it, because the world is fucked and evil and

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<v Speaker 5>broken and nothing means anything.

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<v Speaker 10>Can I kiss you some more?

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<v Speaker 5>I love that?

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<v Speaker 7>Then I'm fine with it.

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<v Speaker 2>It had started to rain again by the time fig

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<v Speaker 2>got back.

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<v Speaker 5>To the van.

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<v Speaker 4>So have a nice time.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I suppose no one wants to ask about all

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<v Speaker 5>this bla blood smeared all over my face?

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<v Speaker 3>Did you figure it out? How they get the deliveries?

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<v Speaker 10>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 5>App on the phone midnight snacks.

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<v Speaker 6>Oh fuck, speaking of snacks, I'm starving. You guys want

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<v Speaker 6>to eat?

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 9>Very much so?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah sounds good fake huh oh no, I'm full.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for listening to ghost Wax, a production of

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<v Speaker 1>written and directed by Robert Knutson, production and editing by

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<v Speaker 1>Aaron Schoenrock, with music by Colton Warren. This episode features

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<v Speaker 1>Michael mcgeekon as Ben, Abigail Ramsdale as Molly, Adrian Northam

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<v Speaker 1>as Fig, Ellison Cossett as Vicky, and Andrew Fisher as Tommy.