Tavern Watch Plays Kids on Bikes, Episode 2: A trip down memory lane

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Hello everyone and welcome back to
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Tavern Watch plays where this week we
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are continuing our adventures in Kids on
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Bikes, a game in which you are kids and
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you have bikes. Uh this is not to uh you
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know not you know it's not rocket
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science. Uh but it is a game in the
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style of your uh 1980s and 1990s movies
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uh where groups of kids get into various
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adventures, misadventures or
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supernatural adventures uh as they make
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their way through life. Uh I will be
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your humble storyteller slashnarrator
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slashdirector. Uh and joining me is a
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wonderful group of miscreants. Uh first
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up Liz
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Hello, I am playing Re and uh I work at
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the local bookstore. I
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uh try to try to avoid my parents so I
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do a lot of scouting stuff and I'm
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currently, you know, sitting at the
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bookstore checkout with my notebook open
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trying lots of little doodles of
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pineapples in terrible situations.
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All right, next up we have Matt.
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>> Hey everybody, I'm playing Jacob. Uh,
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not Jake, not Jay.
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Not Jacobius. For some reason, you
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wanted to go Latin. Just Jacob. Uh, I
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have a younger sister who I'm constantly
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worried about. And also somewhat jealous
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of. And I'm obsessed with weird things
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my grandpa taught me.
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>> All right. Next up, we have Phil.
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>> Hi. Uh, I'm Phil and I'm playing
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Randall. And Randall is a laid-back
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slacker. He does not really get why
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everybody's trying so hard. He's just
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here to have a good time. Uh, currently,
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uh, just kind of idly marveling at all
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the weird stuff that's happening in
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today. It's been a weird day.
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>> It has, in fact, been a weird day. And
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then last, but certainly not least, we
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have Trish.
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>> I am Trish. I am going to be playing
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Jenny. I play Jacob's younger sister who
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is
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in a very high grade level for her age
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and is very very very very smart and is
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in situations that are a lot older than
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she should be because she's in high
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school as like a 10-year-old. Uh where
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we last left off, our group of uh teens
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and pre-teens uh had just finished a day
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of school uh in which they went through
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a little bit of a local history lesson
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uh about some of the lore of the town uh
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of which they have been living their
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entire life uh known as
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uh New Novemberwood. Uh they learned
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about the founder uh uh Jeffrey
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Pineapple uh who founded the town and uh
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their wonderful history teacher uh gave
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them a little bit of uh maybe what might
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be some uh myth or lore of the town that
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isn't quite uh in the normal history
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books or not normally taught to try to
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catch everybody's attention and
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encourage them to go out and seek the
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stories of the town. Uh on lunch they
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had discovered several odd occurrences
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such as the most popular girl in school
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uh helping out the nerdiest kid in
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school from getting picked on from
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bullies and then wandering off together.
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Uh the kid that was nobody talks about
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but everybody knew he was his family was
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very very poor. Uh showing up to school
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on lunch with a uh 1987 Porsche 969. Uh
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cuz that's a thing that that happened.
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Uh and then just tons of little small
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occurrences uh like that where uh people
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were maybe getting something that they
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they normally wouldn't have or uh acting
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some way that they normally wouldn't. Uh
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and then uh they found themselves
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convening in the bookstore where re
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works where they were investigating upon
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themselves uh this little uh coin purse
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that had been left behind after Jeffrey
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was uh getting picked on by some
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bullies. uh in which they then looked up
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to see uh Tiffany and Jeffrey holding
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hands, laughing and giggling heading
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towards the movies and that's where we
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will pick back up. Uh so yeah, you are
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all kind of
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taken aback by this. Uh I think you all
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stopped doing what you're doing and
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talking about as you just happened to
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see this. Um and now I turn it back over
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to you guys. What do you do?
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Um, I'm gonna
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like
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like how far away are they? Like are
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they already past the front of the
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store? Are they already like 20 yards
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down? Where are they?
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>> We're picking up where they had just
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passed the front of the store.
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>> Okay.
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Should I just give it back to him?
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>> I mean, that would be what I was
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thinking because it is kind of not
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>> I don't know if it's his. Maybe it
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isn't. I could just say, "Hey, is this
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yours? Did you drop this?" I mean, yeah.
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I mean, he knows me, too. I can run up
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and talk to him if you don't want to
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because I know you.
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>> If you want to. Yeah, definitely.
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>> You talk to him and I'll just be there.
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>> Okay. Here. Give me, give me, give me,
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give me. And I just start like grabbing
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for the little pouch thing.
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>> Yo. Yo, don't grab it too hard. It's not
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in great shape.
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>> Okay. And I just hold my hand out so you
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can just pass it to me.
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>> Yeah, I do that. And I like go bolting
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to run out the store and realize I still
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have an armful of books and I drop them
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at the counter and be like be right back
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to whoever is working the counter and I
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bolt outside. Jeff,
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>> break you have a a pile of books dropped
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in front of you.
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>> I am following [laughter]
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>> I'm just kind of sauntering. I don't
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have to like she can go full boore and I
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can just take a step and catch up
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because like I said, you know, she's
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down there and I'm up here. So like
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literally don't have to spend any energy
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to keep up. I just sauna.
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>> Yeah. Uh R Randall takes the copy of
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Left Hand of Darkness that he has been
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perusing and just surreptitiously puts
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it in the middle of uh Jenny's pile of
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books and then follows them out because
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this seems like it's more interesting
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than whatever's happening inside.
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>> Okay. Uh yeah, Jenny, you're able to I
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mean, they're not exactly like moving
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quickly, so like and they adjusting
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hands. Yeah.
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>> Yeah. They're they're they're sort of
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meandering together. Um so yeah, you you
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catch up to them no problem.
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Hey. Um, hi Tiffany. I'm really sorry to
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interrupt. Jeff, sorry to interrupt. You
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two look like you're having a really
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good time. Um, I'm [clears throat]
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really sorry those kids were really mean
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to you at school. They shouldn't have
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been. Uh, right after we found this on
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the ground, like right where you got
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knocked down, and we were wondering if
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it was yours and we wanted to make sure
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that we returned it if it is.
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>> Uh, and he looks, oh, uh, hi, hi, Jenny.
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Um, yeah. No, no, thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you so much. That's definitely
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mine. Uh, and he goes to reach out for
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it and before he can, uh, Tiffany
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snatches it out of your hand and just
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gives you a glaring look, uh, and then
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like hands it to to Jeffrey. Uh, and you
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can see her body language is very
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defensive. Um, she's standing a little
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bit forward of Jeffrey, uh, and just
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kind of looking at you. All right. Well,
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you you did what you needed to do, so
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you can go now. Yeah, that's all I was
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going to do, Tiffany. I was just
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returning something that he lost because
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it's the right thing to do. I'm sorry to
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interrupt your date.
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>> You're You're right. You're sorry. And
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then she turns back to Jeffree. Come on.
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Let's Let's go. We're going to be late
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for the movie, honey. And then starts
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pulling at him to lead him away from
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you.
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>> I very loudly like walking back towards
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my brother. I'm just like,
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>> "No, I'm up.
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>> She's being super mean to me." And she's
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usually not like that with me. You turn
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around to do that and I'm there. Like I
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am right there and I am like glaring at
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Tiffany.
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>> Tiffany does not clock you or care about
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you at all and is not even looking back.
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She is literally trying to drag Jeff and
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uh Jeff is looking back uh and just like
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has this like he's mouththing I'm sorry
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uh to you. Uh Jeff has never been You've
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never had a problem with Jeff before?
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>> I don't I don't have any problem with
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him now. It's what the hell's up with
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your girlfriend, man.
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>> And and then uh Tiffany notices that
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he's looking at you and just grabs his
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face and moves it back towards her and
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gives him a kiss and then he just melts
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and starts following her.
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>> Okay. Not only is that weird, you're 10,
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>> right? Like
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>> what you think you were going to do?
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Jump him.
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>> Ew.
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>> That's Yeah, exactly.
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F. I'm like more animated than anyone
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sees me normally. I'm like super like
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just
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>> I think you all see this happening. Uh I
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I think it's I mean Randall we know was
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outside watching this. Uh Reed, this is
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not too far from the the front of the
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store and you got a pretty good view of
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what's going on and the doors open. You
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can hear all the exchanges.
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>> Well, we come back like we go back in
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cuz I'm like I got to get away from
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that.
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>> Okay. Um, so is she an alien, do you
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think?
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>> I mean, that's that's a lot more like
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the Tiffany I remember, though. I mean,
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that seems a lot more in character for
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Tiffany.
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>> Yeah, but did the Tiffany remember
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towards me? I'm
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>> the the Tiffany I remember would not be
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with Jeff, but that's a lot more
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Tiffanyike.
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>> Yeah, but it's that's not the weird
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part. The weird part is that she almost
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like I'm not sure if that was just that
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he was, you know, he got affected just
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because she's a hot girl kissing him,
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but he seemed like he went like and she
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just dragged him off.
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>> Like
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>> Tiff Tiffany Tiffany just does that. I
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mean,
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>> yeah, Tiffany's boyfriends usually go. I
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don't know if you ever talked to any of
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them, but
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>> yeah. I mean, it's worth talking like
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the most popular girl in school with the
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least popular guy in school. It's kind
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of a he's seeing stars kind of thing
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because he's batten way above his
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average.
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>> Um,
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>> wait wait wait wait a minute. So he's
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the least and she's the most.
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>> That is correct.
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>> So they're balancing.
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>> I'm gonna go I go I go find Does anyone
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have a notebook?
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>> Yeah, I've got
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>> Yeah. [laughter]
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>> Yeah, I know.
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>> I got one.
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I just literally like reach into my
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backpack and I just hand you a stack of
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loose leaf paper and a pen.
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>> All right. All right. The pencil would
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be better. All right. All right. I'm
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going to like do
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>> I pull a pencil out as soon as you say
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that.
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>> Okay. [laughter] Thanks. I do like a the
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whole the um the Tibetan endless knot as
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one of the eight auspicious symbols. And
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I I break down what I read. I'm like, I
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don't I mean, it was weird that I found
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the book in the first place because I've
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been looking for it for months. And no
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offense, Reed, but this place is not
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exactly a a specialty bookstore.
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>> Yeah. No offense taken.
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>> And yeah, boom. Granted, it was like
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some kind of time life mysteries of the
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occult, but still I I don't this this is
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weird. like this is the whole idea of
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this particular symbol uh the agamela I
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think it's called uh the endless knot is
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that it is based around this similar to
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the one I showed you guys before but not
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is it's it's not as is based on personal
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stuff it's more like a universal like
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like the the dharma karma whatever it's
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called it's about like how if you do
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something bad over here something good
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over here happens to counterbalance that
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the whole thing is connected. Everything
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is part of this cycle, this knot. It's
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like, you know, everything if you have
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one rope, you tie in a knot, every part
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of that knot is still part of the one
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rope. It's it's like kind of like that.
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And I'm sorry, like the poorest person
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we know has suddenly, you know, the the
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richest car you've ever seen and the the
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most the most
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>> popular girl, least popular guy,
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>> does that mean that the richest person
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that we know is now broke or something?
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>> Jeffrey's family. Jeffrey was
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Jeffy's family, the Gundersons, they
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were they were rich.
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>> I mean, maybe we need to kind of point
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>> of point of order. Jeffrey was not the
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poor person.
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>> No, that was
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>> Yeah, but the Yeah. Who had the Porsche?
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>> I don't know. All I know is we Yeah.
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>> Yeah. I'm
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>> Didn't he want us to write a paper?
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>> Yeah. Well, we have a thing we have to
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do anyway. We've got to figure out about
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like luck in this town. Like
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maybe that little coin pouch had
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something to do with like extra luck,
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but where would come in on all of that?
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>> He took it back, right?
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>> Well, she took it from me and handed it
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to him.
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>> Yeah, he's got it again now.
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>> But if it's about the coin purse, then
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why did Mishka
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have
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>> Yeah, that's why that's why I'm
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confused. Like is it something that
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maybe Mar like I don't know if they're
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related or if or what's going on like
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luckwise, but like you had it and all of
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a sudden this book that you've been
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looking for for ages is just randomly in
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our bookstore and then it's never been
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there before and like you couldn't
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special order it or something.
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>> I've tried to get this book for like two
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years. I mean, not
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>> and then all of a sudden it's just here.
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>> So Jenny, um
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you you definitely clock that, right?
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like this is something that the book in
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particular is something that uh Jacob
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has been talking about wanting for a
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while and again we're in the time before
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Amazon folks this you you have to order
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it through a bookstore um and just
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hasn't been able to get it in. Um,
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I'm going to actually say that that
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I don't want to I I don't want to go too
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deep in that, but yeah, you you
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definitely this is something you were
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you were really looking for, Jacob.
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>> Yeah. I mean, for, you know, I I've
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wanted to do the the Tibetan stuff
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forever. I just couldn't get anything on
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it. Like, there's just not a ton of,
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especially in late 80s, early 90s US,
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upstate New York. The idea that I'd be
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able to find like a specialty book on
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Tibetan folklore and mysticism, not that
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common.
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>> So, yeah. I mean, what do you what are
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you guys going to do in this moment? You
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have you have the entire town
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>> uh at your disposal essentially?
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>> Well,
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who took the best notes from the from
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today's history lecture?
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>> Jenny. [laughter]
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>> Hang on. I go I go find a question.
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Yeah,
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>> I'm looking I'm looking at my notebook,
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which is half notes, half pineapple
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doodles.
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>> Um,
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>> trust me,
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>> I go plunk down at like one of the I
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mean, it's like a localish bookstore
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where it's got like tables and stuff,
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right, where you can like do a little
15:46
bit of studying in between. I pop my
15:48
backpack down and I pull out like this
15:50
massive massive like three- ring binder,
15:52
like one of the early Trapper Keeper
15:54
kind of things, and I just plunk it down
15:56
and I flip to history and I flip to
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where like all of my redone better notes
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are, and it's all like colorcoded and
16:03
highlighted, and it's like
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[clears throat] here.
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>> She's got the special red pen that she
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only uses when she crosses out something
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she said.
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>> Well, yeah, that's important. Obviously,
16:13
>> notes for her notes.
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>> Yeah. M
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>> uh Randall has uh surreptitiously stolen
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Rey's notebook and is drawing an upside
16:21
down pineapple in it because he knows
16:22
what that means. [laughter]
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>> Um
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okay, so we've got to do something about
16:30
the history of the town, right?
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>> Or no, just about wasn't like how the
16:36
town has affected you.
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>> So Jenny's Jenny's notes were very are
16:41
very clear on this one where uh Mr.
16:43
house um has basically said that he
16:47
wants you to go out and discover the
16:50
stories of the town. Ask the people who
16:53
live here uh or do investigation however
16:56
you want to to uncover the history of
16:58
the town something local and then to
17:01
write a paper about what you learn.
17:05
>> Talk to like
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>> and the librarian or the mayor. He was,
17:11
but he was talking about Jeffrey
17:13
Pineapple, right? And having this weird
17:16
luck.
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>> This can't be a coincidence. This can't
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just be a coincidence
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>> that we were just talking about this
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>> super old and she knows like everything
17:28
and we could probably go talk to her and
17:30
nobody ever talks to her.
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>> That is a very good That's a very good
17:34
idea. What is that person's name?
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Magdalina. Oh, heresy. [laughter]
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>> Sorry. Oh, heresy.
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>> Yep. Oh, heresy.
17:47
[laughter]
17:47
>> My Warhammer brain just exploded with
17:49
ideas a little bit.
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>> Feel free to like change her last name
17:53
or whatever. I just like Magdalene.
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>> Oh, no. We're going to go talk to Mrs.
17:57
O'Haresy.
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>> [laughter]
17:59
>> Uh so yeah, you you guys you guys are
18:01
talking about this and you know that the
18:03
oldest person in town uh who is somehow
18:07
above the age of 100 uh and still
18:10
kicking around uh is uh Maggie O'Haresy.
18:14
Uh she, you know, very conveniently
18:17
lives in the old folks home.
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>> Is that a married name?
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>> I don't know that you guys would know
18:23
that your kids.
18:25
Um, she's definitely she's over in the
18:27
old folks home, but she is uh she's
18:30
definitely there and uh you guys can can
18:32
probably make your way over there if you
18:33
wanted to and see if you can uh reach
18:36
out to her.
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>> Yeah, I mean, Mrs. O'Harees has like
18:40
been around for a really long time and
18:41
she doesn't get a whole lot of visitors.
18:43
Maybe we just go be nice and see if she
18:44
can give us any kind of information
18:46
>> and maybe keep an eye out for other
18:49
signs of people who are very lucky today
18:51
or very unlucky. If what you were
18:54
saying, Jacob, about
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balance is right, someone has to be
19:00
unlucky.
19:03
>> I mean, you know, uh Jeff got his got
19:06
was on the verge of getting a beating
19:07
and then suddenly
19:08
>> that's just like every day. That's every
19:10
other day that happens to Jeff.
19:12
>> Wow. [laughter]
19:13
That's just every day. I'm not arguing
19:15
with you, but
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>> it is kind of true. Like I try to be
19:19
really nice to him because everybody
19:20
else is really really not nice to him.
19:22
Like he gets bullied a lot. Like he got
19:24
shoved in a locker yesterday and now all
19:27
of a sudden he's dating the it girl from
19:29
school.
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>> I mean
19:32
I'm going to go buy this book before
19:34
somehow I lose it. I mean I'm sure
19:37
>> I just grab it out of your hands and I
19:39
walk up to the counter and put it with
19:40
the pile of stuff.
19:42
>> I can buy my own book.
19:43
>> I know. But mom and dad have a whole
19:45
like account tab here for me to just
19:47
pick up books whenever I want. I don't
19:49
mind putting it on here. I'll just tell
19:51
them I'm learning something.
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>> Yeah, because god forbid anyone believe
19:55
I might read a book.
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>> I mean, I believe you read books.
20:02
>> When I
20:03
>> Mom and dad are going to question a big
20:04
expensive book if it's coming from you,
20:06
they're not going to question it for me.
20:07
And you need to save your money for
20:08
stuff that you want to do with it. I do
20:10
pay attention, you know.
20:12
>> I mean, the book is what I would do with
20:14
it. But yeah, look, I'm not when when I
20:17
say stuff like that, it's at them. It's
20:18
not at you. It's not your fault.
20:19
>> I know. I'm just saying
20:21
>> just let me put it on the tab and
20:23
they'll just pay for it and they don't
20:24
even care.
20:25
>> Fine.
20:27
>> I put like this whole stack of books on
20:29
the counter plus like the big stack of
20:31
all the college books and stuff that are
20:32
way more expensive than everything else
20:34
and there's just like two massive stacks
20:36
of books sitting there and I go through
20:40
them and check it out and put it on the
20:42
tab and I slip you an extra Sweet Valley
20:46
High book. This one's really good.
20:48
>> Thank Not that I would know that.
20:50
>> And I grab uh
20:52
>> And then I grab Randall's book and I
20:54
hand it to Randall because I knew it was
20:55
in the middle of the pile and I checked
20:56
it out with my stuff anyway. [laughter]
20:57
And then I hand my brother his book.
21:00
>> I think Randall
21:01
>> and I grab everything else. And I'm just
21:03
like,
21:04
>> do we have a place we can put this where
21:06
I don't have to carry it around? Is
21:07
really heavy. The vet are going to put
21:08
it in the basket.
21:10
>> I can say that
21:12
>> I can stock it behind the counter to
21:13
pick up later if you want.
21:14
>> Well, you can do that. Uh, I will say
21:16
that it's getting around 8:00 at night,
21:18
which is generally about the time the
21:19
bookstore starts to close down. Um,
21:22
while there are still restaurants and
21:23
other stuff in the in the town that are
21:25
open, uh, later, like the movie theater
21:27
and and bars, of course.
21:29
>> Just give it to me. Put it I'll put it
21:31
in my backpack and take it home. You
21:32
guys can go talk to Miss Oeresy.
21:36
>> Meresy's probably sleeping. Maybe we all
21:38
just go to bed and then we like go first
21:41
thing in the morning because it's
21:42
Saturday and go be nice.
21:44
All right. Like just, you know, like I
21:46
said, throw out my backpack. I can carry
21:48
it. It's not that big a deal.
21:50
>> Yeah.
21:52
>> And I think at that point you guys uh
21:54
you you uh go outside, you wait for Rita
21:57
to close up the shop. Uh you all hop on
22:00
your bikes and you head home since you
22:01
all live in the same neighborhood. Um
22:03
all down the road from each other.
22:05
>> Randall, who drives in yet because even
22:06
though he's got a car, he's the last one
22:08
to get there. [laughter]
22:09
>> Yep.
22:11
Um, and then you wind up uh you wind up
22:14
getting home you and and everybody has a
22:16
nice quiet evening. Uh, your parents ask
22:18
you how your day was in the
22:20
stereotypical 1980s, 1990s way of uh
22:23
asking their kids what they did all day
22:25
without really caring what their kids
22:26
did all day. Um,
22:28
>> no, that's not true. Our parents are
22:30
helicoptering on Jenny. Me,
22:32
>> only Jenny. Yeah.
22:35
Um, and then you wind up going to bed
22:37
for the evening. Uh, and nothing
22:39
eventful happens. Um, you wake up the
22:42
next day and you guys can pick right
22:44
back up on Saturday morning. Unless
22:47
there was anything specific you wanted
22:48
to do at night before you went to bed.
22:51
I'm just reading up on the symbols, the
22:54
auspicious symbols because I'm curious
22:55
about them and if how they might be
22:57
related to all this. If they are, they
23:00
might not be. Might just be that the
23:01
book showed up. But it is to me really
23:03
weird that the book showed up all of a
23:05
sudden.
23:06
M.
23:07
>> Okay.
23:10
>> All right.
23:10
>> I think Jenny just sits there and does
23:11
all of her studying that she's got to do
23:13
for like the whole weekend in one shot.
23:15
She just goes over all of her notes,
23:17
make sure everything's right, and then
23:18
just puts it all away.
23:22
>> All right.
23:23
I think uh
23:25
>> Re is going to
23:28
she has a way to climb out her window up
23:30
onto the roof and like watch the stars
23:32
sometimes and just kind of scanning the
23:34
city while she's up there such as she
23:36
can see from like the second story of
23:38
her house and like see if anything it
23:41
it's a weird unsettling day. Is there
23:43
anything weird out here? which maybe she
23:47
doesn't see anything, but just kind of
23:50
vibing
23:51
and watching the stars for a couple
23:53
hours before coming back in and going to
23:54
bed.
23:55
>> Yeah, I'd say that, you know, it's
23:58
definitely been a weird day for you and
23:59
as you hang out on the roof, um to call
24:03
it that there's an odd energy in the air
24:05
is probably the best way to describe it.
24:08
>> Everything just feels a little off. Um
24:12
you like the stuff you've seen today uh
24:15
and the town seems uh pretty
24:19
I mean otherwise it looks normal like as
24:22
you're sitting up here looking at the
24:23
rest of the town.
24:24
>> Uh the lights that you would expect to
24:25
see are on. There's no like explosions
24:27
or ninjas or alien spaceships coming
24:30
down and like abducting people or
24:32
anything like that. Uh it's just the
24:34
normal sleepy time activities that you
24:36
expect from the town. Uh but you do you
24:38
do just catch this feeling that just
24:40
like something is on the air. Uh and
24:44
with tomorrow being uh the uh 150th
24:48
anniversary of the town founding. Um
24:51
some of it you chalk up to just people
24:52
getting ready for it. um and the party
24:55
that's going to be happening on Saturday
24:57
night and the uh middle of the uh the
25:00
town over at uh what's called Pineapples
25:04
Pond uh which is the central fountain
25:08
located at the the the middle of like
25:10
this main street goes up to it and then
25:13
goes around it and back through it. Um
25:16
but like it's the main town square
25:18
essentially. Um so everybody is setting
25:20
up for there. Uh, and you're sure that
25:22
it's there some of the nervous energy is
25:24
probably from that. 150 years of
25:27
surviving is a pretty big thing for for
25:29
a town,
25:31
but nothing else out of the ordinary.
25:32
And you can you wind up crawling back in
25:34
and and going back to or going to sleep.
25:37
Uh, does Randall do anything before he
25:40
goes to bed?
25:42
>> Uh, Randall has uh we we've established
25:44
that Randall has the Nintendo.
25:46
>> Uh, technically Randall has the Sega
25:48
Genesis. Uh, so Randall uh plays video
25:51
games way too late for a Friday night
25:53
and then goes to bed.
25:54
>> Altered beast, isn't it?
25:55
>> Uh, it's definitely Altered Beast. Yeah.
25:57
[laughter]
25:59
>> All right. Again, the evening passes
26:02
peacefully with your activities. Uh, you
26:04
wake up Saturday morning. Um, I think
26:08
uh Re, Jacob, and Jinny are probably uh
26:12
awake well before Randall. Um, and I
26:15
think that they probably wind up uh
26:17
going to Randall's house. And I don't
26:19
know why, but Randall strikes me as the
26:21
type of kid that like has the bedroom in
26:22
the basement type deal. And like there's
26:25
a door that leads directly down to the
26:27
basement from the outside. So, you have
26:28
like your own little personal apartment
26:30
space almost kind of.
26:31
>> Yeah, that sounds like it. I I think his
26:33
parents have just kind of established at
26:34
this point that they can't really do
26:35
anything with him. So, they're just
26:36
like, "All right, you got your own
26:38
space. We're going to ignore you. Don't
26:39
burn the house down.
26:40
>> Just keep him contained." Like, he's not
26:42
a bad kid. He's [laughter] just not a
26:44
good kid either. He just kind of exists.
26:45
So, whatever.
26:46
>> He just does. Yeah, he doesn't really do
26:48
anything. So,
26:50
>> just
26:50
>> And I think you're I think you're woken
26:52
up by the the banging on the door. And I
26:55
I suspect, and you guys can correct me
26:57
if I'm wrong, this seems like a jinny
26:58
energy.
27:01
>> Yeah. Well, certainly I'm I'm probably
27:03
more likely to just be in his house when
27:05
he gets up. Like there's windows.
27:08
Um
27:10
>> Oh [laughter] my god, you're creepy.
27:12
Yeah. Look, you're surprised.
27:15
>> I'm I'm I'm gonna like toss like a
27:19
softball at the window.
27:22
>> Wow. Okay. So, we're breaking my windows
27:25
now.
27:26
>> No. Okay. Maybe not a soft Maybe like a
27:28
basketball. Like something that's not
27:30
going to break a window, but make a
27:32
racket.
27:33
>> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a basement
27:35
window. It's fine. Yeah. Uh yeah. If
27:37
anybody's banging on the door, it
27:38
definitely has Big Jenny energy. So, uh
27:41
Yeah. I think just like at the door
27:43
blurry eyed. What?
27:44
>> I think Jacob Jacob is stalking. Re is
27:46
trying to figure out what to throw at
27:48
the window and then Jinny just like
27:49
walks up to the door.
27:51
>> Yeah. I literally just roll my eyes and
27:52
walk up and ring the doorbell.
27:55
>> Yeah. What? Oh. Oh, right. You guys are
27:58
going to talk to the old lady today.
28:01
>> Yeah. I'm sorry [sighs] to wake you up.
28:02
You're gonna come with?
28:04
>> Yeah. What else am I going to do? Hang
28:06
out here all day? he says, looking
28:08
wistfully at the Sega Genesis with a
28:10
copy beltered beast.
28:12
>> Uh, yeah.
28:13
>> Oh, man. You got a Sega.
28:16
>> I got to just point this out.
28:18
>> If she's real old, then she probably
28:20
doesn't want to be woken up.
28:22
>> That's true.
28:22
>> She's real old, she's probably already
28:24
awake.
28:25
>> Yeah, but I'm just saying maybe we could
28:27
play Altered Beast for an hour. That's
28:29
all I want to say. [laughter]
28:31
>> I'm here for that. I'll watch.
28:33
>> All right. Yeah. I mean, yeah, my
28:35
grandma gets up at like 5, so old people
28:37
old people have weird relations at time,
28:39
but yeah, you guys can hang out for a
28:40
little bit if you want.
28:42
>> And I think that's how you spend your
28:44
[laughter] little quick part of the
28:45
morning. Um, you uh you play some
28:49
Altered Beast. Randall is uh busy having
28:52
a cigarette and smoking a smoking a
28:54
cigarette and having a cup of coffee uh
28:57
[laughter]
28:57
cuz he's a big man.
29:00
>> He is the oldest teenager in the world.
29:01
He
29:01
>> is the oldest teenager [laughter] in the
29:02
world.
29:04
How old are you? 18. How long have you
29:06
been routine? A while. [laughter]
29:09
>> You know,
29:11
>> one of those 18-year-olds that started
29:12
smoking when he was like 15, first got
29:14
into high school, and just
29:15
>> Yeah, absolutely. Yes. He's been
29:17
drinking coffee since he was
29:18
>> I am not that stereotype at all, and
29:20
we're going to move on from that.
29:22
[laughter]
29:23
The dorsiest and hairiest of
29:25
15year-olds.
29:28
Uh but you guys you guys finish your
29:29
altered beast session and you wind up
29:31
making your way uh across town to Shady
29:34
Acres uh the retirement home for the old
29:38
folks. It's actually a very nice house
29:40
um on the other side of town. Uh old
29:43
Victorian style really large um plenty
29:47
of attendance and you can see a bunch of
29:49
the older folks that have uh maybe uh
29:52
been moved here by their families. Uh
29:54
there's plenty of folks visiting them.
29:56
Uh, this is not a neglectful place.
29:58
>> No, I'm pretty sure this is where
29:59
Grandpa Big Jake uh ended up where he
30:02
>> Yeah. And and you would remember that
30:04
too, like your your your grandfather um
30:07
actually really liked it here and uh he
30:10
led a whole bunch of arts and uh crafts
30:12
classes and uh stuff like that. And you
30:14
spent a lot of time here and I think a
30:16
couple of the residents actually
30:17
remember you um and they will uh you
30:20
know they they'll wave to you and you
30:23
know, hi Jacob. I I I know it's Jacob,
30:25
not not little Jake. Jacob, I
30:27
understand. I remember you're you look
30:29
just like your grandfather. Uh and you
30:32
know, uh Mrs. Jameson like pinches your
30:35
cheeks and uh you know, oh, you're so
30:38
handsome, just like he was. You bet
30:40
you're a real lady killer.
30:43
>> No,
30:45
that's what they all say. He starts
30:46
giggling and like all the like the all
30:48
the old people are fawning over you cuz
30:49
like again you spent a lot of time with
30:51
your grandfather and they absolutely
30:54
adore you for that because their
30:56
grandchildren barely ever visit them.
30:58
[laughter]
30:59
>> Yeah, I I I was getting that sense. Um
31:03
uh what was we're looking for? U Miss
31:06
Heresy. Uh we got
31:08
>> Oh, Maggie.
31:10
>> Yeah, got some questions to ask her.
31:13
>> Oh, no problem at all, sweetie. She's
31:15
she's in the back on the on the the
31:17
patio in the garden. Um that's where she
31:19
spends every morning. You can go find
31:21
her. I'm sure she's she'd love some
31:23
company. You know, her kids don't visit
31:25
her. They're they're awful. They might
31:27
be dead.
31:29
>> Well, maybe. I don't know.
31:31
>> Wow.
31:33
>> I'm just saying that she's likeund
31:35
something, you know.
31:37
>> You don't just say that
31:40
>> again. I am awkward stretch. [laughter]
31:46
You guys can
31:47
>> I have this awkward thing as you see a
31:49
bunch of the old folks just kind of like
31:50
look at each other and to kind of like
31:52
do the the under their breath like
31:53
tutting. Um I'm sorry I you know it was
31:57
nice seeing you.
31:58
>> Let's go, lady killer. [laughter]
32:02
>> And you guys can head around to the back
32:03
of the the property and it's a it's
32:05
again it's a rather large home. Uh and
32:07
the back is absolutely gorgeous. You can
32:09
see that there is a rather large patio
32:11
that spans the entire back portion of
32:13
the house. Um, plenty of chairs and for
32:16
the residents to come out and uh have
32:18
tea or lunch or sun uh just sunbathe
32:21
themselves essentially like soak up the
32:22
rays of the sun. Um, there's a little
32:25
garden in the back that looks like many
32:27
of the residents are tending to. Plenty
32:29
of large rose bushes and uh your
32:32
stereotypical like you know keep
32:34
yourself busy type of project for the
32:36
old folks. Uh, and you see Maggie.
32:38
Maggie O'Haresy uh just sitting on the
32:40
on the the veranda in her wheelchair uh
32:43
just kind of smiling and uh you know
32:47
kind of looking out on everything. She's
32:48
got a little thing of iced tea with her
32:50
and she's just kind of soaking up the
32:53
rays of the sun.
32:58
>> Good day when you can just sit outside
32:59
and enjoy the sun.
33:01
>> I guess I'm going to have to be the face
33:03
character here. Um, I am very awkwardly
33:06
shuffling my way over. Uh, Miss Heresy,
33:11
I
33:12
>> Oh, hello, Jacob. How you doing, boy?
33:16
>> Um, I'm okay. This This is my sister,
33:18
Jenny. I don't know if you ever met
33:19
Jenny. Uh,
33:21
>> oh, she's the smart one, isn't she?
33:23
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
33:25
>> Look at you. Look at you. Come over
33:27
here, dear. Come over here. Don't Don't
33:29
be shy.
33:32
If Jenny isn't going, I kind of give you
33:33
a little shuff.
33:34
>> I I walk up just a little bit. Um, hi
33:38
Mrs. O'Haresy. I haven't seen you for a
33:40
few years. How are you doing?
33:42
>> Oh, I'm just lovely, dear. How have you
33:45
been doing? How's school?
33:47
>> Really busy. It's really tiring.
33:51
>> Oh, I know. It's It's so tough being so
33:53
smart and so pretty, isn't it? And she
33:56
like like pinches your cheek and she's
33:58
like, "Ah, I was going to be like you
34:00
once. I was going to run the world. Uh
34:03
but then uh life had other plans, but
34:06
not you. You're going to be a big shot.
34:08
I can tell. You're going to be so great.
34:13
>> Um thank you. I don't know how great I
34:16
actually kind of want to be. I just
34:17
really want to get done with school cuz
34:20
I'm younger than everybody else and it's
34:22
kind of rough. And then she she kind of
34:25
she leans over and and as she leans
34:27
over, she kind of whispers, "You'll be
34:29
great at whatever you decide to do,
34:30
dear. Even if it's not run the world,
34:33
just make sure it's what you want to
34:35
do." And then as she lean as she comes
34:38
and and goes to sit back, uh she reaches
34:40
over to the table and pulls a a poppy uh
34:44
from the planter, the little uh
34:46
centerpiece on the table, and tucks it
34:48
behind your ear.
34:51
>> Thank you.
34:53
Appreciate it.
34:55
>> Well, I know you all a lot didn't just
34:57
come here to to visit an old lady. Uh
35:01
what what can I do for you youngans?
35:03
It's it's not often we get your year
35:05
here. Especially since and she looks
35:07
over at Jacob uh engine especially since
35:10
uh Big Jake passed. I'm still so sorry
35:12
about that.
35:14
>> Yeah. Uh yeah, that that that was I kind
35:20
of trail off like I I very much
35:23
unfocused and don't really look like I
35:25
know what to say.
35:27
>> You know, your your your grandfather and
35:30
my husband were like best of friends.
35:32
Did he ever tell you?
35:34
>> Uh mostly he talked about being on the
35:38
Lake Erie and and the Great Lakes doing
35:41
shipping when he was younger. Uh, was
35:44
your husband one of the guys on the
35:46
boat? Cuz he talked about those guys
35:48
mostly.
35:50
>> Yeah, he was. He was one of the shipans
35:52
with your with your granddad.
35:55
>> Then, uh, your your husband was probably
35:59
either Rosco,
36:02
uh,
36:04
Skip or Terrannius,
36:08
right? Those are the three guys he
36:09
mentions. Mention
36:10
>> ah, Tyrannius. Yeah, that was him. That
36:12
was it was my beautiful what the [ __ ]
36:14
daddy. He was such a lovely man.
36:20
Uh then maybe you could the reason we
36:23
came um Jenny actually suggested it. Uh
36:27
there's we're supposed to do this paper
36:31
um about like we're going to write about
36:33
the history of the town. They they were
36:35
talking about Mr. pineapple. Um, and how
36:39
I mean there's a rumor he like was invol
36:42
he was like he got shot and nothing
36:43
happened and fell 100 feet and didn't
36:45
die. And then one day they found him
36:47
drowned outside in a dry day and you
36:51
know he was like
36:53
that we're just kind of like looking
36:55
into like that and like if what was
36:57
really going on with him uh cuz cuz that
37:00
seemed like that's what he wanted us to
37:02
talk about. So maybe you know something.
37:05
>> Uh you notice she gets a little taken
37:09
aback by that.
37:11
Oh, I I I'm certain I don't know much
37:15
about the pineapples or the the founding
37:19
fathers. Um and I'm going to need you
37:22
guys to make a charm check somebody.
37:27
>> Oh wow. I'm the Viking there because she
37:30
is uh she is very clearly uncomfortable
37:33
about this
37:36
>> charm. You said
37:37
>> charm.
37:38
>> It's a D for me.
37:40
>> See, I'm pretty good at it, but I also
37:41
haven't talked to her yet. [laughter]
37:44
>> Kind of disengaged in this.
37:46
>> I'm going to I'm going to make a roll
37:47
and if it goes well, I'll cut in.
37:50
>> I rolled a six.
37:52
>> I rolled a five.
37:56
I'm going to roll cuz I have a lead in
37:57
if I do well. Ah, can't roll. Uh, nope.
38:01
I rolled a one [laughter]
38:05
on a d12. I'm not paying attention to
38:07
this,
38:08
>> Jacob. Uh, I I have a d4 and I rolled a
38:12
four.
38:12
>> So, roll again.
38:21
Okay, I'm gonna start taking pictures
38:22
when I roll this thing because another
38:24
four.
38:26
I mean, there's a one of that. So, it's
38:28
pretty good. [laughter]
38:32
>> Okay, thank god. Um, just a one this
38:35
time. So, four and four is eight and one
38:37
Norton is nine.
38:39
>> And I got I got the intuitive thing. I
38:41
don't know what that does in this
38:42
situation, if anything. Uh,
38:45
intuitive I think is going to give you a
38:47
slight bonus unless you want to ask a
38:48
specific question.
38:50
>> Oh, you have to you have to spend an
38:52
adversity token, but then you can just
38:54
ask a question.
38:55
>> Yeah.
38:56
>> Okay. Um,
38:57
>> but you don't have an adversity token.
38:59
You haven't failed.
39:00
>> Yeah.
39:00
>> However, I will say that Phil, you
39:02
failed pretty spectacularly at your
39:04
charm. So, I'm going to give you uh an
39:07
adversity token um
39:10
>> to spend later as you you start I think
39:13
you try to like edge your way into the
39:15
conversation and just like do a
39:16
spectacular job of like spouting off
39:19
some nonsense and then she just like
39:21
completely ignores you.
39:23
>> That's fair.
39:25
Um she she looks at you uh Jacob and her
39:29
her trepidation softens a little bit and
39:32
her features uh sort of relax. U she
39:35
looks at all of you. She's like
39:38
well I'm not going to do it out here. So
39:40
follow me. And she starts wheeling back
39:42
into the house and you follow I'm
39:44
assuming you guys all follow her in.
39:46
>> Yeah.
39:47
>> Yeah. Uh, and she takes you back through
39:50
and she says hello to a bunch of the the
39:52
staff that are working and uh she takes
39:55
you to her room and once everybody's in
39:57
she closes the door and all of you
40:00
notice um that it's not your it's very
40:03
much your stereotypical old woman's room
40:06
um that you've seen from TV. Chachkis
40:08
all over the place, doilies on
40:09
everything. um deep comforters despite
40:12
the fact that it is summer uh or summer
40:16
adjacent like we're coming up on uh on
40:18
summer here soon shortly. So the days
40:21
are getting warmer and longer and yet
40:23
there's still you know eight comforters
40:25
on the bed. Um, but you also notice
40:29
around the walls are pictures and
40:33
paintings and among the chachkis are uh
40:38
little trinkets and they all look like
40:41
they are
40:43
very similar
40:45
or adjacent to stuff that Jacob you were
40:50
reading about in your book.
40:52
>> Like one's two fishes. like one's two
40:54
fishes,
40:55
>> one's another representation of the
40:57
dharma knot, one looks like it is
40:59
>> uh looks like paintings of what you
41:02
would assume would possibly be deities.
41:05
Um like intertwined and like holding
41:08
hands and dancing. Um and then there's a
41:10
bunch of other stuff not just from
41:12
Tibetan culture. Uh it looks like stuff
41:14
from like possibly Chinese in origin,
41:17
Japanese in origin, uh stuff from the
41:19
Middle East. Um, and you flash back and
41:23
remember that your grandfather did talk
41:25
about the fact that he was a sailor and
41:27
it wasn't just on the Great Lakes, uh,
41:31
during the time of, you know, the wars.
41:35
He traveled the world. He was he was a
41:37
navy man. Um, and so he brought back
41:41
stuff occasionally from other places.
41:43
So, it's safe to assume, at least in
41:45
this moment, that the stuff here is
41:48
stuff that Tyrannis uh Tyrannius brought
41:51
back from his travels as well.
41:55
>> I saw that. I'm going to like point at
41:57
the two fishes. I saw that in a book I
41:59
found yesterday.
42:01
>> Oh, did you, Dear? Yeah. Uh, Terrannius
42:03
brought that back from uh, I want to say
42:06
he had to stay in some port town uh,
42:09
that had like a uh, I think it was
42:11
Tibetan population and he he wound up
42:15
picking up a bunch of this stuff from
42:16
there.
42:20
And she looks at everybody and as she
42:22
closes the door she's like,
42:25
"All right, what do you want to know?"
42:28
Um,
42:32
>> Jenny, maybe you should be doing the
42:34
talking. I'm not great at this.
42:36
>> Jenny has already crisscrossed sitting
42:38
on the floor with a notebook in her lap
42:39
and a pen. Um,
42:42
um, well, we have to try to get like
42:46
information about like what happened and
42:49
why Mr. Pineapple might have been so
42:52
super lucky and so not lucky. And we've
42:55
seen a lot of weird stuff going on
42:56
around town. Um, and we know like
42:58
today's the big anniversary celebration,
43:00
so they're going to be partying later,
43:01
but like we're just trying to kind of
43:04
get some information about the history
43:06
of the town and the history of Mr.
43:08
Pineapple and his possible luck that
43:13
founded the town and not just his
43:16
brains.
43:17
are
43:19
um sorry Jenny I don't mean to interrupt
43:22
but
43:23
>> no I mean I could you this is a little
43:25
confusing for me too
43:26
>> I like if there are any myths or things
43:30
that have happened local legend about
43:33
people being lucky because in the past
43:35
couple of days we have seen some some
43:39
kids from school who have been strangely
43:43
uh strangely lucky
43:46
And
43:49
>> seems like
43:51
>> Oh,
43:52
>> she she she looks a little frightened at
43:55
that. Uh and she turns to you, Jacob. Uh
43:59
Jacob, be a dear. Um see that uh that
44:02
bundle by the door? Can you light it for
44:05
me, please?
44:06
>> Okay. Um I'll go over and do that.
44:10
>> It looks like it's a bunch of herbs and
44:12
um [snorts] and whatnot. like a a floor
44:15
bouquet but dried like almost like
44:17
incense and you light it and that's
44:18
exactly what winds up like wafting um
44:21
smoke sort of lazily meanders to the the
44:25
ceiling quicker than you would expect um
44:28
and starts almost forming a ring around
44:31
the top of the room as the room is
44:34
filled with uh the herbaceious scent of
44:38
uh sage and rosemary and thyme um and a
44:43
very earthy the uh smell with it that
44:46
almost smells metallic in nature.
44:51
All right. Well, it was bound to happen
44:54
again at some point, I guess.
44:57
>> Jacob, Jenny, do you know your
44:59
grandfather uh and your family were one
45:01
of the founding members of this town?
45:02
Yeah.
45:04
>> No.
45:05
>> No. Uh grandpa did not talk a lot about
45:07
anything before him.
45:11
Well, your your grandfather
45:14
uh my husband and our family from
45:16
lineage from that side as well as the
45:18
pineapples,
45:20
they were all they were all servicemen
45:23
together. Their family going way back
45:26
way back past the 1800s.
45:30
They served in king's navies across uh
45:33
time in memorial.
45:36
They
45:37
all traveled to to to various places
45:41
together. Uh, and Mr. Pineapple himself
45:44
and the rest of them, they'd bring
45:46
trinkets and trophies home.
45:50
Well, it said, and there is no
45:52
confirmation of it. Uh, and she winks at
45:55
that
45:57
Mr. Pineapple found something in his
46:01
travels that allowed him to
46:05
make a bargain, a bargain with something
46:09
not of this world.
46:11
and she kind of nods at the painting on
46:15
the uh wall that depicts uh two
46:20
like beings. One beautiful and majestic
46:23
uh with four arms wrapped in uh red
46:26
robes with their uh hair pulled up. Um
46:31
holding hands and dancing with what
46:33
looks like an old withered crone uh
46:35
whose skin is gray hair silver. Um the
46:39
robe that they are wearing is uh you
46:42
know shoddy and and threadbear and
46:45
mothworn. Uh their hair is down and
46:48
unckempt. Also has four arms. Uh as it
46:51
looks like they're dancing around uh
46:54
what appears to be some form of water
46:56
source. Um nobody ever really knew if it
47:00
was true or not, but damn, that man was
47:03
lucky.
47:05
the the stories, at least from what was
47:08
passed down from
47:10
our family down through my husband and
47:12
and such, they're true. He was very
47:16
lucky.
47:18
Mr. uh Mr. Pineapple there, he
47:21
absolutely he was shot in a duel
47:25
twice,
47:28
lived
47:30
no scars to show for it.
47:33
His fortune came overnight.
47:38
The deal for this land, it wasn't for
47:41
sale. At least that's what we were told.
47:44
Yet somehow he bought it
47:48
and founded the town.
47:51
Everything was going sunshine and roses
47:53
for him until it wasn't.
47:58
Do you know the story about how he was
47:59
found in the street?
48:01
>> Uh yeah. our teacher told us about it.
48:05
>> It was a weird story to be told in
48:07
history class. I mean, that's not the
48:09
everyday history class thing.
48:12
>> Yeah, Mr. House is a weird one. He comes
48:14
by every now and then and asks ask
48:16
questions of some of the older folks.
48:18
Um,
48:20
no, he he was frown dead drowned in the
48:23
middle of town. There's no there was no
48:26
water, lake, pond, fountain even.
48:30
Nobody knew what happened. There was no
48:32
water trail, no anything.
48:36
And so the town did what the town always
48:37
does.
48:39
They stopped talking about it.
48:43
>> The fountain in the middle of town, the
48:45
one that bears his statue, it's on the
48:48
spot where he passed
48:50
as a remembrance of the man who founded
48:52
the town and trying to turn tragedy into
48:55
a good memory. Tried to, you know,
48:57
remember the good, not the bad. Seems a
49:00
little morbid to build a pond at the
49:03
place where someone drowned.
49:07
>> Yes, but also if I've learned anything
49:10
in my hundred years on this world,
49:12
deary, it's the fact that sometimes you
49:16
have to put something over something
49:18
else to keep it sealed.
49:21
>> Oh,
49:23
I've seen enough weird things in my time
49:25
here.
49:27
I've seen enough unexplainable things to
49:29
know that sometimes these stories are
49:32
maybe more than stories.
49:36
If you're going to go looking into this
49:38
stuff, deers,
49:42
please be careful.
49:46
>> Not even sure how to be careful when
49:48
chasing
49:50
legends, myths.
49:54
Uh, I'm going to just we when all this
49:57
weird stuff started happening, uh, I
49:59
found a a coin purse on the ground where
50:03
one of the people had been knocked down
50:05
and then picked up.
50:08
Uh, and while I had it, I went to the
50:13
bookstore and I was looking for a book
50:15
that I haven't been able to find for a
50:16
while. And I couldn't order it because
50:18
every time I tried to pre-order it, it
50:19
just was like, "Oh, they haven't printed
50:20
anyone in just a lot of stuff kept kept
50:24
happening. I couldn't get it." And it
50:26
was there
50:29
on [snorts] the on the shelf.
50:31
And then the guy who we like Jeff who
50:35
was the the guy who we originally saw
50:38
get wildly lucky in a way. Um
50:43
we saw him walk by and so we we went to
50:46
give it back to him and he said, "Yeah,
50:49
that's that's that was mine." And he had
50:53
it when the girl suddenly started acting
50:56
weird. Uh can someone explain to me like
50:59
the Tiffany deal? Like I I I'm not great
51:01
from keeping track of people.
51:03
>> Tiffany's the most popular girl in
51:05
school and Jeff is the most unpopular
51:09
boy at school and now they're dating.
51:11
>> Yeah. And Jeff had said he had it when
51:14
that all started, but he obviously
51:15
dropped it afterwards.
51:18
And I had it and I got the book I
51:20
wanted.
51:22
>> Well, dear. And can I see the can I see
51:26
the bag?
51:27
>> No, he took it. We gave it back to him.
51:29
Oh,
51:30
>> yeah. We didn't know like I mean we
51:33
don't usually keep things that aren't
51:34
ours because it's not the right thing to
51:36
do. So, we were returning it to him. And
51:38
Tiffany was really nasty to me and she
51:40
usually isn't, but he was like really
51:43
happy to get the bag back, but also like
51:45
just kind of paying attention to her. It
51:47
was really weird.
51:49
>> And she kind of she she nods as you're
51:52
saying all this. Well, I don't know what
51:54
it is for sure, dears. But
51:58
I don't think it's the bag.
52:01
I think it's whatever was in the bag.
52:05
>> There wasn't anything in it when we
52:07
looked.
52:08
>> Yeah, it just smelled like summer, you
52:09
said.
52:10
>> Kind of smelled like here, I think.
52:12
Right. It kind of smelled incensey but
52:14
summery.
52:16
It was like
52:18
>> it was like a summer barbecue being
52:20
outside and the grass is freshly cut and
52:24
everyone's having a good day.
52:26
>> Like the promise
52:27
>> smelled like
52:28
>> like the smelled like the promise of
52:30
that which is to come.
52:32
>> Yeah, I guess.
52:36
>> The I don't know what was in the pouch,
52:38
but I can tell you that the pouch was
52:40
probably containing it
52:42
>> and now it's just out to do whatever it
52:44
wants to do.
52:46
There is a story about luck throughout
52:48
this town's history where some folks
52:52
would have miraculous luck. They'd out
52:55
of nowhere they'd become super fortunate
52:58
or, you know, their acne would clear up
53:01
or their hair would grow back or they'd
53:03
get 3 in taller
53:07
or they'd fall in love.
53:12
But something always bad happened to
53:15
them after
53:17
>> like a balance.
53:21
>> You can't be really lucky without being
53:22
really unlucky.
53:25
>> And she looks at the the painting on the
53:27
wall again.
53:29
Something like that.
53:35
>> It always was one person,
53:38
never more.
53:40
It would come and it would go and the
53:44
town like always would stop talking
53:46
about it.
53:52
>> So, it sounds like something bad is
53:54
going to come and happen to Jeff
53:56
>> and maybe uh
54:00
maybe car guy.
54:03
>> You you came up with the name Matt
54:05
>> and then I forgot it. Sorry, [laughter]
54:10
>> Marishka.
54:12
>> Who is Marisha?
54:14
>> Are they talking about it though? Cuz I
54:15
don't think they're talking about it.
54:19
>> I don't know. I mean, you
54:21
>> I mean, Mishka might just have gotten
54:23
like a dead relative. That might just It
54:25
doesn't necessarily have to be con, you
54:27
know, part of this. I'm just saying.
54:30
>> It is pretty lucky.
54:32
>> It's true. Rich old uncles die. That
54:34
that is a that's a real thing that
54:35
happens
54:36
>> if
54:38
but does everyone have a rich old uncle?
54:41
>> No.
54:42
>> I'm kind of surprised that that he's got
54:44
an uncle that wealthy that just let them
54:47
live in the kind of poverty they lived
54:49
in for a reason.
54:52
>> Yeah, I can't argue with that.
54:57
Dear, I'm going to tell you though, if
54:59
you if you go looking for this,
55:02
>> if you find it,
55:05
don't use it.
55:08
>> I mean, what if I did already use it?
55:10
Like,
55:10
>> you said that you you said the bag was
55:12
empty when you got it, right?
55:14
>> My was it just like some residue of it?
55:17
Like, I don't know. It just felt weird.
55:20
>> Again, I don't The bag isn't the the bag
55:22
isn't special. Not in the way you think
55:25
it is. So, the bag is like if you wanted
55:28
to keep a piece of kryptonite, you'd put
55:30
it in lead in like a lead sleeve or
55:32
something.
55:34
>> I have no idea what that is. [laughter]
55:37
>> Sorry. Uh, like
55:40
if you've got something that's dangerous
55:42
to touch, like if you had poison, you
55:45
put it in a special bottle so it doesn't
55:47
get you,
55:49
and maybe you put a sealer on it so
55:52
nobody would get it, right? Like that's
55:55
what they do with like, you know, with
55:57
like you you got an X-ray machine, the
55:59
the uh the the material that they use to
56:02
do the X-ray, they keep it in lead so it
56:06
doesn't get out and, you know, get
56:08
everybody around it.
56:11
I think I I think that's more of the
56:14
right of it. Yeah,
56:20
that's all I know. And again, there is
56:22
just there are just stories. They could
56:25
be the delusions of an old woman.
56:29
>> I mean,
56:31
>> stories stories have to come from
56:33
somewhere.
56:34
>> I mean, I'm sorry. There's just no way
56:36
that Tiffany would be going out with
56:38
Jeff. I just I know this sounds dumb,
56:41
but that that that is the weirdest thing
56:43
ever.
56:44
>> That is definitely true. It's definitely
56:45
true.
56:46
>> I'm sure Jeff has some kind of positive
56:48
quality. No, it's a Tiffany doesn't have
56:51
any positive qualities.
56:53
>> Yeah,
56:53
>> she got she got a Never mind. [laughter]
56:57
>> Yes, thank you for not saying that from
56:59
the 100-year-old woman. Not that she
57:00
hasn't heard it before. I just
57:06
>> All right, dear. Well,
57:09
I
57:11
just be careful, please.
57:13
>> We will. Thank you for helping.
57:17
Oh, don't thank me at last.
57:22
And she she kind of like wheels over to
57:24
to you and Jacob and she kind of like
57:26
puts a hand on each of your faces.
57:29
My god, you look you both look so much
57:32
like him.
57:37
>> I don't know if that's a good or a bad.
57:40
>> No, it actually works on you.
57:45
and she goes over to the uh dresser and
57:50
she opens up one of the lower drawers
57:51
and she starts rifling through a bunch
57:52
of old photos. Um, and she goes over to
57:56
you, Jacob, and she hands you one. Uh,
57:58
and it's a wedding photo and you see
58:03
your grandfather standing next to Mr.
58:06
heresy um like in the wedding party
58:11
uh and he looks the spinning image of
58:14
you at your age.
58:18
Yikes.
58:20
That is Dang. He was much bigger when I
58:23
knew him.
58:26
>> Time has a way of changing us all, boy.
58:29
>> Yeah,
58:29
>> but you take that with you. Something uh
58:33
I have I have a few copies of it. It's
58:35
fine. Thank you.
58:40
>> I go get out of here.
58:45
>> I mean, we we go unless anyone else has
58:48
another question. Ask her.
58:51
>> I'm busy like holding this picture
58:52
again. Like
58:53
>> it really does look like me. It
58:55
>> it is it is this spinning image of you.
58:57
Maybe a little buffer cuz you can tell
58:59
like it's a few years older. Like you're
59:01
you're what 16, 17?
59:03
>> I'm 15. 15. So, this is probably he's
59:07
probably 18, 19 in this photo.
59:09
>> Yeah, he he'd be broadened out, but
59:11
yeah.
59:12
>> Yeah, you can tell this is his hand. You
59:13
can see this the roughness of his hands.
59:15
You can see that he's been he's been a
59:17
sailor at this point for a while. Um, so
59:20
yeah.
59:24
So, where do you guys head off to after
59:26
Shady Acres here? What do you do?
59:28
>> I think as soon as we get outside, I
59:30
kind of look at everybody and I'm like,
59:31
I think we have to go to the fountain.
59:35
That's what I was kind of thinking, but
59:37
I don't I don't know what we'll find
59:39
there. It's like
59:41
>> Yeah. Wait. Yeah. Hold up. What are we
59:43
doing?
59:45
>> I don't know. That's the problem.
59:47
>> Okay.
59:48
>> I mean, we were trying to figure out
59:49
some history of the town and like
59:51
investigate like the rumors and stuff,
59:54
but there's only so much we can do. And
59:56
like now I'm kind of worried because she
59:58
said that like really bad stuff can
1:00:00
happen to people. And you know, Jeff's
1:00:03
not the most popular kid in school, but
1:00:04
he's also kind of nice to me when a lot
1:00:06
of other people just look at me and are
1:00:08
just like, you know, like everybody I'm
1:00:11
just a novelty, but he actually treats
1:00:13
me like I'm a human sometimes. So, like
1:00:17
I don't want to see anything bad happen
1:00:18
to him. And as much as Tiffany's been
1:00:20
really not great today, she's also been
1:00:23
nice to me in the past. Like
1:00:26
I don't want anybody to get hurt. So
1:00:28
maybe I just kind of want to go see
1:00:31
something.
1:00:33
>> Go see the pond or go see Jeff.
1:00:35
>> I want to go see the pond and see if
1:00:38
like maybe like
1:00:41
there's something like disturbed or dug
1:00:43
up or
1:00:44
>> I mean if the if the story is true the
1:00:46
dude drowned
1:00:47
>> in the middle of the street.
1:00:49
>> I mean one of the easiest things to do
1:00:51
would be to transport a body and dump
1:00:53
it. Although I don't know why you do
1:00:55
that, but I'm saying
1:00:56
>> I'm not really worried about his body.
1:00:59
I'm worried about like
1:01:01
>> Yeah, you dump a lot of bodies.
1:01:03
[laughter]
1:01:03
>> Not yet. It's not that complicated.
1:01:07
[snorts]
1:01:08
>> She just kind of looks Jenny just kind
1:01:10
of looks at you and it's just like, um,
1:01:12
okay.
1:01:13
>> Do you remember Do you remember uh David
1:01:16
uh Clemente? I said to Jenny
1:01:21
was a senior last year. Remember him?
1:01:25
I mean, maybe a little bit. Is he the
1:01:27
guy that was like really grumpy to me?
1:01:30
>> Yeah, that first time. Yeah.
1:01:34
>> Okay.
1:01:36
>> No, he isn't, is he?
1:01:39
>> No, he graduated.
1:01:41
>> No, he didn't.
1:01:43
And I just walk off.
1:01:45
>> That's weird.
1:01:45
>> Fountain, let's go.
1:01:48
and just go look around and see if like
1:01:49
anything's disturbed or something and
1:01:51
see if maybe we can figure out what's
1:01:52
going on.
1:01:53
>> I have a concern now. I have
1:01:56
>> someone's disturbed but yeah.
1:01:57
>> Yeah, I'm like really freaked out now
1:01:59
and I'm just like going to stick way
1:02:01
back behind everybody like immediately
1:02:03
avoiding being in front of my brother.
1:02:06
>> Fair enough. Uh, as you guys start
1:02:08
making your way towards uh back towards
1:02:10
Main Street and back towards the center
1:02:12
of town, um, I I will say you start to
1:02:17
notice maybe a little more weirdness has
1:02:20
been happening. Um, as again, it's
1:02:23
probably midday right around now. Again,
1:02:25
the party is probably a few hours away.
1:02:28
Um, who would you say was like the
1:02:31
shortest kid in your your class
1:02:34
>> aside from me? Jimmy, aside from you.
1:02:37
[laughter]
1:02:37
>> Yeah, but Grinny's an outlier.
1:02:40
>> I don't know. I think Jeff's probably
1:02:42
pretty sure. Jeff probably also has like
1:02:44
a younger sister or something that's in
1:02:46
like ninth grade.
1:02:48
>> One of the really young ninth grader. I
1:02:50
mean, well, I mean, if it's a middle and
1:02:51
high school, you've got a bunch of sixth
1:02:52
and seventh graders that are really, but
1:02:54
if you're looking at the high school,
1:02:55
it's
1:02:57
>> What's What's Chef's younger sister's
1:02:58
name?
1:03:00
>> Uh, Elizabeth.
1:03:02
>> All right. you see uh you do a double
1:03:08
take at first and and Jenny, you're
1:03:09
probably the first one to notice this.
1:03:11
Um you see what is apparently Elizabeth
1:03:16
walking with a bunch of
1:03:20
uh like athletes. Uh you know that she
1:03:24
always wanted to be uh a basketball
1:03:27
player, but she was super short. Um it
1:03:30
looks like she has grown like four or
1:03:33
five inches overnight and she's hanging
1:03:36
out with like the girls basketball team
1:03:39
as they're you know joking around and
1:03:42
laughing and like she's slaughtered
1:03:45
herself right into there. Um you see
1:03:50
uh a bunch of people like again in more
1:03:54
opulent clothing. uh you see uh
1:03:58
storefronts that have been long since
1:04:00
suffering
1:04:01
uh from you know we're at that era where
1:04:04
local shops are starting to like turn
1:04:07
down because we're starting to get into
1:04:08
big box store territory. Um but like
1:04:11
restaurants and stores are completely
1:04:13
revitalized. Out oftowners are in town
1:04:17
frequenting these places today. um
1:04:20
people you've never seen before spending
1:04:22
globs of money uh at the local diner, at
1:04:26
the the local clothing store. Um and you
1:04:30
know, you hear them talking about
1:04:31
they're so excited for the uh party
1:04:35
tonight at the celebration. Um again,
1:04:38
people you've never seen before and you
1:04:41
can't fathom why people would want to
1:04:43
come to uh New Novemberwood. of all
1:04:47
things, the 150th anniversary shouldn't
1:04:48
be that big of a deal, should it? Um,
1:04:52
and as you start as you start making
1:04:55
your way towards uh the center of town,
1:04:59
um you hear the first blood curdling
1:05:03
scream.
1:05:05
And that's where we're going to end our
1:05:06
session.
1:05:08
>> Oh no.
1:05:09
Uh oh.
1:05:11
>> I knew I should have worked f harder on
1:05:12
this. [laughter]
1:05:15
Uh but yeah, that's going to do it for
1:05:17
us for this episode, friends. Uh we're
1:05:21
going to be having one more after this
1:05:23
where we're going to get to the uh
1:05:25
climactic end game. Uh what will happen?
1:05:28
Will our our kids discover the mystery
1:05:31
and solve it in time? What is that blood
1:05:33
curling scream? When will the other shoe
1:05:35
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