Episode 59

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Speaker 1 At Radio Rental, our videos come to life in your living room, defy all logic and reasoning, and make you question your own reality.

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Speaker 1 So listen carefully, Malachi, because that's when the cat realized that the laser pointer wasn't coming from his owner's hand at all. It was coming from the...
Ho-ho!

Speaker 1 What was that? Did you hear that?

Speaker 6 Hello?

Speaker 1 Who's there?

Speaker 1 Announce yourself!

Speaker 1 Fine, I'll go first. I'm Terry Carnation.
Please don't hurt me. Take the cat.

Speaker 2 It's a bluff, Malachi.

Speaker 1 Oh, God, it's okay. Good, good.
It's just you. Oh, you scared.
You scared Malachi.

Speaker 1 Shut it, Malachi.

Speaker 1 How did you find us out here? We're usually in the radio rental shop, but tonight we decided to take a few steps out into nature, just to tell some spooky stories, campfire style.

Speaker 1 I was just in the middle of a really good one.

Speaker 1 Yes, it was good, Malachi.

Speaker 1 You were terrified. I saw that you wet yourself on that log.

Speaker 1 Yes, you did. I know that smell anywhere.
Anywho, I suppose that you want me to play you a tape from my special collection of true horror stories. I can do that.

Speaker 1 You see, I've actually wheeled the TV and VCR out here so we could watch a couple of the tapes under the stars. Out in the wilderness.

Speaker 1 Well, yes, I know. You can see the neon radio rental sign from here, but...

Speaker 1 No. No, we're not.
We're not right next door. We're at least 300 feet.

Speaker 1 Okay. Fine, more than like 50 feet away from the store, but I didn't have a longer extension cord, okay? So just cram it.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to give you more outside time like you wanted, you ungrateful Grimalkin.

Speaker 1 That's an archaic word for cat. I bet you didn't even know that.
Look it up. All right, let's do it.
Let's play a tape from my collection of scary stories. I actually have one picked out already.

Speaker 1 Okay, here we go.

Speaker 7 This happened well over a decade ago.

Speaker 7 I was a sophomore attending a liberal arts college in Suffolk County, New York.

Speaker 7 By sophomore year, I had already formed a clique with some of my theater studies friends.

Speaker 7 We all shared a love of horror movies and scary stories and ghost hunting and the like.

Speaker 7 And we felt that it was a good time to do some ghost hunting of ourselves, very amateur stuff and not even, you know, particularly serious.

Speaker 7 It was October and we felt that rather than sit around watching horror movies, let's go out into the woods and just scare the hell out of each other.

Speaker 7 Why not?

Speaker 7 We did some research and we found that there was actually a road not too far from us that was famous for supernatural occurrences, ghostly sightings, different urban legends, and it was not just a road, but an entire network of roads and turns.

Speaker 7 And one could easily get lost in there.

Speaker 7 And we figured that that was perfect.

Speaker 7 So we decided to get some flashlights, take our cars out. We felt that it would be best just to go out and not even use the GPS, just go out and get lost.

Speaker 7 The seven of us split into two different cars and headed out into the October night. You turn off the main road, which is very busy.

Speaker 7 It's flooded with strip malls and restaurants and the like, and you're almost immediately greeted by this very dark road.

Speaker 7 And what's really unnerving about it is that there's very few houses, there's not much light, and if you're not careful and if you don't have a GPS, you could easily get lost.

Speaker 7 That was precisely our goal, was to go in there, get lost, and make something of our October.

Speaker 7 This is the entire point, was to go in there without any sort of plan and have fun.

Speaker 7 We drove for about 20 or 30 minutes into this network, just picking random directions, all with the intention of finding a field or a trail or something for us to walk down with our flashlights.

Speaker 7 Our cars made this turn and that turn, and then we arrived at some sort of a dead end and it wasn't really a dead end so much as there was a massive just log in the middle of the road.

Speaker 7 We figured that this was a good start. So we got out and we decided to investigate this

Speaker 7 and we knew that we could go around the log but around the log there was two separate divergent trails. We flipped a coin and decided to go to the right.

Speaker 7 As we continued to walk, the trail just got narrower and narrower. We had to walk single file to avoid hitting each other or having the branches swipe us.

Speaker 7 I ended up in the back.

Speaker 7 I'm not someone who is necessarily superstitious. I'm not a huge believer in ghosts or creatures and whatnot, but

Speaker 7 I did feel from the time that we got in there that there was something following us.

Speaker 7 that we were being watched.

Speaker 7 I could hear twigs snapping that weren't coming from the direction that we were walking in, but it was just outside this thick brush of leaves to our right and our left.

Speaker 7 I rode it off, just said to myself that you're being ridiculous. This is nothing.
It's just the sound of the woods. And there were seven of us walking.

Speaker 7 Someone made a sound that appeared to be coming from something else.

Speaker 7 After what seemed like about a half hour, We finally reached this large, large open grassy area.

Speaker 7 It wasn't a golf course, but it had that kind of hilly scope to it. It was huge, well manicured.
There was one or two wooden tables nearby, so it could have been a park.

Speaker 7 There was very little semblance of any sort of entertainment happening there.

Speaker 7 There was also on the other side of this field some sort of a house-like structure.

Speaker 7 We don't know what it was, but it resembled a house. So we walked over to it with our flashlights.
It was completely boarded up and abandoned.

Speaker 7 Through the board, we could see a couch that was covered in tarp. We could see some tables.
Everything looked really dusty as if it hadn't been disturbed in a long time.

Speaker 7 I don't know what exactly this was.

Speaker 7 Everything about it told me that no one had been in this place for a long time.

Speaker 7 potentially years.

Speaker 7 And because the doors were all boarded boarded up and all the windows, we just decided to leave it alone and not try to enter.

Speaker 7 Because it was a beautiful night, we all kind of stopped. We decided to just go back towards the opening that we came in and just sit down for a bit, plan our next step.
We had no agenda.

Speaker 7 We weren't sure if we wanted to go further into the woods, leave and go somewhere else. go back to our dorms.
We didn't know.

Speaker 7 While we were sitting around planning our next step, I looked and I saw that my friend Matt was still standing.

Speaker 7 And I stood up and asked him if he was alright.

Speaker 7 He had this just haunted expression on his face, eyes wide open,

Speaker 7 his jaw was down.

Speaker 7 Without saying anything, he pointed directly ahead of us, the opposite of where we had come in.

Speaker 7 And I looked, and

Speaker 7 what I saw, I still can't make sense of.

Speaker 7 There was a human-like figure.

Speaker 7 It could have been seven or eight feet tall.

Speaker 7 I could tell that this thing, in proportion to the branches around it, was significantly taller than any of us. And it was lanky, pale, gray to the point of almost translucent.

Speaker 7 We couldn't tell if it was naked or fully clothed. It did have some sort of a shimmer to it.

Speaker 7 It was moving in a rather inhuman way. Just given the size and the height of what this person was,

Speaker 7 all that we could see was limbs, essentially.

Speaker 7 It seemed to be dancing. It was grabbing a tree, skipping around it, grabbing another tree, skipping around that.

Speaker 7 And it was in some sort of aborted, kind of a doci-doe kind of dance.

Speaker 7 It was really twisted and it was something uncanny. None of it seemed to make sense and none of it quite added up.

Speaker 7 The longer that we looked, the less sense that any of it made.

Speaker 7 It seemed to be having a fantastic time.

Speaker 7 Six of us saw this thing immediately as soon as my friend pointed it out.

Speaker 7 My friend Jeff wasn't seeing it.

Speaker 7 And I just leaned into him. I said, Jeff, and I pointed right at it.
I said, do you not see that?

Speaker 7 It's right there.

Speaker 7 You can't see that?

Speaker 7 And I could see him kind of peering into it. And then I saw the moment where he also saw it.

Speaker 7 He gasped and grabbed my arm. And he said, what the fuck is that?

Speaker 7 And I said, I don't know.

Speaker 7 And now we were all on the same page. We all saw this thing watching it with fascination.

Speaker 7 We were saying things like, you know, is that thing dancing? What is it doing? Just commenting on the fact that it was skipping around and behaving oddly.

Speaker 7 And at that moment,

Speaker 7 it seemed to know that we were watching it.

Speaker 7 Out of nowhere, whatever this thing was,

Speaker 7 stopped swinging around.

Speaker 7 It stopped dancing, faced us,

Speaker 7 stared at us,

Speaker 7 and started charging directly at us at full speed.

Speaker 7 My heart dropped.

Speaker 7 This thing was extremely fast.

Speaker 7 Faster than I was comfortable with.

Speaker 7 This thing was sprinting

Speaker 7 and I had no interest in sticking around any longer to see what it wanted or who it was.

Speaker 7 I started running. Several of us started running.

Speaker 7 I was running on pure instinct.

Speaker 7 The only one who didn't start running again was Jeff.

Speaker 7 He was the last person to see it, and he was the last person to see it running.

Speaker 7 So he was screaming at us, what are you guys doing? Where are you going?

Speaker 7 And we said, Jeff, run.

Speaker 7 It wasn't until I was well into the trail, back where we came from, running full speed myself, that I heard him scream, holy shit.

Speaker 7 And I turned to see his flashlight following us into the trail.

Speaker 7 And I'm just hoping that my friends, who I kept looking back at to make sure they saw it too, were also doing the same thing and that their survival instincts kicked in.

Speaker 7 It took us about 25, 30 minutes to get to this field. And it took us perhaps five minutes to get back because we were running.
not interested at all in slowing down.

Speaker 7 We threw all of our things into both cars and we peeled out of there not having any idea where we were heading. We didn't have a GPS, just trying to retrace our steps.

Speaker 7 All of a sudden, what was once a really fun and immersive experience was absolutely terrifying because we didn't know who this person was, if they were with other people.

Speaker 7 All that we knew was that they were ready to charge at a group of seven able-bodied college students without a second thought.

Speaker 7 My friend Chris, who was driving, just said, what the fuck, what the fuck do we do? I said, just drive. I don't care where we go, just drive.

Speaker 7 What was terrifying is that we had no idea where we were going. We were not cognizant of stop signs.

Speaker 7 If there were any sharp turns, all that we knew was that we had to get out of there without any sort of thought about how fast we were going or how recklessly we were driving.

Speaker 7 All that we were interested in was finding a main street again.

Speaker 7 We didn't know if we were still being pursued.

Speaker 7 All that we knew was that we had to get out of there as fast as we could and get home.

Speaker 7 We were on a sharp turn

Speaker 7 and we had to stop very, very suddenly

Speaker 7 because

Speaker 7 there was a black dog right in the middle of the road staring at us.

Speaker 7 It didn't seem at all perturbed or alarmed that it almost got hit,

Speaker 7 but it just stood there for a little bit, stared at at the car

Speaker 7 before slowly walking off

Speaker 7 me and Chris looked at each other the other people in the car just took a breath because we almost hit a living creature and without even addressing it we kept going

Speaker 7 we found a coffee shop right outside of this network of roads and we stopped many of us were still panicking particularly the two drivers And we were all just checking with each other, make sure that we were okay, making sure that we're all breathing, we're safe.

Speaker 7 Whatever that was, wasn't expected, but we're away from it now.

Speaker 7 Then we started to piece together what exactly we were looking at because, yes, we're all together watching this thing, but it wasn't more than 10, 15 seconds before it started running to us.

Speaker 7 To this day, you know, a lot of us are married. A lot of us have had children, gone to other colleges.
We've all had very different roads in life following that college experience.

Speaker 7 But every now and then, one of us will check in through text or a phone call and just say, you know, that night in the woods, that actually happened, right?

Speaker 7 And we all agree that it wasn't some sort of a shared delusion or a prank. Like there was something in the woods that night that was coming for us.

Speaker 7 Afterwards, I was doing some more research on this part of town.

Speaker 7 And there is a legend. for this particular road

Speaker 7 of a black dog-like creature who was in essence an omen of death who will be in the middle of the road and halt cars that are making sharp turns and it will stare at it before disappearing.

Speaker 7 Now this dog didn't disappear. It wasn't a dog-like creature.
It was just a black dog without a collar, perhaps astray,

Speaker 7 but The fact that it lined up so closely with what I was reading was extremely alarming.

Speaker 7 When I read it, I couldn't believe it. I sent that part to my friends and just saying, I can't believe this.
I don't know if this is the dog that we saw,

Speaker 7 but the fact that it lined up so perfectly with what we experienced was just the cherry on top of this horrifying evening.

Speaker 7 Uh,

Speaker 1 hard pass

Speaker 1 on whatever that was.

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Speaker 6 No, oh, oh, don't use your garbage mouth.

Speaker 1 It's now contaminated my mallow. The same mouth that licks your weird little starfish anus.

Speaker 6 Ugh.

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Speaker 1 Shut it.

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Speaker 1 Ooh, it's getting spooky out here.

Speaker 1 A little chilly too. The wind has picked up a little.
For this next true scary story, we're actually going to be tuning into my old trusty radio here.

Speaker 1 The next story comes to us via the airwaves from our sister show, Rattled and Shook. You might want to enjoy it at the times when my shop is closed for business.
Okay, anyway, let's see here.

Speaker 1 Almost.

Speaker 6 Almost.

Speaker 2 Ah,

Speaker 1 here we go.

Speaker 10 This would have been,

Speaker 10 I think, in the late 80s. I was driving from Colorado, about an hour north of Denver, and I was driving back to New Orleans.
I had bought a little sports car from my sister. It was a Dotson 280ZX.

Speaker 10 She was going to sell it and I decided I wanted it, so I bought it from her, and I was driving it home to New Orleans.

Speaker 10 It was a little red sports car. It was fast, and it had very good steering.
But I wish I still had it, tell you the truth.

Speaker 10 It took me close to 27 hours, I think, to drive from where I was in northern Colorado down to New Orleans. I just stopped to eat, but I didn't stop and use a hotel or anything.

Speaker 10 I probably should have, but I didn't.

Speaker 10 I'm happy to be back at work and since I knew I was driving fairly long I was probably listening to music and drinking Coca-Cola.

Speaker 10 I think I had a couple of six packs of Coca-Cola sitting on the seat next to me so I could make it home in time.

Speaker 10 So I was in the western edge of Texas. in a fairly barren part of the trip.
I had music on pretty much the whole time. You know,

Speaker 10 it helped keep your attention.

Speaker 10 The only thing I had was the radio that came in the car, and it didn't have even a tape deck in it, and there weren't any CDs then. So it was whatever I could get over the radio.

Speaker 10 And right where I was there in western Texas, I was able to get some AM radio. It was probably talk radio.
There really wasn't much there at all, just the road I was driving on.

Speaker 10 I guess it was called an interstate at the time. It's not like it was a big interstate the way you think of interstates now.

Speaker 10 It may have been the biggest road that was in that particular area, but there really wasn't much traffic at all. It was fairly deserted where I happened to be.
I'd gone through,

Speaker 10 I guess, Amarillo. I'd gone through Amarillo, but I couldn't tell you exactly...
town-wise where I was because there really wasn't anything there.

Speaker 10 There's literally nothing there. I was in the middle of nowhere.

Speaker 10 You know, from a distance, I could see that there was

Speaker 10 a light on. It was on the right side of the road.
And the closer I got, the more I could tell, well, you know, that's a phone booth.

Speaker 10 Right on the other side of this little road that I was at, there was a stop sign. That was it.
Stop sign and the phone booth.

Speaker 10 Well, and I remember seeing it from a distance and thinking, well, it's unusual to see that there, but in those days there were no cell phones or anything, so I guess it's probably a good time to call my wife.

Speaker 10 And I remember where that phone booth was was sort of unusual because you had a scan on the radio where you could hit scan and it would stop at the next station.

Speaker 10 And I remember hitting scan and it would just go round and round and round and never stop because there was no station that you could get.

Speaker 10 It hadn't gotten dark yet, but it was in the process of getting dark, so I would say it was, you know, it was sort of twilighty.

Speaker 10 And one of the reasons that I remember that was because the light was on in the phone booth, and that's why I saw it.

Speaker 10 And so it was a little strange driving down the road, and all of a sudden, you saw this plexiglass phone booth sitting there with the light on, and nothing else around it.

Speaker 10 But again, it allowed me to pull over and use it, which I thought was nice until I felt like I was on the twilight zone.

Speaker 10 Only thing around was this one road which was going perpendicular to the road I was on and

Speaker 10 was going off into the distance through these trees.

Speaker 10 So as I pulled up, I looked down the road to see, you know, where is it going?

Speaker 10 Because I thought maybe this is somebody's driveway or it's going to a ranch or, you know, maybe headed towards a town or something. It didn't seem to be headed towards anything.

Speaker 10 It just sort of sort of got dim and distant. And then you couldn't see anything at the other end of it.
But again, I thought, well, you know, this is nice. I'll go ahead and make a call.
Well, I can.

Speaker 10 It was the old rectangular type of phone booth that you could go in and close the doors.

Speaker 10 And when you close the doors, the light came on, and then you could see through it because there's plexiglass on the outside.

Speaker 10 Once I got in the phone booth, actually, before I got in the phone booth, I hadn't seen a car for a while going in any direction, the other direction or my direction.

Speaker 10 So again, I kind of felt by myself.

Speaker 10 Well, I was standing in the phone booth and I was talking to my wife and I just happened to be looking down the road that was there.

Speaker 10 As I was looking down the road, thinking, well, there must be something down there. I mean,

Speaker 10 where's the road going? I happened to be glancing through the trees and that's when I saw a shape move from one tree to another tree.

Speaker 10 To me, it seemed like a person. I mean, it wasn't just like a cow or anything like that.
It was a stand-up shape. I mean, I could see a body and a head, and you could see arms.

Speaker 10 Yeah, no, it was definitely a person. Definitely a person.
There's no question about that.

Speaker 10 Then I started thinking, well, you know,

Speaker 10 who would be hanging around in this nowhere forest, in this nowhere area? And that's when I started looking more closely.

Speaker 10 And that's when I noticed there were several shapes.

Speaker 10 They were on both sides of the road.

Speaker 10 And they were slowly working their way toward me as they were moving from tree to tree.

Speaker 10 It wasn't like there were three people walking up the road talking to each other. They weren't on the road at all.
All I could really see was sort of shadowy figures, of which there were several.

Speaker 10 So they'd move from one tree to the other tree, and then there would be a pause

Speaker 10 before they moved again.

Speaker 10 They were definitely hiding behind the trees. And so what was the deal with that?

Speaker 10 And you remember it was getting darker the whole time when there were no street lights and there were no house lights. There were no lights.

Speaker 10 So the only light that was around was the phone booth light. And I was in that.
So I felt like I was definitely sticking out like a sort of thumb.

Speaker 10 So if it had been completely dark, I would have been in the phone booth with this little dweeby light on over my head and they could have been walking towards me and I wouldn't have seen them until they were a couple of feet from the phone booth maybe.

Speaker 10 And if I hadn't noticed that, that would have been, I think, potentially very bad.

Speaker 10 But I couldn't see that anything was being done. It's not like they were sawing wood or, you know, putting up signs or nobody was shooting guns that I could hear.

Speaker 10 And again, I was in the phone booth, so me talking was probably the only noise around other than the fan at the top of the phone booth.

Speaker 10 Because in those days, when you shut the doors on the phone booth, there would be a a fan that would go on to kind of aerate it a little bit.

Speaker 10 Because people used to go into phone booths to smoke cigarettes and stuff like that. They usually had a fan in them, and that made it hard to hear anything on the outside.

Speaker 10 I couldn't hear them at all.

Speaker 10 They were moving towards me, and I didn't think of any good reason why that would be a good thing to happen.

Speaker 10 Once they got close enough, I decided it was...

Speaker 10 It was time to hang up and get in the car and get the heck out of there. I thought they had gotten close enough.

Speaker 10 I was was still on the phone with my wife and I told her that I was going to be hanging up. It was going to

Speaker 10 be leaving and I thought I could see some people coming towards me up this little road. Though I don't think she perceived how eerie it really was.

Speaker 10 The closest one was probably one swimming pool length and 10 to 15 yards from the phone booth was sort of cut brass.

Speaker 10 So they would have run out of trees when they got that close and I didn't think I should be hanging around when they ran out of trees

Speaker 10 I got in the car and fortunately my car started I wasn't I hadn't broken down or you know I had plenty of gas and I mean I guess that could have been worse I mean if you had a flat tire or run out of fuel it would have been very creepy because what were you gonna do I mean you there weren't many people driving by if any and it was unusual just to see the phone booth there that's one reason why I pulled over

Speaker 10 Strange pace to have a phone booth by itself.

Speaker 10 Did it feel like a trap? Well, it did a little bit in a way, because,

Speaker 10 you know, what was the reason for a phone booth to be there? You know, there wasn't a gas station there. You know, it wasn't

Speaker 10 at a restaurant or a hotel or anything. There used to be phone booths all over the place, but not in the middle of nowhere.
because, you know, they would be trying to make some money.

Speaker 10 I drove away and sort of used my mirrors just to see if there was any motion as I was leaving. But it wasn't like anybody came running out of the woods at me or anything like that.

Speaker 10 So I don't know, maybe they were waiting for the next person to pull over and use the phone.

Speaker 10 I felt like I was being watched and I was being approached, not necessarily with good intent.

Speaker 10 I felt like I was being set up to be somehow robbed or attacked in some fashion. I thought it was definitely time to leave.
Otherwise, I thought I might be in the newspaper.

Speaker 10 It was just time to go.

Speaker 10 Again, it sort of felt like you were in Twilight Zone. That's what it felt like.

Speaker 10 Definitely you're.

Speaker 1 I know usually I'm a big fan of ephemera and such, but thank God payphones are a thing of the past. They were so stuffy and cramped, and there's just something so creepy and germy about them.

Speaker 1 Wait, what was that?

Speaker 6 Hello?

Speaker 1 Probably nothing. I'm just so on edge now.

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Speaker 6 Ah, okay, I'm okay.

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Speaker 1 Well, that one had me shaking in my boots. You see, I wore boots because we're in the great outdoors.

Speaker 1 Yes, we are, Malachi.

Speaker 1 You can barely see the parking lot from here.

Speaker 1 Look at him, he's all worked up. Be careful, Malachi, you're by an open flame.

Speaker 1 Malachi, stop it. You're not flame retardant.
Don't get so... No, retardant.
I said retardant. Ent.

Speaker 1 So don't get so close. Malachi, dawg.

Speaker 1 No, no, watch out. Watch out!

Speaker 1 Look out, your tail! Your tail, Malachi! Oh!

Speaker 1 Find yourself a puddle and douse your tail, Malachi.

Speaker 1 But don't go too far, Malachi.

Speaker 1 Malachi?

Speaker 1 Malachi, do you want me to urinate on your tail? Come back.

Speaker 1 Here, you can use my canteen.

Speaker 1 There's hardly any vodka in it.

Speaker 6 Malachi?

Speaker 1 Malachi?

Speaker 6 Oh, well, okay.

Speaker 1 I guess I lost my idiot cat.

Speaker 1 Of course this would happen.

Speaker 1 I'm so sorry to cut this rendezvous short, but...

Speaker 1 Well, I think I have to go report a missing feline companion. I'm going to hang up a poster.
Have you seen this cat? Wanted.

Speaker 1 Cat. Charred tail.

Speaker 1 Starfish anus.

Speaker 1 Answers to the name of Malachi.

Speaker 1 Or little Satan.

Speaker 1 Pumpkin spice breath.

Speaker 1 No testicles.

Speaker 1 He was neutered.

Speaker 1 It's not a birth defect.

Speaker 1 But don't bring it up. He's very sensitive about his lack of a scrotum.

Speaker 5 Radio Rental is created by Payne Lindsay and brought to you by Tenderfoot TV. Lead producer is Eric Quintana.
Executive producers are Payne Lindsay and Donald Albright.

Speaker 5 Hosted by Rain Wilson as his character, Terry Carnation. Written and produced by Meredith Stedman.
Additional writing by Mark Lachlan. Supervising producer is Tracy Kaplan.

Speaker 5 Associate producer is Jaja Muhammad. Editing by Eric Kintana, Mike Rooney, Steven Perez, and Meredith Stedman.

Speaker 5 Sound design by Cooper Skinner with additional sound design by Steven Perez and April Ruha. Mix and Master by Cooper Skinner with additional mixing by Steven Perez and Devin Johnson.

Speaker 5 Original score by Makeup and Vanity Set with additional score by Jay Ragsdale. Video editing by Dylan Harrington.
Cover artwork by Trevor Eiler and Rob Sheridan.

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