Hello everybody. I hope that you're all doing well. Well, let me say that I'm really excited for this week. We have an amazing collection of stories for you to listen to. I really hope that you enjoy them. Let's get into it as we drift further into Mr. Creve's mind.

I'm a low-level U.S. government employee.

I just saw something that I wasn't supposed to see.

Written by World Away Tweety.

You know that meme about how presidents and governors after getting alighted look super shell-shocked

and stressed the next time they make a public appearance?

Like the first thing that happens after you come into power is that you're pulled into a room

and told all the secrets of the world.

Well, it turns out that it's true. As a matter of fact,

it's a VHS tape. The four-hour tape was always a bit of an urban legend at the office. I'll be

keeping the details of my role in government very, very vague, but to be absolutely clear, I am very low level.

My role is caked between layers of bureaucracy and in the grand scheme of things, it's a

pretty inconsequential role. When you're working at my level, you're generally not privy

to any high-level secrets. Yes, top-secret meetings did occasionally happen in our building,

but my focus is pretty limited and heavily administrative.

So you do what any other department does when you're in the bottom rung of the hierarchy.

You discuss rumors, rumblings, crazy conspiracy theories, and everything in between.

It's water cooler conversation for us.

Man, I wonder what the folks are doing at the top right now.

You know, that kind of stuff.

Out of all the rumors that fluttered around the office, the four-hour tape was always the one that I found

the most fascinating. The crux of it, once you reached the highest clearance level, you were

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