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Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery

5.8 - Caretakers

Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery

Audacious Machine Creative

Drama, Fiction

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

by Jim McDoniel Gather ‘round This is all I can do for you I can’t do this anymore Content Advisories for this episode can be found here. A Transcript for this episode can be found here. Support Unwell and HartLife NFP on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hartlifenfp This episode features: Clarisa Cherie Rios as Lily, Michael Turrentine as Wes, Marsha Harman as Dot, Kat Hoil as Abbie, Symphony Sanders as Young Lily, Hilary Williams as Joey, Eli Barraza as Lina, Michael Turrentine as Wes, Nate DuFort as Calvin Lyle, David Rheinstrom as Colin, Dallis Seeker as Grant, Michael Turrentine as Wes, Matt Young as Tim. Written by Jim McDoniel, sound design by Alexander Danner, directed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, assistant director Lauren Grace Thompson, theme music composed by Stephen Poon, recording engineer Mel Ruder, associate producer Ani Enghdahl, Theme performed by Stephen Poon, Lauren Kelly, Gunnar Jebsen, Travis Elfers, Mel Ruder, and Betsey Palmer, produced by haydée r. souffrant, Unwell lead sound designer Eli Hamada McIlveen, Executive Producers Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner, by HartLife NFP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

There was once a family on a road trip to keep everyone entertained that created a fun, personalized audio story using AI, starring themselves about their trip.

0:08.0

So by the time they arrived, they'd already had quite an adventure.

0:11.0

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0:16.0

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0:20.0

This episode of Unwell is brought to you by Metallic Dice Games.

0:25.0

Now, we've partnered with Fan Roll Dice by Metallic Dice Games, a purveyor of quality dice and dice accessories, to offer an exclusive discount for you.

0:36.0

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0:52.0

A portion of your purchase will come back to us and help support the show.

0:57.0

Now, listen, this may not be an RPG show, but you know a bunch of us here on the Unwell team play all the time.

1:05.0

Right now, I'm playing a cobald artificer who rides a big mechanical dog around and talks like John Malkovich in rounders.

1:14.0

I'm having so much fun.

1:16.0

Anyway, go check out fanrolldice.com and use code Unwell10 to get 10% off your purchase and help support our show.

1:27.0

Hey there, Eleanor here. We've added something new to our Patreon, and we wanted to tell you about it.

1:32.0

For all patrons of $5 a month and up, we now have an ad-free feed of the show.

1:39.0

So, if you really want to skip the ads or have a fully uninterrupted marathon of the whole show,

1:45.0

I invite you to join us on Patreon at $5 a month and get that ad-free stream queued up in your pod catcher.

2:10.0

Growing up, Lily never liked storms.

2:13.0

Whenever there was a storm, she used to run into our bedroom and sleep with Dale and me.

2:18.0

Sometimes, if we were too hard to wake, she'd just drag all her blankets into our room and curl up in a nest on the floor next to our bed.

2:27.0

She stopped doing that after the divorce.

2:30.0

She was still afraid of storms. She just didn't want to admit it, at least not to me.

2:37.0

So, I'd go and bug her anyway. Tell her the story of old Bowser and howl at her door.

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