Dirt is a highly immersive audio experience.

To make sure you catch all the details, headphones are highly recommended. Joseph.

Dirt, an audio drama is a production of Studio 5705.

Chapter 2 A quick content warning.

This episode features the sound of a car, suddenly screeching to a halt.

Listener discretion is advised, especially if you're driving.

Listener discretion is advised, especially if you're driving. I hear the woman and the man speaking in their strange language.

She's cleaning up after breakfast, and he's tending to the boat's noisy engine.

A strange engine with large pipes and valves and wheels, like something out of a history museum.

When he's satisfied with the pop and chug of the old Frisco standard,

he gazes out to sea and packs some tobacco in his pipe and lights it,

sending aromatic puffs of blue smoke into the moist, marine air.

Several long poles extend over the port and starboard sides of the wooden trawler, with multiple fishing lines running off of each into the gray water.

The man and the woman don't seem to notice me, even when I gesture at them.

They go about their business,

steering the boat, cleaning the salmon they've caught, opening and closing hatches.

I observe them doing this for some time until I hear the woman say loudly to her husband,

Tula Kalkina on P&A Vene. She's pointing at something over the bow of the boat.

Her husband walks forward to join her,

and together they stare at the rolling waves.

Suddenly, I'm standing directly behind them,

straining to see what they see.

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