This episode was produced with immersive audio.

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Welcome. I am Mizarro Teller of Fortunes, Misery Ed full of sand.

We meet again, here once more where we began this circus tour within this parlor.

Perhaps it's clear the reason why you are here.

I for one have no doubt for that reason you won't get out

Don't believe me. Let's just see

What will you do now that you're free?

Go on, run, leave this behind, or is there more you hope to find?

Well, if you won't go, then I must go on.

The story this turn will surely feel drawn.

From your own experience, barred in a cage, paraded and subject to an uneasy stage.

I direct your attention to this very room

and the dreary antiques we will exume a bookshelf of book lice a carpet of dust, trinkets and mildew, a treasure of rust.

Yet least among the bleak or bizarre, our focus for now a simple bell jar.

We steer back in time and here we observe a craftsman of life whose interests observe only his fame, his wealth and desire.

As for his curio, we now inquire.

Be warned this tale is a damnable dose. If you dare gather round and listen close. The I was his first born. I still recall the words my father spoke as my lungs inflated with air and I

gasped my first breath. My child, he said, my little miracle.

His eyes weld with tears of pride.

Come, see, I have made a special home for you where you will be safe.

It even has its own garden.

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