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A Very Fatal Murder

Episode 3: Calloway Day

A Very Fatal Murder

The Onion

Comedy

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

David attends Calloway Day to see exactly how middle-class America celebrates what little they have, and to see just how deep a hold W.O. Calloway has on the townspeople of Bluff Springs.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I

0:07.6

And one one what's your emergency?

0:09.6

two full minutes run run

0:12.0

Purple just I keep an eye on Calaway if I were you oh yeah, he fucking did it

0:16.6

Show everybody the seven of hearts your card

0:20.2

You mean Haley's dead oh my god

0:21.8

You didn't know from the onion and onion public radio. I'm David Pascal and this is a very fatal murder

0:31.0

Oh my god, that smells amazing. What is that? Oh, that's an elephant here

0:37.6

Yeah, I've got to tell my petitioner and broken about this small town America is full of surprises if you slow down long enough to look for them

0:45.2

Moving slow is a way of life in Haley prices hometown of Bluff Springs, Nebraska and oddly enough

0:50.7

That's the way the residents of Bluff Springs seem to like it

0:53.5

It can be perverse at times the fact that your next door neighbor knows your name

0:57.4

But it can be endlessly fascinating too watching the way these simple people pass the time

1:01.8

Step right up and test your luck

1:04.4

One dollar gets you five chances to toss the rings two dollars gets you twelve

1:09.4

The rudimentary game being described here is called ring toss

1:12.9

I watched for hours as men women and children of all ages

1:16.9

Handed over money that they had presumably earned in some sort of factory or mill to throw rings around a small

1:22.4

Unremarkable target their prize

1:24.6

Nothing more than a fistful of tickets to be traded in for plastic junk

1:28.7

Oh, you just missed better luck next time hold on. I think I've got it

1:33.1

You guys have an ATM peculiarities like this were abound at Callaway Day

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