Episode 4: Decision

The Shadows

CBC

Arts

4.6 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

"Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme." - Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity

Transcript

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0:00.0	When a Toronto teen suffers a panic attack at school, he escapes into the city's subway tunnels.
0:09.7	Underground, he discovers a hidden subculture thriving in the darkness.
0:15.0	I'm Chris Tawley here with Laura Mullen from CBC's acclaimed Play Me podcast, presenting Tunnel Runners, a thrilling new audio drama set beneath the city streets. Listen, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.1	This is a CBC podcast. Please be advised. This podcast contains explicit language and mature themes.
0:44.3	This is the Shadows.
0:51.3	Episode 4.
0:55.0	Decision Decision can't we just say what we are? A pair of sweet, woolly socks looking for some one-time fun
1:14.6	with a sweet, cotterly beauty. There's something endlessly funny about sock puppets. I'm now
1:26.0	collaborating with my mentor, Becky.
1:29.0	I thought it would be funny for Becky and I to create a show about polyamorous socks.
1:34.7	The poly socks were up against the assumption that socks come in pairs.
1:42.2	We created two boring-looking married couple socks, Leo and Olive.
1:47.0	Leo had a red bow tie at his neck, Olive a red bow tie on her head.
1:53.0	Pandora, their third, was a purple polka dot sock with red hair and a tutu.
1:58.0	They become a triad and live happily ever after.
2:04.5	Charlie shows up at every show, even though I know he hates it.
2:08.7	Charlie loves monogamy.
2:12.8	I want to say I love you, but I feel like it's too soon.
2:19.6	I think it might be too soon.
2:23.1	I know.
2:25.9	Charlie and I are in bed.
2:28.1	The sun is peeking through the drawn blinds over the windows.
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