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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Amelia’s trapped in a bad marriage. Her dad has a secret to get her out.
This story contains themes of domestic abuse. Please take care while listening.
Thanks, Amelia, for sharing your story with us.
Produced by Anne Ford, original score by Yari Bundy. Special thanks to Cody Harjo and Ezra Vazquez-D'Amico. Artwork by Teo Ducot.
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0:00.0 | Snap Studios. As now I lay me down to sleep, my soul, I vow. I'll not sell cheap. I'll haggle for the highest price and always throw with weighted dice. |
0:27.0 | He'll listen to spooked, stay tuned. From K-QED and PRX, you've crossed church as a kid. A lot of things aren't adding up. |
1:09.0 | Okay, so stay doing church as a kid. a lot of things aren't adding up. Like if God made everything and God is good, where all the bad come from? And what was going on before in the beginning? And Pastor says that dogs |
1:26.2 | don't have souls and don't have an afterlife. What? My dogs got more sold than James |
1:31.9 | Brown. What's up a dad? So many questions. |
1:35.0 | So I go to the answer man, my pops. I say pops, why would God put his secrets in a book |
1:41.0 | that everybody's just going to argue about. |
1:44.0 | And what are you going to make dinosaurs for just to kill him off? |
1:47.2 | And how come he needs our money? |
1:49.9 | Well, son, God didn't need our money. He just wants us to learn to give it to him. |
1:55.4 | Huh? You gotta understand that God has a plan. What is it? Boy, and the more answers pop's |
2:02.4 | hands down, the more questions I have, what's on the other side of the end of everything? |
2:06.0 | And who went in a fight? God or Jesus? And finally he's like, son, you can't even think about that because it will blow your mind. |
2:15.0 | What? What? Huh? Blow my mind? |
2:20.0 | Danger, Will Robinson. The thoughts I think will blow my mind. So I try not to think certain thoughts, but the more I think thoughts about not thinking, the more I think the thoughts I'm not supposed to think. |
2:33.0 | And I know it's just a matter of time before the brain explosion leaves bits of gray jelly |
2:39.8 | splattered all over my bedroom and I'm scared and I try to stop it with a deep breathing and ice |
2:44.5 | chips my mind goes into a fever dream overtime and says to me listen listen it ain't the |
2:50.6 | blowing up your mind you got to worry about? |
2:54.0 | What'd you say, mine? I say it. |
2:57.0 | Don't be afraid of your mind blowing up. |
3:01.0 | Be afraid of its shrinking. Spook starts. Now. Now. Oh. Oh, So, What do you believe? We're calling a next storyteller, Amelia. |
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