Welcome to the shutdown for kids. That's fine. That's fine. That was perfect. I was already

going ahead like several sentences ahead and you know what? Let's just start week seven's

recap with an evil laugh, right? Look, I really.

No, I just I want to go in a slightly different direction if that's okay. Yeah, you can. Well, it was

stressful week for a lot of people. A lot of people who probably listened to this program and this is

a little bit of a throwback, but I thought it might be nice to bring back ASMR voice, just sort of like

soothe everybody, let everybody know everything's going to be okay. So with your permission, if you're

listening, I just want you to close your eyes, feel very relaxed, feel your heartbeat, feel the

hairs on your arms stand up and lie back down. And I want you to picture yourself sitting in a chair

in front of a lake. Beyond that lake is a mountain shrouded in very gentle, very cool mist. It's very, very quiet. You can't hear

anything but the sound of my voice. And the heron flies by, glides over the water, not touching the water. No sound whatsoever.

And it glides up to this beautiful, verdant mountain. Everything is just so still, so peaceful.

And then the heron lands on the mountain. And suddenly, the top of the mountain explodes.

And you think, oh, this must be some sort of volcano. And the sky grows dark. And suddenly you

notice that it's raining, but it's not raining water or even ash or magma, it's raining human bone.

At least you think it's human. You can't tell for sure. Tibias and femurs and patellas and sternums,

those little bones in your ear. And all of a sudden, bodies start to float to the top of the lake.

Hundreds of them, mummified perfectly. Unsolved murders from a serial killer who was never caught

because he was the chief of police the whole time. And then you see that heron flying back, gliding,

on fire, squawking in pain, collapses in front of you and coughs up and envelop. The envelope is

strangely perfectly intact and you open it. And the only thing the envelope says on the inside is

welcome to Blood Week. Y'all, that was all off the top of the dome too. I didn't write none of that

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