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Spooked

The Paperboy

Spooked

KQED and Snap Studios

Chiller, Performing Arts, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Halloween, Thriller, Paranormal, Spooky, Supernatural, Personal Journals, Leisure, Arts, Horror, Fall, Mystery, Wonder, Adventure, Scary, Culture

4.615.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Ray Christian hated being a paperboy. Bad pay, hard route, rude customers. But there was one customer in particular who was different from the rest, and Ray didn’t quite know why.

Thank you, Dr. Ray Christian, for sharing your story with us. Check out more of Ray's stories on his podcast, What’s Ray Saying?

Produced by Liz Mak, original score Leon Morimoto, art by Teo Ducot

Transcript

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0:00.0

Snap Studios.

0:09.0

What if your very first boss never shows up. Listen to spooked.

0:47.0

Things have changed since I was a kid in so many ways and I'm not even old yet but things have changed. I grew up on a farm. We had goats and chickens and cows horses. We grew corn, beans, blueberries. And yes, farms are run by farmers, this is true, but a calf is sick at the middle of the night

1:08.4

and needs to be next to a warmer

1:11.2

When possums have gotten to the chicken feed.

1:14.0

When the vet needs help trying to birth a full, it always happens.

1:18.0

It always, always happens at 2 o'clock in the morning. And who goes out to the barn at 2 in the morning?

1:28.3

Probably got the farmer. The farmer's got to get up at six. The farmer's got stuff to do.

1:37.0

So no, it's not the farmer walking out to that dark slate-gray barn through the two o'clock in the morning gloom.

1:45.0

No, it is not the farmer.

1:47.6

Hoping desperately to get that generator running so at least,

1:52.1

at least there'll be a little bit of light now.

1:55.0

Now that's not the farmer trying to calm the wild out of the mama horse's eyes

2:00.0

to beat back that fear she has and let her know that it's going to be all right

2:05.0

But our fool's going to be just fine

2:08.1

But everything's going to be just fine when you don't even know if everything is going to be, just fine.

2:17.0

Because the night does what the night will.

2:22.0

Helping animals fall sick sounds come from places

2:25.1

sounds should not be. The barn itself has moods. Some good, some very, bad.

2:35.0

No, it's not the farmer facing the deep growls, the angry clicks, the silence in the middle of the night,

2:41.0

it's not the farmer. It's the farm boy. My very first job was to do anything and everything that needed to be done to fight back the night time so that

2:58.6

my father did get out of bed in the morning but all was well. All was well.

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