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Hi listeners, I'm Jimmy Ludwig.

And I have a story I want to tell you, a story of terror too deep to fathom.

So gather round and listen close.

When we were kids, there was this game.

My sister and I used to play.

More of a challenge really.

It wasn't anything crazy.

In fact, it was the sort of innocent dare you'd expect from a kid.

But we gave it its own name.

In any time we went swimming near a large body of water.

On a beach or lake, we'd always play the game which we called, touch the bottom.

Now I'm sure you're ahead of me here, but if you can't tell by its name,

the goal of the game was simply to touch the bottom of wherever you were swimming.

You might be thinking, why?

Well, we were kids and kids get bored.

But also, the game offered a unique kind of thrill.

If you've ever been swimming, and I mean swimming in natural water.

The kind of water you can't quite see all the way through, then you know what I mean.

Floating over the darkness above the unknown, it can make you uneasy.

But diving into it, now that's something else.

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