Unlicensed S3 E3: Pest Control

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4.8 • 28.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Unlicensed, the first fiction show created by Jeffrey and Joseph since Night Vale, returns for a third season.

Lou Rosen and Molly Hatch are unlicensed private detectives, scraping by on whatever cases they can get from their little office on the fringes of LA County.

Reeling from a devastating betrayal and a major earthquake, this season finds Lou and Molly trying to rebuild their lives and evaluate their futures. But those futures might not be as long as they hope.

Lou and Molly start what appears to be a quiet case: a series of strange home break-ins all involving ex-employees of a defunct Long Beach stereo manufacturer. But this case will quickly bring them up against an opponent more ruthless and resourceful than they've ever faced before. Lou and Molly have always gotten by on their wits, but what to do when facing an enemy who can outmatch them in both wits and violence?

A cat and mouse game through the forgotten regions of Southern California, including a shady direct-to-video movie studio, the unglamorous workers neighborhoods of glamorous Catalina Island, and the distant remote parts of the desert, where help cannot reach you in time.

There will be grave danger. There will be deaths.

But maybe some things matter more than survival.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the third and final episode of Unlicensed Season 3 we will put on this feed to hear the rest of the season.
0:06.4	And who, boy, does it get intense?
0:07.8	This one really puts our detectives through something.
0:09.8	You can listen to all three seasons right now with an audible free trial.
0:13.9	Please do it.
0:14.5	I really want people to hear this show because I'm very proud of it.
0:18.0	Okay, here you go.
0:20.0	I learned I like Thai food tonight.
0:22.6	My abuelita, she made tamales for her brother's restaurant.
0:27.6	She used her grandmother's recipe, which was given to her by her grandmother.
0:33.6	And this is the recipe I use now at my own restaurant.
0:39.3	At home, we eat a lot of the food I do not sell.
0:43.3	Other times we get burgers or pizza or wings.
0:49.2	We keep it simple in my family.
0:52.6	When Molly asked me to come eat Thai food, I almost said no.
0:57.7	But I am glad that I said yes.
1:00.7	I ordered Pad Thai with chicken.
1:04.1	I remembered hearing something on the radio about how Pad Thai was created by the Thai government
1:10.4	to unify the nation.
1:12.6	So, seemed worth trying.
1:15.8	Plus, my mother always said,
1:18.2	if you don't know the restaurant, ask for their most popular dish.
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