Episode 107

Summary

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Radio Rental – Episode 107

Podcast by Tenderfoot TV & Audacy
Date: May 22, 2026
Theme: Real-life horror stories—bizarre crimes, paranormal activity, and the unexplainable—told as tapes played inside the fictional 80’s video store, Radio Rental. Hosted with a blend of suspense and humor, this episode features chilling tales of encounters with the supernatural and moments of possible divine intervention.

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Overview

In Episode 107, Radio Rental continues its signature blend of eerie storytelling and dark comedy. This week, listeners are treated to two primary stories:

• An unsettling encounter with a possibly mythical creature at a summer camp in rural Wisconsin
• A brush with death and a mysterious savior during a desert hike gone wrong in New Mexico

Recurring character Jared the Repairman provides subtle comic relief and ties the stories together with his own surreal experience inside the shop.

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Key Discussion Points and Story Summaries

1. The Summer Camp Creature

[05:26–16:14]

A former camp counselor recalls a terrifying late-night experience that shook them to their core.

Story Breakdown:

• The narrator and their friend Joe sneak out after curfew with a group of summer camp counselors. Most friends return, leaving just the narrator and Joe making their way through the camp in rural Wisconsin.
• First Ominous Sign:
  • They hear a "loud screeching sound" that feels almost human but also animalistic.
    • “Sounded so close.” — Camp Counselor Storyteller [07:11]
    • “If you had never learned how to talk, this is how you would scream.” — Radio Rental Narrator [07:24]
• The Sighting:
  • In moonlight, they spot a large, crouched figure in the field and assume it's a moose due to visible antler-like features.
  • Upon closer approach, it "stood up on two legs"—unnaturally tall, skinny, and “about 8ft.”
    • “As soon as we stepped into the field, it stood up on two legs." — Camp Counselor Storyteller [08:25]
  • The creature sprints across the field, shifting from bipedal to quadrupedal movement as it vanishes into the woods with astonishing ease.
    • “I’ve never seen any animal that’s been able to like transition that well from a two legged sprint to a four legged sprint.” — Radio Rental Narrator [09:06]
• Aftermath:
  • A “human shriek” echoes from the horse stables, sending the horses into a frenzy.
  • Shocked, the counselor and Joe flee, still hearing wailing screams deep into the night.

The Story Spreads:

• Other campers hear the disturbance; rumors swirl at breakfast.
• The camp boss relays his own chilling encounter:
  • “He saw a pair of yellow eyes about 10 ft up in the trees staring down at him. And he said it followed him through the woods.” — Radio Rental Narrator [12:18]
• Local folklore comes into play when a shop owner in town warns them about Native American land and mentions the wendigo—a shape-shifting, flesh-hungry spirit from legend.
  • “She told us about this native American spirit called a windigo. And once we googled that, that looked a lot like what we saw.” — Camp Counselor Storyteller [13:27]
• The counselors continue hearing eerie screams for the rest of the summer. The following year, a "deer cut directly in half" is found on a camp path, fueling dark suspicions.
  • “They always thought, like, whatever we heard probably did that, but we never knew exactly what was.” — Camp Counselor Storyteller [15:46]

Notable Moments & Quotes:

• “All rationality went out the door. I just saw a monster. I just witnessed something that is not supposed to be real.” — Radio Rental Narrator [09:06]
• “The more you say it, the more power it gives to the creature.” — Radio Rental Narrator [15:31]

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2. Saved by the Mysterious Falcon

[19:55–31:03]

A cross-country road trip in New Mexico turns life-or-death when allergies strike and an inexplicable guide appears.

Story Breakdown:

• The storyteller and a friend, camping near the San Francisco Hot Springs, hike into a valley for a relaxing Christmas Day but stumble into a medical emergency—severe allergic reaction (anaphylactic shock).
• The situation becomes dire as the narrator becomes disoriented during the arduous trek back, fearing imminent death.
  • “If I made another mistake like that, it might be the end. Like, I might not be able to actually get out of there.” — Storyteller [23:12]
• Supernatural Intervention:
  • A large falcon with a bell tied around its neck swoops in and persistently tries to get their attention.
  • The bird’s strange, deliberate behavior convinces the pair to follow it.
    • “Should we follow the falcon?...that’s what we did.” — Storyteller [24:34]
  • The falcon stops and waits for them, changes direction if they go astray, keeps them on a straight path back toward their car.
• They reach the van, and the falcon leaves. The narrator is rushed to a closed clinic, only to find a lone nurse who administers a lifesaving injection.
• In hindsight, the storyteller researches trained hunting falcons and recognizes their tactic of guiding prey for a hunter—but cannot shake the feeling of a miraculous, almost spiritual intervention.
  • “I couldn’t deny the fact that whether I believe in anything or not, there was something somewhere in the universe that didn’t want me to die that day. And it was looking out for me.” — Storyteller [29:51]
  • “That falcon saved my life without any doubt in my mind.” — Storyteller [30:40]

Notable Moments & Quotes:

• The mysterious nature of the falcon provokes a spiritual reflection, even from a non-believer.
  • “Seeing a wild animal, seeing like an animal, you know, a falcon, something non human, be able to actually come to the aid of another living creature was the most beautiful thing.” — Storyteller [29:18]
• “For what that's worth, we trusted the falcon in that moment.” — Storyteller [25:19]

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3. Jared the Repairman’s Comic Relief and Store Antics

[03:49–04:56, 16:14–16:43, 19:23, 31:03–31:36, 33:50–34:29]

• Jared is called to fix a maintenance issue in the rental shop and finds a bird inside, prompting running jokes and banter about his role as "repair man, not animal control."
• Jared ties in the stories with his attempts to relate to nature, culminating in a humorous and failed attempt to befriend the shop's new avian guest.
  • “What if this bird is trying to tell me something? Like the one in the tape? Maybe I need to be more open to it...Hey, hey, birdie...Ow. What the fuck?” — Jared the Repairman [31:03–31:40]
• His pragmatic, deadpan reactions contrast with the intense experiences recounted on the tapes.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the supernatural camp encounter:
  “It stood up on two legs... about 8ft tall and almost unnaturally skinny.” — Camp Counselor Storyteller [08:46]
• On fear and disbelief:
  “All rationality went out the door. I just saw a monster.” — Radio Rental Narrator [09:06]
• On the boss’s story:
  “He saw a pair of yellow eyes about 10 ft up in the trees staring down at him.” — Radio Rental Narrator [12:18]
• On the falcon’s intervention:
  “Should we follow the falcon?...that’s what we did.” — Storyteller [24:34]
• On finding meaning in the inexplicable:
  “There was something somewhere in the universe that didn’t want me to die that day.” — Storyteller [29:51]

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Timeline & Timestamps

• [05:26–16:14] – Wisconsin Camp Creature Story (encounter, aftermath, local legend)
• [19:55–31:03] – Desert Falcon Story (medical emergency, animal "guide," rescue)
• [03:49–04:56, 16:14–16:43, 19:23, 31:03–31:36, 33:50–34:29] – Jared’s comic interludes and reactions to in-store wildlife

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Tone & Style

• Dark, suspenseful storytelling punctuated with subtle, quirky humor (primarily through Jared).
• Narratives are intimate, personal, and delivered with the earnest disbelief of eyewitness encounters.
• Occasional deadpan or self-deprecating asides provide levity between chilling moments.

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Summary

Episode 107 of Radio Rental delivers two unsettling real-life tales: one of a possible wendigo encounter at an isolated summer camp, and another of a near-fatal allergy attack with life-saving, otherworldly assistance from a mysterious falcon. Layered between and after the stories, Jared the Repairman’s comic misadventures inside the video shop ease the tension. Listeners are left contemplating the thin line between the explicable and the uncanny—and reminded, sometimes, nature itself might have its own strange plans.

Transcript

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[Radio Rental Narrator/Storyteller]

Take a break from the same old boring blockbusters and experience a new kind of movie night with radio rental. At radio rental, our videos come to

[Radio Rental Storyteller]

life in your living room, defy all

[Radio Rental Narrator/Storyteller]

logic and reasoning and make you question your own reality. This is not your ordinary video rental store. At radiorental, we carry one of a kind videos. Frightening. So mind bending, you won't be able to sleep at night. You've gone radio rental.

[Jared the Repairman]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, hey. Leave the door open.

[Radio Rental Storyteller]

Hold on.

[Jared the Repairman]

I think I can. Ah, damn it. There it goes again. It's hiding between body horror and teen slashers. Oh, hey. I think I've seen you here before. I'm Jared the repairman. Someone called me today. Didn't recognize the voice. Really thick southern accent. They said there was a maintenance issue at the store. So I show up here. No one's here except this bird. Yeah, this really isn't my purview. I'm a repairman, not animal control. Yeah. Hey, Malachi, there's a bird in here, buddy. Why don't you tap into those natural instincts, huh? No, you're gonna play with your crinkle ball instead, right? There's actually live prey in here, but yeah, let's go for the crinkle ball. I'd say I'd go get someone to help you out, but there's no one in the back. I guess. I mean, I've done it before. I guess I could play one of

[Radio Rental Narrator/Storyteller]

those tapes for you.

[Jared the Repairman]

Yeah, okay. I mean, I'm waiting on this bird to decide to leave anyway. All right, let's see here. How about this one? It says something. Camp. Summer camp. Summer. Summer camp. Okay, that sounds nice. Maybe it's like meatballs or wet hot American summer. Maybe this one will be a comedy.

[Camp Counselor Storyteller]

So it was the summer before I turned 18. I just graduated high school, Getting ready to go off to college. Was going to a camp I had always gone to all my life. But this was my first summer working as a counselor at this camp. So I was gonna be there all summ. I was going up with my best friend, and we all knew a couple people who were gonna be counselors with us. And we were really excited to start the summer. Throughout the summer, we would always. A little group of us would kind of break away at night and sneak out of our cabins, make sure, you know, someone was watching the kids. But we would always, you know, try to go sneak off camp a little bit. We were sneaking away one night and a couple of us were down there, maybe four or five of us, just hanging out, talking. After a while, a few went back. And by the end of the night it was just me and my friend Joe.

[Radio Rental Narrator/Storyteller]

It was getting pretty late that night, so Annie was ready to go back. And so I decided I'd walk back with Annie. We're walking through the woods and it opens up into this big field which is where you can see all the different cabins and things like that. And on the other end of the field is the bathroom. And the bathroom has this big floodlight on it. So you can see the bathroom from anywhere on the camp. So the kids know how to get there and all.

[Camp Counselor Storyteller]

And we heard this like loud screeching sound. Sounded so close.

[Radio Rental Narrator/Storyteller]

The shriek, the best way I could describe it was human, but it was like this very animalistic. Like if you had never learned how to talk, this is how you would scream.

[Camp Counselor Storyteller]

The way the field was shaped, we would walk around from like the horse stables and you'd be in the middle of the field. And the way the moon was that night, you could see the across the entire field you could see all the cabins, you could see the bathrooms, everything. And we saw this big thing in the middle of the field. But you couldn't really tell based off the shape. You could just see that it was some kind of animal crouched or sitting in the middle of this grass.

[Radio Rental Narrator/Storyteller]

When I first saw it, my brain immediately goes to something rational. It's gotta be my friend, it's gotta be somebody that I know.

[Camp Counselor Storyteller]

And I thought it was a moose because it had these big antlers and it was huge. As we got closer to it, we could see it kind of moving. But as soon as we stepped into the field, it stood up on two legs.

[Radio Rental Narrator/Storyteller]

They look about like 8ft tall and almost unnaturally skinny. They're completely silhouetted, but we can still see their shape pretty well.

[Camp Counselor Storyteller]

And sprinted like a person would sprint into the woods that were 50ft away.

[Radio Rental Narrator/Storyteller]

It's running across the field, across to our left as it's running right before it hits the tree line. Instead of running on two legs, it drops to all fours but maintains its full sprint. All rationality went out the door. I've never seen any animal that's been able to like transition that well from a two legged sprint to a four legged sprint. And at that point I was pretty significantly scared. I just saw a monster. I just witnessed something that is not supposed to be real.

[Camp Counselor Storyteller]

The closest it could get to the tree line, that's where it ran. Didn't run towards us or away from us, it just ran off to the

[Radio Rental Narrator/Storyteller]

side, side and through that tree line right there. Is the trail that leads to the horse stables of the camp. So it leads right towards the horse stables. And then we hear a huge bang. And then like an almost like human shriek. And it's like the scream and then all the horses go crazy.

[Camp Counselor Storyteller]

We both just kind of stood there and we were frozen.

[Radio Rental Narrator/Storyteller]

Annie and I are just standing here in the middle of this field, middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, Wisconsin. We were just both so freaked out once we heard the scream out by the horses. There was just this moment of both of us completely shocked, faces completely silent, not even knowing what to say, just looking at each other. Then there was this like, explosion of emotion of just like, what was that? Oh, my God. Did you see that? Was that real?

[Camp Counselor Storyteller]

He grabbed my arm and we sprinted back to my cabin, which was maybe 50 yards away. He dropped me off at the porch and stood there with me for a second.

[Radio Rental Narrator/Storyteller]

I walked back to my cabin and we decided to just go to sleep.

[Camp Counselor Storyteller]

But we could still hear this, like, wailing screams from that side of the woods where this thing just ran into. And we heard it for the rest of the night. The next day at breakfast, we immediately ran over each other. I was like, what was that? What do you think that was? And he was just as confused as I was. He's like, I have no clue. I thought it was a bear or maybe like a deer or something, and I didn't know what it was. And then when it ran, I have even smaller idea. And I was like, it did run, though, right into the woods. Like, we saw it sprint off like that. And neither one of us had any idea, but we told everybody, did you guys hear anything?

[Radio Rental Narrator/Storyteller]

Did you guys see anything? As the story kept getting bigger and bigger, traveling throughout the whole dust dining hall. Eventually, like I said, the boss catches wind of what we're talking about, and everyone's cracking jokes and saying these funny things. And then he tells us at, like, that staff meeting that morning, he says, earlier this summer, before everyone else showed up to camp, one of the cabins kind of far off had the lights switching on and off, and he went out to go turn the lights off, check around there, see if anything was going wrong. And he said on his way back down the trail, he saw a pair of yellow eyes about 10ft up in the trees staring down at him. And he said he followed him through the woods. And this guy is like the most no nonsense person I've ever met in my life. So for him to tell that story in front of all of us, it was like he believed that it was real. So at that point, people started listening to us, started trusting us. Yeah, it kind of went on from there.

[Camp Counselor Storyteller]

We would hear it a lot at night. Every night was different. For most of the summer, it just sounded like an animal was being killed, like a deer, like, kind of just like loud shrieking, like, very piercing, and woke campers up. It was that lo really had any input until we went into town the weekend. Every. All the kids went back, couple of, like, the locals. This one lady owned, like, a jewelry, like, a turquoise business. And she. She's like, oh, you know, you kids should not be messing around on near native American lands. They're not meant for kids or children or for people to be playing in. And she told us about this native American spirit called a windigo. And once we googled that, that looked a lot like what we saw. That freaked me out more than seeing it that night. She just basically told me that, like, a wendigo is a part of, like, native American folklore, basically, and it's just a. An evil, trapped spirit into, like, a morphed body of, like, a deer, a bear, and a wolf almost. And they kind of shapeshift to different people, depending on who, what you see or what you think they're supposed to look like. They're supposed to have a craving for human flesh. Kind of scary.

[Radio Rental Narrator/Storyteller]

As we were reading more into, like, the stories, there's some stories that say the more you say it, the more power it gives to the creature, you know? So it's like. It's almost like something wants you to know it's a wind to go.

[Camp Counselor Storyteller]

The next year, somebody went back, and they found a deer in the middle of, like, our bike path that was, like, cut directly in half. And they always thought, like, whatever we heard probably did that, but we never knew exactly what was.

[Jared the Repairman]

Yeah, you see, this is why I like being a repair man. I'm all about the great indoors. I make the indoors function. That's kind of my whole thing. And let me tell you, none of that would be happening if those kids were indoors where they belong. Speaking of indoors, hand me my broom.

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[Jared the Repairman]

All right, the bird's not out of here yet, but it's closer to the door at least. Bad news? I think it's trying to make a nest out of Lint and Twizzlers. So if you want, I'll play another tape while I wait it out. I can't read what this one says. Whatever, as long as it's not about birds.

[Radio Rental Storyteller]

So my buddy and I were out on a bit of a cross country road trip. We were kind of just going wherever the road took us. At that point we were in western New Mexico. Him and I were just kind of hanging out around the campfire we had camped at the night before. We had really no plans. It happened to be Christmas Day and we were kind of thousands of miles away from our families. And to be honest, we were feeling kind of bummed out about that. We didn't really feel like, you know, we had anything to do for the day. There wasn't much out there to do. So we opened up our road atlas and we wanted to kind of find a hot springs or something, just somewhere to hang out and just kind of shoot the breeze and just like relax the day away. It was beautiful weather that day and we just wanted to do something. We located this place called the San Francisco Hot Spring. Seemed like it was relatively within our area. So we took a couple hour drive out there and decided to kind of hike out there if we were able to find where it was at. We came across a bit of like a faded, rusty old sign on the side of the road that said San Francisco Hot Springs. So we figured, you know, let's try our luck and hike down this trail and see if we can actually locate it. We begin the hike and we realized from the map it was going to be about five miles in and five miles out. Within our reason, we could hike that. We were 19 years old. We were a little headstrong, and I think we could do whatever at that moment we were, we were confident. We cruised across a bit of like a flat desert terrain for a while where it was kind of rugged, shrubs and cacti and a bit more of an arid part of the desert. I would say. We get over to where the edge of a valley would be and we kind of notice a rocky switchback that leads down into it. At that point we were pretty confident with our climbing ability. And it looked interesting down there. It had like lush grass and like tall white trees and just seemed like the ideal place to kind of set up camp for a little bit and just hang out. We end up getting down there and it's really nice, very shady, kind of cool breeze flowing through the valley. It was a very relaxing place to kind of just hang out and Set up and have some lunch and chill by the riverside. So I didn't know it at the time, but the grass we had set in, a tall desert grass that grows wild out there, Was something I was severely allergic to. It hit me as soon as we sat down on the grass. I began feeling an intense itchy feeling up my back and a tightness around my throat. For me, after having a lifetime of just allergies. And having experienced this exact symptom before, I immediately knew what was happening. I was going into anaphylactic shock. It is not a light situation. It is a very serious medical thing to happen to you, Especially when you're out in the middle of the desert. We had to immediately double back, follow the trail we took in, and climb back out of the valley on the switchback. And it would be, like I said in the beginning, another five miles. Just the fact that it was such a long walk, I wasn't even sure whether I'd make that. The only thing I could really do was bank on the fact that I have to survive. I knew that I had to get my friend's attention and let him know, we gotta move. I turn to him, I tell him exactly what's going on. He, thankfully, was aware enough of what was, you know, what allergic reactions really were that he completely understood and immediately hopped up. Help me pack up everything. We started trudging our way out of that valley. So as soon as we started that trek up the switchback, it began to make me a bit delusional. I kind of began to fade in and out of consciousness, and my breathing became severely labored. I was struggling to breathe. We managed to get up out of the switchback. We got back onto the flat desert terrain, and we just began trudging as hard as we could in the direction that I thought the car was. In my delirious state, I wasn't able to track back exactly the path we had taken. It was me who tracked us into the canyon, and I couldn't find the way back. I was too out of it. I could barely even see where I was going. I could barely even think at that time. In that moment, I began to realize we had taken a wrong turn, and we were nowhere near the car. We were kind of off in the middle of nowhere. And as that feeling dawned on me, it became kind of apparent that if I made another mistake like that, it might be the end. Like, I might not be able to actually get out of there. In that moment, the strangest thing I'd ever seen. A falcon With a jingling bell around its neck, Flew right up to us on a cacti and just started jingling around and trying to get our attention. It seemed we were both kind of like, what the hell is this? We've never seen anything like that before. It was a very large falcon, which we knew what that was with a jingling bell tied around its neck. Because of, like, just how strange the situation was, we ignored it. We just started walking off in the direction we were walking in. We were on a mission. We were trying to get back to the car. We couldn't pay attention to this falcon. Although it was interesting, we couldn't pay attention to it. We take off back in the direction we were going, paying no mind to this falcon. It immediately flies directly in front of us, Starts fluttering its wings aggressively, and just starts trying to get our attention. Seeing this falcon deliberately fly right back in front of us, more aggressively than before, trying to get our attention, it seemed like flapping its wings, jingling its bell around its snack, like it was impossible to ignore. For us, this was something strange happening, like it was trying to get our attention. I can't even say whether that even makes sense, but in that moment, I knew just the feeling kind of hit me that we're not going in the right direction. This falcon is trying to get our attention. We could both kind of feel that in the moment, because we looked at each other, we were like, should we follow the falcon? Like, verbatim. That's what we said, and that's what we did. I put two and two together in my head, for what that's worth, and just started following this falcon. We were pushing our way back towards the car is at least what we thought was. And just knowing at this point that this falcon was our one possible chance of even getting out of here, getting back to the car. We were almost dead silent. Like, we would look at each other every now and again, almost exchanging looks like, what are we doing? Like, what is happening right now? So I kind of knew that it was guiding us in some kind of direction, because every step that we took towards it, it would jump a little bit further away from us onto a different cacti, and not really retreat back in our direction unless we went in the wrong direction. Or if we stood there for too long, it would come straight back to us and it would be more frantic. Just if we were standing there just kind of idling, it would get a little frantic and kind of try to get our attention again and let us know that, like, you gotta follow me. Right now, we got the feeling the falcon was like, you have to put your trust in me for what that's worth. I know it's a. A wild animal or an animal, but we trusted the falcon in that moment. And every step we took towards it, it would jump to another cacti further away from us. It was going in a straight line. Every step we took towards it after that, it would jump to the next cacti and the next cacti. And we kind of realized it was taking us absolutely in a straight path. It was guiding us absolutely to. In that moment, I could feel that we were going back in the right direction. Like, this was more familiar as it guided us. Like, we would get closer to us, and it would, like, gently flutter its wings, almost like it was intending on ringing its bell. Like it was almost using its bell to get our attention. I'd say within 10 minutes, it got us directly back to our car. As soon as we got to the van, immediately fluttered off in the opposite direction, and we had never seen it again. As soon as we see our car, there should be a feeling of, like, rejoice and celebration. But instead, my friend was like, we gotta go get in the car now. I had to, like, pretty much be slightly even carried to the car. My friend threw my arm over his shoulder and pretty much hobbled me back to the van, threw me into the passenger seat. We drove down into the small town that we were near. I pretty much much just reclined the seat and kind of resigned to just the fact that I got to the car and it's in my friend's hands now to get me to where I need to go to be helped. I felt in that moment that it was at a point where either I'm going to live or die at this point. I'm on the edge. Got us to a clinic that was closed for the day. It was Christmas. Like I said before, there was nobody in the clinic except for one nurse who was there doing paperwork. We knocked on the window. She let us in. At that point, the hives had completely spread up my back, around my throat and down my chest. I was completely covered in hives. They had taken over my body. Labored breathing she pulled me back into the exam room and she hit me with an epinephrine injection. And it saved my life and revived me. It's the strangest day of my life, honestly. I'd never interacted with an animal like that before. Just seeing the bell around its neck, I kind of felt like it was a trained falcon. Like it had some training. It seemed like it knew what it was doing. At least it knew. It knew a lot more of what it was doing than we did. At that time. I really did not consider myself spiritual. I didn't really have any faith or belief systems that I really followed. But I can't deny that in that moment it felt like divine intervention. It felt like everything lined up just at the nick of time. Seeing a wild animal, seeing like an animal, you know, a falcon, something non human, be able to actually come to the aid of another living creature was the most beautiful thing. I couldn't deny the fact that whether I believe in anything or not, there was something somewhere in the universe that didn't want me to die that day. And it was looking out for me. There's something out there, I know it. I ended up doing some research and kind of looking into what type of falcon that was and just how trained falcons act. And I've learned that it's actually a hunting method that they're trained to do where they will fly in front of prey that they're trying to locate and they will usher them to a certain location. They'll make the prey follow them to guide them back to the hunter. From what we gathered, it was a hunting falcon. It was trained to hunt animals. And it's kind of funny at this point, but it felt like it was actually in hindsight, ushering us like animals. If there's one thing I know for sure about that day, I wouldn't be here today. If it wasn't for that falcon. I. I wouldn't have made it through that hike. I wouldn't have made it to see the day that I'm seeing today if it wasn't for that falcon. That falcon saved my life without any doubt in my mind.

[Jared the Repairman]

Actually kind of a nice story for once. Weird for sure, but nice. Life affirming actually. What if. What if this bird is trying to tell me something? Like the one in the tape? Maybe. Maybe I need to be more open to it. I could be closing myself off to a profound connection with nature. What if it sits right on my arm? Hey. Hey, birdie. Hey, it's me. Don't worry, come here.

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[Jared the Repairman]

Well, hey, thanks for stopping by Radio Rental. I'm on my way out, too. Oh, the bird. Yeah, there's just a bird here now.

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I tried.

[Jared the Repairman]

The bird will be fine. There's plenty of popcorn on the floor. It'll live. Think of it like another shop pet. Maybe I'll see you around. Next time Radio Rentals brings a leak or has a termite infestation or there's a moose in here or something. Apparently I do it all. Good night, Malachi. Have fun with your new friend. Or just the crinkle ball?

[Narrator/Producer]

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