Episode 90

Summary

Radio Rental – Episode 90

Date: October 3, 2025
Hosted by: Tenderfoot TV & Audacy
Host: Rainn Wilson as "Terry Carnation" (departing), Ricky Lee (debut)

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Episode Overview

Episode 90 of Radio Rental marks a major turning point for the cult horror podcast, blending the show’s signature eerie tales with a momentous host transition. Set once again in the offbeat atmosphere of the titular 1980s video rental store, original host Terry Carnation (Rainn Wilson) prepares an emotional departure, passing the torch to the spirited newcomer Ricky Lee. The episode features two chilling true stories: one involving a supernatural encounter with a ghost truck, and the other a harrowing run-in with mysterious, menacing white vans. As always, real-life horror, paranormal threads, quirky humor, and production theatrics blur the lines between reality and fiction.

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Host Transition: Terry Carnation Says Goodbye

Terry Carnation’s Farewell Monologue

[02:11 – 06:26]

• Terry opens with characteristic humor and affection, calling Radio Rental’s stories "one of a kind videos so frightening, so mind bending you won’t be able to sleep at night."
• Announces his final day: “Today is my last day. I know, parting is such sweet sorrow. I’ve been with you for over eighty episodes, can you believe it?” [03:10]
• Humorous reference: “I definitely recall an instance where my naked body was covered in Crisco.” [03:30]
• Intends to descend "into the void to join my wife, Zeylon, who I believe exists in an entirely different dimension.” [03:43]
• Terry lists quirky survival kit: "I brought rope and a Texas Instruments graphing calculator, a copy of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and some of those goo packets that marathon runners use."
• Emotional farewell to his loyal cat, Malachi: “Malachi...you are my best friend. As hard as it is for me to admit it, a grown ass man with a cat is a best friend and yet it’s true.” [05:07]
• Passes the torch: “Today I am happy to pass the torch to your new host…they’re hiding behind the curtain...I think you’ll recognize their voice and they have my full blessing.” [04:20]
• Terry (playfully) prepares to be lowered into "the void": “Lower Malachi, lower! Zeylon, I’m coming my love!” [05:54]

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New Era Begins: Meet Ricky Lee

[06:30 – 09:04]

• Ricky Lee comforts a now-solo Malachi with Southern warmth: “Oh Malachi...Come on, let’s get you a treat…let me give you a little scritchy-scratchy under the chin.” [06:31]
• Introduces himself to listeners: “Hey everybody, it’s me, it’s me, it’s Ricky Lee!...I am a professional cosmological advisor. In fact, Terry was one of my longtime clients.” [06:57]
• Self-deprecating and upbeat: “Look, I know I’m no Terry Carnation, but I sure as heck am happy to be here at Radio Rental.”
• Astrological jokes: “I’m a Leo, a Leo rising, and my moon is in Leo. So that makes me, boom boom boom, triple Leo.” [07:09]
• Reassures about continuity: “Real scary stories, real often, told by real people. And we have got a great show for you today folks.” [08:16]
• With that, Ricky Lee preps the first tale: “Buckle up, buttercup. Here we go.” [08:49]

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Story 1: The Ghost Truck on the Kentucky Highway

[09:04 – 17:04]

Key Points:

• Setting: 1986, late night in eastern Kentucky; 15-year-old narrator riding with his father, both working at a warehouse.
• Incident: While driving home, a blinding, inexplicable light illuminates their Ford pickup, with no visible source or vehicle behind them. “It was just immediate bright light and I remember glancing back but I couldn’t make out any headlights…just a bright spotlight…it lit up everything around us including the inside of the cab.” [10:08]
• The light behaves like a vehicle tailgating; attempts to slow down or speed up do nothing; eventually the light veers off and disappears.
• Father and son conduct a roadside search, joined by law enforcement and volunteer firemen, suspecting a crash.
• They discover evidence of a semi-truck wreck under a bridge—yet, crucially, “the next morning the trooper calls my dad…that semi was called in missing over a week ago, that driver was found dead in the cab and that semi had been in the water for over a week.” [15:51]
• Paranormal implication: “I am certain to this day that was a ghost rig that pulled up behind us and those lights were that truck driver trying to let us know that he was dead in the water over a week.” [16:03]

Notable Quotes

• “If I had died and was unable to let anybody know for a week, I would try to find a way to let people know ‘hey my body’s over here.’” — Storyteller [16:38]
• “I was very much not a believer in the paranormal, but after that experience it kind of opened me up to the thinking there’s more to life than just flesh and blood.” — Storyteller [16:41]

Host Reaction

• Ricky Lee’s response is classic: “Good god almighty—a ghost truck. Look, I already love trucks but now—whoa. I mean, can you imagine? Hats off to that truck driver; may his soul find serenity.” [17:04]
• Breaks for comedic astrological advice: “Libra, stop eavesdropping on everybody…next time you’re at the Olive Garden, keep your eyes and ears on your own breadstick…” [17:35]

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Story 2: The Mystery of the White Vans

[20:25 – 37:00]

Key Points:

• Setting: Small-town Illinois resort, night shift, isolated guard shack.
• Incident: While watching monitors, the security guard sees a dark, inhuman form morph into a terrified, shirtless man running toward him.
• The man, Rigo, is “white as a ghost, sweating and crying” and keeps begging, “You have to help me, they’re making me throw up.” [21:45]
• Rigo’s belongings are in “black garbage bags” held by mysterious ‘they.’
• Suddenly, three white windowless vans speed down the road at 65 mph (“nobody does that out there”). Rigo panics, convinced “that’s them.”
• Boss and coworkers arrive to help, but when police come, “the state troopers are brushing him off.”
• The vans return, and the situation becomes eerier; the driver appears mannequin-like, ignores police, and chillingly says, "Why’d you run?” directly at Rigo. [33:00]
• Rigo receives his bag, puts on soiled clothing, and is ultimately taken by police to “the road”—location ambiguous.
• The narrator expresses ongoing unease: “It was just such a surreal, uncanny experience…I always felt uncomfortable thinking about the fact that they just let them go...those psychos probably came right back around and picked him back up.” [36:55]

Memorable Moment

• Description of the mannequin-like driver: “The guy looked like a mannequin—he didn’t even look human to begin with. He looked like an Old Navy mannequin—just cartoonishly smooth skin, perfect symmetrical shape…” [33:10]

Host Reaction

• Ricky Lee, emotional: “Now y’all, that one really heats me up… I have a prediction for you guys: my foot in your face. I just saw that right there in my mind.” [37:00]

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Noteworthy Quotes

• “Real scary stories, real often, told by real people.” — Ricky Lee [08:16]
• “We built this together…well, I mean, at the very least we took it over. We replaced the carpet once or twice, but we basically built it.” — Terry Carnation [05:10]
• “It was just lights; I didn’t see a vehicle whatsoever.” — Ghost Truck Storyteller [15:50]

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Host Tone & Transition Details

The passing of the torch from Terry Carnation to Ricky Lee is heartfelt, humorous, and on-brand for the show:

• Terry maintains his balance of absurdity and sentimentality, while Ricky Lee’s debut is down-to-earth with playful astrological asides and quick rapport with Malachi.
• The handoff reassures listeners: under new guidance, the core spirit of Radio Rental—strange, scary true tales—remains intact.

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Episode Structure & Timestamps

• [02:11] – Terry Carnation’s last intro & goodbye
• [06:30] – Ricky Lee takes over as new host
• [09:04 – 17:04] – Story 1: “Ghost Truck” (paranormal mystery)
• [20:25 – 37:00] – Story 2: “White Vans” (human horror, surreal danger)
• [39:01] – Ricky Lee’s sign-off and encouragement for what’s next

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Final Thoughts

This landmark episode blends emotional transition, eerie storytelling, and the promise of new adventures under Ricky Lee's stewardship. Both horror stories exemplify Radio Rental’s skill at exploring what’s scary—real or supernatural—while its host change is handled with both pathos and comic relief.

Listeners leave with:

• The affection and eccentricity of Terry Carnation's send-off
• Newfound charisma and humor from Ricky Lee
• Two unforgettable stories that blur the line between the uncanny and the all-too-human

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For full immersion, fans are encouraged to listen, but this summary delivers all major story beats and the unique spirit of Episode 90.

Transcript

[Dennis Cooper]

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Fears materialized when his lifeless asphyxiated body was later found in a nearby cornfield.

[Terry Carnation]

He asphyxiates in a cornfield you can't.

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Hang yourself from a cornstalk the rumor mill in this small town has brought many theories but the question remains what happened to danny did they get scared.

[Storyteller]

And have to dump the body was.

[Dennis Cooper]

This just all good fun that went.

[Storyteller]

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[Terry Carnation]

Take a break from the same old boring blockbusters and experience a new kind of movie night with radio rental at radio rental videos come to life in your living room defy all logic and reasoning and make you question your own reality this is not your ordinary video rental store at radio rental we carry one of a kind videos so frightening so mind bending you won't be able to sleep at night you've gone radio rental hello welcome to radio rental a video rental shop with an exclusive collection of the scariest stories you've ever heard and i'm your beloved host terry carnation and today today is my last day i know parting is such sweet sorrow i've been with you for over eighty episodes can you believe it we've had some incredible times and some some rocky times i definitely recall an instance where my naked body was covered in crisco anyway today i will be descending into the void to join my wife zelon who i believe exists in an entirely different dimension do i know which one no not exactly but i brought rope and a texas instruments graphing calculator copy of douglas adams hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and some of those goo packets that marathon runners use and i feel like i'll figure it out shut it malachi today i am happy to pass the torch to your new host no no no no no no don't come out yet they're hiding behind the curtain there we wanted to make it a whole reveal anyway i think you'll recognize their voice and they have my full blessing i trust they will bring this store onto greatness and at the very least maybe they can get it out of debt finally malakai my dearest one will be staying at radio rental that's right we used the hiatus to make this very difficult decision but malachi's place is here he is the living breathing heart and soul of this store and honestly through him i can kind of keep an eye on the place also he doesn't really like to travel i know i know boy i know you are my best friend as hard as it is for me to admit it a grown ass man with a cat is a best friend and yet it's true come here you come here come here you little silly willy come here come here malachi.

[Storyteller]

All.

[Terry Carnation]

Right all right that's enough that's enough i'm not crying it's just it's your dander malachi it got in my tear duct malachi look after this place it's our home we built this we built this together well i mean at the very least we took it over we replaced the carpet once or twice but we basically built it protect it with your life make sure the stories always stay scary now i'm gonna need you to lower me down into the void do it before i change my mind hold the rope in your little teeth goodbye my adoring fans it's been an honor and a pleasure to serve you with scary stories lower malachi lower ceylon i'm coming my love new host reveal thyself terry carnation ah.

[Ricky Lee]

Oh malachi malachi come here little buddy it's gonna be okay come here little guy come on let's get you a treat come on here you go oh let me give you a little scritchy scratchy under the chin come here chicka chicka chicka chicka chicka chicka chicka yeah that's good isn't it you feeling better and look i'm sure this ain't the last time you gonna see old terry but in the meantime sorry to say it it's me and you pal and okay there it is there's that gemini energy i was looking for glad to see you snapping back already malachi well hey everybody it's me it's me it's ricky lee and look i know i'm no terry carnation but i sure as heck am happy to be here at radio rental and if you don't know me then let me say howdy i am ricky lee as i forementioned earlier i'm a leo a leo rising and my moon is in leo so that makes me boom boom boom triple leo and i am a professional cosmological advisor in fact terry was one of my longtime clients and now perhaps you my friend would like to get in on that and don't worry i ain't going to try to upsell you yet but even though terry descended into that very concerning looking pit over there which by the way is good to know where that's at because i can get a little bit clumsy especially after midnight wink wink but i'm gonna need to hit the home depot after this and seal that thing back up or something but as i was saying even though terry has decided to climb down into the bowels of hell or what have you i will be continuing his legacy right here radiorno will persevere real scary stories real often told by real people and we have got a great show for you today folks all right thank you little guy come here got to put the vest on look at that that thing fits good that kind of shows my guns off all right how about that first tape get ready buckle up buttercup here we go.

[Storyteller]

I was fifteen years old it was the summer of nineteen eighty six i was working with my father who was a manager at this warehouse i was trying to save up money to buy up a new car and this was a perfect opportunity to make a little money and to hang out with my dad my dad and i worked at a location that was a massive warehouse that was an hour and twenty minutes away from home my dad drove this ford pickup it was you know one of these old eighty ford pickups this was a late night it was very muggy we're driving it wasn't a full moon but it was a bright enough moon where you could see everything going down the freeway there was no clouds just the moon and the hot summer evening in eastern kentucky while we were driving my dad turned on the radio we had country music going we were listening to the radio just chit chatting all of a sudden there was this light that hit us from the.

[Dennis Cooper]

Back.

[Storyteller]

It was just immediate bright light and i remember glancing back but i couldn't make out any headlights just a bright spotlight it lit up everything around us including the inside of the cab what the hell what is this light what is going on so he started slowing down hoping that this car or vehicle will go around us it just kept staying behind us almost like it was tailgating us it's really frustrating my father i remember him cussing a lot he'd speed up he'd slow down and it just wouldn't go away this is two thirty in the morning no traffic finally the light goes to the side and then blink all of a sudden it's dark there's no noise there's this eerie silence that had to be a car that just wrecked or it had to be a truck that just wrecked because it's gone it's not there he slams on the brakes we go off to the median he gets out of the truck i get out of the truck and we're looking down the freeway and there's still no vehicles we don't see anything my dad says let's go back down the freeway i'll have you get in the tailgate of the truck use this spotlight stand up see if we can find this vehicle that just wrecked when you're traveling through eastern kentucky there's places where state troopers will sit and get you for speeding it's kind of a median crossover so my dad crossed over and we go back westbound i'm panning around i'm looking for whatever it just wrecked i'm seeing nothing there's nothing in the median there's nothing on the side of the road i'm not even seeing any animals we're slowly going down the freeway panning back and forth and looking there's nothing no vehicles no people no animals nothing on our third pass we see a vehicle coming up behind us it was a local state trooper he turns on his lights and pulls us over trooper comes up and it was actually a friend of my father's and my dad tells him the story there was a bright light behind us stay behind us and then it wouldn't go around and he said when it finally went around i am certain it was a vehicle and i'm certain it wrecked and so the state trooper believed my dad they were longtime friends and my dad is one who does not tell stories the trooper says well let's call some people in and help you look for whatever happened he called in volunteer fire department about a half hour later we now have multiple vehicles looking for whatever had just happened two troopers the local sheriff was showing up volunteer fire department everywhere and we're all scanning up and down the freeway further down from where the light had hit us was a creek there's a bridge that goes over the creek one of the volunteer fire department guys starts yelling we get out of the truck and there's signs of a vehicle that had went off the road you can make out the outline of a semi it went from blinding bright light to oh my god there's been a crash we've got all this personnel there and they're all rushing around and they're trying to get down to the river the trooper he's like you guys can't really do anything else we're lucky we found this wreck we suggest that you go home and call the night there's something that we need to talk about we'll talk about it in a later time we go home i remember my dad telling my mom the story semi that came up behind us and then it ran off the road and i'm to my dad and i'm like i just saw lights i didn't see a vehicle whatsoever it was just lights he's like oh no no it had to be you know had to be the vehicle it had to be the semi we didn't hear anything and he's like no no no that was the semi it ran off the road the next morning the trooper calls my dad my dad picks up the phone and the trooper says that semi was called in missing over a week ago that driver was found dead in the cab and that semi had been in the water for over a week it's impossible that you saw those lights and that was a different.

[Dennis Cooper]

Wreck.

[Storyteller]

I am certain to this day that was a ghost rig that pulled up behind us and those lights were that truck driver trying to let us know that he was dead in the water over a week it was very surreal you know now we think back if i had died and was unable to let anybody know for a week i would try to find a way to let people know hey my body's.

[Dennis Cooper]

Over here.

[Storyteller]

I was very much not a believer in the paranormal but after that experience it kind of opened me up to the thinking there's more to life than just flesh and blood there's actually something going on paranormal wise.

[Ricky Lee]

Good god almighty a ghost truck look i already love trucks but now whoa i mean can you imagine hats off to that truck driver too and may his soul find serenity hold on folks hold on i'm sorry but i'm i'm feeling something here it comes oh my goodness this one's barreling down on me like an eighteen wheeler right here in my mind it's one of my divine interventions from the stars here it is libra libra stop eavesdropping on everybody do us all a favor and the next time you're at the olive garden keep your eyes and your ears on your own breadstick because no matter what olive garden says we ain't family you don't need to know my business and i don't want to know yours and if you don't quit it all this snooping around is going to lead to no good aka a pop knot on somebody's head now that needed to be said you know it did needed to be said y' all were thinking it but ul ricky lee said it all right enough about that let's take a quick break for ads.

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[Ricky Lee]

And we are back and it's time for the next story.

[Dennis Cooper]

To this day man i still can't explain what i experienced and what what actually happened i had taken a security job at a resort in a small town kind of near where i grew up in illinois sketchy kind of dive security job it was a resort that was probably like twenty to thirty acres the whole thing the little guard shack that i was at was this little wooden six foot by eight foot building it was my job to stop people that were coming off of the main highway onto the country road where the entrance of the resort was i had to kind of just be like hey man what are you doing do you have a pass are you a guest you know what's your reason for being here and all that stuff a lot of the time just got to kick back hang out watch random ghost videos on my phone just kind of chill and just do whatever i didn't have too many wild experiences i had to cover a night shift for a last minute call off i'm sitting in the guard shack kind of just hanging out looking at my phone and i'm looking at the monitors here and there and there haven't been very many cars that have come by i'm looking at a monitor that's facing the country road has a whole like line of trees at the way back of it i'm starting to see what looks like the silhouette of like a deer like shifting side to side it doesn't get my attention until it gets bigger and it gets closer and faster whatever this is it's moving fast i'm watching this silhouette this dark thing and then it molds into the shape of a person in front of my eyes and it's running at me okay there's actually a human being running at me at one thirty in the morning from literally nowhere off of a country road i have to actually seem like an intimidating person so i don't get murdered on the spot i step out of the guard shack and i light a cigarette and take a couple drags i'm watching this man run up to me his full form takes shape probably like five two he doesn't have a shirt on he had like cargo shorts stained ripped up shoes and he's sweating and he's crying and he was white as a ghost genuinely like all of the blood had left his body he was white as a ghost so i call out to him as he's getting closer and i'm like hey man what's up what are you doing who are you why are you out here he says in a very genuinely afraid shaky voice you have to help me they're making me throw up so i was like okay who's making you throw up what's going on where did you come from that was the first thing i thought was where did you come from because there's nothing around except for the resort and ranches farmland and ranches and a gas station and that was it who are you do you have an id on you he didn't tell me where he came from he kept saying you have to help me they're making me throw up he kept saying it over and over i tried to calm the guy down and i started to ask the guy some basic questions like what's your name do you have your phone with you the guy told me his name was rigo and he told me he didn't have his phone or his wallet or his id do you have anything and he tells me no they have all of my things in black garbage bags them being whoever he ran away from and i'm like what do you mean like your phone your wallet he said his clothes his phone his money his wallet his id everything they have in black garbage bags i'm now feeling the real seriousness of this situation so i'm texting my boss who lived just down the street from the resort letting him know like hey we have a serious situation i need you and whoever else is available to come out here right now and help me out with this out of the corner of my eye i see a pair of headlights coming down the long country road ahead of me i'm not thinking anything of it because i'll get one or two cars a night and i'll just flag them down and be like hey where's your pass whatever but rigo turns around and he looks at the headlights and screams this terrifying disgusting primal fear scream he's sweating he's crying he's like that's them you have to hide me they're coming to get me you need to hide me and he kept saying you need to hide me over and over and he said they are in three white windowless vans that's how you know that's them you have to hide me in my head i'm like well dude that could be anybody that could be somebody checking in at the resort that could be somebody just messing around who knows okay man sure i'm gonna play along i'm gonna do whatever i can to like make you comfortable also i have no idea what to do i feel like a deer in headlights myself in this moment i tell rigo go in the guard shack and duck down behind the door and i'll stand out here and i'll wave down the cars and ask them what they're doing i won't even bring you up i won't even act like you're here i promise he shakes my hand with both of his hands he goes in the guard shack and ducks down behind the door this vehicle approaches and it's a line of three white chevy astro vans that had no windows and they were going like sixty five miles an hour in a twenty speed limit zone blasted by me all three of them just one after the other right by me not even stopping or thinking of stopping for a second nobody does that out there my soul left my body in that moment i take it seriously at that point this guy's not kidding he's in danger like why are these people driving through here that fast why are there three of the same vehicle i get ahold of my boss and i tell my boss like hey look i need you to come out here this is a serious situation we could have somebody in danger i think whoever i'm helping whoever's with me right now is like running away from a kidnapping or something like that so he comes out and a couple other guys who are on shift in other parts of the resort drive up to where i'm at they're all talking to rigo rigo's still hiding inside the guard shack but they're all standing outside the door and asking them the same questions i asked him we're trying to figure this guy out and like who he is and where he came from and he's telling them all the same thing like please help me please help me they're making me throw up they're forcing me to throw up and he keeps saying that he just keeps saying that that alone really really bothered me so we call the cops the only cops around there were state troopers so state troopers show up and they're looking at this guy and writing him off and brushing him off like he's nothing everything he's saying is bullshit it's pissing me off beyond comprehension i'm sure police have experienced plenty of strange situations that they have to write off but there's real danger here in the situation that is palpable that me and my boss and all of my co workers all can feel and watching the police just brush this dude off like nothing really got to me my boss is like hey i don't want you to interfere i don't want you to go and talk to them or yell at them or like whatever or get intense with them this is what they have to do they have to be like this but my boss had a very very concerned tone and look to him too my boss was ex military and he was retired from a maximum security prison as a corrections officer for like twenty five years he worked there and nothing shook this guy up and this guy was shaken up by rigo.

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[Dennis Cooper]

Police are writing him off and they're not taking him seriously and they're looking at him like he's an idiot once again headlights start coming down the road rigo starts to panic and he starts saying please that's them you have to hide me you have to hide me we're all standing around the guard shack lo and behold it is them again these three white vans pull up the first van the driver's side window rolls down this guy slightly leans an elbow out the window two out of the three state troopers walk up to him they're asking him questions and the dude is sitting in the car not moving not looking at him almost as if they weren't even there the guy looked like a mannequin he didn't even look human to begin with he looked like an old navy mannequin just cartoonishly smooth skin perfect symmetrical shape of the shoulders and the head and the hair and the ears and the arms and everything rigo pops up from behind the guard shack door and the guy in the car cracks his head like it's on a plastic swivel in his direction and looks through the cops like they were missed like they weren't standing there at all and he looks right at rigo again not acknowledging the police at all not acknowledging us and all he says is why'd you run there's something so sinister about how he said it rigo's shaking and he's like coughing you can tell very uncomfortable and very afraid and he has tears in his eyes and he says can i please have my things the guy in the van pulls his body in there's a few seconds of just silence and nothing pulls his body out and drops a black garbage bag onto the ground and one of the cops picks it up and turns around and looks at rigo and goes is this your bag sir and there was just like a carelessness to him that was disgusting to me every animal like primitive reaction in my body was going off and all these red flags and all these warning signs were going off it's like the cops were just part of it like it was an act like i was watching a play like it wasn't even real rigo walks forward and he picks up the bag takes his wallet out takes his phone out and he takes out a gray shirt and puts it on the collar around the chest area of the shirt is soaked completely soaked in probably what i'm thinking is vomit he's very visually shaken up he goes back over to the guard shack and stands next to my boss the cops call rigo over and as they're calling him over all three of the vans take off.

[Storyteller]

The.

[Dennis Cooper]

Cops don't do a thing to stop them they don't ask them any questions nobody goes after him nobody yells hey stop come back nothing they were more focused on rigo and talking to him and finding out more about him my boss is having a conversation with rigo the police come over and start having a conversation with rigo and rigo turns around and walks with the police to one of the squad cars and he gets in and they all leave my boss is looking distraught and upset i walk up to him and i'm like hey man what the hell is happening like where are they taking him they're taking him to the road what road where what are you talking about and my boss says i don't know man i'm thinking the highway up there all they said was they're taking him to the road it was just such such a surreal uncanny experience i've always felt so uncomfortable like thinking about the fact that they just let them go like why did they let them go what makes it so much more eerie is that it's a small country town in illinois with nothing around there's a gas station and nothing around for more than like forty miles in all directions nothing around other than just like ranches and farms i mean your imagination can take you anywhere it wants to in that moment because it's quite literally like he materialized out of thin air from another space still to this day i have no idea what i experienced i think we helped him by making him feel comfortable and not afraid in those few minutes that we were with him but the cops dropped him off off at the road man i mean those psycho probably came right back around and picked him back up.

[Ricky Lee]

Now y' all that one really heats me up i'm telling you i'd like to jump right in my z twenty eight follow those vans and give those creeps a piece of my mind i i mean like hey i have a prediction for you guys my foot in your face i just saw that right there in my mind all right i'm sorry i'm getting too heated up here so let's take a break for a few more ads.

[Dennis Cooper]

This.

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[Ricky Lee]

Well folks that's it for today so come back and see me next week i am just getting getting my footing right now i'm starting to get a little vibe in this room but i think we're going to get along just swimmingly as they say over in england in fact i believe you and i are written in the stars see malachi i thought that went pretty good buddy what do you think and i know you miss you daddy but i'm going to be like your fun uncle and we all know fun uncle is superior to daddy amen.

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[Ryan Broderick]

Do you remember slenderman or the tide pod challenge with all those kids ate laundry detergent or donald trump's possible close personal friend jeffrey epstein well we cover all that here on panic world world i'm ryan broderick and panic world is a podcast all about how the internet warps our minds our culture and eventually reality each week i'm joined by a guest and we dig through the weirdest darkest strangest most confusing stories that have bubbled up out of the internet and we ask the important questions like what the heck happened to kanye west why is he so awful now or what the heck happened to jk rowling why is she so awful now why did all those kids eat laundry detergent ten years ago or why is everyone being really weird about a cartoon mouse on the disney channel well you can find out those answers by listening to panic world so do that and then get out there and touch some grass and maybe listen to our podcast while you do it find and follow panic world wherever you get your podcasts.

[Ashley Rae]

Hey it's ashley rae host of tv i say if you don't know me i'm a tv critic writer and expert and i'm here to tell you i'm every week what you should be watching and what everyone else is watching and what i'm watching because there's a lot out there and you need to know is the peacock subscription worth it or should i go with paramount tune in cause you'll also get to hear from some of your favorite people like niles abston i've been watching the wire okay that's classic jason mantzoukas i'm so excited.

[Dennis Cooper]

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[Ashley Rae]

Your favorite people from reality tv like ninety day fiance whoa i'm not the.

[Ricky Lee]

One who slept let's just make that.

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Clear it was alex and of course we'll be obsessing about all things tv from dramas to reality tv to documentaries and you know tv isn't even really just tv anymore my little brother watches kick on his phone all day that's it and tiktok it's his television so we're even gonna talk about things on the little screen and it's all brought to you by courier find and follow tv i say wherever you get your podcasts.