The Lost Tapes, Tape 1 - Are You Scared?

Summary

Summary of "The Lost Tapes, Tape 1 - Are You Scared?" Episode

Podcast Information

• Title: The Magnus Archives
• Host/Author: Rusty Quill
• Description: “Make your statement, face your fear.” A weekly horror fiction podcast that delves into the mysterious and the supernatural as Jonathan Sims explores the Magnus Institute's archives. New episodes feature guest actors, short stories, serial plots, and more, with the launch of The Magnus Protocol slated for January 2024.
• Episode: The Lost Tapes, Tape 1 - Are You Scared?
• Release Date: November 17, 2024

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Introduction: Mysterious Deliveries

The episode opens with Samantha Beet introducing her show segment within the podcast universe. Unlike the typical digital submissions they receive, Samantha and her co-host Ryan Vergara receive a physical package:

[02:42] Samantha Beet: "A mysterious package which has obviously seen better days. It says two watcher on the front and it has a British postage. Weirdly enough, there's also a big R logo here. Not sure what that's all about. Shall we see what's inside if we dare?"

Their curiosity is piqued as they unveil three burnt cassette tapes labeled "1," "2," and "3." The ominous condition of the package hints at the unsettling content to follow.

Unboxing Tape 1: Are You Scared?

Samantha and Ryan decide to play the first tape, titled "Are You Scared?" The tape features a conversation between two individuals, Adam and Tommy, who are brainstorming ideas for their own podcast:

[04:17] Adam: "And we could interview them right up to and past their sentencing."

[05:03] Tommy: "You can't tell by the ideas you're pitching. You just suggested we interview random people until we happen upon a future serial killer."

Adam and Tommy's dialogue reveals their macabre podcast concept: interviewing potential future murderers. Their dark humor and unsettling ideas set a foreboding tone.

Escalation of Horror Podcast Ideas

As the tape progresses, Adam and Tommy delve deeper into increasingly bizarre and horrifying podcast concepts:

1. Decomposing Body Narrative:

   • [06:04] Adam: "A podcast that narrates a decomposing body live to time."
   • [06:30] Tommy: "Do you want us to watch a decomposing student? And you think the sponsors will be okay with that?"

2. Ant-Infested Control:

   • [11:38] Adam: "Just right there in his pants."
   • [17:38] Unknown Announcer: "Praying mantis, he go after ya."

3. Paranoid Paramedics:

   • [19:45] Tommy: "Oh, there's another idea. A paramedic team that becomes so traumatized by the things they've seen that they go mad and turn on one another."
   • [20:00] Adam: "Grizzly heroes turned monsters. People will love you."

Each idea becomes progressively more grotesque, reflecting a descent into madness and horror.

Blurring Lines: Fiction Meets Reality

As Adam and Tommy pitch their dark ideas, Samantha and Ryan witness eerie events unfolding around them, mirroring the tape's content:

• Car Crash Incident:
  • [14:15] Tommy: "What are the odds of a car crash happening just downstairs from our office moments after I pitch a story about a crashing car?"
  • [14:22] Unknown Announcer: "This is really fun."

The sudden real-life car crash near their office adds a layer of supernatural intrigue, suggesting a sinister connection between the tapes and their reality.

• Supernatural Manifestations:
  • [21:27] Adam: "Why are the things you're pitching actually happening?"
  • [21:32] Unknown Announcer: "Oh, my God. God."

These manifestations escalate, leading to a chaotic and terrifying environment where the fictional horrors become tangible threats.

Cliffhanger: Trapped in Terror

The episode culminates in a tense and suspenseful climax as Samantha and Ryan find themselves trapped within their space, unable to escape the horrors they've inadvertently unleashed through the tape:

[22:55] Tommy: "We're trapped."

[23:03] Tommy: "Boop."

[23:05] Samantha Beet: "That's tape one."

[23:07] Samantha Beet: "Well, I guess you'll have to wait till next time, Tommy and Adam."

As the tape ends, the hosts are left in a state of fear and uncertainty, setting the stage for subsequent tapes and deeper exploration into the darkness unleashed by the lost tapes.

Notable Quotes

• Samantha Beet on Receiving the Package:

  [02:42] "A mysterious package which has obviously seen better days."

• Adam on Podcast Concept:

  [05:13] "I like it."

• Tommy on Decomposition Podcast:

  [06:30] "Do you want us to watch a decomposing student?"

• Reflection on Reality Merging with Fiction:

  [14:15] "What are the odds of a car crash happening just downstairs from our office moments after I pitch a story about a crashing car?"

• Climactic Realization:

  [21:27] "Why are the things you're pitching actually happening?"

Conclusion: A Haunting Prelude

"The Lost Tapes, Tape 1 - Are You Scared?" serves as a chilling introduction to a series where fictional horrors seep into reality. Through the unboxing of mysterious tapes and the subsequent unleashing of terror, the episode masterfully blurs the lines between storytelling and actual danger. The unresolved tension and cliffhanger ending leave listeners eagerly anticipating the unfolding of the remaining tapes and the ultimate fate of Samantha and Ryan.

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Final Note: This episode intertwines meta-narrative elements with traditional horror storytelling, creating an immersive and unsettling experience. For those unfamiliar with "The Magnus Archives," this episode stands as a testament to Rusty Quill's ability to craft intricate and bone-chilling tales that leave a lasting impact.

Transcript

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[Samantha Beet]

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[Samantha Beet]

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[Samantha Beet]

I'm Ryan Vergara and this is Are you scared? A show where I tell my friend Shane Maday the Internet's scariest stories. Today we're actually going to be doing things a little bit different for Are you scared? Because our submission, while normally from online, has actually come to us in the form of a little envelope.

[Unknown Announcer]

A mysterious package.

[Samantha Beet]

A mysterious package which has obviously seen better days. It says two watcher on the front and it has a British postage. Weirdly enough, there's also a big R logo here. Not sure what that's all about. Shall we see what's inside if we dare? All right, let's take a look I love this kind of stuff.

[Unknown Announcer]

Do you get these sort of packages often?

[Samantha Beet]

It's burnt. Yeah, well, normally I just kind of open them at home. Yeah, but this is the first one I've opened on camera. Smells weird.

[Unknown Announcer]

It's like Christmas.

[Samantha Beet]

We got one, two, three tapes, actually. Just get these out and let me pull. Oh, shit. And it looks like there's some burnt scraps of paper. That explains the burnt smell, huh? Well, let's get that out of there.

[Unknown Announcer]

That's a genuine cassette tape.

[Samantha Beet]

Looks like this tape says 1. This tape says 2.

[Unknown Announcer]

Listen last.

[Samantha Beet]

Should we listen first? Do a little memento? No, no, no, no. Let's listen good, boys. We're not gonna Tarantino it. We'll listen to the first one.

[Unknown Announcer]

Well, this is exciting. I don't have to hear your voice. Okay.

[Samantha Beet]

I don't know if I would have worded it that way, but we get.

[Unknown Announcer]

Some tapes from a stranger.

[Samantha Beet]

Well.

[Unknown Announcer]

Surprised.

[Samantha Beet]

How do I open this tape player? How did you do that?

[Unknown Announcer]

I read a button. Oh, gosh. Okay. This is really exciting.

[Samantha Beet]

Well, let's hop into it.

[Unknown Announcer]

Are we ready?

[Samantha Beet]

Lock your doors, turn off the lights, and let's see if we could make it till the end of the night.

[Adam]

And we could interview them right up to and past their sentencing.

[Tommy]

All right, all right, all right. Hang on, hang on. Right, start over. I can't write any more of these down, so I've got the recorder going now.

[Adam]

I'm saying if we do enough human interest stories, but focus on people who are most likely to murder, then one is bound to snap and boom, there's our podcast. We follow him and. Stop shaking your head. We're looking for potential murderers. Statistically, it's gonna be a him.

[Tommy]

I meant start over. Start over. Never mind. This is Adam and Tommy.

[Adam]

Hello.

[Tommy]

We have been trying to come up with a new podcast for. Oh, well, would you look at that? We just crossed over into the 15th hour.

[Adam]

No, we haven't really, have we?

[Tommy]

You can't tell by the ideas you're pitching. You just suggested we interview random people until we happen upon a future serial killer.

[Adam]

I mean, it's how companies find their CEOs.

[Unknown Announcer]

I like it.

[Samantha Beet]

Their idea for a true crime podcast is just to interview people, hoping that they're interviewing a future serial killer.

[Unknown Announcer]

It's a smart idea, I think.

[Samantha Beet]

You think that's a smart idea?

[Unknown Announcer]

Tommy and Adam, they're just like us. We sit down a lot, too, and we go, what's a good idea for a ghost show?

[Samantha Beet]

Yeah, we don't normally record it.

[Unknown Announcer]

Though we should start recording.

[Samantha Beet]

Yeah, because then we could send our tape over back to the uk, Put it in an equally dirty envelope. By the way, I'm enjoying just listening with you.

[Tommy]

That's nice.

[Unknown Announcer]

To vibe, huh? Welcome to the vibe zone, brother. I've been living here.

[Samantha Beet]

We're just vibing in the void together.

[Unknown Announcer]

That's what we're all. That's what we're here for.

[Samantha Beet]

Were you trying to shake. What did you want me to do, like, high five you? Okay, cool. Let's get going.

[Tommy]

Cute. Could you maybe use some of that cleverness to come up with an actual idea?

[Adam]

Okay. A podcast that narrates a decomposing body live to time.

[Tommy]

I imagine the first few hours will be pretty boring.

[Adam]

Ah, thought of that. Before the maggots really start writhing, you use that time to tell the story of the corpse. Like, oh, this young woman was hit by a lorry on her way to uni. Isn't it a pity?

[Tommy]

Do you want us to watch a decomposing student? And you think the sponsors will be okay with that? And now the maggots are moving onto her eyes, with Wrigley taking the lead and Bitey close behind. This episode brought to you by the nice, respectable family company tm.

[Samantha Beet]

I'm sure you actually like that podcast idea because you have said many times it's pretty fascinating.

[Unknown Announcer]

The natural world. Oh, you're talking about how I wouldn't mind to be publicly.

[Samantha Beet]

You told me that your plans for burial are to be thrown off a helicopter into a field and let your body rot.

[Unknown Announcer]

Um, I think there's. It's perfectly natural to rot. You know, you don't gotta pump me full of chemicals after I die.

[Samantha Beet]

Well, technically, we're all rotting.

[Unknown Announcer]

This is. This is not true. We're not rotting. Right. You're not rotting. There's no necrosis of your body.

[Samantha Beet]

We're decomposing slowly. We're not. We're decomposing. No, we're aging our cells. They're dying.

[Unknown Announcer]

Yeah, but then they get replaced by other cells. This is not what's happening.

[Samantha Beet]

Look at your face.

[Unknown Announcer]

Look at my face.

[Adam]

Look at this.

[Samantha Beet]

Perfect example. Exhibit A. We're slowly dying. Me. It's like, is he getting. Is he getting younger?

[Unknown Announcer]

You're not. You're certainly not.

[Tommy]

This episode brought to you by the nice, respectable family company tm.

[Adam]

We haven't had a respectable sponsor in years.

[Tommy]

Because you keep pitching completely unhinged ideas. Now, please, for the good of the company and our bank accounts, let's come.

[Adam]

Up with something marketable Aside from corpse cast, you mean.

[Tommy]

We have that one recorded, we can move on knowing that we can always return to these tapes and find that genius again.

[Adam]

Good point. You do actually think these are good ideas, right?

[Tommy]

I just think maybe we're scraping the bottom of this particular barrel, so to speak.

[Adam]

Easy to shoot ideas down, bit harder to get them to take off.

[Tommy]

What's that mean?

[Adam]

I come up with all the ideas and you just say no? Must be nice to be on the curation side is all.

[Tommy]

Oh, alright, alright, Caddy.

[Samantha Beet]

They are right though. It is easier to shoot ideas down.

[Unknown Announcer]

Yeah, take it from me.

[Adam]

Must be nice to be on the curation side is all.

[Tommy]

Oh, all right, all right. What about a scripted podcast?

[Adam]

Hold on. You want me to start thinking of a whole other type of podcast at 11pm?

[Tommy]

We're doing it together.

[Adam]

This together. Okay, fine. How about some tea then? I'll get the kettle on and we'll give it a shot.

[Tommy]

Uh, I think I'm good.

[Adam]

No, trust me, you're gonna love it.

[Tommy]

What I would love is if you could come up with a new horror podcast idea. So I can start paying rent again, maybe.

[Samantha Beet]

God, I don't know.

[Tommy]

Looking into crimes that are not solved, that can't have been done. It's so certainly not. Well.

[Samantha Beet]

Hey, you watch it.

[Unknown Announcer]

Shots fired from across the pump.

[Samantha Beet]

Yeah. Dude, what the hell is going on here? Clear dig at us.

[Unknown Announcer]

Do you think we're dealing with sort of a Leopold and Loeb situation here? Are these guys gonna start making their own crimes to report on? Do we trust the English?

[Samantha Beet]

Like what we're doing over in Ghost Files? Making ghosts from scratch?

[Unknown Announcer]

Yes. You murder people.

[Samantha Beet]

I don't do that. I never said that. I said I'm reaping. I said I make ghosts from scratch.

[Unknown Announcer]

Uh huh.

[Adam]

Here we are. Cheers to clever ideas.

[Tommy]

Cheers to that.

[Adam]

Speaking of, come up with any knockouts while I was gone?

[Tommy]

No. What tea is this?

[Adam]

It's very great, right?

[Tommy]

I was going to say earthy.

[Adam]

Oh, so you're a tea critic too, I see. Not stopping you from drinking it though, is it?

[Tommy]

I can appreciate dirt tea every now and again. Now, what's going on with the tea?

[Samantha Beet]

Oh, that's what you. Yeah, let's go. Let's find out what's going on.

[Unknown Announcer]

No, I'm just curious because he was like, oh, trust me, you'll love this tea. Do you think that the tea is infused with like, hallucinogenics?

[Samantha Beet]

Oh, I thought you were gonna say, is the tea metaphorical?

[Unknown Announcer]

No, no, no, I was Thinking that, like, maybe to generate wild ideas, he's drugging him with some hallucinogenic tea or some psychotropic tea.

[Samantha Beet]

We should take ayahuasca. Before we listen to the second tape.

[Unknown Announcer]

I think we should dose you with ayahuasca and lock you in a haunted house. And if you want to see that.

[Samantha Beet]

No, no.

[Unknown Announcer]

Just let us know and we'll do it.

[Samantha Beet]

We won't.

[Tommy]

Now, scripted podcast ideas.

[Unknown Announcer]

Right.

[Adam]

What do you have?

[Tommy]

Maybe you can get the ball rolling for us.

[Adam]

Maybe you can get the ball rolling for us. I'm always rolling the bloody ball.

[Tommy]

Well, we have different strengths, you and I. So.

[Adam]

So it's probably time you use whatever strength you have and roll that ball.

[Tommy]

Fine. Fine. All right. Scripted horror podcast.

[Adam]

Good start.

[Tommy]

Maybe one where a guy.

[Adam]

Yes.

[Tommy]

Has an infestation of ants.

[Adam]

I'm with you.

[Tommy]

In his pants.

[Adam]

Just right there in his pants.

[Tommy]

Yeah. And they're controlling his actions.

[Adam]

Like an upside down ratatouille.

[Tommy]

I think we saw different Ratatouille's pass.

[Adam]

What else you have?

[Tommy]

Nothing. This is hard. Do these windows open? Guess not. What's that guy doing?

[Adam]

Who?

[Tommy]

The guy down there in the pavement. Other side of the street.

[Adam]

The dancing guy.

[Tommy]

Yes.

[Samantha Beet]

Okay.

[Unknown Announcer]

And we're off, baby.

[Samantha Beet]

Now, here I was wondering.

[Unknown Announcer]

We're off to the races. It's not gonna be two guys talking.

[Samantha Beet]

About ideas the whole time.

[Unknown Announcer]

Now we've got a guy.

[Samantha Beet]

We have three tapes, too, so we. I would assume they make it at least to the third tape. Yeah, right.

[Adam]

The dancing guy.

[Tommy]

Yes, the dancing guy.

[Adam]

I don't know. He's pissed.

[Tommy]

Oh, I don't think it's drink. Drugs, maybe. Look at him scratching. Yeah. That does not look comfortable.

[Adam]

Awful.

[Tommy]

Anyway, let's keep working. We were on a roll.

[Samantha Beet]

Yeah.

[Adam]

Pity we lost the momentum from the ants idea.

[Tommy]

At least I came up with one. It's your turn.

[Adam]

Hey, I helped you. Keep going. This is fun.

[Tommy]

What about. Ooh. Okay. What about a taxi driver who has a photographic memory of all maps but doesn't know how to operate a car?

[Adam]

And that's a horror idea.

[Tommy]

Yeah.

[Unknown Announcer]

This guy's bad at ideas.

[Samantha Beet]

Yeah, dude.

[Unknown Announcer]

Okay, now I got. Now I'm thinking. The man outside, dancing, scratching. Is it a zombie?

[Samantha Beet]

No, I think it's just some dude up to no good. Maybe.

[Unknown Announcer]

It always starts, though, in zombie films. They're always like, look at that weird guy. What's he up to? I don't know. Let's go about our day.

[Samantha Beet]

Maybe we should go up a closer look.

[Unknown Announcer]

Then they hear something funny. On the radio. And they're like, huh, what's this?

[Tommy]

Or maybe he can get the car going, but he doesn't know how to stop it.

[Adam]

No one's made him aware of the brake pedal. How does he pick up customers?

[Tommy]

Okay, I'm starting to see how someone poking holes in your story could be frustrating.

[Adam]

Yeah, but I'm being serious now. There might be something here. Keep going.

[Tommy]

He doesn't know how he picks up the customers. Every day. He wakes up already in the process of driving someone. They tell him their story, and it's always a different, awful person, someone truly despicable. And then when they finish telling him about themselves, he reveals he can't stop. And he. He just crashes the car, killing them both.

[Adam]

Hey, now we're on to.

[Tommy]

What was that? Jesus. A car just slammed into the building.

[Adam]

Must have been going at 70 miles an hour.

[Unknown Announcer]

This is really fun.

[Samantha Beet]

Taxi. Captain Fashions would be better if it always ended with the taxi crashing. Yeah, but also, yeah, there is a car that's now crashing into the building.

[Unknown Announcer]

So, wait, is that in the. In the story that they were pitching, that the car crashed? Did an actual crash happened?

[Samantha Beet]

That would be like us pitching a ghost show and enduring that a ghost showed up on it was like, strong pitch. I have some notes.

[Unknown Announcer]

You know, listening to this with you makes me think back, you know, how fun it must have been to gather around the radio.

[Samantha Beet]

The pictures are always goofy because they're always looking at the radio.

[Unknown Announcer]

Mother and father around the radio. Yeah, sounds nice.

[Samantha Beet]

It does sound nice.

[Unknown Announcer]

Now we got tv. What am I. I'm out here watching, you know, Star Trek.

[Samantha Beet]

It's pretty good.

[Unknown Announcer]

Star Trek is pretty good. I watch it a lot.

[Adam]

Anyone hurt?

[Tommy]

What do you think?

[Adam]

Oh, good. Drunk guys. Okay.

[Tommy]

I mean, looks like he's passed out. Oh, no, he's all right. Moving his legs.

[Adam]

Looks like he's dancing in his sleep.

[Tommy]

Oh, there's the ambulance.

[Adam]

One hell of a response time.

[Tommy]

Yeah, the NHS is a miracle. Anyway, back to work. That was kind of weird.

[Adam]

Funny.

[Tommy]

What are the odds of a car crash happening just downstairs from our office moments after I pitch a story about a crashing car?

[Adam]

Slim, I'd say. Slim.

[Samantha Beet]

Wait, is this a story in which they have the power to, like, manifest things?

[Unknown Announcer]

Like Ruby Sparks?

[Samantha Beet]

Sure. I don't know who that is. Who's that?

[Unknown Announcer]

It was a film.

[Samantha Beet]

Oh, okay.

[Unknown Announcer]

It was Zoe Kazan.

[Samantha Beet]

Oh, recent.

[Unknown Announcer]

Then Paul Dano.

[Samantha Beet]

Okay, yeah, yeah, like that film.

[Unknown Announcer]

Just like Ruby Sparks. I would just go to town with that. Otherwise, you basically have a magical notebook how do you test it right away?

[Samantha Beet]

Well, if we're trying to come up with a hit podcast, then I would just write. Then they come up with a hit podcast.

[Unknown Announcer]

That's smart.

[Samantha Beet]

Yeah. And then a giant pool of popcorn appears. And at the bottom of the pool of popcorn is a door that leads to another bigger pool of popcorn.

[Unknown Announcer]

You're a man of simple pleasures.

[Samantha Beet]

That's right.

[Tommy]

Kinda leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Let's try a new idea.

[Adam]

He's on a roll. Ladies and gentlemen.

[Tommy]

Corpses.

[Adam]

I like it.

[Tommy]

Uh, corpses that disappear quickly. Convenient, but like very quickly. Within a few seconds.

[Adam]

Again, fewer dead bodies around. Sounds less horrible.

[Tommy]

But what if it's because of bugs?

[Adam]

Ah, the answer back.

[Tommy]

Look, I don't like bugs. Right.

[Adam]

Few people do. Keep going.

[Tommy]

Okay, so consumption has gotten so out of control that it reaches a tipping point. We now make so much rubbish that insects no longer have to compete for resources.

[Adam]

Hadn't thought of bugs in competition. Something beautiful there.

[Tommy]

It's our own fault, you know?

[Adam]

This is good. So these bugs are rich, but.

[Tommy]

But then their population booms and they get out of control. They start evolving quicker and quicker. So they're able to start planting eggs and maggots into fresher and fresher dead.

[Unknown Announcer]

Oh.

[Adam]

Or what if they aren't even dead?

[Tommy]

Oh, they start reproducing in living flesh. Disgusting. I love it.

[Samantha Beet]

What would be the scariest bug to get real big?

[Unknown Announcer]

Do you have one in mind?

[Samantha Beet]

Probably a bee.

[Unknown Announcer]

I would go with praying mantis.

[Samantha Beet]

Oh yeah. Cuz they dice you up, right?

[Unknown Announcer]

Praying mantis, he go after ya.

[Samantha Beet]

Mosquitoes.

[Unknown Announcer]

Mosquito. Oh, they could. Yeah, they'd.

[Samantha Beet]

Mosquito would just like, just needle right through the hedges.

[Unknown Announcer]

Yeah.

[Samantha Beet]

And just. Oh yeah.

[Unknown Announcer]

Turn you into a little Capri sun.

[Tommy]

Disgusting. I love it.

[Adam]

Yeah. And that's why as soon as someone.

[Tommy]

Dies, their immune system can't stop all the bug eggs and they all just hatch immediately, devouring the host. You just wait to explode into a pile of bugs.

[Adam]

Traumatizing to witness. Literally makes your skin crawl. Good one.

[Tommy]

Is this awful tea you made. Has it really got the horror juices flowing? Okay, what else? What else? Maybe firemen.

[Unknown Announcer]

Who.

[Adam]

Firemen who are actually bugs are itchy friends gone.

[Samantha Beet]

Ho ho, ho ho. You may be right. Maybe this drunk guy was patient zero. Is that what you're about to say? Doesn't seem like it. Cause you're licking your teeth like the fucking joker right now, so I don't know what you're about to say.

[Unknown Announcer]

What I was about to say is that I think itchy man exploded into bugs.

[Samantha Beet]

Okay, so, yeah, he is patient zero then.

[Adam]

Yes.

[Unknown Announcer]

But he's bugs now because that was their idea. Oh. I thought we arrived at the same thing at the same time, but then I looked in your eyes and they were vacant. And I was like, they weren't vacant.

[Samantha Beet]

They were filled with different ants.

[Unknown Announcer]

Lights were on, but nobody's home.

[Samantha Beet]

Oh, ants in the pants. That's why he was dancing.

[Unknown Announcer]

That's why he was dancing. Ants in the pants.

[Samantha Beet]

I got too lost in the sauce when they said ants controlling a person. I was just imagining a bunch of ants in a large trench coat.

[Unknown Announcer]

It's because. It's because he brought up the ratatouille point that I was like, oh, they're, like, controlling him like a marionette. But if he literally had ants in.

[Samantha Beet]

His pants, I never thought about how awful would actually be to have ants in your pants.

[Unknown Announcer]

It sounds funny. It sounds awful.

[Samantha Beet]

I don't think it's as funny as.

[Unknown Announcer]

Fun and games until you actually have pants full of ants.

[Tommy]

Our rich friend's gone.

[Adam]

That's a relief. Where'd he go?

[Tommy]

I don't know. We just. Not there anymore. Left behind a bit of a mess. What is that?

[Samantha Beet]

Whoa.

[Adam]

Those paramedics.

[Tommy]

Never seen one throw up before.

[Adam]

Must be tough work. Things they must see.

[Unknown Announcer]

Oh.

[Tommy]

Oh, there's another idea. A paramedic team that becomes so traumatized by the things they've seen that they go mad and turn on one another. But they're both so knowledgeable about how to keep a person alive that they're basically unkillable.

[Adam]

Ooh, Grizzly heroes turned monsters. People will love you.

[Tommy]

Christ. What now? Who's yelling?

[Adam]

It's the medics.

[Tommy]

Oh, my God.

[Adam]

What's going on?

[Samantha Beet]

These guys got harold and purple crayons.

[Unknown Announcer]

They got harold and purple crayon. Absolutely. I don't know why you turned Creole there, but I love it.

[Samantha Beet]

Anyways, we called it, they're making things up and then it's happening outside of their window.

[Unknown Announcer]

It's taking them a bit to get, you know, to realize it, I guess. You know, what if it was happening to us in real time, though? We know we're listening to a tape. A real thing that happened.

[Samantha Beet]

Yes.

[Unknown Announcer]

So we're obvious. And also, being the world's greatest detectives, Detective brains. Yeah. I mean, we'd probably be testing it out a lot quicker than these guys because they're not even having fun with it.

[Samantha Beet]

What's the first thing you would test?

[Unknown Announcer]

I'd be like big pecs.

[Samantha Beet]

You want big pecs Huge pecs.

[Unknown Announcer]

Like Schwimmer, his pecs are big.

[Samantha Beet]

Why do you know that?

[Unknown Announcer]

I just remember on Friends when he would wear sweaters, you know, people would be like, are those implants? Schwimmer?

[Samantha Beet]

I've never heard that before.

[Unknown Announcer]

And he was like, implants?

[Samantha Beet]

That's a pretty good ride.

[Unknown Announcer]

I've never trotted it out before. That was good.

[Adam]

It's the medics.

[Tommy]

My God, that's.

[Unknown Announcer]

What's going on?

[Tommy]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Adam]

Why are the things you're pitching actually happening?

[Tommy]

I don't know. Holy shit. They're really fighting. He's picked up a rock.

[Adam]

Oh, no. Oh, my God.

[Tommy]

He just smashed his head over.

[Adam]

Oh, my God.

[Unknown Announcer]

Oh.

[Adam]

Oh, my God. God.

[Tommy]

Tell me I'm seeing things.

[Adam]

You're seeing things and so am I.

[Tommy]

Did he just melt?

[Adam]

Adam, I think those are bugs.

[Tommy]

There was a body there 10 seconds ago, and now he's completely gone. What's happening?

[Adam]

I don't know. Why is everything you say coming true? I don't know.

[Tommy]

I don't want it to be. This can't be happening. This can't be happening. I'm. Oh, I'm gonna black out.

[Unknown Announcer]

Okay, did you get that?

[Samantha Beet]

I'm gonna black out. Yeah, I guess.

[Unknown Announcer]

Oh, he got it. He got it. Blackout.

[Samantha Beet]

I'm still trying to figure out is he hallucinating or not. As we're going through the perspective of the narrator here. I don't like it when I'm not the narrator. I can't control it.

[Unknown Announcer]

Yeah, you're just in along for the ride, buddy.

[Samantha Beet]

Oh, God.

[Unknown Announcer]

Now you know how hard it is for me to do this show. I work really hard on this show.

[Samantha Beet]

You know I do.

[Unknown Announcer]

You know, people don't give me enough credit. I say I vibe in the void, but there's a lot of very hard work that I'm doing over here. And now you understand.

[Samantha Beet]

He doesn't have his ants in his pants. He has skin in his pants. He's jerking himself off.

[Unknown Announcer]

Bit of a hero.

[Tommy]

God, no. It's locked.

[Adam]

It's an electronic lock. And all the power. It's off. Yes, it's locked.

[Tommy]

We have to call someone. We can't be stuck in here with all this. This weirdness.

[Adam]

No signal, no wifi or.

[Tommy]

Me neither.

[Adam]

Adam, I think we're trapped.

[Tommy]

Boop.

[Samantha Beet]

That's tape one.

[Unknown Announcer]

Oh, boy.

[Samantha Beet]

Well, I guess you'll have to wait till next time, Tommy and Adam.

[Unknown Announcer]

We're rooting for you boys.

[Samantha Beet]

That's right. What is your next move here. I mean, we kind of.

[Unknown Announcer]

Well, this is. You know, I'm not under the influence of psychotropic T. That's right. So I don't know if we can trust these boys to make a good decision. Yeah, I guess. Now, if you realize that everything you say is coming true, just be like. And then everything was fine.

[Samantha Beet]

You've been given genie powers? Yes. I don't think you could be trusted with genie powers. Why all of my. Well, because you're going to wish for crazy things.

[Unknown Announcer]

I'll do whatever I want.

[Samantha Beet]

You're not going to stop at big pecs. You're going to. You're gonna start doing other crazy shit.

[Unknown Announcer]

I do that thing I always wanted to do. Mickey Mouse is me. Instead, I'm on all the Mickey Mouse merch. Disney World is about me.

[Samantha Beet]

Mouse. Medei.

[Unknown Announcer]

I'm not a mouse, though. It's just me. You know, just for some reason, a long time ago, Walt Disney drew me instead of Mickey Mouse.

[Samantha Beet]

Are you wearing the same clothes as Mickey Mouse?

[Unknown Announcer]

Absolutely. Just little shorts.

[Samantha Beet]

The weird little booty shorts with the buckles in the front?

[Unknown Announcer]

Yes, sir.

[Samantha Beet]

Next time on Are you scared? Tape two.

[Billy]

Hi, everyone, it's Billy, the voice of Alice in the Magnus Protocol. Here today. I'm here to advertise the Other Stories, one of a range of new podcasts recently launched on the RQ Network from the brilliant creative team at the Stories studio, Hawk and Cleaver. The Other Stories is an award winning weekly audio fiction podcast featuring incredible stories across multiple genres including horror, thrillers and sci fi. With over 600 episodes and a range of miniseries or individual stories, they have stories for everyone. Search for the Other stories wherever you listen to your podcasts or go to theotherstories.net or rustyquill.com for more information. Have fun and see you later.