STORY REPORT - The King of Ashes

Summary

Too Many Tabs with Pearlmania500

STORY REPORT – The King of Ashes

Date: May 7, 2026
Hosts: Pearlmania500 (Mr. P and Mrs. P)

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Episode Overview

This episode of "Too Many Tabs" features a Story Report by Mrs. P, where she summarizes and discusses The King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby. The hosts dive deep into the book's wild ride: family trauma, a mafia debt crisis, small-town crime, and graphic violence surrounding a Black-owned crematorium in the South. Their conversation is full of humor, exasperation, and thoughtful critique, capturing every messy plot twist, character flaw, and memorable scene.

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Main Themes

• Family dysfunction and secrets: The book centers on the fractured Bond family, their traumatic past, and the generational cycles they can’t escape.
• Crime and consequence: A botched drug deal leads to mob involvement, escalating violence, and moral compromise.
• Race and the Southern setting: The story explores African American vernacular and cultural realities in Atlanta and rural Virginia.
• Gallows humor and catharsis: Both the novel and the podcast episode use dark humor to navigate grim circumstances.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Return of the Story Report & Podcast Banter

[01:13–03:29]

• Mrs. P explains delays in doing Story Reports and promises not to hold herself to an unrealistic schedule.
• Both hosts joke about their toddler exhausting them and make reference to their "silent time" ritual post bedtime.

2. Book Introduction & Content Warnings

[05:33–07:13]

• Mrs. P provides a content warning: graphic violence, murder, and use of African American Vernacular English in the book.
• She emphasizes respect for the cultural context, stating:

  “I don't want to gentrify this book.” (Mrs. P, 06:50).

3. Main Characters & Opening Setup

[07:13–12:09]

• Introduction of Roman (main character, works in wealth management, based in Atlanta), his best friend Khalil (ex-military, security expert), and his chaotic family.
• The story starts with Roman's father in a coma after being run off the road near train tracks.
• Roman immediately flies to Virginia after visiting his dominatrix, Ms. Delicate, for stress relief.

  “He likes to be dominated, specifically around the context of being a bad son.” (Mrs. P, 11:32)

4. The Bond Family Business: Crematorium Drama

[15:20–17:59]

• The Bond family owns a crematorium in a struggling town.
• Nivea (Roman’s sister) suspects foul play after threats, tire-slashings, and the ominous “187” (murder) spray-painted on their property.
• The town gossips think their father killed their mother years ago and disposed of her remains.

5. Dante, Addiction, and the Drug Debt

[18:32–23:05, 28:25–36:36]

• Dante, Roman’s brother, is introduced as an addict, "higher than the price of gas" (18:32).
• A disastrous side hustle: Dante and friends (Getty and Cassidy) take $300,000 worth of Molly and heroin on consignment from local gangsters ("Tranquil and Torrent" aka TNT), lose/squander it all, and owe the mob huge money.
• The debt leads to escalating threats, violence, and guilt.

6. The Antagonists and Merciless Escalation

[35:38–46:55]

• TNT (Tranquil and Torrent) come to collect. After a failed negotiation—

  “We're gonna take the $200,000 now and 50,000 every month until we feel like the debt has been paid up. We're calling it the 'playing in our face' tax.” (Mrs. P, 44:02)

• Roman is brutally assaulted (teeth broken, gun in mouth).
• Dante has his pinky cut off as a warning.

7. Moral Compromise and The First Kill

[49:32–59:05]

• Roman and Dante are forced to cremate (alive) their friend Getty and henchman Splody to prove loyalty.
• Dante murders Splody with a hammer.
• Mrs. P's exasperation with Dante’s idiocy is echoed by Mr. P throughout:

  “You gotta kill your brother. You gotta kill Dante. That’s the only way around this now.” (Co-host 1, 56:33)

8. Inept Law Enforcement & Further Complications

[61:46–63:30, 64:52–66:39]

• Dirty cop Chauncey (Nivea’s affair partner) tries to insert himself, fails to help, and ultimately becomes a blackmail target.

9. The Long Con: Turning the Tables on TNT

[68:11–80:03]

• Veteran Khalil joins Roman. Together, they devise a plan: sow discord inside TNT’s crew, manipulate gang finances, and use counterinsurgency tactics ("light terrorism": bombing stash houses, blaming other gangs).
• Roman starts investing money for TNT’s henchmen, gradually winning their loyalty.

10. Key Memorable Moments & Quotes

• On giving Dante chance after chance:

  “Dante has ruined this fucking book.” (Co-host 1, 71:50)
  “All he does is complain, caused this. Shh. That old man died in the parking lot because of you.” (Co-host 2, 89:35)

• On Hypnotic:

  “Hypnotic was like Club Egypt 16 and 21. A drink.” (Co-host 2, 24:14)

• On grotesque mob violence:

  “Torrent grabs Dante and cuts off his pinky using the garden shears and then crushes his pinky under the heel of his boot so it can't be sewn back on.” (Co-host 2, 49:20)

• On Roman’s financial pitch to the mob:

  “[Roman] offers his services as a money advisor. He's like, I can help you make money. That's what I do.” (Mrs. P, 43:15)

• On Roman paying off every henchman:

  “D train is like 100 grand plus. Set me up with an IRA... Corey: 78,000. He got me and my mom invested in a motherfucking mutual fund.” (Co-hosts, 119:23)

• Final takedown of TNT:

  “No one will miss you. They ain’t even gonna put you on a T-shirt.” (Mrs. P, 120:51)

• Scrotum crawl moment:

  “At this moment, Roman felt his scrotum crawl up the crack of his ass.” (Co-host 2, 78:09)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [05:33] – Book content warning & narrator style
• [07:13 – 12:09] – Characters, plot setup, dominatrix
• [18:32, 28:25, 35:38] – Dante’s drug debt, introduction of TNT, escalation of violence
• [46:43] – $425k debt & brutal assault scene
• [49:20] – Dante’s pinky cut off (graphic violence)
• [53:06 – 59:05] – Killing Getty and Splody in the crematorium
• [63:30] – Criticism of Dante’s role in the story
• [68:11, 80:03] – The plot to flip TNT’s crew, build alliances
• [119:23] – Roman’s final payoff and henchmen's betrayals
• [120:51] – “No one’s even going to put you on a T-shirt” – final mob showdown

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Notable Quotes

On the futility of addict logic:

“There is a thing in your brain as an addict that is like, ah, big thing. Tomorrow. Better get my nerves down. Better calm down...” (Mrs. P, 22:10)

On the audible groan of plot stupidity:

“I just want to live. And Roman fully screams: ‘What kind of life is that?’” (Mrs. P, 72:26)

On mob entrepreneurship:

“We’re gonna use a construction company and a demo team. Roman is going to be the face of it. I want to see the official books and the real books. And if you fuck us over, you’re gonna be next in this chair, let the dogs eat you.” (Mrs. P, 94:44)

On cathartic justice and black humor:

“Not even on a T-shirt is a crazy bar.” (Co-host 1, 120:54)

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Tone & Language

The hosts maintain their signature mix of sharp wit, irreverence, and genuine exasperation. They openly root against Dante, celebrate the book's wild setpieces, and laugh at its pop culture and Southern references. Throughout, Mrs. P demonstrates respect for the book’s linguistic and cultural specificity while still scorning its flawed characters.

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Conclusion & Final Thoughts

• The book ends with Roman surviving, ascending to crime boss, and finding out Jay (his new love interest and TNT’s sister) is pregnant.
• The family is shattered, most characters are dead, and Roman gives his “kingpin” speech as he prepares to return to Atlanta and run a "legit" business front for organized crime.
• Both hosts agree: The book is full of unlikeable, self-destructive characters, but it makes for captivating, relentless drama.
• Mr. P especially despises Dante, stating:

  “He never truly finds out. And then Navia, I felt bad for. … I'm listening for a plot for how the people who didn't fuck around don't have to find out.” (128:12)

Mrs. P’s final word:

“Sometimes reading a book of all unlikable characters where everyone is unlikable... it's still a form of entertainment... there's a catharsis.”

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TL;DR

If you love stories about small-town intrigue, dysfunctional families, and out-of-control crime drama with a darkly comic Southern edge, this Story Report—and the book itself—deliver all that and more. Just be prepared to yell at your headphones every time Dante does something stupid.

Transcript

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[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

We're back, baby.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It's been very long since we've done our audio only experience.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

That's right.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Where Mrs. Pearlmania reads a book.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I did it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And explains the entire book to me. Cover to cover.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Spoiler alert.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

With some sections left out.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, for sure.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

But also what that means is for the first time in a long time, I'm gonna hit the full too many tabs theme. Too many frauds and too many scammers that we wish weren't real. Too many cons and too many spammers and we're starting to feel like we've got too many tabs. Open it. Too many tabs. Remember to smile. That's right, Mrs. P. We're back here for another story report. It's. I looked. We haven't done one since December.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

It's been a minute.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It's May.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Listen.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Explain yourself.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Explain myself. I am busy and I've become overwhelmed with my life.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yes.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And all the things I need to get done in a day and Story report really fell behind and I am apologetic. It's. You know what I'm going to do moving forward? I'm just gonna do them the best I Can. It can't be monthly because then it just stresses me out and I feel like really overwhelmed and. But listen, I got it together.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

The other, other part. You're leaving out a big part too, which is that our toddler is getting stronger.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And so before you would read books and you would try to get into a novel. After we put him to bed.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Oh, yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And now after we put him to bed, there's about 30 to 45 minutes where we call it silent time.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Don't talk.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

We don't talk to each other. We both just kind of sit in separate rooms and stare at the wall for a minute until we feel fine. After bath slash. Putting down. Getting screamed at. Time.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And so that's not a great time to step into reading a book.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, it's difficult. It's very difficult to get story reports done. But listen, I'm working on it. It's a mission of mine to get these done and I'm super excited to do today's Storyport. But listen, before we get in today's to to today's story report. Holy moly. I apologize. I want to do a shout out about an upcoming event I'm doing.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

In person. Oh, that's right. Mrs. P's first in person event is going to be at Pocketbook Shop, which is in Lancaster also. I don't know if it's Lancaster or Lancaster. I get corrected on both. So I'm just going to say how it comes out of my mouth.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

No, how you saying it out of your mouth is correct.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And everyone else who comments otherwise is wrong.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I don't know.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Because here's the thing, people from England.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

They call it Lancaster.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

They're wrong.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

All right.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Because they're British.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Got it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

All right, we go to Lancaster.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

We go to Lancaster. So they're doing this big event called the Kiss of Death and it's a wedding horror book party. It's going to be June 14th at 1pm at the Leola Village Inn, which is a big wedding venue. And basically it's a three course wedding feast with a literary salon that will be moderated by yours truly. And then there's going to be a book signing to follow. So they're going to have four authors on a panel. I guess before or after the three course meal, it's going to be K. I'm going to say her name wrong. Chronister. She wrote this book called the Bog Wife, which I read. There's going to be Mary Berman, who wrote a book called Until Death and Then Elise Lynn, who, who wrote a book about a wedding planner, and then Rachel Harrison, who wrote Black Sheep, which is one of our story reports.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Got it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It's gonna be awesome.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And so the four authors are going to be on a panel, and I'm going to be leading the panel. It's going to be so fun. Also, it's a costume theme event, so they want everybody to wear wedding attire. So, like wedding dresses or like wedding guests. And, like, it's horror theme, so it could be a horror wedding. I've got ideas. I've got. I've got concepts. Anyway, if you want to get tickets to come to this event, you got to go to pocketbooksshop.com and get your tickets.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And we'll put a link down.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

We'll put a link in the description. But I'm very excited. It's my first ever live event.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I know.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And it's a costume horror event. Can you even imagine?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

We're all so excited.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And of course, obviously not to steal all of the glory, I'm also doing a show crashingontour.com. okay, there we go.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

This is not the space.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, that's fine. Because we're here for Mrs. P's book report.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Story report.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Story report. Now, Mrs. P, you told me before we even get into this book that you do have a very specific disclaimer.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I have a disclaimer about this book. Put a note at the top of this Google Doc.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And it's not because this is a horror book or anything else. Sometimes we're like, oh, my God, it's horror. All these different things. This is a very specific. Because we understand what type of presenters we are and the type of story this is.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So go ahead.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay. So first and foremost, there is a content warning in that there is like graphic violence in this book. I will be describing graphic violence. If that turns your tum tum, I would not listen to this. But if you can get past some graphic violence like murder, because it's a mafia book. It's a murder thing.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Then it should be fine. But this book is written by an African American author and he. It is written in the dialect of African American vernacular English. So. Aave. Right. So there are words in this book I am not going to say. But. But some of the characters names, some of the way things are written, it is just in the dialect of African American culture, specifically in Atlanta and the South.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And so there are going to be names. There's going to be things that come up. And I just. I Don't want it to come off as, like, me trying to sound a certain way.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

It is the way it is written in the book.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And you don't want to change too much because at a certain point, you're then just gentrifying.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Exactly. I don't want to gentrify this book.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yes. And it's. And you enjoyed the book.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

It's a good book. I am obsessed with this book. It was so good.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Let me tell you guys how I know she enjoyed it because she was like, I am finishing a story report. I looked at her. I was like, a story report? You haven't done one of those in six months. It's just that the people need to know.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

The people need to know.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So with that being said.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

What is the name of the book?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay. It's called the King of Ashes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

The King of Ashes.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

It was written by S.A. cosby.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

What a name. I know, but King of Ashes. And so our opening scene is of a man in bed with a beautiful naked woman, and she's koala ing him. You know what I mean?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And this character, this guy, his name is Roman. He. He's our main character.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And he does not immediately remember this young lady's name. Okay. It. He. He's trying to figure it out. He's like, I should know it. But he doesn't. But he eventually is like, hey, do you want to go get some breakfast? And they're so.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

He's a gentleman. He offered breakfast.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

They're going to get. They're. They're like, we're gonna go get breakfast now. They're in Atlanta. We're in Atlanta.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman met her the night before at Little Glock 9's streaming party.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

All right. That's okay. Little Glock 9?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, he's a. He's a streamer.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Or he's a hip hop artist and they're streaming the music. I think it might be that.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It might be the second artist. This could be like. Well, the Drake is a. Is a rapper and a streamer, and he tries to convince children now to use on kick to gamble.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

No.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So that could be this. You said that this is like a mob book, right?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, so Roman is a. Well, is in wealth management. That's his job.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Business guy. And Little Glock 9 is one of his clients.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Got it. Okay. Do I need to write the name Little Glock 9?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I don't think you do.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Will this come up repeatedly?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

It won't, actually.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, good. I just need to. Again, I'm keeping My notes over here. I already have Roman, wealth management.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Wealth management? Yeah, that's important. Roman gets a phone call.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So he's. So he's the rock from Ballers.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I never saw that show.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I know, because you're not Elizabeth Warren. Oh, Elizabeth Warren, Obsessed with Ballers. But on hbo, she was obsessed with that.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Maybe I should watch it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Weird note that I have left over from the 2020 election.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Elizabeth Warren apparently closed Spirit Airlines even though she's not in charge of the street of Hormuz.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, I know. There's a lot that gets thrown around the way.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

This is not that kind of podcast.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

No, it's not. We're talking about Roman and not Roman.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

This lady are planning to get breakfast, and they're getting ready to go, and his friend Khalil is there. They're in kind of like a house setting, and Khalil is leaving a different bedroom with a different lady from the party.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Now Khalil is the professional security guard for famous people. He is, like, a security expert. Okay. Ex military expert.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Khalil, Roman, besties.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay. I'm already picturing. There's the big guy from Lilo and Stitch. That's who I'm picturing.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yes. With the sunglasses, and he's bald.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I think he has dreadlocks. I think in the.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

In the book, he has dreadlocks.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

All right, I'm changing my image immediately. Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I just picture big security guard.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I picture that guy, big security guard.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So they're. He's the security guard. They're both like. They got these ladies, and they're gonna go get brunch. But Roman gets a phone call. It's his sister, and she's like, there's been an accident. Daddy's in a coma. You need to come home. So he immediately says bye to all of his friends and heads downtown to his office building. Brunch canceled. And he gets into his office building. He has his assistant reschedule all of his meetings until further notice. He. He gives Khalil a spare key and asks him to keep an eye on his place. Gets all of his ducks in a row and gets ready to get on his flight, which is at 8pm which is the earliest one they had. Okay. He just has one stop on the way to the airport. He has to make. He has to go visit Ms. Delicate.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Ms. Delicate.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

You. I don't think you need to write her name down. She is his dominatrix.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, all right. Okay. I'm beginning to. I'm picking up a lot on this book real fast. We wake up Romans with a beautiful naked woman. Now he's got to visit his dominatrix before to go find out how badly his dad is in a coma.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Now he usually.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I just. I just. Hold on, hold on. I'm just. Sorry. Like, oh, man. Like, if I had a family member that was in a medical emergency.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Would I stop to check in with my dominatrix first?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay. He visits Ms. Delicate, like, once a month. But when he's really stressed out, he calls her for an emergency appointment. So he's only doing this because he's stressed.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, he's only doing this because therapy is frowned upon in the culture.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That's 100%. She is literally just a therapist.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay. Got it, got it, got it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So we find out that he likes to be dominated, specifically around the context of being a bad son. Okay, okay.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

There's a lot. SA Cosby wrote a lot into this. Also, the more I say SA Cosby, it's terrifying. What a name.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, okay. So he is working through issues related to the disappearance of his mother when he was younger and how he feels responsible. Okay. So he's. He's doing all this dominatrix sexy time, and she's. She's doing this mommy son thing. Whatever. Okay, he makes his flight. Okay, he makes his flight.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I bet he made his flight.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, he flies home. Ish. And he lands.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Sir, something's coming up on your scan. Don't worry about it. Leave it in there. Like, do you ever hear about a financial domination? Yeah, that's weird. That's the part that's crazy where somebody is just like, now send me $10,000. He's like, yes, ma'. Am. I'm like, how the fuck did. Okay, that's why you need to know that money, please. Yeah, that money, please, is different than I'm gonna do this thing or you're gonna sell this stock. Like, that's when you need. Your taxes need to be raised.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

If somebody can mess with your money for sexual fun.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You should pay more in taxes because we need to open more schools and have more buses.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Money. So he catches the flight and he makes it homeish. He lands in Richmond, Virginia, and he rents a car, and he's gonna go visit the hospital. So he's, like, driving there from Richmond to the hospital. Right.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Do you know. Okay, you said he landed in Richmond. Where is the hospital? Is it in Richmond?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

No, he's driving to Jefferson, Virginia.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Jefferson, Virginia.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

It's called Jefferson.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, got it. So it's A smaller town outside of Richmond.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, so it's like 9:45pm when he gets to the hospital, he calls his sister on the way and tells her his plan. And she's like, visiting hours are over. And he's like, who's gonna stop me? Right? Love that. Jefferson Run. That's the name of the town. It's a former industrial town.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Got it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

We also find out that his younger brother, Dante, his sister's name is Nivea. He calls Nivea. N E V E. Ah, Nia. It's heaven backwards.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Ha.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, okay. Got it, got it, got it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So he calls Nia and he's like, is Dante at the hospital? And she's like, I haven't seen him since the accident. Okay, so we don't know where Dante is.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And by the accident, she means the one that put her dad in the coma.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So he drives back to his hometown called Jefferson Run. He gets to the hospital. Navia is there waiting. They share a tense hug. And he knows within this hug that she is resentful, that he has abandoned the family to go to the big city. Right. She passes back and they hug. And when she pats his back, it makes him flinch because of the fresh lashings from the cat of nine tails. Okay.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I just need you to know that that was.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That was from Ms. Delicate. Right?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Unimportant to the story.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I just want. Once again, I didn't write it down. You told me I did. I didn't need to know it was Miss Delicate. I'm just right. Miss. Miss Delicate down. Because I'm gonna be bringing this up a lot because what a wild choice to put in. In. In chapter one.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, baby.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

We open up with Miss Delicate opening him up.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Hey, yo. And he's like, okay, so what happened to Daddy? Nivea informs him that a truck ran him off the road near the train tracks. So he's driving a van. The. The dad and a truck. Right. Pushes him off the road, and his truck gets hit by a train. The van gets hit by a train. Both his hips are broken, nine ribs, and he has bleeding on the brain.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Jesus.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay. And he's currently in a coma.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

He's lucky he's alive. He got hit by a train.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Literally hit by a train.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Dante or no, Roman, storms past security to see his dad. And they go in there. There. He holds his hand. N is like, how long can you stay? I need some help since Dante is missing. I have nine bodies. She says, I have. Have these nine bodies to take Care of. And I'm behind since this accident, as they're calling it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Nine bodies.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, so here's the thing. The. The business that Roman's father ran that Nava helps with is a crematorium. They own a family crematorium in the town.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Got it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And so she has a backlog of

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

cadavers at this point that she got cook.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

That she got cook up.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. So that's actually. That is a common thing, though, that usually in some of these smaller towns and things like that in the black community, you will have, like, the one funeral home that a lot of people go to.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And then that is an area that's one of the few areas of wealth that can be built up when everything else is being extracted from. From the town.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Especially in small towns like this in the south.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yep.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You will have these specific ones, but. Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Roman is like, why did you say it like that? Like, about this accident? Because she says it with a tone. And Nivea is like, about two weeks ago, someone slashed all the tires on the work van. And a week after that, Someone spray painted 187 on the front door of our house. And it seems. Seems like too much of a coincidence.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I know what 187 is from a rap song.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

What is it?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It means murder. Right.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I love the way you said that.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It means murder.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman is like, who would want to hurt daddy? There isn't any competition in the town. There are no other crematoriums. Anyway, Nivea's phone rings, and it takes a call. It's not Dante.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Roman is like, are you okay? And she is like, no, I can't stand. I can't stand the thought of losing our dad. And I can't think about running the crematorium alone. Covid nearly broke us, and it's only slightly led up. Okay. And Roman knew in his heart that he should tell her that he's here now and he's going to help make everything right and be a part of the family business. But he could not do that. He hates the smell of burning flesh. He always resented the job, and he was grateful for the life that the fire provided him. But he could not be the king of ashes. That was his father's title.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, so now we are. Okay. I love it because now I'm in that moment where I'm like, that's the title of the book. That's the title of the book. Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, got it. So Roman drives back to their dad's house where he and Navia and Dante live together, so they have a bigger house. The two kids, siblings live there with him. They get to the house, and they're drinking scotch, and Dante shows up, and he's high. And Roman describes him in. In the book as higher than the price of gas. Now, this book was written. Let me see here.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

What's the copyright date on that book?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Copyright on this King of Ashes. Wait a minute. Where is it? 20, 25.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

2025.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So last year, that was.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It was probably written in 24. Yeah, and it was published in 25. That's when the copyright date hit. And they wrote that long before. Yeah, long before the straight of Hormuzi got clubbed.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

5:45.59 yesterday morning. 559. Just saying. Okay. Higher than the price of gas. Dante walks in. Incredible way to describe someone being high.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You know, diesel right now in some places are higher than the federal minimum wage.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

One gallon of diesel, Dante, is higher than the minimum wage. Okay, so.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Well, a lot of things are higher than the minimum wage. That doesn't work as well. Higher than the price of gas is very high, though. That's a. That's an incredible.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

It's a good descriptor.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That's a good descriptor.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Dante is hyped to see Roman. He's like, when did you get here? And he's like, I'm here to see Daddy. And as soon as he says it, Dante, like, flinches. Like there's a physical reaction to saying dad, right? And Dante walks in, he grabs the bottle that Roman's drinking out of and takes a swig of it. And the. He's like. They're. They're kind of having this really weird conversation about this accident. And Roman's trying to get information out of Dante, but it's not working, King. Right? Like, he doesn't want to give any information. Actually, he becomes resentful. And Dante is like, damn, you haven't spoken to me in a year, and you can't even ask me how I am. You just want to talk about Daddy,

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

who's in a coma.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He's in a coma.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

This is my part that's crazy. Okay, real fast.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

When you said he was high, does he seem like weed high, or does he seem like. Like something up high?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I think, based on the rest of the book, he's doing, like, oxy's perks, Molly's.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Get whatever he can get his hands on. He's on it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, got it. Got it. Yeah, because there's a thing where somebody says, yeah, he's really, really high. And you're like, okay, cool. I guess he smoked, like, a big blunt.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

No.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Or, like, maybe ripped a bong. That's a little bit different than being like, yeah, he's up, and we can't actually trust his judgment whatsoever for anything because we don't know when he's gonna come down.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Exactly.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Got it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So Roman is like, I text you last week, and you never answered. Anyway, how are you? And he isn't great. He recently broke up with his girlfriend Thalia a few months ago, but he's still talking about it. Then he starts talking about how his dad was never proud of him, but his mom used to tell him that she loved him all the time before she disappeared. And this, like, overtly honest discussion about the loss of their mother cuts Roman like a knife because he never talks about her out loud except with his

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

dominatrix, whose name is Ms. Delicate. And I'm glad I wrote it down.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He. They have this conversation. He guilt trips Dante into agreeing to go visit their dad the next day in the hospital.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I. That's a weird thing. Yeah, that. That's. This whole thing is weird. Everyone's like, why do you care about dad? It's like, well, he got hit by a train. He's in a coma.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. Like, that's what me.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. I think there's just something about like, yeah, dad got hit by a train, is in a coma. It's like, we gonna visit dad?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

After he agrees to go visit the dad the next day in the hospital, he says he needs to go out and starts heading back outside to the car. And Roman is like, going out. You were barely able to park the car, and actually, he says, park the Dodge Charger because the dad had bought him a Dodge Charger.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Dante is like, I come home in way worse shape than this all the time, which is. I need to tell you something. This is an incredible addict move right here.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. This.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

This. This is Addict Behavior 101. You have given me a date tomorrow. I need to be somewhere. The first thing I got to do is go get high that night. So that I will inevitably miss. I will inevitably miss the court date. I will inevitably miss the hospital. I will never really miss whatever it is. Because there is a thing in your brain as an addict that is like, ah, big thing. Tomorrow. Better. Better get my nerves down. Better calm down.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Better be real trashed for this.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And then. And then when somebody says, hey, you're already pretty trashed. You barely park. You're so trash. You'd be like, I've been way more trash than this.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. You have not yet begun to see me blackout.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

The only way I know this is I've had this exact conversation in my life.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

With I was the Dante.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, you were the Dante.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Dante. So he says he's going to this new club called Candies in town. Candies. Yeah, Candies.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Candies. Nuts.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So Roman agrees to go to the club with Dante to get drinks so he doesn't crash the car or worse.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Got it. Roman's like, I'll drive.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, I'll drive, basically. And also we can have drinks. We can catch up. We can talk about you. Candies is inside an old warehouse surrounded. Surrounded by a huge empty lot. They get in the club and they order some Crown and Cokes. And three lovely ladies come up to Dante and are like, quote, big D, you gonna buy us some drinks. And one gal, Trina, she has a powder blue afro. And he buys them all three shots of Hypnotic. And I need you to know that I died a thousand deaths when I read Hypnotic.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Because Trina likes to drink it because it matches her hair, because she's an icon. An icon. She's dyeing her hair to match the Hypnotic. Yes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

You said this in 2025. This is 2003, and I know it. We. In 2003, hypnotic was everything. And they used to make the drink. The mixed drinks were like. It would be a different color on top, and then you pour the hypnotic and it turn blue on the bottom. Yeah, Hypnotic was like Club Egypt 16 and 21. A drink.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

What, so hypnotic was blue?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, it was a pale blue drink, and it tastes like tropical.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, but what was it, though?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

A liquor beverage? I don't. I didn't ask those kind of questions.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

No, I know, but, like, was it like a vodka? Was it like.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

That's a great question. Hypnotic.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, I'm typing it in.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, my God. I forgot that's how it's spelled.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

H, P, N, O, T, I, Q.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Hell yeah, dude.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It's a liqueur known for its blend of premium French vodka, cognac, and tropical fruit juices like mango and passion fruit.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yum, yum, yum.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Giving it a sweet, tart, and juicy flavor profile.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yep. Huh. Huh.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. It was referenced in a lot of rap videos.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, for sure.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

For a very, very long time. I guess it's still around.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I think it's still around. It's not as popular anymore.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Well, no, because it looks like. It looks like a potion you would get in a Video game.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. Yeah. That's why we liked it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Anyway, should I get Hypnotic for myself?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

They have a couple of drinks. Let me know by the end of this book. They have a couple of drinks, and at like 1am Roman is like, let's go. I got to get up to help Nivea with work tomorrow. And as they're settling up the bill, Dante spots some guys walking in the club and immediately becomes sober and alert. And it's like, we got to get out of here. But, like, trying to play it cool, but he is clearly panicked.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Away at Hypnotic had its big break when hip hop impresario P. Diddy agreed to sell this drink in his restaurant chain, Justin's in New York.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Wait a minute. He had a restaurant called Justin's?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And is it. Doesn't everybody suspect that he abused Justin Bieber?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

No, you're the usher.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

No, but Usher gave Justin to Diddy. That was a whole thing.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this was before Justin Bieber.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Before all that, because this is in the early 2000s. Justin Bieber. No, wait, that is around that same time, isn't it?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

That's what I mean. It would be crazy if he named a restaurant after Justin Bieber.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I don't know. I'm just. I just. I pulled up the wiki and it said the big break came when hip hop impresario P. Diddy agreed to sell the drink in his restaurant chain.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And then other rappers started using it in their videos, holding on stage, all this different stuff, which is how it spread through the viral marketing. And Fabulous referenced it directly in his song, this is My Party. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I now know too much about Hypnotic. I just learned. I now don't remember what our son's side quest. I don't remember. I don't remember what our. The color of our son's eyes anymore. Because I have to remember they're super cute. Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

They get outside into the car, and Roman sees this guy walking past the car, like, a little too close, but he has, like, a mug of beer. Because again, they're outside of a club.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. And which is in the middle of, like, a warehouse district club. Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

In Virginia. So, like, it's not like.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It's like, middle of nowhere Virginia.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

They're not like cops coming by, being like, you can't open drink openly.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Right. So he's walking by with a mug of beer, and Roman's like, seatbelling himself. And all of. All of a sudden, Dante starts screaming, no, no, no, no, no. And this guy spills an entire mug onto the hood of the car and then lights it on fire.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh. Because it's not. It's not beer. Oh, wow.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman jumps out and pops off his shirt to, like, extinguish the flames. And people in the parking lot are laughing. They're like, ah. Like pointing and laughing at these guys whose charger hood just got set on fire. Yeah, right? And they get back to the house and. Wait, listen, before they get back to the house, let's take a break, okay? It's gonna get crazy.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It's gonna get crazy because you just lit a car on fire.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And that. And then you're like. From here it gets nuts.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

No, it's okay. We're only gonna escalate. Really?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, well, we'll escalate right after this. I haven't hit that button in so long, I forgot how to use it. Yeah, I know. That's wild. Okay. So they're getting back to the house after someone just lit the car on fire.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

But just the hood of the car. And they got it out.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay. So they get back to the house and Dante tries to start drinking more booze.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Roman is like, what the fuck is going on? Why did that guy throw a fireball at your car? Why did you shit yourself when you saw those guys come in the club? Why haven't you been to visit Daddy? What is going on? Right? So Dante sits down and starts telling Roman what's going on. Dante was hanging out with his friend Getty and Getty's girl Cassidy. And she goes to Hempstead College over in Richmond. She knows a lot of Becky's and Tyler's and Getty was talking about how much they love Molly and shit. And Getty was like, we should get some and flip it. It would be easy money.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Roman is like, why the fuck are you worried about easy money? Daddy gives you three grand a month, pays your car note, and you live here for free.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Dante is like, yeah, I was trying to make my own money because I hate working at the crematorium with all the rotting dead bodies every day.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay. But then go get a job.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, but have you ever considered selling Molly to all the Becky's and Tyler's?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I know. I. I do want to say that the way you laid out that, that. That giant run on sentence.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Was very much of that. When I've been in a situation with somebody who's been making bad decisions. Yeah. And they just start introducing characters at a rate that I cannot handle. I wrote none of them down.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

You should write Getty and Cassidy down.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I need to write Getty and Cassidy.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Cassidy.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Damn it. Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, sorry.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Getty and Cassidy. Even though I don't know who they are or what they're.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman knew where the hell this story's going, but he told Dante to keep talking.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Dante is like, we got some molly and some brown, too. How much? Roman very astutely asks.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Brown is heroin.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay. That's what it says. I need. I need the other people to know. I need people to know, because people like brown. I don't know what brown. Brown is heroin.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And red is method.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Red is meth.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Red is math.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I did not know that red was.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, smoking. Red is smoking meth.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I learned that when I was in my early 20s and a guy I was dating said, yeah, I used to smoke red. And I thought he was talking about Marlboro Reds.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, that's what I would have been my assumption.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Then I found out from somebody else that, no, he used to smoke meth. Well, I was hanging out with a lot of cool people, but the good

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

news is, is you. You married up.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So it turns out he got 50 grand worth of Molly and 250 grand worth of heroin.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Wait, so he got a quarter million dollars worth of drugs?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Dante.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Dante.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Dante got a hold of a quarter million.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Dante, Getty and Cassidy, did they have

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

a quarter million dollars? No.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

What?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman is immediately beside himself.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Roman, by the way, is in wealth management. Like, Roman runs wealth management. And it's like, what do you mean you got a quarter million dollars worth of illegal drugs?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Roman quickly says, who the fuck would give a bunch of newbies to the game $300,000 worth of product to sell at a liberal arts college?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It's a fair question. Yeah, it's a fair question.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And then Roman is like, have you been dealing for years? And Dante's like, no, the guys that we got it from knew who Daddy was and was. Like, you guys are good for it. You're good for it. Because they know Daddy got money.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. And Roman is like, how much do you owe? How much?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

$250,000.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Dante is like, all of it?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. There's no way this little fuck up.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, my God.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Cassidy and Getty used up most of the brown and shared it with their friends. Then some frat boys jacked them for the lot of molly. They tried to sell the rest, but no one on campus wanted to buy anything. When they could get it for free from the Phi Beta Kappa guys. So we just popped the rest ourselves.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

This is so many drugs. This is like. This is an unheard of amount of drugs. Everyone involved should have OD'd.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

No, but literally.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Literally, yeah. I will say this is the first. This is the first part that is truly unbelievable to the point where, like, the amount, though, the amounts we're talking about, and these things in here, like, once you get into some of this stuff, I'm like, you should have died. Yeah, you should be dead. This is. This is where it's fiction.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman is like, what do you mean they jacked you? He's yelling at this. But Point Getty is like, we went. Getty went to sell them some, and they beat him up and took it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

He took all of it with them to go sell them some. Like, okay, never mind. That's where I'm at now.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Tranquil and Torrent said it wasn't their problem. Introduce introduction of two new characters.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I'm gonna write them down. I got them right. Tranquil.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Tranquil and Torrent.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, Tranquil. I'm gonna just. Okay, and Torrent.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, and Torrent.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

These also sound like they should be on the shelf next to hypnotic. Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Roman is like, were you there when he got jumped? And Dante's like, no.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Roman is like, this doesn't make the sense. How did they use that much heroin and not die?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Thank you. I'm glad that Roman is an intelligent

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

character and he says, I think you got scammed. And Dante is like, no, they wouldn't lie. It's their debt, too. And Tranquil and Torrent are not to be fucked with. They're super dangerous. And Roman is like, no, Dante, they gave you that stuff because of Daddy's business. It's your debt, not whoever the fuck Getty is. They lied to you and are letting you take the fall.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

No, but these junkies are my very

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

good friends, my very dear friends, and we're smart business people together. Now, these guys, Tranquil and Torrent.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I wonder if heroin ever, like, expires. I guess we'll never know.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

You'll never know.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You'll never know.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

It never sits around unused.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That's what I mean. It's like one of those things. You had $200,000 worth of heroin?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. That's like me having a hundred dollars worth of pickles in the fridge.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

We'll never know if they go.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Pickles, expire. What are you talking about?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. No, no. Yeah. That's incredible.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

A can of Diet Coke. Expiring.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Impossible. Oh, man. You have like. That's like. That's like six years worth of heroin or three weekends.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Like, people are inviting.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So these guys, tranquil and torrent. They are the ones that slash daddy's tires. They drove him off the road.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, okay, okay. Now because they're screaming that the dad owes them the money.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

They. Dante owes them the money.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

But they are attacking the father to get Dante to pay back the money,

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

which is insane because the father controls the money.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Ah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Because these aren't smart drug dealers.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Ah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I'm going to go ahead out there on that side.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You know, very funny. Very interesting thing I read a long time ago in the book Freakonomics.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Was talking about how the average corner boy, like, who's. Who's a drug dealer. Yeah. Makes less money than someone making minimum wage working McDonald's.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

But they'll do it because they believe that the end. The end of that road.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Has more money at it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Because they can see themselves as, like, a captain. Drug dealer.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You know, like that type of thing. But they can never see themselves as CEO of McDonald's, even though that, in the long run will be the more profitable way of. Like, if you worked at McDonald's and worked your way up to, like, assistant manager.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, Yeah, I worked at McDonald's.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And we heard about this.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

You got fired and I got laid off.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So Roman is like, we need to meet with these guys and come up with a deal. And Dante doesn't want to because he was supposed to pay them in full two weeks ago, and that was three weeks ago.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And then they almost murdered your dad.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Your dad might actually still be dying because he's in a coma with nine punctured ribs.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. And a brain bleed. Roman is like, tell them to meet us at the crematorium at 9pm we got to figure this out. Okay.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Now that. Tomorrow. The crematorium at 9pm Tomorrow.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Tomorrow.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Got it. Okay. Again, they are drunk and it's like 2am this is a lot. Imagine flying home after meeting up with Miss Delicate.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Miss Delicate.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And then your brother just lays all this on you while you're drunk on hypnotic.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I don't think you need to go talk to Ms. Delicate if you have this going on. You know what I mean?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. This is stressful.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

You don't need a cat and nine tails. This is stressful.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Someone just lit the car on fire. Like, this is

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

so. Blah, blah, blah. Next morning, Roman heads to the crematorium to help Nivea and we find out during this that the whole town thinks that Roman's dad killed their mom and burnt her up. Also, their mom was having an affair with one of the crematorium employees. Okay. So here's the whole thing. There's a lot of backstory we find out during this book.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

About the mom goes missing when they're children.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

It's an unsolved case. The entire town thinks the dad did it because he has access to the crematorium.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Carol Baskins.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

They also think that maybe she ran off with some guy because she was known for having an affair.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Also, she could have just been generally murdered or run off to abandon her family. Nobody knows.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And it is the deepest heartbreak of their family. Okay. And so during this whole book, the children are constantly talking about the gravity of the situation of their mom disappearing and how that affected them.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Wow. We're always hearing from the people of the town about how they think it was the dad.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I mean, that was going to be my guess.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

My guess. Especially because of the way Roman feels about things. Like maybe accidentally Roman mentioned it, you know, about something that he saw. Mama kissing Santa Claus type of deal. And then the dad does something or whatever. You know, all other stuff kind of getting thrown around. The reason why Tranquil and Torrent would get involved with to a quarter million dollars worth of product to a crematorium owner's son, like, is like. Because there was a connection. There's. The dad might be connected somewhere. Initially, when the dad got hit, I thought the dad might be mobbed up.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Nope.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

No, he just. He just. Because. But sometimes, though.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. Oh, no, I understand. Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, No, I know. What I'm saying, though, is sometimes buildings like that, especially that are cash services, is where you wash money through room.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman works a shift all day helping Navia load bodies into the fires. Then she leaves. She's getting texts on her phone the whole time. She has a secret boyfriend. This comes up a lot during the story. I'm cutting it for time summary. She's sleeping with a local married cop. Dude is an. But he. The him being a cop comes up later. Anyway, she goes to leave, meet with secret boyfriend.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, so he's a. A local married police officer.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So everything's going great.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Everything's going really well.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

This entire book is. All right, I'm. I'm in.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

You're in, though.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I'm in. Because everything is messy.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. Cuz you're a messy bitch who loves the drama.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I do. And like, the whole time I'm like, why? Oh, my God. Like, to me, can I tell you right now? If Dante was my brother and I showed up and I heard this, I'm like, cool, I'm gonna go back to Atlanta instead. I would have been like, I'm leaving back for.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I gotta go. This sounds like lots. It sounds like you should probably figure this out.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It sounds like a you problem. They tried to kill dad.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay? So there's a knock at the door and it's ups. Roman has gotten a box delivered to himself. Okay. Now Dante shows up and is like, roman, I am not sure about this. These guys are crazy. They're going to kill me. Also, we find out that Dante went and confronted Getty, and Getty admitted to scamming him because he knew that TNT are only going to hold him accountable.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Calling it TNT is crazy.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Because Ted Turner just. Ted Turner just died. He owned tnt.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I just want you to know.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I just wanted you to know that I changed it to TNT on my Google Doc because I get tongue twisted saying track one over and over.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

TNT is great.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, thanks.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay. Because they are dangerous and explosive.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. Oh, my God. Yes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yes. 100% yes. But also, Ted Turner. Was that. Was that the Turner Network Television?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Which was tnt, which is why it was called WCW Nitro.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay. Dante tells Roman that these dudes aren't like regular gangsters. They're crazy. One time they sent a big dinner to this lady's house. Cornbread, Mac and cheese, chitlins. Turns out that the chitter chitlins were actually her husband and they had fed him to her family. And Roman is like, that definitely didn't happen. They probably just spread that story around to build mystique and scare people.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, that's like a pretty. That's like. That, like, feels like someone else's story. Yeah, that feels like one of those medieval stories that gangsters just, like, take and, like, tell about, like, you didn't do that.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I mean, it could have.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I mean, they could have, but, like, you ground them up into chitlins. Where's the rest of them?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Well, I don't know.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You'd have to stop the bones.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

You hold that thought.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

TNT show up banging on the door. Cop. Cop knocking outside, Right?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And they are super scary. Even Roman immediately is like, oh, these dudes are not normal, like, when it comes to gangsters. Because he works around a lot of gangsters in Atlanta.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And so he. He understands a lot of this culturally and. But these guys, he describes them as having empty, dead eyes. And that they look like murderous sharks. And he immediately is like, oh, no, these guys are fucking scary.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Well, yeah, because in Atlanta they have to be businessmen who interact with each other. And they run gangs the way they run businesses. When you're in the middle of nowhere, you murder all your competition.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That's their whole thing is we murdered all of our competition. We intimidate everyone, so that way we can keep doing whatever we want.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So Roman tries to negotiate a deal with them to pay back the money first. He's like, listen, Getty is responsible for that, Molly, not my brother. So you need to take that debt up with him. As for the 250,000, I can give you $200,000 today. I have it. That box that he had delivered, it was cash money.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So he, he had that overnighted to himself. $200,000 cash. I can get you the other 50,000 by the end of the month. He also offers his services as a money advisor. He's like, I can help you make money. That's what I do.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

He's literally offering them the most reasonable thing in the world.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And I'm going to go ahead and guess. And they say no.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

No there. They say no immediately. They take it as an insult immediately. Like, you think we don't know what to do with our money.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

You know what I mean?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Also, your brother promised he was going to make us double the money and pay me interest for fronting him so much supply. So the way I see it, he owes me $425,000. And Roman's like, that's 40% interest.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And CNC, you're like, listen, we're gonna take the $200,000 now and the 50,000 at the end of the month for sure. And then 50,000 every month until we feel like the debt has been paid up. We're calling it the playing in our face tax.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So here's what's crazy, right? That 40% interest you just. You mentioned. Yeah, there was in Tennessee, they just approved a new type of payday loan. You think 40 is crazy? You can borrow up to $4,000.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

With 295 interest.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

What?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Payday loans are illegal in the state for a reason.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

In the state of Pennsylvania.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. Other places they're not predatory. They're beyond predatory.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And yeah, that's the whole thing is, is these guys anyway, they're gonna have to kill these guys. I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna tnt the only way to get out of this one. You gotta kill them.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Um. Roman tries to negotiate with them, but he truly loses his footing and is stumbling over his words. Like, they are actually so intimidating that he is.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Well, also because his brother lied to him.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yes, he was.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

He was like, yeah, you need to pay back the 250. It's like, no, no, there's a 40% rate, plus you promised that you were going to double it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, talk to big game.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Talk to big game. And these psychos were like, well, yeah, we're going to get it either way.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. And TNT are like, you think you're going to come in here in your fancy shirt and white boy shoes and talk to us about business like we're fucking idiots, right? So they're fucking insulted, right? So they have one of their henchmen punch Roman to the ground until he. And he gets. He's on his knees. And then this guy sticks his gun all the way in his mouth. And then another guy punches down on his head, which shatters Roman's front teeth. On the gun.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Jesus.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. And T is like, you are so soft for talking so slick. As far as we are concerned, your brother's debt is now your debt. If they don't get the money by the end of the month, they're coming back. And next they're going to take Nivea. And if you still don't pay after that, we're gonna take you out to the farm and you're gonna love me and the dogs. Okay?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

All right. Now Roman spits out blood and teeth and is like. Through all of this is like. Listen, I mean it. I can help you make money. I am good at this. I can triple what he owes you. I know when companies are going public. I can do magic with stocks. Also, you can use the crematorium to make your problems disappear. Full use of the facilities. Nothing but ashes. No DNA. Now Torrent, who's stroking his goatee like a bad guy? Okay, Triple. We get to use the hot box anytime we need it. We'll see you in one month. End scene.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Whoa. Okay, that leaves a lot.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Let's take a break.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

We're gonna take a break. I need it emotionally. We'll be right back after this.

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[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

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[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

ashes, Mrs. P. Okay, so we're still in the crematorium with TNT and Dante and Roman, right? So here's the thing. TNT turn to Dante and are like, we can't keep letting him walk around without addressing the disrespect. Okay, so one of the henchmen, his name is D. Train, grabs a pair of gardening shears that's hanging on the wall nearby and then grabs Dante. Roman tries to get up to intervene, but now that gun that broke his teeth is at the back of his head. Torrent grabs Dante and. And cuts off his pinky using the garden shears and then crushes his pinky under the heel of his boot so

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

it can't be sewn back on.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. Okay, cut to the next day.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

All right.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, that's a. End of scene.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

End A. I like. I like that you waited. You let me take a break, go to the bathroom, came back, and then threw that at me. Yeah, okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I am a good storyteller, just like SA Cosby. So next day, Roman is at the dentist getting his teeth done. Yes. He's getting implants. The dentist is like, it takes weeks for approval from insurance. And Roman is like, run my card. Right? He gives him, like, the black card. He's like, run the car.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Fix the teeth. Waiting for insurance. Now, Navia asked what happened. They say they got jumped and explained. Explain away all the damage. Right?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

We got jumped. That's how I lost my teeth. And he lost his pinky. Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

They're not telling her what's going on, obviously. So later that day, Dante is calling Getty and is like, man, you got. You got to stay out of town. They're looking for you. And then he calls Getty's girlfriend, Cassidy, and he's like, stay safe, babes. Turns out the three of them had some, like, poly like, experiences. And that's why Dante doesn't feel. Feel like what he and Cassidy were doing was really cheating.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay. Yeah, okay. This is junkie stuff. Okay, Got it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Now, in the other room, while he's making these calls to Cassidy and Getty, Roman is also making a phone call. He's calling his best friend and business associate, Khalil.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

The security guy.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

The security guy. And the. My favorite part of. About this entire little chunk of chapter is he calls CLE on the phone and Khalil says, hey, hit me up on WhatsApp. And hangs up on them. And I am like, I think it's supposed to imply that WhatsApp is a more secure line. And I'm like, the Meta products.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. Yeah. And now especially. Especially, too, because Meta is officially announced that they're actually pulling back. Like, they're going to be scanning everyone's. Yeah. DMs and all that different stuff now.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

They openly, like. Yeah, we're trading our alarms on our eyes on everything. Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So not a more secure line, guys.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, so he meant to say signal.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He said meant to say signal. So he is like, I need. I tell so. And so I need a bunch of money, move through crypto, yada, yada, yada. Khalil's gonna come down to Virginia to help with what's going on. We find out that Khalil is a former Armory Army Ranger turned mercenary, and now a security specialist to rich and famous people in Atlanta. Okay, so we get a little bit more background on Khalil. Okay, so it's like 24, 48 hours later. I don't know, there is, like, a chapter about flashbacks with town gossip, Mom's disappearance, Navia meeting up with her married cop, blah, blah, blah. Cuts a Roman. He's in bed sleeping, and suddenly Dante's in his doorway holding a cell phone. And he says, tnt want to meet us. And quote, you gotta fulfill your promise. Some of our boys are heading over to your place. We'll be there in 20 minutes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay. So they get out of bed, or Roman gets out of bed with Dante. And they head over to the crematorium. And there's two cars in the parking lot. And they are. They go in, they unlock the doors, and these two guys get out of the car. Now, this is where we get to know more of the henchmen. There's many henchmen. We've already learned about D Train. Now there's Yellow Boy and Splody.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, all right. Got it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Each pull a person out of the trunk of their car with a pillowcase on their head.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

They're still alive.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, they're alive.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That's not good.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Now, Roman immediately is like, what the fuck are these two people being dragged into the crematorium alive for? Right?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And so the first guy is like, how we do it? We just throw him in the stove. And Roman is like, this is not what we agreed to. Not what we agreed to. And the guy's like, yeah, Torrent knew you were going to try to weasel out of this. He wants you to get your hands dirty so he knows you are in getting dirty so you can't rat on them later.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, but disposing of a dead body is also a crime.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Not enough of a crime.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I know. These guys suck, okay? You're going to have to kill these guys. Tranquil. And Torrent, tnt. You have to kill them. You have to shoot them in the face.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So Yellow Boy pulls out his phone and is like. And immediately Roman is like, oh, my God. Is he gonna record us killing these guys? Like, whoever's under here? Yeah, right. But he answers it instead. He just, like, answers a text and then puts his phone back in his pocket.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And then he looks at Splody and is like, listen, I gotta go do that thing. And Splody is like, you better watch yourself where you're going. I hope it's worth it. And Yellow Boy doesn't say anything except for when it's done, text me. And. And if Roman and Dante chicken out, cancel them. And I was like, aha. A real cancellation. We're getting truly canceled. So Yellow Boy leaves. Splody takes the pillowcases off the two people's heads, and Dante screams because it's Getty and Cassidy.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to kill them.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. Splody is like, just so you know, the white boy tried to throw you under the bus, saying you were the one that stole all the product. I'm just saying.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, Getty was white this whole time.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, Gettys white this whole time.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I had no idea. Getting white this whole time.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So that's how. I think that's how he got into the liberal arts college, knowing all the best. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, Got it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So Dante is having a full panic attack, basically, at this point. And Roman is like, listen, it's them or us. I choose us.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That's. That is in this situation, that is the option they're left with.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman is like, I guess get one of the boxes down. And so they're like trying to get one of the boxes down. And.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And by boxes, you mean the. The caskets.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, the caskets.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

The one that. Like the wooden boxes that they set fire to. Not the kind you get buried in.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, they're. They're thinner. They're like pine boxes.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And they're trying. They're. They're gonna. They pick up Getty, who's tied up, by the way, and they plop him into the box. And Splody is like, damn, you ain't even gonna shoot him first? Cold blooded.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay. Jesus.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And when they get. Get in, he starts, like, fighting back. And Roman punches him in the face so hard I think he breaks his note and knocks him. Knocks him out.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And he close. He pushes him in and closes the lid and starts up the machine bud. He starts up the fire. Dante disappears from eyeline for a moment. And then suddenly he's behind Splody. Splody turns to confront him, but not fast enough because Dante whacks him in the head with a ballpoint hammer and does it again and again until his head caves in. Now Roman is standing there watching this in fucking shock. Like, what the fuck is going on? And Dante is like, I can't let them hurt Cassidy.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You gotta kill your brother. You gotta kill Dante. That's the only way around this now.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Like, that's the whole thing of Dante. They. If you just let Dante be killed, you wouldn't be involved.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Wow.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Also should just gone back to Atlanta.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So the scene cuts and we're. And then we're back. And Dante, Roman. Dante and Cassidy are standing next to each other silently staring at the incinerator. And they've been there for over an hour while the fire consumes Getty and Splody because they had to load Splodie in two now.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Well, they still Killed Getty.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Getty was loaded in.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I understand that. Yeah, you could have unloaded him. I mean you should probably should kill Getty, but. Yeah. All right, this is. Oh man, I don't like these type of stories. Okay, so it's just a series of like stupid insane choices now because Dante is forcing every hand by being a fucking idiot.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. Oh yeah. It's. This book is a lot of me screaming about how Dante's an idiot. Okay, so Getty splodier in there. Dante has his arm around Cassidy, okay. In like a really intimate sort of way. And Roman clocks in it immediately. He's like, no, no, that's not how you put your arm around somebody. That's just your friend. Right?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So they're all standing there in shock because they had been listening to Getty screams. Because he did in fact wake up and it felt like hours, but it was probably only 10 minutes. But Roman says that his banshee whales will haunt him for an eternity.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And that was who was the one they just burned? Splody is who they. So I can cross his name name off.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Cross his name off, but you might need it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I'm going to cross Getty's off too. Okay. I'm just going to cross them off.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

We're crossing them off because they're dead.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I'm crossing them off cuz they're dead. I only have a light line through it though, so I can re reference it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, great. So they're all still in shock from Getty's screams. Ba Ba. Cassidy's crying, vomiting, the whole thing. And she says out loud that, you know, Getty didn't get jacked. He sold the Molly, he cut it with something and then so he could double it and he didn't want to share with Dante. And I'm like, Cassidy, why are you telling this now?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, wow. Wow.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Should have told us this earlier.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, wow.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

The box.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman is looks at Cassidy and like it's time for you to leave. Dante is like, man, she's been through a lot. Like, can you give her a minute? And Roman's like, no, we have a lot of mess to clean up and she needs to get the out of town because she's dead. She needs to be dead.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Now Cassidy, to her credit, who does seem to be dumb as rocks, is deeply confused, but is like she acts like a deer in headlights. And like she's like why? But like she means why. And he's like, you need to get out of town and never come back. And she's Like, I want to say bye to my mom. And they're like, you're dead. Do you understand that? You died today. And they're like, if anybody finds out you're alive, they're going to kill you and then us. What are you not clocking about the situation? Yeah, and Dante being the fucking idiot he is is like, rome, let her go talk to her mom and say goodbye. And Roman is like, here's the deal. Here's the deal. Okay? I'm gonna give you some cash. Cash. And you're gonna take Splody's car. Don't use your phone. You're gonna go buy a new one with the money I give you. Do not call home. Go get a waitressing job so you can get paid in cash and get the out of Dodge. We will contact you if and when you can ever come back. Okay?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That's so insane.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Dante's like, yeah, let's hide out and we'll reach out to you when it's safe to come back. And she agrees.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Roman, literally, under his breath, shaking his head, is like, these two dumb, absolute idiots. Roman gives her, like, a grand from petty cash. They get her in the car. Now I need to tell you about the Splody's car. Okay. Splody's car is all souped up. It's like a mod car. Like, okay, it's one of the cars that ran the truck off the road in cars 1.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I pictured it immediately with, like the under lights.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Big.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And the big spoilers are blue.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

It's got spoilers. It's very. That. Okay, so she's gonna.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So very inconspicuous.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, she's gonna get in this very inconspicuous car.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

She's probably like, I don't know how to drive stick.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. Okay, so she leaves after she left. They clean up. They gotta scrape all the ashes. They gotta mop all the blood. It's a whole thing. Dante leaves to go get high at a flop house with his friends. I put friends in quote. And Roman is like, can you not. What if you get so up, you start blabbing? And Dante does not listen to this sane take and goes off and gets high and drunk as to make his brain stop remembering the things that they did next day. Nivea is suspicious.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

She.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Because she's like, in the peripheral, she's seeing her brothers acting a fool. Okay, Right? And she's like, what is going on? What are you guys not telling me? And Roman's like, oh, no. Like, it's. It's just like, you have fake teeth now. You have fake teeth.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

He's missing a finger.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, listen, nothing's going on. We just got jumped. But again, like, the dad stuff, like, she's like, not putting it together, but putting it together.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So later, Roman calls Khalil and he is like, can we meet later to discuss everything that's going on? Because Khalil has now flown down to where they are in Virginia. Right. And Khalil is like, yeah, man, I'm not doing anything but sightseeing and waiting for you. He's currently at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And he's like, did you know that Edgar Allan Poe married his cousin? Maybe that's why he always was sad. I love Cleo so much of this book.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I just need you to know.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He has funny little jokes the whole time.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That's good, because I need them because I'm currently hating every other character.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Don't hate everybody.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I. There you are. You're proceeding to paint a series of characters for me.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

By you, I mean SA Cosby, who are constantly and consistently doing the wrong thing on purpose.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And it makes it impossible to root for anyone.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Roman should have left. Roman had a whole life. He should have left. The sister should know what's going on. Dante should be dead. He has put everyone in danger repeatedly. Now, Dante should have been sacrificed because this is insane. Cassidy is a fucking moron. Getty is an idiot. I don't like these characters. And I'm having, like, I legitimate having a difficult time with this story because there was another book I read years and years ago when I was in high school where it was very similar of someone who is walking themselves deeper and deeper into problems instead of trying ever to walk themselves out of it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And like, Roman is trying to, to a degree, but I'm like, eventually you're supposed to go back to Atlanta and run a wealth management company. You've not set up any sort of world where that's possible. So I don't understand it. And I just. That's where I am.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay. This is a fiction book.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I understand that. And that means that someone chose to write it this way.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. Okay. So Khalil is at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum having a good time. Basically, he's going to meet up with Roman and they're going to come up with a plan to take down the Black Baron Boys.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Because that's what TNT's crew is called, the Black Baron Boys.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay. So they're going to kill everybody.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

They're going to try.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, good. I need that. I need. I need that. Because this is. This has been rough.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, okay, listen. I changed the Black Baron boys to the bbb. All across my doc, the Triple B's. Very funny. Because the Better Business Bureau is the bbb. So every time they're like, we're gonna take down the bbb, I'm like, the Better Business Bureau, a website that doesn't work functionally. So Roman knows money, Khalil knows strategy. They're coming up with a plan. Okay, okay, so now we cut to Roman's in his front office of the dad's business. So, like, we're in the front office of the crematorium where, like, you meet with clients. Right. And this is when Chauncey shows up.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Chauncey.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Chauncey is the cop that Navia has been sleeping with.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, Chauncey. I think I had to write that down.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Chauncey is the cop. And he's like, your sister tells me you were jumped and you guys haven't reported to the police. She wants me to look into it and help you guys out. But it. Through this conversation that he has with Chauncey. Roman and Chauncey do not get along. They immediately hate each other. Roman immediately clocks that Getty was a snitch and he had disappeared before some information went missing. And so there. The way that, like, Chauncey, like, what's it called, like, puts down crumbs, a trail of crumbs to try to get Roman to open up, but he doesn't. He's like, immediately like, I don't want to talk to cops. Get the out of here. And Chauce is like, I'm just trying to help. Your sister told me to help you. And he's like, I don't. We don't need help. We're cool. So Getty was a snitch. Yellow Boy ran off suspiciously. These are. These are just notes Roman's taking. Okay. Because now he's trying to collect data points.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. Because Yellow Boy was supposed to come back and pick up or deal with Splody. Yeah, but Splody's dead now.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And we're still within that same range. Like, it's weird that that hasn't come up.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay. Track my iPhone.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Track my iPhone. So they, blah, blah, blah. There's a time jump chapter again where their kids, they explain the horrors of their mother going missing. Blah, blah, blah. So we get back to the. The current time of this book, and Roman is still at the crematorium, and there's a funeral home guy who's dropping off cadavers. Is it are cadavers or is it just the bodies? There's a name for it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Cadavers.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay. So he's dropping them off and he's talking to the cadaver guy. His name is Jacob. And he's like, the cops found this body on the train tracks and all the flesh and meat had been removed from its legs. And the coroner said that there's a bullet in the head. And Roman immediately feels safe, sick because he's like, there are no wolves in Virginia, but there are a bunch of gangsters with a farm full of dogs. Right? And the funeral home guy is like, yeah, there's like, this is like a fourth body this year I picked up like this. And they're like, we learned that the Black Baron boys are always fighting another crew called the Ghost Town Crew.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And I think they're Hispanic or Latino, right? They're the Ghost Town crew.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And then there's also. They're also fighting with the cops. So the basically we learned from Jacob is that it's crazy out here in these streets and the bodies are starting to pile up. Okay?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So he goes back to his house and when the work is done for the day and inside the house, Dante is passed the fuck out on the couch, right? Face down, snoring, drunk, high, whatever. And Khalil is sitting next to him watching tv. And Khalil's like, I knocked for a while, no one answered. So I just let myself in.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman forcibly wakes up Dante and is like, you need to be a part of this conversation. The three of them sit down at the kitchen table and Roman explains every detail of how Dante got them into this mess and where they are now. And after hearing this, Khalil is like, we have two options.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

One, kill Dante.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

One is we go into all out war against them, which Roman does not want to do because of his dad and sister. Or two, we break them from the inside using counterinsurgency measures.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So they come up with a plan to get on Torrent and Tranquil's good side by telling them that Getty was an informant. And then Roman is going to help them make money. He will become a trusted asset.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

But you murdered Splody.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, so they want to turn them against each other. Yellow Boy is going to be a pawn because wherever he went that night, he doesn't want TNT to know and they're going to exploit that.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, okay, got it. So they're going to Use that and maybe blame him for Splody.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, good

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

rational conversation.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Just. I'm just. I'm telling you, this is. This is. So. There's a certain point with all of these things where I'm like, God damn it, just pull your head out of your ass. To these characters.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So from the outside, Khalil is going to do external damage to spark paranoia. He's gonna bomb some stash houses, cause chaos, and make them think it's from the Ghost Town Boys or some other unknown.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So just some light terrorism.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Light terrorism. Khalil says he's going to be, quote, paging the Medicis.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, The Medicis. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, so now I'm gonna get mad at Dante again. Okay, let me. Let me cross my legs. Dante, sitting at this kitchen table. These two men have flown in from Atlanta, invested thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands, new teeth. The. The. So much work is being done. And Dante is like, guys, you guys are acting like this is casino or Goodfellas. This is insane. This is like you guys are doing too much. And Khalil is like, listen to me. Everyone at this table has killed someone. Some of us more than others. I just met you, but I noticed that you haven't provided any suggestions on how to get out of this mess that you created. And Dante is like, well, I think we should just pay them. Eventually they'll go away.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That's not how this works.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Khalil is like, they're vampires. They're gonna suck money out of your lives every day until they take everything, including your dad's business. They will never stop taking money. And then when there is no money, they will kill you all. And so then Dante is like, why? And then. Oh, so then Dante is like, well, why doesn't Khalil just kill tnt? And then it'll be over with. And Khalil is like, yeah, we could do that. But gangs like this are like a hydra. You take out one leader, and then their subordinates take over. And guess what? They're going to collect on old debts because they want money to start their new business opportunities as the new leader. So then Dante is like, well, how about I just leave town? I'll leave town and never come back. And Roman is like, so they can kill our sister and make me sell daddy's business and put our dad, who's in a coma, in a state run medical institution until he shits himself to death. Roman is fuming at this point, you

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

guys screaming, pistol whip Dante, please. Pistol whip him. I hate Dante. Dante has ruined this book. I just want to say that Dante has ruined this fucking book. If Dante had died early and they're like. And now he transferred the debts of Roman, yeah, I would have been fine. But the fact that Dante is still there is driving me insane.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And now, you know, it's like to have an addict in your family.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

No.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Just drive you nuts.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, they just drive you nuts. Which is why, like, whenever I've had these, I've had people like this in my life. They were not in my family, but I've had people like this in my life and I just cut them off. There's a day where you just go, no, you're a fucking idiot. And I'm done.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So Dante's screaming. Well, he was screaming, but then he does that quiet thing and he's like, they tried to kill dad. They took your finger. They broke all my teeth. They're trying to take everything our family built and you just want them to get away with that. And Dante responds, I just want to live. And Roman fully screams. What kind of life is that? Meanwhile, Khalil is quietly sipping water the whole time just watching this.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So anyway, they agree to the plan that they came up with with Khalil's plan. Okay, so.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So before we go into Khalil's plan.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

We are gonna take a break.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Because I. Take a deep breath.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Because I. I hate Dante with a passion.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, I. I agree.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I despise Dante.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I despise Dante too. But yeah, we'll figure it. We'll figure out where we are from there. And when we come back, we'll begin Khalil's plan

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

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[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

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[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, so first on the docket, create a mutually assured destruction pact with Splody. Let him know he wasn't. We know that he wasn't supposed to leave.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You mean yellow boy?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yes. With yellow Boy.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, Yellow Boy. There we go.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

That he wasn't supposed to leave. But never say anything to TNT about it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Also, Dante is not going to change any of his behaviors. He's going out partying, business as usual. But when conversations start around where Splody went, he is going to drop thoughts that maybe he Got into witness protection. Or maybe he got taken out by the Ghost Town crew, right? So like if he's in these places and having conversations when people are like, yo, has anybody seen splotches below? To be like, I don't know, maybe he went to win this projection, right? Like just be your normal self. Dante. Roman is going to start working the money. He will make his payment to them this week and then double their investment. It's probably going to take some insider trading. Then we have a Nivea chapter. Love her. We don't have time. She's finding clues, trying to figure out what her dumbass brother's up to, trying to build up some self esteem to stop that cop. Blah, blah, blah. Okay? Next thing, it's Roman. It's 10am and he is in a motel parking lot, okay? He's sitting in his car with a big briefcase. He's meeting a local sex worker. And the briefcase is full of all kinds of fun BDSM stuff. Cut to not too long later, he's leaving the room and is unsatisfied. The woman was like, I don't understand what you want. Can we just fucking. Anyway, he paid her and left without that specific exchange.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay? So he really just needs Ms. Delicate.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He needs Ms. Delicate. He's so stressed out.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And he tried and. But this young woman did not know what she was doing.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, I got it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

She's not as good as Ms. Delicate. Okay? So now he's locked in. Okay. And loaded. Because he didn't clear his pipes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

What?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Not only has a funny line.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Thank you.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You're welcome.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So, and he's heading to this meeting with TNT to give the next payment of money, $100,000. So he meets up with them and of course it's like very tense, mafioso type of situation in the back room of a restaurant. They own the restaurant and they're sitting down, there's. They're pointing a gun at him. And he takes 50k out of the briefcase along with the box of ashes to prove that he got rid of Getty and Cassidy.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Immediately torrent is like, why is there only 50k? Where's the other half? Are you already trying to fuck me over, college boy? And he has it. He's like, he shows them that he has it and he's like, listen, he's. He's trying, he's going to try to convince them to let him invest the other half of the cash so he can prove that he is useful in what he can do with money, right? So he pitches his services again. Now Tranquil is completely unimpressed and has a gun to Roman's head and is like, fuck you. And Torrent is like, listen, explain it to me. Tell me how you would do it. And so he does. He explains the concepts of a pump and dump, short sales, insider trading, crypto. Hiding it within crypto. The whole thing, right? And Torrent is like, it. Let him try it. You turn the 50k into 150k. If it doesn't work, we'll take you to the. To the farm and let the dogs have you. Right? Roman is like, okay, I will call you when it's ready. And T is like, don't call me. Call Yellow Boy. And who jumps when somebody says his name because he's clearly on edge. And so then this is when Roman gets Yellow Boy's phone number.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Number. Okay, okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

As they're getting ready to leave, Torrent is like, one more thing where the is splody. And then this is a direct quote from the book. He says, where the is splody? And then the quote is, at this moment, Roman felt his scrotum crawl up the crack of his ass.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I was like, you know what? That is a very good way to describe.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It's very descriptive.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

The most. A very short, stressful, tense moment.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, I could feel that. I could feel that.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He could feel every eye on the room land on him except Yellow Boy, who was avoiding eye contact. And Roman's like, you idiot, look at me. Like everybody else, Roman is very chill, and he's like, I don't know. He and Yellow Boy brought Getty and Cassidy to the crematory. They stayed until we finished, and then he left. I had to stay and let the ashes cool to pack them, which was great news because that's the exact lie that Yellow Boy had told. Nice got our story straight. Accidentally, T doesn't think it was the Ghost Town crew because they would have taken credit. And he says something like, I want to find him and make sure he didn't do anything stupid. And Roman is like, oh, yeah, you mean like Getty? And she is like, what do you mean by that? And he says, well, he was an informant. The cops came by talking to my brother about Getty as soon as he went missing and told Dante that Getty was an informant. And she is like, what your brother tell them? And he is like, nothing. What would he tell them? That we burned Getty alive. Get the fuck out of here. And now this whole time, Khalil is Doing recon. Right. He's finding out all the restaurants that the BBB owns, the flop houses, the trap houses. He's locating all the street crew who's running the drugs, blah, blah. So Khalil. I wish Khalil had, like, a part in a movie where you see him in front of a computer, where, like, the screen. There's, like, 10 screens.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And he's like. Like collecting all of the. James.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

No, you would also see him. It wouldn't so much be screens. He would also be just like, driving around in a car with tinted windows. And every now and then, you'd see shots of him, like, taking a picture or looking through binoculars.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You know what I mean? He's building his file, and it's just like a pin board in the basement of the crematorium.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was picturing. So, okay, so there's some type of party that's being planned. Somebody's birthday. Terence or Torrent. I don't know, Tauren or Tranquil. One of them. And this is the same night that Roman is supposed to drop off the 150k. And he wants to do it in front of the crew. Okay. By the crew. I mean the. The Henchmen guys.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. He wants to show to everybody that he has value.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He has value. Right. And so, by the way, some of the crew names D Train, Yellow Money Tank. The Bang Bang Twins. The Bang Bang Twins. Not related.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I'm not writing these down.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

No, you don't have to. I'll remember them for you.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Thank you.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman wants them to see him drop off the money, so they might think to themselves, I wonder what that guy could do for me and my money.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So he gets to the party and Yellow Boy gives him a wristband. Roman hands Yellow Boy the envelope for tnt, but he also gives him a second envelope and says, there's no reason that Torrid and Tranquil should be the only ones making money. Yellow Boy pushes the other envelope on the way and is like, I don't know what you're playing at, but if I found out, you fuck with Splody, I'm gonna burn your house down. And Roman is like, I don't know what happened to him after he left. Just like you. I don't know where you went when you left. So I think it's a good idea that we leave good enough alone, don't you think? And Yellow Boy growls, stay away from me. But he does take that second envelope. Okay? Second envelope.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

The plan is beginning to plan.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

We're planning. So we're at the club. It's packed. Huge party. Okay. Because he still gets to stay at the party. And that's nice.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. And everyone's drinking. Hypnotic.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

They literally are.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, wow.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

They're literally drinking, partying, and dancing. There's a dj. It's like a nightclub. It's super fun. I forget the name of it. Whatever. It doesn't matter. It's one of the. One of the venues that TNT own. Okay. And so super packed, fun. Roman meets a beautiful young lady at the club named Jealousy.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Jealousy.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Jealousy. Her nickname is Jay, though. Just J. Like J, E, A J. They hit it off, and they have a very fun mute. Meet cute convo. All about nerd stuff. Cryptid, Star Trek, the Doctor.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Whole thing turns out Roman super nerd, and Jay, super nerd. So they're just nerding out together.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Flirting.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

But they're both hot.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, they're both.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

They're just both sexy hot nerds.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Talking at this wild club that neither of them actually want to be at.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Nerd stuff.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

We find out that Jay works as administrative assistant to the mayor, who she describes as slicker than an eel. We. We find out in classic rom com style that Jay is Torn and Tranquil's half sister.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay. Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And when they come over to confront Roman about talking to their sister, she calls them by their real names, Terrence and Tracy.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Terrence and Tracy.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Listen here, Terrence.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Terence is Tranquil and Tracy is Torrent, by the way. Then TNT threaten him, yada, yada. But they're actually like. They actually, like, don't seemingly care. They're like, yeah, take her on a date. What do we care? So then they party already all night long, right? They stay. They're chill. Everybody's chill at the party.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

4:00am party. Lets. Lets out. Party's over. Everyone's out in the parking lot figuring out what's next. We're all schmammered.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Waffle House.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Literally, Literally.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Wow, wow, wow.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Torrents like, yo, where the fox, yellow boy? We're heading to Waffle House.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I did. You went so loud into the microphone.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Sorry.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I just knew. I knew instantly. I knew instantly. It's the south. Yeah, it's a South. After 2am you're going am drunk.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

We're going to Waffle House.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You to get them hash browns covered, smothered, and topped.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

That's what you always order.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I like it with a chili.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I'd get a coffee.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, because you can't eat anything I

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

can't eat at the Waffles.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You got the celiac.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I do fear the coffee is dangerous there. There's probably a waffle.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, there's definitely. There's definitely flour in the air. So they're going to open air griddles there.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

That's so that they can punch easy.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You got to movement. It is true. I love a Waffle House. I love a Waffle House house so much. There was a. Give me a minute here because I've been listening to you talk for a while.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, go ahead, let me hear my turn.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

There was this. The guy who invented the video game Tekken.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Uhhuh.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Somebody made a fake level map where they're like, it should be in the parking lot of a Waffle House. And he legit. He's cuz he's Japanese. The guy who created this video game. It's a fighting video game.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And he could not understand. He's like, why? Why this place? Why are so many people involved with this? Next time I come to America, do I need to go? Because he's mostly been only to the west coast because he was going because video game stuff. And everyone's like, oh, brother. Like, trying to explain Waffle House to a man from Japan.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

No, you don't know. So while everybody's, like, outside talking and doing that thing you do after the club, Roman sends a text message while no one's looking and is like, jay, let's go with them. Wherever they're going. Like, whatever. He's gonna be a good spirit, right? He wants to hang out with Jay. Wherever everybody's going, he's going. No big deal.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Suddenly, a late model sedan comes roaring down the street and heading straight for the club. Roman is watching and counting down. At a certain moment, he braces his legs and screams at the top of his lungs. Gone. At the same time, he grabs Torrance arm and Jay's arm and pulls them both together to the ground. Automatic rounds start spraying in the air. Everyone's screaming, running, diving to the ground. When the car passes Torrent. When the car passes, Torrent pushes Roman off of him. And it's like, get in the cars. We're gonna get that. But Tranquil is already in the middle of the street shooting at the car. And he's like, nah, he's gone. The car had turned its life off, lights off, and sped off too fast because the car had actually, I believe, knocked out its own rear lights. Smart.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, smart.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I don't know who could be possibly in that car.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Now, one guy did die, but he did not get shot. There's the whole thing. There's an older guy there who was like. I would describe him as like an old school pimp guy who's like, too old to be at the club, but he's there hanging out with the honeys. Like everybody likes him.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Everybody's sweet on him.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He's just Old head. Old head had a stress aneurysm when the guns went off. So, like, somebody did die, but not from bullets.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, he had a heart attack. Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Poor old head. So Khalil's drive by had worked. Whether he liked it or not. Torrent now owed Roman. Right. Because that was the whole point.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman saved Torrance life from this suspicious

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

drive by, and now he gets to bang his sister.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, so after all that, they go home, they go back to Jay's house because Jay didn't want to sleep alone. But they. They did not sleep together. Dante and Roman slept on, like, the couch or whatever.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, Dante there could. Dante.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Dante's there because he's the party guy.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, I know, I know.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Sorry. So we find.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Don't mention him to me again.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So we find out that he has to. She has to get up and go to work the next day because her boss, the mayor, and is working to set up a big deal, a big real estate deal for investments in Jefferson City. Apartments, fancy restaurants, coffee houses. Hipster shit.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, they're going to get gentrified.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman immediately starts picturing swimming and money like Scrooge McDuck. Yeah, because government funding for real estate is the easiest way to hide funds and make big write offs with construction contracts, supply contracts and etc. Etc. And a major construction project is going to be a windfall of money. So we also find out from Jay that the mayor knows Torrent and Tranquil and that they have donated to his mayorial campaigns before as business owners. Because they're small business owners. Yeah, they own clubs, restaurants, apartments. I don't know. They own stuff. So they donate to the mayor.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

They're also just shooting guns in the middle of the street at 4am before going to Waffle House Way.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So on the way home that morning, Dante is driving with Roman and he's like, I can't believe you and Khalil did that. Drive by and scared that old man to death. Roman literally is like, pull over the car. And he lays into him and he's like, khalil drove a car one handed while firing a machine gun to help solve a problem. You have caused what skill are you bringing to this situation? The la. This is the last time I am going to hear you speak about what we are doing unless you are bringing us a better solution. Now shut up and drive the car.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

He's right.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And I was like, yeah, Roman, get him. All he does is talk.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

All he does is complain.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Caused this. Shh. That old man died in the parking lot because of you. Stop blaming Roman and Khalil. What?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

What?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So we get back to the house and Navia's not there because she's hanging out with the ass cop again.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Good for her.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Oh, no, no, no. Navea's not there. That's what I wrote. But the ass cop is Chauncey and another copy are trying to get information about Cassidy because her mom reported her missing. And they know that Cassidy knew Dante. Basically, we. They told.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I'm shocked that Cassidy is actually vanished. Yeah, I'm. I'm sure.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Left town.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I know. I'm shocked in that.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That's the thing that's shocking to me is that she actually vanished. It didn't fuck this up somehow. So far.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. So then next chapter, ish. We're going to meet TNT with Roman to propose this new business idea. The new business idea is purchasing, like a construction company to make a bid on the revitalization work, then using their friendship with the mayor to get it accepted. Okay. And I wrote myself a note here about crab scene. This. This entire business proposal idea. This chapter was so funny to read because they're tnt are eating crabs at their restaurant. They're just sitting there in front of a huge plate of crab legs.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

They got a big bushel.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

They got a big bushel of crab legs. And the whole time that Roman is like making this pitch Torrent, who's the one that always does all the dealing, is using a crab leg. Like you would use a pointer or a pen. He's like, here, sit down. And like, he points to the chair to sit down with the crab leg. He's like, what do you mean? Like, it's just so funny the way that it's described with these crab legs. I just. I just need to point out because I laughed the whole time about the crab legs.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. You know what I think about with crab legs? I think about during the. The. The lockdown part of the pandemic, when we had our stimulus money came in

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

and we bought crab legs.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

We bought crab legs because we were looking online and everyone was like buying seafood with it. And I was like, that is kind of funny.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And So I went and I bought us like a cluster, a couple clusters of crab legs.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, it was incredible.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And we ate them. Yeah, they're really good.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Thank you, Donald Trump, for that crab money.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, it wasn't Donald Trump. Thank you.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He signed it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

No. Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

That's his name was on it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I hate you. It was a direct deposit.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So. Okay. While they're eating these crab legs and he's trying to pitch this idea of a construction company, we find out that someone blew up a trap house. Because after he makes this pitch, which was very tense but promising, one of the guys who is in the trap house that got blown up is in big trouble for not running around the house to see who poured the gasoline or whatever. So Tranquil uses a crab hammer that he's eating with to bludgeon the guy's hand. Its name is Corey. To smithereens. So, like, Roman is like, trying to make this deal and they're like, bring in Corey. Smash, smash mesh. It's insane.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So anyway, they kind of like the idea. They're like, we'll think about it. Right? So next scene, next day, whatever. Roman is asleep and woken up at 2am from a phone call. It's torrent. Giving him the address and telling him to meet him at the farm. Oh, no. Oh, the farm is super scary.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, right?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

You don't want to go to the farm. The farm is the threat.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

The farm is where the dogs are.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So Roman wakes up Dante and is like, listen to me, I am going to the farm. If I do not come back, you must reach out to Khalil and tell him to do plan A. And you and Navia must leave town immediately. Dante starts freaking out and Roman is like, calm down. This is only a safety measure. But. But while they're having this discussion, Navia is standing in the stairs. So she overhears some of it. She doesn't overhear all of it, but she hears some of it. And he. He tries to explain his way out of it, Whatever. He leaves. So we get to the farm. Beep, beep. We drive. And he gets taken to an area of the farm. And there's a big tarp. And under the big tarp, they move the tarp. TNT move the tarp very, like, you know, grandiosely. And under it is Yellow Boy who zip tied and bound to a chair, and he has been ripped apart by dogs. It's super gruesome the way it's described. It's pretty gross, honestly. Anyway, it turns out that Yellow Boy had been meeting with The Ghost Town Boys. That's where he went that night. He went to go meet with the Ghost Town Boys.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Because they were offering him 50k for information on the BBB. So after seeing this horrific display, Torrent is like, I do think I want to get into the construction business.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay. All right.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And we're gonna use a construction company and a demo team. Roman is going to be the fate. He's like, roman, you're gonna be the face of it. I want to see the official books and the real books. And if you fuck us over, you're gonna be next in this chair. We're. Let the dogs eat you.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Got it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And then he's like, okay, D Train and Eddie are gonna get the body

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

into the car because now you got. You gotta burn.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

You gotta burn the body.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, so let me hold. Let me cross off Yellow Boy.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yellow Boy.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay. And dj And Eddie is another name.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Eddie's. Yeah, he's this young guy that's. That's around.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay. And Eddie are the ones I need to know.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay. That's gonna be my chief goons.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

D Train is, I think, the chief of the goonery henchman's.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay. So.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And Eddie's a minion.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He's a minion. Yeah. So we get to the next chapter. We meet a man. Okay. Oh, yeah. So the next chapter opens and we see a man we have never met before at all. His name is Mike. Right, Mike. Mike Handler. He's a nice guy. He goes to church. He coaches Little League. He owns a construction company. He is currently at the local brothel, which is part of a private club. And he's having a great time. He's laying in bed after post coitus. Right.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And the door creaks open and he thinks it's Jessica, but in walks Roman and the Bang Bang twins. And Roman is like, we have an issue. And Mike is like, damn, how much is it going to cost me to make this go away? Because he thinks that he's in the brothel owned by tnt, that they're blackmailing him now to. Because he's at the brothel and they're going to tell his wife or some.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, right.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Roman's like, no, no, that's not what I'm here about. We need you to sign this contract. Signing this contract will transfer 51 ownership of your company, the guardianship construction to JCR Investments, our new investment firm. Once you sign this, we'll be in business together. And our business is about to get very good. And Mike is like, I'm not signing my company over to you. And the Bang Bang twins use a vice grip to pinch his tummy so hard and that he does sign it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

That's the nicest way I could put that.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That is.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

That.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That's. Jesus.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, next chapter, Roman's gonna go meet the mayor, right? He's gonna go meet and try to bribe the mayor into getting him to sign the contract with the city to the new investment company. But. So he sits down. He's in the mayor's office, ba, ba, ba, playing cool. And he tries to, like, start the pitch to the mayor. And the mayor goes, yeah, I already know. I talked to Terrence. I'll get it going. So anyway, that night they meet. He meets with Khalil to discuss strategy. And the new. The new thing Khalil found out is that there's a gun shipment coming in. And what they're gonna do is they're gonna basically steal the gun shipment and blame it on a motorcycle gang from a town over to.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So they can start a war on two fronts and stress the BBB out more.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Get a turf war going.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Got a. Yeah, a war on two friends.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

We all know that a war on two fronts is bad, right? Does the government know that?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I don't think our current government.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

No, they don't know that.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I don't think that we know that. Let me check my phone. Have we invaded Cuba yet?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Probably.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Nope.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So they're gonna stress them out. So then we get to have another meeting with tnt, but this one. Oh, okay. So we get to have another meeting. This one. TNT didn't call. Like, TNT were told there was going to be a meeting. A rich and powerful man in a high tower called this meeting, and we find out that this guy, his name is Shade. The. Basically, the entire descriptor is this is Black Kingpin. Right. This is Kingpin from Daredevil, but is Black Kingpin. His name is Shade.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Got it. So. So Tranquil and Torrent work for Shade.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yes. They act. We find out that there is a guy above them.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay. And he wants to know who Roman is. He's been hearing about Roman doing all this good work with money. Money, magic. So basically, he wants in. So they demand. He demanded that TNT bring Roman in. And so they go to, like, the top of the tie. Highest office building in town. He's got a black turtleneck on. It's like the whole vibe. You know what it is?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Basically, Roman's gonna set up a shell company for Shade, and they're gonna go. They're gonna bully this guy that works in government to cook the books for this new company. And it's gonna be a whole thing, right? Yeah, easy peasy. He's gonna. It's gonna be fine. So he heads home, Roman heads home, and he gets to the house, and here's Dante eating cereal, watching tv, and doing drugs.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Roman has done so much, so much. He's done so very, very, very, very much. And Dante has just been high.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

The entire time.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, we find out.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

At some point, Roman does. Is supposed to go back to Atlanta.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He's supposed to go back to Atlanta. This whole time. He's, like, taking calls from his administrative assistant.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So crazy.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Apparently, we find out. I don't know if he tells Roman this, but we find out.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Remember? Remember Little Glock 9?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. Apparently we find out that Cassidy reached out to Dante and wants to know if she can come home. And Roman is like, oh, he does. He tells him. Dante's like, listen, Cassidy contacted me, and she wants to know if it's okay for her to come home. And Roman is like, I don't know how to explain to you how fucking stupid you two sound. TNT are gonna kill her on site. Then they're gonna find us and feed us to the fucking dog. What do you two idiots not understand about this? And he doesn't say it like this, but I am, because Dante is so annoying.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I will say that ever since you stopped mentioning him for a while, I have been enjoying the story more because Dante is probably the most infuriated character out of any story you've ever read me.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. With that, let's take a little break.

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[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

All right. And we're back. It's been a while since we've been hitting these buttons, so we got to figure them all out together. Okay, so where are we now in the story?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, we're the now in the story. We're following for a moment. Chauncey. Oh, God. The ass cop.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

The cheating cop.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He's stalking their house. Roman's house and their business and trying to, like, take pictures and stuff. And he goes to the crematorium and confronts Roman, and he basically tries to convince Roman to flip on the bbb because he's like, I know you're working for them. I've been tailing you. You're doing something. I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is, but you're doing something with them. And if you flip on them and become an informant, the police will protect you. And then he's like, and if you pay me $25,000 cash, I'll keep your name off the books.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And Roman is like, you are so dumb. Why would I pay you to get me killed? He insults the cop and they leave on very bad terms.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, I get that. I mean, this makes total sense. Yeah. Yeah, I figured Chauncey was a dirty cop from the.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, for sure.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

The.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

The name, like, Chauncey.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Chauncey.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Get out of here.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Get out of here. So at least go by Chuck. So now we're back at the restaurant that TNT owns, and they're in the. Okay, okay. So we're back at the restaurant, okay. And we're in the kitchen. And we're in the kitchen because we're in the walk in the. The huge walk in freezer. And there are two guys tied up on the freezer floor because these are the two guys that were driving the car that got the gun stolen. And now TNT are trying to get information out of them by abusing them. And they're like, no, we saw these guys wearing masks. He's like, they were white guys. And they're like, how do you know they were white if they were in masks? And they're like. They talked white. They had on leather vests. So they're describing white biker gang. Yeah, that's how this is what it looked like to the guys.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

But also, TNT are going to run out of dudes because they keep killing and torturing their own men. Eventually you run out of guys.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

You run out of people in a small town.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, this is. This is Darth Vader syndrome.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Eventually you run out of good generals.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

One of the guy. Oh, so one of the guys, they shoot in the head, and the other guy, they shoot in the back because he tries to run away. So they shoot him in the back. Back.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Door. Okay. So after they murder their guys, Torrent,

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

at this point, they're comically evil.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Torrent is walking away, but he slips on some blood. And that's because he's not wearing serv. Safe certified shoes footwear in the kitchen.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You wrote that in.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I didn't. I didn't even write that in. I just. On my head.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, I know. You just. You needed in there. Yeah. Because if you had been wearing. If you've been wearing Safe steps.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That. Which you could only used to be able to get from Payless.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

They get them at Walmart or online.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, Walmart's where they sell them.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. So he slips a little bit, but he catches himself and he doesn't fall over, but he slips in the blood. Now here's the thing, Eddie. Little Eddie giggles a little because somebody slipped in blood. And that's funny. When you're.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That is funny.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

15.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Eddie's 15.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

15, Eddie. 15 and saw somebody slipping blood.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, no. After watching a murder, this feels bad. If a 15 year old laughs at me, I would be mad too.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. So D Train elbows. Eddie is like, right. Anyway, Torrent grabs a knife and stabs Eddie in the throat a bunch of times. And major overreaction, some might say. So they're all part of the cleanup crew at this point. CNT storm.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So Eddie's dead now, too.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Eddie's dead now, too. Cross them off.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Crossing them all.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Cross them off.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Poor Eddie.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Poor Eddie. The loading the bodies in the van to the crematorium. And D Train is sad. D Train is visibly sad. And we find out, because D Train is talking to Roman, and we find out that he's known Eddie since he was 8 years old. He's friends of the family, and he's like, you know, we live this life. Game is game. Blah, blah, blah. Like, we all know we sign up for when we get in this. But, you know, like, that was up, man. Like, that was. That was up. Like, that's not. That's not supposed to happen, you know?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, that's what child and Roman is

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

like, I feel you. When I was in business school, I learned a quote that a true leader will get you to the top of the mountain and won't push you off when things aren't going well. And D Train looks at him like, what are you fucking. You talking about?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

He hit him with a Hang in there, kitty poster. All right. Yeah. When I was in business school. Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Meanwhile, during all of this, Dante is secretly meeting with Cassidy in a motel outside of town. Okay, Back to Roman. So we don't get too mad. Okay? So then Roman and Nivea get into a fight about all the. These two are doing and. Okay, so here's the Thing the whole time in the background, Navia has gotten information about her mom's disappearance from the cops, using Chauncey as a intro. So she has like, case files and she's doing all this research and she's starting to believe that her dad did kill their mom. Okay, Right. So she has like this whole thing and she's having like.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Her dad is still in a coma.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Her dad is in a coma, okay? She is having an existential crisis because she now believes that her dad murdered their mom. Right? Anyway, they get into this fight. She storms out and drives away about. Because she's starting to put pieces together. She's like, you're hanging out with the bbb, something's going on. Everybody's shot, everybody's dying. What's going on in this world, right? So she storms out and drives away. But she is like such a manic mess that Roman clocks it and is like, I need to follow her because I actually don't trust her to drive. Like she was out of her mind mad. And so he's following her, right? Because she should not be driving now while they're on the road driving. Beep, beep. Roman sees to the side, a car full of guys pull up, side saddle to his sister and they all pull out guns and, like, aim the guns at the car his sister is in. So he presses on the gas and slams into their car, like, pushes the car. She speeds away because she's smart. She immediately clocks it. Because I feel like Dante would have just sat there immediately. I was like, dante wouldn't have driven away.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

No. And then it would have fixed the plot of the book.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So she drives away and of course, then they turn their fire onto him and blow up his father rental car, by the way, and just lace it with bullets. But he survives because he drives away. So he calls Khalil. And when, it's very funny, when he calls Khalil, he says, marcus Aurelius, we have a problem.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Marcus Aurelius, okay?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And he thinks based on what the guys that shot at the car look like, that it was the Ghost Town crew. Because I believe they're like Hispanic or

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Latino guys because they're starting a fight and now Roman's known as one of their guys that the Ghost Town Crew is going to go after the Roman.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So here's the thing, his idea, very similar because it's specifically why were they shooting at Nivea, right? So he's like, chauncey is on this. That cop probably told them that Roman and his sister were informants. Or something. And so the. It has to be Chauncey related because why else would they go after Navia? Cuz Nia, this whole time she's not with a cop anymore and she keeps threatening to go to his wife.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay, that's smart. Yeah, that's okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Listen, guys, we're all making decisions, so.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So Navia might have just been like, like not stupid by proxy just because we haven't been talking about her.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. So Cassidy is texting Dante, Hey, I'm visiting my mom. Yeah. And here's the thing. I need you to know. She's driving Splody's car.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Still so dumb.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

That inconspicuous little hot rod car.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Are you kidding me? So here's the thing.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Come back.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

She. Roman's out here driving around, calling Khalil, freaking out. What the. He sees the Splody car drive by and he's like, khalil, you gotta talk to her. You gotta tell her. You got to make her understand that she needs to leave town. And Khalil's like, what if she won't go? And he's like, then you make her disappear. He makes the call.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. She puts the entire mission at risk.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

She puts the entire. The safety of the fam. Cut to the next scene. We get line cooks heading to their kitchen job. Literally just dudes, aprons, white jackets outside smoking before. Before shift. They're walking into the restaurant, the restaurant that the BBB own, right? And there's a whole hubbub while they're outside smoking because within eyeline of the outside of the back door of the kitchen from the restaurant that they work at that the BBB guys own, right, is Sploddy's car looking like Swiss cheese. It's been shot up so, so much. And one of the guys who's smoking, he's like, oh, the ghost town boys are sending a message. And they're like, yeah, we better get inside so we don't get hit in the crossfire. Got it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Now this inevitably leads to a lot of chaos in these streets. Street fighting. Stores are getting blown up. Trap house is getting blown up because the ghost town boys think they're being attacked. The BBB things are being attacked. Khalil is attacking people. This is insanity on the streets.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, yeah, he's doing CIA. They're running a CIA operation on the owner Richmond suburb.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Meanwhile, they're like, near Quantico. So the CIA themselves, they aren't even noticing because they're just driving by on the highway. That's insane.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, so, okay, so, okay, we get a big flashback chapter. Basically, we find out the truth. The mom did not disappear or abandon the family or run off with a boyfriend. And she did not got. Did not get murdered by the dad in a fit of jealousy. There was an accident. Dante shoved the mom while they were fighting about something dumb. Roman walked in when it had happened. And the mom, when she fell, she hit her head. Dante's crying, trying to wake their mom up. Roman is like, goes and gets the dad. There was an accident. The dad makes them swear to secrecy, that, like, never to say a word about this. He's going to take care of the situation.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And then the dad burned the body.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Exactly. So that the kids wouldn't get in trouble. And so he wouldn't get blamed either. The end. Okay, so we learned the truth.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So the truth is that you should have always killed Dante.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Because everything is Dante's fault.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Wow.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

No, it is.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Dante killed the moment accidentally.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It's fine. It's an accident. But if he had faced justice all the way back then.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Wow.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I'm just saying. He killed the fucking mom and the dad burned the body. And that created this inevitable trauma where this guy has to go get whipped in the back by a lady named Miss Delicate.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

You just wanted to talk about her again.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I needed to mention her.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman is pissed because he's on his way to have a meeting. Is pissed. But he's also on his way to have a meeting with Shade to discuss cryptocurrency.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I love this.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

All right, because they're gonna do crypto account with this shell company. I don't know. So Roman calls Chauncey and he's like, listen, you were right. I'm in over my head. I will wear a wire or do a setup in person. Whatever. I'm gonna pay you the $25,000 to keep my name out of any information. But I'll be an informant, Right? Chauncey is like, bet because he's mad. His wife just filed for divorce.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He's like, I need the money. He's sleeping on his sister's couch or some. And he's like, I need money. Absolutely. Meet me at the tobacco factory at 9. So there's an abandoned tobacco factory in this town? Of course. So next shot, we go to the restaurant where Roman is talking to T and T about the Ghost Town Crew. And he's saying that the Ghost Town crew came to the crematory. Crematorium to proposition me. They heard that I was making y' all good money and they Offered me a bigger percentage if I was to come help them. And Torrin is like, why the fuck are you telling me you should have just said no to them? And he's like, if I would have said no to them. And the word got back that they came to me, but I didn't come tell you that they came to me. You're going to kill me. So I have to tell you they came to me. Duh. He's like, yeah, you're right. So they're like. He's like, I. I have their contact. We should set up a meeting. And he's like, absolutely. Let's meet up at the old tobacco warehouse at 9, because we're planning an ambush, baby. We're doing an ambush. Okay. So across town, across town, Dante has gotten a gun from his friend Tug. I didn't bring up Tug. Tug has a flop house. That's where Dante goes to use drugs. Tug gives him a gun. Now he is. Now we cut to Dante, who's walking into an auto body shop outside of town. He's walking up to the audio body shop and he's screaming, holding a gun. And he says, ernesto Salazar here for you. Get out here, motherfucker. And then there's a bunch of gunfire. End scene. Because Dante believes that Ernesto Salazar and the Ghost Boys killed Cassidy. Because that's what the streets are saying.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Cuz he's so fucking stupid.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Okay, so let's go back to the.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Because he's so fucking dumb. He's the worst character ever written.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So we're at the tobacco warehouse.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I mean, it makes sense they wouldn't tell him because would you trust. Can't tell him anything. But he's so fucking stupid. And he's so high all the time.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That he cannot put one on one together.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

No, I know.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

He's so fucking dumb.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I know.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh my God.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So they get to the tobacco warehouse a little early. Like 30 minutes early right now. The whole crew's there. D Train, Tank, Corey, the Bang Bang Twins. I just like saying the Bang Bang twins.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I know you do.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So. And the whole time we have like inner monologue.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Every time you say Bang Bang Twins, I picture the Bludgeon brothers from wwe.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I think of Bang Bang Shrimp.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So the. The whole time we have internal monologue for Roman that he's hoping that Chauncey has the sense to be hidden somewhere very fucking unnoticeable possible within this warehouse. Right. And this is when Torrent is like, I was just beginning to like you, smart boy. And that's When Roman notices that everybody's standing on one side of the room and he's standing on the other side of the room, right? And out of the shadows comes Chauncey, the cop double crossed him. Oh, the cop is still pissed at Navia breaking up his marriage. And also we find out.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Wait, okay, got it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

All right.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

This is her fault, obviously. So we also find out that he's been suspended from work for moral violations with a meter maid. Anyway, he has a lot of issues going on. In a last ditch effort to save his ass, he's like, Roman is like, does Shade know about this? Because I'm making him money too. He's going to be pissed. And Tranquil is like, he'll get the fuck over it because again, he's working for Shade with this like cryptocurrency baba by thing.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I was like, this is a decent point. This is a decent point. Did you get permission from Shade?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. Did you ask your regional manager?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So here's the thing. No matter how bad of guys they are, TNT are not going to kill someone in front of a cop, right?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So they motion to D Train and he pulls out his gun and points it right at Roman's head. Right. Tank, Corey, the Bang Bang twins, they all pull out their guns. Everybody's aiming guns at Roman, Right. It's a firing squad. And honestly, honestly, all things considered, this is the nicest way to go out in this book. Yes, there were a lot of gruesome murders. Yeah, gruesome firing squad. Not too bad. In this book.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

In this book.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

In this book.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Real life. Very bad. Okay, so Torrent is like, nighty night. Do it. Which, honestly. Okay. Evil villain. Okay. And in that moment, all the guys turn and point their guns at Tranquil and Torrent. That's right. Torrent screens expletives that I cannot say. But it's very like, what the. Right? And Roman speaks up at this moment and he's like, D Train, how much money did I put in your account? And D train is like 100 grand plus. Set me up with an IRA. And then he's like. Roman's like, Corey. And he's like, 78,000. And he got me and my mom invested in a motherfucking mutual fund. And then Roman's like, how you doing, Tank man? Homie got me a deal with Shade. Got enough to put my niece in a on a four year ride to Prospect State.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

This is incredible.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And then the Bang Bang twins go. He didn't have to acknowledge them, they just Go. We got enough to buy a bar. Richmond. And we got in on that mutual fund, too.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

He's just been paying everyone off the whole time.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So Torrent screams like, if you think this is out, we're fucking going down. We're not going down like this, bubba. If you want to talk about Shade, Shade is never gonna let this slide. And Tranquil again. Silently standing there is like he got permission. And Roman's like, yup. He said, whatever it takes. Make it look clean. And Roman said. So Roman gets his little monologue here. He's like, you tried to kill my daddy, my brother, me. You made me lower myself to your level and wallow in the mud until I didn't even know if I'd ever be clean again. But now we balance the books, all debts are paid. And Tranquil is like this and pulls his gun. But one of the bang bang twins fires right into him first. And then they all fire, right? TNT lay crumpled on the floor. Torrent is still coughing. He's like you. It's like blood's coming out of his mouth. And Roman pulls out his gun and gets really close to Torrent's face and ear. And he whispers in his ear, no one will miss you. They ain't even gonna put you on a T shirt. And he fires the final shot in his head.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Not even on a T shirt is a crazy bar.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Not on it. You're not even gonna be on a T shirt is crazy. You're not getting the gilded. You're not getting the Gildan. What? Anyway, so now that happens, Chauncey the cop, standing here befuddled.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Chauncey just watched a gang execution.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And he's like, whoa, we can work something out, guys we can wear. You don't want to shoot a cop. Not with that gun. Not that gun. And Roman's like, you're right, not with this gun. But then he holds up his left hand and points down and a silent bullet whizzes through the warehouse and takes the cop out right through the dome. The other dudes are like, yo, what the fuck? Where'd that come from? And Roman's like, my insurance agent.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

What the fuck? Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So they clean up the scene and pack up the bodies. They put Chauncey back into his car and cover the inside of the car, which. With a bunch of cash and cocaine set up. Bitch, you don't have to explain shit. A bullet wound and cash and cocaine.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

He's in the middle of it. He's in the middle of a divorce. He's been put on the side.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He's already been suspended.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, man.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Pretty clean.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That's. That's crazy.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

You had a lot to play. Cleo's really good at planning.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, I could tell.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Oh, okay. And then, like, there's this whole thing about Roman, like, asked D Train to re home all the dogs on the farm. And I was like, listen, D Train, no, no.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

They ended up in Philadelphia. The SPCA being handed out to white women who cannot pull them.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Not even the bravest of white women in the inner city should be handling these dogs. No, These dogs are eating legs. I didn't even get into it, it was so gruesome. But these dogs were eating people.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

These are not dogs that you take to the spca, Roman.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. Nobody.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Like, the dog likes babies. No. Anyway, next scene, we're back at the house.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Roman's back at the house, and there's no one there. Nivea is out in a lady brick. Nivea is, at this point, I think she just went to, like, a vineyard. She's like, I need a break. Yeah, good honor. And Dante. Oh. So he gets back to the house, and if he is out on a break and Dante's not there because Roman assumes he's out using, right. His cell phone rings, and he doesn't recognize the answer, but he answers it because his lifestyle right now, he just.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, I forgot.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

It's the medical examiner's office. He needs to come downtown to identify the body of his brother. Mother. So now Roman calls Nivea and he's like, you have to come home. And she's like, what? What happened to Daddy? And he's like, it's not that. You need to come home. She gets back, Roman tells her what happened. They both scream, cry, throw up. They both basically disappear into booze and. And stuff for, like, 48 hours. Roman checks back in with Nivea, and she's sitting at the kitchen table. Kitchen table. And she's like, I tried to call you. And she's like, pops died last night of an aneurysm. Her. It's, like, described that, like, her eyes are wild, but she's stone face. And, like, they're both, like, just so out of it. Yeah, just, like, sadness and guilt and, like, all the feelings. Right. And it comes out that again, this whole time, Navia thinks that her dad killed her mom. Right. And she is going to discover that that is not the case.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

But she may or may not have slipped their dad aspirin to end his life, because, like, I guess whatever Drugs. He was on aspirin would have, like, caused an aneurysm because she didn't want to care for him, like, in his state. And she was mad that he.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

He killed her.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Killed them.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

In her mind.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah, in her mind. So then Roman has to get honest with her about what happened, blah, blah, blah. Like, and then there's more screaming, crying, throwing up. They part ways. The family is irrevocably broken. She leaves. She's like, the business is yours. I'm leaving town forever. Goodbye. Right. Like, everybody's dead. This is over.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

There's no bringing this back. So. Finale of the book.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Finale of the book.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

We're at the crematorium, huh? All the guys are here with Roman. He's explaining to them how things are going to work. D train is in charge until he gets back from Atlanta. He has to go back up to tie some deals because. What's his name again? Little Glock 9 got in this some problems. He made a bad investment. He's got to go back up there and fix it.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Okay.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He gave somebody like a million dollars in crypto, and it's a whole thing.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So he's got to go up to Atlanta to help little black nine. But from now on, the bbb, who Roman is in charge of now, isn't going to be low level. They're going legit. They. They have cleared a path, and from this point forward, they're not doing any of this old. But at the same time, he picks up a box on the floor and he opens it, and here's the head of Ernesto. So he's still doing the. The.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah, well, he killed his brother.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He killed his brother, so he had to get him. Jealousy shows up. She's like, knock, knock, knock. I came to visit you. And she's wondering, hey, Roman, have you seen my brothers? And he's like, babe, I'm in the middle of giving my new evil villain kingpin speech. Can you go wait in the lobby of the crematorium? I'll be right with you. Thank you so much. Love you, babes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And so she goes to the waiting area, right? And he's. He's still having his discussion with the guys, but the actual final scene is she's in the waiting area, but she can see in through, like, the. The doors. Like, there's a window and the doorway. And she's looking at him in front of the guys, contemplating a life with him with her. King of ashes as she nervously rubs her stomach because she's late and she's Never been late.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Wow.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

He got up in there of Ashes. He became the thing he never wanted to be.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. And she's pregnant with the Prince of Ashes.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Whoa.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Oh, wait. I have a button for that. There we go. I could have been hitting buttons the entire time.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

The King of Ashes.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You know what's wild? This whole book.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Was about an undertaker,

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

and you didn't use the button once.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I was so mad at Dante.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That's the thing. I was so mad at Dante.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Think about the buttons. Until Dante passed away.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I'm. I'm. I knew he was going to die. I didn't know it was going to be that stupid.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. So dumb.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So dumb.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

So dumb.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

So dumb the entire time. Well, that was the book that was

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

very entertaining to read.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You definitely reported a story to me.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I'm taking it from this one that you did not like this book.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

No, I did. I like the ending of it, and I like some of the beginning. I think there are characters that I don't like. Any character that is so intentionally stupid that has to actually abandon all logic to the point where there's nothing left. It is. There was a certain point in there where I thought of Dante the same way as I think of Trump voting soybean farmers.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Oh, yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Where I'm just like, you. Like, that's on you then.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Like the only. Like. Like, at this point, I'm listening for a plot for how the people who didn't around don't have to find out.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Because there was a whole section here where I'm like, yeah, you around. You need to find out. And there was no him finding out.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

No, he never found.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

He never found out. Even in. To his death.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah. He never truly.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

He never truly finds out. And then Navia, I felt bad for. Because everyone's, like, keeping her to the side, you know, and just. It's interesting. I thought. I thought it was neat. I. There were some other sides in there.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Here's the thing I liked about it. And this is the thing that like to like and not like at the same time.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Is sometimes reading a book of all unlikable characters where everyone is unlikable. Everything is bad. Bad. It's. It's still like a form of entertainment. Like, and there's like a catharsis and being like. It's like when people like. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a TV show that I have watched some of, but I cannot watch like a lot of episodes in a row or the Office because I don't like when mean people are being mean and bad people are being bad for too long. I can take it in little chunks.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

And so, like, this book was just like a little dive into bad people being bad. But it was really.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Well, but the thing is. But the thing is, though, is, like, Roman and Khalil are not necessarily bad. I know that. They are. They are. They're more or less like henchmen who are stepping up because he's. He's basically a money launderer.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And Khalil is basically a cleaner. Yeah. In that. But, like, they have a code. They're not stupid.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

And I. I don't mind bad people being bad. I mean, stupid people being stupid.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

To the point where, like, some of the things Dante was doing had to happen to move forward the plot in certain areas.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

But I'm like, you could move forward the plot in a different way. And he was just so frustrating.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

It's when someone does something as dumb as Dante, by the third stupid thing he did, I'm like, well, now you shoot him.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Or like, you cut him off, you know, or you push him out to say, what.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

What if we went to the store and we got you a bottle of hypnotic to take the edge off?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I would. I do need a bottle of hypnotic. This episode is brought to you by Hypnotic. Hypnotic. Get fucked up. It was part of crunking.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

What?

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

When people used to crunk.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Oh, right.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. Hypnotic and crunk was, like, pretty close

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

to what a time we lived.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

I miss. I miss color liqueurs. You know what I mean?

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

With fun drinks.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Just. Just, like, with, you know, now they're like, oh, Red 5 will kill you.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I'm like, no, the cocaine was going to kill me first.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

Yeah. But now there's fentanyl in it. But then back then, though, it's like you would look at a drink and they're like, yeah, this is. This has chemicals in it.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

You're like, oh, wow.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

But listen, that was my story report.

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

That was your story report.

[Co-host 2 (possibly female, referred to as Mrs. P)]

I hope everybody had a good time listening. I hope everybody you a tale, and

[Co-host 1 (possibly male)]

you will have another tale at some point in the future. We don't know when that is, but I'm gonna now play the full theme again because we enjoy it. Here we go, guys. Have a good one. We'll see you on Sunday with a whole new episode of Too Many Tabs. Too Many Frauds and Too Many Scammers that We Wish Weren't Real. Too Many Cons and Too Many Spammers. And we're starting to feel like we've got too many tabs. Open it too many times, remember to smile.