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Hello. I am Jesse David Fox, Senior

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writer at Vulture, host of Good One, a

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podcast about jokes. We are so excited

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to welcome Chelsea Pretti to Vulture Festival.

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You know Chelsea, of course from Brooklyn

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ninet nine and she also made her feature debut

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this year with her film first time

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female director. The team at Vulture,

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and in particular is so excited that Chelsea.

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Now she is bringing back her podcast called Chelsea

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Parretti and today

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You're lucky you have her and some

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friends will be doing a live episode taping today,

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so you are at a podcast. Chelsea

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is joined by her theater group Pacific Playwrights

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Horizons, who will be reading an excerpt from

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her new work Thatcher Island. Afterwards,

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they'll be an extremely serious Q and A, so

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please prepare your questions. So, without

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further ado, put your hands together for Chelsea Parretti.

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I am so honored to be here tonight

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as part of Vulture's Playwrights Horizons

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pro. Over

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eight thousand playwrights submit their work

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each year and Vultures panel

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of judges only select one single

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winner, and

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the panel is just Jesse David

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Fox. Anyway,

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I won, and I feel incredibly fortunate

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to be so good at writing plays. Due

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to my writing abilities, I was able to procure

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funding from a variety of grants, the

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Cherry Lane Theater, Pop Cherry

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Perfect New Playwright Grant, the

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Netflix and chill Sea Peretti

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Grant, and The Icing

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on the Cake was a second Yale

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School of Drama honorary degree.

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I also got one for my Playrains Coming

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In and I also

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got into Harvard. I'll

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be thank you. I'll be attending

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in the fall. I

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am so excited to share with you tonight

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a piece of a piece of my

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second play, a nineteen hundred's

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maritime drama entitled Thatcher

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Island, which is a real place.

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There's maps printed under your seat.

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You can refer to those throughout. This

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is about a family lost at sea,

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but it's about all of us. It's about

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dreams, goals, love, resentment,

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adelation, bitterness, jealousy,

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addiction, desire, boredom, intimacy,

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and boding. I

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hope you will see yourself in this play, and

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that it will hold a mirror right up to your face

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to show you your own foibles and

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shame you. This

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is a work in progress, so I thank you all for

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being a part of the genesis and evolution.

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I am still taking critiques on the play and listening

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to feedback. Part of the deal with

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my interlocking grants and funding is

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that I am lucky enough to receive weekly

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critiques, which have been anything

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ranging from this is a master work, but pace

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it up to this play is

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tirelessly meandering. And there's

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also been some negative ones. People

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have said, what is the point, I

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don't get any message from this, etc. So

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if you have any kinds of thoughts, please hold on to

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them right up here. Okay,

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because there will be a Q and A with myself and

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my talented group of actors after

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we read a portion from the play. Challenge

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us as we hope to challenge

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you. This Q and A isn't

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limited to writing, please, My actors

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welcome questions about how they approach

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a scene,

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how they interpret text and

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subtext, how they build a character

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right on down to favorite snacks, and do

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they get along with their spouse or are they single?

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Now they haven't read this new draft yet,

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but they're good at cold reads.

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Without further I would love to bring

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out my actors. Are you ready

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for a great read? Please

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applaud after each name equally for

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the part of William, Jonathan

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Early for

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the part of the stranger, Caitlin

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Olsen, and

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last, but certainly not least, someone

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who has incredible theatrical training.

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She was telling us in the green room,

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Miss Zosha Rockmore and

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I will be playing the part of Mother. Oh.

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Also, Diana

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is going to be reading our stage directions,

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a crucial and important and

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valuable role that should be recognized

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with a hearty intro. Okay,

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we're beginning. Thatcher

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Island a play by Chelsea Peretti.

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Cast

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of characters Mother, a

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weathered fisherwoman, William

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her Son, a young man with big dreams,

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Stranger a mysterious newcomer,

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Margaret an enterprising

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seafarer. Setting

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Thatcher Island one mile off the

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coast of Massachusetts. This is

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a real place. Production

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notes. There will be lots of thematic

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lighting, sounds of waves, crashing

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wind, and fans blowing the actor's hair around

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like crazy. The ac will be

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set really cold to simulate wintry

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islands. Subconsciously, the

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island is rugged and barren, large hunks

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of rock and weathered wood. A few useless

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items like sea glass dot

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the stage. Two lighthouses

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flank the set glowing mightily acknowledgments.

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The author would like to thank various people

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for their support and encouragement. Act

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one, Scene one,

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Thatcher Island, Rockport,

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early nineteen hundreds. The

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winds furiously blow the ice white

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hair of Marlene Matlin, sixties,

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weathered and gritty, with a splash

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of vitality shining in her eyes. She

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stands at the stage at

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the edge of a barren island near

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one lighthouse, with a second

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lighthouse in the near distance. She

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holds a lantern and stares out at the rough

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seas to a seagull

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perched on a rock beside her. Misery

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me, Silver, I

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got a bad feeling deep down

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in my gut rough

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seas. I guess that's

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why you're here with me, isn't it, Old

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sky Rat? Not

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so brave in these deep westerly

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and northwesterly winter winds anymore?

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Since the wing injury you sustained

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to January's back, are you? I

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thought, surely that'd be the end of you. A

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rare thing. You are a rare

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thing, pulling a fragment

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of a mirror out of her pocket or

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maybe behind the rare thing talking

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to myself like a loon here

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at the footpath to an icy chasm

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that sucks man and boat alike

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straight down, as if into the churning

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core of the earth. Looking out

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at water and holding a lantern to cease,

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you'd be dark soon, silver, pitch

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black, with only the moon

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shimmering on the frothy spit up

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of the waves, smashing together every

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which way like new lovers. And

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where is my son, well,

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mysn out

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there somewhere

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without me, me the

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center of his soul. Mother

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crumples to her knees. Boy,

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you make it back, and we will get

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off this island. I swear

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to God been

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marooned here, high and dry

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for near fifteen years, as

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reflected by the notches in the grizzl

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old tree by the lighthouse. Ain't there right?

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Silver? And you fell

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from your nest the very first day we arrived.

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And we can for each other, didn't we? Silver?

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But A seagull's lifespan in the wild

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tops out at twenty years It

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tops out of twenty years, old friend,

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I hope you'll go the distance for

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my sake. A stranger's

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voice appears out of nowhere. Oh hi,

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oh hi, there land ho moderation

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a strange voice, what

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what? Sorry,

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I'm down the bank, approaching tempest

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almost took me out. Wolf a

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rocky barren land ow

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any port in a storm, I suppose, Well,

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it certainly hasn't been fair winds and

10:02

following seas. I'll give you that. Miss.

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Here, take you this blanket. It

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was for my son. But oh yep. The

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stranger hastily grabs the blanket and wraps

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it around her entire bar A blanket, by

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jove, A blanket? Am I dreaming?

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Hallucinating? Or

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are you one of Neptune's wooden

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angels come to life? Is this real?

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This wooden blanket is so wom

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oh inconceivably

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so? After them frosty gales,

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the warmth of a blanket feels like being a

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finger fucked by Adonis, the love

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God himself. Pardon my French, miss,

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We're all sailors here, madam.

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Here, take this thermos of Dutch

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courage. Made it for my son long

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lost at see. I'm

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guessing a sip of this so feel like a Donnas

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smacking your g spot with his rock

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hard dong while Aphrodite

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flicks your no hm

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hm no oh,

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hot spitting monkey. If I'm it you're not that far

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off, good lady. A

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few chugs of that and I find my constitution

11:13

not only revived, but also a smidge

11:15

juice. You

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know, I always wondered as a mariner, if

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my luck ran out out there, would

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I speak to God? Would I restore

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that unshakable faith of my youth? The

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answer is yes. I

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sang gospel for hours, riding waves

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like I was on a roller coaster at a state fair.

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Sadly I only know one gospel

11:36

song, so it was hell. Ironically,

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I speaking of irony, I sing your boy, what

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my son? You're positively

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implanted in his blanket, yet failed

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to mention you've spied him.

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I thought you were a friend, but perhaps you are

11:53

foe or satanic phantom.

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How can I be sure I haven't lost my

11:58

mind without him? How

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is he? Oh? He's

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out there right,

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Yes that I know, generally speaking.

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Well, I don't have a compass on me. You

12:15

know, I saw him hours ago, days Maybe I

12:17

don't know. I love last track of time. I measure

12:19

time now in currents, winds,

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darkness. I saw your

12:24

boy bobbing in the flotsam and jetsam,

12:27

clinging for his life to a fragment of a ship,

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bright red and in gold, riding

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it said the word luck on

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it. Ah.

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I don't know. I imagine that the wretched irony

12:41

luck in such fine gold print

12:43

on a battered remnant of a ship, and

12:45

in the clasp of the most wretched creature

12:47

imaginable to boot. He built

12:50

that ship, learned

12:52

to make paint from dirt rocks and soil

12:55

ochre mixed for seawater and ground

12:58

up leaves and grasses. The

13:00

gold was made from one of my old bracelets,

13:05

And like a fool, he chose the word luck.

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Ah.

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How did he appear? Was he in good enough

13:16

health considering his circumstances? Ah,

13:24

he was an apparition, wind

13:26

whipped and sunburned, swollen. He

13:28

was grotesque, purple

13:30

blue and green with

13:33

yellow puss. Wildly.

13:35

I did wave my hands, shouting you

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there, oh, maybe hello

13:41

boy? Can you hear me? Swabi

13:44

you who? Boy?

13:47

And he didn't say a

13:49

word nah. When

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he next bobbed. At last, his visage turned

13:54

straight toward me, straight as the crow flies.

13:56

And well

13:59

he was either winking me or what

14:02

well? Or one of his eyes was clear gone

14:05

No, no, he

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had to be winking. Most likely maybe

14:11

got saltwater in his eye or

14:13

a bit of sand, so it was just closed to kind of

14:15

protect it from further damage. Miss

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How did you manage to come ashore when my

14:20

boy was so horribly whirling about

14:22

in the vomited seas. You

14:26

likely won't believe this, but

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I was carried upward on the back of a

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sweet, sturdy walrus,

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And when I began to sink, I

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felt him or her or them

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a walrus, a walrus

14:43

pushing me up to the surface of the water, nudging

14:45

me up to the light, lifting guiding

14:49

by my rear end. You

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know, my buttock area right

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above my hamstring but below my lower

14:59

back kind

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of curves outward and two muscular

15:03

bulges, and then there's like a shadowy inwardly

15:05

turned hole between them where the old food

15:08

comes out. It doesn't smell great,

15:10

but it does the trick the butt Yes, I know

15:12

the butter carriers. Well, that sacred

15:15

benevolent walrus he hoisted Heshi,

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They hoisted me to where I sit.

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Before you want it treacherous,

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such a island only

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island with two lighthouses, An's

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eyes as they're known,

15:31

and heed Ann's eyes, Or is it the

15:33

only pair of lighthouses with

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one island.

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Maybe it should be

15:41

called Anne's face shape.

15:44

Focus on the island part not

15:49

guess it depends on your point of view. Yeah,

15:51

this has been fun, but god, I miss my

15:53

son right right,

15:56

dark seas, I tell you, dark

15:58

seas. Indeed, William

16:00

appears, shivering and squinting. Mother

16:03

rushes town my brushious, William, how

16:05

long have you been standing here?

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An incredibly long drawn out time

16:13

bearing witness to an excruciating

16:15

dialogue full of tedious minutia.

16:19

And I won't mince words. It's cold enough

16:21

out there to freeze the balls off

16:23

a brass monkey. Miss, I

16:25

need the blanket back, now, here's son. Mother

16:27

takes the blanket off the stranger and wraps it around

16:29

her. William, Oh, oh,

16:32

losing that blanket feels like getting kept in the

16:34

teeth by a donkey the while I see

16:36

snake burrows in your ass. I

16:39

love that expression. But blood

16:41

is thicker than water, miss, and thus

16:43

it is rightfully William's blanket.

16:46

It's a little wet,

16:49

like there's literal drips coming off it's him.

16:52

Oh, I feel terrible. Well,

16:54

we didn't know if you would make it. I knew you would.

16:56

I tried to tell her, but she kind of grabbed

16:59

it. I mean, you know, it's

17:01

better than nothing, but it's definitely damp,

17:05

intangibly used. Oh

17:07

man, oh man, starting to feel super guilty

17:09

in addition to freezing cold. Want

17:12

this thermosa groad. There's still a sip or

17:14

two left. Thanks, I'll have a sip.

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Thanks so much. Hmm he SIPs

17:21

awkward silence. Mm.

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It's funny. Might not have made

17:29

it if there hadn't been of let

17:32

me go back. It's funny.

17:35

I might not have made it if there

17:37

hadn't have been two lighthouses. You

17:39

really start to understand the beauty of the whole

17:42

two lighthouse system out at sea,

17:46

how so well as they're bobbing

17:48

around as well as you're bobbing

17:51

around, vomiting and being thrashed

17:53

by the waves. You try to study your

17:55

dizzy brain by training your eyes

17:57

on the land aka hope

18:00

and survival. As the fog

18:02

shifts and obscures one of the lighthouses

18:05

let's call it Lighthouse A, then

18:08

boom, lighthouse B comes into

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play. Well, God

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bless this tiny eccentric island with two

18:15

lighthouses. Miraculous

18:17

to have my feet back in the dirt firmly

18:19

planted between them. Amen, Hey,

18:22

should we share the blanket? I think we effectively

18:25

are sharing because you had a turn

18:27

and now I'm having a turn. Been

18:30

meaning to ask about that eye? Will you

18:32

you winking at me? Son? I

18:35

suppose you could call it an internal

18:37

wink? Mother, My eye

18:39

is out there somewhere in the claws

18:42

of a crab, or jaws of a shark,

18:44

or impaled on the spine of a sea urchin,

18:46

or rolling like a marble in the dark belly of

18:48

a frogfish. Or maybe, hey, do

18:51

you not recall precisely what happened

18:53

to your eye? I was in and out

18:55

of consciousness. God love me. I

18:57

remember things and flashes the

19:00

truth. I wish I could unsee what I did

19:02

see with my one remaining eye. Flash

19:05

unimaginable swells, dredging of

19:07

hungry, thirsty creatures from the sea's

19:09

core, Flash gnashing

19:11

their teeth and flapping their slimy, poisoned

19:14

fans, flash poking their

19:16

paralyzing stingers inches from my face

19:18

and mouth, flash slapping their sand

19:20

paper skin, cross my cowsm mellion

19:23

and the flies. Ah, and

19:25

like some sicktiment to joke, the entire

19:27

time I was out there, I was clinging to a tiny

19:30

burn splintered off shard of flotsam

19:32

with the word luck painted

19:35

on it. The

19:37

word luck mocking me as if I was tossed,

19:40

as I was tossed fifteen feet into the

19:42

air by a whale's blow hole, literally

19:45

breaking every single bone

19:47

on the way down. Luck. The

19:52

irony of the word luck

19:55

on the wood might

19:57

have been yuck or suck, but

19:59

not what luck. She

20:02

also mentioned the irony of that what's

20:04

your name, miss Vagina

20:07

Jenkins? I'm sorry, what pardon?

20:09

What is it? My name is Vagina

20:12

Rosemary Jenkins most

20:15

unusual. I used to

20:17

love rosemary before

20:20

I got marooned here pregnant on

20:23

this island. Rosemary is

20:25

one of my favorite seasonings. Hypothetically

20:28

speaking, I've obviously never had it, only

20:31

heard tell for mother in all

20:33

her stories about the life she used to know.

20:36

I always wondered if one of the lighthouses could

20:38

be used by used to somehow shelter

20:40

and grow plants, But I never

20:42

got much further than that. No,

20:45

no seeds. I suppose they would be crucial

20:47

to the enterprise. I

20:49

bet it could work with seeds

20:52

and soil, and I sell

20:55

both have a bunch of little packets

20:58

back at the Margaret No, you're early? No? Who

21:00

is Margaret? Mother? A

21:02

land lover with clean clothes, unrotted

21:05

teeth, and shiny clear skin. Very

21:07

casually addressing you as an acquaintance. Make

21:09

it make sense before I scream too late.

21:14

Yes, I'm a little lost. Are you also shipwrecked?

21:17

Miss? I'm a mermaid. I'm

21:21

kidding, though the answer

21:23

may sound as bizarre as the joke. For

21:26

many moons now, I come in the dead of

21:28

night to take Miss Carlton a mile over

21:30

to the mainland to get some toiletries

21:32

and odds and ins veg snacks,

21:35

books, fresh rosemary sprigs.

21:38

Even I've been doing this once a

21:40

week for I don't know a decade

21:42

at least. She struggles with insomnia,

21:45

so she likes to make the journey, as she says,

21:47

and the darkest portion of the night. Though

21:50

this is the first I know of a sun or

21:53

anyone else on this island. I thought she was

21:55

alone here. Mother.

21:58

It's not how it sounds. There

22:00

seems like it's how it sounds. Oh hush, Vagina,

22:04

what kind of ridiculous name is that? No one's

22:06

buying it. It's real, and

22:08

it sounds like you really duped your own child. Mother,

22:12

You're a crooked stick. And I don't care if I

22:14

wake snakes to tell you. If

22:18

what I think is fucking happening is actually fucking

22:20

happening, I will throw you in a lighthouse, stuck

22:23

hate and lock the door. So help me trying.

22:27

Me and Vagina will hop on Margaret's water

22:29

taxi and make the old heave ho and let you perish.

22:32

And every time I look at that pair of lighthouses,

22:34

I will spit twice in the direction of that's

22:36

your island. So tell me, mother,

22:39

have you been buying to me that

22:42

we are stuck here? And what's more, have you been

22:44

hiding rations from

22:46

me to the point where I built a derelic

22:49

ship and set sail in search of a

22:51

better life for both of us, ultimately

22:54

losing an eye. Because

22:57

it sounds an awful like that is precisely

22:59

what happened. You

23:01

know what, Sorry,

23:04

I h I misspoke.

23:08

This is actually my first time on

23:11

this island. I got lost. I

23:14

was basically adrift, came

23:16

a deck here for no real reason. I'm

23:19

bad at boating. You see, the

23:21

lady there looked like a

23:23

different one. I know, I got confused from

23:26

the cold airth Sweet

23:29

Margaret and sweet

23:32

sweet Vagina caught

23:35

in the crossfire of a lying sneak

23:37

old sea hag and her beautiful chiseled,

23:39

perfect haired, flush cheeked, cum one

23:41

eyed son sea devil speak.

23:45

Wait, what is that coming out of the water? Nice?

23:47

Try mother, I'm not even looking,

23:50

Margaret. Is there something there? Mother

23:52

shoots a look at Margaret. Looks like there

23:55

could be Like there's

23:58

a little blurry shape. I can't

24:00

tell if it's a bubble or or it could be

24:02

like a rock or a wave, or

24:04

a feather or sea bird.

24:07

Margaret, Enough of your ridiculous and transparent

24:09

attempts at collaborative perjury.

24:13

Vagina, do you see anything? Mother

24:15

swivels and stares daggers at Vagina.

24:23

Mother, you're up, tell us

24:26

all what you have done? All right? I

24:28

did it. I did secretly

24:30

lie to my son, for I did want to live

24:33

with him alone in peace. Is

24:35

that so wrong to love

24:37

your son and not want him exposed

24:40

to the evils of mankind? The

24:42

bar fights, the abusing

24:44

of women, the schoolyard

24:47

taunting, the hierarchies, the

24:49

battles. I wanted to keep

24:51

him tucked safely away, safely

24:57

to keep him in nature with me,

25:00

with only love and no hate, no ills

25:02

of the world. I'd like

25:04

to taste some ills of the world. I'm

25:07

a man. Cigarettes

25:10

and cocktails, prostitutes and fried

25:12

foods. I want cup links

25:14

and custards, and to ride

25:16

a horse at full gallop. I want

25:18

a pet dog. I wanna

25:21

be tossed in the clink after a night of

25:23

obscene drinking. Whiskey and

25:25

scotch and brandy and bourbon,

25:27

a vaudeville's show, amusement

25:30

parks, arcades, dance halls, ice

25:32

skating. It's all my right,

25:35

and you took it from me. Very

25:38

compelling when I held

25:40

you what I held you

25:42

as a baby, and looked into your eyes,

25:45

and I put you to my breast, and I thought, I

25:48

don't want anything, anything

25:50

at all, to ever come between our tranquility.

25:53

Look around, mother, there

25:55

are two lighthouses on this aisle,

25:58

not for punsies, but to market

26:00

as a particularly dangerous location,

26:03

as if on cue. Winds whipped violently,

26:06

and lightning lights of the sky thunder

26:08

followers. Look around you, damn woman.

26:11

See how the wind upturns

26:13

the sticks and rocks and grasses gaze

26:16

upon the condition of silver's wing twisted

26:19

and combusted from simply trying to fly

26:21

here above thatcher island, Thatcher's

26:23

Whoa they call it. And you're

26:26

the one who told me that bit of lore. William,

26:28

I promise you I see those things.

26:31

I'm not trying to turn a blind

26:33

eye. I'm sorry. I didn't

26:36

mean to say that. I

26:38

didn't mean to say that, like I not. I

26:41

Ah, well a, I

26:44

wouldn't have brought you here if I hadn't

26:46

seen far more dastardly things

26:48

on that distant land. Your

26:53

father was

26:55

a bad man, Oh, don't

26:57

play. Your father was a bad man, card

27:00

not when my mother was you.

27:07

But oh, how shameful it must it

27:09

be to sin at such a great degree.

27:12

You deeply disturbed Wench wench

27:18

to think I might have died a virgin.

27:23

Okay, well,

27:26

I'm going to pull the boat around off the rocks.

27:28

I can see she's getting beat about. I'll

27:31

tidy your up, light some candles

27:33

and things like that. I'll leave you all

27:36

to your family business. Here cheerio.

27:38

Stop. She pulls out a tiny pistol.

27:44

You're right, miss, my name

27:46

isn't Vagina, very

27:49

astute, I'm a pirate.

27:52

It was a fictitional name, so

27:56

when I high tail it out of here, you'll never find

27:58

me. How about this ending to your sordid

28:01

familial tale. I'm going

28:03

to eat all your rations, particularly

28:05

if you have any strawberry jam, which I happen

28:08

to love, and then

28:11

I'm going to tie you each to a lighthouse.

28:13

I'm gonna make love to Margaret on

28:15

the grass, and then I'm going to point

28:18

my pistol at all of you and

28:20

hop aboard the ship. What

28:22

is a ship called anyway, Margaret? It

28:26

has a funny kind of name. You

28:28

see. I love silver the gull, so I

28:30

incorporated part of that word silver,

28:33

and I love that cher ivand so I use

28:35

the chir. I put the two together and

28:37

got silcher. Isn't

28:40

silching that sordid phenomenon

28:42

where you talk to someone while they defecate,

28:46

Margaret, why

28:49

don't you put the words fuck and you together

28:52

and get fucked? Because I can tell you're trying to

28:54

buy time. That would be food,

28:56

Go time, silver gold time. William

28:58

Gester is wildly the seagull who flies

29:01

straight to Vagina the pirate and defecates.

29:07

Very cool. You

29:09

touch your stupid seagull to shit on people's heads.

29:12

In fact, I did. Ah. It's

29:16

yet another illustration of how incredibly bored

29:18

I have been for my entire life on

29:21

this frigid island. Cool

29:24

well, smooth sailing,

29:26

your lubbers. I'm out of here. I'm

29:29

feeling generous, so I'm not gonna tie you up.

29:31

I'm just gonna back away, pointing my pistol.

29:34

Load up, lady Silcher and split. Don't

29:37

do it, Vagina, Take

29:40

me with you. Her

29:42

name is a vagina.

29:45

You were going to make love to me on the grass, were

29:48

you not? Yeah? Changed my mind. Why

29:51

is that a

29:54

certain expression you gave? It? Gave

29:56

me the ick, you know. I hate

29:58

to remind everyone I'm a virgin

30:01

in a fair world. If anyone is copulating

30:03

or exiting this island, it should be me. Ah,

30:06

the thin premise that the world is fair.

30:09

By the bye, You

30:12

ladies aren't the only ones who carries

30:14

secrets. I harbor

30:16

one myself, a grand,

30:19

chilling secret. It

30:22

will shock you and cause great

30:24

despair. I'm a ghost, a

30:27

figment of your imagination. You

30:29

really are trapped here hassuscinating

30:33

drops town, Rosemary.

30:37

You wish that pungent and a stringent

30:39

smell where your fingertips. You wish

30:42

you were talking to someone right now, unfreezing,

30:49

I do wish I was talking

30:52

to someone right now. Vagina,

30:55

shoot me with your pistol please.

30:58

Oh no, no, I still do plan to rob you.

31:02

And that's all we got right now. So that's

31:04

all we have right now. Thank

31:08

you, thank you. That felt

31:10

good. Thank

31:12

you so much for being a part of this work in progress.

31:16

That's where we've left off. I

31:18

know that people could be feeling a lot of feelings right

31:20

now, and this

31:23

is going to be a little jarring to rush straight

31:25

into the Q and A, but we really do need your help.

31:29

So I know that many of you probably have questions.

31:32

We have time, I think for sixty

31:34

five questions, so the

31:38

only thing we're not really taking questions on is the accents.

31:40

Okay, so I also

31:43

have some questions for you. If you don't have your own,

31:45

you can answer one of these. When did you

31:47

cry? What

31:50

parts did you cry during? Okay?

31:53

Did you relate to one character the most or

31:55

was it constantly shifting? Equally,

31:59

is there a character you'd did

32:02

the pace feel good? Did it ever drag for

32:04

you? Did

32:08

the story come through clearly? Would

32:11

you see it again. And if so, this is

32:13

a logistical question, how many times could you attend

32:15

readings each week? All

32:18

right, we're gonna start that up after first.

32:20

Just hop out a hand for my actors here today.

32:30

All right, we'll begin the Q and A. I

32:33

saw a hand up over there. Yep,

32:36

thank you Chelsea and and actors.

32:39

My name is seven. As you can tell, I am

32:41

actually a real British person. Your

32:43

name is seven. Yes, it is very

32:45

cool. It was supposed to be like a Boston. It

32:48

was all over the place. It

32:50

did sort of land when I felt I was

32:52

detecting an essence of brit amongst

32:54

you. Not just Chelsea, seemed to be channeling

32:57

some brit as well. So I wondered what it

32:59

was about that great British accent that

33:01

inspires people in such settings. Well,

33:03

I you know, I personally think of theater

33:06

as British.

33:08

Anyone else? Yes,

33:11

yep. In the back you're holding an item in your hand.

33:15

Okay, that's an item.

33:17

A question

33:24

for Chelsea. Since you wrote this, did

33:26

you have any personal experience with the

33:28

sea or semen? Hold

33:35

on your mic is tinny. She

33:38

wants you to say, semen? Oh, okay,

33:40

semen, good, good, I

33:42

have so much experience with semen. How

33:45

deep should I go?

33:47

How deep did it go? Seriously, only

33:51

my cervix knows. Girl,

33:56

do I have experience with the sea. I'm terrified

33:58

of the sea, and this was an exploration

34:01

I think for me of the great

34:03

power and majesty, and

34:06

I love seamen. Sometimes

34:10

it's my mic on. Okay,

34:13

who's next? Yes, over there with the

34:15

wristband. Hello,

34:18

I'm Remy. What is it Lenny Remy,

34:21

Remy, Yes, welcome. I

34:23

want to know if you're married to the name William

34:26

or can his name be Richard? Since

34:28

there's a vagina on stage? Wow,

34:32

everyone likes you more

34:34

than us.

34:37

I think that what's really interesting

34:39

is, so this play is set in the nineteen hundreds.

34:42

Okay, that is one hundred year span, and I didn't

34:44

commit to one part of that time, but

34:47

I did do a lot of research, and

34:50

I think Richard was a common name in that

34:52

time. So that's an interesting note that I

34:54

might consider. Okay, So

34:56

thank you, that's actually really good. Thank

34:58

you, Yes,

35:01

great applause break for the audience member.

35:03

That's great. This energy

35:05

when we poured our fucking hearts enjoy

35:08

it. It feels nice to have people go ahead,

35:11

Yes, sir, down in the front, Yes, hello,

35:16

Hello. The three of us

35:18

felt like this play was written by our mothers,

35:20

and so we want to know how much time you spent

35:23

just staring at your son before writing

35:25

it. The follow up

35:27

question to you three, okay,

35:30

are you triplets? No? Are

35:33

you open to it? Yes? I

35:37

will say this and I'm not. I'm not gonna

35:39

lie. This is something vulnerable. I actually

35:42

did cry writing that monologue, like

35:47

what am I doing? What is happening?

35:49

Like I actually was shedding tears anyhow,

35:52

So very astute of the three of you.

35:54

What a trio? What a trio? Who's

35:58

next? Next person gets to past ten?

36:01

Yes, I'm

36:06

Sarah with no age to differentiate?

36:09

Can we is my producer? Here? Can we cut

36:12

that the

36:16

island was such a character in

36:18

this drama? Se me if you could each speak to

36:21

how you developed your work with

36:23

the island as your scene

36:26

partner. That's a beautiful question

36:29

from a beautiful young lady. Okay, I open

36:32

up to my actors. I've said enough already.

36:34

She's been in an acting class.

36:39

I was too focused on the

36:42

accent to worry about the island

36:45

when I was home alone and no one else

36:47

was speaking in a different way. It was

36:49

great, And I just would invite you to

36:51

come to my house and hear this whole thing over

36:53

again with only me reading all of the parts,

36:55

so you could hear my really

36:58

great Boston accent to turn British. Really

37:01

do we really do want you all to hear it

37:03

in a lot of different environments I

37:07

spent I did self Tanner. I

37:10

did, like you

37:12

know that, I think the Sun was

37:15

huge for me and

37:19

the sun, you know, And

37:21

and it's interesting, you know when when

37:28

you know, Chelsea first sent me this script

37:30

and I was like, wow, I am

37:32

playing her son, and so I actually spent a

37:34

lot of time with your son. I enrolled

37:37

in kindergarten for a year and it

37:41

was amazing And I love

37:43

you mom. You know, the

37:48

island really is the fifth

37:50

character in this piece, and

37:54

being a member of this theater

37:56

troupe for so long and having been in all of Chelsea's

37:59

plays, I feel like the setting

38:01

is usually the other character that I'm

38:03

like relating with the whole time. So

38:07

for me, it was just, I don't know, it just kind of came second

38:10

nature because I just am so familiar with

38:12

her work and just how she writes

38:15

and how she does things.

38:18

Yeah, we've been into We've been in both. This

38:21

is my first one. So I didn't know that we

38:23

should have a chair set for the island, but I

38:25

think next time it'd be a good idea.

38:28

Even you could write the word island on the chair.

38:31

I will yeah,

38:35

yes, yes, in the back on

38:37

the aisle, it's you. It's

38:40

you, honey, Sorry,

38:43

anyone else? Skin really dry? High? Yeah,

38:46

I'm Deeksha. Nice to meet you. Is

38:48

your mic on honey bunny?

38:51

Not that I'm a mixpert bird.

38:53

Hi, I'm Biksha. So

38:56

I really cried at William's struggles

38:59

with losing's virgin So my question

39:01

is does he ever get laid? We've

39:05

talked a lot about this,

39:08

Like, we devoted a lot of rehearsal

39:10

to this exact question. So that's really

39:12

interesting. Something's working, clearly,

39:17

I'm gonna throw it to the playwright. I don't want to and

39:20

I want to deferred all actors. No, uh, I

39:23

didn't actually know what the question was. Were you saying that

39:26

you like the topic of virginity.

39:28

Does William eventually lose his virginity?

39:31

Oh? Does he

39:33

get off the island? I mean I open that up

39:35

to you. She

39:40

doesn't know how to think. She

39:42

needs help. Honey, theater is not answers,

39:45

it's questions. I

39:49

can't just print up a little list of answers

39:51

for you. Right. This is what the poetry

39:53

is in. What are we doing? Yes,

40:01

hi, hi, Yanka. I'm

40:03

curious how long you spent on this

40:05

script and how many rewrites he did? It

40:09

was beautiful. I'm just curious. Interesting.

40:15

It's a great question. The question was

40:19

she's miked. The question was how

40:21

long did I spend on the script? I'm buying

40:23

time right now. You

40:29

know a number of days. And at

40:32

the moment the script started at five pages,

40:34

I sent it to John. He goes, is this the whole script?

40:37

Now it's thirteen. As we

40:39

were reading, there was a moment where I felt like it

40:41

was dragging a little bit. It was page six. So

40:45

uh oh, you do the math on

40:47

how that felt. It's a work

40:49

in progress. It's a work. It's a wip. Well,

40:52

and if I made the last

40:54

draft Margaret, this

40:57

is just some insight baseball. But Margaret wasn't

40:59

a ghost, Yeah

41:01

that was she sure wasn't. That was

41:03

new today. I didn't know that was happening. Yeah,

41:06

So that was a live moment. It's like

41:08

the end of Rosian. It needed

41:12

it needed that moment of wait a minute,

41:14

hold on, we thought we knew, but we don't. We

41:21

can take seventeen hundred more

41:24

questions. Yes,

41:27

glasses, blonde hair, looking around

41:30

wildly. It's you, Hi,

41:34

with so much left unknown? Are you someone

41:36

who subscribes to the belief that being shipped

41:38

on by a bird is good luck or bad luck?

41:40

Oh, this is a really good question. Yeah,

41:43

she's we gotta go home. Wow,

41:48

Yeah, I forgot that

41:50

that does mean something. I

41:58

actually did forget that. That's really

42:00

adds a layer before

42:05

in one of the drafts, you just had a

42:07

bunch of four leaf clovers being thrown

42:09

at me, and I again didn't realize they

42:11

had any significance. So

42:15

yeah, so that's weird. Yeah,

42:20

Yeah, a lot

42:23

of good ideas here for rewrites. Yeah.

42:25

I'm Lindsay and I'm wondering, based

42:27

on the title of your character, if

42:29

you're considering consulting with Star

42:32

and Stage of Screen and no

42:35

Star of Stage and Screen Marley Mattlin

42:37

to go deeper into your

42:40

character. It's funny because no,

42:43

that was just a literative

42:46

name that came to me and again didn't think about

42:48

it having to do with anyone. So

42:51

that's again should I change it? I don't

42:53

know. Does it add something? We're

42:56

still figuring it out, you know, And

42:59

that's what playwrights Horizons does. It kind

43:01

of fosters this and Jesse Fox,

43:07

Yes, down front you

43:12

Mike's coming in flying It. I mean, if for the theme

43:15

of ghosts, do you have any experiences

43:18

with the ghosts that inspired you to

43:20

write that element. I

43:27

have stayed in a couple haunted hotels

43:29

on the road. I don't know

43:31

where to go with this because, in genuine

43:34

truth, I didn't used to believe in ghosts, and now I do because

43:41

of a specific event. I

43:43

heard voices. Okay, I

43:45

stayed at I

43:49

stayed at the hotel. I felt

43:51

very creeped out in that hotel. I googled

43:54

it the name of the hotel. First thing that popped

43:56

up haunted was this in Winnipeg,

43:58

Canada. No, they

44:01

got one, two guys. I

44:03

forget where it was. I could find it. I could figure it

44:05

out anyway. It said something

44:07

about voices someone heard. I don't know. I

44:09

just it just was. I feel like I've

44:11

already said too much. What did the voices say,

44:13

I want to know what they said to you. I can't

44:16

remember. It was something like kill the

44:18

audience. Oh

44:22

no, I don't know. It's like a kid or something. I really

44:25

don't remember. And now I feel I feel like one of those

44:27

people that's like saying lies. But I'm not. I

44:29

just can't really remember. Okay,

44:32

yes, you and yeah,

44:34

the one that looks uncertain if it's you, Hi,

44:39

I'm Hillary. I was wondering

44:41

if Vagina's fascination with

44:43

the butt was born of

44:46

like a fear that the audience would be unfamiliar

44:48

with such an area, or if that was a

44:51

more of like telling about her character. I

44:54

mean, I don't want to take any words.

44:56

No place is I didn't write

44:58

it, but as a reformer who

45:01

really needed to like get inside of

45:03

it, I

45:07

felt as though butts

45:09

are funny, and the more you

45:11

talk about and describe them and then

45:13

end with the description of the whole,

45:17

it just was. It was just funny. And

45:20

did you ever think did anyone I'm just curious,

45:22

did anyone make the connection between two

45:25

butt cheeks two lighthouses? Oh?

45:28

I did? I definitely did give

45:32

yourself a hand if you did. Yes,

45:35

In the vacation shirt. I

45:39

have a two part question. So part one

45:41

is I'm curious if you are considering in

45:44

the future maybe an act where we see

45:46

what drove your character off the

45:48

island, maybe some backstory. Curious

45:50

about that? And part two for everyone,

45:53

after such traumatic explorations

45:55

of the sea, what has it been like for each of you waiting

45:58

back into waters in real life?

46:01

I haven't taken a bath in three days. Uh?

46:11

What drove me off the island? Do

46:13

you mean off the mainland? Oh?

46:16

Off to the island. What

46:19

drove you to the island? You mean?

46:21

I mean it was the husband who was a bad man. If

46:24

you were a bad man husband, he was asleep, listening

46:29

pregnant, you know, on an island

46:32

alone. Yeah,

46:38

yes, you with the two fingers up. Yeah,

46:43

let's do MIC's flying in a little slower if we can't,

46:45

just because sorry, good

46:48

for podcasts. My

46:51

question is a legit logistical

46:53

question. Is

46:55

the boat the sulcher Margaret's bow

46:57

also a ghost? Yes,

47:03

I'm a ghost. My boat's a ghost.

47:05

Are you really a ghost in real life? Me?

47:08

Yeah? Yes, I knew

47:10

it. Very

47:13

intuitive? You're intuitive. Yeah,

47:17

we're getting a repeat question. That's what we like

47:19

here. I

47:22

just I want to revisit the Oedipus complex.

47:27

Is it possible that your

47:30

character's reason for leaving was your

47:32

inability to quench that thirst? Is

47:34

this how you feel about your mom? This is the guy who asked

47:37

about his earlier This is the guy who asked,

47:39

my gosh, careful, pure panels.

47:42

Wait, can't be I'm gay.

47:45

I'm gay, so he can't, So you can't.

47:49

But also like, I'm not, but I wouldn't fuck

47:52

my mom. Like it's uh, I'm just curious.

47:54

Okay, it's a great question. It's like

47:56

in the literature, Let's

48:00

sit with this. Let's sit with this everyone.

48:03

How's everyone feeling? Because when there's that little rumble

48:05

in the room, something's happening. There's some alchemy

48:08

happening. And this young man has given us two opportunities

48:11

to grow and change, and there's something very special

48:13

about that. Take it, yes in

48:15

the back. Hello,

48:19

Chelsea, it's seven again. Oh man,

48:23

things are really devolving fast.

48:25

Seven. I'm putting my therapist's sat on

48:27

in Europe. I'm a qualified therapist and

48:30

my name is seven Graham. You can google me.

48:32

I prefer we cut that

48:36

marking that for a cut. I

48:38

was gonna mark that I was actually gonna remote

48:41

remark on the ipul complex as well, because

48:43

that would seem to be an obvious This is is Mike broken.

48:46

I can't hear, Like all I hear is consonants.

48:48

WHOA. Okay, I

48:50

was. I was saying that that the Oedipus complex

48:53

seems like an obvious reason why

48:55

you would be exploring the mother's son relationship

48:58

on an island. You have a son,

49:00

so that would suggest that you're exploring the complex.

49:03

This is like, this is like, Bin,

49:07

I feel like you're inside my chest cavity

49:10

somehow. Your voice also, it's

49:12

like when you're talking, it makes

49:14

me feel like it's wire brushes being

49:16

stemmed on, like something metal. Just

49:20

and I'm like sort of just mesmeriz I feel

49:22

like I'm about to start flying and just go straight into

49:24

your soul and I disappear. Well,

49:27

what was the question? Are

49:30

you open to sitting with the possibility

49:33

that you are exploring the complex

49:36

with your son in this plane?

49:38

Okay? That was That was one thing I just wanted you to take

49:40

away ponder. The second thing is I am

49:42

actually transmasculine, non binary

49:45

and an actor as well as being stock. Okay,

49:47

then I take back everything I said about your voice.

49:51

I take it back your

49:53

transferred. No.

49:56

I was going to say, if you would like William

49:58

slash Richard to explore his six suanity.

50:00

Would you be open to a British trans

50:02

masculine person coming into this and

50:05

pegging him because he's gorgeous? And

50:08

what pegging you? Oh?

50:11

I think we're all very open to that. Open

50:14

yeah, yeah, in short, yes, yeah,

50:16

yeah, yeah. Can

50:24

we open all the doors? Yeah? Yeah,

50:28

one and then two right in front of him. Okay,

50:31

Hi, Chelsea, I'm Sergio. Hi. The way

50:33

you've written this, we can really feel a backstory

50:35

for Vagina and your son, for

50:38

the actors. I was wondering what kind of backstory did

50:40

you imagine when you came into the role. What did

50:42

you design? I

50:45

just spent a lot of time thinking about my own

50:47

Vagina, but

50:51

I kind of always do that, so I don't know if that's I'm

50:54

gonna think about that. I'm gonna think about that. Oh

50:59

no, I

51:03

am asked. I'm actually asking this question

51:05

on behalf of my fits. I thought that was Zosha's

51:07

voice because I was waiting for her to answer. I got

51:10

so confused. He didn't ask about me what

51:13

he didn't ask about my kid? Well, okay, well, maybe your

51:15

backstory wasn't clear. I mean that

51:17

right. Well, okay, I'm sorry.

51:19

I didn't mean to create a situation. No, it's

51:21

fine, he just didn't ask about mine. So well,

51:24

i'd like to hear, Okay,

51:27

were you also thinking about my vagina?

51:30

Sure for your backstory. My

51:32

backstory was really deep, but I'll share it with the

51:34

people who want to hear. Oh no, oh, you've

51:37

made her mad, you've upsetter? Well, how

51:39

did you die? How are you a ghost?

51:41

How did you die? Wait a minute before we're done.

51:44

We're done. We were we were moving

51:46

on to the girl in front of you. Then

51:48

I thought Zosh didn't have her turn, and

51:50

then it was just mayhem. Okay, we're

51:53

going to come back to Yes,

51:56

you prepare

51:58

yourself. This is from

52:00

my fifteen year old son, and

52:02

that's ironic because John's

52:04

character is fifteen hy

52:08

he wants to know. I know. But

52:10

Jina Jenkins was planning on banging

52:12

Margaret before she revealed that she was a ghost.

52:14

Does that plan in the next act still

52:17

stand? Okay? I have

52:19

to ask some follow up questions. Yes,

52:21

but you on a zoom? Where is your son,

52:24

Oh,

52:27

okay, Hi, get

52:31

up engaging.

52:34

I am not engaging. Okay,

52:37

well, oh okay, you don't have to speak, but only

52:39

put a thumbs up if you did in fact write

52:41

that question. Okay,

52:44

it's a great question. Okay, Now I have to

52:46

admit I don't remember what it was, but

52:49

probably the answer is yes. If you think about

52:51

how we've been trending, does

52:54

anyone remember it? It was

52:57

so great. Basically, I think there's actually a lot

52:59

that I'm hearing about. You know, people are

53:01

wanting to know what happens next, and I think that's a

53:03

really great sign. Oh yeah, but I

53:05

think specifically what happens next

53:08

sexually? Right? Who

53:10

gets banged? And do

53:12

you bang a ghost? Is this about ghost

53:14

banging? I too got lost halfway through

53:16

the question. I got really excited. I was

53:19

picturing you guys on like zoom you watching,

53:21

and then it was great that you're here, and

53:23

it's it's awesome. How like mortified you are

53:25

is the best part of the whole thing. We

53:29

love you? Oh yeah, don't

53:31

I don't you want to? Yeah? No? Do you want to come sit

53:33

up here? It's

53:36

like, no, I only want to type five

53:39

page questions in

53:41

total, secrecy.

53:45

Hm, can't remember what I was gonna say. Okay, uh

53:49

we oh yeah, we have five minutes long. Are you he's

53:51

back for round three? Oh no, no, nope,

53:54

we got to take a new person. New

53:56

person go. If we have time left, we'll

53:58

come back to you. Sir, Hi,

54:01

my name is Aubrey. The

54:04

beginning part of the I

54:06

guess the play is uh, your character's

54:09

pregnant and escapes a bad situation. Sure

54:11

keeps to an island. Are you where? That's

54:14

kind of the plot of movie Practical

54:16

Magic? Oh

54:18

Chelsea, Oh Chelsea.

54:31

Do you see that suit from Nicole

54:33

Kimminan and Sandra Bullock? Do you

54:35

see that as a plus or

54:37

is it an area of concern? It's

54:39

an area of concern. Of concern. Well,

54:44

maybe I could redo a rewrite where she

54:46

stole him as a baby. That kind

54:49

of motivates her fleeing to the island nicely.

54:51

It would also really allow for the the

54:54

coitus possibility maybe a little

54:56

bit more palatable for people. Oh God,

54:58

I don't know about being I don't either.

55:01

I don't know that I

55:04

really love that because then they

55:07

could have sex just based on a kind of edible

55:10

urge, and then sort of ties this whole

55:12

thing age. I'm still fifteen, and she's

55:14

like, sixty eight. You'll

55:17

have to she said, fifteen

55:19

years ago, I was pregnant with you on this

55:22

island. Hello. I

55:24

didn't read anything other than my parts. That

55:26

was a very stately fifteen on my part.

55:28

One thing I like to do when I get a roll is just

55:30

go through and highlight facts about my character.

55:34

Make a little list. Yes,

55:42

can we get more ghosts? What's

55:45

the second

55:48

lighthouse? Maybe haunted?

55:51

Right now you're thinking like you're

55:53

getting like that one with all the women the

55:55

ensemble Juliette lewis

55:58

a surprise ghost yellow jackets.

56:01

All ghosts turn it into yellow

56:03

jackets. Is that what you're kind of saying? Better?

56:08

Though? Better? Better? Okay,

56:11

yeah,

56:14

thank you. I was under the impression

56:16

this was a musical. Is

56:19

that a possibility in the future

56:21

or I felt so much

56:23

anngst when you said that, because I

56:26

whatever format I grabbed off a final

56:28

draft did say music. I too got scared.

56:30

I too got scared. I was like, oh no, I didn't agree

56:32

to that, and I kept trying to delete

56:35

it from the header, and so this gave me like

56:37

a moment of panic, just like when someone

56:39

said this was a movie plot that already existed.

56:44

It reminded me of that, almost the ghost

56:46

of that question. To

56:48

keep on the ghost theme, Yes,

56:55

banana clip, this

56:58

is a question for everyone at the tableable food

57:00

test. Rosemary Spriggs, that's

57:04

really good. I

57:07

forget is it a yes no binary on

57:10

the food test? You have to say good

57:12

or bad and then I'll tell you if you're right or wrong?

57:14

Oh right, right, right, okay, good.

57:18

Everyone has to do it, though, because otherwise it

57:20

would be a spoiler. I don't

57:22

like saying yes or no. I'm very locky

57:25

the point. But

57:27

there's bad.

57:30

We know well, we know that she made

57:32

that one

57:34

thing at a time. Good,

57:37

good, good. I'm gonna go with good,

57:39

although it could be overpowering and you don't want to, you know, do use

57:41

too much of it or whatever? You're all right, it's

57:44

good, god, good.

57:47

I press my wedding.

57:51

All right, I'm sweating too. Oh

57:53

we have fifty six seconds. We take fifty

57:56

four questions. Go

58:00

oh yeah, probably there he goes

58:02

whoa. Okay. My question

58:05

was I was wondering, what's

58:07

your writing process like other than

58:09

you know, appliediarizing from practical magic?

58:13

What else do you do. I'm an aspiring

58:15

writer. Well, good luck

58:17

with the networking you've just done.

58:21

I was trying to be you'll never write a play

58:23

in this town.

58:27

My writing process, I google, I steal,

58:29

I google, I steal. Apparently,

58:33

No, I think the devil's in the details.

58:36

Okay, there's a lot of details in here that if

58:39

you listen to this as a podcast you can look

58:41

them up. They're true. I read about

58:43

Thatcher Island. There's actually I don't want to

58:45

spoil this because I need to get it and I don't want you

58:47

guys to get it first. There's merch

58:49

for Thatcher Island. There's a dun

58:51

I'm shirt with two lighthouses that says Thatcher

58:53

Island Ann's Eyes. Is that real?

58:56

Yeah? Real nickname? Thatcher's whoa.

58:58

Okay, there's even a crazy story ten

59:01

seconds left there was

59:03

a mafia guy that was turned and

59:05

was FBI informant, and they housed

59:07

him on the island and

59:10

somehow I didn't make the plan about

59:12

that.

59:14

The end, Chelsea,

59:23

everybody the player, right,