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I'm Fred Greenhalt, your host of Undertow, Realm's

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podcast delving into the weird and the wicked.

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Last time, we found Eddie Kincaid rolling into

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Langley Roadhouse late on a Christmas night, trying

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to get back on the road to a

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perfect scheme he attached. But now,

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the doors are closed, and the only way

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out is by telling the truth as

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we get into part two of Last

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Call. You're

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telling me I'm in hell? Not

2:52

quite. You think pretty

2:54

women serve you drinks in hell? Uh, okay.

2:57

Enough. Open the door. I

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don't know who you are, but I don't

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believe you for one fucking second, you fucking

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crazy bitch! How about now? Now,

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yes. We've

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got less than an hour. What

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do you want? I don't want

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anything. I don't

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care where you go, but

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if you don't want to go south, you should

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come clean. About what?

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I've never heard anybody. What were

3:28

you trying to do to me just now?

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Sell you insurance. Come on, Eddie. Who are

3:33

you trying to fool? I

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mean... Go

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on. Look,

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when I was growing up, I didn't have too

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much, okay? My dad, you know, he

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was a cop, and then he got fired for misconduct,

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and then he was just a drunk. If

3:54

I wanted to have pocket change, or

3:56

even like pockets, I had

3:58

to figure something out. So

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I started hanging out in this pool hall

4:03

in Old Orchard Beach. I got to the

4:05

point where I could pretty much crush anyone

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blindfolded. So the locals knew not to mess

4:09

with me, but there was always a steady

4:11

stream of guys, you know, coming up for

4:13

the weekend, cheat on their wives, you know,

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and to party down. Didn't

4:17

know any better. So

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I'd hang around the back table, play

4:22

bad on purpose, and

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then I'd go to the bar for a Pepsi and I'd

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flash some money. It always worked.

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I'd just start sweeping in. So I'd

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fidget a bit, get a little tongue-tined,

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and then lose at least a

4:37

couple games, get their confidence up,

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get their wallet open, and

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then I'd cut loose. I made

4:44

a few grand every summer. But

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it wasn't like I was stealing from anyone.

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They deserved it. Why? Well,

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you know, you can't cheat an honest man. So

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everyone you took from had it coming. As

4:58

far as I know, yeah. Well,

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I did drink blackmail once. Go

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on. There

5:08

was a summer yacht club community maybe

5:10

an hour away from me, Rich Kids

5:12

Central. I got

5:14

a job busting tables at one of the restaurants and

5:16

made some friends with a couple of the guys. I

5:19

dug off with cigarettes and beer and got myself invited

5:21

to some of their parties. Man,

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I don't like such a fish out of

5:26

water. These guys just floated on

5:28

top of the world like they were

5:30

entitled to everything. No

5:33

concept of what it was like to be a

5:35

guy like me. But

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the one thing they all feared? The

5:42

wrath of their parents. So

5:44

I snapped a few Polaroids of them in

5:47

compromised positions. Okay.

5:50

I told them they

5:52

could get them back for a couple hundred bucks

5:56

or I'd send them to their folks. All

5:58

but one guy accepted. He

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made a go at me before he saw a look

6:02

in my eye that gave him second thoughts. I

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knew who his dad was from the restaurant,

6:08

so I tucked the photos in with his

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restaurant slip one night. What

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happened? For a moment, the

6:15

look on the dad's face was worth more than $200. But

6:19

then, you know, later, I learned

6:21

that Pops put his kid in the hospital. Apparently

6:25

he had anger issues. I

6:28

honestly felt bad. But

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I had no idea that was gonna happen. I

6:34

never would have done it if I knew. Survey

6:38

says you're leaving something out. You wanted

6:40

to say I broke the rules? I

6:42

did. I

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learned early that playing by the rules doesn't

6:46

get you too far because the world's just

6:48

a big casino and the house always wins.

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And someday the world might be at my

6:53

bar counting its sins, but for now, it's

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just you. Fine. What

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do you want me to tell you? That I sold fake

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Windex to board Housewives? That I cleared

7:02

40 grand booking and canceling

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imaginary concerts? Ran fake mail-loader

7:06

correspondence cores? Got folks to

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advance me their car titles

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for gambling money? Yeah, Bobby,

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I've done a thing or

7:15

two, okay? Okay,

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we're still here, Eddie. That's it.

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That's everything. Fifteen minutes till

7:21

midnight. Anything you're holding

7:23

back in your heart. Now's the time to

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share. If

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I tell you, you'll let me go? Yes.

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I'll let you go. Okay.

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But you gotta know

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the whole story. I'm listening. So

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my mom was a church

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lady, you know, the Old Testament kind. You

7:49

know, from the beginning, she wanted me and

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my kids' sister, Cassie, to

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know just how little we measured up in the

7:55

eyes of the Lord. Other kids

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got to go to movies, sleepovers. had

8:00

to memorize scripture. Sucked.

8:04

But it was okay too because I

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had Cassie. She had me. When

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I got old enough to work I

8:11

tried, you know, working a couple honest jobs. But

8:14

I just couldn't handle working for the hypocrites.

8:16

You know, bosses who treat you like shit

8:18

while they're making hand over fists. So I

8:20

started looking for ways to

8:22

work outside the system. Make a few bucks but

8:24

not hurt anybody. But eventually,

8:26

you know, I got caught. They sent me

8:29

to Juvee. When I got back my mom

8:31

and dad kicked me out and I wanted

8:33

Cassie to come with me and she didn't.

8:37

The worst part was looking upstairs and seeing

8:39

Cassie looking down at me from the bedroom

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window. You know, she just sort of waved.

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Looking back now I get it. You know, she had

8:47

no power over what

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they were doing. It was a kind

8:52

of household where dad's word was

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God's. I had

8:56

no idea where to go. My

8:58

kid I met in Juvee told me he just

9:01

landed some job selling soap door to door out

9:03

west but they were short one guy that I

9:05

wanted to join the crew. He

9:07

told me the terms, all cash under

9:09

the table and the big earners were

9:11

cutting 500 bucks a week. Best

9:14

part is you get to roam around. See

9:16

the country. I was out of Maine

9:18

within the week. Dela?

9:22

Life was hard. The soap selling gig didn't

9:24

really work out. I quickly found out it

9:26

was a pyramid scheme and the only guys

9:29

making money were the ones chasing places in

9:31

the day and then breaking in at night.

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I was uncomfortable with all that so I

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split one night. I got

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myself a bus ticket to New Orleans.

9:43

I fit in a little better down there.

9:46

Learned how to make a decent living

9:48

hanging around those horse tracks upgraded to

9:50

betting on pro sports. Finally

9:52

I went to big leagues out in Vegas

9:55

before I was chased out of

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town. Then the internet came

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around. changed

12:02

it. So the house got left in me.

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I know, I know. She'd

12:13

given up her whole life to care for that woman. I

12:17

was running hard from debt that we're

12:19

about to come to and I thought

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flipping the house, the

12:24

family house, was the only

12:26

way to get myself back to zero, maybe

12:28

start my life over again. And the real

12:30

kicker? I

12:35

lost the house anyways. It

12:38

was 2007. I had a buddy at

12:40

a hedge fund who told me that if

12:42

I could get my hands on some capital, he

12:45

could make double digit returns in the housing market.

12:47

So I thought, you know, well, maybe there's a

12:49

chance to make

12:51

things right there. You know,

12:54

I got my bank loan against the equity in the

12:56

house. And for one, we

12:59

were flying high. It looked like

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I'd be able to pay off the debts, make a tidy

13:04

profit, make everything even.

13:07

And then, well, you know what happened. So

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I just left. I

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haven't really talked to Cassie

13:17

since then. She keeps making overtures,

13:19

calls me up around Christmas

13:21

since a birthday card. But

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I just I

13:25

wasn't able to own up to it what

13:27

I did. And

13:30

now it's too late. If

13:33

I could just talk to her one more time. What's

13:39

that? Looks like someone wants to

13:41

grant your wish, Eddie. Should

13:44

I go on and pick it up? Hello.

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Hello, Cassie. Cassie.

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I'm so sorry. I

13:57

should have come to your place for dinner tonight. Please

13:59

don't. I'm

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sad because what

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I really lost was my big brother.

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All that matters, all

16:10

that's ever mattered, is

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you and me, family,

16:16

Eddie. I

16:19

wish I could have gotten you to see it. You see?

16:23

You forgive me? Yeah. Yeah.

16:29

I forgive you. Cassie? Cassie?

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Cassie? If

16:37

you'd like to make a call, please hang... Well

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done. I'm

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sorry. I'm sorry. I'm

16:45

sorry. Well

16:49

done. That feels right.

16:54

A few hundred pounds came off my shoulders.

16:58

I can't believe it took me so many years to do

17:00

it. God

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damn it. I should have

17:04

done that a long time ago. You

17:06

really shut house. What?

17:09

As promised, you're free to go. But

17:13

I'm afraid you still have some

17:15

unhappy customers. Eddie. Eddie.

17:19

Eddie. Oh.

17:25

Funny. Eddie, what

17:27

happened? Help me up now. Help

17:31

me up. No! Jesus

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fuck! It was cold.

17:38

Fuck this. It

17:40

was cold walking over here, but... I was thinking...

17:43

I was thinking, what's

17:46

taking my good friend Eddie so long? What's

17:48

wrong with him? He

17:50

broke into the goodie bag just like you told him to.

17:52

Bad news for Sonny is that he was

17:54

laced with fentanyl. After

17:57

he got impatient waiting for his pal Eddie to come in.

18:00

However, he went out for a walk in

18:02

the cold where he froze to dust and

18:04

apparently kept on walking. Oh,

18:08

and there's

18:10

Florence Dixon. Her husband took her

18:13

out in a murder-suicide after he lost their house

18:15

and retirement savings on a bad bet you talked

18:17

him into. Hi, Eddie. I've

18:20

been wanting to meet you for a long time. Florence.

18:24

Ah, and Jim

18:26

Catlahan. He actually did

18:28

think he had insurance on his motel

18:30

before there was a lightning strike and

18:32

it burned down. And he found out

18:35

you'd con him into a bullshit policy.

18:37

Eddie, let's talk about that mattress. Bobby,

18:39

talk to them. I passed judgment, right?

18:43

Cassie forgave me. If she can forgive me,

18:45

anyone can forgive me. Looks

18:50

like you'll have an opportunity to test that, Barry.

18:52

But you said... You said... I

18:55

thought... I... I...

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I thought... No! No!

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Hey! Hey! I can't keep

19:03

you hanging on. I'm sorry! I can't keep you hanging on. I'm

19:06

sorry! Come on! You lied to

19:08

me, Bobby! You lied to me! You lied to

19:10

me! You cheated! Don't worry, Eddie.

19:13

I heard you can't cheat on this man. You! You!

19:16

You made me! You! You!

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You! You! You! You

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made me! You! You!

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You! You! I'm

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coming! I'm coming! I'm

19:30

coming! I'm coming! I'm coming! I'm

19:32

coming! I'm coming! I'm

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coming! I'm coming! I'm coming!

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I'm coming! I'm coming! I'm

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coming! I'm coming! Well-deared

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listeners, we know for whom the bells are

19:44

tolling as we say goodnight to Eddie Kincaid.

19:47

Don't forget that whatever you want to say to

19:49

people you had better do on this side of

19:51

the veil, because there's no second chance once the

19:53

curtains close. On behalf of

19:55

Undertow, I'd love to wish you a delightful solstice

19:57

season. We'll be back in the New Year with more tales

20:00

of the weird and the wicked. The

20:30

Shambler with the jar of liquid inside of him. Saw

20:47

an arc right, let loose an arrow that

20:50

cracked a glass, passing through the spine of

20:52

the creature. The Shambler still managed to maintain

20:54

its forward momentum, but stumbled as he eagerly

20:56

tried to bite and swipe its soaring landing

20:58

near his feet. As Jeff

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Goldblum has now joined our cast, Dark Dice

21:02

is available however you listen to.

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