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Oh, hello?

Hey.

Hello?

-Hello? -H-H-Hello?

Hello?

"Hello?" Okay, wait a sec.

Just a sec. Hold on. Sorry. Sorry. One sec.

Um, how's your mom?

Uh, same.

Yeah. She hasn't eaten in two days, and...

-I'm sorry, Evy. -Yeah.

How are you holding up?

Um...

I don't know. I kinda just, um,

want it to be over.

Is that bad to say?

No, no.

That's...

Yeah, I understand it. Yeah.

Just wanna get out of here, too, to be honest.

What about Darren?

Like, where is he at?

Is he helping out at all?

- Uh, no. Not really. - Okay.

What's his number? Like, can you text it to me?

'Cause I need to call this guy.

He needs to step up.

He can barely take care of himself. I don't even...

Well, at least drop off some food, you know?

If he answers his phone.

I should have listened to you a year ago. I know.

You know, I hate to say "I told you so,"

but... I told you so.

How's you and Deb?

Uh, good. Yeah.

We're good. We're thinking of

-getting a cat, actually. -Wow.

- Look at you. - Yeah.

Wait, I know what you need.

A lobotomy.

No.

A Waterloo

-meatball sub. -Oh, my God.

That's the seventh...

I think you've said that every day this week.

I guess I just miss it.

Then visit.

It's been, what, ten years?

Uh, five, first of all,

and you're out of town, remember?

You're going sicko mode in Punta Cana.

It's a wedding. Everyone drinks at a wedding.

I told you that.

Okay, well, you can visit too, you know.

Goes both ways.

I don't know.

I don't really have any interest in London.

I'd mostly be going to see you.

Yeah.

You know, I could take some time off.

Come help you out for a week.

No. No, no, no. Thank you.

Really?

-You sure? -No, I'm fine. I...

I don't mind, 'cause I could...

-Yeah, no, totally. - Okay.

-I'm fine. I really am. -Okay.

We could also skip this week if you want.

Are you kidding?

This is the only thing keeping me sane right now.

Okay, 'cause that is so funny.

I was actually thinking the exact opposite for me.

Like,

some of these stories, man,

frickin' crazy.

If they were true.

You believed in some. I could tell, okay?

-Like that one caller who... -This week...

Hold on. That one caller who was addicted

to playing Ouija board by herself.

That's because that was true. You saw the news clip.

A ghost didn't put her in that water tank.

The poor girl was depressed.

Who knows?

All right? Who knows?

So, what are we talking about this episode?

You're gonna love this. I got something juicy for you.

Ooh, do tell.

Uh, let's wait until we start recording.

'Cause I want to get your authentic reaction to this.

-Can't wait. -Okay.

Oh, by the way, there's, like, new intro and outro music.

I'm gonna use it for this episode.

Is that... That's cool? You wanna hear it?

-No, I'll hear it in the edit. -I'm gonna play it anyway.

Okay. Uh, I'm ready to start recording when you are.

Welcome to another episode of The Undertone podcast,

where we talk about all things creepy.

I'm your in-house skeptic, Evy Babic,

and I'm joined by my co-host

and Santa Claus believer, Justin Manuel.

New episodes every Friday,

anywhere you get your podcasts.

So, without further ado,

Justin says he has a real treat for us today.

Tell us what it is, kiddo.

Uh, yeah, sure, "kiddo."

And for the record,

I never believed in Santa Claus.

Not even when I was six-years-old, okay?

All my gifts said "Made in China."

Everyone outsources, even Santa.

Okay, well, my house didn't even have a chimney.

So how do you explain that?

Oh, that's easy.

He, um... He crawled in through your mom's window.

Wait a second.

That explains why I never saw Dad and Santa together

at those Christmas parties.

Okay. So, in our last episode,

we talked about the mysterious I Feel Wonderful blog video

that allegedly caused

92 of its viewers to kill themselves

after watching it,

but not before slicing off their ears

and mailing them to the blog website's headquarters

in Palo Alto.

Wait, stop.

Oh, my God. Evy.

-What? It's fake. It's been... -Stop.

Can you please just stop it, please?

No, Justin, it's been debunked.

-Please. -Okay, fine.

You're no fun.

Did you stop it? I'm plugging my ears.

-No, it stopped. It stopped. -Okay, good.

Anyways, as I was saying, after the last episode,

I was checking our podcast emails

and got a weird one from an address I didn't recognize.

Their email was just a bunch of random letters.

The subject line was "LOL" in caps,

and get this, ten audio files attached.

What did the message say?

Okay, it was just descending letters

and an upside-down smiley face.

-Send it to me. -Uh, please?

-Please. -Okay.

Thanks. All right, here you go.

Sent.

"Atonement at tenet"?

What does that mean?

Yeah, that... Beats me.

Hmm, weird. Looks like a kid sent this.

I know, right?

Bet it's a virus.

Okay, that's what I thought, too,

but then I said, "Screw it,"

and I actually clicked the first file.

Brave.

What happened?

It was a phone recording from a young couple,

and I listened for a bit.

And then I decided, you know, save it for the podcast,

and we can play all ten of them together

-and listen live. -Done.

Yeah, save it for the pod.

But first, let me put on my logic and sanity hat.

Ooh, right. The one I got you?

All right.

So, from what I gather,

the girlfriend's name is Jessa,

and I haven't heard the boyfriend's name yet.

But let's have a listen to the whole file.

Okay? You ready?

-Ready. -File number one.

Here we go.

Um, so, Jessa

has been talking in her sleep...

pretty much every night.

Um, but she doesn't believe me.

So I'm going to record her.

I do not talk in my sleep.

You are talking right now...

...when you should be

going to sleep.

I... I can't sleep with that thing on.

There.

Let me see.

- It's still recording! - No, it's not.

You're such a liar.

Babe, come on. I have an early morning.

Let's...

Let's get some sleep.

- Good night, baba. - Good night, ba.

Can you just...

Can you tickle my head a little?

Sure.

You know, I see a little bump of sound

about four hours in.

Let's skip to that part.