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October 26, 2022 22 mins

A party. A game. A ceremony. 

Written by Trevor Young, Nicholas Tecosky and Alexander Williams. Featuring the voices of Carter Rockwood, Clancy Brown, Clayton Farris, Laura Schein, Gina Rickicki, and Lauren Vogelbaum. 

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Thirteen Days of Halloween, Devil's Night, a production of My
Heart three D audio, Blumhouse Television and Grim and Mild
from Aaron Mackey. Headphones. Recommended listener discretion advised. Errow errow,

(00:30):
where are you? Errow errow? Come back to me, boy, please? Well?
Oh what's you're running from? Son? Devil's out after you? No?
I I was looking for my dog. Er Well, you

(00:52):
know what time it is, young man. The wolves would
make a fine dinner of you this late at night.
Have you seen a dog gone through here? Sorry? Son,
not tonight. Say you're all right? You look at tad
worn out, like your spirit could use a lift. I'm
the pastor of the church here, as it happens, we're

(01:13):
having a little party tonight. Maybe you could come in,
get out of the elements, get your breath. No, I
how old are you? About? Thirteen or so? Yeah? No, sorry,
but I'm really going to keep going nonsense. As the

(01:33):
only truly God fearing house in town, it is our
civic duty to keep you youngsters safe on a dangerous
night such as this. No disrespect, but I have to
find my dog and get home before my dear it all.
Take a minute, young man, just come in. Come on,
I'm saying, go with me, come on, stop being so fast,

(01:57):
and my boy, look, it's us right there. Lovely church
is me. It's the community center. Well it used to be,
but it's ours now. I'm Pastor d Aquila, and that
there is the Church of Revelation. We are a small

(02:20):
but mighty congregation. Say, young man, are you a believer?
I don't know. Well, you look like a follower to me, son.
We always welcome new members, and tonight is a special night.
It's all about the children, you see. What better way
to keep them out of mischief than with a little
fun of games. It so happens that we're one short

(02:43):
for tonight's festivities, and I think you'll make a perfect
addition to the party. Everyone gather around this here is Say,
I didn't get your name, young man Max Max. Yes,

(03:05):
this here is Max, and he'll be joining our little
party tonight. Uh Hi, Happy Halloween. Oh my, what a
handsome young man. Goodness, you have such strong shoulders. You

(03:28):
must be quite a bit of physical labor. Say how
old are you? Max? This is my wife, Helen, Helen,
This is Max. He'll be joining us tonight, and I
think he's about Yeah, close enough, Listen. I never said

(03:50):
I was going to any party. Oh, yes, yes, yes,
he's perfect. Welcome to the Church of Revelation. Max. I've
got such a nice party plan for tonight. We've already
started bobbing for apples and Calvin did the funny the Calvin. Yes,

(04:10):
Miss Helen, this is Calvin. Look what an amusing ghost
costume he's made. You'll be able to make your own
costume to Max. Isn't that fun? So fun? And Calvin
will help you. I don't want to make a costume, Chigen.
This is Max. He'll be joining our little party tonight.

(04:32):
Everyone show him how to play the games. Calvin, you
first show Max how to look like a ghost. Yes,
miss Helen. Miss Helen said I should cut up these
bed sheets. Miss Helen gave me this knife. Miss Helen
said it would be scary to cut holes in the sheets.

(04:52):
Miss Helen, Treasures is very fun. Please Max, make yourself
comfortable for there's nowhere to sit. You don't have any furniture.
What's the star painted on the floor? Oh, don't cross
it now, that's for later. Just settle on in and
I'll be right back to check on you. Oh isn't

(05:13):
she something? Well, Max, this here is our humble house
of worship. I bet you wonder now it all came
to be. I really wasn't well. I always wanted to
be a preacher man, you know, even when I was
your age seminary school by fourteen in the pulpit soon
after that, from prayer, breakfast to tent revivals. I knew

(05:35):
the Gospels by heart, Matthew Mark Thomas facilities. And yet
it seemed to me that something was missing. God wasn't
speaking to me, Max, or maybe I wasn't ready to listen.
And then everything changed on one very special mission trip.
You know, Max, there are places in this world that

(05:59):
are not aren't any man names. I could say that
you would never recognize. I could tell you where, but
you wouldn't believed me if I did not. So terribly
far away, minds you, And yet a world apart from
this one. It was to one of these strange and
wild lands that I soldier. And you know what I found.

(06:23):
I can't say I do. Not a Bible in the library,
not a crucifix in sight. Terribly godless, I thought at first,
But how wrong I was. It was there, away from
everything I thought I knew that I met the people.
You might think of them as some ancient tribe, but

(06:43):
they are much more than that, those still in touch
in direct communication with higher power, power of consequence. I
gave up everything I had, everything I thought I knew,
to live among them, to sing the songs, practiced their rights,
uncover their mysteries. And I came to learn that they

(07:06):
doing fat to have a god, though not quite like
the one we worship here. The old God is a
vicious one, but also a given one, a god who
enjoys a good game. What kind of games? Why? Games
for children? Of course. Now gather round, children, It's time

(07:28):
for the first game of the evening. Come now, children,
this way, Max, towards these crates. Now you all know
this town, this state, this country to be a brown
wasteland growing nothing but weeds. But imagine, in your agile

(07:49):
minds are thriving forest of yellow stocks, and find before
you the bountiful harvest of our prosperous fields corn rock horn. Yes, Max,
our success depends on it. The game is simple. Each
of you must shock twenty stocks, and the last finish

(08:12):
is our up fern, up fern. It just means looser,
get ready, everybody, Cliff, stop the music? Yes, faster? Which
song was it again? Come on, Cliff, it's the last
one we looked at. Uh here it is already. Off

(08:38):
we go. Good luck kids again. Chuck chuck, chuck, shuck, shuck,
shuck shuck. It's horn is so tough. Use your thuns.

(09:00):
Acts like your life depends on it. Haven't you have
a shucked corn before? Yes? But there's something wrong with
this corn, Madison. How are you having any problems with
your corn? Now? Miss Allen? How about you calling well
miss Helen? Well, then perhaps you just got a tough
bat J Mack. Great job, children, Yes, we will offer

(09:25):
this corn up to our God in hopes of a
prosperous harvest in the new year. Sorry, Max, looks like
you're one step toward being the up. And what what
is that game two? Bring in the wall? Well? What? Look?

(09:46):
I really need to get home before my mom worries. Nonsense, Max,
We really love having you here. Confidentially, may I ask
you something? Uh? Okay, tell me do you wish to
be saved? I'm not sure you know we're talking about
of course not. We were all once blind to our

(10:08):
God's holy plan. Let me put it another way, Max,
Do you feel alone in this world? No? Do you
feel trapped in here? I do? Well. We can help you,
Max in a way we already have. Now reach into
this sack of wool. Uh Is this another game? Yes? Lad,

(10:32):
we have cleansed the flora and now must make the
faun of pure for the lord of harvest and field.
All right, children, Now for this game, we race to
see who can pull nits and nuts from the wool
of sheep. That's the worst game I've ever heard of.
Just as well, children, you know only of this famished

(10:53):
land livestock that is sick, feeble, unable to support the
pharmer's who tend to it. But take up and little
hands the finest coats of the fairest sheep, and cleanse
it of imperfection. Yes, children, she she shame, share, share,

(11:13):
share ship. What's the matter? Bat? You look like you've
never done this before. I haven't, well, son, This wool
here has given up an offering to our guy, who
returns his blessings tinfold with healthy beasts the following season.
Why is it all wet? Three? Two one? Put your

(11:35):
wall down? Everyone, alright, kids, let's see who has the
most wall clean and who's up for let's go around.
Oh my, you shared quite a bit this go round.
Calvin the Lord will be quite impressed. Good job, Clarence, Well,

(11:56):
someone had trouble with his wall. I've never picked knits. Well,
that sounds like something i'd offered. Would say, Oh dear,
you've got him ntorist their poor little thing in a
waste of perfectly good blood. Quick, let's get some eye
dot on that this. Well, Cliff, slow going there, Amax?

(12:28):
How is this a game? How is any of this connected? Well? Now,
I'm hardly an expert on such things, but maybe you
really can't find salvation pick advice from wool? Something here
is off? What's wrong with these people? Which is kids?

(12:49):
Hesitate to guess? But I can't stop them? You know, no, no,
no more killing. You promised, and I will keep that promise.
What did you want to play like that? You know?
I was worried I couldn't pull it off, But I
think I'm doing a bang up job, Max, giving up?

(13:12):
So soon go along, play your part. I will not
let them hurt you. And just what are you doing
over here? Talking to old Cliff? Well? The boy wants
to be an organist when he grows up, when he
grows up? Right, right, come on down, Max, back to
the game. Oh the door is locked. You gotta keep

(13:36):
the unholy out. I don't want to play any more games. Okay,
no more games? Then how about some punch? No, no more?
I just want to go home. Clarence, you who will
you serve? Max? Here? Some punch? Yes? Past? What is

(13:57):
this stuff? It's kind of right? Ms? Allens? Does it
taste very good? What does it taste like? I think
it tastes like nothing? Lovely pastor? H What now, Cliff?
I need you to look over this new music for tonight. Fine,

(14:19):
just a moment now, just relax, Max, enjoy your punch.
We'll be starting the ceremony soon. Hey, Clarence, what's fine?
That door in the back? Ms Allens says we're not
supposed to go in there? Only adults? Is there a
way out? Ms? Allens has The only way out is belief? Right?

(14:43):
Thanks for the hope. M hmm? What is this? Please?

(15:05):
What are all of these glades? Who is it? Who
goes there? Oh? It's marks. You're just in time, dear boy,
by which I mean you're early. What which with all
these knives, aren't they beautiful? The pastor brought these back
from his visit with the people. Just another game, Max,

(15:29):
Did the pastor tell you why we play these games?
He said, God likes games. Yes, yes he does, makes
very very good. This country is falling upon war is
constantly upon us. The economy is in shambles. There is
no hope for a human kind on this earth. God's
kingdom is the only salvation for our souls now. But

(15:53):
in the meantime, we shall not succumb to famine, disease, destitution.
We will not let these port chill, durn suffer. It
is our duty to care for the instant. Folks today
know only how to take. But long ago the people
knew that to receive, you have to be willing to give.
We only need follow their example to play their games

(16:15):
to ensure our survival. Full fields of corn, pastors teeming
with livestock, and oceans of black goal below the ground.
It's already been proven true, Max, And it's a bargain.
Only one sacrifice a year. What kind of sacrifice, oh Max,
Only the sacrifice of the Oxford. Oh Max, you didn't

(16:55):
drink your punch, You probably regret that children tie him up. Children,
all of you, well, blade cliff would you begin to him? Yes, fastor,

(17:16):
our ancient Lord, Your holy oblation has given us life,
and so we reflect it tonight in remembrance of you.
When tempted by the other, inspire me to be taken
as an unworthy sacrifice. When burdened by envy, let me
become an instrument of your file, so that you may

(17:38):
continue to bless us. We offer this young man as
holy apt may his blood, along with these offerings of
flora and fauna, please you and promise us another year
of bounty. What is it, Clifford? What's round? I don't know?

(18:04):
Pastor says, allow things to not shortires? Whose who can need?
From the slower room? Agent? It is It is us, Yes, Lord,

(18:26):
It is us, the lord of the field and forest
and the rock and br which has brought the own
of us, overs of shadow, and he who may not
be made he bls the shadow. Yes, yes, Lord, And
it is I Pastor d herts soul of man. You

(18:50):
will be found my setuary with the un worthy sacrifice.
What I forgive me? Father? I I don't understand. We
thought he was perfect. It's perfect. Just like all the
others will do as a command. This sucrifice is insulations. Yes, Father,

(19:19):
I'm sorry, my Lord. We beg your forgiveness. Friends get gone,
disgusting boy, the Lord finds you foul. Please forgive us, Father?
What would appease you better? Force? Two would make wordy sacrifices?

(19:41):
Only two you You will want us Lord a sacrifice? No,
not again? Not again? Yes nor no yes Lord, Oh no, no,

(20:09):
yes Lord. Thirteen Days of Halloween Devil's Night, starring Carter

(20:54):
Rockwood and Clancy Brown. Episode eight, The Church, written by
Trevor Young, Nicholas Takowski, and Alexander Williams. Editing and sound
design by Trevor Young, featuring the voices of Clayton Ferris,
Laura Shine, Gina Rikiki, and Lauren Vogelbaum. Directed by Alexander Williams,
Script supervision by Nicolas Takowski. Casting by Sunday Bowling c

(21:18):
s A and Meg Mormon c s A. Production coordinator
Wayna Calderon. Production assistants Zoe Shay and Amber Ferris. Animal
recording by Ben James, closing theme by Rose Azerti. Loyalty
Freak Music dot Com recorded at d G Entertainment in
Los Angeles, California. Engineered by Gary Forbes and Jody Abbott.

(21:42):
Executive producers Aaron Manky, Noah Finberg, Chris Dicky, Matt Frederick
and Alexander Williams. Supervising producers Trevor Young and Josh Than.
Producers Jesse Funk and rima Il Kali. Thirteen Days of
Halloween was created by Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams and
is a production of I Heeart three D Audio, Blumhouse

(22:04):
Television and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mackey. Learn more
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