highlights: "i saw a ghost" "...your name is john smith." "l e t m e s t a r t a g a i n" "s z s m s p i d e r s" All of this people probably had a real encounter with something but without spooky eye powers its so hard to put em together and its so damn AwKwArD

@Makujah_

4 жыл бұрын

"MC Gets-Sidetracked-Easily back in the heezy"

@joyfullyitdevours

4 жыл бұрын

a l o t o f s p i d e r s

@gibbcharron3469

4 жыл бұрын

@Ash S Yeah, they've said a few times that the Institute gets a ton of crank calls and whatnot. I think this episode demonstrates the (hilariously frustrating) process of separating the wheat from the chaff, especially without Jon around to compel proper coherent statements out of people.

@mimkyodar

4 жыл бұрын

@Ash S The funny thing is, because its on tape, its confirmed that it was real.

@themaninyourcomputer

3 жыл бұрын

"you know...t h e g o v e r m e n t" "...The government"

She really came in here and said "I saw a ghost. She was on fire. Then I moved away" and EXPECTED TO GET PAID???? GURL 💀😂

Obviously adhd is the only true defense against the spiral

@olympus10001

4 жыл бұрын

your brain's already in the spiral, that's why

@marinao4412

4 жыл бұрын

the stranger, too. remember that guy from a few episodes ago who zoned out so hard he entirely missed that a woman was offering to skin him and just left?

@SpaceCowboySlade

4 жыл бұрын

Neuro divergent people just be like that

@pinegay7204

4 жыл бұрын

Good to know I'm not the only one noticing that xD

@silverquill101

4 жыл бұрын

I'm immune then

joshua "freeze the key" gillepse and robin "i left the spiral for dinner" lennox need to meet

@ot7biasedmashups

Жыл бұрын

Okay but the girl just going back to sleep after being burnt by a ghost is also legendary😂😂

@karihuber3169

Жыл бұрын

Only one and a half brain cells in the whole series

@jemcarstairs8479

Жыл бұрын

And Karolina "guess I'll just lay down and die" Górka

@frogonthebikeheh

Жыл бұрын

@@jemcarstairs8479 She kinda went to sleep too 😂😂

@HUSoldier66

10 ай бұрын

They can get dinner with Sebastian "I completely ignored The Stranger and BSOD'd a living mannequin" Skinner

the concept of a guy entering that spiral, getting stuck for 6 hours, realizing he'll be late for dinner, and then just LEAVING that spiral is literally the funniest goddamn thing to happen in this podcast

@tanisrulerofall

4 жыл бұрын

tay totpson I kin that man

@tempusmars6272

4 жыл бұрын

The distortion must have been so pissed.

@voidmatic

4 жыл бұрын

@@tanisrulerofall I was honestly visibly shaking I was so mad at him at the end of that statement it drove me bonkers lol

@Parietal-Polymath

4 жыл бұрын

Apparently "anchors" are a key escaping The Lonely, The Spiral, and The Buried. Perhaps The Vast as well

@marinao4412

4 жыл бұрын

the english are just like that

I just realized how scary Jon would be on a date or smthn. He asks you one semi-personal question, accidentally uses his powers, and the next thing you know you're giving a horrifyingly detailed explanation of your deepest darkest fears for the whole restaurant to hear.

@dendakrmelova1201

4 жыл бұрын

thAT WOULD BE ACTUALLY SO FUNNY ANSKSAL- jon would be just sitting there like '👁️👄👁️alrighty m8'

@f_mva

3 жыл бұрын

he probably wouldn't even notice, he'd just nod along and mindlessly turn on his tape recorder

@purplecatloverrandompizza

2 жыл бұрын

After: and that's why I have a deep fear of rejection. Jon recording: I see. Stateme- shit. Wait that wasn't- GOD DAMMIT ELIAS

@broblerone413

Жыл бұрын

lol this is a hilarious thought! i can kinda imagine what it'd be like since for some reason people constantly feel the need to spill their guts and tell me their life story. it would get so freaking frustating

@reluctantlysmol4274

Жыл бұрын

that's a good comedy bit ngl

Basira is clearly used to taking people's statements, I love the character consistency.

@Vi_Vi_1

Жыл бұрын

Those details are what make me love this series extra

I would kill for Martin "you could pour soup in my lap and I'd probably apologize to you' Blackwood

@maxwilson2785

4 жыл бұрын

She was a bit rude and difficult and then Martin apologized and paid her??

@broblerone413

Жыл бұрын

@@maxwilson2785 not to mention she likely made the story up for money

I love the entire episode being dedicated to the rest of them struggling without Jons powers

@megalunalexi5601

4 жыл бұрын

my patience is struggling without Jon's powers O_O

@jakebrill5990

4 жыл бұрын

Lol I never thought about it like that

@roseclearwater9904

2 жыл бұрын

Lol 😂 this is to funny I didn’t even think of that being the reason all his statement givers come out so consistently well told

@TheGoauldApophis

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard this episode many times and this only occurred to me today.

@broblerone413

Жыл бұрын

this is so freaking funny, i had actually been wondering how all the statement-givers were so good at speaking during statements

martins awkward exchange with the girl will never NOT be funny oh my god him giving her the money for coffee yet being like maybe not as much as a macchiato is COMEDY GOLD LMAOO

@megalunalexi5601

4 жыл бұрын

I'm DYING of second hand embarrassment

@horrificreader4084

3 жыл бұрын

It hurt to listen to, like dude you could have got a coffee.

@rita6355

3 жыл бұрын

Martin is such a lovely Man I love him

@MakeItPossible2011

3 жыл бұрын

Alex said that he improvised the scene where he gives her the money, that makes it even better 😂

@americantoastman7296

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was screaming with... Idk second hand embarrassment? Like Martin, my poor bean, that girl made up the whole story for money and now you feel like you have let her down and she deserves some compensation? Nooooooo. I get it, you sweet little man, but nooooooooo

so i feel bad for martin bc he was just so awkward but robin, i think it was, talking about his dog? that’s just adhd tbh

@thefluffyaj4119

4 жыл бұрын

yea i have adhd pretty bad (surprised this podcast has kept my attention for this long) and the whole time i was watching (listening?) to that guys statement i couldnt help but think "thats adhd babey" cuz i talk pretty much exactly like him. cant keep a coherent story for the life of me

@lokimemes4694

4 жыл бұрын

TheFluffy AJ I have it too, and yeah this is STRONG adhd energy

@Lightning-ik3so

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to know everyone else could feel the adhd too lol

@Jouninbaka

4 жыл бұрын

@@thefluffyaj4119 lmao glad i'm not the only one who resonated with him

@HokoriChanXD

3 жыл бұрын

I honestly wanted to strangle that girl =__= But with Robin I was crying the whole time to Basira to just give him a piece of paper! Hon, just. Just give him a pen and maybe tea and gtfo of there ;__;

imagine michael traps someone in his weird hell corridor dimension and its this guy who just decides to leave bc he'll miss dinner

@cappuccino1645

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know if Michael would be impressed or annoyed.

@namaschu9418

3 жыл бұрын

@@cappuccino1645 bored maybe

@Barely_Here

3 жыл бұрын

well the idea about the endless stuff is to have something to anchor you to leave. for example the underwater lady snapped out of the vision and escaped falling into an endless ocean by having her had touch something sharp and that broke the trance, and i dont know if its tied to the endless crowd that didnt have people is related, but that person snapped out of it by anchoring himself with the vision of his mother.

@amniamin22

3 жыл бұрын

@@cappuccino1645 I spent hours working on this elaborate Spiral maze it's my proudest invention oh look here comes a victim now hahaha I can't wait to see his face as he slowly breaks into insanity - wait. Wait where's he going? He's LEAVING?! He can't do THAT!!

@RainWelsh

3 жыл бұрын

@@amniamin22 literally though! Like Joe Spooky’s in there doing his best Old Man Crying Noises, rubbing his hands together like “oooh, I wonder if this one will last for days before he goes insane, or weeks, or months, or... Well, fuck.” I like the idea of him meeting up with Megan (who failed to adequately spook Sebastian the himbo plumber) and just going on a rant about how people just don’t appreciate fine artisanal scares these days.

god jon really was the thing holding shit together huh. ive been binging these, and i loved all of them but always found difficulty with suspending the disbelief that all the stories are told so detailed and calmly and dramatically, when describing horrible death and trauma. its cool to see that it was actually just jon accidentally compelling them the whole time, and if they didnt have him itd just be this nonsense 24/7.

@pianos4095

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@megalunalexi5601

4 жыл бұрын

I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING. I'm glad they addressed it but I am struggling with this episode

@HyacinthoIgnis

4 жыл бұрын

if this kind of shit is what jon had to read through before season1 i dont blame him for being so snappy in season1 because w h e w

@freya951

4 жыл бұрын

TOTALLY! I wonder if this was always planned, or if they decided to write it as a bit of a response to all the comments I saw saying the same thing. It gives me meta-giggles to think about it.

@Child_of_Fae

3 жыл бұрын

Well Jon mentioned at #1 that he made a special category for statements like this because there were so many, we just never had to listen to them before

Martin's was terribly, humorously, PAINFULLY awkward. Tim's was mostly just "meh, okay" (=.=) which turned into a "yeah, eff you too" >:[ Basira's kept going out of tangent and she's exhaustively tried to bring the dude back to the point of the story. And then Melanie's just trying her best to get a statement but the dude is traumatizing himself even further. And John's most likely tied up in a van somewhere.

@f_mva

3 жыл бұрын

i had forgotten about jon. oh no.

@Ghostrecall_M

3 жыл бұрын

Eh, could be worst.

@just_a_cryptid

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ghostrecall_M you know a usually Thursday

@elle8058

2 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@holycarp1676

2 жыл бұрын

....with an arm out of a tail light by now.

The spiral guy is 100% proof that not being scared is the best way to get out of the thrall or whatever of the entities. He straight up went "oh shit I'm gonna be late for dinner, so now I will leave." and then HE DID!!

@ANDELE3025

Жыл бұрын

The real fear that not one of the entities can capture is the fear of the consequences of being late to mom (or grandma) making a family dinner.

@torcaace

Жыл бұрын

also the plumber in the episode about the Stranger's skin-doll house where he left after he didn't notice anything weird going on in the place, not even the weird shit the puppets were saying, let alone the puppets, so they called him again and immediately just revealed themselves to be puppets just to scare him. (he got scared and immediately started beating everyone up. he's probably dead though. rip to a real one)

@rhyelm

Жыл бұрын

@@torcaacehow could you guys forget Karolina "I'll just sleep in a crushing train" Górka

@torcaace

Жыл бұрын

@@rhyelm she's #3-4 on my list lol

@flamingtorrent2109

Жыл бұрын

“And i left” THATS THE SECRET EVERYONE. Spooky shit happening? JUST LEAVE. If shit sucks, hit da bricks!

I love this episode. They all had encounters with the one of the big baddies but their statements ended up being nonsensical just because Jon wasn't present with his freaky power to compel them to compose spooky poetry. Not to mention their encounters are hilarious? The first woman just kept going back to sleep? The second guy instead of saying something creepy like "the dark ate my friend" thinks that the GOVERNMENT did it???? What??? Like they are just skulking around there waiting for people to break into a tube station??? The third guy just left. I feel bad for the fourth guy but I love how normal he sounded while describing his problem unlike the ghost spider guy.

@frogonthebikeheh

Жыл бұрын

The jacket day guy was amazing. He wasn't having any of that stuff. Dinner was important. *_"So I just left..."_*

@table2.0

9 ай бұрын

@@frogonthebikehehhe’s the most casual guy ever XD :0 wait- do you think his uncaring attitude towards it is what let him leave? The stranger feeds on the fear of the unknown and uncanny- this guy was just walking his dog in the spiral for 6 hours and casually left to go have dinner XDD

@OFS_Razgriz

9 ай бұрын

@@table2.0 They all feed on fear. If you're not afraid, merely curious, they have no real control over you. This is probably why Elias is practically untouchable - he knows a lot, he's accumulated a lot of power, and he has a contingency for literally every situation, so he has nothing to fear.

i love how the only sure thing to combat the powers so far is being so absent minded you barely notice smth's weird

@rainy1835

4 жыл бұрын

true, though we also got the coffin guy who knew something was weird but basically just went "nnnope, fuck that" lol

@starsixseven9259

4 жыл бұрын

"Scary monsters? you do you boo. you do you."

@holicandy01

4 жыл бұрын

It's like they used to say about bullying "dont react the way they want and they will leave you alone" or those ghosts that "feed on your fear!" and the heroes win by not fearing! Once an armed robber went after a good friend of mine and in a mindless reaction he slaped the gun from the man's hand, the robber collected his gun and ran away. After that my friend was in panic, but everything was fine and he could laugh about it. Maybe we are safe from a lot of things we dont notice? Like when someone rushes to you and say "you almost got hit/tripped" by or on something you didnt even see. Holy heck am I giving an statement?! Am I going to *notice* something now that woll cause me to react and give it the powerchancemotice to get me???? help

@DerMoerpler

3 жыл бұрын

@@winterwolf211 "Why don't people trust their instincts? They sense something is wrong, someone is walking too close behind them. You knew something was wrong. You came back into the house. Did I force you, did I drag you in? No. All I had to do was offer you a drink." - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Curiousity, while also responsible for the progress of humanity, can be a dangerous thing. Though there are several people in this podcast that got into their situation by no fault of their own or when they realized that something was off, it was already way too late. That's what I like about it, there are not many people in the statements that are 80s-Slasher-Movie levels of stupid.

@torcaace

Жыл бұрын

the gigachad plumber in the MAG 87: The Uncanny Valley comes to mind. Dude went into Megan's Stranger skin-doll producing factory, never understood anything about the skinning humans stuff she was saying to him, literally removed a corpse stuck in a pipe and fucking left. The Stranger's avatars were so baffled he didn't notice shit they called him to come a second time and had to literally emove their puppet heads for him to notice. He then got scared and started throwing hands with the puppets. (rip to a real one)

ok martin just murdered my soul through second hand embarrassment but i related HARD to Basira just being completely nonplussed by robin just choosing to leave the Spiral......goddddd i love these characters so much

@frogonthebikeheh

Жыл бұрын

Basira was flabbergasted

Wow. That is in... Stark contrast to what statements we heard with the Archivist. I guess getting a dramatic creepy story out of someone isn't as easy without creepy eyeball powers.

@francofoohs2667

4 жыл бұрын

heheh i was the 420th like hehehehehehhe

@cawareyoudoin7379

3 жыл бұрын

@@francofoohs2667 Nice.

@f_mva

3 жыл бұрын

it's so funny... martin is trying his best but he can't compel them to go all lyrical like jon can, poor bby

@allenl5960

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently, it's not just a 'spill your beans!' but also has a 'please get back on track' ability and either enhancing memory or dragging the memory back out of a person power as well. Which I guess would makes things go much smoother, considering how some people wait a year or two before deciding to give their statements.

@cawareyoudoin7379

3 жыл бұрын

@@allenl5960 Yeah. Are you commenting as you go along? First time?

"Who are you?" "I'm uh.... Smith" "... just Smith?" "John! John Smith" "Jooohn" "Smith" "............your name is John Smith" "John Smith" Why was this so funny

@ravenwing6872

2 жыл бұрын

It's literal poetry

@Ghostrecall_M

Жыл бұрын

You try coming up with a fake name on the spot.

@Pineapplecrispy

4 ай бұрын

That’s like fake name 101

@royalknightsleipmon2345

3 ай бұрын

Actually yeah it probably was a fake name given he went full conspiracy theorist about the evil government experiments underground.

"I woke up and... ghost!" Absolutely KILLED me!

@stephenguivara8388

2 жыл бұрын

Same lmao

@AshIzDead

9 ай бұрын

she is so useless 😂

I actually think is kinda refreshing to hear awkward statements like this from time to time instead of somber stories with the unknown. Lets me know there's actually "normal" people in the TMA universe

@Companion92

4 жыл бұрын

I guess the others are also normal, but get effected by the archivists and tell their story differnet because of it

@beltaya276

3 жыл бұрын

i think its just jons eye powers making them tell spooky wonderfully written stories about their trauma dfshkfdjh

@dyld921

3 жыл бұрын

The point is that they're all normal but the presence of the archivist compels them to tell their stories coherently

@SuperClass3000

3 жыл бұрын

I completely agree like I know people keep saying it's about like Jon's powers and whatnot but I think this is refreshing for a different reason like this is the other half you know like there are stories that actually are just nothing and crazy and stupid though I think most of you still would probably have some relevance later on I think this is refreshing cuz it's like this is what real people would be like if they had to tell the story about something happening nobody has their s*** together

"Statement. Ends." Lmao, I can actually _hear_ the life draining out of Tim thanks to John Smith.

the increase of um uhs really highlights the awkwardness of telling a story without weird archivist powers to help you out lmao

I mean this episode just explained how the spookies stay hidden. Seeing a spooky is damn near impossible to put into words, without the archivists power they're just incoherent rambling. I also love that all of these stories probably happened and are extremely useful but without Jon's power barely any information can be gathered from them

@parisb8084

3 жыл бұрын

According to one of the Q&As all of these statements are considered real!

@Vi_Vi_1

Жыл бұрын

Right? It's such a cool way to show just now unique the Archivist's powers are, and why so much of this goes undetected

The spiral clearly booted Robin as fast as it possibly could. I'm crying laughing omg

@nanahuatli2144

4 жыл бұрын

It wasn't as fast as possible. It held him for six hours and the guy didn't even notice! So I guess at that point it gave up, spat him out and spent the rest of the night sulking.

@veselinnedkov643

3 жыл бұрын

@@nanahuatli2144 kinda reminds me of The Uncanny Valley, where everyone is so stunned that the plumber doesn't notice the. Mess. So they just let him go and then call him again during the day.

@americantoastman7296

3 жыл бұрын

@@veselinnedkov643 yeeeeah good call! Its so weird, all these entities seem to care a LOT about being seen. Another example - the fucking blanket monster. Couldve just doinked our dude the first night. But no, it had to play ring around the rosie for three weeks just so it could pull a big ol m night shyamalan at some arbitrary point. So unprofessional...

@Dunedien

3 жыл бұрын

@@americantoastman7296 First time listener but I’m guessing it’s because they feed on the fear as much as the person’s death. So if the person doesn’t notice or isn’t afraid there’s no point and they lose their hold on you. Like the girl that got out because she fell asleep in the train station lmao

@americantoastman7296

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dunedien yeah great point actually

If the next ep doesn't start with 'Statement of Michael Spiral regarding a random ass dude that left for dinner' I don't wanna hear it

@lilalino

2 ай бұрын

i mean you weren't competely wrong lmao (yes i know this comment is 3 years old)

@marisapyav4688

2 ай бұрын

@@lilalino Ill have you know that I've had to go look up what the next episode is about (my brain isnt good at the remember) and I went though all the stages of grief again, thanks! (Time is meaningless in this place)

So I just listened to the assistant round table and found out that Martin giving the girl money wasn't even in the script. Apparently Alex just did a bit of improv and the actress was actually desperately trying not to laugh. I love this entire cast so much.

I know others have said this, but when talking about this podcast one of my main criticisms has always been "people are too coherent, they remember everything perfectly, it's so detailed." and to understand now, fully, with one episode what I was already starting to understand because of Jon's powers- it recontextualizes everything. It adds such a beautiful layer and explains it so well and demonstrates it. This episode is painful to listen to. and I LOVE IT. It feels so reassuring. I miss the Archivist now.

@-S.L.

2 жыл бұрын

IKR!?! it really shows how different the assistants are from the Archivist even tho they can all get the Will Graham Super Empathy Effect when they record the statements for the Eye - but a lot of the old statements that were given on paper weren't "compelled" by the Archivist. Prentiss wrote hers out in the foyer/lobby or whatever and only interacted with the lady at the desk, and the guy in Dreamer wanted to speak to Gertrude but the only option he was given was writing it down - before Jon's time as Archivist began it seems like it was mostly written statements, not oral ones. So that suggests the Compelling effect works without the Archivist speaking to you themselves, but Gertrude would probably have been around - which makes me wonder if the Archivist only needs to be present in the building for the Eye to have that effect on people giving written statements without Archivist interaction?

the dog walker dude is a phat mood. i psychiatrist once turned to my mom when i was in the middle of a tangent and said "you realize its not normal for people to talk like this, right?"

@imlovedavepetab3374

4 жыл бұрын

... it's not?

@TheNitpickChick

3 жыл бұрын

Ah... ADHD , my old friend. 😅 The way that dude talks is my mind 24/7. Just going off on long, rambling tangents constantly, and then I have to stop and force myself back to my original train of thought. Like “Wait... How did I end up analysing my feelings about lava lamps? What was I doing before this, again? ...Oh right! I was listening to a podcast, but I got sidetracked and had to pause so I could stare off into space for half an hour!” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@everythingcoffee8901

3 жыл бұрын

​@@TheNitpickChick ...listening to a podcast and thinking about a different podcast

@americantoastman7296

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheNitpickChick i dont think i have adhd but mood. If I let myself, I can get distracted soooo easily. One second im doing something, the next Im wondering how I ended up five meta layers deep in a completely different topic in my head.

@jamiel6005

3 жыл бұрын

Wait it’s not

Honesty, I can't help but picture the Spiral and/or Michael just kicking Robin Lennox out when they realized he went in more circles than they did LOL

*I AM DYING.* I LOVE THAT THERE'S A NARRATIVE REASON FOR THE STORIES THAT ARE TOLD TO JON BEING SO DRAMATIC AND WELL-TOLD. I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE A TAD UNREALISTIC BUT THIS IS SO WELL EXECUTED AND AWKWARD!

@horrificreader4084

3 жыл бұрын

I always thought the people Jon was listening to were profesional story tellers.

@f_mva

3 жыл бұрын

there's an in-universe explanation for everything, it's incredible

@olivers.4737

8 ай бұрын

TBH, the fact that even the most uneducated low-life previously gave a well rounded story, beautifully paced with good narrative and langage was my first clue that The Institute was part of the strange entities (back in late season 1, where no Power was clearly identified, innocents days....)

this is my first comment on one of these episodes but I just need to say I physically withered when Martin forked over the coffee change

@f_mva

3 жыл бұрын

this man really is too pure for the archives

@americantoastman7296

3 жыл бұрын

Lmaooooo

Martin guilt tripping himself into buying that girl a coffee lmao

I'm in stitches, these are so horribly awkward. I never worked in customer service, but from all the stories I heard I imagine _this_ is exactly how most of the conversations go.

@HyacinthoIgnis

4 жыл бұрын

you're not wrong lmao, i heavily related to how tired tim was in this

@someoneawesome8717

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's pretty much this, almost every day

@juniper-moss

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much, yes 😂

@asoaringheart

2 жыл бұрын

IT IS YOU'RE NOT WRONG PEOPLE JUST TELL THEIR RAMBLING LIFE'S STORIES

My heart goes out to the poor man with the spider problem talking to........ it's really hard for me to differentiate Melanie and Basira's voices, but I know it must be one of them.

@Record_Scratch

4 жыл бұрын

He's talking to Melanie. Whenever I have a problem differentiating their voices I just focus on the way they talk to others. Their attitudes are way too different lol.

@late_prince8945

4 жыл бұрын

You can also check info under video. Voice actors are usually listed on order as they appeared.

@JesseColton

4 жыл бұрын

There voices confuse me a bit too, it's usually the tone that helps you tell them apart. Melanie is annoyed by everything and Basira is just unfazed

@icewave3031

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah same, the transcripts are helpful for that

@horrificreader4084

3 жыл бұрын

How do you pronounce Calliope? Cal lo phe Or cal lo pee

Never realized how helpful Jon's powers were LMAO

@stephenguivara8388

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr

robin is me doing basic tasks and repeating half of the shit i say because i dont remember a damn thing

@8ball191

4 жыл бұрын

BRIAN IS SO FICKINGFUNNY IM SO SORRY SIR

@8ball191

4 жыл бұрын

IM LOSING MY MIIIND JOHN SMITH WILDING..

"So I left." "You-- huh?" "I was gonna be late to dinner, so"

I like to imagine Michael let Robin leave the Spiral just because he thought it would be funny. He was right too.

The way Jon says “I guess you had to be there” 👁👄👁

@takeoats

Жыл бұрын

YEAH!

finally commenting on this episode because it's the only one i've absolutely had to pause, because holy shit. i'll take those 99 episodes of horror and suspense easy. secondhand embarrassment is a poison i'm not immune to

@ariannekinnersley552

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness, someone understands my pain! Having to pause and walk away for a bit and prepare.

@f_mva

3 жыл бұрын

spiders, flesh, monsters? eh. now THIS is my greatest fear...

@americantoastman7296

3 жыл бұрын

Saaaaame! Dude whisper the creepiest shit into my ear and Ill come back for seconds, but make me witness someone stumbling their way through an incoherent train of thought??? Make me hear Martin 'precious bean' Blackwood fork over "not quite enough money for a Macchiato" and apologize(?!?!) to some random person who only came in to scam them (presumably)???? Dude I am OUT!

You know one thing i've been thinking through out this series is "it sure is lucky that ALL of the people who come in to give statements are such eloquent detailed story tellers" And I kept wondering what it would really be like for the average person to try telling a good coherent story to someone in this situation. Now I know. Pour one out for these poor souls, god Martin's end conversation gave me so much second hand pain I suppose the archivist's powers also make people better at speaking, so that explains a lot 😂 I probably should have figured that by now.

@Child_of_Fae

3 жыл бұрын

I think the main point ist that 90% of the statements are written statements were people just sit in the room alone and write it down without being interrupted with questions. I mean there were like at least 5 statements like the dog guy statement were people wrote solid 5 minutes about a poem or a childhood memory before comming to the real event. The institute should go back to this tactic, saving a bunch of time and nerves for everyone xD

the audio distorsion when something Odd happens freaks me out so much i love it

@aesynthi6884

4 жыл бұрын

ikr i flinched so hard when the distortion at the end happened

@NaturallyCapricious

Жыл бұрын

I love listening to distorted versions of songs I like, try that out at like 3 in the morning while drawing or something. 10/10 experience would highly recommend.

As a person who has worked in customer service for two years, I fully empathize with with the protagonists this episode. This is exactly what working in CS is like. People want something from you, but refuse to tell you what it is. A customer has a problem that takes 30 seconds to fix, but instead they will take five minutes to tell you everything except the information you need to fix it. And, finally, customers yelling at you for something your company has no control over or isn't even related to your company in the slightest.

the dog guy is hands down my new favourite character ever

@Ghostrecall_M

3 жыл бұрын

"Robin but my friends call me Rob, atleast I think they do"

@Vi_Vi_1

3 жыл бұрын

"so I got out of the spiral and went to dinner" XD

@daringromanVA

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vi_Vi_1 no one: Robin : " yea so- uh- I just left and didn't think twice about whatever tf happened- "

@broblerone413

Жыл бұрын

"you know when you look outside and say 'it's jacket weather'"

gOD THAT MAN WITH THE DOG DROVE ME BONKERS ITS WAS LIKE,,, TEN MINUTES AND ALL I KNEW WAS THAT THERE WAS A GUY AND HE WALKED A DOG IN THE WOODS. and then,,, and then he LEFT??? HE L E F T ARE YOU K I D D I N G ME?? anyways fun times at the magnus institute

This girl who sees a whole ass ghost and just goes back to sleep and this kid who just up and leaves the spiral death trap when he's late for dinner are my idols I wish I was half as nonchalant as these two

@Ghostrecall_M

Жыл бұрын

We adapted to have ADHD to increase our chances against the Spiral.

@dannyg.4421

Жыл бұрын

I think the spiral story is true actually but I think the girl was making hers up because she thought they bought stories from people.

@zGabaz

Жыл бұрын

I completely lost my sides with the girl as well, lmao. How can she NOT CARE that much hahahahahaha

@kaydeejohnson2028

10 ай бұрын

@@dannyg.4421I mean if I were making up stories for money, I’d at least try to not look sus

@dannyg.4421

10 ай бұрын

@kaydeejohnson2028 well my theory was that she wasn't trying to pass it off as real, she thought they just bought supernatural stories. Now I think they were all real but I won't ruin why I think so because it comes later.

Did Peter just launch that poor dude into void

@apollyoniguess

4 жыл бұрын

at least no more spiders

@mimkyodar

4 жыл бұрын

Nah. Peter doesn't work for the void ;)

@TheNitpickChick

3 жыл бұрын

Ky0dar - Loneliness is a void of its own sort, wouldn’t you say? Not the same, but not so different either. 😉

@FirstnameLastname-bn4gv

3 жыл бұрын

Is it revealed later what happened to him?

@TheNitpickChick

3 жыл бұрын

Firstname Lastname - Not that I’m aware of. Once Peter decides someone needs some alone time, they’re not usually heard from again. :(

"If I were trapped in the middle of an eldritch spiral, I would just leave. RIP to you guys, but I'm different." - Dog Guy

Jon, please come back, we're suffering.

@just_a_cryptid

2 жыл бұрын

No. He's having a forced vacation.

Elias, sitting in his office, getting a voice from the ether: "Dang, these suck, man. It's like eating a bag of chips, there's no nutritional value here. When is Jon coming back?"

this was actually a really great way to celebrate 100 episodes, a slight break featuring a good amount of the cast with some humor...I think I needed it, thank you. I've been binging these this past week and the amount of anxiety I normally experience has about tripled and it's not because of the spookies--- it's because of JON

@broblerone413

Жыл бұрын

an episode of comedic relief is just what we needed after 99 intense episodes

RIP Brian tho... bright side, no more spiders?

@MyAnanin

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, i'd take the Lonly over spider stuff any day!

Robin: are you a dog person? Basira: *sweats perfusely*

@TheNitpickChick

3 жыл бұрын

Okay, that made me snort. 😆

"What people are down there in the tunnels..Mr. Smith" "You know.... The Government" 💀💀💀

the dog guy was driving me crazy asdfghjjghk he seems like a sweet guy but oh my god...... .... please wrangle your train of thought

@eliwhite6159

4 жыл бұрын

well i guess him being so unfocused saved him from the spiral. Somehow. Maybe. Or maybe michael kidnapped him after the interview and we'll see him dog walking down the corridors, who knows

@pianos4095

4 жыл бұрын

I liked it, dogs are good :), just wanted to hear more about his dog tbh

@maxwilson2785

4 жыл бұрын

I really liked it, I wanted to hear what he had to say but Basira kept cutting him off 😔

@amphitritemists4595

3 жыл бұрын

I want to bring him back and have Jon get him to tell his story because it sounds like a good one🤣

@americantoastman7296

3 жыл бұрын

@@maxwilson2785 i really wanted to hear him talk more about his dog! Seemed like a real good dog! A real cute dog!

The true horror: English awkwardness

It never occurred to me that without The Archivist it would be exponentially harder to collect adequate statements.

this was a genius way to introduce how jon's powers really work while also giving us a comedic break. i was beaming from ear to ear the whole episode. truly phenomenal work from all cast and crew, although i don't know why i'm surprised anymore lmao

I love how IRL most of this episode was also improv. The actors just got given a small description of what to say and they had to improvise from the LMAO

THe GOvErNmEnT- Goddamn killed me.

@schematicb5393

2 жыл бұрын

That and Tim's response were so funny

Shout out to my man Robin for not having any of this supernatural crap. He is out there walking his dog, visiting his mother for dinner and living his best life, what a legend

The pure chaotic energy of the archival assistant squad trying to operate without Jon’s powers to make subjects coherent morphing into pure the horror and dread of listening to an innocent man being subjugated to the Lucas family’s bullshit is so seemless yet still strangely jarring

@consistencyiskey_

9 ай бұрын

Lol! I'm glad to find a comment about the Lucas family on here with that ending, felt bad for the poor guy just saying "Hello?" over and over. Wonder how much time he needed lol

I love that these might all actually be connected to powers and are in at least 2 cases!(?imo) But without jon or even like context they don't know?!

@angelica1042

4 жыл бұрын

I honestly love that little detail. They’re important stories and seem like they would be in a normal episode, but without John it’s not coherent

@parisb8084

3 жыл бұрын

According to one of the Q&As all of these statements are real!

@TheNitpickChick

3 жыл бұрын

If we’re hearing a statement, then it’s on tape, which means it’s legit. No matter how incoherent the statement giver is. lol 😂

this is fantastic! all of these stories connect to previous themes but bc john and his archivist powers arent there, theres not coherent story to put them together lolol, hilarious thank you

1:05 Lynne Hammond, Pt. 1 4:44 “John Smith”, Pt. 1 8:08 Robin “Rob” Lennox, Pt. 1 11:26 Bryn Finlinson, Pt. 1 14:52 Lynne Hammond, Pt. 2 18:41 “John Smith”, Pt. 2 19:18 Robin “Rob” Lennox, Pt. 2 21:12 Brian Finlinson, Pt. 2

"it was scary and it made me feel scared" thats a big mood with this podcast lmao

That third one sounded like a really bad d+d dm explaining a room in d and d

@sandymcneish7820

5 жыл бұрын

That... didn't come out the way I wanted it to...uh... POOR BRIAN AM I RIGHT HEHEHE

The funny bit is that if you recall, the only "true" stories Jon had encountered were the ones that only worked on tape. So it implies these rambling people actually did have something to them if they weren't recorded digitally or something. Or maybe they just felt like getting into Jon character and used the tape...

@Jas-ii2bi

4 жыл бұрын

i mean at least some of them seem fairly legitimate. The spiral and the spiders are both precedented things. Idk about the others but its definitely possible

@mimkyodar

4 жыл бұрын

Jon also used a laptop to check if they were legitimate. If they record on digital - not legitimate

@f_mva

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jas-ii2bi the lady on fire definitely wasn't real, the woman almost admitted she only went to give a statement because she thought she'd get paid

@Jas-ii2bi

3 жыл бұрын

@@f_mva just because the only reason she Told Them was to get paid doesnt mean that she made the Whole Thing up though... I think from what we know it very much could have been a real encounter. It's not like her story is the most bizarre thing in the archives so I dont see why it wouldn't be especially as it records to tape not digital

@theprideling

3 жыл бұрын

@@f_mva In an interview Jonny Sims confirmed that all of the statements in this episode are legitimately supernatural... which tbh only makes it funnier how blasé ghost-on-fire lady was about the whole thing 💀

first of all this episode is HILARIOUS and Tim is just, so, so, done. martin tried being so helpful but dear God. basira, your poor poor girl you got stuck with the guy not even the Spiral wanted to tolerate. and, damn, Lukas, Elias is protective over his people? I can only imagine if he weren't, jesus

People: die by the hand of the spiral The dog guy: *_so I just left..._*

Robin is a mad lad

I can totally picture in my head Tim's expression on his face while he was speaking to "Smith"

In the transcripts, there's a subtitle that's literally "[Desperately trying to get him on track]"

A hundred episodes in and this is, by a landslide, the most painful thing I have had to listen to.

You KNOW Elias is watching all this with popcorn in hand

bro no wonder elias didnt want to hand jon over to the cops. when he does statements and the eye (i GUESS) gives him the compelling people to overshare powers they go so much smoother. imagine having the powers to know things and just hearing the questions going back and forth in the archive all day, i'd go insane.

@HyacinthoIgnis

4 жыл бұрын

"at that point i left" DSGDJGSJDGSHGDJGSHDGSHD IM LOSING IT

@HyacinthoIgnis

4 жыл бұрын

the spider dude oh my godddddddddddddddddd

@HyacinthoIgnis

4 жыл бұрын

PETER LUKAS??????? "good luck brian" bro?? peter you cant just do thatdghsgdjgshjgdhh

@nanahuatli2144

4 жыл бұрын

The power isn't passive like Jon's, luckily, so he can only listen in when he's focusing.

@HyacinthoIgnis

4 жыл бұрын

@@nanahuatli2144 yeah but i wrote this with assumption that he was feeding from statements like jon was

omg thank god jon has eye powers because we've been spared from statements like this the whole series... imagine if we had to sit through 2 and a half seasons of this urfkjdnvcxmjknm

@just_a_cryptid

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I don't think I would have stuck around

the spider statement was the funniest this guys just like "THATS NOT N O R MA L !" n she has no idea what to do lmao

"Today is a jacket day" and "Have you heard many old me cry?" Are the best lines of this episode lmao

@santiagocastaneda7276

2 жыл бұрын

I scrolled too far to find this truth

HE JUST LEFT IM 💀💀💀

IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO JACKY THE DOG I SWEAR TO GOD

Lynne and Robin are both clearly avatars of The Ignorance.

@elmfwa

4 ай бұрын

Nah, they're avatars of The Chad.

@Misty_Grey744

20 күн бұрын

Don’t forget Joshua from episode 2! Bro had an evil coffin in his house and just went “nah”

halfway through and i'm convinced this episode happened the way it did because people complained about language used in the statements taken directly from subjects and how unrealistic it was for people to speak that way. message received mr sims, no more complaining about people speaking too well.

@klltsun_2576

4 жыл бұрын

But Georgie had trouble starting her story, and found it easier after Jon asked/compelled her. I'm not sure if there were other hints in previous episodes, but it's that one that gave me the idea.

@SI-nx3fo

3 жыл бұрын

@@klltsun_2576 there was also that one time when Melanie came in to make a statement while Jon wasn't there, and Martin (i think?) offered to take it but she didn't seem to know where to start and asked if she couldn't "just see Jon"!! im pretty sure there's been other hints too that's just the one that stuck with me

@mimkyodar

3 жыл бұрын

Also, Daisys first episode, she clearly offers up stuff she doesn't want to, after he directly asks her.

This episode is great and I love it, but it’s also kind of infuriating.

@Vinnybin

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly I'm about to go bonkers listening to the spider one oh my *god*

"so what did you do? You're waking up in the night and seeing a woman is in fire in your flat so you...? "I mean what can you do? She wouldn't be there for long." That is hardcore. Just watching a woman burn to death in your flat.

@f_mva

3 жыл бұрын

i mean, im pretty sure the lady was making it up for the supposed money, didn't she almost admit it?

@germanerd6148

3 жыл бұрын

@@f_mva in a Q&A the author said that that story was true just like every statement we hear in the podcast. That woman just wouldn't have told anyone about it without money

this was the funniest thing ive heard in a while skksndkshak i was almost crying. i feel like the actors of the statement givers were having a great time with it all + there were some great deliveries this episode!!

@nanahuatli2144

4 жыл бұрын

So much talent for one-time appearances! Rusty Quill has either a lot of contacts or a knack for finding talent.

@parisb8084

3 жыл бұрын

Nanahuatli all of the statement givers work at/used to work at Rusty Quill! The lady that saw the ghost is Lowri Ann Davis who produces basically every episode; the guy that thought it was a government conspiracy was James Ross who played Bertie on Rusty Quill Gaming; the guy who left the spiral was Martyn Pratt who is the technical director; the spider guy is Bryn Monroe who plays Hamid on Rusty Quill Gaming!

Oh my god the first girl’s statement was low-key frustrating. I was able to explain the event that made me enjoy the supernatural and paranormal stuff when I was in 2nd grade in more detail back then than that lady could. So frustrating.

@darlingrosiebun8952

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr 😭 she was giving him nothing to work with

@williamlosing1t

3 жыл бұрын

She was the worst

Martin's awkward talk with the lady made me more uncomfortable than anything else so far, it was painful.

I feel like this is not only to highlight Jon’s powers/necessity but also as a big “WE KNOW WHAT WE’RE DOING” to the people complain about the statements being unrealistic and “people don’t talk like that” etc. bet they were waiting to do this episode for so long, lol.

i love that while the others are just at various level frustration with the statement givers here, melanie actually has the right idea as to why the statements aren't coherent. she's given a couple of statements to jon before, but she also tried to give one to martin in episode 84. when she did, she stumbled over her sentences, interrupted her story to go back and explain something further, and just gave up and asked martin if she could talk to jon about it. she probably already suspected that jon's powers had a clarifying narrative effect, but this was a firm confirmation.

That ep was so frustrating IT KILLED ME. the girl with Martin? If she had been in front of me I'd have send her away in no time. The spider dude? Clearly the lad has a phobia and needs help, give him a cookie and a therapist's adress. I think 60% of the Archivist's assistants' job is to deal with people like that 😂

This episode is the best bit of acting and character interaction so far

Martin is so patient.

I'm only a few minutes in, but I can feel all the effort Martin is putting to try and ask questions as John does

This episode is so difficult to listen to but I feel like this is deadass the most realistic shit I've ever seen

As someone who lives in Looe, I'm glad that the story they decided to set here was the guy who just decided to leave his possibly supernatural event because he didn't want to be late for tea. And God that woman who Martin was interviewing was just being obnoxiously difficult, even more so since she thought she was getting paid. She didn't deserve the change Martin gave her.

This episode killed me. Everything you guys do, you do beautifully!

My theory from this episode and what we know so far: The first witness was "attacked" by the Desolation. But the woman was so numb about it that, even after the Desolation trying so hard to make her get scared (first the smells, then the image of a burning woman and lastly slightly touching and burning her), she was like "oh okay *proceeds to go back to sleep*", the Desolation just decided to leave her alone 😅 The second witness was probably attacked by the Dark. I mean, his statement was very similar to that one episode about a photographer with their partner going to a church that was below another church to take photos and in each photo there was, at first, a human like shadow, and then they became many shadows, and finally the partner was taken by them. We all presumed it was the Dark's doing then, and I believe it was the Dark's doing again now. But the witness was so much of a conspiracy guy, that his mind just straight up went to the government 😂 The third witness was attacked by the Spiral. Now, even though his adhd was the cause of his statement being so not coherent and always getting away from the point, I don't think it's what saved him; his lack of fear did. We've already heard a statement of a person being inside those corridors so we somehow know what the Spiral does to a person in there, their anticipation of an ending of them never coming, and fear starting to build up in them with every passing turn that shows more of the corridors and no way out. But in this episode, the victim just accepted they're in a maze, without wondering how or why, and just went with it. And even after seeing how much time had passed so easily, they didn't get scared of what the heck was going on in there, but instead they just went like "oh, I'll be late to my mother's". The fact that he was worrying about making his mother wait for him instead of being scared about himself and when he'd be getting out of that never-ending maze is probably either worked as an anchor to bring him back or made the Spiral understand that he's not a good fit for being in there and the Spiral let him out. It was funny though :P For the last witness, he's the only one out of the four witnesses in this episode, that was actually scared from the entity that was attacking him, in his case the Web, and I don't know if that is the reason why Peter Lukas, who's either working for or is an avatar for the Lonely (I've been referring to this entity as the loneliness entity, but I've seen some people calling it the Lonely so I'll also be using that name instead), attacked him or it was just an unpleasant coincidence. The Web had targeted him, and considering the amount of spiders he said there were in his place, they wanted him either just for prey or to kill him and use his skin like that girl who was only skin and the inside of her was hollow and full of spiders in a previous episode (I think it was the second episode were the homeless vampire-killer is giving his statement, can't remember his name right now). But, before it was able to finish its plan, the witness met Peter Lukas who was probably also drawn to him and he was sent away to a world just like our own but infinitely empty of life besides him, and he's forever trapped in there until he dies or he finds a way to get out of it. All in all, a very good episode for the 100th episode of the series, a bit of change from the horrors and spookiness of the series to something more light and funny, but at the same time still adding the supernatural in the episode and also moving the plot a bit. It was also interesting to see how people would normally give their statements to people of the Magnus Institute who are *not* the Archivist, and that makes even more sense why the Archivist is the one who should be taking their statements 😂 Even the written ones, that didn't get in tape from Gertrude yet, even for those ones the Archivist was present or right in front of the witness while they were writing their statement, so that way they would be affected by them and write their statement as they're supposed to be written.