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This is the 2023 comedy4cast Podcast Spectacular, brought to you by the fantastic Patreon patrons. Thank you.

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This year's original 20-chapter story is called Big Shot.

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To hear it from the beginning, go to comedyvcast.com slash 2023.

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And remember, comedy4cast is all one word, with the number 4.

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Now, here's chapter six, Communications Breakdown. Breakdown!

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Music.

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Previously in our story, the mysterious stranger who has come to Middling Fair looking for

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Danny Hillcrest traveled to The Tunnels. After a guided tour aboard Princess, he reached

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the library, which doubles as Cindy's office. As this chapter begins, the stranger is speaking with Cindy.

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I'm looking for Danny Hillcrest. Like, good luck with that. I take it he's not here.

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Like, no, not since I, like, fired him.

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Oh, great. Can you tell me what happened?

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I have to find him. It's about a life-altering change. Of course, that's just a metaphor.

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Yeah, a metaphor. Like, whoa. Sorry, I didn't know.

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Like, what can I tell you? Anything. And everything. Like, okay.

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When I opened the, like, Cine-Round-a-Dome art house, 24 hours a day, six-screen drive-in,

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I didn't know how hard it would be.

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To put all of that on a sign?

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Like, yeah, but it was also, like, way too stressful to be responsible for everything.

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It was like having a job. Not cool.

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So, when Danny, like, showed up and said... Hi! Danny Hillcrest here. I'd be happily glad to take over running your outward-facing

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social graph media. Like what?

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Your marketing and ad and subtract advertising. Oh. Like, cool. But, like, things started

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to go bad, like right away. A few days later, the place was selling out.

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And what's wrong with that?

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Like, I never sell out.

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But that wasn't the problem. Danny wasn't watching the movies.

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He just, like, heard the titles and made stuff up.

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River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in everyone's favorite feel-good film

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about a potato that joins the army

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and falls in love. What movie is that?

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My Own Private Idaho.

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And, like... It's beaming, epic, sci-fi, science fiction adventure when a Star Trek alien communicator device goes missing!

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Huh? Lost in translation. Thrill to this gritty, office space sequel

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where the workplace machines fight back!

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A scanner darkly. Like, I think you get the idea.

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So I was like giving out refunds all the time. I see why you fired him.

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Like, no way. Not for that.

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I thought he just like needed some training.

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So I asked the drive-in's benefactor if he could, like, come in and be Danny's mentor.

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Who is this unnamed benefactor?

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Have no fear, Dick Bando is here. Dick Bando is the benefactor? How can that be?

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Dick Bando never does anything for someone else. Dick Bando needed the tax write-off.

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To find out what happens next, be sure to come back for Chapter 7, Undeniable Truth!

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Are you liking the show?

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In this episode, as The Stranger, Grant Johnson, VoiceGranted.com.

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As Cindy, Bonnie Kenderdine.

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And the narrator was played by Gary J. Chambers, GaryJChambersVO.com.

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Additional voices, as well as story and music by Clinton Alvord, copyright 2023.

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All rights reserved.

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See you in the next one. But for now, that's it. We're done, done, done, done, done. Bye-bye.

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