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1:09

Hello. I'm excited to tell you about a new

1:12

podcast distributed by Rome called

1:14

Corvat.

1:15

From the creator of the deca tapes. Leaving

1:17

Corvat follows sleeper who's worked

1:19

the same job in the same fast food

1:22

chain in the same small desert town

1:24

his whole life. Nobody that's born

1:26

in Corvat ever

1:27

leaves. Until one day, he

1:29

does. But when he steals his boss's

1:31

car and races into the world beyond

1:34

he finds it's not what he expected. To

1:37

make it out of that he has to fight a giant

1:39

crow, escape a snake's nest disguised

1:41

as a house and ends up working for a drug

1:43

lord that calls himself the gardener. And

1:46

this is only the beginning of Brah's journey.

1:49

Corvat is available now wherever you get

1:51

your podcasts, and we have the first episode

1:53

for you to listen to right now. So leave

1:55

the running away to sleeper, sit back and

1:58

enjoy.

2:07

I'm checking the rearview mirror. The

2:10

road is empty. Just a yellow

2:12

line unbroken. No

2:15

dark figure. No feathery

2:17

ragged wings, but it's

2:19

only a matter of time. The

2:24

pedal is all the way down, and the car

2:26

is going about ninety miles per hour.

2:29

I can't believe this. I've never

2:31

driven this fast. Yellow

2:33

road markings are one solid line

2:35

disappearing beneath me. I

2:38

only hand hold at this point. I'm

2:41

not sure what my boss will do when he catches up

2:43

to me, but I'm very sure

2:46

it'll be bad. Okay.

2:52

I'm about to pass the sign that marks

2:54

the beginning of the empty desert, the

2:56

end of my Corvat.

3:00

I've never seen that sign up close.

3:02

I was planning on stopping and taking a picture.

3:06

But I bet keep going considering

3:08

the enormous bird that's chasing me right now.

3:14

Checking my rearview mirror. Thought

3:16

I heard something, a

3:18

rattle than a car. There's

3:21

still nothing but the yellow line behind me

3:24

Like an unmissable trail of breadcrumbs,

3:26

I'm involuntarily leaving behind.

3:29

Should I get off the main road? The

3:33

sign zips by, I can barely read

3:35

it. probably says,

3:38

thank you for getting lost out of towners.

3:42

Well, that was it. I

3:46

I left. Just like

3:48

that, I'd left my hometown. After

3:50

thirty plus years of this place being my

3:52

world. My

3:55

entire life I tried to imagine what it would

3:57

be like to leave, to just

3:59

drive away and, I don't

4:01

know, just just see other places,

4:04

meet other people. Well,

4:07

That's what I'm gonna do now. No

4:10

matter what, I'm gonna

4:12

find out what it's like leaving

5:20

I've never quit a job before. I've

5:23

only had this one job actually. Playing

5:26

in my bed last night, listening to the

5:28

rattling a c that just seems

5:30

to push more desert heat into

5:33

my room. I imagine this to

5:35

go very differently. This

5:37

was supposed to be a kind of deliverance. Finally,

5:41

telling my boss that I'm never coming back.

5:43

Leaving the one place I've lived all

5:45

my life. I thought I

5:47

would feel more

5:58

I hear a kind of rattling again.

6:01

Should I stop and check if something's wrong?

6:04

I don't know a lot about cars, but I'm

6:06

going really fast, so maybe I'm

6:08

about to break something. Is

6:10

that even possible? The

6:13

desert road is still empty, but

6:15

I can already imagine what it will look like

6:17

in a few moments. My boss

6:20

comes soaring into focus. Flying

6:22

just above the cracked concrete is

6:25

black eyes wide open,

6:27

shimmering pearls of anger laser

6:30

focused on my car. Well,

6:34

his car actually I

6:36

mean, to be honest, I

6:38

stole his car. I can't

6:41

afford one and how else was I ever

6:43

gonna leave that town? Apart

6:46

from me quitting my job at his place that

6:48

might also be while my boss is trying to catch

6:50

up to me. He probably

6:52

wants his car back. In

7:02

the distance, I can see the vibrating outlines

7:04

of the next town. It's like

7:06

the guys upstairs are quickly rendering

7:08

another

7:08

location. Surprised by me

7:10

leaving Corvat all of a sudden.

7:14

Again, that rattling, was it above

7:16

me now? I

7:18

look up through the sunroof and there

7:21

he is. Look

7:24

right into the big burning desert

7:26

sun. Drawing the black outline

7:29

of mister Crow, like

7:31

ten feet above the

7:32

car, his wings stretched

7:35

out, his name tag, barely

7:37

holding on. He

7:39

looks down at me and dies

7:42

like a bird of prey.

7:47

I've almost driven the car off the road looking

7:49

up. When I steer back,

7:51

it's too aggressive. I

7:53

swerve all the way to the other side.

7:57

I'm losing control, and the

7:59

car bounces into the desert. Suddenly

8:03

my boss lands on the hood with

8:05

a dry thump. He hits

8:07

his car and sticks his head right

8:09

up to the windshield. It's crow

8:12

like face pressed onto the glass.

8:14

His black wings folded

8:16

around the side windows like he's trying

8:19

to envelop me, he calls

8:21

and screams. Your

8:25

shift is not over yet sleeper.

8:29

I hit the brakes. My

8:31

boss gets launched into the desert. I've

8:34

seen enough movies to know what to do when someone

8:36

lands on the hood of your car while in a chase.

8:39

When he hits the ground, there's a big cloud of

8:41

dust that disappears him. I

8:44

don't wait around for what happens next. Before

8:47

the dust settles, I turn back onto the

8:49

road and just book it. I

8:52

can still see his feet on the hood, dense

8:55

shaped like claws. I

8:57

know he'll be back. This

8:59

isn't over. I

9:01

hear a call and a crows rattle, but

9:05

I'm not looking in my rearview mirror anymore.

9:08

I'm not looking up at the sun either. There's

9:10

a town rendering at the end of this road.

9:13

That's what I'm looking at. That's

9:15

where I'm going. And no one

9:17

is going to stop me. I

9:22

had the most simple job in the world. A

9:24

monkey can do what I did. My

9:27

job was to wait for the beep and then

9:29

flip the meat. Everything

9:31

they say at best burgers USA kind

9:34

of almost rhymes. They

9:37

want it to sound catchy. As if this

9:39

stuff would be too hard to remember otherwise.

9:42

The whole point was that everything had to be

9:45

exactly the same every

9:47

time. You smack the eight

9:49

burgers on the marked spots and

9:52

wait for the beep. Then you

9:54

flip them left to right and wait for

9:56

the second beep. So for

9:58

six days a week, eight to ten

10:00

hours a day, you stare at

10:02

eight, brown, hamburgers.

10:06

If you look at something for that long, first,

10:09

it loses all meaning. Those

10:11

eight bound circles, a hamburger.

10:14

Hamburgurger. Then

10:19

you start overanalyzing it. Start

10:21

seeing how bizarre it really is,

10:24

how weird humans are, eight

10:27

brown circles made of compressed

10:29

dead creatures. They

10:32

arrive the same colors as they are when you eat them.

10:34

Did you know that? It's

10:36

not like we get them fresh and raw. It's

10:38

my job to cook them to medium rare

10:40

perfection They arrived,

10:43

prepacked, preheated, pre

10:45

seasoned, pre colored even.

10:48

Those lines on the meat to make you think they just

10:50

came off my grill. Those

10:52

things never saw coal smoldering.

10:55

They never saw anything but a pitch black

10:58

stable and a bright white genetics

11:00

lab before they ended up in my hands.

11:02

I don't do anything to that stuff but heated.

11:05

You can eat them cold right out of the bag.

11:07

They've been sterilized with the latest biomedically

11:09

engineered antibodies and antibiotics science

11:12

has to offer. You can probably just

11:14

feature baby one of these and they're all set with

11:16

vaccinations and stuff. Hell,

11:19

if you're screwing around and end up catching something

11:21

nasty, you just come to BBU

11:23

get yourself a BBU special with everything

11:26

on it.

11:28

Sorry, I didn't mean to dive into that

11:30

rabbit hole. I've obviously

11:33

got some food industry issues I need to deal

11:35

with. What I was trying to say,

11:37

the kitchen at BBU had to be like a

11:39

machine. If they could hire

11:41

robots, they would. I

11:44

wait for the beeps, which is the simplest

11:46

job. That's one call it the sleeper

11:48

station. That's why they

11:50

call me sleeper. The

11:54

rest of the guys weren't getting physics degrees

11:56

anytime soon either. Rodrigo

11:59

presses the button once for yellow sauce

12:01

and twice for red sauce. Kim

12:04

presses the bar down and takes out two pieces

12:06

of lettuce and a one slice of tomato.

12:09

And Spencer shakes the red shaker once.

12:12

The I'll shake it twice and

12:14

then puts on the top button. The

12:17

only difference is that they have time

12:19

to take orders. They

12:21

don't have to keep an eye on their part of the line

12:23

at all times. I

12:26

do. I can never leave

12:28

the sleeper station. So

12:30

I just stand there and slowly

12:32

lose my mind waiting for beeps

12:34

as if they're drops from a Chinese water

12:36

torture. I

12:39

had tried to quit once before. I

12:42

was standing there, staring at the ate burgers,

12:45

trying to count out the interval between the beeps

12:47

just to keep myself from going insane,

12:49

but I just I

12:51

couldn't figure out what's I

12:54

threw my paper on the floor and stormed out

12:56

of the kitchen. Kim asked if I

12:58

was okay, but didn't say anything. I

13:00

went straight to the manager's office. I

13:02

was going to tell him I was walking away.

13:05

I was going to tell him I didn't

13:07

want to be a sleeper anymore, not

13:09

for another day, not for another minute.

13:12

I didn't care that I gave money by the end of the month.

13:15

I was out of there. Rodrigo

13:20

called him mister Crow. He

13:23

had black hair and thick black eyebrows,

13:25

and he was really thin. And his

13:27

thin little body always hunched over his

13:29

desk because if he was born to sit behind

13:32

one, as if he was born

13:34

into that perfect desk angle, as

13:37

if he was born, a corporate being,

13:40

a corporate crow. His

13:43

office was tiny. If he would

13:45

sit up straight, the light bulb would burn his

13:47

head. It was probably a broom

13:49

closet. I mean that literally,

13:52

a literal broom closet. There

13:54

were several brooms in there. And

13:57

the desk barely fit. It took

13:59

up the entire room or closet.

14:02

He had to climb over that thing in the morning

14:04

to get to his chair. It's

14:07

all very desperate. So

14:11

I stepped into Mr. Crowe's tiny

14:13

broom closet slash office, and

14:16

I explained to him that I was going to

14:18

quit. But he wouldn't let

14:20

me. He said he saw himself

14:22

in me. He said I

14:24

had to just hang in there for a couple

14:26

of months and then he'd promote me.

14:29

I would be on my way.

14:32

And then he got back to his paperwork.

14:35

I just stood there for a second. I'm

14:38

not sure what to do. So

14:41

I walked back back

14:43

to the beeps, back

14:45

to the eight burgers that were overcooked now,

14:47

that would have to come out of my paycheck. Why

14:51

was it so hard to stop working there?

14:54

Kim smiled at me when I walked back in,

14:57

like he would smile at someone that failed a test,

15:00

That smile helped. It

15:04

always does. Maybe

15:09

that's why. I

15:18

finally reached the next town over. Even

15:22

though my boss is most likely still hunting

15:24

me

15:24

down, I I have to drive slower.

15:27

I don't wanna hit anyone. I

15:29

don't

15:29

wanna hit any white picket fences. It's

15:34

very different from Corvat here, but

15:37

not in the way I expected. Corvat

15:39

all the new frontier I imagined it

15:41

to be when I was a kid, staring

15:43

into the desert from the back seat of my dad's

15:45

car. The houses

15:48

that are nicer and bigger, Most

15:50

of them have their own garage in a front yard

15:53

with a neatly mowed lawn. It's

15:55

the new frontier in a kennedy way.

16:00

I turned the corner and it's like this

16:02

neighborhood is never ending. All

16:04

the same houses, the same

16:06

nice lawns, the same nice

16:09

people. A woman

16:11

waves at me. I'm

16:12

not sure what she wants. She

16:15

pushes a shopping cart full of groceries

16:17

with one hand. Even

16:19

though there's no store in sight and

16:22

waves at me with the other hand, A

16:25

bright red lipstick is almost cartoonish,

16:28

and her checker dress must have been newer than

16:30

anything. Ever. So

16:34

white. It's

16:36

the name of this town. I

16:39

don't like it. I'm passing through, moving

16:41

on, too much neighborhood friendliness

16:43

for a low life from Corbat.

16:52

Behind me, I hear some people yelling at

16:54

each other. I look in my

16:56

rearview mirror and hit the brakes. The

16:59

people in the sidewalk start running and screaming.

17:02

There's power lines at an intersection and

17:05

the huge chrome man with the red tie

17:07

Lance on one of the wires just as I look

17:10

back. The wire

17:12

bends down really far, but

17:14

his claws keep him in place. His

17:17

neck moves twitchy and all

17:20

bird like. He's

17:22

gazing. He's scanning

17:24

for the car. He's scanning

17:26

for his car. I

17:29

drive away as inconspicuously as possible.

17:32

Turn another corner and ask myself

17:34

what to do. What the

17:37

hell do I do? How

17:39

do I hide in this perfect suburban hellscape?

17:42

God fearing lawn mowers and shopping

17:44

cart pushers. There's

17:46

the call again. You must be taking

17:49

off. Maybe saw me.

17:51

Maybe smelled me. Do

17:54

crows have a good sense of smell? I

17:57

start driving faster even though

17:59

I know that makes me stand out. I

18:02

turned two, maybe three more corners,

18:05

go through two or three more identical streets.

18:08

Then I see the house. The

18:10

empty house abandoned clearly.

18:13

There's nothing there anymore. It's

18:15

kind of blender out of focus. It's

18:19

kind of gray. Like, someone sucked all

18:21

life and color out of it when they left. Park

18:24

in front, there's a white van that must have been

18:26

there for years. The tires

18:28

are gone. You can't even read the lettering on the

18:30

side anymore. It's

18:32

whole town. It's just ignoring this one

18:35

house. Like a bad

18:37

tooth that's beyond saving. Then

18:41

I see the garage. It's empty

18:43

and the door is still open. It's

18:45

a perfect hiding

18:46

place. Like a miracle escape hatch

18:48

ready to cover me. That's

18:51

what I think.

18:52

So naive, so

18:55

scared of the crowman, I'm not thinking straight.

18:58

Without taking a second look, I

19:00

drive the car into the empty garage, jump

19:03

out, and pull the door down.

19:08

But when it slams into place, the darkness

19:10

is totally. I can't see a thing.

19:14

I try to find the handle, but there is none.

19:17

I'm locked in. So

19:19

I stand there and the darkness breathing

19:21

in the damp air of sticky mildew

19:24

and try to find a way

19:25

out. I brush

19:27

my hands against the walls to find my way,

19:29

but

19:30

there's something growing from the brakes,

19:33

it feels soft, almost

19:35

furry, and

19:37

then I hear a sound, a

19:39

stumbling. And the voice,

19:43

it's coming from inside someone

19:47

or something is in here

19:49

with me.

20:57

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20:59

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