WEBVTT 00:00.858 --> 00:02.020 [SPEAKER_00]: project Echo. 00:03.743 --> 00:08.610 [SPEAKER_00]: Your experience of this story may be inhibited by your linear perspective on time. 00:09.111 --> 00:12.417 [SPEAKER_00]: We apologize for the inconvenience. 00:16.042 --> 00:17.685 [SPEAKER_00]: Episode 00:30.794 --> 00:46.068 [SPEAKER_05]: May 18th, I know that maybe I should have given over the deck of tarot cards, but it just felt like two good lead, so I kept it, and I made another jump. 00:47.289 --> 00:49.951 [SPEAKER_05]: This one, it felt a little bit easier, maybe? 00:49.971 --> 00:56.938 [SPEAKER_05]: I think maybe the longer I hold on to it, the better lead it's going to be. 00:58.479 --> 00:59.620 [SPEAKER_05]: Besides, you'd 01:00.089 --> 01:02.612 [SPEAKER_05]: You told me that time protocol is up to my discretion. 01:03.193 --> 01:06.777 [SPEAKER_05]: So I made that choice. 01:07.458 --> 01:08.119 [SPEAKER_05]: I disgraced. 01:09.220 --> 01:10.301 [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. 01:10.321 --> 01:17.510 [SPEAKER_05]: I was still feeling really shaken up from what had happened at the Research Center and to be honest, I was pretty hungry too. 01:18.190 --> 01:19.652 [SPEAKER_05]: So I decided to get a bite to eat. 01:20.733 --> 01:23.717 [SPEAKER_05]: So all this diner is really cute, vintage looking. 01:24.423 --> 01:28.550 [SPEAKER_05]: I saw the petty cash that you'd give me for meals, so I decided to go in. 01:28.590 --> 01:30.593 [SPEAKER_05]: It seems like a really good place to get up by the eat. 01:31.835 --> 01:41.892 [SPEAKER_05]: Maybe it's just because I was really hungry, but I feel like a should have since the time loop. 01:52.587 --> 01:54.409 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, is there anything else I can get for you? 01:55.190 --> 01:56.812 [SPEAKER_05]: Ah, this was delicious. 01:56.892 --> 01:57.352 [SPEAKER_05]: Thank you. 01:57.372 --> 01:58.293 [SPEAKER_01]: Looks like you were hungry. 01:58.634 --> 02:00.396 [SPEAKER_05]: I really was, yeah. 02:00.416 --> 02:01.397 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 02:01.417 --> 02:01.577 [SPEAKER_01]: Cool. 02:01.877 --> 02:02.738 [SPEAKER_01]: Just just to check them? 02:03.199 --> 02:03.479 [SPEAKER_05]: Yes. 02:04.380 --> 02:04.680 [SPEAKER_01]: Wonderful. 02:04.740 --> 02:05.301 [SPEAKER_01]: I've got the right here. 02:05.361 --> 02:06.162 [SPEAKER_01]: I cash her credit. 02:06.562 --> 02:07.343 [SPEAKER_05]: Ah cash please. 02:07.764 --> 02:08.144 [SPEAKER_01]: Wonderful. 02:08.164 --> 02:09.025 [SPEAKER_01]: Here you go. 02:09.045 --> 02:09.265 [SPEAKER_05]: Great. 02:09.345 --> 02:10.166 [SPEAKER_05]: Thank you so much. 02:11.107 --> 02:12.249 [SPEAKER_01]: And would you need change? 02:13.410 --> 02:13.830 [SPEAKER_05]: Ah, no. 02:14.011 --> 02:14.831 [SPEAKER_05]: You keep the change. 02:15.292 --> 02:16.013 [SPEAKER_01]: Ah, thank you so much. 02:16.413 --> 02:17.274 [SPEAKER_01]: You have a good day, okay? 02:17.294 --> 02:18.055 [SPEAKER_05]: You too. 02:20.498 --> 02:34.456 [SPEAKER_03]: Set me free, come on, little girl All you gotta do is set me free Hey, how you doing? 02:35.938 --> 02:39.142 [SPEAKER_05]: So good, this was delicious, thank you Anything else I can get you? 02:39.723 --> 02:46.232 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm no, I think this was it Wow, it looks like someone was hungry I really was Just to check then? 02:46.833 --> 02:49.476 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes You were like casher credit 02:49.793 --> 02:51.074 [SPEAKER_05]: Cash please. 02:51.094 --> 02:51.555 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 02:51.575 --> 02:52.095 [SPEAKER_01]: Here you go. 02:52.576 --> 02:54.158 [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks. 02:54.218 --> 02:54.718 [SPEAKER_01]: Any change? 02:55.920 --> 02:57.882 [SPEAKER_05]: Now you keep the James. 02:58.382 --> 02:59.183 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, thank you very much. 02:59.744 --> 03:02.146 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, well you you have a wonderful day. 03:09.374 --> 03:14.299 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you too. 03:16.591 --> 03:19.156 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, how's it going? 03:20.158 --> 03:27.852 [SPEAKER_05]: Good, this is delicious, probably more than I need it, but Anything else I can get for you? 03:28.774 --> 03:30.517 [SPEAKER_05]: Um, no, don't, I think I'm good. 03:31.619 --> 03:33.282 [SPEAKER_01]: Looks like someone was hungry, am I right? 03:34.484 --> 03:39.173 [SPEAKER_05]: Well, yeah, I, I, what I could have, I was really hungry. 03:40.553 --> 03:41.394 [SPEAKER_01]: So just to check them? 03:42.035 --> 03:43.217 [SPEAKER_05]: Yes. 03:43.277 --> 03:43.838 [SPEAKER_01]: Cash or credit? 03:44.239 --> 03:45.200 [SPEAKER_05]: Cash please. 03:45.220 --> 03:45.741 [SPEAKER_01]: Wonderful. 03:45.761 --> 03:46.202 [SPEAKER_01]: Here you go. 03:46.542 --> 03:47.484 [SPEAKER_01]: Got the bill right here for you. 03:47.604 --> 03:48.185 [SPEAKER_05]: Thank you. 03:49.427 --> 03:50.428 [SPEAKER_01]: Would you like any change with that? 03:51.590 --> 03:54.274 [SPEAKER_05]: Um, um, actually yes. 03:54.334 --> 03:55.476 [SPEAKER_05]: Can I get the change for her? 03:57.299 --> 03:57.379 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh. 03:59.502 --> 04:00.263 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 04:00.484 --> 04:00.704 [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry. 04:01.084 --> 04:01.265 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 04:01.285 --> 04:01.565 [SPEAKER_01]: Of course. 04:02.026 --> 04:03.067 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll be right back. 04:03.508 --> 04:03.708 [SPEAKER_05]: Okay. 04:03.728 --> 04:07.995 [SPEAKER_05]: Thank you. 04:19.282 --> 04:24.209 [SPEAKER_05]: Good, this was delicious, but it was a lot. 04:24.970 --> 04:25.831 [SPEAKER_01]: Anything else I can get for you? 04:25.851 --> 04:29.176 [SPEAKER_05]: I know, I think I'm pretty good, very full. 04:29.476 --> 04:31.199 [SPEAKER_01]: It looks like someone was hungry today. 04:31.920 --> 04:34.704 [SPEAKER_05]: I, well, I mean, I, I ate what I could. 04:34.804 --> 04:37.568 [SPEAKER_05]: I felt hungry before or I thought I was hungry. 04:37.628 --> 04:40.171 [SPEAKER_05]: And then I started eating and it was like, I turned out I was hungry. 04:40.191 --> 04:40.912 [SPEAKER_01]: Would you just to check them? 04:41.353 --> 04:41.814 [SPEAKER_05]: Hungry? 04:41.834 --> 04:43.857 [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah. 04:44.057 --> 04:44.938 [SPEAKER_05]: It checks on's good. 04:44.958 --> 04:46.380 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, cash or credit. 04:46.400 --> 04:47.702 [SPEAKER_05]: Um, will you cash? 04:48.458 --> 04:55.285 [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I'm so sorry, this really embarrassing. 04:55.546 --> 04:58.309 [SPEAKER_05]: I don't have to think I even know. 04:58.529 --> 05:00.391 [SPEAKER_05]: Is it like an ATM? 05:01.512 --> 05:03.875 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, how much money do you have left? 05:03.955 --> 05:05.877 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe we can make something worked out, okay? 05:06.497 --> 05:07.879 [SPEAKER_01]: How does that sound? 05:08.580 --> 05:10.622 [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah, okay. 05:11.603 --> 05:14.466 [SPEAKER_01]: Why don't you just give me whatever you got left and we'll call it square. 05:14.952 --> 05:19.878 [SPEAKER_05]: Okay, um, yeah, here, here you go. 05:20.139 --> 05:22.021 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, this is, this is funny. 05:22.041 --> 05:24.424 [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, I get to give away a free meal every day. 05:24.544 --> 05:26.387 [SPEAKER_01]: So like, we'll just call it a half meal. 05:26.747 --> 05:28.049 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess someone else have half off. 05:28.750 --> 05:29.771 [SPEAKER_01]: One night, one night get you out of here. 05:30.051 --> 05:31.213 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, let me help you. 05:31.233 --> 05:31.333 [SPEAKER_05]: Okay. 05:32.134 --> 05:32.655 [SPEAKER_05]: Uh, thanks. 05:32.675 --> 05:32.995 [SPEAKER_05]: Thanks. 05:34.157 --> 05:34.357 [SPEAKER_01]: All right. 05:34.377 --> 05:36.560 [SPEAKER_01]: And, uh, you know, come back and visit us any time. 05:36.820 --> 05:37.081 [SPEAKER_01]: Break. 05:37.541 --> 05:39.203 [SPEAKER_04]: And, uh, do you want like a mentor? 05:39.223 --> 05:39.724 [SPEAKER_04]: What was that? 05:40.705 --> 05:42.107 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, sorry, what was what? 05:42.661 --> 05:45.364 [SPEAKER_04]: That there was a noise in the kitchen. 05:45.749 --> 05:50.374 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's the dishwasher's listen to soccer really loud on a radio. 05:50.814 --> 05:53.737 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it just, it kind of gets distorted in the kitchen. 05:54.498 --> 05:55.959 [SPEAKER_01]: Can I get you anything else on your way out? 05:56.059 --> 05:56.760 [SPEAKER_01]: Did you bring a coat? 05:57.200 --> 06:03.827 [SPEAKER_05]: You don't know that, but that noise, I just, I would really like to go to go and thank them. 06:03.867 --> 06:05.368 [SPEAKER_05]: Because the meal, it was so delicious. 06:05.609 --> 06:07.551 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we definitely, sorry, we definitely can't have you. 06:07.851 --> 06:09.092 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure. 06:09.152 --> 06:11.054 [SPEAKER_05]: I just, I mean, you should have a coat or something. 06:11.595 --> 06:15.098 [SPEAKER_05]: You know, to make up the meal, it's just, I could do something. 06:15.196 --> 06:16.118 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, ma'am. 06:16.178 --> 06:17.501 [SPEAKER_01]: I really can't let you back there. 06:17.601 --> 06:28.524 [SPEAKER_05]: Move! 06:30.829 --> 06:34.116 [SPEAKER_04]: What the fuck? 06:48.558 --> 06:49.820 [SPEAKER_05]: going back into that kitchen. 06:49.840 --> 07:16.962 [SPEAKER_05]: I know I know that other agents have said that it was impossible for them to describe when they when they saw spaces where the entity had been and I never really got it but having seen that kitchen I I really don't know I get it it was just 07:18.983 --> 07:32.586 [SPEAKER_05]: And then over there, and then to dark, it was kind of like the hole in the bank vault, but it was just infinitely worse. 07:32.646 --> 07:42.443 [SPEAKER_05]: It was everywhere, but nowhere, and blinding, but also just so dark. 07:43.115 --> 07:51.150 [SPEAKER_05]: But the silence was horrifying, it was, hey, hey, where are you going? 07:51.672 --> 07:52.737 [SPEAKER_05]: Get back here! 08:09.575 --> 08:14.501 [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, fuck, got- Huh. 08:14.521 --> 08:14.641 [SPEAKER_05]: Okay. 08:14.661 --> 08:15.422 [SPEAKER_05]: No Houston running. 08:16.022 --> 08:17.204 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't- I didn't do anything. 08:17.304 --> 08:17.904 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't do anything. 08:18.505 --> 08:18.825 [SPEAKER_05]: How? 08:19.526 --> 08:20.627 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just- I'm just a waiter. 08:20.667 --> 08:22.950 [SPEAKER_05]: Do you know what that was back there? 08:22.990 --> 08:27.735 [SPEAKER_01]: It seemed like a really big kitchen. 08:28.156 --> 08:30.278 [SPEAKER_05]: No, oh, oh, oh. 08:30.679 --> 08:33.161 [SPEAKER_05]: You know when I walked in there, I had enough petty cash. 08:33.782 --> 08:35.544 [SPEAKER_05]: I've been a petty cash for a bunch of meals. 08:36.045 --> 08:38.147 [SPEAKER_05]: And I don't have it anymore, you know why? 08:38.515 --> 08:40.518 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know irresponsible spending habits. 08:41.058 --> 08:41.259 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. 08:42.340 --> 08:43.922 [SPEAKER_05]: Do you know what a time loop is? 08:44.302 --> 08:44.603 [SPEAKER_05]: Kid? 08:46.465 --> 08:46.665 [SPEAKER_01]: No. 08:46.705 --> 08:51.311 [SPEAKER_05]: I don't think you're telling me the truth. 08:51.692 --> 08:53.454 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, listen, do you want your money back? 08:53.634 --> 08:54.555 [SPEAKER_01]: You could have your money back. 08:55.256 --> 08:57.019 [SPEAKER_05]: Just let me think about the long term. 08:57.119 --> 08:58.681 [SPEAKER_05]: But you, I need you. 08:58.701 --> 09:04.388 [SPEAKER_05]: And you sure to tell me how, did you know you knew you were stuck in a time loop? 09:06.578 --> 09:10.042 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, shut, shut, stop fucking screaming, okay? 09:10.302 --> 09:12.344 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a good, stop fucking screaming, baby. 09:13.125 --> 09:13.906 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus, fine. 09:15.147 --> 09:18.090 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus, just, you can have your money back, it's a good gig for me, okay? 09:19.131 --> 09:20.953 [SPEAKER_05]: What do you mean a good gig? 09:20.973 --> 09:22.435 [SPEAKER_01]: What do you mean, what do you mean a good gig? 09:22.455 --> 09:25.598 [SPEAKER_01]: I serve people once and I get them to pay me everything they've got. 09:26.980 --> 09:27.100 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus. 09:27.120 --> 09:29.222 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you many times have asked cash or credit today? 09:29.242 --> 09:31.945 [SPEAKER_01]: 322, I count now. 09:33.359 --> 09:39.606 [SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, so you know this, how did you, how did you start this time? 09:39.626 --> 09:45.493 [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, people in the diner, for a little while, just kept asking for the same things over and over again. 09:45.513 --> 09:55.705 [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't know what was happening, and then I just started to, you know, give them a second check, and a third check, and then... 09:55.685 --> 10:25.540 [SPEAKER_01]: I went to the kitchen one day and whatever the fuck was back there was back there but it wasn't fucking with me so I didn't fuck with it the meal still came out and I just collected the tips okay so you didn't you didn't speak with it or 10:26.903 --> 10:41.740 [SPEAKER_01]: speak really it's just i mean you could hear it right it's the fucking bag pipes over i don't know how anyone in the restaurant can get anything done when did when did this all start 10:42.158 --> 10:45.321 [SPEAKER_01]: This lady, you say to yourself, I've been in a time loop. 10:45.341 --> 10:47.304 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how long this was. 10:47.424 --> 10:49.546 [SPEAKER_01]: Weeks, months, fucking, I don't know. 10:49.706 --> 10:51.408 [SPEAKER_01]: But my bank account is flush right now. 10:51.428 --> 10:53.871 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I know, okay? 10:53.891 --> 10:55.853 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus, just a bagpipe music. 10:55.873 --> 10:57.615 [SPEAKER_01]: Can you fucking hear this shit? 10:57.635 --> 10:58.436 [SPEAKER_01]: Bagpipe. 10:58.456 --> 11:00.398 [SPEAKER_01]: It's been playing on fucking loop. 11:00.478 --> 11:01.799 [SPEAKER_01]: Ever since I got stuck in this town. 11:01.819 --> 11:02.860 [SPEAKER_05]: Bagpipe music. 11:03.221 --> 11:04.282 [SPEAKER_05]: All right, you know what? 11:04.762 --> 11:05.503 [SPEAKER_05]: I will be back. 11:05.784 --> 11:07.085 [SPEAKER_05]: I will be back for you. 11:08.086 --> 11:10.369 [SPEAKER_05]: And I'm gonna close this time loop. 11:10.389 --> 11:10.849 [SPEAKER_05]: Okay. 11:11.555 --> 11:14.700 [SPEAKER_01]: Can you just like wait a couple of months because like I'm trying to pay for college? 11:16.002 --> 11:18.766 [SPEAKER_05]: Look, I've got backpipes. 11:18.826 --> 11:19.087 [SPEAKER_05]: Okay. 11:20.309 --> 11:20.669 [SPEAKER_05]: You know what? 11:21.230 --> 11:22.532 [SPEAKER_05]: I will be back. 11:23.133 --> 11:27.640 [SPEAKER_05]: You stay here and you better stop stealing from those people. 11:28.767 --> 11:39.280 [SPEAKER_05]: I am in charge of the time protocol, and you, yeah, okay, you know what it's just, you want to try that again, but a little bit more convincingly. 11:40.482 --> 11:43.926 [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I'll be back for you, but... 11:48.271 --> 11:49.493 [SPEAKER_01]: Idiot, forgot her cash. 11:57.455 --> 12:03.395 [SPEAKER_00]: The preceding audio recordings were recovered, assembled, and edited for your enjoyment by many sighted media. 12:03.957 --> 12:08.713 [SPEAKER_00]: To support these efforts, head to patreon.com slash many sighted media.