Breaker Whiskey

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] [a cacophony of beeps] [click] Okay, okay, I get it, just stop.  [click, static, beeps] (sighing) This isn’t—this isn’t helpful. Maybe you can’t hear what I’m hearing, but two messages are coming in at once and as a result, I can’t hear a goddamn thing. A fox yapping and a bird chirping at the same time and I’m the fool trying to make sense of both of them.  If you tru...

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Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen. If you'd like to support the show, please visit patreon.com/breakerwhiskey. As a patron, you will also receive each week's episodes as one longer episode every Monday. ------ [TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] (on the verge of tears, s...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] Leann Smith. That was the woman’s name. I, um…I don’t know what the ethics are of nosing through someone’s home when they’re lying dead in the other room, but no one’s here to tell me not to. And I wanted to—I guess I wanted to know something about her. I wanted to know if there was some…connection, I guess.  Because that would…it would lend some kind of sense to all o...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] You didn’t know? I’m assuming you’re not saying you didn’t know they’d be here, because there sure as hell wasn’t anything else noteworthy at these coordinates. You sent me there to find them, that’s the only thing that makes sense.  So, in that case, are you saying that you didn’t know they’d be dead?  I guess…I guess I can believe that. I’m not sure I do, because I d...

[TRANSCRIPT] [content warning: reference to vomiting, dead bodies] [click, static] “Call me Fox”. That’s all you have to say for yourself? After what you just— [click, static] I’m not going to call you anything. I don’t know what—or who— Do you know Birdie? You must, right? Birdie and Fox, both communicating only through morse code…who the hell are you people? What did you do to that— [click, stat...

Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen. If you'd like to support the show, please visit patreon.com/breakerwhiskey. As a patron, you will also receive each week's episodes as one longer episode every Monday. ------ [TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] Who— [click, static] Who...

Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen. If you'd like to support the show, please visit patreon.com/breakerwhiskey. As a patron, you will also receive each week's episodes as one longer episode every Monday. ------ [TRANSCRIPT] I swear to god, I really am going to lose...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] They’re coordinates. That’s—they’re coordinates!  I think.  46 degrees 40 minutes North and 100 degrees 52 minutes West. At least, that’s what I’m assuming. Any other combination of North, South, East, West puts me into the ocean or…Mongolia, so I’m just going to go with my gut here.  It’s North Dakota. I would guess maybe a ten hour drive—I’m already on the road and d...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] I am…losing my mind. I cannot for the life of me figure out what this means.  Together, it’s 464,010,052…or, I mean, I guess if it’s together, it could be a phone number, though I have no idea if 464 is an area code anywhere…certainly not to my knowledge.  Besides, I do think they’re separate numbers. Which brings me to 4,640 and 10,052…or they’re not values at all. 10...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] Breaker, breaker, this is Whiskey calling out for— [click, static] Well, I’m not sure, actually. I thought…I thought Birdie had started transmitting again and even though things sounded a little different to me, I didn’t think much of it, thought maybe the signal was just getting weaker, except… Birdie has never sent me numbers before. Let alone a string of them withou...

Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen. If you'd like to support the show, please visit patreon.com/breakerwhiskey. As a patron, you will also receive each week's episodes as one longer episode every Monday. ------ [TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] I found the tornado warni...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] Breaker, breaker, this is Whiskey, fruitlessly searching for the grail.  I found what I’m pretty sure is the spot I pulled over to when I heard the siren and I’ve gone north, east, and west, with absolutely nothing to show for it. The flat, empty and open nature of driving through Kansas was bad enough when I was doing it for the first time, now that I’m back in places...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] No dog. I didn’t really expect to find one. And I told myself I wouldn’t get my hopes up and yet I’m still disappointed.  That’s just the way it goes, isn’t it? Disappointment finds you no matter how much you try to protect your heart. I never really believed that I’d find the dog again—at this point, I’m not sure I believe I even saw it—and I never really believed tha...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] Breaker, breaker, this is Whiskey driving East.  So Colorado was a bust. Kind of. The polaroids are something, even if I don’t know what they are yet, but I definitely didn’t have some kind of dramatic confrontation—collision—while I was in Denver. I didn’t even get any idea of what that would look like.  On to Kansas then. Back to Kansas. To chase a tornado or, at lea...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] I thought getting some sleep and getting out of the city might help me clear my head, that I’d wake up and have a cup of coffee and look at the photos I took and they’d be…normal.  They’re not. They’re exactly as they were when I last looked at them, which is to say…not normal.  Those people—those ghosts—are still there and I’ve spent nearly an hour looking at all of t...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] I took a look at the polaroids I got yesterday and there are… [click, static] It doesn’t make any sense but there are people in them.  Not—not fully, not completely. Not as if they were standing there in front of me, some kind of reverse vampire that can only be seen in photos.  Though, that’s mirrors, isn’t it? Vampires can’t see their reflection. It doesn’t matter— [...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] Breaker Channel 19, this is WAR1974 in Denver, CO.  [click, static]  Breaker, breaker, does anyone read? [click, static] (sigh) Yeah. Figures. I’ve combed every inch of this city, I’m sure of it. Driven every highway and side street, gone into any building that seemed to have electricity, even climbed to the roof of one of the taller buildings and looked over the whole...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static]   There’s…there’s music. I don’t—I don’t know where it’s coming from but it’s—it sounds— [click, static] I took my time to actually drive into the city—so much time it was dark by the time I was done circling the place. I just wanted to be careful, you know? And the darkness actually sort of helped in some ways—it made it easy to see that the city has a lot of electric...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] Tire chains. All that preparation, packing the car with everything I could possibly need for any contingency, and I forgot snow chains. The West is strange. Just this morning I left the beautifully alien desert-like world of Utah and four hours later, hit a snowstorm in Colorado.  The snow is beautiful too—a different kind of beauty from Zion, but beautiful all the sam...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] Breaker, breaker, this is Whiskey, calling out from Zion National Park. I found an old guidebook to the country’s parks a while back—and some history books too, figured I’d finally give myself that higher education I never got—and while I haven’t exactly shaped my trip around the thing, I like to take a gander every now and then and figure out if there’s anything off m...

Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen. If you'd like to support the show, please visit patreon.com/breakerwhiskey. As a patron, you will also receive each week's episodes as one longer episode every Monday. ------ [TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] It’s been exactly six mon...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] Alright, I think I’m nearly ready to hit the road again. I drove around a bit today, partly to see more of LA in case I don’t come back and partly to look for supplies. And I hit the jackpot.  There’s this enormous supply store, army surplus place—I’m not really sure what it is, but it’s right off Santa Monica Boulevard and seems to be an emporium of anything you might...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] Well, not quite as quick as I’d wanted but thanks for getting back to me within a day at least.  Yes. You said yes. Which means…shit, Birdie. That’s…I’m not sure even how I should react to that. It feels—I mean, its revelatory, isn’t it? I— [click, static] Sorry, I’m…I’m overwhelmed I guess. The thought that, after all this time, there really is someone out there to fi...

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] “Tornado not automated”—at least this message isn’t as cryptic as the last but…it’s unsettling in a different way.  Are you saying what I think you’re saying, Birdie? That the tornado warning system is…what, triggered by a person, not the tornado itself? That it would’ve been turned on by—by an actual human being? That that’s the only way it would’ve been turned on?  I...