CreepCast - Feed the Pig | Creep Cast

Episode Date: July 28, 2024

A man asks you a very important question-- will you feed the pig? WARNING: This story has conversations surrounding suicide and r*pe and includes depictions of intense violence. Feed the Pig at your o...wn peril. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 There is the cold habitual, and it is the froy of the mountains blue. The frost at its summit. Coors Light, t'envee in a fraud. Celebrate in a fashion responsible, you have to have the age legal to consume the alcohol.
Starting point is 00:00:13 Woo! Stop! Do you know how fast you were going? I'm going to have to write you a ticket. To my new movie, The Naked Gun. Liam Nissan. Buy your tickets now. I get a free Tilly Dog.
Starting point is 00:00:25 Chili Dog, not included. The Naked God. Tickets on sale now. August 1st. Welcome back to Creepcast. Today I am joined by my lovely, lovely co-host. Windygin. How you doing?
Starting point is 00:00:49 I'm doing fantastic. I'm doing great today. Today I'm more Oompeville because I'm actually hanging out at Oompeville's property right now, which hints the setup, hence the very... high detailed camera that is so big and right in my face, I feel I like, I like being small in my normal setup. This is imposing. But yes, I'm doing great. I'm doing great other than that. Well, you suggested a story called Feed the Pig today, which I'm just worried, we got to throw it out there. We're going to immediately throw it out there. It is by the author of Tommy Taffey.
Starting point is 00:01:22 Now, ladies and gentlemen, Tommy Taffy, not a bad story. Not a bad author. It's not. We're here to set the record straight. We're here to give this man the light and stage that he deserves. And I did not know about this till this morning. So if it is bad and gruesome, it is Isaiah's fault. Not mine. Okay. To be clear, I'm pretty sure I told you. I think we've mentioned it back during the Tommy Taffy episode. Hey, I think this is the guy that did feed the pig. And so it's not my fault when I've been suggesting feed the pig for the past couple. couple weeks that you don't remember what I said. I can't be held to my own memory. I can't be held to my own fruition. I am simply a man. All right. Okay. And all I know is when I see and I see the title of a story like Feed the Pig. Uh, I get very excited because it makes you also think of the movie Hannibal or Gary Oldman. Pressure Gary Oldman gets eaten by pigs. A lot of fun. Really like it. Well, I thought that was Red Dragon where he gets eaten by pigs. It might have been Red Dragon. I thought it was Hannibal. It might be Hannibal. I'm
Starting point is 00:02:32 probably just dumb, yeah. But yeah, same. I know what you're talking about. Same, same vibe. Same deal. Whatever. All I'm saying is, I'm hoping, as always, I have not read this. I don't know what's about, but I'm hoping, and I want to hear what you are hopeful for. Are you, you've read this, haven't you? Okay, so I remember listening to this. Um, I can't remember. I can't remember when I heard this. No, it was high school. It was high school. I listened to it and liked it. but see like when we clicked on the video I mean when we clicked on the story it gave us a not safe for work warning
Starting point is 00:03:02 I don't remember that in it so I'm clearly forgetting some stuff you also got to realize like I used to listen to creepy pastas like on the way to school and back like every day so like there were so many stories that I thought
Starting point is 00:03:19 I remembered everything from Feed the Pig but I'm probably going to be surprised because I have no I have no memory of something that would be not safe for work hopeful for people getting eaten, possibly, possibly children getting eaten by pigs, families having to watch their children getting eaten by pigs. That's the kind of turmoil, emotional turmoil that I expect. Elias Withrow, Withrow, Withrow.
Starting point is 00:03:47 Elias Witherow, the author to give me, he set the bar very high for depravity and insanity. I love Tommy Taffy. I thought it was great. It was a great story. It was very well written. As we talked about in the episode, I think it goes a little far with some of the descriptions
Starting point is 00:04:06 to kind of take it out of horror and bring it in shock value and stuff like that. But it did not take away from the fact that it was very well written. It was very cool. And as I've said prior, grow up. All right.
Starting point is 00:04:17 I'm stoked. I'm ready. It isn't very often. You know, actually, to be fair, we've had a lot of episodes lately where very strong titles and I like Feed the Pig. Feed the pig's great.
Starting point is 00:04:27 Very simple. I'm kind of getting worried with the not safe for work thing, but that's the best part of these episodes, making you uncomfortable. So that's the best part of our job is that it is actually safe for work for us. This is actually our work. Yo, that's so true. This is our work.
Starting point is 00:04:41 See, the not safe for work moniker, like I understand it just broadly means like, you know, sexual adult themes, whatever. But it was always a funny title to me because I would always imagine someone like in an office cubicle, like really call me taffy. Exactly. looking over their shoulder. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:04:58 Some guy at like H&R block and a person walks in, they're like, what are you reading? He's like, oh, my God, you call me. This is my,
Starting point is 00:05:05 my, my, my own girl. Hit me this. Yeah, a guy working at like a solar panel company just being like, oh,
Starting point is 00:05:12 oh, no, screaming in the background of his, literally like when he gets caught, making the same excuses I make to the audience. Like, well, you're adults. Like, this isn't nothing.
Starting point is 00:05:24 Yeah. I thought I worked at a solar panel company and not a daycare. Right, guys? Guys. Do we have anything to plug? Is there anything to shill right now? Also, I should probably say, we're going on tour. That was the most anti-climactic announcement ever.
Starting point is 00:05:42 Oh, by the way, also. Okay. All right, well, here, we'll let love to be more excited to do that again. Wait, before we get into this episode, we want to let you all know that we're going on tour. Whoa! Halloween tour! Let's try not to die. We're celebrating almost a full year of Creepcast coming along,
Starting point is 00:06:02 and we thought, what better way to do it than a nice spooky Halloween tour? Now, friends, there's only four dates available. We're going October 24th in Boston, Massachusetts at the Regent Theater, October 28th of New Orleans, Louisiana at the La Petit Theater, October 30th in Phoenix, Arizona at the Tempe Improv, and October 31st Halloween Day in Los Angeles, California. at the Fine Arts Theater. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:28 For some reason, you guys like this show of me and Hunter being absolutely ridiculous while reading much better stories, but for whatever reason you all like it, so why don't you come out and watch us do it live, where we'll not only harass each other, but we'll get to harass you all, which will be a bunch of fun. And if you're lucky, you can make Hunter cry. You can make me cry. You want to make me cry in person? If you want to, then there's never been a better time.
Starting point is 00:06:52 That is right, a Halloween tour, uh, availability. isn't huge. We're trying to do sort of a smaller show. See how people like it. See how it goes. Maybe there'll be bigger ones in the future, but for now, you better get in while you can because once those tickets are filled up, they are gone forever. So if you want to be a part of the first
Starting point is 00:07:09 creepcast Halloween special tour, get in now while you can. And thank you all so much for the support. The fact that this little podcast show of ours that we started out for Funzies is now to this level is incredible. And you all are fantastic and really. It means a lot. Thank you. That's everything I said.
Starting point is 00:07:25 Hunter said that you all are pathetic and need to pay out money and start quote earning your keep but I appreciate you all it's a fun fun way to come celebrate the show a nice full year here and also it's a great way to just come and hang out and read some spooky stories and also if you can't make it it's all good we will be recording these if you want to come hang out for a bit feel free or if not catch it on the video but without further ado let's get to the episode all right let's dive in this shit because also I see people and you know what I actually want to stretch out just a little bit longer because you know I fucking hate is when people are like the story starts here you know what bitch
Starting point is 00:08:02 we're going to throw it around to where I'm going to be like you it's going to be very hard and inconvenient for you to get that time code watch this I slowly opened first three words so I've started the story but we're not reading it right now you know it could be easy that could be it I don't know well if I say slowly open my eyes that's the first sentence of the story that's the first sentence so good luck with that once again today's episode is sponsored by fact it's a officially too hot to turn on your stove or heat up your oven. So eat stress-free this summer with Factor's delicious ready-to-eat-eat-meals. Everything is fresh and never frozen and ready for you to heat, eat, and enjoy.
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Starting point is 00:09:53 My head was swimming and a dull pain surrounded my throat. I was thirsty. That was the first thing I noticed. I licked my dry lips as my surroundings faded into focus. My body ached and I realized it was because I was tightly bound to a metal chair in the middle of an empty room. The barren concrete walls were stained and dirty. The floor beneath my bare feet was cold and slightly wet. A single bulb lit the room, dangling from the ceiling by a string. I cast moving shadows, and I blinked back darkness. An open door stood before me, but I couldn't see anything at the wall of the hallway. I tried to clear my head, tried to remember how I got here.
Starting point is 00:10:38 I squeezed my shut and forced myself not to panic. I slowed my breathing and focused my thoughts, desperately trying to summon some recollection of why I was here. Couldn't remember anything. I opened my eyes and exhaled. My parched throat throbbing. I could hear sound echoing off the hallway walls outside the door, screaming, clinging, howling, all very distant.
Starting point is 00:11:03 But that did nothing to help calm my nerves. Hello? I cried, the word tearing at my vocal cords. I felt my chest hitching in pain, and I cleared my throat and yelled again. Is anyone there? Hello? The dark hallway remained silent except for the constant echoes. I shut my mouth, tried to wriggle free of my bindings, but the rope was knotted impossibly tied.
Starting point is 00:11:29 I fought back against my imagination as it flooded my mind with horrific scenarios of what awaited me. I could only remember. Kind of reminds you of the hostile kind of like rooms or something. Yeah, or like saw. It was like weird torture chambers or something like that, some industrial kind of like place. The note of what he said is interesting. He can hear screaming, clinging, and howlinging. it sounds like
Starting point is 00:11:55 I don't know what that sounds like but it's not good it sounds like machine I'm wondering in the distance if it's just like that kind of shit yeah yeah like people being like
Starting point is 00:12:10 four up by something yeah or like shoved through a machine or something because clanging you imagine like metal machinery right that's what I think of well I'm wondering if it's I pictured almost like chains on pipes
Starting point is 00:12:22 or like somebody like handcuffed to that kind of thing and then like oh and then like slapping around or something I don't know we'll find out suddenly put steps erupted from outside the door a rapid patter of small feet my hopes rose and I trained my attention on the door praying it was help a young boy ran into the room dressed in a red onesie complete with padded feet Stretch over his face was a plastic devil mask. The eye holes revealed massive blue eyes that greeted me curiously. Take him back, I opened my mouth to speak. That's when I noticed something was off.
Starting point is 00:13:03 His eyes were huge, impossibly round and bulging from their sockets. It's in a shiver of unease down my spine, but I shook it off. This child might be able to free me. Hey, hey, kid, can you get me out of here? The boy took a step closer, cocking his head but remaining silent. Rattled my bound arms against the chair. Got me free, please. I shouldn't be here. This is some kind of mistake.
Starting point is 00:13:32 The boy eyed me behind his strange mask and stopped directly in front of me. He leaned in close and whispered, his voice like wet silk. It is a bad thing. Confused. I shook my head. No? No, this is a mistake. I didn't do anything.
Starting point is 00:13:52 Boys are enormous blue eyes suddenly filled with sadness. Oh, you did a really, really bad thing. All right, so the story had me. I was like, I was there, I was in the room. What? That sounds like the kid. Blue-eyed devil mask. And now I'm imagining that I can't remember their name.
Starting point is 00:14:13 Whatever. character it was from South Park who sold the steroids to Jimmy for the special Olympics. Okay. All right. Well, that's you. That's your kind of interpretation of the voice I'm doing. I'm doing a young child with big
Starting point is 00:14:28 goopy blue eyes. Oh, you did a really, really bad thing. He's a kid. No, this sounds like this is mocking. This is some, this is some level. I'm not going to stop you.
Starting point is 00:14:49 I just, I'm not going to stop you. I just want it to be clarified to the audience and I'm not with him. I don't agree with you. I can do it. I'll do a different voice. Now you're in my head. Too late. Too late. Now you're,
Starting point is 00:14:59 now you're my head here. What's a better? Why don't you? Why don't you give me an example? If you wanted to deliver a good show for your audience, then maybe you can act like it. It's all I'm saying. I thought it was a, I thought it was a legitimate good, creepy, weird thing. You're talking about a kid walk around in a red onesie with a devil mask on.
Starting point is 00:15:18 Right? So how do you think you should sound? Go ahead. Say, oh, you did a really, really bad thing. I'm not the voice actor, so I'm not the one to ask about this. I just read the stories. Well, you sure know how to give criticism as if you are. What about that?
Starting point is 00:15:31 That's for sure. What about, oh, you did a really, really bad thing. If that's what you think our audience deserves, then you go with it? No. I am a grown man trying to do a child's voice. You know what? I'm just going to let it roll. It might be different every time.
Starting point is 00:15:48 Who knows? Well, you know, like I said, if you think that's what the audience deserves, then that's on you. I'm just letting the audience know that I'm not in on it. All right. I shook my head again violently. No.
Starting point is 00:16:02 I'm sorry. I don't remember. Just please get me out of this chair. Suddenly, before either of us could speak again, a man came charging into the room. He was overweight and dressed in overalls. His grizzled face twisted and seething anger. He was holding a sawed-off shotgun in his arms.
Starting point is 00:16:21 I didn't do anything! I cried as he advanced on us. My voice cracking. I'm not supposed to be here! The big man ignored me and instead grabbed the kid and shoved him hard against the wall. The boy grunted as his back struck the concrete and his eyes rose to meet the grizzled man's.
Starting point is 00:16:40 Wordlessly, the man raised a shotgun, placed it against the boy's forehead, blew his head-off. I'm sorry, Hunter. Is something funny? Is there something you're going to say it's the past? Oh, God. The kids say, hey, what a quick altercation. Just blew the child's head off with his son off shotgun. Okay, sorry.
Starting point is 00:17:20 When you all get mad at me for picking stories that involve like Tommy Taffey-esque themes or Barrasca themes, whatever. Remember this is what I'm working with. Okay, this is what I have to keep happy. This is like what I shovel adult content into to get something out of. Just remember that. Let me tell you that. That was just, that was unexpected.
Starting point is 00:17:39 That was, I expected the child. I'll be more part of the story. Okay, sorry. Go ahead. What about a child being shot in the face is so funny to hear. It was just shocking. It was it was not expected. That's why I got such a visual reaction out of me. I'm sorry. Chunks of gore splattered the wall. A shock sludged me in the stomach like an iron fist. My ears rang and time seemed to slow as I watched in Horace the headless body crumbled to the ground. Is that also funny? Would you like to make a joke about that line?
Starting point is 00:18:10 we'll see no now that i've let it sink in now i'm back i can process this okay cool my breath rushed back into my lungs and time seemed to readjust jesus fucking christ i screamed straining against the ropes my eyes bulging and horrific shock what the fuck the man ignored my screams as he bent down and picked up the boy slung the ruined corpse over his shoulder and walked out the doorway Suddenly, the hallway erupted with malicious laughter, a chorus of voices, all howling and gleam. I shut my eyes, the noise deafening, an absolute terror toward my every pore. After a few moments, the laughter faded, and I cautiously opened my eyes, unable to believe what I just witnessed.
Starting point is 00:19:01 Okay, so for one for that scene, man in the overalls comes in, very reminiscent of kind of like a Texas chainsaw massacre type figure. comes in shoots the kid walks outside it says as they go into the hallway it erupts in laughter and a chorus of voices
Starting point is 00:19:18 all howling in glee so they're like people outside waiting for the body of the child almost yeah I would assume that it almost makes it seem like it's pins
Starting point is 00:19:27 or some people are able to actually see what's going on I'm like in my I don't know why but I think that like in your mind's eye I don't think people are standing in the hallway
Starting point is 00:19:35 yeah in my mind's eye I don't think people are standing in the hallway I feel like people are looking from a room out to the hallway and they're just crazed maybe kind of like that's almost designed like prison cell blocks
Starting point is 00:19:48 yeah that's what I'm kind of picturing the only thing that's weird is that I'm pretty sure our protagonist he there's no I think his door is just totally open or there's no door at all if I remember right there has to be a door no he's chained to a chair or something he's chained to a chair but I think that he
Starting point is 00:20:07 but I think the door is just open so he can see people just like coming in and like walking by and stuff. Yeah, I think that's what it is. I think you're right. Okay. Hello. I jumped as I realized there was another man standing before me. He was dressed in a simple white buttoned-down shirt and jeans. His brown hair was cut short and he appeared to be in his early 30s. His green eyes were dull, lifeless.
Starting point is 00:20:31 His full lips pulled down to the corners. What is going on? Where am I? I cried New fear pulling in my stomach Like hot blood Man crossed his arms Hmm
Starting point is 00:20:45 So you're the new one huh You people disgust me Is that the kind of Is that the kind of character You think our audience deserves I think that you know what At this point yes At this point
Starting point is 00:20:59 If my if my acting Is going to be under scrutiny Then you all don't deserve me at my best I believe I'm giving you gold So you're the new one, huh? You debut people disgust me. So as this show continues in the future, I want you all to remember that. This is what he thinks of you and compare that to how much I love you.
Starting point is 00:21:21 Just remember that's true. That's true. It's true. Questions bubbled on my lips, but he waved them off with a sharp chop of his hand, slicing the air and demanded my silence. He ran his tongue over his teeth, sneering. You look like you're already. I feel like you should be Southern.
Starting point is 00:21:39 You look like you've already seen some of the horrors this place holds, huh? Yes, I can tell by the look in your eyes. You're terrified. You've seen something, haven't you? It doesn't seem all that bad now, does it? Looking back? You've been here five minutes and already shit in your pants. I like the Mr. Weller's voice.
Starting point is 00:22:02 It's pretty good for him. I feel like at this point, I don't know why this big sweaty man, sought off shy. I feel like he's a little Southern. What do you think? Do we like that? This isn't the big guy. No, no. This is the guy the white button up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I think he's more put together.
Starting point is 00:22:20 Yeah, yeah. So, where am I? I gasped unable to hold back any longer. What do you people want? The man crossed his arms behind his back. I bet you want to get out of here, don't you? I bet you'd like to go back to your home. your family everything please what if i did to you i'm sorry i really am but i don't remember man rolled his eyes
Starting point is 00:22:48 you didn't do anything to me you did it to yourself you really don't remember anything huh shook my head and felt tears brimmy to my eyes liquid fear the man looked at me with contempt you waited until your wife left her work and then you went out to the woodshed hung yourself, you're dead. Dun, dun, that's kind of an interesting hook. I remember all this from the story because that's like the whole
Starting point is 00:23:17 thing it's famous for online and stuff like that. It's like, oh, you're actually dead? Well, it's as if the story's a depiction of hell, basically. I see. I see. How do you like that reveal? How do you like that? Again, it's a little bit, I'd be more interested to hear your opinion
Starting point is 00:23:34 because I went into reading today knowing it was about hell um i how do you feel about it someone who thought this was like a saw trap thing i don't know you don't know you don't know how you feel about it disappointed i guess you feel disappointed in it you can be honest you can talk it's okay i don't know i just wanted it to be a weird torture thing you wanted to be a weird torture thing you know it's sad that's not just a weird torture thing these guys dead yeah that's sad
Starting point is 00:24:07 I understand well think of it this way what is hell if not just one really long weird torture thing right yeah so we can we can still do the weird torture stuff buddy
Starting point is 00:24:19 and you know we can still get all of that this just opens up the door now for maybe some more supernatural elements to it right right that's why I thought okay so
Starting point is 00:24:31 we can we can have our weird torture thing and we can also have demons and monsters. And it also means that you can probably get an unrealistic amount of blood and gore. Maybe they'll bring in another kid and shoot them in the face again. You think? I think they might.
Starting point is 00:24:47 Okay. Because now that it's hell, you could realistically shoot as many kids in the face as you want. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool, isn't it? You could just infinitely, it could even be the same kid, just over and over, brought back to be shot in the face.
Starting point is 00:25:02 Would that make you happy? It'd be fun It'd be pretty fun Wouldn't it? So, you know, maybe Maybe don't count it out yet See where it goes from here See what it does with its new idea
Starting point is 00:25:12 Okay Okay All right The recent memory rose in my mind Like a monster from a bog My eyes went wide As much as I wanted to deny it He was right
Starting point is 00:25:25 I killed myself The incident tore through my brain Like a bullet train Left me reeling I'm Danny by the way The man said Ignoring the shocked look at my face And I'm number two here
Starting point is 00:25:40 I run the orientation process I want to make this quick Because I'm tired of repeating this fucking thing To you pathetic suicidals You get one question before I begin Okay How does that make you feel Does that perk you up to it any
Starting point is 00:25:55 I'm the orientation you get one question That's how this works You know Does that make you feel anything? Huh? A little bit maybe in a little bit of a unique depiction here. Maybe this won't be your standard pitchfork and, you know, whatnot. It's like, oh, we have a whole process.
Starting point is 00:26:12 There's an orientation. You can get one question. I'm imagining this guy, but thanks to your stunning voice acting, I'm imagining Danny as like a Walton Goggins type, you know? So that's cool. You have like a salesman type as the front door for hell. Isn't that kind of cool? Yeah, I guess.
Starting point is 00:26:28 Yeah, pretty cool. He stared down at me and I scrambled to organize my thoughts into something cohesive. This was all horrifying. Why'd I killed myself? I fought against the fog and panic and the mist of confusion slowly began to lift. I just lost my job. Yeah, yeah, that was the start. I squeezed my eyes shut and forced more of the memory to emerge.
Starting point is 00:26:52 I lost my job and I was about to lose the house. My wife, Tess, she found out and was going to leave me. me. I didn't have any way out. Didn't have any options. Getting fired had come out of the blue and I didn't have much in savings. I was broke, assumed to be homeless, and my wife hated me for it. There was something else. Yes, that's right. She'd been cheating on me. I had seen text on her phone while she slept one night and confirmed my suspicions. My life had degraded to shit and I had run out of options, humiliated and ashamed. I decided to death. was my only option.
Starting point is 00:27:31 I'm imagining that he looks over at his wife's phone and there's just like a nude pick and he's like, oh my God, he's been getting, she's been getting nude picks from other men. You like, look over and it's just a guy doing a goat brain. A goat brain? Yeah, it's where you shove your balls to the back of your legs and have a peek out the back of your thighs. Just his asshole and the goat brains in there. That's the newt that his wife is kidding. Oh, my suspicions are true.
Starting point is 00:28:03 My investigation has turned to new evidence. Inspector Gadget finds out that his wife is cheating on him. Go-go Gadget broken heart. That's a funny visual. You have like a Sherlock Holmes type inspector like 19th century. And it's just like the giant magnifying glass on the on an ice phone screen. It's just a guy doing a goat brain and spreading his ass. That's all open.
Starting point is 00:28:31 It's like the most vulgar porn imaginable. Just disgusting. That he's like, yes, yes, very interesting. I think my wife
Starting point is 00:28:41 may be cheating on I. It's like he's getting pictures of his wife just like in the most unholy positions. Just absolutely just awful. And he's like,
Starting point is 00:28:55 what could all this mean? Well, I better sleep on it. this case is nearly cracked about the clues yeah well the clues keep stacking just like just tons and tons of those kinds of pictures just being she's like holding it in front of his face and just swiping so she's just like going through the gallery on her phone hmm I feel like she's trying to tell me something she's like this is why I'm leaving you and he's standing there and like the full like tweed stitched overcoat with the hat and like the
Starting point is 00:29:29 pot, sweating profusely underneath a duvet. She's like, this is why I'm leaving you showing, and he's like, what could it all mean? But sweetheart, why? He's just always inquisitive. She's like, I don't know
Starting point is 00:29:45 how to make it any more clear. I'm done. What was the first thing I did wrong? There has to be so... I have to get to the bottom of this. So he says, I had decided death was my only option. Hey, fucker. Do you have a question or not? Danny said, snapping his
Starting point is 00:30:04 fingers in front of my face. I was sucked back into reality and I asked the only question that mattered. Is this hell? Danny snorted. That's always what people ask. You began to pace back and forth in front of me. No, this is not hell. It's not heaven either. This is the black farm. know. I didn't name it that. This is where God sends the souls who have ended their own life. Suicidal, you see. He doesn't really know what to do with you, and neither does the devil. There are generally good people who kill themselves. Seems cruel to banish them to hell for alternative for a moment of weakness, right? Personally, I think God and the devil were just tired of arguing about it, and so they send them here to the black farm. Did God create the
Starting point is 00:30:58 this place. I asked growing more and more confused. Danny spent on the floor chuckling. Sure. At some point, but he lost control of it and he put the pigs in charge. What's the pigs? I asked, unsure I wanted to know the answer. So how are you feeling now? Huh? I don't know. Is it? You don't know. Okay. Okay. It's not heaven or hell. It is the black farm. And Danny says he lost God lost control when he put the pig in charge. No, does any of that? Optimistically,
Starting point is 00:31:34 optimistically, I'm like, ooh, that's fun. Because it kind of reminds you of this Hadeshi Hino comic. I think it's just literally called pig farm. Pessimistically, I think to myself, the most all-knowing being created a place called the Black Farm. And he put walking, talking pig people in charge. Well, it's never been explicitly a pig.
Starting point is 00:31:56 It's called the pig. No, no, I'm just, I'm just saying that that's, that's where my pessimistic mind's at. Okay. My, I want to have fun thing is I'm like, ooh, the flavor of this is nice. It reminds me of that horror manga that I read. Yeah, it is very flavorful so far. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:12 The visuals are fun. Now I'm picturing it a bit more, not necessarily dystopian, but a bit more surreal. Like maybe like if you went outside, the skies would be black or. Yeah, yeah. Or I mean like red or something. It's in like a very limbo sort of. place. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What's the pig?
Starting point is 00:32:30 I asked, I'm sure I wanted to know the answer. Danny held up a hand, annoyed. Can I fucking finish? God created this place eons ago, put the pigs in charge, and they forgot about it for a while. Well, when his back was turned, the pig decided to use his own new powers to try and create his own little world.
Starting point is 00:32:51 This mess you see around you is the fractured remains of that experiment. The black farm used to be a lot nicer, but the pig wanted things to be different. He wanted to create his own vision. These people, you see, these monsters, they are the pig's attempts to create functioning life. Instead of mirroring God's earth, these mutated horrible creations are full of sin and hatred. They run rampant here, unabashed. This place is chaos.
Starting point is 00:33:23 The Black Farm is a circus of freaks and monsters, and it's your eternity. Fear boiled in my gut like thick oil. No, no, this couldn't be my end. I didn't believe in stuff like this. This wasn't real. I would wake up soon and realize I was just having a nightmare. That had to be it. Then he stood before me and lightly slept my face.
Starting point is 00:33:44 Hey, hey, don't go into hysterics on me. I haven't finished yet. I raised my teary eyes to meet his. And Danny smiled. You can always feed the pig. My breath pushed from my lungs like burning steam. What does that mean? Danny spread his hands, still smiling.
Starting point is 00:34:09 It's as simple as that. Feed the pig. If you do so, there's a chance to send you back to your life. And what happens if he doesn't? You get sent to hell So flip a coin if you have one Stay here with us or feed the pig If you choose to stay
Starting point is 00:34:32 I'll let you go I'll let you go out there He said pointing towards the door But let me assure you What awaits you at the end of that hallway Well Let's just say hell isn't that much worse Swallowed hard
Starting point is 00:34:51 Trying my best to digest everything Why wouldn't I try feeding the pig? Whatever that meant. If there is even a sliver of hope, I would take it. An eternity in this place, the black farm, be sent to hell or... Or feed the pig? I would do anything for a chance to go back. This nightmare made my problem seem nothing in comparison.
Starting point is 00:35:16 Danny raised a hand before I could speak. I'll let you think on it for a while. I'll be back later. I want to feed the pig. I cried not wanting to spend another second in this awful room. I could hear a woman screaming down the hallway. Her cries rising as something meaty pounded into her. Oh, ugh. Okay. That just came out of nowhere. That was like a... Oh, hao. Well, that was uncomfy all it was.
Starting point is 00:35:48 I get blamed for laughing at a child getting his head blown up. Something meeting pounded into her. I wasn't laughing at that. I was laughing at like the story had none of that. And then it's no, I know, yeah. Well, I mean, to be fair, it could be like thuds of a punch to be fair.
Starting point is 00:36:08 Sure. It could be like just like in the Tommy Taffy story where's when something was going on and it was a WWE game. Yeah. Yeah, it was a tombstone. pile driver. Yeah. Yeah. My breath came in sharp pulls and my throat burn. Then he noticed the noise and grin. Sounds pretty bad, huh? He said softly as the woman's voice creaked with agony. Something was still slamming into her, the sound of beaten flesh igniting my imagination with
Starting point is 00:36:39 horrors. That could be punching. I think it's someone getting fucking beaten to death. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's what it is for sure. So what do you think about here? him being immediately like, I want to feed the pig. I mean, I'd probably do the same. Yeah, but I feel like he needs to know more before he makes that decision. Because like, the guy, Danny described it as a coin flip between hell or going back to earth. Right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:05 So like that, that seems like something you would want more info before you do it, you know? No, I think so as well. I guess I'm trying to put my, I'm trying to leave my rational brain to the side and I'm trying to picture myself if I was already tied up in this hellscape of a place to, I found out that pigs tried creating life and they basically ended up with this weird Tim Burton world. I would probably just be like, I'm, fuck it. I'm ready to, I'm ready to try it. Get me the fuck out of here. Sure. He's going through a lot right now. But I mean, I think a more rational person, you would need to be like, well, what does that mean? What does it entail? You know, all that
Starting point is 00:37:42 stuff. Yeah, try to try to just figure out something. Like, is there anything I can do to favor the odds or anything like that. What does I even mean? Because it sounds like he's going to be eaten by the pig, but that's what it sounds like is you either he either accepts your, what I'm thinking is he either accepts your offering
Starting point is 00:37:57 or he eats you and buy him product you get sent to hell or something. Probably, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's what I'm assuming. Please, just, just let me feed the pig. I don't want to stay here any longer. Danny turned away from me. I'll be back later.
Starting point is 00:38:15 Enjoy your time alone. really think about your situation weigh your options and remember you put yourself here and with that he was gone leaving me in the dim room tears streamed down my face
Starting point is 00:38:29 the woman didn't stop screaming for hours I was going to say too I wonder if since they're already dead if like if you're being tortured if you just can never actually go into shock or you can't actually pass out or you just have to if it's just like you're not going to die again right so someone could just beat the hell out of you forever if they want
Starting point is 00:38:46 too. Yeah. So like I imagine the kid that got shot in the face was one of the creations that was mentioned right. Oh, yeah. Or like half humans. Um, because otherwise, what does that mean to get your head blown off in the afterlife? You just, are you just headless now? I'm wondering why they, uh, why they cheered about that. Because that's the case. It's probably the other dementors and stuff like that, just like seeing gore, like seeing, you know. Oh, they just, they're all about depravity and violence. So, yeah. Anytime they see that, they're like, yeah. I'm getting very, are you familiar with the video game Outlast?
Starting point is 00:39:23 The found footage one? Yeah, yeah. The one where you're in like, yeah, where everyone in there. Yeah, you're in the asylum and everyone in there just like going crazy because of the wall rider. So they're all like, they're all laughing and like trying to attack you and stuff like that because they want to see gore and whatever. That's kind of the image I have. Yeah, I can see that. In my mind's eye, at least.
Starting point is 00:39:45 At some point I fell into a semi-sleep The darkness in the room seemed to press in on me and my eyes fluttered shut My body ached and my throat was a halo of fire Thirst raked at my windpipe like sharp glass My lips felt like crumbled paper I had thundered like a drum The room swam in and out of focus And my mind drifted towards the horrific sounds that never ended
Starting point is 00:40:10 I was lost in a haze unaware that something was sliding into the room until I felt a sharp prick on my big toe. I jolted out of my days as my barefoot ignited with pain. I screamed and tried to move, but my bindings held me tight. Room rushed back into focus, and I plinked in agony as I felt blood trickle between my toes. I looked down for the source of pain, and I felt a scream clawed my throat. Staring up at me was an armless man. He slithered on the floor like a worm.
Starting point is 00:40:42 like a worm, his bald heads. I'm sorry, that's kind of sick. I'm sorry, Hunter. I thought you were upset when you found out this was a hell depiction. Well, I like armless dudes slithing around the floor like a little worm. Okay.
Starting point is 00:40:57 You just like that. There's something funny about that to you, about disabled people. Something creepy. You know, between that, between you laughing to people getting hurt, between you laughing at Diego, the guy you lived with
Starting point is 00:41:11 who, like, couldn't speak your language and stuff. I feel like, I feel like reminisced, beautifully reminisced. Beautifully reminisced. I feel like there's something to you about the suffering of others that you should probably think about.
Starting point is 00:41:23 I feel like you are hitting the hammer right on the head. Hit the hammer on the nail with that one. That's my, that's my cute little quirk though. You're into suffering? Like, no, not that I'm into suffering,
Starting point is 00:41:40 but it makes me uncomfortable. and I giggle. Oh, okay. See, that's why. That makes me so cute. So you're just so put off by it that you have to laugh. I think I'm so shocked by it at times that when I see, when I hear the idea of a first on, how was the man holding the brick, you know, and then he, you know, was he new holding it?
Starting point is 00:42:00 Doubted he doesn't have arms. And he slid in the room like a little, like a little worm. To me, I'd be like if I was there, I would, it would, it would, I just uncomfortable. Think how dirty his belly is. Think how dirty his belly is. Slythered on the floor like a worm. His bald head scabbed and filthy. His legs were wrapped together in barbed wire,
Starting point is 00:42:21 forcing him to wriggle his body to move. His eyes were lidless and wide. Two bloodshot white orbs that stared up at me with hungry intensity. His teeth had been removed and replaced with long screws which jutted from his bleeding gums like a broken rock formation. That's sick. Road is, I'm sorry, I thought you didn't like that this was hell. It's almost like if the author's creative, you can use hell for some very interesting body horror.
Starting point is 00:42:48 I don't know why you're trying to throw me down the river here. I was just, I was a little disappointed. And I think this is cool. It's like, what kind of reminds me up is like, uh, the Silent Hill or like some like old PS2 horror game stuff. Yeah, yeah. Or fucking like, uh, almost like the suffering to because when you use supernatural themes effectively, you can get to some really strange. points. I just want to hear you say you were wrong in your conception about it when you found out himself. I don't think you'll admit that. We'll see as the story goes on. All right.
Starting point is 00:43:21 Around his neck was a chain leash, which I followed across the floor to the open door. The end of the leash was held by a tall, naked man. His body was hairless and flabby, covered in similar scabs like his pet. A dirty bag was pulled over his head that hit his features except for a single red eye that peaked out at me from a crude cut in the cloth. He stared at me and groped his oh no. Here it goes.
Starting point is 00:43:50 No, go ahead. He stared at me and groped his engorged penis, his breath heavy and labored. As the armless man wriggled towards me again, his master. What is that word? His master started to another word that starts with master. Jacket.
Starting point is 00:44:19 There you guys are cranking it. Start beating off. Crinking the hog is actually a fitting name for it. Yeah. His master started cranking the hog. Started yonkin his doink. He started absolutely jorking it. I screamed as the screw-filled mouth bit at me again.
Starting point is 00:44:38 and my cry seemed to stimulate the naked man even more. Get, get off me! Stop it! I screamed, horrified. I tried to kick at the man, doing my best to avoid his sharp metal teeth. I brought my heel down on his head, and he screamed as his face bounced off the floor. A moan of pleasure escaped the bagged man's mouth, and I turned away as a mist of black sprayed on the floor. There's a rattle of chains, and I turned back to see the two of them leaving. The armless man dragged by his neck out the door, looked at where the bagged man had finished, and saw a puddle of dead ants.
Starting point is 00:45:21 I vomited onto myself, thick, chunky curtains of bile and slime. Get me out of here! I screamed, strands of puke running down my chin. I don't belong here! Ants, bro. Dead ants. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie, a frothy, a frothy ejaculate of ants would be, it would not,
Starting point is 00:45:45 it would not feel good. Oh, man. That would scrape an itch. And also, I thought that, so the mist, the black mist was just a collection of, you think they're alive ants or dead ants? I think they're dead. Well, I think what he means is just like, from his perspective, it was just black. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:02 He looks closer to ants. Oh, gosh. You're right. Oh, I listened to the two men retreat down the hallway. The clink of chains accompanied by the sound of flesh being dragged across the concrete. I screamed again, but I knew no one was going to help me. I spit a wad of flim and bile onto the floor, ridding my mouth of its sourness. I forced myself to calm down.
Starting point is 00:46:29 It wasn't easy. After some time, I heard someone else approaching. I've been in a miserable lull. My mind, a blank canvas. of dark despair, but the noise roused me from my trance-like state. The muscles in my arms burned from being restrained for so long, and I shifted them desperately, trying my best to prepare myself or whatever horror was about to walk through the door. Footsteps drew closer, and then a woman walked into the room. She stopped at the doorway and looked at me. One of her eyes was missing,
Starting point is 00:47:02 dark cavernous hole in her skull. Her hair was ratty and wild, brown tangled like a forgotten nest. Her skin was pale, filthy, and she was dressed in rags. Couldn't tell how old she was, but there was charity, her one good eye. Still thinking? She asked her voice coarse and brittle. What? She took a step closer. Are you still deciding whether you're going to feed the pig or not? I look at her cautiously. Yeah, I am. I am. Who are you? What do you want? I was once where you are now, trying to decide my fate. I couldn't believe that this was what happened.
Starting point is 00:47:51 What happened after we die. It wasn't what I taught. Religion didn't warn me about this place. Tested my bindings again before asking. You killed yourself too? You're a person like me? You're not one of those, those creations? Breaks my heart, you have to ask, though.
Starting point is 00:48:14 She touched the hole where her eye should have been. Though, I can understand your caution. Yeah, I'm suicidal. I've been here a long, long time. But that was my choice. I decided to chance it here. Motion with my head towards the door. What's up there?
Starting point is 00:48:36 What is all this? She excelled heavily, leaned against the wall. I can't even begin to describe this place. It's like nothing you've ever seen. You walk down the hole and go out into it and you'd have to see it to understand. How bad is it? Why are all these mutated people hurting and killing each other? She let her head lull back against the wall.
Starting point is 00:49:04 It would take years for you to fully understand this place. Years you don't have. Right now, you have to make a decision, stay or feed the pig. They tell me hell is worse than here, but it can't be by much. Monsters and suicidels roam the black farm, killing, raping, brutalizing, and then you wake up and wonder how long you can survive before something else kills you. It's an endless cycle. So why did you stay?
Starting point is 00:49:43 Why didn't you feed the pig? I don't even know what that means, but I would do anything for a chance to go back. I can't stay here. I just can't. She smiled sadly at me. Why? Why did I choose this? It's simple, really.
Starting point is 00:50:02 I'm a coward. I was a cowered when I was alive and I'm a coward in death. When it came down to it, when the moment presented itself, I chose to stay here. I didn't know what awaited me outside. It boiled down to a simple choice fueled by my own fear. What is the pig? What does it do to you? He suddenly turned to go.
Starting point is 00:50:30 I'm afraid that's for you to find out. let me warn you think hard before you make a decision sometimes suffering through your fears better than suffering for eternity be brave what do i do i yelled shaking in my chair she walked out the door she paused and took one last look over her shoulder her eyes started around and she dropped her voice to a whisper feed the bag and with that she was gone so what do you how do you feel that interaction interesting interested to see that i'm guessing that the longer you stay there one i'm wondering is every time you dive you get kind of uh if you die for a second and then come back like basically a tortured zombie husk forever is kind of how that read to me or if just by being
Starting point is 00:51:22 in there your body is just slowly deteriorating and becoming a monster as well i think it's kind of like uh it's the way she said that you get killed and then you wake back up here so it's it implies that every time you die you kind of respond sort of right is that the vibe you get I think that's what that's kind of what I was thinking like if you got struck in the back of the head you might die but then you'd wake up but I'm guessing
Starting point is 00:51:45 that you keep the wound kind of is kind of what I'm thinking so you think she's missing an eye yeah like somebody stabbed her through her eye socket you know what I mean and then she woke up and was missing her eye or the guy pulled the whatever out and took her eye with it
Starting point is 00:52:01 so it's just like an infinite hell field of things constantly killing each other over and over. Yeah, just the most depraved type stuff of just like a field of depravity. I'm wondering what exactly feed the pig means, like what that actually
Starting point is 00:52:17 entails that process. I don't know. I honestly can't remember. I'm liking this so far. I'm into it. I think it's a cool concept. I think it's interestingly done. I'm a fan. The Silent Hill Turn is really, really fun visually. Like really enjoyed the
Starting point is 00:52:33 with screws for teeth and him like being on a leash and stuff I just imagine like all of the now that my mind even though in my mind I'm picturing basically like rusty walls just silent hill stuff I just keep like it gets more
Starting point is 00:52:49 the the setting is becoming more crimson more orange and browns just like I imagine the sky's like a red like the trees are black you know like black trees sure it's like a nothingness just kind of It's like it's a different version of rock, yeah, pretty much.
Starting point is 00:53:07 It's like decay allowed for thousands of years on the people, on the ran, on the land, everything. Yeah. What do you do that place smells like? It smells like putrid flesh has to. Just like dead skin everywhere. Yeah, it smells like, you know, what it smells like when an animal's been dead a while, just everywhere all the time. I would imagine it's a collection of all kinds of things, piss shit, that kind of stuff too. time someone dies, their body just lays out there, you know, just rotting.
Starting point is 00:53:35 Well, I'm wondering, too, if the girl that we just talked to, if she smells that way, too, because she's just technically rotting skin and stuff. Even the people walking around smell that way. Everyone's decomposed. Or maybe it just smells like bacon. Who knows? If it just smelled like bacon, but you couldn't have any. Well, I'm not, I'll be honest.
Starting point is 00:53:53 The older I get the bacon becomes less and less alluring to me, if I'm being completely honest. And now I will go as far to say that when my wife will make baking. for herself for like breakfast sometimes and I it almost makes a gag the smell of bacon are you the grinch what the heck you don't like the I don't know I honestly don't know I I used to I used to like now I don't know why but like the smell of bacon for some reason it makes me like seriously sick to my stomach I'm like I can't do it and I'm gonna sound like a little Nancy but I will say don't mind turkey
Starting point is 00:54:26 bacon love some nice turkey bacon all right here's what here's what needs to happen at some point me and you need to go camping and I'm gonna make bacon I will throw up on you I have you ever have you ever okay sure smelling bacon in an enclosed kitchen's one thing but have you ever been like outside and like smelled bacon like on this campfire type stuff definitely and you don't like that well it's been a while
Starting point is 00:54:51 but I feel like now even I would I would rather smell the beautiful fresh air and the trees and not the goddamn disgusting pig meat I'm just gonna keep reading how you randomly drop stuff you're like I hate the smell of bacon like not just like favors like you know man sorry that I'm trying to like just let you know who I am as a person yeah but every time you let me know who you are as a person it makes you less human you the things you dislike I will stop because if it's going to ruin our relationship as as co as co-host then I'll just stop telling you about myself I don't want that because it's great material for the podcast okay and more important
Starting point is 00:55:31 than anything to do with you is the success of this channel. Let's get that. Well, I mean, I'm glad we're at least in agreeance there. At least we've got our first. So you keep being strange. I'm just saying that the things that you have issues with aren't like things people have yes or knows about. It's like core human experiences. You're like, well, it's just funny, you know, death.
Starting point is 00:55:51 Or it's also like, oh, you know what? I hate the smell of food. Yeah, I didn't say death was funny. I'm saying that out of nowhere, if a, in a story, right? there is a, let's say I have a deal of like, I went to... Every day I'm slightly more convinced you are bug people in a hunter
Starting point is 00:56:08 shaped costume. That's fine. Actually, I'm a collection of grasshoppers. Yeah. Just inside of human leather. It's pretty much what I am. That's all I am. I'm a grasshopper scarecrow. That's what I am. I'm fine with that. Every day of then we'll be out to eat
Starting point is 00:56:29 or something like that. Hunter will like go to eat his food and like grasshoppers fall and he's like I gotta quit doing that as he's shoveling the back in really quick I picture I picture whenever I got uh dinner with you and Kayla I'm like you guys are like yeah I really love this place and it's just me stiff like my eyes and my mouth open it's like grasshopper's just like hopping out of it and you're just talking to me as if it's a normal conversation I'm just yeah just like oh man how do you like the food and you're like a mannequin over there with grasshoppers pouring out on the table yeah my neck everything yeah my neck falls back and falls off my body like bugs are just like protruding everywhere jumping and going you're like oh wow the steak here is unbelievable everyone's screaming and terror and running out of the restaurant you have to try the spinach dip it's insane which which makes it even better that i'm assuming that you have to you had to unbuckle me from the back seat of your car and like carrying me into the restaurant and then i walk in like table for two please
Starting point is 00:57:28 That's what I'm going to do when you die. I'm going to have like a hunter statue. I bring places like, oh, this is my best friend. I love him. Ha, is that right,
Starting point is 00:57:40 Hunter. Ha, remember our podcast? That was a lot of fun. Hey, hey, ex-specially. We like that.
Starting point is 00:57:48 Don't we? And the bugs are just like all over the mannequin's face. It's like, they're like chewing through it. It's like just sounds like a bunch of cicadas in the room. Yeah, it's like the loudest noise ever. Like all of them clicking off of each other and stuff.
Starting point is 00:58:02 If I die tragically, Isaiah, and you don't have some kind of manic episode and carry at like at least some kind of funco pop around of me. Oh, of course. I'm going to make podcast episodes with it too where it's just like sitting there. And I'm like, remember, remember Tommy Taffi?
Starting point is 00:58:17 It was pretty wacky, huh? Barasca. Hey, Hunter. I like to think, I like to think that you actually go so manic that you, you are having a conversation with it, but people can't hear the other end. So it's like, right?
Starting point is 00:58:29 Yeah, I'm, I've said it in public like, hey, what would Kyle from Barrasca say? And then I'm quiet for 20 seconds. And I'm like, ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, Hunter, classic hunter. For sure. My wife's left me. I live in like a motel room now. You also definitely put that fun go pop in a jar.
Starting point is 00:58:51 I wouldn't. Now the tone is dramatic. See what I mean? This is what you do. You take something. There was a. No, no, no, stop talk, shut up. Shut up. You take something that is like funny and normal.
Starting point is 00:59:05 You're like, you know what would make this so much worse. I never want to hear you say the word Baraska again or Tommy Taffy because you do it with real life scenarios. It's so much worse. I don't know, dude. I've seen the mason jars you have in your house. Like a funco pop could fit in there. All right.
Starting point is 00:59:20 Anyways, uh, let's keep, let's continue on. I sat in silence once again. My mind was spinning, desperately turning over my. options. I still couldn't fully understand the situation I was in. It was too much, too overwhelming. The other side of death wasn't supposed to be like this. I didn't know what I had expected, but it wasn't this nightmare. Questions crashed over my mind like cold waves onto a sinking ship. How was I supposed to make a choice when I didn't even know what my actions entailed? This place, the Black Farm, I couldn't stay here. But what if I was I was supposed to make a choice when I didn't even know what my actions entailed?
Starting point is 00:59:57 But what if I went to hell? What if I didn't get sent back? I would be out of the fire and into the frying pan. Do you write that backwards on purpose? I don't know. That doesn't make any sense. Because hell out of the fire. Because the saying is out of the frying pan into the fire, right?
Starting point is 01:00:16 Like we went from bad to worse. Well, I'm wondering if he's doing that because it's like pig. If it's like, oh, you're being, I don't know. But no, going to hell would absolutely be going to the fire, not the frying pan. frying pan right now. Whatever. Anyway, okay. My existence would forever be
Starting point is 01:00:32 damned to unending misery. Here, though. Here there were people like me. Suicidels. Wasn't all monsters and mutilated murderers. Maybe I could hole up somewhere with them.
Starting point is 01:00:44 Trying to scrape together a passable existence. Surely that would be better than getting sent to hell. No. No, this wasn't going to be how it's been my eternity. I refused to let it be.
Starting point is 01:00:56 There was even the sloth. light a sliver of hope, I would take it. I didn't want to wonder what could have happened, what could have been. I didn't want to be tormented my doubt. I would feed the pig and accept whatever fate chose for me. When I boiled it down,
Starting point is 01:01:11 that's the only option left. I would feed the pig. You gotta feed the pig. You gotta feed the pig, I think. I don't think there's any rational thought to stay. I would want to know more like, what do I do? Is it just random chance or is it like a question? Is it a game or something?
Starting point is 01:01:27 you know. Well, I think all of that feels irrelevant to where it's just like, if that is your if that is your only way out, I'm still saying you got to try. I'm saying that some prep time would help, you know? Oh, I think so. Well, yeah, for sure. If I could have all, you know, if I could actually prepare it for it, that'd be cool. But I don't feel like we're in that kind of.
Starting point is 01:01:43 Yeah, probably not. Seems like a yes, no kind of thing. I think when Danny shows up, that's the one time you get asked it forever, you know. Yeah. Hey, hello? Danny. I yelled rattling in my chair I've made my decision daddy
Starting point is 01:02:00 After a couple seconds I heard footsteps I go down the hall towards me Then he walked through the doorway And annoyed look on his face I've made my choice I'm going to feed the pig Sounds like you've really thought a lot about it Since I left you
Starting point is 01:02:15 And let me do a better line read of that Ooh sounds like you've really thought a lot about it Since I left you Fuck let me try it again Sounds like you've really thought a lot about it since I left you. There you go. There we go. Perfect, boom.
Starting point is 01:02:29 I looked my lips. You do the same thing if you were in my place. Danny walked behind me. I was in your place once. And I chose differently. Myis widened. Then Danny wrapped my entire head
Starting point is 01:02:43 with a strip of thin cloth bonded me. Sucked in as much air as I could, but each lungful felt empty. I felt Danny cut me free from the chair on my body's side as my stiff. muscles were released. I rolled my shoulders as my hands were released and I moaned with relief.
Starting point is 01:03:01 I dug my fingers into my back and I stretched. My bones creaking. Keep your blindfold on follow me. Danny said, pulling me up. My legs shook as I put white on them. My thighs trembling after their long cemented position. I grop blindly in front of me and found Danny's shoulder. I rested my hand on it as he walked us out of the room. Wondering how kind Danny is actually. wondering if he's a guiding spirit. Well, now that I found out that he was once, you know, a spirit, then
Starting point is 01:03:32 maybe. I mean, he's clearly got attitude to him or something. Yeah, he seems bitter to be in the situation he's in. There's an evil here, for sure, but I don't, like, what's Danny going to do about it if he's just a soul? Right. Well, how many times has he seen
Starting point is 01:03:49 this happen to? It must be so rudimentary. The whole thing of letting our protagonist put his hand, even on him to like guide him through seems it's more of a human act of kindness it does yeah yeah then everything else we've seen down here so far exactly that's come from there as we entered the hallway i could suddenly hear sound i had it before flink of metal long fleshy tearing noise something vomiting he sounds springed life in my ears painting the darkness before my eyes with imaginary scenes of horror i gripped
Starting point is 01:04:25 Danny's shoulder tighter, stumbling behind him. My heart thundering. I heard something trailing behind us, but Danny didn't seem to notice. Or if he did, he didn't care. Flesh slapped a concrete mere inches behind me, and I suddenly felt the hot breath on my neck
Starting point is 01:04:42 and the click of a wet tongue against gums. My breathing became even more labored as fear choked me. Going to feed the piggy, are you? Something whispered in my... I mean, that's what I said. That is how it's typed, at least, okay?
Starting point is 01:04:58 That was like almost a Shrek. I just imagine. I mean, it's borderline pirate. God defeat that piggy, I mean, I mean, like, if this is like a hell effectively or like an eternity, it could have been a pirate from like the 1400s, you know? Who knows? Who knows? Something whispered in my ear.
Starting point is 01:05:17 I felt something pressed against the back of my head, and I try not to think about what it might be. It was wet and slimy. And I heard the thing chuckle. He's an angry pig, you mate, for sure he gets his meal now, eh? It's voice low and unlike anything I had ever heard before. It was like a series of grunts and moans shummeled together to form broken words. To my relief, I heard the thing retreat back to wherever it had come from.
Starting point is 01:05:44 I continued to follow Danny. He remained silent as we walked and I could feel shifts in the air. The thick heat gave way to a cooler, almost pleasant temperature. then it kept creasing. Soon I was shivering violently against the cold. I couldn't see anything, but I felt a breeze on my face, like we were outside. I didn't hear Danny opened any doors, but nothing about this place was natural. It was like reality blurred and bled into itself, like reels of film, melting together. Teeth chattering, I was suddenly blasted with intense heat, and I gasped. My feet tripped over themselves as the
Starting point is 01:06:25 terrain changed and I was suddenly walking on what felt like warm iron. My ears were filled with the sound of blazing furnaces and a clash of working machinery. I couldn't see it, but I felt like there was a vast open expanse overhead. I smelled ash, faced the dirt on my tongue, sweat already forming along my spine. Suddenly, I crashed into dandy as it came to a halt, backed up a few paces quickly, muttered my apologies. I could hear moving. movement in front of us, a rustle of chains and an odd clicking sound on the metal floor. Something else too. Something snorting.
Starting point is 01:07:06 Then the room was filled with a deafening sound of the immense pig squealing. Covered my ears, heads splitting up the high-pitched swale. I grit my teeth as the noise echoed off the metal and faded into a series of snorts and grunts. It sounded absolutely enormous. I've brought another one. Danny announced a slight tinge of respect, finding his voice. He wants to feed the pig. I waited expecting to hear some answer.
Starting point is 01:07:42 The cloth around my eyes sealing my sight to darkness. I realized my knees were shaking and my back was coated in sweat. I was terrified. That is what you wish. Danny said, and I felt his. him bow under my hand. Apparently, some unseen conversation had just happened and Danny took my wrist, pushed me forward. Approach the pig. My whole body trembled and my knees locked into place. Robbed from sight, I raised my hands trying to get my bearings, the heat and ash filling
Starting point is 01:08:14 my head with nausea. I felt like I was going to throw up my stomach rolling like a dead seat. I didn't know where I was or what horror lay before me. I felt like lost and tiny, a fresh splash of tears dripping from my eyes and soaked into the cloth around my face. Please, let me see what's happening. Danny was suddenly behind me, pushing me forward. Guided my hands towards something as we stepped together in unison. Even with the cloth around my face, I could see a giant mass of towering darkness before
Starting point is 01:08:51 me. It was a spot of black on an already darkened canvas. As we walked forward, I was suddenly assaulted by a horrendous smell, and I gagged, turning away. Danny's grip tightened, forced me to continue. I could sense something just in front of me, a living, shifting mass of flesh. The smell increased to a wretched level, and I gagged again. The hot air was being blown on my face. A blast of heat came and repeated short burst.
Starting point is 01:09:26 I vomited into my cloth, sources the smell stemming from the hot air. I choked as the bile gushed over the fabric, soaking it, and momentarily cutting off my oxygen. Then he slapped my hands away, and I took a few seconds to steady my breath again. I was openly crying now, fear and misery collapsing my willpower. The wet cloth stuck as I sucked in soggy breaths. My own stomach acid, coated my skin, and I begged for all this to be over. And then something squealed directly in front of me. I felt my bladder go.
Starting point is 01:10:03 I was standing before the pig. It was the source of darkness of my obscured vision, a fat, titanic creature that filled my senses with every breath it blew into my face. Danny raised my hands, and suddenly I was touching the pig snout. I recoiled immediately, but Danny forced my hands back. Its fur was stiff and brittle, and as my shaking hands explored up to its nose, the size of the animal became clear to me. It was gigantic and had weight over a ton. Its flesh wiggled under my sweating hands, and it opened its mouth slightly.
Starting point is 01:10:40 My fingers curled around the teeth, the size of kitchen knives, and I realized its mouth was absolutely cavernous. Pig squealed again and I heard its hooves clack against the ground. It sounded like thunder, rolling across an open field in the middle of summer. Take this black foot off, please! I begged, my legs turning to jelly. Then he had taken a few steps back and I heard reverence in his voice. You don't want to do that.
Starting point is 01:11:10 I jumped as the pig nudged me with its nose, the wet circle of flesh squishing against the the length of my face. I shuddered away, raising my hands, and omitting a cry of fear. Feed the pig. Danny instructed. His voice like cold steel now. You made your choice. Now live with it.
Starting point is 01:11:30 It's the only chance you have to go on back. Or maybe the pig won't like how you taste and send you to hell. Only one way to find out. My eyes widened behind the vomit soap glove. won't like how I taste Climbing to its mouth My bladder let go again And I felt warm piss run down my leg
Starting point is 01:11:53 No, you can't mean I Danny's voice hearted Climbing to the mouth And don't stop crawling forward until it's done with you Please I beg turning towards Danny's voice Reaching out blindly Please there has to be some other way
Starting point is 01:12:11 don't make me do this I was a mess of snod and tears my words bumbling from my mouth like a toddler then he stepped forward and spun me back to face the pig do it you made your choice it will all be over soon
Starting point is 01:12:27 this is your only chance I could feel the pig breathing onto my face it snout mere inches for mine the smell and heat it omitted made me want to vomit again but I held it back this was insane This wasn't happening.
Starting point is 01:12:42 My mind spun and twisted in chaos and fear. There had to be some other way. I couldn't do this. I could not do this. Suddenly, I remembered the words of the woman. Sometimes suffering through your fear is better than suffering for eternity. Be brave. This was my only chance to get back to the world of the living.
Starting point is 01:13:02 I'd made such a terrible mistake in killing myself. If I could go back and change my life, I wouldn't have to spend eternity here. I could change my ways, and sure a spot somewhere else, somewhere away from the pig. Both of it decided to send me to hell. How much more suffering could I endure? I had to take the chance. Please, God. I whispered, taking a step forward.
Starting point is 01:13:27 If you can hear me, please, have mercy on me. My shaking hands reached out for the pig, and I grasped its thick fur. I felt it slowly lowered its head and open its mouth. It was waiting for me. It's thick, hot breath, stinking in my nostrils. This was it. No, turning back now. I slowly gripped its teeth and pulled myself forward into its jaws.
Starting point is 01:13:55 Its head was at a downward angle, and so I immediately fell onto my stomach at a 45-degree angle. Its wet tongue squished under me. I was shaking so hard I could barely breathe. Here soaked my blindfold and my heart crunched against my ribs. I slowly reached forward and found another tooth to grab onto. Gritted my teeth, I pulled my body inward past my knees. The pig raised its head and I was suddenly completely horizontal with its tongue.
Starting point is 01:14:25 Saliva, mucus stripped around me and heat was so intense, I almost blacked out. My knees clacked against its front teeth as I pulled myself even deeper. It's in her cheeks pressed in around me, squeezing my body like a soaking, fleshy coffin. Crying terrified. I reached ahead of me and found more teeth. I pulled myself deeper into its mouth, and I felt my feet slide past its lips. My whole body was coated in slime, and I opened and wept, grasping at the darkness for another tooth. Ugh. That's when the... That's when the pigs started to chew on me. Oh, gosh. Oh, shit. I screamed and crushing agony as my body was compressed between its massive teeth.
Starting point is 01:15:11 my legs snapped instantly and felt wet bone popped from my skin. That is awesome. Holy shit. I shook violently as my body spasmed in shock, mangled twist of blood and pain. Its tongue shifted me in its mouth. I felt it bite down to my shoulder. Eyes bulged in their sockets as I howled, a hot pillar crunching down on my collarbone. I threw up violently. Unable to control myself, the pain overwhelming. keep crawling screaming bloodshot eyes rolling wildly i reached forward with my good arm wetly searching for another tooth i grit my teeth blood squirting between them as my fingers wrapped around something
Starting point is 01:15:55 solid the pig bit down again its tongue twisting my body so its molars could snap down on my knees the pain brought darkness but my howling screams forced my eyes to remain open Make it stop! I bellowed my trembling hands still gripping the tooth ahead of me. Please make it fucking stop! Ground my teeth together so hard they cracked, screaming as I slowly pulled my body deeper into the mouth. Something was changing. The tight walls of its throat squeezed my head and I realized I was almost through.
Starting point is 01:16:30 Come on, you motherfucker, come on! I begged vocal cords cracking. I reached ahead of me and grabbed onto a thick wad of flesh. head felt like it was splitting and the pig bit down on me again aghast blood exploding from my mouth in a great gush of red it had pierced through my stomach obliterating my insides like bloated noodles darkness rushed in on me and I was in too much shock to even scream the last of my strength right as the blackness took me hold myself for one last time felt myself slide down its throat Falling.
Starting point is 01:17:11 Screaming. I was screaming. Heat. Heat so intense I thought I would melt. Clanging. Something was hammering on a metal. Colors and images flew past me so quickly. I could only make out their shape.
Starting point is 01:17:30 Blood poured into my eyes. Felt like I would keep falling forever. Man, that whole segment, oh my gosh. I love the idea of as a suicidal, as a suicidal person to atone and go back, you have to put yourself also through pain again and you have to forcibly kill yourself again. You have to fall through the teeth. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I love the idea of chewing in this like pig is the literal gateway out of this, out of this world.
Starting point is 01:18:02 My guess is if you don't get past the teeth, you go to hell, I would guess. maybe I'm thinking it's I think that it's no matter what you're getting chewed up like that yeah yeah what I think I think it's when you go down the throat and then you like are you essentially die again I think that's when you get judged again to see where you go is is my is my interpretation yeah yeah suddenly my eyes snapped open and I was falling a breath rushed back to my lungs and a great wave of purity my face bounced off wood floor and I cried out as I felt my nose break. Pasted blood and saw stars. That stopped falling. Oh, that lucky motherfucker. I think he, I think this is going to say that the rope snapped. Yeah, yeah. I think that's what it is.
Starting point is 01:18:51 There's a ring of burning fire around my throat and I felt impossibly thirsty. I was lying on the floor. Slowly open my eyes again and the darkness began to fade like morning mist under a hot sun. Colors blended together. Shapes came into focus. I was in my woodshed. I reached up around my throat and grasped at the source of heat. It was the rope I had hung myself with, but now it was severed, releasing me from the grip of death. Relief rolled over me in overwhelming ways of thanks. I curled up on the floor and sobbed, tears dripping from my eyes under the dirty floor. The body shook, unbroken, as I wept.
Starting point is 01:19:30 Wet, hoarse cries rising from my quivering lips. I had been spared. I was alive again. From my spot on the floor, I turned my eyes upward. I'm always cracking. Thank you, God. I won't thank you. fell into another fit of uncontrollable sawmoon.
Starting point is 01:19:47 I promise I won't waste my life again. I promise I'll make things right. I'll fix everything. I don't know how long it was before I got up. Time seemed to stretch for eternity. My mind refused to rebuild the horrors of what I had just witnessed crushing me. But I knew I would do everything I could. do everything I could make the most out of my life.
Starting point is 01:20:10 I was going to live every day to the fullest. I would devote myself to helping others in dark times. I would reach out to as many suicidals as I could and try to save them. I want to wait it on the other side. I didn't want anyone else to have to witness the horrors of suicide. I didn't want anyone else to have to feed the pig. Round of applause. Oh, I'm sorry.
Starting point is 01:20:34 I thought this wasn't so good. Well, here's the thing. Well, yes, I did do my little baby boo-boo thing earlier. Here's the thing. I was, it's a, it's a hard, it's a hard sell when someone comes in. It's like, you killed yourself. This is what hell is. It's very cartoonish.
Starting point is 01:20:54 I get it. I think the only complaint I had of this story was that I just wish it was longer and we got to experience more of those. Because the way that the beats of the story are now, it's pretty much like you get to experience. the man or the pig made horrors which is like the screw mouth guy right and all that stuff and then you experience the souls who didn't get fed by the pig or who didn't feed the pig and then they're basically just rotting so you have the acts of of it's like an act of three of you get to experience that you experience her and then it's him being like fuck it I'm going to go feed myself to the pig I just wish like I was so enveloped which you know at the same time too it doesn't really matter like
Starting point is 01:21:33 I mean, it's the story of a guy who is, essentially the entire time he's hanging. Like, it's him. It's like the, the super prolonged amount of time of a man kicking the chair and falling, right? Before that thing actually. That's an instant of death. Yeah. Exactly. What I love about this, too, is that it almost reads like an episode of the Twilight Zone.
Starting point is 01:21:55 Yeah. Is what it reads like to me. I love it. I love the idea of for retribution, you have to for forcibly based, I mean, forcibly kill yourself, crawl into the beast's mouth, and then endure that suffering again. Because that suffering that he endures is the last bit of like, just remember how worse it could be. Yeah, yeah. And like, you're probably begging to be like, oh, I wish this wasn't happening.
Starting point is 01:22:19 I wish I was alive. It's crazy. I mean, it's very, um, it's powerful. It's just a sweet visual. It's also a smart thing to, to, uh, have him blindfold. Yes. Or protagonist. because I think that if he would have tried
Starting point is 01:22:35 to describe stuff, it would have taken people out of, yeah. Describing it. It would take people out and they would, yeah. Describing it as you heard, you hear the pig squeal and it's so big. It's like a blackness within already darkness, you know? Yeah. Of like how immense it is, that's enough. That's all you need. I was kind of like, eh, whenever the giant pig was there. I was like,
Starting point is 01:22:53 yeah, that's kind of creepy. But the idea of having to crawl inside this giant mouth and like really get all those extremely like so many great. It does. doesn't eat you, you have to feed yourself to it. Yeah, you have to crawl in and then not only that, but then like laying on this enormous flat tongue and then he starts chewing on you. Man, the description of that was, oh my gosh, that was getting rough. That was probably one of my favorite things.
Starting point is 01:23:19 One of those, one of the one of, that's probably like one of my favorite things we've read so far. Like the, so the leg. Cracking and like the collarbone, the column coming down and like your guts bursting open as it rips your midsection and. half so like your upper what's left of your uh torso crawls into its throat still going oh man you was crazy about that too i was like getting a lot of enjoyment out of is while you were reading that i had the exact same reaction to it of there's no way to really process that besides just almost
Starting point is 01:23:49 laugh like the absurdity and like how crazy it is i was like recoiling in my seat like thinking about being crushed it's rough it's insane and also the idea of being in a creature's mouth like It's so, so claustrophobic. And so, and it was so visceral, too. Like, you smell the breath and you're going to the source of it. And it's like, oh, the great stinking monster. It's hot. It's wet.
Starting point is 01:24:14 It kind of reminds me of the ending of borderlands a bit of like that same kind of like being trapped alive. Yeah. And to me, to me, especially like claustrophobia, I'm so claustrophobic. That entire thing of having to forcibly crawl into tighter spaces. Yeah. is just so unnerving. I felt a pulp of flesh and pulled myself into it.
Starting point is 01:24:36 So good. To the tightness of its throat. I was picturing, so let me ask you this. So the entire time I was picturing Danny of what he was doing. So are we to assume that Danny did not feed the, he did not crawl in? Or is he a manmade,
Starting point is 01:24:55 is he a man made or a pig made person? All right. So I think the. options are because Danny says I was like you once right and I assume he wasn't lying so Danny might have been someone who
Starting point is 01:25:10 died way way way way way way back right like maybe one of the first there and they need someone to bring new people to the pig there might be other people like Danny who do the same thing because I imagine Danny's probably been here for eons right
Starting point is 01:25:25 and if you're there for long enough you kind of become like an acolyte almost for the pick because what else are you going to do yeah i mean i was wondering how he got that position of power of being able to deliver that stuff there was a bit there was what i really liked about danny was at first it seems like oh this is going to be another edgy sadistic like killer master kind of guy but no i mean i found a lot of humanity in him by the end of uh by the end of the story when he comes back in because it feels like this is a guy who has done this how many times. He's probably seeing the worst
Starting point is 01:26:02 outcomes. I mean, like, that's your perception is just hell all the time. So then whenever he comes back in and he sarcastically says, oh, yeah, you really mold that over. I think he's just like, okay, well, I guess we're just doing this immediately. I guess we're not going to think about what this is. But okay. And also, I don't think that there's even
Starting point is 01:26:18 an option, which if I feel like if it was a part of the rules and it's like, oh, you can't look at him. That'd be different. But I feel like he blindfolded our protagonist, so it would be easier for him to make the call to be like climb in to the mouth because seeing
Starting point is 01:26:34 that and having to perceive it is so much different than if you see that horror and being like oh okay there's no way I can't there's no way I can do that versus the idea maybe you could get over the idea
Starting point is 01:26:44 if it's dark you can kind of like shut down while it is torturous yeah it's like while it's torturous at least I don't have to physically like in my brain process all the stuff around me I'm just feeling mouth oh
Starting point is 01:26:55 mm-hmm yeah that was really fun man that's good pig imagery pops up a lot in like uh demonic traditions and stuff like that too so i'm imagining like this beast of a pig right like its features are horrific and evil and stuff and then i'm imagining like gosh i want to see more about this world i it was so well done like the story was so well written that i would almost be afraid to change anything about it but from what little peak we got about it i want to see more so bad like they talk about at the beginning like well that
Starting point is 01:27:30 whatever's waiting for you down the hall, let's just say hell can't be much worse. And the woman says the same thing. So is there some other torture down the hall that we've never seen through the whole story? Well, what I'm wondering is the people who stay there too long, I think,
Starting point is 01:27:46 because you have to think he was only there enough to experience one thing, right? Yeah. And it almost seems like Danny let him experience that kind of, almost that torture just to be like, this is what's here. This is what awaits you. So I'm wondering people who keep doing that and they're so paralyzed with fear that they just are continuously brought in. Other monsters come in. They do all kinds of stuff like that.
Starting point is 01:28:11 You know what I mean? Yeah. And I also... That's what I'm wondering. The other thing I just, if I could lengthen any part of this story, it would be the walk to see the pig. Because I was so, I was so into it when it was like, he's following Danny. it says the thick heat gave way to cool almost pleasant temperature but then it kept decreasing soon I was shivering violently against the cold it almost feels like going down
Starting point is 01:28:36 to the last layer of hell or something like that it's like Dante's nice layer yeah the frozen the lake frozen lake of the souls and stuff like that and then he goes somewhere else where he feels blasted with heat and it feels like he's on warm iron and he can hear furnaces
Starting point is 01:28:53 and machinery like bro what that's so cool super super industrial like I said the the the all the callbacks I'm wondering how much like Silent Hill played into it but all that like furnace kind of vibes yeah all that kind of imagery just kept bringing me back to just that kind of cool Japanese inspired like horror video game stuff and that's I can't emphasize enough if you guys have not heard of Hadeshi Hino he's the guy who inspired Junji Ito and it's incredible and there's a publisher called Starfruit books I bought their copy of a translated version of the town of pigs and it's really really fun just like
Starting point is 01:29:32 really fun old japanese horror manga and i would really recommend it like the the use of pigs and media is um it always feels kind of effective pigs are just so gross and weird they're gross and weird they can represent like a gluttony they can represent like an evil and stuff like that they can also represent like cannon fodder almost you know pigs to the slaughter things like that yeah i i like the i know it was very literal in the story feed the pig but i like feed the pig as a conceptual phrase too almost right like almost like a way to say grin and bear it like get over it but like a much more serious like a commission almost of sometimes you have to suffer right fee the pick. Yeah. I'm scrolling
Starting point is 01:30:22 this. So you say pigs, pigs are obviously known to be gluttonous kind of stuff. That's the image. It almost feels with, yeah. Yeah, it almost feels you could, you could associate gluttony with selfishness, right? Yeah, for sure. And it almost feels like a selfish act that you have to do again, which
Starting point is 01:30:39 the turmoils of suicide and stuff, obviously, it cannot be underplayed, but people do count it as a very selfish act to do whatever. So to do this thing, feeding the pig is almost feeding the selfish. It's like there's a symbolism of like you have to give yourself to something else to some other beast, right?
Starting point is 01:31:01 Almost playing on like you you gave yourself to something previously. That's why you're here. Yeah, you gave yourself to emotional coils that drove you to that thing in a way. Those things drove you to that, you know, like I mean, I just like the, the, the, I don't know. It's just, it's an interest, there's so many different parallels and I'm wondering how much of that it was intentional. There's obviously like in real life, you know, outside of the story. There's several different reasons, you know, mental illness stuff like that. People get pushed to that unspeakable degree. But in Danny's case, or not Danny, in our protagonist's case specifically, it was him giving into his emotions, right?
Starting point is 01:31:40 Giving into like the position his life was in. Yeah. So it's almost like, a desperate person. Okay, you've offered up yourself once now offer up yourself again. Sort of. I feel so bad for him, too. It's just like a beaten down, just this beaten down man. Oh, you know, his wife is getting those. Yeah, he's going, he's going through it. Pictures and poor God stuff.
Starting point is 01:32:03 Yeah. And then he has to confront himself too. What's weird is that it almost feels like a, uh, this full circle thing is a guy who takes control of the bad shit that's going on in his life is that is how it feels. He is at a very, I would say he's at a very. stagnated, I would say, very similar to the woman who walks in with the one eye, I think that she is like, I'm not confident or I'm not brave in that way. I think that he, I think at the beginning represents her. He's a very like, you know, this I'm not supposed to be here, all this
Starting point is 01:32:37 kind of stuff. I think that it would, it was, it correlates a lot with some of the stuff that's going on in his real life scenario. So at the end, I love that one line. What does he say here? He says, it's whatever he's pushing through he's already getting chomped on a couple times by the pig right and then he screams out one of his last lines is come on motherfucker come on i beg his vocal voice cracking it almost seems like he's like push like he starts to kind of believe in himself at the end of it's how i read that it's him gaining back like uh the respect for himself that he lost sort of yeah he's like we're already in the fucking thick of it just push kind of i love that it's just a one little line i think it's great no i dare i say this is one of my
Starting point is 01:33:17 favorite ones I think we've read. I will say that I think I'm it's a debate in my head that part of him in the pig's mouth might be my favorite thing we've read so far. Dude it was so it was so visceral. I can't remember last time I read something that made me that uncomfortable. I was reading uncomfortable. The visual is so palpable. It was actually terrifying. Tongues shifted me. The word salad of stuff that of descriptions was just hot pillar crunching down on my collarbone. Uh, like man. gory surreal like body horror all stuff wrapped in one i that might be my that might be my favorite section we've read my whole body was thorough enjoyment slime and i wept it was such
Starting point is 01:33:59 a surreal feeling it was such a surreal feeling to like actually recoil physically in my chair and like cover my mouth of like oh my god but then also like crack smiles by like how much fun i was having it was super sick yeah i think this is great because we were thinking so it's cheeks pressed in around me, squeezing my body like a soaking fleshy coffin. Love that. Love that. Just see all these like little
Starting point is 01:34:23 bits of introducing claustrophobia back in. Introducing body horror back again. Introducing claustrophobia back in. My wet bone pop from my skin. You it's weird too. It's like you, there's so many ways you could say that of like my bones
Starting point is 01:34:40 couldn't handle and snapped and pierced my flesh. But no, I just like my wet bone popped. It's just I don't know why, but that simpler description is so much more impactful. Just, gosh. I'm glad we read this, man. Yeah, we were planning on reading Stolen Tongues. And then we found out that it had like a, it was a story beforehand.
Starting point is 01:35:02 And then it got translated to a book. And the creepy post is called like my romantic cabin getaway or something like that. That's right. That's right. So we were thinking, okay, do we get the book and then read it? The author says the book on here. That the book's his preferred version. so we could just read the book depending on how long it is.
Starting point is 01:35:17 That's what I said. You know what's weird is people were saying like, oh, you got to read stolen tongues. I was looking at the majority of the comments or like reactions to it. And it was mostly negative. So I think that was another reason too. We're like,
Starting point is 01:35:28 Stolen Tongues, the novel. Because the author, I saw that one of the replies was like, yeah, please read stolen tongues. It's been through rewrites and stuff like that. So maybe,
Starting point is 01:35:37 maybe stolen tongues is worth reading, you know, compared to the Cooper Crosse. I think so. Or I would hope. Yeah, I think so. This was so good.
Starting point is 01:35:44 I'm just, I keep thinking about like, I want to see more of the world. I want to see what the machinery was. I want to see more of the monster. Because they were all so unique, like the, the worm man with the, with the nailed teeth and his eyelids peeled back and stuff. And he has scabs over his head because he uses his head to like work his way off the ground. Then the ants that came out of the guy and stuff. Like, it's so unique. And it's so, honestly, every element of the story works for me.
Starting point is 01:36:10 Every time we get to the end of one, I'm like, I liked it. But there's this one thing to change. I really can't think because the only thing that's like really misplaced is like Danny but then you find out he was one of the soul so it's like how did you go from
Starting point is 01:36:25 being where I am to where you're at now wearing a nice shirt not bothered by the things around you knowing what to do it implies so much that even that criticism isn't valid because it makes him such an interesting character for how he got to that point like it does and I think also thinking about it more now
Starting point is 01:36:41 it almost makes me think, just roll with me on this. Could Danny possibly be a angel who was kicked out of heaven? And that's why also he's not affected. Oh, that's a good point. And he's like perpetually could be where he's like, oh, I was in your position. I left and he left that like kind of paradise and now he's here. And that's also this and that kind of also gives into the fact that maybe he's this guarding guardian angel kind of aspect maybe. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:37:06 I think it all works. That's why I said my criticism is that I just selfishly wanted more of. the world also the part of like him jacking off and the ants came out it's such a like twisted interesting way to show people's like a world of depravity like monsters existing in this kind of like the nothingness we made the joke earlier about you being full of grasshoppers i think if you cut some of these people in half they would be full of grasshoppers you know like it's just so and it would be fucking awesome and that would be so sick gosh i want to see more from this it was so good And every, maybe I always say in these stories like, well, maybe they didn't have to show all of this.
Starting point is 01:37:43 They could leave some to imagination. This is why. Because right now, it left such a perfect level of like the known and unknown. I have to see more of it. This is where you want a story to end, like frustratingly good, right? Like, I will be thinking about this story more than probably a lot of the stuff that we've read. There's obviously the classics that we have, but just in terms of. imagery and like especially stuff that I like to draw and whatever else in my mind I'm like oh cool
Starting point is 01:38:13 this is I'm going to circle back and be like oh that's kind of a cool way how could I introduce some of these elements into some of the stuff I do or like these feelings I feel now how do you kind of capture that in your own way and your own work is I think the most powerful part of this story for me I just has so much fun so and honestly I think it blew it blows Tommy Taffy out of the water by far. I think it's like this is the, I like Thomas Taffin. This is way better. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:38:42 I think this is the perfect honed in vision of a world of depravity and especially in a really fun surrealist way of a depiction of hell. But it doesn't just, it's not just a surface level depiction of hell, which is also I think why at first, whenever I was doing my little upset baby thing was that you're like, okay, well, they're just in hell. But to have the creative vision to make it a, make it. at your own is really fun and not really hark on a lot of the tropes of things
Starting point is 01:39:10 and be able to explore a lot of these ideas is a, it's just a lot of fun. I hope people enjoyed it as much as we did. Bro, bro. I'm scrolling through his subreddit right now. Here's a post you made. Hey, everyone. Just wanted to drop in and announce my new book,
Starting point is 01:39:29 Return to the Black Farm, a direct sequel to the Black Farm. Beat the Pig took off here and got a lot of love, and I owe the community for the existence of both of these books, I hope you'll find this story to read as well and thanks again. Dude, there is a full Feed the Pig story called the Black Farm
Starting point is 01:39:45 and a sequel called Return to the Black Farm. Okay, well, that's sick. Bro. What I'm going to do is, what I'm going to go out and order them. I'm going to go out and order both of them. I'm going to give myself like a week to fully digest feed the pig.
Starting point is 01:39:59 So it's like, you know, it's like consecrated. It's like in there. And then I need to see more from the world. Doesn't, like, even if it's not as good, that's fine. We have the original story as it existed, but it immediately sold me on the concept, the universe, everything we had in there. So, so good. Gosh, man. I'm angry. I'm angry. I'm curious. Yeah, no. I think that was great. And also just in terms of like creepy pasta fans and being able. Because I could have had I could have seen feed the pig or our viewers probably could have seen feed the pig somewhere and maybe not known where that came from. And now it's going to be so cool to be like, oh yeah, you know. You get. it you know you immediately know yeah feed the pig such a good line too like we talked about some of like the weight that could be applied to it simplicity is just is king and that's just like such a simple three
Starting point is 01:40:48 word line is just so good yeah i mean feed the pig ladies and gentlemen very very good stuff um i don't know what we're going to read next we usually don't really know until a couple days or a day before so this is uh this is where we're at with it if you have any suggestions feel free to leave them below. As always, too, please do check out the Spotify and the Apple podcast, all that jazz. It really, really does help us in the back end with just helping the channel,
Starting point is 01:41:13 the show, all that jazz, and also realize I don't take it for granted at all. It's a, I am so grateful for all the people that listen to this shit. I seriously appreciate it. And also, I'm so appreciative of all these fucking awesome stories like Feed the Pig, just being here
Starting point is 01:41:29 and that there's a community of people that are stoked to read them and be a part of it as well. So it's just, it's awesome. It's ridiculous. You guys really do like the fact that me and Hunter just talking about scary stories gets the amount of support it does is ridiculous. Y'all are great. Yeah. For rest of your day, we will see you next week. Also, CREP TV will be coming up as well shortly. So, you know, check that out. If you haven't checked it out, it's just more video stuff versus reading horror stuff. So we have that on our YouTube channel as well as Creep TV. So check it out. It's only on YouTube for audio listeners. The reason it's
Starting point is 01:42:01 going on YouTube is because it's all visual-based. Would it make a lot of sense for a podcast format? So if you like listening to this on Spotify and Apple, which we really appreciate, and thank you for all the support over there. Come to YouTube if you want to check out Creep TV. Hugs and kisses, everybody. Goodbye. Don't let the pig kiss you.

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