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Spotlight [10] is a podcast feature series that highlights sound storytelling through fiction, non-fiction and comedy productions. Learn more about the world around you, or dive into a new reality built on sound storytelling.
Welcome to Spotlight 10. We share our favorite stories with you, spreading the full range of fiction, non fiction, and comedy. Learn more about the world around you or dive into a new reality built on sound storytelling. Each of these feature episodes has been crafted by a different host with a different style. Let's jump into this week's episode.
Speaker 2:Figures. The one that I actually go for a walk in the sky decides to explode. That's weird. Evening, you look like you could use something warm. Understatement of the year.
Speaker 2:What will it be? Surprise me. Rough night? Rough month. Maybe longer.
Speaker 2:We get a lot of those here. So what is this place? I've walked the street a dozen times and never noticed it. It's quiet. That's probably why you missed it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. The quiet's nice. Feels like everything outside just stopped. Sometimes, that's what people need. This coffee's incredible.
Speaker 2:What's in it? Can't tell you that. Trade secret. Tastes familiar somehow, like Summer's at my aunt's cabin. Wood smoking blueberries.
Speaker 2:Haven't thought about that in years. Funny how small things stick to us, even when we forgot they were there. You talk like you've been reading fortune cookies. Hey, I've been told worse.
Speaker 3:Woah. Cool clocks.
Speaker 2:Careful. Some of those are older than both of us combined.
Speaker 3:You mean like vintage?
Speaker 2:You're a little young for espresso, kid.
Speaker 3:Oh, I don't need it. My city's always lit up. Nobody sleeps much anymore.
Speaker 2:What city is that?
Speaker 3:Up above. The one floating near the clouds.
Speaker 2:Right. What brings you down here from the sky tonight?
Speaker 3:I don't know. My mom was yelling again and the elevator stopped halfway up. There was a door and I walked through and now I'm here.
Speaker 2:I guess this place finds people, not the other way around.
Speaker 3:Hey. What's wrong with your clocks?
Speaker 2:They do this when the balance is. Or balance between what people move on to and what they need to get done. You sound like a therapist with a caffeine problem. Close enough. You sound like maybe you've passed.
Speaker 2:Did you listen to that? No. Then maybe now's your chance.
Speaker 3:Lord, I'm keeping Von. You must confront your past head on.
Speaker 2:It was a car accident. I wasn't there. I was supposed to be. He called me an hour before, asked if I could come get him. I said I was busy.
Speaker 2:I've been replaying that call in my head every night since. And it's kept you here? Here? You mean this cafe? Here.
Speaker 2:In that minute, you can't move past. How do you move past something like that? You don't. You just stop fighting it. Let it breathe.
Speaker 2:That's the least comforting advice I've ever heard. Good. It means it's honest. It's quiet again. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Time is moving.
Speaker 3:Hey, look. The sky's moving again.
Speaker 2:He's gone. He was never meant to stay long. None of us are. Thanks for the coffee. Anytime.
Speaker 2:You mean that literally, don't you? Maybe. I should go home. So why can't I move? You don't have to leave yet, you know.
Speaker 2:I thought you'd lock the door. The cafe doesn't really lock, not for people who aren't finished. Is that your way of saying I look emotionally constipated? I'd never use those exact words publicly. Okay.
Speaker 2:Fine. Maybe I'm stuck a little. I swear this place is messing with physics. Physics messes with people first. We just return the favor.
Speaker 2:Is that supposed to make sense? Not yet. Sit. This one's on the house. I didn't even finish the first one.
Speaker 2:That one finished you. You're impossible. Hey, why are they doing that again? Not all shifts are warnings. Some are invitations.
Speaker 2:Invitations to what? To look deeper. To stop skimming your own life like it's a bad book. I'm not skimming. You're sprinting through the parts that hurt.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, hurting sounds. So does holding your breath forever. What the? Milo?
Speaker 3:I forgot something.
Speaker 2:You're between places, kid. Make it quick.
Speaker 3:Nora? You were sad when I left. I can feel it. I
Speaker 2:yeah. I guess I was.
Speaker 3:You don't have to stay sad. Where I'm from, my thanks break, people fix them, even if it takes forever.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I'm working on it. Kids, always figure things out faster. Eli, why did I end up here tonight? Because you stopped running long enough for the world to catch up with you or because the universe has a messed up sense of humor.
Speaker 2:Both can be true. I've been trying so hard to forget that call, to forget that day, but forgetting doesn't fix anything. No. But looking at it without flinching, that's how you stop it from owning every minute after. I don't know if I'm strong enough for that.
Speaker 2:Then let the cafe help you. That's what it's here for. What is that? Something you're ready for. Is this going to hurt?
Speaker 2:Only the parts you've been avoiding. Okay. Okay. Let's see it. I remember this, but I've never let myself hear He didn't blame me.
Speaker 2:He never did. I was the only one who did. That's the part you came here to learn. Thank you. Really.
Speaker 2:Anytime. Yeah. I'm starting to believe that. Good night, Eli. Good night, Nora.
Speaker 2:This feature was written and produced by Eva Sadowski. Special thanks to Katie Walsh, Ella Miefer, and Riley Schatz.
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