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Longmont Potion Castle 20 · 2023

Dempseys Rental

Track 4

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  • Cole: Hello?
  • LPC: Hey, Cole! How ya doin’?—
  • Cole: Yeah.
  • LPC: Hey, my name’s Dempsey Brainard and, ah, I’m new to Athens, here.
  • Cole: Okay.
  • LPC: I just moved down here from Santa Monica, California.
  • Cole: Oh, yeah. Uh-huh.
  • LPC: And I'm needing to move into a place ASAP.
  • LPC: I got your number from the lady at the agency I was talking to.
  • Cole: Okay.
  • LPC: I’m livin’ out of a moving truck right now.
  • LPC: I need to go into something, ASAP, whether a storefront or a warehouse or, you know, something like that.
  • Cole: Okay, I think I'll give you my son, he's his number.
  • Cole: You got something to write with?
  • LPC: Uh, your son? Let’s see.
  • Cole: Yeah, Benjamin Barks. Uh—
  • LPC: Benjamin Barclays.
  • Cole: They both have a lot of properties around town.
  • Cole: They will be able to...
  • Cole: Yeah, Benjamin Barks is...
  • Cole: Benjamin Barks.
  • LPC: Uh, Benjamin Barks, okay.
  • LPC: Now, let's see.
  • LPC: I have a couple questions for you.
  • LPC: Do you know, is it okay?
  • LPC: Because I'm about seven foot two.
  • LPC: Oh, yeah, well.
  • LPC: Is there any appropriate place for me to live?
  • Cole: Oh, I’m sure they’ll find a place!
  • LPC: Oh, dynamite, denim, I, denim, I, denim, I, don't know.
  • LPC: Also, um, is it ever—how you say—uh, acceptable…
  • Cole: Uh-huh.
  • LPC: …to pay rent, uh, once a year? ‘Cause I get paid but once a year! And s—
  • Cole: Uh, you can ask ‘em about that—
  • Cole: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
  • Cole: You can arrange something. I imagine so.
  • LPC: Oh, dynamite.
  • LPC: And I have three, four safes, because I have some very valuable positions, very dear to me.
  • LPC: And I store them in these safes.
  • LPC: I got three or four them in there, about, you know, a quarter ton, each safe.
  • Cole: Oh, wow.
  • Cole: Oh, wow.
  • Cole: So you know.
  • Cole: Do you have a forklift that you, or how do you get to move around?
  • LPC: I do have a forklift, yeah, but it's important that I'm on a floor level, on a ground level.
  • Cole: Okay, I’m sure they—they can accommodate you!
  • LPC: Dynamite, dynamite, let's see her.
  • LPC: Now, anything else, I'm about seven foot, too.
  • LPC: So it's important.
  • Cole: Well, you're a very impressive man.
  • Cole: I'd like to meet you.
  • LPC: Well, thank you.
  • LPC: I would, too.
  • LPC: Listen.
  • LPC: Are you going to give me a number?
  • LPC: What are you doing here?
  • Cole: I am, yes. It’s for Benjamin Barks.
  • LPC: Benjamin Barks.
  • LPC: Do I need to get him today and give him a deposit, or…?—
  • Cole: I'll call him up and tell him that you're going to call.
  • LPC: Okay, and now listen, I got a monkey running around somewhere.
  • LPC: Now, do you guys allow monkeys or?
  • Cole: I don't know about monkeys.
  • Cole: Do you have to, uh, is he clean?
  • LPC: Well, he's pretty clean most of the time, but he's.
  • LPC: He gets his hands dirty, you know, when he gets into the dumpster or the garbage camera.
  • Cole: So you have to be able to keep the monkey with you, huh?
  • LPC: This guy runs, wow.
  • LPC: If you can understand what I'm saying.
  • LPC: This guy.
  • LPC: This guy is running buckwale.
  • Cole: Ha! does he make noise?
  • LPC: He doesn't make any noise, no, sir.
  • LPC: No, sir.
  • Cole: Okay, well, good.
  • Cole: I don't know whether that's a problem or not.
  • Cole: But they will decide.
  • Cole: on that.
  • LPC: His name is Ewing.
  • LPC: Okay, and he...
  • LPC: He is bonded with the state.
  • Cole: I don’t know what you mean by “bonded”.
  • LPC: Uh, the monkey is registered with the State of, ah, Georgia, here!—
  • Cole: I see, okay.
  • LPC: Oh, yeah.
  • LPC: Oh, yeah.
  • LPC: Oh, yeah.
  • LPC: Oh, yeah.
  • LPC: So can we stop by and maybe sit up a little conference, you and...
  • LPC: Me and Ewing?
  • LPC: The monkey.
  • Cole: Oh, y—you can set it up with the—my son.
  • LPC: Okay, okay.
  • LPC: Now, we're now...
  • Cole: Uh, the— Benjamin Barks. So let me give you his number.
  • LPC: Okay, let me get that number from you.
  • LPC: I need a pen.
  • LPC: This fend doesn't work here.
  • LPC: Okay, let's see.
  • LPC: And let's see.
  • LPC: I'd like to set booby traps up.
  • LPC: Because I don't want any intruders or invaders in my property.
  • LPC: Do you guys allow that kind of thing in your properties?
  • Cole: Oh, gosh.
  • Cole: I don't know about that.
  • Cole: It turns out of people.
  • Cole: I don't know.
  • LPC: Oh, okay, because I like need to protect my monkey up here.
  • LPC: You know, I'm new to you.
  • Cole: Yeah, okay.
  • Cole: Well, I'm sure they're really sympathetic to that.
  • Cole: Now, 706—have you got a pen?
  • LPC: “7”— I got a pen now. Yes, sir.
  • Cole: 4752.
  • LPC: 4752.
  • LPC: Now, you guys have Section 8 up there?
  • Cole: I don’t know what a “Section 8” is.
  • LPC: It's government-assisted housing.
  • LPC: You know, I get paid by the government.
  • LPC: But just once a year now.
  • Cole: No.
  • Cole: Okay.
  • Cole: I imagine they can work that out.
  • LPC: Excellent.
  • LPC: Now, last thing.
  • LPC: Cole, if I just dropped off Ewing while I go and meet with your son, would that be okay?
  • LPC: And you just look at him?
  • LPC: He's a nice little guy.
  • LPC: He won't cause you trouble in the world.
  • LPC: You just watch the monkey.
  • LPC: I go meet with your son, and then I'll come pick him up from me.
  • LPC: Would that be?
  • Cole: Oh, no.
  • Cole: Don't do that.
  • LPC: Oh, no, no.
  • Cole: Just go to my son's house.
  • LPC: Oh, come on, just for about two hours.
  • LPC: It should be okay.
  • LPC: He won't cause you a problem in the world.
  • LPC: Not a problem in the world.
  • Cole: I can't do that.
  • Cole: I can't do that.
  • Cole: Sorry.
  • LPC: Okay.
  • LPC: Well, then where am I supposed to put the guy?
  • LPC: He's living in a moving truck right now.
  • LPC: He needs to get up and stretch his legs.
  • LPC: You understand.
  • Cole: Yeah, sure.
  • Cole: …uh, maybe, uh, Benjamin will have some t—suggestion on that.
  • LPC: I see.
  • LPC: Okay, I see.
  • LPC: Well, then let's like, let me give him a call.
  • LPC: Okay.
  • Cole: I'll see.
  • Cole: Okay, I'll see.
  • Cole: Okay, I see.
  • Cole: He'll be waiting on you.
  • LPC: Oh, that sounds like a heck of it.
  • LPC: You've got yourself one.
  • LPC: heck of a deal up there, Cole.
  • Cole: Okay.
  • LPC: Thanks for making time for me here today.
  • LPC: You look after yourself now.
  • LPC: Okay, and I'll look forward to talking to you soon.
  • Cole: Okay.
  • LPC: Oh, bigtime!
  • Cole: Now tell me you in our name again.
  • LPC: I'm Dempsey.
  • LPC: Dempsey Brainer.
  • LPC: I'm new.
  • Cole: Dempsey Breinerd.
  • LPC: Yes, sir.
  • Cole: Did I pronounce it right?
  • LPC: Dempsey Brenner.
  • LPC: You sure did.
  • LPC: You sure did.
  • Cole: How do you spell of Demski?
  • LPC: Uh, it's D.E.M.
  • LPC: P.
  • LPC: P.
  • LPC: P.
  • Cole: You sure is.
  • None: S-E-Y.
  • Cole: D-E-M-S-K-Y.
  • LPC: D-E-M-P.
  • LPC: S-E-Y.
  • LPC: Dempsey.
  • Cole: Okay.
  • LPC: And then B-E-M-T is spelled B-R.
  • LPC: S-E-Y.
  • LPC: A-I.
  • LPC: Dempsey.
  • Cole: Okay.
  • LPC: N-A-R-D.
  • LPC: Dempsey-B-R.
  • Cole: Okay.
  • Cole: Well, that's a little complicated.
  • LPC: And I'm sorry about.
  • LPC: N-A-R-D-E-E-S-E-E-E-E-Y.
  • LPC: Dems-E-E-R-D.
  • LPC: B-R-A-A-A.
  • LPC: A-I-N-A-R-D, D-E-M-P-E-S-E-E-O-E-M-A.
  • LPC: Look after yourself, and I'm going to give your sermon, so we'll meet up later today.
  • Cole: Okay.
  • LPC: Okay.
  • LPC: That sounds outstanding.
  • LPC: Now, look after yourself.
  • Joe: Thank you very kindly.
  • LPC: Thank you so much.
  • LPC: Thank you so much.
  • LPC: Thank you very much.
  • LPC: Okay.
  • LPC: Take care of.
  • LPC: Thank you so very kindly.
  • LPC: Look after yourself.
  • SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
  • Cole: I’ll see you later!—
  • LPC: I’ll see you soon!
  • SPEAKER_02: Bye.
  • SPEAKER_02: All right.
  • Cole: Bye.
  • SPEAKER_02: Okay.
  • SPEAKER_02: Take care now.
  • LPC: Look after yourself.
  • SPEAKER_02: Thank you now, too.
  • SPEAKER_02: Thank you so much.
  • SPEAKER_02: I'll see you soon.
  • SPEAKER_02: All right.
  • SPEAKER_02: Bye-bye.
  • SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
  • SPEAKER_02: Okay.
  • SPEAKER_02: Take care of now.
  • SPEAKER_02: Thank you so very kindly.
  • SPEAKER_02: Look after yourself.
  • SPEAKER_02: Thank you so much.
  • SPEAKER_02: I'll see you soon.
  • LPC: All right.
  • LPC: Bye-bye.
  • LPC: Uh-huh.
  • LPC: Yeah.
  • LPC: Okay.
  • SPEAKER_02: Take care now.
  • SPEAKER_02: Look after yourself.
  • Cole: Thank you now.
  • Cole: Thank you so much.
  • Cole: I'll see you soon.
  • SPEAKER_02: Take care now.
  • SPEAKER_02: Look after yourself.
  • Cole: Hey, Ben.
  • Cole: Y'all.
  • Cole: Benjamin.
  • LPC: Yeah.
  • Cole: This is Benjamin?
  • LPC: Yeh!
  • Cole: Okay.
  • LPC: Hey, Dad.
  • Cole: Hey, yeah.
  • Cole: You don't sound like Benjamin, huh?
  • Cole: Anyway, a guy's going to call you, and his name is Zimski Brinerd.
  • LPC: Mm-hmm.
  • Cole: He’s, ah, really tall. Like seven-foot-two.
  • SPEAKER_04: Mm-hmm.
  • Cole: I hadn't seen him, but he's very conscious of him and that he might need us,
  • Cole: a special attending to find a place to live.
  • Cole: He's looking for a place to live.
  • LPC: Okay.
  • Cole: And wait for it.
  • Cole: He's got, he's got, he's got, he's got, he's got, he's got, a monkey.
  • LPC: Oh, who, no?
  • Cole: A monkey.
  • Cole: Oh.
  • Cole: Oh.
  • Cole: I don't know.
  • None: Ah.
  • None: Oh.
  • Cole: I know it.
  • LPC: Hmm.
  • Cole: Anybody.
  • Cole: I hate to give you this.
  • Cole: Hello.
  • Cole: But anyway, and he gets paid by the government of the emergency, so he wants to somehow arrange that.
  • Cole: He can, you probably know what he's talking about.
  • Joe: No, I don't want to know.
  • Joe: You're doing a lot of harm to yourself, because I'm praying to God you should drop dead, you know.
  • Joe: So a number of religious.
  • Joe: And I will one of these days tell you that you're going to drop dead because you, you
  • Joe: interrogate me.
  • Cole: I interrogate you?
  • Cole: Who am I speaking to, please?
  • Joe: You motherfucker, chicken shit.
  • Joe: Piece of a chicken shit, criminal.