Episode 87

Hate waiting a week for the next episode of Radio Rental? Subscribe to Tenderfoot Plus to get early access to episodes, add free listening and bonus scary stories. Visit TenderfootPlus.com for details. Take a break from the same old boring blockbusters and experience a new kind of movie night with Radio Rental. At Radio Rental, our videos come to life in your living room. Defy all logic and reasoning and make you question your own reality. This is not your ordinary video rental store. At Radio Rental, we carry one of our kind videos, so frightening, so mind-bending, you won't be able to sleep at night. You've gone, Radio Rental. What is it? What do you want? I don't have a treat. Get away from my coffee. Oh, hi. Hi there. Can I go away? Here we go. I'm supposed to read from this, I guess. Anyway. Shop belt rings, okay? When someone walks in, yada, yada, yada. Here we go. Welcome to Radio Rental, a video rental shop with an exclusive collection of the scariest stories you've ever heard. All told by real people. Why is that underlying? I don't understand that. God, what? I don't know what you want. I'm just going to keep going. Hi, I'm Jared. I'm filling in for Terry Carnation today. Yeah, I don't usually do this kind of thing. Usually I just come here like twice a year to fix the AC. Upwards of 10 times for the plumbing. And Terry had me seal up some hole in the flora while ago. He said the hole was void or something. Void of what? I have no idea. Yeah, it's kind of, you know. Anyway, totally out of the blue, Terry left me a strange voicemail. Here, you can whisper to yourself. Hey, Jared. How's it going? It's me, Terry Carnation from Radio Rental. Sorry, I know it's 3.35 in the morning. But I'm going to need you to come down here ASAP, like tomorrow, like today, and help me with something. Maybe it's not the AC this time. It's kind of a, well, it's kind of a bigger ask. When you arrive, I won't actually be there. You can find instructions left in an envelope inside the Omni Magazine December 1985 issue. The one on male pregnancy. And Isaac Asimov. You don't need to bring your tools. But bring it overnight back and tell no one, okay, bye! Yep, so not the usual house call. Pretty weird. And yet here I am. With my overnight bag. Like a child. No fucking clue where Terry is. I just can try to fix stuff around the store while I wait. I fixed the rolling chair. Look, roll smoothly now. Isn't that nice? This is a little WD-40 and I tighten the screws. But no more fixing things pro bono. Terry, no more until I get paid. Yeah. So, I guess I'm just supposed to keep an eye on the store and some precious collection of tapes while he's gone. And speaking of it says here I'm supposed to play one of those tapes for you. If you ask. The ones with the scary stories. Is that what you want? Hello? From an exclusive collection? For an exclusive collection, you think you would have taken better care of these? This box is falling apart. Not my problem. Not my problem. Anyway. Is there any rhyme or reason to this? Let me clear. Oh. We'll play this one. Hope you haven't seen it. Don't really care if you have. Okay, here it goes. Oh wait. This one says Groundhog Day. I love Groundhog Day with Bill Murray. Oh, this is a classic. You all. You're gonna love it. Jeez. That does not sound good. Something's grinding in there. I could probably. Nope. Not fixing anything else, still unpaid. So about 12, 13 years ago, I moved into a new area. I was a society because it was my first time moving out. I ended up getting a roommate three to four months into moving to that new area. I really wanted to meet new people like around my age to hang out with and so forth. My roommate suggested that I download a meeting app or a dating app to meet new people around the area. So I came in and I downloaded a dating app. I met a few people on the app. Good conversation with majority of them. But eventually I met this guy who was pretty cool. He was down in the earth. Conversation was great on the app. So we decided to meet in person and just do a dinner in a movie type thing. We went to dinner. Had a great time there. Conversation was great. But we ate a lot. And we was torn without it. We should go to the movies or not. But we ended up going and we decided to go see Lincoln. I was excited because Abraham Lincoln is like one of my favorite presidents to read about. I was happy him not so much but he agreed to go. During the duration of the movie I saw him dozing off but I was so engrossed with the movie. We got through the movie and after the movie we decided to go back to my place to continue the night. Just to go back I have a couple of drains chat and we got into his car and we kind of sat in the car for a few minutes talking. And maybe like five minutes later I started to feel different. Everything around me was going at a normal pace but it just felt like I was slow. But I looked over to him. He was just having a conversation. I can like nothing is wrong. He was still talking. He was doing hand gestures and stuff like that. So there was no indication that he didn't see nothing wrong with me. What is going on? I was in a deep trance. That's when the cycle started. He started to drive to my place. Again, I was just slow in nature. Waking up from a nap and it just seemed so like ugh. He reached towards the radio and asked me if I wanted to change the radio station. I don't know if I'm answering him. Whatever I did it must have let him know that yeah go for it. So he changed the radio station. A few moments after that he pointed out the window and asked me is this my exit. Again, no indication from me to let him know that this is my exit or not. But we got off on the exit. The whole time I'm still feel sluggish, I feel weird. As we get off the exit, I looked down on my phone which was in my lap and it says 1029. He continued to have his conversation. He looked at me and asked me if I want to change the radio. And I looked at him but I was like wait, did you not just ask me this? It kind of felt like deja vu. I was like, did you not just ask me this a while ago? And he reached for the radio and he changed the radio station. And a few moments after that he pointed out the window and asked is this your exit? That's when I looked at him again. I was thinking I was like wait, we just got off on my exit. Why are we why are you asking for if it's an exit again? We just got on. We got off on the exit and I remember looking down at my phone and it says 1029. And darkness. I came to and I looked at him. still having a conversation. I came scared because this is the second time this happened. What is going on? As I was processing everything, he looked at me again and asked, "Do you want me to change the radio station?" I was just remember just looking at him just like, "What? Why are you keep asking me this? Why is this repeating? Why does it keep happening?" He went to change the radio. A few moments later, he pointed out the window and he said, "Is this your exit?" I looked down on my phone, it says 1029 and darkness. I came to again, that's when I realized something was totally wrong with me because I was like, "What is going on?" And while I keep seeing 1029, he's acting like nothing is going on. I'm freaking up because this is like the third time this repeating cycle has happened. It kept happening maybe like three or four times. Do you want me to change the radio station? Is this your exit? Look down on my phone 1029, darkness. After the fifth time, I have to do something to break this cycle. Thank you to myself. I said maybe when he asked if I want to change the radio station, grab his arm, prevent him from changing the radio station. Maybe it would break the cycle. Right when he was about to reach for the radio, I grabbed his arm, but it felt like I had to push through this force to get to his arm. Like I was fighting some invisible barrier. I grabbed it and he looked at me and he asked, "Do you want me to change the radio station?" That's when I felt actually defeated. I knew something was seriously wrong because that didn't work. I didn't break the cycle. I felt really scared and afraid and then it happened again. A few moments later, he pointed out the window, "Is this your exit?" I looked at my phone and said, "1029." And then darkness. I came to, but this time I was at my apartment complex. I felt normal. I felt normal. I felt perfectly fine. Like nothing had happened to me. I was just fine. I was like, "Whoa, what was that? Like what happened?" And I looked down on my phone and it was like, "1040 something." And I was like, "Oh wow. It's not 1029 anymore." And I was like, "Well, at least it's not 1029 anymore." And that's when I looked at him. He said, "Good night. I enjoyed my time with you. I hope we can do it again. Maybe we should hang out some other time." And I just remember saying, "Good night." And I darted out of the car and I ran to my apartment. I thought I was really having a mental breakdown. I ended up sleeping in my roommates room that night. The following morning, I went to work. I got to the office just a normal typical day. And I received a Facebook message from the guy I was hanging out tonight before. I was curious to see what he had to say. With the message, it was a video attached. And at the bottom of the message, it said, "You were epic last night." So I played the video. I saw me, the outfit that I had on the night before in the passenger seat of his car. It looked like I was having a seizure, shaking, mumbling. It was just, it was just scary to see myself in that way. I do not remember any of that happening to me last night. It wasn't me, but it was me. The whole time in the video, it was like, he was laughing. Not like a very, like, "Ha, ha, ha, type of laugh." Like, you laughing at a comedy show. No, it was like a sinister laugh. Like, he knew what he was doing. I asked him, "What happened to me last night?" He basically said that cigarette that you smoked last night wasn't a regular cigarette. In the midst of us talking, he offered me a cigarette. He took a pack of cigarettes in Lace and were the synthetic drug called K2 or Spice. He told me what happened. And after that, he blocked me, deleted the message, and I never heard from him again. It looked just like a cigarette, but it was Lace with that drug. Because of that, I had a powerful trip. It felt sinister, very sinister. He knew that this was going to happen. Like a sick entertainment form. Hey, that was not Groundhog Day with Bill Murray. So, what's going on back here? Terry's got some kind of freaky collection he's been stashing. What's next? I'm going to pop in the breakfast club. It's actually a snuff film with cannibalism. I don't like that you responded to that. Where did all these come from anyway? This is all above board. That's none of your business, Jared. That's none of your business. All right. Anyway, I fixed the box while you were not watching a beloved 1993 romantic comedy. I just used a little duct tape couldn't help myself. Sorry, geez. Sorry. Well, now it says on the instructions that it's time for ads. Time for ads. No clue what that means. Do I need to do anything or will the ads just happen? Okay. Turns out the ads just happen. And we're back in the store now. So, are you going to check out a DVD or something by some goobers? There's only goobers here. Why does he only have goobers? Do you want me to play you another one of those tapes? I don't know why I'm expecting a response. You haven't said anything this entire time. You know, that's not really normal. Normally you answer people who are talking to you. Okay. Whatever. Here's your tape. Oh, look. This one's called the ticket. All right. I think I've seen this movie. Yeah, I'm going to fix that later. It was May of 2010. Toss it into school. You're I'm a school teacher. I was driving home from work. I was sitting. The lights came on. So I pulled over and the officer got out of the car. You know, say, how are you doing? Let my window down. He's like, how are you doing, sir? Can I get your license and registration? I reached my glove box, got my insurance, put on my driver's license, gave it to him. And he went back to his car. Just routine. He was an African-American male. He was rather tall. I remember maybe about six, three, a six, four kind of muscular built. Almost kind of like he may have played professional sports or something. Forties or maybe like early fifties. So like probably middle age, but just so I could normal police option. They'd probably been the police force for a long time. I do have the chance to drive fast, but I wasn't speeding. I really don't know. I was like, my stickers are up to date and I really don't know if he saw something on my tent, my license plate. No, I'm not sure. I wasn't really nervous. I, you know, not really been pulled over a whole lot before. So I wasn't really nervous about it, but I just was really curious because I really just didn't have a clue. We did the exchange and he went back to his car a few minutes later he came back. Here you go here's your ticket just be careful and I that's like well also where did I get pull out I was his ticket for. He just kind of gave me like a little smirk a little smile and just said have a nice day. Then he left and I didn't really look at the ticket until he got back into his car. I looked at the ticket and the ticket was actually for not having a child and his safety restrained or car seat that's weird because I was the only person in the car. I was just stunned I guess the silence when I actually looked at the ticket and saw what the ticket was actually for. I was shocked. I haven't looked in the back seat even I knew no one was back there. I was like it's nobody back here so I don't know why that's on the ticket. Why would he even give the impression that I had someone back there because my back seat was completely empty. So I don't know how that could have been possible. I just kind of just sat there let him to kind of just drive off down the road and then finally I just kind of just got myself and then just drove on home like I had planned on doing. Later on that day I had to call my mom and told my mom about it and she was like yeah just help and go fight it in court. Two through weeks later went to court the person that I saw at the front desk with the clerk. She asked him a series of questions but one question she asked me really kind of threw me off. She said for your born in 1953 mind you at the time I was 24. I don't think I look that old do I. That's kind of sarcastic it just kind of said no one kind of laughed it off. She asked me a few more questions and then told me that I can go see the judge in a few minutes. Finally got into the court room and when it was my time the judge came up and he was like I have good news for you. The officer then gave the ticket didn't show up so you're free to go. I said okay and that's kind of cool I didn't ask no questions I just got my stuff in the lift. Later on that day I went and visited with my mom and kind of told her what happened. I told her like clerk asked me you know where you're born 1953 and blah blah blah blah blah blah and she was like hmm that's weird and I said why you say that. She said because in 1988 your dad got a ticket for the exact same thing and the child that was in question was you. I just had kind of a stunned look on my face and I was like me she's like yeah she's like yeah you were the child in question and I like that's weird so I get pulled over 22 years later for something that he did. The officer I was just curious to like why he didn't show up so I got on the phone like I said I don't know if it was a courthouse or the Dallas police or something and I called to try to find out who this officer was that gave me this ticket. I said like hey this officer pulled me over this time on this date. I gave him his first and last name and they said well we don't have an officer by that name the only officer we had by that name retired like some years ago. That was even more bizarre and I even gave him description taller guy he's African-American you know kind of must get a bill like he's like an athlete or something and they said no we don't have a off we have officers that probably look like that but we don't have one by that name that you gave us it works here for you know the Dallas you know Dallas police department. It's like that strange I just kind of just left it at that well that was not to feel my expected should have known I was taking other break for ads well thanks for stopping by radio rental I guess maybe I'll see you next week hopefully Terry comes back before then though I really don't want to sleep on the futon in the back office you seeing that thing and there's a sealed door over there that gives me the creeps never give your clients your personal phone number that's my hot tip for the day radio rental is created by pain Lindsay and brought to you by Tenorfoot TV showrunner is Meredith Stedman lead producer is Eric Quintana executive producers are pain Lindsay and Donald all right our main host is Rain Wilson guest host is Josh Bradner written by Meredith Stedman additional writing by Mark Lachlan original score by makeup and vanity set with additional score by J. 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