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Episode 12: THE PASSAGE OF TYPHOID MARY

Episode 12: THE PASSAGE OF TYPHOID MARY

Released Wednesday, 17th April 2024
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Episode 12: THE PASSAGE OF TYPHOID MARY

Episode 12: THE PASSAGE OF TYPHOID MARY

Episode 12: THE PASSAGE OF TYPHOID MARY

Episode 12: THE PASSAGE OF TYPHOID MARY

Wednesday, 17th April 2024
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0:00

Hm, I

0:10

am the

0:12

fairy man.

0:15

The human spirit is my business.

0:18

Their madness, their

0:21

passion, the wonderful

0:24

and monstrous ways they burn

0:26

out their brief candle.

0:31

I regret to tell you that very many

0:33

American lives

0:35

in love.

0:38

What's heard to shut from the car, he's

0:41

dead. Whether he rebird to president.

0:44

Or four

0:46

hours, people must get up and google identification.

0:52

I am here in the

0:54

in between, to

0:56

collect their spirits and carry them to

0:58

what comes next. This

1:03

road is not on any

1:05

map. It spans

1:07

the thresholds between their

1:09

most forbidden desires and

1:12

their greatest

1:14

fear. All

1:19

I ask for in payment is a tale

1:22

and accounting of their lives

1:25

and the great temporary

1:27

that is the land of the living.

1:32

These are their stories. This

1:36

is the

1:38

passage

2:18

north brother Island. I

2:21

visited this place often over the years. This

2:23

tiny little stone beside a hellgate,

2:26

the strait that's sunk a thousand

2:29

ships. I've fished out many

2:31

a sailor from its depths,

2:33

just as I have plucked souls by the

2:35

handful from this parcel of

2:37

land. Just up on the hill

2:40

here sits Riverside

2:43

Hospital, the place of the very

2:45

last resort for the

2:47

plague ridden castaways

2:50

from the great Island of Manhattan, amidst

2:54

the small pox and consumption

2:57

that spout a little bright, pinned prick, a

3:01

soul burning hotter than most

3:03

eves. Picked up there

3:06

at the entrance to the hospital. She has risen

3:08

from her sick bed and has moved

3:11

down the stairs and into the pale

3:13

November sunlight. Mary

3:15

Mallin, But the world

3:18

will come to know her by a different name.

3:22

Born so far from here, in

3:24

a land so much greener,

3:28

she made her first passage decades

3:30

ago across the cold

3:33

North Atlantic into New York City,

3:35

at a time when the Irish were viewed as

3:37

no better than the body lies they picked

3:40

up in steerage. She was fifteen

3:43

and alone in the hard,

3:46

scrabble filth of New York

3:48

City. Many did not survive

3:51

those first hard years, but

3:54

she did. She fought

3:57

and scraped, and when

3:59

she was told that she carried

4:01

Salmonella typhe which

4:03

had killed so many before

4:06

her, she forged ahead

4:08

anyway, taking the disease

4:10

with her from house to house, and

4:14

finally earned the name Typhoid

4:17

Mary.

4:35

Hello, Jesus Mary,

4:37

and Joseph

4:41

You Mary, Ah,

4:46

I sensed you before I even

4:49

closed my eyes.

4:51

I knew You're a common far me, and

4:54

somehow you surprise me.

4:57

That is never my intention. And

5:00

yet and yet

5:04

it is time walking me to

5:06

the shore.

5:07

Ef I must.

5:12

It's not cold.

5:14

I always expected the cold.

5:16

None of that here.

5:19

Do you have a name?

5:21

You can call me the Ferryman if

5:23

you wish.

5:24

Nah, sure, Ferryman.

5:27

Feels like the whole of my life has

5:29

been packed to the gills with fairy

5:32

man of one sort or another. Whether

5:34

I wanted to go with him or not, I

5:36

went. I don't suppose I

5:39

have a choice in this matter

5:41

either.

5:42

Everyone must go eventually.

5:45

Sure, just another wheel

5:48

turning. Eh, the great wheel

5:50

of life carries it to the great wheel

5:52

of death, and still it

5:54

turns. What's

5:56

next on the

5:59

other shore?

6:01

That will all depend.

6:04

On what my accents in life,

6:06

my morrows or

6:08

your morals. Who's fucking marls?

6:10

Am I beholding to the churches? They

6:13

can all drain in now rever as far as

6:15

I'm concerned. Nay, I'll

6:18

not be accepting their ATTARTI anymore.

6:20

Jesus Christ himself can

6:23

get an air for from me on that account.

6:26

Yeah, the church has very

6:29

little to do with the afterlife.

6:32

Ah, God's a comforted

6:35

least where

6:41

I'll be. It's

6:43

an actual boat.

6:45

Well you surprised. I'm a I'm

6:48

a ferryman.

6:49

I thought it'd be more of a what's

6:51

this metaphor? But

6:54

here I am getting an

6:56

honest to God bite to

6:58

carry me on. Oh

7:04

you know, I

7:07

didn't want to make that first

7:09

voyage. I loved my home,

7:12

I'd loved my mother, even

7:15

my father drunkard. He was

7:18

was a good man. He just couldn't

7:21

ever quite get it right. Every

7:24

opportunity dead in his hands. But

7:27

that was almost everyone in the Old Country

7:29

in those days, struggle and toile

7:32

and come up short. There

7:34

wasn't enough work, and the work

7:36

when it came didn't pay enough. So

7:39

men drank, women

7:42

drank. Everyone drank. A

7:46

shadow over everything,

7:49

a shadow that I would

7:52

come to recognize.

7:57

I was sent away because my mother

7:59

taught i'd follow in his path if I stayed,

8:04

And who knows, Sometimes I think

8:06

I'd have made a spectacular drunkard.

8:09

I've the temperament for it, to be sure. So

8:12

they sent me to my aunt and uncle, who

8:15

made a go of it in New York. I

8:18

remember saying

8:21

goodbye to my mother.

8:25

She wept. She

8:28

said that one day

8:31

she'd join me. Last

8:34

I saw of her, she

8:37

was standing on the docks as

8:39

me ship pulled off. She

8:42

didn't wave, she just stood

8:44

there. Han Coultie's held hip over her

8:47

mind, as if she were trying to stafle

8:49

a scream.

8:53

Ah. That was the last time I saw

8:55

her. The

8:58

voyage was long and difficult,

9:02

the carter's stank up, shetting, vomiting,

9:04

the sour stench of fear that grew

9:07

all the more potent when the seeds

9:09

were rough, which they were

9:11

often, every face grain,

9:14

everybody carrying a

9:17

shadow above it. I

9:19

would often spend days walking the decks,

9:22

flirting with the sailors, just to avoid

9:24

the animal felt below, which

9:26

permeated everything. Despite

9:29

the conditions, though in every

9:31

eye there was hope,

9:36

even in the oldest, the most din

9:38

trodden, there's perfoos clearly

9:41

marked for death. That hope

9:47

it trumped through the storms

9:50

and stench, beat out

9:52

even the heart sickness that comes

9:54

with leaving home forever. Even

9:57

I fell prey to what, young

10:00

and terrified as I was, it

10:03

is the vilest thing. Hope

10:07

it survives until the better end and

10:10

is passed on to strangle the

10:12

next generation. Hell

10:15

I carry it with me, even I, although

10:19

I think I know what waits

10:21

for me on the other shore. It

10:25

was in the belly of that ship,

10:28

on the Great Voyage, that

10:30

I first saw hem

10:35

and illness had passed through steerage, a

10:38

fever, people emptying

10:40

their guts into the latrine's buckets,

10:43

whatever was at hand. I had

10:45

secured a bunk in the corner, and

10:47

there I lay, young and

10:50

a line sucker than i'd

10:52

ever been believe

10:54

in that you were coming far me, And

10:57

I thought, ferry Man, that it was you,

10:59

yourself, elf, that I saw standing

11:01

amidst the sick and dying on

11:03

the voyage one night, with hollow

11:06

eyes gazing at me

11:08

across the wedd of the room. My

11:11

eyes too blurred with exhaustion to see clearly.

11:16

But it wasn't, was it. It

11:19

was a different specter with

11:22

different purposes. I

11:27

blent to clear my vision and he was gone,

11:31

And after a few days Daonus

11:34

left me. We

11:39

made it across, I

11:44

remember saying it for

11:46

the first time, The

11:49

skyline so

11:53

vast, oh, so great.

11:58

I was terrified, the star

12:00

of the rest of my life.

12:04

My aunt and uncle were kind, dacent

12:06

people, but they couldn't afford to

12:09

keep me on their meager wages, and

12:11

so I was sent to work immediately

12:14

in the immense filth of New York

12:16

City. It was the

12:18

laundry first, so many

12:21

park girls boiling the flesh

12:24

on their arms, so many

12:27

growing tain and frail, with too much

12:29

labor and too little food.

12:32

It was hot, wet, miserable.

12:37

We worked in the closest of quarters. When

12:40

the last girl was in each morning, they

12:42

locked the doors from the outside

12:44

to make sure we didn't walk out

12:46

before the day's labor was done.

12:53

At the time, I was concerned

12:55

mostly with the state in my hands, which

12:58

were chopped and sore, hot

13:00

water and harsh soap, and

13:02

the state of my back, which protested

13:05

even when I lay down at night. I

13:07

was concerned with the little rest I got

13:09

on the small cot in my aunt's catching.

13:12

And I was concerned

13:15

with the shadow that I caught

13:18

following me all

13:21

the way from the boat, who

13:23

I caught occasionally in the corner of

13:25

my eyes, but you eluded

13:27

me when I turned to look him straight

13:30

on. Somewhere

13:33

in my bones, I

13:35

had a sense of what he was, but

13:38

I was young. I did not

13:41

know its name, but

13:45

I saw him head on soon

13:47

enough. It

13:50

was seven months and to my

13:53

work at the laundry late

13:56

end of the afternoon. It

13:58

was July, and we opened

14:00

the windows. There was no relief

14:03

from the swelter and hate that consumed

14:05

us. In that sort

14:07

of heat. It wasn't unusual for

14:09

a girl at you to drop to

14:12

need to be fanned and giving water and a sharp

14:14

rest before returning to the soup.

14:17

I myself felt the tail tale flutter

14:19

behind my eyes, the tunnel vision

14:22

that came from the heat exhaustion. I

14:25

was stepping back from the hot water to catch

14:27

a bread when Sally Mile

14:29

went headlong into her top.

14:36

The girls working beside her stood

14:38

for a moment, blinking stupidly, trying

14:41

to make sense of sally face dying

14:43

and the scalding water. I

14:46

had to push one of them either away and break

14:49

into the water to pull eye, shouted

14:52

the others to make room, tried to get

14:54

her to cough up the water. Her

14:57

face looked a fright,

15:01

be red from the hot water, snot

15:03

and tears mingled with his

15:06

sons. I slapped

15:08

her cross the face to waker,

15:11

but you wouldn't entirely come to. By

15:14

this time our farm and mister Moses

15:17

had come out of his office and seen the hole

15:20

mess. He shouted at us

15:22

all to get back to work, and

15:24

grabbed Hi man off the street to help him cart

15:27

her Sally home. I

15:30

watched him go, and

15:33

it was then that I finally

15:36

saw the shadow head on,

15:39

hanging quietly in the vestibule

15:41

by the door to the alley where to carry the

15:44

port drowned girl eyed hungry

15:47

eyes that watched Sally

15:49

go and then turn back

15:52

to the rest of us, staring

15:55

windows eyes. I

15:58

blinked and he was

16:00

gone. Sally

16:02

never came back. We

16:05

heard through her sister that she came

16:07

down with pneumonia from the water

16:09

in her lungs, and days later

16:12

she passed. I

16:20

was lucky, you know. Though

16:22

I toiled as hard as the next girl,

16:25

I had prospects. My aunt was

16:27

a cook for a well off family, and

16:29

she promised that after a little training, she'd

16:32

helped me find similar work. And

16:34

so during the days I returned

16:36

to that horrible hot warehouse to

16:39

was hotel sheets under the watchful eye

16:41

of mister Moses. And at

16:43

night my aunt took the time to

16:45

teach me how to cook, using ingredients

16:48

pilfered from wealthier kitchens. Though

16:51

I tirled, I felt that

16:54

dreadful hope.

16:56

After a few months more, I was

16:58

introduced to a young man in finance

17:01

who had just married and bought a home, and

17:04

he was in aid of a cook. And

17:06

so I took leave of my aunt and uncle's home, of

17:09

that laundry with that tin

17:12

horrible shadow, with

17:14

the hungry eyes, and

17:18

I moved up tying into the servant quarters

17:20

of the home of mister Bryant. Gars

17:23

were long still, but I had a room

17:25

in the cellar that I shared with the housekeeper,

17:27

Miss Evans. There was a fine

17:29

job that ended all too soon when

17:32

the family fell ill. Miss

17:35

Nevans started influenza. But

17:38

I knew different, you see,

17:41

I saw him and

17:43

the kitchen one morning, the

17:46

tin shadow, just

17:50

a flecker on a too early

17:52

morning, when my bones

17:55

ched from the wingswork as

17:58

I ate stale head with my

18:00

morning tea while the oven fire

18:02

caught he

18:05

was just looking at me with

18:08

those hungry eyes. My

18:10

blood run cold as

18:12

I stood to confront him,

18:16

but he was gone as quickly as

18:18

he'd appeared. The

18:21

next morning, the family was ill,

18:24

a terrible waste and sort of illness,

18:28

each of them with a terrible rash on their necks.

18:31

None of them able to keep dying, even the

18:33

water day scept drop by drop.

18:36

I saw missus Bryant one morning. The

18:39

maid was ill herself, so it was up

18:41

to me to bring the mistress her hot beef

18:43

brought and so the crackers that was to

18:45

be her sore nourishment. She

18:50

was a sturdy woman by all accounts, but

18:53

she lay there on the bed, skeletal,

18:57

as if her guts had been pulled from her body.

19:01

She didn't thank me when I dropped the tray, just

19:04

looked at me with uncomprehending

19:07

eyes. I'd

19:10

seen it before in

19:12

the boat. I'd

19:15

felt it the none

19:17

inside. It

19:20

was horrible. I couldn't

19:22

bear to look at it from the outside.

19:28

I was so shaken that I walked out of the house

19:30

that day and did not return. And

19:32

so it was back to my aunt's hee.

19:37

Far better or worse, there's

19:39

no lack of jobs in New York City.

19:42

Miss Nevin's a coin soul, referred

19:45

me to another family. I made

19:47

the move again, and again,

19:50

almost as quickly as it had begun, I

19:53

saw the shadow man in the corner of the

19:55

kitchen, and another family

19:57

fell ill.

19:59

I was cursed.

20:01

This shadow had followed me from

20:04

my father's home, and across the ocean

20:07

into the guts of New York City.

20:09

But what was I did you? I

20:13

found a family in Long Island looking for a cook.

20:16

I moved in. They fell ill. I

20:19

left, and another family

20:21

on the north shore the same Again

20:24

and again. I

20:26

prayed, I plead in winter

20:29

shadow, whenever I caught a glimpse conjole

20:31

and bargained leave me.

20:34

I peg.

20:37

And this way did the years pass. I'd

20:40

gone through a dozen wealthy families,

20:42

all of them fell ill, few

20:45

of whom ever spoke to me except to give

20:47

instructions anyway, or

20:50

sometimes for a

20:52

husband or the butler to make advances

20:55

to carnerie in the kitchen, while the rest

20:57

of the high staff was about their business,

20:59

was at any different than the laundry where

21:02

mister Moses got handsy with the girls,

21:05

or from the factories, the farms,

21:08

anywhere a girl could find

21:10

gainful employment. And what

21:13

choice was I given but to bear

21:15

it, such as

21:17

the state of the wire. It

21:22

was in a Park Avenue mansion that Master

21:25

Soper Or find me. He had

21:27

been hired by a family in Oyster Bay

21:29

to discover why he'd fallen ill, and

21:32

his trail led him from heis to heis until

21:34

he find me. He

21:37

was not unkind, He explained the

21:39

situation. It's typhoid

21:42

fever. We don't know why it hasn't

21:44

made you ill, but it's getting past

21:46

to the families you cook for. He

21:50

asked me to go with him as

21:52

he tired to argue,

21:55

and so he brought me to knart Brother Island

21:57

for the first time, never

22:00

been to a sanitarium. There

22:02

was no work to do, nothing

22:04

to fill all the empty hours except

22:06

talk to the sick, which was nearly everyone

22:08

there. At first, that

22:11

was refreshing. I had worked

22:13

my entire life, and here was a sort

22:15

of endless holiday.

22:18

In the spring, I would go and sit by the water

22:20

and feel the wind cut through me. In

22:23

the summer, I would even swim a little.

22:28

But at night I'd

22:30

see my shadow watching, and

22:33

I'd wait to see if his hungry eyes would

22:35

mean do you oh? Sure

22:37

the sick would die. But it

22:40

was whatever they brought in with him that did

22:42

him in. It had nothing to do

22:44

with me. He watched

22:46

over all of us par and

22:49

infirm. He

22:51

seemed to me no harm,

22:54

So I grew accustomed to my

22:57

shody man. He

23:00

became start of a companion with his

23:02

sad, hungry eyes. I

23:06

was there on the island for three years the first

23:08

time. For all their prodden

23:11

the doctors couldn't figure out what to make

23:13

of me, and so they

23:15

decided to set me loose with

23:18

one terrible condition. I

23:21

was never to cook again. And

23:26

so there I was, a middle

23:28

aged woman with no prospects. Now family

23:31

left. My aunt and uncle had long

23:33

since passed. I went

23:35

back to the laundry. It

23:39

was the samest when I had left it. For

23:41

the most part. Master Moses

23:43

had given way to another overseer,

23:46

mister Roberts, who was

23:49

younger, crueler. The

23:51

girls struggled terribly

23:54

under hess yoke, and hey

23:56

took advantage. It's

23:59

see it when a girl was cowled

24:01

up to his office and didn't return for

24:03

a while, to look in her eyes

24:06

when she came back to the soup. And

24:08

one day it was me getting

24:11

called to the office. Oh,

24:13

the young overseer had nigh interest in

24:15

may. Of course, I was

24:17

just another gray worker to him. But

24:20

I sat dining in his office with

24:23

its steamy windows

24:25

and pearl light, and

24:28

he began to ask questions of me about

24:31

the girls. If the westper

24:34

dings to each other to me.

24:38

He wished to cut out any roamors,

24:41

to rip them out by the roots, to

24:43

let go into the wild world. Any

24:46

girl dead would spake

24:48

against them.

24:52

It was day finally

24:56

that I saw a truthful At

25:00

first, he felt

25:02

a trick of the light. I

25:05

thought I'd seen my poor impoverished

25:08

shot him on there,

25:11

looking into the dark corner, there

25:14

was something different. The

25:17

darkness felt more slippery

25:21

in that room.

25:24

In it I saw a

25:26

sort of rising

25:30

slathering. The cool

25:33

shot of cast by mister

25:35

Robert's body revailed

25:38

to me for the first time, the

25:41

great behamuth

25:43

of greed, his

25:46

massive roots drain in the

25:48

land, his great hungry

25:50

mouth, yawn and open his

25:53

eyes, sharp and feral.

25:58

It was he who wanted mated,

26:00

mister Roberts, He who

26:02

had animated the Sterlings, and the

26:04

Joneses, and mister Moses before the

26:06

them that serpenty, none of

26:09

the rich and powerful.

26:12

It was not my own

26:15

lesser shido poverty,

26:20

with his dull sad eyes

26:22

and broken grimace, He

26:25

who had forced me and be strong,

26:28

who made my tendencetnd I shut

26:30

my neck and sculpted the

26:32

ropy muscles in my arms

26:35

and back. He

26:38

had been an unwelcome companion,

26:40

to be sure, but

26:43

he was not my enemy.

26:46

None are the messeries I endured

26:49

that any of the girls endured,

26:52

the misery that stopped my parents,

26:55

and the peasants that crossed the Atlantic with

26:57

me. None of it was

26:59

necess sorry for the world to continue

27:01

on like there was enough food

27:04

in the setty to feed us all, and

27:06

have heizened to shelter all of us.

27:09

Why we produced enough to make

27:11

all the world comfortable,

27:15

but to keep the likes of the mister

27:17

Moses and the brilliance and Roberts

27:20

of this world to feed them by

27:22

hay in the shadows, creedy

27:25

on fire Day

27:27

needed us, They

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needed our bats broken to

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suck tomorrow from them.

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I would not.

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I would not anymore.

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I stood from my chair, never

27:48

taken my eyes off the hideous

27:52

shadows, sucking at the edges of

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the light. My true

27:58

enemy, and march oight

28:00

of mister Robert's office

28:03

marched into the street. And

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that very day I find

28:08

myself answering an ad for

28:11

a cook. I

28:13

would no longer be tormented

28:15

by my lot. If

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I couldn't improve it, I

28:20

would become an avenging

28:24

angel. And

28:28

so I returned to the kitchen.

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There I find

28:34

myself over dinner preparations.

28:37

Far they're wealthy again, And

28:40

with every meal I

28:43

would cough empty

28:45

my hand, and

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with that hat I

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would cook.

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I'd caress every

28:56

roast, dag my fingers

28:59

into the touch,

29:01

every care and potato

29:05

on the plate. If anyone

29:07

in the kitchens had any objection, they

29:10

did not speak it, instead

29:12

watching my every move. They

29:16

knew. They all knew

29:19

what I was, even though

29:21

they may not have the language to speak my

29:24

name. And it was

29:26

not their duty to stop the great work,

29:29

to pull the roots of the great greedy

29:31

demon that ran all of our lives,

29:33

one by one, to sicken its

29:35

mouth till they waste to its

29:37

agents, one by one, family by family.

29:39

As long as I lived with the sickness in

29:42

my body, if

29:44

not by lead by bread,

29:48

do I wish it were otherwise? Of

29:51

course? I wish I'd been able

29:53

to stay back home with my ma, and

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if we were comfortable, and that I could live a comfortable

29:58

life. I wish i'd come to a marror gun

30:00

could be swept up my feet by a handsome

30:02

young lad. I wish I'd

30:04

been paid fairly enough to forge

30:07

my own way into filthy land.

30:09

Of opportunity. But

30:12

this land isn't built for one such

30:14

as I to succeed in. Those

30:17

who have will continue

30:19

to have, and their children

30:21

will have more. And after

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they've had all, they can eat simply

30:26

hard the rest of the food and

30:29

dole it out in little bites to the rest

30:31

of us. Make us fight over

30:33

it, then use us to

30:35

grind at the wheels of their industry until

30:38

we are dust. I've

30:41

seen their true face. I've

30:45

watched its leather in the darkness,

30:49

and with my hands

30:51

I did what I could to

30:54

destroy it. I

30:57

don't regret doing what I

30:59

did. What

31:03

here already I could see beyond

31:05

the dock to the land the Fogusto tek,

31:08

Are we.

31:09

At our destination?

31:11

Oh? Is

31:14

it having our hell?

31:16

That is for you to find out alone?

31:25

Oh?

31:26

Beautiful? And

31:30

what if I don't go.

31:32

Well, you can stay

31:34

on the dock if you wish,

31:36

But uh, nothing'll happen. You

31:40

just wait and

31:43

wait until you make the

31:45

decision to continue.

31:48

Sorry, I've got at least not much

31:51

control of the situation.

31:53

Maybe half an hour in heaven before

31:55

the devil knows you're late.

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Ah.

32:04

Oh,

32:09

I don't know who will be there to hear me

32:11

when I walk right, so I'll say

32:13

it to you. If it's hell I'm

32:15

walking into, I'll walk into

32:17

it with my head held high,

32:19

with my shadow Man proudly on

32:21

my elbow. And woe

32:24

unto them who believe that Mary

32:27

Mallin will ever be under

32:29

their control. Very

32:31

well, fairy Man, I pray

32:34

you carry a million mile like me

32:36

in your time. The

32:38

boar need their vengeance.

32:50

She made the great voyage,

32:53

like so many before her, like

32:55

so many who came after, all

32:58

of whom were sold the bill

33:00

of fare, America, the

33:02

Bountiful, the land of

33:04

opportunity, where the

33:07

streets are paved with gold, and

33:09

where anyone can succeed.

33:13

She was met with the same hard

33:15

reality as anyone else, toil

33:19

hunger. Though

33:21

she suffered, she

33:23

did not suffer alone. Instead,

33:25

Yeah, she made herself

33:28

the legend. And

33:30

so she marches on to whatever

33:32

lies I had, secure in

33:35

her knowledge that she did not sacrifice

33:38

herself entirely to

33:40

the benemoth. I

33:43

wish her well on her

33:45

passage.

33:51

The Passage stars Dan Fogler as

33:53

the Faeryman. This episode features

33:55

Teresa McLaughlin as Typhoid Mary. Written

33:58

by Nicholas Tuakowski, our

34:00

executive producers are Nicholas Dakoski,

34:02

Matthew Frederick, and Alexander Williams.

34:05

First assistant director, script supervisor

34:07

and production coordinator Sarah Klein. Music

34:10

by Ben Lovett, additional music by Alexander

34:12

Rodriguez. Casting by Sunday

34:14

Bowling, Kennedy and Meg Mormon. Editing

34:17

and sound designed by Dan Bush, Dialogue

34:19

editing and sound mixing by Juan Campos.

34:21

Additional sound editing.

34:22

By Racket Sound. Our supervising

34:25

producer is Josh Thane. Created by Dan

34:27

Bush and Nicholas Dakoski. Produced by

34:29

Dan Bush. The Passage is a production of iHeartRadio

34:32

and Cycopia Pictures.

34:36

Ebitor Uh, dunk

34:38

my hands in the river, sticks here and

34:42

scrub him down. I'll I'll

34:45

kill any kind of bacteria

35:00

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The Passage

THE PASSAGE takes you on a ride into the land of the dead, traveling with the Ferryman as he collects America’s most illustrious spirits and delivers them to the hereafter. The price of their passage? Their story. Built on a foundation of historical relevance and structured by a kind of dream logic, THE PASSAGE is an immersive audio experience that invites listeners to explore the collective American psyche from the perspective of its most legendary figures. Here we are guided by the Ferryman of souls– with a voice that sounds like it’s been siphoned from a lake of bourbon and fire, and resonating with the depth and gravitas of Dan Fogler (Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, The Walking Dead). The Passage is penned by a brilliant and diverse pool of writers and performed by an unforgettable cast, each episode of this anthology promises a new tale of American odyssey, from madness and monsters to conviction and courage. Each passenger tells their own extraordinary and often terrifying tale to influence the Ferryman’s final destination— be it a comfortable place of eternal light, a haunted purgatory of regret, or one of the nine rings of hell.  These are the tales that shaped the soul of the nation.Created by filmmaker Dan Bush (Tomorrow’s Monsters, The Mantawauk Caves) and writer, Nicholas Tecosky, and a co-production of iHeartPodcasts, and Psychopia Pictures, The Passage is a riveting, immersive anthology featuring performances by Wes Studi (The Last of the Mohicans / Geronimo: An American Legend), Martin Starr (Freaks and Geeks / Silicon Valey), Tristan Mack Wilds (The Wire / Red Tails), and Scott Haze (Child of God, Jurassic World Dominion). Headphones are recommended.

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