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Nora is thirty-eight, precise, self-contained, and very good at managing her condition. She has had dissociative gaps since she was twenty-six — hours she simply cannot account for — and she has built her entire adult life around systems that compensate for them. When her mother has a stroke, Nora returns to the Derbyshire market town she left twenty years ago and tells herself six weeks is manageable. Then her neighbour mentions a conversation they had yesterday — about Deborah Hale, dead twelve years, Nora's closest friend — that Nora has no memory of. There is mud on her floor mat. A receipt in the door pocket from a village forty minutes north, timestamped during the gap. Paid in cash. The other Nora has been somewhere. And whatever she's looking for, she has been looking for a long time.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!Get more info from Caloroga Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch, our email is [email protected]

Johnny Mac shares five Halloween-themed good news stories: Spirit Halloween’s annual costume trend report, noting fandom-driven picks like Toy Story, K-pop demon hunters, Spider-Man, The Backrooms, and Fortnite alongside staples, and that 70% of shoppers buy Halloween items before September with Home Depot’s 12-foot skeleton often sold out before Labor Day. Chewy pet lifestyle expert Whitney says funny pet costumes are popular, with wigs rising and a new baked potato costume, plus simpler options like glow-in-the-dark collars and harness-style wings, capes, and headpieces, advising pets should move freely. He then lists the most common Halloween costumes by year from 1950 to 2005. In Chicago, First Lady’s Creepy Cruise offers a 90-minute nighttime river tour with true stories of serial killers, gangsters, ghosts, and landmarks like the Reid Murdoch Building. Finally, Krispy Kreme announces a Looney Tunes Halloween donut collection themed around characters including Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Taz, Sylvester, and Lola Bunny. 00:16 Costume Trend Forecasts00:51 Shop Early Warning01:13 Pet Costume Trends01:55 Pet Costume Comfort Tips02:21 Costumes By Birth Year04:26 Chicago Creepy Cruise05:21 Looney Tunes Donuts06:24 Wrap Up And GoodbyeUnlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!Get more info from Caloroga Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch, our email is [email protected]

Marcus doesn't call the police. He does something harder. He calls everyone — his ex-wife, his sister, his daughter, his oldest friend — not to be believed, but to be on record. To be the first version of the story. Then he sets a trap, and waits in the dark of his own apartment, and the door opens. The confrontation lasts less than five minutes. The Likeness looks at him with his own expression and says only: you weren't using it. Marcus makes a choice that costs him everything he came here to build. Because there is one thing they cannot take. And he is going home to it.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!Get more info from Caloroga Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch, our email is [email protected]

Marcus hasn't slept. He understands now what is being built — a version of him, three years in the making, precise enough to pass at a distance. The messages, the damaged friendships, the quiet erosion of everyone who knows him well: it was all preparation. Clearance work. When Marcus disappears, no one will find the seam. He calls his daughter and hears how far the damage has already reached. Then he follows himself home. Three blocks through a crowded city, close enough to see the coat is right, the posture is right, the gait almost his. And in a forgotten cloud folder, he finds his own obituary. Dated six weeks from today.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!Get more info from Caloroga Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch, our email is [email protected]

Marcus investigates. The apartment sat vacant for six months before he moved in. His entry fob was used twice on nights he was out of town. His email was accessed, read, and left perfectly unchanged. But the worst discoveries aren't digital — they're human. A friendship that ended over something he apparently said. A professional reference who went cold after a mysterious call. His sister, silent for four months over words he never spoke. Someone has been moving through his life, carefully and patiently, pulling his relationships apart one thread at a time. Then Marcus finds the second notebook. It contains three years of photographs. Taken through his windows. Captioned: The face is right. The rest takes time.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!Get more info from Caloroga Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch, our email is [email protected]