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Episode 8 – The Laughing Dust | A Noir Dragon Detective Radio Play

April 02, 2026 • Kevin and Landon • Season 1 • Episode 8

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The city is smiling… and dying.

When a mysterious new drug called Starlight Dust hits the streets, victims are found laughing until their final breath—grins frozen, lungs collapsed, and no trace of the killer. Enter Drex Malachite, a hard-boiled dragon detective with a nose for trouble and a city on the brink of chaos.

What begins as a missing person's case spirals into a theatrical conspiracy led by the shadowy Ember Cabal and their enigmatic mastermind, The Harlequin. As the Dust evolves—turning laughter into rage and rage into violence—the entire city becomes a stage for madness.

With jazz in the air and death in the punchline, Drex must burn through illusion, magic, and mayhem to bring the curtain down… before the whole city dies laughing.

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Starring Kevin Darbro Landon Wells

(All characters voiced by Kevin Darbro and Landon Wells)

Written by ChatGPT (OpenAI) in collaboration with Kevin Darbro & Landon Wells

Edited, Mixed, and Produced by Kevin Darbro

Music & Sound Design Jazz-inspired score and sound design created using a combination of AI tools and Adobe Audition

Special Thanks Felix Ramirez — the FIRST ChatGPTheatre audience member (other than Landon’s Grandma) to submit a story idea

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SPEAKER_10 0:09

Well, and hello. Oh, a double hello to everyone out there. Welcome back to Chat GP Theater episode 8. We are coming to you live from Grand Forks, North Dakota. My name is Landon Wells here with Kevin Darbro.

SPEAKER_13 0:27

In North Carolina, in Clayton, North Carolina, to be exact, about 15 miles outside of downtown Raleigh.

SPEAKER_10 0:34

We have the two north ends of the state of the country dialed in. Well, not two north ends.

SPEAKER_13 0:40

I'm in the south. With the two north states labeled that set, labeled this site.

SPEAKER_10 0:45

Well, my freaking bad for failing geography.

SPEAKER_13 0:48

Yeah, indeed. Well, how are you doing, Kevin? Yeah, I'm doing fine. Went to the eye doctor, uh, as you see. I I did w pretty well there. I blinked, I got the little poker in the eye and the eye scanning and everything like that. And it was uh all of the is one better or is three better, is three better, is four better, and you know, you know the deal. But I what I do when they when they first come in and they have you read the smallest line that you can see, I don't read the letters. I try to pronounce the five letters as a word, even if they're no vowels. So it's like z and they usually get a kick out of it. Actually, they do. They get a kick out of it. I I'm not a boring patient at all with that kind of thing. So that's fine. And then I take a picture of the uh the eye scans that they bring up on the screen and send it to Mary and say, I'm watching you. So yeah, I'm weird. I'm weird. Well, what did they rate you out of the I did we I didn't get a rating. There were there were no judges holding up cards. It's just a prescription at this point in life. What you get a prescription that is either increased or stays the same, and mine increased 0.25 whatever in each eye, which is negligible. So it's like, do I want to spend $300 on glasses that are really not necessary? No, not really. Not for now. But you could look really cool. I look cool already, man. I already have glasses. It would be no difficult.

SPEAKER_10 2:21

I want glasses so bad.

SPEAKER_13 2:23

Oh, I didn't realize you had an issue with that.

SPEAKER_10 2:26

No, I'm I well, I need glasses. I have uh what's known as astigmatism. Do you know what that is? For our folks at home, astigmatism is, well, I'm not normal. I'm a little kooky, a little offbeat. When I look at lights, they flare off in in different directions. Yeah, I've got a bit of that too. We can put up a picture for our video listeners. Audio listeners love you to death. But here's a side-by-side comparison of what astigmatism is.

SPEAKER_13 2:53

So now that our history lesson is over, let's tune into Chat GP Theater, you'd have no idea you might actually learn something. That's what we're all about.

SPEAKER_10 3:01

I know, yeah. Frick you to all my freaking freaking bullies out there, right, Kevin? Sure. All the bullies out there in North Dakota.

SPEAKER_13 3:09

Yeah. Anyway, let's get the show on the road. Enough, enough time. Sorry, I'm sorry, I was just dwelling on it. It was hurting my feelings. No, I'm a bully that way.

SPEAKER_10 3:17

Okay. Alright, well, we have our first official submission from an audience listener, other than my grandma. Felix Ramirez has suggested a noir tale about a dragon investigating a magic drug being sold by wizards.

SPEAKER_13 3:34

And they I thought there was a request as well to do it in a noir style, or is that just your little spin there? And with jazz music cues?

SPEAKER_10 3:41

Well, they said noir style, and then I said jazz music cues would be fun.

SPEAKER_13 3:44

Oh, okay. Well, thank you, Mr. Ramirez. And so, yeah, we I've already prepped ChatGPT Plus. And away we go. Already ready to hit the road with this. Yeah. Alright, so Act One. Okay, you want me to be narrator? You want me a narrator? Uh be the grappling noir.

SPEAKER_10 4:04

I I feel like this is gonna be another serious episode. I don't think you've ever narrated a serious episode.

SPEAKER_13 4:09

Okay, fine then. Alright. Act one, case of the dragon detective.

SPEAKER_02 4:22

The city never sleeps. Not when there are shadows to crawl in, deals to be made, and souls to sell. And me, I'm the poor fool with wings and scales, trying to keep the whole circus from burning down. Name's Drex Melechite, a private investigator. Some call me the Dragon Detective. But tonight, names don't matter. Only the case. It started with a knock at my office door. Midnight sharp.

SPEAKER_07 5:11

Um, uh, Mr. Malachite, they say you take um unusual cases.

SPEAKER_02 5:18

Depends who's asking. And who's paying.

SPEAKER_07 5:22

Uh I can pay. It's not the gold I'm worried about. It's the smoke. Smoke?

SPEAKER_02 5:30

Lady, I make plenty of that on my own.

SPEAKER_07 5:33

No, no, not your kind of it's um a new drug. Mat magic powder. Wizards call it Starlight Dust. Hit the streets last month, and one puff and you're walking through walls, and another and you're hooked for life, but my brother, he's gone. He's all gone.

SPEAKER_02 6:00

Starlight dust. Heard whispers. Never thought it real. All right, doll. I'll bite. Who's peddling it?

SPEAKER_07 6:11

Um wizards. Cloaks uh a circle with runes that glow red. They they call themselves the the amber cabal.

SPEAKER_02 6:21

The amber cabal. Wizards with dirty hands and clean robes. If they were moving dust through the city, it was bad news for everyone. Magic like that twists minds, eats souls, even dragons are immune. Alright. Leave me your brother's name. I'll find him. Or what's left.

SPEAKER_07 6:48

Thank you, Mr. Malachite. Um, his name is Julian. Don't don't let them take him deeper.

SPEAKER_02 7:01

Julian. Another lost lamb in the wizard's maze. So I strapped on my trench coat, tucked my wings in tight, and stepped into the storm.

SPEAKER_13 7:22

Scene two. The streets.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

The streets smelled of damp stone, bad whiskey, and fear. Everywhere you looked, I started away. Folks knew something was slithering under the surface. And it wasn't just me. Start with the bottom feeders. Rats always know who's holding the cheese.

SPEAKER_01 7:58

Hey uh, Drex.

SPEAKER_09 8:00

Is that you?

SPEAKER_02 8:02

Easy, Benny. I ain't here to roast you. Yep.

SPEAKER_09 8:07

A word is you're sniffing around the dust. That right?

SPEAKER_02 8:11

Depends what my snout finds. You got something to spill?

SPEAKER_10 8:16

Well, wizards run it through jazz clubs. Places where the horn scream and the smokestick. They sprinkle the dust in cocktails. First one's breathe. Second one's forever.

SPEAKER_02 8:29

Clubs, huh? Which one?

SPEAKER_10 8:32

Try the blue phoenix, but but that's watch your tail. Bamma cabal don't like dragons sniffing their stash.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

Tell them I don't like wizards poisoning my city. The Blue Phoenix. A club where dreams come to dance and die. The band wailed, the crowd swayed, and in the back corner, deals were carved into the night. Smells like dust in the air. Sweet. Wrong.

SPEAKER_08 9:23

Well, well. If it isn't Drax Malachite. Didn't think a dragon had ears for jazz.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

I come for the music. I stay for the trouble.

SPEAKER_08 9:36

Then you're in luck. Trouble's buying around tonight. Starlight dust. You serve it straight. How special. First sips on the cabal, and after that, it's on your soul.

SPEAKER_02 9:53

Her eyes gleamed red like Ember's. Cabal eyes. She wasn't just a singer. She was their siren. Where's Julian? The kid they hooked.

SPEAKER_08 10:05

Asking questions like that gets you burned, dragon.

SPEAKER_02 10:11

I breathe fire for a living, sweetheart. Try me. Then the room tilted. Not from booze. From dust. They'd slipped it in the air, and the whole club swam with magic. None me can't.

SPEAKER_08 10:36

Sleep dragon. Let the cabal cradle you.

SPEAKER_02 10:55

The club was gone. In its place a cavern of stone and fire. Wizards and red cloaks circled gently like snakes.

SPEAKER_11 11:09

Malachite. We warned you not to meddle. Yet, here you are. Wings clipped, claws.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

Captain Monologue. Where's Julian?

SPEAKER_11 11:25

The boy belongs us now. He breathes dust. He is dust, and soon.

SPEAKER_02 11:32

So they raised their hands, slightly open their fingers, and for the first time in a long while, I felt the edge of real fear. You think the chains hold the dragon? The chamber lip like hell's on a lantern. I pour through their circle, fire spilling from my earth, canistrums pounding in my skull like war.

SPEAKER_01 12:12

The dust will drown this city, and you with it.

SPEAKER_02 12:31

Burned, battered, but alive. Julian was still out there. The cabal still breathing. The city still bleeding dust into its veins. This ain't over. You can bet your last ship on that. The case had only just begun. And somewhere in the storm, the cabal was smiling.

SPEAKER_13 13:06

Alrighty there. That is the end of Act 1. So very, very interesting and such. What do you think? That was really cool. I really liked that. That was fun. Yes, indeedy. Introducing Dr. Giggles laughing gas.

SPEAKER_14 13:33

The only time it guaranteed to turn your brown upside down. Sideways and inside out.

SPEAKER_13 14:05

As for Dr. Giggle's laughing gas at your local apothecary. Because when life's a jump, you should be the punchline! So now it is interjection time. Doo-doo-doo doo. So let's inject an interjection. You want to create that infection? The infection of the interjection. You want to create the infection of the interjection? The infection, the l injection, minjection. Yeah, the injection of the interjection. Infection.

SPEAKER_10 14:40

Well, infection, I think, is the motif then. I'm on I'm on a You're on the dust. Umbies. Go on the infection route.

SPEAKER_13 14:53

Okay. Or we can say it it makes them laugh uncontrollably. I am so down to play the Joker for this. Okay, and they stop reading because they laugh themselves to death. Oh, that's fun. Okay. I think I was an old actually Joker Batman kind of laugh. Alright, so how do we want to phrase this? Alright, so I've actually dressed up as the Joker two years in a row.

SPEAKER_10 15:15

You're joking. I can uh I can put up pictures in the world. You want to do in the in the vein of the Joker.

SPEAKER_13 16:10

We can add the Joker too, but for copyright violations and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_10 16:17

I didn't mean to add in the Joker. But just like in the same vein as like the Batman universe, because then it gives it something to be inspired upon. Away we go.

SPEAKER_13 16:29

Taking longer for a better answer, you know how it does. You know how it does. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I sure do. Okay. Shooby dooby-doo. Doo wap wap doo-wap whoop. We should have some kind of Jeopardy kind of theme for this. It's not the Jeopardy theme. See the copyright. Waka, waka, waka. Oh, great. Let's just wait and see if it comes back. A lot of people might be hitting this at the same time. They're hitting their drug of choice, which is ChatGPT plus five. Woohoo! Man, have you sorted Chat GPT? No, man. Oh, come on. Yes, well, it's a bunch of ones and zeros. Get it together, ChatGPT. Can't really slam your computer because this happened somewhere in the cloud. Oh, there we go! Hey! It led us through. Nice, got it. I've rewritten act one. Oh, we didn't want you to rewrite. No. Leave act one as it was. Please generate act two with those instructions. Alright. Okay, here we go. Finally, it understands me. You understand me so well. Perfect. We'll leave act one untouched. And now continue to act two within your instructions. Starlight Dust equals lethal laughter drug, Batman Style Menace, Noir, Jazz Mood. Here's Act Two. 2250 words read time, about 15 minutes performance pacing. That's using the metric for 150 words is roughly equal to a minute. For voiceover stuff, just follow it away, Landon. Okay, episode 8. Case of the Dragon Detective, Act Two.

SPEAKER_02 18:23

And the joke wasn't funny. Starlight Dust. The cabal's miracle drawed. One sniff, you giggled like a fool. Two, you laughed until your lungs collapsed. A city of corpses with smiles carved on their faces. My name's Drex Malachite. Dragon Detective. Tonight, I wasn't laughing.

SPEAKER_13 18:47

Scene one, crime scene on Main.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

Main Street. Two bodies on the sidewalk, clutching each other. Grins frozen like wax masks. Their suits soaked, their eyes wide, their mouths open in silent hysteria.

SPEAKER_11 19:10

Drex didn't expect you.

SPEAKER_02 19:13

Didn't expect to be invited.

SPEAKER_11 19:15

It works. It'll take any help. We've got two more smilers. The mayor's office breathing down our necks. You seen this before?

SPEAKER_02 19:25

Yeah. At the blue Phoenix. This is Cavalwork. Dust in the veins.

SPEAKER_11 19:34

Dim wizards? City Council says keep it quiet. No panic. Hard to do when folks are kneeling over. Chucklin'.

SPEAKER_02 19:44

Where's the powder? Any traces?

SPEAKER_11 19:47

Nothing.

SPEAKER_02 19:48

Just they're getting slicker. This ain't just dust. It's weaponized theater.

SPEAKER_11 19:59

Look, dragon. You find the source, fine. But keep it out of the headlines.

SPEAKER_02 20:06

Headlines? Captain, you already got a punchline written across corpses' faces.

SPEAKER_13 20:15

Scene two. Investigation at the morgue.

SPEAKER_02 20:24

The morgue smelled of bleach and hopelessness. Rows of drawers with grins frozen inside. The city was becoming one big comedy club where the joke killed the audience.

SPEAKER_10 20:41

Every day, more smiles. They don't breathe. They don't bleed. They just stop with that look.

SPEAKER_02 20:51

It's in the nervous system. Dust burns through the brain, hijacks the laugh reflex, locks it open to the lungs fold. This ain't natural magic. It's engineered.

SPEAKER_10 21:05

Engineered? By who?

SPEAKER_02 21:07

By wizards who think the stage is a lab. They've cooked up their masterpiece and they're selling tickets across town. Julian. They weren't just victims. They were props in a show. And I needed to shut the curtain. The boo Phoenix wasn't the only nest. The ball needed more stages, more crowds. I tracked the trail to a smaller club, the Laughing Lantern.

SPEAKER_10 22:00

Everywhere. They pump it into the heavens. Mix it with perfume. You can't trust your own nose.

SPEAKER_02 22:07

Who runs this joint?

SPEAKER_10 22:09

A guy called the Jester Mage. Thinks he's funny. Wears bells on his cloak. He's he's the ball's chemist. They say he brewed the dust in bats, stirred with bones of old saints.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

Bones are no bones. I'm gonna crack his recipe. Where is he hiding?

SPEAKER_10 22:30

Uh a basement. But but but watch it. They keep failed test subjects down there. People who laughed wrong.

SPEAKER_13 22:48

Scene four, the Jester Mage's lab.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

The air sack of chemicals and burnt incense. Bats of shimmering powder. Figures in cages, grinning, convulsing, whispering laughter that wouldn't stop.

SPEAKER_10 23:13

Step up, dragon! Welcome to the workshop of wonders. A pinch of stardust, um dash of madness, and voila! Death tickles!

SPEAKER_12 23:26

You think this is art? You're butchering people for applause.

SPEAKER_09 23:31

Oh no, no, no, no, no! We're liberating them! Don't you hear it? Joy!

SPEAKER_01 23:40

The ultimate punchline!

SPEAKER_02 23:47

He tossed the dust into the air. I clapped my breath, but the room giggled on its own. The walls shook with laughter. Even the bats bubbled like they had a sense of humor.

SPEAKER_01 24:06

You can't burn that again! It echoes its friends! The cabal will fill the streets with it. Everyone will die smiling!

SPEAKER_02 24:25

The jester mage was gone. Maybe dead, maybe dust. But his words clung like smoke. The cabal wasn't just selling. They were staging a citywide joke. And the punchline was genocide.

SPEAKER_13 24:42

Scene 5, a city on edge.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

Oh X Reactor Street! Laughing death strikes again! Bodies smiling in Doc's district. Oh read all about it!

SPEAKER_02 24:54

So much for keeping it quiet. The seeker was out. Panic tastes like iron. And the city was choking on it. They want hysteria. They want the city to be broken. Cabal's playing chess with corpses. I need leverage. I need Julian.

SPEAKER_13 25:16

Scene 6. Encounter with Julian.

SPEAKER_02 25:25

And there he was. Julian, the missing brother. Lean, trembling, lips curled into an empty grin. His laugh cracks like glass.

SPEAKER_09 25:38

Can't stop. Don't want to stop. It feels so good. Mr. Malachite. They said it would make me happy. They said Julian, fight it.

SPEAKER_02 25:55

It's poison. Where's the cabal taking you?

SPEAKER_09 26:00

The circle. Under the city. The queen says the grand finale. Everyone's laughing Forever.

SPEAKER_01 26:22

Stay with me, kid. It hurts it's funny.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

Julian died smiling. Another victim of the cabal's comedy. And I swore right then no more curtain calls. The Amber Cabal's show was ending, and I was bringing the fire. The trail led underground. To the circle. They kept all beating heart. I followed his laughter like a bloodhound every chicken nail in their coffin. A chamber glowing red. Wizard's masked chatting, laughing. At the center, the Harlequin. Watching silent. It was the Cabal's final stage. The city of Octave on the edge of hysteria. And I was the only heckler left in the house. Act two is coming to its finale. The Emperor Cabal had written the script, but I was going to improvise. Time to burn the joke book.

SPEAKER_13 28:15

End of act two. Alrighty there. There we go.

SPEAKER_10 28:20

That was so cool. I think that's my favorite thing we've ever heard that.

SPEAKER_13 28:24

Well, you really showed quite a range there, my man. Got to do your life. I was worried about you in your coffin. It sounded very authentic.

SPEAKER_10 28:30

Yeah, it was a I don't know. I felt like an actor for a second. That was cool. You are an actor, my friend. I mean for a second. I don't know that felt really cool. I'm sweating. I'm fully sweating from that.

SPEAKER_13 28:44

Ah man. Well, I was on the last episode, I think we did, where I had to really exert myself. So yeah, it totally. When you're putting it out, you're all into it, which is great. Hey dragons! Tired of doll flavorless knights? Fed up with villages that just don't satisfy? Then sink your teeth into Smogly's Flame Kiss Barbecue Rub, TM, specially blended to compliment roasted sheep, crispy castles, and yes, even the occasional paladin.

SPEAKER_02 29:18

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SPEAKER_13 29:25

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SPEAKER_10 29:41

Okay. So interjection. I I don't even I don't even want an interjection. I just want to see how the story ends, but Okay. I'm fine with that if we want to. No, no, no, well no, that's the the point of the show. We gotta we gotta spice it up. Spice it up, okay. We gotta spice it up. Let's so infection.

SPEAKER_13 30:00

Well I uh how about the uh the only cure is the the dragon's scales. So he has to give of himself to cure the city. Well that's kind of directing the story.

SPEAKER_10 30:11

Yeah, that's um like interjections can be applied to any story. Oh, alright, so you want something really off the wall. Okay. Cause I wanna keep with the same story and not mess it up too much, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_13 30:23

Yeah, yeah. We could have it be that the people that well, it's kind of interjecting it but he become murderous or something.

SPEAKER_10 30:30

Oh yeah, we can spin that. Everyone around turns angry, violent, and hate-filled. Wow, yeah, my my like my chest feels crazy. I need to get my inhaler after that.

SPEAKER_13 30:41

Oh, did we say to finish the story with this act? I did. Bring the story to a conclusion at the end of the act. Great. Let's I'll read the prompt. For act three, everyone around someone on the dust becomes angry, violent and hate-filled. Bring the story to a conclusion at the end of the act. Alright, so rules for this act from Chat GPT 5 plus. Dust now mutates not just laughter, but a ripple effect. Everyone around the user turns hateful and violent, gotham style chaos. Tone stays warm with jazz, but crescendoes into apocalyptic menace. Story concludes here. Drax vs. Harley Quinn, the cabal, and the dust plague. Alright, here's the full act. Episode 8. Case of the Dragon Detective. Act 3.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

The circle. Beating heart of the ever cabal. Red runes glowing, bats of dust piled like stolen treasure. Wizards chanting, laughing, faces split wide, at the center, the Harlequin, silent as stone, painted grin that could cut glass.

SPEAKER_10 31:50

Dragon, you came to the finale. Good.

SPEAKER_01 31:56

Every play deserves a critic.

SPEAKER_03 31:58

Critic? Executioner. I played both parts.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

Oh excellent! Then laugh with us.

SPEAKER_02 32:15

But something changed. The laughter curdled. No longer joy. Rage. The dust had mutated. Now when one left, ten around them snarled. Chamber erupted. The dust had teeth now. One poor fool left, and the room boiled with hate. Fists flew, claws tore. Spells cracked the walls. They built their perfect circus. Murder as a side effect. This isn't a show.

SPEAKER_01 33:00

It's a slaughterhouse. And isn't it beautiful? A city torn apart. Hatred perfectly death. No one escapes the choke.

SPEAKER_13 33:11

Scene two Drex versus the Cabal.

SPEAKER_02 33:17

I let the fire loose, scales blazing, wings snapping wide. I carved through their circle, but the dust was everywhere, twisting minds, turning brother against brother. Even those not touched by it went mad, just standing too close.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

They are eternal. We only amplify them.

SPEAKER_02 34:02

The best turned like razors. It caught in my throat. Begged me to laugh. Begged me to rage. I held the fire down on my belly. The only anchor I had left. You forgot something, clown. Rage doesn't scare me. I live with it every day.

SPEAKER_13 34:32

Confrontation with the Harlequin.

SPEAKER_09 34:39

You think you can burn the idea of us?

SPEAKER_10 34:45

It spreads.

SPEAKER_01 34:47

Smoke carries it. People crave release. We give them laughter. We give them purpose and rage. We are immortality.

SPEAKER_03 35:02

No. Your parasites dressed as poets, and I don't share the stage.

SPEAKER_02 35:15

My claws burned with fire. Gratos, wizards clawed each other apart, mad with dust.

SPEAKER_01 35:26

Even if you kill me, the dust is out there. Streets already laughing, hating, killing. The city is ours, Peter!

SPEAKER_03 35:39

Then let's burn the theater.

SPEAKER_13 35:52

Collapse.

SPEAKER_02 35:58

The circle collapsed. Fire ate the dust, turning laughter into smoke, rage into ash. Wizards screamed, choking on their own joke.

SPEAKER_01 36:13

You can't kill a black dragon!

SPEAKER_02 36:18

You can't the Harlequin's grin burned last. Then silence. Just ripple and ash.

SPEAKER_03 36:48

The city survived.

SPEAKER_02 36:52

Barely. Dust burned underground. But some of it was already loose in the veins of the streets. Maybe I killed the joke at its source. Maybe it would echo back in whispers. But for tonight, the curtain dropped. Case closed. For now. The cabal was ash. The harlequin was gone. But the city still left. Sometimes in the alleys. Too loud. Too long. Maybe memory. Maybe more dust. Doesn't matter. I'll be here. A dragon detective walking rain-soaked streets. Listening for the punchline that kills. I'm here to make sure it doesn't choke ahead.

SPEAKER_10 38:33

Holy shit. Wow. That I think that's by far and away my favorite episode we've done. You say that every episode.

SPEAKER_13 38:42

No, no comment. You're just gonna have to keep on tuning in, audience, because it's gonna get better and better and better.

SPEAKER_10 38:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 38:50

Yeah, that was something else.

SPEAKER_10 38:52

Yeah. That was cool. That felt like a script. Like for the first time, that felt like like I mean, every episode kind of feels like someone wrote it. But this one felt like this was a finished product start to end. It felt really connected. Had a clear story. Wow. That was just that was cool. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I was spitting everywhere doing that last voice. I got I was like shaking. I was I was really mad. That was cool. Alright. And with that, everyone, we have come to the conclusion of our episode. And this has been episode eight. The case of the dragon detective. Thank you so much for tuning in again to Chat GP Theater. And if you want your idea featured next, then visit us at chatgptheater.com. Again, that is chatgpheater.com where you can submit an idea for a random interjection or a very own story idea in itself.

SPEAKER_13 39:53

And as always, I am Landon Wells, and with me is Kevin Garbro. Still haven't changed. Same name, same location, same voice. And as always, we have then a Chat GP Theater.