Loser Line (11/3/25)
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What is the Loser Line and how does it work?
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Talking about trauma isn't always great for people. It's not always the best thing. About a third of people who are traumatized as kids feel worse when they talk about it, get very dysregulated.
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Along the central Texas plains, teens are dying. Suicides that don't make sense. Strange accidents and brutal murders. In what seems to be a plot ripped straight out of Breaking Bad.
Drugs, alcohol, trafficking of people. There are people out there that absolutely know what happened.
Listen to Paper Ghosts, The Texas Teen Murders on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, girl. What's up with you? Wait a minute. Is this the right number? It's, um, the loser line. Come on. Just call me back. It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning, and it's time for a special Halloween-themed edition of The Loser Line today. Oh, I bet it's full from the weekend. Yep. Every voicemail we play is from someone who met a costumed baddie while they were out attending a Halloween party or maybe at a Zillow listing for a haunted mansion.
Wow.
But let's say that you were at a spooky nightclub and a guy dressed as Dad Bod Ken came and approached you. That's cute. And he says, uh, excuse me, miss, but your sexy Elphaba costume has my downstairs defying gravity. But he knows Wicked, so I'm, like, not too mad. You're not totally turned on? Well, after he says that, don't shove your broomstick where the sun don't shine. Instead, tell him he just made your heart melt faster than the Wicked Witch. Aw. And that's when you slip in the digits to the loser line. So hopefully he leaves an awkward voicemail that we could play on the air. Voicemails like this one.
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