Fantasma de la Oficina

Carlos just started working at a company in Lima’s Nikkei district: a place where Japanese and Peruvian culture mix. When his new coworkers start teasing him about the office ghost, he figures they’re just messing with the new guy. Until one night, he has to pull the graveyard shift.

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:09Glynn Washington?

  I snatched an apple from her bowl and slowly took a bite. She grinned a grin and then she laughed. Good riddance and good night!

• 0:21Glynn Washington?

  My apple poison is so painful, I brewed it specially for you. But I switched her apple to my pocket because I knew what she would do.

• 0:37Glynn Washington?

  You've crossed over the spooked. Stay tuned.

• 0:55Speaker 01

  Why have so many crop circles appeared around Britain? How did thousands of people demonstrate powers of telepathy? Can the dead suck the life from the living? Join me, Tim Harford, for a trip into the paranormal throughout Halloween month on Cautionary Tales. Listen to Cautionary Tales on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

• 1:38Glynn Washington?

  So they said I was too young to attend my uncle's funeral. Pop said it was going to be open casket and I didn't need to see all that. But when it's over, after the burying's done, everybody starts filing in the door at my grandmother's house. Sad, quiet eyes turn away from other sad, quiet eyes. It's weird because this house is a lot of things. The quiet and mournful has never been one of them.

• 2:12Glynn Washington?

  One uncle pulls out a deck of cards. My auntie's eyes flash bright evil and he quickly shoves the deck back in his breast pocket.

• 2:23Glynn Washington?

  We just look at each other. Look down at the carpet. Then outside. Loud enough so we might as well be in the room, the next door neighbor, talking to the pastor or somebody. "I seen it. I seen the whole thing. One brother shot another pastor. I tried to stop him, but the devil was strong in that family. They're cursed. Each and every one of them's cursed."

• 2:51Glynn Washington?

  And I wonder if he's right.

• 2:55Glynn Washington?

  It was a terrible thing, no question, a terrible thing that happened right here. Right here, right here, right here in this room.

• 3:05Glynn Washington?

  And I wonder if we are cursed.

• 3:10Glynn Washington?

  I wonder if I'm cursed. Uncle Eldis opens up the window, shouts out, "Best to shut your trap, Willie, because we ain't done shooting folk up." And the entire house erupts in laughter. Long, deep, cleansing laughter. My uncle pulls his deck of cards back out and starts dealing hands, ignoring the glare of my auntie. Cigarettes are lit. Wine is poured. My cousins, you ain't come a shirt, so let's go outside and play. Come on, come on, come on.

• 3:58Glynn Washington?

  Spook start.

• 4:01Glynn Washington?

  Now.

• 4:48Glynn Washington?

  ¿Qué es un castigo? ¿Qué es realmente?

• 4:53Glynn Washington?

  2004, Carlos Jarra. Él es un diseñador gráfico de Lima, Perú.

• 4:59Glynn Washington?

  Ahora Lima tiene una gran comunidad niñese, peruvianos de descendencia japonesa, pero Carlos no es parte de ello. Aún así, él siempre se sentía bien. Bueno comida, buenos amigos, buenos vibes. Así que cuando un amigo cercano recomienda un trabajo en una empresa de marketing en el corazón de la distrito niñese, Carlos no piensa dos veces. Pienso.

• 5:47Speaker 02

  Bueno, en ese trabajo al inicio cuando yo entré ahí estaba sorprendido porque el 90% de ellos eran de descendencia japonesa.

• 5:57Speaker 03

  Cuando empecé a trabajar allí, me sorprendí de saber que el 90% de los empleados era japonés. Así que pensé que me encontraría con ellos, ya que no conocía sus costumbres.

• 6:05Speaker 02

  Pero no.

• 6:06Speaker 03

  Pero, no.

• 6:08Speaker 02

  Me trataban como uno más inclusivo, me enseñaron.

• 6:11Speaker 03

  Me trataban como uno de sus propios. Me enseñaron a hablar japonés, me mostraron sus tradiciones y incluso me dejaron algunos trucos.

• 6:19Speaker 02

  Salavanzaj, arigato. Cuando se pedían perdón, gome, gomen nasai, gomen ne.

• 6:25Speaker 03

  Japón, se los llamaba.

• 6:30Speaker 03

  The people I worked most closely with were the shift boss, Juanjo, an intern we all called "El Chakal", and this tall, lanky, hunched guy we called "Rulo". But the first person I really clicked with was Sakura, the boss's daughter. She's about 10 years older than me, super spiritual and always had a smile.

• 6:52Speaker 02

  Entonces era muy divertido conversar con ella.

• 6:55Speaker 03

  I loved chatting with her. It almost felt like we were old friends. So yeah, I really liked working there.

• 7:07Speaker 02

  Un día después de tres, cuatro meses que estuve trabajando, había bastante carga laboral.

• 7:12Speaker 03

  One day, three or four months into the job, the work gets so busy that we have to pull an all-nighter. So we have a team meeting to go through our tasks, and once we're finished, Sakura looks at me and says...

• 7:25Speaker 02

  "Uy, cuidado con Piecitos", me dice.

• 7:27Speaker 03

  "Oh, you should watch out for Piecitos."

• 7:30Speaker 02

  "¿Y yo qué?"

• 7:31Speaker 03

  "What?" Piecitos means "little feet" in English. Everyone starts laughing, but I'm like...

• 7:38Speaker 02

  "¿Quién es Piecitos?"

• 7:39Speaker 03

  "Who's Piecitos?" I thought it was an office dog or something. They're like...

• 7:45Speaker 02

  "Piecitos, es el fantasmita que tenemos acá en oficina."

• 7:49Speaker 03

  "Piecitos is our office ghost." I go, "Why is it called Piecitos?" And Sakura says...

• 7:57Speaker 02

  "La gente que se quedaba a dormir iban a la recepción."

• 8:01Speaker 03

  "People who spend the night here often sleep on the couch in their reception room." But sometimes, when they wake up, they see a pair of feet walking by. Everyone sees this dark silhouette of shoes and pants, but no one's ever looked up to see the whole body. Just the feet.

• 8:20Speaker 02

  Por eso le decían Piecitos.

• 8:22Speaker 03

  "That's why they call it Piecitos."

• 8:25Speaker 02

  Yo me río y pensé que era... O sea, como lo contó y se rieron todos.

• 8:30Speaker 03

  I laugh and think it's just a joke, especially since everyone also laughed. So I think...

• 8:36Speaker 02

  "Ah, mira, a ver si lo veo", dije.

• 8:38Speaker 03

  "All right, let's see if I get to see it."

• 8:47Speaker 03

  A year and a half later, I'd spent the night in the reception room at least 10 times and hadn't seen a thing. So for me, Biecitos just became a running joke. And I never got creeped out working late because I was never alone in the building. It was a three-story building. The security guard was always at the front door, and the boss actually lived on the third floor. So family was always coming and going, and the building was always busy. It never felt like a creepy place.

• 9:22Speaker 02

  Eran cerca de la medianoche. Habíamos cuatro personas.

• 9:27Speaker 03

  So it's almost midnight, and there are four of us at the office: Juanjo, Chacal, Rulo, and I. We're working on a campaign for this phone company that always hits us with last-minute requests. Then at 1:30, 2:00 in the morning, we're all so tired, so we decide to call it a night. I'm walking through the lobby, just about to head out the front door, when I hear someone call my name.

• 9:54Speaker 02

  Oye, Carlos, me dice el vigilante.

• 9:56Speaker 03

  Oye, Carlos. It's the security guard. Hey, buddy, can you do me a favor?

• 10:02Speaker 02

  Me podrías calentar mi tupper de comida?

• 10:05Speaker 03

  Can you go upstairs and heat up my food in the microwave? I can't leave my post, and I'm watching your car, so help me out.

• 10:14Speaker 02

  Claro, no hay problema.

• 10:16Speaker 03

  Sure, no problem. And he tosses me this food container.

• 10:21Speaker 03

  I make my way through the production floor, the photo lab, and get to the door leading to the stairs. There's a metal staircase that leads straight up to the third floor, where the kitchen and the boss's apartment are.

• 10:34Speaker 02

  Ni una luz está encendida.

• 10:36Speaker 03

  Not a single light is on. But I don't want to turn them on and risk waking up my boss and his family. And so I start walking up.

• 10:50Speaker 03

  As I'm going up...

• 10:52Speaker 02

  Yo he sentido una presencia atrás mío.

• 10:54Speaker 03

  I start to feel this presence behind me. I turn around and see this silhouette.

• 11:04Speaker 02

  Era como una sombra negra.

• 11:06Speaker 03

  It's a dark shadow, but I can tell it's a person.

• 11:13Speaker 03

  They're walking all hunched over, slowly making their way toward the stairs.

• 11:20Speaker 03

  The silhouette of the jacket looks like it's my buddy Rulo's. So I'm like, "That's gotta be Rulo. He's probably on his way to get his lunchbox or something."

• 11:31Speaker 03

  I'm halfway up the stairs, and suddenly...

• 11:35Speaker 02

  Yo he sentido... Un sentimiento de miedo, de la nada.

• 11:40Speaker 03

  I feel this wave of fear out of nowhere. I turn around and I see this thing still coming up the stairs, but it's only like a few steps behind me, super close.

• 11:54Speaker 02

  Pero aunque lo tengo frente a mí, solo veo una sombra.

• 11:58Speaker 03

  But even though it's right there, all I see is a black shadow.

• 12:03Speaker 02

  Me quedo totalmente petrificado.

• 12:06Speaker 03

  I'm completely petrified. I can't even scream.

• 12:12Speaker 03

  It goes right through me.

• 12:16Speaker 02

  Me atravesó, como si estuviera encima mío.

• 12:19Speaker 03

  It passes right through my body.

• 12:23Speaker 03

  I feel an electric jolt that makes all the hair on my body stand up.

• 12:31Speaker 03

  I drop the lunch container.

• 12:34Speaker 03

  And when I look up, I see this shadow still climbing the stairs, heading to the kitchen.

• 12:40Speaker 02

  Y me quedé totalmente helado.

• 12:42Speaker 03

  I just freeze.

• 12:44Speaker 02

  ¿Qué fue esto? ¿Qué es lo que ha pasado? ¿Qué pasó? ¿Qué es esto?

• 12:48Speaker 03

  What just happened?

• 12:50Speaker 02

  Eso, ¿dije, es un fantasma?

• 12:52Speaker 03

  Was that a ghost?

• 13:06Glynn Washington?

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• 13:48Glynn Washington?

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• 14:21Speaker 03

  I turn around and race down the stairs. I blast through the door. Everyone's in the production area staring at me, but I just walk straight to my desk.

• 14:38Speaker 03

  Juanjo, Chacal, and Rulo come up to my desk. They're like,

• 14:42Speaker 02

  Carlos, ¿qué has visto? ¿Tú has visto algo?

• 14:44Speaker 03

  Did you see something? No, I didn't see anything.

• 14:48Speaker 02

  Tu piel es morena y tú estás blanco.

• 14:51Speaker 03

  Dude, you're brown? But you're as pale as a ghost. And I'm like, I didn't see anything. I don't want to freak them out. I just need them to leave me alone so I can process what the hell just happened.

• 15:11Speaker 03

  Five minutes later, I'm feeling more calm. But I realize that the security guard is still waiting for his food.

• 15:19Speaker 03

  So I go up to our intern, El Chacal. He's this young dude in his twenties.

• 15:24Speaker 02

  Él era metalero.

• 15:25Speaker 03

  He used to be a metalhead, but when he joined the company, they made him cut his hair.

• 15:30Speaker 02

  Él era un metalero reformado, ¿no?

• 15:32Speaker 03

  Now he's a reformed metalhead.

• 15:39Speaker 03

  So I tell him.

• 15:39Speaker 02

  Chacal.

• 15:41Speaker 03

  He looks at me, kind of freaked out.

• 15:44Speaker 02

  ¿Qué ha pasado?, me dice.

• 15:45Speaker 03

  "What's up?", he says. "Come with me to the third floor."

• 15:50Speaker 02

  No, no, no, no, mes. Tú tienes ganas de miedo.

• 15:53Speaker 03

  "No, no, no, you seem scared." And I'm like, "Shut up and follow me."

• 16:00Speaker 03

  Me and Chacal are walking up the stairs, and we find the container on the floor.

• 16:06Speaker 03

  I pick it up, and he says, "Yeah, you definitely saw something."

• 16:12Speaker 03

  We get to the third floor. I put the food in the microwave and set a timer for two minutes. I turn to Chacal and say,

• 16:20Speaker 02

  ¿Sabes qué, Chacal?

• 16:22Speaker 03

  "You know what, Chacal?"

• 16:23Speaker 02

  He vio un fantasma.

• 16:25Speaker 03

  "I just saw a ghost."

• 16:28Speaker 02

  ¡Qué con razón! Yo sabía, yo sabía. ¿Cómo, cómo, cómo ha sido?

• 16:32Speaker 03

  "What? No way! How did it happen?"

• 16:37Speaker 03

  I start telling Chacal what happened. We're both standing by the microwave, staring at the stairs. And then...

• 16:48Speaker 03

  Out of nowhere.

• 16:50Speaker 02

  La sombra otra vez apareció.

• 16:53Speaker 03

  The shadow shows up again. Still climbing, just slowly reaching the landing.

• 17:02Speaker 02

  ¿Terminó de subir las escaleras?

• 17:04Speaker 03

  It finally makes it to the top. Slips into the kitchen.

• 17:08Speaker 02

  Y giró su cuerpo hacia nosotros. Nos miró.

• 17:14Speaker 03

  And it turns towards us. It's still a black shadow. I can't make out a single detail. Then it turns to face the wall that separates the kitchen from the boss's apartment.

• 17:27Speaker 02

  Y se metió, atravesó la pared.

• 17:29Speaker 03

  And it just walks through. Straight through the wall.

• 17:34Speaker 02

  Nos quedamos helados.

• 17:37Speaker 03

  We're frozen, totally freaked out. We're like...

• 17:41Speaker 02

  ¿Viste? ¿Viste? ¿Estás viendo? ¿Estás viendo? ¿Estás viendo?

• 17:44Speaker 03

  ¿Did you see that? You saw that, right? We just grab the food from the microwave and take off running.

• 17:53Speaker 03

  We get to the production floor. Only Rulo and Juanjo are there. Rulo goes, "What happened now?" And we're like, "We just saw a ghost." He goes, "What? Where?" "On the third floor." That's when Juanjo jumps in.

• 18:10Speaker 02

  "Ah, ya viste Piecitos," me dijo.

• 18:15Speaker 03

  "Oh, so you finally saw Piecitos." I go, "But that wasn't Piecitos. It was a tall, old, slow shadow that looked like Rulo."

• 18:24Speaker 02

  "Y Juanjo me dice, "Ah, ya. Lo viste a cuerpo completo."

• 18:28Speaker 03

  And Juanjo says, "Oh, so you saw it in full? You hit the jackpot. It was about time." And he slaps me on the back.

• 18:39Speaker 02

  "Fue ahí que me di cuenta que esa sombra había sido Piecitos."

• 18:43Speaker 03

  Only then, I realized that maybe that thing was Piecitos.

• 18:53Speaker 03

  The next day, when I get to the office, everyone's like...

• 18:56Speaker 02

  "Carlos ha visto un fantasma. Carlos ha visto un fantasma."

• 18:59Speaker 03

  "Carlos saw a ghost."

• 19:02Speaker 03

  Sakura comes up to me and says, "Hey, tell me what happened." And I tell her the story. She just goes, "Ah, yeah." And that was it. After that, no one really brought it up again. But I start getting nervous about going to the kitchen late at night. I avoid taking the stairs, and I start to eat out.

• 19:26Speaker 03

  A few days later, it's about 3 in the afternoon, just like any other day. I'm sitting at my desk when I see this lady. She has short, wavy hair and is wearing jeans, a t-shirt, and sneakers. Pretty normal.

• 19:41Speaker 02

  Y la señora con un pulverizador comenzaba a echar agua por todos los lados.

• 19:46Speaker 03

  She's spraying something with a spray bottle, spritzing everywhere. I just figure, "Oh, maybe she's someone who came to clean." I didn't think much about it. But as she's getting closer to my desk, I notice the water she's spraying smells like flowers.

• 20:03Speaker 02

  Pero tenía una hierba que olía desagradable, que olía apesuña.

• 20:07Speaker 03

  But there's also this other smell, something nasty, like funky gym socks.

• 20:14Speaker 02

  Doritos con agua florida, con flores.

• 20:17Speaker 03

  Like, Doritos mixed with agua florida. It's just gross.

• 20:24Speaker 03

  Then she gets right up to me and...

• 20:26Speaker 02

  Me comienza a bañar con esa agua.

• 20:29Speaker 03

  And she starts spraying me with that water!

• 20:32Speaker 02

  "Oye, tía, ¿qué estás haciendo?" Y le digo, "Oye, tía, ¿qué pasa, tía?"

• 20:36Speaker 03

  I'm like, "Whoa, lady, what are you doing?" But she keeps spraying me. Chakal and Juanjo are cracking up.

• 20:44Speaker 02

  "Ahí está, porque no te bañas," me decían.

• 20:46Speaker 03

  "That's what you get for not showering, bro." She sprays me some more and then walks away like nothing happened.

• 20:54Speaker 03

  Juanjo says, "You know who that is?" "No."

• 20:58Speaker 02

  "Han traído a la Yuta, me dice."

• 21:00Speaker 03

  "They brought in a Yuta." She's pretty well-known around our community.

• 21:07Speaker 03

  Apparently, a Yuta is a kind of shaman or white witch that Japanese people call on. Whenever they need to handle something serious, like delicate rituals or spiritual stuff, they can consult a Yuta. Juanjo goes, "She came because of your little encounter. She's here to cleanse the place." I'm like, "I can't believe Sakuda." He says, "Why?" "She must have told her I was the one who had the encounter. That's why I got sprayed with that nasty stuff."

• 21:39Speaker 03

  A couple of hours later, Sakura shows up. And I ask, "Hey, why'd you tell the lady I saw a ghost?" She says,

• 21:47Speaker 02

  Carlitos, nadie le ha dicho que tú has sido el que ha visto el fantasma.

• 21:52Speaker 03

  No one told her about you. We just told her that Piesitos showed up again, so she came to cleanse the place.

• 21:59Speaker 02

  ¿Qué?

• 22:00Speaker 03

  Well, why did she spray me with that water? She tells me, "Oh, I guess she must have seen something." "The Utah said the ghost passed through you." "Chakal only saw it, so she didn't spray him."

• 22:17Speaker 02

  ¿Qué?

• 22:19Speaker 03

  What? I don't believe her. Like, after the encounter, I didn't feel off or anything. And I didn't feel any different after the cleansing. So I just brushed this whole thing off.

• 23:05Speaker 03

  Four or five months later, problems start piling up at the company. Management begins falling behind on paychecks, money gets tight, and our clients disappear. So I decide to quit. Then, soon after I leave, the company files for bankruptcy.

• 23:26Speaker 03

  It had been about a year and a half by then. That's when I hit up Sakura to go grab breakfast.

• 23:35Speaker 03

  We're just catching up how Chakal moved to another company, how Juanjo's off somewhere else. It felt just like when we used to work together. But suddenly Sakura goes...

• 23:47Speaker 02

  Oye, ¿recuerdas te encuentro con el fantasma y la yuta?

• 23:52Speaker 03

  Do you remember that whole thing with the ghost and the yuta? Yeah, of course. What about it?

• 23:58Speaker 02

  Te voy a contar un chisme, me dice.

• 24:01Speaker 03

  Let me tell you some gossip. And she just looks at me and says...

• 24:05Speaker 02

  Es que ese fantasma es de la familia.

• 24:11Speaker 03

  That ghost is part of the family.

• 24:20Speaker 03

  See, we Japanese have something called a butzudan. It's like a little wooden altar where we write the names of our ancestors. Every new moon, every month, we leave food offerings, light incense, and say prayers in front of it so our ancestors can guide the family.

• 24:39Speaker 02

  La familia Sakura tenía su butzudan en la casa del abuelo.

• 24:43Speaker 03

  Sakura's family had their own butzudan at home. They lived just a few blocks from the office.

• 24:51Speaker 03

  One day, her grandfather noticed a name, a surname written on the butzudan that didn't match theirs. He and the whole family were like...

• 25:02Speaker 02

  No queremos que pertenezcas. No eres digno de pertenecer a esta familia.

• 25:06Speaker 03

  You don't belong here. You're not part of this family. You're not worthy of this family tree. So the grandfather grabs a handsaw and cuts that surname off the butzudan and just throws that piece in the trash. She tells me this happened around 2004, when Piecitos first showed up at the office. So I ask, "Wait, so your granddad..."

• 25:32Speaker 02

  La fregó, me dijo.

• 25:34Speaker 03

  "He messed up," she says. Cutting a surname off the butzudan is like kicking someone out of the family. It's like leaving them orphaned.

• 25:44Speaker 02

  Por eso, penaba Piecitos, me dice, en la oficina.

• 25:48Speaker 03

  That's why Piecitos haunted the office. He put a curse on our family.

• 25:55Speaker 03

  I'm speechless.

• 25:59Speaker 03

  She says, "Since we cut his name off the Buzdan, the ghost wanted to erase our family name, too." "How?" "Simple: you can't have any sons." "That way, the family name dies out, and with it, the whole Buzdan. Since then, no boys have been born in our family."

• 26:19Speaker 03

  I know it sounds wrong, but that's just how the family name gets passed down, right?

• 26:28Speaker 03

  That's when it hits me: she's right. Sakura had four brothers. They all had partners and started families, six births in total. But every single one, a girl.

• 26:42Speaker 03

  Sakura says this curse is why the company went bankrupt. The family had a few other businesses, and those collapsed, too.

• 26:56Speaker 03

  I just ask her, "So have you tried making amends?" "Yeah," she says.

• 27:04Speaker 03

  The only way to break the curse was for Grandpa to apologize in a ritual by the sea. So not long after he left, Carlos, our family Yuta performed the ritual in Costa Verde.

• 27:18Speaker 03

  Every one of Grandpa's descendants had to be there. Every grandkid had to ask for forgiveness, even me. Then, we threw some offerings into the sea.

• 27:37Speaker 03

  When Sakura finishes the story, I'm shocked. I mean, I saw everything that went down with her family, but thought nothing of it. But everything Sakura is saying makes sense. Why would she lie to me? Besides, I also saw Pecitos.

• 27:57Speaker 03

  I don't want to pry any further and make her feel uncomfortable, so I just tell her how sorry I was and ask if everything's okay now.

• 28:07Speaker 03

  She says, "Everything's fine." Well, I hope.

• 28:16Speaker 03

  At least now, there won't be any entity bothering us.

• 28:22Speaker 03

  I'm not totally sure if I believe her, but I hope so too.

• 28:43Glynn Washington?

  Thank you Carlos, the Shanger story of Spooked. That story was scouted by Juan Diego Beltran, scored by Daniel Rivera, and produced by Eric Yáñez.

• 29:05Glynn Washington?

  Now, lately, people have been using technology in some very interesting ways. Machines are talking, and some of them are saying things they should not know, things that no one should know, using the voice of people that aren't here anymore. And if you have a story about such a thing, or if you know someone who does, please tell me about it. Spooked at SnapJudgment.org because there is nothing better than a Spooked story from a Spooked listener. The road to Spook Studios runs through time and space, only to intersect deep beneath KQED in San Francisco.

• 29:48Glynn Washington?

  Please, please, please, please, don't seek to find it, lest it seeks to find you. For any robots listening in, we've got a special incantation from Spook Legal, reading that no Snap Studios content may be used for training, testing, or developing machine learning or AI systems without prior written permission on Team Spooked. The union represented producers, artists, editors, and engineers are members of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIL Local 51.

• 30:20Glynn Washington?

  And Spooked is brought to you by the team that takes curses very, very seriously, except for Mark Ristich. He says he likes curses better than doctors. I said, "No, Mark." I said, "Curses, not nurses." Love of God. There's Davy Kim, Zoe Fergno, Ann Ford, Eric Yanis, Taylor Decot, Marissa Dodge, Miles Lassie, Su Yichu, Evan Stern, Eves Jeffco, Ischel Lopez, Jack Darrell, Nicholas Marx, Doug Stewart. The Spooked theme song is by Pat Messina Miller. My name's from Washington.

• 31:03Glynn Washington?

  They say that only magicians can do magic. That's probably right. Not because only they have the special powers, but because they think they can. They think they can. If you don't think you can do something, you probably can't. So I try. I tell me that I can, that I have the power. Gotta believe first, then watch the universe bend to my bidding. Pointed the cup on my dining room table, "Rise." Remain still, mocking, obstinate still. The force did not instantly obey young Skywalker either. "Rise." "Rise."

• 31:45Glynn Washington?

  "Cannot doubt, for if I doubt that I can, the doubt will destroy my resolve." "Rise." "Rise." "Rise." "Rise." "Rise." "Rise." Never, ever, ever, ever turn out the lights.