Monthly Spooky | Halloween Around the World, Skinwalker Ranch, and YOGA DEATH STUDIO!

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It's almost the Halloween season. How
does the rest of the world get its

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spooky on? Can you cross the
Atlantic Ocean in a hamster ball? Why

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are they're disgusting footprints on the ceiling? What lies at Skinwalker Ranch? Get

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it's Monthly Spooky? Well, it
is indeed that time of the month.

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It is time for Monthly Spooky.
I am of course. You're host Enrique

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Kuto here with my good buddy and
co host Mitchell Say. Hi, Hi,

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there we go. You gotta be
lively Chell. It's almost spooky season.

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Yeah, it's the end of September. We're about to go into October.

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Yeah. Why why are you say? Why do you sound so downtrodden

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about it? I don't know.
Have you started decorating yet? No?

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No, and it's not October yet. Okay, I'm just asked. I'm

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just asking questions. You're so agro
today. Is it because you're writing a

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really mean story for the show for
Weekly Spooky? Yeah? Yeah, you're

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just becoming evil. M Okay,
I like that. That's see, that's

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as festive as it gets. You're
just going to become an evil person for

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Halloween. Okay, sure, yeah, there we go, There we go.

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Why what are you not feeling in
the spooky spirit at all? Or

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you're not looking forward to it,
because usually you at least deck out the

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house. Yeah, and I will
and stuff, and I'll just be sad

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doing it like normal. I mean, that doesn't sound like any change necessarily.

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Well, fair enough. I I'm
planning too, on the day this

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is airing, So on Monday,
when people are listening, I plan to

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be out in my yard putting up, starting the decorations, you know,

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getting out like the two stones and
the ghoul hands that are coming out of

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my flower bed, and and changing
the Christmas lights I have outside my house

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to a Halloween color scheme. You
know, all that good stuff. But

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you, well, Michelle, you
and all of my friends have been getting

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the chance to kind of suffer with
me through the fact that October we're publishing

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some twenty something shows on Weekly Spooky
and it's just going to be plenty,

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Yes, a whole lot going on. It'll be good, just a lot,

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okay, I mean fair enough,
fair enough and uh, And we

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were just talking before we went on
the air. You're going to be narrating

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a story you wrote for everybody here
at Weekly Spooky. Yeah, because I'm

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because I'm stupid. So now you're
saying narrating scary stories is stupid. Wow,

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I'm why are you stupid? Because
I'm like, oh, I could

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do this, and I'm gonna try
to do it and it's going to be

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terrible. Oh and so like everyone
who's listening to this thinks that they're going

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to hear this, but they're not
because I'm gonna I'm gonna send it to

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you and then you're gonna be like, Michelle, this like this is so

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bad? What is wrong with you? I'm so like, then then we're

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not friends anymore. So this is
the last Monthly Spooky and then the whole

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and then I'm like, I'm canceling
the entire podcast just out of hurt.

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Like all of it's gone now,
even the stuff you didn't do exactly,

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and so I'm responsible for everything falling
apart. I do respect the level of

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importance you give yourself. That's I
think that's a that's an interesting quality to

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throw out there, that you're like, I'm so important I would cause the

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end of all things. But it's
that's hard for me. I don't know

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what to say say to that.
Well, I mean, no, It's

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okay, you're allowed to have a
high sense of self importance. What does

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that bother you? Come on?
I mean that's normal. Oh okay,

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fine, no sense of self importance
here. Sorry, everybody move along.

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So what do you think of the
crypt as? You know, it's been

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over a year in the making and
I'm still not quite done. But I

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I'm not gonna lie. I might
have been really tired and on anxiety medicine

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when I did this most recent decor
change. Is I mean, is that

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why? Or do you want to
say what it is? No? I

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mean, I mean what do you
think about it? Though? I mean,

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I like all the pillows, thank
you? What? What? But

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what? But what? I don't
really think they're like scary, but I

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understand why you needed them. That's
because they're all shaped like Easter eggs.

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I don't know why I decorated the
room for Easter, Okay I didn't.

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Yeah, it's okay, what about
the job? Well, I guess,

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I just I guess just a giant
rabbit is scary enough to you? So

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you're like, that's Halloween because yeah, I mean, they're not supposed to

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be that big. So well,
I tried, I really, really tried,

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I know, and it looks good. Thanks. Yeah, yeah,

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Well what's been going on in your
world, chew, because I'm my world.

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We've got some things to celebrate.
Chicano is officially in remission from cancer,

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which is an incredible thing to to
finally be able to say after a

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year and two weeks of battling.
Wow, three surgeries, one course of

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chemotherapeutic chemotherapeutic drugs, countless months of
steroid treatments and examinations and scans and frigging

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liber aspiration liver aspirations and kidney tests
and all of this, and now he's

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done. He can go back to
just living his life as an older dog

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who's tired of all the bullshit.
Yeah, I'm really happy, me too,

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I am. And a huge thank
you to all the spookies out there

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who have sent in kind words and
also who've given to the go fund me.

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I really do appreciate it. My
entire life has kind of been thrown

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for a loop by the unexpected,
you know, fourteen thousand dollars in veterinary

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bills. But is it a sign
of good luck that the veterinary bills ended

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up costing almost exactly as much as
my new furnace, which happened in the

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same year I also needed a new
furnace. Yeah, yay, So yeah,

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we're dealing with that. But but
really I'm just amped because you know,

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Weekly Spooky's got so much going on
in October. I'm going to be

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going to Cinema Wasteland right at the
beginning of October, hanging out with friends

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up in Cleveland. If you're hearing
this and you're anywhere near the Cleveland areas,

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should look up Cinema Wasteland. It's
the last weekend of September slash first

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weekend of October. Love to see
any happy, smiling faces and Spooky's there.

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And I also want to mention real
quick because we've been hanging out there

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a lot. Weekly Spooky has a
Facebook page, a Facebook group that you

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can hang out and talk to other
spookies in. It's called Weekly Spooky's Tomb

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of Terror. It's free to join, I mean, why wouldn't it be,

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and you can hang out. It's
mostly where we share hilarious spooky memes

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and comment on them, and it's
very common to run into Weekly Spooky contributors

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such as me and You and Rob
Fields and Rachel Woodolphie and Dan Wilder,

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David O'Hanlon, Lots of people who
make weekly spooky happen hang out in the

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Tomb of Terror. So please,
if you hang out and use Facebook at

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all, this is the place to
hang out with all of us. Why

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not build the community up? So
yeah, yeah, So but what about

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you? What's going on in your
life? Chell? Tell us something spooky?

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Oh I should have? Oh?
Thanks, I have poison ivy all

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over my body. Is that spooky? That's spooky. I find that spooky.

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Okay, good, that's it.
Oh, that's all. That's That's

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pretty much my entire life, just
you know, being itchy. Well I

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learned. I'm itchy as well because
I learned that you're not supposed to sleep

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and apple watches. Why because they
can get a little uncomfortable and potentially burn

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you a little. Oh I did
know that. Yeah, so my wrist

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is a little swollen because I burned
myself. That's that's that's I don't think

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that's good. I think also,
this awesome spooky band I bought for it,

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I think it's too small. I
think it's also too tight because I'm

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wearing it on like the widest setting
and it's still like pushing too hard.

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So I'm just gonna take a couple
of days off from wearing my Apple Watch.

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Okay, yeah, yeah, life
is hard. Talk about first world

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problems. My Apple watch hurt my
wrist. Life is so hard. Well,

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before we get to the spooky news, I wanted to let you know,

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Michelle, our topic this week or
this month rather, in case you

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were curious, We're going to run
through since this is the pregame for Halloween,

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We're going to run through ten Halloween
traditions from around the world. Okay,

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I thought that would be fun because
every country has a very different Halloween.

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Considering Halloween as we know it is
really just an American thing. I

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mean, it's it has its roots
in the United Kingdom and in Ireland and

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all those places. But the Halloween
that we do is very much an American

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concept. Yeah, I know.
From what I was looking at, apparently

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Japan's version of Halloween came from like
Disneyland. There's something weird like that,

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Like that's how how strange it gets. So that's what we're diving into.

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But of course, before all of
that, we've got to get into our

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spooky news, and we will right
after these quick words from our sponsors,

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all right, we are back,
and Chell, do you want to do

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the honors? I don't know what
I'm supposed to do. Time for the

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spooky news. It's it's time for
the spooky news. It's not a question,

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it's a station. Okay, fine, I'll trigger it. It's time

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for the spooky news, the spooky
news. So this one, our first

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spooky news story of the show comes
from HuffPost dot com and the headline I

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had to look into it. I
had to police rush to report to report

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of a ritual mass killing. But
it was just a yoga class. Police

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in Lincolnshire, England told multiple outlets
that a concerned onlooker incorrectly reported the crime

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with quote good intentions. What oh
gosh, they're trying to be funny here.

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It seems a concerned onlooker in Lincolnshire, England took a corpse pose a

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little too literally. Have you ever
done yoga? Choll No? Never,

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No, Like you've never done a
yoga pose on purpose? I don't think

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so. I don't know. I'm
not like a huge yoga person at all

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by any stretch, but I have
done yoga and found it very beneficial and

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in fact, there's a certain stretch
where you keep the balls or your feet

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down and reach for the ceiling as
high as you can, but never let

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your feet rise that I use like
every day to get my back right.

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Like it just feels really nice.
And I do about three yoga poses every

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single day that take about thirty seconds
each and I just feel like they make

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my body feel better in every way. Okay, well that's good. Yeah.

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And I've taught them to a few
other people because they'll be like,

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yeah, my backs like this.
I'm like, oh, we'll do these

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stretches because they're so easy, Like
you don't even have to get on the

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floor. These are just like standing
stretches. And I did hot yoga once.

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Do you believe that? Oh?
You do? I was hoping you

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had wiped that from your memory.
Why would you remember when I did hot

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yoga. I don't know, because
it was weird. Yeah, the entire

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concept of hot yoga is completely asinine. Yeah. I don't mean that against

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anybody who does hot yoga. I
did enjoy my experience. I had to.

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I did. I did all the
poses except for the last four minutes.

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Because they tell you during hot yoga. If you feel like you're going

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to vomit, stop, just stop, don't push, because this a sense

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of exhaustion, the feeling of exhaustion, the feeling of dizziness, the feeling

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of like I'm gonna faint. Usually
those aren't real, like and that's what

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they told me. They were like, Usually those are not You can push

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past those a bit, but it's
it's the feeling of vomiting. That's when

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you're actually overheated and you're not it's
not safe to try. It sounds like

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they just don't want you to vomit
on their floor. I mean, do

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you want people to vomit on your
floor? No, not at all.

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And that's why I know that.
Well, Verry, Yeah, but I

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made it until the last five minutes
of poses, and then I just rested

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because I was like, I finally
felt like I was gonna puke, So

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I was like, all right,
I'm gonna check out for a little while.

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Okay, Yeah, I mean things, I'm sorry, Lisa, Oh,

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I don't know. I just don't
think we need to be hot when

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we do things. Well, I
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the these things. If you want
to go on a date, with a

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white lady. It's just that's the
life that we have, that's the country

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we live in. I understand you
have to make sacrifice. But also the

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concept of hot yoga being to simulate
like the yoga they do in India is

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like completely wrong. Like in India, they don't do yoga and hot spaces.

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They actually will wait until the sun
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cooler and more comfortable. Well,
I mean that would only be you know,

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logical, that would be like every
other human being does stuff like that.

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It's like I don't go like,
wow, it's one hundred degrees,

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let me go mow my lawn.
No, I wait until it cools off.

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Yeah, so no, I mean
that's exactly right. So anyway,

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that's my experience with yoga. But
I do like a couple of poses and

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I still use them to this day. According to a Facebook page facebook post

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by Seascape Cafe at the Observatory at
cafe that is also a community space,

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art gallery and exercise studio, Okay, that's amazing because it'll be like I

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just imagine like you're walking down the
aisles and you're like, oh, I

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really love this painting. Why does
it smell like feat not the painting,

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just everything. I mean, you
know to what I was hoping the painting

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smelled likely would that would that be
the thing that would make you want to

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buy it? Yeah? Yeah,
you'd be like, come home with me,

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little friedo smelling painting. You deserve
a good home, yeah, because

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no one else is gonna want it. The Loneliest Stinky Painting at Children's book

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by Mitchell Anti. Social police rushed
to the business shortly after a yoga class

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wrapped Wednesday around nine pm because a
concerned passer by mistook the final resting position

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the entire class was participating in for
a quote mass killing. So sometimes people

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are just on the ground though,
like yeah, not moving, maybe a

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small puddle forming underneath them. But
that's just yoga man. Yeah yeah.

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The final the final resting pose,
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typically occurs at the end of a
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backs with their eyes closed in order
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they didn't even have their eyes open
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laying in a way that is described
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just I mean, you know,
we're laughing a lot because this is very

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funny. But imagine that poor passerby
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in there and be like that there
were just like body strewn all over through

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these windows in this public space.
Like like, okay, I appreciate that

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he was. They were worried,
but like maybe if you can look in

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and see them like knock on the
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you guys alive in there? Oh, then you're the prick. Then you're

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the prick who knocked on the window
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Oh yeah, so it's it's better
to call the cops and they can well

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you know, I mean the bobbies, you know, the cops that with

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the clubs that chase Benny Hill when
he's in address. That's who. That's

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who would come in at that point, I would assume, Yeah, I

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mean that's not any better. No, No, I just imagine the thought

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process. Oh my god, all
these people are laying there motionless, and

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they're all dressed in the stame spandex
outfits. It must be a cult,

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not an exercise class, but it
must be a cult. Well, the

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unidentified person quote reported a quote mass
killing in our building, having seen several

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people laying on the floor the Seascape
Cafe Facebook post read quote, which actually

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turned out to be the yoga class
in meditation. What if what if he

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did knock on the glass and none
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you know, really meditating hard.
Yeah, that would be scary.

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I would think if there's like a
there's like a teacher person class, Yeah,

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there should be an instructor not laying
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maybe they were, well yeah,
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laying there, if I assume if
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and someone was knocking on the window, I get up and see what was

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going on, Yeah, I would
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do the laying down the corpse pose. But maybe I'm wrong. Correct me

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if I'm wrong. You guys,
I know you're out there commenting via Spotify

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and sending us emails at weekly Spooky
at gmail dot com. Correct me if

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I'm wrong, Because this show,
in particular Michelle just brings out the worst

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of me. I become a judgmental
jerk on the show, and it's all

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because of Michelle. Sorry, thank
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Okay, quote, we are not
part of any mad cult or crazy clubs,

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the post continues. All in all, in this situation turned out positive

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and we are of course grateful.
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want to hear it. Maybe this
baby this is a cover up, and

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there was some sort of ritual sacrifice
and he saw any called the cops and

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they realized before the cops got there, so they had all their yoga people

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come out really quick and lay on
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Wake up sheep, all, yeah, this is what's happening. Thank you,

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brave citizen for trying to schools expose
this cult. Do I just imagine

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the cop walking into the yoga class, wello Elis will Lea. Then a

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bunch of corps there, No,
we're alive. Oh well, that's less

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of a troubling thought. Lincolnshire Police
confirmed to Sky News and the BBC that

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officers received a call about the incident
at eight fifty six pm from a caller

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quote with good intentions, Millie Laws
who taught. Oh here we go the

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yoga teachers talking Millie Laws who taught
the yoga class, went into more detail

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about the incident with the Washington Post
on Friday. Mills told the Post that

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seven students were lying on their backs
for about thirty minutes as she banged on

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a shamanic drum in a dark room
lit by just candles during Wednesday's hour and

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a half restorative yoga class. Oh
come on, what which which part?

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No? Like now I think even
I think even less of this person now

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because this was this was obviously something
was happening in this room, like a

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class. Yeah, like a mass
murder. Yeah, like come on,

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you've got you've got shamanic drumming,
you've got candles lit everywhere, and then

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just body strewn about. Yeah,
maybe they're maybe they're dead. He didn't

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even check to see if they were
breathing. Well, he couldn't go in.

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I'm assuming that this person saw it
through the glass, you know,

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a window. That would be the
word. How can like some kind of

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a window space you can't you can
see if people are breathing? Yeah,

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but then see then this person will
be like, oh, you're such a

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creep. You were like you had
your nose pressed against the glass during the

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yoga class. It's like, you're
damned if you do, damned if you

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don't. You know, fine,
you're either creeping on the yoga class or

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you're calling in a death cult that
isn't real. You know. That's that's

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one of the oldest. That's one
of the oldest, like should I shouldn't

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I decisions? Ever? Is like
am I am I going to be,

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you know, mistaking this for a
death cult? Or am I just going

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to be a creepy guy who stares
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Mills said she noticed a couple outside
the studio walking a dog and peering

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through the window at what must have
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Quote. They reported to the police
that they'd seen somebody walking around in a

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room lit up with candles and what
looked like dead people lying all over the

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floor. I okay, I gotta
admit that would that does look more like

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a ritualistic killing though if it's just
like one person walking around lit by candles,

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banging a drum, and everybody else
is just like strewn on the floor,

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unmoving, Uh, that that just
sounds weirder than if it like I

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guess. My point is that if
it was everybody, including the instructor,

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just laying there motionless under normal light, I would assume a gas leak would

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be the scariest thing you could guess. Yeah, but if somebody's standing there,

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then you start to think, like, oh, I guess they murdered

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everybody. I mean, I'm gonna
I'm just gonna I disagree. So I

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think, yeah, I mean,
I agree with you. If it was

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everybody on the floor and it's normally
lit, maybe gas leak, But that

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would be like I could see if
you're like really looking and it's been like

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a half hour and you're like,
no one has moved in a half hour.

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I could see someone being like,
I'm a little bit scared, but

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we know there's not a gas ly
because there's a person. And I'm sorry,

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I just don't believe in a space
that is for yoga and some other

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things that there's some sort of ritual
sacrifice going on. Sorry, well,

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the space is for lots of things. Maybe they didn't think it was for

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exercise anymore. Maybe they thought it
was just like an art space or something.

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Then maybe it's a performance would I
would be more. I have to

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say I would call the police on
a performance artist before I would call the

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police on a ritual mass killing.
Okay, just because those people I don't

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like them. Yeah, I know. Let's see. They reported to the

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least that they'd seen somebody walking around
a lit with Kennel's. Laws told the

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post quote the couple thought it was
some sort of ritual mass killing. Yep.

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Mills added to the post that the
class had already ended by the time

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a horde of police officers had shown
up, and that the yogi's experienced a

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lovely relaxation session with no interruptions.
Thankfully. The cafe also thanked the police

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on Facebook for their quote prompt response. I guess you know that's the that's

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a way to make you know,
lemonade out of lemons, is that they're

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like, well, at least if
you know, if the police think that

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we're all dead at this yoga studio, they'll be here right away to try

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to help us. So I guess
there's that. I mean, they were

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You're all dead though, so it
doesn't really matter. But sure, rooms

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full of quips is idn't it?
Idn't it? Oh gosh? We have

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people who listen in England and it
seems like all I do on Monthly Spooky

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is try to drive them away.
If not my fault, there's so there's

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so much weird news that comes from
England and then it makes it puts you

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guys in my crossfire and the crosshair. I want to, like, you

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know, get you. I can't
help it. Okay, it's not on

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purpose. I don't mean it.
Okay, maybe I mean it. Never

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mind. Anyway, news story,
this one, of course, comes from

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Mirror dot co dot uk, the
number one source for paranormal news. As

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I've learned after over a year of
looking for it, it's always at Mirror

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dot co dot uk. Eerie footage
shows ghost bike riding itself in town known

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for paranormal activity. Oh okay,
I thought this was an interesting one because

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I just bought a bicycle. Yeah
he did, and now I'm reading about

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a ghostbike coincidence, I think not? Of course, this ghostbike would have

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been much easier to buy than the
bike I tried to buy at Dick Sporting

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Goods that they took you know,
nine days to get to tell me that

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they couldn't sell me that bike.
After I'd already bought it. That was

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such a nightmare. Yeah, And
I don't think you even have to buy

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a ghost bike. I don't think
they don't think you have to pay for

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it. So it's like getting a
cat. You don't buy a cat.

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Cats just tappened to you. Yeah, exactly. So let's see. This

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eerie CCTV footage shared from an ancient
city center street is causing people to lose

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their minds, with speculation that the
clip could show a haunted bicycle in action.

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I like that the way that sentence
is because it makes me think that,

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like, people are already debating whether
or not haunted bicycles exist, and

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now it's just like, maybe there's
proof positive of haunted bicycles. Yeah,

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I mean, why not? Right? Oh? I just love how the

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ads make it impossible to scroll through
the pagetage. The footage was taken on

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the Shambles, which is a historic
street in York and features preserved medieval buildings

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someday eating back as far as the
fourteenth century, when a busload of bicycles

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were murdered by the Catholic Church.
No, that's not in there. The

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street is narrow with many timber framed
buildings with jetted doors that overhang the street

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by several feet. York is one
of the oldest cities in England, dating

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back to seventy one a d.
And the Roman Empire, and has a

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rich tradition of paranormal activity. Wow, that's a long time ago, man,

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And we get excited when houses are
one hundred and eighty years old.

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In America, we're like, whoa, that place is old. So and

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here's here's a little look at the
photos from the CCTV. It's just a

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bike, bicycle, and then it's
fallen over, as it would do if

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it was just there. Yeah,
and they didn't. It doesn't look like

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they have the video in here.
It looks like it's just these photos this

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image of like a bike and then
the bike on it. Okay, so

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it looks like it had rolled forward
and it fell over. There are so

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many ads. I know, I'm
trying my best, Like how do you

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even read the stories? I don't
know. I think they're counting on you

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not to read the stories. They're
like, oh, good, you'll,

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you'll, you'll just click and then
leave, thank you. But in all

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the long and spooky history of the
city, this appears to be the first

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case of a haunted bicycle. Locals
were left scratching their heads after CCTV footage

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was put up on the New York
Shambles Market facebook page, which shows the

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shambles seemingly at night when no one
is around. When initially looking like a

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normal scene, soon a bike emerges
from a side street with no rider.

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It slowly meanders into frame with its
pedals unmoving. That is what happens when

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you just roll a bike, throw
it, the pedals don't move. Yeah.

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Yeah. It then hits a curb. They spell curb karb. Wow,

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maybe that's not curb. Maybe it's
a different word. Now I have

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to know, because that's gonna that's
gonna haunt me in my dreams. Curb.

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Why did we change it? Then? Ah, let's see what is

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the difference between curb or curb.
In American and Canadian English, the noun

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meaning the edge of a sidewalker roadway
its spelled curb. In varieties of English

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from outside North America, it's spelled
karb. That's so weird. That is

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why change that. I didn't feel
like the exact same term. In fact,

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when you look up curb, curb, the way it describes how to

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say it is karb. That's so
weird. Yeah, English is weird and

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dumb and painful. Yeah. While
initially looking like a normal scene, as

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soon a by emerges the pedals,
I'm moving. It then hits a curb

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and comes to a complete stop,
still stood up perfectly. However, it

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soon begins to slowly tip over before
slamming into the ground. No one at

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all in sight. Hmm. Yeah, I'm trying to find the actual video

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instead of just like screen gabs grabs. I don't know why they don't just

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have the video embedded. It's not
like, oh yeah, they don't have

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it. They don't have it at
all. I clicked on the Facebook thing

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and it's just news stories about Facebook
from Mirror dot co dot uk. Thanks

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guys. I don't believe them.
Then, if they're just a picture of

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a bike standing up and then one
laying down, I'm sorry. I think

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this is fake random Down here comes
the Michells hardened skepticism. It's called the

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shambles, Michelle, Okay, the
shambles, the shambles, and apparently you're

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about to tear them into shambles,
and we'll do more. We'll talk more

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about the spooky news story after a
real quick break from our sponsors, or

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break with our sponsors. You know
what, I don't need your judgment,

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Michelle. We'll be right back and
we are back with more spooky news.

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So back to the story about the
potentially haunted bicycle that seems like it's just

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a bicycle. While initially looking like
a normal scene, soon a bike emerges.

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Await I read that party no one
at all is insight? Wow?

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That okay, So that was the
most interesting part of the article. Then

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York Shamble's Market wrote, quote,
yesterday, something very strange was spotted on

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CCTV and this clip gives us chills. Theories welcome. Has anyone else noticed

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peculiar paranormal activity around town that seems
like a comment bait? M Am.

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00:31:55.000 --> 00:32:00.559
I wrong, I don't think so. I mean, it's to me like

404
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:05.000
they're just trying. They're trying to
get interaction on the Facebook page, you

405
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:09.400
know, which would like boost everything
for them. Yeah, just my opinion.

406
00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:13.039
Now it could also be being played
for fun, because Mirror dot Code

407
00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:16.039
dot uk reports all activities of the
paranormal as if they're legitimate, no matter

408
00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:20.839
how clearly they're a joke. Yeah, like that's kind of their bread and

409
00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:25.279
butter. Mark Graham, who leads
the original Ghost Walk of York, told

410
00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:30.519
Mail Online quote, there's quite a
few stories around the Shambles area. Doors

411
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:37.640
that open and close into a different
time, houses that disappear. I'll never

412
00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:45.960
forget that Bicycle York is a whole
pastiche of strange goings on a tapestry of

413
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:50.799
unusual events. Did he say that
or did he write that? Sounds like

414
00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:53.319
he wrote that. If he said
that, I'm impressed. Yeah. I

415
00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:55.759
mean it's their language first. I
guess they got to know how to use

416
00:32:55.799 --> 00:33:01.480
it. Yeah, he said.
One of the stories in the area is

417
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:08.400
of a boy that appears and disappears
while appearing shocked to see those he appears

418
00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:14.400
too excellent. That's right back to
what I to English language being just perfection

419
00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:19.640
right there. And he haunts in
the same sort of there's an ad in

420
00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:22.240
front of me now, and he
haunts in the same sort of way five

421
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:25.759
or six places in the city as
if he stepped into our world or we've

422
00:33:25.799 --> 00:33:31.160
pushed into his. Mister Graham added, he's called the lost Boy. He's

423
00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:38.039
a mystery. Whether he rides a
bicycle I do not know, Okay,

424
00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:42.279
and that's the that I believe.
Yeah, that's the whole article. Well,

425
00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:47.200
so so haunted bike. See,
the thing that would have made this

426
00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:52.720
like chilling to be would have been
if the pedals were moving, because you

427
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:53.519
know, I mean, did you
you rode a bike when you were a

428
00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:57.720
kid, right, yeah, yeah, everybody has a bicycle when you're a

429
00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:00.000
kid for the most part. So, and you wrote it what around your

430
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:06.160
like little fancy neighborhood, New Jersey. I mean I don't think it was

431
00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:12.119
a fancy neighborhood, but yeah,
but no, you rode a bike around

432
00:34:12.119 --> 00:34:15.079
the neighborhod So you remember, like, din you ever used to like ditch

433
00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:16.840
off your bike and let it like
roll into the grass and fall over.

434
00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.880
No, no, I used to
tit into the grass and fall over.

435
00:34:24.119 --> 00:34:27.719
Okay, I mean that that checks
out. That sounds like you to me.

436
00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:30.199
I'm just saying, like, and
I remember times I would like ditch

437
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:32.960
the bike and then the bike would
roll like a little further and then fall

438
00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:37.639
over. And the pedals were never
moving, you know, because you're not

439
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.119
rolling them. Yeah, I mean, it depends on the type of bike.

440
00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:45.400
But from the photos this looks like
kind of like a mountain bike,

441
00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:51.719
m maybe even a I hate that
they call it a women's bike because there's

442
00:34:51.760 --> 00:34:53.760
nothing about it. It's just the
bars placed differently, but it has no

443
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:57.920
effect on whether you're a man or
a woman. Really, but it looks

444
00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:00.719
like a women's mountain bike. For
the record, the bike I bought is

445
00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:06.360
a woman's mountain bike. So because
they had better colors, they had colors

446
00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:08.199
I liked more, so I bought
the woman's one. I remember. I

447
00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:13.360
asked the guy. I was like, so, will my genitals affect my

448
00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:15.960
ability to ride this? And he
was like what? And I was like,

449
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:19.000
you said, it's a woman's bike
and he was like, oh no,

450
00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:22.920
I don't know why they call him
that. So but there you have

451
00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:30.639
it. Probably not a ghost bike, but definitely a bike. So let's

452
00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:36.000
go to something that's less less Well, it's just as bizarre, but a

453
00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:40.000
little less scary, but also kind
of terrifying. This story is from your

454
00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:46.840
good friends at NPR National Public Radio. Coast guard arrests a man trying to

455
00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:55.599
run a giant hamster wheel across the
Atlantic Ocean. Yay, I that sounds

456
00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:59.400
terrifying to me because I don't even
want to be in the Atlantic Ocean.

457
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:04.800
You know, let alone try to
run a hamster wheel. Here's the ship

458
00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:07.760
he made. It's like got it's
got balloons and floaties on either side,

459
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:13.239
and then in the middle, it's
just like a cage, kind of like

460
00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:16.840
a cylindrical cage. Is he not
allowed to do that? I don't know

461
00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:21.719
why. I guess maybe it's because
of the obvious risk to human safety.

462
00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:23.480
Maybe that's why they don't allow it. I don't know. I mean,

463
00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:29.400
if he wants to try, though, it's kind of like remember that guy

464
00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:32.559
who walked the tight rope between like
was it between the World Trade Centers?

465
00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:37.280
I think so. Yeah, he
walked the tight rope and that was completely

466
00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:39.519
illegal. Nobody allowed him to do
that. He just did it. Yeah.

467
00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:45.800
And like the guy who climbed the
I don't remember her state building,

468
00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:50.679
Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah. So let's let's find out

469
00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:55.199
more about this. Try as he
might. Reza Balucci can't reach his destination

470
00:36:55.280 --> 00:37:00.000
without running a foul of the US
Coast Guard. The key problem is his

471
00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:06.280
vessel, a giant floating hamster wheel
made of booys and wire, self propelled

472
00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:12.800
by Ballucci running inside. Oh I
really is a freaking hamster wheel. I

473
00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:17.559
like it. Well, I how
far? How wide? The Atlantic Ocean's

474
00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:22.800
gotta be hundreds of miles wide?
Oh, I mean I guess yeah.

475
00:37:23.079 --> 00:37:27.519
Like now I'm pulling it up because
like that's the thing. How would you

476
00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:32.960
couldn't run that distance? So you
can do whatever you want? Okay,

477
00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.679
So if you had to guess at
its far, at its widest, or

478
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:42.440
at its least wide, Okay,
okay, at its absolute least wide,

479
00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:47.079
which would be from uh northern Africa, or it would be between Brazil and

480
00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:52.039
Liberia, that would be like the
smallest distance of the Atlantic Ocean. What

481
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:57.159
distance do you think that is?
In miles? Just a wild guess?

482
00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:02.840
Thousand miles? Are you just?
Why are you being mean? I don't

483
00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:07.000
know. Seven thousand I don't know, I don't I don't think that there

484
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:12.719
that's a distance on Earth. Okay, how about seven thousand miles? I

485
00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:16.480
mean that's more reasonable. It's it's
seventeen hundred Oh okay, that's not that

486
00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:22.239
bad. At its furthest it's three
thousand miles, So that's still I mean,

487
00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:25.599
that's like as far as we are
from California. Yeah, he could

488
00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:32.760
do it. I think he would
very likely die well, but maybe he

489
00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:37.960
has people like on a boat following
him or something. That's but I doubt

490
00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:43.119
it. If the Coast Guard caught
him, I hope. I know that's

491
00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:47.119
silly, but I hope this is
like a just crazy immigrant guy who's like,

492
00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:50.719
what I must do this, it's
what I want to do, America,

493
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:53.679
Land of free, Homa, Brave, allow me these That's what I

494
00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:59.440
hope it is going to happen.
But I don't know for sure. Yeah,

495
00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:02.880
so Bellucci, who who lives in
Florida, Why is that such a

496
00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:10.199
shock? Who lives in Florida after
being after being granted asylum from Iran,

497
00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:16.440
was taken in by the Coastguard last
week aboard his vessel, following several days

498
00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:22.199
of back and forth with the authorities. They're like, please, we ask

499
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:27.239
you do not travel the Atlantic Ocean
in this hamster wheel. Shut the fu.

500
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:30.039
That's how I just imagine he responds. But no, Realiz's like,

501
00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:32.159
no, no, he's fine,
he's fine. Yeah, this is not

502
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:35.599
a safe way to travel. No, no, no, you do not

503
00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:37.920
understand. My friend, my friend, my friend. No no, no,

504
00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:39.519
I'm basing him. I know it's
terrible, but I'm basing him on

505
00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:44.280
every Middle Eastern food vendor I met
when I worked in New York City.

506
00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:46.239
Okay, that's that's so. I
don't think that that's mean. I love

507
00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:49.440
those people were actually really charming.
But they were like no, no,

508
00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:52.159
Boddy, no no no. If
you like this, it's good. It's

509
00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:58.159
seven dollars, you're like, uh. According to a criminal complaint, oh

510
00:39:58.199 --> 00:40:01.519
got a criminal complaint wild in US
District Court in South Florida. The court,

511
00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:07.960
the Coastguard cuttered Cutter Valiant came across
Bellucci and his homemade vessel about seventy

512
00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:13.800
modical nautical miles east of Tybee Island, Georgia. See, he knows what

513
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:19.199
he's doing, except that he went
really far north that he can go wherever

514
00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:22.960
he wants. That's true. On
August twenty six, as the Coastguard was

515
00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:30.639
preparing for hurric Oh, this was
during a hurricane Michelle's a problem. As

516
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:35.519
the Coastguard was preparing for Hurricane Franklin. Okay, now I'm starting to see

517
00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:42.599
why they're like, let's sir,
sir, there's a hurricane. Don't not

518
00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:45.960
care about Horicane. No, you
will die, sir, Like we we

519
00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:52.840
really just want to help you.
Fuck you just I'll tell you what do

520
00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:53.559
you want. You want to you
want to be the coastguard, and I'll

521
00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:55.519
be the guy you want to.
You want to do that, Okay,

522
00:40:55.639 --> 00:40:59.679
okay, So you're radioing me,
I'm just on my hamster wheel across the

523
00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:05.000
ocean. Sir. You can't be
out here in that device. There's a

524
00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:07.440
hurricane coming. You need to turn
around. We'll take you back to the

525
00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:10.960
Florida or wherever. Oh no,
it's fine, it's fine, Okay,

526
00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:15.239
everything good. No, No,
you don't understand. There's a category four

527
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:21.519
hurricane. It's like one hundred miles
away. It'll be here by tonight.

528
00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:24.639
You're gonna die. We need to
take you back, yes, but hey,

529
00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:28.960
not to get the gory fife right. One out of two and not

530
00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:30.840
a bad thing. I do great, I'm doing great. Going to get

531
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:37.239
to England. You're not even heading
towards England. You're heading towards South Carolina

532
00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:42.760
currently. We need to take you
back. So if you could just stop

533
00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:49.639
moving your hands all around so we
can attach our vessel to your thing and

534
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:52.840
we'll just drag you back into one
of the places in Georgia. I can

535
00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:55.519
no. No, South Carolina.
Fine, they stop and get the boiled

536
00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:58.960
peanut. But no, no,
go to England, thank you very much.

537
00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:02.360
Yes, no, no, you
don't understand like we're gonna take you

538
00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:08.519
back anyway, because you're just in
like a little hamster wheel. Oh cannot

539
00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:14.079
hear you. I'm crinkling. I'm
crinkling potato chip bag against microphone. I

540
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:19.599
mean it is starting. Goodbye,
okay, bye, have a good life.

541
00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:24.400
Let's laughed on it. Oh my
gosh, this is just amazing.

542
00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:30.440
Oh my god, this is even
better. Okay, so he told the

543
00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:35.039
officers his destination was London, England. Okay, to go in the right

544
00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:38.440
direction. So that's fourth. That's
more than four thousand miles across the Atlantic

545
00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:43.440
Ocean. All right, he's doing
it. That's a very long distance.

546
00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:47.280
Like I want to know, like
did he have like food for three months?

547
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:50.960
You know, like how because it
would take a very long time.

548
00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:59.280
Yeah. Balucci was asked for the
vehicle's registration. He said it was registered

549
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:04.159
in Florida, but that he couldn't
find the registration. According to the complaint,

550
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:10.559
the Coastguard assessed Bellucci's vessel, known
as a hydropod, and determined he

551
00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:17.199
was quote conducting a manifestly unsafe voyage. That's that's some like straight up maritime

552
00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:23.039
law statement. Yeah, have you
ever looked into like much into like maritime

553
00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:27.800
law and like not just maritime law, but like the history of air,

554
00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:30.440
of sea travel, of seafaring.
It's it's hilarious. Yeah, I don't

555
00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:34.639
know, it's hilarious. And how
scary it was, Like it was not

556
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:42.199
uncommon, it was not at all
uncommon for U boats, like for them

557
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:45.320
to put a ship together really fast
because they had to get it somewhere and

558
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:49.920
it to sink before it was out
of sight. Wow, because because voting

559
00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:53.719
was just so all over the place
back then, I mean, voting is

560
00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:58.760
still really scary. I would agree, Yeah, I would a thousand,

561
00:43:58.960 --> 00:44:06.639
one thousand percent agree. So,
according to Coast Guard special Agent Michael Perez

562
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:09.880
in the complaint, which does not
identify bellucci starting point, the officers then

563
00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:14.719
approached Bellucci in a small boat and
instructed him to join them. They were

564
00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:21.840
ending his voyage due to it being
unsafe. Bellucci replied that he had what

565
00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:25.400
what what? Bellucci replied that he
had a twelve inch knife and would attempt

566
00:44:25.480 --> 00:44:31.159
to kill himself if the officers attempted
to remove him from his vessel. According

567
00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:37.079
to the complaint, oh no,
the officers returned to the cutter and stayed

568
00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:43.960
nearby. Wow. So okay,
so I was right score that on your

569
00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:49.639
bingo card. Completely out of his
mind immigrant guy. Yeah, jeez,

570
00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:59.559
man, I was at a loss
the moment I started reading that. Holy

571
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:02.719
rap. When the officers tried again
over the next day or so to get

572
00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:07.639
Bellucci to join them on the small
boat, Bellucci displayed two knives. Man,

573
00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:10.519
he's like. He was like,
I did not tell you my friend

574
00:45:10.559 --> 00:45:16.000
about this other night, and threatened
to hurt himself if officers boarded his vessel.

575
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:22.000
Bluci also quote threatened to blow himself
up along with his vessel. Okay,

576
00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:25.199
so now we're getting into terrorism.
He doesn't half a fun No,

577
00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:30.719
there's no chance the oh no.
The officers saw him holding wires in his

578
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:37.679
hand and believed him. The complaint
says, Okay, how big is this

579
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:39.159
boat that he just has all this
stuff on it? Because I thought it

580
00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:43.639
was like a little like thing,
and now I'm like, is it giant?

581
00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:49.039
It appeared little to me. Yeah, but yeah, I don't know.

582
00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:54.679
Let's see. The following day,
a second Coastguard cutter named Campbell arrived

583
00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:59.840
and sent a small boat to Bellucci
to deliver food, water, and word

584
00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:04.960
the hurricane was expected. Man,
it's they're even trying to work with him,

585
00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:06.920
you know, they're they're even like, look, we're gonna bring you

586
00:46:07.039 --> 00:46:12.760
food and water because this guy is
just gonna die. Like that's what's gonna

587
00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:16.360
happen to this guy. Yeah,
well it sounds like he had he's in

588
00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:22.719
no way prepared. Yeah. Also, like he wants to go to London.

589
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:24.639
Has he even had the food there? He's gonna be so if he

590
00:46:24.719 --> 00:46:27.760
makes it there, he's gonna get
there and be like, oh, they

591
00:46:27.800 --> 00:46:34.440
put the beans on toast. I
leave. Blucci refused again to leave his

592
00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:39.639
vessel and told the officers that the
bomb wasn't real. Well obviously, Yeah,

593
00:46:39.679 --> 00:46:43.400
I think that was probably smart telling
when that meant that they would be

594
00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:46.960
less likely to react in violence,
you know, like blowing it up themselves

595
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:52.320
to protect themselves. Yeah. On
August twenty nine, the Campbell once more

596
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:55.800
sent a small boat, and this
time was able to safely remove Blucci from

597
00:46:55.840 --> 00:47:00.199
his floating hamster wheel. But Lucci
was brought ashore in Miami Beach last Friday,

598
00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:05.760
where he was released on two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars bond. Who

599
00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:09.239
put up the bond? I don't
know. I mean, I just I

600
00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:12.719
guess. I don't imagine you're flushed
with cash if you're like, I want

601
00:47:12.760 --> 00:47:16.400
to go to London and then you're
like, so I'm gonna build a hamster

602
00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:21.960
wheel and walk across the ocean.
I mean, just because he's kind of

603
00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:25.280
crazy doesn't mean he's poor. If
anything, it means he's highly wealthy if

604
00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:30.920
he's that insane. Yeah, yeah, that's a fair point. While his

605
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:36.559
case is underway, he's barred from
travel outside of the Southern District of Florida

606
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:40.239
and quote may not be may not
go to the ocean or board a vessel

607
00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:45.800
on the ocean, a special condition
added to his bond agreement. Hey,

608
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:50.440
he agreed to it. Yeah,
so we could not be in jail.

609
00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:57.639
All I know is I have yet
to you know, knock on wood.

610
00:47:57.679 --> 00:48:00.480
But I have yet to tell the
coast Guard I have a bomb. So

611
00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:05.400
I that's why I can still get
on the ocean if I want. Okay.

612
00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:12.079
Oh, this was far from Bellucci's
first encounter with the coast Guard.

613
00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:17.800
Oh, he quote has attempted voyages
in a similar homemade vessel in twenty fourteen,

614
00:48:17.880 --> 00:48:22.519
twenty sixteen, and twenty twenty one, all of which resulted in the

615
00:48:22.639 --> 00:48:30.280
USCG intervention. Perez notes, so, like, I appreciate that the Coastguard

616
00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:36.239
doesn't want him to die, but
he just gonna keep doing this just I

617
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:42.079
think, I don't know, at
some point it seems like you should just,

618
00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:49.079
I don't know, let him go. Yeah, he thinks he can

619
00:48:49.119 --> 00:48:52.679
make it. So oh god,
there's like a Vice documentary about him and

620
00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:59.960
everything. Oh wow, Holy Moley. Bellucci is a man of big dreams

621
00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:04.119
and unorthodox methods. Not long after
arriving in the United States, he was

622
00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:07.079
profiled in the New York Times as
he began a quest to run across the

623
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:12.199
country Forrest Gump style. I was
totally thinking of Forrest Gump when I was

624
00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:16.239
thinking about running three thousand miles.
He reportedly finished the coast to coast journey

625
00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:22.360
not once but twice. Okay,
see, so that part I get,

626
00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:25.719
like, Oh, so maybe he's
just like a brazen, you know,

627
00:49:27.159 --> 00:49:31.079
adventure guy. That's why I'm curious, Like, is this hamster wheel thing

628
00:49:31.159 --> 00:49:35.480
full of food and water? How
long did he expect the trip to last?

629
00:49:36.599 --> 00:49:39.519
How did he expect to die of
sun exposure. You know, there's

630
00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:45.360
a lot of questions. Yeah,
maybe he was really well prepared, and

631
00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:47.760
maybe he had a ten percent chance
of making it, who knows. But

632
00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:52.760
also saying I have a knife and
I'll kill myself if you try to stop

633
00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:55.960
me is not really something that like
a sane person does when managing the coast

634
00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:00.840
guard. I don't know, I
think it worked. I mean, you're

635
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:02.559
not wrong there. I mean the
proof is in the pudding. I mean,

636
00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:06.719
he didn't kill himself. So we
don't even know if that was a

637
00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:08.960
legit threat. Oh no, I
don't think it was legitimate at all.

638
00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:15.960
Yeah, so I don't know.
It sounds pretty smart, okay. He

639
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:20.519
was also the focus of a short
documentary from Vice about Bluchi's two fourteen and

640
00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:25.039
two thousand and sixteen attempts to travel
from Boca Raton, Florida, to Bermuda,

641
00:50:25.239 --> 00:50:30.639
a distance of more than one thousand
miles, by running inside his homemade

642
00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:36.679
floating bubble. Mm okay, so
that's I mean, so running a thousand

643
00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:40.400
miles in it that sounds at least
possible. And Florida to Bermuda is kind

644
00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:46.199
of like a calm water. It's
warmer, not quite as shark infested either.

645
00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:50.440
Are there sharks? I feel like
there's a lot of sharks there are,

646
00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:52.599
but cold waters where the big sharks
are. Okay. Yeah, the

647
00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:55.880
colder the water, the bigger the
sharks tend to be. Okay, Because

648
00:50:57.639 --> 00:51:00.800
I don't know, I think that
makes sense. I would assume it must

649
00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:06.440
be related to metabolism, because cold, colder environments have slower metabolisms. Therefore

650
00:51:06.440 --> 00:51:09.559
bigger things can exist. Okay.
I could be wrong on that. I've

651
00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:15.480
been wrong about a lot of things
in life. In the video, Blucci

652
00:51:15.519 --> 00:51:19.320
explains his motivation in using unusual means
of travel. Quote, if you drive

653
00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:23.880
a boat, nobody cares bubble nobody
did before m see Yeah, I got

654
00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:30.840
him. Stand what's happening? Todd
Cogshall, formerly of the US Coast Guard,

655
00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:34.800
recalled what happened during the twenty fourteen
attempt, which he called quote by

656
00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:38.159
far, the most bizarre case that
I was involved with. Quote one of

657
00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:43.079
our sectors, Sector Miami, got
a call from a concerned voter that there

658
00:51:43.159 --> 00:51:45.840
was a man in a bubble that
was lost and was asking for directions to

659
00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:58.079
Bermuda. Okay, so Homie doesn't
apparently have a GPS or like a compass

660
00:51:58.199 --> 00:52:07.960
or anything. Excuse me, which
way to Bermuda. I keep wanting to

661
00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:10.880
love this rugged individualism, and then
I hear more and I'm like, oh

662
00:52:12.119 --> 00:52:17.840
no, it just gets worse.
It became really obvious, really fast that

663
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:22.440
he wasn't a sailor, didn't know
the ocean, and was unequipped to do

664
00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:27.079
what he was attempting to do.
We referred to it as the hamster wheel

665
00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:30.559
of doom, Cogshaw remembered, adding
that temperatures could get up to one hundred

666
00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:35.719
and twenty degrees inside the bubble,
and that Blucci was more likely to get

667
00:52:35.719 --> 00:52:39.000
pushed to England or swept into a
swirling eddy in the middle of the Atlantic

668
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:44.000
than make it from Florida to Bermuda. Did they tell him he was more

669
00:52:44.039 --> 00:52:46.199
likely to get pushed to England?
Because it sounds like he changed his destination

670
00:52:46.320 --> 00:52:52.039
because of that. That was my
first stattoo. The coast guard tried to

671
00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:54.559
take him in, but he didn't
want to go, Cogshall said, and

672
00:52:54.679 --> 00:52:59.079
stayed with him for a day or
so before leaving him be. A day

673
00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:01.360
or two later, Old Front knocked
the bubble on its side, so Ballucci

674
00:53:01.480 --> 00:53:07.599
set off. What's called a spot
device okay, and the coast guard went

675
00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:12.400
and rescued him. Oh oh,
Bellucci said, he turned on the beacon

676
00:53:12.519 --> 00:53:19.000
accidentally. Sure, yeah, yeah, no, no, you're you.

677
00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:22.199
You knew exactly what you were doing. We have to take a quick break

678
00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:25.000
and we'll be back with more of
this harrowing story. I was not expecting

679
00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:29.159
this to be this interesting. I
thought this was gonna be like local crazy

680
00:53:29.159 --> 00:53:32.679
man does data da and then lol. But no, this is really weird

681
00:53:32.760 --> 00:53:35.920
and there's a lot of information,
and we'll get to all of it and

682
00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:45.320
so much more right after these quick
messages, and we are back with the

683
00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:53.119
fascinating story of Bellucci and his attempts
to walk across the ocean. Sorry,

684
00:53:54.599 --> 00:54:00.440
so, as we said before,
Ballucci said he accidentally activated the spot device,

685
00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:04.000
which is a beacon for when you're
lost at sea that uses GPS to

686
00:54:04.039 --> 00:54:07.840
inform the coastguard where you are.
It's basically the last ditch effort to not

687
00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:13.480
die. The captain of the Port
of Miami ordered Ballucci not to attempt travel

688
00:54:13.559 --> 00:54:17.000
to Bermuda in his bubble. Bellucci
tried again in twenty and sixteen. This

689
00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:22.719
time, the coastguard came upon Bellucci
told him they were terminating his voyage for

690
00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:30.599
being manifestly unsafe and that he should
embark their boat. Yeah, make me

691
00:54:30.679 --> 00:54:35.800
crazy. Bellucci is seen telling the
Coastguard officers, I've been five years,

692
00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:39.199
like do this thing. Oh my
god. He he talks exactly like the

693
00:54:39.239 --> 00:54:45.079
accent I was doing. Oh god, I've been five years, like do

694
00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:46.840
these things. They stopped me every
time. They saved my life. I

695
00:54:46.840 --> 00:54:51.039
don't I don't know need it saved
my life. I don't know need it.

696
00:54:51.719 --> 00:54:54.840
That's I'm reading exactly what it says. Yeah, I mean, I'm

697
00:54:54.880 --> 00:54:59.559
sure that he's accent isn't exactly like
that. No, But I mean,

698
00:54:59.599 --> 00:55:01.679
I'm just I'm just reading with an
accent the words they're writing, which are

699
00:55:01.719 --> 00:55:07.199
missing things because of his accent.
He told the officers that he had five

700
00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:10.480
or six lights and two life jackets. I have GPS, I have a

701
00:55:10.599 --> 00:55:19.480
laptop, watch movie. Lucci protest, but the officers said his voyage was

702
00:55:19.599 --> 00:55:22.719
unsafe and based on the captain of
the port order and his physical condition,

703
00:55:23.199 --> 00:55:30.760
the officers hauled him in and they
sank his bubble as a hazard to navigation.

704
00:55:30.679 --> 00:55:36.119
Wow, they shut they sink my
bubble. But Lucci told vice no,

705
00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:42.840
more bubble. I have it with
it sank all of his supplies.

706
00:55:42.960 --> 00:55:45.599
I guess so. Cockshaw said.
The cost to TA taxpayers for the Coastguard

707
00:55:45.599 --> 00:55:54.039
response was about one hundred and forty
four thousand dollars. He also attempted to

708
00:55:54.079 --> 00:56:00.880
do this from New York, or
tried for New York and twenty one.

709
00:56:00.039 --> 00:56:06.679
Bellucci's redesigned hamster wheel made headlines when
it came onshore in Flagler County, Florida.

710
00:56:07.079 --> 00:56:12.280
Bodycam footage shows his interaction with responding
officers from the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.

711
00:56:12.559 --> 00:56:15.920
Quote, where are you supposed to
land? The officer asks, I'm

712
00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:19.360
going to New York. Bellucci says, his giant hamster wheel on the beach

713
00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:22.159
behind him. Did you start on
a bigger vessel, the officer asks.

714
00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:29.280
Bellucci looks at him blankly and says, huh, were you on a bigger

715
00:56:29.360 --> 00:56:31.920
vessel? Or is this all you
have? The officer asks, This is

716
00:56:31.960 --> 00:56:37.000
all I have, says Bellucci.
Bellucci now faces charges of obstruction of boarding

717
00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:42.639
and violation of a Captain of the
Port order. Whether it will be enough

718
00:56:42.679 --> 00:56:46.920
to keep Bellucci on land remains to
be seen. Dream No coming after you

719
00:56:47.039 --> 00:56:53.880
Bellucci told Vice, you must follow
your dream. Yeah. I have very

720
00:56:53.880 --> 00:57:02.119
complex feelings about this story and the
sky because on one hand, I love

721
00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:07.519
the crazy person nobody else believes believes
in, right I do. I respect

722
00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:13.280
that very very much. But on
the other hand, I also know that

723
00:57:13.320 --> 00:57:19.960
some people are crazy and just want
to kill themselves subconsciously. Yeah, and

724
00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:25.000
this sounds a lot like wanting to
kill yourself subconsciously. I mean, maybe

725
00:57:27.039 --> 00:57:31.960
I have laptop to watch movie.
Oh my god, pretty smart. I

726
00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:36.400
mean not because there's lots of water, so I'm not one hundred percent sure

727
00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:40.239
the laptop's gonna be Okay. They
okay. The first bubble he tried to

728
00:57:40.239 --> 00:57:45.320
go to Bermuda in, it's literally
one of those like game show bubbles that

729
00:57:45.400 --> 00:57:50.280
you know people roll down hills in. Yeah, yeah, that's perfect.

730
00:57:51.039 --> 00:57:57.079
He's gonna freaking die. You're not
going to live in that. I mean,

731
00:57:57.119 --> 00:58:01.239
you're not. You are going to
I mean, if there was ventilation,

732
00:58:01.400 --> 00:58:06.480
maybe he'd be okay. No,
I'm assuming there is ventilation. He's

733
00:58:06.519 --> 00:58:08.519
going to die. How could there
be ventilation though, if he's walking,

734
00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:14.079
because it would turn I mean,
I'm assuming that there's some kind of valve

735
00:58:14.679 --> 00:58:17.480
placement to try to keep the ventilation
in or maybe he just has to like

736
00:58:17.519 --> 00:58:21.719
take a break every so often and
open something when it's not close to the

737
00:58:21.719 --> 00:58:24.679
water and just let fresh air in. That's my point of like he's going

738
00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:30.880
to die. Like also, I'm
looking at him, like they have footage

739
00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:34.400
of him, Well, i'll show
I'll show it to you too. Okay.

740
00:58:34.880 --> 00:58:38.400
I'm looking at that documentary about him
where they're showing like footage of him

741
00:58:38.519 --> 00:58:44.800
rolling in this thing. There is
like no place for like real supplies.

742
00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:47.440
Yeah, yeah, I didn't think
that there would be. But he has

743
00:58:47.480 --> 00:58:52.920
like a couple of bottles of gatorade. Oh, I don't know. Maybe

744
00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:59.400
he can. He's going to die, like like if you're in a lifeboat,

745
00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:05.159
you're going to die if somebody doesn't
find you eventually. Yeah, but

746
00:59:05.239 --> 00:59:12.960
he's he's he can roll. It's
so it's okay. Maybe maybe i'm this

747
00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:16.679
way because I'm a seafaring of a
seafaring people. The Portuguese were very good

748
00:59:16.679 --> 00:59:20.079
at seafaring. But when I look
at this, I'm like, you're gonna

749
00:59:20.119 --> 00:59:22.960
die. When I look at a
normal good boat, I'm like, you're

750
00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:25.559
probably you might die. But when
I look at this, I'm like homie,

751
00:59:25.639 --> 00:59:30.159
you're gonna die like that, that
is what is going to happen.

752
00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:35.719
That would be really scary if you
ran into a store. Oh my god,

753
00:59:35.840 --> 00:59:38.119
dude, I think it'd be really
scary if it just became nighttime,

754
00:59:39.920 --> 00:59:45.239
would be okay. Have you ever
been on the ocean at night or I'm

755
00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:47.679
sure you've been to the beach at
night? Right, Yeah, it's scary,

756
00:59:47.840 --> 00:59:52.880
dude. I don't think it's any
scarier than in the daytime. I

757
00:59:52.880 --> 00:59:59.400
think it's substantially scarier in the nighttime. Okay, but I could be wrong.

758
01:00:00.880 --> 01:00:02.159
You know. Hey, I learned
how to swim when I was thirty,

759
01:00:02.199 --> 01:00:08.400
so maybe I'm maybe I'm the problem
here. Yeah, so well,

760
01:00:09.199 --> 01:00:13.199
best to luck to that dude.
On one hand, I respect his hustle.

761
01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:15.000
On the other hand, I just
think he is trying to kill himself.

762
01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:22.639
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, please please. I think he

763
01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:27.920
probably should just start from a different
location than that would be one step.

764
01:00:28.119 --> 01:00:31.559
Yeah, or maybe he should try
using a boat. No, he wants

765
01:00:31.599 --> 01:00:35.679
to do it like this. I'm
sure he could make it using a boat.

766
01:00:35.760 --> 01:00:39.880
That's not the point. And I
understand that it's his dream, But

767
01:00:40.119 --> 01:00:46.400
what makes me question his mental acuity
let's let's leave aside the obvious, the

768
01:00:46.440 --> 01:00:50.039
threat that he'll kill himself if they
take him out of his boat, and

769
01:00:50.039 --> 01:00:52.840
stuff suggests he's not not. All
his dogs are barking. No, because

770
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:57.760
he could have threatened to kill them. He did it, didn't he did.

771
01:00:58.559 --> 01:01:00.760
I mean he said I have knives, come and get me. But

772
01:01:00.159 --> 01:01:02.960
I don't think he said I'm gonna
kill you. No, no, no,

773
01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:07.119
you just said I'll blow us up. Yeah, but it's different.

774
01:01:09.960 --> 01:01:17.239
It's different. Oh my gosh.
That is probably my favorite part about doing

775
01:01:17.239 --> 01:01:22.800
Monthly Spooky. As I learn about
current events, I would never have guessed

776
01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:28.199
we're happening. Yeah. But we've
got another story here from Mirror dot co

777
01:01:28.440 --> 01:01:32.480
dot uk, of course, and
this one I liked. I like haunted

778
01:01:32.519 --> 01:01:39.800
house stories, Michelle, because you
are a certified home inspector. Yeah,

779
01:01:39.840 --> 01:01:44.159
so it's really fun to show you
like freaky houses and be like, what's

780
01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:47.119
really going on? Home inspector?
And this one I want I would love

781
01:01:47.159 --> 01:01:52.239
your opinion on. This article is
called Terrified man keeps finding black footprints on

782
01:01:52.280 --> 01:01:58.159
his ceiling from Evil Ghosts. Oh, I'm sure you'd like to see photo.

783
01:01:58.760 --> 01:02:01.480
Yes, because so here's a picture
of the ceiling with the black footprints.

784
01:02:02.679 --> 01:02:06.480
Okay, I mean they do look
like they could be footprints, but

785
01:02:06.519 --> 01:02:13.760
they also look like they could not
be footprints. Fair After mysterious footprints appeared

786
01:02:13.800 --> 01:02:16.079
on his living room ceiling when he
left the house, a man took to

787
01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:24.440
social media for answers. Oh boy, the homeowner, mister Lu from north

788
01:02:24.519 --> 01:02:30.880
central China's Ningxia region. I think
I said the right Ingxia region. How

789
01:02:30.920 --> 01:02:36.920
do you say Xia? Is it
g Ningxia? I think it's not even

790
01:02:37.119 --> 01:02:39.760
I don't even think it's close to
that. I think it's like a like

791
01:02:39.840 --> 01:02:45.199
an maybe like a h sound,
but I'm not sure. Oh man,

792
01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:47.480
no, I have to know.
Why would you do this to me?

793
01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:52.840
I try so hard to say things
right in the end, it doesn't even

794
01:02:52.960 --> 01:03:00.360
mas. Yeah, as I'm typing
it into Google and spelling pronunciation and right.

795
01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:05.920
Oh, I was, You're a
jerk. It's ningsha, really Nina

796
01:03:06.159 --> 01:03:15.159
Ninja ninja? Yeah, that's ninja. Yep, it's ninja. I used

797
01:03:15.199 --> 01:03:21.440
Google to tell me. Uh So
anyway, mister Lou from north central China's

798
01:03:21.480 --> 01:03:24.719
Ninjah region said he was baffled by
the strange occurrence that took place in his

799
01:03:24.800 --> 01:03:30.760
empty house when he discovered clearly defined
footprints on his ceiling after being out for

800
01:03:30.840 --> 01:03:32.960
half a day. Would you call
those clearly defined or do you call bs

801
01:03:34.039 --> 01:03:37.400
on that. I don't know.
I don't, I don't. I wouldn't

802
01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:43.920
say clearly defined. Oh kid,
he's got claws. Uh uh. Let's

803
01:03:43.920 --> 01:03:51.440
see on the ceiling after being Mister
Lou from wu Jong said the ceiling was

804
01:03:51.480 --> 01:03:53.639
perfectly clean when he and his wife
left home in the afternoon, but upon

805
01:03:53.679 --> 01:03:57.920
their return at night, he was
stunned to find the ceiling in his living

806
01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:02.639
room looked like someone had walked all
over it with dirty shoes. Oh more

807
01:04:02.679 --> 01:04:05.599
pictures. Oh yeah, now now
these look very clearly defined. Actually,

808
01:04:09.000 --> 01:04:11.960
like I could see like the heel. Oh yeah, they look like shoes

809
01:04:12.519 --> 01:04:15.239
m at least. Yeah, that
first one definitely does. Oh yeah,

810
01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:23.679
no, that's like very clearly like
a shoe heel a man found. Let's

811
01:04:23.679 --> 01:04:27.039
see in a In a video film
by Lou himself, the prince can be

812
01:04:27.159 --> 01:04:30.719
clearly seen spread across one part of
the ceiling. He said he and his

813
01:04:30.840 --> 01:04:32.920
wife were scared throughout the whole night, and in the morning they checked and

814
01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:38.920
found the footprints were still there.
Well that's good, Lu shared the video

815
01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:43.679
on Dawyan, China's version of TikTok, with the caption can science explain this?

816
01:04:44.119 --> 01:04:46.559
It suddenly appeared when I got home. Our home was renovated over a

817
01:04:46.679 --> 01:04:50.079
decade ago, and we can confirm
these were not there before. It's quite

818
01:04:50.199 --> 01:04:59.639
unsettling. All roads chell lead to
TikTok, yeah or Dawian. Yeah,

819
01:05:00.159 --> 01:05:01.880
basically all roads lead to TikTok.
I have a theory that almost that.

820
01:05:01.920 --> 01:05:04.719
I have a theory that over eighty
five percent of news stories are just reporting

821
01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:10.880
on a TikTok. I mean probably
at this point. Yeah. One user

822
01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:15.000
titled zix commented, the evil ghost
is coming. Are you satisfied with this

823
01:05:15.159 --> 01:05:20.480
answer? I love Chinese directly translated, it only sounds so stern and serious.

824
01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:25.320
Japanese could be that way too,
Like when on the Simpsons when they

825
01:05:25.360 --> 01:05:30.119
had mister Sparkle. Do you remember
mister Sparkle on the Simpsons? What they

826
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:32.880
found a logo for a Japanese company
that looked just like Homer and they were

827
01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:35.320
trying to figure out, like what
is this and it was like a laundry

828
01:05:35.400 --> 01:05:40.440
detergent, And it turned out that
the logo was the combination of a light

829
01:05:40.519 --> 01:05:44.800
bulb and a fish's face that looked
that happened to look like Homer because those

830
01:05:44.840 --> 01:05:47.639
two companies emerge to make that company. And they took it to they took

831
01:05:47.679 --> 01:05:51.880
the box was either a Japanese or
a Chinese, I can't remember off the

832
01:05:51.880 --> 01:05:54.719
top of my head. So they
take it to a rest are an Asian

833
01:05:54.760 --> 01:05:57.639
restaurant guy who can read it,
and like, what does this box say?

834
01:05:57.719 --> 01:06:00.000
And he's like, it says he
has vet. It says mister Sparkle

835
01:06:00.079 --> 01:06:04.440
is very powerful and women and women
obey his sternness or something. And he's

836
01:06:04.440 --> 01:06:08.519
like, and he will banish dirt
and grime to the land of wind and

837
01:06:08.599 --> 01:06:14.239
ghosts. It was like, that's
exactly what translating a lot of Asian language

838
01:06:14.280 --> 01:06:16.000
is like. What it comes across
as at first is something like that stern

839
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:19.960
It sounds like it sounds like something
an Italian exorcist would say in English.

840
01:06:21.039 --> 01:06:28.440
It's like so dead serious. Another
Userkwang Wao wrote, the previous owner must

841
01:06:28.480 --> 01:06:32.360
be back. User Brother Pang said
the only explainable reason for this is that

842
01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:36.079
the footprints were stepped on before the
ceiling was installed. It may have been

843
01:06:36.159 --> 01:06:44.079
basically invisible but became visible due to
condensation or smoke. Well, I wouldn't

844
01:06:44.119 --> 01:06:47.400
say condensation or smoke. I would
say possibly mold if you have a little

845
01:06:47.400 --> 01:06:51.360
bit of oil or dirt in that
area and that mold is forming there or

846
01:06:51.480 --> 01:06:58.559
specifically first Well, mister Leu replied
that is definitely not the case. Of

847
01:06:58.639 --> 01:07:03.559
course, of course. A final
user DBBB wrote, the other scientific explanation

848
01:07:03.599 --> 01:07:06.679
would be if you have children at
home who used shoes to kill bugs on

849
01:07:06.719 --> 01:07:15.039
the ceiling. That's a good one, actually, yeah, and confusing because

850
01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:18.360
I've never used shoes to kill bugs
on a ceiling. But but but I

851
01:07:18.440 --> 01:07:24.559
mean, like if I had to
think of a reason why a shoeprint would

852
01:07:24.559 --> 01:07:26.599
be on ceiling, will be like, well, bugs are sometimes on the

853
01:07:26.679 --> 01:07:30.840
ceiling. Maybe somebody didn't want to
like smash it with a paper towel or

854
01:07:30.880 --> 01:07:36.639
something. Yeah, I mean to
be fair, like my neighbors in Plainsboro

855
01:07:38.880 --> 01:07:41.800
whenever, like, way way back
when they moved in to their house,

856
01:07:41.920 --> 01:07:45.360
it had been a frat house before, and there were footprints on the ceiling,

857
01:07:47.199 --> 01:07:50.880
so they were doing ceiling stuff.
So it's not like it's not possible.

858
01:07:53.559 --> 01:07:57.039
Well, things are going to get
even weirder in China because this news

859
01:07:57.119 --> 01:08:00.599
comes after Beijing Youth Daily reported that
a core in the same area whose Hong

860
01:08:01.199 --> 01:08:04.320
hired a man to live stream his
house for over twenty four hours where a

861
01:08:04.400 --> 01:08:11.239
suicide had had happened to satisfy the
anxieties of potential bidders at at an auction

862
01:08:12.000 --> 01:08:16.159
Ujong District People's Court in zu Zu
Jingzu, I'm doing okay, jang Zu

863
01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:20.760
Province, I'm doing okay with the
Chinese words, decided to convince buyers that

864
01:08:20.840 --> 01:08:26.560
the apartment wasn't haunted after its previous
owner committed suicide by burning coal in it.

865
01:08:27.600 --> 01:08:30.560
Oh wow, that's a that's a
really like dark and old school way

866
01:08:30.640 --> 01:08:34.600
to kill yourself. Yeah, just
burn a bunch of coal in your in

867
01:08:34.680 --> 01:08:42.079
your house and then suffocate I guess
yeah wolf Wolf. The live streaming started

868
01:08:42.119 --> 01:08:45.680
at ten am on November ninth,
with a judge and a man introducing the

869
01:08:45.760 --> 01:08:48.479
apartment. Over forty thousand people watched
the program, during which the man did

870
01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:54.319
workouts eight and slept to the apartment
just did normal day stuff. Yeah,

871
01:08:55.000 --> 01:08:57.640
bro, what are we watching?
Oh, it's a haunted place where somebody

872
01:08:57.760 --> 01:09:00.880
killed themselves, But really we're just
watching a middle aged guy. Juice's Buys

873
01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:02.960
you know, just get a pump
on real quick. You know, it's

874
01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:10.600
freaking dope. I love TikTok or
whatever. This is. The Lujong region

875
01:09:10.720 --> 01:09:15.399
features mosques with unique architecture and different
styles everywhere. Ujong is one of the

876
01:09:15.439 --> 01:09:21.600
main settlements of the Who people in
Oh god ningxia Ing ja Ja. I'm

877
01:09:21.720 --> 01:09:25.640
just gonna go with that. In
twenty nineteen, there were seven hundred and

878
01:09:25.760 --> 01:09:29.960
seventy eight thousand Who people in the
city, accounting for fifty four percent of

879
01:09:30.079 --> 01:09:35.159
the total population. So what do
you think why? Why do you think

880
01:09:35.159 --> 01:09:40.000
there are footprints on the ceiling.
So yeah, I'm I'm gonna go with

881
01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:45.359
before the ceiling was placed there because
you can't see it at home or wherever

882
01:09:45.520 --> 01:09:50.760
you are. But they look like
boards like like like like maybe like wood

883
01:09:50.840 --> 01:09:56.079
boards or some sort of boards that
would have I guess been nailed up on

884
01:09:56.159 --> 01:09:59.399
the ceiling. It wasn't like like
a a plaster or something like that.

885
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:02.960
So I definitely think it's possible that
someone could have stepped on it. There

886
01:10:03.000 --> 01:10:06.439
could have been oils on it,
and then like it could have just had

887
01:10:06.520 --> 01:10:13.680
like mold growth starting over there for
some reason or yeah, I could see

888
01:10:13.720 --> 01:10:15.159
that. Yeah, But I also
think, you know, the possibility that

889
01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:18.399
somebody like was hitting the ceiling with
a shoe, because they don't really look

890
01:10:18.479 --> 01:10:24.359
like they're in footprint order very much. They look kind of random, and

891
01:10:24.439 --> 01:10:28.239
the pressure points don't look very obvious
either, So that kind of grabbed my

892
01:10:28.279 --> 01:10:32.279
attention as like a possibility. It
just sounds at least somewhat reasonable to me.

893
01:10:32.880 --> 01:10:35.680
Yeah, I mean I could see
that. The only issue there is

894
01:10:35.880 --> 01:10:41.000
we never confirmed if they have been
hitting the ceiling with shoes or hunt,

895
01:10:41.319 --> 01:10:44.079
or if they had children or anything. Oh I really got was the sense

896
01:10:44.159 --> 01:10:47.000
that lou really wants people to think
it's ghosts, yeah, or really believes

897
01:10:47.039 --> 01:10:50.720
it's ghosts. Yeah. Yeah,
those are both pretty good options. But

898
01:10:51.920 --> 01:11:00.359
this next story feeds into the home
buying element from Newsweek. It's about somebody

899
01:11:00.359 --> 01:11:05.600
who bought what they call a paranormal
property, and we'll get to that right

900
01:11:05.680 --> 01:11:17.640
after these quick messages. We'll be
right back, and we are back with

901
01:11:17.760 --> 01:11:23.720
a story from newsweek dot com,
and all the headline says is I bought

902
01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:29.720
a paranormal property. So, Michelle, how many houses do you think you've

903
01:11:29.760 --> 01:11:31.680
inspected so far? I don't know. I mean, it's got to be

904
01:11:32.640 --> 01:11:36.840
forty fifty sixty probably maybe more right, probably more than that. That's awesome.

905
01:11:38.520 --> 01:11:40.640
I mean it's awesome because you've only
been in business like a year,

906
01:11:41.439 --> 01:11:42.960
it would have to be more.
But you know what I mean, it's

907
01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:45.520
just so cool. I love that
you did this, made your own business.

908
01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:53.000
Thanks. I suck and I'll lose
everything. Oh you sound like me,

909
01:11:53.319 --> 01:11:58.760
quiet you, But I'm assuming have
you ever been in a place that

910
01:11:58.800 --> 01:12:00.720
you felt like could be hard or
just looked like it would be haunted.

911
01:12:02.239 --> 01:12:10.720
Not any houses I've inspected, No, actually huh. But also, I

912
01:12:10.800 --> 01:12:14.319
mean that could just be because I'm
just not That's not something I'm paying attention

913
01:12:14.399 --> 01:12:16.520
to. I'm not like trying to
get a feel for the property like that.

914
01:12:17.399 --> 01:12:21.520
Sure, I mean that makes sense. Well, according to this article,

915
01:12:23.439 --> 01:12:26.760
somebody just bought a paranormal property and
unfortunately, I guess they didn't hire

916
01:12:26.840 --> 01:12:30.439
you to check it out. Oh
oh boy, this one, this is

917
01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:35.039
big. Five years ago, I
entered a world wherein the concepts of interdimensional

918
01:12:35.119 --> 01:12:40.439
doorways, wormholes to distant worlds,
and interstellar spaceports were a regular part of

919
01:12:40.520 --> 01:12:45.119
the conversation. Okay, even though
I was a skeptic, having never personally

920
01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:49.119
seen a UFO, a ghostly apparition, a luminous orb, or any other

921
01:12:49.239 --> 01:12:54.159
paranormal event of these kinds. As
a real estate investor, I was naturally

922
01:12:54.319 --> 01:12:59.279
intrigued by the opportunity to purchase and
to personally explore a piece of what was

923
01:12:59.359 --> 01:13:08.880
referred to some as interdimensional real estate. One I suspected the most likely outcome

924
01:13:08.920 --> 01:13:14.920
would be that my findings would debunk
any paranormal claims. Yeah, I would

925
01:13:14.960 --> 01:13:16.800
find it hard to believe that you
would find it would be debunked. If

926
01:13:16.840 --> 01:13:20.560
you were financially invested in the property, I think you would find the property

927
01:13:20.600 --> 01:13:28.680
to be very interesting. Maybe.
The journey that led to my purchase of

928
01:13:28.800 --> 01:13:34.159
a quote paranormal hotspot, a one
that has garnered significant attention and been studied

929
01:13:34.199 --> 01:13:41.119
by governments and private groups of scientists
and researchers alike, began over a decade

930
01:13:41.159 --> 01:13:46.439
ago when I established relationships of trust
with scientists involved in the domain of speculative

931
01:13:46.520 --> 01:13:56.800
physics. Speculative physics means that they
could be very well made up. Well,

932
01:13:56.960 --> 01:14:01.600
it's all speculation. So little did
I know at that time that these

933
01:14:01.720 --> 01:14:08.960
individuals were science advisors to the elusive
aerospace billionaire Robert Bigelow. Do you know

934
01:14:08.960 --> 01:14:10.840
who that is? I don't know
who that is. I don't know who

935
01:14:10.880 --> 01:14:13.800
that is. Should we should we
take a sidebar and find out who Robert

936
01:14:13.800 --> 01:14:17.359
Bigelow is? Okay, I mean
it's our show. We don't have to.

937
01:14:18.399 --> 01:14:21.079
We just be like, oh,
yeah, old Bob Bigelow, I

938
01:14:21.199 --> 01:14:25.520
know him. Yeah. Yeah.
His son was Bam Bam Bigelow, the

939
01:14:25.600 --> 01:14:30.479
wrestler right. Robert Bigelow born May
twelfth, nineteen forty four is an American

940
01:14:30.479 --> 01:14:33.479
businessman. He owns Budget Suites of
America and is the founder of the of

941
01:14:33.560 --> 01:14:40.840
Bigelow Aerospace. Bigelow has provided financial
support for investigations of UFOs and parapsychological topics,

942
01:14:41.079 --> 01:14:46.399
including continuation of consciousness after death.
Oh so he's a crazy rich guy.

943
01:14:46.800 --> 01:14:49.680
Yeah, I mean no, I
get I do some hotels. Yeah,

944
01:14:49.760 --> 01:14:53.239
but I totally I'm not. I
don't want to be like, be

945
01:14:53.359 --> 01:14:57.439
dismissive like that. But I mean, like, I get, if you

946
01:14:57.560 --> 01:15:03.159
had billions of dollars and you're older, why not try to find out?

947
01:15:03.520 --> 01:15:05.800
Why not just put a bunch of
money into finding out if there's like life

948
01:15:05.840 --> 01:15:10.479
after death and stuff? Why not? I mean, I wouldn't do it.

949
01:15:10.640 --> 01:15:12.479
But oh, you'd just be like, no, I want to be

950
01:15:12.560 --> 01:15:15.600
surprised. Well, no, because
I'm I am pretty I am one hundred

951
01:15:15.600 --> 01:15:20.479
percent confident that I would not find
out anything. So seems like a waste

952
01:15:20.520 --> 01:15:27.079
of money, but I understand someone
else doing it. So also want to

953
01:15:27.119 --> 01:15:30.359
point out his aerospace company, Bigelow
Aerospace, was a like private contractor that

954
01:15:30.399 --> 01:15:34.399
worked with NASA and stuff like that, and they have been embroiled in a

955
01:15:34.439 --> 01:15:43.359
lawsuit with NASA claiming they were underpaid
to a contract. They also did some

956
01:15:43.399 --> 01:15:46.199
stuff with SpaceX. In nineteen eighty
five, found in the National Institute of

957
01:15:46.319 --> 01:15:50.760
Discovery Science to fund and research the
study of various fringe sciences and paranormal topics,

958
01:15:50.840 --> 01:15:56.720
most notably ufology. The organization research
cattle mutilation and black triangle reports,

959
01:15:57.039 --> 01:16:01.520
ultimately attributing the ladder to secretive advanced
aircraft operated by the military. Oh,

960
01:16:01.640 --> 01:16:06.600
but the institute was disbanded in two
thousand and four. Oh and then the

961
01:16:06.680 --> 01:16:10.520
next thing in his Wikipedia is referencing
what we're reading about in the article,

962
01:16:10.560 --> 01:16:15.359
So let's go back, okay,
all right, Or that these individuals would

963
01:16:15.359 --> 01:16:19.920
subsequently extended invitation to engage in a
discussion regarding the mysterious five hundred and twelve

964
01:16:20.000 --> 01:16:29.800
acre property in northeastern Utah, no
as skin Walker Ranch. Yeah, you

965
01:16:29.960 --> 01:16:31.920
knew, you knew that was coming, didn't ship was here Utah? Yeah?

966
01:16:33.239 --> 01:16:38.520
I remember my nervous curiosity as I
flew into Las Vegas to meet personally

967
01:16:38.600 --> 01:16:43.000
with mister Bigelow to tour his impressive
facility and to discuss the acquisition of the

968
01:16:43.079 --> 01:16:46.920
infamous property. As I was escorted
by security personnel into the large compound,

969
01:16:47.000 --> 01:16:53.560
the Bigelow Aerospace facility conjured to mind
a James Bond villain layer, complete with

970
01:16:53.680 --> 01:16:58.560
full scale models of space stations and
highly secure laboratories laboratory. Sorry, I

971
01:16:58.560 --> 01:17:02.720
don't know why I said laboratories.
Impressive doesn't quite convey what I saw.

972
01:17:03.159 --> 01:17:08.560
After visiting with mister Bigelow and his
team of scientists, I became more I

973
01:17:08.720 --> 01:17:14.159
became more intensely curious than ever.
I still believed that there was likely to

974
01:17:14.239 --> 01:17:17.880
be a perfectly natural, prosaic explanation
for what had been claimed for decades,

975
01:17:17.920 --> 01:17:24.600
including UFO sightings, daylight cattle mutilations, orbs, and unexplained sometimes troubling phenomena.

976
01:17:24.960 --> 01:17:29.239
But the prospect that this mysterious ranch
could potentially serve as a living laboratory,

977
01:17:29.640 --> 01:17:32.520
one in which I might study and
personally contribute to. The rigorous documentation

978
01:17:32.600 --> 01:17:40.279
of such claims captured my interest on
a very profound and personal level. Yeah.

979
01:17:41.600 --> 01:17:44.600
So what do you know about Skinwalker
Ranch? I don't know a lot

980
01:17:44.760 --> 01:17:55.960
about it. It's an area that
is has tons of paranormal phenomena and exactly

981
01:17:56.359 --> 01:18:03.880
exactly and lots of UFO sightings I
think too, and maybe skin walkers.

982
01:18:04.119 --> 01:18:08.159
Since it's in the name, it
would you would hope, right? Yeah,

983
01:18:09.399 --> 01:18:12.359
Skinwalker. This is according to Wikipedia, Skinwalker Ranch, also known as

984
01:18:12.399 --> 01:18:16.000
Sherman Ranch's property of approximately five hundred
twelve acres located southeast of Ballard, Utah

985
01:18:16.319 --> 01:18:19.520
that has repeated to be the site
of paranormal and UFO related activities. Its

986
01:18:19.640 --> 01:18:27.560
name is taken from the skin Walker
of Navajo legend concerning vengeful shamans. Wow.

987
01:18:27.640 --> 01:18:31.239
Yeah, there have been claims since, like the nineteen seventies. Oh,

988
01:18:31.399 --> 01:18:35.199
James Randy awarded Bigelow. Oh man, I remember this. In nineteen

989
01:18:35.279 --> 01:18:40.119
ninety six, James Randy, one
of my lifelong heroes, awarded Bigelow the

990
01:18:40.479 --> 01:18:44.920
Pigasus Award, which was an award
for people who are wasting the most money

991
01:18:45.640 --> 01:18:49.439
on frivolous fake things, for funding
the purchase of the ranch, and for

992
01:18:49.479 --> 01:18:55.960
supporting Johnny Mack and Bud Hopkins investigations. The award category designated Bigelow as the

993
01:18:56.079 --> 01:19:00.840
funding organization that supported the most useless
study of a supernatural, paranormal or occult

994
01:19:00.920 --> 01:19:06.159
claim. Wow. I remember that. Wow. They've spent like twenty two

995
01:19:06.199 --> 01:19:14.560
million dollars researching this place. Wow. So, and Robert Bigelow doesn't own

996
01:19:14.600 --> 01:19:18.319
it anymore. It's owned by a
by a real estate LLC that Bigelow's a

997
01:19:18.399 --> 01:19:23.279
part of. But he owned it
outright from ninety six to twenty sixteen.

998
01:19:23.680 --> 01:19:27.000
Okay, I mean it does sound
like we're talking about that in the article

999
01:19:27.119 --> 01:19:31.439
right of them? Yeah, I
think so. So let's see, mister

1000
01:19:31.520 --> 01:19:34.760
Bigelow had purchased the property years prior, in nineteen eighty six, following news

1001
01:19:34.840 --> 01:19:40.000
reports alleging that the family who had
owned the land had been terrorized and were

1002
01:19:40.079 --> 01:19:45.159
being menaced by paranormal phenomena on the
ranch. There were claims that prized cattle

1003
01:19:45.199 --> 01:19:48.680
were being dissected with surgical precision and
drained of their blood. That the fan

1004
01:19:48.880 --> 01:19:51.920
that the family, like others in
the area were witnessed to bizarre things on

1005
01:19:53.000 --> 01:19:57.079
the ground and in the skies above. After flying in to inspect the property

1006
01:19:57.159 --> 01:20:00.199
and to strike a deal with the
family to acquire this apparent epicenter of so

1007
01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:04.800
many strange events, Bigelow had installed
his own team of scientists to study the

1008
01:20:04.920 --> 01:20:11.800
claims of phenomenon of phenomenology, that's
the word phenomenology by any and all means

1009
01:20:11.880 --> 01:20:16.600
at his disposal. I mean,
that's a pretty good chad move. Yeah,

1010
01:20:17.359 --> 01:20:20.920
there's all kinds of paraneal activity here. I'm gonna buy it. Yeah,

1011
01:20:21.359 --> 01:20:26.119
gimp gibb, give me that.
I want that. I want five

1012
01:20:26.239 --> 01:20:30.960
hundred and twelve acres of land in
Utah. I really wanted in Utah.

1013
01:20:30.039 --> 01:20:33.319
But what's wrong with Utah? Go
ahead, crap on Utah now, geez,

1014
01:20:33.520 --> 01:20:42.079
I feel like it's it's fine.
Wow, tell us how you really

1015
01:20:42.239 --> 01:20:47.720
feel. Michelle hateful? Michelle is
hateful, all right. By two thousand

1016
01:20:47.720 --> 01:20:51.079
and eight, Skinwalker Ranch had caught
the attention of former Senator Harry Reid and

1017
01:20:51.119 --> 01:20:56.600
officials from the US Defense Department.
They visited the ranch, and afterwards Bigelow

1018
01:20:56.640 --> 01:21:01.319
became part of a classified program to
investigate the possible of such phenomena known as

1019
01:21:01.359 --> 01:21:11.079
the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Programmer AATIP, A tip A tip. Yeah,

1020
01:21:11.640 --> 01:21:14.760
you know why I love these kinds
of stories because even if you read them

1021
01:21:14.840 --> 01:21:17.159
and as you're reading them they sound
ridiculous, it still gives you like a

1022
01:21:17.239 --> 01:21:23.319
spooky vibe of like where cattle mutilations
and orbs were reported to have happened.

1023
01:21:23.399 --> 01:21:28.840
It's so fun. Yeah. My
own first visit to the Skinwalkers site took

1024
01:21:28.880 --> 01:21:32.680
place just days before closing on the
purchase. I arrived via helicopter to inspect

1025
01:21:32.720 --> 01:21:36.119
the ground for myself. As we
hovered over the property, I was struck

1026
01:21:36.199 --> 01:21:42.079
by the diversity of the landscape and
natural beauty on display, including a brilliant

1027
01:21:42.159 --> 01:21:47.279
multicolored mesa plateau with caves, abandoned
homesteads, meandering waterways, and what appeared

1028
01:21:47.319 --> 01:21:53.600
to be several guard towers surrounded by
high fencing with razor wire. Cool.

1029
01:21:54.640 --> 01:21:57.600
I mean, that's pretty cool.
And I'll show you this, Chillie.

1030
01:21:57.600 --> 01:22:01.159
Here's a dorky picture of the guy
there. He's wearing all black, including

1031
01:22:01.199 --> 01:22:08.319
a black trench coat and a black
turtlene because why wouldn't he right, Yeah,

1032
01:22:09.239 --> 01:22:13.439
Oh, that's that's Brandon Fugel.
Is that who wrote this Who wrote

1033
01:22:13.479 --> 01:22:17.279
this article? Brandon Fugel. So
that's the guy whose company bought the ranch

1034
01:22:17.760 --> 01:22:21.399
or became Yeah, Brandon Fugel is
now considered the owner with that LLC.

1035
01:22:25.760 --> 01:22:28.279
Oh gosh, he's got like a
show in the History Channel or something.

1036
01:22:28.279 --> 01:22:32.239
Of course he does. I missed
the good old days when the History Channel

1037
01:22:32.319 --> 01:22:39.680
was just a place to enjoy Hitler. Yeah. And upon touching down in

1038
01:22:39.720 --> 01:22:43.319
the field outside of the main ranch
house, we were greeted by mister Bigelow's

1039
01:22:43.439 --> 01:22:48.199
armed security and soberly escorted on a
tour of the entire properly property soberly.

1040
01:22:49.000 --> 01:22:54.520
Among the more curious and memorable sites
during that visit were that what appeared to

1041
01:22:54.600 --> 01:22:59.920
be animal remains deliberately hung on the
fence perimeter bordering with the surrounding Native America

1042
01:23:00.239 --> 01:23:05.199
land. Who deliberately hung on there? Hopefully we're about to find out.

1043
01:23:06.359 --> 01:23:11.640
We then discussed the history of the
property, including the claim that a curse

1044
01:23:12.319 --> 01:23:15.359
that some kind of curse had pronounced
had been pronounced on the land as a

1045
01:23:15.439 --> 01:23:19.720
result of conflict between Native American tribes. The legend suggests that the property has

1046
01:23:19.760 --> 01:23:25.760
placed squarely quote in the path of
the skin walker in Navajo culture, as

1047
01:23:25.760 --> 01:23:29.680
skin walker is a shape shifting demonic. Which or other entity such were the

1048
01:23:29.720 --> 01:23:35.279
stories connected to the property of which
I would become the principal steward. The

1049
01:23:35.439 --> 01:23:41.279
first six months of my ownership of
the ranch were relatively uneventful, with exception

1050
01:23:41.399 --> 01:23:46.920
of my newly installed security personnel capturing
photographic and video records of unusual objects that

1051
01:23:47.079 --> 01:23:53.520
we were unable to identify hovering over
the land in broad daylight. I remained

1052
01:23:53.560 --> 01:23:59.119
skeptical, naturally there as to their
nature, but also curious and cautiously open

1053
01:23:59.159 --> 01:24:02.840
minded, even to a pragmatist.
It appeared that something quite unusual may indeed

1054
01:24:02.960 --> 01:24:10.279
be happening on this property. I
cannot overstate it is of this person's entire

1055
01:24:10.439 --> 01:24:15.119
benefit for there to be something weird
going on on this property. He paid

1056
01:24:15.279 --> 01:24:18.680
undisclosed money. I mean, I'm
assuming it's undisclosed, but I'm sure it's

1057
01:24:18.720 --> 01:24:26.399
millions to buy this ranch. It
needs to be haunted or something or else.

1058
01:24:26.600 --> 01:24:30.199
You wasted your money. It might
be disclosed. We might be able

1059
01:24:30.239 --> 01:24:38.399
to look it up in property records. Let me find out Skinwalker Ranch of

1060
01:24:38.520 --> 01:24:47.359
Delaware Limited liability company bought it.
Oh wow, Adamantium Real Estate LLC.

1061
01:24:48.000 --> 01:24:49.439
I looked at that word and I
was like what And I was like,

1062
01:24:49.479 --> 01:24:54.000
Oh, that's the fake metal from
x men. I know what Adamantium is.

1063
01:24:54.359 --> 01:24:59.680
Adamantium Real Estate LLC, at Delaware
based limited liability company, Say Delaware

1064
01:25:00.399 --> 01:25:03.159
based in Salt Lake City, Utah, file the US trademark application for the

1065
01:25:03.239 --> 01:25:08.479
service mark skin Walker Ranch on February
fifteenth, twenty seventeen, and was approved

1066
01:25:08.640 --> 01:25:11.840
for the registered trademark on April fourteenth, twenty and twenty, with the mark

1067
01:25:11.880 --> 01:25:16.000
applicable to providing recreation facilities entertainment services, namely creation, development, production,

1068
01:25:16.039 --> 01:25:19.640
and distribution of multimedia content, Internet
content, motion pictures, and television shows.

1069
01:25:21.640 --> 01:25:27.640
Ye. I think this was a
long term investment. Yeah, because

1070
01:25:27.640 --> 01:25:31.640
Adamantium Real Estate LLC is Brandon Frugal's
company or Fugal. Not Frugal, clearly

1071
01:25:31.720 --> 01:25:38.720
not frugal. I'm not seeing what
they paid. Let me look how much

1072
01:25:39.359 --> 01:25:51.199
did Fugal pay for skin Walker Ranch? Not seeing how much he paid,

1073
01:25:53.359 --> 01:25:58.680
but he is a millionaire real estate
mogul so and they have a history channel,

1074
01:25:58.720 --> 01:26:00.760
The Secrets of skin Water t Walker
Ranch is the reality show being shot

1075
01:26:00.840 --> 01:26:03.399
there. Well, I mean it
makes sense because it's his property, so

1076
01:26:03.520 --> 01:26:06.800
why not shoot a reality show?
And hey, here's a picture of him

1077
01:26:06.800 --> 01:26:12.520
with post malone just hanging out at
the Skinwalker Ranch, because why not?

1078
01:26:14.039 --> 01:26:19.680
Yeah, best light, I mean
definitely. You know, who wants to

1079
01:26:19.720 --> 01:26:23.920
own a bunch of real estate when
you could own Skinwalker Ranch? Yeah.

1080
01:26:24.960 --> 01:26:28.560
And then one day in the autumn
of twenty sixteen, my outlook on the

1081
01:26:28.680 --> 01:26:33.199
ranch and the narratives bound to it
completely changed. Do you think this is

1082
01:26:33.239 --> 01:26:36.439
when he realized that it was something
so interesting it was worth millions of dollars

1083
01:26:36.479 --> 01:26:42.800
in television production and fame. Yeah, you're like shaking with anticipation, you

1084
01:26:42.880 --> 01:26:47.159
know, it's so excited about this. I observed with my own eyes what

1085
01:26:47.279 --> 01:26:54.039
I believe to be a quote flying
saucer in broad daylight just above the mesa

1086
01:26:54.479 --> 01:26:58.479
quote as I traveled eastward, returning
along the dirt road from the western extreme

1087
01:26:58.520 --> 01:27:00.800
of the property, with multiple witnesses
at my side. From that point forward,

1088
01:27:00.840 --> 01:27:06.800
installing an appropriately instrumented observational scientific surveillance
program became the top priority in my

1089
01:27:06.960 --> 01:27:14.319
stewardship. And I guess magically it
never ever happened again, though it'll happen

1090
01:27:14.359 --> 01:27:17.880
at one time. Everybody gets one. It's like Spider Man, Yeah exactly.

1091
01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:24.640
People ask me, are you a
believer, and my honest answer is

1092
01:27:25.000 --> 01:27:30.359
no, I am an experiencer.
Wow, this guy's a douche. No,

1093
01:27:30.560 --> 01:27:32.239
I'm an experience He's like, if
my aunt honest answer is no,

1094
01:27:32.319 --> 01:27:36.119
I'm an experiencer, then I asked
for a tissue to clean my bloody nose

1095
01:27:36.199 --> 01:27:40.560
from them punching me right in the
face and giving me a swirly in the

1096
01:27:40.600 --> 01:27:44.680
toilet. I don't believe, per
se, but I believe what I saw,

1097
01:27:44.800 --> 01:27:47.439
and I am convinced that we continue
to witness unusual activity that I cannot

1098
01:27:47.479 --> 01:27:53.079
personally explain. Others are interested too. Sorry, he's a believer. Then

1099
01:27:53.239 --> 01:27:56.760
he literally just said he was a
believer. I'm an experiencer, not a

1100
01:27:56.840 --> 01:28:00.560
believer, And they says, I
believe what I saw, and I am

1101
01:28:00.600 --> 01:28:02.960
convinced we continue to witness the Yeah, he's a believer. Others are interested

1102
01:28:03.039 --> 01:28:06.439
too. Oh my god. The
award winning rapper, singer, and producer

1103
01:28:06.520 --> 01:28:10.880
Post Malone visited skin Walker Ranch in
February of twenty twenty one, and I

1104
01:28:10.960 --> 01:28:14.279
gave him a tour of the property. We have yet to determine the nature

1105
01:28:14.439 --> 01:28:18.560
the origin and agenda, if any
of the phenomenology attached to this so called

1106
01:28:18.600 --> 01:28:23.920
paranormal site, and the validity of
UFOs and paranormal activity in general remains to

1107
01:28:23.960 --> 01:28:27.720
be proven real. But my team
and I are convinced that we are in

1108
01:28:27.800 --> 01:28:34.800
countering activity at Skinwalker Ranch that is
unusual and not easily explained. I don't

1109
01:28:34.880 --> 01:28:39.199
like this article. I don't either. We have one sentence left or two

1110
01:28:39.239 --> 01:28:44.039
sentences left. Okay, my perception
of the world and universe has been forever

1111
01:28:44.239 --> 01:28:48.119
changed by my experiences. Now I
believe the adventure of owning this paranormal property

1112
01:28:48.479 --> 01:28:56.920
is just beginning. Yeah, so
that was just one big advertisement for his

1113
01:28:57.600 --> 01:29:00.560
stuff. It does say all of
you was expressing this article or the author's

1114
01:29:00.600 --> 01:29:05.439
zone. Good job mus week.
That was supposed to be news. That

1115
01:29:05.640 --> 01:29:09.600
was that was not news. No, that was a fluff piece. But

1116
01:29:09.640 --> 01:29:16.439
it wasn't amusing fluff piece. So
at least there's that. So what do

1117
01:29:16.520 --> 01:29:18.880
you think you think? It's uh, you know, he's just kind of

1118
01:29:18.960 --> 01:29:21.479
creating a brand. That's kind of
what it sounds like to me. I'm

1119
01:29:21.560 --> 01:29:29.279
kind of sad. Now why,
I don't know, I just I just

1120
01:29:29.800 --> 01:29:33.600
don't like the idea that someone writes
an article that's like, hey, look

1121
01:29:33.680 --> 01:29:40.760
how cool Skinwalker ranch is. I
owe, yeah, I have no evidence

1122
01:29:40.880 --> 01:29:44.000
that makes it cool, but I
own it. So I want to tell

1123
01:29:44.039 --> 01:29:49.039
you about it because we're making shows
about it. Because speculative, speculative cool

1124
01:29:49.199 --> 01:29:53.119
is worth real money, yeah,
you know, in the stock market and

1125
01:29:53.119 --> 01:29:57.039
stuff. So well, on that
note, I think it's time we get

1126
01:29:57.079 --> 01:30:03.800
ourselves far away from an kind of
commercialism BS. So after this quick commercial

1127
01:30:03.880 --> 01:30:09.359
break, we're gonna come back and
we're gonna talk about ten Halloween traditions from

1128
01:30:09.399 --> 01:30:13.600
around the world, which I find, you know, prudent because we're about

1129
01:30:13.640 --> 01:30:16.680
to enter spooky season. So stick
around, and when we get back,

1130
01:30:16.960 --> 01:30:24.960
we're going to dive into the traditions
of Samaine all across the world. Right

1131
01:30:25.000 --> 01:30:40.880
after this and we are back,
we're talking about our topic of the month,

1132
01:30:41.000 --> 01:30:45.960
which is ten Halloween traditions from around
the world. But before we get

1133
01:30:45.000 --> 01:30:50.159
to that, Michelle, you celebrated
Halloween as a kid, right, Yeah,

1134
01:30:50.720 --> 01:30:55.159
I mean Jesus said that likes so
offended. I'm just I'm just asking

1135
01:30:55.279 --> 01:31:00.159
the question. So, when it
comes to Halloween, is there any thing

1136
01:31:00.199 --> 01:31:01.960
that you enjoyed the most about celebrating
as a kid, or anything that your

1137
01:31:02.000 --> 01:31:05.880
family did, particularly that not everybody
else did. Was there anything that you

1138
01:31:05.920 --> 01:31:09.520
guys did? Did you decorate much? What was what was the Halloween like

1139
01:31:09.600 --> 01:31:16.520
in the Adler and the Anti Social
Home? Uh? I don't know.

1140
01:31:16.800 --> 01:31:20.760
It was pretty normal, Like we
decorated and then we went out trick or

1141
01:31:20.800 --> 01:31:25.479
treating and then we had some pizza. That was it. Oh it ended

1142
01:31:25.520 --> 01:31:28.840
in pizza. I like that.
That's wholesome. Yeah. Did did your

1143
01:31:28.880 --> 01:31:33.439
parents dress up? Not really?
I think maybe for the first for several

1144
01:31:33.560 --> 01:31:40.279
years, but not really. Like
there's lots of us kids, three three

1145
01:31:40.319 --> 01:31:43.840
of them, three of them.
Yeah, and then also all the neighbors

1146
01:31:43.920 --> 01:31:47.760
had kids that were the same ages, so you know there was enough dress,

1147
01:31:47.880 --> 01:31:51.520
enough kids stuff, so you all
just would like glomb together and just

1148
01:31:51.800 --> 01:31:56.960
run amuck through the neighborhood getting treats. Basically. Yeah, that sounds pretty

1149
01:31:56.960 --> 01:32:00.920
good. Do you have a favorite
costume that you you wore as a kid?

1150
01:32:00.600 --> 01:32:05.439
No, not one that you looked
back at fondly. Not really.

1151
01:32:06.000 --> 01:32:10.840
I did one year ago as a
as a witch and it rains, so

1152
01:32:11.119 --> 01:32:14.600
I had like green on my face
and all like dripped off. That was

1153
01:32:14.680 --> 01:32:17.920
pretty good. Okay, I could
see you would, you'd be you can

1154
01:32:18.000 --> 01:32:26.279
make a good witch out choky.
Fine, jeez, I'm sorry. So

1155
01:32:26.520 --> 01:32:29.640
well, when I was a kid, my mom, I used to beg

1156
01:32:29.720 --> 01:32:32.520
my mom to dress up and she
wouldn't, but every now and then she

1157
01:32:32.600 --> 01:32:38.079
would. And one time, I
remember we got her this ridiculous fright wig

1158
01:32:38.359 --> 01:32:42.119
kind of thing, but it was
long and black with white strands that were

1159
01:32:42.159 --> 01:32:45.880
glow in the dark. And she
wore that and like put like fake scars

1160
01:32:45.960 --> 01:32:48.279
all over her face with like fake
blood on them and stuff, and wore

1161
01:32:48.279 --> 01:32:51.960
a leather jacket. She looked so
cool. And I just remembered Mom saying

1162
01:32:51.960 --> 01:32:54.640
like, oh, I don't,
like I don't want to dress up.

1163
01:32:54.640 --> 01:32:56.479
I don't want anything. And I
was like, okay, because like you're

1164
01:32:56.560 --> 01:33:01.479
fool in me with how cool you
look. Oh I had I actually thought

1165
01:33:01.520 --> 01:33:05.760
of a costume. Yeah, Yeah, I went as the birds one year.

1166
01:33:08.039 --> 01:33:11.840
You didn't. Yeah, And I
just took like those little those little

1167
01:33:11.880 --> 01:33:15.439
like I don't know, they're like
styrofoam and like wood birds from like the

1168
01:33:15.680 --> 01:33:18.159
art stores, and I glued them
all over like a shirt and stuff,

1169
01:33:18.199 --> 01:33:23.960
and I put flood everywhere on me
and stuff. Yeah, you went as

1170
01:33:24.039 --> 01:33:28.560
the as the Alfred Hitchcock movie The
Birds. Yeah, you were a fan

1171
01:33:28.640 --> 01:33:30.159
of the Alfred Hitchcock movie when you
were a kid, or maybe it was

1172
01:33:30.199 --> 01:33:32.920
the sequel came out when we were
kids. No, no, it was

1173
01:33:33.039 --> 01:33:35.840
the regular one, and it wasn't
I wasn't like five. I was like

1174
01:33:36.159 --> 01:33:41.840
maybe like thirteen or twelve or something. Nerd. I love it. That's

1175
01:33:41.840 --> 01:33:45.000
awesome. I love that. My
favorite, of course was Dracula. I

1176
01:33:45.039 --> 01:33:47.359
was Dracula for like five years straight. But I'm not that's not nearly as

1177
01:33:47.399 --> 01:33:51.520
cool as the Birds. I can't
lie. And one year I was a

1178
01:33:51.560 --> 01:33:55.760
power Ranger. That's cool. I
might have been too, So yeah,

1179
01:33:55.800 --> 01:34:00.279
it sounds right. So uh this
article we're looking at us from trefa ulgar

1180
01:34:00.399 --> 01:34:04.000
dot com and it's Halloween Traditions around
the world. It starts out with it

1181
01:34:04.119 --> 01:34:08.560
is easy to find the beauty that
ties together all the different culture different Halloween

1182
01:34:08.600 --> 01:34:12.079
traditions around the world. Some countries
take their own unique spin on this typically

1183
01:34:12.119 --> 01:34:16.680
American holiday. Others celebrate the spiritual
afterlife with age old practices unique to their

1184
01:34:16.760 --> 01:34:21.920
culture and religions. What unites these
different variations of Halloween is the celebration of

1185
01:34:23.000 --> 01:34:26.920
life and loved ones read on to
take a closer look at the question how

1186
01:34:27.039 --> 01:34:30.760
is Halloween celebrated around the world?
And uh, I just want to mention

1187
01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:38.239
this is not a like handbook advertising
wool like the year like last year's Halloween

1188
01:34:38.399 --> 01:34:43.439
monthly Spooky where we were like they're
they're referencing using like this type of wool

1189
01:34:43.520 --> 01:34:45.039
a lot. Is this paid for
by the wool company? And then it

1190
01:34:45.279 --> 01:34:53.119
was that was awesome. Well never
nothing will ever be that unintentionally perfectly funny.

1191
01:34:53.239 --> 01:34:59.279
Ever again, like that was so
perfect. So first up is Ireland

1192
01:34:59.399 --> 01:35:02.880
where they have of some people say
sam haines, some people say Salwen.

1193
01:35:03.960 --> 01:35:08.720
It's spelled sam h a i n
And I know most of my listeners are

1194
01:35:08.720 --> 01:35:12.720
going Salwen, it's sowen. That's
how you say it in Gaelic. I

1195
01:35:12.800 --> 01:35:15.880
think it is. I like sam
Hayne, but that's because I think sam

1196
01:35:15.960 --> 01:35:21.560
Haynes sounds awesome and Sawin doesn't sound
as awesome. Have you ever heard the

1197
01:35:21.960 --> 01:35:29.960
term sam hain or Salwen? Yeah, for you, fair, fair fair.

1198
01:35:30.840 --> 01:35:33.960
One of the most interesting Halloween traditions
around the world is practiced in Ireland.

1199
01:35:34.199 --> 01:35:39.760
In fact, Halloween originated from sam
Hayne or Salwen, also known as

1200
01:35:39.800 --> 01:35:44.159
all hallow Tide, a pagan Irish
festival that marks the end of the summer.

1201
01:35:45.199 --> 01:35:49.000
The long held Halloween custom is the
baking and eating of bambra barm brack.

1202
01:35:49.279 --> 01:35:53.880
That's the term barmbrack, a dense
cake loaded with currents, raisins and

1203
01:35:54.079 --> 01:35:58.720
candied citrus. Sounds all right,
grip cake? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1204
01:35:58.720 --> 01:36:01.800
it's basically for kake. Yeah.
It is tradition for bakers at Halloween

1205
01:36:01.920 --> 01:36:06.000
to mix a ring, to mix
a ring, a small rag and a

1206
01:36:06.079 --> 01:36:10.399
coin into the brand into the barn
brack that we choke. I guess,

1207
01:36:11.159 --> 01:36:15.800
so each token signify signifies a particular
fortune for whoever receives it in their piece

1208
01:36:15.840 --> 01:36:18.560
of cake. I guess it's one
of those cakes that you have to kind

1209
01:36:18.560 --> 01:36:21.000
of like to put on your plate
in like mush ups. You just crumble

1210
01:36:21.039 --> 01:36:25.880
it up real quick. Sure you
didn't get a prize, otherwise your prize

1211
01:36:25.960 --> 01:36:30.199
is going to the emergency room.
Yeah. So let's see, whoever gets

1212
01:36:30.279 --> 01:36:34.319
the ring will marry or find happiness. Whoever gets the rag will join the

1213
01:36:34.399 --> 01:36:41.520
clergy or have an uncertain financial future. Gee harsh there, I okay,

1214
01:36:41.760 --> 01:36:49.960
gosh I joined the clergy or have
an uncertain financial future geez, and whoever

1215
01:36:50.079 --> 01:36:56.359
receives the coin will have a prosperous
year. Yeah gee, I mean I

1216
01:36:57.479 --> 01:37:00.520
okay, so like i'd probably I
mean, I kind of rather find happiness

1217
01:37:00.560 --> 01:37:04.960
than have just a prosperous single year. I think I want the coin,

1218
01:37:05.560 --> 01:37:13.880
Okay, fair enough? Well,
I mean so, so now we're heading

1219
01:37:13.920 --> 01:37:18.520
to China for Tang Jay. I'm
sure I'm saying that right, and I'm

1220
01:37:18.560 --> 01:37:25.439
not going to check. Tang Chay
or Hungry Ghost festival in China is not

1221
01:37:25.680 --> 01:37:30.159
strictly a Halloween custom. Rather,
it's an old Taoist tradition that guides the

1222
01:37:30.279 --> 01:37:35.920
spirits that walk the earth. Okay, on the fifteenth day of the seventh

1223
01:37:36.039 --> 01:37:42.000
Lunar month or Ghost Month, at
dusk, people lay out incense, food,

1224
01:37:42.079 --> 01:37:45.560
and water in front of photos of
deceased family members. The spirits might

1225
01:37:45.640 --> 01:37:51.119
then bestow blessings or punishments upon their
living relatives. That kind of sounds like

1226
01:37:51.159 --> 01:37:55.680
did Los Morthos a little little bit. I mean, it's different, especially

1227
01:37:55.760 --> 01:37:59.079
in the punishment's party. Yeah,
dead Los Montos is all about, you

1228
01:37:59.159 --> 01:38:02.920
know, membering and missing people and
celebrating the dead, But this one sounds

1229
01:38:02.920 --> 01:38:09.640
a little bit more hardlined, which
I can't say I hate. Many see

1230
01:38:09.680 --> 01:38:13.560
this tradition as a way of appeasing
the hungry ghosts who have been errant since

1231
01:38:13.600 --> 01:38:16.479
the beginning of Ghost Month. Later
that same night, a feast is typically

1232
01:38:16.600 --> 01:38:20.960
held where families leave an open setting
at the table for a departed ancestor.

1233
01:38:23.680 --> 01:38:28.720
Okay, all right, so we've
got hungry ghost festival, liking it,

1234
01:38:29.039 --> 01:38:30.720
liking it up. And here's what
we were just talking about. Now,

1235
01:38:30.720 --> 01:38:35.239
we're gonna head to Maico for Dia
dels Martos dian los Mirtos, or Day

1236
01:38:35.279 --> 01:38:40.680
of the Dead in Meygo, is
a cultural, culturally rich tradition akin to

1237
01:38:40.840 --> 01:38:45.359
Halloween that takes place on November first
and second, so it's the day after

1238
01:38:45.439 --> 01:38:50.520
Halloween. Despite the name, the
Day of the Dead is all about celebrating

1239
01:38:50.640 --> 01:38:57.239
life, joy and color. Its
essence is to demonstrate love and respect for

1240
01:38:57.319 --> 01:39:02.079
the spirits of departed family members.
I I kind of celebrate Diodellos Martos a

1241
01:39:02.159 --> 01:39:05.920
little a little bit. I light
a marigold candle, and I usually always

1242
01:39:06.039 --> 01:39:12.399
dedicate an amount of time that data
thinking about people who are gone. Okay,

1243
01:39:13.600 --> 01:39:15.720
it sounds silly, but it's my
it's my life. I there's a

1244
01:39:15.880 --> 01:39:21.520
company a cigar company that makes a
cigar called the Calavras or Calaveras or however

1245
01:39:21.520 --> 01:39:25.520
you want to say it, which
is the sugar skull, you know,

1246
01:39:25.840 --> 01:39:29.960
the image of Diadolas Martos, and
they it's a special edition cigar. They

1247
01:39:30.000 --> 01:39:32.640
sell a different type every year,
and the point of the cigar is to

1248
01:39:32.720 --> 01:39:38.439
smoke it and think about somebody who's
gone, like it's like a meditation thing,

1249
01:39:38.840 --> 01:39:41.520
and I do that every year.
I actually have a massive collection of

1250
01:39:41.560 --> 01:39:45.840
them because they recommend that you buy
this year's and smoke it next year,

1251
01:39:45.039 --> 01:39:48.399
and then smoke last year's this year. It's like a weird kind of thing

1252
01:39:49.279 --> 01:39:54.720
because they change with age, because
the cigars change with age. So yeah,

1253
01:39:54.760 --> 01:39:58.439
every year I smoke last year's last
caravras, and then I U and

1254
01:39:58.520 --> 01:40:01.159
then I, you know, buy
this years and kind of think about the

1255
01:40:01.199 --> 01:40:03.880
people have gone. And that's a
nice way to guarantee you sit down for

1256
01:40:03.960 --> 01:40:08.760
like an hour and a half and
just think about people you've lost or people

1257
01:40:08.800 --> 01:40:12.079
who are gone and people you miss. Things like that. And of course,

1258
01:40:12.119 --> 01:40:14.840
like I said, the marigold candle
is super important. I can't not

1259
01:40:15.000 --> 01:40:17.039
smell marigold and not think of de
los Montos because when I was a kid,

1260
01:40:17.800 --> 01:40:21.159
they were marigold candles everywhere the day
after Halloween, all over the house.

1261
01:40:21.359 --> 01:40:26.279
Yeah. So, in fact,
marigold candles kind of make me emotional

1262
01:40:26.279 --> 01:40:30.239
when I smell them, because that
smell reminds me of like a somber closeness.

1263
01:40:30.680 --> 01:40:34.279
Yeah, I don't know how to
describe it. Similar to other Halloween

1264
01:40:34.279 --> 01:40:39.560
traditions around the world, Day of
the Dead celebrations include activities like dressing and

1265
01:40:39.680 --> 01:40:45.720
bright makeup and dazzling costumes, throwing
parades, singing and dancing. However,

1266
01:40:45.880 --> 01:40:49.319
what marks this holiday is especially unique
is the custom of making offerings to loved

1267
01:40:49.359 --> 01:40:55.800
ones. Families build temporary altars as
a tribute to deceased ancestors. The altars

1268
01:40:55.840 --> 01:40:59.880
are laid with confections like sugar skulls
and bottles of tequila, as well as

1269
01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:03.800
marigolds and photographs of the lost.
It is said that these offerings will attract

1270
01:41:03.840 --> 01:41:09.359
the spirits to the altars to be
reunited with the loving family. Have you

1271
01:41:09.479 --> 01:41:14.359
seen the Disney movie Coco. Oh
my god, it is a phenomenal kids

1272
01:41:14.439 --> 01:41:16.680
movie about de Los Martos, and
it made me cry my goddamn eyes out.

1273
01:41:17.640 --> 01:41:21.479
It was so such the way they
a little boy basically accidentally ends up

1274
01:41:21.479 --> 01:41:26.760
on the other side of the living
in dead space, and the only person

1275
01:41:26.800 --> 01:41:29.039
who can help him is his grandpa, who he never got to meet in

1276
01:41:29.159 --> 01:41:31.840
person. And it's like really adorable. So his like skeleton, you know,

1277
01:41:31.920 --> 01:41:35.600
wacky skeleton. Grandpa on the other
side helps Coco find his way home.

1278
01:41:35.720 --> 01:41:39.079
And it's really I loved every second
of it. I can't lie.

1279
01:41:40.439 --> 01:41:45.960
And it has great musical numbers.
Anyway, uh so this so now we're

1280
01:41:45.960 --> 01:41:49.840
getting into things I've absolutely never heard
of. Okay, so this one is

1281
01:41:49.880 --> 01:41:57.199
in Italy. It's La Festa Degnisante. I think I'm saying that right.

1282
01:41:57.800 --> 01:42:02.640
Halloween customs are rooted in ancient traditions
like Lafesta di Agnshanti or Hollowmas. In

1283
01:42:02.760 --> 01:42:08.399
Italy. November first is All Saints
Day, the first day of Hallowmas,

1284
01:42:08.760 --> 01:42:14.279
which celebrates the Catholic Saints. On
this holiday, Italians will spend time with

1285
01:42:14.319 --> 01:42:19.760
their families and even exchange gifts.
November two is All Souls Day, a

1286
01:42:19.840 --> 01:42:26.039
commemoration of deceased loved ones. Families
will leave chrysanthemums on loved ones graves,

1287
01:42:26.079 --> 01:42:30.239
attend a requeem mass for the dead, and eat lots of food. It

1288
01:42:30.399 --> 01:42:34.479
is believed that spirits share in the
celebrations. Hence, cookies called fave demoti

1289
01:42:34.880 --> 01:42:39.920
or beans of the dead, are
offered to the deceased. In ancient Rome,

1290
01:42:40.119 --> 01:42:43.840
beans were used in funerary rites because
it was believed that they housed the

1291
01:42:43.920 --> 01:42:48.159
souls of the dead. Okay,
sometimes I look back at human past and

1292
01:42:48.239 --> 01:42:53.199
I go, what like, look
at like somebody's like, look at these

1293
01:42:53.239 --> 01:42:55.600
beans and that they have whole souls
of the dead, and so he's like,

1294
01:42:55.600 --> 01:43:02.640
don't let my kid be around that
guy. So so far, unfortunately,

1295
01:43:02.720 --> 01:43:06.079
I'm not finding anything where pizza is
the thing they celebrate at the end.

1296
01:43:06.159 --> 01:43:10.399
But I bet it's coming. Yeah, I'm sure it's coming soon enough.

1297
01:43:12.640 --> 01:43:15.159
So let's see. Here's another one
I've never heard of, fet Geta,

1298
01:43:15.680 --> 01:43:20.000
which is from Haiti, the island
nation of Haiti. Fet get Or

1299
01:43:20.079 --> 01:43:26.039
the Festival of the Dead, has
all the verve of Halloween tradition, but

1300
01:43:26.159 --> 01:43:30.319
with a completely different cultural backdrop.
On November first and second, Haitian practitioners

1301
01:43:30.399 --> 01:43:36.439
of voodoo vudhissants pay their respects to
Baron Sametti, father of the deceased spirits.

1302
01:43:36.880 --> 01:43:42.800
Vudhisants dance in the street to commune
with their dead and walk through graveyards

1303
01:43:42.840 --> 01:43:46.960
where they feed their ancestors with food
from their own tablet get A is occasionally

1304
01:43:47.039 --> 01:43:53.520
described as the voodoo equivalent of mardy
Gras, although I would call the I

1305
01:43:53.520 --> 01:43:58.439
would call Mardi Gras the voodoo Mardi
Gras. But for those who don't know,

1306
01:43:58.560 --> 01:44:00.520
because some people, you know,
some how don't know this, voodoo

1307
01:44:00.640 --> 01:44:04.000
has is a part of it,
like is majorly a part of Catholicism.

1308
01:44:04.079 --> 01:44:09.720
I mean their belief system has Catholicism
all over it. So I'm just throwing

1309
01:44:09.760 --> 01:44:12.439
out because most people they think of
voodoo, they think of like, you

1310
01:44:12.520 --> 01:44:16.279
know, Haiti or whatever. But
and yes, but it's like massively Catholic.

1311
01:44:17.600 --> 01:44:24.399
So just an interesting thing, but
it's fete gett A is occasionally described

1312
01:44:24.399 --> 01:44:27.640
as the voodoo equivalent of Marty Grass, Diadeze, Squantos, and Halloween all

1313
01:44:27.680 --> 01:44:32.159
put together because of its explosive celebratory
atmosphere, vibrant cultural traditions, and commemoration

1314
01:44:32.439 --> 01:44:38.399
of deceased family. Okay, so
so far fet get A sounds pretty dope.

1315
01:44:38.960 --> 01:44:43.000
Yeah, I would deal on that. Yeah, that'd be okay.

1316
01:44:43.039 --> 01:44:45.479
I mean they're all sound kind of
like a lot of them sound like that,

1317
01:44:45.640 --> 01:44:47.239
though, Yeah, they all sound
kind of the same. I don't

1318
01:44:47.239 --> 01:44:49.600
know, maybe it's just I like
saying, fete get a, Okay,

1319
01:44:50.119 --> 01:44:53.399
fete get a. You know,
I feel like that would be like you

1320
01:44:53.439 --> 01:45:00.239
would hear like air horns after somebody
years get fat get so. Well.

1321
01:45:00.319 --> 01:45:02.920
So on Halloween, now as an
adult you, I'm assuming hand out candy

1322
01:45:04.279 --> 01:45:10.560
and do you order a pizza?
Tradition going if I can afford one.

1323
01:45:10.960 --> 01:45:13.840
Yeah, well, I remember I
spent a Halloween with you. I keep

1324
01:45:13.880 --> 01:45:15.399
forgetting that though there was that one
time. It just worked out that way

1325
01:45:15.479 --> 01:45:17.960
that like it was better. I
was better off just spending Halloween with you

1326
01:45:18.039 --> 01:45:23.079
than going home. So we uh
we handed out candy, which there was

1327
01:45:23.119 --> 01:45:26.239
not a lot, Yeah, because
I was at a house that we didn't

1328
01:45:26.239 --> 01:45:30.119
really have any trick or treaders.
And I bought a screen costume that didn't

1329
01:45:30.159 --> 01:45:33.279
have the mask, but it was
not it was included, but it wasn't

1330
01:45:33.319 --> 01:45:36.119
in the bag. Yeah, And
by the time I realized it, like

1331
01:45:36.239 --> 01:45:40.079
that place was closed it was Halloween
day. They had barely anything left in

1332
01:45:40.119 --> 01:45:45.479
there. So I basically was just
a druid, just add the outfit.

1333
01:45:45.439 --> 01:45:51.560
So now we're going to go to
France, okay for Latussan, Latussan,

1334
01:45:53.239 --> 01:45:56.279
there we go, lat Toussan.
I've been brushing up on my French a

1335
01:45:56.279 --> 01:45:59.319
lot because I read a lot of
Ed Growland Poe on the show and he

1336
01:45:59.479 --> 01:46:05.479
used his friend Ton. So La
Tousson is in France, and it says,

1337
01:46:05.520 --> 01:46:10.159
how is Halloween celebrated in France?
To be blunt, It's not celebrated

1338
01:46:10.239 --> 01:46:15.279
so much as tolerated. That sounds
like the French. In France, Halloween

1339
01:46:15.359 --> 01:46:19.479
is often out shown by La Tousson
All Saints Day on November first. The

1340
01:46:19.600 --> 01:46:25.520
French reserve little fanfare for Halloween,
as it is seen as imported American tradition.

1341
01:46:26.760 --> 01:46:29.399
See this just makes me want to
fly to France on October thirty one

1342
01:46:29.560 --> 01:46:32.239
with just like spooky masks and just
be like, ah, take this candy

1343
01:46:33.319 --> 01:46:36.640
and just like throwing it at kids
heads and stuff. That's exactly what they

1344
01:46:36.760 --> 01:46:40.880
thought we'd do though, that's why
we have to do it. Okay,

1345
01:46:42.399 --> 01:46:47.039
be the villain they created. I'm
not the villain France once. I'm the

1346
01:46:47.199 --> 01:46:54.760
villain they deserve. Yeah. The
few Halloween costumes seen on the thirty first

1347
01:46:54.800 --> 01:46:59.520
are generally terrifying. All Saints Day, however, is a national public holiday

1348
01:46:59.560 --> 01:47:03.399
following Halloween. On this day,
the French visit special church services and cemeteries

1349
01:47:03.600 --> 01:47:08.680
to lay flowers on deceased relatives graves. Man, I expected more from the

1350
01:47:08.720 --> 01:47:12.880
French. Yeah, I expected a
big party or something. They're like,

1351
01:47:13.039 --> 01:47:15.159
no, we go to church and
put flowers on graves. It's like,

1352
01:47:15.239 --> 01:47:20.399
that's amazing, great job, guys, Lee me alone. Lousy France,

1353
01:47:20.800 --> 01:47:29.359
France. Why does say France anyway? Now we head to Hong Kong for

1354
01:47:29.560 --> 01:47:36.720
Hollow Moss Eve. Let's see,
Hong Kong has gradually begun to embrace Halloween

1355
01:47:36.840 --> 01:47:43.960
despite its colonialist origins. For the
whole American Halloween experience, Halloween Time in

1356
01:47:44.039 --> 01:47:48.760
Hong Kong, Disneyland is the place
to go. The event includes an interactive

1357
01:47:48.800 --> 01:47:55.600
performance by Disney villains who sing original
songs crafted for the performance for Halloween with

1358
01:47:55.720 --> 01:47:59.880
local flavor. Visit Hong Kong's largest
theme park, Ocean Park Hong Kong.

1359
01:48:00.760 --> 01:48:06.960
This oceanarium and zoological attraction holds Asia's
biggest Halloween celebrations. Wow. The night's

1360
01:48:08.039 --> 01:48:12.680
roster of events includes haunted houses,
street shows with gory costumes, and other

1361
01:48:12.800 --> 01:48:16.159
Halloween themed entertainment. Okay, that's
kind of awesome. If you're gonna be

1362
01:48:16.239 --> 01:48:19.399
in Hong Kong for Halloween, go
to Ocean Park. They have like the

1363
01:48:19.479 --> 01:48:25.880
best Halloween celebration. That's really fun. Yeah. Oh, now we're entering

1364
01:48:25.960 --> 01:48:36.600
into your territory, Japan, where
it's just called Halloween. Sorry, it's

1365
01:48:36.640 --> 01:48:39.800
okay if it makes you feeling better. The last one on this list is

1366
01:48:39.840 --> 01:48:42.840
Portugal, and I didn't know that, so we get we get the lambasta.

1367
01:48:43.439 --> 01:48:47.520
You know, a society that vaguely
means something to me too. Halloween

1368
01:48:47.560 --> 01:48:51.880
and Japan has taken on a life
of its own since it was first celebrated

1369
01:48:51.920 --> 01:48:59.039
at Tokyo Disneyland in two thousand.
Now, the Japanese placed little importance on

1370
01:48:59.119 --> 01:49:03.640
American Halloween traditions like trick or treating. Where Americans might wear basic costumes from

1371
01:49:03.640 --> 01:49:09.720
a party store, the Japanese will
go all out with quality cosplay that range

1372
01:49:09.800 --> 01:49:15.319
from cute to terrifying. In Japan, Halloween celebrations burst out onto the streets

1373
01:49:15.359 --> 01:49:20.600
and manic zombie runs, flash mobs, and street parties. The most singular

1374
01:49:20.640 --> 01:49:27.760
of all festivities are the Halloween Trains
on October thirty one. The clinical tranquility

1375
01:49:27.800 --> 01:49:33.319
of Japan's trains is transformed into a
frenetic Halloween bash France. You need to

1376
01:49:33.399 --> 01:49:38.279
take note. Japan is running with
it and you guys are falling behind,

1377
01:49:38.800 --> 01:49:44.760
you know, in case. I
mean, there's so I'm watching jiu Jitsu

1378
01:49:44.840 --> 01:49:46.479
Kaism right now, and the of
course you are. Yeah, and the

1379
01:49:46.640 --> 01:49:55.000
arc that's taking place right now takes
place on Halloween, so okay, I

1380
01:49:55.079 --> 01:49:59.000
mean I believe you. That's awesome. And yeah, so they were there.

1381
01:49:59.199 --> 01:50:03.720
It's like a they're somewhere in Tokyo
or in Shibuya and there's like,

1382
01:50:04.000 --> 01:50:08.039
you know, big like street party
and then everybody gets killed. Yeah,

1383
01:50:08.680 --> 01:50:11.720
all right. Well, and if
people want to know more or love anime

1384
01:50:11.800 --> 01:50:15.000
as much as you do, they
should check out your podcast Michelle explains anime

1385
01:50:15.159 --> 01:50:18.960
poorly. I guess I think they
should. It's a good podcast. I

1386
01:50:19.039 --> 01:50:21.359
listen. I listened to it as
long as it's something I've already seen,

1387
01:50:21.399 --> 01:50:24.960
because I don't want to spoil anything. Yeah, so I've been listening to

1388
01:50:25.039 --> 01:50:28.600
your cover of re Zero, which
I'm really enjoying. Thanks. Now,

1389
01:50:28.760 --> 01:50:34.600
let's head back to Europa for to
see how the Netherlands celebrate Halloween with Sint

1390
01:50:34.800 --> 01:50:41.279
Marktin Halloween in the Netherlands is a
small Netherlands is a small affair, seen

1391
01:50:41.319 --> 01:50:46.239
as evidence of americanization and commercialism rather
than as a cultural institution. Oh yeah,

1392
01:50:46.239 --> 01:50:48.520
and the Netherlands, they're like,
we're too good for that, as

1393
01:50:48.560 --> 01:50:54.800
they ride their bicycles and fail to
stop hitler or whatever it is they do

1394
01:50:54.960 --> 01:50:59.880
for fun. Despite this, shades
of Halloween can be seen in the why

1395
01:51:00.239 --> 01:51:04.159
parties dotted around Amsterdam. However,
on November eleventh, the Dutch hold Sint

1396
01:51:04.239 --> 01:51:10.439
Martin, a children's feast day that
resembles American Halloween, yet is more widely

1397
01:51:10.600 --> 01:51:15.039
practiced. On the evening of the
eleventh, children can be spotted on the

1398
01:51:15.079 --> 01:51:18.600
streets. Not unlike trick or treaters, the children typically carry lanterns that resemble

1399
01:51:18.640 --> 01:51:24.800
sugar beets or turnips, reminiscent of
American jackal lannards, which that's actually using

1400
01:51:24.880 --> 01:51:30.359
like turnips and beats, is more
traditional jack lanterns of Ireland. Yeah.

1401
01:51:30.920 --> 01:51:33.279
As they wander the streets, the
children will knock on doors and sing songs

1402
01:51:33.359 --> 01:51:36.840
to their neighbors and the hope of
receiving candies. So it sounds like they're

1403
01:51:36.880 --> 01:51:40.640
like, we don't like Halloween,
that's stupid. And American and then they

1404
01:51:40.720 --> 01:51:43.399
just do their own Halloween ten days
later. Yeah, like anyway, let's

1405
01:51:43.439 --> 01:51:47.279
put on costumes and go get candy
from strangers. Yeah, Netherlands, you

1406
01:51:47.439 --> 01:51:53.640
just made the list. No,
and now to top off the list,

1407
01:51:54.359 --> 01:52:02.279
we head to my ancestral homeland,
Portugal. Yeah, didas Brujas, which

1408
01:52:02.319 --> 01:52:05.399
would be Day of the Witches.
I could translate that without even looking.

1409
01:52:06.800 --> 01:52:12.399
But Day of the Witches is the
equivalent of Halloween and Portugal. The holiday

1410
01:52:12.479 --> 01:52:15.680
shares many of its traditional roots with
Halloween. Trigger treating is a staple of

1411
01:52:15.720 --> 01:52:21.000
Diadas Brujas, but children ask for
bread, fruits, or nuts instead of

1412
01:52:21.079 --> 01:52:28.239
candy. I wonder how like not
fat the kids in Portugal are families also

1413
01:52:28.359 --> 01:52:30.880
visit the graves of deceased relatives on
the Day of the Witches. They adorn

1414
01:52:30.960 --> 01:52:36.439
the graves with flowers and candles to
honor their ancestors. Okay, so that's

1415
01:52:36.479 --> 01:52:40.640
pretty interesting. I mean they all
have a similar element. But I really

1416
01:52:40.760 --> 01:52:43.439
love that, Like Asian countries are
like, hey, we're gonna just we're

1417
01:52:43.439 --> 01:52:45.640
gonna run with this real quick,
you know, like we're gonna have fun

1418
01:52:45.680 --> 01:52:49.840
with this, all right. I
love that. Yeah makes me happy.

1419
01:52:50.199 --> 01:52:56.439
So Michelle, have you decided you're
going to borrow anything from the way that

1420
01:52:56.560 --> 01:53:03.800
other nations and other cultures are celebrating. Sure, well, I mean if

1421
01:53:03.800 --> 01:53:06.439
you refuse to have fun or refuse
to decorate very much, I guess you

1422
01:53:06.479 --> 01:53:14.319
could say you're having a very French
Halloween. I could so exaltique, but

1423
01:53:14.399 --> 01:53:17.079
then I have to go to like
church or something. Yeah, that's that

1424
01:53:17.159 --> 01:53:24.560
Part's not so fun. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm gonna borrow eating fruits and

1425
01:53:24.680 --> 01:53:29.640
nuts and say that I'm having dia
brutas. Yeah, it's mine. I'm

1426
01:53:29.720 --> 01:53:33.720
taking it back. Yeah. All
right, Well that is our little topics.

1427
01:53:33.760 --> 01:53:35.920
So we're gonna take a quick break
and we're gonna come back and talk

1428
01:53:35.960 --> 01:53:40.760
about some horror media. I've been
checking out maybe a couple of spooky things

1429
01:53:40.800 --> 01:53:43.199
from Reddit, and then we're going
to get out of here for the month

1430
01:53:43.239 --> 01:53:47.840
and get ready for the spooky season. I am excited and tired. We'll

1431
01:53:47.880 --> 01:53:59.880
be right back after these messages,
and we are back here, wrapping up

1432
01:54:00.039 --> 01:54:05.039
Monthly Spooky yet again and heading into
another year of Weekly Spooky. You know,

1433
01:54:05.119 --> 01:54:10.920
on the thirty first of October,
it will be four years I think

1434
01:54:11.159 --> 01:54:15.560
that I launched Weekly Spooky. Wow, Yeah. Time flies when you're having

1435
01:54:15.640 --> 01:54:24.640
spooky fun. Yeah. Yeah.
So anyway, speaking of spooky fun,

1436
01:54:26.119 --> 01:54:29.039
I did go to the theater the
other day and see a scary movie.

1437
01:54:29.640 --> 01:54:35.920
Ooh. I went and saw Haunting
in Venice, which is one of the

1438
01:54:36.079 --> 01:54:42.199
Rakule Parro movies. The Detective,
the fictional Detective from Murder and the Organ

1439
01:54:42.239 --> 01:54:45.399
Express and stuff like that. Have
you ever seen or read any of those

1440
01:54:45.399 --> 01:54:51.399
books. No, he's a fascinating
character. He's basically got like severe anxiety

1441
01:54:51.479 --> 01:54:56.359
and an obsessive compulsive disorder, and
that's why he's able to solve crime.

1442
01:54:56.439 --> 01:55:00.359
So well, that's kind of what
they establish. There's a great part Haunting

1443
01:55:00.399 --> 01:55:02.359
in Venice where they ask him like
how do you do what you're doing?

1444
01:55:02.359 --> 01:55:06.159
He's like, I make this and
be pragmatic and also and after meant much

1445
01:55:06.239 --> 01:55:12.239
consideration and some extinguishing of my soul, I solve the problem. Like it's

1446
01:55:12.279 --> 01:55:15.600
so it's so good. But in
this one, or Kill Perrot has now

1447
01:55:15.760 --> 01:55:19.079
retired from solving mysteries, which is
something he does a lot. He retires

1448
01:55:19.119 --> 01:55:21.920
a lot because he gets tired of, you know, seeing the worst of

1449
01:55:23.039 --> 01:55:30.920
humankind. But he agrees to go
to a seance on Halloween night in Venice

1450
01:55:30.640 --> 01:55:33.359
because an old friend of his is
like, please come and see that this

1451
01:55:33.840 --> 01:55:38.960
psychic medium is real, and I
want you to witness it so you can

1452
01:55:39.039 --> 01:55:42.960
see for yourself, and I don't
want to spoil too much. But he

1453
01:55:43.079 --> 01:55:45.439
does discover that, like this person's
a fraud and they have like it's really

1454
01:55:45.479 --> 01:55:47.560
funny. Actually, at one point
she does this thing where like she stands

1455
01:55:47.600 --> 01:55:51.119
in front of a typewriter and it
writes things without her touching it, but

1456
01:55:51.239 --> 01:55:55.000
her hands are over it and they're
like whoa, and then he goes hold

1457
01:55:55.079 --> 01:55:59.399
on. Then he runs over to
a to a fireplace and just hits it

1458
01:55:59.520 --> 01:56:01.600
really hard. The guy falls out
of the chimney and he's like God.

1459
01:56:01.760 --> 01:56:04.119
He's like, look, he has
a controller and he like presses it and

1460
01:56:04.199 --> 01:56:10.600
makes the keys press. It's really
funny. And then he goes judging by

1461
01:56:10.680 --> 01:56:13.239
your eyes, you are the half
brother of her other assistant, and they

1462
01:56:13.279 --> 01:56:15.159
both have green eyes and they're both
like, oh, it's so good.

1463
01:56:15.279 --> 01:56:21.199
I love I love qu Pero.
But somebody ends up dying in the house.

1464
01:56:21.800 --> 01:56:26.039
So Paro does what he always does
and locks the place down and says,

1465
01:56:26.079 --> 01:56:30.359
nobody is leaving until I solve this
crime, which is a very common

1466
01:56:30.439 --> 01:56:34.600
element of Paro stories, is that
nobody leaves until the crime is solved.

1467
01:56:34.840 --> 01:56:40.720
Yeah, but then some creepy stuff
starts happening, and it starts becoming apparent

1468
01:56:40.800 --> 01:56:43.960
that maybe they're actually ghosts here,
which Paro does not believe in ghosts.

1469
01:56:45.960 --> 01:56:49.560
The thing about this movie is I
was expecting I like all of the Paro

1470
01:56:49.760 --> 01:56:55.680
movies and books, but I was
expecting kind of like a murder mystery,

1471
01:56:55.760 --> 01:57:00.880
and instead I got a murder mystery
that is like dripping with how Halloween spooky

1472
01:57:00.000 --> 01:57:05.399
stuff. I mean, it takes
place on Halloween night. So the way

1473
01:57:05.399 --> 01:57:09.960
it opens is with this whole story
about how the building that they're in used

1474
01:57:09.960 --> 01:57:13.000
to be an orphanage and then when
the plague happened, they just locked all

1475
01:57:13.000 --> 01:57:15.880
the orphans in and let them die. Oh my god. And the way

1476
01:57:15.960 --> 01:57:19.079
it's told is through a type of
storytelling that's gone away. But it's a

1477
01:57:19.520 --> 01:57:24.079
shadow puppetry, so you have like
these shadow puppets being projected on a blanket

1478
01:57:24.119 --> 01:57:26.960
and all these crazy things are happening. Is it's super creepy and fun.

1479
01:57:27.920 --> 01:57:30.039
I was not expecting the most Halloween
e movie I've seen so far in the

1480
01:57:30.119 --> 01:57:35.279
theater to be something I saw in
September that isn't even entirely a horror movie,

1481
01:57:36.640 --> 01:57:40.880
and it was awesome. I enjoyed
the hell out of it. I'm

1482
01:57:40.920 --> 01:57:43.239
so glad I went to see it. I'm sad to say it's not doing

1483
01:57:43.359 --> 01:57:46.199
very well at the box office.
So if you're hearing my voice and you

1484
01:57:46.319 --> 01:57:50.119
have the opportunity to see a Haunting
in Venice in the theater rushing, go

1485
01:57:50.239 --> 01:57:55.359
see it. It is a perfect
primer for the Halloween season. I had

1486
01:57:55.399 --> 01:57:58.960
a great time with it, and, like a lot of good pro mysteries,

1487
01:57:59.279 --> 01:58:01.119
I solved. I thought I solved
the mystery, and then I realized

1488
01:58:01.119 --> 01:58:05.720
I'd only solved half of it.
I think that's the best move is to

1489
01:58:05.800 --> 01:58:09.720
have like half of it solved by
the audience, but the other half is

1490
01:58:09.800 --> 01:58:15.039
what Pero solves, the more complicated
part. Okay, so really enjoyed it.

1491
01:58:15.479 --> 01:58:18.800
Highly recommended, and uh yeah,
Haunting in Venice. But I haven't

1492
01:58:18.840 --> 01:58:21.880
seen anything else horror wise in the
theater in a hot minute. But there's

1493
01:58:21.880 --> 01:58:27.119
a lot coming out. In October. We have five nights at Freddie's the

1494
01:58:27.199 --> 01:58:32.039
movie We have The Exorcist Believer,
which is a new Exorcist movie that takes

1495
01:58:32.079 --> 01:58:34.399
place. It's a sequel. It
takes place, like you know, however

1496
01:58:34.479 --> 01:58:38.960
many years forty fifty years after the
first one, and they're bringing back the

1497
01:58:39.039 --> 01:58:42.039
mom from it, which I'm really
excited about because I've always loved the Exorcist.

1498
01:58:42.760 --> 01:58:46.039
We just have lots and lots of
cool spooky stuff coming good. So

1499
01:58:47.399 --> 01:58:51.239
but yeah, so that's all I've
got for horror media coming in October.

1500
01:58:51.560 --> 01:58:56.159
So far, Chell, what about
you? What do you got for us?

1501
01:58:56.239 --> 01:59:00.359
From Reddit? So, I have
a couple I don't like totally love

1502
01:59:00.479 --> 01:59:05.479
them, but I think people just
suck at telling stories right now, okay,

1503
01:59:05.600 --> 01:59:11.560
but so, so I have two
things from the Glitch in the Matrix

1504
01:59:11.880 --> 01:59:16.600
Sufreddit one. The first one is, so there was this I guess this

1505
01:59:16.760 --> 01:59:20.520
is like not in the US,
somewhere in like the UK or something.

1506
01:59:21.119 --> 01:59:26.640
There's this person and they're going to
go on like a like a walking tour.

1507
01:59:27.399 --> 01:59:30.600
Like there's a group people going on
walking tour. And before the walking

1508
01:59:30.680 --> 01:59:35.960
tour, like there's one of those
like uh restrooms, public restrooms. It's

1509
01:59:36.000 --> 01:59:43.119
and it's like a like a little
thing mihone, Yeah, like where you

1510
01:59:43.199 --> 01:59:45.439
book your microphone. It's like one
of those boxes and you go inside I

1511
01:59:45.520 --> 01:59:47.720
think you have to pay for it
or whatever, and then you and then

1512
01:59:47.840 --> 01:59:50.880
like when you come at it cleans
itself. Kind of deal. Okay,

1513
01:59:51.279 --> 01:59:55.159
So they're all waiting in line because
it's like the whole I guess group going

1514
01:59:55.199 --> 01:59:58.640
on tours, like I maybe we
should pee. So they're waiting in line

1515
01:59:58.840 --> 02:00:03.880
and there's this woman and in like
a couple people in front of the the

1516
02:00:05.600 --> 02:00:11.600
poster, and she goes in.
It's like an older woman goes in the

1517
02:00:11.680 --> 02:00:15.279
bathroom, and they're like waiting and
waiting and waiting, and she doesn't come

1518
02:00:15.319 --> 02:00:19.640
out, and they're like, what's
going on? So I guess the next

1519
02:00:19.680 --> 02:00:26.000
person in line goes to check and
it's unlocked and no one's inside. And

1520
02:00:26.399 --> 02:00:29.680
it wasn't just her, it was
multiple people who saw this. They and

1521
02:00:29.760 --> 02:00:35.159
they didn't see the woman again ever, So what happened? I don't know

1522
02:00:35.720 --> 02:00:39.399
that one, I mean, and
that one I get why. That would

1523
02:00:39.399 --> 02:00:42.760
be extra freaky because I feel like
everybody was paying very close attention to when

1524
02:00:42.760 --> 02:00:48.840
it was their turn to use.
Yeah, I mean, the most logical

1525
02:00:48.880 --> 02:00:54.399
thing would be that she somehow flushed
herself. Yeah somebody. Some people were

1526
02:00:54.479 --> 02:00:59.800
saying that like when you go out, like the floor opens up to like

1527
02:01:00.199 --> 02:01:03.279
and then like maybe she fell under
the floor and died, so we can

1528
02:01:03.359 --> 02:01:06.840
hope, right yea, yea,
hopefully it's that and not a glitch in

1529
02:01:06.880 --> 02:01:11.159
the matrix. Guy. Yeah,
uh no, that one would throw me

1530
02:01:11.319 --> 02:01:14.600
too, And I'd also be like
confused and annoyed because I'd be like,

1531
02:01:14.680 --> 02:01:16.880
man, I was waiting for nothing, but also I positive I saw somebody

1532
02:01:16.960 --> 02:01:21.000
go in there. Of course,
it really only takes one person to be

1533
02:01:21.079 --> 02:01:25.960
mistaken to kind of make everybody else
mistaken. Sure, you know what I

1534
02:01:26.000 --> 02:01:27.479
mean, Like if one person's like, oh no, no, a lady

1535
02:01:27.479 --> 02:01:29.239
went in, they're like, oh
yeah, yeah, ladies in there,

1536
02:01:29.560 --> 02:01:31.079
you know, like our brains kind
of fill in the blanks very quickly.

1537
02:01:32.079 --> 02:01:34.840
Yeah, I mean, I agree. I do think it's weird in this

1538
02:01:34.960 --> 02:01:40.000
situation because I've never been I've never
been to like a public toilet and been

1539
02:01:40.119 --> 02:01:43.640
wrong that there's someone in there,
Like there's either someone in there or they're

1540
02:01:43.680 --> 02:01:45.960
not. They're not, you know, so it's a little bit weird.

1541
02:01:46.439 --> 02:01:51.239
No, that's strange, I would
have to agree. Huh, Yeah,

1542
02:01:51.399 --> 02:01:55.399
I don't know. I mean,
well, last time I went to the

1543
02:01:55.399 --> 02:02:00.560
Mahoning drive and I went to open
a porta john and the person not lock

1544
02:02:00.640 --> 02:02:03.680
it, which it felt horrible.
Yeah. I opened it right as they

1545
02:02:03.680 --> 02:02:05.359
were like getting ready to pop a
squat, and I was like, I'm

1546
02:02:05.399 --> 02:02:09.760
so sorry, but they all have
to just turn the thing. Yeah.

1547
02:02:10.560 --> 02:02:14.359
Yeah. Have you seen the meme
that somebody drew inside of a porta john

1548
02:02:14.399 --> 02:02:16.439
where it says like a frowny face
when you turn it to lock, and

1549
02:02:16.479 --> 02:02:19.159
it says poop alone with a frowny
face, and then open it says poop

1550
02:02:19.159 --> 02:02:24.920
with friends with a smiley face.
I have not. Oh, it's as

1551
02:02:24.920 --> 02:02:30.159
a treasure. What's the most terrifying
public bathroom experience you've ever had? Is

1552
02:02:30.239 --> 02:02:35.000
it? All of them? My
money's on all of them. I don't

1553
02:02:35.319 --> 02:02:40.680
I don't know. I don't think
that they're usually that terrifying. Most of

1554
02:02:40.800 --> 02:02:47.000
my most terrifying public bathroom experiences have
happened in non public bathrooms in like people's

1555
02:02:47.039 --> 02:02:54.720
houses. Oh really, where they're
like terrifying because they are incredibly unclean and

1556
02:02:54.800 --> 02:03:00.399
I don't know what to do.
Yeah, I get that. But one

1557
02:03:00.439 --> 02:03:03.000
time there was a bathroom I think
it was like a McDonald's, and there

1558
02:03:03.079 --> 02:03:08.039
was spamming on the floor. And
that was really terrifying. So that was

1559
02:03:09.279 --> 02:03:14.199
that's that's the worst for me.
I So in my many travels throughout the

1560
02:03:14.239 --> 02:03:17.560
country, I got really good at
talking my way into employee only bathrooms.

1561
02:03:17.840 --> 02:03:23.279
Oh. I successfully did that at
least three or four times. Wow,

1562
02:03:23.880 --> 02:03:26.720
I know, I'm impressed even now
saying yeah, they'd be like, I'm

1563
02:03:26.720 --> 02:03:28.640
sorry, we don't have a public
bathroom, be like, well, I

1564
02:03:29.039 --> 02:03:30.560
know, but like, you know, I've been driving a long way and

1565
02:03:31.000 --> 02:03:33.479
you know I've already made you like
I try to make them laugh a few

1566
02:03:33.520 --> 02:03:35.760
times before I even asked. I'd
be like, yeah, you know,

1567
02:03:35.840 --> 02:03:39.479
is there anybody I could just steak
back there really quick? It's no big

1568
02:03:39.560 --> 02:03:42.399
deal, and then eventually go yeah, sure, and then I just steal

1569
02:03:42.479 --> 02:03:45.960
everything. Yeah yeah, I just
leave with the cow old cash register.

1570
02:03:45.239 --> 02:03:48.239
No, but I've talked my way
several times on my way to New Jersey

1571
02:03:48.319 --> 02:03:53.960
off of off of eleven I think
it is. I've been like, we're

1572
02:03:54.000 --> 02:03:58.279
eleven and seventy eight meat, I've
I've like talked my way into at least

1573
02:03:58.319 --> 02:04:01.680
three bathrooms. Wow. Usually it's
not because they have no public restrooms.

1574
02:04:01.720 --> 02:04:05.239
That they have a public restroom and
it's either occupied or out of order,

1575
02:04:06.439 --> 02:04:09.479
and then I kind of just go
like, you know, like I just

1576
02:04:09.520 --> 02:04:12.520
bought a bunch of gas, and
I just was hoping I could just make

1577
02:04:12.560 --> 02:04:15.479
a quick stop so don't have to
stop again. You know, usually I

1578
02:04:15.680 --> 02:04:19.239
usually can get in there. Good
for you. Yeah, I live a

1579
02:04:19.319 --> 02:04:26.039
charmed life. Yeah, anything else
from Reddit? Okay, I have one

1580
02:04:26.119 --> 02:04:29.039
more. Okay, and I'm gonna
try to No, I'll just look at

1581
02:04:29.079 --> 02:04:30.399
it, okay. I mean,
you know, it's it's your world.

1582
02:04:30.439 --> 02:04:34.840
I'm just living in it. No. But so, so there's this person,

1583
02:04:36.119 --> 02:04:43.079
I think, some guy and he
he like gets up for work and

1584
02:04:43.479 --> 02:04:49.000
he he like goes to work and
get like he gets his stuff and his

1585
02:04:49.119 --> 02:04:54.159
commune's forty minutes. He listening to
like a podcast, No, he listened

1586
02:04:54.159 --> 02:05:00.319
to an album, and he's going
there. And so we just drove to

1587
02:05:00.399 --> 02:05:05.239
work normally. There was some traffic. He gets to work and he gets

1588
02:05:05.279 --> 02:05:10.279
out of the car and realizes he's
home. He did not go to work,

1589
02:05:11.760 --> 02:05:16.640
even though it took him forty minutes. Oh boy. And yeah,

1590
02:05:17.439 --> 02:05:23.359
he's just kind of like what happened
to me? Because I definitely went somewhere.

1591
02:05:23.399 --> 02:05:26.239
He listened to the whole album Oh
Wait, and I think like he

1592
02:05:26.680 --> 02:05:30.560
responded, Like his wife texted him
at some point and he responded to her.

1593
02:05:30.880 --> 02:05:32.840
So he was like alive and doing
things for forty minutes, but he

1594
02:05:32.960 --> 02:05:40.279
just got home instead of going to
work. Yeah, I mean that one

1595
02:05:41.279 --> 02:05:44.399
feels to me a little bit more
like I kind of understand how that could

1596
02:05:44.439 --> 02:05:47.520
happen, though. Yeah, sometimes
you just go especially when driving the same

1597
02:05:47.600 --> 02:05:50.720
route again and again, you kind
of go into an autopilot kind of mode.

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Yeah, I mean, I agree, I think that's probably what happened.

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02:05:55.720 --> 02:05:58.640
I think he just kind of got
turned around somewhere and then just went

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02:05:59.199 --> 02:06:01.479
driving like he was going home,
like about halfway through the trip or something,

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02:06:01.520 --> 02:06:04.520
if it took forty minutes. But
it is kind of weird that he

1602
02:06:04.600 --> 02:06:10.159
didn't realize at some point because I've
definitely done that where I've started going in

1603
02:06:10.199 --> 02:06:13.399
the wrong direction or gone in the
wrong direction for like a couple of minutes

1604
02:06:13.399 --> 02:06:15.960
and then i realize I don't drive
twenty minutes and then go like, oh,

1605
02:06:16.159 --> 02:06:19.960
I'm home now, Like that's a
little weird. It is a little

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02:06:20.000 --> 02:06:24.920
weird. I mean, have you
ever been driving somewhere and it was on

1607
02:06:25.039 --> 02:06:28.720
the way of a drive you always
make and you just kind of naturally go

1608
02:06:28.840 --> 02:06:30.199
to the wrong place. Yeah.
Yeah, I've done that a couple of

1609
02:06:30.239 --> 02:06:32.760
times. Not a lot, but
I've done that a few times. I

1610
02:06:32.880 --> 02:06:34.960
feel like that's what this is.
I mean, I always feel like I'm

1611
02:06:35.039 --> 02:06:39.159
kind of experienced missing time. If
I'm driving somewhere, I've driven a bunch,

1612
02:06:39.880 --> 02:06:43.239
it's very rare that that drive is
eventful enough to remember. Yeah,

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02:06:44.159 --> 02:06:45.479
And I don't even think it's that
you're not paying attention. I think it's

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02:06:45.520 --> 02:06:49.319
just that like your brain just kind
of files it with all the other drives,

1615
02:06:49.359 --> 02:06:54.600
because why waste the space exactly.
It's I think that's exactly what's happening.

1616
02:06:55.239 --> 02:07:00.560
But I still think you're I mean, you're obviously still alert enough on

1617
02:07:00.640 --> 02:07:03.039
the trip to you know, drive
straight and not get into accidents. So

1618
02:07:03.159 --> 02:07:08.840
I still think it's weird that you
would somehow get turned around and drive for

1619
02:07:08.920 --> 02:07:12.760
twenty minutes before you realize, because
I don't think it's that you're not paying

1620
02:07:12.760 --> 02:07:15.600
attention when you're experiencing like highway hypnosis
or whatever. Yeah, it's just that

1621
02:07:15.720 --> 02:07:20.640
it's not being saved really, So
I still think it's kind of weird.

1622
02:07:21.000 --> 02:07:24.560
No, it's totally weird. And
the big thing is that missing time that

1623
02:07:24.680 --> 02:07:29.479
could be you know, understood by
the album. But then again, who

1624
02:07:29.600 --> 02:07:35.000
listens to whole albums? This guy
does? I do? I live in

1625
02:07:35.039 --> 02:07:40.399
the whole albums? Do you though? Yes? All the time? That's

1626
02:07:40.479 --> 02:07:44.880
weird. No, I mean I'm
happy for it. It just seems it

1627
02:07:44.960 --> 02:07:47.720
seems made up. You have to
because you want to know what they like,

1628
02:07:47.960 --> 02:07:53.439
the what the thought process was.
All the songs work in a certain

1629
02:07:53.520 --> 02:07:57.560
way. Are you sure they didn't
just throw darts at a board to decide

1630
02:07:57.600 --> 02:08:01.479
how to do it? No?
No, no, I I That's the

1631
02:08:01.560 --> 02:08:07.000
only part that throws me for sure
is how did how did they listen to

1632
02:08:07.079 --> 02:08:11.399
this whole album? I mean they
must have gotten turned around at some odd

1633
02:08:11.720 --> 02:08:16.600
point. Yeah, and although you
know, and talking to their their significant

1634
02:08:16.600 --> 02:08:20.359
other or whatever could have affected them
in causing them to get turned around.

1635
02:08:22.079 --> 02:08:26.039
Maybe they were thinking about their significant
other because they communicated, and then that

1636
02:08:26.119 --> 02:08:30.359
made them think that they needed to
go home. I mean maybe who knows,

1637
02:08:31.920 --> 02:08:37.800
or maybe maybe they were in a
public bathroom all along. Oh no,

1638
02:08:39.760 --> 02:08:46.399
with their car, with their whole
car. I'm gonna have to think

1639
02:08:46.439 --> 02:08:52.319
on this one shell. Okay,
So well, is that all you got

1640
02:08:52.439 --> 02:08:54.840
for us? Because I think it's
about time to wrap up the show for

1641
02:08:54.920 --> 02:08:58.199
this month. I want to thank
everybody for joining us for another edition of

1642
02:08:58.239 --> 02:09:01.279
Monthly Spooky. We're gonna have a
big, big, big episode. I

1643
02:09:01.279 --> 02:09:03.600
don't know why it'll be big or
anything, where we'll just try to do

1644
02:09:03.680 --> 02:09:07.079
well, but we'll have a big
one in October because our show will actually

1645
02:09:07.159 --> 02:09:11.960
be airing on Beggar's Night Wow,
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1646
02:09:11.680 --> 02:09:15.239
but in the Midwest, it's the
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1647
02:09:15.279 --> 02:09:18.199
or treat, although lately we've been
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1648
02:09:18.279 --> 02:09:22.000
Nights the night before Halloween. October
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1649
02:09:22.159 --> 02:09:26.960
our show will be on Monday,
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1650
02:09:26.159 --> 02:09:33.159
really help slam home getting into the
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1651
02:09:33.239 --> 02:09:35.920
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1652
02:09:35.920 --> 02:09:37.880
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