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Rats are overrunning an Australian seaside town. Tumbleweeds are coming for you. The

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window came off on your airplane and
Michelle has to improvise an entire scary story

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with me. But she doesn't know
that just yet. Get comfort me,

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turn off the lights. It's monthly
spooky ho ho ho, my spookys.

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It is Christmas Day. See something
Christmas Eve, Michelle, Oh, it

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is Christmas. It is christmall.
We're not recording this on Christmas Day,

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but we're dedicated enough to record this
just before Christmas Day and publish it on

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Christmas Day. Yeah, for the
spookies out there that and I know there

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are some who this will be something
they can enjoy today because Christmas is a

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complicated day. Yeah, you're like, no, it's not, No,

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it's really it really isn't it's just
either about like God or not about God.

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It's about it would be about a
version of God's son, thank you.

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Well, no, but it's about
like God stuff like you know,

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well a very specific one. But
yeah, yeah, well I guess it

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depends how you look at Christianity as
a whole. It might not be that

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specific. And when you consider all
the sects and stuff, but I don't

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know because I'm a secular humanist and
I celebrate Christmas for presents and togetherness.

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Yeah what do you celebrate Christmas for? Is it just for the gifts?

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You selfish jerk? Yeah? No, I don't act because I do.

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I don't have I don't have a
reason. So you do it for you

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do it for consumerism and fun,
for obligation. There we go. Well

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that that'll resonate with some people for
sure, though No. I love Christmas,

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always have. This year's Christmas has
been a little hard because my doggy's

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sick, and on top of all
that, I've been recording like crazy.

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Yeah. I thought that thirty one
shows and thirty one days in October was

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going to be tough, but twenty
five shows in December has been brutal.

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Yeah, of course this is number
twenty five. Hey, well, and

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then I have to do in two
days the New Year's show. But who's

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counting? Not me? But no, no, so it has. It's

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been an exhausting, an exhausting time. And I'm actually when I'm done recording

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this, I'm nearly done working on
the holiday weekly Spooky, so I'll get

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to spend a little bit more time
relaxing and stuff like that. But no,

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the holidays can be a very complex
time. You know. Some people

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have very questionable relationships with their family, or very hard relationships with their family,

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or relationships with the holiday season in
general. Some people just simply have

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to work, you know, because
they're too important. Like when I was

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growing up, two of our family
were police dispatchers, so like a lot

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of times they would be at like
holiday dinner for like forty minutes. Wow,

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yeah, you know, they would
be there. They would like fill

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up a plate, scarf it down, and be like, I gotta go

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because we're needed today. Yeah,
you know. And then there are people

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who work in the service industry who
I am thankful for them because I've spent

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several holidays without anybody to be with, and I'm very thankful for the few

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places that are open to serve sad
sacks like me when the time comes,

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you know. So, but no, So this podcast is for everybody,

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but it's especially for those of you
out there who need a little something to

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put in your ears. You know, you're driving a long distance to be

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with family, or you're working along
shift because you can't be with them.

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Or what have you. I wanted
to put a show on Christmas Day.

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Yeah, that's what it really comes
down to. I wanted to do that

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in case anybody needed it. Good. So, but that all being said.

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Before we came on the air,
Michelle said something very bizarre and upsetting

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to me, and I stopped the
conversation dead and said, we're hitting record.

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So, Michelle, you love cough
syrup? No, I just like

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it. What does that mean?
I just don't. I don't know.

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And I don't mean like I like
doing things and making it into like a

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drug or something. No, No, you mean tasting like drinking it.

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Yeah, that's why it's weird.
Cough not any other time. It wouldn't

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be weird if you liked turning it
into a highly addictive drug or something.

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It's weird that you like it as
intended. Yeah, I think it's pretty

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good. Like it kind of tastes
bad, but I still like it.

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And yet you've never become a liquor
person. No, which I'm pretty sure

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that's like the motto of liquor is
like it tastes bad, but I like

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it. Well, it's just small
doses, you know, literally doses.

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Yeah. Yeah, do you have
a favorite cough syrup. Like, what's

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in your medicine cabinet right now?
I don't know. I don't Actually I

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have cough syrup that's been in my
house for like four years that's not even

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open. I don't even know what
it is. So that's sad. Yeah.

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Yeah, I have been on a
lot of cold and cough medicine.

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Not because I'm sick, but because
I I wrecked my voice from all the

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recording, the weather change combined with
all the talking. Like if you listen

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to like the last couple of Weekly
Spookies before this, you can hear my

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voice has a bit of a bit
more of a manly uh to it that

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is not normally there, you know. Uh yeah, I wish, I

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wish that was my voice, but
it is absolutely not. It is.

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It's just not always, you know, it's also your voice. It's also

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okay, okay, Well, so
I am on the opposite camp. I

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hate cough syrup with a passion,
and I will take any medication that allows

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me to avoid syrup. Oh yeah, it's that bad take. I can't

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stand it. But it makes you
less cough. But also I'm not sure

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if that's true. There might there
might be a case that it doesn't work

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any better than other things. Like
my mom used to always say, you

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should take the syrup version of medications
because it'll coat your throat. So that

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was the reason. But the moment
I became an adult, I switched to

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like nikewell pills when I'm sick,
I switched to like, you don't like

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the pills don't taste like anything?
Oh no, I don't like Nike,

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will neither do I. It's it's
definitely like a a break glass in case

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of complete and utter inability to sleep
because you're sick. Then I just take

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it and I go like, good
night world, don't care anymore? Bye?

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Yeah? Does it make you feel
weird? It makes me feel weird?

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Yeah. I mean I can't take
any of those kind of things,

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so they don't like make me tired, They just make me feel weird.

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So what wait, but you can
take cough syrup. Yeah, it's just

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for coughs. Huh. This is
a very strange turn of events, So

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I understand. Did I mention I
might have broke my pinky toe? No,

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it might be broken. When did
you and how last night I walked

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into something with only my pinky toe. Oh, it still hurts, and

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that makes me think it might be
broken. Is it like like pretty colors

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or what's going on with that?
It's mostly normal now, I'm hoping it,

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but the fact that it still hurts
so badly when I touch it to

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things makes me worry that it's broken. It's possible, I mean, like

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like fracture, like a little little
break, nothing, nothing crazy. I'm

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not fancy. I don't go for
like the big showy broken toes. You

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know, what's the face? Have
you broken a toe before? I believe

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so. Yes. That's the other
problem with broken toes is like for the

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most part, they just tell you, well, walk carefully until it heals.

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Yeah, exactly, Especially with the
little like pinky toe. You can't

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really do anything for that. So
no, it hurts. So that's you

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know, I actually forgot all about
that with everything else that's been going on.

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Forgot. My really hurts. You
can tape it to your the one

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next to it if you want,
for fun, Yeah, just festive to

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stabilize it. Make it. Oh
yeah, humm, I might try that.

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I feel like it's not perfectly level
with my own, so it might

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be hard to do that. Well, I mean, you don't have to

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like pull it in and like you
can just take it where it is.

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I don't know. Michelle is not
a doctor. This is not medical advice.

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But no, no, I I
am fine, do I I mean,

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I'm sure everybody thinks I'm a wreck. And by everybody, I mean

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literally everybody who sees that I'm a
wreck right now. But what can you

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do? Well, obviously you can
podcast, okay, and that's what I'm

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doing. So but I I am
I'm very confused and disturbed by you liking

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cough syrup. That's so odd,
It's okay. I don't understand that you

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don't have a favorite though I don't. I don't like it like that.

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I mean like I feel like,
because I don't like it, I would

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if I had to take it,
I would have a preference. M huh.

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Well, I know what you're gonna
be putting in your eggnog tonight,

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Like just a little a little cough
syrup, just to make it a little

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nicer. I can't afford eggnog.
Oh, you can make eggnog, it's

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not hard. I don't want to
use raggs. Well, you cook them

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a little bit, trusted you temper
the eggs like, that's worse. That

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makes me, It makes me madder. Yeah, no, I'm angry about

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it. Well, with all that
holiday talk behind us, I think we're

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gonna go to a quick break and
then we'll be back with the Spooky News.

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And we are back with the Michelle. Let's say it together on the

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count of three. Okay, one, two, three, the Spooky New

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new Ha. Sorry, the news. Okay, that's what I get for

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trying to have some togetherness for the
holidays. Right. Well, this story

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is from a Huffington Post HuffPost dot
com and it is one of our few

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Spooky newses that is festive for the
holiday. Kentucky family finds baby owl in

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their Christmas tree. Yay souh ooh. And it's in Lexington, that's nearby.

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One Kentucky family got a little something
extra when they picked out their Christmas

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tree this year. A baby owl. I know they should have kept it.

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Yeah, it's not big enough to
cook for dinner though. I guess,

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oh what you think it is?
I don't know. I don't know

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what it looks like. I'm gonna
guess owl doesn't taste very good? Why

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not? Yeah, you're right.
Owl's well that ends well, so I'll

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be sorry and you well owl be
Oh man, this is bad. Uh

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no? Uh? Did when you
were in school, did you have to

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dissect owl pellets? Yeah? Yeah? Gross? Yeah, I mean less

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gross than like dissecting live animals.
At least they've been Where do you dissect

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live animals? What school do you
go to? What? I guess they

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were dead? They used to be
alive. I mean, were you like

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dissecting a frog and the frog was
fighting you for its life? Like she

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was like, come on, mister
toad, don't worry, and it's just

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like flopping? What is? What? Where? What? I have so

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many follow up questions, Michelle a
million follow up questions. Yeah, No,

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I didn't. I didn't do that. New Jersey's weird. Yeah.

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So anyway, Lexington resident Michelle White
told WDKYTV that it's a tradition for the

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family to pick out a Christmas tree
every year, and this year seemed no

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different. They had the tree in
their home for four days and didn't notice

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anything unusual. Oh no, what
the owl was just hanging out in their

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tree in the house for four days
in a nice warmhouse. That's how food.

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You don't know that they didn't have
food in the house. But yeah,

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the baby I was probably just sitting
there starving. Yes, yeah,

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oh man, I have three dogs. White said, we used this room

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NonStop watch TV kitchens right there,
no indication at all. It was so

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scared. Bobby Hayes, who owns
Magic Carpet Cleaning and was at the home

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while the family was out, first
noticed the bird after plugging in a piece

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of equipment and seeing the tree start
to sway. Oh. Quote, the

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owl was literally sitting on a lower
limb here, Hayes said, it crawled

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up into the tree. Further,
Hayes said, it took me several minutes

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to even find out. He sent
photos to White, who said she was

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glad he was here there to deal
with the animal. Hayes said he was

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able to safely release the owl in
the family's backyard. Quote. Everybody's going

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to be able to have a merry
Christmas now, Hayes said, Oh,

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I hope. So at least do
you think that owl could live without well,

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I mean, by baby owl,
it must have been pretty strong if

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it could like sway the tree and
stuff. I mean, I just I

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don't know what baby owl means.
Oh, there's a picture. It's pretty

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big. Does it have like all
its all its feathers and stuff? It

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could fly? Okay, then I'm
not too concerned. My bigger concern is

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that the trees don't always come from
like locally when you when you buy them,

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so like, I just hope it. It's like a habitat. Okay,

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maybe where you are, but around
here we go to the straight to

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the tree farms. You're telling me
you don't just have lots that have trees.

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We do have tree lots, but
most of us go to tree farms.

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All right, I'm I am a
fake tree person. So whatever,

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you're killing trees for your own joy. Yeah. Well, this next story,

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it involves the owl's favorite snack.
This is from NPR, your favorite

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place in the world. Rat plague
hits an Australian coastal town and thousands more

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wash up on shore. So apparently
there is a plague of rats hitting Australia.

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Yay, Well, you don't like
rats. I don't like plagues of

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rats. What are there any plagues
that you're okay with? Or are they

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all pretty much off the table?
I guess I guess the bubonic plague is

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okay. What is with dark Michelle
this week? Gosh, you like the

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bubonic which did sort of involve rats? Yeah, you're right, it did,

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so I probably shouldn't have said that
one. But yeah, sorry Chiicano.

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He's laying here like mad at you. Now. Oh it's okay.

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Did Yeah, I don't know what
to tell you. A plague of rats

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is creating havoc in Karumba, a
small coastal town in Queensland, Australia,

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where hordes of rodents are chewing on
electrical wires and otherwise eating everything they can

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find and washing up dead in massive
numbers, creating a literal stink in the

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community. Wow. Why are they
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I don't know. I'm hoping maybe
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Quote, the stench is quite bad. Carpenteria Shire Council mayor Jack Bowden,

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who saw shire includes Karumba, told
NPR. But if coastal winds prevail,

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he added, it is still livable. Oh god. Yeah. When

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you're judging stink conditions by liveability,
you're having some bad times. The rural

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town isn't alone. Other parts of
western Queensland are also enduring a plague of

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native long haired rats whose population exploded
after copious rainfall boosted plant vegetation across hundreds

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of miles of the inland outback.
Huh okay, So there was a boom

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of food, which I guess caused
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and now they're hungry for more.
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where it's like, we got to
bring in we got to bring in

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snakes to eat all the rats.
But then we'll have all these snakes.

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That's when we bring in apes that
crave delicious snake meat. But then we'll

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have apes all over. The apes
can't survive winter, so they'll all be

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dead by January. Okay, yes, your plans all right? The long

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haired rats eat. The long hair
rat eats shoots and leaves. Have you

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ever heard that joke? No?
I don't know. The long haired rat

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eats shoots and leaves. There's an
old joke about a koala bear being in

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a bar and eating dinner, oh
yeah, and then pulling out a gun

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and shooting a guy and he's like, what are you doing? He's like,

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I'm a Koala bear. Look it
up. And he looks up as

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a koala bear eats, shoots and
leaves. I've just never heard outside of

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that joke something say, eats,
shoots and leaves, Yeah, and then

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leaves for the north seeking more food. Researcher Emma Gray of the School of

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Biology and Environmental Science at Queensland University
of Technology told NPR like an army,

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the massive rats also has a very
effective and literal force multiplier. Gray says

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they can produce twelve young every three
weeks when conditions are good. Wow,

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that's a lot. Yeah, it's
more than either of us. Oh,

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I would think, so, I
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amount of rats, as photos and
video from the scene show, thousands of

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rat carcasses are decaying in and around
Karumba after washing up in clumps on sea

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walls and shorelines. Yeah, jeez, it's not Oh sorry, Oh,

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I still don't get why they're in
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they that these are ones that drown
when they're like getting too bold looking for

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food. Oh, that be my
guess. I mean, when they're already

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thousands upon thousands of them, I
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I'm not a rat expert, but
I can pretend yes, they are

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got it. Uh, it's not
unusual for thousands of visitors to descend on

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Karumba, whose human population numbers in
the hundreds. Oh wow, those annual

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guests. There are gray nomads,
retirees who arrive in campers and RVs,

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drawn by the allure of scenic water
views, fishing and a laid back atmosphere,

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as well as dead rat stench.
Yeah, but alarms were raised earlier

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this year. In July, a
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the public have reported an increased number
of rats and mice. The council

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considered creating a fact cheek about what
the meeting about what the meeting minutes dubbed

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a rat plague. Quote they come
in waves. Karumba resident John Jensen told

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four BC radio station in Brisbane.
They almost seem trained and organized. They're

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in numbers, mate, and they
swim around in the rivers like little puppy

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dogs. Well, now you make
them sound cute. And also now what

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like did they just sometimes they're swimming
and they're like I just want to die

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now, And what's going on?
Are you suggesting that like nothing ever drowns

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that can swim. Yeah, basically, I feel like that might not be

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true. I mean, I don't
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drown if you are swimming than if
you're simply not in the water. I

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think that, I mean, that
would make sense, not trying to play

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the statistics on you. But uh, I think you should look that up

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though, because I don't know.
If I'm ok, I'll google that right

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away. Everywhere they go the rats
eat and eat quote they're angry, it

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says angry. They're angry. They've
swum a long way, They've come across

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land a long way, Jensen said, and they're eating anything and everything they

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can get their hands on. Oh
so they're like literally swimming there together there's

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a river and then they die because
they're starving to death or or from drowning

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or both. Yeah. Rats destroyed
a car by attacking its wiring at Derek

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Lord's rental business in Northminton, near
Karumba, he told Agency France Press.

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The rodents were so bold, he
added, they broke into his ducks cages

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and stole their eggs. Oh wow, yeah, I mean, what if

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they just decide to like lean into
this and they feed the rats. Like,

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what if they take peanut butter and
they put it on the curves so

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the rats can just eat the peanut
butter. That's how you see the problem

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is, then they'll just be even
more rats eventually, you'll be Eventually the

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only solution will be to let them
eat all of us. I mean,

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I guess we could just give them
the island, but then they'll all die

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anyway, So why not we just
keep it? Why don't we just leave

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for a while, But then it's
gonna stink so bad it'll like it.

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It's only gonna stink until they all
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This, I think this might be
why you're not on city council?

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Am I wrong? That's not what
the reason people told me they was,

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Oh what was the reason they told
you that? Uh, there were better

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they're just better candidates. Nothing to
hold against me, But they like were

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really really like cagey about it,
and they didn't want to talk to me

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very hard. Was it because all
you talked about was rats? I mean,

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no, I didn't just talk about
rats, but I did talk about

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rats a lot. Okay, Sorry, I didn't mean to misquote you.

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Were make you look like a loon. Yeah. I also talked about nuclear

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weapons, which is important. We
don't have any in my town, but

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we could get some. But well, and if you don't have any nuclear

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weapons in your town and the rats
did have nuclear weapons, you'd be at

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a darken disadvantage. That would be
bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Uh. You can't even escape them. Out on the water, rats have

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been scampering up anchor chains of charter
and fishing boats. Commercial fisherman Brett Fallon

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has been seeing quote at least one
hundred rats a night on his boat.

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Oh god, that's freaky. Imagine
like you see all that and you're like,

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I'm just gonna go out on my
boat for some peace, and then

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the rats are just climbing up the
sides. You're like, I think I'm

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supposed to leave forever. Yeah,
sounds like like a horror movie from the

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nineties. Yeah. Queensland's topography,
with a river system that twists its way

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to the northern coast, funnels the
roadents towards the shore, and dead or

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alive hordes of them arrive In Karumba, a fishing import community on the Gulf

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of Carpentaria, got the quote,
the rats hit the Norman River and just

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start swimming where the tide and the
currents take a huge number out to see.

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Mayor Bowden said, being hearty little
buggers. High numbers reach the other

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side in Karumba. I like how
I'm trying not to use an Australian accent

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and be rude, but then they
just talk like Australians too. Once they've

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arrived. There's little anyone can do
to curtail the plague. Traps have been

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set up, he said, but
in the face of such multitudes, the

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measure really is a token gesture.
The best the government can do, he

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said, is to sweep bodies of
rats away to keep walkaways and boat ramps

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passable. They've decided the best way
to deal with this is just to sweep

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the sidewalks in streets. Yeah,
Holy moly. Animal control ranger Phil Greeve

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has been collecting dead rats by the
hundred and that's why no one wants to

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have dinner with him. Oh wait, no, size is that it's and

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that's how many can fit in each
disposal bag, he told TV station ten

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News First Queensland. Wow, first
day, I got eighteen, So that's

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eighteen hundred rats. He said,
wow, wow, Yeah, I'm kind

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of speechless. But there is some
theories about when the plague will end and

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how it can come to an end, and we'll get to that right after

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this quick break, and we're back
with more spooky news as we are finding

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out how to end this literal plague. Usually, when you hear the word

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plague involving animals, insects, whatever, outside of the Bible, it's not

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literal, it's kind of somewhat figurative. But this sounds like a literal plague

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of rats. The fact that they
have to sweep the sidewalks to be passable

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because of all the dead bodies.
Yeah, it's pretty bad. Yeah,

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dead bodies of rats, not of
like the humans that they're killing. That

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comes later. There's not that many
humans on the island, so they probably

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wouldn't have to sweep the streets,
that's true. Is this that reminds me

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vaguely? There was this movie called
Wild Beasts and it was a movie about

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this. It was this crazy I
think it was made in Germany, foreign

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movie from the seventies or eighties,
and in it, somebody poisons the waters

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aqueduct with pcp ooh, and it
goes into the animal cages at the zoo

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and all the animals go completely insane
and just start attacking everything and everybody.

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Okay, and the rats like are
just like eating people alive in their cars.

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Wow. The rats aren't from the
zoo, but they were just like

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in the aqueduct. Okay. So
they go crazy and start eating people,

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and the way they fight them off
is with a flamethrower. Okay. Yeah,

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it's like the only thing that gets
them to scatter. Okay, I

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guess they could use a flamethrower in
this situation too. Yeah, but unfortunately

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they don't have the right to any
weapons, so they just got to give

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those rats to stand talking to Yeah, Oi, get out of here.

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The ratters like, He's like,
uh, scroll a little bugger. Anyway.

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So, when asked when the plague
will be over, here's what the

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article has to say to the lay
person. A plague of rats might seem

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to signal the apocalypse, but Gray
says the long haired rats arrive in cycles.

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Quote this fun none is a natural
process that occurs at irregular intervals,

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ranging from three to seventeen years.
Okay, it doesn't sound the intervals to

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me. It just sounds like sometimes
just wild shit happens, but that's just

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me. The last large rat migration
or eruption in the region, Gray said,

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happened around twelve years ago, but
records of them go back for centuries.

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Yeah, so they it's it's real, okay, So everybody who's living

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there just should know better. They
should be like, you know, this

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place is great? Why is it
so cheap? And then the the realator's

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like, I don't know anything about
the rats, and they're like what And

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they're like, what what about rats? Nothing? I have no idea.

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I don't even know what a rat
is. Are we just making up words?

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Now? As quote as quickly as
the rats erupt or boom in numbers,

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so do they decline or bust?
Grace said. The decline can be

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linked to several factors, from a
change to dry conditions, to increases in

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inbreeding and disease and predators that feast
on the rodent influx. Feral cats,

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for instance, are eating very well. It sounds like there are so many

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rats. I would imagine they're just
eating the cats first. But maybe that's

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just my own like fear. Yeah, that's how they signaled in that movie

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Wild beasts that the rats were completely
out of control. Was they ate a

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cat? God Like, there's like
this big cali rash and then they all

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just jump on and start eating it
alive. Oh, rats generally quote a

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quote. Generally during a rat eruption, the area also sees a significant increase

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in the number of predatory birds,
such as letter winged kites, black shouldered

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kites and eastern barn owls. Gray
said to Bowden the mayor, the rats

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are quote a nasty quirk of nature, and nature usually cleans up its own

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mess, does it, okare?
He added, quote this year we have

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them in all their glory and can't
wait for them to disappear. Okay.

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The long haired rat's alternate name is
plague rat. According to Queensland government website.

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Huh the rats conversation conservation status,
as you might guess, is at

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least concern. Yeah. So those
are rats plaguing Australia. Okay, but

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it sounds like they're familiar with this, So I'm not not too worried now,

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Okay, good. As long as
you're not worried, I think everybody

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will be okay. Okay, So
do you want to guess where this story's

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from Mirror dot co dot uk Close
Mirror dot co dot uk. Wait what

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did you say? No? Uh
uh? This one caught my attention.

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It says ghost hunters left sick after
encounter at one of UK's most haunted buildings.

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Oh okay, I'm hoping the story
isn't just that, like he got

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a cold after being there or something, which might be that's stomach by viruses.

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It does say sick in air quotes, so I'm not sure. Let's

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find out. A group of paranormal
hunters were left feeling quote sick after they

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were reportedly confronted by a bad mouthed
ghost after they stepped inside a haunted nunnery.

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Oh TikTok hunter? Do they hunt
tiktoks? Yeah? TikTok hunter.

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Tonyson Ferguson said he was left stunned
by the spooky encounter, which allegedly took

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place in the nunnery in Ranleigh rain
A Lay Ranalog Rainolog Road, Malvern,

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the Midlands. He claimed a ghost
swore at his team and said they heard

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a bizarre dragging noise inside the Victorian
building when they visited on December ninth.

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Okay, could have been crampis December
isn't December eighth Crampus day. I don't

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know. Oh my gosh. Now
I have to find out because my audience

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will be like, you don't know
crampas day, crampis knocked. Oh it's

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December fifth. I was trying day. So now it's probably not crampus at

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all. Eh. I can't lie. I pretty much always guess crampis.

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You know it'll be It'll be the
middle of July and it'll be like,

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ah, I think I have athletes
putting on like crampis. Yeah. The

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eerie site, which dates back to
eighteen seventy nine, is a huge plot

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where more than two hundred and fifty
nuns were believed to have once lived.

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It was forced to shut down in
the mid nineteen eighties when numbers dropped,

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but the abandoned building remains a remnant
of the past and has been dubbed one

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00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:45.200
of the country's most haunted places.
Right, you know, I mean the

404
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:47.880
UK seems to be full of haunted
places, like just chalk full of them.

405
00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:53.039
Tony and his fellow paranormal investigators visited
the landmark to find out if long

406
00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:59.000
standing claims of the nunnery and its
substantial grounds being haunted were true, he

407
00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:01.079
said. Quote, while we were
all together in the basement area, we

408
00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:06.000
all heard a dragging sound above us. Natalie said she had never heard anything

409
00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:10.119
like it before. We then began
our investigation and were shocked to hear tapping

410
00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:15.559
noises, banging doors, disembodied voices
telling us to fuck off, get out.

411
00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:22.880
We even had responses to some of
our questions. The group's devices reportedly

412
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:28.960
responded to the paranormal activity with beeps
during their exploration of the nunnery. They

413
00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:34.200
do that. Tony described it as
a phenomenal sight. So, as a

414
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:39.839
professional home inspector, Michelle, what
do you think is causing dragging noises from

415
00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:44.599
above? They're below, they're on
a lower floor, and this house is

416
00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:50.480
extremely old. I mean, the
only thing mostly nothing makes dragging noises.

417
00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:55.079
So like maybe yeah, maybe a
window was open and it was blowing something

418
00:33:55.279 --> 00:34:00.680
across the floor and they were hearing
Like besides that, I assume just somebody

419
00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:13.440
dragging something. Oh, Chell,
always the skeptic. What about tapping noises?

420
00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:16.559
Oh, I could be literally anything, you know, Like it could

421
00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:23.239
be the wood could be expanding or
contracting because of the temperature, and they

422
00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:30.519
could mistake it for tapping something like
that, what oh sorry? Or little

423
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:35.800
bits of plaster falling from the ceiling. Okay, what about banging doors?

424
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:44.039
Maybe the doors aren't balanced correctly,
so they slam because they when they're opened,

425
00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:47.199
they are just predisposed to close because
you know, well and this is

426
00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:52.280
a Victorian house, so the doors
are probably super duper heavy. What about

427
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:58.400
disembodied voices telling them to fuck off
and get out? Squatters? Oh,

428
00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:05.599
I really thought you were gonna you
were gonna be like water damage, black

429
00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:08.880
mold. Yeah, just the way
you started it, I really thought you

430
00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:20.719
were about to say something totally normal
water heater quote. We had responses from

431
00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:23.960
several devices that we had around the
rooms when asking questions, added Tony,

432
00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:29.480
we heard footsteps coming up the stairs
whilst we were in the upper floors investigating.

433
00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:32.800
We had investigators starting to feel sick
and uncomfortable and wanting to leave the

434
00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:37.719
room. Now, that could be
mold, right, Michelle, I guess

435
00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:43.440
back to the quote. We had
investigators starting to feel safe. Sorry,

436
00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:47.199
the nunnery left us with many things
we could not explain. Even Natalie was

437
00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:51.760
shocked when she heard the dragging noise
across the floor as we were all together.

438
00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:54.559
She could not offer an explanation for
this, he added. We were

439
00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:59.480
all shocked by the paranoral activity,
added Tony, but we hoped to return

440
00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:02.920
in the future to see if we
can capture more evidence or try to debunk

441
00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:08.239
what we encountered. Okay, so
they didn't really get sick, They just

442
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:12.760
got scared. Yeah, they just
got a little sick in their tummy tums,

443
00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:15.320
I guess. Oh, well,
you know, I mean that happens.

444
00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:21.920
So but what would you sorry what? Oh, I was just gonna

445
00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:24.039
say, it would be really hard
for me on a on a like a

446
00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:30.000
ghost investigation to know if I felt
sick from the place or just myself,

447
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:35.719
because you're always nauseous. Yeah,
but also I have really bad anxiety,

448
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:38.360
so who knows what's happening? Yeah. No, that's a really good point.

449
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:44.599
Well, this next story, believe
it or not, spookys Michelle brought

450
00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:51.039
this one to my attention. Oh
emphasis on shell Oh get it because yeah,

451
00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:55.880
because she sent me this one care
of BBC dot Com. Milford Haven

452
00:36:57.159 --> 00:37:01.360
garden ornament turns out to be live
bomb. Yay, So, well,

453
00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:07.199
this isn't entirely christmasy. It is
a decoration and the moment I read that

454
00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:13.159
headline, I was like, well, I suppose we could talk about that.

455
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:20.159
A couple who kept an old naval
shell as a garden ornament said quote,

456
00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:22.840
it was like the passing of an
old friend when it was detonated by

457
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:29.719
a bomb disposal team. You know. And the British like to joke about

458
00:37:29.719 --> 00:37:34.880
how we Americans are too attached to
firearms, but they're like, it was

459
00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:37.440
like losing a friend when the navel
shell we used to keep in our lawn

460
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:45.199
was detonated. That is so unbelievably
dangerous. Oh yeah, I mean I

461
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:51.079
originally heard this story on NPR on
the BBC affiliate. Okay, so like

462
00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:54.159
I heard that the owner like talking
about it and stuff. It's it's weird.

463
00:37:54.519 --> 00:38:00.840
It's weird. It gets weird because
like I've always heard those stories about

464
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:06.119
like you know, you like you
open up a trunk, dead Grandpa's trunk

465
00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:08.119
and you find all the stuff,
and then you realize that the candurinads in

466
00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:13.159
it haven't been decommissioned, that they're
like live, and then you have to

467
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:16.960
go somewhere special and have them drilled
or detonated. Yeah. Yeah, I

468
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:20.519
always hear stuff like that, and
it always creeps me out a little bit.

469
00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:22.079
And do you remember in the I
think it was in the nineties,

470
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:27.920
they published a Superman comic about leftover
land mines in Kosovo. Do you remember

471
00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:30.400
that? No, I don't.
Uh, well, it was during the

472
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:35.440
the you know, the fight in
Kosovo in the nineties. I guess when

473
00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:37.519
it wrapped up. There were problems
because like all the land mines hadn't been

474
00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:40.920
cleaned up right. So one of
the ways they were trying to get the

475
00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:45.199
word out was they did a Superman
comic ok where Superman saves these two boys

476
00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:50.760
from a landmine and then explains to
them like how you can't go wandering around

477
00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:57.119
and like basically parroting the safety tips
that they had been giving children in that

478
00:38:57.239 --> 00:39:01.719
area. It's kind of like when
you hear about you hear about like in

479
00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:07.800
Polynesian islands, like the little like
atolls and stuff that nobody lives on that

480
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:12.079
they'll be like bombs just sitting there
that didn't go off or that accidentally dropped

481
00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:16.440
or whatever. Yeah, it's a
crazy thing to think about, it really

482
00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:21.440
is. But more crazy sounds like
this couple might be more crazy than that.

483
00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:25.719
Yeah them, glad you do it. Had been outside the home of

484
00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:31.119
CNN and Jeffrey Edwards in Milford Haven, penn Brokeshire, and is thought to

485
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:37.800
date from the late nineteenth century.
I'm surprised it went off, although although

486
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:40.239
sometimes to detonate they literally attach another
explosive to it and blow it up.

487
00:39:40.440 --> 00:39:44.320
Yeah, I mean, I'm not
gonna tell you, Okay, Well say

488
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:50.599
the couple thought it was a dummy
with no charge. I mean that I

489
00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:52.719
didn't. It'd be great if they
were like, we just don't care.

490
00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:57.880
Yeah, we we just liked it. It's just cute. It's and for

491
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:00.360
the record, like they show a
picture of it, it's just this little

492
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:05.119
red you know, this little red
tube with a little point at the end.

493
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:09.400
It doesn't look that special. It
looks ornate. I will admit it

494
00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:13.440
looks kind of rustic because it's old. Yeah, you know, so it

495
00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:16.519
kind of it looks like it's supposed
to be there. But it's also a

496
00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:22.159
frigging bomb, a live bomb from
a time period when I wouldn't trust bombs

497
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:28.400
the nineteenth century. I wouldn't trust
a bomb from nineteen fifteen. Yeah,

498
00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:32.159
yeah, I wouldn't trust a bomb
from nineteen forty. I mean, I

499
00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:36.719
don't really trust like bombs. That
was getting there. The more I was

500
00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:37.880
saying someth the more I was realizing
no, No, the more I was

501
00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:39.639
just realizing it, I was like, you know, actually I think I

502
00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:45.639
just don't trust bombs. Yeah,
the Ministry of Defense said it removed the

503
00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:50.800
sixty four pound naval projectile missus.
Edwards said she used to bang it with

504
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:55.880
her trowel to remove earth after gardening. They should go out and buy a

505
00:40:55.920 --> 00:41:00.960
lottery ticket. Yeah, Edwards used
to buy it with a trowler or movie

506
00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:05.480
Earth from the garden. Mister Edwards
used to yell swear words at it and

507
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:09.519
shoot it with a firearm. It's
just like what Actually, we'll get back

508
00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:15.039
to more about this very interesting English
couple and their beloved bomb right after these

509
00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:28.840
quick messages, and we're back to
talk more about this British family's favorite bomb.

510
00:41:29.679 --> 00:41:32.480
Yeah, and we're not talking about
a recent Disney movie release. We're

511
00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:37.480
talking about a literal explosive device.
You like that. I didn't even have

512
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:39.719
to be specific, Yeah, yeah, because it could be any of them.

513
00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:47.159
Yeah, anyway, I'm not gonna
even go into that. I'm just

514
00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:51.159
glad that Disney's learning they're not too
big to fail. I hate when anybody

515
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:52.519
thinks that they're so big they can
do whatever they want and don't care about

516
00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:57.880
their audience. That really bothers me
so good. I hope it makes them

517
00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:01.079
turn things around and make movies people
enjoy more. I guess me too.

518
00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:05.039
Period. Well, I mean,
you know, bet or Go Away.

519
00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:08.440
Yeah, you know, like I
hope they don't because they employ tons of

520
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:13.840
people. So I don't want them
to get bought by Amazon or something.

521
00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:19.119
I'd rather they turn it around.
Yeah, yeah, so you know,

522
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:22.159
that's what I hope anyway, because
I you know, then again, I'm

523
00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:23.840
not that big of a Disney person. I mean I liked like I liked,

524
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:25.760
you know, like Honey, I
shrunk the Kids in the nineties,

525
00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:29.519
and I liked like a couple.
I liked the Laddin and stuff when I

526
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:32.000
was a kid, but I was
never a big Disney kid, you know,

527
00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:35.559
and as an adult, I mean, like the Marvel movies were the

528
00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:37.880
Disney movies I went and saw,
yeah, which didn't even start as Disney

529
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:43.079
movies. So anyway, enough about
Disney. Sorry, you know, we

530
00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:46.920
bring up bombs. It just is
natural. Yeah, Disney. But on

531
00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:51.239
Wednesday evening, a police officer knocked
on the door to tell the couple he

532
00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:54.800
had spotted it and would need to
alert the Ministry of Defense. I just

533
00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:59.639
I like that. It's like just
been there and someone was like, wait

534
00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:04.480
a minute, I've passed this like
one hundred times. Or is that a

535
00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:07.920
bomb? Is that a bomb?
There? Way with England, is that

536
00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:13.920
a splodesplode? I assume that's what
they call bombs. Of course, Sorry

537
00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:19.119
England. We have some very very
nice English listeners. But the way English

538
00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:22.039
people talk is very amusing to us
Americans. I'm sure the way we talk

539
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:27.000
makes them laugh. Yeah. Maybe. I had a friend who is British

540
00:43:27.079 --> 00:43:30.199
and whenever, when you're trained in
acting in England, they teach you American

541
00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:34.639
accents. It's like one of the
things you learn is to do an American

542
00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:38.559
accent. And I had a buddy
who the way he could get in the

543
00:43:38.599 --> 00:43:43.280
American voice was he was he before
to like warm himself up. He goes

544
00:43:43.320 --> 00:43:49.880
hey buddy. That was his like
his like grabbing voice or words hey buddy,

545
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:52.239
hey buddy. And I always thought
that was funny. It was like,

546
00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:55.639
oh good, it's very aggressive.
I like that. So, but

547
00:43:55.920 --> 00:44:00.079
also, if you're ever wondering Michelle, like I have many times. If

548
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:01.840
you're ever sitting with somebody and as
they're talking to you, like I think

549
00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:06.440
you're secretly a British person, just
figure out a way to get them to

550
00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:09.840
say federal court order. They'll never
be able to say it. Okay,

551
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:14.199
they'll never be able to say federal
court order. I mean, can you

552
00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:16.440
even say federal court Actually, I'd
like to well say one more time,

553
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:21.360
I need to know you're not British. Federal court order. Okay, that's

554
00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:25.199
pretty good, it's fine. What
about the Rural Juror the r Duror?

555
00:44:25.480 --> 00:44:29.960
That was a little harder. Yeah, that was That was a joke on

556
00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:34.039
thirty Rocks. She was in a
movie called The Rural Juror and they were

557
00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:36.400
like, well the movie. We
think one of the reasons the movie's tanking

558
00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:42.840
is that nobody can say it anyway
back to other tanks. Uh but yeah,

559
00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:46.199
yeah, a cop just walked my
went blimey, that's that's Australia.

560
00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:51.159
But it just like, holy crap, that's a bomb. Yeah, after

561
00:44:51.239 --> 00:44:54.079
all those years of it just sitting
there chilling. An hour later, he

562
00:44:54.199 --> 00:45:00.480
told the shocked couple that the bombs
squad you're gonna love this. An hour

563
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:04.079
later, he told the shocked couple
that the bomb squad would arrive the next

564
00:45:04.159 --> 00:45:07.320
day. Well that's that's your government
at work right there. Yeah, it's

565
00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:12.199
okay, can wait till another I
guess their attitude is, like, what's

566
00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:15.920
you know, another day after like
forty years or something. I hope they

567
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:21.159
explained where they got it, because
like it's it's weird. I hope they

568
00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:23.400
do in this article, because they
did on the radio. They like explained

569
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:30.079
the whole history of the bomb.
It was a sleepless night I can imagine

570
00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:32.079
for mister and missus Edwards, who
had been told the whole street might need

571
00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:37.360
to be evacuated. Quote, we
didn't sleep a wink all night. It

572
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:42.960
knocked us for six I'm guessing that's
a saying, yeah, said mister Edwards.

573
00:45:43.559 --> 00:45:45.239
I told the bomb disposal unit,
we're not leaving the house. We're

574
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:49.000
staying here. If it goes up, we're going up with it. What

575
00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:52.920
they love the bomb? I guess
they took that movie too seriously. How

576
00:45:52.920 --> 00:46:00.599
I learned to stop worrying love the
bomb? Uh? What? I that

577
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:05.920
makes no? What they don't they
care about it? I don't know,

578
00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:10.760
all right, Like I'm not religious, but these people need Jesus. No,

579
00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:15.320
they have the bomb. They have
the bomb because that's insane. Like

580
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:19.760
my first question would be like,
ohy, you're gonna get us a hotel

581
00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:22.159
room, like since you're gonna make
us evacuate. But at the same time,

582
00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:27.519
I'd actually want to evacuate because there's
a freaking live bomb leaning against my

583
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:30.239
house. Yeah, I guess.
I guess they really didn't think it was

584
00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:38.400
gonna go off. Probably whatever,
But they sound insaneeah, but I like

585
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:45.719
them. They sound downright American.
I approve of when Americans are like,

586
00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:50.400
Nope, I'm doing the dumb thing, leave me alone. The test proved

587
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:53.480
it was live, but with only
a tiny amount of charge. It was

588
00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:58.679
taken to a disused quarry in Whyalan's
Castle, covered with five tons of sand

589
00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:08.400
and detonated. Ah rest in peace, little bomb. Yeah you never got

590
00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:15.320
to hurt anyone. After living in
the streets since he was three years old,

591
00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:19.280
seventy seven year old mister Edwards was
sad to see it go. Quote

592
00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:23.079
it was an old friend. I'm
so sorry that the poor thing was blown

593
00:47:23.159 --> 00:47:29.960
to pieces. What is with this
guy? I like him, He's all

594
00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:34.400
sentimental about the bomb. I just
it's like I looked at a little picture

595
00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:37.480
of their garden. They have other
chochkeys and stuff, like, they don't

596
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:43.039
have another bomb. I guess.
I look. I am known to be

597
00:47:43.159 --> 00:47:50.519
quite the eccentric, but I don't
want a bomb in my front yard,

598
00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:54.320
even if it's not detonated. That
doesn't sound like a good decoration to me.

599
00:47:55.800 --> 00:48:00.639
I mean, I guess everybody can
have their own opinions. Wow,

600
00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:04.199
So would you put a bomb in
front of your house? I mean,

601
00:48:04.719 --> 00:48:08.159
assuming it was decommissioned, Sure,
why not? Okay, I know it,

602
00:48:08.440 --> 00:48:10.920
damn it. I already got your
Christmas present. Now I gotta rush

603
00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:15.320
out. I gotta rush out and
do last minute bomb shopping. Yeah,

604
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:19.880
it's gonna be difficult at this time
of the year, especially. I just

605
00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:22.639
get to like the lot and the
guy's just counting money. He's like,

606
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:27.079
only got one bomb left on the
lot. It's just this little sad ball

607
00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:30.960
exactly. Yeah. Oh he needs
a home. Be careful with that thing.

608
00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:36.079
It's live And I'm like, oh, what is with humans? We're

609
00:48:36.119 --> 00:48:42.719
weird, really weird. We have
problems. Mister Edwards said he had been

610
00:48:42.760 --> 00:48:46.159
told its history by the Morris family, whose relative used to own the house.

611
00:48:46.199 --> 00:48:50.800
They said he'd found it more than
one hundred years ago and it's just

612
00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:53.840
been sitting in front of that house. Warships for the Royal Navy used to

613
00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:59.440
drop anchor in Saint Bride's Bay and
point their guns toward the broad Haven and

614
00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:02.760
open fire. He claimed, What
a wonderful story. They used to use

615
00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:07.480
the sands for target practice. They'd
make sure there was no one on the

616
00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:10.639
sands. Mind, that means they
didn't actually check. Many were killed.

617
00:49:12.840 --> 00:49:15.320
Well. Pop Morris, who went
around delivering lemonade, was going down to

618
00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:21.559
broad Haven with his horse and cart
and found the shell. He struggled back

619
00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:22.760
up to the beach with it,
put it on the back of his cart

620
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:30.599
and had a very bouncy seven mile
ride back. Oh okay, there is

621
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:35.079
a lot of history. Yeah,
but it's literally a bomb. Yeah,

622
00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:39.960
but somebody found it. He plunked
it upright in front of the courtyard and

623
00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:46.519
that's where it remained. It was. Is that what you're like, Michelle

624
00:49:46.599 --> 00:49:51.079
orre You just like if you found
like a bomb on like somewhere, would

625
00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:53.760
you just be like, I'm putting
this in my yard? Yeah? Yeah,

626
00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:58.559
I could use more stuff in my
yard. Yeah, okay, maybe

627
00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:02.239
I will get you a bomb.
He struggled back up the beach with it

628
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:05.639
and put in the back of his
cart. Had a very bouncy seven mile

629
00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:08.400
ride back home. He oh,
I already read that, Sorry, but

630
00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:12.199
I gotta read that. I read
that again because it still tickles me.

631
00:50:12.280 --> 00:50:16.679
Though. It was later sunk into
concrete and painted red to match the window

632
00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:22.559
ledges when mister and missus Edwards bought
the house in nineteen eighty two. Wow,

633
00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:25.280
okay, I mean I wouldn't put
it in concrete. That's ruining it.

634
00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:32.320
Yeah. Quote it stood there during
two World Wards, said mister Edwards.

635
00:50:32.440 --> 00:50:36.559
Good thing the blitzkrieg didn't hit them. Yeah, it would have been

636
00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:42.360
a little bonus destruction. The Ministry
of Defense said, quote, we can

637
00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:46.000
confirm that. On thirtieth of November
twenty third, twenty twenty three, Oschurch

638
00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:52.960
Troops seven twenty one EOD Square eleven
EODNS Regiment RLC responded at the request of

639
00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:58.400
die Fed Palace Police to suspect to
a suspect item of ordnance. The EOD

640
00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:01.039
team assessed the item and determined it
to be a sixty four pound naval projectile,

641
00:51:01.159 --> 00:51:07.719
which was a removed from the scene
for subsequent explosive demolition. Aw so

642
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:20.039
rest in piece explosive piece of decore. Yeah, that's completely insane to me.

643
00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:28.280
Yeah, I like it, but
I I don't know. But I

644
00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:30.960
want to talk about something that's also
a little bit Christmas y Michelle, Okay,

645
00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:37.960
flying in a plane, Okay,
like traveling? Right, Sure,

646
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:40.480
you travel quite a bit. You
have traveled quite a bit, right,

647
00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:46.239
and you've traveled by plane quite a
bit, I would assume not quite a

648
00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:50.800
bit here and there. Some how
many times have you been on a plane

649
00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:55.599
more than four? Yeah, that's
pretty good. I have friends who've never

650
00:51:55.639 --> 00:52:00.440
been on an airplane. Wow,
and then that blows my mind. You'd

651
00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:05.039
think at least once. But anyway, Well, this story is from NPR,

652
00:52:06.159 --> 00:52:09.079
your favorite, and it says crew
aboard a US bound plane discovered a

653
00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:16.920
missing window pane at thirteen thousand feet. That's what I said when I read

654
00:52:16.920 --> 00:52:23.400
that headline. Maybe the glass is
double pained. But if it's double pained,

655
00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:28.079
then they then missing one pain is
still bad because they're supposed to be

656
00:52:28.119 --> 00:52:30.480
two. But it's not as it's
not as fun as no pain. But

657
00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:37.320
we're gonna find out. You heard
Michelle first, she wants pain. Yeah.

658
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:40.280
A US bound plane took off from
London last month with four damaged window

659
00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:46.119
panes, including two that were completely
missing. According to UK air accident investigators,

660
00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:50.559
no one was injured by the window
malfunctions, which appeared to have been

661
00:52:50.599 --> 00:52:54.400
caused by high power lights used in
a film shoot. Oh like, maybe

662
00:52:54.440 --> 00:53:00.440
they're like the lights hit into them. Oh okay, hard it exploded them

663
00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:04.679
by the light. I don't think
that makes sense, No, it doesn't.

664
00:53:05.079 --> 00:53:08.039
The aircraft departed from London Stanstead Airport
on the morning of October fourth,

665
00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:13.679
carrying eleven crew members and nine passengers, all of whom are employees of the

666
00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:17.599
tour company or the aircraft's operating company. The report states, without elaborating on

667
00:53:17.639 --> 00:53:22.519
the tour company. The single aisle
aircraft and Airbus eight three three twenty one

668
00:53:23.360 --> 00:53:27.760
can seat more than one hundred and
seventy passengers, but the small group of

669
00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:30.559
passengers were all seated in the middle
of the cabin just ahead of the overwing

670
00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:36.559
exits. The missing windows weren't discovered
until the plane was climbing at an altitude

671
00:53:36.599 --> 00:53:42.400
of thirteen thousand feet quote. Several
passengers were called that after takeoff, the

672
00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:47.519
aircraft cabin seemed noisier and colder than
they were used to. Investigators wrote,

673
00:53:47.639 --> 00:53:51.440
a crew member walked towards the back
of the aircraft, where he spotted a

674
00:53:51.440 --> 00:53:54.639
window seal flapping on the left side
of the aircraft. Okay, yeah,

675
00:53:54.679 --> 00:54:00.119
it's probably bad. Yeah, it
doesn't sound great. Who no, what

676
00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:05.079
he inspects? Play? I mean
it doesn't, I don't. I don't

677
00:54:05.079 --> 00:54:07.239
know. England. You guys got
to get your stuff together. First,

678
00:54:07.239 --> 00:54:09.239
you have people living with bombs in
their front yard, and now you have

679
00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:14.480
airplanes with missing window panes. Well, I mean, maybe they don't normally

680
00:54:14.519 --> 00:54:19.159
inspect the window panes because they just
assume that they'll be there. That's exactly

681
00:54:19.159 --> 00:54:22.679
why you should inspect something. It's
not about like it's always there, It's

682
00:54:22.679 --> 00:54:25.320
about will we die without it?
Oh, well they did die, so

683
00:54:25.480 --> 00:54:29.320
I think we're okay. Oh actually
it says right here they died. No,

684
00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:31.079
we're just kidding. Well, that
would be a horrible twist. And

685
00:54:31.119 --> 00:54:35.960
it was like, so anyway,
the plane imploded and crashed, everyone died,

686
00:54:36.440 --> 00:54:43.199
no survivors is what they would say. Gosh quote the window pane appeared

687
00:54:43.239 --> 00:54:46.440
to have slipped down, the report
reads. He described the cabin noise as

688
00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:52.800
loud enough to damage your hearing.
As the plane approached fourteen thousand feet,

689
00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:58.280
the pilots reduced speed and stopped their
ascent. An engineering co pilot went back

690
00:54:58.320 --> 00:55:00.360
to take a look at the window
and agreed the air craft should turn around

691
00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:07.239
immediately. Yeah. Yeah, there's
this movie that me and Dave love called

692
00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:10.760
Scarecrows, and it's a it's a
you know, horror movie, but it's

693
00:55:10.760 --> 00:55:15.119
like an action movie. It's about
these this group of mercenaries who end up

694
00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:21.599
on this little rural area and it's
it's protected by these these malevolent scarecrows basically,

695
00:55:22.079 --> 00:55:23.760
but they're all waiting to get picked
up. An airplane's coming to like

696
00:55:23.800 --> 00:55:28.519
pick them up. And the woman
who flies the aircraft, she's like this

697
00:55:28.800 --> 00:55:31.760
like super like eighties hot chick with
like really big hair, flying an airplane

698
00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:35.400
with her dog in the other seat. Like it's supposed to be all cool

699
00:55:35.440 --> 00:55:38.400
and cute, but there's like wind
blowing in her hair like making her look

700
00:55:38.440 --> 00:55:40.480
epic, And every time David and
I watch it, we like, so

701
00:55:40.519 --> 00:55:45.280
she just cracked a window in an
airplane so she could have like a little

702
00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:50.880
breeze, apparently, is what she's
doing. Maybe there was no fan the

703
00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:53.800
window was open. Weird. Well, it's because it's not a real plane.

704
00:55:53.800 --> 00:55:59.719
I mean, it's a movie magic. Sorry to spoil it, but

705
00:55:59.719 --> 00:56:06.480
but we'll go into more about this
airplane's missing window pane. Whoo makes me

706
00:56:06.559 --> 00:56:08.440
nervous. I've been actually craving to
fly, like that's something I really want

707
00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:12.320
to do. Next year's fly a
little bit more, okay, And when

708
00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:15.800
I read things like this, I
get a little less excited. But we'll

709
00:56:15.800 --> 00:56:27.880
be right back after this, and
we are back talking about an airplane that

710
00:56:28.039 --> 00:56:31.639
was missing a window and no one
noticed till they were fourteen thousand feet in

711
00:56:31.679 --> 00:56:36.920
the air. I feel like I
would have noticed a ten I'm just that

712
00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:39.880
good. Yeah, I think you're
right. I think I wouldn't have noticed

713
00:56:39.920 --> 00:56:44.679
ever, but I believe you would
have noticed. Would you have just like,

714
00:56:44.679 --> 00:56:45.840
like just put your hands over your
ears and then like it must be

715
00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:51.440
me I'm sensitive, Yeah exactly,
Yeah, just put on headphones. M

716
00:56:51.679 --> 00:56:53.679
M. Like I guess, I
guess I don't remember what flying is like.

717
00:56:54.320 --> 00:56:59.480
It used to be this cold or
loud or blowy. But blowy,

718
00:56:59.679 --> 00:57:04.119
you're just you're just gaslighting yourself the
whole time, exactly. Yeah, that's

719
00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:09.239
fair. Fair enough. The plane
landed safely back at Stanstead after thirty six

720
00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:14.599
minutes of total flying time, during
which the plane had remained pressurized normally,

721
00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:19.559
investigators wrote. After inspecting the plane
from the ground, the crew discovered that

722
00:57:19.639 --> 00:57:24.000
a second window pane was also missing, and a third was dislodged. Wow.

723
00:57:24.280 --> 00:57:30.000
A fourth window appeared to be protruding
slightly from its frame. Wow.

724
00:57:30.280 --> 00:57:36.880
Guys, you gotta get your stuff
together, all right, Like, really,

725
00:57:37.079 --> 00:57:40.960
you gotta get your stuff together.
Apparently they're really claiming that it was

726
00:57:42.039 --> 00:57:46.039
damaged by floodlights. I don't understand
how. I'm not sure what that means.

727
00:57:46.039 --> 00:57:50.440
Still, yeah, well we'll read
on before I chime in with my

728
00:57:50.559 --> 00:57:54.000
knowledge of movie lighting. But I
that doesn't make any sense unless they were

729
00:57:54.039 --> 00:58:00.639
like hitting them with the lights for
fun. Yeah. One shadow window pane

730
00:58:00.719 --> 00:58:04.800
was later recovered from the runway during
a routine inspection. Oh my god.

731
00:58:06.679 --> 00:58:10.400
The windows may have been damaged by
high power floodlights used during filming the day

732
00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:15.199
before the flight. According to the
AAIB's assessment, the lights, which were

733
00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:17.320
intended to give the illusion of a
sunrise, were placed about twenty to thirty

734
00:58:17.320 --> 00:58:22.360
feet from the aircraft, shining on
the first on the first to the right,

735
00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:24.639
then the left sides of the craft
for over nine hours in total.

736
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:29.760
Oh it says a foam liner had
melted away from at least one of the

737
00:58:29.760 --> 00:58:32.360
windows, and several window panes appeared
to have been warped by the thermal heat.

738
00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:37.119
Okay, that's weird if they were
twenty to thirty feet away. I

739
00:58:37.239 --> 00:58:39.880
just don't think they could get that
hot. But maybe I'm wrong. I

740
00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:45.760
don't know. That just doesn't sound
likely to me, But maybe I'm wrong.

741
00:58:46.280 --> 00:58:50.519
Quote. A different level of damage
by the same means might have resulted

742
00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:54.159
in more serious consequences, especially if
window integrity was lost at at a higher

743
00:58:54.199 --> 00:59:00.400
differential pressure, the AAIBU agent wrote. In twenty eighteen, Southwest pastor Jennifer

744
00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:05.800
Royridan was fatally injured after being partially
sucked out of a plane window that was

745
00:59:05.800 --> 00:59:09.519
smashed by shrapnel from an exploded engine. Well, okay, so as long

746
00:59:09.559 --> 00:59:14.400
as the engine exploded while they were
in the air, that would at least

747
00:59:14.400 --> 00:59:17.039
make sense. Not like it exploded
and then no one fixed the window nor

748
00:59:17.320 --> 00:59:22.400
no Several cracked airplane windows have made
headlines in the years since, but aviation

749
00:59:22.480 --> 00:59:27.639
experts maintain that the risk of being
injured or killed in such a scenario is

750
00:59:27.679 --> 00:59:40.079
still rare. I don't know,
man Ay, yeah, that's really impressive.

751
00:59:40.800 --> 00:59:47.239
I mean, I'm impressed. So
this next one, Shelle, you

752
00:59:47.239 --> 00:59:52.000
want to guess where this is from
because it's our old friends again, mur

753
00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:55.480
dot code dot UK, Yes,
mirror dot code at UK, which I

754
00:59:55.519 --> 00:59:59.199
swear if I didn't know any better, I'd think all they publish is ghost

755
00:59:59.199 --> 01:00:04.360
stories. Yeah, I've checked.
There's a whole other website there, but

756
01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:08.679
I only am subscribed to the ghost
story side. This story says haunted pub

757
01:00:08.679 --> 01:00:15.079
boss lives in fear after being seriously
hurt and set of spooky incidents. Huh

758
01:00:15.559 --> 01:00:20.800
oh know what that means. A
pub landlord has said he is living in

759
01:00:20.840 --> 01:00:23.800
fear after a series of spooky events
at his pub. Nigel Ramsey, the

760
01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:28.159
manager of the Crown in and Lower
p over Cheshire, was hit on the

761
01:00:28.199 --> 01:00:32.920
head by a metal bar in the
beer cellar earlier this year, which resulted

762
01:00:34.159 --> 01:00:38.519
in a hospital say stay due to
a brain bleed. Oh that's a pretty

763
01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:43.280
hard hit, was you? But
what was the metal bar doing? Like?

764
01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:46.280
Was it attached? I'm guessing it
says hit on the head by a

765
01:00:46.280 --> 01:00:49.719
metal bar and the beer cellar.
I'm guessing it was supposed to be like

766
01:00:49.760 --> 01:00:54.599
on a wall or something. Maybe
Nigel has recovered and now returned to work,

767
01:00:54.800 --> 01:01:00.920
but has since experienced a number of
unexplained incidents that I guess couldn't be

768
01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:05.079
explained by a head injury. Just
imagine he probably should go back to the

769
01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:12.119
doctor, honestly. These include a
stool collapsing under him, glasses swaying on

770
01:01:12.159 --> 01:01:15.400
their own, and a TV remote
flying across the bar. Well, if

771
01:01:15.440 --> 01:01:17.639
these are the things that he's convinced
mean that he's haunted, then maybe I'm

772
01:01:17.679 --> 01:01:22.000
haunted. You have your TV remote
fly across your bar? No, but

773
01:01:22.039 --> 01:01:25.199
I like slip and bump my toe
and then hit my head when I get

774
01:01:25.199 --> 01:01:32.920
in the car and like, yeah, it's ghosts. It does sound like

775
01:01:32.960 --> 01:01:37.639
he's having a rough week, I'll
tell you that much. Nigel shared his

776
01:01:37.719 --> 01:01:43.800
experiences with psychic medium Deborah Davies and
Lindsay Steer from the Ghosts of Britain paranormal

777
01:01:43.840 --> 01:01:46.199
team. Is that the team that
we read about before? Maybe I think

778
01:01:46.239 --> 01:01:51.679
it is the one that everybody hates. Maybe they conducted a ghost investigation at

779
01:01:51.719 --> 01:01:55.719
the pub, the results of which
have left Nigel feeling terrified. Oh good,

780
01:01:55.760 --> 01:01:59.920
let's scare him more. Yeah yeah, yeah, well, you know,

781
01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:01.800
it all depends on how much they
charge and to get rid of the

782
01:02:01.840 --> 01:02:08.239
ghosts. Eh. I don't think
they do that, but former Real Housewives

783
01:02:08.239 --> 01:02:13.519
of Cheshire star Debbie, known as
the ghost whisperer, says she quote had

784
01:02:13.559 --> 01:02:17.719
to go back and clear the place
after hearing the most chilling electro electronic voice

785
01:02:17.719 --> 01:02:22.599
phenomena recording that I have ever heard
in my entire life. What was it?

786
01:02:23.280 --> 01:02:27.679
I mean, do you have any
opinions about EVP. I think we

787
01:02:27.800 --> 01:02:30.920
talked about this and your opinion was
that it's if you listen to things like

788
01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:35.719
you eventually can find things. I
don't know. It depends on how clear

789
01:02:35.800 --> 01:02:38.480
the EVP is whether I'll believe it
or not. Ye know. The tricky

790
01:02:38.519 --> 01:02:40.880
thing is, you know, you
and I both have a history of recording

791
01:02:40.960 --> 01:02:47.679
sound, and when your goal is
to basically record silence, you end up

792
01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:52.800
with like a noisy, hissy garbled
sound because you've turned the volume all the

793
01:02:52.800 --> 01:02:59.280
way up. Yeah, and in
there you could decipher weird sounds that start

794
01:02:59.320 --> 01:03:02.840
to sound like something. Because we
as humans, we we data search,

795
01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:07.960
we look for faces and abstract concepts. We look for words and sounds,

796
01:03:08.119 --> 01:03:14.639
you know. So that's what I
think of EVP. Deborah has advised Nigel

797
01:03:14.719 --> 01:03:17.559
that he should not be alone in
the pub. They have looked into the

798
01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:21.599
history of the pub and the area
and believe there is the ghost of a

799
01:03:21.639 --> 01:03:27.000
young girl who died two hundred years
ago in the village and that she was

800
01:03:27.199 --> 01:03:36.000
murdered and she is dangerous. Now
yes, wow, I mean apparently not

801
01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:42.719
more dangerous than a one hundred year
old bomb in your front yard. Deborah

802
01:03:42.719 --> 01:03:46.039
believes that there is also the nasty
ghost of a man who murdered the child

803
01:03:46.119 --> 01:03:51.519
stalking the pub, who is behind
the spooky happenings. To Nigel, so

804
01:03:51.559 --> 01:03:53.400
apparently this guy, like one day
he's like, anyway, I've been here

805
01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:58.440
for two hundred years. I just
hate that guy. I woke up today

806
01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:00.400
I was like, I hate that
guy. Yeah, I never hated him

807
01:04:00.440 --> 01:04:04.480
before, but I hate him today. Nigel explain, quote, I took

808
01:04:04.519 --> 01:04:08.519
over the pub in March this year, and in the first week I was

809
01:04:08.559 --> 01:04:11.760
in the back cellar and was closing
the door on a Friday night and an

810
01:04:11.760 --> 01:04:15.440
iron bar fell down off a hook
and hit me in the center of the

811
01:04:15.480 --> 01:04:19.639
forehead. Dude, it's a new
place that you're you know, running,

812
01:04:20.079 --> 01:04:24.960
you're gonna make You're gonna get hit
by things because you're not paying attention and

813
01:04:25.239 --> 01:04:29.559
because something isn't properly secured. I'm
sorry, something falling on you is not

814
01:04:29.639 --> 01:04:31.920
a ghost well, and you're not
used to the ghosts yet. Yeah so

815
01:04:32.519 --> 01:04:35.400
yeah, so you don't know if
he meant to hurt you or he was

816
01:04:35.480 --> 01:04:40.039
just like, want to hit you
really lightly to say hi, bunk bunk

817
01:04:40.079 --> 01:04:45.480
bunk you on the head he he
quote, gosh quote. It caused me

818
01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:47.239
to have a bleed on the brain. I thought it was maybe just an

819
01:04:47.280 --> 01:04:50.719
accident at the time, but that
was the start of the events. Since

820
01:04:50.760 --> 01:04:55.440
then, we've seen regular glasses fly
off onto the floor, the TV remote

821
01:04:55.519 --> 01:05:00.039
swept right across. We hear noises
when we go through the doors. Through

822
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:06.119
doors, we see glasses swinging on
their own for no apparent reason. After

823
01:05:06.159 --> 01:05:10.519
getting in touch with Deborah, Nigel
began to conduct his own research into the

824
01:05:10.559 --> 01:05:15.519
pub and village history. Nigel shared
a chilling tale quote, I found out

825
01:05:15.559 --> 01:05:18.679
that a young girl named Maria Rathbone
died here in December of eighteen twenty one.

826
01:05:19.280 --> 01:05:23.960
Little Girl Lost was the story she
was basically sent to the shop in

827
01:05:24.039 --> 01:05:27.079
the frozen winter and got lost,
and no one would let her in.

828
01:05:27.559 --> 01:05:30.320
He continued. She was found dead
four hundred yards from here, still with

829
01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:35.199
the bacon under her arm. She
was just eight years old. That's really

830
01:05:35.280 --> 01:05:40.960
sad. No one would let her
in. Huh, Well it was a

831
01:05:41.000 --> 01:05:45.159
storm and they didn't hear her.
I guess, Well, I don't think

832
01:05:45.199 --> 01:05:47.159
it said there was a storm.
Oh well, there just said it was

833
01:05:47.159 --> 01:05:51.280
a frozen winter. It was very
cold, there was a storm. I

834
01:05:51.320 --> 01:05:56.719
mean they let her go in to
buy bacon. Well, she was somewhere

835
01:05:56.760 --> 01:06:00.360
buying bacon, which, for the
record, I mean it was worth the

836
01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:05.119
risk to have bacon on a really
cold day, worth it worth it.

837
01:06:08.519 --> 01:06:12.039
A gentleman found her and had this
dream that a girl was found under a

838
01:06:12.039 --> 01:06:16.119
holly brush. They found her.
They had the inquest and wake for her

839
01:06:16.239 --> 01:06:21.079
in this very pub. Okay,
I mean that's interesting. So they did

840
01:06:21.079 --> 01:06:24.800
have the wake for so as related
to the pub at least a little bit.

841
01:06:25.400 --> 01:06:28.000
I mean a little bit that.
I don't know if I was a

842
01:06:28.039 --> 01:06:30.639
dead person, I don't really think
I would like hang out where I like

843
01:06:30.760 --> 01:06:39.000
had my funeral or stuff. That's
weird. Yeah, it's I used to

844
01:06:39.119 --> 01:06:42.280
joke that, like if you bought
a haunted car, Like, how sad

845
01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:45.519
is that? It's like I haunt
an astrovan. It's like, that's really

846
01:06:45.559 --> 01:06:48.880
sad man. I'm sorry. Yeah, you think you'd want to haunt like

847
01:06:49.960 --> 01:06:56.280
somewhere else, Yeah, anywhere else. It's like people thinking they'll haunt the

848
01:06:56.320 --> 01:06:58.960
funeral homes. It's like, why
would you haunt the funeral home and had

849
01:06:59.000 --> 01:07:00.719
nothing to do with you? Don
Yeah, and you weren't there. I

850
01:07:00.760 --> 01:07:04.280
mean, in respect to your entire
life, you weren't at the funeral home

851
01:07:04.320 --> 01:07:11.480
that long? Like why why there? Nigel added quote they found that she

852
01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:15.960
had perished to death. Can you
perish not to death? Don't? I

853
01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:21.880
don't know. But when I sent
this to Deborah and d or Deborah Davis,

854
01:07:23.239 --> 01:07:27.800
she said she thinks the ghost is
saying that she was murdered. Oh

855
01:07:27.840 --> 01:07:31.360
wow, so we're like rewriting history. Now this little girl was murdered and

856
01:07:31.400 --> 01:07:35.599
didn't just freeze to death. Well, I mean she could have been hurt

857
01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:40.159
by someone and then also froze to
death. I see what you're saying.

858
01:07:40.199 --> 01:07:43.320
Yeah, just seems like a bit
of a stretch. Two hundred years later,

859
01:07:43.920 --> 01:07:46.920
Well, I'm pretty sure that's what
the ghost told her though, So

860
01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:50.480
it's gotta be were you. Oh
here's a British word I've never heard before.

861
01:07:50.880 --> 01:07:54.639
The publican. That's what you call
somebody who runs, who owns a

862
01:07:54.639 --> 01:07:59.559
pub, a publican. The publican
admitted the investigation had left him shaken and

863
01:07:59.599 --> 01:08:02.039
that while he was never he has
never physically seen a ghost himself, he

864
01:08:02.119 --> 01:08:08.679
is now quote kind of scared,
he added quote. Deborah says she wants

865
01:08:08.760 --> 01:08:13.360
to come back and help rid of
the nasty ghost. Ah, so she

866
01:08:13.480 --> 01:08:16.079
exercises too, She said, in
all the years of being a psychic,

867
01:08:16.199 --> 01:08:23.880
it was the most frightening ghost she'd
ever heard of. Really, this one

868
01:08:24.520 --> 01:08:30.279
really like has barely done anything except
maybe drop a bar on someone's head,

869
01:08:30.319 --> 01:08:35.680
but maybe not jeez uh. The
videos of the ghost ton have become an

870
01:08:35.680 --> 01:08:40.760
Internet sensation, with Nigel revealing that
people are constantly asking if they can stay

871
01:08:40.760 --> 01:08:44.680
at the pub to see the spirits. I'm sure he's made the same joke

872
01:08:44.760 --> 01:08:47.520
again and again. The only spirit
you're gonna be seeing is vodka whiskey.

873
01:08:47.600 --> 01:08:50.159
Da da da daaa. And they're
all like, all right, we're leaving,

874
01:08:50.560 --> 01:08:56.800
yeahs. Deborah has since updated her
followers on her Facebook page that since

875
01:08:56.840 --> 01:09:00.159
the investigation, she has been conducting
some remote work to remove the nasty ghost.

876
01:09:00.319 --> 01:09:04.359
So you can remove ghosts via zoom
now you can. You can do

877
01:09:04.439 --> 01:09:11.880
whatever you want to do. Yeah, how lazy do you have to be?

878
01:09:12.079 --> 01:09:15.359
I'm sorry, Like this woman's to
me, this woman's almost obviously a

879
01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:18.640
con artist. But like, really, we're remote working on removing the ghost.

880
01:09:18.720 --> 01:09:21.800
Give me a break, like at
least have to get in a car

881
01:09:21.880 --> 01:09:27.680
to fool people, all right.
She says they recorded eleven ghosts in total

882
01:09:27.800 --> 01:09:31.800
during the investigation, So I guess
that there were There's the ghost of the

883
01:09:31.800 --> 01:09:35.199
guy that killed the girl, and
the girl and then nine bonus ghosts.

884
01:09:35.319 --> 01:09:39.239
Yeah, they're just there. Yeah, and there's no explanation for them.

885
01:09:39.279 --> 01:09:42.960
That was it. That's the article. Wow. So well, let me

886
01:09:43.000 --> 01:09:45.079
ask you, Michelle, if you
could haunt anywhere in the world when you

887
01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:54.239
die, where would you haunt and
why? Huh? I want to haunt

888
01:09:54.279 --> 01:09:58.399
a place where there's like a lot
of people, but also a place where

889
01:09:58.439 --> 01:10:03.000
I can go but and be by
myself. So I'm not really sure what

890
01:10:03.079 --> 01:10:10.279
that would be. Maybe like a
really expensive luxury hotel because they're either full

891
01:10:10.399 --> 01:10:15.560
or empty. Yeah. That's good. Yeah, because you can, like

892
01:10:15.640 --> 01:10:17.760
I can like go to a room
where no one's there and hang out and

893
01:10:17.760 --> 01:10:23.319
then I can scare some people.
Yeah. On second thought, Epcot Center,

894
01:10:23.800 --> 01:10:29.560
Yeah, let's do it. No
one's ever died at Disney Disney World,

895
01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:34.279
Uh if you heard about that.
They still claim that they've managed to

896
01:10:34.319 --> 01:10:38.680
even though like a kid got eaten
by an alligator there, they still managed

897
01:10:38.680 --> 01:10:43.479
to keep it legally that no one's
ever died there because he died on the

898
01:10:43.520 --> 01:10:45.720
way to the hospital or something.
I I. All I know is they

899
01:10:45.720 --> 01:10:50.920
have a really good lawyer. Wow. But we're not here to talk about

900
01:10:50.960 --> 01:10:57.319
Disney, at least not yet.
But we do have a really interesting story

901
01:10:57.960 --> 01:11:10.119
involving Miriam Webster and Santa Claus when
we get back after these quick words,

902
01:11:15.079 --> 01:11:19.640
and we are back with an odd
story that I found over at HuffPost dot

903
01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:27.520
com that I wanted to read because
it the headline confused me. But apparently

904
01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:32.520
it's about confusion. Wow, Miriam
Webster is as confused by Santa's reindeer names

905
01:11:32.560 --> 01:11:36.520
as we are. That's what the
headline is. Can you name all of

906
01:11:36.560 --> 01:11:43.319
Santa's reindeer? Probably? All right? Go on, I really want to

907
01:11:44.119 --> 01:11:48.840
really, Yeah, I don't know
them by heart. I should, but

908
01:11:48.880 --> 01:11:54.199
I don't. I know that Rudolph
was the one that everyone liked to bully,

909
01:11:55.199 --> 01:12:00.079
yeah, which is pretty cool.
Hey, red nose, you sucka

910
01:12:00.279 --> 01:12:06.399
That's probably what they said. Do
you ever tell you the story I was.

911
01:12:08.199 --> 01:12:11.359
I was playing an open mic years
ago with Todd the Fox, my

912
01:12:11.800 --> 01:12:15.199
buddy who plays the Delta Blues,
and uh, it was at Christmas time

913
01:12:15.199 --> 01:12:18.600
and he did Rootolf the Red Nose
Reindeer and have you ever like in school

914
01:12:18.640 --> 01:12:21.840
did they do Rudolf the Red Nose
Reindeer? And they had the caller response

915
01:12:21.880 --> 01:12:27.960
parts. I guess he was Rudolf
the red Nose Reindeer, reindeer head of

916
01:12:28.039 --> 01:12:30.960
Jerry, shiny nose like a light
bulb, and if you ever saw him,

917
01:12:31.119 --> 01:12:34.479
saw him, you would even say
it glows like a light bulb,

918
01:12:34.600 --> 01:12:40.520
you know. Well, one of
the ones was like you used to laugh

919
01:12:40.560 --> 01:12:45.279
and call him names, and there's
a caller response part. And I decided

920
01:12:45.319 --> 01:12:47.239
to make Todd laugh while he was
playing the song, like what it used

921
01:12:47.279 --> 01:12:50.800
to laugh and call him names?
I went like fuck face, like at

922
01:12:50.800 --> 01:12:55.800
the top of my lungs, and
Todd just held for a second went you

923
01:12:55.880 --> 01:12:59.520
went to a lot rougher elementary school
than I did. And then he started

924
01:12:59.520 --> 01:13:09.279
playing And now anytime Todd, like
about two times since in the last ten

925
01:13:09.359 --> 01:13:13.079
years, Todd's played Rudolph and he
always looks at me like he gives me

926
01:13:13.119 --> 01:13:18.159
a look when he's like getting to
that part. Also, when I was

927
01:13:18.199 --> 01:13:23.119
in school, they say you will
go down in his story. And it

928
01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:27.479
used to be people say like George
Washington. But we in school we used

929
01:13:27.520 --> 01:13:30.199
to all say like, oh Jay, because we were really edgy little kids.

930
01:13:30.800 --> 01:13:34.199
I wish I was joking. We
even say like oh Jay. Teacher

931
01:13:34.199 --> 01:13:42.479
would get all mad. Anyway,
the folks behind the Mirriam Webster Dictionary apparently

932
01:13:42.520 --> 01:13:45.520
want some words with Santa Claus,
mostly about the names he gave some of

933
01:13:45.560 --> 01:13:54.279
his reindeer. The dictionary asked some
hard yet hilarious questions Tuesday about Santa's choices

934
01:13:54.359 --> 01:14:00.560
for reindeer monikers. Posting on x
formerly Twitter, Miriam Webster can Say conceded

935
01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:03.800
that some of the animal's names make
sense. There's dasher, which means one

936
01:14:03.800 --> 01:14:10.000
that d dashes, dancer, which
is one that dances, prancer which means

937
01:14:10.039 --> 01:14:15.920
one that walks or moves in a
spirited manner fine reindeer might reasonably do all

938
01:14:15.960 --> 01:14:21.079
of these things, but some confusion
crept in with vixen, a word that

939
01:14:21.119 --> 01:14:26.600
Marion Webster noted can mean a female
fox, a shrewish, ill tempered woman,

940
01:14:26.800 --> 01:14:32.880
or a sexually attractive woman. Quote, are what's going on here,

941
01:14:33.000 --> 01:14:38.520
Santa? Mariam Webster's social media person
asked. Speaking for all of us,

942
01:14:40.520 --> 01:14:44.840
Mirian Webster found it slightly easier to
understand why Santa might name a magical reindeer

943
01:14:44.920 --> 01:14:50.880
comet both fly, so sure,
why not? But Cupid's name caused more

944
01:14:50.880 --> 01:14:56.079
head scratching from Marian Webster. Since
it's also the name of the Roman god

945
01:14:56.479 --> 01:15:01.039
of erotic love. We're kind of
drifting back to vixen territory. The tweet

946
01:15:01.079 --> 01:15:08.000
noted, it says Cupid down the
Roman god of erotic love. Ho ho,

947
01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:12.479
Hold on a minute. The dictionary
had no notes for the final two

948
01:15:12.520 --> 01:15:15.560
reindeer, Donner and Blitzen, since
their names are based on the Dutch words

949
01:15:15.560 --> 01:15:19.680
for thunder and lightning, which is
pretty metal. That's literally what it says

950
01:15:19.720 --> 01:15:25.880
pretty metal in the article. Quote, We've always thought that these two were

951
01:15:25.920 --> 01:15:31.000
the bad boys of the sleigh.
Miriam Webster tweeted the names of the eight

952
01:15:31.079 --> 01:15:36.199
main reindeer first appeared in the eighteen
twenty three poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas

953
01:15:36.279 --> 01:15:41.439
aka Twas the Night Before Christmas.
I love that poem. Do you like

954
01:15:41.479 --> 01:15:45.199
that poem? Yeah? I find
it really like relaxing and nice. And

955
01:15:45.520 --> 01:15:49.800
I love Christmas, I really do. I know it's been a hard one

956
01:15:49.840 --> 01:15:55.359
this year, man, I know, but I really love Christmas. I

957
01:15:55.520 --> 01:15:59.920
like the lights and stuff. And
I was wrapping presents last I had a

958
01:16:00.039 --> 01:16:03.279
frigging blast good rapping present. I'm
so bad at it. That's why it's

959
01:16:03.279 --> 01:16:08.239
so much fun, because like,
I've given up on improving, so now

960
01:16:08.279 --> 01:16:11.640
I just like, I just know
that whatever I rap is gonna be scuffed,

961
01:16:11.720 --> 01:16:17.359
like horribly scuffed looking. That's okay, you know. That's why whatever

962
01:16:17.359 --> 01:16:20.079
I get people some like congratulations.
Whatever it is, it's shaped like a

963
01:16:20.119 --> 01:16:25.760
square, so I can rap it. I bought a friend a pillow and

964
01:16:25.800 --> 01:16:27.960
I just ad was like, Rachel, can you please wrap this? I

965
01:16:28.079 --> 01:16:33.640
give up? Aw uh anyway,
So maybe Miriam Webster is better off directing

966
01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:40.000
its question to the estate of author
Clement Clark Moore. Yeah. There was

967
01:16:40.039 --> 01:16:43.880
also a tweet I noticed there was
one that didn't really Oh no, I

968
01:16:43.960 --> 01:16:45.079
said, Rudolph gets all the love. So let's talk about the names of

969
01:16:45.079 --> 01:16:53.199
Santa's other reindeer. Yeah, yeah, they are a little interesting. Yeah.

970
01:16:53.319 --> 01:16:55.840
I used to have them memorized because
I used to sing the song must

971
01:16:55.880 --> 01:16:59.520
Be Santa Claus and that had a
part during the breakdown where I dashed dancer,

972
01:16:59.520 --> 01:17:02.159
events are and that. But then
it started naming presidents as well.

973
01:17:02.560 --> 01:17:08.119
Oh oh, it's one of my
favorite songs. Uh, you never heard

974
01:17:08.159 --> 01:17:11.720
must be Santa. I'm not sure. Who's got a beard that's long and

975
01:17:11.760 --> 01:17:14.279
white. Senna's got a beard that's
long and white. Who has a bright

976
01:17:14.279 --> 01:17:16.800
red cherry knows? Senna has a
bright red cherry knows. I guess.

977
01:17:17.319 --> 01:17:21.319
Oh, but it goes Dasher,
Dancer, Princer Vixen, Eisenhower, Kennedy,

978
01:17:21.399 --> 01:17:25.279
Johnson, Nixon, Dasher Dancer,
Princer Vixen, Carter, Reagan,

979
01:17:25.319 --> 01:17:29.680
Bush, and Clinton, Must be
Santa, Must be Santa, Must be

980
01:17:29.800 --> 01:17:33.800
Santa Santa Claus. That song was
covered. I think it was a cover.

981
01:17:33.840 --> 01:17:36.960
I don't think it was written by
Oh no, that was written by

982
01:17:36.960 --> 01:17:40.920
Bob Dylan. Oh, okay,
so that's a newer song. Okay,

983
01:17:40.960 --> 01:17:43.119
I knew it was on his Christmas
album, but I didn't know he wrote

984
01:17:43.119 --> 01:17:45.520
it. The music video is amazing
because he's just like walking around in like

985
01:17:45.560 --> 01:17:49.079
a cap and a nightcoat and he's
Bob Dylan. But there's like a Christmas

986
01:17:49.079 --> 01:17:54.359
party going on. Okay, But
during the breakdown when they're playing the the

987
01:17:54.399 --> 01:17:58.800
Squeeze Box, like there's just these
guys running through the house like there's a

988
01:17:58.800 --> 01:18:00.439
fight breaking out, like everybody's trying
to beat this one guy up and catch

989
01:18:00.520 --> 01:18:03.479
him, and he's like swinging off
of chandeliers and stuff. It's like in

990
01:18:03.520 --> 01:18:06.439
the middle of I'll send you the
video later, okay, but it's like

991
01:18:06.560 --> 01:18:11.159
really funny because it's just in the
middle of the video that's happening. And

992
01:18:11.199 --> 01:18:13.600
then like when the guy jumps out
of the window and escapes, it goes

993
01:18:13.640 --> 01:18:16.720
back into the song. Okay.
So it's like just during the musical interlude

994
01:18:16.760 --> 01:18:19.760
is the school part where this guy's
like running for his life from this Christmas

995
01:18:19.760 --> 01:18:25.840
party. I really, I really
like the Bob Dylan Christmas album. That's

996
01:18:25.840 --> 01:18:27.960
a hot take. A lot of
people didn't like it. They said it

997
01:18:28.000 --> 01:18:30.960
was just a cash in. He
made that whole album. I can't I'm

998
01:18:30.960 --> 01:18:35.399
trying to remember what he did it
for charity. That's nice. What charity

999
01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:45.760
was Bob Dylan's Christmas album four Feeding
America? Okay, yeah, he did.

1000
01:18:45.840 --> 01:18:49.560
All the sales in the USA went
to Feeding America, and then in

1001
01:18:49.600 --> 01:18:55.560
the UK it went to United Nations
World Food Program. All right, So

1002
01:18:56.279 --> 01:19:00.279
yeah, it is Must Be Santa, Must Be Santa, Must Be Santa

1003
01:19:00.359 --> 01:19:04.720
Santa Claus. It's a fun song. I honestly it had that vibe.

1004
01:19:04.720 --> 01:19:10.359
I really thought it was an old
like European song because it's like it has

1005
01:19:10.439 --> 01:19:14.600
this thing where you like say the
things, you say the things back at

1006
01:19:14.600 --> 01:19:17.159
the end, because like this lyric
is who wears boots in a suit of

1007
01:19:17.199 --> 01:19:20.039
red, Santa wear's boots of suit
and red. Who wears a long cap

1008
01:19:20.079 --> 01:19:23.560
on his head? Santa wears a
long cap on his head, cap on

1009
01:19:23.640 --> 01:19:27.199
head suit. That's red special night
Beard. That's why Must be Santa.

1010
01:19:27.319 --> 01:19:30.359
It's kind of fun. It's got
that like that memory test, which I

1011
01:19:30.399 --> 01:19:32.520
kind of I kind of love those
old songs that had like the really long

1012
01:19:32.560 --> 01:19:35.720
memory test, like the twelve Days
of Christmas and stuff. Right, do

1013
01:19:35.760 --> 01:19:40.800
you know all the twelve Days of
Christmas? Probably? All right, go

1014
01:19:42.399 --> 01:19:46.920
no, go on, I'm drinking
water. Go there's the like there's partridge

1015
01:19:46.960 --> 01:20:00.319
in peartree and then there's two birds, turtle doves, three golden hens,

1016
01:20:00.359 --> 01:20:08.359
French hens, French hens, and
for gieslaying or is that something else?

1017
01:20:08.399 --> 01:20:11.920
Eight? Eight? Yeah, that's
eight gig. Sorry, I can't do

1018
01:20:11.960 --> 01:20:15.359
this right now. Why not?
It's too embarrassing. I mean, if

1019
01:20:15.399 --> 01:20:19.359
you don't do it now, when
would you ever do it? Yeah?

1020
01:20:19.359 --> 01:20:25.000
I never. I don't have it
memorized. I have the twelve days of

1021
01:20:25.039 --> 01:20:30.439
cryptmis memorized. Four thousand, three
lethal blows, two murderous shoves, send

1022
01:20:30.439 --> 01:20:35.119
a trip to the Mouchuwary. I
have that memorized because I'm a weirdo.

1023
01:20:35.399 --> 01:20:38.640
You know. One year, at
my Christmas party at my house, I

1024
01:20:38.720 --> 01:20:42.640
printed the lyrics to twelve Days of
Crypt miss out. I did know that

1025
01:20:42.880 --> 01:20:45.279
and played it out loud and every
and I was like, everybody, make

1026
01:20:45.279 --> 01:20:45.880
sure you sing along, and they
all laughed and I was like, here're

1027
01:20:45.880 --> 01:20:49.119
the lyrics. They're like, oh, we're actually you actually have to sing

1028
01:20:49.119 --> 01:20:57.279
along. I'm like, yep,
uh okay, we got two more pieces

1029
01:20:57.279 --> 01:21:00.920
of spooky news and then we're going
to get to our creepy feature for this

1030
01:21:00.039 --> 01:21:04.439
month. Okay, this is from
Mira dot co dot UK. I know

1031
01:21:04.479 --> 01:21:10.439
you're shocked. We got the headline
is we got possessed in a graveyard and

1032
01:21:10.479 --> 01:21:15.439
now the ghosts have followed us home. Well I would okay, sure,

1033
01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:19.039
what was what was your question?
Well, I would think if you got

1034
01:21:19.079 --> 01:21:26.399
possessed, then the ghosts probably follow
you. So yeah, I mean better

1035
01:21:26.439 --> 01:21:30.439
than getting repossessed. Yeah, exactly. A couple who investigate, Oh no,

1036
01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:33.880
please don't be the same couple.
It's not okay. A couple who

1037
01:21:33.880 --> 01:21:38.840
investigate paranormal activity in their spare time
believe spirits could have followed them home,

1038
01:21:39.199 --> 01:21:45.560
as they've been plagued with eerie occurrences
ever since a supposed graveyard possession. Charlie

1039
01:21:45.560 --> 01:21:50.159
Harker fifty eight and Teresa Hughes fifty
nine run the Ghost Investigation Company After Life

1040
01:21:50.199 --> 01:21:58.359
Paranormal, traveling around to supposedly haunted
destinations and broadcasting their findings via Facebook Live.

1041
01:22:00.640 --> 01:22:03.159
At least, it's not TikTok every
news. I really have a belief

1042
01:22:03.159 --> 01:22:06.760
that forty or forty eighty percent of
all news is just reporting tiktoks. Now,

1043
01:22:08.000 --> 01:22:11.760
yeah, which makes sense because ninety
percent of journalists just sit on the

1044
01:22:11.760 --> 01:22:15.680
toilet looking at tiktoks most of their
day. Anyway, they need more fiber

1045
01:22:15.720 --> 01:22:20.960
in their diet. Over the past
year, however, it's the couple's own

1046
01:22:21.039 --> 01:22:27.279
home that has allegedly been at the
center of supposedly ghostly activity, and Charlie

1047
01:22:27.319 --> 01:22:30.439
and Teresa now believe they're being haunted
by a sinister and demonic presence by the

1048
01:22:30.520 --> 01:22:41.600
name of are you ready George?
Oh God chilling, actually says chillingly.

1049
01:22:41.920 --> 01:22:45.039
They believe that they may have been
well brought George home with them after Teresa

1050
01:22:45.119 --> 01:22:53.640
allegedly became possessed in a graveyard.
Wow, So do you think it's that

1051
01:22:53.720 --> 01:22:58.760
they believe that graveyards are haunted or
is it that like you could like bother

1052
01:22:59.239 --> 01:23:02.560
arresting spear in the graveyard, you
know, because like I don't, I

1053
01:23:02.560 --> 01:23:04.399
mean, it would be weird.
I think it'd be weird to haunt the

1054
01:23:04.399 --> 01:23:09.159
graveyard unless you died there. But
I could see like maybe if you annoy

1055
01:23:09.239 --> 01:23:11.720
this body, like then the spirit
comes out and goes like, hey,

1056
01:23:11.760 --> 01:23:14.279
shut up over there. Some of
us are trying to sleep. It's like

1057
01:23:14.319 --> 01:23:18.600
Brooklyn. It's just like Brooklyn before
of dead people. I think I think

1058
01:23:18.720 --> 01:23:26.680
the The reason that I've heard that
graveyards could be haunted is that if the

1059
01:23:27.119 --> 01:23:31.640
spirit like is really possessive of their
body, they may choose to stay with

1060
01:23:31.680 --> 01:23:35.960
it, okay, and that's why
they'd be in the graveyard. So like

1061
01:23:36.000 --> 01:23:39.520
bros who are like really into lifting
and stuff, they're like, I'm not

1062
01:23:39.560 --> 01:23:41.479
leaving my body, bro, I
put too much work into it, Bro,

1063
01:23:41.680 --> 01:23:44.840
exactly like I'm not gonna leave that, or like or they may not

1064
01:23:45.039 --> 01:23:46.760
know that they can leave it.
Oh, yeah, I've heard that one.

1065
01:23:46.840 --> 01:23:49.479
Yeah. I've always been a fan
of the ghost stories where the ghosts

1066
01:23:49.520 --> 01:23:53.760
don't know their ghosts. Yeah.
Those are so chilling because then it's like,

1067
01:23:53.800 --> 01:23:57.399
what if it's me? Yeah,
what if I'm a ghost? That's

1068
01:23:57.399 --> 01:24:01.960
not funny. Now I'm scared.
Can you yeah, okay, prove you're

1069
01:24:01.960 --> 01:24:06.640
not a ghost right now? Can
I'll put my hand through this microphone?

1070
01:24:08.039 --> 01:24:12.239
Oh thank god? Oh okay,
no, you're fine. WHOA, Sorry

1071
01:24:12.279 --> 01:24:20.119
he got nervous there for a second. Uh, let's see. The alleged

1072
01:24:20.119 --> 01:24:26.039
incident apparently occurred during an investigation at
Lime Pits Nature reserve in the town of

1073
01:24:26.079 --> 01:24:30.760
Wallsall, near Birmingham, where the
couple both live. According to Charlie.

1074
01:24:30.800 --> 01:24:34.720
He discovered Teresa lying in the mud
in total darkness during the investigation, after

1075
01:24:34.760 --> 01:24:41.439
having allegedly heard a scream. Okay, so she fell down, Yes,

1076
01:24:42.239 --> 01:24:44.920
And I guess they were there in
the middle of the night so she couldn't

1077
01:24:44.960 --> 01:24:49.960
see stuff and she tripped. I
love the night walking in see, it

1078
01:24:50.039 --> 01:24:57.560
was very musical episode. Uh.
And she and telling uh and she was

1079
01:24:57.600 --> 01:25:01.479
telling somebody or something to get out. He now believes that Teresa had been

1080
01:25:01.760 --> 01:25:10.239
possessed with the malevolent spirit which followed
them home. Charlie, who had been

1081
01:25:10.279 --> 01:25:15.239
involved in paramal Investigation, had been
they need a copywriter. Sorry, I'm

1082
01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:19.079
literally here's what it says. Who
has been involved in paranormal Investigator for eighteen

1083
01:25:19.159 --> 01:25:24.600
years? Oh god, yeah,
how many like just editing and they forgot

1084
01:25:24.600 --> 01:25:29.600
to fix investigator? Yeah yeah,
it's it's yeah, like sometimes it makes

1085
01:25:29.640 --> 01:25:31.359
me sound dumb and I'm like,
no, I'm not stupid, you're stupid.

1086
01:25:31.760 --> 01:25:36.199
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, here's
the problem. It doesn't have an

1087
01:25:36.239 --> 01:25:41.159
AI thing at the end, so
they didn't use AI to fix it.

1088
01:25:41.279 --> 01:25:45.039
That's why I know all of these
articles now have a little disclaiming this as

1089
01:25:45.079 --> 01:25:49.800
like AI was used for additional editing
in this Uh, let's see, it

1090
01:25:49.840 --> 01:25:53.960
all kicked off a quote, It
all kicked off that day when we had

1091
01:25:53.960 --> 01:25:57.479
that possession at the graveyard, when
it all went wrong, that is what

1092
01:25:57.640 --> 01:26:01.039
started it off. I think it
was George that esther. Teresa added quote,

1093
01:26:01.199 --> 01:26:05.000
I don't remember anything apart from Charlie
standing by me. I remember being

1094
01:26:05.039 --> 01:26:15.560
soaking wet because excuse my language,
I had pissed myself. Ah what what

1095
01:26:15.760 --> 01:26:19.800
what? I feel bad? Well, it's the holidays, it's time for

1096
01:26:19.840 --> 01:26:28.239
feeling bad. We'll find out more
about about this couple and their possession in

1097
01:26:28.359 --> 01:26:41.399
a British cemetery, but first we
have these quick holiday words and we are

1098
01:26:41.439 --> 01:26:46.880
back talking about this ghost hunting couple
who apparently had a ghost follow them home

1099
01:26:46.880 --> 01:26:56.119
from a graveyard, and the main
evidence is a lady Pete herself. You

1100
01:26:56.159 --> 01:27:00.720
have such a weird reaction to that. Well, I just think it's like

1101
01:27:00.840 --> 01:27:04.880
embarrassing and sad. I agree.
Well, you know, when I was

1102
01:27:04.920 --> 01:27:09.560
working on this movie called Ouiji Room, I was directing it and I was

1103
01:27:09.600 --> 01:27:13.199
working with the writer. There's a
whole thing where it is a movie about

1104
01:27:13.199 --> 01:27:16.239
like ghost possession, but it's also
about like it was about a girl like

1105
01:27:16.279 --> 01:27:21.800
a young girl who is she's got
like a lot of mental issues going on.

1106
01:27:21.840 --> 01:27:27.079
She's like kind of autistic and she's
agoraphobic and all this stuff. And

1107
01:27:27.159 --> 01:27:30.720
what happens is she's slowly becoming possessed
and doesn't realize it. So because I

1108
01:27:30.720 --> 01:27:36.600
thought what would be scarier than having
malevolence hiding under that honest trouble. So,

1109
01:27:38.199 --> 01:27:40.840
one of the ideas that I had
early on for the script that I

1110
01:27:40.840 --> 01:27:46.159
told the writer about was that when
the character's tired of her boyfriend's girlfriend being

1111
01:27:46.199 --> 01:27:50.840
around and taking her off, she
like freaks out on her, Like as

1112
01:27:50.880 --> 01:27:54.399
soon as he leaves the room,
she just stops being aloof and just is

1113
01:27:54.439 --> 01:27:57.279
like, I'm gonna, like you
have to leave or I'll kill you.

1114
01:27:57.640 --> 01:28:00.199
And she's like what. And then
when her brother comes back, she falls

1115
01:28:00.239 --> 01:28:03.039
on the grounds star's convulsing and peace
yourself. And the reason I wrote it

1116
01:28:03.039 --> 01:28:06.319
that way was because I was like, no one would assume you were pretending

1117
01:28:08.520 --> 01:28:12.159
or whatever if you do that.
And I loved the idea of like the

1118
01:28:12.279 --> 01:28:16.560
line between like is she legitimately mentally
ill or is this like a malevolent decision?

1119
01:28:18.199 --> 01:28:24.039
It's very complicated, you know,
she's becoming perverted by this evil But

1120
01:28:24.119 --> 01:28:26.479
that's why I picked that. So
I'm a big fan of things, you

1121
01:28:26.520 --> 01:28:30.279
know, like as a storytelling drive. I'm very fond of things like that

1122
01:28:30.319 --> 01:28:32.760
where it's like no one would fake
that. Why would they. They'd have

1123
01:28:32.840 --> 01:28:39.600
to be so committed to whatever that
they're pretty malevolent. Yeah yeah, so,

1124
01:28:40.760 --> 01:28:42.800
But needless to say, when I
used to have a job before I

1125
01:28:42.800 --> 01:28:45.319
work for myself, I just peed
myself every day if I didn't want to

1126
01:28:45.359 --> 01:28:48.840
do something, Okay, that's just
like these cables need to be wrapped in

1127
01:28:48.960 --> 01:28:56.600
like uh, I peede myself and
then he'd be like okay, pal go

1128
01:28:56.880 --> 01:29:00.720
wash up and be like okay,
and then I'd go like I'd already brought

1129
01:29:00.720 --> 01:29:01.920
another pain or pair of pants,
so I just like put him on on

1130
01:29:02.079 --> 01:29:05.600
it and then I just like watch
Netflix on my phone in the bathroom.

1131
01:29:05.760 --> 01:29:10.880
I'm surprised they didn't eventually say like, look in like handy diapers and go

1132
01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:14.520
like you can pee all you want, but you gotta do your job too.

1133
01:29:14.920 --> 01:29:17.000
No, that's because I didn't work
retail. That absolutely what happened.

1134
01:29:19.199 --> 01:29:23.199
Look, I know you pee yourself
a lot, but these people need candles.

1135
01:29:23.359 --> 01:29:31.159
Get out there. Anyway. An
eerie photograph of Charlie taken time at

1136
01:29:31.159 --> 01:29:35.239
the same site, appears to show
him surrounded by a foggy mist, which

1137
01:29:35.279 --> 01:29:45.039
he now believes was the restless spirit
of George. Despite his extensive experience in

1138
01:29:45.079 --> 01:29:50.439
the field of paranormal investigations, Charlie
claims this was the first incident of possession

1139
01:29:50.760 --> 01:29:56.800
he's witnessed, and says things changed
drastically at home in the months that followed.

1140
01:29:58.880 --> 01:30:02.880
Is he just covering up for his
I think so. Yeah. At

1141
01:30:02.920 --> 01:30:10.039
first, the alleged hauntings were quote
low energy, but things really or ramped

1142
01:30:10.119 --> 01:30:14.479
up after they decided to hold a
seance, with the supposed presence appearing to

1143
01:30:14.520 --> 01:30:19.239
become more powerful. Why'd you hold
the seance if it was like if it

1144
01:30:19.279 --> 01:30:24.680
was going to just make them more
powerful? Yeah, you actually probably shouldn't

1145
01:30:24.720 --> 01:30:30.079
do that. Yeah. The couple
claim to have witnessed things being thrown around

1146
01:30:30.119 --> 01:30:35.199
the house by unseen hands, including
a knife. Teresa said, quote the

1147
01:30:35.279 --> 01:30:39.680
hauntings scare me a little bit,
but I know I'm safe with Charlie.

1148
01:30:39.720 --> 01:30:44.479
He knows what he's doing. Does
He doesn't quite sound like he does.

1149
01:30:45.640 --> 01:30:54.560
I mean, the pair have been
conducting investigations at the property using electromatic electromagnetic

1150
01:30:54.600 --> 01:31:00.720
equipment, dolls and wisi boards and
believe they've captured some evidence. So I

1151
01:31:00.159 --> 01:31:03.039
like that. It's like an EVP
monitor which you have to pick up at

1152
01:31:03.039 --> 01:31:05.319
home depot. But luckily everything else
you could go to a toy store.

1153
01:31:06.119 --> 01:31:11.920
Yeah, thank goodness. Dolls and
wigi boards, it's fine. And uh,

1154
01:31:12.039 --> 01:31:15.800
and believe they've captured some evidence.
One creepy Facebook live video shows a

1155
01:31:15.800 --> 01:31:18.880
doll apparently rolling down the stairs after
a few were placed on the steps,

1156
01:31:19.239 --> 01:31:25.920
with the staircase said to be a
particular hotbed of activity. Okay, fine,

1157
01:31:26.039 --> 01:31:30.560
it's not like the doll was sitting
there and slowly fell over because it

1158
01:31:30.600 --> 01:31:33.159
wasn't balanced properly and rolled down the
stairs. Sure, no, no,

1159
01:31:33.159 --> 01:31:36.279
no, I like this. I'm
gonna start claiming that, like because he

1160
01:31:36.279 --> 01:31:39.920
said the stairs are a hotbed of
activity. It's like I've stubbed my toe

1161
01:31:39.920 --> 01:31:44.800
there and I've tripped and I'm not
clumsy, I'm handsome and powerful. Yeah

1162
01:31:44.880 --> 01:31:46.880
it has to be the ghost.
I need to start claiming everything is haunted

1163
01:31:46.880 --> 01:31:51.199
around me. Yeah. Charlie,
who believes the presence is getting stronger,

1164
01:31:51.319 --> 01:31:56.640
told the publication quote, We've done
one or two Wiji boards. We tried

1165
01:31:56.680 --> 01:32:02.920
to contact someone named yours who is
responsible for all this? All this,

1166
01:32:03.039 --> 01:32:06.359
what is going on? For all
this? What is going on? That's

1167
01:32:06.399 --> 01:32:12.880
what he says. Quote now apparently
we contacted him and got his name.

1168
01:32:13.239 --> 01:32:16.600
Then he was saying things like kill
you, death, die. Those were

1169
01:32:16.640 --> 01:32:23.399
the three words he used on the
board. I mean, well, let

1170
01:32:23.439 --> 01:32:28.560
me ask you if you have you
ever used the Wiji board once? When

1171
01:32:28.680 --> 01:32:31.199
you have to tell me the story
when I was like, well, maybe

1172
01:32:31.199 --> 01:32:34.319
twice. I don't know when I
was like I don't know, like twelve

1173
01:32:34.439 --> 01:32:40.479
or thirteen or something. Yeah,
like what was the context? Like where

1174
01:32:40.479 --> 01:32:43.800
were you? How did that come
about? In my house? Good?

1175
01:32:44.079 --> 01:32:48.479
And my mom is pretty sure the
Wiji board was responsible for activity afterwards.

1176
01:32:48.520 --> 01:32:54.079
But uh so wait, like this
was just a family game night, no

1177
01:32:54.239 --> 01:32:59.039
with my friends. Okay, now
you're just making it up. Yeah,

1178
01:32:59.079 --> 01:33:01.479
I know friends. How old were
you? How were you like thirteen?

1179
01:33:02.159 --> 01:33:05.920
Maybe I wish I had friends when
I was thirteen, It's okay, none

1180
01:33:05.920 --> 01:33:10.039
of them talked to me anymore so, and by the end of high school

1181
01:33:10.119 --> 01:33:14.039
they didn't talk to me anymore so, I mean same, Yeah, when

1182
01:33:14.079 --> 01:33:15.600
you have no friends, I don't
talk to you either. Yeah, it's

1183
01:33:15.640 --> 01:33:18.279
true. True. So a friend
like just was like, Hey, Michelle,

1184
01:33:18.359 --> 01:33:20.680
We're gonna bring a Wigi board over
to your house. No, I

1185
01:33:20.800 --> 01:33:24.000
was like, Hey, I bought
a Oigie board. Do you want you

1186
01:33:24.039 --> 01:33:28.760
bought a oigie board. Yeah,
it was my Oigi board or our oigie

1187
01:33:28.800 --> 01:33:31.199
board. Oh the family the family
Ouiji board. It had it had like

1188
01:33:31.239 --> 01:33:34.680
your last name, like stenciled on
the side. So do you know where

1189
01:33:34.680 --> 01:33:39.680
you guys bought it? I have
no like Toys of Us or something.

1190
01:33:39.720 --> 01:33:43.520
Probably, yeah, I have.
I have like five Oiji boards. I

1191
01:33:43.520 --> 01:33:45.560
have like I have like Glowing the
Dark one. I have a couple that

1192
01:33:45.600 --> 01:33:50.439
were made by hand because when you
make a movie, depending on how much

1193
01:33:50.439 --> 01:33:54.439
you focus on the Wigi board,
you really don't want to use the one

1194
01:33:54.439 --> 01:33:59.560
that's owned by Hasbro. That makes
sense, Yeah, So so I have

1195
01:33:59.640 --> 01:34:01.479
one that I have, one that's
like hand lettered, and then one that's

1196
01:34:01.560 --> 01:34:05.279
would burned. And one time on
a movie, whenever I do a movie,

1197
01:34:05.279 --> 01:34:09.000
if a Wigi board's involved in anything, I just bring one of those.

1198
01:34:09.119 --> 01:34:12.560
You know, I already have it. And I scared this group of

1199
01:34:12.560 --> 01:34:14.640
girls on an upstate New York.
We were working on a movie that a

1200
01:34:14.680 --> 01:34:15.319
wigi board and they're like, wow, where'd you get it? And I

1201
01:34:15.359 --> 01:34:18.560
was like, well, I was
in Massachusetts one summer and I went to

1202
01:34:18.600 --> 01:34:24.199
this weird kind of like sale in
a parking lot and the guy who sold

1203
01:34:24.239 --> 01:34:27.600
it to me said that the people
who owned it before just wouldn't need it

1204
01:34:27.640 --> 01:34:30.079
anymore. And then he was laughing
and he was really weird. But it

1205
01:34:30.119 --> 01:34:32.640
was free, and they all like
what And I'm like, my cousin made

1206
01:34:32.680 --> 01:34:40.039
it out of wood. Anyway,
I'm the worst. I used to sell

1207
01:34:40.039 --> 01:34:45.159
wigi boards at Spencer's Gifts, Yeah, and I used to terrorize those kids.

1208
01:34:46.560 --> 01:34:49.199
You'd have like I'd be like there, twenty three years old and some

1209
01:34:49.399 --> 01:34:54.359
like kid would walk in who's like, you know, twelve, and he

1210
01:34:54.399 --> 01:34:57.359
would like look at the wigi board
and be like whoa do they really work?

1211
01:34:57.439 --> 01:35:00.279
And I'd be like, listen,
young man, this is not a

1212
01:35:00.319 --> 01:35:05.359
toy. This is a portal to
the other world. This is a portal

1213
01:35:05.680 --> 01:35:11.840
to things you're not ready to experience. It is not something to play with.

1214
01:35:12.119 --> 01:35:16.359
It's something that allows you to speak
to spirits. Understand that. And

1215
01:35:16.359 --> 01:35:19.039
he was like okay, And I
was like and understand you must never use

1216
01:35:19.079 --> 01:35:21.600
it alone, and I like,
rose raise my voice everything. He's like

1217
01:35:21.600 --> 01:35:25.399
oh, and I'm like, if
you use it alone, you're welcoming possession.

1218
01:35:26.399 --> 01:35:28.680
And the kid was just like okay. And then I just looked at

1219
01:35:28.720 --> 01:35:30.920
my it's a game, just buy
it and then when you play it with

1220
01:35:30.920 --> 01:35:34.680
your friends, spell murder no matter
what they ask it. And he like

1221
01:35:34.800 --> 01:35:40.600
was like, uh, I think
I'll pass all the I did that at

1222
01:35:40.680 --> 01:35:43.239
least three or four times and I
only worked there four months, so that's

1223
01:35:43.239 --> 01:35:45.560
pretty good. Wow. Yeah.
Then I was like, anyway, let

1224
01:35:45.560 --> 01:35:49.079
me take you to where we have
the lube. So that was that was

1225
01:35:49.159 --> 01:35:53.640
my time working at Spencers. I
wish I was joking. I really did

1226
01:35:53.640 --> 01:35:56.439
that to kids when they ask about
the Ouiji board. Yeah, I give

1227
01:35:56.479 --> 01:36:00.560
him this whole speech basically from the
movie Whitchboard. I basically was just dogging

1228
01:36:00.600 --> 01:36:02.079
the witchboard speech. But I would
like scare them and then be like,

1229
01:36:02.239 --> 01:36:06.159
it's just game spell Murder. But
wait, so okay, sorry, I

1230
01:36:06.560 --> 01:36:10.319
can't leave this. So you you
used a Ouiji word with your friends.

1231
01:36:11.880 --> 01:36:14.520
Did you try to contact someone specific? Were you trying to talk to Elvis?

1232
01:36:14.560 --> 01:36:15.960
You could tell me if you're trying
to talk to Elvis. No,

1233
01:36:15.960 --> 01:36:23.880
no, not just not Elvis,
just whoever was there? Did they did

1234
01:36:23.880 --> 01:36:28.119
they reply? Yeah? What did
they say? We like asked who we

1235
01:36:28.159 --> 01:36:32.159
would like marry? Oh my god, after you've made fun wait, hold

1236
01:36:32.199 --> 01:36:39.079
on, after you've made fun of
all of the Halloween celebration guides and how

1237
01:36:39.119 --> 01:36:41.720
all the party tricks are about?
Like who am I gonna marry? Or

1238
01:36:41.760 --> 01:36:44.359
what am I gonna do for a
living? You were doing that at your

1239
01:36:44.399 --> 01:36:48.279
own slumber parties. Yeah, I
didn't say that. It was the that

1240
01:36:48.319 --> 01:36:57.399
I was. It was smart.
Good. Well did it did it tell

1241
01:36:57.399 --> 01:37:00.960
you who you were gonna marry?
It gave me initial but I don't remember

1242
01:37:00.000 --> 01:37:09.800
them. Ah, that's cruel.
Yeah whatever. I was never expecting this

1243
01:37:09.840 --> 01:37:13.960
to be something I was going to
find out. Wow, okay, that's

1244
01:37:14.039 --> 01:37:16.760
just hilarious. Yeah, we didn't
like do anything else, Like, we

1245
01:37:16.800 --> 01:37:23.319
didn't like ask if it was murdered
by someone or we're just using it like

1246
01:37:23.520 --> 01:37:27.920
as a fortune telling thing because we
were weird. See that's what my point

1247
01:37:27.960 --> 01:37:30.800
is. Like, whenever I've used
a wigi board as an adult, it'll

1248
01:37:30.840 --> 01:37:33.159
just be like, what's your name? It spells murder. They're like,

1249
01:37:33.279 --> 01:37:39.079
huh how did you die? It
spells murder? Where are you from?

1250
01:37:39.159 --> 01:37:45.199
It spells murder. It's just a
scary. It's a lot of good.

1251
01:37:45.720 --> 01:37:48.840
I just like spelling murder. If
you want to go more cerebral, just

1252
01:37:48.840 --> 01:37:56.479
spell lonely. Lonely is the worst
one for a Oigi board to say.

1253
01:37:57.239 --> 01:38:00.960
Okay, I think it's that's okay
because i'll it'll that can hang out with

1254
01:38:00.039 --> 01:38:05.840
me. I guess. Yeah,
somebody's got to right. Yeah. I

1255
01:38:05.880 --> 01:38:11.680
can't believe your family had auigi board. That's so cool. Were you like

1256
01:38:11.720 --> 01:38:15.399
the cool family? Maybe did your
Did any of your friends get in trouble

1257
01:38:15.399 --> 01:38:17.920
for using ouigi board at your house? I don't think so. I don't

1258
01:38:17.920 --> 01:38:21.720
think that, you know, they
told their parents. I mean I never

1259
01:38:21.760 --> 01:38:24.960
got in trouble for anything like that. I got in trouble for just straight

1260
01:38:25.039 --> 01:38:29.000
up showing kids like R rated horror
movies. Yeah. I don't really get

1261
01:38:29.000 --> 01:38:30.880
in trouble. The only time I
ever got in trouble was I had a

1262
01:38:31.000 --> 01:38:41.760
friend over and we went to the
Devil's Pond in behind the development, and

1263
01:38:41.760 --> 01:38:46.359
then she got poison ivy and died. Yeah no, but then her mom

1264
01:38:46.479 --> 01:38:49.199
was like really mad, and I
was like we didn't even like she went

1265
01:38:49.279 --> 01:38:54.359
off on her own, like into
like the area. So I don't know,

1266
01:38:54.479 --> 01:38:57.000
Man, I didn't get poisoned.
Ivy, you got your story straight.

1267
01:38:57.079 --> 01:39:01.359
I like that. Yeah, yeah, wow, okay, okay,

1268
01:39:01.560 --> 01:39:05.640
Oh, I was not expecting to
learn so much about you. Have you

1269
01:39:05.720 --> 01:39:09.479
told me about the Devil's Pond?
I feel you haven't. I don't know.

1270
01:39:09.600 --> 01:39:12.800
It was just a pond, but
you guys just called it Devil's Pond.

1271
01:39:12.960 --> 01:39:15.680
Yeah. But I recently found out
through my sister because she's researching the

1272
01:39:15.720 --> 01:39:19.359
area, that there was a Devil's
Creek back there, so it actually was

1273
01:39:19.439 --> 01:39:24.119
probably called Devil's Pond. Oh wow, okay, yeah, it wasn't just

1274
01:39:24.159 --> 01:39:27.000
a name that we made up.
Well, Jersey has a lot because there's

1275
01:39:27.039 --> 01:39:30.720
the Devil's Tree in Jersey, which
is like a big one. Yeah.

1276
01:39:30.760 --> 01:39:33.479
So but I'll tell you what.
We're gonna take a quick break and we'll

1277
01:39:33.520 --> 01:39:36.279
get back. We're gonna wrap up
this piece of spooky news. I know

1278
01:39:36.319 --> 01:39:40.279
we got distracted, but that was
too good. And then we're gonna do

1279
01:39:40.319 --> 01:39:43.800
one more story before we get to
the topic at hand. Right after this,

1280
01:39:50.640 --> 01:39:56.600
and we are back trying to finish
up this story without Michelle interrupting with

1281
01:39:56.680 --> 01:40:01.199
incredible stories of asking Ouiji boards as
you'll marry. Sorry, ah, that

1282
01:40:01.359 --> 01:40:04.720
was too good. After all the
time I've been like bugging you for like

1283
01:40:04.840 --> 01:40:08.720
what did you do as a kid
that was like creepy or eerie or spooky?

1284
01:40:08.800 --> 01:40:11.039
And now I'm just now finding out
about this effort. We've done the

1285
01:40:11.039 --> 01:40:15.399
show for over a year together.
It's just not something I really talk about

1286
01:40:15.520 --> 01:40:18.079
or think about very much. Yeah, that's interesting you and me. That

1287
01:40:18.079 --> 01:40:23.119
would be all I'd think about.
But okay, so back on to this.

1288
01:40:23.199 --> 01:40:26.479
So as he meant, as we
mentioned, he's using a Ouiji board

1289
01:40:26.920 --> 01:40:30.239
and it's saying things like kill you, death, and die, and he

1290
01:40:30.359 --> 01:40:34.560
decided that he should just keep doing
it even though it clearly is exacerbating the

1291
01:40:34.600 --> 01:40:39.119
problem. I I mean, that
is the way of the ghost hunter,

1292
01:40:39.199 --> 01:40:46.520
isn't it? I guess? And
also they figured out his name is George.

1293
01:40:47.159 --> 01:40:51.840
So he's quoted as saying, ever
since then, we've had a bunch

1294
01:40:51.920 --> 01:40:57.960
more activity. We've had more and
more activity. I've dealt with loads of

1295
01:40:58.000 --> 01:41:02.880
these types of things before, but
this one and is slightly different. He

1296
01:41:02.920 --> 01:41:06.840
continued, quote, this entity is
more powerful than any other spirit that I

1297
01:41:06.840 --> 01:41:12.600
have ever encountered. We've done all
the usual things like cleansing and holy water,

1298
01:41:12.640 --> 01:41:15.159
but nothing seems to be preventing it
from doing what it is doing.

1299
01:41:16.239 --> 01:41:19.920
I would say it is a poultergeist, although it's I wouldn't say it is

1300
01:41:19.960 --> 01:41:25.520
a poltergeist, although I would say
it's in that category. It's physical though,

1301
01:41:25.520 --> 01:41:29.119
because we did a live broadcast last
last week and it threw a glass

1302
01:41:29.159 --> 01:41:34.560
from one end of the bedroom to
the other. Okay, yeah, you

1303
01:41:34.560 --> 01:41:41.119
know what a poltergeist is. Yes, I mean it's like a ghost that

1304
01:41:41.439 --> 01:41:45.600
physically does stuff. Yeah, poltergeist
supposedly. I'd always read that poltergeist literally

1305
01:41:45.640 --> 01:41:50.880
meant noisy spirit. I think you're
correct. When I was a kid,

1306
01:41:51.720 --> 01:41:57.439
I took all of the books like
from the library about ghosts and stuff,

1307
01:41:59.359 --> 01:42:05.600
so I used to knocking spirit.
It's German for knocking spirit or a noisy

1308
01:42:05.720 --> 01:42:10.359
spirit or whatever. Yeah, but
when I was a kid, I used

1309
01:42:10.359 --> 01:42:13.640
to read all of the UFO books
and all the paranormal books in my elementary

1310
01:42:13.680 --> 01:42:16.359
school library. That was the only
name in the in the card. Nobody

1311
01:42:16.399 --> 01:42:20.720
else was checking them out, and
that's where I first learned what a poltergeist

1312
01:42:20.760 --> 01:42:27.520
was. So anyway, it sounds
like a freakin' poltergeist. I mean,

1313
01:42:27.760 --> 01:42:30.079
yeah, it does. I guess
he's trying to save that. He's like,

1314
01:42:30.079 --> 01:42:32.359
no, no, no, a
poltergeist's way scarier. Or maybe he's

1315
01:42:32.399 --> 01:42:39.600
saying it's scarier than a poltergeist.
Yeah, the fact he said, I

1316
01:42:39.600 --> 01:42:43.079
wouldn't say it's a poltergeist, although
it's in that category. What that category?

1317
01:42:43.159 --> 01:42:46.319
Okay whatever. Quote. Also,
about a month ago, when we

1318
01:42:46.319 --> 01:42:50.359
were doing an investigation with just a
few dolls out, we had a knife

1319
01:42:50.399 --> 01:42:55.680
go across the kitchen which bounced off
the sink, which again I think is

1320
01:42:55.760 --> 01:43:02.439
him. Maybe this is all sound
very reckless. It's been going on about

1321
01:43:02.439 --> 01:43:05.840
a year, but it's been low
energy. We had a presence before the

1322
01:43:05.840 --> 01:43:11.319
Ouiji board. These have been more
have been like normal ghosts coming in and

1323
01:43:11.319 --> 01:43:15.279
out. It's only started building up
in the last couple of months. I

1324
01:43:15.279 --> 01:43:18.520
think it's just getting stronger. The
disturbances he is causing mostly happen at night,

1325
01:43:18.960 --> 01:43:23.800
like hearing bangs and things like that. It's like he's feeding off the

1326
01:43:23.880 --> 01:43:29.039
darkness. It sounds to me like
they have a cat. They might,

1327
01:43:29.399 --> 01:43:35.319
but also just just for as power
normal theory goes, the more energy that

1328
01:43:35.439 --> 01:43:43.760
you spend on the ghost thing,
the worse it's gonna get. So yeah,

1329
01:43:43.800 --> 01:43:45.600
that's yeah. When I was reading
those ghost books as a kid,

1330
01:43:45.920 --> 01:43:50.600
they would mention that that like they
were like most poultrygeguists are actually just children

1331
01:43:50.640 --> 01:43:57.760
with esp I've heard that, which
is funny though, because that's like solving

1332
01:43:57.760 --> 01:44:01.479
a supernatural problem with the different supernatural
thing. So it's like, yeah,

1333
01:44:02.079 --> 01:44:06.119
it's like, now Santa Claus is
a fat man that brings you gifts,

1334
01:44:06.159 --> 01:44:11.279
that's a little silly. It's more
likely to be a unicorn bringing the gifts.

1335
01:44:11.720 --> 01:44:17.439
Yeah. So we got one last
piece of spooky news from your favorite

1336
01:44:17.960 --> 01:44:28.000
NPR Okay, and this one is
about a car sized tumbleweed that made quite

1337
01:44:28.039 --> 01:44:32.279
a scene on a California highway.
Wo and there's a photo. The tumbleweed

1338
01:44:32.319 --> 01:44:35.079
is huge. In fact, this
is really funny. I saw the size

1339
01:44:35.079 --> 01:44:39.600
of the tumbleweed next to another car
and my first thought was the size of

1340
01:44:39.600 --> 01:44:43.279
a Volkswagen Beetle. And that's the
first word of the article. Wow.

1341
01:44:43.399 --> 01:44:46.560
A giant tumbleweed, roughly the size
of a Volkswagen Beetle, was spotted hurdling

1342
01:44:46.600 --> 01:44:53.239
its way down a four lane road
in California this week. Wow. The

1343
01:44:53.359 --> 01:44:57.560
jaunty brown bundle of brush. Wow. I said that in one take was

1344
01:44:57.640 --> 01:45:01.079
captured on video and posted on Thursday
on x formerly known as Twitter, where

1345
01:45:01.119 --> 01:45:05.199
it has gathered a number of fans
who have compared it to a giant hairball,

1346
01:45:05.479 --> 01:45:11.800
belly lint gone wild, and the
Critters from the eponymously named nineteen eighty

1347
01:45:11.840 --> 01:45:15.920
six sci fi horror movie. So, well, they're right and they're wrong.

1348
01:45:15.800 --> 01:45:21.000
Yeah, in Critters too, all
the critters joined together into one giant

1349
01:45:21.079 --> 01:45:25.640
ball that's like the size of a
van. Okay, so they're right enough,

1350
01:45:25.720 --> 01:45:28.319
I mean, but it's Critters two, directed by Mick Gerris, which,

1351
01:45:28.359 --> 01:45:30.840
by the way, takes place on
Easter weekend, so it's an Easter

1352
01:45:30.960 --> 01:45:36.359
film. Okay, you're welcome.
The poster of the video offered no information

1353
01:45:36.399 --> 01:45:41.199
about the bouncing plant carcass other than
that, other than to say that it

1354
01:45:41.319 --> 01:45:45.640
was quote the mother of all tumbleweeds. But that got us thinking not just

1355
01:45:45.680 --> 01:45:50.359
about cowboys and classic Western movies,
but about where tumbleweeds come from and their

1356
01:45:50.359 --> 01:45:57.800
propensity for taking over roads and neighborhoods. Yeah, neighborhoods they just taken over.

1357
01:45:58.920 --> 01:46:01.600
So as you and I both are
from the East, side of this

1358
01:46:01.800 --> 01:46:04.359
nation, right. I mean,
I'm from Ohio, so I'm from the

1359
01:46:04.359 --> 01:46:09.479
Midwest and you're from the East coast. I'm assuming that the first time you

1360
01:46:09.520 --> 01:46:13.640
saw a tumbleweed was in a cartoon, yes, right, For the first

1361
01:46:13.680 --> 01:46:16.399
time you were made aware they exist
was probably in a cartoon. Same like

1362
01:46:16.720 --> 01:46:20.000
and then old Westerns where they do
that. I remember reading about how there

1363
01:46:20.039 --> 01:46:25.079
was a guy who used to run
around the desert grabbing tumbleweeds and filling a

1364
01:46:25.199 --> 01:46:28.920
van, and then he would sell
them to those productions for like those who

1365
01:46:29.000 --> 01:46:33.239
money or rent them because you know, they wouldn't want to keep them.

1366
01:46:33.359 --> 01:46:38.720
Yeah, that was apparently big business
was capturing tumbleweeds when Westerns were being made

1367
01:46:38.760 --> 01:46:43.159
every day. I'm really sad that
that's not a thing anymore. What were

1368
01:46:43.199 --> 01:46:45.479
you going to pack up right now? You and gigs were gonna get in

1369
01:46:45.760 --> 01:46:48.960
their car and start gathering tumbleweeds?
Yeah? Yeah, I mean you could

1370
01:46:48.960 --> 01:46:51.760
still do that for the love of
it and then hope the money comes later,

1371
01:46:53.880 --> 01:47:00.239
like all passions. Yeah. True. First off, tumbleweeds aren't one

1372
01:47:00.279 --> 01:47:04.199
specific species of plant. They fall
under an umbrella of noxious weeds that,

1373
01:47:04.279 --> 01:47:09.680
when dry, break off at the
root, setting off a seed spread expedition.

1374
01:47:10.199 --> 01:47:13.880
I never researched tumbleweeds. That makes
perfect sense. They roll around passing

1375
01:47:13.960 --> 01:47:18.159
seeds. Yeah, it does.
That's so neat. That's so neat.

1376
01:47:18.399 --> 01:47:21.039
That's pretty cool. I can't believe
in all the years of friendship, you

1377
01:47:21.039 --> 01:47:26.960
never told me why tumbleweeds tumble?
I'm sorry. We've been friends for over

1378
01:47:26.960 --> 01:47:30.000
ten years. I feel like you
should have told me. I just didn't

1379
01:47:30.039 --> 01:47:33.560
want to. Oh, oh,
this is really interesting. One of the

1380
01:47:33.600 --> 01:47:40.199
most common and most problematic for crops
is the Russian thistle or Khali tragus.

1381
01:47:40.560 --> 01:47:44.399
It is believed to have hitched a
ride from Ukraine to South Dakota in a

1382
01:47:44.439 --> 01:47:48.159
shipment of flax seed back in eighteen
seventy, and it has plagued the country's

1383
01:47:48.239 --> 01:47:53.439
dry arid lands ever since. Wow, I would never have thought that.

1384
01:47:53.760 --> 01:47:58.680
I thought for sure that was like
a desert thing. In twenty twenty,

1385
01:47:58.680 --> 01:48:01.680
a swarm of tumbleweeds took over a
stretch of Washington State Highway that piled up

1386
01:48:01.680 --> 01:48:08.279
to thirty feet high in some places. What cars and trucks were trapped for

1387
01:48:08.399 --> 01:48:14.239
hours. Authority dubbed authorities dubbed it
tumble gedden. Wow, how come I

1388
01:48:14.279 --> 01:48:15.760
never heard about this. I think, well, maybe it's because we weren't

1389
01:48:15.760 --> 01:48:19.039
doing this show yet. Oh maybe
if we were doing the show, I

1390
01:48:19.039 --> 01:48:23.239
bet we would have heard about it. A couple of years later, about

1391
01:48:23.239 --> 01:48:27.720
one hundred homes in Victorville, California, were seemingly swallowed up by thousands of

1392
01:48:27.760 --> 01:48:32.279
prickly tumbleweeds that were strewn about by
fifty mile per hour winds. Wow.

1393
01:48:32.640 --> 01:48:36.239
Quote, it looked like a war
of tumbleweeds, like we were being invaded,

1394
01:48:36.319 --> 01:48:40.960
Victorville resident Brian Bagwell, forty two, told NPR at the time.

1395
01:48:41.600 --> 01:48:45.960
In a similar incident in twenty fourteen, a tumbleweed explosion knocked down fences.

1396
01:48:45.199 --> 01:48:47.760
I'm assuming it means explosion of a
bunch of them, and not like that

1397
01:48:47.800 --> 01:48:55.439
they literally exploded. Not. It
turns out the tumbleweeds were keeping a live

1398
01:48:55.640 --> 01:49:00.840
naval shell this whole time, and
now it's very sad that it's gone.

1399
01:49:00.640 --> 01:49:05.039
A tumbleweed explosion knockdown fences, blocked
highways, and trapped people inside their homes

1400
01:49:05.039 --> 01:49:13.000
in Colorado. I look, I
am not a big like America raw ra

1401
01:49:13.199 --> 01:49:15.359
guy, but I'd be out there
with a shot going and going. Not

1402
01:49:15.439 --> 01:49:20.319
in my neighborhood and just like blowing
the tumbleweeds away bird shot, that'd be

1403
01:49:20.319 --> 01:49:25.079
perfect. We don't call it bird
shot around here. We call it tumbleweed

1404
01:49:25.159 --> 01:49:30.560
shot. It breaks the tumbleweeds up. Experts say there is more tumbleweed tumult

1405
01:49:30.920 --> 01:49:36.279
in our futures. A twenty nineteen
study from the University of California Riverside found

1406
01:49:36.279 --> 01:49:43.359
that a new species of gigantic tumble
tumbleweeds, Salsola rayani, can grow up

1407
01:49:43.399 --> 01:49:46.399
to six feet tall, grows more
vigorously than others, and they also say

1408
01:49:46.399 --> 01:49:50.960
it's likely to expand its territory as
a result of climate change. Tumbling.

1409
01:49:51.319 --> 01:49:58.720
Okay, yeah, the tumbling.
Yeah, prepare yourselves for the better.

1410
01:50:00.479 --> 01:50:05.199
No, that's insane. I would
not have guessed that tumbleweeds were such a

1411
01:50:05.239 --> 01:50:11.920
problem. M hm. So I'm
glad I'm in the Midwest. I hope

1412
01:50:12.000 --> 01:50:15.640
I ain't have tumbleweeds one day.
You could probably grow tumbleweeds for fun.

1413
01:50:16.119 --> 01:50:20.680
I don't think that they'd survive here. You don't know that, well,

1414
01:50:20.680 --> 01:50:25.800
there aren't any, so I'm assuming
they can't. Maybe it's because no flaxeed

1415
01:50:25.880 --> 01:50:30.439
came from Ukraine. I mean,
it's possible, but they tumble all over

1416
01:50:30.479 --> 01:50:33.479
the place, so you think they'd
spread if they could. Uh well,

1417
01:50:33.680 --> 01:50:38.199
hm, you know. That's an
interesting point though, because it's about all

1418
01:50:38.239 --> 01:50:44.319
about wind. So I don't know
enough about weather patterns, because I think

1419
01:50:44.319 --> 01:50:46.359
that they kind of like, you
know, it's probably the mountains that stop

1420
01:50:46.399 --> 01:50:51.319
them. Maybe because the Rocky Mountains
are right there. It doesn't seem like

1421
01:50:51.359 --> 01:50:56.000
there's any east of the Rocky Mountains. Okay, I just have to bring

1422
01:50:56.039 --> 01:51:00.239
them over. That's what I've been
saying. Okay, what I'm saying is

1423
01:51:00.479 --> 01:51:04.680
that's what I got you for Christmas. Yay. Yeah, I'm so excited.

1424
01:51:05.600 --> 01:51:11.560
I love tumbleweeds. Oh and I
want to say, real quick before

1425
01:51:11.600 --> 01:51:15.520
we take a break and get to
the meat of our show, thank you

1426
01:51:15.600 --> 01:51:18.840
for the wonderful Christmas cookies you sent
me. Oh you're welcome. So they

1427
01:51:18.840 --> 01:51:23.359
were very they weren't they weren't delicious. They have been delicious. There are

1428
01:51:23.399 --> 01:51:26.960
still quite a few left. I
think this is the biggest container of snowball

1429
01:51:27.000 --> 01:51:30.319
cookies you've ever sent me. Yeah, I'm sorry. I used a big

1430
01:51:30.359 --> 01:51:32.560
container. And then I was putting
it in, stuff in and I was

1431
01:51:32.600 --> 01:51:34.960
on the phone with my mom and
I was like do you think that's enough?

1432
01:51:35.079 --> 01:51:39.560
She couldn't see it, and she
said, like, does it fill

1433
01:51:39.640 --> 01:51:45.479
up the container? And I was
like no, oh god. Well they

1434
01:51:45.640 --> 01:51:50.000
arrived all intact and delicious. Good, So thank you very much, and

1435
01:51:50.159 --> 01:51:54.119
your gift is waiting for you.
I'm assuming under your tree right now.

1436
01:51:54.840 --> 01:51:58.920
It's yeah, where'd you put it? You didn't put it under your tree,

1437
01:51:58.920 --> 01:52:01.960
so where'd you put it? It's
near so oh, okay, that's

1438
01:52:02.000 --> 01:52:08.159
okay. I like your shoe thingy
you have. It's nice. All right,

1439
01:52:08.239 --> 01:52:10.760
Well, we're gonna take a quick
break and then we'll be back with

1440
01:52:10.840 --> 01:52:15.720
a very special Christmas game that Michelle
and I are going to play that she

1441
01:52:15.800 --> 01:52:19.720
has not been made privy to in
any way. You're gonna hear her find

1442
01:52:19.720 --> 01:52:31.359
out about it when I tell her
right after this, and we are back

1443
01:52:31.800 --> 01:52:36.279
with the mystery topic of the show. Well, it's only a mystery to

1444
01:52:36.319 --> 01:52:41.000
Michelle. It's not a mystery to
the people listening, because it's probably in

1445
01:52:41.039 --> 01:52:45.920
the description. It's only a mystery
to you. I'll be completely honest.

1446
01:52:45.920 --> 01:52:49.520
That's one of my favorite things about
doing especially Monthly Spooky, is that I

1447
01:52:49.560 --> 01:52:55.800
can just like talk very earnestly about
like what's going on in my life or

1448
01:52:55.840 --> 01:52:58.920
whatever, because you know, when
you listen to just Weekly Spooky and terrifying

1449
01:52:58.920 --> 01:53:01.119
and true and stuff, you don't
really get that. And that's the way

1450
01:53:01.159 --> 01:53:04.640
it's supposed to be, you know. It's like a little intro the show,

1451
01:53:04.760 --> 01:53:08.600
a little thank you goodbye, you
know, simple, that's the way

1452
01:53:08.600 --> 01:53:13.079
it should be. These are for
the people who care to know a little

1453
01:53:13.079 --> 01:53:15.600
bit more about me, what's going
on, YadA YadA. Well, with

1454
01:53:15.720 --> 01:53:19.199
this Christmas season being insane, I've
been struggling for weeks to come up with

1455
01:53:19.239 --> 01:53:24.159
what the topic for today's show would
be because I wanted it to be festive,

1456
01:53:25.239 --> 01:53:29.119
and we did Crampus last year,
I believe, which was a great

1457
01:53:29.199 --> 01:53:32.800
topic for Christmas. So I came
up with this in the shower two days

1458
01:53:32.800 --> 01:53:39.479
ago, and I was very excited
about it because Weekly Spooky. The bread

1459
01:53:39.520 --> 01:53:43.479
and butter of our show, the
bread and butter of this whole podcast is

1460
01:53:44.239 --> 01:53:49.399
scary stories. Yeah, so you
and me, Michelle are going to tell

1461
01:53:49.399 --> 01:53:54.840
a scary story in the round.
Have you ever done that before? Yes,

1462
01:53:55.880 --> 01:53:59.479
you have, I think so.
Was it a slummer party again?

1463
01:54:00.520 --> 01:54:09.439
No? It was at improv?
What you took improv? What are you

1464
01:54:09.560 --> 01:54:12.960
talking about what. How do I
not know this after like fifteen years of

1465
01:54:12.960 --> 01:54:16.319
friendship, I don't know. Well, what are you talking about? Slow

1466
01:54:16.359 --> 01:54:20.239
down? Well, I think I
took like a I took like an improv

1467
01:54:20.439 --> 01:54:29.880
class at my twyby was that when
it okay and we did like a little

1468
01:54:30.279 --> 01:54:34.039
play because we didn't just do improv
too, it was like a performance workshop.

1469
01:54:34.359 --> 01:54:38.119
Yeah, okay, Yeah that's really
cool. I had no idea.

1470
01:54:38.600 --> 01:54:41.520
Sorry, is that why you're so
good at yes? Ending? You're so

1471
01:54:41.600 --> 01:54:44.600
good at improv? You're really good
at it. Thanks. I don't know.

1472
01:54:45.880 --> 01:54:48.199
See. The only improv experience I
had as a kid is I worshiped

1473
01:54:48.199 --> 01:54:51.920
this improv show that was on local
television. I loved it so much,

1474
01:54:51.960 --> 01:54:56.800
and I tried out and they rejected
me. Oh man. I was like

1475
01:54:56.840 --> 01:55:00.279
fifteen or fourteen, and they were
just like, now you're not enough.

1476
01:55:00.279 --> 01:55:00.920
And I was like, oh okay, and they're like, well you still

1477
01:55:00.920 --> 01:55:03.239
help us at the show and I
was like okay, And then I built

1478
01:55:03.239 --> 01:55:09.640
an entire career. So hah.
Yeah. Anyway, we're going to tell

1479
01:55:09.720 --> 01:55:15.079
a scary Christmas story in the round. So the way we're going to do

1480
01:55:15.119 --> 01:55:18.119
this is we have to decide what
we want to say for when the other

1481
01:55:18.199 --> 01:55:23.680
person has to take over. Okay, in the past, when I've done

1482
01:55:23.680 --> 01:55:27.359
this with friends, which is rare, we said pass. Do you want

1483
01:55:27.359 --> 01:55:29.199
to do pass? Or do you
want to do something else? No,

1484
01:55:29.279 --> 01:55:31.920
we can do past. I probably
won't say that, so I won't say

1485
01:55:31.960 --> 01:55:38.479
pass no like like in the story. Oh yeah, yeah, no,

1486
01:55:38.520 --> 01:55:43.520
I agree. Okay, So here
we go. Let's get you all loosened

1487
01:55:43.560 --> 01:55:45.479
up. Go on, loosen up. Come on, you're not moving at

1488
01:55:45.479 --> 01:55:54.920
all except your eyes just like do
I can see you? Oh? There

1489
01:55:54.960 --> 01:55:58.800
you go, limber up. Oh
gosh, Chicano started licking my foot.

1490
01:55:58.840 --> 01:56:08.000
That startled me quite a bit.
Okay, So it's December twenty fourth.

1491
01:56:08.800 --> 01:56:13.439
There's a cold breeze in the air
as winter is coming like a lion,

1492
01:56:14.279 --> 01:56:24.159
snow threatening to fall. A little
boy named Robert wakes up from his bed

1493
01:56:24.560 --> 01:56:30.359
after hearing a sound down by the
Christmas tree. As little Robert heads down

1494
01:56:30.399 --> 01:56:35.399
the stairs, he's careful not to
wake his mother and father up as he

1495
01:56:35.479 --> 01:56:41.199
makes his way further down the stairs, each step creaking creaking under his foot.

1496
01:56:42.680 --> 01:56:45.239
When he gets to the bottom of
the stairs and looks over toward the

1497
01:56:45.279 --> 01:56:55.880
Christmas tree, what does he see
but pass nothing at all, just an

1498
01:56:55.880 --> 01:57:03.720
empty room. He is obviously confused
and hurt by this turn of events.

1499
01:57:04.159 --> 01:57:09.800
After all, the Christmas tree was
there the night before and it is no

1500
01:57:09.840 --> 01:57:15.159
longer in the house. But maybe
but he looks from room to room,

1501
01:57:15.520 --> 01:57:18.600
hoping that his parents just moved the
Christmas tree, because they might do that,

1502
01:57:18.800 --> 01:57:27.119
right, But there is no Christmas
tree or presence at all, and

1503
01:57:27.359 --> 01:57:31.199
he is about to go back upstairs
to wake his parents and say what the

1504
01:57:31.239 --> 01:57:39.399
fuck when he hears a noise pass. He looks straight up, knowing it's

1505
01:57:39.439 --> 01:57:43.960
coming from the attic. This boy
has not been in the attic since he

1506
01:57:44.039 --> 01:57:46.760
was eight years old, when his
father asked him to go up and get

1507
01:57:46.960 --> 01:57:53.560
and retrieve Christmas decorations. That all
he found was a dead sparrow, its

1508
01:57:53.600 --> 01:57:59.880
wing broken, begging for mercy.
The boy, being so young and tender,

1509
01:58:00.840 --> 01:58:05.279
let the bird suffer instead of putting
it out of its misery. Most

1510
01:58:05.279 --> 01:58:10.680
of his life since then, and
even into adulthood, he would often remember

1511
01:58:11.359 --> 01:58:16.159
being a coward who didn't kill the
poor bird's suffering. But at this moment,

1512
01:58:16.199 --> 01:58:20.680
he realized he had to go to
the attic, But what of his

1513
01:58:20.800 --> 01:58:28.319
parents? He opened the bedroom door
at the furthest near the stairs to see

1514
01:58:28.600 --> 01:58:32.239
the room was empty, just as
it had always been. No one lived

1515
01:58:32.279 --> 01:58:36.920
in that room. As he went
further up the hallway, he opened the

1516
01:58:36.960 --> 01:58:45.239
door to his parents' room. Inside, things looked pretty normal in the dark.

1517
01:58:46.159 --> 01:58:51.199
He reached over to the light switch. Nothing happened as he clicked it

1518
01:58:51.319 --> 01:58:59.640
up and clicked it down. The
room remained pitch black. He walked towards

1519
01:58:59.720 --> 01:59:05.960
the bed. As he reached for
the bed and said mom, the crashing

1520
01:59:05.960 --> 01:59:11.079
above came louder. At that moment, he realized the bed was empty.

1521
01:59:11.439 --> 01:59:14.039
If the bed hadn't been empty,
his parents most certainly would have been woken

1522
01:59:14.039 --> 01:59:20.039
by that crashing sound from the attic. He took a deep breath, walked

1523
01:59:20.039 --> 01:59:28.479
out the door, and looked up
at the pull string that led to the

1524
01:59:28.479 --> 01:59:33.760
attic. As he grabbed his step
stool and lowered the ladder down, he

1525
01:59:33.880 --> 01:59:45.920
began to make his ascent toward the
noise pass He stepped slowly onto the attic

1526
01:59:46.159 --> 01:59:51.239
stairs, which creaked under his weight. He wasn't one hundred percent sure that

1527
01:59:51.319 --> 01:59:57.239
they were installed correctly, but you
know, sometimes you just gotta do what

1528
01:59:57.279 --> 02:00:03.199
you gotta do. He held his
breath as he ascended until he couldn't hold

1529
02:00:03.239 --> 02:00:10.600
his breath anymore, and then he
had to breathe, And once he reached

1530
02:00:10.640 --> 02:00:14.720
the top, he realized that he
had forgotten to turn the light switch at

1531
02:00:14.720 --> 02:00:19.680
the bottom of the stairs, and
he had to make a decision if he

1532
02:00:19.760 --> 02:00:24.159
was going to go into a dark
attic and see if the light had a

1533
02:00:24.199 --> 02:00:30.960
pole string, or he was going
to go back down. So he went

1534
02:00:30.039 --> 02:00:36.439
back down and he put the light
switch on, and it actually didn't go

1535
02:00:36.560 --> 02:00:42.800
on, and he was at this
point beginning to wonder is the power off?

1536
02:00:43.199 --> 02:00:51.000
Because this is weird. He again
ascended the stairs and stepped out into

1537
02:00:51.039 --> 02:00:56.159
the dark attic, which only had
part of a floor, so he had

1538
02:00:56.159 --> 02:01:08.880
to be very careful. As he
walked carefully into the attic, he noticed

1539
02:01:09.479 --> 02:01:15.479
an overwhelming stench that he couldn't quite
figure out what it was. It wasn't

1540
02:01:15.520 --> 02:01:21.880
something he'd ever smelled before, but
as a sheltered child, he really hadn't

1541
02:01:21.920 --> 02:01:31.760
smelled that many terrible things, So
he just continued to walk, breathing as

1542
02:01:31.840 --> 02:01:42.760
carefully and quietly as possible until he
saw it pass. Sorry, at that

1543
02:01:42.920 --> 02:01:47.159
moment, he saw, much to
his surprise and fear, his own breath

1544
02:01:47.880 --> 02:01:54.159
in front of him. In all
of the hubbub and ruckus and fear,

1545
02:01:54.319 --> 02:01:59.800
he hadn't realized the house was so
cold. Maybe it was just the attic.

1546
02:02:00.079 --> 02:02:02.720
He wasn't sure, because he didn't
really notice it until he was up

1547
02:02:02.720 --> 02:02:06.399
there, but he was most certainly
seeing his breath. It had to be

1548
02:02:06.399 --> 02:02:13.439
below thirty degrees in his own home, he thought. For a moment,

1549
02:02:15.479 --> 02:02:23.960
and then another moment. He couldn't
quite understand where the smell was coming from,

1550
02:02:24.479 --> 02:02:28.279
and he had wandered the entire attic, at least as far as the

1551
02:02:28.319 --> 02:02:34.880
beams would allow him to travel through
old jackets and boxes and trunks, things

1552
02:02:34.920 --> 02:02:40.159
that had been discarded in the attic
for as long as they'd been in the

1553
02:02:40.199 --> 02:02:47.920
house. He decided to descend the
attic, having found absolutely nothing. As

1554
02:02:47.960 --> 02:02:55.560
he walked down the ladder, he
tried one last time. Mom Dad,

1555
02:02:57.720 --> 02:03:03.520
no response. He took another deep
breath, feeling the chill all the way

1556
02:03:03.520 --> 02:03:12.079
to his bones. Wearing only his
nightcap and pajamas as he headed down the

1557
02:03:12.119 --> 02:03:16.800
stairs again, the only thing he
could think to do was flip the power

1558
02:03:16.840 --> 02:03:23.199
breaker. Years earlier, there had
been a tornado warning in his area,

1559
02:03:23.239 --> 02:03:26.680
and his mother and father had explained
to him how they turned the power on

1560
02:03:26.760 --> 02:03:33.600
and off during emergencies. So he
made his way downstairs, through the completely

1561
02:03:33.680 --> 02:03:40.319
empty living room and into his kitchen
and there, right next to the sink.

1562
02:03:42.000 --> 02:03:45.439
After a little bit of maneuvering of
a step stool, he went up,

1563
02:03:46.119 --> 02:03:51.880
opened the door to the berk with
a circuit breaker, and flipped every

1564
02:03:53.279 --> 02:04:00.880
single switch. When he flipped the
last switch, he noticed light emanating from

1565
02:04:00.920 --> 02:04:06.640
the room he had just exited,
but not any light, some kind of

1566
02:04:06.640 --> 02:04:13.439
a festive Christmas light. It startled
him as nothing else had happened from flipping

1567
02:04:13.479 --> 02:04:16.880
all the switches. He jumped down
from the stool and slowly made his way

1568
02:04:16.920 --> 02:04:26.319
to the living room, nervous of
what he may find. Pass As he

1569
02:04:26.600 --> 02:04:31.640
walked into the living room, he
saw something that really just confused him,

1570
02:04:31.920 --> 02:04:39.239
which was a Christmas tree, but
not his Christmas tree. It was a

1571
02:04:39.560 --> 02:04:45.039
fake, like one of those aluminum
Christmas trees, and they always got a

1572
02:04:45.079 --> 02:04:49.239
real Christmas tree, and it had
ornaments on it that he didn't recognize at

1573
02:04:49.279 --> 02:04:56.880
all, like, this is clearly
not what they put up. And he

1574
02:04:56.960 --> 02:05:00.920
wondered if his parents were just like
playing a trick on him, It would

1575
02:05:00.920 --> 02:05:04.439
be such a weird trick and it
would require so much effort that he kind

1576
02:05:04.439 --> 02:05:11.640
of dismissed that possibility. And then
he started wondering, is this even my

1577
02:05:11.800 --> 02:05:18.039
house? Like? Because none of
this makes any sense, and he,

1578
02:05:19.640 --> 02:05:26.079
not knowing what else to do,
he walked to the Christmas tree and there

1579
02:05:26.079 --> 02:05:35.039
were presents lying under the tree,
lots of them, and they looked wonderful,

1580
02:05:35.439 --> 02:05:41.199
all sorts of shapes and sizes,
and for a moment he forgot that

1581
02:05:41.399 --> 02:05:45.640
all of this was so scary,
and he grabbed one of the presents,

1582
02:05:45.800 --> 02:05:50.720
and he kind of started to look
for his presence, and he couldn't find

1583
02:05:50.880 --> 02:05:56.640
any. In fact, he couldn't
even find names he recognized. He saw

1584
02:05:57.359 --> 02:06:08.439
Franklin and Ashlynn and some really new
age names, but none that were his.

1585
02:06:11.039 --> 02:06:16.880
And he just stood there in shock
for a moment until he heard the

1586
02:06:16.920 --> 02:06:27.439
front door start to open. Pass
As the door slowly worked its way open,

1587
02:06:29.520 --> 02:06:40.079
the little boy could see light peeking
through and snowflakes as jolly old Saint

1588
02:06:40.159 --> 02:06:46.159
Nicholas came in through the door.
But he wasn't Santa Claus. He was

1589
02:06:46.199 --> 02:06:53.119
a man clearly dressed as Santa Claus, wearing a red suit with white trim

1590
02:06:53.159 --> 02:07:00.920
and a beard that didn't really convince
anybody. It looked old, it looked

1591
02:07:00.960 --> 02:07:08.000
handmade. As he came in,
he wasn't quiet. He was making quite

1592
02:07:08.000 --> 02:07:15.640
a ruckus, ho ho ing and
bellowing. And in that moment, a

1593
02:07:15.760 --> 02:07:20.199
little boy came down the stairs,
a little boy that Robert didn't recognize.

1594
02:07:20.239 --> 02:07:29.439
His eyes grew wide and he said, Santa. Santa jollily said, Ho,

1595
02:07:30.199 --> 02:07:33.640
merry Christmas. You've been good all
year. As the boy ran up

1596
02:07:33.680 --> 02:07:41.039
to the tree, he looked at
Santa, eyes wide, and then over

1597
02:07:41.119 --> 02:07:47.880
to the little boy, his eyes
full of fear. Now Robert didn't know

1598
02:07:47.920 --> 02:07:51.319
what to think. This little boy
looked familiar to him, but not in

1599
02:07:51.359 --> 02:07:56.800
a way that he could really comprehend. And he wasn't sure as any of

1600
02:07:56.800 --> 02:08:01.520
this even really happening. That moment
he reached out to touch the little boy,

1601
02:08:03.840 --> 02:08:11.960
and at that moment everything stopped.
Robert's father woke with a fright in

1602
02:08:13.039 --> 02:08:18.319
his bed, a man of forty
years old. His wife turned to him

1603
02:08:18.319 --> 02:08:26.000
and said, is it that same
dream you have every Christmas? He wiped

1604
02:08:26.000 --> 02:08:31.880
the sweat from his brow and said, yeah, that eerie boy standing by

1605
02:08:31.880 --> 02:08:39.000
my tree. When my father had
surprised me as Santa anyway, let's never

1606
02:08:39.039 --> 02:08:54.039
have children. The end that actually
went that was pretty fun. Yeah,

1607
02:08:54.159 --> 02:08:58.920
I felt like it was like,
we can't draw out much more of this

1608
02:08:58.000 --> 02:09:03.000
kid walking around that. So I
was like, and I when when you

1609
02:09:03.039 --> 02:09:05.439
came up with the thing where everything
didn't look right and the tree was like

1610
02:09:05.720 --> 02:09:09.439
tinsel, I was like, okay, time, let's do a time warp

1611
02:09:09.000 --> 02:09:15.079
and let's bring it home. Yes, because boy, I love when you.

1612
02:09:15.119 --> 02:09:18.159
There's nothing that was more fun than
I thought it would be. There's

1613
02:09:18.199 --> 02:09:24.279
nothing more fun than being like and
they saw something terrifying pass Yeah, well,

1614
02:09:24.279 --> 02:09:26.760
thank you, Michelle, you're a
really good sport. I tried to

1615
02:09:26.760 --> 02:09:31.560
play that game with friends and they
just like give up. Really. Yeah,

1616
02:09:31.880 --> 02:09:33.439
One time I played it with a
friend who was like too hard to

1617
02:09:33.479 --> 02:09:35.840
play that with, Like he would
give you like way too much to figure

1618
02:09:35.840 --> 02:09:39.439
out. So I would do a
thing where like I came up with this

1619
02:09:39.479 --> 02:09:41.039
joke where it'd be like Billy awoke
in a cold sweat, what an odd

1620
02:09:41.119 --> 02:09:45.199
dream? Like I would just get
out of it because he was like making

1621
02:09:45.199 --> 02:09:48.239
it too hard, but uh,
there we go. It even had a

1622
02:09:48.239 --> 02:09:54.000
twist ending hooray, Well, thank
you for participating in that Michelle. That

1623
02:09:54.079 --> 02:09:58.720
was a fun, little extra scary
Christmas story for you all, courtesy of

1624
02:09:58.760 --> 02:10:03.319
Michelle and I playing a passing game. So Merry Christmas, everybody. We

1625
02:10:03.399 --> 02:10:07.039
love you, We really appreciate you
guys listening to us. We've been doing

1626
02:10:07.079 --> 02:10:11.720
the show for over a year now
here at Weekly Spooky, and I'm very

1627
02:10:11.760 --> 02:10:16.359
proud of what you and I have
accomplished together. Sheelle, Thank you,

1628
02:10:18.000 --> 02:10:22.399
Michelle. I didn't do anything,
but you're welcome. Well, we're going

1629
02:10:22.479 --> 02:10:24.119
to take a really quick break and
then we're gonna wrap things up for this

1630
02:10:24.239 --> 02:10:31.479
Christmas special episode and get back to
rocking around the Christmas tree and drinking eggnog

1631
02:10:31.600 --> 02:10:35.079
or what have you. Michelle doesn't
like eggnog though I like eggnog, but

1632
02:10:35.159 --> 02:10:39.079
I can't afford it. I gotta
buyerr eggnog. We'll be right back,

1633
02:10:46.479 --> 02:10:50.760
and we are back rapping up the
last episode of Monthly Spooky in twenty twenty

1634
02:10:50.800 --> 02:10:56.000
three. Yeah, sorry, geez, you don't have to be that excited

1635
02:10:56.039 --> 02:10:58.920
about it, but I do want
to say. I mean, that's our

1636
02:11:00.079 --> 02:11:05.039
first full year of doing Monthly Spooky. Thank you to everybody who's written in

1637
02:11:05.239 --> 02:11:09.239
or commented on, you know,
whether it's Instagram, or Spotify or whatever.

1638
02:11:09.239 --> 02:11:11.039
How much you enjoy the show,
I really do appreciate it. I

1639
02:11:11.199 --> 02:11:18.399
was actually very nervous launching a talk
program on Weekly Spooky, since it's mostly

1640
02:11:18.399 --> 02:11:22.960
a narration show, and of course, like that's that's the main point these

1641
02:11:22.039 --> 02:11:26.760
Everything that you listen to on Weekly
Spooky that isn't the main show, is

1642
02:11:26.800 --> 02:11:31.039
there to kind of bolster that main
show, give you some more content in

1643
02:11:31.079 --> 02:11:35.359
the same vein that's different. But
overall, at the end of the day,

1644
02:11:35.399 --> 02:11:39.319
you come here for scary story narrations, and I'm proud to have done

1645
02:11:39.399 --> 02:11:41.560
over two hundred and forty of them. Now, wow, I know,

1646
02:11:41.640 --> 02:11:46.600
isn't that crazy? Two hundred and
forty shows that are just stories? You

1647
02:11:46.640 --> 02:11:50.359
know, it's crazy to think.
So I just want to say a big

1648
02:11:50.399 --> 02:11:52.880
thank you to everybody who's been listening, who joined us in October, who's

1649
02:11:52.880 --> 02:11:56.960
stuck with us after the busy season
ended. I love you. Thank you

1650
02:11:58.000 --> 02:12:03.600
so much. And Michelle tolerates you. Sure no, She's like, get

1651
02:12:03.640 --> 02:12:07.840
out of here. But so before
we get out of here, I just

1652
02:12:07.880 --> 02:12:09.720
wanted to say that. I want
to say thank you so much. I

1653
02:12:09.760 --> 02:12:13.279
hope everybody's having a very good Christmas. If you're listening to this on Christmas

1654
02:12:13.359 --> 02:12:16.199
Day, I would love to know
about it. Send me an email at

1655
02:12:16.239 --> 02:12:20.520
Weekly Spooky at gmail dot com,
or or comment on Spotify if you're listening

1656
02:12:20.560 --> 02:12:26.680
over there. I would love,
love love to hear from you all and

1657
02:12:26.039 --> 02:12:30.239
let us know that we made your
holiday a little spookier, a little bit

1658
02:12:30.239 --> 02:12:33.279
more fun, a little bit more
pleasant. That is a lovely gift to

1659
02:12:33.359 --> 02:12:39.359
be given. So as far as
horror content, I did see It's a

1660
02:12:39.359 --> 02:12:43.359
Wonderful Knife in theaters, but I
think I may have mentioned that last show.

1661
02:12:43.560 --> 02:12:46.319
I think so, Yeah, because
I think that actually was in theaters

1662
02:12:46.399 --> 02:12:50.520
like the week before Thanksgiving. Yeah, so, but that was really fun.

1663
02:12:50.560 --> 02:12:54.399
It's a Wonderful Knife. It's now
on shutter And the thing that shocked

1664
02:12:54.439 --> 02:12:58.279
me the most It's a Wonderful Knife
is that I thought that was just a

1665
02:12:58.319 --> 02:13:01.840
really clever title that I couldn't believe
but he had used. But it is

1666
02:13:01.960 --> 02:13:07.119
a horror slasher movie. It's a
wonderful life, Like this girl stops a

1667
02:13:07.199 --> 02:13:09.239
killer from killing a bunch of people
after he's killed two of her best friends,

1668
02:13:11.000 --> 02:13:13.840
and then the next Christmas everybody hates
her like things are just bad,

1669
02:13:13.920 --> 02:13:18.199
not because she did that just in
general things are bad, and so she

1670
02:13:18.279 --> 02:13:20.159
does the thing where she goes to
the dock and says like I wish I

1671
02:13:20.199 --> 02:13:24.560
was never born. And then now
you get to see a world where that

1672
02:13:24.640 --> 02:13:31.439
killer hasn't been stopped and the killer
is actually still loose killing people. It's

1673
02:13:31.479 --> 02:13:33.640
really cool. It's a really cool
one, and that's on Shutter to watch

1674
02:13:33.720 --> 02:13:39.720
if you're a Shutter subscriber. Totally
worth your time. Also, I have

1675
02:13:39.760 --> 02:13:43.840
a new podcast called do You Even
Movie? And we covered three Christmas films

1676
02:13:43.880 --> 02:13:48.319
this December. We covered Don't Open
Till Christmas, which was on the Weekly

1677
02:13:48.319 --> 02:13:52.479
Spooky Feed because I thought people would
want to hear about a Christmas horror movie.

1678
02:13:52.640 --> 02:13:58.399
Then we did Mercy Christmas, which
is a really really good independent Christmas

1679
02:13:58.439 --> 02:14:01.279
horror movie. I'm probably gonna make
Michelle watch it with me before the holiday's

1680
02:14:01.319 --> 02:14:05.319
over because it's really good and I
think you'd enjoy the hell out of it.

1681
02:14:05.920 --> 02:14:09.159
And then we did Almost or Just
Another Christmas, which is a Brazilian

1682
02:14:09.479 --> 02:14:15.319
Christmas movie. Why'd you WinCE when
I said that because it has things that

1683
02:14:15.399 --> 02:14:18.960
I don't like in it. Just
Another Christmas? Yeah, just a description

1684
02:14:20.279 --> 02:14:24.520
like disturbs me. Oh, it's
super good and sad and fun. I

1685
02:14:26.439 --> 02:14:30.359
really would love for you to see
it sometime. But we covered that one,

1686
02:14:30.399 --> 02:14:33.800
which is much more of like a
traditional Christmas fair movie, but it's

1687
02:14:33.800 --> 02:14:39.119
Brazilian. Some of the fun things
about a Brazilian Christmas it's summer in December

1688
02:14:39.199 --> 02:14:41.880
because they're on the other side of
the equator, so like in their world,

1689
02:14:41.960 --> 02:14:45.800
like busy Christmas shopping is in the
dead of summer, like when everything's

1690
02:14:45.840 --> 02:14:48.000
hot and sweaty, which I thought
was a really fun dichotomy, like people

1691
02:14:48.000 --> 02:14:52.159
are wearing sand hats and they're just
like fanning themselves in the car waiting to

1692
02:14:52.159 --> 02:14:54.960
get into the stores and stuff.
I really enjoyed it, and it has

1693
02:14:54.960 --> 02:14:58.399
a really good message about It's like
it's a really interesting movie. It's like

1694
02:14:58.439 --> 02:15:01.880
the opposite groundhog Day, because somebody
said, like it's kind of like Groundhog

1695
02:15:01.920 --> 02:15:05.560
Days, Like no groundhog Day is
repeating the same day over and over.

1696
02:15:05.319 --> 02:15:11.199
Just another Christmas is about only living
on Christmas Day. So basically on Christmas

1697
02:15:11.279 --> 02:15:15.640
Day, the main character is aware
of everything, but every other day he

1698
02:15:15.680 --> 02:15:20.239
doesn't remember. He's a different person
basically, And it's about the idea that

1699
02:15:20.279 --> 02:15:24.560
every Christmas is the same but it's
not. And that's what got me really

1700
02:15:24.600 --> 02:15:28.600
emotional, is like it may feel
like it's the same Christmas over and over

1701
02:15:28.680 --> 02:15:31.840
again, but it's not. Yeah, And the way they do that is

1702
02:15:31.880 --> 02:15:35.199
things like, you know, you'll
laugh at like, oh, Uncle Victor,

1703
02:15:35.279 --> 02:15:37.920
he's such a goofball, and then
like because every like every day is

1704
02:15:37.920 --> 02:15:41.960
another Christmas, it's like, oh, you know, where's Uncle Victor with

1705
02:15:41.960 --> 02:15:46.960
his stupid hot pan or whatever,
and they're like, Uncle Victor died and

1706
02:15:46.000 --> 02:15:50.920
it's like That's that's what made that
movie really connect with me, is it's

1707
02:15:50.920 --> 02:15:52.840
like, dude, like they're not
the same and they're not gonna last forever,

1708
02:15:54.279 --> 02:15:58.439
you know, so you gotta be
appreciative. It kind of reminded me

1709
02:15:58.520 --> 02:16:01.199
less like Groundhog Gay more like that
out of Sandler movie Click. Did you

1710
02:16:01.239 --> 02:16:05.479
ever see that one? I don't
know if I've seen Click. It's a

1711
02:16:05.560 --> 02:16:07.960
it's a good one. It's it's
you know, guy gets a remote control

1712
02:16:07.000 --> 02:16:09.760
that he can fast forward through the
boring parts of life, but then he

1713
02:16:09.760 --> 02:16:15.079
starts to realize that you miss life
if you fast forward through it, and

1714
02:16:15.199 --> 02:16:16.399
at one point he rewinds to see
the way it is and it's like,

1715
02:16:16.439 --> 02:16:20.119
dude, when you fast forward.
You just kind of like agree to whatever

1716
02:16:20.199 --> 02:16:24.479
and do whatever. You don't really
participate anymore. Yeah, but at first

1717
02:16:24.520 --> 02:16:26.399
he loves it because he's like,
Wow, I didn't have to sit through

1718
02:16:26.399 --> 02:16:28.600
that boring recital. Wow, I
didn't have to miss this. And it's

1719
02:16:28.640 --> 02:16:31.239
like yeah, but also like you
don't even like know your wife anymore because

1720
02:16:31.239 --> 02:16:35.120
you're not paying attention. It's a
good it's a good little movie for an

1721
02:16:35.120 --> 02:16:39.079
an Adam Sandler movie from early two
thousands. Yeah, that's pretty good.

1722
02:16:39.600 --> 02:16:43.280
So but I love that movie.
So we talk about that movie at length

1723
02:16:43.280 --> 02:16:46.200
on do You Even Movie, which
you could check out at dooevenmovie dot com.

1724
02:16:46.879 --> 02:16:50.639
Other Christmas things I saw. I
saw Silent Night, directed by John

1725
02:16:50.680 --> 02:16:54.079
wu the movie about a guy who
loses the ability to speak in a shooting

1726
02:16:54.079 --> 02:16:58.120
that kills his son and gets revenge. Wow. He really wasn't that good.

1727
02:16:58.159 --> 02:17:01.520
I'm sorry, I thought it was. It's fine. There's no spoken

1728
02:17:01.600 --> 02:17:03.399
words in the entire film. Wow, Like I mean, they're like,

1729
02:17:03.719 --> 02:17:05.719
you know, they're in the hospital. You by hear like some chatter,

1730
02:17:07.040 --> 02:17:13.440
but nobody says anything out loud.
I thought it was okay, okay for

1731
02:17:13.520 --> 02:17:20.079
a balls to the walls action movie. I fell asleep during it, oh

1732
02:17:20.159 --> 02:17:24.440
three times. Oh wow, So
I cause I usually don't blame a movie

1733
02:17:24.479 --> 02:17:26.600
for that because a lot of times
when I get to the movie theater,

1734
02:17:26.760 --> 02:17:33.040
I am dead tired after a long
day, especially right now, and I

1735
02:17:33.120 --> 02:17:35.440
was struggling to get back into it
after I kept falling asleep, and at

1736
02:17:35.440 --> 02:17:39.959
first it because you know, for
one time, oh it's just the recliner's

1737
02:17:39.000 --> 02:17:43.360
really cozy. But like to give
context, there was another day that I

1738
02:17:43.399 --> 02:17:48.040
was just as tired and I went
to see Napoleon, which was super good

1739
02:17:48.079 --> 02:17:50.719
and that's crazy long, and I
didn't fall asleep once because it was like

1740
02:17:50.799 --> 02:17:54.079
hyper engaging. So unfortunately I did
not like Silent I very much. But

1741
02:17:54.120 --> 02:17:56.360
that doesn't mean you won't. So
if you're dying to go see something in

1742
02:17:56.360 --> 02:18:00.280
the theater and you don't want it
to be some kind of traditional Chris Miss

1743
02:18:00.360 --> 02:18:03.280
thing, you just want something that's
different, go see it. You might

1744
02:18:03.280 --> 02:18:05.120
have a good time. In fact, I might go see a movie on

1745
02:18:05.200 --> 02:18:09.120
Christmas Day with my mom and Rachel. I don't know yet, because I

1746
02:18:09.120 --> 02:18:11.840
felt like it'd be more fun to
just decide then sure, you know,

1747
02:18:11.840 --> 02:18:16.000
because it's not like they're gonna be
sold out of every movie on Christmas Day.

1748
02:18:16.879 --> 02:18:18.719
But yeah, so yeah, and
then I've watched Silent I, Deadly

1749
02:18:18.760 --> 02:18:22.000
At one and two, and I'm
gonna try and get three and four in.

1750
02:18:22.280 --> 02:18:24.040
I love those movies. Have you
watched any of the later Silent I

1751
02:18:24.079 --> 02:18:28.040
Deadly Nights? No? I wonder
if any of them are on TUOB that

1752
02:18:28.079 --> 02:18:33.360
you and I could watch together.
That'd be so nice that it's so nice

1753
02:18:35.440 --> 02:18:39.799
anyway, who knows, you know, I don't know exactly. Actually,

1754
02:18:39.840 --> 02:18:43.719
I don't think any of them are
on TWOB anymore. Uh uh, they're

1755
02:18:43.799 --> 02:18:48.559
totally on two. B Oh,
did we watch Silent at Deadly Night too,

1756
02:18:48.760 --> 02:18:50.079
the one where it's like garbage Day? We watched that, didn't we?

1757
02:18:52.799 --> 02:18:56.920
No? I don't think so.
Ah man, Well, I know

1758
02:18:56.959 --> 02:19:01.280
I've also shown you one of my
favorite movies of all time, Christmas Evil.

1759
02:19:01.319 --> 02:19:03.399
I sent you a copy of that. That's a great Christmas movie.

1760
02:19:03.440 --> 02:19:07.319
But yeah, so I've watched the
Silent of deadlan At movies and stuff like

1761
02:19:07.319 --> 02:19:09.239
that. There hasn't been a ton
of Christmas horror in the theater this year,

1762
02:19:11.200 --> 02:19:13.440
which is you know, it's fine. I mean, it's a wonderful

1763
02:19:13.479 --> 02:19:16.319
knife was good enough to make me
happy, you know, with the season.

1764
02:19:16.879 --> 02:19:20.600
So anyway, that's all for like
horror media right now. I just

1765
02:19:20.680 --> 02:19:24.079
kind of rambled about Christmas movies.
I love Christmas movies. I watched a

1766
02:19:24.120 --> 02:19:28.840
Hallmark one last night. Oh really, which the Holiday Hotline? I don't

1767
02:19:28.840 --> 02:19:31.520
know if I know that one.
It was a Hallmark one. Yeah,

1768
02:19:31.559 --> 02:19:35.959
I was shocked. I put on
cable last night and Lifetime wasn't showing Christmas

1769
02:19:35.959 --> 02:19:39.680
movies. What. I guess They're
only showing them on the weekend right now.

1770
02:19:39.040 --> 02:19:43.680
That's crazy. Yeah, and Hallmark
wasn't either, except on like the

1771
02:19:43.719 --> 02:19:48.040
movie channel, the regular Hallmark channel
was showing a television show. What.

1772
02:19:48.399 --> 02:19:52.319
I'm dead serious. Sure, I
had to watch something I had already recorded

1773
02:19:52.319 --> 02:19:54.879
because I want to watch Round and
Round was the one you were recommending,

1774
02:19:54.239 --> 02:19:58.280
the Hanka one. I have that
for tonight. Okay, let me know

1775
02:19:58.319 --> 02:20:01.600
what you think. I will.
I'm really looking forward to it. But

1776
02:20:01.680 --> 02:20:05.159
yeah, Holiday Hotline, it was
really sweet. I'll keep this brief.

1777
02:20:05.159 --> 02:20:07.399
This has nothing to do with horror
or spooky it anyway, But this woman

1778
02:20:07.440 --> 02:20:13.360
from England comes to America because she
just broke up with her boyfriend who she

1779
02:20:13.440 --> 02:20:16.959
founded at a restaurant with She's a
master chef, but so is she?

1780
02:20:16.719 --> 02:20:20.879
Okay, So she leaves and her
parents are like, we're going to give

1781
02:20:20.920 --> 02:20:24.159
you a ticket to Chicago where your
aunt or grandma or something. She just

1782
02:20:24.200 --> 02:20:28.440
moved out of her apartment there but
hasn't sold it yet because she owns it,

1783
02:20:28.079 --> 02:20:31.840
and we think you should just go
be there for Christmas. So she

1784
02:20:31.879 --> 02:20:35.200
gets there and gets set up with
this job volunteering. This is so cute

1785
02:20:35.200 --> 02:20:39.079
for the Holiday hotline, a hot
line that opens a week before Thanksgiving and

1786
02:20:39.120 --> 02:20:41.920
closes on Christmas Day, and it's
for people to call who were desperate for

1787
02:20:43.000 --> 02:20:46.559
tips for how to successfully cook a
turkey. Okay, isn't that cute?

1788
02:20:46.799 --> 02:20:52.440
Yeah, So she starts volunteering there
because she has culinary expertise. And first

1789
02:20:52.479 --> 02:20:56.200
though, people start hanging up with
her because she has a British accent and

1790
02:20:56.200 --> 02:20:58.159
they're like, what do you know
about making Thanksgiving dinner? Click? So

1791
02:20:58.280 --> 02:21:03.680
she starts talking in an American accent
that she knows how to do. She

1792
02:21:03.760 --> 02:21:05.680
ends up talking to a guy,
a widower, which is the good kind

1793
02:21:05.680 --> 02:21:09.440
of single up in these movies,
and it turns out he lives in her

1794
02:21:09.440 --> 02:21:13.360
building and she was actually getting close
with him, but he doesn't know she's

1795
02:21:13.399 --> 02:21:16.000
the same person because she has another
accent on there. And it's a very

1796
02:21:16.000 --> 02:21:20.879
sweet movie about all the stuff because
basically he's only cooking a turkey because his

1797
02:21:20.920 --> 02:21:24.600
wife had passed away and his daughter
was like, I want to have dinner

1798
02:21:24.639 --> 02:21:26.600
here like we used to. So
it's really sweet. He's like trying to

1799
02:21:26.600 --> 02:21:30.639
give his daughter the perfect Christmas and
ends up meeting this girl and it's really

1800
02:21:30.680 --> 02:21:33.120
fun. I liked it, super
cute, Like you know, doesn't reinvent

1801
02:21:33.159 --> 02:21:37.040
the wheel, but damn it,
Like I get so mad when people bitch

1802
02:21:37.040 --> 02:21:39.799
about those movies, like I tried
to watch but I'm so predictable. Is

1803
02:21:39.799 --> 02:21:41.479
this is? This is? I'm
like, dude, look, I'm gonna

1804
02:21:41.520 --> 02:21:45.760
smack you next time you eat like
a like a turkey cold cut sandwich,

1805
02:21:45.760 --> 02:21:48.399
I'm like whack. And I'm like, why aren't eating steak? Like sometimes

1806
02:21:48.399 --> 02:21:54.200
it doesn't have to be perfect,
it's just enjoyable. God, you know.

1807
02:21:56.520 --> 02:22:00.319
Ah So, but so before we
get out of here, you had

1808
02:22:00.319 --> 02:22:05.040
a reddit for us. Sure,
so this is from the clich in the

1809
02:22:05.079 --> 02:22:09.239
matrix reddit thing. But we seem
to have the best like scary like creepy

1810
02:22:09.239 --> 02:22:13.760
stuff that isn't obviously, just like
a creepy pasta or something. Yeah,

1811
02:22:13.840 --> 02:22:18.600
yeah, you know. So there's
this couple that live in a house obviously

1812
02:22:18.760 --> 02:22:22.000
oh no h And they've lived there
for like a like, I think like

1813
02:22:22.079 --> 02:22:26.719
five years if I'm remembering this correctly, because I just read it this morning.

1814
02:22:26.559 --> 02:22:35.440
Read it, yeah, and uh
one day, I guess recently the

1815
02:22:33.959 --> 02:22:39.639
uh, the guy to the to
the woman because they're in a heterosexual relationship.

1816
02:22:41.399 --> 02:22:46.559
It's like, hey, has this
cabinet always been here? And she

1817
02:22:46.680 --> 02:22:50.079
goes in the kitchen and there's a
cabinet that has nothing in it except for

1818
02:22:50.159 --> 02:22:52.799
like a like a cake cup,
but just like one, and they don't

1819
02:22:52.840 --> 02:22:58.840
even use that stuff anymore. And
they have no idea why they didn't know

1820
02:22:58.920 --> 02:23:03.680
that there was a cabinet there.
Weird, neither of them remember there ever

1821
02:23:03.719 --> 02:23:07.479
being a cabinet, Like I think
it's above like a uh no, it

1822
02:23:07.559 --> 02:23:11.440
was not a cabin I'm sorry to
draw. I think it's above a cabinet

1823
02:23:13.280 --> 02:23:16.360
next to the sink, but not
under the sink, and like they have

1824
02:23:16.520 --> 02:23:20.079
no memory of it existing, and
there's nothing in it except for that cakeup.

1825
02:23:20.719 --> 02:23:24.959
And so now they have a new
place to put things, but they

1826
02:23:26.200 --> 02:23:33.399
don't know why they have an extra
drawer. That is weird. Yeah,

1827
02:23:33.479 --> 02:23:37.159
so who knows what's going on with
that. The reason stuff like that bothers

1828
02:23:37.200 --> 02:23:39.920
me is because I could kind of
see myself having that problem for some reason,

1829
02:23:41.040 --> 02:23:45.319
like just being like, oh,
was this always here? I feel

1830
02:23:45.319 --> 02:23:48.280
like I've said that before about places
I live, sure, and I think

1831
02:23:48.319 --> 02:23:52.479
most of the time we just kind
of forget things or oh no, we're

1832
02:23:52.520 --> 02:23:56.799
able to just not realize something or
you know, something becomes so normal.

1833
02:23:56.920 --> 02:24:01.040
But it is weird that you know, you'd think when they moved in they

1834
02:24:01.040 --> 02:24:03.879
would have put something in there,
Like, it's weird that it was basically

1835
02:24:03.879 --> 02:24:07.120
empty. Yeah, Like I,
as a person who is not very well

1836
02:24:07.239 --> 02:24:11.200
organized, I take advantage of every
bit of storage that the house comes with

1837
02:24:11.440 --> 02:24:15.399
as best I can, you know, so that is really weird. I

1838
02:24:15.440 --> 02:24:20.079
would not not notice storage, Yeah
exactly. It would have been cooler if

1839
02:24:20.079 --> 02:24:22.840
when they opened it there was just
like a little crampus ornament and it was

1840
02:24:22.879 --> 02:24:26.639
like this, yeah, it's gonna
happen. It's gonna happen. That's that's

1841
02:24:26.680 --> 02:24:33.799
the best like threat ever. It's
gonna happen. So but no, that

1842
02:24:33.120 --> 02:24:37.600
was creepy. I can't did anybody
offer a suggestion of how the hell that

1843
02:24:37.760 --> 02:24:41.200
happened that wasn't supernatural. No,
everybody was just kind of like, well,

1844
02:24:41.239 --> 02:24:45.079
I guess you're in a different universe. Now have fun. By the

1845
02:24:45.079 --> 02:24:48.799
way, we we walk backwards everywhere
we go. Yep, well that's our

1846
02:24:48.879 --> 02:24:52.120
forwards, so we wouldn't even know
that's the point. No, no,

1847
02:24:52.200 --> 02:24:54.280
that's the point. So they say
we all walk backwards, but they all

1848
02:24:54.280 --> 02:25:01.360
walk forwards. Oh, this is
normal? Where is it? Oh?

1849
02:25:01.440 --> 02:25:05.600
Man? Well, on that note, I think it's time we wrap up

1850
02:25:05.600 --> 02:25:09.360
this Christmas episode. But I do
want to say again thank you to everybody

1851
02:25:09.360 --> 02:25:13.680
who's listened throughout the holiday season and
especially to today's I hope it brought you

1852
02:25:13.719 --> 02:25:18.319
some joy and fun. We're gonna
have a special New Year's episode on Wednesday

1853
02:25:18.639 --> 02:25:22.000
to wrap up the New Year,
and we're gonna have a New Year's story

1854
02:25:22.040 --> 02:25:26.559
compilation on Friday, so I just
wanted to give everybody a heads up on

1855
02:25:26.559 --> 02:25:28.840
what's coming for the end of the
year. And then in January we have

1856
02:25:28.879 --> 02:25:33.559
a Strickfield mini series dropping cool so
it should be a lot of fun.

1857
02:25:33.719 --> 02:25:37.200
And if you love what we're doing
here, please consider supporting us on Patreon

1858
02:25:37.280 --> 02:25:41.719
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1859
02:25:41.719 --> 02:25:46.479
We're at ninety one backers, we've
seem to never quite cross ninety two.

1860
02:25:46.920 --> 02:25:48.719
I would love to see us make
it to one hundred someday soon,

1861
02:25:48.799 --> 02:25:52.479
so please consider that if you don't
mind, go to Weeklyspooky dot com for

1862
02:25:52.520 --> 02:25:58.200
all that information. But really,
most importantly, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.

1863
02:25:58.239 --> 02:26:01.680
I hope you've had just a wonderful
end of the year. That's why

1864
02:26:01.680 --> 02:26:03.280
I love Christmas. Also is it's
just a way to like make the end

1865
02:26:03.280 --> 02:26:07.920
of the year special. And I
think we deserve to make things special,

1866
02:26:07.000 --> 02:26:11.200
especially when it gets cold and dank
and dark most in most of the world

1867
02:26:11.479 --> 02:26:15.440
that celebrates Christmas. It's like,
I think it makes sense to like want

1868
02:26:15.479 --> 02:26:20.520
to put up lights and celebrate things
being lively. Yeah, so that's why

1869
02:26:20.559 --> 02:26:24.280
I love Christmas personally, and and
because people are generally nicer. I believe

1870
02:26:24.360 --> 02:26:28.159
that, and I don't want to
argue with anybody. So but lastly,

1871
02:26:28.200 --> 02:26:33.440
of all, Merry Christmas, mishell
Christmas. So we'll talk to you guys

1872
02:26:33.600 --> 02:26:39.399
next month here on Monthly Spooky.
But until then, Michelle says something very

1873
02:26:39.399 --> 02:26:58.879
clever, something very clever. I
should have saw that coming up. That's why everybody