Monthly Spooky | Valentine's Gifts Gone Wrong, Mothman and Roasted Groundhog!

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A giant mothlike creature terrorizes Point Pleasant, West Virginia. A woman gives birth

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to two children in two days from
two different uteruses, and well there's a

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lot of ghost partying going on,
if you know what I mean. Get

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come to the turning off the lights. It's Monthly Spooky. Well, hello

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everybody, and welcome to Monthly Spooky. That's right. Not only is at

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that time of the month, but
it's also a time when love is in

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the air. Can you feel the
love? Michelle? No, no,

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really, yeah, you know.
I we gotta comment. Unfortunately I don't

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have it right in front of me. We gotta comment on Spotify, and

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somebody commented, they called you Mitchell, they said, but they I bet

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Mitchell is a very pretty woman.
I'm not joking. That's what the comment

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said on Spotify. Just just to
uh, to clarify, I am not

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a very pretty woman, Like just
to clarify. My name is Mitchell.

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Now, yeah, but this is
my wonderful co host, Michelle Antisocial.

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I'm of course Enrique Kuto, and
this is our end of the month roundup

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of all the fun spooky news stories
that have happened in the month of This

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is February obviously, and excuse me, I just got over COVID like what

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five days ago? So good times, good times. Yeah, and this

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is a very special monthly spooky because
it is leap here. You didn't know

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that, did you. I didn't
know, nor did I care. Oh

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look at you being an edge lord. Look at you being an edge lord.

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Oh come on, February stupid,
and now you're leap Year is a

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Hallmark holiday. Yeah no, they
just do it to sell cards. Wait,

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why do you hate February so much? Then? Oh, because I

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always forget that it's a short month, and then I panic because I have

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to do my bills. Oh Yeahbuary. Yeah, I actually had the same

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thing. So we're actually recording this
the day after Valentine's Day because I am

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going to be on set producing a
film called A Hard Place, and I'll

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be gone for ten full days,
and my first day off is the day

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that the show has to release.
So it just doesn't work out that there's

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time. So we're recording this a
bit early. And so that means,

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you know, by the way,
happy Groundog Day, Happy Valentine's Day,

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Happy Presidence Day, Happy Lunar New
Year. But yeah, I was actually

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looking at the calendar and I was
like, oh cool, So I'm off

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on the twenty seve through the twenty
sixth, and I was like, cool,

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then i'll have oh crap, very
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Yeah, I forgot. I always
forget too. Yeah, February short,

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although it's longer this year. So
if anything, you should be celebrating that

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you get twenty nine days of February. I guess, how do you say

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February? February. Okay, that's
pretty good too, February. That's why

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I say February. That might be
a learned thing, though not at February

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is how I was. How I
usually say it, But until I get

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excited, and then I'm like,
February, February. I'm looking at it

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on the screen. February. That's
almost like a Mandela effect. I'm like,

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there's an r in there by accident. Yeah. So, but did

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you have a good Valentine's Day?
No? You and Gigs didn't do anything.

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No. Oh, that's sad.
The romance is over. The it's

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not new anymore. Yeah, exactly. Oh that's too bad. I went

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out and had a nice tie lunch
with Rachel. We went to a really

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nice tie restaurant, Pens Tie Grill
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very nice. But I will say, you know, shame fool me once.

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Shame on you. Fool me twice, Shame on me. I was

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like, Hey, let's go and
have our Valentine's dinner at like two pm

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because it'll be it's lunchtime, so
we can get way more food, like,

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you know, cause it's like we
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we'll get entrees and appetizers and dessert. We'll get all that stuff. And

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then the second we walk in,
the first thing they do is let us

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know, oh, all day is
dinner the dinner menu, and I'm like,

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god, damn it. I was
hoping if I was gonna drop seventy

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five bucks. We get like a
ton of stuff, so it was still

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it was still good and the price
is worn't that bad. Although big ups

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to Rachel for bravely ordering the most
expensive thing on the menu while I was

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buying. So literally, when she
did that, I like golf clapped.

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I was like, well done,
here we are, here we are,

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But uh, what about groundhog Day? How was your Groundhog Day? I

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didn't even know it was Groundhog Day
until the radio told me, Oh yeah,

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that's just like the movie Groundhog Day. You don't know until the radio

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tells you. Yeah. Well yeah, so did you have roasted groundhog?

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No? I like my groundhog,
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Groundhogs are the same as gophers,
right, No, groundhogs are the

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same as woodchucks. Really, yes, okay, I actually do like woodchucks.

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Yeah, woodchucks are fun. It
depends. And the reason that you

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probably call them woodchucks is because that
is common in the in that place,

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Ohio. Oh oh yeah, yeah, we said woodchuck. Yeah. Oh

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gosh, yeah, thanks a lot
reminding me of It's bad enough. When

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I get really tired, I start
saying wicked. Oh yeah, it's a

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wicked great idea. That's a wicked
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uh My only problem with woodchucks is
the ambiguity of how much would they could

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chuck? If a woodchuck could chuck? Would I don't even know what chuck

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means in that context, so I
have no idea. That's why it's a

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mystery throw up wood How much would
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could Chuck would that's what happens when
you're a professional voice artist. You can

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say stuff like that super fast and
no one cares. It's great, it's

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it's the way to be, you
know. But uh so, to celebrate

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Valentine's Day, to celebrate February February, how you say it again, February?

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Yeah, you just ignore that R
entirely. Yeahbuary silent R. No

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it is, it's February. No, it's a silent R. Now next

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you're gonna tell me you don't say
the wn sword, Yeah, it's a

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silent And then you're gonna say you
don't say the tea in Christmas? Yeah,

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Chris, Yeah, I actually find
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I made a friend who says Christmas
like I do, Like I have

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to. I have to when I
do the show and I say Christmas,

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I have to intentionally not say because
I by nature say Christmas. I just

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always have, because I'm a nerd
who reads things. You like, it's

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it's not good, it's it's a
bad it's a bad thing. Why say

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teas in the middle of words at
all? Really? Oh? Yeah,

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Trenton, Yeah, Trenton, New
Jersey. Yeah, do you Well,

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you say wanted, that's a tea
in the mind, not really want.

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Oh, it's a d it's it's
a pause. This is horrible. Everything

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is so bad right now? Why
his life's so awful that this is the

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truth. No, So, And
before we get to what the topic of

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today's show is, which I'm sure
you are very curious to know, I

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did want to say just take a
quick moment to say a huge thank you

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to everybody who emailed Weeklyspooky at gmail
dot com and just had nice things to

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say about my dog Chicano and just
you know, nice things to say to

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me. I really appreciate it.
When we did the show last month,

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it was still a pretty fresh wound
for me, so it was a very

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challenging thing to talk about, but
I really wanted to talk about it.

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So yeah, I do appreciate all
the kind words. And we got great

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emails. We got one email from
a listener named Corey. I don't want

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to like throw her. You know, she gave me like stuff about her

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life and how the show has been
a good part of her life and it

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made it moved me very deeply.
So Corey, if you're listening to this

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and I'm almost certain she is,
because she said that she was such a

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big fan of Weekly Spooky and Monthly
Spooky. Started listening to the back catalog

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of this show is awkward. Oh
no, yeah, over one hundred episodes

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of you and I talking about nothing
in particular. So but no, big

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shout out to Corey. Wonderful message
and really happy to know that we add

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a little fun to her day.
So that's what it's all about. When

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you're a podcaster. Really, the
most you're hoping for. I mean,

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you could hope for fame and fortune, but you know, as my granny

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used to say, hope in one
hand, shit in the other, see

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which one fills up first. But
what you're really hoping for. Michelle's just

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like him and his folksy wisdom.
Well, my, you're like my granny

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from the Bronx used to always say, move your fucking car. That's East

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Coast wisdom, right. No,
well, not my not my grandma.

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She wouldn't say that. Really.
My my great aunt Betty used to say

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it was hotter than two foxes fucking
in a forest fire. My grandparents were

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not did not have language like that
around me. What did they say?

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What were what were they, what
would they say then if they don't swear.

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I don't know. What what do
you say when you don't swear that

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that kind of stuff? I don't
I always swear. Oh, yeah,

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no you don't. I really don't. Yeah no, I just hey,

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man, my mom's side of the
family's from Hazard, Kentucky. What you

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know, Like, what do you
want? Yeah, my great aunt Betty

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brought me, uh, such other
wonderful gems as flibbity gibbet. Heard your

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car was all flibberty gibbet. Glad
you can make it. I I there's

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something so wonderful about the briar,
the briar hopper dialect that was presented to

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me as a young man. So
anyway, but I do want just a

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huge thank you to the folks who
written in, whether it's via Spotify,

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because I don't know if you know
this, but on Spotify you can comment

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directly on a show. The comment
goes directly to me, and then I,

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if I don't think it's too mean, I can publish it. I

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can't reply directly though, the only
way to reply is to like release another

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show and say, you know,
thanks for writing in. But I do

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enjoy the comments. We get a
lot of cool comments in there. So

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also want to mention earlier this month, on Valentine's Day on the fourteenth,

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if you guys missed it, we
released a novella length episode of Weekly Spooky

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called Slasher Valentine Screams, which I
think you guys would really enjoy if you

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missed it by some strange turn of
events. So, anyway, with all

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of that out of the way,
today's Today's topic, after we get to

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the spooky news, Today's topic is
going to be I was thinking a lot

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about the fact that you know,
this is a time of year when you're

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supposed to celebrate the man in your
life, us, in this case,

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the Mothman in our life. Okay, Well, you and I were talking

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a few days ago and you said
you basically knew nothing about the Mothman.

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Yeah, so we're gonna do a
little deep dive, read through a little

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Wikipedia, and talk about the Mothman
in a little bit, and at the

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end of it will both be vaguely
smarter. Yay, So or Shelle,

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you could just talk about the chupacabra
if you want. God, they don't

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want to know about the cheap of
camera it's just a coyote with mange.

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Chill did the research for a very
extended episode of Terrifying and True we're going

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to be releasing in October all about
the chupacabra, So she knows more about

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the chupacabra now than she ever would
hope. Yeah, well really, what

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I know is that coyotes with mange
look really really sad, and I want

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to cuddle them, but I don't
want to get manged. So I'm confused.

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I still think you should start fostering
coyotes with mange. The problem is

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there aren't coyotes here. You don't
have any coyotes. We don't have coyotes.

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Really, Yeah, we have coyotes, I know, and I think

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should have to drop off some No, it's okay. I think I'm just

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too far away from like forests and
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I don't even have deer. Real, we just have lots of foxes.

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Oh, we get a lot of
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Yeah, we have deer and coyotes. I mean, I would never

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see a deer in my backyard,
but and I've never seen a coyote in

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my backyard. But I have seen
people somewhat near me and they're like ring

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cameras catching coyotes. Yeah, we
don't. We don't have any animals that

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are that large. Yeah, I
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because Wolfe's back legs aren't so good. So I don't let her outside at

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night alone ever, just because she's
she's big. I think I think coyotes

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would just leave. They would just
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dog. But you know, I
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She is snow wearing up a storm
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Anyway. We're gonna go to a
quick break and then we'll be back

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with the spooky news. All right, we are back, and now it

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is time, my dear spookies to
jump into the spooky news. The spooky

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news. So this story is important
because Shelle, I'm I don't know if

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you know this, but I'm a
very strong judge of character, like I

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pick up on subtle things very well. And the first thing I got from

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you right at the start of the
show is that you really wanted to talk

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more about Valentine's Day. So we
have this news story which is also a

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list from Huffington Post twenty nine weird
valin Times Day gifts that will give your

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love a heart on. I hate
people so much. I just thought this

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could be interesting and also very likely
deeply cringe. Yeah, so, uh

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you ready for this? Yeah?
Okay, you're like, no, sure,

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I don't want to so. Valentine's
Day can be a weird time for

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lovers. Although partners in happy relationships
acknowledge each other's differences and unique qualities,

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that seems to go out the window
around February fourteenth. What yeah, you

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no longer acknowledge their differences alidays.
That's because people who ordinarily celebrate their lover's

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quirks often feel obligated to switch gears
and purchase boring, generic gifts that don't

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reflect what they love about their strange
and wacky significant other. I myself am

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strange and wacky. Luckily, huff
Post Weird News is here to help.

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We've scoured the world looking for V
Day gifts that are sure to tickle the

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fancy of even the weirdest person.
You consider yourself a weird person, don't

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you. I don't think it matters
what I consider myself. It only matters

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what the world considers me. So
that's a yes. Uh. So here's

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here's the here's the first one.
Exotic Dancer apron. Yeah, this is

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an apron that that uh, that's
shown on a man's chest and uh it

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makes him look like an exotic dancer
with tassels on the nipples of the So

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who are we getting this for?
Uh? What? Well, it has

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a little thing that says sexy lingerie. Seems like the perfect like a perfect

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way to celebrate Valentine's Day, But
not when you're cooking over a hot stove.

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This Exotic Dancer apron splits the difference
wonderfully, so much so that we

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promise no one will think you're actually
wearing an apron. It looks like a

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cartoon. Yeah, I mean I
know what those look like. Yeah,

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well here's one for everybody, The
BDSM bear. When it comes to a

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slightly naughty V Day gift, you
can't beat a BDSM bear. Actually,

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I think you're supposed to beat it. Well oh wait, it's as well

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you can, but only with consent. Oh it's just a little bear in

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leather with a little mask on,
like a Teddy bear. You realize that

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stuffed animals can't give consent right coming
from an anime fan, I'm gonna take

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whatever you have to say with a
grain of salt. I watch your favorite

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anime. It's I know you're weird. Here's another one. This one's kind

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of cute bug hairbow set. It
is a hairbow like a like a headband,

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but it has little twangers on the
top that are two hearts. Okay,

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and the headband is polka dots.
A word? Oh, sorry,

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No, it's okay. We're gonna
say. I was gonna say, I

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can't imagine who you'd get that for, and they'd be like, Wow,

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the best thing ever. I'm ordering
this to your house right now. No,

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no, a word of advice.
If your Valentine dresses up as a

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love bug, appreciate the sentiment and
don't try to make a joke like quote.

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Is that some kind of std trust
us, it won't go well.

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Sorry, we're doing all thirty of
these. No, no, oh,

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here's a good one. Multi colored
whipped cream. Okay, fine, you

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rolled your eyes, so why what's
wrong with multicolored whip cream? There's nothing

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wrong with multicolored whib cream. Sure, whipped cream can be a nice successory

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to your love making, but it's
so monochromatic. Luckily, Whypnotic has found

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a way to add color to the
dessert topping, which should make your love

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even sweeter. I don't know,
man, I'm kind of a little bit

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worried about multicolored whip creams because I
don't know if you can get how easy

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it is to get that die out
of fabrics, Like, is that gonna

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be a problem. I mean it's
gonna be messy. Yeah, I'm just

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thinking if you have normal whip cream, it's not You're not gonna have trouble.

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It's not gonna You can wash it
and it's fine. Like, are

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you good at ruin your sheets or
your thing that you're wearing that? I

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don't know what it would be.
What are your guesses what it would be?

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I don't know. Well, here's
one that you would actually like.

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No, Yeah, the Love Cat
Tower. Okay. It's a cat tower.

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Yeah, you know, like like
for cats, but it has a

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heart shaped bed on the top of
it for them to climb up and sleep

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in. Okay, I mean it's
a little weird. Cats can't even see

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red. Well, that's okay,
because they can see the shape of the

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heart. Don't even know what that
means. Oh that's a little harsh,

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it says here. Don't cats deserve
a Valentine's Day gift too? Felin's will

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enjoy this heart shaped cat love tower, even though being cats, they will

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only show their appreciation in the form
of silent contempt. Small Victor. I

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kind of love this. It's so
stupid. Oh you'll like this. This

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one's definitely up your alley. A
dozen roses as in wine, get it?

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Sure, flowers are pretty, but
have you ever tried getting buzzed eating

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a bouquet? Yes, yes,
we both have, we all have.

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Everyone has. Oh yeah, exactly. Instead, drive your valentine to drink

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by giving them a dozen rose wines
instead of a dozen roses. Get your

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lover drunk so they'll tolerate you.
Yeah, okay, wow, okay.

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So some titles, I have to
admit, really leave a lot to you

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have to really interpret what they are, and this one is one of those.

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These are just called oral sex underwear. What I mean? That seems

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appropriate, So it says chew on
this. Oral sex is great fun,

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but safe sex is still worth practicing. Luckily, they are undies specifically designed

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for the act thank you technology.
They're they're like thin, clear latex underwear.

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Oh okay, ooh, this one
sounds weird. This is called the

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tick mit. Okay, tick mit. Touch is an important part of any

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relationship, but it's even more important
if your lover has been exposed to ticks.

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Oh god, it really means ticks. The tick mit can allow you

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to caress your partner and remove pesky
line disease carrying insects at the same time.

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Then it says, who said romance
is dead? And the image is

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of a woman's hand handing a man's
hand the tickmate in front of like wine

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and chocolates. Ah, it's like, honey, I love you, Will

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you tickmt me? Of course I
will, Darling. Oh okay, here

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we go. This is the boob
ceramic mug novelty pipe. Ceramic mug,

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novelty pipe. So it looks like
a mug, but it's a pipe.

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Okay, it's a pipe. I'm
guessing for the marijijuana, I guess,

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does your valentine feel like a boob
sometimes? If so, they will find

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this ceramic pipe quite titillating. It's
just a pair of boobs on a mug

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that's also a pipe. Okay has
a really weird looking belly button though.

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H h oh. Here we go, Okay, Okay, here we go.

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This one is a DIY breast milk
jewelry kit. Wow. I don't

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know what that means. I don't
I know what all those words mean,

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but not in that order exactly.
Yeah, jewelry is a popular Valentine's Day

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gift, but if you want to
make it more personal, make it yourself

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out of breast milk. Assuming you
have some despair. Huh, how do

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you make jewelry out of? Tell
me? It doesn't say what do you

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want me to go to the website
where they sell it? I don't know.

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I'm just wondering, because you know
how they made that diamond out of

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out of ranch dressing? Maybe yea. It says you'll receive everything you need

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craft your own breast milk jewelry at
home. The whole process will only take

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two to three hours of the course
of a few days, perfect for moms

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or littles or moms of littles.
Our instructional handbook and videos will guide you

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every step of the way to creating
beautiful pieces. This is that milk and

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honey dot jewelry by the way.
Okay, uh see, So apparently it's

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like a powder you mix the milk
with and it makes some sort of like

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thing. It makes a kind of
like a gem looking thing. That's that's

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weird. I mean, I'm down
for it. I I don't think I

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could do it, but I think
that's pretty cool. Oh. So the

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kit comes with like little like thingies, like like a locket that you can

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fill with like what looks like a
milky jewel Yeah, yeah, I understand,

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like, uh, like an onyx
pendant or something. Yeah, like

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a mold. Yeah. It also
comes with a mortar and pestle and two

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different chemicals. Oh yeah, chemicals. So that's that's that one. Okay,

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here's oh okay, this one's cute. Actually it's called Great Tits cross

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stick Kit, but but it's for
making birds and cross stitch ya. So

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it says, yeah, great tits, but they're birds. Sometimes it's not

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what you say, but how you
say it. And if you want to

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tell your valentine that you enjoy certain
parts of their anatomy, perhaps cross stitching

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is the best way to compliment them. Yay, Oh my god, this

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one just says the shocker it's a
Halloween costume that's of a person like this,

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like looking like the Shocker. I
don't want to describe what the shocker

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you do? You know you don't
know what that is to you. Okay,

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I don't want to talk about it. I'll just read the thing and

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we'll move on. If you are
convinced that wearing a costume based on a

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sex act made famous in adult movies
is the way to your Valentine's heart,

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then you have truly a one of
a kind relationship. Oh man, I

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wish I didn't say I didn't know
what that was. Oh I'm sorry.

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Oh here's one for me. Doggy
Cupid wings aw And then they got a

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big old boxer dog wearing these Cupid
wings and a little like cushy bow and

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arrow with a heart arrow. Since
dogs are more likely to bring people together

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than a mythological creature like Cupid,
cut out the middleman and give Rover the

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job. I like how some of
these feel like they were written by your

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grandpa, and then others feel like
they were written by, you know,

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like a pornography addict. Yeah,
ooh, here's a good one. Inflatable

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engagement ring? Is it really big? It's huge. It's like a pool

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float. If you're valid, Tyan
insists on a big ring for V Day,

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well this fits the bill. If
they oh, no, I just

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want to say that you if you're
listening to this and you say, wow,

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it sounds like a good idea,
that's not a good idea. That's

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not what they meant. They're not
gonna be happy if they complain. Just

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point out that they weren't very specific. Don't do that. Also, remind

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them that a real diamond ring doesn't
actually float. They'll appreciate the clarity.

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Don't do any of that. Don't
do any of that. That's Cell's love

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advice for this for the show.
Yeah, don't do that. Don't Oh

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my god, I think we're just
barely halfway through, Wow, all of

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these Valentine's gifts. So we're going
to take a quick break and we'll return

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with the rest of these must have
Valentine's gifts that I guess you could use

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next year. Right here on Monthly
Spooky, we are back with even more

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must Have Valentine's gift options. I
don't know if anything will top the breast

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milk jewelry, though, I mean, I guess I think that. That's

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fine. Actually, okay, fair
enough. This next one is very subtle,

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as subtle as getting punched in the
jaw. It's a penis pump.

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Yeah, I saw it, says
Look, only you know whether your Valentine

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will be pumped to get this for
Valentine's Day. Fingers crossed. Oh,

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here we go. Candy heart shaped
nipple pasties. Yeah again, Like,

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who are we buying these for?
I don't know. Candy hearts are a

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traditional part of Valentine's Day, but
have you ever tasted one? I like

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the way valentine hearts taste. You
don't like them? I like them?

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Yeah, I like them a lot. Uh. These nipple pasties have the

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same basic taste while being a tad
sexier. I like that. It's a

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tad sexier. Oh dear god.
Yeah, I mean this is totally normal.

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I don't This isn't bothersome at all. Uh. Swamp monster, scaley

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silicone dildo. Wow, that's horrific. Just to go ahead? Please,

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no, no, you can.
I don't know what I was gonna say.

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Just imagine the pillow talk when you
bring out this sex toy. Quote?

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Is that a swamp monster, scaley
silicone dildo or are you just glad

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to see me? And then under
it just says, uh both. It's

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more to looking Michelle, you describe
it to the audience. It's it's like

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just green and it's pretty cute.
It has eyes. Yeah, it does

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have eyes, which is a little
confusing to me. But I don't really

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know how swamp monster anatomy works,
so I might be confused. Oh gosh,

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oh, here we go. This
is one for cell the heart shaped

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bong. Oh y, we'd already
had a bong. Maybe well that wasn't

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a bong. Bongs use water or
something. I don't know. I don't

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know. Valentine's Day doesn't have to
be just about candles and flowers. Sometimes

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it can be about bongs. While
that was the laziest, uh, the

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laziest comment that they had. Yeah, oh, exposed ass shorts. But

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it's not. It's a pair of
shorts with a rubber ass stuck to the

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back of them, so it looks
like a butt is sticking out, but

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it's a rubber butt. It's really
weird, you know, it says looking

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for a cheeky Valentine's Day gift,
These exposed butt shorts aren't the most asenine

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choice. Oh asenine, I get
it. Yeah, yeah they are though.

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Here's what you might actually like.
Valentine themed dryer balls. Yeah I

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kind of like them. Do you
like? Do you use dryer balls?

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Yeah? You do? Look at
you? Because I don't use uh,

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you know. Fabric dryer balls may
help prevent laundry from clumping, but they

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don't exactly scream romance, do they. Yes, they do when they have

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Valentine's Day hearts on them. Your
leve will think of you every time they're

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worried that their laundry, about their
laundry clumping, and no, you were

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there for them at a difficult time. Yeah. See that's a good that's

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a good little there is that your
top choice so far? Yeah? I

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like that one. Here we go. Egg plant vibrator. Oh, thank

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goodness. It's just an egg plant
shaped vibrator and not like something that you

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have to connect an actual egg plant
to. I feel like that would be

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weird. Adding more vegetables to your
diet is good for your health. Adding

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an eggplant vibrator to your bedroom toys
could be good for your sex life.

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Wow. Yeah these are really they
are not all winners. The quotes of

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this. I wonder if huff Post
or whoever it is, was like,

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Okay, everyone finds some things and
write about it and we'll put it in

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an article. So you have,
like some people who are kind of talented

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or really trying, and there's some
people who aren't trying. You're just like

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here, it's an eggplant vibrator.
Yeah, ooh, a body pillow to

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replace you if partners have tad too
klingy. Well, you liked anime and

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they're all about body pillows, right, No, I think they are.

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I think okay, there's no body
pillows in anime. Can't be there for

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00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:15.440
your Valentine. This giant pillow will
give them something to snuggle while you do

402
00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:21.639
whatever it is you do. I
have, I have. I've many times

403
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:25.559
considered sending you anime body pillows for
like holidays as a joke. Yeah,

404
00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:30.239
I have. I really have considered
it because I find them of like animes,

405
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:32.639
characters from animes, you like.
I find body pillows on like Amazon,

406
00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:37.039
and I'm like, I could just
send it to cell. They're always

407
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:43.800
like super suggestive obvious. Imagine.
Yeah, I know. I found one

408
00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:46.800
of Reagan from mob Cycle one hundred. Yeah, there are a ton of

409
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:58.519
him. Yeah, jelly belly squishy
toy. Okay, jelly it's just a

410
00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:00.880
giant jelly bean that is a a
jelly bean. It's a toy. It's

411
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:06.360
like a stress bowl. Okay,
jelly beans are a sweet gift unless you're

412
00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:12.280
trying to avoid sugar solution. This
jellybelly themed squishy toy. It's not edible,

413
00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:15.559
but your valentine can use it as
a stress ball when you annoy them,

414
00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:19.880
and you will. That's good.
Just by buying them that you're annoying

415
00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:24.119
them, that's fair. Oh,
it's just get it at Meyer dot com.

416
00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:28.159
So it's not even like a special
source. It's just like the grocery

417
00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:36.039
chain Meyer. Oh, here's one. Cannabis seltzer. Yep. Wine is

418
00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:38.360
typically a good Valentine's Day gift,
but if alcohol isn't an option, these

419
00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:44.320
cannabis seltzers are a good way to
get that romantic buzz. I like the

420
00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:47.920
if alcohol isn't an option, It's
like, why isn't it an option?

421
00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:54.559
I mean, I'm assuming it would
be because you're an alcoholic. I don't

422
00:35:54.599 --> 00:36:00.119
know if it's good to drink another
drug. I've heard people say that it's

423
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:05.840
it's better. Okay, So I
can't say for sure, but it's that's

424
00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:15.480
becoming a big part of like of
consumable like the consumable intoxicate market is becoming

425
00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:17.440
things that are like a wine where
they remove all the alcohol and then add

426
00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:22.800
THHC instead. Interesting, so you
can get like a little funky feeling,

427
00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:25.119
but you're not you know, drunk, because I guess drunk is very different.

428
00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:34.239
We're not the people to talk about
this. Yeah, ooh a cigarette

429
00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:44.920
rolling machine? Just two people rolling
cigarettes with a vase of flowers. Yeah,

430
00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:49.800
is your Valentine all out of joint? Uh? This cigarette rolling machine

431
00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:54.000
will make sure that never happens again. Oh. I saw I was on

432
00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:58.960
Reddit and we're talking about things.
I don't remember what we're talking about.

433
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:07.239
Somebody was like, we're they brought
up broccoli rolling machines. What that are

434
00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:10.800
obviously supposed to be used for like
pot, But they marketed it as like

435
00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:15.119
you roll your broccoli in here,
and they had a picture of broccoli in

436
00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:19.519
it. It's great, That's what
I would use it for. I like

437
00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:24.079
broccoli, yeah, and I like
making it into a night's little tight shape.

438
00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:34.599
Oh god, here's some horrors beyond
all human. That's terrifying. The

439
00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:42.000
masturbation glove. Would you care to
describe this to the audience. It's like,

440
00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:49.760
looks like it's like silicone, and
it's got all these little spikes coming

441
00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:53.239
out of it that I assume are
flexible. God, I hope so they

442
00:37:53.280 --> 00:38:00.079
look like spines. They're terrifying.
Yeah, I don't know. If you

443
00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:02.519
can't be around to take care of
your Valentine's needs, give them a hand

444
00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:10.239
with this masturvation glove. I've never
picked a thing for us on the show

445
00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:15.760
that I've so equally regretted and been
so happy I picked at the same time.

446
00:38:15.559 --> 00:38:19.880
Yeah, I'm proud of you.
What were you gonna say? I'm

447
00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:23.960
sorry. Oh, I don't know. It probably wasn't good. Oh good.

448
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:28.480
Now we're just on to like just
straight up sex toys. The Tanya

449
00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:34.480
Tate stroker, it's it's a it's
a it's I'm guessing it's molded off of

450
00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:40.079
some porn star named Tanya Tate.
Oh okay. It says variety is the

451
00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:44.639
spice of life. But if monogamy
is important to you, maybe this stroker

452
00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:49.239
designed to reproduce the inner anatomy of
porn. Why do you gotta describe it

453
00:38:49.239 --> 00:38:54.079
that way of Tanya Tate will give
you and your partner some wiggle room you

454
00:38:54.079 --> 00:39:00.920
ew. Also, I just no, yeah what also just want to say,

455
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:04.480
like I'm finding a lot of these
to be like, oh, you

456
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:07.000
could get this for yourself. Are
you really going to get your partner a

457
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:13.880
Tanya tape stroker. No, that's
weird. Here's what I actually wouldn't mind

458
00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:20.639
having pink bigger cable wrangler. It's
hard, it's just for it's for phone

459
00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:23.840
cables. Yay. It's hard to
think about Valentine's Day when you have computer

460
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:30.440
cords scattered about while they're stretching hard. Now, this pink cable wrangler will

461
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:34.199
let your lover know you understand that
everything has its place and there's a place

462
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:38.679
for everything. You're so messy.
Here have this thing. Yeah, but

463
00:39:38.719 --> 00:39:45.840
it's pink because happy Valentine's Day.
Don't get these things for people. Okay,

464
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:52.000
good news, this is the last
one. You're welcome. Mindful Intimacy

465
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:57.920
card deck. Yes, strip poker
is a marvelous game, but some people

466
00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:01.199
don't know what to do when the
clothes find come off. At that point,

467
00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:06.039
maybe you need to switch to this
Mindful Intimacy card deck, which offers

468
00:40:06.119 --> 00:40:09.599
one hundred and thirty six prompts on
things to do you can do naked,

469
00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:15.239
and no frying chicken in a shallow
pan isn't one of them, but it

470
00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:21.119
should be. At least they ended
strong on the joke about frying chicken in

471
00:40:21.159 --> 00:40:28.000
a shallow pan. So that is
Huffington Posts twenty nine weird Valentine's Day gifts

472
00:40:28.159 --> 00:40:31.199
that will give your love a heart
on? So which one am I gonna

473
00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:36.000
send you? Sheel, you can
send me those the little dryer balls with

474
00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:39.880
hearts. It was actually just think
you actually really liked that one. Yeah,

475
00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:45.199
I think they're cute. I would
use them all the time. I

476
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:51.239
use dryer balls as well. Actually
yeah, I mean they're an affordable way

477
00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:53.800
to help with drawing your clothes,
you know, because using dryer sheets gets

478
00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:59.679
expensive. Also, dryer sheets are
really bad for your dryer. Oh really,

479
00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:02.960
I didn't know that. Yeah,
I think so. And also all

480
00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:08.400
the fabric softener isn't really good for
your clothes, huh. But that's not

481
00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:12.039
why I use drybles. I don't
know why I do, and I don't

482
00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:17.000
think they work very well, but
whatever. Wow, getting some hot takes

483
00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:21.639
off of shell right now, sorry. Well, I hope you're right that

484
00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:23.559
dryer sheets are bad for dryers,
because then I can celebrate the fact that

485
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:27.400
I have a new dryer that's never
had a dryer sheet at it. Yeah.

486
00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:32.079
I think they really are. I'm
almost positive. I am great.

487
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:37.039
I'm doing such a good job with
my new dryer. It's actually it's gotta

488
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:39.519
be knocking on almost no, not
almost a year old. I think I

489
00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:45.679
got it in like October or something
like that. Any I don't remember when

490
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:49.000
you've got it. You're supposed to
keep track of these things, cell.

491
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:55.800
Sorry, I'll forgive you this one
time. We're going to take a real

492
00:41:55.880 --> 00:42:00.679
quick break, and we're going to
get back with not Valentine themed, scary

493
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:06.360
news stories and bizarre news stories,
including this story, which really interests me

494
00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:10.119
because the headline from NPR simply says, Alabama mom is one in a million

495
00:42:10.199 --> 00:42:17.880
delivering two babies from two uteruses in
two days. Wow. So we'll talk

496
00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:30.719
all about that story and a whole
lot more when we return. All right,

497
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:36.280
we're back talking about the Alabama mom
delivering two babies from two uteruses and

498
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:43.159
two days, courtesy of your favorite
cell, NPR. Yeah, how much

499
00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:50.440
NPR do you reckon you listen to
in a day. No, you don't

500
00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:53.880
want that information public. No,
it's okay, because then NPR will come

501
00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:58.199
for me and they'll be like,
why don't you pay us money? Oh,

502
00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:00.599
you don't get the toe bag.
No, I don't have any money.

503
00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:06.800
I can't pay them, So you're
basically stealing. No, because they

504
00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:10.679
told me it's okay because I don't
have any money. I don't think that's

505
00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:19.880
what they said, but literally said
that to me particularly just like and later

506
00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:22.920
on we're going to find out what
happened when blah blah blah blah blah blah.

507
00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:24.719
But real quick, Michelle. He
just wants you to know it's okay

508
00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:30.480
if you can't pay for NPR.
This exactly what happened. And then you

509
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:39.719
were like, anyway, here's the
sound of your carbon monoxide detector. Okay.

510
00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:45.599
Thirty two year old Kelsey Hatcher welcomed
two beautiful baby girls into the world

511
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:51.679
last week, delivering fraternal twins at
the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital.

512
00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:58.920
But unlike typical twins, the newborns
came from two separate wombs. Wow,

513
00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:07.679
yeah, this is this is interesting. Hatcher vaginally delivered her first baby Roxy

514
00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:12.760
at seven forty five pm on December
nineteenth, followed by Rebel, who was

515
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:16.679
delivered by C section about ten hours
later on December twentieth. That's a lot

516
00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:22.639
of that's I feel bad. Why. That's just like a lot of stuff

517
00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:25.519
to have to go through right before
Christmas too. Yeah, those kids are

518
00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:28.559
forever gonna be like, hey,
I hope you don't mind. This is

519
00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:31.960
your birthday and Christmas present. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty much. Yeah.

520
00:44:32.119 --> 00:44:39.440
Her experience is what's known as dka
dyke dyka videri, dicaivideri pregnancy,

521
00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:45.320
yeah, or dicativity pregnant pregnancy,
according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham

522
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:50.519
news release, The National Library of
Medicine says this type of pregnancy is believed

523
00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:53.519
to be a one in a million
occurrence. Wow. Ah, there's like

524
00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:55.920
three hundred million people in America,
so that means there's like three hundred people

525
00:44:55.920 --> 00:45:00.599
doing it. That's not special.
It's still pretty special. No, it's

526
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:07.119
super special. Hatcher was a teen
when she was diagnosed with uterus di didelphus,

527
00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:12.440
commonly referred to as double uterus,
which occurs in point three percent of

528
00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:16.920
women. Wow. According to the
Cleveland clinic. She also has two cervixes.

529
00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:22.679
Wow, and though she had three
typical pregnancies in years past. Oh

530
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:28.960
wow, so she's had three other
pregnancies where this didn't happen. M Hatcher's

531
00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:34.679
fourth go around through Hatcher's obstetrician,
doctor Schueta Perel for a loop. When

532
00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:39.920
the first ultrasound showed two fetuses in
two uteruses, that's so weird. You

533
00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:45.519
don't see that every day. Yeah. Quote. I had already taken care

534
00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:49.400
of Kelsey through the third pregnancy and
knew she had double a double uterus,

535
00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:53.480
but that was only one baby,
two babies and two uteri Aha, the

536
00:45:53.519 --> 00:46:00.760
plural of uterus is uteri were a
true medical surprise. But I knew it.

537
00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:02.320
It was a It was a earlier
in the article it said it said

538
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:08.440
doctor Schweta Parrel. It was a
it was a typo. Yeah, look

539
00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:13.920
I'm not I I have nothing against
Indian doctors. We have a ton of

540
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:17.599
Indian doctors here. I have had
in my life two different doctor Patel's from

541
00:46:17.960 --> 00:46:22.039
two totally different medical professions. So
I was like, Parrel, I think

542
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:28.119
this is a Patel. Yeah,
I just assumed it was because is it

543
00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:31.639
Indian name? Yame, but just
the name Patel, I swear, like,

544
00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:35.920
I know, I know people who
have doctor Patel's in their lives,

545
00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.480
Like it's just a very common Indian
last name. Is a really common name.

546
00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:40.360
Yeah, so I don't even mean. I mean, I figured they

547
00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:43.199
were Indian, but when I saw
Parrel, I was like, is that

548
00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:45.760
an Indian last name I've never heard? And then this next part said Patel.

549
00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:49.599
So I just want to mention that
and shout out to both the doctor

550
00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:52.559
Patel's. They were really good to
me when I was very very ill,

551
00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:59.159
Patel told the university's communication department.
And then it says Parrel again, they

552
00:46:59.199 --> 00:47:02.480
don't know what they're doing. Maybe
it is Parrel, and maybe the Betel

553
00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:08.679
is a typo right. Parrell,
who's also an assistant professor in the school's

554
00:47:08.679 --> 00:47:15.039
Department of obstetrix and Gynecology, co
managed Hatcher's pregnancy alongside doctor Richard O'Davis,

555
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:21.199
professor in the school's Maternal Fetal Medicine
department, who specializes in high risk and

556
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:25.920
unique cases. The university says that
neither doctor, in their nearly sixty years

557
00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:34.880
of combined experience, had delivered di
caavitary twins. However, Given the unusual

558
00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:39.400
circumstances of Hatcher's pregnancy, some wondered
whether or not the newborn's constituated twins,

559
00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:45.920
which the university says is defined by
two babies in one uterus in the same

560
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:52.840
pregnancy. Yeah, you're mad,
now, you're like, they're not twins,

561
00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:59.320
actually, pony, I actually don't
think they're twins. Oh, Davis

562
00:47:59.320 --> 00:48:04.119
told the Communityations department, it's safe
to say they're fraternal twins. Boo.

563
00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:09.440
Sorry, they're a doctor unlike you. Oh oh, I'm sorry. I

564
00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:15.039
didn't mean it. It's okay,
that was too mean. Quote. At

565
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:17.400
the end of the day, it
was two babies in one belly at the

566
00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:23.079
same time. He said, they
just had two different apartments, which to

567
00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:29.119
me makes them not twins. But
that's okay. Ouch. You're like,

568
00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:30.119
you're like, well, if you
live in two different apartments in a billy,

569
00:48:30.159 --> 00:48:35.239
you're not roommates exactly. Yeah.
I'm with cell on this one.

570
00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:43.960
Actually for once, I'm with you. Thanks for now. So this next

571
00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:50.320
news story from Huffington Post is about
the other important holiday in February, how

572
00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:54.559
Groundhog Day and punk Satawi phil became
a thing. I have always been curious,

573
00:48:55.039 --> 00:48:58.280
do you know about it or not
because you live in PA, but

574
00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:01.639
you're not from there originally yeh.
And it's also in Western PA. So

575
00:49:01.679 --> 00:49:06.599
it's not like yeah, no,
not really, I don't really know.

576
00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:13.440
Well, this articles from Cutstown,
Pennsylvania. Yay, Kutstown, Gootstown.

577
00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:17.639
The spotlight will be on Gobbler's Knob
in western Pennsylvania early Friday morning, when

578
00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:22.719
handlers of a groundhog named Punks of
Tony Phil will announce whether he saw his

579
00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:25.480
own shadow and predict six more weeks
of winter or in early spring. I

580
00:49:25.480 --> 00:49:30.679
believe you predicted six more weeks of
winter. No, he predicted he's predicted

581
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:34.199
early spring. I'm pretty sure.
I'm pretty sure he saw his shadow.

582
00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:46.840
Did groundhog see shadow? Twenty twenty
four Mercer Bureau did not see his shadow,

583
00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:51.880
which indicates early spring. Yay,
so you were you were right,

584
00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:53.079
you were wrong, but you were
right, you were right in the wrongest

585
00:49:53.079 --> 00:49:58.559
way. Yeah, yeah, exactly. All right, Well, this article

586
00:49:58.599 --> 00:50:02.320
is obviously from right before ground Thousands
are expected to attend the annual event that

587
00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:08.039
exploded in popularity after the nineteen ninety
three Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day. I

588
00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:14.280
almost wanted to go stripes and just
like do you like that movie. I

589
00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:17.320
love Groundhog Day. Yeah, I
like have you read the Oh wait,

590
00:50:17.519 --> 00:50:22.159
you know this because you watched Round
and Round that it's theorized that he spent

591
00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:25.400
like fifteen years living the same day
over the Yeah. Yeah. When you

592
00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:28.920
hear that, then all of a
sudden, the scenes where he just kills

593
00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:31.559
himself again and again and again start
to make a lot of sense. Yeah.

594
00:50:31.599 --> 00:50:37.079
Absolutely, yeah. Yeah. It's
part of a tradition rooted in European

595
00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:40.880
agriculture, agricultural life, marking the
midpoint between the shortest day of the year

596
00:50:40.920 --> 00:50:45.199
on the winter solstice and the spring
equinox. It's also a time of year

597
00:50:45.199 --> 00:50:51.679
that figures in the Celtic calendar and
the Christian holiday of Candle Mass. I've

598
00:50:51.719 --> 00:50:53.400
not heard of Candle Mass. Yeah, I don't know. I want is

599
00:50:53.800 --> 00:51:00.159
there like a candle clause? Yeah? Ho ho ho, I'm on fire.

600
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:05.800
Yeah. And in eastern and central
Pennsylvania, where people of German descent

601
00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:10.000
have been watching the groundhog's annual emergence
from hibernation for centuries, there's a tradition

602
00:51:10.119 --> 00:51:16.519
of groundhog clubs and celebrations that are
independent of PUNKSATONI Phil huh, Yeah,

603
00:51:16.719 --> 00:51:22.880
I was into groundhogs when it was
still underground. Some dismissed the Pucksatoni event

604
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:28.239
as an unworthy rival to their own
festivities. Yep, nailed that one.

605
00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:31.440
I was into it before it was
all mainstream and lame. Well. I

606
00:51:31.440 --> 00:51:36.760
mean considering like they take the groundhog
and they show them in a hole,

607
00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:38.599
and then they take them out,
and then they say if he saw his

608
00:51:38.639 --> 00:51:44.239
shadow or not. He's not even
allowed to say that for himself. It's

609
00:51:44.360 --> 00:51:49.320
kinda yeah, I believe those people
in the areas of PA closer to me.

610
00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:57.440
Is it actually because they're closer to
you that you believe them? Okay?

611
00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:02.920
Which say forecasts more wait, okay. Some dismissed the Bookstony event as

612
00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:07.840
an unworthy rivals of their own festivities, which they say forecasts more accurate weather

613
00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:15.280
predictions. Yeah right, we're talking
about a rat, you know, like

614
00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:20.360
a creature that's like it doesn't predict
the weather. I'm sorry. I always

615
00:52:20.360 --> 00:52:22.559
thought it was interesting because even though
I got wrong a minute ago, I

616
00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:25.679
always thought it should be the other
way, because if he sees his shadow,

617
00:52:25.760 --> 00:52:30.519
it means it's sunny out. Oh
so I would think maybe that would

618
00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:35.440
make it that the spring is coming
soon. Because it's gonna be warm and

619
00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:37.360
he isn't see his shadow. It's
like dark out, so maybe it's cold.

620
00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:44.440
Shows what you know? Yeah,
sorry, you don't know anything.

621
00:52:44.559 --> 00:52:52.960
The groundhogs predict stuff. Yeah take
that. There have been weather predicting groundhogs

622
00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:59.920
and at least twenty eight United States
states and Canadian provinces and less formal celebrations

623
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:07.519
far and wide. One thing,
it's not serious business. Quote. We

624
00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:12.320
know this is silly. We know
this is fun. Marci Galando, executive

625
00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:15.800
director of the Punk Satani Groundhog Club, said, we want people to come

626
00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:20.800
here with a sense of humor.
So now we get into what are the

627
00:53:20.840 --> 00:53:25.920
holiday's origins. Okay, Celtic people
across Europe marked the four days that are

628
00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:30.440
midway between the winter solstice and spring
equinox. The summer solstice and fall equinox,

629
00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:37.599
what the Celts called Imblk, is
also known when Christians celebrate candleness.

630
00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:43.920
Also around when Christian celebrate candleness time
to Joseph and Mary's presentation of Jesus at

631
00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:46.719
the Temple of Jerusalem. Okay,
now we know what it is. Ancient

632
00:53:46.760 --> 00:53:51.960
people would watch the sun, stars
and animal behavior to guide farming practices and

633
00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:55.760
other decisions, and the practice of
watching an animal's emergence from winter hibernation to

634
00:53:55.840 --> 00:54:02.719
forecast weather has roots in a similar
German tradition involving badgers or bears. Badgers,

635
00:54:02.760 --> 00:54:09.760
bears, Battlestar Galactica. Pennsylvania.
Germans apparently substituted the groundhog endemic to

636
00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:14.639
the eastern and midwestern United States.
I mean they kind of look like little

637
00:54:14.639 --> 00:54:19.320
bears. They do. Yeah,
and they stand up, they do.

638
00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:23.079
They're so cute. Look around.
Historians have found a reference in an eighteen

639
00:54:23.199 --> 00:54:29.559
forty one diary to groundhog weather forecasts
in early February among families of German descent

640
00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:34.639
in Morgantown, Pennsylvania. According to
the late Don Yoder, that's an Amish

641
00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:37.199
last name, Yoder. I hear
that a lot with the Amish, a

642
00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:42.639
University of Pennsylvania professor who's two thousand
and three book about Groundhog Day explored the

643
00:54:42.639 --> 00:54:50.559
Celtic connection. Yoder concluded the festival
has its roots in quote ancient undoubtedly prehistoric

644
00:54:50.880 --> 00:54:57.840
weather lore. Oh prehistoric whoa dinos
man? Yeah, I don't know what's

645
00:54:57.880 --> 00:55:02.480
going on now. If the Ontosaurus
sees its shadow, it's the ice age

646
00:55:02.519 --> 00:55:07.639
for all of us. Yeah,
so now the question is why is it

647
00:55:07.719 --> 00:55:12.679
celebrated in punk Satoni. I don't
know. Punk Satoni is an area that

648
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:17.119
Pennsylvania Germans settled and in the late
eighteen eighties started celebrating the holiday by picnicking,

649
00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:22.679
hunting, and eating groundhogs. Oh
no, I was joking what I

650
00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:24.920
said, like, gotta eat a
roast groundhog for groundhog. Apparently they actually

651
00:55:24.920 --> 00:55:30.199
would eat groundhogs. Sorry, this
is your state. You have to be

652
00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:36.079
okay with it. That's the way
that works. Members of the Punk Satani

653
00:55:36.159 --> 00:55:42.760
Groundhog Club organized in eighteen ninety nine. Wow, they care for phil at

654
00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:47.119
a customized space besides Punk Satani Memorial
Library, where there's a window with a

655
00:55:47.239 --> 00:55:52.639
view into the creature's burrow. Dam
I'm sure they really like that. Oh,

656
00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:57.559
you don't know. You haven't talked
to a groundhog lately. The Punksatoni

657
00:55:57.639 --> 00:56:02.280
groundhog makes predictions, but he's not
always pret The designated groundhog emerged before sunrise

658
00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:07.840
in nineteen twenty nine and didn't come
out until late afternoon in nineteen forty one.

659
00:56:08.639 --> 00:56:13.719
Don't they pick him up and take
him out? I'm pretty sure he

660
00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:15.440
has to come out on his own. Actually, how did they get him

661
00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:20.400
to come out, Ah, I
ask, nice? Or do they like

662
00:56:22.159 --> 00:56:29.960
scare him out of his enclosure?
Ah? Yeah. The Bill Murray movie

663
00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:34.039
caused such a resurgence of interest that
two years after it came out, event

664
00:56:34.159 --> 00:56:38.239
organizers voiced concern about rowdy crowds,
drinking all night, people climbing trees,

665
00:56:38.440 --> 00:56:44.519
and others stripping to their underwear.
Wow. In nineteen ninety eight, a

666
00:56:44.599 --> 00:56:50.199
Groundhog club leader wearing a four thousand
dollars groundhog suit reported being assaulted by half

667
00:56:50.320 --> 00:56:57.480
dozen young men. Wow. Alcohol
is now prohibited at Gobbler's Knob, Phil

668
00:56:57.599 --> 00:57:04.000
spot, some eighty miles northeast of
Wit'sburgh. Wow. So, and here's

669
00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:08.760
a question about the competition with Punksatoni
Phil. The early festivities in Punksatoni were

670
00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:14.679
followed by in nineteen oh seven by
folks in Quarryville, a Farming a farming

671
00:57:14.679 --> 00:57:20.239
area in Lancaster County in Pennsylvania's southeastern
corner. The roughly two hundred and forty

672
00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:25.559
members of the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge there
reported the winter forecast from Octaro orphi,

673
00:57:27.079 --> 00:57:32.280
or or at least via his well
preserved remains. They used a dead groundhog.

674
00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:38.079
Ew. This is getting so weird. How did they preserve him?

675
00:57:38.119 --> 00:57:43.280
Did they? Did they taxi armingham
or they put him in some I would

676
00:57:43.320 --> 00:57:46.519
assume the tag I'm looking, I'm
reading. I don't know. Quaryville Lodge

677
00:57:46.519 --> 00:57:51.639
board chair Charlie Hart said the organization
has dinners and other social events throughout the

678
00:57:51.679 --> 00:57:54.719
year, but is largely focused on
Groundhog Day. I do love the name

679
00:57:54.840 --> 00:58:02.880
Slumbering Groundhog Lodge. It's not slummery
dead. Heart credits Orphi. I like

680
00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:08.760
that. It's octro Orphi is its
name. It's like what Heart credits.

681
00:58:08.840 --> 00:58:15.000
Orphi is a far better forecaster than
phil octorro. Orphi has never been wrong.

682
00:58:15.079 --> 00:58:16.960
Heart said, this is the one
hundred and sixteenth year, and in

683
00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:21.840
the previous one hundred and fifteen he's
been right on the money. Every year.

684
00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:30.079
He's dead. It's getting weird.
Man. Well, we're gonna take

685
00:58:30.119 --> 00:58:32.719
a quick break and then we'll talk
a little bit more about groundhogs and Groundhog

686
00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:45.920
Day and the weird world of Pennsylvania. After these quick words and we're back

687
00:58:46.039 --> 00:58:57.079
to learn more about groundhogs or apparently
whistle pigs. Yeah, so that's another

688
00:58:57.079 --> 00:59:00.119
word for groundhog. I'd never heard
that before. Yeah, it is the

689
00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:04.280
groundhog. This is from the Uhuff
Post article. The groundhog is a member

690
00:59:04.280 --> 00:59:08.159
of the squirrel family and related to
chipmunks and prairie dogs. It's also known

691
00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:12.800
as a woodchuck, a whistle pig, or, in the parlance of the

692
00:59:12.800 --> 00:59:17.760
Pennsylvania Dutch, a language with German
roots, the grun saw huh ah,

693
00:59:17.840 --> 00:59:28.440
the old grunsw Yeah. Groundhogs are
herbivores that are themselves edible to humans,

694
00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:34.960
although they are not widely consumed,
Their lifespan in the wild is typically two

695
00:59:35.079 --> 00:59:38.719
or three years. Oh no,
my groundhog's gonna die so well, you'd

696
00:59:38.719 --> 00:59:45.079
better bring him in. He's gonna
die under my shed. Oh, just

697
00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:50.920
where you always like to be.
Yeah. The Pennsylvania Game Commission says about

698
00:59:50.960 --> 00:59:54.679
thirty six thousand hunters reported killing more
than two hundred thousand groundhogs last year.

699
00:59:55.400 --> 01:00:02.320
WOW Game Commission spokesperson Travis Lao found
groundhog a bit stinky to clean with thick

700
01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:07.360
skin. Quote It's actually really good, no doubt about it, and to

701
01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:12.079
my taste, more like beef than
venison is, Lao said. Quote.

702
01:00:12.159 --> 01:00:15.480
The whole family ate it and liked
it, and everybody had apprehensions at first.

703
01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:22.159
Okay, some cooks advise groundhogs are
best taken when they are young and

704
01:00:22.239 --> 01:00:24.880
after clover is in bloom, since
a clover diet is thought to improve the

705
01:00:24.920 --> 01:00:31.880
meat's taste. Okay, Michelle doesn't
eat meat, let alone groundhog yet.

706
01:00:34.280 --> 01:00:40.400
So when did the clubs and lodges
spring up? Starting in the nineteen thirties,

707
01:00:40.440 --> 01:00:45.039
groundhog lodges opened in eastern Pennsylvania.
They were social clubs with similarities to

708
01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:51.360
Freemasonry. Ah, So they were
secret. They kept a bunch of secrets

709
01:00:51.480 --> 01:00:59.199
about groundhogs, about whistlepigah intended to
preserve Pennsylvania German culture and traditions. Clubs

710
01:00:59.239 --> 01:01:04.440
would sometimes find those who were caught
speaking anything but their Pennsylvania Dutch language at

711
01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:09.119
meetings. Wow. They were traditionally
all male groups, and fifteen such clubs

712
01:01:09.159 --> 01:01:16.079
remain active. They all share the
unifying feature of a groundhog's weather prognostication.

713
01:01:17.079 --> 01:01:23.639
Prognostication, said William W. Donner
at Cootstown University, anthropology professor and author

714
01:01:23.719 --> 01:01:29.480
of Serious Nonsense, a book about
such lodges and other efforts to preserve German

715
01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:35.400
heritage. Quote. I think it's
just one of these traditional rituals that people

716
01:01:35.480 --> 01:01:39.280
enjoy participating in that maybe take them
away from modern life for just fifteen minutes.

717
01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:45.840
Donner said, yeah, I guess. So here's one last piece.

718
01:01:46.559 --> 01:01:52.159
Will Phil get it right this year? Some well meaning efforts have sought to

719
01:01:52.159 --> 01:01:58.000
determine Phil's accuracy, but what quote
six weeks of winter means is debatable?

720
01:01:58.519 --> 01:02:01.840
Yeah. Claims that the groundhog has
or has not seen its shadow and that

721
01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:07.159
it's able to communicate that to a
human are also fair territory for skeptics and

722
01:02:07.360 --> 01:02:15.199
the humor impaired. Hey, well, feel like that was a personal attack.

723
01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:21.559
Yeah. By all accounts, Phil
predicts more winter far more often than

724
01:02:21.559 --> 01:02:27.960
he predicts an early spring. Groundhogs
are mostly solitary creatures who start to emerge

725
01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:31.119
in midwinter to find a mate.
The science behind whether they can make any

726
01:02:31.159 --> 01:02:39.599
accurate weather predictions is problematic at best. Among the skeptics is the National Centers

727
01:02:39.639 --> 01:02:46.840
for Environmental Information within the National within
the National Ocean, Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

728
01:02:47.199 --> 01:02:52.800
The government agency last year compared Phil's
record with the US national temperatures over

729
01:02:52.840 --> 01:02:58.079
the prior decade and concluded he was
right only forty percent of the time.

730
01:02:58.440 --> 01:03:00.960
Wow, I thought it was fifty. So he actually does a bad job.

731
01:03:01.360 --> 01:03:05.840
Yeah, I wonder how likely chance
would be? Probably forty percent.

732
01:03:06.760 --> 01:03:09.719
I mean I would think that chance
would be fifty percent. Oh, I

733
01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:15.840
feel like chance is sometimes higher than
fifty percent. But it's one or the

734
01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:23.960
other. What what percentage is chance? Uh? That was not a good

735
01:03:24.039 --> 01:03:29.840
question to ask Google. I am
not I don't understand any of the and

736
01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:34.400
I'm gonna just close this page.
All right. So now it's time for

737
01:03:34.519 --> 01:03:36.880
us to do something that I'm sure
you were wondering. I mean, when

738
01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:38.679
were we going to talk about an
article from Mirror dot co dot uk.

739
01:03:39.039 --> 01:03:44.639
Yeah, it's been a while.
Well we're finally here. Yay, Thank

740
01:03:44.679 --> 01:03:51.599
goodness. Eerie CCTV leaves haunted tea
shop owners spooked after milk jug thrown from

741
01:03:51.719 --> 01:03:57.639
shelf. No you like tea?
I do. Well, we'll see how

742
01:03:57.639 --> 01:04:03.320
this goes. Let's see, all
right. A picturesque village cafe has been

743
01:04:03.320 --> 01:04:08.760
the site of multiple strange incidents,
with the latest one being a flying milk

744
01:04:08.840 --> 01:04:15.079
jug that was caught on camera.
Workers at the popular cafe near Bolton said

745
01:04:15.079 --> 01:04:19.599
the mystery of the said the mystery
of flying is just the latest in a

746
01:04:19.679 --> 01:04:25.079
string of unexplained incidents. Yeah,
they need a copy of it, fueling

747
01:04:25.159 --> 01:04:30.599
fears that the tea shop is haunted. Yeah. Yeah, the family run

748
01:04:31.039 --> 01:04:35.719
Rivington Village Green Tea room was closed
and nobody inside when the staff said a

749
01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:42.480
milk jug was mysteriously thrown from a
shelf, The Manchester Evening News reports,

750
01:04:43.039 --> 01:04:46.400
So I'm guessing the milk jug was
empty, I hope. So otherwise,

751
01:04:46.400 --> 01:04:49.719
why is it just sitting out there? Maybe in England that's just what they

752
01:04:49.719 --> 01:04:53.119
do. They just leave milk out. It's like their favorite, just like

753
01:04:53.159 --> 01:04:56.159
it ew, just like, let's
do it. Let's just leave the milk

754
01:04:56.199 --> 01:05:00.320
out. Why does that bother you? It's fine because I don I want

755
01:05:00.360 --> 01:05:02.760
the milk to go bad. Oh
it's only bad if you don't drink it.

756
01:05:04.079 --> 01:05:13.239
Ah. Other spooky occurrences at the
cafe include a ghostly face being seen,

757
01:05:13.840 --> 01:05:18.760
as well as other items moving and
falling. Inexplicably. A friendly ghost

758
01:05:18.800 --> 01:05:24.039
called Annabel lives in the building.
Staff were also told by a psychic,

759
01:05:24.440 --> 01:05:26.360
so they brought in a psychic who
said, oh, yeah, there's a

760
01:05:26.400 --> 01:05:30.159
friendly ghost here named Annabel. Okay, and they were like cool, but

761
01:05:30.239 --> 01:05:34.159
like, what's throwing our milk jug? The friendly ghost Annabel? I don't

762
01:05:34.199 --> 01:05:42.199
understand what the problem is. I'm
sorry that I questioned. Ye Yee co

763
01:05:42.360 --> 01:05:46.360
owner Jade Tolan checked the CCTV cameras
from her mobile phone and saw a milk

764
01:05:46.440 --> 01:05:50.559
jug that had been stored under the
counter on the floor. She rolled the

765
01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:56.960
footage back and saw it mysteriously fly
off the tray where it had been left.

766
01:05:59.039 --> 01:06:02.480
Quote. I thought to myself,
that's unusual, she told reporters.

767
01:06:03.159 --> 01:06:06.159
Quote. It was left on a
tray that has a lip, so it's

768
01:06:06.199 --> 01:06:10.880
not like it would have just slipped
off. And they weren't stacked on top

769
01:06:10.920 --> 01:06:15.519
of each other. They've never fallen
off before. Yeah. I did wonder

770
01:06:15.559 --> 01:06:18.519
about vibrations, but I checked and
there were no cars or anything outside at

771
01:06:18.519 --> 01:06:24.679
the time. Rivington was peaceful and
quiet. There is then a kind of

772
01:06:24.719 --> 01:06:30.519
flash of light. Beforehand, there
was a flash of light and then it,

773
01:06:30.800 --> 01:06:35.880
Yeah, and then the jug gets
thrown. Apparently in the clip,

774
01:06:35.960 --> 01:06:40.400
something can be seen falling off a
shelf in the bottom right hand corner,

775
01:06:40.719 --> 01:06:44.880
although it cannot be fully seen.
Staff say this was a small glass milk

776
01:06:44.920 --> 01:06:47.840
jug. Quote. It is very
strange, but you get an awful lot

777
01:06:47.920 --> 01:06:51.920
of strange things happening here. One
of our chefs who worked here for thirteen

778
01:06:53.000 --> 01:06:58.960
years recently. What gosh, one
of our chefs who worked here for thirteen

779
01:06:59.039 --> 01:07:01.440
years recently and we have been saying, oh, that must have been Brian.

780
01:07:03.400 --> 01:07:10.280
I think they mean that that chef
passed away. I guess. Geez,

781
01:07:10.360 --> 01:07:13.920
guys, they have so much ghost
stuff to report they don't have time

782
01:07:13.960 --> 01:07:17.119
to copy at it that at least
don't leave out the words that explain things.

783
01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:21.480
But remember that time that they told
us the age of the dead grandfather?

784
01:07:23.239 --> 01:07:29.000
Oh my god, was he fifty
seven? Something like that. Jade's

785
01:07:29.039 --> 01:07:32.639
grandmother, Elist Kent now eighty five, took over the cafe in nineteen seventy

786
01:07:32.679 --> 01:07:36.360
two and it has been in the
family, with Jade thirty one running it

787
01:07:36.400 --> 01:07:41.079
with mom Jane sixty four. And
it is not the first thing that has

788
01:07:41.119 --> 01:07:46.920
made them suspect the supernatural could be
at work. In twenty twenty, Jade

789
01:07:46.920 --> 01:07:50.199
said what appeared to be a face
could be made out in what was thought

790
01:07:50.239 --> 01:07:58.280
to be fog captured on CCTV cameras
inside the building, whilst in twenty twenty

791
01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:01.159
one the footage also captured what appeared
to be a cloud in the middle of

792
01:08:01.199 --> 01:08:05.559
the dining area that would be weird. Yeah, I mean I'm guessing what

793
01:08:05.599 --> 01:08:11.239
they mean, like fog. Yeah, I mean I assume both of those

794
01:08:11.239 --> 01:08:15.400
things are similar, you know,
the fog and the cloud. I mean,

795
01:08:15.400 --> 01:08:19.000
it's definitely uncommon for a tea shop. So here's my question. Would

796
01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:23.279
you still shop at this tea shop
if they had good stuff? I don't

797
01:08:23.319 --> 01:08:28.000
see why not. You wouldn't be
afraid of a ghost throwing tea at you

798
01:08:28.119 --> 01:08:34.560
or something. No, they haven't
even done anything while anyone's there. Okay,

799
01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:38.159
I mean, yeah, you're right, it doesn't seem very scary.

800
01:08:38.199 --> 01:08:44.800
Actually, let's see, we've had
suspicions for years, Jade said. I'm

801
01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:47.800
constantly finding things that have been moved
or things that have fallen off shelves in

802
01:08:47.840 --> 01:08:51.600
the upstairs stock room. But that
doesn't have CCTV, so I haven't been

803
01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:57.640
able to show people before there was
one. There was once I was waiting

804
01:08:57.680 --> 01:09:00.520
for a workman, and I was
sure someone came past me and went up

805
01:09:00.560 --> 01:09:03.520
the stairs. I don't like being
in here on my own. Put it

806
01:09:03.560 --> 01:09:10.319
that way. Oh, so there's
a picture of the cloud, and it

807
01:09:10.399 --> 01:09:14.680
looks weird. It looks like it's
not filling the room. It's like the

808
01:09:14.720 --> 01:09:18.640
size of like a beach ball just
by a chair. Interesting, it looks

809
01:09:18.720 --> 01:09:28.520
more like a smudge or just like
something like like an error it does.

810
01:09:29.640 --> 01:09:31.239
It doesn't really look like a cloud
to me. It just looks like a

811
01:09:31.279 --> 01:09:36.399
weird patch in the video. But
that's just me and I'm a bad person.

812
01:09:36.920 --> 01:09:40.479
It would kind of depend on how
long it stayed and if it did

813
01:09:40.520 --> 01:09:43.840
anything like I need to see a
video of it. Did it like float

814
01:09:43.880 --> 01:09:48.920
around? Did it sing mammy?
You know? Did it yeah? Did

815
01:09:48.960 --> 01:09:51.720
it put on a show? Did
it see its shadow and predict winter?

816
01:09:53.119 --> 01:09:58.720
You know? Yeah? We regularly
quote, we regularly have psychic medium nights.

817
01:09:58.800 --> 01:10:00.439
And I said I felt like I
was being watched, and they said,

818
01:10:00.840 --> 01:10:06.720
you are. That's helpful. There's
a ghost who lives here called Annabelle.

819
01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:11.479
But she's friendly and she's pleased at
what you've done to improve the place.

820
01:10:12.039 --> 01:10:15.119
Okay, I like the ghosts are
judgy. They're just like, oh,

821
01:10:15.159 --> 01:10:19.279
thank goodness that those floors were so
old, like they looked so like

822
01:10:19.920 --> 01:10:23.800
ninety you know, they looked so
like nineteen twenty one. I'm glad you

823
01:10:23.880 --> 01:10:28.199
updated this place. That's that's weird
to me. The ghost is just like,

824
01:10:28.199 --> 01:10:30.479
thanks for making the place nicer.
I don't think it's weird. I

825
01:10:30.520 --> 01:10:33.880
think if I was a ghost,
i'd be like that, is it really?

826
01:10:34.239 --> 01:10:39.039
Yeah? Would is that? Why
would you throw milk jugs to let

827
01:10:39.039 --> 01:10:43.560
them know you like the changes?
No, because I wouldn't. I would

828
01:10:43.560 --> 01:10:45.880
make sure if I was going to
throw things, it would be like in

829
01:10:45.920 --> 01:10:47.880
the middle of the CCTV thing,
so they'd know. And then I'd like

830
01:10:48.000 --> 01:10:51.760
hold the milk jug in the air
for a minute and then I give them

831
01:10:51.760 --> 01:10:55.560
a thumbs up but they can't see
it. Or you would like write on

832
01:10:55.600 --> 01:10:58.960
a piece of vapor. Yeah,
like this isn't really nice now, thanks

833
01:10:59.000 --> 01:11:05.600
guys, Signed Annabel the Ghosts.
Yeah nice. I like that they have

834
01:11:06.239 --> 01:11:10.399
psychic medium nights. It sounds like
it's just a good way to sell tea

835
01:11:10.960 --> 01:11:15.279
m yeah quote. I'm not sure
I am one hundred percent convinced. But

836
01:11:15.319 --> 01:11:19.640
a group called Para Northern has also
done stuff here and they say they've heard

837
01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:25.800
stuff. It makes you think it
doesn't make you think they've done stuff here

838
01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:29.600
and they say they've heard stuff.
Lots of stuff going on here. Kids.

839
01:11:30.520 --> 01:11:34.920
There is speculation the building and the
picturesque village between Bolton and Chorley may

840
01:11:34.920 --> 01:11:40.920
have been used to store ammunition in
the World Wars in parent with Para Norman

841
01:11:41.119 --> 01:11:49.880
Northern saying they encountered an American pilot
during one of their visits. What they

842
01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:53.720
may have used, Well, it
actually says they may have used used to

843
01:11:53.800 --> 01:11:59.119
store ammunition, so I think they
mean use the store the shop store ammunition.

844
01:12:00.760 --> 01:12:05.399
I don't know. It's a Mirror
dot co dot uk story. Okay,

845
01:12:06.199 --> 01:12:10.520
like, oh, there was a
ghost or something. Anyway, here's

846
01:12:10.560 --> 01:12:15.079
a lot of ads. I love
Mirror dot co dot uk. They're so

847
01:12:15.239 --> 01:12:21.960
trashy, it's the best. So
we got a few more pieces of spooky

848
01:12:21.960 --> 01:12:25.960
news before we dive into the Mothman. But we're gonna take a real quick

849
01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:41.920
break and we'll be right back after
these words, and we're back with some

850
01:12:41.960 --> 01:12:49.680
more spooky news. And this one. I I am open about the fact

851
01:12:49.760 --> 01:12:56.079
I picked these stories based on the
headlines. Some of these headlines are mind

852
01:12:56.199 --> 01:13:00.880
blowing. Wow. This one,
for first of all, it starts with

853
01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:04.680
one of the greatest starts to a
headline there is, which is Florida Man.

854
01:13:05.960 --> 01:13:12.600
That's number one. But this is
from Huffington Post. Florida man sues

855
01:13:12.680 --> 01:13:20.279
Duncan over injuries following toilet explosion.
Uh oh, Now, as a home

856
01:13:20.359 --> 01:13:26.520
inspector, Michelle, Yeah, what
do you think would cause a toilet to

857
01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:31.560
explode? Well? I don't know
what they mean by explosion, because I

858
01:13:31.600 --> 01:13:36.720
guess a there could be a crack
somewhere in like the bowl or the the

859
01:13:36.800 --> 01:13:43.119
guy that lives up above the bowl
the tank, and maybe when he like

860
01:13:43.159 --> 01:13:47.760
sat on it, it like exploded, okay. Or maybe there's like pressure

861
01:13:47.840 --> 01:13:55.439
in the sewage system and it like, oh like that, it'll normally explode.

862
01:13:55.560 --> 01:13:59.439
That's not normally something I have to
look for. So we need to

863
01:13:59.479 --> 01:14:04.039
get you to a point where like
when things like news stories break there,

864
01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:09.479
you're like the place that like a
news services call, like Michelle antisocial here

865
01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:13.840
to talk about She's a professional home
inspector in Philadelphia. Michelle, what do

866
01:14:13.880 --> 01:14:17.079
you think would You're just like yes, and then you just start crying and

867
01:14:17.079 --> 01:14:21.920
they're like, oh god, else
cuts us the health But that's my whole

868
01:14:21.960 --> 01:14:25.600
thing. So they cut to me
just for me to cry, and then

869
01:14:25.600 --> 01:14:30.479
they cut to someone else. So
this is in Orlando, Florida. M

870
01:14:31.600 --> 01:14:36.720
a customer filed a negligence lawsuit against
Duncan, claiming he was injured by an

871
01:14:36.800 --> 01:14:42.680
exploding toilet at one of the coffee
chain's locations in central Florida, Okay.

872
01:14:43.239 --> 01:14:47.920
Paul Kerouac is seeking more than one
hundred thousand dollars in a lawsuit filed Wednesday

873
01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:54.760
in state court in Orlando, claiming
he suffered severe and long term injuries following

874
01:14:54.800 --> 01:14:58.840
the explosion of a toilet in the
men's room of a Duncan location in winter

875
01:14:58.920 --> 01:15:01.800
Park, Florida, a year ago. First, I want to say that

876
01:15:01.840 --> 01:15:05.840
sounds like not a lot of damages. I know, like if I was

877
01:15:05.880 --> 01:15:10.960
on a toilet that exploded and it
hurt me, I'd want a million bucks

878
01:15:10.960 --> 01:15:15.880
minimum. Yeah, it's dunkin Donuts. I'm sorry, Duncan, It's just

879
01:15:15.960 --> 01:15:20.760
Duncan. Now they're just Duncan.
Yeah, dunk Duncan, Duncan Duncan.

880
01:15:24.000 --> 01:15:29.199
So I wish they dropped the Duncan
and they were just donuts. Have you

881
01:15:29.199 --> 01:15:30.560
heard the new one is? People
are saying, I can't wait till they're

882
01:15:30.600 --> 01:15:39.399
just the apostrophe. They're just m
After the explosion left Krouac covered in Oh

883
01:15:39.439 --> 01:15:44.359
God, After the explosion left Karrouac
covered in human feces, urine, and

884
01:15:44.399 --> 01:15:47.840
debris, he walked He walked out
of the men's room seeking help from workers

885
01:15:47.880 --> 01:15:51.960
and the store's manager. According to
the lawsuit, an employee told him that

886
01:15:51.960 --> 01:15:57.239
they were aware of a quote problem
with the toilet since there had been previous

887
01:15:57.319 --> 01:16:01.560
incidents. The lawsuit says, without
die diving into further details about the explosion,

888
01:16:01.760 --> 01:16:08.159
no, please explain it to me. I don't understand. Well,

889
01:16:08.199 --> 01:16:13.319
first of all, that employee's getting
fired. Yeah, just immediately admitting culpability

890
01:16:13.479 --> 01:16:15.399
of the company. Oh yeah,
we know about it. Oh yeah,

891
01:16:15.399 --> 01:16:23.079
I wondered when that would explode.
Well, shit, you'll laugh later.

892
01:16:25.920 --> 01:16:31.039
When contacted Thursday by email for more
details on Keroac's injuries, his eternity Scott

893
01:16:31.079 --> 01:16:35.520
Spradley said he was tied up and
couldn't answer the questions until the following day.

894
01:16:36.119 --> 01:16:41.720
The Campton, Massachusetts based company did
not immediately respond to an email seeking

895
01:16:41.760 --> 01:16:46.600
comment. The lawsuit says Caroac suffered
bodily injury and he has required mental health

896
01:16:46.600 --> 01:16:51.479
care and counseling since the answer in
January of twenty of twenty twenty two.

897
01:16:51.840 --> 01:16:56.279
He probably can't sit on a toilet
without freaking out. Dude, I'd be

898
01:16:56.279 --> 01:16:59.520
afraid to sit on a toilet if
the last time I did it it exploded,

899
01:17:00.479 --> 01:17:06.600
wouldn't you? No? But I
understand. Hold on, I gotta,

900
01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:10.560
we gotta, we gotta follow this
up. I need to know what

901
01:17:10.880 --> 01:17:15.920
happened. This article had almost nothing
in it, so I'm gonna see if

902
01:17:15.960 --> 01:17:20.279
I can figure out. Let's see
Business Insider covered it. Oh and they

903
01:17:20.319 --> 01:17:24.840
want money. Nope, all right, let's try AP News, although I

904
01:17:24.840 --> 01:17:28.520
think it's probably the same exact one. Yeah, it's the same article.

905
01:17:29.439 --> 01:17:34.079
God damn it. I want to
know why the toilet exploded. Yeah,

906
01:17:34.279 --> 01:17:45.000
Orlando Weekly. Hmmm, that might
be good. Let's see we're imagining the

907
01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:47.119
toilet bomb scene from Wesel Weapon two. Oh. That's wow. They're making

908
01:17:47.159 --> 01:17:55.720
a lot of jokes. There is
no information about what made that toilet explode.

909
01:17:57.119 --> 01:18:00.439
I have maybe a USA Today article. Okay, I just found one

910
01:18:00.439 --> 01:18:06.159
on Fox Business. Okay, what's
you're saying? Ummm, he's seeking fifty

911
01:18:06.239 --> 01:18:12.479
thousand dollars of at least fifty thousand
dollars in alleges the franchise was negligent.

912
01:18:13.359 --> 01:18:16.960
Umm. No, It says a
flier man is seeking fifty thousand dollars in

913
01:18:17.039 --> 01:18:24.359
damages after a toileted duncan location exploded
and covered him in debreeze. Species in

914
01:18:24.520 --> 01:18:30.039
urine. The kommoda abrupted, leaving
the plaintiffs and the lou covered in contents

915
01:18:30.520 --> 01:18:35.960
the law stuits that stated UHC.
According to Fox Bysinessays, Karaoac said that

916
01:18:36.000 --> 01:18:40.720
as a result of the toilet explosion, he suffered bodily injury and psychological damages,

917
01:18:40.840 --> 01:18:45.680
resulting in pain and suffering disability,
permanent and significant emotional injury, mental

918
01:18:45.720 --> 01:18:49.119
anguish, loss of capacity for the
enjoyment of life, expensive medical care and

919
01:18:49.199 --> 01:18:55.560
treatment. Loss of capacity for the
enjoyment of life. That's so sad.

920
01:18:56.079 --> 01:18:59.279
That's the most loyery thing I've ever
heard too. I mean, to be

921
01:18:59.359 --> 01:19:02.920
fair, I would not lose my
capacity for the enjoyment of life just because

922
01:19:02.960 --> 01:19:10.319
a toilet exploded, I understand.
I Also, the lawsuit argues that the

923
01:19:10.359 --> 01:19:15.159
franchise e had a duty to Krawak
and its customers to maintain the men's room

924
01:19:15.239 --> 01:19:19.479
and the toilet in a reasonably safe
condition. I think that's a fair point

925
01:19:19.960 --> 01:19:25.640
that a toilet should be reasonably safe
to use. Yeah, yeah, I

926
01:19:25.680 --> 01:19:29.840
think that's probably code that it needs
to be safe. Oh God, the

927
01:19:29.880 --> 01:19:32.760
comments. I'm looking on Reddit to
see if I can figure out what the

928
01:19:32.800 --> 01:19:35.680
hell because someone's asking the same question, like, how did it explode?

929
01:19:35.800 --> 01:19:41.159
Yeah? Yeah, and some person
here's a good one. Somebody commented on

930
01:19:41.199 --> 01:19:45.359
Fox Business said Chris Christy was seen
leaving the bathroom moments before. Sorry,

931
01:19:45.399 --> 01:19:49.239
well what was your saying? Oh, there was just some there were people

932
01:19:49.359 --> 01:19:54.680
just talking about, well maybe there
was some flannel built gas build up or

933
01:19:54.720 --> 01:19:58.760
a water valve burst, which is
probably not the water valve because poop wouldn't

934
01:19:58.760 --> 01:20:02.439
be coming up. Yeah. But
somebody just commented not even the actual core

935
01:20:02.560 --> 01:20:09.359
documents say what happened? Yeah,
that's weird. Yeah, so I have

936
01:20:09.399 --> 01:20:14.319
no idea. Yeah, another good
comment I had that happen to me at

937
01:20:14.319 --> 01:20:19.199
Taco Bell. Wait, maybe it
was the other way around, exploiting,

938
01:20:19.520 --> 01:20:27.840
exploiting, exploiting toilets, exploding toilets. Well, here's another story from Mirrore

939
01:20:27.880 --> 01:20:30.039
dot Code dot UK. We're gonna
get away from the shitty situation and back

940
01:20:30.079 --> 01:20:36.199
to ghosts. Oh but one of
the reasons Chell that I love talking about

941
01:20:36.239 --> 01:20:42.159
ghost stories with you is because of
your expertise in houses. Oh, you

942
01:20:42.239 --> 01:20:44.920
know houses. So when somebody says, like, ah, the walls are

943
01:20:44.920 --> 01:20:47.640
bleeding, I'm like, Michelle,
what's actually happening? Yeah, You're like

944
01:20:47.880 --> 01:20:53.960
the walls are bleeding. They're a
negative no y. But this from mirrore

945
01:20:54.000 --> 01:20:58.279
Do code at UK. The headline
says, I moved into a haunted house.

946
01:20:58.319 --> 01:21:03.560
I could tell something was off right
away. Oh you look so concerned.

947
01:21:04.239 --> 01:21:10.920
Yeah. A woman claims to have
lived alongside ghosts when she moved back

948
01:21:11.000 --> 01:21:15.479
in with her parents after traveling the
world. Sharing her story, her daughter

949
01:21:15.520 --> 01:21:19.159
explained how her mom, a former
professional ice skater, said something felt off

950
01:21:19.560 --> 01:21:26.960
as soon as she stepped foot back
into her parents' house woh. Sharing her

951
01:21:27.000 --> 01:21:32.479
mum's encounter on Reddit, she says
she experienced numerous strange incidents, including strange

952
01:21:32.520 --> 01:21:36.840
noises, things appearing to have moved
around the house when no one had touched

953
01:21:36.840 --> 01:21:41.520
them, and the sounds of a
party next door when the building adjoining them

954
01:21:41.880 --> 01:21:45.960
was a bank that was closed in
the evenings. They're just having parties there,

955
01:21:46.000 --> 01:21:48.960
Like it's it's okay, you could
have a party at a closed bank.

956
01:21:49.239 --> 01:21:54.199
Yeah, as long as nobody steals
the money. Yeah. Yeah.

957
01:21:54.239 --> 01:21:57.840
The skeptical daughter added quote, So, my mom traveled the world for a

958
01:21:57.880 --> 01:22:00.119
few years when she was eighteen to
nineteen. This would have been in the

959
01:22:00.159 --> 01:22:03.920
mid nineteen seventies. She quit ice
skating and moved back in with her parents.

960
01:22:04.199 --> 01:22:09.239
They lived in a flat above a
shop in a small seaside town called

961
01:22:09.600 --> 01:22:14.560
Chevley's. It's about a ten minute
drive away from Blackpool. When she moved

962
01:22:14.600 --> 01:22:17.760
in, she said right away something
felt off about the place. She never

963
01:22:17.840 --> 01:22:24.840
said she felt scared, but just
different, she said. The first time

964
01:22:24.920 --> 01:22:29.159
anything strange happened was a few days
after she moved in. She was fast

965
01:22:29.199 --> 01:22:31.279
asleep in bed and her dad came
in to bring her a cup of tea.

966
01:22:31.840 --> 01:22:35.800
He said something along the lines of
did you fall back asleep? She

967
01:22:35.920 --> 01:22:40.039
asked what he meant. He said
that he had heard her get up,

968
01:22:40.319 --> 01:22:45.359
heard the bathroom door open and close, and footsteps. I mean it's possible

969
01:22:45.399 --> 01:22:48.319
that she was like half asleep and
she got up and went to the bathroom

970
01:22:48.319 --> 01:22:50.680
and then went back to sleep.
I don't know that that's ever happened.

971
01:22:51.199 --> 01:22:56.920
No, I mean, that doesn't
sound like a thing. Yeah. The

972
01:22:57.039 --> 01:23:00.479
daughter said that her mom told her
that a few days later, she walked

973
01:23:00.560 --> 01:23:05.680
into the back room and it was
thick with pipe smoke. Oh, she

974
01:23:05.760 --> 01:23:10.119
said. Her mom thought that was
a really odd as no one in the

975
01:23:10.159 --> 01:23:15.920
flat in the flat and that I'm
sorry, she said her mom thought that

976
01:23:16.119 --> 01:23:19.239
was really odd, as no one
in the flat smoked, and that from

977
01:23:19.319 --> 01:23:25.039
then on, the smell of pipe
smoke and unexplained appearance of pipe smoke happened

978
01:23:25.079 --> 01:23:30.399
on a regular basis. So someone
sneaking smoking a pipe, well, so,

979
01:23:30.960 --> 01:23:34.279
I mean my thought would just be
that when you smoke, that stuff

980
01:23:34.319 --> 01:23:39.600
gets stuck in your walls, you
know, and it can you can get

981
01:23:39.600 --> 01:23:42.039
the smell, the smoke can come
back. It doesn't even have to be

982
01:23:42.079 --> 01:23:45.840
their family that smoked. But if
they saw actual smoke. Yeah, it

983
01:23:45.840 --> 01:23:49.079
seems like they said thick with pipe
smoke. Well that to me that means

984
01:23:49.479 --> 01:23:54.760
just the smell was thick. To
me, it would be like that.

985
01:23:54.840 --> 01:23:58.000
It would be smoking the airs thick. That's why I would imagine. But

986
01:23:58.079 --> 01:24:00.520
maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. I think it could. It could

987
01:24:00.560 --> 01:24:02.760
probably be either. So, I
mean, pipe smoke doesn't stick quite as

988
01:24:02.760 --> 01:24:08.239
intensely as like cigarette smoke and stuff, and it smells very different. Well

989
01:24:08.279 --> 01:24:12.159
it depends. I mean, England, pipe smoke is very common. You

990
01:24:12.199 --> 01:24:17.279
know, people smoke their like fancy
oil, tobacco and crap. Yeah,

991
01:24:17.399 --> 01:24:24.560
yeah, I'm just saying it could
definitely be in the walls like the ghosts

992
01:24:24.600 --> 01:24:30.199
are Yeah. Also, she the
the person's mom daughter, person who moved

993
01:24:30.199 --> 01:24:36.600
back in person. She could have
she could be she could have brought speirits

994
01:24:36.640 --> 01:24:41.239
with her because she was traveling the
world. That's what I was thinking.

995
01:24:41.520 --> 01:24:46.359
Yeah. Yeah. The mom also
told her spooked daughter that things would regularly

996
01:24:46.399 --> 01:24:50.279
move around the house, so if
keys were laid down on the table and

997
01:24:50.319 --> 01:24:56.079
then and then went to get them, they would be missing. The daughter

998
01:24:56.119 --> 01:25:00.159
added quote. The weirdest thing she
said happened was occasionally they would hear what

999
01:25:00.279 --> 01:25:02.079
sounded like a party going on next
door in the middle of the night,

1000
01:25:02.600 --> 01:25:06.039
loud music, people singing and laughing, and then all of a sudden it

1001
01:25:06.039 --> 01:25:11.920
would stop. Oh my god,
that never happens for real. The only

1002
01:25:12.000 --> 01:25:16.720
issue with this is that the only
building connected to them. What the only

1003
01:25:16.720 --> 01:25:23.119
building connected to there was a bank
They need they need a copy editor,

1004
01:25:23.159 --> 01:25:31.800
so bad was a bank which would
be closed at night? Are you spooked

1005
01:25:31.880 --> 01:25:36.239
yet? Wasn't this an apartment?
Yeah, it's a flat, so can't

1006
01:25:36.239 --> 01:25:41.359
there be someone else in a different
place having a party. I think it

1007
01:25:41.439 --> 01:25:45.640
referenced that they heard like it coming
from the side of their apartment that doesn't

1008
01:25:45.640 --> 01:25:50.760
connect to another apartment. Maybe,
I mean, maybe they just don't they're

1009
01:25:50.760 --> 01:25:55.840
getting confused about the direction of the
sound, or maybe that is just the

1010
01:25:55.840 --> 01:26:00.520
happiest bank that there is. Yeah, I mean I would party at a

1011
01:26:00.560 --> 01:26:03.159
bank. Maybe people are breaking into
the bank and have parties. That sounds

1012
01:26:03.359 --> 01:26:09.439
very British actually, like very hooligani
Ish. Yeah, yeah, hooligan's breaking

1013
01:26:09.479 --> 01:26:13.039
into banks to party and this was
like in the seventies, right, I

1014
01:26:13.079 --> 01:26:17.279
think so, I believe it.
The former ice skater also said that when

1015
01:26:17.319 --> 01:26:21.079
she asked the landlord about the strange
goings on, he said that it was

1016
01:26:21.119 --> 01:26:26.680
strange that she mentioned the pipe smoke
in the back room because the landlord's father

1017
01:26:26.840 --> 01:26:31.000
used to smoke a pipe and he
had died in the back bedroom. Oh

1018
01:26:31.039 --> 01:26:36.880
no, the daughter continued, quote, There's one thing that I'm not sure

1019
01:26:36.920 --> 01:26:41.279
about mentioning, as it's not really
to do with ghosts, and it makes

1020
01:26:41.279 --> 01:26:45.039
my mum sound a bit crazy.
But she also said that at the time

1021
01:26:45.119 --> 01:26:47.399
when she lived in the flat,
she could tell who was going to call

1022
01:26:47.439 --> 01:26:51.199
before the phone rang, or who
would be at the door before the bell

1023
01:26:51.279 --> 01:26:56.239
went. I'm very skeptical about this, as I can understand ghosts, but

1024
01:26:56.279 --> 01:27:00.720
I have never heard something like that
before. I don't even know what this

1025
01:27:01.039 --> 01:27:05.000
article is about. It's a little
confusing. I guess it's just that she

1026
01:27:05.079 --> 01:27:11.920
moved back in with her parents and
it's been haunted. So this is I'm

1027
01:27:11.920 --> 01:27:15.439
assuming they're talking about Reddit, but
other users on of the site reassured her

1028
01:27:15.479 --> 01:27:18.560
that her mother could well have experienced
all of what she had recounted, with

1029
01:27:18.600 --> 01:27:23.359
one poster saying, I don't think
your mom sounds crazy. I have extra

1030
01:27:23.439 --> 01:27:28.800
sensory abilities, and things like that
happened to me often, fascinating about the

1031
01:27:28.880 --> 01:27:31.680
haunted flatch she and her parents lived
in. Thank you for sharing. If

1032
01:27:31.680 --> 01:27:35.079
I had never experienced it, I
probably wouldn't believe it either. It's okay

1033
01:27:35.119 --> 01:27:41.279
to be skeptical about things. And
another said quote that happens to me with

1034
01:27:41.399 --> 01:27:45.359
texts, the texts all the time. Someone will all of a sudden be

1035
01:27:45.479 --> 01:27:47.399
on my mind and I'll think I
need to text and check on them.

1036
01:27:47.479 --> 01:27:50.920
Within ten minutes or so, they
will text or call me, while a

1037
01:27:50.960 --> 01:27:55.000
third said she's not crazy. These
types of things happened to me regularly.

1038
01:27:55.319 --> 01:28:00.800
I thought I was crazy until many
of my impressions were validated. Yeah,

1039
01:28:00.880 --> 01:28:09.720
so this is yet another example of
the news is just plain read it yeah

1040
01:28:09.880 --> 01:28:17.000
or TikTok. So yeah, I
don't know what to tell you. That's

1041
01:28:17.039 --> 01:28:20.920
really really lazy. Well, and
I love so one thing I love about

1042
01:28:20.960 --> 01:28:25.600
the Internet is you never know who
you're talking to. So, like,

1043
01:28:25.800 --> 01:28:29.960
did I tell you about the guy
who contacted us at the Weekly Spooky Facebook

1044
01:28:30.000 --> 01:28:35.479
page because we posted a reading of
The Raven? I don't know. He

1045
01:28:35.600 --> 01:28:40.159
wanted to point out that there had
been a ton of research done and that

1046
01:28:40.279 --> 01:28:43.479
it's likely Edgar Allan Poe didn't write
The Raven, and that it was written

1047
01:28:43.479 --> 01:28:46.640
by this very unknown author from back
in that time period, and that and

1048
01:28:46.720 --> 01:28:51.720
that famously Poe had stolen it.
So the guy says that claimed he was

1049
01:28:51.760 --> 01:28:56.359
like, I've done the extensive research
about it. So I looked into it,

1050
01:28:56.640 --> 01:29:00.319
and sure enough, he has papers
published about the research, and in

1051
01:29:00.399 --> 01:29:04.760
every single one of the researches he
mentions the reason he figured this out is

1052
01:29:04.760 --> 01:29:12.199
because he was that writer in a
past life. Ah, And I was

1053
01:29:12.239 --> 01:29:17.960
like, oh, he's trying to
clear his name. Yeah sure so wow.

1054
01:29:18.319 --> 01:29:23.359
Yeah, I was like, I
think I'm just gonna move on from

1055
01:29:24.199 --> 01:29:28.600
that. Yeah. So, but
speaking of moving on, now that we're

1056
01:29:28.640 --> 01:29:30.720
done with the spooky news. We're
gonna take a quick break and we're gonna

1057
01:29:30.720 --> 01:29:34.920
come back and we're gonna talk a
little bit about the Mothman, as Michelle

1058
01:29:35.000 --> 01:29:42.720
apparently knows very little about the cryptid
in question, so we'll do that right

1059
01:29:42.760 --> 01:29:46.000
after these quick words. Are you
scared, Michelle? No? No?

1060
01:29:46.239 --> 01:30:00.680
Oh? All right now we are
back and cell before we dive into the

1061
01:30:00.720 --> 01:30:06.119
Mothman. Since you know very little
about him, what do you know?

1062
01:30:06.399 --> 01:30:11.680
I want to hear your description of
the Mothman going cold. Okay, So

1063
01:30:11.960 --> 01:30:15.319
it's a guy, Okay, I
think I think it's a guy man of

1064
01:30:15.399 --> 01:30:18.119
sorts. Yeah, And I think
maybe he has really big wings, like

1065
01:30:18.279 --> 01:30:25.640
moth wings. And I think he's
kind of like the Jersey Devil, but

1066
01:30:25.760 --> 01:30:31.239
he's a moth. So like a
woman gave birth to twelve children and said,

1067
01:30:31.239 --> 01:30:39.760
if I have a thirteenth, let
him be a moth. I gotta

1068
01:30:39.800 --> 01:30:43.199
say, Ohio has a lot of
great folklore, but the Jersey Devil's so

1069
01:30:43.439 --> 01:30:45.479
good. I wish we had the
Jersey Devil, although that'd be weird.

1070
01:30:46.279 --> 01:30:49.680
Like I was just like, ah, we have the old Jersey Devil.

1071
01:30:49.720 --> 01:30:55.720
Where's that, Ohio? That'd be
weird. We imported him we we captured

1072
01:30:55.760 --> 01:30:59.520
him and released him in our woods. Yeah, yeah, we don't have

1073
01:30:59.560 --> 01:31:05.119
pine Bear though. Sorry, at
least you don't have the Grunch because like

1074
01:31:06.039 --> 01:31:11.760
the Grunch. Do I know about
the Grunch. It's it's it's in Louisiana

1075
01:31:11.840 --> 01:31:17.760
and it and all of it's like
all of it's like folklore, like it's

1076
01:31:18.039 --> 01:31:21.920
you know, it's reasons for coming
to be are like really highly offensive.

1077
01:31:23.399 --> 01:31:30.399
Oh really just like just like what
like what like do you have an example?

1078
01:31:30.880 --> 01:31:36.800
Like Marie Leveaux had the Devil Baby
and she wanted to stop it from

1079
01:31:36.920 --> 01:31:42.279
ever, you know, having sex
and having more children, so she cut

1080
01:31:42.319 --> 01:31:49.760
off its balls and then it's balls
turned into the Grunches and then they only

1081
01:31:49.800 --> 01:31:55.039
in Louisiana. That's in the Cupicava
thing. By the way, Well,

1082
01:31:55.119 --> 01:31:58.520
I'm I remember you briefly mentioning the
Grunch to me when you were working on

1083
01:31:58.560 --> 01:32:04.920
the Chupicava piece. Oh, the
Grunch who stole grun Cross moss. Yeah,

1084
01:32:04.960 --> 01:32:08.840
but so so basically that's all you
know about the Mothman is that he's

1085
01:32:08.880 --> 01:32:15.079
like a mothlike dude who's like the
Jersey devil. Yeah, okay, lamps

1086
01:32:15.600 --> 01:32:20.479
Opie would do you know where the
Mothman is from supposedly really yeah, Point

1087
01:32:20.520 --> 01:32:26.600
Pleasant, West Virginia. Oh okay, Yeah, there's a Mothman's statue in

1088
01:32:26.680 --> 01:32:30.560
Point Pleasant. Oh well, we're
going to dive into the Mothman and talk

1089
01:32:30.600 --> 01:32:35.760
a little bit about it and educate
each other. And we're gonna use,

1090
01:32:35.760 --> 01:32:41.920
of course, the most powerful tool
known to man for accurate and perfect information,

1091
01:32:41.960 --> 01:32:45.439
which is Wikipedia. And I'm saying
that as a joke. I worry

1092
01:32:45.439 --> 01:32:49.279
that somebody hears that and just starts
frothing at the mouth. I think Wikipedia

1093
01:32:49.359 --> 01:32:53.560
is pretty accurate, but he's pretty
good. But I think that it's important

1094
01:32:53.560 --> 01:32:58.319
to say I'm using Wikipedia, and
then it's okay to use Wikipedia, you

1095
01:32:58.359 --> 01:33:01.279
know, okay, as long as
we know that it could be altered.

1096
01:33:03.359 --> 01:33:08.800
There was a somebody was trolling my
Wikipedia page, the page about me,

1097
01:33:09.319 --> 01:33:15.079
and like putting mean things in Oh. I had to report them, oh

1098
01:33:15.119 --> 01:33:18.119
to the police. They were murdered. No, yeah, oh man.

1099
01:33:19.039 --> 01:33:21.840
The first thing on Wikipedia says not
to be confused with owl Man. And

1100
01:33:21.840 --> 01:33:24.920
now I'm like, wait, now
I want the show to be about owl

1101
01:33:24.960 --> 01:33:30.039
Man. What's owl Man? Oh
Man? WHOA? There's a lot of

1102
01:33:30.119 --> 01:33:36.079
information about owl Man, all right? Anyway, Oh, man owl man,

1103
01:33:38.319 --> 01:33:42.760
Owl's well that ends well. In
West Virginian folklore, the mothman is

1104
01:33:42.760 --> 01:33:47.119
a humanoid creature reportedly seen in the
Point Pleasant area from November fifth, nineteen

1105
01:33:47.159 --> 01:33:53.640
sixty six to December fifteenth, nineteen
sixty seven. The first newspaper report was

1106
01:33:53.680 --> 01:33:58.640
published in the Point Pleasant Register dated
November sixteenth, nineteen sixty six, titled

1107
01:33:58.720 --> 01:34:03.840
couple see man's bird creature something Literally
this this man sized bird do do dot

1108
01:34:03.960 --> 01:34:10.279
creature? Dot that dot something?
I love the news. The National press

1109
01:34:10.319 --> 01:34:13.760
soon picked up the reports and helped
spread the story across the United States.

1110
01:34:14.600 --> 01:34:18.000
The source of the legend is believed
to have organ originated from sightings of out

1111
01:34:18.000 --> 01:34:23.880
of migration sandhill cranes or herons like
the Jersey Devil. Yeah, may have

1112
01:34:23.960 --> 01:34:29.439
been cranes. It is like a
Jersey devil. You want everything to be

1113
01:34:29.520 --> 01:34:32.039
like a Jersey devil. No,
I can't believe you grew up in Jersey

1114
01:34:32.039 --> 01:34:34.239
and you weren't like you and your
friends were at all, like whispering like

1115
01:34:34.279 --> 01:34:39.239
what if the Jersey Devil tries to
get us tonight? Yeah, not sorry.

1116
01:34:39.319 --> 01:34:42.159
I would have been doing that every
night. That would have been my

1117
01:34:42.199 --> 01:34:45.039
favorite part of being a kid.
Would have been talking about the Jersey Devil.

1118
01:34:45.960 --> 01:34:50.239
The creature was introduced to a wider
audience by Gray Barker in nineteen seven

1119
01:34:50.680 --> 01:34:56.079
seventy nineteen seven, nineteen seventy,
and was later popularized by John Keel in

1120
01:34:56.119 --> 01:35:01.680
his nineteen seventy five book The Mothman
Prophecies, claiming that there were paranormal events

1121
01:35:01.760 --> 01:35:05.840
related to the sightings and a connection
to the collapse of the Silver Bridge.

1122
01:35:06.439 --> 01:35:11.359
The book was later adapted in two
thousand and two to a film starring Richard

1123
01:35:11.399 --> 01:35:15.760
Gear. Okay, wow, I
need to see The Mothman Prophecies movie.

1124
01:35:15.760 --> 01:35:19.119
I can't believe I haven't. If
it stars Richard Gear, it's probably okay.

1125
01:35:19.800 --> 01:35:25.680
Yeah. An annual festival in Point
Pleasant is devoted to the Mothman legend.

1126
01:35:27.039 --> 01:35:30.840
Yeah, there's a Mothman festival every
year. That's that's pretty good.

1127
01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:33.319
Yeah. Where's why isn't there a
Jersey Devil festival? That'd be cool.

1128
01:35:33.640 --> 01:35:38.279
Yeah, we don't do that.
Y'all are afraid of him? Huh.

1129
01:35:38.399 --> 01:35:44.920
Yeah. On November fifteenth, nineteen
sixty six, this is the history element

1130
01:35:45.560 --> 01:35:49.520
two young couples from Point Pleasant,
Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary

1131
01:35:49.600 --> 01:35:56.159
Mallett. Are Mallett told police they
had seen a large black creature whose eyes

1132
01:35:56.319 --> 01:36:03.520
glowed red no, standing at the
side of the road near the TNT area,

1133
01:36:04.279 --> 01:36:08.600
the site of a former World War
II munitions plant. Okay, so

1134
01:36:08.640 --> 01:36:12.880
it really got it? Yeah,
Yeah, they're like, is this poetic

1135
01:36:12.920 --> 01:36:17.399
speak no literal? Linda Scarberry described
it as a slender, muscular man about

1136
01:36:17.439 --> 01:36:21.520
seven feet tall, with white wings, and said she was unable to discern

1137
01:36:21.560 --> 01:36:28.600
its face due to the hypnotic effect
of its eyes. Distressed, the witnesses

1138
01:36:28.680 --> 01:36:32.119
drove away at high speed and said
that the creature flew after their car,

1139
01:36:32.439 --> 01:36:40.640
making a screeching sound. Doesn't sound
like a moth. Moths screech if they're

1140
01:36:40.640 --> 01:36:45.600
in your ear, you could hear
it. No, it pursued them as

1141
01:36:45.600 --> 01:36:49.800
far as Point Pleasant city limits.
Yeah, it must not have wanted to

1142
01:36:49.840 --> 01:36:53.119
leave the town. It was like, oh, I got warrants and it

1143
01:36:53.159 --> 01:36:58.680
flew exactly. Yeah. During the
next few days, other people reported similar

1144
01:36:58.760 --> 01:37:04.760
sightings after local newspapers reported After the
local newspapers had reported it. Two volunteers,

1145
01:37:05.079 --> 01:37:10.680
Yeah, two volunteer firemen who saw
it said it was a large bird

1146
01:37:10.800 --> 01:37:17.319
with red eyes. Mason, that's
a lot of moth Hella moth. Mason

1147
01:37:17.359 --> 01:37:21.840
County Sheriff George Johnson commented that he
believed the sightings were due to an unusually

1148
01:37:21.960 --> 01:37:28.760
large heron he termed a shite poke. That's what it says, s h

1149
01:37:28.840 --> 01:37:34.119
I T E p o k E
shite poke. Contractor Newell Partridge told Johnson

1150
01:37:34.520 --> 01:37:39.079
that he was that he when he
aimed a flashlight at the creature in a

1151
01:37:39.079 --> 01:37:43.800
nearby field, its eyes glowed like
bicycle reflectors. Okay, so just has

1152
01:37:43.880 --> 01:37:48.239
eyes shine, got it. Additionally, he blamed buzzing noises from his television

1153
01:37:48.279 --> 01:37:54.199
set and the disappearance of his German
shepherd dog on the creature. Mm hmmm,

1154
01:37:54.399 --> 01:37:59.960
oh poor dog. Wildlife biologist Robert
L. Smith at West Virginia UNI

1155
01:38:00.600 --> 01:38:05.359
told reporters that descriptions and sightings all
fit the sand Hill crane, a large

1156
01:38:05.399 --> 01:38:10.239
American crane almost as tall as a
man, with a seven foot wingspan,

1157
01:38:10.720 --> 01:38:15.880
featuring circles of reddish coloring around the
eyes. The bird may have wandered out

1158
01:38:15.920 --> 01:38:19.760
of its migration route and therefore was
unrecognized at first because it was not native

1159
01:38:20.039 --> 01:38:26.840
to this region. Can you imagine
seeing a bird and thinking it wasn't a

1160
01:38:26.840 --> 01:38:30.199
bird? Well, first of all, have you ever seen a bird that

1161
01:38:30.279 --> 01:38:34.800
is the size of a man?
I don't know. I feel like you'd

1162
01:38:34.840 --> 01:38:40.000
remember that. I mean, there
are some big birds that I've seen.

1163
01:38:41.000 --> 01:38:45.680
Hm, how big, though,
I don't know, like big, like

1164
01:38:45.960 --> 01:38:49.720
this big. Okay, that's like
the size of like a very very good

1165
01:38:49.760 --> 01:38:54.920
bowl of pasta. That's way bigger
than a bull of pasa. Maybe in

1166
01:38:55.000 --> 01:38:59.680
your house he's skinny basted. No, uh, I don't know. I

1167
01:38:59.720 --> 01:39:01.000
mean, if if you saw a
bird the size of a man and you'd

1168
01:39:01.000 --> 01:39:03.600
never seen such a thing before,
it would probably at night, it would

1169
01:39:03.600 --> 01:39:09.399
probably be pretty scary. Hopefully I'll
get to see one at night and we

1170
01:39:09.439 --> 01:39:12.239
can talk about it. Well,
if you hung out in the pine barons

1171
01:39:12.279 --> 01:39:16.720
more, you might. I'm always
disappointed when every night I talk to you,

1172
01:39:16.760 --> 01:39:19.159
I'm like, hey, Michelle,
how are you? And I'm expecting,

1173
01:39:19.279 --> 01:39:23.199
I'm praying you'll be like, I'm
good, just camping in the pine

1174
01:39:23.239 --> 01:39:27.520
barons. It never are. It's
because you don't call me on the nights

1175
01:39:27.560 --> 01:39:30.159
that i'm there, and then I
don't want to talk about the next day.

1176
01:39:30.720 --> 01:39:34.239
Okay, that's fair. That's fair. Due to the popularity of the

1177
01:39:34.279 --> 01:39:39.600
Batman TV series, At the time, the fictional superhero Batman and his rogues

1178
01:39:39.680 --> 01:39:44.680
Galley were prominently featured in the public
eye, while the villain Killer Moth did

1179
01:39:44.680 --> 01:39:47.279
not appear in the show. The
comic book influence of both him and Batman

1180
01:39:47.640 --> 01:39:51.319
is believed by some to have influenced
the coinage of the name Mothman in the

1181
01:39:51.359 --> 01:40:00.039
local newspapers huh okay following the December
fifteen, nineteen sixty seven collapse of the

1182
01:40:00.079 --> 01:40:03.399
Silver Bridge and the death of forty
six people. The incident gave rise to

1183
01:40:03.439 --> 01:40:09.520
the legend and connected the Mothman sidings
to the bridge collapse. So. The

1184
01:40:09.560 --> 01:40:14.800
Silver Bridge was an eyebar chain suspension
bridge built in nineteen twenty eight which carried

1185
01:40:14.880 --> 01:40:18.479
US Route thirty five. Oh okay, I know, I live right by

1186
01:40:18.640 --> 01:40:21.800
US Route thirty five. I mean
I'm on the other side of Ohio.

1187
01:40:21.800 --> 01:40:28.680
But yeah, over the Ohio River
connecting Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Galopolis,

1188
01:40:28.920 --> 01:40:31.560
Ohio. Officially named the Point Pleasant
Bridge, it was popularly known as

1189
01:40:31.600 --> 01:40:39.520
the Silverbridge for its color of the
aluminum paint. So on December fifteen,

1190
01:40:39.600 --> 01:40:44.079
ninety six seven, the Silverbridge collapsed
amid heavy rush hour traffic, resulting in

1191
01:40:44.079 --> 01:40:51.000
the deaths of forty six people,
yeah, two of whom were never found.

1192
01:40:51.399 --> 01:40:56.159
The investigation of the wreckage soon pointed
to the failure of a single eyebar

1193
01:40:56.319 --> 01:41:00.279
in one of the suspension chains as
the primary cause of finding nod It in

1194
01:41:00.319 --> 01:41:06.039
a preliminary report released within ten months
of the collapse. Wow, that's pretty

1195
01:41:06.039 --> 01:41:10.840
crazy. I mean a bridge like
that failing is really unusual. Yeah,

1196
01:41:10.880 --> 01:41:18.000
like a suspension bridge. Yeah.
So because thirty five basically follows seventy,

1197
01:41:18.039 --> 01:41:24.960
give or take. So yeah,
wow, that's freaking wow. According to

1198
01:41:25.039 --> 01:41:33.159
Georgian excuse me. According to Georgian
newspaper, when I read that, I

1199
01:41:33.239 --> 01:41:40.319
thought Georgia the state, But it's
Georgia the country. So then when I

1200
01:41:40.359 --> 01:41:44.920
saw the name of the newspaper,
I realized it's slow van Danya Gruzia.

1201
01:41:45.840 --> 01:41:47.840
See I could say it, but
I needed I needed to not think it

1202
01:41:47.880 --> 01:41:54.960
was going to be an American term. Uh. Russian ufologist. Ufologists claimed

1203
01:41:54.960 --> 01:42:02.920
that mothman sightings in Moscow foreshadowed the
nineteen ninety nine Russian apartment bomb. Okay,

1204
01:42:02.960 --> 01:42:09.920
so this is a there is a
belief. It turns out that there

1205
01:42:09.960 --> 01:42:14.960
is a belief that the mothman is
like a a what's that word you know,

1206
01:42:15.000 --> 01:42:19.119
like ginger harbinger? Yea, look
at you with your knowledge of things

1207
01:42:19.880 --> 01:42:25.079
like the word harbinger, So I
remember it, you would now. Harbinger

1208
01:42:25.119 --> 01:42:30.119
is a great word. Thank you
for remembering that. The Mothman Prophecies film

1209
01:42:30.119 --> 01:42:32.159
in two thousand and two, loosely
based on the nineteen seventy five book of

1210
01:42:32.159 --> 01:42:38.079
the same name, is another element
that kind of instilled the Mothman legend.

1211
01:42:38.359 --> 01:42:43.079
In twenty sixteen, WCHSTV published a
photo purported to be of Mothman, taken

1212
01:42:43.119 --> 01:42:46.560
by an anonymous man while driving on
Route two in Mason County. The science

1213
01:42:46.560 --> 01:42:50.720
writer Sharon A. Hill proposed that
the photo showed a bird, perhaps an

1214
01:42:50.760 --> 01:42:56.119
owl, carrying a frog or snake
away, and wrote that there is zero

1215
01:42:56.319 --> 01:43:00.760
reason to suspect it is the Mothman
as described in legend. There are too

1216
01:43:00.760 --> 01:43:06.680
many, far more reasonable explanations.
Yeah, yeah, that sounds like loser

1217
01:43:06.720 --> 01:43:14.880
talk to me. Well, no, but all. Folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand

1218
01:43:15.279 --> 01:43:19.520
notes that Mothman has been widely covered
in popular press, some claiming sightings connected

1219
01:43:19.560 --> 01:43:24.800
with UFOs, and others claiming that
a military storage site was Mothman's home.

1220
01:43:25.600 --> 01:43:30.680
Wow. Yeah, see that makes
sense. Yeah, that's true. I

1221
01:43:30.680 --> 01:43:33.239
mean, well, you know,
if you're gonna start thinking about like what

1222
01:43:33.359 --> 01:43:38.119
could the mothman be? M m, you got to think either it's going

1223
01:43:38.159 --> 01:43:43.800
to be natural phenomenon, alien life, or man made phenomenon. Those are

1224
01:43:43.800 --> 01:43:47.439
really like your three options. So
and if you're gonna go man made phenomenon,

1225
01:43:47.479 --> 01:43:53.079
then I mean the likelihood that it's
going to be related to military development

1226
01:43:53.199 --> 01:43:56.159
of weapons, especially when you think
back. You know, you and I

1227
01:43:56.199 --> 01:43:59.840
are we were a little young for
the Cold War. We were both born

1228
01:43:59.880 --> 01:44:01.920
in the eighties, but we really
we came of age in the nineties.

1229
01:44:02.199 --> 01:44:06.119
Yeah, in the early two thousands, and so, like it is wild

1230
01:44:06.159 --> 01:44:10.319
when you look back. I mean, America and the Soviet Union did all

1231
01:44:10.439 --> 01:44:14.279
kinds of crazy stuff to prepare to
fight each other. That's why why I

1232
01:44:14.319 --> 01:44:16.880
love that they touched on it in
Stranger Things so much, like, because

1233
01:44:16.920 --> 01:44:20.000
that's such a great element that you
forget about, is that whole era where

1234
01:44:20.000 --> 01:44:24.239
like it's all about like psychic research
and stuff. They were just like,

1235
01:44:24.279 --> 01:44:27.640
oh, everybody was trying to get
a leg up on the other guy.

1236
01:44:27.960 --> 01:44:30.000
Right. They were like, you
know, if if we can have telepathic

1237
01:44:30.079 --> 01:44:33.279
soldiers, well you better believe we're
gonna have them first. Yeah. So

1238
01:44:33.479 --> 01:44:36.720
why wouldn't they just make a person
that was a bird that was a moth?

1239
01:44:38.279 --> 01:44:41.680
Yeah, I mean crazier things.
I mean I can't imagine, you

1240
01:44:41.720 --> 01:44:45.159
know, putting somebody in a sensory
deprivation tank with electrodes on their head and

1241
01:44:45.199 --> 01:44:49.199
telling them like sea Moscow, see
Moscow. Go on, see Moscow.

1242
01:44:49.840 --> 01:44:55.079
Okay, now give someone an aneurysm
and they're like what, Like that doesn't

1243
01:44:55.119 --> 01:45:00.560
sound as crazy either. Yeah.
So uh but we're gonna take a quick

1244
01:45:00.560 --> 01:45:02.560
break and we'll get back and we'll
talk a little bit more about the analysis

1245
01:45:02.560 --> 01:45:18.720
of Mothman and the festival when we
return. After this. That's spooky and

1246
01:45:18.840 --> 01:45:26.439
we are back talking all about the
Mothman. And I know that the Mothman's

1247
01:45:26.479 --> 01:45:30.560
a very popular crypt and a lot
of people have done a lot of research

1248
01:45:30.600 --> 01:45:33.800
into the Mothman. Yeah. Also, the Mothman's just fun, Like there's

1249
01:45:33.840 --> 01:45:38.119
all kinds of like fun stickers about
the Mothman and people with stickers. It

1250
01:45:38.159 --> 01:45:42.159
is like I heart the Mothman and
stuff. So right now we're talking about

1251
01:45:42.159 --> 01:45:49.760
folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand and uh Brunvan
did a lot of research into the cryptid.

1252
01:45:50.760 --> 01:45:56.520
Brunvan notes that recountings of the nineteen
sixty six and sixty seven Mothman reports

1253
01:45:56.840 --> 01:46:00.399
usually state that at least one hundred
people saw moth Man, with many more

1254
01:46:00.479 --> 01:46:08.279
quote afraid to report their sightings,
but observed that written sources for such stories

1255
01:46:08.800 --> 01:46:15.279
consisted of children's books or sensationalized or
undocumented accounts that failed to quote identifiable persons.

1256
01:46:15.800 --> 01:46:20.840
Yeah, so it's conjecture. It's
just kind of yeah, runvand found

1257
01:46:20.840 --> 01:46:27.279
elements in common among many Mothman reports
and much older folk tales, suggesting that

1258
01:46:27.399 --> 01:46:31.319
something real may have triggered the scares
and became woven in with existing folklore.

1259
01:46:32.479 --> 01:46:39.840
He also records anecdotal tales of Mothman
supposedly attacking the roofs of park cars occupied

1260
01:46:40.079 --> 01:46:48.079
by teenagers. Oh like at makeout
point. Nah, no, you've been

1261
01:46:48.159 --> 01:46:55.159
moth blocked. Yeah. Oh oh, they're gonna talk about Joe Nichol.

1262
01:46:55.760 --> 01:46:59.119
Do you know Joe Nichol is No, Joe Nichol's my favorite. He's a

1263
01:46:59.199 --> 01:47:03.199
skeptic research. He was, for
many years the world's only full time paranormal

1264
01:47:03.239 --> 01:47:09.560
investigator. He was the basis of
Dana Scully. Oh, but he's he

1265
01:47:09.640 --> 01:47:15.159
was and still his independent skeptic researcher. Okay, he spent his whole life.

1266
01:47:15.199 --> 01:47:18.319
He's still alive. He's seventy nine
years old. But he worked for

1267
01:47:18.479 --> 01:47:24.439
a ton of people researching and investigating
ghosts, aliens, all kinds of stuff.

1268
01:47:25.800 --> 01:47:30.680
Yeah, and spoiler alert, he
still doesn't believe in them. He's

1269
01:47:30.720 --> 01:47:34.279
not trying hard enough. That's what
people say, basically. Conversely, Joe

1270
01:47:34.359 --> 01:47:40.720
Nickel says that a number of hoaxes
followed the publicity generated by the original reports,

1271
01:47:40.760 --> 01:47:44.840
such as a group of construction workers
who tied flashlights to helium balloons.

1272
01:47:45.560 --> 01:47:48.319
Oh that's a pretty good gag.
Yeah. I don't know how that would

1273
01:47:48.359 --> 01:47:54.279
look like a than, but you
know it's red eyes in the sky,

1274
01:47:54.920 --> 01:48:00.239
maybe red highs. If you put
two flash it's apart from each other to

1275
01:48:00.279 --> 01:48:05.640
eye distance that it looked like eyes
from a ways away. I guess you

1276
01:48:05.800 --> 01:48:11.439
just don't have enough. You don't
have enough hoax imagination. That's your problem.

1277
01:48:12.039 --> 01:48:17.079
There's your problem. Pal Nicol attributes
to the Mothman stories to sightings of

1278
01:48:17.199 --> 01:48:23.760
barred owls, suggesting that the Mothman's
glowing eyes were actually the red eye effect.

1279
01:48:23.840 --> 01:48:30.359
Caused from the reflection of light from
flashlights or other bright sources. Benjamin

1280
01:48:30.439 --> 01:48:35.520
Radford points out that the only report
of glowing red eyes was second hand that

1281
01:48:35.760 --> 01:48:44.680
of Shirley Hensley, quoting her father
Ah. One of the prevailing hypotheses associated

1282
01:48:44.680 --> 01:48:47.680
with Mothman at the time of the
original sightings was that it was a misidentified

1283
01:48:47.720 --> 01:48:51.399
sand hill crane, due primarily to
the size of the bird, as well

1284
01:48:51.439 --> 01:48:58.760
as the reddish flesh around the crane's
eyes. Daniel A. Reid examined the

1285
01:48:58.800 --> 01:49:02.840
migration patterns and historically reported sightings of
sand hill cranes in the area of Point

1286
01:49:02.880 --> 01:49:09.199
Pleasant and proposed that in cases where
eyeshine was not noted, it was statistically

1287
01:49:09.239 --> 01:49:16.640
more likely that witnesses were seeing and
misidentifying a great blue heron instead. Yeah.

1288
01:49:16.920 --> 01:49:20.439
I wonder how big blue herons get. I don't know, it must

1289
01:49:20.439 --> 01:49:28.640
get pretty big, yes, Like, I guess that's a pretty big bird.

1290
01:49:29.880 --> 01:49:31.560
You just see a sand hill crane, like a six foot tall bird

1291
01:49:31.640 --> 01:49:33.960
just land next to you, and
you'd be like, that's a pretty big

1292
01:49:34.000 --> 01:49:41.520
bird. I guess exactly. Like
not as special. It's basically a dinosaur.

1293
01:49:43.279 --> 01:49:47.039
According to University of Chicago psychologist David
A. Gallo, fifty five sidings

1294
01:49:47.079 --> 01:49:51.680
of Mothman in Chicago. H wait
Gallo, fifty five sightings of Mothman in

1295
01:49:51.760 --> 01:49:58.920
Chicago during twenty seventeen is published on
the website of Self Described fourteen What this

1296
01:49:58.960 --> 01:50:03.720
sentence does not make any sense,
according to the University of Chicago psychologist David

1297
01:50:03.720 --> 01:50:08.800
A. Gallo, fifty five sightings. I guess that's his age, not

1298
01:50:08.880 --> 01:50:13.680
the siting. Sightings of Mothman in
Chicago during twenty seventeen, published on the

1299
01:50:13.680 --> 01:50:20.960
website of Self Described Fortien researcher Lon
Strickler are quote a selective sample. Okay,

1300
01:50:21.199 --> 01:50:25.159
so Fortien investor have a friend who's
a fourteen investigator. She was on

1301
01:50:25.199 --> 01:50:30.119
the show about a year or so
ago. They're investigators of many types of

1302
01:50:30.199 --> 01:50:35.239
cryptids, mysterious things. Stuff like
that comes from the guy named Charles fort

1303
01:50:35.479 --> 01:50:42.279
who was an investigator, So fourtien
comes from him. Gallo explains that he's

1304
01:50:42.359 --> 01:50:45.920
not sampling random people and asking if
they saw the mothman. He's just counting

1305
01:50:45.960 --> 01:50:51.199
the number of people that voluntarily came
forward to report a sighting. According to

1306
01:50:51.239 --> 01:50:57.239
Gallo, people are more likely to
visit a paranormal centric website like stricklers.

1307
01:50:58.159 --> 01:51:01.359
They might also be more inclined to
belie even and therefore witnessed the existence of

1308
01:51:01.399 --> 01:51:08.560
a mothman. Yeah, self selected
sample. Yeah. Some pseudoscience adherents,

1309
01:51:08.600 --> 01:51:12.880
such as ufologists, paranormal authors,
and cryptozoologists, claim that mothman was an

1310
01:51:12.880 --> 01:51:17.680
alien, a supernatural manifestation, or
a previously unknown species of animal. In

1311
01:51:17.720 --> 01:51:25.840
his nineteen seventy five book, Keel
claimed that that point Pleasant residents experienced precognitions,

1312
01:51:25.880 --> 01:51:30.319
including premonitions of the collapse of the
Silver Bridge, UFO sidings, visits

1313
01:51:30.319 --> 01:51:34.359
from inhuman or threatening men in black, and other phenomena. It would be

1314
01:51:34.359 --> 01:51:38.359
cool if that was true. That
would be Have you did you ever watch

1315
01:51:38.399 --> 01:51:41.920
the Unsolved Mysteries about Men in Black? Oh? Man? It was so

1316
01:51:42.039 --> 01:51:46.520
creepy, just these men in black
suits with sunglasses, just like asking you

1317
01:51:46.840 --> 01:51:51.920
questions and making you feel unsafe.
Wo. Yeah. And it always follows

1318
01:51:51.960 --> 01:51:57.279
up like an alien thing or some
kind of paranormal thing where people are asking

1319
01:51:57.319 --> 01:52:01.720
too many questions, which of course
was the basis of the hit movie from

1320
01:52:02.159 --> 01:52:10.000
nineteen ninety nine with Will Smith.
While while West yeah, yeah, yeah,

1321
01:52:10.119 --> 01:52:12.600
I was gonna say, wasn't it
that wasn't there a movie about that.

1322
01:52:14.159 --> 01:52:16.000
Did you see the movie Men in
Black? Yes? That was such.

1323
01:52:16.159 --> 01:52:19.920
Was that one of your favorites growing
up? It was a good movie.

1324
01:52:21.079 --> 01:52:25.279
You're so cool. I wish I
could play it as cool as you

1325
01:52:25.359 --> 01:52:29.600
do. So before we wrap this
up, we do want to mention a

1326
01:52:29.600 --> 01:52:33.199
little bit about the festival and the
statues to the Mothmen. Point Pleasant held

1327
01:52:33.239 --> 01:52:38.720
its first annual Mothman Festival in two
thousand and two. The Mothman Festival began

1328
01:52:38.760 --> 01:52:44.000
after brainstorming creative ways for people to
visit Point Pleasant. The group organizing the

1329
01:52:44.039 --> 01:52:46.600
event chose the Mothman to be the
center of the festival due to its uniqueness

1330
01:52:46.800 --> 01:52:51.079
as a way to celebrate its local
legacy in the town. According to the

1331
01:52:51.079 --> 01:52:57.039
event organizer Jeff Wamsley, the average
attendance for the Mothman Festival is estimated to

1332
01:52:57.079 --> 01:53:00.720
be ten to twelve thousand people per
years. That's healthy, that's good.

1333
01:53:01.039 --> 01:53:06.039
Yeah. A twelve foot tall metallic
statue of the creature, created by artists

1334
01:53:05.399 --> 01:53:11.439
and sculptor Bob Roach, was unveiled
in two thousand and three. Wow.

1335
01:53:11.600 --> 01:53:16.880
The Mothman Museum and Research Center opened
in two thousand and five. The festival

1336
01:53:16.920 --> 01:53:21.000
is held on the third weekend of
every September, hosting guest speakers, vendor

1337
01:53:21.039 --> 01:53:27.359
exhibits, pancake eating contests, and
hay ride tours of locally notable areas.

1338
01:53:27.640 --> 01:53:31.199
Okay, Shell, will you go
with me to the Mothman Festival this year?

1339
01:53:31.520 --> 01:53:35.039
Sure, let's go. We should
do it. Yeah, that'd be

1340
01:53:35.079 --> 01:53:39.359
fun. It's like, actually,
that's like almost exactly halfway between us,

1341
01:53:39.920 --> 01:53:42.720
is it. You might have to
drive like an hour longer than me.

1342
01:53:43.000 --> 01:53:45.479
Yeah, I think I think I'd
probably do. But still it's like,

1343
01:53:45.600 --> 01:53:48.560
but still like halfway. We could
go to Point Pleasant and go on a

1344
01:53:48.600 --> 01:53:53.560
hay ride and you could enter a
pancake eating contest. Yeah, and I'll

1345
01:53:53.560 --> 01:53:58.039
eat just one pan and then people
will be like, go, go go,

1346
01:53:58.159 --> 01:54:00.159
and you'd be like, that was
very good, thank you. I

1347
01:54:00.319 --> 01:54:09.319
just wanted the free to end cake. Well, now you know a little

1348
01:54:09.319 --> 01:54:13.199
bit about the Mothman, thank you. I don't know why it's called the

1349
01:54:13.239 --> 01:54:17.520
Mothman now, but that's fine.
That's okay. Maybe sometime we'll talk about

1350
01:54:17.760 --> 01:54:21.239
some other things they're referencing here,
like the flat Woods Monster goat Man.

1351
01:54:24.079 --> 01:54:29.880
Yeah, there's a spring heel Jack
Snally Gaster. Huh. I don't know

1352
01:54:29.920 --> 01:54:32.800
Snally Gaster, But now I want
to I love this stuff. I really

1353
01:54:32.880 --> 01:54:34.880
do. I'm not I know,
I'm a bit of a skeptic, but

1354
01:54:34.920 --> 01:54:41.600
I really do enjoy this kind of
thing. So before we wrap things up,

1355
01:54:41.640 --> 01:54:45.159
I wanted to real quick mention that
while I was sick with COVID,

1356
01:54:45.640 --> 01:54:51.039
Michelle introduced me to what may have
been the scariest anime I've watched, but

1357
01:54:51.159 --> 01:54:58.039
also the most boring visual novel I've
ever watched, called Higarashi When They Cry.

1358
01:55:00.159 --> 01:55:02.640
Thank you Michelle for giving me something
scary to watch the entire time I

1359
01:55:02.720 --> 01:55:08.840
was laid up and deliriously sick.
You're welcome. It was, like,

1360
01:55:09.000 --> 01:55:11.880
legit, one of the scariest animes
I've seen. I mean, I've only

1361
01:55:11.880 --> 01:55:14.600
watched the first season in a couple
episodes of the second season, but it

1362
01:55:14.640 --> 01:55:18.880
was very scary, yay and creepy. Yeah, it's about a town with

1363
01:55:19.000 --> 01:55:26.880
massive secrets and there's time jumping and
uh, there's so much to it and

1364
01:55:27.000 --> 01:55:30.159
the best parts about it are spoilers, so yeah, you can say.

1365
01:55:30.239 --> 01:55:34.159
It's also like really hard to find, so good luck watching Higarashi When They

1366
01:55:34.199 --> 01:55:43.399
Cry. Also, yesterday I went
and saw Lisa Frankenstein. Yeah, you

1367
01:55:43.439 --> 01:55:45.720
don't know what that is at all. No, because you told you told

1368
01:55:45.720 --> 01:55:48.880
me about it. I just wanted
to say something about Higgarashi Beforeishi pas okay.

1369
01:55:48.880 --> 01:55:51.800
I just wanted to say that if
you do look for it, the

1370
01:55:51.800 --> 01:55:57.319
first thing you're gonna find is Higarashi
Go, like g o you go.

1371
01:55:58.159 --> 01:56:00.199
That is like the third season.
Though it doesn't look like it is.

1372
01:56:00.239 --> 01:56:04.359
Please do not watch it. It's
until you've watched other parts of it.

1373
01:56:04.359 --> 01:56:08.880
It's like twenty twenty twenties. I
think when it came out. The original

1374
01:56:11.319 --> 01:56:15.000
run of the anime was two thousand
and six and maybe two thousand and seven,

1375
01:56:15.079 --> 01:56:17.079
So that's what you're looking for,
not twenty twenty. You will be

1376
01:56:17.279 --> 01:56:26.960
very confused because you did that right, Yes, because that is helpful when

1377
01:56:27.119 --> 01:56:30.199
No, but when they were marketing
it, they marketed as a reboot,

1378
01:56:30.560 --> 01:56:32.920
not another season. So a lot
of people went into it, and the

1379
01:56:32.920 --> 01:56:36.600
people who had watched it were like, this is weird, guys, and

1380
01:56:36.640 --> 01:56:40.520
then the people who hadn't were like
wow, and then they were like,

1381
01:56:40.520 --> 01:56:45.520
no, stop watching it. Stop
watching it exactly like that. No,

1382
01:56:45.600 --> 01:56:48.239
stop watching you still watching? That's
oh god? Yeah, yeah, okay,

1383
01:56:49.319 --> 01:56:51.199
well I appreciate that. Yeah.
No, no, no, no,

1384
01:56:51.359 --> 01:56:56.239
it's okay. And remember, guys, Michelle has an anime podcast called

1385
01:56:56.319 --> 01:57:01.439
Michelle Michelle explains anime poorly, and
you can find that anywhere you get your

1386
01:57:01.479 --> 01:57:04.560
podcast. It's really fun. She's
on a brief hiatus, but there's a

1387
01:57:04.640 --> 01:57:09.399
ton of episodes to listen to.
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot so

1388
01:57:09.720 --> 01:57:12.800
but yeah. So I went and
saw Lisa Frankenstein, the new horror comedy

1389
01:57:12.840 --> 01:57:18.720
by Diablo Cody and Robin Williams's daughter
who directed it. Okay, I feel

1390
01:57:18.760 --> 01:57:21.119
bad because I'm forgetting her name,
so I'm gonna look it up real quick,

1391
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Zelda Zelda Williams. Okay, it
was fine. I didn't outright love

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it, but I thought it was
pretty good. It's about a girl who

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01:57:30.239 --> 01:57:35.239
accidentally kind of accidentally resurrects like a
dead guy okay, and then they kind

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01:57:35.239 --> 01:57:39.920
of like but in the funniest part
of the movie, she friend zones him.

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01:57:40.319 --> 01:57:44.039
It's very very funny, but they
kind of learned to fall in love.

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In my opinion, the story,
like I've never said this before.

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01:57:47.479 --> 01:57:49.359
This is the first time I'm going
to say this about a movie, and

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01:57:49.439 --> 01:57:54.039
I think i've ever I think that
the script was not very good and the

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01:57:54.079 --> 01:57:57.840
story was not very good, but
the performances in the direction were so good.

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I was laughing and having a really
good time the whole way through.

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01:58:00.840 --> 01:58:03.960
Okay, Like I didn't really like
the story beats very much. I thought

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01:58:03.960 --> 01:58:10.920
they were kind of predictive or predictable
and kind of exactly what you would expect,

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01:58:10.960 --> 01:58:12.880
like every decision. I was like, yeah, of course they did

1404
01:58:12.880 --> 01:58:15.159
that, and of course they did
that, Like that's of course they did

1405
01:58:15.159 --> 01:58:20.840
that. But the actors were so
good and and there's one scene. It's

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01:58:20.880 --> 01:58:24.560
not a big spoiler, so I'm
gonna mention it, but like to get

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01:58:24.600 --> 01:58:28.960
to explain why the performance or the
directing is so great. There's a scene

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01:58:28.960 --> 01:58:31.039
where like a cop sees the dead
guy and she's like, oh, like

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01:58:31.159 --> 01:58:35.640
trying to like stop him, and
he just picks her up and walks over

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01:58:35.720 --> 01:58:39.159
to like a hole in the ground
like a grave, and just drops her

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01:58:39.159 --> 01:58:41.439
in. Doesn't kill her anything,
just drops her in so she can't climb

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01:58:41.479 --> 01:58:44.479
out. And it was just the
way it was, it was done.

1413
01:58:44.479 --> 01:58:45.159
It was just all in a wide
chain. He just does it very a

1414
01:58:45.199 --> 01:58:47.039
matter of fact, just picks her
up and drops her in there so she's

1415
01:58:47.039 --> 01:58:51.840
out of the way. I laughed
so hard I started coughing. It's just

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01:58:53.000 --> 01:58:58.000
really well made. So I don't
think it's like the perfect, like dark

1417
01:58:58.600 --> 01:59:01.920
romance movie that maybe people are hoping
for. Yeah, but I do think

1418
01:59:01.960 --> 01:59:05.319
it was really fun and I enjoyed
it. Of course, I also felt

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01:59:05.359 --> 01:59:10.079
awful because as soon as it was
over, I was like, this is

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01:59:10.119 --> 01:59:14.279
gonna flop. I just don't think
there's enough people who want a movie like

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01:59:14.319 --> 01:59:17.680
that, and it's not doing very
well. It's it's opening weekends already passed.

1422
01:59:17.760 --> 01:59:20.760
It's made four point five million dollars
in the box office against a thirteen

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01:59:20.800 --> 01:59:26.359
million dollar budget, so it's it
could if word of mouth is strong.

1424
01:59:26.840 --> 01:59:30.159
So if you like your horror comedies
and you like, you know, having

1425
01:59:30.199 --> 01:59:34.000
a good laugh, I do think
it's worth watching. I do wish the

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01:59:34.039 --> 01:59:36.399
story had been a little bit more
original. I think I may have been

1427
01:59:36.399 --> 01:59:40.640
more into it, like, but
I'm not like dying to own it.

1428
01:59:40.680 --> 01:59:45.560
But I really did laugh really hard. I thought every actor in that movie

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01:59:45.600 --> 01:59:49.039
was like doing their best to be
awesome. I loved it in that way,

1430
01:59:49.960 --> 01:59:54.279
So Okay, Anyway, I don't
I don't like to give like harsh

1431
01:59:54.319 --> 01:59:57.760
criticisms, but I do think the
script. I was kind of like,

1432
01:59:57.880 --> 02:00:00.960
okay, like it's just more of
that and more of that. But overall

1433
02:00:01.000 --> 02:00:03.279
I enjoyed it, and it's definitely
the kind of thing you'd like if you

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02:00:03.319 --> 02:00:09.399
like that kind of thing. So
also very sexual for a PG thirteen movie,

1435
02:00:10.840 --> 02:00:13.720
which I actually worry might hurt it
because PG thirteen is great because it

1436
02:00:13.720 --> 02:00:15.760
means more people can go see it, but I think parents would be hugely

1437
02:00:15.800 --> 02:00:19.359
turned off by how sexual it is. Yeah. Uh, there's a great

1438
02:00:19.359 --> 02:00:25.039
part where she, the main character
who's supposed to be like seventeen, has

1439
02:00:25.079 --> 02:00:28.960
a body massager, you know,
a personal massager, and she's just like,

1440
02:00:29.039 --> 02:00:30.399
oh yeah, my aunt gave me
that for Christmas one year. She

1441
02:00:30.399 --> 02:00:42.920
said it might help my personality.
Gee. So I enjoyed that anyway.

1442
02:00:43.479 --> 02:00:45.520
So before we get out of here, do you have anything from Reddit you

1443
02:00:45.560 --> 02:00:49.920
want to share? Oh my god, you froze. Oh no, no,

1444
02:00:50.079 --> 02:00:56.720
you're back. I could I could
tell you something fast enough. Okay,

1445
02:00:57.840 --> 02:01:00.199
it's not that. It's not very
fast. We're all gonna die.

1446
02:01:01.479 --> 02:01:05.560
Oh my god. So I was
okay, it's okay, Michelle, you

1447
02:01:05.640 --> 02:01:11.920
only had one job. I know, I know, Okay, Uh,

1448
02:01:11.760 --> 02:01:14.600
oh I've got one. I've got
one. So this was pretty cool.

1449
02:01:14.680 --> 02:01:17.680
It was the It was a an
ask Reddit question that was like, what

1450
02:01:17.680 --> 02:01:21.359
do you swear you saw but you
don't have any proof of Okay. So

1451
02:01:21.600 --> 02:01:29.079
there's this guy who works like for
the U utility company reading water meters,

1452
02:01:30.039 --> 02:01:34.119
and yeah, he had to go
to like a really old house to read

1453
02:01:34.159 --> 02:01:39.920
their water meter in the basement,
right. Apparently it was a makeshift hospital

1454
02:01:40.000 --> 02:01:44.079
during the Civil War that kind of
thing. So the meter is in the

1455
02:01:44.119 --> 02:01:47.920
basement. He goes down there and
they he realized, oh, like they've

1456
02:01:47.960 --> 02:01:50.760
redone the basement, like they added
a bunch of walls and stuff, like

1457
02:01:50.800 --> 02:01:58.560
they were like getting ready to finish
it, you know, make it like

1458
02:01:58.600 --> 02:02:01.760
a bar or a game room or
something. And he gets lost in the

1459
02:02:01.800 --> 02:02:06.239
basement. Like he's looking around and
he's like, he's like this is crazy,

1460
02:02:06.319 --> 02:02:09.359
Like I have to be able to
get to the back of the basement

1461
02:02:09.399 --> 02:02:12.800
somehow and get this meter. And
eventually he finds the meter and he reads

1462
02:02:12.800 --> 02:02:17.800
it and he comes out and his
partner is out there because I guess,

1463
02:02:17.880 --> 02:02:21.199
you know, maybe they were like
doing every other or whatever, and he's

1464
02:02:21.279 --> 02:02:26.079
like, why were you in there
for so long? And then guy's like,

1465
02:02:26.119 --> 02:02:28.760
oh, I just got a little
lost. No, he was in

1466
02:02:28.800 --> 02:02:33.039
there for an hour and the guy
is like, what are you talking about?

1467
02:02:33.159 --> 02:02:38.279
Like, the guy his his partner
got so tired of waiting for him,

1468
02:02:38.279 --> 02:02:41.319
like he thought that like maybe he
went and was talking to the owner

1469
02:02:41.439 --> 02:02:44.600
or something like yeah, not sidetracked. Yeah, So like he went and

1470
02:02:44.640 --> 02:02:47.720
he did a bunch of other houses
and then came back and the guy's like,

1471
02:02:47.840 --> 02:02:50.119
yeah, it's like I don't think
I was down there for that long,

1472
02:02:50.159 --> 02:02:53.600
but there's like it was like a
maze down there. And the guy's

1473
02:02:53.640 --> 02:02:56.560
like, what are you talking about? And they turned back around and it's

1474
02:02:56.720 --> 02:03:04.079
just an empty old basement. Oh
it like terrifying. Yeah, oh gosh,

1475
02:03:04.119 --> 02:03:09.159
so no idea what was going on
there? Did did anyone read it

1476
02:03:09.239 --> 02:03:13.600
have a brilliant solution to what the
hell happened? No? No, okay,

1477
02:03:14.159 --> 02:03:16.079
sorry, So they were just like, uh, do you take psychedelic

1478
02:03:16.159 --> 02:03:20.439
mushrooms? It was since it was
a comment in a comment like, people

1479
02:03:20.520 --> 02:03:24.920
were just like, wha, that
was it? Okay? Well I am

1480
02:03:24.920 --> 02:03:28.319
also like whoa, yeah, that
was a good one. So well,

1481
02:03:28.359 --> 02:03:33.760
thank you Chell for for having that. Uh Reddit spooky, We're gonna wrap

1482
02:03:33.760 --> 02:03:38.520
things up. I I like to
be transparent on the show, and my

1483
02:03:38.800 --> 02:03:44.319
voice is starting to hurt because I'm
still I'm recovering from COVID and let me

1484
02:03:44.359 --> 02:03:46.920
tell you, nothing beats having a
sore throat and a painful voice when you

1485
02:03:47.000 --> 02:03:54.239
podcast as much as I do.
Highly recommended. So we're gonna we're gonna

1486
02:03:54.279 --> 02:03:56.760
head out of here, but before
we do, I want to say just

1487
02:03:56.800 --> 02:04:00.920
a huge thank you to everybody who's
been signing up for our page. We

1488
02:04:00.960 --> 02:04:04.319
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1489
02:04:04.359 --> 02:04:09.399
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1490
02:04:09.439 --> 02:04:14.079
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Terrifying and True all of it. It

1491
02:04:14.119 --> 02:04:17.319
really helps us do everything we want. And I also want to say an

1492
02:04:17.359 --> 02:04:20.880
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1493
02:04:20.960 --> 02:04:26.199
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1494
02:04:26.239 --> 02:04:28.800
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02:04:28.880 --> 02:04:33.479
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1496
02:04:33.520 --> 02:04:38.079
Shields, Oh I'm sorry. Mark
Shields is our podcast producer. Karen We

1497
02:04:38.199 --> 02:04:41.960
met Jack Kerr and Craig Cohen,
and a big special day to our executive

1498
02:04:42.000 --> 02:04:45.920
producers Mark Shields and Rob Fields,
as well as our producer Dan Wilder and

1499
02:04:46.000 --> 02:04:49.520
of course our composer Ray Mattis,
who did the theme song you're hearing right

1500
02:04:49.560 --> 02:04:53.800
now, But now we're gonna let
you all go. We'll see you next

1501
02:04:53.800 --> 02:04:57.720
month, right here on Monthly Spooky. Michelle, you have the final words.

1502
02:04:58.520 --> 02:05:00.239
I don't really want it. I
just want to say I'm not hearing

1503
02:05:00.279 --> 02:05:04.680
the the infarm right now called imagination
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