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Friday the 13th: Paraskevidekatriaphobia & A History of Bad Luck · PNW Haunts & Homicides

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: I work in customer service. Being Friday, things were busier
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: than usual for us. Our manager, Dell, is the superstitious type,
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: and he was adamant that we keep our eyes peeled
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: for trouble since it's also the thirteen. While hectic, nothing
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: out of the ordinary happened, that is until we got
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: one particular customer.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: I've been a loyal shopper at Walmart for over thirty years.
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: Things used to be great there untill your generation decided
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: to screw things up.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Hi, Cassie, Hi, Caitlin, Hi, creepy people.
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  Speaker 2: Oh hellou Helle.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: This is PNW Haunts and Homicides where we chat about
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: true crime, the very normal, and Friday the thirteenth.
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: Ooh, I'm very excited for this spooky sounds. I love
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: Friday the thirteenth, not just the movie.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not gonna lie to you. It was actually
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: for some of what I wanted to do for this episode.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: It was a little bit hard not to just keep
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: coming across stuff related to the movie, and it was
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: not a little frustrating. So this is not about the movie. Correct, No,
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: it is not. No, but we will still do a
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  Speaker 1: che reading at the end of the episode for a
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: little bit of deeper insight into our topic. Okay, So
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: here's the part where I have to say both of
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: these incredibly long terms that are not easy to say.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the script here and dear Baby Jesus,
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: after I get through this, I don't have to say
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: them again. I don't think so peresca dive decca triphobia
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: or for good trisca decaphobia. I think that one's easier.
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  Speaker 1: Are both specific long form terms for the fear of
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: Friday the thirteenth, distinct from trisca decaphobia the fear of
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  Speaker 1: the number thirteen itself. It involves heightened anxiety, avoidance, or
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: ritualistic behaviors often linked to superstitions about bad luck.
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: So I think we talked about it in I think
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  Speaker 3: I did a Friday the thirteenth episode or something I did,
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  Speaker 3: like a episode about thirteen.
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  Speaker 4: Fear of the number thirteen did come up, but not.
• 2:51
  Speaker 3: Specifically the fear of Friday the thirteenth, which I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: I didn't go into.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I'm glad you have to say it that way,
• 3:01
  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 1: So if you were a member of the Knights Templar
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: in medieval France, Friday the thirteenth was a date worth fearing.
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  Speaker 1: It turned out it wasn't just unlucky, it was a
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  Speaker 1: death sentence.
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  Speaker 4: Oh shit.
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  Speaker 1: On October thirteenth, thirteen oh seven, King Philip the Fourth
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  Speaker 1: ordered the mass arrest of the Templars, an immensely powerful
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  Speaker 1: and extremely wealthy religious military order. Philip known as Philip
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: the Fair for his good looks, certainly not his character.
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  Speaker 1: So they weren't saying, oh, what a fair king like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's really equal and balanced and ethical. They were saying, oh,
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  Speaker 1: look at his pretty pretty face. He had a problem.
• 3:53
  Speaker 3: He got nine to nine problems with the face a one.
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  Speaker 1: He owed them a fortune. So he did what many
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  Speaker 1: powerful men have done throughout history to solve their problems.
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  Speaker 1: He made up crimes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh boy.
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  Speaker 1: Rather than repay his debts, he turned to accusations of
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: heresy and devil worship to justify wiping them out. More
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  Speaker 1: than six hundred Templars were arrested, tortured into false confessions,
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  Speaker 1: and ultimately executed.
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  Speaker 4: God blake.
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  Speaker 3: Did he think he was just going to rely on
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  Speaker 3: his pretty face to like pay his debt?
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm pretty sure he thought he could just rely
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: on murder to take care of it what a dickle, So,
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: I know, really terribly rude. They're riches absorbed by the crown,
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: their order erased, proof that sometimes the real evil isn't superstition,
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: but greed wearing a crown. That is one very bad Friday.
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I thought you're saying one very freaky Friday,
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: and I was gonna be like, oh.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: Friday the thirteenth isn't always about mass arrests, torture, and executions.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it just wipes out your retirement account. While medieval
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  Speaker 1: power plays gave the date its blood soaked reputation, modern
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  Speaker 1: Friday the thirteenth have found new ways to inspire fear
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  Speaker 1: enter financial fiasco. It's a little bit less terrifying, I
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  Speaker 1: will say, than you know, a gruesome death.
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  Speaker 4: But still yeah, but I mean a lot of people
• 5:33
  Speaker 4: think money is real, so like this is like.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I mean I think it's very real for
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: all of us that have to use money, whether it's
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: real or not, to pay for things to keep us alive.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, it's kind of a complicated system. It
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  Speaker 3: really is complicated feelings all around.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Even the markets aren't entirely immune to superstition. Same
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  Speaker 1: cursed calendar date, fewer swords, much more screaming about money.
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  Speaker 1: Friday the thirteenth has a way of reinventing itself. On Friday,
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  Speaker 1: October thirteenth, nineteen eighty nine, the stock market took a
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  Speaker 1: sharp dive in what's known as the Friday the thirteenth
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  Speaker 1: Mini crash, what.
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  Speaker 3: They call it mini. So like that makes it feel
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  Speaker 3: kind of cute.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it ended up being that cute.
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  Speaker 1: The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped nearly seven percent in
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  Speaker 1: a single session, rattling investors already wary after the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty seven collapse. So it was like kind of preceded
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: by something a little bit less mini.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it's seven percent, Like that sounds really small to me,
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  Speaker 3: but that's like really big for the investors.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's that's a pretty big that's a pretty
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  Speaker 1: big deal for like you're talking about the entirety of
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  Speaker 1: the stock market, basically Dow Jones Industrial Average. I'm certain
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a day trader, I you know, not a
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: broker or anything, but that that affects like a huge
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  Speaker 1: swath of publicly traded companies. It's a it's a lot money.
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  Speaker 1: Oh sheh.
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  Speaker 3: It.
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  Speaker 1: The trigger wasn't superstition, but computers automated trading programs reacting
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  Speaker 1: to news about a failed leveraged buyout of United Airlines
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  Speaker 1: helped accelerate the fall. The panic was short lived, but
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: the damage was real and the message was clear. Friday
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  Speaker 1: the thirteenth didn't need ghosts or curses to cause fear.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes all it took was an algorithm, no executions, no
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  Speaker 1: dungeon cells, just flashing red numbers and investors realizing that
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  Speaker 1: even modern systems can unravel spectacularly. The timing alone ensured
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: the date's place in history. Another Friday the thirteenth tied
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: to CAS, this time measured in dollars instead of lives.
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: It kind of reminded me of Y two k.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that, yeah, that makes sense.
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: You know everybody kind of panicked. Yeah, when it was like, okay,
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: something happened and like this isn't good, but it kind
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  Speaker 1: of snowballed because of people's reaction of fear.
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  Speaker 3: What are the computers gonna do? We don't know. We
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  Speaker 3: built them, but we have no control.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Well, the thing is is that, like, for the
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: most part, my recollection is with Y two k In particular,
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: there were a lot of computer experts that were like,
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: I guess we can't rule anything out, But there were
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of them that were like
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  Speaker 1: pretty outspoken about like Y two K being like a
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: non event. They're like, listen, we built these and this
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: is just like everybody's freaking out. But the reality is that,
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: like we're pretty sure none of that's gonna happen.
• 8:59
  Speaker 3: But it's seems like, you know, the toilet paper shortage,
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: like the same con.
• 9:05
  Speaker 4: Like all of all the normies are freaking out and
• 9:08
  Speaker 4: all of the calmed down. We're not out of toilet paper.
• 9:12
  Speaker 4: It's just just ay the day.
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I mean, the to be fair, the toilet
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: paper situation during COVID, like that was a lot more
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: real because people were going to the grocery store and
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: not able to like buy toilet paper.
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  Speaker 3: But like we were making the shortage though, like because
• 9:30
  Speaker 3: we're stalking people were freaking out. No for sure actual
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  Speaker 3: toilet paper.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: Again, just a situation where like it's worsened by people
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  Speaker 1: reacting in fear. Yeah, almost like there's some sort of
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: a message in.
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  Speaker 3: That and no one wants to listen to the smart
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: kid in the class going actually it's gonna be okay.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: Because actually, yeah, Friday the thirteenth has warned a lot
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  Speaker 1: of masks over the centuries. Sometimes it looks like political betrayal,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes financial collapse. But not every Friday the Thirteenth ends
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  Speaker 1: in executions or economic free fall.
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  Speaker 4: God, I hope not.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: Sometimes, whether spooky or sinister, it sneaks up where you
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: least expect it, not in castles or stock exchanges, but
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: under fluorescent lights, between clearanciles and customer service counters. And
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: let's face it, fluorescent lighting is the scariest of all
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: of those scenarios.
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: Seriously, Yeah, especially right now, I'm fighting a migraine.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: So like, yeah, oh god, there's nothing worse. Yeah, I know.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: It's deeply humbling for legal and spiritual reasons. The following
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: story is fictional. Allegedly. It comes from Reddit's r slash
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: no Sleep community and was posted under the title it's
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: Friday the thirteenth and I Met a Witch at my
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: retail job by Rose Black. We'll link to more of
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: their work and socials in the show notes, because holy shit,
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: they have actually quite a few stories that I came across,
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: and this one. Boy, Once I start going on a theme,
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: I felt like it just had to be here. It
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: reads like a familiar retail nightmare, well sort of, just
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: a customer who takes a complaint way too far. Whether
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: you believe Friday the thirteenth invites chaos or just reveals
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: what was already waiting, this is what happened next allegedly. Okay,
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: so starting our story. It's September, which means it's nearly
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: my favorite season fall. Yes, the scorching heat is at
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: least cooling down to a nice middling temperature until the
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: winter chills set in. All the back to school supplies
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: have given way to autumn decor such as fake pumpkins,
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: rubber masks, lawn inflatables, and monster animatronics.
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: Oh can we skip summer?
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: No?
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: Speaking of back to school, a bonus is seeing fewer
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: children during the week. Look, I don't have anything against
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: kids provided they are a minimal distance of fifty feet
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: from me. But when they are running around screaming while
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: their parents have this vacant look in their eyes, that's
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: when I have a problem. Dude.
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  Speaker 3: This literally happened to me the other day walking into
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  Speaker 3: the store. Two kids came running at me, and I
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  Speaker 3: was like freshly broken. I was picking up prescriptions. You're
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: in my boot for me, like I can't dodge you,
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  Speaker 3: and they just like ran at it was and the
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  Speaker 3: mom was just like strolling.
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  Speaker 4: In way behind them, and I'm like, fine, judgment.
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  Speaker 1: R No, definitely judgment. Fuck you get your fucking brats
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: on a leash or something. Can you imagine like if
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: like people just let their pets do that, there like
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: would be riots, but like you're allowed to just let
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: your kid be a fucking asshole. No.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: If you happen to disagree, spend a few years working
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: retail at Walmart like I have, and see if you
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  Speaker 1: don't change your tune. In fairness, that's only scratching the
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: surface of the problems going on in those stores. As
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: bad as that can be, it's harmless most of the time.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: Only ever going into the make me want to rip
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: my hair out in frustration territory. I can't say the
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: same about what happened today. I work in customer service.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: Being Friday, things were busier than usual for us. Our manager, Dell,
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  Speaker 1: is the superstitious type, and he was adamant that we
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: keep our eyes peeled for trouble since it's also the
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: thirteen While hectic. Nothing out of the ordinary happened, that is,
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  Speaker 1: until we got one particular customer. My coworker Steve and
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  Speaker 1: I were holding down the fort trying to help customers
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  Speaker 1: as best we could. I was currently having my ear
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: talked off on the phone.
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  Speaker 3: I've been a loyal shopper at Walmart for over thirty years.
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  Speaker 1: He's already mentioned this several times. I understand sir, things
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  Speaker 1: used to.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Be great there until your generation decided to screw things up.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry you feel that way. Is there anything we
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: can do to make it up to you? He went
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: on a tirade that I wasn't even paying much attention to,
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: since I had nothing to do with the conversation. From
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: what I remem it was about those damn democrats running
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: this country into the ground, several bigoted statements against minorities,
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: how prayer should be back in schools, and that certain
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: people need to go back where they came from. I
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: should mention he was insistent about how not racist he was.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: I think there may have also been something in there
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: about how communists have infiltrated the government. The call dropped,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: making me momentarily grateful Upper management hadn't sent anyone out
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: to fix the phones? Thank christ, I breathed, putting the
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: phone down. Tough call, Steve asked, unwrapping a piece of gum.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: Yep, I feel you on that. Any plans afterwork?
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be watching a horror movie.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: Which one?
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: It's called ta ka ta kay?
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Is that Japanese?
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah? It's an urban legend about a girl who became
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: a ghost after her legs were cut off by a train,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: and there are two movies about it. Steve popped his
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: gum in his mouth. Sound pretty cool, he said, while chewing.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Do you want to come over and watch them?
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Maybe?
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: At that moment, Dell came over a panic to look
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: on his face. Is something wrong? I asked?
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Upper management is here?
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: He replied, breathlessly. What we exclaimed in Unison?
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Someone getting carts that he parked outside. I knew something
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: bad was going to happen today. I just knew it.
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  Speaker 1: All things considered, Dell is decent at his job, but
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: when he gets overwhelmed, it's like watching a caffeinated hamster
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  Speaker 1: running around its cage. He stopped and took a deep breath.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, we can do this. Be vigilant. Steve spit out
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  Speaker 4: that gum.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Dell went away to check on the other departments. Rolling
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: his eyes, Steve pulled out one of the trash baskets
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: keep under the counter, spitting his gum into It. Tends
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: to be a disconnect between corporate and those who have
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: to interact with people face to face. As such, inspections
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: tend to go as follows. They tell us to jump
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: and we come back down without their permission. We get reprimanded.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Our strategy is to remain as scarce as possible. Usually
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: this works. Today was another story. Things were going steady
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: all things considered, then the horde came. Normally, these are
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: seen further into the holiday season. However, it seems that
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Dell was right about how Friday the thirteenth would be
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: affecting things. I was playing Pokemon Go on my phone
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: when Steve nudged me with his elbow. I glanced up,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: seeing a herd of customers who weren't too happy. Based
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: on their expressions, they seemed ready to take their anger
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: out on us. Hence way we refer to them as
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: hoards aw shit, I murmured. Then she came. Looks of
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: surprise were coming over people's faces. Someone was pushing their
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: way to the front. We craned our nuts trying to
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: spot who was trying to cut their way to the front.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: To our confusion, a pointy black hat became visible among
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: the crowd. Attached to it and emerging to the front
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: was an old lady in a baggy black dress with
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: a long, hooked nose. People tried to tell her off.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: She gave them such a fierce sink guy. They backed
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: away instantly and dispersed. Then she came up to the counter.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, ma'am, is there something we can help?
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Reaching into her pocket, she pulled something out, slamming it
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: down on the counter. It was a cat collar. Then
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: she threw a one hundred dollars gift card beside it.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: A few seconds of silence passed, then Steve asked.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Do you want to make a return?
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I want more than that for the trouble this store
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: is given me.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: She explained that the adjuster was faulty and that the
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: caller nearly choked her cat.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Apologies, ma'am, it's been a hectic day. We'll do what
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: we can to make this.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Up to you.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Is that so?
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: A grin crept up her face, showing rows of deep yellow,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: misshapen blocky teeth.
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  Speaker 2: I think I deserve a little extra for all all
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: my trouble. Give me this gift card for free, and
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: will call things even.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: The thing about the customer always being right is that
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: it goes off a cliff if the store's bottom line
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: might be affected, Well.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: I need to check with my manager if I'm allowed
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: to do that.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Steve went away to call Dell. Meanwhile, sensing a growing tension,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I attempted to diffuse it. Hey, great costume, I told
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the lady, are you getting ready for Halloween early? She
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: seemed confused.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: What costume?
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: The one you're wearing? You're dressed as a witch? Right?
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Her eyes narrowed.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not dressed like I am a witch.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, I see my bad, She relaxed a little.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I do have a lot of preparations to make for
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: the upcoming holiday. Now that you mention it, where's your friend?
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Sorry about that? Our manager is busy. I can't reach him.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Steve said, returning from his call.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: I'm normally not supposed to do this without permission, but
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: I can help you out this one time.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: The old lady seemed satisfied with that response. Steve was
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: about to activate the gift card. When we heard someone
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: speaking with Dell.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Everything is up to standard so far. Which way is
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: customer service?
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Again?
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: This way, sir with Dell was our district manager, Edmund,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: who looks a lot like Kevin O'Leary. He's the kind
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: of guy who thinks the company standard should be rigidly enforced.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: In short, doing the opposite of what he says would
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: likely improve customer experience. They saw what was happening and
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: came over. Good afternoon. Miss Dell smiled and told the
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: old lady, I hope your needs are being met.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, I suppose they are. These two are taking care
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: of something for.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Me, she replied, gesturing at us.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: At least some people can do something right in this dump.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Well, it's nice to hear from a customer that our
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: employees are on top of things. Out of curiosity, what
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: are they helping you with?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Steve was tapping his fingers on the counter. He only
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: did that when he was nervous. I could tell he
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: was thinking, please, don't mention the gift card. She did
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: exactly that, prompting Steve to curse under his breath at
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the mention of it. Edmund decided to get involved.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Now hold on.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: He said, to the woman.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: How much did you pay for that callar fifteen?
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: And how much is the gift card do you want?
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Worth?
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: One hundred dollars?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Edmund looked at Steve.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: You authorized this without permission.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Steve may as well have been a deer in the headlights.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: What are you thinking?
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Edmund chastised him.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: I was just trying to do the right thing.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Steve replied, before being cut off.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: The right thing within reason. I thought you would have
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: figured that out by now.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: The old lady interjected.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Wait a moment, are you saying I won't give my
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: gift card?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's what it means, sorry to say, her eyes
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: irrupted with anger.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: I came out here and waited all.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: This time, not accustomed to dealing with other human beings.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Edmund disregarded her, trying to pass her on to Dell.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: She didn't take two kindly to that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: You respect your elders when they're talking to you.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Edmund ignored her and was about to walk away. The
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: woman crossed her arms.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: If that's what you want, we'll play hard ball. I'll
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: give you one chance to change your mind about the
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: gift card, or there will be hell to pay.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: His response conveyed he wasn't the least bit intimidated. The
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: answer is still no. She pointed a shaking finger at him.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I warned you.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Suddenly, her eyes rolled to the back of her head
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and she began chanting.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: I think she's having an episode.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: That seemed to be the case until the lights started
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: flickering and uneasy feeling working its way.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Up my back.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Then all hell broke loose. Edmund was talking to Dell
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: about his new car, when, while cackling, the woman rose
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: into the air, her eyes filling with inky darkness and
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: her teeth becoming red, and pointed.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I'll teach you to nine me what I am owed.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: We stared, mouths agape as things were rising around her
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: and the lights were flickering. Several patrons pulled out their
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: phones to attempt recording her. She wasn't having it. Different
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: colored whips swirled around her. They made groaning noises. These
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: must have been the souls of her previous victims. Pointing
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: her finger at our Halloween display caused the souls to
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: go into them. The lawn decorations came to life, fueled
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: by the power of the dark arts. Next thing we knew,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: they were off their shelves and going after people in
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the store. There was so much happening at once it's
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: hard to process. The fake jack o' lanterns latched onto
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: those trying to get footage of the event. An inflatable
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Frankenstein monster and Mummy were picking people up and fighting
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: each other with them. Lastly, a grim reaper was flying
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: around decapitating people. Heads flew and blood squirted everywhere, all
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: while that wicked ancient woman was laughing as if this
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: was the funniest thing to ever unfold. Several security officers,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: who were at least thirty pounds overweight, tried shooting at
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the old lady while she was distracted, not even bothering
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: to glance at them. She made several lights fall on
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: their heads. Then they dropped to the floor dead, nearly
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: shitting ourselves. We hid under our desk for cover.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Now do you see what happens when I am denied?
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: When I am owed?
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Edmund replied, voice trembling.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm sorry, you'll get your gift card.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: It's too late. You had your chance. Now you'll pay.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: We heard him run away, crying, repeating a bunch of
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: curse words to himself. Suddenly, our desk broke off from
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the floor, flying through the air at unfathomable speed. Along
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: with this, several large and heavy objects were sailing through
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the air. Then there were several distant thuds. She's blocked
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the exits. Someone shouted and panic, We're all gonna die.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Another person shrieked, look.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: At them squirming like that, pitiful lands they are.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: The woman sneered going after them. Seeing where she was going,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: we chose to go the opposite way, under the assumption
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: it would be safer. Heop Dell's boys came from somewhere
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: amidst toppled shelves. We were able to lift the one
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: he was trapped under high enough for him to squeeze
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: himself out.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Thanks guys. Damn this Friday the thirteenth. You do everything
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: you can to prepare and you still get blindsided.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: We need to hide somewhere, I said, let's head to
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the break room. Yeah, once she has Edmund, she'll probably
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: calmed down. Her next words proved things weren't going to
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: be that simple.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Where did you go, you sniveling little snake?
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: There was only one person she could be referring to.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: If you don't come out now, I will destroy this
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: entire star.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Not being one to think of the well being of others,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Edmund stayed hidden. What do we do now, Steve asked, panicking,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Dell slapped him across the face.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Pull yourself together, man, we survived four black Fridays together.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: We can survive this. You two find Edmund and drag
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: has no good ass back here.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: You're staying here, I said, shocked, his eyes lit with
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: a sharp determination.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: I'll be dealing with that crazy old lady. How with
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: superb customer service? Take this?
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: He handed us his phone. He went off to search
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: for Edmund, having no luck. While doing so, I saw
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: that the curse had spread, bringing other objects to life.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Several people lay in the kitchen aisle with knives sticking
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: out of them in a pool of blood. One person's
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: hand was in a blunder. Several of our other coworkers
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: were sitting huddled in pools of blood, hugging their knees,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: their chests, rocking back and forth. Another person lay in
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the middle of the appliance's aisle with a waffle iron
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: clamped over his face. The disturbing part was that it
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: still smelled kind of nice, like fresh waffles. This is
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: fucked on so many degrees, I said, wondering how we
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: had managed to survive up to this point, and worried
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: that could change at any time.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I'm with you, I'm applying to Target after this. Where
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: do you think Edmond could be hiding? Steve asked, I
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: don't know. A realization hit me as we reached the
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: clothing aisle. Wait duh, I said, to Steve's puzzlement. The phone.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, using Dell's phone, we called d Men's number. Instantly,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: ringing sounded nearby. We realized it was coming from a
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: changing room. Steve kicked open the door, showing Edmund huddled
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: in the corner, bumbling in a panic to decline the call.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: We tried pulling him outside.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: No she's after me, he.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Whined, clinging to the doorframe as we were yanking on
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: his legs.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: It's a bloodbath out here because you had to be
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: a fucking douche, So take some responsibility.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Steve screamed. With a final pull, the weight shift sent
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: us crashing into a nearby display of horror and pumpkin shirts.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: We got to our feet. Edmond did as well. A
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: They Live shirt showing the aliens covered his head. Snatching
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: it off, he threw it to the floor. How dare you,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: he snarled, I'm your superior. You'll end up in the
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: prison showers when I'm through. Before I was aware of
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: what was happening, my fist was thrusting forward, connecting with
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: his nose. I can't side which gave me more pleasure,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: feeling the bones on his nose break or seeing blood
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: gushing from his nostrils. Whichever, it will be a while
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: before anything tops the satisfaction I was experiencing. Then Edmund
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: staggered back from the blow, pulling down several shirt racks.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: As he fell backward. There was an expression of disbelief,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: as if some natural order had been violated, and his
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: mind was trying to make sense of it. My eyes
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: went from him to my fist. Something to note about me,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: as I am a non confrontational person to a fault. Therefore,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: all of the stuff we'd witnessed that day, what I
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: just did stood out as being especially unbelievable.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Holy shit, dude, I didn't think you had it in you.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Neither did I. We dragged Edmund to the front where
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: that elderly woman had Dell by the throat.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: They'll be back soon. Just give them a little longer.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: It's too late. We hadn't gray.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Her fingers squeezed his neck, making his eyes eyes bold stop,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I shouted. Her head whipped in our direction. Then her
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: lips curled upward as she was lowering herself.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: And Dell, well you made it after all, she.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Told us, and then said to Dell.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I guess you managed to survive by the skin of
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: your teeth. Consider yourself lucky.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: She tossed him aside. He hit the wall, sliding down
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: it with a groan. Steve went to check on him.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: It was now me Edmund and the old woman. Her
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: gaze alone was piercing, and her smile only added to
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: its iciness.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Your manager cut me quite a deal. Not only do
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: I get four hundred dollars worth of gift cards, now
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: I also get to do as I please with this
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: slimy little worm.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Those words seemed to snap Edmond back to the reality
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: of the situation. His breath hitched, and he tried in
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: vain to flee. The elderly woman sent her souls after him,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: which wrapped around his body. He was carried back, thrashing.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Please don't kill me, he begged through tears.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Don't do anything don't worry. I won't kill you.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Edmund's teary eyes filled with optimism.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Now I have a better use for you, the.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Old woman said. What occurred next is something that's forever
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: seared into our memories. She raised her finger, lifting Edmund.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: The inky darkness shot out of the elderly lady's eyes,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: spreading out and wrapping around Edmund. Screams erupted from within it,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: and we could hear the sounds of bones breaking as
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: they were compressed and rearranged. The woman reabsorbed the inkiness,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: revealing what became of Edmund. A loofa on a stick
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: matching the color of his suit, fell into her open palm.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I could have sworn, I thought, quiver. The implications of
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Edmund's fate caught me to shudder.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I believe that wraps everything up. Let this be a lesson.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Never try to cheat me.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: The woman was about to leave. What are you, I blurted.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Her eyes met mine. Then she grinned again.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I already told you I'm a witch.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: She threw something made of glass down, shattering it and
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: causing a green cloud of smoke to appear in the store.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: When it cleared, she was nowhere to be seen. I
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: can't begin to convey the cluster fuckness of trying to
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: explain what happened to the authorities. The cops around here
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: aren't into doing their job when it counts, so they
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: as well as chalked everything up to an act of God.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: In any case, that store will be closed for a while,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and that means we have to go through the pane
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: of job surfing. Oh well, we can check out those
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Teke Teke films in the meantime. I'll conclude with this,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: never mess with a witch, especially during Friday the thirteenth
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: at Walmart.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: I gotta say, given witches a bad name.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I know, Friday the thirteenth and witches, right, I don't know,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe I have to say I feel like maybe just
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: the combination of like there's so many people again, it's
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: just this like self fulfilling prophecy where it's like everybody
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: just gets so high strung and so stressed out that
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: it just takes something that really didn't have to be
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: that bad of a situation and you know, amps it up. Yeah,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: and no one is immune, even witches' all.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: I'm saying, I just hope the cat's okay. That's her
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: familiar of course, also thinking about the guy as a lufa, like.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Can you do you imagine you know, she took that
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: home and that's her ass grub and lufa.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, getting in all the crevasses. You know when
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: you said something about Friday the thirteenth not turning into
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: a bloodbath, but you lied to us.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I mean I said it doesn't always, you.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Know, I definitely think this is a true story. I
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: also did say, allegedly, although I do feel bad for
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: all the people that passed in the story, it's not funny.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: That's that's not so funny. I'm just saying, you know,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: stop booking with people.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Being taken out by like a Halloween inflatable has to
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: be a good way to die though, Oh okay, I
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: think it's great way to die.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I just feel like it makes your death seem kind
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: of cartoonish.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: As the true crime genre writer, I feel like that
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: feels disrespectful. But from like the paranormal perspective, I can
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: see why.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: That's like, oh, I love it, but we all know
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: it's it's uh, it's super true, so yeah, we can't
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: make any jokes about it. No.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I've been shuffling feeling over here for a
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: little bit, getting a little.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: I can't wait to see what we're gonna get.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I know, what does one draw for this very interesting
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: episode format? What I'm using? The Pacific Northwest or.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: The PNW if you're nasty, If you're nasty.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, So where I've I've fanned these out like kind
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: of the length of my keyboard here. So where do
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: you feel? Like, where's the energy? What do you think?
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying a broomstick. Does that help? It's pointing
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: this way. The broomstick is pointing.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Like your left or my left.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: It's pointing to my left. Wait you're right?
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, And like is it pointing dramatically in that
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: direction or kind of like a slight like veer in
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: that direction, like dramatically? Okay, all right, let's see. Okay,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I think this is the Three of Swords in reverse.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: And remember what they said about the blood Yeah in Decapitation, Yeah,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: there were people in the aisle laying in a pool
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: of blood. Oh yeah, Oh it does have a head. Okay, yeah,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the bird does have a head. But it's like like
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: these are like dark colored petal, you know, feathers. It
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: looks like they're laying in a pool of like blood.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: It dead.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: So go look at the card on her Instagram. But
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: I totally thought the head part was like one of
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: the pedals, so it was like, oh, it's decapitated, but
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: it's not, just has a redhead. Yeah, it's hard to
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: see though.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: I feel like that is just kind of perfect.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Three of swords in the reverse. I mean it's not
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: at thirteen, but close enough.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the keywords are suffering, heartache, regret, grieving, sorrow, and loss.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: In the traditional deck, it's a heart with three swords
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: piercing it. Just looking at this heart with three swords
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: piercing it is painful. One of the saddest cards in
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: the tarot. It symbolizes deep emotional pain, heartbreak, and a
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: real or perceived tragedy.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: That word ache, Oh that yeah, what is interesting because
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: I was just thinking, well, there was real tragedy in
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: your story, and real you know, loss of yeah, loss
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: of money, but also this like perceived allegedly true story exactly.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Well, and this next part I feel like is particularly
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: appropriate here. You may not manage to avoid the suffering
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: indicated by the three of swords, However, the card advises
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: separating true grief from self pity.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Interesting that reminds me of whoever was hiding in the
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: right changing Yes, Edmund, he was the guy who turned
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: into the Lufah.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is so funny too, because I feel like this, well,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I think you'll see why. I think this is kind
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: of funny just given the format of the episode.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: But we'll discuss the.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Reverse three of swords is actually less problematic and severe
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: than the upright three. Like, you know, depending on whether
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: you believe the story was true or not. It suggests
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: you're making more of an unhappy situation than necessary, or
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: that a disappointment is temporary, not the end of the world.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Perhaps the truth hurts, but once you face it, you
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: can improve things, pull yourself together, and get on with
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: your life. I feel like if we just think about
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: that as like a general vibe, maybe that's a good
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: attitude for Friday of thirteenth. Yeah, does that? Does that track?
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Also what you were saying about like kind of a
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: self fulfilling thing about Friday the thirteenth being bad, Like
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: you're just waiting for something bad to happen. Yeah, Like,
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: just calm down, it's fine. Also, if you want to
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: return a cat collar because it choked your cat, don't
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: try to get one hundred dollars out of it.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't recommend that.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: I feel like the switch's name was Karen, just saying
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: a little bit, right, the Karen of witches.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: This is really interesting and I'm really curious to see
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: what you think about how this applies to the story.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: In a reading about money, you may harbor about what
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: might have been, or you're chastising yourself for a bad decision.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Ooh yeah, like even if she was a care and
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: maybe we should have appeased the witch, I don't know.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: Right, well, he tried and then whoever the well, that's.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: What I'm saying that the upper management guy, like, maybe
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: you should have just left well enough alone.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: The reverse three recommends letting go of blame and guilt,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: repairing damage, and starting a.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: New job surfing.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if the reading is about your job, you may
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: be pulling out of a damaging and hurtful situation.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: The reverse three can mean the worst is over and
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: you've learned from your mistakes. Remain watchful for confusion, deception,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: or poor judgment.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Ooh, watch out for them witches.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Man well, and watch out for bad managers. I mean
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: some of them are now currently inhabiting aloof of form.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, he's not the only one. In
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: a reading about love, this card points to painful experiences,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: but you're working on past problems and trying to make
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: things better. You need to let go of jealousy, regrets, guilt,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: and fear. Sometimes this card represents accepting a loss and
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: moving on.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: That reminds me of like the investing things too, right, Yeah, I.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Feel like there's a lot of applications to like the
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: kind of the first part of the episode where it's
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: like kind of more the biographical section, if you will,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: and then there's our kind of more. Uh, I mean
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: definitely dark, we do. We do dark humor here for sure,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: But like the second half with this Redditt story is like, yeah,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: That's good.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: I wasn't sure how the how the terror was gonna go,
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: But the broomstick in my mind did not disappoint.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: It really didn't. I feel like you nailed it. Friend.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: I closed my eyes and I was like, how is
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: this helpful? I'm just seeing a broomstick. We just talked
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: about a witch and I'm like, oh, but it's pointing.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: That other direction.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I love that for us, And this is going to
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: look great in the tarot altar setup that I have.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I have managed to marry the Friday the
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: thirteenth theme and Valentine's Day and the card is that
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: literally m yeah wow, swords and hearts and red and
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: blood and yikes.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: You know, I totally forgot it was Valentine's Day. I like,
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: we've been talking.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: About Friday the thirteenth, February thirteenth, blah blah blah, it's
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: literally Valentine's Day the next day. Forgot, I know, I know.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: So I was, you know, kind of trying to do
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: my best. I was like, you know what, we might
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: focus up on Friday the thirteenth and just see how
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: that goes. But I feel like, you know, kind of
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: married the two a little bit.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: I like it. Love it so fun.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Oh you're so welcome. Yeah. I really enjoyed that. I
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: have some other stories that I'm interested in doing, Like,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: I feel like this is fun for us, something kind
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: of narrative especially. I feel like for like a theme episode,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: it's nice for us because that lets us do something
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: creative and Hopefully our listeners are, you know, hopefully it's
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: something that they enjoy that kind of like refreshes us
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: and yeah, well they are creepy, so exactly exactly. Yeah,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: just something to keep the show fresh and fun.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: We'll have to all need some voice actor training so
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: I can bury up my voices a little bit.
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: I tried, guys, but.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I know it would be a lot easier if we
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: were both here with the roadcaster, because I feel like
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: we definitely could have played with that.
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: Well, if someone could just feel okay and fucking come
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: over and do her job.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Me.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about me.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Hi, you know, what happens will happen, and that's that,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: And that's.
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: The takeaway you should take from this episode. Whatever happens
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: is gonna happen, and that's that. It's Friday the thirteenth. Yeah,
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: it's not that serious, Like hopefully nothing actually serious happens.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, full disclosure, though I did take Friday the thirteenth
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: off work.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: I feel like that says, well, whoa more about.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: My not wanting to go to work than it does
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: the date. But I was like, hey, you know, if
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I'm good, let's take a Friday off. Yeah, might as
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: well do you have any spooky plans. I'm probably going
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: to start working a little bit more intensely on my
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: next episode that day.
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: So if that counts, you're not gonna watch tik tak No,
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: probably not.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: I'm interested to see what that is like now.
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: I want to look it up and see it.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: If that is that real? Is that a real movie? Like?
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: It looks like it might be. And based on the description,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I was like, you know, actually, I think I think
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: I'm all good.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: I read it to you. I want to know.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Okay. So it is a Japanese urban legend about the
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: ghost of a school girl where her body was split
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: in half by a train after she had become stuck.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: She is a Japanese word for a vengeful spirit who
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: lurks in urban areas and roams trains at night.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: Dude, I want to watch it.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is really interesting. That seems like a good
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: Valentine's Day movie. Get all snugly and close and scared. Yeah.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I have to say, the limited imagery that has
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: come up based on my very specific search, does look
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: like it could be quite gruesome. There are also a
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: number of them that are being blurred out by the
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: search engine because they're like, that's graphic.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Like the Jesus Nles Oh Jesus Chice chice crast. Okay,
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: I have to stop looking at this.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: That was horrible.
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: You're gonna have nightmares.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: You gonna have nightmares.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, she looks like the girl from the Ring.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, I don't know we're talking. No, nope, loosing
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: that tab and am out.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: Speaking of witches and scary movies, I watched Weapons. Oh
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: really that movie is fucking terrifying. Really Oh no, yeah,
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: I wanted to watch it.
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: No, it's so scary. Okay, it's scary and also sad
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: like I cried.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Oh so I probably can't handle it right, Like.
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: It's really scary, like I just was not expecting it.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, is it like super natural scary.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: Creepy old lady witchy and it's got very scary icky moments.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, I don't know. That might not be
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: the best for me.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: I screamed out loud, and I don't do that a
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: lot with movies. Like I screamed out loud. Oh I
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: wasn't like drunk or anything. Well maybe a little, but like, no,
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: but you're not enough to be crazy. No, you don't
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: get like I just feel like that is my default
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: and that is not the case for you. So I
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: feel like that's very informative.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: I'm glad we.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: Had this chat. Yeah. Yeah, I've been I've been waiting
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: to tell you about it.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: I am not built for that.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm gonna go ahead and take that.
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: Off my list.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: But it was good, like if you love scary movies like,
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: it was great.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And I think I'm out.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: Have have a creepy as Friday the thirteen.
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: We'll see you next Thursday.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: That's confusing.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, guys, not really thursdays before Friday.
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: You guys got it.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: I'll do an Arnold.
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: I suppose that is taking care of something funny.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah,