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**🎪 Vampires Were Real?! Vlad the Impaler, Vampire Panic & the Bodies They Dug Back Up | Spooky History & Lore** · This Is My Circus

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  I'm Stephanie.
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  I'm Meredith.
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  And welcome to This Is My Spooky Scary Circus.
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  And obviously I didn't get the memo that I was supposed to be spooky.
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  I- I'm so sorry got spooky.
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  I just did the eye makeup.
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  I- It's dramatic it is dramatic.
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  Yes.
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  You look, you look amazing.
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  Thank you.
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  I think this should be the weekend look for you.
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  Oh, no.
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  God, no.
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  Oh, how about at least the Friday look, since we're recording on Friday today?
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  I'm, I'm probably gonna go and take all of this off as soon as you leave.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  This is not my, aesthetic.
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  Well, you look beautiful.
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  Thank you.
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  You- If I go out, like, to a bar or, like, a, like, a Halloween- Yeah.
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  Yeah event- Yeah I could do this.
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  You look sultry.
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  But I could not pull this off on, the average- No day.
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  Running to Food Lion.
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  No.
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  No.
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  I know.
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  I know.
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  And I don't go out.
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  I don't leave the house much, so I've gotten to the age where, I have to...
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  I don't have to, but I'm choosing to wear makeup more.
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  I know.
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  Um, yeah.
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  And I...
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  it just sucks.
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  It does suck.
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  And I'm not very good at it.
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  I have to be in the mood to put it on.
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  And I wanna learn how to do, the dramatic eyes.
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  I love, like, a full glam bridal look, which is in my feed a lot, you know,'cause of the stuff.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  But first of all, I could never do that.
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  But just the way they shadow and do...
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  And I try, and it looks like I have a black eye.
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  It's like I don't have the right tools.
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  Are we blaming it on the tools?
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  I, I'm gonna blame it on.
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  The other thing, I can't find the right shades I want of the shadows.
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  Mm.
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  And I don't wanna spend$40 on shadows to see if I like it.
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  Some of them are really pigmented, but the wrong color.
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  I just...
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  Help, somebody.
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  Somebody help me.
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  Oh, I'm in a school group.
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  Like, you know, like, the school app.
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  Yeah.
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  I haven't been in it, in that group in God knows how long, but it was like a makeup group on how to do- Oh All the makeup.
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  Well, I need that, and I need to know what brand or types of shadows to use that have good pigment- Right that aren't just, like, crap.
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  There's a brand on TikTok that all the TikTokers are talking about right now.
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  I wonder why that hasn't popped up in my feed- I don't know because I've been trying to do this.
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  I'll find it.
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  Because they were doing, the swatch test- Yes and it was, like, super pigmented- Yeah it's a UK brand.
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  But, like, maybe they have it- Okay.
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  Yeah Stateside.
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  I finally found a blush that's, like, really, really pigmented, and it's L'Oreal Infallible if anybody wants to try it.
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  So pigmented that you have to, tap your brush before you even use it.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And I'm like, okay, that's great.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Like, that's what I need.
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  I don't need to, put 15 coats on.
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  I just want something that's- Mm-hmm that you can see the first time I put it on.
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  Yeah.
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  For us to not be makeup girls- No we just went full makeup.
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  Totally off the rails.
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  Yeah.
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  Absolutely.
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  So how has, life been?
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  Oh my gosh, I've been so busy.
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  Yeah.
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  I've been so busy.
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  So like I said, today's Friday.
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  I had a wedding yesterday, which was really cute.
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  They got married on, I think it was their grandparents' anniversary.
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  Oh.
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  Well, one of them.
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  Not both of their grandparents.
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  Well, you never know.
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  That could be a whole nother segment.
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  You never know.
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  They could have the same grand- like, dates are weird.
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  Uh-huh.
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  Very true.
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  Very true.
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  Yeah.
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  so that was yesterday, and those are exhausting days.
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  Those are long days.
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  Everything went fine, it's just a long, emotional, physical day.
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  And then, with the puppy, you know how that is.
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  That's just like all the time.
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  Yeah.
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  It's like a baby.
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  It's, yeah, it's like a baby.
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  Clifford just turned one, and he is just now starting to calm down.
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  Get a little chill in his system.
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  And when I say calm down, like not biting.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  But I have him outside a lot.
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  Yeah.
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  And I'll sit outside and, work on my phone or whatever.
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  It's not the craziness of him being a puppy.
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  It's the potty training- Mm-hmm or housebreaking, however you say it.
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  And then it's, they have to eat so much when they're still so little, so it's three times a day, which means he needs to go out, like, eleventy thousand times a day.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  So by the time- Yeah I feed him and get him out and come back in and he takes a little bit of a nap, it's time to do it all over again.
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  Yeah.
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  It's just, it's exhausting.
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  Yeah.
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  Especially when you go from having a dog that's just, like, sleeps all the time and, you know, 30, you know.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, I'm speaking your language.
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  So anyway, that's just exhausting, but it'll be okay.
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  It's just the way that it goes.
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  Yeah.
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  So yeah, just been really busy with weddings every weekend.
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  I actually have another wedding on Sunday.
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  Jackson has a game tonight.
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  We're going to a college visit tomorrow to see the game and talk to admissions and all that kind of stuff.
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  So you never stop.
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  No.
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  We're just in that.
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  October is so busy.
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  Yeah.
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  And I love this month.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And anybody who says this isn't their favorite month is a terrorist.
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  Amen.
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  So yeah, yeah.
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  It's, it's been busy.
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  So what have you been up to?
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  Same for you, all those things?
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  No, not at all.
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  Um, I successfully did my first hypnosis.
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  I'm so proud of you for that.
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  So that was really cool to like experience that.
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  Yes.
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  And, um, so yeah, that was really cool.
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  Good for you.
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  And just really working on a lot of the different programs- Mm-hmm and the scripts and stuff like that.
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  How did you feel like it went?
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  It went really good.
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  Good.
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  Yeah.
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  I was excited.
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  I'm proud of you for that.
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  Thank you.
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  Do you have any more on the horizon?
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  Yes.
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  Okay.
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  So I've got, a lot of people that volunteered- Yeah for me to practice.
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  Yeah.
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  They volunteered as tribute.
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  Yeah.
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  So I just don't make a cooked chicken.
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  And since I found out you're not gonna tell all my dark secrets, I'll definitely, Volunteer yes, if you need, if you need.
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  I'm proud of you, though.
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  Thank you.
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  You set your mind to it and you did it.
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  I know.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm excited.
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  Good for you.
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  Yeah, so, and then in two weeks I can, apply for a court date for my official dissolution of marriage.
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  I'm so excited for that.
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  Amen.
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  That sounds so simple, a dissolution of your marriage.
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  Yeah.
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  Like- Well, I mean, that's a nice way to put it It is.
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  I'm just picturing like a water and then like an Alka-Seltzer or something like dissolving in it.
• 5:28
  I wish it was just that painless and easy.
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  No, it's freedom.
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  I'm, I'm happy for you about that, too.
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  A lot of good stuff coming up.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  Going on and happening.
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  Again, October is a great month.
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  Good stuff happens.
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  Yeah, so still going strong with Lake Guy, so all right.
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  Good.
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  Good.
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  Yeah, you're hanging out with him some this weekend?
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Good.
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  Yeah.
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  Good.
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  I'm trying not to ask too many detail,'cause I don't wanna put details, but I like, I wanna know.
• 5:52
  Oh, yeah.
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  You know what I mean?
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  You can ask.
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  I can cut it out.
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  Um, I didn't real- I just didn't put it all together in my mind.
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  I've just been...
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  My dates are so off right now, but Jackson and, his girlfriend, and then some more friends went last weekend to a haunted trail.
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  Oh.
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  And,, they went to, it's called Booger Jim's.
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  Wow.
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  It's so cool.
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  I've been to that one before.
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  When I was growing up, haunted trail or what, it was, like, 10 bucks, five bucks for a small one.
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  Now they're more expensive.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  I think it was, like, 30.
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  But there's three events in that.
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  Okay.
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  Like, there's a haunted house, there's a haunted trail, there's a haunt- So it's a lot.
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  And I've been to another one where it's got all the events, and then, they have a stage in the middle, and they'll have bands and stuff too.
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  Oh, cool.
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  I know.
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  So they're, like, ev- they're not just, a in and out kind of thing now.
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  Yeah.
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  And I love that.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, I haven't been to any, here- Mm-hmm other than Car- uh, Carowinds, whatever.
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  Yeah.
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  And I will never go there again, ever.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Just because how crowded it is- Right and, the lines.
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  And- Yeah it's totally not worth.
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  Yeah.
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  But I brought all, all the kids.
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  Dylan and all of his friends.
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  Yeah.
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  I brought them there- when they were younger, and had to- Mm-hmm obviously stay and- Yeah chaperone.
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  I never...
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  I wanted to go, but by the time Jackson was, like, okay to go, he's not...
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  It took him a while to get used to scary things.
• 7:02
  Yeah.
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  he didn't want me to be there with him, and it was when it was okay to drop him off when he was, like, 13 or whatever.
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  Yeah.
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  So anyway, well- Well, Dylan hasn't gone back to Carowinds since he got banned for a year.
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  He sure showed them, didn't he?
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  I know, that, I still can't believe that.
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  Yeah.
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  He's the second person I know that's been banned from Carowinds.
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  Well, he's no longer banned, but yeah.
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  Well, that has- Yes that has a record at Carowinds.
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  Yes.
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  His photo's probably still on the wall.
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  Hold him up his- The repeat offenders list.
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  Yeah.
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  Oh, my goodness, so we're talking vampires today.
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  We are.
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  Love it.
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  Yes.
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  Love it, and I'm excited for our October month, that we've just got so much going on.
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  Yeah.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  I'm glad that we have it already planned out.
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  That was, that's not normal for us.
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  No, and I'm just waiting for it to go sideways, but here we are.
• 7:46
  Yeah.
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  And, and week one's gonna be great.
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  Yes.
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  so I did some research on vampires and tuberculosis.
• 7:54
  Oh.
• 7:56
  Okay.
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  'Cause we started talking about some things, and I was like,"Okay, like I, I like medicine-y stuff, so I'll look at that." Yeah.
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  Okay, this was actually way more interesting than I expected it to be.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  So back in the 17 and 1800s, so tubercu- like tuberculosis, I'm just gonna say TB- Okay was called consumption.
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  And I've heard consumption, but I never knew that it was TB.
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  Yeah.
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  And the reason they called it consumption is because, people would lose a lot of weight, and they'd lose their color, and they would, look drained.
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  Uh-huh.
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  So it's like something was consuming them from the inside out.
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  Never put those together- Mm-mm that consumption was TB.
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  So anyway.
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  I've heard of tubercul- Yeah that term.
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  Yes, TB.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Yeah.
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  And, but I never knew what it was.
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  Well, it's actually, so it's a lung condition.
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  Okay.
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  But back in the 1800s, of course, they didn't know what it was.
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  So it affects the lungs, and it spreads through the air from person to person.
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  Obviously, we know it's germs now.
• 8:48
  Yeah.
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  They didn't know that back then.
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  And it can include...
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  And it's curable.
• 8:52
  Uh, it's...
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  Did you ever hear about, like, an iron lung, people going in the iron lung?
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  So that's what they would try to treat them with, and, like, clean air and stuff- Okay'cause it's lung stuff.
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  But they're coughing up blood, weight loss, lingering cough that just won't go away, night sweats.
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  So anyway, consuming them from the inside out, right?
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  Okay.
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  So the name consumption makes so much more sense now that I think of what it is.
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  Yeah.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Okay.
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  So, tuberculosis would move through, an entire family, even a community.
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  mom would get sick, and then daughter, and then dad, and they'd just dying and dropping like flies.
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  So I mean, it would just spread so quickly'cause they didn't know what was going on with it, right?
• 9:28
  Right.
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  So again, they're not understanding germs or the spread of the disease, but they knew something was moving through the community, and this is where the vampire part comes in.
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  So and all of this is, based in New England- Okay for the most part.
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  All the things I read were, like, Rhode Island, Maine, Connecticut, and I'm like,"Okay." That's weird.
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  Very weird.
• 9:46
  Yeah.
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  But going with it., So people started believing that the family members who had died were coming back from the grave to, suck the stuff out of their- What?
• 9:55
  I know, out of their surviving relatives.
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  So all, basically, it was like everybody's okay, and then Mary died, and then John's dying, and clearly Mary is, like, sucking everything out of John- from beyond the grave.
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  So, and it sounds crazy now, but y- I mean, they had to blame it on something, I guess.
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  Blame it on the woman.
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  Blame the woman sucking the stuff out of John.
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  After I said that, I was like,"Oh, I can't believe I wrote that down." But anyway, here we go.
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  So they were recognizing that it was spreading, but they didn't have all the knowledge to put it all together.
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  So what did they start doing?
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  They started, like, digging people up, right?
• 10:26
  Right.
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  They're like,"Okay, so Mary died, so Mary's sucking John," so So Mary is consuming John.
• 10:33
  Right.
• 10:34
  So let's go see- Does it get any better?
• 10:35
  No.
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  Hmm.
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  And I don't know how to fix it.
• 10:39
  What's wrong with it?
• 10:40
  I don't know how to fix that with any names.
• 10:42
  Oh.
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  Like, if I say Gary and John, it still- Yeah gives the same.
• 10:46
  Okay, so- Keep going with it.
• 10:47
  Okay.
• 10:48
  So they would dig up their relatives, and they're like,"What's going on?" And, they were looking for, a body that hadn't decomposed properly or what they thought should be properly, or somebody s- had blood around their mouth.
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  Again, they're coughing up blood, so that could be normal.
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  Liquid still inside the body.
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  I know, kinda gross.
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  And organs that looked unusually preserved.
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  Okay.
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  So I guess they're doing all the research, all the things.
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  So they're cutting people up after they've already been buried.
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  Pretty much.
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  Pretty much.
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  So these things can happen naturally during decomposition, like, I guess.
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  Not now, but then.
• 11:19
  Yeah.
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  Like, of course we're embalmed and all the things now.
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  But anyway, so somebody would basically open a grave and be like,"Oh, she's got blood around her mouth.
• 11:26
  There's a vampire," which is crazy.
• 11:29
  Yeah.
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  She's still there.
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  Crazy.
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  By the way, I like the spelling of a vampire with a Y in it.
• 11:33
  I know.
• 11:34
  It's bougie.
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  So depending on where you live, the solution to that would change also.
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  They would either, turn people over.
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  I guess they felt like if they were facing down, then they couldn't get up.
• 11:45
  They would just, rearrange their bones or they would take their organs out and, burn their organs or whatever.
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  So it just kinda depended on where you were.
• 11:52
  I saw that they also put bricks in the mouth'cause they felt like then they couldn't, like, use their mouth.
• 11:56
  Ooh, that makes sense.
• 11:58
  I didn't read that part.
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  And they also staked them.
• 12:01
  Yes.
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  I've heard of the stakin'- Yeah obviously, but I didn't, A brick in the mouth after they've...
• 12:06
  I mean, like, yeah.
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  Yeah, that's disgusting.
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  Yeah.
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  So, multiple vampire exhumations recorded in New England.
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  It wasn't just, one psycho family, you know, like them you know those myths down the street?
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  They are, they're the loony tunes.
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  But it's a community event.
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  The doctors would go, and the,, politicians would go, and, and neighbors could participate.
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  So it's not just, one random man in the night, peeking in a grave.
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  It's, a whole shebackle.
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  And they're basically like,"Okay, we reviewed the situation, and Cheryl is a vampire, so this is what we're gonna do." Is...
• 12:35
  That just blows my mind to me.
• 12:37
  Yeah.
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  And- Can you imagine?
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  This is what I thought.
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  Going to an HOA meeting.
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  Everybody, you know, we think this is going on, and, we're just gonna take a vote.
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  A yay or nay for, you know, digging up Scott later.
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  Yay, nay, whatever.
• 12:52
  And speaking of HOAs, you know my ADD.
• 12:55
  Uh-huh.
• 12:55
  You're like,"Yes, I'm well acquainted." I've got the same affliction.
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  Have you...
• 13:01
  Have you ever seen they're like parody, I hope to God they're parody, TikTok pages about, HOAs?
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  And there's this one that kills me every time.
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  It's like,"Your yard looks like a gas station." Uh-huh.
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  And she's like,"You're doing 5,000 Calvin, Carl." Yeah.
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  Yeah, that's what it was.
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  And, she was like,"In this cold light we're a warm light community." Anyway, that just...
• 13:23
  I love those things.
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  They're hilarious.
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  Okay, let me reel my ADD back in.
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  So yeah, so they're doing that.
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  They're finding them all.
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  Everybody gets together.
• 13:29
  Everybody has concerns, and everybody's like,"Okay.
• 13:32
  Well, the next thing to do is obviously to dig up the body." Right.
• 13:35
  So that's basically what happened with that.
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  So there was one case, Mercy Brown.
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  This is the best-known case.
• 13:42
  I've heard this name before.
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  Probably- Yeah best-known American vampire case, and here's the part that like really blew my mind.
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  So this happened in 1892, okay?
• 13:52
  Okay.
• 13:52
  Less than 100 years from when I was born, so it's not like it was like 1492- Right when Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
• 13:59
  So just to put it in perspective, so Ellis Island opened that year.
• 14:02
  I did some research on this one.
• 14:04
  The first official basketball game was played around this time.
• 14:07
  Vogue magazine was launched.
• 14:09
  The Pledge of Allegiance was introduced.
• 14:11
  Lizzie Borden murders happened then.
• 14:13
  That's a terrible story.
• 14:14
  And professional football was beginning.
• 14:15
  Oh, the, then the new...
• 14:16
  Yeah.
• 14:17
  I could not.
• 14:19
  I wanted to, and I couldn't.
• 14:20
  Okay.
• 14:20
  So anyway, all that to say this was not, like- Yeah days of yore.
• 14:25
  So Mercy Lena Brown, she lived in Rhode Island.
• 14:28
  TB had ripped through her family.
• 14:31
  Mom died, sister died, then Mercy died, and her brother Edwin was really sick.
• 14:36
  So people in the community were like,"Well, you know what?
• 14:39
  I wonder if one of them is, causing the illness.
• 14:41
  So what do we do?
• 14:42
  We go dig up people and see what they're doing." So, apparently somebody wasn't even convinced by this whole vampire theory, and that was her dad.
• 14:50
  So he, I guess he didn't die.
• 14:52
  Maybe my...
• 14:53
  No, I did it right.
• 14:53
  Her, so her mother died and her sister died.
• 14:55
  Sorry.
• 14:55
  So he was the vampire.
• 14:57
  'Cause he was still alive.
• 14:59
  Still alive.
• 15:00
  But he was like,"I don't think it's a vampire thing, but sure, let's dig her up anyway and see what happens." And they find Mercy.
• 15:07
  Now, Mercy, it was January- Okay in Rhode Island, so it's cold.
• 15:12
  So of course her body's not gonna decompose.
• 15:14
  So they're like,"Aha- We've found it we've found the vampire." So what did they do?
• 15:20
  They took her organs, and they're like,"You know what?
• 15:23
  We're gonna blend those up." Actually, they didn't blend them up I was gonna say, did they have blenders back then?
• 15:28
  It was 1892.
• 15:29
  So what did they...
• 15:30
  They took her organs, and they burned'em, and they put'em in something and gave it to Edwin to- Consume?
• 15:38
  Shut up.
• 15:39
  You know what's gonna fix you?
• 15:41
  Is if I take your sister's liver and burn it and put it in a smoothie, and you chug it, that'll fix you.
• 15:48
  It did not.
• 15:49
  Edwin still passed away, like, six months later.
• 15:51
  I would assume- Mm-hmm that that wouldn't work.
• 15:53
  It did not work.
• 15:54
  It did not work.
• 15:55
  You know, so whatever.
• 15:57
  Anyway, the craziest thing, so again, that was 1892.
• 16:01
  In 1882, Robert Koch is his name, had already determined the cause of TB.
• 16:09
  So it just, you know, things traveled so slow- Yeah then.
• 16:11
  Like, some people already knew what was going on and knew that this wasn't, you know, the milkshake wasn't gonna fix it.
• 16:17
  So, My milkshake brings all the vampires to the yard.
• 16:23
  Oh, my goodness.
• 16:24
  So anyway, that's just, a long roundabout story on why people thought that vampires were causing TB and some of the things they did to prevent it, and then they attempted a cure.
• 16:34
  Which did not work.
• 16:35
  Which did not work at all.
• 16:37
  Okay.
• 16:37
  Well, that is gross.
• 16:39
  That was very gross.
• 16:41
  On so many levels.
• 16:42
  Mm-hmm.
• 16:42
  Mm-hmm.
• 16:43
  Oh, one funny side note is, they had dug up somebody, and they were like,"Well, we have to put their bones a certain way." So they started putting their bones, like the skull, and then, crossing the femurs.
• 16:53
  So they're basically giving everybody, Powers of the Caribbean.
• 16:56
  I'm like, why did they think that was gonna be...
• 16:59
  You know, they're just trying whatever, I guess.
• 17:00
  Yeah.
• 17:00
  But anyway, so that's the story of how TB and vampires kind of intermingled.
• 17:05
  That's- Mm-hmm wacky.
• 17:07
  I thought so, too.
• 17:08
  I thought so, too.
• 17:10
  I'm just picturing, the priests be like,"Cross the bones." Right.
• 17:14
  Right.
• 17:15
  Flip them over.
• 17:17
  Don't know why they had an accent, but they did.
• 17:21
  Oh, well, speaking of, did you know that, when people would say, the priests would put their hands on and cure people, it was because they were doing hypnosis?
• 17:28
  Like, really, that's what they were doing, was hypnosis.
• 17:30
  Oh.
• 17:31
  Yeah.
• 17:32
  How crazy is that?
• 17:33
  I just read a book about it.
• 17:34
  That is crazy.
• 17:35
  Yeah, so they weren't really, having, powers from God.
• 17:37
  It was they were putting people in hypnosis and, convincing them that they no longer had these ailments.
• 17:41
  I believe that.
• 17:43
  Yeah.
• 17:43
  That makes so much more logical sense.
• 17:46
  Exactly.
• 17:46
  I mean, my heart still wants to believe that God does miracles and does the things.
• 17:50
  100%.
• 17:50
  Yeah.
• 17:50
  Like, that's what religion- But that makes, like- Yeah I can connect that.
• 17:53
  That makes sense to me.
• 17:54
  Yeah.
• 17:55
  So they didn't have superpowers.
• 17:56
  I do.
• 17:57
  Oh, duh.
• 17:58
  Where, you're sitting on your cape, aren't you?
• 18:02
  It'd be a vampire cape today, with a Y.
• 18:05
  So when you think of vampires, you think of, like, Dracula.
• 18:08
  Yes.
• 18:09
  Most people, or, like, Edwin Cullen, but- Yes before Edwin went and- tried to not eat Bella.
• 18:16
  We think of Dracula.
• 18:17
  Yes.
• 18:18
  But really- the first vampire that we know of I guess, was called Vlad the Impaler.
• 18:25
  Yes.
• 18:26
  And that rabbit hole That's a rabbit hole in itself, isn't it?
• 18:30
  That was bananas.
• 18:32
  It is disgusting.
• 18:32
  So- Tell me what you learned okay, so, Okay, so Dracula was really Vlad.
• 18:38
  He was actually called Vlad III'cause he had came from a long line of Vlads.
• 18:43
  Of Vlads.
• 18:44
  Many Vlads.
• 18:46
  And I would love to do an accent, but I'm horrible at accents as we have found out.
• 18:49
  I think you should.
• 18:50
  No.
• 18:50
  People want it.
• 18:51
  Absolutely not.
• 18:53
  So this guy may have been scarier, he wasn't really a vampire but that's what they would considered- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm him, a vampire, and he was probably scarier than any vampire could probably- Yeah ever be.
• 19:05
  Yeah.
• 19:05
  He was born in 1431, not when Christopher Columbus was sailing.
• 19:09
  No, 60 years prior.
• 19:11
  And he became the ruler of Wallach- Wallacha, which is in modern-day Romania.
• 19:17
  Mm-hmm.
• 19:18
  His father was Vlad II Dracul, which is where they got Dracula.
• 19:22
  Oh, okay.
• 19:23
  And belonged to something called the Order of the Dragon, which was a Christian military order, which is kind of a cool name though, like- Yeah it's way better than army.
• 19:32
  Yeah.
• 19:34
  Yeah.
• 19:34
  I'm more intimidated by, what was the name?
• 19:36
  Order of the Dragon.
• 19:37
  Uh, yeah, the Order of the Dragon's kinda,"Oh, no, no, I'm going inside." That's so freaking cool.
• 19:42
  That is very cool.
• 19:43
  And then like- Let's talk do they ride on dragons?
• 19:45
  'Cause I 100% believe dragons exist.
• 19:47
  I think they did, and the size of the dragon depended on like how high you were in the order.
• 19:51
  That's why they think that vampires fly.
• 19:54
  It's what I'm connecting in my head.
• 19:56
  Makes so much sense.
• 19:57
  Yeah, I know.
• 19:58
  So it didn't say that in here, but that's my take on it.
• 20:00
  I love it.
• 20:01
  Yeah.
• 20:01
  So the name Dracula basically came from Vlad being the son of Dracul, often translated to something like Son of the Dragon.
• 20:08
  Okay.
• 20:08
  He was considered a medieval prince.
• 20:10
  Okay.
• 20:11
  Vlad earned his other nickname because he had a favorite execution method, and I think we've all could assume what that is.
• 20:21
  His name is Vlad the Impaler, so he impaled people, a lot.
• 20:25
  So- My curious brain when I started, I, I don't even remember.
• 20:30
  I was It was a long time ago, hearing about Vlad.
• 20:32
  And you know, you're like looking in the encyclopedia, like before, and I remember it was pictures of like huge, like telephone poles with points, and then people would just like land.
• 20:41
  Yeah.
• 20:41
  Ugh.
• 20:42
  But it was a very slow death.
• 20:44
  Okay.
• 20:44
  Like it wasn't fast.
• 20:45
  Uh-huh.
• 20:46
  Like they didn't drop him from the sky, and he just went whoosh.
• 20:48
  No, his victims would be placed on the large wooden stakes- Mm-hmm and left suspended while gravity slowly did the rest.
• 20:55
  Oh, no.
• 20:56
  Yeah, I thought he like pushed them out a window.
• 20:58
  No, no.
• 20:59
  Oh, gosh.
• 21:00
  No, it, it was like slow torture.
• 21:02
  Oh, that's terrible.
• 21:03
  Yeah.
• 21:04
  So yeah.
• 21:06
  Mm.
• 21:07
  Uh-uh.
• 21:07
  So imagine being so committed to this one role- Mm-hmm of, of punishment- Right that that's how you got your name.
• 21:15
  That's your name.
• 21:16
  Yeah.
• 21:18
  Uh-uh.
• 21:18
  He embraced that, didn't he?
• 21:20
  He sure did.
• 21:22
  So, Vlad lived during a brutal period of warfare involving the Wallachia and the Ottoman Empire.
• 21:30
  Mm-hmm.
• 21:30
  And he's remembered very differently depending on who's telling the story.
• 21:33
  Of course.
• 21:33
  In many accounts outside of Romania, he's remembered for extraordinary cruelty, which, I'm on that team same.
• 21:39
  But in Romania, he's also remembered as a ruler who fought against the Ottoman expansion and defended his country.
• 21:45
  Hmm.
• 21:45
  So some of the most grotesque stories about him were spread by his p- political enemies.
• 21:50
  Mm-hmm.
• 21:50
  So, like, was he really- Mm-hmm as bad as they say?
• 21:54
  I mean, it's bad regardless, putting people on stakes and letting them slowly die.
• 21:59
  But- There were so many..
• 22:01
  You said, like early 1400s, right?
• 22:03
  They did that kind of...
• 22:04
  I mean, not like that kind of stuff- Well, they- but, like, burn people at the stake, they did- Off with their head.
• 22:07
  Yes.
• 22:08
  Like, they, they, they proved their point when they didn't agree Or felt somebody was doing something wrong.
• 22:14
  Could you imagine today?
• 22:15
  No, absolutely not.
• 22:17
  So historians have to separate documented brutality from m- medieval propaganda.
• 22:22
  So we have propaganda now.
• 22:23
  We get that.
• 22:24
  Yeah.
• 22:24
  And depending on who's saying what, what news station you watch.
• 22:28
  Mm-hmm.
• 22:28
  So some of these stories just got, like, totally- Yeah misconstrued.
• 22:33
  One famous story describes the Ottoman forces approaching Vlad's capital in 1462 and encountering what became known as a forest of the impaled.
• 22:41
  Ugh.
• 22:42
  Thousands of bodies displayed on stakes.
• 22:45
  Ugh.
• 22:45
  Gross.
• 22:46
  Oh, my gosh, I couldn't even imagine.
• 22:48
  Older accounts sometimes put the number at around 20,000, although modern historians have questioned whether that number has been exaggerated over the years.
• 22:55
  20,000?
• 22:56
  Yes.
• 22:57
  20,000 bodies that they, walked up to while they were trying to invade.
• 23:00
  Geez, okay.
• 23:02
  Vlad absolutely used impalement, but the gigantic death counts in some later accounts should be treated cautiously.
• 23:08
  Recent historian's work argues that the scale was probably exaggerated even though the underlying brutality was very real.
• 23:16
  There are stories claiming Vlad liked to eat meals surrounded by the impaled.
• 23:20
  No.
• 23:21
  Yeah.
• 23:21
  There's even stories that, he dipped his bread into their blood and ate it, and that's why they're saying he- He was a vampire- he was drinking blood and so, I mean, yeah.
• 23:29
  Right.
• 23:30
  But again, those stories are most likely propaganda.
• 23:32
  Yeah.
• 23:34
  Because medieval political smear campaigns were apparently every bit as dramatic as they are now.
• 23:40
  I was thinking, it's not gotten any better.
• 23:41
  No.
• 23:42
  We've not evolved as you would think.
• 23:44
  I was about to say, at least we don't impale.
• 23:46
  Yes.
• 23:46
  Well, at least we evolved a little.
• 23:48
  Yeah.
• 23:50
  Yeah, so they considered him, the original vampire.
• 23:53
  Yeah.
• 23:53
  But- He was the OG.
• 23:55
  Yeah.
• 23:56
  So on Twilight he's the ones who, don't move for however many years, that, their faces are like stone.
• 24:03
  That's crazy.
• 24:04
  Did you like the Twilight movies?
• 24:06
  Loved the books.
• 24:07
  Yeah.
• 24:08
  Enjoyed the movies.
• 24:09
  Yeah.
• 24:10
  I read all the books when they first came out.
• 24:12
  When you go back and you watch the movies again, we've talked about, how I like to, take myself out of the situation and look, and you see, this big giant wolf.
• 24:20
  It's ridiculous.
• 24:21
  Yeah.
• 24:22
  So, but again, enjoyed them thoroughly.
• 24:24
  Yeah, yeah.
• 24:25
  Stayed up all night to read when, she had Renesmee.
• 24:28
  Yeah.
• 24:29
  What I hate is when I picture the characters so different in my head- Uh-huh than what they cast.
• 24:34
  Yeah.
• 24:34
  Oh, God, it makes me so angry.
• 24:35
  Me too.
• 24:37
  It, it just is hard for me to switch gears.
• 24:39
  Yeah.
• 24:40
  Yeah.
• 24:41
  What's- So- Yeah since you mentioned execution, can we talk about Christa Pike real quick?
• 24:47
  Yeah.
• 24:48
  You read about her?
• 24:49
  Yeah.
• 24:49
  Or seen, I mean, have you seen it all?
• 24:51
  Yes.
• 24:51
  Yeah.
• 24:51
  So quick, quick background.
• 24:54
  They tried to execute her this week, and it was unsuccessful, in Tennessee.
• 24:57
  So she's 50 years old.
• 24:58
  She was 18 in 1995 when she killed and actually tortured 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.
• 25:04
  Yeah.
• 25:05
  And so she's been in jail this whole time, and they tried to, lethal injection her.
• 25:10
  What- however you say that properly.
• 25:12
  Yeah.
• 25:13
  This week,, they try to give her, two doses or something.
• 25:16
  Uh-huh.
• 25:17
  And she ended up, she's still alive.
• 25:19
  They took her away in an ambulance, and I guess we're just waiting to see what happens next.
• 25:24
  Something I said r- like, this is the worst time There, there's a lot of bad times to make a mistake, but something I read said, the IV wasn't in her vein.
• 25:32
  Somebody's getting fired You think?
• 25:36
  But that's such a basic thing.
• 25:37
  I feel like most nurse- now some are better than others at that kind of stuff, but I feel like that's one of those, Okay, you need to know how to do that one." And if you're not confident and you put it in and you're like,"Eh," then you go get the charge nurse.
• 25:49
  Yeah.
• 25:49
  And they come and they're like,"I got you." Yeah.
• 25:51
  Or even a doctor will do that, like if it's that difficult.
• 25:54
  I could not believe that.
• 25:55
  But then I did read that she refused her last meal or whatever and Mm I don't know if she wasn't drinking and so were her vein...
• 26:01
  Was she dehydrated?
• 26:02
  'Cause it's harder to do- Oh, yeah that- True when people are dehydrated.
• 26:05
  True.
• 26:06
  So I was thinking maybe she went on a fast or whatever and that's why they couldn't do it right.
• 26:12
  I don't- Yeah really know.
• 26:13
  I don't, I'm not, I'm not in the medical field- I- thank God, so I really don't know.
• 26:17
  I'm making shit up right now.
• 26:19
  It sounds, yeah, absol- that's what happened, absolutely.
• 26:21
  No, it sounds really good.
• 26:22
  It sounds logical.
• 26:23
  I told my sister, I was like,"You know, she is so evil," and I don't really know her, but obviously she did a very evil deed.
• 26:30
  Yeah.
• 26:30
  But, she's so evil, even the devil was like,"Nope." Hard pass?
• 26:33
  Yep, you get to stay up there.
• 26:36
  Don't want you down here.
• 26:37
  No, no, no, no, no.
• 26:38
  But I thought that was crazy.
• 26:40
  It's like the first woman they've executed or maybe even the first person in a super long time.
• 26:43
  Yeah.
• 26:44
  But yeah,, I'm just interested to see what they decide.
• 26:48
  What do they do?
• 26:48
  Like- Right did she serve her sentence because they technically attempted it?
• 26:53
  Or- Or yeah, they're like,"You win"?
• 26:55
  I mean, is there like some kind of catch-22 where like sh- she's now free because- No she served her sentence?
• 27:01
  But she di- I mean, she did her part.
• 27:03
  I mean- She was like,"I'm here for you to execute me.
• 27:05
  It's not my fault that you couldn't." I don't, I don't know.
• 27:09
  And then- Mm I mean, just kill her, right?
• 27:11
  Like why bring her to the hospital?
• 27:13
  Right.
• 27:14
  I don't get it.
• 27:16
  I don't either.
• 27:18
  Like can we not just...
• 27:20
  No, that is torture.
• 27:21
  Try, try again.
• 27:21
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:23
  I mean, she's gonna die anyway, Right just put another needle in.
• 27:26
  Let's just try the other arm.
• 27:28
  I've had them take it from the top of my hands.
• 27:29
  Can we stick it in there?
• 27:30
  Yeah.
• 27:30
  I don't know.
• 27:31
  And I don't know if she had any reaction at all, like I don't know if it affected her at all.
• 27:34
  Well, She said,"Is my arm supposed to be stinging?" or something like that when they- Okay injected her.
• 27:40
  So she did make a comment that it felt weird, but I don't know if they ever responded to her.
• 27:45
  But she did make the comment of like- Is this-"Is it supposed to like sting and feel like this?" Is it supposed to hurt when you kill me?
• 27:52
  We do it humanely now.
• 27:53
  We don't impale.
• 27:55
  Okay, thank God.
• 27:56
  But yeah, that's crazy.
• 27:58
  And I don't understand, again, not a physician or scientist or anything, they still put the combination of drugs in her.
• 28:06
  Is that still not absorbed?
• 28:08
  Or I guess by the time it's absorbed into her body- Metabolized the potency and stuff I don't know I know, cuckoo Yeah.
• 28:16
  so I was on TikTok the other day.
• 28:17
  This is, kinda off-topic.
• 28:19
  Well, not really off-topic, but, off of our scheduled- Yeah, yeah notes or whatever.
• 28:23
  And there was a live streamer doing interviews on the street in Colorado.
• 28:29
  And, this Hispanic guy comes running up, in tears, crying, like, running and freaking out, and the live streamer was like,"What's going on?" And this big, tall Black man- Mm-hmm was walking up, and he's like,"He's gonna eat me.
• 28:43
  He's trying to, like, bite me.
• 28:44
  You can't turn me." And while this is, like, live streaming, right?
• 28:48
  And so the, the dude comes, strolling up, big old smile, just smiling away, and he's like,"I don't know.
• 28:53
  Like, he was running, so I just ran with him.
• 28:55
  We were running together." I mean, come on.
• 28:57
  Yeah.
• 28:58
  This dude was literally crying.
• 28:59
  Yeah, like he was, he was feeling- He was- Yeah like, trying to hide behind the guy.
• 29:01
  He's like,"Help me, help me," like, totally freaking out.
• 29:05
  And psychopath walks up like- they were interviewing his brother.
• 29:08
  And- The big guy's brother?
• 29:09
  Yeah, and they're both just, smiling away, and I was like, OMG.
• 29:14
  And never once said like,"I'm not- Right a vampire." Right.
• 29:18
  "I'm not-" Never denied it.
• 29:19
  No.
• 29:19
  Just talked around us.
• 29:20
  Smiling away, like happy-go-lucky,"This is all great." And so he's like, I'll leave you here.
• 29:26
  And the guy's like,"No, go to the other side of the street.
• 29:27
  Get away from me." Like,"You can't touch me." Oh, my gosh.
• 29:30
  Do you remember where they were?
• 29:31
  Somewhere in Colorado.
• 29:32
  Okay.
• 29:32
  Yeah.
• 29:32
  No, you said that, I'm sorry.
• 29:33
  But- That's insane.
• 29:35
  Yeah.
• 29:35
  What TikTok did you send me about vampires or reel or something?
• 29:40
  Didn't you send me one?
• 29:40
  I did.
• 29:41
  Crazy story that you and I were just talking about, and we had kinda sent a TikTok back and forth, and you said you saw it before.
• 29:46
  Mm-hmm.
• 29:47
  But there's this guy, his name is Ron Clark, and he's on TikTok talking about his experiences about when he went to, I think he said Transylvania.
• 29:56
  Do you wanna cut this out too?
• 29:57
  No, I'm laughing.
• 29:58
  Experiences.
• 29:59
  Oh my gosh.
• 30:01
  I need a thesaurus.
• 30:03
  Every time I, I hear that word, I think of Matt Rife.
• 30:06
  I actually went this past, week and wrote down,'cause you know I always say 100%, and I wrote down like some different phrases to use.
• 30:14
  Uh-huh.
• 30:14
  Obviously that got stuck'cause I already said it one time today.
• 30:17
  But anyway, this guy's name is Ron Clark, and he tells this amazing story, and he's in Transylvania.
• 30:24
  And what I loved about this is he's got the receipts.
• 30:28
  Yeah.
• 30:28
  He's got photos and videos of And you can tell it's him as a younger person.
• 30:34
  The whole vibe of the'90s was coming through.
• 30:37
  But go just watch him.
• 30:40
  And I love, like, he's got an accent.
• 30:42
  Like a- Oh, yeah like a Southern accent.
• 30:44
  Uh-huh.
• 30:44
  Uh-huh.
• 30:45
  I grew up up north, so like this was not my- Right so hearing him tell this story in a Southern accent and looking at his pictures of him with like his little, like, dread braids- Yeah.
• 30:56
  Uh-huh or whatever he had going on.
• 30:57
  Yeah.
• 30:57
  And like he looked like he would've been like a raver- Yeah so I'm picturing like the vibe of- Mm-hmm.
• 31:02
  Mm-hmm it was, it was pure gold.
• 31:04
  Yeah.
• 31:05
  So yeah, go find him.
• 31:06
  Mm-hmm.
• 31:06
  Watch that story because he- The highlight of it for me was the large male nun with a beard.
• 31:16
  Yes.
• 31:16
  Just gonna throw that out there.
• 31:17
  Yeah.
• 31:17
  If that doesn't entice you, then don't run to his page.
• 31:20
  But if it does, head on over after you finish the podcast today.
• 31:23
  Yeah.
• 31:24
  Go watch it.
• 31:25
  Yeah.
• 31:26
  It's pure gold.
• 31:26
  Uh-huh.
• 31:27
  Yeah.
• 31:27
  He's a great storyteller.
• 31:28
  Yeah.
• 31:29
  Oh, wow.
• 31:29
  You know who wasn't a good storyteller?
• 31:31
  Me.
• 31:31
  The doc- the documentary we watched.
• 31:35
  You're great.
• 31:36
  I am not.
• 31:37
  You're my, number one or storyteller.
• 31:38
  I'm a terrible storyteller.
• 31:40
  You wanna play a game?
• 31:42
  Maybe.
• 31:44
  Maybe.
• 31:44
  You looked at me, like, with your eyes twinkling and all, like, sideways, and I'm a little nervous.
• 31:50
  What's up?
• 31:51
  Would you let them bite you?
• 31:52
  Yes.
• 31:53
  Okay, so- I mean, not yes I would let them bite me, but yes, I wanna play the game.
• 31:56
  Okay.
• 31:56
  So, we have a list of famous vampires from TVs or movies.
• 32:02
  I love that your cookies are here.
• 32:03
  I'm sorry.
• 32:03
  Oh, those are not my cookies.
• 32:04
  Those are the dog's cookies.
• 32:05
  Oh, okay.
• 32:06
  Dylan did try one, though.
• 32:07
  He did.
• 32:07
  What did he say?
• 32:08
  He said it tasted like a peanut butter cookie.
• 32:10
  Okay.
• 32:11
  Good to know.
• 32:12
  Good to know what the dogs are eating.
• 32:14
  He didn't realize at first that it was a dog cookie.
• 32:16
  I mean, same.
• 32:18
  Okay, go ahead and say that over.
• 32:19
  All right, so we are going to, go back and forth, name a famous TV or movie vampire- Okay and would you let them bite you and why?
• 32:28
  Oh, okay.
• 32:29
  Okay.
• 32:29
  I mean, but I'm just gonna be...
• 32:32
  Okay, I'm gonna be me.
• 32:35
  Same.
• 32:35
  Okay.
• 32:36
  You never ask for anybody different.
• 32:37
  No, I love you just the way you are.
• 32:40
  I love you.
• 32:40
  Let's go.
• 32:40
  Okay, I'll go first.
• 32:41
  Damian Salvatore from The Originals.
• 32:43
  Hell yes.
• 32:44
  Why?
• 32:45
  Because it's Damian Salvatore.
• 32:46
  Right, there, like, there's some that you don't exist- It's just my bad boy brother yeah, yeah vibe.
• 32:51
  Yeah.
• 32:52
  Yeah.
• 32:52
  Okay.
• 32:53
  I, I- I, I will be indebted to him for life.
• 32:58
  Heck yes.
• 32:59
  Would you?
• 32:59
  Yeah.
• 33:00
  Yeah?
• 33:00
  Yeah, same.
• 33:01
  He's, he's pretty smoking.
• 33:02
  He can lick forever.
• 33:04
  Teeth.
• 33:06
  All good.
• 33:07
  Honestly, let me go ahead and say I don't think I'm gonna say no to a lot of these.
• 33:10
  Yeah, if you can go vampire.
• 33:14
  Okay.
• 33:15
  Your turn.
• 33:15
  Yeah.
• 33:16
  Stefan Salvatore.
• 33:17
  Oh, yeah.
• 33:18
  Yeah, not as, much of a hard yes- Right but- But it can still happen yeah, I mean, it'll get me closer to Damian.
• 33:26
  Your vampire-in-law.
• 33:30
  Vampire by whatever.
• 33:31
  Uh, Klaus?
• 33:33
  Hell yes.
• 33:33
  I don't remember what he looks like.
• 33:34
  My gosh, oh.
• 33:36
  Yes, he's the original vampire.
• 33:37
  I know, but I can't remember him.
• 33:39
  I watched that a little bit, but not a lot.
• 33:41
  Oh, I watched it, three times.
• 33:42
  Okay.
• 33:42
  The whole thing.
• 33:45
  So you're saying I need to watch it again?
• 33:47
  Uh, yeah.
• 33:48
  Okay.
• 33:49
  Actually, he has his own show.
• 33:50
  Like, it was, like, The Originals.
• 33:52
  Really?
• 33:52
  Like a spinoff of it?
• 33:52
  Yeah.
• 33:52
  Oh, yeah.
• 33:53
  See?
• 33:54
  Um- And that's on here, actually Mm-hmm.
• 34:04
  Less yes than Stefan.
• 34:06
  Really?
• 34:07
  Mm-hmm.
• 34:07
  No, no, like you have to hear his accent.
• 34:08
  Okay.
• 34:09
  He's got the accent.
• 34:10
  Well, you know how I feel about those.
• 34:11
  Yeah.
• 34:11
  But, but less, yeah, still, okay, still take a nibble, but yeah.
• 34:15
  Oh.
• 34:15
  Yeah.
• 34:16
  No, he's like the, ultimate bad boy- Okay with an accent.
• 34:19
  Okay.
• 34:20
  But then you see like little glimpses of Some good?
• 34:23
  A little bit of good.
• 34:24
  Okay.
• 34:24
  Like, like when he wants to be.
• 34:25
  Uh-huh.
• 34:25
  Okay.
• 34:26
  You know, like I have really- Yeah a hard time with that.
• 34:32
  We know.
• 34:32
  Yeah.
• 34:33
  We know.
• 34:33
  Okay.
• 34:33
  That's okay.
• 34:34
  You wanna do- Edward.
• 34:35
  Ooh, Edward.
• 34:36
  I'm not a Edward...
• 34:37
  I wasn't an Edward fan.
• 34:38
  I was not either.
• 34:38
  Mm-mm.
• 34:39
  Okay, so if he, if he needs to drink blood so he doesn't die- I would give him some blood right, but I'm not gonna be the first to line up and I think I would like just do a little like cut and- Uh-huh and put it in a shot glass for him.
• 34:52
  And let him take it that way.
• 34:54
  I don't think.
• 34:56
  Uh, yeah, I, I- I don't want like teeth on me.
• 34:59
  No.
• 34:59
  No.
• 35:00
  No.
• 35:00
  But I would let Emmett.
• 35:02
  Yes.
• 35:05
  Or Jasper, the next two.
• 35:08
  Yes, but not Edward.
• 35:12
  No.
• 35:12
  A hard pass.
• 35:13
  No.
• 35:14
  Felt they could have cast him better.
• 35:15
  We're gonna get some hate off of that, so people- I, you know what?
• 35:18
  Keep your opinions to you.
• 35:19
  I was- This is our podcast.
• 35:22
  I was Team Jacob anyway.
• 35:24
  So.
• 35:24
  Yeah.
• 35:25
  Yes.
• 35:26
  They need to redo like the rest of those movies but have her choose Jacob.
• 35:30
  Yeah.
• 35:31
  And then- Yeah, mm-hmm.
• 35:34
  That'll never happen.
• 35:35
  No.
• 35:37
  So I don't remember which character is which from, um, Interview with a Vampire.
• 35:42
  I don't either.
• 35:43
  But I was never a big Brad Pitt fan.
• 35:45
  I was a Brad Pitt fan.
• 35:46
  I was never.
• 35:47
  Not a Tom Cruise fan.
• 35:48
  Me either.
• 35:49
  Not a Tom Cruise fan.
• 35:50
  Es- but yeah, Brad Pitt, okay, if you insist.
• 35:54
  I mean- Yeah if I had to choose between the two, I choose Brad Pitt.
• 35:58
  Do what you need to do.
• 35:59
  Yeah.
• 35:59
  Yeah.
• 36:00
  Do what you need to do.
• 36:01
  But I don't wanna be bound to you for life.
• 36:02
  No.
• 36:02
  No.
• 36:03
  And I don't want you to like invade my memories or be able to control me or anything like that.
• 36:07
  Mm-mm.
• 36:07
  Right.
• 36:08
  I pass on- Yeah on all that.
• 36:09
  Yeah.
• 36:10
  But I mean, if you, if I had to choose.
• 36:12
  Right.
• 36:13
  Yeah.
• 36:15
  Whatever.
• 36:17
  You wanna do the next one?
• 36:18
  Um, Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
• 36:21
  Probably.
• 36:22
  Yeah.
• 36:23
  Yeah.
• 36:24
  I wouldn't say no.
• 36:25
  No.
• 36:25
  So okay, just- Whatever.
• 36:31
  What about Angel?
• 36:33
  Hell yes yes.
• 36:35
  Out of all of these, yes.
• 36:37
  Yeah.
• 36:38
  Yeah.
• 36:40
  That's a hard yes.
• 36:41
  Yep.
• 36:41
  Hard yes.
• 36:43
  Okay, let's, let's just keep moving..
• 36:45
  I don't remember Lost Boys.
• 36:47
  I think that's the one...
• 36:48
  Was that the one with Kiefer Sutherland?
• 36:49
  Oh, maybe.
• 36:50
  That's a no.
• 36:51
  Yeah, no.
• 36:51
  That's a hard no.
• 36:53
  So yeah, apparently we both have a thing for vampires, especially the hotter and badder and beefier maybe?
• 36:58
  Yeah.
• 37:02
  We have a type.
• 37:05
  Yep.
• 37:07
  That was pretty funny.
• 37:08
  That was pretty funny.
• 37:10
  Yeah.
• 37:10
  Well, I did find a Am I the A-Hole- Oh, yay it just referenced the word vampire, so it kind of went with our theme, but it's- Okay not super vampire,"am I the a-hole for being a vampire?""Okay, obviously not really a vampire, but my boyfriend works nights and I'm on disability, so I mostly..." If she's a vampire, she should be disabled?
• 37:32
  Well, it's just she obviously- Okay.
• 37:33
  Okay really- Not really.
• 37:34
  So she's a fake vam- Okay,"I'm a fake vampire." No, I'm just kidding.
• 37:39
  Okay,"So obviously not really a vampire, but my boyfriend works nights and I'm on disability, so I mostly keep to his schedule unless I'm at a doctor's appointment.
• 37:46
  We have roommates that work during normal hours, but on the weekends or weekdays when they're home, they continue on being their normal selves at normal people volumes, and that's perfectly fine." Whatever.
• 37:57
  Doesn't sound like it's perfectly fine.
• 37:58
  No.
• 37:59
  "Last night while making dinner, I decided to put on a record.
• 38:02
  Now, the record player is in the living room and I was in the kitchen, so the volume would've been loud enough to be noticeable in the rooms with sleeping people.
• 38:09
  I know this as a fact because my boyfriend, who was working from home, came out and scolded me for playing it so loud while other people in the household are sleeping.
• 38:17
  His argument is that because we have the odd schedule, we should be mindful even though the other roomies aren't mindful of our odd schedule.
• 38:25
  I say everyone should be able to live their lives as they normally would, no matter what time of day or night it happens to be.
• 38:31
  I've talked to the other roommates before about doing loudish things at night when they looked at me like they had no...
• 38:37
  And they looked at me like they had no clue what I was talking about, so I'm pretty sure they're heavy sleepers.
• 38:41
  I guess I could just ask them, but in the court of public opinion, which way do you rule?
• 38:47
  Am I the a-hole?" Yeah.
• 38:49
  I think if she's already spoke to them about it and they didn't have any issue with it, then no I actually, I said yeah and I meant no.
• 39:01
  You know what?
• 39:01
  I used to have that problem when I would...
• 39:03
  Okay, God, this is terrible.
• 39:04
  When I would umpire- Yeah and I'd, like, say something, I'm like, in my head I'm like,"Oh, crap, I meant the other thing," and then, like, the call was wrong, and people are like,"Boo!" And I'm like,"Oh, crap." Same thing, instant reaction, and I shouldn't have meant...
• 39:15
  I don't think she's an a-hole.
• 39:17
  No.
• 39:17
  It's your house.
• 39:18
  They're doing the same thing.
• 39:19
  Y- you both need to be doing either both quiet- Sure when either are asleep or both living your lives when the other's- Right asleep.
• 39:25
  So I don't think you are.
• 39:27
  And if they went into this house, whatever, co-op- Mm-hmm, yeah knowing that there's gonna be different schedules- Right I would assume that there would have been some kind of conversation about it.
• 39:36
  Mm-hmm.
• 39:37
  Which, and then again, it sounds like she already spoke to everybody about the problem- Right and they were like,"What are you talking about?
• 39:42
  We're cool." Yeah, not a big deal.
• 39:44
  And my other thing is, okay, so just move the record player.
• 39:46
  Yeah.
• 39:47
  If you, if it's an issue for everybody, but- Who uses records anymore?
• 39:51
  D- uh, was, was this from like 1981?
• 39:54
  What did we do?
• 39:57
  Eight years ago, but still.
• 39:58
  Still.
• 39:59
  But still.
• 40:00
  Like- But get your iPod.
• 40:01
  That was DVD, or, uh, CDs.
• 40:03
  No, were we still, like, on MP3s then?
• 40:06
  Eight years ago?
• 40:07
  Yeah,'cause- Would've been, like, 20- 2018 2018.
• 40:12
  Why was that so hard?
• 40:13
  I don't know.
• 40:14
  2018.
• 40:15
  Yeah.
• 40:15
  Yeah.
• 40:15
  We had phones that played music.
• 40:17
  Yeah.
• 40:19
  And now the sound of a record player is pretty cool, unlike alt music.
• 40:23
  I will give her that.
• 40:24
  But at the same time But who plays records?
• 40:27
  The average person- Right yeah.
• 40:30
  Okay.
• 40:30
  Well- So no, you're not.
• 40:32
  No.
• 40:32
  But figure out your living situation, and I hope you did by now.
• 40:36
  But why does it matter that she's on disability?
• 40:39
  Okay.
• 40:40
  'Cause she's at home all night- I guess awake and sleeps during the day.
• 40:44
  I think that's what she's getting at, like she's still kept the same schedule as her boyfriend even though she's not working.
• 40:48
  Okay.
• 40:49
  Valid.
• 40:49
  Thanks.
• 40:50
  We did not schedule, a book or whatever, so we decided to do a documentary, and we are not going to recommend this documentary.
• 40:56
  No, not at all.
• 40:57
  Was the, uh, next year when we ha- or the next, like, when we hit 200 episodes and we- Yeah do, like, the little- The worst awards, this is gonna be the worst documentary- Worst that we ever- It was terrible.
• 41:08
  I'm glad you didn't like it either, because I was feeling a little No, I hated it.
• 41:13
  Yeah.
• 41:14
  It wasn't that you didn't like it, you di- I hated it too.
• 41:17
  I can't get that time of my life back.
• 41:20
  And it was relatively short.
• 41:21
  Yeah, it was like a, what, hour and a half maybe?
• 41:23
  I don't even know if it was that long.
• 41:24
  No, it was- But I had, it took- It felt like- six hours to watch it- Yeah, it felt like-'cause I couldn't understand a word they said.
• 41:29
  So we did The Curse of the Highgate Vampire.
• 41:31
  It was on HBO Max.
• 41:32
  And I'm also pissed off'cause I didn't have HBO Max.
• 41:35
  I thought it was Hulu.
• 41:36
  Well, not on regular Hulu.
• 41:38
  Oh.
• 41:38
  You had to upgrade it.
• 41:39
  Oh.
• 41:39
  So I had to pay$7 for this piece of shit.
• 41:42
  Oh, mm-hmm.
• 41:42
  It's okay, I'm gonna use it to watch something else.
• 41:44
  Yeah.
• 41:45
  And you know, I, nerd, again, you're not a nerd, but you do We love documentaries.
• 41:49
  Yeah.
• 41:50
  And I love accents.
• 41:52
  This wasn't it- No at all.
• 41:54
  I could not understand, and I tried to put the subtitles on- Mm-hmm and it wouldn't, they wouldn't go on.
• 41:59
  So it was just, it was just quite a bit of a mess.
• 42:02
  Don't watch it.
• 42:03
  Don't watch it.
• 42:04
  Waste your time.
• 42:05
  It was, it starts really creepy.
• 42:06
  It gave me a lot of Blair Witch vibes.
• 42:07
  Ugh.
• 42:08
  Just the way it was like Because it's personal recording stuff.
• 42:11
  Do we even wanna talk about it or just tell people not to watch it?
• 42:14
  Well, I mean, we can do this or do a little recap of it, but, like- hard pass.
• 42:18
  Don't do it.
• 42:19
  It was terrible.
• 42:20
  So Highgate Cemetery is in North London, and it's all based there, and it's basically people seeing things.
• 42:27
  Let's just do a really high version, but basically, think people think they're seeing things, feeling things, they're hearing things in the cemetery.
• 42:34
  So there's this one dude who, tries to do a lot of research on it.
• 42:37
  His name was David something, I think, and he was, like, the lead research guy.
• 42:42
  Ugh.
• 42:42
  Was that his name?
• 42:43
  I don't know.
• 42:43
  I- try to block it out.
• 42:47
  It doesn't matter.
• 42:47
  So what, say his name was David.
• 42:49
  He did a lot of research on the whole thing, and then he dies, and then people are back in there, and they're like,"Who am I?
• 42:55
  Who's here?
• 42:56
  Who am I talking to?" And he's like, they think they hear his name being said.
• 42:59
  Yeah.
• 42:59
  So it just turns into a whole spiral of people, trying to, see what's going on in the graveyard and be there when the creepy things happen, and then we see more people.
• 43:08
  The one thing that I did think was funny, I thought two things were funny.
• 43:11
  Number one, they show somebody, in a library and they're looking at microfilm.
• 43:16
  Oh.
• 43:16
  And I was like,"That'll bring back some memories." And the other thing was, is there was one situation where people were, like, storming the cemetery, and they kept referencing that people were going over the gates- Mm or over the, fence.
• 43:30
  Like, was there not a gate?
• 43:31
  Yeah.
• 43:32
  Nobody let people...
• 43:33
  They're like, pitchforks- Yeah and stuff, just, climbing and getting in there.
• 43:35
  So during that, right?
• 43:36
  And I'm picturing, the stake gates, you know, like with the- Yes.
• 43:39
  Yeah.
• 43:39
  Yeah.
• 43:40
  Or like stake fences, like- Uh, like with the pointy top.
• 43:42
  Yeah.
• 43:43
  Yeah, yeah.
• 43:43
  Like, the Impaler is back.
• 43:44
  Right.
• 43:45
  I thought the same thing, and I didn't even research Vlad.
• 43:48
  Yeah.
• 43:48
  So yeah, it was just not great.
• 43:50
  Just a lot of hibbity hobbla about nothing.
• 43:53
  I love that you just said that.
• 43:57
  Ah, so yeah, don't watch it.
• 43:59
  Don't watch it.
• 44:00
  Mm-mm.
• 44:00
  It was terrible.
• 44:01
  But there is a new documentary on YouTube that, had a lot of attention on social media, and I didn't find it until after we had decided to do this one.
• 44:12
  Okay.
• 44:12
  But I haven't watched it yet, so I can't- Okay say yes or no, but it is called...
• 44:16
  Vampires of Lafayette, which sounds like it would be way better because of it's Louisiana.
• 44:21
  Yeah.
• 44:22
  And Lafayette is where True Blood took place.
• 44:25
  Oh, okay.
• 44:27
  Like it was like around- Uh, yeah that area.
• 44:29
  Did you read the True Blood, like those books?
• 44:31
  No.
• 44:32
  Oh, those were really good books.
• 44:33
  Are they good books?
• 44:33
  Yeah.
• 44:33
  Okay.
• 44:34
  Uh, the Charlaine Harris books.
• 44:35
  Um, and then they made that into True Blood- Yeah the series.
• 44:38
  Yeah.
• 44:39
  Which was really good too.
• 44:40
  I didn't watch that.
• 44:41
  I don't know- I think it's on HBO.
• 44:43
  Well, now that I have HBO Max- Yeah maybe I can get my$7 worth.
• 44:47
  I watched that like probably two or three times too.
• 44:49
  Okay.
• 44:49
  Like the entire thing over when, like over the years.
• 44:52
  Sometimes I get mad when like a book is ending, and I just want it...
• 44:55
  And then you try to read it again, and it's great, but it's not like, same thing with a series.
• 44:58
  Yeah.
• 44:59
  Like you don't want it to end.
• 45:00
  Yeah.
• 45:00
  You don't want it to...
• 45:02
  There's a lot of, um, nudity- Okay in the show.
• 45:06
  Okay.
• 45:06
  So just don't watch- There was a lot of nudity in the High Gate vampire thing.
• 45:09
  Yeah.
• 45:09
  They were naked pentagram people.
• 45:11
  Yeah, yeah.
• 45:13
  But- yeah, there's lots of sex and stuff, so just- Okay.
• 45:17
  If Jackson's around you- like wanna have to have that awkward moment.
• 45:21
  Yeah.
• 45:23
  Go get me something to drink, Jackson.
• 45:25
  I'm just kidding.
• 45:26
  I, God, the first, what movie were we watching?
• 45:28
  It was a scary movie.
• 45:30
  'Cause you know scary movies, like back in like the'80s,'90s, always had to show boobs.
• 45:33
  Oh, yeah.
• 45:33
  And Dylan, all of October we would watch scary movies- Mm-hmm when he was younger, like teenager, 12, 13, whatever.
• 45:41
  Mm-hmm.
• 45:41
  And we were watching, final destination- Final Destination but it was like two or three.
• 45:45
  Yeah.
• 45:45
  Like it was like the second or third one, and boobs just came out, and I was like,"Cover your eyes," and he's like,"Mom." And I was like,"Oh God, this is, this is awful." So- That's terrible how, so Dylan is, gosh, he's almost 19, isn't he?
• 45:59
  Yeah, him being 19 next month.
• 46:01
  So when he was like 15, 16, did you kind of play it the same way when, when you're watching something and there's nudity?
• 46:09
  Uh, I, I still do.
• 46:12
  Well, I wasn't sure with him being a, a legit adult.
• 46:15
  I am not grown up enough to be in these situations.
• 46:17
  So Brian's not grown up enough either, so here's what we do.
• 46:21
  We watch a movie- And again, just random boobs jiggling all over the screen.
• 46:27
  Jackson might not even notice,'cause you know, always scrolling his phone and stuff, and Brian'll be like,"Well, hello." Or, you know, m- And I'm like,"Babe." Draws attention to the fact.
• 46:38
  Or he'll say, you know, just make comments like,"I, okay," you know what I'm saying.
• 46:41
  And I'm just like,"We coulda just let that play out." Yeah.
• 46:44
  Yeah.
• 46:44
  And I do the opposite.
• 46:46
  I try to distract Jackson.
• 46:47
  Yeah.
• 46:47
  So if he's of the least bit paying attention and I'm like okay, I'm getting a vibe that something's getting ready to happen.
• 46:53
  I'm like,"So Jackson, tell me about this algebra grade," or whatever, to get his eyes on me, and then I have to like one eye it on the TV.
• 47:01
  Oh my God.
• 47:02
  I know.
• 47:02
  I like throwin' blankets, I always like put blankets over, I'd be interested to know what other people do.
• 47:10
  Yeah, tell us what y'all do.
• 47:11
  If y'all are still here and you're still listening to this randomness, let us know if you like try to distract your teenage boys, while they're watching movies- They're- when there's some boobs jiggling on the screen.
• 47:20
  I'm not grown up enough to be a parent.
• 47:21
  Like, who let me be a parent?
• 47:25
  And then sometimes Brian'll start making these comments, I'm sorry, I'm just telling on Brian today, it's funny, it's, it's okay.
• 47:31
  And he'll be like, you know, and I think it, like a comedian said something like,"People say, you know, you've seen one boob, you've seen them all," and nope, I wanna see them all.
• 47:40
  I don't care what they look like.
• 47:41
  I don't care.
• 47:42
  And sometimes he'll reference that a little bit.
• 47:45
  Like, yeah, who let Brian be a parent?
• 47:50
  Brian, we're in the same boat.
• 47:51
  Yeah.
• 47:52
  So.
• 47:52
  Yeah.
• 47:53
  That's okay.
• 47:55
  Well, I think that's all we have.
• 47:57
  I think we need to stop.
• 47:58
  Yeah.
• 47:58
  This is a little lame, y'all.
• 48:02
  Yeah.
• 48:02
  See, because we've done documentaries and we haven't been able to like really catch up on stuff, and so here we are, and you just got diarrhea of the mouth, everybody.
• 48:09
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• 48:11
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• 48:12
  What are we doing next week?
• 48:13
  More scary shit.
• 48:15
  Yeah, but are we doing a book, or are we doing- week two, don't go into the woods.
• 48:18
  Cryptoids and spooky lore Okay so next week, we are going to stick with the documentary for right now- Mm-hmm and watch Sasquatch, which is on Hulu.
• 48:28
  That's just the name of it?
• 48:29
  Sasquatch, yeah.
• 48:30
  That's a hard word for me to say, Sasquatch.
• 48:34
  Yeah.
• 48:34
  I did really good that time.
• 48:35
  You did.
• 48:35
  Okay.
• 48:36
  So anyway.
• 48:36
  All right, so yeah.
• 48:37
  I- Leave that out.
• 48:39
  We are having We're on the struggle bus today.
• 48:41
  Mm-hmm.
• 48:42
  But it's fun.
• 48:43
  So- Hoot, hoot.
• 48:45
  Next week, we are gonna do some spooky woods stuff, and- We're gonna watch Sasquatch, which is on Hulu.
• 48:53
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• 49:00
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