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Episode 50: SPOOKY MONTH CONTINUES CIRCUS! | Ghost Story Podcast Review | Circus Crimes | MomTok Drama | AITA · 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 Our Final Spooky Circus.
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Yes! And we are doing the circus theme.
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Circus theme! And we have our Awesome, amazing, beautiful fortune teller.
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I would love to tell you a fortune.
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That wasn't the accent I was going for.
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Oh, it was still good.
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So good.
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Then we have the ringmaster.
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Yes.
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and my costume did come with a whip.
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And we also had something for Rex.
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But it didn't work out.
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yeah, his, his lion mane came very small and it looked like a toupee.
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He looked like Donald Trump.
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That's hilarious.
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So, that did not work out.
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this is so perfect though.
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Like, You're the ringmaster of the show.
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So I don't know if I go that far.
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I actually a hundred percent would.
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And, I was going to be a clown.
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Oh, okay.
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So yeah, you know, you do know, like, that's like one of my biggest fears No.
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Is clowns.
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I had no idea.
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I hate clowns.
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I hate it.
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Like, well, you should have told me.
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Well, I was like, okay, I'm gonna, conquer my fear.
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that was a good transition.
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Like to have maybe the cloud.
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No, I legit hate clowns when I was little.
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Do you remember romper room?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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so when I was little, my mom got tickets to go see romper room in person, at Sesame place.
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And so we were so excited.
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I was like beyond, it was like my favorite show at the time.
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And there was a clown and he was pulling people out of the audience.
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I was like three, four.
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I mean, it was in pre K.
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And my birthday's in July, so I'm always like the youngest in class.
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And so he pulls me out of the audience and pulls out a water gun and starts chasing me around the outdoor arena thing.
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Oh my goodness.
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I was running, screaming, he didn't stop chasing me.
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Oh, my goodness.
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And what a first quote.
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That's probably one of your first memories.
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It is, yeah.
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And then, so, that Halloween, my mom had already bought my costume, which was a Clown.
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Yeah.
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So, my pre K picture, you can see all of my class.
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And there's me.
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I refused to let her put makeup on me.
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And I was, super, like, sour face.
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Well, then I, I'm sorry.
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That's a lot of people that just don't like clowns for whatever reason.
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They freak people out.
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Yeah.
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Then I'm glad my clown costume was a bust.
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But I have a love for horror movies.
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Yeah.
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And Dylan loves it.
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It, of course, so I watched it with him.
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I watched it like the first and the second one.
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And, he would laugh so hard.
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Cause I would like jump, literally jump at the jump scares, scream.
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I'm like, why are we watching this?
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And, yeah, so he thinks it's hysterical.
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That I'm sorry.
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No, you're good.
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It worked out good though.
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When you said that you were changing, I was like, woo.
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Yeah.
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Not facing my fears today.
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do you get, you said jump scare.
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Like if I'm in my room, you know, putting on makeup, doing something, putting clothes away, whatever.
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And somebody walks in do you get scared?
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Like, I know it's just Brian and Jackson in the house, but I do the whole, Yeah, every time that I love making people.
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Oh, I love scaring people.
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I love scaring people.
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Yeah.
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Like kind of behind something and jumping.
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Oh, I love it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Love it.
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Me too.
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Um, I just don't like it happen.
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Totally.
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100%.
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Do you like going out like haunted houses?
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I do.
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So do I.
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when I was probably seventh, eighth grade, my dad took us to one.
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and you know, the, the actors aren't a lot of touch you.
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And like, I was petrified and, um, I almost got kicked out of a haunted house.
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So the guy wouldn't leave me alone.
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It was like aggressively, you know, whatever.
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And I turned around and I hit him.
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Um, and I got in trouble before she did.
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So, one of the first years, I think it was the first year.
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I took Jackson and a bunch of his friends in like sixth grade, I think.
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And, one of them allegedly did hit somebody for the same reason.
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But they can touch you.
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Some of them, if they give you a one, like what some of them have a.
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Like a poster up and it's like, we can't touch you here, here.
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Um, so I guess it just depends on where, where it is, I guess.
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I don't know.
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Um, but yeah, I, I was always scared.
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They were going to grab me and, and yeah.
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And then Brandon and I went to a haunted house and he tried to get the actor to like, switch hands.
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Cause I was like, I was in front of them.
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We had a group.
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Yeah.
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So I was like in the middle.
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Brandon was behind me.
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Yeah.
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And he was trying to get the, the actor to switch hands with him so that I would be holding the actor's hand going through.
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And I was like, Nope.
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Back of the line or front of the line.
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Middle, middle.
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Sorry.
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I didn't give you that back.
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Middle or front?
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Middle.
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I'm a front of the line girl.
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Are you?
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No.
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Well, I feel like in the, okay, so definitely not in the back.
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No way.
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I don't want anything touching me or potentially being behind me.
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Middle, I feel like I can't see what's going on.
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Oh, so I'm okay with that?
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Like, yeah, you'll just navigate through with your eyes closed.
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And yeah, I just hold on to the person in front of me and pray and make it out alive.
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Well, the past few times we've gone, we haven't gone to any this year.
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Yeah.
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And, I love it.
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But the past few times I've been, I've been in the front and Jackson and his buddies don't want to be in the front.
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So they're in the middle and I'm like, don't like kind of jump out at me.
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And I'm like, don't get me and get the guy in the green shirt.
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You know, I'll like point out who to get.
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It's terrible.
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Um, well, we used to go to Scarawens.
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Yeah, so bananas now and I just don't have the Social grace right right anymore.
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Um to deal with like the craziness and All the stuff that goes along with yeah scarawens.
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Yeah.
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the little like slider guys.
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Oh, yeah, but like come and get you they kind of look like clowns But yeah, yeah, those freaked me out the first year.
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Yeah, cuz their knees pad spark Yeah, I don't know.
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I love being scared but I want to be in the middle and protected.
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That's so funny.
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It is what it is.
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It is what it is.
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Well, happy Halloween week.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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Yeah.
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Are you doing anything?
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No.
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It's on Thursday this year.
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So today's Tuesday.
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We're releasing on Tuesday.
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Like we always do.
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Look at me knowing what's going on.
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And this is also another special episode.
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It is.
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Our 50th episode.
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So thank you guys for, coming along for the ride.
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This has been a lot of fun.
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It has.
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So what else you, you were out of town last week.
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Yes.
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A little bit.
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Yes.
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Oh, so, um.
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When I was in the airport, this dude, he was a big dude.
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I was like walking to my gate and there was like a group, one family, in one row in the waiting area.
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And then there was another family of four.
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And of course we don't get political on here, but this is just part of this.
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The story is the one guy had a Trump shirt on or something Yeah.
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And the other family, I guess, had made comments.
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Like to each other about it.
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Okay.
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Big dude stands up and he goes off and when I tell you it was like 30 minutes of them Going back going back and forth security came and I was like, oh no I looked at to see where I was like, please don't be in my area Yeah, and so they were going atlanta.
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I'm like, oh, thank god.
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Yeah But yeah, they were just going back and forth.
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And I was just like, why can't everybody agree to disagree?
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Yeah.
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It doesn't have to be this, this big fight.
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Yeah.
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A hundred percent.
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And when people are usually when people are that Passion about it.
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You're not going to change your mind to having an argument in an airport.
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No but I just wish that everybody could just be civil and like respectful, right?
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I mean, there's no reason to make comments about what anybody's wearing Right.
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it's just like, do you, do you don't have to be so, I don't know, this world is just so crazy.
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and I'm tired of the political commercials on everything.
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And, and again, we're not going to get political.
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Trump is the best freaking petty Betty ever with his McDonald's tour.
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He is crazy.
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and then he just did a tweet on Twitter and I'm not on Twitter, but I just saw somebody make a post about it.
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Yeah.
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that he put That when he becomes president, he's gonna make every McDonald's ice cream machine work.
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Well, that seals the deal for me.
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And make ice cream great again.
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There is nothing more frustrating than when you want some ice cream and it's broken.
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his petty level is almost to the 50 cent level.
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And I, I just think it's so funny.
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It's so entertaining.
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Yeah.
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So I'm done.
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I'm tired of seeing it all over socials, even local elections that are coming up and just like the smear campaigns and dang text messages that are coming in like 20 a day.
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Right.
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I don't need that over it.
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over it.
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They call me different names.
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They're not even calling me Stephanie.
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They're like, Alessandra, who are you voting for?
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And hey, Jessica, did you know that it's time to vote?
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yeah.
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So I'm Stephanie and I'm Meredith.
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Oh gosh.
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So yeah, I am, I'm ready for this all to be done with one way or the other.
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A hundred percent.
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A hundred percent.
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so you listened to our pod cause we had no book.
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I did.
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Yes.
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and it was like a, Eight part series.
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Yeah, and then like a Q& A or something, I think, or something like that.
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yeah, so it was called Ghost Stories by Wondery.
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Yep.
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And this is a little blurb that they put out.
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Uh huh.
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Host Tristan Redman is a seasoned journalist who doesn't believe in ghosts, but weird things happened in his bedroom he lived in as a teenager.
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When he discovers years later that the next occupants of the same house have been visited by ghosts of a faceless woman, he's curious.
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Because it just so happens that Tristan's childhood home is right next door to the house where his wife's great grandmother, was murdered in 1937.
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Killed by two gunshots to the face.
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Could there be a connection between the ghost and the murder?
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Tristan decides to investigate and soon finds himself going where no son in law should go, deep into his wife's family history, asking questions no one wants answered.
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Dun dun dun.
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Right.
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You want me to start?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Um, it had me from the very beginning.
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It grabbed me.
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I actually listened through it twice just to, the whole thing.
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I mean, they were, it was short.
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It didn't feel like a lot.
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I jumped right into it and I listened through twice through the whole thing just because I was like, I want to figure all of this out.
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definitely entertaining to me.
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I thought it was well spoken.
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Um, yeah.
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very interesting to me.
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What'd you think?
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Definitely had me from the get go.
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Okay.
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Because I like the family drama.
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Yeah.
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I like the supernatural.
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Yeah.
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And of course, like the true crime aspect of it.
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I had so many elements that were just like, yes.
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Yeah.
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And I like the history part of it.
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Yeah.
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Yep.
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That's definitely your jam.
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But it ticked off a lot of the boxes that, you I would, it would grasp.
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And I like that they didn't over dramatize the family aspect.
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Yeah.
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It wasn't too drama y.
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Right.
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but it was enough that it was like, okay, but there might be some conflict.
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Right.
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Right.
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I thought, okay, so going back to, The family history.
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I thought it was so interesting that Naomi was the breadwinner.
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Like she was like a successful, especially for that time.
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Yeah.
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1930 something.
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Yeah.
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Father was the stay at home dad.
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Right.
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I wasn't expecting it.
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I wasn't expecting that either.
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Go Naomi.
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Yeah.
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Very yeah.
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Well, until you went.
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I feel like it was so crazy.
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The fact that it was his house and then his wife's great grandmother.
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Right?
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That almost at first I was like, there's no way this really happened.
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Like, it seemed to.
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coincidental.
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but that goes back to what they said in the thing is like, was the ghost trying to get them together?
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And yeah.
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what did you think about the part of the book where they're like, the bedroom where this happened is where their, relationship became official?
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It was funny to me the way that they were trying to say it without saying anything because she was like, I'm too British to say anything more.
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Um, so the accents had to be your jam.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yes.
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You know, I was into it.
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I was into it.
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Do you, who do you think did it?
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I think her husband did it.
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I do too.
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So what threw me, because you know, I do believe in like people that can reach out to, to spirits and stuff like that.
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I was very conflicted on the medium because after the first meeting, he could have went and researched after he knew like what they were looking for.
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Let's talk about the mediums.
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Cause they interviewed three, right?
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they interviewed two and it was kind of like what always think people are going to be like, Oh, you have someone dear to you named Jessica.
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Right, right, right.
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Or, you know, you're 40 years old.
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Did your grandmother pass?
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Well, yeah, because she would be, you know, 87 by now or whatever.
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That's a random age.
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So the first two were kind of that kind of vibe.
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And then the last one was just like this soft spoken laid back dude.
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Yeah.
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If that was his stick, it was working.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So that was the only part like that kind of made me like, okay, well, she, if he really did connect with Naomi and she's saying.
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that the brother did it.
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Yeah.
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But at first he said the husband, he did, and then it switched up.
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And that's when, when fader came out as a spirit.
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Yeah.
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And so I was like, well, is he still torturing her?
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Like, right.
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She's still scared of you.
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I really do.
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I thought it was super weird that he reached out to a crime.
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Novelist or like a writer shortly after that, like two weeks after the death and asking her if she wants to come look at the crime scene and like, right, explain, trying to explain things to her, right?
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That's like a sociopath psychopath thing to do.
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Yep.
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The vibe was, was just it.
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Yeah.
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I got that.
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Yeah.
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and then the whole spy aspect.
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Right.
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Oh my gosh.
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You know, I was all into that.
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And then they're like, well, he really wasn't a spy, but was he right?
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So if he was a spy, then he would know how to do all right.
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See a double agent.
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Yeah.
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All of that was really, really interesting to hear all the different pieces.
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And like you said, they didn't overdo the family drama, but they didn't overdo those things either.
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Like, you never really have, that was, that was a little frustrating for me, is that I felt like I never had a lot of, I want all the information.
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Yeah.
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And, even with the way it ended, We can get to that in a second.
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But yeah, I felt like they didn't, talk about things too much.
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I actually wanted more.
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Agreed.
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There wasn't any definitive information almost.
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He might have been, but right.
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But was he?
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Yeah.
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So, um, I don't know.
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It was great.
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I thought it was done really well and they kept you wanting more every episode, but you just didn't get that satisfied ending.
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Well, especially when The the narrator is talking to his daughter and he is like, you know, when you read, do they always catch the killer in the end?
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And she's like, well, yeah, why else would you read?
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Why else would you read it if they didn't Um, but yeah, I wanna know who did it.
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Yeah.
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Um, I had to look up the brother who they said is on me too, on order, because I was like, I don't know who this guy is.
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Who was it?
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I forgot.
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Um.
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I don't know.
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He's the, assistant DA.
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Okay.
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Law and order right now.
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Okay.
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And then they brought him on to do a part, like that was kind of, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I don't want to hear him do that a little bit.
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What did you think of the ending?
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Obviously, I was like, WTF?
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Like, give me a freaking answer.
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Right.
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He might have been, but he didn't, but we don't really know.
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Well, and the thing that got me too is, I mean, spoilers, obviously, but, when he was like was that the ghost that was in my house or something?
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And he was like, no, that was a different spirit.
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Like, Hat.
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Yeah.
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Um, it's going to be the second, season.
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Yes, absolutely.
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So, I mean, I liked it.
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I thought it was well done.
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It didn't give me enough information, but then I probably would complain that they talked about things too much.
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So I'm very hard to please apparently, but I did like it.
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I did like it.
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It wasn't bad.
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Again, I wanted a definitive answer.
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And I don't really feel like we got that.
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Yeah.
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The police that looked at the file said, they did it except for 1.
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yeah, which I kind of agree that there was.
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I don't see the way that the brother supposedly committed suicide is the way that anybody would choose.
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Especially when there's a gun there.
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Especially when there's a gun there.
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And especially when there was like the hesitation marks and stuff.
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Like, I don't know.
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That just, that threw me.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I guess if you're in a psychosis maybe, but I can't see.
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No.
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Anybody choosing that.
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Yeah.
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Like to do it to themselves.
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I can't see you following through with it the whole way.
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Me neither.
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Me neither.
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So that, that part I, yeah.
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Kind of clenched it for me.
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Yeah, a hundred percent.
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As a non-professional.
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as ser that stuff, yeah, no, I'm with you.
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I don't see, there are so many, even at that time, there were so many other options.
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If you wanted to take that road that you didn't have to use the knife on yourself like that So yeah, so I'm with the husband.
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Yeah, I with it.
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He did it.
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Moving on so what kind of Circusy stuff.
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Did you did you find for this week?
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Did you see anything?
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So I went down and You know, I always go down the rabbit holes.
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I found it kind of hard, though, to, like, find, crime stories.
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I didn't really find crime stories, but I listened to a podcast, and I'm going to tell you what it's called.
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I just listened to a few eps.
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Mm hmm.
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circus stories is what it's called a circus history podcast.
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Oh, so, you know, they just, the first few episodes talk about like PT Barnum and Bailey and, you know, just all that.
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And then it tells a little bit of the not necessarily crimes, but just the darker side.
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The darker side and just some of the weirdness of, I mean, services were freak shows back, you know, when they first started with the bearded lady.
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And I mean, not that that's a freaky thing, but you know what I mean?
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Like they, they drew all that though.
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Right.
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Right.
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Freak show or the side show or whatever.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So it was just a lot of, Just the history on, you know, some of these people and what kind of afflictions or whatever so yeah, I just went down that rabbit hole.
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It was an entertaining podcast Not my favorite, but I would you know If you're into it, right and if you're wanting to learn a little bit about some weird circus history go for it one of the funniest parts though is they were trying to describe what P.
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T.
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Barnum look like?
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And they just went off this thing, like naming all these random people.
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And it was just like, why are we wasting our time with what he looked like?
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Why, why do we care?
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Anyway, sidetrack.
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I didn't find a lot of crummy stuff, but just the weirdness of it, like the twistedness of it.
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Yeah.
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I thought there was going to be more like killer clown stuff, but there wasn't.
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Of course you did.
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But do you remember not too long ago, it was just a couple of years ago, People were dressing up like clowns and just standing outside.
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Yes.
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And how none of them got shot and killed is beyond me.
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Yes.
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Because let me tell you, well, I would probably either faint, like die because of a heart attack or take off running.
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But if I had, if I wasn't frozen in fear and I knew how to operate a weapon, there's a lot of variables in there.
19:41
I would have totally done that.
19:43
And yeah, they are so lucky.
19:45
Yeah, I remember we were coming home from something late at night, Brian and me, Jackson and Banthony, and, sometimes the GPS will just take you like a random way for whatever reason.
19:57
Well, it cut us through like this old neighborhood, like an old rundown kind of neighborhood.
20:03
And then there was a train track, and the train came through.
20:07
It was like, You know, 11, 12 o'clock at night, dark, and we stopped to let this train go through, and it was just one of those, you can, you can make it creepy, if you kept thinking about it, it would just keep, and I was like, and Anthony hates clowns, too, like, he, Anthony, sorry, fix that for me, yeah, he hates clowns, too, and I was like, what would you do if the clown just walked, like, there was nowhere for us to go, there was people behind us, though, you know, and he was like, He was you, right?
20:36
Yeah.
20:37
And then he just kept sitting there like freaked out for the next few minutes while the train went through.
20:41
But, but yes, I absolutely remember that.
20:43
I never saw one.
20:44
Neither did I.
20:44
Thank God.
20:45
You, thank God you probably would've just veered over into, I, I really don't know what I would do Uhhuh.
20:51
Why would people do that?
20:53
But again, I would either be on the ground dead because of a heart attack.
20:58
Or you'd still be running.
20:59
Yeah.
21:00
I would have like made it to like, Mexico.
21:03
Yeah.
21:05
But yeah, they were, I definitely remember that.
21:07
That was crazy.
21:07
Yeah.
21:08
So a weird, Little piece of information that I found was that, the circus started out as an adult entertainment type of thing where cause the women dressed so like scantily for that time.
21:22
And it was mostly men that would go to the circus and they got super rowdy.
21:26
It was like, they're boys night or whatever.
21:28
Drinking getting like, just stupid.
21:31
Yeah.
21:32
but the scantily clad lady.
21:34
Yeah.
21:34
and they would really egg on the, the entertainers.
21:37
yeah.
21:38
Just yell out just yeah, obnoxious.
21:41
Yeah.
21:41
And then as you know, time went on, it wasn't as.
21:47
I guess.
21:48
And that's when they turned more family friendly.
21:50
Okay.
21:50
I'd never heard that before.
21:52
Yeah.
21:52
I was like, that is crazy.
21:54
That is crazy that it started that way.
21:56
Yeah.
21:56
It was for adults.
21:57
It was like adult only shows.
21:59
Not that they were like doing like acts like but it was more risque.
22:03
Yes, then like today's time be nothing, right?
22:07
Yeah, but in the times that it started it was Women were revealing them ankles.
22:13
Yeah, exactly Exactly and like so they would have on their tight costumes.
22:16
Yeah, and you know skin showing right?
22:19
It was a big deal to the men.
22:20
I did not know either Yeah Did learn something well I did find two weird Crime stories.
22:27
Okay.
22:28
And they were from way back when.
22:30
Bring it.
22:31
there was two brothers in Roanoke, Virginia.
22:34
Okay.
22:35
And this was like back in, 1899.
22:37
Ooh.
22:38
Okay.
22:38
Yeah.
22:39
So, there were two African American albinos.
22:43
I've heard of them.
22:44
Yes.
22:44
Yeah.
22:44
Tell your story.
22:45
they had a very unique look.
22:47
Yes.
22:47
The Ringling Brothers circus came into town, in 1899.
22:51
And a freak show, hunter, they had hunters.
22:53
Mm-Hmm.
22:54
that searched for Mm-Hmm.
22:55
like weird abnormalities.
22:57
Yeah.
22:57
Yeah.
22:58
spotted them.
22:58
And they were only six and nine.
22:59
They were working in a field.
23:00
Mm-Hmm.
23:01
And the story.
23:03
Told is that he offered them candy as they were working and then kidnap them.
23:08
for years after their abduction, Shelton, who was the, the freak show hunter acted as the brother's manager, as they toured the U S in a series of circuses, using the money they earned to pay for their board lodging and clothes, but they never saw a dime.
23:21
They never got any money.
23:22
Um, They were not seen again by their parents, Harriet and Cable Muse until autumn of 1927.
23:30
So they were almost 3540 years old by that point.
23:32
Right?
23:33
And then when it was a day in the fall, that's.
23:38
The circus came back into town and the mom pushed her way to the front because I mean they're albino so it's yeah right very rare yeah so she pushed her way to the front and one of the brothers said there's our mom she's not dead and then they ran over and hugged her.
23:55
So Harriet calls the cops.
23:57
Yeah, she's gets an attorney takes them to, quarter was trying to make a settlement or whatever.
24:05
And, she faced down the service proprietors and city cops in that sideshow tent reclaimed her sons.
24:10
She started Ringling brothers and Shelton, the hunter.
24:16
Mm hmm.
24:16
The lawyer said that the brothers had been held against their will and turned into slaves and a settlement.
24:22
The circus agreed to pay back wages.
24:24
And later, the kidnapper turned manager was dispatched to sweeten the deal.
24:29
If the brothers returned to the circus, not only would a portion of their salary be paid to the parents.
24:34
But their other brother Tom would be hired to work.
24:37
And they agreed to this, okay, so, by, winter 1928, the brothers had left home again and were touring once more with the Ring Brothers.
24:47
Some of The stuff that they went through while in the circus, they were made to, make their hair into dreadlocks where people that attended the circus could pull it.
24:55
And, people were just horrible to the quote unquote sideshow.
24:59
They were children.
25:01
Yes.
25:02
They were children.
25:04
and then they kind of spun it into, are they aliens?
25:08
Are they, whatever, they have all these spins on what they, of course, be.
25:13
Yeah, kidnapping.
25:14
Right.
25:15
Well, and the thing about it too, is when I first heard this story, I because I didn't hear like the very beginning of it.
25:21
I just heard that these two And I was like, well, you know, and that time a lot of parents And before that they would sell their kids.
25:29
They didn't have funds to, take care of them.
25:33
So they would sell their kids to whatever.
25:35
And, to know that they were kidnapped.
25:38
Oh that poor mama.
25:39
This was in a book, that somebody had researched for like a really long time.
25:42
So I was kind of figuring this one was more legit.
25:45
There was another side of it that said that the mom said that they could work Just for the, for the weekend that the circus was there.
25:54
Mm-Hmm.
25:54
And then the circus took off with the kids.
25:56
Right.
25:57
And in 18, 99.
25:59
Yeah.
25:59
How are whatcha gonna do?
26:00
Yeah.
26:00
Yeah.
26:01
So I don't know which I felt more okay with the book'cause there was so much research done and Mm-Hmm.
26:08
whatever.
26:08
Can you imagine how many stories like that happened?
26:11
Oh, yeah.
26:13
That was never told.
26:15
Right.
26:16
Well, and you know, for instance, like conjoined twins and that kind of thing, you always hear about those people being in circuses or shows or whatever.
26:26
Medicine was so different back then.
26:28
Yeah.
26:28
And so many different Things that could have happened that don't happen anymore because of the progression that we've made What in that story that you just told that was terrible too was that they went back to the circus?
26:44
Well, they had no other means to support themselves.
26:47
Like they had no other skill at this point.
26:49
They were 40 Years old and I mean, that's all they knew.
26:54
I'm glad that the bomb knew they were alive after 28 years or whatever.
27:00
This is terrifying.
27:00
It's crazy.
27:02
Well, did you watch do you watch American Horror Show?
27:04
They did a Freak show or something like that.
27:10
Yeah season.
27:11
Okay.
27:11
Some of the stuff in the tv show the characters were based off of real life characters.
27:15
Yeah.
27:16
So this next one lobster boy was one of the characters.
27:19
Okay.
27:19
On that show so when I saw it I was like whoa.
27:22
I feel like I've heard about lobster boy.
27:23
What's it got?
27:24
Gray styles was born in 1937 with a deformity that made his hands into Like it looked like a lobster claw.
27:37
It didn't affect anything else.
27:39
His hands were just claws, lobster claws.
27:42
His father also had the deformity and he was in a carnival.
27:47
Sideshow.
27:48
Okay.
27:48
So at the age of seven, the father brought Grady into the sideshow with him.
27:54
So he was in the circus his whole life.
27:55
Yeah.
27:56
Pretty much around it.
27:57
You know, like from the time he was born.
27:58
That's crazy that that's hereditary.
28:01
Yeah.
28:01
And, and they had said that his grandfather also had the deformity.
28:05
So it definitely like go down the line.
28:07
Yeah.
28:08
he became an alcoholic during his years in the show because of Grady did?
28:13
Yes.
28:13
It was obviously the people that went there don't treat the sideshow people very nicely and I'm sure like it just takes a toll Oh, yeah to be a quote unquote freak right?
28:22
Is what they called him, right?
28:23
Not necessarily my words, right?
28:25
So he became an alcoholic He eventually married a woman in the circus named mary theresa who by all accounts was quote unquote normal.
28:32
No deformities Nothing.
28:33
He just worked at the circus.
28:36
And as time went on circus Became carnival though.
28:40
Intertwine those, um, they had three children together.
28:44
Two of them ended up with a deformity and when the kids became old enough, they were also added to the circus.
28:51
Greedy, had become very angry and violent and abusive to all of his family, his wife, especially he would use his claw fingers to beat, choke and slam his wife and children.
29:05
After a lot of the abuse, Mary Teresa, his wife decided to leave him.
29:10
She left him for like another circus person, but.
29:14
Left the children with him.
29:16
Oh, and I was like, oh that was yeah, poor parenting there Mary Teresa.
29:21
The kids had to endure all of the abuse like she was no longer there and he was super angry she left and I'm looking to see this is 1973.
29:29
Yeah, so this was still going on in 1973 which was Not that long ago.
29:34
Yeah.
29:35
So he was born 1937.
29:37
So what he was like, 50, 40, something.
29:40
So, yes, 1973, Mary Teresa says, peace out.
29:43
She leaves.
29:44
Kids are still getting the abuse.
29:46
well, one of his daughters.
29:48
Needed to get out.
29:49
She was like, I need she met a man named Jack.
29:51
He was gonna take her away.
29:54
She was going to marry him.
29:55
Grady wasn't having any of it and said that Teresa, if she left, if she tried to marry this man, he was going to kill him.
30:04
Well, Jack was like, he ain't going to do crap to me and went to go pick up the daughter Teresa.
30:13
And when he got there, Grady shot him dead.
30:16
So when Teresa had learned about this, it was said that Grady looked at her with an evil grin and said, I told you I would kill him.
30:23
So that's just the start.
30:25
He was arrested, put on trial, but.
30:28
Listen to this.
30:29
He used his deformity as an excuse.
30:32
Oh, he pled not guilty due to self defense.
30:35
And you know, you really played up the deformity.
30:37
The jury ate it up, ate it up and they gave him 15 years probation.
30:42
No jail.
30:44
Wow, that's a long time to be on probation.
30:47
Yeah, I mean, jail definitely would have been better, but like, yeah, so they didn't say what year the murder took place.
30:55
Okay, so he goes home after he gets the probation, continues drinking, continues abusing his family.
31:01
And in 1989, Mary Teresa came back and remarried him.
31:05
while she was married to the other guy, she did have another child.
31:09
Mm-Hmm.
31:09
And his name was Harry.
31:10
He had no deformities, nothing.
31:11
But he was in the circus and his, his circus act was driving nails and ice picks up his nose.
31:20
Oh, so Harry.
31:24
Obviously felt like they need to protect his mom and was around all of the abuse with Grady in 1992 after one particularly bad altercation, Mary Teresa handed Harry 1500 told him something needs to be done.
31:40
And to bring things to a beneficial conclusion.
31:43
So Harry takes the money goes, finds another circus worker, who Chris Wyatt was only 17 handed him the money and said, take care of it.
31:54
Chris had no hesitations, went.
31:56
Got a gun, went to Grady's trailer and shot him through the window while he was watching TV in his underwear.
32:03
Typical man, just sitting there watching TV in her panties.
32:07
So, they got caught and arrested.
32:10
Chris was sentenced to 27 years.
32:13
Okay.
32:13
Think about this.
32:14
So Grady got off right?
32:15
15 years probation.
32:16
Well, because Poor him.
32:17
Yeah.
32:18
Chris was sentenced to 27 years.
32:19
He was only 17.
32:21
Harry got life in prison without the possibility of parole until 25 years has been served.
32:28
And Mary Teresa got 12 years.
32:29
Wow.
32:31
Did they They killed him though.
32:32
Mm-Hmm.
32:32
that shot killed him.
32:33
Mm-Hmm.
32:34
25 years.
32:35
He should be out by now.
32:37
Bananas.
32:38
Harry, hit us up those were the two weird crimes.
32:41
There was also they could never prove it.
32:42
There was no like definitive proof, but there was also supposedly, and one of the traveling circuses, as two serial killers that were entertainers together, in the same act.
32:54
because along the entire route of the circus, people were ending up dead, but they can never prove it.
33:01
So I think that kind of stuff happened a lot.
33:04
I'm sure.
33:04
According to all of the shows that I watch, like the, the travel and circus.
33:10
You know, you had all these people come in for a short amount of time and then just up and leaving and there's no record of really who was here, you know, back then.
33:20
I am shocked though that happened in 1992.
33:22
Yeah.
33:23
That, like, I remember 1992.
33:26
Yeah.
33:27
I was 10.
33:27
That's okay.
33:28
I was not 10.
33:30
I'm just trying to think like, yeah, how old was I?
33:32
How old were you then?
33:33
when I was seeing the dates, cause at first I was like, oh, 1937, gosh, he's, you know, right.
33:37
but yeah, as it got like closer and closer, I was like, holy moly.
33:41
Right.
33:42
That is crazy.
33:44
Yeah.
33:44
Speaking of I've been on a podcast kick lately.
33:48
And we've talked because we've been kicked off a hoopla.
33:51
Yes.
33:51
Yes.
33:52
Just let me write a book.
33:53
I just cannot believe that they have these restrictions on how many books you can borrow a month, a month.
34:00
It's stupid.
34:01
Yeah.
34:03
So fix it hoopla.
34:04
But I've been listening to a lot of, we've talked about bunny and jelly.
34:08
A lot of hers.
34:10
She had a recent one with, the tattoos all over his face, Wade Wilson.
34:15
so he has had this whole time he's in jail, he has had phone privileges, like everything.
34:23
And he's like stirring up drama because he's got all these women.
34:28
Because women are crazy.
34:30
Reaching out to him and whatever.
34:32
So Bunny had reached out to him to try to have an interview, but she was like, well, that'd be cool.
34:39
And I mean, not like, that's when she got all the backlash.
34:41
Yeah.
34:42
Because she was like, well, heck yeah, I did, I had to interview him.
34:46
And people thought she was just doing that because he's quote unquote hot.
34:49
But she was like, you know, no, it's just interesting.
34:51
So he had been going back and forth and he basically threatened Bunny.
34:57
Like on the low with saying things like, I know your husband knows people like I know people and I don't remember the exact quote, but, yeah, so they have recently taken his phone privileges away.
35:09
I love bunny.
35:10
I don't understand why women.
35:13
Would want to put themselves in, like I get, I get the interviewing aspect of it, but just women that reach out to these murderers or the fangirls or whatever.
35:22
Amanda's brothers have both gotten married and they're getting out.
35:25
Are they getting out?
35:26
They're trying to get out.
35:28
They're up for parole.
35:31
Yeah.
35:32
Next month.
35:32
Well, November is when they're going to decide if they can get out on parole.
35:35
Yeah.
35:35
Which they're kind of different because their story's just so, um, F'd up.
35:38
Yeah.
35:39
But yeah, all these dudes in prison that these women just.
35:43
Fangirl, I don't get it.
35:44
Like I don't get it.
35:45
I don't either.
35:47
If any of you are a fangirl and you want to explain it to us, we would love to have you on the podcast.
35:51
I'd love to interview you and ask you questions.
35:54
And you can be anonymous.
35:55
Yes.
35:56
You know, like those, 1995, um, where they're in like the shadow.
36:00
Oh, yeah.
36:01
I'm like 60 minutes.
36:02
Yeah, I've seen those before, though, where they're like, oh, you can see it was like the silhouette, but then they had their name.
36:10
How's that supposed to work?
36:12
I don't get it either.
36:13
I don't understand that attraction either, but it's been going on as long as time.
36:17
Yeah.
36:17
You know, and you do you, if everybody's consenting adults, I just hope you don't get murdered.
36:22
I know.
36:23
That's the thing too.
36:24
It's like his crimes, his most recent ones that he's in for are for murdering women.
36:29
Yeah.
36:30
Well like Ted Bundy.
36:31
Yeah.
36:32
Like, oh my gosh, I don't get it.
36:33
Wade Wilson.
36:35
drove his vehicle over a woman multiple times.
36:38
He hurt women, killed women.
36:40
And so there's like a conspiracy theories of, I think it was Ted Bundy, that it was like really like government stuff going on, like CIA weird stuff.
36:52
I briefly saw something, I think it was Ted Bundy.
36:54
It was one of like the, the Colty, whatever people that, It was like a, the CIA was involved somehow.
37:00
It was to test, if people would follow it was like a government test and what would make people like brainwashed almost.
37:07
So it can't be real.
37:08
I don't know, man.
37:09
Like the time can't be, there's no way that, that people would do that.
37:13
It can't be real.
37:13
I'm just telling myself.
37:14
I know.
37:14
I know.
37:15
So anyway, well, Also on the podcast train, I know you listened to Rotten Mango or you have in the past.
37:21
She did some Diddy stuff.
37:22
Oh, really?
37:23
She had three episodes, that recent about Kim Porter.
37:27
And other situations, lawsuits and things, on him.
37:31
So did you hear the phone call, the video that they had of his phone call to one of his sons and so, you know, they say pizza is code word for awful things with children.
37:43
And he was saying on the phone call, get rid of all the leftover pizza boxes and make sure you recycle them.
37:52
So I don't know if that was like really, you know, whatever code word for that, but, he was telling his son that.
37:59
Oh, so yeah.
38:02
Gross.
38:02
Yep.
38:03
If that's what it was referring to.
38:04
Oh, a hundred percent gross.
38:06
He's still in prison as of now.
38:08
Yes.
38:08
So no updates really.
38:10
He's not getting out until at least his trial, which is, I want to say March something.
38:15
Yeah.
38:16
Early next year.
38:16
If he makes it that long.
38:17
Right.
38:18
He's, he's been dropping names.
38:20
Did you see the Abercrombie and Finch, CEO from a while ago.
38:24
Days of yore.
38:24
Yeah.
38:26
Yesteryear.
38:27
was, arrested.
38:29
No.
38:29
For trafficking.
38:31
And that was one of the names, supposedly, that Diddy dropped.
38:36
I know he's been dropping a lot.
38:38
Of course, trying to make deals.
38:41
Abercrombie and Fitch though.
38:42
Nitches end up in ditches.
38:43
Yep.
38:44
Diddy.
38:44
Yeah.
38:45
I watched a documentary or something on the Abercrombie and Fitch days and that was some twisted stuff too.
38:52
Yeah.
38:53
And I was of that era.
38:55
I was in high school ish when, Abercrombie was big.
38:58
So, so once they announced that the dude got arrested, all these people on TikTok were like, Oh, I worked there when I was a teenager in high school.
39:07
And the one guy said that he walked in there just to shop.
39:10
And the manager was like, you're really hot.
39:12
You need to work here.
39:13
And he was like, well, I do need a job.
39:15
I'll work in the back.
39:15
I don't want to be like on the floor.
39:17
Like I'll do stock or whatever.
39:18
And she's like, no, you're too hot to be in the back.
39:21
You need to be one of our models.
39:23
I get told that all the time.
39:24
Same.
39:26
And he was like, do the people in the back know that they're ugly?
39:30
Yeah.
39:31
Yeah.
39:32
Yeah.
39:33
Do they, do they know that they don't meet the hotness meter?
39:35
We were at a bar.
39:37
I was probably like.
39:39
just turned like 21, 22.
39:40
And, we were there as like patrons and one of the girls came up and she's like, do you want to be a shop girl for the night?
39:46
I was like, no, no thanks.
39:49
I'm good.
39:50
I want to ask, I want to drink shots tonight, but can, can I drink?
39:54
Well, one for you.
39:56
Oh my goodness.
39:58
You didn't, you didn't do that.
39:59
I did not partake.
40:00
So yeah, those are just some of my things I've been.
40:03
Scrolling along gone.
40:04
Yeah.
40:05
Oh god I don't know.
40:06
I just I want a conclusion.
40:07
Yeah move on.
40:08
Yeah, which we're not gonna get No, but I do brian keeps saying Allegedly, I was like, I want names.
40:16
I want to know why aren't they releasing the names?
40:18
I want the names.
40:19
And I was like, they're still investigating.
40:20
I keep telling myself that they're still investigating.
40:23
I did see, justin Bieber testified.
40:26
Heartbreaking.
40:27
Yeah.
40:28
Prayers for him and his healing.
40:30
So, I know they obviously didn't release.
40:34
But he is trying to make it so that there's no, or his attorneys are trying to make it a closed court where they can't televise it like the Johnny Depp.
40:45
I was so invested in that Johnny Depp trial.
40:49
No, I don't know if they can get away with that with this.
40:51
I don't know either.
40:52
It's so public, but there's supposedly a lot of politicians that are involved.
40:57
So if anybody's going to be able to do it, it's going to be this.
41:02
I don't know.
41:02
Hey, Mr.
41:03
Predicto, will the trial be publicized?
41:07
The outcome will not be predicted.
41:12
Meredith has a crystal ball that we are periodically asking questions to.
41:16
It seems to know exactly what to say.
41:19
Yeah.
41:22
I was on mom talk, on TikTok and I felt so bad for this woman because we, I think both kind of like, have a, not a hard time.
41:31
People love us, but trying to make friends as like a middle aged person, more than just like a surface friend, more than just a, Hey, how you doing?
41:40
But yeah, a deep friendship and like a group of friends, you know, like your group.
41:45
Yeah.
41:45
so she thought that she had made her group.
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that they were like really good friends and all the other women in this group, and I'm not gonna call them girls or mean women made a separate group chat and because she's pretty, you know, pretty successful on Tik TOK and content creation.
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they started, A group chat talking smack about her, about her looks, about her content, about why doesn't she just make it only fans?
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She's basically, you know, like, just like ugly, ugly teen girl stuff.
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Hateful stuff.
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Yeah.
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One of the other women felt bad and told her about it and sent her screenshots.
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Okay.
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Like, Hey, I feel really bad, but here's what's going on.
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I think that woman left off the stuff that she had.
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She had like edited it.
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Of course.
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Made herself look better.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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She was so distraught.
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She actually took herself off social media for a week.
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She just was like heartbroken.
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These were supposed to be her good friends and, at this age we shouldn't be going through this stuff.
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Right.
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So she gets on to a social media and she's like, I want to address this.
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This is what happened now.
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She didn't name names.
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She didn't pull up the screenshot.
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She was like, this is what's going on in my life.
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Like this sucks.
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yeah, we shouldn't be having these issues in our thirties and forties.
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This is not okay.
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so the Women and their friends started sending her messages.
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Like, you better take this down.
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We're going to get attorneys.
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We're going to sue you.
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Sue her for what?
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Right.
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so then these women start making videos, basically outing themselves, but like trying to make themselves look better.
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Right.
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Of course.
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I'm a good Christian woman and you know, whatever.
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So there was one woman who wasn't even in this group chat.
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She was like, A best friend of one of these other women made like 15 videos on this.
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Situation like she's just looking for clout.
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It was trending Yeah, and she was just trying to I think of her likes, right?
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Yep.
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Saying horrible things trying to say this poor woman and her name is sarah rose if you want to look her up has like mental health issues talking about her family her kids her husband Oh Disgusting.
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She wasn't even involved.
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Yeah, it's disgusting.
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At this age, everybody needs to stop doing this stupid crap.
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Yeah.
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there's no reason for it.
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No, there's not.
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Okay, if you like somebody and you vibe and y'all are, get along, fine, great, be their friend.
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But if you don't, and you're not into them, just don't have anything to do with them.
43:57
Mm hmm.
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I mean, just don't be nasty.
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Don't be, just go on with your life.
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Yeah.
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I don't know why people get off on being mean to other people.
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I'm sick of mean girls.
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Oh, that stuff should have stopped in high school.
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It shouldn't happen in high school either, but right.
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Stop it.
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Just don't be that way.
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Stop it.
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That was it.
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I think we need to make Wendy the new Karen.
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Yeah.
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Wendy, you suck.
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Wendy, you definitely suck.
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So, Sarah, we'll be your friend.
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Absolutely.
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Just people going out of their way to be nasty.
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I don't understand.
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Me either.
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Especially the other woman who was making all the videos who wasn't even involved, like you had nothing to do with it.
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You're just being mean, to be mean.
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No, you're just trying to get clout.
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Right.
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You're, you're being a bully just for attention and for likes and follows and reposts and all the things.
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Stop.
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She's like, I'm just standing up for my best friend.
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Well, if you were their best friend, you would have been in the group chat.
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Yeah, for real.
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Take the hint.
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They're using you.
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There's, there's probably messages in there about you, Wendy.
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Oh, absolutely.
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Absolutely, Wendy.
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People suck.
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Sarah.
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Not everybody's like that.
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Don't worry, Bennett.
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We'll be your friend.
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Yeah.
45:07
Okay, we got an am I the a hole?
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Yes.
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So we have two.
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You want me to do the first one?
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Sure.
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Am I the a hole for not letting a clown have a photo shoot in my yard?
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I'll go ahead and say no.
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Yesterday someone knocked on my house door, rang doorbell on the fritz.
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I didn't want to go to the door, so I didn't.
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I snuck a peek out the window and it was a person.
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You would freak out, Steph.
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When I, when I read this, I was like, I would, I would, you would be done worse nightmare.
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Yeah.
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It was a person in full makeup, a crazy looking clown.
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The clown left.
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I was very glad that they left.
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Then damn it.
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20 minutes later, the clown came back and started knocking again.
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The clown would not quit knocking on the door.
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I finally answered the door.
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The clown didn't tell me who they really were, where they lived, why they were dressed like a clown.
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Oh my gosh.
45:57
There were no other clowns.
45:58
There was no clown car.
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The clown just asked, may I take some photos in your yard?
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And I just said no and slammed the door in the clown's clown face.
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Am I the a hole?
46:10
No.
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No.
46:11
That is sketch.
46:12
I would die.
46:15
I don't think I would have opened the door.
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No.
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No, I would not answer the door.
46:20
I would be hiding under the bed or like I don't think I would, yeah.
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I'd be hiding.
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I don't think I would answer the door I would grab a knife and then I'd go underneath.
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You just, like you went all the way.
46:34
I would just not answer the door.
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No, no, no, no, no, no.
46:37
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
46:40
I would have Rags barking as loud as he could.
46:42
Yeah.
46:42
And I would be grabbing a knife from the butcher block.
46:45
That's just creepy.
46:47
Who does that?
46:48
And if you're old enough to be a clown going door to door Use your own yard.
46:54
No, or I don't know why this is, I feel like this is an adult.
46:59
I think so too.
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I feel like it is because it didn't say like a little clown, but no, I wouldn't open the door.
47:05
And in the comments, they're like, is this like legit?
47:08
Like did this really happen?
47:08
And he's like, I have the ring doorbell footage.
47:10
I thought the ring doorbell was on the fritz.
47:12
Well, he said he had Oh, he had to?
47:14
Yeah.
47:14
Okay.
47:15
Which that made me think did the clown disconnect.
47:19
Oh.
47:20
Could you imagine if like, they came from the side and like stuck like a sticky note over the camera?
47:26
Oh.
47:27
I just made it 10 times worse.
47:28
you did?
47:29
I'm freaked out now.
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Or like, just like had like the, the bozo nose.
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Like just like the red styrofoam.
47:34
Right on the uhhuh the peep hole.
47:36
Mm-Hmm.
47:36
No you're not.
47:37
but you are the, a-hole for answering the door.
47:39
Yeah.
47:39
That's stupid.
47:40
You're just asking to beat a dumb a Yeah.
47:43
Am I the dummy?
47:44
Yes, you are.
47:45
Okay.
47:45
So the next one.
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Would I be the A hole if I dressed up as a terrifying clown to scare trick or treaters on Halloween?
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I'm gonna say yes.
47:55
I, 28 female, used to work at a haunted house trail as a clown and basically just scared the crap out of people all Halloween season.
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I taught myself how to do my own makeup and made my own costume.
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I'm pretty proud of it.
48:08
I wasn't able to work the haunt this year because of my day job, but let me tell you there are a few things more satisfying than making grown adults scream in fear, piss themselves, run away screaming, and laughing my butt off.
48:22
I would never try to make a child that afraid though.
48:25
The actors would purposely be less scary for children coming through the haunt.
48:29
Anyway, my boyfriend and I are going to his parents house to hand out candy for Halloween.
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I mentioned I miss working at the haunt and want to dress up to hand out candy and freak kids out a little bit.
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Not to scare them for life or anything, just silently and creepily hand out candy dressed in my costume.
48:45
Maybe throw in a few creepy cackles every now and then.
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My boyfriend said I would be a major a hole to do that and that these are just little kids and I would scare the crap out of them.
48:56
He thinks there would be a lot of pissed off parents.
48:59
I think it's all just in good natured spirit of Halloween.
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So internet strangers, would I be the a hole?
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You said yes?
49:06
Yes.
49:06
I don't think so.
49:08
I, I do.
49:10
And the reason I say that is all of the neighborhoods that we, Kind of trailed through.
49:15
There's always people, I mean, chasing people with, you know, weed eaters or chainsaws or whatever, weed eaters.
49:22
That's what they sound like.
49:23
I mean, obviously blades off, you know, all that kind of stuff.
49:25
But I've seen people dressed up.
49:27
I've seen people like creepily dressed up, You think they're mannequins and then they start moving.
49:32
I don't think that's an a hole thing to do.
49:33
I, I do because it's a clown.
49:35
Of course, of course, I get it.
49:37
But, I think if you're just handing out the candy, that's fine.
49:40
And it, depends.
49:41
Is it like, how young are the kids?
49:42
Read the room.
49:43
Right.
49:43
Right.
49:44
Is it a three year old?
49:45
If it's three year olds, don't go to the door.
49:46
Right.
49:47
If it's the 16 year olds at the end who are, absolutely get my kid.
49:51
I just think it depends on the situation.
49:54
I miss walking Dylan around trick or treating.
49:57
Do too, and I never thought I'd say that kind of stuff.
49:59
I know.
50:00
We used to, go in a big group in our neighborhood.
50:02
my neighborhood is pretty big with lots of houses.
50:04
Uh huh.
50:05
You got a great Yeah, but we would, take it, take adult beverages with us as like the big group of us when we walked around.
50:15
Yeah.
50:15
I miss Anna.
50:18
I know it goes so fast.
50:20
It really does.
50:20
Since I've been helping with the photography thing, I had another wedding yesterday.
50:24
There's a lot of little kids and I kind of insert myself in like making them laugh and stuff.
50:30
I was soaking up the fountain of youth.
50:33
What was, the, the lady in, Tangled.
50:36
Yeah, that's me.
50:38
She is me.
50:39
I am her.
50:40
we're split on this on this one.
50:42
I get it.
50:43
And I think again, like you said, read the room.
50:45
But I'm picturing myself as my three year old little self getting chased by a clown.
50:48
Uh huh.
50:49
And I'm like, you're the a hole because that guy was an a hole.
50:53
He was.
50:54
He was.
50:54
But, I get it.
50:56
Yeah.
50:57
Yeah.
50:58
100%.
50:58
Maybe.
50:59
So next month we did that Halloween theme for this month and we loved it.
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We did.
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We hope you guys liked the themes we're going to do themes for November as well.
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we'll kind of let you know what those are as the weeks come up, but next week with it being the week of the election, we are going to do, a presidential theme.
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A like, White House theme.
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It's why a so I like those.
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Recent, right?
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We, this is, this is a fun and entertaining thing.
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This is not, something we want to get to Dicey.
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That's not what we're here for.
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Can we do a Grinch theme?
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Oh, heck yeah.
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Is he your favorite, like, Christmas character?
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I think so.
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Yeah.
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